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GUEDALLA invites all BONDHOLDERS to a CON FERENCE with him at the LONDON TAVERN, on TUESDAY, the 21st inst., at 12 o'clock very precisely, for the purpose of ar ranging and settling the basis of a course of action necessary to be adopted by them in reference to the somewhat improved aspect of their postion and future prospects, as he considers that only by prompt and energetic measures can they take advantage of a chance which has just offered itself, and may not occur again perhaps for years. Gresham-street, 13th June, 1870. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A MTh. AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNEI.L 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. ed., and 15s. each, includ ng_brush:_ Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, °3, Upper Thames-street, Lon• don, E.C. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, at 7, MARRIED LIFE; Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Kendal, Mr Rogers, Mrs Chip pendale, Mrs Frank Matthews, Mrs E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hill, Mrs Laws. After which, at 8.30. "HOME." Sir Sothern, Mr Chippendale, Mr Compton, Mr Buckstone, jun.. Miss Ada Cavendish, Miss Fanny Gwynne, and Miss Caroline Hill. Concluding with FAMILY JAB 3. Mr Compton. MUSIC HAIL, ROYAL HOLBORN. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. SWEASEY. The Press have unanimously praised and acknowledged the entertainment provided at the above Hall for the Whitsun holidays to be the best in London. The Brothers Voltaire, the Champion Gymnasts, in their surprising performances, particularly their aerial leaps, extending the whole length of the Hall (nearly 100 feet), engaged to appear solely at this establishment ; Mr. H. Collard (Le Petit Sims Reeves), the miniature man, the smallest and sweetest tenor singer in the world, can be heard at this hall only ; Messrs. St. Albyn, P. Corri, and Miss Barrie have made an immense hit with their operatic selections ; Miss Georgina Smith son has returned to meet with fresh admirers ; Mr. Baldwin has supplemented the brilliant encomiums he has already received from the provincial press ; Miss Louie Sherring ton is received nightly with uproarious applause ; Mr. J. 11. Milburn is an old favourite ; the Great Vance is not to be, heard elsewhere, excepting at his concerts ; Mr. J. H. Ryley, and Madame Barnam, as comic duettists, have met with decided success; the acknowledged largest and best band in London. Bal cony, 6d.; stalls, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE, Wych-street, Strand. _ _ _ Sole Lessee and Manserer, Mr W. IL LisTom Miss BATEMAN as MARY 'WARNER every Evening during the week, assisted by Messrs. G. Belmore, W. H. Vernon, Blake ley, Elliott. David Fisher; Mrs. Poynter and Mrs. W. H. Listjn. In reply to numerous applications at the Box Office, and to prevent disappointment to parties desirous of securing seats several weeks in advance, Mr. W. H. LISTON feels compelled to announce with regret that, in consequence of previous arrange ments, the brilliant engagement of this distinguished Artiste must POSITIVELY TERMINATE on SATURDAY, JUNE 25. Commencing with MUSIC BATH CHARMS. Concluding with THE 'VARSITY BOAT RACE. Box Office open from 10 till 5. TA YCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs. Mansell). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, HIS OWN RIVAL Mr. F. iharles and Miss L. Morgan. - Zig:BREAKING THE SPELL. After which, at t.. 30, LITTLE FAUST: Mr. T. Maclagan, M. Marius, Mr. Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr. Wilmot; Mdlle. Debreux, Mesdames Lennox G ey, Lawson, Lee, and Emily Soldene. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Solo Lessee and 'Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS ENENING, at 7 o'clock, LOVING HEARTS. Messrs Edward Teiry and Turner; Mesdames Bufton at, djSantley. Followed by KENILWORTH. Messrs David James, Terry, Turner, and Fenton; Mesdames Sant!ey, Anstiss, Goodall. Met calfe, and Moore. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7 30, CUPBOARD LOVE, by F. Hay. After which, at 8, a new and original Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO ROSES. To conclude with the new and successful Burlesque, DON CARLOS; or, The Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, w. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Faw sitt, T. Lavis, and A. Newton. Doors open at Seven. Commence at 7.30. TH OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden.—Luerezia Borgia. 8.20 p.m. ITALIAN OPERA, Deury Lane.—Faust. 8.30 p.m. HAYMARKET—At Seven, Married Life. Home. Family Jars, ADELPIII-At Seven, The Robust Invalid. Free Labour. PRINCE OF WALEs's—At 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. LYCEUM—At 7.30, His Own Rival, Breaking the Spell. At 890, Little Faust. OLYMPIC -At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, Mary Warner. The 'Varsity Boat Race. GAIETY—At Seven, First Night. The Princess of Trebizonde. QUEEN'S—At Seven, Bly Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Axe and Crown. STRAND—At Seven, Loving Hearts. Kenilworth. VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos. ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Frou. La Belle Sauvage WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH Bo( K. Egyptian Hall, Pic cadilly, every Evening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn ings at 3. Admission Is, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every 'Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. Zo LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily (except Sun days). Admission, ls. ; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra 6d. t .;,, fr , „,,,„„:„. ~..0 , IK, r`44 . 1 -, -- Utik - -.V. , , ' i'k.l l l, r :ow 434+ LONDON, SA7 URDAY, JUNE 18, 1870. Seated on the Treasury Bench are two adminis trators who avail themselves of every possible oppor tunity of snubbing the House of Commons. And, wonderful to relate, the House by its toleration of this favourite proceeding on the part of each, seems rather to like it than otherwise. Both of them are right honourables. Each in turn has knelt on that embarrassingly soft cushion and kissed hands on his enrolment as a Privy Councillor. One is of the august inner circle of Ministers, constituting what is called the Cabinet. The other is of the outer circle of Ministers, an administrator of lesser, but for all that of considerable importance. They have between them a wonderful capacity of aggravation. Let auy member—it don't matter much on which side of the House he sits, whether he is seated above or below the gangway—let any member, Liberal or Conser vative, Ultra-radical, or true-blue Tory, ask any question he pleases, under any conceivable conditions of time or of circumstance, and he is safe for two things from the hands or rather from the lips of these two members of the Government. He is safe not to be answered in any way satisfactorily. And he is equally safe to be insulted—insulted by something in look, bearing, and words, amounting to what common people, who are not right honourables, are in the habit of calling impertinence—or by a dogged, dull pertinacity in error, that is cer tainly an insult to the querist's understanding. Mr. MILTON is the former and Mr. BRUCB the latter, as everyone will at once have recognized. The Chief Commissioner has carried his act as a Parlia mentary irritant, it must be said in simple justice, to a high degree of perfection. His is not the aptitude to— . . . assent with civil leer And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. On the lines of his supercilious countenance, in the droop of the eyelids, in the scorn of the nostrils, in the adroitly mingled petu lance and exhaustion expressed by the index- ions of the voice, are visible and audible to the meanest capacity (for taking offence) an undisguised readiness, to accept literally the humourous sugges tion of THACKERAY, and to act upon it, "When your neighbours tenderest corn is before you—tread upon it!" With Mr. AYRTON'S colleague, Mr. BRUCE, it is otherwise. While with Mr. AYRTON the imperti nence is so piercing that it almost attains the poignancy of wit—with Mr. BRUCE the obstinate doggedness is such that it almost assumes to iteelf the attribute of stupidity. Of the fact that it is as we say, in regard to the Home Secretary, Parliament has recently had two rather flagrant, and of them selves, as it seems to us, perfectly conclusive illustra tions. The more recent of these two stupendous evidences of dull and stolid obstinacy on the part of Mr. BRUCE occurred only as recently as on Thursday evening, when the Home Secretary was only in a more conspicuous way than usual what he is consistently and systematically upon occasions of a similar kind— "Stiff in opinions—always in the wrong." An innocent man (we have all read the case in those letters in the limes signed A. MATHIEU) is haled through the public streets as a suspected pickpocket, is locked up for two or three days to be eventually discharged by the magistrate, but—for all that— the detectives in plain clothes, who have perpetrated this wrong, have, according to Mr. BRUCE, acted throughout in a manner the most exemplary. The incident is entirely of a piece with that earlier inci dent about the poor, half-witted man who had not stolen a couple of ducks, but whose continued incar ceration as having been suspected of helping the two rascals who did, Mr. BRUCE, justified by that addi tional atrocity, a dull man's attempt at a joke—don't we all smart under the remembrance of it?—that lum bering effort at a pleasantry, about the possibility of three men stealing two ducks ? Painfully conscious of the presence, there, to the right hand of Mr. SPEAKER, of Messrs. AYRTON and BRUCE, our long suffering representatives in the Commons House of Parliament assembled, may mournfully cry out to one another, Quousque tandem abutere patientia nostra? MR. GLADSTONE will certainly one day do himself and his colleagues some serious injury by his ex cessive verbosity. A. cautious statesman, havingbefore him the difficult task of settling the Education question—a problem of many years—during the few weeks that remain before the long vacation, would have been careful not to alarm Parliament by pro claiming an organic change of policy. He would have made as light as possible of the obstacles before him in order that he might persuade his hearers that they