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GLOBE-At Seven, The Man o' Airlie. Robert Macaire. WOODIN'S CARPET-BIG AND SKETCH BoOK. Egyptian Hall, Pic cadilly, every Evening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn ings at 3, Admission Is, 2s, 3s. • • ORmisTy MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every N ight, at 8 ; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 &M. till .5.30 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra 'rooms, 6d. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's -park. Open daily except Sun days). Admission, Is ; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, Cl. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1870. ordinary speeches what the Lord Mayor's carriage is to an ordinary vehicle. This time the discourse is full of common sense, if not precisely the sense we might have hoped and desired. It contains very little about the Emperor himself ; whereas pre ceding effusions have been full of him, just as if the whole destiny of France were to uphold the House of Napoleon on the Throne without any corresponding advantage. Now the ruler begins to see that if the bargain is to be continued, it must be mutual. The new Constitution gives the Throne to himself and his heirs ; he in return must give better governing machinery, better education, and better laws to the French people. And accordingly his last speech is full of promises to this effect. It is all very satisfactory, except where the topic of the Constitution is touched upon. Concerning this the Emperor makes it clearly understood that there is to be no further change. He does not say that the edifice is crowned, but it is " fundamentally strengthened upon its base," which may be taken to imply the same thing. Indeed, we are told that the Constitution" is above all controversy ;" and that the nation is now"freed from the constitutional questions which divide the best minds." If anything were needed to prove that the plebiscitum was a reactionary measure, these statements surely supply the missing link. The Emperor is yet far from the position of a constitutional monarch ; but his prerogatives are now to be beyond all question. He found a little while ago that the liberal agitation would soon hand over a large portion of his power to the Parliament; he made certain concessions ; appealed to the people to ratify them ; and now declares that nothing more need be expected. Yet this very Constitution that is now established contains a pro vision that the power of effecting fundamental altera tions is to be shared by the Parliament. How can the latter body really possess such power, if no more alterations are to be made ? The sentences in the Em peror's speech about the Constitution imply in the clearest manner that the pldbiscite is a decision altogether above the interference of the people's representatives. If this be representative government the popular definition of the term must have greatly altered of late. No doubt the Parliament, with its increased powers, will win its way to its proper position as the real governing power. Nolegislative body that played its cards properly, has failed to do so. •But that the battle will not be won without a very severe contest, this plebiscitum, and the speech which follows it, sufficiently prove. In the House of Lords last evening the Earl of Carnarvon inquired what measures the Government intended to adopt to obtain satisfaction for the mur der of the British subjects in Greece. The noble lord, whilst he expressed his approval of the course pursued by the English Government, did not scruple to condemn the action of the Greek Ministry. Earl Clarendon, who seemed to have taken his cue from the speech of the Premier, was rather reticent, merely expressing his satisfac tion that the relatives of the murdered did not com plain of the measures taken by the British represen tative to obtain their release, and assuring their lord ships that a rigorous investigation should be made into the case, with an utter disregard to the position which any person concerned might occupy. In the House of Commons the Solicitor- General moved the second reading of the University Tests Bill. Mr. Walpole moved that it be read that day six months, and considerable discussion ensued on the two propositions. Considering the importance of the measure, it was considered by a very thin House, and this fact drew from Mr. Newdegate the remark that questions of principle did not command so much attention as matters purely personal. The second reading was carried by an overwhelming majority. The House went into Committee on the Irish Land Bill, and so much pro gress was made that when the House resumed the schedule and preamble of the bill had been agreed to. The bill will be reported on Thursday. The other business transacted was not very important, and the House adjourned at a quarter past one. • 4n/ 1t44. cola Tit, EVENING EDITION LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1870. The Protecting Powers, during the last forty years, over the modern Kingdom of Greece, have been— England, France, and Russia. It becomes a matter for very serious consideration, after these four decades last past, to discover what good, if any, the three allied Powers have secured, either to Greece, or, through Greece, to the rest of Christendom, in their united capacity as a Protectorate. Contrast, for a moment, the incidents which have recently occurred in the immediate vicinity of Athens, and the attitude ever since then adopted towards the Greek Government by our own, with the inci dents occurring exactly twenty years ago in the same capital, and