The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-17 00:00:00

BROKERS. Messrs. Seymour and Elwyn 38. Throgmorton-etreet, London. ABRIDGED STATEMENT. ADVANTAGES OF THE DEBENTURES. Mortgage taken in the joint names of Trustees on behalf of the Deben:',lre-holders. Each E 1 Debenture: - Will be secured upon Freehold Land, by mortgage or hypothe cation. Will be redeemable at .£ll per bond (thus giving a bonus of 2) per nat.), by annual drawings, after the third year. Will have coupons for interest, payable half-yearly, at the rate 1):: 7 per cent. per annum attached, and— Will be accompanied by a warrant certificate, entitling the h ader (in addition to the above bonus) to a distributive share in h tlf of the surplus profit ar:sing from the ultimate realisation of the entire property comprised in the mortgage. Applications for fully paid-up Debentures will be entitled to priority of allotment. If no allotment be made the whole of the deposit will be re turned without deduction. If the whole amount applied for be not allotted the excess of deposit will be applied to the future payments due upon such number as may be allotted, but interest at the rate of 7 per coat, per annum will be allowed and paid as above thereon. An opinion Of the soundness of this security, and of the value of the distributive share of surplus profit offered to the Deben ture-holders, may be formed from reports annexed to the printed particulars, and the consideration that Trouville is one of the choicest marine resorts in France. where the noblesse spend their rammer. It lies on the coast of Normandy, opposite to Havre, directly south of the Isle of Wight, and possesses one of the largest and most comfortable hotels in France, •public rooms, gardens, walks, slopes green to the water's edge, and sands superior to those of Scarborough or Ramsgate. From London Trouville may he reached via Dover and Calais, or Folkestone and Boulogne, or via -outhampton and Havre. Pram Paris it is only five hours and a half distant by railway. Plans of the properties and reports of architects and sur veyors may be obtained at the Offices, or will be forwarded by post... . . . . - - Full printed particulars of the Loan and forms of subscription mv be obtained of the Bankers, Brokers, and at the Offices of the Association, namely:—?F, Old Broad-street, E.C.; 6, Whitehall. Westminster, London; and Paris, 51, Rue de Car dinal Fesch. L ONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH-COAST RAILWAY. IMPORTANT REDUCTION OF RATES FOR RETURN AND SEASON TICKET& On and after the Ist of APRIL next, the following REDUCED FARES will be charged between London and Brighton:- Ist Class Express Return 2d „ I/ Ist „ Ordinary Return l4s. Od. 2d „ I) 8d „ ~ 6s. 6d. SEASON TICKETS. Ist Class 2nd Class. One week .... 210 0 Two weeks Ono month Two months Threo months l3 0 0 Six months Twelva months Return Tkkets available for two days, and from Friday or Saturday to Monday. Corresponding Reductions in the Fares to and from Lewes, Worthing, Eastbourne, Ste. Five Third Class Trains between London and Brighton daily. . By Order. London-bridge Terminus, March 9, 1869. C qtICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LTFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 13, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, LONDON, S.W. CHAIRMAN. Right Hon. John Robert Mowbray, M.P. DEPUTY-CHAIRMEN. William Bowman, Esq., F.E.S. Sir Charles Locock, Bart, D.C.L., Extracts from the Report of the Directors, presente.l at the Antual General Meeting held on the 27th November, 1868 : 1. The sum of <£412,345 was proposed for Assurance, of - which £307,395 was completed at Premiums pro ducisg £i0,067 per Annum. 2. The amount paid under Claims by death was .£100,8?3, being the smallest since 1860, whilst the expenses of nia..--,...m0nt and all other outgoings were even less than for many years - past 8. On the other hand, the Income was raised to .£219,70, notwithAanding that its increase was retarded by abatements of p emium which did not take Effect in the previous year, and by the cessation of interest on the large sum paid as B onus i n 1867. 2. in. Surplus income was very considerable. It amounted to £93,132, a sum exceeding by more than .£B,OOO any previous Surplus during the forty-four years of the Society's existence. b. The Accumulated Fund was thereby increased to £1,598,906. The following aro among the distinctive features of the Society : CREDIT SYSTEM.—On any Policy for the w' ole of life, where the age does not exceed 60, one-half of the Annual Premiums during the past five years may remain on cred;t. _ ENDOWMENT ASSURANCES may bo effected, 'without Profits, by which the Sum Assured becomes pay able on the attainment of a specified age, or at death, Whichever event shall first happen. INVALID LIVES may be assured at rates proportioned to the increased risk. PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.—Claims paid thirty days after pro ,f of death. Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained of any of the Society's Agents, or of GEORGE CUTULIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. 13, St. James's-square, London. S.W. THEATRE R O YAL, D RURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chattprton. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. t THIS EVENING, at 7, THE GIRLS OF THE PERIOD; a 31ttsical Folly. Followed by, at 7.45, OTHELLO. Mr. Phelps, Mr. Dillon, Miss Heath, and Miss Fanny Huddart. To conclude with a Grand Ballet of Action entitled Hi DA. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Blackstone. Mr. George Tnrpin's Annual Benefit. THIS EVENING, RAISING TH E WI •D : Messrs. Ken dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton, &c. After which, HOME• Messrs. So thern, Chrupendale, Comp ton. A stley, &c,; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Bill, kc. With (by desire) BOX AND COX: essrs. Buckstone and Compton. lip Concluding with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Box-office cp 2n daily. TROUVILLE SUR MER (NORMANDY) LOAN of £400,000, SECURED by MORTGAGE D KBEN TURE'; of the TROUVILLE ASSOCIATION (Limited). — Issue of 90,000 Mortgage Debentures to Bearer of £lO each. Annual interest 7 per cent., payable half-yearly, in London and .Paris. _ _ _ These Debentures will be redeemable by annual drawings to begin after the third year at .£l2, thus giving a bonus of 20 per cent. Applications for Debentures, accompanied by a deposit of £ per Debenture. will he received in London by Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and CO., Bankers, St. James's-street, London; Messrs. Itobarts, Lubbock, and Co., Bankers, Lombard-street, London. And in Paris, at the offices of the Association, 51, Rue de Cardi- Zal Fesch. The affairs of the Association are under the direction of The Right Hon. Viscount Bury, M.P., Director of the London and South-Western Railway, 65, Prince's-gate, London, Presi dent. The Hon. 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L. Toole, Lionel Brough . H. Irving, S. Emery, Miss Hodson. &c. Concluding with THE BIRTH PLACE OF PODGERS: Mr. Toole. