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Commener , at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. TnTs EVENING, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK: Mr Vining . , Mr Walter Lacy, Miss Rose Leclercq, &c. And THE SECRET. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL Tms EVENING, at 7. A DAY'S FISHING. Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. Stephenson, Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At 15 to 8. BLACK A\ D WHITE: Messrs. Fechter, A. Stirlinr, R. Phillips. Stuart: Carlotta , Leclerc% Miss Lennox Grey, &r, And WHITEBAIT AT GR E NWICH : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. Tiffs EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clare; Miss Baton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton: v esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.'5, MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. And BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Nfesdarnes Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. CTIRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Erery Night, tut 8 Wednesdays and aturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss AL Oliver. THIS ECENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dower, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Visa Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover, and Baneroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss 0. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Tuts EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses: also Alfred Bradbury, A. Cane, &c., and the Salamander Hot se. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tim EvEstrin, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at S. ls. Box-offic( open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-Falk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mendays, Gd. Children under twelve, Gd. „ 54.21 , • ,fc77, i ,r! LaNDOit.', SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 18C9 The sharpest altercation that has yet taken place this session between the Leaders of Party, was that which arose last evening upon Mr. AYRTON'S moving in Committee of Supply for a grant of £1,580,000 on account of the Civil Service Estimates. Immediately upon the Secretary of the Treasury resuming his seat, after delivering himself of the comparatively few words constituting his explanation, the late Chancel lor of the Exchequer, Mr. WARD HUNT, arose evi dently for the purpose of relieving his mind from a long-suppressed and intolerably accumulated load of indignation. His attack was directed point-blank against the First Minister of the Crown. Resolved no longer to let byegones be byegones, the right hon. gentleman reverted to the charges directed against himself and his colleagues in the late Government, by the now Prime Minister, during the period of the last Autumnal recess, and through the medium of what Mr. lllnva described as " a great number of speeches, which occupied a great number of columns in the different newspapers. So profuse," said the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, " were his (Mr. GeADsToNE's) utterances, indeed, that I almost , despaired of getting through so vast a mass of words." But he added, immediately, " I must, however, con fess that I paid the right hon. gentleman the compliment of reading the greater portion of those speeches, and felt much encouraged by those prolix effusions with which he relieved his mind," Mr. HUNT adding. that " One of the chief topics on which he (Mr. GLADSTONE) dwelt was the ex raordinary extravagance of the late Government, and their great desire to squander the public money." After descanting for some time upon that particular charge, and other charges of a shear charac ter, directed against the late Ministry by the head of the present Government during the course of his electioneering speeches in Lanca shire, Mr. HUNT, evidently excited by the warmth of party feeling awakened by a good deal of cheering and counter-cheering, hesitated not to denounce those charges made against the late Ca binet by Mr. GLADSTONE, as so many " rash and reckless assertions." It was manifestly in allusion to this and to Mr. WARD HUNT'S reference to the prolixity of the Prime Minister's harangues to the electors of South-west Lancashire, that Mr. GLAD STONE in the course of his remarks, immediately afterwards in reply or explanation, took occasion to observe amidst some cheering and laughter— " Undoubtedly, those who are unfortunate enough to number the tale of years which have passed since I became a member of this House must feel peculiar happiness when they receive lessons of this descrip tion from gentlemen who have entered public life some quarter of a century afterwards, and who, growing rapidly in wisdom and experience, have acquired so remarkable a capacity for lectur ing their seniors." Speakieg with considerable warmth, the Premier, afterwards, instead of ia any manner explaining away the charg .s referred to by hi 3 censor, reiterated those charges in the directest manner possible, and in the strongest langinge. Thereupon, quite as unco.epro misingly, Mr. Drerea.F.m, in his twofold character as Chief of the late Government and as Leader of the Opposition, indulged himself with some exceed ingly characteristic retaliation. Peculiarly sting ing in its way was his reference to the course " invented," as he said, "for the occasion by the right hon. gentleman"--Mr. GLADSTONE—" at an election in Lancashire, which," sai I theimember fOr Bucking- . hainehire with an air of almost intolerable magnani- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1869. ' mity, "I am willing to forget, but which appears to have excited him to a high degree of that rhetorical spleen of which he is a master." Kindred in bitter ness, though partaking rather of the character of irony than of invective, were Mr. Disraw's allusions later on to the Premier's " natural candour of mind "—as exemplified, for instance, as the late First Minister went on to indicate, by the contrast presented to view by the very manner of the now First Lord of the Treasury's reply to the observations made by the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer. " A statement made," said Mr. DISRAELI, " with the coolness and total absence of acerbity which charac terized the statement of my hon. friend ought not to be met with a torrent of taunts." And in a similar strain of mingled banter and reproof the Leader of the Opposition convulsed the