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N. 24,352. LT, WHISKY.- DUBL IN EXHIBITION, 1865. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork Branded " Kina haws LL Whisky. This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Gold Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Housei n London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. KINA.HA_N'S MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION clncorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859), 4, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT.GARDFN, LONEON, And 38, QUEEN'S-ROAD, BRIGHTON, ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security , B ills of Sale, Ereehold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, r °Payable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly dis c ounted: Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. • EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. C RYSTAL PALACE. THIS DAY.—CON— CERT of 5,000 CHILDREN of the TONIC TOL-FA ASSOCIATION, Great Dog Show, &c. Palace and Dog Show open for admission from 10 till 7.0 Orchestral Band .. .. 12.30 Terrace Fountains .. 2.15 Concert 5,000 voices .. .. • • .. .. 3. 0 Festival Organ for Promenade till.. .. .. 8. 0 Admission to Palace as usual, ls. ; or by Guinea Season Tickets free ; children half price. Admission to Dog Show is. ;or by .Guinea Season Tickets free. Present issue admitting this day to ' sl og Show, &c., Great Rose Show, • Operas and Dramatic Per formances, Archery Meeting, County Cricket Matches, Grand Summer Concerts, and generally until 31st May, 1871. At all entrances and agents this day. Fine Arts Courts, Picture Gallery, Statuary, Flowers, Portraits, trusts, Birds Singing, Fountains Playing. CRYSTAL PALACE.-THIS DAY.-TONIC SOL-FA ASSOCIATION.—ANNUAL JUVENILE CON CERT (5,000 voices). Conductors, Mr. JOHN SARLE a nd Mr. JOSEPH PROUDMAN. Organist, Mr. James Coward. The first Part of the programme will consist of sacred music, hymns, an thems, choruses, &s. The second part will be secular, including Part-songs, glees, and choruses, by Callcott, Root, &c. The Concert will take place on Great Handel Orchestra, at 3 o'clock. There is no more pleasing sight at the Crystal Palace than that afforded by the gatherings of 5,000 children of the Tonic Sol-Fa and other Choral Bodies. Admission ls., or by guinea season tickets. Stalls, 2s. 6d., now ready. CRYSTAL PALACE.— GREAT NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF DOGS, THIS DAY (Wednesday), to Friday. £l,OOO given in Prizes. Exhibitions of various descriptions have been from time to time held at the Crystal Palace—the Flower Shows and Rose Shows take of course the foremost place ; those for poultry, Pigeons, rabbits, cage birds, have always proved very attrac tive, and it is confidently believed that the addition of this great Show of Dogs to the list of exhibitions held will be gra tifying to the large number of season ticket holders and other habituGa of the Palace. No expense and no trouble have been spared to render the show a great success. It will be held in the basement, the greater part under canvas. Every precaution will be taken to insure perfect ventilation, and to render the exhibition a cool and most agreeable lounge. Nearly 1,000 specimens, ranging Lrom the grandest mastiff and bloodhound to the timidest of toy terriers, as will be seen from the list below. The management of the exhibition has been undertaken by a committee of gen tlemen. Bloodhounds Foxhounds Deerhounds Greyhounds Otterhounds Ilariers Beagles Fox Terriers Pointers Setters Retrievers Water Spaniels Puppies Mastiffs St. Beruards Sheep Dogs Newfoundlands Dalmatians Bull Dogs Terriers King Charles's Spaniels Italian Greyhounds Toy Terriers Dandie Dinmonts Pomeranians Pugs Blenheims Maltese Admission to the Show, one shilling. Guinea season tickets free each day to the Palace and Show. Admission to Palace each ac usual, one shilling. NoTz.—The Champion Dogs will be paraded on the Upper Ter race at 3 each afternoon. ONE THOUSAND DOGS.-21,000 Prizes. — Crystal Palace.—This Day to Friday.—The SHOW OPEN from 10 till dusk each day. CRYSTAL PALACE.—GREAT ROSE SHOW, Fashionable Promenade, and German Gymastic Society's Display Saturday next. The most interesting of all the flower shows held during the season is undoubtedly the ROSE SHOW. The universal admiration of the national flower, its numberless varieties, ranging from purest white to sable, its delicious odour, and the immense number of specimens collected, com bine to render the Rose Show pre-eminent among the flower shows of the season. It was at the Crystal Palace that the first Rose Show was held, and each year some new attractive feature has been introduced. The Exhibition of Table Decorations held at the last Flower Show, although of great interest, did not exemplify some of the Principal features of floral decoration. Arrangements have been blade with some of the leading manufacturers to make upon this Occasion a special Display of Table Furniture, which will be florally decorated so as to Illustrate these special features. The Display will take place in the Opera Theatre, which will be handsomely fitted up as a dining room. Music is an important feature on these occasions ; and, in ad dition to the usual performances during the day by the or chestral and military bands, at 4 o'clock a grand combined Performance will take place on the Grand Handel Orchestra, c onducted by Mr. Maims. At half-past five the German Gymnastic Society will give its Annual Display on the floor of the great transept. 150 of the n lest expert gymnasts of the Society go through their various e xercises and feats, commencing with drill and mass exercises, and including boxing, fencing, parallel, and horizontal bar e xercises, &c, The graceful ease and modesty with which these gentlemen gymnasts go through their numerous difficult Teats is very pleasing as compared with the less skilful perfor mances of the professional acrobats. Half-crown admission tickets at the Palace, 2, Exeter-hall, and usual agents, this day. to-morrow, and Friday only. Admission at doors, ss. Guinea season ticket free. CREMOItNE. • Lessee and Manager, Mr. JOHN BAUM. NOW OPEN FOR THE SEASON. The Best and most Wonderful Entertainments in the World. ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING. AMUSEMENTS FREE. Open on Sunday, by Refreshment Card, 6d Table d'Hote, at half-past 6,2 s. 6d. MR W. S. WOODIN'S TWENTY-NINTH WEEK "AT HOME," AVITH his Famous and Original CARPET-BAG Ro and SKETCH-1100K ENTERTAINMENT in the Large - 0 o um EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly. Every Evening (except " a turday) at 8 ; Saturday Mornings at 3. " Mr. Woodin has !Pared no expense in magnificently decorating and luxuriously furnishing his salon for the comfort of hls patrons." Seats may be secured in advance, at the I sox -office, open from 10 till 5; also at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-street; and all the principal b atiste -sellers. Stalls, 35.; Area, 25.; Balcony, ls. Family Private 11 ", One, Two, and Three Guineas. Carriages at 10. Manager, Mr. DUDLEY. R OYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Late WESTON'S. _ _ Proprietor—Mr. r. S. Sweasey. Great combination 'of `i alent! or the Whitsuntide Holidays. Ile-engagement of Mr. A. - Vance, 'Mr. J. HI Milburn, Miss Louie Sherrington, Mr. H. Collard, the smallest man in the wor'd, the L„e Petit Sims Reeves, and the Brothers Voltaire, Champion uYmnasts, and the first appearance of Mr. Baldwin, Miss Georgina Smithson, Miss Nelly Wood, Mr. J. H. llyley, and Madame Marie Barnam; Mr. P. Corti, Mr. St. Albyns, and Miss Barrie will appear in Operatic Selection, with full Orchestra, every evening. 1/1 ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION. Baker-street.—On view, New and Magnificent COURT DR ESSES from the first houses in Paris. Admission, ls. ; 1 4 rela under ten years of age, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. Open from 11 4 . 1 3 a. till 10 p.m. ARGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL- STRE ET, Piccadilly. the Shadow success which has attended the production ii._"ne Shadow Dance, with the brilliant and varied effects of fr electric light on the groups of dancers that nightly partici uate, in it, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance hle Selections presented in the often-changed programmes, - Z o v e had the gratifying effect of making the tr, sent . one the slat extensively patronized season since its first opening. The brated Orchestra, performs he direction of sand hhly efficient , "%Signor Luigi Curti, the choicest latest corn zesitions of all distinguished composers—the solos in which are N.:,. i gned to the eminent euphonionist, Signor L. Mosca; Messrs. G raves, L. Silberberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr. "lotus Pitts. Professor Halliman, M.C. Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 25. R. R. BIEINELL, Proprietor. 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BY EDWARD SPENDER. PRICE 38. " It is a straightforwardly and sometimes gracefully written Sketch of Norway, the Channel Islands, and Cornwall, from the holiday traveller's point of view, not, _however,. exclusively devoted to matters of scenery or itinerary, but designed to give the voyager an intelligent interest in the manners, customs, industries, and institutions of the districts he is exploring. Foi intending visitors to Norway especially, Mr. Spender's book will be welcome. It has, moreover, the, decided advantage of com pression, clearness of style, and easy manageableness of bulk."— Daily Telegraph. " The volume perfectly fulfils its purpose. It is neat and cheap and contains in a small space a great quantity of very interesting matter, much of which will be novel, and all of which will be useful, not only to those who visit the places described, but to those who stay at home. Mr. Spender is an acute observer, a most industrious and judicious collector of facts, and an eloquent and graphic writer, and does ample justice to his subjects." — Yorkshire Post. "It deserves a welcome, this book we have so long uncon sciously been in search of. The itineraries themselves are to the intending excursionists a veritable benefaction. . . Altogether the book is one to carry in one's knapsack or valise during the happy time of our holiday excursion, and to give a place to on our book-shelves afterwards as a most pleasant remembrancer." —Sun. " Fjord, Isle, and Tor' is a very delightful little book. The essay on Norway is particularly full of information, but the others are not far behind it in proportion to their length, and all are written in a genial spirit."—Globe. "Without being exactly a guide-book, it answers all the pur poses of one, and contains beside a vast quantity of information, all given in the most condensed form possible. There is not a line of space wasted in fine writing, but the descriptions of scenery bear witness to the author's genuine love and appreciation of the picturesque, just as his closely compressed facts and statements prove the practical and hardworking man of letters."—Man chester Courier. - • ' ----- - " v From back to back Fjord, Isle, and Tor' is full of matter interesting equally to the tourist and the ordinary reader. It is written in an easy and pleasant style, and is well ' got up.' " Eastern Morning News. " We cannot part with this fascinating little work without con gratulating Mr. Spender upon it. Addressed, as it more especially is, to travellers in Norway, the Channel Islands, and Cornwall, it is, nevertheless, a book that will afford the keenest gratifica tion to the general public. . . . As to its literary merits we need say nothing, the name of the author being sufliCient guarantee on this point."—Western Mail. " The articles shew unusual power of observation, are full of genial gossip, and supply just what the excursionist wants — reliable information."—Western Daily Press. CHARLTON TUCKER, 21, Northumberland-street, Charing Cross. Just published, price is 6d:, by post ls. Bd., the Second Edition with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks. REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, and other journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted wi h this edition. CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR STOPPING THE SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS ON SUN DAY. London Auxiliary. A great open-air Working Men's Demonstration will take place at Trafalgar-square, Charing Cross, on Saturday evening, June 25th, in support of Mr. Rylands's SUNDAY CLOSING BILL. Addresses will be delivered by Revs. C. J. Whitmore, who will refer to the success of Sunday closing in Scotland, J. B. Wright, W. C. Van Meter, of New York, who will refer to the success of Sunday closing in the United States, E. Mathews, M.A., travelling secretary of the Central Association, and Messrs. G. Dibley, J. West, J. Bormond, P. Carigan, and other friends of the measure. A petition to Parliament will be submitted to the meeting. The chair will be taken at half-past six by Benjamin Whitworth Esq., J. P., Ex-M.P. Mr. Rylands will move for the second reading of his bill on the 28th instant. - PARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.C.) THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20e. Per ream. s. d. 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It is the most digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable for invalids and infants in all complaints. IMPORTANT CetrnoN.