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With a Single Stake of £1 you can realise £20,000!! with £2 £27,C00!! with £8 £42,000! ! with ClO £45,000!! For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. - THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, EASY SHAVING : Messrs. Gordon, Rogers. Clark ; Mits. es Fanny Wright, Glynn, &c. Afier which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, &c.; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. x• r Sothern. Concluding with DIANE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Commenei , at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Man tger, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7. THE HOU E t LATHE BRIDGE: Vivi:tine Celeste. Coneludin 2. with PrtESE3l:"l'Brio EVI DE'OE: AT tv,lnme Celeste. Louisa Moore, ke.; Messrs. Bignold, Shore, Ecro!niek Murray, ke. TITEATIIE-I:OVAL, ADELPITC. 'Tills EVENING. at 7. DID YOU EVER ••END YOUR WIFE TO C • MI3F.R WELL: Mr. G. Be!roure, Mrs. L. Murray At 15 to 8, LIVE FOR LE Miss Neil-on. Mr. A. Stirling, Mr Stuart. Mr Ashley, Mrs Leigh 1. array, Miss Minnie ydney, &e, And WHITEBAIT AT GRP: , NWICH : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanhorough. EVENING. at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Me s , r , PA_ ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENINg, at 7. MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. At 9, A BREACH OF PROMISE. After which, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS. Messrs. Marshall. David Fisher, Andrews, Hurl stone. J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. TRJS Eva'iNG, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. After which MONEY• Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mr. U. Honey, Mrs. C. Horeman, ece. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. Tuts EVENING, at 7.30, IN FOIL A 110 LID Y. Followed by A ROVING COM lIISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss S. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Niarie 'Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. JlMle4'B Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and ;:aturda.ys, at 3 and S all the year round. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. This EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravagmza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at S. ls. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-yak, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d y • Sint LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1869. Confusion worse confounded is all that can as yet be said in regard to the last addition to the list of rival plans for the New Courts of Law. Three courses are still before us—and from those three propositions we have yet to make our selection. It is still an alternative as to whether the Palace of Justice, or whatever else the structure is to be called, shall stand to the North or to the South of the Strand—upon the Carey-street site or upon one or the other of the two sites proposed to be chosen by preference on the Thames Embank ment. Economy is the chief plea in favour of the third arrangement—the one introduced last night, virtually at the Eleventh hour, by the Chief Commissioner or Public Works. But that economy is obviously secured through the medium of two very glaring, and by no means attractive sacri fices. First of all, the Strand frontage is to be alto gether foregone. A back street is to be the northern boundary of the site originally indicated a few weeks sicce by the Chancellor cf the Exchequer. Howard street, or at any rate the northern side of that street, is to be the screen behind which the frontage of the design of the New Law Courts on that si le :hall be hidden away from public view. 'thereby the architect will be enabled to devote his energies to the consideration of the ornamental design of the lac ide of the Palace Justice! on the southern or river side, the side looking directly on the Thames Embank ment. Very much in the mine way, it strikes us, as Mrs. CRUPP was enablel to direct all her attention to the cooking of the potAtoes upon the occasion of the memorable dinner given to STEERFORTH and his companions by DAVID CorrEarIELD. Looking to the mere figures we can certainly have hardly a word to THE SUN, LON say in favour of the Carey-street site. The original calculation as to that site was, it will be remembered, that its total cost would amount to no more than £750,000, and that another sum of £750,000 would suffice for the cost of the superstructure—altogether £1,500,000. Already, however, there has been ex pended upon the site £880,991 7s. 5d., but the cost of additional land yet to be purchased to complete that site, the cost of the building afterwards to be erected upon it, and the cost of opening up to the North, to the East, and to the West, suitable and all-essential approaches, must inevitably swell the total not merely to £3,200,000, as latterly sup posed, but to a grand aggregate of very nearly £4,000,000 sterling. Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN'S plan for purchasing and using a much grander site on the Thames Embankment, would involve, according to Mr. LAYARD, an outlay not far short of that— I namely, of at the least, as the Right Hon. Gentle man asserts, not much less than £3,250,000. Finally, there is the more modest and more economical site proposed by Mr. LOWE, the cost for the erecting of the Law Courts, upon which, according to Mr. LAYARD, would not be hazarded an outlay altogether of £2,ooo,ooo—land, approaches, building, furnishing, everything included. A sum not exceeding 11,900,000, he maintained, would cover it all. Mr. LOWE has hitherto enjoyed the credit or endured the odium of having suggested this Howard-street site, bid away at the back of the Strand, between the Temple and King's College, and looking southwards across the river at that particular portion of the Thames Embankment. The credit or the odium whichever it may be, Mr. LAYARD now claims absolutely for him self. He it was who suggested it to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. And much honour it does him ! The proposition appears to us, the more we think of it, a singularly mean and paltry proposi tion. It looks chiefly to the economy of