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tim EVFNING, BLOW FOR BLOW • Messrs. Cowper, Ne Yille, Parselie, and George Honey; Mesdames Lydia Foote, tc. After which, LUCRETIA BORGIA, M.D.: 3nol-Fanny Josephs, and George Honey. To conclude with AUNT CHARLOTTE'S MAI Mesdames Larkin, Weathersby. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, VOLBORN. THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud f5O Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. Tnis EVENING, at 7, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. H. Wigan, H.Ne-ffle, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and Smithson : MesdamAa Furtado, Schavey, N. Harris, and St. Henry. After which, THE YELLOW PASSPORT. Messrs Neville, IT. Neville, Atkins, Taylor, Taughan, G. Vincent, &c.; Miss Fur ado and Mrs Caulfield. ROYALTY THEATRE. Tinder the Management of Miss M. Oliver. This EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Ur. Dewar, &c. To Conclude with FAMILY JARS. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton • Tltis EvEtuNG ' SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne , Addison, Glover, and Bancro ft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss 0. 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 Extravairmza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET , Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at S. ls. Box-of:get open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. )1- t j ,03 ONDO.N, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1869. If only for the good humour of the thing, we , ought to have the Ballot. It seems, somehow, to have an inexhaustible power of exhilaration. Its ap parition, annually, before the House of Commons, is very much like the appearance of a first-rate low comedian before the footlights. The House no sooner becomes conscious of the "presence," than there is —incontinently--a burst of laughter. No matter what the garb assumed for the occasion by the old (which you 'ipleasc,) the la ug h joker, or the old joke comes readily enough, in recognition of it or of him. There is no disguising it. Hitherto there has, for a considerable number of years past, been no possibility of mistaking the droll identity—coming before us as it has done in no "questionable shape," but with evidence in the very manner of its coming that responsive shouts of laughter were really looked for. And it has been, thus, simply because the member for Bristol has appeared, year by year, as its advocate, with an aspect of jocularity so unmistakeable that it has been, as one may say, quite LISTONIAN. He has come before u sessionally heretofore as a sort of Pc PAUL PRY, with a " [lope I don', intrude so manifest in his very manner that one has almost seemed to hear the familiar words an I actualiy to see, upon the veteran comedian, tho hessian boots, and the baggy nankeen breeches, and the verdant cut-away coat, and the hat with curly brims turned up with green, and the big umbrella—the umbrela being bi , annual motion on the Ballot. Just now, however, the matter would seem to be past a joke—now, when Cabinet Ministers are becoming converts to secret voting, when the Home Secretary openly avows his conversion to it, and when he and his colleagues evidence their readiness to commit the THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1869. was "passed on." Happily, in spite of this, we have, for once, no oc casion to feel disappointed by the result, or rather by the upshot, of the discussion provoked yesterday in the House of Commons by a motion in itself, of COUrbc, csirnrly ...Aailug whatever to the purpose. We are satisfied, especially with the drift taken by the discus sion, as a whole, because all points more and more clearly to the conclusion that—at length—after all these years of delay—the Ballot is at last coming. Its approach was more than hinted at in the very Speech from the Throne on the opening of Parlia ment. The admission that it is very probably close at hand was, as one may say, accentuated rather pointedly in the course of a recent address to the House (of a recent confession to the House, it might almost be called) delivered manfully enough by the right hon. gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department. But it was especially and peculiarly satisfactory, this otherwise frivolously introduced discussion of last evening,because of the part taken in it successively by the Right llonourable gentleman the member for Tamworth—Sir HENRY BULIVER—arid by his friend the Firct Minister of the Crown. Himself one of the most consistent Liberals in the House, Sir HENRY BULIVE R, on this particular question of the Ballot, is one of the most staunch and devoted of its advocates. As the Prime Minister said of him last evening,, he is not merely a friend, but a veteran friend of Secret Voting. As such he spoke yes- terday, briefly, but very pointedly and effectively. Effectually, we should, perhaps, rather have said, seeing that it was in obedience to his earnest suggestion, backed by a similar and equally earnest recommendation from the lips of the Prime Minister, that the motion, the really futile and purposeless motion, of the member for Huciders field, was eventually withdrawn. So far, at any rate, it should beadded, thatmotion has!not been.f utile—see- lig that it has in a manner rendered audible again `or the first time, for we know not how many years a voice always welcomed during the earlier Parliatnen ;ary career of Sir HENRY BULWER in the House o Commons, before the legislator gave place to the diplomatist—and seeing that it has also elicited from the Prime Minister in the very act of wav- ing it tibia , . (idle motion as it wai intrin sic klly) the distinct assertion, uttered with cunsi derable emphasis last evening, that Mr. LEATHAm, the hon. ge.itleman bringing forward this motion "has the strongest assurance any man can have that the thing he desires will unquestionably be done"— namely, that this matter of the Ballot, or otherwise of Secret Voting, will be examined in all its phases, in all its details, from every imaginable point of view, by the Select Committee. TIIE politicians who would nationalise our universi ties made a great step, in advance on Monday night. For the first time they obtained the assent of the whole House of Commons to the principle that the universities are the property of the nation, not of the Established Church. In fact, it is difficult to under stand how the matter could have been in doubt for so long. Everyone who knows anything of history is aware that the universities are nearly as old as the nation, and have undergone the same changes with respect to faith as the nation has. It is equally well known that most of the colleges were founded before the Reformation ; and that, nevertheless, at the Reforma tion these foundations were transferred from the Roman to the Reformed faith. At that time the Church and the nation were co-extensive, and it was therefore inevitable, as well as desirable, that the religious teaching should be that of the Esta blished Church. The two institutions have long ceased to be identical, and there is, therefore, no reason why the dignities and emolu ments of the universities should be reserved for Churchmen. Nevertheless, Churchmen