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N°. 24,348. RINA.HA.N' S LL WHISK Y.- DUBL EN EXHIBITION, 1865. i i :ThServe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork Branded "Kina n's " LL Whisky. T his celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Gold Medal. Pure Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles; 3s. Bd. , at the Retail Housei n London ; by the A gents in th e p r i nc ip a l towns in England ; or whOlesale at 8 , GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859), 4 , RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT.GARDEN, LONEON, And 38, QUEEN'S-ROAD, BRIGHTON, ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, r eehold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, ` B PaYable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly dis counted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. CRYSTAL PALACE.-THIS DAY. OPERA, &c. Palace open for admission from .. 1. 0 till 7. 0 Orchestral Band .. .. 1.0 and 4. 0 Terrace Fountains .. „ 2.15 Pianoforte Recital, Mr. R. Beringer .. .. 2.45 ,_Pestival Organ and Promenade until .. 8. 0 j elne Arts Courts, Picture Gallery, Fountains Playing, Statues, Oa; &C., Boating on Lakes ; Archery, Velochiedes, Croquet, oo Shirting Quoits; Cricket, Gymnasium, and innumerable amusements. No extra charge. -Admission , as usual, One Shilling, or Guinea s 1 : :.;1 01 1 Tickets free. Present issue admitting to-day, and to Great 41 Review by Prince and Princess of Teck, June 21 ; Great Dig Show, Great Rose Show, June 25 ; Operas and Drama- Performances, Archery Meeting, County Cricket Matches, A land .Summer Concerts, and generally until 31st May, 1871 . "' all Entrances and Agents, this day. CRYSTAL PALACE. GRAND SUMMER CON CERT and FASHIONABLE PROMENADE, To-morrow, S aturday. Mcllle. Ilma de Alurska, Mme. Yolpini, Mme. Sinico, Me. Monbelli, Mme. Trebelli-Bettini, Signor Mongini., Signori Be' c o L t int 'Verger, Raguer, and Castelli ; Crystal Palace Choir, the ''PanY's SaturdayOrehestral Band. Conductor, Mr. MANNS. These delightful Concerts take place in the Centre Transept— re most agreeable locale imaginable for concerts in hot summer weather. The enjoyment of music is considerably enhanced by hank s surroundings as are found here ; groups of statuary and of flowers meet the eye at every turn. The ear and the eye 0 equally delighthaled, and the airiness and general comfort of .Its vast concert l are beyond comparison with the heated ; °sPhere and closeness experienced in theatres and concert irns. The lengthened promenade is an agreeable feature in ese Saturday Re-unions. ..,Alinaission 55., or by 2s. 6d. tickets, purchasable this day " 41 Y; stalls, 2s. 6d., now ready, at the Palace, and Exeter Hall. RYSTAL PALACE. — Admissions for To-morrow's These, with June guinea season and following agents t : aker-street, Moutrie, 55 ,rixton, Pear c e, 2, Brixton-place uarnberwell, Griffith, The Green Pl,ancery.lane Cox, 102 uar ing-cross, , 3fitchell, 39 el sea d ,Macmichael,2o7,King's- A ,rpa ` 4, r, Keith, 48, Cheapside Good, 60, Moorgate-street gays, 4, Royal Exchange buildings Letts, 8, Royal Exchange Marratt, 63, King William street Mead, 73, Cheapside Todhunter, 22, Gresham street c „,„. Cook, 98 Fleet-street foulgto37don, Warr' en, High-street on King , 86, Upper-st. IC • , . 48in gtOn, R. Station, Russel —Last Day for Half-Crown 's GRAND SUMMER CONCERT. tickets, at the Palace, 2, Exeter London-bridge, Stanley, Termi nus Lower Norwood, Barker, The Library New Bond-street, Chappell, 50 Cock, Addison Lacon, 168 Old Bond-street, Mitchell, 33 011ivier, 19 Oxford-street, Duff, 147 Paddington, Bey, Bishop's road Peckham, Stens&ld, High-st. Pimlico, Hopwood and Crew, 89, Buckingham Palace-road Regent-circus, Brighton Rail way Co.'s office, 28 Regent-street, Cramer, 201 Weippert, 266 If St. James's Hall, Austin Vigo-street, Hammond Westbourne-grove, Melliship, 37 Wigmore-street, Nimmo, 3 road 1 , Warren's library ICiligntsbride, Westerton, 27, k St. iaeorge's-place ~I T, .°7 IE .—No guarantee is give] supplied. The Crystal Pals Will reraain open until 7 this eve ,n that distant agencies can be ace and Exeter Hall ticket offices ening. CRYSTAL PALACE.—Tuesday next.—GREAT _DRILL REVIEW, by H.S.H. the Prince of TECK, and • !I. the Princess of TECK. More than 3,000 boys will take %r a p in the evolutions. After the review the boys will go through D.,21 °11 s gYmnastic exercises, &c. Admission as usual, is., or by es season tickets. CRYSTAL Coen in Pri lß zes. Blooodhounds Poxhounds De erhounds Greyhounds Otterhounds llariers Beagles po inters ers Setters The Champion I each day. Admission to the a-crown ; other da each day to Palace as usual , one ship'' PALACE.