The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-14 00:00:00

E!vilGß. CTS, The official documents in reference to the prospects of the dockyard artisans and others who emigrate to Canada shew that there is not that large demand for mechanics which ought to exist before an indiscriminate deportation of unemployed takes place. The Governor-General of Canada has distinctly warned the home Government against raising " undue expectations " with regard to the facilities which can be afforded to emigrants. A grant of land is of no use of all to a man who cannot sell it and has no means of bringing it under cultivation. The artisan cannot lay down his tool and turn himself at once into a successful farmer. In New Brunswick land may, indeed, be had almost for nothing ; fifty acres may be had for ten days' labour on the roads. The agricultural poor, with sons able to work, would find this an advantageous opening. But to the town-bred artisan fifty acres of land would too often prove a " white elephant." He would be very much puzzled to get his living off them. The Government of the province of Toronto have sent a special commission over to England for the purpose of giving working men all the information they need. THE MAY MEETLYGS. EXTRAORDL.VAPY CA SE OF CHILD STEAL LIG. At the Manchester City Sessions on Wednesday, before Mr. 11. W. West, Q.C.,M.P., recorder, Margaret Smith, 40, pleaded guilty toan indictment charging her with having, at Liverpool, in December 1860, feloniously and unlaw fully enticed away one Mary Ann Welsh, a child of the age of two years. It appeared that the child at the time she was stolen away, in December 1860, was two years and nine months old. The prosecutrix kept a stand in St. John's Market, Liverpool, and one Saturday night, in December 1860, as she was leaving the market, in com pany with her child, she was accosted by the pri soner, who asked her for some bread. The prosecutrix took her into a vault and treated her to bread and cheese, and beer. The child at this time was outside waiting for her mother. The prisoner, while the prosecutrix was en gaged in conversation with a friend, took the child away. Information was given to the Liverpool police. The pro secutrix had spent seven years in search ; and after visiting every town and village in the three kingdoms, recently obtained information respecting the child. She then came to Manchester, and found the child, and also the prisoner, who was given into custody. The child was brought into court, and, in reply to the Recorder, stated that while she was living with the prisoner she spent her time in begging and stealing. The learned Recorder, in passing sentence, said he thought this one of the worst cases he ever heard. It was an offence which he hoped was not a likely one to be imitated by many persons, as it was a very cruel and wicked one. The prisoner was sentenced to penal servitude for seven years. LAW AND POLICE. FRAUDULENT DEED.—The International Contract Cor poration have succeeded in getting a fraudulent deed set aside. They sued a chemist, of Southampton-street, Strand, in the Exchequer Court, for £370, due on calls made by the official liquidators of the company. The defendant pleaded a composition deed. That deed the plaintiff said was fraudulent. It appeared that on the making of the calls in 1868, the defendant offered to pay the liquidators, first a sum of £2OO, then £250, and lastly £3OO, in lieu of all de mands, threatening that if the last offer was rejected he would execute a composition deed under which they would only receive 2s. in the pound. The liquidators refused to accept unless they were first allowed an oppor tunity of examining the defendant's books. Thereupon the defendant executed the deed. Amongst the assenting creditors were his mother for £3OO ; his brother for £95 ; a Mr. Knight Salter, between whom and himself there bad been mutual financial arrangements, £240, principally for money lent ; and a Mr. Phillips, on behalf of a benefit society, for over £4OO. Mrs. Dart was stated to be too ill to come to court to support the validity of her claim against her son; and Mr. Phillips, although called on his subpcena, was not forthcoming. The jury, after hearing this, immediately found for the plaintiffs. LIBEL—An Isle of Wight contractor has succeeded in obtaining damages of £2O against the proprietors of the Isle of Wight Chronicle. The defendants had called some public works of the plaintiff, made in the construction of a sewer, " perfectly disgraceful," said the plaintiff had been cruilty of a " shameful act," and had " perpetrated a job." ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT AGAIN.—A collector in a limited liability coal company has been charged at the Clerkenwell Police Court with embezzlement. There was no doubt that moneys received for the coal company had not been accounted for; but as the defendant, who held 28 shares in the concern, was remunerated solely by com mission, the magistrate held that he was an agent rather than a servant, and that the case was one for a civil tribunal to deal with. ANOTHER EMBEZZLEMENT CASE.-012 Thursday, at the Brighton Police-court, Alfred Treble, late cashier at the Brighton branch of the Hampshire Banking Company, was brought up on remand, charged with embezzling the sum of £lOO, paid into that bank to the credit of Mr. Mannington, of Middle-street, Brighton. On Wed nesday last prisoner was committed for trial on a charge of embezzling the sum of £147 ls. 11d., and this case was remanded in 'consequence of the absence of Mr. Mannington. It appeared that on the 26th of August last, Mr. Mannington, who keeps an account with the bank, deposited with the prisoner a bank post bill for MO, to be credited to his account. The prisonerreceipted Mr. Mannington's pass-book, but entered the amount in the bank cash-book in such a manner as to make it appear he bad merely cashed the bill. Of course the amount was not entered to Mr. Mannington's account, and when the books were compared the discrepancy was discovered. After carefully investigating the case, the bench com mitted the prisoner for trial, deciding that both charges should be included in the same indictment. RIDICULOUS CASE. At the Limerick City Police itourt, the other day, a man named Hilton was charged by a grocer named Synan with stealing a lucifer match. From the evidence it appeared that Hilton took a match from a box on the counter to light his pipe with, a pro ceeding to which the grocer objected. The magistrates dismissed the case, after severely cautioning Hilton. The grocer bad to pay a shilling for the summons, Hilton observing that that shilling would have bought, if advan tageously laid out in the'way of trade, twenty-four boxes of lucifers. SALE OF BEER IN THE STREETS. —The proprietor of a brewery, and the possessor of a retail license to sell beer, was on Thursday charged at Bow-street Police -court with having caused the sale of beer, other than in a licensed house. It appeared that defendant had sent out a potman with a cask of beer to sell to any customer who came to ask for it. The defendant was fined £5. The cash-box of another large company in - Paris has been robbed. A young man, relative of One of the direc torp, has disappeared, h avirg a deficit t,f .£1`2,000, a SUM NS bleb has mostly been expended on behalf of an aertev. Lord Adelbert Cecil, who i►as been conducting revival services in Ottawa, the legislative capital of Canada, is stated by the Guardian tc., have received an autograph letter from her Majesty requesting hiin to return to England. All the gutta peiclia core of the new French Atlantic cable has been completed. The total length of the line manufactured is 3,350 miles, of which 2,700 miles have been shipped on board the vessels appointed to take part in the expedition, which is expected to start in June. THE REPRESENTATION OF STAFFORD.