The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-02 00:00:00

CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. B RADFORD, YORKSHIRE. - E1 MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of .11d• G ENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING. r Dress Oxford Camb. Fi s hi ng C ' oa ( Ts k . Coats. Coats. Coats. Coats. 255. 255. 17s. 18s. 10s. 30s. 30s. 21s. 225. 15s. 355. 355. 26,. 28s. 18s. 425. 425. 301. 325. 225. 50s. 50s. 365. 365. 28s. 635. 60s. 425. 425. 85s. - MOSES and SON beg to re m i n d th e pu bli c L-1 4 • that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its quality, and they venture to affirm that every article sold by them is oonsiderably cheaper than what can be obtained at any other house in England. E. ➢IOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED : Summer Coats. R Business u 21%,,loournsieng. Trousers. Dress Overcoats. 13s. 6d. 12s. 30s. 10s. ed. 15 s. 18s. 135. 6d. 355. 13s. 18s. 21s. 155. 40s. 16s. 21s. 245. 183. ed. 455. 18s. 265. 305. 21s. 50s. 205. 405. 245. nRDERS by post are attended to with care and V punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. E. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of B OY'S CLOTHING : Knickerbocker Eton Brighton Harrow Suits. Suits. Suits. Suits. 9s. 6d. 15s. 18s. 18s. 13s. 6d. 19s. 235. 235. 16s. 6d. 21s. 265. 265. 21s. 265. 325. 32 5. , 265. SOs. 365. 365. 1 86s, .Tl 4 MOSES and SON supply every desc r ipti on o ■ • - clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any article exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset, till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON : - - LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Thomas Hankey, Esq. I R. W. Crawford, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. The report and balance-sheets of this association for the year 1869, exhibiting in full details the amounts assured, ages of the members, with particulars of the invested fund, may be had on application to the chief office, or to the agents. The annual income from premiums is ........ From interest on investments .................. The invested fund, after payment of all claims, exceeds 415,000 The whole of the profits divided among the members. Cash bonuses have already been allotted to the assured amounting to £lOO,OOO. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. 15, Moorgate-street, June 1, 1870. . £64,000 . 19,000 N EW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER of HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT -ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. * Zitt t:CTD - ft 110 463104- In that recent speech in the House of Com mons--a speech studded as thickly with abomi nable instances of adulteration as a Christmas pud ding is with plums and currants--we heard with a shudder of coffee flavoured with filth•; of blue pills rendered at once gritty and cadaverous with slate-filings ; of ale (but that is an old story), poi soned with salt, and colouring matter, and cocculus indicus. Against the possibility of the adulteration of beer, Mr. BASS, as became him, at once, then and there, protested loudly and emphatically. An ana lytical chemist of some eminence has answered Mr. BASS'S denial of the charge by evidence as irrefrag able as the following --" With the object," he writes to the Times," of ascertaining whether the beer sold in London was genuine, I some time ago obtained six samples in the west district and six in the south. It Nas purchased, without selection, of large and small public-houses at the workmen's din ner hour, and was immediately sent to be analysed. Out of these 12 samples seven were salted, 11 had colouring matter (five in large quantities), and in all there was an extra amount of water. Setting aside the best sample as too good for an average," he adds, " and the worst as too bad, the remaining 10 gave 1,180 gallons as originally made by the brewer from 10 quarters of malt to which 1,964 gallons •f the New River had been added, for which excellent artistically coloured water, the consumer was charged £l2O, while the cost of the raw material, the malt and hops, for the whole 2,244 gallons was doubtless less than £4O. But," he feels constrained to admit, "it was only a fraud—for no cocculus indicus or any sub stance positively injurious to health was detected." Mr. SAME, the writer of this statement, with a touch of sly humour, goes on to remark, "Mr. BASS may say the analyst did not under stand his business. He, however, examined a sample of ale brewed by Messrs. BASS and CO., and found no salt, no colouring matter, and no water added--in fact, perfectly pure beer. May I ask, was that also an error ?" If only the retail purchaser could go direct, fur their supplies, to the wholesale manufac turers, to our BASSES and our ALLSOPPS, to our BARCLAYS and our GUINESSES, we should have no more of these abominable and deleterious adultera- Until they can, however, do this—will not A GUA AMARELLA. restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. .}NO. GOSNE LI. and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of thelnost 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., 7e. 6d., and 15s. eaeh, includ rtg brush. Red Bull Wharf ,Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street Lon don, E.C. , JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth Po wder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. 64. /led Bull Wharf, 93, "Upper Thames street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sole Lessee, Yr. Bvckstone. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, NO SONG NO SUPPER: Mr. Kendal, Mr. Compton, Mr. Eclow aid Osborne, Mr. Clark; Miss F. Wright, Hiss Francis, Miss Fosbroke, and Miss F. Gwynne. After which, at 8 precisely, BARWISE'S BOOK: Mr. Sothern, Mr. Chippendale, Mr Compton, Mr. Kendal, Mr. Buckstone; Miss C. Hill, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. And (by desire) A REGULAR FIX: Mr. Sothern, &c. Concluding with A IKSS IN THE DARK. ADELPHI THEATRE.—New Company.—New Drama.—At 7.30, FREE LABOUR, a drama, in four acts, by Charles Reade, played by a new company, selected from first-class theatres. New scenery by Hawes Craven. OLYMPIC THEATRE.-MISS BA rEMAN.