have long claimed an inalienable and sole right to them. Little by little they have been driven from their position. First they had to admit non-Churchmen as students; but they would not allow them, even though they carried off the highest honours, to take their degree. Then they were admitted to the lower dignity of Bachelor, but were forbidden to become Masters. Cambridge, the more Liberal of the two universities, removed that restriction, but, while admitting dis senters to the honours, kept them out of the emolu ments of the university. Religious scruples had yielded so far as to allow youthful Churchmen to be exposed to the heresy of Nonconformist under graduates, nay, even of Nonconformist tutors, for the Dissenters who had obtained the senior wran glership' set up as private " coaches." But when it came to dividing the revenues with Dissen ters, orthodoxy was inexorable. Heretics may learn and teach, but they must not get any portion of the money. The whole private teaching of the univer ,thb t not e re so l a u t f i a o r thin h w m a g s soiftymmmalyey shpassajoluptaosfs.Chourfchcohuarandes not expressed in this naked form. This selfishness was so decently disguised that even those who were most influenced by it did not suspect its existence. They put forward other arguments altogether. The teaching of the university—meaning by that term so much of the teaching as is given by the professors and the college tutors—would, they affirmed, become untrustworthy. Infidelity would creep in ; fn fact, it had already crept in, for it was notorious that certain fellows and professors were infected by Positivism. How could any one be so cruel as to expose youths of immature minds to the seductions of English Comtists? It would be almost sufficient answer to this ques tion that, according to the questioner's own chewing, they had not, with all their restrictions, succeeded in keeping out the dreaded enemy. According to their own statement infidelity has already obtained a foothold in the universities. This fact alone shews the worthlessness of tests. But after all an ounce of fact is worth a ton of theory; and we turn from all these lugubrious prophecies to a simple history. Dr. Lvov PLAYFAIR, in an admirable maiden speech, explained what had been done in the Scotch universities. Scotland is always one or two decades before England in educational matters, and some sixteen years ago a bill was brought in to abolish all tests at the northern universities. That fine old Tory, Sir ROBERT INGLIS, objected that this course would weaken the bonds which bound the I the question, as to the advisability:or not of its adop tion, to the deliberate but immediate consideration of a Select Committee. Still more does the probability seem imminent that at last the important question of the . Eallot will be introduced to the consideration of the House of Commons with something like befitting seriousness, when it comes to be known that the member for Bristol is precluded by physical infirmi ties from renewing the yearly exhibition of his capa cities as an interpreter of Broad Comedy. Not a bit of it ! Nothing further from the thoughts of his suddenly appointed delegate or representative ! The member for Huddersfield, in lieu of the member for Bristol, brings forward a motion— not the motion, observe, but a motion—in regard to the Ballot only last evening: and there is, after all, very much the same kind of facetiousness. There is simply a change of voice and of stature. The mot , ley is still there, but it is worn, this once, by parti cular desire (whose, except his own, we can't for the life of us conjecture), by Mr. EDWARD LEATHA3I instead of by Mr. HENRY BERKELEY. There is no ngisapprehending any intended drollery on the part of Mr. LEATHAM, by the way, under any, the most ordinary, circumstacces. His metier is jocu larity. llis epigrammatic sentences are like so many digs in the ribs to his audience. It was thug, there fore, almost as a matter of course, last evening. Mr. BERKELEY was silent for one session, but the joke university to Christianity ; and Mr. NEiVDEGATE declared that the bill was simply one for filling the professors' chairs with Roman Catholics and infidels. Nevertheless the bill passed, and one of the minor consequences was that several of the chairs were filled by Dissenters, that is, by Episcopalians from Oxford and Cambridge, who are, of course, Dissenters north of the Tweed. The major result was far more important; for whereas previous to the Act of 18,53 the Scotch universities were losing their hold on the affections of the people, Free Churchmen, numbering one half of the Scotch people, were erecting rival institutions directly the Act was passed ; the old universities became once more identified with the people and frequented by all religious parties. In England, the old system of exclusion has prevailed, and the working of the two systems is clearly set forth in a very few figures. In Scotland, where the universities are in sympathy with the nation, there is one student for every 900 of the population ; in England there is only one for every 4,400, a lower proportion than is to be found in any European country except Russia. And yet the wealth and the prestige of the English universities are infinitely greater than those of the Scotch. A single year's revenues of Oxford would buy up the whole capital of the University of Edin burgh and all the salaries of its professors at 20 years' purchase ; and yet Oxford has only 200 more students than Edinburgh. Mal CORRESPONDENCE F 1 02 , 1 PARIS, [FROM our. OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY, March 16, The Belgian affair still preserves its miserably disquiet ing existence. The two Governments are settling, settling, but the settlement is not yet consummated. The " authorities " are all on the side of peace, but there are one or two disquieting rumours flying about to-day. The most serious is that England is likely to wash her hands of the business. The intervention of the British Government has not met with a very cordial reception at the Tuileries, and the Gladstone Cabinet will therefore retire, leaving the disputants to settle their own quarrel. Even if, as is not unlikely, the Commission should not be able to agree upon a decision, England will not consent to act as arbiter. It seems to me hardly probable that England, having once decided to interfere, will withdraw from the question so readily, but I give the rumour for what it is worth. The elections will take place during the fortnight follow. ing the 15th of May. The candidates aro increasing rather than diminishing in number. In few places are there less than than two or three ; in many five or six are to be found. In declining an offer just made to him to stand for the department of the Vaucluse, M. Louis Jourdan, of the Slide, observed : " Suffer me to think that it may be good for our country to possess Frenchmen, who are neither deputies nor candidates for seats." There was some justification for this remark; but this great multiplication of political candidates is not by any means an unhealthy sign, for it must proceed in great measure from an awakened interest in public