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For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TiLLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAY3fARKET. • 'rills EVENING, AN ALARMING SACRIFICE : Buckstone, jun. ; Miss F. Wright. After which. HOME: Messrs. Sothern. Chippendale, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill. &c. Followed by A REGULAR FIT: vr. Sothern. Concluding with HIGH LIFE BitLOW STAIRS: Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, Clark, &c. Commence, at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. Tins EvENING, at 7, THE }IOU -E t.N THE BRIDGE: Madame Celeste. Concluding with PRESUMI"PIVE EVI DEN CE: Madame C e l es t e , Louisa Moore, &c.; Messrs. Rignold, Shore, Dominick Murray, fie. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. THTS EVENING, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo. Bel more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr Benjamin Webster, Mr A. Stirling, Mt Stuart, Mr Ashley, Mr G. Balmore, Mrs Alfred Mellon. &e.. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swayborough. EvEmico, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. 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Montague, Addison, Glover. and Furl raft: Mrs. liuckinghatn White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARL). And A LAME EXCUSE ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tins EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARBE BLUE. The Only Leon 1 CHRISTY MINST.U.I.S. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at S Wednesdays ant Fait:ri.ays, at 3 ands all the year round. ROYAL AL 11 AN113.1 A. PALACE. TBREE BALLET Promeniteie Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. ls. Box-oflic open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-Falk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mendays, Gd. Children Itt;der twelve, 6(1. MACNIVEN & CAMERON'S RENOWNED WAVERLEY, OWL. PICK WICK, and WAVERLEY BARREL PEN, ON A NEW PUMTPLE. writing, and glides over the paper in the most easy and graceful manner. This is par excellence the lady's pen. The Pickwick,' from its flexibility . , is well adapted for business purposes. The Waverley 'is sure to become a favourite ; its flexi bility is so great that it will entirely supersede the use of quills, and to professional men will be invaluable. The Waverley Barrel I'eu' possesses the same qualities as the foregoing."—Cour t Journal. THEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, AN A LAR MING SACRIFICE: Buckstone, jun.. and Miss Fanny Wright. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton. A stley, &c.:-Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, &C. With A REGULAR FIX. Mr. Sothern. And HIGH LIFE BELOW STATUS. Messrs. Buckstone. Rowe, Kendal, Clark, Gordon, &c.; Mesdames Laws, Wright Gwynn, l olenaan, Ste. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. ' THIS EVENING, at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Bel more and Mrs. Leigh Murray. At 8, THE DEAD HEART. Mr. Beniamin Webster: Messrs Arthur Stirling, G. Belmore, Stuart, R. Philips, Ashley, Romer; Mrs Alfred Miss Nelly Harris. &c. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Last Week of the Season. - THIS EVENING, a New Drama, by Dion lloueicault, entitled PRE-17MPTIVE EVIDENCE, in which Madame celeste, Miss Louisa Moore, Miss Emma Barnett, Mr. W. Rignold, Mr. J. G. Shore. Mr. G. F. 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. Ooors open at half-past G, commence at 7. daily from 10 till 5. Box-office open THEATRE -ROYAL, HOLBORN. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY Sum VAN. Legitimate Success!—Fourth Week of " MONEY." THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. At 8 o'clock, Lord Lytton's Great Play (in five acts) of MONEY, Parry Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, (3 eorge Honey, W. H. Stephens, Charles Coglan, Lin Bayne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur. and E; Dyes; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Louisa Thorne, and Mrs Charles Horsman 10 YAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, FOX V. GOOSE. Messrs. ral irke and Belford; Mesdames Burton and Hughes. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne, Tames, Fen ton, Tomes, Chamberlaine; Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE b PI LOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. ‘..) 1 1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, at 7, NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS. At ..n.O H. J. Byron's new grandßurlesque, entitled THE CORSICA N R /THERS ;" or, The Troublesome Twits. 'ro conclude with T. W. Robertson's Comic Drama. A ERFACH OF PROMISE: Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennan.Hu,,hes. S.ephens. Perend, C. Thorne. vessrs Vernon, David Fisher, Marshall, Andrews, Tindall, Hurlston, and J. Clarke. rpflE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G.ll. 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He is able to deliver ic;lies in Town, the Suburns, and in many palls of thl country at 9. comparatively early hour the same evening, say C. miles by V. 43 o'e,:.‘clz Ordcra by post punctually attemlcti Lc, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1869. RY6TAL PALACE.---The GREAT DISPLAY ) of FIREWORKS and ILLUMINATION of tho FOUNTAINS will take place at Nine o'clock precisely THIS EVENING. Reserved Stalls may be secured by telegram to the Ticket-office, Central Entrance, Crystal Palace. eiRYSTAL P ALAC E. —THIS DAY and EVEN IJ ING.—COMBINED FETE and GRAND DIS PLAYand magnificent ILLUMINA TIONooffFIOIRNtTWAIRIS,SITIIIS DAY (Monday), May 24. Tho Dragon Troupe of Japanese, having met with such marked success, will give a Special Evening Entertain ment, including all their principal feats. This troupe can only appear in England up to Friday next, and this will also be the only opportunity for witnessing their great feats late in the afternoon. The Palace will he opened as usual at ... 10. 0 The Orchestral Band, the Coldstream Guards Band, and Organ, at intervals up to ~. ... 4. 0 Mr. E. T. Smith's Burlesque, " Blue Beard," at 4.30 The Groat Dragon Troupe of Japanese from 6.30 until 8. 0 Grand Fireworks and Illumination of Fountains 9. 0 Palace Brilliantly Illuminated for Promenade until ... ... 