The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-11 00:00:00

L . .."l:ar; 02 THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times thinks that public thanks are due to Mr. Justice Mellor for his recent remarks on reckless driving. The subject not only concerns people of all degrees, from the highest to the lowest ; but comes home to them in a fashion which admits of no misapprehension, nor, we should think, diversity of opinion. One can understand its being rather hard to get np a general interest in the law of hypothec, nor is one surprised to find people differing about the propriety of disestablish ment ; but to be driven over in the streets by a cab or impaled on an omnibus pole seems a fact within easy reach of the meanest comprehension, while it is one of the very few matters of pra:tical interest and impor tance about which there is absolutely no difference of opinion. Jew and Gentile, Tory and Radical, patrician and plebeian, are all agreed as to the unpleasantness of having a cartwheel driven over the head or stomach, and all are more or less exposed to it—that is to say, if they ever go into the streets of London. The drivers charge cloth or fustian with equal readiness, and, so long as they can drive over somebody, do not seem in the least to care sinless, indeed, it comes to a question of damages—whether they have knocked down a duke or a dustman, an archbishop's lady or a curate's wife. Some remedy is certainly wanted for an evil the natural tendency of which is to grow with the growth of popula tion and traffic, and which, as the Registrar• General's returns shew, has already attained grave dimensions. The limes has little doubt that, if a few of the " severe sentences" which Mr. Justice Mellor threatens are in flicted, there will be a marked diminution not only in actual injuries to life and limb, but also in the discomfort and inconvenience which timid pedestrians now experi ence from " the perils of the streets." The Post says that the disastrous riot at Mold again raises the question of the employment of soldiers in aid of the civil power. For some time past the ideas prevalent upon the subject, and the practice founded on those ideas, have been anything but satisfactory. At election and other disturbances the military have frequently been sub jected to shameful treatment. The reluctance of magis trates to adopt extreme measures and the forbearance of officers in command of troops have been abused until the theory obtained that hardly any provocation morally justified soldiers in using their arms with deadly effect. Now, nothing can be more unsatisfactory than this uncertain mode of attempting to maintain law and order. The overstrained leniency alluded to not only fails in its object, but positively invites and fosters lamentable collisions between those who should never be ranged against each other—the soldiers and the people of this free country. The civil power should never call upon the military for assistance save in extreme and urgent cases. But when once the troops have been so called, it should be distinctly understood that there is nothing sham about their appearance. Their arrival upon a scene of disturbance should be considered tantamount to a declaration that the limits of forbearance have been reached, and that resistance must be discontinued. There should, in fact, be no doubt respecting the active interference of the military in quelling disturbances when the broad and recognised hint of their arrival has not at once been taken. This would be simple. It would be certain. It would be efficacious.- There would under this arrangement be no dallying with danger—no hesitating to obey. The people would know what to expect, and would act accordingly. Collisions would be far less frequent, and every one that did unhappily occur would be a plain and unmistakable lesson to the whole country, and a lesson that could hardly fail to produce a lasting impression. The Staudard believes Mr. Gladstone was not speaking without ample warrant when he reminded the deputation which waited upon him the other day respecting the increase of the Episcopate that the main difficulty in the way of practical legislation is the want cf a general con currence among those interested in the question as to the principle upon which it should he dealt with. There is no doubt, however, as to there being a general consensus of Church opinion in favour of increasing the number of bishops. Indeed the opposite conclusion involves the condemnation of the episcopal form of govern ment. But if it is right and good that the Church should be governed by bishops, nothing can be more mischievous and illogical than to work the system upon the present scale. With the existing rate of population and area 01 dioceses, it is impossible for a bishop to carry out the true theory of episcopal government. Although the population has quintupled itself within the last three centuries the Church'has only. one more bishop than it possessed then. The consequence is that we find the bishops saddled with an amount of work which, as they loudly protest, they cannbg possibly get through. Can a single bishop be expeCted to exercise an efficient supervision over the spiritual concerns of the three millions of the diocese of London ? How is Bishop Wordsworth to take personal cognisance of the affairs of the 798 parishes spread over an area of two millions and a quarter acres, which constitute the diocese of Lincoln? The Bishop of Norwich confesses sadly that if he were to set about " visiting " his diocese by preaching a sermon every Sunday in a different church it would take him twenty years before he could have accomplished his task. Mr. Gladstone promises that the subject shall have the immediate attention of the Government, but hints, as his principal objection, that the creation of suffragans may have the effect of increasing the number of unemployed bishops. There would be little fear of this happening, however, in the Established . Church if the suffragans were appointed cum jure successionis. The danger is lest over worked or disabled bishops should shrink from accepting an arrangement which might derogate from. their position and authority as the spiritual chiefs of their respective dioceses, and possibly, and not unfairly, involve the sur render of a certain portion of their incomes —considerations, however, which must be overruled in the interest of the Church at large. • The Daily News declares that such scandals as that of the Duke of Newcastle have a wide bearing. The favoured position of the members of our great aristocracy renders them public men, and their scandals are public scandals. The Duke of Newcastle is not a private person ; he is a part of the State. He is one of a few hundreds who have the power to thwart and obstruct the whole manifestation in legislation of the will of the country. He is one of those who are born to the heritage of a world's envy. The position of such a man is already made for him, and has occupied the ambition of several lifetimes in the making. His wealth is almost guaranteed him, and his power as a legislator is beyond the reach of forfeit. If the law renders it impossible for a man to squander the heritage of his family, it imposes on him still greater obligation to be careful of his own share of that inalienable heritage, Our younger aristocracy seem to be in danger of overlooking the motto —Noblesse oblige. They forget that all claim for excep tional privileges is logically destroyed when they cease to acknowledge ordinary obligations. The chief function of an aristocracy in the present day is to set a high social example. Their political authority is passing away. Their patronage of art, and learning, and literature is no longer needed. But the essential service they can still render to society is that of setting the social fashion, of putting the stamp of their reprobation on the vulgar vices of the day, and of giving to the social world a high tone and temper. This service was never more required than it is at the present day. The evil habits of the time, its vulgar love of show, its barbaric pearl and gold, its hot chase of excitement, its pride of mere possession, are just those incident evils of- material prosperity which an aristocracy of birth and title can most effectually rebuke. In such service our aristocracy may still find their strength. The English multitude is ready,enough to respect mere wealth, but is much more ready to honour old lineage and an historic name ; and for the inheritors of such line ago and name to trail it in the dirt is not only to do disservice to the nation, but to en danger the privileges they abuse. The Star, in discussing the question of a military reserve, thinks we have hit upon a means of military economy far more effectual than any other can possibly be, because the moral certainty