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IS FL MERV GIVEN, That a GENERAL MEETING of the COMPANY will be held at the Offices, No. 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, at Two of the Cl o ck p.m., on WEDNESDAY, the 2d February, 1870, for the pu pose of receiving the Report of the Directors, of declaring a Dividend, and of transacting the ordinary busi ness of the Company. By order of the Board. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Se erettry. 88, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, W.C., 17th Jannary, 1870. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26, 1870. UNDER the title of " The Irish Cauldron," the Quarterly Review publishes an article on the present state of Ireland. The purport of the article may be judged from its name. It is written by one of those gentlemen who are never happy except when they are miserable. They are artists who never use any colour brighter than Indian ink. The lights are merely less intense shades of black. They gloat over every gloomy incident. They rejoice in outrage, they glory in murders. Hint to them that there has been some slight exaggeration, that in the list of agrarian crimes there are some which have no more to do with the land than the Pantin or the Finsbury murder, and they will 13'3 seriously angry. " Agrarianism " shall stalk through that unhappy land ; the whole tenant class shall be at war with the landlord class ; and the life of the kindest hearted nobleman who ever had the mis fortune to possess Irish property shall not be worth a year's purchase. For instance, the reviewer gives a list of all the agrarian murders and attempts at murder which have been committed during the past two years. This list gives just twenty-four, or one a month. They are twenty-four too many we admit; but whether they are all agrarian may fairly be questioned, when we find a note suggesting that the murder of Mr. ANKETELL, the station-master at Mullingar, by the porter whom he had dismissed, " must be added to the list" because of its "analogous" character. At this rate it would be easy to show that nearly every murder in England is agrarian, notably the Norton Folgate murder, in which a London pprentice killed his master's wile for dismissing him. the Dallycohey affair is, of course, included in the list ; yet though murder can under no circumstances, except that of self-defence, be justi fied, it may fairly be asked if the forcible resistance to Mr. SCULLY'S tyranny was not a less heinous crime than the attack of the Chapeltown colliers, and the murder of one poor woman. The reviewer, and those who think with him, take for granted that "agrarian" murders are the most atrocious of all mur iers, whereas they are not seldom the least atrocious, because committed, as at Ballycohey, under the influence of strong provocation, under the prospect 3f being turned out into the world homeless and Starving. Of course we find Mr. O'CoNNoit's case duly recorded, with the statement that he was " brutally mutilated." Yet it turns out that he was not mutilated at all, and the Dublin papers which pub lished the sensation story about his nose being cut off, have been compelled to confess that he is suffering /lily from a slight scar received in a fight, waged on le part of the assailants without the smallest intention of murder, but simply to obtain possession of arms. Within the last day or two another "agrarian outrage" of the most formidable ;liaracter turns out to be nothing. more than one pane of glass broken by a stone. Far be it from us to extenuate the offences which have been committel But there is no reason why they should be exagge rated. And when we remember that the total of crimes of violence of all kinds is infinitely below that of such crimes in England, we see no reason to take the gloomy view of the former country wherein the Quarterly Reviewer revels. la_ triAll_tho euaaiterations _a_attaiis-StaleApAtgof ness. town. IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT OF Rus'srA. 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This EvxmNG. at 7, CORRUPT PRACTICES. After which, CHILPEIIIC: Messrs M. Manus, G Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Coghlan, Herve; Mesdames Dolaro, Fitzlnman, Ito manelli, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Tnis EVENING, at 7, AFTER DARK: Mr Vining. Followed by THE sm EE SOF LONDON: Mr Vining; Messrs Philips, Ashley, Stuart, Rignold, Taylor, Lseson, Ebarne ; Mesdames Barnett, Stoker, Brewer. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborougb. THIS EVENING. at 7.30, ANIONG- THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And IN O. Concluding with THY CHOPS t ;F THE CHANNEL. WOODIN'S CARPET - BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall. Piccadilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at 3; Saturday Mai ninvs at 3. Admission, is, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at Wednesdays and Saturdays, at :3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G ARDENS, Regent's-Falk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Yendays, 6d. Children under twelve. ad. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at S. is. Box-office open fromll to 4. -13 ig ar _ <- I ' 4 l 41'4 VI THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1870. thiss — aßicg are - uripaß onable. For instance, Cardinal CULLEN and theßomanCatholic bishops are reproached beetause they have not given the word of disapproval which would shut the mouths of men like Fathers LAVZLLE, RYAN, and O'DOYLE. They have given the word, and we believe that one of the offending priestsihas been, if not suspended, severely censured. Again, \ an article in the Fenian organ, the People, is quoted to prove that no legislation—that nothing short of the independence of Ireland will satisfy - that country. If we wore to quote the speeches of Lord JOHN MAN NERS and Mr. STAVELEY HILL, and say that nothing less than the re-establishment of Protection will satisfy the Conservative party, the Quarterly Review would protest against the whole party being made responsible for the words of a few extreme men. Let the Quarterly Review apply the same principle