- THIS EVENING, at 8, MARY WARNER: Mary Warner, Miss Bateman; assisted by Messrs. Vernon, D. Fisher, Blakeley, Roberts, Elliott, Vanghan. and G. Belmore. I receded by, at 7, MUSIC - 11ATH CHARMS: Bi iS3 Mattle Reinhardt. To conclude with THE 'VARSITY BOAT RACE. Mr. Geo. Belmore. T 4 YCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs. Mansell). THIS EVEN ING, at 7.30, HIS OWN RIVAL. Mr. P. Charles and Miss L. Morgan. At 8, BREAKING THE SPELL. Afte 7 r which, at t 4.30, LITTLE F AUST: Mr. T. Maclagan, 31. Marius, Mr. Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr. Wilmot; bldlle. Debreux, Mesdames Lennox Grey, Lawson, Lee, and Emily Soldene. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, LOVING REARTs. Messrs Edward Terry and Turner; Mesdames Bufton a djSantley. Followed by KENILWORTH. Messrs David James, Terry, Turner, and Fenton; Mesdames Sant ey, Anstisa, Goodall, Met calfe, and Moore. VkUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—MesarA H. J. Montagne, D. James, and T, Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7 30, an original Comedy, by A. Halliday, entitled FOR LOVE OR MONEY. At 9.45, the new Burlesque, by Conway Edwarde., entitled DON CARLOS; or, The Infante in Alms Supported by the following Company:— Messrs H. J. Montague, G. Honey, H. Irving, W. H. Stephens, C. Garthorne, E. Elton, and Thos. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Cavendish, Amy Fawsitt, S Irwin, L. Claire, J. Beauclerc, R. Evelyn, Kemp, T. Lavis, F. Garthwaite, R. Power. N.B.—On Saturday next, June 4th (at 8 o'clock), a new and original Comely, in 3 Acts, entitled TWO ROSES , supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, H. H. Stepbens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames A. Newton (her first appearance at this Theatre), T. Lavis, and Amy Fawsitt. OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. MORNING EDITION. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1870. NAPOLEON the GREAT, in one of his most .stinging mots, dubbed this, the most formidable of his enemies, a nation of shopkeepers? Are we nowadays to regard ourselves as —worse even than that—a nation of dis honest shopkeepers. The falsification of weights and measures systematically —and this, as a rule, always in the poorer neighbourhoods, in localities like the New Cut on the Ratcliffe Highway—bas, unhappily, been quite clearly proved and demon strated under the operation of a recent Act of Par liament contrived with a view to its suppression. The adulteration of food, of almost every article in common use, of eatables and drinkables alike--of our very drugs and medicines--all this has, long since, again and again, been, in its turn, too, quite clearly proved and demonstrated. A commission was appointed, several years ago, for the purpose of carrying out a series of searching investigations. A mass of evi dence was thereby accumulated. That evidence was ; in due course, given to the public. Our medical con temporary, the Lancet, covered itself with honour by originating this very important and eminently prac tical commission. By presiding over its labours, Dr. HASSALL acquired for himself an eminent repu tation. And yet, in spite of all these most praise worthy endeavours to mitigate the evils that were shown to be so rife and so wide-spread—practically speaking nothing whatever has been done, all this Ns bile, by the Legislature, with a view to the sweep ing away of this most unwholesome and rascally system of adulteration. To the end of bringing about some change for the better in regard to this subject, we are glad to observe the significant fact that an organ of the cause, entitled the Food Journal, has very recently been commenced. Incidentally, too, the subject of these disgraceful adulterations has been revived, or, us the Parliamentary slang is, "ventilated,' within the walls of the Legisla ture. One of our representatives, having "the courage of his convictions," shrank not from entering into de tails to his half-amused and half-disgusted listeners in the House of Commons. Hearkening to him, one thought of the sanctimonious grocer in the old fashioned farcical -comedy —a sort of SNAWLEY—who 3alls out to his apprentice, " Have you watered the vinegar ?" "Yea, sir," "And sanded the sugar?" " Yes, sir." " And damped the tobacco ?" " Yes, sir." " Then ccnxie to prayers." One seemed to hear, again, the bandit in one of GILBERT A'BEcErrr's burlesques, as he smacked his lips over a cup of tea declaiming the sonorous couplet— "'Tis pretty fair, as Twankays go; I'm always quick in finding out the sloe." ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden.—Gouuod's Faust e Mar gherita. 8.30. p.m. ITALIAN OPERA, Drury Lane.—Faust. 8.3) p.m. HAYMARKET—At Seven, No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book. And A Kiss in the Dark. AD.ELPHE—At Seven, No. 1 Round the Corner. FreeLabour. PRINCE or WiLEs's—At 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. LYCEUM—At 7.30, His Own Rival, Breaking the Spell. At 8.3 •, Little Faust. OLYMPIC At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, Mary Warner. l'he 'Varsity Boat Race. (34u,Ty—At Seven, First Night. The Princess of Trebizonde. QUEEN'S —At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown. STRAND—At Seven, Loving Hearts. Kenilw rth. VAUDEVILLE —For Love or Money. lion Carlos. ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Peon La. Belle Sauvage WOODiN'S CARPET-lIAG AND SKETCH 13 ,C K. Egyptian Hall, Pie' cadilly, every k v. nine (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn iogs at 3 A dmissi .n Is, 2s, 3s. CRRIsTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall. Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 a 1 the yeafround. Zo LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-p.rlc Opf , n daily except Sun days). Acimishiun, is.; ou Mondays, Gd. Children under ,ed. tions. the Legislature in some way interpose for the safety of the health and the pockets of the general community ? THE public will not have forgotten the catastrophe of April 21st in Greece. The information has coin" to hand very tediously, and startling events hat happened in the meantime; but an occurrence in whicl the honour of the nation is so completely involved must not be hastily dismissed. The last batch ofletters and documents throws a little more light on the extraordinary proceedings of the Greek officials pre vious to the massacre. Suspicion has from the first rested upon Colonel THEAGENIS, the officer sent out by the Greek Government to treat with the brigands, and who commanded the troops. A short letter from Mr. FRANK NOEL amply justifies the presumption that the behaviour of this officer was the immediate cause of the murders. Mr. NOEL relates that on Tuesday, the 19th of April, he visited Oropos, arriving there late at night, and had an interview with the captives the next morning. It may be well to note, en passant, that Mr. ERSKINE, the English ambassador, had some days before written out a telegram asking Mr. NOEL'S assistance. The Greek War Minister, Soutzos, took charge of this message, which was never sent. It was only by accident that Mr. NOEL heard of the brigands being at Oropos, and he immediately set out, arriving, as .we have said, late on Tuesday night. The next morning, Colonel THEAGENIS himself arrived, and the two conferred with the brigand chiefs. The instructions of the Greek Government were read to the robbers, They contained a provision to. the effect that the was sense. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 RM. tin 30' p. 121., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra 6d. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1870 brigands must not leave Oropos until the terms were arranged, otherwise the Government could not guarantee their immunity from attack. Exasperated at this announcement, the chief pulled out a letter he had received from Mr. ERSKINE. It declared that the amnesty could not be granted; but that the King and the Chief Minister had guaranteed the safety of the brigands until the terms were settled. "How," exclaimed the brigand chief, " can I place faith in the Greek Government ? Do you think we should have come into the village of Oropos, had it not been for the promise given by the Ambassador ?" Colonel THEAGENIS had nothing to say to this. Then and there he was given to under stand that if the troops molested the robbers, the prisoners would be murdered. With this assurance he departed—and led his troops to the attach the very next day. , Mr. NOEL remained at Oropos the whole of Wed nesday, and left on that memorable Thursday morning. Before he departed the brigand chief made further concessions, promising to give up the idea of an amnesty and accept the alternative offered— receive the ransom, embark on board au English ship, and leave the country. Mr. NOEL at once tele graphed to Mr. ERSKINE to insist on the withdrawal of the troops, as the robbers had come to terms. "About four o'clock I received an answer, saying that the Government had consented not to attack the brigands at Sykamenos, and asking me to return to treat with them for their embarkment on board an English man-of-war." Mr. NOEL prepared to return to the brigands -at once; but, owing to the heavy sea, he could not get off until the next morning. If he had it would have been of no avail. The attack had been made and consummated, and the English men were murdered. Why the attack was ordered remains a mystery to this day. But that Colonel THEAGENIS should have been present at the interview with the Greek chiefs, that he certainty for his next event, and then something else, perhaps Macgregor, will win. It has been said, and some slight signs of the kind have shewn themselves, that racing is declining in public esteem. We hope it is so. If this affair does not. fill up the mea sure- of disgust, nothing will. It is needless to add that all the old machinery —the scratching of horses upon which heavy amounts had been in vested, immediately before the race, and the absorp tion of public money upon impostors that never had a chance in the competition—has been ac tively at work ; whilst tie Legislature, so far from interfering, has expressly adjourned in order the more easily to witness the instructive performance. The Derby of 1870 will bring riches to many a professional, bat ruin to many more deluded victims. We repeat that the onus of these scandals rests not upon one, or any number of racing men, but upon the high authority which negligently allows such things to be. With the details of racing, Parlia ment has nothing to do ; but the gambling that accompanies racing, and the fraud that accompanies the gambling, are distinctly the offspring of legislative indifference and the repression of such vice is au imperative duty. The Derby of 1870 is remarkable as a striking instance of the manner in which the present system of betting turns in favour of those persons who make a trade of it. HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, May 31. The Queen went out yesterday morning with Princess Beatrice. should have been aware of the promise of security given to the brigands whilst the negotia tions were going on, and that he should have heard the threat of the chief to murder his prisoners if the soldiers advanced, are a combination of circumstances which decisively attribute to him the onus of inexcusable folly and mismanagement, ,or worse. The horrible muddling away of life appears in a worse light as each successive fact comes out. T 9 insist upon the terms of a Constitution, which has been set at nought at the will of any triumphant political party, as a reason for not grant- In the afternoon her Majesty and Princess Louise drove out, attended by the Duchess Dowager of Athol. The Rev. Norman M'Leod, D.D., lett the Castle. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, accompanied by the Princess of Teck. The Prince of %Vales, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, and attended by Lieut.-Col. Teesdale and Captain Lunde!), went to the Epsom •Races yesterday. • FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-I) AT. