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CAUTION. MOSES and SON E. beg to inform the Public that thoy have adopted and registered a TRADE MARK, consisting of the words " The Standard," with the initials " E. M. & S." underneath, and that henceforward every article of clothing manufactured by them will have a label or ticket attached to it, with the said trade mark printed thereon. All persons are hereby cautioned against imitat ing the said Trade Mark. For trades and addresses see following advertisement. “THE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE MAN.” BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES, BES r WORKMANoHIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. Every description of Clothing ready-made or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and SON'S. For the convenience of Ladies accompanying their Sons there is a separate department for Boys' Clothing, and it is furnished with a splendid assort ment of Suits, Ov..rcoats, and Clothing for all occa sions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-ineasure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless flt. Any article not worn or injured will be exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned. Ail Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is unequalled for mag nitude, variety, and cheapness. A- very large assortment of BLANKETS, from ss. 4d. the pair. Complete Outfits for all climates, with every re quigte for the v)yage. List of Prices, with Rules for self-measure, Pat terns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free E. MOSES and SON, Ready made and Bespoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Holers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all classes. E. MOS ES and SON'S Est blishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. The following are the only addressed of E. MOSES and SON LONDON CORNER OF MLNORIES AND ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF lIART-STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON- ROAD. Country Branch: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. L ONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. NORTHASIPTON SPRING RACES, APRIL 5 and G. On each of the above days a SPECIAL. CHEAP TRAIN will leave Enstoa Station for Northampton at 9.5 a.m., arriving at Northampton at• 11.15 a m., and returning therefrom each evening at 6.45. 7 rains in connection will leave Broad-street (City), Dalston Junction, Highbury, Camden-road, Kentish-town, Victoria, Pimlico (1 ondon, Brighton, and South Coast Company's side), Clapham Junction, Battersea, Chelsea, Kensington, and Uxbridge road. FARES FOR THE DOUBLE JOURNEY : Covered Carriages First Class. 10s. - I 15s. Fares from Broad-street, Dalston, and Highbury, 6d. extra ... A SPECIAL FAT TRAIN, at ordinary fares, will a!so leave Euston Station each day at 9 a.m., arriving at Northampton at 1 '.45 a.m., returning at 5.40 pm. the first day, and at 5.40 or 8 p.m. the second day. The return trains will call at Willesden Junction only, and arrive at Euston Station at 7.45 p.m. the first day, and at 7.45 p.m. anti 9.45 p.m. respectively the second day. For further pArttculars see bills. • W. CAWK WELL, General Manager. Eu. ton Station, March, 1.370. METROPOLITAN AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE, WEDNESDAY, April 6. The Ordinary Service of Trains between the CITY and HAM MERSMITH will be suspended from 2 p.m. till 8 p.m., an I a Special Service of Trains will run at frequent intervals during thxt period, calling it all intermediate Stations. The Fares between Metropolitan Stations and Stations on the Hammersmith and City Line and Kensington (Addison Road) will be as under:— ingle Journey., Return Journey Ist Class. 2d CI • ss. 3cl Class, Is. Gd. ... Is. 3d. ... Is. 28 C.I. ... 2s. Od. s. -m ETROPQLITAN AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE, WEDNESDAY, April 6. Passengers will be booked through from - Westminster Bridge, Victoria, Bronipton, South Kensington, and all intermediate Sta tions up to Paddington, to and from Hammersmith. Passengers will be required to change from the Metropolitan Company's Praed-street Station to the Paddington Station of the Great Western Railway Company, from which a Special Service of Trains will run. GUILDHALL, 24th MARCH, 1870.—The Com mittee for Letting the City's Lands will meet at Guild hall, on 'WEDNESDAY, the 13th April next, at half-past One o'clock precisely, to receive proposals for Leases in Lots of the several Houses, Nos. 8,9, 10, 12, 13, and 14, Butcher-row, and Nos. 3,4, 6' 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, and 36, Whitehorse-street, Ratcliff. A Plan of the Property may be seen, and further particulars and Forms of Tender obtained, upon application at the Architect's Office, Guildhall. FERDD. BRAND, Comptroller. THE following is the F. and DIRECTORS of th, year ensuing:— , use List of GOVERNORS ) BANK of ENGLAND for the FOR GOVERNORS. ROBERT WIGRAM CRAWFORD, Esq., Governor. GEORGE LYALL, Esq, Deputy-Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. Henry Wollaston Blake, Esq. John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Thomas Newman Hnnt, Esq. John William Birch, Esq. Charles Frederick Huth, Esq, Travers Buxton, Esq. _ Alfred Latham, Esq. Mark Wilka Collet, Esq. *William Lidderdale, James Pattison Currie, Esq. Alexander Matheson, Esq. Benjamin Buck Greene, Esq. James Morris, Esq. James Alexander Guthrie, Esq. Georg,: Warde Norman, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq. Baron Heath. - *Davie Powell, jun., Esq. