The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-21 00:00:00

" . 1 1 1 - 1E A'TAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE c MAN." _ BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES BEST 'WORKMANSHIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. Every description of Clothing ready-mado or made to measure, br all ages, all occa sions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and SON'S. An immense assortment of WINTER CLOTHING, in all the newest designs and materials, at E. MOSES and SON'S. OVERCOATS from 19s. to .£5. BOY'S OVERCOATS from 10s. 6d. to 455. For the convenience of Ladies accom panying their Sons there is a separate de partment for Boys' Clothing, and it is fur nished with a splendid assortment of Suits, Overcoats, and Clothing for all occasions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. 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. Any article not worn or injured will he exelrin!eil, or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Clondg are marked in Plai❑ Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The. Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats Ind Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un 3qualled for magnitude, variety,- - mA. cheap :WM. A very large assortment Of BLANKETS, from ss. 4d. the pair. Complete Outfits for all Climate; with avert' requisite for the voyage. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-men sure, 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 business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Jiabitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosier; Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitter for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE. .NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF 'TART STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON ROAD. Country Branch BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. PROSPECTUS OF THE R OUNIANIAN GAS lAG HT COMPANY (Limited). £200,000, in 10,000 shares of £2O each, payable —£2 on appleation, £3 on allotment, £5 on the 2d May, 1870, 1: .5 on the Ist November, 1870, and £5 on the Ist May, 1871. In calla of no al7oment the money will be returned with out deduction. Shareholders paying up their shares in full will receive discount at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the amount paid by anticipation, and, on payment of the Government Stamp Duty, will be et:titled to receive share warrants to "bearer" passing by delivery. DIRECTORS —ln. Bucharest. Jacques rocmay, Esq., Banker. In London E. H. J. Craufurd, Esq., 41. F., Cl;airman of the Walton. on-Thames and Wtybridge Gas Company. Loftus Fitzwygram, Esq., 89, Eccleston-square. William Haywood, Esq., Civil Engineer, 63, Hamilton• terrace. James Duke Hill, Esq. (Coal Exchange). Francis D. Lambert, Esq. (Messrs. Lambert, Sons, and Scott, Coal Exchange), 85, - Gracechurch- street. Alfred Penny, Esq., of the Oporto and of the Whitehaven New Gas Works. George E. Seymour, Esq., 38, Throgmorton-street. Adolphus William Young, Esq., M.P.,. Director of the Phoenix Gas Company. Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, T wells, and Co., London. Engineer—Mr. G. W. Stevenson, C.E., 19, Great George street, S.W. Consulting Engineer—Mr. Edward Woods, C.E., 3, Storey's-gate, S.W. Solicitors—Messrs. Nash, Field, and Layton, 2, Suffolk- lane, Cannon-street, E.C. Brokers—Messrs. Crossley Brothers and Co., 3, Royal Exchange-buildings, Cornhill, E.C. Secretary ( pro tem.)—Mr. Alfred Rippon. Temporary Offices:— Lombard House, George-yard, Lombard-st-eet, London, F.C. ; and at the Banking Rouse of Mr. Jacques Voumay, Bucharest. The Roumanian Gas-Light Company (Limited) has been formed for acquiring and working a concession which has been granted by the Municipality of Bucharest for the ex clusive right of lighting that city with gas. The term of the concession is 40 years, from the Bth April, 1868 ; at the expiration of that period the works will become the property of the municipality on payment of .£lB,OOO to the company. A sinking fund is provided by the Articles of Association for replacing the , original out lay at the termination of the concession. The City of Bucharest, the capital of the Danubian Principalities, is an increa.ing city; its p pulation is esti mated by the Mayor, M. Cant :cuz•F•ne, at 250,000 persons, occupying about 31,000 houses. Railways are in course of construction connecting Bucharest with the principal continental lines. The first line of 41 miles is now open from Giurgevo, the nearest port ou the Danube to Bu charest. A site of 71 acres for the gas works, immediately ad joining the new railway station, has been granted by the municipality, free of all charge. Coals are to be admitted free from municipal dues, for the exclusive purpose of the manufacture of gas. The municipality have contracted to pay for a minimum of 4,000 public lights at the rate of 6s. 10d. per 1,000 cubic feet. The quantity of gas thus contracted for is upwards of 60 millions cubic feet per annum, and the Engineers estimate that receipts from the public lighting alone will pay a net profit of 31 per cent. on the total capital of the company, after setting aside a sufficient amount to provide for the sinking fund above referred to. The concession further gives the right to charge to private consumers Bs. 10d. per 1,000 cubic feet. The Engineers report that from this source of revenue a profit of over 14 per cent. may be expected so soon as the works aro fairly established, thus making together a profit of nearly 18 per cent. on the capital. They estimate that the best English Coal may be delivered - on the works at a cost not exceeding 355. per ton, and that Coke will be sold at 40s. per ton. The rates for gas are subject to a reduction of 10 per cent. at the ex piration of each period of ten years during the term of the concession. The estimates of cost for the erection of Works of a plain and substantial character have been prepared by Mr. U. W. f3Tzv - ExsoN, C.E. Before proceeding to make the provi sioaal contracts based thereon, these estimates were sub mitted to Mr. E. WOODS, C.E., who, after having investi gated the matter independently, reported that the same are reliable and moderate. The reports of these gentle men are appended. Provis4;l;al contracts have been entered into by the com pany for Iho execution of the works for sums within the estimated amounts. The business of the company will not be commenced until, in the judgment of the Board, a suf ficient number of shares have been subscribed for. By the Articles of Association, it is provided that the amount pay ablo by the company towards the preliminary expenses is limited to £5,000. • _ The concession granted by the Municipality of Bucha rest, the plans of the works, the reports and estimates of the Engineers, the provisional c.utracts and the Articles of A S , OCia COD, may be inspected at the Office of the Company, where every explanation will be givon. Applications for shares must be made on the annexed form (which can also !ie obtained from the Brokers, Messrs. Crossley Brothers and Co.), to the Directors of the Rou manian Gas Light Company (Limited), but no application will be considered unless accompanied by a deposit of, or the receipt of, the bankers for S 2 per share on the number of shares applied for. The Snliscription List will be closed on Monday, the 21st instant, in London, and on the following day for the country. HOOPER'S TELEGRAPH WORKS (Limited). Incorporated under the Companies' Acts, 1862 and 1867. Capital—(23o,ooo in 25,000 shares of £lO each, payable as follows : L 1 per sham on application. „ allotment. .£2 Ist April, 1870. £ 2 Ist June, 1870. £3 ~ Ist August, 1870. DIRECTORS. John M. Dunlop, Esq. Hon. L. Agar-Ellis, M.P. C. Seymour Grenfell, Esq. William Hooper, Esq., Managing Director. Frederic Lubbock, Esq. Admiral Sir William Wiseman, Bart. BANXERS. Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co. Bank of Scotland (Edinburgh and Branches). SOLICITORS. • Messrs. Asburst, Morris, and Co. Temporary Officcs—No. 114:Gresham House, Old Broad-street, E.C. This Company has been formed to take over and extend the w 11 known works of Mr. William Hooper, for the manufacture of indiarubber core for telegraphic purposes, and to add thereto the business of covering the core for submarine cables. and submerging and maintaining the same, whereby the Company will be enabLd to execute the largest contracts for the manufacture of submarine and land telegraphs. The value of Mr. Hooper's process for the manufacture of core is now fully recognised. He has successfully carried on his present business, awl, with a comparativ e ly sma ll capital, has made very large profits, sufficient to ensure out of that branch of the business alone a handsome return on the whole capital of the company ; al,d, when the o th er branches have been added, it js but fair to conclude that the profits of this undertaking will favourably compare with those of dm cxiting companies. Mr. Ifoorpr has already mattuficturo.l, according to his process, the cores for tha following cal lee, till of which are in perfect wet - Ling order, viz.:—Ceylon to the mainland of Jn:ti the Persian Gulf cable, laid last :c-1- by the Indian Government ; Eng7and to Denmark, Dr-iii. , . , ll•Eusslan (ono vction), Scollqa:l to Norw:,3 - , Sweden to Russia, be sides upwards of 5(10 miles laid iu various parts of India, Brazil, Australia, &e. Mr. Latimer Clark, while engaged as engineer and glee tvician to the Indian Government, in a letter addressed to Mr. Hooper from Bombay so recently as the 18th October, 1869, says, in reference to a cable submerged in the Persian Gulf :—" We have been examining, and I am bringing, home it specimen, of the very first sample of core which you sent out in 1863 to the Persian Gulf, and which has had no special care taken of it; it is as perfect as when it first left England, and can in no way be distinguished from a new sample fresh cut of the factory." The Company, while possessed of the exclusive right to use Mr. llooper's process for the manufacture of india- THE LATE EDITION of TIIE SUN "at .1. SMITHS, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G-. R. 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CCITE LATESI EDITION of "THE SUN" supplied as soon as published, containing all the LATEST NEWS and SPORTING INTELLIGENC PI, by H W HARRIS, New Agent, 4, Black f riars-road ,London, S. 1111 E LA FE EDITION of "THE SUN" at 4 W. fi]`-11T1I'S (Ismlen Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden- town Gt).=3NFT:T. and CO.'S CTII:II,PY is greatly Fuperior to 'my tooth - troth a pr•;•r! wl.i*t - rtesP, trot. ctq the epint t I ' • inp.trt:: .1,14 frwratleo to the bre: t'‘. Pr!rf, 6d.—Bcd Bull Wharf, 93, Upper l'hatuet—strent. Loatlen. rubber core, will be prepared also to contract for cables with gutta percha core. Mr. Hooper has contracted with the Great Northern Telegraph China and Japan Extension Company for the manufacture of their cables, 2,300 miles in length, for £396,000, and it is one of the terms of the agreement be tween Hr. Hooper and the Company that two-thirds of all profits from this contract shall belong to this Com pany, which will thus enter on actual and highly remune rative operations at onco. Mr. Hooper has already made considerable progress with this contract. Mr. Hoopei's works at Mitcham, which are capable of executing large contracts for core, will be taken over for £65,000. Mr. Hooper's consideration for patents and goodwill will be entirely contingent on the success of the Company, and consists of one half of the net profits of each year after 71 per cent. per annum has first been paid to the shareholders. At the end of 10 years the whole of the profits will accrue to the Company. Copies of the articles of association and of the agree ment with Mr. Hooper can be seen at the offices of the solicitors of the Company. Applications for shares in the form annexed, accom panied by a deposit of .£l per share, can be left with the bankers of the Company. Deposits will be received at any of the branches of the Bank of Scotland. If no allotment is made the deposit will be returned in full. The following is a copy of the Memorandum of Asso ciation:— J. The name of the Company is " Hooper's Telegraph Works (Liivitt•d)." 2. The registered office of the Company will be situate n England. • 3 : the objects for which the Company is established (1) The acquisition of gain by the Company by the constructing, rnanu:acturing, la down, work ing, maintaining, repairing, and keeping in effi cient working order, submarine. and laud tele graphs, and telegraph cables and wires, together with and including every erection and thing re quisite for complete telegraphic systems of com munication either by sea or land ; and also by the purchase, importation, manufacture, and sale of all materials, articles, and things in any way used in or connected with, or considered necessary or desirable for constructing, manufacturing, laying down, working, maintaining, repairing, and keeping in efficient working order any such tele graphs. (2) The acquisition of the business for insulating telegraph wire, and the leasehold premises, plant, stock, and trade effects used in connection there with, Lelonging to and heretofore carried on by Mr. William Hooper, of Mitcham, in Surrey, in cluding the gocdwill thereof, and his interest in all or any contracts, patents, concessions, licenses, and inventions—English or foreign and the con tinuing and carrying cn the said business. (3) The acquisition, by purchase or otherwise, of any other buildings, machinery, works, houses, lands, businesses, of a similar nature to that of the Company, plant, effects, or property—real or personal—and of whatsoever tenure or any in terest therein respectively which aro or may ba useful or desirable for the objects firstly and se condly horeiubefore stated, or any of them. (4) The acquisition, by purchase or otherwise, of all such other concessions, grants, privileges, licences, English and foreign letters patent, and contracts, or any interest therein respectively, as may be us , -ful or desirable for the objects firstly and se condly above stated, or any of them, and the doing of all such other things as are incidental or condu cive to the attainment of the above objects. 4. The liability of the members is limited. .5. The capital of the Company is £250,000, divided into 5,000 shares of £lO each. The following contract has been entered into :—" 14th February, 1870. Agreement made between William Hooper of the one part, and Hooper's Telegraph Works (Limited) of the other part." BOOPER'S TELEGRAPH WORKS (Limited). FOlOl OF APPLICATION. (To be retained by the Bankers.) To the Dire tors of Hoop r's Telegraph Works (Limited). Gentlemen, —Having paid to your bankers the sum of C . being a deposit of £1 per share, I request that you will allot me shares of £lO each in your Company., upon the terms of the prospectus and memorandum and articles of association ; and I hereby agree to accept the said shares, or any smaller number which you may allot to me, and to make the payment of £2 per share on allot ment,and to become a member of the Company, and I request you to place my name on the register of members in respect of the shares which may be allotted to me.—l am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full Address in full Date February, 1870. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. 1. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. P. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE WIFE Julian St. Pierre, Mr T. C. King; Messrs Barrett, Howard, M•lntyre, Moreland, and C. Moore; Misses Edith Stuart and Hudspeth. After which, at 9, BEAUTY AND '['HE BEAST; or, OLD MOTHER BUN C : Misses Jessie Yokes, Victoria Yokes, and Rosins. Vokes, Messrs. Fred. Yokes, W. F. Yokes, Prittain Wright, and Harry Boleno. T HEATRE ROYAL, II 1 YMARKET, Sole Lessee. Mr. Backstone. THIS MTENING, at 7, POPPING THE QUESTION. After which, at 20 minutes to 8, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN; Characters by Mr Sothern, Mr Buckst"ne, Mr Chippendale, Mr Braid, Mr Rogers; Mrs Chippendale, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynne, Miss C. Hill, &c. Concluding with DE k.F AS A POST : Mr Compton and Mrs E. Fitzwilliam. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. rHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock. OPEN TO CONVICTION. Messrs. G. Ilulmore, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, Miss L. Grey. and Mrs. Leigh Murray. At 15 to 8, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr. H. J. Byron; Mersrs J. I). Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, Georeg Btlmore, Miss Lavis, Mrs Leigh Murray. and Miss M. Hates. And TII.I NIG HTINGAL Mr Benjamin Webster; Messrs Arthur Stirling, J. D. Beveridge, Skinner, 5113 S Furtado, Mrs Alfred ellon, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Mrs Caulfieli, &c. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE Lessee and ➢fanager—Mr. Benjamin Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, FORMOSA: Messrs. J. Rouse, Rig nold, Ashley, Taylor, Lin Rayne, Phillips, Leeson, Eburne, Romer, &c.; Ifesdames Billington, K. Rodgers, M. Brennan, E. Barnett, L Grey, &c. With A FTER DARK; IV essrs Fignold, Ashley, Rouse, Lee son, Phillips, Rayne; Misses B. Leclercq and Barnett. LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management -1-4 of Messrs Mansell (elegantly redecorated by Macintosh). THIS EVENING, at 7.36 TWENTY MINUTES WITH TIGER: Messrs Coghlan, Odell, and Wilmott; Mesdames Rig uold and Morgan. Aft r which, CHILP ERIC, by Herv6: Messrs M. Marius, G. Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Coghhua, and M. Herve : Mesdames Dolaro, Fitzlnman, Romanelli, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir. iIIOYAL STRAND THEATRE. I.l_, Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE HEIR AT LAW: Mesrs. J. S. Clarke, D: James, Crouch; 'Mesdames Button and Claire. Followed by THE TOO D LES : Mr Clarke. After which, INO; Messrs Thorne, James, Fenton, Turner ; Mesdames Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, &c. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. G UA. AMAREE,LA restores the Human Hair tv , to its pristine hue, no matter at what ago. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing; this wont liquid. It is now offered to the public az a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 35. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, Including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel passsago, 93, Upper Thames dreet London, E.O. fliE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FLBRUARY 21, 1870. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING. at 7, THE WIFE : Messrs T. C. King, Bad- nett, Howard, M•lntyre, C. Moore Moreland; Misses E. Stnart and Hudspeth. At 9, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Messrs. Fred. Yokes, Brittain Wright, Harry Boleno; Hisses Voles, MISCELLANEOUS NE TVS. so unjustifiably depnved of all his llonourS by her Majesty's Irish Executive, for refusing to become the servant of a priestly, but alien despotism—the enemy alike of liberty and independence.' Mr. Madden, in reply, says that it affords him great satisfaction to find that the protest which he thought it his duty to make against being forced to become the execu tioner of the odious deceit of a time-serving and Popish Ministry, against the persons and properties of his fellow countrymen, has met with the approval of the Orangemen of Leeds. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Tim EVENING, at 7 o'clock, POPPING THE QUESTION. After which, at 20 to 8, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN; Messrs Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale. &c. ; Mrs Chippendale, Miss P. Wright, &c. Concluding with DEAF AS A POST ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. TEIS EVENING, at 7, FORMOSA: Messrs J. Rouse, Rignold, Ta rlor, Philips, Leeson, Eburne, &e. ; Mesdames Billington, K. Rodgers, Brennan, Barnett; Grey, &c. Followed by AFTER DARK Messrs Rignold, Ashley, Rouse, &c.; Miss Rose Le clerc(' and Miss Barnett. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING, at 7. OPEN TO CONVICTION. Messrs George Belmore, J. D. Beveridge, C. IL btephenson, Miss L. Grey, and Mrs L Murray. At 15 to 8, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr 11. J. Byron. And THE NIGHTINGALE Mr Benjrmin Webster, Messrs Arthur Stirling. J. D. Beveridge, Skinner, Miss Furtado. Mrs Alfred Mellon, Miss Eliza John stone, Mrs Caulfield, .fie. LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING. at 7, TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER And CHILPE RIC: M. Marius, G Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Coghlan, and M. Herv6; Mesdames Dolaro, Fitz Inman, ito manelli, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Fole Lessee anti Manageress, Mrs. Swenborough. THIS EVENING. at 7. THE HEIR AT LA W: Mr Clarke. Mr James, Miss Button, &c. With THE TOODLES. Concluding with INO. WOODIN'S CARPET - BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at 3; Saturday Mornings at 3. Admission, is, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays ' 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. la. Box-office open fromll to 4. k 1 4 , cb Atv 1I i t 1 ) 11 9 'l % l C °.- ‘' r7L LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 21, 1870. MINISTERS are fairly taking away our breath. Be fore we have done admiring the Land Bill, the greatest piece of constructive legislation which this generation has seen, we are called upon to admire one which scarcely falls short of that, the new scheme of Education. Two such measures were certainly enough to signalise one week. But there were more great projects to be unfolded, and within twenty-four hours of Mr. FousTEn's exposition came Mr. GoscHEN's scheme for equalising the poor rates throughout the kingdom, and Lord HATIIER LEY'S reform of the judicature. The last of these is as important as any, or rather it will be so when the entire reform is complete. For that happy event we must be content to wait awhile. In the meantime, we are happy to have a foretaste of happiness in a simple enabling measure that will tend to remove the judicial block which suitors now find so exasperating and so costly. At present, for reasons best known to attorneys, the Court of Queen's Bench is much more popular than the other courts. The consequence is that while there is a glut of business in the first, the judges have not half enough to do in the others. Unfortu nately, as was pointed out by our Lon lon Correspon dent last week, a death vacancy has occurred in the very court where there is most need of judges. At the same time an economical Government could hardly, seeing the waste of judicial power in the other courts, caused by the ap pointment of three new judges under Mr. DISRAELI'S Bribery Act, fill up this vacancy. When a judge is able to spend the whole of term in keeping holiday, there must be so much money thrown away. It would, therefore, have produced a bad effect if; while dockyard men are being discharged by the hundred with ruthless haste, another lawyer had been endowed with £5,000 a-year to do the work that Baron BRA3IIVELL might as well have done instead of touring. Therefore it was determined not to appoint another judge in the place of Sir GEORGE HATES, even though Mr. DEN MAN should thereby suffer loss, and instead of appointing one it was determined to introduce a bill enabling any judge to sit in any of the three Common Law Courts. The reasonableness of this arrangement is at once apparent when we remember that there is no vital difference in the Common Law Courts, and that when a judge is selected no consideration is paid to the fact that the vacancy has occurred in the Queen's Bench, the Exchequer, or the Common Pleas. But this is only a small portion of the changes which the LORD CHANCELLOR hopes to effect very speedily. The bill just referred to is only a temporary measure intended to meet a present and pressing difficulty. But the larger scheme which Lord HATHERLEY de scribed involves far more than this. It will involve the fusion of law and equity, and consequently will enable any judge to sit in any Court, and it will constitute two new courts of appeal. These two measures will be introduced very shortly. The first will put an end to a grievous anomaly, the cause of much delay and expense to suitors, as well as of absurd contradictions. How absurd, Lord HATHERLEY himself shewed when he told how a suitor might in one court do that which in the other would render him liable to imprisonment. Moreover, two actions may now be going on at the same time about the same matter. Of course this complexity and confusion have arisen from a very laudable motive, the desire to temper the harshness and strictness of the old law by the more