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Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHT. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER THIS EVENING. at Seven, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THINT: Messrs R. Phillips and Ashley; Miss Marla and Miss Nelly Harris. After which, at 15 to 8, THE PROMPTER'S BOX: a Story of the Footlights and the Fireside. Mr Benjamin Webster, Mr H. J. Byron. Mr J. D. Beveridge, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Stuart, Mr J. G. Taylor, Mr C. J. Smith, Mr Ashley, Mr W. Eburne, Miss Furtado, Mrs L. Murray, and Mrs Alfred %iellon. To be followed by MY PRECIOUS BETSY: Mr J. G. Taylor and Miss Eliza Johnstone. _ _ Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs Mansell). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, SAMPSON'S WEDDING. After which. at 8, LITTLE FAUST: Mr T. Maclagan, M. Marius, Ur Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr Wilmot; Mdlle. 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THE LATE EDITION o f " THE SUN " at Mr. BEAUMONT'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street. Strand. THE SUN.—LATEST EDITION to be seen every Evening, at Eight o'clock, at Mr. GuxmAN's, " The Wheatsheaf," High-street, Camden-town. , , t r :4 - 7 ea - 4 • ; 1 1 4.11, such a duty ; that men who did not hesitate to starve the bodies of the poor at the risk of being tried for manslaughter, should be called upon to feed the mind when neglect would involve no such risk. We forgave Mr. Forster because the proposal was meant to be a pis alter. But his opponents would make this remedy in the last resort the regular and only course. We have spoken of the political Dissenters. There are Dissenters who are not political, and who are taking no part in the agitation against the Education Bill. There are men like Mr. Baines, who certainly have no love for the Church, but who are honest ence.igh to confess that the religious difficulty has no existence, or if it has, that it can be met by the con science clause. They sympathised with Mr. Forster when he spoke of the old Puritan blood coursing through his veins making him rebel against the exclusion of religion from the Bill. They sympa thised with him when he declared that he would never get out of the religious difficulty by making an irreligious difficulty. The question now is if these moderate men are sufficiently strong in numbers and in influence to enable the Government to stand its ground. If so, all may be well. If not we see grave political complications, involving far more serious danger to the Liberal party than that which arose on the Reform Bill four years ago. Her Majesty and the Royal Family will arrivb at Windsor Castle on Wednesday next. Preparations are being made for their reception. Prince Arthur will attain his 20th year to-morrow. Ho was born on the Ist of May, 1850, and entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1867. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales honoured the performance at the Prince of Wales's theatre with their presence last evening. It is said to be the intention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to throw over his plan for equalising, or ratber of increasing, the taxation of railways. It is rumoured that her Majesty's Theatre is to be converted into a home for tragedy and the legitimate drama, and that Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Herman Vezin, and others among our best tragedians, have been communicated with respecting a scheme the details of which are not yet settled. Miss Louisa Laidlaw, formerly of the Princess's, Lyceum, and Adelphi Theatres, died a few days ago of consumption. Gouuod is at present suffering from a painful but temporary affection of the hand, which (says the Musical Standard) prevents his finishing a new work on which he is engaged. _ Air. Charles Wright, Treasurer of the Haymarket Theatre, announces his benefit for Wednesday night, when " Barwise's Book" will be performed, with other entertain ments. A telegram from Alexandria announces that a new palace at Ramleh, near that city, which has just been con structed for the Khedive at a cost of about £200,000, has been entirely destroyed by fire. ACCIDENT ON A RACECOURSE.—Yesterday Cap tain Herbert of the 9th Lancers sustained a heavy fall while riding in the regimental races at Aylesbury. Mr. Alfred Cooper, surgeon, of Jermyn-street, was sent for, and it was found that the injuries sustained by the gallant officer were not of a dangerous nature. The Army and Navy Gazette thinks that Lieu tenant-General Lord Frederick Paulet, C. 8., is not unlikely shortly to be offered a command. Rear-Admirals Sir William S. Wiseman, Bart., K. 0.8., and John Bourmaster Dickson, it is stated, have signified their desire to the A dmiralty to be permitted to retire under the new scale. FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS. —At twenty minutes to twelve o'clock last night a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. John Hill, a furniture dealer and shop-fitting manu facturer in the New-cut, four doors on the east side of the Victoria Theatre. The premises were speedily destroyed. The scene in New-cut was of a