the whole arrangement. The adornment of the metropolis in any way is a very secondary consideration. The New Law Courts are to be as few as possible. The build ing is to be as small in its dimensions as may be. One side of it alone is to be clearly visible. The other three sides are to be mere boundary walls perforated with windows for lighting and ventilation. On the east and the west respectively, these New Law Courts —no longer spoken of collectively as a Palace of Justice—are to be squeezed in between the Temple and King's College. As moderate a bill as can be arranged for, is to be run up, and the Government of England is thus to contrive upon the shabbiest terms possible about providing a central home of some kind for THE3IIS. Clearly the proposition is anything but attractive I The House of Commons, or we are very much mistaken, will think once or twice before de ciding definitively upon its acceptance. CAN nothing be done to improve upon that ludic rous and dolorous pageant, an English funeral ? The " grander" it is the more grotesque it is. The poor man's funeral is ugly enough, with its black coach and one black horse and long black box on black wheels, called a hearse. But it is when we come to the millionaire's obsequies, it is when our BANTINGS and GARSTINS have to carry out the last sad rites " regardless of expense," that death becomes not only hideous, but ridiculous. Some days ago there was a disturbance at Falmouth because a " ritualist " funeral offended certain fervid Protestants, who upheld the glorious principles of civil and religious liberty by a physical-force attack upon some one who ventured to exercise the right of private judgment in a way that they did not approve. Do the Falmouth roughs know that all the paraphernalia of the modern undertaker are " rags of Popery ?" that the red-nosed mutes, with their black silk-laden staves, ere the representatives of the crucifer with the veiled cross, and that the other Bardolphs with brass-tipped wands are the suc cessors of the acolytes, who carried lighted tapers ? We own that of the two a cross, which is the symbol both of death and resurrection ; seems more appro r Hate than a stick swathed in silk, and looking for all the world like a negro doll. We own that we never could see the meaning of the brass- topped sticks, nor for that matter of the plumes, nor of the hatbands, nor of many other items of th e ritual" which the undertakers get up for the special purpose of swelling out their bills. - Let us have one of two things : a " ritual" that shall be wholly sad and mournful, or one in which the sadness and the mourning shall be relieved by symbols of the future life ; by colours which shall be to us as the rain bow was to Noah, a token of the time when our tears shall cease; by flowers that shall tell us of the bright fields into which we trust our beloved ones are gone ; by everything, in short, that shall comfort the heart with the thought that the end is not in the narrow pit wherein we have laid the dead. Either mode would be seemly, either would be appropriate, though the latter would be more worthy of Christians than the former. But funerals of the ordinary kind, funerals such as Falmouth roughs will graciously allow to pass through the streets unmolested, are unredeemed by one single merit. They are neither solemn nor aesthetic ; they are both costly and monstrous. They tend neither to impress the careless, to comfort the afflicted, nor to honour the dead. ii Two can play at that game, Mr. Sumama," is 1 the sum and substance of a very remarkable speech just made in the Canadian House of Commons. Mr. SUMNER, as all the world knows, contends that we did, by improper recognition of the Confederate States as belligerents, double the length of the war, and thereby involved the United States in a needless expenditure of some 300 millions sterling, which we must be called upon to pay. Mr. GALT very cleverly and very fairly says that if Great Britain is thus responsible to the United States, the United States are respon sible to Canada for the heavy expense which the Canadian Government has had to incur in resist ing the Fenian raids organised on the terri tory of the Great Republic. These raids were the more unjustifiable because during the war the Cana dian Government preserved a strict neutrality; because the Canadian people sided strongly with the North, sending no fewer than 40,000 men to the Northern army; because when an attack upon a Northern town was made by Con federate refugees in Canada, the Canadian Govern ment took prompt steps to punish the delinquents ; and because, after the murder of President LINCOLN, the same Government went so far as to alter, unasked, the Alien Act, so as to enable the Govern ment to order anyone out of the country who could not give a satisfactory account of himself. In spite of all these proofs of loyalty, the United States Government professed to be dissatisfied. It com plained of acts which were never done ; it attempted to fasten upon the Canadian Government the utter ances of private persons ; it witnessed with scarcely concealed satisfaction the organisation of the Fenian conspiracy and the march of a Fenian force upon Canada. " For months, aye years," says Mr. GALT, "an organisation of the most formidable character was in the States, armed, I will not say from the arsenals of the United States, but cer tainly having United States arms, and drilled by United States officers, held public meetings, in which they stated their object to be the invasion and conquering of Canada. They entered the province in armed bands by thousands ; and not from any want of will on their part, but simply want of power. they failed to deluge the Western Peninsula with blood. When the invasion was over, then, and not till then, did the United States Government stretch out a hand to help Canada. Was there no injustice here ? Are not these claims quite as strong, morally, as any the United States Government can bring against Great Britain ?" It is natural, perhaps, that we should say they are a great deal stronger, especially • when we remember how out Government stretched, 1)0N, TUESDN EVENING, MAY 11, 1869. the law in order to detain a Birkenhead rams. A t all events, it is clear that rims like that which Mr. SUININER has advised, id