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THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. --SPE CIAL MoRNINfi PERFORMANCES on WEDNESDAY, March 31. and SATURDAY, A pril 3.--xt Two o'clock, the Royal Original Chrysty's Minstrels (from the St. George's flail) will give Selec tions from their celebrated Entertainment. At Three o'clock, the Grand Pantomime of PUS IN BOOTS, terminating with the Grand Transformation Scene. A t half-past Four, a Musical Folly, entitled THE GIRLS 4'F THE PFlilOl At Five, the Deck of a Man-of War in Miniature—Three flundr , d Infant Sailors and Marines. Carriages to be ordered at a quarter-past Five. Doors open at half-past One, commence at. Two o'cl ek. Children and hchools 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, HA YiNIARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Ken dal, Carl:, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton, &c. After which, HOME: Messrs. 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Preceded by THE SECRET. To conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA. Mdlle. Beatrice. N.B —On Easter Monday AFTER DARK. loors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. I, Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. ;nuke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Button and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD Or• Th.t CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M Long more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland, dc. To conclude ,vah HUE AND DYE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN Positively t' e Last Five 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.—OKßA, the world-renowned. in his original and unapproachable evolutions on the FLYING TRAP ItZE, every Evening. His double somersaults and pe rouettes from the flying bar are incredible. 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This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth hat are loose, and is gua ranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in masti cation. 52, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'fun EVENING, RAPING THE WIND: Messrs. Kendal Buckstone. jun., Mis 4 Laws, &c. Afier which, HOME: Sothern, Chippendale, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, &c. Followed by BOX AND COX. Concluding with A KISS IN THE DARK. Commenco, at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. TH7B EvENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At a quarter to S, MARIE ANTOINETTE : Mr W. Rignold, Mr. G. Shore, Alias Lydia II oward; Mdlle. Beatrice. Concluding with A CUP OF T : Mdlle. Beatrice THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THrS Era - rano, at 7, A DAY', FISHING. Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. Stephenson, Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. "Webster, A. Stirling, Belmore, R. Phillips, Ashley, Stuart ; M rs. A lfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &e, THE C ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. TH7S EvENTNO, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs ford, Clarke ; Miss Bufton. THE FIELD or OF GOLD: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; Mesdames Mari Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To a 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, A n drews, Hurlstoe, J. ClarAr. ke; Slesdaraes Henrade, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend n , Hughes, sold, and Stephens. ROYALTY THEATRE• Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. THIS ETENING, at 7.30, A LOVINO CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of bliss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, mover, and Baneroft; Mrs. ltuckingha,m White, N Kiss C. Addison, and Miss N iarie Wilto n. After which, A. WINING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. LOYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, 110LEORN. THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, ttc ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. ITITTS EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTB.ELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravagi.nza, 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. BALLETS , Bozo ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-T.4A, OPEN daily (sa c:lt Sundays). Advalevicn, :la.; on Mondays, 6d. Children ender tWell'a, 6d. ROYAL _ALHAMBRA PALACE. TUB Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin a s. open from n to 4. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH. 27, 1E69. 7. 1 f. 1.1.; ,t Si la L OND ON, SA 1 URDAY, MARCH 27, 1869. - .►- Reading the particulars of the Demonstration yes terday, in Trafalgar-square, in honour of the late Mr. ERNEST JONES, is very much like reading a pas sage selected haphazard from " Hone's Everyday Book." There were imitation fasces, there, sur mounted by red caps of Liberty. There was a dis reputable mock clergyman, wearing a dog's-eared band and a battered college-cap, attended by his clerk, and offering up, for the dole of a few pence, a comic prayer or two from a burlesque liturgy. There were itinerant vendors of cheap creature-com forts in the shape of oranges and gingerbread. There were distributors of religious tracts—sonic of them trickling milk-and-water—some of there breathing fire-and-brimstone. There were specimens of all the ragamuffins and gallimaufry to be found in the back slums, and rookeries, and thieves' quarters of the metropolis—what T. PERCY JONES, otherwise W. EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN, sang of long ago in his great serio-comic drama of " Firmillian " as— " The tag and rag and bob -tail of the town !" Extempore preachers were there to enforce (?), in the homeliest phrase and with the idioma tic force of the merest vulgarisms, the aw ful truths of Holy Writ. There were extra- trum pery, Political Orators, " stumping" after our Eng lish fashion—that is, at the street corners, and not in the recently peopled clearings of the back-woods. There were " roughs " ad libitum—" cads " unnum bered—" duffers " in singular (one can