the course instantly pursued at that time by our Administration. Subjects of the CROWN, peacefully travelling through Greece, and nominally under the shelter of its Govern ment and under the mgis of their own, are lawlessly seized by bandits, are infamously detained as hostages until an exorbitant sum shall have been paid over as a ransom, and are then, by the insensate proceedings wantonly adventured upon by the administrators of King GEORGE, deliberately doomed to assassination—the captors of ourunfortunate coun trymen,from havingbeen pursued at a moment themost inopportune, being transformed thereby from robbers into murderers. Twenty years ago what was the grievance England had to complain of—and for which at the cannon's mouth she demanded instant repara tion ? Was it an outrage in any way comparable to the one we have just now particularized? Listen to our reminder, here, of facts long since recorded on the page of history and then answer ! According to the statements put forth by the then Foreign Secretary of England, Lord PALMERSTON, the reigning Sovereign of Greece (Onfo) had, while clearing the ground for the con struction of a Palace, near Athens, taken possession of a portion of s garden belonging to a Mr. FINLAY, a British subject, long settled in that kingdom; while just about the same time another British subject (in point of fact a Portuguese by birth, as was indi cated by his very name) —Don PACIFICO—had had his house broken into and pillaged by a Greek mob —no redress having been obtained in either instance, on the one hand from the parties implicated in the burglarious outrage, or on the otherfrom the spoliating Government. Don PACIFICO had lost neither an eye nor a tooth. Mr. FINLAY had been deprived neither of life nor of limb. In answering the diJomatic com munication in which the claims preferred upon the Greek Government, under those two heads were duly set forth, that Government replied that they were willing to give a reasonable compensation, and that they would consent to a settlement of the claim by arbitration. France, on her parr, warmly sup ported the reasonableness of that proposition. Car rying matters with a high hand, however, Lord PAL MERSTON (Don Pacifico, as he was humorously dubbed en revanche, not long afterwards by Lord STANLEY) determined vi et armis to demand instant concessions at the muzzle of her guns. Admiral PARKER, then returning with the British squadron from the Dardanelles, was ordered [it is exactly twenty years ago, now, namely, in the May of 1850] to make sail for Athens. Obeying these instructions, Ad miral PARKER anchored his fifteen ships of war off , the Piraeus, repeating, there and then, in the name of his Government, their peremptory demand for repa ration, accompanying the demand with the intima tion that the harbour of the Piraeus was in a state of siege. In consequence of these extrordinary pro ceedings, the Protecting Powers were directly after wards upon the very verge of war. The French Am bassador, M.DROUYN DE LHUYS was recalled from En gland. The Russian Ambassador, Baron BRuNow, was preparing to obey similarinstructions from St. Peters burg. It was at this critical juncture that Lord STANLEY brought the whole of this extraordinary diplomatic imbroglio under the consideration of the House of Lords, insisting upon it that the character of a great and powerful nation had been degraded before all Christendom by an endeavour to enforce unjust, be couse exorbitant, demands upon a small State, a State, by comparison with itself, utterly weak and powerless. Lord STANLEY'S motion was carried by a majority of 37 in a House of nearly two hundred. Viscount PALMERSTON thereupon placed his resigna tion in the bands of the Prime Minister, Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Declining to accept the resignation of his colleague, the Premier referred the matter in dispute before Parliament to the con sideration of the popular branch of the Legislature. Then it was that Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice, on the 20th of June, of a motion approving of the Foreign Policy of the Government. Then it was, o n the very day following, that commenced in the House of Commons, a debate of historical importance, at the close of which (on the fourth night) Lord PALMERSTON delivered the most famous of all his orations—the great speech, occupying four hours and a half in its delivery, a speech, then and since then, regarded as among the most power ful and effective ever heard within the walls of Parliament! This was the memorable speech in which, while vindicating his Foreign Policy, Lord PAL MERSTON grandly referred to the old Roman saying, whenever its citizens were brought to trial in a foreign land, Civis Romanus sum! By a nett majority of 46 in a House of 574, Lord PALMER STON'S Foreign Policy was formally approved and a very signal triumph assured to the whole Govern ment. The upshot of it all was, nevertheless, strange to tell, a collapse—Lord PALMERSTON, the haughty vindicator of the outraged majesty of England, assenting in the end, to what France had all along been urging upon our consideration, namely, that the disputed claims should be submitted to arbitration, the arbiters even tually awarding about one-thirtieth of the sums originally demanded through a long series of fiery despatches and, at one time even, urged upon the Government of Greece at the cannon's mouth. Twenty years ago that haughty boast was uttered by Lord PALMERSTON—Civic Romanus sum. Twenty years ago !