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All Persons who effo-et Policies on the Partici, atiug Se a l e before Juue 30th, 1869, will be entitled st the NEXT BoNl7s to ore year's additional Share of Profits over later Entrant , .. Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained of GEORGE CLTCLIFFE, Actuary - and Secretary. 13, St James's-square, London. S.W. HE "SINGER" SEWING MACIII,NES 11 THE -NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDEIIY• STITCH'. Work by Hail(' and Treao.le. and in a Portable Case for Travelling. FEE << SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The peculiar simplicity of thess Machines enables any one to acquire their perfect use in a :ew hours. Tllnstrwed Price Lists poet free. THE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY Chief Office in the United Kingdcm: 147, eIIEAPSIDE. 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That the ANNUAL GENERAL COURT of this ociety will be held on WEDNESDAY, the 23d instant, at the SOCIETY'S 1101ISF, No. 25, Pall-Mall, where in future the business of the society will be transacted. The Chair will be taken at Four o'clock precisely. CHARLES M'CABE, Secretary. 18th June, 1869. SHARE DEPARTMe,NT. THE CON SERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—Shares may be taken out daily at the Norfolk-street offices, or investors at a distance can he enrolled ass members by correspondence. Present rate of interest, five per cent. per annum, payable in half-yearly war rants, with particioation of auy profits declared annually above that rate. No partnership liability, and power of withdrawal of subscriptions ou shares at twenty-eight days' notice. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEESEN, Secretary. Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C. LAW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet street, London, E.C., May 31, 1869. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in conformity with the provisions of the Deed of Settlement, a GENE RAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Law Life As surance Society will be held at the Society's Office, Fleet street, London, on THURSDAY, the 24th day of June next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, to elect au Auditor in the room of Philip Longmore, Esq., who has resigned; to elect six Directors and ono other Auditor ; and for general purposes. The Directors and Auditor, who go out of office by ro tation, will be proposed for re"-election. By order of the Directors, GRIFFITH DAVIES, Actuary. COMPENSATION IN CASE OF INJURY, AND A FIXED SUM IN CASE OF DEATH Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY KIS 0, may be secured by a Policy of the RAILWAY PASSENGFRS ASSURANCE COMPANY. An Annual Payment of £3 to £6 ss. insures £l,OOO at Death, nd an Allowance at the rate of £6 per week for Injury. RAILWAY ACCI I , ENTS ALONE may be provided against hy Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Journies. For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to the Local Agents, or at the Offices, 51, CORNUILL and 10, REGENT :-..TUEET, LONDON. WILLIAM J. VIAN Secretary. APO ADMIRERS OF LIGHT CARRIAGES. —HART, 79. New Bond-street. has introduced some of the lightest. handsomest, and roomiest CARRIAGES that ever were seen. S. IT. is still prlsressit“ with others on the light scale, the style of carriage which has so long been wanting in this country. as thousands of horses get bent over wi h their fore leg,: and knuckled over beldra and sere shoulders, through litv:ng a. carriage 3 cwt. to, heavy. Persons wanting a carriage have only to describe the size of the horse. and one will be made suitable: the horse will go with ease and the riders with com fort, as he has introduced a spr:nr only one inch wide, made of patent steel, not half the weight of the ordinary springs. A visit is solicited. Testimonials to be seen. See opinions of the Press —The Sun, Morning Post, Observer, Pell's Life, Globe, New York Herald, and Anglo-American Times. One on view at Crystal Palace. A GENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce comreoli les valuable to every householder high and low. This offers a hialy remunerative Commi-sion o Tradesmen, Travellers. Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to N. MARRISON, Great Orford-street, Norwich. ToliN GOSNELL and CO.'S CIIERRY eTOOTLE PASTE is greatly snperior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from dee ty, and imparts a pleasant frazranee to the breath. Price is. 6d.—Pled Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street. London. NOTIIING IMPOSSIBLE. AGIJA. AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid done of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded iu perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public In a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15e. each. mcluding brush. Bed Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. MACNIVEN & CAMERON'S ENOWNED WAVERLEY, OWL, PICK WICK, and lITAVERLEY BARREL PEN, ON A NEW PRINCIPLE. '• The Owl' pen is suitable for fine writing, and glides over the Tap,.r in the mo , t 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 bi:ity is so groat that it will entirely supersede the use of quills, and to professional men will be invaluable. The Waverley Barrel Pen' possesses the same qualities as the foregning."—Court Journal. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET *furs EN - ENING. BLUE DEVIL S: Messrs. Howe, Buckstone. inn.; Mis 4 F. Wright. After which. MA RY W Bateman. lies,rs. I owe Cernpton..te. roucluliwz, with HUM LIFE BELOW STAIW:: Mes,rs. Luckstone, Howe, Kendal; Miss F. Wright, 3Th:s F.(Gwynn. TIIEAT2E-PI)YAL. ADIMPTIT. • Tins EVENING. nt 7, I OMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo Bel more and Mrs Leigh , Turray. At S. EVE' : Ben.bullill Web ster, Mr IT. Nes- He. - miss Furtado, Mrs Mired ATellon. ,fir Ana DID YOU EVER SEND YOUtt WIFE TO CAMBERWELL? Mr. G. Belmore. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. 1 ifte EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke: Miss Bufton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton: esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENTNO, at 7, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. W. Farren. Vernon. David Fisher, J. Clarke: Miss Ly‘lia voote. At 9. 5, the new hur!esque TI I s: CORSICAN COM S: ER MessrB. J. Clarke, Marshall. Andrews. and Hurlstone : Mesdames Julia St. George, Berend,Breman, and C. Thorne. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. _ . Tnis ZVE , MG. at THE SMOKED MISER. After which, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. J. C. Com per, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. C. Cloghlan, Mrs. HermannVezin, Mr.. C. Horsman, &e. ROYALTY TII EATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. 'fills EVENING, at 7.30, IN FOR A IIoLIT) Y. Followed by , A ROVING COMMISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day,, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers,. Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of ➢Liss Marie Wilton THISEVENINO, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATP.E, REGENT STREET. THIS EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARBE BLUE. The Only Leon CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALFIAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-off:1c( open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-wk. OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, Gd. Children under twelve, Gd 144 :.,-Ar.ty , 4 2 1 4 A i • 4 1--• ZR. 4t2 /-77;%•‘, C7V LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1869 Every one who is familiar with the appearance of the House of Lords during any sitting of more than ordinary importance cannot but have a very lively remembrance of the fact that, as a Legislative Cham ber, it is virtually Headless. In the House of Com mons matters are altogether differently arranged. There, the Speaker presides with authority. Con fronting him, the Sergeant-at-Arms —something like Mr. PELL'S high official friend in armour and silk stockings (vide " Pickwick") —sits there nightly dur ing the session, without the armour, it is true, but with the silk stockings, and having that little spind. ling Court sword at his side, which is worn, we presume, as a symbol of his (the Ser geant-at-Arms') authority. Regulating always at his own free will and pleasure the sequence of the debaters taking part in any discussion, the Speaker can always prevent, by a glance of the cye, or by one spoken word (a name) the risk of any un seemly coot ent'en amorg those who ire desirous cf claiming the attention, or, iu other words, of obtain ing the ear, of Parliament. Whenever there is a question of Order, or, to speak more accurately, when ever there is a doubt as to its having been violated, one sentence from the lips of the Speaker is sufficient to restore tranquillity, even in the midst of the angriest dispute. His word is the law. He is, there, we repeat, presiding over the proceedings of the House of Commons at all times—with authority. In recognition of this every word uttered while he is in the Chair is, as though it were, addressed to himself alone, and to him individually. Throughout the whole VIE SIM LONDON, of the eisetrsions, wboerer is nominally addressing the base is pointedly addressing him as " Sir," or " Mr. Speaker." In striking contrast to all this, the Lord High Chancellor of England is only by a figure of speech, as one may say, the Chairman or Speaker of the House of Lords. It is by little better than a fiction that he presides over its proceedings. As though it were from the fact of his having no chair to sit in as head of the house, he is absolutely without any of the authority usually accorded to the chairman of every great public meeting. The noble lords who are addressing the House are really addressing the House—not the Chancellor. Throughout their remarks they are continually saying, " My Lords" not "My Lord." The Chancellor is there on the Woolsack arrayed in hii black silk robe and his full-bottomed wig ; but, he sits there as one may say tnumchance. Unless, when, in the exercise of a right not accorded to the Speaker of the House of Commons —an official, so called, upon the locus a non lucendo principle—he, literally, at these excep tional intervals, of his own choosing, steps aside from the Woolsack, still arrayed in his robe and flowing wig, when he himself, we say, takes part in their lordships' discussion. That privilege, the privilege of speech, he certainly possesses. But, as to any autho rity he might be supposed to have for maintain ing order in their Lordships' House, or in regulating its proceedings, he has, to all intents and purposes, none. Yesterday this clearly unsatisfactory state of things in regard to the conduct of public business in the House of Lords, was brought under the consideration.of that branch of the Legislature by the noble and learned Lord, the Master of the Rolls. Lord ROMILLY'S reason for doing so was, in itself, sufficiently notorious—the occasion, in fact, arising out of the unseemly and most disorderly manifestations of applause which have, more than once of late, proceeded from the occupants of the Strangers' Gallery. Daring the late noble debate on the Irish Church Bill in the House of Lords, we have ourselves heard proceeding from that Strangers' Gallery—not merely loud cries of " Hear, hear," technically called "Cheers," when either voci ferous or long sustained, but the stamping of feet and the clapping of hands, and now and then, even, or we are very greatly mistaken, what is termed among Orangemen the Kentish Fire ! Now, applause of any kind would be at all times simply dis grew ;lid, proceeding from that particular portion of the House of Lords set apart for the accommoda tion of Strangers. But applause so impassioned, so noisy, and so wholly unrestrained in it; character, was nothing less than outrageous. It certainly ap pears most desirable that the nominal hra.l of die House, the Lord High Chancellor, should ')e empowere 1 by their lordships to prevent the re currence of any such disorderly manifestations. It is no doubt perfectly true, as was observed last even - ing by the noble and learned lord now the occupant )f the Wools ick, that there are three remark tide distinctions between the Spea'car of the Rouse of Commons an 1 that so•called Speaker )f the House of Lords, the Lord Chancel !or. Namely, First of all that the Speaker is :hosen by those who wish to select him for the office; secondly,...that he is chosen from among, members distinguished by their long acquaintance with the business of the House, and to whose deci sions on piuts of order or calls to order implicit de ference is therefore paid ; an", thirdly, that ho cannot ')e a partisan, has no opportunity of speaking except in camtnittee, and is generally suppusA to be a person free fro:n the trammels of play. The Lard Chau being—not a doubt of it—at a very ;real disadvantage in every one of these particulars ! gevertheless, for all that, we cannot but think that noble an'l learned lord the occupant of the Wool sack, should have placel in his hands at I.st the onwr.r of ko.,nina nraer—fnr. as tin. Nifty Luis?. of SALTS.. !IljitY well s last evening, if there should chance to ne a tyranii:cal Lord Chancellor, tha House could ')ut take away from hilt' the authority which it is flow proposed should be confided to the o,:capant of the Woolsack in his c spa ity as first Peer of the realm. 