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114 " Ll MOSES and SON, a CORNER of ➢IINORIES and ALDGATE. N EW OXFORD - STREET, CORNER of HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. E. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING. Frock Dress Oxford Camb. Fishing Coats. Coats. Coats. Coats. Coats. 255. 2ss. 17s. 18s. 10s. EN. 30s. 21s. 225. 15s. 85s. 355. 265. 28s. 18s. 425. 425. 30s. 325. 225. 50s. 50s. 365. 365. 28s. 635. 60s. 425. 425. 355. F4MOSES and SON beg to remind the public u • that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its quality, and they venture to affirm that every article sold by them is lonsiderably cheaper than what can be obtained at any other ho Ise in England. E MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of GENTL: MEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED: Summer Race Business Morning Dress Overcoats. Coats. Suits. Trousers. Trousers, 13s. 6d. 12s. 30s. 10s. 6d. 15s. 18s. 13s. 6d. 355. 13s. 18s. 21s. Ms. 40s. 16s. 21s. _... 245. lss. 6d. 455. 18s. 265. 30s. 21s. 50s. 20s. 40s. 245. ORDERS by post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of F. BOY'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. 325. 263. 30s. 365. 365. 1 86s. I 48s. 1 48s. FMOSES and SON supply every description of . 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. THE GRANVILLE HOTEL, ST. LAWRENCE- I. ON-SEA, RAMSGATE, ISLE OF THANET, the most comfort able and " recherche" residential Family Hotel in the kingdom, and furnished from the designs of Welby Pugin. Ball-room, Bil iard-room, and noquet Lawn, facing the Sea, and overlook ing the German Ocean. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristic e hue, no matter at what age. - 330. GONE L and CO. have at leng,th, - with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s each; also 55., 7s. ed., and 15s. each, includ ng brush. Ited Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, f 3, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth po order ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. Gd Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. THE ITRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sole Lessee Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'cicck. NO SOING NO SUPPER: %I r. Kendal, Mr. Compton, Mr. Ede aid Osborne, Mr. Clark; Miss F. Wright, liss Francis, Miss Fosbroke, and Miss F. Gwynne. After which, at 8 precisely, BA RWISE'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, Ra Concluding with A IKS 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. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE, Wych-street, s trend. _ _ _ S' le Lessee and Managt:r, Mr W. H. LisToN M se BATSMAN as MARY N'CA AN ER every Evening during the week, assisted by Messrs. G. Belmore, W. H. Vernon. Blake ley, Elliott. David Fisher; Mrs. Poynter and Mrs. W. H. List in. In reply to numerous applications at the Box Office, and to prevent disappointment to parties desirous of securing seats several weeks in advance, Mr. W. H. LISTON feels comprlled to announce with r, gret that, in consequence of previous arranle ments, the hr liant engagement o th s distingnisht d Artiste must POSITIVELY TERMINATE on SATURDAY, Juan 25. Commencing with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Concluding with THE 'VARSITY BOAT RACE. Box Office open from 10 till 5. L YCEUM I.IIEATRE (under the management of Messrs Mansell) THIS EVE , ING, at 7.3 3 , HIS OWN RIVAL Mr. F. Charles and Miss L. Morgan. At 8, BREAKING THE SPELL. After which, at r.. 30, LITTLE FAUST: Mr. T. Maclagan, M. Marius, Mr. Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr. Wilmot; Mdlle. Debreux, Mesdames Lennox G ey, Lawson, Lee, and Emily Bolden ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Solo Lessee and A. anageress, Mrs. -wanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, LOVING 11EART , . Messrs Edward Teiry and Turner; Mesdames Bnfton a d Santley. Followed by KENILWORTH. Messrs David James, 'Ferry, Turner, and Fenton; Mesdan,es t 4 ant ey, GoAall, Met calfe, and Moore. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—MessrA H J. Montague. D. James, and T- Thorni , .—TH IS EVENING, at. 7 30 the New Farce of CUP. BOARD LOVE, by F Hay. After which, at E•ght o'Clock. a new and original Comedy, iu Three Acts, entitled TWO RO-ES. '1 o concluile with the new and successful t.urlesque, by Conway Edwarde , , entitled I'ON CARD IS; or, The Infante In Ai ms Supported by Messrs IT. J. Montague, 11. Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, ai.d T. Thorne; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Fawsit t, T. Levis, and A. Nen ton (her 2nd Appearance at this Tht. at e) Prices—Stalls, 7s ; Balcony Stalls, Is.; Boxes, 35.; Upp r Circle. 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. Gall, ty, 6d. I‘ o Charge 10.. Bookin , Doors open at Seven. Cummence at 7.30 OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUShMENTS. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden.—I 1 Barbiere di Siviglia. 8,30 p.m. HAYMARKF,T—At Seven, No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book. And A Kiss in the Dark. A t Seven, No. 1 Round the Corner. Fre • Labour. PRINCE OF WALES'S—At 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. LYCEUM—At 7.30, lie Own Viral, B reaking the Spell. At 83 , Little Faust. • OLYMPIC At Seven, Music hath Charms At 8, Mary Warner. 1 ho 'Varsity Boat Race. ( - 4 &lETY—At Seven, First Night. The Princess of Trobizonde. QUEEN'S—At Seven, ily Wife's Dentist. 'Twixr Axe and Crown. STRAND—At Seven, Loving Hearts, Kenilw rth. VAUDEVILLE —Cupboard Love. Two Roses. i.on Carlos. ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou F. on. La Belle Sauvage WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND KETCH It K. Egyptian Hall, Pic eadilly, every v. (except ::,atrrd..y), at 8; Batur.la3. rllorn ivgs at 3 3 dmissi n Is, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, - Every ".ight, at 8 : Vied nesiays and Saturda3 s, at 3 and S a'l the year round. ZO LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-perk Open daily, except Sun days). Admission, ls. ; on AI outlays, 65. Children under ,6d. IdA.DAMF, TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3 0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra 6d. TB E tJN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1870. X ( EVENING EDITION. country, so far from being strictly in accordance with the ideas of political economy is in many respects opposed thereto. It is, moreover, unique. in no other country of Europe does it exist. Even fixity of tenure, which Mr. CILADSTONE repudiated with such emphasis, exists in most other countries. Moreover, while in England the land is every year falling into fewer hands, and becoming the monopoly of a few owners, on the continent the land is in the possession of innumerable small proprietors, and the peasant is his own land lord. Mr. HARRISS GASTRELL, who has written, in the Blue-book on the land tenure of Europe, the able report on the land system of Prussia, warns his fellow countrymen that there is a serious danger in the accumulation of land in the hands of a small class. Who that has mid the history of the last hundred years can doubt this Who that is acquainted with the events of the French Revolution of the last century, with the fortunately bloodless revolution which took place in Prussia sixty years ago, with the not wholly bloodless revolution in Austria twenty years ago, can doubt that the land question is one of the most important which can pos sibly be raised, and that we must solve it sooner or later. We pray that it may be sooner rather than la ter. One thing necessary to the solution is a clear con viction that land is not in the same position as other purchaseable goods, It is limited in quantity at the same time that its profitable working is indis pensable to the welfare of the community. A. man may hold any amount of diamonds, and though the supply of them, too, is limited, society does not suffer by the monopoly, for diamonds are simply things to possess, not to cultivate, and society would be none the poorer if every diamond in the world were reduced by a blow-pipe to black smoke and ashes to-niorrow. But the existence of society depends upon the produce of the land, and therefore society has a right to see that the land is made productive. We ought almost to apologise for saying thus much, for to many of our readers what we have said will appear a truism. But it has not seemed so to a hundred and fifty old members of the House of Commons; we suspect that it will not appear so to more than that number of the House of Lords. It is wise, therefore, to insist upon it at this time, when the Land Bill is about to be discussed by the hereditary chamber. We would not only insist, but prove our position. We would remind all those who doubt it that Parliament has already removed land from the ordinary category or property. When it said that the land-owner was bound to part with his land to a private company, because that cmpany was about to construct a work which was for the public good, it established the principle that laud is not like jewels, or funds, or a banker's balance, things over which the State had no power, and which the owner might misuse to his heart's content. True the landowner was paid for his land, but he was compelled to receive that which he did not want to take—money—in exchange for that which he did not want to surrender—land. This principle will have fruitful consequences hereafter, for the end is not yet. LIVERPOOL is about to commemorate its former intimate connection with the late Earl of DERBY by the erection of an institution to be called the Stanley Hospital. The son of the deceased statesman was called upon to lay the foundation-stone of the me morial to his father. In doing so he said a good word for hospitals. He contended that however much of imposition there might be, hOwever much waste of power and money there might occur in other chari- - table institutions, a hospital always fulfils the pur poses for which it is established, and the subscriber to its funds may be sure that he gets his money's worth in the shape of relief to the sick poor. In the main, Lord DERBY it right So far as egards the indoor patients, there can be no doubt that the per sons benefited are the persons who ought to be bene fited, for no one when sick would willingly leave his home to be nursed by strangers, however kind. It would not be possible to speak with equal confidence respecting the outdoor patients. These are often of a class who could and should pay. There is no sacrifice involved in going to see a surgeon or a physician in a hospital for a few minutes, and there can be no doubt that a large number of persons do this who ought to be seeing the doctor at their own homes, and to be paying him for his visit. The masters and the mistresses of households are especially to blame in this matter. They, in order to save a doctor's bill, will often beg for a hospital ticket, and give it to a sick servant. Some of them have not the grace to subscribe even then. The force of meanness can no farther go. But when all is said, hospitals are noble institutions, and are, probably, the least abused and the most productive of all charitable undertakings. The subscriber to these knows that his gifts will not be squandered upon secretaries and clerks, but that the money which he intends for the good of his really poor fellow creatures will be fully and wisely expended in their behalf. TOPICS OF THE DAY. WHOM THE CAP FITS. Mr. Goldwin Smith, with a charming mixture of naiveté and insolence, has addressed the following un-Professorial letter to Mr. Disraeli, as the autho r of "Lothair." His Professorship hails from Cornell University, Ithaca, under date May 25th, New York : " SIR,—In your Lothair ' you introduce an Oxford Professor who is about to emigrate to America ; and you describe him as `a social parasite.' " You well know that if you had ventured openly to accuse me of any social baseness, you would have had to answer for your words. " But when, sheltering yourself under the literary forms of a work of fiction, you seek to traduce with impunity the social character of a political opponent, your asper sions can touch no man's honour : they are the stingless insults of a coward.