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MOSES and EON. EXCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS, EVERV, ARTICLE of CLOTHING, READY-MADE or MADE to MEASURE, FOR ALL CLASSES. • p RICES BASED ON READY-MONEY SYSTEM A .N UNEQUALLED In EVERY DEPARTMENT, STOCK A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT for BOY'S CLOTHING. OVERCOATS IN EVERY S IYLE AND MATERIAL. OVERCOATS from 19s. to £5. BOOTS and SHOES. HOSIERY and DRAPERY. A N D HATS and CAPS, IN GREAT VARIETY. A LARGE STOCK of BLANKETS, at unusually Low Prices. COMPLETE OUTFITS for ALL CLIMATES. ALL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURES ARTICLES NOT APPROVED OF EX. CHANGED or the MONEY RETURNED. AN easy and accurate System of Sell-measure. introduced by E. MOSES and Son, has served to extenc their connection to all parts of the kingdom, ORDERS by POST promptly and carefully attended to. T, IST of PRICES, with Rules of Self-measure, Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. 1 4 1 MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS JII.j• are CLOSED every Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 o'clock. EMOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke • Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the London addresses of E. MOSES and CITY ESTAB LISII3I ENT. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINOBIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATE 7, ALDGATE 88, ALDGATE 89, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET 308, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCII. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch : 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS, SPECIAL NOTICE.—In consequence of frequent misrepre rentations, E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their nly Establishments are the above-mentioned. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. ChattArton. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Boa-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE GIRLS OF THE PERIOD; a Musical Folly. Followed by, at 7.45, OTHELLO: Mr. Phelps, Mr. Dillon, Mr. H. Sinclair, &c.; Miss Heath and Miss Fanny Huddart. To conclude with a Grand Ballet of Action entitled B r DA. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING. RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Ken dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton. &c. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton, A stley, &c.: Mesdames Cavendish. Burke, Hill, fie. Concluding with RURAL FELICITY: • esers. Buckstone, Kendal, Rogers, Clarke, Weathersby, White, &c.: Mesdames Chippendale, Fitzwilliam, Laws, Gwynn, Wright, &c. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven THEATRE ROYAL, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING. DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CA MBE Ft WELL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. NI 15 to S. THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr. (I rehnore. Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Ash ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Viss Lennox Grey, &c. Commence at Seven. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining THIS EVENING, at a quarter to 8, anew Drama. in four acts,. entitled MARIE ANTOINETTE : Louis XVI., Mr. William Bignold ; Count Fersen. Mr. J. G. Shore ; The Dauphin (five years old), Miss Lydia Howard; Marie Antoinette, Mdlle. Bea trice; Messrs. Dominick Murray, D. Leeson. New Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, Mr. Dayes, and Mr. Matt. Mogan. New Dresses, new Properties. Preceded by THE SECRET. To conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA. Mdlle. Beatrice. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Boa-office open daily from 10 till 5. fIOYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs Clirke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Bni ,an and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD 014 1 Ti. Z CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robsou Mesd,intes M. Long more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland. &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN The world-renowned ONRA, whose extraordinary feats on the FLYING TRAPEZE perfectly electrified the Metr polls last Autumn, will appear THIS EVENING. Onra challenges the world. Herr OSCAR CA RILE will introducehi Six splendid Trick Horses—Topaze, Saladin, edjid, Tancredi, Freischutz. and Abdallah—pronounced by the entire Press to be matchless for symmetry, breeding, and intelligence In a dition, tho incomparable Scenes in the Anna, including Engand's Champion Equestrian, Mr. A. Bradbury, Mr. A. Carre, 3i r. A, Salamonsky, Mdlles. Salamonsky, Montero, A malia, Schwartz, and Krembser, "The trick horses are magnificent animals, every lover of horses should make it a special duty to witness the stud."—Standard "Many persons form their estimate of a circus from some of those exhibitions which travel through the provinces; the Hol born Amphitheatre is as far above them as Patti's singing is above that of a street ballad-singer."—Court Journal, Jan. 2. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. GLOBE THEATRE -ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9..0, BROWN AND THE, BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall, warner David fisher. Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke: :Mesdames C. Thorne, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Arnoli, Henrade, Be rend, Hughes, and Stephens. ST. GEORGE'S H ALL, Regent-street. FIRST APPEARANCE SINCE 1862. Great and triumphant success. Never in the annals of Ethiopian minstrelsy has a company made such a decided nit. Every song was encored on the first night of performance. ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY MINSTRELS (Proprietors, Messrs. WILSOM and MONTAGUE) The Only Company of Christy's who have had the honour to appear. hr special command. lu-fore THE QUEEN AND COURT. NEARLY ONE HUNDRED PERFORMERS. EVERY EVENING at EIGHT. WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS at THREE and' EIGHT. Special Grand Performance for the People every Satur- Jay night at eight. Admission, One Shilling. Private boxes and places may be secured at Mr. Mit tiell's Royal Library. at the musicsellers, and at the ball. 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Payment of the debentures will be required as follows, viz. : The snm in excess of 190 per cent, on allotment, and £9O per cent. on the 28th May next. _ _ _ The letters of allotinent will be exchanged for scrip to bearer. Forms of tender may be obtained at the London and West minster Bank, the London Joint-Stock Bank, and the six Associ ated Australian Banks. For the Bank of New South Wales D. Larnach, Chair- man of Committee. For the Bank of Australasia .. Wm Brown. For the Union Bank of Australia. . H. W. D. Saunders. For the Bank of Victoria For the London Chartered Bank of Australia James Fr ser. For the Colonial Bank of Australasia James A. Douglas, London, March 1, 1869. No. FORM OF T KNDER. To the Committee of the Six Associated Australian Banks, as Agents for the government of Vittoria. Gentleman,— hereby tender for £ Debentures of the Victoria Government, according to the annexed notice of the Ist instant, and undertake to pav £ for every .