-CSR of DOGS, next Tu, MAT NATIONAL Leaday to Friday. £l,OOO Terriers King Charles's Spaniels Italian Greyhounds Toy Terriers Dandie Dinmonts Pomeranians Pugs Blenheinis Maltese Retrievers Water Spaniels Puppies Mastiffs St. Bernards Sheep Dogs Newfoundlands Dalmatians Bull Dogs , ogs will be parade on Upper Terrace at 3 Show :—On the first day (Judging Day), half- Lys, one shilling. Guinea season tickets free and Show. Admission to the Palace each day CREMORNE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. JOHN BAum. NOW OPEN FOR THE SEASON. The Best and most Wonderful Entertainments in the World. ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING. AMUSEMENTS FREE. Open on Sunday, by Refreshment Card, 6d. Table d'Hote, at half-past 6,2 s. 6d. AIR w. S. WOODIN'S TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK " AT HOME," WITII his Famous and Original CARPET-BAG and SKETCH-800K ENTERTAINMENT in the Large Room EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly. Every Evening (except Saturday) at 8 ; Saturday Mornings at 3. " Mr. Woodin has spared no expense in magnificently decorating and luxuriously furnishing his salon for the comfort of hls patrons." Seats may be secured in advance, at the Box-office, open from 10 till 5; also at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-street; and all the principal music-sellers. Stalls, 35.; Area, 25.; Balcony, ls. Family Private Box, One, Two, and Three Guineas. Carriages at 10. Manager, Mr. DUDLEY. R OYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Late WESTON'S. ti Great S. Sweasey. IGreat combination of t alent! or the Whitsuntide Holidays. I , e- engagement of Mr. A. Vance, Mr. J. HZ Milburn, Miss Louie T" er illgton, Mr. H. Collard, the smallest man in the world, the etit Sims Reeves, and the Brothers Voltaire, Champion gymnasts, and the first appearance of Mr. Baldwin, Miss .." r gina Smithson Miss Nelly Wood, Mr. J. H. Byley, and rdatne Marie Barium; Mr. P. Corri, My . St. Albyns, and Miss a rrie eve l appear in Operatic Selection, with full Orchestra, every ning.wil ADAME T[JSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, 1)4, Baker -street. —On view, most Magnificent CO . Ulyr 0 S ES from the famous house of Worth of Paris. Admission children un d er ten years o f age , 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. Open atom 11 a . m. till 10 P at Baker-street. p . m. ARYL, ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, Th e „ Piccadilly. If th e , t raordinary success which has attended the production th e Shadow Dance, with the brilliant and varied effects of pat e eLectric light on the groups of dancers that nightly partici- Ile e i i t, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance celeb alone e Selections presented in the often-changed programmes, t had the gratifying effect of making the 1 rent one the extensively patronized season since its first opening. The eh r rated Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient Pos e til,, Si guer Luigi Curti, performs the choicest and latest corn aesh,'"e,B of all distinguished composers—the solos in which are Vir. 're. to the eminent euphonionist, Signor L. Mosca ; Messrs. T h , raves, L. Silberberg, and ogler able artistes. Manager, Mr. " I tlas Pitts. Professor Halliman, M.C. _ Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 20. 8.11.. BRINELL, Proprietor. llE gz' DDURESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE Li BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids, and Infants' Food, THE REVALENTA ARAB , disBavee aft • • times its cost in other remedies, and restores perfect s 1 "len, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver,. refreshing 4.eerginictional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or six), ey e d — removing speedily and effectually . indigestion (dyspep gasrgh, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhcea, complaints, flatu lea„ derangements, heemorrhoids, nervousness biliousness, fevers, sore throats diphtheria, ...icarrhs colds,• ' ' s° ut, .militenza, noises in . the head and ears, rheumatism, le B ratr!ties, eru*on . s, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleep , acidity, palpitation, heFtburn, heache, debility, dropsy, nett7 s, 'Apasms, nausea, and sickness, even . in pregnancy or at Pa' i ' ll ung fits, and bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, th( ?le at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is iar.....teest digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable for ,'9ds and infants in all complaints. tea'n'eltTANT CAUTION.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more I' . B P 3 'imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's IS Most audaciously attached. 81,- enea ferth none will doubt the valuable properties of Du P a o - J,, r , •8 health restoring Revalenta Arabic?, Invalids' and Infante' fr n - ,„Th ilinee to the thousands of blessings it has already receivedmay no ntvalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, webeen e 'v. add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has aal treraTet..l3, restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful ., (Cure n tt We quote from the Gazette du M e ld], medial tioly 48,413 ): --"Rome, July 21st, 1866.