—It 1$ stated that Air. Whitworth, late ALP. for Drogheda, and Kr. Evans, late member for South Derbyshire, are likely to be the Liberal candidates for the seats just vacated for this borough - - THE CHURCH REFORM SOCIETY. The Church Reform Society held its meeting this year at Willis's Rooms, under the chairmanship of Lord Ebury. Its object is fourfold :—The amendment of the Book of Common. Prayer, under proper authority; the reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts ; the reform of abuses connected with patronage; the modification of theActsof Uniformity, and the complete revision of the Book of Canons. In addressing the meeting, Lord Ebury said that he regretted that no alteration had been effected in the service for the Burial of the Dead, which caused such great scandal. The objects which had been gained by the trial of Ritualism might be traced (though not directly) to the operation of the society, and here, again, was great encouragement to continue persevering against apparently insurmountable difficulties. His lordship urged the members to go on in the new association hopefully and judiciously, and they might be assured of success; and concluded by calling upon the secretary, wbo read the report and balance•sheet for the past year, which shows the receipts to be £379 2s. 6d., and the expenditure £378 2s. lOd., thus leaving a balance of 19s. Bd. The meeting was afterwards addressed by the Rev. C. Glyn, Messrs. T. Chambers, C. Busbton, and other gentlemen, and an illuminated address was presented at the close to the chairman. NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY. At the annual general meeting of the friends of this society Admiral Sir W. Bowes presided. The report stated that the issue of the Scriptures during the past year had been 11,821 bibles and 4,177 testaments. 10,241 bibles and 1,660 testaments were free grants. The total cost of these grants was £626 16s. 4d. It was proposed to reduce the admission to membership to 108., and it was hoped that the ranks of the society would be recruited by a number of young officers of both services. THE D.TIPISIOS ON THE P.E.1t 7 e.75731TE BILL. As already announced in our Parliamentary report, the second reading of the Permissive Bill was rejected on Wednesday afternoon by a majority of 106, the numbers being : For the second reading, 87 ; against, 193. The following is a list of the members who recorded their votes in favour of the bill : Archdall, Captain BL Downing, M'Cartby Mundella, A. J. Backhouse, E. Finis, W. O'Neill, Hon. E. Baines, E. Fletcher, I. Palmer, J. IL Beach, W. W. B. . Gavin, Major Pollard-Urquhart, W. Beaumont. H, F. Gourley, E. T. Potter, T. B. Birley, H. t Grieve. J. J. Price, W. P. Blake, J. A. Hadfield, G. ' Reed, C. Bourne, Colonel Hamilton, Lord C. Rebow, J. G. Brewer, Dr. Hamilton, Marquis of Richard, H. Bright, Jacob Harmer, Sir J. Richards, E. M. Brown, A. H. Hoskyne ' C. Wren- Robertson, D. Burrell, Sir P. Hu g h es , W. B, Rylands, P. Callan, P. Johnston, A. Sartoris, E. J. Candlish, J. Johnston. W. Scott, Sir W. Carter, Mr, Alderman Kinnaircl, Hon. A. F. Smith, J. B. Cavendish, Lord G. Kirk, W. Stanley, Hon. W. 0. Chadwick, D. Knox, Hon. Col. S. Talbot, C. R. M. Chambers, M. Lewis, J. D. Tite, W. Chambers, T. M'Arthur W. Tollemache, J. Chohneley, Captain M'Clure, T. Tomline, G. Cholmeley, Sir M. M'Laren, D. Tracy, Hon. Banbury- Cowen, J. Magniac, C. Trevelyan, G. 0. Crichton, Viscount Meyrick, T. Vivian, H. H. Dalrymple, D. Miall, E. Wedderbuin, Sir 11, Dalway, M. R. Miller, J. Whitwell. J. Davie, Sir H. R. F. Milton, Viscount Whitworth T. Davies, R. Moore, C. Willyams, E. W. B. Dawson, R P. Morgan, G. 0. Winn, R. Dickinson, S. S. Morley, S. Young, A. W. The pairs in favour of the bill were—Sir James Stronge, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Mr. Macfie, and Sir Gibson- Maitland. The tellers for the Ayes were Sir Wilfrid Lawson (Carlisle), and Mr. T. Bazley (Manchester) ; and for the Noes, Colonel Jervis (Harwich), and Mr. Staveley Hill (Coventry). THREATENING NOTICES POSTED IN IRELAND. A threatening notice found posted in two places in the town of Bells, county Meath, has caused some agita tion in the neighbourhood. It is of an unusually elaborate kind, and possibly not "genuine." It runs : " Notice— Important to landlords and oppressors. You are hereby requested totake notice that each county in Ireland repre sented itself at a congress lately convened, where it-was decreed by 63 Ayes, in a house of 85, that Irishmen are bound by this act of congress to prevent any furtheroppres sion inflicted on them by you. Since we cannot find protec tion by constitutional means we must only have recourse to the revolver to protect ourselves. Had we taken such a course twenty years ago, we were not exiled to-day. Let it be clearly understood that for the future we will not suffer to be evicted or trampled on in any way while one ounce of lead is sufficient for any tyrant. Guarded landlords will not deter us from this course. We trust there will be no further cause given in this country by evictions, land jobbing, or other wise, as we would regret to have to take the defensive.— By order." SHOCKIAG COLLIERY FATALITr. On Thursday morning a colliery accident occurred at the No. 1 Worthington Pit of the Norley Coal Company, near Wigan, where for some time past sinking operations have been in progress to reach the cannel coal. This should lie at a distance of 560 yards from the surface, but the workmen have now descended 600 yards, and the seam has not yet been found. The work, however, has been progressing vigorously ; two parties of labourers, known as the day and night shifts, being employed, and until Thursday morning they had proceeded most satis factorily. The day shift men, seven or eight in number, descended the shaft at six o'clock, and a little before eight all preparations were made for the firing of a shot. The bulk of the party were drawn to the surface, and three others, named Richard Hanson, William Ince, and Nathaniel Mather, were left below to superintend the ignition of the fuse. The hoppett or bucket was being lowered to bring these also above ground, when suddenly the crank of the engine snapped in two, and the rope thus released frr•m all control rushed down the shaft with amazing velocity, and then parting from the drum fell into the pit. Preparations were at once made for ascer taining the extent of the damage below, but a long time passed before they could be completed. Two of the men had been recovered alive. One of them had been covered by the first coil of rope which fell, and was so saved ; the other crawled into the bucket. AMERICAN LEGISLATORS. The Stock Exchange (says the Pall Mall Gazette) may take comfort from reading the New York Herald of the 28th ult., in which they will see that America has internal dissensions which appear to occupy at present much of her attention. A great part of that journal is taken np, not with the Alabama claims, but with the details of what is called the " Sprague Excitement," arising from a scene in the Senate House at Washington, and a very interesting and instructive narrative it is. Senator Sprague, who is familiarly called " Little Rbody," made use of the expression " puppy dog," which Senator Abbott took to himself, and, accordir.g to the New York Herald, threatened in private life to " wallup little Rhody from the Capitol to George Town Height." It is not, there fore to be wondered at that, when Senator Abbott came to the Senate House with these bloodthirsty intentions, Senator Sprague took an early opportunity of leaving it ; this made Senator Abbott more angry than ever, and he expressed his intention of having satisfaction outside the Senate. And here we must express our deep regret that Senator Nye thought fit to add fuel to the fire by shouting out, " Spank little Spraguey ; spank him and send him to bed." The New York _Herald states that this incident led to a great sensation in Washington ; some had it that Senator Abbott had cow hided Senator Sprague ; others that be had pulled his nose, boxed his ears, and otherwise heaped indignities upon him. On the other hand, Sprague's admirers cir culated stories precisely the reverse, gi vino all the prowess to "little Rhody," and annihilating Abbott, "the rotund and muscular, as did David the gigantic Goliath." It is therefore with intense relief that at the end of four closely - printed columns devoted to minute details of the affair, we read the followiog:—"The Abbott- Sprague Imbroglio adjusted—No Faces slapped—Nobody spanked -- No bloodshed Wounded Honour readily healed." It appears that Senators Sumner, Sherman, and Pool, after negotiations which occupied nearly four hours, adjusted the difference ; Senator Sprague explained that the term " puppy dog" was not intended for Senator Abbott, who accepted the apology, and it is comforting to read that at 11.30 p.m., April 26, " Abbott is jolly, ditto Sprague." Mr. O'Sullivan, ex Mayor of Cork, is lying ill in Loudon from " over anxiety and mental excitement." Some property in Westmeath was put up for sale iu the Landed Estates Court, Dublin, on Tuesday, but the biddings were so low that the sale was adjourned. The landlord's solicitor attributed this weakness of the land market to "the depression caused by the late agrarian outrages." A RIGHT REV, PRIVY COUNCILLOR.