were light. He would have announced his amendments in the fewest possible words. Not so Mr. GLADSTONE. He could not resist the temptation to make an oration, with exordium, middle, and peroration all complete. He took seventy minutes to explain the changes which he proposed to make. For sixty-five minutes he was eloquent as usual, but the House clearly did not understand his scheme, and it was not until the last five minutes, when he recapitulated the arrange ments in a few succinct words, that they became intelligible. It would have been well if the preceding period had been only wasted. It was far worse than . wasted. It led members who did not understand the question to suppose that the alterations were fundamental, that they in reality constituted a new bill, and other members who did understand, and who have reasons of their own for not liking the SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, J LINE 18, 1870. measure, carefully fostered the suspicion thus ex cited in order to prevent further progress of the bill. We cannot undertake to say to which class of members Mr. DISRAELI be longs. So clever a man ought to compre hend the Ministerial programme, and certainly the statesman who drew up in ten minutes a bill for reforming the Constitution, ought not to have com plained that Government had hastily changed their front with regard to the education question. Perhaps it was because he saw no real objection to the pro posals, yet felt bound to reassert his position as leader of the Opposition, that he rose directly after Mr. GLADSTONE had sat down, and delivered one of his amusing philippics, full of wit and epigram. Certainly, as an effort of elocution it was highly successful, for the House, somewhat wearied by Mr. GLADSTONE'S verbose periods, laughed again and again at the •' points" of the Opposition chief. But after all the matter is not one for joke. Conservative M.P.'s, looking at the serried phalanx of Radicals below the gangway, knowing well that if these have their way there would be a speedy end to religious education in this country, felt that they must not sacrifice the future to the present, nor obstruct the Ministerial measure which does give them much that they ask, simply in order to please Mr, DISRAELI. Thus it came to pass that while the Conservatives cheered their chief and laughed at his jokes, they one after another repudiated the course which he had seemed to indicate. He had asked for indefinite delay, and spoken in severe terms of the new proposals. They, on the contrary, asked only for a brief time to consider, and intimated that they did not think there was much reason to object to the amendments. Mr. HARDY Lord,S4NDON, Mr. LIDDELL, and others all let it be seen that they were willing to accept the principle of these amendments, and Sir JOHN PAICINGTON, whose opinion on the Education question carries more weight than that of any other member outside the Cabinet, only expressed his regret tWat the Government should think it necessary to delay proceeding with the Committee until Monday. But while there is likely to be little opposition to the Ministerial alterations on the part of the Opposi tion, the members below the gangway are anything but satisfied. Mr. DIXON, speaking on behalf of the League, was obliged to put constraint upon himself in order that he might not seem to be openly rebel ling against his chief. As it was, he did go so far as to say that it was necessary to adjourn the debate lest members should give utterance to expressions which they might afterwards regret. Mr. VERNON HARCOURT was scarcely less outspoken in the enunciation of his dissatisfaction. •He threa tened the House with all kinds of dire consequences if denominational education were not given up, and predicted that if un sectarian religious education were not given to day, to-morrow the country would insist upon secu- lar education. He declared his conviction that it was possible to give the first, but he himself shewed how difficult it was, by asking, with reference to Mr. COWPER-TEMPLE'S amendment that no religious formula shall be taught, if the New Testament was not a religious formula so far as regards non-Christians ? The truth is, Mr. HARCOURT and his friends, in their earnestness for what they call unsectarian religious education, forget that there are persons to whom not only Christianity, but all religion, is secta rian. If Mr. HARCOURT and his party have the right to object that any State funds shall be appro priated to the peculiar teaching of any religious sect (and thus, by the way, forbidding out of deference to Unitarians the teaching of our LORD'S divinity) the Jew and the Mormon have the right to object to any , teaching of Christianity, and the infidel to any reli gious teaching whatsoever. There is no evading this difficulty, if you once impose fetters upon the State. The only practical, the only statesmanlike way is for the State to know nothing at all about the religious teaching, but to allow each school authority, whether a parochial board or a voluntary committee, to decide the matter for itself. If, out of deference to the clamour of zealots too zealous for their religion to allow any religion to be taught, Government has yielded so far as the school