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq Albert George Sandeman, Esq Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq. Christopher Weguelin, Esq. N.B. The Gentlemen against whose names an asterisk is placed aro new Candidates for the Direction. The Election for Gov rnor and Deputy-Governor will be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the sth April. and for Directors on Wednesday; the eth April, from Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon till Four in the Afternoon. 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.— Bed Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in 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 58., 78. 6d., and 15s. each, includ ing brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Mr. Toole. At 8, Second Act of HAMLET'. Air King. At 8.30, the 2d and 3d acts of PEEP 0' DAY : Mr 3. B. Howard. At 10.45, A REGULAR FIX: Mr Sothern. 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Supported, or rather seconded, as Mr. FAWCETT'S motion for the est.,blishment of undenominational education at T 1 it.ity College, Dublin, was, last evening, by the junior member for that University, its introduc'ion marked in two ways a really notable incident in the present session of Parliament. It signalized, in the first place, the acceptance by the authorities of that learned body of the great prin ciple of religious equality as implied in the English University Tests Bill of her MAJESTY'S Government. And it signalized in the second place the entrance into the parliamentary arena of an oratorical athlete, worthy of his great name and of that great assemblage. Occurring as the incident did after two of the dullest and weariest months of as dead level a session as we can very readily recall to our remembrance, it was in two senses, nothing less than refreshing. It was refreshing be cause of the delivery, at last, of a really brilliant maiden speech in this new Parliament. It was re freshing, again, because in the advocacy of a bold and comprehensive measure of innovation there were found for once, side by side, in cordial alliance, an advanced Liberal like Professor HENRY FAWCETT, and an ad vanced Conservative like the Hon. DAVID ROBERT PLUNKET_ The member for Brighton, it were need less to speak of, now, as a man of the very highest distinction. Everyone who has acquired even a moderate acquaintance with the salient peculiarities of the House of Commons during these last fiva years, is perfectly familiar with Mr. FAwcErr's antecedents. As one of the most brilliant students of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, as Seventh Wrangler in 1856, as Professor of Poli tical Economy at his University, as author of the well-known Manual of that science, as one of the keenest and shrewdest intellects in the House, Mr. FAWCETT has long since come to be thoroughly known, and, we may add also, thoroughly appre ciated. With the capabilities of Mr. PLUNKET the House and the country bad yet to become alive to in any way vividly, up to the delivery of bis maiden speech last evening in the House of Commons. It was only on the 14th of this last February, that he was for the first time returned to a seat in that House as M.P. for the University of Dublin. Already (being now in his thirty-second year) he has won his silk gown at the Irish bar, as one of her MAJESTY'S Counsel. He is the son of a BUSHE and of a PLUNKET—his mother was a BUSHE, his father was a PLUNKET• And, judging from his speech of last evening, the member for Dublin Uni versity is not unworthy of his parentage. Personally and politically, we cannot but repeat that the inci dent of yesterday was, in a twofold sense, in a remarkable degree satisfactory. PLers' Committee of Privileges have decided the Wicklow Peerage case in favour of the original claimant, and against the pretensions set up by Mrs. Howard. The judgment declares, in fact, that the the .claim of latter was nothing more than an invention, and that the parties loncerned in it were guilty of a conspiracy to palm . .ipon the world a fictitious heir to an earldom. This trial has extended to such great length ; and has pre 3ented features of such remarkable comple.x.qb that a brief review of the entire story maw not be' unacceptable.. . A .very . Strange story it The fourth Earl of Wicklow died