affairs. Men of ability formerly did not care to be elected to the Corps Ltislatif. There were some exceptions, but most Frenchmen of mark came to the conclusion that it WOO both a waste of time and a humilia tion to sit in a Chamber which was virtually the creation of the Government, and to take part in debates which ended in nothing but talk. But a change has come over public opinion. There is now some hope that parlia mentary government may be a reality ; and there is a - very general belief that united action on the part of a powerful Liberal party might soon make it a reality. Hence this preparation. All parties are active—the Government in particular. The list of official candidates is complete, and the efforts made to counteract the growing influence of the Liberal party are mere vigorous than ever. The Democratic Com mittee of Paris is also ready, and its list contains several representatives of the most important journals. M. Emile 011ivier is now preparing, I am told, a reply to the severe criticisms which have been passed upon his book. This will be a sort of electoral manifesto—.. a supplement to the " Apologia rro Vita Mea," which has already been published. The prospects of the Legitimist party are not of the most favourable kind. There is a division in the camp, and the Legitimists are split into two sections, the Abstentionists and the Party of Action. - What sort of action the latter section meditates I am not able to clearly comprehend, nor can the hopes of the leaders themselves be very strong. The Legitimists may have their chance, but it will not be during the life of the Emperor. Amongst the chief candidates who formerly received official aid, but who will now stand on an independent footing, is M. Haentjens. The Prince Imperial is 14 years of age to-day. Paris will be reminded of the fact by an illumination at the theatres and public places. The little relics left by Rossini have been sold off at the Hotel des Ventes. They were of little interest, and did not attract a great attendance. A gentleman who had on the first day purchased a watch, believing it to be gold, brought it back on the second, declaring it to be brass. On the other hand, an object in the more valuable metal was sold as being of the baser; the eagerness with which an amateur bid leading to the discovery of the error. A similar mistake occurred with respect to a pistol of the Louis XV. period, the mount. ing of which, announced as copper, was in gold. The sum realised was small, and one may, perhaps, be disposed to question the taste of disposing of the souvenirs of the great musician in this way. The fortune that he left will not be largely increased by this sale. We have just read about the Vivian scandal in the London papers. The pair are living at the Hotel Wesl minster, but the Paris journals do not seem to have heard of the affair, or, at least, do not notice it. Perhaps the large stock of home scandal now on hand keeps this remarkable occurrence out of sight. Otherwise, we should speedily have been favoured with a column of fiction interspersed with half-a-dozen lines of fact, accord- ing to the wont of the French papers. It is worthy of note that out of thirty papers which are published in Madrid, just one-half are now in favour of the Montpensier candidature, five still hold out for the Iberian union, six are for a Republic, two for Don Oaths and two for Isabella. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE OF THE EARL OF BANTRY'S DAUGHTERS. The other day three ladies, the daughters of the Earl of Bantry, had a singularly narrow escape from fearful in jury, if not from death. They had driven out on a side car, from Macroom Castle, the vehicle being drawn by a young and spirited horse, driven by the family coach man. When crossing the bridge t.o the east of the town, near Mr. Ifarding's mill, the horse became restive and, swerving violently, attempted to leap the parapet. This he would inevitably have done and borne his burthens with him but fur the skill and firmness with which the coachman held him in. As it was, he half accomplished his (fleet, and lay balanced on the parapet, his fore h g.; dangling over the river. In this position the horse remained until some persons, who had witnessed the occur! epee hem the mill, hastened to the spot, and Ly cutting the traces, released the animal from the car and his dangerous position at once. The ladies were, of course, very much terrified. Had the horse cleared the parapet of the bridge the vehicle and its oc cupants would in all probability have followed, and the height from the bed of the river (very shallow at that part) being considerable, the fall would, almost to a certainty, have involved destruction to all or some of the party. ACOIEIE:VT TO THE . LORD CHIRP JUSTICE. The Lord Chief Justice of England has, we regret to announce, met with an accident, though it is hoped not a very serious one. It appears from inquiries that were made that his lordship was riding from the Hayward's Heath Station, on Monday afternoon, accompanied by his marshal, across the Downs to Lewes, and as they were crossing Lewes racecourse, across a portion of which chains are fixed to keep off trespassers from the course, the horse the Chief Justice was riding stumbled at the chain and threw him. He was unable to remount, but did not consider that he was much injured, and he was able to walk to the judge's lodgings at Lewes, where a medical man was sent for, who expressed an opinion that the learned judge bad received more injury than he imagined, and he advised him at all events not to leave the house for a day or two. The commission was consequently opened by Baron Bramwell; and business was proceeded with yesterday morning, Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., presiding in the Crown Court, and Baron Bramwell on the Civil side. There are twenty-four prisoners for trial in the Crown Court, and ten causes are entered on the Civil side, six of which are marked to be tried by special juries. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 16. The Queen, accompanied by Princes Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon. 1 To-day being the anniver sar y of the d ea th o f th e lamented Duchess of Kent, her Majesty and the Royal Family paid a visit to the Duchess's mauso eum at Frogmore. LATEST INTELLIGENCE ( RE U"'E R'S TELEGRAMS.) AMEEICA. WAsimsffroN, March IG. A resolution authorising the President to re cognise the independence of Cuba has been intro duced by the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Navy Department has ordered heavy rein forcements to be sent to the United States squadron in the West Indies. WEST COAST OF AFRICAN MAILS. LIVERPOOL, March 17. The West Coast of African mail steamer Ethiope, arrived here this morning. Her dates ,are Bonny, Benin and Brass, Jan. 28 ; Lagos, Feb. 1 ; Accra, 3 ; Cape Coast Castle, 4 ; Sierra Leone, 15th ; Madeira, March 1. Her news from the different stations on the coast is entirely devoid of interest. The Ethiope experienced strong head winds from Madeira. FRANCE. PARIS, March 16. The Contitutionnel of this morning states that the French and Belgian Governments are agreed as to a solution of the pending controversy, which shall be satisfactory to the interests of all concerned. A terrible explosion took place last night at the chemical works of M. Pelletier, at the Place de la Sorbonne. Seven pereons were killed. BoußsE, March 16.