The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-31 00:00:00

TOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY' TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whitene3s protects the eramel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. 6d.— Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. CAUTION. • T MOSES and SON I.J I . beg to inform the Public that thoy have adopted and registered a TRADE MARK, consisting of the words " The Standard," with the initials "E. M. & S. , underneath, and that henceforward every at tiele of clothing manufactured by them will have a label or ticket att , tehod to it, with the said trade mark printed thereon. All persons are hereby cautioned against imitat ing the said trade Mark. For trades and addresses see following advertisement. THE APPAREL oFr PROCLAIMS THE MAN." BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES, BES WORKMAN:HIP, and LOWEST PRICES, a E. MOSES and SON'S. Every doseript ion of Clothing ready-made or made to masarc, for ail age,, all occasions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and SON'S. For the convenience of Lalies accompanying their 30118 there is a separate department for Boys' Clothing, and it is furnished with a splendid assort- Went of Suits, Ov. rcoats, and Clothing for all occa sions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. Orders by Post aro attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. 75103 E i and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless flt. Any article not worn or injured will be exchanged, or, if deaired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is unequalled for mag nitude, variety, and cheapness. A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from 4d. the pair. Complete Outfits for all climates, with every re quisite for the v)yage. List of Prices, with Rules for ?elf-measure, Pat terns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON, Ready made and Bespoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all classes. E. MOSES and SON'S Est blishmcats are closed every Friday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON LONDON: CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON- ROAD. Country Branch: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. c r UILDHALL, 24th MARCH, 1870.—The Com mittee for Letting the City's Lands will meet at Guild ha 1, on WEDNESDAY, the 3th April next, at half-past One o'clock precisely, to receive proposals for Leases in Lots of the several Houses, Nos. 8,9, 10, 12, 13, and 14, Botcher-row, and Nos. 2,4, 6' 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, and 36, Whitehorse-street, Hatcliff. A Plan of the Property may be seen, and further particulars and Forms of Tender obtained, upon application st the Architect's Office, Guildhall. FERDD. BRAND, Comptroller. 1870. THE following is the House List of GOVERNORS and DIRECTORS of the BANK of ENGLAND for the year ensuing: FOR GOVERNORS. • ROBERT WIGR AM CRAWFORD, Esq., G overnor. GEORGE LYALL, Esq , Deputy-Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. Fen ry Wollaston Blake, Esq. Henry Ilulse Nereus, Esq. John William Birch, Esq. Travers Buxton, Esq. Mark Wilks Collet, Esq. James Paulson Currie, Esq. Benjami i Buck Greene, Esq. James Alexander Guthrie, Esq. Thomson Haukey, Esq. Baron Heath. John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. Thomas Newman Hnnt, Esq. Charles Frederick Huth, Esq, Alfred Latham, Esq. *William Lidderdale. Esq, Alexander Matheson, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Geurg Warde Norman, Esq. Edwar 1 Howley Palmer, Ehq. *OavidPowt:ll, Jun., Esq. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq I Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq. 'N.B. The Gentlemen against wl are new C.indidates for t .e Dire( The Election or Gov rnor aqd at the Bank on Tuesday, the Wednesd y, the Crh April, trom till Four in the Afternoon. I Albert George - -andem;a, Esq Christopher Weguelin, Esq. hose mint •Es an asterisk is placed ction. Deputy-Governor will be held hu, Ai ril. and for Directors on Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair L 1 to its p istine htte, no matter „t what age. JNO. GOgNELE, and , CO. have at length, With the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid.. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each; also 55., 7s. GI, and 15s. each, includ ing brush. Red Bull %Thar!, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. 11 Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL. After which, at 7.45, PEEP 0' DAY : Messrs J. B. Howard Lewis Nanton, Barrett, J. Neville, F. Charles C. Moore, 31 Intyre, W. F. Vokes, and F. Vokes; Mesdames Edith Stuart, Barrett, Michells, Amy Roselle, Hastings, Harper, and Rosins Vokes. THEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARKET Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at 7. A N ALARIILNG SACRIFICE. Mr Buckstone, jun., and Miss F. Wright. After which, at 7.40, oUR AMERICAN COUSIN: Characters by Mr Sothern. Mr Buckst.ne, Mr Chippendale, Mr Braid, Mr hogers; Mrs Chippendale, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Uwynne, Miss C. Hill, &c. Concluding with SHOCKING EVENTS: Mr Compton, Mrs Chippendale, and Mrs R. Fitzwilliam. Box-office open daily fron Ten till Five. HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. ' Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTEIt THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, Mir PRECIOUS BET..,Y: Messrs J G. Taylor, C. J. Smith; Miss Eliza Johnstone. After which (7th time) THE PROMPTER'S B 'X: a Story of the Footlights and the Fireside. Y r Benjamin Webst• r, Mr Henry J. Byron. Mr J. D. Beveridge, Mr 11, Phillips, Mr C. H. Stephen son, Mr J. G. Taylor, Mr C. J. smith, Mr n shley, Mr W. H. Eburae, Miss Furtado, Miss Lavis, and Mrs Alfred 'I ellon. To be foll Owed by WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICII: Messrs J. G. Taylor, U. H. Stephenson, Ashley; Mrs Leigh Murray, Miss Lennox Grey. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. ROYA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager—Mr. Benjamin Welster. THIS EVEAING, at 7, YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER After which, PAUL LAFARGE: Messrs. J. Rouse, W. Rig nold, Geo. Belmore, Vonaire ; Mesdames R. Leclercq and Le thiere. With A DARK NIGHT'S WORK; Messrs W. Rignold, G. Belmcre, H. Credit ; Misses It. Leclercq, Barnett, &c. LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs Mansell (elegantly redecorated by Msentosh). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, SAMPSON'S WEDDING. Aft r which, CIIILPERIC, by Here: Messrs M. Marius, G. Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Aynsley Cook, and 11. 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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1870, SPORTING. —JOHN ROBERTS su ppli es t h e LATEST EDITION of "THE SIIN " as soon as pub li 3 hod.-4, Bath-street, City-road. 8.0. HE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE, - 1 - Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Ecigewaro-road. lelivers the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " as soon as published. rrlIE SUN.—LATEST EDITION to he seen k in the Coffee Room, at the "Southampton Arms," High street, Camden-town, where all Sporting and Politica events are freely discussed. THE LATEST EDITION of THE SUN " s ipplied, as sox n as published, Every Evening, by W. ALEXANDER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, \o. 4, Old Cavendish street. Oxford,treet THE THEk.TRES, &c. DRURY-LANE—At St vcn, I'm not Myself at all. At Eight, Peep o' Day ADELPHT.—At Seven, My Precious Betsy. The Prompter's Box. Whitebait. at Greenwich. HAYMARKEI—At Seven. An Alarming Sacrifice. At 7.40, Our American Cousin. And Shocking Events. • LYcEum—At 7.30, Sampson's Wedding. At 8.30, ; - .lhilperie OLYMPIC—At Seven, Little Ern'ly. The Princess PRINCESS'S—At Seven, Your Life's in Danger. Paul Lafarge. A Dark Night's Work GAIETY—At Seven, The Happy Village. At Nine, Uncle Dick's Darling QUEEN . S—At Seven, Quick March. At 8.15, 'Twixt Axe and Crown STRAND—At Seven, Widow's Weeds. Sir George and a Dragon. A Fish Out of Water 7.45, The First Nigh ST. JAMES'S—A t Seven, She Stoops to Conquer. At 9.15, La Belle Sauvage. An Unhappy Pair PAINCE CS WALES'S—At Eight, School. Dearest Mamma. Quite by Accident GLOBE—At Seven, Whitebait at Greenwich. At Eight, Philomel The Goose with the Golden Eggs WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Picca• dilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at S; Saturday Mac n. Jugs at 3. Admission, Is, 2s, 3s. 'HRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and 'aturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. MADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 5.30 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls.; extra rooms, 6d. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, Open daily (except Sundays). Adtaission. Is.• on M'ndays, 6d. Children under twelve. 6d. -4 g Stilt ; LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 31, 1870. The Financial Year closing to-day, we can more reasonably anticipate the character of the tale that will have to be told immediately after Easter by Mr. LOWE, when he comes before the House of Com mons with his Budget, in his capacity as that Purse Bearer of the Nation, her MAJESTY'S Chancellor of the Exchequer. Even now, before tho revenue returns have been closed up to the end of March, we are apprized of the fact that we are £lBO,OOO more than a good round half million better off than the right hon. gentleman himself an ticipated. The receipts actually recorded up to the morrow of quarter day, come to the grand total of £74,193,865, whereas Mr. LOWE had forecast those receipts upon the whole financial year last past, namely, 1869-70, at £680,000 less—that is, at £73,515,000. This improved condition of the revenue was—as matters stood up to the 26th inst., viz., last Saturday. A Supplementary million may not unreasonably be looked forward to as likely to roll in upon the National Exchequer before this the fourth of the 1 tat d tys of this final quarter have run our, thereby completing the whole financial twelve month. In all human probability therefore we shall find the nation better off in its gross receipts of Income by a million and a half, than even the sanguine anticipations of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer had encouraged us all to believe that we should be. Simultaneously with Vie acquisition of an odd million and a half, the country has diminished its expenditure by another £1,500,090. So that, in point of fact, we are al-eady on our way to the announcement of an agreeable balance in our favour to the tune of, at any rate, some £3,000,000, so soon as the contents of Mr_ LowE's new Budga shall have bean laid upon the table of the House of Commons. Su far so goo] —the increase of the Revenue, by the way, arising 'from the two sources of Excise and of In come Tax. The advance upon the Excise re turns alone, remarkable to tell, is absolutely over a goad round million sterling. The bulk of the remaining gain is found under the head of the improved receipts upon the Income Tax. In the same way the economies effected in our ex penditure are traceable mainly to two sources— those being the economies carried out by Mr. CHILDERS, as First Lord of the Admiralty, and the economies carried out by Mr. CARD WELL, as the Secretary of State for War. What to do with the surplus on hand, is precisely what Mr. LOWE will have to explain, towards the close of his speech on the forth- coming Budget ! That being a feast that the House of Commons, and, through it, the country at large, always enjoys diseusiing WE fear there is only too much foundation for the -t..tement of the Globe that Mr. Bright will retire from the Ministry. Our readers have been told that the right hon. gentleman's illness was very serious, far more so than has been admitted in some quarters; and is of a nature to render hard work disastrous, if not impossible. It may be that Mr. Bright will, hereafter, be restored to health. We sincerely hope it ; but we do not anticipate that he will ever feel himself at liberty to resume the responsibility