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April 7, and SA I URDAY, Apr 10th.— t Two o'clock, the Royal Original Chrysty's Minstrels (from the St. George's H all) will give Selec tions from their celebrated Entertainment. At Three o'clock, the Grand Pantomime of PU-S IN BOOTS, terminating with the Grand Transformation Scene. A t half-past Four, a Musical Folly, entitled THE GIRLS ( , F THE PERIOP: A t Five, the Deck of a Man-of War in Miniature—Three Hundred Infant Sailors and Marines. Carriages to e ordered at a quarter-ast Five rs .Doors open at half-past One, b commence at Two o'cl p, ck. Children and Schools at reduced prices to the following parts of the house, viz., First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, a new Drama THE MAN OF TWO LIVES: Mr Ch ar l es Di llon; Messrs Ryder, J. Rouse, F. Moreland, Barrett. F. Wilson, Barrett: Mesdames Heath, Edith Stuart, Hudspeth, and Mrs Vandenhoff. To eonclude with the grand Pantomime of PUSS IN BOOTS, Doors open at half-past 8, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE - ROYAL, DRURY - LANE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Great Combination oe Attractions for th 3 Faster Holidays. -A New Romantic Drama and the Grand Pantomime of "Puss in Boots." THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform (for the 6th time) a new romantic Drama, in three acts and a prolog ae, entitled THE MAN OF TWO LIVES, founded on Victor lingo's celebrated novel, "Les Miserables," adapted by Bayle Bernard, adapter of "Faust." Principal character by Mr. Charles Dillon, supported by the entire strength of the company. To conclude with the Pantomime of PUSS IN BOOTS, terminating with the Grand Transformation Scene. Stage Manager, Mr Edward Stirling. Musical Director, Mr W. C. Levy. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7 o clock. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, BLUE DEVILS: Messrs. Howe, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Miss Fanny Wright. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton, Astley, &c,: Mesdames Cavendish, Burke. Hill, &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OE THE WATCH: Messrs Sothern, Chippendale, Vincent, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill Concluding with MAKE YOUR WILLS: Joseph Brag, Mr Buckstone. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining THIS E Revival of " After Dark." EVENING THE SECRET. After which, Dion Boucicault's Great Drama, entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life Mr Vining, Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr J. G. Shore, C. Harcourt, Edmcnds, Holston, and Gresham; Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rose Leclercq. Concluding with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. rHEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER.' Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7. A. DAY'S FISHING. Mr G. Belmore. t.t 15 to 8, sth time, BLACK AND WHITE. Mr Fechter, Miss Carlotta Leelercq, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart, Mrs. L. Murray, Miss Lennox Grey, fie. To conclude with WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray Inr OLB ORN THEATRE-ROYAL Sole Leesee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. THIS ELEGANT THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN ON SATURDAY, Ur OF MAY, For the performance of the highest class of DRAMATIC LITERATURE. YAL STRAND TH EATRE. p„, o Solo Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. "Jltrlce. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Bofton and Maitland. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne, James, Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlain; Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. R OYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN EASTER HOLIDAYS - Entire change of performance._ New A cts, fresh novelties, and additional attractions. —The best and only entertainment of the kind in the metropolis. Town and country holiday-makers will find no other Theatre in London offering a programme so replete with variety, amusement, and excitement - THIS EVENING, 3rd appearance of the greatest wonder of the day—the Salamander Horse! ONRA, the world renowned, in his unapproachable and extraordinadou mersaults and pirouettes from the FLYING TRAPEZE The magnificent Stud of Fifty Performing Horses, and the matchless SCENES in the ARENA, by MM. Bradbury, Oscar Carre, Salamonsky, Adolphe Carre, Maitrejean, and Wiles. Salamonsky, Montero, A media, and Krembser. The most com plete combination of equestrian talent ever brought together, Positively t e Last Four Weeks of the Equestrian Season.— Those who have not yet seen the wonderful and beautiful horses should lose no time in doing so, as they leave London for the Continent on the 26th of April. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. OYA LCHRISTY'S. IN GREAT ST. GEORGE'S HALL, REGENT -STREET. Licensed by the Lord Chamberlain. EASTER NOVELTIES. Fresh Engagements, in addition to the most powAriul Ethiopian Troupo in the world. First Appearance of the celebrated American Comedian, Mr. Harry Leslie. Pro nounced by the Press to ho the genuine snsation, and the only Company of Christy Minstrels who have performed by express command before her Majesty the Queen and the Court at Balmoral. Arrangements for the Easter week : CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. New Songs, Comic Sketches, and continued success of the Burlesque Extravaganza THE VERY GRAND DUTC,H-S. GRAND EXTRA. PERFORMANCES. Saturday (this day), April 3, at 3 and R. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Private Pox, a, £2 25.; Stalls, 55.; Reserved Seats, 35.; Balcony, 2s. Acting-manager, Mr. ANDREW NIMMO. THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER. -G. R. GLENIE delisers the LATE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn, 8 : Starclalreen, S; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, 9.45. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING. at 7, THE HAPPY FAMILY. At 8, H. J. Byron's new and original Drama, MLNNIE: or, Leonard's Love: Miss Lydia Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss Brennan Messrs David Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. To conclude with BROWN A ND' THE BRAHMINS: Messrs Marshall, David fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes, and Stephens. £400,000 LOAN. TROUVILLE ASSOCIATION (LIMITED). THE Subscription List will be Closed on \VED NESDAY, the 7th April instant, up to, and inclusive of which day, applications for the 7 per cent. Mortgage Debentures will be received by the Bankers, viz. : Messis. HERRIES, FARQUHAR and CO., St. James-street, London, Messrs. ROBARTS, LUBBOCK, and CO., Lombard-street, London. By Order, NANSON, Secretary ad interim. Tronville Association (limited), 26, Old Broad-street, E.C. PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY. Chief Offices-62, Ludgate-hill, London. EXTRACTS from the DIRECTORS' REPORT for the year ending 31st December, 1868. 