boards are concerned, that is a concession necessitated by circumstances, not justified by logic. Having obtained it, the least the Radicals can do is to allow the supporters of voluntary schools to deal with the matter as they please with the single proviso on the part of the Government that there shall be an efficient con science clause. If the Radicals do not accept this arrangement, their obstinacy will be another illustra tion of the very well known phenomenon, that the greatest intolerance is often to be found among those who talk most loudly in behalf of civil and religious liberty. THE long period of drought has been interrupted in many parts of the country by a rainfall of some magnitude and better promise. The shower seems nowhere to have been of sufficient duration to effect great good by itself, but a few more favours of the kind would prove of the utmost benefit. The long continued brilliant weather has beyond doubt been productive of some injury, but it has at least ripened and brought to maturity the usual crop of energetic complaints. Here the hay crop is " not worth gathering.;" there "nothing can now save the Corn crops on the light soils." As to roots the withering away has been serious and general. In the wheat market a gradual rise has taken place, reason or none, the total increase since the middle of May being about six shillings. In this, as in all similar cases, the intensity of the panic is not at all warranted by the extent of the evil; but it may be conceded that the drought has been severe and pecu- liar. It is not often that we are in want of rain in the early months of the year. A dry season has occurred several times lately, but the period of its duration has always been the summer months. This year everything is parched up in the land before the summer proper begins. So early is the affliction that there is even yet time for 1870 to distinguish itself as an excep tionally wet year. 1864 was a terrible year, but in the first five months seven and a half inches of rain fell, whereas this year the fall has not quite reached five. The average fall in February is 1.0 inch; this year it was not a third of that quantity. In April the rain amounted to less than one-fifth of the average; in May to less than one fourth. This is a serious state of things; yet it will be well not to exaggerate the prospect of evil. The probable effects of a dry season almost always are over-esti mated. The adage " drought never bred dearth in England " differs from most proverbial expressions by being true in practice ; and yet whenever there is a scarcity of rain people never fail to imagine vain things, regardless of the lessons of experience. As a matter of fact, drought never does bring about the effects that are attributed to it. It produces a sad appearance in the crops, and farmers are apt to judge by appearances. Lack of moisture causes the stalk of corn to be stunted and ill-looking; but the ear does not suffer. Whilst the straw is burnt up, the ear only ripens the faster. On the other hand, in a wet season the straw developes prodigiously, and the cultiva tor's heart is gladdened by the spectacle of exuberant green. The ear, however, in no way benefits by this excess of moisture. Of course drought is injurious, and there is a limit at which it might prove extremely so; but no extent of dry weather to which we are subjected ever has the disastrous effect which is commonly feared In other countries the case is different. In India a drought famine is a very com mon occurrence; but in England the average of moisture is so high that a very great falling off may be borne without serious consequences. Even in the case of grass the loss is not so heavy as is commonly supposed, Indeed it is certain that cattle thrive best when, according to the popular view, their food is all dried up. A supply of rain now would be most beneficial, but should it not come it will be wise not to underrate the blessings which still remain to us. In the House of Lords last evening the adjourned debate on the second reading of the Irish Land Bill was resumed by Lord Lnrgan. Although the dis cussion was carried on until a late hour no serious opposition was offered to the progress of the mea sure at this stage, and it was ultimately read a second time. The Lower House met at one o'clock, and the Civil Service estimates engaged attention until nearly seven o'clock. Several votes created considerable but uninteresting discussion. When the Honse reassembled at nine o'clock, Mr. William Torrens moved a resolution in reference to the dis ttess which existed among the labouring classes in many large towns, and calling upon the Government to devise some means for alleviating their condition. Mr. Goschen, the President of the Poor Law Board, in a very lengthy speech, attempted to show that there had been a great revival of trade, and argued that it would be impolitic for Parliament to apply the national purse for the benefit of a particular class. The debate on this subject lasted upwards of three hours, and was adjourned. On the motion for going into committee on the Clerical Disabilities Bill a series of proposi tions, alternately for the adjournment of the debate and for the adjournment of the House, were made by