The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-19 00:00:00

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I*. f the Ito' f BronlV na Ned to the nephew;s solici, 'e her OP ) is read IV [en( 1 of th e wituess e rs of 31"' hY sympat „ yes of to' ents wh 3 " y a pologY• w that 1 1 ° r extrelv?, peechesl such retl" mai caree r. the " If ) e taikinr voices be: bte—what However, We hay' lver re Y or" t holde r, numencle ad • . 4uP ; Quotatiop, I r i s h DO LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. ARREST OF CONSPIRATORS. PARIS, May 12. be implicated person s were arres t e d yes t er d ay c h arge d w ith big in the conspiracy. Bombs were found at the lodgings of the prisoners, who made complete 4.7°17 a15• Fresh arrests will be made to-day. SPAIN. MADRID, May 18 (Evening). 4 arshal Prim h a d a l ong i n t erv i ew w ith th e mem b ers o f t he maj or it y of the Cortes yesterday, to whom he explained the present state of the candidature question, and in r e lusion poi n t e d ou t th e necess ity f or con f er ring upon , e Regent Serrano the attributes of Royal authority. Another rumour asserts that Marshal Espartero's ref usal is no t fi na l , b ut t h at h e wou ld accept t h e C rown if e lected by th e C or t es. , It is rumour, d th a t some o f th e P rogress i s t p ar ty, pre ; I°ll s to giving their support to the arrangement referred to, 13 .4t encl to pi opose a vote in the Cortes excluding the two rall ehen of the Bourbon dynasty from the Spanish throne. ITALY. FLORENCE, May 18, Evening. Official reports confirm the news of the dispersion of the band of insurgents which had appeared near Reggio, in t he Province /Emilia. One of their number was killed, t 4 L i dthree were ta k en prisoners. They left behind them 1 , - "t37 rifles. Th e y w e r e strongly supported by the in habitants. INDIA. (By British Indian Cable.) CALCUTTA, May 19. The Viceroy has vetoed the Cotton Frauds Bill. The Fridnd of India states that the Government has kterfered at Ulwar. BOMBAY MAIL. MALTA, May 18. e Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Syria le ft at three this afternoon for Southampton, where she 14 3 , be expected about the 27th instant. Poonah, from Southampton, 7th instant, arrived at 7 01 1 the morning of the 15th, and left at midnight on the -411 for Alexandria. TWA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, May 19. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon arrived here with the above mails. She brings ' 5 ,900 in specie and 230 passengers. GIBRALTAR, May 14. ~,l e llange on London, 90 days, 50f. following steamers had arrived at Gibraltar from 1 4 o iBll ports :—Bavarian, Sydney Hall, Investigator, Poonah, Argyll, Olympus, Livono, Roma, lonia, thator, Carolina, and Mary. AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 48. ~1 4° Id clos e d a t 114 i; th e hi g h es t quotation during the day 18115 ; the lowest 1141. Sterling Exchange on London ' 109 i Fire -Twenty U.S. Bonds, 1882 ll2i Ditto 1885 ll2 Ditto 1867 ll4i T en -Forty ditto 1867 loBi Illinois Shares Erie Cotton, Middli ng U p l an d • 23c Petroleum, Standard White 27lc Flour, extra State .. $4.80 to $5 40c. Corn, old Mixed $1 14c. lihrjhe fo Eight llowin o'clock thisg news appeared in our First Edition pub 'get' at (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) FRANCE. PARIS, May 18. , e aeral Fleury is said to be coming to Paris on leave abg ence. bb Th e Journal Official of this evening says of the Ple be7t,te The solidatory established in a civilising policy 14 a - "ea France and other nations was never manifested k rf lore remarkable and striking manner. All Govern -14:1," regard the vote of the Bth of May as a moral and success for their general interests, and they par ret Pa te in some sort in the victory of the Emperor over ° 23rade and anarchical passions." T he i result of the Plebiscite will be presented to the 4pee Pe lt ror on Saturday, when he will deliver an important o„ °ll signore Fournier has been appointed Bishop of i Ll ' ,e s) and Mgr. Grolleau Bishop of Evruex. A i ° Joe of the journals advise the Government to revoke The sentence. editor of th e Rappel and the editor and manager of rei/ have b e en sentenced to three months' imprison and a fine of 100 francs. e e The cattle plague has broken out in Doubs, and the tat 441cil cf Neufchatel has therefore prohibited the impor of cattle from France- THE CORPS LEGISLATIF. r . Schneid er, the President, after the reading of the ra t if nils of the committee on the Plebiscite, read a decla feei°° that the operation of the vote had been regularly ef- Th e e d , and that the French people approved the Plebiscite. Inid r s : Were loud cries of " Vive rEmpereur !" in the " Which M. Jules attempted to obtain a hearing, T he order of the day was then proceeded with. ROME. May 16. ev e French bi s h ops w ill ce l e b ra t e th e resu lt o f th e res h , lei te by a special Te Deum next Sunday in their th e '- v ' e tive cath e d ra l s . Th ere w ill a l so be aTe Deum at P aL re n° l l Embassy. The Archbishop of Paris is ex to ake a speh aains the definition of infalli Pa m pal troops h ec ave g been t sent to Viterbo. INDIA. SIMLA, May 18. (11 Norman is General Durand's sucoessor in the S ecret Col one l B ur k e h av i ng b een a pp o i n t e d Military etal T to the Governor, in General Norman's place. CALCUTTA, May 18. q i : k t Politi cal agent is to be placed at Ulwar on account of 11 113411 ces there. etroleuta has been found in British Burmah. CHINA. I\reu,lS BOMBAY, May 18. 6 11 c th e " frolll Hong Kong reports general satisfaction at cer ems, -"es of the deputation to Earl Clarendon re /I.°4g the convent i on s i gne d b y Si r R . Al coc k . Weather favours tea and silk cultivation. AMERICA. The WASHINGTON, May 17. till th disc WASHINGTON, of the Funding Bill has . been adjourned th e r e 24 th in the House of Representatives. The bill on de rm e . Bt c'ratio n of American commerce is awaiting consi- Ea, I°ll, and General Butler, Mr. Banks, and others are in A T °l- Is of amending it by reducing the duties on imports 'lo.erican bottoms. ARRIVAL OF SHIPS. Thy SOUTHAMPTON, May 18. ln br o - Bteaer New York arrived here to-day. She 11°4 I ° o passeiwers, but no specie. Th e GREENCASTLE, May 18. Y ork . steamer Anglia arrived at Lough Foyle, from New She went on to Glasgow after landing passengers. or Th e SOUHAMPTON, May 18. th German Lloyd Mail amer Deutsc d d MO g ed -day from N ew York, with ste 430 passengers hlan an ' ,oo o el in specie. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) A Tt lE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACTS. Puh meeting was held in the Town-hall, Birming ilph.,...st mght, under the presidency of the mayor, in Dl Ar r. Fowl er ' s mo ti on f or the repeal of the Con cri Acts. Resolutions condemning the acts l'eti t4 • inimoral, ad unconstitutional were carried. " ,, i to both Houses of Parliament were adopted. At STAFFORDSHIRE MURDER. ", adjourned i nquest, held yest erday, a verdict of Wif e u mrder w as returned against Elizabeth Goodwin, F r ; of a collier at B rowne d ge, Staffordshire, who on th roa t filed her infant, aged ten months, by cutting its ith otis and tb.en inflicted wounds upon the throat of child, a ten years of age, and upon herself. - .4 EARL OF CARNARNON AND THE GREEK MASSACRE. 64.ietter from the Earl of C has been ved Southampton corporation, thanking them rece for i the manner in which they devised and carried out the arrange ments for the reception of the bodies of Mr. Herbert and Mr. Vyner, murdered in Greece. The Earl accepts the feeling displayed on the occasion as an earnest that the indignation felt in England at this great national injury will not be lightly forgotten, and that the delays which a careful examination of the case has unavoidably interposed will not be suffered to diminish the atonement which the country is entitled to require both in maintenance of its own honour and in justice to the dead. DEGREES AT OXFORD. In a Congregation held at the University of Oxford to-day, the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Art—C. C. Tucker and C. E. Hensley (University), G. H. Morrell (Exeter), R. B. Hanson (Queen's), Rev. S. Jacob (New), 0. Birchal (Basenose), E. Greenhow, Rev. A. T. Park and Rev. S. C. Voules (Lincoln), J. A. Doyle (All Soul's), C. H. Moore and T. G. Milne (Corpus), Rev. J. E. Prothero (Jesus), Rev. W. Hickman (Wad ham), Rev. S. C. Newbolt (Pembroke), A. J. Shay ler, (St. Alban's Hall) and H. Gosling (Christ Church). Bachelors of Arts : J. H. Williams (Magda. len), C. P. Scott and L. L. Sharkey (Corpus), A. C. Bartholomew and W. B. Yarde (Trinity), and W. W. Harrison (Pembroke). Bachelors of Music : R. Rogers and W. W. Ringrose (New). S. H. Williams (Jesus), and the Rev. W. G. Priest (S. Albans Hall). THE BOTTALLACK MINE. The quarterly meeting of the Bottallack mine in St. Just, Cornwall, was held yesterday at the mine. A divi dend of £lO per hundred shares was declared. DEATH OF LADY AUCKLAND. Lady Auckland, whose husband has just succeeded to the title by the death of his father, at one time Bishop of Bath and Wells, is dead. SUPPOSED WRECK ON THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND. The Receiver of Wrecks at Stornoway has had sent him part of a name-board of a vessel, which board (the sender says) was cast ashore on the west side of the island of Lewes. It is about five feet long ; and upon it, indented into the board and painted yellow, are the letters x H x MR IN G. The board being broken the name is incom plete. The wood has only been a short time in the water. Considerable quantities of palm oil and batens on the coast near Stornoway and of the various islands of the Orkneys. There is very little doubt felt in the neighbour hood but that a vessel of considerable size has been re cently lost with her crew. THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE MR. CHARLES BUXTON, M.P. BOW-STREET—(Tins DAY.) Alfred Shelley White, aged 27, was to-day placed before Sir Thomas Henry, the chief magistrate, charged with at tempting to murder Mr. Charles Buxton on the 29th of April last. Mr. Charles Buxton said he lived at Grosvenor-crescent. The prisoner had been his secretary for about seven years, and had always given him satisfaction until a few months ago, when he became strangely negligent, and he found he could not continue to employ him. By his agreement with him he was to give him a month's notice, but he had given him three months; and as he did mere writing very well he tried to get some employment for him. On the Saturday before the occurrence he found he bad neglected to work, and he wrote to him telling him that, as he did not attend to his business, he should not require his services atter that day month. The following Wednesday he (prisoner) was doing some writing, and he (witness) being called away, asked the prisoner to wait until he returned, but when he got back he found he had gone. On the Friday morning following he met the prisoner at the door of his house, and they both went in together. He told the prisoner that he thought he might have waited for him on Wednesday, to which he made no reply. He (witness) said, If you did not wait for me you might have sent the papers by post." He then told prisoner to get him the Army List, when he, in a very insolent tone, said he did not know anything about it. He told him it was in the dining-room, but, instead of going for it, the prisoner said he was not going to be made a fool of. He told him to leave the house, as he should not want him any more, but he did not stir, but commenced reading a letter from his sister, who, he said, wanted to know why he was dismissed. He told him because he was the most lazy and incompetent man of business he ever met wii h, and could do nothing. Prisoner said, "You used not to complain ;" but he answered "No, you used to do your work very well." Prisoner then said, " Do you want the Army List," and went out of the room to get it. On prisoner's return he (witness) turned round and said to him in a friendly way, " Mr. White, what a fool you are to be so insolent to me ; it makes it so difficult to get you other employment, which I have been trying to do." He then saw the 'prisoner scowling at him very angrily, and he answered "I don't believe a word of it, and he leant down towards him as he said so. He thought he was going to assault him, but he remained seated and said, " Why you know I asked certain friends of mina to give you their writing to do." Prisoner muttered something, then turned round, and sat down at his table in the middle of the room. He (Mr. Buxton) was sitting at another table at the other end of the apartment, with his back toward the prisoner. The distance from the door to the wall is 23 feet He told the risoner to leave the house, and he afterwards heard him get up and walk to the door. He (Mr. Buxton) was looking at owe papers on the table, and the next moment he heard the report of a pistol. He started up, and saw the prisoner standing with his back to the door with a pistol in his hand pointed toward him. He instantly flung himself down behind the table in the middle of the room, and looked round for any weapon to get hold of, but could not see one. Prisoner said, "Are you wounded ?" and thea stood for some little tine as if irresolute whether to fire again or not. He saw him over the top of the table. He (Mr. Buxton) resolved to spring at him, when the prisoner opened the door