10.30 The Fireworks will be on the most unusual scale of splendour. Particular attention may be directed to the newly-erected immense Fire Cascade—nearly 20,000 square feet of the most brilliant and dazzling golden fire, falling from a height of 120 feet, surmounted by a brilliant " chevaux de friss," in silver. The Illumination of the Water Temples while in full play will be found a feature of peculiar interest, present ing is favourable contrast to the architectural temples and devices prepared with so much cost for the Italian Fetes last year on the Marriage of Prince llunabert. The Sister Magnesium Balloons, lighting up the Palace and landscape in the most extraordinary manner. The Golden Birch Tree, an entirely new device. Its introduction for the first time on this occasion may be looked for as introducing an entirely novel and pleasing effect in pyrotecbny. The - Spiral Star and Gold Piece, another novelty. S.aucissone, gold and silver rain shells, mammoth parti coloured shells, with new colours, fiery comet from lofty water tower, and grand illumination of fountains while • playing to their fullest height, inte,mingled with batteries • of Roman candles, and terminatiug with a bouquet of 2,000 rockets and shells, will present a spectacle of un usual magnificence, taxing to the utmost the successful efforts of Messrs. Brock and Co., of Nunbead, the, Com pany's able pyrotechnist& These displays are always more beautiful, as well as more enjoyable, when the foliage and verdure are in their freshest condition ; -the Park and Gardens were never in a more lovely state than new. Extra railway trains on all lines leading to the Palace; but visitors should avail themselves of early trains. Spe cials from Kensington at 7 and 8, returning at 10 and 10.30 to Kensington, where specials to Moorgate, Euston, (tc., will meet them. Ample trains for departure. Admission by payment, ss. ; guinea seaeon tickets free. - 11 t( oi 40 _ e ....1 . 0- ,, • 00; ' , -- 3 . ...,...4 ASHLEY, now the Earl of SHAFTESBURY ! Nay, all this is so flagrantly set forth, la apparently sober seriousness, in Mr. JOSHUA FIELDEN'S astound- ing letter, that that 'gentleman has actually the effron tery to say, towards the close of his preposterous vituperations, " I cannot complain of Lord SHAFTES BURY for doing honour to the memory of RICHARD OASTLER, but it should have been done in sackcloth and ashes!" Now, the indecency of this attack upon Lord SHAFTESBURY is only matched by its absurdity. To deny him the honour of having been the first and for most among all:the promoters of the Ten Hours' Factory Bill, would be about as nonsensical as it woald be to deny to Mr. COBDEN the glory of having achieved the triumph of Free Trade !As it would to gaio - say WATT'S right to be regarded as the corfect er of the Steam Engine ! As it would be to discredit Old GEORGE STEPHENSON'S claim to be looked upon as the fabricator of the Rocket Locomotive ! Ask the factory population—Who was the Victor in the fight for and ag dust the Ten Hours' Factory Bill ? And nine hun lred and ninety nine out of every thousand will tell you —Lord ASHLEY, meaning Lord SHAFTESBURY ! Not RICHARD OAST LE:, 110 t JOHN Ft ELDEN —strenously and nobly though they and others laboured in the cause—but Lord ASHLEY, now (as he has been for eighteen years past) the Earl of SHAFTES BURY. That is the popular conviction. And —as uNrus said in the last century—" The people are seldom wrong in their opinions—in their sentiments, never !" The sentiment cherished throughout the factory districts is certainly this, that to Lord SHAFTESBURY more particularly than to any other individual is attributable the triumph of the Ten Hours' Factory Bill. A witness as to what the sentiment war, in that particular case, before the triumph was accomplished, while the parliamentary battle was still raging—a dispassionate and a perfectly credible witness, it is really worth while, at this moment, that we should adduce. We turn to one, therefore, who speaks—not ex post facto,but —at the time, now three and twenty years ago. A popular novelist of that day, then writing in the early bloom of youth, and speaking out of the earnestness of a gentle heart, in tensely sympathising with the over-worked factory folk, but especially with the poor little children, wrote, in 1816, thus—the words occur at p. 220, in volume ii., of " Evelyn Stuart ; or, Alight versus Right," writ ten under the pseudonym of ADRIAN, a three volume novel published by Mr. BENTLEY — "Sir James Graham's New Factory Bill had now come to the third reading ; but before it passed that stage, Lord Ashley made another impressive appeal in favour of his Ten Hours Bill. He was now certain of defeat, yet he spoke with confulenee years of difficulty and disappointment, ye t he has always con of victory. It has often been hi s to toil on for man y quered at llst, and kno ling this measure to b 3 realfy good and beneficial, he felt sura of a like success, thxsgh perhaps at a distant day." And so on--not only at that particular portion of the narrative, but throughout ii EVELYN SWAM'," passim, in regard to Lord ASHLEY and the Ten Hours' Factory Bill. The date of the novel, as legibly printed at the foot of the title-page of the copy now lying at our elbow, being-1846. And yet, now, in 18G9, three and twenty years afterwards JOSHUA FIELDEN has the effroutry to talk of Lord SuarrEss uRY clothing himself in " sackcloth and ashes" when inaugurating the ()AMER monument ! Sackcloth and ashes, for sooth ! Those symbols will henceforth be only associ ated in this matter of the Ted Mars' Factory Act with the hitherto honoured name of FIELDEN. While the Palm of. Victory will ba recognisel as, more securely than ever, in the grasp of Lord SHAFTESBURY—to whom (all these years after his ' most memorable success as a philanthropist) " GOD bless you !" was called aloud ou the 15th inst., by so many of the factory labourers, men and women, and —sweetest of alt in his ears—by the tender voices of the little factory children he, more undoubtedly than any other individual whose name coul I be mentioned hashad the great happiness of helping to emancipate. IF we were to credit some of our contemporaries, there is a sort of general conspiracy on the part of our rulers to prevent the lower classes from going to the dogs. It is urged that we have been tyranni cally interfering to prevent the drunkard from getting drunk, and now we are displaying our despotic tendencies by putting hindrances in the way of the better ruining himself by gambling. All this shews great cruelty ; the more so because it is only the weak that we venture to treat in this harsh manner. We dare not rescue the patrician ' from the devil. It is only the plebeian who has to submit to that wrong. And yet we call this a free country—a country in which the rich and the poor are equal. The latest grumble ' 44,;q ~,...4. ;-. 