The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-10 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. To-day Mr. Haviland Burke will ask the Under-Secre tary of State for India whether the memorial of the Newab Nazim, forwarded in October last from England to Lord Mayo, was received earlier than the month of March, and if not, how the delay is to be explained. Sir David Wed derburn will move for a select committee to inquire into the system of conducting public prosecutions in Scotland; with the view of amending the system if necessary, and of extending the institution of Public Pro secutors. Mr. Raikes will call attention to the -hardship of disallowing promotion to medical officers serving on the West Coast of Africa, and Mr. Akroyd will speak with reference to our commercial rela tions with Spain and Portugal, and to the nego tiations now pending for a treaty of commerce, and will move that the duties on certain wines shall be reduced in order to obtain the admission of British goods into those countries on the terms of the most favoured nations. Mr. Whalley will ask that a select committee may be appointed to inquire into the mode of assessing the income-tax leviable under schedule D. Colonel French will ask that writs may be issued for Sligo and Cashel, and Mr. Callan will afterwards move that the issue of the writs may be postponed for a month, in order that leave may be given to bring in a bill to enable the electors to vote by Ballot. Mr. Hibbert will move for a return respecting the capital and interest of Savings Banks funds in the hands of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt for the years 1859 to 1869 inclusive. Mr. James Lowther will move for a select committee to inquire into the operation of the Acts relating to corrupt practices at elecions, and also for a select committee to inquire into the truth of the allegations contained in petitions recently presented to , the House praying for an inquiry into the conduct of cer tain of the election commissioners. Mr. Stacpoole will move an address for returns of the number of Fellows in Trinity College, Dublin, and at Cambridge, and of their average incomes at each University ; also of the num ber of undergraduate students at both institutions. The adjourned debate on the Ballot Bill will be resumed, and also the debate with reference to public schools. On Wednesday the Benefices Bill is among the orders of the day for second reading. On Thursday prior to going into committee on the omens Disabilities Bill, Mr. Bouverie will move that the House should not resolve itself into committee till that day six months. and Mr. Raikes will move that a clause be inserted enabling the votes of persons enfranchised by the bill to be given by voting papers. On Friday Sir John Pakington intends to move an address to the Crown, praying her Majesty to issue a commission to inquire into the gnat loss of life and property at sea during the last few years. and to consider whether the regulations with respect to collisions at sea and the stowage of cargo cannot be amended. Dr. Brewer will call the attention of the House to the unsatisfactory working of the intentions of the Legislature in behalf of the houseless poor consequent on the practically indiscriminate distribution of relief to all applicants, whether criminal or not criminal, imposters or genuine poor.—Mr. Cowper Temple will call attention to the dismissal of Mr. Edward Barry from the office of architect to the Houses of Parliament ; and Sir John Hay will ask Mr. Childers to lay upon the table of the House any regulation which prohibits naval officers on half-pay or retired pay from writing letters to the public journals. Finally, Sir Roundell Palmer will call the attention of the House to the circumstances under which the Secretary of her Majesty's Legation at Athens, and two English gentlemen in his company (together with the Secretary to ;the Italian Legation at the same Court), have recently been seized and murdered by armed banditti, suffered to be at large in the neighbourhood of Athens, and will ask whether her Majesty's Government are able to state to the House what measures have been or will be taken to obtain from the Greek Government such satisfaction for this outrage as her Majesty is entitled to claim according to the Law of Nations, and to ensure the due protection, for the future, of the lives of the diplomatic servants, and other subjects of the British Crown, within the kingdom of Greece. COLLECTION OF TAXES. Mr. Lowe cannot, after all, claim full credit for the originality of the change made in the collection of taxes introduced by his last year's Budget. In their report to the Treasury, just issued, the Commissioners of In land Revenue observe :—The financial year 1869-70 will be memorable in the history of this depart ment. The reform we have so long advocated in the mode of collecting the assessed taxes has at length been effected, and effected more thoroughly and more satisfac torily than we had ever previously ventured to expect. It will be in your lordships' recollection that we have been for many years urging the abolition of the system of collection and assessment of a branch of our revenue, through persons unconnected with the executive Government. We pointed out that they were for the most part utterly indifferent to the interests of the Exche quer ; that they had even been openly opposed to those interests, and engaged in doing their best to thwart the intentions of the Legislature ; that they were many of them illiterate, many corrupt ; that for the purpose of instructing them in their duties, and restraining them from doing wrong, both to the Crown and the subject, it was necessary for the Government to maintain another large staff of officers to go over the the same ground, and that after all that precaution and expense, there remained an amount of evasion of taxes which could scarcely be accounted for by mere carelessness or ignorance. But the influence of those interested pecuniarily in maintaining the system was too powerful for any but a very strong Government. An attempt made in 1864 to vest in Government officers the collection alone, was foiled at the last moment. It cannot be doubted that the acceptance of the present measure is greatly owing to the success of the dog licenses. When we are able to shew that by a mere change of machinery we brought into charge a million dogs instead of four hundred thousand, we were furnished with an argument which was quite irresistible. AGRICULTURE AND THE CORN TRADE The accounts from the agricultural districts have been favourable on the whole. The wheat plant, re freshed to some extent by the recent rains, has made fair progress, but is still very backward for the season. As yet, however, it appears to have escaped damage, and with the exception of looking thin and wenk in some places, its appearance is generally regarded as not anta gonistic to the expectation of a fair crop. In Ireland the aspect of affairs is viewed with satisfaction, the want of rain being less severely felt there than on this side of the Channel. From abroad, also, the accounts are favourable so far as the prospects of the yield in Algeria, Egypt, and the Southern States of America are concerned. In the meadow lands the supply of grass is very small, and unless the rainfall is much heavier during the next few weeks the hay crop will be decidedly below the average. There has been a continuance of firmness in the grain trade during the week. The supplies of wheat have been only moderate, and Continental advices report an increased amount of steadiness. Not only has last week's improvement been well maintained, but a further rise of ls. to 2s. per quarter has taken place. Business, however, has not been brisk at this enhancement, and in some quarters a reactionary movement has not been considered improbable. But in this opinion we are not disposed to coincide. The stocks in this country have been considerably reduced of late, and the high prices current on the Continent, particularly in the North of Europe, will naturally attract a portion of the surplus produce of America to these shores. So long, however, as harvest prospects continue favourable any important upward movement need not be anticipated, but should anything happen to endanger the ultimate safety of the crop the advance in prices would be both rapid and im portant.