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch's dinner and ball to meet the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Montagu House, Whitehall. The Earl Fortescue's evening party, at 40, Upper Brook street. The Hon. Mrs. Hubbard's dance, at 24, Prince's-gate. The Hon. Mrs. Halford's dance, at 5, Prince's-gate. Mrs. Schuster's ball, at 11, Upper Belgrave-street, instead of the 15th. ing an amnesty was a foolish and hazardous formality. But to afterwards suddenly assail the robbers, after a solemn pledge of safety had been given them, and after the English representa -Are had succeeded in obtaining better terms, sheer wickedness. It was likewise another display of Greek imbecility, . for the advance of the soldiers could never have silo- ceeded, unless the brigands had been completely sup rounded. This object Colonel THEAQENIS did not effect. His advance, therefore, may have been the motives which prompted it, proved a failure in ever: Tills exercise of sound and systematic, economy iii any of the State departments is a rare luxury, and the nation will act wisely in making the most of it. An economical Government meets with so much opposition from alarmed rivals and dissatisfied interests, that the hearty support of the public is needed to make the work a success. In awarding such support the impartial mind will be governed, not by this or that detail, but by the general principle involved. The charges, for instance, which Mr. CORRY raises against Mr. BAXTER must not be allowed to keep out of sight the real point at issue. Mr. BAXTER says that stores to a vast and wasteful extent were accumulated in the dockyards during the reign of the last Government, and, indeed, of their predecessors also; Mr. CORRY affirms that Mr. BAXTER'S calculations are exaggerated, and that no excessive supplies had been laid up. The two gentlemen may settle this question between them the important consideration for the public is.that the present Ministry is making an attempt to cleanse the Aegean stable of the Admiralty, and that previous Ministries have been content to let the abuses remain in peace. That the dockyards were dens of waste, mismanagement, and fraud, there can be no question whatever. The history of their abuses is now a well established and shameful chapter of political record ; but Mr: BAXTER never speaks on the subject in the House without re vealing some fresh beauties. On Tuesday night he gave the House of Commons some information on the subject of bribery. It prevailed, he said, exten sively both in London and in the dockyards. • Nor were the bribers restricted to trifles, such as £lO or £2O, but they were " mainly very much larger sums." And, as Mr. BAXTER says, it is not for a moment to be supposed that com mercial firms would pay this money without some pro portionate benefit. "Certain tenders were opened with all solemnity in the presence of the officials at Sourer set House and st the Admiralty, but it had been ascertained that certain messengers had keys to open the boxes in which the tenders were placed." Through this collusion between servants inside the Government offices and dealers outside of them, the nation had been swindled without stint. So huge were the frauds that the new system of economy was enabled to save £150,000 in respect of food alone, besides thousands here and there in every branch of expenditure. Mr. CORRY in a party sense can gain nothing by bringing such facts to light. Even in matters of detail, it does not appear that he gained any advantage over Mr. BAXTER; but touching the broad and general ques tion of economy, the verdict of the public must decidedly be that the Ministry are attempting a great work which lay open for their predecessors, but they passed it by. IT was expected that the Derby of 1870 would be memorable above all other Derbies as an easy win —Macgregor first, and the rest nowhere. It as proved remarkable as one of the most ridiculous fiascos in the history of our "national sport." No other event of the kind can compare with it. The surprise of the public when Hermit came in first through the snow-storm in 1867, when that rank outsider, Wild Dayrell, overturned Lord of the Isles is 1856, and when Amato just managed to do it in 1838, is as nothing compared with the astonish ment at Macgregor's failing to win in 1870. This horse never ran in public before the Two Thousand, which he won with unparalleled ease, cantering in half a dozen lengths before King craft and the rest. A few days ago he strengthened the good opinion formed of him by winning his second race very easily. At the Derby he was, so to speak, nowhere. Kingcraft was a great favourite before the • Two Thousand and became a despised out-sider, after he had cut a poor figure in that race. He came in first for the Derby. Thus both horses have alternatively ranked high in the opinion of the prophets and of the " talent." But when the prophets gave them their suffrages they lost, and when the prophets scouted them they won. . It is the old lesson on the faithlessness of horseflesh, but perhaps the moral was never so strikingly enforced. And, no doubt, we shall witness a little more entertainment of the Same kind, Kingcraft will he . held a great The annual regimental dinner of the let (King's) Dragoon Guards, at the Albion, Aldersgate-street, at eight o'clock precisely. I The annual dinner of the 14th (King's) Hussars, at the Clarendon, Bond-street, at eight o'clock precisely. The annual regimental dinner of the 11th Lancers, at the St. James's Hotel, Piccadilly—H.R.H. the Duke of Cam bridge in the chair—at eight o'clock. The annual dinner of the 71st (Highland) Light Infantry, at the St. James's Hotel, Piccadilly. The Royal Marines' annual dinner, at Willis's Rooms. Great combined fête at the Crystal Palace; fireworks and illutuiaated fountains; billiard match between the chain- pious; operetta, "The Rival Beauties ;" and the Fairy Rose Garden. At Lord's Ground (grand cricket snatch)—Quidnunes v Household Brigade. SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS—TO-DAY. The Royal institution —at 3 p.m., when Professor Tyndall will lecture on "Electricity." The Royal Society —at 4 p.m., for the election of Fellows. The Chemical Society—at 8 p.m., when Dr. Odling will read a paper on "Platino-Ammonium Bases." The Linnean Society —at 8 p.m., when Mr. R. M'Lachlan, will read a paper on "New Forms of Trichopterous Insects." The Society of Antiquaries —at 8.30 p.m. DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF SOUTHWARK. A. telegram from Rome announces the death of ►he Right Rev. Thomas Giant, the Catholic Bishop of Southwark. Dr. Grant was apparently dying when he left England towards the close of last year, to attend the [Ecumenical Council. His surviving the journey, even, was a matter of astonishment to those who knew his condition. Since then his health appears to have undergone several extra-- ordinary fluctuations. His decease has more thin once been announced, to be afterwards contradicted. The right reverend prelate has at last succumbed to the mortal disease by Which his life has been so long rendered precarious. No member