The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS-THIS MORNING. THE BRISTOL ELECTION. The Times remarks that those earnest men who in ths , face of a lax generation have insisted that bribery is th crime and not a mere peccadillo may take heart From the, recent records of Courts of Justice. There has been, it is true, but one instance of a candidate found by dat a judge to be guilty of personal bribery, and therefore inca. pable of being re-elected within seven years ; but a suffi cient number have been unseated for the malpractices or imprudence of their friends to make men careful in choosing their agents and authorising expenditure. As regards ulterior proceedings, no unseated member has been actually prosecuted to conviction, but one of them has had a very narrow escape, and his story maybe a warn ing to those who are wavering in their resistance to the rapacity of local jobbers. Others who have mixed them. selves up with electoral corruption have been less fortu nate, and are now undergoing punishment for their offences without any more pity than is excited by the thought that the mostguilty, those at the bottom of all the iniquity for years, have escaped. All these things tend ono way, and it is certain that, even independently of any fresh legislation, bribery and corruption have received a con siderable check. The decision of the Court of Common Pleas on Thursday in the case of the Bristol petition deals with a new form of the evil, and shows the law in its prompt application to the last developments of election eering. CHARLES DICKENS. The best and most learned critique, says the Telegraph, which can be pronounced upon the labour of the brain now reposing, is this same instinctive, instant, and real public sorrow, which proclaims his genius without error, as tears testify to eloquence and embraces translate affection. What could anybody say about the character and influence of the writings of Charles Dickens which would equal the first simple words spoken in the home, the street, the railway station, the field, the barrack, the prison, the hospital, the workhose, the palace, the public library, the school room, as men and women on Friday exchanged phrases of astonishment and lamentation? And the secret of his power is written with his own hand, in the latest lines which he gave us :it was Sympathy. His nature found nothing common or unclean in aught which was good enough for God to have created. He, more than any writer of his time, was " dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn ;" and in his latest green-clad number—we are forced to say his last—he puts into the mouth of Mr. Crisparkle what may be called the very testament of his experience, as it is the explanation of his renown. Says he, "The wisdom of love is the highest wisdom ever known upon this earth ;" and the last words of the last page read, indeed, strange and solemn now ; they are, " Comes to an end—for the time." COUNTY ELECTIONS. The Standard thinks that the two county elections deeided on Friday give a most significant testimony to the growth of Conservative opinion. They alter very little— and, considering the largeness of the majority of which the Government disposes, we may even say un appreciably—the relative strength of parties in the Souse of Commons ; but they show that the policy of the present Government is becoming more and more distasteful to the constituencies of England. These elec tions will, we trust, stimulate Conservatives everywhere to lose no chance, to omit no exertion. They show that the good cause is gaining strength everywhere. They premise, as the result of the pains and efforts which are demanded, the victory of the principles, to promote the establishment of which those labours are under taken. The position is a most hopeful and encouraging one. We have not gained many seats since the general election, but we have shown that our strength has greatly increased ; and if only Conservatives throughout the United Kingdom work as they have done, we may fairly calculate at the least upon a large Conservative majority for England at the next general election, and hope for a majority in the United Kingdom. But, we iepeat, because we feel that we cannot lay too much em phasis upon the warning and the appeal, there must be no slackening of efforts. These victories must encourage to greater exertions. They must not be allowed to generate a false confidence. The Daily News believes there can be no doubt that the electors of the Isle of Wight and of South Leicestershire have justified the fears of their friends and the hopes of their enemies. The tenant-farmers of these two consti tuencies have said ditto to their landlords. The frogs have voted for King Stork. The geese desire to be re presented by the Fox. Recollecting a worthier past we must hope for a better future. Time was when the counties of England were the strongholds of the Liberal party, and concentrated within them selves the political independence of the country. In the election of 1831, nearly all of the 82 county mem bers for England were reformers. Of the present county representatives of England, three-fourths are Tories. The yeoman of the period preceding 1832 was the type of sturdy British independence. The tenant farmer since that date is the chosen example of political servi tude and timidity. Full of courage and spirit on any other occasion, and before any other men, he is too often abject and craven in the presence of his landlord, or, more terrible being still, his landlord's agent, In the canvassing week or on the polling day. The elections for the Isle of Wight and South Leicester shire prove the unabated force of the disease, and the urgent need of the remedy which Lord Hartingtou's Bill lareemaes to administer. Mr. S. Roger Smith has retired from the editorship of the Architect. The Committee of the House of Lords on the Amended Medical Bill is fixed for the 17th insi. The Lancet says that Mr. Syme, the eminent sur geon, is not now expected to recover. Mr C. W. Hatfield, who was last year Mayor of Doncaster, died on Tuesday night, at the age of 53. John Anderson, a lad of sixteen, was drowned bathing in Dundee Harbour on Thursday. The marriage of the Earl of Derby with the Mar chioness of Salisbury is fixed to take place on Tuesday, the sth of next month. The cellar of wines collected by the Duke of Hamilton has been sold by auction by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their rooms in King-street. By way of memorial to the late Bishop of Exeter, it is proposed to add a tower to St. Mary's Church in the cathedral city of the diocese. In St. Petersburg, a Russian lady, Madame Susloff, practices as a physician with great success, and has ob tained a large number of female patients. There is a ladies' newspaper in India, the Bungo Mohila,or Woman of Bengal, published at Calcutta in Bengali, and edited by a Hindoo lady. It is said that Mr. J. L. Toole has decided on visiting America on a professional tour which will extend over several months. The Law Times says the punishment of the gravest charge brought against the prisoners Boulton and Park may be penal servitude for life or a period of ten years. The bill by which the Telegraph Acts of 1868 and 1869 are extended to the Channel Islands has been issued. It gives the Postmaster-General power to purchase any of the existing lines to the islands. DEATH OF MARY PYPER.