The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-03 00:00:00

" 'T HE APPAREL OFT PRO CLAIMS THE MAN." BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES BEST 'WORKMANSHIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. Every description of Clothing ready-mado or made to measure, br all as, all occa sions, and all classes, at E. ge MOSES and SON'S. An immense assortment of WINTER CLOTHING, in all the newest designs and materials, at E. MOSES and SON'S. OVERCOATS from 19g. to X'6. BOY'S OVERCOATS from 10s. Gd. to 455. For the convenience of Ladies accom panying their Sous there is a separate de partment for Boys' Clothing, and it is fur nished with a splendid assortment of Suits, Overcoats, and Clothing for all occasions, including .all the favourite designs and the ,nest fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. NinsES and SON enables them to guarantor: a faultless fit. Any article not worn or injured will be exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, (corn which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un aqualled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from ss. 4d. the pair. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. • List of Prices, with Rujes for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. V ,1 ' 0 i E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitter for all Classes. The fallowing are the only addrosses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDOY. CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON ROAD. Country Branch: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. FOREIGN and COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TRUST (SECOND ISSUE), In Certificates of £lOO each, bearing n per cent. Interest. To be issued at £BO. TRUSTEES. The Right Hon. Lord Westbury. Lord Eustace Cecil, M.P. Gro. Wodehouse Currie, Esq. G. M. W. Sandford, Esq. • Philip Rose, Esq. The success of the Foreign and Colonial Government Trust, which was formed in May, 1868, has called for an extension of this mode of investment. . During the last two 3 - ;;;; - ii;;Investors in the Trust have received at the rate of 7 per cent. upon their capital, free of income tax, and 235 Certificates have been drawn and paid off at par. The successful holders having thus received a bonus of £l5 per cent. in addition. The market value of the securities held by the Trust is greatly in excess of the original purchase price, and its estimation by the public is shown by the present quota tion of the Certificates, the issue price having been £B5. In compliance, therefore, with a general desire, it has been determined to open a subscription for a second issue not exceeding £600,000, in Certificates of .£lOO, to bear 5 per cent. interest, to be issued at £BO. The object, which is now well understood, is to give to the Investor of moderate means the same advantages as the large capitalist, in diminishing the risk of investing in Foreign and Colonial Government Stocks, by spreading the investment over a number of different Stocks, and reserving a portion of the extra interest and the amounts received in redemption as a Sinking Fund to pay off the original capital ; and, in addition, to give to each Sub scriber a pro rata participation in the ultimate reversion In these different Stocks, which will remain when the return of the original capital has by these means been accom plished. A capitalist who twenty or thirty years ago had invested, say, £1,000,000 in ten or twelve such Stocks, prudently selected, would, on the above plan, not only have re ceived a high rate of interest, but by this time have had nearly the whole of his original capital returned by the action of the Drawings and Sinking Fund, and still have hell a great part of his Stocks for nothing. It has not teen thought necessary iu this instance to incur the heavyexpenses necessarily attendant upon a pre liminary contract for the delivery of the Stocks at a fixed price, but after the subscriptions are received the Trus tees will invest the amount subscribed, after deducting the contract sum for expenses, in the purchase, at the market prices, of such dividowl-pftying stocky or Obligations of Foreign or Colonial Governments or States, or of Foreign Railways or undertakings having the guarantee of a Fo reign or Provincial Government, as in their judgment will best answer the purposes of the Trust. For obvious reasons it is not advisable to specify before hand the particular Stocks intended to hi purchased, but in rmik:ng the purchases the Trustees will use their best discretion: imrl not more than one-tenth of the amount subscribed will be invested in any one Stock or guaranteed undertaking. The prices and amounts of each Stock purchased will be specified in the Schedule to the Trust Deed, which will be signed by the Trustees as soon as the Stocks aro delivered. The annual receipts by the Trustees will be first applied, after deducting the limited amount of expenses, in paying the interest upon the Certificates. The excess will be ap plied as a Sinking Fund in repaying the Certificates at par by annual drawings, to be made in the presence of a Notary Public in the month of May in each year. The securities representing the Second Issue will form a distinct and separate Trust, though identical in principle with that of the first, and under the control of the same Trustees and managed by the same staff. The Trust of the Second Issue will last for twenty-five years, at the expiration of which time it is estimated that a large proportion of the Certificates will, in all probabi lity, have been paid off, and that a large proportion of the Stocks will still remain for distribution as a reversion; accordingly the Trust will be wound up as soon as all the Certificates have been drawn, or at the end of twenty-five years, whichever shall first happen, the remaining Stocks being then sold, and any Certificates not previously drawn being first paid off, after which the balance will form the reversion to be distributed pro rota. All sums received will be placed to the credit of the Trustees, at the Banking House of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co. For each £BO of the total amount subscribed will be issued a Certificate of £lOO with Coupons attached, bearing 5 per cent. interest, payable at the Banking-house of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and o. half yearly, on th e 15th of January and the 15th of July, the first Coupon for the proportion of the half year falling due on the 15th July next. In addition to the Interest Coupons, a Coupon, repre senting the share accruing to the Certificate-holder in the above reversion, will be attached to each Certificate. This Coupon of Reversion will be retained by the holder when the Certificate is drawu, and entitle him to a pro rata divi sion of the ultimate reversion. 0, The advantages of the investment may be summed np as follows: 1. interest at £6s. be. per cent. on the amount sub 2. A bonus of .