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MOSES and SON, CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD - STREET, CORNER 0: lIART-STREIiT. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. B RADFORD, YORKSHIRE. EMOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of 4b GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING. Frock Dress Oxford Camb. Fishing Coats Coats. Coats. Coats. Coats. 25 6 . zu. Its. las. 10s. 80s. SOL 318 . 22s. 15s. SAL 358. 365. 285. 18s. 440. 4118. - SOB. 525. 225. 508. 60s. 30s. 86s. 28s. 03s. 60s. L2s . 425. 355. til MOSES and SON beg to remind the public J • that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its quality, and they venture to affirm that every article sold by them is considerably cheaper than what can be obtained at any other home in England. E MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED: Summer Overcoats. Race Coats. Business Suits. Morning Trousers. Dress Trousers. 136. 6d. 13s. ed. 18s. 6d. ORDERS by post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate systam of self measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. T - I MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of rj • B OY'S CLOTHING : Knickerbocker Eton Brighton 11 arrow Suits. Suits. Suits. Suits. 9s. 6d. 15s. 18s. 1, , ,5. 13s. 6d. 19s. 235. 235. 16s. 6d. 21s. 265. 265. 21s. 265. 325. 325. 265. 30s. 365. 365. Ns. 365. 48s. 48s. yiMOSES and SON supply every description of . clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes ; also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any article exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset, till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON : LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDUATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. 10s. 6d, NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA. restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNE LL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, includ ng brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, .°3, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.O. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 61-- Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, at 7, MARRIED LIFE; Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe. 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The most important assembly of the Catholic laity in England that has taken place since the date of the great Act of Catholic Emancipation was holden on Monday, at Norfolk House, with his Grace the Premier Duke as its Chairman. The occasion call ing it together was identical with that which rallied together on the same day in St. James's Hall a very considerable number of Nonconformists. Both the Nonconformists and the Catholics are resolute in their antagonism to the Educational Bill of the Go vernment now before Parliament. According to the statement set forth by the noble lord who moved the first resolution at the first mentioned of these two important assemblages, the meeting which took place in St. James's-square and not in St. James's Hall, the Catholics of England would be com paratively contented, it appears, if the aid afforded them by the Government were still continued upon the same system which has been in vogue during the last twenty years : a system under which, as Lord HOWARD of GLOSSOP remarked, money had been re ceived by the Catholics from the national exchequer in a manner satisfactory to themselves without giving umbrage to anyone else in the country. The disap pointment felt by the Catholics in the presence of the educational scheme now set forth by Mr. FORSTER in his own name and in that of his ministerial colleagues is natural enough under the circumstances. For, in point of fact, the matter stands thus between the Catholics and Her MAJESTY'S Government. After having overcome a mass of difficulties—now in regard to the religious treatment of convicts at the prisons, now in regard to the religious treatment of paupers at the workhouses—they find themselves confronted with difficulties, far more enormous and far more formidable in their character, not in regard to sec tional portions of their body, but in regard to the whole of their community ; the aggregate of them being brought into competition, so to speak, with the entire Governmental system of educational schools. As the noble lord put it, very simply but very forcibly and, in fact, as it seems to us, quite irresistibly, "the whole population of the country having to be educated, as Catholics have a very small proportion of wealth as compared with a large mass of poverty, there will be a danger, when the Catholic schools come to be placed in juxtaposition with schools entirely supported out of the rates, backed up by grants from the central Government, that the Catholic schools must go to the