—Your obedient servant, " GOLDWIN SMITH, " The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P." As the cap is fitted on by this amazing teacher of youth in the Old World and the New—somehow (to adopt a phrase from Blackwood), we seem to hear " the sound as of the tinkling of bells." Cathedral, or a modern Colosseum ; and therefore the expenditure never clearly came out. When built it continually needed botching-up. Now that it is gone, it is safe to conclude that another such building will never arise, either in Constantinople or elsewhere, for the residence of English diplo matists. Hitherto it has been our policy to do everything on a grand scale connected with the embassy at Constantinople. It was thought to be one of the most important missions, and therefore the salaries of the persons connected with it were great, thei r house was grand, and the expense generally boundless. The downfall of the embassy is typical of the change that has come over our Eastern policy. It is no longer thought needful to be con stantly fishing in the muddy pool of Turkish politics. Hence, when the embassy rises from its ashes the second time, it may just as well look a little less grand and foolish. although many Waltonians (who go down in parties) sometimes become very noisy and misbehaved, in consequence of too lavish potations of beer, the per sons who resort to the banks of the river in the neighbourhood of Hampton or Chertsey are generally intent on their object, and have a successful and satisfying return for the trouble they incur in journeying thbre. The prospects of sport on the Thames are this season, thanks to the Thames Angling Preservation Society, brighter than ever. The trout have been allowed to increase, owint , to the manner in which the water has been watched, and the Thames itself is made to look clearer by the withdrawal of poisonous emanations from certain factories. The wanton destruction of fish by gre garious fishermen has been well provided against, and last, not least, the keepers of the angling inns by the river are determined this year to merit a character for themselves by keeping the classes of their clients select and respectable. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8. 1870. Sport is proverbially cruel : meaning by sport not mere contests of skill or of speed, but the pursuit of game, and the more or less wanton destruction of life. Supposing this country were still infected as of old by wolves, or other ravening animals, the slay ing of ferocious creatures such as those would, as a matter of course, be perfectly comprehensible. But the destroying of the comparatively harmless fauna of England for the mere idle display of dex terity, or as our neighbours have it pour passer le temps, has about it an attribute in no way defensible at any time or under any circumstances—the attribute of sheer heartless ness. To one of the earlier victims of this idle search after amusement one might be tempted to trace back, as though it had been overheard by iEwp, the now familiar axiom, " What's sport toyou, is death to us." The blunting of the sensibilities by the force of habit engendered among sportsmen of all kinds is perhaps nowhere more strikingly illustrated than in the well known suggestion of old IZAAK WALTON to bis brothers of the Gentle Craft, as it is called (whe ther by a mere play of words, or by the sheer force of irony, who shall decide?) when beseeching them to impale the bait as though they loved it. One need hardly go back 200 years, however, in order w realise in this way the hardening influence of Le Sport, pur et simple, if one only reads the last new novel of the season, or glances at the light hearted competition which has just taken place between the Lords and Commons of England during the passing recess of these present hoddays of Whit sun i ide. In that much-abused and much-bepraised novel of "Lot hair," in which the ex-Premier has, at the least, endeavoured to pourtray the manners and customs of those who are vulgarly spoken of as the Upper Ter, Tllousand, there is one description that is true to the life, and that has about it not one touch of exaggeration. It is the description given by Mr. DISRAELI of one among the pet vices, we are almost tempted to spe.►k of it as one among the chet ished crimes, just now, of the fashionable world— known as the pretty, dainty pastime of pigeonshoct jug. Not that the member for Bucks himself has the faintest notio❑ apparently in his own mind of there being anything but what is perfectly comme it fuut in this kind of amusement. He describ s, it in one of the least fantastic chapters of his most fantas tic book, without one momentary qualm. Pigeon shooting it is to him, as it is to the b/ase'earls and in souciant marquesse4, whom he depicts as the competitors, or as it is to the de licate-souled, dainty-handed Lady CORISANDES and others whom he speaks of as merrily jotting down upon their ivory tablets with turquois embossed pencils (the while, as with the Poet Lau reate's Lilian, their " silver treble laughter trill•th ") the fluctuating scores of the Dove Murderers. Com paratively trivial though this fashionable vice of the time may seem to many—it is, by reason of a special significance of its own, to our thinking, one of the foulest typical blains of which our social system has reason now, as quickly and as effectually as possible to rid itself. Exult as we may, and with some cause, over the abolition of the old, idiotic, detestable,anil murde rous laws of duelling, which were held by our fathers to constitute what was called in those days the Code of Honour, we have small reason to pride our selves upon being in any way more humanized than that 01,3, derided, duelling generation, so long as the jeunesse dor ge of England take a pride to themselves in the honours and glories won—s4ve the walk ! literally s ►ve the mark !