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41 11 - 1 QUI *3/.4 4 4 . ltH - I t 'of * • bfk - u - 01 16-° ' AD R I3I ' d4 P N ' 4 4S. / N°. 24,302. THE SUN, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1870. PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. Now ready, in 2 vols., Bvo., with Illustrations, FREE RUSSIA. By W. HEPWORTH DIXON, Author of " New America," " Tier Majesty's Tower," &c. "OUR OCEAN HIGHWAYS" AND ITS MONTHLY SUPPLEMENT, KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portuzal street, Lincoln's-inn. The Committee earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current expenses. Assistance is urgently needed., J. W. WALDRON, Secretary mu= prosperity, Mr. Hamilton places the potato failure, higher county and poor rates, wages nearly double, labour scarce in many of the country dis tricts, and the lack of the good feeling between the farmers and the labourers which generally insures good value in work. )AY. Incorporated with "THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES." KINAHAN'S LL. WHISKY - DUBLIN. E IHIBITION, 1865. 0 h serve the isity Red Seal, Pink Label, and Uork Branded Bina- LL. Wh. 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The objeot of e Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng lish education, at. practical instruction in the kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other wise provided for when they attain 16 years of age, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. HENRY KINGSOOTE, Treasurer W H. Weawza, iSecretary. Office, 121, Pan mall, 9, W_ The mission which " Our Ocean Highways" has to achieve is to afford Travellers OF ALL NATIONS a means, in the simplest and readiest of forms, that of the alphabet, to find their way, safely and easily, over the whole world. The success already obtained by the first - annual, for 1870, is a guarantee for thefuture. The whole British Press have applauded the enterprise ; many American and Continental Journals have encouraged and sympathized with the move ment, which is international, and made in the best interests of all countries. _ _ _ The host of elaborate special Handbooks and Guides which abound at the Railway Stations give .many minute details to which a condensed Gazetteer of the World, in a moderate-sized volume, cannot lay claim. But what it does claim is, that it contains every necessary particle of Tra velling and Commercial information, derived -from the best and original sources. It is a matter of just pride and congratulation that all the great Ocean Steamship Companies, and many eminent Com mercial Shipping Firms, have cheerfully acceded to the E iitor's application to forward Printed Forms of Ques tions to their Correspondents and Agents all over the globe for reply. . 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Communications, suggestions, and corrections are earnestly solicited from all Travellers, either by letter to the Editor, or personal interview, at the Buckingham Palace London. ect neavilY, close more Jared witb Ld has becl ed to 126*, took place hilst Great after being Canadian cness. As .6:t to 16k, he market .ernand foz ,s., at an re risen 1. a (1859), (1869), ani have faller and Great , fallen 1, hiladelpha nil, and i heavily al n doing at isiness has .:*e. ri, and full ndian sub• died with for =corn aken at 21 the Bank en place. iet, but at t, Messrs• he French ,he Bank; 13th inst. t the next ner is due ill be kept ing no de have con- somewhat been very rice, how nexecuted "ew South • £lOO,OOO per cent capital ;on and ;revenues 1 the 28th quired on educe the e on the cl Foreign )f £lO,OOO Company 'rom Mr. cpedition, e has laid a latitude wheat hit on forme! it forward t has beet which hal 'till prices. 1 7. Flout lat, 1,290. Foreign- - 6,030; and mled dull, nd 31s. 9d. ne month. has ruled ainable on were sold ative and ) inquired Moderate been very t, 3s. 4d. ss. ; and m of the inactive, gents, to £6125.; mericans, t. s of the m specu t, 6,750 : 750 bales, n. Sales, a in value French t steady. ) market done in ave been Id for lg. corn of ts, 1355.; ; 'sixths, its, 1265. ; dap, 107; tape oil ptember rune, 58 ; une, 61f. Spirits, ttervour, are only don, but tevalenta had been , cough, 11 gastric icy, ner catarrhs, m, gout, 'sleepless- cramp?, sea, sink ns at the e quote a :jure No Father is he has [ca Food, produced Holiness Gazette 3, timber d lunge, !s. Cure aterford, adescrib Lgh, con asavoury uthority .21b 225; OCOLATBI 24 cups )s at 55S are sent Order. — on; and 3el Geo. wife of mouth, ie third looting, h, Esq.. hter of ateson, k-road, tEWS 0. 112 nty of Clean "We claim for Mr. Dixon the merit of having treated his subject in a fresh and original manner He has done h's best to see with his own eyes the vast country which he describes. "I he conse quence is that be has been able to lay before his readers such a picture of Russia and the Russian people as cannot fail to interest them."