The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-21 00:00:00

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The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is unequalled for mag nitude, variety, and cheapness. A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from ss. 4d. the pair. Complete Outfits for all climates, with every re• quisite for the voyage. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Pat terns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON, Ready made and Bespoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all classes. E. MOS ES and SON'S Est iblishmeeita are closed every Friday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. The following axe the only addressee of E. MOSES and SCN LONDON: CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENIIA3I-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON ROAD. Country Branch: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING ROOM to be held at BUCKINGHAM PALACE, at 3 p.m . TUESDAY, March V, 1870. REGULATIONS TO PREVENT OBSTRUCTIONS. PERSONS II 4VING THE PRIVILEGE OF THE ENTREE. SETTING DOwN.—The Carriages of Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Cabin etMinisters, and other persons having the Entree, may proceed by Grosvenor-place, acd Buckingham Palace-load, or through the Horse Guards and St. James's Park, and set flown at the Buckingham Gate Entrance to the Palace. The Carriages of the Great Officers of State and White Staves may proceed by Con stitution-Hill or Marlborough-gate, and set down at the Equeries En , ranee in the Fore Court of the Palace. WAITING AND TAXING UP.—The Carriages of Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, and Cabiset Ministers, having a Red Ticket it-m the Lord Steward, may wait in Birdcage Walk. The Car riages of the Great Officers of State and White Staves, having a Green Ticket from the Lord Steward, may wait n the Fore Court of the Palace. The Carriages of other Persons, having a White Ticket from the Lor i Steward, may wait in Birdcage Walk, as directed by the Police. All, except the Carriages of the Great Officers of State and White Staves, take up at the Buckingham Gate Entr►n • PERSONS NOT HIVING THE PRIVILEGE OF THE ENTRE 14:. SETTING DOWN.—The Carriages of Persons not having the Entree may proceed by Marlborough Gate or by Buckingham Gate into St. James's Park, and set down at the principal Entrance in the Quadrangle of the Palace. WAITING AND TAKING UP.—The Carriages are to wait in the Mall in St. James's Park, as directed by the Police, take up the reverse Ray to setting down, and go away either by Marlborough Gate or Buckingham Gate. The public traffic through St. James's Park and Birdcage Walk will be stopped by the Police at any place, when necessary, to prevent obstructions. Carriages will be stopped by the Police at any place, when necessary, to prevent obstructions. No Hackney Carriage is to be admitted within the Gates of Buckingham Palace. Servants waiting are to remain where directed by the Police. E. Y. W. HENDERSON, The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. Metropolitan Police Office, 4, Whitehall-place, March 19th, 1870. ART -UNION of LONDON.—Subscription, One Guinea —Prizeholders select from the Public Fahibitions. Every Subscriber has a chance of a valuable prize, and in addition receives a volume of Twenty Illustrations of " Hereward the Wake," by the Rev. Charles Kingsley, engraved by C. G. Lewis, from the original drawings by H. C. Selous. The book is now on delivery to subscribers. Subscription List closes 31st inst. 444, Rest Strand, March 1, 1870. LEWIS POCOCK, 1 Hon. EDMD. E. ANTROBUS, j Sees. LONDON AND NORT RAILWAY. I - WESTERN WARWICK RACES, March 22, The following Service of EXPRESS TRA TON leave Euston (Week Days only) : 3, and 24. ENS for LEAMING 1& 2 1& 2 1& 2 1,2, & 3 1& 2 1& 2 Exp. i l• xp. 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Trains in connection at 'Willesden Junction will leave Bro id street (City), Dalston Junction, Highbury, Vicroria (Pimlico), Ken eington, and Uxbridge-road. t For further particulars see Bills. . W. CAWSWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, March, 11170. TWIN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY el 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 is. 6d.— Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to, its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent lhemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, abd at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each; also 55., 7a. 6d., and 15s. each, inclnd• ing brush. rted Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon• don, E.C. 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The Goose with the Golden Eggs WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Picca dilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at Saturday Morn- Inge 'at 3. Admission, 16, 211, 3s. ViintsTv MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXITIBMON, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 5.30 p.m.,and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls. ; extra rooms, Gd. 7.®•LooICOL GARDENS, Regent's-park, Open daily (except Sundays; Ati uission. ls.• on Mondays, 6d. Children nnder twelve, 6d. ~~~~~, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1870. THE IRISH LAND BILL. The minority against the second reading of the Peace Preservation Bill will be very inconsiderable, the great majority of the Irish Liberal members being understood to acquiesce in the necessity of some stringent measure, although they may take exception to certain details in committee. There is, in fact, a considerable number of them who are believed to entertain the idea that if passed the Act will prove but very partially open a live for various reasons. Should the second reading pass to-night, Ministers propose to ask the House to consent to go into committee on Tuesday, on the grolnd of urgency, and no other Government busi ness will be brought forward until this is concluded. THE NAVAL RETIREMENT. Nothing has yet been definitively settled in refer ence to the nominations of officers to the commands and other appointments which will become vacant under the naval retirement scheme. THE BRIBERY PROSECUTIONS. The trial of Mr. Vanderbyl and Dr. Kinglake, for bribery at Bridgwater, will probably take place this week. The trial of Sir Henry Edwards and Mr. Burrell, who are charged with bribery at the Bever ley election, will not be proceeded with at the pre sent York Assizes. THE CUNARD STEAMER SAMARIA. One of the Simaria's boat's arrived at Queenstown early yesterday morning, in charge of a third officer, and reported leaving the Samaria on Saturday 40 miles westward of Cape Clear ; all well, but with both shafts broken. Tugs were sent to her assist ance.. The Java is detained to take the Samaria's mails and passengers to New York. Queenstown, March 20.