The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-27 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP-THURSDAY. Mr. Craufurd is a Radical ; yet I suppose when he moved the exclusion of strangers from the House he had no arriere pensee, no subtle purpose to serve, and that his sole object was to prevent the publication of a debate which he thought not fit to be printed. NevertheleEis the effect of his motion will in all probability be the abolition of the power which he used so indiscreetly. Mr. Gilpin, the Quaker M.P. for Northampton, has given notice of a resolution, " that in the opinion of this House it is undesirable that it should continue in the power of any individual member to exclude thepublic and the Press from the debates in the House by observing that there are strangers present." There is little doubt that this motion will be carried, for it is very strongly felt that so serious a step as the exclusion of strangers, and still more of reporters ought not to depend upon the caprice, the squeamishness, or the ill nature of any one person, or indeed of any number of persons, but should be left to the leader of the House. It is exactly 100 years ago since Parliament and the press entered upon their great conflict as to the right of strangers to be present during the debates, and as to the right of journalists to report them. The Parliament assembled on May 10, 1768, and dissolved June 22, 1774, commonly called " the unreported Parliament," saw many a fierce battle on these points, and Wilkes was foremost in the fray. The exclusion of strangers was en forced with more than usual rigiuity in this the worst of modern Parliaments. Burke, describing the position of an Opposition member at this time, wrote, " In the House he votes for ever in a dispirited minority; if he speaks the doors are locked." Sir Erskine May mentions that Lord Chatham's repeated motions, im pugning the proceedings of the Commons upon the Middlesex (Wilkes's) election, were naturally distasteful to Ministers and to the majority of the House of Lords. These, being unable to repress his imperious eloquence determined that at least it should not be heard beyond their walls. Accordingly, on the 14th May, 1770, on his motion for a dissolution of Parliament, the Lords ordered the exclu sion of all but members of the House of Commons and the sons of peers ; and no reports of the debate reached the public. A little later even members of the House of Commons were excluded from the Upper House, and the Commons retaliated by excluding the Lords from the Lower. But this only made matters worse. The question of reporting then turned up. Mr. Pulteney objected to reports, on the ground that "it looks very much like making members accountable with out doors for what they say within." On March 24, 1771, occurred the celebrated debate with respect to the impeach ment of the six printers for publishing the proceedings of the Commons. The minority availed themselves of every device that the forms of the House offered for preventing a decision. The House sat till past four in the morning (at that time the sittings com menced much earlier than now), and no fewer than twenty three divisions took place. Burke said of these proceedings, " Posterity will bless the pertinaciousness of that day." In time M.P.'s began to see that their only protection from gross misrepresenthtion and downright libel was, as Fox said, to have as much publicity as possible, so that in the multitude of witnesses the truth might be secured. It was not however, till the present Houses of Parliament were built that the presence of the reporters was officially recognised by the construction of a gallery for their special use. I believe that the last time which strangers were ex cluded, previously to Tuesday, was in 1849. On that occasion (June 8), the House went into committee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill, and Mr. John O'Connell having urged that he had been unfairly reported, observed that "there are strangers in the gallery." They were forthwith ordered to withdraw, and the discussion which occurred in committee was not reported. I may add that it was Sir John Trelawny's intention to have made the " observation," but he desisted when he found that the effect of it would be to exclude the press as well as the ladies. It is significant of the altered state of public feel ing that when the reporters re-entered the House on Tuesday after their four hours' banishment, they were loudly cheered by M.P.'s. Should Mr. Gilpin's motion be carried, the final aboli tion of the right of exclusion will be due indirectly to the women. Before the debate on the Contagious Diseases Act came on a messenger went to the Ladies' Gallery, and told the occupants they would have to withdraw. The pertinacity of a few of them—l believe Mrs. Jacob Bright was one—induced Mr. Craufurd to make his " ob servation," which led to the exclusion of all strangers, both male and female. For my own part, considering how deeply women are interested in this question, considering too, that they have no means of being represented in the House, I hold that they had a perfect right to be pre sent. The fact that they were in a gallery to themselves; and screened from public view, should have prevented any embarrassment on the part of the speakers. They would have much better reason to be embarrassed at an opera ballet, or, for that matter, at a Bel gravian rout. There is only too much room for the ady's-maid's sarcasm " I am going to undress my lady for the ball." I find it less easy to defend the fine ladies who drove over in their carriages to Denham yesterday in the hope of seeing seven battered corpses lying in a house bespattered with blood and brains. It would seem as if they were getting weary of the " tournament of doves" at Hurlingham, and wanted something more sensational than the spectacle of murdered pigeons to stimulate their jaded appetite. But it is rather a long step in advance from slaughtered birds to murdered babies. Would not the ladies find a bull-fight sufficient, at all events for a time ? M.P.'s are rejoicing in the hope that the Irish Land Bill will be reported to-night. If it should be, and your readers will know by the time that they read these lines, short work will have to be made with the six pages of amendments which still remain to be disposed of. There is a rumour that when the third reading is taken on Mon day some one will oppose, and even force a division. The rumour does not seem very probable, for the extreme Irish party like the bill better than they did when Mr. Bryan and Captain White led their few followers into the wilderness, and Conservative M.P.'s, who then voted for the bill, certainly do not dislike it more than they did then. Much curiosity is felt with respect to the amendments to the Education Bil which Mr. Forster is expected to lay upon the table to night. It is rumoured that they will be very much in ac cordance with the suggestions made by Dean Hook about fifteen years ago. Meanwhile Mr. Jacob Bright has given notice of an amendment, the purport of which is that the reading of the Scriptures shall not be excluded in school hours ; that no teacher shall be allowed to teach any distinctive religious dogma ; that no expense connected with religious teaching, shall be defrayed by a school-board, but such board may sanction the use of the school building, for religious teaching out of school hours. Of course, this will not satisfy the supporters of Mr. Forster's bill. I am sorry to say that the Duke of Richmond is rather seriously ill. He has been acting as chairman of the committee on the Metropolitan District Railway Bill, but on Monday was so unwell that he had to give up and the committee was adjourned till to-morrow. This delay will involve a loss of several thousand pounds to the persons interested in the bill. The season being close to its culminating point, and a royal visitor being over here, our court has, as usual, adjourned to the Highlands. The King of the Belgians is in London, but of course Buckingham Palace remains shut. King Leopold has been moving