that we shall not go to war, and the almost certainty that as a disentangled nation we shall not he made war upon, reduce to a mini mum the amount of military force which we are bound to keep rip. That amount of military force will be dimi nished as our non-intervention policy becomes traditional, and as the few questions upon which we are under treaty obligations are gradually laid to rest. What is wanted An these debates when attempts are made to give them a tone of lamentation and almost panic is, a powerful irruption of political good sense. It is only necessary to convince Englishmen that the policy which has now by the consent of both the great parties been adopted as the rule of our international relations w ill rea lly be adhered to, and they will universally be persuaded that an exceedingly modest military force will suffice. E co nomy, limitation of numbers, the substitution of reserves for men on service--these things are gene rally adopted ; and on Thursday night a young officer, the son of an important member of the official Liberal party, began his parliamentary career by an emphatic declara tion that the attractiveness of the army must be increased, not only by minor details of pay and pension and comfort of living, hut by breaking down the monopoly of purchase. file prevalence of these id as in general society, their very limited acknowledgment by the War Department, and the disfavour in which they are held at the llorse Guards suggest the need of a definite Liberal military policy. Is Mr. Cardwell the man to develope it? fie may depend upon it that it is with expectations of this kind that his estimates of next year will be awaited. The Te,' e: ' Tap/i, refers to the great loss of life in coat mines, and says that, like sailors and other men who habi tually live in an atmosphere of darer, miners are so strange7v revliess that no lesson will teach them can ti, n. lint there is no reason why we should depend on the prudence of ignorant workmen. Science and vigilance can do much more than they have yet accomplished. - We have sufficient knowledge of the main facts ; invention is not yet exhausted ; the grand want is the will to act., the resolve to overcome any remain ing difficulties, and see the behests of science and prac tical art duly executed. Probably a royal commission might be issued to inquire into the best means of giving safety to the miner. The time has also come for making the system of Government inspection something far different from the sham which it is at present. It is a reproach to the intelligence and the scientific experience of England that she should permit o thousand of her chil'.in t. , . 1 ,, -'' , 4v.:' , -1 , •v , ry year by a noxious gas which seiciice is i:ble to disarm of Its terrors The - Little Rhondda 1',1! ,, y ii now a scene of bitter mourning; hut its tear, r+ 1, , ! it lamentation will not b. ! unavailing if they teael , !'i,iil:tlid how to seek better seen. cities fur OA lives of . ;I: e . .t .. .11:::n. i THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE A farewell entertainment was given on Thursday by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, on board the Great Eastern steamship, now lying off Sheerness, where she has shipped her cargo of electric cable, 2,732 miles long, in tanks of an increased size to accommodate the length of coil, which is greater by some -100 miles than was paid out by her between Valencia and and Heart's Content, A special train took down from Charing-cross to Strood a large party of guests, Who were conveyed on by boat to the anchorage of the big ship, fourteen or fifteen miles down . the Medway ; and the assembled company on board the Great Eastern in. eluded Lord Houghton, Sir Samuel Canning, Sir James Anderson, Sir William Thompson, Baron d'Erlanger, Baron and Baroness de Stern, Captain Forbes, Lieut.- Colonel Glover, R.E., Lord William Hay, Mr. George Elliot, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Elliot, Captain and Mrs. Barrow, Mr. and Mrs. John render, Mr. Crampton, Captain Sherrard-OsLorne, Mr. Thomas Brassey, M.P. and Mrs. Brassey, Professor Jenkin, Mr. Reuter, Mr. Henry Clifford, and Mr. Cromwell Varley, who accompanies the expedition as consulting engineer in place of Sir William Thompson. Sir Daniel G ooch, M. P., the chairman of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, was president on Thursday at the luncheon served in the magnificent though somewhat over-decorated saloon of the Great Eastern. This floating island, as the ship was called by Lord Houghton, looked lower in the water than usual, and indeed was lower, by a foot or more, than she has ever been. She is somewhat cumbered by deck houses, and has, in other respects, been made to resemble a floating American hotel more than the island of Lord Houghton's fancy Though it is impossible so speak with praise of the alterations about the ship, there are improve ments in her mechanism which are of some moment and value. Her rudder, formerly worked by twelve men, now answers the bidding of Seam machinery. A single helms man now turns the wheel. The paying-out machinery has been perfected, and there is less chance of injury to the cable than there has ever been. The Great Eastern forthwith proceeds to Portland, and will there coal. It should be mentioned that her departure on the 12th instead of on the 30th of June, a clear gain o! eighteen days, is fairly ascribable to the completion of the company's contract so much within the limits of their time. It must be satisfactory to them to learn, as they did from the south of Lord William I4y, that already the Anglo- French Company regard the cable perfect, even while it lies below decks waiting to be spun out and trailed astern. From Portland the ship proceeds to Brest, where the operation of laying the cable will have been commenced by the Chiltern, a vessel entrusted with a few rotes of the heavy shore end. The ships will meet at an appointed spot ; and the Great Eastern will pick up the buoyed cable at sea. Then, after splicing and testing, she will continue the work begun by her attendant ship. She will have other attendant ships in this critical voyage —the Scanderia and the William Cory ; or, rather they will have preceded her across the Atlantic, to lay the American shore end of the cable at St. Pierre. Sir Samuel Canning has charge of the expedition ; and Captain Halpin, who was chief officer under Sir James Anderson, will, in consequence of that officer's resigna tion, take the command of the ship. LAW AXD POLICE. A IZA:LWAY ACCIDENT.—In the Court of Exchequer, ea Thursday, the case of " Hart v. the Lancashire and York shire Railway" was argued. It will be reounbered that the circumstances were peculiar. Tlie plaintiff was travelling to Manchester on the defendants' railway, when an engine ran into the train, and inflicted injuries, for which a jury at Liverpool awarded £llO damages. The engine was coming up a siding leading to the main line, when the man in charge of it fell down. in a fit. t - The pointsman, knowing that a Manchester express was coming on one line, and a Yorkshire express oh another, while the defen. dauts' train was most likely at a standstill, very wisely turned the engine on to the line on which the defendant was tsaulling, thus avoiding a greater acci dent. It was urgar at the trial that the company ought to have provided against the chance of such an accident. Mr. Manisty, however, obtained a rule for a new trial, which the court on Thursday made absolute. Mr. Baron Bramwell, in giving his judgment, said that on one point he should have great doubt if it went to a jury, and that was, whether the compas, were responsible for the volun tary act of their servant: Baron Cleasby said that as a general rule the proximate cause of an accident must be alone looked at, and therefore it was doubtful whether the company would be responsible. SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE.-011 Thursday an action in the Common Pleas, in which judgment was allowed by default, "Poole v. the Great Eastern Railway," was heard before Mr. Under Sheriff Burchell. Compensation was sought for injuries in a railway collision and damages were laid at £1,500. The noticeable feature of the case was that three medical witnesses on the plaintiff's behalf declared that lfad received a concussion of the brain, and two surgeons or the company declared there w as no such concussioli,but only disease of the heart oflong standing. Mr. Under : Sheriff Burchell commented upon this extraordinary discrepancy, and advised the jury to consult their own common sense. The damages were assessed at 0300. VELOCIPEDES ON FOOTPATHS.