— ban h . Ili' of the raj zedi fte . er is excellent, et . ipeciallEimce, o a Dun d arry nin , g all other Barry's Revalenta Arabi,"l„ne has confined himself entirely t has eed, of which he con sumesa plateful at every meal. It Boit i ",gfi c eed a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his ar ' el "net Praise this exellent food B to r o eb h a ig n hl e yi' liver c o. 58 ,216, of the Marchionecr . do seven years' ."1131aint, wasting .away, debility, n oneness, irritability, least,: nervous palpitation all over, bad di e g r e v s . tion . , constant sleep curl's. and the most intolerable nervous agitation. Dj e : l‘ .. l° • 78 , of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon.th e e ra L .. o — rd o I St b u a a v r ebEe t de r i ve r, 1 ord Lieutenant of the County of Water , L much benefit from your excellent food. STUART DE Cu re °mama Cappoquin, County Waterford. cly ap j tv a 0. 49,832.—0 f fifty years' indescribable agony irom ePaß a l; 4: n ervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, fiatulency, on cur_ Jntliness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly of Lynn, Item A . , 0. 47,021. —Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme ne . rv s ous 11,ulgestion, gatherings low spirits, and nervous fancie . years' he""°• 58,88 4. —Mr. Sanlel Laxton, Leicester, of two . ed ; kib o?d is sold in Canisters, at ls lid; 11b, 9cl • 21b, 48 o n. ; 241 b, 40s. The 121 b and 241 b canisters 'arriage n'trablea, •e , ,ipt of P. 0. Order. Also Du . Barry s R c valenta " 11 Pe at • h 9celate Powder is packed in tin canisters ! For t2 s bt ;iO O 6 , tor 24 enps at 6c, for 48 cult; at s, for 288 eu u p 'th e ~?).or 576 cups at 5 5 5. Being about one End p recel m 7 a nd 55s tins are sent fre of carrittee in and n if e 45, Post Office Order. 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Shcwing also the localities where the various strata come to the surface. The Diagram represents the various Epochs, Systems, and Characters of Rocks, from the Plutonic, through the whole Series, to the latest Alluvium, coloured so as to represent real specimens, with the organic remains to be found in each, and the localities in Great Britain where they severally occupy the surface. Being the most concise and instructive publication on the science that has ever been before the public. B' Smith Evans, Esq., F.G.S. Price Is. LOll,lOll •— W. T WEItI) ft. 337. Stra.mi T WEEDIE'S TEMPERANCE YEAR BOOK OF FACT AND HISTORY FOR 1870. CONTENTS. General Review of the Tempe- Ecclesiastical Sayings and ranee Movement. Doings. Chronicle of the Temperance Temperance and Longevity. Movement. Hindrances to the Gospel. Teetotalism an Agent in Civi- Temperance Literature. lisation. Temperance Societies, London Researches Respecting Alcohol. and Provincial. 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SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (late Dreadnought).— Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE MOVED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green wich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgic care, will be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, al without in troduction or recommendation. The Society's offices are re moved from the City to the same building. KEYLBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary. THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. EXAMINATION OF THE EARL OF CLARENDON. The Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, the Foreign Secretary, attended before the Select Committee, now sitting, on the Diplomatic Service, and was examined at considerable length by Mr. Rylands and other gentlemen on Thursday. His lordship stated that he was aware that considerable dissatisfaction had been expressed in certain quarters kmong di p l oma tic servants with reference to the appoint mentof Mr. Layard to Madrid, which it was possible might not have existed if the appointment had been given to the Chief Secretary of Legation. In answer to ques tions, Lord Clarendon said: I think there isno doubt that every man who enters the diplomatic profession looks forward with hope to get at the top of it, just in the same way as one who enters at the bar looks forward to becoming Lord Chancellor. Certainly their ambition is not limited to the post of secretary of an embassy, and no doubt, when other circumstances concur, it is more desirable that the Foreign Secretary should appoint men of public 'character and position in the service to the highest positions in it. I do not see that it is necessary that you should go out of your way to appoint an outsider to an important mission, but there is no objection, in my opinion, when you see a man practi cally fitted for a particular post to take an outsider. As a general