—Magnet. We have had another cold and dry week, confirming the harshness and lateness of the season. The light showers of last week, however, did good to the meadows, which look greener than might have been expected, though little growth has been made. The night frosts have played havoc with the early planted potatoes, the young haulm in very many cases being perfectly blackened; but more serious complaints reach us of the aspect of the wheat plants, which in the light fen lands, as well as the aeavy clays, give very poor promise from thinness. The last sowings, too, of the spring corn have had no chance to emerge from the harsh soil ; and without genial showers in plenty, the general gatherings of 1870 must be very short. The rye is reported to be seriously injured on the Continent, much being destroyept and what is left making but a spindly growth. In keeping with these reports, the movement has still been upwards, both in this country and every where abroad. Indeed the exports of wheat lately noted in our London returns have consisted of low qualities for foreign use, the Rhenish provinces and other parts needing them as something cheap for the poorer classes, in consequence of the advance of fine native produce. The very agents, who were expected to be plentifully furnished with offers from the Baltic for London, find themselves with almost no occupation, and merchants here who a little time back bought what town millers would call rubbish at dog-cheap rates have been well paid for their courage. The advance noted this week in the country has been fully ls. to 2s. ; so the inevitable decline predicted about a month ago has turned out to be a rise of something like 45., making the almost immediate difference 6s.—Mark Lane Express, BISHOP STROSSMAYER. The Vienna journals state that Bishop Strossmayer will be made Archbishop' of Agram, the Austro-Hungarian Government desiring to make this recogniti on of the zeal he has displayed in the Council in opposing the Ultramontane tendencies. It appears, however, that this prelate is un popular in Hungary on account of ate Pan slavist tendencies, and still more because of the determined opposition he made to the incorporation of Croatia with the kingdom of Saint Etienne. Count Bengt, who is anxious to make the appointment, lately put out a feeler in the Pester Lloyd on the matter. The nomination to this post is said to be one of the purely domestic affairs of the Hungarian Crown, and beyond the control of the Imperial Chancellor. RAILWAY TRAVELLING IN INDIA.—The Viceroy of India has issued an order directing the attention of railway companies to the necessity of providing their pas sengers and servants with some protection from the heat. Now that railway traffic is so greatly extending throughout India, it is highly desirable that some better precations should be taken, as last year the deaths from heat apoplexy on the East India line were alarmingly frequent. The Viceroy remarks that the addi tion of a double roof to the third-class carriages i s an improvement, and the fitting of tattles to the windows, with appliances for watering them, is a suggestion which merits attention. The passengers should not, he thinks, object to pay a small extra sum for such comforts, while the guards and firemen, who bear the worst of the heat, should have all the advantages ,possible. EARL RUSSELL ON EDUCATION. RELIGIOUS TREATMENT OF ROMAN CA TFIOLIC PRISONERS. On Monday afternoon Earl Russell presided at the annual meeting of the British and Foreign School Society, which was held in London. His lordship said the question of education at the present moment divided public opinion. One of the first principles of the society was to introduce religious teaching into the schools, and the Bible it was decided should be the foundation of that teaching. For his own part he did not consider a man educated until he had received religious teaching. He might read with great The select committee of the House of Commons, on prison ministers, and the manner in which the Prison Ministers Acts are carried out, resumed their sittings yesterday morning, Mr. Maguire, M.P. for Cork in the chair. The Rev. Mr. Collingridge, Roman Catholic priest of Manchester described the system adopted in the prison of that town. The Protestant chaplain had a salary of £3OO a year ; and a nice house and garden, and while he was away there had been a sum of £44 voted for the Catholic minister, . and it had been received for a short time, but he refused it as being ludicrously inadequate. He also stated that there was no objection on the part of the magistrates to allow the Catholic prisoners the ordinary Catholic books of instruction, and a late years - they had paid for them, bat what he strongly objected to was the presence in the cell of the Protestant Bible, Prayer. Book, and tracts, which he considered an insult to their holy religion because in one of the articles in the Prayer Book the Romanist ceremonies were stigmatised as dangerous deceits and fables and correctness and fluency, and might write a beautiful hand; he might have a thorough knowledge of geography, and be an admirable arithmetician, but this he looked upon as instruction only, and he could not consider a man to be educated unless he was versed in the principles of the Christian religion. These were the principles of the society, and it would be carried out, whatever the Legislature might do. He had said that they founded their teaching on the Bible, and he would further say that they laid aside all catechisms and formularies. The Bible was given to them as the Word of God, and was an inspired book ; whilst catechisms and formularies were written by men, were the sentiments of men, and contained the faults and the passions which existed at the time they were written. The one great lesson taught us was to forgive each other, and that they put in the most plain and forcible manner. These were the principles which were advocated by the society in 1808, and he saw no reason why any alteration should be made. What they wanted now was school masters not school teachers, in order that educa tion might be properly spread among all classes, and it behoved them all to look out for the best class of people who could be found for carrying out the work. It was said by a man in a high position that the Government paid 88 per cent. of the money expended upon pnblic education, and it seemed a matter of surprise to the person to whom he alluded. For his part he should like to see Government spend, instead of 88, something like 99 per cent. in this way. Now, as to what points were to his mind necessary with regard to a national system. He thought it necessary to divide the country in such a manner that the districts should be convenient, and the maintenance of schools as economical as possible. That was the in tention of the bill which he introduced, and in which the Dissenters took great interest. In the next place it appeared to him there should be no rate some of their doctrines described as blasphemous. The Protestant Bibles and prayer-books were placed in the cells in accordance with the prison rules. He was allowed only to visit the prisoners once in the day on Sundays, and could not give more than two minutes to each. What he wanted was to visit them in common, or what was still better, in classes. - The committee adjourned. imposed, and nothinc , like a tax imposed on the people in any district ° to which the people in that district, by themselves or by their representatives, had not given full consent. It was the old maxim of our Constitution that if a general tax was required the House of Commons, as the representatives of the public should give their consent to it, and any departure from that rule would be unadvisable, mischievous, and unconstitutional. Referring to the bill before the House, his lordship said that when the bill for household suffrage was passed the Liberal party, who felt certain that they would be in a large majority, naturally stated what they should do. Many said " Let us abolish compulsory churches ; " and a great majority, like himself, said, " Let us do