'I he Directors have again to draw attention to a year of most remarkable progress. Accustomed as they have been for many years to re port an accession of business larger than any other Com pany in Europe, they have on this occasion to state that the New Premium Income of the year 1868 amounts to the extraordinary sum of £87,748 16s. 11d. per annum—the corresponding amount for 1867 being £54,819 ss. 3d. This income has been derived entirely from the resources of the Prudential, and not from any amalgamation or transfer. The Premium Income at the close of the year amounts to £220,978 Os. 10d., after making allowance for all Poli cies lapsed or surrendered. The claims paid during the year amount to £67,181 10s. 5d., raising the total disbursed under this head since the establishment of the Company to £480,986 10s. 3d. The Assurance Fund at the close of the year amounts to £241,301 12s. 4d., against £170,959 14s. 6d. at the close of 1867, being an increase of £65,341 17s. 10d. It is invested as follows: Victoria Bonds Cape of Good Hope Bonds 5,190 0 0 Land Mortgage Bank of India Bonds South Australian Bonds Queensland Bonds 9,287 10 0 New South Wales Bonds 4,612 10 0 Natal Bonds New Zealand Bonds 5,347 10 0 Mauritius Bonds Turkish Bonds Canada Bonds 1,182 13 8 Railway debentures Sr. stock 3,047 15 3 V. 1,45817 4 Freehold and Leasehold Estates, Ludgate hill and Belle Sauvage-yard (Of this item, property the amount o f £61,500 has been since sold to the City of London.) Furniture and Fittings in Office 1,117 11 5 Mortgages and Loans Loans on Policies within these Surrender Value Premiums due and sundry Agents' Ba lances (nearly the whole of this since received) • 14,656 3 1 Cash Balances, viz : City Bank Current Account National Provincial Bank Cash in hand l5O 0 0 11,784 14 0 ------ Total Assurance Fund The Proprietors' Fund Account at the close amounted to .................. . Which, added to the foregoing, makes the Total Assets ..........................£286,751 6 10 A debtor and creditor account of the assurance fund is appointed hereto with the valuation as at December 31st, 1866, and the surplus now shiwn is of the most encourag ing character, and justifies the expectation that at the division of profits at the end of 1871 the results will be exceedingly favourable. The Directors draw the especial attention of their new connexions to the circumstance that 16 years since they inaugurated a plan of weekly audit of accounts. This system is still carried out by them with an undiminished care and attention, and by its adoption they are enabled to control the operations of the Company in the most efficient manner. J. GILLMAN, Chairman. March 19, 1869. HE ,, SUN" NEWSPAPER.--G. R. GLENIE, • Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road, lelivers the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. 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PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At 8, AFTER DARK: Mr Vining. Mr Walter Lacy, Miss Rose Le clercq, &c. And MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. Tills Evinirsu, at 7, A DAY'S FISHING, Mr. G. Delmore, Mr. Stephenson, Mrs. L. Murray and Miss Lennox Grey. At l 5 to S. BLACK AND WHITE: Messrs. Fochter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips. Stuart: Carlotta Leclereq, Miss Ate. Grey, cte, And WHITEBAIT AT Mt I' • NIVICH : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs.Swanborough. THifi EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE -ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7, A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.45, MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. And BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS,: Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J, Clarke; and St epesdamehens. Lydia Foote, Brennen, B eren d , H ughes, Fountain, ROYALTY T lIF. ATR E. Under t he Menagelr - ,nt of Mies M. Oliver. THIS ETENING, at 7.30, !. LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To he fOll d CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. D ewar, ac. To conclud e ' with THE by BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, 11. J. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Ballet -oft; Mrs. Nuckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPIITTIIEATIIr AM CIRCUS, lIOLPORN. Trees EVI7NING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of LO Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, cte ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tins EVENTNG, at 9, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravannza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALIIAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. le. Box-offici open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Rpgent's-raik, OPEN d a i ly (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, Gd, CLildren under twelTe, 6d. 4 Z; ( Igg AP Int LONDON, SAI URDAY, APRIL 3, 1869. The appointment of Mr. FREMANTLE to the double raosftofthheerthAeinA JESTyIs post of Deputy-Master and ComptrollerofthteheMint, was yesterday formally brought under consi deration of the House of Commons. The gentle toexnthepattiotnwoto-fobldy office the was member for Surrey, was , it may be remembered, t m h a u s n de whose lile e r a n t o e l n n y t a a t k in e n n Administr p at r i i o m n e on A e l o in f ie ti t s e e r, tw n o o P w ri o v n a e te e dSecretaries moreel Opposition. Look ing out for a grievance, Mr. BUXTON hits upon this particular exercise of patronage by the late First Lord of the Treasury. The member for Surrey discovers one of the old civil servants of the Crown, whose merits and long services he (Mr. BUXTON) conceives to have been altogether overlooked. He recalls to mind at the same time the Treasury minute, dated 30th November, 1868, stat ing that " promotion by merit is the established rule in the Civil Service, and to every young man who becomes the servant of the Crown in the Civil Ser vice a way is opened to independence and even eminence." The member for Surrey is fired with indignation when he considers that the Senior Officer at the Mint-office has, in defiance of that Treasury minute, been passed over by the late Premier, when the latter assumed the responsibility of filling up the vacant post of Deputy-Master of that Establishment, and was passed over —very suspiciously, as Mr. BUXTON evidently conceives—to the end that Mr. DISRAELI might nominate to that very post of Deputy-Mister of the Mint one of his own official Private Secretaries. Altogether —" not to put too fine a point upon it"— the member for Surrey had discovered a mare's nest. And like all mare's nest discoverers he was burning to startle everybody else by the revelation. Conse quently, on the motion last evening for going into Committee of Supply, Mr. BUXTON rises in his wrath and his indignation. Mr. DISRAELI is arraigned, as it were, at the bar of Public Opinion, for inasmuch as he had thought proper to overlook the claims