about well, however, and possibly the freedom which he enjoys does not make him regret the loss of royal hospitality. He is to be feasted at Windsor a month hence. Of course, he will be at the Derby on Wednesday. By the way, it is not I believe generally known that an English firm, Waring Brothers, are carrying out the great works in King Leopold's capital. _ _ London society will sustain no slight loss by the depar ture of Baron Brunnow. Like Baron Bunsen did, he has be come one of ourselves, and is very popular. He received the Queen's commands to go to Windsor in order to take leave of her Majesty before she set out for the North. The Parks are just now looking their loveliest. It is no cockney illusion, I can assure you, that the air of the streets and squares is laden with perfume. I never before saw such a mass of blossom on the hawthorn. The late spring has been most favourable to the flowers and also to the fruit trees. In another week Rotten Row will be all ablaze with rhododendrons and azaleas. Unfortunately Hyde Park is spoilt this year by the works which are going on in connection with the cleansing of the Serpentine. These were to have been finished a month ago, but grouse shooting will have arrived and town will be empty before the job is finished. Some hundreds of men are at work on it, and trains of waggons, full of black slimy mud, are drawn by locomotives to the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORMNG, AY 27, 1870. quarries which have been dug out of the gravel. In fact, the gravel and the mud are changing places. The latter is being covered over with mould, and that with turf, which ought to grow green and strong with such a subsoil—that is, if we only get some rain. This, however, seems as far off as ever. In connection with the parks, I may mention that Mr. Gilbert Scott's Gothic cross is rapidly being denuded of it's scaffolding, and in a very short time the world will be able to pass judgment upon this very costly and elaborate structure. To be a London clergyman is not a bad thing in its way, provided only you be stationed at the West-end. I mentioned a little while ago that one lady had given a house worth £1,600 for building a new aisle to St. Mary Magdalene's, Paddington. Mr. Forrest, a popular Low Church clergyman, was some time ago presented with a carriage and pair, such as the apostles no doubt used when they took an airing in Rotten Row ; more recently £15,000 have been subscribed to build him a church. The Dean of Exeter, who was for merly the Low Church incumbent of St. James's, Wes Lbourne-terrace, has just been left £lO,OOO, a quantity of plate, and a library by a former female and dear hearer, ,so that Dean Boyd will now be able to make longer visits to the Continent even than at present. • To-day I witnessed a sight in one of the London streets which I record as a caution to smokers. A lad belonging to the working classes was walking down the Edgware-road when suddenly he seemed to burst into smoke and flame. Most fortunately he was close to one of the hose with which water-carts are supplied, and this was turned on, and he was in a minute deluged with water. This expedient extinguished the fire, but not before the poor fellow's clothes had been, in part, burnt to tinder. He seemed terribly hurt, judgiug by the groans which he uttered. It appeared that he had been carrying matches in his pockets, and that these had caught fire. A genuine specimen of the London rough was present in the crowd, and the only effect which this spectacle had upon him was to make him very angry, and induce him indulge in obscene language, such as reporters are accustomed to represent by blanks. The cause of his anger was that a little water had, in the hurry ',of the occasion, been accidentally poured upon him. There is wonderfully little literary news going on just now. The letters of Azamat Battik," which have appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette are to be republished in a volume, with the title of " A Little Book about Great Britain." The author is a capital linguist, and his letters shew how well he has mastered the English language. He is acquainted with many others, and his linguistic knowledge has made him a valuable member of the Pall Mall staff. There is another journalist of whom your readers may like to know something : that wonderful Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. His name is Whitehurst and he was formerly in the army. He was I believe a godchild, at all events he was a protege of the late Sir Felix Booth, the millionaire distiller, whose name is inscribed in London gin palaces and maps of the Arctic regions. Sir Felix left Mr. Whitehurst a large sum of money, said to be not less than six figures. The legatee spent the money very freely, and lived in magnifi cent style. Being a handsome man, and of the utmost self-possession, he became a personage in " society." Eventually he found it advisable to live abroad, and going to Paris undertook the office which he fills in such a magnificent fashion. It is believed that the editorship of Punch, vacant by the death of Mr. Mark Lemon, will be filled by Mr. Shirley Brooks, one of its oldest contributors, and the writer of the column " Nothing in the Papers "in the Illustrated London News. I am veryglad to learn that Mr. Brooks is well enough to take this post. A little while ago he was so ill that his friends had great fears for him. By the way, it is not generally known, I think, that Mr. Mark Lemon was for some time secretary to Mr. Ingram, the late proprietor of the Illustrated London News. Mr. Ingram (who rose from the very lowest ranks), was no speaker, and when he went down to canvass Boston he took Mr. Lemon and one or two other friends with him to do the necessary palaver. That they did it well may be inferred from the fact that Mr. Ingram was successful, and continued to represent the 'Lincolnshire borough until his untimely death through the blowing up of a steamer on one of the American lakes. One other item of literary news. The Rev. J. Hunt has in the June number of the Contempo rary Review an article on Dr. Dollinger and the author of " Janus." P.S.—Since closing my letter, I hear that Colonel Henderson, and the chief officials at Scotland Yard, are greatly chagrined at the recent disclosures of the Fenian movements in England. It will be remem bered that several men were a few days ago apprehended in consequence of having possession of a large number of revolvers, for which they could give no satisfactory ac count. Colonel Henderson and his colleagues were fully 'cognisant of the movements of these men, fully aware that they, intended to effect a rising in the North, but wished them to go on a little farther in order that the whole of their designs might become known. The zeal of some subordinates led to the premature appre hension of the conspirators, and to the closing of the sources of information. THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. EXAMINATION OF THE EARL OF CLARENDON. Yesterday on the meeting (4 the Diplomatic and Consulai • Service Committee, Mr. Bouverie in the chair, the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was called and his Lord ship, in reply to questions from the chairman, said : I am quite satisfied with the present system f admis sion to the service, and I think that the class of men who are admitted under it is a good one. At the same time I think it would be better if they were paid some thing like £3OO or £4OO a year, instead of being unpaid attaches. I can hardly compare my position when I was first unpaid attache with the present unpaid attaches, be cause I was lodged and boarded in the ambassador's house. There was at that time no restriction of the number, and young men were appointed more because they were personal friends of the ambassa dor than anything else, and it followed that many of them returned, and did not pursue diplomacy as a pro fession. I should rely much more upon the knowledge which a young man acquired at the Embassy, and therefore I should not be disposed to attach much importance to a second examination, but