without issue, and the title devolved upon the family of his brother, the Rev. Francis Howard. This brother had himself died during the Earl's lifetime, but he left four sons, three by a first marriage, and one by a second. The first three died, and on the supposition that they . had no children, the fourth son, he of the second marriage, claimed the title. Of course there could be no disputing this pretension, if none of the three brothers had left a son; but the wife of the eldest, Mr: William George Howard, maintained that she had been confined of a male child in May, 1864, whilst her husband was still living, and that thi.3 child was the rightful heir. There could be no question that Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Howard were legally married; it was certain that the husband was living in 1864, and. therefore the infant, if born, must be held legitimate ; and it is, of course, obvious that a child of the Rev. Francis Howard's eldest son must be preferred to the rev. gentleman's fourth son, Mr Charles Francis Howard. The only point to be settled was whether such a child had ever been born. This is the question which the Committee have decided in the negative. It was maintained on the part of Mrs. Howard that the disputed infant came into a litigious world in the house of Mr. Bloor, residing near Eaton-square in London. Here Mr. William George had lived for a short time in 1863 ; and here, so it was said, he still met his wife after they had gone to reside in a neighbouring house. Mr. W. G. Howard, who was in pecuniary difficulties, left his wife at the latter end of 1863 and never lived with her again. Mrs. Howard returned to the Bloor family, and was confined, as it was stated, at their residence on the 16th of May, 1864. This part of the story is natural enough. The dates are unimpeachable, and no improbability presents itself. But the evidence respecting the confinement is extremely conflicting. Mrs. Bloor deposed thitt she rendered assistance at the critical moment ; an& Mrs. Bloor's sister likewise in person welcomed the trouble some stranger. Mrs. Howard's sister swore that she saw the child several , times within the few months after its birth, and so did Mr. de Bordenave, a friend of the Howards, who resided in Bloor's house. On the other hand, how ever, it was shown that the pretended birth had•beon keep a profound secret. It was not announced to the world until several months after the event. The child was neither baptised nor registered. Though these three or• four persons deposed that they had seen it, several others who were about Mrs. Howard at the time knew nothing of the occurrence. A dressmaker who had waited upon the lady just previously to the confinement perceived no traces of her condition. A servant in the house was equally ignorant. Two medical men who attended Mrs. Howard at this period gave negative evidence. At the time of labour no physician, surgeon, or regular nurse was present —only Mrs. Bloor and her sister ; and though it was said that a Dr. Wilkins has seen and prescribed for the infant, this physician was dead and his doings were attested only by the evidence of the Bloors. In brief, none of the ordinary measures attendant upon the birth of a child had been taken; and the only evidence in favour of the claim was ttrat given by the four persons who were in the house. One of these, Mr. De Bordenave, vanished after one appearance before the Committee. This is what may be called the main plot of the story. But there is also an under-plot. The counsel for Mr. Charles Francis Howard not only strove to prove that no birth had taken place, but they presented evidence to show that Mrs. Howard had actually obtained a workhouse child and passed it as her own. In August 1804—three months after the supposed birth in Eaton-square—Mrs. lloward visited a workhouse in Liverpool: .xnd there obtained a newly born child from Mary Best, a pauper woman. Not fewer than three nurses swore more or less positively that such an iniquitotis bargain had been made. It was on the pro duction of this startling evidence that Mrs. Howard disappeared, and after wards refused to un dergo cross-questioning, being thereupon com mitted to the awful custody of Black Rod. More complexities presented themselves. Mary Best acknowledged under cross-exami nation that she had left the workhouse with a child which she passed off as her own; and, of course,if she retained her infant after she quitted the " house," she could not have previously sold it to Mrs. Howard. But the nurses who deposed to the bargain remained unshaken in their evidence : they still held that Maryßest's child had been taken away by a lady, that the lady was none other than Mrs. Howard, and that Mary Best could never have left the work house with ,the child, or a second child, unless they had known it. Lastly, an attempt was made to show on the other side that Mrs. Howard was in another place on the day named as that on which the