most distressing character. Several of the small houses caught fire on the roof, and the poor occupants were throwing their scanty stock of goods out of the windows into the streets. A fire also took place in Tottenham-court-road last night on the premises of Messrs. Heal and Sons, upholsterers. A large amount of property had been saved. Fortunately, the front ware houses were saved News of a murder is brought by the West African Mail. Oko Jumbo had surprised one of Jah Jah's canoes and murdered the whole crew, numbering 40. The Bucks Militia, which has its head-quarters at High Wycombe, is not to be called out for training this spring, in consequence of the prevalence of small-pox in the town. There has been some sharp discussion in the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture upon the subject of the Game Laws, and the general feeling appears to be against the Lord Advocate's bill. Two persons baye been fined at Edinburgh police court, for working locomotives on a public highway, with out having taken the precaution to send a man with a flag sixty yards in front to warn the persons by. Mr. W. J. Lovesey bas been appointed by the Lord Chancellor as stipendiary magistrate for the Borough of Sheffield, in compliance with the petition of the Shef field Town Council. The Scotttish metrical version of the Psalms was composed, it seems, by an Englishman, one Francis Rouse, son of Sir Anthony Rouse, who was one of the lay commissioners to the Westminster Assembly. At Liverpool last night, John Singleton, a sailor, in a drunken fit attacked his mother-in-law with a razor, and dangerously wounded her. He was taken to Bride well, and there committed suicide by hanging himself. • A. Roman despatch says that the Pope, in con formity with the unanimous opinion of the Congregation of Cardinals, has resolved not to communicatd the French Note to the Council. The Scotsman says :—" It is now no secret that the memorandum reverting severely on the Greek Govern ment, which appeared in the metropolitan papers on Tuesday, was from the pen of Lord Carnarvon." Mr. G. Vivian Poore, M.D. London, M.R.C.P., been appointed private medical attendant to Prince Leopold, whose health (says the Lancet) requires close medical supervision. • • •- Sir George O'Donnell intends to contest the county of Mayo on Nationalist princfples. A county meeting will be held on Wednesday next to select the candidate of the Liberal party. - - A requisition is being signed in the county of Mayo, requesting Colonel Ouseley Higgins, now staying at Genoa, to become a candidate for the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. G. H. Moore. Lord Mahon, son of the Earl of Stanhope, and the unsuccessful opponent of Mr. Gladstone at Greenwich, will probably be invited to contest East Suffolk against Sir Shafto Adair. Lord Mahon was prepared to stand in the Conservative interest for Norwich. Two of her Majesty's' judges have consented to preside next week at religious meetings—namely, Mr. Baron Pigott at a public anniversary of the Baptists in. Regent's Park, and Mr. Justice Lush at a meeting in con nection with the same body on Wednesday. Intelligence from Cuba has been received at New York that the Spanish volunteers are in a state of mutiny, snd that Count Valmesada refused to obey the orders of Senor Caballero de Bodas, Captain-General of the island. A large number of graduates of Dublin University held an indignation meeting yesterday. Resolutions dis approving of the recent memorial to Government in favour of the opening of Trinity College to all creeds were passed unanimously. The subscriptions to the fund for defraying the costs of the projected inquiry upon sewage utilisation by a committee of the British Association amount now to upwards of £1,200. The committee will begin their in vestigation forthwith. The Weekly Register has authority for stating that after the dogma of infallibility has been promuigatecl, there will still be work enough to detain the Council another year in Rome. Archbishop Manning is expected home in the first week of July. - -• The Rev. W. Tlornby, M.A., vicar of St. Michael's in the Fylde of Lancashire honorary canon and rural dean, has been appointed by the Bishop of Manchester to the archdeaconry of Lancaster. Canon Hornby is cousin to the late Earl of Derby. Experiments made to ascertain what colours are, most quickly and easily perceived by the eye seem to chew that bright yellow is the colour most easily disting guished, and is therefore suggested for railway signals.