house with laughter a few minutes later on, when he remarked, " I am sure the right hon. gentleman has great confidence in the eloquence of his speeches, and that, notwithstand ing the occurrence in his native county, he still looks back on his campaign as having given a great impetus to his circulation." Convince even the most gifted of men against his will, and, like the zany in the proverb, he's of the same opinion still. Referring subsequently to Mr. HUNT'S allusions to Mr. GLADSTONE'S memorable assertion in Lancashire, the latter said, " the right hon. gentleman calls that statement rash and ill-con sidered. I call it measured, true, and constitutional." Mr. DISRAELI is not to be eclipsed, however, in this kind of Parliamentary positivism, for he, too, rose again, immediately afterwards, to remark that the right hon. gentleman had said that his (the Leader of the Oppoition's) assertion on such and such an occa sion was so and so—" Well, sir," he exclaimed, " .1 must unreservedly contradict that statement." Ob viously the buttons on the end of the foils are getting loosened. IT is impossible to say anything in favour of the mode by which Mr. LOWE obtains his imaginary surplus. To extract 14 millions of taxes from the taxpayers a twelvemonth in advance, under the name of economy, is an extraordinary perversion of the term. While the large and sudden payment will be of little advantage to the Government, who can merely leave it in the bank as a provision for subse quent expenditure, to those who have to pay it the demand will involve both loss and inconvenience. Taking interest at 5 per cent., and calculating that the 14 millions are paid on an average six months in advance, the loss will not be less than £350,000 in interest alone, or more than three times as much as the sum which Mr. LOWE expects to save on the collection. The inconvenience will be worse than the loss. With quarterly pay ments the Government receipts and expenditure are pretty equally distributed; but with one-thirel of the whole taxation of the country demanded in January, there will be a large accumulation and locking-up of funds which will be very prejudicial to trade. The course proposed is the more to be regretted because the substantial advantages of Mr. LOWE'S Budget could be secured without resorting to such a questionable expedient. The ordinary revenue of the country is four millions in excess of the expen diture; and therefore it would be perfectly reason able to extend the payment of the Abyssinian balance over a period of two years. Under this arrange ment all the remissions of taxation proposed in the Budget, except the reduced income tax, could have been made, and the substantial advantages which will result from them would be realised without subjecting the country to a permanent annual inconvenif n - ,T. With such a palpable objection to the substitution of annual for quarterly collections, it is to be hoped that Mr. LOWE will consent to revise this portion of his scheme. At the present moment the Government floating debt is unusually small, and the issue of two million of Exchequer Bills for twelve months at the existing low rate of interest would be a judicious proceeding, enabling us to secure the advantages of the Budget while avoiding its evils. If the mode by which Mr. LOWE obtains his surplus is open to the most serious objection, the mode in which he applies it is, on the whole, most satisfactory. There are two alterations that we should like to make : one, a matter of considerable importance fiscally ; the other, of importance only politico-economically. We are now about to do justice to Ireland ; we are about to put an end to that ascendancy of the few over the many which has lasted for so many centuries, to our shame. The Irishman is henceforth to be the equal of the Englishman, so far as regards his rights ; he ought to be the equal also as regards his duties. There can be no reason why we should continue to bribe Irishmen into loyalty by a money present, for we are giving them their due. Exemption from taxation is no longer needed to buttress up an alien Church, for we are disestablishing and disendowing that Church. There can, therefore, be no reason why we should not extend the assessed taxes to Ireland, as we have during the last sixteen years extended the income tax and the spirit duties. That extension would have been the more easy and the more just because after the alterations made by Mr. LOWE the duties will bear almost entirely upon the class best able to bear them. He might naturally have felt reluctant to extend the onerous taxes on locomotion to a country so poor as Ireland ; but the tax upon luxuries, which for the most part is what the assessed taxes now are, can be borne as well in Ire land as in England, and can certainly be better borne by the Irish landlord than the duties on tea and sugar can be borne by the English labourer. We presume that Mr. LOWE, though a lack of valour is certainly not one of his deficiencies, could scarcely screw his courage up to the point of imposing fresh taxation upon a country so disaffected as Ireland now is. Moreover, to have done so might have given his opponents an opportunity of saying that he was robbing the Irish Church in order to relieve the English taxpayer ; that he was with one hand getting rid of one tax at the expense of the Church by devoting Church revenues to the payment of the county cess, and with the other hand was subjecting the payers of that imposition to others hitherto borne exclusively by Englishmen. Of course the accusation would have been false. Yet it would at least have been plausible, and we cannot blame Mr. LOWE if he did not care to expose himself to it. Equalisation of taxation must be the work of another year. The other criticism that we have to make on this part of the subject refers to the remission of the hair-powder tax. The amount of the tax is absurdly small, is something less than £1,000; but it represented the sound principle that those persons who can afford to make themselves conspicuous, can afford to pay for doing so; that those who find pleasure in shaking the flour box over their flunkies' heads, ought to pay for that pleasure. This is the last tax that Mr. LOWE should have abolished. He should have increased it tenfold. For the same reason he has done quite right in increasing the duty for armorial bearings. The man who finds a pleasure in heraldry must be of about the same mental calibre as the man who finds a pleasure in the flour-box ; both ought to be taxed