wall, the poor children being taken to the Board schools in the various large towns," thus becoming very rapidly proselytized. About the reasonableness of this view there can scarcely be any doubt whatever. The Catholics of England, aware of the danger confronting them, and viewingthe position of things conscientiously, are naturally and reasonably alarmed. This fear again, from another point of view, is partaken of by the yet more powerful body of the Nonconformists. And it is this double opposition which now immediately confronts her MA JESTY'S Government. Manifesting itself, as this two fold opposition does, at the moment when Mr. FOR STER'S Bill is being brought practically before Parlia ment so late in the session as after the Whitsuntide recess, the prospect can hardly be regarded as hopeful for the securing this year, in any way satisfactorily, of the Ministerial scheme for the realization of the popular day-dream of National Education. THE question "where shall we bury CHARLES DICKENS" has brought us acquainted with the lamented novelist's dislike of English funerals. So great a humourist could not but be impressed by the horrible grotesqueness of these ceremonials. Devised with the double purpose of awing the living and of setting forth the greatness of the dead, they miserably fail in both objects. They are ludicrous where it is meant that they should be solemn they are mean where it is meant they should be magnificent. The Burial Service of the Church of England is the most magnificent composition in the English language, for it combines into one grand chorus the notes of bitter sorrow, sure trust, and heartfelt joy. But while the priest is doing all that human language can do to comfort the heart and elevate the mind, the undertaker has by every means in his power sought to distract and wound by hideous and unmeaning para phernalia. The' priest goes forth to meet the mourners with the sublime words, "I am the resurrection and the life," and he is greeted with the spectacle of sticks swathed in sable, of men in seedy black holding rods that have absolutely no purpose or use, of horses with feathers stuck between their ears, of a frightful looking cloth of velvet thrown over the coffin; with sham upon sham, and forms that have lost all life, and have become more meaningless than the rites of Mumbo-Jumbo. CHARLES DICKENS hated this wretched parody of a ceremonial that bad beauty in the days before the veiled cruci fix gave place to the "crutch done up in a black ban dage," and before the dimly burning tapers, so sugges tive of the transitoriness of life, yielded to the brass- tipped staves. He hated it because he hated all shams, and especially a sham that intruded into the region of that stern and dread reality— death. In truth a man of far less keen perceptions might feel the same dislike. The contrast is too great not to strike the dullest mind. The greatest slave to conventionalism must sometimes ask himself what connection there is between the man who carries a board of feathers on his head, and the man who lies in the coffin. But most of us are slaves of habit, and of the undertaker. We allow him to insult us at the same time that he robs us— to outrage all sentiment, and to demand black mail for doing it. Perhaps in time we shall ;ree ourselves from this wretched and costly imposture, and make our funeral rites shew forth the resignation and the trust—the sorrow not without hope—of the Chris tian, instead of the gloomy and childish super stitions of heathendom. He whom we are all lamenting did many a good service to his fellows while he lived ; let us hope that in his simple secret burial in the grand old Abbey which has witnessed many more showy spectacles, but none more striking than his funeral, he may do us one more service, even in death. Tun glowing summer weather, of whose unvary ing continuance our farmers are beginning to com plain, reminds our emigration societies that they must make the most of their opportunities. Other questions will admit of postponement to the cloudy days of autumn or the frosty nights of winter, but the intending emigrant who waits too long for " a convenient season " is likely to find his whole scheme become a failure in consequence. There is not much ground for encouragement at present for those of our work. ing men who prefer the old country. Trade is still slack, though reviving, and is not likely to call the un employed hands into work for some time to come. Already there is an increase in the price of some kinds of provisions, and unless we have a much more favourable account of the cattle feeding crops than hitherto we shall certainly have a rise in the price of meat before long. What is to be done with the thousands of able-bodied workmen, who are now clamouring, vainly for employment ? We may regret the impro- - videfice, so habitual in their class, which has left