—The Scotsman says many of your readers will regret the decease of this esti mable person, long known in Edinburgh in the double character of needle-woman and poetess. This event occurred on the 25th ult., in the room occupied for many years by the deceased in the old High School Yards. Miss Pyper, though poor, blind, aged, and deformed, was in many respects a remarkable woman. The only child of a private soldier who was lost sight of in her infancy, she was brought up by her excellent mother in extreme poverty, but with habits of honest independence, Too poor to send her child to school,, the mother educated her herself, and after toiling in a trimming establishment all day, the two would sit down together to improve their minds by reading the best authors which they could command, both in poetry and prose. Mary Pyper's mother was lo ng l a id aside by illness, and it was while attending upon her that her daughter first took to writing verses. Some of ber poems were published many years ago, and in 1865 a small collection of them was printed for her benefit, with an introduction kindly written for her by Dean Ramsay. They are remarkable for elegance and purity. Although the deceased was plain in features, and of remark ably smal stature, her manners were those of a lady, and her expression was refined and intelligent. She was very independent, and not only scorned to ask for assistance but would only by delicate management be induced to accept of it. She was brought up in commu nion with the Scottish Episcopal Church, of which body she died a humble and attached member. The following epitaph, taken from her poems, will form an appropriate close to her humble story :-- EPITAPH.-A LIFE. I came at morn—'twas spring, I smiled, The fields with green were clad ; walked abroad at noon—and lo ! 'Twas summer—l was glad. • I sate me down 3 • 'twas autumn eve. And I with sadness wept ; I laid me down at night, and then 'Twas winter—and I slept ! Some of those friends who took an interest in the lowly poetess are about to erect a tombstone over her grave. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1870. THE CHARITY . CHILDREN AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. On Thursday afternoon, an interesting gathering was held under the venerable old dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. The charity children held their usual annual festival, .and nearly 5,000 children assembled, besides a vast con course of visitors, including the Lord Mayor and aldermen, the cathedral body being represented by the Dean and Canon Melville. The service commenced at twelve o'clock by the children singing the old metrical version of the 100th Psalin, accompanied by the great organ in the south bay, also by two trumpets, two cornets, and a pair of kettle drums. The prayers were intoned by the Rev. J. H. Coward, M.A., and the lessons were read by the Rev. J. V. Povah, 8.D., both gentlemen minor canons of the cathedral. The psalms for the day were sung by the choir, which was augmented by voices from the Chapel Royal, St. James's, St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Westminster Abbey, and other places, the children joining in the Glorias at the end of each psalm. "It is not an easy thing, says the Post, for those who were not present to realise the effect of the multitude of children's voices singing with one accord such phrases as ' God save the King," and ' May the King live for ever,' to the sublimely simple strain to which Handel has set these words, or to imagine the awful grandeur produced by a body of voices in unison, for though many of the peculiarities of local intonation and pronunciation were doubtless to be distinguished, yet the combination of sound was too magnificent to allow the thought that arose clncerning details to hold place:for a moment. The Hallelujah Chorus, with all its great effects for a limited and educated choir, rarely brings about such a result as that obtained at these gather ings, and the chorales never seem to be so full of beauty as when emitted from the 5,000 throats of these poor and happy children. The sight, too, is one that could not possibly be obtained under any other circumstance, or in any other place. The noble proportions of the majestic building are better understood after a sight of the little ones ranged in their galleries round the area of the dome. The quaint and Old World character of the headdresses worn by the girls, speaking of the fashions of a bygone day ; the various colours of the uniforms, relievedby the different hue of the ribbons, make the children appear, not like the hackneyed simile of a paterre of flowers, but like a soil cleared for cultivation, with a few obstinate weeds shewing themselves in their most attractive form ; and when, during certain portions of the service, the boys bow their heads, or the girls raise their mitten or white linen covered arms to their faces by one consent at a given signal, the sight is like the shadow of a cloud passing over the surface of a party-coloured ground, with here and there a streak of sunshine seen as it were through a rent in the cloud, so that, with the singing and the spectacle, the meet ing of the charity children at St. Paul's is a sight as affecting as it is unique. For several months before the service takes place the children of the various schools are trained in sections under the immediate super intendence of Mr. James Shoubridge, vicar choral of the cathedral, so that the mere direc tion of the large body of voices undertaken by that gentleman in the cathedral—where, mounted on a high pulpit and in his surplice, he guides the voices by the motion of his arm—represents but a very small portion of the work necessary to the production of so beautiful and one-minded an effect as that heard on Thursday ; and as the singing was more than usually successful, and with less variation and wavering from the time of the organ accompaniment, it is only reasonable to conclude that more than ordinary pains have been taken to bring about such a success. The sermon, which on this occasion is generally a short one, was delivered by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Worcester, and the collections made at the doors amounted to a considerable sum, but one that was somewhat below the usual average. The occasion was unusually interesting, as it is rumoured that it is the last meeting of the sort that will be allowed to take place in the cathedral, some colour being given to the rumour from the fact of the more recently appointed and influential members of the chapter being absent; but whether the rumour be correct or not, it is to be hoped that the change will not be made after the manner that many of the recent alterations at the cathedral have been effected, and that no change will be instituted for the mere sake of change. If the meeting takes place another year, it may be thought desirable to have the children taught to sing the ancient plain song of the re sponses, instead of Tallis's added melody ; the effect would be more consistent, and would, besides, be easier for them to sing ; and, again, as the service takes place after twelve o'clock, it has perhaps escaped the attention of the Society of Patrons that the morning prayers and lessons are less appropriate than those belonging to the evening service under those circumstances. STARVING A CHILD.—A man named Smith and his wife have been committed for trial, at Wolverhampton, on a charge of illtreating and starving their child. A great meeting of Nonconformists on the Govern ment Education Bill is to be held at Exeter Hall on Monday next, under the presidency of Mr. M'Arthur, M.P. A Bristol Liberal paper speaking of the coming election in that city, says : " The Liberal party in Bristol wants no more test ballots. These may be considered a method of getting over a difficulty, but experience has proved that they are a sure source of division." At the General Assembly of the Irish Pres byterian Church, held at Belfast, the question of the sus tentation of the Ministry was introduced. Thirty thou sand pounds was the sum said to be wanted, of which £22,000 was subscribed on the spot. Baron Liebig who has, for some time, been suffering from nervous headache, is now laid up with carbuncle. his physicians consider that he is likely to do well as his health, for many years, has been excellent. The Baron is now sixty-seven years O old. The Duke of Devonshire has liberally made arrangements for the erection of new buildings for the Eastbourne College, of which he is president. The site of this college, between the sea and the Sussex Downs, is favourably known to many visitors to the south coast. Her Majesty, with their Royal Highnesses Prin cesses Louise and Beatrice, and attended by the Court, is expected to leave Balmoral next week, and return to Windsor Castle on or about Saturday, the 18th instant. Prince Leopold, who remains in somewhat delicate health, is still at Windsor Castle. SIR JAMES VALLENTIN'S COLLECTION OF OB JECTS OF ART, JEWELS, AND PLATE.