The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-03 00:00:00

The Times, in commenting on the recent outrages In Ireland, observes that when a very great evil is to be traced to its source in order to extinguish it, it is not plea. sant to be met by a continual succession of negatives. The real source of the Irish mischief is not land, it is not religion, it is not money, it is not this, it is not that ; it is nothing that can be touched, seen, named, or described. The writers and orators who reprehend British obtuse. ness or shortsightedness when it attempts to inves tigate the mystery may succeed in stopping us at every point, but they do not mend the matter. They only make it worse. They only succeed in proving that any man may shoot any other man for anything in Ireland, and that the presumption of justice will always be in his favour. The worst aspect of these outrages is that which regards the people themselves. That landowners should be made miserable, unsympathetic, and harsh, and that now and then their fears should prove too well-founded, bad as it may be, is yet a less evil than the moral debasement of a whole race. England, as the leading part of the Empire, has been held answerable, in proportion to her power, for the moral condition of the Irish. "Are they murderers? Then whose fault is it ? " With regard to the past, it has been too much overlooked that Ireland has always been unable to do much for itself, but able to do a good deal to spoil the work of others. There never was any states man or class in this country who could do much for Ire land, whatever their intentions might be ; and the difficulties have always been as much from Ireland as on this side. We hope for the best when we repair manifest grievances and redress palpable wrongs. But even here philosophers tell us we shall have to pay up arrears in the injurious effects of a triumph justly extorted from us. A time will, however, come, and we trust it will come soon, when the Voice of Imperial law and the hand of Imperial justice will be alike strengthened by the possession of a better conscience, and then possibly they will be better respected in Ireland. The Standard says that an impartial and delibera comparison of the speeches delivered by the leaders of the Opposition on Friday night, and the replies of the mem bers of the Government in the two Houses of Parliament, will convince every man that the allegation against the policy of Mr. Gladstone has been fully sustained, and that the answer is most feeble and insincere. The case against the Government is this. They succeeded to office with Ireland more than usually tranquil and contented. The Fenian conspiracy had been effectually suppressed by the prompt and vigorous measures of the Conser vative Government. The principal leaders of the movement were in prison, and the neck of the rebel lion was broken. So peaceful and orderly was the state of Ireland that one of the first things promised by Mr. Gladstone was that he should not ask for a renewal of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. We ask every man not blinded by party prejudices to consider whether the result has verified these predictions. The Liberal (lovernment, with its programme of heroic remedies, has been in existence for barely six months. In those six months what has been the condition of Ireland ? One of the first acts of Mr. Gladstone, who had some reason for trusting that the Fenians would no longer be his enemies, was to let loose a batch of the principal criminals, whose apprehension and trial had cost the country so much trouble, anxiety, and expense. The effect of this notable piece of clemency we are all able to perceive in the acts and words of the released prisoners and of their friends. Is not Mr. Gladstone's bill intended to administer to the relief of the Irish discontent ? But, if so, it is not too early to look for some signs of the coming amendment in the Irish con dition. In what perverse spirit are the Irish breaking out into a new and more violent course of disorders, precisely I when the axe is being laid to the root of what we are told is the great national evil—the one immediate and pressing abuse? The Herald, referring to a recent article by a contem porary, says what Mr. Gladstone means by " justice to Ireland" he has already told us, and failing any other definition by our contemporary, we must needs fall hack upon it. Justice to Ireland, in Liberal parlance, means governing Ireland according to the wishes of the majority of the Irish people. What the wishes of the majority of the Irish people are, now that they have been fostered and abetted by Mr. Gladstone's and our contemporary's policy, our contemporary shews plainly enough that it knows. As we have said, it looks forward to an "imminent and deadly struggle with Ultramontane aggres sions, repeal agitation, agrarian crime, and Fenian madness." In other words, after encouraging " repeal agitation, agrarian crime, and Fenian madness into open revolt by our own gratuitous legislation —or rather by the gratuitous legislation of one party in the State, for its own mere party purposes—baying granted them what they never asked for, pretending that we did so because we were afraid of them, and thus goaded them into asking for what they do want and we never intend to grant, simply because we are in reality not afraid of them at all, let us exterminate them and drench the island in blood, in order to extricate ourselves from a diffionity of our own creating ! And this is—justice to Ireland ! It is the most extraordinary form of justice, perhaps, ever presented to a people. Where the people happen to he ignorant and impetuous, it is sure to bring about the results for which it professes to be working. The Telegraph thinks it is useless to conceal a fact which everybody is repeating—Mr. Brig,lit's speech of Friday night was scarcely felicitous. That remarkable address shews the price which we must pay for the luxury of having in the Cabinet a man who, while gifted with rare political genius, has not been trained in the restraints and trammels of official life. Mentally, Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Hardy might have rubbed their hands with the fierce glee of faction when they heard Mr. Bright declare that, not the Prime Minister, but he, was ready to propose a plan by which justice might be done to the cultivators of the Irish soil. Later in the evening Mr. Hardy scornfully asked who was Prime Minister of England--Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Bright ? And in a blast of rhetorical indignation the Tory lieutenant inquired whether Mr. Bright was so assuredly the dictator of the Cabinet as to possess the right of speaking in the name of the Government, when he announced that he would pro pose a scheme for the settlement of the Irish land dispute, and when, with no uncertain finger, he pointed to that scheme with which his name is specially identified. Mr. Gladstone's answer was a curt "No." To Tory ears the monosyllable must have been singularly sweet, since it seemed to indicate that the unanimity of the present Cabinet is not proportioned to its intellectual and oratorical strength. Look ing to Mr. Bright's training, we Cannot affect wonder at the indiscretion of his unguarded statement; nor can we suppose that he deliberately intends to act in defiance of his colleagues. We simply believe that the unlucky sentences involved no more serious fault than a slip of the tongue. Nevertheless, it was an untoward slip that should not occur again. Mr. Bright will doubtless see, that to strengthen the greatest Ministry which the country has known for a generation, the President of the Board of Trade must in practice recognise the fact that there is a time for silence as well as for speech. The Star defends Mr. Bright from the attacks made upon his recent speech on Ireland. All that Mr. Bright did on Friday was to repeat his confession of faith in reply to one of the grossest attacks ever made upon the civic probity and discretion of a statesman. 