them so unfitted to meet the emergency. We may deplore still more the lavish manner in which their money, when acquired, is spent on drink, on Sunday finery for the women, on St. Monday holidays and bean feasts for the men. Still the fact remains that, with actual and long-continued want of work, the most unexceptionable sobriety, the most commendable prudence will not altogether avail. It is true they may lighten the burden, since the sober and thrifty man gets ten chances where his reckless and intemperate neighbour gets one, and his character stands him in good stead with landlord 'and creditors, in times of unavoidable "falling behind." But the condition of our English labour market calls for some active and exceptional treatment, if we do not wish for a permanent addition to the ranks of our chronic pauperism. This remedy, practical men, who are in the habit of considering the laws of supply and demand, believe they can find in emi gration. On the one hand they see men, able and competent artificers and artisans, who are standing, week after week, idle in the market place because no man will hire them. On the other they see the far-reaching dependencies of the British Crown, from almost every one of which comes the same cry for hands to develope the resources of the soil. The vast tracts of Canada and Red River are unfilled and unsown while Dorset shire labourers are fighting to " keep off the parish " on a shilling or two a day. There are fish enough on the coasts of New Brunswick and Prince Edward's Island to engage a good many sturdy hands, and the dock labourers of East London would do well one might imagine r to try a change of trade. For every branch of practical industry there is room. North and south, in the vast dominions stretching between Atlantic and Pacific, and in that great southern continent as yet but fringed with inhabi tants, the same story is told, while we at home are wearied with the perpetual reiteration of the cry for employment, and disheartened by the conviction that pauperism is gaining rather than losing ground. The leaders of the emigration movement have at least on their side the powerful argu ment that theirs is a prompt and practical remedy, and, so far as yet known, a successful one. Of course there will always be individual instances of failure and disappointment. There is no career in life which does not shew us hundreds of such cases, but as a general rule the emigrants have started in their new worlds with a fair chance of being free to make their way if they are competent, steady, and ordinarily fortun ate. Thus a party who left Victoria Docks last April, under the auspices Mr. W. 11. SMITH, M.P., all obtained engagements within three days of their landing. It is no wonder that on the receipt of this news plenty more fortune seekers were forthcoming, and Mr. SMITH, on his part, was ready to assist them. The British and Colonial Emigra- tion Society, too, has been actively at work, and we may guess the real eagerness with which our unemployed poor are seeking for "fresh fields and pastures new," where their labour will not be a drug in the market, from the fact, stated at a recent meet ing at the Mansion House, that by the end of this month there will be 3,600 intending emigrants registered on the books of the society. Two thousand of these have been already despatched, and 1,300 more will follow before Midsummer. Mr. GOSCIIEN, M.P., who deserves credit for the personal care and originality he has brought to the consideration of this weighty question, has made a very sensible suggestion. He does not see why the principles acted upon across the seas should not be applied to the unequal distribu tion of labour in our own country. The East of London has a standing army of unemployed labourers. The Durham mine owners are in distress, for want of hands. What so easy as to meet one difficulty with the other Two hundred enforced idlers, whose names were on the books of the East end clubs, have been drafted off to Mr. PEASE'S estate in Durham, and have succeeded well. Why should not this principle he applied to other parts of the kingdom, bringing in the surplus of one district to supply the wants of the other, all through the wide circle of our English speaking dominions, tempering the wants of the whole vast body politic together, till there should no longer be vast fertile tracts uncultivated on the one hand, nor children crying for bread on, the other. The Irish Land Bill formed the principal subject for the consideration of the House of Lords last evening, and the importance and interest attached to the measure was abundantly endorced by the large attendance of the peers at the time of assem bling. The second reading of the bill was moved by Earl Granville, who gate a lucid description of the object and principles of the measure. The Duke of Richmond supported the second