4.. L. e........ 1 ;.. the Daily Telegraph. Our contemporary, after turn ing out the encyclopaedia in order to give the history of gambling, goes on to complain of the recent police raids upon certain betting " specs." These " specs" are really lotteries. Lotteries are forbidden by law, and that law the new - Metropolitan Chief of Police is determined to enforce. But, says the Telegraph, why not interfere with TATTERSALL'S ? The " Corner " is as much a beting-place as any City or East-end public-house. The reply that the law gives power in the one case but not in the other does not satisfy the Telegraph. This reply means only that the law is made by the rich for the benefit of the rich, that benefit being, as we have said, tjie right of the rich to ruin themselves. The Tele graph would have the law altered ; would have it made the same for all. Apparently, our contem porary would level up, rather than level down — would put the City clerk and the small tradesman in the same desirable position as the Guardsman and the peer plunger. In this land of liberty every man ought to be at liberty to ruin himself in the best and shortest way. There must be no unfair obtstacles put on the steep incline down to the Lake of Avernus. We should scarcely be prepared to accept this theory under any circumstances. If there is to be a levelling movement of any kind, we would rather see it in the opposite direction—would rather shut up TATTERSALL'S and the Grand Stand than open an unlimited number of " Deptford Specs." True, the gambling which goes on there is not much worse than that which takes place in the region of the Stock Exchange; true, the fall of the Marquis of HASTINGS will scarcely adorn a more disastrous tale than the disclosures just made by that eminent person, Mr. STEFANOS XENOS. But after all, the gamblers of Capel Court and the parts adjacent do get pulled up pretty often, do get punished pretty severely, not only by the loss of their money, but by enforced appearance before the LORD MAYcat and perchance before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. Moreover, there is an essential difference between such institutions as TATTERSALL'S and the 46Deptford Spec." The first is not a trading institution for the carrying on of betting, as the second is. If gentlemen choose to meet and say that they will pay each other ten thousand pounds according as the nose of a certain horse happens to be one inch before or behind the nose of another, they are arrant fools, but no law can protect them against their folly. If they do not play the fool at TATTERSALL'S, they will do so in their own houses. No braying in legislative mortars will cure them. But the "specs" are funds got up by interested persons as a source of profit. They are lotteries in which, whosoever loses, the pro moters will win. The English Government has for nearly a century refused to sanction such lotteries, saving only in cases such as the Art Union, where can be no harm to anyone in " raffling " for a work of art, except in so far as it encourages the gambling spirit. But lotteries for the sake of getting money, whether by the subscriber or by the promoter, are clearly demoralising, and cannot be permitted without injury to the national character. The principle of which the Daily Telegraph complains is extended to other matters. There is no law to prevent women from offering their bodies for hire; but tlitre is a law to prevent anyone from profiting by this action ' on their part. There is no law against fornication : but there is a law against brothels. The law does not say to the man or the woman " Thou shalt not commit this or that vice;" but it does say, " Thou shalt not profit by the vice of another." The reason is plain. The law cannot restrain the action of the individual when it affects merely himself ; it can and ought to restrain the action of the people who promote vice in order to gain by it. It is for this reason, and not because of any distinction between rich and poor, that the law is now being enforced against the promoters of " specs " while TATTERSALL'S is unvisited. It is for this ' reason that the law is invoked in behalf of the artisan, while it is not invoked in behalf of the peer. It is for this reason that the SNIITITS and the BROWNS are arrested in their down ward career, while the ll sT I S Eti and the CI.INToNS are allowed to " plunge" headlong. Perhaps. if the second were asked which of the two has the more reason to be grateful to our legislators, they would reply that it is certainly not they. COLLIERY MANAGEMENT IN NOTTING HAMSHIRE. After two days' protracted sitting, the inquest on the four men killed by the inundation of the Molyneux coal pit, near Mansfield, Notts, on the 2nd of April, has con cluded. The proceedings throughout created thetlepest interest, from the allegations madeltgOlnst the conductors of the mine. Mr. ITAnnay (barrister, Midland Circuit), represented the Countess of Carnarvon, the lessor, and Mr. J. Boot, the surveyor of the pit ; Mr. Busby, Chesterfield, appeared for Mr. Eastwood, of Derby, the proprietor; and Mr. Cutts, Chesterfield, for the wives and orphans of the deceased men. A great mass of evidence was taken. It was shewn that the pit, into which the water from some old and unused workings burst, had long been in an unsafe condition. Besides being ill-ventilated, the water used to come in upon the miners while at work, and they were often completely drenched. Com plaints were made to Mellership, the under viewer, but very little notice was taken of them, and several of the men actually left in consequence. The plan on which the mine was worked was also proved to be wrong in several particulars. The old workings were known to be near, but were improperly indicated, so that the carrying on of the mine was rendered extremely dan gerous. The person who made the plan was Mr. John Boot, and when examined he stated that he did not survey the pit himself, but made it from an old plan in the office of Mr. Twigg, agent to Lord Porchester. At the time of the accident, three men who were in the pit with the four who were drowned were kept waiting at the bottom of the shaft nearly four hours before being rescued. The reason was that no night engineman was employed— a direct contravention of the rules. The coroner said a worse case bad never come under his notice, and some regret was expressed because there were legal doubts as to the verdict of manslaughter against the managers of the mine. The opinion of the coroner was that the managers wanted to get coal, but how they got it they did not care, even at the expense of their workmen's lives. The jury returned a verdict of " Drowned by the inundation of the mine," but the jurors considered it had not been safely worked either by Mellership the under viewer, or Eastwood, the