The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-29 00:00:00

TOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY " TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.--Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. --- AGUA. AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, as. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. B.C. rrßouvtLLE SUR MER (NORMAN DY) to LOAN of £400.000, SECURED by MORTGAGE DI4BEN TURES of the THOUVILLE ASSOCIATION (Limited). — Issue of 40,000 Mortgage Debentures to Bearer of £lO each. Annual interest 7 per cent., payable half-yearly, in London and Paris. The First Half-Year's Interest will be payable the Ist September, 1869. These Debentures will be redeemable by annual drawings to begin after the third year at £l2, thus giving a bonus of 20 per cent: Applications for Debentures, accompanied by a deposit of £1 per Debenture, will be received in Loudon by Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., Bankers, St. James's-street, London; Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, end Co., Bankers, Lombarl-street, London. And in Paris, at the offices of the Association, 51, Rue de Cardi n.2l Pesch. The affairs of the Association are under the direction of The Right Hon. Viscount Bury. M.P., Director of the London and South-Western Railway, 66, Prince's-gate, London, Presi- dent. The Hon. William Ashley, Stable-yard, St. James's Palace, Lon- don. Monsieur Jacques Adolphe Cordier, Ancien Depute, 124, Boule vant Haussman, Paris, and Chalet Cordier, Trouville, Nor mandy. Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., 45, Sussex-gardens, London.' Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Charles H. Lindsay, M.P., Winch field, Hants. Monsieur Dumond de Montcelz, Administrateur des Mines de Zinc de la tiilesie, 44, Rue de Luxembourg, Paris. Sampson Lucas Sanville, Esq. (Messrs. S. Oppenheim and Sons), 18, Old Broad-street, London. Debentures, £lO each. The Subscription is payable, £2 on ap plication, £2 on allotment, £2 on the Ist of May, £2 on the 15th June, and £2 on the Ist August. Or the whole £lO may be paid up at once, in which case dis count at the rate of 7 per cent. will be allowed. _ BANKERS. Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., St. James's-street, London. - BROKERS. Messrs. Seymour and Elwyn, 38, Throgmorton-street, London. ABRIDGED STATEMENT. ADVANTAGES OF THE DEBENTURES. Mortgage taken in the joint names of Trustees on behalf of the Debenture-holders. Each f_lo Debenture: - Will be secured upon Freehold Land, by mortgage or hypothe cation. Will be redeemable at .£l2 per bond (thus giving a bonus of 20 per cent.), by annual drawings, after the third year. Will have coupons for interest, payable half-yearly, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum attached, and — Will be accompanied by a warrant certificate, entitling the holder (in addition to the above bonus) to a distributive share in half of the surplus profit arising from the ultimate realisation of the entire property comprised in the mortgage. Applications for fully paid-up Debentures will be entitled to priority of allotment. If no allotment be made the whole of the deposit will be re turned without deduction. If the whole amount applied for be not allotted the excess of deposit will be applied to the future payments due upon such number as may be allotted, hut interest at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum will be allowed and paid as above thereon. An opiialon of the soundness of this security, and of the value of the distributive share of surplus profit ffered to the Deben ture-holders, may he formed from reports annexed to the printed particulars, and the consideration that Trouville is one of the choicest marine resorts in France, where the noblesse spend their summer. It lies on the coast of Normandy, opposite to Havre, directly south of the Isle of Wight, and possesses one of the largest and most comfortable hotels in France, public rooms, gardens, walks, slopes green to the water's edge, and sands superior to those of Scarborough or Ramsgate. From London Trouville may be reached via Dover and Calais, For lkestone and Boulogne, or via s outhampton and Havre. From Paris it is only five hours and a half distriat by railway. Plans of the properties and reports of architects and sur veyors may be obtained at the Offices, or will be forwarded by post. Full printed particulars of the Loan and forms of subscription may be obtained of the Bankers, Brokers, and at the Offices of the Association, mutely :-26, Old Broad-street, E.C.; 6, Whitehall. Westminster, London; and Paris, 91, Rue de Car dinal Fesch. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENLNG, at 7 o'clock, a new Drama, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES: Mr Charles Dillon; Messrs Ryder, J. house, F. Moreland, Barrett, F. Wilson, Barrett: Mesdames Heath, Edith Stuart, Hudspeth, and Mrs Vandenhoff. To eonclude with the grand Pantomime of PUSS IN BOOTS, Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. -SPE CIAL MORNING PERFORMANCES on WEDNESDAY, March 31, and SATURDAY, April 3. a t Two o'clock, the Royal Original Chrysty's Minstrels (from the St. George's H all) will give Selec tions from their celebrated Entertainment. At Three o'clock, the Grand Pantomime of PD.:: S IN BOOTS, terminating with the Grand Transformation Scene. A t half-past Four, a Musical Folly, entitled THE GIRLS OF THE PERIOD: At Five, the Deck of a Man-of War in Miniature—Three Hundred Infant Sailors and Marines. Carriages to be ordered at a quarter-past Five. Doors open at half-past One, commence at Two o'cl•: ck. Children and Schools at reduced prices to the following parts of the house, viz., First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Ken dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton, &c. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chtppendale, Comp ton. A stley, &c.: Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, &c. Followed by BOX AND COX: Box, Mr Buckstone; Cox, Mr Compton. Concluding with tho Spectral illusion of MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Box-office open daily. . "Commence at set-en. VIIEATRE ROYAL, APELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. VHS EVENING, at 7, A. DAY'S FiS RING : Mr. G. delmore alt 15 to 8, first time, BLACK AND WHITE. Mr Fechter Miss Carlotta Leclercq, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart, Mrs. L. Murray, Vise Lennox Grey, &c. I To conclude with WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Revival of "After Dark." THIS EVENING, THE SECRET. After which, Dion Boncicault's Great Drama, entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life. Mr Vining, Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr J. G. Shore, C. Harcourt, Edmcnds, Holston, and Gresham; Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rose Leclereq. Concluding with MASTER J')NES' 3 BIRTHDAY. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. R 0 YAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. '3lLrke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Bufton and Maitland. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. James, Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlain; Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude with HITE AND DYE. 110YAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN EASTER HOLIDAYS —Entire change of performance.- New A cts, fresh novelties, and additional attractions.—The best and only entertainment of the kind in the metropolis. Town and country holiday-makers will find no other Theatre in London offering a programme so replete with variety, amusement, and excitement.