justice to Ireland—if the Church of Ireland is indefensible, let us abolish it, and if the landlords cannot be defended let us change the system. Much had already been done with these two questions. A compulsory church was swept away in compliance with the wishes of the people of that country, and they had come to the more difficult question of the land. The great genius and unwearied industry and animation of Mr. Gladstone he felt sure would solve the question. A great majority, however, wanted to see a generous system of unsectarian education. His tests of the efficiency and practicability of the bill were, first, that there should be a division of the counties into districts, that the schools should be increased, and that the teaching should be unsectarian. He did not know if these points were contained in the bill, but if they were not the bill would hardly have the assent of the nation. If any other than the bill he had indicated should become law he should certainly take a course which was open to the House of Lords, and enter his protest against it. He impressed on the members of the Lower House the importance of closely watching every clause so as to understand before voting it the length to which it would go, and the actual operation it would have. If they had sectarian religious teaching the effect might be very disastrous, when they looked at the fact that the Church of England now was not the Church it was, owing to unfortunate innovations which had taken place. If they insisted upon denomina tional teaching, they could not foresee what in ten, twenty, or thirty years that teaching would be. He could not but feel that a gimlet was at work at the bottom of the Church, and it behoved them to be very vigilant and to take care that this great Protestant country, with its Protestant Bible, Pro testant teaching, and Protestant schools, helds its proper rank among the nations of the world. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 10. 1870. MEAT PRESERVING. The Gamgee meat preserving process has now been sub jected to severe tests, which it has excellently borne. Meat preserved on Professor Gamgee's principle has crossed the Atlantic Ocean repeatedly, both to North and to South America ; and the important question whether the process would defend fresh meat through the long voyage to Australia, with the trying alternations of climate, has been triumphantly answered in the affirmative. In November last a small consign ment was sent out by the Harkaway, and reached Mel bourn in excellent order. The crew and passengers of the vessel ate part of the flesh on board, after the Line had been crossed, and it was pronounced first-rate. The surgeon of the ship writes I was very glad to have such tender mutton, as our sheep had to be eaten so fresh that the mutton was always as tough as a halter. All who tasted—captain included—were astonished and enraptured." Recent news from the colony stated that much interest was felt in the results of the experiment, and another consignment was anxiously ex pected. Regarding the shipments to South America the Buenos Ayres Standard of March 30, states that the meat consigned to Messrs. Prange and Co., of that city, had arrived out ' • and that the preserved mutton used by the captain of the Hipparchus on the voyage, and given to the passengers after the ship had passed the Equator, had been found excellent. Similar reports have been made as to parcels sent out to Madeira and to St. Vincent, and to a consignment re ceived in London from Troy, Ohio ' • and, altogether, the tenour of the accounts goes very far to establish the success of Professor Gamgee's process in preserving fresh meat for transmission in bulk beyond seas. The experi ments hitherto made have been conducted on such a scale, and with such unvarying good results, that preparations are now in active progress for an import trade of great magnitude, which it is anticipated will shortly be de veloped.—Chamber of Agriculture Journal. THE TEACHERS AND THE TIME-TABLE CONSCIENCE CLAUSE. The Time-table Conscience Clause question was discussed at a conference of teachers and members of Parliament on Saturday in London. Mr. Whitwell, M.P., presided, supported by Lord F. Cavendish, M.P., the Hon. W. Cowper-Temple, M.P., Mr. Kay-Shuttle worth, M.P., Mr. Dent, M.P., Mr. Pease, M.P., and Mr. Baines, M.P. Teachers of all denominations were present.—The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, said it was decided when they last met that the religious diffi culty did not really exist inside the school walls, and it was agreed that masters must be allowed to employ the Bible teaching to illustrate and point the moral train ing of the children. They had now met to diseuss some practical conscience clause which would carefully protect the consciences of the parents and deal fairly with the teachers. • His opinion was that the time for religious in struction should be fixed at the beginning of the school hours, and the children whose parents objected should be engaged in some other work.—Mr. Lawson said that such a conscience clause would remove much difficulty. They had a great objection to any child being exempted from attendance during any portion of the school hours. They considered that Par liament ought not to interfere with the time tables, but the main objection they had was the absence of the children from the school daring the religious instruction. He should recommend the teachers, if they were allowed to have the children in school, to give way so far as to let Parliament fix the beginning or end of the school hours as the time for religious instruction. Mr. Dent said he had heard that the conscience clause they would probably get would allow them four opportunities of religious teaching in the day—at the commencement and end of the morning and afternoon school hours. This would give th em an opportunity of teaching the whole school by sections, each section at a different time. —Mr. Heller thought that the time table should be left to the teachers, and not regulated by an Act of Parliament. What would suit one school and one district would not suit another.—Mr. Ryder had lately spent three weeks in East Lancashire, and had been into every school which came in his way. He was told by the teachers that there was practically no religious difficulty, and they did not see the necessity for a conscience clause.- - -The Hon. Cowper-Temple asked if it was inconvenient to give religious instruction at the beginning or end of the school hours ?—Several teachers answered this question by saying that in poor districts the children were not punctual in the time of attendance at the commencement, and the first half hour was greatly broken into by the late arrivals, and the end of the school hours was often interrupted by the visits of parents bringing their children to school for the first time, or to make complaints. Some of the chil dren sometimes left early because they were wanted to run errands, and for other reasons. After some further dis cussion the following resolutions, suggested by Mr. Pease, were agreed to :—" That it is essential that all the children attending a school, whether attending religious instruction or not, should assemble at the same time." " That all children not attending the religious instruction should be employed in some other school work during the time of religious instruction." "That the time for religious instruction in any school or to any scholars shall be plainly set forth on the walls of the schoolroom in which such instruction takes place ; such times for religious instruction to be approved of by the Educational Department"- "Should the school master ascertain, or should he receive notice from any parent, either orally or in writing, that such parent objects to the child being present at the time of religious instruction in use at the school, the master shall enter such objections in the registry of the school." MORE ABOUT ADULTERATION. Sugar and spice have a good nursery reputation, and we are not much shocked to learn that a large proportion of the substances advertised as " pure cocoa" is adul terated with from 30 to 40 per cent. of sugar. It is a little more startling to find that the " genuine cocoa" of the shops is adulterated