--and now the echo of it resounds, like the cruellest mockery, over the graves of our slaughtered countrymen. No wonder that the friend and bio grapher of Lord PALMERSTON, no wonder that a great and veteran master of our diplomacy like Sir HENRY BULIVER, should at la,t exclaim, on Friday night, in word* of burning indignation, " I cannot condescend, in view of the mangled bodies of my countrymen, to turn this into a miserable arena of politics, and spe culate who may next misrule that unfortunate coun try which is under our protection—if the men in power be infamous, and their possible successors more infamous—the fact may induce me to consider whether that system has not lasted long enough That, in truth, is the summing up in eight words of the Greek Question, as it is now thrust most urgently upon the consideration of England, as one of the re cognized and responsible protectors o the Athenian Government. There are some subjects which the public cannot rightly appreciate, because they are not sufficiently acquainted with their details, and there are others which they will not attend to because they are weary of their constant iteration. Among the latter may be classed the EDMUNDS scandal, aa it is generally called. For years it has dragged on, and no one has seemed to understand its meaning, or if they gave a partial attention to it their thoughts were speedily distracted. This wearisome matter has again en gaged the notice of the House of Commons, and per haps it never assumed a more irritating form or bore a more unsatisfactory aspect. Sir J. ELPHINSTONE brought its latest phase before the notice of the House, and asked-the Chan cellor of the Exchequer if it was true that he was about to incarcerate Mr. EDMUNDS as a supposed de faulter of the Government. He had heard it stated on good authority that the Government, notwith standing imprisonment for debt in all private trans actions had been abolished by Act of Parliament, had ordered a writ to be issued for the apprehension of Mr. EDMUNDS, whose case was still pending, and whose only chance consisted in bringing his case be fore a jury, which would be done not later than July. Mr. LOWE is not famous at any time for the answers he gives, and it cannot be denied that in this case he surpassed himself. Far from denying the charge, he seemed to glory in it, and distinctly repeated all that had been said by Sir J. ELPHINSTONE, with the satis factory addition that he did not mean to hold his hand. Whether right or wrong, Mr. EDMUNDS found that he could at last bring his case before a jury and have the matter settled in one way or another between himself and the Lords of the Treasury. The arbi trators decided that, after all payments made by him, Mr. EDMUNDS still owed a sum of £7,142 to the Exchequer. He disputed that decision. The Lords of the Treasury expresssed great indig nation against him in a minute, and this gave him an opportunity of vindicating his honour. The action for libel which he brought against Mr. GLADSTONE in common with Mr. LOWE, and Mr. STANSFIELD, was compelled to stand over till the next sittings, and the delay threatens to prove fatal to the unfortunate plaintiff. Surely this is a most inopportune moment to issue a writ against Mr. EDMUNDS, and prevent his proceeding with the trial. It could have made no difference to wait a short time, and allow the merits of this unfortunate affair to come out, but Mr. LOWE thinks otherwise, and has acted accordingly. We do not think that even the arbitrary nature of the Chancellor of the Exchequer can force the House of Commons to believe that a man can proceed with an action quite as well when he is in prison as when he is free, to come out and go where he likes. It is not with Mr. EDMUND'S case in itself that we have to deal, though he has certainly had many hardships to endure, but with the course pursu by the Government in respect to it. Allowing for the sake of argument that he is en tirely wrong in his action, that does not improve the case of the Treasury. Where can be the harm of letting a jury pronounce on the matter. A great deal of mischief may be wrought, and many hardships inflicted in the name of the law without it being easy to ascertain where the blame exactly lies, and all this may be attributed to the influence of example and the force of precedents. But it is no exaggeration to say that the House of Commons does not expect to see sharp practice in vogue among its Cabinet Ministers, and anything which can in a remote de gree bear that interpretation is alike unworthy of themselves and the position they fill. IS'o doubt Mr. LOWE feels aggrieved, no doubt Mr. ED MUNDS acted under mistaken motives, and very likely too much fuss has been made about the matter, but the best frionds of the Government will be those who tell them to " hold their hands." Let their triumph come in its natural course, or, their defeat be met as it best can. Either way the result would not be very damaging or very creditable. But they may rest assured that, whichever way would have been the right one to pursue hitherto, they have fixed on the wrong one now: They have cer tainly hit upon an ingenious way of making the EDMUNDS case notable again, and putting it in a new form before the House and country, but they may find the endeavour cost them too dear. Sir J. ELPEINSTONE said that he and many others thought Mr. EDMUNDS an ill-used man. The general public may not take this view of the case, but they will certainly feel great indignation at being told that a man is prevented from having his rights made known or his wrongs redressed, because he has been imprisoned at a critical -moment, not by the sharp practitioners of law but by the Ministers of the Crown. Before it is too late let us hope Mr. GLAD STONE will come to the rescue ; he must know the mistake which his colleague has made, let him pre vent him from carrying it out in its entirety, and so save the Ministry from a great reproach and the coun try from another and a worse scandal than any that ever attached to the EDMUNDS' affair. To sum up in a few words, such a proceeding as this of incarcerating a man on the eve of an explanatory trial may do very well abroad, and be in- keeping with existing forms and usages, but till a very different order of things shall prevail it will not be a practice that is in conformity with the wishes or suited to the tastes of the English public. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) As was expected, the formality of announcing the results of the plebiscitum in France was made the occasion of a speech from the Emperor. On the whole it was one of the most satisfactory he has yet made. It contains fewer of the cus tomary appeals to vague generalities with which an impatient nation has been put off for so many years. It is true that his Majesty cannot forbear an allusion to the blessings of universal suffrage—" the certainty of its instincts, the fidelity of its sympa thisers"— as if universal suffrage under the Empire had any instinct which the officials did not carefully instil into it, as if, in short, the merits of universal suffrage could be tested at all except under conditions of perfectly free action. But this is almost the only paragith of the old inflated, verbose, meaningless style. The Emperor's speeches have usually been to II E R ST F. BALMORAL CASTLE, May 22. The Queen went out yesterday morning with Princess Louise, and in the afternoon with Princess eatrice. Princess Louise went out riding in the afternoon, at tended by the Hun. Harriet Phipps and the Hon. Eva Macdonald. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Tees dale, was present yesterday at a luncheon given by Baron and Baroness Lionel do Rothschild in honour of the Bing of the Belgians. His Royal Highness went afterwards to St. Bartholo mew's Hospital (of which he is President), and minutely inspected all the wards. The Prince and Princess of Wales gave a dinner in the evening to the King of the Belgians. The band of the Coldstream Guards (conducted by Mr. Fred Godfrey) was in attendance during dinner, and played a selection of music. His Majesty the King of the Belgians honoured Major- General Sir Francis and Lady Seymour with his presence at a small party given by them at St. James's Palace yester day afternoon. HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY . This day her most gracious Majesty completes her fifty first year, having been born on the 24th May, 1819, at Kensington Palace—in which birthplace, "in a palace in a garden," eighteen years afterwards the young Princess received very early one morning in the June of 1837 the announcement of the death of her Uncle King WILLIAM IV., and of the consequent elevation to the throne of this vast Empire. For three and thirty years, therefore, she has been reigning over a loyal and happy people during that period, vindicating her right to the glorious title of being, as she is, the most constitutional of all our Sovereigns. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Last evening Miss Bateman made her first appearance at this theatre on her return from her American tour, and receive a most cordial welcome. The character selected for the occasion was Mary Warner in Mr. Tom Taylor's drama of that name which was written especially for this - highly accomplished actress, and originally pro duced at the Haymarket Theatre. It tells the tale of a loving wife sacrificing herself to save her husband's good name, and on the first night of the representation of the piece it met with signal success. Its reception last night was such that a second successful run may be fairly calculated upon, as Miss Bateman threw all her great talent into the part, and embodied it with all her original power and intensity. She was well supported by Mr W. H Vernon as George Warner, and Mr George Bel more as Bob Levitt. The house was crowded by a very brilliant audience, and the applause throughout the repre sentation of the piece was enthusiastic. The Lord Lieutenant and Lady Spencer have re turned to Dublin. The Limerick Chronicle reports that the exodus of emigrants from that county to America still continues. The Oxford University Sculls will be rowed on June 7, and two following days. The University Pairs on June 14 and two following days. The names of the three undergraduates who have been expelled from Christ Church, Oxford, are Edward Majoribanks, Edmund Pryor, and Robert Russell. About 6,000 persons left the Mersey last week for Canada and the United States, and it is expected that at least 7,000 more will embark before the close of this week. A violent storm burst over St. Etienne (France) on Saturday, and the lightning fell in various places; in one striking a young girl on the head, killing herinstanta neously. The Whitsuntide holidays, it is now stated, will commence after the proceedings of Thursday week, and the House of Commons will reassemble for business on the following Thursday, June 9. THE NEW AUSTRIAN MINISTRY, Count Beust, in a circular to the Austrian diplomatic representatives abroad respecting the programme of Count Potocki's Cisleithan Cabinet, states that this programme contemplates the establishment of a popular Parliament, secure from - future mutations by virtue of its election by direct suffrage, and which shall embody the nation's wishes within the limits of the present Constitution, and in no other manner. The appeal to universal suffrage is to be preceded by the dissolution of the Reichsrath and of the several Cisleithan Diets. To the new Diets a plan will be submitted for the enlargement of their prerogatives, which will subsequently be submitted for approval to the Reichsrath. The Diets will at the same time be called upon to sanction direct elections for the Reichsrath upon a liberal basis. The programme also proposes to strengthen the Upper House by the election of some representatives from the several Cisleithan Diets. In case the Diests re fuse to sanction the proposed electoral reform, the Go vernment will be constitutionally empowered to order direct elections. Imperial decrees have been issued in accordance with these announcements. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. The first match of the season of this club took place yes terday. The prizes were three pieces of plate, of the value re , pectively of £lOO, £3O, and £2O, the course being from Gravesend round the Nore Light and back. The following vessels entered :—The Julia yacht, 113 tons, Mr. G. F. Moss, owner; Rose of Devon, 148, Mr. E. Johnson; Christabel, 52, Earl Annesley ; Muriel,. 40, Mr. H. Bridson ; Oimara, 167, Mr J. Wylie; Vanguard, 60, Col. Verschoyle; Vindex, 45, Mr A Duncan ; Fiona, 77, Mr E. Boutcher. There were three prizes—one of £lOO for the first vessel, £5O for the second, and £2O for the third. Time allow ance, 20 seconds per ton, but no time allowed for ton nage above 100 tons. This arrangement with regard to the time allowance was not approved of by the owner of the Fiona, and he consequently declined to start his vessel. The steamer Eagle, which accompanied the match, reached Gravesend at 11 o'clock, and Lord Alfred Paget directly started the yachts at a little more thin half-spent ebb. They all cast to starboard, and made a short beard on the Essex shore, and commenced a hard beat down the river against the south-east breeze. The Nore was rounded by the Oimara at 2h 52m 40s; Vanguard, 2 54 8 ; Rose of Devon, 3 7 25 ; and Vindex, 3 15. The yachts ultimately got back to Gravesend and terminated the match, as follows :—Rose of Devon, 6h 18w 50s; Van guard, 6, 19, 4 ; Oimara, 6, 21, 3 ; Julia, 6, 30 ; Christabel, 6, 30, 10; Muriel, 6, 31; Vindex, 6,. 31, 14. The Van guard won the first prize by time, the Muriel the second, and the Vindex the third ; but Mr Duncan protested against the Vanguard taking the prize, on the ground that she had violated the " rule of the road." The protest has been re ferred to the Sailing Committee. BREACH OF PROMISE Yesterday, in the Sheriff's Court, Preston, £250 damages were awarded to a Miss Ann Dent, for non-fulfilment of a promise of marriage made to her by Mr. William Birt whistle, landlord of th Peel Arms Inn, Accrington. In August, 1866, the defendant occupied a farm near Btoad hook. In September, 1864, Miss Dent went to live as house keeper at Mr. Hardgreaves's, Broadhook, and she became aequainted with the defendant. The case was entered for hearing at the last Lancaster assizes, but defendant allowed judgment to go by default. AWFUL SUFFERINGS OF A SHIP'S CREW. Twenty-one of the crew of the ship Mariana, we learn by the Bombay mail, have died from starvation. Capt. Stuart, of the ship Tweed, which left Bombay on April 2, for Eng land, having on board some invalided troops, reports that on the 7th, when in lat. 9 N., long. 69 S., he fell in with the Mariana, of Chittagorg, flying signals of distress. The Tweed was at once hove to, and Captain Stuart went on board the Mariana, and to his horror found twenty-one of the crew dead, and most of the survivors sick, the vessel having been without water or provisions for many da3 s. Captain Stuart remained alongside for twelve hours, and, having supplied water, provisions, and medicine to those on board, left the vessel. ELOPEMENT AND PERJURY. Yesterday, at the Liverpool Police-court, a young man, named William Jones, a currier, was charged with per jury. It transpired that on the 11th inst. the prisoner, who resided at Llanfaelog, eloped with the daughter of the Rev. Robert Williams, rector of tho parish. On the following day the prisoner applied to the Superintendent Registrar in Liverpool for a marriage license, and made a declaration that he and the young lady had resided in that town for 15 days prior to the application being made. On this statement being found to be false, a warrant for his apprehension was applied for. He was remanded. THE HAYMARKET NIGHT HOUSES. We have ascertained some curious facts in connection with these establishments. In one an attempt has been made to constitute the society of the place into a club, it being thought that under such a title the proprietor might carry on his traffic with complete im punity. Male visitors were invited to subscribe a sovereign each to promote the idea, but this request was simply a matter of form. At the club a whole relay of 'scouts gave warning, not only of the approach of police, but of any one not introduced to the select manager of the institution. Ladies were not excluded, and, indeed, were prominent figures in the bar-chamber of the den. .To realise thoroughly the Pall-mall or Piccadilly notion of a club, a porter received every guest, and passed him on to a second porter, who was fenced behind a counter. If these blackguards were satisfied with their scrutiny, the " club " man went re joicing into the delightful pentralia, where his face might be gashed with broken tumblers and his had pretty certain to be turned with gooseberry champagne cup. We have alluded to the quarter historically in the past tense, but if an active constable could be found, he might use our description with effect any night in the week.