The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-17 00:00:00

PRINCESS LOUISE IN THE CITY. Yesterday afternoon a bazaar for the benefit of the building fund of the North-Eastern Hospital for Children Hackney-road, was opened in the large room of the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon - street. The Princess Louise had accepted the invitation of the com mittee to open the bazaar, and her Royal High ness arrived shortly after twelve o'clock, accompanied by Lady Churchill. She was received .by representatives of the committee, and after visiting the stalls, took up a position at the head of the room, where Mr. Charles Reed, M.P., read an address, in which, while welcoming the Princess, opportunity was taken for ably setting forth the claims of the hospital upon the charity of the public. The stalls, which were bountifully supplied, were presided over by Baroness Meyer de Rothschild, Mrs. Alsop, Mrs. A. Tylor, Miss Phillips, Mrs. Barclay, Miss Paget, Mrs. Howard, and other ladies. Among the contributors were their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Prussia and Princess Christian. The ceremony of reception over, Her Royal Highness made a second tour of the stalls, and if the example of her liberal patronage be followed by the large company which filled the rooms, the addition to the funds of the institution will be a very handsome one. A large crowd assembled outside the hotel to witness the arrival and departure of the Princess. THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON EDUCATION. The Bishop of Manchester preached on education in the Cathedral on Sunday. He again expressed the opinion that the religious difficulty was only formidable on paper. Just when the State had awakened to a sense of its responsibility in that matter, unhappily the ques tion got immediately plunged into a sea of polemical strife All that most unnecessary " religious difficulty" that had been raised, and, so to speak, scattered abroad all over the land, was, undoubtedly, theoretically a formidable one ; and he had never yet met with a clever thinker who had been able to solve it upon paper. He had read statement after statement, theory after theory, and bill after bill ; and upon the face of all these there stood the so-called " religious difficulty." Yet, practically, as they went throughout the world and tried to find the spot where it fully existed, it was, after all, so microscopically small that it vanished into such thin attenuity, that he defied any man to place his fingers upon it in the formidable dimensions that were mostly given to it. It was, in fact, so microscopic that statesmen, in framing a national measure, had ventured almost to ig nore it and to pass it by. There were three days of solv ing the religious difficulty. First, they could carry on the schools as at present, introducing, however, a con science clause ; second, bringing in such a wide and comprehensive range of moral or religious teaching as could be accepted by all classes ; or, thirdly, eliminating the religious element altogether from the national schools. He had had opportunities of con versing with the working-classes as well as with manufacturers and other employers of labour, who had had frequent means of becoming acquainted with their wishes, andthe result of the inquiry was that the working classes were not generally found in favour of putting re ligious teaching out of the schools. It was not a question as had been stated in one of the local newspapers, as to whether reading, writing, and arithmetic could be usefully taught without religion : for no one could be so simple as to deny it ; but the point was really whether those three subjects alone constituted education. VESTED INTERESTS. We understand that the Treasury have decided to recommend Parliament to grant to the Foreign Office clerks who at present act as agents, an annual compensa tion calculatad at two-thirds of their average profits during the last three years, such annuity to continue to each during his service in the Foreign Office, unless pro moted to the office of permanent secretary. If this re port be correct, the gentlemen in question are to be congratulated on the luck which gives them a permanent annuity for the loss of non-official work, when so many other public servants have lost official posts without com pensation of any sort. It is now some time since Parlia ment decided that such private profits were incompatible with the service of the country, and it was intimated that Government could not recognise their past enjoy ment as giving a claim to compensation from the State. It was also very roasonably thought that as the four gentlemen who happened to have undertaken the private agency business did not pretend to hold it as a monopoly, and as the rules of the Foreign Office allowed every clerk whomsover, to say nothing of every one outside the Office, to enter into competition for the employment, it was too precarious to be worth in the market more than two or three years' purchase. With some ' such sum, indeed, it is probable the actual agents might have been well contented, and the public would not have grudged a liberality so limited, even if not strictly die. An annuity for life of two-thirds of the profits is the highest rate of compensa tion given on the abolition of an official, permanent, and exclusive appointment ; and why it should be bestowed on a mere withdrawal of permission to continue a non official, precarious, and open trade, is a question which it may be rather difficult for Mr. Gladstone to make clear to the House of Commons.—Pall Mall Gazette. Pope Pius IX. entered upon his seventy-ninth year on Saturday. A stupid fellow at Sale offered to drink a pint 01 whiskey out of bravado. He did so, and died soon after. wards. It is stated Count Orloff has been appointed to succeed Count Stackelberg as Russian Ambassador at Paris. Another death has resulted from the Dunquin paraffin catastrophe, Catherine Lyne having died. Three others are not expected to recover. Another Liverpool butcher has been heavily fined for exposing diseased meat for sale. A Bolton baker has also been severely dealt with for putting alum into his bread. A telegram from Sir Samuel Canning, at Malta, dated May 14, 12.58 p.m., states that the shore end of the Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta cable has been success fully laid. During a gale of wind on Saturday, at Chelten ham, a plasterer was blown off from the front of a new house, and became impaled on some iron spikes. He died soon afterwards, The Globe understands that Lord Skelmersdale ha,) become associated wsth Lord Colville and Viscount Hawarden in conducting the business of the Conservative party in the House of Lords. r Dr. Michael Foster, Professor of Physiology and. Histology in University College, London, has been ap pointed to the Prwlectorship of Pure Physiology recently established in Trinity College, Cambridge. A man named William Cresswell deliberately smashed in the windows of a large shop in Newcastle on Sunday afternoon, causing damage estimated at £4O. It appears that the man was sent to prison a fortnight ago for a similar offence, and that he was only released from custody yesterday morning. - - The Lord Mayor acknowledges a donation of £2O from her Majesty towards the relief of the poor people whose houses have been burnt down at Broadclist, a village near Exeter. Of 78 houses, of which the village consisted, 60 have been destroyed, and 250 persons ren dered homeless. The female servant of an officer stationed at Youghal has been arrested on suspicion of being the mother of a dead child which arrived at Cork in a parcel from Bristol a few days ago. An inquest was held on the body on Saturday, when the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder " against some parties unknown. Colonel Edward Tomkinson, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, died at his residence, Lower Seymour-street, on Saturday, in his 45th year. He entered the army in 1843, and served with tha Bth Hussars in the Crimean war, being present at the Battle of the Alma, Balaklava, and before