—The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Samaria put in here at 8 p.m. to-day, with her shaft broken. All her mails and cabin passengers were transferred to the Java. Passengers all well. The Prince and Princess of Wales will return to London to-morrow from Kimbolton. The death'of Countess Blucher (née Miss Dallas), of which the news reached Windsor yesterday morning, has caused the Queen and Royal Family the deepest sorrow. The Countess was one of her Majesty's truest and most valued friends, and her loss will be irreparable not only to the Queen, but also the Crown Princess of Prussia, to whom the Couhtess was over truly devoted. DEATH OF MRS. ALBERT SMITIL—We regret to have to announce the death of Mrs. Albert Smith. As Mary Keeley she will be remembered by many old playgoers. She made her first appearance at the Lyceum in 1846, as Bertha, in the "Cricket on the Hearth ;" afterwards appearing both at the Lyceum and Adelphi Theatres, in numerous farces and burlesques, with her gifted parents. She was born in 1829. Her husband, the "Monarch of Mountains," as he has been facetiously styled, died in 1860. DR. NEWMAN'S NEW WORK.—The powerful grasp of Dr. Newman's mind appears very vividly and dis tinctly in its pages. The experience of a long life has per fected what was always one of the clearest notes of his in tellect, his wonderful appreciation of points of view diffe rent from his own. This was very remarkable in " Lose and. Gain," but it is oven more- striking in the book before us. Ile makes allowances for other men, which speak volumes for the depth of his charity and the practical influence of his religion. It is almost a paradox to say it, but it seems as if the acceptance of the most dogmatic of £ll creeds has made him less dogmatic. The more intense his own convictions, the more generous and liberal he is to those whom he considers in the unfortunate position of rejecting them. His own labours and sufferings, the persecutions he has endured, so doubly painful to a mind intensely sensitive, the troub lous journey by which he won his way to his present faith, have refined and softened a character always remarkable for its intense sympathy. All this appears in every page, and it is here, and not in the controversial eagerness of Dr. Pusey, that we must look for the true Eirenicon. —Athenawn. There are more than two hundred amendments on the paper of the House of Commons to the Irish Laud Bill, when that measure reaches the Committee stage. Miss Harrington, a sister of Chancellor ILirring on, of Exeter, and well known fur her charities in that city, lied yesterday morning. The charge of perjury agaiLst ti,e police at Oxford by Lord RanCiolph Churchill has assumed a reality, ar.d will come on for hearing on Friday next. The case is loolad forward to with great interest at Oxford, where for some time past the relations between the under graduates and the police have not been very pleasant. - The body of Mr. Elliott, Earl Mahnesbury's steward, who recently disappeared under very singular circumstances, has been discovered in the river Stour. M. DE MONTA_LEMBERT'S FIRST SPEECH. On the 21st Of -September, 1831, M. de Montalembert delivered his first political speech, and this was in his own defence, before the Chamber of Peers. He was ac cused, In common with M. Lacordaire and M. do Coret, with having organised f ree sc h oo l s. Th o most remarkable passage of his speech was the following : " Those men who would shrug their shoulders at the mere mention of the Pope's infallibility have created an infallibility which is august and formidable in a different manner. They have forced upon us the infallibility (of the Royal Council of Public instruction. The creed of such authority may be found in these words : "Frenchmen, who are no longer Catholics, we will shew you the right faith for en lightened man, with Denton you will believe in the social unity of the Republic proclaimed by the executioner and sanctioned by the guillotine ; with Napoleon and M. de Fontaines you will believe in the imperishable grandeur of the empire according to the decree of 1.808 concerning the happiness of the people and the liberal ideas of the world ; with Louis XVIIL and M. Royer Collard, you Will believe in the sacred mysteries of parliamentary doctrine, with M. de Corbieres in censure, and electoral frauds, with M. Frayssinoes in all that is most p ure an d subtle in Gall:- canism, with M. de Vatemesnil in parliamentary arrests and the theology of M. de Montlosier ; with MM. de Broglid, Bathe, and Me r illi om i n the infallibility of M. de Vatemesnil and the legal order ; finally with M. de Montalivet ; you will believe in the sovereign justice of galley slaves ; you will recognise that churches are no longer public monuments—that the freedom of domicile, the secrecy of oaths and public faith, are only words, and that it is lawful t o ou t rage them all with impunity, so long as one has a teleg r aph a t hi s or d ers an d a portfolio under his arm." PRINCE BON kPARTE'S TRIAL ----- The trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte for the murder of Victor Noir commences at Tours to-day (Monday). It is supposed that the proceedings will last four days. Prince Bonaparte has gone to lours, accompanied by the Governor of the Conciergerie of Paris. He will lodge at the Penitentiary, in the