hardly say pleasing) variety—intermingled with many of those obscene forms only seen in public places and in broad daylight on some exceptional and wholly abnormal occasions, such as had, yesterday, as it happened, called them all together ! Of all good days in the year—on Good Friday ! A day that would have been altogether incomprehensible, as having been thus selected for a so-called popular demonstration only for the circum stance that by our bewildering national habit this austerest of purely and essentially Christian anni versaries—Good Friday —is the day beyond all other days in the whole year for "an Outing !" If on no other day out of the three hundred and sixty five, Tom, DICK, and HARRY, with all their belong ings, make a day of it (to say nothing of a night at the close of it) —they do, as a rule, almost, it would seem, as a necessity, on Good Friday. There is cer tainly one " institution" seemingly in some measure to sanctify it, we are left to presume,—the salt fish appearing then upon every English dinner table, as on Ash-Wednesday—just as inevitably as the sugar-frosted plum-cake on Twelfth- Night, as the pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, or as the mincvies at Christmas. Barring the, in some mysterious way, sacred significance, we suppose, of the salt-fish with its accompaniment of egg-sauce, Good Friday, year by year, is chiefly remarkable here in England as a day for—what the working classes so perfectly well know, and so curiously enjoy after their fashion, as—" an Osting." This year London had the privilege of celebrating Good Fri day in an additional, and as we have said in a strangely exceptional manner, by having the " finest site in Eutope," as the late Sir ROBERT PEEL once called it, made the rendezvous for all the Chartist enthusiasts and Fenian sympathisers in the metropolis, in honour of one of the most respectable champions of the former, himself but very recently deceased, to wit, the late Mr. ERNEST JONES, son of the late Colonel JONES, godson of ERNEST, KING OF HANOVER, a barrister of the Middle Temple, a cultivated man-of-letters, and, therefore, in other words, an educated gentleman. To honour the me mory of Mr. ERNEST JONES, the rabble of Londou were gathered together yesterday in Trafalgar-square —yesterday, being Good Friday—there to listen, among other things, to an oration delivered by Mr G. J. HoixoaKE, who, if anything at all is known of him, is known most certainly as what is called a Free Thinker, or, in other words, as an avowed unbeliever in Christianity. Consequently— a most decorous, and suitable, and appro priate demonstration, to have been held in the most conspicuous public place in London—on Good Friday ! There is one consideration which almost reconciles us to the remembrance of this same most extraordi nary demonstration. And it is this, that it is pro bably the last we shall hear of anything whatever of the kind. The Reform League has recently evi denced its own keen sense, at last, of the fact that the time has gone by for the continuance any longer of this description or species of political tom-foolery by re ceiving and accepting the resignation of its Presi • dent, Mr. EDMUND BEALES, M.A. That of itself has been a sufficiently significant Sign of the Times. The failure, the notorious and utterly contemptible failure, of Mr. FINLEN'S last demonstration was an other. And now yesterday's —Good Friday's—de monstration, in honour of the memory of Mr. ERNEST JONES, is the last, and not by any means the least significant among them all. The whole thing is ridiculous. And it is not only ridiculous, it is disreputable. London has had more than enough of it. From first to last it has been a public nuisance. For the prevention of its recurrence, we look now to Mr. BRUCE and to Colonel HENDERSON. SOME fifteen years ago a cutting article appeared in the short-lived " Oxford University Essays," decrying the system of education pursued at the London University, and magnifying that pursued at Oxford. The writer of the article was, of course, an Oxonian, and has since become known as a brilliant, and yet painstaking, historian. Mr. FROUDE, the writer to whom we refer, has just delivered his address as Rector of the University of St. Andrew's. It was elo quent and earnest, as any words of his were sure to be. But there is one point specially noticeable in it. Mr. FROUDE no longer holds up Oxford as the typical university. He has foundhis modelnorth of the Tweed. In fact, he seems to have been smitten with that love for everything Scottish which now seems to be the prevailing fashion. It is not so many years ago that the Scot was the Southron's butt. His poverty, his breechless legs, his snuff-laden nose, his clannishness and nepotism, his in sensibility to wit, his love of getting on, were all stock subjects for the English jester. But now all is changed. Mr. BRIGHT points Churchmen to Scotland for an example of what the voluntary principle can do for religion; Sir ROBERT COLLIER farleitcearl halfeceo borrows his-Bankruptcy Bill from Scotland ; Scotch banking has long been held a pattern for English bankers to imit a t e ; S co t c hmen have long been the principalgorita rulers po tntthoohniefanlraynß:dhiyaa;ysScooftchengin Europe;eersßu are uN s con structingis a IRON ; A DAM SMITH i 3 thefather of p WILLIAM HAMILTON is the chief of philosophers ; Mr. CARLYLE is the prince of historians; the author of the Scotch Reform Bill found that he had no compound householders to deal with north of the Tweed ; Scotland has alreaay solved the great question of popular education which has so long troubled, and is still troubling, England ; and the Scotch universities are the only insti tutions of the kind which answer to their name by offering instruction to the poorest student: In this last statement Mr. FROUDE is fdlly borne out by the report of the royal commissioners on endowed schools. In fact, no one who knows anything of our universities can doubt it. At an English university, says the distinguished Oxonian Rector of St. Andrew's, the furniture of a noble earl's room may cost, includ ing the