workhouse bargain was struck. This mysstery has liBt been fully cleared up. What were the real transactions in connection with it remain mere matter of conjec ture. Such is the story upon which the Committee of Privileges have given judgment. Their lordships leave the second part of the story, the workhouse affair, without decision. The solution of the strange Problem is the less needful, as the first part of tho case—that relating to the birth of the child ill Eaton-Square—is quite sufficient to determine who ought to succeed to the Wicklow Peerage. The evidence respecting Mrs. Howard's confinement is so surrounded with improbabilities and contradic tions that it cannot be accepted. It is true that three persons gave direct, and in itself unimpeach able, testimony touching the birth of the child; but beyond their statements every point tells against Mrs. Howard. She was even asked by the late earl to estab lish her claim, but unaccountably neglected to do so. She destroyed all her husband's letters ; and, as we have seen, no attention was given to the precautions ordinarily adopted at a birth. Clearly, this has, been an instance of attempted imposition. If questions of such vast importance could be decided by the bare assertion of two or three persons all in communication with each other, withoit corrobora tion from surrounding circumstances, there would bo no end to fictitious infant heirs to peerages. Such frauds would be as common in real life as they are in fiction. The conspiracy was undoubtedly one of marvellous audacity. But it was marred by sheer blundering:of the most reckless charicter: Stich pro ceedings as the purchase of an infant in the presence of three nurses, sending 'for dressmakers just before flit time of the so-called confinement, and omitting to propitiate a servant in Bloor l s house, who afterwards gave_ damaging testimony, do not denote very able plotting. All the better, however, for justice. The Wicklow Peerage case will rank as one of the strangest attempts at fraud ever perpe trated. PEACE PRESERVATION IRELAND BILL. It was expecte I that the Royal Assent would be given to bill to-day, and the Lord Chancellor an I other officers were in attendance at the Eloise of Lords, Lut 'bring!' some misunderstanding the Oi:S2 of Commons d:d not assemble, and th-r,:f ore oVillg could be done but an adjournment of their lordships until Monday. Her Majesty go to her marine reskience at Isbone on the .13th inst. A Cabinet, Council was held this afternoon at the Official residence of the First Lord of the:Treasury, iu Downing-street. Lord Ailsa's RiUand of the Thi,tle will be given tv Lord Minto. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messis. DUNVILLE Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their tine old Irish whisky, is to be called "The Royal Irish istillery." • lII.GII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening SATURDAY • ' 10 min past 3 25 min past 3 SUNDAY 40 min past 3 55 min past 3 Alosu.iv 10 min past 4 24 min past 4 TUESpAY .40 min Past 4 50 min j ast 4 WEDI4ESDAY 8 min past 5 21 min past 5 THURSDAY 40 miu past 5 0 min past 6 FRIDAY., l5 min past 6 .40 min past 6 TO WN TALK. (From the Western Mail of this Morning.) LONDON, Friday Evening. The acquittal of Prince Pierre Bonaparte, the numbering of the Prime Minister and his colleagues in the minority on a division list, the lapse of the ninety-days-no-tidings of the unhappy City of Bos ton, are the incidents of the week. A telegram from Paris, announcing on Tuesday morning in London that the Emperor had signed a decree banishing his cousin from France, turned out too good to be true. The pawing out of the Court of Justice at Tours en tirely scot free (saving only the fine of 25,000 francs) —the passing out of sight scot free thus of Prince Pierre is certainly enough to infuriate and madden beyond bounds the frantic band of Irreconcileables. If the Prince should not be coolly " potted" one of these fine days by one of the sharpshooters of Red Republicanism, he will bear indeed a charmed life. Add to the hatred Of political antagonism of the dead liest kind, the bad blood engendered by the evil genius of the Vendetta among Cordcan foes, and then cal culate the chances Prince Pierre Bonaparte has, from this time. forth, of dying peacefully in his bed, say from the sheer effects of the decay of nature, years hence, when he is a very old man ! His own manner throughout the trial was anything but calculated to smooth the path for himself in the future. His scorn to a foe must have been something simply insuffer able. It had about it a good deal of that pitiless cruelty expressed in every look, word, glance, and gesture by the lap of Vandenhoff, who3e manner, on quitting the stage once, at the close of that famous scene in the fifth act of Othello, caused an unsophis ticated man I knew (who was then witnessing Van denhoff's impersonation for the first time) to spring to his feet with an irrepressible cry