apartments of the Governor. The crime with which he is charged is that of " voluntary homicide of the journalist, Victor Noir." The penal significance and gravity of this charge are aggravated by another, that arising out of the shots fired by the Prince against M. de Fon vielle, the companion of Victor Noir; and, rice rersa„ this attempt, which forms another count of the arret demise en accusation, is aggravated by the accom paniment of the shot fired on Victor Noir. This is by virtue of article 304 of the Penal Code, which enacts that voluntary homicide without premeditation (»zeurtre) shall be punished with death where it has preceded, accom panied, or followed another crime. Otherwise the penalty awarded to the same crime by the Penal Code is perpetual labour at the hulks (travawx forces a per petuite). The Solicitors' Journal remarks, however, that a declaration of extenuating circumstances by th e jury would very notably reduce the penalty. "And the presiding judge, if the facts brought out by the trial appear to him to warrant his doing so, has power to deviate from the questions in the indictment, and put the case to the jury under a mitigated aspect, such for example as wounds which have caused death without the intention of causing it. The exercise of the right of the president, combined with a declaration of extenuating circumstances (which allows the Court to bring the penalty down two degrees), may in such a charge bring down the conse quences to a mere nothing, especially if the prisoner pleads provocation, an excuse which per se has the effect of reducing the penalty." TIIE MONTPESSIER DUEL. Much has been said as to what the Spaniards think of the duel between Don Henri de Bourbon and the Duke of Montpensier, and as to the political effects it may pro duce, but it is not until after the lapse of several days that the exact circumstances of the combat are given. The " toss up " for position and first shot was gained by Don Henri, so that he had both these advantages over the Duke of Montpensier. One of the seconds clapped his hands thrice successively, and at the last clap one of the principals was to fire. These claps were instead of the words " ready " (or prepare), "present," •` fire." The first shot, that of Don Henri, was evidently fired in a hurry and much too high, The Duke replied with a similar result. Don Henri's second shot was better.aimed, for the Duke asserts that he heard it whistle near his right ear. The Duke's second shot struck the pistol that his antagonist held as a guard, and wounded the holder of it slightly. It seems that whilst they were reloading Don Henri approached his doctor and said, giving him his watch, "The Duke improves in his aim, and if I do not hit him this time time I shall be killed." He fired his third shot more calmly, but still without effect. Mont pensier then fired—it is needless to say with what effect but he affirms that he is shortsighted, and that he fired at random, and must have struck his adversary by chance. On examining the victim, it was found that his blood and brains were gushing from the horrible wound. The only thought of all the persons present seems then to have been their own personal safety ; they all disappeared with great precipitation, leaving the unfortunate man quite alone, stretched on the turf in the agonies of death. All being now over, it was the right moment for the police to ap pear, and, after a considerable interval, the corpse was carried to the chapel of a neighbouring cemetery, and thence to Madrid, where it was taken possession of by the Freemasons of which society Don Henri had been a member. The body was embalmed, and exposed to the public for twenty-four hours; the neighbourhood of the house where it lay was thronged by dense crowds, com posed principally of the lower orders, and shouts of "Death to the assassin !" were heard from time to time. The Duke had to be bled the same day, and sheaved symptoms so alarming as to induce him to prepare for death. When he recovered somewhat, he offered to adopt his late enemy's children as his own, or to do everything that lay in his power for them, but they refused. It is believed, says one writer, that they will be adopted by their uncle, the ex-Kin? of Spain. By a curious error of translation, Don Henri, in the letter which brought about the duel, was made to call the Duke a "pastry-cook." Vhe word actually used means a puppet. THE FUNERAL OF DON HENRI. The Temps of the 16th instant gives the following de tails of the funeral of Don Henri de Bourbon :—" Long before the hour indicated, the streets were full of persons waiting for the passage of the body of the Infant, desir ing to shew their sympathy with the unfortunate prince and the royal family. At half-past one the cortege started, pre ceded by a detachment of police. First came the children and the poor of the Hospital of San Bernardico, after them came the hearse of the chapel, which is constructed in the form of a catafaqlue and gilded. On the coffin were the Catholic emblems of the chapel, the insignia of a Spanish grandee, and of a naval commander, and the decorations of the deceased. Behind the hearse walked several of the family, with the Duke of Lessa, who was chief mourner, and a priest, M. I'Abb6 Pulido. Among the cortege were observed Count Castelar, Senor Genii y Rente, his son, and other relations of the deceased. The son of Senor Guell is no other than the Marquis of Valcarlos. Following' the cortege were the Republicans, having at their head the Deputy Blanco and a number of his fellow-thinkers The shops in the Puerta del Sol and the street of Car retas were closed. When the funeral car arrived at the PuertO del Sol, Senor Rivero was standing in the Ministerial balcony. The acclamations were so loud and sudden that they produced some alarm in the street Arenal. The cortege was followed by about twenty carriages, but all the world went on foot. The crowd of persons coming to the funeral was so great that before mid-day it was almost impossible to pass from the street carretas to the Place Isabella." The adja cent streets were also thronged, as were the balconies of