which, it is under stood, Mr. MOTLEY Wi: make, are not to be only from one side. The anadian bill is certainly of more modest proporths ; but it is not at all likely that the United Stes would agree to allow it, even in the impossible apposition of our allowing their bill, for such admiion on the part of the Washington statesmen ould be a confession of wrongdoing that wouldbe a greater sacrifice of American pride than wdd be compensated for by British cash. Mr. GALT'S speech sould not only make the United States more cautiis in putting forward these extravagant demands, it hould warn the politicians of the Republic that ther is not the smallest wish on the part of our Caadian fellow - subjects to transfer their allegiance rom QUEEN VICTORIA to President GRANT. Areng Mr. CHANDLER'S wild suggestions was one to th4effect that British North America should be given p, by way of settling the little bill which is to )e sent in. But Mr. CHANDLER, for a statesnan, is strangely forget ful of the fact that in a transfer of this kind there are three paties to be consulted, the transferer, the transferee.and the transferred. It would have been of small a'ail though the first and the second had agreed if the turd had not also consented. Nations are not cargoes No one has power to change their owners witlout their permission. Even NAPOLEON is compelled b go through the form of a plebiscite in Savoy. Such an appeal to our subjects between Newfcundland and Vancouver's Island would be likely 4c) produce a result by no means tending to the glory of the stars and ..v.. v• v. h 6110 -nnminimi a- to assent to the " manifest destiny " in store for it, the terms under which Mr. CHANDLER proposes to carry out the change are particularly uninviting. If Canada does not join the United States, England is to pay half of the States' national debt ; if Canada does join, no such payment is to be made. In other words, Canada is offered by way of inducement to partnership her share of a debt of £300,000,000, which will become " bad" by the very fact of her entering the firm. This may be statesmanship ; it is certainly not business. 4,141114 , 41 t I IT t HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, May 10. The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, walked and drove iu the grounds this morn ing. The other members of the Royal Family also went out. DEATH OF SIR CHAS• DILKE, BART. We exceedingly regret to announce—on the au thority of a telegram, just received from St. Peterz burg—the death, occurring at last rather suddenly, after an illness of several months duration, of Sir C, Wentworth Dilke, Bart.late member for Wal lingford. His successor in the baronetcy, his son, now the second Sir Charles Dilke, M.P. for Chelsea, will not arrive in the Russian Capital until some few days after his father's demise. The following memoir of thelatebaronetis taken from "Men of the Times'' : —lie was son of the late Mr. C. W. Dilke, who was principal proprietor and many years editor of the A then xum, was born in London 1810, and was edu cated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. lie was one of the earliest promoters of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and entered as the leading member of the Exe cutive Committee. When rewards were conferred on various members of that body for their services, Mr. Dilke was offered the honour of knighthood, which he declined. He also refused all pecuniary reward for his assistance, wishin g his public services to be purely honorary. The resuscitation of the Horticultural Society of London is understood to be in great part clue to his exertions, as one of the vice presiden ts. Among other public movements with which he is associated, we may mention the Second Gl\ at Exhibition of 1862, of which he was appointed by her Majesty one of the five Royal Commissioners. In January, 1862, her Majesty Was pleased to confer a baronetcy on him. The late Sir Ch rles Wentworth D:lke was out, there, at St. Fetei sbargh, as the represantative of England at the gr,at Itusian llorticnitural Exhi bition. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY, May 10. M. de Lesseps has proved himself one of the greatest of living engineers, but as a politician he is evidently a failure. He was confident of being returned for Marseilles, as he had three Opposition candidates opposed to him, but he has already greatly impaired his chances of success. A numerous delegation of workmen, not fewer than 1,200, have waited upon him to protest against threats of dis missal by their employers if they did not vote for the hero of the Suez Canal. This demonstra tion produced an effect very unfavourable to M. de Lesseps. He attended an electoral meeting the same evening, but was very coldly received—even hissed. He got excited, and fiercely renounced all official patronage in language by no means of the drawing-room order. He has thus thrown away official support without getting that of the Opposition in return. The approach of the balloting-day has had the effect of rapidly thinning the list of candidates. Men who had no chance have retired, and left the field to their superiors. This is particularly noticeable in Paris. M. Allow, who intended to contest the seat of Mr. Jules Favre, though of the same shade of politics, has at length convinced himself that he cannot turn out the great orator, and has retired. Similarly M. Ulysse Parent has thrown up the sponge to M. Ernest Picard, who is now the only candidate in Paris who has no competitor. He is the most popular of the Opposition deputies, and his elec tion was always certain. Marshal Niel is much struck with the injury to the morale of the army wrought by the wine-shops on Sundays. The French soldiers are, indeed, much given to imbibing yin ordiniare whenever they ran get it ; but Sunday, as in England, is the great day of intoxication. Frenchmen are by no means so intemperate, as a body, as the English, and the stuff they drink is far less injurious than the fiery, adulterated potions con sumed in England ; but then the Frenchman is not SO nitypn j ,„.4.4„4. 