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The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants. and full particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will be found in the New Prospectus, which will be forwarded to applicants post free HENRY LAKE, General Manager. 316, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place Pall mall, London. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms of the year 1868, the National Lifeboat Institution contributed to the saving of 862 lives from various ship wrecks and 25 vessels from destruction. The Institution also expended ..£20,433 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £2.431 for re wards. The Committee of the Institution earnestly appeal to the public for assistanceto enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on their 198 Lifeboat Establishments. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and county- bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the 'nstitution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. 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A N easy and accu r ate System of Self-measure, introduced by E. MOSES and Son. has served to extend their connection to all parts of the kingdom. ORDERS by POST promptly and carefully attended to. T IST of PRICES, w ith R u l es o f S e lf- measure, A Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. EMOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS • arn CLOSED every Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 o'clock. EMOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke • Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Hosiers. Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the London addresses of E. MOSES and iON.— CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 80, ALDGATE 7, ALDGATE 88, ALDGAT El SD, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET 13RANCH. NEW OXFORD-STRE KT 187, NEW OXFORD-STREET , 08, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 8, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS, SPECIAL INOTICE.—In consequence of frequent misrepre- F entations, E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their my Establishments are the above-mentioned. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. ChattPrton. Grand Combh.ation of attractions. Lt 7 o'clock, THE GIRLS OF THE PERIOD, THIS EVENIN( a Musical Folly. At 7.4.5 TIAML;:T: Hamlet, Mr. T. C. King: Iressrs Vy,ler. Wilson, Barrett. Dalton, Parrett, F. Charles. O'Neill J. r!‘ owe, V. Moreland, J. R. Johnstone, IT. Rignold. Watson; Mesdames Reath, Marie 0' Velrne, and If. Vandenhoff. Doors open at half-past ti, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. HEATRE It () AL, II A YINI Alt ET. Sole Lesson. Mr. Buckstone. TILLS F VEINING, STAVING: Messrs. Bowl's. Clark, Gordon, White, &c. • Miss Fanny Wright and Miss F. Gwynn. Attur which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton, A stley, &c,; Mesdames Ca. - cndish, Burke. Hill, &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF TH WATC II Mossrs Sothern, Chippendale, Vincent, &c. ; Mesdames Cavencli:l,llill &c. Concluding with MAKE YOUR WILLS': Joseph Brag, Mr Bnckstone. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. THEAI'II.I4; ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, lire. Alfred Mellon. TRIS EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND I'..OUR WIPE TO CAMBERWELL: Mr 0. Delmore. kt 15 to 8, 17th time, BLACK AND WHITE. Mr Fechter Miss Carlotta Leclercq, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart. Mrs. L. Murray, Vise Lennox (Trey, &c. To conclude with WHITE.BA IT AT GREENWRIH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Alurray ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Revival of " After Dark." THIS EVENING. TWICE KILLED After which, Dion Boucicault's Great Drama, entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr D. Leeson, Mr J. G. Shore, C. Harcourt, Edmcnds, Fl olston, and Gresham; Miss Emma Barnett, and Aka hose Leclercq. Concluding with THE SECRET. ;Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. OLB ORN THEATRE-ROYAL, Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. THIS ELEGANT THEATRE WILL RE- OPEN ON SATURDAY, IST OF STAY, For the performance of the highest class of DRAMATIC LITERATURE. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. 11 , Sole Lessee and Manageress, Airs Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 1, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrp. Make. Be!ford, Joyce; Mesdames Bnfton and Maitland. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne, James, Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlaine ; Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude ?nth HUE AND DYE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN Positively t - e Last Week but One of the Equestrian Season. — Last appearances of the Wonr'erful PERFORMING HORSES. The SAL XMA NDER HORSE, the greatest Equine Wonder of ;he day —The best and only entertainment of the kind in the metropolis. No other Theatre in L ondon offers a programme so replete with variety, amusement, and excitement The magnificent stud of FIFTY PERFORMING HORSES, and the matchless SCENES in the ARENA. The most com plete combination of equestrian talent ever brought together. Those who have not yet seen the beautiful horses should lose no time in doing so, as they leave London for the Continent on the 26th of April. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. 1 ,.. w ...'1 LOBE THEATRE-R.OYAL. vi Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7, H. J. Byron's new and original Drama, MINNIE ; or, Leonard's Love: Miss Lydia Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss Brennan; M essrs David Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. At 9, A BRFAC Fr OF PROMI4F. To conclude with BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews. Hnrlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes, and Stephens. O Y A L CHRISTY'S. .11) GREAT ST. GEORGE'S HALL, REGENT -STREET. Licensed by the Lord Chamberlain. EASTER NOVELTIES. Fresh Engagements, in addition to the most powerful Ethiopian Troupe in the world. Mr. Harry Leslie, the celebrated American Comedian, appears nightly. Pro nounced by the Press to be the genuine sensation, and the only Company of Christy Minstrels who have performed by express command before her Majesty the Queen and the Court at Balmoral. Arrangements for the Easter week: CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. New Songs, Comic Sketches, and continued success of the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH-S. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Private Boxes, .£2 25.; Stills, 55.; Reserved Seats, 35.; Balcony, 2s. Acting-manager, Mr. ANDREW NIMMO. DOG LICENSES. —CAUTION. rullE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RE -1 VENITE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES granted in the year 1868 expired on the 31st December last, and every person keeping a dog in the current year is required forthwith to take out a new License. The duty payable for each dog kept is Five Shillings. The penalty for keeping a dog without License is Five Pounds. A License is not transferable from one person to another. A License may be obtained by the owner giving his name and address, and the name of the place where the dog is kept on application at The Office of the Collector of Inland . ) Revenue, In the neigh- The Office of the Distributor of Stamps } bourhood of the Or , , applicants re_ 1 A Money Orde r Post Office. sidence. J Licenses will also b e gran t e d b y the several Supervisors of Inland Revenue. 