pictures of opera-dancers and racehorses and such-like, £5OO. It was not always so. When the magnificent Earl of ESSEX was sent to Cambridge, in ELIZABETH'S time, his guardians provided him with a deal table covered with green baize, a truckle bed, half-a-dozen chairs, and a washhand-basin ; the cost of all was £,5. The scholar was then held in high honour, however poor. KNOX, BUCHANAN, LUTHER, TYNDAL, MILTON, KEPLER, SPINOZA, were brought up in this way. There was then an apprenticeship of instruction and a discipline of poverty. Both these two great portions of education have disappeared in England, says Mr. FROUDE, and "we have got instead what is called enlarged minds," that is "an enormous accumulation of propositions of all sorts and kinds thrust down the students' throats to be poured out again into the examiners' laps." ' It is not so in Scotland. There at least one half of education, the discipline of poverty, continues. .The student's resources may be but £2O a year, and the bag of oatmeal which he brings with him as his food for the term. It will not be the Rector's fault if the other half of education is not also retained. It was to this point that Mr. FROUDE directed the greater portion of his address. At the same time it would not be difficult to take exceptions to some of his remarks. In fact, they seem occasionally some what contradictory. He quoted the saying of N OVAL'S that " Philosophy will bake no bread, but it gives us souls," and yet he insisted at great length on the importance of making those matters, the knowledge of which will help us to get on in after life the chief subjects of our study. He told the lawyer to study French and Latin, because those two languages were necessary for him to understand the laws of Scotland ; the doctor was told to study Latin, French, and German,because they were essen tial to an acquaintance with medical science ; both lawyer and doctor were told to abjure Greek, for a reason which Mr.FnotDE might have expressed in the homely and somewhat vulgar phrase, "It doesn'tpay." Similarly the engineer was told to learn Spanish, Tur kish, Russian , because any number of Scotch C .E.s, who know those languages may get employment abroad. To the clergy, also, Mr. FROUDE had a message, and it was phrased so as to be a sarcasm upon the English clergy. It was that they should teach their people to be honest and to abjure false weights, rather than to " quarrel about the colour of eccle siastical petticoats ;" to open their eyes, and see what is going on around them, rather than to grope among books in order to find out what men did in Constantinople or Alexandria 1,500 years ago. Further, if Britain should prove too narrow for all her children, there is that greater Britain beyond seas where fresh centres of freedom and civilisation shall grow up. All this is very sound practical advice, though scarcely what one would have expected from a man of such high cul ture as Mr. FROUDE. The truth is, as we gather from the concluding, portion of his address, he thinks that culture is only for the few. Men who mean to take up literature or philosophy as the calling of their lives must be quite sure of their pur pose ; must be able to live pecuniarily independent of it ; must not look for money pay in proportion to their merits. There are, of course, the men who get so many guineas a sheet; but these Mr. FR o UDE considers men of words only ; the men of ideas must be content like MILTON to get E 5 for " Paradise Lost." We hope that the Rector of St. Andrew's University has received more than this for his " History of England from the Fall of WOLSEY to the Death of ELIZABETH." We suspect that the editor of Fraser's "many guineas a sheet." Magazine gets a good LAIEST INTELL LGENOE (REUTER'S TELEGRAXS.) AMERICA. NEW Yor.K, March 26. According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the week's receipts of cotton at United States ports have been 32,000 bales, and since the Ist of Sep tember, and taken by American spinners direct, 2,000,000 bales. Shipments to England 20,000 bales, to France 5,000 bales, and to the continent 4,000 bales ; and since the Ist of Sept. 960,000 bales. Stock 420,000 bales. Market dearer. Mid dling upland, 11 d., cost and freight per steamer. SOUTHAMPTON, March 26. ' Tt e Hamburgh and American Company's steamer Cimbria, from New York, arrived here to day, with 61 passengers and 86 sacks of mails for London and Hamburgh, and $28,954 for Paris. On the 2'2d she spoke the American ship John W. Cushing, from Amsterdam for New York, 25 days out ; 25th the American ship Alexander Marshall, bound East; 25th the Bremen steamer Hansa, Found West ; and on the 26th the British brig Suez, bound East. PORTUGAL. LISBON, March 26. The funeral of Captain Roderick Dew of KM. ship Nortbumberland took place in the Protestant Cemetery to-day. The members of the British Legation attended, together with several British, American, Portuguese, and Prussian officers. AUSTRIA. VIEXNA, March 27. Ze e i c t r u e n e g , o f sanctioning thismornitnhge puTblhiseheOsifiacniallmWpeeilerliarl decree, Fivance Law and the Estimates for 1869. BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAIL. LISBON, March 26. The Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Com pany's steamer Donati arrived here to-day. She experienced strong head winds. RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 28. The coffee sales since the 22d have been 32,800 bags. Prices unchangel Stock, 105,000 bags. Cotton, no sales. Stock, 1,100 bales; 16 millreis asked, 15 offered. Exchange on London, 181. Sovereigns, 13,500. In Six per Cent. Stock large transactions have taken place at 801- to 80i. Gold bonds, 965 to 966. Count de Eu will not command the Brazilian forces in Paraguay, but General Polydoro is re ported as the successor of the Marquis de Caxias. The Paraguayans at Assumption have petitioned the Allies to establish a Provisional Government. A second Argentine expedition has been sent to the Interior of Paraguay. Nothing positive was known of Lopez. He is said to have 18 canons and 3,000 men in the moun tains. Money was scarce. Exchange on London 18 Bank bills. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 25.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows 4i per Cont. End of month 3 per Cent End of month_ 70 50 Credit Mobilier End of month 2•30 Credit Foncior End of month — RAILWA: Bank Shares 2870 Ital , an Fives 55 90 End of month — Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt — -- Deferred — Cash Orleans ... 965 Northern ............................. ..• JIBII Lyons and Ilediterra,nean Southern.... 6184 Western Eastern • . Sardinian Austrian Lombard 4734 North of Spain Saragossa Roman 5l The' Calendar contains a notice at the head of the Epsom programme that the City and Suburban, Great Metropolitan, New Two Year Old Stakes, Walton Stakes, and Prince of Wales's Stakes, will be run over the same course as last year. LUIW (JLARENDON AND THE LONDON TESTIMONIALS TO SIR C. TV. Dl= AND MISSIONARY SOCIETY I MR. GODFREY LUSHINGTON. A deputation from the directing board of the London Missionary Society has had a satisfactory interview with the Earl of Clarendon. In spite of the repeated explanations which have been given, they found that his lordship was still under the impression that the London Missionary Society had something to do with the Inland China Mission, and was answerable for the attempted settlement in Yangchow, which produced the riot there. His lordship is now, we trust, convinced that the directorate of the-London Mis sionary Society may very safely be trusted to give instruc tions to their agents in China, and that there is no fear of the English Government being embroiled with the Chinese authorities by anything they may do. The attempt of the leaders of the Inland China Mission to plant a sort of colony in Yangchow—taking large premises for I large household of men, women, and children—was highly imprudent, just the sort of thing to excite the Jealousy of the natives ; but when the full explanations of all that subsequently happened arc given, it will be found that the missionaries did not make any appeal for the forcible interference of our consuls, and that in taking the high ground he did, Consul Medhurst was only yield ing to the peremptory insistc . .uce of the Shanghai traders. —English Inclerendcnt. A crowded meeting of the Liberal working classes was held a dayor twe back in the large room of the Lamb Hotel, Wallingford, to present their late representative, Sir C. Wentworth Dilke, Bart., with two handsome testimonials in acknowledgment of their appreciation of his worth. The one (a silver inkstand) was subscribed for by the working men themselves ; and the other, an elegant silver salver, by their wives and daughters. Mr. Job Gunstone (stone mason) having been voted to the chair, Sir Wentworth, accompanied by his youngest son (Mr. Ashton W. Mice), entered the room, and was received with loud cheering. The speeches were appropriate to the occasion, and all address was read by Mrs. ratey. In reply, Sir Wentworth Dilke said it afforded him the greatest pleasure to accept the exceedingly handsome testimonial. He had no wish, he remarked, to forget Wallingford. He saw no reason why women who were householders, and who were called upon to fill the office of churchwarden, overseer, and other parochial posts, should be denied the privilege of voting. He spoke strongly in favour of the Ballot, and said the poor wanted it to protect them from the rich, and tie .rich from the poor, and the working men from the working men themselves. Sir Wentworth also referred to the constitution of the House of Lords, and called attention to the motion given notice of by Earl Russell, for electing two-thirds of that body from its present members, and one-third from life peers. Many of the present members, he said, were lunatics, and others were minors, and many questions could not be debated there because no one understood them. For instance, there was not an engineer in the House ; while in the House of Commons there were men who were quite as capable of discussing any measures brought for ward as there were outside it. At the last general election the present sitting member for Abingdon (Colonel the Hon. C. H. Lindsay) was un successfully opposed by Mr. Godfrey Lushington, in the Liberal interest. But the working men of the borough determined that in order to shew their high opinion of Mr. Lushington's character, and their appreciation of the upright and manly way in which he had fought their battle, they would raise a testimonial, and for that purpose elected a committee from amongst themselves to collect subscriptions. When it was known by the Liberal trades men and others that the working men were raising a sub scription they gave their contributions, and the result was that a handsome silver fruit or flower stand mounted on ebony was purchased, on which the following inscription was engraved :—" Presented to Godfrey Lushington, Esq., by his friends in Abingdon, who retain a grateful remembrance of the honourable spirit with which, as the Liberal candidate in the election of 1868, he con tested the representation of the borough. Abingdon, 1869." The wives of the working men resolved to emulate the deeds of their husbands, and at once started a sub scription to present Mrs. Lushington with a testimonial of their esteem, and so ultimately, by the help of others, they were enabled to purchase a very handsome timepiece, with :figures very suitably emblematic of industry, from Mr. Sheard, High-street, Oxford, on which was engraved the following inscription :—" Presented to Mrs. Godfrey, , Lushington, as a mark of high esteem, by the wives of the independent Liberal electors of Abingdon, February 1869." The presentation recently took place in the County Hall, which was completely filled, and the whole of the proceedings were most enthusiastic. RITUALISM AT ST. GEORGE'S-IN-THE EAST. With some expressions of wonder at the " extraordi nary " proceedings, the daily papers chronicle the progress made through the parish of St. George's-in-the-East on Good Fridayby the Rev. C. F. Lowder, M.A., the incum bent of St. Peter's Church, and a noted Ritualist. The procession was announced as " the Way of the Cross.' and the parishioners were told that the minister would make a tour through his parish, the choir chanting litanies and hymns, and himself making short addresses at intervals. