The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-09 00:00:00

`THE Ali OFT PROCLAIMS TILE BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES BEST WORKMANSHIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. For the convenience of Ladies necom pit.:ying their Sons there is a separate de partment for Boys' Clothing, and it is fur nished with a splendid :tsortment of Suits, Overcoats, and Clothing for all occasions, including all the favourite designs at.d the moot fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care And punctuality, and the ettyy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. Rt'►SES and SON enables them to guru - mate° a faultless fit. Any nrticlo not worn or injured will be exchanged, or, if desired, the money will Do returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can bo made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, lints mil flaps and Boots a n d Sh oes, i s un 3,inalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. A vPry largo assortment of BLANKETS, from T. 4d. tho pair. Complete Outfits for all Climate; with every requisite for the voyage. List of Prices, with Pules for Se lf-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet., gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON, Boalrrnado and Be spoke Tailors, Ilabitmakers, Woollendrapers. Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Sliue 31anufae turors, and Genaral Outf:Her for all Classes. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishmentq pro closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at. sunset, when business 13 resumed until eleven o'clock. ThA following aro the only addresses of E. MOSES aul SON:— LONDON cIINER OF 314N0R1F4 AND ALDGATE. NEW OU.'ORD-S MEET, CORNER OF !lART-STRFET. CORNER OF TOLCENIIAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON- ROAD. Country Branch B *:,‘DFORD, YORKSHIRE. )()YAT, NATIONAT, IAFEBOAT ANNTT 1L GENERAL MEETiNq of this Institution wilt be he'd at the Lc).% D )N TAVERN. itistior47,3te-ste)et, on TUES!)AV nes% the 'sth irpt fit Tw•' trace the Duke of NORTi lUMBIO - PreAident of the Instituti.,n, in the Chu'r. DICEI %RD LEWIS, Secretary. 14, John-street, A lAphi, lair: `t 3. I\TO I'iCE IS lIEREI3Y GIVEN, That an Extraerainnry General Meeting, of the Sle.reholders of th e FREEHOLD and GENERAL INVESTMENT COMPANY (LIMITED) will b. , held at the Office of tine Compiny, Grosvenor Mansions. Victoria-street. in the City of Westminster, on WEDNESDAY, th,, 16:11 day of Mare',, P7O, at 12 o'clnck tit noon, to consider ti,,, affairs of tho Company, and if thotic,tht desiralilo to pass the ncee:sary resolutions for winding up the Company voluntariiy or otherwise as the Meeting may determine. Dated this 3d March, 1870. R. N. COLLIER, Se'retary. BANK OF ENGLAND. Fth March, 1870. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the GO. VERNOR and COMPANY of the BANK of ENGLAND civo notice— Thttt st GENERAL COURT will he bell at the BANK on THURSDAY, the 17th inNt., at Twelve o'clock pre cisely, to consider of a Dividend. Also, tiro another GENERAL COURT will be held at the BANK, on TUESDAY, the 50 April next, from 11 o'clock in the Forenoon until 4 in the Afternoon for thee Election of a GOVERNOR and DEPUTY GOVERNOR for the Year ensuing (which will be deeated that evening); and the same COURT will be continued by Adjournment, and held at the same place and during the same hours, on WEDNESDAY, the 6th April next, for the election of Twenty-four DIRECTORS (which will also he one of the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the Charter), and the Election of the Twenty-four DIRECTORS will bo declared as soon as the Scrutiny li , Over. Printed Lists of the Proprietors having Votes wi:l be ready to be delivered at the Bank on Wednesd,y, the 231 March. HAMMOND CHUBB, Secretary. N.B.