proprietor, and that Mellership in parti cular was guilty of the most culpable negligence. Had proper bore-holes been made for water, the deceased men would not have met with their deaths. They also thought that the responsibility for the incorrectness of the colliery plan rested with Mr. Boot. The Government Inspector said he should proceed against MeUership and Eastwood for the fullest penalties. LONDOW, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1869. A discreditable letter has recently appeared, under the signature of JOSHUA FIELDEN, in which the son of the late member for Oldham, the some time col league (in the representation of that Lancashire borough) of WILLIAM CoBBETr, makes a spiteful but utterly futile attack upon the fair fame of the generous-hearted nobleman, long popularly known under his courtesy title as Lord ASHLEY, but for the last eighteen years as the Earl of SHAFTESBURY. The occasion selected for this attack is, everything con- sidered, rather oddly anal apropos. It is in reference to that speech of Lord SHAFTESBURY'S on Saturday, the 15th inst., upon which we have already com mented—the speech delivered by him on the in auguration or uncovering of the statue erected to the memory of RICHARD OASTLER as one of the well known champions of the famous Ten-Hours' Factory Act of Parliament. Now, if anything whatever was conspicuously remarkable in that, in every way remarkable, speech of Lord SIIAFTESBURY'S, it was most certainly this—that the noble lord went out of his way to award full honour and credit to every individual, by name, who had in any way participated in thelaboar of furthering and advancing,during a pro tracted series of years,through gooi repo rt and through evil report, that memorable and beneficent measure. Lord Su AFTESBURY in noway arrogated to himself the reputation, we might even say the veneration, which, in its regard, is very assuredly his due. Everyone else he had a good word for, but in respect to himself, and his own labours, he was—AS best became him— scrupulously silent. The enormous audience he was then •addressing, were there simply to do honour to the memory of one man—RICHARD OasThER. Lard SHAFTESBURY was there as the most fitting person to give utteranc3 to the popular feeling in regard to the name and fame of that histori cal benefactor of Faztory Labourers, and espe- ci ►lly of Fa3tory Children. To do honour to PaciTAIID OASTLER'S nivinnry alone, how- ever, was not enough for the generous heart of the Earl of SaAFTESEURY. And, hence, as we have said, during the course of his anything but egotis tical speech on the 15th instant, the noble lord most carefully enumerated, one after another, with earnest words of commendation, more or leas appro priate to each of them in turn, all those who, in the good work referred to, had co-operated in bringing it eventually to its successful completion. Among others, Lord SHAFTESBURY mentioned, with suitable words of praise, the name of the late Mr. JOHN FIELDEN, formerly M.P. for Oldham, in Lan cashire. And for this—with a very singular dis play of filial zeal—Mr. JOSHUA FIELDEN, the writer of the letter we are just now referring to, has fallen foul, not merely of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, but of his former self, that Lord ASHLEY with whose honoured name more iutimately than another name that could be mentioned, not even excepting RICHARD OASTLER'S, certainly not except ing the late Mr. FIELDEN'S, the triumph of the Ten flours' Factory Bill will henceforth be always asso- ciated. What appears to have peculiarly excited the ill feeling of Mr. JOSHUA FIELDEN, inducing him, there upon, to make this indecorous attack uponthe Earl of SHAFTESBURY, is this, that the Earl, in the course of his speech on the 15th inst., remarked that JOIIN FIELDEN was ever with him, and that in consequence of his being so, a certain joke was passed upon him, which he, Lord SHAFTESBURY, would relate b his hearers. "JOHN FIELDEN," said the Earl of SHAFTES BURY, " invariably followed his propositions on the Ten Hours' Bill; he (the noble Earl) was, therefore, to a certain extent, a leader, and had, to a certain extent, a following ; and the remark was this :—'There is Lord SHAFTESBURY, he has got no tail, he is like a rabbit, he has only got a scut !' That was the irreverent way in which his excellent friend was spoken of, but his services were invaluable." That harmless just, it is—not Lord SIIAFTEsBU RY'S remem ber! but one which years ago had been bandied about at the Clubs and in the lobbies of the House of Com mons—thatit is which has so irritated Mr JosHuA FIEL DEN ! That is what sticks in his gizzard—that is what stinks in his nostrils ! That little good-hutnoured joke about the scut of the rabbit ! Witnessing, what we have already designated, the really discreditable on slaught which iz, thereupon, made by Mr. JOSHUA FIELDEN upon the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, one cin't In•lp remembering, upon the instant, that succulent couplet of PorE's in his Imitations front Horace— " 0, blast it, south winds ! let a stench exhale, Rank as the ripeness of a rabbit's tail." The flavour of the joke, to Mr. JOSHUA FIELDEN'S palate, i 3 not only intolerable, it islfor all the world like a nibble at the " insane root" sung, of I.y the poet--it stems to 'lave had an effect upon his judg ment little less than maddening. Reading his com ment, thereupon, one might almost be disposed to believe, if Memory, and Hansard, and history were not here to tell us very distinctly otherwise—one might almost, but for that, be disposed to believe, for he moment, that the very la.tt man to have had any thing to do with the furtheranc.