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :- 4j per Cent. ...... 100 75 Bank Shares 2870 End of month._ Fives 56 10 3 per Uent End of month 7O 80 Mexican Loan Credit Mobilier End of month 2BO Spanish Threes 33 Credit Foncier 1482 50 Home Debt — End of month... Deferred Cash Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 615 Western Eastern • • Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman RAILWAYS. POLICE INTELLIGEACE-77as Day. WESTMINSTER. INGRATITUDE.—Ann Conner, a respectable-looking woman, was charged with stealing 25., the monies of Mr. S. S. Danwiks, cowkeeper, Fulham -road. This morning the prisoner went into the shop of the pro-ecutor, and, in the absence of the shopwoman, stole a 2s. piece. She was followed, and admitted the theft, giving the money up. The prosecutor, it appeared had been at different times very kind to the prisoner, giving her pecu niary relief. Mr. Mansfield, after reprimanding the prisoner for her ungrateful conduct, sentenced her to one month's hard labour. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. was charged b e f ore Mr. Tyrwhitt TI'S ALL OWING TO THE BOAT RACE.—Anne Stan- Regent -street. tnheLso‘ovalercer of the C division, more, a young woman, with Nv i a n n d n e b o y a n i n k g , g a eu p t l a l e i m n e c ti l o i said that about one o'clock in the morning ho saw the prisoner annoying gentlemen. She was drcssed in light blue, and was shouting at the top of her voice, "Cam bridge for ever," and was far from being sober. Mr. Sayer, from the office of Mr. Edward Lewis, Great Marlborough-street, who appeared for the prisoner, said that he was instructed that she was a Cambridge woman, and her enthusiasm on behalf of her county had led her into the difficulty she was in. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined her 20s. The prisoner said it was all owing to the boat race. THAMES. THIEVES ON BOARD SHlP.—Robert Neale, aged 41 years, a ship-keeper, and John Georgeson„ a seaman, were brought before Mr. Benson charged with stealing 16 yards of canvas and some new twine, the property of the owners of the ship William Allen, lying off the patent ship Limehouse. A police constable named Robert Newstead, 41 K, met the prisoners, each carrying a bag. That in the possession of Neale contained a few rags of no value, the one Geor geson was carrying contained 16 yards of new canvas and a ball of new twine. Georgeson said that Neale gave him the canvas and twine to carry, which Neale admitted to be true, and said he was going to take the rags up to a ma rine storeshop and sell them to obtain a drop of beer. Captain James Wallace, the master of the ship William Allen, said there were 20 yards of canvas, not 16 as stated by the police-constable, in the bag carried by Georgson, and it was worth 14d. per yard. He valued the twine at ls. 6d. The ship's keeper, Neale, had no right whatever to take away anything out of the ship. Neale pleaded guilty, and the magistrate, after remark ing that the offence was really a very serious one, and that the facility offered by a marine-store shop, as it was falsely called, was no doubt the cause of the theft, sen tenced Neale to bur months' imprisonment and hard labour. George said he was guilty of carrying the bag contain ing the canvas and twice for Neale. Mr. Benson said that was not a plea of guilty of steal ing, and the prisoner had a perfect right to refuse to plead it if he thought proper. He committed Georgeson for trial. SIR HENRY BuLwEn's SPEECH LAST EVENING— in the house of Commms," on Mr. Leathatn's motion about the Ballot--is thus described by the Parliamentary summarist of the Daily Telegraph, who says that —" Acting on the special stimulus given by the noble lord [meaning Lord Claude Hamilton] twenty members started up, from whom at once the house selected Sir Bulwer, who, speak ing with a clear, but not powerful voice, with a certain crispness of elocution, as a friend of the ballot, pointed out that he wai placed in a difficulty by the motion which involved an instruction to the committee, and preferred a direct resolution in favour of vote by ballot ; and on this suggestion went on to deliver an argument, of great lucidity and power, on the side of that mode of voting, which was none the less effective because the speech was brief." MONSTER CRIMINALS. A young girl, named Ronchart, has been accused of mur dering both her sisters by means of arsenic. It ap pears that she is further suspected of having killed her father in the same way. The body of M. Rent:hart has been exhumed and sent for examination to MM. Kupper, Schla ger, and Franck. A custom-house officer who was inti- mate with the girl, was arrested for assisting in this series of crimes, but it turned out that it was the girl who accused him, and that she did so for the purpose or being able to see him. The parties are natives of Trognee, in Belgium. A man named Bract, a native of Bruges, has been brutally murdered by three Italians, named Bovo, aged 32; Lapitina, 19; and Lapiti, 19. There were circumstances of a most revoltine character connected with the murder. AN EARTHQUAKE IN ENGLAND. Earthquakes have during the last year or two been unusually frequent and violent in tropical regions, but it is something very new to hear of them within the limits of the United Kingdom, yet the inhabitants of East Lan cashire and West Yorkshire have been frightened from their propriety by a positive vibration of the earth. A. resident in Teneriffe-street, Manchester, felt a sensible shock, which shook his windows and upheaved his house. In the suburbs and in the lower level of the city the same convulsion was felt, and in the Rochdale-road the furniture was shaken and the bells rang. At Blackburn great alarm was felt at the shock and the rumbling sound. At Burnley and Middleton a great deal of crockery was broken, while on the railway lines between Rochdale and Shawforth the waggons ran suddenly against each other. In all these places the inhabitants were naturally much terrified, and ran into the streets by hundreds. At Raven stall the sensation experienced was compared to a shock from a powerful electric battery. No actual damage appears to have been done beyond the fall of a chimney at Newchurch, and a crack in the wall of the Ilastingden railway station ; but the novelty of the occurence makes it remarkable. Accounts differ as to the precise time, br' it seems to have taken place about six o'clock. The correspondent of the Inverness Advertiser at Fort William writes as follows :—" About eight p.m. on Tues day Lochaber was visited by a severe shock of earthquake. There is scarcely a man to be met with here who has not felt it, and each gives a different description of its effects. A gentleman who was at Strone, a distance of seven miles from here, states that the noise he heard was as loud A. the report of a cannon, and that the whole earth shook violently around him. Another gentleman, who was at