and went out. He (Mr. Buxton) rushed to the door, and not hearing the street door bang, he thought the prisoner was still waiting for him. He opened the study door with great caution, and not seeing prisoner in the hall he opened the dining room door. Not-finding him there he rung the bell, and looked out of the window to see whether he was in the Crescent, but he had gone. The witness Wilkes answered th e bell, and he told her White had shot at him, and directed her to look for the bullet. There was a mark of a bullet on the study wall in a direct line with his head as Le sat at the table. Witness found the bullet three or four yards away from the wall. In answer to questions put, on behalf of the prisoner, by Mr West, Mr. Buxton said no attempt was made to fire a second time. He had noticed for some time a change.in the mode of his doing certain small things for Lim. Mary Wilkes said she was the daughter of the house keeper to Mr. Buxton,and that she recollected the occurrence at Grosvenor-crescent. She heard the report of the pisto 1 about tee o'clock in the morning. She did not go up, as she thought the firing was in the mews outside, but iu about ten minutes she went up to Mr. Buxton's study, when Mr. Buxton said, "Mr. White has shot me," and he then asked her to look for the bullet. Silie fund it in front of the spot at which Mr. Buxton had been sitting. The bullet produced is the one. She gave it to the police. Inspector Pay produced the bullet referred to, and said it fitted the mark on the wall of Mr. Buxton's study. Inspector Druscovitch said the prisoner was given into his custody in Paris, and he brought him to London under the warrant delivered to him. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—THis DAY. .FALsz CHARACTER.—EmiIy Johnson was finally examined at the Westminster Police Court, charged with obtaining a situation by means of a false character. The prisoner obtained a situation as cook iu the house of Mr. Compton' in St. George's-road, on the representation that she was a quiet and well-disposed person, but she turned out to be known as the " fast cook," and that the character she gave was false. The magistrate fined her £lO or two mouths' hard labour. Steps are being taken to discover the writer of the false character. CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS'— William Flood was charged before Mr Knox, at Marlborough-street, with stealing a sove reign, the property of Mrs Catherine Erdmann. The pri soner delivered some coals to tko prosecutrix, when she told him she had not got change for a sovereign. The prisoner said he would go and get change, and she handed him a sovereign, with which he went away and never returned. Mr Knox committed him for three months with hard labour. OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY.—Fre'idilt Sales, aged 27 years Sarah Seiss, 26, alias Ann Smith, and Johann Johnson, 30, all natives of Holland, were brought up on remand before Mr. Woolrych, at the Thames Police-court, two of them charged with stealing 301bs of beef the property of Mr• George Cresswell, and the man Freidut Seiss with at tempt ing to rescue the woman from lawful custody, and attempting to stab George Batger, shopboy, in the service of the pro secutor. The prisoners entered the prosecutor's shop and whilst the women were buying some meat, one of the pri soners stole the beef, and en its detection he snatched up a keife lying on the counter, and threatened any ene who stopped him. All three prisoners were fully committed for trial, THE SUN, LONDON, Tilt' ESDAY, MAY 19, 1870. LAW AND POLICE► DIFFICULTIES. OF A THEAtRICAL MANAGER.-At the Wrexham County Court, before Mr. It. Vaughan Wil liams, Miss Laura Selwyn and Miss May Mayfield, actresses, brought an action against Mr. Philip Hannan, manager of the Wrexham Theatre Royal, to recover £l2 2s. Bd. for services rendered. Miss Selwyn conducted the case on behalf of herself and her sister. She said : The action is brought to recover a balance due for the joint services of myself and this lady (Miss Mayfield), at the rate of 355. per week, and also another claim for thirty-three morning performances. I charge for the thirty-three extra morning performances at half salary price, 2s. 6d. a time (24 2s. 6d.), as is customary in the profession. I also claim a week's in lieu of a week's notice, as we were summarily dismissed.—Mr. Hannan : The ladies were engaged by the week, and if they consent to act as extra performances, I have a right, as manager, to have their services. I have played in Scotland on New Year's Day three or four times, and have never received a farthing extra. His Honour : Would not Mrs. Charles Kean be rather surprised if she were called upon to give an extra performance without additional remuneration ?—Mr. Hannan : The cases are different. We did not have full performances. Subsequently Mr. Hannan admitted that £3 2s. 2d. was owing to the plaintiff, and his Honour thought that the ladies ought to have something for their extra work, and he gave judgment in their favour for £6. Miss Selwyn then applied for her expenses incoming from Birmingham to attend the case, which were granted. THE WARRANTY OF A HORSE.—An action between two horse dealers has been brought in the Lourt of Common Pleas. The plaintiff imported a black horse from Hanover, Which the defendant agreed to buy, provided it passed the Veterinary College, which it did. A few days after it had been taken to the defendant's stables its leg swelled, but nothing serious was apprehended. A week later the plaintiff and defendant agreed to an exchange of horses, and the plaintiff asked if the horse was all right. The defendant Said it was, and this was the warranty sued on, for the horse grew worse, and had to be destroyed. The defence was that his disease was of old standing, and he was substantially in the same state when exchanged as when originally purchased. Verdict for the plaintiff—damages £B5. A SECRETARY OF A NEWSPAPER IN THE BANKRUFTCY COURT.—Mr. Charles Fowler, late secretary of the Oxford Times Newspaper Company, came before Mr. Registrar Roche, at the Court of Bankruptcy, on an application for order of discharge. He ascribes his failure to his having taken a farm at Bicester, which resulted in a loss of upwards of £3,000, and to the Oxford Toilet Company having turned out a failure ; also to his being and involved in two Chancery suits. He owed to unse cured creditort £2,030, besides liabilities of £10,965, of which £10,154 are in respect of Chancery suits. The asset are merely nominal. The bankrupt had been required to file additional accounts and some vovchers, but, as the latter had not been produced in time, an adjournment of the sitting was ordered. FALLING OVER A PLANK. —A case has been tried in the Court of Queen's Bench to recover damages for injuries sustained through the alleged negligence of the defendant's servants. The plaintiff, a shopkeeper in Bayswater, was running along the road, when he fell over a plank which the defendant's servants had laid across the pavement to carry sacks of flour into a baker's shop. The plaintiff was seriously injured, but the defendants contended that it was usual for millers to lay down planks. Mr. Justice Hannen would not deny their right to use the pavement in that way, but they were bound to take reasonable precautions. Verdict for the plaintiff. Damages £2O. IMPORTANT DECISION ON PARTNERSHIP.