The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-30 00:00:00

E. MOSES and SON, _LL.i• CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGA.TE. NEW OXFORD- STREET, CORNER of HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. V MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of E GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING. Frock 255. 30s. 35e. 425. 50s. 63e, Coats 1 25a. 30s. 355. 425. Oxford 1 178. 21s. 265. Coats 365. 425, 365. 425. Dress Coats Cambridge 1 18s. 225. 28s. 325. Coats Fishing Coats } 10s. 15s. 18s. 225. 28s. 355. p MOSES and SON beg to remind the public • that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its quality, and they venture to affirm that every article sold by them is considerably cheaper than what can be obtained at any other house in England. - E J MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of . GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED : Summer Overcoats 1 13s. 6d. 18s. 21s. 245. 30s. 408. Race Coats 1 12s. 13s. 6d. 15s. 18s. 6d. 21s. Business I 30s. 355. 40s. 455. 50s. Suits ) Morning 1 10s. 6d. 13s. 16s. 18s. Trousers Dress 15s. 18s. 21s. 265. Trousers 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. 21s. 265. 30s. 10s. 21s. 265. 30s. 365. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of BO Y'S CLOTHING : Knickerbocker 1 9s. 6d. 13s. 6d. 16s. 6d. Suits 1 15s. Brighton 1 18s. Suits Harrow Suits 1 18s. V MOSES and SON supply every description of 4 . 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 MINORTES and ALDOATE. Ngw OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. SUNDAY CLOSING OF PUBLIC HOUSES. A great open-air WORKING MEN'S DEMONSTRATION will take place at Lismore Circus, Haverstock Hill, on SATURDAY, May 28. Speakers :—Rev. J. Morgan, and Messrs. G. Dibley, J. Hilton, and J. Leicester ; the Rev. E. Mathews, M.A., Travelling Secretary of the Central Association, will attend as a Deputation. The Chair will be taken by M. A. GARVEY, Esq., LLB., Barrister at-Law, at Five o'Clock, p.m. TIF E B OAT SERVICES.—During the storms of J the past 17 months the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITU TION contributed to the saving of 1,592 lives from various ship wrecks and 43 vessels from destruction. It has now 220 Lifeboat Stations under its management. CONTRIBUTIONS for their support will be thankfully received by Messrs. Willis and Co , Coutts and Co., Herries and Co., by all the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, RICHARD LEWIS, Esq., at the Insti tution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. 265. 325. 365. 48s. 235. 265. 325. 365. 48s. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNE LL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, includ ng brush. Red Bull Wharf ,Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, F.C. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d.— Bed Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, NO SONG NO SUPPER: alr. Kendal, Mr. Compton, Mr. Edvo 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 BATEMAN.- THIS EVENING, at 8, MARY WARNER: Mary Warner, Miss Bateman; assisted by Messrs. Vernon, D. Fisher, Blakeley, Roberts, Elliott, Vaughan, and G. Belmore. Preceded by, at 7, MUSIC HATH CHARMS: Miss Mattie Reinhardt. To conclude with THE 'VARSITY BOAT RACE. Mr. Geo. Belmore. T 4 YCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs. Mansell). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, HIS OWN RIVAL. Mr. F. Charles and Miss L. Morgan. At 8, BREAKING THE SPELL. After which, at e. 30, LITTLE FAUST: Mr. T. Maclagan, M. Marius, Mr. Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr. Wilmot; Mdlle. Debrenx, Mesdames Lennox Grey, Lawson, Lee, and Emily Soldene. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS ENENING, at 7 o'clock, LOVING HEARTS. Messrs Edward Tesry and Turner; Mesdames Buf ton andiSantley. Followed by Kenilworth. Messrs D. James, terry, Turner, and Fenton; Mesdames Sant'ey, Anstiss, Goodall, Metcalfe, and Moore. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs H. J. Montague, 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 Edwardes, entitled DON CARLOS; or, The Infante in Aims. 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, K Irwin, L. Claire, J. Beauclerc, R. Evelyn, Kemp, T. Lavis, F. Garthwaite, R. Power. N B.—On Saturday, June 4, will be produced a New and Ori ginal Comedy in 3 Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, supported by the whole of the Company, and in which Miss A. Newton will make her first appearance at this Theatre. THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at Mr. BEAUMONT'S. " The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand. OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden.—Mozart's La Nozze di Figaro. 8.30. p.m. ITALIAN OPERA, Drury Lane.—Flotow's Mar, ha. 8.3) p.m. HAYNAREET—At Seven, No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book. And A Kiss in the Dark. ADELPIII—At Seven, Free Labour. PRINCE OF WALEs's—At 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. LYCEUM—At 7.30, His Own Rival, Breaking the Spell. At 8.30, Little Faust. OLYMPIC -At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, Mary Warner. The 'Varsity Boat Race. GAIETY—At Seven, First Night. The Princess of Trebizonde. QuExkes--At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Axe and Crown. STRAND—At Seven, Loving Hearts, rth. VAUDEVILLE—For Love or Money. Don Carlos. ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Frou. La Belle Sauvage WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH Boc K. Egyptian Hall, Pic cadilly, every Evening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn ings at 3. Admission ls, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall. Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZO3LOGIOAL GARDENS, Regent's -park. Open daily (except Sun days). Admission, ls. ; on M on d ays, 6d . Children under , Jap.DAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from if a.m. till 3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. 'Admission, ls.; extra Bd. " • (I ~--"*" A , EVENING EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1870. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1870. England never appears to greater advantage than when repairing a great wrong of her own commit ting. The abolition, one after another, of the detes table penal laws, the Emancipation of the Negroes from the curse of Slavery, and the paying down for their emancipation of the magnificent sum of £20,000,000; these and similar records inscribed upon her statute book shine as resplendently in her annals as the names of her most glorious victories by sea and land, as those even of Agincourt or of Trafalgar. Second only to these conspicuous and supreme evidences of her magnanimity are those incidents in her Parliamentary history in which England displays her readiness upon occasion to rectify a mistake or to correct a blunder into which, being merely a human power, she may have been misled, under circumstances of more than ordinary excitement. An incident precisely of this character is being enacted, now, in this session of 1870 and will happily be recorded on its full completion in the current pages of Hansard. Nineteen years ago, under the designation of " The Ecclesiastical Titles Act," there was passed in 1851 a law which has ever since then remained a mere brutunz fulmen among the statutes of the realm. It has never once to this moment been called into operation. The penalties threatened by it have never once been imposed. The Act is a dead letter, and as such requires, for the honour of England, but one sequel—its abrogation. Wisely, therefore, and most judiciously, the Government have intro duced, this year, and laid before Parliament, a Bill for the repeal at last of the " Eccle siastical Titles Act" as one the utterly ineffec tual presence of which any longer upon the sta tute book is derogatory to the dignity of the Crown, and prejudicial to the influence, at once, of the Legislature and of the Executive. It is curious to reflect, now, when we come to look back at that last No Popery outbreak of 1851, which seemed to revive the spirit of 1780, when Lord GEORGE GORDON, for one brief interval, was in the ascendant— it is curious, we say, when we come to look back across the nineteen years intervening between the proposal of. the Act, in 1851, by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and the proposal now, in 1870, by Lord KIMBERLEY, for its immediate abroga tion, to remember that there was a distinct clause in the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, which, if it means anything at all, implies, in the very wording of it, a complete justification of what the Act of 1851 has ever since then so loudly, but so ineffec tually reprehended and denounced. In the Emancipation Act of 1829, there is a clause which prohibits the usurpation of any title held by a Bishop of the Established Church —implying that any other title might be lawfully assumed, that any other title was, at any rate, in no way prohibited ! And the very course pursued by the SOVEREIGN PONTIFF in 1850, when establishing the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in England, suffi ciently indicated that that was the deduction drawn from the Act of 1829 by the Papal authority : " special care was taken," said the Lord Privy Seal on Friday last in the House of Lords, " and that jus tice," he added, " must be done to the POPE— special care was taken, when the Roman Catholic Hierarchy was established in 1850, not to infringe the clause of 1829 by conferring titles of sees identical with those of the Established Church." Under any cir cumstances, the Act of 1851 is useless. Wherefore —away with it ! It is worse than useless —it is an impotent source of irritation. Besides which, on the other side of St. George's Channel, as Lord KI3IBERLEY—WhO knows something, we may pre sume, of the sister island, having there won the coronet of his earldom by his wise and conciliatory policy as Lord Lieutenant--took occasion to remark in the House of Peers on Friday evening—" The result of the Act has been most prejudicial to the Government of Ireland " that alone, as the noble lord insisted, making its repeal, at last, expedient. Lord RUSSELL, the author of the Act in question—et palmanz qui meruit ferat— Lord RUSSELL demands loudly now the emendation in Committee of the Bill for its repeal. The Second Reading, at any rate, has been passed without going through the formality of a division. The Committee will see to itself. And, in any case, there is at length a fair and reasonable prospect before Parliament that an enactment very much like the Shaksperean tale told by an idiot, " fall of sound and fury signifying nothing," will at last be erased and utterly obliterated from the statute book of England. "ADULTERATION is only a form of competition ;" we assert this on the high authority of the President of the Board of Trade. But so is theft. The man who competes with others in the race for wealth without labouring for it finds it necessary to take the property of other men. Nevertheless we punish the thief. Unfortunately we don't punish the adulterator. Most certainly we ought to punish him. We can in great measure guard against his fellow-sinner. We can button up our pockets and lock up our houses, but we cannot protect ourselves against alum, lime, brick dust, strychnia, coculus indicus, chromate of lead and the excrement of silk-worms. These thieves who rob us of our health come to us in disguise—in the garb of friends in the shape of food, bread, milk, beer, tea, and the rest. If we give a feast, and adorn our table with confectionery, it is poisoned ; the ordinary food that we eat ourselves and give our little ones is equally poisoned. They sicken, and we know not why. They die, and the doctors tell ue that the cause of death is gastric fever. But what is the cause of gastric fever ? Some of them know; the Paris doctors know, and they have traced the malady to the coffee which is drunk by the poor. In fact there is nothing safe from adulteration except meat, and that is diseased; and eggs, and they are rotten. Undoubtedly the tradesman is not wholly in fault. It is partly, and in no small measure, the purchaser, who is to blame. The passion for cheapness independent of quality, in a manner forces the originally honest tradesman to adulterate. He begins by offering genuine goods ; a rival sets up in the same street, and offers goods at a lower price, though the first was selling at the lowest figure which could give him any profit; there is no help for him but either to follow his rival and sell inferior articles at a reduced figure, or to close his shop, which means ruin. If poor and even middle class housekeepers would but