reading, because he feared that if the bill were rejected on that occasion the whole subject would eventually be reconsidered, and probably a worse scheme for the settlement of the question be proposed. Earl Russell gave the measure an unqualified and hearty support. In his opinion it was the best that had been submitted to Parliament for the purpose of removing the evils so grew ly complained of. Lord Oranmore and Browne expressed his conviction that the bill would utterly fail to accomplish the object of preventing agrarian crime, and stigmatised the principle of what be called taking away the property of the landlord without compensation an act of dishonesty. Lord Lifford objected to the bill in its present form, but hoped it would be improved in Committee. On the other hand Lord Dufferin was so satisfied with the scheme that he hoped their lordships would sanction it without any substantial difference. Ulti mately the debate was adjourned on the motion of Lord Cairns. The Norwich Voters Disfranchise ment Bill and the Bridgwater and Beverley Dis franchisement Bill were read a third time and passed. Their lordships adjourned at 20 minutes to 1 o'clock. In the House of Commons Mr. Buxton brought for ward a motion, having for its object the revision of the authorised version of the Scripture, and praying her Majesty tp invite the President of the United States to concur in the appointment of Commissioners for the purpose, which was withdrawn, and at ten minutes past seven the House was counted out. TOPICS OF THE DAY. FLOWERS 1 THE GRAVE. Yesterday afternoon when it became known that Charles Dickens bad been quietly buried in West minster Abbey before London was well . awaretbat any conclusion bad been arrived at as to the. final resting place . fur his loved and honoured remains—Poet's Corner became rapidly . crowded, and continued to be so throughout the day, and on until late in the evening, by those who were eager to take one last look into his grave before it should be closed as rapidly as it had been opened. Among those who • thronged about the open tomb it was impossible not to recognise that the vast majority were guided to it, not by a mere passing interest but by feelings of personal affection. Not only were sorrowful glances thrown into the grave, but flowers and tears were dropped into it as well by those who hold his name, and will long hold it, in loving remembrance. THL LAND BILL. Lord Derby's declaration on the Land Bill is gene rally regarded as " a settler." The Standard tells the Peers that they must pass the measure, andin doing so it makes some remarkable admissions, which shows the Standard to be in a more reasonable frame of mind than we have known it for some time. "In the first place, it is of great mo ment that an Irish Land Bill should pass this session. The peace of Ireland requires it; the Ministry could hardly undertake to govern Ireland without it, so deeply are they committed to its justice and necessity, and no party is at present prepared to turn out the Ministry. The Irish land lords themselves probably desire that the measure should pass, though they would wish it to be mate rially modified. Secondly, there is no probability that an appeal to the nation will reverse as yet the ver dictof 1868 in Mr. Gladstone's favour. It would weaker him and strengthen his opponents; but it would leave him still Minister, and only render him more than ever dependent on the worst portion of his party, and more amenable to Irish pressure." These are very noticable and creditable words. They go to prove not only that the House of Lords will 'behave reasonably, but that the Standard has either got a new editor or the old one has repented of his ancient practices. How ever, he still urges some .salutary amendments, but even these are not formidable. He does not say that the great point of compensation for eviction is to be determined absolutely against Mr. Gladstone, but merely that the principle on which it is to be assessed should be better regulated. So that everything looks well at present. THE VACANT SEAT FOR BRISTOL Matters at Bristol are reported to be in a very unsettled state, consequent on the unseating of Mr. Robinson. It is believed that a large number of the Liberals of the borough are desirous of supporting Mr. Kirkham Hodgson, the gentleman who was rejected at the test ballot at the last election, but the working men are dallying with Mr. Odger, although the result of the late contest is sufficient evidence that his success is problematical. The Con servatives, too, are similarly divided. The leaders of the party have arrrived at the conclusion that it would be unwise to start a candidate, but the Con servative Working Men's Association, elated at their success in having ejected Mr. Robinson, believe that they can carry their nominee, - and are desirous of bringing forward Mr. Sholto