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-------------- CAUTION. MOSES and S O.N\ E• beg to inform the Public that they have adopted and registered a TRADE MARK, consisting , of the words " The Standard," with the initials "underneath, and that henceforward every atticle of clothing manufactured by them will have a label or ticket attached to if, with the said trade mark printed thereon. All persons are hereby cautioned against imitat ing the said Trade Mark. For trades and addresses see following advertisement. “THE APPAREL OFTAN PROCLAIMS THE M.” BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES, BEs r WORKMANzHIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. Every description of Clothing ready-made or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and SON'S. For the convenience of Ladies accompanying their Sons there is a separate department for Boys' Clothing, and it is furnished with a splendid assort ment of Suits, Ov. rcoats, and Clothing for all occa sions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless flt. Any article not worn or injured will be exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. 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 vJyage. 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. MO3 ES and SON'S Est blishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SCN LONDON: CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET, CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON- ROAD. Country Branch: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. LONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN I.W AY. NORTHAMPTON SPRING RACES, APRIL 5 and 6. On each of the above days a SPECIAL CHEAP TRAIN will leave Euston Station for Northampton at 9.5 a.m., arriving at Northampton at 11.15 a m., and returning therefrom each evening at 6.45. 'I rains in connection will leave Broad-street (City), Oalston Junction, Highbury, Camden-road, Kentish-town, Victoria, Pimlico (I ondon, Brighton, and South Coast Company's side), Clapham Junction, Battersea, Chelsea, Kensington, and Uxbridge road FARES FOR THE DOUBLE JOURNEY : Covered Carriages First Class. 105. 15s . Fares from Broad-street, Dalston, and Highbury, 6d. extra. A SPECIAL FA T TRAIN, at ordinary fares, will a!so leave Euston Station each day at 9 a.m., arriving at Northampton at 1 0 .45 a.m.. returning at 5.40 pm. the first day, and at 5.40 or 8 p.m. the second day The return trains will call at Willesden Junction only, and alive at Euston Station at 7.45 p.m. the first day, and at 7.15 p.m. and P. 15 p.m. respectively the second day. For further part.culars see bills. W. CAWK WELL, General Manager. Euston Station, March, IE7O. METROPOLITAN AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. _ _ _ OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE, WEDNESDAY, April 6. The Ordinary Service of Trains between the CITY and HAM MERSMITH will be suspended from 2 p.m. till 8 p.m., an 1 a Special Service of Trains will rnn at frequent intervals during that period, calling at all intermediate Stations. The Fares between Metropolitan Stations and Stations on the Hammersmith and City Line and Kensington (Addison Road) will be as under:— -Ingle Journey Return Journey Ist Class. 2d Cl ss. Is. 6d. ... Is. 3d. 2s 61. ... 2s. Od. 3d Class, Is. Gd. NIETROPOLITAN AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYB. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE, WEDNESDAY, April 6. Passengers will be bookel through from Westminster Bridge, Victoria, Brampton, South Kensington, and all intermediate Sta tions up to Paddington, to and from Hammersmith. Passengers will be required to change from the Metropolitan Company's Praed-street Station to the Paddington Station of the Great Western Railway Company, from which a Special Service of Trains will run. GUILDHALL, 24th MARCH, 1870.—The Com mittee for Letting the City's Lands will meet at Guild hall, on WEDNESDAY, the 13th April next, at half-past One o'clock precisely, to receive proposals for Leases in Lots of the several Houses, Nos. 8,9, 10, 12, 13, and 14, Butcher-row, and Nos. 2,4, 6' 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, and 36, Whitehorse-street, Elatcliff. A Plan of the Property may be seen, and further particulars and Forms of Tender obtained, upon application at the Architect's Office, Guildhall. FERDn. BRAND, Comptroller. 1870. THE following is the House List of GOVERNORS and DIRECTORS of the BANK of ENGLAND for the year ensuing:— .FOR GOVERNORS. ROBERT WrOR kNI CRAWFORD, Esq., Gover ion GEORGE LYALL, Esq, Deputy-Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. Ferry Wollaston Blake, Esq. John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. Henry Hulse liere , s, Esq. Thomas Newterin Hnnt, Esq. John William Birch, Esq. Charles Frederick Huth, Esq. Travers Buxton, Esq. Alfred Latham, Esq. Mark Wilks Collet, Esq. *William Lidderdale. Esq, James Pattison Currie, Esq. Alexander Matheson, Esq. Benjami Buck Greene, Esq. James Morris, Esq James Alexander Guthrie, Esq. Georgc Warde Norman, Esq. Thomson Hankey, L sq. ' Edward How.ey Palmer, aq. Baron Heath. * uavid Powell, jun., Esq. Kirkman Dani.l Hodgson, Esq Aluert George Sandeman, Dig Eery Lancelot Holland, Esq. Christopher Weguelin, Esq. N.B. The Gentlemen against wtiose /tam s an asterisk is placed are new Candidates for the Direction. The Election :or Gov rnor a: ,d Deputy-Go :error will be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the sth April. and for Directors on Wednesd y, the fldi April, from Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon till Four in the Afternoon. TOHN GOSN ELI, and CO.'S CHERRY tJ TOOTH PAST is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness. protects the er amel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.— Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A - GUA 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 Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, includ ing brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, 8.0. T HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at 7, AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. Mr Buckstone, jun., and Miss F. Wright. After which, at 7.40, OUR AMERICAN COUSINI Characters by Mr Sothern, Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Braid, Mr Rogers; Mrs Chippendale, Miss P. Wright, Miss F. Gwynne, Miss C. Hill, &c. Concluding with MY WIFE'S MOTHER: Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mrs Chippendale, &c. Box-office open daily iron Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER THIS EVENING. at Seven o'clock, MY PRECIOUS BETSY: Messrs J. G. Taylor, C. J. Smith ; Min Eliza Johnstone. After which, THE PROMPTER'S BOX: a Story of the Footlights and the Fireside. Mr Benjamin Webst r, Mr Henry J. Byron Mr J. D. Beveridge, Mr R Phillips, Mr C. H. Stephen son, MrJ. G. Taylor, Mr C. J. Smith, Mr shlcy, Mr W. H. Eburne, Miss Furtado, Miss Lavis, and Mrs Alfred ellon. To be followed by WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH: Messrs J. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson, Ashley; Mrs Leigh Murray, Miss Lennox Grey. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager—Mr. Benjamin We*ster. THIS EVEAING, at 7, YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER After which, PAUL L AFARGE: Messrs. J. Rouse, nold, Geo. Belmore, ; !Mesdames R. Leclercq and Le thiere. With A DARK NIGHT'S WORK; Messrs W. Itignold, G. Belmcre, H. Creliin ; Misses E. Leclercq, Barnett, &c. LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs Mansell (elegantly redecorated by Macintosh). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, T WENIY MINITES WITII A TIBER. Followed by LE COMPOSITEUR TCQUE: M. Herve. Aft r which (2d Act) ,CHILPaIIIC, by nerve: M. Marius, G. Vincent, Odell, Aynsley Cook, and SI. Tierce; and Miss Emily Dluir. And SAMPSON'S WEDDING. ) OYAL STRAN D THEATRE. IV Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborongh. TEAS EVENING, at Seven, WIDOWS' WEEDS. Messrs Croueh, Turner, and Mesdames E. Button and Anstiss. Followed by SIR GEORGE AND A DRAGON. Messrs. James, Terry, Fenton; Mesdames Sautley, Dashwood, Goodall, Hughes, Anstiss, and Metcalfe. And A FISH OUT OF WATER. h' s / 04 7 % TI Sllll4 LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1870. Mn. FAWCETT is becoming the "terrible child " of the Liberal party. He is always doing or saying g•omething which puts his friends into a state of alarm. In fact, he keeps them in a condition of chronic uneasiness. Now it is election expenses, now the appropriation of the Irish Church surplus, now University Tests, now Secular Education. There seems to be an unconquerable suspicion in Mr. Faweett's mind, and Mr. Gladstone is the object of it. This is unfortunate, for Mr. Fawcett is a clever man, and might be a useful man. As it is, he threatens to be only a crotchety man. On Friday night his suspicious nature made him form acquaintance with a strange bedfellow. Between Mr. Plunket, the high Tory and Protestant member for Dublin University, and Mr. Fawcett, the Radical Professor of Cambridge University, there would seem to be nothing in common. Yet we find the one proposing and the other seconding a resolution for throwing open Dublin University to persons of all religions. The mystery is to some extent ex plained when we remember that the educational arrangements which the Conservative party in Eng land dread are those which the Conservatives in Ireland desire. The first like denominational education, because it will give the English Church greater power ; the second dislike it because it will give the Roman Church power. The second aim to get in Ireland what the Secularists and Radicals are aiming to get in England. Hence the strange alliance of which we have spoken ; hence the strange mélange of parties which the division list discloses. - Mr. Gladstone, of course, thoroughly understands that a large number of Conservative M,P:s who voted for him have little faith in his policy. His speech was directed, not so much against them (if we except Dr. Ball) as against his opponents on his own side of the House. These he addressed. somewhat warmly. He pro tested against their suspicions and against their attempt to force his hand. As ho resisted the at attempt to extort from him the principles of his Irish Land Bill last year, so he will resist the attempt to extort from him the principles of his Irish Education Bill this year. At the same time we do not altogether wonder at the impatience which was shown by Con servatives then or by Radicals now. Certain speeches made in 1869 gave rise to a fear of extreme and spoliatory measures and the present rumours about the nature of the report of the Commissioners on Irish Education cause some apprehension as to the extension of denominational education. The alarm in the first case proved unfounded, and the Land Bill is so moderate that even Conservatives support it. Perhaps this very moderation is the cause of the alarm in the second case. Mr. Fawcett is one of those who think that a Minister cannot be worth much if his measures do not disgust his opponents. NEXT week Mr. Lowe makes his financial state ment. Rarely has a Chancellor of the Exchequer had to deliver it under more satisfactory circumstances. No doubt there has been exaggeration in the estimates of the surplus made by some of our contemporaries, and it has not always been remembered that the Abyssinian war bill is a heavy one. Nevertheless it is a very handsome present, which the Chancellor will have to make, and the interesting question is in what form he will make it. Of course there is not much that is new to say as regards the politico economical aspect of finance. Already in anticipa tion of the