—THlS EVENING, first appearance of the greatest wonder of the day—the Salamander Horse! ONRA, the world renowned, in his unapproachable and extraordinary double so• mersaults and pirouettes from the FLYING TRAPEZE. The magnificent Stud of Fifiy Performing Horses, and the matchless SCENES in the ARENA, by MM. Bradbury, Oscar Carre, Salamonsky, Adolphe Carre, Maitrejean, and Mdlles. Salamonsky, Montero, A malia, and lirembser, The most com plete combination of equestrian talent ever brought together, Positively t e Last Four Weeks of the Equestrian Season.— Those who have not yet seen the wonderful and 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. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING• at 7, THE HAPPY FAMILY. At 8, H. J. Pyron's new and original Drama. MINNIE ; or, Leonard's Love: Miss Lydia Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss Brennan: Messrs avid Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. To conclude with BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes, and Stephens. ROYA L CHRIS TY,s . GREAT ST. GEORGE'S HALL, REGENT-STRUT. Licensed by the Lord Chamberlain. EASTER NOVELTIES. Fresh Engagements, in addition to the most powerful Ethiopian Troupe in the world. First Appearance of the celebrated American Comedian, Mr. Harry Leslie. 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 OP PROGRAMME. New Songs, Comic Sketches, and continued success of the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCFT-S. GRAND EXTRA PERFORMANCES. Easter Monday at 3 and 8 ; Tuesday at 8 ; Wednesday at 3 and 8 ; Thursday at 8 ; Friday at 8; Saturday, April 3, at 3 and 8. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. ----, Private Boxes, £2 25.; Stalls, 55.; Reserved Seats, 35.; Baleony, 2s. Acting-manager, Mr. ANDREW NIMMO, THE "SUN" NE WSPAPER.-G. R. 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G NEWS of the day, may be seen at JEM xiY MANTON'S house, "The Swan and Horse Shoe," Little Britain, City, E.C. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. dole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES: Mr. C. Dillon. o conclude with PUSS IN BOOTS. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. 'fillS EVENING, RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Kendal Buckstone, jun., Miss Laws, &c. Afier which, HOME: Sothern, Chippendale, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Sr,c Followed by BOX AND COX. Concluding with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. quarter to 8, MARIE ANTOINETTE: Mr W. Rignold, Mr. G. Shore. Miss Lydia I toward: Mdlle. Beatrice. Concluding with A CUP OF T r A : Beatrice THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At 8, AFTER DARK: Mr Vining, Mr Walter Laoy, 31 iss Rose Le elereq, &c. And W ASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. - - , TIM EVENING, at 7, A DAY'S FISHING. Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. Stephenson, Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At 15 to 8, BLAI K AND WHITE: Messrs. Fechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart: Carlotta Leclercq, Miss Lennox Grey, &c, And WHITEBAIT AT GRE •• NWICH : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE, Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. Tms EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Bucton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton: • esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conclude with .I.lukl AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.'5, MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. And BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlst( 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 be followed by CLAUDE DITVAL : Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. under the Manaxement of kiss Marie Wilton Tins EVELUNG, SCHOOL* Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Banoroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. RTiss C. Addison, and Miss Mario Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &c ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. MISi',VENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravagsnza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-Fmk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on 3lendays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. leg / SAM LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 180. -- a - Considerable solicitude is felt—by those most anxious for the continuance of peace upon the Euro pean Continent—in regard to the political situation in two very different directions. In one—there is still visible the Belgian difficulty. In the other—the Italian difficulty. According to the Etandard, mean while, considerable masses of Prussian troops are being concentrated along the railway from Breslau to Bamberg. According to more than one or two of the Continental newspapers, the whole of the Italian peninsula, from the Alps to the Adriatic, from Como to Passaro, is ripe for a Republican outbreak. Sinister rumours are flying about in all directions as to the probably fugitive character of the power attained, and enjoyed now for some years past, by King VICTOR EMMANUEL. The Democratic party, sick to death of his rale, are described as not only prepared, but eager to avail themselves of the general disaffection excited among his nominal subjects by the evil in fluences awakened alike by excessive taxation and by a long-continued and grinding conscription. The " Re Galantuomo" is no longer so designated by the Italian population. The divinity, SIIAKSPERE de scribes as hedging a crown, is no longer in any way discernable, by those whom it concerns the most, in the iron Crown of Lombardy, of CHARLEMAGNE, of NAPOLEON LE GRAND. A Sovereign with the courage of a trooper, the aspect of a awash-buckler, and the tastes of a back-woodsman, has swept out of all sense of its ever having existed, the glamour once, for a very brief while, associated with his name. It is now regarded by the political enthusiasts who, during that brief interval just referred to, looked towards him, in the hope of recognizing in him the reconciler of all difficulties in the way of one United Italian Sovereignty, mainly if not exclusively as the man who, receiving two magnificent gifts from two very different men indeed—Lombardy from the Emperor NAPOLEON 111., the Two Sicilies from General GARlBALDl—evidenced his gratitude by (there is no other word for it) swopping Savoy for ' the first, and by shooting down GARIBALDI in return for the second upon the heights of As promonte. Since the "geographical idea," once upon a time ridiculed as such by his Highness Prince MET TERNICH, came thus to be in some way or another realized—the Piedmontese, the Florentines, the Nea politans, the Sicilians, have chiefly bad occasion to recognise the existence for them of one soi-disant United Italy through the medium of the tax collec tor. Wh o ever has travelled acros s the lt. so—with his n has bad no choice but to do his own eyes and ears—that it was 80. Until at last—and really, it must be said, no wonder !