—Athenaeum. Hurst and Blaekett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just published, price is 6d., by post ls. Bd., the Second Edition, with Addenda, containing additional Facts and. Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks. EVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medieal Circular." London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. 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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, is the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's Cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. Vice-Patron — His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEITCH, This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance'of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Glyn and Co.; Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Bar clay and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners street; and at the Hospital from 10 to 5. SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square. The only free Hospital for diseases of women. Sub'criptions and donations are much needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hat chard, Piccadilly; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs. Barclay, Coutts, Glyn, Ransom; and by the Secretary. PERUVIAN FOUR AND A HALF PER CENT. LOAN OF 1862. En vertu des pleins pouvo irs que le Suprem e Gouverne ment du Perou m'a confi4s,j'ai decidd que toes les titres de l'Emprunt Peruvien di per Cent. de 1862, que soot encore en circulation, seront remb.mrses au pair, plus le coupon echu le lre Juillet prochain. Le remboursement aura lieu It Londres chez Messrs J. Henry Schroder and Co., 145, Leadenhall-street, et les porteurs du dit emprunt peuvent toucher, le montant de leurs titres, plus le coupon dchu le premiere Juillet prochain, h partir du 2 Mai, sous d6duction d'un escompte de 1 per cent. par an dujour du payement jusq'au ire Juillet. Les titres qui n'auront pas ete present& au rembourse ment du 2 Mai au ire Juillet, 1870, cesseront de porter interet. Paris, 20th April, 1870. (Signed) TORIBIO SAN, Inspecteur Fiscal et Agent Financier Sp&jai du Peron en Europe. • [TRANSLATION.] In virtue of the full powers conferred upon me by the Supreme Government of Peru I have determined that all the Bonds now in circulation of the Four and a Half per Cent. Peruvian Loan of 1862 shall be Redeemed at par, together with the Coupon due Ist July next. The reimbursement will take place in London at the Counting-house of Messrs. J. Henry Schroder and Co., 145, Leadenhall-streat, and the holders of these Bonds can re ceive the amount of their Bonds, together with the Coupons due Ist July next, on and after 2d May next, less interest at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum from the day of payment to the Ist July. The Bonds which shall not have been presented for pay ment between 2d May and the Ist July, 1870, will cease to bear interest on the latter date. Paris, 20th April, 1870. _ . (Signed) TORMIO SANZ, Fiscal Inspector and Financial Agent of the Peruvian Government in Europe. In virtue of the authorization of Mr. Toribio San; Fiscal Inspector and Special Financial Agent of the Peruvian Go vernment in Europe, we hereby give notice to the holders of the 41 per Cent. Peruvian Bonds of 1862, that said BONDS with the Coupon due Ist July next, will be PAID on and after MONDAY, the 2d May next, less discount, at the rate of one per cent. per annum, from the day of payment to the Ist July, at our Counting-house, 145, Leadenhall-street. The Bonds and Coupons must be left two clear days for examination before payment. J. HENRY SCHRODER and CO. London, 22d April, 1870. B ANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. Incorporated by Royal Charter. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a Vacancy has occurred in the Direction of this Bank by the death of John Ranking, Esq., which will be filled up at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. By the terms of the Deed of Settlement it is required as follows: "That every Proprietor intending to become a Candidate, or to pro pose some other Rroprietor as a Candidate for the office of Direc tor, must, within Ten days from the time when the advertisement shall have been inserted, signify by some writing under his or her hand, to be left within the said Ten days at the Office of the Cor poration, either his intention to become a Candidate, or the name and place of abode of the Candidate intended to be proposed by him or her." Names of Candidates cannot, therefore, be received after the 30th instant. By order of the Court. R. W. BRADFORD, Secretary. 