the houses near which the funeral train passed. Some Republicans made speeches at the gate of the cemetery. It is said that Senor Blanco declared that Don Henri had been intended for the future President of the Repub lic. At the time the Tiempo was publishing there was a report that these Republican addresses had occasioned some disturbance, and that the agents of public safety had drawn their revolvers. SIGNOR. SELLA AND THE FINANCIAL SCHEME. — It is reported from Florence that Signor Sella made the following reply to those who expressed doubts as to whether the Chamber would agree to some portions of his complicated scheme for financial reform, " The Chamberr must accept all or none, because one part cannot exist without the other ; if it rejects one proposition only, the consequences will be critical enough, because I shall deem it my duty to appeal to the country." The correspondent i of the Mercantile Courier of Geneva, who s an authority on financial matters, says of the proposition of Sella that the repugnance to the increase of any tax, i es pecially a direct one, the little faith that s put in the assertion that the increase of such a tax will produce any great sum ih practise, the aversion to an increased burden confiscating c e a c t o i u n p g a coupons ecclesiastical si th as e revenue tica l goodsand a t r o o any entertained new projectiny as for much by the Centre as by the .Right It may there fore be predicted that the objections to these and other parts of the plan have become and will become, general and decided. PARAGUAY.—.NOWS from Rio Janeiro on the 24th ult. states that fifteen hundred volunteers had re turned from Paraguay, and had made a triumphal entry into Rio Janeiro. Every effort had been made on the part of the Government to give the returning troops a brilliant reception. The statement, which comes of course from a Brazilian source, adds that the arrival of the volunteers is received as conclusive evidence that the war is really at an end, and that, according to the latest news from the interior, Count d'Eu was still pursuing Lopez, who was endeavouring to reach the frontiers of Malto Grosso,APT ABBEYef 13. l o es m st: w y tshi FOILm provincehDnaoiENGLlSH lvye ryrelg flattering re ,Telegraph, o ho u , N l pass —Finaththßerolilvigna whitecrhmhs as on of h te im n com mented, work, to make public an account of a new the foundation stone of which is about to be laid imA a tli t iusbse L nbil l taee a eype n d,Pul t ' horly. It is described as being the first bond fide monastery in the English Church that will have been erected since the Reformation. Father Ignatius does not vv ibix the world to be startled by a bond fide monastery with b on d fide monks, being set up in England. Monks, he says, are very harmless men. Their life is one of absolute chastity ; they practice the highest philosophy, and have for ages been venerated as men who glorify God, and benefit humanity. He bitterly condemns the robbery from the Monks of the middle ages of all their rights, and the people of th e en j o y men t o f the lands left to the Monks for the use of the poor. We are - told that the Duke of Bedford, the Duke of Beaufort, and countless others, are living on lands and farms, which should be the property of the poor. The "sons of robbers" are fatten. ing on the inheritance of the murdered Monks. The letter concludes by an appeal for subscriptions towards the erection of this " sprig of the old &ous root s " the Monastery in the Vlaot Yiguiltainsh TRADE AND FINANCE. • SATURDAY EVENING. Money has been in good request throughout the week, in connection with the operations for the fortnightly set tlement in stocks and shares, In Lombard-street the value of money has been fully equal to the Bank rate, and it is not improbable that if the Government balance in the hands of the Bank had not been so large, owing the rapid collection of the taxes—particularly of the to income tax— the Bank rate would have taken a slight up ward movement. The Government balance in the Muds of the Bank is now no less than £8,553,130 against £1,176,926 at the corresp on di ng period last year, and the knowledge of the existence of the large accumu lation is sufficient of itself to influence the value of money out of doors, and to depress the the discount quotations. While there is no reason to Inlieve that any important upward movement will take place in the value of money for some time to come, as the accumulation of capital both here and abroad is still great, there is no prospect whatever of lower rates ensuing. The trade accounts recently published shew that, notwithstanding the continued absence of specu lation in all articles of both import and export, the volume of trade carried on during the past twelve months has undergone a very satisfactory increase. It may be remarked, too, that prices generally shew un mistakable signs of an u p war d movement, though such will be very gradual, and, in the event of any considerable rise, a larger amount of capital will be required to carry on the same amount of trade as we are now experiencing. But fluctuations in prices invariably lead to speculative transactions, and the prospects of the money market for the next few months are proportionately brighter. It is understood that the applications for the Turkish railway loan have been 'good, and have rather exceeded the expectations of the Porte. Had not the miserable device of a lottery been resorted to, and had the loan been introduced into the London and Paris money markets, there is no doubt that it would have received a much larger measure of public favour, but, as it is, the invest meats made on British accountthrough the local bankers have been heavy. The markets generally have ruled quiet throughout the past week. The change in the weather has hoad an unfavourable influence upon the wheat trade, and the recent advance in the quotations has not been supported. At the same time, however, the diminishing s t oc k s on hand, and the comparatively small quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom, have enabled factors to hold firmly. In cotton there has been rather more