£lO in Debentures, and to accept the same or any less amount that may be allotted to , and to pay for them in conformity 'with the terms of the said notice. - Name Address I ate .. M arch, 1869. V.U.-TOWER. ALE OF STORES.—By order of the Sec►etary 1:7 of State for War.—Mr. GEORGE SPILLMAN will Sell by Public Auction in the Tower, on TUESDAY, 16th of March, 1869, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon precisely, the following Stores: Ten's, Beds, Hair, Haversacks, Tin Sheets, May be Viewed at Days previous to the the War-office, Pall-n wich. Accoutrements, Bedding, Musquet Stocks, Horsehair, Harness, Brass, Nails _ , Iron Bedsteads, the Tower from 10 to 4 o'clock .the Threo Day of Sale, and Catalogues may be had at call ; the Tower; and Royal Arsenal, Wool- TH EA TRE -ROTA L DRURY- L ANE. dole Lessee and MinaFter, ➢lr. F. B. Chatterton. Tins EVENING, at 7, GIRLS OF THE PERIOD. Followed by OTHELLO . Concluding with BEDA. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, RAI.-ING THE WIND: Messrs. Kendal Buckstone, jun., Miss Laws, &c. Afier which, HOME: Sothern, Chippendale. &c.: Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, &c. Concluding with RURAL FELICITY. Commencs% at 7. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee awl Mnger, Mr. Vining. Tuts EVEN ING. at 7. to commence with THE SECRET. At a quarter to 8, MARIE A , TOINETTE: Mr W. Rignold, Mr. J. G. Shore, Mr. 'Dominick Murry: ➢ldile. Beatrice. Conclud ing with A CUP OF T. A: 31d1 e. Beatrice. THEATTZE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. TIITS EVENINO, at 7, DID Y(►U EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAM B::RW KM,. Mr. G. Belmore, Mre. L. Murray. At 15 to S. THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. Webster.A. Stirling, G. Belmore, B. Phillips, Ashley, Stuart; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey. &e, ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and :Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. - Tuts EVENING. at 7.30, THE WID(►W HUNT. Messrs. Bel- Itlrd, Clarke; Miss Buft , m. THE FIELD Ole THE C I .OTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; •' esdames Maria Longtnore, B. Goodall, I .ydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall,Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar nold, and Stephens QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. 3ianacer, Mr. W. H. Liston Tins EvionsG, A RACE FOR A DINNER. After which, NOT GUILTY: Messrs. J. L. Toole. L. Brough, H. Irving. S. Finery, Miss Hodson, &c. With THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS: Mr Toole. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. This EVFNING, AUNT CHARLOTTE'S MAID. Mr. E. Price, Mesdames Larkin, Weathersby. After which, FETTER P.D: Messrs. Cowper, eville, Porsche, Drew, Brunton, W. A thur, Ra.rtleman, and George H one y : M es d ames Lydia Foote, Turner, Marlbro, Hodson, and Fanny Josephs. To conclude with LU CRETJA BORGIA, M.D.: Miss Fanny Josephs, George Honey. ROYAL ANIPIIITFIEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Tuts EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud f6O Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, (to THEATRE-ROYAL. OLYMPIC. —.— THIS EVENING, at 7. PAPER WINGS : Messrs. H. Wigan , H. Ne ille, K Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and Smithson: Mesdaroa. Furtado, Schavev. N. Harris, and -4. Henry. After which. THK YELLOW PASSPORT. Messrs Neville , H. Neville, Atkins. Taylor, Taughan, G. Vincent, &c.; Miss Fur ado and Mrs Caulfield ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of bliss M. Oliver. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVINi4 CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To ho fellowe:1 by CILAI7DE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. PRTNCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tins P.NENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Ba ncro f t; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THIS EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extrs.vag‘nza, THE VERY GRAND DIITCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. Jatnes'a Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Baturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALIT AMB IZA PALACE. THREE BALLET 4 , Promenade Concert. Baud of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert'e-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, le.; on ?deadeye, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6.1. di 3-.N4 SUM j I r ONDONO SA2 URDAY, MARCH 6, 1869. A subject of immense importance to the poorer classes in this country was yesterday brought under the consideration of the House of Commons by the noble lord the member for West Essex, Lord EUSTACE CECIL, the brother of the Marquis of SALISBURY. It had. reference to fa!se weights and measures, and it had refet once also to the adulteration of food. Imme diat&ly upon the motion for going into Committee of Supply, the noble lord called the attention of the House to this matter of twofold importance to the great lIIPS3 of the commuuity. Ile justified his doing so by a number of very painful, and doubly painful . because quite indisputable, details. his remarks, which, throughout, were eminently to thepurpose, and which ,eilsc, were of real:y distressing interes'.; in them were closed by his moving—" That in the opinion of this House it is expedient that her AIA JESTY'S Government should give their earliest atten tion to the wide-spread and most reprehensible prac tice of using false weights and measures, and of adul terating food, drink, and drugs, with the view of 1 1 amending the law as regards the penalties now in- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1869. flicted for those offences, and of providing more efficient means for the discovery and prevention f fratid." Five other members followed him with more or less apropos observations of their own —conspicuous among them being the right hon. gen tleman the President of the Board of Trade. Even tually Lord EUSTACE CECIL'S motion was withdrawn. So that, in Parliamentary slang, the subject in volved in it had, after all, been merely ventilated. There is good, however, in the mere ventilation, once again, of matters of this kind—even though nothing more comes of it at the moment than the eliciting from the responsible Minister of the Crown, who happens to be appealed to, some such answer as that uttered immediately before the close of his remarks yesterday by Mr. BRIGHT, namely, when he assured the house that the Commission now sitting will soon report, adding—" It is, I believe, the intention of the Govern - meat, as it would be my own disposition, when it is made, to take such steps as may appear best, with a .view of asking Parliament- for fresh legislation on this subject.". When Mr. BRIGHT says a thing like that, we may rest assured that he really means it. And although it proves to be his opinion that the evils complained of by the noble lord the member:for West Essex, have been and still are very greatly exaggerated—all the facts, which have been brought to light, whether by the Commission of Inquiry appointed some years ago by the Legislature, or by that other very well known Commission popularly spoken of as the Lancet Commission, the Commission presided over with conspicuous ability by a man no less competent to do so than Dr. HASSALL, go distinctly to disprove any such remark as that of Mr. BRIGHT'S, as indicative on his part of something very better than an amiable hallucination. As to the Question, so far as it relates to False Weights and Measures, the disproof is shown only too strikingly by the return alluded to by Lord EUSTACE CECIL as having been moved for by him only last Session—a return show . ing the number of con victions for the use of fraudulent [Mr. BRIGHT objects to the word, but we are restrained to leave it so] of fraudulent weights and measures in the metropolitan districts in a single year—namely, from the Ist of July, 1867, to the Ist of January, 1868. Exclusive of six districts, from which, for some unexplained reason, there was no return whatever, that report showed that within those six months there had been no less than 659 convictions ! Otherwise putting it—at the rate of 1,300 convictions for the use of fraudu lent weights and measures in the year ! Yet, with a stubborn fact like that before us, we are told that there is, on this matter, exaggeration !- And so, too, in regard to the question of adulteration—the adulteration of food, of drinks, and of drug-. With Dr. HASSALL'S appalling Report of the results of the Lancet Inquiry actually on record--purchaseable and readable by any one who lists—we are told, in regard to that likewise, that there is great exaggeration in respect to this question about the adulteration of food. The remark is really unworthy of Mr. BRIGHT. The facts of the case are dead against him. There is absolutely, as one may say, in these matters, no room for exaggeration. It is true that alum may be a good thing in bread, for inasmuch as it arrests the decompo sition of gluten in flour, as shown by Baron LIEBIG. But, while that is so—there may at the same time, as the old proverb has it, be toomuch of a good thing there as elsewhere. And so also in the blending of chicory with the ground-up coffee berry. And so with other not necessarilyin j urious ingredients in articles of every day consumption so long as those ingredients are employed to their legitimate ends in moderation. But with respect to cocculus indicus in beer, there is no getting over the fact that it ought in no instance to be there at all—as there is certainly no getting over that other fact that whereas only 68 cwt. was the quantity of that drug consumed in this country in 1857 the quantity had increased in 1858 to 394 cwt.—while in 1867 it had increased to no less than 689 cwt., and in 1868 actu ally to the monstrous total of 1,061 cwt. altogether. To talk of exaggeration in the presence of fac's like these, is simply preposterous. There is reason for the interposition of the legislature between the fraudulent traders and the humbler class of the consumers in the United Kingdom. And—it matters little how reluc tantly—to that interposition Mr. BRIGHT has now formally pledged her MAJESTY'S Government. WHATEvEn may be thought of the working of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, whether it be considered satisfactory, or, as is more likely after such cues as Salford and Wallingford, a failure; it cannot be denied that the measure is and must be less com prehensive than its title. It is not a preventive Act at all ; it is a punitive Act. It does not render bribery, intimidation, or treating one whit less easy than before. It simply provides means for punishing those persons who have been guilty of such acts. The result is that the late election poves to have been just as bad as any of its recent predecessors. Roughs were hired to keep the peace by breaking other persons' heads. The beer barrels were set flowing by way of clearing the muddled heads of those whose politics are undefined and hazy. Influential customers attempted to enforce unbiassed opinions upon the shopkeeping voter by threatening to withdraw their custom if he did not arrive at a certain conclusion and give effect to it with his vote. There was tumult in the streets, there were quiet threats in the house. There was the physical force intimidation from below, there was the much more serious moral intimidation from above. In many instances there has been no attempt whatever to punish these abuses, and the most rotten boroughs in England will go free because of their very rotten ness. Even where an appeal has been made it has often failed, though every electoral evil under the sun was shewn to have prevailed. Clearly, therefore, we cannot rely upon penal legislation for checking electoral sins. The absence of a public prosecutor and the leniency of judges offer so many chances of escape that politicians will always be found to run the risk of conviction in order to obtain the coveted honour of a seat in Parliament. It is under these circumstances that the Govern ment has determined to inquire, by means of a select committee, into the conduct of parliamentary and municipal elections. It will be no vague investigation. It will be charged to consider not only the evils whereof we have spoken, but the remedies which have been from time to time suggested. These are chiefly the abolition of the hustings, with its nomination and declaration speeches, the closing of public-houses, the reduction of expenses, and, above all, the Ballot. We pointed out during the height of the elections of how little use the hustings was, how it merely offered an opportunity for rioting, and how easily, as was proved from the conduct of municipal elections, it might be abolished. We take for granted that the general election of November was the last at which antiquity will be b roug ht ou t . this venerable, b u t most cumbersome, The two n e t e p i c o n o t s f we have named have already been under discussion, and have miscarried hitherto by accident rather than by design. A lArge number of members in the late Parliament expressed a decided opinion that no public-house ought to be used as a committee-room, and the number in the present Parliament would, after the recent revelations, be found even larger. The majority would, we hope, be prepared to go still farther, and to enact that on the polling-day, and the day immediately preceding and following this, public-houses should be closed altogether. The reduction of expenses is rather a sore subject just now, and the advanced Liberals, whom the Government allowed to be beaten by three on Mr. FAWCETT'S motion, chewed their resentment by voting against the