Sebastopol. The Echo mentions a rumour that the Bishop of Ripon will speak in support of the marriage with a de ceased wife's sister, and that the Archbishop of Canter bury is in favour of it—although he cannot vote either in person or by proxy. It is also said that Lord Derby will support the bill. - - The large screw steamer Kestrel, from London for Hull, with passengers and general cargo, was on Sunday caught on the Cross Sand, off Yarmouth, during hazy weather. Another steamer came up and took off the alarmed passengers. Eventually the Kestrel was got off, little damaged. _ _ _ A great open-air working men's demonstration, under the auspices of the Central Association for Stopping the Sale of Intoxicating liquors on Sunday, is announced to take place at Lismore-circus, Haverstock-hill, on Satur day, the 28th instant. M. A. Garvey, Esq., L.L.E., will take the chair. A monster procession paraded the streets of Bel fast on Saturday afternoon, in connection with the laying of the foundation stone of the Belfast Working Men's Institute. Friendly and trade societies of all denomina tions took part in the proceedings, and numerous bands, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, played upon the march. The Home Secretary has authorised the local authorities to give notice that the Government offer a reward of £4O for information leading to the discovery and conviction of the murderer or murderers of the boy John Harding, and the offer of a pardon to any accomplice, not being the actual murderer, who may give such informa tion as shall lead to a like result. ANOTHER DISTURBANCE AT THE ROCHDALE PARISH CHURCH.—On Sunday morning St. Chad's Churh, Rochdale, was densely crowded, and throughout the service there seemed to be a feeling of uneasiness, and especially towards the close. Sergeant Plunket noticed Miss Nicholson in one of the aisles swaying to and fro. She was joined by her father, who beckoned to his son to com e ou t , and pulled him along as if apprehensive of some harm happening to him. Police-officer Wild, who went to the church at half past twelve, found about a hundred people in the church yard and the church crowded. On enterina the porch he met Miss Nicholson and her father, and the former screamed out " at the top of her voice," when there was no person near except her father and brother. Mr. Nichol son remarked "Don't touch her." The officer told her she deserved locking up, when llr. Nicholson began shout ing, and the people out of the yard rushed in, a n d a scene of excitement, confusion, and crushing ensued. After considerable trouble the crowd dispersed, and the congre tion were enabled to leave the church. GUNPOWDER v. GUN COTTON. On Saturday a number of experiments were perforined by the officers of the Royal Engineers at Chatham to test the comparative effects of gunpowder and guncotton in various operations. A large number of distinguished officers assisted at this remarkable trial of strength. The ex periments commenced with explosions of gunpowder and guncotton directed against a double stockade of balks of timber, l4in. square, 3ft. 6in. apart, and sunk 3ft. in the earth each line braced together by strong cross-pieces. A charge of 2001 b. of gunpowder, in bags, merely laid at the foot of the stockade, untamped, was first exploded. It forced a large gap in the front stockade, but, though partially shattered, the second row of timber would have presented a formidable obstacle to an attacking party if defended by a few resolute men. Portions of the timber were burled through the air to some distance. A charge of 801 b. of guncotton was next laid in bags at the foot of the stockade, some distance from the former explosion. This also was untouched. It was fired by a detonating fuse. There was a terrific explosion, and an almost perfectly clear breach was made through both rows of timber, practically for an attacking party to get through. The effect was very much superior to that of the 2001 b. of gunpowder. Immense pieces of timber were hurled through the air to a great distance, mostly in the rear of the stockade. Not so wide an extent of timber appeared to be shaken as by the first explosion, but the work was more completely done ; the results, indeed, were extraordinary. Experiments were then made in another part of the field by exploding discs of guncotton against single balks of timber, to shew what effect would be produced if timber bridges had to be destroyed. Four balks of timber, about sixteen inches square, were sunk in the ground some feet apart, in a square, and braced toge ther by thick pieces of plank. A. " necklace "of small discs of guncotton was formed, 68-i in number ; this was doubled and placed half round one of the timbers. The ex plosion of this string of discs tore away the wood for some depth, four inches or more, on one side of the balk, but did not break it, though the massive timber was much rent. Three or four larger discs were then exploded on one side of the timber, and tore out a large portion of the wood. A single " necklace " of small discs, sixty-five in number, and weighing 211b. ' was then placed round another balk, quite encircling it. When exploded this tore out the wood all round to some depth. Then twelve of the larger discs, weighing 41b. 20z., were hung on nails on three sides of the timber, and exploded. The explosion was very powerful, and the large balk was cut in two—snapped off where the gun cotton had been attached, but falling on the side where there had been no discs and partially splitting on that side, The spectators cheered at this decisive proof of the value of gun cotton for this special purpose. All these experiments appeared to be very satisfactory. At that part of the lines in front of St. Mary's Barracks, a number of mines and galleries had been excavated and charged with gunpowder or guncotton. One mine had a charge of 5001 b. of gunpowder ; a second similar mine was charged with 2001 b. of gun cotton. Two smaller mines were charged respectively with 21 . 61 b. of gunpowder and 8 . 61 b. of guncotton. These mines were successively exploded by means of an electric current. In the larger mines the powder appeared to be the most effective agent. In the 1 explosion of the 200 lb. charge of guncotton a peculiar effect was produced ; first, there was the eruption of brown clay and smoke, and then a large flame, produced by the ignition of the gaseous products of the explosion. The officers then proceeded to the old Engineer Depot near St. Mary's Convict Prison, and walls which are to be removed were experimented upon ; they are 18 inches thick ; charges of guncotton ranging from 21b. to 311 b. were exploded against these walls with satisfactory results, making breeches in them. The officers then re turned to the scene of the mines, where two long galleries had been prepared, one charged with 2401 b. of gunpowder, the other with 961bs. of guncotton. These charges were exploded. The object was to ascertain if it is practicable to form trenches in this manner, instead of throwing them up while exposed to the enemy. It was thought by some officers that the explosion would throw the earth up on either side in such a manner as to form a trench ; but the result was not so—the earth was thrown up in a mass, and no trench was formed in which men could get under cover at once. ALIVE IN A. DEAD-HOUSE. The San Francisco Alta California gives the account of the experience of a German who was supposed to have died in that city, aid whose body was immediately removed and placed in the dead-house attached to the hospital in which he had been under treatment : " The body was deposited in a case where two other bodies had already been placed, and between them. The cover was put on, and the keeper of the dead-house re tired for the night. About midnight a loud screaming and yelling of the most unearthly character was heard in the dead-house. The keeper of the dead-house was sought after, but being aware of what he was required to do, he sought concealment, preferring to let the ghosts fight it out among themselves rather than attempt to become peacemaker. When at last he was