124, Bishopsgo,te-street within, London, E.C., April 20, 1870. A.D. 1720. ROY AL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION. (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. Offices—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London. Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, S.W. OOTAVIIIS WIGRAM, Egg Governor. JAMBS STEWART lODOSON, Esq . Sub-• Governor. OILMEN JOHN MANNING, Beg Deputy-Governor. DIIiEUTORS. Robert Barclay, Esq. John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Edward James Daniell, Esq. William Davidson, Esq Lancelot William Dent, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq. Charles Hermann Goschen, Esq. Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq. Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Medical Referee, Sami William Tetlow ,Hibbert, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Egerton Hubbard, Esq. Nevile Lubbock, Esq. George Forbes Malcolmson, Esq. Lord °Beeline Wm. Percy. Charles Robinson, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. mel Solly, Esq., F.R.S. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on advantageous terms. FIRE DUTY.—This Tax having been abolished, the PREMIUM is NOW the only charge for Fire Insurances. FARMING STOOK.—No Extra Charge is made for the use of Steam Thrashing Machines. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption wider Royal Charter from the liabilities of part nership. The advantages of modern practice, with the secu rity of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital Two Millions. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.O. DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN— Frederick 13. Jenson, Esq. Richard M. Harvey, Esq J. G. Hubbard, Esq G. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq, M.P John Martin, Esq Rowland Mitchell, Esq • James Morris, Esq Abraham J. Robarts, Esq Henry Vigne Esq Henry Hnlse Berens, Esq Hy. Bonham-Carter, Esq Charles Wm Curtis, Esq Charles F. Devas, Esq Francis Hart Dyke, Esq Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart James Goodson, Esq Archibald Hamilton. Esq Thomson Han.key, Esq SECRETARY—T ACTUARY—SI The Government Duty is rnas Tallemach, Esq . , aml. Brown, Esq. totally abolished. Proposal, with statement of the ife Branch, free on application to Secretary. Prospectuses and Forms of Assets and Liabilities in the Lit the Celllpe.ne Agoutsor t 9 the; RIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON 1: FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN STITUTION. President—Rev. OANON DALE, COTTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon greet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard street, E.O. ; Francis Nicholls itsq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, N.C. E. W. THOMAS, Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W. H OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS 1 are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and cloning for the 126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. 160 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street. 94 girls in the Refuges. 19, Broad-street, and Ealing. 870 children. £l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank, 214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, L.C. and by WILLIAM WILLIAAIS , secretary. No. S, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. PALNLESS and PRACTICAL DENTISTRY, by Mr. B. L. MOSELY, the Dentist by special appointment, 312, REGENT-STREET, exactly opposite the Royal Polytechnic, and 23, 510ORGATE-STREET, CITY. Established 1820. This, the most perfected system of painless dentistry, originated and invented by Mr. B. L. Mosely, is recommended by the Hospitals and adopted by the profession as one of the greatest improvements of the age for the alleviation of pain and restoration of the natural functions, can solely be obtained in such perfected success (the result of forty years' practical experience) at his only residences, as above. The superlative excellence of this system is perfect immunity from pain, no operations, stumps and decayed teeth rendered useful, loose teeth and teuder gums proteoted. Qualities: These teeth never change colour or decay—in lit unerring - ease and comfort unsurpassed -detection impossible—the facial anatomy faithfully studied - and youthful appearance restored—mastication and arti culatiAsr*nteed. The "Times " of March 6 sari :—" So good an inn Wornos the next best thing to the original." Teeth from 55., ' Ur, ato 30 guinea, consultation free.