1808-0 will be a sadly-memorable year for the working classes. The same twelvemonth which has seen them enfranchised for the first time, has seen them also flying from the country in thousands, because it is impossible for them to earn a livelihood in it. To give a man a vote at the very time that you declare your incapability to give him work, is painfully suggestive of the stone which was offered in reply to the prayer for bread. What are politics to a man who has not a subsistence ? Of what avail is it to him that he has a twenty-thousandth part in the selection of a six-hundred-and-fifty-eighth portion of one House of the Legislature, when no legislator is able to tell him how he is to keep body and soul together ? •Three or four years ago he might have cared to stand before the hustings on nomination day, and to announce his vote to the clerks on polling-day. Yet now it is not to the hustings but the workhouse whither he wends his steps, it is not the poll-clerk but the relieving-officer with whom he has to make acquaintance. It is a sad termination to the political enthusiasm of the last few years. The Whitechapel stone-yard is a miserable anti climax to the Hyde Park demonstration. Can nothing be done for him ? Has he become an elector only to lose his new inheritance by becoming a pauper ? Cannot the wisdom of that body which he and his fellows have helped to constitute, devise some means to redeem him from the sore bondage of poverty, to supply the honest man with all that he wants work for willing hands that are idle through no fault of theirs ? Such questions as these are being asked on all sides by our labouring class. They cannot safely remain unanswered. It was such questions which led to the French revolution of 1848, and to the brief, but bloody, reign of Red Republicanism. Red Republicanism is not dead, it sleeps only, if indeed it do sleep. Of that we feel by no means certain when we read the reports of the International Working Men's Congresses. At any rate, no Govern ment can afford to ignore such a condition of things as exists among our working-men at the present time. It is under these circumstances that the Poor-law Board has at last promised to deal with the pauperism of London. The deputation which waited upon Mr. GoscHEN on Monday obtained from him a distinct proposal that a central committee should be formed out of the various metropolitan boards of guardians, for the express purpose of forwarding emigra tion to the colonies. This committee will obtain information from the colonial Governments as to the openings which there are for emigrants, and will, perhaps, be able to persuade those Governments to make a grant to assist emigration. The boards of guardians on their part will be at liberty to grant relief out of supplementary funds to pers ons w h o are no t ac t ua ll y on the rates, but who, if country, elea rth they do not leave the at a fe c w om i e )em t l i c p is on spe t t h it e in ra e t o e n s. veyi l n t g i a s probable pauper out of the country will save a good many pounds spent in supporting him here. Formerly, under the old vicious law of settlement, a board of guardians did not hesitate to spend a considerable sum of money in deporting a pauper from one end of England to the other. The only effect was to save the rates of the parish which did this. The pauperism was not cured ;it was simply shifted from Cornwall to Northumberland, from Norfolk to Cork. Neither the country nor the pauper was benefited. But by transporting a pauper to Canada or Australia a parish will not only relieve its rates, but convert a pauper into a :gDAIt TV,S producer. There is no reason that we can see why the principle should not be extended—why the national exchequer 411ould not, as well as the local rates, be drawn upon for assisting an arrangement so thoroughly advantageous to all parties. Mr. GOSCHEN intimated, indeed, that this matter was under the con sideration of the Government, and should they resolve upon carrying it out, Sir WILLIAM MUTT will see realised a project which he urged repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, thirty years ago. Of course there are difficulties of detail, and the Government as well as the boards of guardians will have to guard against any abuse of their office by persons who do not require their assistance. But of the soundness of the principle that the Government in some shape, whether locally or imperially, should assist emigra tion, we have no manner of doubt. LATEST INTELL IGENCE (REU"ER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, June 22. The Cunard steamer China arrived at 2 p.m. and the Hamburg American steamship Westphalia at 5 a.m. to-day. The Allau (Glasgow) steamship St. David also arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1371; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1381 ; the lowest, 1371. Sterling Exchange on lAndon lo9f. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 9 ' 64 “ 1885 llBf. 14 “ 1867 ll9l. 10-40 66 . Illinois 143. Erie 29k. Cotton —Mid. upland 33le. Petroleum—Standard White 3ole. Flour, extra state, $6.20c. to $6.80c. Corn, old mixed, $9.6e. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, June 23. The Wiener Presse of to-day contains the fol lowing statement :—" In the Red Book, shortly to aprelr, a note is published of the diplomatic cor respondence between the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at Rome, stating that the Government will continue to observe a policy of reserve with regard to the (Ecumenical Council, as the course which will be adopted by that Council cannot yet be foreseen." NEW YORK, June 22. According to Mr. Adam Moffat's report, the re ceipts of cotton for the last four days have been 4,000 against 1,200 last week. Shipments to Eng lAnd 4,000 bales against 2,000 ; to France none against 1,000 bales ; and to the Continent, 1,000 bales against 500 bales. FR ANCE. t3ounsE, June 22.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. .... 102 15 Eud of month... 3 per pent ......... 70 30 Bank Shares 2895 Ital'an Fives 56 80 End of month — Ottoman Loan 333 Do. Debt 45 GO Spanish Threes 31 Home Debt — Deferred ...... Cash .End of month_ 70 2:i Credit Mobilier 247 50 End of month... Credit Fonder ...1582 50 End of month... RAILWAY ... 921/ Orleans Northern ••• lO9ll Lyons and Mediterranean 6 4 5 Southern.... 