Hare. Mr. Hodgson, it is believed, would receive support from those Con servatives who are dissatisfied with the proceedings of the Working Men's Association. THE HORSE GUARDS AND THE WAR OFFICE. " One more instance has been given of Mr. Gladstone's determination to subject every department of the public service to a rigid scrutiny, and an impartial .reform where it is required. No longer will the question of precedence be allowed to lead to differences between the Horse Guards and the War Office. Her Majesty has just given her sanction to a regu lation founded on a suggestion made by Lord Northbrook's committee long since. It provides that the Secretary of State for War shall be the recognised head of the military department in the country, and that the entire affairs of the army will be dealt with by Parliament under the cognizance of this Minister. The duties of the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, on the other hand, will consist in maintaining the discipline of the forces, and arranging all questions of promotion in the lower grades. The Royal Warrant, in this matter, has secured changes which will be highly important, inasmuch as they will render it impos sible to evade unpleasant inquiries, reflecting on cer tain orders of the Horse Guards, by a plea that the Sovereign, and not the House of Commons, is alone entitled to demand the required information. Never theless, they are merely primary changes to what may be expected in the way of improving the army governing system. ADMIRALTY REFORM. A. correspondent in the Times calls attention to this subject in so far as the recent innovation in the mode of purchasing coals for her Majesty's ships is concerned. The quality of the coal raised in all the important colleries in the kingdom being thoroughly well-known, there would seem to be no necessity for the experience requisite in judging of the quality of manufactured articles. The Admiralty, however, in its zeal for the public service, has engaged brokers, who receive a percentage on these con tracts, and one agent is remunerated at the rate of 3d. per ton. There is no reason why this. money should be paid to a specially appointed broker, considering that the work could be performed by an ordinary clerk. Nor does it require more trouble to purchase 100,000 tons than 100 tons, though the sum to be paid in the former case would vastly exceed that in the latter. The wisdom of using a mixture of North country and Welsh coals is open to question, but searching trials by competent officials do not seem to have borne out the necessity for the change. The economical tendencies of the Admiralty have evidently outrun discretion. THE VACANT LORD JUSTICESHIP. The vacancy that has existed for some time on the Chancery Bench is producing- great inconvenience, and is as unsatisfactory to the judges and the pro fession as it must be to the Chancery suitors. To have a decision of the Master of the Rolls, a Vice- Chancellor, or a Commissioner of Bankruptcy, re viewed by a single Lord Justice, however high the estimation in which the judge be held, is manifestly wrong. Au analysis made by a barrister of all the appeal cases decided by Lord Justice Giffard while sitting alone, and reported in the Law Reports from January to June of the pre sent year confirms this view.. Of 14 appeals from the decision of the Master of the Rolls 7 were affirmed, and a like number, ,reversed. The decisions of Vice- Chancellor Stuart were questioned in seven instances, and of these 2 were affirmed, 3 reversed, and 2 varied. Vice-Chancellor Malin's decisions were appealed against in 8 cases, of which 3 were affirmed, 3 re versed, and 2 varied. Vice-Chancellor James's decisions were given in 5 cases, and of these 3 were affirmed, 1 was reversed, and 1 varied. Six appeals were made against the decisions of various Commis sioners of Bankruptcy; 2 were affirmed and 4 reversed. There was but one appeal against a County Court in Bankruptcy, and this was reversed by the Lord Justices. . Out of the 41 appeals only 17 were up held, while 19 were reversed and 5 varied. The necessity for an alteration of the present state of things could not be urged with greater force than is done by these simple figures. THE LONDON POLICE. The Home Secretary on the recommendation of Colonel Henderson has granted considerable conces sions to the police force in the metropolitan dis tricts. The " police-order " is likely to.afford general . satisfaction, as it remedies some defects which haVe previously existed. Promotions are to be. made only by seniority, and in cases where they have . been made on other grounds, the irregularity is to be rectified. Those officers who are not qualified for the advance by their education are to attend instruction classes until they become competent. The increase of pay which has been conceded, will do away with a great deal of the discontent