The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-02 00:00:00

CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. V MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of V • he public tirely on its sold by them at any other MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of F. by post are attended to with care and lity, and the easy and accurate system of self- Euced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to litless flt. EMOSES and SON, • NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER of HART-STREET. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING. Frock Dress Oxford Camb. Fishing Coats. Coats. Coats. - Coats. Coats. 255. 255. 17s. 18s. 10s. 80s. 30s. 21s. 225. 15s. 85s. 355. 265. 28s. 18s. 428. 425. 30s. 325. 225. 508. 50s. 365. 365. 28s. 635. 60s. 425. 425. 355. EMOSES and SON beg to remind t • that the cheapness of an article depends enl quality, and they venture to affirm that every article E, is considerably cheaper than what can be obtained i house in England. GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED : Summer Race Business Morning Dress Overcoats. Coats. Suits. Trousers. Trousers. 13s. 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MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset, till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addtesses of E. MOSES and SON : LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Thomas Hankey, Esq. I R. W. Crawford, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. The report and balance-sheets of this association for the year 1869, exhibiting in full details the amounts assured, ages of the members, with particulars of the invested fund, may be had on application to the chief office, or to the agents. The annual income from premiums is ...... From interest on investments The invested fund, after payment of all claims, 415,000 exceeds The whole of the profits divided among the members. Cash bonuses have already been allotted to the assured, amounting to £lOO,OOO. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. 15, Moorgate-street, June 1, 1870, ...... £64,000 ...... 19,000 NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE, AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNE LL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, includ ng brush. Red Bull Wharf .Angel-passage, 13, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.— Bed Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'cicck, NO SONG NO SUPPER: Mr. Kendal, Mr. Compton, Mr. Eda aid Osborne, Mr. Clark; Miss F. Wright, Miss Francis, Miss Fosbroke, and Miss F. Owynne. After which, at 8 precisely, BARWISE'S BOOK: Mr. Sothern, Mr. Chippendale, Mr Compton, Mr. Kendal, Mr. Buckstone; Miss C. Hill, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Fanny Owynne. And (by desire) A REGULAR FIX: Mr. Sothern, &c. Concluding with A IKSS IN THE DARK. ADELP HI THEATRE.—New Company.—New Drama.—At 7.30, FREE LABOUR, a drama, in four acts, by Charles Reade, played by a new company, selected from first-class theatres. New scenery by Hawes Craven. OLYMPIC THEATRE.-MISS BA I'EM AN.- TB IS EVENING, at 8, MARY WARNER: Mary Warner, Miss Bateman; assisted by Messrs. Vernon, D. Fisher, Blakeley, Roberts, Elliott, Vaughan, and G. Belmore. I receded by, at 7, MUSIC HATH CHARMS: Miss !Hattie Reinhardt. To conclude with THE 'VARSITY BOAT RACE. Mr. Geo. Belmore. L YCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs. Mansell). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, HIS OWN RIVAL. Mr. F. Charles and Miss L. Morgan. At 8, BREAKING THE SPELL. After which, at t , .30, LITTLE FAUST : Mr. T. Maclagan, M. Marius, Mr. Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr. Wilmot; Mdlle. Debreux, Mesdames Lennox Grey, Lawson, Lee, and Emily Bolden. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and AI anageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, LOVING BEARTS. Messrs Edward Teary and Turner; Mesdames Button an drantley. Followed by KENILWORTH. Messrs David james. terry, Turner, and Fenton; Mesdames Sant:ey, Anstiss, Goodall, Met calfe, and Moore. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs H J. Montague, D. James, and T, Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7 30, an original Comedy, by A. Halliday. entitled FOR LOVE OR MONEY. At 9.45, the new Burlesque, by Conway Edwardes, entitled DON CARLOS; or, The Infante in Aims Supported by the following Company:— Messrs H. J. Montague, G. Honey, H. Irving, W. H. Stephens, C. Garthorne, E. Elton, and Thos. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Cavendish, Amy Fawsitt, K Irwin, L. Claire, J. Beauclerc, R Evelyn, Kemp, T. Lavis, F. Garthwaite, R. Power. N,B.—On Saturday next, June 4th (at 8 o'clock), a new and original Comedy, in 3 Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, H. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames A. Newton (her first appearance at this Theatre), T. Lavis, and Amy Fawsitt. OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden.—Gouuod's Faust e Mar gherita. 8.30. p.m. ITALIAN OPERA, Drury Lane.—Faust. 8.3 p.m. HAYMARKET—At Seven, No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book. And A Kiss in the Dark. ADELPHI—At Seven, No. 1 Round the Corner. Free Labour. PRINCE OF WALES'S--At 7.80. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. _ _ . LYCEUM—At 7.30, His Own b ival, Breaking the Spell. At 8 3 , Little Faust. OLYMPIC At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, Mary Warner. l'he 'Varsity Boat Race. GAIETY—At Seven, First Night. The Princess of Trebizonde. QuEEN's—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twixr Axe and Crown. STRAND—At Seven, Loving Hearts. Kenilw rth. VAUDEVILLE —For Love or Money. Don Carlos. ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Fron Frou. La Belle Sauvage WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH IVA K. Egyptian Hall, Pie. eadilly, every kvr.ning (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn lags at 3 Admissi_ n is, 2s, 3s. CMRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays awl Saturdays, at 3 and 8 WI the year round. ZO LOGICA34 G4Rma, Begent's-pt.rk Open daily except Sun day s). Admission, ls. ; on Mondays, Gd. Children under , Gd. ktBDAIn THBB*UVII EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3.0 p.m., aud from 7 till 10 p.m, Admission, Is.; extra 6d. Ul g g 0 4 : \- 1/41 EVENING EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EN ENING, JUNE 2, 1870. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1870 NAPOLEON the GREAT, in one of his most stinging mots, dubbed this, the most formidable of his enemies, a nation of shopkeepers? Are we nowadays to regard ourselves as—worse even than that—a nation of dis honest shopkeepers. The falsification of weights and measures systematically—and this, as a rule, always in the poorer neighbourhoods, in localities like the New Cut on the Ratcliffe Highway—has, unhappily, been quite clearly proved and demon strated under the operation of a recent Act of Par liament contrived with a view to its suppression. The adulteration of food, of almost every article in common use, of eatables and drinkables alike—of our very drugs and medicines—all this has, long since, again and again, been, in its turn, too, quite clearly proved and demonstrated. A commission was appointed, several years ago, for the purpose of carrying out a series of searching investigations. A mass of evi dence was thereby accumulated. That evidence was, in due course, given to the public. Our medical con temporary, the Lancet, covered itself with honour by originating this very important and eminently prac tical commission. By presiding over its labours, Dr. HASSALL acquired for himself an eminent repu tation. And yet, in spite of all these most praise worthy endeavours to mitigate the evils that were shown to be so rife and so wide-spread—practically speaking nothing whatever has been done, all this A bile, by the Legislature, with a view to the sweep ing away of this most unwholesome and rascally system of adulteration. To the end of bringing about some change for the better in regard to this subject, we are glad to observe the significant fact that an organ of the cause, entitled the Food Journal, has very recently been commenced. Incidentally, too, the subject of these disgraceful adulterations has bee❑ revived, or, as the Parliamentary slang is, "ventilated,' within the walls of the Legisla ture. One of our representatives, having "the courage of his convictions," shrank not from entering into de tails to his half- amused and half-disgusted listeners in the House of Commons. Hearkening to him, one thought of the sanctimonious grocer in the old fashioned farcical-comedy—a sort of SNAWLEY—who calls out to his apprentice, " Have you watered the vinegar ?" " Yes, sir." " And sanded the sugar ?" " Yes, sir." " And damped the tobacco ?" " Yes, sir." " Then came to prayers." One seemed to hear, again, the bandit in one of GILBERT ATECKETT'S burlesques, as he smacked his lips over a cup of tea, declaiming the sonorous couplet— " 'Tis pretty fair, as Twankays go; Pm always quick in finding out the sloe." In that recent speech in the House of Com mons--a speech studded as thickly with abomi nable instances of adulteration as a Christmas pud ding is with plums and currants.—we heard with a shudder of coffee flavoured with filth; of blue pills rendered at once gritty and cadaverous with slate-filings; of ale (but that is an old story), poi soned with salt, and colouring matter, and cocculus indices. Against the possibility of the adulteration of beer, Mr. BASS, as ba ame him, at once, then and there, protested loudly and emphatically. An ana lytical chemist of some eminence has answered Mr. BASS'S denial of the charge by evidence as irrefrag able as the following --" With the object," he writes to the Times," of ascertaining whether the beer sold in London was genuine, I some time ago obtained six samples in the west district and six in the south. It was purchased, without selection, of large and small public-houses at the workmen's din ner hour, and was immediately sent to be analysed. Out of these 12 samples seven were salted, 11 had colouring matter (five in large quantities), and in all there was an extra amount of water. Setting aside the best sample as too good for an average," he adds, " and the worst as too bad, the remaining 10 gave 1,180 gallons as originally made by the brewer from 10 quarters of malt to which 1,064 gallons of the New River bad been added, for which excellent artistically coloured water, the consumer was charged £l2O, while the cost of the raw material, the malt and hops, for the whole 2,244 gallons was doubtless less than £4O. But," he feels constrained to admit, "it was only a fraud—for no cocculus indicus or any sub stance positively injurious to health was detected." Mr. SMEE, the writer of this statement, with a touch of sly humour, goes on to remark, "Mr. BASS may say the analyst did not under stand his business. He, however, examined a sample of ale brewed by Messrs. BASS and Co., and found no salt, no colouring matter, and no water added—in fact, perfectly pure beer. May I ask, was that also an error ?" If only the retail purchaser could go direct, for their supplies, to the wholesale manufac turers, to our BASSES and our ALLSOPPS, to our BARCLAYS and our GUINESSES, we should have no more of these abominable and deleterious adultera tions. Until they can, however, do this—will not the Legislature in some way interpose for the safety of the health and the pockets of the general community ? THE public will not have forgotten the catastrophe of April 21st in Greece. The information has cm* to hand very tediously, and startling events has e happened in the meantime; but an occurrence in whicl the honour of the nation is so completely involved must not be hastily dismissed. The last batch ofletters and documents throws a little more light on the extraordinary proceedings of the Greek officials pre vious to the massacre. Suspicion has from the first rested upon Colonel THEAGENIS, the officer sent out by the Greek Government to treat with the brigands, and who commanded the troops. A. short letter from Mr. FRANK NOEL amply justifies the presumption that the behaviour of this officer was the immediate cause of the murders. Mr. NOEL relates that on Tuesday, the 19th of April, he visited Oropos, arriving there late at night, and had an interview with the captives the next morning. It may be well to note, en passant, that Mr. EnSKINE, the English ambassador, had some days before written out a telegram asking Mr. NOEL'S assistance. The Greek War Minister, Soutzos, took charge of this message, which was never sent, It was only by accident that Mr. NOEL heard of the brigands being at Oropos, and he immediately set out, arriving, as we have said, late on Tuesday night. The next morning, Colonel THEAGENIB himself arrived, and the two conferred with the brigand chiefs. The instructions of the Greek Government