0 A fha foriiitV for taking large quantities of alcohol without mental collapse, and, moreover, he is a far more excitable being. Hence the fights and disturbances in the vast army of France on Sundays are very numerous. Marshal Niel has devised a remedy for this evil. He has issued a circular to all the generals and chiefs of corps, enjoin. ing that reviews should be held as frequently as possible on Sundays, in order to keep the soldiers from the wine shops. As Sunday is the day when the Frenchman most enjoys a review, the Marshal thinks he will improve the morals of the troops and gratify the military instincts of the people at the same time. Sunday indeed is the day selected in France for every possible occupation, except those immediately bearing on business. It is the day par excellence for every species of amusement, and likewise for politics. No fewer than fourteen public meetings were yesterday held in the eight circumscriptions of Paris. The confidence and eagerness with which the humbler grades of France entrust their savings to the public funds is remarkable. The new Paris loan, which is to be raised to pay off the illegal extravagance of Baron Haussmann, will probably be subscribed two or three times over. Yes terday and on Saturday morning a large number of per sons, anxious to be enrolled as subscribers, collected at the gates of all the Mairies in Paris. Some of them had passed the entire night in the open air waiting to get the first chance. A case of interest to English readers has just come before the. Civil Tribunal of Lyons. It relates to a demand made by the heirs of a Major Martin on the municipality of that town. The details are very curious. Major Martin in the last century entered the service of the East India Company in Bengal as a private soldier, rose rapidly to the grade of major, and died at Lucknow in September 1800, aged 65, leaving a fortune estimated at £480,000. In a long will, dated January 1, 1800, he distributed a portion of his property amongst his relatives, but devoted the greater part to works of charity; notably for the profit of the cities of Lucknow, Calcutta, and Lyons. By one of the numerous clauses of this document, the city of Lyons was bound to dedicate annually a sum of 4,000 sicca rupees (about £480) to the liberation of prisoners for debt. But in July 1867 a law was passed suppressing personal imprisonment in civil and commercial cases, and the heirs of the Major maintain that the capital which was en trusted to the city for the purpose of liberating persons from imprisonment for debt ought to be returned to them. Major Martin, they urge, left money to provide a remedy for a grievance which is no longer felt. People cannot be released from imprisonment for debt when that punishment is no longer inflicted. The heirs argue, therefore, that the money ought to pass to them. The city resists this claim. The trial, which raises some very important questions, will last some time. The police of the Loir-et-Cher department have for some months past been occupied in unravelling the mystery of a murder which was committed in the begin ning of January near VendOme. A rich farmer was found murdered in his bedroom, with the marks of two gunshot wounds and several bruises on the head. He was a widower, and had one son to whom he was much attached. The son wished to marry a young girl of sixteen without fortune, but the father refused his consent, and even threatened to take a second wife if the young people persisted in their project. The girl has been proved to have purchased powder and ball ; and a musket, broken on the head of the victim, as also the wadding, appear to have belonged to the young man. Both have been arrested, but they deny energetically the charges brought against them. The case, however, is well-nigh complete, and the trial will commence at the next assizes. Last September M. Lecocq, secretary to M. Jules i Favre, disappeared my s t er i ous ly w hilst travelling n Piedmont. The remains of a traveller were found a day or two ago near a forest at Compiglia, in Piedmont, and these are believed to be all that is left of the unfortunate secretary. THE DEATH OP MR. CHARLES ;VESCO JIB. (From the Lx ter and Plymouth Gazette.) Painful is it at all times to chronicle the death of an able, and useful, and estimable man. Trebly painful is it to perform the melancholy task of re cording the removal of an intimate friend, with whom we have been associated in business and in pleasure, and who is cut down almost at our side in the prime of his days. But that duty we have now to perform, and sure we are that many a kindly heart in Devonshire will sympathise with us when we say w e announce with p o i gnan t regret the death of Mr. Charles l Vescomb, the High Sheriff of Exeter. On Thursday Mr. Wescomb was at Exeter and seemed to be in vigorous health ; and far from the thoughts of those who conversed with him during the day was the anticipation that their bright spirited friend, who looked so hale and hearty, had but a few short hours to live. Ten years since Mr. Wes:comb became proprietor of the Exeter and Ply mouth Gazette ; and within the last rive years purchased in succession the Maid stone Journal, the London Globe, and the Edinburgh Courant ; but having entrusted the Globe to other hands, he returned gladly to Devonshire, and only last Monday entered into the occupation of his new midence in Southernhay. From men of all political opinions we have re ceived expressions of heartfelt sympathy with the deceased's family on their sudden bereavement, and earnest tributes to Lis merits as a public man. At the Police-court, on Saturday, the Mayor on taking his seat, formally announced the melan choly event. He said Mr. Wescomb was a man whom they all admired. His ability in public affairs was unquestioned, his general urbanity was admired by all, and his goodness of heart endeared him to his friends and even to many of his political opponents. 