and the toil of office. This is a most melancholy incident as well as a serious national misfortune. Mr. Bright has, by the force of his character and the greatness of his abilities, raised himself to the front rank of British statesmen. No man has been exposed to greater misrepresentation, no man has been more generally abused. It was not till his principles had triumphed that th 3 country generally came to recognise the honesty of the man. Occasionally he has been injudicious in word, and has at times spoken of the upper classes with a severity that seemed without sufficient justification. But this fault has been modified of late, and Mr. Bright has even been accused of too great Conservatism by the more advanced Radicals. So far as regards the department over which he presided his retirement will not be a serious loss. But Mr. Bright, though he .did not shine as a portfolio minister, was one of the most fertile originators of great mea sures even in the present Cabinet. His retirement will be seriously felt and lamented by his colleagues. The nation, too, will mourn at this cutting short of an official career so ably begun. It will see in this striking down of a statesman just as he had gained the reward which ha had so well merited another of those dispensations of Providence which seem sc strange and so insf , ru table (FIZOM 4 CORRESPONDENT•) THE general who is always prepared to fight, under any circumstances and against any adversary, must secure a victory sometime. It has been reserved for Mr. Nowdegato at last to lead the Protestant host triumphantly against the hitherto unconquered forces of the Government. Mr. Gladstone and his:colleague s manfully resisted the motion for an inquiry a select committee into the conventual and monastic institutions of Great Britain ; but in vain, The hour of Mr. Newdegate's success was come, and he won by 131 to 120. It is difficult to be angry with a triumph which giTes so much real pleasure to so many excellent people and their "organs." The Advertiser, the Record, and the Stan dard, not to mention lesser luminaries, are delighted. The two former are congratulating themselves upon a deadly home-thrust at the Beast ; the latter sees in this division " a crushing defeat" of the Government. Yes; notwithstanding that the Ministry took the matter far too lightly, and only whipped in a third of their rank and file, not 'withstanding that numerous Liberals went over to the assistance of Mr. Newdegate, the Slandard still sees in this division a continuation of the great work which was begun in Southwark by Coloncl Beres ford. But it would be invidious to analyse too closely the sources of such keen joy. The only point of difficulty is whether all this gratification can have been fairly obtained at the cost of another section of the community. It may be well to please Mr. Newdegato and his friends, but it is not well, with out strong expectation of real good, to gratify that zealous party by offering an annoyance and an insult —for such it will be regarded—to the Catholic, body. It is always understood 4. that a committee of inquiry is - appointed only when there is some real prima facie case for investigation, and some end in view when the inquiry is completed. There is much difficulty in reconciling Mr. Newdegate's motion with these con ditions. It is nothing to the purpose to affirm that monasteries and convents are largely on the in crease, for it is as natural that Catholics should found such institutions as that Protestants should found Sunday schools. This great multipli cation is undoubtedly owing to those measures of religious liberty which the nation does not regret, and which it has no intention of revok ing. If such an atrocious case as that of Barbara Übryk were brought to light the need for intervention would be clear. No such instance, however, is to be found oven in the records so carefully kept by Mr. Newdegate. His great leading case is that of Miss Saurin ; hut .it is not easy to see how such practices as those disclosed at Hull can be pre vented, supposing they were proved to be common. Miss Saurin suffered no violent tyranny. It was by a series of petty persecutions, small depri vations, and slights, which, though galling, were almost unrecognisable, that she was driven out of the convent. How can these inflictions be avorted between superior and nun any more thanbetween mis tress and servant? A system of inspection, such as Mr. Newde ;ate proposes, could do absolutely nothing with this evil. Not one nun in a thousand would confess that she suffered from perse zution, even though her life were made as miser able as Miss Saurin's. The supreme power given to the lady rulers of convents may be misused; it is a well-known fact that women who have the absolute control of other women's happiness frequently do keep up a merciless system of mean tyranny; but this is a consideration which must be weighed by those who submit themselves to such restraint. Government inspection to prevent " nagging," as it is called, is an absurdity. The Executive cannot be called upon to settle women's quarrels, though it may be just the work suited to Mr. Newdegate. And it is not right to pre-suppose that any more serious scan dals exist' in British convents, because there is no evidence of those graver practices which would demand Government intervention. The inquiry may, however, be of some benefit. There is a large class in this country who are convinced, evidence or none, that unheard-of horrors are perpetrated behind con ventual and monastic walls. An investigation may set the minis of these at rest, if anything can. But it is more than doubtful whether this advantage suf fices to warrant an interference with those principles of religious liberty which have become so firmly establishol. The Catholic doctrine of seclu sion ought to be respected, as far as po , sible, i ust as much as any other doctrine. THE WICKLOW PEERAGE CLAIM. The Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords has decided to-day, in the matter of the claim on behalf of the son of Mrs. lloward to the earldom of Wicklow, against that claim. THE