—Tly an Act passed in the Seventh year of the reign of George 111., no person will be entitled to vote at the said Election who shall not have been Six Calendar Monthspossessed in his own right of the Stock but which he shall then give_bis Vote, unless the said Stock shali Lave been acquired, or shall have come by bequest or by marriage, or by° succc.4sien to en intestate's estate, or by the enstorn of no City of LOndnn, or by any deed of settle ment after the death of any person who shall have been entitled far life to tho Dividem's of such Stock. • paoymENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFI AS. ocTATI- -N (Estab:isheil 18.0) TRUSTZ - E.S. Thqmas Baring, Esq., If P. P. W. Crawford, Esq., M P. I. Thomas Trankey, Esq I 'Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. . -- - The report and balance-sheets of this Association for the yoar ISti9, exhibiting in full details the amounts assured. ages of the members, with particulars of the invested fund, may be had on application to the chief office, or to the agents. The annual income from premiums is From intere.lt on Investments... 19,006 '.I lie invesici fund, after payment of all claims, exceeds 415,000 The whole of thu profits divided among the members Cash bonuses have already been allotted to the assured, amounting to £100,009. W. THO 3. LINFOBD, Secretary. No. /5, Voergate-street, March 1, 1170. T"E BENEVOLENT SOCIETY o f Sr . PATRICK. Instituted in the year 1784. Under the Patronage of her MAJESTY and his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES. • The EIGIITY-SEVENTII ANN I VEISAR,Y FES TIVAL of this Society will he celebrated at Willis's Mintz-street, S. :hones's, on ST. PA TRICK'S DAY, the 17th March, 1870, His Grace the Duke of A BERCORN, K G., in the Chair VICE-PRE:4 DENTS. The Marquis of Lansdowno. The Marquis of Ileadfort, K.P. - The Eart of Cork and Orrery, K.P. The Earl of Egm o nt. The Earl of C!otonell. Th Earl Vane. Tits,. Vise not Poe'ive. Tlib Viscount Barberton. Viseount ieht: •The h r i ('laid Haniiltoc, M.P. Th A. Ed in Hill Trevor, M.P. The lord Dmisany. The Lard Dufferin and Claneboye, K.P.. K.C.B. Tile Right lieu. Ch;chester Fcrtescue, STEWARDS. ThesPizlit Hon. William Cowper-Temple. M.P. '1'11 . 43 Hight Hon. Francis Phi:lkea Dunne. the lion. Dirlley Fitzgerald do Los. 'Fite Iron. Robert Harris Temple. Lat.-General Sir George St. Patrick Lawrence, c. Sir ..George Frederick Harvey, K.C.S.I. Captain Sir F. Leopold M'Cliutock, R.N. Sir Edward Coey. John-F. Corseaden„ Esq. Janc Conrtonay, Esq. Alexond-r Firdlater, Montague Guest, Esq., M.P. Thomas Grir, E'll, lon Tract Hamilton, Esq., 3f.P. Lient.-Colonel G. W. Ilemans. M . Calttiotit, Esc. Moitith John O'Connell, Esq. Joseph Radcliff, E sq. Captain Bug!) de Grey Seymour, M.P. The Musical Arrangements will 1.-4 under the direction of Mr. Lend, of the London Glee and Mad. ig-al Union. Diener on table at Seven o'clock punctually. As this Fesiival affirds to Irishmen in London the opportunity of uniting in the Celebration of the national anniversary, the ceintuittee earnestly hope for a numerous and inauential meeting. Tickets Is. each. to 133 had at Willis's Rooms, and at the Selio.;!s. in Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road. Thtr. Children Dine, as uusal, on St. Patrick's Day, at the gcho .14, at One o'clock. . , THOMAS KIPPAX KING, Jun, Secretary. IGN and COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TRUST (SECOND ISSUE), itt.es of £foo each, bearing h per cant. jutcrost. • " - To'ba issued at - . 00. - TRUSTEES. The lion. Lord Westbury. Lord Eastace Cecil, M.P. Geo. Wo lehouse Lam', Esq. G. M. NV. Sandford, Esq. Rose. E--q. ABR DGED PROSPECTUS. Tess of t!i Foreign and Col or bil G rwernmei ,t ch wps twined in May, 18GS, has called for an f this mode of investnl•mt. iiance, therefore, with a general d 'sire, it has t o orn a subscription for a ',cc oid issue £troo,ooo, in Certificates of £R(', to bear 5 t.o . re.t, to he is,med at 180. ,ct, Which is HOW Arell nndr rsfood , is to give to ir Of moderato means the ~ame advantages as •ip!tl'ist, in diminishing tlio risk of inventirer in pi Uolanial Govornment Stnoks, by sprowlityr meat nvi , r a nuodi cliff •rr.i.t Stooks, nn-1 pm lion of tito extra intore t and th, nuin‘itit , rodonintinn ns a Sinking Fun 1 to phy off Vie pitql ; and, in addition, to nave to each Sub ° rats