of Mr. ROBERT MU MET, and had thought proper by preference, in De cember last, to nominate to the Deputy-Mastership of the Mint a " political follower" of his own, in other words, Mr. FREMANTLE, the out-going Pre mier's Private Secretary. " Mark, now, how plain a tale"—last evening, in the hearing of the House of Commons—put down all these insinuated censures and implied suspicions directed by the member for Surrey against the Leader of the Opposition. The Political Follower of Mr. DISRAELI—turns out to be no Follower at all. Re ferring to the circumstance that any Minister of the Crown, being at the same time Leader of the House of Commons, has the perfectly reasonable pri vilege of appointing two private secretaries instead of one, for the discharge of duties for which two private secretaries are only adequate provision, the right hon. gentleman added that, according to rule in these instances, he had, almost as a matter of course, resolved from the first upon selecting one of the two without reference to politics from the office of which he, as Minister, was the Chief, namely from the highest of, all the offices, that of her MAJESTY'S Treasury. " I appointed" ho said, " as one of my private secretaries, a private friend"— meaning by that Mr. MONTAGU CORRY— while, he added, " with respect to the private secre tary who was to be selected from I did not make any immediate appointment." He wished, in fact, as he at once explained, that the opinion of the Trea sury should be consulted on the matter, and the most competent person selected for the appoint ment. Remember, the one who was even tually chosen, namely, Mr. FRE3IANTLE, was said to be Mr. - DISRAELI'S Political Follower. What said the ex-Premier, last evening, upon this point—namely, as to the selection of Mr. FRE MANTLE ? " Until that gentleman came into my room as my private secretary I had not the honour of his acquaintance." And further—" What his political opinions were I did not then know, and do not know now." So much for the statement or in sinuation, or however we may like to call it, as to Mr. FREMANTLE being the ex-Premier's Political Follower. So far from his being anything of the kind —he had for six years served as Private Secretary —to whom ? Why, the Right Honourable Gentleman the member for Cam bridgeshire of all men Mr. BRAND ! The late Whig Whip ! In addition to which circumstance, Mr. FRE MANTLE had held a responsible and important office under the Governments of Earl RUSSELL and of Viscount PALMERSTON. Very like a Political Fol lower of Mr. DISRAELI'S, certainly ! However, to come to the subsequent nomination of Mr. FRE. MANTLE to the vacant Deputy-Mastership of the Mint when, immediately before the close of last year, the change of Government, by reason of the overwhelming results of the General Election, be came inevitable. The department in which the death vacancy had occurred, remember, first of all, was in anything but a satisfactory condition. Isolated in a great measure from all the other departments of ad ministration, it was known to have fallen off, both in regard to administrative skill and official energy. "New blood," Mr. DISRAELI was told, ought in reason to be infused into it—the appointment be ing filled up, if possible, ,by some really experienced Civil Servant of the Crown taken from some great administrative department if possible by a member of the Treasury. "Every claire—Mr. DISRELI added last evening---" was well weighed"—that is, before the selection was finally made and the appointment filled up. But —such had been the argument of the member for Surrey—the claims of the senior officer at the Mint had been overlooked ! Mr. BUXTON had better have held his peace. Mr. MUSIIET--seeing what now has come of it —might well exclaim, " Save me from my friends !" For, the result to him is, simply, that, by reason of Mr. BUX TON'S insistence upon the fact that his (Mr. MUSnET's) claims had been overlooked, brought down upon that unfortunate gentleman's head some good-hamoured but fleering remarks from Mr. DISRAELI that raised the laugh against the disappointed official. " The claims of the gentleman whom the member for Surrey seems to think had been very much neglected, were, I can assure him," said the ex-Premier, " duly considered. They were placed before me by the gentleman o h w im u se e l l f a . iine. (A laugh.)(A laugh.) lle did full j us ti ce t o hi s Ile is a very respect able man—a man of sufficient ability to place his claims in a very telling and efficient manner before the Government —(a laugh) —and they were impartially and anxiously considered." The result being that the best man was selected eventually for the vacant office of Deputy-Master of the Mint, in the person of Mr. FREIIkNTLE, ex- Private Secretary of the late Whipper-in of the Liberal Party, and therefore, it need hardly be said, no Political Follower of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Buckinghamshire. THE Volunteers will not be likely to forget Easter Monday 1809. It was bad enough to be exposed to such a tempest of hail, rain, and wind as would in itself have rendered the day painfully memorable. But still worse has befallen our amateur soldiers. They have been subjected to such pelting, pitiless THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1869. criticism from military correspondents,' , of whom it is not at all certain that they were at the review, and from able editors, who certainly were not there, that even the hard heart of " Hippophylax" might be melted to pity. The accusation against the Volunteers is very different from that which was made after last year's review at Windsor. Then it consisted of one charge, and one which could not be answered. There is no doubt that the Volunteers on that occasion shewed a most lamentable absence of discipline. But it is by no means clear that the numerous charges now made are just. When officers of the regular army like Major ArzsoN, V.C., come forward to the defence, it may be assumed that there are two sides to the question, that the accused have at least something to say in their own behalf. We are inclined to think that they have a good deal to say. The charges are manifold. It is complained that the Volunteers dispersed all over the town when they were told that the review would not be held. Whither were they to go ? They had no barracks , there was no place of shelter from the pitiless storm except shops and public-houses and the houses of friends. As a mat ter of fact, how many of the 20,000 Volunteers who should have marched past failed to do so after the Duke of CAMBRIDGE had caused the assembly to be sounded ? Some, perhaps, were dilatory in their movements, but, as was pointed out at the time, it is not easy to put on thick boots sodden with rain at a minute's notice ; some, too, certainly did not know what the assembly meant. Then it is com plained that . the attacking force exposed themselves to annihilation as they marched up the valley, and in real war would have been exterminated. There