for the right of enjoying themselves in these particular ways. Passing from these somewhat minute criticisms, we come to the other points of this very remarkable Budget which remain to be considered. The remis sion of the shilling duty on corn is at first sight a small matter, but the fact that the duty brings in nearly a million a year slims that its remission is not a small matter. The truth is, this tax is borne chiefly by the class least able to bear it. The richer a man is, the more meat and the less bread he eats ; the poorer a man is, the more bread and the less meat he eats. So that just in proportion as a man's wealth increases, so does he escape from this tax; and just in proportion as his wealth decreases, is he exposed to it. In the case of the farm labourer 1 who earns 10s, a week, and whose household consists lof five persons, the abolition of this duty will amount to no less than one per cent. upon, his income, aim mission of taxation which his richer neighbours are never inclined to despise. This abolition will remove what is really a protective duty, indefensible on every ground of justice and expediency ; in fact, the tax was never meant as a tax at all—it was a mere registration fee. It turns out to be a very substantial burden, and to be wholly unneeded for the purposes of registration. Mr. LOWE was sanguine that by abolishing it England would become the granary of the world ; that, in fact, English ports would no longer be used merely by vessels calling for orders, but would become actual storehouses, with the inevitable and happy result of diminished prices for the benefit of the country which is so fortunate as to possess these stores. This anticipation, if it be realised, implies increased employment of labour in our ports, so that the proposed change should be beneficial both directly and indirectly. As we have been urging the abolition of the duty on fire insurance for the last ten years, we need scarcely express our satisfaction that this tax upon providence and prudence has been abolished at last. Mr. SHERIDAN will now see that he gave way on Tuesday night to good purpose. He did not aspire to more than a reduction of the duty. Mr. LOWE has abolished it altogether. No future Chan cellor •of the Exchequer, however great his needs, not even though he should be engaged in a war with Paraguay—to adopt Mr. LOWE'S humorous hypothesis—would venture to reimpose this duty any more than he would the window tax. The abolition of the licenses for the sale of tea, cocoa, and pepper is also a most commendable feature, for it is essentially a relief for the poor man, and is a step in the direction of " a Free Breakfast Table." It will, moreover, by stimulating the con sumption of tea, involve no -loss to the Exche quer. The alteration and large reduction of the taxes on locomotion is beyond all praise. These taxes have hitherto pressed most unfairly upon a hard-working class, and have seriously interfered with the public advantage. 'We may now hope that a London cab will cease to be the nastiest vehicle in the world next to a dung cart, and that the innkeepers of villages off the line of railways will be able to run conveyances between their little communi ties and the nearest railway station. Altogether, though we have devoted the larger portion of our remarks to blame, we find in the Budget much more t o commend than to censure. It is sound in most of its main prin ciples. Where it is unsound it can be altered without disturbing the framework. 'We sincerely trust that Mr. LOWE will be induced to consent to this alteration. He will then have the satisfaction of feeling that he has, under the most unfavourable circumstances, produced the best Budget since 1860 ; that he has out of the nettle Deficit plucked the flower Surplus. LATEST IN ELL LGENOE ( REIT'EWS TELEGEAMS') AUSTRIA. VIENNA, April 10. General Sonnaz, the Italian Envoy Extraordi nary, arrived here l as t n i ght, co mmissioned to pre sent to the Emperor the Order of the Annunciata. AIIEItICA• NEW YORK, April 9. Gold closed at 1331, the highest quotation dur ing the day was 133 k, the lowest 1321. Sterling exchange on London, 107 i ; 5.20 United States Bonds, 1882, 124 ; ditto, 1885, 1171 ; ditto, i. 1865, 1131; 10-40 B on d s, 105; ; Illinois, 139 ; Erie, 31 Cotton, midland upland, 28k. Pe troleum, standard whit e , 31k. Flour, extra state, $5.95 6.55 ; corn, old mixed, 88c. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORL.ESPoNDENT.) PARIS, FRTDAY, April Q, The Belgian affair remains in a generally mysterious, but unsatisfactory, condition. The war rumours have vanished for the time ; and now wo are troubled with reports of Ministerial changes. The speech of M. Thiers has produced an immense effect. A crop of no less than 10,000 cards has been left at his residence since the speech was made. The effect produced at the Tuileries is scarcely less marked than the impression on the general public. The Ministry is to be remodelled, we are told, and concessions—Ministerial responsibility at least—are to be made at once. M. Emile 011ivier is to form one of the new Cabinet, whilst M. Rouher is to be set aside with the Presidency of the Senate ; all of which we shall be in a position to believe when it happens. But we still live in the hope that some results will follow the recent attacks upon the Imperial position. Ministerial responsibility would be better than nothing. The Left is by no means so thoroughly uniten in face of the ccming elections as its friends could wish. The various sections of anti•lmperialist politicians seem disposed to keep up their minor differences, instead of uniting in the common cause pf liberty. M. Emile 011ivier, for instance, will be opposed both in the Var and at Paris. In the latter circumscription he will have two antagonists, and between the three an official candidate may slip in. The Liberty bitterly and justly complains of this. Liberty is the first considera tion which the Left ought to provide for ; differences among themselves might safely be adjourned. In 1863 the great victory throughout Paris was achieved simply by unity. The friends of M. Thiers aided the friends of M. Jules Favre, and vice versa. Is this wise policy not to be repeated? It is now asserted that the elections will take place on the 23rd and 24th of May, instead of the two last days of the month. The reason given for this fresh change is that the Government desires to terminate the disagreeable discussions of the session as speedily as possible. An extraordinary scandal which