—Only addresses, 312, Regent-street, exactly facing the Royal Polytechnic; and 23, Moorgate-street, E. C., opposite the Star Insurance Office. EAST SUFFOLK AND MAYO. Various Conservative candidates are spoken of for the seat left vacant by the elevation of the Hon. Major-Henniker. The names of Sir E. Kerrison, Mr. C. H. Berners, and Mr. Herman Biddell, a tenant farmer, are mentioned. One j ournal gives Mr. Berners as the most probable selecti on. It appears to be pretty certain that Sir Shafto Adair will once more court the affections of this constituency. He is a persevering swain on whom the loss of love's labour counts for little. He fought East Suffolk in 1843, 1859, 1867, and 1868, besides engaging in other contests. In 1868 he made a close battle of it, polling 3,321 against 3,620 given to Mr. Corrance, who was thirty below the Hon. Major- Henniker; so that there is ample justification for another attempt. There is little news of Mayo. The Daily News understands that Mr. Valentine O'Oonor Blake, the son of a gentleman who retired in favour of Mr. G. H. Moore, at the election of 1868, will, in all probability, offer himself as a candidate. THE BHISTOL PETITION. The petition against the return of Mr. Elisha Robinson, in the stead of the late Mr. Berkeley, has been deposited. This, however, is not the only needful preliminary. £l,OOO secu rity for costs must be deposited, and this point had offered considerable difficulty. The requisite amount was not readily forthcoming. But the Standard speaks confidently of the progress of the petition, and has reason to hope for its success. Mr. Hare, however, will not claim the seat ? since this would necessitate a lengthy and costly inquiry into the validity of some thousand votes. FAMILIES OF LEGISLATORS. The preponderance of wealthy families in the House of Commons seems as great as ever it was. The Lower House swarms with members of the same house—brothers,.fathers, and sons. Mr. Gladstone has a son a legislator, Mr. Bright has a brother, and Mr. Hardy has relations. The Duke of Abercorn's family contributes a small legislature in itself. There are nine families which contribute each three members,viz., Beaumont, Cavendish, Fitzwilliam, Grosvenor, Hardy, Lennox, Lowther, Rothschild, and Vivian. In seven families father and son are represented, and there are twenty-one pairs of brothers. In fact there are in the House of Commons no fewer than 101 members who are closely connected in blood with each other. The reason is obvious enough. Pocket boroughs are fewer ; but the influence of powerful tamilies in certain districts was never greater. THE COERCION BILL IN PRACTICE. The Government, according to some of the Irish papers,_ has not yet fulfillyd its, obligations to Ireland passed the Bill, but has not — put P itTn force. The Dublin Express complains bitterly that the county of Meath, where disorder and outrage have been most common, has not yet been proclaimed. Commenting on the threats made to three farmers op their way to Navan fair last Monday, it says :—" We have in this an illustra tion of the way in which life and property are pro tected in Ireland. Here is an audacious outrage committed within a fortnight after the passing of the Coercion Act, which it was expected would put down agrarianism with a high hand. But what do we learn as to the action of the Executive ? Up to this hour the county of Meath has not been put under the provisions of the pre existing law. It has never been proclaimed, although there are few districts in the country which have not had that dist!nction." It is certainly odd that this county, which has come most prominently before the public as a terror-s Iriclien district, should be thus neglected. MIL LOWE AND THE GUN LICENSE. Mr. Lowe in fulfilment of his obligation to " make everybody a little uneasy," has seriously troubled the minds of game preservers with his gun license. Land and Water endeavours to allay their anxiety. It sees no ground for the fears generally expressed that trespass offences will increase under the new system, and the preservation of game be rendered well nigh impossible. Land and Water thinks the new principle tends in the d i rect i on . of making game property, and the gun license, aided by the existing law of trespass, will g o far to abolish the occupation of the poacher. If hares and partridges get on public roads, they will run the risk of being stolen as dogs do. No law can prevent stealing, but men who "preserve " will find means to protect their property. Preservation will henceforth be a matter to b e decided between landlord an d tenant, the poac her having less chance of the popular sympathy. Our contemporary hopes to see the dis tinction between game and other property abolished, Eo that killing strayed pheasants and partridges will be regarde in the same right as killing strayed geese or pigs. THE SERVICES. There is very little of Army and Navy matt ers t o record this week. The service papers are very dull; indeed, so complete is their Easter siesta that they do not think it worth while to