rule, however, I should prefer appointing to heads of missions from within the service, and although some dissatisfaction may have been made with respect to Mr. Layard's appoint ment, it must be borne in mind that it is the practice of the Foreign Office that an under-secretary who has served some time as a political under-secretary should go out as a Minister. There have been several Ministers, though their names are not at this moment present to my mind, who have been under-secretaries in the Foreign Office and who have afterwards gone out addendem to a mission. There was nothing contrary of the well known rule of the Foreign-office in appointing Mr. Layard. It was the rule some years ago that a senior Foreign-office clerk should be eligible to be raised to the situation of permanent Under-Secretary, whicb is one of the very best appointments under the Government ; but it is not unusual that the Secretary of State should give it to one of his political friends as an agreeable appoint ment, but at the time it fell to my lot to make that appointment I thought that Mr. Hammond, who was in the Foreign-office at the time, was a, better person to fill that post than any friend of mine out side, and I accordingly appointed him. But he was not the oldest in the office. There were clerks there his seniors, but I appointed him because I thought that he was the best man for the public service, and the most fully qualified to perform the duties, so that the rule of seniority, though adopted where it can be, is never allowed to stand in the way of the proper performance of the pub lic service. His Lordship was then asked whether he should not consider that a good economy could be effected by the suppression of the small missions in Europe, and said that by them he supposed Mr. Ryland alluded to the German missions, but Germany was now divided into two parts, which were probably likely to have a very different political signifi cance in future. He thought that the North German Confederation would play a very considerable part in the future history of Europe. They no longer had a Minister at Homburg. In his opinion it would be very inopportune to do away with the two small mis sions in Southern Germany. In the first place, it would be considered as an affront to the sovereign of the country and it would be regardedin Europe as an indication that we cared less for the interests of Germany than we formerly did. In his opinion he thought they had better not lower the dignity of the missions to Germany. No doubt it was clearly understood that the policy of England was to interfere as little as she could with European politics. We certainly supported the policy of non-intervention. We did not threaten. We did not bark, neither did we intend to bite, but if they thought that it was not necessary to retain a moral influence in Europe, they were vastly mistaken, and the best -means of retaining that moral influence was to maintain their missions in Europe on the same footing as those of other nations. Mr. Rylands : In some capitals of Europe there are consulates as well as missions. I wish to ask you lordship whether there is any objection to an arrangement under which one of the secretaries of legation should not under take consular duties as welL Lord Clarendon : There are some capitals—St. Petersburgh, for instance—in which the duties of the secretaries are so constant and of such various kinds that you could not attach any others to them. It would be altogether impossible for them to undertake the duty of consuls. Did not say whether it might or might not be done at Lisbon or Stockholm, but at Vienna the consul acts more as a lawyer than in any other capacity. •He was not anxious to mention any particular report from the consuls as being more valuable than another, and, in fact, it would be invidious to do so, but he could not help saying that the reports which had been sent over to this country, with respect to the rearing of silkworms, the manufacture of silk, and of hair, in other countries, were full of infor mation of the greatest use to our people at home. With respect to these reports going through the heads of missions, he did not consider that a very important point, although it might be advisable that the hands of the mission should look through them, so as to secure that there should be be nothing in them which would be offensive to the foreign nations in respect to which they were made. 