I have no objection to it. I think that there ought to be a fair list examination. The promotion is certainly very stagnant, but it seems to be a very wholesome and healthy profession, and that is perhaps the reason why promotion is stagnant. Stagnation does not arise from any increase in the number of attaches which have in fact greatly decreased. In 1850 there were 53, and in 1860 44 ;. and since then they decreased to fourteen. I have appointed seven since I have been in office, but that was only at the urgent request of the heads of the different missions. It is necessary to have a stock in hand, and I certainly do not think the subordinate staff can in any way be reduced. lam always looking only to see what reductions can be made. Many of the consulates have been reduced. In the Foreign Office during the last eighteen months there has only been one vacancy, which I have not filled up. In point of fact, wherever there has been any opportunity of reduction without impairing the efficiency of the service, I have endeavoured to reduce. In my opinion it would be impossible that the head of a mis sion could copy his own letters, and he certainly ought not to pay for such assistance out of his own pocket. I do not think that you can make the staffs of the missions much lower than they are. The secretaries of legation are employed every year in making reports of an extremely valuable character, and it could not be expected that the mere drudgery should he imposed upon them. When the Irish Land Bill was about to be introduced, I sent out an instruction to the Secretaries of Legation to obtain information respecting the land tenure of other countries and the result was that there had been a series of the most important reports sent home, which had been acknow ledged to have been of the greatest service, and the total cost of the whole of those reports did not exceed £lB5, and I was perfectly rejoiced when I heard of the appointment of this committee because it is the only way in which there could be any public knowledge brought to bear in regard to the labours of the secretaries. In my opinion the secretaries are hard worked, moderately paid, and the services they render are very valuable. 1 was myself six years in Spain, and I spent exactly £l,OOO a year more in dispensing hospitality, &c., than the pay . I received, and the pay of the mission is now precisely the same as it was then. The pay of most of the missions except where they have been reduced is about the same as it was. lam of opinion that it is very hard upon those who come from a distance that they should not have more leave than they have; and I do not conceive that there would be any great inconvenience in allowing the two years' leave of absence to run into one, that is to say, that I should like the last two months of one year's service and the first two of the next year to be together, so as to make a four months' leave of absence. At the same time I am of opinion that the head of a mission should not be too long absent. A certain time is absolutely neces sary. By Mr. Rylands :—I certainly think that its being necessary for a parent to pay out £3OO or £4OO a year for some years for his son does operate to prevent many ap plications, but there is no restriction on such applica tions on account of the appointment being in the hands of the Foreign Secretary. I do not like unpaid attaches at all. I think that anyone who is rendering a service ought to be paid, but the system exists. If attaches were paid, I do not think that it should form a reason for opening the service, because you must look for a certain social standing among diplomatists, and above all, you must look to character. I think open competition would lead to lowering the standard of the men who enter the service. It is only men of a certain class who wish their sons to enter into a profession in which the best period of his life--from 24 to 30 years of age—would be passed without their earning anything. Even if it were open you want a a particular class of men accustomed to mix in good society here, and who would be called upon to mix with good society abroad, and I do not think that such a class would be got by open competition. I know that it has been proposed that a certain number should be chosen after examination bythe Civil Service examiners, that out of that number the Foreign Secretary should make the ap-- pointments, and that they should be university men; but I do not think it would be an improvement on the present system of selection. It may be that in certain missions, such as China and Japan, such persons should be chosen ; but so far as the general European missions are concerned I should prefer to take on myself the responsibility of personal appointment. Now that diplomacy is a profes sion, we require certain peculiar qualities, which may be different at different missions, and that may cause a block in the service, but I am not prepared to say that, as a whole, the Diplomatic Service is stagnant ; nor do I think that the service is over manned. No doubt the block arises from the number of juniors in the line of promotion. If there was a clerk appointed at the mission to act as secretary to the head, he would have quite as much as a Secretary of Legation. Ile would be placed in a position of confidence. Under the present system, at the Foreign-office, you get men of whose ante cedents you have some knowledge, and there is no doubt that the clerks there are persons who have proved them selves worthy of all confidence. It might be better for the juniors in the diplomatic service to have such a person as you suggest ; but it would not be so good for the public service. Mr. Rylands then called the attention of the noble earl to the despatch of Lord Frome in 1860 with reference to the question of the subordination of the attaches to the chief, and to the statement that the chief had little prac tical control in the matter of discipline ; and also to the expression in a despatch of Earl Cowley's on the subject, and. asked his lordship whether he was aware that com plaints had been made in the matter to the Foreign Office. Lord Clarendon said that there were hypothetical cases, any insubordination was entirely attributable to the head of the mission, and he could control it. I have never himself heard of any insubordination in a mission, he should certainly address himself more to the head of a mission than to any attache. It would be exceedingly difficult, and tire all the ingenuity, not only of the com mittee but of Parliament, to make two gentlemen like each other who did not. (Laughter.) I have not heard of any quarrelling or differences on any mission though there are of course differences in human nature, and there are some natures which, like oil and water, would not mix, but I have not heard of any case in which the public service has suffered, With respett to promotion in the missions, I think that cateris paribus it is best to proniote by seniority, but if I found a man particularly qualified for a particular,post, I should not hesitate to pass over examined men ; but such necessity does not often arise. The plan I should go on would be to put the right man in the right place, and if the public service required it, I should not hesitate, on my own responsi bility, to appoint any particular man to a particular place. The committee then adjourned. The bill introduced by the Solicitor-General for Ireland and Mr. Chichester Fortescue for the disfranchis ment of Sligo and Cashel, has been printed. RITUALISM AT BRIGHTON.—The sitting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will be resumed. on Friday, June 17. The case of Elphinstone v. Pur chas will be brought forward on an a pplication to name another promoter, Colonel Elphinstone having died since the appeal was lodged. The case itself cannot be heard for some time, and must take its turn in a heavy list of appeals. - Li THE DUKE OF GRA3IONT.—TIIO Eastern Budget says that the 'appointment of the Duke of Gramont as Foreign Minister of France is regarded at Vienna as an important guarantee of peace, it being considered certain in official circles that so long as he remains at the head of the French Foreign Office no important step will be taken in foreign affairs without the concurrence and participa tion of Austria.