—The judges of the Court of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas decided an appeal—" Kendall v. Wood "—from the Court of Exche quer, which has an important bearing on partnership relations. The parties were Manchester merchants and the plaintiff sought to recover £l,OOO from the defen dants, that amount having been paid in excess to the defendants by his partner without his knowledge. The co-partner had paid, the partnership moneys in discharge of his own debt, and the defendants gave him a receipt on the partnership account, but they afterwards transferred it to his own debt. The question was whether the plaintiff could recover the £l,OOO paid by his partner. The court held that plaintiff was entitled to recover, and entered the judgment accordingly. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY The Speaker took the chair at twenty minutes past twelve o'clock. MALLOW ELECTION. Mr. WATERS took the oath and his seat for Mallow. MUNICIPAL BOROUGHS (MBTROPOLIS) BILL. Mr. C. BUXTON moved the second reading of this bill. He remarked that there was no self-government for London. The only attempt in that direction was the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of works, but the functions of that body being limited it could not be regarded as a municipal system of self government. His plan was that the City Corporation should be extended to the whole of the metropolis, and that it should carry with it all its present functions, pro perty, and prestige. London, he contended, suffered from the want of some powerful system of self-govern ment. The hon. member described what he called the state of anarchy in London, and pointed out the evils attendant upon the complicated and anomalous form of government at present existing in the metropolis. He said that the system was a wasteful one in every respect, both in regard to time and money. The necessity for a central and powerful intelligent body was obvious and imperative. He proposed to take the existing divisions of London for Parliamentary boroughs, and that each Parliamentary borough should be endowed with a complete municipal institution, which would unable it to deal with all the petty affairs which Would not come under the cognizance of the Central Government, as not interesting the whole of the metro polis. The extraordinary defect - of which he spoke was distinctly recognised on all hands, and it was almost uni versally admitted that the time had come to amend it. Mr. BENTINCK moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. The hon. member called attention to the various schemes which had been proposed for the better government of the metropolis, and pointed out that the present plan was toally different from any of the schemes previously advocated. The scheme pro posed by the Select Committee of 1867 had been received with very great favour. It was that the Board of Works should be entirely recon structed as the central authority of London, its constitution should be altered, its name changed, and its pmer enlarged. It was proposed that the Board should have control over the gas and water, and protect the public interest, both as regarded the thoroughfares and rail ways, &c. Hehoped the three bills which the hon. member had brought in would not, at this advanced period of the ses sion, be referred to a select committee. It was clear that the matter could not be dealt with this year, and if the subject were deferred the Government would have time for Mature consideration. Mr. MORRISON remarked that there was an advantage in the preliminary inquiry by a select committee, because it reduced the points in dispute to a minimum. So far from having no authority to urge in favour of the scheme of the hon. member for East Surrey, he could cite the authority of the Metropolitan Board of Works and the Corporation. The proposal of Mr. Buxton was more statesmanlike than that of the Committee of 1867. Lord JOHN MANNERS said no Government could hope to cope successfully with the immense difficulties con tained in the proposal, unless they secured the co-opera tion of the great representative bodies such as existed at present moment. He did not think any good would result from referring the series of bills relating to the subject to a select committee. Mr. LOCKE was in favour of the proposal for one central governing body, which should be the Corporation, the whole of the metropolis being divided into wards. Mr. W. H. SMITH said that a constitution for London was undoubtedly necessary, but the question involved such a great principle that it was unadvisable to refer it to a select committee. He agreed with Mr. Locke as to the desirableness of extending the corporation. Mr. BRUCE thought so important a question should be dealt with by Government, and at the same time he did not think it was inconsistent to refer the subject to a select committee. He was not sanguine enough to believe that a select committee could conduct the inquiry to an issue so as to enable the Government to deal with the subject this session. Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY said he was authorised by the Corprration to say that they were anxious for a full inquiry. Sir WILLIAM TITE, on behalf of the Metropolitan Board of Works, made a similar statement. Alderman LAWBE'CE pointed out that no provssion had been made for the extension of the boundaries of London. Thirty years hence, he observed, the population might be six millions. After some further discussion the Rouse divided— For the second reading ... ... 130 Against ... 66 Majority ... 