585 Western Eastern 50 Sardinian Austrian . Lombard 512; North of Spain Saragossa Homan 59 A SPIZING cONG T MIDSUMMER. The following char./Aug translation appears, here, in our columns for the first time—and it does so not inappropriately in the midst of the present spring-like approach of Midsummer. It is from the pen of a tine poet, Denis Florence McCarthy—the Irish lyrist who has already translated so exquisitely various masterpieces from the French of Andre Chewier and from the Spa nish of Pedro Calderon. The vernal stanzas, thus daintily " done into English " by the Irish Poet, are from the delicate and delicious French original of M. le Chevalier de Chatelain. They are entitled "In the Forest," and run as fol- [Ol4B :-- Hark ! on my ear, Pleasant and clear, The jocund voice of Spring doth fall Fancy then rise, Mount to the skibs, And follow Nature's tuneful call. Scarce is the porch 01 the peen church Thrown open where the blithe birds pray, When each ono sings, Rustling his wings, And with a hymn salutes the day. Up from the wold, A Blondin bold, The squirrel climbs to the top of the tree, Woe to its guests In their soft nests, For ah ! a hungry hunter is he. Green grows the grass, While, as they pass, The Zephyrs strew the earth with flowers, Or softly spread Moss for the tread Of Beauty's feet in the noontide hours. See the young bee, Careless and free, Sips from the cup of each opening flower, But since he knows Summer soon goes, He bears the sweets to his winter bower. Up the lark springs. Sweet the merle sings ; Then from some covert out of view Softly data float— Rings the strange note— Echoes the cry, Cuckoo ! cuckoo ! On the sweet broom, Breathing perfume, - The butterfly rests in the noontide's glare, Or s ith his bride Floating beside, Wing touching wing, he frolics in air. Murmuring sweet, Sparkling and fleet, The river glides, and its bright waves gleam, And the young bird's flight Is stayed at the sight As he stoops to drink of so clear a stream• The evening breeze Sings to the trees The sweetest music that ever was heard, And its lullaby, When night is nigh, Brings happy sleep to beast and bird. Save that the night Rath its own delight, For the Night-bird then displays his ait, And with poet skill Sends a throb and a thrill Of sweet emotion to every heart. Such are the pure Joys that allure When Spring's sweet call bids the flowers to rise; When thought doth spring, Upon Nature's wing, To seek and be lost in the azure skies! The above poem, in its original form and under its title Dans la Foret-Resurrection, appeared very recently in the Jersey Constitutionnel. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.-MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HIM RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth It causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles — Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perftuuors Depot 266, high Holborn tg I 13, 1860 CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY, June 22. The Emperor is now at the Camp of Chalons, engaged in his periodical inspection of the war resources of the country. From Chalons, it is now tolerably certain, his Majesty will go to Beauvais on the 27th, and a speech is generally looked for. Whether this part of the programme will come off or not is not exactly certain. The Constitutionnel thinks it probable, but cannot guarantee it. I may mention that the moderate reformers here are profoundly despondent at the aspect of affairs. The Mackau letter and the honour conferred upon M. Jerome David have discouraged them greatly. The letter to M. Mackau is clearly against reform ; but the Emperor has previously given manifestoes of this kind to the world, and changed his policy afterwards. The elevation of M. Jerome David to the dignity of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour is a fact which the reformers cannot get over. M. David is an " Arcadian," the chief of that select band, in deed ; and I may explain that the Arcadians are the most un compromising supporters of linperialism. Despotism pure and simple is their creed. They opposed very strongly even the moderate concessions of the 19th of January. To confer distinction at the present moment upon the leader of this party is deemed very ominous indeed. Hence a speech at Beauvais is looked for very eagerly. M. Dalloz has taken the initiative of opening, at the office of the Moniteur Universe?, a subscription in favour of the victims of the recent melancholy events at St. Etienne. It is said that this proceeding has given very little pleasure in official spheres, and the occasion does look a little inopportune. But some of the families of the men who lost their lives by the fire of the soldiers are in a most wretched state, and the subscription is ani mated by pity for wretchedness, not sympathy with riot. A very interesting account of life inside the Concier genie has been written by one of the captives arrested on the boulevards during the late riots. This prisoner was, or says he was, no rioter at all. He had simply crossed the Boulevard Montmartre at a time when it was deserted, and he and a friend were imme diately arrested by the police. They were carried off to the guard house, where there were about 500 persons who Lad been arrested on the boulevards ; a great many among them were badly hurt—some with black eyes and swollen faces, others mopping up the blood that trickled down from wounds in flicted by knuckledusters. Most of them had lost their hats, and had their clothes torn to tatters. At three in the morning they were formed in column, surrounded by police, Gardes de Paris, and hussars, and marched off. Their destination was the Con ciergerie, where about 200 were immured—represent ing pretty nearly every class of society. The writer rays :- -"There were fellows whose reckless, villanons features were enough to inspire one with terror and loath ing. There were also highly respectable people, merchants, tradesmen, journalists, and a few foreigners, among them an American, who said that hewas employed at the United States Legation. All, without exception, loudly protested that they had done no harm, and complained bitterly of their arrest. Nearly every man was engaged in writing to his friends, and the gaoler, on the receipt of a small clvueeur, undertook to forward the letters to their destina tion. All were much fatigued, but in the large hall which we occupied there was not a single bench or convenience to sit down ; neither was there any convenience of another description, and as necessity has no law, the result was as unpleasant to nose and eye as can well be imagined. At half-past nine in the morning we were marched out, and a brown loaf was served out to each man, together with an earthenware platter, into which a spoonful of