— The son of a velocipede maker was summoned at Bow-street for riding a veloci pede on the footpath in Bloomsbury. The magistrate inflicted the nominal fine of five shillings and costs, but said it must be understood that such practices were illegal. CONFESSION OF MURDER. — On Thursday, at the Aber gavenny Petty Sessions, Robert Jones, who recently confessed that he had murdered a woman, was brought up for examination. The result of the inquiries that have been made was that the prisoner did not resemble the man last seen in the woman's company. The prisoner denied that he had said he had murdered the woman, and his father declared his son bad been in London when the murder was committed; he believed him to be weak in the head. The prisoner was accordingly discharged. Colonel Smyth, formerly member of Parliament for the City of York, died at his residence, Heath Hall, near Wakefield, early on Thursday. The heavy penalty of £lOO and costs was in flicted on Wednesday upon a Liverpool publican for havingin his possession 74 gallons of illicit spirits—a mixture sup posed to be used for cordialising ordinary spirits. The Bishop of London has commenced a prosecution against the Rev. C. F. Lowder, the vicar of St, Peter's, St. George's-in-the-East, in consequence of his violation of the directions laid down in the decision of the Judicial Committee of Privy Council, in the case of "Martin v. Mackonochie." Mr. Lowder objects to remove his lighted candles, or to consecrate the elements otherwise than he understands the Church to direct him ; and for this he is to be prosecuted in the Court of Arches, if Sir Robert Philli more consents to accept the letters of request. Mr. Forster, M.P., laid the memorial stone of some Baptist schools at Walsall the other day. In the course of UMW, observations he said that he war Very much in favour of the working classes being admitted to tho national galleries and museums, hut be disapproved o these places being opened on Sunday. Had the House divided on the question he W&S sure that a large majority . • -Uwe de— cided against the measure. He vas in fay. ' • the biliror the exemption of Sunday dehocas horn par. . rates. The Shedden legitimacy carstr..was resumed on Thursday for the fifteenth time before the House of Lords. The Lord Chancellor commented upon the extreme prolixity of Miss Shedden's address, Which has now occupied fourteen days, and exhorted her to confine her remarks to the evi dence. Shortly after commencing to address their lordships yesteriay Miss Shedden swooned, and was carried out. Dr. Bond being sent for, testified that the lady was suffer ing from hysteria, brought on by nervous exhaustion. Their Lordships postponed the case till to-day, when, if Miss Sheddon should be linable to proceed, her father will be heard. THE CHARGE OF INCITING THE SOLDIERS 010 CORK TO REBELLION.—The detailed reports of the inves tigation before the Cork magistrates on Tuesday respect ing Johnson, who was arrested for distributing seditious placards, suggest the probability that the author of the documents is demented. The evidence went to spew that for some days past several soldiers, while passing through the streets on their way to barracks, have been handed by a civilian sealed envelopes, which, on opening, they found to contain letters calling on them to abandon their allegiance to her Majesty and enter the *inks of the Irish army. They reported the fact to their (-Ewers, and the police were set in motion. The result was the :Irrest of Johnson,who stated that he is aprinter out of ern ployn. and that he went from Dublin to Cork in 3 ca7cll of wok. One of the papers found on him was a sheet of green note paper, on which was.p: intal an absurd rhapsody, dated June 8, 1869, and concluding with the following passage : " Soldiers of the IL Catholic, your services are required for soldiers of Christ. Your oath and wicked promise to servo heretics is not binding at this critical period. You must officer your countrymen—take your arms, &c.—come into town and city, and enter all gunshops, provision shops, hotels—take cooked food, gold, silver, arms, and the best horses everywhere. Force the shopmen and constabulary into the ranks.—PRINCE OF GREEN." He was identified by some soldiers as the person who bad handed them the envelopes. His manner and appearance seemed strange. and the magistrates suspected him to be,, insane, but re• manded him for a week. (1 THE SUN, _LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, LEM ME7 ROPOLITAN GOSSIP-7hursday. When some weeks ago I mentioned that the House of Lords contemplated the rejection of the Irish Church . Bill, I expressed my incredulity ; that incredulity I still feel, though that rejection is actually threatened. The course now proposed is fraught with such serious consequences to the Lords, at the same time that it must fail of its purpose—the salvation of the Irish Church Establishment—that I cannot conceive how any body of rational men can take it. Let it he granted, for the sake of argument, that the Irish Church ought to be saved if possible, that Mr. Gladstone's measure is sacrilegious, and all the rest of it; still that does not alter the position, nor render possible the impossible. hhe nation, by the mouth of its Constitutional assembly, as pronounced the doom of that Church ; the Queen has already given her consent to the measure by accepting as her chief adviser the Minister who came into office expressly to carry it out ; it is the Lords alone who resist it. Does anyone, does the most fervid Orangeman believe that they can defeat it? No doubt it is necessary to do something, or rather to make a show of doing something, in order not to lose the support of the Irish Conservatives; and this is the real explanation of Lord Harrowby's notice of motion. There is no longer any talk of Lord Westbury and Lord Russell opening fire upon the flank. They are wise enough to see that the Liberal party are in earnest, and that any defection will be considered au unpardonable offence. In the improbable event of the Peers proceeding to an extremity and throwing the bill out, there will be two courses open to Mr. Gladstone—an immediate prorogation, followed by a new session during the present summer, or his resignation. The latter alternative is not inconsis• tent with the former. He may resign, advise the Queen to send for Mr. Disraeli, who will, of course, be unable to form a Government, and will advise that Mr. Gladstone be recalled. In that case the Liberal leader will be able to make his own terms, such as a prorogation and subsequent session, and the making of a number of new peers. It is to be hoped that the Sovereign will by that time have returned to her capital, instead of being 600 miles away from it, as she was during the crises of 1866 and 1868. I do not think that provincial politicians have any idea of the rapid progress which Republicanism is making among the most highly cultivated men of the metropolis. They rejoice with exceeding joy at the threatened action of the Peers. They had not ventured to hope that their lordships would be seized with the madness which precedes destruction, and even now they fear that the news is too good to be true. They rejoice no less at the virtual abdication of the Queen, and think that her Majesty is one of the best of sovereigns because she is teaching her people to do without any. They tell you that no one is more firmly persuaded of the approaching downfall of monarchy than the Queen herself —that it has been openly discussed at royal tables whether she or her son will be the last to wear the Crown of Eng land. Some of them are writers in able and well-known journals, where, however, they do not say all they-think, because the time is not yet come. But be assured that they are watching events with the utmost keenness, and are skilfully turning to account any event that tends to weaken the popular faith in the old constitutional tradi tions. Mr. Candlish is considered to have made a good hit by calling attention to the extravagant expenditure on the Abyssinian expedition. Clearly something or somebody must be grievously wrong, when an estimated expenditure of £3,500,000 turns out to be nearly £9,000,000. Mr. Munciella (who was to have seconded the motion, but who was forestalled by Sir S. Northcote) threw some light upon the matter, and Colonel Sykes threw more. It turns out that a large number of vessels were engaged to carry out hay at so much for the voyage, and so much for every day's demurrage. They waited about for several months until the charge for demurrage had reached a frightful total. By.that time their cargoes were not wanted ; and, in one instance, at least, they were told to throw the cargoes overboard. Another instance of shameful carelessness was the purchase of mules in Syria, where they cost £4O, and in Spain, where they cost £BO, a head, when they might have been bought in Syria for £4 a head, these same mules being afterwards resold. for an old song. A third illustration was the impor tation-of a large number