Conservative members, and this useless proceeding was kept up until half-past three o'clock. A motion by Mr. Beresford Hope, that the Bill be referred to a Select Committee was, on a division, lost. The House then went into Com mittee on the Bill, but almost immediately resumed. The House adjourned at twenty-one minutes to four o'clock. TOPICS OF THE DAY. if he is unable to pay. The legality of arrest ing Mr. Edmunds is, as has been already stated, about to be tried in the courts ; meanwhile, how ever, everyone must grant that Mr. Edmunds has been peculiarly unlucky in his mode of existence if he has not been cruelly illtreated. He is described rightly by a contemporary as a trebly ruined man. He has lost his employment as Clerk of the Patents; he has been deprived of his pension ; and all his fortune has been spent in the law courts. He is now confined in a prison where, it is believed, thorough criminals, rather than men who have been brought there for mere non-payment of money, will be his companions. Finally, one must remember that Mr. Edmunds has been exonerated from the blame imputed to him by one tribunal, and also that he has been in the service of the Crown, who now detain him in prison, for nearly a generation. MR. GLADSTONE'S PROPOSALS. It is using a mild expression to say that Mr. Gladstone's important speech declaring the inten tions of the Government on the Education Bill has been received with a good deal of astonishment. The Times blames the Go vernment for employing mystery. Mr. Forster, it says, went down to Bradford in the vaca- tion ; he met representatives of the party who have been the chief opponents of his bill, and he had an excellent opportunity for stating generally the manner in which the Government proposed to meet their objections. Instead of doing this, and allowing his plan to be quietly considered, he contented himself with a mysterious reticence on the only points of vital importance. "The effect is that the House meets to consider the bill• in a some what excited frame of mind, and when it proves that the changes proposed are really considerable, there is au opportunity for expressing surprise, uncer tainty, and resentment—an opportunity, in short, for still further embarrassing a sufficiently embarrassed question. Mr. Gladstone justly said that it is only by a general spirit of co-operation that we can hope to pass the measure at, all this year. We cannot say that the Government have set a good example in delaying to the last moment the exposition of their amendments." The Standard is quite furious. The Opposition, it says, came down prepared to support Mr. Forster's bill, and it found that another bill, quite different from the first, had been prepared. The effect of accepting the proposal that in the new schools to be founded by the school boards,and dependent upon the rates, all religious formularies peculiar to any special sect or communion shall be excluded,is to assimilate the se schools to the British and Foreign Society's schools. Where a dissenting school board appoints a dissenting teacher, he can teach according to dissenting doctrine and usage, which do not require or allow of formu laries. A Church master, on the other hand, will be precluded from giving to Church children instruc- tion in the forms in which the Church has seen fit to embody her doctrine. The Daily News thinks the solution, if it is a solu- tion, is one which nobody had suggested, and nobody anticipated. It seems to hold that the changes spoil the bill. " Instead of being a measure for inaugurating a new system of national education, it will be only a bill to sup plement the deficiencies of the present system. Instead of providing a method by which the whole national system could gradually pass under local ad ministration, and be developed into a great, uniform, elastic system of English common schools, it will only set up another system by the side of the pre sent, and will permit them to go on together side by side for ever. We shall now have two systems of national education, neither of them capable of absorb ing the other, but capable of much clashing with each other." THE PEERS AND THE LAND BILL. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the debate on the Land Bill in the Lords is the reception given to those provisions for enabling tenants to buy land, which are known as Mr. Bright's scheme. Nobody raises any serious objection to them. Lord Salisbury positively approves of them. Lord Cairns observes : " I wish to say at once that in my opinion there is no objection to them in point of principle. If there be an objection to them, it is one not of principle, but of pdlicy and expediency." This ob jection of policy and expediency Lord Cairns defines as the danger of sub-letting. He thinks the testimony of authorities is almost unvarying in declaring that when an occupier becomes an owner he also raises himself to the coveted position of land lord ; he cultivates a small portion of the land, and lets the remainder. Lord Cairns fears, too, that Government would be placed in an invidious position if, prohibiting such subdivision, it drew down on itself all the odium now lavished on stringent, and,' therefore, unpopular landlords. And not only will this odium be incurred if the