of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in this country was more popular than the late " Bishop of South. wark," and none could be regretted more sincerely by others even than his coreligionists. FREE RUSSIA. TO THE EDITOR OF " THE SUN." May 31, 1870. SIR,-Mr. Sutherland Edwards has at length been forced to confess and explain his five " false citations" from Mr. Dixon's book. The explanation is a real curiosity of lite rature ; for, in effect, it adds two more false citations to the former five. Mr. Edwards asserts, in regard to citations 1 and 2, that Mr. Dixon does say (1.), that Solovedsk is a Lavra ; and (2), that there are four Lavras in Russia ; and then goes on to add that if Mr. Dixon does not say eo, the Ra dika of Archangel does. Mr. Edwards repeats that false citations 3,4, and 5 are in Mr. Dixon's book, and then he quotes these passages which say the very reverse. The subject is serfage, which Mr. Dixon shows to be a very different thing to villeinage. "Serfage," he says, "was not villeinage under another name," and he shows that villeinage died out before serfage came into existence. Mr. Edwards cites what Mr. Dixon says about villeinage as if he had said it about serfage ! ! Can trifling and confusion get deeper in the mire ? Detected and expoF.ed in these false citations, Mr. Edwards runs off in into vague and general charges, but it would seem from this passage of arms that he cannot risk a sen tence without making some mistake. Among the asser tions made by him in this correspondence, yon may find the following ludicrous blunders. He says there are only three Lavras in Russia, Mon. ravieff mentions eight. He says there are only three Me tropolitan Sees in Russia. There are six, namely, Nov gorod, Kief, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Lithuania, and Imeritia. He says there are only three ecclesiastics hold ing metropolitan rank. There are five, namely, Isidore, Arseny, Innocent, Joseph, and the Metropolitan of He says there is a Metropolitan See of St. Petersburg and Novgorod. There is no such see. He says there is no music in Russian churches. He says singing is not music, and yet assumes to be a musical critic. He says the Russian Church allows divorce. He says the Russian Church denies the existence o purgatory. He calls the New Jerusalem Church a Lavra. He says the Monastery of St. Alexander Nevski "is close to St. Petersburg." He calls Prussia and Austria " the west of Europe." Here stops my pen out of breath with laughter. Poor Mr. Edwards. LOOKER ON. Mr. Disraeli was so far restored to health as to be able to dine on Tuesday evening with the American Minister. An Oxford correspondent writes that the subject for the Stanhope Historical Essay for 1871 is " Lafayette." The Athenaeum Building Society, Birmingham, has failed ; liabilities, £B,OOO. It is expected that the estate will realise 155. in the pound. Il Diritto announces that the Italian Government has decided at once to bring in a bill for the construction of the St. Gothard Railway. It is stated that the Committee of the Keble Memorial Fund have received from the Govern ment the promise of a Charter for incorporating Keble College. Queen Maria-Christina, of Spain, has just arrived at her villa of Mondesir, at Sainte-Adresse, , ear Havre, where she intends to remain for some time, John Fowler, a farmer's son, and one of L or d Delamere's tenant s ; h as b een fined 25 and costs for mali ciously killing a fox-hound belonging to the master of the Cheshire Hunt. - SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE DERBY DAY, If an expedition to Epsom, says the Times, is accom panied by much mortification to Londoners, who are, so to speak, but a stone's throw from the spat— and these mortifications, be it remembered, happen almost invariably to all of us, • except, indeed, the loss of our watches, which most of us are too wise to take with us—how we ask, can it answer for our provincials to come so far merely. to undergo the same disappointments ? There is no accounting, of course, for tastes. Some people like long voyages in yachts ;at least, they profess to like them. Some people like mountain-climbing, camping out in tents, stand ing up to the waist for hours in water, and, after all, not killing a salmon. Some lie for hours crawling and creeping on mossy hill-sides, seek ing to compass the death of a stag, which, after all is not kind enough to come within easy shot. All these amiable enthusiasts say they like it, and no doubt they have their reward in the feeling of life and vigour in the dancing waves, the balmy air, the chance of a long struggle with a clean-run fish, or the " thud "of the bullet as it brings down a noble stag. But what on earth can be the pleasure of decent people—and many of these sightseers are decent and respectable—in leaving their homes and families and rushing up to London and to Epsom to see little or nothineof the very race which they came to see, to lose their money on animals which they cannot even approach, and of whose very colour they are profoundly ignorant, and then to return to town drenched to the skin or with their throats full of dust (as it may please the weather), the laughing -stock of all the little boys in the metropolis ! Verily, if there be such a thing as temporary insanity, this is part of it. What can be more frantic than to pursue something of which the only pleasure is in the prospect, of which the fruition is dis appointment, and of which in countless cases the retro spect is regret ? The Post says that the " glorious " uncertainty of the Derby was never more fully proved than it was yester day. The favourite for whom the prophets, almost to a man, had plumped, whose pretensions had para lysed speculation, whose success was taken by the world at large as inevitable, and whom accident alone could, it was said, deprive of the great racing prize of the year, this favourite of favourites has sustained an ignominious defeat, having finished behind an animal not even men tioned in the betting. The result is certainly curious. It shows what a perilous business is that of the backer of racehorses; and, conversely, it throws a light on the reasons why it is that the bookmakers of the Turf are enabled to realise fortunes by their calling The public will always back favourites, but the favourites are as often beaten as not. One thing is per tain—the success of no owner could be more