—At a Court held by her Majesty at Windsor on Thursday the Bishop of London attended, and, in accordance with the practice observed towards the holders of the metropolitan see, his lordship was sworn as a member of the Privy Council. ANOTHER COTTON MILL BURNT DOWN.—At two o'clock on Thursday morning a destructive fire broke out in the cotton mill belonging to Messrs. Little and Smitb, at Belmont, near Bolton. There was, unfortunately, no fire-engine in the village, and none arrived until four hours after the fire had been discovered. By this time the flames had entirely destroyed the building, causing damage to the extent of £20,000. MORTALITY FROM SMALL-PDX IN GLASGOW.— In 1787, when Glasgow contained about 50,000 inhabitants, and when the aggregate mortality reached 1,759 persons, small-pox carried off not fewer than 484, being nearly_one out of every three and a half deaths, whereas now the tieaths from small-pox have fallen, during 1808, to six, and in the other seven chief cities and towns of Scotland com bined they only amounted to five ; thus, in an aggregate town population of above 800,000, the deaths from small• pox did not exceed eleven—all infancy.—Britide lllcdical Journal. LONDON WORKS AND IMPROVEMENTS.—At a meeting of the Court of Common Council of the City of London, - on Thursday, reports were received from two Committees relative to the progress of Riad:friars Bridge and the Holborn Viaduct. With respect to the former. it was stated that although a considerable amount of work yet remained to be done, there was every reason to believo that the structure would be opened towards the end of July. The committee asked for bowery to make arrange ments for a public ceremony on the orcaior, and these were grant?..l. The totntnittee :sealer µbase superin tendeLee the Holborn 'Viaduct raised c%pressed a hope that her Majesty would inaugurate that important wta- k. I CnAIR-DANCINO.—The followin g , signed "Veri tas," appears in the Northern Daily Express :—" Chair. dancing and chair-flyin g seems at present much in vogue among the believers in spirit rapping, &c. Peniit me to inform you that chair-dancing occurred in a cele brated house in Sunderland one afternoon last week. Tht proprietor and a toy being engaged in the kitchen, a chair, without any visible agency, commenced dancing into the middle of the room on one leg, and returned again, after going through a variety of capers, to its original place in the kitchen. Both parties became alarmed, the proprietor so much so as to be unable foe some time to follow his usual employment. Can any of your readers or believers in spiritualism explain the phenomena?" THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 14, .1E69. • - - - --- 15eTng 'd Trlneentrn it fleso"eeet - , too Much roles, Mans REP.ti Te 7 ON APPaunviTAT fin oPPicE Alford, of Canterbury, Stanl e y, of Westminster, and _ • Close, of Carlisle, spoke, and the general result was (From the A ng l o -A mer i can Ti mes.) that they de ;lined to acce pt th e arc hi ep i scopa l sug- Perhaps the last debat e i n C ongress was on Se gestion that reforms were d e si ra bl e . Th ereupon the . Archbishop proposed that a committee should be nator Carpenter's resolution calling on the heads of appointed to meet at Lambeth Palace to-morrow departments to furnish to the Senate, on the - (Friday). The committee appointed consisted of the day of the next session of Congress, the names, age. Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the and compensation of the clerks, employes, and in- Deans of Canterbury, York, St. Paul's, and Westminster, and it was a ft erwar d s arranged . senor officers; from what States res p ec ti ve l y they , , that any of the deans who might b e i n t own an d di s - were appointed ; how lon g th e y h ave h e l d office. posed to attend the meeting should be considered as and at what places they resided in the States from , belonging to the committee. It was stated at the which they were respectively appointed ; and or meeting that a scheme for suppressing two canonries whose recommendation they were app o i nte d . I t was in each cathedral for e d uca ti ona l purposes or t h e urged in supp o rt th a t th e di s t r ib u ti on was unfair. increase of small livings has been res o l ve d u p on b y Mr. Gladstone's Government. The proposition made some States getting a lion's share, while others were by some leading Churchmen a short time ago was overlooked ; that the number of employes should that the revenues thus obtained should be devoted , be diminished, and th e p a y o f th ose w h o remained to increasing the numb er o f bi s h ops . increased. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, held in his hand IMPORTANT TO ARCHEOLOGISTS. ' a Blue-book containing the information condensed Two items which will interest the archaeologists the Senator sou g ht i n a more diff use f orm, g i ving are published by th e Ti mes . S ome f ur th er traces of Roman London ha ve b een di scovere d . A b eau- the names, salaries, and other informatio n regard tiful tesselated pavement has just been unearthed in ing the 45,000 office-holders, 99 of whom out of Bucklersbury. An invention for restoring, or rather every hundred were appointed on verbal recom for cleansing, bronze statues has been made. and is mendations of influential friends. Mr. Sumner being used on the tombs in Westminster Abbey. answered Mr. Abbott's proposition to distribute posts as far as practicable according to representa tion and population, who had stigmatised the undue proportion to certain States as unjust and injurious, Sumner pointing his remarks with a striking illus tration. The ExecutiVe was bound to take the best qualified ; these were not spread geographically, and the President had no more right to nominate them from certain States than he had to choose generals on such a principle., If he had correctly read history the army before Vicksburg was com i mended by three Ohio generals, viz."; Grant, Sher man, and M‘Pherson ; and if that State furnished the three generals who there so well upheld the honour of the country, why should not the same State supply three eminent civita:ervants ? The dis cussion brought out the radical defect in the exist ing mode of filling offices, and the necessity for the reform proposed by Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island. Mr. Trumbull regarded the system of removal from and appointmerit to office, as one of the greatest of evils, calculated to sap the very foundations of the Government. The experience of the last six or eight weeks edinonished all that something should be done to effect a reform. A great change had taken place, and Senators and Representatives had be come mere solicitors. Time was when members of e papers of applicants,ilbill, and Congress did not h ang around the ante-rooms of the Secretaries to pro cure t h e appointment of clerks and other inferior officers. Time was w h en they would not sh otsi g e n the a h ~ d introduce notice that at the next session, if nobody else did, h urge :ti e n passage,ow g ave to make it a penal offence for a member of either house to go to the departments soliciting office. Mr. Fessenden evidently thought the Senator from Illinois hard on those attending in ante-rooms to solicit appointments for their constituents. Senators who refused would prejudice their future, for re presentatives would do what they declined, and their constituents would, unfavourably to them contrast these exertions, and endeavour to promote TITE AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS OF IRELAND, the one at the expense of the other. It was a melan ts to get offic e Perhaps few things will con t r ib u t e more t owar d s choly truth that th e y were mere a gen contentment, peace, and q u i e t ness in I re land th a n a for their constituents, an