of women from India to grind corn, the said women after their arrival doing nothing. I mentioned several months ago that certain gentlemen were sent out to purchase mules who knew nothing of the language of the countries to which they went, and were thus entirely at the mercy of interpreters, and that these gentlemen were preferred, because of poli tical reasons, to agents well, accustomed to this kind of business. Here is a hint for Mr. Candlish. I was at Oxford a few days ago, and found, among other novelties, the Keble College in a very advanced state so far as the buildings are concerned. I confess that Ido not greatly admire them. They are too flat, and contrast very unfavourably with the new buildings at Balliol. These, it may not be known to your readers, owe their existerwe h the family pride of a lady who believes that she is descended from Sir John Balliol, the founder, and who having no descendants, wished to do something for the institution originated by her illustrious predecessor. The Dons of Ealliol were not at all disposed to scrutinise too nicely a lineage which was likely to lead to such satisfactory results, and they suggested to their intending benefactress the erection of new buildings. One of the oldest of the inns in Oxford has lately disappearekand is giving place to the new " schools," in the Oxford sense of the word. The Commemoration this year has been shorn of it mist notable incident, the conferring of honorary degrees. This is due, I believe, to two causes: the fact that the two great parties—the Broad and the High—could not agree upon the men to be selected, and to the increasing uproariousness of the undergraduates during the ceremony. The omission had small effect in checking their manifesta tions. The " men" were more obstreperous and boyish than ever. At last the Vice-Chancellor, Canon Leighton, left the - theatre in disgust. It was not expected that the disturbance would have been so serious ; for, owing to a recent change of arrangements, a large number of " men" go down before Commemoration begins. It is not unlikely that this will be the last scene of the kind. There is to be another Ritual prosecution. It has been comm3nced under the most extraordinary circumstances. As the papers have already announced, a deputation from the Church Association waited upon the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth, on Tuesday, to request his aid in putting down Ritualism. It was stated that the association had determined to prosecute Mr. Pureha,s of Brighton, and a London clergyman. Who the second was was not stated, and the intended victim was reading the account and wondering to himself who the unfortunate man could be, when a friend, who was present at the Lambeth meeting, called and told him, " thou are the man." Now the clergyrnan fixed upon happens to be, like Mr. Mackonochie, one of the most devoted and hardworking parish priests in London. He has, I have reason to know, sacrificed an inheritance to a large fortune that he would have enjoyed had he but abandoned his peculiar views, and he has settled down amidst the most degraded class that all London can produce in order to do among them a work as arduous as any that missionary ever undertook among a heathen people. In the course of his teaching he has found it absolutely necessary to appeal to them through visible repre s entations of religion. He feels that while an. intellectual West•end congregation may be taught best through a sermon, the teaching of the poor and the unintellectual is undoubtedly greatly helped by ritual. Ritual is, in his opinion, the picture alphabet of the lower classes so far as religion is concerned. Whether he is right ornot is little to thepoiit The main fact is that Mr. Lowder, who is simply one of fife' most devoted clergymen that . . . ever gave himself up to the work of a Christian minister, is to be put to the worry and the expense of a prosecution by this irrepressible association of easygoing Churchmen, who, above all things, hate zeal. Nor is this all ; they have not even bad the grace to tell Mr. Lowder of their intention, but have left him to learn it unofficially. In other words, not content with stirfn; up ire* litigation, and squandering in law the rponey that they might so well spend in Treading the G )spel;they seek to take advantage of a hard-working cle an by giving him no opportunity of preparing deence, or of obtaining legal advice. Meanwhile the admirers of a leading LOW Church clergyman in the West-end, a popular preacher in a chapel which has no Wish attached to it, and which involves no parochial trork, have pre sented to this overworked gentleman, himself, I believe, a member of the Association, a carriage and pair. One would like to know what the Apostles would have said to the two clergymen, the one renouncing society and wealth in order to teach the sinners and harlots of Ratcliffe High- , way, the other preaching twice cn Sunday in a West-end; chapel, and on the weekdays driving hi:carriage and pair in Totten-row. I fancy that they would have forgiven the sin of Ritualism for the sake of the earnestness. I went yesterday to the private view of the " rejected " pictures, or, as it is called, " The Select Supplementary Exhibition of Pictures." There are six rooms in the building (which, by the way, is in Old Bond-street). In three of these, lighted from the top, but inconveniently small, are exclusively pictures rejected by the Academy. The other rooms are lighted by ordi- nary windows, and the pictures are imperfectly seen. Mr. Moy Thomas, who has had the chief work in getting up the Exhibitiop, has had many difficulties to encounter. In the first place,' large number of the "rejected" did Lot, like to bc.proclaimed a 3 such to all the world ; in the next place, there were some who 1 ad had one or tw, pictures a:cepted and the rest rejected, and who thought that they had no great cause of cotnpla'nt. Last y, there were artists who thought that by sending their works to the "Supplementary Exhibition" they were declaring war against the Academy, and that this would be remem bered to their disadvantage hereafter. The result is that the present collection by no means represents the whole of the rejected works, and probably not the best of them. And it must be confessed that a general survey of those which are shewn leads to the conviction that no very great injustice has been done by the Academy. Undoubtedly there are a few works whose exclusion would be a matter of surprise under any circumstances, and especially when we remember the yards upon yards occupied by the R.A. portrait painters ; but on the whole it cannot be said that the standard of the works in Bond-street is so high as to sustain the charge of gross favouritism against the artists who excluded those pictures. There are, however, a few works whose exclusion will cause some surprise. Mr. Cuthbert's " Maske of Cupid," Mr. Anderson's " A Fond Delusion," Mr. Beavis's " A Tough Bit of Road" (perhaps the best work in the Exhibition), Mr. Brett's "Evening off the Menai Straits," Mr. F. S. Smith's " Pipe of Freedom," Mr. Mawley's " Glade by a River," Mr. Anderson's "A Letter," Mr. Naish's "Stand By, Ready About," Mr. Desanges's "Spring Flowers," and Mr. Gullick's "Portrait of a Lady," are certainly up to the general level of the Academy. Mr. Sydney Hodge's portrait of the Archbishop of Canterbury, painted for the laymen of the City of London as a remembrance of his Grace's late episcopate, was pre sented to the Archbishop this afternoon at Graves's, Pall- Mall MISCELLANEOUS NETVS. AGITATION. Mr. Thomas Charley, the member for Salford, believes in the platform. During the electoral campaign it was the fashion of the Conservatives to sneer at Mr. Gladstone for going on the stump. But Mr. Charley thinks that the Premier was right, and he attributes the success of the Liberal party at the elections, and since, to the brilliant speeches of the right honourable gentlemen in Lancashire last autumn. The Conservative leaders, the member for Salford complains, did not appear upon the platform at the general election. The platform being, in his opinion, " the mainspring of political, as the pulpit is of religious, life and action," no party leader can afford to despise it. Mr. Charley, there fore, in a letter to the Telegraph, appeals to the Conservative leaders to foilow . Mr. Gladstone's example, and to stir up the country by harangues to support the peers in the struggle which must necessarily issue on the rejection of the Irish Church Bill by the Upper House. Two political meetings worth notice were held on Wednesday. The first and most important was held. at Leamington. A banquet was given by the Con servatives of South Warwickshire to Messrs. Wise and Hardy, to celebrate their return at the last elec tion. The brother of the latter