— Pall Mall Gazette. The King of the Belgians was present in the House of Lords last night during the debate on the Greek massacre. His Majesty was accommodated with a seat near the woolsack. The Bishop of Manchester at Salford took occa sion to refer to the decay in the observance of Church festivals, and expressed a fear that it was to be attri buted to lukewarmness with respect to religion itself. It is considered probable that a petition will be presented by the supporters of Mr. King-Harman against the return of Mr. Greville-Nugent for Longford. A meeting is to be held on Wednesday to discuss the ques tion. The daughter of a Sheffield tradesman, aged 17, who had just returned from boarding sdhool, has died through taking vermin killer. She had been desponding for some time, and had been heard to say that she desired to die. The Edinburgh, Courant announces the death of Mr. Peter Blackburn, of Killearn. He was principally known for the active part he took in the struggles which some of the Scottish railways had to undergo in the earlier period of their existence. The bill providing or the abolition of the custom of making attachments of wages to satisfy judgments recovered in law suits has been printed. The Act is only intended to apply to the wages of " servants," " labourers," or " workmen." The Exeter Gazette is informed that notice has been given to the Town Clerk of Exeter of the filing of a bill in Chancery to restrain the Town Council from pol luting the mill-leat and River Exe by emptying into them the sewage of the city. The " Countess of Derwentwater " is at present receiving more company than usual, and many of the people in the neighbourhood of Consett are apparently quite convinced that she is the heiress of the vast estates. To confirm the faith of the wavering, a report has been circulated that the " Countess " has received a letter from the Queen. The Financier states that in the course of a weeh or so three applications for foreign loans will be made to English and French capitalists • one from Spain f or £2,400,000, one from Peru for £ 12,000,000 nominal, and one from Monte Video for £600,000. Italy will want a loan later in the year. There is no truth nt the rumour of a Portuguese loan. The public will be glad to hear that there is no foundation for the report which has been circulated of the death of Mr. Munzinger, of Abyssinian celebrity. Letters from that gentleman, dated the 27th of March, have been received at Berne, in which he states that he is rapidly recovering from the injuries received in his en counter with the assassins last winter. Dean Close writes on the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill thus :—" I still conscientiously believe that there is no direct prohibition of such marriages in Holy Writ, but were I called upon to vote on the question as it now stands, considering all the facts and arguments bearing on the case, I should decidedly negative any alteration of the existing law." r ADVERTISEMENT 1- HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. --This medicine has resisted every test which time, prejudice, and vested interests cculd impcse upon it, a n d it a t length' stands forth triumphant as the most reliable remedy for those derange ments of the system so common at the change cf seasons. When the air grows cooler and the functions of the skin are retarded, an occasional dose of Holloway's Pills will call on the liver and kidneys for greater activity, and compensate the system for diminished cutaneous action. As alteratives, aperients, aid tonics, these Pills have no equals. To very aged and delicate persons, whose appetite is defective, diges tion infirm, and tone of health low, this medicine will be a precious boon, conferring both ease and strength, D MTVILI,E and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is recommended by the medical profession in preference to French brand . . 'Sup plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., 'loyal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfast ; or at their London Offlees, 4, Beaufort Buildings Strand, W.O. SPIRIT OF TFTE PRESS. THE GREEK GOVERNMENT AND THE MASSACRE . The Times remarks that the general case presented Lord Carnarv on aga i ns t th e G ree k Government "beeir i tremely strong. Th e one thi ng that is certain n t conduct is that, in pra c ti ce , it was not definitely d irecte d to the simple purpose of sav i ng th e li ves o f the prison e.; In the first place they refused to grant the amnesty his minded. Lord Clarendon emphatically adheres to rejection of the excuses alleged for their refusal. l'i tr 'd years ago the Greek Government opened the gaols a' set the brigands loose, in order to provoke revoliltr, in a province of Turkey, but they refuse a a lt 9 1 : 8 , act of grace when it would deliver English The . troops, again, would only be wanted in order to against the brigands ; they could be of no possible ipe de 'a the captives. If the Government had been single -I n ° g o in their desire to save life, they could have done one of O m things—either they could have granted a prompt a n n l e ;s. or they could have given time for unmolested neaotuttio. _ They did neither, and they owe us ample jcpioabooli of their perversity. Lord Carnarvon, agai n ' Is equally generous and wise in refusing to dwell on the ite ';inction between members of an Embassy and Pr i ,.