64 The bill was read a second time and referred to a select committee. MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL, Mr. RussELL GURNEY moved the second reading of this bill. He said he had found a general feeling that a change should take place in the state of the law as it affected the husband , and wife. He instanced tlie, evil effects which the law had upon women, and he quoted from the evidence of the triilbar for Sheffield, who stated that he knew many cases of great hardship. Upwards of 803 women in his employ were married women, and earned good wages. In very many instances the husbands were idle and dissipated, and spent the earnings of their wives. The argument as to the exten sion of the law, of marriage settlements was utterly inapplicable in the present case, whilst the obtaining of a protection order from the magiarate3 would be but a declaration of war between the husband and wife, and would result in lamentable consequences. The only remedy was the one he proposed, namely, that a woman should not lose or forfeit her pro p3rty by the act of marriage. He noticed the objection raised against the bill. One was that it would introduce discord into a family, but he reminded the House that the rich always took care to secure the property of their daughters. The hon. and learned gentleman then read a variety of authorities in favour of the change in the law proposed by the bill, and also to prove that the fears entertained by those who opposed the measure were groundless. He hoped the House would assent to this bill, which had been most carefully considered, but he im plored hon. gentlemen not to pass any half measure on the subject. It was a matter of the most vital importance to the working classes. They felt they were suffering a grievous wrong, because they could not see why a poor woman's mangle should not be just as much protected as the rich lady's consols. Mr. RAIKEB felt equally with the right hon. gentleman that these was a great necessity for a change In the DAW' with respect to the property of women, but he did not think the proposals of the bill now under the considera tion of the House calculated to remedy the evil. He could not help thinking that the passing of the present bill would increase instead of diminishing the very objec tionable state of thinge that at present existed. He had a bill on the paper on the subject, which arrived at the same result by rather different arrangement; and there fore, whilst he did not adopt the course he took last year, he thought the best way of ascer taining the respective merits of both bills would be to read each a second time, and then refer them to a select committee. Mr. JESSEL said the hon. gentleman who had just sat down had admitted that it would be advisable to protect wives from brutal and fraudulent husbands, and yet he objected to 'support a measure the s,lc object of which was to arrive at the much-desired result. The hon. member (Mr. Raikes) had imputed latent motives to those who supported the pre sent measure : but he denied that such was the case. They were actuated by but one desire, that was to give protection to a woman, and thus enable her to defeat the evil intentions of a man to whom she had unfortunately linked herself for life. He hoped the House would read the bill a second time, and not send it to a select com mittee. Mr. CHARLEY objected to the bill, because if it passed it would give a woman the right to vote in virtue of her property. Mr. STAVELEY HILL supported the bill, because it gave the county court judge the power of protecting the earnings of an industrious woman from being squandered by a dissolute husband. Mr. MUNDELLA hoped the House would allow the bill to be read a second time, and mentioned cases in which the proposed change in the law would operate most bone• ficially. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL having in a brief speech sup. . 4 the principle of the measure, bilki9llo.4o IWO tinl% MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY (NO. 2) BILL. Mr. C. RAISES moved the second reading of this bill. Mr. JACOB BRIGHT moved, and Mr. HEADLAM seconded, that the bill be read that day six months. On a division, the amendment was carried by 208 to 46 votes. VELOCIPEDE ACCIDENT. Yesterday afternoon about two o'clock a youth named Phillip Kent,, residing in the Dover-road, was proceeding along the Old Kent-road on a bicycle, when the machine suddenly went over, and the rider being thrown to the ground was run over by a butcher's cart, which was pass ing at the time. He was so much injured that but little hopes are entertained of his recovery. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Al KENTISEI-TOWN. This (Thursday) morning, about ten minutes before three o'clock, a fire attended with a serious loss of property, and almost fatal consequences to a whole household, happened in the premises belonging to Mr. C. W. Cutter, a gas fitter and engineer, carrying on business in the Kentish-town road. The discovery was made by a police-constable, who, in passing the house, noticed smoke pouring out of the front windows. Feeling satisfied that the building was on fire he raised an alarm, and, after some trouble, he succeeded in arousing the inmates, who had the greatest difficulty in effecting their escape, and as it was they were nearly suffocated with the heated smoke. The engines of the Metropolitan Brigade arrived, and a plentiful supply of water having been obtained, the firemen and the London Salvage Corps went to work, and were successful in saving some portions of the premises, but the major portion wa s burned out, and the stock-in-trade destroyed. The origin of the disaster is unknown. The sufferer was insured in the Sun Fire Office. THE FENIANS. It is believed that there is a constant communication by letter between the Fenians resident in th 5 metropolis, and those who have taken up their quarters in provincial towns. This view is supported by the rumours which• ha ve been afloat with respect to the aggregation of Fenians in Birmingham, Sheffield, and other towns in whi c h arms cau be procured. The termini at which suspected parties would arrive from those places have been watched by the police. Other railway termini, however, have not been so closely guarded, and by these a largo nutn ber of Feuians have arrived in the metropolis within the last fortnight. If the officers of the detective force have narrowly watched the Great Western, Great Northern, and North-Western termini, their movements, it is stated, have been so closely followed by metropolitan member s of the Fenian Brotherhood that all provincial adherents of the Fenians have been warned by letter to slip into London by other than the guarded routes. Shift ing of public-house quarters, or rendezvous, has been simultaneous with change of railway route. Many mem bers of the F. 8., who for the last four years have fre quented a public-house situate in the heart of the west central district, still remain about the place, visiting it nightly, although the great majority of itg former sup porters have disappeared, The quantity of small arms iu possession of the lowest orders of the Irish in Lon don is said to be large, and to have been considerably increased within the last fortnight