'We do not believe any member of the Government was offended. It is not members of the Government who will complain of these reiterations of Mr. 13right's notorious opinions. They understand each other thoroughly, and will agree upon an Irish land measure without more difficulty than they experienced in framing the Irish Church Bill. It is quite true that Mr. Gladstone said "No" when Mr. Hardy asked whether Mr. Bright had authority to an nounce the policy of the Cabinet ; but considering that he had made no announcement whatever, and that the firm and avowed resolve of the Government was that no announcement should be made, there was nothing remarkable in this incident. Office is a thing for which Mr. Bright would never sacrifice a conviction, but lie is the last man while in office to be insensible to cor porate responsibility or to be wanting in loyalty to his l ea der. A competent statesmen will always be as capable e explaining why he agrees to something short of the t,oliey which he has theoretically supported as he is of elucidating that policy itself. But office would be spurned Ly the highest order of public men if the bare possibility that they may have hereafter to concur in a compromise avere held to require such a concealment or suppression of their present opinions as would darken, s t arve, and enfeeble the public mind which they are bound to enlighten and to invigorate. The Times says that if the speech of Mr. Sumner against the Alabama Claims Treaty purported to b e a mere expression of personal opinion, it would have deserved less motice. When indictments of this kind are draw n u p b y no individual, on his own responsibility, against a whol e Nation, they are best answered by a i drilled silence. Sumner, howe , :er, fills no ordinary position in the United States Legislature. Ilk speech, though delivered tn Secret Session, was forthw;th published by order ut the Senate, and has already been republished in this country. His sentiments were not only Adopted expressly by several of his colleagues, but Afterwardi received an apparei&t ratification from an Almost unanimous vote. Whether Mr. Sumner has sue. seeded in reaching a point of view from which he can see the . question in its real proportions the world must now dec:T o us he seems to-have greatly weakened the case ungthally presented by Mr. Adams. I;efore that case is again conside re d, it w ill nee d to b e care f u ll y str i ppe d o f r . Sumner's passionate arguments in aggravation of ~ larn. ges. Thus limit e d, it w ill b e en t er t a i ne d b y th e .I.4l.tish Governm en t an d peop l e w i t h a sincere desire to satisfy any le g iti ma t e d emands which can be established ssu mour iust us eith er i n a C ourt of Equity or - in a Court of A SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, MAD ,4:IE BAC 11 T:L. In the Court of Que ,. ..4 Bench on Satuvtlay (sittings in )anco, before the Lord Chief Justice, and Justiu , s Mellor, Lush, and Hayes), the case of "The Queen v. Madame Rachel" came on upon a writ of error to quash the convic ion. Madame Rachel, it will be remembered, was tried )efore Mr. Commissioner Eerr, at the Old :Bailey, con :ictecl, and sentenced to penal servitude for her frauds won Mrs. Borrodaile. Mr. Mellish, Q.C., and Mr. Gibbons appeared for the ?risoner; the Solicitor-General, Mr. Archbold, and Mr Poland appeared for the Crown. Mr. Mellish said that this was a writ of error differing from these which usually came before the court, because it did not depend upon the indictment or the findingef the fury, but entirely upon the constitution of the court before Nhom she was tried. The Act under which the Criminal T!ourt was constituted made it imperative that two judges should preside at the trials and determine them. Three questions arose. The first and principal one was, vhether the Fame two judges should not sit throughout he trial, no matter how many days it lasted, or whether me could change each dey; secondly, whether the Act uthorised different courts to he held, or whether it con stituted only the establidiment of one court ; and, thirdly, Ahether the office of judge of the Sheriff's Court (Mr. \Talc°lm Kerr) was not, abolished by the numerous A.cts that had been passed in reference to sheriff's :ourts. It appeared from the writ of error that Mr. e.osrnissioner Kerr sat throughout the three days' trial )ut the other judge the alderman changed each day. The Lord Chief Justice : So that there never was the tame two judges each day. I see a strange expression in he case that Mr. Commissioner Kerr is called the " judi president." Mr. Mellish : It seems to be a new creation. I know of so presidency amongst the judges of the superior courts, rhey sit according to seniority, hut they have equal juris liction and authority. The Lord Chief Justice : I took it as being something seculiar to the constitution of the court. It is a term mknown to the law. Mr. Mellish said that in the celebrated trial of the seven )ishops the four judges summed up and laid down lifferent laws, and left the poor jury to find out the law he best way they could. He was told that in Smith )'Brien's case for high treason that more than one judge vho tried the case made remarks to the jury. The Lord Chief Justice said that in a trial at the tar, f one judge differed from what another judge said, he was bound to express his dissent. Mr. Mellish, in continuation, read the first section of he 4th and 45th William IV., c. 36, which constituted the central Criminal Court, and named the justices—viz., the ford Mayor for the time being, the Lord Chancellor, he Second Keeper of the Great Seal, and all the judges or the time being of the Court of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, the Commissioners in 3ankruptcy, the Judge of the Court of Admiralty, the Dean of Arches, the Aldermen of the City . of London, the Recorder, the Common Serjeant, the Judge of the iheriff's Court of the City of London for the time being, )r any person or persons who bath or shall have been Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or judge of any of the ruperior courts of Westminster, together with such eersons as might be from time to time appointed by any eneral commission. The Lord Chief Justice asked what there was to chew hat an alderman could sit at all ? Mr. Mellish said the Act stated the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London were on the list of judges n that Act, and any two or more of them were to form a 1110111111. The Lord Chief Justice said he might take this oppor unity to say that should the recommendations of the fudicatuze Commission he carried out all the necessity for zommissions would be abolished. Mr. Justice Mellor asked whether if two superior 'edges were sitting with three aldermen the three latter ,ould overrule tho decision of the judges. Mr. Mellish : Certainly. Mr. Justice Mellor : Then all I can say is that it would )e the last time that they would officiate. Ido not {now how it is with other judges, but I never remember la alderman interfering in any way with the actual .entence. I have always refused to pass sentence in •he absence of an alderman. But there arises this luestion—whether an alderman in another part of the minding may not be considered " constructively" )resent ? Mr. Mellish : That is the cemmcn•sense view of the Mr. Justice Lush : In the case of two arbitrators they must sit together during the whole inquiry ; otherwise Their decision would be invalid. The Lord Chief Justice : In practice the superior judges io not consult the alderman, but proceed to deliver the charge as though they were not present. Mr. Mellish: But the question is whether that practice s to override an Act of rarliament when the contrary is aid clown as law. The Lord Chief Justice: If your argument is carried rut, tlin . indso wrmid have to .or...it ttau wilormw n before proceeded to state the law of the case. Mr. Mellish said be scarcely Eked to define the poker rf the alderman. In Ihe Court of Criminal Appeal to 'trash or affirm a conviction there were teary judges ; and he nreed this as sheaving the intention of the Legislature in this particular court. Ile questioned that there was any power given to divide the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court ; for it was expressly stated that the ca.ses were to be tried in " a court." Ile very much questioned that the power of the court could be divided. In the case of the Recorders, there was a statute passed for division of courts for doing business, and there was also a special Act to divide the jurisdiction of the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer ; but he nowhere found that anything had been done as regarded the Central Criminal Court. At assizes serjeants and Queen's counsel sit under a com mission. Here the Act constitutes a court, which is called "The Central Criminal Court"—a material dif ference. There was no power given to the superior judges to nominate who was to sit in the City as at commis sion of assize. Mr. Justice Lush : If your argument is right, the two ;udges at assize would have no power to relieve each other by dividing the criminal business between them when the civil had been disposed of. Mr. Mellish : I know that nothing could be more revolu tionary than what I propose to establish. But the ques tion is raised, and I am here to argue it ; and it is well that this should be definitely settled. The Lord Chief Justice said that at the Old Bailey the superior judges sat in one room, and either the Recorder or the Common Serjeant in the other, and they sat both in the morning and in the evening, so that there was a division of the Old Bailey into two distinct courts. The Solicitor-General replied to the arguments of Mr. Mellish. He said there were two questions—first, as to whether the two judges were always to be the same; and, second, whether the court could divide itself. He should put forward this proposition : That the commission was directed to persons as component parts of a court, and unless there be such difference as at a quarter iessions where it was necessary to have a quorum—the power resided in each member of the court, and the juris diction to be exercised by each member of the court. It was not likely that there should have leen a continual breach of law by