`, captivic. persons. " They all," he said, "Englishmen and Itch fell together, united in death, and I see no occasion separating them in argument." He has rested his ca se . oo the broad ground of th e r i g ht o f t rave ll ers to proteet t l io in a European country, and he appealed t° sympathy of Englishmen for murdered fell countrytae ow- . de te There is no occasion to introduce any technical COns' 4be tions into the matter. All Europe but particilla rl Yi w o Powers whioh protect Greece, have 'a right to deraaii, n the explanation of a crime which concerns them all; 06 - Protecting Powers, in addition, have a clear right' ,T„ - ty. cessary, to interfere. It is more than a right, it is a7 O Practically, we maintain Greece in existence, an". $ ought not to maintain her in a condition scandal to civilisation. It may be a long time befor e t• Greeks learn all the responsibilities of self-goverar gen ri d but we can at least maintain order in the country', a ce render life and property secure. We recognise tliV i ° l r v ie of Lord Clarendon's argument that we should wait ' l 'o have all the information the Greek Government c ,an d e ths t which it s he for us, but, with Lord Salisbury, we must au_ _ to w the duty which will then be incumbent on us is clear. THE UNIVERSITY TESTS BILL. bal The Standard declares th a t if Si r J. 'C o leridge 3 were what it pretends to b e , a U n i vers ity Tests fr n o i l' l a • , would follow that the bill ou g ht t o p ass . B u t, at e. man who admitted all the assumptions in its faveu r ece r cording to this interpretation, would be as far 83 from accepting or approving the bill. For the bill 18 . o f a College Tests Bill, and to the colleges not c' 11 " e o these, arguments applies. The colleges are r d 9,0 sense national institutions. M r . Gl a d s t on e bcasr the especial merit of the bill—that hereafter Disse nt d e d ing and Roman Catholic coll eges ma y . be f° ll, ' t be within the University. If so, by what right are t o colleges already founded by th e Ch urc h t o b e taken l'l her? Nor are we reassured by Mr. Gladstone's disa vc 'o of any intention to apply th e policy of disestablis h na, e to to England; while he uses the fact of establishine n n e s rob the Church, o ne by one , o f r i g ht s an d properts, which, if she were simply on a l eve l w ith other se be even he dare not propose to touch; so that she Bl a Ybo plundered yet more effectually than her Irish sister, of been. The temper and s pi r it o f th e G overnm ent an n, the Liberal party towards th e Ch urc h o f E ng land is Pi - o , fully obvious in the present bill. Their policy is to (leg a t o plunder, and enfeeble her, so as to reduce her to isa• level of those sects above which her character, evg2•• 11 0 1 tion, and stronghold over the public mind and the l'ittab affections would naturally raise her, and not to dlse s lish her until this object has be en accom pli s hed by al l , - /i t scrupulous use of the pow er w hi c h th e St a te at Prt es • enjoys, but which it must resi gn the moment that Q. a tablishment takes place. How far this is a l a wful,su n , honourable policy, how f ar it i s cons i s t en t w ith the c l , ll te a of a Minister, above all, who wields the authority ve'ymi in the Crown, under an oa th w hi c h pl e d ges the Soverese; to protect the Church, we nee d no t cons id er ; that it l policy which all C onserva ti ves an d Churc% must resist to the utt ermos t i s b eyon d all clu es ,: s And, therefore, we ragre t t h at t h e Ch urc h an d ~ vative feeling of the House was not more effect l 4l manifested in the division. Although the InaP" to absolutely at the c omman d o f Mi n i sters i s such s t render a contest hopeless, it i s still worth while on r • question to support by an emph a ti c p ro t es t the Coa b le vatism of the country, and the subsequent action of the House of Lords • and it would have been well hak vo r Conservative paity, brought it s full strengt h to.on of against Sir John Coleridge's bill for the confiscate Church endowments within the national - Universitie s. Let us see, says the Tel egra ph, i n re f err i n g to the versity Tests Bill, what is meant by impairing the 'der. gious character of the Colleges. At p re sent all 11 „ n t be graduates must go to chapel ; in futur e they can t compelled to do so; but few men who know wt.,iine meant by going to chapel, or what effe c t the • cllecirob produces on the undergraduate mi n d, w ill attach va cs . importance to the abolition of compulsory a ttends; l l o Again, Paley's "Evidence s o f Ch r i s ti an ity," W must at present be studied, is no longer form a compulsory part of the undergrad o 7; course ; but, as Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice said 111 • much force and epi gram , th ere i s no b ook wh i c h Chrs tie° i o. men value less, or would see banished from college C a rti rooms with less r egre t, th an t h e l ega l p l ea di ng o f the archdeacon. Th e re li g i ous constitution o f the eol l o ,, l c ii will underdergo no other change. But what Mr. 13 1100 and Mr. Walp o l e c hi e fl y d rea d i s t h e i n fl ux o f Fe who will have no distinct r e li g io u s cree d, or who 1 %11 boldly avow that they b e li eve i n none — an d w ho ~n i e therefore sow the se e d s o f i n fid e lit y t h roug h a W:10,30 college. Such a result is certainly conceivable ; but oot Mr. Hardy imagin e th a t it can b e preven t e d by the 11 1 rigid system of religious t es t s ? L oo k a t the Ox a t and Cambridge -whi c h we see fl our i s hi ng under t it system, and ask what shade of infidelity i B t he represented, and notoriously represented, 3 -n• t han College common rooms. No delusion is more gross co ,. the idea that the talk of college Fellows is strictly , the fined within the cor ners o f th e Thi r ty-N ne Articles. 