'Trinity, The Rev. George H enr y Shield, rector of Holy in his sermon at morning service, made a most affecting reference to the High Sheriff's death, and said all concurred in giving earnest testimony to his public and private worth, to the honourable and successful industry which marked his useful life, and to the good qualities of head and heart which characterised him. At St. Stephen's Church, where Mr. Wescomb worshipped for many years, there was a large con • gregation yesterday morning, it being expected that some reference would be made to his sudden decease. The Rev. J. G. Davis preached, taking for his text the 11th verse of the 2d chapter of the '2d Book of Kings. In concluding his discourse he spoke of the sudden decease of Mr. Wescomb, and said he who was a member of that congregation, and whose place of business was in that parish, had within the last few days been called away from amongst them, and his place would know him no more. Some of them had esteemed him as a friend, whilst others had re spected him for those qualities which made him so useful a member of s)ciety. 111 the evening the hey. J. W. lleclgeland, the rector, preached, and also touchingly alluded to the death of Mr. Wes cott:h. At the evening service at St. Mary Major's, the Rev. 11. Brainley, in allusion to the sudden death of the High Sheriff, spoke of Mr. Ilre - icomb as one much respected and beloved, and who had done much good in the city. At the conclusion of the service the Dead March was played on the organ. The funeral of the late Mr. Charles Wescomb takes place next Wednesday, in the family vault in St. Sidwell'e Churchyard. GRAND REVIEW IN PARIS. The Emperor of the French held a grand review on Friday in honour of the Prince of Wales. His Roy al Highness had every reason to be satisfied with the im posing sight. The entire cavalry garriso ns of Paris and Versailles were on the Bois de Boulogne, the spot chosen for the review. The artillery was drawn up in columns of batteries by the trees which divide the Bois from the river, and the cavalry was formed in lines in the plain between the artillery and the road. The crowd was not so great as might have been expected, but the spectators seemed to take the greatest interest in the proceedings. The royal visitors made their appearance at intervals, and each arrival was a fresh source of excitement. The Princess of Wales was an especial object of interest. She was looking better than before her trip to the East. The Emperor came on the ground at three o'clock, and the Prince of Wales rode on his right hand, dressed in his uniform of Colonel of the 10th Hussars. The weather was at first unfavourable, but the threatened rain did not make its appear ance, and by the time the review was over the sun shone brightly. The distinguished visitors were on horseback, and the Prince Imperial attracted great admiration by the skill with which he managed his horse. After the cortege had passed in front of the several lines, the troops went through their various evolutions, the most interesting part of the affair being the charge of the artillery. They charged by batteries, and displayed a rapidity and accuracy greatly to be admired. The whole of the troops marched past at the conclusion of the review. Marshal Canrobert com manded, and Marshal Niel, Minister of War, was with the Emperor's staff. The general impression con• veyed by the military pageant was that the French Government knew what it was about in the arrangements of the army, and did not spend such large sums of money for nothing. On Sunday the medical bulletin stated that "Lord Stanley of Alderley had passed a restless night, and was about the same as the previous day." The Queen held a drawing-room at Bucking ham and the Prince of Wal e s w ill h o ld a le Palaceveeonhli behalf of Majesty:on Tuesday, the Ist of June. Her Majesty and the royal family will leave Windsor Castle to-morrow for Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty will stay in London till Wednesday, and then return to Windsor. Her Majesty, with their Royal Highnesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and Prince and Princess Christian, will, according to present arrangements, leave Windsor Castle for Balmoral on Friday evening. On Sunday morning, as the West Hartlepool Artil lery Volunteers were proceeding to West Hartlepool Parish Church, accompanied by several spectators, some one, as yet unknown, throw a quanity of vitriol on to the neck and shoulders of a young female in the crowd, named Bowman. The injured gill was taken to Dr. Stamp's surgei y, where her wounds were dressed. Be sides the Lures on her neck, ➢liss Bowman's mantle and dress were perforated in a score of places by the burning liquid. On Monday an inquest was held in Baldwin street, St. Luke's, on the body of George Porter, a lunatic, who destroyed his life after being discharged from St. Luke's Workhouse. It appears from the evidence that on the 2d inst. the deceased, who had been six months in the workhouse, was turned out of it by order of the board. Two elillings were ziven to him to keep him until he found work. On the following day he was found hanging to a beam in a closet at a beer-shop in Bath-street. He had observed at the beer-shop. " They have turned 18 men out of the workhouse. It was a shame to du so." A. verdict of suiocl2 7.4iic9f 41 2.7 pound mind yvasrecorded, LIFE PEERAGES BILL. Earl Russell proposes to alter his Life Peerages Bill in committee. He will move that the description of the classes of persons from whom peers for life are to be selected be struck out, and that the recital stand as follows : " Whereas it is expedient that peers created for life on account of their eminent merits or distinguished services to their country, should in limited number be entitled to sit and vote in the House of Lords." Lord Cairns, assenting to the description of classes being struck out, proposes the following recital :—" Whereas it is expedient to afford, under certain restrictions, facilities for the introduction into the House of Lords of persons distinguished in the services of the State, or who from their attainments or official position are likely to add weight to the deliberations of the House, and who may not be desirous to undertake the burden of an hereditary peerage." Lord Cairns, also. instead of allowing four such creations in a year until there are twenty-eight in existence, proposes that after one such peerage shall have been created in any year, no other such peerage shall be created in the same year, unless the person to whom the same is granted shall at the date of the patent hold one of the following offices :—Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, Secretary of State, President of the Council, Board of Trade, or Poor - law Board, Post