prevailed upon to pro ceed to the dead-house and ojen the door, the ghostly form of the German, whose life had been a few hours previously pronounced extinct, and who had been dressed in the robes of the dead, stood before him. The keeper fainted out right, while the terrified German rushed headloi,g through the long halls and corridors of the building, spreading dismay and terror as he went. Some more courageous than the rest caught and arrested him in his frantic career, but the next instant the poor German fell on the ' floor in a fit. The physician was sent for, and restora . tives used, by which he was restored to conscious ness. How he felt when he returned to consciousness we give as he told it himself Vell, ven I got sick and ' vas in bed that day the doctor came to me and said I vas very sick. He vent away, and after he vent I fell asleep. I knew nothing more till I yoke in de night, and there , vas no light. I put out my hand, and I could get no bed clothes, for I vas cold. I den put my hand to vone side to try far the bed-clothes, and, och, vat you tink I got—vy a ded man ! Dere he vos, cold enough sure. I roared mid all the power I had, and vas going avay by the other side, ven, sure I put my hand on another. Then I roared, and called, and cried out all I could, and ven I was getting up my head struck ‘ a board that was covering me. Oh," said I, " vot does this mean, vere am I ? Am I ded ?" and I roared and bawled and threw off the cover, and jumped about as if I vas mad. And I knocked at the door vid my hands and feet, but nobody would open it for me, and I thought I vas ded myself. I vas not shure. I had the ded man's dress on me. At last the door opened, and ven I looked at the man vat opened it he fell down mid fear, and I ran till I was caught. Then I fainted, and ven I come to myself I thought it was a dream. But it is as true as I am here.' " MORE MURDERING. A horrible affair became known in Hanley, Stafford shire, on Saturday morning —the murder of an infant and attempted murder of another child by their mother, and the atempted suicide of the murderess. The scene of the tragedy is Brownedge, a small namlet lying off the main road from Hanley to Leek. One of the inhabitants is James Goodwin, who with his wife, his daughter, aged ten years, and an infant of ten months, on Friday morning constituted an apparently happy family. Towards night, however, the daughter ran screaming out of the house, bleeding from a wound in the throat. Some of the neigbours went to the cottage door, which was found.to be fast. An entrance was effected, and on going upstairs Mrs. Goodwin and her infant, both with their throats cut, were seen lying on the bed. A surgeon was sent for, and he attended to the wound, but the little one's life could not be save. The self-inflicted wound of the mother was not so serious, and it is believed that the elder child will also recover. From the latter it has been elicited, that being asked by her mother to go upstairs, she did so, and was closely followed by her mother, who immediately seized her and cut her throat with a razor. She, however, man aged to struggle away, and ran out of the house, as stated above. Goodwin was at once sent for from the colliery, and was naturally much affected by the deplorable cir cumstances. Mrs. Goodwin was nine years ago mentally affected to such an extent that she was placed under proper care in the Leek workhouse, but there had been no recent indication of aberration, and Goodwin states that when he left her on Friday morning there was no observable excitement or peculiarity of manner. The razor was found under the bed, and proved to' be Good win's. Mrs. Goodwin, as it was dangerous to remove her, was placed under police charge in the cottage. A countryman, who had never paid more than 25c. to see an exhibition, went to a New York theatre one night to see " The Forty Thieve." The ticket-seller charged him 75c. for a ticket. Passing the pasteboard back, he quietly remarked, " Keep it, mister ; I don't want to see the other thirty-nine," and out he marched. BETTING BY MACHINERY.—An ingenious instru ment, of French manufacture, for the purpose of mutual betting, was introduced for the first time on the Roodoe, on Wednesday. The chief constable (Mr. Fenwick) saw this in operation, and being of opinion that it combined the features of a betting-list and sweepstake, he had it seized, the proprietor undertaking to appear at the police-court on Thursday morning. He did so, and pro duced handbills explanatory of W. Chase and Co.'s " Parri-mutuel," or system of mutual betting. The chief constable asked him to explain to the magistrates the principle upon which the instrument was worked, and he did so, stating that he had had it in operation since August last, and had not been interfered with. The instrument was in a box about three feet by two and a half, and seven or eight inches in thickness. When the lid was taken off it disclosed a dial on which were three rows of small levers, which correspond with the numbers of the horses which run. Different numbers maytherefore, be backed at uniform shares of half-a-crown each, and the total appears at the top of the dial. As soon as the flag is up, indicating that the horseshave started, the whole of the handles or leve - rs are locked until the result of the race is known, when the total subscribed is divided among those who have backed the winning number, less a commission of 10 per cent., which the proprietor charges to cover his own expenses ; for he keeps two clerks, and stated that the in strument cost over £5O in Paris. The magistrates, after consulting together, determined to retain the instrument till the following morning, and in the meantime would consider what they should do. Accordingly, on Friday morning Major French told the defendant it was very clear that he came uncle!. the Gambling Act, and the magistrates knew from information that he had been trying this game in other places, till they got too hot to hold him. As this was the first instrument of the kind the magistrates had seen, they expressed their disappro bation of its use and fined the defendant 405. and costs. The money was paid, and as no order was made as to the instrument, it was given up to the defendant. —Chester Chronicle. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1870. THE MONARCH INSURANCE FRAUDS. FURTHER EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES. At the Mansion House yesterday, Major the Hon. Augustus George Frederick Joscelyn, Mr. Joseph Taylor, Major John William Carnegie, and Mr. George Edward Bulmer, formerly directors of the Monarch Life Insurance Company (Limited), were summoned • . before the Lord Mayor to undergo further examination upon the charge of unlawfully conspiring together to defraud the public by means of false representations, and by publishing a false statement and balance sheet in reference to the affairs of the company. Mr. William Henry Hodges, the manager of the company, and Mr. Wright and Mr. Heyward, two other of the directors, were also included in the charge, but they did not surrender at the former examination, and they were now again absent. Mr. Frederick Maynard, public accountant, of Old Broad-street, the official liquidator of the Monarch Com pany, proved that he took possession of all the books and papers at their offices in Finch-lane. It appeared that the defendant, Major Joscelyn, was allotted fifty shares on the Ist June, 1869. Major Joscelyn did not pay anything upon the shares that were allorted to him. Mr. Ribton observed that it was well known that it was a common practice to allot shares to directors in a company without any money being paid. Mr. Lewis said he must deny that this was the case, and it was a very improper and dangerous course to adopt. Mr. Maynard went on to say that fifty shares were also allotted to Mr. Bulmer, and be appeared to have paid ten shillings per share only upon application, and nothing upon allotment. The defendant, Major Carnegie, was also allotted fifty shares, but nothing was paid upon those shares at the time of allotment. The same number of shares were allotted to