participation in the ultimate rocorsion in nt Stooks, which Trill remain when the return eap:tal has by the ,o nva us been arc Tn. the Second Tssno wi I last for tw(mty-f%e eNPirttion of wh'olt time it is estimated 'hat . . ,. .prt;im of the Certilicatei will, in :ill probahi ‘'.l off, anti that a larize proportion of t , ll rtuiiin for distriEtt , ion as a reversion 6 • l Trust will I, e ournl lip as soon es all `lle e- w , drawn, or at f. 1.0 clic! of twontv-five isevvr shall first happen, the Stooks and any Certificates not previously irawn Every description of Clothing ready-made or made to measure, f3r all ages, all occa sio”.. and all classes, at E. MOSES and SON'S. An immense assortment of WINTER CLOTHING, in all the newest designs and materials, at E. MOSES and SON'S. . OVERCOATS from 19s. to Zo. BOY'S OVERCOATS from 10s. Gd. to 455. town. rim LATEST EDITION of "ME SUN " supplie,l, as soon as pnl,lisbed, Every Evening, by W ALF.XA , DER elate Brooks), Newspaper Agent, .\o. 4, Old )Ivon,v4b.street,Oxford-street 1 1 IIE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN" I supplied ns sox) ns published, containing all the LATEST N'EWS earl SPOJITIN(I INTELLIGENCE, by H W HARMS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Blftekfriars-road.London, S. IE LATE EDITION of " TIIE SUN" at Camden Stores," 73, Park-street, Camden, f OHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the brinit',. Price is. (id.--Rod Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Tbames-stroot. London. 7770RE1 Lae, ~,„ P . 1` t• ICC rrill pi ,q 1•111 • f. 1111 . 04t11 71,.• otr ,trl• pit (2 .7' r Po. f olio 7mel '. A being first paid off, after which the balance will form the reversion to be distributed pro rata. . . . . For each £BO of the total amount subscribed will be issued a Certificate of £lOO with Coupons attached, bearing 5 per cent. interest, payable ut the Banking-house or Messrs. Glyc, Mills, Currie, and Co. half yearly, on the 15th of January and the 15th of July, the first Coupon for the proportion of the half year falling due on the 15th July next. . . _ 111 addition to the Interest Coupons, a Coupon, repre senting the share accruing to the Certificate-holder in the above reversion, will be attached to each Certificate. This Coupon of Reversion will be retained by the holder when the Certificate is drawn, and' entitle him to a pro rata divi sion of the ultimate reversion. The advantages of the investment may be summed up as follows: 1. Interest at Vs. bs. per cent. on the amount sub scribed. 2. A bonus of £2O per cent. by the repayment of capi tal at par. 3. A reversion, eventually divisible among the holders of the Coupons of Reversion. Application to be made in the annexed Form, accom• panied by a deposit of £lO per cent. Payments to be made as follows: On applimtiou Ou allotment . ... £lO 0 0 ... 70 0 0 £BO 0 0 Prosprchis and Forms of Application may be ob. mined a W. IL Ross, &q., Secretary, and of A' ter, Pos , ,'"Norton, awl Co., Solicitors, at the same address ; and of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Carrie, and CO., Battlers, Lombard-street, where all subscriptions must be paid. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TRUST (SECOND ISSUE). To the TrUstees of the Fund (care of Messrs. Baxter, Pos., Norton, and Co., 6, Victoria-street, Westminster, London). Raving paid to Messrs. Glyn and Co., to the account of the Foreign and Colonial Government Trust (Second Issue), the sum of £ , as a Deposit on Cer tifirate•s of XlOO each in the said Trust, I r' quest you to allot to me that number of Certificates, and I engage to pay the further Instalment of .CO per Certificate upon that or any lesser number that you may allot to me at the time named in the letter of allotment, in defanA of which my previous payment will be liable to forfeiture. Name Address Description Signature rriflEA ritE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. D. ChattPrton. THIS EVENING, at 7, PHOBITS FIX: the Yokes Family. After which, at, 7.4 , PEEP Cr DAY: Messrs.'. 11. Howard, Lewis Nanton, Barrett, J. Neville, F. Charles, C. 