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the church being tolerably full, Mr. Lowder, who was habited in s plain cassock, and accompanied by Mr. Stantham, hit curate, and another clergyman, entered, and, kneeling before a large cross draped in black, which stood on the high altar, said one or two short prayers. The clergy and congregation then proceeded into the courtyard of the church, a vast mass of persons having meanwhile assembled outside the gates. Mr. Lowder having kind!: invited as many as chose to come in, delivered a shor. address on the leading characteristics of the day, and a special litany was sung. Then a procession was formed, consisting of choristers, clergy, and such others persons as were inclined to join it. Preceding it was a gentleman who held on high a gold cross, veiled ; and this was carriec before the clergy during the whole of the ceremony c the day. Having moved up Old Gravel-lane near to th iron bridge of the London Dock, Mr. Lowder and hi friends made a halt at the corner of Worcester-stree-: Addressing the people, he said they were going that da• through the painful stations of the way of the cross. O the first he had spoken in the courtyard before they started. The second station on the way of the cross Is'zst when Christ received his cross, and when he was con demned to death. On this point he delivered an impas sioned address, in which lie showed how every disciple of Christ received his cross in the world. At its close the procession reformed, the upraised veiled cross being, as before, carried in front, and the choristers and sympathisers with the movement singing the hymn " Jesus, refuge of the weary." Passing down Worcester-street, the procession again halted at a place called Greyhound court ; and here Mr. Lowder said the third station on the way of the cross was that in which Christ fell under the weight of the cross. On this he preached with great fervour, shewing how men were continually falling through sin and temptation. Then another move ment was made, the hymn, " Oh, come and mourn with me awhile," being solemnly sung. The next halt was made in Tench-street. Mr. Lowder said the fourth sta tion on the way of the cross was when Christ was met by His mother when He was coming out of Jerusalem. On this he founded an energetic appeal to mothers, of whom there were at least a hundred before him with baLies in their arms. Down Bird-street they came within half-a dozen yards of Wapping Church, a narrow street dividing the parish of Wapping and St. Peter's. Here Mr. Lowder delivered an address on the fifth station when the cross was laid upon Simon of Cyrene. Christ had fallen down under the weight of his cross, and his cruel persecutors, rather than lose the sight of his death, made a poor coun tryman bear it. The influence of the cross penetrated his heart, and on this incident Mr. Lowder founded his in struction. Then, passing down Greenbanle-street to the north of Wapping Church, the procession halted at the corner of Anchor and Hope-alley. Mr. Lowder said the fifth station of the cross (the repetition caused some con fusion in the other arrangements) was that in which the woman, coming out from the crowd, and seeing the sad face of Jesus and His exhausted state, gave him a cloth to wipe His face. It had been said that the impres sion of His face was made upon that cloth. The next halt was at the corner of King-street, where Mr. Lowder spoke of the sixth station, where Jesus fell a second time. Then, on a large open space at the end of King-street, he spoke of the eighth station of the cross, " the women of Jerusalem weeping for Christ." A little further on he spoke of the ninth station, where Christ fell a third time after having nearly reached the top of Mount Calvary. At Wapping-wall Mr. Lowder spoke of the tenth station in the way of the cross, "Jesus stripped of His garments at the place of execution ;" and further on, on the eleventh station, in which Christ was laid on the cross. The procession then moved to Calvert-street, one of the headquarters of the former riots ; and here Mr. Lowder spoke of the twelfth station, " the death of Christ after hanging for three hours on the cross ;" and the thirteenth station, " Christ taken down from die cross." This concluded the circuit of the parish, in which just three hours were occupied ; and the vast mass of people who had by this time assembled—and many of whom had followed Mr. Lowder throughout—sang with great vigour Toplady's celebrated hymn, " Rock of ages, cleft for me." The procession then moved into the court yard of the church, where Mr. Lowder spoke briefly on the fourteenth stage of the way of the cross, " Christ taken down from the grave," and then pronounced the benediction. Immediately afterwards the church was crowded, and evening service was commenced. ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY.—WhiIe the sexton of the parish church of Padstow, Cornwall, was digging in the churchyard, a day or two back, he came upon an up right piece of granite, fixed in a piece of much larger size, which seemed to form the lower part of a. very ancient piece of carved work. The footpiece was a large, flat, and irregular-sided granite stone, Bft. long and sft. wide, weing nearly three tons. Padstow Church was built more than 1,000 years ago. THE LATE EARL OF GLASGOW. —The late Lord Glasgow has left Mr. George Payne the splendid legacy of £25,000, in addition to one-half of the horses in training, &c. The remaining moiety of the horses goes to General Peel. Out of compliment to his deceased friend, Mr. Payne takes Lord Glasgow's colours for his second colour. viz., white body, crimson sleeves and cap, in which the horses bequeathed to him by his lordship will always run. The racehorses are, we hear, to be named forthwith. Among the fortunate recipients under the will may also be mentioned the Hon. James Macdonald (£8,000) and the Hon. Colonel H. Forester (f.',5,000). Cunningham, who had charge of the stud paddocks at Doncaster, has been left a legacy of £5OO and the stallion Tom Bowline ; and Aldcroft will also receive £5OO from his old master. We understand that the legacy to Aldcroft was made by codicil only two days before Lord Glasgow died.