occurred here some days ago is still the theme of comment and dispute. Com mandant ThZ:ve recently committed suicide by shooting himself at his barracks. When the report of the pistol was heard people rushed to the room. They were met by a lady in a complete state of undress, who emerged from the apartment. She was the Marquise de la Mothe Fenelon. The condition in which she was seen left no doubt as to her relations with the man who had jast terminated his life; and it is said that the two had been on improper terms for six months, the Commandant gratifying the Marquise's ex travagant taste for dress. Scratches were found on the lady's shoulder, leaving it to be inferred that her para mour had attempted to commit suicide, and had ulti mately accomplished his purpose after a struggle. After this exposure the lady was reported to he in a state verging upon insanity. In this mysterious condition the matter was left ; but now a new element of complication presents itself. The Marquis de is Mothe Fenelon, the husband of the lady, writes to say that his wife had gone to the barracks at his request tl see M. Thbve, for the purpose of inquiring after the health of his eldest son, who is enlisted in the sth Hussars. Surely the affair had better have been left as it stood. This statement neither clears up the mystery, nor does it clear the character of the Marquise. For, in the first place, it is an all but im possible coincidence that the Commandant should have chosen the visit of the lady to inquire alter her son as the most eligible occasion for committing suicide. And, then, how about the state of her apparel? It is impossible to explain away this last condemning fact. The scandal rivals the poisoned bonbon affair; but that it is a scandal seems, unfortunately, too true. The papers tell a strangly sad, tale of adventure at sea. In August 1863, the trading vessel Adelina Eliza sailed from Bordeaux, bound for Hong Kong. A mouth after she was spoken to off the Cape, but never afterwards heard of. A solitary survivor of the crew of fourteen has just returned to narrate the dismal fate of his com panions. The vessel having been driven from her course by a violent tempest in the Southern Ocean, lost her masts and rudder, and finally struck on a coral bank. The men had only time to get into the long boat before she sank. They landed on a neighbouring island, and being exhausted went to sleep. On their awaking they found themselves surrounded by a number of natives, who made them prisoners. Their captors turned out to be cannibals, and gradually killed and ate eleven of them, including the captain. The other three managed to get hold of a canoe, and made their escape to an islet not far off, but there two of them succumbed to fatigue, and died. The last, after moving by degrees from one small island to another, and living on shell-fish and roots, finally managed to construct a raft, and committed him self to the mercy of the waves. He drifted out to mid-ocean for an indefinite space of time. At last he was thrown on the coast of South America, where lie was found by some whites. He was treated with every kie 'less and sent back to Europe in a Portuguese vessel. An execution has just taken place at St. Omer. It is the first at that town since 1857. FRANCE. Paris, April 10. In yesterday's sitting of the Senate, M. Bruet- Williantnez endeavoured to show that the French armaments were not excessive. M. Michel Che valier regretted the great Europeou armaments, for which he held the Sovereigns responsible. M. Rouland refuted M. Chevalier's statements, and approved the measures taken for the defence of France. Re sa id that perfect union existed between France and the Emperor. Ills speech was loudly cheered. Marshal Niel said that the present footing of the army was suited for a time of peace. The present budget as and it was the m os t i m p era ti ve b it ot s n ta r n e d a s c , o and b udgtohtes,budget to com e i n 1870, were drafted for actual duty of the Government to secure the safety of the servicee oun t ry. . r.l'lle number amounted on the Ist of M arc h to 330,000, whereas forme r ly it reached as high a figure as 400,000 men. Marshal Niel, in conclusio n , s aid : " The army cou ld, if circumstances d eman d e d such of men a step, rapidly pass from a peace to a war footing." BOURSE, April 9.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cent. End of mouth — 3 per Cent End of month 7O 221 Credit Mobilier 270 End of month 270 Credit Foncier _1497 50 Ead of month — Bank Shares 2850 Ital'an Fives 55 85 End of month — Bioxican Loan Do. Bonds - l5B 50 Spanish Threes Rome Debt — Deferred . NS. Cash, Orleans ..................................... f;O5 Northern ...... 1085 Lyons and Mediterranean ............... 9721 Southern..... ................................. 607 i Western ....................................... 5711 Eastern Sardinian .................................... 51 Austrian ... . ................................... 662} Lombard .................................... 470 North of Spain ...........................63 Saragossa. ....................... . ............ 76i Roman .......................................... 53 RAILWA POLICE 11VTELL 1 GENCE.-7his Day. THAMES. A SIMPLE JEW.—Annie Murphy, 811 Irish servant girl, was charged with stealing £lO in gold and silver, the mo neys of Samuel Cohen, a Jew dwelling at 28, Great Pres cott-street, W hitechapel. The prosecutor, a man of very primitive habits, is a tailor, and he had been in the practice for some time past of depositing his money in a common tin box with a slit in it. This box was nailed to the wall at the foot of his bedstead, and he broke it open at the end of every quarter when he wanted the cash to pay his rent and taxes. On Tuesday morning last when Mr. Cohen deposited the last coin in the box it was safe and perfect, and he knew there was a little over £lO in it in gold, silver, and pence. Yes terday afternoon, just befo re di nner time , and while the prisoner, who had been f or a week on ly in the service of Mr. Cohen, her mistress heard something drop and roll across the floor. Mrs. Cohen looked about, and found a sovereign on the floor. She spoke to her husband, who said that he had lost no money. Mrs. Cohen immediately rushed upstairs to her bed-room, her worst fears were realised, the money-box had been tam pored with, the bottom f orced out, an d the money ab stracted. She called out t o h er h us band our money is gone, the cash-boi is broken open. Mr. Cohen imme diately seized the girl, who had her hand in her bosom thrusting something dow n i t. H e sa id Annie, " You had hotter give up the money," and . she took from her bosom a purse containing .C 6 2s. 8,1. in gold and silver. They had been hoarding the money to pay the last quarter's rent and taxes. Mr. Paget advisad Cohen to board his money in a safer placo in future, and committed the pr:sonor for trial. WESTMINSTER. ILLEGAL PAWNING.