of " Kill him ! kill him !" There seems small hope, now, alas! for tidings of the City of Boston, the prescribed limit having run out after which the insurances are payable. The memory of its last voyage threatens to take its place in the melancholy record of the perils of the great deep side by side with the loss of the President, and with the disappearance of La Perouse, the great French navigator. Mr. Newdegate's successful motion on Tuesday evening caused no little excitement in the House of Commons itself and in its immediate precincts, the lobbies and corridors. It was to many on the left hand of Mr. Speaker a refreshing reminder that the Government supporters are not to be winners in perpetuity. A very discreditable decision, as it certainly appears to me, was arrived at the other day by the Reform Club—one of the most distinguished journalists in London having been black-balled (to the number of no less than fifty black balls), simply because of his being a distinguished journalist. Not a word is said against him, there is not the hint of an imputation all through his career—he is a man of conspicuous capacity, a man of unsullied honour, a man of educa tion, and one eminently popular among those with whom he associates—but—he is a journalist ! away with him ! taboo him ! black-ball him ! let him be ai.athema marauatha ! Many of those s'yly dropping the black ball into the black ball into the balloting box, would, five minutes or so afterwards if they chanced to stumble across their friend in Pall Mall, grasp him cordially with the very hand that had been just before stabbing at him in the dark, and on the sly ! It is the mere thought of the possibility of this that attaches a taint of the disagreeable to these social ballotings. On Tuesday afternoon I was fairly trapped. Where do you think? Under the bed of the Thames, and yet not in the Thames-tunnel. Before my letter to you can appear in print, there will have been formally opened to the public at large the very curious pipe run under the be 1 of thi river, sixty feet below the surf ice, between Tower-hill on the Middlesex side, and Vine-street on the Surrey side. Invited to a private view of the works on the day I have named, I went, and saw, and was trapped I Arriving on Tower-bill I there entered an insignificant little iron box with a roof to it the open causeway. Inside this iron box or hut is a lift with sofas where six can be seated. In 25 seconds the lift is lowered to the level of the causeway. There one finds a sort of tubular waiting-room like the inside of a large stone omnibus. At the further end of this is a doorway, through which you look owl-like into the perspective tube or pipe of the subway. In length the subway is a quarter of a mile. In diameter it is some seven feet or rather less. A carriage containing twelve persons, running on a 2ft. 6in. gauge of rail,will be drawn, henceforth, to and fro, from end to end of the tube, each pas sage through taking exactly a minute and a half, like a subterranean pendulum. The fare will be, for first . corners, 2d.; for last corners, Id. each journey. The average time, from surface to surface, from Tower hill to Vine-street, or vice versa, will be four minutes, descent, ascent, waiting, run, and altogether. Un luckily, when I got down to the subway level on Tuesday, the steel chain drawing the carriage, very soon after it started on its journey from Middle sex to Surrey, snapped ! An attendant, with the preposterous name of Punch, who was .only capable of speaking in the hoarsest stage whisper by reason of a chronic cold that seemed to speak eloquently for the unwhole some atmosphere he was doomed to breathe, en couraged us to remain, which we all did for a weary, dreary interval, until, depressed by the failure, we effected our escape. The most startling morsel of literary news this week is the announcement that on Monday, the 2d of May, the Messrs. Longman will publish a new three-voluine novel, called "Lothair," from the pen of Mr. Disraeli. Has any one, after being Prime Minister, produced an imaginative work of thiS cha racter ? I doubt it. Few have done so before calling a Government into existence ; but I doubt if any one has, ere this, done so afterwards. Whatever the theme of this new fiction by the ex-Premier, and now leader of her Majesty's Opposition, the work is cer tain to attract universal attention. If, like the majority of the fictions a'ready created by the right hon. gentleman the member for Bucks, the work should turn out to be a political novel, all the better ! That his hand is "in" as cleverly as ever in the satirical delineation of character, Mr. Disraeli showed resplendently only the other evening, when touching off, to the very life, the portraiture of Mr. Horsman, under the guise of a Superior Person. Twenty three years have elapsed since, in 1847, the pen of the novelist was thrown aside by the author of " Tan cred ;" that work itself being left incomplete. During