£2O per cent. by the repayment of capi tal at par. 3. A reversion, eventually divisible among the holders of the Coupons of Reversion. If from any circumstances the dividends and drawings received in the year should be insufficient to pay the full amount of interest on the Certificates, the deficiency will form a first charge upon the subsequent receipts, subject only to the annual expenses. The object being to ensure the security of the Trust Fund, the Stocks will remain under the co .trol of the Trustees, in tho custody of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., till the termination of the Trust ; and the Trustees will be empowered to draw dividends, receive capital repaid, &c., and apply the amount received in interest and sinking fund according to the Trust Deed. In order to fix the amount of preliminary expenses, a contract has been entered into by which every expense is guatanteed, including advertisements, stamps, legal and all other expenses, and the cost of purchasing the Stocks, at a commission of .£1 per cent. on the nominal amount of Stocks purchased. The expenses of manazement of the Trust are limited to a sum not exceeding £2,000 per annum. No other expenses can be undertaken without the assent of the Certificate holders' Committee. As soon as possible after the Subscription has been closed, a General Meeting of the Certificate-holders will be convened for the purpose of appointing a Committee in terms of the Trust Deed. Application to be made in the annexed Form, accom panied by a deposit of £lO per cent. If the subscriptions do not amount to £300,000, or in cases where no allotment is made, the deposits will be returned without deduction, and where the Certificates allotted are less than the number applied tor, the surplus deposits will be credited towards the allotment. Payments to be made as follows: On application On allotment 7O 0 0 £BO 0 0 Certificates, with Interest Coupons attached, and also the Coupons of Reversion, will be issued as soon as pos tible after the second payment, of which due notice will be given. A Draft of the Trust Deed, together Stith forms of the Certificates and the contract as to the expenses, may be seen at the Offices of the Foreign and Colonial Govern ment Trust, .1,70. G, Victoria-street, Westntiaster, and Prosp , cm3 curl Forms of Application may be ob tained of W. B. Rose, Secretary, and cf Messrs. Et %ter, Ewe, N)rton, Lnd Co., Solicitors, at the same address ; and of Messrs. Glyn, Milts, Currie, and Co., Bankers, Lombatd-street, where all subscriptions nut b • p iid. March Ist, IC7U. . , A. 4 , FOREIGN AND COLONIAL GOVERNMENT ‘. TRUST (SECOND ISSUE). '' To the Trustees of the Fund (care of Messrs. Baxter, . Rose, Norton, and Co., 6, Vict or i a - s t ree t , W e stminster, 'x,v4 London). 7 ' '' 1 : A Having paid to Messrs. Glyn and Co., to the account of -'-r tie Foreign and Colonial Gover nmen t T rus t (S econ d fit}ssue), the sum of £ , as a Deposit on Cer .37::lVficates of £lOO each in the said Trust, I request you to I, z. 1...10t to me that number of Certificates, and I engage to „ikr,o,y tbe furtLer Instalment of .£7O per Certificate upon .''- lat or any lesser number that you rav allot to me at the " 4- - , 11HE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at W. SMITH'S " Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden town. ~. time named in the letter of allotment, in defaiiit of which my previous payment will be liable to forfeiture. Name . Address . Description Signature . FOREIGN AND COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TRUST (Szcoxu Ism). BANKERS' RECEIPT FOR DEPOSIT. No Received the day of , of , on account of the Foreign and Colonial Government Trust (Second Issue), the Sum of £ , as a Deposit on Certificates, upon the Terms of the Prospectus, datod Ist March, 1870. For GLYN, MILLS, CURRIE, and Co., THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY of ST. PATRICK. Instituted in the year 1784. Under the Patronage of her MAJESTY and his Royal _ _ Highne — ss the Prince of WALES. The EIGHTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY FES TIVAL of this Society will be celebrated at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, on ST. PATRICK'S DAY, the 17th March, 187 D, His Grace the Duke of ABERCORN, the Chair VICE-PRESIDENTS. The Marquis of Lansdowne. The Marquis of Headfort, The Earl of Cork and Orrery, K.P. The Earl of Egmont. The Earl of Clonmell. The Earl Vane. Theriscortnt Harberton. The Viscount Crichton, M.P. The Lord A. Edwin Hill Trevor, M.P. The Lord Dunsany. The Lord Dufferin and Claneboye, K.P.. K.C.B. The Right Hon. Chichester Forteecue, M.P. STEWARDS. The Right Hon. William Cowper-Temple, M.P. Colonel the Hon. Dudley Fitzgerald de Ros. The Hon. Robert Harris Temple. Lieut.-General Sir George St. Patrick Lawrence, K.C.S.J., C.B. Sir George Frederick Harvey, K.C.S.I. Captain Sir F. Leopold M'Clintock, Sir Edward Coey. John F. Corscaden, Esq. James Courtenay, Esq. Alexander Findlater, Esq. Thomas Greg, Esq. lon Trant Hamilton, Esq., M.P. Robert M.Calreont, Esq. Morgan John O'Connell, Esq. Joseph Radcliff, Esq. Captain Hugh de Grey Seymour, M.P. The Musical Arrangements will be under the direction of Mr. Land, of the London Glee and Madrigal Union. Dinner on table at Seven o'clock punctually. As this Festival affords to Irishmen in London the opportunity of uniting in the celebration of the national anniversary, the committee earnestly hope for a numerous and influential meeting. Tickets, 21s. each, to be bad at Willis's Rooms, and at the Schools, in Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road. The Children Dine, as nasal, on St. Patrick's Day, at the Schools, at One o'clock. THOMAS KIPPAX KING, Jun , Secretary. L ONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. ST. ALBANS STEEPLECHASES, March 2d, 3d, and 4th, 1870. A CHEAP TRAIN, at Low Fares, for ST. ALBANS, will leave Euston Station on each day of the Races, at 11.10 and Chalk Farm at 11.15 a.m.,, returning from St. Albans at 5.40 p.m. each evening. Trains in connection at Willesden Junction will leave Broad- street(Citv Terminus) at 10.40 a.m. ; Dalston Junc tion 10.45 a.m.; Highbury 10.49 a.m. Victoria (Pimlico) 10.52 a.m. ; Kensington 11.13 a.m. Passengers from these Stations will have to change car riages at Willesden Juncti' n, both going and returning. W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, Feb., 1870. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. D. ChattPrton. THIS EVENING, at 7, PHOBUS' FIX: the Vokes Family. After which, at 7.4 , PEEP 0' DAY: Messrs J. B. Howard, Lewis Nanton, Barrett, J. Neville, F. Charles, C. Moore M'lntyre, W. F. Yokes, and F. Yokes; Mesdames Edith Stuart, Barrett, Michells, Amy Roselle, Hastings, Harper, and Rosins Yokes lIHEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at 7, POPPING THE QUESTION.! After which, at 20 minutes to 8,417 R AMERICAN COUSIN ; Characters by Mr Sothern, Mr Buckstone. Mr Chippendale, Mr Braid, Mr Rogers; Mrs Chippendale, Miss F. Wright, 31 iss F. Gwynne, Miss C. Hill, &c. Concluding with DEAF AS A POST: Mr Compton and Mrs E. Fitzwilliant Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, BLOW FOR BLOW: Mr Henry J. Byron ; Messrs J. D. Beveridge, Arthur Stirling, Stuart, C. H. Stephenson; Miss Furtado, Miss Lavis, 3liss Eliza Johnstone, and Miss M. Harris. To be followed by, at Nine. NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr. H. J. Byron: Mersrs J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, George Belmore, Miss Lavis, Mrs Leigh Murray, and Miss M. Harris. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can bo secured a fortnight in advance. -ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessee and Manager—Mr. Benjamin WeNder. THIS EVENING, at 7. FORMOSA Messrs. J. Rouse, Rig nold, Ashley, Taylor, Lin Rayne, Phillips, Leeson, Eburno, Romer, &c.: NTesdames Billington, K. Rodgers, M. Brennan, E. Barnett, L Grey, dc. With AFTER DARK; :Messrs Rignold, Ashley, Rouse, Lee , eon, Phillips, Rayne ; M:sses It. Lederer' and Barnett. LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs Mansell (elegantly redecorated by MacTntosh). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, TWENTY MINU UES WITH A. TIGER: Messrs Coghle.n, Odell, and Wilmott; Mesdames Rig uold and Morgan. Aft r which, CHILPERIO, by Herve: Messrs M. Marius, G. Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Coghlan, and M. Herve : Mesdames Dolaro, Fitzlnman, Romanelli, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir. 1 OYAL STRAND THEATRE. ;l Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING. at 7, THE HEIR AT LAW: Mears. J. S. Clarke, D. James, Crouch; Mesdames Button and Claire. Followed by THE TOODLES: Mr Clarke. After which, INO; Messrs Thorne. James, Fenton, Turner ; Mesdames Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, &c. 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It is now offered to the public a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and Iss. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel pasAsage, 93, Upper Thames• dr.), t Loudon. E.C. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY- L A NE. .zole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. MIS EvENING, at 7, PHOBUS' FIX: the Yokes Family. At 7.45, P ii.EP 0' DAY: Messrs. J. 13. Howard, Lewis Nanton, Bar t ott, J. l evils, F. Charles, C. Moore, M'lntyre, W. F. Yokes, and Fred. Yokes ; Mesdames E. Stnart, Barrett, M ichells, Amy Roselle, Hastings, Harper, and Rosina Yokes THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMAREET. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, POPPING THE QUESTION. After which, at 20 to 8, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN; Messrs Sothern, Backetone, Chippendale. &c. • Mrs Chippendale, Biles F. Wright, to. Concluding with DEAF AS A POST THE SUN, LONDON THUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1870. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Tins EVENING, at 7, FORMOSA: Messrs J. Rouse, Rignold, Taylor, Philips. Leeson, Eburne, &e. ' • Mesdames Billington, K. Rodgers, Brennan, Barnett, Grey, &c. Followed by AFTER DARK: Messrs Rignold, Ashley, Rouse, &c.; Miss Rose Le-. elereq and Miss Barnett. ‘4. t 6, A'• 44 " 441 ', -r!:ltii"*.ek talao ieNb.;:o tlyit utilise each one to the utmost, is the root or tne problem. The Government have not averted, but only delayed the question, by the division on Tues day. Tli E endeavour to gather from the Madrid newspapers an adequate notion of the state of affairs in Spain, is not at present a profitable enterprise. The Spanish press, in fact, seems to be engaged—and not for the first time—in the pleasant task of attempting to impose upon itself. The papers are crowded with terrible rumours, great inventions, and little facts, touching a Carlist invasion ; whereas the danger from such a source can be only very trifling. It is only lately that the Carlists rose, and were immediately defeated ; with what prospect of success can they attempt another insurrection On the other hand, the really serious relations be tween the two governing parties, the adherents of Prim and the adherents of Serrano, are treated with a hopefulness which the facts can scarcely warrant. When it was found impossible to procure a suitable occupant for the Throne, the revolutionary leaders agreed to let things remain as they were; yet it is becoming more and more patent that a continu ance of the status quo is not to bo looked for. The evil day may be staved off for some time, but it must come at last. The Prim and Serrano parties have hitherto lived in tolerable peace only through fear of each other. They are unable to hit upon any permanent division of power, as is natural with two parties of discordant policy. They cannot find a king who would command the support of both; for Serrano would like a sovereign devoted to Unionist interests, and Prim feels a very decided preference for a monarch who would be only a tool of the Progressists. Under the present provi sional system the ruling parties are losing the respect of all men, whilst their hostility to each other in no way diminishes. The Spanish papers are full ig hope that all will pass over smoothly ; but Epp. ustmen in Spain can suggest only one end is the difficulty, and that is a disastrous civil war. The Revo lution of 1868 was a well-conceived and well-executed enterprise, and its effect was undeniably beneficial. It expelled a sovereign who was a disgrace to her people, and it substituted a moderate, if not a com plete, measure of liberty for the grossest tyrannl. But all the blessings that might have flowed from this great event are being ruthlessly wasted. The provisional character of the Government weakens its hold uponthe people ; it cannot raise its taxes; it cannot enforce order ; it is violently assailed to-day by the advocates of a republic, and to-morrow by the adherents of a despotism. And bad as this condition is, the future prospect of a desperate war is worse. The men of the Revolution are men of capacity, but they are not endowed with that patriotism which prefers the welfare of country to the interests of person. There was nothing to pre vent Prim, for instance, from peaceably establishing a republic. He commanded, and does now command, a majority in Parliament, without counting the avowed Republicans who would of course join him. The majority of the deputies are professed Monarchists; but it cannot be doubted that in the absence of a king both they and the people would have accepted any form of rule which pro mised peace. And it is quite certain that a Republic —apart from the abstract question of the merits of such a government—would have proved much more beneficial than anything which the Spaniards are likely to get now. elf vtAv „ _. • ,ft ,t, 41 ~ 11br THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, BLOW FOR BLOW Mr Henry J. Byron, J. D. Beveridge, Arthur Stirling, Stuart, C. EL Stephenson, Miss Furtado, Mss Lavis, Miss Eliza John stone, &c. At 9, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr Henry J. Byron. LYCEUM THEATRE. Tuts EVENING, at 7.30, TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER And CHILPERIC: M. Marius, G. Vincent, Odell, Coghlan, Lapierre, and M. Herve; Mesdames Dolaro, Fitz- Inman, Romanelli, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. TmS EVENING, at 7, THE HEIR AT LAW: Mr Clarke, Mr James, Miss Burton, &c. With THE TOODLES. Concluding with ISO. WOODIN'S CARPET - BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall. Piccadilly, every Evening (except Satut clay) at ik; Saturday Mornings at 3. Admission, Is, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL Q A.RDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, le.; on Mondays' 6d. Children flirter twelve, 6d. ROYAL ALHAMB If A PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-ofilee open fromll to 4. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1870. Mn. TORRENS, M.P. for Cambridge, has moved a resolution that measures be adopted for facilitating the emigration of poor families to British colonies; and the House of Commons at the request of the Government has rejected the motion by 153 to 48. As the winter is now past, and as the destitution that is to wine, however great it may prove, can scarcely be so bad as the misery that has been endured, this division must be taken as a settlement of the question for the present session. It is to be regretted, however, that the subject was not disposed of in a more satisfactory manner. A. division of only two hundred members—albeit the attendance at the House was very large—seems to imply that many representatives, especially on the Opposition benches, who have argued in favour of emigration, hesitated to officially declare for the prin ciple. The question, too, was not skilfully raised. Mr. Torrens' vague resolution affirmed the wisdom of Mate-assisted emigration without submitting any scheme for carrying the theory into practice ; and thus the Government were furnished with an obvious answer without finally committing themselves to the great point at issue. Wo object, said Mr. Gladstone, to indefinite proposals. If we accept an abstract resolution, who will afterwards take the responsibility of it ? We will consider any reasonable scheme, provided it be definite; but we cannot commit ourselves to any vague theories. In short, Mr. Torrens would have done better by even a bad proposal, had it taken the form of a precise scheme. These abstract resolutions never come to anything. On Tuesday night the Government were enabled to win easily by merely pointing out the practical difficulties in the way. It is by no means certain, however, that this was the wisest or the most statesmanlike reply. The Ministry has, it is palpable, so much work on its hands that it would be difficult to find an oppor tunity to solve this tough problem, although its claims are so pressing. The principle of State assisted emigration is one which involves many con siderations, and its ulterior consequences may be so important that a hasty decision is not to be thought of. Nevertheless, if a thing be good, it is no sufficient answer to urge that it is difficult of attainment. The object of Go vernment is to overcome difficulties, not, as under the old Palmerston and Melbourne regimes, to wil fully heap them up in the path of progress. No obstacles can be allowed to stand in the way of a measure which is really necessary and just. Is State-assisted emigration necessary and just? Is it the only solution of the terrible pauperism dif ficulty ? and if so will it be fair to the general com munity to adopt it ? These are the vital points to be decided ; and it is to be regretted that the debates in the Lower house did not, in this respect, lead to a more satisfactory issue. The prime fact is that pauperism is increasing, with out any prospect of diminution. There is no suffi cient cause to which this increase can be attributed, save the one great cause of excessive population. It is true that we have passed through a period of great distress, and divers branches of trade and manufactures have grievously suffered, but it is also true that the wealth of the nation has during the last ten years increased, in spite of all drawbacks. Notwithstand ing crises, panics, and every other influence, the busi ness of this country has advanced since 1860 in a greater ratio than in any previous period. Our riches have, in fact, progressed more rapidly than our population; and yet the poor-rate has advanced from seven and three-quarter millions in 1860 to eleven millions in 1869. The disasters of 1866, like those of 1857, and similar epochs, were temporary, not permanent. The period has, in the aggregate, been a period of pros perity. Nevertheless, pauperism has increased. Suppose it were to happen that, from any cause, our commerce should finally decline, like that of Holland and Spain, and we should sink from our present high position, what would the result be ? It is unwise to resort to hasty measures in times of dis tress ; but the facts show that pauperism is an evil which no home remedy can cure, and therefore emigration is the only resource. Is it just that the State should lend its assistance to the needful exodus ? Surely the fact that the evil is permanent, and not, as in the case of the Irish famine, of an exceptional nature, is a sufficient reply. Men must not starve, is the theory of the poor law; but all our efforts do not prevent them dying of hunger in the streets. Our miserable failure to check pauperism is in itself an an swer. Moreover, State - assisted emigration need not necessarily be a burden on the community. If the money which is now vainly spent in trying to keep paupers alive were applied to taking them to a country where they could live, the taxpayer would be nu loser, whilst the individuals in question would be great gainers. Presuming, as has been shewn, that excess of population is the chief cause of pauperism, every emigrant despatched to another land would relieve the poor-rate here. Ono lump sum would save an indefinite number of relief instalments. By reducing the population to its natural level, pauperism must be so far diminished that only those who are indigent through crime or idleness would remain. Nor could the colonies object to receive families which have fallen into distress though the lack of work. Labour is needed in the dependencies, and it is idle to suppose that an Englishman who can prosper here will break up his home and recommence life in another country. If the colonies are really in need of assistance, they will not reject that poverty which would be prosperous if it could. The question of the best mode of carrying out the principle is a very largo one, but it is evident that thel'o is abundant room for action without that wholesale deportation at the cost of the general taxpayer which the Government 1 1 so much dread. In fact, Mr. Gladstone, like the 1 clergyman with the imaginary unbeliever, set up the crudest and clumsiest form of emigration, and then proceeded to demolish it. It is never intended that whoever chooses to ask Government for his free passage across the Atlantic will straightway obtain it. The emigrant may do something for himself. The local authorities, who will gain by his removal, may lend some assistance. Voluntary effort ought to be available, for it does not follow that charity would cease with State aid, any more than almsgiving has been wholly supplanted by the poor rate. Finally, the Government remain to direct and supplement the whole, To combine these.Tarious_infitiOnCeteo 1410 THE IRISH LAND BILL. It is said a motion will be brought forward by the extreme Irish members that, « unless considerable concessions be promised by the Government in the i❑terest of the occupiers of the soil," the second reading of the Irish Land Bill will be met with a direct negative. Mr. Randall M'Donnell, Q.C., Secretary to the National Conference, Mr. Isaac Butt, Q.C., Presi dent of