—Sporting fliffit SPIRITUAL PHOTOGRAPHY. On the outskirts of the ever-widening circle lighted up by science there is always a border-land wherein supersti tion holds sway. The arts and sciences may drive away the vulgar hobgoblin of darker days; but they bring with them new sources of illusion. The ghosts of old could only gibber ; the spirits of our day can read and write, and play on divers instruments, and quote 5-!hakespeare and Milton. It is not, therefore, altogether surprising to learn that they can take photographs also. You go to have your photograph taken, we will suppose, desiring only to see your own features depicted in the carte ; and lo! the spirits have been at work, and a photographic phantom makes its appearance beside you. It is true this phantom is of a hazy and dubious aspect, the "dull mechanic ghost" is indistinct, and may be taken for anyone. Still, it is not difficult for the eye of fancy to trace in it the lineaments of some departed friend, who, it is to be assumed, has come to be photographed along with you. The phenomena of spiritual photography were firs_ observed some years since, and a set of carte photo grapherslwere sent from America to Dr. Walker, of Edin burgh, in which photographic phantoms were very ob viously, however indistinctly, discernible. More recently an English photographer noticed a yet stranger circum stance, though he was too sensible to seek for a super natural interpretation Of it. When he took a photograph with a particular lens, there could be seen not only the usual portrait of the sitter, but at some little distance a faint " double " exactly resembling the principal image. Superstitious minds might find this result even more distressing than the phantom photographic friend. To be visited by the departed through the medium of a lens is, at least, not more unpleasing than to hold converse with spirits through an ordinary " rapping " medium. But the appearance of a " double " or " fetch," has ever been held by the learned in ghostly lore to signify approach. ing death. Fortunately, both one and the other appear ance can be very easily accounted for without calling in the aid of the supernatural. At a recent meet ing of the Photographical Society it was shewn that an image may often be so deeply impressed in the glass that the subsequent cleaning of the plate, even with strong acids, will not completely remove the picture. When the plate is used for receiving another picture, the original image makes its reappearance, and as It is too faint to be recognisable, a highly susceptible imagination may readily transform it into the image of a departed friend. The " double "is generated by the well-known property of double refraction, obtained by a lens under certain circumstances of unequal pressure, or sometimes by inequalities in the process of annealing. So vanish two ghosts which might have been more or less troublesome to those who are ready to see the supernatural in commonplace phenomena. Will the time ever come when no more such phantoms will remain to be exercised ?--Daily News. THE PRESTON STRIKE. Messrs. Williamson, who employ between 300 and 400 .:o.nds, have decided to reduce the wages of their opera- Ayes 5 per cent. Their mill was one of those at which originally no notice of any reduction was given. The operative weavers, it is understood, will accept this reduc tion. The mill of Mr. Seed, in Derby-street, has been closed, the hands refusing to accept a 10 per cent. reduc tion. At the mill of Mr. Robert Gardner, a notice of a reduction of 5 per cent. has been posted, and, as in the case above mentioned, it is expected that the hands will agree to it ; at any rate, that the weavers will not object to it. We are informed that while the guardians will refuse relief to all those operatives who have refused to accept reduced wages—their business being simply to give aid to persons destitute through circum stances beyond their own control—they will not object to keep those in departments dependent upon the hands who have struck work, and who have had no alternative but to cease work. With respect to Mr. Hermann, M.P., who received an ovation on Wednesday, on account of not having posted a notice of any reduction, it is alleged that, in the first place, his machinery works at a slower speed than that in most of the other mills, that his hands are not through each department paid up to the standard list, but that they have more comfort and enjoy more security and constant employment than the bulk of Preston operatives. At one of the largest mills in the town where a strike occurred last week fully one-half of the machinery is now in operation, hands having been obtained to work it at a reduction of 10 per cent. There is a disposition among the weavers on strike to accept a reduction of 5 per cent., which will bring them down to the standard list. The spinners remain inflexible, and entirely object to any reduction. The secretary of the Amalgamated Trades' Council has received a letter from Mr. T. Baxley, M.P., in which he suggests the adoption of a memorial by the Preston operatives to the Duke of Argyll, Indian Secretary of State, to the following effect :—" The inhabitants of the town of Preston depend chiefly upon the prosperity of the cotton trade, but for several years their industry has been unremunerative, and vast multitudes of respectable working people have been deprived of the means of labour and of subsistence. Your memorialists attribute the prevailing distress to the insufficient supply of raw cotton, and learning that the British East Indies can best produce this much-wanted raw material, venture to suggest to your Grace to give your powerful aid to cause relief to be afforded by inducing ample supplies of cotton from India. Your