—The elections will take place next month, and the various Austrian Diets will meet in July. It is expected that the new Reichsrath will com mence its sittings in August. The measures taken for this purpose by the Potocki Ministry have been very favourably received, as they chew its determination to adhere to the Constitution. DISTURBANCES IN ITALY.—The Florence cor respondent of the Eastern Budget says that private ac counts do not coincide with the official reports as to the complete suppression of the Mazzinian revolt. The pro vince is still disturbed by several detachments of the principal band, and a new band has since appeared in the province of Pisa. It is hoped that this band will speedily be surrounded and rendered harmless ; but such occur rences throw great discredit on the Government both at home and abroad, and by necessitating the maintenance of a large military force, prevent that relief to the finances which the country requires so much. There is reason to believe that the revolutionists counted on an insurrection in France during the plebiscitum. - - - THE COST OF WAR.—M. Leroy-Beaulieu, in his Recherches 810* les Guerres Contemporaines, supplies some very curious statistics about the cost of war. It is really surprising to see how much money is spent for every man killed on the field or sent away to die of his wounds or of some sickness of the camp. The thing was done with corn paractive cheapness in the Crimean War, where a vast num ber of men was got together at very close quarters. Between the Russians and the allies there were more than three quarters of a million men killed, each of them at the price of £433. On the other hand, the maximum of cost was reached in the American Civil War. Each one of the 281,000 deaths (though this is a small estimate, we should imagine) was purchased by an expenditure of 23,345. The belligerents in South America did the business more cheaply, not spending more than £OOO per man. Small wars are generally costly. The Danish war extinguished 3,500 lives at an average cost of .about £2,000. The campaign which ended at Sadowa must be reckoned, considering its brief duration. to have been expensive. Every life cost nearly £1,560. It is a str ::fie necessity which makes civilized societies expend what would be a comfortable maintenance to three or four men on the destruction of one.—Pall Mall Gazette. STRANGE GOVERNMENT IN RUSSIA, An " Eye-witness," writing to the Wilna Messenger, gives a strange account of Israelitish customs and cere monies in a little place called Schkloff, in the Govern ment of Moghileff, where Jews foim almost the entire population. The Kagal or tithes collector, and the clerical personage called " Leibe Diskind " with his council of twelve direct everything and every one in Schkloff ; and the Russian law is treated as though it had no existence. The other day the correspondent of the Wilna Messenger saw a sentence passed by the Dis kind carried into execution on two of his believing co religionists. In the principal square about 800 persons were assembled. Suddenly a Jew and Jewess, tied to gether, were led into the midst of the crow by a police agent, when every one who pleased spat at them, struck them, and knocked them about as he liked and with what he liked ; and this punishment lasted until nightfall. The Jews of Schkloff had found out that one of their fellow-townsmen and co-religionists was car rying on an intimacy with a married woman, also of Schkloff, and of the Hebrew faith. The guilty pair were brought before the Rabbi, who ordered them to be led about the streets, exposed to the blows of the inhabitants; after which the woman (Rachel) was to be chained in the schoolroom, and kept without food for three days, while the man (Hertzig), after being beaten till he was half dead, was to be taken to the cemetery, where, all night long, at the graves of his fathers and forefathers, he was to repent with tears of his sins. It seemed as though the sentence would be carried out to the letter, and beyond. Accordingly, -the district inspector, with a force of Christian policemen, went to •the school, and after many vain applications for admission, succeeded at last in getting the doors opened. "There," says the correspondent, "insensible and almost without life, lay the woman, clasped three times round the waist with iron chains and fastened to the ground." The inspector set her free, and after succeed ing in restoring her to consciousness, drew up his official report. Of the man, however, he could gain no tidings. He could trace him as far as the cemetery, but there lost sight of him. ' " Probably," suggests the correspondent of the Wilna Messenger, " the gravediggers could' give some news of him." THE SALMON FISHERIES OMMITOTEE. The Parliamentary Committee appointed to inquire into the best means of promoting the salmon fisheries in the United Kingdom, and making them more productive, held a meeting yesterday afternoon, Mr. Dodds in the chair, when Mr. T. F. Brady, the inspector of the Irish Salmon Fisheries, was called and ex amined by the chairman, in reply to whom he described the nature and character of the salmon fisheries of Ireland, and contended that it would be extremely ad vantageous if similar laws could be adopted for both countries. The examination of this witness continued to the end of the day, and at its close the committee adjourned till Tuesday next. THE NEW GUN LICENSE. The text of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's bill to substitute a gun licence for the present game certificate has been presented. It is proposed to enact that every person who shall use or carry a gun elsewhere than in a dwelling house or the curtilage thereof without having in force a licence duly granted to him under this Act shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds. Soldiers, sailors, volunteers, and policemen, or persons carrying a gun on behalf of another person duly licensed under the Act, are exempted when carrying a gun in the discharge of their duty, If a gun is carried in parts by two or more persons in company the bill orders that every one of those persons shall be deemed to be carrying the gun. The bill further enacts that the " game certificate," where ever tne same occurs in the sections of the Act of the first and second years of King William the Fourth, chap ter 32, which are now in force, and not repealed by this Act, shall be construed to mean a license to use or carry a gun under this Act, and if' any person having obtained a license under this Act shall be convicted of any offence under section thirty of the said Act of the first and second years of King William the Fourth, chapter thirty-two, or under the Act of the econd and third years of King William the Fourth, chapter sixty-eight, the said license shall thenceforth be null and void. 14. No license under this Act shall entitle the person to whom the same is granted to use, carry, or have in his custody or possession any firearm in any yart of the United Kingdom where such person is by any other Act now or hereafter in force forbidden to use, carry, or have in his custody or possession any firearm, nor to entitle such person to use, carry, or have in his custody or possession any firearm unless he shall have obtained a licence or permission so to do from any authority empowered by any such other Act to grant such licence or per mission. The Liverpool Mercury says that th. 3 Rev. Alex ander Stewart, M.A., at present curate of Chilton Can tillo, llchester, Somerset, the second son of the patron of the living, Mr. Alderman John Stewart, will have the refusal of the Rectory of Liverpool, vacant by the decease. of the late Rev. Augustus Campbell. Among the parliamentary documents issued are returns of Savings Banks, South Kensington Museum, and Civil Service and Revenue. Also the following bills :—Benefices, Metropolitan Boards of Works, Sale of Poisons (Ireland), Gun Licenses, Benefit