seems to be no doubt upon this point ; it seems certain that had there been serious fighting we should have had another Balaklava to weep over, " magnificent, but not war." Who was to blame ? Not the Volunteers at all, but the officers of the regular army, who ordered this very movement. Again, it is said, sarcastically, that the Volunteer Artillery got into difficulty with their heavy guns; but they at least got out of the diffi culty, and owed no thanks to the Royal Artillery for the extrication. Major ANSON has seen Royal Artillerymen equally at sea, and getting to land again entirely through the sagacity, not of an officer, not even of a private, but of an eleph an t . As it is, the Volunteers learnt that they had committed a mistake, and will know how to avoid it in future, and so certainly they did not lose a day. Then there are various stories told to prove insubordination. One man, in rough attire, marched by the side of a corps, and the Volunteers are blamed for suffering this. Were they to stop their march and carry the man bodily off the ground ? Another Volunteer, an officer, behaved impertinently to his superior officer. If so, why was he not put under arrest ? The truth seems to be that those who failed in their duty were, not the Volunteers, but the officers of the regular army. There was no clubbing of battalions; the evolutions which were ordered were carried out. On the other hand, the manoeuvres shewed culpable ignorance on the part of those who ordered them; there was no attempt to enforce discipline, there was no assistance given to the Artillery, and there was no com missariat. The officers in command had full power to make their own arrangements, and they had the additional advantage of the field telegraph apparatus to transmit their orders. Nevertheless, they blundered seriously, and their friends are now attempting to cast the blame upon the Volunteers. So far as regards the preservation of discipline, there is little reason for alarm. In time of war the Volunteers would be as much under the Mutiny Act as the Regul ars . W hat does alarm us i s the possibility of our Volunt eers b eing exposed to annihilation through the i gnorance of some general who has failed to take to heart the terrible lesson of Bala klava. We - Trip eirtnTzt HER. MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 2. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian drove out yesterday afternoon. Princess Louise, Prince Le o p o ld , an d P r i ncess Beatrice also went out. her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grou n d s this morning. LATEST INTELL MENU (REuTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, April 3. According to \lr. Adam Moffat's report the week's receipts of cotton at all United States ports have been 37,000 bales ; and since the Ist of Sep tember, and taken by American spinners direct, 2,045,000. Shipments to England, 49,000 ; to the Ist o f S eptem b er, France, 8,000 ; to t h e C on ti nent, 7,000, and since 1,020,000, S tock, 390,000. Market d u ll, 111 i d Upland, 1 10, cost and freight per ste4tuer, THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 2. The Sultan went in great state to the Mosque of St. Sophia to-day. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the llon. Mrs. Grey, Lord Carrington, Mr. Alison, Mr. Russell, and Mr. Lionel Moore, Second Secretary at the British Embassy, and especially attached to his Royal Highness during the present stay in this capital, witnessed the procession from the Sultan's Kiosk. Their Royal Highnesses subsequently received a deputation of all classes of British residents in Constantinople, who presented an address. The Prince thanked the deputation on behalf of the Queen, the Princess, and himself, expressing the great pleasure he-felt at being able to share with the Princess on this occasion of his second visit the unbounded hospitalities of the Sultan, the Queen's firm ally and friend, To-morrow a State dinner will be given by the Sultan, in honour of his Royal guests. The Foreign Ambassadors and the Turkish Ministers are invited. On Tuesday a ball will take place at the British Embassy, The Sultan will be present. On Wednesday th eir Royal llighnesses and the Opera in state. The Prince Sultan will v i s it t h e and Princes s w ill l eave to morrow week for the Crimea, returning to Constantinople on the fol lowing Friday, theu to proceed immediately to Greece. BOURSE, April 2.--Three F RANCE. o'clock—The market closed as follows :—. 41 per Cent. End of month.. --. ltaPan EATS 55 55 3 per Unfit 411111, TO 22 End df Month — End of month... 70 121 n ex i c an L oan Credit Mobilier ... 270 —2l Do. Bonds End of month... 270 -- Spanish Threes Credit Fonder _ 147 62f.. Homo Debt 29 End of month... , Deferred ...... RAILIVAI:s. Cash Orleans ............................. Northern ............................. ... 1145 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... Western Eastern ............ •• Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Faragossa R0man......... 52 Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince and Princess Teck, and suite, honoured the per formauces at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi, last evening. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. VFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY, April 2. The great contest relative to purity of elections has terminated. Why M. Jerome David brought up his inter pellation on money corruption it is difficult to imagine. There is undoubtedly little money corruption in France compared with England, but the question could hardly be palatable to the authorities. M. Rouher was able vir. tuously to assert that the Freneh were not as other men, even as you in England. The French did not bribe by money. But M. Bouher well knew at the time that if the French did not bribe by money, the authorities scattered favours and offices of every description broad cast in order to carry the elections. Intimidation, promises, and bribes of every kind ere employed to gain votes. Ti e English are certainly by no means a model to imitate in matters of electoral purity, but if by corruption is meant all sorts of undue influence, then France is the most corrupt country in the world. This debate on money bribery—l have already men tioned its result—paved the way for the interpellation of M. Picard on purity of elections generally, and especially official candidatures. The Left were warmed by M. Jelo ne David's impudent insinuations respecting bribes. A vir tuous exordium to purity by a member of a majority elected by the most unfair influences was too much for the leaders of the Oppesition to tolerate. M. Picard, who is rarely a mild speaker, was unusually bitter in his condemnation of official candidatures. The Minister of the Interior, M. Forcade de la Roquette, replied in a speech, the gist of which was that the Govern. ment neither could nor would abolish official candidatures. The Minister made a skew of reasoning, but this was the Alpha and