memorialists are well informed that by deep ploughing the soil of India, and by the aid of saline manures with irrigation, the quality and quantity of cot ton may be immensely improved and increased, whereby their industry may be revived. Praying the kindest atten tion of your G race to their wants, your memorialists will be ever grateful for the relief to their labour which they now crave." Some instructive illustrations have lately been given as to " how companies are promoted." The prospectus of a new Assurance Company was issued a short time ago, and the whole of the directors had fashionable Nest-end addresses. Upon inquiry it was found that the addresses were given correctly enough. The " promoters" undoubtedly were denizens of the West-end, and lived in grand mansions—one as a butler, three as servants in livery, and one as an office cleaner. The "managing director" is a retired valet, and the secretary" is an ex•policeman. THE RATING OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY.—A deputation from Windsor, consisting of Mr. T. Chamberlain, mayor, Mr. Darvill, town clerk, and Mr. Councillor Cleave, has had an interview with Mr. Ayrton, M.P., at the Treasury. Its object was respecting the excessive rating of the borough, arising from the demolition of house property formerly rateable, the site of which has been required for barracks and other public buildings, and from the large amount of Royal and Government property exempted from rates. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Eykyn, M.P. It was pointed out by the deputation that at Chatham and other places where there are extensive Government buildings allowances are made in lieu of rates. Mr. Ayrton promised that the important subject should receive early attention. GOOD FRIDAY BEQUESTS. —A citizen of old, ;tined Peter Symonds, by will dated 1586, left a sum of money that a sermon might be preached every Good Friday in the church of Allhallows, Lombard-street; and at the clow of the scry ice provides that a Funny and a lYteket of raisins or plums shall be given to each of sixty of the younger scholars of Christ's Hospital who shall attend such service. This custom was observed on Friday, The sermon was preached by the rector, the Rev. 0. Mackenzie. At the close of the service several other children participated in the gift, and a number of poo r persons received gifts of money and bread. In the parish of St. Bartholomew-the-Great a donor unknown left a small sum of money to be distributed over his tomb on Good Friday. That tomb is now gone, and on Friday the Rev. J. Abbiss, after performing divine service in the ancient church, came out into the footpath leading to the church, and upon a flat stone there threw down twenty :our sixpences, which were eagerly picked up by a similar number of old ladies who had been previously selected va rsg,tiy_c_thst ,Pren. --' t Ar L:II , (ffir 4 HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 26. Her Majesty, Prince Arthur, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended DiviLe service this morning in the private chapel. TIIE R.YETLIZ LIFP.',BUAT B.IZAAR. Extensive arrangements have been made to give next week in Exeter much éclat to the Grand Life boat Bazaar, and various entertainments on behalf of the Devon and Cornwall lifeboats. So,ne mouths since the Prince and Princess of \Vales took the undertaking und.rr their special Fpatronage. The bazaar has also received the patronage and support of the most influential residents of the two counties. The programme of the entertainments is as fol lows :—On Tuesday, March 30, a grand fancy fair, bazaar, and flower show, at the Royal Public R ioms, will be of cued with a public ceremony by the Mayor of Exeter ; a military band will attend ; Richard son's show, magic and legerdemain, by well-known amateurs, will also be performed. On Wednesday, March 31, fancy fair, bazaar, and flower show will be held at the Royal Public Rooms. A per formance will also be given in the evening at the Theatre Royal. On Thursday, April 1, a fancy fair and bazaar will take place at the Royal Public Rooms. In the evening a grand ball will be given at the Royal Public Rooms, under the superintendence of Lady Poltimore, Lady Agnes Courtenay, the Mayoress of Exeter, Mrs. Chiches ter, Mrs. Hartley, Mrs. T. B. Gibbs, and several other ladies. By the kind permission of the colonel commandant, the band of the Royal Marines will attend at the ball. On Friday morning, April 2, a fancy fair and bazaar will be held, also a grand morn ing concert is to be given at the Royal Public Rooms, under the direction of Mr. Ashe; and amongst the artistes are, Madame Lemmens-Sherrington, Miss M eenan, Mr. Nelson Varley, and the celebrated Hun garian basso profondo Herr Angyalfi, solo mustel organ, Mr. Leinmens. In order that all classes may have an opportunity of enjoying this great musical treat, a second concert is to be given in the evening at reduced prices, and the week's entertainments will conclude with a special bespeak to be given in the evening at the Theatre Royal. Every one con nected with these amusing Easter entertainments on behalf of a great and philanthropic cause, has been unceasingly engaged in assisting to perfect them and to make them a complete success. Foremost amongst these workers are Messrs. I'. B. Gibbs and C. H. Edmonds, the zealous and able honorary secretaries. It may be mentioned that the Na tional Lifeboat Institution has 22 lifeboats on the coast of Devon and Cornwall, on which it has el pended about £ll,OOO. These 22 boats also in volve au expenditure of at least £l,lOO a year to maintain them in a state of efficiency. Hardly a storm occurs that some of these lifeboats do not perform noble services in saving shipwrecked crews• CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY, March 26. We are once more engaged in a conflict of rumours. ji• multitude of statements has caused considerable aig• quiet, not to say panic, on the 'Bourse, and w a are troubled with all the vague apprehension% which worked so much mischief last year,. To begin , t home, serious dissensions amongst the