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Sec. ;f1 JUNE 17, 1870 THAMES NAVIGATION, The select committee of the House of Commons to whom the Thames Navigation Bill was referred have agreed to a special report, which says :—" It appears, on the evidence of Sir John •Thwaites, and otherwise, that the Metropolitan Board have repeatedly had under consideration the best means of utilising the sewage of the metropolis, but that nothing effectual has yet been done, and the sewage still flows into the river Thames." The committee re commend that immediate attention should be given to the subject, in order that the sewage of the metropolis should be utilised as far as practicable, and in the mean time, until this can be accomplished, the committee have deemed it expedient to approve the. bill, which they have reported to the House, for preventing any obstruction to the navigation of the river from the flow of sewage from the metropolitan outfalls. IN MEMORIAM: CHARLES DICKENS. (From the Cosmopolitan.) During the last seven days, in every part of the world where men speak English, and to which the electric cur rent conveys the news of our time, thousands of pens have been busy in extolling the genius and lamenting the early death of Charles Dickens ; and as many printers' presses have been employed in disseminating to the ends of the earth the tidings of the irreparable loss which we have all of us sustained by the removal from among us of so great and so good a man. Shakaptre,--ficott, and Dickens have each- shed imperishable glory upon English literature—have each been benefactors of their country and of the world— and have each devoted their talents to the harmless mirth of the nations, to the inculcation of virtue, to the elevation of the human character—and to the proof that divinity doth not alone hedge the forehead of the king, but encir cles the brow of the humblest human being that labours 1 upon the sod—did society and law but know how to elicit the divine spark, and how to employ it. When Shakspere died his contemporaries knew not the greatness which had departed. When Scott died, stricken - down by over-work, and by over-anxiety to pay the debts for which he had become liable, the mighty heart of Great , Britain throbbed with no small and no transient sorrow. But forty years ago the reading world was not so large and sympathetic a world as it is now, and the grief of the public, great as it was, fell short of that universality of lamentation which has attended upon the death of Dickens. Great Britain, America, India, Australia, and wherever our noble tongue is understood, have all felt that a heart's com panion, a dear friend, a noble and a familiar teacher has been taken away untimely ; and that from the rich, copious, and apparently inexhaustible fountains of his wit and pathos,. there will flow no more refreshing streams to gladden the dusty path of our every-day life, and cheer the hearts of tie people. I, who write these lines (I wish to drop the professional " we " and to speak for myself on an occasion so personal), had the advantage of the acquaintance and friendship of the great writer. The acquaintance began three-and thirty years ago, and the friendship almost at the same time. I knew him intimately, and worked with him when we were both young and unknown to fame. I knew him as intimately when his fame began to eclipse that of all his contemporaries. I knew him intimately to the last ; and always found him to be the same genial, earnest, open-hearted, large-brained, conscientious, modest, just, good man, that he scarcely knew himself to be, but that all who came into intimate relations with him discovered him to be, before they had been many hours in his com pany. Of his genius I do not care to speak, for space would not allow me to express a tithe of the admiration I feel for it, and of the reverence far greater than the admi ration, which I entertain for the noble uses to which he devoted it. Like all the greatest authors who have ever lived — like Shakspere, Milton, Scott, Goethe—he possessed a singularly clear and lucid as well as comprehensive intellect. The strong, sturdy, hearty, serviceable common sense, which enables a man to see through moral as well as through logical and physical muddinesses and entanglements at a glance, to seize the needle of fact out of the bottle of hay, with a per ception like that of Ithuriel ; to crack the nut of sophistry and error, and extract the kernel of truth, while commoner minds would be debating whether the nut could be cracked or was worth cracking ;—all these things were as easy to Charles Dickens as the act of respiration. And to my mind it was his great merit that he was truly and purely a literary man—a literary man of the very highest class—both morally and intellectually. Courted by the great and the titled, he never courted them, but held up his honest head— the peer of the proudest. On the other hand there was not a shred or shadow of Bohemianism about him. He never imagined that his marvellous genius could palliate or atone for an error for which a smaller man would have been called to account. He knew theyigid mathematics of things, and felt, through all his life, that his genius was a trust committed to him by God for the benefit of his kind. He acted honestly up to his convictions. He was not a man of " isms," or a professional philanthropist, but one who could no more help being philanthropical, without