--the limits of endurance appear to be passed. Insomuch that there are now recognisable indications that the people have had enough of it—that the popularity of the KING is not simply still upon the wane, but that it is absolutely gone, and that ho himself knows that it is gone. United by a morganatic marriage to a drummer's daughter—having through that left-handed union a numerous family, the members of which he has very recently legitimatised—VlCTOß EM3IANUEL is understood to have- invested as largely as he could possibly contrive to do so in foreign funds of good security, so as to be prepared, as far as might be, should the worst come to the worst, for any emergency. Meanwhile the Italian Republicans taking heart from these very evidences of royal solicitude at Florence, and hunger ing and thirsting more than ever for a somewhat more southern capital, are understood to be doing their very utmost to obey the behests in real earnest at last—if they can—of Signor MAZZINI. General GARIBALDI, broken in health, and still completely secluded in the island of , Caprera, no longer cherishes any faith whatvier in THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, L 69 the "Re Gailantuomo," instead of holding any longer by Vicrot EMMANUEL, the Leader of the Red Shirts, 'is known, indeed, to have thrown in his hop es and aspirations entirely and abso lutely with the Democratic MAZZINIANS. But that hi s health is utterly broken, as we have said— but that he has become suddenly, as it were, an old man, whose part has been played out—we should doubtless have heard of him in regard to these new revolutionary movements as the chosen leader in arms of the insurgent party.. GARIBALDI would have been the right hand, as MAZZINI is the recognized head of the projected revolt against the powers that be in United (!) Italy. While such is the political situa tion among the Italians, one cannot help recalling to mind the fact that, in the very centre of Italy, there are tranquilly and leisurely being made, at Rome, preparations for the great CE , mnuenical Council of December, the Council of the Nineteenth Century, the Council of the Vatican Basilica—and that, in France, vigilantly observant of all these proceedings, of all these designs on the part of the Mazzinians, of all these evidently unsatisfac tory anticipations on the part of the nominal King of ITALY—there is NAPOLEON 111. having absolutely at his beck and call the most highly disciplined and powerful army in all Christendom. THERE is no day in the year which so much mani fests the different opinions and habits of Englishmen as Good Friday. Themost religious ( bse •ve Christmas in large measure as a day of social mir 'h and enjoy ment, and there is on that festival i o such obtrusive antagonism of feeling and conduct s there is on the fast. But on Good Friday th ;re is every conceivable variety in the way OF celebrating it. At the one end of the gradation we have the church draped in black, crowded with a devout congregation, solemn music, silent prayer, affecting and heart-touching discourses ; at the other end, junketting and feasting, and, not impro bably, drunkenness. Between these two extremes there are other gradations. There is the person who goes to church once, and spends the rest of the day as a holiday. There is, again, the man who does not go to church at all, but thinks it would be " bad taste" to indulge in demonstrative mirth. Higher in the scale than these is the man who does not observe the day from religious reasons, just as CALVIN used to play cricket on Sunday by way of protest against what he thought a superstitious regard for the abrogated Sabbath. Higher, too, we venture to affirm, stands Mr. HOLVOAKE. True, he denies historic Christianity; true, he chooses the most solemn day of all the year for a political demonstra tion ; but those who read his address in Trafalgar square will seethat he at least honours and reverences the qualities which Christians were especially honour ing and reverencing at the same time—self-denial, endurance for the public good, resisting of tempta tion. All these qualities were displayed in a noble degree by the late Mr. ERNEST JONES, and we, too, do homage to them, even while we lament that he who spoke of them cannot discern them in a far nobler and higher degree elsewhere. Much as has been said in the way of denunciation and sarcasm of this unseasonable demonstration, it was, so far as Mr. HOLYOAKE was concerned, less unseasonable than the pleasure parties which kept the day as a jocund festival. Far be it from us to pass judgment upon anyone. The majority of those who spent the day in this manner spend every Sunday in the same way. Of the rest a large majority have never seriously considered what Good Friday means. It has never seriously occurred to them that the day on which the greater part of Christendom celebrates the greatest drama of which this earth has been the stage is not the day they should choose for merriment. This want of consideration is due in great part to the nature of the ordinary services for the day. The observance of Good Friday as a day of jollity has grown up under the old system ; the enormous congregations which attended the London churches where the new service was adopted shews that what has been wanted hitherto is the bringing home to the people facts which too often have been merely remote historical events. From Good Friday to Easter is a natural transi tion. Churchmen are to be congratulated that this year's Easter vestries will for the first time be free from the old strife about church rates. If the rate is levied it will be with the consent of the people, and those who disapprove need not pay. In many parishes no doubt the old impost will be continued as the best mode of raising the necessary funds. In such cases it will not improbably happen that the amount will fall very little short of that raised under the antient system. Payment losesnearly all its odious ness in losing all its compulsoriness. The rate clearly has this advantage, that it tells each man what he ought to pay ; that it proportions his contributions to his income. Where the rate is impracticable, it i s to be hoped that no attempt will be made to resort to pew rents. These are illegal to begin with ; they are also unscriptural, inasmuch as they involve that ve ry respect of persons which ST. JAMES denounced. Voluntary contributions in lieu of pew rents are merely pew rents in a disguised form. Ten years hence Low Churchmen will wonder at the objec tion which is now felt by many of them towards the weekly offertory, will stand amazed at their opposi tion to a practice which existed not only before the division of the Church into " high " and " low," but in the very earliest ages of Christianity. It may so happen that the period of transition may be attended with hardship in individual cases. There are parishes in which the maintenance of the Church is dependent upon a few persons. These may be churls who have given' hitherto because they were compelled to give, and who will give no longer now that the compulsion is removed. We do not believe that thess persons will long con tinue in their present ill-humour, but that, if treated judiciously, they will come forward to prevent the scandal of seeing their parish church fall into decay. There may be parishes in which the poverty of the inhabitants may lead to this result, but these will hardly be worse off than they are at present. It is for the richer parishes to consider if they cannot undertake to aid these.. Let each populous and fairly wealthy parish choose out one that is thinly peopled and poor, and take it under special protection, and offer it special aid. Such a course has already been adopted successfully in London, both among Churchmen and Dissenters. We need not point out how much it strengthens Church fellowship. Tim John Bull is greatly dissatisfied at the kind of defence of the Irish Church adopted in the recent debate. Our contemporary, which is the highest toned