d as tt ma ets stood they good harvest and a fine potato crop. It is, therefore, must look out for these offices. As to hanging about in most satisfactory to lea rn th a t Irish agricultur a l prospects were nev er b r i g ht er a t this season th an GOVERNMENT. the ante-chambers,gentle men therein consulted their . . THE SPANISH Accordi ng they are at present. The most favourable account s t o a t e l egram m the Standard, thep ro j ec t of 1 own tastes. Thirty y ears ago he was in Washine are received from all parts of the provinces as to the a Government with Serrano as regent and ß d . Prim as head of ton, though not in that Chamber, and what they extent of cultivation and the state of the crops. The the Ministryis notlikely to be matured. ut a espatch in complained of as having grown up lately was corn s lands have benefited immensely by the rains, the French papers states, not only that the scheme is grass and the potato and cereal crops are healthy-looki ng , ser i ous l y entertained, but that the Mi n i stry h as been monat that time. B u t th e most extraordinary state and promise an early and abundant yield, . formed. Fi guero l a , S agas t a , an d Lopez do Ayal a , o f th e anent was made by M r . C ameron, who said —" Only COLONEL H the other day the President sent in somebody f ENDERSON. I present C a bi net, will retire, and the i r p l aces w i ll b e filled for a The new Chief Commissioner of Police is doing up by others. Figuerola is Finance Minister, b9t his foreign mission, and one of the Senators had great his work well. He is initiating prosecutions" on all policy inspires the people of Madrid with great distrust. trouble to convince the Committee on Foreign hands against the abominable persons nolo during Nothing, however, will b e officially announced until the Affairs that he was an improper person to be con- Sir Richard Mayne's later and feebler years were 33rd Article of the Constitution, providing for the form of firmed, and it now turned out he was a const't allowed to violate the law with impunity, A Government, is passed. The Cortes is now at the 32nd. tional drunkard. The man 1 11- was good enough in woman living in Rowland-street h as j ust b een MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN ITALY. other respects, but not fit f or t h e place at all. convicted of selling indecent prints, and has b een sea - i tenced to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour, ! The Piedmontese p o liti c i ans have united with General Neither of the Senators from Pennsylvania would a punishment she is not likely to forget. The sei- : Menabrea's supporters, and a coalition Cabinet is now in have recommended him for the position. Some zure of the " Deptford Spec " has had one unfortu- course of formatian. The union of the two parties was time ago, within the last few days, a man from P enn nate result. A tailor who had invested in it has, in accomplished very satisfactorily, but the construction of s , , . vi ania was nominated for a Consulate, without consequence of the funds being seized, committed the Ministry involves great difficulties, and it is hardly - / . of 1 S consulting either tle Senators. It turns out that suicide. If he had lost his money in the ordinary necessary to state what these difficulties are. General course of the " Spec," he would, no doubt, have Menabrea's party does not want the new corners to he was a constitutional thief, and his name on the committed the same crime. The best way to pre- obtain too much power, and the recruits will either preceding day was withdrawn." The custom was vent of them such tragedies in future is to su pp ress th e cause have what they call a f a i r s h are , or th e y w ill re ti re aga i n , f or app li cants to sen d i n the i r cards to Senators, . Signor Ferraris, leader of the Piedmontese, demands the who, in the ante-room, rather than waste time in a.m . ; UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. Portfolio of the Interior, and this the Tuscan, Menabrea's, argument signed their papers. Need it surprise No university examination is stricter than that of ,art are very unwilling to give up, Signor Blordini, that the Executive' make mistakes when Senators the University of London. Nearly one-half the too, was mentioned for a place, but the King is opposed • i-t 1 . tit from their F...tates workin g ins►e upon app lc t s n , candidates at the last trial for degrees failed, only to this politician on account of his Garibaldian antece .772 obtaining honours out of 1,430 who tried, dents. Things like these must always be when states- through them, while such is all the trouble they take There were, of course, many grumblings; the men attempt the work of conciliation, to ascertain fitness. Several errors have occurred, students complained that the subjects of examina- OUTBREAK IN PORTUGAL. and in every instance ti:e objeciionable pe rsons lion had not been accurately defined, and that the . re found to be recom men d e d by th e w h o l e dele line adopted for awarding pl aces h a d b een t oo h ar d gen ie mysterious details o f a consp i racy at L i s b on are we and fast. Earl Granville, the Ch ance ll or o f th e given oy the _Portuguese journals. It i s t o b e presume dth a t gation from the Stat e . Sp ec i a l C omm issioner University—whose speech at the annual meeting this plot was concocted by some discontented spirits who Wells asserts - that $75,000,000 of the revenue is is pied a generally looked forward to n thi defens year occu- conceived that the deplor a bl e stateof the national finances, annually stolen by th e f unc ti onar i es t h us appo i n t e d, great deal of time iding the and the recent very unpopular proceeding of the King in and a good authority calculates that $25,000,000 course adopted. Ho explained the large number of reducing the number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies, will, during the next fiscal ye ar, be added to this rejections by saying that a great many of the candi- afforded an excellent opportunity for an insurrection. The sum, • dates had endeavoured to qualify for them by read .. conspirators attempted to get the army on their side. ' ing at night after their other occupations. He did bands. Nor will Congress be able, in the end, to Some regiments seem to hay • not think that they could compete with others whoe been really dis l aff o e n ct b e o d a . rd On o e f keep all the patronage, for powerful interlopers are landed ' battalion was actually from a vessel gay© their whole time to education. The educational. appearing on the stage. Nearly all the great status of the country, moreover, was very embarked The railway and telegraph which it had been . . , . _ jour unsatisfactory, and this had caused a great lines were cut in all directions. But all this mischief came nals were represented by their leading men during many of the failures. In one matter the London to nothing. The ringleaders vi, ere arrested, the disaffected the scramble, and the editor of the Evening Post, University had been foremost and successful. It troops were disarmed, and the battalion which had been the Tribune, or the Times spe a k s with a tremendous had solved the suldect of ladies' degrees. At the landed was again conducted on board ship, and placed power at his back; o ne , i n deed, which the Presi first examination it . was estimated that not More than under the guns of a corvette. An inquiry is to be insti- dent, or the Secretary, cannot help seeing behind three ladies would present themselves, but it was tuted, and, considering that nobody seems to know any. the individual. ' IN hy were these gentlemen in satisfactory to find that the number who came us thin . f the • •or the nature g o origin be dis and passed was one that was equally classical an l se a t ington, and what business had they to zeeded. suggestive viz., 9; and the fact had been A RAILWAY THROUGH SWITZERLAND. , cussing the merits of candidates with the Executive established which had been questioned before, that and the Senate, and putting their fingers into the The question of a railroad across the St. Gothard moon the female sex were quite as capable of qualifying - lain interests more or less all the States of Central very pie from which they ought most carefully to themselves as the male. Europe. North Germany is anxious for a direct