preaching philan thropy, than the sun can help shining. And the sun of intellect that was in that capacious brain, like the sun in the firmament, shone upon the just and the unjust, and irradiated with the same beneficent radiance the lowest as well as the highest places of our daily lives. It brought verdure and bloom into the flower-pot at the poor man's windows with the same benign influence that it shed upon the trees in the rich man's park and avenues. No writer of any time ever exercised such direct and all but personal influence upon men's homes and daily thoughts, or used that influence so universally on the side of right and justice. He wrote much ' • but not too much. Indeed, in the suddenness of their bereavement, the public of two hemispheres may well be justified inthinking he wrote too little. There is no fear that his fame will be evanescent. It is only the writers who pander to the prejudices and the vices of the day, for the sake of popularity, who live their little day and are forgotten to-morrow. The truly great writer never courts popularity, but popularity comes to him unsought ; sometimes while he lives, as in the case of Scott and Dickens—sometimes long after death, as in the case of Shakspere and Milton. Popularity of this End is, as was said of Shakspere—" Not of a day or an age, but for • all time." And such will be the popularity of Dickens. Happy he to have enjoyed, and to have been encouraged and re warded by it I Some fond and fretful regrets have been expressed that the State bestowed no title or honorary distinction upon the great writer. I doubt whether it was good for Walter Scott to have consented to be made a baronet. Lord Shakspere or Lord Milton would certainly sound less nobly and less pleasantly in my ears than the ennobled names by which the world knows them. And to be " Charles Dickens," and nothing greater and nothing less, was surely a nobler distinction than to have been a duke or a marquis. Neither did I sympathise with those who claimed that his honoured dust should repose in Westminster Abbey. I would have preferred that the great tree should have lain where it fell. As Shakspere sleeps in his native Stratford, and Scott amid the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey that he loved so well, Charles Dickens might have rested in the pleasant county of Kent, where his happiest days were passed, and through the green lanes of which he was accustomed to wander. His re mains would have been sufficient to make a Westminster Abbey for themselves, out of the humblest village church yard in which they might have been deposited. Never theless, the place that has received all of him that can die will become a shrine for the visits of countless pil grims from all ends of the earth—sanctified to all who honour great genius applied to the highest uses, and who rank the poet, whether he writes in prose or in verse, among the most Illustrious of public benefactors. In conclusion, and while my heart is full, let me borrow the words of Ben Johnson—applied to Shakspere :—" I loved the man, and do honour to his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed, honest, and of an open, free nature." C. M. June 15, 1870. The leaders of the Conservative party at Norwich have met again, but it was announced that they had no candidate to bring forward. The Lynn Town Council has resolved to present an address to Lord Derby on his approaching marriage ; also to offer the stewardship of the borough to the noble lord. . - The death is announced of Major-General Sir Archibald Bogle, formerly Civil Commissioner of the Provinces of Tenasserim and Martaban. He was born in 1805. -- - Prince de la Tour D'Auvergne, who has recovered from his illness, definitely accepts the post of Ambassador at Vienna ; he will not, however, go to occupy it for some months. Intelligence has just been received in London that the body of Dr. Grant, late Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark, is on its way from Rome for interment in this country. During some recent excavations at Taillefer (Namur), a perfectly-preserved foot of a fossil elephant measuring twelve inches in breadth by eight in length was discovered. The conference of the Methodist New Connexion has passed a resolution instructing the Stationing Com mittee to diminish the number of unmarried preachers' appointments to the utmost practical extent. It is stated that the Belfast Orangemen are making great preparations for the approaching anniversaries. Thirty thousand are expected to assemble at Lisburn. The authorities will take every precaution to prevent a breach of the peace. The death of a centenarian is announced in the person of Mrs. Elizabeth Coombe Leader. She was the widow of the late Edward Leader Esq., of Abingdon, and died at her residence, North Court, near Abingdon, on Saturday last, in her 102nd year. The Guardian has ascertained, on what it considers the