The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TAE, PRESS. THE PROSPECTS OF NEW ZEALAND. The Times considers the New Zealand colonists are honestly embracing the course which nothing but an enervating dependence on British troops prevented them from adopting long ago. The European population is steadily increasing, the Maori population is steadily dwindling • the former will be constantly reinforced from Europe, the latter, so far as it is hostile, will be constantly reduced by the subtle encroachments of civilisation. If the money to be raised by loan be wisely expended, especially on immigration, it will soon repay itself. The agricultural wealth of New Zealand, apart from its goldfields, is enormous ; its climate is proverbially healthy ; and, but for its unsettled state, it would have attracted a much larger influx of immigrants. Yet a large influx of immigrants is the very thing wanted to remedy its unsettled state, partly by strengthening the preponderance, already vast, of the European race, and partly by clearing and fencing more and more of the country. We heartily wish Dr. Featherston and his col league success in this part of their undertaking, and we venture to anticipate that British capital will be more readily embarked in New Zealand concerns when there is no risk of any but a defensive war against the Maories. Whatever irritation may have been felt in New Zealand at the peremptory recall of the last British regiment, the colonists may rest assured that the English people, in approving it, was not indifferent to their fate. Had Englishmen believed that a single Euro pean life in New Zealand would be imperilled by Lord Granville's adherence to a policy of which the colony had received many years' notice, it would probably have been impossible to carry it out. It was because Englishmen believed the very reverse that Colonial remonstrances against it met with so feeble a response. The result, we are convinced, will prove that Englishmen were not wrong, and it will not be surprising if the prosperity of New Zealand should date from the year in which the duty of self-defence was forced upon her. A PEASANT PROPRIETARY. The Standard thinks it is astounding that Mr. Glad stone should have alleged the want of security of tenure in Ireland as a reason for assisting the Irish tenant to pur chase and compelling the Irish landlord to sell the holding Mr. Gladstone allows it would be better for the tenant, if he had security, to spend his money on improvements. The amplest security is given him by the bill, and yet he is to be encouraged by these clauses to purchase the hold ing ; that is to say, upon Mr. Gladstone's own shewing, to do what is is against his own real interest and the general interest of the country. The practical inconveniences of the plan were pointed out by Sir George Jenkinson and Colonel Corbett. The honourable baronet chewed that the result of the adoption of the adoption of the clause would be to encourage he tenants to force by threats— and if they failed, by acts of violence—a landlord to sell his estate at such a sum as they might be disposed to give for it ; and Colonel Corbett, after putting clearly the great difference between the advance of public money for the improvement of land—a matter of public and general interest—and for the purchase of land by a parti zular class—a matter concerning that class alone— pointed with force to the difficulties in which any famine year, and he might have added any time of disturbance, would put a Government which had practi cally by these advances become the mortgagee of so large a number of small properties. Mr. Hardy eloquently re newed the protest which upon the second reading of the bill ire made against a scheme which, unsound in principle and unfair to the ratepayers of England and Scotland, is equally unfair to the mass of the Irish people. It enables a certain number of persons now incidentally occupiers to become owners of land by advances from the State ; it makes the condition of the Irishman who, when the bill passes, is not an occupier of land, more hopeless than at any period in Ireland's history. The English farmers, says the Telegraph, do not need, and do not ask, such powers of purchasing land as those which the bill provides for the Irish tenantry. As for the argument, that if we advance money to farmers we must also advance it to operatives, it is sufficient to reply, that the justice of the demand will be considered if it should ever arise, and will be decided by considerations entirely in accordance with those which govern the legis lation with respect to the Irish land. The effect of the clause will be to create a peasant proprietary ; and the wisdom of the proposal must be determined by the answer to the question whether the existence of such a proprietary does not do good to a nation. Mr. Gathorne Hardy thinks that it does not. But we appeal to the example of Belgium, France, Germany, Prussia, Switzer land, and Russia. Wherever we find a peasant proprietary, there we also find industry, frugality, fore thought, sobriety, and the prudential virtues. Such statesmen as Stein and Hardenberg have won undying fame because they enabled the Prussian tenantry, by means of State loans, to raise themselves from a position of serfdom to that of owners of the soil. To Prussia the gain is incalculable ; and we cannot place limits to its extent in Ireland. The State, of course, must take all the necessary securities to guard itself from the risk of fraud. Money must not be lent to insolvent tenants, and it would be injudicious to advance the whole amount required for the purchase of a tenant's holding. As Mr. Chichester Fortescue said, the Irish Board of Works is never too ready to lend money ; and, at the suggestion of Mr. Candlish and other members, the Government has agreed to advance the tenant only two-thirds of the pur chase money, instead of three-fourths. Sir George Jen kinson and Mr. Gathorne Hardy fancy that the English taxpayer will be despoiled in order that the Irish tenant may gain. But the English taxpayer will lose nothing ; he will gain. For the loan he will secure interest at the rate of 20 per cent. on complete security ; and if the plan should in the slightest degree tend to pacify Ireland, the money lent to Irish tenants will be as good an ins estment as the wit of English capitalists could devise. THE GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND. The Daily News refers to the presidency by the Prince of Wales of the annual dinner of the General Theatrical Fund, and says that our monarchs have never been back ward in their patronage of the national amusements. A very large class amongst us may conscientiously disap prove of dramatic representations, and regard with re probation the manner of an actor's life. But there are few, we trust, who would withhold from him when old and in distress a full measure of that sympathy we pay to all who in their time of strength have laboured hard and honestly in a profession which they hold worthy of respect. Verily, the actor's life is not that lotus-eating existence some persons think it, and he who has run an honourable career therein merits all our sympathy should fortune not have favoured him. More than most men, actors, for some occult reason, appear to be depen dent on the royal grace. Our Kings have ever favoured th em. The favour of Charles I. was requited by his poor players when the moment of danger came. Almost to a man they drew sword on his behalf. Perhaps the instinct of loyalty was riot their sole motive. With the flight of the Court their occupation ceased, as with the return of Charles 11. it flourished again. The first play acted by the re-estab lished comedians was Fletcher's " Humorous Lieute nant." Since that halcyon day for the stage, our players have had little chance to display their loyalty, but the impulse is probably at least as strong as in old times. The presence of the Prince of Wales amongst such old friends of his House was quite appropriate. If his pleasant appeal had the effect of increasing the subscriptions of the guests, everyone will rejoice. A CLERGYMAN'S CREDITORS. The Post considers that the Bishop of Winchester has done a useful service by calling attention to the present state of the law respecting the sequestration of a benefice for its incumbent's debts, and by bringing in a bill which appears, generally speaking, to provide the reforms required. The custom, according to the present law, is to treat the profits of a benefice as available for the payment of its clergyman's creditors. The Bishop of Winchester's bill is founded