—in the maiming, the tortur ing, and the murdering of a flight of doves ! IF M. JOURDAIN found satisfaction in the d iscovery that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it, M.P.'s must be even more satisfied in learning, on high authority, that they have been obeyingpolitical economy all the session without know ing it. The satisfaction must be all the greater because some of them have thought that they were really violating political economy. The coun try gentlemen, for instance, who, or whose fathers, five-and-twenty years ago, denounced the joyless science as a new-fangled thing, the un cleanly offspring of Radicalism and shopkeeping, but who, since Protection has been abolished, have been the most devoted, if not the most enlightened, disciples of the science, have been making their de votion known to all men by the frequent repetition of certain phrases borrowed from scientific terminology. "Freedom of contract" is one of these, and it has been used, with happily little effect, to obstruct the progress of the Irish Land Bill. In fact they have been treating political economy just as its earlier votaries of the Manchester school treated it some thirty years ago. Then we heard a good deal about the law of supply and demand, and the neces sity of not interfering between capital and labour, for mill owners and coal owners did not like to be deprived of the cheap labour of little children who ought to have been in the school or in the nursery. But the instinct of the nation was too powerful for any amount of authoritative dicta borrowed from science "falsely so called," and the children were rescued from the cruel bondage of the task-master, and were taught before they were compelled to work. So has it been with the Irish tenant. He has been set free, so far as the House of Commons can free him, from the tyranny of an evicting landlord. And we doubt not that just as the Manchester school now admit they were in the wrong when they opposed the Factory Act 9, just as they now confess that they misapplied their favourite science when they used it to oppose . those Acts, so, in a little while, Conservative Irish landlords will admit that they were wrong in opposing the land bill, will con fess that they made a false use of political economy when they urged the necessity of maintaining, before all things, " freedom of contract." For after all, as Mr. MILL has shown in an admi rable article in the current number of the Fort 'nightly Review,' there are no such principles of political economy as the Irish landlords suppose they have been violating. Principles differ from precepts. "The same principles require diffe rent precepts, wherever different measures . are required for the same ends. If the interest of landlords does not afford sufficient security to tenants, it is not contrary, but in the strictest conformity, to the teachings of political economy, to provide other security instead. The absolute power of landlords over the soil, is what political economy really condemns, and condemns in England as well as in Ireland, though its economic mischiefs are not, in England, so flagrant . and un qualified," The truth is, the land tenure of this THE FIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE. The disastrous conflagration which has visited Pera, the European district of Constantinople, has, it seems, resulted in the destruction of the American and Portuguese consulates, temples, theatres, mosques, and thousands of ordinary houses, as well as the edifice known as the British Embassy. At Pera, although many brick houses have latterly been erected, wooden buildings predominate, and this cir cumstance taken in connection with the fact that a strong wind was blowing in the city on Sunday, sufficiently accounts for the terrible ex tent of the fire. Several lives were, it is believed, lost, although the brief telegram at first transmitted did not make any announcement to that effect. This is the second great fire which has occurred in Pera, and which has left many poor families houseless. In 1852 'rt.) fewer than 3,500 dwellings were burnt down in one night. EMBASSY HOUSES. Serve it right !" will be the verdict of a good many people on this great fire, so far as the British embassy is concerned. It was a most pretentious structure, altogether too grand and costly for the purpose it had to serve. it might have done very well for an Indian rajah or a Chinese man darin, but for the ambassador of a civi lised nation such a building was absurd. How much money it cost, it would be difficult to tell. It took years to build it, just as if it had been St. Paul's LAW REFORM. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says it is now taken for granted in the Temple and Lincoln's Inn that Lord Hatherley's well meant endeavour to carry the first step of a wide scheme of law reform will have to be abandoned for this year. The Chancellor, he adds, is personally liked and respected by all who come in contact with , him, just as Lord Cranworth was when he held the Great Seal; but like his amiable predecessor he is unable to cope with the jealousy and versatility of the learned array of critics on the judicial bench and in the House of Lords, which his present measure has unfortunately marshalled against him. We must, he thinks, make up our minds to do without law reform, the Ballot, and the University Tests Bill for another year ; for none of them has a chance of passing. On the other hand, the Land Bill is considered safe; and the Education Bill may, I think, be made so by good tact and temper. WORKING CLASS SYMPATHISERS. It is, of course, the fashion to court the votes of working men, now the working men have votes to give. Liberal candidates are eager to assure con stituencies that they are actual bond fide artisans; Conservative candidates tell us they are the men to understand working class measures, and to legislate accordingly. Mr. Baillie Coch rane, the Conservative candidate for the Isle of Wight, is careful to tell us, for instance, that "all those measures connected with the independence and happiness of the working classes " have been supported by his party. Really this is too bad. The Conservatives passed the Ten Hours Bill; but what else did they do ? They hardly like to claim credit for the Reform Bill. • Aiid certainly the abolition of the navigation laws, weeding out of an oppressive tariff, the repeal of the usury laws, taxes on knowledge, church rates, and property quali fication for Parliament, and the establishment of religious equality in Ireland, all met with their stout