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THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," I giving all the SPORTI G NEWS of the day, may be seen at JF.M Y M N TON 'S house, "The Swan and Horse Shoe," Little Britain, City, E.C. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. eole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. This EVENING, at 7. THE GIRLS OF THE PERIOD. At 7.45 HAMLET: Mr. T. C. Ring; Mr. Ryder, Miss Heath, and Mrs. H. Vandenhoff. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS 1 4 31tsiNG, EASY SHAVING: Messrs.' Rogers Clark, Gordon. White; Miss Fanny Wright, &c. Afier which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. !%, r Sothern. Concluding with 3I.A2iE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Commence at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. Trus EVENT G, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK : Mr Vining:, Mr Walter Lacy, Miss Rose Leciercq, And THE SECRET. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO C A MBERWELL : Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray At 15 to 8. BLACK AND WHITE: Messrs. Fechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips. Stuart: Carlotta Leclereq, MISR Lennox Grey, kte. And WHITEBAIT AT GRP. M NWICH: Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanhorougb. This EVENING. at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; n esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE TIIEATRE-ROYAL. THIR rrENING. at 7, MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. At 9. A BREACH OF PRO3IISE. After which, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher. Andrews, Hurl stone, J. Clarke: Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. This EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To he followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tit TS EVEN)7 , M, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover. and Baneroft: Mrs. littekingham White. Miss C. Addison, end Miss ‘lttrie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZA RV. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPIIITITEAT E AND CIRCUS, UOLDOEN. Tins EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud o r An ITorges : also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, and the Salamander Hot se. (713RISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and t-aturdays, at 8 and 8 all the year round. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tins EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CFIRIST/ I t MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaglnza, THE VERY GrIAND ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-offict open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-Falk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mendays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1869. caP r ilo - Ar 8, I - 13 „ have greatly exceeded the numher . at the disposal of the committee. Gladly, we are told, have the poor seized the opportunity, and joyfully have they,left th eir overcrowded country for a land where there is, at least, hope for all. There is reason to be believe that these charitable efforts will prove beneficial, because the committee have carefully attended to the cardinal condition of Much of the pauperism in England is owing solely to want of work, and for this portion of the poor emigration is the best resource. But, as we have previously seen, a great deal of poverty is to be attributed to other causes. And as ail pauperism is not the effect of scarcity of labour, so all pauperism is not to be got rid of by emigration. There is no probability that a man whose failure is owing to his own vices will thrive in a colony. There is no reason why he should be trans ferred to a young country because he is an incum brance here. It is neither just nor practicable to land our vagabonds, criminals, idlers, and drunkards 'on the other side of the Atlantic because we find them a sore burden in England. Chari ' table emigration, in order to do good, must be confined to workmen, whether skilled or unskilled, who have suffered from causes over which they have no control. The emigrants who left their old homes on Tuesday, and others who have preceded them, have b een judi ciously selected on this principle. Applications from really unfortunate working-class families only were considered ; and when a selection had to be made, the best were chosen. Canada, in all proba bility, will receive a body of workmen who will creditably fill some of the many places which are now vacant. Conducted on this principle, charitable emigration cannot fail to be useful, and may be advan tageously extended. When Rupert's Land is joined to the Canadian Dominion the emigrant will find a home of prosperity in the Fertile Belt. This region is not much more distant than Canada, and surpasses it in other respects; for whereas Canada is mostly forest land, which must be cleared, the Fertile Belt consists largely of soil which is now waiting for the husbandman. Australia, too, may receive some attention. The great distance of this colony is a serious objection ; but labour is sadly needed there, and the reward ought to be proportionate. success. A NEW SYSTEM OF SHORTIIAND. * The increasing importanc e or shorthand as a practical art is abundantly shewn by the multiplication of books designed to teach it. Shorthand has for some time past ceased to be a purely professional acquirement. As a means of recording the words of a speaker, whether for newspaper or other purposes, a vastly abbreviated mode of writing has long been indispensable. But the usefulness of the art is now being extended to the ordinary purposes of life; it is becoming more and more an aid to the student or the literary man. No one who is much in the habit of writing can fail to observe the serious inconvenience arising from the disparity between the time required to invest thought with the form of language, and the much longer period required to transform sounds into written characters. To the professional reporter some means of reducin g this difference is absolutely necessary, but t o th e general commun i ty t h e art of shorthand cannot fail to prove of the highest utility. The advantages to be derived from the power of recording speech as fast as it is uttered are palpable. But the art is difficult. Shorthand is nothing snore than a means of expressing the complicated letters of the alphabet in the simplest characters, such as strokes and curves. These simple letters are joined together in the same way as the ordinary manuscript characters. Much practice is of course required before the hand can be trained to trace these simple letters as naturally as the familiar combinations of hooks and curves. But the chief difficulty is to decipher the abbre viated writing after it has once been committed to paper. The liability to error is great. If, in the hurry of writing, a character which should be upright is sloped at an angle, it represents something quite different. If a dot be accidentally converted into a dash, the result is the same. Everybody has read the amusing account of David Copperfield's experience as a shorthand writer who could not read his notes ; and instances of laughable blunders would fill a volume. The great aim of a shorthand system should be to ensure legibility without making