merciful principles of equity. But now the time has come when this must be effected in a less clumsy manner. The reconstitution of the appellate jurisdiction will involve important changes. A permanent High Court of Appeal will be established, consisting of the Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, fuur permanent members, representing the Lords Justices and the chiefs of the Common Law Courts, and three members selected annually by the CROWN from among the judges of the Courts of First Instance. This Appellate Court will be like the Court of First Instance, separated into three divisions, so that three sets of appeals may be heard simul taneously. The House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of Privy Council will still remain as the ultimate and superior Courts of Appeal. Lastly, there is no present intention to alter the circuits,, except that the Home Circuit will be abolished, and cases arising on that circuit will be tried in London. There will still remain another great measure for constituting provincial legal centres. This will, we trust, not be long delayed, for this reform is nearly as important as the others. Meanwhile, we must congratulate the Government and the country upon their determination to go as far as they are now prepared to go. Tne march of intellect in the nineteenth century cannot have been through the streets of Rochdale. 'We learn, from the Manchester Courier, that a young woman hits been imposed upon by "a wise woman" in the following manner:—The latter, pretending to be dumb, offered to tell the fortune of the other, and for five shillings offered to pro vide her with a husband and five children. With - this desirable object in view the young woman was induced to pay the money, and accept some absurd directions. By some means, not explained, she was induced to bring the ,:aso before the magistrates, and the witch was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The recent events in Madagascar must have aug mented the interest generally felt in an island especially rich in its stores of missionary experience. The London Mis sionary Society, which has been the pioneer of Christianity in that part of the heathen world, is now making an urgent appeal to the pr.liUe to ecablo it largely to ex tend its operations in this promising field. Sixteen additional agents are required—twelve ordained, and two medical rnisgoncries, and two schoolmasters. The total cost of their outfit is estimated at £1,400, and £2,000 more will be required for houses to be erected on the island. The annual additional cost to the society will amount to £5,000, so that it is clear the proposed uLdertak ing is in every sense a large one. A. I.4I7ALIFIED 'TEACHER.--The ibllowing is said to be a verbatim copy of an application made to the Truro Board of Guardians for an appointment as indus trial teacher in the workhouse : fab 4 1870. Sir I Offer myself to you for that place to the board which I am wall quilfide for nay adge 3s 402," Trn MORDAUNT CASE, On the resumption of the Mordaunt case on Satur day, Serjeant Ballantine stated that his side were in no position to contradict the evidence which had been given by the medical men to the effect that Lady Mordaunt was insane at a particular date. The letters of the Prince of Wales to Lady Mordaunt have been published in the Birmingham papers, but do not amount to much. THE LEAGUE AND THE EDUCATION BILL. The League has issued a circular touching the Government Education Bill. It congratulates its members on a measure which is so far in advance of any former Ministerial proposals, and which embodies so much of the League programme. But certain pro visions are deemed objectionable. The bill will be too long in coming into operation. The school boards have permissive authority to enforce attend flnce, whereas there ought to be no choice in the matter. The authority . to give free tickets of admis sion will give rise to invidious distinctions. And, lastly, the provisions relating to religious instruction are highly objectionable—calculated to excite bitter sectarian contests. TDB LAND DILL. The "national " papers of course condemn the Government Land Bill. The Nation calls it an ela borate piece of tinkering. The Irishman says the Bill is worse than a delusion and a snare. Under the pretence of redressing the land grievances, it per petuates and legalises landlord tyranny; under the pretence of legalising Irish tenant right, it destroys it. RAILWAY COMPENSATION. The boards of the leading railway companies have decided to bring a compensation bill into Parliament this session. The Railway _Yews states that the measure will contain a provision for limiting the amount of compensation to be paid in cases of acci dental loss of life or personal injury, but giving to passengers the right of insuring with the companies for larger . amounts at moderate premiums. Our contemporary thinks it would be well if the bill embraced likewise some provision for prosecuting parties who conspire to de fraud the owners of railway proerty. Attempts of this kind are constantly made. I.he only question is, will not the law against such frauds suffice as it stands? PROPOSED MEA SURES. Lord Chelmsford's bill to amend the laws relating to selling goods on Sunday enacts that any person who shall on Sunday, hawk, cry, or sell anything in the way of merchandise, shall be liable to a fine by the magistrates of not exceeding £l. The pro visions of the Act do not apply to the selling or delivery .of medicinal articles, nor to butcher's meat, fish, poultry, game, or vegetables before the hour of nine in the morning. Milk and cream also may be sold before ten o'clock, and between two and five in the after noon. Pastry, fruit, and unlicensed beverages will still be obtainable by the public throughout the day, with the exception of the hours from nine to one in the morning. Newspapers will be sold only before ten o'cicck, and up to that time barbers can pur sue their avocation. Cookshops and coffee-houses will close from ten to one, and bakers, licensed victuallers, and all public house-keepers will exercise their ordi nary and lawful business. It is to be observed that in all these exceptions to the Sun day trading law, no public cry is to be made use of. By Mr. Gurney's bill relating to the property of married women, the latter will be capable of holding, acquiring, and bequeathing real and personal estate, and of suing and being sued. The earnings of a married woman will be deemed to be her own property acquired after marriage. The re vesting of mortgaged estates in mortgagors is to be facilitated by a measure of Mr. Dodds and others, by which the mort gagee may, by endorsement of a receipt, for moneys secured, revert the property in the per son entitled to the equity of redemption without its being necessary to make any further conveyance. ELECTION NEWS. The nomination for Nottingham takes place on Tuesday, and the polling on Wednesday. The can didates at present are Mr. Digby Seymour (Inde pendent), the Hon. Auberon Herbert (Radical), and Mi. Augustus Thorne (Liberal Conservative). The intentions of the Conservative party are not, how ever, very well known. The Waterford nomination takes place the same day, and the polling on Thurs day. There is one Conservative in the field, Sir Leo pold M'Clintock ; one Nationalist, Mr. Smyth; and three Liberals, Mr. Bernal Osborne, Mr. Crean, and Sir John Ennis. The statement that Mr. Lucke was about to resign his seat for Southwark is con tradicted. 