best authority, the rightful rank of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, who is the younger son of a marquess, and who, as such, would naturally, and did till lately, rank after all viscounts, but above the rest of the bishops. It is beyond dispute (our contemporary says) that becom ing, in virtue of his consecration, a spiritual peer, he loses, or rather sinks, his former rank, Themovement for appropriating to the education of girls wasted or useless charitable endowments is making slow progress. The committee are working just now in West minster, and it is hoped that before the London season is over the Dean and Lady Augusta Stanley will take part in a public meeting. It is fully expected that Professor Jowett will succeed Dr. Scott, who has just been appointed to the Deanery of Rochester, as Master of Balliol. Dr, Scott's predecessor also obtained a deanery, that of Wells, which Dr. John son still holds. Will Dr. Scott's successor be equally fortunate? Last year a good deal of curiosity was excited in London society by the announcement that a grand ball was to be given at Willis's Rooms by somebody whose very name even was unknown. Of course no one would go under the circumstances. The rooms were thronged to overflow ing. Some 800 guests were present, and the host was not acquainted with a dozen of them. It was very brilliant and very pleasant, and there was not the smallest evidence of anything improper. The experi ment is to be repeated on the 20th, and is likely to be just as successful as on the former occasion. The giver of the entertainment comes from the Eastern counties, and the story runs that, having made the acquaintance of some charming young ladies abroad, they induced him to give a ball. He allowed them carte blanche, and so tickets were sent to friends and friends' friends to the 12th remove. Another enter tainment of a more regular kind, the soirée of the Royal Academy, takes place on the 29th. The Great Western Railway Company have started broughams and barouches, which they let out at 9d. the mile, or 2s. 6d. the hour. They are most comfortable carriages, and the extra sixpence an hour is a most mode rate charge for the advantage of driving in vehicles that are neither tainted with pestilence nor swarming with vermin. The lamentably brilliant weather continues. This morning the thermometer was 68 deg. at eight o'clock. While our fellow-subjects at the An tipodes are being drowned with rain, we are being scprched up to a degree- far more serious than in 1868. The hot dry weather of that year was two months later, and we had good crops both of hay and corn. This year there is no prospect of either. It is much to be regretted, in seasons like this, that the system of sewage irrigation does not prevail more extensively. Visiting Banbury a little while ago, I was greatly struck by the appearance of the grass on the town sewage farm. In the same field there were two levels—one too high for the sewage, and that was coarse and poor while the sewage-watered portion was luxuriant. During the drought of 1868, the crops of rye grass were sold at very high prices, realising nearly £3O an acre. There is no doubt that the same system adopted in other towns would secure our cattle against the dearth from which they are now suffering, and which is com pelling farmers to part with their lean stock now, to the great detriment of our purses six months hence. M. Dore is painting a picture larger than any of his previous works, and that is saying a good deal, for this artist is an adept in covering the greatest amount of can vas in the shortest time. The subject of this • SPY,/ WW • work is Christ WWW leaving the Praetorian M. Dor4 is disappointed with London. He came over here in order to make the drawings for a book of which Mr. Blanchard Jerrold is to do the letter press. But the artist can find nothing picturesque in the province of houses. He should go to Ratcliff Highway and Rotten Row, and he will find plenty of materials, and of very different kinds. Perhaps M. Dor4 would like London better if he knew the Londoners' languae. But he is no linguist. It is rumoured that Mr. John Forster, who wrote the life of Walter Savage Landor, will be the biographer of Dickens. Sir Henry Holland, the celebrated physician who married the daughter of Sydney Smith, is writing his own autobiography. He has visited all parts of the world, and last year was in America. He is now nearly eighty-two. There is no chance of Cobden's life being written at present. His friends have private reasons for withholding the biography for the present. Lieutenant-Colonel Prince Edmond de la Tour d'Auvergne has added another to the numerous works on Waterloo. He attributes the defeat to Grouchy'a inactivity, but thinks that a victory could not have saved Napoleon from an overthrow, and did save the lives of 100,000 men, who would otherwise have perished in subsequent battles. The title of Mr. Buchanan's new poem is " Ballads of Life." The New British Institution has just opened its first summer exhibition with 140 works, chiefly by old masters. Captain Ottley lends a, very large number of the works exhibited, and some of them are exceedingly valuable. The most remarkable is a work by Titian, which has been perdu for many years. There is also a work by the rare Spanish artist Morales. PRICE d STAMPED 2d, ME MOP OLITAN GOSSIP.