Mr. Heyward, but nothing was paid upon them in 1869. Mr. Hodges, the manager, had 100 shares allotted to him, and he only paid ten shillings per share upon application. Mr. Wright had fifty shares allotted to him, and he only paid ten shillings per share. On the 31st of December, 1869, the total amount of capital paid up was only £BlB. On the 14th of July, 1869, a cheque was drawn by Mr. Heyward, Mr. Wright, and countersi g ned by Mr. Hodges, for £4ll is. Bd., which was stated to be on the counterfoil to be given for selves and first directors' allowances. Cheques were also drawn for £25 for Major Joscelyn, £5O for Mr. Wright, £5O for Major Carnegie, and £5O for Mr. Heyward. These cheques were dated the 19th of October, 1869. Mr. Lewis : I believe these cheques very nearly ab sorbed the total amount of the paid-up' capital of the company? . . . . Fiirtlier evidence was given by which it appeared that the profit represented to have been made by the company to the 31st December, 1869, was over £5,000, no such profit having been in fact made, and also that application had been made for shares, and that apparently large sums were paid on account of these shares, but that no credit appeared for these amounts on the books of the company, with the exception of £BOO. The examination was then adjourned till to-day and the defendants w ere a d m itt e d to bail. THE SUPPOSED FENIANS. At Marylebone police-court yesterday afternoon John Wilson, aged 43, who described himself as a gun and pistol manufacturer, Birmingham, was charged with having 50 six-barrelled revolvers in his possession and not being able to give a satisfactory account of the same ; and Michael Davit, about thirty, was charged with loitering on the platform of the Great Western Railway, Paddington, as it was supposed, for an unlawful purpose. Mr. William son, superintendent of police, Scotland-yard, watched the case. The prisoners were apprehended at the railway station. Wilson was taken as he was leaving the train, with the revolvers in his pos session, and the other prisoner while waiting to receive him. Davit had about £l5O in his possession. Mr. Williamson said he had reason to believe that the prisoners were con nected with the Fenian movement. Mr. D'Eyncourt re manded the prisoners. THE RELIGIOUS TREATMENT OF ROMAN CATHOLIC PRISONERS. - - The select committee of the House of Commons pro ceeded with their inquiry into the above subject yesterday. Mr. Maguire in the chair. Captain GARDINER, the Governor of the City and County Gaol, Bristol, gave evidence in reference to that of the Rev. Mr. Myers, Catholic priest. He said he did not tell the Rev. Mr. Myers he could visit without being sent for. Mr. Myers having visited a sick prisoner once might have dune so again, but he did not think it necessary to tell him so, as his impression was he must have known it. They did not recognise Mr. Myers as a chap lain, and he had only been to the prison four times in five years. There were 132 prisoners confined, nine-tenths of whom were Church of England. There were four Roman Catholics who did not the Church of England services, and two who did. During the last twenty years most of the Roman Catholics attended Church service, and the rest remained in their cells. He certainly should not allow a priest to celebrate Mass in the prison without the sanc tion of the visiting justices. No application on the sub ject had been made to the visting justices. He objected to Mr. Myer's evidence, and contradicted it on many points. He did not think there was any objec tion to Roman Catholic priests being admitted to prisons, and, if necessary, holding services there. There had never been a refusal on the part of the officials for a prisoner to see the priest if he desired to do so, neither had any complaints been made. If a regular appointment of a priest was made he should consider it his duty to give him the same assistance as he did the Pro testant chaplain. The Rev. Father ZANETTI, Catholic priest at Millbank, described the system in force there. All the cells contain ing Roman Catholics had the letters "R. C." over the door. There was no doubt, he said, that religious teaching in prisons was necessary, as, besides tending to reform the prisoners, it made them more willing to work and more obedient to the prison rules. The committee adjourned. NEW ZEALAND NEWS. The correspondent of the New Zealand Herald writes from Tauranga on February 14:—To-day news was brought in by way . of Maketu that an engagement had taken place near Ohiwa between Kemp's force and the Hauhaus under Te Kooti, when eleven of the latter were killed, without the slightest casualty on the side of the former. Te Kooti is pushing on for the Uriwera country. By the same means I learn that the notorious Louis Baker has met his end rather summarily. This rascal has been long known here under the designation of Kereopa, his sympathies with the cannibal of that name being well known to us, as well as his constant communication with Te Kooti, Hakarahia, and other rebels, indeed he was a more welcome guest with them than with the Europeans. This man was a French Cana ' dian, and several months ago was received in some menial capacity on board her Majesty's ship Rosario, in this harbour, from which vessel he has more than once or twice deserted, on each occasion visiting his quondam as sociates, the Hauhaus. His last desertion occurred last month, just previous to the departure of the Rosario for Wel lington, when he was seen offering a portion of his sailor's clothing (new) for a mere trifle. He afterwards made for his old haunts, and was recently taken prisoner by the friendlies, when it was understood he would be handed over to the Imperial authorities, and, no doubt, shot. One portion of this trouble was, however, saved his captors, as it would seem that yesterday or the day before he endeavoured to make his escape to his old friends, when he was shot down. lam informed the recreant fell by the weapon of Major Drummond Hay : if so, that officer could hardly have rendered a more signal service to the district. A. strong party is being formed for the purpose of prospecting the land of the Hauhaus who recently attacked our troops. The following telegram was received by the Hon. the Defence Minister from Lieutenant-Colonel Moule :-- "February 24, 12 p.m., 1870.—A native lately in from the interior brings news of an engagement somewhere between Rotorua and Opotiki ; twenty-two of Te Kooti's men killed and Kereopa taken prisoner. Topia's force was the one engaged. These sort of reports are not reliable. Tana and Thompson's widows were on their way to Wai hou. They report peace at Tokangamutu, to which place they quickly return." A SHIPWRRCK IN JAPAN.—The British barque Bella, from Cardiff, with coals, has been totally wrecked on Elleries Reef, Japan, the crew being saved. Thz Suez CANAL.—The steamer Sakana arrived at Japan on the 18th of March, from London, having called at Aden, Halle, Siagapoire, and Manilla. She made the whole passage in eighty-fous days. LORD NAPIER OF MAGDALA.—The Friend of India says that with the characteristic art of refusing honours on his arrival, Lord Napier begins again his Indian career. Had the army been polled for the election of a successor to Sir William Mansfield, their choice would have fallen upon no other. Lord Napier takes office with the confidence and good wishes of both the Army and the public, and the Indian army feels that it is at last com manded by a soldier. SMALLPDX AMONG THE GUARDS AT WINDSOR —A soldier of the Second Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, at Windsor, caught the smallpox in the town a few days ago, and was removed to the regimental hospital. The disease is at present so prevalent in that borough, several deaths having occurred from it within the last week, that the authorities are taking precautionary steps to prevent its spread among the troops. The hospital orderlies are forbidden to enter barracks, and hawkers from disposing of fish and other edible commodities to the soldiers. It is expected that should the epidemic continue to spread, the battalion will be removed from the barracks, and placed under canvas in the Long Park. COMMUTATION.