the Omega of his logic. Official candi datures were necessary, he said, as a measure of self defence ; without them deputies might be elected who would reduce the army to 200,000 men, or even less, and propose all sorts of subvertive mea sures. In short, M. de la Roquette argued that if official candidatures were abolished the Government would be made uncomfortable, and, therefore, it did not mean to abolish them. By pleading that extreme measures would be the consequence of non-interference in elections, the Minister admitted that extreme measures were now pre vented by Government influence, in other words that Government controlled the Legislature. M. Emile 011ivier made a smart speech. He raid that the entire system was one of buying and selling. Official candidateships led the people of the rural districts to look on the post of deputy as a Government office, and to consider the candidates of the Opposition as very indelicate in trying to obtain such a place against the will of him who had to bestow it. The whole character of the Administration was impaired by the system. The prefect most approved of was not the man who managed well the affairs of his department, but he who caused the inhabitants to vote with the greatest unison ; and when, as in the Jura, he failed, his post was taken from him. The mayors also lost their influence by acting as election agents. He con trasted freedom of election as in England with " cooked" elections in France. In England every case was submitted plainly to the electors ; they were asked if they wished for electoral reform or not. Did they want to have the Irish Church disesta blished ? And the people having pronounced, the matter was decided once for all. It was in that way that free trade had been established, and electoral reform voted. When once such changes had been effected the most obstinate Tory would not think of going back on them. And why ? Because the nation had first been con sulted. In France, on the contrary, every evil became chronic, and nothing was finished. The debate con cluded by a division. The Chamber decided to pass on to the order of the day by 157 to 47. Father Claret has undoubtedly gone to Rome.— Madame Schneider, wife of the President of the Corps Ldgislatif, is dead. I mentioned yesterday that the Emperor's speech had been very freely distributed—at the public cost, of course— thronzhout France. The Etendard is happy to announce that the speech has made the most profound impression upon workmen, for wl.ona it was intended. In the Allier department the workmen 1 ave made public manifestations, and at Vichy and Gusset they grouped themselves round the place where the speech was posted up, cryirg " Viva l'Empereur !" The Etendard is a semi-official paper. I doubt much how many votes the speech will get. The Nabob of Bengal arrived at Marseilles a few days ago. He has dined at the English Embassy, and a very curious sort of ceremonial this was. He sat at the banquet without partaking of anything ; for neither he nor his suite can touch food which has not been prepared by the hands of their own servants. Your readers will remem. ber the story of the greased cartridges at the commence. went of the Indian mutiny. A terrible domestic tragedy has happened at Nice. M. Pontlevoy, a boarding-house keeper, had been absent in Paris for some time on business. Whilst away he was informed that his wife was living on terms of intimacy with a jeweller of the name of Bailly. The enraged husband instantly started for Nice, and suddenly entered his wife's apartment towards midnight. His w - rst fears beng confirmed, he drew out a revolver, fired with fatal effect four shots at Bailly, and a fifth at his wife, who had the presence of mind to feign death. M. Pontlevoy walked straight from his wife's bedroom to the police-office, his wife having meanwhile escaped in her night-dress into the street, where she implored a sentinel to protect her. Her husband will suffer no punishment whatever for this sanguinary act of vengeance. He will be acquitted by law. Thirty-seven men who engaged in the election riots in Monmouthshire in November last, were on Wednes day sentenced by Mr. Justice Keating to imprisonment for terms ranging from four to twelve months. Mr. Charley has given notice that in committee on the Irish Church Bill he will move to strike out the clause forbidding the archbishops and bishops henceforth to be summoned or qualified to sit in the House of Lords. Lord Powerscourt writes to a Dublin paper de precating the no surrender cry, speaking of Mr. Gladstone's bill as reparation for past injustice, and objecting that Irish Churchmen should bo represented by firebrands whose object seems to be to raise animosities. Sir F. Gold:mid writes that be, and not Mr. Dis ra eli, is the author of the proposal that whenever a member of Parliament is unseated on the ground of corruption the seat should be given to a defeated candidate who should have polled a certain proportion of votes. The Liverpool workhouse committee decided on Thursday to entertain a proposal from Miss Rye to take all their orphan girls for her emigration scheme, each girl being sup plied with a by the parochial authorities. Mr. Rathbone, M.P., brought Miss Rye's scheme forward. The Manchester Examiner says that the Court of Arbitration for the settlement of disputes arising in connec tion with any of the trades in Manchester and Salford is now fully constituted, and will in future meet juarterly for the despatch of business. Mr. William 11. Smith, M.P. for Westminster, has presented his legal agent, Mr. John F. Isaacson, of Norfolk street, Strand, with an elegant and costly Cellini silver cup, inscribed "in grateful remembrance of devoted and success ful services at the general election, 1868." A statement has obtained currency to the effect that the Solicitor-General has returned his fees in tho cause of Saurin v. Starr, in the belief that Miss Saurin's friends were not in a position to pay them. Zhe Law Times has authority to state that the Solicitor-General has not re turned his fees, and that Miss Saurin's friends calculated the cost before instituting proceedings, and are quite prepared to bear them, should the appeal on points of law reserved terminate adversely to her. Great preparations have been made at Con stantinople for the accommodation of the Prince and Princess of Wales. In addition to the konak at Salihbazar, the Sultan has had Beylerbey Palace also specially prepared for his guests, in case they should prefer the Asiatic side of the Strait. One of his Majesty's state calques is to be placed at their disposal. A grand ball will bo given by the Ambassador and Mrs. Elliot in honour of their Royal Highnesses, and the example of the English at Cairo will probably be followed by the pre sentation of an address from the local colour. The Athenaeum - states, on authority, that Mi. Henderson, of Montagu-street, intends to bequeath to the British Museum (Department of Prints and Drawings) his noble collections of the works of David