gentleman, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, was present, and made the speech of the evening. Both he and Mr. John Hardy said they did not know what the House of Lords would do with the Irish Church Bill, but Mr. Gathorne Hardy vindicated its constitutional right to throw out the bill, and de clared that, whatever it did, it would command the respect and deference of the country. In the course of his speech the right hon. gentleman, referring to the statement that the Conservative party had been educated by its leader,said that in the case of the other party the position was reversed—the leader had been, and was being, edu .ated by the tail. After some de nunciation of Mr. Bright, who, he said, was leading the Liberal party where he would, and whither they knew not, Mr. Hardy co n c luded by recommending Conservatives not to resist the changes that might be necessary in th ese changing times, not to give people reason to say that Conservatism was obstruc tion, not to oppose the correction of abuses in the Irish Church, but to remember Vie blessings they had enjoyed under the union of Church and State in a country which had ever respected the rights of property. Another meeting,, this one also Conservative, was being held at Liverpool while Mr. Hardy was addressing the meeting in Warwickshire. The Liverpudlians turned into the open air in front of St. George's Hall to listen to speeches against the " Church Plunder Bill," " the traitor Gladstone" and " the revol u ti onary Bright." The crowd, esti mated at from 15,000 to 50,000 —set down as 20,000 by the local Conservative journal, and 30,000 by the Liberal paper—was addressed by the well-known Mr. Harper, the Grand Master of the Orange Association, and by several local clergymen. A resolution was passed, setting forth that any intimidation of the house of Lords to induce it to pass the Irish Church Bill would be received with scorn and indignation, declaring that the people of England were prepared to lay down their lives in defence of the independence of the House. There was much confusion, and some little fighting, but, on the whole, the monster meeting passed off very quietly. But two can play at the game of agitation, and the supporters of tlic bill are bestirring themselves. The Reform League already threatens to revive, and its members do not announce their contentment with the mere disestablishrnent and disendowmeht of the Irish Church. Th e y demand the abolition of the House of Lords. We are told that those who formed the branch leagues in the metropolis have been brought together again within the last few days, and have formed the determination to reorganise their respective bodies, and to call on Mr. Edmund Beales to be their common president as before. Of course the first thing that will be done is to hold a grand demonstration in Hyde Park or in Trafalgar square, so that the end of the session is not unlikely to witness another time of excitement much like that which accompanied the discussion of the Reform Bill in Parliament. The leading Liberals of the Northern towns are also taking steps to support Mr. Gladstone. In Leeds and in several other towns of Yorkshire it has been determined to hold great meetings, should the bill be rejected; and at Newcastle, on Wednes day night, a meeting of the party was held, and arrangements were made for holding a gre Lt mass meeting on the-Town Moor, should the Peers pass Lord Harrowby's motion. remark as to the " harmlessness " of the late meeTlng, " Ancona " wishes to know what its object was, and adds, " A friend of mine who has been A good deal in the East (Dean Stanley ?) suggests an explana tion from a practice which he tells me pre'. - ails in the Indian bazaars. The stores-of the dealers in rice and vegetables are very apt to be plundered by stray cattle, which roam through the market and help themselves in a most lawless manner whenever anything particularly tempting strikes their eye. As the animals are sacred to Brahma, forcible resistance is, of course, as much out of the question as it would be to a house of Com mons elected by household suffrage. It is, however, as consistent with the principles of th' Hindoo reli gion as with the interest of the Hindoo greengrocer to distract the attention of the sacred bulls from one's own stall, by skilfully directing it to the booth of a neighbour, and this' harmless step' is very generally resorted to by natives no less in repute for orthodoxy than for skill in business." Clearly the bishops with their strong opposition to Lord Lyttelton's pro posal for bishops of less than £5,000 a year, and with their askance looks towards the deaneries, are ex citing a good deal of suspicion just now. " Common Sense" discusses, in the Morning Post, the proposed cathedral reform. Ile believes that a reform is inevitable; he believes also that to stop short at the reduction of canons from four to two will be impossible, and that the same argument which applies to the abolition of one moiety will soon to be applied to the abolition of the other. These sinecures and the deaneries were originally intended as the rewards of learning, but now there is nothing to prevent the least learned of the clergy from being appointed to them by the Prime Minister of the day in consideration of political support. If the present system is to be preserved— " The dean should be the real and constant leader of the perpetual worship of the cathedral, with a properly paid precentor to assist him. The canons should all, as a rule, reside, and join in common devotions. They should never be appointed except in full chapter. They should have defined duties, and their past literary, or parochial, or scholastic, or missionary toils, recorded. The cathedral should be a school of piety and a library of wisdom, sur rounding itself with the needful institutions of a Christian diocese. The old canonries should be restored and the stalls re-endowed. Finally, the bishop should be ordinary in every cathedral and abbey, and his rightful place upheld once more, as presiding amidst his chapter as his council." If sinecures are to be abolished altogether we shall deal a fatal blow at the social hold of the Church on the people ; for none but inferior men will enter a profession in which all the rewards of skill and industry are suppressed. If deans are not wanted let us say so plainly, and convert them into suffragan bishops. But let us have a real cathedral reform, not " cutting down" canonries, but converting them into living realities. " The noblest intellect of the Church should find its haven in our cloisters, and the very poorest of the half paid parochial clergy would then feel raised by the dignity of their cathedral ; nct with the ignoble feeling of hoping (as is coarsely said) for ' the prizes of the Church,' but with the holy esprit de corps which recognises the glory of the one body throughout all its remotest parts." THE LOYAL ORANGEMEN. The organ of the loyal Orangemen is again urging civil war. Referring, in terms of indignant censure, to the statement of the Pall Mall Gazette, that the rejection of the Irish Church Bill by the Lords will in all probability lead to . a renewal of the riots of three years ago, the publtlt, Mail imagines that this i will be considered a direct ncentive by the bands of pickpockets (fancy the London roughs reading the Pall Mall Gazette!) and bays : "Th ere is but ono way to meet these tactics : the spurious mob must be counteracted by a real one. If the right of insurrec tion be proclaimed in the cause of an ambitious and unscrupulous faction, the posse of th e coun t r y must be raised for • its suppression in the cause of the Queen, the House of Lords, and the Constitution." No one but the Mail has spoken of the " right of insurrection." The people are quite content to make their voices heard through their accredited repre sentatives. It is the loyal Orangemen who denounce the speeches and votes of those representatives as tyranny and "brute force," and appeal from them to an armed mob. THE IRISH CHURCH BREAKFAST: The distinguishtrd Irish .41thurchmen who break fasted in Willis's Rooms saan to have very little faith in Protestantism. They nearly all agreed in holding that it if were deprived 61 the support of the arm of flesh it would fail utterly, and be trodden under foot by Rome. Their arguments were a little incoherent. One of the speakers referred to the fact that there had been no Romanising among Irish Churchmen as there was among English. The inference would seem to be that there was therefore no danger of Irish Protestants yielding to Rome; but, as we have said, the prophecy was all the other way. Sir John Pakington was one of the speakers, although he had openly advocated the endowment of Rome by the State. Mr. Newdegate spoke of 'himself as the foremost Constitutionalist in the House of Commons, which chews