—The valuable col lection of ancient silver and silver-gilt plate, objects of art, and jewellery of the late Sir James Vallentin, Sheriff of London, has been finally dispersed at the rooms of Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods, in King-street, St. James's. Among the more valuable objects included in the last day's sale were the following jewels :—A bril liant flower pattern brooch, with pendants ; a gold bracelet with black enamel ornaments and brilliant centre ; a brooch, pendant, and pair of earrings to match-130gs. A fine old pendant, formed as a Cupid, beautifully modelled in gold, partly enamelled, and set with rubies and table diamonds-74gs. A kneeling figure of an angel, set with rubies and diamonds-56gs. A pair of large gold pendants, set with emeralds ; a pair of earrings to match, with cut emerald drops ; a cross formed of large emeralds, the back enamelled in colours ; and an enamelled gold necklace, with cross-66gs. A splendid single-stone bril liant ring, in richly-enamelled gold setting, weighing 6i carats—.£2ll. The whole produced upwards of £6,000. THE ANGLO-CANADIAN FOUR-OARED RACE.— The amended articles of the international four-oared match for £5OO a-side were received by Renforth on Thursday. The race comes off on the St. Lawrence River, near Montreal, Canada, on the 15th day of September, 1870 ; the distance to be six miles, three up river from Lachine and back again. The St. John Paris crew to row without a coxswain, and the Tyne crew to have the right of rowing with or without one as they may see fit. At a meeting of the supporters of the Tyne Champion Crew, on Thursday night, the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to :—" That Thomas Winship be re called from,Lancaster, and that the crew go into immediate training ; that Robert Jewitt, J. H. Clasper, or any other builder be empowered to construct a four-oared boat, to be rowed without a coxswain, and that the signature of the articles and the engagement of an extra man be considered at another meeting of the supporters of the crew, to be held in a few days." The Ord Arms, Scotswood, will be the training quarters of the crew, and there James Ren forth, James Taylor, and Martin will immediately locate themselves. The men have determined to row without a coxswain, Taylor being quite capable of working a rudder from his place in the bow, and the boat will, of course, be constructed accordingly.—Northern Daily Express.. NOTABLE MBN AT THE DERBY.—Mr. Edmund Yates, in his weekly letter to the Western Mail, says—M. Gustave Dor6 was in an open waggonette at the Derby. The carriage was on the hill immediately opposite the Grand Stand. He made a few rapid sketches of the position of various objects of interest, but devoted the greater portion of his time to keen observation, his memory being, as I am told, marvellously retentive. With him were Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, who is to write the letterpress' accompanying the great French artist's drawing; Mr. Parkinson, the well-known special correspondent of the Daily News, and several gentlemen of social position. Another gentlemen, who was combin ing business with pleasure, was Mr. Sala, who was in a carriage drawn up close to Tattenham Corner, and whose description of the day will shortly appear in his new periodi cal, England in the Nineteenth Century. Mr. Millais was there, and M. Carlo Pellegrini, who first drew those admir able caricatures of " Our Statesmen " in ti anity Fair. They are now drawn by Mr. Alfred Thompson, but, though clever, have not the go and verve of the first series. The reporters made much of the presence of Mr. Gladstone at the race, but I saw even a more unlikely person—viz., the Right Hon. Acton Ayrton, First Com m i ss i oner o f H er Majesty's Works, who looked about as much in his element as a dolphin in a sentry-box, and as happy as a tomtit on bird-lime. The defeat of Macgregor was a most fortunate thing for the ring, one of the principal members of which stood, it is said, within a week of the race, to l ose £150,000 if the favourite had carried off the prize. To spew the science of betting, I hear that one of a well known firm of bookmakers—an individual who, from the rotundity of his figure, rejoices in the nick-name of " Tubby "—had so skilfully balanced his book that he could not win less than £lO,OOO whatever animal might have come in first. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The Select Committee of the House of Commons ap pointed to inquire into the reason of the dis crepancy between the estimate and the actual cost of the Abyssinian expedition, resumed their sittings on Friday . afternoon, Mr. Candlish in the chair.—Major Willoughby, an officer in the Commissariat department of the Indian Government, stated that he was sent to Egypt to purchase transport animals. He left India on the 31st of August, 1867, and went on direct to Suez, where he arrived on the 27th of September. His instructions to purchase animals were afterwards extended to the purchase of stores and provisions, and letters of instruction to that effect reached him from the Secretary of the Government of Bombay, from the Consul-General of Egypt, and subsequently from the commander-in-chief himself. He made his head quarters, Suez, and he admitted, that at Suez, there was no market for the disposal of animals, or any merchants who could undertake their supply. Moreover, that Suez was 100 miles from the cultivated portion of Egypt, and was in fact in the desert. At the same time the nature of their duties compelled them to live at Suez, and they knew very well the proper place from which to draw the supplies. Cairo was the place to which all the produce of Upper Egypt came, and although most of the accounts produced were those of merchants of Alex andria, it did not follow that the purchases were made in Alexandria, or that the stores and animals were drawn from thence. His duties were not only to pur chase, but to receive the animals on board the ships at Suez. He stated that shortly after he arrived he received a telegram from India asking the rates at which purchases could be made, and after he had forwarded them he received instructions, which he carried out, to purchase at those rates. He did not purchase animals till February, 1868 ; in October of that year he purchased forage, including beans, barley, and straw, _to the extent of £26,000. The purchase was made of Mr. Fredericson, a commission agent, at Alexandria. The pur chase was not made by competition. He did not know that at that time he was or professed to be an architect. He had been employed by the Government in building a sana torium, but he thought it was not commenced till after wards. He had a guarantee to the - extent of 10 per cent. that the contract would be properly carried out. The £26,000 was lodged in the bank. He did not think it ne cessary. to make any inquiries into the antecedents of Mr. Fredericson ; and looking at the matter now, he was convinced that he could not have purchased those stores at a cheaper rate than he did. After some further evi dence respecting the manner in which stores were 'pur chased, the committee adjourned. LAW AND POLICE. THE CHARGE OF SHOOTING AT CONSTABLES. —Leed ham, the man who is charged with having fired at three police constables in the East-end a few nights ago, has been committed for trial for shooting with intent to mur der or do grievous bodily harm. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A SCHOOL GGVERNESS.—The body of a newly-born child was discovered on Tuesday concealed in one of ehe desks of the Bardsley School, near Ashton-under-Lyne, and consequent upon information ob tained, the police arrested the governess of the school, Ann Mercer, on a charge of concealment of birth. At the direction of the coroner a post mortem examination of the body was made by Dr. Gardner, who states that the child might have lived for some time, but that it bore some peculiar malformation which rendered it impossible for it to have lived any length of time. The accused has been committed for trial on the charge of concealment of birth. THE RIVER AIRE.—An appeal has been heard in the Court of Chancery from a decree of Vice Chancellor James restraining the corporation of Leeds, the defendant in the case, from opening any further communications with the existing outfall into the river Aire, and from con tinuing the outpouring of the sewage into it after a specified time. Their lordships, how ever, were of opinion that the order of the Vice-Chancellor was right, and that the corporation had no power to execute the works in question so as to create a nuisance. The question of delay had been raised, but the court held the simple fact of forbearing for a certain time to interfere had not barred the right of the relators to interfere, and was not such an amount of lathes as to lead the court to say that the evil ought not now to be arrested. The conclusions of the Vice-Chancellor were, in their lordships' opinions, right, and the decree would, therefore, be affirmed. CURIOUS CASE IN BANKRUPTCY.—An application WaS made to the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy under the follow ing peculiar circumstances :—A Mr. Impey, builder, of Bromley, Essex, bankrupt under the late Act, had been last year sentenced by Mr. Commissioner Winslow to two months' imprisonment, on the ground of having put his creditors to unnecessary expense by vexatiously de fending an action ; a warrant was issued, and placed in the hands of the messenger of the Court, but the bankrupt absconded, and his apprehension had never been effected. Information had now been obtained of Mr. Impey's return to this country, and the question was whether, notwithstanding the change in the law, the warrant was still in force.. The Chief Judge directed a formal application to be made notice of, which must be given to the bankrupt. FRAUDS ON A RAILWAY COMPANY.—Two labouring men named Steele and Simmonds were indicted at the Central Criminal Court for a conspiracy to defraud the London and South-Western Railway Company. They were also charged with obtaining money by false pretences under circumstances that evidenced considerable ingenuity. The prisoner Steele was the ganger of a number of men at Hounslow, and substantially the offence with which he was charged was that he placed in his list the names of men who were not at work ih his gancr, and thus appro priated the pay that appeared to 'be due to these supposititious persons. On inquiries being made the other prisoner was brought forward, and he represented himself to the paymaster as one of Steele's gang ; but this was proved by the other labourers to be untrue. There was also a charge against a man named Henry Wood, the in spector of several gangs, including Steele's, but he bad absconded, and a warrant was out against him. They were found guilty, and sentenced, Steele to six months', and Simmonds to three months' hard labour. THE PERSONAL LIABILITY OF kCHURCHWARDENS.—An important case, as affecting the personal liability of churchwardens for matters connected with their official duties, came before the Court of Queen's Bench in the form of an appeal from the judgment of a county court judge. The action was brought by a parish registrar named Veley against the churchwardens of his parish, to recover his fees and expenses in attending the visitation of the archdeacon ; and the churchwardens denied their personal liability, while at the same time they pleaded that they had no fund arising from church rates. The Court of Common Pleas and Exchequer Chamber had held that a similar action was maintainable, in so far as to the fees being recoverable ; and the question now before the court was whether the wardens could be made to pay the amount out of their own pockets, in the absence' of Church rates. The Solicitor-General cited cases to shew that corporations were held to be liable even where the special fund chargeable did not exist. On the other hand, it was denied that the services rendered were for the benefit of the churchwardens. The counsel argued that the fees were properly chargeable to the parish. The court held that the liability was one affecting the parish, and not the churchwardens individually. The decision was, therefore, in favour of the defendants. BEQUEST OF PROPERTY BY WILL.—In the Court of Chancery, Sir R. Malins has delivered judgment in a matter respecting the bequest of property by will, upon which various authorities have differed. A gentleman executed a will, by which he bequeathed certain pro perty to his four children, with remainder to their issue. He diet not die for a considerable period, and he sur viyed one of his children, who left one child, the issue of a legitimate marriage. The question was whether this child was barred from the benefit of his mother's interest in the property in consequence of his parent not surviving the testator. The Vice-Chancellor held in the negative both on the principles of law and equity, it being clear that the testator did not require that the interest of the grandchildren should be dependent upon the accidental circumstance of the whole of the chil dren surviving his death. THE ASSIGNMENT OF CONTRACTS.—in. the Lord Chan cellor's Court an appeal was heard against a deci sion of the Master of the Rolls, who a short time since in a suit instituted by the official liquidator of the Birmingham Banking Company, made Sir William Foster, Bart., liable for the loss sustained by the bank by reason of his neglect of a notice that the party with whom he had contracted for the assignment of a lease had assigned the benefit of the contract to the bank. The Lord Chancellor reversed the decision of Lord Romilly, on the ground that the case involved an entirely new equity, in support of which there was no recognised authority, and which it would be ex tremely inconvenient to establish. SACRILEGE AT WIMBLEDON. - At Wandsworth, Frede rick Smith, aged eighteen, and Thomas Street, aged seven teen, were brought up on remand, charged with being in the unlawful possession of sixty-five crossed cheques, which had been stolen from Christchurch, Ridgway, Wimbledon. The constable went to Christchurch, and found the wirework removed from a window, the frame bent, and a pane of glass broken. On examining the interior of the church he found a bottle of wine by the door, a cup board in the vestry forced open, a robe on the ground and the contribution boxes removed, one of which had been forced open. The cheques belonged to the trustees of the church, and had all been paid. The prisoners de clared that they were innocent of the robbery at the church. Mr. Dayman said they had not given a satis factory account of the possession of the cheques. He committed them to prison for two months with hard labour. SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS AT AN INQUEST.