to Irish Politics, and it will then find that there is undoubtedly a certain number of persons whom we call Fenians, who will be satisfied with nothing less than an Irish Republic, but that they no more represent the Irish people than the members for North Leicestershire and Coventry represent the opinions of LORD DERBY, Mr. DISRAELI, and SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE. These Fenians Mr. GLADSTONE does not attempt to satisfy. What he does attempt is this,—he en deavours to do such justice to the Irish people that they will not care to listen to Fenian agitators. It is the most unstatesmanlike and fatal of all policies to refuse to grant what is right because there are certain men who demand a good deal more. Such conduct drives those who might be satisfied into the arms of the irreconcileables. Then again the reviewer attributes the present agitation for "fixity of tenure " to the surrender of the Established Church last session, and to the belief that Mr. GLADSTONE needs pressure from without to enable him to carry a land bill. It is forgotten that for many years past every QUEEN'S speech has contained the promise of a measure for securing the rights of Irish tenants against the eviction of capricious land lords. Year after year the promise has been left unful filled. It was not till last year that the measure was omitted from the Ministerial programme, and then emphatically on the ground that it should be included in this year's list, and that it should be passed. No wonder there is extravagance in some quar ters. Yet here, again, there is no reason why because of this extravagance right should not be done. No doubt, too, evictions and bad landlords are rare. But it is the possibility of them that does so much harm. Only recently some large Irish estates passed into the hands of a nobleman through the death of his predecessor, and the new owner has behaved with such tyranny that it is considered compatible only with insanity. Yet the tenants have no remedy, and those who are LV)w enjoying peaceable possession have no guarantee that when their present land lord sells or dies they will not be at the mercy of a madman. The reviewer is more happy in criticising the land schemes which have been put forth by Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. MILL, and others, than in suggesting any scheme of his own. In fact he suggests nothing but the suspension of Habeas Corpus. We really thought that that remedy had been tried long enough to shew how completely it failed to cure. Nevertheless, the reviewer seems still to put faith in it. We suppose he does so on CAvoun's principle that " any one can govern with a state of siege," SIR RUTHERFOP.D ALcocx's doings at Nankin, previously to his departure from China, appear to have been a remarkably favourable sample of English conduct towards the Chinese. Some missionaries it seems, had met with objectionable treatment, and our ambassador very properly went to talk matters over with the VICEROY and the IMPERIAL COMMISSIONER at Nankin. The populace did not greet SIR RUTHERFORD very kindly. On arriving at his destination he was kept waiting for ten minutes—one account says a quarter of an hour. The British ambassador com plained, and the VICEROY at once disclaimed any in tentional discourtesy. When Sir RUTHERFORD returned to his vessel, the Chinese magnates "sent presents with the accustomed formalities ;" but our countryman, with what seem also to be the " accus tomed formalities" of Englishmen when dealing with the Celestials, refused both the presents and a letter of apology. Another version of the story tells us that Sir RUTHERFORD ALCOCK declined to accept the gifts, unless brought by an official of the proper rank, who did not make his appearance until late at night, when the ambassador refused to receive him. These stories are furnished by Anglo-Chinese journals which, to put it mildly, are not at all favourable to the Chinese. But even accepting the accounts as they stand, the conduct of the British Ambassador appears such as the Chinese must find it hard to tole rate. It was wrong of the populace to hoot, but the doings of the mob should hardly be visited upon the higher functionaries of the Empire. If our London roughs annoyed M. DE LAVALETTE, the latter would not be likely to exact satisfaction by snubbing the Earl of CLARENDON. Sir RUTHERFORD ALCOCK was kept waiting for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. This discourtesy, however, was at once apologised for ; and yet when presents were sent, Sir RUTHERFORD cava lierly refused them, and when an official of the proper rank—whoever he may be—came to offer further apologies, the British ambassador declined to have any dealings with him because ho made his appearance Late at night. In any ordinary diplomatic relations it is by no means the rule to resent a slight with a gross indignity ; but if a Chinese official accidently °fiends, he is treated like a child. The absurdity of such proceedings becomes palpable at once by comparing them with the behaviour of European diplomatists to each other under similar circumstances. Would the apology of a French or a German ambassador be rejected because he was ten minutes late ? Would a Euro pean official be cavalierly dismissed if he came "late at night ?" Unfortunately, th 3 British mini has never yet been able to so demean itself as to regard a Chinese as an individual worthy of equal rights with the rest of mankind. He is an inferior being, to be dealt with at the will and pleasure of a superior race. Whether peppered by cannon balls from a gunboat, " potted" by bushrangers in Australia, or stoned by Californians in the streets of San Fran cisco, it is all one ; the Celestial is still the same beast of the field, submitting to the will of his master. It is true that the right to butcher Chinese at will is falling out of favour. We are still, however, far from according to this people the treat ment which is justly their due. Tho conduct of Englishmen in China is often overbearing, dis courteous, and in fine such as no Christian people would tolerate for a moment. Is it to be wondered at that trade makes slow progress, that