and discouragement which have prevailed in the force, besides furnishing an inducement to a better class of men to join the ranks. The Home Secretary has thus, inaugurated reforms which have long been called for, and if ho perseveres in the task he will doubtless before long effect some• striking improvements in the police system of the Metropolis. DR. LIVINGSTONE. Sir R. Murchison referred to the position of Dr. Livingstone, at the Royal Geographical Society's meeting, and contradicted the report that an expe dition was about to leave this country in search of the traveller. He had received applications from many young men' who were anxious to join it. These admirable young volunteers wished to distinguish themselves, but did not know what they were about. It appears that the Consul of Zanzibar, who happens to be in this country, will take out the thousand pounds subscribed by the Government. Dr. Kirk, the Vice-C onsul,will refit the same expedition which started before, but which was impeded by an attack of cholera. Sir Roderick is so farhopeful that he says "the cholera has passed away entirely, the country is free from Zanzibar, and the only difficulty now is to get to Ujiji, where my dear and valued friend was, and still is. I hope in about seven or eight months hence you will have good news, and that very soon after that we shall see our friend again in his native country." This is certainly encouraging, but many of those who take an interest in the fate of Dr. Living stone would be more inclined to follow Sir Roderick Murchison's advice, and " put aside all anxiety for some months to come," it new life and vigour were infused into the expedition about to start from Zanzibar in aid of the great explorer. A TERRIBLE STORY. Some most extraordinary revelations have been made at the Lambeth Police-court, of a model baby farming establishment, which exceeds the worst pictureS that have been drawn of those miserable es tablishments. Eleven wretched looking infants were produced in court. It seems a constable, whose attention had been called to the house in question, answered an advertisement proposing to adopt a child, and, on inspecting the establishment, he found some most tragic spectacles. Five infants, three or four weeks old, were huddled together on a sofa in the front kitchen covered over with shawls. They were very dirty and neglected, two of them appearing to be dying. They were all very quiet—a fact that is possibly to be explained by the subsequent discovery of a bottle labelled "Paregoric Elixir." Another child had received, we may presume, an extra dose of the soothing cordial, for the surgeon found its eyes contracted and its mouth open. Five children, whose ages varied from fourteen months to two and a-half years, were at play in the back yard, and were better cared for, but the ten infants under three months were alike half starved, neglected, and miserable. The corn flour and water mixed for one was pronounced unfit for a child's food. The milk provided for another was absolutely sour. There was very little chance, said the surgeon who was called in, of the children living with such food as he found supplied to them. The "baby farmer" thought it probable she had taken charge of some forty children during the four years in which she had been in the busi ness. How many of these helpless innocents have passed into safer keeping since ? The case was remanded for further inquiries, the infants being sent to the workhouse to be nursed and fed, leaving us to ponder in the interval on the very awkward com ments which might be made on this story of Chris tian England if it reaches the banks of the Ganges. SECULARISM OR DENOMINi.TIONALISM. Commenting upon the letter of "An Oxford Liberal," which appeared a few days ago, and which, while acknowledging a preference for secular educa tion, advocated a concession to the prejudices of those numerous parents who believe religion to be of the essence of education, "A Cambridge Lib eral " calls attention to the confusion existing between the functions of colleges and universities. Those who are engaged in investigating and teaching science ought to be the best men that can be got, and not merely the best men that can be found in some particular religious communion ; but the case is different with the colleges, who have properly nothing to do either with learning or teaching. They are artificial households, in which the students are assembled for the purpose of discipline. By separating the functions of the university from those of the college, "A Cambridge Liberal" thinks the difficulty of prejudice would be got rid of, for it would provide a safeguard for the sons of parents whose religious opinions lean to Denominationalism. If a father objected to the university teaching as being opposed to his own opinions, or not running parallel to them, the university ought