the Irish Tenant League, and the President of the Irish Farmers' Club, accompanied by the Very Rev. Dean O'Brien, D.D., and the Rev. Thos. O'Shea, P.P., and about twenty other gentlemen, as a deputation from the Irish Conference, will ar rive early on Friday morning to meet the Irish members and wait upon the Premier. THE IRISH. M.P'S AND THE LAND BILL Several Irish members have received more or less threatening letters, warning them not to vote for the second reading of the Government Land Bill. These letters are not addressed only to members on one side of politics. Most of them reach through the private post of the House. THE MORDA.UNT CASE. It is stated to be definitely settled that the ques tion as to whether Lady Alordaunt's insanity is a bar to the suit for a divorce shall be argued before the Divorce Court. The matter will probably be mentioned on Tuesday next ; but it is anticipated that the arguments will be deferred until the sitti ng of the court next term. THE MISSING STEAINISHIP. No news has yet been received by Messrs. In man, at Liverpool, respecting the City of Boston steamship ; and the Bristol telegram is believed to have no foundation. TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF DAY AND MARTIN'S BLACKING FACTORY. Last night at a few minutes before 11 o' c l oc k one of the most extensive conflagrations that has for a long time occurred on the Surrey side of the river broke out in a large range of premises re cently erected by Messrs. Day and Martin, the well-known blacking makers, whos e p rem i ses i n Holborn, it will be remembered, were destroyed by a similar calamity a few months since. The scene of the present disaster was the Vaux hall-road, near the Nine Elms goods station, and the building in question was from 240 ft. to 250 ft. long, and two floors high. Each compartment contained goods used in the manufacture of blacking, includ ing carboys of oil of vitriol, hogshead of molasses, tierces of lamp and ivory black, puncheons of oil, and other articles of an inflammable character. The fire was first noticed by a policeman, who found it raging in the lower floor, and in the course of a few minutes the flames mounted high into the air and illuminated the river Thames, the Houses of Parliament, and the venerable Abbey at West minster. With all possible expedition the large land steamer from Hewitt's Brewery, at Larkhall-lane, Clapham, attended, as well as others of the Metropolitan Brigade. In spite, how ever, of the torrents of water thrown upon the flames they continued to progress fearfully, and as the carboys and bottles burst they made a noise re sembling the discharge of firearms. The firemen kept to their posts, but they were unable to get the fire under until past two this morning. The build ing was then nearly destroyed. The total loss will amount to some thousands of pounds sterling, and it is understood that the firm is uninsured. Nearly 100 workmen will be thrown out of em ployment. 'The origin of the fire is at present un known. This morning Captain Shaw made his official report of the damage done at Messrs. Day and Martin's blacking manufactory, in the Vauxhall road, Wandsworth-road, which was as follows : "Messrs. Day and Martin, blacking makers ; a building of two floors, used as paper oil-saturating and drying rooms, 200 feet long and 27 feet broad, nearly burnt out, and most part of roof off. Messrs. Rolfe and Gardiner, lath renders; a building of one floor 200 feet long and 27 feet wide, all adjoin ing ',and communicating, damaged, breakage, and water. The Lambeth supplementary workhouse ; the ground floor severely damaged by water, &c. Messrs. Day and Martin were not insured. The origin of the fire is unknown." Divers other fires also took place in the metro politan district last night. Mr. Ede, storekeeper at the Royal Victoria Vic tualling Yard, has been pensioned on £5OO per annum. His successor has not yet been appointed. Dec 4, Jan. 1, 1869. 1870. Increase. Decrease. Bank of England 23,181,190 22,708,752' 474,438 Private Banks 2,751,719 2,66 .1e• p 9,599 Joint-stock Banks 2,3 8,739 2,281,198 87,541 Total in England 28,301,6445 27,650,070 6;1.57d Scotland 5,287,1531:4,875,• 47 312,' I 1 Ireland 7,354,1631 7,056,256 197,907 SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. WEDNESDAY. Why do the wheels of our Osborne's chariot tarry so long in coming ? The sprightliness to which his election gave rise has died away under the heart-sickening delay which has occurred- in taking his seat. If only he had been here on Monday we might have pardoned Mr. Childers his portentous speech of three hours, and while the First Lord of the Admiralty presented to us the not very inspiring spectacle of his back, we would have gazed upon the face of the member for Waterford, and felt more than compensated for all our sufferings. Then, too, what a treat we might have had if he who in a former stage of his electoral existence, his third—his Dover stage, I believe—was Secretary to the Admiralty, had but given us some of his experience of crass ignorance and stupidity in " My lords " of the old time, and wide-awake cleverness and rascality on the part of palm-itching sub ordinates of all time. His immortal predecessor, Pepys himself, might have been surpassed if only " Bernal " had been present to tell of the doings and the misdoings of the Admiralty. As it was, Mr. Baxter did his best to enliven the evening with some pretty revelations ; but it is no dis credit to him to say that he cannot compare with the old and beloved House of Commons jester, for the sight of whose cap and the sound of whose bells we all languish. Last night I went down early in the hope of seeing our Osborne take his seat. Prayers over, my heart beat high as the cry " New Member " resounded through the House, and still higher when my neighbour whispered "from over the water." It was an Irish member, and he was heartily cheered by Ministerial members ; but it was not the elect of Waterford, it was not even " the sham Fenian;" it was the Irish Solicitor - General fresh from his triumph at Londonderry over Spofforth and his patrons in the person of Mr. Spofforth's partner, Mr. Dudley Baxter, he who is so skilful in statistics that he has proved incontrovertibly that Mr. Gladstone's majority at the late election was all a mistake, and that the Conservatives ought now to be sitting on the right hand of Mr. Speaker. Then for 20 minutes there was a period of half-suspended ani mation, interrupted only by hon. members popping up in different parts of the House to present petitions about all and sundry matters. I fancy some M. P.'s were rather ashamed of their work. Portly Mr. Locke, for instance, looked rather sheepish when he presented Martha Sexton's petition for the repeal of the Vaccination Act. Ido not know if Martha is a sexton by profession as well as by name. I should think that she was, judging from the prayer of her petition, and that she had regard to the welfare of the coffin interest. Once more my pulse quickened at the sound of "New Member." Surely this time we should not be diappointed. But, alas— He cometh not we said, We are aweary, aweary, We would that we were dead. It was the lion. Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert who last week was Abroad in the meadows To see the young lambs; the lambs of Nottingham, those playful, sportive, young creatures, whose every movement is grace. Mr. Herbert had watched these young lambs bound " As to the tabor's sound," and it is, perhap s , not surprising if in watching there smash the Windows of his supporters, he added--- To me alone there came a thought of grief A timely utterance gave that thought relief And I again am str ong ." , This " utterance " was the final declaration of the poll, and that was surely enough to make the hon. and polyono matous member " strong" enough to do without the sup port of the two custodians who brought him up, bowing simultaneously, before they went through the work of Introduction and taking the oaths. And now it is half-past four, and the Speaker's sonorous "Order, or-der" puts a stop to the gossip that has been going on, and sundry notices of motion are given. There Is nothing mirth-inspiring in Mr. Newdegate. Very much the reverse ; he would make his fortune as a mute. Never, theless, the House laughed loud when the hon. and funereal member, in subdued tones, as though he were ushering mourners into sable coaches, announced that he would on Tuesday, 29th, move for a select committee to inquire into the existence and character of certain mon astic institutions in this country. Immediately after him rose Lord Claud John Hamilton to postpone, until the same day, his motion relative to the dismissal of Mr. Madden. I wonder which will have the precedence. If the first, Mr. Newdegate will be safe against the other wise inevitable count out, for hon. members are looking forward to "a jolly row" when the Madden case c3mes on, if, indeed, it do come on; and rather than miss it, they will endure Mr. Newdegate's maddening oratory. There was much cheering when Mr. Fawcett gave notice that he would call upon the Government to give effect to the memorial recently presented from Tri nity College, Dublin, on the subject of religious disabili ties, for Radical M.P.'s had wit enough to see that this will bring on the whole subject of University tests, which, for some unexplained reason, Ministers seem strangely reluctant to deal with. Captain Dawson Darner got laughed at for suggesting that divorce suits should be heard in private, and Mr. Bruce reminded the House that the Lords had inserted a provision to this effect in the Divorce Court Bill, but the Commons had thrown it out on the ground that publicity was necessary to the admi nistration of justice. Then Captain Vivian and Mr. Grant Duff had to answer a number of questions, which the first especially did lvith admirable conciseness and lucidity. The list of questions closed with an answer to one by Mr. Bowing from Mr. Bruce which caused great satisfaction. It was a promise that the cab laws of the metropolis should bo consolidated during the oresent session. But where was the question of all questions during this time? How came it to pass that the series which Mr. • ;Redstone declared was the longest notice of luestions ever put by mortal man to mortal man, .nd which would immortalise the hon. member for Devizes, was not forthcoming ? I cannot say. I know that day after day this portentous notice has appeared in the parliamentary papers, thereby involving a serious increase In the vote for parliamentary printing. Yet when we came to look for it yesterday evening it was gone. It was all, about Mr. Heron, Mr. Butt, Mr. Madden, and other Irish celebrities, and there was every prospect that Sir Thomas Bateson would thereby obtain for himself a fame surpassing that acquired by his prede cessor in the representation of Devizes, the great Darby Griffith himself. Yet, at the ic cry last moment, the gigantic question disappeared, and the stalwart and swarthy questioner non erat. Taking this fact in conjunction with Lord Claud John Hamilton's postponement of his motion about Mr. Madden, I am inclined to think that the Opposition find they have got hold of a bad case, and that they will quietly let it drop. Anyhow, the postponement enabled us to get to the business of the evening at the unusually early hour of four minutes to five. The business was begun by Mr. R. Torrens, M.P. for Cambridge —a bald-headed, grey-bearded gentleman, svlsg is not an orator, and did not pretend to be ono. In a quiet, sensible manner he unfolded his argument. He urged that the distress of the country was so great that where there was work for two men three demanded it, and that their wages had been brought down below subsis tence point. Therefore he would ask Government to ass i s t i n remov ing labourers from a land where there was no room for them, to one where there was a boundless field. He could not see why Government should not ad vance loans to English emigrants as much as to the Irish tenants who are to be assisted under the Irish Land Bill. Mr. Torrens spoke for thirty-eight minutes, and his motioiV was seconded by a member on the Conservative side of the Hoilse, Mr. East wick, who L. 'ately been engaged in the somewhat hope less task of inducing the Venezuelan Government to pay its English creditors. Mr. Eastwick svas not distinctly heard, perhaps his bushy moustache and beard inter cepted the sound. But X noticed 'a singular 'fact in his speech—whereas he had to refer repeatedly to his notes for ideas, he never needed to do so for his figures. His arguments sometimes failed him, his statistics never ; so I infer that the member for Falmouth will shine rather as a man of business than as an orator. He spoke for twenty six minutes, and then there was a pause ; but as no other M.P. seemed desirous to speak, Mr. Mbeisell rose to expound the policy of the Government. He did this with true Trish fervour, and though there were many fallepies in his speech, he carried the House with hini, and it was clear that Mr. Torrens would have no chance of carrying his motion. After speaking for 29 minutes, two members got up—Mr. Aytoun (of tea-room fame), and Lord George Hamilton. It was the turn for a Conservative, and so the Speaker called upon the latter M.P. It soon became known that ho was on'his legs, and hon. members crowded in from the lobby and the smoking-room to hear how the youthful son of the Duke or avercorn, the lad wno won the metropolitan county in such a triumphant manner, would acquit himself. He was perfectly self-possessed without being bumptious; and though I could hardly hear a word that he said, I gathered from the frequent cheers which greeted him, from Mr. Char ley's beaming face, and from Mr. Gladstone's subsequent compliment, that he spoke well. He took a quarter of an hour. and then Mr. Sinclair Aytoun had his turn, and M.P.'s went to dinner. He was followed by another Scotchman, Mr. Macfie, of patent celebrity, and he by lvfr. J. G. Talbot, one of the West Kent heroes at the general election, and the brother of the warden of Keble College. He spoke very well, and shared with Lord George Hamilton the Premier's praise. It was something for a new made Baronet to oppose the Government which had " barrow-knighted Aim, yet this did Sir James Law =oo. lbunir...sirtillir ..Fatis—BrAQUlX.4l.