missionaries are coldly received, that the Chinese keep out European influence as much as possible ? If our readers have any doubt on the subject, we commend to their notice the articles and reports which regularly appear in the Hongkong newspapers. Under the circumstances, the wonder is that we have Progressed so rapidly. A correspondence respecting the slave trade in the South Sea Islands has just been published. In his last despatch on the subject, reviewing the evidence that has been adduced, Earl Granville says it is quite clear that the slave trade is belly_ gradually establiahed by British speculators fo: the benefit of British settlers, mad that the traffic lifu the indirect sanction of the British Consul at Fiji, who ha intervened to prevent abuses. Hitherto he has been successful, but it is evident, says Earl Gran ville, that all restraint is becoming openly defied. The responsibility of this traffic rests with the British Government, who desire full information on the subject. Addressing Consul March, Earl Granvilk says : " You will understand that the subject is one whicl occupies the anxious attention of her Majesty's Govern ment, and you will endeavour to throw upon it all th light in your power. Any suggestions you may offe. either for placing the traffic on a sound foeting or fo putting an end to it altogether, will be well received by illdrittilltsAlg9MlWlVA" • POLICE 11V7ELL1GENCE—This D. THAMES. THE Bow BANDITTI AND THE CHEST OF TEA.--• Three members of that notorious gang, known as the Bow banditti, named Richard Hood, aged 16 years; Joseph Goss, 24; and Charles Sexton alias General Sexton, were brought up on remand before Mr. Lushington charged with stealing a. chest of green tea from the shop of Mr. Edward Jones, grocer, of No. 192, Campbell-road, Bow. The principal witness against the prisoners was a respectable young man named Charles Mitchell, who saw the prisoners and another lurking about the prosecutor's shop a few nights ago, and sus pecting they belonged to the Bow banditti watched them, and while two of them were on the watch Hood entered the shop, whipped up a chest of tea, and carried it out of the shop. He gave the chest to Sexton, who carried it up the street towards Poplar, and was covered by his confederates. Mit chell gave immediate information to the grocer and to the police, and he rendered valuable assist ance to Ilowlett and Furze, detectives of the K division, who apprehended the prisoners at various times ; Sexton was represented as a trainer of young thieves, and a most dangerous fellow. He had been convicted summarily for breaking a pane of glass and stealing sugar out of a grocer's shop, and again convicted at the Middlesex Sessions for stealing a German sausage out of a cart. When he was taken into custody by Howlett be said, " You have not got the tea, and you will not have it from me ; it's no use pumping me." The prisoners on being called on for their defence said they were innocent. Mr. Lushington committed them all for trial. A DISHONEST NEWSBOY.—George Gollop, a boy, aged 13 years, was brought before Mr. Lushington on remand, charged with embezzling a great many small sums he bad received for, and on account of, his master, Mr. Sydney Gundry, newsvendor and tobacconist, of 178, Milo-end-road. Mr. Pelham, solicitor, conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, defended. After some discussion between the solicitors it was arranged that the boy should plead guilty, and although he had done much injury to Mr. Gundry and his busiuesq, be was recommended to mercy. Air: Pelham said that when the prisoner was first discovered to have defrauded his master the amount of his defalcations amounted to £2 12s 6d, and the affair was condoned. The boy's parents agreed to pay the amount by weekly instalments. Only a very small portion of the sum had been paid, and the boy re-commenced his system of embezzlement. 11.1 r. Lushington said the prisoner thoroughly un derstood he had done a wrong act, and sentenced him to a light punishment-14 days' imprisonment and hard labour. ELECTION NEWS. Itt: heron's declaration that be means to ^ offer himself again for tFipperary, has called forth a similar expression from the adherents of OTionoinci Rossa. If the convic,i , be refused his seat, his friends will put him up again. It is stated that in the event of the retirement of Mr. F. IV. Russell from the representation of Lime rick, the Right Hon. W. Monsell, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, will vacate his seat for the county, and offer himself for the vacancy in the city. The right hon. gentleman is taking this step in compliance with the wish of Lord Adair, who will offer himself for the county. Cole nul Dickson will be the Con servative candidate. Mr. James Speight, J.P., will come forward in that interest for the city, as will also the Right lion. the Attorney-General for Ireland. rHE WELSH EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE. - The Welsh Educational Conference, which has so long been projected, opened at Aberystwith yesterday. Three hundred delegates attended. The proceedings took place in the University College building. They were not perhaps altogether what the promoters of the Conference at first intended them to be. It was at ono time hoped that all parties would be represedted at the Con ference ; but the Union was not so. Both the National Educational League—the secular educationalists—and the Manchester Educational Union—the religious educational ists—wore asked to attend. The former consented,and a de putation was sent to argue the question; the latterdeclined as they said the proceedings seemed intensely secular, and the delegates were pledged to foregone conclusions. Dr. Edwards, of Bala, advocated the abolition of establishes' religion in schools as well as in churches. Secular educa tion, with Bible reading, he approved. Mr. Jones, of Macchynlleth, and the Rev. D. Rowlands, Bangor, advo eated free, unsectarian, and compulsory education. CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP OF OXFORD. Tuesday being the festival of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle, was appropriately selected for the