soup was ladled, the look and smell of which was quite enough for most of us. The platters and brown loaves were converted into seats, and enabled us to get a little rest. The prisoners were greatly cast down, and many of them wept bitterly ; a few were exasperated to such a pitch that we had to do all we could to prevent their resorting to extremities which might have had very serious consequences for us all. At three o'clock we were called out, and received a ration consisting of a handful of beans." This elaborate meal was soon followed bya transference to the fort at Bicetre, where the quarters were scarcely any better. The truth of this story is vouched for by the IXbats, in which it appears. The writer will probably beware of riots another time. _ _ Rumours, even when they are absurd, are sometimes curious. Of this kind is the report which has circulated pretty freely of late that the Count de Chambord, heir to the French throne according to the Legitimists, has resigned his claim in favour of the Prince Imperial, at the request of the Pope ! It is hardly likely that his Holiness would make any such request. The Emperor is, indeed, the eldest son of the Church, but he is by no means the most tractable. The Count di Girgenti, who was called from Rome ten days aeo to the residence of the ex-Queen of Spain, has returned to the holy un.y. The Prince has again endeavoured to obtain the abdication of Queen Isabella in favour of the Prince of the Asturias, and again have entreaties and argument in favour of this course proved vain. A young English nobleman who has more than once figured in the chronicle of Parisian follies, is again the subject of divers paragraphs in the Paris papas. It is another case of ruin through the don i•nionde, After having plunged into dissipation until his career was arrested by the interposition of the law courts, this erratic nobleman, who is brother to a duke, has at length been incarcerated in the residence of his mother at London. His eldest brother and his mother allow him a pension of £l,OOO a year each, but only on condition that he remain on this side of the Channel. The banks of the Seine are deemed too dangerous for noblemen with a diminished patrimony. TWEATY THOUSAND POUNDS DAMAGES A breach of promise case has lately been tried in Chicago which has created great excitement in the neigh bourhood. It has occupied six days, and has resulted in a verdict for $lOO,OOO ! The plaintiff is a schoolmistress, named Amanda Craig ; the defendant is a gentleman, named Sprague, who has "plenty of greenbacks," on which it will be seen the lady has made a heavy demand. The Illinois estimate of such matters must, if we judge from the evidence, be somewhat different from the English standard, or else the jury accepted the defendant at Lis own valuation. A great deal of correspondence was read at the trial, and the following is a specimen of Mr. Sprague's epistolary eloquence :—" Chicago, Oct. 19, 1865—my Dear amanda J. Craig I have this moment received a letter from Connicut new London returned to me that I wrote to you I sent to a relation through o mistake she made a Great deal of fun of me Because I denied of Going to Be mar ried (this letter lett the kat outt) she says I must not Be mad at hear she says she wrote a letter to Cincinnatti she says she will have some Good fun mr sprague was Good a nuff to return the Letter to me and that Lett the seacreet out why I did not Gett letter from you will Please return the Leteer I sent you through a mistake and I will send you the one that has Been all the way to the yankees sttas for you to keep as joak that is Plaid on me Booth By my Carelessness You can send me a copp iff you Dont want to send the origion I really Do nott Believe that lamin my right mind of the time." Another letter gives an account of the writer's illness, and promises to send " a Long Leteer as soon as I gett Beter." The lady (Miss Craig) appears to possess more education than taste, and her letters, in which she professes undying devotion, are well written. In one of them the following questionable compliment is made to her correspondent. "The most artistic lines that could be penned by other hands are as nothing to me when com pared with the lines of love and affection your fingers have traced." Mr. Sprague, at the time of his acquaintance with Miss Craig, presented a brilliant appearance, by the aid of the tailor, hairdresser, and dentist. When Miss Craig commenced to sue him he pulled out his front hair, laid aside his teeth, wore shabby clothes, and succeeded by various devices in making him self a complete object. The fair Amanda, however, exhibited in court a locket with his portrait, which pro duced invidious comparisons, and rendered his sacrifice of vanity to prudence useless. The jury, we may suppose, having regard rather to the American standard of women's rights than to the sense of the loss Miss Amanda Craig had suffered by her hero's fickleness, awarded her the full amount of damages claimed—£2o,ooo. The counsel for Sprague will apply for a new trial. It is rumoured in London city circles that, as an acknowledgment of the very able and satisfactory alminis tit.tion of the present Lord Mayor, a large and influential ~ction of the Livery intend to. invite him to :leapt the re sponsibilities of a s..cond year of office. Miss Sliedden's case wr.s before the House of Lords on Tuesday for the twenty-11A time, the plaintiff herself having occupied nearly the whole of that time in addresses to the house, wanduring from one point to another. The Lord Chancellor told her positively Le would not hear her after that day. ..111E SIIEDDEN LEGITIMACY CASE. —ln the Probate Court on Tuesday afternoon Lord Penzance gave his judgment on the motion for a new trial in the cause of Shedden v. the Attorney-Gene ral and fatrick (cited). Ile said that the reasons for a new trial must be very strong indeed before he would allow the whole case, tried so long ago, to be re opened. The only reason given for the proposed new trial was the alteration of some post marks. There was no evi dence to show that this altered the bearings of the case. He ti2eiefpre distpisLecl the application. TILE' DUE OP YETTC.ZSTL;;'S CALI: There is something pathetic about the sale of the Duke )f Newcastle's household goods, as there is always in the !all of nobility. There was a great crowd in his house Dn Tuesday. The policemen who kept guard at the foot of the great staircase and at the entrances to cellars and rooms have no sinecure, for the applications to wander freely through the mansion are both numerous and per sistent ; the man who stood in the ball with catalogues had disposed of his stock at a