of all our Conservative contemporaries, complain that Mr. DISRAELI looks upon this question purely from a party point of view, that instead of standing up boldly for great truths, as Mr. HARDY has done, he " pockets " his principles, and listens to the wire pullers, who tell him that this question must be got rid of before his party can return to office. It is not for us to justify Mr. DISRAELI, but we cannot help thinking that the John Bull has wronged him in supposing that he has pocketed his principles, or that he has any principles at all with respect to the Irish Church, at least of the kind which, as Con servative leader, are imputed to him. The truth, as we take it, is that Mr. DISRAELI sees that the Irish Church, as an establishment, is morally inde fensible, and actually incapable of being maintained, and that while he fulfils his duty to his party by making an ingenious speech, which may mean anything or nothing, he will not stultify himself by any further support of an institution which he has already openly denounced. Of course the honest and the noble course, as well as the safest course in the end, would be for him to follow the example of the man he reviled, and tell his followers on this question, as PEEL told his on the Free Trade ques tion, that their position is de jure and de facto untenable. Mr. DISRAELI ought not to find this course very difficult, Ile has already adopted it with regard to Reform. Perhaps he is preparing to adopt it on the question now prominent, and only needs time to educate his supporters. Mr. DISRAELI'S chief difficulty lies, no doubt, in the fact that his colleagues as well as his followers have to be educated. Mr. HARDY is already a very formidable rival for the leadership of the Conserva tives in the Lower House ; and as he still believes devoutly in the principles in which Mr. Ms- RAELI only pretends to believe, he would probably supersede the present leader in the event of any such confession of error as we have sup posed. Mr. HARDY'S argument is this, that no nation ought to be without a national recognition of Christianity in the shape of an Established Church. This principle, if it means anything, means that the Church and the State should be co-extensive ; that all persons not belonging to the National Church should be ineligible for all posts in the Legislature or in the Executive. In other words, half the popula tion of this country ought to be ineligible for a seat in Parliament, or for the most insig nificant post under Government; rather a formidable encroachment, that, upon the principle of "No taxation without representation." Lastly, what do we find as a matter of fact—that the nation, as represented by its legislators, was more truly Christian when the theocratic principle was in full force, or is so now ? Has there been more or less corruption in high places, more or less misap propriation of public money to private uses, more or less abuse of patronage, more or less legislation in behalf of those who most needed it since the repeal of the Tests and Corporation Acts and Roman Catholic Emancipa tion ? Let our liberated slaves, our cheapened food, our educational extension, our factory and sanitary legislation—all events of the last thirty five years—declare. These, surely, are better recog nitions of Christianity on the part of the nation than the maintenance of a Church Establishment among a people who detest its teaching and consider it the embodiment of their conquerors' hatred and ven geance. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FnoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY, March 28. Paris politics are in a state of utter stagnation. The war alarms have once more had their little day, and are subsiding, until the next Bourse speculator turns them to his needs. The triple alliance is no longer spoken of. The Belgian question has relapsed into comparative obscurity, and there appears to be a disposition on the part of the Government to let it drop altogether. The Belgian papers, and some of the semi-official journals here, are murmuring about irreconcileable differences between the two Govern ments ; but that is all we hear of the affair. Requiescat in pace. But we have a question—we are never without one—and the loss of this pretty Belgian question has been at once supplied. The Sporadic question has now made its appearance. The inhabitants of the Sporades Islands, which are situate in the Archipelago, are of Greek origin, and enjoy special privileges and partial immunity from Turkish rule. The autonomy of these islands has remained undisputed from the Crimean War until now, but recently the Ottoman Government—at least, so say the people of the Sporades—have encroached upon this independence, and have, in short, subjected the Sporades to Turkish rule. The inhabitants have asked the intervention of France, in order to preserve their liberties, but the Government here has refused to have anything to do with the matter. This the Etendard, with some show of reason, thinks an unwise decision. The Sporades are insignificant enough ; but if their inhabitants meet with a rebuff at Paris, they may turn their attention to St. Petersburg. The semi-official journal complains that is a "moral abdi cation" of French influence in the East. It is stated that the Prussian Government has entered into negotiations with the Grand Central Company of Belgium for the concession of the line from Anvers to Aix-la-Chapelle. If this information be correct, the object of the procedure is evident. It is to irritate France by demanding a concession similar to that which the Cabinet of the Tuileries has demanded. If France is to have a line through Belgium, Prussia will have one too. More public meetings interrupted. A meeting at Bel villa has-been stopped, and several speakers have been arrested for treasonable speeches. It is again asserted that these democrats are in the pay of the police, and that the object of the Government is to alarm all orderly people, and induce them the more firmly to support the Government at the election. But if the authorities have this end in view, which is doubtful, to say the least, it is hardly likely to realise its object. Beyond the room where they are held these riotous aszernblfges do not create the slightest excitement. The nightly in terruption of communist meetings is regarded by the rest of Paris with the most profound indifference. The speakers rave, the commissaire of police interferes, the official journals publish a full account of the affair next morning, and there it ends. Seldom do the Opposition papers take any notice of these proceedings. Even the terrifying rumour of a plot against the Government which has just been spread abroad has ceased to create more than a temporary flutter. A private meeting was, it seems, the origin of this report. Some violent language had led to the interference of the police, and arrests had been made, but the conspiracy, if ever one existed, was promulgated only to a very considerable number of people. The " frustration of the plot against the State" is therefore likely to end in nothing more than a prosecution for " exciting to hatred and contempt." The railway stations in Paris are crowded with soldiers returning from their six months' leave. By the 31st inst. every man is bound to have joined his corp A case which has just come before the Tribunal of First Instance here ought to be published throughout England. It is a sad story, and chews the danger which English girls incur in marrying foreigners in England. A Frenchman and an English girl were married at Cardiff on November 14, 