to reply that its sole duty is to teach truth, and in so replying it ought to be supported by the nation. The fear of exposing a son to the risk of proselytism would be best met by the parent seeking some private school or college belonging to his own denomination. THE FRENCH PRESS ON CHARLES DICKENS. The French press, with one exception, has paid unanimous tribute to the memory of Charles Dickens, although many of the obituary notices shew an inability to appreciate that tenderness, geniality, and humour, the blending of which is peculiarly English, and of which no abler exponent has ever lived than the great author whose loss is universally deplored. The exception in question is the Temps, which dis covers, among other things, that Dickens had faults, the gravest of which was his propensity to depict hideous and atrocious things. His eyes, according to this organ, had miscroscopic powers, but he only caught the outer aspect of objects ; the world of sentiment to him was a sealed volume. He never described the state of a man's mind ; he never analysed passion. But for Sam Weller the Temps would be tempted to think that Dickens had more animal spirits than wit. Dickens, it thinks, will not leave any permanent trace in literature properly so called. THE ANTIQUITIES OF FRANCE. The question has, it is said, often been asked on the Continent, why the archelogical remains in Eng land are not valued and preserved by some such system as that which prevails in France. ks most satisfactory results have attended the efforts of the French authorities it may be interesting to give a brief outline of the scheme so deservedly and gene rally praised. It appears that after the fall of the Bourbons, in 1830, a special fund for the preservation of all the historical monuments of the country was set apart by the Minister of the Interior. Every year since a call upon the fund has been made, with a view either to the purchase or the renovation of old and curious buildings or places of remarkable interest; and in the present year a sum of no less than £44,000 is sought for with this creditable object. The care of all the works is entrusted to a committee of literary men and antiquarians, and an inspector-general, who (by order of the Emperor) visits every building where restoration is sought for. It is said that without the instrumentality of this fund castles like those of Pierrefondes and Chambord, the Roman amphitheatre at Arles, or the palace of the Popes at Avignon, would long since have shared the fate of the chateau . of Johan de Joinville and many other monuments of the middle ages which 'perished at the Revolution. WANTED. , Marshal Prim's fifth (!) candidate for the Spanish throne is supposed to be Dom Luiz, the King of Por tugal. This schome would unite the two countries, and realise the long-talked-of Iberian project. But it is shrewdly suspected in many quarters that Prim's wish is not so much to unite the two countries as to retain the real sovereignty of Spain. If the old man, Espartero, had got the crown, Prim would have been paramount. If the young Italian Prince had succeeded, Prim would still have been the real ruler. knd if the King of Portugal come into the Spanish property, the result will be just the same. Whilst Dom Luiz is looking after his Portu guese possessions, Prim will be governing at Madrid. Morever the revolutionary leader knows that the Por tuguese King is not the man to give him much trouble. It is but a very short time ago since the Duke of Saldanha stormed the royal palace and compelled this sovereign to dis miss his premier. The King was quite willing, in fact he was delighted, to oblige; but the invasion of his palace by the soldiers distressed him—because it was likely to wake the Queen ! CUBA. A telegram from New York informs us that President Grant objects to recognising the Cubans as belligerents. This determination is easily expli cable. The President, unlike many American politi cians, desires to be consistent, and he knows full well that if America recognises the belligerency of Cuba, she cannot complain of England recognising the belligerency of the South. But, in point of fact, the conflict in Cuba is too contemptible to deserve any notice. It affects nobody'sinterests except thoseimme diately concerned ; it is of contemptible proportions; and it is purely the inefficiency of the Spanish operations that protracts the.struggle. Surely such a contest is in no way comparable to the dreadful war in the United States. It would be as undign? fled to meddle with such an affair as it would be to interfere with the black chieftains who are "having it out" on . the coast of Bonny. A CANADIAN ON THE FENIAN RAID. A Canadian writes to the Times to explain some particulars concerning the Fenian raid. According to his account the friendly action of the Americans has been much overrated. The President, indeed, issued