ADMIRALTY. There is a report that the Admiralty contemplate, as a measure of economy, having in all ships a general messtnan, wlio will cater for the captain and officers. Thirty-eight admirals of different grades will, it is stated, be removed from the Active List. to-morrow ,or soon afterwa-ds. Rear. Admiral Houston has declined to accept the new scheme. . lii 3 Royal Ilighness the Prince of Wales:will pre side on Monday next at the Society of Arts, at the committee appointed at the request of her Majesty's commissioners, to organise the educational division of the annual international exhibitions, commencing in 1871.1 . _ Summons have been issued for a Cabinet Council on Saturday next, at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Downing-street. No improvement, we regret to say, is recorded in he condition of General Grey. Sir John Hay's compulsory retirement at the age of 49 shows the anomaly of the Order in Council under which ho is compelled to retire, when it is rememb3red that Sir Thomas Cochrane, aged 81, and Sir Houston Stewart, aged 79, are retained on the Active List, to the former of whom Sir John Hay was flag lieutenant 26 or 28 years ago, and to the latter flag captain about twelve years ago. _ _ Plinee Pierre Bonaparte intends, it is said, to reside in Brussels. He has a house in the Avenue Louise, where preparations are going on to receive him and his family. The objections of Mr. Bernal Osborne to two of the sureties offered on behalf of Mr. Smyth were heard yester day,' before Master Burke, who characterised the objections as frivolous, and condemned Mr. Osborne in costs. The Tower Subway was to have been openel this morning, but Mr. Barlow, tho engineer of the works, being anxious to make some further exptihnouts, the under river lino is not yet finally thrown open for traffic. A Dumber of the discharged dockyard hands are about to proceed from Chatham to Pruss'a, to be employed by the Prussian Government in naval ship building. The Town Hall at Croydon, an ancient red brick building, in which tha assizes of the Home Circuit were held alternately with Guildford and Kingston, and the petty sessions, and in which the municipal business of the town was transacted, was this morning destroyed by fire. THE REPRESENTATION OF PEEBLES AND SELKIRK —There is a report in Peeblesshire of the probable retire ment of Sir Graham Montgomery from the representation of the joint counties of Peebles and Selkirk. The hon.•baronet is ill. The name of the Earl of Dalkeith was mentioned as probable successor to the present member. . _ . The head master of 'Marlborough College says that he school has not beer_ broken up. A telegram from Alexandria says the traffic through he Suez Canal is increasing. Mr. Sedeant Cox has undertaken the duties of Deputy Asgistant-o uage of tne iviiacuesex sessions for the remainder of the present sessions, on account of the death of Mr. Payne. • • The female weavers on strike in Glasgow it is said are about to resume work, their employers having pro mised to make full inquiry into their grievances. The. joiners' strike shews signs of settlement. Mr. Lockyer, who was sentenced to a year's im prisonment for intercepting his former fiancée's letters, has (says the Ayr Advertiser) just been liberated. It will b 3 remembered that the trial took place shortly after Mr. Lockyer appeared as a Radical candidate at the general election. lzzet Pasha, late governor of Jerusalem, has been condemned, for dishonest practices in his government, to three years' exile in Kutahia and to 6,000 ducats damages, and his assistant, Alustapha, to five years' exil e an d10:006 ducats dauiagres. . 't V7l 3, , tt rt e \4I:, , VAa I , , 01.. t e l fin! , Atl---7,- _ -7,7,---_, eirafial •, A. 4,..-- ,., __, 11ER M A.l ESTE CLAREMONT, March 30. • The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Peairice, went out this morn'ng. Her Majesty drove out i❑ the afternoon, accom pnnied Ly Princess Louise, and attended by Lady Churchii. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited-the City of London Middle Chtis Schools, Finsbury, yester day aft.rnoon. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, MARCH 30 (EVENING). The Francais of this evening states that several Senators intend proposing important modifications in the Senatus Consultant. The (pinion Nationale announces that General Wimpffen, commanding the province of Oran, has started with an army of 6,000 men for an expedition to the frontier of Morocco. BOURSE, March 30.—Three o'clock—The markt closed as follows : 4i per Cent. 3 per Cents 73 95 End of month 73 97f '.:relit Mobilier ~ 265 Transatlantic 2OO Credit Foncior 1297 50 Paris Gas 4805 Suez Canal 325 RAIL WA Bank Shares 2805 Itt.Fan gives 55 75 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 47 Spanish Threes Home Debt — , Deferred ... Cash ... 10121 6481 1186-1- 616 i 10314 631* 541 805 4,n 70 82 Orleans Westorn . Northern. Strasburg Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) PHILADELPHIA, March 30. The President to-day issued his proclamation, de claring the 15th Amendment, enacting negro suf frage, to be ratified. And part of the Constitution Bill, admitting Texas to the Union on the same con ditions as Virginia, was passed by Congress and sent to the President. A telegram from Texas reports a raid by the Comanche Indians on the western border of the State, and a massacre of more than forty families. NEW YORK, March 30. The Cunard steamship Java arrived here at 8 m. to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1121 ; the highest quotation during the day was 1124 ; the lowest, 111 f. - Sterling Exchange on Loudon 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1885 1867 10-40 „ Illinois Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 22ic Petroleum—Standard White Flour -- Extra State, Si 50c. to $5 10c. Corn—Old mixed, $1 7c, PRUSSIA AND EUSsiA.