-, much more -with the iil:erier triumph of the Ten H nu e factory Bill was L)rd ASHLEY, otherwise Lord SHA :fTESBURY ! That the Author of the Bill, in point of fact, was the late Mr. JOHN FIELDEN Time the Enemy of the Bill— that it's arch-antagonis ',--was Lord THE SPANISH PRESS. An interesting account of the press of Spain has been given by a gentleman whose business avocations induced him to visit every newspaper office in the country. He tells us that in Great Britain and in America the num ber of newspapers 'published in any town is generally regarded as a criterion of its intelligence and its prosperity but that if the rule extends to Spain, the Spaniards must no longer be regarded as a retrogressive people. A town which in England would have only one or two papers, in Spain will have three or four ; and whereas in an English country town the papers would be weekly, in Spain they are daily. This is accounted for by the fact that the papers of the capital do not permeate the country. The London morning papers may be parchased in every town in England during the day of publication, but in Spain the communication is exceedingly defective. Even the Correspondencia of Madrid is only procurable on the great railway lines, so that the news-loving people want their daily paper in every town. There are 225 provincial papers published in 67 towns, all of them daily papers. L'imprimerie gives a list of Si papers, printed at Madrid ; but this is somewhat inaccurate. The general price of a Spanish paper is two cuartos, or a little less than a penny. They are not published on Mondays, or on the day after holy days, as the printers do not work on those days. They are single folios, and the arrange ment is somewhat similar to the French system. The front page is always devoted to news, never to advertisements. The feuillcton is a regular institution, and the papers are always printed in much larger type than our own. Nonpareil is unknown, and the size ranges from bourgeois to small pica. There is a general want of uniformity in the arrangements, which, together with worn type and the old stereotypes, interferes with the effect. The taste of our English compositors is sadly wanting. In_ comic. papers 6e qi-s.,,;nrOpt or. Lue r - r-er,li. A spanrstt paper of this kind s always a four-page dully folio or quarto, printed in very large type, with illustrations done in chalk. Malaga had a satirical paper printed on green paper, and called by that name. On the day after the revolution the green organ was transformed into pink, and inscribed with the words, "To-day the colour of the rose." All papers of this kind have profited by the revo lution, which has removed the most grievous and oppres sive censorship in Europe. Every publ isher bad to submit a copy of his journal to the Government officer before he was allowed to circulate it. That officer took his own time to read it and return it, often mercilessly altered. A copy of the Noma 2'hcria of Madrid presented a melan choly spectacle after it had left the hands of this func tionary. Even the local news was tampered witch; one leader was excised altogether, and many parts were so mutilated that they were positively foolish. By this system late news was rendered im p ossible, owing to the delay caused by the examination, and the number and extent of the corrections greatly increased the cost of the paper. All is now altered, and it is to the credit of the Spanish press that in the first flush of freedom it has not allowed liberty to degenerate into license. The Wisbeach magistrates are investigating a case of suspected poisoning. Robert Sheckles died suddenly, and his son has confessed in a beerhouse he killed him and got his money, and then offered a reward to keep the confession secret. The stomach was sent for analysis, and the son was apprehended. A FATAL QUARREL. —Two little boys at Masbro' having quarrelled, one gave the other a kick on the left leg. The skin was not broken, and there was little to be seen beyond a slight discoloration not larger than a florin. The injured child, however, was subsequently found to be suffering from lock-jaw, and died in great agony, having been three days without food. VELOCIPEDE RACE.—A race took place yester day afternoon between a velocipede driven by Walter Brown, the oarsman, and a trotting-horse known as John Stewart, on the Riverside Trotting Course, Boston, the velocipede to go five miles, and the horse ten. The veloci- pede won, making five miles in 26.20, to nine miles by the horse in 26.35. Br own's best mile was done in 4.29, and the horse's, 2.47 i. —New York Times, May 12. NORWICII MUSICAL FESTIVAL.--Tills festival will commence on Monday evening, August 30. The principal vocalists already engaged are Mdlle. Titiens, Mdlle. Ilma di Murska, Mdlle. Trebelli, Mdlle. Cherer- Talbot, Mr. Vernon Rigby, Mr. Cummings, Signor Bet tini, Mr. SantleY, and Signor Foli. Mr. Benedict will once more act as conductor. The approaching festival will be the sixteenth triennial musical gathering held at Norwich. The New York papQrs just to hand contain parti culars of a terrific conflagration that recently occurred in the manufacturing district of Paterson, New Jersey. The firo broke out at one o'clock p.m. in the waste house of Michael Morris, on Jersey-street, near the Murray silk mill. The building was nearly filled with cotton refuse, which ignited s pontaneously. The flames communicated to a frame build ing in process of erection, and spread from building to build ing with alarming rapidity. The burning cinders set fire to the roofs of many houses a mile distant. Tho loss of property by the fire is estimated at not less than $500,000 and in addition to this eighty families were turned into the streets and 350 emplopies rendered idle. AN AMERICAN ROMANCE.—Years ago, a Penn sylvania farmer stabbed his young wife in a fit of drunken insanity, and fled to the West, supposing himself a mur derer. The woman recovered, and after five years of solitary life, married again. Her second husband died in a few months, and she also went West. There she met a prosperous and wealthy merchant, was wooed and wedded, and upon disrobing in the bridal chamber the bridegroom saw upon her neck the scar of the wound he himself had made, and recognised his wife of • years THE FRENCH 'OR IN A. day or two ago it was announced by telegraph that a rupture between France and China was imminent. It was stated that difficulties had arisen between the Govern ment of Pekin and the Ministar of France, and that a Chinese official had "slapped the Ambassador's face." The Independance Beige, however, states that the report of this rupture has yet to be confirmed. The French Government have received no intelligence of it. But this is Quite possible, for the French telegraphic agency is (lez)lorably bad—more Fr 4 than that which birinto Mae Z.."; rAglancl. APPROACHING MARRIAGE (Y TEE CROWN PRINCE OF DENilf_4l;. The correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette at Copenhagen says Ilia Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Den ma:k left Copenhagen on Wednesday afternoon for Lulieck, en route for London. His Royal highness will remain in England on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales fur a month or six weeks. The 27th of next July is the day fixed for the marriage of the Crown Prince of Denmark with the Crown Princess of Sweden. When it was officially announced last year that this marriage had been settled, the news was received with great satisfaction by the Danish people. The print shops and illus trated journals were at once filled with portraits of the young P: 'rince and Princess, with allegorical