on this principle. It substitutes for the present pro cess of sequestration in the ordinary debtor's summons by a judgment creditor, which, if not satisfied, makes the debtor liable to bankruptcy. If within a fixed period the bankrupt does not get his diScriarge, he is to be reported to the bishop, who having giVefilim time and opportunity to chew cause to the contra l-K may pronounce the bene fice to have been forfeited. The debtor may. appeal to the archbishop, upon which, 11 the appeol be not allowed, the forfeiture of the benefice is to be duly gazetted, and after that the patron may present another clerk. This seems to meet the case, and there ought to be no difficulty in its becoming law this session. It will remove a great scandal from the Church; it will do no injury to creditors, and none to the debtor. It will be for practical men to amend the terms of the bill in some particulars, but in all its main features it seems not only unobjectionable, but extremely desirable. Sequestrations are not as common as they were, but they are more scandalising, because the public estimate of clerical tone is so much higher • than it was ; and when they do occur they . produce years of mischief as several of our suburban parishes can sadly witness. INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACE. It is to be regretted, says the Daily News, that any hitch should have happened in the arrangement of the matches between the Sappho and the Cambria, and we shall not easily be persuaded that the little difficulty which sprang up at the last moment and held the Cambria's foresheet so obstinately to windward on Saturday last might not have been prevented by a somewhat more careful and precise understand. ing between the owners of the contending vessels and the umpires. The points of the case are clear enough. The Am er i can , b e i ng t h e bi gger cra ft , insisted on an open s sea-going course, in a strong breeze, over a certain distance ; the Englishman, being the smaller and nimbler craft, demanded a course dead to windward ; the former counting on her speed and power in reaching, the latter on her weatherly qualities. Evi dently a course which could be laid on a single tack would not suit the Cambria; while a course requiring a succes sion of tacks would put the Sappho at a disadvantage. When the two yachts reached the starting point on Saturday the umpire signalled a course round the west end of Cherbourg Breakwater and back. The Cambria demurred because this course was not dead to windward ; and the fact of the Sappho having subse quently sailed it on a single tack confirms the Cambria's objection. A course dead to windward might have been easily fixed, when the wind was blowing steadily from one quarter. If the wind had chopped round afterwards it was open to either of the yachts to give up the race from the improbability of sailing it according to the prescribed conditions. Neither on the one side nor on the other do the conditions in the present case appear at all unreason able ; but it is clear that whatever the conditions of such a contest, there must b e a cer t a i n liberality in their inter pretation and observance. STATE OF LYNN.--At the late quarterly meeting of the Lynn Town Council it was stated that the Corn Exchange was sliding away from its front, that the diffe rent bridges were being undermined, and that all the property adjacent to the river indicat es symp t oms o f settlement. This is accounted for by the supposed sub sidence of the soil, owing to the Norfolk Estuary Works and other improvements in the main drainage of this district. PRINCESS LOUISE IN THE CITY. Yesterday afternoon a bazaar for the benefit of the building fund of the North-Eastern Hospital for. Children Hackney-road, was opened in the large room of the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon - street. Ths Princess Louise had accepted the invitation of the com mittee to open the bazaar, and h er Royal High ness arrived shortly after twelve o'clock, accompanied by Lady Churchill. She was received by representatives of the committee and after 'visiting the stalls, took up a position at the head of the room, where Mr. Charles Reed, M.P., read an address, in which, while welcoming the Princess, opportunity was taken for ably setting forth the claims of.the hospital upon the charity of the public. The stalls, which were bountifully supplied, were presided over by Baroness Meyer de Rothschild, Mrs. Alsop, Mrs. A. Tylor, Miss Phillips, Mrs. Barclay, Miss Paget, Mrs. Howard, and other ladies. Among the contributors were their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Prussia and Princess Christian. The ceremony of reception over, Her Royal Highness made a second tour of the stalls, and if the example of her liberal patronage be followed by the large company which filled the rooms, the addition to the funds of the institution will be a very handsome one. A large crowd assembled outside the hotel to witness the arrival and departure of the Princess. THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON EDUCATION. The Bishop of Manchester preached on education in the Cathedral on Sunday. He again expressed the opinion that the religious difficulty was only formidable on paper. Just when the State had awakened to a sense of its responsibility in that matter, unhappily the ques tion got immediately plunged into a sea of polemical strife All that most unnecessary " religious difficulty" that had been raised, and, so to speak, scattered abroad all over the land, was, undoubtedly, theoretically a formidable one ; and he had never yet met with a clever thinker who had been able to solve it upon paper. He had read statement after statement, theory after theory, and bill after bill ; and upon the face of all these there stood the so-called " religious difficulty." Yet, practically, as they went throughout the world and tried to find the spot where it fully existed, it was, after all, so microscopically small that it vanished into such thin attenuity, that he defied any man to place his fingers upon it in the formidable dimensions that were mostly given tq it. It was, in fact, so microscopic that statesmen, in framing a national measure, had ventured almost to ig nore it and to pass it by. There were three days of solv ing the religious difficulty. First, they could carry on the schools as at present, introducing, however, a con science clause ; second, bringing in such a wide and comprehensive range of moral or religious teaching as could be accepted by all classes ; or, thirdly, eliminating the religious element altogether from the national schools. He had had opportunities of con versing with the working-classes as well as with manufacturers and other employers of labour, who had had frequent means of becoming acquainted with their wishes, andthe result of the inquiry was that the working classes were not generally found in favour of putting re ligious teaching out of the schools. It was not a question as had been stated in one of the local newspapers, as to whether reading, writing, and arithmetic could be usefully taught without religion : for no one could be so simple as to deny it ; but the point was really whether those three subjects alone constituted education. VESTED INTERESTS. We understand that the Treasury have decided to recommend Parliament to grant to the Foreign Office clerks who at present act as agents, an annual compensa tion calculatad at two-thirds of their average profits during the last three years, such annuity to continue to each during his service in the Foreign Office, unless pro moted to the office of permanent secretary. If this re port be correct, the gentlemen in question are to be congratulated on the luck which gives them a permanent annuity for the loss of non-official work, when so many other public servants have lost official posts without com pensation of any sort. It is now some time since Parlia ment decided that such private profits were incompatible with the service of the country, and it was intimated that Government could not recognise their past enjoy ment as giving a claim to compensation from the State. It was also very roasonably thought that as the four gentlemen who happened to have undertaken the private agency business did not pretend to hold it as a monopoly, and as the rules of the Foreign Offici allowed every clerk whomsover, to say nothing of every one outside the Office, to enter into competition for the employment, it was too precarious to be worth in the market more than two or three years' purchase. With some such sum, indeed, it is probable the actual agents might have been well contented, and the public would not have grudged a liberality so limited, even if not strictly due. An annuity for life of two-thirds of the profits is the highest rate of compensa tion given on the abolition of an official, permanent, and exclusive appointment ; and why it should be bestowed on a mere withdrawal of permission to continue a non official, precarious, and open trade, is a question which it may be rather difficult for Mr. Gladstone to make clear to the House of Commons.