—The North Cierman Gazette contradicts the statement which was made by a correspondent of the A ugsburg Gazette to the effect that a coolness had arisen between Prussia and Russia, in con sequence of Count Bismarck's recent explanation of his German policy. THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—Lord Mure has given his decision, in the Court of Session, on the answers lodged by the Caledonian Railway Company against the interdict obtained by the North British Company, pro hibiting the running of certain trains between Glasgow and the North. His lordship continues the interdict for merly granted with reference to the running a number of trains and in regard to the Caledonian running a 4.15 p.m. train from Glasgow, has given a decision which will enable the Caledonian to run a train earlier than the North British, provided it does not injuriously interfere with the train at present run by the latter company. A SOUTH-GEIt➢IAN CONFEDER A TION.—The scheme of a South-German Confederation, such as was mentioned in the Treaty of Prague, is still cherished in Bavaria. The present moment is thought favourable to the project, which has not hitherto gained many adherents in Central Germany. The Augsburg Gazette proposes a Confedera tion of the South, under the title of the United States of South Germany, and asserts that the plan, which is based on the following conditions, has a very exalted origin :-1. There is to be a reciprocal guarantee of territory 2. One common regulation of foreign affairs. 3. A com mon military organisation under the auspices of a military commission. 4. A common diplomatic regulation. 5. General equality in legislative, commercial, and industrial rights. 6. Common civil and criminal rights based as much as possible on the North German Constitution. A SINGULAR WEDDING.—A wedding of a novel description has ta,keu place at Newbury. The bridegroom, whose name is James Farr, had seen 62 summers, and was in such an infirm state of health that he had to be con veyed to church in a Bath chair, drawn by his intended wife, a buxom woman about 40 years, of age, named Bailey. The Bath chair was drawn into the church, as far as the font when the bridegroom was assisted out of the chair, and with the help of the bride and sexton he managed to reach the chancel. The Rev. Charles Boyd performed the ceremony. It appears that in former years the parties had cohabited together. At the conclusion of the service the bridegroom was again placed in the Bath chair, and drawn home by his wife, another woman push ing; behind. Neither of the pair were able to sign the parish register. THE ERIE RAlLWAY.—Accordin g to the latest New York advices Mr. Burt, the agent of the Protection Committee of the English Erie shareholders, was about to commence proceedings almost immediately in the Supreme Court of the State of New York and in the United States Courts. " The exact nature of these pro ceedings," it is stated, is not known, but it is quite certain that in their course the right of the $50,000,000 of English-owned stock to be fairly re presented at the meetings of the company will be sought to be established." Messrs. Barlow and Tracy have been retained as counsel for the English Committee, and the proposed proceedings will be brought before Judge Ingra ham, of the State Court, and Judge Woodruff, of the Federal Court. Meanwhile it appears that a confederate of Messrs. Fisk and Gould has been despatched on some mission to this side. STRANGE DISCOVERY.—As a gentleman resident in Clerkenwell, was digging a hole for gardening purposes in his back garden he came across the lg bones of a man. The hole at that time was three feet deep, and upon the gentleman digging a little more he found.that the bones had been covered by several layers of quick lime and that fact arousing his suspicions he at once called in Inspector Bryant. Sergeant Rowe, and Mr. Money, the coroner's officer, who continued • the search, and they found the arms, shoulder blades, and back bones of a man buried in lime. Further search was then discontinued until orders had been received from Dr. Lankester. Near the bones were found the remains of a rotten box. A medical man is of opinion that the skeleton was buried in full flesh about 27 years ago, and that the lime was used for the purpose of burning the flesh off th e b ones , an d so destroy ing the smell. No theory• has yet been formed as to how it came to pass that a dead man was so buried in a back garden. A CAT AND RAT STony.—The following is given by a fanner living near Peru, as a veritable truth, to the best of his ability :—" He was sitting in his barn, silently engaged in mending an old harness, when he observed his favourite cat Torn cautiously approaching an opening behind two barrels. Tom squatted near the point of ob servation, his tail moving with majestic slowness, his ears set forward inquiringly, while his body glided nearer and nearer the opening. Suddenly he shot forward like a black bolt of lightning, and as quickly back again, bring ing with him a huge rat. The rat struggled violently and squealed terribly, but Torn laughed, his long back tail perpendicular. Tom laughed before he was out of the woods, for the terrible screams of his victim called a whole regiment of rats to the rescue. They rushed in upon Tom from every point of the compass too swift and too numerous to be counted. Tom was surprised out of his discretion, and sprang up three feet from the floor, with a ra t holding to each hind leg and the rest eager for him to comedown. lle came down, of course, and then began a most fearful struggle. Tom swore terribly (in cat-Latin) ; furious fell his blows. The rats fought in silence, except when Tom's sharp teeth met under the backbone cf some luckless wretch. Tom was losing ground; the pressure was too great for him ; he was down, two or three clinging to each leg, half a dozen at his throat, and 'rats swarming all over him. At this critical moment an Amazon eat, with her two grown kittens, leaped from the haymow and pitched in for Tom. This timely reinfol-coment SOOll elldtA the struggle. Tom limped away, bleeding freely, but the dead and dying victims of his prowess were no less than thirteen, besides the wounded that escaped. No prisoners taken," 7 -Ottaina Bcp4tican. SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. , WEDNESDAY. Ireland is terribly avenged. Night after