the characters so complex as to prevent rapid writing. This is the object of Mr. Young's new system, and there can be no doubt that so much yet remains to be done in this direc tion that no apology can be needed for the appearance of another elementary work. Mr. Young does not aim sr ecially at rapid writing ; indeed, his system may have to yield the palm on this score to one or two others. Per fect legibility is Mr. Young's watchword, and it is one which must sound grateful to all who have practically realised the miseries of unreadable stenography. In one or two systems of late years the principle of thick and thin characters has been adopted, a stroke representing one letter when thin and another when thick. But this distinction is very difficult to keep up in practice ; a stroke which should be thin very often becomes thick, and vice versa. Mr. Young has rejected this principle, and has devised his characters regardless of their thickness. This, though it reduces the avilable number of strokes, and ren ders the sign for the less common letters more complicated, is yet a decided gain on the score of legibility. Mr. Young's system possesses anot h er great merit, one which we have long thought indispensable to perfect shorthand writing, but which has never, to our knowledge, been adopted before. The inventor of "Readable Shorthand" has so devised his vowel symbols that they can be written con tinuously with the consonants. The general principle has been to express the vowels by means of dots, which are placed side by side with the consonants. Each vowel thus necessitated a lifting of the pen, and if, as was generally the case, many were omitted, the legibility of the writing became seriously impaired. By joining his vowels to the consonants Mr. Young saves time, increases legibility, and yet is able to omit the vowels at pleasure. Dots are used only to express entire words, when the brevity of the symbol compensates for the lifting of the pen. By reserv i ng his dots for complete words, Mr. Young secures a very full assortment of phraseograms. Besides the dot words, every letter represents a word also, so that abundant facilities for contraction are provided. Affixes and suffixes receive ample attention. Mr. Young's is a stenographic system ; that is, he follows the English alphabet exactly as it stand s , w hil s t phonographic sho r th and is based on the principle of giving every articulate sound a separate symbol. It is a decided improvement on many previous systems in respect of legibility ; and, though one or two swifter modes of writing might be named, there is no reason to apprehend that Mr. Young's system is lacking in this particular. Greater legibility is well worth having at the cost of a little speed. " " Readable Shorthand. Self-taught." BY Murdo Young. London E. Stanford, Charing-cross. THE LORD CHANCELLOR', RECEPTION. Thursday being the first day of Easter Term, the Lord Chancellor (Lord Hatherley), according to the usual custom, gave a breakfast at his private residence to the Judges, Queen's Counsel, and Serjeants, previous to the opening of the different equity and common law courts. Afterwards the judges Went in procession to Westmin ster Hall, the time occupied in the journey being much shorter than usual, as the house of the Lord Chancellor is in Great George-street, in the immediate neighbour. hood of the courts. The hall was filled with people who had assembled to witness the judges pass along in their full robes, and accompanied by their different officers and attendants. Nearly all the judges, both in law and equity, were present, and amongst the other gentlemen who assem bled, some of the earliest arrivals were Mr. Huddleston, Q.C. ; the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals ; the Hon. G. Denman, Q. CI 1%4 • ' • ; Sir J. Karslake, Q.C. ; Mr. Kars lake, Q.C. ; Arr. Jesse], Q. C., M.P. : Mr. H. Palmer, Q.C., M.P.; Serjeant Payne, Dr. Deane, Sir Travers Twiss, Mr. Staveley Hill, n M.P, ; Sir Richard Baggallay, Q.C. ; Mr. O'Malley, Q.C, ; Dr. Stephens ; Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., M.P. ; Mr. T. Chambers, Q.C., M.P. ; Sir Roundel' Palmer, Q.C., M.P. ; Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., Dr. Petermann, of Gotha, has been informed that two English expeditions will leave during the pres2ut year for the Polar regions. The Blackburn Standard states that the cost of the recent Parliamentary elections to the ratepayers of Black burn will amount to £1,119. This amount is exclusive of the cost to the candidates, anti of the election petition, and the whole of the above amount will have to be chargeable to the rates ! The Mayo• (Mr. John Smith) was put to an expense of £2OO iu entertaining Mr. Justice Willes. Many parts of the North of England were visited on Wednesday with a thunderstorm of unusual severity. Early in the day it broke over the neighbourhood of Manchester, and in the afternoon and evening Huddersfield, Leeds, and the intervening and surrounding districts were similarly visited. At Burton Salmon, between Leeds and York, the lightning struck and did great damage to two houses, the property of a man named Sharp. CORRESPQNDENCE FROM PARIS, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS. THURSDAY, April 15, The Corps Legislatif has had an Algerian day. N Jules Favre proposed an amendment to promote the sub division of property amongst the natives as a means of guarding against famine. This is considered by the best authorities to be indispensible to the prosperity of the colony. Amongst the Kabyles property is subdivided to an indefinite extent, and the effect is remarkable. Whilst the Arabs aro sluggish, indo. lent, and indifferent, the Kabyles are manly, intelligent, and active. Whilst the former suffer dreadfully from famine after a deficient harvest, the energy of the latter preserves them from the worst consequences of scarcity. The tenure of land, and not native peculiarities, are held to be the cause of this difference. The Algerian Chamber of Commerce has declared that the non-subdivision of property is the real cause of the retrograde march of the Arabs and of the dis tress in the country. But Marshal Niel thinks differently. He believes that the miserable failure of the Arabs and the success of the Kabyles is entirely owing to differences of race. The inhabitants of Kabylia differ entirely from the Arabs in manners and physical constitution. Amongst the latter woman is a slave ; with the former she holds her place and authority in the tribe. The Kabyles cultivate the soil and live on their own resources; their habits more nearly resemble those of Frenchmen, and this was the cause why they did not suffer from the famine. This is all very well ; but it seems to me that the best plan is not to refuse the Arab a better land tenure because he is inferior to the Kabyle, but to grant a better land tenure, and thus leave him a fair chance to equal the Kabyle. So thought a great many deputies. The division which followed, like some others of late, was remarkable for a large defection of Imperialists. The Government got 129 votes, but:the Opposition presented an unusually formidable minority of 80. Truly the palmy days of Imperialism— majorities of two or three hundred, and minorities of a score—are passing away. Forty members of the Right voted with the Left. It seems, therefore, that the 400,000 Arabs who perished during the famine have caused forty sup porters of the Government to conclude that a change is ne cessary in Algeria. The Libertg puts the following problem : If ten thousand Arabs killed by hunger convert one deputy, how many must be killed before the Corps blgislatif presents a majority in favour of a good system of colonial government ? M. Gassaud, a merchant of Nice, has become bankrupt and fled. His liabilities would be nothing in England, but they are deemed somewhat considerable in France. The total is only £72,000. THE VOLUNTEER CAPITATION GRANT. Mr. Cardwell's answer to the memorial presented last month by Lord Elcho in:the name of a number of peers and members of Parliament who aro volunteers on the subject of the capitation grant is pentad among the parliamentary papers issued this morning. It is as follows: —"War Office, March 17, 1869.