consecra tion of the Right Rev. Dr. John Fielden Mackarness, wh has been chosen to fill the See of Oxford, rendered vacant,. by the translation of the Right Rev. Dr. Samuel Wilber force to the Bishopric of Winchester. The ceremony tools place in Westminster Abbey, the sacrarium being set apart for the clergy, amongst whom were many from Devonshire. where until lately Dr. Mackarness was beneficed, and also many old Oxford friends now scattered about the various dioceses of England. In the choir, accommodation was provided for other friends of the bishop. The general congregation was, as is usual on such occasions, a very large one. The Archbishop Lycurgus, in his splendid robes, and several Greek priests, were present. In con• sequence of the continued inability of the Archbishop of Canterbury to take any active part in the services of the Church, his Grace issued his commission_to proceed with the consecration to the Bishops of London, Ely, Rochester, Lichfield, and Salisbury, and those right reverend prelates received the bishop elect in the Jerusa lem Chamber, where the usual preliminary formalities were gone through. They wore accompanied into the church by the Very Rev. Dr. Stanley, the dean, the Vencr able Archdeacon Jennings, the Rev. Canon Leighton, of All Soul's College, Oxford; the Rev. Canon Conway, the Rev. S. Flood Jones, the Precentor, the Rev. F. Harford. the Rev. C. M. Arnold, the Rev. J. J, Troutbeck, the Rev. G. Hallett, and other minor Canons, Sir Travers Twiss, the vicar general of the Province of Canterbury, Mr. F. Hart Dyke, the registrar, and other officials. The Bishop elect wore an ordinary black gown, over which was his university hood. The Bishop of London took his place on the north side of the altar, and at once commenced the service. The epistle was read by the Bishop of Rochester, the gospel by the Bishop of Ely. At the close of the Nicene Creed, the sermon was preach ed by the Rev. Charles Wellington Furse, M.A., of Balliol College, Oxford, vicar of Staines, who selected his text from St. Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthans, 11th Chapter 29th verse, " Who is weak and lam not weak, who is offended and I burn not ?" Having explained how experience of life affected different persons. and particularly how it affected St. Paul, he remarked that a bishop must have great spiritual experience if he aimed at the best work and aspired to be a father amongst the saints, as well as to be equal and just to all claims of duty alike. From the pulpit which Bunsen called the Pro testant Confessional he spoke boldly to his spiritual fathers, and he reminded themthat they must not be brothers only but leaders in the fight. Speaking of the modern English Church he remarked that such men as Wesley, Simeon, Cecil, Arnold, Keble, and Newman were never honour. ,; to be principals in such a ceremonial as that in which they were engaged in the abbey that day. He believed a brighter day would never dawn upon the English Church than when the clergy should be gathered together in their respective dioceses, and should feel instinctively that the noblest and purest among them, the one amongat them of the largest spiritual experience, was the Bishop sitting on his throne. It was one thing to be the moderator of an assembly, or the judge of a bishop's court, and another to be the holiest liver in the world unseen. Still, bishops must command. Erastians and Catholics, optmists and cynics, all agreed that while bishops were paid to keep order, order must be kept. He confidently predicted that perfect order never would be kept until the bishops were strengthened by consultation with the clergy and laity, or some permanent representation in a diocesan assembly. How that was to be accomplished he did not pretend to say, and he left that question in the hands of statesmen, whose business it was to deal with it. Meanwhile bishops, clergy, and laity must strive to do all that Catholic usage would permit. The real question for a bishop to ask him self in these days was whether he would linger in the rear, or whether he would command as a chief pastor, guiding his flock. The progress which was made a century ago was no progress now, but simply an inert resistance of grace. Amongst seine of the marks of recent progress might be reckoned the establish ment of diocesan synods by bishops, and the establishment of theological colleges, also the work of bishops. Then there had been the formation of sisterhoods, of brother hoods, schemes of retreats, means for confession, miss sions, far beyond any ordinary parochial arrange ments. All these were becoming naturalised in the land. It might be admitted that they were experiments and that in some cases they were burdens to the rulers of the Church; but still they were matters in which the Church would call upon the Bishops to lead. At the same time, he did not consider that there could be no communion in the Lord's Supper except when fasting, and that no post baptismal sin could be forgiven without the absolution o; a priest. He thought it was time that the bishops should interfere. The preacher then bade an affectionate farewell to Bishop Mackarness, with whom he said he had been united in the bonds of love and friendship for more than thirty years. At the close of the sermon the Bishop elect, vested in his rochet, was presented to the Bishop of London, the president of the Commission, by the Bishop of Ely and the Bishop of Rochester, the first named right reverend prelate saying :—" Most Reverend Father in God, we pre sent unto you this godly and well learned man to be ordained and consecrated bishop." Mr. F. Hart Dyko then, by direction of the presiding Bishop, read the Queen's mandate for the con secration, and the usual oaths were administered. Then followed the Litany, which was sung by the Rev. S. Flood, Jones, M.A„ the Precentor, and the Rev. J. K. Harford, M.A. The Bishop Elect having put on the rest of the episcopal habit during the anthems " 0 where shall wisdom be found " and " 0 praise the Lord " (Goss), the " Veni Creator Spiritus" was sung, and the Bishop Elect, kneel ing before the bishops, was admitted to the order of the episcopate by the imposition of