'WORKING -ALEN M.P.'S. The narrow run of Mr. Odger in Soutnwnrr has certainly not diminished the ambition of working men for direct representation in Parliament. They think of starting a candidate at Nottingham— though it seems too late for that now; and the project of inviting Mr. Odger to do battle in Bristol is very seriously thought of. The Beehive calls upon the Liberal wire pullers to make concessions, or run the risk of a great artisan secession. " The working men of England wi'l stand no shuffling. They will gladly and heartily co-operate with the Liberal party on well-understood and equal principles ; but, if we are to fight our own battle with our own hands, let us know it, and it will soon be seen that we can take care of ourselves." WHAT THE WEEKLIES THINK. The Spectator and the Saturday Review have each some noteworthy comments on the defeat of Mr. Odger in Southwark. The latter much regrets the issue. It was a narrow class prejudice which kept him out, though it is not to be denied that the hostile feeling was increased by Mr. Odger's hustings speech, which was far from wise. The Spectator, in fact,. declares that it was his worst effusion. It had in it nothing of the characteristic of the working man , nothing of hea r ty respect f or labour and the organisation of labour, an d it h a d much of the poorest type of Radicalism, which con sists in venting animosity at opulence, aristocracy, and royalty, not for their faults, but for standing higher in the social scale than labour. Nevertheless, Mr. Odger's great score must be deemed equiva lent to a victory. The Saturday Review on the other hand, which formerly supported the working man, turns against him, like the Times did, immediately he has lost. He could be of no use in Parliament, it says. He belongs to the rank and file of the social army, and officers are not accus tomed to take counsel with their men. "Employers of labour and master tradesmen, although they may amuse themselves by professing Conservative or Liberal opinions, are perfectly unani mous in their disinclination to be governed by those The to whom they pay weekly wages." In a littl e ti me e hi l n V ow g at w e i r l l lin s .ev and eut tthheel323°Beii-ileinsfg: the party of order. ords will lie down together like the lion and the lamb. PARLIAMENTARY DULLNESS. The Saturday Review says that as certain Parlia ments have had the ill-luck to bear uncomplimentary names in history, it is just possible that the present one may be hereafter known as the Tarliamentum stupidum. "We live in good times, doubt less, but the dullness of our legislators is very striking when compared with the roystering, reckless character of the days gone by. Walpole and his mistresses, Pitt and Dundas, with their two bottles more or less—where are they Contrast Mr. Lowe with Sir Francis Dashwood, once Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had previ ously filled the office of president of the Hell Fire Club. Virtue is well, says the Saturday, but why should it be accompanied by stupidity and dullness ? Parliament is now, like schoolboys in the first week of the holidays, on its good behaviour. There is real mauvaise honte in people in a fresh position, and probably new comers, of whom there are many in Parliament, feel that they should con duct themselves with stately decorum. Throughout last session the members on the Ministerial benches sat gloomy and silent, either frightened at themselves, or at their solemn and earnest leader. Dignity is impressive, but must it be priggish ? ROYAL DOCKYARDS. A return, consisting of over 600 pages, has been published, shelving the costs of manufacture and repairs in our dockyards for the year 1866-1867. Details relating to the conversion of timber at the saw-mills are gone into at length, and other in formation may be gleaned with difficulty from this bulky volume. To leave 1866, however, for the pre sent year, the United Service Gazette says that orders from the Admiralty have been received at the • Dovonport yard expediting the discharge of workmen, so as to bring the amount of wages in the financial year within the sum allowed. Forty-one were discharged on Saturday last without even a day's notice—a circumstance unprecedented In the annals of the yard. Z3;:73n then men have had a week's notice. At Woolvcch the sale by auction of the immense stock of stores, machinery, &c., now remaining at the dockyaril and. steam factory will commence on Monday IT,xt, and i 3 expected to occupy upwards of a week. LEEDS ORANGEMEN AND MR. MADDEN. Mr. John Madden has received a letter of sympathy from the members of the Orange Lodge at Leeds. It expresses the admiration of the members of the lodge at "his noble and manly conduct in declining, for the reasons assigned by him, to serve in the office of High Sheriff of Leitrim, thereby supporting the cause of true Protestantism and the liberty of his country. and also their sympathy with hit. in beine• LIFE ASSURANCE. Two recent decisions before two separate Vice- Chancellors are considered to settle the position of amalgamated policy-holders.. Both decisions recognis e the principle that p o li c y -holders admit the substituted liability of amalgamated companies if they continue their payments without protest. In the case of an annuitant, it was held that the reception of pay ments did not amount to a recognition of the transfer ; the shareholders who had transferred their business were still liable ; but . policy holders are held to be in a different position. The Solicitors' Journal observes :—" Payment of pre miums is in its nature far more indicative of recog nition than acceptance of annuity ; indeed, a payee will usually accept payment from anyone offering to make it, while a person having to pay looks naturally to the character assumed by the party proposing to receive." It seemed, however, as if the judge who gave the decision in the case of the annuitant would have taken the same course with a policy-holder. But a clear difference between the two in the case of amalgamations has been definitely established. WARMTH IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES. The Daily News half supports Mr. Plimsoll's queer little measure for compelling railway companies to provide foot-warmers in second and third-class car riages, whenever the weather is such as to necessitate the accommodation. It may be doubtful whether the interference of the State should go so far. But there can be no doubt that the interest of the com panies ought to lead them to furnish warmers with out compulsion. No idea is more mistaken than the delusion that passengers are driven to travel first class by making the inferior classes uncomfortable. For one traveller who goes first class because the second•and third aro uncomfortable, there are ten who do not travel at all, because they cannot travel at onco cheaply and comfortably. - SEWAGE. The British Association recently appointed a com mittee to make an inquiry into the great utilisation of sewage problem; and this committee appealed' to the municipal governments of British towns to assist in an investigation of such moment. At first sub scriptions flowed in slowly; but the committee made another appeal, and the list of subsidies is rapidly increasing. Seventy-five towns have contri buted. Manchester heads the list with one hundred pounds; and Plymouth, Bath, Cardiff, and Exeter spew well. The other towns give small sums. It is very probable that a total sufficient for the inquiry will be raised. THE DWELLINGS OF THE POOR. The Rector of Bloomsbury in a letter to the Times says that during the late bitter winds, the rich, shivering beneath great coat s an d f urs , have sym pathised with the sufferings of the poor, and have poured out charity in abundance. But should our charity be regulated by the thermometer ? Poverty is constant in London all the year through, whether during a hot summer or a cold winter. The soup kitchens, and other such agencies for supplying f oo d, s h e lt er , an d warm clothing to those that are in need are at best only temporary palliatives of a deep-seated evil. That evil, which is the cause of crime and sickness and vice, is the bad dwellings in which the poor are crowded. It is this that is the great cause of intemperance. The miserable lodgings drive men to drink, and that in many ways, of which it is necessary to men tion only the least obvious. The foul air generated in ill-ventilated, ill-drained, and crowded rooms creates a loathing for food and a craving for stimulants. Mr. Cure has been told by .physi cians that many a man who has slept in the noisome stench awakes physically incapable of exertion until he has taken his dram. Statistics are given comparing a little district in the vicinity of Russell square, with its wealthy and fashionable neighbour hood, by which it appears that for every single death in the latter district of Russell-square, no less than four take place in the Coram-street locality. The public attention to such evils as this is asked. No law will prevail until public opinion demands its enforcement as a political necessity. GOOD EXAMINATION IDEA. The Spectator recently regretted the absence