with from 15 to 30 per cent. of starch, and that to some a good deal of water it added, and to others a little red earth. Sugar and starch are useful articles of diet, highly carbonaceous, the chemists would say. But, as sugar and starch are very cheap and accessible substances as compared with cocoa, many people will feel a well-founded objection to paying for them at the rate of ls. 4d. a pound. Chocolate is a mysterious composition, including all sorts of sugars, starches, and flavouring matters, a good deal of vanilla, " and sometimes," it has been said, " even cocoa. "But cocoa is not hypotically a complex drink, and really people who use it ought to be allowed some information as to what bevarage they are employing. When the adulterations of coffee with chicory were much discussed, the dealers told us that chicory was a valuable addition to the coffee bean, and that people who knew what was good for them would prefer the adulterated drink. Nevertheless, no practical disadvantage and some economy has resulted from the practice of selling the two separately, or at least of marking plainly the admixture when it occurs. Dr. Muter's examinations of some 30 fair specimens of cocoa indicate that only one of the whole number answers to the analysis of pure decorticated cocoa. He justly concludes that there is considerable objection to calling them genuine when all the connection they have vith solubility consists simply in the small amount of real cocoa which they give at a dose. The remedy to be sought is an Adulteration Act, so amended as to compel everything to be sold under its own name, with proper officers to see the Act carried out. —Pall [hall Gazette. THE BRIDGWATER BRIBERY PROSECUTIONS. On Monday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, Mr. Fennelly was brought up to receive sentence for bribing electors at Bridgwater to secure the return of Mr. Vanderbyl. The trial took place at Taunton Assizes in March last, before Mr. Justice Hannen. The Attorney-General had filed an information against Mr. Vanderbyl and Mr. Fennelly for bribery and conspiracy to bribe ; but the jury found that there was no evidence to fully satisfy them of the guilty conspiracy on the part of Mr. Vanderbyl, and they consequently gave him the benefit of the doubt. Then, with regard to Mr. Fennelly, they found that there were extenuating circumstances in his case, inasmuch as great pressure was put upon him. On the Lord Chief Justice, and Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and Hannen, taking their seats on Monday, The Attorney-General prayed the judgment of the court. Mr. Justice Hannen having read the notes of the trial, Mr. Lopez rose to read the affidavit of the defendant, Mr. Richard Fennelly. It stated that Mr. Fennelly had been called upon at Bristol by Mr. Purcell, the secretary of the Bridgwater Commissioners, and was asked by him to furnish all information about bribery at the election of Bridgwater. Mr. Fennelly made a full disclo sure for the purpose of helping the Commissioners in their inquiry, and expecting that he would be called upon to be examined before the Commissioners and receive a cer tificate of indemnity. Though he had attended for a fortnight at Bridgwater before the Commissioners, and afterwards when they were sitting at Westminster they refused to hear him. He considered he was entitled to a certificate ; but the Commissioners had told him that he would be dealt with by the Attorney-General. The affidavit of Mr. Cower was next read as to the youth' and good character of Mr. Fennelly : and, further, that Mr. Purcell had told him that an assurance had been given to Mr. Fennelly that he would be called upon be fore the commissioners. Mr. Lopez asked that the affidavits of Mr. Price and Mr. Coleridge, two of the commissioners, should be read, as he considered their evidence was in mitigation. The joint affidavit of the two commissioners was then read. They denied having given any authority to Mr. Purcell to say that Mr. Fennelly would be called before them. _ Mr. Lopez then addressed the Court, praying for a discharge, on three distinct grounds. In the first place Mr. Pennelly was young and inexperienced in election matters, and went down to Bridgwater to serve no pur hpose of his own, and at the very last moment e resisted every effort on the part of Mr. Vanderbyl to indulge in any corrupt practices. It was only under th e uncompromisin g importunity of the solicitors that he resorted to bribery . Secondly, the jury had recommended Mr. Pennelly to the mercy of the court ; and, thirdly, for a much more cogent ground. The conduct of Mr. Purcell was such as to entitle Mr. Fennelly to the merciful consideration of the court. Mr. Purcell was a private friend of Mr. Fennelly, whom he induced to disclose everything under the assurance that he would be called before the Commissioners. This was uncontra dicted by any of the affidavits. If Mr. Fennelly had not made a statement to Mr. Purcell, he would have been called before the Commissioners to receive a certificate of indemnity for making the full disclosure. Mr. Purcell had acted more in the character of a detective than any thing else. The Court said the guilt of the transaction was not the less because Mr. Fennelly had not been called before the Commissioners. The Attorney-General, having said a few words as to Mr. Fennelly's connection with the bribery, The Court intimated that they would reserve sentence until the other cases were heard. The Attorney-General said the " Queen v. Dr. Hamilton Kinglake " would have come next in order, but he had received affidavits from Dr. Kinglake that he was too ill to appear before the Court, and, therefore, he did not pray the judgment of the Court. Sir John Karslake, for Dr. Hamilton Kinglake, said he had filed the affidavit of Dr. Litton, who stated that he had attended Mr. Kinglake for many years to treat him for heart complaint, and that he would be in great and immediate danger of his life by coming to the Queen's Bench. The Court, after a short conference, determined to go on with the case, and act as they thought expedient with regard to passing sentence. Mr. Justice Hannen then read the notes of the trial, from which it appeared that Dr. Kinglake was tried for bribery and conspiracy to bribe the electors of Bridgewater, in order to secure the return of his brother, Mr. •A. W. Kinglake. Mr. Kinglake was the Liberal candidate ; and it was thought that if bribery were not resorted to by the Conservatives he was sure to be elected. However, on the eve of the election, Mr. Lovibond, the agent of Mr. Kinglake induced Dr. Kinglake to give a check for £l,OOO to be used in case it was wanted. This check was cancelled at half-past ten o'clock on the morning of the election ; and it was only by a mistake, as alleged by Dr. Kinglake, that Mr. Lovibond got the money after the cheque had been cancelled. Alter the reading of the notes by Mr. Justice Hannen, the affidavits of Dr. Kinglake, Mrs. Hannah Kinglake, and W. A. W. Kinglake were then read. Sir John Karslake then addressed the court. He said Dr. King'ake had been convicted upon the evidence of a co-conspirator Mr. Lovibond, of whose examination he complained as against Dr. Kinglake. Nothing was done to have money at Bridgwater until the nomination day, when it was represented that Dr. Kinglake that the election would go in his brother's favour if the other side did not resort to bribery. Mr. Lovibond then induced Dr. Kinglake to give a checque to his bankers, Messrs. Seeley and Prior, on the day previous to the election, but on the following day at half-past ten o'clock in the morning, he cancelled the check given to Prior. That cancellation was not com m unicated to Mr. Lovibond, who went to Mr. Prior,who drew the money which was afterwards expended in bribery. There was no intention on Dr. Kinglake's part to bribe; and it was only upon the pressure put upon him that he gave his consent to issue the cheque. Jn this Dr. Kinglake was corroborated by Mrs. H. Kinglake, and his brother Mr. A. W. Kinglake. He submitted that though technicaliy there might be conspiracy, still in reality the cheque having been cancelled at ten o'clock it could not have done any harm, and, therefore, so far as Dr. Kinglake