were read to the robbers. They contained a Provision to the effect that the brigands must not leave Oropos until the terms were arranged, otherwise the Government could not guarantee their immunity from attack. Exasperated at this announcement, the chief pulled out a letter he had received from Mr. ERSKINE. It declared that the amnesty could not be granted; but that the King and the Chief Minister had guaranteed the safety of the brigands until the terms were settled. "How," exclaimed the brigand chief, "can I place faith in the Greek Government ? Do you think we should have come into the village of Oropos, had it not been for the promise given by the Ambassador ?" Colonel THEAGENIS had nothing to say to this. Then and there he was given to under stand that if the troops molested the robbers,, the prisoners would be murdered. With this assurance he departed—and led his troops to the attack the very next day. Mr. NOEL remained at Oropos the whole of Wed nesday, and left on that memorable Thursday morning. Before he departed the brigand chief made further concessions, promising to give up the idea of an amnesty and accept the alternative offered— receive the ransom, embark on board an English ship, and leave the country. Mr. NOEL at once tele graphed to Mr. ERSKINE to insist on the withdrawal of the troops, as the robbers bad come to terms. "About four o'clock I received an answer, saying that the Government had consented not to attack the brigands at Sykamenos, and asking me to return to treat with them for their embarkment on board an English man-of-war." Mr. NOEL prepared to return to the brigands at once; but, owing to the heavy sea, he could not get off until the next morning. If he had it would have been of no avail. The attack had been made and consummated, and the English men were murdered. Why the attack was ordered remains a mystery to this day. But that Colonel THEAGENIS should have been present at the interview with the Greek chiefs, that he should have been aware of the promise of security given to the brigands whilst the negotia tions were going on, and that he should have heard the threat of the chief to murder his prisoners if the soldiers advanced, are a combination of circumstances which decisively attribute to him the onus of inexcusable folly and mismanagement, or worse. The horrible muddling away of life appears in a worse light as each successive fact comes out. T 9 insist upon the terms of a Constitution, which has been set at nought at the will of any triumphant political party, as a reason for not grant ing an amnesty was a foolish and hazardous formality. But to afterwards suddenly assail the robbers, after a solemn pledge of safety had been given them, and after the English representa tive had succeeded in obtaining better terms, was sheer wickedness. It was likewise another display of Greek imbecility, for the advance of the soldiers could never have suc ceeded, unless the brigands had been completely sur rounded. This object Colonel THEAGENIS did not effect. His advance, whatever may have been the motives which prompted it, proved a failure in every sense. THE exercise of sound and systematic economy in any of the State departments is a rare luxury, and the nation will act wisely in making the most of it. An economical Government meets with so much opposition from alarmed rivals and dissatisfied interests, that the hearty support of the public is needed to make the work a success. In awarding such support the impartial mind will be governed, not by this or that detail, but by the general principle involved. The charges, for instance, which Mr. CORRY raises against Mr. BAXTER must not be allowed to keep out of sight the real point at issue. Mr. BAXTER says that stores to a vast and wasteful extent were accumulated in the dockyards during the reign of the last Government, and, indeed, of their predecessors also ; Mr. CORRY affirms that Mr. BAXTER'S calculations are exaggerated, and that no excessive supplies had been laid up. The two gentlemen may settle this question between them : the important consideration for the public is that the present Ministry is making an attempt to cleanse the Augean stable of the Admiralty, and that previous Ministries have been content to let the abuses remain in peace. That the dockyards were dens of waste, mismanagement, and fraud, there can be no question whatever. The history of their abuses is now a well established and shameful chapter of political record ; but Mr. BAXT ER never speaks on the subject in the House without re vealing some fresh beauties. On Tuesday .night he gave the House of -Commons some information on the subject of bribery. It prevailed, he said, exten sively both in London and in the dockyards: Nor were the bribers restricted to trifles, such as £lO or £2O, but they were " mainly very much larger sums." And, as Mr. BAXTER says, it is not for a moment to ba supposed that com mercial firms would pay this money without some pro portionate benefit. "Certain tenders were opened with all solemnity in the presence of the officials at Somer set House and at the Admiralty, but it had been ascertained that certain messengers had keys to open the boxes in which the tenders were placed." Through this collusion between servants inside the Government offices and dealers outside of them, the nation had been swindled without stint. So huge were the frauds that the new system of economy was enabled to save £150,000 in respect of food alone, besides thousands here and.there in every branch of expenditure. Mr. CORRY in a party sense can gain nothing by bringing such facts to light. Even in matters of detail, it does not appear that he gained any advantage over Mr. BAXTER; but touching the broad and general ques tion of economy, the verdict of the ,public must decidedly be that the Ministry are attempting a great work which lay open for their predecessors, but they passed it by. IT was expected that the Derby of 1870 would be memorable above all other Derbies as an easy win —Macgregor first, and the rest nowhere. It has proved remarkable as one of the most ridiculous fiascos in the history of our " national sport." No other event of the kind can compare with it. The surprise of the public when Hermit came in first through the snow-storm in 1867, when that rank outsider, Wild Dayrell, overturned Lord of the Isles in 1856, and when Amato just managed to do it in 1838, is as nothing compared with the astonish ment at Macgregor's failing to win in 1870. This horse never ran in public before