of any means of fully and fairly testing candidates' acquirements until they come up for the final exami nation on which their prospects depend. The hint has been taken. Half a dozen university men have formed an examination board, and offer to test the qualifications of all comers for a moderate fee. Such a preliminary trial ought to be very much used in these days, when everything is settled by competi tive displays of knowledge. It should prevent cramming and heartbreaking failures. THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. _Land and Water says there will be considerable difficulty in fixing the date for the Oxford and Cam bridge aquatic contest. The tides on the usual date, April 19th, are exceptionally unfavourable, and in all probability the battle will come off on Thursday, April 7th, in the afternoon, at about 4.30. Land and Water adds that though this hour is very late for spec tators, yet the comfort of the crews is the chief consideration. Special arrangements will be made all to the steamers. TURF REFORM. Sir Joseph Hawley's proposals for the reform of the Turf are still discussed with much curiosity, though the sporting fraternity do not evince the slightest disposition to accept his trenchant scheme. The Field treats the matter more impartially than most of its contemporaries. The insinuation that Sir Joseph is attempting to reform the system only after he himself has made a fortune out of it is disposed of by the consideration that if he had been ruined by racing, people would equally have said that he was a jaundiced, disappointed man. All that Sir Joseph has proposed, another great turf authority, Admiral Rous, has at one time or other sanctioned. The Field has taken the trouble to collate the sentiments which the Admiral has expressed at different times. They alinost precisely correspond with Sir. J. Hawley's. Sir Joseph Hawley says racing is becoming simple gambling. Admiral Rous says that gambling threatens the very existence of racing. Sir Joseph Irawley says that this system in no way tends to improve the breed of horses; and Admiral Rous, that from such an influence the breeding of horses becomes a secondary consideration. Sir Joseph Hawley would order that no race should be run before March 25, or after November 15; Admiral Rous says that a season extending from February 15 to November 15 is a cryino. iniquity. Sir Joseph Hawley says that, in the event of the Jockey Club being unable to shorten the season, the Legislature should make such altera tions compulsory; Admiral Rous says that the Jockey Club has no power to enforce the law, and that some interposition from Parliament is almost required. And so on with regard to handicaps, entries for two-year-old races, the popularisation of the Jockey Club, and the rest of it. THE TURKISH ARMY. We mentioned lately the immense force which Russia can bring into the field, a force continually augmenting, at least on paper. The War Office at St. Petersburg having furnished statistics of its army to the European press, its humbler neighbour, Turkey, thinks it will have a crow as well, and declares that the Ottoman army has 160,000 men under arms The regular troops 'are divided into six corps d'armee, one of which forms the Guard, and the whole are under the command of a muchir, whose rank is equal to that of a marshal. The Sultan, in case of war, can call out irregular troops, such as the bachi-basouks, and the Tartars of the )obrutscha. At one moment, during the hostilities in the Crimea, he had nearly 220,005 men under arms, 105,000 of the regular, active, and permanent army, 105,000 of the reserve, and 8,000 militia. The Times Philadelphia correspondent telegraphs that the House of Representatives, on the 2nd of February, passed a resolution intrusting the Committee on Foreign Affairs to inquire what reasons exist why the Cuban Republic should not be recognised as a belligerent. A resolution was also intro duced by General Banks, chairman of the com mittee, authorising the President to proclaim the strict neutrality of the United States in the contest between Cuba and Spain, and declaring all existing neutrality laws that interfere with that object to be null and void. The House had not yet acted on the resolution. The private letters irom Rome of the Wediy _Register state very confidently that the dogma of the Infallibility will be declared before Easter, but in a much more modified form than the non-Catholic papers have hitherto proclaimed. " The" Roman correspondent of the same paper, gives the following as the relative numbers of the prelates assembled in Rome in favour of each school of thought :—Five hundred bishops, including the Greek Catholic, the Armenian, and the Maronite patriarchs, have signed the main postulate for the immediate promulgation of the dogma. Forty prelates have signed what is termed the American postu late, which is identical with the former, but somewhat modified in the wording. About a hundred of the Fathers have not signed any of the postulates, for, being members of the Commission de Fide, or else as belonging to the Sacred College, they think they ought not to inquenep others. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. BRIDGWATER MORALS. The borough of Bridgwater, observes the Times, ha. achieved in these days an unenviable fame. While the £lO franchise existed it was commonly averred that not more than fifty voters out of six or seven hundred were beyond the reach of bribes ; and the addition to the elec• toral register has not done much to improve the politica. morals of the place. Out of eight hundred new electors two-thirds at least, as the Commissioners have computer; from the evidence laid before them, are accessible throne pecuniary seductions. The whole atmosphere is taintei. with bribery ; no class is exempted from the contagion. the well-to-do not only engage in the work of bril3in2 others, but accept bribes themselves ; the needy work. men, the new electors, stand, according to one skilled wit ness, " in the cattle-market, like cattle themselves, wait. ing for the highest bidder ;" the patronage of every petty municipal office, the commission of the peace for the borofigh, and the influence of every manufacture. or owner of coasting craft are expended silo manipulated on the same principles and fen the same purposes. Only it is worth while to note that even , Bridgwater appears susceptible 01 some slight moral improvement, for we are told that since 15.57 it has not been thought either safe or decent to Frac tine corruption " without some disguise." For the deep seated disease that has eaten into the political life of the borough, and become, we may fear, inveterate, there only one remedy. The disfranchisement with which the sins of Great Yarmouth, Reigate, Totnes, and Lancaster were justly visited not long ago will surely be awarded to the more shameless and habitual misdoing of Bridg water. THE EDUCATION BILL. The Standard thinks that the reception of Mr. Forster's speech by the House of Commons on Thursday night affords significant, and reassuring, evidence of the tone of oliinion and feeling on the subject of popular education. Certain portions of that speech embodied suggestions which, if not originally put forward by the League, yet formed essential points in its prograpme. Other and more numerous passages gave the sanction of the Govern- ment to the views which the League has most distinctly denounced and opposed. The former were feebly applauded from one single quarter of the house ; the latter were heartily cheered by the great majority of both parties. When Mr. Forster announced • his inten tion to leave the school boards free to institute religious teaching in their schools, the applause was earnest, general, and almost enthusiastic. The leaders of the League recognised their defeat. The proof of the bill will b 3 in its working; but, so far as we can judge at present, it appears to us to have drawn the line very happily between the proper spheres of parliamentary control and local freedom ; and, if the boards he well and wisely con stituted, we have no doubt that the powers vested in therm will not be found excessive. LOCAL EDUCATION BOARDS. The Pall Mall Gazette remarks that the powers en trusted to the new school boards are extremely large. Let us inquire of what manner of men they are likely to be