hostility. It is natural enough that as a Con servative Mr. Baillie. Cochrane should have supported the interests of the richer grades. But it is hardly fair that he should at one and the same time claim credit for being something quite different. A MISSION OF PEACE. Mr. Henry Richard, M.P., one of the committee of the Peace Society, has undertaken a mission to the Continent for the purpose of promoting a reduction of existing gigantic armaments. He states that he visited Paris, Brussels, the Hague, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, and Florence, and obtained many interviews with the members of the Legislature in those cities, being r.ceived not only with marked personal courtesy, but with the expression of deep interest in the object of his mission. That it was not barren of practical results he con siders is proved by the events that have since ensued. In Prussia, Austria, W urtemburg, and Bavaria, proposals have been made in the Houses of Repre sentatives in favour of universal disarmaments, and the narrow majorities by which they have been lost argurs well for a speedy success. At Berlin a disarmament motion was supported by the votes of not fewer than 99 members, besides many others who expressed their approval of the principle, but thought it not altogether opportune. In Saxony a similar peace motion was carried by 24 to 21 in spite of Ministerial opposition. In Wurtemburg 200,000 persons have signed a petition against the new Prussian military law. The whole population is only 1,800,000. In Austria, a motion in favour of disarmament was rejected by only 64 to 53. And so the Peace Society's endeavours do not look so gloomy as has been represented. ATTACK AND DEFENCE. The members of the United Service Institution have been listening to an interesting lecture on " Modern Means of Attack and Defence," by Captain Schaw, R.E., Professor of Fortification and Artillery at Sandhurst. Captain Schaw is of opinion that in our day the defenders have the best of it, as they can fire on the attacking force at from 3,000 to 800 yards with their artillery and their mitrailleur, and when their artillery was driven back by the advancing enemy, their breechloaders would play havoc with the attacking troops. The modern weapons have greatly increased the difficulty of find ing cover for reserves, whereas defenders can intrench themselves, and intrenchments are practically im pregnable if defended by a force armed with breech loaders. Within the last twenty years the range and rapidity of fire of our small arms has been greatly increased; the range of field artillery has in creased tenfold. The campaigns in Germany and Italy have shewn the value of the new arms, and shewn also that fortresses must be of larger extent and more heavil) armed than formerly. The defence of Eng land must, however, rest mainly with the navy,.for it would be difficult to ensure the safety of shore for tresses and to see an arsenal with the present artillery is to destroy it. MODERN GUNNERY. As war-ships are now being constructed of armour 12 inches thick, and as Mr. - Iteed asserts that he is prepared to apply armour of 20 inches, it seems ne cessary that some thought should be given to the character of the guns, which should be made to defy this kind of resistance, were an enemy. to arise whose ships would be flanked with iron of such a thickness. Of course much doubt remains as to the possibility of floating armour 20 inches thick in the sea, but there is no insuperable obstacle why it should not be applied as a defence to forts. Now a new proposal on the subject of guns has been made, and it appears to deserve consideration. It is suggested that colossal mortars should henceforth be used in attacks either upon fortifications or upon ships in which thick iron plating is the chief resist ing power. Huge rifled mortars, having a pointed or elongated form of projectile, would, it is contended, penetrate the deck armour of war vessels, which is always thinner than that of the sides, or would fall within a fort, and so force the gunners employed inside to capitulate. Partly for the sake of obtaining accurate aim, and partly because every huge mortar with a colossal shell is cheaper, and would be more eirective of itself than 55 small mortars, such as those usually adopted, it is argued that the large guns should be at once made use •of in England and fur nished to our ships and . forts. The projectiles used might have one effect which it is not always desirable to obtain, but which rather is often fraught with danger to both of the - fighting parties, namely, a liability to cause explosions of the magazines attached to forts. This result, • however, it is con sidered, may possibly be guarded against by altering the composition of the shells. BOARDING OUT. The system of boarding out pauper children, which offers a practical solution of some of our poor-law perplexities, is now being tried in earnest. The guardians of the Carlisle union, are determined to put the e xperiment on a definite footing, and have, with the sanction of the Poor-law Board, framed a code of regulations, under which the. boarding-out plan i s to be tried in their parishes. The children are to be boarded out, when possible, with families of their own religious persuasion, and are to be brought up as members of the family in indus trious, frugal, and religious habits. Special atten tion is to be given to the formation of habits of truth fulness, obedience, cleanliness, and industry, and, if a girl the boarded-out child mus t b e t ra i ne d i n needlework and household work. The children are to attend school until thirteen, and must attend church or chapel on Sunday. The 'guardians are to p a y the school fees, provide outfit, pay three shillings weekly for maintenance, and six and six pence quarterly for clothing. Not more than. tw., children are to be boarded in the same house. These rules, it will be seen, are not unduly burdensome, but are necessary for the welfare of the children, and it may be hoped :that the success of the experiment will serve to diminish the race of our workhouse-reared paupers. ANGLING IN THE THAMES. There are vast numbers of London residents who really enjoy