those three-and-twenty years, the romancist has been three times leader of the House of Commons, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and has at last risen to the supreme political dignity of all, having for eleven months held the reins of power as First Lord of the Treasury. And now, after these three-and twenty years, which have been so fully occupied, the ex-Premier resumes his pen as a novelist ! What ever may be the purport of his new production, whether it be political or non-political, it is secure of winning for itself a multitude of readers in all parts of the United Kingdom, and among all classes of the population. Several tamouncanents of new works from well kn9wn writers are beginning to drop in now, very acceptab'y. A fresh vo'atme, for example, one learns with Lo lithe satisfaction, is a'mot ready to h rnd from the sh:ewdeA critic of the day—Matthew Ar nold. A new nova i 3 all but ready by Moriimer Collins. A new book of poetry—lei me hope just . a trifle purer than the " hongs and ballads"—from that unquestionable goat, Algernon Swiuburne. Though, in remembrance of his later effusions, the forthcom ing volume seems to me rather alarmingly entitled "Songs before Sunrise." Then, again, there is the announcement that Henry Vizetelly, formerly the celebrant of the world-famous story of the " Diamond Necklace," is just about to tell us all over again, but with new lights upon it by Monsieur Marius Topin, the equally world-famous story of " The Man in the Iron Mask." Talking of mysteries, I may tell you at once what you may not yet have had the opportunity of learn ing, that " The Mystery of Edwin Drool" is no mystery at . all to the readers of the story, is not intended to Le a matter of any bewilderment to them. The reader's interest in regard to it will be, throughout--watching how the mystery (kno in to . him) is eventually brought to light. A wonderful and beautiful adaptation of photo graphy to the art of wood-engraving has recently been perfected, and is certainly entitled here to par eular mention. Its advantage is peculiarly noticeable in the instance of any illustrated work of a very large circulation, such as oue of Mr. Dickens's serial stories, the average monthly issue of which has run up from 30,000 to 40,000. The artist's original drawing, even after a demand like that has been met, remains now to the very last untouched, unblurred, un smuehed in the least particular. Photographs, in point of fact, are taken from the original drawing —photo graphic facsimiles are taken on the sensitized super ficies (carefully prepared, of course, to that end before hand) of the very box-wood block that is going to be engraved. Any number of the prepared boxwood blocks may be photographed thus with facsimiles of the original drawing, and engraved afterwards ; and, by this means, any demand—eVen the demand of Charles Dickens's readers—may be readily met. Not, as of old, by worn-out impressions, but by im pressions as clear and crisp in every outline as - the proof first printed. T. W. Robertson's accepted play at the Prince of Wales's " M.P." reminds one of Charles Lamb's abortive farce of " Mr. H.," and of that deliciously ridiculous story that is told of Charles Lamb about it—namely, that he went on the first night to witness its exp:cted triumph, bat that, as the farce proceeded, it proved to be so unmistakeably and execrably bad that Charles Lamb himself was at last one of the very loudest in hissing, until it was finally damned. A treat of an exceptional kind may be looked for ward to to-morrow week at the PI incess's Theatre, where, on his passage from the Prince of Wales's to the Vaudeville, Mr. H. J. Montague will take his benefit, enacting himself not only Captain Dudley Smooth, but (for the first time) Romeo. Two admirably selected subjects wi.l be found at this next Academy Exhibition to have engaged the attention of those well-matched artists, Mrs. E. M. Ward and Mr. E. M. Ward, the Royal Academician. The former has chosen a theme that might for once attach a pathetic significance to the cry of Vice La Bagatelle ; the incident pourtrayed being an inter view, at La Bagatelle, between the ex-Empress Josephine and the little King of Rome ; in the presence of the great Napoleon. Mr. E. M. Ward's chief-d'ceuvre .this year (for he will have three contri butions to the gallery, among which we may, there fore, make this distinction) will be a picture of the infamous Judge Jeffries browbeating Baxter, of the " Saint's Rest," during his trial in Westminster-hall, through the open window of which (a picture within a picture) Titus Oates is seen standing in the pillory in Palace-yard. Three private views are before me for to-morrow, to wit, the sixth exhibition of water-colour drawings, at Mr. Arthur Tcoth's gallery in the Haymarket, the seventeenth annual exhibition of the French and Flemish schools, at 120, Pall-mall, and the new spring exhibition of the society of British aitit,ts, in Suffolk-street, the late president of which, Mr. Hurlstone, expired since the gallery was opened to public view last season. A mcre fitting successor could not possibly be found for the post of president than the vice-president of the society for some years past, meaning. Mr. J. J. Hil►, the painter of " Rus:ic Beauties," and similar 1 ictui es of English rural life. In a private gallery in Nev Bond-street there is at present on view, for a thief inter►al, the now his torical portrait of her Majesty the Queen, painted for Mr. Peabody, and presented to him by the Soya re: (ru. DEI7, , a - Th r Atfia4.