was concerned he was entirely blameless. The witnesses at the trial had interpreted the going of Dr. Kinglake to the bank for a 210 note for his brother as going there to secure the money which was expended within the last hour of the election, but their lordships now had the affidavits of Dr. Kinglake, Mrs. Kinglake and Mr. A. W. Kinglake, stating that the cheque was really cancelled at half-past ten o'clock on the morn ing of the election, and consequently he was not the person guilty of bribing the electors. The Solicitor-General, after paying a high compliment to the character of Dr. Kinglake, said it was his duty, on behalf of the Crown, to ask that at any rate some sentence shculd be passed upon Dr. Kinglake. After having pro ceeded to analyse the evidence for a short time, The cases were postponed. PRIVATE LUNATIC ASYLUMS. A gentleman who was for six weeks an inmate of a madhouse, writes an account of his treatment therein to the Pall Mall Gazette. He says, in the spring of 186— I had an attack of paralysis (brought on by overwork in my pro fession), which for a time deprived me of the use of the right side of my body. There was from the first, which I believe is commonly the case, what the faculty call " great cerebral disturbance," but there was not in the earlier stages of the disease any mental delusion, evinced. There was merely, to use a friend's expression, an exaggeration of myself. This excitement of brain ended in a few months in positive delusions, and it was considered by my friends necessary (whether rightly or wrongly is a mere matter of opinion) that I should be , placed. -in confinement and subjected to special treatment. I was consequently sent to —, a house opening into the grounds of a private asylum in the neighbourhood of London. The first attendant assigned to me was a man by the name of " Leathers "—not a very powerful man, certainly less powerful than myself. Under the talkative system of Leathers " I rapidly, as might be expected, became worse. One night, about a week after I entered this establishment, I was very noisy, and I have no doubt the slumbers of " Leathers " were considerably disturbed, and he threatened if I did not " hold my noise " to tie my , hands. He had partly brought the noise "on himself, for he had told me that " my wife was downstairs, and after talking to the lady superintendent was coming up to see me if I was quiet." He told me this, I presume, under the impression that it would soothe me, and so it did for a short time ; but as she not come (it is, perhaps, needless to say she was not in the house) I shouted louder than before, and began kicking with my left heel against the wall, thinking that if she heard the noise she would suppose I was in trouble and would come the sooner. This was too much for "Leathers," and he very shorty after tied my wrists with some list bands, which he took from a drawer in the room. He tied my wrists together so tightly that my hands were almost black. As was, perhaps, natural to a man whose brain was in a state of morbid excitement, I immediately fancied myself " Prometheus Vinctus," and indulged my keeper with recitations from the Greek poets at the top of my voice. Whether " Leathers " was irritated by the novel sound of Greek, or thought that I was calling him names, I know not ; but he almost immediately crept round to the head of my bed and pro ceeded to kneel upon me, one knee being on the left side of my chest and the other on the left side of my neck ; and whenever I attempted to move, or made a noise, he gave a jolt with his whole weight, the effect of which was to knock the greater part of the wind out of me. I cannat find words to describe my feelings on that miserable night. Luckily it was the height of summer, and was therefore light in a few hours. I knew I was ill ; I knew I was in a madhouse ; I knew that the man kneeling upon me was my keeper, and the horrid thought crossed me that he was doing what he did to make me mad. Shortly after dawn, seeing the dark colour of my hands, " Leathers " yielded to my repeated entreaties to loosen the list bandages which were round my wrists, but he would not entirely free me, nor could I free myself, owing to the paralysis in my right arm. In this state I remained, as far as 1 could judge, till between five and six o'clock in the morning. He then consented to call a young medical student to me provided I would lay quite quiet, let him untie my hands and fasten my left wrist to the head of the bed, Immediately the medical student saw me he ordered " Leathers "to untie my arm. lie found my pulse in a very excited state, •as was to be supposed ; in fact, I could myself detect the blood, as it were, being pumped up tlie back of my neck into my brain. He applied ice to the back of my meek, ordered " Leathers "out of the room, and himself sat with me till I fell asleep. At my request my friend the medical student (for I felt him indeed to be a friend), provided me with another attendant the reverse of " Leathers" in every respect. My new attendant was as strong as Hercules, and as gentle and kind as st rong . From the time of my having him about me my health began steadily to improve and my excitement to subside. During the greater part of the time I was an inmate of this asylum, the proprietor, a medical man, was absent in the North of England, taking his annual holidays, his patients, about eighty in number, being left to the care of a house surgeon and a medical student," The writer concludes by enumerating the most objectionable practices on the part of the officials in the asylum with respect to the patients. He says the not un common habit of trotting out the delusions of patients forthe amusement of visitors cannot be too strongly reprehended. " For the proprietor of a lunatic asylum to call up a patient and put him through his facings," if I may use the expression, may be amusing to some people whose brains are not in a state of irritation, but to a patient sitting by, recently recovered from acute mania and sensible of his position, this sort of thing is more painful than I can describe; one p a ti en t sa yi ng _ " Doctor, you did no t k eep your prom i se l ast n i g h t; you. know the state of my stomach, and that I cannot digest my food till my head is off. In the name of mercy, cut keepown l her . down Give in it off to-night !" another saying, " For God's sake, doctor, keep powderee p he : r d a o n 7 t in keep to her down r'—this po or fellow's s e d l o i o t z r , fellow's delusion being that he had swallowed hiswife. The practice of lying, which is indulged in freely by at tendants, is another evil. An attendant will say any thing which he thinks will quiet a patieut at the moment. This only leads to greater Irritatio n , f or a man soon find n n out that he has been deceived, and becomes more s furious than ever." I NDIA -R UBB ER DEADENING SOUND. —Ave once visited a factory where some forty or fifty coppersmiths were at work in a shop above our heads ; but what was remarkable scarcely a sound of their noisy h ammering could be heard. On going upstairs we saw the explana tion. Each leg of every bench rested on a cushion made of indiarubber cuttings. This completely deadened the sound.— Chambers's Journal. M. VILLEMAIN. On Sunday morning, at three o'clock, M. Villemain, one of the most distinguished of French litterateurs, died at the age of 83. He died after little suffering, his chief affliction being the loss of sight. The intellectual night in which he was plunged was, for him, says a French writer, more cruel than the night of death. M. Villemain early distinguished himself in literature, and gave promise even in his childhood of future celebrity. At twelve years old he performed in a Greek tragedy ; at twenty, in the closing days of the first Empire, he suc ceeded Luce di Lancival in the chair of Professor of Rhetoric. In 1816 he took the Professorship of French Literature. At 29 years of age he was an academician, but he did not hesitate to risk his position by protesting, together with Cbateaubriand and Lacre telle, in the name of the Academy, against the restrictions on the liberty of the press. Later on he took a prominent part in politics, and in the time of Louis-Philippe he was peer of France. He was Minister of Public Instruction from 1840 to 1845, and took an active part in the Education Laws. " Literature leads to everything else on condition of for saking it," said M. Villemain, but the Revolution of 1848 sent him back to private life, and he resumed his pen, writing many noted works, including " Souvenirs Con temporains," " Chateaubriand," and "Le Tableau .de l'Eloquence Cretienne." TRADE STATISTICS.