—Annie ll — ooper, a respectable-look ing young woman, was charged with unlawfully possess ing a silver table-spoon, and not giving a satisfactory ac count of the possession of the same. Bunse, 104 B, said ho w en t yes t er d a y to Mr. Chapman's, the pawutroker, in the B romp t on - roa d, and there saw a silver spoon, which the prisoner had offered for sale. Ho went to the address tho prisoner gave, and found she did not live there, and on making inquires at the yolk& station went and took the prisoner to the station. She said she found the spoon at Warwick-road, Kensington, in the morning, and did not intend to do anything wrong. Mr. Self() said prisoner ought to know perfectly well that the spoon was not her property. Ho remanded her for a week, and required respectable surety in £5 for her appearance. A SINGULAR STORY. The Liverpool Daily Courkr tells us a wonderful story respecting a legscy of £25,000 or £30,000 recently left by a solicitor, named Moreton, to Dr. Goss, tho Catholic Bishop of Liverpool. Mr. Moreton, the Courier says, was not a man of high character, but had amassed a g od deal of property. At the end of last month he was taken ill, and according to the Daily Courier the Very Rev. Canon Fisher, a Catholic dignitary, was sent for to perform the last rites of the Church. Instead of doing so he procured a boy and a young servant girl as witnesses, and it is alleged guided the old man's hand over the signature to a will by which a large sum of money was left to Dr. Goss, as the head of the Catholic Church in Liverpool. It is said that the widow of Mr. Moreton, who receives nothing under this will, threatens to contest it, unless some settlement is made on her. It is fair to state that the Courier admits that Mr. Moreton had often said he would leave the bulk of his pro perty to the Church, but the whole story requires con firmation. THE PROVINCIAL PAPERS ON THE BUDGET. Theßirmingham Post says that, on the whole, the Budget is far more satisfactory than could have been looked for. Granting that the proposed change in the collection of assessed taxes is expedient—and on economical grounds it may be very strongly defended—the allocation of the surplus is thoroughly well designed. All classes get their share of remission ; and the pressure of taxation is lightened just where it presses most vexatiously, where it hinders the course of trade, or operates with injustice upon per sons already too heavily weighted. To the Leeds Mercury the plan of Mr. Lowe is indicative of great financial knowledge and ability. Whatever adverse criticisms (remarks the Liverpool Mer cury) may be passed upon the Budget—and it is open to criticism in several respects—everybody must admit that it is a bold, comprehensive, and well-balanced scheme, cast in a mould very different from that in which such produc tions are usually put into shape, and directed to the accomplishment of two great objects—a reduction of expenditure and a reduction of taxation. The Cambria Daily Leader thinks that the Budget is an ingenious production of a singularly ingenious mind, and although it may meet with criticism in its details, it seems unexceptionable in its general principles. Mr Sergeant O'Brien (says the Law Times) will be the Chief Commissioner Eppointed to inquire into corrupt practices at Beverley. The Lord Chief Justice cf England has recovered from the effects of his late accident, and will be able to take his seat in the Court of Queen's Bench on the first day of Easter term. At the Chester assizes on Thursday Thos. peacock, a tradesman of that city, was found guilty of forging deeds relating to property, and sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. A gentleman from Maddalena visited Garibaldi a few days ago. Tho Italian patriot said that he was begin ning to feel the weight of years, Lut he was always ready to labour for the honour and liberty of his beloved Italy. The difficulties which threatened the Royal Ita lian Opera with the loss of the services of Mdlle. Christine Nilsson during the present season are satisfactorily arranged. The Bishop cf Honolulu set sail in the Douro on Friday from Southampton for South America, where ho will hold a rerh s of cur tirmatiots lefore proceeding to his distant dioccee. Pis 1 hip is accompanied on his tour by the R.v. In:(: I arlos 1 i vey, M.A., R: ctor of Chosterford, It appears ias w have not heard the last of the Abyssinian war. Judging from Mr. Forster's speech in the House of Commons on Thursday there is every probability that a commission will be appointed to inquire into the cause of the immense expenditure of this campaign. Several Irish Presbyteries have met to consider the Church Bill. Their resolutions take the form of a general complaint that the Presbyterian Church is not dealt with as liberally as the Episcopal Church, and the Comber Presby tery have worded their remonstrance thus : —" That in the opinion no settlement of the Irish Church question can be satisfactory which will not place the ministers and congre gations of the Irish Presk, terian Church hi a position of complete equality with the ministers and congregations of the Episcopalian Church, which this court_considnthepro_, Dosod bill iu various points fails to do.", PRINCE ARTHUR AT IIIAYNOOTII, The following is the address of the students presented to Prince Arthur at Maynooth. "We the President, Vice-President, Masters, Professors, and Students of the Royal College of St. Patrick, Maynooth, beg to thank your Royal Highness most respectfully and cordially for honouring our college with a visit, and we feel especially grateful because you have conferred this high distinction on it so soon after your arrival in Ireland. We prize this honour the more because we venture to regard two royal visits to our college within the space of twelve months—your own and that of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales—as an indication of the special favour of our sovereign lady the Queen, your •mother. Any mark of esteem of our sovereign must ever be gratifying to us; but it is far more precious when the public virtues of the sovereign give lustre