the judges who had attended the City of London for so many years. The practice had been that although the judge . who tried the case had always been the same, yet the officer arranged how he pleased, and it was not necessary for the second judge to remain, although it took two to form a quorum. ,He contended that under the commission each member of the court is clothed with the whole power of the court. Each person is supposed to represent the whole court, who are supposed to be constructively present. This was a highly technical objection, and he argued that his learned friend should shew that the letter of the Act of Parlia ment had been violated. The Lord Chief Justice : The argument of Mr. Mellish was that, by a statutory Act, the cause is to be tried before udgee, who are to sit and try it ; and if one of them should be absent, the question is whether there can be that concurrence which the statute requires. The Solicitor-General : This was the well-known prac tice of the court at that time ; and I contend that the fraraers of the Act would have stated that the sitting of one would have been invalid. But for the second section every mem ber of the court would be clothed with the functions of the whole court. The Lord Chief Justice : The framers of the Act might have said one member would constitute a court. SuppJs e that an alderman came as second commissioner on the first day, and another alderman on the second, and so o n , would not that second or third person be guilty of gross misconduct if he should proceed to address the jury when he had not heard all the facts of the case? I think the framers meant to have two persons durieg the whole time. The solicitor-General: In that case the alderman would he guilty of gross misconduct. But your lord ships would overrule that, just in the same way as was done when Mr. Justice Keating was called upon to address the court at ten o'clock :.t night, it then I; recrig held that he eculd not do justice to his client. Tl:e learned Solicitor-General then went on at great length to show that the objection taken to the jurisdiction of llcr. Commissioner Kerr, on the ground that he was judge of the Sheriff's Court, was not well founded. In conclusion, he said there had not been a single case where a man had been triel for a capital offence that this doctrine of Mr. Mellish would not apply to, and they bad been, therefore, hung without the slightest authority. He. however, thought he had already shown that there ought . :t4oLaih t 4 verdit:rtelf)oijet4hoea-Ctia'rosiiyin. case. , 44, said THE SUN, LOND')N, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1869. "true construction of the Act of Parliament was that two :judges should sit during the whole time ; and this not :having been done, he contended that Madame Rachel .. , .1307:a DT ,, TURT:ANCES :N T:Y: ::;: -- i , ! -, 1: - AN: -, ,. - bad been wrongly convicted, there being this error upon p ace the ibae , , ;,_ ~ :,. e,,,ren A riot has taken 1 in '-' ' ' •'''' the record. hi:Ale-Set Dutch and Belgian workmen. 'l it, ,atr er hive The Solicitor-General said before their lordships consi shown themselves willing to work for low wace's, and the dered their verdict he wished to intimate that as the Dutch accordingly resolved to drive them out of ttw Central Criminal Court sat on Monday, it would be con. country. A detachment of 300, armed with divers tools, ve:aient to have a decision on the second obj e cti on , v i z., NAVAL AND MILITARY ITEMS. at. the Belgian men in their quarters, but th - latts,r, th 3 right of division of the jurisdiction of th e courts . The Army and Navy Gazette says that the inten outnumbered, prudently retired. Several men were, • The Lord Chief Justice said they had come to the con- bon of appointing Rear-Admiral Loring to Ports however, w ounded, but the information of the Arenir mouth dockyard is abandoned, and that a successor cl asion that the Central Criminal Court might sit and Nationale,to the effect that five had been killed, is not con- to Rear-Admiral Wellesley will probably be found ivide itself as it had done heretofore, and therefore Mr. firmed, not very far from Whitehall. The same paper commissioner Kerr bad not been superseded by any A SCLAVONIAN CONSPIR ACY. believes that it is not true that Sir Edward statutory enactment. They, however, reserved the point According to intelligence received by the Posen Journal, Wetherall le - -,s relinquished his command to tak e whether he could sit when the Sheriff's Court, o f w hi c h the Rus_sian Government has dis covere d th e ex i s t ence of comteand of a division in India. The Broad Arrow ,he was judge, had not been abolished. a widespread Sclavonian conspiracy. Th e obj ec t of this states that Lord Clarence Paget, Commander-in-Chief - .7. plot is the establishment of a Sclavonian Federal Republic, of the Mediterranean squadron, struck his flag on the with Moscow, Warsaw, Wilna, and Kiew for its capitals. 28th, and left Malta for England vie Naples. These cities are at such distances that the territory LITERARY NEWS. A letter in the Manchester Guardian sny3:—" It is useless (includine• them would comprise th e grea t er par t o f R uss i a The old- establlcd publishing business of Virtue I Europe. Many arrests h ave b een ma d e . and. Co., including St. Paul's Alaca.:ine, but not the to deny that alarm, always contagious an d sure to b e can ,!, TIIE " ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION" IN EG ITT. Art Journal , is to be transferred to one of the , gerated ~,y political feeling, pervad es th e propr i etary class There can now be no doubt th a t th e a tt emp t t o assaFe - who are connected v. ith Ireland. O ne instance has come• youngest, and quite the . most energetic, of the to. my knowledge of a Roman C at h o li c, of noble family, sinate the Viceroy of Egypt was a comp l e t e f arce. Th e London publishing firms, Messrs. Strahan. This firm, it will be remembered, lately bought the copy director of the theatre found the Government subvention v.-110, having purchased in the Encumbered Estates right of Mr. Temr-son's works for a large sum. too small to keep his . head above water, and he therefore Court some property, which is situated in ono of determined to increase it by earning a reward for "saving The relation between the two houses has long been the disturh.d counties, has for some time leen laying out very close. the Viceroy. The bomb an d it s a d m i ra bl e a large sum of money in i m p rovements. Last year ho gave life "of the s notice to quit to a ten ant o f a small grass frm which arrangements under the Vi cero y' s c h a i r wa only ho wished to include i n hi s par k . T he man has been in -con- a plot to be revealed by th e p l o tt er. The director himself carried out all the details, and NATIONAL SPORTS. —___„----4, sequence dispossessed, an d t h e li fe of the proprietor has been The last day of the Newmarket First Spring Meeting threatened in such a manner that his family have insisted on so completely did he arrange the mise en sane that presented one or two noteworthy incidents. The most im the danger of an accident converting the plot into a portant event, the Newmarket Stakes, throws rather a curious Lis rdinauishing the idea of a residence in Ireland." reality was by no means slight. light on the Two Thousand running. Standard Bearer was THE IRISH LAND LAWS DEBATE, last but one on Tuesday, beaten at least 100 yards from Tasman ; but he defeated this horse in the Newmarket Undoubtedly the two subjects which now require Stakes, thou g h o dd s were l a id up o n T asman . Bl ues ki n ' s the gravest attention of Parli a m en t an d th e country easy triumph for the £2OO plate made iEgean a firmer favou are the Alabama claims and the state of Ireland. rate for the Chester Cup, a trial between these two having The latter was before the House of eommons on proved very favourable to YEgean. The Field fears that Friday night, and forms the topic of the principal Tasman i,he nothing oe i x s tev t leaders in the journals. No one can be surprised produce of n importancefield ofi about 18, of whom psix hivee race may prod that the subject was pressed on the attention of the been distinctly established ahead of the rest as the leading Government; but the Daily News charges the favourites. These are Paul Jones, the winner of the Cup Opposition—unjustly we c anno t b u t thi n k— w ith l as t y ear, "E gean, Kn i ght of the Garter, St. Mungo, Romp using the subject simply- for the purpose of ing Girl, and Fairwiud. Up o Friday t evening ./E l gfean firsthad at Jones to i in delaying the Church Bill. The Times, on the other a hand, not only justifies the debate, but demands a .place slig lint advantage betting, being au l Uu ' t e tl s ie tr y n o g u g n e ge o r r horse proveda little upon this figure in consequence of Blue positive statement of what the Government intend sein's easy victory. Nothing came near these two. Knight to do. Individual members of the Ministry may give of the Garter stood at 7to 1, but though backers would their opinion, but what is wanted is a concrete policy. have accorded support at a point more, they . could not obtain it. . Mungo nnd Romping Girl re The Spectator is very severe on Mr. Bright for giving each at 9 to ISt and Fairwind at 10 to 1. The out that he had a scheme in embryo : training reports are favourable in the cases of all these " This curious and irregular independence of his chief horses. The owner of Paul Jones has declared himself on one of the most delicate and difficult questions of the quite satisfied with what the horse is doing, and he himself day must, we should fear, lead to misunderstanding, if appears perfectly sanguine as to the result. No horse could not disputes, in the Government. Mr. Bright always be doing better than the JEgeati. During most of the week feels too little of the sense of corporate responsibility he has been led by Distaff in two- mile gallop~, accornpaniod belonging to his station, and of the loyalty which a col- occasionally by Birthday. With his very light weight it is league owes to a leader." believed that he can scarcely lose. Knight of the Garter is The question whether the land-laws have led to the also doing well. Of Romping Girl the Sportsman says:— disturbances and the general insecurity of the The account , s ttei N i vhich reach us o f thi s filly aro o f country is still fiercely debated. Quite a discussion the e mostbeen flattering ou, 1h duringo.