route have abstained ? Let the public become convinced through Switzerland to Italy- Italy is not less desirous of that editors, that is, the public censors, are them e straight line to North Germany. Bvt Austria has lines selves personally interested in the appointments, round the east of Switzerland, and France has the Mont and their criticisms will have no weight. How is Genie line on the west. Both these would be injured by it at this moment that the American press write so the great work through the centre of the Alps, and a cer forcibly and openly i n d enunc i a ti on o f corr uption, taro agitation has therefore b een ra i se d i n France an d Austria against the St. G o th ar d project. But t h e new yet with so littl e e ff ect ? line is favoured by the Swiss Government, and it is likely that it will be made. . THE EXPLANATION OF SENATOR ROSS. A FRENCH CONSUL IMPRISONED IN RUSSIA- Senator Ross made a long statement when the The German journals labour under the apprehension of Chamber met o n th e 20th Ap r il, regarding his in a serious disput e b e tween F rance and Russia. The French t erv i ew with General Grant, as reported in t h e Consul at Odessa is President of the French Benevolent newspapers, which lie termed grossly incorrect and Society. A ball was recently given by this societ y. slanderous, being spread with a view to injure him A Russian count presented himself, and being throughout the country, particularly in Kansas. accompanied by a lady who was not his wife, but.whom he li e (Ross) sought the interview, and was desirous of passing off as such, the consul, in his caps- and from the President that he • d to learn paine city of president, felt it hi s d uty to exclude him. For this offence the C or recti o n a l T r ib unal at Odessa has just presumptive evidence of a considered it to be sentenced the consul to a week ' s imprisonment. The Joh nson - man, that the office had been held for the . condemned half German papers whi c h report Ws story say that under preceding eighteen months. This . certain conditions su c h an i nc i dent would amount to A the officials, though earnest and intelligentß ad' 1- cues Belli, but they do not state that these "certain con- cals. In one instance a gallant soldier eminently ditions" are involved in the present case. ' qualified for the post bad been ARCTIC AFFAIRS, who bad never left his fireside during the war, and Another German ex p e diti on t o t h e North Pole will was a pro-s l avery sym p a thizer during the Ks nsas start on the 7th of [June: It will consist of two Border disturbances. The Senator continued these vessels, which will endeavour to force a passage east of instances, sketching a lamentable picture of the Greenland through the barrier of ice surrounding reward of those brave fellows whose only fault it the Pole between the seventy-fourth and seventy-sixth was to have accepted a favour from him, their friend degrees of latitude. If the expedition do not succeed, it will not retu rn , b ut winter at Spitzbergen, and try again and fellow-soldier. (Our readers must remember next year. Th ere i s some probability that the scheme of that Mr. Ross was one of the seven " recreants" who voted against Impeachment.) It redound s t o . though that they, A north-east, i n opposition to a north-west, passage will - be revived. Th e R ussians have discovered that warm Andrew Johnson's honour Re currents flow along the north of Siberia, between Spitz- publicans, were appointed, and it would not tell bergen and Nova Zembla, and that, perhaps, a passag: ' well for a Republican President, himself a soldier, may be found along the north of Europe and Asia to if from personal pique or to gratify the animosity Behring's Straits and the Pacific. Unfortunately, this of others he ostracised them. 'As for himself for route would be so lengthy that it could never be of much UM twenty years it had been his pleasure, but no t hi s profit, to belong to the advanced corps of Radical Republicans. No man endured such revilings and maledictions as he in his efforts to secure Grant's nomination. He bad hoped all from this election, and although this belief was shaken it was not de stroyed. " A combination of my colleagues from Kansas in Congress has been formed to drive me from political life, because I have dared to defy the dictation of party when I believed that other ob jects than the country's good were sought to be subserved thereby ; and I fear the President has been deceived into giving that combination his powerful aid. Hence the sweeping and unjust re movals from office of so'diers, chiefly Republicans, and soldiers, threatened or their removals accom plished merely becanse they are my friends, and as an iin portant part of that party inac'tinery which is beim? used for may destruction. I neither court nor shun that contest." In the interview he had with the President no word incomistent with the strictest rules of propriety and decorum had been uttered by either. Mr. Pomeroy, his colleague, raw nothing to complain •of or to censure iu the President or in MISCELLANEOUS NETT'S. THE STATE OT IRELAND. Quite a panic seems to prevail as to the state of Ireland. Lord Stanley said the sense of insecurity there was never greater than at present. That, though open to question, was bad enough. But in being repeated over again, it has been transposed into a very different thing. The state of Ireland, say the alarmists, was never worse than at present. This is simply absurd. The sym pathy of the people with crime, the amount of crime, and the general unquietness are alarming enough. But they have existed in much greater proportion in days that are past. Sanguine people thought the disestablishment of the Church would immediately put an end to bad feelings which have existed more or less for centuries. Sanguine people are generally the most frightened ; and now they are scared by the non-fulfilment of ill-grounded hopes. Yet if they will only turn to the statistics of crime for the last thirty years they will find a marked improvement. As the Dublin correspondent of the Times puts it "What would be thought now if a return were fur nished to the Government by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Tipperary stating that 556 murders had been perpetrated within two years and five months? That was a great increase compared with former years. It was regarded as highly satisfactory that in 1831 and 1832 the total number of homicides in Ireland did not exceed 458. If such figures appeared in our annual calendar now they would indicate a terrible increase of crime. Let the aggregate number of crimes committed in 1835, 1836, and subsequent years, as appearing in returns furnished to Parliament, be compared with the catalogue of the last assizes, and it will be seen how vast an improvement has been efected in the moral condition of the country. Scarcely a county was then exempt from murders and agrarian outrages of various kinds ; they are now confined almost exclusively to two counties. Tranquillity is now the general rule ;it was then the rare exception. Contrast the calendar for Tipperary at the last assizes, unsatisfactory as it was in some respects, and manifestino , an increase of crime, with that for March 1837. At the last March Assizes there was one charge of murder; in March 1837 the cases numbered 44." THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE ON TIIE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT. The Duke of Cambridge, presiding at the anni versary of the Metropolitan Lock Hospital, on Wed nesday, spoke very decisively on the subject of the Contagious Diseases Act. Though a wide and a delicate question was opened up by the suggestion that this legislative measure should be applied to the civil community, and though the moral feeling of a very numerous and respectable class might be offended by such a proposition, he would not shrink from the avowal that he himself regarded with favour a careful and well-planned scheme of the kind. Sir Hope Grant, G.C.8., Dr. Dickson, Lord Lifford, and Mr. Mitford also spoke of the good effects of the new law. Still the present state of things is opposed to prosperity, and, if possible, must be altered. It may, if measures be not taken, spread and become more serious. The budget of news for to-day, for instance, is by no means reassuring. We are told