— Photographic News. The agent of Lord Ormthwaite's estate, in county Kerry, Mr. George Sandes, whose sub-agent was fired at some few weeks since, dare not leave his residence with ont a body guard of constabulary. Mr. Sandes has re ceived several threatening letters within the last few days. The Merchant Shipping Code, after being read a second time, will be withdrawn, and, it is said, Mr. Plim. soli will move for leave to bring in a bill to provide for the inspection of all unclassed ships, and to enforce the adoption of a maximum load line to be painted outside the vessels. Dr. Hardwicke, the medical officer of health for Paddington, has instituted proceedings in four cases of neglect of vaccination ; and Mr. Mansfield, the Maryle bone magistrate, in adjudicating upon the cases, expressed himself strongly against the ignorance and obstinacy which.hindered the effective tveration,9f the Act. ffr * 1 7 , - 7 Czairt . lir LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, April 29, Evening. M. Lermina, one of the persons arrested yester day at the meeting held in the Theatre des Folks Bergeres, delivered in the course of his address to the meeting a long indictment against the Emperor. He demanded that sentence of death should be passed upon his Majesty, but, considering that the Republic had abolished capital punishment, be pro posed that the penalty should be commuted into penal servitude for life. This tirade was frantically applauded by the audience. A rumour was current to-day on the Bourie that an attempt had been made to assassinate the Emperor, but the report is entirely unfounded. M. Jules Favre has written a letter to M. Grevy, in which he announces his adhe sion to the manifesto of the Left. The French clergy support the Plebiscite. PARIS, April 30. The Bishops of Arras and Annecy have addressed a circular to the clergy in their dioceses in favour of the forthcoming Plebiscite. BOURSE, April 29.—Three o'clock—The mark e closed as follows : per Cent. 3 per Cents 74 10 End of month 74 Credit Mobilier 235 Transatlantic l9B 75 Oredit Foncier 1295 Paris Gas 1675 Suez Canal 3OO Orleans RAILWAY Bank Shares 2820 Ital'an Fives 56 65 Austrian Fives - Ottoman Loan Do. Debt — Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred — Cash 975 .Nept;r - n 1 6 38 51 0 f Northern ... Strasburg . 616; uyons and Mediterranean Southern-- 6OB Sardinian ____ Austrian Lombard 7921 400 North of Spain Saragossa Roman ITALY. FLORENCE, April 29. The Chamber of Deputies bas approved the esti mates for the Ministry of Justice. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 29. The Sultan, upon receiving the annual report of the Council of State yesterday, expressed his satis faction at the work performed by the members, and added that progress in the various provinces of the country had never been more conspicuous. _ _ His Majesty stated further, that the relations with the Allied Powers bad become more and more friendly, in proof of which he referred to the recent visits of foreign Sovereigns and Princes. The Sultan directed the attention of his Govern ment to the construction of railways and roads, and also of fortifications in accordance with the require ments of the empire. His Majesty also urged the establishment of rural banks, model farms, and an improved organisation of the navy and army. INDIA. CALCUTTA, April 28, Evening. The Friend of India reports a serious rising at Ulwar, in Rajpootana, where 2,000 Thakoors and their followers have rebelled against their Chief. BOMBAY, April 29, 6.39 p.m. The Delhi Gazette of to-day understands, upon reliable authority, that the Black Mouutain tribes have renewed their raids at Agrore. AMERICA. (By Cable). NEW YORK, April 29. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1151 ; the highest quotation during the day sas 1151; the lowest, 1141. . Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1885 a, 1867 10-40 „ Illinois Erie 23i Cotton—Mid. upland 23lc Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra State, $4 70c. to $5 30c. Corn—Old mixed, $1 16c, According to Messrs. Moffat, Davidis, and Co.'s report the week's receipts of,cotton have been 50,625 bales, and since the Ist of September, 2,590,000 bales. Shipments to England, 27,750 bales ; to France, 5,000 bales ; and to the Continent, 3,000 bales ; and since tho Ist of September, 1,755,000 bales. Stock at all ports, 347,000 bales. Middling Upland, 10d. cost and freight per steamer. LADVEBNIsEMENT. Consumption, a,nd all nervous bilious, stomach, nal liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and acc3l3rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Dir BARRY'S health-restoring Revalenta Arabic& Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsial, cough. asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner vonsiless, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, s pasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti .htness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a f e w: -The Pope's health restored by Du parry's Food. Cure No 68,413 —" Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica, Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 2s. Cure No. 46,270.—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, 6urrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cure N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford. of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,83 "Fifty years' indescrib able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, cdu stipation, flatulency, spasins, sickness, and vomiting.— Maria Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. 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Evening SATURDAY .. 10 Min past 2 24 min past 2 SUNDAY .38 min past 2 52 min oast 2 MONDAY 10 min past 3 26 min past 3 TUESDAY 40 min past 3 56 min past 3 WEDNESDAY lO min past 4 28 min past 4 THURSDAY......... 44 miu past 4 0 min past 5 FRIDAY.. l7 min past 5 ... ..... 