'Moore Intyre..l.V. F. Yokes, and F. Yokes; Mesdames Edith Stuart, Barrett, Michells, Amy Roselle, Hastings, Harper, and Rosins okes iIIEATRE ROYAL, HA Y3IARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Bud:tonne. THIS ING, at 7, POPPING THE QUESTION.' Alter which. at 20 minutes to 8, t , UR AMERICAN COUSIN ; _3listracters by Mr &Ahern, Mr Ituel:stene, Mr Chippendale, Mr Braid, Mr ofzors; Mrs Chippendale, Mica K Wright, M los F. (Iwynr.P, Hiss I . Hill, (te. _ Concluding with DEW AS A POST: Mr Compton and Mrs Box-offieo open daily from Ten till Five. r ITEATRE ROYAL, A1)ELP1II. Sole Proprietor awl Manager, Mr. P. WF.BSTEIt TIIIS EN - ENINO. at Seven o'clock. BLOW FOR BLOW : ITertry J. Byron ; Messrs J. D. Beveridge, Arthur Stirling, Stuart, (•. 11. Stephenson; Miss Furtado, Miss Lavis, 3liss Eliza Johnstone, and Miss M. Harris. To be followei Iy, at Nine. NOT SUCH A FOOL AS FIE LOOKS: Mr. 11. .J. 1:yron: Mersrs J. I►. Beverid ge , 0. H. Stephenson, J. Q. Taylor, Miss Lavis, Mrs Leigh Murray, au-1 Miss M. Hai ris. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. 111 . 0YAI. PRTNCESS'S TIIEATRE Lessee and Manager—Mr.Tienjamin Wel.ster. TITES EVEr.:NO. at 7, YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER. f ;er which, PAUL I. ' FAROE: Messrs. J. Rouse, W. Rig ,lol4l. Gee. Belmere, 1 ollaire ; Nlesclames R. Lecicrcq and Le thie e. With A DARK NIGTIT'S WORK; i'essrs W. Rignold, (1, Behnc re, U. Crcl in; Misses It. Leclercq, Barnett, Sc. LYCEUM THEATRE (under the man ag e men t of Messrs Mansell (elegantly reilecorwed 1.3 , MacTntosh). .T MS EVENING, at 7.30, TWENTY MINU IES WITH A TI TER: Messrs G. F. Neville, Odell, and \Vilmott; Mesdames Rignold and Morgan. Aft rsv iich, CiiILP RIO, by Herv6: Messrs M. Marius, G. Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, A ynsley Cook, and U. Verve: Mes dames Polar°, Fitzlnman, Romanelli, Nel.ie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir I) OPAL STRAND THEATRE. u Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7. TIIE lIEIR AT LAW: Mesrs. S. Clarke, D. Jame', Crcnch; Mesdames Bufton and Claire. Followed by THE TOOD LES: Mr Clarke. After which. INO; Messrs Thorne. James, Fenton, Turner; Mesdames Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, etc. T FIE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " J• SMITH'S, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. H. G,,ENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgewaro•road, lelivorg the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " as soon as published. frhE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" to be seen Every Evening by 810 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCK'S. dAtannia, Mensal New-town, SPORTTNG.—.IOHN 'ROBERTS supplies the LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " as soon as pub -4, Bath-street, City-road. F O. T HE LATE EDITION' of "TILE SUN" a JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-streel S rand. rfIHE LAIF:ST EDITfON of " THE SUN" supplied as soon as publi4hed, every Evening, by S. Wtr.sos, newsagent, and special agent for the North-western District, 24, Delancey-street, Camden town, N W THE SUN.—LATEST EDITION to he seen in the Coffee Room, at the "Southampton Anne." I-I igh 3treet, Camden-town, where all Sporting and Political events are freely discussed. TilE SUN.—LATEST EDITION to he seen IL every Evening, at Eight o'clock, at Mr GILL3IAN'S, " The iVheatahcat," nigh-street, n-town. T HE LA PEST EDITION of "'TIE SUN " J. FEMMES berts to Inform his Irleols and the pnhlic Zenorally that he aunplles the TATEST EDITION or "THE soon as published.—No. 10, Ha xnpatea.l-road N.W. I NIE LATEST or SPECIAL EDITION of iI "TOE SUN" every Evening, at Eight o Clook, at Mr ROBE ars', " The Black Cap," Hi g h- street, Camden-town. THE LATEST EDITION of "'TIE SUN " may bn seen at Eight o'clock every Evening, at Mr. R. SEWronTs', the Oxford Arms, High-street, Camden-town NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. GUA ANIATIF:I,Li restores the Human Hair to it, pristine hun, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wenr. i rful liquid. It is now offered to the public IL a morn concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Plod Bull Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames- street London. E.C. THEATRE-ROI-AL DRURY-LANE. .4ole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. 