—My Lord, —I am d'r,cted by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3d inst., enclosing a memorial on the sub ject of the capitation grant of the volunteer force, agreed to at a meeting of volunteer peers ani members of Parliament, and 1 am to request that you will have the goodness to in form the memorialists that the question, whether any increase of the present grant ought to be asked for from Parliament, shall receive the careful con sideration of her Majesty's Government, in connection with tie question, which is now also receiving their serious at tention, as to what measurs s it may bo expedient to take for the better organisation of the reserve force as a support in time of emergency to tho regular forces of her Majesty. —I have, /cc. (signed) NORTHBROOK. —The Lord Elcho." MANNERS OF TILE HOUSE OF COMMONS. A correspondent who dates from the House of Corn- MOW, and signs himself "A Bloated Aristocrat," sends the following letter :—I read with groat interest yes_ terday your ingenious article on ":Manners in England and America." It pleased me so much that I shall take care to send a copy of it to a gentleman, a member of the House of Commons, who was lately seen, in the reading-room of that assembly, to take his boots off preliminary to the enjoyment of his newspaper. Lounging in one chair, with Lis feet reposing in their stockings upon another, ho made in the sunshine a very striking if not quite an agreeable figure. To bo sur,', Tuesday was a very warm day; but that, I venture to t!,inlc, is no excuse for this particular breach of good manners. Sir, pray print my letter as a hirt to the gentle man in question; otherwise, when the dog days come in, ho may be encouraged to strip himself still further—and that would really be offensive. Besides, lad manners are contagious, oven (though you might not think it) in so august an atmosphere as ours. .4 STORY FO/ TIIE CREDULOUS. A clever swindler has been rusticating in the neighbour hood of Manchester. In September last he took lodgings in the village of Barton, and contracted a debt of £65 with his landlord. He represented himself to be a traveller, said his name was Ford, that he was in the Abergele accident, and that he sustained serious injuries, for which he claimed of the railway company £4,000, but for which they offered him only £1,500. He was attended regularly by a medical man, ordered liberally of the neighbouring tradespeople, got largely into debt, and then took a fine house in one of the best districts of Eccles, He ordered furniture of Messrs. Heaps and Harrison, of Manchester, to the extent of £lOO, and, in answer to their inquiry as to references, he said the bill would be paid on its presentation. Notice was given him that the money would be called for on Tuesday, but on Monday the furni ture was removed and the house deserted, Ford and his wife having absconded without paying the £65 he owed to his previous landlord, the rent of the house he took, the £2OO for the furniture, £6O which he owed his doctor, £lO due to his tailor, and a host of other small accounts. It is rumoured in the neighbourhood that the furniture has been sold to a broker, that Ford has received the £1,500, and that he has left the country.—Manchester Courier. A BRUSH WITH CHINESE PIRATES. On January 11th the Algerine, British ship, on the Chinese station, started in search of a missing French man ot-war. After a long cruise amongst the Chinese islands a boat, with the letter "M" upon it, was found. As "Le Menge" was the name of the vessel, this boat was pre sumed to belong to her. Finding a nest of pirates on Tonqua, Islaud, Lieutenant Grey, Commander, attacked them, and burnt four large soak) boats. The next day he landed at another place and burned four more snake boats. Nothing more was done until the sth inst., when just as the Algerine was getting under way, with the intention of going to 3.faca, two Chinese i❑ a small sampan hailed the gun boat, and informed the mandarin that they had only Just got away from some pirates, who had captured theirjunk on the north-east side of the island. The Algerine went round to the spot where the junk was supposed to be, and on arriving there Lieutenant Grey put a party of men into the junk last released, and, proceeding on shore, soon found two junks, from which the pirates ran away as soon as the Algerines came up. Leaving a few men in the released junk, Lieut. Grey pursued the fellows up a small creek, but the water soon • became too slioally for him to proceed. The next morning (Gth inst.) Lieut. Grey again went up the small creek with his party. They had not proceeded very far, however, before they observed men running before them as if watch ing their movements, and shortly after this the 'pilongs' opened a smart and somewhat heavy fire from the front. Sniders wore again called into recognition, and a few of the rascals were seen to tumble over. The pirates, who were evidently fighting for something good, wore bold enough to advance on the little band of Algerines, but they soon turned tail when a few more rounds front the Sniders had been administered. The party and Lieutenant Grey then ad vanced up the creek, found some heavily -armed snake boats, which were, of course, destroyed, and the party returned on board the gunboat. This cruise of the Algerine has perhaps been as fruitful as any which she has made. The results have not been accomplished without much severe work and danger. It is stated that Mr. Traill, the Liberal member for Caithness, intends to resign Lis sc at, and that the Liberal party will bring- fo-ward either his nephew, Mr. J. C. Traill, barrister, of London, or Si: J. G. 'l'. Sinclair, of THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS OP WALES IN TURKEY. Se 'eras correspondents write giving some interesting particulars of the visit of the Prince and the Princess of Wales to Constantinople. The arrival of the royal party and their visits to and reception of the Sultan have already ~ een described. Among other incidents it is mentione that their Royal Highnesses visited the bazaars incognito and, after purchasing many articles, were surprised to iind that the Sultan had given orders that no money should he taken from them, but that he should be ere lited with the full amount. But the great event of , :he week took place when the British Arnhassadoi and his lady gave a ball, which will long bt remembered in Pera. This is described as a most mag nificent affair. The Embassy itself, we are told, was deco rated with an excellence of taste that could not well have been surpassed. Outside, a gas illumination of a largt Prince of Wales's feather, flanked on either side by a crescent, and below by the letters "V. R.," shed a flood of light from the entrance gateway, which, I,ut for the double file of troops and police who lined