Budget, we have had the various schools of financiers going down to the Treasury, and urging their views upon Mr. Lowe with their mull vehemence, and Mr. Lowe listening with unusual patience. The country party have proved incontestably, to their own satisfaction, that England will never be the prosperous country it ought to be until the poor man's beer is made cheaper by the repeal of the malt duty. The anti income-tax agitators, with Mr. Whalley for their spokesman, have shown that the tax ought to be levied only on real pro party, and tit the incomes of trades and Protonic= should be exempt. The financial reformers have advocated a free breakfast table, the abolition of all customs and duties, and the raising of thi national income entirely by direct taxation. There was something to be said for all of these proposals. The malt tax, like all excise duties, is a meddlesome one, and interferes with industry. But then it is to a certain extent a moral one, and the tendency of legislation is certainly not, and happily not, in the direction of increasing the facilities for intoxication. The Incom3 Tax is open to many and grave objec tions. It is inquisitorial, it is to a certain extent unjust, inasmuch as precarious incomes pay as much as land. Nevertheless no one has ever yet been able to draw the line between the two ; to say, for instance, if railv - ,-ay shares should be treated as land or as business. Moreover the tax is the least costly of all to collect, and it will bear raising or lowering without affecting the price of the markets, or lead ing to any unhealthy speculation. Moreover, being direct it is the most felt by the taxpayers, and is there fore an incentive to economy. The customs duties are the most costly of all forms of taxation ; but without them how is the working class, the class in receipt of incomes below £lOO, to pay taxation? It is a very serious thing indeed to transfer all the burden of taxation to the shoulders elthe middle and upper classes. Yet this would be the result of the proposals of the Liver pool Financial Reformers. We an not say that they will not succed eventually ; for the working classes have a very large share in tlm election of the House of Commons, and if they should attempt to benefit themselves at the expense of other classes they would be doing no more than was done by the landed class when resisting the repeal of the corn duty. Still, Mr. Lowe is scarcely a man to help forward such a revolution as that s for a revolution it is, unless indeed some plan can be shown for levying a poll-tax instead of the Customs duties, so that each man may contribute to the cost of government. Such a scheme would take a good mnn j finaultai to devise. There is one other mode of getting rid of our our• plus which has not been much discussei of Iste. Why not devote a portion of it to reducing the national debt ? A witty Sheridan may object to muddling away his money in paying his debts, but a sober, sensible nation ought to entertain no such feeling. At the same time the argument even here is not all on one side. The Government, in other words, the English people, pay under 4 per cent. for their debt, but there are few of us who could not make 4 per cent. with the money. Happy is the man of business who can persuade his friends to let them have their money at this rate of interest. He must, indeed, be an idiot if b.e can't make a ortuno. No one would think of telling him when he bad accumulated capital that he ought to repay the money he had borrowed, so long as he had the chance of using that capital in his business. The position of the nation with regard to its debt is somewhat similar. At the same time it is not identical, and bearing in mind that increased income means increased burdens, that (leaving out of the question the natural growth in the productive- ness of any one _tax) we must impose more taxes if we want more revenue, it is well to consider if it would not be well in a time like this to reduce our liabilities, so that if at any time hereafter we should be engaged in war, or suffer from any serious commercial depression, there will be so much less to be paid under the item of interest on the National Debt. We expect that Mr. Lowe, while not overlooking other modes of reduction—especially that of the income tax to the normal fourpence—will make this a portion of his scheme, and all the more because there is a tendency in somo quarters to throw oa the burden of taxation alto other. rrHE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at Mr. BEAITRIONT'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand. 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ADELPHI.—At Seven, My Precious Betsy. The Prompter's Box. Whitebaie, at Greenwich. HAYMARKET—At Seven. An Alarming Sacrifice. At 7.40, Our American Cousin. And My Wife's Mother. LYCEUM—At 7.30, Twenty Minutes with a Tiger. Le Compositeur Toque. C)hilpexic (2d Act). Sampson's Wedding. OLYMPIC—At Seven, Little Em'ly. The Princess PRINCESS'S—At Seven, Your Life's in Danger. Paul Lafarge, A Dark Night's Work GAIETY—At Seven, Young Hopeful. Uncle Dick's Darling. The First Night. QUEEN s—At Seven, Quick March. At 8.15, 'Twixt Axe and Crown • TRAND—At Seven, Widow's Weeds. Sir George and a Dragon. A Fish Out of Water ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, She Stoops to Conquer. At 9.15, La Belle Sauvage. An Unhappy Pair PnINCE Cr WALES'S—At Eight, School. Dearest Mamma. Quite by Accident GLOBE—At Seven, Whitebait at Greenwich. At Eight, Philomel. The Goose with the Golden Eggs WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Picca dilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at 5; Saturday Mol n in is at 3. Admission, ls, 2s, 3s. Cirftim MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till P.BO p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls. ; extra rooms, 6d. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, Open daily(except Sundays). Admission. ls.• on Mondays, 6d. Children tinder twelve. Al The 77t11 Regiralat. A recent number of the Broad A crow contains the fol'owing distinguished and a'ithoritative tribute to the high tt te of discipline in this popular regiment, with an especial eulogium by the Brigadier-G.ineral to the Comm alder, Colonel Kent, and all the officers under him :—"The 77th or East Middlesex.—At the last advises the necessary arrangements to admit of her Alajesty's 77th Regiment leaving Agra by rail on the 18th ultimo, so as to arrive at Jubblepore cn the 21st, were being made. The voltinteers for the 2d Battalion of the 21st, the 45th, and the 76th, were t 3 be sent down at once to the Presi dency; but the others would be detained at Agra till the a• rival of the 88tb, when they would join their respective corps. The 77th were to be located at Deolalee, ready for embarkation in the ship Jumna immediately on her return from Suez. The following Br . gade Orders were issued on the occasion of the departure of the Regiment from Agra : —"The 77th Foot being about to leave Agra and proceed home, Brigadier-General Stannus is desirous of recording the high opinion he entertains of this excellent regi ment. Just one year has elapsed since the 77th ar rived at Agra, and during that period the Brigadier- General has had every reason to be satisfied with its well-organised system of discipline. No regiment could have given less trouble than the 77th, and this must primarily be attributed to the successful efforts on the part of the commander and those under him to make the duties of the soldiers as little irksome as possibl3 in the trying climate of the plains of India. I hose who have visited the regimental institutions of the 77th must have observed the great pains that have evidently been taken to contribute to tl!e com fort and happiness of the men, and from personal observations the Brigadier-General can confidently assert that the arrangements made with this end in view, are unsurpassed by any regiment in the service. The Lieut.-Governor of these provinces very recently in a marked manner expressed his appreciation of the regiment, and the Brigadier-General ndw assures Colonel Kent and all under his command that they have his best wishes in the future, and he firmly believes that, constituted as it is at present, th: 77th Regiment will continue to maintain, wherever it may be located, the high character which acquired for it so much popularity during its residence in Agra.' " THE SPEAKER. Tue rumour is again revived that the Speaker means to retire, and that he will be succeeded by Mr. Cardwell, who, in his turn, will, it is said, be replaced by Lord Northbrook, now Under Secretary. MR. BRIGHT AND THE MINISTRY. Various rumours - have been set afloat that it is the intention of Mr. Bright to resign the Presidency of the Board of Trade, and to retire from the Government. The Birmingham Daily Post has the best reason for saying that no decision on the subject has been come to. Since his residence at Brighton the right hon. gentleman's health has considerably improved ; and though an early return to parliamentary labours is not to be looked for, yet Mr. Bright is again able to take an interest in the grogT . ess_ of p4lic Affairs...) THE CITY OF BOSTON. Rumours are again current in the west of Ireland of some disabled ship, supposed to be the City of Boston. The story is a very dubious one : it is to the effect that a vessel has been seen passing Kilkee, county Clare. The Messrs. Inman know nothing of this disabled vessel, and they are trying hard to discover the fcundation of the rumour. Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal High neeses Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Royal suite, -will leave Windsor Castle for the Isle of Wight on Friday next. Mr. Disraeli intends to visit Perth in. the Easter vacation. okkg l " l ff w tlanitor. • HER M.A E S 7'l". WINDSOR CASTLE, April 3. Her Majesty and the Royal Family and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting attended Divine service in the pi ivate chapel. The Prince and Princess of Wales attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, April 3, Eirening. Signor Minghetti has proposed the appointment of four Committees instead of one to examine, the financial bills of the Government. ; This proposal has been accepted by -the Ministry, and the Chamber of Deputies in to,day's sitting voted its adoption by 168 against 112 votes. SPAIN. MADRID, April 2. Much excitement and astonishment was caused this afternoon in the Cortes by the Deputy Sunar Capdeviella coolly entering and assuming his former sea.. It had been supposed that he was in France or Naples, whi.her he had fled on the, failurb of the late Republican insurrection, in which he was a leader, and in his absence had been condemned to death by a Council of War. Senors Figueras, Caatellar, and several others tried to per suade him to retire, but he firmly refused. Ulti mately he left in a coach about seven, o'clock, according to some statements for Gerona, to be delivered over to the military tribunal which s •n -tenc3d him ; but other reports are tc the effect that he left for the frontier, to be allowed to escape. The general impression is that he is insane. MADRID, April 3 (Evening). A Cabinet Council has been held to-day to Con sider the question of the crisis, but the Ministers separated without arriving at any decision. They will, however, hold another council this evening. The majority of the Cortes will likewise hold a meeting, the probable result of which may be a vote of confidence in Senor Echegaray, the Minister of Public Instruction, who, it was rumoured, was about to resign his office. It is asserted that the formation of two Parlia mentary factions has been accomplished in the Cortes, the one composed of Unionists and the other of Pro- gressists. Senor Sunar Capdevilla is reported to have re ,urned to France. Advices received from the provinces relative to the drawing of the lots for military service do not report any serious disorier. At Bejar, however, sixty young men left the town after the drawing, protest ing agiiust the proceedings. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 2.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : q per Cent. 3 per Cents 73 85 ItaPan vives 55 80 End of mouth... 74 05 Austrian Fives , 66 50 (Iredit Mobilier ... 277 50 Ottoman Loan Transatlantic 195 Do. Debt 47 50 iiredit Foncier ...1297 50 Spanish Threes Paris Gas 4815 Home Debt Suez Canal 295 Deferred - Cash' Orleans Western Northern ... 1192 Strasburg .. QO • Liyons and Nlediterranean Southern.... 6264 Sardinian , 5-1-4 Austrian Lombard 4i32,- If North of Spain - 69 Saragossa Homan 5l. RAILWAYS AMERICA. • . (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, April 2. The Inman steamer City cf Cork arrived ou. • tc-day. The Columbia steamer (of the Anchor line) also arrived here to-day. April 3. The Guion steamship Idaho arrived here late last night. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1111 ; the highest quotation during the day was 1114 ; the lowest, 1111. Sterling Exchange on London . lOBl 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1885 11 1867 10-40 „ , Illinois 104 1401 Erie Cot , on—Mid. upland Petroleum—Standard White . 26-ic Flour—Extra State, St 50c. to $5 10c. Corn7-Uld mixed, $l. 7c. THE CASE OF MAJOR-GENERAL GORDON. The telegram from India relating to the suspension of Major-General the Hon. A. G. Gordon 114.3 some light thrown upon it by a paragraph in the Calcutta Englishman. The Calcutta journal says that the Secretary of State for India " has directed that a severe rebuke is to be ad ministered to Major-General the Hon. A. G. Gordon, at present in command of a division in Bombay, for having remonstrated with the Bombay . Government for not ad mitting him as a member of the Local Legislative Council during the time he was officiating as Commander-in-Chief at Bombay, before the arrival of Sir A. Spencer." PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. The House of Commons will again go into com mittee on the Irish Land Bill this afternoon. The War Office Bill will come on for third remling, and the Survey of Great Britain and County Courts Bills will be discussed in committee. The Lords will go into committee on the Naturalization Bill, and the Churchwardens' Eligibility Bill will wine before them for a third reading. Mr. Eelden will move the rejection of the War Office Bill. To-morrow the debate on Mr. John Madden's ease will be resumed. The Sunday Trading and the Bakehouse Bills will come on for second reading, and the House will go into committee on the Mortgages Bill. Mr. Taylor will move that the Sunday Trading Bill be lead that day six months. On Wednesday the following bills will appear for second reading. Sites for Places of Worship, Juries, Summary Convictions, Mortgage Debenture Amendment, and Game Laws (Scotland). The House will go into Committee on the Evidence Ameridment, and the Attorneys' and Solicitors' Remuneration Bill. On Thursday, the Railways (Powers and Construction) and Gas and Water Facilities Bills will come on for second reading; and on Friday the second reading will be moved of the Railway Construction Facilities Amendment Bill ; and on that night the House will go into committee on the Education Bill. SERIOUS FIRES. This (Monday) morning three destructive fires took place in the metropolitan district, which were attended with great loss of property. One happened about half-past 3 o'clock in the Nelson Tavern, No. 3, Coleman-street, Woolwich, the property of Mr. J. Morris. Another in the premises of Mr. F. J. Dyte (priv,ite), No. 65, Albion-road, Dalston, which was caused by the upletting of a naptha lamp ; and the third in the house of Mr. Raudell, a furniture dealer, 1, Dean's-buildings, North-street, IValworth. The Home Secretary bas commuted the sentence of death passed on Patrick Jennings, who was found guilty of the murder of his wife at the last assizes at Stafford, into ono of penal servitude for life. We r hear that colonel Henry Ponsonby, who, is about to retire from the Grenadier Guards, is likely to re ceive the appointment of Private Secretary to her Ma jesty, rendered vacant by the death of General the Hon Charles Grey. • LITERATURE. Mr. Dickens's New Serill Story. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. By Charles Dickens. No. I. Chapinan and Hall. Approp:iately enough, with Al ril weather come le new Green Leaves ! Dun% we all of us remember —it is at the first turning in " Our Village"—Mary Mitford's celebra'ion of the First Primrose? Ilave we any of us forgotten Lord Lytton's exquisite lyrical reference to the " rathe violet," or Words worth's song of exultation over the woodland sea of daffodils dancing in the breezy sunshine ?. " And still my heart with pleasure thrills, And dances with the daffodils." In many an English home, in many a home of Englisi, speaking people on either side of the Atlantic, there will be, or has alr'eady - been by this time, a precisely similar sensation: With Atril showers and sunbeams, with already a plentiful promise in them of tears and laughter, the good green leaves of Charles Dickens . are' out again, to : gladden the eyes and hearts of us all, of all those many hundreds of thousands at least who are blest with a capacity for their appreciation. A capacity to ap preciate the most exquisite humour, and a capacity to appreciate the most tender and delicate sensibi lity. Those who fail to appreciate these, those who are simply blind to the recognition, are very pro bably dis . posed to regard all those who do, all those who have the appearance at least of recognising them, as either affecting