Building Societies, and Customs, and Inland Revenue. The three turnouts who were recently sentenced to one month's imprisonment for intimidating non-unionists working at the Allerton Main Colliery, were liberated from the Wakefield House of Correction on Wednesday, and their friends made a demonstration in their favour by meeting them at the prison gates with a brass band, and parading round the town. The General Assembly of the Established Church of Scotland has this week resolved to use all prudent and constitutional means to obtain, as speedily as possible, a measure for the alteration of the law of Patronage, in accordance with the principles embodied in the resolution of the last General Assembly, and to prepare an outline of a bill in harmony with these principles, to be submitted to a meeting of the Commission of Assemby. Mr. George Odger, addressing a meeting on the Government Education Bill at Bradford, expressed his conviction that the majority of the working men in this country were in favour of the scheme of the Birmingham League, and urged the electors to express their opinion to Mr. Forster, and let him not fall into a mistake as to what the opinions of his constituents were on that impor tant subject. The Sultan has addressed a note to all the Turkish legations, calling attention to the alleged abuse committed by the owners of foreign printing-offices in the capital by printing works "injurious to the peace of the country." His Majesty gives notice that the full rigour of the law will in the future be applied against those who may thus violate the existing regulations. The Countess Volsamachi, who married, as her first husband, the celebrated Bishop Heber, died at Hodnet Hall on th e 13th i ns t an t, i n th e • eighty-first year of her age. Sixty-one years ago she commenced her labours at th e same place,of which her husband was incumbent. The deceased lady was the youngest daughter of Dean Shipley, of St. Asaph and a niece of Sir William Jones, the Oriental scholar. Her second husband died a few months ago. —oBwestry Ad vertiaer. A BAND OF TURKISH MARAUDERS. The Levant herald of the 18th says :—" The greater part of a band of cut-throats imprisoned at Broussa managed during the past week to effect their escape through a hole in the gaol wall. A dozen of them had already squeezed through and got off, when the thirteenth — . stouter than his fellows—stuck fast, and by his noisy efforts to release himself attracted the attention of the keepers. Prompt but useless pursuit was made after those who had escaped. The whole of them reached the neighbouring shelter of Olympus, where their first victim was a carrier, bound to Mouda nia, whose saddle-bags they'lightened of £7OO and stripped him of anything that was worth taking. On receiving news of this adventure, Ali Riza Pasha, the newly appointed Governor of Broussa, started for his post, accompanied by a strong body of police, who are to be specially employed in hunting down the band. There can be little doubt that this will be soon done, and that the neighbourhood of the old Bithynian capital will in a week or two be again as safe as the roads round Stamboul. ADMIRAL ROUS AND PAST RACING EVENTS. Admiral Rous has addressed the following letter to the Times :—Mr. Hughes states that at the last Chester meeting " a gentleman brought down his horse and intimated that he would not allow him to run un less he got £14,000 ; the money was made up and the horse did run." The fact is that the owner of Bonny Swell, finding that he had been forestalled in the market, demanded from the Ring 14 to 1 to 21,000 if he started his horse, the bet was not forthcoming and the horse did not start for the Chester Cup. Again, " the Jockey Club of sixty years ago " prohibited the Prince of Wales from running horses on the English turf, on the mere suspicion that the jockey had been told not to win when he could do so. The particular race alluded to was that in which Lydia beat Selim in 1809, and no doubt Selim was " pulled," not by Chiffney, but by a celebrated trainer. The conspiracy to defraud was concocted by the Prince's Racing Staff, but the Prince of Wales was not at Newmarket, and was not aware that Selim was to run, the engagement being a T.Y.C. Plate, which closed over night, and the Prince did not bet a six pence on the race. The matches alluded to by Chiffney were run on the square, and there was no just reason to suspect foul play. The Prince of Wales received a very impertinent letter from- the stewards, and in answer he demanded an investigation on oath, which the stewards refused to give him. I say this on the authority of my father, a member of the Jockey Club, who always asserted that in no one instance was there ever the slightest suspicion that the Prince committed an act on the Turf that was derogatory to the character of an English gentleman, and the few men who recollect my father will testify to the fact that he was a just man, with good common sense, and not likely to be imposed upon. A DEAF AND DUMB TESTATOR. Yesterday an extraordinary will case came before Lord Penzance in the Probate Court, in 'which nearly all the parties interested are deaf and dumb. It was the case of " Brook v. Dyson and Robinson." The defendants, for whom Dr. Spinks, Q. C. and Dr. Swabey appeared, propounded the will of one' George Brook, the son of a Huddersfield merchant, who was deaf and dumb, and it was opposed by the testator's son, who is the plaintiff, and who is now deaf and dumb, on the ground that it was not duly executed, as the testator did not know or approve of the contents of the will. The will was made in 1855, and by it he left the reversionary interest in some freehold pro perty, in which his father had a life interest, to his father absolutely. The testator died in 1859, and the father entered into possession of the property, and supported the testa tor's children, apprenticing the plaintiff to a business. He, however, afterwards died, andleft the property to the present defendants in trust for his grandchildren and the will had been acted upon up to the present time. The plaintiff, however, endeavours to set aside his father's will, by which the property fell into the hands of the grandfather, and subsequently into those of the trustees. It was stated by several deaf and dumb witnesses who were called for the plaintiff that the testator had always said that he should leave his property to his children, and that he did not read the paper he signed, his father having snatched it from him, telling him that the children would have it all. On the other side it was contended that the attesting witnesses were called to prove that if the testator did not read the will, he had the opportunity, and appeared to be doing so.—The court pronounced for the will. THE MORDAUNT APPEAL AND THE SHEDDEN CASE. _ . . ----- - We learn that the judges have arranged to give their decision in the Mordaunt appeal case on Thursday next. On that day a full court will be held with reference to the p S'hedden case j and this oportunit will be tak delivering thejudgment in the Morda y unt case also.en for LA \V AND POLICE, THE LADY CHARGED WITH FRAUD.—A solicitor, re presenting the family of Mrs. Macgregor, the lady charged with defrauding drapers by means of false cheques, has applied to the magistrate at Marlborough-street, for per mission that the family doctor should visit her in prison. It seems Mrs. Macgregor is in a state of great mental excitement besides bodily illness, and her relatives were anxious she should have their own adviser. The magis trates said the visiting justices must grant the order, but - he would write a note saying he had no objection. A PAINFUL STORY.—A man named James Challenger, fifty-four years of age, has been committed for trial at Marylebone, on a charge of forging the endorsement of a cheque. He had been five years in the employ of Mr. Holdern'ess, pianoforte maker, but had been recently dis charged for drunkenness. He fell into great distress, in consequence, and having called at the house of one of his former employer's customers received a cheque offered him in payment of a standing account, and presented it at the Bank, endorsing it with the name of the firm, Holderness and Co. The magistrate commiserating the wretched condition of the prisoner's family, ordered a guinea to be given from the poor box to his wife. ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Frederick Cooper, late butler to Mr. Cubitt, of Westmister, has been charged at West minster Police-court with attempting suicide. He cut his throat severely, and has been in the Hospital since February. Mr. Cubitt said there had been something wrong with the plate, but he would rather not specify what it was. After a little further inquiry, the prisoner was dis charged. THE UNITED STATES AND THE BLAKELEY ORDNANCE. -- During the American rebellion the Confederate Govern ment ordered a number of guns of peculiar construction, and a large quantity of shot and shell to be manufactured by the Blakely Ordnance Company. The guns were paid for by .instalments; but although they were despatched from the defendants' manufactory,• they never reached America ; and'on the termination of the war they together with a considerable amount of other property which had been used during the rebellion 'were formally transferred by the Confederacy to the United States Government. The defendants, however ' now claimed a lieu on the guns, and a bill was filed by the Government for the purpose of ascertaining to whom the property actually belonged. The case involved a great many questions of international law ; but having considered all the facts, Lord Romilly declared that the guns were the property of the United States Government, subject to any lien which the defendants might be enabled to estab lish with respect to them. The minority of 50 that voted against the Clerical Disabilities Bill is composed of Conservatives. Colonel Wilson Patten was the only politician of eminence amongst them. The Marseilles journals speak of a mutiny in that roadstead on board the English vessel Robert Morrison. The captain put back into the port and had the insurgent sailors arrested. The Salt Lake Teleyraplx announces the death of President John Young, an elder brother of Brigham Young. The deceased had been for many years a patriarch of the Mormon Church. The Rev. G. Preston, M.A. of King Edward Vl.'s Grammar School, Birmingham, late Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, has. been elected to the head mastership of the Grammar School at Llanrwst, North Wales. THE BALLOT IN ENGLAND. At last a system of secret voting has been sanctioned by the British Government, and introduced into the House of Commons by the Marquis of Hartington. It is not . called the " ballot " in order that Conservative instincts may sustain as little offence as possible. But all the same, it amounts to an abandonment of that system of open voting at the polls which 'has led to so much inti midation in past times. The voter will, if the new bill be passed, deposit a voting ticket in the box, arid be spared the inconvenience of declaring in the presence of a lar,e crowd whose side he has taken up. It is virtually the ballot, and as Mr. Gladstone pledged himself to bring in some measure of the kind in the course of the session; we may presume that he is determined to push it through. But he seems to be more successful in introducing bills this year than in carrying them.-2 ew York Times. SENATOR REVELS ON " THE TENDENCEIS OF THE AGE. The large hall of the Cooper Institute was partially filled on the 11th of May, the occasion being a lecture by Senator Revels, of Mississippi, on " The Tendencies of the Age." The speaker was introduced by Mr. D. R. Locke, of Toledo, and commenced by saying that the two great elements of modern civilisation were Aristo cracy and Democracy, the one clinging to the medival past, and the other leading to the grandeur of the future. A nation mirrored " itself in its literature as an author mirrors himself in his own works. What forir ed the man formed the multitude. He held that this country was to be the theatre of the final and complete disenthralment of the human mind. Everything in our country, in our in stitutions, in our moral training, and in our circumstances pointed in that direction. He said that the wrongs of the Indian and of the negro would demand the future atten tion of this country. Popular self-government is the true history of democracy. Long before Sumter was fired upon this people was passing a fiery ordeal. The enslavement of the negro was the culmination of the mediaeval darkness. The aristocratic element was essen tially the caste principle that the few should govern the ignoble many. Gentle blood, hereditary rank, colonr of skin, have a large place-in its court and in its vocabulary. It stooped to sounds of praise and loyalty. The demo cratic element is born of the people, and is possessed of no class, no colour of skin, and no blood. Its tendency goes to secure liberty of consOence and liberty of thought. The Governments of the Old World were compelled to recognise in the New the giant of the age, merely on account of its denitycratic doctrines and institutions. He referred to the liberalistic tendencies of England by stat ing,that a Lord Chancellor of England at the present time was a Roman Catholic. Liberalism was the tune to which the Old World countries were beginning to march. He hoped that God would haste the day when the downtrodden should enjoy the same available privi leges claimed by the aristocracy, and that the time would come when there would be a common brotherhood. He said that education was the great lever which was to ele vate and ennoble the African race. In conclusion, he mentioned the feelings of gratitude which his race would forever cherish towards the Republican party. FASHION AND SUFFRAGE. The anniversary of the Brooklyn Equal Rights Associa tion has been held in the Academy of Music. There was a charge of admission of fifty cents.. and this probably was th cause that the parquet was well filled and the galleries nearly empty. There was a galaxy of talent on the.platform, never equalled at the meetings of this asso ciation previously, arising, of course, from the fact that there are two women's suffrage conventions meeting in the neighbouring city of New York. This galaxy ineluded the two presidents of the two associations, Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Tilton. The ladies on the plat form included Miss Anthony, Mrs. Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Mrs. Eliza Cady Stanton, Margaret Winchester, the venerable negro lady (Sentanor Truth,) Eleanor Kirk, a female local editor from Illinois (Miss Baldwin), and Mrs. Adele Haslett. The meeting was opened by Mrs. Laura C. Bullard, who had the presidency of the meeting assigned -o her in consequence of domestic affliction in the house of the announced President (Mrs. Burleigh) pre venting that lady from being present. Mrs. Bullard, in a few words of introduction, remarked upon' the progress of the woman's equalrights movement, as shewn by the meeting of that night ; a few years ago no such meeting could be held, and if held would have en countered opposition. The lady President then introduced to the audience Mrs. Lucy Stone, who in her address spoke at length on the labour of women and of its equal value both pecuniarily and intrinsically to that of man. In illustration of this Mrs. Stone gave a number of inci dents in her own experience where women were forbidden to vote even in the churches, and contrasted it with the action of the Methodist Church, which now allowed women to vote on the question of lay preachers, and women were now acknowledged as preachers, and were making.their mark by converting the men as the result of theirpeireaching. The women in the old time,when they were Church members, did not, neither did the men, do that which they do in Plymouth church, sell the pews to make up a salary, but they made up the salary of the minister by a more simple method. in the voting thereon Mrs. Stone gave an amusing account of her vote not being allowed to be counted in. She wanted the ballot because whatever good it was to any man it was equally good to any woman. Miss Susie Skinner followed this speech with a song. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton rejoiced to have - an opportunity of addressing a Brooklyn audience, because Brooklyn had produced two presidents of this movement, and these might be considered the generals of fifteen mil lions of American women. She thought that the women must give these presidents a few lessons ; for she under stood that one of them had said in that very hall, on the celebration of the fifteenth amendment, that the tree of liberty had now fully grown and had blossomed. Now a tree of liberty in this country was not full grown, nor ever blossomed, or in full bloom until both the male and the female have an equal representation. Mrs. Stanton had many good reasons for thinking "that there was more hope of the democratic party favouring the woman suf frage movement than. the Republicans. There was a time when she believed in the Republicans, but she thought that the Democratic party had been greatly purified in the furnace of political affliction. (Cheers and laughter.) There was another proof of the sym pathy of the Democratic party in the attitude of the New York World towards the woman ques tion. There was a time when she used to say hard things about the World, but she had forgiven that journal. She had felt very strongly against the Tribune, but the course taken by that journal on the great fugitive wife question (Mrs. M`Farland) had caused her to forgive Horace Greeley ; and she had during the last eight years had much to forgive Hoiace Greeley. (Cheers and laughter.) Horace had refused to put the " male " into your Constitution when she and Miss Anthony beseeched him to do it when it was proposed to the New York Legislature. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, instead of making a speech drawn from her memory, her judgment, and her imagina powers that had been worn out in the Conventim meet ings at Steinway Hall, read a little essay of well-grouped sentences about a visit made during the day to a local picture gallery. The pictures of " The Woman Taken in Adultery" and the war pictures made up the texts for this rather stilted talk. Miss Skinner sang another ballad. Mrs. Adele Haslett, from Michigan, said that the dis cussion of this question should be considered in the words of Lincoln—" with malice towards none, charity towards all, and with firmness to the ri g ht, as G o d has given us to see the right." Miss Haslett then proceeded to discuss the question in relation to the political right of women to vote. In reference to the control of the husband in the woman vote, she said Paul had forgotten to provide for the widows and the maidens. Those thousands of women who do not marry, what are they to do ? Men said it was the fault of women they are not married. Mrs. Has lett brought down the house by the utterance of two little words—" Is it ?" There was but one safe course for America to pursue, and that was to grant liberty to all classes and not to deny it to any class. She did not for get that which was due from women towards the men of America, for they had made woman's position more honourable here than in any other country. She knelt, she said to God, and asked that at least justice be given to woman, and she believed that men would give that. Miss Cozzens, in a very attractive and amusing speech, told of the progress of this woman's movement in the West, which, she said, exceeded that of the East. Miss Cozzens is greatly exercised that the women abolitionists were not glorified in the celebrations of the 15th amendment, and rehearsed those oft-repeated sentences about her impressions of that negro procession in St. Louis, which it is now about time for the rear guard thereof to appear. The Washington monument and the Goddess of Liberty, Mars and the Bacchus jokes, stale as they are, were served out to the Brooklyn audience. Miss Cozzens became very eloquent on the in crease " drinking saloons and gambling hells" and " social evils." and the problem therein could not be solved with out the mother element being introduced therein. The meeting was brought to a close by Mr. Beecher, who said that for three hours women had kept that audience together by her speeches, and if she had done that she was qualified to vote.—New York Times. THE CARES OF RICHES.—The eighty grand children of William Innis or Ennis, heir to a Scotch estate, who settled in New Jersey in 1732, have lost the peace of mind which they " owed " six months ago, and they and their families are now in a state of perturbation naturally caused by the hope of having over twenty millions of dollars to divide in family gavel. It is strange they never thought about that property till Mr. Smith, the claim agent, dis Covered it. But stranger things than this have happened. The family Bible, printed 1723 — with the family names and entries, along with the family wills preserved in Sussex County, New Jersey, will offer powerful evidence in favour of their claims ; and though the Scotch lawyers will, no doubt, Make a hard fight to keep "the siller " at home in that frugal country, we hope the Jerseyites will eventually get it—or at least enouh of it to repay them for the " hop e d e f erre d" which most people who go after such things are doomed to experience. —New York Times. A WISE PROPOSAL—We are opposed to all " entangling alliances " with foreign governments ; but as our. State Department has shown its indisposition to take any steps, on its own account, for the mitigation of the horrors of war that have been witnessed in Cuba during the last eighteen months, it would perhaps be well that we should accept the invitation extended to us by the British Government to co-operate with it in that humane undertaking. The atrocities of the Spaniards in Cuba have been appalling, long-continued, and inex cusable ; and we have again and again urged and implored our Government to raise its voice against them. Will it now refuse to 'join Great Britain in sending such a re , monstrance to the Spanish Government as will have a speedy effect both at Madrid and Habana ?—New York Tribune. INCENDIARISM IN THE WOODS. Fires in the woods after a drought are not unusual, fires such as those which lately raged in several of river counties, directly on the heels of the spring are less common. The timber burned during the last tsc.e: or three weeks in Ulster, Dutchess, and Orange was probably worth a million of dollars, and it is $ 23 , d, that many head of cattle have also been destro3eid Saturated with water as are the trees and brush, it o'nf seem that this deplorable mischief must be the tc'r',;% , incendiaries, and that they must have taken extraordin'''ods pains to make it effectual. It is difficult to fix on rnet b ,l : s of checking a spirit of wanton destructiveness whichra'as down hundreds of square miles of uninhabited forest tit its prey ; but as we are told that hundreds of men Etre tn ° s i " fighting fire" and striving to arrest its progress, we freshets suggest that the expense of a mounted p a trol might orio sionall be worth incurring. Incendiariem is very be epidemic, especially among boys, and a few contrtculija and sharp sentences would have a wholesome clec saving the woods for the future.—New York Tin" THE GREAT FIRE IN VIRGINIA. We have to record another public calamity in Ifirg i i The beautiful town of Fincastle in Botetour t Conn. has has been laid in ashes, The fire-fiend laid his cons -0° hand on it on Friday night, and under his blighting t°oll , 0 6 homes melted away, until nearly the entire too f, e , swept from existence. The loss is a dreadful one. e y e s tween thirty and forty families are rendered WO t o by this fell blow, and are, many of them, in a sad of destitution. The loss, it is estimated, will aPP'; v as mate, if it does not exceed, $300,000. On this there an insurance of not more than $14,0000 or $15,00 • c' ~rei s indeed a terrible loss to fall on one sm alls,iia munity. All the stores in the town, seven in number, fine contents, we learn, were consumed. The two large, ed, hotels, Price's and the Western, were also destoYeo Thirty odd dwellings fell before the devouring elegy tire The court-house and churches were spared. I ;r“ te ra broke ont in the stable of Mr. Luster, of the to Hotel, in a thickly-settled part of the town, and 00 1 7'0 the inflammable nature of its contents, was s oon im ablaze. The wind was high, the sparks flew the of about, and soon fire was commuicated to the roofs „ several adjacent houses. In this way it s pread f 1.