Govern ment prevent subletting, but it will be extremely difficult to do so. " Some of your lordships who are acquainted with the position of things in Ireland know what a task it is to prevent subletting or assignment. You know, or your agents would tell you, that it is one of the most difficult operations they have to perform. You will have every possible scheme and device resorted to in order to produce the reality without the appearance of subletting. Now, how is the Board of Works in Dublin to cope with such proceedings of their tenants in every part of the country, proceedings with which local agents would have the greatest difficulty in grappling ?" THE CASE OF MR. EDMUNDS. The answer of Mr. Gladstone to Sir James Elphinstone's question with reference to the arrest of Mr. Edmunds gives anything but satisfaction to that gentleman's sympathisers. The Premier justifies what has been done "under the authority of the law" by stating that the Crown is not expressly named in the Debtors' Act of 1869, and he therefore leaves it to be understood that as Mr. Edmunds is a debtor of the crown, and not of a subject of the crown, he suffers imprisonment in person THE CUSTOMS REVENUE. It is noticeable that the total amount of customs' duties received in Great Britain has been remarkably uniform during the last thirty years. Imports and exports have increased enormously; but the duties levied on them yield almost exactly the same sum. In 1840 the Custom House collected a revenue of about £23,300,000. In 1869 the total was nearly £22,000,000. During the interval the largest yield was nearly twenty-four and three-quarter millions— in 1859; and the smallest about £21,600,000, which occurs in several years. The deviations throughout are very trifling. The reason is that although the tendency of late years has been wholly in the direc tion of reducing or abolishing duties, yet the expan sion of trade in those articles which are still liable has kept up the balance. A few taxed articles now yield as much as did a large number a few years ago. THE ENGLISH LADY DOCTOR. The reception of Miss Elizabeth Garrett into the Society of the Paris Faculty has been rendered quite an important event in the annals of the medical association. Several friends and relatives- of the lady practitioner witnessed her taking the diploma, and as it was the first time that a lady has graduated as a member, large numbers of the medical men of Paris, and many other spectators attended. Miss Garrett, it is said, wore the traditional gown and bands usually worn by the men on the occasion of their admission as members. She looked very well in the dress, and seemed especially pleased when the judges expressed the sympathy and respect which all those who were present felt for her efforts in being one of the first ladies who had come forward to practice the healing art and to benefit suffering humanity. On Miss Garrett leaving the hall, the young students present became quite enthusiastic, and she was loudly cheered and gallantly bowed to by them as she stepped from their presence. COLONIAL JUDGES. correspondence respecting the removal and sus pension of colonial judges has been presented to the Houses of Parliament, in which a question of some importance is dealt with. In 1868 a public meeting was held in Singapore, when a resolution was passed calling attention to the unconstitutional power pos sessed by the Governor of suspending any judge of the Supreme Court, and urging that the existence of such a power was most injurious to the administration of justice. The resolution was embodied in a petition, and presented to the Duke of Buckingham, the then Secretary for the Colonies, who, in acknowledging the receipt of the petition, admits the importance of the question. His grace denies, however, that any argument can be possibly drawn from the analogy of England :—" I am far from undervaluing the knowledge and ability of Colonial judges and lawyers," says the Duke of Buckingham, "but it is evident that no lawyer can be advanced tc a place on the English Bench without a professional trial longer and far more severe than that which would qualify him for a colonial appoint ment; and that an English judge performs his func tions under the eye of a numerous and well-educated bar, with the assistance and under the correction of colleagues who are among the first lawyers of the world, and subject to the observation of a critical and well-informed press." Lord Chelmsford's observa tions upon the matter are that in all cases, except those of judicial indiscretion or indecorum, the sus pension of a judge should be left in the first instance to the governor of the colony, subject to an appeal to the Queen in council. In this opinion Lord Chelms ford is supported by Dr. Lushington, the late judge of the Admiralty, and the Right Hon. Sir E. Ryan. EXHIBITIONS. Next year the first of a series of annual int erna- tional exhibitions will commence. They will be the result of the Great Exhibition of 1851, as the Com missioners of that undertaking invested the surplus in such a manner as to promote at some future period the establishment of Permanent exhibitions. The Commissioners have profited by the experience of past years, and propose to make an international