understand the first principles of political economy, the very simplest axioms of the trade-- that, for instance, it Is impossible for a tradesman to sell at and below cost price, that if he did so he would have nothing wherewith to pay his rent and taxes and to keep himself—there would be some hope for the honest retailer. But the chance of saving a half penny puts to flight all considerations of this kind even with persons to whom a half-penny is is a trifle not worth considering, much more with the very poor who have to think of every farthing. This false economy is irresistible. It has been told, for instance, that when the experiment was made by a philanthropist of selling pure milk at cost price in a poor district of London; the people preferred to buy at the old shops where the price was a little lower, although the water was mixed with the milk before their very eyes. Such being the case, how can we greatly blame the tradesman for adulteration, provided al ways that it be harmless, and not poisonous ? He does not know Latin, or he would reply to all expostulation "Populus vult decipi et decipiatur. The question of short weights, though less injurious to the public health, is more heinous from the moral point of view. If the purchaser is foolish enough to buy tea at a price below that which it costs before leaving China, he must know that the article he gets is not tea, but some other article which the tradesman can afford to sell at the sum he gets for it. In such a case the purchaser is robbed with his eyes open. It is otherwise with short weights. We imagine that we get full quantity; but we do not get it, and we cannot get it. It may be said, why not check the weight with your own scales ? Let those who have tried the experiment say how it has answered. They will confess that they have been in danger, of starvation, that the tradesmen keep aloof from them, neglect to deliver the articles ordered, so that the unfortunate householder comes down to breakfast in the morning, and finds that the baker has "forgotten" to deliver the bread, and the milkman has been equally oblivious about the milk. What is to be done ? Something, undoubtedly; but adulteration is not to be put down in a day, even by Act of Parliament. In the first place the inspection of weights and measures and the analysis of articles sold should be no longer permissive, but compulsory. It is easy to imagine the amount of vigour which will be used in putting these permissive precautions into operation when it is rememberedthat those with whom the motive power rests are themselves the offenders. The inspector and the analyst must be 1 1 Government officers, not parochial. They should be con stantly at work. A public prosecutor should prosecute offenders. On conviction the names of the rascals should be published in the London Gazette and in the local papers, and they should be compelled to post in their own shops the record of their offence. It may be- said that it would be hard to punish a retail tradesman for the adulteration of the wholesale, or the wholesale for the adultera tiort of the export agent. The answer to this objec tion is that there is no supply without a demand — that adulterated goods would not be sent unless they were ordered. Besides, the tradesman can always protect himself by analysis. Finally, the matter is greatly in the hands of the consumer. If he expects to get a pound of tea for the pri.le of half-a-pound, he will get only a quarter-of-a-pound, the rest will be offal and poison. THE Birmingham League is not satisfied with Mr. Forster's amendments. We are sorry for it. We shall be still more sorry if it should turn out that the League is a true representative of the Dissenters in this matter. The position of the latter is this, they are religious, or they have no raison d'être. They desire to see the children of this country brought up in the knowledge of reli gion, but they ask that the children shall not be taught any distinctive dogmas. Mr. Forster has granted them what they have asked, and more: By proposing the time-table conscience clause he has placed it in the power of any parent to withdraw his children from all religious teaching without placing them in an invidious and painful position. This teaching is to be either at the beginning or at the end of the day's lessons, or at both; and it is but for a child to go a quarter of an hour later, or to come away a half an hour earlier than the rest, in order to be saved from the peril of false doctrine. In other words, Mr. Forster, having to choose between two arrangements, one of which would have presumed that religion was excluded from the ordi nary teaching, the other that it was included therein, has preferred the latter. Henceforth it is to be under stood that religion does form part of the English child's education. At the same time it is not a compulsory part. The infidel's con scientious convictions are respected as much as the Churchman's. But, as we said, the League wants more : it wants to prevent any distinctive religious formulary from being taught in any school supported by Government money, even though the school-board wishes to teach it. The reason for this demand hitherto has been that the League is afraid of the social influence of the squire and the parson, and thinks that these persons will generally be able to get a school-board after their own mind. But Mr. Forster now proposes that the boards shall be elected by ballot, so that this ground of complaint is taken away. Nevertheless it would seem as if the League were determined to press the point ; and whereas it was held that Go vernment had no right to interfere actively in religious teaching, it now holds that it ought to interpose with a prohibition. This theory is utterly irreconcilable with the principle that religious teaching should be left to the decision of priy4te persons. To forbid religious teaching is as hostile to that principle as the enforcement oi religious teaching is. If the Dissenters do not see this, it will show that they have very little confidence in their own hold over the people, even though they claim half of them as their adherents. It will indicate, more over, that they are moved less by religious zeal for the nation than by religious jealousy of the Church. We shall not believe that they will adopt this course of policy until belief is forced upon us by facts. 