figures of Peace and Happiness crowning them with wreaths of flowers, whilst underneath were prayers addressed to heaven in their behalf. The chief cause of this rejoicing is the the fact that the mar riage is looked upon as the first step towards the union of the two kingdoms. "Scandinavia," it is said, "will then be an important Power with an army and a fleet which will enablo it to hold its own against foreign aggression." Apart, however, from political considerations, the young Princess is good-looking, most amiable, highly accomplished, and possessed of a largo private fortune, derived from her mother, who is a Princess of the House of Orange. FOUR VESSELS AND SEVEN LIVES LOST. Advices from St. John's, Newfoundland, announce the wreck of four vessels at the seal-fishery, and the loss of seven men belonging to one of the ill-fated ships. The brigantine Elfrida, Captain Jeffers, belong ing to and bound for Habor Grace from the seal fishery, was totally wrecked in a snowstorm on the 15th April, at a place called Mosquito Point. Seven of her men were killed by the falling of the mainmast. The second vessel on the list is another brigantine named the Selah Hutton, Captain Batterton, which was dismasted at the seal-fishery during a gale from the N.E. This vessel was driven into Bonavista Bay, where she also became a total wreck. The third vessel lost is the brig Volunteer, Captain Gordon, also belonging to Harbor Grace. She was lost at the seal-fishery, but no date is given. The other vessel lost is named the Packet, Captain Osborne, which was wrecked at the seal-fishery, near a place called Twillingate. 2RT AND LITERARY GOSSIP. The Prince and Princess of Wales paid two visits to M. Gustave Dore's studio in the Rue St. Dominique while they were in Paris.—lt is stated that the Pcpe has given M. Gounod three commissions—the composition of a mass, a national song, and an oratorio. The last must be in three parts, and be written for three choirs—a terrestial choir upon the stage, an infernal chorus below it, and a celestial choir behind the scenes.—Mr. Longfellow is prolonging his stay in Florence. During his sojourn the features of the poet have been modelled by the great American artist, Hiram Powers. — M. Sardou, who is now at Genoa with Signor Verdi, has engaged to convert " Patrie " into a five-act librettofor this composer. The Provisional Government at Madrid has con ferred a Knight Commander's Cross of the distinguished Order of Charles the Third upon Mr. Frederick W. Cosens, of Clapham Park. The diploma, signed by Marshal Serrano, was granted for services rendered to the literature and arts, as well as to the commerce of the country.— The Prince of 'Wales will dine with the Royal Geo graphical Society at their anniversary, on Monday next, when Prince Hassam of Egypt, Baron Hochschild, the Swedish Minister, and other notabilities, (including, probably, Mr. Gladstone) are expected. The Prince is the vice-patron of the society.—By an Imperial decree the Baron Taylor, well known in Paris in connection with learned and charitable societies, has been raised to the rank of a senator.—Mr. J. Bass Mullinger, of St. John's College, Cam bridge, is collecting materials for a History of the University of Cambridge.—lt is proposed to hold a Great International Exhibition at the Escurial at Madrid. A stained glass window, the gift of Dr. N. Rogers, and the work of Messrs. Clayton and Bell, has been placed in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, above the monument to Milton. It is in two parts, each canopied, and containing a figure; that on the left represents David, holding a pen and scroll, and looking upwards ; the fellow light contains the figure of St. John writing the Apocalypse, and having his eagle at his side. —The Musical Standard hears that the new Grand Opera of Paris is to be opened in 1871. TRADE AND FLI,4IVCE. --~- - The return of the Bank of England has amply verifiec. our remarks that the recent stringency in the money market was caused by an anticipatory demand for dis count, which arose from the belief that an advance in the official rate of discount was imminent. All the move ments during the week have been of a character to strengthen the position of the Bank, there being a considerable QOGacwcn in the note oirrmln.tinn_ and in the public deposits. The most important feature, however, is the falling off in the ptiyate securities, which is very considerable, notwithstanding the comparatively active demand for discount which has been experienced through out the week. Although no change has been made on the present occasion, there is an evident tendency towards higher rates, the reserve having now touched an unusually low point. The proportion to the liabilities, however, is, still within the legitimat e b oun d s , a lth oug h th e re t urn w ill scarcely be pleasing to those theorists who aver that the reserve should never be allowed to fall below ten millions. Certainly the Bank stands in a very peculiar position. It holds the reserve of all the other banks, but it must be remembered that the amount it keeps in hand is vastly greater than that retained by any similar institution. A comparison of the position of the banking department with the London and Westminster Bank at the date of the latest available accounts will shew this to be the case. We choose the London and Westminster Bank because we believe it to be one of the best and most judiciously managed private banks in existence : BANKING DEPARTMENT OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Liabilities. Reserve. Public Deposits ... £4,932,228 I Notes Private Deposits... 18,004,449 Coin Seven-day Bills ... 457,068 I £23,393,7 , i £8,471,655 BANK, DECEMBER 31, 1868. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER Liabilities. Reserve. Deposits, &c. £19,638,000 Cash in hand Acceptances ... 1,074,000 I and at Bank of } £2,344,000 England. £20,712,000 £2,344,000 No one would venture to impugn the credit of the London and Westminster Bank, yet we find from the above figures that that institution only retains about 11 per cent. of its liabilities, while the Bank of England can shew a reserve of 36 per cent. This appears to us to be a very sufficient answer to the advocates of the theory that the Bank should retain teu millions at all times, irrespective of their liabilities. The way in which this sum of ten millions is arrived at is, that the other banks keep an average balance to that amount at the Bank of England, an their reserve is liable to be drawn upon ' very severely at any time of pressure. Probably so, and this is the principal arguments that the balance of cash belonging to other banks in the hands of the Bank of England is liable to very great fluctuation ; and why not then the reserve of the Bank of England itself ? With regard to the immediate prospects of the money market, there is little probability of the introduction of any foreign loan for the present. Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Spain, and Egypt, all require money, but it is doubtful whether, in the present state of affairs here, they could make a successful application to our market. The course of the discount rates will, therefore, be almost entirely guided by the home demand, which is not likely to be excessive. We incline to the belief, however, that a full average amount of capital will be required to carry on the trade of the country, owing to the general improvement in the value of most manufactured articles. On the other hand, there is a general absence of speculation, especially in those staples which are peculiarly fitted for such transactions. Cotton, for instance, is very dull, and there is a great uncertainty about the course of the market, while the unsettled state of prices on this side deters operators from speculating in wheat. Nevertheless, so far as the general trade of the country is concerned, there is a good trade going on, and as capital is again forsaking Lombard-street, and returning to its ordinary channels, it is evident that any movement that may take place will be in an upward direction. The " Yankee" correspondent of the Spectator says Vial. President Grant will positively not allow Cuba to be invaded by filibusters. " Our correspondent, who we may add cannot be misinformed on this point, states that the orders issued aro most stringent, and supported by ade quate physical furce. Yes§clp breek sunk." 41VD MP. roPsz. SUMNE.2?. The Tinzes and the Telegraph both accept Mr. Forster's speech, at Bradford, as a conclusive reply to Mr. Sumner's nernoralle address. The Times regards him as an ardent `riend of the North come to offer his evidence in court with •expect to the famous Proclamation. He says that he exerted himself to procure its issue, believing that it was absolutely necessary in the interests of the North it elf. It was Mr. Forster, acting in friendship and close sympathy with Mr. Sumner, who elicited from Sir G. Lewis the first public en ;agement that the Proclamation should be issued. What ever the practical result, the Times accepts this evidence as a 3omplete answer to Mr. Sumner's theory, and submits the testimony with confidence to the judgment of the Ameri can people. Our Government was urged by every influence to declare for the South, and the appeal was enforced by the paralysis of our greatest industry, and under these circum stances the friends of the Not th pressed for a plain declara tion on the part of the Government that they would not in terfere in the contest. With regard to the privateers the Times reminds the Americans that had they adhered, as they were invited to do, to the declaration of Paris, pi ivateeries" would have been an act of piracy, and all these compllca tions would have been avoided. Mr. Forster wished to treat the Alabama and her consorts as pirates, but found that the law of nations would not permit it. Finally, with regard to the sentiment of the question, Mr. Forster ob serves, with justice, that no words derogatory to America have ever passed in this country without remonstrance. The same cannot be said of the language usod towards England in the United States' Legislature. The Telegraph thinks that no pert of Mr. Forster's speech is more effective than his reply to the complaint that England sympathised with the South. The Americans, says Mr. Forster, complain of the language used in the clubs of Pall Mall, and the drawing-rooms of Belgravia, but is Republican America to judge England by this ? The question is—What did our Government do ? And the Telegraph thinks that the orator may by and by discover that ho has done us good service by recalling the whole facts of the case to mind. Some important matters had dropped out of sight, such as the conduct of the States themselves towards the South an d towards neutrals, their behaviour to Canada thirty year s ago, and their more recent sympathy with the Fenian con spiracy. The Americans themselves, if they fairly reviewed/ the question, should hasten to place the whole controversy on the broad grounds of public law. THE DERBY OF 1869. The "fall " of Pero Gomez, announced on Saturds9' became more pronounced as the evening wore on. The horse opened at 3 to 1, but rapidly declined to 9 to one speculator offering 90 to 20 several times. By midnight his case grew still worse. 7 to 1 1' 794 laid against Lim at some of the West-end resorts ; Lut th o trice was offered only in small sums. It is an explicable fact that whilst the very long price of 7 to 1 was offer ed ' investors would have gladly backed the horse to ta r e. amounts at much shorter figures. It appears from t's" best accounts that Pero Gomez had been tried, accordid to the usual custom, with Blue Gown. Pero Gomez ' O3 the trial, but pulled up lame immediately afterwards' Another account states that he was beaten 'whil,,9l. attempting to "get over" Blue Gown at 121 b., and br°'; down. But, up to Thursday, the accounts fr° l training quarters were very favourable as to the doings ° e the horse. On Wednesday he cantered twice a mile and half, and then Blue Gown and Rosicrucian led him a li er l swift gallop of two miles. The Sportsman says the trio', took place on Thursday, and though Pero Gomez d efea t his antagonists, he did not do all that was expected °' him. On Friday he did work, but less than on the P re ; , ceding days. With regard to Belladrum, the " tont s ; say that he was never doing better work. There nothing at Russley capable of leading him. He h as Veen tt P doing the mi:e-and-three-quarter gallop all through d . week, and has pulled up full of mettle. Some runaour9"., ioe to Pretender going wrong must be dismissed. /re been doing abundance of work throughout the week. °,l: Friday he galloped two miles, and on the preceding 12191 t more. The watchers represent him to be in the hig be :t state of perfection. There is nothing specially to 'W e il of any of the other horses. Ladas is not spoken 'j. of. Vagabond, Martyrdom, Perry Down, and rS worth have all kept up their exercise. p a The Pall Mall Gazette estimates the p os ition 9 4 :prospects of the various candidates in a very imrtOi nisi article. Belladrum, it remarks, has met with 'e -everses. The reports of his roaming, unsoundness, sea the like, were found to be false at Newmarket' though very strangely jockeyed in the Two r r b° , ' ,i; ts sand, he managed to come in a very