—Pall Mall Gazette. Pope Pius IX. entered upon his seventy-ninth year on Saturday. A stupid fellow at Sale offered to drink a pint of whiskey out of bravado. He did so, and died soon after wards. It is stated Count Orloff has been appointed to succeed Count Stackelberg as Russian Ambassador at Paris. Another death has resulted from the Dunquin paraffin catastrophe, Catherine Lyne having died. Three others are not expected to recover. Another Liverpool butcher has been heavily fined for exposing diseased meat for sale. A Bolton baker has also been severely dealt with for putting alum into his bread. A telegram from Sir Samuel Canning, at Malta, dated May 14, 12.58 p.m., states that the shore end of the Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta cable has been success fully laid. During a gale of wind on Saturday, at Chelten ham, a plasterer was blown off from the front of a new house, and became impaled on some iron spikes. He died soon afterwards, The Globe understands that Lord Skelmersdale has become associated wsth Lord Colville and Viscount Hawarden in conducting the business of the Conservative party in the House of Lords. Dr. Michael Foster, Professor of Physiology and Histology in University College, London, has been ap pointed to the Prlectorship of Pure Physiology recently established in Trinity College, Cambridge. A. man named William Cresswell deliberately smashed in the windows of a large shop in Newcastle on Sunday afternoon, causing damage estimated at £4O. It appears that the man was sent to prison a fortnight ago for a similar offence, and that he was only released from custody yesterday morning. The Lord Mayor acknowledges a donation of £2O from her Majesty towards the relief of the poor people whose houses have been burnt down at Broadclist, village near Exeter. Of 78 houses, of which the village consisted, 60 have been destroyed, and 250 persons ren dered homeless. The female servant of an officer stationed at Youghal has been arrested on suspicion of being the mother of a dead child which arrived at Cork in a parcel from Bristol a few days ago. An inquest was held on the body on Saturday, when the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder " against some parties unknown. Colonel Edward Tomkinson, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, died at his residence, Lower Seymour-street, on Saturday, in his 45th year. He entered the army in 1843, and served with tha Bth Hussars in the Crimean war, being present at the Battle of the Alma, Balaklava, and before Sebastopol The Echo mentions a rumour that the Bishop of Ripon will speak in support of the marriage with a de ceased wife's sister, and that the Archbishop of Canter bury is in favour of it—although he cannot vote either in person or by proxy. It is also said that Lord Derby will support the bill. The large screw steamer Kestrel, from London for Hull with passengers and general cargo, was on Sunday caught on the Cross Sand, off Yarmouth, during hazy weather. Another steamer came up and took off the alarmed passengers. Eventually the 'Kestrel was got off, little damaged. A great open-air working men's demonstration, under the auspices of the Central Association for Stopping the Sale of Intoxicating liquors on Sunday, is announced to take place at Lismore-circus, Haverstock-hill, on Satur day, the 28th instant. M. A. Garvey, Esq., L.L.8., will take the chair. A monster procession paraded the streets of Bel fast on Saturday afternoon, in connection with the laying of the foundation stone of the Belfast Working Men's Institute. Friendly and trade societies of all denomina tions took part in the proceedings, and numerous bands, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, played upon the march. The Home Secretary has authorised the local authorities to give notice that the Government offer a reward of £4O for information leading to the discovery and conviction of the murderer or murderers of the boy John Harding, and the offer of a pardon to any accomplice, not being the actual murderer, who may give such informa tion as shall lead to a like result. ANOTHER DISTURBANCE AT THE ROCHDALE PARISH CHURCH.—On Sunday morning St. Chad's Church, Rochdale, was densely crowded, and throughout the service there seemed to be a feeling of uneasiness, and especially towards the close. Sergeant Plunket noticed Miss Nicholson in one of the aisles swaying to and fro. She was joined by her father, who beckoned to his son to come out, and pulled him along as if apprehensive of some harm happening to him. Police-officer Wild, who went to the church at half past twelve, found about a hundred people in the church yard and the church crowded. On entering the porch he met Miss licholson and her father, and the former screamed out " at the top o f h er voice," when there was no person near except her father and brother. Mr. Nichol son remarked " Don't touch her." The officer told her she deserved locking up, when Mr. Nicholson began shout ing, and the people out of the yard rushed in, and a scene of excitement, confusion, and crushing- ensued. After considerable trouble the crowd dispersed, and the congre tion were enabled to leave the church. THE s UN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1670. GUNPOWDER v. OUN COTTON. On Saturday a number of - experiments were performed by the officers of the Royal Engineers at Chatham to test the comparative effects of gunpowder and guncotton in various operations. A large number of distinguished officers assisted at this remarkable trial of strength. The ex periments commenced with explosions of gunpowder and guncotton directed against a double stockade of balks of timber, l4in. square, 31t. 6in. apart, and sunk 3f t. in the earth each line braced together by strong cross-pieces. A charge of 2001 b. of gunpowder, in bags, merely laid at the foot of the stockade, untamped, was first exploded. It forced a large gap in the front stockade, but, though partially shattered, the second row of timber would have presented a formidable obstacle to an attacking party if defended by a few resolute men. Portions of the timber were hurled through the air to some distance. A charge of 801 b. of guncotton was next laid in bags at the foot of the stockade, some distance from the former explosion. This also was untouched. It was fired by a detonating fuse. There was a terrific explosion, and an almost perfectly clear breach was made through both rows of timber, practically for an attacking party to get through. The effect was very much superior to that of the 2001 b. of gunpowder. Immense pieces of timber were hurled through the air to a great distance, mostly in the rear of the stockade. Not so wide an extent of timber appeared to be shaken as by the first explosion, but the work was more completely done ; the results, indeed, were extraordinary. Experiments were then made in another part of the field by exploding discs of guncotton against single balks of timber, to shew what effect would be produced if timber bridges had to be destroyed. Four balks of timber, about sixteen inches square, were sunk in the ground some feet apart, in a square, and braced toge ther by thick pieces of plank. A " necklace "of small discs of guncotton was formed, 681 in number ; this was doubled and placed half round one of the timbers. The ex plosion of this string of discs tore away the wood for some depth; four inches or more, on one side of the balk, but did not break it, though the massive timber was much rent. Three or four larger discs were then exploded on one side of the timber, and tore out a large portion of the wood. A single " necklace " of small discs, sixty-five in number, and weighing 211b. ' was then placed round another balk, quite encircling it. When exploded this tore out the wood all round to some depth. Then twelve of the larger discs, weighing 41b. 20z., were hung on nails on three sides of the timber, and exploded. The explosion was very powerful, and the large balk was cut in two—snapped off where the gun cotton had been attached, but falling on the side where there had been no discs and partially