to her exalted station, while her private virtues adorn her own domestic circle, and render her a model and a shining example to her subjects. We also hail in you a Prince whom our beloved Queen in a manner dedicated to Ireland from his birth by conferring on him the name of our national Apostle. The name of Patrick is clear to everylrishman, but it has a holier and more cherished interest for us who dwell within a college consecrated to the name and placed under the patronage of St. Patrick. It is, therefore, with peculiar pleasure that we see in your generous youth the sure foreshadowing of the virtue and patriotism of riper years. We confi dently anticipate from your Royal Highness's name, and from the high promise of your youth, that in you Ireland will ever find a zealous and powerful friend, and we fervently pray that Almighty God may vouchsafe to yor a long, a glorious, and a happy career." His Royal Highness seemed touched by the loyal warmth and earnestness of the address, and returned the following reply :—" Mr. President, Vice-President, Masters, Professors, and Students of the Royal College of St. Patrick, Maynooth,—lt is with real pleasure that I pay a visit to your college so soon after my arrival in Dublin. lam desirous of seem; something of the chief educational institutions of Ireland. Upon their effici ency and usefulness the welfare of the influential classes in this country, and ultimately the welfare of the whole community, must largely depend. I thank you in par ticular for your allusion to my name, and can well believe that Irishmen will accord a national welcome to one who unites in himself the name of their patron saint and that of the most illustrious of their countrymen. It will be my duty and my pleasure to make known to the Queen, my dear mother, your sentiments and loyal affection towards her Majesty, and of goodwill towards myself and the members of her family." THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS OF WALES. The Daily News contains some further accounts of the visit of the Prince and the Princess of Wales to the Suez Canal. They were much struck on the Seraphim, near the Bitter Lakes, with the progress that had been made. PARLIAM_ENTARY AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. The select committee of the House of Commons, ° f which the Marquis of Hartington is the chairman: appointed to inquire into the general question of parliamentary and municipal elections reassemble ( ' on Friday, and proceeded to hear further evidence' Mr. Darvill, the town clerk of Windsor, informe d the committee that in the Royal Borough it $ O5 a common practice to pay voters for their loss of time in polling at municipal elections. No attempt had eve r yet been made to put a stop to the practice. In the opinion of the witness, at the late municipal election solue sixty persons were bribed, and at the last parliamentary election 100. Were the municipal constituency enlarged , he believed there would be less bribery at such elections. Much as he regretted it, he was compelled to come to the conclusion that bribery at elections would never be clone away with until the Ballot was in force. Th e present provisions of the law for the punishment of bribery were utterley inadequate. To Mr. Ward Hun t the witness stated that Windsor used to be one °f the purest constituencies in England. This purity was disturbed by a parliamentary candidate intro . (hieing the plan of distributing yearly donations of groceries and other things of that kind. At present these gifts were discontinued, but a great deal in the way of influencing an election was done by the purchase of cottage property which was offered for sale, and bought for the express purpose of enabling the owners to control the votes of the persons occupying them. in Windsor a man did not lose caste because it was known that he had bribed at an election. The witness WO severely pressed upon the question of the Ballot, and was confident that though it might not bring about absolute purity at elections, it would do very much in that direction. Other evidence of a similar kind WO taken by the committee, which was attended by Air. Bright, the President of the Board of Trade. A VOYAGE UP THE CANAL. Standing on the embankment, as the Prince and Princess did, it was curious to be told that the canal was empty until the 11th, whilst now it contained 23ft. of water. The Prince and Princess afterwards walked down the em bankment of the earthern dam, and approached the locks that run parallel with the right-hand of the canal, facing Suez, and the distaLt Atakar mountains. They then pro ceeded to the landing-stage, and re-embarked. The steamer that contained the royal travellers were headed by a larger one, acting as pilot, and to their own were attached three small boats. Thus, in the event of the steamer having got aground, M. de Lesseps would have been prepared for any emergency. The high sands of the Seraphim, covered with wooden sheds and machinery, coal-wharves lower down, and a reservoir for water, were speedily passed. Afterwards the canal became embedded in hills of bright brown-coloured sands with streaks of earth and rocks at times near their base. The large dredgers were at work, and there were Arab, working al so w ith s p a d es and pickaxes atthe embankm en t, carrying away the sand in wheelbarrows, or filling carts with it drawn by donkeys or dromedaries. Ere long the flotilla left the everlasting banks of wearisome sand for a broad expanse of shallow water, studded with picturesque little islands, and promontories covered with bullrushes, plants of the desert, gracefully waving tama risks, and proud upright-standing palm trees. TOWN ON THE CANAL. Shortly before six, their Royal Highnesses reached the Lake of Timrah, with Ismalieh• on its borders, and the Viceroy's chalet—where they would sleep--about two miles further. The lake is partially surrounded by sandstone-looking hills, with patches of verdure. The Prince and Princess landed at the jetty. French pony chaises stood in readiness ; there were - Egyptian soldiers on guard, with their band loudlytrumpeting "God Savetlie Queen," and the staff of the company in dress clothes on horseback, and French artisans on foot in blue blouses. M. de Lesseps shewed the Prince and Princess round his thriving little capital. The neat-looking villas, and pretty parterres, all covered with floivers, struck the Princess as wonderful, especially when she was told that not very long ago the whole of the town was a wilderness, with a