by consignments received from the gunmakiugtowns in England. Iu some few instances revolvers have been pulled out of breast pockets at public-house bars by half-drunken Irishmen ; but in contradistinction to the open-mouthed boasting of 1867, is now to be observed the sustained reticence of men of this class. The individuals suspected or implicated with respect to arms in Birmingham appear to have been agents of men at a distance, and not co-operators in any seditious move ment in that town. Notwithstanding the improbability of the step there are still rumours of the intention of the French Government to remove the barrier which prevents the exiled Princes returning to their native land. About six months ago a Sheffield grocer, Mr. Ben jamin Ashton, disappeared from his home, and no tidings respecting his fate was heard until Monday last, when his dead body was found in the river Derwent in Chatsworth Park. It is said that M. Josseau, who was one of the famous 116, and played a prominent part in the crisis of January 2, will be appointed successor to M. blege as Vice-President of the Corps Legislatif. M. de Talhouet would be unanimously elected, but he declined the honour. The Bombay papers of Tuesday state that, accor ding to native accounts, which are believed to be true, the King of Bokhara is subsidised by the Russians, and Abdul Rahman Khan, with a powerful army, and so subsidised, is preparing to invade Afghanistan. NONCONFORMISTS AND THE EDUCATION BILL.— The proposed meeting of Nonconformists on the education question, at St. James's Hall, on the 24th inst., has been postponed to Monday. June 13, in order that it may express an opinion upon the Government amendments to Mr. Forster's bill. THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.—The Common Law offices will be closed on Tuesday next, the 24th instant, on the occasion of her Majesty's birthday; and the Chancery Chambers and Courts of Equity ou the following Saturday, which has been appointed by the Lord Chancellor for the celebration of that event. CORPORATION OF LONDON BILL. The second reading of this bill, which is a supplemental measure to the Municipal Boroughs (Metropolis) Bill was moved by Mr. BUXTON. Mr. BENTINCX moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. After some discussion, Alderman Lusx moved the adjournment of the debate. Viscount ENFIELD seconded the motion, which was agreed to. Some other business having been disposed of, the House adjourned at five minutes to six o'clock. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. YORK RACES.-WEDNESDAY. The Eglinton Stakes of 10 sous each, h ft. T.Y.C. Eight subs. Mr Johnstone's Lady Studley, by Adventurer -Lady , Ripon, 2 yrs, 6st 151 b Mr Gilby's Ben Caunt, 2 yrs, 7st ........,......((W. Platt) 2 Lady Studley, who made all the running, won in a canter. The Consolation Scramble of 30 soya. T.Y.C. Mr R. Peck's The Gift (late Black Boy), by Rapparee— Acquamarine, 5 yrs, Est 121 b Mr Jos. Dawson's Fearnought, 3 yrs, Est 91b (F. Webb) 2 Mr Hudson's Lady Highthorn, 5 yrs, 7st 51b (W. Platt) 3 The following also ran :—Lackland, Honesty, Viscoun tess, Bonita, Hebe, and Gretna. Gift won in a canter by three lengths. Londesborough Cup, value 100 soya in specie. Three quarters of a mile. Mr. Buckingham's Simplon, by Master George—Maggiore, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (H. Covey) 1 Mr. Payne's King of Clubs, 3 yrs, 6st 51b (in. 71b extra) (W. Gray) 2 Mr. Feaster's Lady Zetland, 5 yrs, Bst 41b (Snowden) 3 The following also ran : —Argyll, Promptrees, Ralph Lambton, Duneane, and Maraquita. The favourite and King of Clubs broke away and delayed the start, but when the flag fell Simplon drew to the fore, and made all the running, winning in a canter from King of Clubs, who passed Lady Zetland at the bend. Time Tyro Stakes of 5 cove each. Half a mile. Mr. Singleton's Trojan, by Craniond—Hesione, 7st 131 b (.£7O) Mr. A. S. Briggs's Aurora, 7st 131 b (carried Bst) (£7O) (T. Chaloner) 2 Mr. W. Edgar's Rapolano, 7st 131 b (.£7O) Convivial also i an. The Flying Dutchman's Handicap of 100 sous. One mile and a quarter. Mr Payne's Musket, by Toxopbolite, dam by West Aus traliau—Brown Bess, 3 yrs, Est Blb (includ 71b extra) (W. Gray) 1 Mr J. Scott's Viscount, 5 yrs, 7st 91b Mr Thompson's Waterloo, 3 yrs, Est llb (car Est 41b) (Hunt) 3 Islam also ran, Waterloo made the running with a strong lead, followed at wide intervals by Viscount, Musket, and Islam in the order named to the turn into the straight, when the leader gave way to Viscount and Musket, ihe latter coming away from the distance, and winning by half a length. The Stamford Plate of 100 sova. Half a mile. Mr E. W. Nunn's Athol Daisy, by Blair Athol--Daisy, Bst 101 b (Morris) 1 Mr P. J. Jackson's Caradoc, Bst 101 b (Hudson) 2 Mr T. S. Dawson's Grand Coup, Bst 101 b.... (esborno) 3 Barbiger and Frou Frou also ran. CHELMSFORD RACES.— WEDNESDAY. The Witham Handicap of 3 soya each. Half a mile. Mr F. Temple's Succession, by Lambtou—Heiress, Byte, ist 41b • • (Butler) 1 Mr Mumford's Romance, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Hardy) '2 Mr A Poole's Lady Middleton, 3 yrs, 6st 91b (Jarvis) 3 Onyx also ran. The Two-yr-old Plate of 100 soya. Half a mile. Count F. de Lagrange's Croisade, by Monarque—Vivid, t'st (in 71b extra) (Butler) 1 Mr II Wright's South Durham, Bstlolb (lluatable) 2 Mi M Dawson's Perquisite, Bst 71b (Jeffery) 3 Bounce also ran. The Mark Hall Welter Handicap of 5 sovs each. About seven furlongs, straight. Sir T. B. Lennard's Play, by Little Stag—Eaffie, 3 yrs, llat 51b(in 71b ex) Mr W. Smith's Blanche, 3 yr 3, lOst (Mr Bevill) 2 Mr Alfred's Reflection, list 71b (in 71b ex) (Deacon) 3 Pevensey, Margaretta, and Grapeshot also ran. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Two miles and a half. Mr T. Bell's Fusee, by Marsyas—Vesuvienne, 3 yrs, 7st llb (Huxtablo) 1 Sir T. B. Lennard's Play, 3 yrs, 7st 91b... . (Mann) 2 Mr H. P. Seabrook's Lycimnia, 5 yrs, 10st 11b......(Ha1e5) 3 Cockney also rau. The County Members' Handicap Plate of f.. 0 cove. Three- quarters of a wile. Mr B. Cleve's Old Sain (late Collegiato), by Oxford—Miss Fanny, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Walling) 1 Mr Hilton's Patrick, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b .... (Newhouse) 2 Lord Bradford's Black Lily filly, 3 yrs, Est 21b ...(Jewitt) 3 Bouquetiere and Reflection also ran. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-WEDNESDAY, DERBY. Even on Macgregor (offered—take 6 to 5). 8 to 1 agst Sunshine (taken and offered). 11 1 Camel (offered). 20 1 Prince of Wales (taken). 20 1 Kingcraft (offered). 25 1 Bridgwater (offered). 