—We learn that Mr. Bruce, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, has given instructions for the preparation of some valuable statistics relating to the various trades which are now regulated by the Factory Acts. Hitherto these statistics have been published only in cunnection with the larger manufactures, such as cotton, wool, silk, flour, and jute, and they have been moved for at very irregular intervals in the House of Commons by independent members, latterly by Mr. Baines, M. P. for Leeds. At the last meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, held in London, a resolution was passed that the Home Secre tary should be desired to obtain similarinformation from all the trades now under legal inspection, and this resolu tion, having been communicated to Mr. Bruce, was at once assented to. The information will be collected and prepared for publication by the Factory Department. As it will be issued at stated intervals it will form a useful addition to the statistics of our mannfacturing industries. —Daily News. THE' CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.—A number of persons in Canterbury who are opposed to the Contagious Diseases Act have resolved on bringing an action against the inspector of police in that place to recover the sum of £lOO from him for false imprisonment. The plaintiff in the action is Jane Smith. who, in the interval between her examination under the provisions of the Act and her removal to the hospital, was detained by the inspector for a certain time. The result of this case will be watched with solicitude by the people of. Canterbury, who have shewn the deepest interest in the question which is to be determined. At Maidstone, on Saturday, a woman named Anne Baker was summoned for not submitting to exami nation under the provisions of the Contagious Diseases Act, and was sentenced to ten days' imprisonment in Maidstone Gaol. The case was heard in private. THE LOSS OF THE EARL OF ELGIN.-A survivor of the collision which occurred in the channel, on Friday night, gives the following account of the disaster :—" We left Sunderland in the Earl of Elgin a few minutes before eight o'clock on Friday night. All went well until very near to Whitby, about eight mil es o ff t h e land, when a steamer's mast-head light was seen on the starboard bow, an d a short time after the Earl of Elgin was run into by a s t ea mer, which turned out to be the Jesmond, of Shields. The latter struck the Earl of Elgin on the starboard side, right amidships, going nearly half through the vessel, i m mediately the sea came in, and in a very few minutes the vessel sank. The alarm having been given that the •vessel was sinking, confusion reigned for some time, and in attempting to get out the jolly-boat it was capsized, by which one poor fellow was drowned. The c aptain had a child with him, a girl seven years of age. The mate had his wife on board, and there was also a female passenger, the wife of anoth er cap t a i n. It was then dis covered that the starboard lifeboat had been stove in the collision, and there was only one boat left for the whole of the crew. Into this the master (who was the last to leave the vessel) got, with his dau g ht er i n his arms, accom panied by a female passenger, but what became of them until the master was picked up in the water, very much exhausted, is not known, although it is stated that the captain had the child in his arms when he sank down ex hausted. There was a general rush to the boat ; some ran up the mast and some jumped into the water, making for the side of the Jesmond, by which three or four of them were saved. The remainder were picked up by the j es mond's boat's crew, with the exception of five men, the two women, and the child, who went down with the sinking vessel. When taken on board the Jesmond they were treated with the greatest kindness, and landed at Shields about six o'clock on Saturday morning." CAN . SUCH A MAN BE MAD ? A case of disputed lunacy was heard on Saturday at the Brentford Petty Sessions. John Henry Jenkins, a gentlemanly-looking man, of about 45 years of age, was brought up on remand, charged with being found sleeping in an unfinished house in Cambridge-park, Twickenham, on Sunday, the Ist of May ; also with being a wandering lunatic. At the last hearing of the charge prisoner stated that he was educated at Jesus College Cambridge ; that his mother was a widow, who possessed an income of 2600 a year, and his father was for over twenty four years chairman of a bench of magistrates at White haven. Stephen Bentliff said : lam an attendant of a private lunatic asylum kept by Dr. Lowry, at West Mailing. I know the prisoner ;he has been under my special charge as a patient in the establishment. He escaped from the asylum Friday morning, April 29. The chairman (to the prisoner) : You hear what the witness' states ; have you any objection to go back quietly with Min? Prisoner : I'll go back quietly, your worship; but I am not a lunatic, and have been illegally detained at this asylum these three years. I have been at'the asylum nearly seven years, but ought to have been discharged full three years ago. I was first detained on religious grounds. I took a first class certificate at Jesus College, Cambridge, and I believe I am capable of discharging some of the various duties connected with the Church. I was under a delusion some years ago, and fancied myself to be Elias or John the Baptist sent in the latter days. This was some years ago, but the Corn trissioners of Lunacy told me three years ago that I ought to be discharged, and finding they would not dis charge me I got over the walls on Friday week, and made my escape, and when I was apprehended I was on the road to my friends in Wales. lam a son of the late Rev. George Jenkins, who was chairman of a bench of magis trates in Cumberland for nearly twenty-five years. The first witness was now recalled, and in reply to the bench stated that the Commissioners saw the prisoner about four months ago. Witness further stated that the magistrates of the county visited the asylum every three months, and sometimes six times during the year.—Mr. Thomas Arthur Lowry, M.D., said: I am the principal of the private lunatic asylum at West Mailing. The defendant is a patient who escaped on Friday week, at about half-past seven in the morning. He has been over six years in the establishment. [Witness here produced the authority under which he held him, which was signed by his mother, a lady living in Carmarthen.] The defen dant has not been discharged, nor has he been in a fit state to be. Prisoner; Was I not in a fit state three years ago? Witness : That was decided by the Commissioners at the time. Prisoner now repeated the question, and witness replied—l cannot say that you were. Ido not think you are at the present time. A magistrate :We have not observed anything indicative of insanity in his replies. 