hands. The Communion Service was then proceeded with, the offertory being given to the Westminster Pastoral Aid Fund. Bishop Mackarness was educated at Merton College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. degree in 1844, being second-class in classics. Almost immediately afterwards he was elected to a fellowship at Exeter College. In 1845 he was presented by the Hon. R. H. Clive to the vicarage of Tardebigge, near Bromsgrove, which he held until 1855, when he was nominated by the Earl of Devon to the rectory of Honiton. He was also a Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral, and chaplain to Lord Lyttelton. He will be enthroned at Christ Church, Oxford, about the middle of February, and will hold his p"imary ordination for the Lent season. THE PROGRESS OF RITUALISIL—The Rev. A. 11. Mackonochie officiated on Monday evening at a Ritualist cere mony at St. Paul's, Lorrimore-sqaure, Walworth, the occa sion being the anniversary of the Dedication of St. Paul The altar was draped in white and green satin surround. ings, and upon it were placed thirty candles. The table was covered with red cloth. In the arch seven lamps pendant were ranged at various heights from the roof. The clergy during the service sat with their backs to the congregation The Rev. J. Going, M.A., incumbent of St. Paul's, and several gentlemen in deacon's orders, were present. During the Magnificat, at the words " Holy is His name," many of the audience almost entirely prostrated them selves; and at the time of the lessons both the officiating clergymen, in coming to the lectern, turned and bowed to the altar. In the course of the Apostle's Creed, on arriving at the sentence, " the resurrection of the body, and tho life everlasting," the practice of making the sign of the cross was generally observed. The sermon was reached by Az t . ,3491p119,9)iie. The t SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC 7:01:TRITAIS: The Times remarks that " strikes " in France are seldom allowed to attain such formidable proportions as they arc; apt to assume in some of our Lancashire or Yorkshire dis tricts. The one which broke out last week at Le Creuzot, in the department of Saone and Loire, does not seem as yet to have created very serious alarm ; still, a short account of the occurrence may not be uninstructive to our own rioters in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, or to the authorities who have to deal with them. The President of :he Legislative Body, M. Schneider, was in his place on 'Wednesday week, when ho received tidings which induced aim suddenly to quit the Chamber. A dangerous "strike" was 3nnounced among the workmen in his forges at Creuzot. M. Schneider, a large proprietor, the greatest ironmaster in France, enjoys a high reputation for benevolence cowards the people in his employment. He keeps schools for them, builds their cottages, provides them with medi cal attendance, and their condition is, on the whole, so nourishing that their Mutual Relief Fund shews a balance in their favour of £20,000. But a newcomer among the journeymen gave the signal for disorder, and, as the people had previously 1 e m plied with every variety of subversive doctrines, the forges were deserted, the fires left untended, and from 10,000 to 15,000 labourers, with their families, en joyed throughout the week that riotous and ruinous holy day which is called a " strike." The workmen's de mands—besides the right of managing their own Relief Fund, which would not have been denied — were higher wages for less labour and the dismissal of an obnoxious foreman. M. Schneider, on reaching the spot, finding the fires extinguished and the work at an end, deolared that the workshops should soon be re-opened and that the men who did not attend should be dismissed. The works were opened on Saturday morning, and about two-thirds of the men were at their places. A force of more than 3,500 troops, with cannon, was forwarded to the spot from Lyons, and the affair was considered at an end Left to themselves, French operatives are sensible enough. There is not a workman at Creuzot who does not under that, let revolutions achieve what they may, there will always be the rich and the poor in the world. Human law may thoroughly emancipate man from man; but it cannot free the immense majority of mankind from that stern law of nature which arises from want. So long as rant exists there will also exist a tie of mutual depend ence between rich and poor—a tie which need not be less binding because it is not compulsory, and need not be less fair and equitable because it is absolute and eternal. The Pall Gazette, in discussing possible reductions in the navy, says that it is a great thing, no doubt, to prove that nine ships can be kept afloat for two-thirds of their present cost ; but it would be a far greater benefit to the country to prove that twelve ships can be kept afloat for the sum it now costs to keep nine. We will not recapitulate the reasons which point to the conclusion that England ought to have a navy altogether out of proportion both to her own army and to the navies of other Powers. To our minds the demonstration is complete and irrefutable; and the only ground on which it is permissible to postpone putting the service on this footing is the difficulty of inducing the House of Commons to consent to the required outlay without any apparent cause. Hitherto it has been assumed that retrenchment is really economy ; we have only asked whether a particular kind of economy is desirable under the present circumstances. As regards the navy, how ever, it is a further question whether retrench ment is really economy. The two great items of naval expenditure aro the building of ships aill the keeping of ships in commission ; and A may be a matter of life or death with us in .;welve months, in six months, at any moment whether we have many ships or fow. The very question whether we are strong at sea may decide, we know not how soon, whether we are to remain at peace or be plunged into war, For our navy is our only strength; our security depends on it alone. Nor is it a weapon that can be put off and on readily. A British ship of war is not like a