activity, and the quotations have shewn firmness. Sales at Liverpool have been rather large. The stock has been returned at 295,000 bales—being in excess of 18,000 bales over the estimate—against 264,000 last year. The rise that has taken place in values this week i js to be attributed to the smallness of the receipts at the 'American outports. THE NEW CONVENTION WITH CHINA. The Committee of London Merchants have addressed a letter to Lord Clarendon on his lordship's reply to their memorial respecting the new convention with China. Since their memorial was sent in, the committee have learnt with satisfaction that, in consequence of the repre sentations _made by-the mercantile community at Hon Kong, Sir R. Al coc k h a d agree d to reconsider the proposed relinquishment of the right to trade at Kiungchoi,v. The export duty on silk is the next topic, and the committee reiterate their arguments against the proposed increase in the export duty. On the subject of transit dues, which have an important influence on British trade in China, the committee adhere to their opinion that article 28 in the Treaty of Tien-Tsin was intended to free British imports into China from all internal municipal taxation. The new arrangement regarding th e non - treaty port provinces they consider to be much less favourable to trade than the old. They believe that the convention, "in expocing British goods to unrestricted municipal taxation in one half of China entails the forfeiture of a former' treaty privilege," and they apprehend that British trade in manufactures may irrevocably lose its footing in China. The concession of the appointment of a Chinese consul at Hong Kong they hold to be most unwise, and irksome to the Chinese population, and likely to embitter the rela tions between the governments. The limitation of the right of residence in the interior and the limitations with respect to travel are strongly objected to, and i n conclu sion they trust that Lord Clarendon will advice her Majesty to withdraw the ratification of the convention until it shall have been amended. Mit ~i~ LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1870. ANOTHER addition has been made recently t. those limited liability volumes which have of late years signalised ecclesiastical literature. As usual, the essays are of various merit and interest. Some of them are really valuable contributions to thought and knowledge; others are merely repetitions of statements, which however important, have become trite commonplaces. In the volume to which we refer—" The Church and the Aga"—a volume of similar title to, but very different theology from " The Church and the World," there is ono article of great value. It contains information on a topic little understood in this country, and it is contributed by a gentleman particularly well qualified to enlighten us. The subject of the article is Indian Missions, and the writer of it is Sir Bartle Frere, formerly Governor of Bombay. it is generally assumed, no less by Church men than by Dissenters, that the mission work of the Church in India has utterly failed. It is also assumed, if less generally. yet very commonly, that the evangelisation of India, whether by the Church or by any religious denomi nation, has come to a standstill. Would-be philoso phers have explained the failure by a thedry about the unfitness of the Oriental mind to receive a Western religion. This theory would be more plausible were it not for the fact that Chris tianity, if we remember rightly, did not have its rise on the Rhine, the Seine, or the Thames, but on the Jordan and the Sea of Galilee. The inappropriateness of the hypothesis is not the only defect in the reasoning of these philosophers. Their thesis has the additional defect of being false in its facts. It is not a fact that Christianity has failed to make any way in India. The reverse of that statement is the fact. Doubt- less all has not been done that might have been done. Doubtless, when we remember how long we have held India, there is some cause for shame in thinking how little influence we have had upon the religious creed of the people. Yet still much has been done. It is something, for instance; to have put an end to widow burning and infanticide. It is some- thing to have established throughout India Courts of Justice, which are known to be just, and superior to all corrupt influences. It is something to have broken through the iron bands of caste. It may be said that these are social rather than religious changes, and are due less to the teach ing of the clergy than to the legislation of statesmen. Be it so; yet there • is nothing here to contradict the statement we have made as to the progress of Christianity in India. In fact, the case•woula be parallel to that of the conversion of the Roman Empire. That conversion did not begin with the Emperor or the Prefects ; it began rather with the slaves and the outcasts, who found in a religion that affirmed the equality of all men in the sight of their Creator, something to console them in the social degradation to which they were exposed. If the work of evangelisation had been most successful among the lowest castes in India hitherto, that is strictly in accord with what took place fifteen or sixteen hundred years ago. But, as Christianity was not eventually confined to the servile class in the Roman em pire, so is it not even now confined to that class in our Indian Empire. Sir Bartle Frere has described in most graphic language, the great social-religious revolution which is pervading all classes in India. Undoubtedly this change has not been brought about absolutely by the missionaries, nor solely by religious agencies of any sort. The law courts, the telegraphs, the railways, have powerfully contributed to tho result. But reli gious teaching has bad its share of influence. The late Governor of Bombay refers to, among other things, the profound impression which was produced when the Queen, in her proclamation of 1853, in which she assumed the Government of India in place of the Company, announced that while firmly attacLed to her own religion, she would respect the religion