01, 4 Court s' Cirtukt t HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, May 28, The Queen went out yesterday morning with Princess Louise. In the afternoon her Majesty, attended by the Duchess Dowager of Athole and Miss Macgregor, drove to the Linn of Quoich. Earl de Grey arrived at the Castle as Minister in attend ance upon her Majesty. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Prince of Teck and Count Gleichen, and attended by Colonel Kings cote, Lieutenant-Colonel Teesdale, and Lieutenant-Colonel Ellis, was present, on Saturday morning, at the guard mounting parade in St. James's Park, in honour of the Queen's birthday. The annual general meeting of the 11,6"yal Cam bridge asylum for soldiers widows was held on Saturday at the United Service Institution, Whitehall. His Royal Highness Prince Teck presided, and there were also present, the Princess Teck, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar. The report and balance-sheet which were satisfactory, were adopted, and five widows, making in all 52 inmates of the institution were elected to vacancies. " FREE RUSSIA " AND FREE AND EASY' CRITICISM. During the last fow weeks a rather animated discussion has been going on between Mr Hepwort It Dixon and the Pall Mall Gazelle. Several letters in regard to this discussion having been addressed to ourselves have duly appeared iu our own columns, as well ae in those of some of our contem poraries.. The argument throughout has had reference to Mr Dixon's last work and the Pall Mall's comments—par tially commendatory, partially condemnatory—thereupon. Before touching, however, in any way, here, upon the subject matter in dispute between those two very conspicu ous disputants, the popular author and the popular journalist, we would, in this place, for a reason immediately afterwards to be explained, give an excerpt in regard to the latter from another book altogether than " Free Russia"—from a book in which its anonymous author incidently introduced his estimate of, we may even go so far as to add, his respect and admiration for, our young and distinguished contemporary. The work to which we are now alluding had reference to her Majesty's present ministerial advisers, being issued from the press upwards of a year ago by the same eminent publishing house from which Mr. Dixon's "Free Russia" has more recently emanated. It was entitled "The Gladstone Government," and consisted of a series of "Cabinet Pictures by A Templar " At that portion of the work set apart for the consideration of the President of the Poor Law Board, the Right Hon. J G. Gosohen, the writer, while commenting upon the momentous social problem now more urgently almost than any other demanding its solu ion from the Legislature, that of mitigating, if possible, the horrors of destitution, took occasion to observe as follows : " Not very readily, we should suppose, will it be lost to the popular remembrance, how it came to pass that one of the youngest, and as it has ever since then shown itself to be, one of the very ablest of our evening newspapers, leaped at once, as by a single bound,' into celebrity. Reading, as we all did, the statement there set forth, with a singularly manly and affecting eloquence, by that noble-hearted and self sacrificing Amateur Pauper Casual, who therein gave us his own personal experiences—experimentally acquired— of our s 3 stem of Poor Law Relief, as it actually is, we recog nised upon the instant, in the organ which had had thus the courage to set forth that startling and most impressive nar rative, a journal penned by thoughtful men, men whose opinions it was worth one's while to ascertain and ponder over. "Standing in imagination beside the Amateur Casual as Le plunged into that bath like weak mutton broth— pah ! the flavour of which has not yet passed from our palate, merely from reading about it—we could understand even then, what the time that has since elapsed has very clearly de monstrated, that, in immersing himself in that revolting liquid, the narrator, in his capacity as the representative, or alter ego of the young Pall Mall Gazette, had rendered it in a measure, among our organs of public opinion, as invulne rable as Achilles, when he had been plunged into the Styx. • Interesting as the incident was, as another added to the many interesting incidents recorded in the history o. journalism, it was yet more profoundly interesting as a social revelation." See The Gladstone Government, pp. 321-322. We have quoted those words, here, in The Sun, for the very simple reason that in • point of fact they aro our own opinions. They express now, as they expressed then, as plhinly as words could express anything, the estimate we had already formed (and have all along held throughout the five years during which it has been in exist ence) in regard to the Pall Mall Gazette. 1: it h that estimate the course pursued very recently by the Pall Mall Gazette in dealing with Mr. Dixon's book about "New Russia," jars and clashes, however, most disastrously. Facts shall speak for themselves. About mere matters of taste or more matters of opinion men may be allowed to differ. Tritest among all the trite proverbs belonging to all literature are these two—" Quot homines, tot sententim (It thought borrowed from Terence), uud De gustibus non est disputandum. With regard to facts, how ever, it is axiomatically remarked that they are stubborn things ; and, as we hive but just now said, they speak for themselves, In reference to this discussion between Mr. Hepworth Dixon and the Pall Mall Gazette we would now add, let them (that is ; the facts simply) speak for themselves. Early in the present year the Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., a publishing firm of great eminence, not altoget her dis associated from the Pall Mall Gazette, brought out a work called MODERN RUSSIA, by a German Author. In April of the present year the Messrs. Hurst and Blackett brought out FREE RUSSIA. The latter, that is, Mr. Dixon's work, is already (in May) in its Third Edition. While, in regard to the former, meaning the translation from the German—if it is oven yet out of its first edition, the public knows nothing at all about it. Innuediately after the original publication of "Free Russia," we ourselves reviewed it in these columns in terms which it eminently well deserved. Iu terms of kindred ap proval it was reviewed by the majority of our leading contemporaries. " Free Russia," we know for