French regi ment of the line, to be sent out of service and taken back gain in three weeks. And the costliest navy is the one :hat has to be built and manned suddenly. The Post says that if France has her Irreconcilables we nave our Impracticables, and Mr. White and Mr. Fawcett, who are perhaps the most energetic expositors in Parlia ment of impracticable views, have shown by their speeches delivered at Brighton on Monday last that they are as true as ever to their distinctive tenets. They are satisfied with nothing that either is or is likely to be done. " What I have, that I despise ; what I have not, that I desire ; what I cannot have, that I am determined to get," may sum up their creed. Their utterances may be regarded with interest, as marking the extreme limits to which political ideologists can go ; but there the interest ends. Mr. White fairly represents the hand of the Impracticables— Mr. Fawcett the head ; and while the latter is too clever by half, the former is just clever enough to appropriate and energetically to declare the extreme views to which both pin their faith. Education, pauperism, the relations of capital and labour, and the system of promotion in the army, all come under the head of abuses against which Mr. White has, he says, protested " too often, alas ! una vailingly ;" and he must have left his audience penetrated with the firm conviction that everything from sugar to Irish land is eaten up with corruption in a generation of which the only consideration is that Mr. White is still left to protest unavailingly. Professor Fawcett claims to exercise "freedom of judgment and independence of thought ; " and whether the claim is conceded or not, there is every reason to expect that, as in the past so in the future, both he and his colleague will use such free dom and independence as will at once invest their ideas with interest as bold political speculations, and prevent them from being considered as involving the possibility of practical realisation. The Daily News observes that a Government cannot rely on administrative efficiency alone, with which, indeed, some Governments have found it possible to dispense alto gether. If in matters of policy a Government can seldom be much in advance of public opinion, it can still less afford to lag behind the convictions and purposes of the nation. The conviction is practically universal that the time has now come for carrying out a system of popular education, and for re moving all theological tests for lay offices in the Univer sities and Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. Then again, there is the Ballot, to which even Conservative oppo sition appears well nigh to have ceased. Real states manship will dictate tile expediency of seizin 3. the oppor tunity presented by this acquiescent mood. To plead want of time is to suggest want of capacity. In the case of some of the measures to which we have alluded, the task which the Government and Parliament have before them is not to establish sound principles by discussion, but to give effect to principles as to which there is substantial concord. One thing ought not to be lost sight of. Mr. Gladstone can do to-day what he may not be able to do to-morrow. Hi s majority is undiminished in numbers, unweakened in confidence in its leaders and in loyalty t o • its principles. The wisest policy will be not to post : pone until 1871 anything which there is a reasonable hope of doing in 1870. There arc members of the Liberal party, and members of the Administration, who arc well aware of this cardinal truth. We gladly accept Mr. Stans feld's speech at Halifax as the forerunner of a busy ses sion. Before the meeting of Parliament several Cabinet he ihrii arrange ho filitici thesLt Ministers Councils will be held, of which the chief duty will be to d o n A t good ie 8 b o p deal l e d e n c h e boldness n w t cia business n e party r o t o n y f t settle the Queen's at lies before them. thetw,iel 1 session.wo dependth The Standard declares that the idea of sending a flying squadron round the world to visit all the outlying dependencies of England was a most happy one, and it is gratifying to learn that it has already the best effects upon the loyalty of the Australian people. Whether or not it is wholly "Childers' idea," as the admiring correspondent of the Times avers, it would be ungrateful in us to question. We believe the truth to be that the cruise of the frigates had been arranged by Mr. Childers' predecessor and that the only merit which belongs to the present head of the Admiralty is that of having resisted the opportunity of winning a little cheap credit as an economist, at the expense of the broader imperial Interests. However this may be, we are glad to echo thb praises of Mr. Childers by his enthusiastic friend in Melbourne. If there is any flattery to ihich the colonists are accessible, it is precisely in such a com pliment as this which Mr. Childers has paid them. The "sentiment of the flag " is past of that cheap defence of nations which England, of all countries, can least afford to neglect. It is a feeling which burns in the bosom of the Australian with an intensity which has scarcely been sufficiently understood by us at home. If Mr. Childers understands these things, as we have no doubt ho doei, it is strange that he does not impart some of his wisdom to his colleagues, who are pursuing directly a policy precisely antagonistic to that which the Fr.st Lord of the Admiralty is promoting indirectly. What is the use of sending flying squadrons to Australia "to cement com munities and peoples"—to strike the local imagination with Imperial ideas—to skew them there palpable signs of the power of a great nation, when Lord Granville is per mitted to write insolent and foolish dispatches, of which the design can only be to estrange the colonies from England, to turn their thoughts away from the -Imperial connection, to dam the current of their national enthusi asm, and to make them, not only indifferent, but hostile to the gl•ewth of the lIPPO4'II idea ? J f 4. ij , *.ii4j44,l HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 25. The Queen suffered less from neuralgia yester day, but was unable to join the Royal Family at dinner. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Christian, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice went out this morning. LATEST INTELL MEN OE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) -- - .a ---- AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) Naw You K, Jan. 25. The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out $1,225,000 in specie. The Guion steamship Colorado arrived out to- day. The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Russia arrived here at 1 p.m. to-day. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Ant werp arrived out at 2 p.m. to-day. All well. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1211 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1211- ; the lowest, 121. Sterling Exchange on London lO9l-. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 115 4. 44 " 1885 ll5l. i; 44 1867 ll4l. 10-40 ig 1121. Illinois 1371. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 2sic. Petroleum—Standard White 3lic. Flour, extra state, $5.10c. to $5.70c. Corn, oil mixed, sl.6c. According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s report the receipts of cotton for the last four days, at all ports, have been 52,000 bales ; shipments to England, 22,000 bales ; to France, nil. bales ;I land to the Continent, 6,000 bales. Middling, 111, freight and cost per steamer. PORTLAND, Jan. 25. The Allan steamer Moravian arrived here to day. GREENCASTLE, Jan. 26. The Allan steamer Nestorian, which left Port land on the evening of the 16th January, calling at St. John's, Newfoundland, arrived in Lough Foyle, at 3.40 a.m. to-day. She landed the Lon don mails. HALIFAX ; Jan. 25. The Inman Royal mail steamer Etna arrived here to-day. All well. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Jan. 26. The Archduke ,Carl Ludwig was presentat a musical soiree given at the Palace last night, and afterwards took leave of the King. The Archduke left for Prague by the night train. SPAIN. MADRID, Jan. 25, Evening. The results of the elections as yet known are as follows :—Four Unionists, five Democrats, ten Progressists, and six members of the Republican party have been successful. Only one Carlist sympathiser has been elected. The success or otherwise of the Duke of Mout pensier in the Asturias will not be known before Saturday. A heavy fall of snow has greatly impeded the traffic throughout Spain, and has probably pre vented many inhabitants of the villages in the mountains from voting. General Cabrera, the old Carlist leader, has not been elected. WESTMINSTER. CURIOUS CHARGE OF FELONY.—Louis Wipplin gen, alias Alfred de Chauvigny, alias Laleuski, a well-dressed foreigner, about 32 years of age, was charged with stealing household furniture, value £BO, the goods of Joseph Copsey, from 38, Sussex street, Pimlico. Mr. Froggart prosecuted ; Mr. W. D. Smyth, of Rochester-row, defended. The facts as opened by the prosecution are simple —prosecutor was out of town, and the prisoner in duced his si ife, a Frenchwoman, to let him retao e the furniture from Sussex-street to King-street, Soho, as he alleged the landlady was in difficulties and the goods would be seized. The goods were taken there, and afterwards warehoused, the pri soner borrowing £2O on them. He was given into custody at King-street three months ago, but was discharged. The defence and cross-examination showed that there had been monetary and friendly transactions between the parties ; and prosecutor said he had given prisoner cheques, which had been dishonoured, and his wife bad pawned her jewellery to lend the prisoner money at different times. It also trans pired that prosecutor had signed a receipt for the payment of £3 on account of the £lO, and an un lertaking to take no criminal proceedings in regard to the present matter. Mr. Arnold, after looking at the document in question, asked how the prosecution could be -sus tained in the face of it, and remanded the prisoner, taking Lis own bail. MARLB01(01.7011 STREET. EXTENSIVE FORGERY AND ROBBERY.—Stephen Jones, formerly clerk in the employ of Mr. Isaac L. Pulvermucher, medical galvanic chain band in ventor and manufacturer, No. 200, Regent-street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with forgery, and also with stealing galvanic bands and other articles, the property of his employer. _ From the evidence of Mr. Henry Stephen Foot man, manager to Mr. Pulvermacher, it appeared that the prisoner, while in the employ of Mr. Pul vermacher, was in the habit cf having letters sent ►,y his employer's patients given to him to answer, tnd in November last it was found that in answer ing them he wrote to some of Mr. Pulver macher's patients requesting them to address future letters to No. 19, Tooley-street, stating that to be Mr. Pulvermacher's private resi dence. Several letters, it subsequently was dis covered—some of them containing post-office orders —were sent to the address, 19, Tooley-street, and the prisoner obtained the money for the post-office , irders by forging Mr. Pulvermacher's name to them. Letters reaching Mr. Pulvermacher from some of his patients complaining of the non-execu tion of their orders, although they had forwarded Post-office orders to No. 19, Tooley-street. Mr. 'Footman went there, it being the prisoner's re,i deuce, and saw him, he being then ill in bed; and having told him that he had been guilty of forging Pulvermacher's name and robbing him, he said he had, that he was very sorry, that he did it in the hour of temptation, but that there were only two cases of the kind. The prisoner being ill, he was not then taken into custody, and he subse quently absconded. Since then it had been dis covered that he had carried on the system to a large extent, Mr. Pulvermacher having received numerous letters from clients in Scotland, Ireland, acd elsewhere, showing it to be the case. The prisoner, who was apprehended last night at East Ilam, Essex, by Shrives, divisional detective, and who made no answer to the charge, was re- By a telegram received from Malta it appears that her Majesty's troopship Himalaya, which is conveying to Alexandria Indian reliefs, en route to Bombay, arrived at the former port on the 23d instant, and was to sail on the night of the follow ing day. Her Majesty's Indian troopship Eu phrates arrived at Suez from Bombay, and the Malabar left the former for the latter port on the 24th instant. All well in each case. A FEW "WORDS ABOUT PALETOTS.