shilling each socn after 3 p.m., and even such things as japanned water cans, housemaid& boxes and baskets, band-brooms, and dust-pans gave rise to animated bidding. This increased when more interesting articles came to be offered, and between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m., when hand work and gilded chairs and tables were put up, what may be termed "fancy prices" were obtained. The house in which this scene is taking place is one of the largest in Carlton-house-terrace, and stands at the Spring-gardens end, with offices which cross the road, forming a cul de sac, and communicating apparently with a house on the other side. The auctioneers' bills tell their story directly the corner by the Duke of York's Column is passed, making the duke's ruin manifest on both sides of the road. The words " Heirloom—Clumber" on a large case of stuffed birds meet the visitor's eye directly he is in the ball, and they are repeated upon marble busts and other articles which stand between him and the dining-room door. The vast place seems to be in many respects as its unfortunate holders left it. The fine oil paintings are banging in the accustomed places, some with "heirloom" on the label attached, others, and those the most numerous, numbered as lots. It is seldom that anything so disastrous as a sale by auction takes place in Carlton-house-terrace, and the idlers assembled there on Tuesday might be suspected of deriving a gloomy reli s h from the knowledge of this fact. That- a duke should be sold up " just as you or me might be to-morrer, my dear," was an unfailing source of trite moralising on the part of one stout lady, who bought nothing, but prosed much ; and that the sale was taking place within half a dozen doors of the residence of the Premier of England, the Duke's father's friend, was given out quiie frequently as an item of news by an old gentleman who took posses. sion of a snug corner early in the day, and never once looked at the auctioneer. It is, of course, not to be expected that sympathy for reverses—even when due to unavoidable misfortune—should be found in an auction-room, but its utter absence was never more marked than on Tuesday. Everybody present who touched on the subject at all seemed to consider themselves entitled to have a fling at the absent prodigal. The sorrowful indignation of a silent and solitary old man in drab, who was said to have been a servant to the preset t Duchess since infancy, culminated when certain articles of furniture were offered up; but his pained look did not stop the gossip or the covert sneering, and for a day or two the household goods of the Duke of Newcastle will continue to be distributed to just such a running fire of cynical criticism as generous minds shrink from and loathe. THE TROUBLES OF AN 112ISH LAND SOCIETY. The Court of Queen's Bench of Dublin has been occupied four days with the trial of an action for libel which excited considerable interest. In the year 180 a company was started under the title of the National Building and Land Investment Company. The prospectus would have done credit to a statesman, embracing, as it did, the settling of the land question by converting the Irish peasantry into landed proprietors. Looking around for an eligible field the directors selected a tract of land at Mount Partry, near Ballingrobe. The company gave to their first purchase the auspicious title of the Port Royal Estate. This valuable acquisition, for which they paid £10,500, included some mountain ranges, where attenuated sheep roamed in search of pasture, and some picturesque clusters of hovels, dignified by the name of villages, in which the inhabitants lived in rather primitive fashion. Animated by a lofty purpose of regenerating the country, the directors laid down a grand scheme of improvement. Mr. Brett, a competent surveyor, was employed to lay out the estate in suitable divisions, and it was resolved that such of the tenants as desired it should have leases for their holdings. Here was fixity of tenure, the first condition of Irish contentment, voluntarily offered. But there were two drawbacks which impaired the value of the gift, In utter disregard of traditional habits, it was attempted to reduce the primeval chaos of the villages into order for erecting sub stantial houses. This scheme sheaved a want of regard for national feeling. Some of the tenants were induced to agree to the redistribution, others objected to leave the " old spot" where their grandfathers dwelt. Causes of dissatisfaction arose on both sides. The tenants were, in some instances, required to surrender their tenancies from year to year, and to enter into other agree ments. Hard times came upon them, rents were raised and ejectments were served by Mr. Proudfoot, the agent. the subject of an irregular seizure for rent, and—greatest grievance of all—a mountain called Derasse, which had served as a commonage for all the tenants, was at least partially closed against them. Distress set in, and the people, it was said, had to subsist upon meal obtained by subscriptions. The Rev. P. Lavelle stood forward as the champion of the peasantry, and wrote a series of letters denouncing the management of the estate and the con duct of the plaintiff. To his first letter Mr. Proudfoot wrote a reply, substantially accusing the rev. gentleman of being the cause of all the discontent which had arisen. For this letter the Rev. Mr. Lavelle brought an action for libel, which was tried at the last assizes for Galway, and he was awarded one farthing damages. The chairman also wrote a reply, which was pub lished in the Irish Times, with an article laudatory of the company. To this the rev. gentleman issued a rejoinder, which was one of the publications complained of in the present action. Proceedings were then taken to heal the wounded feelings of the chairman. Mr. Butt, Q.C., and Serjeant Dowse presented his case with all their ability. Major Knox, the defendant, pleaded fair comment, and Mr. Heron, Q.C., and Mr. Falkner, Q.C., conducted his defence. The trial came on before the Chief Justice and a special jury in the Irish Queen's Bench, and has terminated in the discharge of the jury, who were unable to agree to a verdict. It is understood that eleven jurors were for the defendant and one for the plaintiff. Prince Alamayoo, son of King Theodore of Abyssinia, will leave England for India, under the care of Captain Speedy, by the next steamer from Southampton. Th e T 'llan climate will probably suit him better than our own. NEW SILKS.—The Ga:ette contains the appoint ment of fourteen members of the outer bar to the honour of the silk gown. Amongst them are four members of the House of Commons :—Mr. T. Hughes, Mr. H. James, Mr. H. C. Lopes, and Mr. G. 0. Morgan. MR. LAMONT'S POLAR EXPEDITION.