-' 24 0 , Clint " ! e V- 4lf TIER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 1. The Queen, accompanied by her. Royal High nesses Princess Louise, went to London, and paid a visit of condolence to the Hon, Mrs. Grey at St. James's Palace. The Princess of Wales drove out yez,tel day. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTE it's TELEGRAMS.) PORTUGAL. LISBON, April 1. The King, in opening the Cortes yesterday, an nounced that a proposal for the reform of the House of Peers would be brought forward, and that the best attention of the Ministry would be given to the grave state of the public finances. SPAIN. MADRID, April 1. In to day's sitting of the Cortes Senor Rivero promised to reply to-morrow to Senor Figuera's interpellation on the present crisis. The House is occupied with the discussion of the Election Bill. A split has taken place in the Republican party on account of the Socialistic tendencies of some of the members, who propose, that a manifesto should be published urging the formation of a Federal Assembly, whereby great autonomy would be ac corded to the provinces. FRANCE. BOURSE, April I.—Three o'clock—The mark closed as follows : 41 per Cent. 3 per Cents 73 85 End of month 74 05 Credit Mobilier 277 50 Transatlantic 195 Credit Fancier 1297 50 Paris Gas 4815 Suez Canal 295 RAILWAYS Orleans . Western . Bank Shares 2BlO Italan r ives 55 80 Austrian Fives 66 50 Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 47 50 Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred — Northern. Cash 1015 650 1194 Strasburg Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6261 541 808" 48?„-1,- Sardinian Austrian . Lombard. North of Spain Saragossa Roman AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Apiil 1. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 111} ; the highest quotation during the day was 1111 ; the lowest, 111}. Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1885 1867 1061 140} 25 221 e 260,- Corn—Old 10-40 Illinois . Erie ... Cotton—Mid. upland ••• Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra State, $1 50c. to $5 10c. mixed, $1 7c, SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sm,—ln a review upon the late Sir William Hamilton, of Edinburgh, published in the Edinburgh Review, for January, 1870, I find the following pas sage :—" So toleraLt.was Sir W. of all opinions that I may say Phrenology was the only doctrine he could not tolerate. He had studied it with care, and mastered very completely the anatomy of the bi result was, he bad come to look on Phrenology as a mischievous humbug." However, notwithstand ing this dictum, Sir W. stated, "Before you set aside the science of the mesmerist, you ought to read the evidence in favour given by all the gr:atest autho rities in Germany." 1 believe that your neighbour, Dr. Donovan, would suggest that this charitable opinion should have been extended to phrenological science also, according to the evidence of Mr. George Combo and of others. A notable instance of its verity has occurred, recently, in the case of the miserable criminal Mobbs, executed for murder. The critic in the Edinburgh Review proceeds to state, " This comprehensive method of inquiry brought him deep into the literature of witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, alchemy, astrology, and all the o!d superstitious sciences, of which there are, we suppose, no living devotees." Posibly the wish in this in stance may have originated the opinion ; but so far as phrenology and astrological science are concerned, it is an erroneous opinion, even as far as Britain is concerned, and still more so with respect to America, as I have shown, and as I could prove, if called upon to do so, clearly. A notable instance of the truth of the old astrological principle is now before the world,. with respect to Spain and Ireland, influenced, or supposed to be so, resp2ctively by the signs Sagittarius and Taurus. In the former case the planet Saturn, true to his character, is causing woe, as astrologists maintain, and will do so even more until the end of this year; while the " benefit Jove," long in Taurus and not leaving it until June, -will leave behind him a mark of improvement and peace, secular and religious.