that the hon. gen tleman has more courage than modesty. THE HOUSE - OP LORDS. A speaker at one of the recent Conservative demonstrations spoke of the Lords as the descendants of the Runnymede Barons' who forced John to sign Magna Charta. The Daily News has been seeking for the truth as regards this statement, and it dis covers that of the barons who responded to the writs of of summons issued by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, 600 years ago, descen dants of three °raz or : l low sit in the Upper House. They are the Hastings, De Ros, and Andley, the baronies of the two former dating from 1264, and that of the latter from 1296. By the same paperit is stated there are four peerages of the fourteenth century, seven of the fifteenth, twelve of the sixteenth, thirty-five of the seven teenth, ninety-five of the eighteenth, and 233 of the nineteenth. The new patents issued since Earl Grey's accession to power in 1830 are 163 in number, and of these 123 were created by Liberal, and 40 by Conservative, Governments. Of these 34 were issued by Earl Grey himself, 39 by Lord Melbourne, 11 by Sir Robert Peel, 24 by Earl Russell, 23 by Lord Palmerston, 25 by the Earl of Derby, and four by Mr. Disraeli. Mr. Gladstone has created three. v distur b edthe fii•star b e y a th lo e n ex g way cess iv from ro Although during th e l as t f or ty years the Liberals have created so m an y more p e ers than the Conser vatives, balance at ives,Mr. Pitt and Lord Liv e rp oo l, creationsm r e dr es si n g f DISItOPS, DEANS, AND CANONS. The reply of the Archbi s h op o f Y or k to !fAncona 4 (anagram for a Canon) has elicited a very smart rejoinder. Commenting upon the Archbishop's DELAYS IN OBTAINING JUSTICE. " A Victim of Lawyers' Delays" complains, in the Times, that while the Court of Queen's Bench has a long list of arrears, the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer are obliged to suspend their Nisi Prius sittings for absolute lack of business. " Could not," he asks, " the wit of the learned judges devise some mode by which causes pending in the first court could be sent to other courts for trial P" There are now eighteen common law judges, and the electi on petitions are over. No wonder if men are repeating the denunciation, " Woe unto you, ye lawyers; ye lay on men burdens grievous to be borne, and will not touch them with one of your fingers." Hero, as in many other matters, we might learn of the Nor wegians. With them every suit has to go f or adjudication on the spot in the first instance; if that decision is not satisfactory, (it generally is) it goes to a court which takes in a large number of parishes. It is only in the last resort that the cause is taken to the Supreme Court at Chri s ti an i a. At no stage of the proceedings is any eviden ce a ll owe d to be given beyond that which was off ere d i n the first instance. Thus litigation is reduced to a minimum. OUR RELATIONS WITH SPAIN. The Scotsman says that at the Foreign Office there is no doubt that the Tornado was a lawful prize. Right is on the side of the Spaniards, but if it were not, their Treasury is too empty to afford compen sation. In c onnection with this matter an an ec d o t e is mentioned by the same journal. A gentl eman , well qualified to give an answer, wa s as k e d whether the Provisional Government of Spain was going on like a regular Government. " Oh, very mu c h indeed," said he. " \‘' e find no difference whatever. They never pay anybody; they never get on with anything; and they never answer a letter. It is just the same, so far as we are concerned, as if the Q ueen were still reigning; in fact, it's as ordinary and usual a Spanish Government as ever reigned in Spain." Clearly the Gibraltar question is not yet ripe for a solution. CREDIT AND THE ARISTOCRACY. The Daily Noes in a recent article called attention to the absurd charge in certain metropolitan shops for the flower in the button-hole. A shilling, eighteenpence, and two shillings are considered proper prices for a rose. Our contemporary knew no reason why such high figures should be placed on luxuries of such small value intrinsically. It has been enlightened, however. It seems that " Floriat" has to give the young man of the period a long credit, and consequently the price charged must be high. The tradesmen dare not object, they may not demand the money, and so they have to get interest by laying on heavy charges. It is indeed notorious that people who belong to society "think it beneath them to pay ready money, and if they are in any way interfered with as to what time they will ' cash up,' they resent it as an insult." An accountant, who . , writes to one of the papers on this subject, says : " I was recently consulted by a West-end house as to their affairs, and on investigation I found the names of halt the aristocracy upon their books. A large portion of these accounts were of long standing, and I advised that they he immediately called in. I was told that it was easier said than done, and so it proved, for on attempting a little gentle coercion, after numberless unsuccessful respectful applications, there ensued a shower of abuse — pardon me, I mean objections—such as, ' I will post you at my club,' I will tell all my friends,' `Your charges are exorbitant,' `You are becoming notorious for dunning everybody,' &c. It was with difficulty I urged my client to disregard these threats and to be firm. The clamour soon ceased, and I am happy to say the main portion of his capital was rescued." ARBITRATION. For arbitration between masters and men to be in any way successful it is necessary that both sides should act in perfect good faith and submit unre servedly to the decision of the arbitrator. This submission wanting, arbitration becomes worse than useless. It was wanting in the case of the Oldham dis pute, and the consequences are that complication has made confusion worse confounded. Mr. Rupert Kettle decided that the cotton operatives in Oldham should accept a reduction of 5 per cent. A portion of them have refused to take lower wages, and the rest being unable to work without the aid of therecal citrant, a general lock out is the result. I n this case arbitration has failed for the first time. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. Professor Gold vin Smith addressed a distin guished assembly, embracing all the members of the Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, May 19, in reply to Senator Sumner's speech. The opening portion of his address, wherein he reviewed national antipathies, and those interested in war was of great interest; but when he placed the English view before his American hearers he went over ground, however novel to them, thoroughly familiar in England. Considered as the remarks of an Englishman to an American audience, the speech was well conceived and expressed. Nearly all the strong points were touched on quite suffi ciently to give his bearers another view of this much vexed question. But, to an Englishman here, they appear weak when contrasted with the strong wine to which he is accustomed in the discussion of this sub. ject. We need not follow him along a path now so familiar to our readers ; but, to do him justice, he has rethernedihn - iwror of his letter to the Bee hive, which has found its way bacirto America, creating there no little astonishment. The Ameri can papers contrast their action in at once placing this speech in full before their readers with that of the English peesnin suppressing th e orat i on to which it was a reply;" Mr. Smith gives these extraetsiro m a celebrated speech of Senator Sumner on Foreign Relations, delivered during the war, whi c h he asserts was the prototype of that he then answered, to show the Senator's frame of mind on the mike' ct of Azlvery. "Not to blast is to bless," says the Conk. deration of the Slave States ; he terms " a Magnum Lotroeinitint, whose fellowship can have nothing but the filthiness of evil," " a mighty house of illy fame," " an Ishmael," " a brood of harpies defiling all whi.ch it cannot steal," " a one-eyed Cyclops of Nations," "a soulless monster of Frankenstein," a wreteled crea,'ion of mental science without God." " Who," he proceeds, "can welcome such a crea tion ? who can consort with it ? There is something loathsome in the idea: There is contamination even in the thought. If you live with the lame, says the ancient provkyb: yol Witl learn to limn ; if von k,!ep iu kitelen, you will smell of smoke ; if you tou - .111 pitch you will be defiled. But what laine-• ness so pitiful as that of this praended Power ! what smoke so foul as its breath ! what pitch so defiling as its touch'. It is au Oriental saying, that a cistern of rose water will become impure if a dog is dropped into it; but a continent of rose water, with Rebel slavemongers, would be changed into a vulgar puddle. Imagine, if you please, what ever is most disgusting, and this pretended power is more disgusting still. Naturalists report that the pike will swallow anything except the toad ; but this it cannot do ; the experiment has been tried, and though this fish, in its voracity, always gulps whatever is thrown to it, yet invariably it spews this nuisance from its throat. But our slave monger pretension is worse than the toad ; and yet there are foreign nations which, instead of spewing it forth, are already turning it, like a precious mor sel, on the tongue." (Edipus," he goes on to say, " in the saddest tale of antiquity, weds his own mother without knowing it ; but England will wed the slave power with full knowledge that the rela tion, if not incestuous, is vile." And the❑ : "The foul attorneys of the slave-monger power, reeking with slavery, will have their letters of license as the ambassadors of slavery to rove from court to court over foreign carpets, talking, drinking, spit ting slavery, and poisoning that air which has been nobly pronounced too pure for a slave to breathe." IIIIVDOO FEMALE CELEBRITIES.