night, week after week, it is the same subject. Irish wrongs, and Irish outrages. Irish land and Irish tenants, Irish sheriffs and Irish " bhoys," until one asks in despair will there never be an end ? At all events the account is balanced now. Granted that we, or our grandfathers rather, have neglected Ireland until to-day, we the sons have had to bear the punishment and to make the amends. Last night I went to the House of Lords again. It is a most melancholy place in spite of all its grandeur. It seems as much too large for its members as the House of Commons is too small. A few gentlemen, most of them elderly gentlemen, dot the red morocco leather benches. There are two ladies in one gallery, three in the other. , Though the Upper House is s) much the more aristocratic assembly of the two, there is hardly any ritualism in it. The Lord Chancellor sits on an uncomfortable seat, not raised, but rather below the level of most of the peers. There is no mace before him, no one bows to him on going in and out. There is no Serjeant-at-Arms in a capacious arm-chair of his own, but a gigantic official, about seven feet high, stands leaning against the railing before the throne. Members of the Lower House sit about the steps of the throne. Members of the Upper House lie almost at full length on the back less settees, which look very much like the stool of repen tance. The clerks talk " promiscuous ;" peers who have charge of bills fidget about. Altogether, save for the gorgeous chamber itself, there is an absence of dignity in this august assembly. And then the speaking ; how dull it is, and how cold are the listeners. A very dreary scene even on the occasion of a great party-fight, and doubly dreary on a mere parade, such as came off last evening. What makes the matter worse is that all the most important bills have been thoroughly discussed in the Lower House before they are introduced to the Upper. Logic and rhetoric have been exhausted. Last night, for instance, noble lords went through precisely the same per formance as hon. members had gone through. The first words that a peer uttered told you what the rest of the sentence would be. Lord Qufferin, who was en trusted with the duty of moving the second reading, had to repeat the same statistics as to agrarian crimes that Mr. Chichester Fortescue had given. And Opposition Peers had to make the same attack upon the Government for having incited these crimes that Opposition Common ers had made. Even had it been otherwise, even if the Peers had found out a new course for themselves, you oould not forget that it would be all in vain, that their lordships have almost as little influence on legislation as the two Houses of Convocation. Altogether last night's debate seemed a mockery, and a very wearisome and time-wasting mockery. Lord Dufferin spoke for a little over half an hour. It was, so far as I could hear (and it was very difficult to catch a complete sentence), mere speaking without the smallest attempt at oratory. In fact, there was no re cognising in him the descendant of Sheridan, or the author of that splendid oration on the Prince Consort which astonished the world by its brilliancy. Before he had finished, there was a goodly gathering of members from the Lower House, some in the gallery,. and some sitting on the steps of the Throne like charity-school children squatting before the altar in a city church. I noticed Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Mr. Headlam, Mr. M`Carthy Downing, Colonel Knox, and the young Marquis of Lorne. When the Lord Privy Seal had finished, the Duke of Richmond arose. This was the first important occasion which had offered for him to assume his new dignity of leader of the Conservative peers. He spoke with a much clearer voice than did the peer who preceded him ; but there was really nothing in the speech; and it might all have been put into one sentence—" A very good bill ; but why did you not introduce it before ?" The Duke has a man-of-business air about him, and is a little like Mr. Gathorne Hardy (whom he resembles not a little in tem perament) ; but his Grace is not so good-loOking as the ex- Home Secretary. The Duke was succeeded by Lord Oranmore, who divided his very long and loud speech between the " Romish hierarchy " business and an attack upon the Government for having fomented Irish outrages. According to this nobleman, the Irish were the most con tented and best behaved of people. Such a thing as the suspension of Habeas Corpus was never heard of, and it was all Mr. Gladstone's doings that Rory of the Hills had taken to tumbling his landlord. One expects to hear something novel from a speaker who works himself up into an impeachment, but Lord Orartm9re's speech was neither new nor true, and it fell very flat After Lord Oranmore came Lord Lurgan, another Irish peer of little fame, and a Lord in Waiting to the Queen. He spoke with effusion in behalf of the bill. Then Lord Derby, dressed in deep mourning, rose, and made his first speech as a peer. It was quite in his old House of Commons style—cautious and moderate, without enthusiasm— not altogether flattering to the Government, but thoroughly practical, and containing, as usual, the minimum of words and the maximum of common sense. It fell to Lord Kim berly, a former Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, now Lord Privy Seal, to defend the Government against the attacks of Lord Oranmore and the criticisms of the Duke of Richmond and Lord Derby. He did his best, and then the Marquis of Salisbury, that ter rible censor, did certainly not his worst, but sufficiently badly to make it necessary for Lord Granville to get up and reply. As usual the leader of the House of Lords was full of sweetness. He thanked the peers for their eminently calm, statesmanlike, and pat riotic treatment of the measure before them, and so it came to pass that the bill was read a second time, after less than three hours debate, and will have passed through the remainder of its stages by Thursday night. Your readers will forgive me if I do not say anything about the proceedings in the Lower House last night, I looked in for a minute, and I heard a voice only too well known, and saw a form only too much feared, and I caught the words " Romish hierarchy," and quietly with drew. This was not flight, let me point out. Let no man impeach my courage. If I had been in the House when Mr. Newdegate rose I would have remained ; but Marshal Ney himself would not have felt bound to rush into the House if he had known beforehand that the member for North Warwickshire was speaking. I see it stated to-day that Sir John Coleridge slept through Mr. Newdegate's speech. Happy Sir John! Fortunate Solicitor-General! I don't think there is another man in the House who could slumber while that exasperating drone is going on. "That way madness lies." THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) AQUATIC SPORTS.