(escriptio the n. From laat the week l v oorrk two sh e has has beets taking place in Ireland as to whether the . she is evidently " meant," and the public may rest murder of Mr. Bradshaw was agrarian or not. assured that her owner will leave nothing untried that will Leaving this out of the question, the Derry riots are secure success. Fairwind is in comparatively quiet train distinctly religious ; the murder of Mr. Anketell has ing, and little is known of his doings, but the re p or t s no reason assigned, and he was not a l an d- speak ,/e3ll of him. The statement that Dalby has broken lord. The Mayor of Cork ma k e s no re down is not correct.lt may b e t a k en f or certain that he is tbe selected horse of the stable. ference to the land-laws, but deatands sepa- . Of these competitors the Field pronounces in favour of rate nationality, and the general feeling of mis- 2Egean and Knight of the Garter. Mandrake, it thinks, trust may be in part ascribed to panic, cau se d b y so - w ill b e b ea ten by Fairwi n d , who may put in an appearance many sad events happening in the same week. amongst t i hel e ea s ders t . S. Mungo, too, commands the Field's Underlying all this, however, there can be no doubt I,. l, B V ( i ' z v e t r . d" thinksp°rthastmla).nsulnJaokneess ithe v e s r a y ne favourably selection. treated. llhe that the le ws of property are much disliked. There ag e is literally 'chucked' into the handicap, and ow Mr. is a universal feeling that they must be altered. Topham let off with 7st 91b an animal that cantered away THE YOUGIIAL WRIT. with the race last year, and after war d s, w h en h eav il y b ac k e d , ran second for the St. Leger, I cannot imagine. 'On paper,' The proposition of the Government to issue a new the race appears a gift for hies, and yet two thr ee y ear o ld s writ for the borough of Government was opposed by i who have been overlooked . may prevent him from repeating several Liberals. Those who voted against the the 1);:117 and chance,Le an b n , n ,i g o ta t tr e it i imphs." The YEgean .r has Motion were Mr. A. H. Brown, Mr. H. Campbell, ' d % ay cap w t lio ran second in tUleAl( 3itv bet a te n r d th s a n n hu ß rh t i h n. Captain Cholmeley, Mr. Dilke, Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. I The Sportsman, therefore, goes in for IE-4' can and Knight of Fawcett, Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Hon. H. W. the Garter, and with all respect for Paul Jones selects St. Fitzwilliam (Wicklow), Mr. W. Fowler, Si r H enry Mungo for a place. , Hoare, Sir W r ilfrid Lawson, Hon. C. G. Lyttelton For friendless ,Derby,eaa at P 3 r t e o te t n der T is the favourite, Pero Gomez Mr. Marling, Mr. Monk, Mr. Morrison, Mr. Steven beingrl was . 1,000 to 400 against p r o highest ten d o e ff r e r 3 o t n o 1 c 0 ; Cambridge d o ot son, and Sir David Wedderburn. The majority was platformlDe had ; 3to 1 would not be taken about Pero Gomez. But composed entirely of Liberals. Mr. Glyn and Mr. more sensational have been the proceedings in connection Adam acted as tellers for the Ayes, and Mr. Collins with Belladruni. He was laid against at 20 to 1 inttn , - and Mr. Raikes for the Noes. diately after the Two Thousand, but he very speedily came down to one-fourth that price. On Tuesday night he was backed for all the money obtainable down to 9 to 1, and next day he was so heavily supported at 8 and 7 to 1 that ' a "monkey" was in one case invested at 6to 1. A point less was after wards taken to at least £4,000; but after this the opposition broke out strongly, and ho has since receded. The Field still believes in his chance for the great race. MISCI;GLANEOUS NEWS. IRISH TERRORISM. THE FIJI CANNIBALS. The following is an extract from a letter dated upper Rewa River, Fiji, - January 18, 1869:—"There has been a dreadful outbreak with the natives and two white men who I two a large plantation about seventy miles from ns. The natives have burnt .£5,000 worth of cotton, killed a half caste boy twelve years of age, belonging to one of thou, and ate him, killed and ate five horses, stole .£5OO worth of pro perty, killed four labourers (Sandwich mon)belonging to the white men, cooked them, and, as a mark of contempt, gave the bodies to the pigs to eat. They afterwards killed and ate all their pigs, poultry, /cc. ; and anything they could not use they broke up and throw into the river. They have totally ruined Messrs. Burt and Underwood. Tho boy they ate belonged to the last named." ANOTHER FRENCH POISONING CASE. Another remarkable poisoning case has just been tried by the Assizes of the Marne. The following is an outline of the affair:—ln 1852 Mdlle. Louise Lebobe was married to M. Jean Baptist Brissot, a well-to-do agriculturist. Shortly after the nuptials the wife took a great dislike to her husband, probably owing to the great disparity of their ages, she being only 16, while he was getting on for 40. One or two children, however, were born, and it was not until 1866 that the family of both parties discovered the irregular conduct of Madame Brissot. At this epoch it was discovered that she was too intimate with the tutor, who came to the house to teach her daughter music. From that moment she appears to have decided on getting rid of her husband, which praiseworthy object she succeeded in effecting by giving him chocolate mixed with sulphate of copper. M. Brissot died on the 23rd May, 1863, in the most fearful agony. The doctors suspected nothing, and he was buried. Having disposed of her husband and inherited what fortune remained, she determined on giving her uncle his quietus, in order to come into his property. She theiefore sent her sister-in-law a box of dragees (sweetmeats), accom panied by a letter, in which she said : " The moment has arrived. I shall feel greatly obliged if you will give these bonbons to M. Lebocq ; they will do him so much good." It is hardly necessary to state that these sweetmeats con tained the same delicate mixture as had sent M. Brissot to his tomb. Fortunately, however, the suspicions of the family had been aroused, and the bonbons were destroyed. A riunion de fa»zille took place, and it was decided not to accuse Widow Brissot publicly, in consequence of the disgrace it would entail on the family name. The affair, however, oozed out, notwithstanding all the care bestowed on keeping it secret. The guilty widow decamped to Switzerland, and after spending the money she had inherited from her poisoned husband, returned to France, and was taken into custody on the 22nd January last. At the trial she stoutly protested her innocence, and preserved a sang-froid remarkable even in a woman of 32 years. The jury, how ever, found her guilty, and she has been sentenced to death. • MR. ROEBUCK ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Mr. Roebuck has changed his opinion on one question. lle cannot say with justice that he is the same now as he was when younger in all political points. He has admitted that he now regards the House of Lords in a very different light from what he did formerly. The Eastern Post reports a sp eec h o f his, given attheLondon University College Debating Society. The question to be discussed was "Is an Hereditary House of Legislature desirable." The meet ing was evidently disposed to vote in the negative. Mr. Roebuck, however, came to the defence of the Legis lative Chamber he has so often assailed. He said he thought the House of Lords as perfect as any human institution could be; his long experience had taught him that the Peers invariably acted with clearness, dignity, justice, and impartiality, a n d th a t if we aut,,, r te.a ~eatus• Quo, we should raise a devil it would be found impossible to quell. It was true that in earlier years he had said bitter things of the House of Lords, but his long life had taught him that he had been wrong, and he bitterly regretted what he had said. Mr. Roebuck seems to love " independence" for its own sake, and not for the sake of the truth. 