—Dr. Lloyd, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, has published an important pamphlet on commutation, in which he estimates the present values of the clerical life interests of all classes as £5,179,000. His object is to prove to the Irish clergy that general commu tation would be " safe," and his hypothesis is that the capital sum might be invested at 4 or 4i per cent. in secure funds. The gain on this investment, together with the 12 per cent. bonus secured to the Church under the Act, and the sum of £500,000 in lieu of private endowments, would, at the end of fifteen and a half years, when the last life would have dropped, and the Church would be entirely dependent on its own resources, constitute an en dowment of £1,639,000. This is exclusive of what might be saved by clerical " compounding." THE STAR OF INDIA.—The death of the Maharajah of Kuppoorthulla has left vacant a G ran d C ommander. ship of the Star of India, and there is much discussion as to the successor to the honour. The Englishman considers that the Maharajah of Bundana to have the best claim on account of his distinguished services. He has always been a loyal subject, and has been thought worthy to take part in the deliberations of the Vicyiegal C ounc il. H e h as been most liberal in his donations to the poor, and was particularly distinguished for his reception of Prince Alfred, and there is much to justify the rumour that the Maharajah will be nominated a Grand Commander of the exalted Order of the Star of India. HONG HONG.—The Legislative Council of Hong Kong met on the 30th March, and passed an ordinance incorporating the new Chinese Hospital. The Govern ment has contributed $15,000 to this hospital, and the Chinese themselves have raised the large sum of $47,000. The site has also been given by the Government, and the hospital, which . is much needed, promises to flourish. The subject of the coolie trade was also discussed, and the Governor was empowered to stop any coolie ship from leaving port until the master or charterer stated on oath that he was not proceeding to any country other than Surinam, not under British dominion. The criminal statistics show a marked decrease in the crime of the last three years. REPORT BY M. 011ivier has ad dressed a report to the Emperor on the progress of consti tutional reform. Now that liberty is as well assured in France as in any country of Europe, it is time to direct attention to the improvement of their institutions. It is is very desirable -to revise and to perfect the existing code of judicial and criminal law. He proposes to entrust the Council of State with the task of completing the reform of the civil code, and to app o i n t a s p ec i a l commission to undertake the reform of the criminal code. M. 011ivier has also, issued a circular to the prefects, informing them of his scheme, and authorising the several magistrates to depart, on this occasion from the regular routine, and to communicate to him the results of their experience, which he will lay before the Commission. THE CZARINA AND THE GREEK CHURCH IN ENGLAND.—To the English-speaking Russo-Greek Church now being put up in. Wolverhampton the Empress of Russia has just sent a bounty by the hands of the Right Rev. Monsignor Popoff, an Imperial Russian mitred chaplain, who has just returned from St. Petersburgh, and is charged with the expression of the Czarina's very warm sympathy with the undertaking, as well as with the handing over of her Majesty's money. At a time when it is made known that legal opinion is being taken upon the right or otherwise of the Archbishop of York to allow the Greek archbishop to take part in a service at the minstet, it is noteworthy that Major- General Prince Abamaleck, a distinguished member of the Armenian body, had promised to d evo t e a p or ti on o f his leisure to furnish from his own hand an icon for the adornment of the church. The Prince, writing from Russia, says :—" I often pray the Almighty to allow you to accomplish your pious drsign of building a church at Wolverhampton." The local projector of this movement is Mr. Hatherley, an English convert to the Russo- Greek Church, who has for some years been a resident in Wolverhampton. THE MURDERS IN GREECE.—The London corre spondent of the Manchester Guardian says that there is talk of an animated debate in the Lords on Friday, when Lord Carnarvon will bring on his m o ti on about Greece The feelings of the peers are more susceptible on such subjects as those of the capture and massacre at Marathon than the more prudential and prosaic susceptibilities of the Commons. In the Lower House there is no likeli hood of any strong resolution being proposed or carried. But as up to this time Lord Clarendon's dispatches do not disclose any distinct demand for satisfaction, the ; temper of their lordships- i s grow i ng irritable and it is expected that a good ma n y s h arp t hi ngs will be said in debate if not formulated and placed on record. One of the projects said to be in cogitation is that of insisting upon a sort of court of inquiry being set up at Athens in the name of the Protecting Powers, with the sanction of the Hellenic Government, and under the guardianship of a combined fleet in the harbour of the Piraeus. But with out the assent of Russia it is clear that this could not be done ; and when it comes to the point her assent will, of course, be withheld. LAW AND POLICE. Jitligmerali has been gieen by Ile House of Lorelei in Mit case of the Hon. Sackrille West and others v. Lord Holmes dale and Others, argued in February last. The question arose on a codicil of the late Dowager Countess of Amherst, by which certain lands were devised in trust to be settled " in a course of entail to correspond as nearly as might be " with the barony. Their lordships now re versed the judgment of the court below, where it was held that the lands were to be settled strictly according to the limitations of the barony, and that Countess De la Warr took an estate for life in the freeholds so devised. FALSE IMPRISONMENT.—An action for false imprison. merit and slander has been brought in the Second Court of Common Pleas. Plaintiff was a young man who had been tried and acquitted on a charge of felony, and the slander complained of was a .repetition of the charge after his acquittal. The defendant was an old lady named Jones, who had been prosecutrix in the felony case. She had charged the plaintiff with being concerned in an attempted robbery at her house, and after the trial it was the slander. The jury found the defendant was not actuated by malice : but on the count of slander they returned a verdict for the plaintiff-- damages, one farthing. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. —The case of Padwick v. the Duke of Newcastle has been again brought before Mr. Baron Bramwell in chambers. After a discussion, it was decided that the liability of a peer to be made a bankrupt should be admitted, in order to raise the question whether the money paid into court belonged to Mr. Padwick or the assignees under the bankruptcy. Mr. Baron Bramw e ll directed the trial to be at the sittings in London, it having been explained that all the witnesses resided in London. HIRING PIANOS.—A: case raising the question as to the right to distrain a piano hired by a lodger, has been tried in the Court of Queen's Bench. Messrs. Craner and Co., the well-known piano manufacturers, let out a piano on hire to a person who had apartments in the house of the defendant, Mott. The hirer owed his landlord £4 4s. for rent, and on Messrs. Cramer sending for the piano Mott refused to let it go. The case was brought before a jury, who gave a verdict for the defendant, and it has now been brought before the Queen's Bench. After a long argu ment, the Court confirmed the decision, holding that there had been a justifiable assertion of the right of dis tress by the landlord. THE Loss OF A CARGO.