that two men named Murray have been arrested on suspicion of being accomplices in the murder of Mr. Anketell. Informations were sworn against them by a Mrs. Brown, who lodged in th e i r h ouse . She was hooted and threatened by a crowd in Mul lingar, and the police have been obliged to remove her and her husband to Dublin for safety. The next item is of another attempted assassina tion. A man named Brady, agent of Dr. Fitzpatrick, is stated to have been fired at near Virginia, county Cavan. Two persons were with him, who reported the occurrence. He was found lying insensible on the road, but is expected to recover. Then there is the item of stealing a revolver. Three men have been arrested on a charge of forcibly taking a revolver from Professor O'Leary, of Queen's College, Cork, on Sunday evening. There is a story of the arrest of a Ribanclman. THE NEW MAYOR OF CORK. The Mayor of Cork has indeed resigned, and there seem to be no signs that he will be re-elected. The candidate of the ultra:Liberals is to be named by Mr. O'Sullivan ; and as he will hardly put himself in nomination, the danger of his reappearance is averted. The Fenians, by advertisement, call on the populace to insist upon the town council giving O'Sullivan the choice of his successor, and by this means secure the election of a mayor who will carry out his policy and vindicate his acts. THE CHURCH ASSOCIATION, The Church A ssoc i a ti on has just held a conference at Willis's Rooms. It lasted six hours, and a large number of subjects was discussed. The meeting ex pressed its confidence that Sir R. Phillimore's judg ment in the Bennett prosecution case would be reversed as it was in the Mackonochie case. Convo cation was denounced as a sham by some of the members ; others thought that the Low Church party had erred in holding aloof from it. Synods excited different expressions of opinion. According to some, these gatherings would increase the power of the bishops, which was very undesirable. According to others, synods would, especially in the even t of dis establishment, give the laity an opportunity of making their voices heard in questions of Church policy.- Then came the crucial question of the meeting. The Rev. E. Garbett moved that the operations of the Church Association should be extended, so as to include doctrinal errors other than those involved iu Ritualism. In the course of his speech he mentioned that the Archbishop of York had asked the assistance of the association in prosecuting Mr. Voysey. This matter gave rise to much discussion, some of the members thinking that the Association ought to confine itself to the object for which it was formed, that of opposing Romanism, and should leave Rationalism alone. Eventually a resolution, em bodying Mr. Garbett's recommendations, was carried with nine dissentients. A Mr. Lovell proposed that a memorial should be presented to the archbishops praying them to enforce the decision of the recent Ritual judgment in churches where (such as Mr. Lowder ; s and Mr. Le Geyt's) it is disregarded, and that Convocation should be called upon to condemn the recent manifesto of twenty-one clergymen in favour of the Real Presence. The Rev. Sydney Gedge strongly opposed the first part of the proposal. He pointed out that certain acts of Ritualism had been condemned, not because they were Roman, but because they were contrary to the rubrics; and that if the archbishops were asked to enforce the rubrics in this respect, the High Church party would be sure to ask them to enforce the rubrics in matters that they (the Association) might not at all like. Eventually he withdrew his opposition, and even agreed to.sign the proposed memorial. A general statement was then made as to the work accomplished by the Association. It numbered on January Ist 7,022 members, and its monthly organ h a d a c i rculation of 7.000. The number of papers circulated had been nearly 300,000. Mr. Martin then asked the assistance of the members in support of the middle-class schools which had been started by way of counteracting Mr. Woodard's. UNV and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky i n th e world. Their Old I r i s h Whi s ky i s re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cues for home use or exports. tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; er 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London, W.O —[Ad- Tertisement. - • The Ancient Order of Foresters has forwarded an additional contribution of £l4O to the National Life boat InXtution on account of their second lifeboat, which is to be launched in Sunderland in the beginning of August TIIE DI7.AIcS. The deans don't sec it. The Archbishop of Can- A of l E v n o g r England. o n f d . 1, r 0 m i s ~ neat, in the reseuce of some thousands of Foresters, who terbury has had a gathering of them at L. are to assemble P on the occasion from all parts of tho North beth this week. About a dozen were present, Lam- are Archbishop represented to them the a l b e s r o u l o u t i e i ADVERTISEMENT. 1 II —AI l i) 8 1 11 1 1170 3 ; : s s necessity of doing something in " these butic rrere IA le ct io t, s. and skin diseases f(r) t o l i i nn a l s n lo c e o .n n ts fi a d un e l n d'e t " l Ps r lillcs coin times " to " correct existing anomalies." But his s a le nd trk e Ttnient of their several infirmities with those very reverend audience, at; we have said, could not healing .3t remedies. Under Holloway's well see it. Dean Duncombc, of York (for whom, upon by d'sheartened by failures AFt i l''t , ' :B ill t'l i ( e '"l t y e ni d ea( l is s i Tl i i n: t n "' ee e la i nt t ag h s‘ e iltiu r hi lg.' be embarrassed r s t it ' his appointment by Lord Derby, the income of the ate attention to the .!as p ;s o l. 2. v , i e ll s :oc o m f as t s i t ) t e n7 u a r 7 ti r i o e be emba,rassed by difficulties nor deanery was raised from £l,OOO to I'4ooo a year, 0 a e in e easdse little perseverance and mode way of acknowledging the valuable political support r "direction for use " enveloping each of Lord Faversham an d hi s re l a ti ves ), declared that packet im of se O lf. in - o tnai t t and l'i!ls will enable every invalid to conduct his comp _te present_ decanal system was unimpeachable. Deans cure h lainto ll la bs simple, but 3 : sameof E e x p e in te i r e , n a . nd D ll e o a w n so 3 n i , ,m o s f ei Chester, were .,, , o , f ful issue; and he ru o l the y d ' sound, s'N'ere searchingsufferir; feel assured that by following this g t s r i e : i t t r t e nr a t, nd li , of St . ram s, seemed to think that so far from ar from a dean's post 170.11; 1 1: restored.skin . EXPERIENCE DOES NOT TEA C H. The gullibility of a see of the British public Is somewhat surprising. One would think that no trick was more worn out, more certain to fail, than the one of card-sharping in railway carriages. The pretended strangers, the dirty pack of cards, the exciting game, the invitation to join, the first gain and latter loss, the diseovery - that the confederates have been swindling, are all too well known to anyone who reads a newspaper. And yet hardlya week passes but we have a e,ase in the police courts in which the story, wearisome in its sameness, is told over again and again. The North British Railway Company has at last hit upon an expedient, whereby it is to be hoped the fool will be protected against himself. The com pany has a bye-law prohibiting gambling in its car riages. They announce, a propos to a recent very bad card-sharping case, that they will in future prosecute all the players other than the sharpers. With a knowledge that, if he escape -being swindled, he has a chance of being fined, the most simple traveller ought to be strong enough to resist temptation. FOREIGN NOTES. TIIIi ALABAMA CLAIMS. The New York - correspondent of the Post repeats, "on authority," the statement made in so many quarters, that Mr. Motley, the successor of Mr. Reverdy Johnson, will be furnished with no instructions concerning the Alabama claims other than very general ones. He will be authorised to say that the speech of Mr. Sumner in the Senate ex presses not only the popular feeling, but the opinion of the Government, on the matters at issue ; but as that speech proposes nothing, and leaves it for England to take the next step in the affair, Mr. Fish does not anticipate that anything more will be done for some