fishing in the Thames as a sport, and TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND, The most used of the Trish channel cables, that between Haverfordwest and - Wexford, has again parted, and although every effort will be mane to repair the line at once, communication with .Ireland will be considerably delayed. Two months since the cable met with a similar fatality, and the public were requested to telegraph only subjects of the most vital import. Such an order causes much disarrange ment, especially - in commercial matters, and it is to be hoped that Mr.' Scudamore, having . now had two warnings, will have sufficient cables laid down between the two countries to prevent a recurrence of these unpleasant stoppages. The public ought never to be inconvenienced if possible, or allowed to know that a slight injury to one cable, a few miles long, so staggers the authorities as to necessitate the discon tinuance of the usual telegraphic communication be tween Great Britain and Ireland. THE EUPHRATES VALLEY RAILWAY TO INDIA. It is to be hoped that on the scroll of fame, which bears the names of Brunel, Waghorn, and Lesseps, the name of Colonel Chesney, the projector of the Euphrates Valley Route to India, will one day be engraved. For upwards of forty years he has medi tated upon a work which still is visionary, but which, there is no doubt, will yet be made to assume a prac tical form. His plans have been mainly disre garded in consequence of the extraordinary success a"! the Red Sea route, which it must be granted has for many years fairly supplied the actual wants of England and India. It may be in the recollection of many that in 1829 Captain Chesney shewed great interest in the idea of au overland route, and that he accordingly undertook an examination of the various countries through which it might possibly be carried. Unaccompanied by any other European, lie started from Cairo, visited Syria, crossed the Desert to the Euphrates, which he de scended to Buss jrah. He then repaired to Bushire, crossed Persia, made his way to Trebizond, and ulti mately, after another visit to Syria, returned to Eng land, having been two years on his travels, in the years 1835,'36, and '37, Captain Chesney was again engaged in explorations on behalf of the Government, and his knowledge acquired then he has only now, after a long lapse of years, brought before the world in a published record. Colonel Chesney's scheme for a direct route to India, either by steamboats on the Euphrates, or b, a railway along the valley, must before long assume a high importance. The desire for more rapid communication than the Red Sea route must of ne cessity follow the late extraordinary development of the telegraph system. That Colonel Chesney's ur vey points out the natural highway for a rapid com munication between the Eastern and Western worlds is, moreover, confirmed by many well-known scientific authorities. MOUNTAIN RAILWAYS. Engineers in these adventurous days think nothing of exploits that would have discomfited their predecessors. Tunnelling used to be considered a somewhat formidable operation, but we apprehend the constructors of the Box-hill tunnel would have been somewhat startled if they had been told to scale Helvellyn. Nevertheless railways in the year 1870 are not content with running along the earth and below it, but must needs scale the moun tain side. We have all heard of the railway in the Andes, and now we are furnished with particulars of a mountain railway in Hungary, con structed by M. Lopresti, a Hungarian, on a plan claimed by Mr. Sheppard, an English engineer. The line requires no permanent way at all ; square bearers of oak are laid on the ground and cross sleepers are used at rare intervals. On the two edges of the bearers are rails only two inches broad, and so thin that they only weigh 11b. per foot. The trucks run on a pair of wheels eight inches in diameter, the bodies of the trucks being three times the width of the rails, and placed so low that the wheels have just room to move. The first railway ever made in the Austrian empire was built on this system, to convey the dirt away from the Chotzess Tunnel in Bohemia. It was of the frailest character ; but required no repair during ten months' service in removing the blasted rock. Mr. Shepherd, who designed it, proposed to extend this cheap railway system through out Hungary, but nothing was done. He thinks it ad mirably suited for the cotton districts of India and for the colonies generally, and is naturally reluctant to see the credit of the invention claimed by an other. GREEK AND TURKISH BRIGANDAGE. Captain St. Clair, late of the Fusiliers, writes to the Times from Kazlimn in the Balkans, on the subject of Greek and Turkish brigandage. He says that Greek politicians accuse Turkey of °fibrin.- shelter to the brigands of Greece. He does not refute these arguments, but he opposes to them a fact. He lives in perfect security on the Ottoman soil, at a dis tance of 100 miles from the capital, his only guard an unarmed lad of 18, and feels as safe as if he were in London. He contrasts with this the circumstance that tourists are captured and murdered within a few miles of the Greek capital. The Turks are, as a race, he declares, as little given to brigand age as th e G ree k s are proud of it. Captain St. Clair concludes by saying that he assisted in the suppression of brigandage in the Balkans. The detachments of Turkish peasants who cleared the country of the plague which foreign influences sought to graft in Turkey, were as disci plined and orderly as any army in Europe. He asks it the Greek Government could venture on such an experiment, and if the Greek Christians could be trusted in the same degree as the Mussulman peasants. LORD ARTHUR CLINTON tin Tuesday Lord Arthur Clinton—al unha but too well known in connexion with those t f Boni ta] and Park —was called by the officers of Bow street Court but obtained no reFpense. 