—An action has been brought by Messrs. Novaro, merchants, ff Liverpool and Glas gow, in the Court of Queen's Bench, against the owner of a steamship for loss of a cargo of beans through the neg lect of the master. The beans were at Alex andria in September, 1868, and consigned to the plaintiffs at Glasgow. After visiting Liverpool the vessel while proceeding down the Mersey came into collision with another vessel, by which the steamer was much injured and run ashore, the beans bcing saturated with salt water. Plaintiffs wrote to the agent to the effect that they objected to the beans being carried in the state they were in, and proposed to take them at Liverpool, on condition of a reduction in the freight. The agent refused this, insisting on the whole freight, which the plaintiff's refused. The cargo, accordingly, was taken on to Glasgow, where it was sold at a loss. They sued the master for neglect in not having dried the beans, The court gave judgment for the plaintiffs, holding that the taking of the cargo on under the circumstances was unjustifiable, and rendered the shipowner liable for the loss thereby occasioned. " EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER."—An unusual matter was heard before Master Hodgson at the Queen's Bench Chambers. A plaintiff in person had commenced an action, and served what he called a " declaration " on a firm of solicitors, charging them with destroying or conniving at the destruction of a bond or note. A. summons was taken out to set the document aside, and on the part of the defendants, it was stated that it would have been demurred to, but their pleader said it would be a degradation to pleadings to demur to such a production, The Master told the defendant that he had acted as his own lawyer, and such a document could not be permitted. It charged a criminal act. The plaintiff pleaded his own cause, and said it was not a criminal act. The solicitors were only accessories after the fact. The Master said the plaintiff knew enough of law to go wrong. It was alleged that they were accessories before the fact. On the part of the defendants, it was denounced as an atrocious charge, and costs were asked before the action proceeded. The Master set the document aside with costs in the cause, and ordered the plaintiff to go to a respectable attorney, and not to act on the notion that " every man could be his own lawyer." CHARGE OF POISONISG Pursorts.—James Calver, a labourer, living in the Tlnchley-road, was summoned at the Highgate Police-court, for poisoning three pigeons be longing to a neighbour. The defendant said he had to keep a wife and five children on 16s. per week. His cab bages and lettuces had been spoiled by the pigeons, and he lately planted some peas, but the pigeons, rats, and mice ate the best part of them. He placed some paste that he bought of a chemist on the ground, and it killed the pigeons. He had complained to the defendant about the birds, but he took no notice of his complaint. Colonel Croll said the summons must be dismissed ; the magi strates thought the man was justified in putting down poison to prevent the destruction of his property. WAGES AND EFFECTS OF DECEASED MERCHANT SEAMEM.— We have authority to state that the British Government have agreed with the Governments of France, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and the North German Con - federation, to deliver to their respective Consuls-General in London the wages and effects received by the Board of Trade under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 18M, of seamen belonging to those countries who have died on board British Merchant vessels, and these Governments have on their part agreed to deliver to the nearest British Consul the property of British Sea men dying on board their merchant vessels, or on shore in their territories. Her Majesty's Consuls have therefore been instructed to report to the Board of Trade the par ticulars of the deaths of such British Seamen, and to re ceive their wages and effects, and to account for such wages and effects to the Board of Trade in the ordinary manner.—Shipping Gazette. AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE. (From the Anglo-American Times) NEW YORK, April 30. David O'Day, saloon-keeper and political bully, was murdered last Saturday night by some of his d arest " pals." I suppose it was in a fit of mau din affection that they inserted a knife be tween his ribs, and one of the endearing thrusts was right through his heart. He was cut on a spree, and a quarrel arose, but the saloon-keeper, know ing the class of men, ordered them out, and they adjourned, wrangling, to 81, King-street, where the bar-tender observed, as he went out for changa, that O'Day had recommenced the old quarrel. Though but a few minutes absent, he found the crowd on his return hurrying out and O'Day lying on the floor in a pool of blood gasping for breath ; but he was dead before a surgeon could arrive. O'Day, an Irislinian, about 30, had already wrecked a strong constitution, the post-mortem examination showing the seeds of consumption to have been so well planted that a few years must havebrought his life to a close. He was one of a desperate gang of political bullies, who were found useful as " re peaters" and " shoulder-hitters" in elections, and therefore enjoyed an immunity which has been fatal to them. There were Larkin, O'Baldwin, Collins, and O'Day, but two of them have been killed, and one is now serving out his sentence in a Massachusetts prison. Larkin was stabbed through the heart in November, 1868, just as O'Day was last Saturday. O'Baldwin is serving out his sentence in the Massachusetts State Prison and Collins in Sing Sing. Miss Hattie Johnson is in a hurry to change her name, nor will those of our readers be surprised who remember that this is the young lady who brought the Rev. Horace Cook to grief as she disappeared for a few days in company with that excellent gedtletnau. But instead of being jolly under creditable circumstances the school-girl, for she is a mere child, was quite the reverse ; neither was Mr. Cook jolly, so the two came back, the one to the bosom of her family, and the other of the church, precisely as they went, except in reputation. Mr. Cook received the col 1 shoulder and resigned, while the young lady, after doing a little more crying, has now been joined in wedlock to a young man, whose natne I will not tell you, for yoti will tell the world, and the world is very uncharitable, and this is the solution of that little affair. The M'Farland trial is drawing to a close, that is, if we can ever get to the end of the postponements and adjournments. The public anticipated scandal, but in this the trial is " a sell," and those, particularly the ladies, who sat it out day after day, would, if they told the truth, acknowledge the fact. But in consequence of the failure of the defendant's coun sel, especially after his universally admitted brutal assault on Mrs. Calhoun, to establish the wicked ness of the free lovers, as some of our most respect able citizens in connection with this affair have been facetiously called, there has been a reaction in public sentiment. Mrs. Calhoun has received hundreds of letters expressing sympathy, and her reception at the Academy of Design was enthusias tic. Mr. Charles S. Spencer, the offending lawyer, wrote to the independent, declaring that his expres sions were uttered in the discharge of his duty as an advocate, while as an individual he did not enter tain a doubt of the lady's purity of character. For this many papers have pounced on him, and he must now be well aware of the injury he has done both to himself and his client. Some journals have changed front, and altogether the howl against Richardson and the unfortunate lady concerned has now died away. Mr. Spencer has apologised to Mr. Runkle for the manner he spoke of that gen tleman's wife. He was deluded by the testimony principally of William Sigourney (of whom I have something to saypresently),who came expresslyfrom St. Alban's, Vermont, to testify against Richardson. Horace Greeley has been placed on the stand, and was cross-examined for two hours. The counsel en deavoured to inveigle him into the Astor house wed ding, but the Recorder ruled out the questions. The counsel