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than slopy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. Henceforth none will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta Arabia,. Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of .his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the ' Gazette du Midi," .Tuly 25th. (Cure No. 48,413):—"R0me, July 21st, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. 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The Food is sold in Canisters. at Is lid; 1 lb, 2s 9d ; 21b, 45 fd ; 121 b, •28 ; 241 b, 40s. The 121 b and 2411, canisters carriage free on receipt of P. 0. Order. Also Du Barry's lievalenta Arablca Chocolate Powder is packed in tin canisters: For i 2 cups at • -8, for 24 cups at 's 61, for 18 cu, s at s, for 288 cups nt :30s, for 576 cups at 5 - s. Being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent ire ,a carriaue in England on receipt of Post Office Order. BAItR DU BARRY and Co., 77. Regen -street, London, also at Fortnum and Mason's ; also at 4, Chcapside ; 6 , Gracechurcb-street ; 63 and 150, Oxford-st rect ; 121, New North-road, London ; and all Grocers and Chemists. EVENING EDITION. 1870. H ONDURAS TEN PER CENT. GOVERNMENT RAILWAY LOAN. £2,500,000, in 25,000 Bonds of £lOO each. Bearing 10 per cent. Annual Interest, payable half-yearly, viz., on Ist January and Ist July. Issued at 80 per cent., and to be redeemed at par in sterling within fifteen years by yearly drawings, on the 31st December in each year, by means of an accumulative Sinking Fund of 3 per cent. per annum. The first Drawing to take place on the 31st December, 1870. The instalments to be paid as follows :- 16 per cent. on allotment. 10 per cent. on Ist August. 10 per cent. on Ist September. 15 per cent. on Ist October. 15 per cent. on Ist November. 15 per cent. on 15th December, when Definitive Bonds, with a Coupon of Lb payable on the Ist January attached, will be given in exchange for Scrip. 80 per cent. Interest will date front the Ist July. The Instalments may be anticipated at any time, when an Instalment falls due, under discount at the Bank of England rate. PROSPECTUS. His Excellency Senor Don Carlos Gutierrez, Minister Plenipo tentiary for the Government of the Republic of Honduras to the Court of St. James's, being authorised by full powers, dated 14 March, 1870, to raise for his Government a Loan of Two Millions sterling net, for the completion from sea to sea of the Inter oceanic Honduras Railway. has instructed the London and County Bank to receive applications for the same. The Loan will be represented by bonds to bearer of £lOO each, bearing interest until redeemed at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, on the Ist January and Ist July in each year, at The London and County Bank. The whole Loan will be redeemed within 15 years by an ac cumulative Shiking Fund of 3 per cent. per annum, to be applied by annual drawings, the said drawings to take place on the 31st December in each year, in the presence of the Honduras Minister in London, a representative of Messrs. Bischoffsheim and Gold schmidt, and a Notary Public, and the Bonds so drawn will be paid within one month thereafter. This Loan is raised to complete the Interoceanic Railway, and to place the line from sea to sea in thorough and efficient work ing order. As in the case of the previous Loan, the proceeds of the present Loan will be paid into the hands of trustees ap pointed for that purpose. The entire Railway and its revenue is mortgaged to the bond holders of all denominations, and the proceeds of the State domains will be applied in a like manner. The first section is contracted to be finished next November. Messrs. Waring Brothers and McCandlish have undertaken, under heavy penalty, to complete the second section at the end of 1871, and a new contract has been signed with them to com plete the entire Railway from Puerto Caballos, on the Atlantic coast to the Bay of Fonseca, on the Pacific, and deliver it over in efficient working order in the autumn of 1872. The Railway is under the protection of the British Government by a treaty which declares ; " In order to secure the construction and permanence " of the route or road herein contemplated, and also to " secure for the benefit of mankind the uninterrupted " advantages of such communication from sea to sea " her Britannic Majesty recognises the rights of sove " reignty and property of Honduras in and over the line of "the said road, and for the same reason guarantees posi tively and efficaciously, the entire neutrality of the " same. And when the proposed road shall have been "completed her Britannic Majesty equally engages, in "conjunction with the Republic of Honduras, to protect "the same from interruption, seizure, or unjust confls " cation, from whatsoever quarter the attempt may " proceed." Treaties signed by the Honduras Government with France and the United States contain the same provisions. A general Bond, executed by His Excellency Don Carlos Gutierrez, on behalf of the Government of Honduras, will be deposited at the Bank of England for security of the entire Loan, and the Definitive Bonds of this Loan will be signed by his Ex cellency Don Carlos Gutierrez, on behalf of his Government , a nd countersigned by Messrs. Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt, Agents of the Government in England. Applications for the Loan will be received by the London and County Bank, 21, Lombard-street, and Branches, where Prospectuses and Forms of Application can be obtained. London, June 20th, 1870. HONDURAS GOVERNMENT TEN PER CENT. RAILWAY LOAN FOR £2,500,000. FORM OF APPLICATION. To be retained by the Bankers. To His EXCELLENCY DON CARLOS GUTIERREZ, Honduras Minister in London. Per London and County Bank. Sir, I hereby request that you will allot to me £ Stock of the above Loan, on the terms of the Prospectus issued, and I hereby agree to accept that or any smaller sum which may be allotted to me, and to pay the instalments thereon ac"ording to the terms of your Prospectus of the 20th June, 1870. I am, Your Excellency's obedient servant, Signature.. , Address in full ..... .......... ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH UNION. The annual commemoration of the English Church Union took place on Tuesday. The usual service took place in the morning, and the annual meeting was held at the Freemason's Tavern, Great Queen-street; 'in the afternoon. There was a large attendance, and the chair was occupied by the Hon. C. L. Wood, president of the Union. The report stated that every effort was being made to obtain a reform in the very unsatisfactory method which now obtained of appointing and selecting bishops, and a bill would be pre sented to Parliament. The important subject of the Final Court of Appeal had been under the consideration of a committee, and an address has been presented on the subject to the Upper House of Convocation by the Bishop of Salisbury. The report then alluded to the Ritual prosecutions, which would be very closely watched, and said the council looked with deep interest to the publication of the report of the commissioners appointed to consider the subject. The report having been received and adopted, and the officers for the.year elected, • - r. J. G. Hubbard, in speaking of the education ques tion, declared that education was a religious work, and without religion it could be no more national than religion itself could be national, and until they found that all the conflicting sects could agree upon the formularies which should be used, it was futile to talk of national education. The bill as it at present stood ought not and could not have the support of the union and of all true Churchmen. He moved " That the members of the Union, yielding to none in their desire for the education of the whole popu lation of this country, would readily acquiesce in any necessary provision for securing the liberty of parents to withdraw their children from teaching to which they may ebject. but they are convinced that a time table affecting the whole course of school instruction ought not as a con dition of grants to be made subject to the approval of the Education Department, and further they protest against any attempt to interfere with distinct religious teachine , through catechism or formularies to those who desire to receive it." The Rev. Canon Gregory seconded the resolution. The resolution having been carried, propositions con demning the Burials Bill and the legalising of marriages with a deceased wife's sister were agreed to. Some other subjects were briefly discussed, and the meeting then terminated. UNORDAINED MINISTERS OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH. • The Daily News gives an account of the public admis sion by the Bishop of Peterborough of a layman to the office of " Reader." The common belief is that by the laws and constitution of the Church of England the func- AN , • tion of preaching with that of offering prayer in the con gregations is 'reserved for those who have taken Holy Orders, and that a member of that Church must be at least a deacon before he can assume such duties without being guilty of irregularity. These proceedings in the diocese of Peterborough shew that there is no legal foundation for the common impression, though long neglect to use the services of laymen may have contributed to the spread of such a notion. Mr. James Thomas, the reader thus admitted, is the principal of a large school at Old Stratford, in the parish of Passenham, a collection of houses lying far away from any church, and it is in the school room, where services are held on Sundays, that his ministry is likely to be exercised. The service, or ceremony, of Sunday last, took place in this room, in the Kesence of many of the clergy of the neighbourhood, including the Rector of Passen ham, and was of a simple character. The Bishop, Dr. Magee, having briefly intimated the object of the meeting, the Lord's Prayer and a few collects were said, and a hymn was sung. The Bishop then read the commission of the reader, to whom he afterwards delivered a copy of the New Testament. This done, the Bishop observed to the congregation that it was the misfortune of the Church of England that lay help had not been suffi ciently developed within her, especially of late years; but' it was not true that the acceptance of such help was opposed to the law and spirit of the Church. If there had been in past time on the part of the clergy a disposition to encroach there might also have been too much neglect of their rights and duties on the part of the laity. the laity-rthe—Bishop-continued, had other rights and duties besides that of merely dealing with the finances of the Church, and the social work of the parish. The laity had the function of teaching. It was a great mistake to suppose that the work of teaching was confined to the clergy ; the laity had their right also to be evangelists. There were functions reserved to the clergy, but that was not one. In the parish church the appointed pastor should alone preach to the congregation from the pupit, clothed with authority to do so, but ou t s ide the Church the re were p laces where the labours of an evangelist laymen were very desirable. It was within the province of any layman to hold cottage lectures, and expound the Scriptures, and to preach to the laity. That was the right and duty of every Christian layman, and it was a right which the Church had not denied to them. There was, in fact, nothing to hinder, but much that called for the efforts of lay evangelists. More than that, the layman had an undoubted right to lead the prayers of his fellow -worshippers either by extempore prayer, or by the use of portions of the Book of Common Prayer. Not in the parish church , were the public ministrations were confined to the clergy, but in the parish church itself layine should be reminded that they could discharge a very important office, and be very helpful to an over burdened clergyman by reading the lessons. Those were some of the offices in which a layman could lawfully be engaged. The Bishop proceeded to explain that as a mat ter of order this work of the laity should be exercised under the appointed minister of the parish in accordance with his wishes. Addressing the young who were present, the Bishop said that perhaps not many of them would be come clergymen, but he hoped some would grow up to become unordained ministers of the Church. THE QUEEN AT SHEEP SHEARING.—Previous to her departure from Balmoral last week, her Majesty the Queen drove out as far as the home farm of Invergelder to witness the process of sheep-shearing. Having arrived when the work was being executed, the carriage was stopped, and her Majesty with seeming pleasure viewed the work of shearing, at the same time taking down notes in a book. PAUPERISM. —The monthly return of the Poor Law Board shows that at the end of April, 1870, the num ber of per3ous receiving relief from the rates in Eng land and Wales was o'7 per cent. more than at the corresponding period of 1869. The increase amount ed to as much as 4 . 8 per cent. in the south eastern division, and 4•6 per cent. in Yorkshire. The metropolis shows an increase of 2'B per cent., the south-midland division 2 . 4 per cent. ; and the north-midland 21 per cent. The increase in the south western division was slight, being only o's per cent. The other divisions shew a decrease ; the eastern 0 . 2 per cent., the northern 0•6 per cent., the west midland 0 . 7 per cent., the Welsh I'9 per cent., and the north-western (Lan cashire and Cheshire) 51 per cent. DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS.—Dr. Lankester has held an inquiry into the discovery at No. 21, Upper Charles-street, Clerkenwell, of a quantity of human re mains. It appeared that Mr. Langford, who at present occupies the house at 21, Upper Charles-street, found some bones in a box in his garden. Upon an exami nation of them being made by a doctor it was found that they were the remains of a very tall man, a youth, and a child, and that some of them belonged to a horse and a sheep. A Mr. Box, who had occupied the house for 25 years before the present occupier, said that he understood a doctor had formerly occupied the house. After hearing the testimony of a medical man who had made a minute examination of the bones, and stated that they must have been buried in the ground 50 or 60 years ago, the jury returned a verdict that the remains were those of human beings, but under what circumstances they had come there they had no evidence to prove. THE LATE LORD A. CLlNTON.—Referring to the reported death of Lord Arthur Clinton, a contemporary says :—" Lord A. Clinton was a son of the late Duke of Newcastle, one of the ablest administrators of his time, and the guardian, it will be remembered, of the Prince of Wales on his visit to the United States. The Clintons are a distinguished old family, and it was in keeping with the aristocratic unities that a Clinton should marry into the ducal house of Hamilton. There were great rejoicings at Clumber and at Hamilton Palace, when the late duke and his duchess, Lady Mary Hamilton, became `one flesh.' Human felicity seemed, in their case, to have reached its apex. They lived in an atmosphere of bliss, their marital sky being of Claude like purity. But the tempter came—the Duchess fell from her high state of womanly, virtue—and became a proclaimed adulteress by the stern voice of the law. In the happier days of their marriage, the present Duke of Newcastle, Lord Arthur Clinton, and other existing members of the family were born. So long as the late Duke lived, all went well. He who managed the War Department under Palmerston and during the heat of the Crimean war, succeeded in keeping his household in order ; but no sooner had The Reaper cut him off, than the male portion of his family became spendthrifts. When the late Duke of Hamilton broke his neck by falling down a Parisian stair, under the influence, it is supposed, of too much wine, the present Duke (Lord Arthur Clinton's cousin) joined with the head of the house of Clinton in the most head long course of ' plunging' in horse-racing, of which the English turf makes mention. Lord Arthur Clinton was at that time a prominent man about town. He was natu rally received into the best society, and his inclinations seemed to have led him at times into the worst. He went into the maelstrom of London dissipation, and lie ended in being charged with one of the most abominable of crimes. Misfortune, it has been said, runs in families. The mother of Lord Clinton—the Lady Mary Douglas, and his aunt, Lady Jane Seymour Hamilton, were both divorced for matrimonial infidelity. SPAIN FOR FRANCE ? TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SUN." SIR,—I find in the Portuguese Legitimist paper A Nacao, of the 11th ink., the following, which I think deserves atten tion ; especially as I have not seen as yet any other notice of M. de la G-uerroniere's pamphlet referred to.—l re- A. R. SARAIVA. main, sir, yours, &c., June 17th, 1870. Translated for The Sun from the Spanish. " A pamphlet has been recently published in Paris, as important by the subject it deals with as by the pen which has written it. "M. de la Guerroniere, author of the said pamphlet, considering the question of the frontiers, marks the Ebro as the natural frontier of Spain, and that the same river ought to be politically the frontier of France. " The name of De la Guerroniere is known enough, as well as his relations with the Emperor, and the weight of his vote in the policy of the Tuileries, or rather that this vote is no more than the echo of the Imperial policy, so that the appearing of this pamphlet cannot but be considered an important fact, and with it all the Spanish belligerent press is busying itself ; as it would hear of no transaction at the expense of its country's integrity. "France could not think of making the conquest of the provinces beyond the Ebro, but might wish to contract with Spain as she did with Italy. And in Spain there are not wanting individuals inclined to enter into such transactions " But would the negotiators on the part of Spain look for some compensation of the territory thus lost? It is also certain that they are looking to the territory this side of the Caia (a frontier river between Spain and Portugal) with views as disinterested as those of the Cabinet of the Tuileries. "And if we said that France could not think of attempting the conquest of the provinces of Spain beyond the Ebro, for the same reasons do we say that Spain could not attempt the conquest of Portugal. " We have spoken several times in this paper of the projects of Iberian unity ; we have advised, have begged our people to be on their guard against such projects ; not because fearing that our neighbours might come to make a con quest of us, but because we dread, either from degenerate Portuguese or from somebody who lives amongst us decked with the name of Portuguese (by this Ferdinand of Cobourg, his son, the de facto King, are meant). "And we abound so much in - these ideas that we go so far as to suspect the sincerity of the patriotism of those who talk of arming Portugal in order to defend her against a foreign aggression. " The complaint is a grave one, but the morbid cause does not lay beyond the Caia, it is unfortunately nurtured among ourselves. " Legitimacy alone can save the two Peninsular nations from the abyss into which revolution is hurrying them. Legitimacy alone also can set us at ease as regards this most important question of our national autonomy and independence. "In the Spanish Legitimist camp our rights are re spected as much as the national dignity of Spain herself is upheld ; no one dreams there of any attempt against the rights of the Portuguese King or of the Portuguese na tion, but no one also there would give up at any price even one single inch of Spanish territory. The same thing happens in the Portuguese Legitimist camp ; the right of Charles VII. is respected, respected are the rights of the Spanish nation; butwe hold the name of Portugal in that sacred respect which a son owes to the name of his father. " Neither do the Spanish Legitimists grudge our inde pendence, nor do we see in their ideas and proceedings anything but what is praiseworthy ; hence the good feel ing between the two parties, and the certainty that the triumph of both in the respective countries will ensure to the Peninsula an epoch of peace and prosperity at