Emperor's Minis' ters are said to have broken out. M. Rouher is aux Prises with both M. Forgade de la Roquette and M. Megn!' The disagreement between these is so serious that it 15 doubtful how long they will be able to continue at the same board. To make [matters worse, the Emperor'e health has given more cause for anxiety during t h e last two or three days. Such are the leading rumours which have brought Rentes down. They are:composed, as-usual, of a very small proportion 'of truth and a very larg e admixture of fiction. No doubt the Em p eror Ministers are not unanimous on every question ; wha t Ministry ever was ? But, if my information be correct, 15 is not the question of war or peace, as the news. mongers affirm, which is the subject of dispute at present. The far weightier question of internal policy' and especially the pressing subject of the general election► are now the topics of deliberation and the causes of eo i ci e little dispute. The Ministers differ as to the a mount g' ll the kind of interference which ought to be exercised at election, but it seems that this discrepancy has been much exaggerated. There are at present no signs o f M. Rorther withdrawal or replacement. As to the i llness of the Emperor, it may be sufficient to say that the report absolutely incorrect. A still bildering maze of hints, °suggestions, and reports more come ew from abroad. The Bel i s , we are told, will not make any concession In they Will t commission to sit, b not hinsg; detrimental to allow the i he interests or the honour of Belgium shall b e tolerated. Then the Etendard comes out with 0, een. spicuous statement, to the effect that a great n umbe r el ei Prussian troops are being concentrated along the raillc from Breslaw to Bemberg ; why, it is impossible to div ine ; Next, the Temps is a little alarmed at the peeding of the Prussian Government with regard to the works Luxemburg. An officer has been sent over to control the demolition of the fortifications, and this gel ) bi b ir o g given rise to a very lively debate in the Luxer e , 4 " - , e - Chamber. The Temps considers the sending of this ° 11 ;.: a menacing act, " reflecting the disquiet which is felt -,-, Berlin through the uncertainty of the general situ! ton.a Lastly, there is the " alliance" between Austria a'" Italy, the purport of which is, we are now infevraedi to leave a clear field to Prussia nd France in the ev eet . °- a war between these two ; all whic h conglonerAt° of perplexities I give for what it is worth. Individoall/2 these rumours are not, perhaps,math much, but th ew work a deal of mischief here.by These political vagaries are supplementsd la The other collection of very substantial horrors. day, during mass at Notre-Dame, Annecy (Savoy), an vidual, pursued by a furious madman wi th a kn ife in ta ke refog: hand, rushed into the church and tried to behind the high altar, but before the fugitive cot reach a place of safety, he stumbled and fell, all 13 : a pu f rsuer stabbed him. The victim was dead : I t Marseilles. moments. A maid-servant has killed her inasterhig The man was in the habit a beatiog a wife, and the servant very laudably endeavoured to defen d yon ci m d is u t e res m s. its ?ne day, however, this defence w eet be her a death. Smaller t e e r n s d o e d f aspe ct t i r n ag t it e al mbeing t t :o bb n e : inate.- rous to mention. The Patrie gives a very gloomy account of th e BroPreciet Charlotte's health. She is con fined to her bed ; besides the mental affection, which has increased 111; tensity, a slow fever saps her strength. Her eye is fi 7 re` h and lustreless, and her conversation unconnected. She often s peaks of Mexico, and the old apprehension of bein is t g poisoned has returned. The Queen of the Belgians only person from whom she will receive her food. .I'. Memorial Diplomatique, on the other hand, contradic t this alarming account. It is happy to state that the Prii cess is as well as could be expecte d after the s evere t rig she has undergone. The most melancholy bulletins of the disasters ca by the late storm continue to arrive. Many English yes,hg eels have been lost. The steamer Cygne, Of C ae n, ba g - tb tl e just arrived at Havre with the captain and 16 men °' " :0 English ship Janet Mitchell, of Glasgow. The Wtt. informs the English Consul that, having lost all his 1.1 7 0 and not being able to bear up ag ainst the gale, he rao the vessel ashore at Savenelle , in ordero save that her lives of the crew. Later accounts state he that 13 to stern is now buried in twelve feet of sand, and is fast breaking up. The steamer Grand-Empereur disabledw be seen about twenty miles off the coast with the ne three-masted ship Zanzibar in tow, and the tug Nep tu ne had gone out to fetch the French brig Itaoul-et-All.n; on shore near Deauville. The coast from llerrnanvl.ll6,,e Cou .s( lines is strewed with wreck forming part or r e ., Norwegian barque Peters. Nine bodies have been vveve ashore ; one of them has the name Thomas A. 133 00 tatooed on the arm. A child is supposed to have been 0n board the vessel, as among the objects found on the are a copybook containing grammar exercis Mures..- wegian language and two rude coloured p. '-ii 2 P er body of a woman holding two children embraced in to arms has also been found near Ouistreliarn. e wrecked fishing-vessels , they are not to be number ed. .-1-" gale has been one of the most severe of late years. ---------- 22nd ERRATUM. —In our Law and Police of the 0- - inst., it was stated that at the York Assizes, two per s°l/16 named Whorlow and Gringer, were convicted for obtain. ing money on false pretences. This was inaccurate, 5? far as Gringer was concerned, the judge stating _!.l a inst him there was no case. While regretting our 004 statement, we congratulate 11x, Cirbagex OA w e Yl''4 IVIOIUG - X 0 / COMN The trai have been • limited ati absent. '1 of the fc not to an reference. market, M opening. Monday, a do busines kbarcs the last, and .94 Consols count, 93 New Tl.:.re £l,OOO, Bank of F India S ditto 5 pc Cent., Oct Cent., Jar 10 pm. 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