—" Struggling into a Lightly-fitting top-coat is to my mind extremely disagreeable at Any time, but especially so when you have on evening clothes or 1 jacket made of a rough woolly-surfaced material. Getting a ight grip on the cuff of your jacket, you make a violent thrust with extended arm, your hold slips, and you find your cuff up to your elbow; off comes the top-coat, and this time you try more warily, and, by dint of coaxing, the right arm is through all right. , Tow for the left; no, the arm-hole is everywhere but in the pro 2er place; yes, that's it, a dexterous push; no, botheration! i die inside pocket. Try again. This time you hit it off, and pour Aibly contrive to force your arm half way in, and there it fre quently sticks fast until the servant or somebody else comes to she rescue and literally shakes you into the obstinate overcoat, Ind then, ruffled in temper, and, figuratively speaking, ruffled dl over, you take yourself off about your business. This has so iften hap. sued to me that I ccntemplated_with a grim satisfac ion the appearance on the hoardings of a gentlemanly-looking .ndividual, over whose shoulders hung a kind of loose rug, that ;ave me the idea of being something between a Mexican poncho Ind an Inverness scrapper. The figure looked sleek, untumbled, Ind placidly comfortable, and I knew at once he must resemble L man who had not been compelled to wrestle himself into a )p-coat. My mind was made up to go to the advertiser's at )nce and try on of these outer garments; so, wending my way Lo one of the agents of Messrs. D. Nicoll & Co., Fell-street, IV ood ,treet I tried on the Rug-paletot,' and was not a little elated ,t finding what I had so long been wishing for, in the shape of a trapper I could put ou and take off without any trouble, and hat would keep me at the same tim 3 warm and dry. It has also Iris additional advantage—in a railway carriage it serves the all purp,tse of a rug fur the knees and feet. I have no into; est a anything Messrs. Nicoll sell, but simply state my experience 'or the benefit of others who may, like myself, have been bothered with a 'great coat.' I like comfort and hate 'unnecessary trou ale, and I find this new kind of covering most convenient. I lave frequently to call at several places, perhaps in the course of in hour or two, and must either sit in my top-coat, if I wear , ne, and lose the good of it on going out, or taking it off, must incletgo the ordeal Iso much dislike of putting it on again the rug-paletot slips from my shoulders in a twinkle, and is as easily ,hrovu over them."—The Wanderer, "Land and Water." FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 25.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 14 per Cent. 3 per Cent .. 73 70 Italian Pives 55 10 End of month... 73 60 Austrian Fives Credit Mobilier ... 210 Ottoman Loan Transatlantic 2OO Do. Debt 44 20 Iredit Foncier _1773 Spanish T hrees - Paris Gas 1665 Home Debt 23 --- Suez Canal 337 50 Deferred — -"- RAILWAYS, Cash Orleans ... !'75 Western Northern ..., ll3O Strasburg • • Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 608,t Sardinian Austrian Lombard 5061 North of Spain 6O Saragossa 4 Roman _ ADMIRAL SIR G. F. SEYMOUR, G.C.8., This morning the mortal remains of the late gallant Ad miral Sir George Francis Seymour were removed from his town residence, Eaton-square, Pimlico, and conveyed by railway to Alcester, and finally deposited in Arrow Church Warwickshire. AIRS. LAFONTAINE ERSKINE'S READING.—Last evening this talented lady gave an entertainment at the Queen's Concert Rooms, which attracted a very numerous and distinguished audience. It consisted of readings from Longfellow, Thackeray, Hood, and Macaulay, Mrs. Erskine has a fine clear voice, her man ner is exceedingly graceful, and her delivery of "The Wreck of the Hesperus," and "Cana-- bottomed Chair" was worthy of very great praise. Macaulay's " Virginius" and Southey's " Old Woman of Berkeley" also were given with tho greatest effect. The musical portion of the entertainment was sustained by Miss Julia Lafontaine (pianoforte), who performed a selection from the works of Beethoven in the most careful and artistic manner, and Signorina De Bono, a lady violinist of great talent. Altogether the entertainment was a most agreeable one, and gave the greatest satis faction. A private in the 94th Regiment, named Alfred Fowler, aged 38, stationed at Woolwich, was yes terday charged on remand at 'Woolwich Police court, before Mr. Maude, with embezzling the sum of k:l2 108., the money of Lieut.-Colonel F. R. Mein, C. 8., commanding the 94th Regiment, and also with forging the name of Mr. Barth, forage contractor at Woolwich, with intent to defraud. The prisoner, it appeared, had been groom to Col. Mein, who had been in the habit of sending pay ment for forage by the prisoner, monthly, to the contractor, the prisoner having a pass-book in which the accounts were kept. Instead of paying for the forage he appropriated the money and forged the signature of the contractor in the pass-book; the whole of the signatures in the book were forgeries, and no money had been paid on Colonel Mein's ac count since July last. Another charge was pre ferredagainst the prisoner of having obtained forage, in the name of Colonel Mein, from Mrs. Griggs, of Woolwich, to the amount of £lB 10s. since last J u ly. The depositions having been completed, the prisoner was fully committed for trial at the ❑ext Sessions of the Central Criminal Court. 'l•he very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messts. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their ilno old Irish whisky, is to be called •‘ The Royal Irish Distillery." HICIII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening. WEDNESDAY 56 min past 8 33 min past 9 THURSDAY... .............10 min past 10 50 min past 10 FRIDAY . 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