an admiration they don't feel, or labouring under some very bewildering infatuation. A, student of human nature lio less cynical than Junius, or, in other words, Sir Philip Francis, has given, ex pression, in one of his famous'Letters, to this Wise dictum—" The People are selthm wrong in their opinions, in their sentiments 'never." There is a sen timent, .if ever there was one in the history of all Literature—there is a sentiment cleariy enough recognisable now during the lifetime of a whole' generation, here and yonder, in the Old World and in the New, in - regard to Charles Dickens, a sentiment amounting to nothing less than a feeling of personal affection among his wide world of readers, old,and young, rich and pe)r, learned and uneducated.' And it is this feeling4f personal affection for our great novelist that renders so dearly welcome to his rather considerable proportion of the vast reading public, the incident, of 'the commence ment yet once more in the old familiar form, in the shape of the old green monthly numbers, of a new serial story, filled with another woad, rful throng of the life-like creatures of his imagination. Admirable as many of the commencements of Charles Dickens's works have been—as in Mr. Pick wick's, putting himself into his clothes and his clothes into, portmanteau, as in the flight of the dead leaves in„Martin Clruzzltwit, as in that first scene of all; "I am born," in David Coppertield, or as in that memorable 'churchyard interview between Pip and the Convict in Great . Expectations—we cannot recall to mind any better first number among themrall than the first number cf " the Mystery of Edwin . Drood." Its opening chapter strikes at once the melancholy minor chotd of the mystery that will run through the whole ' , narrative.. The reader's interest is awakened, at thd very :outset, by the dreamings. of an opium eater—Edwin Dreod's uncle, as it turns out immediately afterwards—one John Jasper, Lay Precentor in the choir of CloiS:e ham cathedral. He is first revealed to us when, soddened with opium, he confusedly comes back to consciousness, to find himself lying across a large unseemly bed—side by side with a Chiadman, a LaScar; and a haggard woman—in the meanest and closest of small rooms; up a miserable court.- True to the life, as one among the hidden ills of London, is the whole of this frightful picture. That it has a ghastly - significance in regard to the general diift of the lictltious narrative it preludes, is indicated to the right hand and to the left at the lower portion of he iogenious design pencilled on the outer covering— here i,t the haggard woman preparing the opium pile there in the smoking meditative Chinaman. One has sense of satisfaction iii emerging from the suffocat ng den and the squalid courtyard of the opium-eaters— more especially seeing that we follow Jasper forth with to breezy autumnal precincts of the old cathedral town of Cloisterham. Entering those pre cincts we OA at once at the marvellous word-painting of 'Mr. Dickens in the delineation by the merest touch or two, but each touch in turn a very master stroke, of the scene, the locality, the circumstances, the most fleeting atmospheric effects he is imagining. As where he says at the opening of this Chapter Two, " there has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes' among the little pools on the cracked uneven flagstones, and through the giant elm frets as they shed a Ast of tears." As peopling this old town of Uloisterham, conspicuous among the inhabitants of the plaCe are here already introduced to us, not as mere nanies, but as living and breathing fellow- creatures, a dean, a verger, a minor canon, and the lay clerk cr precentor already mentioned, besides such other members of the local laity a 3 the tomb moon, Durdles, as the young - ladies school mistress, Alisi Twinkleton, and to cap the chmax of 1 them all, that stupendous Jackass (own l.roth2r. in the . spirit to the immoral donkey Pumblechook) Mr, Thomas Sal sea (0 Thou !), the Valuer and Auctioneer of CloiAerhatn. At the heart of all this, there is the charming young couple, there are the hero and heroine of the tale—the freshes fancy of the least jaded, nay, of the sprightliest and tenderest imagination—Edwin Brood, himself still The merest stripling, and his young girlish, almost babyish, betrothed, Rosa Bud, otherwise Rosebud, otherwise Pusky, whose earliest repression of his ardour, when we see them first together, is, " No, 1 can't liss you, because I've got an acidulated drop in nay mouth." The love scene between these two, if love scene it can very well be called, made up as it is of the prettiest girlish, boyish tiffs and coquetries, all through, both indoors and out of doors, is surely as charming a scene as. Charles Dickens has ever ima gined and desCribed. The momentary interruptions or interpolations by Miss Twinkleton, of The IS un's Houses§pninary, or by her companion, Mrs. Tisher, when they each, in turn, lay an offertng on the shrine of Propriety by affecting to look for some de siderat ed article—" Pray, excuse me. Tweezers. Thank you." " I trust I disturb no one ; but there Was a paper knife—Oh, thank you, I am sure !" and so, too, with the incident of the mother-of-pearl button holder—all this, who but the veriest curmudgeon can read of without laugh ing? Each Character is brought visibly and, as alit were, in the flesh before our recognition. Mr. Dean, " as nearly cozlis his hat as a Dean in good spirits may, and directs his comely gaiters towards the ruddy dining-room of the snug old red brick house,where he is at present in residence,' with Mrs: Dean and Miss Dean." Mr. Crisparkle, the Minor Canon, we just as vividly realise, " fair and rosy, and perpetually pitching himself head-foremost into all the deep running water in the surrounding coun try." Mr. Tope, the Verger, we elually well know already, with his lasses of grammar and his trium phant emphasis at any accidental lingual success. Mrs. Tisher is hit off in a casual sentence as " a de ferential widow with a weak back, a chronic sigh, and a suppressed voice." Miss Twinkleton, too, are we not intimately acquainted with her already? with her two distinct and separate phases of being, in the unscho'astic and altogether gentler phase of which Tunbi idge Wells is airily called " The Wells," a certain finished gentleman being compassionately spoken of there as " Foolish Mr. Porters." As for Sapsea, here is his silhouette— Mr. Sapsea " dresses at" the Dean, has Leon bowed to for the Dean, in mistake ; has even been spoken to in the street as My Lord, under the impression that he was the Bishop came down unexpectedly, without his chaplain. Mr. Sepses is very proud of this, and of his voice, and of his.style. He has even (in selling.