a fact, was not sent for notice to the Pall Mall Gazette—and, for another fact, we know this, that a copy being recently asked for, was at length, in answer to that request, sent 'by the publishers of the work to our contemporary. It was in consequence of this, that, not longer since than the IGth of this present May,there appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette au article praising Free Russia (iu parts) as "fair," "dra matic," and " picturesque," but objecting to five statements of fact. Thereupon Mr. Dixon replied—J we have received the letters and have published them in our columns] —Mr.Dixon replied that these five erroneous statements were not in his book, and that he had not made the errors alleged. Consequent upon this— the Pall Mall abused him, but gave no answer. Mr. Dixon wrote again declaring the citations false. The Pall Mall ac knowledged the receipt of an " insolent, ingenious letter" but kept it dark—refrained from publishing it. Baffled in his very natural endeavour to extract an apology or retrac tation from the editor, Mr. Dixon then turned to the critic. With what result? No answer! Finally, on the 20th of May, the Pall Mall Gazette sent to the publishers of "Free Russia" and bought a copy of the third edition—the result of that investment being visible in the Pall Mall of Friday evening last (May the 27th), in a laboriously got up and cer tainly a very abusive article running into three columns, under the title of " Suggestions for a fourth edition of Free Russia "—suggestions mostly child n i o sh t a in n u d sio tt , l , of „ t ii he ie m f absurd. For example, there are among them these direct assertions—"Singingis in not the capital of Little Russia" !! "Georgia is peopled by Mahomedans "!! ! There are no real Russians in the upper parts of Great Russia "! !! ! As though any one were to observe that the voice of Patti or of Mario was not music !—that Dublin was not the capital of Ireland ! !—that Scotland is peopled by Epis copalians!!! That there are no English in New Eng land ! ! !! And consistently to the end of the chapter—this chapter of accidents, shall it be called charitably ? —Noir ONE WORD ABOUT THE FIVE ABSOLUTELY FALSE CITATIONS MADE BY THE Pall Mall Gazette. In the presence of this really discreditable incident in the history of the Pall Mall Gazette, wo are constrained to re vise our opinion of its character and of its pretensions—we are constrained, in the interests of our calling and for the honour alike of literature and of journalism, to cancel the high estimate we have hitherto formed and expressed of the reputation of our contemporary. Its boast a year or two ago was that it was written "by gentlemen for gentlemen " —' which it wore true," oven Mrs: Gamp might have said, had she still survived up to only a very little further back than yesterday—" but then," as Mrs. Gamp's shadowy "counterfeit presentment," Mts. Brown, might add, "as the sayin' is, there's gentlemen and gentlemen !" FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-DAY. The Levee this afternoon at St. James's Palace. Ball at the Countess of Caledon's, 5, Carlton House-terrace. Dancing Party at Mrs. Bonsor's, 10, Hill-street, Berkeley- square. . The Countess of Bantry's ball, announced for to-morrow, will take place instead this evening. The Duke of Rutland's garden party at Bute Lodge. The Duchess of Sutherland's assembly. The annual regimental dinner of the sth Lancers (Royal Irish) at the Albion, Aldersgate• street, at 8 p.m. I re cisely. The annual regimental dinner of tho 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's), also at the Albion, Aldersgate,..treet, at 8 p.m. precisely. The annual regimental dinner of the 9th Lancers (Queen's Royal), at the Albion, Aldersgate-street, at 8 p.m. pre cisely. The Fairy Rose Garden open to-day (without oxtra charge) at the Crystal Palace. Signor Marras's apres-midi musicale, at his residence, 10, Hyde-park-gate, Kensington -gore, three to five o'clock. The Yorkshire Society's Ball at Willis's Rooms. Mr. Kuhe's Grand Annual Morning Concert, at 2.30 p.m., at St.. James's Hall. At Lord's Ground (grand cricket match).—Gentlemen of M.U.C. v. Yorkshire SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS—TO-DAY. Anniversary Meeting of the Asiatic Society, at 3 o'clock. Heeling of the Architectural Society, at 8 o'clock. Meeting at the United Service I stitution at 8.30 p.m., where Captain J. C. HoseaFon will reed a paper on the "Necessity for the Extension of our Naval Transport .Fleet for Military Purposes." TO WN TALK. (From the Western Mail of Saturday.) . LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. Another wholesale murder like that of the Kinck Family by Traupmann'—a startling telegram on Tuesday morning through the Atlantic Cable, announcing that the Fenians were moving from several points upon the frontiers of Canada—an astounding revolution at Lisbon, astounding even among Portuguese revolution— tidings like these have, since my last letter to you was completed, roused even fashionable London from its customary insouciance. As for the massacre of the unfortunate Marshalls, at Denham, near Uxbridge, it proves to be a crime so por tentous in its brutal enormity that it has even distracted attention from the raw-head-and-bloody-bones atrocity of that miserable wretch Walter Miller, whom the Times, having in error once spoken of as William, persists, for some inexplicable and occult reason, in still speaking of as William, down to the very end of the chapter. As for the Fenian raid newly threatened on the border-line of the Dominion, the tidings of it make one think with a qualm, at the first blush, having reference to Ireland, and, at the second, having reference to Lord Granville. As to this new revolution on the banks of the Tagus, what can I say further than this, that it is worthy of the insurrec tionary genius of the Portuguese. The mere notion of an old marshal, close upon ninety years of age, marching at one o'clock at night, at the head of half a dozen bat talions, upon the regal palace at Lisbon, being confronted there at the gates by the Royal guards, killing seven of them and wounding thirty others, taking possession of Fort St. George, and then knocking the young King Louis up at four o'clock in the morning (surely the earliest visit ever paid to a crowned head since heads were crowned and uncrowned) the Duke'of Saldanha, this old marshal