1f367. It appears that they at first attempted to get married by the French Consul at Cardiff, but he refused to perform the ceremony, on the ground that the previous formalities required by French law had not been complied with. They were then married before the registrar, and also by a Catholic priest at St. David's Chapel, Cardiff. The Frenchman was 28 years of age, the lady 21, and the father of the latter gave his consent. But the marriage has been declared null and void, because, though the marriage was good in England, yet, as it was concealed from the husband's father, it was void in France. French law requires the consent of parents on both sides. THE DUMFRIESSHIRE ELECTION, The nomination for Dumfriesshire is fixed for to-day, and the polling will probably take place to-mcrrow. The contest between Sir Sydney Waterlow and Major Walker will be very severe. Both candidates held several meetings in various parts of the country las: week, and addressed their supporters. Several anony mous letters addressed to the candidates or their principal supporters have created a good deal of talk, and have formed the subject of animadversion at the local meetings. Some of these epistles have been published in the Dumfries papers. One to Major Walker warns him " to retire in time, or take the consequences ;" the Mar quis of Queensberry has received one adjuring him " to help the Liberal side " at his peril. Sir J. H. Maxwell has also been favoured with a mysterious epistle, in which he is charged with " using undue influence in this election," the writer adding, " your safety lies in your own hands, and if you do not support the Liberal side your pride will be humbled in the dust." A warning letter, sent through the post office, of which the following is a copy, has been received by the Liberal can didate :—" Sir Sidney Waterloo—Me and my mates has got a good bit mony to do for you and some more Radikels— so look out. Six caries are marked down on the paper we got, to be flebotomed they said. H ura for the Major who stumps up the klink.—GuLLY-KNIrE." T* •,4 • / 1 6,4. .6111 1 tt i lralfrit ti! HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 28. Her Majesty, Prince Arthur, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. LATEST INTELL MENU (I: L7E R'S TELEGRAMS.) INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN (IIEAVY) MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, March 29. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Poona!, with the above mail, passed the Needles at 10.10 a.m. ITALY. FLORENCE, March 28. The Russian Grand-Duke Wladitnir arrived here to-day. WEST INDIAN MAIL. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Douro, from the West Indies, &c., has arrived in dock two and a half days before time. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, March 28. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales were about to leave this port yesterday afternoon, when a delay was caused by the screw of the steamer Ariadne getting entangled in the chain of . the buoy. The repairs having been com pleted, the Ariadne left with their Royal High nesses ou board at noon to-day for Constantinople. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, March 29. The Inman Royal Royal mail steamer Citna, from Liverpool, arrived here at 5.30 p.m. yester day, and having embarked mails and passengers she proceeded for Halifax at 10.30 this morning. All well. LOSS OF H.M.S. FERRET. DovEn, Monday. In a north-east gale of great violence, accom panied by a snowstorm, at 4.20 this morning, her Majesty's training brig Ferret, Lieutenant Carre, Commander, of eight guns and a crew of about 25 men and 86 boys, was driven ashore to the eastward of the Admiraly-pier. All hands were saved by the exertions of the crew of the mail steamer Breeze. They are now at the Sailors' Home. The ship is fast going to pieces in the midst of a violent gale. The Breeze lost or damaged one paddlewheel. Dreadful weather is prevailing. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 27,—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : Bank Shares 2860 Ital'an Fives 56 25 End of month — Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes 32 Home Debt — Deferred — Cash Orleans ... 960 Northern Lyons and Mediter ranean - Southern Western Eastern 41- per Cent. End of month 3 per Cent End of month 7O 30 Credit Mobilier End of month 278 75 Credit Foncier 1485 End of month — RAILWA' Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman 52 6631 471-} 63,1. 78 Lord Teynham is at present on an evangelising tour in Shetland, and has been officiating in several of the churches there. His lordship (says the Globe) is a very earnest preacher, and is very zealous in the work in which he is said to have been more or less ongagod for upwards of 40 years. Messrs. Hibbert and Platt, the members for Old ham, have been relieved of the responsibility of the costs attending the late scrutiny which was demanded as a means of unseating them. Mr. Justice Blackburn, having con sulted the other two judges appointed to try election cases, 1:14§ decided that the petitioners shall pay the costs. STRUGGLES OF VERDI The career of Verdi furnishes an instance of the value of perseverance. He was born of peasant parents, in a little hamlet near Brussels, and one of his earliest recol lections was the delight he felt at hearing the organ play in the village church. He was fortunate in obtaining lessons in his favourite art from the organist of the public school to which he was sent, and at a very early age he devoted himself to composition. When he had reached his seventeenth year, he came to a criCcal point of his fortunes, for his father could not afford to have him sent to Parma to continue his studies at the University. It was therefore suggezttd that he should return home, and work in the fields. He escaped this uncongenial employment, and obtained a sufficient sum to proceed to Milan. On presenting himself at the Conser vatory of Music, he was declared to be utterly unfit for the art. This was a great disappointment to the youthful genius, but he resolved to persevere in spite of all obstacles. He studied privately for some years, and devoted himself with the greatest zeal to the task before him. In order to effect his purpose he lived in the most simple manner, and denied himself all amusements. He became the successor of the organist who had been his first instructor. An opera of Verdi's, which was brought out at Milan, was not very successful. While engaged in writing a comic opera for the manager who had accepted his first production, he met with heavy domestic afflictions, and hence the work was not a success. After these troubles Verdi gave up the study of his profession for a long time, but was finally induced to undertake the opera of " Nabucco," which turned out a complete triumph. The name of Verdi instantly became the fashion in Milan, and from all the cities in Italy managers made offers to the new composer. The manager who had been his first friend was before them, however, and handed him a contract for a new opera, with a blank for the composer to fill up the sum himself. Verdi would gladly have been left alone to dwell on his success, but this was not permitted, and he found himself suddenly besieged by a swarm of friends, who manifested the greatest interest in his proceedings, and declared that his musical career had always been a source of delight to them. DISTURBANCES AT ANCONA. A correspondent writing from Ancona says tnat a popular demonstration took p 7 aC 3 on Monday against the new Octroi laws. By these not only