of all her subjects. This announcement fully accorded with the views of the Brahmin portion of the population, and disposed them favourably towards a creed whose professors were at the same time not asnamea to avow it, ana yet were tolerant of other creeds. The Rajah Ramahoun Ray has endeavoured to establish an eclectic religion, which shall combine the best features of the Brah min and the Christian creeds; but though in many respects most admirable, it does not seem to make much progress. The people require something more positive than this rarified religion. So far as it is accepted at all, it is so by a few intellectual men found chiefly in Calcutta and its neighbourhood, CERTAIN proceedings during the last few weeks in what sportsmen call " the market " furnish an admi rable argument in favour of one of Sir Joseph Hawley's proposals for turf reform. The well known turfite, Mr. Merry, M.P., owns three horses which are to take part in the great three-year-old events of the year; and two, Sunshine and Sunlight, figure very prominently in the betting both for the Two Thousand Guineas and the Derby Sunshine is in most demand for the latter event, whilst Sunlight has decidedly the advantage in public !avour for the former. Judging by past performances, ounlight can claim no right whatever to rank witi' his stable companion. Sunshine's achievements last year were amongst the most brilliant on record, of the numerous races in which she took part she won all but one ; and that contest was defeated only by a head, aftei sustaining a slight accident. Sunlight's two-year• old feats were of no remarkable character. He has since developed into a fine horse, but the pros• tige of success is all on the side of Sunshine Nevertheless, the presumedly inferior animal is quoted at the shorter price for the earlier of the two races, simply because he is believed to be the most likely runner. It is thought that Mr. Merry will not find it advantageous to work last year's heroine too hard. She will be reserved for the Derby and other events, whilst Sunlight is to be brought out for the Two Thousand. Thus the public which loves to bet is staking thou sands of pounds on each candidate, though only one can win, and it is likely that only one will start. Surely this is carrying the absurdity of gamb ling to madness. Betting is foolish at best ; but it becomes sheer swindling when money is heaped upon two horses, one of whom will be totally overthrown, not by the superiority of some competitor, but by his owner choosing another animal to start. At the present moment it is currently believed that Sunshine, who far surpassed all other competitors last year, will not come to the post for the Two Thousand Guineas, notwithstanding the vast sums invested on her chance for that race. The remedy which Sir J. Hawley proposes for this discreditable state of things is simple enough. Let no bet be paid unless the horse actually starts. Mr. Merry is justified in doing what he thinks best for his own interest ; yet there ought at the same time to be this much protection for the ignorant, mad public. Horse-racing must always rank as one of the most objectionable forms of gambling, improve it as we may; but it is mere cheating to decide the transfer of money by the question whether a horse takes part in a certain race or not. THE SLAVE TRADE TREATY. The New York Times gives the following account of the International Courts established by treaty between the United States and Great Britain in 1862 for the suppres sion of the African slave trade :—" This treaty permitted war vessels of either country to visit merchant vessels of the other upon reasonable suspicions of being engaged in this illicit traffic. Yet the right of search was restricted to authorised vessels of war, the search applying only to merchant vesse l s , an d not vessels of war. This privilege was confined to a region of ocean within 200 miles from the coast of Africa, and to the southward of the 32nd parallel of north latitude, and within 30 leagues from the coast of the island of Cuba. In order to accomplish the purposes of the treaty three mixed courts were authorized, composed of an equal num ber of officers from each nation. The sites of these courts were fixed at Sierra Leone, the Cape of Good Ilepe and at New York. The treaty was made' for ten years, or could be abrogated upon a year's notice. The courts were to consist of a judge and arbitrator, with several minor officers. Since the extinction of slavery in the United States this question has for several years become obsolete. It has lately come to the attention of the Government that a local trade is still kept up, and largely under the American colours. It has been asserted here that instead of attending to their business these judges have been taking it easy. The disposition now is either to suppress the trade entirely or to abolish the treaty." QUEEN VIOTORIA AND THE UNITED STATES. - - Fhe following pleasant story is told by a correspondent or the Boston Telegraph :—" Several years since an Ame rican lady of rare good sense and Christian attainment went to Germany to seek health. On her way home she went to England. Her position at home, her educa tion and refinement of manner, entitled her to be presented to the English Sovereign . To gra tify her friends, sh e wen t t o St. James's, little thinking much pleasure was in store for her. As the Queen approached the lady she was attracted by her quiet and possessed manner, and by the expression of universal charity of thought and deed which carne like a benediction from the face of my friend to all those who approached her. A few royal words of welcome were said, the Queen passed on, and Mrs. thought her part in the pageant was done. A little after the gentle man in waiting' brought a request from the Queen to the lady that she would visit her at Windsor. The day and hour having been named, a carriage w as sent to bring her. The Queen and Prince Albert received her alone in the library. Her Majesty told her shs had long wished for such an opportunity, and had ven tured to ask this interview that she might learn from an American lady