gratifying to the public than that of Lord Falmouth. Racing, purely for racing sake, he is one of the few men on the turf who can claim to follow the pursuit as a sport and pastime. We want more of such men on the turf. When the winning of money becomes the first object of the owners of horses it is impossible but that scandals, heartburnings, and dissensions must arise, to the disgust of all true lovers of racing, and to the lowering of the status of the old national sport. Lord Falmouth sets an excellent example. His horses are felt to run on their true merits. Hence his success will be an unquestionable gratification to the public. The Daily News says that the prophets were unani mous, but wrong. The winning horse may metaphori cally be said to have had his foot upon his native heath ; but his name was not Macgregor. The favourite was was fourth, instead of first. We leave it to expects to explain, if it needs explanation, how it was the expected did not come to pass. The theory of the moment seems to be that, in transferring Macgregor from Daley's jockeyship to Fordham's, Mr. Merry loaded him with the proverbial ill-luck of the latter rider. But this theory will not perhaps stand the philo sophical scrutiny of an enlightened age. It is impossible to advance bey and the profound generalisation that nothing is certaiJ but the unlikely. The peculiar form, equine or human, which the improbable assumed yesterday, was that of the horse Kingcraft and the jockey French. We congratulate Lord Falmouth, and condole with Mr. Merry and the many to whom Lord Falmouth's colours and Mr. Merry's were the symbols of joy and woe. But the Derby is a thing of yesterday. To-morrow the Oaks. From sport to sport they hurry us. THE PRINCE OF WALES IN IRELAND. The Standard trusts that the residence of the Heir to the Throne in Ireland could not fail to be productive of the very best effects on Irish society, however limited the time of its duration. It would assuage the jealousy which her Majesty's preference for Scotland has kindled in the Irish mind, and no doubt tend, from the conciliatory manners of the Prince, and his love of field sports, to which the Irish aristocracy are so strongly addicted, to initiate and strengthen a mutual respect and attach ment between the Queen's Irish subjects and their future ruler, which must be attended with the most desirable results. it has been long a cause of complaint that the presence of royalty in Ireland . has been so rare, and, that th 2 shortness of the visits paid by the Sovereign to that portion of her dominions pre cluded the possibility of such manifestations of loyalty as would evince the true feelings of the people towards their Queen. That grievance would be altogether removed by the presence of the Prince of Wales, dispensing his hospitalities as an Irish proprietor. Tollymore Park possesses all the requisites for a royal residence. It is said that the recent tour of Lord and Lady Spencer in the North of Ireland, had for its special object the acqui sition of this property for the Prince, and if it has re sulted in its transfer to royal hands the Irish public will have good reason to rejoice on the occasion. It is for many reasons most desirable that the heir apparent should at this particular time cultivate the acquaintance of his future subjects. Ireland is in a state of transition, and the social influence of the Prince would go far to soften any asperities which may arise from pending legislation in the minds of the Irish landowners, and help to recon cile them to a change in their position, now become in evitable, while his example as an improving and liberal proprietor could not fail to stimulate both the landlords and the tenantry to the proper fulfilment of their respec tive duties. THE SULTAN'S GUNS. The Standard gives a word of warning about the arma ment of our navy. We have not merely, it observes, to pierce our enemy's coat of mail, but we have to demolish him in the shortest possible space of time. Will anyone tell us the real meaning of that nest of " light guns," twenty in number, to be carried on the Sultan's upper deck ? It is said that these comparative popguns " will be useful in close action, although they are not to be reckoned amongst the armament proper." But by what sort of mischance is the Sultan to get into " close action " with a vessel so weak as to suffer penetra tion by such small fry in the shape of naval ordnance ? A vessel with rifled guns ought to take care that a battery of smooth bores never gets very near to her, lest the high initial velocity of the latter should be turned to account. Amid the acclamation which greets the launch of the Sultan it is announced that " the old con troversy between broadsides and turrets has been solved by amalgamation." The Sultan is said to be an instance of this, and it is argued that "a vessel carrying her guns on turn-tables in a central battery is a turret vessel with a square tower." We might as well be told that a coach was to be made to run on square wheels, or that Mr. Reed had actually succeeded in squaring the circle. There is all the difference in the world between the traversing of guns in a square box, and the rotation of a circular tower carrying its guns with it. Again, the power to fire in nearly all directions at once is not equivalent to the power of firing all the guns in one direction. The " old controversy" yet continues, and we still contend that neither in the calibre of the guns, nor in the mode of working them, does the British fleet present that degree of efficiency which properly belongs to it. Mr. Reed may still continue to improve, and probably will do so ; but for the sake of the nation we should like to see the righ thing done at once. SUFFOCATION IN A WELL.