were the original duties materially increased, but a variety of new duties were imposed on articles of food exclusively consumed by the poor—already sufficiently bur dened by the daily increase of Government taxes. Cafes and places of business throughout the town remained closed in the morning, and the streets were in the possession of an excited mob, which threatened to make quick work of the civic authorities if the obnoxious statutes were not forthwith repealed. The military and police were confined to barracks ready to act in case of any out break, and a deputation of leading citizens waited on the Syndic at the Town Hall, urging him, in order to prevent a serious riot and bloodshed, to suspend the obnoxious laws for the present. While still so engaged an angry crowd burst into the Town Hall and into the Council Chamber, crying out, " .11.Iorte al Sindaco," " Abbasso la Giunta," and there is very little doubt that they would have carried out their threat, so far as the Syndic was concerned, by throwing him out of one of the windows of the room, which overlooks a deep ravine, long before any assistance could possibly have reached him. Fortu nately, the few gentlemen who were conversing with the Syndic succeeded in calming the most turbulent spirits in some degree, but the crowd would not be pacified until the Syndic issued a decree repealing the obnoxious laws entirely, which was followed up by a notice that the Syndic and Giunta had sent in their resignations to the Government. As soon as the news of these concessions spread, all the shops were reopened, and the town resumed its usual aspect. The weather is so severe in the Pyrenees that bears havo been seen amongst the villages at the foot of the mountains. Sheep, cows, and ono child have been car ried off. A grand review will take place on the Fiftecu Acres, near Dublin, the week after next, in honour of Prince Arthur's visit to Ireland, at which his Royal High ness, as well as the Lord Lieutenant and the Counters Spencer, will be present. A spinning mill at Chaddeton, near Oldham, has iust boon destroyed by fire, damages £12,000. The mill was 9rected in the year 1800, and belonged to Mr. William Smethurst, but latterly it has been workod by Messrs. Thomas 11. Smethurst and Sons. It is announced that her Majesty will hold Draw- Mg-rooms at Buckingham Palace on Thursday, the fi!II April, and on Tuesday, the 11th of May; and that P. Arthur will hold a levee at St. James's Palace, on hoha4 her Majesty, on the 3d of April, ins' ead of on Friday, tic ) th bat', 4114.ettgAPY ATAintactd. AN EXCULPATION. Canadian papers say that the following letter was written by Whelan about 20 minutes before his execution : "Ottawa Gaol, Feb. 11, 1869. " To John O'Farrell, Barrister, Quebec: "Deer Sir,—Having herd that you have been accused of complisity in the murder of T. D. McGee of the 7th of april, 1868, i think it my duty in this solimme our when just about to appear before my Eternal Judg, to state that with in my knowledge you had mother hand act or part Eather Directly or indirectly in the murder of Mr. McGee. (Signed) "P. J. WHELAIT." ;SYNCH LAW IN GEORGIA. AUGUSTA, March 13.—Dr. G. W. Darden, who killed Charles Wallace, editor of the Clipper, was taken from the gaol at Warrentown last night by a party of disguised men, who took him some distance from the town, where they shot and killed him. Mr. Wallace had applied for ad mission into the Masonic Lodge at Warrentown, and was Mack-balled by Dr. Darden, who had promised not to op pose his application. Wallace then attacked Darden through the columns of his paper, denouncing him as a liar. and a villain. As Wallace was passing Darden's office the latter shot Lim from his window with a rifle, the ball passing through Wallace's head and causing instant death. The affair causes intense excitement in Warrentown. Wallace was a Democrat and Darden a Republican. TRADE AND FINANCE. The holidays have greatly interfered with trade gene rally throughout the past week, and we have no very prominent feature to notice. Cotton, however, remains in the same anomalous position as noticed in our last, and the result of the recent rabid speculation threatens to be a collapse, either on the part of the holders or of the spinners, if not of both. Already the small spinners are giving way, not being able to withstand the current along with their stronger brethren. The fact of these weak firms being weeded out may prove of service to the trade in the long run ; but it is unfortunate that so much distress should prevail at a time when there is really no need for it. The real fact of the case appears to be that the cotton-spinningtrade has had too much capital invested in it, capital which can not be recovered, because sunk in machinery and plait. .Messrs. Ellison and Haywood, in their Lent annual cir cular, demonstrated this fact in a most forcible manner. They shewed that, as compared with 1860, the weekly consumption of 1868 shews a decrease of 4,000 bales, or 41 per cent„ while, during the same period, the spinning power of the country had increased at least 10 per cent. ; so that the average consumption of 1868, according to these figures, represented only 84 per cent. of full time, that is, about five working days per week. To give full employment to the spindles now in existence we should require an import of 64,500 bales of the average weight of 1868 import, while the present rate of consumption is not more than 50,000 bales per week. The inference is, therefore, that capitalists who have " fixed" their money in the cotton trade, are obtaining but a small return for their investment. That they are healthy enough to withstand any ordinary crisis is evident from the dangers through which they have passed. The only solution to the problem will be the extension of the growth of the cotton plant. The South has not by any means arrived at the limit of its production, and there are other fields where the plant may be intro duced with success. We can make use of every bale of cotton we can possibly import, and although prices may decline, that does not shew, under improved means of cultivation and increasing skill, that any loss will accrue to the planters from that fact. Cotton has recommended itself to universal favour as the cheapest and most durable article of clothing, and there is little fear of any other staple attempting to corn pete with it. The money market has again relapsed into a state of quiescence. Contrary to general expectation, the demand for discount has been very moderate, notwithstanding the close of the quarter, and the rates have, therefore, been on the decline. The course of events has proved that the direc tors of the Bank of England were perfectly right in not raising the official rate of interest three weeks ago, when a somewhat violent spasm passed over the market. All circumstances point to the probability that even lower rates will rule before long. There is a large quantity of gold on passage from Australia, and the exchanges, as a rule, being favourable, it is anticipated that a consider able portion of it will be:retainedjhere. The payment of the dividends, about to fall due, will also add considerably to the capital afloat in the market. There is another point, too, which is likely to affect the money market here. The American trade from the com mencement of the present year has been of a more than usually adverse character, and there is now a large balance against the United States. The value of foreign goods landed at New York in January and February has been £9,074,000 against £7,247,000 in the corre sponding period of