%nded property) tried the experiment of slightly intoning in big pulpit, to 'make himself more like what ho ,t4kef to be the genuine ecclesiastical article. So,.in ending a:E'ale - by Public Auction, Mr. Sapsea finishes off with an pair of liLstowi,ug a benedie inn ou the assembled brokers, which leaves, the rural Dean—a modest and worthy gentleman—far behind. As for DuOles,-Were is Lis presentment : In a suit of cpar§e flannel with horn buttons, a yellow neckerchief with draggled ends as old hat more russet coloiu•td than Week; and laccd b ‘ Rop of the hue of his stony calling, Duffles leads a hazey, gipky sort of life, carrying his dinner about with: hint in a small bundle, and sitting on all manner of tombstones to dine. This dinner of Durdles's bas become quite a eloisterham institution : not only because of his never appearing in' public without it, but because of its having been , cn certain renowned occasions, taken iuto custody along with Durdles (as drunk and incapable), and exhibited before the Bench of Justices at the Town Hall These occasions, however, haVe been few and far apart Durdles being as seldom 'drunk as sober., For the rest, he is an old batchelor, and he lives in a little antiquated hole of A house that was neter fidished ; supposed tcl be built, so far, of stones stolen froin the eitVwall. To this abode there is an epproach, ankle-deelk in stone. chips, resembling a petri fied giove of tombitonesi urns, draperies, and broken columns in all stages of sculpture. • Durdles' very complaint, the Tombatism, is all of a piece—his• non-acceptance of Sapsea's correction, " You;meati Rheumatisin." . " Na I don't, I mean, Mr. Sapsea, the Tombatism. : lt's another sort from Rheumatistn"-:--being as much in keeping as Mr. Tope's declining, with silent loftiness, to perceive any correction of his slip in grainmar. Incident after incident, in. these five bilapt ers making up the opening number of this new story by the author of "Pickwick," and: ".Copperfield," and " Nickleby," and " Chuz'zlewit," and of how many other famous fictions, one lealizes as vividly as any other of the notable scenes be has described, and, in describing; has made part and parct4 of our national literature. The conversation of the uncle and nephew, meaning Jack and Ned, over the walnuts—" Crack Crack.". The young ladies at Miss Twinkleton's in• .64 the French class be coming so demoralised (through the disturbing influ ence of Edwin Drood's ring at the bell to see Pussy), that the Mark goes round as briskly as the bottle at a convivial party in the last century." The hideous small boy who earns an honest halfpenny from Durdles by stoning the latter home after night fall, thereby attaining an object in life—said object being chiefly good for a cockshy. In all this we have our great humorist at 'his best, at his very freshest, worthy of his unfailing popularity and of his peren nial reputation. The Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the Jersey packet Nprmandy will, it is expected, take place at Greenwich the latter end of next week. In order to assist the inquiry, photographs have been taken of the damage done to the Mary, .with which the Normandy was in collision. The Mary is now in the graving-dock at Southampton.. . - - • THE DUKE OF MONiPiNSIER.—The Duke of Montpensier is still in Madrik_ and intends to remain there during the legal process arising out of his duel with Henry of Bourbon. He has full permission to remain, and the report that he had been connielled to change his residence is denied: A. MONSTER AItItOLITE.—It letter from Barbary reports the fall of a monster aerolife in the neighbourhood of Mourzouk, weighing 'nearly 5,0001h5. This is merely a rough calculation, but the mass is believed to be one of the largest meteoric bbdies -on record. The Turkish linister of Public Instruction has ordered it to be sent to the capital. THE POLISH DEPUTIES IN THE . REICHSRATH.--• The North-East Correspondence of March 30 states that the Polish deputies, who see their moderate demands rejected by the Committee of the Chamber, had resolved, in a conference held that day in Vienna, to leave the Reichsrath. This tlecisicm. .was unanimous, and it is believed the Slovenes and - .Bukovians will follow the example. ••• PRUSSIA AND SOUTH Gt EltitANY.—The North- East Correspondence coptains a despatch which refers to the state of public feeling in Stutgard. It declares that Prussian policy ligs not received •so decisive a check as had been supposed in Wurtemburg. In proof of this it mentions the fact of General Tuckan being in the War Ministry, as he is well knoNvn to be on good terms with the 'Court, of Berlin. Two parties—the.popular party and the:Germanspa,rty--aier;-however, vehemently opposed to the new-Cabinet on; account_ of its supposed friendliness to Prussia. , • , • • • EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.