—On Tuesday morning a man named William Hamilton, a labourer, was killed by foul air while being lowered into a well in course of sinking at the new asylum, Longdales, Both we ll. O n S atur d ay water had been found at a depth of 57 feet, and from that day till yesterday morning the well remained closed. About half-past six Hamilton was lowered into the well, with his foot on a rope attached t o a windlass wrought by two labourers. As the apparatus neared the bottom these two men heard Hamilton shouting, and asked what he wanted. No answer being returned, they raised the rope, rind wer shocked to discover Hamilton's dead body hanging head downwards. Medial aid was was called in, but it was of no avail. FREEMASONRY. —The installation of the Earl of Carnarvon as the Deputy Grand Master took place last night at a Grand Lodge of Free and accepted Masons, held at the Masonic Temple, Great Quoen-street. In consequeuar of the Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Grand Master, being in attendance on her Majesty at Balmoral, the throne 11113 ' occupied by the Earl of Zetlaud, who was supported by a large body of masons from all parts of the kingdom. The Grand Lodge having been opened in due form, the newly Appointed . Grand Master was installed, received the customary honours, and presided for the remainder of the evening. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and the Viscountes s Beaconsfield have left Grosvenor-gate for Hughende n Manor, Bucks. Three young ladies have been admitted as s tudents in the Vienna U n i vers it y, an d one in the philosophies] faculty of the University of Prague. It is stated that there ladies have already passed severs of the ordinary univer" sity examinations with great credit. Lord Stratherlen will move the foilowing standing order when the House of Lords meets after the recess " That if two or more peers rise to speak at the same time, the Lord Chancellor, and wh©n the House is in Committee, the Chairman of Committees, shall call on one of them to proceed, unless the House do otherwise order." M. ROUND, M.P.—A marriage is in contem plation between Mr. J. Round, M.P. for E as t E sse x, tol d his cousin, Miss Sibyl Freeland. Miss Freeland is the fourth daughter of the late Rev. H.. Freeland, rector of Hasketon, Suffolk, and at the age of two years she became the adopted child of Mr and Mrs C. G. Round, of Birch Hal l, Essex. EAST LONDON EMIGRATION FUND.—The second batch of emigrants sent out by this fund departed horn London last night by a special train for Liverpool en route for Quebec. The party were no fewer than 354 in number: Many friends of the emigration movement were present 3 ' the St. Pancras Station, including the Hon. Elizabeth Waldo" p rave, the Hon. F. and Mrs. Hobart, Sir H. Verney, Octavius E. Coope, the Hon. Arthur Kin Jaird, M.P., &e. SHOCKING DEATH OF A BOY.—About seven o'clock on Tuesday a boy name d Th omas C oulthard, 13 years o , age, who lived with his parents at 55, Miles-street, was climbing a tree in that portion of Prince's Park skirting 03 Inlet-road, in search of a bird's nest, when one of the branches gave way. The poor lad fell on the park railing's, one of which entered his side, and he then rolled into the road, dying almost immediately. —Liverpool Courier. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—The sessions of the Central Criminal Court commence on Monday next. T ll5 judges on the rota are Chief Justice Bovill, Mt. Justico Blackburn, and Mr. Justice beating. The most importan t case in the calendar is that of Boulton and Park. The charge against th m is expected to be proceeded with at these sessions. Up to yesterday no application had been made in Judges' chambers for bail in the case of these two yeung men. A PLAGUE OF , BEETLES.—A very s rious plagu e of small brow n b ee tl es h as occurred iu Yorkshire, en' , during the last few days the Swede turnip crop lime been ' destroyed. This is especially so in the Weld district, many farms having no plants remaining. At Mahon on SaturdaY the farmers obtained new stocks of seed, and re-sowing would commence on Monday. The beetle, in myriads bate also attacked the tare and pea crops. The long drought; is supposed to have favoured this destructive visitation of insect life. EMIGRATION TO CANADA.—Another large party of about 200:;emi gran t s l e f t E uston Station be the 9.1 d train last night for Canada. to join the ship Prus jai ], which sails from Liverpool to-day. The Rev. A. Style man Herring, chairman of the Clerkenw,ll Emigration Society, accompanied the party with 143 of its mambo? , comprising eight wives, with 29 children, rejoining their husbands 'n Ca na d a, an d n i ne little orphans proceeding to a female orphanage in Canada West. The remainder of the party, 4, were sent out out by tho British and Colonial Emigration Fund. A MINISTER WITH ONE HAND. —The new Minister of Public Works in France, M. Plichon, is without the left hand ; but wh a t i s no t generally known is the manner 10 which he lost the member. When a young man, he was out shooting with a friend, each beating the cover se irately, when the latter i n fi r i ng a t a bl ack cock, wounded his coat • panion in such a manner that amputation became necessary M. Plichon was much attached to his companion, so, In order to spare him the reproaches of their two families, 103 pretended that he had himself caused the accident; but on the other having subsequently died, the motive for preser ving the secret no longer existed.—Galignani. We understind that the French Government lia s declared its willingness to permit the official quotation of the new Turkish Railway Stock on the Paris Exchange soon as it is quoted on the Exchange at Vienna. Davi! Pasha, the Turkish Minister of Commerce, who arrived In the latter city on the 22d instant, has been engaged in neV tiations on this subj ec t, w hi c h i t is expected will have I favourable result. Th e T ur ki sh Government has expresse d ' its readiness to give all necessary guarantees for Lb • ex I n ; sive employment of th e cap i ta l on Turkish railways their completion in the shortest possible time. THE CHURCH IN THE METROPOLIS.--The Bishop of London h as co ll a t e d t h e R ev. Henry Nicholas Collier; M.A., to the new vicarage of the Holy Trinity, FinchleY and has instituted th e R ev. Henry Samuel Eyra to , the new vicarage o f a ll S a i nts, St. John's-wood; and has licensed the Rev. Edmund Fearon Burrell Bourke Fellowes , M.A., to the curacy of Stoke Newington ; the Rev. Arthur William Beaty Marshall, 8.A., to the curacy of St. Andrew , . Hollingwoorl ; the Rev. Edward Bainbridge Penfold, to the curacy of Christ Church, St. Pancras; the Philip William Sparling, 8.A., to the curacy of St. Jude, Gray's-inn-road ; th e R ev . Th omas Theojore Sutton, 13. A,:, to the curacy of St. A n d rew, H oxton ; and the Rev. Joseph Bishop Wheeler : to be ch a pl a i n to t h e House of Deten tion at Clerkenwell. THE IRISH NATIONAL PRESS.