0 -` lO idea is ludicrously a b sur d. Th e f ac t i s , t es ts have co de to be regarded by many me n as mere f or ms ; they Poe out none but the rigidly scrupulous - and hence thg ou se the most treacherous of saf eguar d s '. When the ; ,bt, decreed the second readi ng o f th e bill, on Monday TV by a majority of 125 votes, it virtually proclaime d t ea the National Church m us t re ly f or it s se curity, _ ll 2 bat the stability of such quicksands as University r Cesl its on the strength which it draws f rom the Puri t y c ? e rgh creed, its long possession of the field, th e z eal of its I gjos and the priceless services which it has done to the n it in whose name it speaks, and to whose spiritual )if ministers. QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY. ti r The Daily News MB says that Royalty even in C ons r tit tional and Parliamentary countries holds in soine °° s , in parental relation t owar d s th e na ti ona l f am ily ; and birth" established monarchies, "the King never dies," the W ing day salutations of a n a ff ec ti ona t e peop l e t o the , i re; : g i tl Sovereign take n o no t e o f time, and are as fresh fte' pleasant to give and t o receive after the fiftieth u' ar - 0 119 the twentieth year. At any rate, the English IV I ,, firot is the most domestic of monarchies, and the u"J - 13 0 birthday of Queen Victoria, if not celebrated ab' the flte of St. Napoleon in France, with, i be lic games, and a popular holiday, 111 quietly, but cordially and affectionately record' thousands of homes as a family fête day. By her both people, and At the whole English-speaking race k o ti' shores of the lantic, it is not only the faithful 'OO 6 tutional Sovereign, but the wife and mother, who? 0 V I I is beloved, and whose example is revered. It I° t 04 " ninny years since her Majesty withdrew into thaoifi4 seclusion from which it becomes a more and more P re ctel effort to emerge. A c er t a i n i m p a ti ence a t the PF°' so' absence of the lady who gives the tone to s ocieT s rr whose presence no minor luminary can replace, 4 . 1 .' 0 0 1 peatedly found expression among those who 00' 0 0 0; ascribe the badness of trade, the slackness of the...s e wn and the languor of the cash circulation, to the retu tbov of the court, On the other hand, it is no secret 1,00 for some time past the Queen's health b° whil e scarcely equal to the fatigues of a Drawing-roo u % in a the serious and incessant public affairs which e", io o o' Parliamentary country demand th e care and atter' l ore the Sovereign, have never b een more se d u lously vigilantly fulfilled. The Queen's constant, motherly her ticipation in the joys and sorrows of her subjec t l' th e vivid and anxious sympathy with all that conc er :ijoV honour, the happiness, and the morality of the r_'" 05 1 ,1 these truly royal but rare qualities of active guT o tet: and, if we may be pardoned the phrase, her 121 1 o th s virtues of omission— v i r t ues w hi c h , rememberltie reigns, we can hardly p r i ze enoug h—d e serve 3 0 01 serious and sincere ac k now l e d g ment on each re ag e anniversary of the 24th of M a y than that trivisa fore which burns oil for half a night every year images of the best and the worst of monarchs THE IRISH LAND RILL. .. 00 01 1 $ The Post observes that little mo r e than three —. a th e have elapsed since the Prime Minister intro duc e Irish Land Bill, and though there have been se,l33g: the contests over the principles he laid down as fore 00; I basis i o c n h it which now th st e an G d o s v , ern aft m er en h t av h i a n d g f p r a a s m se e d d purgation of the committee, is essentially the se•illeh rvithi Mr. Gladstone sketched out in the famous bree""„ssilt' tto he which ceonmdhiriet teither introduced iethwerersepne i oe t et . ie A After ttoehrre divisions, humourvs i lengthened ons, o n m a o net disc 0115 and th e , c 00' sion of its labours was greeted with cu e , sif t° in which both sides of the House joined with WI, cere cordiality. No one who listened .Y e oel,t Prime Minister's speech in introducing the 1:11,,•cli hill help being struck with the thoroughness with Nve he sketch of its provisions met this requirement. -`,,,rinel was passed through committee, and not one a th?,'; i3 ples Mr. Gladstone then enunciated has been } l e s t , . c ve ,, te , But that is saying little. The very provisions w most likely to occasion alarm have been so efe e tv DP' plained, and their necessity so successfully u rged , to t hey Chichester Fortescue that any serious opposition. 1 ' hi is tiq has disappeared. F r om Ireland, on the othF,s evidences are daily forthcoming that the bill ortert upon with less disfavour than, i n some q t . ol it was when it was first introduced. Irish tenaniecetie see that it is not like other Land Bills that have liogelP it—a piece of patchwork, but that it d e als _ co . liberally, and conclusively with their wo rst grie ve :' sr„t bits or THE STAFF 0 L LEGE . —The Times , e acc o pleasure in announcing that Colonel Hatalg, the b een plished author of " The Operations of Nvar, appointed to the command of the Staff College. of The Duke of Richmond has accept ed the (4e:,.0 President of the Carlton Club. nolofo ANNEXATION. "With regard to the ~ate thof Treaty, Washington advices of the 7th instant its friends assert that the requisite vote of two„ the Senate can now be obtained in its favour. to p 10' h subject was first introduced," it is added, Se rl3 gue„, been seeking information from all available soureeLe itow of the opposition to annexation is alleged to co' foreign quarters,7 A E ham, lixbr Were 44 3' il us e o] Of th aw ay ding. An baa r , da y 1 nl'lne,