Cox and William /duller. The "David Cox" collection alone consists of be tween fifty and sixty important works of richly diversified Stibjects, The drawings by Muller comprise a number of rittidies acid Sketches Made during tours in Rhodes, Lycia, and the neighbouring countries of A:AA Minor, England and Wales. Mr. Henderson also intends to bequeath to the British Museum his fine collection of bronze, oriental, and other vessels. The Earl of Shrewsbury has written to the Bir mingham Post to correct the report of tho speech which ho made at Worcester on Wtduesday. _Ho says I did not say I trusted that the bill of - Mr. Gladstone would not be rejected by the House of Lords; but said I was doubtful whether the House of Lords would reject the bill, but I was certain it would bo so altered and modified that it would be much less injurious to tho country. So condly—l did not say that I was annoyed with Mr. Disraeli for passing the Reform 1411; but that 1 presumed that Mr. Gladstone, annoyed with Mr. Disraeli for passing that mea sure, resolved to outbid him, and chose the Irish ()Lora, for THE WARWICKSHIRE SCANDAL. - A few days ago (says the Birmingham Post) we stated that a report, seriously affecting a family of note in South War wickshire, was can ent in Leamington and the neighbour hood. The family referred to was that of Sir Charles /dor daunt, and the report seriously affected the character of his lady. Since we noticed the affair, we have thought it our duty to ascertain how much of the report is founded on fact, and we find that the whole story with regard to the threatened break-up of one of the great Warwick shire families, has arisen from the incoherent expressions of Lady llordaunt herself, when suffering from the immediate effects of her confinement ; and that all else that has been based upon this statement is at present unsupported by any corroborative evidence. The lady has not, RS was reported, left her home; and as this is so, it is probable that tho threatened legal proceedings will not proceed beyond the stage of inquiry. THE PETITION AGAINST MR. HENBY JAMES. We recently announced that a petition had been pre sented against the return of Mr. Henry James for Taunton. It seems, however, there can be no dcubt that the petitioners are prevented, by the Act of last session, from taking this course. Mr. James was defeated on the poll, and the returning officer returned Mr. Barclay and Mr. Serjeant Cox as being duly elected. Mr. Serjeant Cox was petitioned against, and upon the bearing of that petition Mr. Justice Blackburn declared Mr. James to have had the majority of legal votes, and so certified to the Speaker. The return was thereupon amended by striking out Mr. Serjeant Cox's name, and inserting that of Mr. James. Section 11 of the Election Petitions Act enacts that "at the conclusion of the trial, the judge who tried the petition shall determine whether the member whose return or election is complained of, or any and what other person was duly returned or elected, or whether the election was void, and shall forthwith certify in writing such determination to the Speaker, and upon such certificate being given, such determination shall be final to all intents and purposes." Before present ing this petition, the Conservative Association took the opinion of Sir John Karslake as to their power to do so. His opinion was decisive that it could not be presented, and although this was read at a meeting of the association, the majority of those present determined, at any cost and risk, to proceed.—Telegraph. CHURCH EXTENSION AND RESTORA- TION. The necessity for Church extension seems to be lying on the hearts of the bishops just now. Two of them have been addressing meetings very recently, impressing upon laymen of the diocese the importance of obtaining more houses of prayer. The Bishop of Lichfield and the Bishop of Manchester are stirring up their respective flocks. Dr. Selwin's predecessor at Lichfield bad endeavoured to obtain money for this purpose, and did obtain some £17,000, and the new bishop also seems likely, judging from the men he has around him, to obtain his desires. At a meeting which he addressed on Wednesday, in Stafford, there were present the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, and the Earl of Harrowby, both of which supported the appeal for funds. The bishop said that the last century was one of stagnation, and they must in this generation make up what the last had omitted to do. The Bishop of Manchester, in addressing his people on Thursday, must needs refer to the Irish Church measure. The extensive measure of of unprincipled spoliation—he did not hesitate to say it was so—which was meditated, led him to feel that he should be cautious in warning them, while he asked them to put their money in jeopardy, as to the next unprincipled attack which might be made upon the Church. But he did not want their money—he wanted themselves. It might be that what they contributed might be sacrificed and taken away by the strong arm of a disappointed, baffled, and self-conceited spoiler ; but they would have the conscientious and deep-seated conviction that they at least had not been wanting in their endeavours for the spiritual consolation of so many sit ting in darkness and the shadow of death. Before the motion for the adoption of the report was put to the meeting, the Rev. W. N. Molesworth, vicar of Spotland, said he protested that the terms in which what he believed to be a great and necessary measure of national justice had been stigmatised did not command his sympathy. There were three bishops present at the service after the restoration of St. Wolfan's Church, Grantham, on Thurs day—thelate Bishop of Lincoln, now of London, thepresent head of the Lincoln diocese, and the Bishop of Hereford. , Besides these there were present Lord Brownlow, Lord Kesteven, Sir Edward Cast, and no end fo local celebrities. RATES OF FREIGHT AND CHARTER. (From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.) The tonnage loading on the berth for India, China, and the Cape of Good Hope amounts to 54,575 tons, and tha' for Australia and New Zeahind to 41,344 tons. Berth freights have somewhat hardened, and there has not been much disengaged tonnage in port, but the change of wind will doubtless bring in a good many ships. But little chartering has been done for coal to the eastern ports during the past week, and rates have under gone no change since the last report. A few vessels of moderate size have been placed at 70s. for Java, and more are wanted at the same rate. This quotation would also be given for a ship of 800 tons register from Manilla to United Kingdom or Continent. Iron orders from the Tyne and Wales for the United States and Canada are still in the market, and tonnage is required more especially for New York, Boston, qn • Quebec. Grain frieghte home are low, and with difficulty ob tained. Higher rates are quoted for coals to the West Indies, 17s. being now securable for Havana, and 15s. 6d. to 16s. for Martinique. Brazil coal freights are stationary at the last advance. From Jamaica to United Kingdom or Continent a ship of 600 to 700 tons register can be placed at about ns. per ton logwood, and for sugar to direct port in United Kingdom 475. 