'lke summons to which Lord Arthur Clinton was expected tt.. answer, but did not, wai mer,ly ot , e tali• n ouL b .) a carman, for a fare of Xl_ t-ttriing, for h:ving driven the noble(1) lord for more that s ,- x holy son afur,lay ek. Cabby had taken up his fare at tie 0, e a Hotel, Bow-sty et, Covent G. rden, and on r.tur..i,g thither after 6 hour' drive, was sent to Long's tel At the back of tiro Gantry of Illustration, with a to add: cssed, to a gentlema,,, said to be qaving hoe, but who Irovoi to have left to.. the Coivi amt. likturoing to th. 2, Op ra Hotel, %viler.; L. Arthur. Clinton had ben depo-itch as a:. iis ?e,tination, poor Cabby fins Oat t.s lord sh'p also had . dis lipeArctl. According to stimmonitg officer at liow-Aret.l, the summons td been left wilt th barfflaid of tits Opera Hotel y delivery to Lox d Arthur on his r•:-tarn. Air. Vaugha,:i intimated that if it were discovered tit he summons had bee;; delive:ed to Lord Arthur apron, a warrant would at once he i sued for his aoorehension. THE HARE AND MANY FRIENDS The best Old Man living Mr. Hare, the William Farren of our day, will take is benefit on the 21st at the Princess's. Mr. and Mrs. Wigan will then appear as Sir Paul Pagoda and Miss Yellowleaf " The Bengal Tiger" —Mr. Hare sustaining it the first time the part of Sir Harcourt Courtly, iu ihe comely of " London As,urance." The casie, as a whole, will be unusually good—Mr. Buck, stone impersonating Dolly Spanker; Mr. Toole, `lark Meddle ; Miss Marie Wilton (also for the first time), Lady Gay Spanker ; an d Mi ss E. Farren, Peri. The entertainment will be given at th Princess's Theatre, so that the fullest accommoda tion may he provided fit Mr. Flare's many ftienis and admirers. The Standard prints a telegram about Austrian bonds. It says that through Count Apponyi the Austrian Cabinet has requested Messrs. Worms to inform the committee of the London Stock Exchange that, owing to its hostile action iu not waiting the time promised before issuing certificates to compel the Government, the Ministry has decided to make no con cessions to bondholders. The Hungarian Cabinet fully concurs therein. • • „ tzo% • • tin -7 - • rt II E R 1.11 ES7' Y. BALMORAL CASTLE, June (3. The Czueen, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, at tended Divine service yesterday in the parish church of Crathie. Tito Princess of IRales drove ont yesterd:ty morriirg attended by the Hon. Mrs. Coke. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-DAY . Lady Jodrell's concert, at 64, Portland-place. Lady de Rothschild's dance at 2, GrosVenor-place House s ' Lady Cochrane's evening party, at 20, Belgrave-square- Mr. Henry Leslie's third grand concert at 8 p.m., in St James's Hall. Mr. Louis Emanuel's grand evening concert, at 8 p.m., ill , St. George's Hall, under the immediate patronage ° the Nawab Nazim. SCIENTIFIC Al EETINGS—TO-DAY. The Geological Society, at 8 p.m. The Microscopical Society, at 8 p.m., when Mr. J. Be ll will read a paper on "Experiments on Parasitic Fung i and Fermentation ?" and Mr. J. W. Stephenson one on the " New Form of the Binocular Microscope." The Archteological Association, at 8 p.m., when Mr• A. Sadler will read a paper on " British Auxiliary Troops in the Rowan Service." ELECTION NOMINATIONS. The nomination for the Isle of Wight took place on Tuesday in front of the Guildhall, at Newport. Mr. A. H. Estcourt, the deputy sheriff for the island, was the re' turning officer. The crowd was somewhat more numerous than usual. Sir H. P. Gordon, Bart., norm' nated Mr. Cochrane. Mr. Charles Seeley, M. 4," nominated, and Mr. Bonham Carter. seconded Mr. Moffatt. When Mr. Baillie Cochrane presented himself he met • with much interror tion. Partial silence was obtained.by the influence of th e Mayor and the Liberal magnates, but both candidal were much interrupted. The crowd was goo natured. The show of hands was in favour of Air' Moffat, and a poll was demanded. The nomination of candidates for the representation of South Leicestershke took place on Tuesday, a t ten o'clock, on the hustings erected in front of the Castle , Leicester. The returninc , officer was the High Sheriff, Mr. Edward Basil, Farnham. Major Noel proposed a n Mr. John Dove Harris, M.P., seconded, Mr. T11°1122115 Tertis Paget, as a fit and proper person to represent the county. Mr. E. F. Dawson proposed and Mr* R. H. Chapman, seconded the nomiation of Mr. Unwin Heygate. Both candidates shortly addressed the crowd, which numbered over five thousand persons. g r ' J. C. Paget spoke in support of Mr. Gladstone and adhesio n , to free trade. Mr. Hey ga t e p re f erre d an independe n ' position, and an inquiry into the hostile commercial tariffs' Mr. Paget was in favour of secular education ; M r ' Heygate adirocated education with the introduction o f the Bible in schools, and feared that the subject was yet D ' long way off settlement. He advocated a co mpronks e and the Government Bill as originally proposed. the show of hands was decidedly in favour of Mr. Pag e :, The proceedings were orderly, and utterly devoid of par" display. The poll is fixed for Friday. The Prince of Wales will be present at th e opening of the new Dulwich College on the 21st inst. Miss BATEMAN.-The brilliant engagement of this gifted lady is announced as concluding on Saturday, Al°er 25. Those who have and tho se w h o h ave no t seen h great impersonation of Mary War ner will alike be eag er to avail themselves of the brief period yet remaining to enjoy an impersonati o n p ronounce d by a ll w h o haVe w',"; nessed it the most natural and to uc hi ng pict u r e of woman"; devotion the stage can boast. The Western Morning News states that the Earl of Feversham has conferred the rectory of Kirkby, york: shire, upon the Rev. G eorge B o dy, th e we ll-k no wn Ilig u ' Church missionary preacher. Mr. Body is a warm adv e c i cate of the separation of the Church from the State, an supported that principle from the pulpit of Westmins ter Abbey on the evening of last Sunday week. The Rev. William Whitmarsh Phelps, a sen ior chaplain stationed at Murree, India, has been censured IV the Bishop of Calcutta for some remarks he has made the " immorality of dancing." Immediately after a b al had been given at the station, Mr. Phelps thought prope r to preach a sermon denouncing such reunions , whereup on the civil and military officers addressed a remonstrance the bishop. In a very outspoken reply to this reran; strance, Bishop Milman states that Mr. Phelps's idea the immorality of dancing seems to him absurd, and tu t mention of the probable inability of the husbands to wee their wives' milliners' bills, impertinent. STRANGE DISCOVERY OF AN ADDER.