—A mill-race. THE NATURAL RESULT.—Lawyers are sometimes accused of being wanting in feeling, but is there anything surprising in men of their profession becoming case hardened? "FOOT IT NEATLY HERE AND THERE."—What should the Commons do unto the petitioners against the Tipperary election that floored the Fenian ? An Irish echo answers, " Kick'am." NOT AN UNREASONABLE PREJUDICE.—Who can wonder at criminals disliking to have their photographs taken when the cartes of so many most respectable persons are said hot to do them justice ? SHOULDERS !—M. 011ivier is a brave man. In the midst of his own work for liberty, he encourages his wife to discourage the low-necked dresses worn by ladies. We are afraid that it will be found easier to reform than to re-dress. PRINCIPIIS OBSTA.—Punch does not wonder at certain ultra-extreme parties being afraid lest the church-folk should teach little children their alphabet. When one reflects that A stands for Archbishop, B for Beadle, C for Canon, D for Dean, and so on till we come to V for Verger, and W for Westryman, we shudder at the thought of the terrible engine of proselytism which may be placed in the hands of the clergy. By all means throw out the Education Bill. (From. Fun.) A JOINT-STOCK AFFAIR.—Ox-tail soup. When does a tailor serve his customers ill ?—When he gives them fits." Two To ONE.—The odds are that habituds of the pawn shops are the very dregs of the population. Too many of them have not a " redeeming" feature about them. THE LESSON OF HIS LlFE.—District Visitor (to urchin who abjures school): " Boy, do you know what the end of life `s 2" Boy : " Yes'm—the work'us !" A NEW VIEW OF IT. —The heathen emblem of the snake helding its tail in its mouth has always been ex plained to mean " Eternity." We should think it typical of " Life " rather, as indicating a continual effort to make both ends meet. OLD SAWS WITH NEW HANDLES.—Beauty is only skin , deep—but Nature did not on that account hide it. A stitch in time may save nine—but he never seems to be enarely sewn-up. Birds of a feather flock together—and 'et in a flock bed you will not find a feather at all ! (Front Judy.) COOKED ACCOUNTS—HoteI bills. What is the difference between Gladstone, when he frames a Bill, anCiacat?—Oneha73 his pause at the end of the clause, and the ether her claws at the end of 440PailVel LITERATURE. Herodotus. By George C.. Swayne. Vol. 111. of Ancient ClasFzic3 fur English Readers. William 131ackwood and Sons. It was only the other day that we had occasion to speak in the highest terms of this rea'ly chat naing series of the Ancient Classics, as those ancient classics are now being succinctly and graphically pour tray ed for the instruction of purely English Readers — of readers not well up in regard to antique scholar ship, read rs, it may be, knowing "little Latin and less Greek," I , kc their own Shakspere. Scarcely have we thus welcomed the revelation, thus, in a wonderfuly compact form (something like the old proverbial " Riad in a Nutshell,) of the two grand masterpieces attributed to Homer, " The Tale of Troy divine," and the Sindbad the Sailor like wanderings of Ulysses or otherwise of Odysseus, when another instilment of the series is forthcoming—when we have placed in our hands in less than 200 pages (180)—the epitomised record of the Father of all History, Herodotus of Helicar nassus. From it the English reader may at once, in a very few hours' delightful reading, arrive at the gist or purport of all the old Greek annalist has to tell about Crossus, and Cyrus, and Cambyses, and Darius, about Egypt and Scythia, about Platcea and Mycale, about lonia and the Tyrants of Greece, about Salamis, and Marathon, and Thermopylae. To ripe scholars, a perusal of the book is full of interest, but to purely English Readers the little volume, penned throughout by Mr. Swayne with admirable lucidity, cannot prove otherwise than absolutely en thralling ! The Feast of Famine : and other Poems. Pp. 103. Chapman and Hall. There is a song by our veteran lyrist, Bryan Procter, otherwise Barry Cornwall, very much like the first of these six-and-twenty poems by the author of " The Last Thane, a National Tragedy." Only, here, the contrast presented to view between the outer darkness and the inner splendour, between luxury 'and misery, instead of being, as it is in the utterance of our great song-writer, pathetic, becomes in the versification of our anonymous author nothing less than appalling. So appalling in effect, that when originally penned during the time of the Irish Famine in 1846, and offered in MS. to the late Douglas Jerrold, for publication in his then flourishing and tolerably plain.spoken magazine, Douglas Jerrold declined it—why ? " Because he thought the details were too terrible even for the dreadful reality." It is the author of the little book now -under notice who himself acknowledges this much "To his Readers." Crime and misery still continuing in the afflicted sister island, in despite of all England's efforts at more humane legislation for its better governance, the author not unnaturally thinks it allowable to print and publish, at last, what even Jer rold regarded, nearly a quarter of a century ago, as possibly, then (in 1846) inopportune. " The. Feast of Famine" will be read still with painfulinterest,perbaps with all the more painful interest from the length