the way, and for the dense crowd behind them, would have made every stone visible in the street down to Galata-serai. Within, the avenue from the gateway to the palace was lit by huge iron braziers filled with resi nous pinewood, which threw their murky light with most picturesque effect on the crowd of rapidly moving chair bearers, cavasses, and Turkish servants who clustered round the doorway. Here, under a canopy of British bunting, that stretched far across the place, a guard of the Ariadne's marines stood ready to render military honours to to the illustrious guests of the evening, Inside, the glass-roofed quadrangle was draped with British, Ottoman, and other national flags, the royal standard of England and the star and crescent inter changing in friendly folds across the opposite entrance to the court, and above, pendent over all, the personal escutcheon of the ambassador centring a banner of red and white. The floor of the court itself was richly carpeted and bordered all round, except at the doorways, with a thick fringe of flowers and choice exotic plants. The fine band of the Ariadne formed a circle which nearly filled the eastern half of the enclosure, while another strong detachment of her marines and marine artillerymen double flanked the opposite end lead ing to the grand staircase. Here, again, on the first land ing, and up and all round the corridors, a further abundance of the choicest plants, half hiding the many lamps which lighted up the whole a giorno, perfected the floral decora tions. A very large company was assembled, including all the diplomatic corps, and Turkish pashas in abundance. The Sultan was received by the Prince and Princess, attended by Mr. and Mrs. Elliot and Aali Pasha. The Sultan gave his arm to her Royal Highness, while the Prince similarly honoured Mrs. Elliot. Passing through g-rooms, the royal party reac h e d the georgeous drawin the grand saloon, where a dais had been erected. Leading the Princess to the dais, the Sultan sat down in the centre chair, with the Prince on his right. After a short pause a number of diplomatic presentations were made, and then the dancing began, the Prince opening the ball with the Hon. Mrs. Elliot, with the Ambassador and the Princess for their vis-a-vis. The dancing was kept up till after daylight. The supper which had been given is glowingly described ; and it is mentioned that up to the last, the Princess still seemed wonderfully fresh, while the Prince was overheard to declare himself "good for another couple of hours at least." A second supper, or rather breakfast, brought the ball to a close, the general company at once separating after their Royal II ighnesses retired. The ball was with- out comparison the most brilliant given within living memory in the Turkish capital. The opera was also intended to be a very grand affair. Preparations—but preparations scarcely worth the two thousand pounds which had been paid for them -had been made to receive them. A royal box had been pre pared expressly for the occasion, and the exterior of the theatre was illuminated with stars and crescents. Illumin ations, however, extended all along the Grand Rue of Pera, the bamcks were lighted up, and soldiers guarded the footway and the entrance. The opera was the " Afri caine," but it scarcely deserves mention. A CHINESE MANDARIN IN THE WORLD OF PARIS. The Paris correspondent of the Post has obtained an nteresting document. The mandarins in Paris are collecting valuable information, and being men of no ordinary intelligence, it is curious and interesting to hear their remarks cn what they see around them. Mr. and Mrs. Burlingame and the natives of the Chinese mission have given a grand ball, at which what is called " all Paris" assembled. One of the mandarins has written home an account of this fete, and the correspondent has been favoured with a translation of the hieroglyphics, and is permitted to publish the same. Some of the facts and objects conveyed were drawings, the basis of the language, the origin of those horizontal and perpendicular lines with which we barbarians are made familiar by tea chests. The letter commences :—" To my honoured and well-loving brother at Pekin, from his affectionate Te-to-Tum,—My thoughts are borne with wings and arc constantly taking flight for Asia, and now I send you some sheets of written tracings. Be happy ! How shall I begin ? O ur m i ss i on, all of us, have • been well received by the powerful Emperor, by the E m p re ss, by the mandarins of the bamboo stick or Government." The eating characteristics of the French nation first came under criticism. "We have dined," he sa ys, "at their tables, where the stomach is expected to receive with pleasure , some thirty different objects of food, and perhaps ten different liquids. The French and other foreigners eat until they feel very uncomfortable, and require much medicine drugs, as may be seen by the many chemists' shops of this city. They have the same capacity as our pigs. Had you been here the other night and observed bow these people rudelyscrambled for the food at the supper table when we gave our fete ! They put their hands violently on the dishes and disputed with each other most roughly." This leads to some remarks on European manners. "The civilisation of these Chris tians is far behind ours in manners. We shall have to teach the most polite people of the world,' the French, the very elements of good breeding ; we shall also have to correct their vanity and selfishness. I have witnessed much rudeness at the palace of the Tein-tsye, or Emperor's home, where balls and suppers are given also. Our rooms would permit 500 men and women to circulate with case, but we invited 2,000, because to make fashionable people in Paris happy you must make them uncomfortable by crowding, them thickly. They do not wear fans, and look hot and sulky ; this originates, I think, in their wearing light boots, and gluttony. The men generally are very ignorant. The women look at each other with envy and jealousy. The best -mannered people are the waiters and the servants ; the best dressed people the footmen. Heaven forbid that we should import any French social habits." The women, also, and the marriage system, come in for great denunciation. "Oh ! if you had seen the women at our ball. They came half undressed ; that is to say, the upper part of the body was wholly exposed, but they are jealous of shewing their feet, and seem to desire to hide the floor also, as each woman drags about with her a long robe, on which it is not etiquette to place your shoe. Their eyes arc painted round (not all of them), and they use colouring for the lips and a pearl powder for various exposed sections of the frame. They purchase the hair of the dead, and artists work it into various designs; then the women put it on their heads with flowers; and yet they are not a dirty people. The high caste women are allowed every license. At our fe'te they were clasped round the waist by men they knew not, and danced with painful vigour, for it was hot. These females go about the streets alone, and at the age of 15 have lost all modesty. The immorality of the men is deplorable. Whereas we have the one mother wife and the two or three 'travelling wives,' these French have no limited number of wises. With us all the wives live together, but the Frenchman's wives live in different houses, thus causing great immorality and ex p ense . Society is a pu zz l e you can never put together and look at as a whole. The travelling wives get all the jewels and best things." The religion is criticised. " The religion of the Christians is mainly used for form's sake ; few believe in its divinity in the mandarin class, but no one dares express their infidelity. Why should not their missionaries remain at home and convert their own people. Never, I hope, shall we import English and French commercial immorality. Here great banking mandarins combine and get together millions from the pockets of the people. They then make the company bankrupt, and retire with their riches without the bamboo correction. These robbers are at Courts, wearing the Legion of Honour. Here in England the small thief alone is punished. We have very little to learn from the barbarians of Europe excepting their mechanical inventions. God forbid that we should import their man ners and customs. They have much to learn From us, especially in manners. I must finish my written 3peech by telling you this civilisation is now mainly en gaged in inventing warlike instruments, which will enable people to kill each other to extermination. 