13. Chat terton. TIITS EVENING. nt 7. BROWS' FIX: the Vokes Family. At 7.45, P r.EP (/' 1)A : Vessrs. J. R. Howard, Nanton, Bar lett, J. eville. F. Charles, C. Moore, M'lntyre, W. F. Vokes, and Frel. Vokes; MesdAines E. Stuart, Barrett, 1 ichells, Amy Roselle; Hastings, Harper, areißomina Yokes THEATRE-ROYAL, HA YMARK ET. Trr Evr.myn, at 7 c'ellek, POPPING THE QTJESTIO '7. After which, at 20 to R. OUR AMERICAN COUSIN; Messrs Sonern, Buckstone, Chipp-ndala fie.; Mrs Chippendale, Miss F. Wright, &c. Concluding with DEAF AS A POST' ROYAL PRINCESS'S TREATRF:. EvENTrxri, at 7. YOUR LIVE'S IN D. 4 ..NGER. After iv'tit.h. PAUL L k FAROE: Messrs W. niguoll G. Delmore, \Whir !: ~ I •rms it. L..elemi and I.ethipre. Follow:41 by A DARK NIGH . 8 WORK: Messrs ltignold, Bellmore, Cronin ; Miss ;lose Leclerc(' and Miss Barnett. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELNIr. T u v EVICNIVI. at Seven o'clock. BLOW FOB BLOW Mr • tetry J. /13 - 7.)a, .T. D. Beveridge, Arthur Stirling, Stuart, O. IT. , terthrtn,iii, Mists Furtalo. Mss Lav:s, 31114 Eliza John ' At 9, NOP SUCH A FOOL AS 11E LOOK': Mr lia_ll:7 J. 133. LYCEUM MEATRE. Tan EvF:vfxn. TWENTY MINUTFA WITH A TIGER, Aryl CHILPEICIC: M. 3lar.ns, G Vincent, Odell, A. Cook, Lap'erre, anit M. llcrv.; Masdarnes Dolaro, Fitz- Inman, Itomanel, Nellie Nethit, an 1 Mi 33 Emily Muir. PHIAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessoo autl Managoress, Mrs. S watthorongh. Tots I . , vssiso, at 7, THE HEIR LW: Mr Clarke, Mt Jatrie,R, Misa!ton, &e. With THE TOODLES. Concluding with 1..0. ROYAL AL ! I AMI3RA PAL&CE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-office open from II to 4. THE SUN, LONDON, W NESDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1870. ;Ult. , A LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1870. essrs. not venture to ask Parliament to reject this measure or to -becomo responsible tor the agitation to which rejection would give rise. Mr. Gregory, too—the English, not the Irish member of that name—while he talked platitudinarian nonsense about the impossi bility of making good landlords by Act of Parliament, admitted that Parliament could do something towards putting down bad landlords. And so it came to pass that one member after another spoke chiefly to criticise, and very little to corn• mend, yet all announced that they would support the bill, and even their cri ticisnis met with no responsive cheers from the front Opposition bench, well filled though it was. Hon. critics hope to amend the bill in committee. Then why, it will be asked, did they not allow it to go into committee ? Why discuss the Bill clause by clause when all the work will have to be done over again between this week and Easter ? We suppose simply for form's sake. Parliament, be it remembered, is really, as well as etymologically, a talking assembly, and Irish are never slow of speech even on general subjects, niuch more on Irish. Perhaps, too, there is some occult motive for all this palaver. Mr. Gladstone has declared that he will not introduce a University Tests Bill during the present session unless he can see his way to the second reading of it before Easter. But if the Irish debate is prolonged there will be no time for dealing with the universities; wherefore Conser vative M.P.'s may be disposed to talk in order to prevent the Radical Parliament from dealing, at leag for this year, the threatened blow against one of the cherished institutions of the country. On the other hand, there is a powerful motive towards bringing the present debate to a speedy tcrraination. Mr. Gladstone has told the House that he will state the intentions of the Government with respect to the preservation of life and property in Ireland after the Land Bill has been road a second time. He will not announce measures of coercion