respec t second. He ought to occupy a prorall3l, position, both in the betting and in the r 9c ; Pero Gomez, on the other hand, is a more doubtful Ow didate. He has won races without meeting wi til lo y reverse, his health has never failed, and he "r been wisely managed. But he is a very " t hree -c" / 11' nered" animal to look at, and by no means ; bred. It is true he won the Biennial at the Craven 1" ea ing easily enough, but even then his fetlock-joints 1 04 0 very suspicious, and if the ground is hard betwe en d e r and Wednesday next he will cause his backers cous'"tio able anxiety on the day of the race. Pretender is ; , 3 , Pall Mall Gazette's especial admiration. He has 7,i; Proved rapidly during the last few months, ati cl appearance on the day of the Two Thousand '',eo magnificent. On public running he certainly' dc'er,:yo the place he holds in the betting. He was no t wor10" death last year, and came out fresh for the great 0 7 ° 1 ! o f April. There he had won the race almost at anY 1 39ry o f it. He beat Belladrum at the finish by the superioritl his stamina and staying power, qualities which are esse icl tial at Epsom, and which, in spite of what is often to the contrary, are pretty well tried by the Rowley 1331b0 Ladas won every race for which he started last Ye 9 ' l. ' ,pr"-snenta were hut. rnna...o.to ' llll3' of Ethus is believed to have a very delicate constitutic'or which prevents him from being thoroughly trained• waldsen has no chance so long as Pretender, his sw , 3 vig companion, keeps well. The Duke of Beaufo rt is ne'lle enough, nor well-bred enough, to win the Derby. Pall Mall concludes :—" There is every probabw p that this year's Derby will be contested very good field, both in quality and numbers, and to duce a most exciting race. General opinion selli!tes, point to the certain success of one of the thre e favoalco but they are, nevertheless, in danger of a Caract9,, springing from the outside division, of whom Martyrd°l; The Drummer, and Perry Down are most consPic lo Whatever be the result, we can congratulate the Ptitio on the fact that, with two exceptions, the course 01 o r betting on the race has this year been more free fro'l3 picion than is usually the case." THE " PROPHETS." t hey Bell's Life pronounces for Pretender. Judged 11 ' e y best public form, it appears that Pretender, Pero GOhel and Belladrum are justly entitled to the positions 1.'4 occupy. After the brilliant performance of Belladr9l3lS the Two Thousand Guineas, it is impossible to dal w i tt it "on paper" his chance of victory appears to be 9 - t be one. Rightly or wrongly, however, we have conic t° get opinion that this magnificent co lt w ill fail t ° ich quite home ; and, both fit and well, the DerbY 11° ec iet to our fancy, be reduced t o a ma t c h b e tween Pf ete ,: o a o and Pero Gomez. Betwee n th ese t wo Bell's Life t" " A there is very little to chose, but Pero Gomez is rep erte- De be in a most precarious state, and he must, therefore' passed by. I . f t° " Harkaway," in Land and Water, gives Pretell'dle win, and Perry Down, Drummer, and Bosworth t o strt/P for second and third honours. ref° The Field is of opinion that either Belladrum or Gomez will win, Pretender being pretty certain to Se" a place. 000 " Vigilant," of the Sportsman, throws over Belladliji, o f the ground that lie does not think this horse cal33l„'-ipe% staying. He expects to see Pretender and Pero "°,lOO finish first and second, whilst Martyrdom is assign : third position. V I I " Augur," in the Sporting Life, expects to see Pell o or Pretender returned the winner, with Pero G° llle- The Drummer fighting out the place battle. kt nt It may be mentioned that the Paddock Ticienos, Epsom is expected to be printed in Belladrum C°*- This is regarded as a favourable omen. LONDON BETTING. rdai' LONDON, ga' 111 " erg Racing men assembled this afternoon in large 111 ' 1111 , 1) at each of the London sporting clubs, and some in3l)°•tti'lltio speculation took place on the Derby, principallY the Victoria, ch •in Wellington -street. Anticipation P°-130g11 to Pero Gomez, who, it was feared, after the r° - . 0 t h r i e s i a e t fl n y l . ent of the previous evening, might iroba.bly recel quietus. But confidence was restored b l y a larg e . a s , re a c l i s e lator having accepted 450 to 100 in one bet. J` - at 9 t 4 3,7, supported Pretender for upwards of £l,OOO p while Belladrum was frequently invested on at 7 to %' erry Down came with a rush at 16 to 1, but the n l re ,l was in n only of short duration, as he retired to 20 to I, e lle i t thousands. Arartyrdom was knocked out to 50 to his stable companion Border Knight, was backed tole ,t large stake at 40 to 1, which was not Proeurali Die the close of business. Morna was in great request for t t Oaks, but the price offered— 3 to r---would not sere *ntending backers. Brigantine and Scottish Queen 0 1, each backed for good money at 9 to 2, a nd finally 4 t _,Dy was taken kindly about the latter. For the French Gl3l Dc by Consul and Glaneur had friends at 3 to 1 each, tod at a point more. rne j. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales retgoott to town from Sandringham, Norfolk, on Saturday. oa the Prince entered his carriage at Shoreditcb, he re ce11 : 1 0. 4@oyc4Ce; _4llllglcs 14.§4001fi gil X 4 war alQ.Plat" ri ON COMMI Cousois al ciunt, New 'flu - ee £l,OOO, 2 di Bank of En India Stoc ditto 5 per Cent., Oct., per Cent., 1( Bonds £l,OO In the Fa Five per Gen Italian Five Mexican Be at 101 to 11 at 28i ti 28 Ia the 1 lower, and A are 3 b( Midland f, South East( donian, 77 Great East , 106 ; ditto . Metropolitan ; Bri North West South East 164 17. American to 781 79 ; Ten• Forty I have given N are i lower, Atlantic'] Lighcr, at ence shares 22 921. Bar gold into the bull The Lase f.. 72 000, a £186,000. The Deltf specie for B It is anm geries Impe proaching a 50 francs, o paid on au( Surprise i any of the] to tl:e large habit of int: property co weeks ago I receiving su exercise reA elude any depositor porters w h in instanccE Pullinger oz remedy. financial co Inulgated, a would forth in order t) their custc absence, ho seems to hl avoided, an old groovei disaster inv persons. vourable re drawal of a sury syn di c (nominal) atalnaent of the effect o rarily benei At thelh; Witepsk E the net re roubles, she the present A speck Railway C, Thomas chair, whet a conunitte tors in end the North journed till n (40Vlin 3 per Cent. Ditto for 1 3 per Cont. : New 3 per New 21 per Do. .o per A. nnuties, Do. for Do (Red Exolicqu-.)r D Batik of Enf openi exlada 4 pc Intor-Colon INDIAN Inlia rock, Do. Openi Do. 5 per Do. 4 pec Do. 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