issue of the writ to Bewdley. But the mishap of Wednesday will not seriously retard the change Mr. FAWCETT recommends. Probably before the next election the cost of polling-booths and other unavoidable expenses will be thrown upon the rates ; in that case the rat epayer will be bur dened to the value of an ounce of tobacco every three years. But the prime reform is, as we have said, the Ballot, and after Mr. BRUCE'S speech in favour of it, there can be no doubt but that we shall shortly have so far Americanised or Australianised our institutions as to adopt the principle of secret voting. We do not imagine that there is likely to be any serious opposition to this change. There are a large number of Conservatives who believe that it would benefit their party ; and when we read of the Liberal riots in Monmouthshire and Cambridgeshire, it is clear that the Conservatives need protection against the intimidation which comes from below, as much as the Liberals against that which comes from above. THE White House has lost perhaps the most unpopular tenant that ever occupied it, and President GRANT reigns in his stead. The new head of the State has taken the Constitutional oath " without mental reservation," and his long period of silence has terminated by a most unambiguous and decisive political programme. General GRANT'S inaugural proclamation will be hailed with satisfaction both by the people to whom it is addressed and by the many nations who have direct interest in the declaration. The Americans have clearly hoped much from Mr. JOHNSON'S successor, not because they looked for a dictator specially charged to deliver the State from its burdens, but because General GRANT was the choice of the majority, and his coming to office would put an end to the injurious conflict between the branches of Government. The United States is not, and is not likely to be, in the position of its great prototype. The necessity for a CAmILLus or a CINCINNATUS such as it existed during the civil war, is at an end. The superiority of Congress has been definitely esta blished during Mr. JOHNSON'S term of office. The disasters of the contest between the late Presi dent and the Legislature were such as to leave no doubt that the greatest of all qualities in an American ruler is the wisdom to be guided by the decision of the people, and prefer, whenever it is possible, the choice of the nation to individual opinion. The rule of a minority has been the greatest of misfortunes to the United States since the war. General GRANT takes office under very different auspices. He was elected President by 214 representative votes against the 80 accorded to his opponent, and he begins his labours supported by a popu larity which no President, scarcely even WASHINGTON, has exceeded. Should his inau gural proclamation prove a true presage of the nature of his rule, Europe can only desire that his first Presidency may not be his last. The proclamation contains no albsion to the war. In fact, the war and its chief consequence, recon struction, have ceased to occupy public attention. Economy, the rescue of the country from financial collapse, and the improvement of internal adminis tration, are now the most important questions of the time. It is upon these that the new President most decisively expresses him self. Congress has just passed an Act which cannot fail to speedily restore the drooping credit of the Republic. Both Houses have decided that the American debt must not, in any form, be repudiated, and General GRANT echoes this sentiment by declaring that " every dollar of the Government indebtedness should be paid in gold unless otherwise expressly stipulated at the time of being contracted." This assurance is of moment to Europe, where many mil lions of the American debt are held, and it is hardly possible to over-estimate its bearing upon the prosperity of the United States. The Americans have long seemed unable to comprehend why their credit should be little better than that of Egypt or Turkey, instead of being second to none in the world. Their Six per Cent. Bonds have for years remained 20 per cent. below English Three per Cents. The Five- Twenties, to approach the market value of consols, considering the difference of interest, ought to' be quoted at 150. They are now 82, and but a week ago were at 77, this latter price being then the highest figure ever reached. The facts speak for themselves ; the lending public will be content with less interest rather than incur the risk of losing part of its capital. Hence the Americans must not only pay a high interest, but will be compelled to repay at least one-third more principal than they received. The new policy will lighten the national burden by borrowing cheaply and at full rates. President GRANT will attempt another important reform. The revenue frauds are at present a grievous loss to the nation. Probably not more than two-thirds, certainly not more than three-quarters, of the taxes collected find their way to the Treasury. General GRANT has declared that he will clear the Civil Service of the " thieves and imbeciles" who have either failed to collect the revenues or have put the pro ceeds in their pockets. Unfortunately he cannot do this to the full extent, for the Senate has refused to repeal the Tenure of Office law, and the head of the State has .no power to remove any office-holder however flagrant his dishonesty. It would have been better, doubtless,if a law passed to provide for an emergency had been repealed when the original necessity no longer existed. Still General GRANT can suspend any official, and though the Senate has not been disposed to dismiss any Republican, yet much may be done in this branch of economy. The new President hopes for a speedy resump tion of specie payments, desires that negro suffrage may be a ccepted—whi c h now seems pro bable, and will deal with the Indians as humanely as pos sible. It is noteworthy that the proclamation contains no allusion to foreign affairs, except i n genera l t erms . The Alabama Treaty not mentio ne d, an d th e recen t is is passed ove r i n s il ence. G enera l vote respecting Cuba GRANT no doubt perceives the glaring inconsistency of preferring demands against England because of our recognition of the Southern belligerents, and at the same time supporting by public votes of Congress the cause of rebellion in any part of the world. It is no small mark of the new President's wisdom, that where he cannot approve he is silent. He may desire the rejection of the Alabama Treaty, but he cannot give moral countenance to an attempt to wrest a colony from Spain. It is well Uri, tin the present condition of American foreign relations so little should have been said re specting them. The rest of the proclamation must command unqualified approval. PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE. A return published yesterday Morning shews that the total income of the United Kingdom for the year ended on the 31st of December last was £71,860,677 12s. Bd., while the expenditure exceeded that amount by £2,221,602 12s. 9d. The interest and management of the National Debt cost the country £22,456,066 Gs. 5d., and the terminable annuities, interest on Exchequer bonds and bills and on bank advances for deficiency swelled the amount to over twenty-six and a half millions sterling. The charges on the Consolidated Fund were £1,859,009 18s. 10d., while the army, navy, Abyssinian expedition, miscellaneous civil services, &c., cost £45,186,570 Bs. 6d. Added to these is a little bill on account for fortifications represented by the figures £425,000, making a grand total expenditure of £74,082,280 ss. sd. Of the gross income 222,486,000 was derived from customs, and £20,214,000 from excise. Stamps yielded .