the Two Thousand, which he won with unparalleled ease, cantering in half a dozen lengths before King craft and the rest. A tew days ago he strengthened the good opinion formed of him by winning his second race very easily. At the Derby he was, so to speak, nowhere. Kingcraft was a great favourite before the Two Thousand and became a despised out-sider, after he had cut a poor figure in that race. He came in first for the Derby. Thus both horses have alternatively ranked high in the opinion of the prophets and of the " talent." But when the prophets gave them their suffrages they lost, and when the prophets scouted them they won. It is the old lesson en the faithlessness of horseflesh, but perhaps the moral was never so strikingly enforced. And, no doubt, we shall witness a little more entertainment of the sdnie kind, Xingeraft will be held a great certainty for his next event, and then something else, perhaps Macgregor, will win. It has been said, and some slight signs of the kind have shewn themselves, that racing is declining in public esteem. We hope it is so. If this affair does not fill up the mea sure of disgust, nothing will. It is needless to add that all the old machinery—the scratching of horses upon which heavy amounts had been in vested, immediately before the race, and the absorp tion of public money upon impostors that never had a chance in the competition—has been ac tively at work ; whilst the Legislature, so far from interfering, has expressly adjourned in order the more easily to witness the instructive performance. The Derby of 1870 will bring riches to many a professional, but ruin to many more deluded victims. We reneat that the onus of these scandals rests not upon one, or any number of racing men, but upon the high authority which negligently allows such things to be. With the details of racing, Parlia ment has nothing to do ; but the gambling that accompanies racing, and the fraud that accompanies the gambling, are distinctly the offspring of legislative indifference; and the repression of such vice is an imperative duty. The Derby of 1870 is remarkable as a striking instance of the manner in which the present system of betting turns in favour of those persons who make a trade of it. HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, May 31. The Queen went out yesterday morning with Princess Beatrice. In the afternoon her Majesty and Princess Louise drove out, attended by the Duchess Dowager of Athol. The Rev. Norman M'Leod, D.D., left the Castle. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, accompanied by the Princess of Teck. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, and attended by Lieut.-Col. Teesdale and Captain Lunden, went to the Epsom Races yesterday. FASHION ABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-DAY. The Duke and Duchess of Buecleuch's dinner and ball to meet the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Montagu House, Whitehall. The Earl Fortescue's evening party, at 40, Upper Brook- street. The Hon. Mrs. Hubbard's dance, at 24, Prince's-gate. The Hon. Mrs. Halford's dance, at 5, Prince's-gate. Dirs. Schuster's ball, at 11, Upper Belgrave-street, instead o: the 15th. The annual regimental dinner of the Ist (King's) Dragoon Guards, at the Albion, Alderagate-street, at eight o'clock precisely. The annual dinner of the 14th (King's) Hussars, at the ' Clarendon, Bond-street, at eight o'clock precisely. The annual regimental dinner of th.' 11th Lancers, at the St. James's Hotel, Piccadilly—H.R.H. the Duke of Cam bridge in the chair—at eight o'clock. The annual dinner of the 71st (Highland) Light Infantry, at the St. James's Hotel, Piccadilly. The Royal Marines' annual dinner, at Willis's Rooms. At Lord's Ground (grand cricket match)—Quidnuncs T Household Brigade. SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS-TO-DAY. The Chemical Society—at 8 p.m., when Dr. Codling will read a paper on "Platino-Ammonium Bases." The Linnea,n Society—at 8 p.m., when Mr. R. M'Lachlan will read a paper on "New Forms of Trichopterous Insects." The Society of Antiquaries—at 8.30 p.m. FREE RUSSIA. TO THE EDITOR OF " THE SUN." May 31, 1870. Sin,—Mr. Sutherland Edwards has at length been forced to confess and explain his five " false citations" from Mr. Dixon's book. The explanation is a real curiosity of lite rature ; for, in effect, it adds two more false citations to the former five. Mr. Edwards asserts, in regard to citations 1 and 2, that Mr. Dixon does say (1.), that Solovedsk is'a Lavra ; and (2), that there are four Lavras in Russia ; and then goes on to add that if Mr. Dixon does not say so, the Ra dika of Archangel does. Mr. Edwards repeats that false citations 3,4, and 5 are in Mr. Dixon's book, and then he quotes these passages which say the very reverse. The subject is serfage, which Mr. Dixon shows to be a very different thing to villeinage. " Serfage," he says, " was not villeinage under another name," and he shows that villeinage died out before serfage came into existence. Mr. Edwards cites what Mr. Dixon says about villeinage as if he had said it about serfage ! ! Can trifling and confusion get deeper in the mire ? Detected and exposed in these false citations, Mr. Edwards runs off in into vague and general charges, but it, would seem from this passage of arms that he cannot risk a sen tence without making some mistake. Among the asser tions made by him in this correspondence, yon may find the following ludicrous blunders. He says there are only three Lavras in Russia, Mou ravieff mentions eight. He says there are only three Me tropolitan Sees in Russia. There are six, namely, Nov gorod, Kief, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Lithuania, and Imeritia. He says there are only three ecclesiastics hold ing metropolitan rank. There are five, namely, Isidore, Arseny, Innocent, Joseph, and the Metropolitan of Imeritia. _ _ _ He says there is a Metropolitan See of St. Petersburg and Novgorod. There is no such see. He says there is no music in Russian churches. He says singing is not music, and yet assumes to he a musical critic. He says the Russian Church allows divorce. He says the Russian Church denies the existence of purgatory. He calls the New Jerusalem Church a Lavra. He says the Monastery of St. Alexander Nevski "is close to St. Petersburg." ~ . He calls Prussia and Austria " the west of Europe." - - - --..... _ Here stops my pen out of breath with laughter. Poor Mr. Edwards. LOOKER ON. Mr. Disraeli was so far restored to health as to be able