of ninety, thus storming his way to power and place, and all its perquisites, at the point of his sword, at the unlikeliest hour out of the whole twenty-four, through the palace of the King, in the very presence of his Sovereign ! How the royal authority can be maintained, in any shape whatever, after scenes and incidents like these, altogether passes my comprehension. The whole narrative of the proceeding reads to me like one of the greatest " larks " in history. Meanwhile, in the other and larger division of the Iberian peninsula, Marshal Espartero, in his green old age of 80, is having all Spain in deputation at his feet, beseeching him to accept the kingly crown, which he has already declined to receive almost as many times as Julius Caesar declined when that other crown was proffered for his ac ceptance, again and again, upon the Lupercal. At length, in answer to almost tearful remonstrances, his Majesty King Baldomero the First, that is to be, vouchsafes the tardy concession that, if elected to the crown by the Cortes, otherwise by the nation, he will, in that contingency, answer at last in the affirmative, though even then. re luctantly ! Saldanha ninety—Espartero Eighty. Clearly old age is in the ascendant alike among the Spaniards and the Portuguese. If oaths are to have any credence now adays, Spain and Portugal are not as yet to be amalga mated, Marshal the Duke of Saldanha having spontane ously sworn that by him the independence of his own country shall be always maintained and vindicated. The proclamation of the plebiscite at Paris occurring, as it did in May, came as a reminiscence of the famous Champ de Mai when the 'seemingly incongruous names and interests of Napoleon and Liberty were fifty- five years ago first brought into association. As a mere spectacle, the sight must have been magnificent. For en thusiasm it appears to have surpassed any previous inci dent in the history of the second Empire. Amongst ourselves, here in Parliament, we have had within these last few days enough to interest us. The mere fact of the passage through committee—at last—of the Irish Land Bill transformed (political cynics are mutter ing, " The deformed transformed") was sufficient of itself to give a character of its own to this middle week of the Parliamentary session. Monday next will bring us to the crowning incident of the third reading, when both sides will muster strongly for the anticipated division. Another event, not only in the Commons, but in the Lords also, has been the discussion upon those horribly wanton murders of our own countrymen and others when peace fully journeying across the plains of Marathon. " That man," exclaimed old Samuel Johnson in one of the finest passages he ever wrote, in one of the finest passages in the English language, " That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Mara thon, and whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Those words were written nearly a cen tury ago, but, in the recent and painful remembrance of the mangled bodies of our fellow-countrymen, Mr. Vyner and Mr. Herbert, it is impossible to read them without feeling our patriotic sympathies glowing within us at that reference to the now once more blood-stained plains of Marathon—and glowing within us with an almost pain ful sense of burning indignation. In the House of Commons this feeling called forth from a veteran diplomatist like Sir Henry Bulwer an expression of cordial goodwill towards Russia, and if by no other means than that of Russia the pre- servation of law and order in Greece could for one instant be supposed to be in any way capable of being reasonably assured, In the House of Lords the same painful theme drew from the Earl of Carnarvon an impressive and, in parts, affecting tribute to the memory of his murdered re lative, followed by an earnest appeal to the Legislature and to the Government to see well to it that the shedding of the life-bood of unoffending and, unarmed Englishmen shall not be allowed to pass by unpunished. Another and a very surprising incident of a parliamentary character occurred on Thursday night, when the member for the Ayr burghs insistedpro bono publico (that is from his point of view) upon having the House cleared of all strangers, in cluding the reporters, before the four hours' discussion upon Mr. Fowler's motion, for a Bill for repealing the Conta gious Diseases Acts df 1866 and 1869, could be com menced. In the midst of the confusion, almost scrim mage, caused by the clearing of the galleries, a mingled sense of surprise, amusement, and indignation was caused by the reluctance of two very pertinacious and unblushing ladies to withdraw from their birdcage. Who were they ? I wonder—just as I am marvelling to myself who those could possibly have been who have been sitting for hours unwearied, listening eagerly, breathlessly, with a sort of horrible gusto, to the revolting inquiry that has been slowly yielding up its abominable revelations in the head police-court in Bow-street. Mark Lemon's death has for us all that poignant touch of the pathetic in which tears and laughter are so in timately blended in Hamlet's lament over the death of Yorick—" Alas, poor Yorick ! I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest and most excellent fancy—Where be your gibes now ? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar ?" for very nearly thirty years editor of Punch ; a capital playwright in the light-farce way; a charming song-writer ; an excellent teller of stories for big and little children; a genial com panion ; a Falstaff, like Stephen Kemble, requiring no padding, being as they both were, in appearance that is, born to the character. Mark Lemon had the paunch of Falstaff, but not the wit, certainly none of the humour essential to the part in its impersonation. One marvellous incident in his career falls, by the way, within the scope of my own personal recollection of him. Several years ago, when .Mr. Herbert Ingram was yet alive, being then M.P. for Boston, and proprietor of the Illustrated London News, I remember one day chat ting for a long while with Mark Lemon, noticing every now and then, while I did so, that he had an un wonted air of importance, as if he had some secret he was burning to relate. At last, nothing leading up to it, and apparently bent upon dragging it in by the head and shoulders rather than not at all, quoth Mark Lemon, all of a sudden, "I suppose