£9,174,000 ; land and assessed taxes, £3,477,000; property tax, £8,414,000; post office, £4,560,000; Crown lands, £359,000 ; and the miscellaneous receipts were £3,176,677 12s. Bd. A THEATRICAL MANAGER AND HIS MUSICIANS. A case has been tried at the Liverpool County Court, which affords us a small peep behind the scenes. The proprietors of the Amphitheatre and Theatre Royal sued Mr. Frederick Duncanson, who had been engaged as the leader of the orchestra at the theatresin question. It was part of Mr. Duncanson's duty to compose and arrange music for the pantomime of " Red Riding Hood," but during rehearsal one of ternoon— two days before the pantomime should have been produced— the defendant took offence at some words which passed, packed up the music, and walked off. The plaintiffs held that the music was their property although it had beeir composed by the defendant. This contention formed one main feature the case. The evidence throughout is somewhat ;curious, but the end of it was that his Honour held that the music was a part of the pantomime, and therefore not the pro- perty of the individual contributor. The damages were originally laid at £5O, but a verdict was given for £l6 with oods. 7'HEA7IIIC4L AND MUSICAL MMUS. Mr Barry Sullivan succeeds Miss Fanny Jo opl 8 as lessee of the Holborn Theatre. He commences his season on the Ist of May. A now piece by Mr. T. W. Robertson, entitled "Dreams," is in rehearsal at the Gaiety. It is the piece lately pro duced at Liverpool under the title of "My Lady Clara." Herr Wagner's opera " Meistersinger" has been produced at Munich with but moderate success. There were no less than 141 rehearsals prior to its public performance. Miss Amy Sedgwick appears at the Standard Theatre on Monday next. Mr and Mrs Howard Paul give their entertainments at St. James's Hall on Thursday and Friday next. A '• London Burlesque Combination Company" Rail for New York on the 10th. Miss Jenny Willmore is amongst the troupe. _ (Front the Musical Standard.) It is said that 31. Aubc;;;; Le raised to the rank of s:mator. I t is rumoured that M. Hector Berlioz is in " a desperate state of health." A new opera, entitled " Stradella," .by M. Marehi, is in rehearsal at the Italian theatre at Nice• M. Vieuxtemps is positively going to make a profes sional tour of the United States this year• He is expected to leave early in the spr:ng. DUNVILLE an I Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky iu the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports. Lion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co. Belfast; er 4, Beaufort - buildings, Strand, London W.() —[Ad vertisement. THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. Now that the Oxford and Cambridge crews are up and are daily appearing on the London waters, aquatic circles are becoming excited on the subject of the race. The names of the men now located at Putney are as under : OxronD st. lb. st. lb. 3. H. Woodhouse, Univ 11 2 J. C. Tinne, University.... 13 10 R. Tahourdin, St. John's ll 12 AC. Yarboro, Lincoln.... 11 13 T. S. Baker. Queen's l2 101 W. D. Benson, Balliol .... 11 8 F. Willan, Exeter l2 2jS. D. Darbishire Neilson, St. John's (cox.), 7st. 131 b. CAMBRIDGE. st. lb. 1 ' st. lb. A. Rushton, Emmanuel ll 51W. F. M'Alichael, Downing 12 2 J. H. Ridley, Jesus J. W. Dale, St. John's ll 12 P. H. Kellor, Trinity ll 8 J. F. Young, Christ's E. Gordon, Trinity (cox.), 7st. Slb. The general appearance of the dark blue crew is that of a heavy, not to say rough set of men, who need training much, but who, when trained, will be able to "hold out" almost to any extent. 'The light blue eight are, as far as can be judged at present, much in advance in point of superiority to those who to gallantly but fruitlessly strove for the honour of the Cam last year. Both crews, when out yesterday (on Thursday they did little more thari a gentle paddle), rowed in fairly good form, but no one could fail to see that they have got their work well laid out to be in proper trim by Wednesday the 17th, when it is expected that more spectators than on any previous occasion will throng the banks and bridges from Putney to Mortlake. Mr. Newmarch is proposed as president of the Statistical Society for the ensuing year in place of Mr. Gladstone. The Irish Protestant Defence Association have passed a resolution declaring an uncompromising resistance to the Church Bill. The Irish prelates are to summon dio cesan conferences in a few days. Mr. Holman Hunt has been elected to the SoCiety of Painters in Water Colours, and ho is expected to contri bute to the exhibitions of the society, although ho will not abandon oil paintings. An ironworker named Hall has been arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the horrible murder at Wed nosbury on Saturday night. The police say they have a strong case against him. It was stated on Thursday that IMlr.•Fawcett aid not vote in favour of his measure for throwing the expenseS of elections on the rates. It appears that the error occurred through Captain 1 4 `gan's being substituted in the division list for Mr. Fawcett's. Tho death of Lord Googh creates no vacancy among the Knights of St. Patrick. At tho creation last November of the extra knight, the Earl of Mayo, her Majesty directed that Lis lordship was to succeed and be entitled to the first vacant stall ; he consequently becomes ono of the regular knights. The Ikehire, writing regarding the eagerly ex pecteri report of the Royal Commissioners on Trades' 'Unions, says it will not be surprised to sco mono than ono report in consequence of the Commissioners being unablo to agree; it is not unlikely the one report will be signed by seven, and tho other by three Commissioners, the latter being in favour of unions than the former. A return published yesterday shows that dur ing the year, 1868, £22 0,000 was advanced from the Conso lidated Fund for the purchase of bullion for coinage. This makes a total of £10,058,029 since and including 1837. The total amount paid to the credit of the Exchequer at ate Bank of England in the same period is £10,020,000- of which £250,000 was paid in the year 1868. The bill to amend the law which regulates the burials of persons in England not belonging to tho Estab lished Church has been brought in by Mr. Hadfield, Mr. C. Reed, and others. It is enacted that when the burials of