'Witness : No, but sometimes he is more rational than at others. It is quit e t rue th a t th e county magis trates visit our establishment six times a year. The Com missioners will shortly make another inspection. The Chairman now told the prisoner that, Dr. Lowry having produced the authority for detaining him, the bench were bound to give him up ; but they hoped at no distant date to learn that he was discharged, and said he would have' the opportunity of communicating with tho Lunacy Com mission and his friends. Prisoner thanked the bench, and left in charge of the doctor and his attendant. THE MEN IN WOMEN'S CLOTHES. Some further particulars have come to light respecting the two young men who are now in custody on a charge of prowling about in womens's clothes. Great interest has been shewn by the members of the theatrical and musical professions in this case, for it appears that actors have been too long exposed to the annoyance of a sudder. interruption, or complete suspension of the performances, by the rows in front, caused by the discovery of such young men sitting in a private box, or taking their places in the stalls—sometimes in ladies' evening dress and sometimes in the costume of gentlemen, with hair and face arranged so much in the style of young ladies of the period, as to lead to the suspicion that they were really women in male costume. When it was known, too, that such persons were in a theatre, much annoyance was caused by the curiosity of persons to find them out. Every visitor of effeminate appearance was subjected to searching inspection. The young men in question have acquired a provincial celebrity, and in some places have exhibited their talent for personating women under distinguished patronage. Duringthe months of May arid June, 1860, the prisoner Ernest Boulton, in company with a gentleman named. Pavitt, gave a series of drawing-room entertainments in Colchester, Southend, Dunmow, Bishop Stortford, Rochford, and various other places, amongst them Romford, where they ayed under the distinguished patronage of Sir Thomas Barrett Len nard, Bart., and Lady Lennard, Rev. W. J. Skilton, Octavius E. Coope, Esq., E. J. Ind, Esq., and E. Vipand Ind, Esq. The entertainment usually comprised a short opera, a humorous dialogue, and a laughable sketch. In all these the ladies' characters were represented by Ernest 13oulton. At the Theatre Royal, Stockbridge, January 27, 1869, "Her Majesty Servants" played (by special request) Mr. H. J. Byron's comedy of One Hundred Thousand Pounds," the characters Alice and Mrs. Barlow being played respec tively by Boulton and Park, -who are designated in the programme, Miss Ernestine Edwards and Miss Mabel Foster. An original farce followed, the ladies' characters being, as before, represented by Boulton and Park. The Essex herald, Feb. 2, in noticing this performance, observed :—" During the piece Miss Edwards sang " Fading away " with a care and taste that brought down the house, and, on being encored, she gave 'My Pretty Jane,' " This shews an instance where Boulton's sex was not detected. Speaking of the draw ing-room entertainment at Bishop Stortford, the press says :—" We may add tbat Mr. Boulton very cleverly personates female characters, and that it is difficult for a spectator to realise the fact that he is a ' make-up' for the occasion. His song, ' Fading away,' is exceedingly feminine." The following is a ludicrous and somewhat appropriate extract from one of the news papers :—" A Lusus Natur.—Certainly if some one of Nature's journeymen had not been at work, ' Mister' Boulton—we hesitate, almost, to write this prefix—would have incontestably been a woman. Let it by no means be understood that there is anything of • the ' social monster' business cennected with him. Quite the con trary, for looking at hiln with one's eyes both wide open, listening to his extraordinary voice, and criticising, how ever narrowly, his wonderfully feminine appearance and manner, it is really difficult for a moment to believe that he is not a really charming girl." At a performance in Essex a local paper says, " The Alice of Mr. Boulton took the audience by surprise ; in make up,' action, gesture, and conception it was a finished pic ture He drew _ down thundering plaudits by his talented acting, and especially by his singinz in an imitation mezzo-soprano voice, ' Fading away, which was three times re-demanded." In October, 1868, Ernest Boulton assisted Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton, M.P., in a drawing room entertainment at the Spa Saloon, Scarborough. On this occasion "A Morning Call," was performed, his lordship playing Sir Edward Ardent, and Boulton Mrs. Chillington. The Scarborough Gazette, describes the latter's appearance as som e thi ng wonderful. This entertainment was postponed for a short time on account of Boulton's indisposition, and a copy of the telegram sent to Lord Arthnr Clinton, con taming this information, was printed and circulated in Scarborough. The psisoner Park does not appear to have taken such a prominent part in enterprises of this kind ; only one notice of his performance in a lady's role has been found—namely, that of Mrs. Barlow, to which re ference has been made. Boulton's assumption of ladies' characters has extended over many years, for in one pro gramme he is announeed to play Mariain "The Brigand" —he then being only 14 years of age. PROTESTANTISAI IN SPAIN. Count Bernstorff, son of the Prussian ambassador in London, and President of the Berlin Committee for the Propagation of Protestantism in Spain, has delivered a discourse on the religious condition of that country. The lecturer has just returned from a three months' tour in the Iberian peninsula, the immediate object of which was to examine whether the attempts that have been made to introduce Protestantism into a country not long ago regarded as the bulwark of Catholicism, were such as to merit the symyathy and support of Protestants. He said the Spanish Protestants reckon on large accessions to their Church, and the expectation seems justified by the crowds which throng to witness a Protestant service, and by the anxiety they show to procure copies of the Bible. The greet difficulty is to obtain a supply of educated Protestant clergymen. In Madrid, how ever, where the traveller found a congregation of 2,000 souls, Pastor Tarrasco aided by a very eloquent preacher. The Church of Seville, which is next in importance, was founded by Scotch missionaries, and has elders, a synod, and a confession of faith, much as we find them in the Church of Scotland. The agent of the Scottish mission had purchased an old Catholic church without informing the sellers of its future destination, and her e di v i ne serv i ce i s performed by a former Catholic priest called Cabrera. After mentioning the Protestant congregations in Malaga and Cartagena, the speaker dwelt on the necessity of building a suitable Protestant church in Madrid to replace the present chapel, and returned to the subject of the educa tion of Spanish preachers. The object of the committee was less to make proselytes than to gain for Protes tantism the Spaniards who had alreaey fallen off from the Catholic Church. Under the guidance of Tarrasco, the Protestant preacher in Madrid, who is also an able theologian, young men in Spai n m i g h t b e educated for the Protestant ministry. THE MAHARAJAH OF LLA. The K ------ UPPOORT RR Bombay papers are full of regrets for the Maharajah of Kuppoorthulla who died en route for England. The Maharajah, who distinguished himself greatly by his loyal services during the mutiny, was the first independent native prince who ever set out for this country, breaking through the prejudices of caste and the terrors of tradition by crossing the "black water." His visit excited the greatest interest among his compatriots, many of whom were preparing to follow him ; and his death while yet at sea was therefore particularly unfortunate. It is true that the Maharajah succumbed to a disease of long standing which had nothing to do with his voyage, but it is to be feared the natives will find it difficult to realise this. He started from Bombay at the end of March, and three weeks later the P. and O. steamer brought the news of his death at Aden. His remains have been taken back to India for cremation at the Hindoo shrine of Nassick. It is to be hoped the young Rajah of Kolapoor, who has made up his mind to visit England next year, will be more fortunate. FINE ARTS IN NEW YORK ,At this season of the — year mo - t of our artist; have sent their chief works to the Academy a"d. other exhibitions, and their st u di os are ge nerally denuded of their art-treasures. Nevertheless, it may interest the European reader to have the re sults of another stroll among a few of the Blest notable of the ateliers of Tenth Street Studio Build:rag: Air. F. E. Church is rapid :y progressing with Ids great work, " Jerusalem," for which this eminent painter made many careful and exhaustive studies • during a recent visit to the Holy Land. The 1 re sent indications are that this picture, when com pleted, will present the finest and gran lest realiza tion of the Holy City and its sacred