Munessie, about twenty miles in the opposite direction, says the house in which he was at the time was like to fall down upon - them. Your correspondent himself happened to be standing by the sea at the time, and the unpleasant sensation he expe rienced can hardly be described. The sea, which was perfectly calm, suddenly appeared in such a commotion as if hosts of small fish were sporting on the surface, and the shore vibrated so perceptibly that we thought our feet were touched by what is known as `pins and needles.' Then came a heavy rumbling noise, not smart enough for thunder, but whether from above or beneath me it was scarcely possible to tell. This lasted about forty seconds, but, short as the time was, a pleasant feeling of relief was experienced when it was over." Michael Crowley, the poor man who was so fright fully burned With paraffin oil thrown upon him by his wife, at Liverpool, continued on Monday in a most agonhing con dition. He was not expected to live tho night out. The woman was taken before the magistrates on Monday, and re manded. THE ASSASSINATION OF LORD LEITRIM'S BAILIFF. —The latest reports from Donegal state that Murphy was fired at in mistake for another bailiff, who had been serving ejectment notices on the tenantry of a portion of Lord Leitrim's estate. It seems that Murphy and the intended victim were riding on one horse, and Murphy being the hindmost received the shot intended fur his companion. Three shots were heard, and three men have been arrested on suspicion and remanded for inquiry. THE AUSTRIANEURASSY.-- The Austrian Ambas sador and Countess Apponyi received at dinner yesterday, at the Austrian Embassy in Belgravo -square, the Princess Mary Adelaide and the Prince of Teck, the Earl of Claren don, the Swedish Minister,the Saxon Minister, the Nether lands Minister, the Belgian Minister, Viscount and Vie countess Sydney, Lady Herbert, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel, Sir Alexander and Lady Mellott, Count lialnoky, Count Wolkenstein, and M. de Plener. PENSIONS TO MINISIERS. Yesterday morning. the text of a bill was published having for its object the amendment of the law which enables her Majesty to grant pensions to persons who have held, under the Crown, certain high civil offices, hence forth to be designated "political offices," and which are usually held by members of the House of Lords or the House of Commons. For the purposes of this measure such offices are to be divided into three classes, the first containing the office of First Lord of the Admiralty, and all other political offices remunerated with a yearly salary of not less than £a,000; the second those for which the salary is less than £5,000, and not less than £2,000; and the third, those for which the salary isnot less than .£2,000 and more than £l,OOO. In the first class the pension, which is not to exceed.£2,ooo a year, will be paid in respect of a service of not less than four years or its equivalent in an office of the first class. The second class pension is not to exceed £1,200 and the third, £BOO a year, the term qualifying the recipients in both cases being not less than five years' service. The mode of calculating the term of service is prescribed as follows :—Two years' service in any office of the third class shall count as one year's service in an office of the second cla'ss, and two years in the second shall count as one year in the first ; but no person shall be entitled to a first class pension who has not actually served two years in the first class, nor to a second class pension unless he has actually served three years in that class. The service may be continuous or at different times and in different offices of these classes, but no pension under the Act shall be granted in any class while four pensions of that class are subsisting. It is also provided that no person receiving a pension under this Act shall be entitled to hold any superannuation allow ance granted under any other Act, or any compensation or allowance in respect of offices abolished or regulated under any public Act of Parliament. The bill is endorsed by Mr. Dodson, Mr. Gladstone, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. RELICS OF MAI?Y QUEEN OF SCOTS.. An interesting bequest to the Queen was despatched on Saturday from Wishaw House to Windsor Castle, which he r Majesty, from her acknowledged love for Scotland and everything Scottish, will, no doubt, highly prize. It would appear from a letter written and left by the late Lord Belhaven, that the relics, of which the bequest is composed, were placed at the disposal of the Queen, and her Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify her acceptance of them. Belie No. 1 consists of a cabinet made of ebony, richly ornamented in front with designs in tortoiseshell, height sft. 2in., width 4ft. 2in., depth lft. 9in. The front opens with folding doors. In the centre also are two small folding doors, which, on being opened, reveal a small recess, with tesselated pavement and roof with side mirrors. The inner folding-doors are also surrounded with drawers. The Scottish Queen brought this cabinet with her from France on her return to Scot land to begin her eventful career. This souvenir of the ill-fated Mary must therefore be some 300 years old, but it is in. wonderfully good preservation. Queen Mary presented it to the Earl of Mar. The Earl afterwards made a gift of it to a favourite granddaughter, who mar ried one of the ancestors of the late Lord Belhaven, and the cabinet has continued in the possession of the Bel haven family ever since. Relic No. 2 is a purse (the work of Queen Mary's own hands), beautifully wrought with a crown, sceptre, and sword, in gold, with the words " God save King James." Relic No. 3 is a piece of unleavened bread, to which no authentic his tory is attached, but is traditionally tnderstood to have been a fragment of what Queen Mary had used when participating in the most solemn rite of her religion. There is also a lock of Mary's hair, which is of a light colour. The original letter addressed by the late Lord Belhaven, placing these interesting souvenirs at the dis posal of the Queen, was locked up in one of the drawers of the Cabinet. Her Majesty commissioned Mr. Matheson, of the Board of Works, to superintend the packing of the precious relics, which were duly forwarded to Windsor Castle, per Caledonian Railway, on Saturday night. North British 111 ail. The death of a veteran journalist is announced. Mr. Henry Cooke the founder of the Oxford Chronicle, died at his residence in Oxford on Sunday morning, after a short illness. He started this paper more than thirty years ago, and was over 70 when be died. .. We regret to hear that Miss Carpenter—the suc cess of whose educatiotal work at Bombay we recently an nounced—has been very dangerou.sly ill. An attack of inflammation of the lungs has caused serious alarm to her physician. The last telegram received in London states that she is " much better." The Dublin Funian Amnesty Committee have published an answer to Cardinal Cullen's letter refusing per mission for. a collection in tho churches for the benefit of the released political prisoners. They say that the literation .of the Fenians was treated by them as an object of national interest, and the collection as a work of mercy and charity. They do not wish to commit themselves, or any one else, to any political opinion ; an.l they still feel confident that "by whatever machinery the subsception may te carried out, the Irish people will respond to the appeal." LORD DERBY -IN AMERICA.