-THURSDAY A week or two ago a letter purporting to be from the Prince of Wales to his brother the Duke of Edinburgh was published in the French papers. The authenticity of of that letter was subsequently denied. But what could lave been the object of inventing it ? Was it a mere hoax, or had it _ any specific pur pose ? The Memorial Diplomatique, a Paris journal which is supposed to be in the secrets of all great personages, declares• that the " mystification "is due to the enemies of the Prince, "who affects a certain con tempt for public opinion, and, far from occupying himself with affairs of State, in a manner to prepare himself for the arduous task he will one day have to fulfil, gives himself up to pleasure and amusement." - This very influential, and usUally,' very discreet journal, goes on to give sundry particulars with regard to the Prince's private affairs, which an English journalist will not care to repeat. Suffice it to say that the Queen having refused to aid her son out of her resources, the assist ance of the Cabinet has been asked, and under the guise of a great act of policy which will assume the form of a brilliant court at Dublin, Mr. Gladstone means to ask for a considerable increase to the Prince's income. This becoming known, the enemies of the Prince, says the paper above mentioned, forged theletter with the view of rendering Parliament less favourable to the idea. If this be a true account of the incident it must be confessed that the foes of his Royal Highness dissembled their hatred very suc cessfully. There was nothing in the spurious letter to damage the Prince, but, on the contrary, it told in his favour. The forgery might very well have come from a friendly hand. It will be remembered that early in the year the Liberal papers and certain Liberal M.P.'s were rather hard upon the Foreign Office because a young Englishman, named Nathan, had been apprehended by the Italian Government, sent to prison, and was lying there month after month without triaL It was alleged that Nathan was a most guilelesss, inoffensive creature, and had nothing to do with any political move ments whatever. The pressure placed upon Lord Clarendon and Mr. Otway made them place pres sure upon the Italian Government, and Nathan was libe rated. The next thing we heard of him was that he was leading a band of revolutionists on the borders of the Lake of Como. Of course they did nothing, but after being paid their expenses by their youthful commander, returned to their own homes. It is now said that this hare-brained young Englishman with the Jewish name is the son of no less a person than Mazzini. His mother has long lived near Lugano, where Mazzini resides when he is conspiring in the Swiss Canton of Tessino that runs down, so inconveniently for the Florence Government, into Italian territory. Nathan was born about 1850, and a foreigner who visited London two years later remembers how devoted he found Mazzini at that time to an infant. It is supposed that this was the youngster who has just been undertaking an abortive conspiracy in his father's native country, and thereby shewing himself a true chip of the old block. To-night the first real battle of the session in the House of Commons begins. It is unusually late. Ordinarily the fighting is done before the middle of June, and after that time wearied members assume the attitude of the Lotos-eaters. But Mr. Gladstone got his Land Bill through first as the most urgent measure, and left until now the Education Bill, which is the most disputed. Mr. Vernon Harcourt heads the attack, and it is expected that the debate will not be concluded until Monday or Tuesday. As regards the Land Bill, it is safe. The resolution taken by the Lords not to oppose the second reading removes all diffi culty out of the way, and the one peer who has moved the rejection of the bill, will find himself the leader of a very forlorn hope. Yesterday's debate in the House of Commons was exceed ingly lively, the tie gave rise to much excite ment, and Mr. Disraeli's short speech was an in cident worth noting. I am glad to be able to give a good account of the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is ordered to be out of doors eight hours a day, and he is regaining strength. Ho is not, however, expected at Lambeth for some time to come. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. —Every Wheel bears the Name. OW isa il l dais sows from town .f tin uili t do or in their igli - ! ley, ,eet lter 70, 112 9°