composed. In boroughs they will be elected by the town council, in the country by the parish vestry. There is no reason to doubt that in large towns a board thus appointed will be well adapted for the work it has to do. But as regards small boroughs and rural parishes ,the case is wholly different. Th e en li g h tenment of councils and vestries, composed for th e mos t part of small shopkeepers an d small farmers, is rather prospective than present, rather to be hoped for as a result than to be relied on as an instrument of diffusing public education. We know what has been the fate of free libraries in the hands of rate payers of this class, and the indifference which has been so often shewn in the matter of providing books may be equally shewn in the matter of proviclingthe elementary instruction without which books are useless. And the example of poor-law administration shews how stolid is the resistance which local authorities animated by this temper can offez to a controlling department. It is quite obvious there fore, that if Mr. Forster's bill i s t o d ea l effectually with educational destitution the Government must be armed with very different powers from any possessed by the Poor Law Board. LORD DERBY AS CONSERVATIVE LEADER‘ The Telegraph refers to the resolution that was passed at the Carlton Club offering the lead of the Opposition in the Upper House to Lord Derby, and says that the actual position of affairs, the arising of vast national ques tions which challenge the calmest consideration, indepen dently of all party bias or entanglements, and Lord Derby's own recent entrance into the House, coupled with the special attention which might be demanded by family affairs on his late accession to the title—would amply explain his desire to stand aloof, just now, from quasi-officialresponsi bilities. And nothing that hasi happened within the last eight-and-forty hours has at all made us swerve from our conviction, that Lord Derby will not at present be found acting as leader of the Opposition Peers in the Uppe4 Chamber. THE WEEKLY PRESS. THE IRISH LAND BILL. The Irish Land Bill so long and so eagerly expected has at last, says the Saturday Review, been laid before Par liament, and the intentions of the Government are known. The first impression produced has been altogether satisfactory. It is bold and adequate, without being revolutionary. It takes away all just causes of com • plaint from the tenant, and it leaves the landlord in pos session of his proprietary rights and his social position. The general outline of the Bill had indeed been foreseen. It was obvious that there (must be a new tribunal instituted to adjust differences between landlord and tenant ; it was obvious that, if the tenant was to have anything given him worth having, he must have the recognition of cus toms, security against capricious eviction in the shape of a - pecuniary fine on the landlord, and lastly, compensation for permanent improvements. He has got these three things in a very plain and unquestionable manner. The highest praise is due to the Government and to their draftsman for the great labour and ability that have evi dently been brought to bear on the details of the measure. Last year one of the great elements of the success of the Irish Church Bill was that it was so well drafted that it was very difficult to alter it without spoiling it, and the same may be said of the Land Bill. If the Irish who clamour for perpetuity of tenure would or could reason at all, the arguments used would convince them. But reasoning probably will not be the instrument of reducing their pretensions to moderation. If they accept the bill at, liii, they will accept it not because they will be con vinced that they ought not to have any more, but because they will understand that they have no chance of getting anything more, while what they do got is an immense bmiefit and concession to them, and is far beyond what a year ago they or any one else could have conceived it pos sible they would get. THE EDUCATION BILL. The Spectator observes that it is not often that two measures of such great scope and interest as the Irish hind Bill and the English Education Bill —measures which are likely to affect for many generations, for many centuries, the life of the people and the strength of the Empire—are introduced in one week, and introduced under circumstances which give to the Government which proposes them a marvellous access of popularity and sue cess. Yet it is hardly too much to say that Mr. Forster's success on Thursday was even more decisive and had more of the note of certainty about it than the Prime Minister's on Tuesday,—owing, no doubt, to the fact that the Irish Land Bill, being more nearly a new code of law than a mere scheme, taxed at first very gravely the patience and apprehensiveness of the House. The Education Bill, pre sented as it was in a singularly lucid and masterly speech by the Vice-President of Council, has, as far as we can see, all the criteria of a perfect measure. On the whole, we may safely say that a more statesmanlike measure has never been laid before the country. It is stringent in prin. ciple, and elasti c i n th e app li ca ti on o f p r i n cipl ; it wastes no resources ; it supplies vast wants ; it solves the reli gious difficulty and yet does not ignore reli o eion ; it respects all consciences and yet enforces neglected obligations ; it will cover the country with efficient schools without strik ing down one efficient school that now exists ; it sets up a high ideal, and it does all that statesmanship can do to hasten the time when the whole country will accept that ideal with absolute unanimity. The John Bull thinks that its readers generally will have made themselves acquainted with the main provision, of the measure so lucidly and ably expounded by the Minister charged with its management. But it may lye won to draw attention to the apparent disposition of the Government to modify in dome degree those features o'_'• the Conscience Clause which have been most distasteful to zealous and earnest clergymen. It would seem from expressions that fell from Mr. Forster that the conscience clause to which tlw schools receiving Government aid are hereafter to be subject will be one rather resembling that adopted in the Endowed Schools Act of last year, by which equal liberty of teaching to the instructor and equal liberty of withdrawal to the parent were assured, than to those obligations to which many of the truest friends of education have found it so difficult to submit. The abolition of denomi• national inspectors in a system where inspection, as a con dition of a Government grant, is to be confined to secular subjects, is a matter of course. And while the saving to the country will be considerable, it is not easy to see how the Church will be a loser. If an inspection of Church schools on religious topics is to be maintained, it will naturally fall into the management either of a Diocesan Board or the National Society. And we must own that it is quite possible that such a system might be more satis factory to those by whose contributions such schools are now mainly supported. On the whole, we cannot deny that a great step in the cause of education has been taken, and that the progress made has been essentially of a Con servative charactr. Old materials are utilised, religious feelings are respected, and if th e bill i s no t a per f ec t one , it woud certainly be difficult to get any better through the present House of Commons. The Economist believes there is no doubt whatever of the success of the Education Bill. It was received cor dially from every side of the House, and has been ap plauded by every section of the Press, even that which represents the Tories, whom, we may remark, Mr. For ster's rare comprehension of Conservative feeling and tact in dealing with men of very different opinions from his own, seldom fails to conciliate. There will, of course, be discussion in Committee, and perhaps some serious opposition to compulsion ; but the bill, as a whole, will pass, and the Government w ill have the credit of having in a single session attacked and conquered two of the most serious of all our internal difficulties. Much of that credit is due to the remarkable power of administration the Vice- President haS begun to display; and we trust the