—l am, Sir, yours obediently, CHR. COOKE. London, 30th March, 1870. DISAPPEARANCE AT SANDRINGHANt Some excitement has been caused by Mr. Partridge, the agent of Mr. Le Strange, of Hunstanton Hall, and of Mr. Lee Warner, of Walsingham Abbey, mysteriously disappearing with his books and papers. Rear-Admiral Lord Frederick Kerr and five more captains Lave applied for permission to retire. The installation of the Marquis of Salisbury as Chancellor at Oxford will take place at the encomia, or commemoration of founders and benefactors, which falls this year on Tune 22. The Hanging Committee of the forthcoming Royal Academy Exhibition will consist of Messrs. C. Landseer in the place of Mr. Sant (as formerly announced), Hook, and Elmore. Captain Seymour, having been promoted to flag rank, will have to vacate the post of private secretary to the First Lord. The Court Circular says that the Adelphi Theatre will shortly be closed for complete internal structural alteration. M. Felix will commence his fourth season of French plays on Wednesday, April 20, at the Princess's T heatre. The Army and Navy Gazette hears it credibly stated that the Treasury has never had any application before it for the increhse of the Generals' List, and con - sequvntly it has not decided against the making of the forty five now generals, as recommended, in order to compensate officers for supersession. LITERAT !JAE. Mistletoe Grange; A Royal Road to Wrinkles. • Charlton Tucker. " There is no royal road to Learning," says the adage, but another adage, equally correct, reminds us " that there is no rule without exception ;" and here we take it, is the exception to the time-honoured dis claimer of the Roy,d Road. A sprightly damsel, of the name of Cissy (we do not think her surname is ever mentione I, by the way), and her very learned brother George, and her governess Miss Starch, and a very good-natured paterfamilias are the inha bitants of Mistletoe Grange ; and very happy times they pass there; and very happy and profitable hours the young readers of their history may pass in their merry companionship. At one time, when Cissy and George are out in the paddock with their pet pony, Dandy Dumpling, George instructs his sister in all the mysteries of the horse, giving, among other things, the following prescription in favour of a black-legged steed— ,' 4 white legs—touch him not at all. 3 white legs—t a k e care he does no t f a ll . 2 white legs —sp are him to a friend. 1 white leg —he'll serve you to the end." On another occasion, Cissy in saying her geography to Miss Starch, and like a mischievous madcap, as she is, the cunning pupil finds a ridiculous answer for almost every serious question. Thus, she affirms that the chief town in Switzerland is called Berne to warm the people among the snowy mountains. Her wits are wool-gathering when the capital of Prussia is asked for, and War saw she considers to be rightly named, because the people there saw so much war, and so on all over the Continent ! Many of the jokes are necessarily somewhat overstrained and far-fetched, but, on the whole, Cissy and her lessons will afford considerable amusement, and may fix many morsels of knowledge in subtle comers of the memory. We are next introduced :to certa'n " Dairy Doings,* in which George, as an amateur farmer, evinces con siderable skill ; the mysteries of butter making are triumphantly exhibited, and a delicious pat of actual butter is the result ! After "fur ther farming " and the " four-horse cistern," we take part in a merry children's party, and listen to Ghost Story and Fairy Tale. A balloon, very fortunately, selects as its place of descent the big meadow of Mistletoe Grange, and initiates the children in aeronautic mysteries. Later on Cissy gives a ridiculous travestie of the history of England, and in the final chapter, £ s. d., aspires to understand the mysteries of the currency. The happiest result of an investigation into the adulteration of metals, is the startlingdiscovery that" unalloyed happiness" m eans " happiness that has nothing to do with tin I" And so we take leave of Miss Cissy, commending her and her lively badinage to the consideration of our youthful friends, who may in her companionship ac quire " wrinkles" before they are entitled to them in the order of naturo. Ti.e little volume of " Mis tletoe Grange," it is only fair to the publisher that we should add, is very charmingly " got up," a-id very daintily adori.ed. READING AT MEALS.--The Journal des Commis sances Medicales says that there are still certain convents and similar communities where reading aloud during meals is a daily practice. This is objectionable on• the ground of health. No one can both eat and pay serious attention to what may be read to him. If he chews his food well, his mind wanders from the subject expounded, in order to concentrate itself especially on this first act of digestion ; If, on the contrary, he listens attentively to the reading, he bolts his food, and it goes down to the stomach insuffi ciently impregnated with saliva, and this is a frequent ::ause of dyspepsia, a - -