38 min past 5 TOWN TALK. (From the Western Mail of this Morning.) LONDON, Friday Evening. I cannot recall to recollection any Session of Par- liament when the House of Commons, on resuming its labours after the Easter holidays, woke to the realisation of the fact of so very little (virtually nothing) having yet been accomplished in the way of practical legislation. There was a half-expressed acknowledgment of this in that rallying crack of the Treasury Whip, the note addressed to the Liberal members by the three G's—it sounds like some ab surd match to the three R's, or the three K's of Sir William Curtis— G. G. Glyn, the hon. member for Shaftesbury, the absurdity of the thing being this, that a whole quarter (actually one moiety of the session) has thus been allowed to run out, with a Government in full and undisputed possession of the field, backed by an overwhelming majority, led by a cluster of administrators arrogating to themselves the character of working statesmen, and having at their head a Prime Minister who has, beyond any doubt, all through his career, shown himself to be a very glutton of parliamentary labour. Yet, granted all this, there still glared upon the recognition of everyone, on the re-assembling of the Houses on Monday last, that we had all come within sight of the close of April, and that nothing, literally nothing, had as yet been done. It bears somewhat the aspect certainly of an anti-climax--even of a fiasco. But then, the strong Ministry are, at last, put upon their metal. They will now have to. make up for lost time by pulling, as Pat says, " with a will and a half." With the Irish Land Bill to begin with, they must contrive to make head-way some how. The rest will be seen to afterwards as best may be, in due sequence. As yet their most telling hit is felt to be the Budget, but many of the sions of that bill remain to be carried out. The sanguinary brigandage of Greece has, within these last few days, rendered that of Italy mild and exemplary by comparison. The disastrous telegram that ushered in the week made all London aghast and horror-stricken. The massacre was 'so wanton, so ruthless, and so wholly unanticipated. Perhaps nothing could realise to Western Europe in any way as vividly as an atrocious incident like this, the widely different stage attained, here and there, in the matter of civilisation. In order to bring ourselves to the same level with the lieges of King George of Athens, we should have to go back far beyond the period of Dick Turpin or of Claude Duval, who were gallant gentlemen of the road, compared to these pitiless and ruffianly cut-throats in the neighbour hood of the violet-crowned Acropolis. Quite ob viously the Government is in a large degree respon sible for this deplorable catastrophe. Horror on horror ! For, simultaneously with these tidings of atrocious bloodshed, partly at Athens, partly at Thebes, there came from St. Petersburg, the full particulars of one of the most ghastly and sickening murders that has for a long while past been anywhere perpetrated. The poisoning, strangling, and bludgeoning to death of a debauched old noble man, whose dying agonies were drowned by the squalling and strumming on an old piano of one of the abandoned women who was thus, one hardly knows whether to say actively or passively, an ac complice ! The victim's murdered remains being afterwardsstowed away--with the buckled strap still tight about the neck—in a gaudy, bran-new, yellow leather portmanteau. As in the instance of Thurtell and Ware, or of O'Connor and the Mannings, vic tim and murderers appear to have been about equally disreputable. The fact being so, however, only seems, somehow, to enhance, instead of in any way mitigating, the horror excited by these exceptional kind of atrocities. Napoleon's appeal once more to the Plebiscitum is surely in no possible respect to be wondered at. Antieus-like, he has always gained strength from touching what one may call his mother earth—De mocracy. Thrice already his name has drawn in creasing numbers frOm;the urn of the ballot. As president of the 11th of December, 1848, he gained affirmative votes to the number of 5,587,759. As president for ten years he had the coup d'etat con doned on the 2d of December, 1851, by 7,473,431; while as emperor he was proclaimed by 7,824,189 voices. One very curious calculation was made on first counting the votes upon the second of those three occasions. The aggregate numbers for and - against, when first written out carelessly on a slip of paper, stood by mistake thus :- 7559795 15559. the pros being divided from the cons by a longitu dinal bar. Accidentally glanced at from the back, the numerals as seen through the slip of paper re vealed in myatical characters the word " Empereur." If you have any doubt upon the matter try it ! The whole was based upon a miscalculation. But in less than a year afterwards the word came out more clearly than ever by nearly eight million votes. These votes have been always so consistently on the cres cendo with Napoleon 111., that upon the Bth proximo, I rather anticipate that the grand aggregate of his supporters will, for the first time, even exceed the astounding total he has twice