his proclamation when the Fenians were actually on the frontier, but no action was taken previously, though for two weeks before the raid O'Neill and Gleason had been holding meetings, and for month before large quantities of arms were col lected on the frontier. The consequence was that large bodies crossed the border, and were only repulsed by the Canadian volunteers. All the damage of the raid fell upon Canada, the Americans only moving a couple of companies. The arrest of O'Neill and Gleason was done by civil officers, and there is good reason to suppose that they were glad to be locked up, their forces being contemptible in numbers and the movement a failure from the outset. The " Canadian "is not a little inconsistent in his diatribes, since if the move ment was so insignificant the Canadians ran no such terrible risk from the neglect of the American authorities. Also he appears to forget that by the Presidential proclamation by the presence of United States troops, and still more by the arrest of the Fenian leaders, the American Government withheld all moral support from the movement. Contemptible as were O'Neill, Gleason, and their followers them selves, they would have presented a very different front in Canada had there been room for any suspi cion as to the sympathies or intentions of the Government at Washington. PRESIDENT GRANT AND ST. DOMINGO. General Grant seems to be anxious to signalise his Presidency by the extension of the territories of the United States. All the applications that have been made to him, from outlying dependencies, for direct incorporation with the Republic have been favourably received at the White House. The purchase Of Alaska has been completed and there have been rumours respecting the extension o f the American protectorate over more than one of the West Indies. The unsettled condition of affairs in San Domingo has naturally enougli attracted the attention of American citizens, and it is difficult to say whether Hayti or Dominica has seemed to stand most in need of a competent and efficient protector. The wise men of Congress, 11 0 " ever, are not very well inclined to second President Grant's views on the matter, and he has therefore taken the opportunity of transmitting to the Senat e an additional article to the San Domingo treaty to recapitulate all the arguments in favour ° f annexation. He contends that the Monroe Doctrine has been adhered to by all political parties, and that it is equally important that no territory on the Ameri can continent should be regarded os subject to trans fer to a European Power. San Domingo ha s voluntarily sought annexation. It is a weak Pow er / numbering less than 120,000 souls, yet possessing e territory so rich that it might support a population of ten millions in luxury. President Grant added, as a further inducement, that he had information that a European Power was ready to offer two million dollars for the possession of Samana Bay alone. M e acquisition of San Domingo was also desirable account of its geographical position, and it would undoubtedly become a large consumer of Northern products; while, as a conclusive argument, its annexfy tion by the States would render slavery insupportabl e in Cuba and Brazil. ~-H ~~, r_. - 4. 7 . 4444' ;vim/W. 6111 , 1 2, - C 4 11. HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, June 1 3 . The Queen, with Princess Louise and Princess Bea t f ice 'd attended Divine service yesterday in the parish church Crathie. FASHIONABLE ARRANGtMENTS The Duke of Devonshire's second assembly, at Devon so House, Picadilly. ~„4 . .T i n The Marchioness of Salisbury's first evening Pv'x's Arlington-street, Picadilly. Mrs.VT. E. Gladstone's evening party, at 11, House Terrace. Carlton MEETINGS TO-DAY. A t National Education League meeting at Exeter li a "' 8 p.m., Mr. G. Dixon, M.P., chairman. THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA• be Yesterday evening the Crown Princess of Trussi 3 5-- birth to a daughter at the Palace of Potsdam. The Queen of the Belgians has returned to Laci° 3ll from her excursion in Austria and Hungary. t his Admiral Bennett died on Sunday morning, a residence, Broomy Hill, Hereford, in his 85th year. Marria g es are arranged between Mr. Gaisfo rd and Lady Alice Kerr ; and between Captain Jaulli4 late of the 2nd Life Guards, and Miss Mitchell. On likewise, that Lord Rokeby is engaged to the daughter 0 an Irishman. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holde,erad of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r onanot).,u a ,. snp by the medical profession in preference to French bran .• tiop s plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Qii° ta on application to Messrs DIINVILLE & Co , Royal Irish pia Vineries, Belfast; or at their London Offices, 4;Beaufertßuildirw" Strand, W.G. r j':~ T 1 18th term IVI Non th e tion, TR: Tr]