— A. strange tragedy occurred. on Wednesday night on the banks of the Rye, near Ilyton, a few -miles north of Malton. So far as is at preSeut known, a: poficeman met two men on the river sido, who, on his approach; threw. some things (thought to be skeleton keys) into the river. The men refused to say what they had thus disposed of, and the policeman at-. 'tempted to make both men prisoners. A conflict ensued, the policeman being badly hurt: A farmer was making to the place to assist *the policeiban, but on seeing him ap proach the two men ran away: ' An old tree overhung the river, and by means of this they, tried•to get across to the Malton side. ,The tree gave way, and both men fell into the river .and were aownea. The bodies of the two un known men have been found in the river. There is no clue to their identity. PROTESTANT CONFERENCE. —A great Protestant Conference will be held at Nev York in the ensuingi autumn, and a meeting will shdrtly be held in London for the purßose of making the arrangements for the Confer ence more widely known. An Riaglish committee has been organised, of which Lord Alfred Churchill is the chairman, and General Alexander, the vice chair man. Several members of the House of Commons have accepted invitation§ to , attend the Confer- . ence, and the list of clergymen and ministers who are also likely to cross the Atlantic includes Dr. Lindsay Alexander, Professor Blaikie, Professor Douglas, Canon Freemantle, 'Dean Wescett, the Rev. Samuel Martin, Dr. Jobson, President of the Wesleyan Conference' • the Rev. R. W. Dale,. She Rev. E. Hoare, 'Vicar •of Tunbridge Wells ; Ind Dr. Cairns.. The Deans of Canterbury and Chester will contribute p'apers ,to be read at the meeting& ENGLISH IN INDIA'.--The following specimens of Madrassee English are given in a Madras paper :—" An ex-schoolmaster, petitioning for a clerkship, promises that I and my family mill ever 'cease to pray to the humble Almighty to shower his blessings on. you for ever and ever.' Another, begging, for an increase of salary on account of the rise in prices,. says My pain and suffer ings are impeachable, and lie only in the compre hension of gentlemen of your honourable - disposition, ready to open yonr bowels of compassion to sympathy with the afflicted,. _and; by 'extending your gracious hand to shoulder them from the civil starts of this dear city.' A third makes thelbilowing excuse for absence :--` Please excuse attending office to-day, as .my grandmother despatched her life and want to go to firing place to see body fired and ashes put in the hole.' A clerk, Complain hag of `fever and grapes,' requests a day's leave, as he 11 unfortunately ill by blessing of God," RED RIVER•AFFAIRS.—The St. Paul Press states that Major Boulton, a member of Colonel Dennis's sur veying party, with a hundred Canadians, united with Dr. Scheely's band of 1,060 -Awanap Indians,..in ()icier to attack Fort Garry.' They expected to be reinforced with a general rising of the English speaking. inhabitants, but were as disappointed as Colonel Dennis on a similar occa sion. Major Boulton became disheartened and fled Ivith some portion of his followers. • They were intercepted by a body of Rfel's horsemen and .surrendered. Biel sent out a force to capture Schultz, who disappeared. He was afterwards reported to be in the neighbourhood of Pembina: The second . Canadian attempt at a counter-revolution was completely crushed by the vigour of President Riel, aided by the population, and his autho rity is more firmly fixed than before. General Riel hai determined to make an example of the. leaders and abettors of the outbreak, and a spy,'a cousin of Schultz has been executed according to the sentence of a court-martial. Major Boulton, at the date of the latest advices had also been condemned by a court-martial, and was about to be shot, and six or seven others were threatened with the same fate. • SOLDIERS' WilrES.—St. Pauli Magazine contains an article fiom " APrivate Dragoon," who says :—" 'When I first became a unit in the muster-roll of Britain's de fendere, the women of the regiment who were married with leave—technically, " on the strength "—lived; with out exception, in the barraclproom among the men. There Was commonly a, married couple in each room. To them, through long -consuetude, was consigned the corner farthest from the door. No Matter what their number in family might be, they were allowed but two single bedsteads, and two men's. room. privacy of any kind was afforded them, save what they could ,contrive for themselves ; and the married soldier was wont to rig up around his matri monial bower an environment of canvas , screening, some thing over six feet high; .arid enclosing a very little domain of floor space in addition to that occupied by the twobeds, placed together. In most regiments the ' woman of the room ' , cooked for the loom at the 'fireplace therein, i n re turn for which office it Was customary for a ' mess ' to be cut for her out of the men's •rations : for. in the days of which I am speaking married couples were entitled to no rations—this arrangement is one of the beneficent out. comes of the commissariat system. The married man was put out of mess, anil - he had wherewithal nothing save hit bare pay, in addition to anything that his wife might earn. The very idea of a 'parried couple living and sleep ing in. a common room with a dozen or more of single ment partitioned off but by a flimsy curtain, is outrageously iv; Pulsive to our sense of decency." • FULLEUTON TRIAL.—The trial of ex. Judge Fullerton for alleged' revenue frauds has just been com pleted in New York. It terminated in the acquittal of the accused. The Judge did not send the case to the jury, deciding that the evidence would' not warraii'& such sb course. The jury, however, willingly returned a verdict of not guilty. judge Fullerton received many hearty congratulations, and on the retirement of tfie justices cheers resounded through the..couret. - • - T . acc Ne , Sto Op( eol tli dit OA tai be I