splitting on that side, The spectators cheered at this decisive proof of the value of gun cotton for this special purpose. All these experiments appeared to be very satisfactory. At that part of the lines in front of St. Mary's Barracks, a number of mines and galleries had been excavated and charged with gunpowder or guncotton. One mine had a charge of 5001 b. of gunpowder ; a second similar mine was charged with 2001 b. of gun cotton. Two smaller mines were charged respectively with 21•61 b. of gunpowder and 8 •61b. of guncotton. These mines were successively exploded by means of an electric current. In the larger mines the powder appeared to be the most effective agent. In the explosion of the 2001 b. charge of guncotton a peculiar effect was produced ; first, there was the eruption of brown clay and smoke, and then a large flame, produced by the ignition of the gaseous products of the explosion. The officers then proceeded to the old Engineer Depot near St. Mary's Convict Prison, and walls which are to be removed were experimented upon ; they are 18 inches thick ; charges of guncotton ranging from 21b. to 311 b. were exploded against these walls with satisfactory results, making breeches in them. The officers then re turned to the scene of the mines, where two long galleries had been prepared, one charged with 2401 b. of ,gunpowder, the other with 961bs. of guncotton. These charges were exploded. The object was to ascertain if it is practicable to form trenches in this manner, instead of throwing them up while exposed to the enemy. It was thought by some officers that the explosion would throw the earth up on either side in such a manner as to form a trench ; but the result was not so—the earth was thrOwn up in a mass, and no trench was formed in which men could get under cover at once. THE MONARCH INSURANCE FRAUDS. FURTHER EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES. At the Mansion . House yesterday, Major the Hon. Augustus George Frederick Joscelyn, Mr. Joseph Taylor, Major John William Carnegie, and Mr. George Edward Bulmer, formerly directors of the Monarch Life Insurance Company (Limited), were summoned before the Lord Mayor to undergo further examination upon the charge of unlawfully conspiring together to defraud the public by means of false representations, and by publishing a false statement and balance sheet in reference to the affairs of the company. Mr. William Henry Hodges, the manager of the company, and Mr. Wright and Mr. Heyward, two other of the directors, were also included in the charge, but they did not surrender at the former examination, and they were now again absent. Mr. Frederick Maynard, public accountant, of Old Broad-street, the official liquidator of the Monarch Com pany, proved that he took possession of all the books and papers at their offices in Finch-lane. It appeared that the defendant, Major Joscelyn, was allotted fifty shares on the Ist June, 1869. Major Joscelyn did not pay anything upon the shares that were allorted to him. Mr. Ribton observed that it was well known that it was a common practice to allot shares to directors in a company without any money being paid. Mr. Lewis said he must deny that this was the case, and it was a very improper and dangerous course to adopt. Mr. Maynard went on to say that fifty shares were also allotted to Mr. Bulmer, and be appeared to have paid ten shillings per share only upon application, and nothing upon allotment. The defendant, Major Carnegie, was also allotted fifty shares, but nothing was paid upon those shares at the time of allotment. The same number of shares were allotted to Mr. Heyward, but nothing was paid upon them in 1869. Mr. Hodges, the manager, had 100 shares allotted to him, and he only paid ten shillings per share upon application. Mr. Wright had fifty shares allotted to him, and he only paid ten shillings per share. On the 31st of December, 1869, the total amount of capital paid up was only £BlB. On the 14th of July, 1869, a cheque was drawn by Mr. Heyward, Mr. Wright, and countersigned by Mr. Hodge, for £4ll is. Bd., which was stated to be on the counterfoil to be given for selves and first directors' allowances. Cheques were also drawn for £25 for Major Joscelyn, £5O for Mr. Wright, £5O for Major Carnegie, and £5O for Mr. Heyward. These cheques were dated the 19th of October, 1869. Mr. Lewis : I believe these cheques very nearly ab sorbed the total amount of the paid-up capital of fke company ? Further evidence was given by which it appeared that the profit represented to have been made by the company to the 31st December, 1869, was over £5,000, no such profit having been in fact made, and also that application had been, made for shares, and that apparently large sums were paid on account of these shares, but that no credit appeared for these amounts on the books of the company, with the exception of £BOO. The examination was then adjourned till to-day and the defendants were admitted to bail. ALIVE IN A DEAD-HOUSE. The San Francisco Alta California gives the account of the experience of a German who was supposed to have died in that city, and whose body was immediately removed and placed in the dead-house attached to the hospital in which he had been under treatment : " The body was deposited in a- case where two other bodies had already been placed, and between them. The cover was put on and the keeper of the dead-house re tired for the night. About midnight a loud screaming and yelling of the most unearthly character was heard in the dead-house. The keeper of the dead-house was sought after, but being aware of what he was required to do, he sought concealment, preferring to let the ghosts fight it out among themselves rather than attempt to become peacemaker. When at last he was prevailed upon to pro ceed to the dead-house and open the door, the ghostly form of the German, whose life had been a few hours previously pronounced extinct, and who had been dressed in the robes of the dead, stood before him. The keeper fainted out right, while the terrified German rushed headlong through the long halls and corridors of the building,' spreading dismay and terror as he went. Some more courageous than the rest caught and arrested him in his frantic career, but the next instant the poor German fell on the floor in a fit. The physician was sent for, and restora t:ves used, by which he was restored to conscious ness. How he felt when he returned to consciousness we give as he told it himself :—` Vell, ven I got sick and vas in bed that day the doctor came to me and said I vas very sick. He vent away, and after he vent I fell asleep. I knew nothing more till I yoke in de - night, and there vas no light. I put out my hand, and I could get no bed clothes, for I vas cold. I den put my hand to vone side to try far the bed-clothes, and, och, vat you tink I got—vy a ded man 4 . Dere he vos, cold enough sure. I roared mid all the power I had, and vas going a vay by the other side, ven, sure I put my hand on another. Then I roared, and called, and cried out all I could, and ven I was getting ap my head struck a board that was covering me. " Oh," said I, " vot does this mean, vere am I ? Am I ded ?" and I roared and bawled and threw off the cover, and jumped about as if I vas mad. And I knocked at the door vid my hands and feet, but nobody would open it for me, and I thought I vas ded myself. I vas not shure. I had the ded man's dress on me. At last the door opened, and ven I looked at the man vat opened it he fell down mid fear, and I ran till I was caught. Then I fainted, and ven come to myself I thought it was a dream. But it is as true as lam here.' " . • _ !t. MORE MURDERING. A horrible affair became known in Hanley, Stafford shire, on Saturday morning—the murder of an infant and attempted murder of another child by their mother, and the atempted suicide of the murderess. The scene of the tragedy is Brownedge, a small namlet lying off the main road from Hartley to Leek. One of the inhabitants is James Goodwin, who with his wife, his daughter, aged ten years, and an infant of ten months, on Friday morning constituted an apparently happy family. Towards night, however, the daughter ran screaming. out of the house, bleeding from a wound in the throat. Some of the neigbours went to the cottage door, which was found to be fast. An entrance was effected, and on going upstairs Mrs. Goodwin and her infant, both with their throats cut, were seen lying on the bed. A surgeon was sent for, and he attended to the wound, but the little - one's life could not be save. The self-inflicted wound of the mother was not so serious, and it is believed that the elder child will also recover. From the latter it has been elicited, that being asked by her mother to go upstairs, she did so, and was closely followed by her mother, who immediately seized her and cut her throat with a razor. She, however, man aged to struggle away, and ran out of the house, as stated above. Goodwin was at once sent for from the colliery, and was naturally much affected by the deplorable cir cumstances. Mrs. Goodwin was nine years ago mentally affected to such an extent that she was placed under proper care in the Leek workhouse, but there had been no recent indication of aberration, and Goodwin states that when he left her on Friday morning there was no observable excitement or peculiarity of manner. The razor was found under the bed, and proved to be Good win's. Mrs. Goodwin, as it was dangerous to remove her, was placed under police charge in the cottage. A countryman, who had never paid more than 25c. to see an exhibition, went to a New York theatre one night to see " The Forty. Thieves." The ticket-seller charged him 75c. for a ticket. Passing the pasteboard back, he quietly remarked, "Keep it, mister; I don't want to see the other thirty-nine," and out he marched. BETTING BY MAciIiNERY.