persons not belonging to the United Church of England and Ireland take place in tho burial grounds of such church, ministers of other denominations may perform the service. Due notice must be given to the incumbent of the parish by the minister who proposes to attend such burial. Certain churchyards may bo exempted from this law on account of their small size, or their being given or purchased for the use of persons attending tho worship of the church. At a meeting held at Strangeways, Manchester, on Thursday, for tho purpose of inaugurating a new Conserva tive association for working men, Mr. Hugh Birley, M.P., made a short speech, and referred to his own election. He said the point of law raised against his return for Manches ter could not be decided until tho judges for the Court of Common Pleas reassembled at the conclusion of the Spring Circuits in April. Ho had the greatest possible hope that the result would bo in his favour. Ho had taken the best advice, and bad been assured that it would bo so. In any case, he should retain tho strongest sense of the honour which the enlarged constituency of Manchester had done him by placing him at the head of the poll. Earl Spencer, replying to a deputation from the Town Council of Drogheda on Thursday, said: —"You may be assured that whenever the Government see a prospect of securing to the land question the time and at tention which its importance deserves at their hands and the hands of Parliament, they will Lot fail to use their best endeavours to settle it upon a satisfac tory basis." Her Majesty's Government had, the Lord Lieu tenant added, extended clemency to a great number who had joined in the Fenian conspiracy ; ho earnestly trusted that those men would return to their duties with the determination to respect the law and promote good order. He (Lord Spencer) lookel forward hopefully to the passing of legislative measures which will materially tend to promote the welfare of Ireland, and if he could iu any way contribute to that end, it would be to him a source of deep gralification. A MEDICAL MITHRIDATES.—Professor Scoutetten of Metz, has written to the Academy of Medicine on the subject of cutaneous absorption. He maintains that the skin, when healthy, does not absorb ; and that no bath whatever can have any effect on it. The doctor is so posi tive that he offers himself to be experimented on, by enter ing any bath containing' poisonous substances, provided they have no corrosive qualities. He further offers to pay a fine, of an amount to be fixed by the academy, if he be wrong ; and declares himself ready at any time to place himself at the academy's disposal. FATAL ACCIDENT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.— On Friday afternoon an extraordinary accident, resulting in the death of one woman and slight injury to other per. sons, occurred in front of Buckingham Palace, whilst the carriages were conveying gentlemen from her Majesty's levee. A rider, who is stated to have been Mr. Percy Howard, was riding down the Mall towards the Palace, when his horse cud. denly became unmanageable, and darting of at full speed, ran full butt against the Palace railings, which are at least 12ft. high, and jumped right through them. The upper portion of the railings, being of a more substantial character than the lower part, remained fixed between the stone pillars situate a short distance on either side, and to this portion the rider fortunately clung, and saved him self,- with a few bruises ; but an unfortunate woman, named Gillans, who had a child in her arms, and was watching far the carriage of which her husband was coachman, was knocked down and fatally injured. She died a few minutes after admission to St. George's Hospital, where *be was taken by the police. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Saturday Beriew, in criticising the Ministerial plan just unfolded to Parliament, speaks of it in high terms of praise, and says that the eager expectation with which the introduction of the Irish Church Bill by Mr. Gladstone was awaited was amply rewarded. As a mere piece of orato rical composition, his speech was universally acknow ledged to have been one of the greatest triumphs which this generation has witnessed in the House of Commons. Nothing could have been more clear, more aptly arranged, more comprehensive, or with a better distribution of materials, than his statement. He was thoroughly in his element, and he has been so long out of his element while baited and vexed in the Reform debates, and while car ried away by his own volubility in his career of stumping, that it almost comes as a novelty to find once more that, when in his element, he is among the very first speakers that have ever addressed an English Parliament. When he has to deal with an enormous array of figures, to address a vast variety of interests, to introduce ingenious novelties, and to weave in bits of not inappropriate senti ment, he shews himself a real master of parliamentary oratory. His speech on Monday was like a Budget speech on a grander scale, and with a much wider interest. The effect of the speech, apart from the scheme it introduced, sby no means unimportant. It stamps upon the memory of a public which in recent years has had to listen to much criticism on Mr. Gladstone—which, if often exagge rated, has yet in the main been just criticism—why it is that, in spite of everything that can be said against him, lie holds so commanding a place in general estimation. The two great succeses of the scheme, each of which shews great felicity of contrivance, great originality, and great political tact, are the creation of the Church Representa tive Body and the destination of the surplus. That there must be some body created to represent the Church was obvious; but it was by no means obvious to hit upon the three peculiarities of this part of the Government plan— that the nature of this body should be wholly unknown now, so that the time of Parliament shall not be wasted in settling the squabbles of clerical parties, that the mem bers of the Irish Church shall find themselves irresistibly impelled to create such a body within a given number of months after the passing of the Act, and that the Govern ment, while having none of the trouble of creating it, retains a control over its formation by reserving the right to decide whether it is truly representative. The destina tion of the surplus, which was always said to constitute the main difficulty of the scheme, is so adroitly managed that there is probably no part of the scheme that will meet with less opposition. The expenditure of the money on works, of mercy has a sort of semi-religious sound about it which may comfort those who object to the utter secularisation of Church property; it will benefit the poor only, Irish people only, and the only class of poor who would not be demoralised by having money laid out in large sums for their benefit. Fond as they are of jobbery, not even Irishmen will turn blind or mad to profit by the spoils of the Irish Church. And then even