'Unhappy men ! why are you not satisfied with frightening, each other?" On Tuesday it became widely known in Birming ham that Mr. George Solomon, who has carried on business as George Solomon and Sons, 61, Coustitution• hill, in that city, Lad absconded. Late last Friday he was release I from War wick Gaol, where he had been confined for debt, and it is believed that he sailed on Saturday from Liverpool fcr Ame rica. A large number of forged bills manufactured by Solo man have been put into circulation, to the amount, it is be lieved, of at least £t,500 or £2,000. The forgeries aro on several well-known Birmingham firms, the losers being Fin lu,:a? UO0111012! Ulbster. Mrs. Cooke, the lady at Old Trafford, Manchester, who was injured by an explosion of gas in her house, died on Monday. The lady had lighted a candle to examin e a gas pend,nt where there was au escape, and the explosion was the consequence. At the S.dford Assizes on Wednesday Roger Wilding, 43, rate collector, was charged with embezzling at Oldham, £lO5 155., and the sums of £lOO and £2OO, received by him on account of the corporation of Oldham. The sentence was that the prisoner should be kept to haid labour fur 12 calendar months. A further return relating to Maynooth has been published. It shows the account from 1866 to ISG7• On the 31st of March, 186 G, there was a balance of £232. The receipts were £31,356, of which £26,272 is derived from the annual grant and about £5,000 from estates, farm produce, and other sources. The payments Were £31,187, leaving a balance of £4OO. LOT DOiV, FRIDAY, API?11., IG, 15C9. The discussion provoked last evening upon the Irish Church Bill by Mr. NEWDEGATE was alternately dull and uproarious, tedious and effervescent, gran diloquent and ludicrously common-place, often utterly nonsensical and, for the most part, weari some beyond all possible endurance. The result was a majority more overwhelming than any that has yet pronounced in favour of the immediate disesta blishment of the Irish Church. Instead of support ing the member for North Warwickshire's Proposi tion, for the bill being committed that day six months, or, in other words, for its being altogether shelved the House Ly a clear majority of 126, out of a total of 589 members, Speaker and Tellers included, decided upon the course of legislation in the matter being no longer, in this frivolous and preposterous way, inter rupted. An air of the ridiculous was imparted from the veryoutset to the discussion of the bill last evening by the grandiose manner in which Mr. NEWDEGATE undertook, in his sepulchral tones, to announce the determination of himself and his followers to with stand this sacrilegious onslaught upon the Protestant Establishment in Ireland by the Leaders of her MA- I JESTY'S Government. He wasso fantastically high and mighty in his way of saying this, that instead of excit ing anything like feelings of awe among his hearers, Mr NEWDEGATE only the more effectually appealed totheir sense of the ludicrous ; and instead of eliciting cheers called forth occasional shouts of laughter. For one hour and a half the true-blue member for North Warwickshire trumpeted forth his indignant pro tests against the measure with the lungs of the BOANERGES. By a fantastic contrast thegentle tonesof the gallant Colonel, the memberfor Dungannon, gave out with an, if possible, droller effect, still, the hope less cry of No Surrender. Then followed the mem ber for Kirkcaldy with his previously baulked protest I in regard to the compensation proposed for Maynootli College. This interpolated harangue, the House could hardly muster patience enough to even affect a disposition to tolerate. The House for a whilebecame, as thephrase is, astumultuous as a Bear garden. It was a complication of noises, the hub bub excited by Mr. AYTOUN'S speech, amounting to what is termed on the other side of the Channel a charivari. The tumult at last became simply intolerable. And having been still further enhanced by the uncalled for interposition of the mem bers for Fermanagh and Shoreham, who were both of them sharply rep.itnanded by the Speaker as distinctly out of• order—the Bar had eventually to be cleared, at a most unusual mandate from the chair, by the noble lord the Sergeant-at-Arms. The continuation of the debate assumed afterwards something like a show of decorum up to the taking of the division. Fre quently - there is no doubt of it—with a sense of tediousness amounting to absolute desolation. A maiden speech, that would have otherwise been a success, was delivered at a great deal too much length, though with considerable fluency and self-possession, by Mr. HOLT, the newly elected member for North-East Lancashire. So vio lently was Mr. GREENE, the member for Bury St. Edmunds, opposed to the innovation sketched out by the Government Bill, that in a sort of desperation, as one may say, he frantically talked of the necessity for another General Election being passed through ,be fore the matter under discussion were finally de cided. The fanatical member for Peterborough indulged himself with unmeasured denunciations of Maynooth, what though himself, as a Liberal repre sentative, numbered among the supporters of Mr. GLADSTONE'S measure for the disestablishment of the Protestant Church io Ireland. A worthy contempo rary of Mr. WHALLEY, to wit Mr. CHARLEY, the member for Salford endeavoured immediately after wards in what appeared to be, as one may s:iy, a foreshortened speech to fulfil his own extra Parlia mentary announcement, that he would himself carry retribution home to Mr. GLADSTONE in the sight and hearing of the assembled House of Commons. Somehow in spite of all this Mr. GLADSTONE seems to have weathered the storm of the member for Sal ford's wrath just as Mr. DISRAELI has failed to be extinguished by the pitiless influence of the new member for the city of Ox ford, Mr. VERNON HARcourtT, who was supposed by some people to have entered the House of Com mons for the express purpose of sweeping out of view the political existence of the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire. About the only rational speech last evening against the bill was the one de livered by the nobleVisc3unt the member for Liverpool, but the force of folly was:clearly reviving when the member for Coleraine could only retort upon those who groaned under the infliction of his speech by comparing theircries of Oh, oh," to the like monosyl lables uttered years ago in Vauxhall-gardens on the