—A correspondent having asked in Notes and Queries of March 6 whether Lord Derby was not the only English Premier who had ever visited America, and given a very erroneous account of his voyage, Lord Derby replied to the inquiry in the last number of Notes and Queries by the following letter:— " I can hardly suppose that the details of my voyage to America in 1824 can have much public interest ; but as your correspondent T.' has given an account of it, to which he invites cirrection,' lam ready to gratify him, on what, I suppose, he will admit to be good authority. The only fact for which there is any foundation is that I did sail for America in company with the present Speaker of the House of Commons ; my other companions being the late Lord Wharnclitie and the present Lord Taunton, then Mr. Labouchere. He says that I was in Hali fax, N.S., some 44 years ago. I never was there in my life. That I ' sailed from England in the Falmouth packet, a brig of 250 tons, commanded by a lieutenant, with 8 quaker guns and 35 men.' My friends and 1 embarked at Liverrool for New York on board the Canada, a ship of 600 tons, belonging to the well-known Black Dail line of packets. admirably furnished in every respect, and which left on our minds no recollection of `homely fare or rough travelling.' It is added that I ' visited Nova Scotia with the present Speaker of the House of Commons ;' and that the two distinguished gentlemen sailed from Halifax, for the second time risking their lives in the old Falmouth Dragon.' When, at the close of our tour, my three companions wanton to Halifax, I quitted them at New York, and returned by-the same line of packets by which I had gone out, without the least apprehension of loss of life. lam aware that these details are wholly unimportant ; but as an entirely incorrect statement has appeared in N. and Q., pa will perhaps think it worth while to set your correspondent right as to It fatten of fact.-.:-Dzau.". LIBERATION SOCIETY. Yesterday morning the annual parliamentary break' fast of the Liberation Society took place at the Cannon' street Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. C. REED, a r t . Among thoie p resen t were A . Illi ngwort h , M.P., 11' Richard, M.P., Alderman Gourlay, M.P., J. Candlisb, M.P., McCarthy Downing, M.P., Sir John Gr a l' M.P., E. Miall, M.P., C. Reed, M.P., D. M`Laren, 'AL F " Robert Macfie, M.P., S. Courtauld, the Hon. Aubera Herbert, J. Crum-Ewing, M.P., Mr. Shaw, MX, Si' George Young, Hon. George Brodrick, Rev. Nevi lo2l) Hall, Rev. Mr. Rogers, Mr. Wm. Sha,W, Mr. Cha ri r ei Miall, Rev. Dr. B roc k, R ev . T. Bi nney, an d Mr. I" Colman (Norwich). The CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting in highly CO IF gratulatory terms, and expressed his belief that the 1C° 11• conformist bodies would give their hearty support to g r. Gladstone's policy on the Irish Church. Mn H. Richard, M.P., Mr. Duncan M‘Laren, Mr. Crum-Ewing, 141. P., and Sir John Gray, spoke especially on the question of the Irish Church. The University Tests Bill was opened by Sir GENI C YOUNG (Trinity College, Cambridge), in a lucid and sti le speech, fully explaining the disabilities under which N° ll ' conformists now labour, and the extent to which theY would be removed by Sir John Coleridge's bill. 11 :: necessity of a still more Radical measure was wai l urged by the Hon. G eorge B ro d r i c k an d t h e H on. A u ber°- Herbert. Mr. CANDLISH, M.P., in the absence of Mr. Hadfield, M.P., addressed himself to the Burials Bill. The Rev. P. W. CLAYDEN, in the absence of Michael, M.P., congratulated the meeting on the 01. Bowed Schools Bill, which was characterised by the It: Mr. Rogers and the Hon. G. Brodrick as a very ink dent measure in its not throwing open the head was te ' . ships of the schools to Nonconformists. The proceedings terminated by a vote of thanks to th ° chairman, moved by Mr. Illingworth, IVI.P. THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS 01 WALES. It seems from Dr. Russell's letters to the Times that Oa progress of the Prince and the Princess of Wales up t he Nile is, on the wh o l e , ra th er slow. " The process ion o', steamers winding in and out of the channel, and ribandwise along the bends in the river, led by the elegae: Farad Rabanie, and the royal barge with the roY° standard and the Prince's own flying, while the sun flashes at every turn from the white sides and g ilt mouldings of the ships, and is reflected back tr °ll3 the mirrors and burnished garniture of the salo ilij through the open ports, would surprise by its novelty, though it would not reward the most patient to g° oo watching it day after day. One cannot, says the doctor, sketch, or write, or read, or lounge for ever. One date palm is like another, each water-wheel is very much the same as its neighbour, and th e s h a d oo f s vary o nly t e number of lifts and of the men who work them, and the men—well, unless we go very close they are a l " uncommonly similar in hue and dress or want Of though their rich brown is now and then d iver ,: sified by the intense blackness of the Nubi an epidermis. No wonder, then, if in the interval between tubbing in th e. Nil e wa t er an d th e wa lk on d ee r there is a longing f or b rea kf as t , an d t h at w h en th a t isul e d the hour of lunch becomes of increasing importance, en that towards the close of the day dinner time gra ll r.„ ll 9 asserts its claims, and the halt at sundown, which ah ° every one to go on shore'—i.e.,tbe next field on the had' . is looked for with pleasure, the crowning joy of the d' ir r ; if it be not a bull to say so—being the soft, cool VIII when the stars twi n kl e an d th e moon s hi nes a l o ft, and al a are invited to the hospit a bl e sa l oon o f th e ro yal Yin, where a generous w e l come awa it s th em, an d a dorb 3r o held till it is time t o wa lk th e p l an k , an d see k eac h one - 0 , ship by the blazing torchlights, and sink to sleep, l ir° , I lested, be it noted, o f mosqu it o or n i g h t l y d epre dator lo the most part of us." One day, the 22nd of F e b ruar y, seems , h oweve r, to hn ce been a " jolly" one f or all parties. It is thus described "A day of small misadventure and of fatigue and toil fo l the Prince and P r i ncess . I t was arranged t h a t her 1 1 °Y. Highness should proceed in a boat as far as the foot o f the First Cataract, a b ou t th ree m il es a b ove A ssoua n, w here donkeys wer e t o b e i n wa i t i ng, i n charge of A bd- e l-Xnu e., ' the Viceroy's aide-de-camp. The Nile above Assouan bieaks into several streams, and meanders through ° e l s barren islands of sand s t one an d gran it e . The Prin ce s took a wrong bran c h o f th e r i ver , and ca-te to a bank of l oose , d eep san d d r ifted on ~•0 a bed of c ragg y, g li s t en i ng roc k s . Th e P r i nc