you know what I am now ?" " Still editor of Punch? " " No—that, of course—but I am now, besides that, ahem ! Mr. Ingram's private secre tary." Looking into his eyes to see through their twink ling some latent joke that I had not precisely caught, I woke to the recognition of the fact that the words were to be taken au serieux—that it was a genuine boast; that this sly humourist, so perceptive of what was ludicrous in others, never realised in the least the incongruity of the social relations he was referring to ; but, not only that, was really and truly proud of it rather than otherwise. There just now comes into my hands, very prettily got up, what appears to be a homely little domestic story or novellette, by Lady Lytton, called " The Household Fairy." Among the literary chit-chat of town, I hear talk just now of a new monthly magazine to be entitled Mayfair. A newspaper called the Latest News—but for that matter the latest news is presumed to be in every newspaper—hitherto carried on as a weekly, is about to appear every morning at a halfpenny. The hon. member whose soul was "in arms and ready for the fray" the other evening. because a heap of stones had been collected together at the back of the Guards' Memorial, ought to be calmed and comforted, for the stones have been cleared away, and the space occupied by them very neatly gravelled. All London is now in the glory of the May season, when Rotten-row is a sight to see, especially about six o'clock in the evening. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is recommended by the medical profession in preference to French brand . Sup plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations 'on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Royal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfast ; or at their London Offices, 4, Beaufort Buildings Strand, W.O P IRIS CORRESPONDENCE. SATURDAY EvENING. The great topic of conversation in Paris to-day is the formation of the new party, the Constitutional Left. Seventeen deputies, belonging some of them to the mode rate republicans, others to the old Left Centre, hav e united under M. Ernest Picard, numbering amongst their Barth4lemy, Saint Hilaire, Guyot Montpayroux, an d Bethmont. To judge from present intimations the ne lv party are willing to accept the Empire, and are ready t° assume office when called upon to do so, provided the) can fulfil their programme which is very briefly state d ' Such a defection from the ranks of the old Left of Jules Favre and Jules Simon must necessarily materially affect the position of parties. The group of which MM. Darn and Buffet are the most prominent members, will be con siderably strengthened, by the rapprochement of Picard and his followers. The establishment of the Col' . stitutional Left is a matter of congratulation to sincere and moderate Liberals who wish to obtain and secure free thought, free speech, and a free press without ever" turning thrones and subverting dynasties. It shows that the French are training in the way of Constitutionalis m that their politicians are beginning to recognise the fee t that great political ends are better gained by mutual con cession and compromise than by the aut Cesar, aut n ullus principle, where no question of right or wrong is concerned. We have another excitement to-day in M. Gambetta's speech at Belleville. The favourite tribune of the m asses is not inclined to make any concession. He attacked the Emperor as " the man whose fortune was made 1 1 three conspiracies ;" and though he counselled mode ration, and declared the despotic party had been strength; ened by the excesses of the revol u tionists, he di not, as you see, set a very forcible example.. In the Corps Legislatif yesterday the discussion of 3 1 . Bethmont's interpellation elicited from M. 011ivier the remark that he did not think the time was ripe for gran t. ing freedom of political association. This was of course in reference to the refusal of the Ministry to grant the central plebiscitary committee permission to preserve its organisation, a refusal by which M. 011ivier has in" geniously succeeded in giving double offence. He has offended the committee of course, and they naturally' inquire what the minority has to fear from a Con' servative body who have exerted themselves an d risked their credit and their influence in th e Imperial cause. The Left is angry with th e Ministers on public grounds, as they naturally uphel d that right of public meetings which M. 011ivier thinks it unadvisable at present to concede. As usual, he carried the Chamber with him by his speech, and the order of the day was passed by a large majority. M. Laboulaye is not yet out of his troubles. Il i° second attempt at a lecture was even more stormy than his first. The Paris Journal announces the death of M. Salmon , who has lately risen into celebrity as the father ct Victor Noir, and it adds that Louis Noir, his s° l ' was not present at the funeral. You may remember that the• civil suit against Prince Pierre Bonaparte for compensation for the death of Victor Noir, gave rise t° some difference between Louis Noir and his father. Th e former wished to lay the damages at one franc only, so that there should be suspicion of pecuniary profit on the par t of the Salmon family. As it turned out, however, th e suit was necessarily brought in the name of the father since it could not be shown that Louis, a strong active man, in the prime of life, had suffered damages by t he untimely death of his younger brother. To his father he might have been a means of support, a n d the damage' were given ,accordingly. Louis Noir was so much nli f ‘: 3 grined at the acceptance of this m one y th a t h e anno unce, his intention of repaying it in full as soon as h e collie earn it. As the Prince of course would not accept it, he intended to bestow it on a public object. Speaking of journalists, I may add that an important change has been made by the new Press Law. The sta 3 nr is to be abolished, and a rate of postage charged 'whi ch will virtually prohibit the Parisian press from travelling far from the capital. Of course this is supposed to b e done with the object of diminishing the influence o f the journals in the provinces, but the design, if seriously in . tended, is a very foolish one, as men's minds will work in the departments as well as in the city; and if Paris canno t, or will not, supply them, provincial