last year. Meanwhile the value of the exports has been only £4,700,000, against £7,400,000 last year, shelving a great excess of imports, with an even greater deficiency of exports. A large portion of this difference has been made up by the late heavy shipments of bonds made to Europe; but we must not forget that the interest on the bonds themselves, will not amount to less than twenty millions of gold dollars for the half-year, and it is very evident that the shipments of bullion from America must soon be resumed on an extended scale. With regard to the posi tion of trade in the United States itself, it is evidently much inflated from overtrading and the facilities afforded by an inconvertible paper currency. A crash must, sooner or later, be the result. While we are writing on New York financial affairs, we cannot but pay a tribute to the discretion of General Grant for his choice of Mr. George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, for the office of Secretary of the Treasury. Ho is well qualified for the office in every way, and has more than once skewed the sound economy of his financial views. No course detrimental to the credit of the country is likely to be adopted at his instigation, and that he is an able administrative officer is fully proved by the success with which ho organised the New Internal Revenue Bureau in 1862. It is needless to say that his appointment has been regarded with favour both in New York and in London. It must be borne in mind that this appointment is of much more importance than formerly. Before the war the United States was the " Great Untaxed Republic." The revenue was a small one, and was mostly derived from Customs duties, and the secretary was accordingly thrown into contact with a very small proportion of the population. His pro ceedings, therefore, excited little interest, and his diffi culties little sympathy. Since the war, holtver, all is changed. The revenue and taxation of the United States are on a most gigantic scale, and the people groan under burdens unknown before in Christendom. The patronage of the Secretary is immense, and his power over the money market extraordinary. We believe, how ever, that in Mr. Boutwell General Grant has secured a coadjutor who will make no unworthy use of his position. tg Another scandal in high life," which we have already mentioned, is likely to prove a very sensa tional case. Sir Charles and Lady Mordaunt will, we may yet hope, keep out of the Divorce Court, but, if, as is re ported, proceedings aro imminent, we understand they are not unlikely to make trouble in very high places. Lady Mordaunt is tho sister of the beautiful Countess of Dudley. General Dix, at present United States Ambassador at Paris, ha , s'written a letter denying, as absurb, the state ment that ho had interfered in the Turco-Greek diplomatic settlement. As the principles of the Americans, ho says, is to tolerate no interference in their affairs, so they expect to strictly carry out the. converse policy, and refrain from in terference with other States. A committee has been formed for the purpose of endowing a bishopric in Madagascar, and for providing ad ditional clergy in that island. Tho Archbishops of Canter bury and Dublin, the Bishops of London, Oxford, Hereford, Lincoln, and Mauritius, Bishop Ryan (lato of Mauritius), Lord Lyttelton, the Dean of Ely, Archdeacon Bickersteth, and others, are among the most active promoters of the scheme. A co-operative conference was held on Friday, at Leeds, and was attended by about four hundred delegates, from all parts of England. The object of the conference was to obtain facilities for the application of co-operative principles to the purchase of land and for the transfer of the shares of the societies to the representatives of decdased members. Resolutions were passed in favour of a simpler method of transferring land, and of a less costly mode of entitling the representatives of a deceased person to property. - - - The Orchestra learns that a new Italian Opera Company has been formeo, inclu ling ar(ists of European c2lebrity, with an orchestra and ehcrus chicly selected from the disbanded forces of Her Majesty's Theatre. Tho season will commence on Monday, 3d May, at the Theatre Royal, Lyceum, which has been secured for a period of six years ; and the repertoire will include a number of operas as yet unknown in this country. The season witl extend to August, and six representations will be given weekly. The following colloquy took place on Tuesday ln the vicinity of Dumfrios :—" Well, John, there is to be a now election for tho county." "So I Lear, sir." "I sup pose you intend to vote in' tho sam3 way as you did in November?". "No, na, that'll no do; my neighbours tell me I'll be fined fifteen shilling if I vote for the same man twice, and I wad na pay fifteen shillins for the take o' tho bv§Vondidate that ever stepped.' TILE QUBEN AND MR. CARLYLE. The London correspondent of the Dumfries Standard says! m With reference to a paragraph which has been going the round of the papers as to the Queen's mentioning to Thomas Carlyle that she was thinking of visiting Dumfriesshire, lain in a position to state that no such intention was expressed. The Queen and Mr. Carlyle bad a good deal of conversation as to the district of which our distinguished countryman is a native ; and her Majesty made a reference at considerable length to her fondness of Burns, and the increased enjoy ment which must be derived in perusing his poems from an acquaintance with the local surroundings. Her Majesty also alluded with some force of wcrds to the bad taste and folly of the attack made upon the memory of the poet by the Rev. Fergus Ferguson. Mr. Carlyle told the Queen that the land of Burns was to the full as well worth seeing, and as rich in historical memories as was the land of Scott, which the Queen visited last year; and he did make the sugges tion that, as the Queen had been at ono ducal residence- - Floors—there was another in Dumfriesshire—Drunilanrig —which was well worthy of being honoured by the Royal . presence. Tho reply of the Queen made to this very broad hint was a smile and a shako of the head. T understand, however, that the Duko of Euceleuch, is not going, if he can help it, to allow Mr. Carlylc's suggestion to full barren." THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS OF WALES IN EGYPT. A correspondent of the Daily Nems, writing from Cairo, by date March 38, says :—" The Prince and the Princess of Wales reached Minieh somewhat earlier than was anti cipated. They took train there at nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, and arrived at the station of Gizeh, opposite `Old Cairo,' shortly after three in the afternoon. They were met by the Viceroy's son, Taufick Pacha, some of the Ministers, and the principal members of the Consu late. There was no ceremony, but hearty greetings and glowing accounts given and eagerly listened to of the travels up the river. The Prince, in light-coloured tra• yelling dress and an Indian puggaree round his pith helmet, looked the very picture of health; so likewise did the Princess as she stood underneath her sunshade, talking gaily with the young Egyptian Paella. The Prince •)f Wales related his shooting adventures, and hoW between the two cataracts he had shot a crocodile. He seemed proud of his exploit, and so he may be, for :rocodiles are tough-skinned, and it requires a very unerring aim to make the wound a mortal one. The sacred animal—symbolical of the Nile, or abundance and -luck -- was stuffed on the spot, and is to be taken in triumph to England, where, maybe, the