° 0 . 0 ,5' house to house, until the greater part of the tow n,,,, 3 1- wrapped in a grand conflagration. The scene was 3 ,/ ; T or ling and harrowing. Women and children fleei n g ba of for their lives ; the men working with the energY desperation ; the flames roaring and crackling ; the lurid with thick clouds of sparks — altogether mad before il e r,, r e spectacle at once grand and appalling. A note e ver us from a citizen of the -place says that be e ven witnessed such a scene of destruction and desolation s., in the war, and he saw some of that in its wor st p bsee Lynchburg Virginian May 10. • DRIFTING AWAY. Ica Some of the Australasian papers are very outsP° ,nt, their denunciations of the present English Governs and make that dangerous comparison between En,," 'yr and her colonies to-day, and England an'. 0 5 colonies a hundred years ago, which has so oin tli t be a sound. One of the sharpest of these journals— Launceston Examiner—declares in a late issue ths' 4o t tactics pursued by the Home Government in th e pre ter day—let Lord Granville deny it as he please—lead as, or tainly to dismemberment, as did the tactics of gr. ville and Lord North in the last century. It adds t,':`, f r difference may be observed in this, that whereas wiee IS tion in 1770 arose from hatred, in 1870 it has its sourcipt contempt. These may be words and nothing more, jest their constant repetition, and the fact that such bitter murmurs preceded our own ',ft' n er independence, indicate a possibility of a ,a' s— v i e si berment of the British Empire, and whic" . „, one be nearer at hand than is generally supposed. Fr °— ther. extreme in colonial policy, England has gone to 31.1° t hat First she would scarcely allow the colonists to sg to l e t their souls were their own. No she is not ashaolec l a $ it be thought that she is anxious to shuffle them '3'lo moment's notice. We shall most certainly be the P c " go in the end by this policy, and the Australians lonaas-al perceived that fact, and in consideration of it they e o re . reconcile themselves to the timid counsels which 1 0° vail in the " mother country." The new route N't, tell its tale on colonial affairs. Possibly Englawl 4 ., to not have to stand much longer imploring the colonist the cut themselves away from her, nor be re duced t ° ignominious necessity of trying to estrange t insults and neglect.—New York Times. THE DARIEN CANAL Although the various surveys of the Isthmus of -L - f a coir have shewn that great difficulties exist in the way r t e ao structing a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific they have also proved that those difficulties are ne,V.,.:0 1 perable. The abandonment by Commander Selfr' n 'teee, the Caledonia Bay survey was nothing more than 3 r tiM of judicious engineering strategy. The line betwee il point' and the Gulf of San Miguel was tolerably understood to be nearly, if not quite, ilu t l ini° ticable, and various engineers at different for reported against it. It must be presumed that n° o ff ther attempts will be made in that direction. Tt. or starting-point which seems to be adopted by tn l ed; veying party is one of two which may turn out 1 3 i e cable. The harbour of San Blas is a very fine en e ' t are would accommodate all the ships that could ever re c lol anchorage. The distance across is shorter than 11 ,00 other route, and the engineering problem is not difficult to solve than is presented in any rival scheu le v iiS At the same time, the line of the Panama Ra,res , one which will be preferred by many. The river Cb3crid, fine however, though a one, is in parts exceedinglittli, and navigation is not very easy on that account; f orf, the region through which the canal would pa se l s bea lw favourable in point of cultivation, fertility and OP than either the Caledonia or the San Blas route...ll,oc last consideration is one of considerable tance when the nature of the climate s 1 c ar e t membered. Especially is this of CO when we remember the large mixed populatiedoolir would be collected at the mouths of the canal -3 P tit le tion (like that of most marine cities) naturally suscelLoti to dangerous epidemics. It is to be hoped that theilog will turn their attention to both routes. One t e a° clear—that the cost of the undertaking is the c hief, rloitte the only, serious obstacle to the completion of sonl,. e , The Suez Canal was constructed in ste of difficnib i l la d greater than a mountain range couldoppose,for it of - as be extended through and across moving masses at, j The reports from Aspinwall become of intere great comparisons of the two great enterprises were TOha they will be still more interesting when the sur vey CI F indicated where the new canal is to be construc ted- York Times. "DRAPERY MISSES." - A French journalist, M. Bertrand, has discovere - g , profession which, it is interesting to know, is Pli r ' s oaC London. He calls it a strange, eccentric prOfesoteo' " bizarre " is his own word—and, as regards its C llsr o a zation, he is not far wrong. It consists, plains, in picking out pretty girls of low station, gr ayA fe them, dressing them like young ladies, giving 001301 lessons in deportment, manners, and the art of 5 1 ) English, and then exhibiting them in the parkt o n gardens, and theatres, until they attract the atten,cuoilloi gain the heart, and ultimately the hand, of some 11 i O O 5 . Little by little," we are told, " the poetic illna_d the honeymoon disappear until at last the husbal4. e r e covers that he has married a girl without positionit'lip tfl io cation. So much the worse. But in the inc bargain has been struck, and the matrimonial ag - g pocketed his premium. These improvised Youga P 6 are, it appears, called " drapery misses.' - Gazette. M. Bertra co lleg e At the triennial visitation of Queen's tiolv Cork, which was held on Wednesday, the sentence °,f ,1 119 00. e tion for two years which was recently pronoutic°,7, Ql art student for writing an insulting letter to President, was reduced to six months. agg r 4 ,``riff LAD V EaTisEmENT.j--Avoid Medicines—they alWa , s chronic complaints; but Du Barry's delicious health 00,0,, Revalenta Arabic°. Food, which yields three times t1:1°,.a,,,,e mentof the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in othe r 0 0 11 and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong ne r , T t iost!„ l eS; lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, fa, S i ' gularity, anti energy to the most disordered or enfeebil 0 0° 4 66 , tract a few out of the 68,000 cures:—" The Pope's 1103 , 1 , 21, by Du Barry's Food. 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On the 22d inst., at Southborne, Edgbaston, gr 6 r, ~ berlain, of a daugh 1` ter. ci o On the 24th inst., at Godalming, the wife of W. . a daughter BIRTHS. 0 1 f o MARRIAGES. 113 r On the 21st inst., at Bremen, John Carpenter Saitl;o6s, mingliam, to Ant,,iue, third daubgter of Georg e , 3 Bremen. Geortie,to On the 24th inst., at Sr. Saviour's Church, St.,ligo. Fquare, Abraham Martin, Esq., of Cleverag i u t ghL — Captain 11th Regiment, to Florence, only dar John Pitt Kennedy, late R.E. DEATHS. Ole On the 23d inst., at Folkestone, John Down, FA' A On the 21st inst., at Wood-green, N., Ada first and dearly beloved child of ames and 01. ' in the 10th year of her age. ,' A L )II London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM - '- j • klo' be 0 of No. 112, Straud, Printer, at THE SUN Offic e b o tta" Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Middlesex.—Friday, May 27, 1870. ; Nu. KI NA F. 0 w•rve th b an LL. Ths ceiet Prize ‘tored. Pure, Li in i 34 the Agents t. 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