master-General, or Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- caster. RIVAL PREACHERS. An extraordinary scene was witnessed in the Market. square at Nottingham on Sunday evening. Mrs. H. Law, a lady who professes herself a free thinker, addressed a con gregation of upwards of three thousand persons, de• nouncing in vehement terms all forms of religion and cre eds. Mr. Dupe, " a converted butcher," who is the leader of a sect of Christians having a " conventicle " in Canaan-street, got on a cab and called upon his followers, who had mustered in great force, for a hymn. The call was responded to, and the free-thinking lady's voice was drowned for a few minutes. Three other preachers obands around the cab from which the lady was speaking, and the din was lite rally deafening. Some of the Canaanites collected a quantity of cabbage heads, and one was flung at Mrs. Law with so true an aim that she only escaped being knocked out of her cab by dropping her head. Two well-defined hostile parties were now drawn up. The lady's supporters seemed more numerous than her opponents, and each seemed equally determined on a fight, when the mayor, with a body of police, appeared on the scene, and com pelled the crowd to disperse. The lady freethinker, not to be defeated, repaired to the new market in Burton Leys, where she preached upon the French Revolution as a noble attempt to enfranchise the mind of man, until a smart shower dispersed her congregation. THE STATE OF IRELAND. The correspondent of the Daily News, who is sending special letters on the subject of the agrarian outrages, thus concludes a communication from Tipperary :—" I could not hear of any general or systematic oppression on the part of landlords, or of any very serious cases of indi vidual tyranny. Of course a great deal of oppression may be practised in remote districts and in the small details of life of which the public know nothing ; but even in this notorious district of Clan william I could not discover any facts to justify or to palliate the murders thatlave been perpetrated. Yet the district is disturbed, and an additional force of police has been sent into it. Nine men are to be placed in the townland of Ballycohy, ten in Bansha, and six in Dundrum. I have already referred to instances of landlords requiring the protection of the police ; I have to add to these the case of a gentle. man in this district for whose protection four constables have been detailed. Other landlords, I understand, have left the country." The following is the text of the resolution agreed to at a meeting of the Corporation of Cork on Friday, and con firmed at a special meeting held for the purpose on Saturday. On the resolution being brought up for con firmation, the mayor declined the prof erred assistance of counsellors, &c., and reserved his right to appear himself before the bar of the House :—" That we protest against the bill introduced by the Government for the removal of the Mayor of Cork, for the following reasons : It violates the first principles of constitutional law and liberty, in subjecting an individual to pains and penalties to be inflicted by ex post facto legislation. That even supposing the mayor had offended against the law, it with draws the consideration of the alleged offender's case from the cognisance of an ordinary tribunal, where, in accordance with the provisions of existing laws, it could be adjudicated upon by a jury of his own countrymen, empannelled in the place where the alleged offences have been committed, and who would be aided and advised in the investigation by a judge acting on sworn evidence, instead of referring to the jurisdiction of an assembly whose decisions are likely to be swayed by party feelings and the prompting of unreasoning panic, and who are incapable of taking evidence on oath. It seeks to abrogate the deliberate choice this council has made of their mayor, and thereby to interfere with the independence of the council." The Clonmel Chronicle states that the magistrates, crown solicitors, and police have been unremitting in their efforts to obtain information respecting the recent murder of Mr. Bradshaw, and that they have made some dis coveries which are thought to be important, but the nature of them it is not deemed prudent to reveal. The Limerick Chronicle has a statement to the effect that the murder is now believed to have been agrarian. Pending the result of the official inquiries, however, all must still be vague conjecture, but it is hoped that some light may soon be thrown upon the mystery. The Dean of Winchester, who is in his 93rd year, has resigned the rectory of Bishopstoke, Hants, to which he was appointed by the late Bishop of Winchester in 1807. MADEMOISELLE TITIENS. —The public will learn with pleasure that Mdlle. Titiens is sufficiently recovered from her late accident to make her reappearance at the Opera, on Thursday next, as Alice, in Meyerbeer's grand opera, " Robert le Diable." BAPTISM OF THE QUEEN OF MADAGASCAR.— News has been received in London of the baptism of the Queen of Madagascar, with some of her officers of State. The ceremony took place in one of the churches of the London Missionary Society. THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN GREAT ORMOND STREET.—On Monday their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian visited this hospital and made an inspection of the wards. The Princess shewed much interest in the arrangements, and conversed with the children about their ailments, their toys, and picture books, of which, by the generous care of her Majesty and mem bers of the Royal Family, an ample supply is always at hand. The royal visitors, who inspected every part of the building, and remained a considerable time in the hospi tal, expressed their approval of the arrangements. CONSERVATISM IN SOUTHAMPTON.