Prince will have him nailed as people do in this country—aloft of his door at Marl borough House. When at Thebes the Prince of Wales was informed of the existence of a tomb not yet come to light. Excavations were commenced, and under the superintendence of Colonel Stanton, who returned from Assouan while the Prince and Princess proceeded to the Second Cataract, a sarcophagus of red granite, in the form of an Osiride figure, covered with hieroglyphics and cartouches—the feet partly broken—was found. It is buried at a depth of some 60 to 80 feet, at a distance of 30 to 40 feet from the face of the mountain. The tomb will be carefully removed, and proper engineer• ing appliances have been sent thither for that purpose. But the sarcophagus is many miles away from Gizeh. At the station chars-it-banes, drawn by two pairs of percherot horses, ridden by French postillions, with pipers, or out' riders, ahead, all in faultless boots and leathers, jackets, and glazed hats—perfect imitations of the Emperor's mode of conveyance at Fontainebleau and St. Cloud—are stand' ing in readiness. The Prince and Princess, with their suite, got into their chars, and instead of crossing the Nile to their palace, and recrossing it in order to visit the Pyramids of Gizeh, they adopt the better plan, and drive there at once. The Prince and most of his suite climbed the first pyramid, and dined afterwards in the pavilion I have alluded to in one of my former letters. Yesterday the Prince visited the Citadel Mosque, and tc fr day he intends seeing some of the others. The view, on a bright sunny day, from the heights of the citadel of the densely-populated city, with its maze of streets, myriads of houses, and domes and minarets of mosques, is glorious, and the Prince appreciated it thoroughly. Towards the cool of the evening the Prince rode on horseback, and t he , Princess drove out with Mrs. Gray in a carriage an d four. Their Royal Highnesses went to the Circus in th e , evening, and appeared in high spirits the whole 01 the time, much amused at the performance, where they remained until midnight, when it was over, This afternoon the Viceroy is expected back fo ul his excursion through the Isthmus. He had never been there, and his visit is quite an event in the annals of the company. The Prince and Princess start on Monday' and intend visiting the whole of the canal. To-W°rovi night the Viceroy gives them a grand banquet, and on Saturday there are to be theatricals in their honour in one of the palaces. The fele cliampetre has been fixed for Saturday, and so have the races. The weather is begin' ping to be decidedly hot, and the Prince and the Princess will embark in the nick of time to escape the many desag i t inens heat entails. They have been travelling in tb "' country under very favourable circumstances—and wer e able to lay aside the baguette of royalty—the Princess, for a charming abandon, which will ever be recalled by the gentlemen of her party; and the Prince, for the laisser aller of any ordinary Nile traveller. A telegram from Philadelphia, arough th e Atlantic cable, states that Mr. Andrew Johnson is not dead, as reported, but is ill. His recovery, however, is considered doubtful. Her Majesty, on the recommendation of gr. Gladstone, has (says the South London Press) granted a pension of £5O per annum to the widow of Dr. R obert Armstrong, the late head master of the South Lambeth Grammar School, author of the "Dictionary of th e Gee'l° Language," &c. THE KILDONAN GOLD DIGGINGS._U p wardS of forty men left Thurso during last week for theant' diggings. Companies have been formed of eight, t, and twelve men, who have got wooden sheds made for their accommodation, and had them conveyed to 0(1°511 by carts. The Liverpool Mercury states that the Governinen g has virtually abandoned the prosecution of Mich ael Jome, tts ° Kelly, the Liverpool printsellor, who was lately conimi 1.11 to the assizes for having exposed seditious plates. for sale his shop. The object of the prosecution was attained the publicity given to the proceedings in the earlier staseeag so that when Kelly surrendered for trial at the local ase!_ Pal tha t. on Thursday, the Attorney - General for the cou nt y' consented to the discharge of the accused on co ndition he should come up foi nent when called upon. The Yorkshire Post publishes the recommen d 3f the committee appointed at the January Quarter Scssio f to inquire into the question of increasing th e "T i ber in polling places in the West Riding. They recommend mber o f Northern Division—instead of 14, the present ter!' nu polling places, that in future there bo 45 ; in the Ea s Division—instead of 16, 48; in the Southern —for 13 ' thel recommend 44. The number of polling booths requisite for y a contested election will not be largely increased. Tile -- also propose that th e rev i s i ng b arr i s ters shall h old courts . in the Northern Division-14 places as at pres ent ; Eastern toad .Division-18 instead of 16; Southern Divis ion -17 ins of 13. HEMLOCK.—Scientific discovery has destroyed another of our most popular theories. Hemlock, to which Socrates and Phocion were said to owe their death,ie pronounced by Mr. Harley and other eminent toxicolo gists to be no poison at all. Si xtr y grains of tincture of hemlock were administered to and young woman without any apparen t effects, e ° Mr. Harley, 4fter a dose of 24 grains of the pure juic the leaves of the hemlock, only experienced a slight plus' 111 cular numbness, which passed off after an hour. fr° further experiments it appears that the common hemlock neither a poison nor even a medicinal remedy. The facts re lating to Socrates and Phocion may, however, be reasonabY explained in another way. Hitherto dictionaries have always translated the Greek koneion and the Latin cicuto by our word hemlock. Some change of classification bas no doubt taken place. What the ancients called hemlock was perhaps the cicuta vivosa L., which is, in fact, a most poisonous plant. • AMUSEMENT FOR THE VOLUNTEERS.—SPeaking of the amusement for the early-arrived volu n teers at Dover, the correspondent of the Daily N eIVS says : s o far aS to they have come under my notice , th e y were confined the performances at one or two music bails, where nigger minstrels arid second-rate acrobats d id their best-- how bad that best was only those who witnessed it could guess—to enthral the senses and excite the admiration of the spectators. The proprietor of one of these institutions—it would be invidious to mention his name—animated by a s p irit of generous a ll hospitality, nobly threw open his establishment to comers. There no stern cash - receiv er sto p ped the waY ; no suspicious cheque-taker barred the entrance. The approaches were as free to the sad-clothed civilian as to the volunteer in his gay uniform ; and manY both classes made their w a y into the spaciou s s hall so hospitably thrown o p en to them. fili seats were hard, it is true, but clean. The lights were numerous. The decorations, if not costly, appropriate. Only one thing was wanting. The spirited proprietor, overpowered by his enthusiasm, had forgotten to provide any entertainment. The eager multitudes who thronged together at his invitation found timeesertd were orchestra and an empty stage. For some they amused themselves by singing the chorotises of vari° lll well-known popular songs ; but even this joy soon Pall e ?! and untempted by the manifold attractions of a refej: t m ent-bar—which was not open gratu...ailolOOY IV 13 M 0 / COMM With ref , bacco Low " Messrs. 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