exhibi tion a permanent institution of the country. Space will be economised by grouping the various indus tries, and taking some of them each year. Restrictions will be placed on the con ditions under which exhibits are received. The Commissioners seek to carry out the purpose of the Prince Consort in promoting the first Exhibition, by bringing art and industry into close alliance. The Americans have adopted the same idea in their scheme to open an Industrial Exhibi- tion in New York in 1872. It is to be erected in much the same style as the Crystal Palace at Syden ham. Its pecuniary success will, it is expected, be great. The edifice will be one of the finest struc tures in the city, and may prove one of its most attractive features. Besides this undertaking the American Institute Fair for 1870 will shortly be held in New York. The exhibition will be divided into seven departments, each of which will contain seven groups, including departments of fine arts and education, chemistry and mineralogy, &c. In addition to the usual premiums, there will this year be a medal of honour awarded to the inventor of some novelty, never before exhibited at the Institute fairs, in the way of machine, product, or process which can supplant every article previously used for accomplishing the same purpose, and work a favourable revolution in some branch of the useful arts. KING-HUNTING. Marshal Prim recently confessed in the Cortes that the Crown of Spain had been offered in succes sion to four candidates, who had each in turn refused it. According to the Memovial Diplonzatique these four candidates were Dom Fernando, of Portugal; the young school-boy Duke of Genoa; Count d'Eu, son-in-law of the Emperor of Brazil ; and Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern. It has not, we believe, been previously stated that a formal offer was made to the two latter princes, though the name of Prince Frederick has often been mentioned. Still, the list is not yet complete. There is Marshal Espartero, who was certainly offered the Crown, and the Duke of Montpensier, who is the nominee of a very large and powerful party, besides the King of Portugal, who is now " under consideration." Should these resources fail, the Daily News suggests the Marquis of Bute or Mr. Hudson, the ex-railway king, who is to be heard of at the Carlton Club. To whom may be added the mother of Lopez, late President of Paraguay, if she still survives. This old lady must have seen a great deal of royalty in one shape or another, her vicissitudes ought to have taught her wisdom, she is reported to be an excellent hand at conspiracy, and she has attained a very ripe old age, and thus must be agree able to Prim. It is said that she was killed in one of the late disturbances, but that is no objection. She had been killed many times before, and wa always heard of again hatching conspiracies. 11f. PREVOST PARADOL. The appointment of M. Prevost Paradol as French Minister at Washington, is perhaps the most notable political event of the last few weeks. It is certainly the most ' Liberal. The salary is about £2,400 a year with a house and "perqui sites." M. Paradol is a young man, not much more than 40 years of age. He gets one of the great prizes of diplomacy without ever having entered the ser vice, and at such an early period of life. And yet this great journalist has, until very lately, been one of the most formidable enemies of Imperialism. He was not an Irreconcilable ; but far more dangerous than the reddest of that class. Whilst he be lieved the Empire to be compatible with good and free government, he mercilessly satirised it for failing to reach the proper mark, and his trenchant criticism told all the more because it was moderate. The damaging letters of "A. Parisian," in the Times and Pall Mall Gazette, are believed, on very good authority, to be his. Such is the man upon whom this great office has been conferred. It is almost as strange as if Mr. Disraeli, when he returns to office, were to confer an embassy on the author of the famous review of " Lothair " in Blackwood. BRIGANDAGE IN SPAIN. The escape of the Messrs. Bonell from the hor rible fate that befell the victims of the Greek brigands is due to the admirable precautions taken by the Spanish Government, and to the able manner in which Mr. Layard acted on behalf of the captives. k correspondent of the Times, writing from Madrid, states that after the capture, the brigands discussed the possibility of obtaining a ransom for the two gentlemen, and one of the scoundrels pro posed to make a short shrift of the two prisoners. But the possibility of obtaining the money was too great to allow of such a step. The bands seems to have been tracked by the Government agents with admirable precision, and the success of the negotiations was consummated by the practical application of the old adage of setting a thief to catch a thief. When the elder Bonell was liberated in order to get the money, one of the bandits was in the crowd assembled at Cadiz to see the steamer off, and the polished ruffian, with an audacity that may be seen on the stage, but rarely in other places, shook hands with Mr. Bonell, saying, " So, Senor Bonell, I see you are taking a voyage to Gibraltar." It was fortunate, too, that