home, and of consideration and respect abroad." Speaking of De la Guerroniere's pamphlet, the Leg iti mista Espanol (" The Spanish Legitimist") says : "In the official regions of the Empire our neighbour people are much mistaken in regard to Spain, and it is possible such mistake may cost dear to Napoleon ; ho might possibly be called to account on that, both from the other side of the Rhine as from across the British Channel." And adds still in regard to the same subject, "Montpensier's marriage with Dona Ferdinanda of Bourbon has cost Louis Phillipe the throne of France." Again in the next number of the same, Nacao, of the .2th - inst., I find on the same subject the following "It is not M. de la G-uerroniere alone that speaks of extending the French frontiers as far as the Ebro, and giving Spain compensation at the expense of Portugal." In another French journal, Le Centre Gauche, the an nexation of Spanish territory to France is also spoken of. And La Guerroniere did not confine himself to the words we set yesterday before our readers, he went further, he said, " That the Spanish Government agrees in the frontiers of France being extended to the Ebro Would La Guerroniere dare to say this without some foundation!' " Such is the patriotism of revolutionists. To Don Carlos, to the legitimate King of Spain, as well as to any other legitimate king, no one would dare to make propo sals of this kind. " But those are mistaken who think of enlarging them selves at the expense of the Peninsula, and if they have forgotten already the lesson they have received in the beginning of this century, let them be sure that Portu guese and Spaniards, in spite of the effects of the revalu tionary yoke they suffered for so many years, have not lost their old pride and courage if their respective nations are attacked. "It would, perhaps, be a fortunate circumstance for our peninsula that the traffickers on our provinces should attempt to carry speedily their plans into execution. This would result in one lesson more for the counterfeit legiti macies. This would rouse Spaniards and Pourtuguese to the energetic recovery of their rights, and the showing themselves as independent, and as worthy of being so, as they did in 1808." " Has La Guerroniere been dreaming of resuscitating something like the secret treaty of Fontainebleau, of October 27th, 1807, signed by Duroc and Don Izquierdo, to divide Portugal between the King of Etruria, France and Godoy ? I doubt much that Napoleon 111. would like to copy his uncle's Peninsular experiences. The Emperor has no doubt heard, and probably remem bers, Talleyrand's prophetic witticism, uttered when it was announced to him in 1807 that the invasion of the Peninsula by the French armies was determined upon : C'est le commencement de la fin—" It is the beginning of the end." A. IL SARAIVA. KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.—At a meeting of the council of King's College, it has been resolved to appoint to the Professorship of Classical Literature the Rev, Joseph Bickersteth Mayor, M.A., late Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge. - - - BALLOON ACCIDENT.—An accident happened to Mr. Coxwell's balloon during a fete at the Arboretum at Derby. At twenty-five minutes past six the grappling irons were loosed, but it soon became apparent that the ballon would not clear the trees surrounding the enclo sure. Mr. Coxwell, who did not himself ascend, shouted to the occupants of the car to throw out ballast, but, in spite of every precaution, the balloon dashed against the trees. The persons in the car, five in num ber, were rescued, but the mob, who were indignant be cause a local aeronaut, Mr. Jackson, had not been engaged, attempted to tear up the balloon, and a hand to-hand fight between them and the police ensued. Mr. Coxwell was grossly ill-treated, and the police were pelted Indian troupe stones. Previous to this mishap one of the troupe fell from the rope on which he was performing, but his injuries were not of a serious nature. A CROWN FOR VICTOR EXIMANURL.—A corre spondent of La Liberte says that recently a subscrip tion was opened in Italy for the purpose of presenting a royal crown to Victor Emmanuel, and a total of 45,000 francs was collected in a short space of time. The King, having heard what was on foot, invited those who had been active in the matter to the palace. He thanked them for their generous design, and begged them to con vey his acknowledgments to those who had subscribed to the fund, but to inform them that, such as he was, his crown was good enough for him, and that he begged them to apply the fund so collected to the foundation in Florence of an asylum for the indigent blind. Such a mode of receiving a present from his people needs no com ment, save that it is worthy of being imitated. SMALLPDX IN PARIS.—The mortality in Paris from this fearful epidemic has again risen, and last week there were no less than 238 death returned from that cause 88 of the victims dying in the hospitals. The increasing fatality of this disease causes much anxiety in Paris, where a committee of medical men has been formed to investigate the causes of this dreadful visitation. From the official returns it appears that the deaths from smallpox in 1865 were 740 ; in 1866, 615 ; in 1867, 301; in 1868, 655 ; and in 1869, 723. It was only in November last that the disease assumed an epidemic form, the deaths rising from 39 in October to 93 in November, and 119 in December. Be tween January 1 and May 24, 1870, there have been re ceived into the hospitals no less than 4,251 smallpox patients, of whom 683 have died. Several of the Pans papers devote long articles to the subject, urging the ex tension of vaccination, or the adoption of other precau tionary measures. Date (Addition to be filled up if Applicant wishes to pay up in full.) - desire to pay up - Subscription in full, receiving dis• count thereon at the Bank of England rate now current. H ONDURAS TEN PER CENT. GOVERN MENT RAILWAY LOAN, 1870. The SUBSCRIPTION LIST for this LOAN will be closed THIS DAY, WEDNESDAY, the 22nd inst., for London, and TO MORROW, THURSDAY, the 23rd inst. for the country. London, June 22nd, 1870. BATHING SEASON. ST. LAWRENCE-ON-SEA, ISLE OF THANET. -- Mr. W. CLEMSON begs to inform the nobility and gentry that he is now prepared to enter into arrangements for the forth coming season for the Private Houses attached to and served from (if required) the GRANVILLE HOTEL. Rents for the season, from £250 to £4OO. The above houses are being Fur nished from the most recent designs of E. Welby Pugin, Esq. N.B.—Ramsgate is the nearest station on both lines. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. At Poulton-le-Fylde both the wheat and grass crops are looking well ; indeed, in the Fylde district the latter will soon be ready for the scythe. Potatoes in the fields are improving fast, and promise to be early and prolific in their yield. There is every likelihood of an ample supply of fruit in the gardens, and should nothing un ex p ected in tervene,we may fairly look for an early and plenteous sea son. An agricultural contemporary says :—Mangolds have been saved by the tempest. It is too early at present to pronounce upon the character of the corn crops. As usual in a dry time, our correspondents write promisingly of wheats upon well-farmed loams and upon well-drained clays, and gloomily of wheat upon light soils. We believe that the plant is generally too defective and the straw too short to produce more than an average, even with the most superb weather from this date to harvest time. Referring to the rainfall of Thursday the Leeds Mercury remarks it is to be feared that in some cases the showers came too late to retrieve the appearance and yield of crops ruined beyond redemption. These cases may be few and far between, but still they will have some influence upon the general result. AN INCIDENT OF GERM kN MILITAR Y LIFE A correspondent at Coblentz writes :—A painful im pression has been created here by the following incident. Three soldiers of the line were undergoing a long period of imprisonment in the fortress of Ehrenbreit• stein for desertion. They had originally deserted at Saarlouis and crossed the frontier into France, but, on the persuasion of their families, had surrendered them selves to their regiment. Their term of punishment was seven years, of which only six months had expired. Find ing their life, as is asserted, insupportable, they deter mined to drown themselves on the first favour able opportunity as a preferable fate. A few days ago they were employed on the Carthause, the fine plateau which separates the Rhine from the Moselle, and it seemed a fitting moment to attempt their rash enterprise. One sentry alone was in charge of them and he witnessed their flight. He immediately fired and brought one victim down dead, the bullet having passed through his head. With extraordinary sang froid and determination he loaded a second time, and again fired with fatal precision; the deserter fell dead, pierced through the heart. Once more loading he fired at the third fugitive, and the bullet passed completely through his body, inflicting frightful injury to his intestines. The unfortunate man was brought to the military lazaretto in Coblenz, where he lies in a hopeless condition. In military circles this melancholy catas trophe is regarded as a fitting retribution for a grave breach of discipline, a view of the case not altogether shared in by the civil portion of the community. One thing is certain, the needle gun in the hands of a good mar ksman is a sure and terrible weapon." A. correspondent of the Irish Times states that a British peerage has been offered, at the suggestion of the Queen, to the Earl of Howth, and that it has been accepted. PERSEVERANCE.—Mr. Mundella, M.P., presided at a meeting at Sheffield, for the purpose of presenting prizes and certificates to the successful candidates at the recent local examination in connection with the Cam bridge University. In advising on the subject of the success and the failure of the several candidates in the examination, Mr. Mundella gave it as his opinion that the next best thing to success was failure. He trusted any present who had failed would not be dis couraged, but wouid try again, because after all, the race was not to the swift at all times ; it was to those who persevered. Perseverance had done wondrous things in this world ; it had made some of our greatest men. The speaker was dining with a distin guished artist a few days ago, and he said, " A short time since I painted a portrait of Charles Dickens. It was arranged that I should sit in his room while he was at work. He was a most painstaking, industrious, methodical man, and nothing would divert him from the regularity of his habits. I was there for hours, and sat again and again, and he wrote, as it seemed to me, almost with anguish. T looked in his face, and watched the anxiety and the care. I saw the blotting and the re-writing of his works, and I was astonished to find how much he owed to his indomitable perseverance." Now, if this held true of a genius whom we might suppose to be most rapid in his writing, and who was undoubtedly most brilliant, how must it hold true of those who are not in possession of such great natural ability? JUN E 22, 1870 PRICF 1 d STAMPED 2d. SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT, TUESDAY. The House of Commons was, if possible, hotter and fuller than it was on Thursday, the night of the storm. No one can accuse our legislators of neglecting their duty, and though the Irish members were again conspicuously absent, it must be remembered that they worked double tide before the Whitsun holidays. The first business of the evening was the presenting of an enormous number of petitions, which occupied a very considerable time. About five o'clock there was a knocking at the door, and the cry of "Black Rod" announced that the Commons were to be summoned to the Upper House to hear the Royal Assent given to new bills. The number of Commoners who obeyed the summons and attended the Speaker was not very large, for hon. members who had not taken the pre caution of being present at prayers, were not minded to lose their seats by leaving them to the group of weary wallflowers who stood leaning against the door. The questions were numerous, many of them were important, and Mr. Ayrton, of course, had something dis agreeable to say, and that something amounted to an announcement of the indefinite postponement of the New Law Courts. The Speaker then, amid great cheering announced that he had received from the Chancellor of the University of Oxford a communication, inviting him to attend to receive the honorary degree of D.C.L., and he asked the permission of the Honse to absent himself from Parliament on that day. Universal accla mation shewed how popular Mr. Denison is, and Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli vied with each other in their compliments and congratulations. So it was arranged that Mr. Dodson should take the chair to-morrow in order that the Speaker might go to Oxford and come back as Dr. Denison, entitled, if he pleases, to wear a gorgeous scarlet robe over his sombre black breeches and stockings. Then came the business of the evening. "The question is that I now leave the chair." Alas for the paulo-post future D.C.L., there was no such good luck in store for him. It was to be a field nigh , with great speeches from great speakers, bent uponshe r j ghow difficult it is to teach little children the three R's ithout infusing into them some of the thousand and ne " isms" which vex the