—The Conser vative party in Southampton, desiring to celebrate their triumphs in the borough, as evinced first in their success on the polling day, and next in the election petition, have de cided on a banquet to the sitting members—the Right Hon. Russell Gurney, Recorder of London, and Mr. Mare, which it is expected will take place next week. The last time, prior to November last, that two Conservatives were returned for the borough, was in 1842, and both seats were held by Liberals till 1862, when one was secured by the Conec,r vative, and held till the last general election. SUPERSTITION IN WARWICKSHIRE. —Among the superstitions of the past age which are not yet exploded, a peculiar belief in the efficacy of the rain water which falls on Holy Thursday or Ascension Day still remains in some of the villages of Warwickshire. In a village a few miles north of Rugby, several old women might have been seen on Thursday last busily engaged in catching the falling rain, which they carefully bottled for use during the ensuing year. On inquiry what peculiar properties the water so obtained was supposed to possess, and to what purpose it was intended to be applied, a venerable old woman said that the water had the property of preventing heavy bread, and would keep for a year. Every week when a batch of bread is baked a teaspoonful of the water is added to the leaven, and this causes the bread to be light. At least, so the old woman firmly believed, and great was her joy at having been enabled to secure such a plentiful supply o f th e wa t er f or use d ur i ng the coming year. EXTRAORDINARY ROMANCE.—III the course of last week a pretty story came to light in the colliery village of Thornley, near Durham. About twelve years ago a pitman, hearing of the marvellous auriferous dis coveries in Australia, determined to proceed thither. He Bet sail, leaving behind him a wife and two children at Thornley, and arrived in due course in the colony; and forthwith went to the gold-fields and commenced "digging for nuggets." At the expiration of about eleven years, he found himself in possession of the handsome fortune of £15,000, honestly and indus triously obtained. During this long period of his absence from England, he communicated with his wife, desiring that she and her family—two girls—should join him, and sent the necessary tickets for their transit to the new world. She, however, never went. The suc cessful miner discovered the cause on his arrival at his native village last week. His faithless partner had become enamoured of an itinerant rag merchant, and the owner of a wooden leg, to whom she had two children. The returned gold miner at once discarded her, not, however, before making himself known to his two daughters, who were children when he left them for Australia. These he took from their mother, and aft wards equipped them in kpAnner suitable to his altered po§itiozh ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE. Another of those attempted robberies with violence which so often lead to loss of life, but which are generally punished by the smallest of sentences, has just taken place at Birmingham. A man, named Hill, was brought to the police-court charged with stabbing with intent to murder. The prosecutor, a bootmaker, seeing the prisoner and another man loitering about outside his shop, watched them. Presently Hill came in, and after several ineffectual attempts to steal something, managed to open a case. Prosecutor, upon this, darted out and seized the prisoner, and told the boy to go for a policeman. The prisoner said, " Loose me," and, taking up a leather-cutting knife which was on the counter, added, "If you don't, I will can this through you." Prisoner then dealt a blow at him with the knife. It entered his arm, and went in almost up to the haft. This caused prosecutor to loose his hold, and the prisoner ran away. Prosecutor followed him into Bow-street, when the prisoner met with some companions, who tripped prosecutor up. lie regained his feet in a moment, and succeeded in over taking the prisoner, whom he held till two police-constables came and took him into custody. Before the officers came the prisoner called upon his associates to dash a bricl through prosecutor's head. The prisoner, with the other loiterer, who was also apprehended, was committed for trial. SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. A serious railway accident occurred at the Gretna Green station of the Glasgo w and South-Western Railway an Saturday morning. A goods train of some thirty or forty waggons, which was timed to leave Carlisle at 5.30 for the North, left that city a few minutes late on that morning, and when it arrived at Gretna Green station it had to be shunted from the down line to the up line, in order to allow the passenger express, which leaves Carlisle at 6.30 a.m., to pass. The men in charge of the goods train were under the impression that they had nineteen minutes to spare, the passenger train being known to be fifteen minutes late ; but as they were backing across the line into the "up " rails, the express came dashing along, and a fearful collision took place. The driver of the passenger train in approaching the place had " slowed" his engine, either in obedience to signals or because he saw the goods train in front, but he was unable to avert the catastrophe. He ran into the side of the goods train with a terrible crash. Five or six of the goods waggons , containing yarns and drapery goods, were knocked over, some of them being broken into splinters, and their cow tents scattered on the line. There were two iron vans laden with gunpowder in the hinder end of the goods train. One of these was tilted over by the force of the collision, but fortunately it was not much injured. M the passenger train collided with the other at an angle, the engine and tender seem to have cannoned off to the left. They went toppling down the embankment, both of them being completely overturned, the funnel of the engine being buried in the hedge of the adjoining field, and the contents of the tender—the coals, tool boxes, &G —being thrown out. The engineman and fireman had e most wonderful escape, sustaining no injury. The fireman was found lying among the coals of his overturned tender , apparently very little the worse for his fall. When the engine and tender left the metals the coupling links which fastened them to the train broke, and this circumstanc e secured the safety of the passengers, none of whops were hurt. A passenger carriage next the guard's van was thrown off the line and considerably damaged, but it was empty. Next to that was a saloon carriage, occupied by a family travelling north. This also left the rails, but not a single occupant, it is said, was injured. None of the other passengers complained of being hurt, and