'Which ever way the majority takes, that way the late member for Sheffield eschews. 'While most people were for retaining the hereditary principle, Mr. Roe buck was its bitterest opponent. Now when the greatest Tories are allowing a ref orm t o b e ma d e without opposition, Mr. Roebuck opposes it. Is this a cruel fate, or is Mr. Roebuck wilfully fond of opposition ? A CHAMPION OF WOMAN'S 11GH7'S. A murder, as deliberate as ever perpetrated, was committed on Saturday, the 10th April, at Jarretts ♦ille, Maryland. Nicholas M'Comas had ridden to that town from Bellair to attend a meeting of a militia company, and he was standing with some companions at the back porch of a bar-room, when n Miss Cairns rode up and dis , nounting fastened horse securely ; then she entered the ladies' apart • anent, where she removed her riding-skirt and al that would encumber her movements, when At walked through the crowd in the bar-room to within ten paces of where M'Comas was standing, and raising her hand, in which was a revolver, fired at him with careful aim. Struck in the breast by Oft bullet, he reeled against a pillar supporting the porch, when she as deliberately fired two more shots, while he, clasping the pillar, endeavoured to sustain himself, but, fainting from the loss of blood, fell, though neither of the other shots had taker effect. Miss Cairns on this walked directly up, and fired the two remaining bullets into his body. She then, with the revolver in her band, passed through the paralysed throng to the ladies'apartment, where, as if engaged in the most ordinary occupation, she resumed her riding-habit, mounted her horse, and cantered home. Mr. Jarret rode after her, and on his coming up she asked if M'Comas was dead On receiving an affirmative answer, she re marked, without showing the least signs of regret, that she had told him what she was going to do. It appears that Miss Cairns had been seduced by M'Comas over a year before under a promise of marriage, which she had in vain importuned him to keep. Last January she gave birth to a child whose misfortune it now is to have its mother the murderer of its father for the crime of its own ille gitimacy. Some time ago a suit for breach of pro mise was brought by the lady against M'Comas ; but she did not give it time to come on for trial. Both parties moved in a good social circle, the woman being about 30 years of age and the man about 37. On the day following the deed she gave herself up to the authorities, satisfied, we presume, as she has good reason to know, that public opinion would sustain her. In Hartford county the excite ment is high, and, of course, on the side of the lady C 5 7 What " Rights" women in America can require that they have not got it is difficult to imagine, as they can with impunity do " any mortal thing." The only woman that we know of who has ever come to grief is Mrs. Surratt, and the nation never ceased to deplore it, and to lay the blame on the head of that universal scape-goat, Andrew Johnson. There is something brutal beyond expression in the cold blooded cruelty with which the murderess walked up to her victim to empty a revolver into his body, and in the deliberate, unrelenting way in which the crime was perpetrated. Considering that she will only excite public compassion, have a subscription raised for her, and be made the heroine of the day, she ran little danger in an act which, as ber hate was cold-blooded and her nerve strong, was easy of accomplishment. General Butler is sometimes called " Spoons." This we have long known, but we did not know he had any particular objection to being called spoons. It ap pears, h o wever, that a woman clerk e m pl o y e d i n th e Treasury had the folly as well as the impropriety to term that influential leader of the dominant party "spoons" as she was leaving a car in the Pennsylvania-avenue, in which Butler was seated. Her words were, " Look out for your spoons," which had the singular effect of making Butler look out for her, for he immediately followed her, tracing her home, when he discovered she was a clerk, and she was at once discharged from the Treasury, and to fill up her cup ho got her place supplied by a negress. It is just possible, unless she has a father or brother employed in a Government office, she will employ the rest of her life in shouting spoons after him, for if she could not refrain with an office to los., it is reason able to suppose that she will now thus indulge herself, unless other means are used to achieve the Herculean task of stopping a woman's tongue. The course we would re commend the lady to pursue is to qualify, and if Mr. Jeockes' Reform Bill pass( s she may recover her place in spite of the General. It is now a law in New York that any man who will keep and maintain a public watering trough on the highway shall have an abatement of $3 from his taxes. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL ILAIR.—MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never falls to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from, falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfumers. Depot 268, Highliolliorn MONEY AND BUSINESS. persons to buy more things. The third point is that foreign nations are evidently coming for money while they can get it. They see that the end of the full (From the Springfield Republican, April 17 .) time is come, and they are not sure but that a scarce The money market at New York has been fluctuating time may soon supervene. Accordingly they think and uncertain during the week, but the general and on they will come while they have yet a chance, and mistakable tendency is towards lower rates and greater before a more difficult period renders borrowing by a abundance of loanable funds. To prevent this situation qumtionable Government impracticable. combinations of operators have been twice effected, within the last few days, which have produced an artificial strin gency and a scarcity of money. The unnatural result existed however but for a few hours, only long enough to prove the inevitable course of the market and the im possibility of resisting it. Money is flowing into Wall -street from the West, and the increased activity in the late spring trade will swell the accumulation. The great outlet for ! money at the present time is in the South. and it is esti mated that within the last few months that section of the country has drawn horn all portions of the North over fifty millions in greenbacks. Politically as well as finan • cially this is most desirable, for the money has gone South to stay, and a great portion of it, ultimately, to the pockets of the freedmen and labourers who raised the crops for whielt it was paid. The demand from the South has lately been chiefly made on the Now York market, and the recent statement (April 10) of the banks of that city shows the effects of the movement—they now hold in excess of their legal reserve only $5,913,010 against $14,814,221 a year ng.). The South prefers greenbacks to national notes, and until some plan for the redistribu tion of the currency is perfectei will probably retain this preference. The Bost on money marketresponds closely t) the situation at New York, while at the West there is an un usual ease, and Chicago reports, for a wonder, more money than sufficient to meet the legitimate demands. In Cin cinnati, however, there is greater stringency and greater still in New Orleans. The public funds have been firm and advancing, though the business in them has nut been large. The foreign houses are ready buyers, an 1 cannot meet their orders. Although the Senate has rejected, 51 I to 1, the arrangement which Reverdy Johrson called his Alabama treaty, Five -twenties advanced in London on the reception of the news, and there is no prospect that the foreign demand for our securities will be diminished. Wednesday's steamer at New York from Liverpool brought a large quantity of five-twenty interest coupons for collet , tion, and it is said that the greater portions of their pro ceeds will be immediately re-invested in securities of the United States. Secretary Boutwell has ordered the anticipation of the July coupons on a "rebate" of six per cent. interest only on interest not yet due being. deducted. The plan does not, however, seem to work very extensively. Hardly a " baker's dozen" of heavy bondholders have thus far applied at the Boston sub treasury for their interest in advance, and in New York, up to the beginning of business Wednesday morn ing, the assistant treasurer had disbursed on account of the May interest only $332,446.08, on which the amount saved to the Government by rebate amounted to but $1,305.67. The situation of the gold market and its pro spects for the future are supposed to produce this reluct ance of the bondholders to receive their interest in ad vance. The improbability that gold will be lower than at present, or less than 130 before July 1, renders the holders of coupons more desirous to hold ea and receive the full amount of their interest. The gold market does not relax, and the range of its quotations has been