of the interval which has elapsed since the lines were penned originally. The writer of those lines and of the five and twenty accompanying poems on various subjects, has evidenced in many of these thoughtful and harmonious pages the pose( scion of a true poetic temperament, and of the earnest asi ira tions of a genuine philanthropist. AN EVENING WITH "TOM MOORE." Thanks to Mr. Gladstone, and to " Rory of the Hills," any subject relating to Ireland is sure, at the present time, to command attention. English coun try squires, whose minds usually carry • them no fatther than across country, and whose chief re s,:•arches lie " all among the barley," are now deep in the study of " The Brehon Laws," a❑d are quite I arned in the distinctions of " Tanistry,'' and " Gavelkini." Ho weveropinions may differ respect ing Irish politics, there can be but one sentiment common to all civilized nations as to the matchless beauty, exquisite tenderness, and inimitable native harmony of Irish poetry, and it ever there was an Itishumn, in whose poetry that beauty, tenderness, and humour shone pre-eminent, it was 64 Torn Moore." The spoilt child of the Muses, with all the virtues, and all the faults of his countrymen, the • friend of " the Regent," the idol of the Irish popu lace, the most finished of courtiers, and the most • daring of Democrats, " Tom Moore " has, with all his eccentricities, so entwined his verses and his name with the fortunea of Ireland that it would be impos sible to think of the one without at the same time calling to mind the other. .Tom Moore is not only the inspired bard of Irish nationality ; he is also the world-wide poet of the affections. Amongst our rising aspirants to fame, Mr. Charles Brett has for some time been steadily advancing in public as a lecturer, and his greatest success has been " His Evening with Tom Moore." On Monday last Mr. Brett gave his " Evening" to a fashion able audience, at the Assembly Rooms, in Leigh, Hunt's old court suburb, Kensington. The sentimental pieces were given with genuine pathos, and the delivery of " Barney's Lather," and " Paddy's Metamorphosis," showed that the lecturer possessed a natural vis comica, which was fully appreciated by his audience. Both on his appearing and retiring Mr. Brett was greeted with hearty applause from every side of the hall. Mr. Brett's voice is very good, being both clear and powerful, capable of great modulation, never rising so loud as to be boisterous, or sinking so low as to be inaudible. The delivery of the famous curse, in the "Fire-Worshippers," was an admirable specimen of impassioned declama tion. • ANOTHER THAMES TUNNEL. _ The new tunnel under the Thames has been completed ivithin the estimated cost (£16,000), and is now ready for .;i3e. On Tuesday the traffic was opened by a few un ceremonial experiments. Brunel's famous work was a very unremunerative experiment; but then a tunnel cost ing £16,000 and one costing several hundreds of thousands are very different affairs. The opening trials were quite successful. The access to the tunnel on either side of the river is gained by means of lifts. That on the north side of the river is sixty feet deep, in the south it is only fifty. The lifts, which may be simply described as very much like first-class rail way carriages, are constructed to accommodate seven pas sengers, though they will in fact hold ten with ease. The motion of the lift is smooth and reular, and a system of mechanical " clips " are p rov id e d, %y means of which, in case of any accident, either to the main chain or machinery below, the lift would be merely eased down at a slower rate than the engine would lower it, and any thing like a fall of the lift is utterly prevented. At the bottom of the lift is a plain, light, wrought-iron omnibus, very much like a long railway carriage, but better lighted. This, though constructed for fourteen passen gers, will, like the lift, hold at least four more. The in stant it is full the "'bus " starts. The tunnel is made at an incline of 1 in 30 to midway beneath the river, when it rises on the Surrey side at the same gradient. There is a small stationary engine at each end, which winds in a wire rope, to which the carriage is attached. For one-half of the passage the incline leaves the engine nothing to do but to haul in the slack of the rope, and, in fact, the impetus of the carriage carries it so far forward up the incline on the opposite side that it is only when within a few feet of the waiting-room chamber that the engine is used to draw the carriage at all. On Tuesday the passage was made from Tower-hill to Tooley-street in 65 seconds, 68 seconds, and 70 seconds. Counting from the time of the starting of the lift which lowered the visitors, the whole journey was made within two minutes. The motion of the omnibus was sliding and gentle, and there was an utter absence of vibration either in the vehicle or the tunnel itself. Tests were adopted to ascertain the latter fact, but th e y on ly prove d the whole structure to be as rigid as a solid bar of iron. The passage of the carriage through the tunnel create such a draught of air that it is almost difficult for the visitor to keep his hat on in the waiting chamber, and at once the starting of the carriage can be known at the other end of the tunnel by the volume of air which it drives before it. It should be mentioned that the nes'l subway is nowhere less than twenty-two feet from the water, whereas the old tunnel is hero and there but four feet below the bed of the river. Now that tunnels can be constructed so cheaply, the application of the principle in ; other parts of the country is talked of. Maidstone Barracks are nearly empty, nearly all the troops formerly stationed there having left for Wool wich, Dublin, Dorchester, and Aldershot. A telegram from New York states that the treaty for the purchase of San Domingo is now acknowledged by the friends of the Government to be a failure. A Liverpool contemporary says there is a very current rumour that a noble earl having a seat in Lancashire has filed a petition in the Divorce Court, in which a duke is named as co-resnondent.