so nearly approached, of 8,000,000. Whence possibly can come these absurdly un founded rumours in regard to her Majesty the Queen? Only a very little time ago it was distinctly and cir cumstantially announced that her Majesty was again going to be married. And now again—even more distinctly and more circumstantially—another gobe mouche has affrighted the Queen's lieges by an account of the perilous hazard run by the Sovereign and the Princess of Wales together, when pursued in an open carriage by a rampant runaway waggon, the whole incident, from beginning to end, being utterly without foundation. Victor Emmanuel has again been seriously indis posed, as Bismarck has been likewise, though the two are already pronounced once more convalescent. There is a talk still of Spain finding her King at last in old Baldomero Espartere. A selection like that, however, would be the merest temporary settlement of a long-continued difficulty. The literary event of the hour, to which everyone is looking forward with the most eager expectation is, as a matter of course, the publication of the new three-volume novel of " Lothair," by the ex-Pre mier on Monday. Mr. Disraeli's early appearance on the front bench of the Opposition, on the reassem bling of the House qn Monday last, had a double significance—implying that he was well rid of his last proof sheets, and that he was well rid, also, of his recent indisposition. Whether the character of " Lothair" be drawn satirically from the life or not—whatever sarcasm there may be in the delinea tion of it—one may feel perfectly certain before hand it will not - Want in finish. A monster benefit in a bijou theatre ! What do you say to that ? Something of the kind is really being accomplished, and, I am glad to add, under the happiest auspices, here in Loudon, clown Soho way. Yes, there at what was once Miss Kelly's Theatre, now known, and very popularly know n too, as the Royalty, Miss Oliver, the manageress, is taking her own benefit—as Alexander Dumas, pore, used to run out his monster dramas in fifteen acts— over three nights in succession, last night, to-night, and to-morrow. Not a Bumble in London is there to be horrified by this latest instance of Oliver asking for more. The regret is that she has not gone in for a whole week by preference. And the remark is, that if she had, every night would have been a bumper. The dramatic event of the week is the sixth triumph just now won at the Prince of Wales's by Mr. T. W. Robertson. Tbe purely domestic drama of nowadays is what Mr. Robertson has all along gone in for. And hitherto with the happiest have results. His productions in this way been the very making of the Prince of Wales's Theatre itself, of its radiant little company of comedians, and of the author's own brilliant and now securely established reputation. In regard to that one house, be has indulged himself during these last five years with one little superficial eccentricity—the laconic, often monosyllabic titles of his pieces there p r oduced. " Society" came first, then " Qurs," then " Caste,'' then " Play," then " School," and now—not even one word—two letters, " M.P." The bit this time has again been unmistakable. And the effect of the success was perfected when Miss Marie Wilton (Mrs' Bancroft), the manageress, while apologising at the close of the new play for the non-appearance of the author before bis delighted audience by reason of his still severe indisposition, intimated that she had sent him tidings of the growing success at the end of each act, and would now cap the climax of all by news of the final verdict. Two or three weeks ago I told you of the comple tion of a new novel by that very original and bril liant writer, Mr. George Meredith, and of the pro bability of its speedy publication. The intimation, I now see, is repeated by the A thenteum. I may add here, however, in regard to it, that this novel will be published by - Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., though, I believe, it is still undecided whether it is to be issued from the press altogether in three volumes, or piecemeal, and illustrated, in the pages of the Cornhill. . _ At the last meeting of the Royal society, lu Burlington House, Piccadilly, a wonderful contri vance was exhibited by Mr. Cromwell Varlet', the civil engineer—a contrivance by which, to the astonishment and delight of the assemble d philosophers, the phenomena of a comet's tail, and of the streamers of the aurora borealis, were repro duced in miniature. All the artist world of London, and a great part of the literary-world of London as well, i 3 grieving over the death of one of the most gifted of English painters, in his old home in Cheyne-walk, Chelsea; one who ought, long since, to have been Sir Daniel Maclise, and who might, years since, had he e 0 pleased, have been President of the Royal Academy, instead of being simply—what he certainly was- 00 of the greatest of the Royal Academicians. THE THEATRES, &c. HAYMARKET—At Seven. No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book. And My Husband's Ghost. PRINCE OF WALES'S—At 7.30, Quite by Accident M.P. Dearest Mamma. LYCEUM—At 7.30, Sampson's Wedding. Little., Ist. ADELPHL—At Seven, Too Much of a Good