—An ingenious instru ment, of French manufacture, for the purpose of mutual betting, was introduced for the first time on the Roodoe, on Wednesday. The chief constable (Mr. Fenwick) saw this in operation, and being of opinion that it combined the features of a betting-list and sweepstake, he had it seized, the proprietor undertaking to appear at the police-court on Thursday morning. He did so, and pro duced handbills explanatory of W. Chase and Co.'s " Parri-mutuel," or system of mutual betting. Fhe chief constable asked him to explain to the magistrates the principle upon which the instrument was worked, and he did so, stating that he had had it in operation since August last, and had not been interfered with. The instrument was in a box about three feet by two and a half, and seven or eight inches in thickness. When the lid was taken off it disclosed a dial on which were three rows of small levers, which correspond with the numbers of the horses which run. Different numbers may therefore, be backed at uniform shares of half-a-crown each, and the total appears at the top of the dial. As soon as the flag is up, indicating that the horses have started, the whole of the handles or levers are locked until the result of the race is known, when the total subscribed is divided among those who have backed the winning number, less a commission of 10 per cent., which the proprietor charges to cover his own expenses; for he keeps two clerks, and stated that the in strument cost over £5O in Paris. The magistrates, after consulting together, determined to retain the instrument till the following morning, and in the meantime would consider what they should do. Accordingly, on Friday morning Major French told the defendant it was very clear that he came under the Gambling Act, and the magistrates knew from information that he had been trying this game in other places, till they got too hot to hold him. As this was the first instrument of the kind the magistrates had seen, they expressed their disappro bation of its use and fined the defendant 40s. and costs. The money was paid, and as no order was made as to the instrument, it was given up to the defendant. —Chester ' Chronicle. THE SUPPOSED FENL&NS. At Marylebone police-court yesterday afternoon John Wilson, aged 43, who described himself as a gun and pistol manufacturer, Birmingham, was charged with having 50 six-barrelled revolvers in his possession and not being able to give a satisfactory account of the same ; and Michael Davit, about thirty, was charged with loitering on the platform of the Great Western Railway, Paddington, as it was supposed, for an unlawful purpose. Mr. William son, superintendent of police, Scotland-yard, watched the case. The prisoners were apprehended at the railway station. Wilson was taken as he was leaving the train, with the revolvers in his pos session, and the' other prisoner while waiting to receive him. Davit had about 2150 in his possession. Mr. Williamson said he had reason to believe that the prisoners were con nected with the Fenian movement. Mr. D'Eyncourt re manded the prisoners. LAW AND POLICE. Judgment hays been given by the House of Lords in the case of the Hon. Sackville West and others v. Lord Holmes dale and Others, argued in February last. The question arose on a - codicil of the late Dowager Countess of Amherst, by which certain lands were devised in trust to be settled " in a course of entail to correspond as nearly as might be " with the barony. Their lordships now re versed the judgment of the court below, where it was held that the lands were to be settled strictly according to the limitations of the barony, and that Countess De la Warr took an estate for life in the freeholds so devised. FALSE IMPRISONMENT.—An action for false imprison. ment and slander has been brought in the Second Court of Common Pleas. Plaintiff was a young man who had been tried and acquitted on a charge of felony, and the slander complainPri of was a. rppAtition of the rharerp niter his acquittal. - The defendant was an old lady named Jones, who had been prosecutrix in the felony case. She had charged the plaintiff with being concerned in an attempted robbery at her house, and after the trial it was the slander. The jury found the defendant was not actuated by malice : but on the count of slander they returned a verdict for the plaintiff— damages, one farthing. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—The case of Padwick v. the Duke of Newcastle has been again brought before Mr. Baron Bramwell in chambers. After a discussion, it was decided that the liability of a peer to be made a bankrupt should be admitted, in order to raise the question whether the money paid into court belonged to Mr. Padwick or the assignees under the bankruptcy. Mr. Baron Bramwell directed the trial to be at the sittings in London, it having been explained that all the witnesses resided in London. HIRING PIANOS.—A case raising the question as to the right to distrain a piano hired by a lodger, has been tried in the Court of Queen's Bench. Messrs. Craner and Co., the well-known piano manufacturers, let out a piano on hire to a person who had apartments in the house of the defendant, Mott. The hirer owed his landlord £4 4s. for 104, 4 and on Messrs. Cramer sending for the piano Mott refused to let it go. The case was brought before a jury, who gave a verdict for the defendant, and it has now been brought before the Queen's Bench. After a long argu ment, the Court confirmed the decision, holding that there had been a justifiable assertion of the right of dis tress by the landlord. THE Loss OF A CARGO.—An action has been brought by Messrs. Novaro, merchants, ff Liverpool and Glas gow, in the Court of Queen's Bench, against the owner of a steamship for loss of a cargo of beans through the neg lect of the master. The beans were at Alex andria in September, 1868, and consigned to the plaintiffs at Glasgow. After visiting Liverpool the vessel while proceeding down the Mersey came into collision with another vessel, by which the steamer was much injured and run ashore, the beans being saturated with salt water. Plaintiffs wrote to the agent to the effect that they objected to the beans being carried in the state they were in, and proposed to take them at Liverpool, on condition of a reduction in the freight. The agent refused this, insisting on the whole freight, which the plaintiff's refused. The cargo, accordingly, was taken on to Glasgow, where it was sold at a loss. They sued the master for neglect in not having dried the beans, The court gave judgment for the plaintiffs, holding that the taking- of the cargo on under the circumstances was unjustifiable, and rendered the shipowner liable for the loss thereby occasioned.. " EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER."—An unusual matter was heard before Master Hodgson at the Queen's Bench Chambers. A plaintiff in person had commenced an action, and served what he called a " declaration " on a firm of solicitors, charging them with destroying or conniving at the destruction of a bond or note. A summons was taken out to set the document aside, and on the part of the defendants, it was stated that it would have been demurred to, but their pleader said it would be a degradation to pleadings to demur to such a production, The Master told the defendant that he had acted as his own lawyer, and such a document could not be permitted. It charged a criminal act. The plaintiff pleaded his own cause, and said it was not a criminal act. The solicitors were only accessories after the fact. The Master said the plaintiff knew enough of law to go wrong. It was alleged that they were accessories before the fact. On the part of the defendants, it was denounced as an atrocious charge, and costs were asked before the action proceeded. The Master set the document aside with costs in the cause, and ordered the plaintiff to go to a respectable attorney, and not to act en the notion that " every man could be his own lawyer." CHARGE OF POISONING PMEONS.—James Calver, a labourer, living in the Finchley-road, was summoned at the Highgate Police-court, for poisoning three pigeons be longing to a neighbour. The defendant said he had to keep a wife and five children on 16s. per week. His cab bages and lettuces had been spoiled by the pigeons, and he lately planted some peas, but the pigeons, rats, and mice ate the best part of them. He placed some paste that he bought of a chemist on the ground and it killed the pigeons. He had complained to the defendant about the birds, but he took no notice of his complaint. Colonel Croll said the summons must be dismissed ; the magi strates thought the man was justified in putting down poison to prevent the destruction of his property. WAGES AND EFFECTS OF DECEASED MERCHANT SEAME3C—We have authority to state that the British Government have agreed with the Governments of France, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and the North German Con federation, to deliver to their respective Consuls-General in London the wages and effects received by the Board of Trade under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, of seamen belonging to those countries who have died on board British Merchant vessels, and these Governments have on their part agreed to deliver to the nearest British Consul the property of British Sea men dying on board their merchant vessels, or on shore in their territories. Her Majesty's Consuls have therefore been instructed to report to the Board of Trade the par ticulars of the deaths of such British Seamen, and to re ceive their wages and effects, and to account for such wages and effects to the Board of Trade in the ordinary manner.—Shipping Gazette. THE RELIGIOUS TREATMENT OF ROMAN CATHOLIC PRISONERS. The select committee of the House of Commons pr( ceeded with their inquiry into the above subject yesterday Mr. Maguire in the chair. Captain GARDINER, the Governor of the City and County Gaol, Bristol, gave evidence in reference to that of the Rev. Mr. Myers, Catholic priest. He said he did not tell the Rev. Mr. Myers he could visit without being sent for. Mr. Myers having visited a sick prisoner once might have done so again, but he did not think it necessary to tell him so, as his impression was he must have known it. They did not recognise Mr. Myers as a chap lain, and he had only been to the prison four times in five years. There were 132 prisoners confined, nine-tenths of whom were Church of England. There were four Roman Catholics who did not the Church of England services, and two who did. During the last twenty ye.irs most of the Roman Catholics attended Church service, and the rest remained in their cells. He certainly should not allow a priest to celebrate Mass in the prison without the sanc tion of the visiting justices. No application on the sub ject had been made to the visting justices. He, objected to Mr. Myer's evidence, and contradicted it on many points. He did not think there was any objec tion to , Roman Catholic priests being admitted to prisons, and, if necessary, holding services there. There had never been a refusal on the part of the officials for a prisoner to see the priest if he desired to do so, neither had any complaints been made. If a regular appointment of a priest was made he should consider it his duty to give him the same assistance as he did the Pro testant chaplain. The Rev. Father ZANETTI, Catholic priest at Millbank, described the system in force there. All the cells contain ing Roman Catholics had the letters "R. C." over the door. There was no doubt, he said, that religious teaching in prisons was necessary, as, besides tending to reform the prisoners, it made them more willing to work and more obedient to the prison rules. The committee adjourned. NEW ZEALAND NEWS. The correspondent of the New Zealand Herald writes from Tauranga on February 14:—To-day news was brought in by way of Maketu that an engagement had taken place near Ohiwa between Kemp's force and the Hauhaus under Te Kooti, when eleven of the latter were killed, without the slightest casualty on the side of the former. Te Kooti is pushing on for the Uriwera country. By the same means I learn that the notorious Louis Baker has met his end rather summarily. This rascal has been long known here under the designation of Kereopa, his sytnpathies with the cannibal of that name being well known to us, as well as his constant communication with Te Kooti, Hakarahia, and other rebels, indeed he was a more welcome guest with them than with the Europeans. This man was a French Cana dian, and several months ago was received in some menial capacity on board her Majesty's ship Rosario, in this harbour, from which vessel he has more than once or twice deserted, on each occasion visiting his quondam as sociates, the Hauhaus. His last desertion occurred last month, just previous to the departure of the Rosario for Wel lington, when he was seen offering a portion of his sailor's clothing (new) for a mere trifle. He afterwards made for his old haunts, and was recently taken prisoner by the friendlies, when it was understood he would be handed over to the Imperial authorities, and, no doubt, shot. One portion of this trouble was, however, saved his captors, as it would seem that yesterday or the day before he endeavoured to make his escape to his old friends, when he was shot down. lam informed the recreant fell by the weapon of Major Drummond Hay : if so, that officer could hardly have rendered a more signal service to the district. A strong party is being formed for the purpose of prospecting the land of the Hauhaus who recently attacked our troops. The following telegram was received by the Hon. the Defence Minister from Lieutenant-Colonel Moule " February 24, 12 p.m., 1870.—A native lately in from the interior brings news of an engagement somewhere between Rotorua and Opotiki ; twenty-two of Te Kooti's men killed and Kereopa taken prisoner. Topia's force was the one engaged. These sort of reports are not reliable. Tana and Thompson's widows were on their way to Wai hou. They report peace at Tokangamutu, to which place they quickly return." A SHIPWRECK IN JAPAN.—The British barque Bella, from Cardiff, with coals, has been totally wrecked on Elleries Reef, Japan, the crew being saved. THE SUEZ CANAL.—The steamer Sakana arrived at Japan on the 18th of March, from London, having called at Aden, Galle, Singapore, and Manilla. She made the whole passage in eighty-four days. - - - - LORD NAPI,ER OF MAGDALA.—The Friend of India says that with the characteristic art of refusing honours on his arrival, Lord Napier begins again his Indian career. Had the army been polled for the election of a successor to Sir William Mansfield, their choice would have fallen upon no other. Lord Napier takes office with the confidence and good wishes of both the Army and the public, and the Indian army feels that it is at last com manded by a soldier. SMALLPDX AMONG THE GUARDS AT WINDSOR' —A soldier of the Second Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, at Windsor, caught the smallpox in the town a few days ago, and was removed to the regiment a l h osp it a l . Th e disease is at present so prevalent in that borough, several deaths having occurred from it within the last week, that the authorities are taking precautionary steps to prevent its spread among the troops. The hospital orderlies are forbidden to enter barracks, and hawkers from disposing of fish and other edible commodities to the soldiers. It is expected that should the epidemic continue to spread, the battalion will be removed from the barracks, and placed under canvas in the Long Park. OOMMUTATION.