time to come, tho Administration,- the febiotals referred to being those of office-holders who had run on the Demo cratic ticket last year, and ought therefore on Re publican victory to be discharged. firs RNERA L CUSTAR'S INDIAN 1?AlD. General Custar, with his command, reached Fort Hays, Kansas, April 12. His expedition has been attended with great hardship ; the men living on horses and mules, and the animals on the bark of the cotton-wood trees. In this way he scoured the Staked Plains, and the Red River, moving far into I'axas. After ten days' continuous march he sur prised 290 Lodges, who, imagining Custar was in a totally different direction, had dispatched their scouts the wrong way. The Indians were struck dumb with amazement when they beheld the dense troops of cavalry riding down on their camp, but they proved themselves, in the trying position, clever actors. Mounting in hot haste, they rode out to welcome their white brethren, exhibiting the , greatest pleasure at the sight of their dear friends, to whom they tendered a warm invitation to camp down beside them. General CuAar, between the Head Chief and the Medicine Man, became the centre of a circle of chiefs, plying him with the pipe of peace, and going through a long harangue, which assumed a sacred character ; and this was followed by a grand parade of mounted warriors, who, bedizened with painted trickery, passed in single file, each blowing a flageolet. All the while the squaws were packing up with the utmost speed. The Indians, finding the General impatient, then attempted to parley for their captives, Mrs. Morgan and Miss White, of Kansas. The former was taken by the Sioux in the late raid on the Solomon River, her husband being killed and she was sold to the Cheyenne; a party .of whom in the previous August had captured Miss White on the Republican River after killing her father. Gen. C us t ar se i zed three chiefs, and giv ing them till the next day to deliver these ladies he let them understand that as sure as the sun shone they would hang as it dipped below the Western ho rizon if the captives had not been brought in. The ropes were ready, the trees selected, but the women came in time to save the lives of the chiefs. The ladies had been the slaves of the savages, their hewers of wood and drawers of water, beaten with sticks, and living on dead dogs an I wolves. Once they tried to escape, having one night walked twelve miles, and their agony may be imagined when they heard the rush of a drove of buffaloes coming down on them in the dark. Next day they were discovered by an Indian who fired a shot above their heads to frighten them, the first notice they had of his presence. After the battle of Washita their treatment changed much for the better. For the last winter the tribes have had a bard time of it, being routed about from place to place by these incessant cavalry raids, and they must have ardently longed for summer. One of their greatest chiefs complained that he had not time to make his seat warm before he was driven away by the whites. - hoitse for the sale of " spiritual"—(lotti laughter) —liquor was to be erected in this park ? Mr. LAYARD said he was glad to answer the question The working classes resorted to the park in great num bers, and he thought it would be an advantage if they could get something better than the sour ginger beer and stale buns which were now the only things they could obtain. He had therefore thought it deniable to have a house in the park at which they could get some sub stantial refreshment without going to the low pot-houses which abounded in the neighbourhood. He had taken precautions that would effectually prevent tke sale of "spiritual "-- (laughter) —liquors. _ IRISH CHURCH BILL. The house then proceeded to consider the now clauses proposed to be inserted in the bill. Sir R. PALMER moved a clause providing that the An nuities granted under the Act shall not be forfeited because the annuitants do not consent to alterations which may be made in the Articles of the Church. Mr. BALL supported the proposition. Mr. GLADSTONE suggested that the point should be left to the House of Lords to settle, to which Sir R. Palmer agreed. Various unimportant alterations were made, and tho third reading was fixed for May 31, Mr. Gladstone ex plaining that it would be necessary to recommit the bill to introduce a stamp clause. The house then went into Comniittee of Ways and Means on the postponed Budget resolutions. The complicated details of the resoluthms were under discussion until after midnight. Various suggestions were made to modify the proposed duties on servants, carriage; and armorial bearings, but none of them were pressed to a division. In the end the resolutions were agreed to, with no alteration but ono proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, raising the weight of the fonr-wheelers, under the 15x. duty, from 3cwt. to 4cwt. The house adjourned at five minutes past one o'clock until Thursday, the 27th. BANK OF FRANCE. IMPERIAL 2AR, LI A EN HOUSE OF COMMONS._LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took 111 a chair at four o'clock. • METROPOLITAN STREET TRAUWAYS DILL. On the consideration of the bill as a/nee/led. Mr. PEASE moved the insertion of a clause allowing all vehicles to run on the tramways other than the company promoting the hill. The amendment also empowered par ties running vehicles for hire also to use the rails, pro vided they had the license from the Board of Trale. Capt tin GROSVENOR opposed the clause. He thought the resolution cf the committee ought to be supported by the house, the more especially as they had heard the whole of the evidence that could be procured against the pro moters of the bill. Mr. SOLATER-BOOTET, as chairman of the committee to which the bill was referred, denied that there was any monopoly of the road, but only a monopoly as far as re garded the use of the rails. They had fully considered the question of monopoly, and the resolutions the com mittee had come to fully showed that. They had also taken precaution against the rails becoming a nuisance, because in such case provision was made for the removal of the rails. It was desirable that an experiment should be made to try the merits of a very important arrange ment. He thought the committee had taken every pre caution with respect to the public convenience, a'd there fore he hoped the hon. member would not divide the • house. Mr. BRIGHT said the carrying of these clauses would be tantaraouut to overthrowing the bill. He thought the Chairman of the committee had quite settled the matter with respect to the consideration of the interests cf the omnibus proprietors. Mr. PEASE could assure the house he had not the slightest desire to push the omnibus interest forward ; all he wished to do was to promote the public convenience as far as was in his power. After the observations of the right bon. gentleman, the President of the Board of Trade, he would withdraw his amendments. The bill was further considered and ordered to lie on the table. THE PATENT LAWS. Mr. MAUFIE gave notice that, on the house assembling after the holidays, he should move for leave to introduce a bill to abolish the patent laws. SALE OF LIQUORS ON SUNDAY. Mr. RYLAND gay.