those who most dislike it must own that the scheme is a very clever scheme in the subtle and delicate way in which it tempts —or, as Sir Stafford Northcote said at the Middlesex ban quet on Wednesday, bribes—people of all kinds to agree with it. The Spectator says that it is well not to holloa till you are out of the wood, and it would be folly to begin that never very remunerative process on the very morrow of entering it ; but, to assert no more than bare fact, no one can doubt that Mr. Gladstone's bill, and the marvellous effort of exposition and oratory by which it was accom panied, have male such a beginning of a very difficult enterprise that all who are concerned in it are sanguine of success, and all who are anxious to defeat it are beginning to tremble or despair. Mr. Gladstone has begun his Irish campaign as Lord Napier of Magdala, began his Abys sinian campaign, with an administrative breadth and minuteness, a largeness of view as to the end, and a per fection of detail in the arrangement of the means, which is full of something much less vague than hope—cf assu ranee for the future. The Church will have quite new opportunities of reorganising itself after the disestablish. meat by freely rearranging the duties and localities of the clergy. We think it is quite reasonable to suppose that, within the ten years allowed for the work, almost all the clergy of the Church will have willingly transferred their services to the new corporation. It is scarcely possible to doubt that the set of clerical opinion will run very strongly in favour of such a step—that hesitation in taking it will be looked upon as a sign of a grudging and selfish— of an unclerical—spirit. Thus, without either the heartburnings of a harsh and peremptory measure, or the evils of a pro tracted death-bed for the present system, we may, in all probability, see disendowment finally completed before the end of 1880, and disestablishment completed at once —or, at least, by the first year of that decade. There is nothing Ireland needs more than those more refined charities which are supplied by the overflowing wealth of private revenues in England, but which, in a very poor land, are not provided at all. Infirmaries for the body and the mind are institutions as distinctively Christian as churches themselves, and indeed the hard misery which springs out of the want of them not mire quently drives men into an irreligious attitude of heart. There seems to us a fine moral, as well as political tact in appropriating the surplus revenues in this way. If the Protestants are apt to say that this proposal promises to be a rather special fulfilment of the prophesy, " The poor ye have always with you, but Me ye have not always," they should be reminded that, inasmuch as we are only about to divert the trust-money of the nation to "some of the least of these " Christ's " brethren," we are not in any true sense diverting it from Him. On the whole, the Ministry have made a great strength out of their great difficulty, and are probably ten times as strong as when they first took office. The John Bull asserts that Mr. 07adstone has intro duced a bill for undermining the Constitution of the coun try, and blames the apathy cf Conservatives. The jubila tions are, however, premature, since in spite of all that has been said on the subject few really understand the question at issue. Sir Stafford Northcote is most cautious in the use of language. When he calls Mr. Gladstone's bill "a scheme of robbery combined with a still more gigantic system of bribery," we may be confi dent that the country will at last be roused from its fatal apathy. While High Churchmen are busying themselves with Lent services, as if the circumstances of the Church were in no way unusual, and looking forward to the day when the Church shall be free (though the Saurin case may teach them a useful lesson as to the fallacy of the State not interfering with religion); while the astute clerical supporters of Mr. Gladstone are congratulating themselves on the success of their schemes, we yet have faith in the common sense and religious feeling of our fellow Countrymen. They must and will assert themselves. We bear willing testimony not only to the eloquence and lucidity of Mr. Gladstone's great speech, but we cordially thank him for the thorough character of his bill. The country now sees what is proposed, and we look forward with confidence to the people supporting the House of Lords in again remitting the subject to them. When they thoroughly grasp the scheme shadowed forth in the bill, they cannot endorse a polity which can have but one legitimate conclusion—viz., the abolition of the English Church, the Aristocracy, and the Throne. The Saturday _review puts little faith in Mr. Cardwell's ingenious definition of the administration of the army. If the Commander-in-Chief's office is strictly subordinate to that of the Minister, as that of any Under-Secretary is, what is the meaning of a succession of solemn docu ments, defining the relations between the one office and the other? The bare existence of such documents is an authoritative assertion of duality "in theory." We know well how Mr. Cardwell will excuse his statement. He may say that though the Commander-in-Chiei is not by any document or by practice made in terms subordinate, still he does, as a matter of fact, yield in the last resort whenever the Minister chooses to intervene. This is true in exactly the same sense in which it may be said that in the last resort the House of Lords always yields to the House of Commons. But who would say, on this ground that the Peers are not "in theory " independent of the Commons, or that there is no duality between the two Houses? It is exactly the same with the Commander-in- Chief and the Secretary of State. Now as to the practice. You cannot prove practice from written patents, but we can fortunately prove out of Mr. Cardwell's own mouth that, as to one part of the "excepted powers," the inde pendence of the Horse Guards is an actual fact. The Minister was compelled to ac7mlt, in answer to Sir Patrick O'Brien, that there is no appeal from a decision of the Commander-in-Chief to the Secretary of State for War. Mr. Cardwell says this is as it should be, and that is a position which anyone has a right to argue, and which we are ready to discuss when once we get the facts honestly admitted ; but to say that certain powers are vested in the person holding the office of Commander-in-Chief, without appeal, and in the same breath to say that he is a mere subordinate under a letter of service, and that there is no independence and no duality, is one of those contradictions that only a Cabinet Minister can be expected to compre hend. In theory, therefore, and in practice, in any but a non -natural sense of the words, the dual government exists. How pernicious it is, we are not discussing to-clay; and if the Government approve of it, with all of its anomalies and all its extravagant cost, it would be fair and manly to challenge public opinion upon it. But to evade the issue by denying the existence, patent to all the world, of that which they would like to defend but dare not, is a device which does credit neither to the candour nor to the courage of a Cabinet which includes among its members some of the most resolute opponents of military lornination. We have only to add that if, instead of nutting sarcastic questions which are easily evaded, Sir P. O'Brien and Mr. White had asked for the documents we have referred to, they would have compelled an admis sion of the truth, and sooner or later the whole truth must come out. ,- ,s~r--~. P. ,44 ‘-• Cairrt mkt ..4, HER MAJESTY. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, March 5 : The Queen, accompanied by Princes Louise, visited the National Memorial to the Prince Con sort in Hyde-park this morning. In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Christian. and attended by the ladies and gentl e " men of their suite, left here for Windsor Castle. LATEST INTELL MENOS (REUTEP.'S TELEGRAMS.) INDIA. CALCUTTA, March 4. The Amhcer of Afghanittan has arrived at Peshawur on his way to Lahore, where the Lieu' tenant-Governor of the Punjab, the lion. D• F• M'Leod will hold a Durbar. The camp is being formed at Umballa. The Bank of Bengal has reduced the rate of dis' count one per cent. PORTUGAL. LISBON, March 6. The British squadron has sailed for a cruise of twenty days on the coast of Portugal. Th e weather is very fine. ALEXANDRIA, March 5. Professor Owen and Mr. Fowler, the enginee r / left with Sir John Lawrence in the Caradoc. AMERICA. NEW YORK, March 5. According to Ur. Adam Moffatt's report, the week's receipts of cotton at American ports amount s to 45,000 bales; total since the Ist of September and taken by American spinners direct, 1,900, 000 bales. Shipments to England, 17,000 bales; to France, none ; and to the Continent, 3,000. 'rotal since the Ist September, 808,000 bales. Stock , 440,000 bales. Market firm. Midling upland 1110.1 cost and freight per steamer. AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, Feb. 2. A motion of want of confidence in the Ministry has been defeated in Parliament. The preliminary arrangements for convening 311 intercolonial conference for the establishment of I I Customs Union are progressing. ADELAIDE, Feb. 3.. The Government La n d R e f orm Bill has passed through Parliament. The arrival of hi s R oya l Hi g h ness t h e Duke fo Edinburgh is daily . expected. It is announced that her Majesty the Queen 113° requested that the reception given to the M ike should be of a non-official character. MELBOURNE, Feb. 2 . The following gold ships have sailed for Evg' land since the departure of the last Hohnsdale, 23,500 oz. ; Nevis, 8,500 oz. ; Mora' vian, 11,875 oz. ; Ernestine, 6,125 oz. ; Micinp (?)' 13,500 oz. ; Wellesley, 6,500 oz. ; Niagara, 7) 750 oz. ; Sussex, - 12,750 oz. ; Rover, 8,375 oz. THE BRAZIL MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, March 6. The Royal Mail steamer La Plata, with th e above mail, has arrived here. There was little news from Rio de Janeiro. ' lll 4 ° Anglo- Brazilia n 7 i mes says that Lopez had or dered the crews and guns from the steamers to a lea position at Birabibi, in the mountains. lie 04 said to have 5,000 men, and also to be activ ell recruiting, and sending parties to kill all Fa tly guayans disobeying his order to abandon the cow l ' try accessible to the Allies. General Maculation and the French and Italia ° Consuls were still with Lopez. THE RULE OF THE ROAD AT SEA• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 0 SIR,—My letter on " The Loss of Life at Sea, which you was ki n d enough to insert, was writteobt more with a view of starting a fresh train of 0°14 .0 than to intr u d e op i n i ons upon so vast a su bject " the mercantile marine." Will you permit ine to explain the present Pui l - 0 tion of " th e ru l e o f t h e road at sea, " and ‘,‘, t steering and saili ng ru l es, " a su bj ect upon wb' ch 1 feel myself more con fid en t t o spea k ? F or c entur ieo iv - 0 before the introd uc ti on o f s t eam, w hat is kli e 0 , by sailors as th e cus t om o f t h e sea an d the Pray' tice of seamen, obt a i ne d not on l y i n England+ tb in forei gn coun t r i es; b ut w h en steam was in ro, or f duced, and it b ecame necessary to ma k e a lavr oit steamers, this custom and practice was upsets e t he as regards sailing ve sse l s , an d f or years Po' a t practice of seamen and the law have been variance. The existing law, w as ma d e i n 1862, was s l,o °- cepted by foreign nations, an d a lth oug h it 171 ° ,L i e true that England of h erse lf oug ht no t to take ' iv; responsibility of altering this international 1 % 0 yet, fortunately or un f or t una t e l y , suc h has / l i t done, for the Board of Trade, evidently seeing ' c o something was wrong, issu e d an or d e r in CO illi th e of the 4th of August last, altering and explalei n g; e d law, while in foreign c oun t r i es i t rema i ns unelle n : ra , , and the whole matt er i s now under t h e conou e- b o tion of foreign Go vernments. S i r John Hal l 113 . speech in the Ho use o f C ommons, very c learly plained the defect i n th e ex i st i ng l aw — w hich 1, AS ` li but the object of this order in Council to rernedi" n a.. as the necessity f or c h ange h as thereby beell:flot mitted, would it not b e a d v i sa bl e t o go to the 1- „f of the matter, and re-establish the old prac tiee li the sea, and enact a law for st eamer s in confe r ' - with it ? —Yours obediently, WILLIAM STIRLING LAC° I.I. London, 4th March, 1869. POLICE . 1 1VTELL1GENCE—ihis Dag. MARLBOROUGII-STREET. w oo, ATTEMPT TO MURDER A W IPE. —J O SePh ffOr newsvendor, living at 47, Union-street, Middlesex vri y, pital, was charg e d b e f ore K nox w i t h assaulting hie _ _ Mary Newman. The complainant ot said that yterday morning the her, and so ner, who was n sober, dema es nded some rnoneY , ,or: because she would not g i ve M t n any, he struelr ":0-rf kicked her, and nearly choked her by tightening round her neck. He was in the continua.' habit of d ri- o f ing, and made away with everything for the purpego.,,,, getting it. She was sorry to h a ve to appear against 1,1'" but was compelled to do so f or t' e protection of her itie it;l Mr. Knox said the prisoner was a drunken, b y t h him to prison for tw o won fellow, and comm itt e d thsll hard labour. THAMES. _ A ,. wag CARD SHARPING.—Henry Ward, a car d Sharpe charged with gambling in the East India Dock-road, 12-lb the The Sai Magi H stratlors' ome. Co ° e said there was no doubt prisoner . habitual gambler, and committed him to the House °f c rection for one month with hard labour.. WESTMINSTER KEEP Yout CHIMNIES CLEAN.—over twentY mouses were heard, taken out 1 Mr. Norman 13 ;: 13 9 1 solicitor fork the Board of Wo y rkq Persons aving their chimuies Tho of these persons paid the fine of 20s. AI?IiE7 S-7 MS DAY• LIVERPOOL COTTON. Ol t] March G. —Sales p ro b a bl y 12,000 or 14,000 bales. ffrm and advancing. iii . 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