e, after ol visit to Lady Duff Gordon, went to another point belol the Cataract, but where were the Princess and her partyi; Abd-el-Kader, who had post e d f ar - see i n g Arabs on th e rocks, was in despair at the news that the Princess boat was ascending another channel. He dashed rOOO with his corps of donkey-boys to meet the Princess at c place to which the boat appeared to be bound, sen din 4 ' the camels by a l ong d e t our , as they could not mak e ' v.. ; by the rocky bank s o f th e river, but when the n ss i : ‘ , arrived the Princ ess was no t v i s ibl e. By some accident two very wretched donkeys were espied the spot where the Princess landed. They had ne it :i saddle nor bridle, but on the back of each was a without girths, and on these animals the Princess of W 3 '; and the Hon. Mrs. G re y h a d t o p o i se theinsei re : and to plod unde r a b urn i ng sun t ow ards rb' i x , The Princess laugh e d a t h er nove l s it ua tion and p peared to enjoy her newly-found property of balan ° , l. o herself on a pad witho u t an y g i r th s t o k ee p it in its P l . e d 3 with intense lightheart e d ness . I n an h o ur or so tu d came up with the Prince and Sir S. Baker, who ba oili g small experience of the pleasures of the day', in '',cl waited for their donkeys for an hour and a bale,' and the whole party now provided with animals enjoye° the wonderful performance of th e A ra b s w h o s wim do wn the boiling current of th e Fi rst C ataract for t h e b e nefit 0 tourist in the h o p e of backsheesh.' It has been often described, but it must be seen by those who want to . 1 °; an idea of sava ge man — w h y s h ould I call bin' 63v :f e re though ?—as he battl es w ith a moun t a i n torrent ~ c es civilisation has washed the energy of his native t° the out of him ! A native Arab is never drowne d top whirling, boili ng rus h o f waters. Severa l English we were told, had tried it, and all had perishe d :, o a spectators stand on rocks at th e en d of the fa" , distance lends decency to the blacks fellows, Na . lel en t from a ledge high up one aft er th e o th er , a nd in a n i° ' - 0 01 are seen bobbing like the b uo y s o f a fi s h er man's netw'birl. then, with arms raised al o ft a lt erna t e ly, a re borne tst og ing through the whiti s h f oam t o th e f ee t o f the ePe c , ac ir. sh an ee d scram h ble u il p in the their waistandcloths Princess to fight fo were to . s.' W h e tinning their ride over parched desert eat t he wards the green pat c h o f t rees w hich In ar 7 l ty, site of Philin from a f ar , th e res t of the f ; 0100 e1 consisting of Lord Stafford, Lo r d A. L. Gower , gr. Stanton, Major Alison, the Hon. O. Montagu e ! air et Sumner, Sir H. Pelly, and my se lf, w h o h a d ridden ri u ryi a from Assouan—a route seven miles l o ng over an :loE : t beef' country, in a sun which would almost have c ooked T he r e , steak—arrived at the littl e v ill age b e l ow theislan- A • cr ag under the foot, but not the shade, of two c astle-lik e ar t. of rock, we found pit c h e d a l arge tent i n three e 01:13 4 3 0 ments, handsomely carpe t e d , a d i nner t e nt caPn u r t he receiving forty guests, and a couple o f tents f ° o t he accommodation of the servants. Close at hand we tr r aris . vessels to which the royal party were to b e s eeo ferred, and long strings of camels were to be furn i• coming over the Desert with the stores and ~a rac t. ture and baggage for the voyage to the Second egL eo te The orders bad been given to send on some refr een ;its to the island on which stands the Temple, lovely is red ruin, and thither, heated, sanded, and thirsty' , r e P a fro in the weary riders of stirrupless donkeys all the w a y ilex Assouan. It does not sound m uc h, but the se vell , ev er were, under the peculiar circumst a nces, the longestDitais.da travelled. A rude bark ferried us over, and ou r _web were naked little boys who floated on logs of wood, they propelled by foot o r h an d w ith gre at ease, b r To the wood on which they lay in happy security 00 of the blazing heat we w an d ere d a b ou t o ver the rultrote , the town of a f ew cen t ur i es o ld , an d the 1 9 7 5 5 i0 d, slabs and colum ns o f th e temp l es o f th e Sacred , s eed The royal party came not, and hour after hour P o i ce d away amid the increasing uneasiness of the an d v we re 4uard, and, just as they had taken boat again 0 f joY returning to the opposite bank, the loud shrill crsonkeyo, of the Nubian women was heard, and a group " 'lv les de among whom the Prince and the Princess of T, ale d e • Mrs. Grey soon became discernible in the rays 0 f t he landing -place the fseigrrhyt.,bmoaattnagrothugeihr sysiaoypet,olarruou,....:oo7 field of pulse. The visit of the royal party to the,irt.°'' was limited, of course by the want of claylio THE LADIES OF THE PERIOD.—At a Paris fa; concert it is written up, "Ladies aro requested 0" smoke in this room." • . vor king Mr. Dykes, secretary to the Glasgow S' Ye:,'s Conservative Association, his received a letter fr"-ds, g I,o)d Statley, int:matieg his wil;ingnoss. to receive 011 p g (Bess front the Conservative crking men of Glasgow.cluri his vi: it to that city next mout! , . , r 9, 1, 3" A PE EP INTO 1 4. UT URITY. —There is in the yard attached to Maudlin-street Chapel, Kilken n Y' 3lle itg stone, erected since October 186:8, bearingof inscription :—" Erected in memory of Patrick row er ' h 's Maudlin-street, who died in 1819, aged 73 years. g a Y, - 1, 1 0 soul rest in peace. Amen." This stone is erected bY said Patrick Power, who is still living in Illaudlin-streel and confidently asserts that ho is to die in the 1 13 ° D i tli ,4 ° T June next, or thereabouts. Meanwhile Pat rgulf": visits the graveyard, says his prayers at the headstoill ecc. ; but beyond this he seems eery little riled l'l)°° concerned ,;1 the near , p )r , " • ,ao ,accordin; to his own account) el dissolution.—DuVin,rx,prem. the follo vi flu Fore the a price! can rate : 2 to Co count New £1,0( and . per C Inc ditto Cent. Cent. prem. In! a rise and I Hond Danu Argo' of 18 951 ; Ban 31 to 8 Count' Orient, 37-} a follows per Cei to ; J structic Ther terday. The brough have a for Ent The Friday, shares Govern A cir Gas Co forming been sy cipal for his are engt, account The c antiOtllll of 34 p e respond The this wet Mane Mr. Jon Farnwoi ing from Horsfall W. and it is belil The r be preset line fron is expect sent yea The (Limitec issued. secured 1 each. 7 table, ar chase al at Trou larly the the sow the disti beuture- reports, of the di nobility ville ma Folkesto distant b be paid r Uov 11 Per Oen -Dittolo 8 Oen ljew 3 pe MOW 2} pl Do. b p AtUillitiOS Do. for Do (Re( 41 xchoqum Do Du. Bank of E Do. 1;.col Canada 4 luter-Colc INDIA India StOC Do. Ope Do. 5 poi Do. 4 pe Do. Cerl Do. Enf Do. 5 pe Do. si Da 5 pe Do. DJ. Deb Do, Bon, 1)4). wad, Argentine Do., Scr Au -Arian Brazilian f, Do. 4i p Do. Do. Do. ( Do. 5 p e Aceo bib Loofas Ay Do 2 per Cuba, 6 pe , o..alian 6 Do. 3 p s i I 0 . 6 '- Do. 7 ep u lo Danish, 31] Dan,bian Do 8 per .nquador .12, ,;yptian, n o Seco Do. £5O( Do. .£lOO Do. Do. D O . £5Ol, bo. 4111 C English Do Goverm ST. 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