Thing,. The Promp ter's Box. My Precious Betsy. OLYMPIC---At Seven, Frou Frou The 'Varsity Boat Race, My Turn Next. GAIETY—At Seven, The Happy Village. Lucky Friday. The Princess of Trebizonde. QuzGri's—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown. STRAND—At Seven, Widow's Weeds. Sir George and a Dragon. A Fish Out of Water VAUDEVILLE—For Love or Money. Don Carlos. Cupboard Love ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Frou. La Belle Sauvage. GLOBE—At Seven, Milky White. Robert Macaire. Vandyke Brown. WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Picca dilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at 8; Saturday Mont ings at 3. Admission, ls, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. MADAME TussAtm's ExmurrioN, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 5.30 p.m:, and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra rooms, 6d. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park Open daily(except Sundays) Admission. ls.• on M'ndays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1870. IT will be a Thrtunate thing for the Liberal party if Mr. Forster's bill has rio worse consequence than deferring the settlement of the education question until next year. This in itself would be no light misfortune. The fact that we are in this matter behind most other nations which are behind us in other points denoting progress in civilisation, is a serious re proach to us. There are indications that this re proach will not be removed for some time to come, that the Government measure may lead to a disruption of the Liberal party, and an indefinite postponement of the great work of a thorough and complete system of national education. The opposi tion to Mr. Forster's bill is unfortunately by no means confined to points of detail. It is directed against fundamental principles, it is based upon an inveterate antagonism to that portion of the com munity which hitherto has almost alone conducted the education of the working classes in England. In England national education has been considered a religious duty. Therefore, until lately, only those persons who have acknowledged religious obligations have undertaken it. Political economy has, however, at last overtaken religion, and the politician, no less than the theologian, now admits the duty of the community to see that every class is educated. No one could do otherwise than rejoice at the result. But, unhappily, the politician pure and simple, who has little respect for religion, seeks to reap where he has not sown, and to gather where he has not strawed. He would not only compete with his pre decessors on equal terms, but he would exclude them from the course. It is impossible not to recognise this fact in looking over the list of amendments to the Education Bill which have been placed upon the notice paper of the House of Commons by the advanced Liberals. Men like Sir Charles Dilke, Mr, Dixon, and Mr. Hibbert, are unmistakeably Secu larists, and their object is not to protect children from what their parents would consider false religious teaching, but to forbid raligious teaching altogether. It is to this end that all their proposals directly or indirectly tend. This is what they are thinking of, not only when dealing with the conscience clause, but also when urging that the year of grace during which a district may provide itself with a voluntary school shall be withdrawn, and that the existing denominational schools shall be made free. Once deprive the denominational schools of their sub scriptions and their school-pence, and they must be dependent upon the rates, and if dependent upon the rates, it is hoped that the ratepayers will forbid all religious instruction because they will not be able to agree upon any. In other words the whole of the existing machinery is to be destroyed in order to satisfy the secularist antipathy to religion. The large sum derived from the children's pence, the other large sum derived from the voluntary sub scriptions of the parson, the squire, and their friends, are to be surrendered for this object. Working-class parents are to have their sense of independence and self-respect destroyed for this object. For this object the class which now finds it a heavy burden to pay for the education of its own children is to be called upon to pay for the education of the class just below it. In fact for this object there is to be a complete revolution. Will the Secularists succeed ? That depends upon the course taken by the English Dissenters. Hitherto many of them have allowed themselves to be tools in the hands of Secularists. They do not, indeed, go so far as to say that there shall be no religious teaching, but fearing that Churchmen will vntinue to keep the lead in education, and that therefore the more religious teaching there is the more distinctively Church it will be, they have determined to reduce the amount to a minimum. The Bible is to be read without note or comment, as though that would be of any benefit to those who heard it. It is easy enough to test this by examining the children in a school where the Bible lesson has been badly and mechanically taught. The answers will shew how utterly the children have failed to