-At an inquest held at Stepney respecting the death of Mrs. Sarah Tuson, aged 25, some serious revelations were made. The deceased was a performer at the Alhambra Music Hall, Shoreditch, where she appeared under the name of " Miss George. " She had had two children, and told her husband she would have had a third,but shewent to 'a doctor at Greenwich, who has since been sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude for his mal-practices. A few weeks afterwards she told a witness that she was going to a man in the City road, who would help her to get rid of her child, as she wanted to play Mazeppa at the music halls, and in that part she had to throw herself upon the stage down a stone staircase. She went to the house of a retired medical practitioner, named Harding, in Windsor-terrace, City-road, and on her return home she was taken ill, and died in great agony. Hard ing is now in custody on a charge of being concerned in causing the woman's death. The coroner said that he had himself knowledge of a fact which, if it could be estab lished by legal evidence, would be of great importance. It did not bear so much against Harding as against other persons. The inquiry was adjourned in order that further investigation might be made. The diamond known as the "Star of South Africa," the consignment of which from the Cape of Good Hope to Messrs. Mosenthal and Co. was reported in July last, having been cut, has proved a matchless stone, of most resplendent quality, of about 186 grains weight. It is understood to have been sold on behalf of the con signees by the brokers, Messrs. Ochs Brothers, of London and Paris, to a jeweller in London. The sixteenth anniversary of the opening of the Crystal Palace has just passed away. During the sixteen yeais it has been open it has been visited by 24,655,712 persons.. The last great Flower Show (with display of table decorations, &c.,) takes place to-day (Saturday). The show will be an unusually fine one. The full band of the Coldstream Guards will attend and co-operate with the orchestral band of the company. According to the Liberte, a bootmaker has just in vented a boot with small wheels, which will enable any one to go as rapidly as a horse, with the facility of stop ping at a moment's notice. What is this, however, but skating on wheels, which we have all seen at the Crystal Palace or elsewhere'? It is a curious and no doubt plea sent recreative mode of locomotion, or velocipedestrianism but can it be made suitable to roads ? That is the ques tion. The Church Review says that on Friday, the 17th inst., the Judicial Committee a the Privy Council will resume their sittings, and the case " Elphinstone v. Purchas " will be mentioned for a new promoter. The appeal of the Rev. Mr. Voysey from the Chancery Court of York, is pending, but there seems to be no likelihood o f its being heard during the next sitting, as the Arch bishop of Canterbury is not expected to attend, and the Privy Councillors on the Episcopal Bench cannot take part in the proeeedings. The Civilian states that a committee is now sitting to consider the means by which the junior clerks in the Ad miralty may be compensated for their scant prospects of promotion, owing to the reduction of the senior classes. An entirely original scheme—something quite new to the service—is likely to be the result. The reforms in the Customs' department are also beginning to assume defi nite shape, and considerable reductions in numbers and salaries will shortly be effected in the " Supplementary Establishment" of the. Treasury. IGN ORANT EDITORS. It seems English editors are as ignorant of our internal improvements as of our geography. They have conceived the solemn, not to say startling notion, that all our rail roads are managed like the Erie, and that there are Fisks and Goulds who " retain Judges of the Supreme Court," and carry municipal authorities in their breeches pockets, in every railroad directory. Falling into the error of the London Times, the Pall Mall Gazette speaks of the Northern Pacific Railroad as starting from the head waters of Lake Superior, " and terminating at Puget's Sound and Port land, Oregon—localities which inquisitive investors will have some difficulty in discovering on ordinary maps." Evidently, if we are to study English maps ; but if the editor will consult the Gazetteer he may learn that Port land was a city of 4,500 inhabitants away back in 1864, and that it has a peculiarity observable in other Western towns and Western States, of doubling its population every five years or so. —New York Tribune. A HINT TO THE AMERICANS. The progress of modern engineering is shewn not only in the magnitude of what it undertakes, but in the com parative ease and cheapness with which it accomplishes results. Thus it has been lately found expedient to pro vide a new Thames tunnel. Perhaps if Brunel had never constructed the famous passage between Rotherhithe and Wapping, the new one between Tower-hill and Tooley street would not have been built with such rapidity, inex pensiveness, and freedom from accident. The old tunnel was five times fillA>4 by irruptions from the river, was eighteen years in course of construction, and cost more than £600,000. The new one has never, it is said; been in vaded by water enough to fill a common pail ; has been built in less than a year, and has cost less than £20,000. After this, we surely ought soon to bear of the tunneling of both the North and the East Rivers. Both lines of communication are needed, and they can hardly be begun too soon.—New York Times. AMERICAN SHIPS. The scheme to subsidize American ships, has received a telling blow in Congress. Mr. Farnsworth made a strong point in the statement that the effect of the pend ing bills would be to hire men to build the ships, and then to hire men to run them—all for the benefit of the iron and timber interests of Pennsylvania and• Maine. Mr. Logan came out energetically in opposition to the bill, and appearances seem to indicate that the subsidy scheme will fail. There can be no objection to allowing a draw back of duties paid on all foreign materials used in the construction of American ships, or of giving all foreign postage to American ships which shall be designated to carry the mails, in obedience to official requirements. But all the proposed subsidies, bounties and drawbacks which have been proposed, will not solve the problem of the decay of American commerce, or enable American ship builders to compete with those of other nations. That can only be done by the operation of the laws which regulate the world's morkets, and which are beyond the reach of Congressional legislation.--New York. Times. WHY THE CITY OF BOSTON SUNK. At a meeting of the Polytechnic Branch of the Ameri can Institute recently Mr. Wyatt read a very important and interesting paper upon the subject of " The Ship of the Future." After speaking 'of the great - contest now going on between the three leading nations of the earth— England, France, and the United States—for the carrying supremacy of the seas, and shewing very clearly that the late war was the cause of our being behind-hand in the race, Mr. Wyatt said that it would be but a few years before the United States will have gained all and more than she ever lost. England, he said, is building nothing but iron ships, while we still cling, and wisely too, to wooden ones. Aside from the grand difficulty experienced in keeping the bottoms of iron ships clean, the sudden changes of temperature have such s great effect upon them as to render them actually unsafe. He was, he said, clearly of the opinion that to this great defect in iron ships might be attributed the loss of the City of Boston : for, coming, as she undoubtedly did, into the immediate vicinity of icebergs when her whole hull was heated through by her furnaces caused so sudden and great a contraction as to break her into pieces. This theory, he said, had been clearly demonstrated in our monitors during the war. THE GREAT FIRE IN QUEBEC. About one o'clock in the morning of May 24 the alarm sounded from the box in the vicinity of St. Roch's Church, which called the fire brigade promptly to the spot. Before the water could be obtained the flames, fanned by a strong easterly wind, had communicated to a number of houses in. Crown and Queen streets, and it became evident that no effort could save St. Roch's from a conflagration equal to those of 1845 and 1865. The people in the vicinity commenced moving their furniture, &c., to places of safety. The