environs aver yet painted. When it is finis Fed a full account of the painting will be given in these columns. i\lr. Thomas Le Clear, as usual, is full of • cern m-ssions fur his matchless pot traits of old gentle men. Old men, with wisdom in their herds and money in their purses, always seek the aid of Air. Le Clear's genius to hand them down io posterity. If your corresponden t were an o ld man f note , With the requisite amount of cash, he world select this master to tiapsfer his image to canvass and to im unrtality. • i\lr. Seymour J. tiny, an artist of English birth, and one of whom his countryman may jusly feel proud, is fully occupied with orders from patrons who are willing to pay good 'ancestor fine pictures. Mr. Guy, having just sent out one or two remark ably clever genre subjt cts to the exhibition has no licture in his studies completed.. He is now engag d on a cabinet full-length portrait of a child, which promises to be another tittle gem in its wey. Mr. J. G. Brown, also an Englishman by birth, is one of our most 1 °pular genre painters, and his works art much sought after by amateurs and col lectors. The greatest successes achieved by this artst hitherto have been subjects of juvenile life, with sunny landscape backgrounds. But latterly his inspirations have taken a decidedly sentimental jurn, and, it must be owned, w,th the i appiest re sults. One of the latest and probably best exam ples is a cabinet p - cture, entitled " Hope," a chat 'w ing female figure, against a light background, with a faint indication of a crass in it. - The allegory is expressed with much true poetic and s-ntitnental feeling, whilst the artistic execution is excellent. Mr. E. L. Henry, a youthful looking but talented artist, who finished his siudies in Paris, is prob Without a rival in this country in his•speciality- - architectural interiors and street views on a very small cabinet scale. His colouring an I handling is very chaste and beautiful. One of Mr. Henry's inost recent little gems, illustrative of Longfellow's, poem called " The Old Clock on the Stairs," is ad . mirably treated. There are in the artist's studio other highly-finished interiors of quaint old man sions and churches, as well as two or three of his reet views filled with figures, showing high ties of composition and execution. Mr. \y. H. Beard, industrious, and fertile in imagination and invention,is always producing freih and novel ideas on canvass or paper. Among other. things—,to which an allusion will be made at the proper time—he has just finished an addit'onal cartoon for his new work, about to be published, entitled " Susannah and the Elders." representing a s an in a lake or pond surprised by a couple of ravenous-looking owls. The cartoon is capital in drawing, expressieg infinite humour, and telling the story with irresistible effect. It is expected that this work, when completed, will be one of the mo-t tided hits of the day. Mr. Worthington W hittridge, one of t he ablest re present atiVes of our landscape school, and an art;st of culture,has on hiseasela lan Iscape called "The Trout Breok." It is not quite fiuilied, but it has so nearly approached completion that its fidelity and truth to the wild beauties of those mountain streams, characte!istic . of Pennsylvania, may n artily be seen. The picture is full of subtle effects. 'lll, artist has also in his atelier a larger landscape, entitled " A View of Long's Peak on the River Platte, Colo rado," one of the great spurs of the Eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. This work—showing an Indian encampment on the banks of the river in the foreground —possesses many very interesting and excellent qualities. Although a very young man, yet Mr. Launt Thompson, the sculptor, has got a firm grip on one of the upper rounds of the ladder of fame, and, , from alt present indications, will not be likely to lose Lis hold. As a portrait sculptor, he has few equals. While his modelling is classical in ct rrect ness of form and anatomical detail, he exhibits gt eat mastery in some of the higher attributes of the art. He seems to erritoly the finer elements of character in his reproductions in clay, indivi dualizing with the nicest discrimination, and, thw, like the friendly biographer, perpetuating all the nobler and more refined qualities of his subj et, and generou-ly consigns the faults to oblivion. The genius of the artist is exemplified in his admirable statue of Major-General John Se lgwick, who was killed at the tattle - of Spottsylvania. in 1864. .:1"1143 statue, a commission from a committee of the officers of the 6th Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac, was cast from booze cannon and set on a monumental pede.stal, erected at the West Point Military Institute. Ire is a splendid im,mo rial to the fallen hero. Mr. Thompson has also in his studio clay models of the bust of Wm. Cullen Bryant, the etninent -poet, and of Samuel Finley B. Morse, the great founder of the Telegraph• Both these busts are fine exampb s of plastic art. Mr. J. B. Irving, a portrait and figure painter of ,come note, has one or two fine little female heads, ,an l a cabinet genre picture on his ea-el. The latter is not quite fininshed, but sufficiently so to show some. of the artist's peculiar sweetness of tint. Mr. R. W. Hubbard has two new landscapes almost completed. One, entitled " Mount La Fayette," a scene in the White Mountains, seems to possess some very fine passages ; but the best of the t%so is the smaller picture, called " Mallet's Bay," a noted place for duck shooting, which the artist has treated with considerable skill. Mr. M. F. H. De Haas, is just completing his marine picture, " Off the coast of the Isle of Wight," which was noticed in alormer article. Et is a comfortable thing to be able to sit down in an easy chair and contemplate the wonders of the Arctic Regions, without undergoing any of the dangers and difficulties attending a trip to the ex treme North. Mr. Wm. Bradford, who recently visited the Are!i?. Regions, has now in his studio a large and valuable collection of phwograph;c and 'tinted stu dies,repr&enting a greatvariety of the more remark able phases of nature in the frigid north. He has also a number of pictures, either just finished, or on the easel, that cannot fail to interest the untravilled , imateur. One is called "'1 he Midnight Sun," in Midsummer, of course, which is about one hour high ! showing some of those gorgeous colours only to be found where these scenes are laid. Ano►her picture, entitled " A View of Karsosook Fiord," showing a rock ►ising above the sca 1,000 feet, .Sa ndet son's Hope, in the distance, an iceberg, with the steamer Panther moored to it, and an Esqui maux woman's boat in the foreground.--Corre spoagent of Anglo-American Times. CLOSE OF THE CUSTOMS PARLIAMENT.—TIIB Prussian Government sustained a defeat in the Customs Parliament on the question of increasing the duty on coffee, which so exasperated th e Fi nance Minister, Al- Carnplausen, that on leaving the House, h e said aloud in the hearing of some of the deputies, "We must get rid, as speedily as possible of a par liament which does not understand its mission." This threat was almost immediately afterwards put into execution, BIRTHS. On the Bth inst., in Hamilton-place. the Countess of Eldon _ of a son. On the Gth inst., at 1, Colesbill-street, the wife of Spencer Walpole, Ezci., of a caughter. MARRIAGES. On the sth May, at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, Mr• Joseph Challis, of Webb's Hotel, Piccadilly, Lando", to Susan, only daughter of the late Mr. Wiiliain Nut'ibis, of Gloucester-road, Kensington. On the 7th May, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Frederick Sey mour, youngest son of Mr. H. Banks, 4, John-street, t o Elizabeth Bel.shatn, adopteddaupliter of Mr. and Mrs. Lucy Balhatn. DEATHS: On the Bth inst., at Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, after a long illness, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, in his 79 01 year. On the 9th inst., at 8, Eaton-square, the Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Stucley, wife of Sir George S•ueley, Bart. Loudon: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex.--Tuesday, May 10, 1870. , .1 _ 1,1