to dine on Tuesday evening with the American Minister. An Oxford correspondent writes that the subject for the Stanhope Historical Essay for 1871 is " Lafayette." The Athenaeum Building Society, Birmingham, has failed; liabilities, £B,OOO. It is expected that the estate will realise 15s. in the pound. IlDiritto announces that the Italian Government has decided at once to bring in a bill for the construction of the St. Gothard Railway. It is stated that the Committee of the Keble Memorial Fund have received from the Govern ment the promise of a Charter for incorporating Keble College. Queen Maria-Christina, of Spain, has just arrived .at her villa of MOndesir, at Sainte-Adresse, near Havre, where she intends to remain for some time. John Fowler, a farmer's son, and one of Lord Delamere's tenants, has been fined £5 and costs for mali ciously killing a fox-hound belonging to the master of the Cheshire Hunt. It appears, from a parliamentary return issued yester day, that only three friendly societies in Scotland have as yet complied with the statute, which directs the rules of such associations to be deposited with the Registrar of Friendly Societies. DEAT II OF THE BISHOP OF SOUTHWARK.—A telegram from Rome announces the death of the Right Rev. Thomas Giant, the Catholic Bishop of Southwark. Dr. Grant was apparently dying when he left England towards the close of last year, to attend the (Ecumenical Council. Ms surviving the journey, even, was a matter of astonishment to those who knew his condition. Since then h s health appears to have undergone several extra ordinary fluctuations. His decease has more than once been announced, to be afterwards contradicted. The right reverecd prelate has at last succumbed to the mortal disease by which his Me has been so long rendered precarious. No member of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in this country was more popular than the late " Bishop of South wark," and none could be regretted more sincerely by others even than his coreligionists. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is recommended by the medical profession in preference to French brandy. Sup plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations on application to Messrs DUNVILLE tit co., Royal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfast ; or at their London Offices 4, Beaufort Buildings Strand, W.Q SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE DERBY DAY. If an expedition to Epsom, says the Times, is accom panied by much mortification to Londoners, who are, so to speak, but a stone's throw from the spot-- and these mortifications, be it remembered, happen almost invariably to all of us, except, indeed, the loss of our watches, which most of us are too wise to take with us—how we ask, can it answer for our provincials to come so far merely to undergo the same disappointments ? There is no accounting, of course, for tastes. Some people like long voyages in yachts ;at least, they profess to like them. Some people like mountain-climbing, camping out in tents, stand ing up •to the waist for hours in water, and, after all, not killing a salmon. Some lie for hours crawling and creeping on mossy hill-sides, seek ing to compass the death of a stag, which, after all is not kind enough to come within easy shot. All these amiable enthusiasts say they like it, and no doubt they have their reward in the feeling of life and vigour in the dancing waves, the balmy air, • the chance of a long struggle with a clean-run fish, or the " thud "of the bullet as it brings down a noble stag. But what on earth can be the pleasure of decent people—and many of these sightseers are decent and respectable—in leaving their homes and families and rushing up to London and to Epsom to see little or nothing of the very race which they came to see, to lose their money on animals which they eannot even approach, and of whose very colour they are prgfoundly ignorant, and then to return to town drenched to the skin or with their throats full of dust (as it may please the weather), the laughing-stock of all the little boys in the metropolis ! Verily, if there be such a thing as temporary insanity, this is part of it. What can be more frantic than to pursue something of which the only pleasure is in the prospect, of which the fruition is dis appointment, and of which in countless cases the retro spect is regret ? The Post says that the " glorious " uncertainty of the Derby was never more fully proved than it was yester day. The favourite for whom the prophets, almost to a man, had plumped, whose pretensions had para lysed speculation, whose success was taken by the world at large as inevitable, and whom accident alone could, it was said, deprive of the great racing prize of the year, this favourite of favourites has sustained an ignominious defeat, having finished behind an animal not even men tioned in the betting. The result is certainly curious. It shows what a perilous business is that of the backer of racehorses; and, conversely, it throws a light on the reasons why it is that the bookmakers of the Turf are enabled to realise fortunes by their calling The public will always back favourites, but the favourites are as often beaten as not. One thing is cer tain—the success of no owner could be more gratifying to the public than that of Lord Falmouth. Racing, purely for racing sake, he is one of the few men on the turf who can claim to follow the pursuit as a sport and pastime. We want more of such men on the turf. When the winning of money becomes the first object of the owners of horses it is impossible but that scandals, heartburnings, and dissensions must arise, to the disgust of all true lovers of racing, and to the lowering of the status of the old national sport. Lord Falmouth sets an excellent example. His horses are felt to run on their true merits. Hence his success will be an unquestionable gratification to the public. The Daily News says that the prophets were unani mous, but wrong. The winning horse may metaphori cally be said to have had his foot upon his native heath ; but his name was not Macgregor. The favourite was was fourth, instead of first. We leave it to expects to explain, if it needs explanation, how it was the expected did not come to pass. The theory of the moment seems to be that, in transferring Macgregor from Daley's jockeyship to Fordham's, Mr. Merry loaded him with the proverbial ill-luck of the latter rider. But this theory will not perhaps stand the philo sophical scrutiny of an enlightened age. It