say anything about the Volunteer Review. Nor have they much news of any kind. The Army and Any Gazette t e lls us that His Royal Highness Prince Arthur will come home from Canada, per transport, w ith th e I s t b a ttalion Rifle Brigade, and will most probably be subsequently appointed to do duty with a cavalry reg iment. "That his Royal High ness i s rece i v i ng a s ound and practical military educ a ti on none can d eny , an d from the interest which we are told he takes in his duties there can be little doubt that he will make a good soldier." This journal believes that the new Army Medical Department Warrant will not touch upon the sore question of promoti on an d re ti remen t. The Un i ted Service G aze tt e con t en t s it se lf w ith a negative item of intelligence. It presumes that "nothing has yet been decided upon by their Lord ships," with regard to the Naval Commutation Scheme. THE CASE OF MAJOR-GENERAL GORDON. Naturally, the suspension of Major-General the Hon. A. H. Gordon by the Bombay Government has given rise to some anxious speculation in home military circles. Tho accounts respectin g the cause of this procedure are ve r y conflicting. The United Service Gazette asserts that a tendency towards arrogance of manner, whether with superiors, equals, or subordinates, has had a good deal to do with placing that officer in his present unpleasant WA* 4 z- -- 3 1 '41 8 t bO9lO AMC Xell§g9 • mcteect that some time smee - preventea Nir Neymour Fitzgerald from proposing Major-General Gordon as an ordinary member of Council, an appointment to which the latter, as temporary Comm ander-in-Chief, was by usage entitled. The General, however, is a gallant officer—he rendered much service on the staff during the Crimean war—and it is to be hoped that things will soon be set right. PUBLIC OPINION IN CANADA. The Spectator publishes some extracts from a letter which Mr. Tennyson has received from a literary Cana wan, giving a very uniavouramo impression of the colonial sentiments towards the mother country. The speeches of some English statesmen and the favour shown by the English press to the idea of an eventual separation of the North American pro vinces from the Empire "wring the hearts of Canadians." At present the prevailing feeling is regret, accompanied by a refusal to believe that England can willingly break up her immense empire; but that feeling is merging into sterner and more resentful ones. England cannot make aliens of her colonies and yet preserve their respect and affection ; and the result of their abandonment by the mother country would bo their immediate annexation to the United States, and the transfer of the maritime supremacy of the world from England to America. It is for England, says the Canadian, to count the cost of this, and there is yet ime to do so, though the public mind in the colony is deeply stirred, and a few false moves might prove the spark in the powder magazine. lie writes to Mr. Tennyson asbeiTra true Englishman to give utterance to the anxious thoughts forced into the minds of the quietest colonists by the rash decla rations of English statesmen. TRADE AND THE RITUAL COMMISSION. Many arguments have been adduced to prove that the slow pace of the Ritual Commissioners ought to be amended. One of these is the injury done to trade. In the expectation that alterations will shortly be made in the Church Services, booksellers are unwilling to lay in large stocks of an edition which may s_mrtly become obsolete. The " trade," therefore, is terribly discontented. The printers, book-binders, and book-vendors are with one accord crying out against this "injustice." One binder says that before the alteration in the service was spoken of, his firm employed 24 men and an equal number of women. Now the staff is reduced to less than one fourth that numbe'. This ought to be a settler for the Ritual Commission. Trade must be attended to. ORDER IN THE LAW. The want of codification and consolidation has long been a great reproach to the English law. But we are at length beginning to do a little work in that much neglected department. There are not fewer than three bills now before Parliament on the principle of codification. The earliest in point of date is the Merchant Shipping Code prepared under the auspices of the Board of Trade ; next there is the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill brought in by Lord Penzance ; and lastly, the Metropolitan Buildings and Management Act, of which Sir VV. Tite is godfather. These bills do not propose to alter the existing law on the subjects with which they respectively deal in its material features, but to con solidate and arrange in better order the existing enactments, which being thus superseded can be swept out of the statute. book by repeal. Lord Penzance's bill supersedes