comprehend even where there has been some sort of ex planation. How can we hope for a better result where there has been no explanation ? A. conscience clause would meet all real difficulty in the matter, or at the utmost it might be provided (as Mr. Jacob Bright proposes) that nu religious catechism or formulary shall be taught. But this does not satisfy that class of Dissenters whose dis sent is political rather than religious, who grudge the Church its social status rather than disapprove of its dogmas. No regard is paid to the fact that the clergy in acceding to the conscience clause have made a great concession. They get no thanks for their liberality in allowing this provision to be in force in schools which they have built with the intention of giving Church teaching. It is but very recently that they have yielded this point, but there has been no answering spirit of good-will. Rather, surrender of the point has encouraged those outside the Church to demand surrender of all, Henceforth, if the Secularists and the political Dis senters can prevail, not only Dissenting, but also Church children will be denied religious instruc tion in schools built by religious men, and which they certainly would not have built if they had supposed that any such veto as this would have been placed upon what they deem a most important part of edu cation. To shew the length to which these allies would go we have only to point to the amendments whereby efficient schools now supported by voluntary subscriptions would be converted into rate-sup ported schools. Secularists and political Dissenters would actually prefer to entrust vestries and boards of guardians with the education of the working classes than to entrust the clergy and the gentry. The fault of the latter has been too much zeal. It is not a fault which the vestrymen and guardians are likely to commit. The one weak point of Mr. Forster's bill was that such nersons should he commissioned with TIER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, April 29. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty walked out this morning, accompa nied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise. Princess Beatrice also went out. The Prince of Wales rode out, attended by Major Grey, yesterday. LOCAL TAXATION. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY. The select committee upon local taxation resumed the" inquiry this afternoon, the Right Hon. Mr. Goschen in the chair. Mr. C. Grey Grey, of Hexham, agent for the Green', wich Hospital estates, gave evidence strongly in favour et dividing the local taxes between landlord and tenant. , Dr. Hancock, the chief officer of the Irish statisti cal department, described the difference between the local taxation in that country and Englond. There the land was only valued every fourteen years, while here there was a new valuation every three, but B °' far as the occupier merely was concerned, ' the farms were valued annually. In England the local taxation amounted to £1 Os. 3d. per head of the population, whil e in Ireland it was only 9s. 2d.; but so far as the land WO concerned, the rate was higher in Ireland than it was in England. The total amount paid for the police in Ireland was £832,000, and half of t he, was allowed as compensation. At present the cost or lunatic asylums was paid for by the occupiers of houses and land. It was proposed last year to be defrayed out of the Imperial taxes. He did not think there would be any strong opposition to a proposition to divide the local taxes between the landlords and the occupiers Ireland. Certainly he thought the landlords would not object to it, for' the simple reason that it would have 16 tendency to raise their rent. He was of opinion that sooner or later the incidence of the tax fell on the eville r of the property and not on the occupier. The committee adjourned at four o'clock. THE EXPEDITION TO ABYSSINIA. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY• After an interval of some weeks, the select committee to enquire into the cause of the excess of the cost over the estimates of the Abyssinian expedition, re-assemble d this morning, Mr. Candlish in the chair. The first witness called was General Sir G. J. Jameson/ the President of the Finance Commission in the Indian Office. He said : I have compared the esti mates of October, 1867, with those of March, 18 68 ' with a view to attempt to discover in what way the excess arose. The principal items I examined were the estimat e 3 for sea transport, for the purchase of pack animals , and for rations and stores. My estimate for the sea transport was £2,730,000, but that estimate was exceeded by £642,000, which was owing to the necessity of providing for a large transport of anita o at Suez, which increased the estimate by °ll c i fourth of the whole. The whole of that tonnage Nvo ul , have been returned to Bombay and saved if they k 1"; made a double trip, and probably the heavy charge 1 .,,, ° t demurrage in Bombay during the monsoon nigh have been avoided. I estimated the purch e n of baggage-animals at £450,000, but the a raoiluZ was £471,469 in the second. The returns in the blue-bof fr shewed that of those 7,421 only were returned from DIA' shewing a loss