journals, piobabl , ' more violent and less able will spring up in e very dire c. tion. Of course the abolition of the stamp w ill increa ° the number of jo urna l s a t one sou i n Paris itself, but I d e not expect it will eventually make ranch difference. A great fire has occurred in the Rue Rossini, at the stables of Baron Rothschild. Fortunately the horse' were all got out, and after about three-quarters of 0 hour's incessant exertion, the flames were subdued, an, the street was loaded with wet and half-burned trusses 0 ; hay and straw. The damage done was about 20,000 f., b n as it will come out of the coffers of a Rothschild, we I ° Y' reserve our sympathies for shallower purses. GENERAL PRIM ON THE PORTUGUJ CRISIS. The following is the substance of the speech of Gelle'' Prim, delivered in the Spanish Cortes on the 24th, on " news from Pcrtugal. Th e Ch am b er w ill h ave remar ked, ' 1 said, the reserve which the Ministry has maintained since thei day when the news of the recent events in Portiig f reached Spain. The Gove r n men t, however, finds obliged to enter upon s ome ex pl ana ti ons so as to avoid the risk of being thought to b e th e i ns t rumen t o f pass i o ns 1 11 is not necessary to specify. He then read a desPgtiLe received from Lisbon, stating that in consequence of °- news from Sprain the whole of the Portug uese Deputil had taken an oath en masse to defend the independence ° Portugal. "It has been believed," continued ene ol Prim, b " that the events in Portugal were due to t h, '; machiavelism of the Spanish Government. Therefore 4 wish in the name of all my colleagues to declare in most emphatic manner that the Spanish Government total stranger to all that is taking place in Portugal. o iL lt is well known that persons have long thong, this would be a favourable o ppo r tunity for SI .) and Portugal to realise the dream of peril unity. Unfortunately for me I was o n ce kuol, to speak loudly in favour of that scheme in Lisbon its% I now say in this place, b e li ev i ng th a t I i n t er pret to il feeling of the country and the Chamber, that the Span i , s , v nation has no idea of accomp lishing the Iberian union ", force, violence, or conquest. They wish fcr rather fraternal relations between the two countries. Tl' e ' wish for the day when there shall be no longer a frontier' line between Spain and Portugal—when a Spanish a( 11 , ° ;, cate may exercise his profession in Portugal, and a Por t guese doctor come and practice medicine in Spain. . 19 ,, if this union is ever accomplished it will be on the c,,° r dition that each nation preserves its autonomy. - 'l,l from us he the, thought that the noble Portuguese shon ; , be erased from the book of nations. In Portugal Spain there are men who never miss an opporto l l.4, of misrepresentation. I trust my words will spec it reach even to the Portuguese Chambers, so that °%, brothers may know that the national indep e ndence tb,ei have sworn to defend will never be attacked by Span.', 6 b arms, that they may put aside their suspicions w l t s nothing justifies, and acknowledge that Spain wis 4l ; r truly to be the friend of Portugal. Senor Caste l ` t followed, reproaching the Government of the Peden with not having more strietly observed th e ne utral' 4 required by the gravity of the situation, but appr o " the conciliatory tone, adopted by General Prim. Spain P a no Prussian dreams of war and conquest. The past A S L'A future of the two countries were the same, and he belia7i, nothing would prevent them f rom one day resting til e h " mutual independence and th e i r mu t ua l sovere i gnty on federation of the United States of free Iberia. A letter in the Birmingham Daily Post says , b e the member who took th e no t es f or th e Ti mes w hen 4 ie reporters were excluded from the H ouse o f C om mons other night was Sir John Trelawny, who reported for same paper in 1849, the last' occasion when the reporter' were compelled to leave. The annual meeting of the Society for the Pr e ,i vention of Cruelty to Animals was held o n S a turday , Willis's Rooms, under the presidency of the Right / 1 1,, the Earl of Harrowby, K.G. There was a large and oP fluential attendance, and the Bishop of Gloucester, Bich of Hereford, Sir 'William Erle, Sir E. Landseer, Fraser, and Captain Nugent were on the platform. A li o Burdett Coutts was also present. The no bl e congratulated the members of the society on its use e p ness, and on the protection which had latterly De afforded to it by legislative interference. l i n V' EXPERIMENTING M J IN CHLOROFOR .—Mr. om- Anderson, of Govan, writes as follows :—Apropos of t e , death of the lamented Sir James Simpson, allow me t ° of late my 'first experience of chloroform. The surgeo n og the Alligator hospital ship in Hong-Kong, in 1850, N e d enthusiastic in its praise, and when any man-of-war a its whose medical officer had not received the news of o il wonderful properties, he was instanter hauled on he „.d, the Alligator, when the first order given was, " Steiv' ei r catch the cat." This unfortunate animal was theulfor dered insensible, and one joint of his tail amput4e',. o ,o the benefit of science. When we arrived in the -ti e ol from the Arctic expedition, a similar invitation wasr this to our surgeons. The cat had only one joint left, an t he was razed in our presence. On recovering his sense.s, e li animal cast one mournful look behind, and immedu b 'op committed suicide by jumping out of the after gan-re port. This is literally a fact. MUSICAL NOTES.—Madame Adelina Patti h e r signed with M. Bagier, of the Paris Opera, for a fu r c oo engagement, on her return next March from the t he North.—Offenbach has written a three-act piece f°'ol, Paris Gaiety, by the name of "Le roi Carotte.da Grand Duke of Weimar has ordered "Tristan and Is ( } O OO to be added to five other operas byWagner,designed to the r4pertoire of the forthcoming model performan ce e' " Impitoyable le grand-duc," exclaims "Le Meneswic —A great fusion of the management of EurePan theatres, that is, so far as the engagement of singe_l::ooo concerned, is talked of in Paris.—The famous or inieu‘:43B Carpeaux group will forthwith disappear from the fa re j eli of the Paris Opera House. M. Gumery has Ili o charged with the execution of a new group. — Standard. Eton Suits se 2ur unne( categ mere be an catioi It N wilicil wart the , s uch way R'itho fled ii is to will I Prize-