bill will not pass without clauses intended to make him the actual, as he is already, the virtual Minister of Education. For departmental reasons it may be difficult to break up the curiously complex but efficient organisation called the Privy Council Office, but it could not be difficult to elevate the education department of that Council to inde pendent rank, with a Cabinet Minister directly respon sible to the country for its action, AN ALDERMAN CHARGED WITH. PERJURY. _ _ At the Police -court at Tamworth, on Friday, Mr. Jame 3 Pallett Elliott, an a ld erman of the borough, was charged with committing wilful perjury in an affidavit sworn before Mr. Edward Argyle, solicitor, in respect of an action in the Co ur t of Queen's Bench for criminal libel, "Hooper, one of the coroners for Staffordshire, v. James Pa l lett Elliott," tried in January last. On the case being called on for hearing there was no answer, and on the application of Mr. Thomas Argyle, who appeared to prosecute, a warrant was granted for the alderman's apprehen sion. Mr.. Parry, solicitor, of Birmingham, then applied for a summons against Mr. Elliott for perjury committed on Wednesday last before the Tamworth borough bench of magistrates, in a case "Elliott v . Bircher," for c r imi n al libel, he having sworn on that occasion that the womanhe was living with was hit, lawful wife. Mr. Parry produced in court the Alder man's real wife, and the clergyman who married her to 11414._ TA.c_ Aumwsoll grAntA, LA IV EVTELLIGENCE.—This Day. VICE-CHANCERY COURT. HABERGIIAM V. RIDCHALGLE. Judgment was delivered to-day in this case, which turned upon the construction of the fol lowing words of a will :—" Upon trust to my brother-in-law, Henry Mitchell, and my brothers and sisters to enjoy the rents during their lifetime, and their children at their decease, but in the event of any of them dying without issue their parts to be divided in equal shares amongst the survivors in equal shares." Mitchell and some of the brothers and sisters pre-deceased the testator, and the ques tion was whether they were entitled to any share in the property, which his Honour decided in the affirmative. ROLLS COURT. LAND CREDIT COMPANY OF IRELAND V. LORD FERMOY. The Master of the Rolls g►ave judgment in this case. The issue raised was whether Lord Fermoy was liable for certain acts as director of the com pany, which the Court considered established by the evidence adduced. Lord Fermoy then moved for a new trial on the ground of perjury on the part of one of the witnesses. The Master of the Rolls said that this was not a case that rested on the evidence of one witness who was guilty of gross perjury, in which the duty of the COurt would be very clear. But that was not the case. The first witness had made an affidavit in which he did not state the whole truth, but on the filing of an answer more was elicited from him, and ultimately the wholetruth was extracted. He thought the evidence should have been sifted on the hearing of the case, and there should have been due diligence in bring ing forward witnesses at the trial. It would be laying down a very bad precedent if an application for re-hearing were granted to a suitor on light groiinds. He did not consider there was tali grounds for a rehearing of the case in this instance, and the prayer of the petition could not be com plied with. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. THE QUEEN V. THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF HEREFORD. Judgment was delivered in this case, which came before the Court originally upon a motion for a mandamus to the Dean and Chapter of Here ford to admit the Rev. Dr. John Jebb, Pmlector of the Cathedral, and Rector of Peterston to a canonry residentiary which had become vacant on the 2d of November, 1867, but it was ulti mately arranged that the matter in dispute should be submitted for decision in the form of a special case, setting out all the agreed facts. The Lord Chief Justice said that, according to the interpretation of the Act of Parliament, the Bishop of Hereford was right in claiming the nomination. While much regretting that a gen tleman wbo had so long held the office of Progec tor, and who would therefore be greatly disap pointed, an order must be made that a mandamus must go to the Dean and Chapter of Hereford to admit Archdeacon Waring to the canonry. POLICE I X7ELLIGENCE—This Day. THAMES. FORGING SEAMEN'S ADVANCE NOTES.—George Lomax Cobham, aged 28 years, and described as a seaman, of No. 64, High-street, Shadwell, where be was said to have been lodging, was brought before Mr. Paget on remand, charged with fraudulently obtaining £1 10s. by means of a seaman's advance note; £2 14s. of John 'Walter Lindsell, licensed victualler, by means of another seaman's advance note, and £2 15s. of James Pluckrose, of Lower Shadwell, by means of a similar note. The pri soner had been dealing largely in fictitious advance notes, and forging the names of owners and cap tains of ships. The case bad been remanded for a week for the attendance of witnesses. It was now stated by Patten, a police-constable, No. 247 IC, that one charge was withdrawn, and that witnesses to prove the forgeries were not forthcoming. Mr. Paget said he could not allow the course of justice to be interfered with in this way. Persons must submit to a little inconvenience to ensure the trial and punishment of offenders. If he was to allow all manner of excuses to prevail to hinder persons attending that court and giving evidence, persons guilty of serious crimes would be conti nually escaping, and no one brought to justice. ,Summonses must be issued for the attendance of the necessary witnesses. He would leave the case in the bands of Inspector Turner, of the IC division, who was a most experienced and intelli gent officer. Prisoner—l say the notes are forgeries, and I will save a great deal of trouble by acknowledging my guilt., Mr. Paget said he would not take the prisoner's admissions in the present state of the investigation• A witness—Here is a forged note I cashed. Another shopkeeper said he had lost very large sums by forged notes. Mr. Paget —The greater is the necessity for pro secuting the prisoner. Here are already four charges against him. Inspector Turner respectfully solicited another remand. Mr. Paget—Certainly. You shall have a remand for a week. Inspector Turner—And summonses for the wit nesses that are necessary to make out the various cases against the prisoner. Mr. Paget—•Take out as many summonses as you may think necessary. The prisoner was then remanded for a week. He expressed an earnest desire to be sentenced, and " have it over." MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CHARGE OF ROBBERY BY A CLERK.--Alfred James Sims, clerk in the employ of Messrs. Wil liams and Co., wholesale perfumer; of Nos. 12 and 13, Tichburne-street, was charged before Mr. Tyr whitt with robbing his employers. Mr. Terrick John Williams said it was the duty of the prisoner to receive money and account for it every Monday, the money being placed in a till, of which the prisoner had the key, and all moneys received by the prisoner should be entered in a book kept by him, and the money in the till should correspond with the amount in the book. On Wednesday week he asked the prisoner for some money from his till, and how much he had, and he said £2 65., but that he could not let him have any as he had left the key of the till at home. The prisoner went away to fetch the key, and a s he did not return the till was opened with a picklock, and although the book showed there ought to have been £2 6s. in the till, there was no money there, and the matter was then placed in the hands of the police, and the prisoner was taken into custody by Beechey, a divisional detective. He had also ascer tained that the prisoner had collected moneys in the City and had not accounted for the same. The prisoner said he was only taken into custody last night, and was without professional assistance. He was ahousekeeper, and, as he could give bail, he hoped it would be taken, the more especially so aB he had a complete answer to the charge. Mr. Williams said he expected to find other de falcations. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner, and eon- Anted to accept two sureties in £5O each. 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