► notice that when any bill was in troduced for the improvement of the licensing of public houses, be should move the insertion of a clause prohibiting the sale of liquors on Sundays. FINSKIRY PARK. Mr. LAYARD, in reply to Mr. Torrens, said he bad re ceived a very large deputation with respect to the sale of twenty acres of land which had originally be , n purchased for the laying out a park in Finsbury. lie was sorry to say ho had no power to prevent the Metropolitan Board of Works from selling the land, although it would be detrimental to the park. The hon. member for Bath had done all it was possible for him to do, but he had un fortunately failed. The right to sell of the Board of Works was, however, very questionable, and he was afraid the patties protesting against the sale would be compelled to enter into legal controversy with the Board. He had no power in the matter, and if they proceeded the length of going into a court of law the memorialists would have his best wishes and sympathy for their success. Mr. TITE said he had done all in his power to prove. t the sale, but he had been defeated in the board on a divi si3n by 24 to 16. The supporters of the proposed sale were the representatives of large parishes, having parks of their own, so he supposed they thought nobody wanted parks but themselves. The greatest portion of the money with which the land was in the first instance purchased, was taken out of the rating money, and not the coal duties. THE TORNADO. Mr. OTWAY, in reply to Mr. C. Bentinck, said it was quite true that the Spanish Government had declined to reopen the case of the Tornado before a superior tribu nal. They had given their reasons, and those reasons had been submitted to the law officers of the Crown. Ile had also laid papers relating to thf matter on the table. INCREASE OF PROTECTION IN IRELAND: — Mr. C. FORTESCUE said some additional constables had been appointed in the south-west districts, and those districts would be charged with the additional cost. six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries Cash in hand and in Branch banks Commercial bills over due Conng.ercial bills dis counted, not yet due Do. branch banks ances HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST E Advances VENING. bullion on deposit of The LORD CHANCELLOR took hi s sea t on the woolsack Do. bran c h b an k s t five o'clock. . Do. on F renc h P u bli c Securities The Civil Service Pensions Bills was read a third Ville, Do. by branch banks and the Adjutants (Jury) Exemption Bill a second tins. Do. on railway shares On the motion for adjournment. Lord RUSSELL, in a and debentures speech which was r e p ea t e dly c h eere d b y the Opposition , Do. branch banks Do. on Cr e d i t F encier tenches, asked what course th e G overnmen t i ntended to Bonds pursue in regard to the increase of Grime and to the laws Do. branches relating to the tenure of land in Ireland. Do. to the State (Con- Lord GRANVILLE replied that the Government were i mgon, June 10, enforcing ear nes tl y a ll th e powers they at present pos- Government Stock re sessed, and th a t th ey were i ntend i ng to i ntroduce a mea- serve sure for facilit a ti ng ac ti on b y the Lord,Lieutenant under Do. disposable the Peace Preservation Act. On the question of the land, Rentes Immobalisees w a , n J d ui f a u e rn 2 6 l l B 5 0 7) f he denied the obligation on a Government to produce a /14.14 tel catalogue and account of measures which they did not the &Ilk and landed intend to introduce. He repeated his statement that the proper i,y branches Government were not responsible for Mr. Bright's plan, Expenses of manage on the merits of which they declined to give any opinion, meat but he again defended that schema fro:n the reproach of Sundries being an attack on the rights cf property. • Lord DERBY thought the justification for having brought this subject for the third or fourth time before the House was that the House had never been yet able to obtain an answer from the Government. -Ho referred to his own experience as an Irish landowner for five-and fer: y years. His tenants Lad hitherto paid their rent contentedly; but a feeling had grown up in the d.striet that uo more rent was to be paid after 1870. After observations by Lords Cowper and Pandon, Their lordehips adjourned at a quarter past 9 o'clock. Bank of Eng] An Account., pursuant to t: cap. 32, for the week ending ISSUE DE Notes issued .....£30,394,743 PAIUS, May 13. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account :-- DEBTOR. May 7. May 13. fr. C. 182,500,000 fr: Capital of the B an k.... 182,500,000 c.— Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) Reserve of the Bank and its branches Reserve of landed pro- Not ry 4,000,000 4,000,000 sin circulation Banknotes to orderaud receipts payable at sight 35,968,574 52 36,237,651 25 Treasury account cur rent creditor 156,170,591 22 163,776,571 16 Current accounts, Paris 275,643,596 99 520,019,544 61 Do. branch b an k s 42,627,710 32,137,010 Dividends payable 786,980 760 941 Discounts and sundry , interests Rediscounted the last 7,014,776 02 7,044,776 02 22,105,750 11 22,105,750 14 933,790 85 933,790 85 12,450,147 84 9,632,817 36 2,081,662,302 68 2,301,998,691 98 CREDITOR. May 7. 21,ty 13. fr. c. fr. c. 1,189,652,643 82 1,209,459,032 30 391,113 51 336,610 31 275,092,458 41. 236,70r3,01.9 - 1(7,098,300 - 2,433, 000 - 13,663,900 - 6,6 - 19,380 - 38,536,700 -27,782,6J0 417,495,805 57 278,305,728 - 985,600 - 965,200 - 13,436,200 - 2,3+;9,300 - 60,000,000 -- 20,007,700 6,1L9,850 42,721,100 - '29,3_;,6w) - 1,143,700 - 1,049,1.u0 - 60,000,000 -- 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 80,627,187 21 80,627,187 21 100,000,000 - 100,000,000 -• 9,012,628 9,042,628 - 1,Z86,299 21 1,628,829 82 8,091,69 i 26 10,126,,40 43 Total Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Batik of France. (Signed) RoULAND. [and Returns. he Act 7th and Bth Victoria, Wednesday, May 12, 18C9. P ARTMENT. IGovernint. Debt—£l.l,ols,lo Other Securities 3,9d1,90 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Btu .C 30,394745 e.PAUTMENT. Govern int. Seen rities(iuciuding Dead Weight Annuity) .... 414,070,793 Other Securities 19,303,841, Notes 6,774,775 Gold and Silver Coin £41,318,0458 FORBES, Chief Cashier. T LIE CRYPT. Mr. 114. YARD said the cost of embellishing and fitting the Crypt amounted to £1,951. The baptistry was quite ready when required—(loud laughter) —but he could not say to what use the Crypt was to be devoted; the archi tect, he believed, intended it as a place of worship for the resident in that house. VICTORIA PARK. Mr. COWPEI asked whether it was true that a public- .£30,391,745 BANKING D. Proprietors'Capi tal X1.4,553,000' Best Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Div. Accounts ... 5,680,834 Other Deposits.. 17,465,098 Seven Days and other 8i115... 467,187 £41,318,038 GEoRi Foreign Tlail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton..., May 22. Ditto, via YArseillea May 17 Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video June 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape Yerds, by Brazil pactet June 4. Cape of Good G,pe. Aticenaion. and St. Helena May 28. China, Penang, end Singapore, via Southampton. May 1.5. ibraitar, via Southampton lndia,via Southamoton vitt°, via Marseil es Malta, Egypt, &o. Ditto, Mars u ille s May Nevvfoundlt• L c. Mauritius, Cape of G oo d H ope, and Natal, Vja May 19 s outnawz ton ............................... Ditto, Marseilieu „. Portugal ..... . • • . ........... United States, • anada, California, &0., by Britian aeket .......... Ditto dill, .................... May 15 Bal Hui( iure) Ditto, by L Lited atates packet Ditto, by Inman packet May n West Coast cd Afri ca , M adeira, and Teneriffe ......May 17 Bahamas, via New York West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha mas) May 14 Cu 13,1 and tlexico Bermuda, via Halifax...... ... Julie 2 The armour-plated screw ship Warrior, Captain Henry Boys, will leave Spithead on Sunday morn ing. There are various rumours as to her destina tion ; nothing definite is known, but it is probable she will be sent to Ireland. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.-11Rs. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes ail dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfumers. Depot 266, High Holborn LANOHAM—On the 12th inst., at Maesllwch Castle, Rad norshire, the Flon. Mrs. Langham, prematurely, of * daughter, stillborn. SOTHEBY—On the 12th inst., at 105, Park-street, Grosve nor-square, the wife of Rear-Admiral Sotheby, of SOIL . MARRIAGES. CHALDECOT—ILLINGIVORTH—On the 12th inst., at Saint ll eorge's, Han over - square, Captain Mark A. Chaldecott RA., to Lucy Marianne, second daughter of Uenry S. lilingworth, Esq., of Arlington-street, Piccadilly. VANDERVELL — THORNTON—On the 12th inst., at Paddock, Yorkshire, Henry Vandervell, Esq., of London, to , Fanny, seventh d aug h ter of Joseph Thornton, Esq., °I &Ivo House, Paddock. DEATIIS. ALDOLTS—On the 12th inst. at Worthing, Lieut.-Colonel William Aldous, RM. Indian Army, aged 76. BROWNE —On the 12th inst., at 20, Victoria-square, 5.W . ., James Browne, Esq., aged 69. BOWER -On th e 11 t h i nst., at Welham, near Malton, Robt• Bower, Esq., aged 71. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sux Office, No. 112, Stran d, in Precinct of the Savoy, i n th e County of Middlesex.—'Friday, May 14, 1869. VA 1•O; me eff Si] Yea ties dig tier Stti for( fool Wtt