--The intended pub lication in London of "a national and democratic journal for the Irish Nationalists resident in England and Scotland has just been announced. The promoters of the scheme state in their prospectus that the Irish exiles resident in England, Scotland, and Wales are "numerically far larger , owing to the poverty caused by alien rule in their n ative land, than any other body of exiles resident in these coun tries," and are, nevertheless "totally unrepresented in t lie Press." Having remarked that American, Frenchman , Germans, : nd Italians posses , , in this country, journals d& - voted to their interests, and that " in the great American Republic journalsintensely Irish in tone and feeling,"wbich may be counted by the score, teach I r i s h men to hope an d toil on'for their country's enfranchisement the prospectus states tbat " a committee of Irishmen has been formed for the purpose of re-establishing in London the People of Ire land, a journal which, during the p-riod of its publication„ in Ireland, enjoyed such great and deserved populgrity• The new paper will advocate 4 4 Ireland's inalienable right to national independence." It may be remarked that the ,People of Ireland, which was published in Dublin, suddenly collapsed when Fenianism was rife in Ireland soma three years ago. HUNGARIAN FINANCE. Herr von Longay, the new Minister of Finance, in the i . Austro- Hungarian E mp i re , an d l ate Mi n i ster o f Fi na nce ?°' Hungary made a long farewell speech in the Hangar s ': Parliament the other day, in which he gave a full accou° of his policy while a t th e h ea d o f the Hungarian FiLlan.ce Department. It appeared from hi s s p eec h that the financial i affairs of Hungary are i n a mos t fL ur i s h con di t i on. In 18v,: ' instead of a deficit of 12,.214,739 florins, which he had 11 9 ' *vided for in his estim a t e , th ere was a surp l us o f 1,43974?_. florins, or a bal ance o f up wards of 13500,000 florins favour of the State. This result wasnot produced 1/ reduction of expenditure—for the expenditure of 1869 was 87,000 florins in excess of that ()Nile preceding year l e by a considerable increase in the receipts of most of t revenue departments. THE PASSION PLAY IN BAVARIA. The correspondent of the Standard continues "'- narrative of the Passion Play in Ober Ammergau, Bawl which is curious as b e i ng one o f th e l ast re li cs o f the c't The " mysteries," or Mi rac l e Pl ays o f th e m iddl e ages. a first act which w as d escr ib e d i n hi s l ast l etter term inate with our Saviour's entry into Jerusalem and departure for Bethany. At the opening of the second " V ers. tellung," the chorus, to whose share is allotted a considerable portion of the work, comes on the stage and the l ea d er b eg i ns a recitation of the next scene which, by way o f illustration, goes bac lt -, o the history. of Joseph in the Old T es t amen t. The grouping in this tableau was conceived with great artist ic power. The scene was truly Oriental : the broad leave s of the palm spreading parasol-like over th e straight bare trunks are there, and in t he back-ground —a reach o f ar id sands Josewicks brethren cluster round th e d raw - we ll into which they hav e just cast him. When the curtain falls the chorus continue' its singing until the period of the action of the drama' associated with the New T es t a m en t, approac h es , when files off statelily to the right and left. Then comes session of the Sanhedrin, with the Jewish priests discussing the bargain with Judas. The next vorstellung opens with °t a picture of the youn g T o bi as t a ki ng l eave of h i s par (Tobias, chap 5. v. 32), followed by another of " the loviq bride bewailing the loss of her bridegroom " (Joel, chap. v. 17). The former of these tableaux was exceedingly pretty, and a shaggy house-dog, of the faithful mountain breed, was introduced on the stage ; the dumb a nimal', except an occasional w ag o f th e t a il , was as mot i on l e ss a' if he were a dog of plaster of Paris. Both illustri v tions were intended to typify the adieux of Christ to Mary. In the handlung which succeeded, Christ a ppears in the streets of Beth an y an d en t ers i nto the h ous e of i Simon (to which he is as k e d t o dinner), where Mary sa t ,' Martha await him. M ar th a , I may here say, is the firs" female character in the piece who has a passage speak. At the end of the repast the Virgin Diary makes her apparition on th e scene, to take leave ? her Son before hi s d e p ar t ure for Jerusalem, and tlug brings down the curtain. A modest rustic beauty they have chosen to fill this risky role of Mother, of Christ—a ros y creature w i th a finely chiselled(' contour, a row of p ear ly t ee th , w i t h so f t b rown eyes brown hair, confined by a blue nun-like veil. The acting of the Virgin in the little she had to do in this instance' was marked by much thoughtfulness and quiet matronly dignity. Her voice had in it a thrill of exceedingly womanly softness. The one point in which she fails —in which, indeed, most of these village artists of her sex fag —is in her movem en t s . Th ey are not—to be critical ( 30 " if we are not critical ; we are nothi ng ) e xactly sylphlike or fawnlik e , but ever so little heavy as those of people accustomed to carry burdens' The fourth vorstellung opens with a symbolical cliaunt on the restoration of the Jewish Church by Esther. Til e corresponding handlung presents us Christ and h is followers on th e i r wa y to Jerusalem. The Master res ts an interval on the sta ge , weeping over the s i n f u l c ity an foreboding its doom. s Christ leaves the eleven tru e Apostles follow; but th e unsteady Judas, who ha d been hanging back; remains, undecided how to ac t ' Two money-dealers of the Temple enter into conversatio n with him and ask if conversion would profitable to then'. Upon this Judas shews them significantly his eraPtY purse, and complains of the extravag ance , not only Pe i ; mitted, but approved by Christ in M ar y Magdalen'saca of anointing Him with o i n t men t wort h t h ree hun dred sequins. The money dealers, finding him in the nic° A tempt him to betray his M as t er , and, after an inwar d struggle, he consents. Thi s i s the conclusion of the f o urth scene. Th e i iereai All c 1( I 'qt:toy, Mr. N . „3 y. %4 ftlit 44 . it 1211DIf t will Will °lle. TI eiPal orde T 1 day , P, 3 fects f ects to w ) th e p th e ii B ucce P I Mli, went, Thl Th( tured w lts THE