more particularly concerning the inner home life of a country so nearly allied to England, and claiming and fondly clinging to its old traditions and histories, and speaking the same language. She asked of the social relations as they manifest themselves in the different grades of society ; of the observance of public worship ; of the standing and influence exerted by the clergy in private life ; of the estima tion in which we hold our learned literary and scientific men ; of the religious training and education given by the mothers of the land to their children ; how much th e y were i n t ruste d b y a certain class of mothers to the care of servants ; what was the interest people of the so-called higher classes evinced toward the servants in their employ, and of the education and train ing received by them, of the intellectual education received and deemed essential, and ofthe occomplishments usually attained by the young daughters of the better classes ; of the mingling of the various grades, and by what rules society generally was governed. These and many other similar questions were asked and answered when the hour had passed, yet all the information the queen and her husband, Prince Albert, wished had not been given. A second interview was appointed, and Mrs. -- went again to the Castle. At its close the Queen said, `Madam, my country and your country are of one blood. We are bound together by traditions, by the past, and by like hopes and aspirations. God grant there be no unkindness between us ; (then, turning to her husband she added,) and there will never be so long as we can avert it." These interviews, sought by the Queen to learn from a true woman of the home life of a people so connected with her own land, tells us of a good woman, of a true Christian, who se i nterest goes out to benefit, if possible, all who speak the language of her realm. I thought often in those dark days, when distrust and wrong came between these two great nations, of that sad and widowed soul—of the good Queen, and of the hour when (parting from Mrs. —) she took her hand, then laying the other upon the arm of her husband, her supporter, her strength in her many trials and cares, said again " There shall be no distrust between my country and your country if we can avert it." Only one of that trio now lives. Prince Albert and the American lady have both PASM way. Ti SCOTCH POOll LAW COHALITTEE.—The London correspondent of the Elgin Courant gives an account of the doings among his countrymen in a com mittee-room of the House of Commons. He says : " Having a spare' half-hour, I turned into the Scotch Poor-Law committee-room, and there I saw, in the place where the witnesses stand, a fine burly old gentleman, with the leastest suspicion of a red nose, a white neckcloth I and a finely-developed Aberd eens hi re accent. thought I knew the voice : when or where did I hear it last? Then there dawned on me a recollection of a cocked hat and knee-breeches, and a notably liberal address from the Moderator's chair in a General Assembly of a bygone year. Lo ! the "strong man" of the Aber deen Synod—he of Bourtie, no less—was saying his say about bothies, about the couthie old custom of the brod,' and delivering himself of sundry eccen tric dogmas on the causes of your flagrant blot in the North —the prevalence of illegitimacy. Dr. Bisset evidently did not believe in the Poor-law Board. When he said illerretimacy was mainly the fruit of dissent, a canny and strictly logical Aberdeen awa' re perter looked up at him slily, and said in a whisper some thing at which the doctor looked queer, and at which the committee sniggered consumedly." 'he works for the Universal Exhibition to be held dyons in IS7I have been this week commenced. The ding is to be erected in the park of the Tke-d'Or, nea:. Rhone. The Civilian is informed that the accounts of the Irish Church will be submitted to the controller and auditor-general for examination, and it is proposed that one thousand guineas shall be applied to defray the ex• pm,se of the audit. - - , LITERATURE. Rosicrusians. By Hargrave Jennings. One Vol- Illustrated. J. C. Rotten. Curious as many of Mr. Hotten's works have been, the volume now under notice is, among thou all, perhaps the most remarkable. It is certainly the most r, markabl e i n th e ev id ent s i ncer i ty w i t h which the writer of it p u t s f ort h hi s l ucu b ra ti on s. ` l, t° work purports to describe the Bites and Mysteries of the Rosicrusians. It dilates in incidental chap ters, moreover, on the ancient Fire Worshippers and Serpent Worshippers. Besides this it offers expla nations of the mystic Symbols represented in the monuments and talismans of the Primeval Philoso phers. The author of this very singular compilation, we have already had occas i on t o spea k o f, i n these columns, in reference to an earlier volume of his en 'The Indian Religions, or Results of the Mysterious Buddhism." Recondite studies of this character ap pear to possess for him a peculiar fascination. He has certainly devoted an enormous amount of labour to the task of putting on record these present memo rials of his in regard to the Rose-Cross, or otherwise of the Rosicrusiaus. And the work, now that he hill 3 completed it, has quite as certainly been issued from the press in as attractive a form as Mr. Hargrave Jennings himself, we should imagine, could reason ably have desired. The very binding of the volume is emblazoned with the symbol of the Rosy Cross- Gold, and blue, and scarlet are the blazonries on the outer lining of this strangely elaborated History of the Rosicrusians. The letterpress , which extends over 339 pages—the volume being subdivided into thirty-two dhapters—is illustrated, says the title-page, with nearly three hundred engravings. These engravings, however, it should be added, are mostly very minute and simply designed woodcuts, many of them being repeated in a manner that has proved to us, as we have turned over the pages, not only very surprising, but very bewildering also. Three queries, propounded in 1630 by Gassendus, the writer of this book echoes in one of the mottoes inscribed