the eight Acts of Parliament, all passed since 1850, to which we have now to look for the law relating to divorce and matrimonial causes. Sir William Tite's bill proposes to repeal the whole of five Acts and parts of two more, while the Merchant Shipping Code will supersede about a dozen statutes. These three, at all events, make a begin ning towards bringing our legislation into order. In point of confusion, and multiplicity of statutes ; Eng lish law is the worst in the world. MARRIED WOMEN'S PROTECTION ORDERS. In his Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill Lord Penzance_ proposes to make no alteration in the existing rule of law whereby a married woman can only obtain a protection order when deserted by her husband. If his ill-usage of her is such that she can have him bound over to keep the peace and could petition for judicial separation, still she cannot apply for a protection order. The theory, the Solicitors' Jour nal supposes, is that a judicial separation operates as a protection order, and that a woman ill-used by her husband can protect herself by petitioning the Court for a judicial separation. "But various causes may prevent her from petitioning, and even if she does petition, some time must elapse before the decree. Under both these circumstances she may want her earnings protected from her husband, and it is worth considering whether provision should not be made for such want." T.AN(ASHIfE COTToN AND THE FRENCH TREATY. The sulazdemmittee of the of Commerce have just presented their report on the condition of the cotton industry. They take no very cheerful view of the matter, representing the trade as ex t reme ly d e p resse d and its prospects as far from encouraging. In 1869 the extreme badness of the trade produced, they say, an amount of disaster almost unparalleled in the history of our commerce. "In that year alone upwards of eighty spinners and manufacturers in the Manchester district failed, independently of those who made private compositions with their creditors. Whore mill property had to change hands it fell to a third of its value. The returns shew how little the state of affairs has been improved by the French treaty, and the committee regard the high tariff of the treaty as quite uncalled for. It is a matter of question, they consider, whether the abolition of all duties would afford opportunity for the export of the lighter and dearer fabrics, but they cannot hope to export them largely with more than a nominal duty. It is understood that the cotton manufacturers of France are desirous of putting restrictions on English goods. The committee, therefore, urge upon the Chamber the claim of the groat mass of the consumers to exercise entire ireedom of purchase, and they trust the enormous advantage of an open English market for French goods will not be overlooked. The committee at all events have not arrived at the conclusion that the depression of trade which they lament renders a return to Protec tion or Reciprocity desirable. THE BRIGHTON REVIEW. "A Brigadier" replies to the "Military Critic" of the Times, on the Brighton Review. The object of the writer is apparently not so much to criticise the critic as to put the blame where the blame is due. For instance, the staff; he says, should know their proper place. They should avoid taking com mand of brigades, regiments, and companies, as they frequently do in their eagerness to carry out some minute point of drill, withdrawing, when so doing, their attention from a higher order of things—such as taking the best advantage of ground, combining the action of artillery with infantry, bringing up in rear of first lines of attack second linos at such a distance as to give real support and assistance. When this is not done, he says, nine messages out of ten are given incorrectly, many of them being totally incoherent. Cavalry officers, he observes, who are often chosen as aide-de-camps, seldom know infantry words of command. One of the military ameliorations he considers most rts quired is the assimilation, as far as possible, of artillery, cavalry, and infantry words of command. A confused word of command at a critical moment, he adds, has led to disasters worse than those which volunteers have to deplore at their sham fights. IRISH FARM RENTS. As a good reason why Trish farm rents should be higher now than they were twenty-five years ago, Mr. W. J. Hamilton, the Poor-law inspector for Waterford and other counties in Ireland, shows that when property changes hands, the rule is that the rents are increased without reference to how the value of the property may have been increased. In some cases the inspector thinks the increased prices of produce have fully warranted a read justment in the landowners' favour of expiring contracts. Oats, he says, were Bs. per barrel