-thitsEa9nLat HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 2. Her Majesty walked in the grounds this mora ing, accompanied by Princess Louise. Their Royal Highnesse Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday. LATEST INTELL MENU (REU'vEn's TELIGRAMS.) F RANCE. PARIS, March 3. M. Delaunay has been appointed Director of the Imperial Observatory. Fraise, who committed the murder in the Rue Amelot, hung himself yesterday. The Constitutionnel of this morning denies The rumours that a flesh agitation is going on among the working men at Creuzat, the scene of the late strike. BOURSE, March 2.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : q per Cent. 3 per Cent End ohnonth — Credit Mobilier 230 Transatlantic 217 50 Credit Foncier 1790 Paris Gas 1755 Suez Canal 337 RAILWA. Bank Shares 2895 Ital , an t'ives 55 60 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 45 55 Spanish Threes 26 Home Debt Deferred '5, Cash Orleans Western Northern Strasburg Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 620 Sardinian Austrian ~ 767 i Lombard 492i North of Spain Saragossa Roman . 47 INDIA. BOMBAY, March 1, Afternoon. The Indian troopship Euphrates, when starting for Suz, yesterday, ran foul of the ship The Bates Family, and sustained some damage, which will delay her departure several days. EGYPT. SUEZ, March 2. Her Majesty's troopship Jumna has arrived here with the 19th Hussars, 93d Highlanders, and a portion of the 102 d Fusiliers, together about 900 men. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 1. Mr. Lewis Farley, who has been appointed Otto man Consul at Bristol, in recognition of his literary services to Turkey, leaves to-morrow for his new post via Marseilles. AMERICA. WASHINGTON, March 2. It is reported that the popular elections in the Republic of San Domingo have resulted almost unanimously in favour of the proposed annexation to the United States. Mr. Deweese, a Republican from North Carolina, has resigned his seat in the House of Representa tives, to avoid expulsion, for having sold a West Point cadetship. His example was followed by Mr Golladay, a Democrat, from Kentucky, against whom similar charges are under the consideration of the Investigating Committee. Three more members of the House, two of them belonging to the Republican and one to the Demo cratic party, are also charged with a like offence. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, March 2. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE:. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1151; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 116 f ; the lowest, 1l Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll4. " 1885 ll3l. " 1867 ll2k. 10-40 64 Illinois l39f. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 1.. 23c. Petroleum—Standard White 2Bc. Flour, extra state, $4.900. to $5.50e. Corn, old mixed, 81.4 c. CANADA. TORONTO, March 1. Affairs at Fort Garry have taken a new turn. Dr. Schultz, Major Bolton, and other loyal Ca nadians and English settlers, have raised an armed force repudiating the Provisional Government of the Insurgents, and demanding Rielle's retirement. They number from 400 to 500 men, with two pieces of artillery. Rielle, who commands at Fort Garry, threatens, on the other hand, to bombard the town, if the English should attack him. He still holds twenty Canadians as prisoners. The Bank Returns. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir ciliation of the public and joint-stock banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending Ist of Jan., 1870. These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish banks for the same period, and the average cir culation of the Bank of England for the four weeks ended the 29th of Dec. (the nearest date furnisbed by their returns), will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the United Kingdom when compared with the previous month : 40,913,269 39,681,373 United Kingdom. - 1,261,396 And as compared with the month ending the 2nd of Dec., 1869, the above returns show a decrease of £412,119 in the circulation of notes in England, and a decrease of £50,413 in the circulation of the United Kingdom. _ On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the several banks the following is the state of the circulation:— The English private banks aro below their fixed issue ... .£1,380,506 The English joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue 457,442 Total below fixed issue in England £1,837,948 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... 2,225,776 The Irish banks aro above their fixed issue 701,762 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending 29th of Dec. was £19,091,239, being an increase of £648,033, as compared with the previous month, and an increase o £906,873 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the let of Jan. : Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks ... .£3,087,604 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks ... 2,757,358 £5,844,962 being a decrease of £79,689 as compared with the pre vious return, and an increase of £314,579 when compared with the corresponding period last year, THE FRENCH FUNDS. According to neuter's telegram this afternoon the Reittea closed at 73f. 87c. iloard, answered him in the true Peel Official "style. Melancholy Newdegate rejoiced in having a really melan choly topic. Sir Charles Dilke restored life to the debate in a speech which was almost passionate in its declamation . A speech from Mr. Torrens of Finsbury in support of his namesake's proposition prepared the way for Mr. Glad stone's reply, which certainly was not wanting in vehe mence, though not always perfect in logic. Mr. Torrens of Cambridge answered briefly, and then the House divided, and it was seen that the State-emigration advo cates could muster only fifty members, including tellers. Three of these were new members, who voted for the first time—Colonel Beresford, Mr. Herbert, and Mr. Plun• ket. Of the rest, seven were Metropolitan M.P.'s. I did not stay to hear the debate on Mr. Maguire's motion for a select committee to in• quire into the operation of the Prison Ministers Act• It was enough that the only man in the world of whom I am thoroughly afraid, Mr. Newdegate, was down for a long speech against the motion, to induce me to flee. I see that the House went on sitting till five-and -thirty' minutes past midnight, having accomplished the remark able feat of two divisions in one evening. I wonder when, before this year, February has passed away with only two divisions, and one of those upon a private bill ? This f' et alone suffices to shew how sedate we all arc, sedate wit° exceeding dulness. LITERATURE. Old Stories Retold. By Walter Thornburg. Chapman and Hall. Mr. Thornbury has hardly done himself justice by his title. His work is, and it is not, a rechauff• In other words—it is that, and something more. The author of " Old Stories Retold" can tell a tale with any one. He has the genius of a raconteur. He is a skilled man of letters. He has scholarship . But, with that—for he is no mere Dryasdust--he has that gift of the gods, a vivid and vivifying ima gination. When he describes a thing, you can see it. And in sketching a scene or an incident, he does so by no means in neutral tint, or in Indian ink, or in sepia. His pictures are glowing with all the colours of the