is impossible to advance be-c and the profound generalisation that nothing is certaiJ but the unlikely. The peculiar form, equine or human, which the improbable assumed yesterday, was that of the horse Kingcraft and the jockey French. We congratulate Lord Falmouth, and condole with Mr. Merry and the many to whom Lord Falmouth's colours and Mr. Merry's were the symbols of joy and woe. But the Derby is a thing of yesterday. To-morrow the Oaks. From sport to sport they hurry us. The Telegraph reminds us that when, in 1809, Sydney Smith, in the pulpit at Malton, took up his parable against horse-racing, and loudly proclaimed, within bow shot of the then most fashionable training-ground in Yorkshire, that his hearers were wasting time upon that which satisfieth not, he came home to his wife conscious of failure, and said, " So fight I, as one that beateth the air." Great though the fire and force of his pulpit oratory were, Sydney Smith could make no impression upon his horse-loving audiences. But the Derby of 1870 is a far more powerful preacher than any living or dead monitor. It tells us that horses cannot be trusted. It proclaims that nothing on earth is certain except the unforeseen. It will be welcome to all true lovers of the sport, inasmuch as Kingcraft belongs to one of the most conscientious sportsmen, and is trained by one of the most honourable trainers that Newmarket Heath ever saw. And yet the Derby of 1870, like every other great race in the present year, is indicative of decay in our great national sport. A worse horse than Muster probably never got a place in Epsom's great contest ; and so small a field has only once before started within the last twenty-five years. But, in addi tion the numbers assembled at Epsom exhibited a marked decline, and the result of the race is calculated to put reasonable men out of conceit with turf " certainties." We are not Quixotic enough to think that it will cure gamblers of their infatuation. Riddlesworth, upon whom 6 to 4 was betted in 1831—and which was defeated by Spaniel, though he had hardly a supporter at 50 to I—ran a good second. Let us hope that the unplaced Macgregor, against whom on Wednesday bookmakers at last refused to back the field at any odds, will cause some few who are not inextricably entangled to pause and ask themselves whether the pursuit of horse-racing, though it may rea sonably be upheld as a diversion, is worthy to be made the business of a life. THE PRINCE OF WALES IN IRELAND. The Standard trusts that the residence of the Heir to the Throne in Ireland could not fail to be productive of the very best effects on Irish society, however limited the time of its duration. It would assuage the jealousy which her Majesty's preference for Scotland has kindled in the Irish mind, and no doubt tend, from the conciliatory manners of the Prince, and his love of field sports, to which the Irish aristocracy are so strongly addicted, to initiate and strengthen a mutual respect and attach ment between the Queen's Irish subjects and their future ruler, which must be attended with the most desirable results. it has been long a cause of complaint that the presence of royalty in Ireland has been so rare, and that th 2 shortness of the visits paid by the Sovereign to that portion of her dominions pre cluded the possibility of such manifestations of loyalty as would evince the true feelings of the people towards their Queen. That grievance would be altogether removed by the presence of the Prince of Waes, dispensing his hospitalities as an Irish proprietor. Tollymore Park possesses all the requisites for a royal residence. It is said that the recent tour of Lord and Lady Spencer in the North of Ireland, had for its special object the acqui sition of this property for the Prince, and if it has re sulted in its transfer to royal hands the Irish public will have good reason to rejoice on the occasion. It is for many reasons most desirable that the heir apparent should at this particular time cultivate the acquaintance of his future subjects. Ireland is in a state of transition, and the social influence of the Prince would go far to soften any asperities which may arise from pending legislation in the minds of the Irish landowners, and help to recon cile them to a change in their position, now become in evitable, while his example as an improving and liberal proprietor could not fail to stimulate both the landlords and the tenantry to the proper fulfilment of their respec tive duties. CRUEL SPORT. We have had more than once to advert says the Daily News, to the cruelty of certain forms of public amuse ments, and from week to week our views are confirmed by what are termed the accidental mishaps of these diversions. A few days ago an acrobat was killed in the provinces while having a stone slab broken with a sledge on his chest. The audience did not know why the performer endured a second whack so stolidly, until his corpse was drawn out from under the stone. In London at present we have some exceedingly pretty and perilous spectacles for the recreation of our own neighbours, and of our visitors during the Derby week. In most of these little children are made to play prominent parts. In one establishment, for instance, a lady clothed as a street tumbler tosses a couple of infants in the air with a most confiding belief in her skill in catching them again. She balances a male gymnast on her head, who has also a turn at the unfortunate young clowns, making them trundle over the stage in imitation of hoops, and perform a whole series of monkey tricks which are loudly applauded. Nrhaps the most disagree able sight of all, however, is that of a female comic per former of about eight years of age. To see this poor crea ture swaggering and grinning after the fashion of the adult mountebanks of the tribe to which she belongs is most depressing. Cruelty to animals is b e ing put down ; something was done for sweeps long ago ' why cannot an effort be made for the reclamation from torture or worse of baby singers, dancers, and " phenomena " generally. There are no people in the world so attached to children as the English. We have spoiled-our artists by encouraging them to paint nursery pets in every variety, and yet we promote the exhibition of boys and girls in performances of a degrading and dangerous description. The worst of it is, too, that these performances are increasing in hazard and difficulty by competition, and the vulgar taste for hem is becoming stronger every month. A LYNCHING.