—Dr. Lloyd, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, has published an important pamphlet on commutation, in which he estimates the present values of the clerical life interests of all classes as £5,179,000. His object is to prove to the Irish clergy that general commu tation would be "safe," and his hypothesis is that the capital sum might be invested at 4 or 4i per cent. in secure funds. The gain on this investment, together with the 12 per cent. bonus secured to the Church under the Act, and the sum of £500,000 in lieu of private endowments, would, at the end of fifteen and a half years, when the last life would have dropped, and the Church would be entirely dependent on its own resources, constitute an en dowment of £1,639,000. This is exclusive of what might be saved by clerical " compounding." THE STAR OF INDIA.—The death of the Maharajah of Kuppoorthulla has left vacant a Grand Commander ship of the Star of India, and there is much discussion as to the successor to the honour. The Englishman considers that the Maharajah of Bundana to have the best claim on account of his distinguished services. He has always been a loyal subject, and has been thought worthy to take part in the deliberations of the Viceiegal Council. He has been most liberal in his donations to the poor, and was particularly ' distinguished for his reception of Prince Alfred, and there is much to justify the rumour that the Maharajah will be nominated a Grand Commander of the exalted Order of the Star of India. HONG HoNG.—The Legislative Council of Hong Kong met on the 30th March, and passed an ordinance incorporating the new Chinese Hospital. The Govern ment has contributed $15,000 to this hospital, and the Chinese themselves have raised the large sum of $47,000. The site has also been given by the Government, and the hospital, which is much needed, promises to flourish. The subject of the coolie trade was also discussed, and the Governor was empowered to stop any coolie ship from leaving port until the master or charterer stated on oath that he was not proceeding to any country other than Surinam, not under British dominion. The criminal statistics show a marked decrease in the crime of the last three years. REPORT BY M. OLLIVIER.—M. 011ivier. has ad dressed a report to the Emperor on the progress of 'consti tutional reform. Now that liberty is as well assured in France as in any country of Europe, it is time to direct attention to the improvement of their institutions. It is is very desirable to revise and to perfect the existing code of judicial and criminal law. He proposes to entrust the Council of State with the task of completing the reform of the civil code, and to appoint a special commission to undertake the reform of the criminal code. M. 011ivier has also issued a circular to the prefects, informing them of his scheme, and authorising the several magistrates to depart, on this occasion, from the regular routine, and to communicate to him the results of their experience, which he' will lay before the Commission. THE CZARINA AND THE GREEK CHURCH IN ENGLAND. —To the English-speaking Russo-Greek Church now being put up in Wolverhampton the Empress of Russia has just sent a bounty by the hands of the Right Rev. Monsignor Popoff, an Imperial Russian mitred chaplain, who has just returned from St. Petersburgh, and is charged with the expression of the Czarina's very warm sympathy with the undertaking, as well as with the handing over of her Majesty's money. At a time when it is made known that legal opinion is being taken upon the right or otherwise of the Archbishop of York to allow the Greek archbishop to take part in a service at the minster, it is noteworthy that Major- General Prince Abamaleck, a distinguished member of the Armenian body, had promised to devote a portion of his leisure to furnish from his own hand an icon for the adornment of the church. The Prince, writing from Russia, says :—" I often pray the Almighty to allow y ou to accomplish your pious drsign of building a church at Wolverhampton." The local p ro j ec t or of this movement is Mr. Hatherley, an English convert to the Russo- Greek Church, who has for some years been a resident in Wolverhampton. THE MURDERS IN GREECE.—The London corre spondent of the Manchester Guardian says that there is talk of an animated debate in the Lords on Frida3r, when Lord Carnarvon will bring on his moti on a b ou t Greece The feelings of the peers are more susceptible on such subjects as those of the capture and massacre at Marathon than the more prudential and prosaic susceptibilities of the Commons. In the Lower House there is no likeli hood of any strong resolution being proposed or carried. But as up to this time Lord Clarendon's dispatches do not disclose any distinct demand for satisfaction, the temper of their lordships is growing irritable ; and it is expected that a good many sha r p thi ngs w ill be said in debate if not formulated and placed on record. One of the projects said to be in cogitation is that of insisting upon a sort of court of inquiry being set up at Athens in the name of the Protecting Powers, with the sanction of the Hellenic Government, and und er the guardianship of a combined fleet in the harbour of the Piraeus. But with out the assent of Russia it is clear that this could not be done ; and when it comes to the point her assent will, of course, be withheld. AGRICULTURE AND THE CQRN TRADL. -r - d • Influenced by the heavy rains, vegetation has u 33e rapid progress during the week, and its development 112.! also been assisted by the prevalence of a mild atmo s Pl e r',' The apprehensions entertained in many quarters o a s t partial failure of the crops, in consequence of a W • of moisture, have thus been considerably ated ; if, in fact, they have 'not been entirely rein froth Additional moisture is still wanted, and, judgino. fr a ,, t he broken weather, it is not at all improbable tgat shall yet be supplied with sufficient to remove all . doae t a of a failure of the crops from drought. On well-f"rsaetli lands the wheat plant is generally well spoken of, w i n d the exception of its being backward for the season, and it is only on badly-drained and heavy soils that 1 3s , prospect of affairs has been unsatisfactory. The P t b a tures and meadow lands have also profited much re. refreshing showers, and have assumed a much TO of luxuriant appearance. There has been a continuan ce firmness in the grain trade, so far as valuers are concern to but the business doing has been less extensive, olvirVa the indisposition evinced by purchasers to operate heYl l3 O actual requirements. The quantity of wheat forar",o, to market has been rather more liberal, far lll , l - 11 ,1 being attracted by the late advance', , to ` having thrashed out somewhat freely. -P have demanded an advance of I.s. per qua ( 1. but this improvement has not been generally ob tahle l , and in a few instances has been very reluctantly Call?„. ceded. The tone, however, has continued very st. nr r°l il and the high prices current in the markets in the - 0 ' or i c of Europe have tended to strengthen values. The tra,., will now be regulated principally by the weather and ,ts condition of the wheat plant. With favourable reP6,;,,, quietness may be expected, but with adverse nev: ' heavy rise would be inevitable. —Magnet. of Although the past week opened with a renewa,- . frosty nights, and the promised rain was drivels eu strong breezes, eventually it came, and will do al l l ila calculable amount of good, while much More wa to be welcome. The grass will now have a ehau ce The grow, though the cutting is likely to be late. (13 spring corn will freely germinate, and the sown be speedily covered with verdure. Before the r came the aspect of things was not so bad as might ha . ' r been expected. The early-planted wheat, the clos, leys, and the winter tares were looking strong but sli° l ' ose , h Some early white peas shew their blossoms, 11 r sown late were looking very bad ; but, with all othbee corn, such have now a chance to recover whate ver the time of gathering may be. The rain, too, has set 1 , 0 plough in motion where wanted, and the harrow roe quickly followed. Thus the late root crops inaY c a t. r in very serviceably. It is doubtful, however, whepleo. the early potatoes, so severely cut up by frost, roughly recover. The rain will greatly help the wea o plants of wheat, which were threatened by the het o• and drying atmosphere •, and the influence of the ficial change will soon be apparent. After an advau c t ' o however, there generally comes a reaction, and se have had a quiet week, though a few markets decl.ur dearer, and the London trade closed in calm - --Narl; Express. ere An early harvest may now be left out of the talc re tions of our food prophets. The wheatplant is e verywi l , b e e r sobackward that no reasonable amount of growing wea'', to during the next few weeks can force on the pipy st" 3" is, spindle