paint-box. He is eminently realistic. The very one, therefore, to tell us all over again such enthralling narratives as those he has (from how many scattered directions !) brought at last together and into companionship. The Battle of Trafalgar and the Battle of Algiers. Th e 0. P. Riots and Emmet's Insurrection. The Bristol Riots, again, and the Loss of the Kent East In dianian. The Infernal Machine of Fieschi and the Forgeries of Fauntleroy. The wreck of the Me dusa, and the Cato-street Conspiracy. Such were the raw materials of his book as it appeared first of all piecemeal in All the Year Round. Such are they now that the work is issued altogether in this attractive publication. But among the raw mate rials of the book there are enough and to spare of raw-headland-bloody-bones materials—there are full, true, and particular accounts, for example, O f such horrible murders as those of Burke and Hare, the Resurrection Men ; as those of Sarah Mal colm—as that of Thurtell, and as those terrible massacres perpetrated in .1823 by Williams in the Ratcliff Highway. It is curiously noticeable in re gard to the sketch here given of the appalling history of the Poisoner, Thomas Griffith Waine wright, that Mr. Thornbury appears strangely enough to be in no way aware of the masterly delineation of that exceptional ruffian in the character of Gabriel Varney, in Lord Lytton's romance of crime, yclepped " Lucretia." Be" ginning, as the retrospect of sritne given in this book does, with the record of the Life of 3 Methodist Preacher in 1715, ono wonders that the compiler of the work never dreamt of including among his themes the tragical incident recounted in the later half of the last century, by the Rev. Sir Herbert Croft, in a small pocket volume, called " Love and Madness." The principle of selection adopted by Mr. Thornbury is beyond our conjec ture. Accepting the book, however, precisely as it is, it is to the last degree enthralling. It exercises on its readers a sort of glamour of fascination• &gin one of these Old Stories, no matter w hich, and you must perforce read it on until the end. Open the book anywhere and you are instanter held by the glittering eye of the tale teller, who has-- for the truthful telling of these tales—gone through an amount of laborious investigation that he will have small credit for, or we are very much raiS" taken, even from the most keenly appreciative. COMIC) PAPERS, (Hont Punch.) A LAw Sun.—Wig, Gown, and Bands. THE REAL BRIDGWATER CANAL—The Voter's Breecher Pocket. ONE UNCOMMON FEATURE ABOUT THE LAST NOTTING. HAM ELECTION.—Lamb without Mint Sauce. La lf PLAYING AT DRAUGHTS.—The Ventilation of our Courts. (From Fun.) THE WORST TAX.—A-ttacks on one's purse. (From Judy.) Why is the coupling chain of a locomotive like love" Because it's a tender attachment. MEET IT is.—How is it that butchers often have th , propensities of betting - men ?—Because they are frequently holding steaks. THE " BHOYS "AT PLAY.—At the Tipperary electili it is stated, " Bonfires were lit in Clonmel in favour , Kickham, and the mob smashed the windows of Caut we l Hotel, where Mr. Heron's supporters were staying. G ref' enthusiasm prevailed in favour of Kickham." yes, indeed, " Kick'em, smash'eux. awl biarn'em," appeared be the order of the day. AMUSEMENTS OF UNDERGRADUATES. At Cambridge Borough Police-court, on Wednescl ibi Ralph Creake, undergrad ua t e of D own i ng C o llege, :w' , charged with extinguishing the street lamps and brealkil the glass. The defendant, on whose behalf it was plead ed that he had been dining at the Beefsteak Club, was firi ten shillings. Francis Bradley Paget, undergradua. te ,', Trinity College, was charged with assaulting Cathen Moulam, by throwing water on her from the windows his rooms in Trinity College, and with using very r t . ... - language to the police-officer. Charles Helmsley, uncr e graduate of St. John's College, deposed that defenders_. did not throw the water, which was thrown by 3 „,Y, 6 Symes, another undergraduate who was present. ' 3 ; O mayor severely reprimanded Paget for the languagtat had used, and Symes having admitted the charge agan, him, was fined ten shillin and costs, and also for similar assault on Ann Humbelow, The court emowded. The Waterford ratepayers are about to take i b 4 , l , opinion of emi nen t counse l as to t h e i r li a bilityZc respect of the malicious injuries at the late riots. .)." damage done is calculated at £7,000. A meeting of representatives and members of trocr i societies was held on Tuesday night, in Leeds, to conaid the Government Education Bill. A petition was adop t f,, similar in spirit to that which has been issued for guidance of its branches by the Birmingham League. 1- Mayor presided, and there were about two hundred V e sons present. A THREATENED REVOLITTION.—News from Bosl o states that the authorities at Serajevo have obtained inf.:4o o e ; tion of a widely-spread revolutionin the Slavonic proving id of Turkey, and expsess great fears of an outbreak taK .l l / 1 place in the spring. Nothing, however, seems to be contemplation to avert the threatened dancer. The Guardian learns that the Bishopric of W e lling ton, New Zealand, i s a h ou t to b ecome vacant. Mehl.' Abraham, in consequence of the recent illness of Bishl Selwyn, has determined to remain in England and esr he his old friend an d co ll eague as coa dj utor Bi shop i n '" Black Country. An accident occurred on the Belfast and Norther Counties Railway on Tuesday. At a level, crossing t h e morning train from Larne came into collision with a licul and car. The man driving was killed and the horse a 0 car cut to pieces. Of The Rev. Canon Kingsley has been elected one the Vice-Presidents of the Church Congress to b e held _, Southamptor.. The Bishop of Winchester hag reco lv 4 mended that the Congress should be held in the second We e of October next. It is stated that the directors of the Nort_ ll ; Eastern Railway will shortly establish a telegraphfe syst%,. of their own, with their own wires, and und er th e superi At condone° of an electrician whom they will keep upon 02 'to& of Mr. John Paterson has been elected to the of Sheriff of the City of London and county of Middlesex, the place of Sir James Vallentin, deceased. The Philadelphia Led ger says th a t th e Britisil Minister at Washington is soon to be made Sir Ed Thornton, Bart. The Nonconformist objects to the Education - k ill d and says of it that it " hands over to the Establisl o Church the cont ro l o f pu b l i c elementary educa tion , 0 tilinost all paro c hi a l di str i cts, an d i n not a f ew of municipal dist: icts. " The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacta ro o ° Irish whisky, by Messis. DENVILLE & Co., who have ga i % o a world-wide celebrity for their tine old Irish whisky, is to called "The Royal Irish Distillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.. ...... ~......... • • .... ... .11....a.a , ya. a ....”.....601 ..., 'V 4.11 LA.II. ..-.• ....._ Morning. Evening 5 THURSDAY........, 5 min past 3 24 min past a FRIDAY 40 min past 3 .... 52 min Pas, t 4 SATURDAY. 10 min past 4......23 min Past 4 SUNDAY 40 min past 4 55 min p ftSl 4 . 6 MONDAY 7 min past 5 20 min Past 6 Trnsney.„. 4O rain past b 54 will Pas" R e