6d. is offered for small vessels. Coal and berth freights to the West Coast remen low, and the same may be said for the rates current for iron in this direction. Guano freights exhibit no alteration. Chartering for Spain, owing to the more settled condi tion of affairs in that country, is being carried on rather briskly, the orders for coke to Carthagena and for coal to the other ports being with difficulty executed except at rates which shew a good advance on those ruling same time back. The inquiry for the Mediterranean is chiefly restricted to Alexandria, Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, and Constantinople, and a fair amount of tonnage has been taken up within the last fortnight for the last-mentioned port, at about £15155. per keel coals. Grain chartering from the Black Sea is very slack, and rates have still a tendency to recede. Bishop of Honolulu will preach his farewell sermon at the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, on Sunday next. Ho will proceed to South America, whore he will hold confirms,- tions, and then go on to his diocese. On Friday returns were published of the sums expended out of the poor rates for medical relief in England and Wales during each of the 31 parochial years ended in 1868 ; of the sums expended under the Public Vaccination Acts during each of 28 years ending at the same time, itc. The sum expended in medical relief has risen since 1838 from .£136,775 to £272,341, and the charges for vaccination have increased from £11,664 in 1841 to £50,987 last year. The sum paid out of the item "medical relief" in the form of salaries and extra medical fees in 1857 was £213,656; in 1868 it amounted to £253,620, showing an increase during the ton years of 181 per cent. Tho increase in the vaccination charges during the samo period was 23.6 per cent. On Thursday forenoon, as the Yorkshire down ex press, due in Preston at 10.5, was passing through Frapton, a gentleman, who bad been waiting at the station, w as seen, jus t as the train dashed through, to run across the line immediately in front of tha advancing engine, was knocked down and instantaneously kill e d . His body was cut in a shocking manner, and his face is so disfigured that personal recognition is almost impossible. The unfortunate gentleman who has met with such a fright ful death is a Mr. Whittaker, proprietor of the Starkie Arras Hotel, Padiham. No reason can be assigned why he attempted to cross th e li no when ho saw the train coming, but ho must hare been ignorant that it was an express, and thought that it was the train for which he was waiting. The express in question was travelling over the rate of 50 miles an hour. An inquest was held on Thursday at Bow respeetipg the death of Frederick Wood, a child egad two years and tares Montle. The case excited some interest from the fact that the vomit with ,hom the baby was put to nurse had eleven children under her care, and that five of the eleven Lad died. Front the evidence of the various witnesses it ap peared that the deceased child Lad -een placed with Mis. Bavill, of 24, Swayton-road, Bow, by the mother, who had not time to take care of it for herself. Last October Mrs. Savill slipped in, carrying the child upstairs, and falling upon it, broke its thigh. She put the child to bed, and did not discover the fracture until next day. It does not appear that this fracture caused or accelerated the child's death, which occurred on Saturday night On that night the child was put to bed in an egg-box with a little straw. The egg-box was a short one, and was sixteen inches wide. The child . could not turn in it. The next morning he was found dead. 'he jury f0104.01i441919129a_ti110aa utual cAuseu:_t WAR RUMOURS IN PARIS. The Eleeteur Libre, which is still edited under the patro' ►age of the deputies Jules Favre, lidnon, and Picard, offers the following opinion as to the rumours of war which have caused and, as the depressed state of the Bourse shews, still do cause alarm :—" The week is characterised by many rumours, and no fact. There is great talk of the transport of guns, bombs, and munitions of war to the northern and eastern frontiers, and even elsewhere, We are told that explanations have been required from M. de Bismarck touching alleged armaments in Prussia ; and some go so far as to affirm that special war committees, ordered t.) organise the expedition of troops, are at this moment sitting in every railway station. Many more alarming things are said, and particularly that we are demanding from Bel gium a rectification of frontiers which Prussia is not dis• posed to give us. The one thing clear and certain is that these warlike rumours do not displease the Government, because they are propagated by its most devoted organs. The Government evidently wishes to be thought favourable to projects which it all the while denies publicly. That is its own affair. For our ow•n pert, we have no fear of war before the elections. War is too unpopular in France at the present moment for a personal Government to dare to assume the responsibility of it, just when it is about to appear before universal suffrage. After the elections, if the in difference of citizens should assure the triumph of the prefect'scandidates—if a majority as docile as that which allowed the Mexican expedition should be returned, then, indeed, we may see a Power, freed from all substantial control, set out in search of new adventures. Till then we shall have nothing but vain rumours and sterile in trigues. It is for the electors of 1869 to telPe eexe that things do not . go further." THE CAREER OF A CRIMINAL. At Bow-street, on Friday, George Roberts, a mall about 60 years of age, was brought up on a writ of Habeas Corpus from Wandsworth Prison, where he is now under. going a sentence of three months' imprisonment as a rogue and a vagabond, on the charge of being at large before the expiry of a sentence of transportation for life, which had been passed upon him in the year 1842. John Humphreys, the chief warder of her Majesty's gaol of Newgate, stated that he had been a warder in that gaol since 1836. He produced the certificate of the conviction of George Smethurst at the Central Criminal Court in 1837, for stealing from a dwelling-house. He was sentenced to be transported for life. Witness was present at the trial, which took place on the 24th April of that year, before Mr. Justice Littledale, and heard the sentence delivered. The prisoner at the bar was the prisoner so sentenced. Both before and after the trial he was under the care of witness, who removed hint from Newgate to Chatham, and placed him on board the Fortitude, receiving hulk for convicts. The prisoner was in Newgate again in 1842, and was tried and convicted, under the name of George King, alias Smethurst, on the charge of being