1000 5 Tourist. The objection against Lawsuit, the winner of the Hunt Cup at Thirsk, for having been in a training stable, has been decided in his favour. The French Oaks (Prix de Diane) will be run for at Chantilly next Sunday. MINOTAURE. —This horse, who is first favourite for the French Derby, will be ridden by T. French, who has been specially retained for that purpose. YACHTING. ROYAL LONDON YACHT CLUB. The entries for the races amongst vessels belonging to this club, to be sailed on Tuesday next, the 24th instant, closed last night, and are as follows Yachts. Tons. Owners. 1. Fiona 7B Mr. E. Boutcher. 2. Rose of Devon 148 Mr. E. Johnson. 3. Muriel 4. Vanguard 6O Lieut-Colonel H. Verschoyle. 5. Julia 6. Vindex The second class did not fill, Mr. Cuthbert's Vampire and Mr. Coddington's Lizzie being the only entries. The time allowance in the first class is 30 secs. up to 50 tons, and 20 secs. above. The Albert Edward will accompany the race for the club, leaving Blackwall at 9.45. The numbers denote the station. CANINE MADNESS.—In several places of North Yorkshire quite an uneasy feeling has prevailed for some weeks in consequence of the unprecedented number of mad dogs. Several very alarming cases of being bitten by rabid dogs have occurred in the vicinity of and within the towns of Scarborough, Pickering, Malton, and Kirby, in the North Riding; and the district generally seems affected by a mad dog epidemic. EAST SUFFOLK ELECTION.--The writ for an election to supply the vacancy in the representation of East Suffolk, occasioned by the elevation of the Hon. J. Henniker Major to the Upper House, has been duly proclaimed. At present the Liberal candidate, Sir Shafto Adair, appears to be likely to walk over. At any rate, up to a late hour last night, no Conservative candidate had appeared. 'ADVERTISEMENT. 1 Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and acc3lerated by drugs of eve y description, but perfectly curable by Du BARRY'S health-restoring Revalenta Arfibica. Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been oOnsidered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti,htness of the chest, pains at the fi Food. Cure No t b h y e D s u houl lian ders y, &c. We quote a few:pit of -Th e e s t p o o m p aec,shhealth b r e e t s w t o e r e e n d 68,413 —" Rome, excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabic& Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 2c. Cure No. 40,170.—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cure N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years 'dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescrib able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, con stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly' Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb 4s Gd; 51b lls.; 121 b 225; 24 lbs 4 s.— Also Du BARRY'S REVALRNTA RADIO& CROOOLATE PoWDER is packed in tin canisters: for Ft cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at .55s —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 558 tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order.— BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. THE MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY f Two o'CLocr. The continuance of brilliant weather, and the satisfactory appearance of Continental politics, have had the effect of further stimulatinp the upward movement in the stock Mar ket. At the same time the prospect of lower prices for both wheat and cotton, and of a consequent expansion of trade has caused a cheerful feeling, and has imparted considerable buoyancy to prices. Consols are quoted at 94; to 94i for money, and 941 to 9.1 i for the account. Reduced and New Three per Cents. are 921 to 92k; Exchequer Bills, par to bs prem. ; Indian Five per Cents., 1131 to 114; ; India Bonds, 20s to 25s prem. There has been a steady inquiry for New Zealand Conso lidated Bonds at improving prices, the announcement of the uew loan under Imperial guaranters having drawn attention to these securities. In the market for British Railway Shares the principal feature is the continued flatness in Metropolitan and Metro politan District, which are now quoted at ill to 71g. and 33 to 331 respectively. t reat Western Con solidated Ordinary Stock has declined to 72 to 72f, but there has been a fair inquiry for Lancashire and Yorkshire and North Eastern Consols at steady prices, The market for foreign bonds has been without feature of importance, but the tendency generally has been faveurable. Spanish have partially recovered from yesterday's depres sion, and exhibit a fractional recovery. Turkish 5 per Cents. have been in request, and have marked 51g. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) Sales probably 10,000 bales. 41arket dull and unchanged. THE MERCHANT SHIPPING QUESTION. A resolution was passed yesterday by the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce recommending that a royal corn mission or a select committee of the House of Commons should be appointed to consider the subject before legisla tion was undertaken on the question of merchant shipping. SUNDAY IN NEW YORK. Tennyson says, "In spring a young man's fancies lightly turn to thoughts of love." If the Poet Laureate had lived in New York he would have said that at this season the thoughts of most people lightly turn to rural scenes, lavender kid gloves, and suburban lager beer, Suburban lager beer ! No ; times have changed. This German nectar can now be obtained everywhere, and Greek fire in Hibernian liquor saloons is disposed of openly ; in fact, the writer saw at a well known sheban in Fulton-street a policeman under a soporific influence. This blue-coated guardian of our liberties lay sprawling over a round table, his massive club making a right angle with the half-folded arms, no doubt meant to per sonify the equator. Hen. was a parody on the Excise law of the most farcical kind. The Bowery mermaids, the dives, half liquor, half women, seemed to have taken a new lease of life, and flourished in every-day salubrity. Crowds went in and out with " no man to make them afraid," and ardent seekers after the spirit were not slow in finding their way to the altar of Mickey M'Gin or Pat O'Punch. The conse quence was that an increase of arrests told the pulse of public morality, the police headquarters, that the Excise law was not being observed in its full rigour, vide the report of Inspector Jamison who asserts that the arrests for the twenty-four hours were 346. The returns for nineteen months in but one instance chews the daily arrests to be as high as 300. That was in September, 1869, when they reached 314. It is not usual for the Sunday arrests to go above 220, and the large increase is evidently caused by the laxity with which the Excise law is being enforced. Very few places make the slightest pretensions