in 1845, and lls. Gd. in 1870. In the same period other increases were : hay, 235. to 00s.; straw, 15s. and 18s. to 50s. per ton. Beef, 4d. to 7d. per lb. ; mutton, 4d. to Gd. per lb. ; butter, 60s. to 120 s. per cwt.; bacon, 4d. to 6d. per lb. ; small weaned calves, 20s. and 255. to 50s. and 655.; year lings, 50s. and 60s. to 90s. and 100 s. ; eggs and poultry, double at least; horned cattle and horses, ReArix _ AA a set-off. however. surainsit aP EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. The Duke of Manchester protests in the Times against certain portions of an article which appeared in that paper on emigration to Australia. His Grace first of all demurs to the statement that if the Government of Great Britain assist the emigration of such as the Australian colonies desire to obtain, we shall be depriving ourselves of good citizens, on the ground that whether a man lives in Middlesex or South Australia he is equally a citizen of the British Empire. With regard to the remark that the recipients of parochial charity would not suit the colonies, and the doubt expressed by the Times whether the actual stream of emigration does not represent the full volume of the natural outflow, he says that there are at this moment many men who have all the qualities of first-rate emigrants, who still not only have not the means of paying the passage of themselves and their families to the Colonies, but are on the verge of starvation through their reluctance to become the recipients of parochial relief. We maintain felons, says his Grace, in luxury, if we can compare a gaol to the usual habitations of criminals. Paupers, many of whom are idle vagabonds, are much better off in the workhouse than honest and industrious labourers. And are we not to risk, he asks, the advance of a few pounds sterling to a man who shudders at the idea of being a pauper, and who would no sooner be a felon than the highest in the land—a risk which might, with proper management, be infinitesimal? THE COLWICH NUNNERY CASE. "The cry is still they come," and the very natural question follows, when will there be an ending to the letters on "The Colwich Nunnery Case ?" Every day fresh correspondents rush into print. To-day' a letter appears from no less a personage than Bishop Ullathorne, who writes all the way from the city of Infallibility itself, and therefore has a double claim to be heard. The object of his lordship is to explain the manner in which the lady is said to have escaped from the Colwich Nunnery. He says her own statement to him was that she had left the convent, not over a wall, but through a garden door, and this he believes was the fact. There was, he observes, no occasion to get over any wall, for both the front door and the garden gate were always accessible, and always during the day on the latch. He adds that the lady in question, after leaving Stapehill, tried several other convents on the Con tinent, but succeeded in none, and was finally released from her religious obligations. Since that time she has repeatedly, and even as late as last year, petitioned for leave to return to the convent at Colwich, but the request has always been declined. PECULIAR TO THE SEX. That unnovel element in Great Britain's happi ness and greatness. "An Inquisitive Woman," ex presses a desire to ask through the press one or two questions as to the admission of women to medical classes. True to the peculiarity of her sex, she asks six or seven. In the main, she desires to know why lady physicians should prove a curse to civilisation, when it is admitted that the nursing at hospitals has never been so thoroughly good and efficient as since educated women have undertaken to teach and practice in that department. In the next place she asks, are there not questions of morals in which women are legitimately interested ? Are there not many such questions upon which the voice of woman should be heard ? "An Inquisitive Woman" says she is drawn to these questions by the remarks of one of the Professors in the Edinburgh discussion, and evidently thinks her questions answer them selves against the prurient point of view taken by the learned individuals in question. THE GREEK BRIGANDS AND THEIR CAPTIVES. The statement that the British Minister at Athens has offered to convey the Greek brigands with the ransom out of Greece has not unnaturally been greeted with unlimited astonishment in England. The Echo, however, thinks such a proceeding capable of explanation. It is supposed that the brigands have their victims at a house on the shores of the Negropont Channel, that they are surrounded by troops, whose attack, it may be, they keep off by threatening to murder the prisoners if their terms of ransom and pardon are not acceded. to. It is on the one hand awkward for a Govern ment, even a Greek