soaring and explosion of the fireworks. It was with a profound sense of relief that the House became aware at last that Mr. GLADSTONE had risen to his feet for the purpose of rapidly winding up a singu- larly discursive and perfunctory discussion upon a measure about the eventual passing of which through Committee, orindeed through the honse,there are not entertained • seriously two opiniOns. Mr. DISRAELI'S observations were still briefer than those of the Prime Minister, the leader of the Opposition plainly enough intimating his preparedness for a result on the approaching division even worse than that arrived at through the division on the second reading. An anticipation fully justified by the clear majority last night of 126 on the side of the Go- vernment. AN interesting scene was witnessed on Tuesday at the London Terminus of the Midland Railway. Three hundred and twenty-seven men, women, and children, London artisans, labourers, and their fami lies quitted a capital which can furnish them no subsistence, and started on the journey to Canada. Their passages will be paid, they will not be landed penniless, and everything has been provided to give them a fair start in the labour market of the New World. The benevolent ladies and gentlemen who are trying this experiment are applying a practical remedy to a practical evil. The East-end of London has for some time past been under a cloud. For the idle and the drunken there is no hope, either in the metropolis, in Canada, or elsewhere; but un doubtedly many thousands of the vast population inhabiting the Tower Hamlets have suffered from sheer want of employment, The late commercial crisis injuriously affected the labour market. More than this, the industry of East London has for some time been in process of decay. It was only in the nature of things that the shipbuilding and some of the manufactures of the Tower Hamlets should dis appear from a district where coal is very dear, and flourish only where the staple commodity is cheap. The decline of manufacturing industry in East London has of late been accelerated by strikes, collapse in the money market, and the like ; but a natural law beyond human control would have brought it to pass in the end. A large surplus population, desirous of work, but unable to find it, has been thrown on the poor rates. It is with this good labour in the wrong place, and not with paupers proper, that the emigration scheme proposes to deal. The movement is popular in East London. , It is not un natural that the honest poor should prefer to live in a strange land to starving in the mother country ; and hence the applications for a passage to the West THE CHURCH CONFERENCE AT DUBLIN' The Dublin Church Conference 0,, Wednesday devnt e4 itself to criticisms of the details of the Irish Church Di ll ' That which seemed most to grieve the hearts o f the speakers was the great power to be given to the comm ie ' sioners. The Earl of Courtown moved a resolution declaring that to give such arbitrary power was tyrannie l l and oppres s i ve . H e d enounced very energetically that part of the bill. The eomplant was then put by the seconder of the r eso l u ti on . " E very communion table an al' plate, every church Bible and - Prayer-book, everything t° which any one of them had subscribed, and invested i° Government stock for the purposes of the worship of G° 43 ' would be all swept into the net of these commissione re ' The function with which they were invested was to listeo to the humbl e app li cat i ons of the members of the Chur ch when they came to ask for their own ; and not by but at their own discretion, and without any possibiliti of appeal, these commissioners shall decide w hetlo r they shall give back property or keep it for the P I E poses of the Act. Ire drew their attention specially to those words, ' the purposes of the Act.' In ev er !, other court of justice th e j u d ge stood unconcerned bet W ee" the litigants, but here the litigants were the disf )°e. sessed claimants on the one side, and on the other the judge, who was als o a liti gant. In every British cour t °i justice, the judge, in deciding rights of property, we : bound to respect th e p r i nc i p l es of Magna Charts, bu t these commissioners were not required to know the lav i°f the land. And whether they knew the law or not, th e y were at perfect liberty to trample it under their fe et ' No court could interfere to prevent or redress the grievances which their discretion might inflict upon th e Church." The LORD PRIMATE did not allow any of these unadv ifP able denunciations which have so repeatedly been CO D, demned in the mouths of defenders of the Churl In a sp eec h by M r . James Spaight, J.P., the Dublin fil a reports : " The memory of the statesman who framed the bill would yet, wherever Prote6tantism was knower, covered with execra ti on, b ut the principle he "ht attacked would surv i ve. Mr. Gladstone taig:i succeed--it might be decreed in the providence God that be should—but he would be called DP° : account for his c on d uc t t o t hi s country. He might leave - sad and ghastly monument behind him, but he would 1) 4 6 called to his great account. and it would require no mar tablet to—." The speaker had got so far when the Archbish o p o f A rmag h i nterfered, declaring that the Iv' servations were i rre l evant, and h i nting to the 'non. gel lt ' e ., man that h e m i g ht s i t down. Then came a M r . .Anthoei Traill, who wanted to add to the resolution a declaration that the Church would refuse to form itself in t° ,,. o . governing body to treat with the commissioners. This a l b ; the Archbishop thought could not he well passed by the meeting. It would be taking a leap in the dark. TJ," - ; mately the motion was withdrawn. In the course of Pi' discussion the Primate declared authoritatively that tb e t rumour that the bishops were not going to vote agn irifl the bill in the Hou se o f L ords was untrue. The resolu tio' ., being passed, another was put to the meeting, that " the proposed plan. o 7 con p ensa ti on was harsh and inequitable' disregarding, as it d oes , present rights and future 21 4 . Deets." against t 4 Lord ORANMORE and BROWNE, in declaiming ag‘b.— 4 interference with vested interests, denounced in v e .7, strong language the party in favour of the bill. P; characterised it as the democratic party. " The cond uc of the Ritualists, wh o h a d un d er t a k en to teach Protestan',, the worst errors of the Church of Rome, had alienated nla ni ' who confounded their teaching with that of the Char'it; These parties unfort una t e l y were un i te d w i th Socialists ,Wi philosophers, and with the Ultramontane party, w ho ph'', them only for this common purpose, the separation of Chu ru. ' and State, and the abrogation of those rights which W el guaranteed by every tr ea ty an d every b ond which COw bind taan to man and country to country. These 11161 .4 were led by Mr. B r i g ht , w h ose avowed object was to naT on our institutions until they became Americanised." I conclusion, the noble lord said that if the Protestants 0 Ireland were to be brought under foreign domination*" the attempt to submit them to the insulting and degil b ing rule o f the Ultramontane clergy were su ccess f u l — would be alienat e d f rom t h e i r present attachment to 1 British Crown. In closing the Irish Church Conference on Wedne o(l l evening, the Archbishop of Dublin said that they W i g' be vanqui s h e d, b ut at least they would not be accoraPli ce4 in their own overthrow. d A CONVENIENT AR RANGEMENT.