—On Wednesday, during a cessation of traffic by the blockage of vehicles weary the "Rookery" on Clapham-common, awaiting the arrival of the royal party, en route for Epsom, a man dexterously purloined a well-filled hamper of provisions suspended from the bottom of a carriage in which a party of gentlemen were seated, and made over the common with his ill-gotten booty. The owners having been made ac quainted with the robbery, got out pursued, and seized the culprit, regained poss e s s i o n of their " creature com forts," and sans cereinonie pitched the thief into the " long pond," and then resumed their journey to the Downs. The fellow had a good ducking, and seemed much chagrined at the result. He was heartily hissed by the crowd, and then sneaked off. NEW ICE MACHINE.—In the new machine for producing ice and cold, invented by Franz Windhausen, of Brunswick, the process takes place in a cylinder, where the air is first p ower f u lly con d ense d, th en coo l e d by the admission of water, and finally expanded till its pressure is about equal to th tof the atmosphere. This process lowers the temperature of the air to about fifty degrees Celsius. The water is almost immediately turned into ice, of which enormous blocks may be obtained. if 44T0. LEICESTER-SQUARE. A correspondent of the Times writes that in the Count* Journal, or craftsman, of April 16, 1737, our ancestors nerd assured that " Leicester-fields were going to be fitted UP i n a very elegant manner, with a new stone wall and railings and a basin in the middle," adding, it would have been gratifying to have received a similar intimation iu the Hou se of Commons on Monday night, even though a " basin" NIT° to take the place of a once toga] monument. The equestrian statue in Leicester-square came .riginally from the Duke ° , Chaudos's house at Canons, and was erected in its pros?' position in the beginning of the century. It is now, 113- deed, an unsightly and dishonoured fragment, but it may be consoling to some of your Protestant readers to know that instead of representing the illustrious William 111., as your excellent article of to-day implies, this " clod and module of confounded royalty" was originaily intended for plain O a simple George I. The intelligent foreigner, however, sy lo is interested in our strange ways of honouring Brita in° greatness may turn his steps into St. James's-squa re ' where, if the trees will allow him, he will see a s ue 11d equestrian statue of •'Dutch William" by the masterly ha nd of Bacon. HUNGARIAN FINANCE. Herr von Longay, the new Minister of Finance, in th ° Austro- Hungarian Empire, and.late Minister of Finance for Hungary made a long farewell speech iu the Hungarna Parliament the other day, in which he gave a full accona t of his policy while at the head of the Hungarian Finance, Department. It appeared from his speech that the fiIIATIC I3I affairs of Hungary are in a most fl.,urish condition. In 1 869 ' instead of a deficit of 12,214,739 florins, which he had pre: vided for in his estimate, there was a surplus of 1,439,489 florins, or a balance of upwards of 13,500,000 florins le favour of the State. This result was not produced by a reduction of expenditure-- for the expenditure of 18(19 Iva! 87,000 florins in excess of that of the preceding y ea r -bo by a considerable increase in the receipts of most of t he revenue departments. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. - _ Mr. Catley master of the Lowther Schools at Shari Westmoreland, was returning last evening from the Penritti station to Shap, and unfortunately entered a train which did not stop at that station. He appears to have becon o , aware of this fact after the train was in motion, and attempt ed to get out, but became entangled between the wheels and the platform. A porter and the station-master endeavoured to rescue him, and they narrowly escaped being dragged under the train, but their efforts were unavailing, and Mr. Cat l6 died soon after he had been removed into the station. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY. An accident occurred yesterday on the Great Eastern Railway, a few miles above Ely, which might have bee'', attended with the most disastrous results. It appears th at the up-train, containing the passengers from Norwich. Lyrio , and Peterborough, left Ely at about. 12 45, and proceeded for about three miles, when they had to slacken speed to cross a small river or large drain, the bridge over which is under going some repairs. To do this .they had to go over sow° points on to the down line; and having crossed the bridge the rails were laid with points so as to bring the train back agai n on to the up line. By some mischance the middle carriage s of the train, consisting of first and second class carriages, were thrown off the line, the engine and first part of lbe train being on the up rails and the latter part on the &Oil rails. Fortunately, no serious harm beyond a severe shaking and fright of the occupants of the carriages mt.; the result , except the stoppage of all the traffic for about an hour and half. The necessary precautions were taken to prevent 5 collision by stop. iug other trains from coming up, anti by means of the assistance of the men at work at the bridge the mischief was repaired. Three young ladies have been admitted as studosts, in the Vienna University, a nd o n e i n th e philosophic al faculty of the University of Prague. It is stated that thec a ladies have already passed several of the ordinary univer sity examinations with great credit. Lord Stratheden will wove the fo lowing standing order when the House of Lords meets after the recess:"" "That if two or more-peers rise to speak at the same time , the Lord Chancellor, and when the House is in Committee, the Chairman of Committees, shall call on one of them to proceed, unless the House do otherwise order." MR: ROUND, M.P.—A marriage is in contem plation between Mr. J. Round, M.P. for East Essex, 0 3 his cousin, Miss Sibyl Freeland. Miss Freeland ig the, fourth daughter of the late Rev. H. Freeland, rector of flasketon, Suffolk, and at the ago of two years she L e canl' the adopted child of Mr and Mrs C. G. Round, of Birch Hall , Essex. EAST LONDON EMIGRATION FUND. —The second batch of emigrants sent out by this fund departed fro , ' London last night by a special train for Liverpool en route for Quebec. The party were uo fewer than 354 in nu bee' Many friends of the emigration movement war pres ut at the St. Pancras Station, including the Hon. Elizabeth Walde g rave, the Hon. F. and Mrs. Hobart, Sir H. Verney, Mr' Octavius E. Coop, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, - Sze. SHOCKING DEATH OF A BOY.