upon his title- page—" Cur, inter alia nomina, appeletur Fratres? cur Crucis ? cur Reim-Crucis ?" And these inquiries he undertakes to answer. .A ppropriat;ely t nough, Mr. Jennings set 3 forth upon his work of elucidation by recounting, in the first instance, that astounding narrative referred to on Thursday, the 13th of May, 1712, iu the 379th number of Addison and Steele's, " Spectator "-- the account of " Rosicrusius's Sepulchre," as told by Dr. Plot, the antiquary and archrealogist, in his (shall we say veracious?) History of Stafford shire. According to that amazing narrative, a y o kel or countryman was at the close of a certain summer's day (so " certain" that there is no record whatever of the date) digging a trench in a field in a valley (where the field, where e; en the valley no one knows) when with the point of his pickaxe, he hip upon --this discovery ! Never was such a find ! It was better than "striking ile"—for an archmalogist I The s% hole incident reads like a reminiscence of " Aladdin and the Wonderful 'Lamp." Dr. Piot relates it as having occurred on an English evening. But, reading the tale as he has told it, it is far more like an Arabian Night's Entertainment. Just exactly as in Aladdin, there is the dis covery of an immense stone with an iron ring in ir.. So ponderous is the stone that it is with considerable difficulty, and after much contriv ance, that the bumpkin (this wonderful bumpkin !) is able to lift it up on one side as upon a hinge. Again, exactly as in Aladdin, there is laid bare to view, under this stone, a winding staircase descending into the ve:y bowels of the earth. Going down—just like Aladdin—the countryman comes, after an astonishingly protracted descent, to a mysterious region, where he finds burning—a Wonderful Lamp. What occurs, thereupon, the reader will find re counted very impress:vely indeed by Mr. 11. Jen nings in the second chapter of this ela' orate memo rial of his upon the Rosicrusians. Unluckily the reference to Rosicru:ius's Sepuleltze, already men tioned as occurring iu No. 379 of " he Spectator,'' has affixed to it the initial letter, or Roman numeral X, which was one among the signatures of the un happy Essayist, and Suicide, and reputed Forger, Eustace Budgell. What was Pope's couplet on him iu the immortal "Dunciad ?" " Let Budgell charge all Grub street on a quill, And write whate'er he please—except my will !" Whate'er he please ?—this essay, signed X, for ex ample, in No. 379 of " The Spectator 1" However —as a very imposing, and certainly a very pic turesque exordium to his volume, Mr. Jennings has adopted Eustace Budgell's, otherwise Dr. Plot's, otherwise the Staffordshire countryman's ex traordinary narrative of the discovery in the seven teenth century of the Sepulchre, and the ever-burning lamp of Rosicruiius. Having startled his reader into attention,by recounting this marvellous tale anew, hepursues his mystical theme through all its astonish ing involutions with painstaking and laborious re search. To all enamoured of this class of subjects, we may assuredly commend the book as having for them a weird and enthralling attraction.. The La barum, the badge of -the Templar, the mark of the Triune, the hinge -point of the wheel of Ezechiel, the Vesica Piscis, the talisman of the Jaina Kings, the famous Beauseant or Temple banner, the combined X P standard of Constantine, the Egyptian Scarabeus the trigonometrical effect of the Great Pyramid, the Persian talisman, the double ]ithoi, the gnostic amulet, the hook of Saturn, the Collar of Esses, the orb or mound, the winged disc, the monogram of the Saviour—these and a. multitude of other mystical devices are sown broadcast all through the letter press description. By the painstaking production of this singular book, Mr. Hargrave Jennings has done good service to those who are in search of very out-of-the-way information in regard to the world-famous brotherhood of the Rosicrusians. He has, in a word, added yet another to that vast cairn of erudition ,first systematised by the late Isaac Disraeli, under the name style, and title of the Curiosities of Literature. Ti nu; treme Citem, 4 lne en.p ( 21 i to D'" t jt . 1),•}1o; TIIE WANDERING THESPIANS. This very talented company of amateur comedians on Saturday last gave a performance at the St. George's Hall, in aid of the funds of the Great Northern Hospital. The entertainment commenced with an original comedietta, in one act, entitled, " He would be a Bohemian," in which Mr. C. A. Thorpe gave a capital representation of a scapegrace nephew. This was followed by a new drama, in four acts, entitled " A Wife's Redemption." The piece tells the story of a fashionable, aristocratic young lady married to a millionnaire on the Stock Exchange. While prosperity lasts all goes right, but when ruin is brought about by a panic the fashionable lady leaves her husband to bear his ruin alone. Of course, foe une is recovered, and with it the young wife, but not before, a sharp lesson has been taught her for her former heartlessness. Mr. Walter Stephens, the author, supported the part of Gerald Noel, the ruined millionnaire, with much ability ; and Mr. Thorpe, who had the part of a cold man of the world to embody again, showed much dramatic talent. The part of Ethel Loftus, the wife, was sustained by Mrs. Mire house, and the more lively sister, Helen, by Miss M. Stewart. The Countess= Loftus (a Belgravia mother) was represented by Miss Agnes 6ullivan with great dramatic talent, who must be highly complimented fi r the composure and tact with which she ren dered the entire part. 'I he performance. concluded with the musical burlesque of " Alcestei," in which Mr. Lane, who, by the bye, played very excellt ntly in t e drama, played the part of Polax, and Mr. C. Da venport Adinat us. Alcestei was admirably supported by Miss Sullivan, and there was such a capital dash and spirit in hlr t erformance that it called forth the most enthusiastic app'ause. ihe hall was tilled by a %cry brilliant audience, and the talented company may therefore well congratulate themselves ou the great success that has attended this praiseworthy object.