to closing their bar-rooms, and the good old days " when we went tipsy, then a long time ago," seem to be redivivus• But a more naturally exhilarating scene in the Park than the gin mills of Gotham would be more acceptable to the citizen weary of winter weather and fireside amuse ment. The delicate green tint of the sprouting foliage seemed to cover the trees with a delicious, soft verdure, and the general air of freshness imparted to the scene, made it particurlarly acceptable to the denizens of the crowded city. A few short days have made a wonderful change, and where the chilling rawness of April pervaded how the genial warmth of spring is felt. Vegetation has been wonderfully rapid, and the lover of nature may feast his sight with the delicate traces of the young leaves before they assume either the parched appearance of summer or the coarser lines of autumn. Crowds on crowds were to be seen in every path, and every variety of Gotham's cosmopolitan population seemed to have its innumerable representatives. Here could be seen the buxom wife, with her flock of healthy children, accom panied by her adipose husband, nature suggesting the idea that if all flesh were grass, they would makea good load of hay. Behind them, swaggering, came the groomed ruffian, with a large corporation, diamond pin glittering on his degraded bosom, and not far off slouched the raga muffin, who only lacked instinct to be a perfect brute. Then sauntered past the exquisite and pretty little mil liner, looking half coyly, half invitingly, at the handsome dry goods clerk, who wants to make their acquaintance, but is afraid. Carriages, bearing not exactly the elite, who don't do the Park on Sunday, but respectable citi zens of the middle class, who have the privilege of living in the way they choose—a choice denied their more aris tocratic brethren—rolled past in long continuous lines. The balmy, pleasant air, however, changed at nightfall to one more chilly, and the cars were eagerly sought to convey humanity,. tired with expanding its lungs on pure ether, to their domiciles. BETTING PROSECUTION.—At the Liverpool Police court yesterday John Maccall, a pablican and printer, was fined £75 and costs for permitting betting on his premises. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that widows who cry easy are first to marry again. There is nothing like wet weather for transplanting. MR. W. T. TOWNSEND.—The interment of this lamented dramatist took place this afternoon, at two o'clock, at Finchley Cemetery. A great number of gentlemen con nected with the dramatic profession were present. Few there were who had not impersonated at least one character drawn by the author of not less three hundred acted plays. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—An order received from the Admiralty directs that no more applications from the workmen at Chatham dockyard to emigrate at the expense of the Government will be received by the Admiralty after Thursday next. The applications from the hired and other workmen who are desirous of being sent out to Canada by the Admiralty are very large—not as the Globe said, very small. THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAlLWAY.—Tempo rary erections have been set up in the new Queen Victoria street, with the full approbation of the Metropolitan Board of Works, to whom the street belongs, and who, with the Cor poratio a of London, are opposing the deviation of the Metro politan District Railway to the Mansion-house, to show the manner and extent to which the proposed extension would affect the new thoroughfare in its general appear ance and the public convenience it is designed to afford. These temporary erections have been raised to indicate practically the arrangements which the company propose to make for lighting and venti lating the intended Mansion-house station on their line,• iu the event of their obtaining Parliamentary powers for tho purpose, and they are said further to represent the eompany's owe model in that respect, with the exception of sonic ex ternal ornamentation, which does not affect the question at issue between the company on the one hand and the Corporation and the Metro. olitan Board on the other. The erections now completed aro four in number, and two of them are each 60ft, and two each 70ft in length ; all four being each 15ft wide and about 6ft high. '1 hay run longi tudinally along the very crown of the causeway, commenc ing at the southern end of Queen-street, and going in the direction of the Royal Exchange. Two of them are 16ft apart, and the remaining two are divided by 37ft 3is those interstices being designed as crossings of the main thoroughfare for foot passengers. It is right to add thecom pany proposed to make up for the extent to which the pro posed structures detract from the breadth of th e new s t ree t by widening it on either side, so that practically, perhaps, the width of the carriage way would be the same, only that it would be divided or split, which would be an inconve nience. But nothing, as it seems to us (says the Tines), would compensate for the extremely unsightly ap earauce which those structures, however externally ornamented, and however necessary for light and ventilation, would present in so imposing and spacious a thoroughfare as the new street will eventually be, or for the vexatious interrup tion they would occasion in the fine vista which would be opened up from beginning to end. Let any man walk along the new street from its junction with Cannon-street to the point at which it becomes merged in the open space in front of the Mansion-house, and form his own judgment on the matter. He will see four wooden boxes of the dimensions which have been stated iu the very centre of the roadway, and prese,iting in some respects the appearance of a rail way train not in motion, minus the engine and tender. The likeness will be complete, and the bad effect aggravated, when puffs of steam are seen every now and then issuing from these ventilating shafts with every pass ing train, as they will be should the proposed ar rangement be carried into effect. If those shafts to. gather form at all a correct representation of what the com pany intend to construct three, should the deviation be sanc tioned by Parliament, it would be worth while for the Lords' Committee, by whom the matter is now being considered, to proceed to the spot and judge cf the effect for themselves, unless, indeed, it be a case in which every other consideration is to give way to a purely utilitarian object. It is material also to bear in mind that, in the event of the proposed extension being made, li tie more than 300 feet would be saved, compared with the distance between the Cannon-street Stati.n and the Royal Ex change.