sight in some cases was most appalling. Women with barely a stitch of clothing were met at every turn, most of them carrying their children, and rushing about in a wild and insane-like manner. As the wind rose the flames gathered strength and intensity, leaping from one building to another, sweeping before them everything of a combustible nature. The wind blowing at the time from the east directed the tendency of the flames toward the Marine and General Hospitals, running through Queen and King streets, down as low as Prince Edward-street, which is near on a line with the water's edge, and at the time our reporter left, half-past three a.m., fears were entertained of the burning of the Marine Hospital. In an upward direction the fire had gained as far as Jacques Quartier Hall, and St. Francis street, and in this direction carried everything be fore it, up the street known as old Bridge-street. The projecting eaves of the hall caught fire in several places, but owing to their height a sufficiently strong pressure of water could not be obtained to reach the spot where the fire had caught. Ladders were spliced and hose raised, but not before a great deal of time had been lost. When we left this section the water was playing, and there re mained a probability of saving the building. At Old Bridge-street, which runs from Vallier-street to the river St. Charles, a number of citizens, directed by priests, set to work to tear down all' the fencing, galleries, railings, and small buildings that could be disposed of by hand. The fire continued to sweep along with terrible force through King and Queen-streets, where there were over fifty houses burning at one time. It is clearly established that the principal cause of the calamity is the failure of the municipal authorities to carry out the law relating to the construction of wooden buildings. The moment the fire commenced to gain headway it would exceed super human efforts to control or check it. The street in some places exhibited an awful appearance. A perfect whirl wind of fire might be seen in every direction, there being no efficient obstacle to offer as a barrier to the progress of the flames. Rain began to fall about half-past four. The military were sent down about the same time, and the fire was at last checked. It is estimated that five hundred buildings are destroyed. Loss, half a million. Baldwin's large wooden building, in which two large vessels were under construction' is burned, but the fire was prevented from spreading to adjoining yards. THE GREATEST OF ALL FUTURE POSSIBILITIES. • The sun is beginning to be an object of great anxiety to many scientific men. Spots on that orb are not at all uncommon, as may be ascertained by anyone who will take the trouble to look at it through a bit of smoked glass. But these phenomena have of late assumed an appearance which astonishes astronomers, and is calcu lated to alarm that class which fancies it can detect por tents of the future in the heavens. There are great gulfs now to be seen in she sun, each much larger than this earth which we think of so much consequence in the uni verse. They increase at a prodigious rate, and sometimes seem destined to work a convulsion similar to that which has undoubtedly overtaken other solar systems. Suns as vast as that which lights and warms this world have been shattered to pieces or die. appeared, and only the philosopher in his roving glance over the sky has detected the change. The inhabitants of other planets would not notice the disappearance of the planet we inhabit, any more than we can see a speck of sand carried off by- the wind on the sea-shore. It is not a mere theory, but an ascertained fact, that the sun is always in a highly fluid condition—as one recent writer describes it, "a hurricane of flame, the disturbances of which might, perhaps, be best represented to our imaginations by the occasional explosion of a planet or two of nitro-glycerine." It is, moreover, subject to "magnetic storms," produced, as many suppose, by the movements of the planets around it. The great disturbance which is now going on was pre dicted months ago by scientific men. That we are much more concerned in the event than many people suppose is quite certain. Self-registering magnetic instruments have revealed the fact that whenever a spot breaks out on the sun, the earth thrills under a mysterious mag netic influence. In one case, a few years ago; it is upon record that telegraphic machinery was set on fire, and the " pen of Bain's telegraph was followed by a flame," at the very instant a sudden burst of light shewed itself in the sun. "In the telegraph stations at Washington and Philadelphia the signal men received strong electric shocks." In fact, the electric condition of the earth was changed, though by what precise agency none can fully explain. We are at onse lost in a region of conjecture, and can only feel that the fate which was foretold of old for the earth may at any moment overtake it. The forces are all in existence by which, in the solemn lan guage of Holy Writ, the " heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ' • the earth also, and the w or k s th a t are th ere i n , shall be burned up." Once in every eleven years the sun exhibits the stupendous phenomena which are at present engaging the attention of philosophers. In the year 1859 " chasms and abysses," simi lar to those which are now reported, were seen by many observers. Their recurrence was predicted for 1870. Great disturbances in the world have usually accompanied these outbreaks, though why it should so happen is another of the unfathomable mysteries of the universe. In 1848 there were magnetic storms, and we had the French revolution. Again in 1859 they occurred, and we saw wars and rumours of wars in Europe. The electrical condition of the atmosphere is thought to exert a greater influence upon the minds of men and nations than many are willing to believe, or than any one is able to explain. The telegraphs denote the changed condition of the earth, but they cannot indicate the extent of the change. In the language of the astronomer whose de scription of the sun we have just quoted, "the pens of our telegraphic wires may some day trace in flame a hand writing more ominous of human destiny than was the handwriting which, during Belshazzar's feast traced a warning on the wall of:the fall of the Babylonian dynasty." —New York Times. ACTION FOR LIBEL BY A PHYSICIAN. The case of Edmunds v. Eyre was tried in the Court of Common Pleas, before Mr. Justice Byles and a Middlesex common jury, Mr. Sergeant Robinson appearing for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Parry for the defendant. The plaintiff is a physician, residing in Fitzroy-square, London, who was up to April last one of the guardians of the poor for the parish of St. Pancras. During the election of guardians, a placard was issued, containing an extract from Will-o'-the- Wisp, 4 which reflected in strong terms upon plaintiff's conduct as a guardian. Among other things it imputed that he opposed the guardians' proposal for a new hospital out of spite and envy, and, while professing anxiety to save the ratepayers from taxation, he was only seeking to further his own ends. It further alleged that he conspired with the medical officer of the old hospital to discharge patients who were not fit to leave the place in order that it might appear there were empty beds in the old hospital, and consequently that there was no necessity for the new building. The defendant is the landlord of the Lansdowne Arms Hotel, Gloucester-road, and took an active part against the election of Dr. Edmunds. He was said to have posted the placards upon the pillars of his house, and upon the shutters of a house opposite ; but he denied having done so, and stated that he had torn down the placards. This, it was replied, was after he knew he had been seen to post them. Serjeant Parry ridiculed the idea of proceeding against anyone for a mere election " squib," and asked why the paper in which the libel originally appeared had not been proceeded against. He also suggested that it was issued by the Ratepayers Association. His lordship, in summing up, said the placard was undoubtedly libellous, and left it to the jury to say, by their verdict, whether the plaintiff had published it by posting it as alleged. The jury found for the defendant. LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, The Athenteum, says Miss Glyn will give a farewell read ing from Shakspere on Tuesday, June 21st.