until the House has pronounced definitely upon the great measure of con• ciliation now on hand. Conservative M.P.'s there. fore had to decide which they value more—College Fellowships in England, or landlords' lives in Ireland It is a painful alternative, but there is no escaping it. THE public is to be congratulated upon the deci sion which was arrived at yesterday in the Divorce Court. Lord Penzance has ordered that all proceed ings in the Mordaunt case shall be stayed for the present, and that the question as to whether in sanity is any bar to an action for divorce shall be argued before the full court next term. We could have wished that this course had been adopted at the outset. We do not say that it was possible, or that it ought to have been taken. If Sir Charles Mordaunt really believed that his wife was not insane at the time that he issued his citation, he could hardly have been ex pected to assume it, and thereby give her the very great advantage of avoiding a criminal prosecution, with the chance of getting off upon a purely legal question. Tho prospect of being tied for life to a mad woman is not cheering under any circum stances, and it is questionable if; as mar riage is a contract involving certain conditions, madness, which renders the fulfilment of those con tracts impossible, should not be held to void the contract. However that may be Sir Charles Mordaunt's case was far harder than that of most men who suffer under the misfortune of having insane wives. His wife had accused herself of repeated adultery. The evidence in support of a portion of the charges was very strong, so strong that Lord Penzance almost avowed his convic tion that the adultery had been proved. Lady Mordaunt's friends did not dispute the charge, but simply denied her mental competency to make a defence. Under these circumstances, wo cannot be surprised if Sir Charles Mordaunt attempted to rid himself at once of a yoke so burdensome and so apparently dishonourable. At the same time, we cannot but rejoice that we are not to have all the details of this case again inilictel upon us—at least until the legal pint has been tried, which will now be argued before a full court. It is too soon to pass an opinion upon so knotty a point; bat if the law is at all in accor dance with common sense, a breach ofcontract on the part of ono of the contractors ought to free the othei from its obligations, oven though subsequently to V...) breach the defaulting party should become insane. BO everything depends upon the question as to whether the Divorce Court is a civil or a criminal court, and that question has not yet been satisfactorily answered. Lord John llay, M.P., has been suddenly called away from the discharge of his parliamentary and official duties by a family affliction. Bnlsror, ELECTION.—J• Wall Literature " seems to be waxing lively at Bristol in anticipation of the coming event. One squib pnutrays the " defect—too many on one, or Southwark outdone." The " old hose " Liberalism is mounted by three candidates—Robinson, Hodgson, and Odger—all in jockey costume, the last named evidently not having been favoured with the pick of the places. Underneath the picture are the words If all three ride, the race is lost Which one alone could win ; out ! old hags, unseat the worst, Ana bring the right man It is stated in Leamington that the charge of ail el against Mr. Hardy will not be proceeded with at the en suing Stafford assizes. The charge was prk Lrred against Mr. Hardy before the Burton-on-Trent ma- r' istr.Jes, on the 18th of January l as t, by J o h t . L ee dl con linight, one of his tenant., and resulted in Mr. Hardy being com mitted for trial at the Stafford assizes. The alleged libel was contained in a let kr which Mr. Hardy addressed to Mr. respecting evidence he had given as a valuer at the Burton county court, in an action in which Mr. (lardy was d.,fendant. When the case was Lenore the mad6trates thee bench suggested that au arrange moot should be come to be tween the parties; and it is stated that au amicable ,ettic.