of 47,579 wholly unaccounted for in th ese accounts, that is to say, that there was absolutely no return for them in money. The loss may thus shewn. Lost in Europe, £200,000; lnat £171,469 ; total, £671,469 ; and the recovery by anima ; returned was £55,804, shewing an absolute loss by ba_ggac ; - animals of £ 607,459. With respect to the rations, 1 mated £2 per man for Europeans for rations in Ahi b sinia, which was about double the cost of victualling e 3 European soldier in the Madras Army in 1859. Taking the most expensive rations, and, comparing it with the et allowed, I thought there was reason to believe that the estimate was ample. It was expected that sheep bullocks and animal food generally would be obtainable 1 : Abyssinia at a cheap rate. The Deputy-Commissa ri° General reported to Lord Napier that cattle an t sheep were plentiful on the coast, and suffiel! l r l a grass was expected to be found on the high land. Liu o f Napier reported that forage was brought in at the rate t 17,0001b5. a day. The quartermaster-general wrote til, , at Senape forage was abundant for the cattle, goat!' and sheep. Each animal would consume about 2011111: of forage a day, which would supply 850 animals. "W l l regard to the rations for the troops , I allowed for the natives 100 per cent. over the us"' cost for the troops in India. I estimated £1 per mensa l ' The, total number of the expedition was 12,424, includil, the followers • ' and it was understood that Lord aP I v would reduce the number of the followers by a miram'r nr as he advanced, and, as I allowed 228,00 0 ri the whole, being at the rate of £2 each, I though', made an ample allowance when I added 100 per ee ll ",„,"' judging from our experience in the China expecli' ° i o This witness said he could not see anything at present enable him to acco u nt f o r the cost being double a' estimate. The committee adjourned at four o'clock. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. JUDGMENT IN THE "FROU-FROU " CASE' +he The interesting and somewhat important cause to theatrical profession, of Wood v. Chart, Was sumed to-day, in the Court of Vice-Chancellor Pi". W. M. James. Mr. Eddis, Q.C., appeared for , the plaintiff ; and Mr. Kay, Q.C., and Mr. Lindley" on behalf of the defendants. It was a suit institutea by Mr. George Wood, who purchased from MM. Meilh and Halevy, the authors of the French comedy " Frou," all the rights of representing it either in or French, for the purpose of restraining Mr. Nye Ch 9 l;; manager of the Brighton Theatre, from permitting tow, performed, and Miss Beatrice Binder, an actress, and 4 .,.6 Horace Wigan, from performing at the Brighton Th,!'ll,l) a piece called " Frou-Frou, or Fashion and Passion, :Fro same being alleged to be an infringement of the plaint'''. right. the Mr. Eddis, Q.C., in replying to the arguments for be defence, contended that the translation intended te ed protected by the Act of Parliament was that sanction ft and acknowledged by the authors themselves• or der was not necessary that the translation, in ~,0,1. to secure the protection of the law, should be o'sethe Allowance must be made for the particular idioms ! for different languages • allowance must also be m eres t the peculiarities of 'taste prevailing among the oniot nations ; and if in the end the story was preserved , was a translation within the meaning of the Act. , t ua,t The Vice-Chancellor, in delivering judgment , said oect although the plaintiff's translatim. had been sancti g by the authors, he had evidently gone out of his vit: en ch had not only published an English version of the scene play under a different title, but had transferred the o_o. from France to England, had omitted one of the elo' o ; of ters, and a great number of speeches and Pas sa g a pts." speeches. A better example of imitation or a ' - oar ton coild scacely have been found, it Was, t tainly not a translation. The Act required W as hat proper translation should be accessible to the En_g eo . people, so that they should have an opportunity of ..0 0!,„, 1 ing an accurate knowledge of the character of t r'r o literary productions. If the plaintiff had obtairio proper translation it was quite competent for ,flA t then to make any alterations or excision that_ri be deemed necessary for its adaptation to the .V-.45,g stage and nobody could have acted anything aPPr°9f "an to it. 'Although the piece produced by the defendantsvi not supposed for a moment to be a translation,. it 0 adaptation ; and he had no hesitation i n sa y ing. t% the authors had complied with the cond itions requirc thet h e acting nogf ofthis vParliament,ery thing would nst aas not a t once i n have the acting of this very thing as not being a f a r i r a. ota;rtel tion, but being a piratical translation of the origin*/ wu The motion would be dismissed with costs. iii Th, Sto c k the Pc far h( ai a d S . Railw Great Tele gi Anglo The 'be dor Col ac coul N ew Stock, EXc ditto , lud ditto cent, 0 per 3i_pei th e to 193 in tiara i t o 13 Th E terd a , cw arF ; Xl3 O (r4o v( Q 1,401 Iri 1 ri can 11 , 4 ri 4/e g , by ut Yet p a ar e of v• 414 • " . 441;pi an ctii n ~l O ~~ o .sliR 1 1) 0. 0 1)0 EDad ~ySf (1,, 0Te, 43 ' 4 lll# • Ot , D o *)o ' 0 b o ,Qtri