few wooden boards rudely put together for the workmen to sleep under. She and the Prince drove away through the macadamised streets and " boulevard -looking " squares with cafes and billiard rooms, from which men emerged, cues in hand, and then across the sand to the villa of the Viceroy. In the evening BT. de Lesseps, his son, and handsome daughter•in-law, and a few others of the company, dined with their Royal Highnesses. The Marquis of Huntly and the Earl of Cosford had arrived from India, and also joined the royal suite. AT PORT SAID. The next day their Royal Highnesses arrived at Port Said. The marines of her Majesty's ship Psyche, of the Viceroy's fine yacht Mohrussa, and the man-of-war Mohamed Ali, manned yards, and their huge Armstrongs thundered forth a royal salute. The shipping, town, docks, and place were prettily decorated with flags of all nations. The humblest little smack in the harbour paid its tribute to England's future king and queen, and so did the people ashore. The Prince and Princess went out to sea before landing in order to see the jetties and port. They then landed. But what a landing ! The gallant Egyptian captain missed his distance twice, and the steamer had to back water on each occasion. At last, however, she came to a stand still, and then came the tug of war. It appeared im possible for the Prince and the Princess to pass the dense crowd on the landing stage. An Egyptian officer, with scimitar drawn, in command of a brigade of policemen, had wheeled them, poor fellows, to the spot where he thought their Royal Highnesses would land. And there they were, and might remain, hemmed in by the crowd on all sides. But Sir Samuel Baker, Lord Carrington, Colonel Teesdale, &c., acted as special constables in their stead, and speedily cleared the road for the Princess and Mrs. Grey to pass by unmolested. It was a very good natured, inoffensive crowd, that made an attempt only tola ok upon and cheer royalty as it passed. Then camethe carriage But such an one ! A regular voiture supplementaire of the days of diligence travelling in Switzerland, with one poor broken-kneed animal in huge pointed collar and wonderful reins to draw it. And then the driver, in glazed cap and blue blouse. A new cicerone, a gentleman of great importance' evidently, seated himself alongside the driver ; but he was dressed in his Sunday best. Their Royal Highnesses, Mrs. Grey, and M. de Lesseps had cramped themselves on the remaining seats good humouredly, and then the driver cracked his whip and en route was proclaimed for Quai Eugenie. THE DEPARTURE FOR CONSTANTINOPE. From the Quai Eugenie they made their way to the ship Mohrussa, which was to carry them to Constantinople. The Viceroy was determined to be magnificent until the very last. There were scarlet-and-gold-laced-coated lackeys on board, ready to serve in the gorgeously-furnished saloon culinary chefs d'oeuvre, which, it is hoped, was appre ciated. Their Royal Highnesses are said to have left a most favourable impressionlin Egypt. THE PALACE AT CONSTANTINOPLE. The Levant Herald thus describes the Palace at Con stantinople :—" Salih-bazar Palace —formerly the resi dence, first of 11-hami Pasha, and after him of Mehemet Ali Pasha—having been finally selected for the re ception of the Prince and the Princess of 'Wales, has been furnished with a magnificence which throws Dolma-baktch6t itself into the shade. The first floor sea-front of the haremlik—which comprises three-fourths of the whole building— has, with the exception of two rooms, been set apart for the Princess and her personal suite; while the corresponding section, on the opposite side of the long range of salas, has been appro priated to the Prince and his attendants—a Turkish bath room and the dining and breakfast rooms being on the same side of the building. The apartments of the Piincev almost baffle description for their gorgeous profusion of ormolu, gilded carvings, tapestry--native and French— enormous mirrors, and, in fact, magnificent upholstery of every kind. A Gobclin rug, alone, in her Royal High ness's bedroom is said to have cost 180,000 p., yet it looks poor and tawdry besides the Damascus cloth of gold which drapes the imperial four-poster—itself nearly as large as the great bed of Ware, and the coverlit of which is a cashmere shawl fit for a sultana's wardrobe." The Birmingham Gazelle says :-- 1 We aro credibly informed ,with reference to the Bewdloy election, that as soon as the returning-officer receives notice of the time appointed for the scrutiny, a cross petition will be sent in against Major Anson retaining his sc a t, whil e noi r thjng present alleged against ‘ l,l4. 7 Clr ! lifro can prueat k: pgain Comirg foOvard t.o Catett , THE PRESTON STRIKE. The latest reports received from Preston give no indica' tions of an immediate settlement of the strike. On Fridal afternoon the Spinners' Institute was crowded with ope• ratives who had assembled for their week's payment. Many of them are still unable to obtain employment at a reduction of five per cent., and they are very indignant at the conduct of some of the masters, who insist upon a ten per cent, reduction. At about twenty-four of the mill° the weavers have struck, and it is estimated that there will now be between 6,000 and 7,000 of those operative° out of work in the town. With regard to the question in dispute, viz., the wheel-dividend system, the weavers are as determined as ever to resist any change in it. They are still favourable to arbitration, and are confident that if the question is fairly tested the decision will be in their favour• Promises of further support have been received by their secretary from Blackburn, Church, Accrington, Harwood, Padiham, Chorley, Haslingden, Clitheroe, Clayton-le' Moors, Ramsbottom, Bamberbridge, Burnley, Stockport, Bolton, &c. The weavers expect that their funds will be increased every week. The following appeal from the Preston power-loom overlookers has been issued :—"An Appeal to the Manufacturers, Managers, and Overlookers of Preston and Surrounding Districts.