—The men at present employed in demolishing a house upwar: l ' of a century old, at the foot of South Bridge-street, ior drie, discovered on Saturday a large adder coiled iii the thatch, When disturbed it turned upon one of the wen' and was in the act of springing upon him when he broil,' a it down with a blow of a shovel which he fortunately I's, in his hand. He then threw the reptile into the stre e t l where it attracted great attention. It belongs to the ° species of the common viper or adder, and was about ti,; feet long. The head was depressed, almost oval, slightg widening about the eyes, the gape being as long as t head. There were no teeth except the fangs in the uPP,..ee jaw, and there was a row of ten teeth in each side of the lower jaw. —Scotsman. GREECE.— A Malta corresrondent sends the fol ° i lowing extract of a letter from Chalcis, dated the 25th May :—" As yet no tidings of the brigands ; the fact the soldiers are good for nothing. I believe they are ° I I, to us. It is said they are a ll woun d e d—T a k os , the chi e ,, in the head, hand, and f oo t. Th e o th ers t a k en were !' is condemned to death on S un d a y morn i ng . Sp ano s and ti : band of eight 0u,., , ht to have been taken or killed a days since ; but the troops did nothing - more than Nv° ll ' B one, who escap e d w ith the rest, and they have not s ince been heard of. The peasants are afraid to denounce theL n ; Her Majesty' s s hi p J aseur i s h ere , an d l eaves thi s even. or to-morrow morning for the Piraeus." discussing o A FACT FOR WOMEN. Women, in t their grievances, do not make enough use of the fact qa,o they were summoned to Parliament ,in Edward 1 1 - 1 1 ; o time. Among the summonses to Parliament in 1.361:,t; 35th Parliament of Edward 111., there is one writ admittendo fide dignos ad colloquiam ;" and amotg earls and barons are returned Marie Countesse de IN ° l. c i o Alianor Countesse de Ormond, Philippa Countesse . March, Agnes Countesse de Pembrook, and Kathe l l l 2 Countesse de Athole. In the preceding year, also (on Edward III.), there had been writs tested at Wyustoq, the sth of April, issued to divers earls and barons, to Archbishop of Canterbury, to several bishops and ablfi' o and to " four abbesses," requiring their attendance of Westminster on the morrow of the Trinity. It does appear, however, that any ladies ever actually took the h seats in Parliament by virtue of these summonses, althoqa numerous instances are on record of both k n ights an. esquires having sat in the House of Lords in right of th e/, wives. he 11 COMPLETION OF ST. PAUL'S. It has already --° announced that the scheme for the completion of S l t i . / Paul's, commenced by the late Dean Milman, has lt i e el f, been revived, and is now being prosecuted with consit, l 4 ,4 able vigour. A very influential committee, consis'i h e not only of some of the leading men in to City, but of persons high in Church and 0",,e -and distinguished for their knowledge and p r od tice of art, has been appointed, and is now ,_ u oi e at work. A public meeting in furtherance of the sco e _ c i will be held at the Mansion House, under the preside Ply, of the Lord Mayor, on Wednesday, the 13th of J o t a, when the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winche, e Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Gathorne Hardy and others promised to speak. In THE PAUL AND FARQUHAR DIVORCE CAST tier the Court of Divorce, Lord Penzance gaye judgment in o r case of " Paul v. Paul and Farquhar." The petit io n e d was a solicitor at Bristol and Maidenhead, and mar t er the daughter of a genteman of fortune at the f er , a ia place. There she became acquainted with a Cabo Farquhar, with whom she ultimately eloped. a ny a Queen's Proctor intervened,, but failed to prove 0 5 collusion by the petitioner, and a decree absolute pronounced, since which Captain Farquhar 'op married her. She had £l5O a year settled tio, her by her father, who died last year, and the cfn es t ot now before the court was the variation of 0 01 settlement. The Judge Ordinary desired that the r? t i l e should be paid durin g her life for the benefit n ' to o children, as at her death Mr. Paul became entitled pd, life interest in the money. The order was made as with costs against the co-respondent. 17,,a The council of the University of Cambridge haviubnrti their attention called to the great danger of using P;;; I a, cular kinds of boats on the river Cam above Newnl' e t he recommend that the subjoined edicts should receis „a sanction of a grace of the Senate. Persons in stat" Pr o ve Tani are forbidden to use on the river Cam a t iga , Newnham any boat of less breadth of beam sto ttt 3 feet 6 inches. Any member of the University in . : t ias pupillari who may have been proved to have used T o o, part of the river any boat of less breadth of " to De than that above described will render himself liable her punished by suspension, rustication, expulsion, or , nt afo r wise. Whereas it has been found to be extremely...bolo gerous to use boats on the river Cam above Nev sm all of the kind called outriggers, or canoes, or of a kw, breadth of beam, notice is given that if any boat Wull°ll or other person, shall let out for hire and for use ia the part of the Cam above Newnham to any Per e- 00 statu pupillari any boat of less breadth of beam ,„ be three feet six inches, shall for so doing be liable tu discommuned. DUNN"! LLE and CO., Belfast, are the large.4ll° l ‘! v j e etl of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ora l° Sol i , by the median profession in preference to French brand •,.. t ica plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Qt l , o ; on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co. Royal 1100 tilleries, Belfast ; or at their London Offices, 4, B eau fort Btu Strand, W.Q. Lord Liverp are not and tin Peet of sp eTh of th e the Port a , tit, i s Col lBtl retur l , elex tei are tli a ; re sp , G en no te flair, R 1. 11 th e 4 in s (low Avi