—There is to be an exhibition of Church decorations at the Crystal Palace, in the middle of July.—The Albert Gold Medal of the Society of Arts has this year been awarded to M. F. de Lesseps for services rendered to arts, manufactures, and commerce by the realisation of the Suez Canal.— Mr. Markham, the English Consul at Chefoo, is preparing a narrative of his journeys and experiences.—Mr. Robert Buchanan's new work, " Ballads of Life," will appear immediately. It will have not only its serious but its humorous side ; the latter in a poem called " The Wake of Tim O'Hara." Satire will not be absent. Con temporary Bards will be passed in review in a piece to be named "The Session of the Poets." — Mr. Leland (Hans Breitmann) has arrived in London. He is writing an addition to his ballads, in which Hans Breitmann is represented as making the European Tour, as Americans and people who have made money in America are fond of doing. Colonel Meadows Taylor, is pre paring a "Student's Manual of the History of India. "—The secretaryship of the Newspaper Press Fund is now vacant. —The acting manager of the Italian Opera, Drury Lane, has secured the 'services of Madame Barbot, who a few years back held a high position in Paris and St. Peters burg. This artist's return to the lyric stage will be an event of interest, especially as at Drury Lane a dramatic soprano will supply an obvious want. - - - The Graphic has the following :—" The life of Madame La Mothe Guyon " (Sampson Low) is a re-issue of a volume of very curious religious history. Madame Guyon was befriended and upheld by F4n6lon, Archbishop , of Cambray.—The severe attack upon Mr. Disraeli and his novel " Lothair," published in Blackwood, is, we are in formed, from the pen of Colonel Hamley, the author of " Lady Lee's Widowhood," and the newly selected presi dent of the Staff College.—The Emperor Napoleon has his double in the person of an American who is now in Paris. The natural resemblance between the two is said to be marvellous, and it is heightened by the double imitating the original ' s tricks of manner. — lt has been decided to erect a statue to Lamartine in the Place d'Armes at Macon. The cost of the work is estimated at £2,000, and it is to be open to competition. SALE OF PICTURES BY THE OLD MASTERS. For the past few days a highly valuable collection of pictures by masters of the Italian, Spanish, and Dutch schools, formed by Mr. Philip Hinds, of Portland-place, have been exhibited in London previous to a sale which takes place to-day. The paintings are hung up in the gallery of Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods. There are few Italian works presented,. but of these the Garofalo " Noli me tangere " is a fine example of the master, who took his nickname from the little flower which he painted generally in his foregrounds, his real name being Benvenuto Tisio. The picture is remarkable for the strong impasto and brilliant effect of light and colour over the landscape. The " St. Peter," by Ribera (called Spagnoletto, not Zurbaran, as a recently published dictionary has it), is a very striking and characteristic work of the master. There are also two good works of Sasso Ferrato ; but the most noticeable picture among the Italians is the large work which pro fesses to be the " Leda " of Leonardo da Vinci. It is painted on canvas in a rather cold tone of grey over the landscape and brownish flesh tints, the swan being also dark grey. Two little first sketches by Murillo are interesting as being similar to two of the large pictures, forming a set of five, illustrating the Parable of the Prodigal Son, which Lord Dudley bought at the recent sale of the Salamanca Collection, and which are known to have been painted by Murillo for the King of Spain, who gave one of the set to the Pope, which is now in the Vati can. The Dutch.pictures are, however, the most impor fant, and of those to be noticed especially are the large " Boar Hunt," by Paul Potter, signed and dated 1648, which was once in Lord Shaftesbury's collection. This is a work which admirably displays the wonderful vigour of the painter and his perfect knowledge of his subject. The boar is fighting with one dog, while three others surround him, one, however, having got his quietus. On the hill side appear the sportsmen, riding up to be in at the death. There is a fine Isaac Osade, Dutch village with figures; a good Wynants, with figures by Lingelbach ; an excel lent moonlight piece by A. Van der Neer ; and an un usually fine landscape, with grand waterfall by " Everdingen," who shews in this work how fairly he rivalled Ruysdael, a younger painter, who sur passed him in reputation, and of whom there is a fair speci men," Landscape with Cascade." By Solomon de Koning, whose works are sometimes attributed to Rembrandt, there is a very fine example in a life-size portrait of a Rabbi with a long white beard, which is painted on panel. The Van Stry copy of the Duke of Bedford's Cuyp, " a winter scene with figures skating," is an excellent work of the painter ;- and there are several good pictures by the modern Dutch painters, Van Hamme, Linnig, and De Wilde. It is stated that Mr. Hare will be brought forward by the Conservatives to contest the seat at Bristol in the room of Mr. Robinson, and that Mr. Hodgson will be the Liberal candidate. At the conclusion of the Ross competition at Irvine on Wednesday, Captain Ross selected as the re presentatives to shoot in the contest for the Elcho Chal lenge Shield, Colour-Sergeant Clews, Renfrew ; Private Brownlie, let Lanark ; Private M`Vittie, Dumfries ; Private Fraser, Edinburgh; Private Dunlop and Sergeant Ferguson, Inverness. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. —The Illustrated Newt states that Mr. William Mercer, of Kingston-on-Thames, has left the following charitable bequests :—To the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Church Missionary Society, each £lOO ; and to the Society for the Conversion of the Jews, the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Blind Asylum; National School, Kingston, and the Cambridge Military at Kingston, each a legacy of £5O. The late Mr. John Adolphus Snee, of Ramsgate, formerly of New Tnn, Strand, has left a legacy of £3OO to the Church Missionary Society ; £lOO to the Moravian Missionary Society ; and £5O each to the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Church Pastoral Aid Society, the London City Mission; the Sailors' Home, in Wells-street, London Docks ; the' London Society fqr Teaching the Blind to read, and the Sudety £c PE9m9tuig Fcmalo Education is the Bad, VICTIM OF A TELEGRAM. Mr. !Frederick Stripplin, lately a cotton merchant in Vicksburg, Mississippi, is at present enjoying the pleasing ho-pitality of a solitary cell at the Central Police Head qw6rters, under circumstances which, as far as known at present, are decidedly of a peculiar and unusual character. He arrived in this city in the latter part of last week,,e it appears, with his wife, and took passage for himself and the latter on the steamer leaving for Europe on Saturday last, whither he was going on a business trip. Scarcely had he got on to the steamer before two detec tives arrested him, took him before the Recorder at Jersey City—the arrest being made at the Jersey City wharf, where the steamer lay—and thence took him a prisoner to the Police Headquarters in New York, where he was locked up, and is still kept in close confinement. The sole ground of his arrest was a telegram from Vicksburg, requesting his arrest on a charge of embezzlement. This telegram stated no amount of alleged embezzlement, or the names of any party or parties from whom he is alleged to have embezzled. It was supposed that since the reign of King Kennedy had ceased the period of arbitrary and illegal arrests was at an end. Mr. Douglas A. Levien, jun., counsel for Mr. Stripplin, obtained & writ of habeas corpus in the case yesterday, and this morning the prisoner will be brought before Judge Bar nard. His counsel claims that there is no ground for the arrest in the first place, and that in the second place it was wholly irregular and illegal, in the absence of spe cifications of the charge, and without proper requisition from the Governors, respectively, of Mississippi, New Jersey, and New York.