- Lacut had 49_W been eft.;cted. • WOODIN'S CARPET - BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall. Piccadilly, every Evening (except Satin day) at 5; Saturday Mot flings at 3. Admission, is, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pals, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Adulission, Is.; on Mondays 6d. Children under twelve, 641. A STRONG Government is a capital thing for legis lation; but it is very bad for a debate. The fact that " the individual" (to use Mr. Dea.se's grotesque expression) who is at the head of the Government has a majority behind him of almost unparalleled. strength, took away all life and spirit from the debate which began on Monday night. Mr. Bryan and Captain 'White were bold enough to move and second the amendment rej ecting the bill, but it did not appear that they had a single follower. In fact, while they avowed their antici pation of being "in a miserable minority," there was no reason to suppose that they would be even so fortunate as this, no reason to think that the minority had any existence. The greater part of the evening was given over to Irish members—some Ulster Tories, others Munster Radicals—and though both sides criticised the bill severely, both de clared that they would not incur the re sponsibility of rejecting it. The most novel speech was delivered by Mr. Whalley, who started the idea that to legislate about Irish tenants ; and landlords was beneath the dignity of the British Parliament. Yet even he promised to support the Premier on the conditions that the measure would bs successful, and that the "Romish hierarchy" had nothing to do with it. The strongest objection came from an English member, the son and heir of an Irish landowner, Mr. Brodrick, who pointed out with great force what is undoubtedly the weakest point of the bill, the difficulty which the Govern ment will experience in obtaining payment of the interest advanced to enable tenants to purchase their holdings. The tale that he told of what had bap rued in the one case in which the Government had been the landlord of Irish tenants was certainly not encouraging, and was received with a duo amount of cheering from those whose duty it is to rejoice whenever Ministers are beset by any unexpected obstacle. Yet Lord Midleton's son did HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 8. Her Majesty walked and drove in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Princess Beatrice. BUCKINGIIA3I PALACE, March 8. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nesses Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, left Windsor Castle this afternoon at a quarter before four o'clock, and proceeded to Buckingham Palace. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday. LATEST INTELL IGENCE (REV'EIt'S TELEG(IAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, March 8 (Evening.) In to-day's sitting cf the Cortes Senor Escoriaza, the Deputy for the island of Porto Rico, thanked the Colonial Minister for baying brought forward a separate Colonial budget, which had in vain been asked for during the last thirty years. ITALY. FLORENCE, March 8. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies have elected Signor I'eroti as President, and, as Secretary, Signor Mont:lngo. F RANCE. BOURSE, March 8. —TI closed as follows : 44 per Cent. 6 per Gent End of month 74 571 Credit Ilobilier 245 Transatlantic 217 50 Credit Folcier 1330 Paris Ga 4 1770 Suez Canal 346 25 RAILWAYS Lree o'clock—The markei Bank Shares 2890 ...- haPan Gives 55 80 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan 332 50 Do. Debt 4t 25 Spanish Threes Homo Debt — Deferred --Cash Orleans Western Northern Strasburg iiyons and Modite;ranean Southern..... 625 Sardinian ALstrian Lombard orth of Spaiu Saragossa Roman 53 7971. 