* (From the Anglo-American Times.) No subject now excites more interest than the education and position of women, and strange to say, most, in the oldest and the youngest of nations, We leave the Hindoo to dispute the Chinaman's right to the greatest antiquity, accepting the Hin doo's claim for our present purpose. Both in India and in America this has become the question of the age, and as the position occupied by Hindoo women is misconceived, we propose briefly to touch upon the subject discussed in the last number of the Cal cutta Review. Those who know India are aware of the high rank held by that long-established periodi cal, and we may observe that it and the Friend of India, a weekly review, reflect no small credit on Anglo-Indian literature. The opinion gene rally entertained is that Hindoo women are little better than slaves ; that they are ignorant, and pur posely kept so by their masters, degraded into the position of mere toys, and jealously guarded be cause false and lascivious. On the whole these are mistaken ideas, though circomstances have tended to give them a colouring of truth. The Zenana was unknown to the Ilindoo previous t 3 the -can quest of the country by the Mahomedans, and it was to protect their women from violence and in sult that it was instituted. Previous to that epoch Hindoo women were freely allowed to appear in public, and it is of a prior age that the writer treats, promising another article for the discussion of Hindoo Female Celebrities of more modern days. The tales preserved tend to elucidate the position of Hindoo women in times otherwise long pist into o' - ‘livion, and it is clear !hat the lama of Menu regarding women were thei more rigidly ob served. Mr. John Stuart Mill and other great writers have been betrayed into the error of supposing that Menu a ivocatcd female thraldom, from the following passage in his code :—" Day and night must women be held by their protectors in a state of dependence. Their fathers protect them in childhood, their husbands protect them in youth, their sons protect them in old age ; a woman is never fit for independence." But Menu's laws. while recognizing the comparative feebleness and dependence of woman, assert her right not only to protection, but to consideration, broadly discrimi nating between the affairs of life wherein she holds a place of the highest importance in common with man. and those from which she is to be excluder . % These are thus briefly summed up in the code : " A husband is one person with his wife for all domestic and religious, not for all civil, purposes ;" and this was the spirit of the Ilindoo law. It is true that innovations, many wholly opposed to the spirit of the lawgiver, have crept in and become sanctified by long custom. Such, for instance, are the nuptials of Ilindoo damsels when mere infants, and the gifts to the fathers, through which their daughters are sought in marriage. Not only is this latter hatit opposed to the spirit, but also to the letter of the code, wherein " a father who knows the law is pro hibited from reeeiv:ng a gratuity, however small, for giving his flan ; .:liter in marriage ; since the man wl o, through avarice, takes a Gratuity for that pur pose is a seller of offspring." Try - Iced, Ilindoo maids, instead of being married as elliidren, as is now the practice, in .ancient times exercised more than an ordinary control over their own destiny. Constantly they were p'ermitted to choose husbands for them selves, and it was recognized that this should be allowed where there were many suitors. A damsel who waited three years after she had become - mar riageable then exercised the right of electing for herself, a custom wholly opposed to that now prevailing throughout nearly all the peninsula, though there are portions of Ilindoostan where Ilindoo women are allowed great latitude. The code provides for the protection of the property of women. " Male relations," it says, " who through delusion of mind shall take possession of a woman's property, he it only her carriages or clothes will, for such offence sink to a region of torment." This is strongly insisted on, while the rights of the sex in other respects are also maintained. One is that L 4 the names of women should he agreeable, soft, clear, and captivating to the fancy." The Hindoo girl, therefore, is wronged, wh ose f at h er g i ves her a harsh, disagreeable name, and might sue for da mages under Menu's code, which is a right in ad vance of anything claimed even in America by the Women's Rights' Women. " Way must be made for a man in a wheeled - carriage, or above 90 years old, or afflicted with disease, or carrying a bundle, for a woman, for a priest, for a prince, or for a bridegroom." Polygamy was not formerly prac tised as now ; on the contrary it was almost prohi bited, individual cases only being named wherein it was permitted. Menu discouraged the marriage of widows, but did not absolutely forbid it, and the young woman whose husband had died was left to a solitary life so dreary as to make death prefer able. From this, Suttee may have sprung, coupled with the selfishness of those not unwilling to be rid of a burden. There is no mentiowof it in the code, and it was so opposed to the spirit of Menu that nothing would more shock his ghost, nor could one be in a situation better adapted for a sensa tional photograph, if Mutnler with his apparatus were present at this cruel practice to catch the spirit likeness of Menu. How the immolation of widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands origi nated is unknown, but Dio(lorus describes an in stance which occurred 300 years 8.C., and he accounts for the practice as arising from the degrading con dition to which a woman who outlived her husband was condemned. We are little interested in the traditions of celebrated Hindoo women coming from a mythical period, and although from these very old stories much knowledge may be extracted of the customs then prevailing, the incidents could only amuss Hindoos and children. It is to one of these Hindoo women, however, that the world is said to owe chess. Mundadari, a Tamulian Prin cess, was the consort of Ravana, King of Lunka or Ceylon, who, being much addicted to war, she taxed her ingenuity to devise the game for his amusement. Though many nations claim the in vention, Sir William Jones awards it to the Hindoos, and they to Mundadari, and it so accurately de scribes the national mode of warfare, from the most ancient period, that the game itself furnishes no slight evidence. The castles are there termed the boats, and the reviewer considers it ridiculous to in troduce boats into the manoeuvres of warfare in an inland p'ain ; but this we do not se a for boats are certain to take no unimportant part in a campaign, ancient or modern, near the sea or far in the coun try, and we think the rebellion in America Nithout fur nished a better proof of this than ever did a wer on the Gauges. The incidents involved whollyvedinone o f these stories are too good to be passed notice. Bikya, daughter of the Minister of the Rajah of Kotua al, played therein a cunning, and wa arc iaa.liae. 1 to lai:eve, a ndt unwomanly 1 ,.;.f. Th:. Rajah had an only daughter, to whom the *Calcutta Review, January, 1869. - "swviewm.rwerwri, Minister desired to wed his son, and thus secur for his family the principality ; but astrology bad foretold that a handsome young man named Chan dra-Hasa would become the ruler. The Minister not feeling inclined to accept the decre3 of the stars took active measures to defeat it, plotting in vain against Chandra-Hasa's life, but on finding that he could not accomplish his destruction, he sent bhp with a letter to his son, wherein was written, " Chandra-Hasa is my enemy ; give him poison." Making a long journey, the weary bearer of his own death-warrant lay down by a tank and fell asleep, where Bikya, straying alone in the direction, found him, with the letter falling from his breast. Attracted by the handsome young man, and curious to know what the letter contained, she took it up, and was surprised -to see that the address was tn her brother, in the handwriting of her fat her. Opening it she read the contents, and determined to defeat the design. By taking away a single letter she turned " enemy" into " friend ;" the word signifying poison is biku, aed by inserting " y " I t became Bikya, and the sentence then ran--" Chan dra-Hasa is my friend ; give him Bikya.” Sh e then sealed it with her father's seal, replaced it in the youth's bosom, and left him to awake and deliver the missive, which he did, and the order being imperative, the astonished son had the nuptials performed that night. Such stories serve to esta blish the facts that Hindoo ladies were allowed A greater latitude than now, that they were able to read and write, and it appears certain that they were also instructed in music and dancing, acconl plishments now confined to nautch girls. The brother of one of these heroines, Uttara, is described as being welcomed back from a warlike tour by 3 procession of beautiful damsels, and the Rani had her cup of wine, for which, as a matter of course, she seat to the house of her brother. We hope the reviewer will deal when treating of celebrated llindoo women of later times with the Rani of Jhansi, the bravest, and most inspired of the Hindoos, with dis like to the British raj. It is reported of her that during the mutiny, when her ammunition failed , she fired bags of pice (copper coin) at the enemy , and she is said to have been killed by a charge of British dragoons, whom she courageously enconw tered at the head of her horsemen in the open field. In three different epcchs have three women of three different nations ruled over the destinies of Indi a : The first was Prem-Divi (IIindoo) ; the second Sultana Rizia (Mahommedan) ; and the third Vie" toria (Christian) ; and the fact that a Hind° woman did sit on the throne of Delhi speaks volunie g for the position of the sex in Hindoostan in a ncient days; showing that the Ilindw women of the present have been robbed of the rights they once possessed. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, June 10• The following is the return of the Bank of Fran ce for the week ending to-day, together with the o r " responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Juno 3. fr. c. Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 Profits in addition to June 10. c , fr. 182,50,000 capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) Reserve of the Bank 7,044,776 02 7,044, 776 (VI and its branches Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,0 0 0 Notes in circulation -, , Banknotes to orderand receipts payable at ~ 10 sight 38,160,027 56 38,055,340 Treasury account cur- 1 29 rent creditor.. 176,441,536 99 172,084, 73 5 6 Current accounts, Paris 375,134,374 15 355,6124 96 ' 1 ' ...- Do. branch banks 51,053,676 49,593,612 Dividends payable 677,219 E 40,3 19 -- Discounts and sundry 66 i t interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed 63 Sundries 22,10.5,750 11 22,105,750 0 9 933,790 85 33,7 90 86 Total CREDITOR. Juno 3. Cash in hand and in fr. 8 8 39 Branch banks Commercial bills over duo Commercial bills dis counted, 65 not yet due 335,228,959 50 321,051,8-." Do: branch banks 26 0 )59 1 ,003 —242,469 ,39 i Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch banks Do. on F►•ench Public 278,699 68 10,130,900 - 5,12,660 - 126,111 49 10 008,600 6:083,00 Securities Do. by branch banks... Do. on railway shares and debentures ....• Do. branch banks . Do. on Credit Fancier Bonds 1,064,900 1,0 0 4 , 01 , ) 5 1 , Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re- 15,227,300 - 6,701,380 - 13 659 On 6, 10,1 1,035,10 U - 60,000,000 -*" 12,980,750 14 12 980,75 0 , 1 1 80,627,187 21 80,6271187 2 serve Do. disposable Relates Immobalisdes (Law, June 2, 1857) 1(0 (100 000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bbnk and landed ()roper ty branches E4enses of manage -64 ment 2,048,742 85 2 , 105, 1 15 Q ll Sundries Total Certified by the Senator-Governor of the 133°; of France. (Signed) Rot:LOP. 9,000,198 8,963,356 '° roreign £Laii racket List. MAILS DUE. a ! 9 ' &natralia and New Zealand, via Southamptoz......un . 44 Ditto. via P'Arseilles •-••• ••• .. ~. J une ' , tirasil, Buenos Ayre s , and M on t e Vid eo July ' June 12 ' Ditto, by Frenoh packet . Cape Verde. by Brazil paoiret ...... .....Tub', no Cape of Good Hupe. Amoension. and St. H e l e na ... •., u -- l b China. Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton.) . ti tle 1 utbraltar. via Southampton June 1 India.via Southampton , op • • ••••.• 0 vittootia Marseilles .:. ... ......J j t u ta ti : 11 11 Malta* 1/b ;it .1 Of*, If arsenics Juae 1 „Atria l b Neelfoundla nc ...... .... ........ ••••••• Mauritius, Cape of Good hope, and Natal. via Seuthami ton Ditto, Marseilles ~ Job - 4 „Jun° 4 * Portugal United States, ( anada, California, &0., by British Julio 1 ` packet Ditto date (Baltimore) Ditto, by L sited States packet 9 Ditto, by Inman packet ....... . ........ ...... •." m -n 3 tADVERTISSMENT.)—Henceforth no one will doubt the `" properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta ", 0 ra 94 4 Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of h` e d been it has already received from Invalids whose position h a pope' deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the .ars of whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty Y : e ttod., tl unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " (- 0- 0 Midi," July 25th:—" Rome, July 21,1866. —The health of t h ren ie - Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all othe r fi len l a dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's I te , -- raeo , " Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at eve , `il t h, a 6" It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his he' ,, his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highlY,;2l6, of extract a few out ofmore than 68. 000 cures : —Cure No. the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver coni t r a tio 6, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous P ( ' l _,P o st 1 ;;, - all over, bald digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the I " a st "" tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771: Lord S lO ep Fia• Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' ( 1 3 1 1; 0 )0' No. 49,8321 "Fifty years' indescribable agony from ( 1 3!,00 1° ' nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, tlatulene9. o ..6, gr' sickness, and vomiting —Maria July." Cure No. 46 ..; wage' James Hobert's, of Frintley, Surrey, of 30 years' disease' 103 spittingot blood, liver derangement, and pariial deafrl.,• Oa; portantOsution--Beware of the many unsavoury and nljela sloppy Imitations to which, without authority, Baron name mast audaciously attached. 2 iba_ a`26 to , Is ;Ilb 2s 9d; 2lbs 4s Cd 5 lb s 115 '..,nc01, /4 lbs 40g.—ALSO DU BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABIC'A C.-. cOP: 4 POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at for at eO B at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at Cs, for 288 cups at 30s, for 57 6 cur ar e se:, —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins orde r. free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-0 Me e ; BARRY Dl BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Load" all Grocers and Chemists. at. B R : a. 1? At. T 2, , Il f S c . ahesoshn a. m_ lace, the _ BARROW— On On th t e h , o t i ho th i. inst., at Ryde, I. of NV., the w ife °I Colonel Barrow, Lad/ BARRY BRYANT Mary Smith Barry, of a daughter. 111.4 1) .AI.4RRIAGES. NI , r/ , ' ° I,sil ' —NEWCOMB -On the 9th inst., at Sint, --`t, Ntoorth Audley-street, Henry Strickland Brya coo, HILL —E rrs Louisa, daughter of the Late Rev. George N'evr Vicar of Halberton, Devon. ril ore% "" er u l Roland, eldest sou of John kill, Esq., Stock Exc —On the Bth inst. at St. Maryleboneu" u ge and 19, Tavistock-square, to Louisa, third clauglitod.. Dr. George N. Epps, o f 2U, Devonshire-street, Port' Place, W. DEATIIS. of CORY - On the 9th inst., at Lugano, Charles Coq/ Hopton Hall, Suffolk, aged 56. f 03 1 ' PACE - On the 9th inst., Mr. Samuel Thos. Page, °- rison's-wharf, St. Katherine's, uged3o, 78. r od/ SHORLAND —en the Bth inst at Lansdowne" Notting-hill, M iss Shorland, , aged 89. Lcrdou : Printed and Published by WILLI.A.3I AN D° r sua of No. 112, btrand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N 0.112, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of MiddlB'. Friday, June 11, 18C9.