—The new steamship Diana, equipped for geographical explorations and scientific research in the Polar seas, which started a few weeks ago from Glasgow, is now reported at Hammer fest, near the North Cape of Norway. Her owner, Mr. James Lamont (late M.P.), author of "Seasons with the Sea Horses" (in Spitzbergen), accompanies the expedition, and hopes to be able to approach more nearly to the North Pole than any previous explorer. RAPID OCEAN STEAMING.—A race has just acci dentally occurred between the City of Paris and the North German Lloyd screw-steamship Main, Captain K. von Ortendorp, both these magnificent vessels having left New York on the sth inst., within an hour and a half of each other, the Inman steamer having the start. The Main passed the Needles, en route for Southampton, at 11.15 a.m. on the 15th inst., the City of Paris having arrived off Queenstown at 12.15 a.m. on the same day. There was a result in favour of the Main of 123 hours over the cele- brated Inman steamer. MYSTERIOUS DEATIL—Mr. Bedford on Tuesday resumed an inquiry at the Sessions House, Westminster, into the circumstances attending the death of a female, name unknown, whose body was found floating in the Thames, off Millbank, on the sth inst. The body was clothed in apparel of a superior description, and three valuable gold rings were upon the fingers, and a black jet necklace and cross round the neck. Mrs. Sarah Smith was examined, and said she was a nurse and widow, living at Chelsea, and had attended from seeing the notice in the papers. She had missed her daughter since the 24th of May. On the 22nd of May her daughter arrived at her house, having just come home from Malta, where she had lost her husband. She appeared in good health, but low spirited at the death of her husband. Her daughter's name was Jane Bunker. and that of her husband, Charles Bunker. Her age was 25, and she was a tall, dark, thin young woman. She left witness's house on the morning of the 2lth of May, saying she was going into the City to see her husband's brother, a Mr. William Bunker, a clerk in a tea warehouse in the City, but she did not say where. Witness had not seen or heard from her since. The witness was here shewn the clothing, rings, and other articles taken from the body of the deceased. She identified the articles. The coroner said he had received a letter from Liverpool from a person named Shoolbred, who stated that he had a female relative miss ing since May, and that the description of the body of deceased and her clothing exactly answered that of his missing relative. lie further remarked that although the witness Smith had identified the clothing and rings as those of her daughter, her description of her person varied materially from that given by the medical man who had made a post-mortem examination of the body of the de ceased. He should feel it is duty again to adjourn the inquiry, for the protNction of William Bunker. THE TICLIEO.27,IVE BARO.NETCY CASE. In this case Dr. Deane, Q. 0., on Tuesday reminded Lord Penzance that on an occasion when his lordship refused en application to appoint an administrator pendente lite iu the cause of Tichborne v. Tichborne, he said that if the Court of Chancery refused to do so he would lend the powers of the Court of Probate. The learned gentleman read the remarks of Vice-Chancellor Stuart when the case was be fore him, and pointed out that the officer of the Court of Chancery would almost be at once discharged on the aP pointment of an administrator by the Court over which Lord Penzance presides ; and such being the case, his clients (the creditors) were advised to apply to the Probate Court again• The learned counsel pointed out that the creditors were he lag deprived of their mon 'y simply because this suit We e pending, and he could nut believe that the Legislature ca r e r intended such a thing. Dr. Deane therefore asked that either one of the creditors or the receiver in Chancery sho uld be appointed administrator pendente life. Dr. Tristram, for the plaintiff iu the case, said he though t it reasonable that the grant should go ; but the receiver 4" pointed by Chancery had taken the papers of the deceased, including the correspondence from her to his (Dr. Vie tram's) client, and therefore they thought he was a partisan of the other side. Mr. Bayford (for the Solicitor-General) said those poPe re were now in the possession of the Court of Chancery. gis client was an infant, and, of course, stood on his strict le gal rights. There was no precedent for the appllcatie9, though ho Judge thought fit to accede to it, but the tor who was named was not a desirable person for adrujoie" trator. Vico-Chancellor Stuart did not promise that on the appointment of an administrator he would discharge th e receiver. Baron Penzance said it was unjust that the creditors should have to wait till a suit was decided in which theYh ed no interest whatever. After speaking on the technicalities of the case, his lordship granted the order for an adminis trator, and was of opinion that Mr. Humphrey was the I)°°t man. ACTION FOR LIBEL The Court of Queen's Bench, as constituted by Jr. Justice Hannen and a special jury, has had before it a u important libel case, "Cadogan v. Piper." It was 311 action for libel by one of the sitting members for the borough of Cricklade against the registered proprietor of the North Wilts Herald. It appeared from the counse l opening speech and the plaintiff's evidence that the lie u ' Frederick Cadogan (the plaintiff) is the younger brother of the present Earl of Cadogan, a magistrate of Midd le ' sex, and at one time in practice at the bar. lie was one of the earliest promoters of the Subm arine Telegraph Company, and he became one of the direc' tors and deputy-chairman of that company when it wa g first started, in 1852. He personally instructed the clerks, and worked in all matters of the company with much zeal and regularity as if he were a paid official. 