higher than for the first week in the mouth. A sharp stock-job bing trick by the bulls on Saturday, which involved the credit of the Bank of New York, produced considerable excitement in the market, and gold advanced 1 to 11 per cent., but the effect was only temporary, and on Monday morning things were in their normal condition. The ex ports of specie for the past week were light, $326,350, while the imports were much larger. The City of Brooklyn, from Liverpool, Monday, delivered $1,400,000, and the Java, from the same port, Wednesday, $llO,OOO. It is said that still larger amounts are to come, and that not less than seven millions in gold is now on its way to our shores. In spite of these receipts, however, cash gold still continues scarce, and the expected decline in price is not realised. There is a loud clamour at New York that the Secretary of the Treasury should sell some or all of the large amount of gold, which he now has on hand in the Treasury vaults, amount ing to more than a hundred million of dollars, but he shows no indications of such action. The Govern ment receipts will pay its current expenses, and Mr Bout well is known to be in favour of applying this balance to the purchase and cancellation of Government bonds, without the intervention of the greenback or currency medium. The effect of such an action on the public secu rities would be immediate, and some guessers interpret the increasing price of Five-twenties of 1862 as an indi cation that the Secretary is about to put his theory into practice. The exports to foreign countries continue light, while the imports are enormous. The total at New York for this week foots up neatly $8,000,000, or about double those for the corresponding week last year. The stock market has had an up and down motion for the last few days, and at the latest dates, with the exception of the Vanderbil t'roads, the tendency of the speculation seemed to be generally upward. The uncertainty of the action of the New York Legislature upon the extensive issue of 80 per Cent. Certificates on the Central stock, last fall, and the report that the legalizing Act has been linked with that of the Broadway Railroad Bill, and that both will fail, depressed the Central on Wednesday, and the Hudson River and Harlem subsided with it. The prospect, in spite of the report, is still good, that soma way will yet be found by which the sharp practice of the directors will be legally con firmed, and full possession of the spoils insured to the ring. The stock of the shore roads front Buffalo to Chicago was helped by a report which is credited in the best informed circles that all the muds now composing the line from Buffalo via Erie, Dunkirk, Cleveland and Toledo to Chicago will be consolidated under the general title of the Lake Shore Railway. The stocks of all the components will go in at their par value, ntakiug the aggregate capital $53,000.000. Consolidation of the New York Central, Harlem, and Hudson hiver —a union which has long vir tually existed, is also:talked of. The Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton (0.) Road having backed out of its lease of its line to the Erie, and thus deprived the latter of its terminus at Cincinnati and southern connections, the Erie has advertised for proposals to construct an independent line from Dayton to Cincinnati, 60 miles, and threatens to begin operations immediately. Fisk and Gould are also reported to threaten Mr. S. S. L'Hommedieu, president of the Hamilton and Dayton Road, with a suit for $1,000,000 damages for not keeping his contract with them, but the Cincinnati papers recommend the railroad Napoleons to think twice before beginning either their new line from Dayton or their suit for damages. Both would probably cost a good deal and amount to very little. Pending the settlement of the quarrel, the Erie enters Cin cinnati by the Little Miami road, the narrow gauge rival of the Hamilton and Dayton, and on the other side of the city. Western railroad stocks are generally strong, and the miscellaneous market tends in the same direction. Mariposa preferred and Western Union telegraph are mak ta h n e Int h y n t e o ,rl y beena mak ing the mos t d ecided advances. The season is still back ward in the dry goo d s market and ther e is considerable xriee sell, alwhich falling d e descriptions crhioapffst been ionn ps r o i fcg prices, s cottonn, e b r generally and woollen lt an n takenadvantageimprovement goods i of. s hoped for, as as the depression is considered the result of temporary causes. The flour and wheat market has also been unsettled and fluctuating in consequence of advises from Europe, and prices are generally lower. Cotton is heavy with a decline of prices in the northern markets and an advance at the South. The cattle markets at Brighton and Cambridge had a better feeling than for several weeks, but at New York the supply was greatly in excess of the demand and the decline was fully 25c. per hundred. The New York Tribune reports as follows: -Friday, April 16, p.m—The Gold market was higher on an active demand for cash gold for delivery. The opening transac tions were made at 1321, with sales at 1331, closing 1371 bid. Cash gold loaned as high as 1-16 per cent., the ave rage rate was 1.32 per cent. for the use of coin. The clearings at the Gold Exchange Bank were $50,895,000, and the balance $1,125,650 18. The payments on ac count of the May interest amounted to $50,189 73. Go vernment Bonds were strong and active, with:a goad de mand from the German bankers ; '62s sold at 1201; the new bonds sold at 1151. This is the highest price ever made. There was a good borrowing demand for bonds, '62s loaning flat, and '678 at 6 to 7 per cent. interest for carrying. The market closest strong and active, but with few bonds offered at quotations. State bonds were higher. New Tennessee 6 per cents. sold at 664; North Carolina 6 per cents., 611 ; new bonds, 541; Missouri 6 per cents., 864 ; Virginia New 6 per cents., 60. Railway bonds were firm at quotations. Western Union Telegraph was strong at 411 to 411; Mariposa sold at 221; Mariposa Preferred, 391. Pacific mail was active, with heavy transactions. The opening sales were made at 921, with sales at 941 to 934, closing at 941; Mariposa Trustees' certificates are offered at 68, including the accrued interest at 10 per cent. pet annum since Ist of July, 1868. The holders of these certificates (of which there aro about $3,000,000 issued in exchange for Mariposa bonds) are the real owners of the Mariposa estate and must receive 10 per cent. per annum, beside leaving 5 per cent. more in the Treasury, before any dividend can be paid on the Preferred stock. If the interest on the certificates should remain unpaid for two years from last July, the taustees have the right to sell property and apply the proceeds toward the redemption of the certificates at par and accrued interest, before anything can be paid on the stock. Express shares States, e t s o , 571. Canton higher; was A (1 a b m u s oy s a o n l 4 d , s e e t ll i s n 9 g t n o t 5 6 9 4 1 , ; clo U s n in it g ed at 64. Railway shares were buoyant, with a continued de n.and from operators for an advance. The desire to buy was general, and prices showed an improvetnent. New York Central sold at 1631, Hudson 150, Harlem 145, Read ing 94, Michigan Southern, 93/, Teeedo and Wabash 721, Toledo and Wabash Preferred 80, St. Paul Common 80, St. Paul Preferred 861, Fort Wayne 132„ Ohio and Missis sippi Common 33/, uleveland and Pittsburgh 911, Lake Shore 99, Rock Island 1381. The market continued buoy ant until just previous to the 1 o'clock Board, when there was a sudden decline in New York Central to 161, which had the effect of depressing prices from f to 1 per cent. on the general list. The transactions in Erie continue to be light, the price was 33/ to 331. At the 1 o'clock Board the market was lower, declining 1 to 11 per cent. , from the highest prices of the day. At the decline there was an active clausal At the close the market was Oro* the LAW AND POLICE. DAMAGE DONE Er RABBITS. —ln Vice-Chancellor Stuart's Court, en Saturday, the case of " Harrington v. Haer;n 6 t,,-,." vas brat.-1. An application had been inade on behalf of some tenants on Lord Harrington's estates, in Derbyshire, for compensation for damage done to their farms by rabbits turned out on the property by order of the late earl. The aggregate aulount of the claims was .£1,:;05 Us. The matter was brought before the Vice Chancellor sonic time since, but he directed it to stand over until the young earl reached his majority, when he hoped some arrangement might be come to. Unfortunately the earl died six months before he came of age. The Vice• Chancellor said that the claim of the tenants was preposterous, in some cases exceeding half a year's rent. As there was no contract their case must fail, especially as the earl's mother, who was his guardian during his minority, said that the tenants had leave to kill the rabbits. The application would be refused, but without costs. THE LAI: OF EVIDENCE IN CASE OF BIGAMY.