into full ear b3r the second week of June—thaie, in the chief wheat districts of England. And ben / being behind time, the crops are so gen e° , (1, thin and weak, and, where they are not much da , °° e a t by worm, will be so long in recovering from their pres',3l sickly yellow colour (in particular upon the heavy 1a ore' that a full and satisfactory yield can follow only f r ld, will ti specially favourable influences in June and July. wet summer must result in very great deficieu - e . The serious matter for the farmer at the present meat is the falling off of the pastures after the ear t, flush of grass. Mild showers have cosine at l' but only in moderate quantity ; and in many of the g great ;; grazing districts orithe midland and eastern eo unti bullocks have eaten off their grass into short 6 11e 1 herbage, sheep have cropped their fields quite bare , „l e there h great efl as been difficulty in finding horse keep wu.,. waiting for a cut of the late lucerne and backward gr-for clover We have had, and still have, a grand time Go t cleaning fallow land for root crops ; mangolds never ` v o in better, and such a mould as we have not seen for Y° .. , is a good promise for nice plants of swedes and turnips' Chamber of Agriculture Journal. The llfarseillaise indulges in a calculation to Of ~, that " irreconcilabilty" is an expensive as well as a 1 1 . t5 gerous pursuit. After setting forth that " one i e , editors was shot dead and another shot at by a Bona Par,, and that most of them are or have been in gaol, it P, coeds to state that though it was only five months in elisaff tence the terms of imprisonment inflicted on its SOO amount in the aggregate to seven years and two 10°Il f t and a half, giving an average of five months and hal week per writer. The fines amount to not less bg £720. ;11 0.'7' The executive of the South Yorkshire 11i11` of o f Council have issued an appeal for assistan ce on behalf a t the wives and children connected with the lock-outdo, Thorncliffe, which has now lasted for eighteen ni° u r e• and has proved one of the most costly struggles ol l ia t cord. There are 360 women and 722 child ren .dePea(- f on the fund. Since the Ist of January, 1869, the sui ll i ce d £34,490 has been paid to the men on strike and to by out in the district out of which upwards of £17,000 0' been paid to the support of Thorncliffe men. ItiCtr A contemporary says, in reference to the -Dv. o t tion Bill, that the friends of the Government are in , r t V spirits at the apparent certainty of getting throug u ,, 0 1 Land Bill hi committee next week. The consequenclat this is the revival of the hope, well nigh departed, : 1 ; 0 , the Education Bill may be proceeded with this ?." De With the great amount of business, however, . s till got through in the Committee of Supply and of to and Means, this can only be effected by having recourse morning sittings. Relating the recent act of Vandalism at Os .° f a telegram states that a " meeting of a ll th e m einber s oo lc Christ Church, summoned by the govern i ng bodY, ttbe place yesterday morning. The dean intimated that eS iv es perpetrators of the outrage have refused to give theinse ; ot up, legal proceedings would at once be commenced ag 3 .;,,i1l them. The act being a felonious one, the charge r ip. P ilo t cipal be of a most serious nature. One of the cipal offenders absconded during last night, but cal long escape apprehension." r it• There seems to be some mistake about the apP °l nid ment of the Rev. Alfred Willis, vicar of St. Mark's4is Brompton, to the Bishopric of Madagascar. Mr. lA' writes to some of .the Church papers, stating that 110 f o r consulted about taking the bishopric, and took i t ,„ it, granted that he had really been officially nominated '" t he but that afterwards some of the dignitaries with w horl; 11 i nomination rests, objected to him on the ground °"" the being an extreme Ritualist. These gentlemen are tile Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London , Bishop of Winchester, and. Bishop Ryan. —.4 [ADVERTISEMENT:I Indigestion, Stomach, and 14 , 1 t s tio Complaints.—Persons suffering from any diserder 01 liver, storm :eh, or the organs of digestion, should have ti j o l course to these Pills, as there is no m e dici n e know , ' acts on these particular complaints with such certain "iv , cess. lts peculiar properties strengthen the stotnacil , ,,, , c l crease, the appetite, and rouse the s'uggish liver. For 1)° ,1,- complaints it is invaluabl , as it removes every ; rintaridef rangement, thereby restoring the patient to the boun d ; :t health and strength. These preparations may be ti',? „0' all times and in all climates by porsons effected by ness, nausea, or disordered liver; for flatulency and burn they are specifics. Indeed, no ailment of the tb b ,r fe c' tire organs can long withstand their pui if) lag and co' live powers. ADVERTISEMENT. j - Consumption, and all n bilious, stomach, ani liv3: complaints in every sta2e ar e tat aggravated and Acc3l3rated by drugs of eve y descriptioo , , e o perfe tly curable by Du BARRY'S health-restoring ReOp Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had oi i - g!', considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), c„trP asthma, consumption, h,bitual constipati on, di arr h oea, all P o et . derangements, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency b' vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore th roat, di p h t h er i a , ca 4 "7 0 0 colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatisnl, 105t' impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, c r m y spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at se3'„'t the ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti _htness of th e c h es t, pains ; o te pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We e few: -The Pope's health restored by Du liarry's Food. Oil ie r 68,413 - "Borne, July 21, 1866, The health of the Holy P L : 1 4t excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, lot/ confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica_ l ace . ; of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has pin t "; a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his o °yd, cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " ,, r,„tre du Midi July 2 Cure No. 46,a0.—Mr. James Roberts, iner,:than ' t, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased ",- )0 .t 0 spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Water . „ r ib of many years ' dyspepsia .— No. 49 , 83?. “Fifty years' intl e '' C o,", able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cougth, ls l 7, stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. -- 0 5 11 , Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of the many uns?'oritl, and more than sloppy imitations to which, without alit Baron Liebiz's name is most audaciously attached I V* In tins, at Is 14d; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb -1s 6d; 51b lls.; 24 lbs 4 s.— t ISO Dto BARRY's REVALENTA RABIC A. CHOC? c ot POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 1 cups at 2s, for 24.00, at Is 6d, for 43 cups at6s, for 2.'8 cups at 30s, for 5711 cups —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins o r der. i free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office o r BARRY Du , BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Londoi all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. (O a ' On the 16th inst., at Tunstall Villa, The Dowuf, f..)1 3 1' the wife of M inrg. George Gowland, of a son. On the IGth ,at 89, GrPat RussAl-strept, Bloon) 31)111.1' the wife of Richard Epps, Esq., of a daughter. .i.ll A RIU AGES. a't r On the 12th inst., at St. Mary's, Laml eth, Mr. Jas. r i-, 4) 3jr• send, of Exeter, to Mary Ann, sacend daughter Gadd, of Vauxl;all. 110 11) On the 14th inst., at all Saints, Fulham. Edward t iyfr: Walker, of 9, Edith-villas, Fulham, to Tem, er..nco 0 1 bath, secord daughter of the late William Matyc 3f ' Crabtree, Fulham. DEATHS. h ter On tho 13th inst., at Lowestoft, Clara Maria, eldest attoifi,"o l of the late T. C. Brettingi.am, Esq., formerly of flic Lodge, Suffolk. On the 14th inst., at 10, Hornton-street Keusiug,ton , ',wer 93d year of his age, :Mcqueen, Esq., K.O. „, and Sword of Portugal. P.R.G.S. London: Printed and Publi s h e d b y IVILLI A "M 1• 1%; of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE 81. c Oflico, -L\ • of Strand, iu the Precinct o f th e Savoy, ' in the Coilo'l Middlesex.—Tuesday, May 17, 1870. •..~.. N o 24. KINAHAN h 0 . 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