111 1857 a person calling himself Captain Thorne called upon the plaintiff and demanded a sum of money as the p rice of his silence in abstaining from publishing a letter which he had received from one Evans, who from 1852 to 185 4 bad been a clerk in the employ of the telegraph company. Th°l.ll: showed Mr. Cadogan a copy of this letter, in which Evan alleged that Mr, Cadogan had been in the habit of o btaining information in the instrument-room of the telegraph c 4c r e ' of which he made use on the Stock Exchange. Cadogan declined to give any money for such a purpose ; al r. the letter was published, a n d b o th Thorne and Pf au : were indicted at the Central Criminal Court for atten)Pj. ing to extort money ; they were both convicted a" sentenced to twelve months' bard labour. Subsequently', in 1861, the plaintiff was concerned with a wench refugee named Veillard in starting and carryiel out the refreshment department of the Internationa Exhibition of 1862. Mr. Cadogan advanced the uj required, and became security for Veillard's effectively completing the contract with the Commissioners ; be however, in no way connected with the Comm and although he actually received £2,400 from Veillard_foeo his services and money out of pocket, he had to pay as security for Veillard when the latter became bankr" and this, with the other expenses, reduced his profit llP° e the transaction to less than £lOO. Last aut umn t h , plaintiff was one of the three candidates for the boroug a " of Cricklade, and was returned at the election at the be of the poll, Mr. Gooch being second ; Mr. Goddard, wila t iva s was a Conservative, and Mr. Cadogan's opPone n ' rip unsuccessful. The North Wilts Herald was ported by, and mainly depended upon, a Mr. TOT °. head, a local attorney, the agent of Mr. Goddard. wards the end of October a placard, printed °Pt hot . , yellow paper, the Liberal colour, was posted, ‘vi j ' the name of any printer, in various parts of the borongirl: This placard set forth that Mr. Cade an had used inf ° _ mation obtained from the telegraph offices for his ov i r; private speculation on the Stock Exchange, Pre cise ., t the same as if the confidential clerk of a large mercil""ti or corn-dealer had opened his master's private desk, re" t Lis private correspondence in referenee to the stud of tue market, and then gone into the market forestalled his master in the purchase of th e veil goods mentioned in that correspondence ;" and that e, filling an office of trust under the C o mmissioners of tbe International Exhibition, had recommended Veillard from whose appointment he would obtain personal P ° , ch —to the International Exhibition Commissioners, whtlio recommendation "is precisely the same as if aytiff head of a locomotive department in a r3ii,vin.iy company had recommended a contractor to s a f certain engines or carriages to the b o ard 3 directors, and the contractor had obtained the contr; from the board of directors accordingly, the head °f , o f locomotive department concealing from the Warn tif directors that he had agreed with the contra ctor, tlia the contractor obtained the contract he should p'T, The £2,000 for his services as secretary to the contractor. ic e North Wilts Herald reprinted this bill, declared %ea, absolutely true, and challenged Mr. Cadogan to Inee t t o w in a court of justice. The proprietor of th e pap e , r t iff pleaded that all the statements concerning the plain'" were true. theln examination the plaintiff said that imrnediatelY Aftert of conviction of Thorne and Evans he resigned the P° s deputy chairman of the Submarine ConWallici He admitted also that upon one occasion h e he gothe; precedence to a message of Baron givenwere child's. lt was also true that certain messageg lati w o a h rded to his private residence, but these ha d r i f e ; either to what was going on in the Crimea , h is : 0 being a near relative of Lord George Paget, who h ad a e. ,sr . mand at the scene of war, or to the affairs of the conlPA"'... slii bitio ti i; Commissioners did not believe he knew any one of the mmissioners except Lord Granville. His arrange°l4eot instanceofwith t V he e 11 l t a co r o d nhc w ee s a s s pi concession t a h a he the t o i h e secondly, socf witness) onxdslyw, iv a s ao n in £1,500 by way of " capitation fees," that Wes if r attendance at the Exhibitioncame u to a certain 1111 ;: e i He admitted that the Commissioners were not cogni z—t.° this agreement, and that when the terms of it were e c r i e l s e ; closed the transaction was commented upon in the bey terms by the . The counsel pres , in s replying to the case for the defeild that ett . ' said no man living could read his brief and believe , Mr. Cadogan had message to which not to be untrue. He commented on the fact that the, ;ET had been given I f s 011 W -by had not been produced. it spoken wa was allegeda tt he trial that hat whatprio r h . , e , I cn e e r d to say that the impression made upon every ra ilici nld reading the whole of Mr. Cadogan's evidetTe at t he Bailey was that there was . no such message 111 `ghatexiste:;ce that it could not be identified or found. : c did the jury think would have been the verctic e at the preliminary trial if it had been known that ere was such a message as Mr. Evans had described serltvs t° gl the telegraph office, that it contained news ar i priority to which was a gross brea ch of trust -, r eesst i the part of the company, and that had been found by Mr. Cadogan? Mr. Cadogn° 11.0 told Mr. Sandilands that he knew too much to reOlt, in the way, and induced him to go to the Isle of W ri g h 0 If the plaintiff had wished to be coLsidered a ge ntlee lS of honour, he would not have gone on seeing the rsee„ts,l4 sent through the office, and then specul ating on the """ire Exchange. No one could believe tha t be could hate seen these messages, and yet have b een uninfluenced di f the information they contained in his operations. .A ll 4 0 Stot: 3, it were known that he did give pre cedence to thattheth f a et to: be Exchange message sent to B aron would not the jury consider that th h threw light upon other matters upon -- t ie As to 10 there was not such distinct proof ? borne ,n comment of the newspapers, it must be mind that they were dealing with a public man ill e i tion to his public duties. Those who had reason to ing T r : into Mr. Cadogan's fitness to take up the P°e it ' ° ,.,. of a candidate had a perfect right to c°'" ment upon matters which had previously been P ubli „ cl i l l known and discussed relating to his carer. .And it would be proved that what plaintiff said in 1857 was u ntrue , and that what he did in 1853 was dishonest. The case is still proczeding. IMPORTS OF GUANO.—From official returiisthe appears en that our imports of guano are greatly thgt decrease. In the first four months of 1868 we fin d 69,764 tons were brought into this count r y , and that is the corresponding period of the present y ear the rettirl only shews a total importation 69 , 764 t ons. Peru fliessti f the principal place from whence we dra w our supPl this precious fertiliser, but to the return from Peru 1334 AL he traced in a large measure the decrease in the imP ° ' for in the first four months of 1868 we had 5 9 , 731 tc)iin from that country, against 19 , 968 tons in the four coon euOing April 30. 1869, I