—The Court of Criminal Appeal, on Saturday, quashed the con viction of Mrs. Lumley for bigamy. It will be remem bered that, having lived with Colonel Lumley for many years as his wife, he had charged her with bigamy on the ground that her first husband, one Victor, was alive. Whatever the legal rights of the matter were, it was felt to be a very hard case for Mrs. Lumley, and no doubt she will have many sympathisers in her escape from so pain ful a position. CABINET COUNCIL. —At the Cabinet Council held at Downing -street on Saturday, the Ministers present were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan cellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, the Right lion. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Marquis of Hartington, and the Right Hon. C. Fortescue. The following circular was issued on Saturday 'by Mr. Glyn to Mr. Gladstone's supporters in the House of Commons :—" The Irish Church will Bill be proceeded with on Monday, the 3rd of May, and will be the first order of the day. On Tuesday, the 4th, the House will meet at two o'clock, and the Irish Church Bill will be taken at that hour. On Wednesday, the sth, the 'Uni versity Tests Bill in committee. Your attendance and support on those occasions are very urgently requested. Divisions of great importance are expected upon the amendments upon the Irish Church Bill." MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT ST. lIELEN'B.—An accident of a most painful description has just occurred at the works of the Union Plate Glass Company, Pocket nook, St. Helen's, by which three young lads, named William Towers, Francis Devenport, and Isaac Thorpe, all of them aged between 16 and 18, lost their lives. At the works there is a large reservoir for the purpose of supplying water for the various stages of the work. For convent:-.',c rnft is nrn,ided. During the breakfast hour, a day or two oad , i,iie three unfortunate lade, together with another named Prescott, got on the raft and amused themselves for some time by cruising about, until at last Prescott either fell or jumped into the water, and in doing so so far destroyed the equilibrium of the raft as to throw the other three into the water. Pres cott got out of the water in safety, but the other three, not being able to swim, seized hold of each other, and, struggling, sank almost immediately. HOLLY LODGE, HlGHGATE.—Saturday was a bright " May Day" at Holly Lodge. Miss Bnrdett Coutts gave an afternoon party to 600 of Messrs. Cubitt's artisans, workmen, and labourers, being all the hands who have worked longest during the past five years in the building of Columbia-square Market. Messrs. Edgington had erected a large tent and covered the ground with cocoa-nut matting to hold 650, and a capital dinner was pro vided. When the cloth was removed, the Earl of Har rowby, K.G., addressed the men for Miss Coats, and presented a silver teapot and cream-jog from her to Mr. Henry Wheeler, the foreman of the works at Columbia Market, and the like to Mr. Henry Weller, the clerk of the works there. Their comrades cLecred them hep rti! vay • they came up to receive their presents. All the otliermen received a "Book of Common Prayer" in good large type. The men seemed highly pleased, and remained after dinner enjoying the grounds until a late hour, their own volunteer band playing lively aim The Rev. C. B. Dalton, of Highgate, and the Bev. G. S. Earn, of St. Anne's, the Queen's Advocate, Sir C. Wheatstone, Sir W. Bodkin, the Right Hon. J. Parker, Colonel Wilkin son, &c., also assisted in making the entertainment pleasant to these "excellent fellows." Saturday was said to be an active, busy, market day at Columbia Market, and the whole scene there bore the mark of enterprise and activity. The market closed at a quarter before 12 p.m., according to tho esccilvat byoaric. ARCHDEACON DENISON ON THE BISHOPS. Archdeacon Denison writes in the John Bull a vigorous letter upon the conduct of the bishops with regard to the extension of the Episcopate. He fully concurs with the Guardian and ourselves in con demning their lordships for the line which they took up with reference to Lord Lyttelton's bill. He says the bishops very well know that if the three new sees proposed were created, they would supply in no appreciable degree the lack of epis copal strength. He reminds the bishops that when they object to " two sets of bishops," no persons have done so much to bring about this innovation as their lordships have by the introduction of ex-colonial bishops into their sees. He contends that there is no diocese in England the work of which can be half done by its diocesan, though he be in the fullest health and vigour of body and mind. His severest remarks are directed against the right rev. bench for having made their worldly position the most prominent subject in the late debate. He thus winds up a very vigorous letter : " The secular questions of income and position, social and political, are forced by the Parliamentary Episcopate into the first rank, and are allowed to hide from their own eyes the question of the spritual necessities of the Church, and all the real facts of the case. The world laughs, and the Church mourns. We have a bill introduced by the Primate into the House of Lords, on the part of the Home Episcopate, for ' Discipline of Clergy.' There is not a word in it about ` Discipline of Bishops.' The world laughs, and the Church mourns. I have some times doubted whether the conclusions of a pamphlet of mine which went through three editions in 1851— Why should the bishops continue to sit in the House of Lords?' —are sound. I have no doubts now. I think them alto gether sound." THE LATEST EPISCOPAL ARRIVAL. The Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong) has arrived in this country. It is scarcely three years ago since Dr. Alford was consecrated. He has been in his diocese about two years, and as it is a tolerably long and costly journey to. Hong Kong, his lordship is not likely to return thither just at present. THE RITUAL COMMISSIONERS. The John Bull is authorised to deny the statement of the Record that the Bishop of Oxford met with no supporter in his motion that no change should be made in the rubrics without the sanction of Convo cation. " The Bishop really moved, and was sup ported by other commissioners, a resolution to the effect that a proviso should be added to the Orna ments Rubric, enabling alterations to be made by Convocation, if authorised by the Crown. His lord ship's argument was that Convocation was the best body, because it so intensely represented the laity." THE HAYMARKET NIGHT-HOUSES. The Saturday Review has a very pungent article upon the manner in which the Middlesex magistrate! overruled Mr. Knox's decision with regard to the Haymarket night-houses. Sir William Bodkin's dictum, that some overt act must be committed, is treated with abundant raillery. "Meanwhile, high revelry reigns in the night-houses, and Sir William Bodkin's name is precious to the chaste sisterhood which patronises or is patronised by them. () Justice ! as Madame Roland . remarked when speak ing of the sister virtue Liberty-0 Justice ! what very remarkable things' are clone in thy name." TIIE MONEY MARKET. The Economist says that there are three things clear about the money marls et. The first is that we are at the end of the plethora period. Since 1800 there has been a time in which no one cared or thought bout the money market; for the rates were so low that those who had to borrow did not think about them. But now Lombard-street has got back to its normal state, and our loanable capital is not likely to be too much for our wants, so that the fitate of the market is once more a matter of interest to those who borrow and to those who lend. The second point is a considerable increase of internal trade. Comparing the week endizig last Friday with ;.le corresponding week of 1808, the returns of the .Clearing-house spew an increase of over seven millions. , This ch ange th e E conom i s t a tt r ib u t es to the 1 fact that the recluction in the IziougAraitanabling I North Western shares were hammered with great vg oll and heavy sales were m a d e f or specu l a ti ve a ccount uf K„ " rumour of a passage of the dividend which had no folio; dation in fact. At the close the sellers at low P r sce were active bidders for the stock. The earnings con tinue to show an increase over last year. The Pre ferred stock has been 'abf...orbed to the extent of fully one third by foreign investors, and purchases continue to ba . made on a liber a l sca l e f or s hi pment. Th e mar ket clos e d active and buoyant upon the increased supply of 11 , 06: Money was in good supply at legal rates to all first-er borrowers. Some few loans were made at coin i n terest early in the d a y, b ut a t th e c l ose t h e o ff er i ng s were b i o excess of the demand, an d th e mar k et c l ose d easy. Banks report that the fl ow o f currency is steadily increas ing,t and is in excess o f t h e shipments. Commercial pap er passes more freely at 10 an d 12 per cent. for best n sel . e s i : Sterling exchange was d u ll, an d s t ea d y at quo tations' London, 60 days, 108; London, sight, 1081; Paris, loe,g; 5.22} to 5.21 i: Pads, short, 5.20 to 5.181; Antwerp, 5 ' 2 to 5 22i; Swiss, 5 25 to 5 22i; Hamburg, 351 to 3 5 il A 1 1; sterdam, 401 to 40-} ; Frankfort, 40i to 40 i 3 ,-; Bremeet,,, to 78f, ; Berlin, 701 to 701. Th e t ransact i ons a t the ono . " of the Assistant Treasurer were :—Receipls for C °3 toms, $105,000 ; for gold notes, $59.000; total rcee i P $734,803 05 ; tot a l payments, $552,110 56; 101311ce' $80,952,223 13. The Public Ledger, Philadelphia, April 16, saYs: — A see it stated that the Pennsylvania Central has obtaito'ci controlling iuterest in the Indianapolis, Cincinnati, qii Lafayette Railroad by the purchase of a majority of t stock. Good for Philadelphia and its increase of trade' Messrs. Drexel and Co., Philadelphia, report tbat °ll April 16 the latest s a l es i n P ennsy l van i a Railroad S.,b,i 7, were 591 59i ; Sixes, I s t M or t gage, 99 99k ; 2d -u ° gage, 94 95. Government Bonds closed as follows : Sixes, 1861, registered Sixes, 1881, coupon Sixes, 1868, coupon t 0 0 0 1 ...... 