said he desired to show the blasphemous language used by the witness both against the pri sdner and the Recorder, and that he belonged to a party iMited in a common bond to exculpate them selves by implicating others. It appears an inter viewer had put words into Mr. Greeley's mouth he denies having used. Mr. Greeley showed that M'Farland had separated finally from his wife after the first shooting, and had signified this to him as wellas to others. That Mr. Greeley can use strong language is well known, and he declares that " when the trial is ended he will skin these d—d loafers alive." He has commenced the process of skinning on Mr. Spencer and the Times, and the old days of Jefferson Brick have been revived. The Tribune and the Times have precipitated themselves into the gutters to scrape up all the dirt within reach to throw at each other. Mr. Graham yesterday had a lively tussle with Judge Davis and the Recorder, a bad time between the two. Mr. Graham declared that they were raking the kennels of New York for evidence against M‘Farland, and he was in danger if they could do this ; and Judge Davis retorted that he had never been in a court of justice where such insolence was tolerated to any counsel. In the course of the wrangle Mr. Graham said he had no fault to find with Mr. Spencer's opening, but Judge Davis did not find fault "with its statements of fact, but with its almost unparalleled statements of falsehood." The Recorder adjourned the court at 2 o'clock on account of the funeral of Judge Russell till 11 a.m.on Monday. While the crowd was dispersing, Mr. Graham remonstrated with Judge Davison the delay of the prosecution to gather further testimony. Judge Davis dropped a sarcastic word now and then as lie gathered up his papers, which irritated the already irritated Graham beyond endu rance. " God d—d you," cried Graham with.his clenched fist stretched out ; " I won't be insulted by you ! I can lick two of you I " while the astounded Davis leant b tck, scarcely knowing-what to think of this assault ; and all suddenly were arrested by the scene. The Recorder rushed before Graham ask ing " What is all this ?" when the fist was shaken in his face, and he was told that he had no right to back Davis up. While being removed Mr. Graham broke away from the officers, and running back, shouted " Iwon't be insulted," when he was stopped by his client, who calmed him by saying, " Hush Mr. Graham, you owe something to me," and Judge Davis left with the Recorder, though the furious Graham kept howling out his denunciations. I am sorry to say that the M'Farland affair has brought more disrepute on press, bar, church, and society generally than any other which has occurred in New York, and our citizens are beginning to blush at the very name. The belief is general that M'Farland will be acquitted, as the strongest testi mony is borne to his insanity at the time, but public feeling no longer runs with him. The Legislature of New York has adjourned, and Governor Hoff man has vetoed all the bills proposing State aid to railroads. Major Sigourney is reported to have com mitted suicide yesterday week in Bloomingdale-road, and his body was taken to the house of a friend in One Hundred and Tenth-street, where a private inquest was held; the lamentable circumstance and the destitute wife at St. Alban's (Vermont) being all feelingly detailed in the papers. It is now as serted that the suicide was a scheme, and that his literary repute was acquired by adopting as his own poems extracted from English periodicals here unknown, while even that ou which his reputation mainly rests, "Beautiful S n o w ," was no t wr it ten b y him. The death of ex-Judge Abraham D. Russell, 124, Second Avenue, took us by surprise, for he was at the Italian Opera on Monday with his wife and daughter, and smoked his cigar before going to bed, where he was found dead. The Courts ad journed out of respect to his memory. Roe Lock wood, Esq., of the well-known publishing house in Broadway, is also dead. Richard B. Connolly has been re-appointed City Controller for the term ending January 1, 1875. There was a strong contest for the office, Police-Commissioner Bren nan being the foremost candidate. I learn that tie coroner's inquest on O'Day, whose mur der I have already announced, returred a verdict of "Justifiable homicide." Cooney, who acknow ledges the crime, and surrendered, says he was attacked in the most persistent and brutal manner by O'Day, who, in knocking him down, fell with him on a clasped knife in Cooney's hand, whereby his death was caused. AGRICULTURE AND THE CORN TR) Influenced by the heavy rains, 'vegetation has n' t c s s rapid progress during the week, and its developm en h e re. also been assisted by the prevalence of a mild a ttnosp of s The apprehensions entertained in many quarters 11 .0 partial failure of the crops, in consequence of slevr of moisture, have thus been considerably ,01. ated ; if, in fact, they have not been entirely reona'froo Additional moisture is still wanted, and, judgin,o_t wet he broken weather, it is not at all improbable bet shall yet be supplied with sufficient to remove a ll ; 0 0 1 of a failure of the crops from drought. On Avel -% w ith lands the wheat plant is generally well spoken our, and the exception of its being backward for the se 3 l s t the it is only on badly-drained and heavy oils t prospect of affairs has been unsatisfactory. Til b e rr Y th? tures and meadow lands have also profited m o re refreshing showers, and have assumed a Tane n of luxuriant appearance. There has been a continuarleeod, firmness in the grain trade, so far as valuers are contevt, to but the business doing has been less extensive, o, e l7 os j the indisposition evinced by p urc hasers to operate n4jel actual requirements. The quantity of wheat fer;" rio ere 'to market has been rather more liberal, 13 si vi being attracted by the late advaneetvaotore having thrashed out somewhat freely. - L usr ter , have demanded an advance of is. per j i l taille a ' but this improvement has not been generally ° colr and in a few instances has been very reluctantrYtrong, ceded. The tone, however, has continued very S sortb and the high prices current in the markets in the trade of Europe have tended to strengthen values. Th e _d the will now be regulated principally by the weather rwcorts condition of the wheat plant. With favourable r 5 quietness may be expected, but with adverse Ile heavy rise would be inevitable.—Magnet. va l . of Although the past week opened with a rene s o ffbf frosty nights, and the promised rain was drive n Or strong brezes, eventually it came, and will d° nwoold calculable amount of good, while much more to be welcome. The grass will now have a chaue'libe grow, though the cutting is likely to be late. lan d' spring corn will freely germinate, and the sow n ravi be speedily covered with verdure. Before thet have came the aspect of things was not so bad as Inigh love r been expected. The early-planted wheat, the chat leys, and the winter tares were looking strong b 1 „ 1 : 5 0 j ose Some early white peas shew their blossoms/ 1 1 othe r sown late were looking very bad ; but, with 3 ". er the corn, such have now a chance to recover Nvila te s u ett he time of gathering may be. The rain, too, ha s Dos plough in motion where wanted, and the harro Coe quickly followed. Thus the late root crops r n l l ethe r in very serviceably. It is doubtful, however', v. l , t he" the early potatoes, so severely cut up by frost, will roughly recover. The rain will greatly help ho tth ew silo plants of wheat, which were threatened by the boo' and drying atmosphere ; and the influence of the non ce, ficial change will soon be apparent. After an 3 , J so tre however, there generally comes a reaction , an" l o olot e have had a quiet week, though a few mar'kets vise dearer, and the London trade closed in calm"— EA 100 An early harvest may now be left out of the C . ,, a lv bere tions of our food prophets. The wheatplant is ev er .' c othe r so backward that no reasonable amount of growinates te • during the next few weeks can force on the pipY . ha t i 9 ' spindle into