theological world. Mr. Henry Richard opened the debate. A bald-headed, black-browed, white-bearded man is this ex-dissenting minister and leader writer in the defunct Morning Star. A very able man, moreover, with such a gift of language, and such decided views on theology, that the Welsh Calvinists, Methodists, and others of Merthyr Tydvil, at the last election preferred him to the present Home Secretary. He spoke with deliberation, and with out hesitation. He never seemed to be at a loss for a word, but always had the right one close at hand. No doubt his speech had been carefully prepared, but he had the art to conceal the art, and while most of our great orators have evidently finished, and refined, and worked up before hand, Mr. Richard seemed rather to be thinking out his argument as he went along. The strongest part of his speech was where he contended that Mr. Gladstone, profound theologian though he was, skil ful constructor though he was, would find it impossible to invent a religion that would please everybody, and leave out everything which displeased anybody. Very humorous was his enumeration of the religions in the House of Com mons, concluding with, " and for aught I know Turks, Infidels, and heretics." The weakest part was where Mr. Richard quoted amid ironical laughter the argument of Mr. Edward Baines against denominational education, argu ments which all the world knows Mr. Baines has recanted. He was loudly cheered by both sides when he asserted that education must be religious, and there were cheers from below the Liberal gangway when he said that the State must give that which it could give—a literary, scien tific education, and leave the churches to give religion, thus fulfilling the precept of Him whom nearly all then present acknowledged as their Master, " Render unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, unto God the things which be God's." During the whole of this speech Mr. Gladstone had sat stretched out, with closed eyes, and face up-turned, pale and weary looking, but evidently listening to all that was being said by this Dissenter of Dissenters, this repre sentative of the party for whom he had lost Oxford and Lancashire, and, as it seemed, all in vain. Mr. Forster leant forward with head buried in his hands, as if he, too, found the burden of legislating too heavy to bear. In striking contrast to both was Sir John Coleridge, who sat fast asleep. He was aroused, I think, by the noise of members rushing out to dine when Mr. Richard sat down, at 6.17, after exactly an hour's speech. Sir Charles Dilke rose to second Mr. Richard's amendment. The young baronet is not an orator, and never will be—his voice and manner are against him. But he generally has something to say worth hearing. It soon appeared that it was not from any love of Nonconformity that he sup ported the member for Merthyr, but by reason of his secular notions ; and he addressed himself very little to the religious, and a great deal to the compulsory question. As soon as he began to perorate Mr. Forster prepared to get up, but glancing across the table at the Opposition bench, an interchange of signals took place between him and Mr. Hardy, and the result was that the ex-Home Secretary rose to speak. He spoke for seventy minutes, and it was without doubt, one of the ablest speeches ever delivered in the House of Commons. lam not referring to the arguments, for this is not the place to pass judgment upon them. I refer to the speech as a specimen of eloquence and logic, and I am sure that all who heard it, however much they might differ from the speaker, would admit that this speech places Mr. Hardy among the very first rank of Parliamentary debaters. He took up one point of his opponents' after another, and dealt with each in a really masterly manner. Granted, he said, that the religious education is not satisfactory, we seek to improve it, you to forbid it. Who, he added, will guarantee that if the religious edu cation of the children is left to the ministers of religion, the children will get it? Will the parents demand this religious education ? If so, how comes it to pass that so many of them never attend any place of worship ? Then he referred to Mr. Baines's retractation of the opinions quoted by Mr. Richard. He added, amid great cheering, that what he contended for was freedom to teach religion. Have your conscience clause if you will, but do not do anything so unwise, so unjust as to forbid religious teach ing. But the finest part of Mr. Hardy's speech was the close, where, with fine sarcasm, he asked the Secularists what they had been doing all these years. The two great religious societies, the National and the British and Foreign, representing the Church and the sects, had covered the land with more than 15,000 schools. Shew us one that you have founded, said Mr. Hardy. You will, at all events, have no excuse in the future, for Government will aid you whether you teach reli gion or not. You have subscribed 250,000 ; but unfortunately it is for destroying the present means of education. Devote your energies, your money to filling up the gaps which you say we have left, and then you - _ will deserve the thanks of the community. Mr. Hardy sat down amid great cheering, and I should add that, during many portions of the speech Mr. Gladstone joined in the marks of approbation which the eloquence of his old rival at Oxford excited. It was now twenty minutes to eight, and Mr. Melly rising to speak, it became clear that the debate would last all the evening. So the Treasury Bench, the front Opposition Bench, and many another bench were cleared, as if by magic, for it faut manger. Mr. Samuel Morley's disapproval of Mr. Richards' amendment was one of the incidents of the evening. The member for Bristol has at least as much weight with the House as the member for Merthyr. The first has more than once shewn that he will not adopt the extreme programme of the Liberation Society. Last night it was clear that he feared the alliance of the Nonconformists with the Secularists—feared that it would imperil religion. So he would have none of it. Next to the handsome Dis senter came the grotesque Anglican, Mr. Beresford Hope. He raised many a laugh by his oddity. Dr. Lyon Playfair made a very able speech from his side. Sir John Pakington followed, and repeated the wish which he has always uttered, and which he has loyally striven to fulfil, that the education question may be settled this session. Then at last Mr. Forster rose, and in a speech which I will not attempt to summarise, and which occupied the best part of two hours, he defended the bill, and an nounced, amid much excitement, that the Government would not consent to any further alterations, and threw upon the opponents of the bill the responsibility of delay ing a settlement of this great question.