15 . ° 3 l to 1 U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad lo3k 1 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon 1 11 Five-twenties, 1855, coupon, n ew Five-twenties, 1867, c ou p on i U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 Ten-forties, coupon Seven-thirties, 2d s er i es 11 _ 01 3 61 t t t ci o o 1014 Seven-thirties, 3d series — to --- Oregon War Loan, Sixes. 1881 CLOSING QUOTATIONS FOR RAILROAD MORTGAGES'noi N. Y. Central Gs, 1883 901 Chi. & N. W. Ist M.••••• N. Y. Central Gs, 1887 90 Tol. & Wab. 2d M E)t. N. Y. Central 6s, R Est 88 Gt. Western 2d M '93... N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n 88 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist If.• 96 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 Gal. & Chic. Ext .......... N. Y. Cen. 75, con. 76 Gal. & Chic. 2d M......••• 9 9 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 Chi. &R. I. Ist ......... Erie Ist Mort, Ex — Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7'5... Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 - Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund... Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 B9 N . J . Central Ist M...••• "89 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 — N. J. Central 2d M...••• „, Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 — Pitts. Ft. W., &Ch. Ist M. 91 Long DoCk Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M,'77 BB Pi tts. Ft. W. & Ch. 3d M. 92 Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69 100 i Cleve. & Pitts. 2d M Hod. It 7s, 3d M, '75 99 Chi c . & Alt on , S. F. In„,c:10i 0 Harlem Ist M, '6B '7'2 10'2 Chic. & Alton S. F. lst'''` l o2 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 ll2 Mil. & St. Paul Ist 31-.' s o Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 115 Mil. & St.. Paul 2d g..• „ Mich. So., 7p.c.2d M 93 Marietta & Ist M..• 9 9 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Morris & Essex Ist M... 9 01 Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 981 Morris & Essex 2d M 111. Cen. 7p. c,'7o — Joilet & Chic. Ist Alton &T. H. let M Alton &T.H. 2d pfd Bl N. Y. &N. H. 65..... ••• 9 0 Alton &T. H. 2d M. Inc 79i Dubuque &S. City,lst 31 ' 85 Han.&St.J.LandGrantslo3 Peninsula Ist M . ...... Han. & St. J. Con 112 Ohio & Miss. Ist M.....• Chi. B. & Q., Ist M — Ohio & Miss. Con . . ....... Chi. &N. West, S. F 95. TOL P. W. Ist M. E. D... &N. W. Con Cony 97 Atlantic &G. W. Ist ('hi. & N. W. Ex'n B — Charles Snowden Fairfax died in Baltimore, 0:0 Sunday, April 4, a ge d 40. H e was descended fromtof last Lord Fairfax, and might have claimed the posi ti° , ll or tc tenth Lord of th a t name . H o served fi ve years as 'ter of the Suprem e C our t o f C a lif orn i a. The following le"f appeared in the Times last Wednesday, from the editor al , "Debrett's Pe e r age :"—" Si r,— Th e death of CbaSi Snowden Fairfax, recently announced as having °court°. at Baltimore on the 4th of this month, deserves more the; a passing notice. H e was t en th L or d Fairfax in the P e w age of Scoland, and was a li nea l d escen d an t o f the et) g brated Parli a m la t ar i an Generals Ferdinando and Thenlin Fairfax. The latter, it may be remembered, r eturned Royalism, and h e lp e d t o esta bli sh Charles 11. ou v throne. The fifth Lord Fairfax married Catherine o°le pepper, who br oug ht hi m as a dowry i mmense estates t 4 England and America, the latter situat e d b e t ween the -r n tomac and Rappahannock. Their son Thomas (the S iet lord) having visited his American property, was se a chanted with it that he resolved to live and die there, . r having transferred hi s E ng li s h property to his brotk o, afterwards the seventh lord, b u ilt hi mse lf two res ideace p which he entitled r es p ec ti ve l y G reenway Court an d 0' voir, resided principally at the former, where be el 7 ~ ha open house with t rue b aron i a l h ospitality, and uilo a bachelor at a green old age. His brother, W O / succeeded him, died without issue. Its 1800 the Sous e d Lords decided that th e R ev . B ryan F a i rfax, a kinsl ll3° , 0 the late lord's, was entitled t o th e b arony, and the 1, 1 Lord Fairfax was hi s grea t grandson. An anecdote o f late lord, whi c h I can vouch as being authentic, is so Ple/itey ing to our common humanity, and shows so promie e/3 e if the innate goodness of the late lord, who, deeming f wounded unto the death by an assassin, yet for the e' l '; ) his wife and child spared him, that I trust you will tiV o l me to extract it from my 'Peerage':—' In the sprint, 1859 Lord Fairfax w as wa lki ng home, pcompanied ho, $c the Chief Justice of California and two other frier' when he was met by a re p or t er o f th e C ourt name d (10 0 , Leo. Lee, having th oug ht L or d F a i r f ax had in 503 °W ,, e tried to injure him, accused him of so doing, a Ch a s which his lordship denied. To this denial Lee rejoi n :oo an insolent and offensi ve manner, substantially givin'io; lie, evidently desiring that Lord Fairfax should strike h he effected his object, hi s l or d s hi p str iki ng him on the p h r id Leo, in return, st ruc k a t hi m w i th a light cane, viitAll which was concealed a long dagger. Lord Fairfax e ill lll o the cane in his lef t h an d ; L ee sprang back, dronible dagger quickly from the cane, and inflicted two 0 . 1. '00 wounds, one through the left breast, and the other le n d side. Lord Fairfax had drawn a 'Derringer' pistA tb ircl presented it, cocked, in time to prevent Lee making a d 0 0 thrust. In a moment L ee th rew up hi s arms an d o rie 'Don't kill me, I am unarmed !' (All this occurred iatliise credibly short space of ti me , b e f ore any one 11 81) , be e; to interfere, or eve n rea li ze th a t a d ea dl y assault 1103;.0(111, made). Standing p er f ec tl y s till , L or d Fairfax (a el?' i c e ' shot), who had hi m covere d at not more than srg distant, and could have killed hitn beyond any P °s l, doubt, thus replied, ' You miserable coward, You halt° murdered me—you have assassinated me—and I Seta your worthless life in my h an d s; b ut f or the sa k e e 1 wife and child I shall spare you.' Cries, at thie4 bit o. raised from the cr ow d o f ' Shoot him, Fairfax." 1 011 .0, Don't spare him.' and the like. Standi ng er ect, 10 Lord Lee full in the f ace , an d h o ldi ng t h e p i stol as be f or e, o d , Fairfax answered, No, I won't kill him;' and thee' o lol dressing Lee, said, 'Recollect, I have y our lif e i n niY Pniloar°, and I spare ft ; not on your w or thl ess accoun t , for atte an assassin and a coward, but, because of your vv" `' n Og child.' "-- I am, sir, your obedi en t servan t, Tim EDIT„os. " DEBRETT'S PEERAGE, BARONETAGE, AND KNIGIO - Office, 65, Ludgate-hill, E.O. 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H o ll oway ' s p ill s are th e known purifyers of th e bl oo d , and the best promoters o f 5 AO° tion and secretion, which removes all poisonous and Ono,- pa L rticles from both solids and fluids. 10 0 !' 1'' AP VERTISEMENT.]-11eneeforth no one will doubt the N?„131 ,4 , properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta •A` Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of bits pe ep it has already received from Invalids whose position 11 ,'",,`"roPfi deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness t u `, o 3•o ll whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty Y- 00 unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "G°' ze Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21,1866. The health of tho.„0 0 : Father is excellent, e s p ec i a ll y s i nce, a b andoning all ot her;ioT dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Be v 00 1 ( 1 Arabic& Food, of which he cons umes a pl ate f u l at e ver 4 It has produced a surprisi ng ly beneficial effect on his ben";, his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highg. ~ 016,°i extract a few out ofmore than 68,000 cures :—Cure No. the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver CO' - 'i sti tiq n , wasting away, debility, nervo usness , w i t h a nervous PeaP-00' all over, bad digestion, constant sl ee pl essness, an d the .. tolerable nervous agitation. 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