--About seven o '6)6' on Tuesday a boy named Thomas Coulthard, 13 y ea rs 0f age, who lived with his parents at 55, Miles-street, Wil s climbing a tree in that portion of Prince's Park skirting °' Inlet-road, in search of a bird's nest, when one of the branches gave way. The por lad fell on the park railings one of which entered his side, and he then rolled into the road, dying almost immediately.—Liverpool Courier. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—The sessions of th ° Central Criminal Court commence on Monday next. Th ° judges on the rota are Chief Justice Bovill, Mt. Jestio° Blackburn, and Mr. Justice heating. The most importan t case in the calendar is that of Boulton and Park. Til e , charge against thun is expected to be proceeded with 8 ' these sessions. Up to Wednesday no application had bee° made in JUdges' chambers for bail in the case of these 00 young men. A PLAGUE OF BEETLES.—A. very serious plagll of small brown beetles has occurred in Y or k s hi re , to' during the last few days the Swede turnip crop has bee° d-stroyed. This is especially so in the Wold district, manY farms having no plants remaining. At Mahon on Saturc . lo the farmers obtained new stocks of seed, and re -sowing would commence on Monday. The beetles in myriads WOO also attacked the tare and pea crops. The long drougll is supposed to have favoured this destructive visitation ° insect life. EMIGRATION TO CANADA.—Another large party 4 of about 200:;emigrants left Euston Station be the 9. 1 " train last night for Canada. to join the ship Pres./An , which sails from Liverpool to-day. The Rev. A. Sty?' man Herring, chairman of the Clerkenwell Emigratio n Society, accomt anied the party with 143 of its members , comprising eight wives, with 29 children ' rejoining the ir husbands n Canada, and nine little orphans proceeding to a female orphanage in Canada W es t. Ih e rema i n der 0: the party, 4, were sent out out by th e B r iti s h an d Coloniti` Emigration Fund. A MINISTER WITH ONE HAND.—The new Minister of Public Works in France, M. Plichon, is without the left hand ; but what is not generally known is the manner to which he lost the member. When a young man, he 10 8 out shooting with a friend, each beating the cover separately' u hen the latter in firing at a black cock, wounded his cony panion in such a manner that amputation became necessarf• M. Plichon was much attached to his companion, so, i° order to spar@ him the reproaches of their two families, in ) pretended that he had himself caused the accident; but on the other having subsequently died, the motive for preser" wing the secret no longer existed.—Galignani. We understand that the French Government hag declared its willingness to permit the official quotation °f the new Turkish Railway Stock on the Paris Exchange I soon as it is quoted on the Exchange at Vienna. DO° Pasha, the Turkish Minister of Commerce, who arrived in the latter city on the 22d instant, has been engaged in nor tiations on this subject, which it is expected will have i d ' favourable result. The Turkish Government has expresso its readiness to give all necessary guarantees for th ex lti sive employment of the capital on Turkish railways and their completion in the shortest possible time. THE CHURCH IN THE METROPOLIS.—The BishoP of London has collated the Rev. Henry Nicholas Collier, M.A., to the new vicarage of the Holy Trinity, Finchini; and has instituted the Rev. Henry Samuel Eyra, M.A., to the new vicarage of all Saints, St. John's-wood; and has lice• sed the Rev. Edmund Fearon Burrell Bourke Fellow° 6 ' M.A., to the curacy of Stoke Newington ; the Rev. Arthur William Beaty Marshall, 8.A., to the curacy of St. Andra'' , Hollingwood ; the Rev. Edward Bainbridge Penfold, B•A; to the curacy of Christ Church, St. Pancras; tho l Philip William Sparling, 8.A., to the curacy of St. Jude , Gray's-inn-road; the Rev. Thomas Theodore Sutton, BA;' to the curacy of St. Andrew, Hoxton ; and th e R ev . Joseph Bishop Wheeler, to be chaplain to the House of Detentio n at Clerkenwell. THE GOOD OLD TIMES.—A few days since, 9 . 8 some workmen were digging in the ruins of WignaoL e Castle, Herefordshire (in early days th e proper and residence of the Mortimer family), th e y cam e IIP°" the solid ma3onry of an arched roof, an d, °„: removing one or two of the large stones, found dungeon communicating with another of equal size, ell eli about fifteen feet square, and covered w ith arche d f stone roofs. They were approached by me ans °, stone staircases, which have been buried in th e rubbish of the ruins for many years. In the stonework of the side walls were embedded large, strong iron staples, st posed to have been used for securing prisoners during tu; civil wars. The dungeons contained a f ew b one s 10 , 44 very decayed state and some lead rolled up. Hundred' of persons from Hereford, Leominster, and th e surroll. ing neighbourhood have visited these interesting remain s of former ages. THE IRISH NATIONAL PRESS.--The intended pu b j licatiou in London of "a national and democratic jourlA, for the Irish Nationalists resident in England and Scotland 0 has just ,been announced. The promoters of the scheT state in their prospectus that the Irish exiles resident ' n , England, Scotland, and Wales are "numerically far larg,e owing to the poverty caused by alien rule in their n al , : laud, than any other body of exiles resident in th ese celt h % tries," and are, nevertheless "totally unrepresent e d in t h e Press." Having remarked that American, Ere t ichn3 o° ', Germans, t nd Italians possess, in this country, journals d e „ voted to their interests, and that " in the great Americl Republic journals intensely Irish in tone and feeling," may be counted by the score, teach Irishmen to hope 9 ",,s toil on'for their country's enfranchisement, the prospee',"„r states that " a committee of Irishmen has been formed iv the purpose of re-establishing in London the P eo pl e of Il e ; land, a journal which, during the period of its ptablicap °,, in Ireland, enjoyed such great and deserved populsr o S; c , The new pl; per will advocate " Ireland's inalienable right he national independence." It may be remar k e d that t'"„ r People of Ireland, which was published in Dublin s uddetw e collapsed when Fenianism was rife i n Ireland soma thre e years ago. 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