they all resumed their journey. SCANDALOUS PROCEEDINGS AT S'EFTOY. The disturbances which originated five or six weeks AV on the appointment of a new curate to the parish church of Sefton, and which have been continued each succeeding Sunday, instead of subsiding, grow worse. Last Sunday there was the most scandalou s exhibition ever yet witnessed in connection with the present differences. The church in the morning was not attended by so many as on previous Sunda)ll, but the majority of those who were present were men and young lads, and a few women, who had come from a dir tance for the express purpose of creating a row. EverY respect was paid to the service, and the sermon was lir tened to with due attention, but there was the usual interruption at the conclusion, when the clergyma n faced to the east and afterwards proceeded to the communion table to read the prayer for the church militant. Immediately the sermon was finished, nearly the whole of the congregation left their seats. Some of them Wen t into the churchyard and remained there, but a grea t number stood in the centre aisle of the church, crowding up to the chancel, and stared at the clergyman until h° had got to the end of the prayer. The service over. they joined those who had already taken up their position outside. They strolled about the churchyard, and stood in groups in the adjoining lane, watching for the apPea r ' ance of the clergyman. Amongst those in waiting we re , several Orangemen from Litherland. The majority 0 ' those in waiting had yellow flowers in their coats, a nd those not already possessed of that distinguishing badge. especially the younger portion, scampered about the churchyard and plucked dandelion flowers, which they placed in their hats and coats. Whilst the 111°17 waited for the clergyman some of the singers, highly' respectable and good-looking young ladies, came out of the church. As they passed out of the churchyard they were grossly insulted by the Orange rowdies. The curate , after an imprisonment of about three-quarters of an hour , ventured out of the church to proceed to the rectory*, where he is at present located, the system of persecution being carried so far that he is now denied lodgings at Sefton. Immediately on his issuing from the vestry a shout was raised of "He's coming," and the whole mob rushed after him, and howled and yelled like a horde of Indian savages. Mr. Inspector Moss an d several policemen followed close to see that no harm wa g done to the rev. gentleman. The mob crowded close upon the heels of the rev. gentleman until he reached the rectory, yelling and shouting at him the whole way, an d when he reached his journey's end they yelled still louder by way of a parting salute. There was a very heavy rain on Sunday and through the night at Birmingham. Mr. Planes rain gauge showed at 8 o'clock on Monday morning the amount of three inch° and one-fifth. This is said to be unparallod in the time- ➢lr. Gladstone's bill ‘, to put an end to the Estab: lishment of the Church of Ireland, and to make provision 111 respect of the temporalities thereof, and in respect of t 136 Royal College of Maynooth," as amended in committee, 11°° been printed to-day. It contains 68 clauses. A telegram from Belfast states that the late rob bery of fire-arms there has turned out to be a local affair, ad was anticipated. The property has been discovered, 513 0 the supposed burgl a r, J osep h B erry, o f Sh an khill- r oad, been captured. Some consternation has been caused in Yorkshi r A B by the "mysterious disappearance" of a gentleman Rills, of Colne, Essex, who left York on the 11th of Ap ril ' without acquainting any of his friends of his whorea hoet' since that time. A reward of £lOO was offered for his covert', and it has now transpired that he is living in P 3rl°. Meetings in support of the Permissive 13i11 ate just now being hold throughout the country. A larg e was held in the open air on Saturday at Liverpool, tol d rem solutions were unanimously passed in favour of the Ti le , sure. The Reform League of Birmingham has adopted, petition to Parliament, praying that the bill should be P asse Colonel Cowell Stepney writes that he was ti ' e member who, in reference to Mr. Bright's land F elledv ; uttered the emphatic " No" generally supposed to 133 :4 come from the Premier himself. Tho gallant member Carmarthen was sitting immediately behind the Tr eesll t C r bench, and of course it was difficult to t e ll th e exact (1. 051.-° from which a single exclamation of that kind came. Aa A singular excuse for atte m pti ng t o com mit silic iLl A was made before the Liverpool magistrates on SaturdsY' lies man named Griffiths had been apprehended by a P i ;" a officer in the act of h ang i ng hi mse lf up t o a b ea m. 1 : ( 1 remonstrated with his exc use was th a t h e h a d got vr° t9 9 that he was "hangin g hi mse lf up t o d ry ." The magistrat 'e discharged him. At the IVorship-street Police-court on 31 ' 11 : 1 1 a man named Stevens was fined 55., or, in default, live imprisonment, for being drunk and incapable in church 10 Sunday. The defendant entered the church of St. Stophe l3 ' r , the Commer c i a l- roa d , i n a s t a t e o f h e l p l e ss intoxi cgtv l L and roots went to sleep in one of the pews. lie eras Csco. lied out of the church without having made any disttnban The seventy-fifth annual meeting of the men3berf and friends of the London Missionary Society— the f irs , t c o a series of meetings to be held during the week -00k P ee t, on Monday morning at the Mission House, Bloinfield -st : u l at half-past seven o 'cl o ck. The meeting was of a deyetl°l3x. and business character ; and in the afternoon, at th ree e'cl°c the annual meeting of directors and delegates was held' Cn Monday about 1,700 men of the 111)3 _ Naval Reserve left the various southern ports °f E ic e land and Scotland for the guardships of their resPec t to districts, from which they are to be forwarded at °fl c h e ic h the vessels composing the Whitsuntide squadron, is to rendezvous at Portland on Monday, thence to pro fir O tl3 o on a cruise of about a fortnight's duration under thuds mand of Bear-Admiral Key, 0.8., and it is s aid un porepaloppryilipnAtlio First Lordll-4-4346411. 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