full ear by the second week of June—besidesv in the chief wheat districts of England. And o y being behind time, the crops are so g i en in e ,ad thin and weak, and, where they are not much " s— r es °oot by worm, will be so long in recovering from their P i o) sickly yellow colour (in particular upon the heavY, ' lOO O that a full and satisfactory yield can follow ung o olti, specially favourable influences in June and July. .f„, o rteP rose wet summer must result in very great deu—t M°" The serious matter fo r th e f armer a t the p° o rb' meat is the falling off of the pastures after the l o st, flush of grass. Mild showe!s have come a t °Too t but only in moderate quantity ; and in many of t° e u ntie s grazing districts ofithel midland and eastern O s vel? bullocks have eaten off th e i r grass i n to s hort a n herbage, sheep have cro pp e d th e i r fi e ld s quite b° e ;vbfl e there has been great difficulty in finding horse ke e l' greet waiting for a cut of the late lucerne and backwarui efor clover We have had, and still have, a grand t ',. lti viep t cleaning fallow land for root crops ; mangolds never v eg s in better, and such a mould as we have not seen for.d s / is a good promise for nice plants of swedes and WO Chamber of Agriculture Journal. The Marseillaise indulges in a calculation to 310 claw that irreconcilabilty" is an expensive as well 35 of its gerous pursuit. After setting forth that "one , ) ast e ' editors was shot dead and another shot'at by an° l l,` ,, ,ipr°' and that most of them are or have been in gaol , e 5.0; ceeds to state that though it was only five m ontha.?' S taff tence the terms of imprisonment inflicted on it s ri tlO amount in the aggregate to seven year s an d two 111° a 0 and a half, giving an average of fi ve mon th s a nd h week per writer. The fines amount to not 105 £720. The executive of the South Yorkshire Council have issued an appeal for assistance on ben - $t the wives and children connected with the lock- - ° ll ,O Thorncliffe, which has now lasted for eighteen 1 : 13° 0 - re' and has proved one of the most costly struggles ° .aellt cord. There are 360 women and 722 children dePeirj,' on the fund. Since the Ist of January, 1869, the ,sl l O ,O l £34,490 has been paid to the men on strike 11 0 out in the district out of which upwards of £l7,u ° ' - been paid to the support of Thorncliffe men. dtz eti' A contemporary says, in refer e nc e to the (I d tion Bill, that the friends of the Government are in °the spirits at the apparent certainty of getting three,' eof Land Bill in committee next week. The conse€l ll , 6l o o this is the revival of the h o p e , we ll n i g h departed, e 0 the Education Bill may be proceeded with tlil With the great amount of b us i ness , h owever , strWAY, ' got through in the Committ ee o f S u ppl y an d 0' rse t" and Means, this can only be effected by having re° morning sittings. for t Relating the recent act of Vandalism at O x; a telegram states that a " meetin g o f a ll the menwetoA Christ Church, summoned by the governing body i s t he place yesterday morning. The d ean i n ti ma ted that ` e ve: perpetrators of the outrage have refused to give thettl.o„ up, legal proceedings would at once be commenced scl' them. The act being a felo n i ous one , the charg e ~Or doubtless be of a most serious nature. One of tbefaot cipal offenders absconded during l as t n i g ht, but e'" - long escape apprehension." There seems to be some mistake about thell ) , c i t ment of the Rev. Alfred Willis, vicar of St. I‘ l l l. 'iriP A - Brompton, to the Bishopric of Madagascar. i‘l r '• h e writes to some of the Church pap ers , s t a ti ng that I t fe' consulted about taking the bishopric, and took i to i t s, granted that he had really been officially nominateu n , but that afterwards some of the dignita r i es w ith win ground nomination rests, objected to hi m on th e being an extreme Ritualist. These gentlemen 3r , tIO Archbishop of Cant er b ur y, th e Bi s h op o f Loud° l " Bishop of Winchester, and Bishop Ryan. 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Indeed, no ailment of the af or tive organs can long withstand their pm if 3 ing and tive powers. 0 •Ot lf :f ner"n [ADVERTISEMENT. - Consumption, and all - o IY - ot bilious, stomach, and livsz' complaints in every Pte4-"? aggravated and lccalsrated by dr ugs o f eve! y descril 3 : r ele l 2, o perfe tly curable by Do BARRY'S health- res t o ring 11 2„ ( 1 13 , Arabica Food, as proved by th ousands of cases which '-couPria considered hopeless; such as i n di gest i on (dyspepslo;, 140,5`;r• asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, 33 4, derangements, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulel' l `Agt% vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria: C f go" colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatisTe p ier. impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neura l g i a, i rr i ta bility:, s i er aeni; ness, acidity, palpitation, heartbur n , h ea d ac h e, d e bility, 8 113 4 0 spasms, nausea and sickness even in pr egnanc y or St OIL th e ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti, tness of the chest, pal- We eery F 4 pit of the stomach, and between the sho u ld ers, &c. (hie few: -The Pope's health restored by Du itaavy's Food. V e tl3e, 68,413 —" Rome, July 21, 1866. The health o f the 1101 Y De excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remecheS , ,.. fa? confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabi (10,01, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his cannot praise this excellent food too highly."---From the t itew;,, du Midi," July 25. Cure No. 46,270.—Mr. James Rober t d line merchant, of Frimley, r3urrey, of thirty years' disees e , s. spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafc,V at erfa.o N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of, , ,, de sc , , of many years 'dyspepsia.—No. 49,832, "Fifty years c;ri,* able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma,. c° --It e ll stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vonading: se vo l i Jolly " Important Caution.—. Beware of the many 13 ,," tit bor" and more than sloppy imitations to which, without Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously at ta ched. lb A 50 O In tins, at is lid; 1 lb 2s 9d; 2 lb 'is 6d ; 51b . 24 lbs 4' s.— A lso Do BARRY'S REVAL)iNTA RABID& Ci o ' c'sB PoWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, .c? 9 u,,s o ,t 00 $ at 38 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 288 cups at 308, for 5 76 re —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins orde r• free of carriage in England on receipt of Poet Offim,, oo BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lon" all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. tp toLl , On the 16th inst., at Tunstall Villa, The Downif, the wife of Mr. George Gowland,.of a son. bliriP On the 16th inst , at 89, Great Russell-street, Blo ota '" the wife of Richard Epps, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 12th inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, Mr. JO' n f send, of Exeter, to Mary Ann, second daughte r- Gadd, of Vauxiill. On the 14th inst h ., at all Saints, Fulham. Edward viiyo: Walker, of 9, Edith-villas, Fulham, to Temrerance both, second daughter of the late William l'ja* re ' f' Crabtree, Fulham. g er On the 18th inst., at Lowestoft, Clara Maria, eldes t 'l6 u s ht of the late T. C. Wettingliana, Esq., formerly o f Lodge, Suffolk. th ° On the 14th inst., at 10, Hornton-street, Kensington4o,or 93d year of his age, James Macqueen, Esq., li•O• and Sword of Portugal. F.R.G.S. DEATHS. 1113 London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDTt- 02, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, I•l.° ' fc Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Coll i "" Middlesex.—Tuesday, May 17, 1870. j,~l Lan .r Th L' 8 rriz o , t 7. 10 h VVS %ble or or, r: a la c o willing Perfeel; sa 'ne ti address ~_ TI It oo tip ?,ista l• • seem Pt Mitch "", DI -________ ~~U~ Last Bee n . 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