illegally at large before the expiry o f the former sentence. He was again sentenced to transports' tion for life. In December 1851 the prisoner was again in Newgate, in the name of George Reid, for burglary. Witness produced the certificate of his conviction on that occasion, which recited that he had been previously con' victed of felony. He was then sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. In 1866 he was again charged with burglary, in the name of Roberts. While in prison Nvit• ness recognised his face, but being deceived by the change of name, was unable to remember what were his previous convictions. He was tried at the Central Criminal Court, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to eighteen montbs i imprisonment. After the conviction witness heard the prisoner mentioned by the name of Reid, and was thus reminded of his former history. Witness had no doubt of the prisoner's identity. Richard Kemp, warder at 'Wandsworth Prison, state' coat he had brought the prisoner up on a writ of Habeas Corpus from that prison, where he was undergoing the sentence of three months' imprisonment as a rogue and e vagabond. Witness was present when the prisoner gave the governor an account of his history. When transported for life in 1837, he was sent to Hobart Town, where he vise one of the crew of the jolly boat of Sir John Franklin , the governor of that colony. An opportunity of escape occurred to him, and he made his way home. On second transportation in 1842 he was again sent to Hobart Town. After some time he obtained a ticket-of-leave' giving him the liberty of the colony. He then joined the Hobart Town police. After remaining some time i n the force he again made his escape, and went to America. The first night he spent in that country he was robbed of -f 5O which he had saved. He then worked his way to France' and thence to England. In 1851 he was again transported for fourteen years, and again sent to Hobart Town. IRO he - obtained as before a license to go at large in the eolonif and once more entered the police. But hearing that his mother, who was possessed of some little property , had died in England, he was again tempted to evall a and return to England, in order to look after that estate' Witness knew that he was in England in May 186 5, having seen him at that time in Wandsworth Gaol unde r sentence of three months' imprisonment for larceny unde r the name of George Simmonds. Mr. Vaughan said it was a most unfortunate thing fe e the prisoner that be did not remain in Hobart 'Town , which seemed to be the only place where he had acted with any honesty. The prisoner said that the term of his last sentence 1 3113 sully expired, and he did not think it was legal that a rrob ri should be tried several times for one offence. Mr. Vaughan : But in 1842 you were sentenced for the term of your natural life, which sentence has not expire d for you are still living. The prisoner was - fully committed, but Mr. Vaughan observed that it would be advisable to prove at the tria l that as a matter of practice the license for the colony did not justify a convict in returning to England. At the Judges' Chambers on Friday it wasascertaiocc i that no further notice of bail had been given in Madam e Rachel's case, but it was said another application would b ° made next week. THE NORWICH MURDER. —The magistrate clerk at Norwich has received a letter from Brighton put' porting to have been written at the dictation of Martha Sheward, Sheward's first wife, of whose murder he 10 been convicted. The letter is either a silly hoax or a veri important communication. A Liverpool paper of Friday says that at one of th° largest spinning and weaving establishments in the tovegis nearly one-half of the whole number of 72,000 spindles, bave been got to work at the reductkn of 10 per cent., togetheg with upwards of 800 looms out of the whole number o f 1,4 20, and the hands are returning to work every day. We are glad to learn (says the Standard) that Morgan Howard, Esq., has been invited to a publ ic banquet on Wednesday, the 14th April, at the hail of the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, as a slight aeknolv ledgment of the gallant and single-handed contest 10 fought so admirably in behalf of the Conservative cause At the last Lambeth election. The list of stewards is not lob' numerous but influential, thus evidencing the genera l interest that was taken in the late election for the borougb of Lambeth. The Liverpool Government emigration official ° issue monthly returns of the emigration from the Mersof The latest quarterly return shows during the quarter the number of emigrants who left the Mersey exceeded 5,310 the number who sailed during tho same period O' 1868. A great majority of the passengers who left Liver" pool were English, the facilities afforded by the variouelinc o of steamers at Queenstown for Irish emigrants have greatly reduced the numbers which at one time left vi a Liverpool. Cardinal Cullen, in a pastoral issued in Dublin 0 0 Friday, announces that all Roman Catholics who attend the Masonic ball, to be given to his Royal Highness Princh Arthur, in Dublin, shall be excommunicated. The Cardinal, passing into another subject, designates those Protestants who oppose Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church BiN, and wh ° speak of kicking the Queen's Crown into the ! Boyne, 0 , fanatics. He does n o t, h owever, appear sanguine t hst the bill will pass, because he says in referen43 to it 0 0 the best-considered undertakings of man are 'frequently. defeated. MR. • DICKENS AND THE THEATRICAL PitoYES' sioN.—The actors and actresses engaged on the London stage, desirous of having an opportunity of hearing one of Mr. Dickens's readings, but being prevented by th e nature of their avocations from attending any entertail-' ments in the evening, addressed a letter to Mr. Dickens' requesting him to give what in their own parlance would be called a morning performance. 'L'o this appeal Alf' Dickens has replied in the following terms :—" To the Ladies and Gentlemen, my correspondents, througl i Mr. Clarke. Ladies and Gentlemen,—l beg to a ssure you that I am much gratified by the dcsire you do me the honour to express in you r letter handed to me by Mr. John Clarke. Before that letter reached me I had heard of your wish, and had mentioned to Messrs. Chappell that it would be highly agreeable to me to anticipate it, if possible. They readily responded, and we agreed upon having three morning readings in London. As they are not yet puljliclY , announced, I add a note of the days and subjects; Saturday, May I.—` Boots at the Holly Tree Inn,' 'Sikes and Nancy' from Oliver Twist.' Saturday, May The Christmas Carol.' Saturday, May 22.—` Sike s and Nancy' from Oliver Twist,' and The Trial' fro o !Pickwick.' With the warmest interest in your art, an ti in its claims upon the general gratitude and respect, be' Ueve me, always, faithfully your friend, CHABLO DioxEN4' Gad's-bill-place, HigioaliZ bnileOter, * O4 1862.1/