—Gentlemen, vie respectfully wish to draw your attention to our position. In consequence of the strike which hag occurred in Preston several of .our body who are in ue way connected with the dispute have been placed in circnmStances of a very unsatisfactory and embarrassing character. They have both the masters and the opera• tives to serve, and are necessarily subject to whatever movements may be made by them, whether they involve increased work or an absolute stoppage. Our average earnings in good times are about Ws. per week, but some of us are not receiving any wages at present, while others, who have to attend the mill at certain periods every day, in order to either supervise work which _is . being partially carried on in them or make arrangements for operatives, obtain a mere trifle, altogether inade• quate to support themselves or families ; and this state of things will continue until the mills are properly in operation again. Our private savings have, through a long depression in the cotton trade, been exhausted, and, as we have no combined trade fund, we shall soon, if no change ensues, be in a very distressed condition. We make this appeal in the hope that you will favourably consider our case and be induced to render us some pecu" niary aid by which poverty and its associated misfortunes may be kept from our doors.—By order of the Committee of the Power-Loom Overlookers of Preston." The petition against the return for Taunton of Mr. henry James has been withdrawn. A shameful case has just been tried in the Seine Court of Assize. A widow died, leaving three children, 3 ' eon in the navy, and two daughters, aged 16 and 13. The sister of the widow became the guardian of her children• She immediately withdrew the eldest daughter from the con vent in which she was placed, kept her at her own house, and repeatedly sold the girl to wealthy men who wore charmed with her beauty. The infamous aunt received sentence of five years' imprisonment. TER TRAMWAYS QUESTION. The bill to authorise the introduction of tramways into various parts of the metropolis was again on Friday under the consideration of the committee of the House of Cow• mons, of which Mr. Sclater-Booth is chairman. The evidence given by Mr. Hopkins, the engineer of the scheme, referring to the scientific details of the plat► proposed to be adopted, occupied the major portion of the sitting. THE COLLIERY INUNDATION AT EARL Dup.. LET'S PITS.—The inquest has been concluded upon the one deceased who was killed by the Briefly Hill cornea inundation. The jury returned a verdict " that the deceased, William Ashmore, lost his life from the acci dental bursting of a dam. A dam in such a place, and used for the purpose of keeping back any large qudntitY of water from any workings adjoining, should be subjected to the greatest supervision by •competent persons, and from time to time the actual pressure upon the dam should, if possible, be ascertained." THE SULTANA AND THE PORTRAIT PAINTER.---" It has become the fashion with the ladies of Constanti nople to have-their portraits taken. The favourite artist an Englishwoman, a Miss Curtis. Some time ago thio lady was commissioned to paint a full-length portrait of one of the Sultanas. The Sultana was short and stout. and Miss Curtis painted her accordingly. This, however, gave great offence, and the Sultana insisted on her being made a foot taller, saying that as she was only 19 year,/ )Id, she would be sure to grow to that size. But instead of growing taller, the Sultana only grew stouter; so that at the end of a twelvemonth the portrait was almost unree cognisable. Miss Curtis was then requested to paint the , picture a third time, and it is now nailed up to the ceiling of the harem. • MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE IN THE HUNTING FIELD.-0a Thursday her Majesty's stag-hounds were out for a run. The first deer had been captured, and pre parations were being made for uncarting a second, when a Prussian nobleman, attached to the embassy, who wail taking part in the sport, fell from his horse in an epileptic fit. Messengers were at once2sent for medical assistance, and Dr. Barford, of Wellington College, and Dr. Fair bank, of Windsor, were soon in attendance on the un• fortunate gentleman, who is supposed to be the Count de Galen. He had received a sabre cut on the head during the Danish war, and this, it is thought, had so seriously affected his health as to give rise to fits of this nature. ELECTION PETITIONS.—The £l,OOO deposit in the Bradford election petition has been ordered by Mr. Justice Willes to be returned. In the North Derbyshire petition, too, an application was acceded to for the same object. All claims being discharged, the deposit was ordered to be returned. South Hants will have no petition after all. The Liberal petition against Lord Henry Scott has already been withdrawn. With regard to the o ne against Mr. Henry Cowper, at Judges' Chambers, the application for changing the venue from Winchester to Southampton was agreed to. But the same evening a meeting of the Conservative electors of South Hants wag held at the Dolphin Hotel, Southampton. Mr. Sloane Stanley took the chair, It was unanimously resolved to withdraw the petition against the Hon. William Cowper. This disposes of both the petitions presented from the Southern Division of Hants, the Liberal petition against Lord Henry Scott having previously been withdrawn. CLIMATIC CHA/itES THROUGH THE AGENCY 0 1 ' MAN.—The ground on which stands Ismailia, a town of 6,000 inhabitants, and the headquarters of M. de Lesseps, was but a few years since a dry, sandy desert, on which rain was never known to fall. All is now transformed. The old, dried-up basin of Lake Timsah has been again filled with water from the Nile by a fresh-water canal. Trees, shrubs, and plants of all deseriP' Cons grow rapidly wherever the soil is irrigated, arid. the artificial oasis widens fast. "Accompanying," writes a correspondent, " thig extraordinary transformation of the aspect of the place, there has been a corresponding change in the climate. At the present time Ismailia , during eight mouths of the year, is probably the healthies t spot in Northern Egypt." The mean temperature for the four months June to September is 04 deg. ; the following four months, 74 deg. ; and the four winter months, 45 deg . ' "Until two years ago rain was unknown ; but in the twelvemonth ending April last there were actually four' teen days on which rain fell; and no later than Sundol last there fell a tremendous shower of rain, a phenomen° ll . which the old es t A ra b h ad never previously -witnessed/ Rain ceases to fall on a country deprived of its forests, or f!Tay , tails 14 violent s t orms . H ero we see ra i n return ing tii(alaitrs on _rcatoxiEg . the._ 'trees, = -Bricie t _ *PM 1)1 0 COAIII The Gc there is b 3 changes I] vour of th stock has American declining 'antic. Consols Count, N New Tki £l,OOO, p par 5 prei 241 i. 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