—New York Times, May 27. NO KING FOR SPAIN. By our latest advices we learn that General Prim regards the declination of General Espartero to accept the Spanish crown as final, and recommends the consolidation of the Spanish regency. As at the same moment our advices inform us that there is very serious objection, inside and outside of the Cortes, to the confirmation of plenary powers in the hands of Serrano, the inference is that, quite in accordance with what we hinted some time ago, General Prim himself may be the man of the future. But there is more than this in the present tendency of Spanish affairs. The Napoleonic dynasty rises like a giant refreshed with wine from the recent plebiscitarY contest in France. Almost simultaneous with its success occurred the Saldanha revolution in Portugal and the suggestion of an Iberian union. The Portuguese Deputies of the old Chamber have separated with solemn pledges against a subordination to Spain, but not, it may be remarked, against any union which should recognise the autonomy of their country while combining its strength for good results with that of their cousins beyond the Spanish frontier, who are of the same religion, speak a language very similar to their own and have some traditions in common with them. The disorders in Spain and in Portugal have recently afforded France nearly as good 5 pretext for interference as that which has called her troops to Italy, and should those disorders continue and the regency be found impracticable under certain conditions, why might not the preponderating influence of France be exercised in a peculiar way? Spain seeks for a leader. and General Prim, in something of that capacity, has had frequent counselling at Paris. Could he not p re pare the way for a plebiscitum in Spain which might result in the selection of a Napoleonic prince to head the nation How would the candidature suit the idea of a political fraternisation of the Latin race? Stranger things than this have happened. A brother of the First Napoleon was once made King of Spain by force ; suppose that a cuusin of Napoleon 111. should rise to the same eminence by popular vote, and that his ru l e s h ou ld, i n ti m e, cover the entire Iberian peninsula ? Would the latter reallY lose thereby, or would the security and peace of Europe be any the worse off for an arrangement that would re pose upon so many guarantees of strength and order?, This is a question which may h ave m ore s i gn ifi cance and be more nearly in accordance with the French Emperor's new map of Europe, bearing the ante-date of 1872, than most people imagine. —New York Herald. CARDINAL ANTONELLPS SPECIAL EXPOSI- TION TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.. His Eminence Cardinal Antonelli accorded an inter view to one of our special correspondents in Rowe a few days since. The Cardinal Secretary of State is a worker in the world attentive, con tinuous, and close. He has studied mankind, and although he has passed the greater portion of his daYa within the walls of the Vatican, he has, owing to his, extensive, vast means of information, and in the keen on practised eye and ear of an able propagandist seen, as it were, the world, " which is a curious sight, and not at all as some good people write it." Progressive in idea beyond the rule of his school, Cardinal Antonelli paYs great attention to American affairs. He has studied the broad Transatlantic field of the future, and is evidently happy to glean information from the labourers on its soil. He anticipates the democratic asylum of the tiara, the home of the Popedom, when the Old World centre of unity shall have crumbled to the dust and the m ighty builders of the West be called upon to complete the grand Christaln edifice the foundations of which were so securely laid and consecrated by the men of the East. Cardinal Antonelli has consequently informed himself as to the materialistic condition of America—our wars, our',debt, our system of finance and diplomacy. The climate of the American Continent has also been considered in all its varying phases of temperature, and storms, and solstice heats by the divine—a fact which gives us addi tional reason to believe that the members of the Sacred College have been reflecting seriously, perhaps debating, the original assertion of the Herald, uttered many w year s since, to the effect that the seat of the Popedom ould eventually be transferred to American soil. The Cardinal' who was evidently in a genial mood towards our special writer, may also have been considering how appopriate and kind at the time was our first tender of _American hospitality to the first emigrant Head of the Church, and our offer to make his Holiness as comfortable as possible after his first landing. When we then wrote the Italian element controlled the College of the Propaganda to a very great extent. We alluded, consequently, at the time, to a stranger., The aspect of the question of the succession has altered considerably considerably since. The American Episcopal element has become a great power in Rome. The tiara may that come to us. This does not by any means alter the inten t _ of our original feeling towards the bearer of the Seal of the Fisherman individually. Should, however, the ballot of the conclave settle the call of the Holy Spirit, the "ascending and descending," the Anabanointos and K - tabanointos of the Holy Scripture on the head of Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli, none shall rejoice more sincerely thal ourselves. The utterance s o f hi s E m i nence t o our special correspondent prove that he is progressive and will con sequently be the "right man " in the place, if chosen, at least for a period, and to tide time still onward towards the day when the universal Church shall be reconsecrat ed in accordance with the inspiration of the Sermon on the Mount.—New York Herald. THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE BILL.—Lor d Cairns will move the following amendment on the motion_ that the report of the committee on the High Court o f Justice Bill (on re-commitment) be received :—" Th at t this House, while entirely approving. of a consolidation °f ~s the Superior Court s o f L aw an d Equity into one 1 - 10, 1 , Court of Justice, and of the fusion of the principles an",, procedure of law and equity, is unwilling to delegate, is done by this Bill, to a committee of the Privy Councl powers which are in effect legislative, and of indefi nite extent, and which, by their exercise, 1113 • T, infringe on the independence of the courts and judges , and may introduce, without a parliamentary discu s' sion, most important changes in the existing judiull: system • and this house therefore desires, before procee a , ing further with this measure, to have laid before it, incorporated in the bill, the most material of the prow,' sions intended to be made by virtue of the proposa l , delegated powers, and especially the provisions intendeA' to define the procedure in the High Court of Justice an d the divisions thereof. 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