Government, to grant a pardon for the forcible detention of diplomatic agents ; and on the other hand, of what good is the ransom without the pardon, while the troops surround the robbers ? A precedent may even be found. It is very 0 band of brig-an& withl T regard to the Arthur Hervey in the Morea about three years ago, that they were conveyed free of charge and let loose upon the Cretan shore, with the Englishman's sovereigns rattling in their pockets. TIIE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The Times, through a " well informed correspon dent," sets everything right with respect to the late war in South America. It is altogether erroneous to suppose that the Argentines had withdrawn their army from the alliance before the war actually ended. All the parties to the league kept their obligations for five years with remarkable fidelity. It has been said. that Brazil aims at absorbing Paraguay. This, too, is a libel. Brazil has now more territory than she can well dispose of, and the occupation of Paraguay would lead to a war with the Argentine Republic— an enterprise even more costly and hazardous than the struggle with Lopez. The telegraph wires have much to answer for; observe that a contemporary at a distance s in reporting the banquet to the Bishop of Exeter at Tiverton, says That the right rev, prelate was entertained at dinner by. " Old Blundell ! "—Western Morning News. AN AMERCAN BlSHOP.—Bishop Wood has re turned to Philadelphia from attending the (Ecumenical Council, The Roman Catholic Cathedral Wila crowded ; to overflowing on the occasion of his appearance there. He assured the clergy that it gave him much pleasure to return among his own people. He said that he coßtd not disclose anything that had transpired in the Council, but he could assure them that there was perfect unanimity 4 among the Fathers there assembled, an d f ree discussion.' on all topics brought before them for deliberation. GOLD MINING IN AUSTRALIA.—Reports from the colony of Victoria state that a nugget weigh' nearly, 117 ozs. was found in the Pitfield Pl a i ns , near Sin_ythes- dale, and at Berlin two nuggets were go in one day 133 r Chinamen and a party of Englishmen. Payable gold haw been found in the Central Mine Malmsbury, at s depthof 230 feet from the surface, or 270 feet from the level ofl the plain. The average gold per load at the Central ite, nearly 1 oz. Mines at Ballarat are paying expenses with a yield of 1 dwt. 9 gr., or about 1-14th of this yield. Some of the alluvial claims on the Crooked River are yi- • . : I splendidly. Recent gold discoveries in Sout4_,Aus ~i a. have attracted attention. In New South wales . • absence of returns in the number of miners on the vario ' goldfields renders it necessary to calculate by the auioun paid into the Treasury on account of miners' rights, an this gives the number for 1869 as 12,000. , THE GORDIAN KNOT.—The following dro ll story , is told of a faspionable clergyman : "us wpA Ifingre man, and fell in love with half the unmarried feinales - or his congregation, promising marriage in a raiseellaneoSN' and impartial manner. At length the atmosphere becaie rather perturbed, and he resolved on a eou, n de main. He went to the seasid e on a M on d ay, and on Thursday theral appeared the announcement of his death. Blinds' were drawn down, and the elders met to strengthen each other's hands under the bereavement. But atonic them was an " unbelieving Thomas," who had a shrewd notioul that the death was moonshine. They went to the offlcej of the Times, where they found that the advertisement of the death was in deceased's handwriting. Then one cot! them went to the seaside ' and found that the bird 11041. flown to F rance ; b u t t h at, instead of dying, he had been i married on the Thursday, to one of the many ladiel to whom he had pledged his heart and hand,and the remain• ing fair half of the congregation are still to be wooed and won. SHARP TEST OF INFALLIBILITY.—ThO Levant Herald says :—The feud between the Hassohnists and , , anti-Hassounists has at length culminated in bloodshed. the 9th inst. a couple of partisans of the two factions met on a Pera café, and of course soon warmed into wordy quartet over the ecclesiastical bone of contention which has set the Armeno-Catholics by the ears. From mutual anathemas' the disputants soon came to blows—or, rather, to the wild play of arms which amongst EasternsrepresentAhe boXp" — w hen the champion of " national rights," finding him self getting the worst of it, drew a knife and stabbed , the defender of Hassoun and Infallibility. The wounded man was conveyed to a neighbouring pharmacy, but die d, in the doctor's hands. His slayer managed to escape at the time, but was found by the police, hid i his oft. j bouse, some liourß gterwarils, and slow owwf4tg ip 04161