—it is P" that two of the most popular Independent ministers London—the Rev. Dr. Raleigh, of Canonbury (w in) 6 reputed to be i n th e receipt of a larger professional ine°"-h than any o th er Di ssenting minister in England), and n,O Rev. Mr. J ones, of Camden Town—have hit upon a dent n t for mitigatin g th e l a b our of their preparations for pulps duty. It is proposed that each should preach in the mornw in his ow n p u l p i t, and in the evening in that of the ot her. Thus each preaches twice, but only prepares one serniel i ' PRINCE LEOPOLD. —We h ave it on the b e b l i t authority that the s t a t e o f P r i nce Leopold's health is no means so precarious as the public have been lea believe, from the especial care taken in conveying b is Royal Highness to Windsor. Th ere had been last vle elt W hir a slight return of the int erna l h aemorrhage from vili're the Prince had recently suff ere d , and it was thought the 11, would be less fatigue in a journey by the road than in broken one by rail. Th e P r i nce has not sustained 1:11 f i$ relapse since his return to Windsor, and is now enjor his usual health.—The Lancet. „ THE YACHT RACE. —The .New York lierata, ..„01$ writes with some authority on yachting matters, has S e 6 1 comments on the hit c h w hi ch has occurred in the pr0Pe4,614 Anglo-American yacht race across the Atlantic. o point in disput e i s thi s : By New York measurementi t o Dauntless, whi c h i s to compete with Mr. Ashlnif;oo yacht, is ab ou t th e same tonnage as the Cambria, wil;e h. by Thames mea surement she is double the size. Mm- r' iS bury, taking th e measurement of his own country he therefore ca ll e d upon to compete with a vessel wilic'o t believes t o b e h eav i er in tonnage than his own. The ibiS modes of meas urement ought to be equalised, blitoe• r cannot be don e i n time for the proposed the and Mr. Ashbury has ref erre d t h e whole dispute t°tber arbitrament of the yacht congress. The Herald—in ° words, Mr. Bennett —admits that Mr. AshburY I himself hand some l y i n the attitude of a man who dee. rescos only fair play." At the same time ib warns Ame r ' a yachtsmen n o t t o expect easy victories this summer -AO their Engli s h cous i ns. The English yacht is built on 'O, lines, while the American yacht is broad and avoids deP uß The writer observes that both models may have been ogr gested by diff eren t waters and different winds. not our mod e l b e t h e b est in our own broad rivers, °tot the long sw ee p o f t h e ocean, and the English model in such ch o ppi ng seas as the Channel?" The forthco,e— -conteBt4 will perhAps throw light oil Oils Question. GOVERAMENT AND THE TELEGRAPO I On Thursday Mr, Russell Gurney, Mr. rattison• and Mr. Harrison, the referee and arbitrators appointed t decide upon th e amoun t th a t oug h t to b e pa id to de t , the Telegraphs Act of last year by the no, master-General to Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited/ met again in one of the committee-rooms of the House b Commons, Mr. Reuter is at present possessed of ae s marine telegraph f rom L owes t o ft to N or d er, i n Noll !, Germany, which is called the Norderney Cable. In ( 1, nection with this h e h as en t ere d i nto an arrangemen t w"" the Electric Telegraph Company, by virtue of which the latter have laid down aline of telegraphic wires from 1 4° u. don to Lowestoft, and are to work them for ten Ye 3r3 ' The chief question for the arbitrators to deal with refers to the Norderney C a bl e , th e agreement ma d e bY the, Post Office proposing, to pay to Reuter twenty Ye ari purchase of the amount o f th e ne t pro fi ts d er i ve d bY r secured to the company from the transmission of messag e through the cable, such profits being based on the 01 1 ' 1. rience of the month of March of last year, and to paY twenty years' purchase of the profits determined by t" arbitrators to be the probable profits to be derived bY the company under its contracts with the Indo-Europ ean Telegraph, which is not yet at work, or even entirely to ur strutted. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Denison, Q-C1 Mr. Serjeant S argoo d, an d M r. Si mpson appe ared for the Gov ernmen t ; an d M r. V ernon Harcourt, Q.C., Mr. Pollock, Q.C., and Mr. Bone / for Reuter's Telegram Company. Mr. Vo le !: the well-known electrician, was called this morning I° ' the purpose of being cross-examined by Mr. Denis°n. As engineer of the Direct English-Indian Telegraph C° l° ; pany, he expressed the opinion that when commerciY' ccnfidence was generally established in the City shares of the comp an y wou ld b e b r i skly taken up. If he 110' the control of the line throughout in his own hands be would undertake to send a message through in twa t / minutes with ease. To Mr. Pollock, the witness said tbst not only had not the whole of the shares in his coner 3s9 been subs cr ib e d f or, b ut t h e deposit money that had been paid h a d b een returned. In his opinion 3' messages per day would be sent daily hetwee u this country and India by the Direct English-Indian line' according to calculations which had been carefully mad e ' The original agreement signed by Mr. Scudamore for the Post Office, and Mr. Vernon Harcourt for Mr. Reut er ' was formally put in. It was in consequen ce of this agreement that the opposition of Reuter. Telegram Company before th e comm itt ee w hi c h sa t las t . year, was withdrawn. Along argument was then addressed to the referee and arbitrators by Mr. Denison, to s teel that a sum less than that representing twenty years' V IP chase would be sufficient for the Government to pay Reuter's Telegram Company. io COMI passed off i n in the d ay ti A remark a bj Which nharq the last fort' aignificant oi part arrange( the easiness to be temp or; The coma] Dover Bill i„ next. There a mong the affair someth p ro fessed to s regards a f ew sense of the any one who Professional g The return week ended results when Rost .. PuLlio deposits'p Other deposits. On the other Government s( ties..... Other SeCtlliii; Notes unemploj The amount o being a decre bullion in both a decrease of preceding ret; Subjoined n of the Bank o and French 11 last year : Bullion Reserve ...... Notes in eireu . ft.,ts of discou Consols French Rent.% The followit and bills clear( the week endir Thursday, Friday, A Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Weduesda .We are i n f or tildes) of i usu l Atlantic Teleg the en su i ng sun the U n it e d S tat Telegr a ph Cot pant's works. A consignin( pared by the pany, arrived ii bourne. A prospectus has been issu amount is 11,1 500 d., bearing, scription price i burnable at par and both inters the Dutch Govi be received to Monday, in An A dividend c the creditors of surance Compa It is stated t commercial circ posed reductioi Prussia and Ea blished a penny Austria, but re, the United Stai which countries very moderate Prussia to Engl high rate of 6d via Ostend, a letters sent to I Prussian provii Calais, and we groschen (4d.) of that a letter to London cos a letter of the s Loudon via Ca land 6d. The Neue F of the Austrt Rentes is proc and that it is be completed recut estimate duly pay the co The adjourns Land Company The fifth ordi Han Mortgage, (Limited), will BRITISJI tiO VERNISIEN T 3 per Cent. Couso hDitto for Aceou owent. R e d ue 3 per Cent New 2i per Ce n t. Do. a per Con ilunuitios SO yrs, Do. fo r 3 0 yry e Do (Rod Sea To Ezetroqur Bills, ; I Do. Batik of Eu g l9.nd Do. opening ..... 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