the authorities at Gibraltar were not reduced to that state of impecuniosity in which the Spanish Government appears to revel ; and after the state ment that the Imperial Treasury may find it diffi cult to repay the £5,000 advanced by Sir Richard Airey, only part of which has been recovered from the brigands, we imagine General Prim will require a longer period than three months to find a King. A throne is a good thing, but a throne and a civil list is infinitely better. THE CROPS IN AMERICA. The prospects of a fine harvest in America have been everywhere visible, and although the country has not been visited with any adequate amount of rain, still there has been no long and disastrous period of dry weather, as has been experienced in this country. Indeed, in the western part of the continent abundant showers were falling periodically during May. The chief thing American agriculturists have to complain of is the exorbitant charges made for carrying grain to market. This is felt very seri ously in Chicago, where the crops are most plentiful. The freight charges have latterly discouraged the agriculturists so much that they have resolved to form committees to devise some new plans for sending the corn by road. Producers cannot afford, they argue, to lose the value of ten bushels of barley or wheat in order to get one to market from beyond the Mississippi. The reports from the fruit-growers are this year most promising, and the yield of strawberries of a superior quality is spoken of, as being magnificent. olF:r* )11 . ?t - HER MAJESTY. BALMOBAL CASTLE, June 16. The Queen, with Princess Beatrice, drove yesterday to the Linn of Dee, attended by the Duchess Dowager of Athole and the Hon. Eva Macdonald. Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Harriet Phipps and Miss Macgregor, drove to Invercauld and paid a visit to Mr. Farquharson. HER MAJESTY'S RETURN. PERTH, Friday Evening. The Royal train arrived al Perth, from Aberdeen, at 6.10 p.m. Her Majesty, the Princesses, and suite dined in the committee rooms at the station ; and the train left at 7.15 p.m. The Queen appeared in excellent health. The Royal train arrived at Carlisle at the appointed time, and proceeded south at a quarter before 12 o'clock. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-DAT• The Countess of Ashburnham's evening party, at 30, Dover-street, Picadilly. The Gun Club, Wormwood Scrubs, near Shepherd's bush. The Challenge Cup (holder, the president), with an optional £5 handicap ; to enter on the ground. Shooting at two o'clock, military time. The Hurlingham Club—The annual general meeting at the Club House, Fulham. THE SUNDAY LIQUOR TRAFFIC. TO THE EDITOR OF " THE SUN." SIR,—On the 29th instant Mr. Rylands will move in the House of Commons for the second reading of his Sun day Closing Bill. Among all classes there is an increased feeling in its favour. The working classes are arranging to attend a large meeting'to be held in Trafalgar-square on the 25th instant. B. Whitmore, Esq., J.P., ex M.P., will preside, and several popular speakers will address the assembly. The sympathy of a number of dignitaries in the Church with the Bill is shown in the following extrac t from the Lord's Day Observance Society, just published. " For the purpose of strengthening the hands of those engaged in the conflict against the, Sunday Liquor Traffic your committee have sent to some of the bishops a request that they would sign the following expression of opinion on the subject : 'We are of opinion that proper facilities for travellers and lodgers being secured, it will be for the physical and moral advantage of the people generally that the trade in Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday should be prohibited.' The following ten bishops have responded to the request of your committee, by signing the papers—th e Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London) Exeter, Salisbury, Peterborough, Ely, Hereford, Lich field, Manchester, and St. Davide." Mr. Rylands finds support for his measure ammg a ll classes. Yours respectfully, EDWARD MATHEWS, M.A., Travelling Secretary of the Central Associaaion for Stopping the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday. London Office, 14, Salisbury-street, Fleet-street, E.C., June 14. The Thunderstorm which visited London on Thursday night was general in the provinces, and from the northern, midland, eastern, and southern counties we learn that a copious fall of rain has taken place. Two journeymen tailors were yesterday charge d at Marlborough-street with having threatened and as saulted a workwoman named Marion Davis. As th° operative tailors of Cork are on strike, the master trades men of that city endeavour to get their orders executed in London. During the past few days one of the shops lu which this class of work has been carried on has been watched by the emissaries of the strike committee, w ork. people had been threatened, and one woman was the vic tim of an assault. Evidence was yesterday called to prove these facts, and the defendants were remanded. DUNVILLE and Co. Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ommended by the medical profession in preference to French brand - . 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