506+ 74 THE SPANISH TIIRONE. A rumour is current in Madrid which is causing great uneasiness in several quarters. A military manifes tation in favour of the Duke of Montpensier is said to be in contemplation. The Epoca has an article on the subject, in which it discusses the question, and speaks of the recent movement of the troops, and thermilitary precautions adopted by the Minister of War. It was said that the movement of troops was due to the fears entertained by the Government of a Carlist g, but all the world i s conv i nce d t h at the reports as to the Carlists were absurdly exaggerated. The fresh preparations made in Madrid since the Duke's mysterious visit have strengthened these rumours. If it is true, as the Duke asserts, that he wishes to be nothing more than a simple Spanish citizen, how is it that he does not understand that his presence at the scat of Government, the focus of politics, is highly imprudent, is a piece of temerity which must irritate his adversaries ? His arrival at Madrid has the appearance of a challenge to those parties who oppose his candida ture. The Unionists, it is said, are at work in the army, and propose to attempt enthroning their candidate by a coup de main. According to one version of the story General Prim has obtained from the Duke of Montpensier the promise that in the event of his accession to the Throne, Prim shall remain at the head of the Ministry. , According to another account General Primp remains adverse to the Duke, but he knows the object of the UniOnist intrigues in the army, and hence the fears, the movements of troops, and all the disturbance. The Epoca is unwilling to give credence to th e s t or y. A manifestation of f orce in favour of Montpensier would : it believes, be the signal for a general conflagration, which would inaugurate a civil war more terrible than any which Spain has seen this century. The Spanish cha racter, however demoralised, has not fallen so low as to submit tranquilly to the imposition of the shameful joke of the monarchy of a Frenchman, an ingrate to his own family, who has not given the smallest sign of valour or of talent. Carlists, Republicans, Isa bellists, Alfonsists, and the greater p ar t o f th e Progressists would 'forget their discords in the moment when it was proposed to force upon them a French King. They would remember only that they were Spaniards, and would without previous concert rise in city and in field as their fathers did. The Epoca cannot believe the Unionists will support so rash an enterprise, that Prim will not perceive that his true interest lies in opposing the candidature of Montpensier, or that the army will stoop to become the instrument of such an indignity. At the same time it is unable to deny that these rumours may have some foundation. When all the world thinks the same thing there is ground for fear, and the conspiracy of the Unionists is a matter of general belief. DEPUTATIONS TO MINISTERS. On Thursday afternoon the Right H on . th e S ecretary of State for the Home Department will receive a deputa tion at lag official residence, which has requested the interview for th© purpose of presenting him with a memo rial, praying for the amendment of the Medical Acts. The document has been signed by 9,724 legally qualified medi cal practitioners throughout the United Kingdom. Mr. Gladstone has consented to receive a deputation on Friday afternoon, at his official residence respecting the Elementary Education Bill, from the Central Ex ecu ti ve mm Coittee, and th e Premier will be accompanied by the Lord President of the Council and the Vice-President. CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE. TUESDAY. A council meeting of the Central Chamber of Agri c•ilture w a.q held at the Salisbury Hotel, Salisbury-square, Fleet-street, this morning. Colonel Tomline, M.P., chair man of the council, took the chair, and there were present, amongst other members, Sir Massey Lopes, Bart., M.P., Mr. Corrance, M.P., Mr. Pell, M.P., Mr. Neville Grenville, M.P., Mr. Reed, M.P., and Colonel Corbett, M. P. ; Sir MASSEY LOPES read the report of the Local Taxa tion Committee, which stated that 8,500 copies had been circulated of the prize essay on the injustice, inequalities, and anomalies of the present poor-rate assessment, and the incidence of other local burdens in England and Wales. The essay was written by Mr. Christian B.A. (Cantab), Stoke Damarel, Devon. The great object of the committee is to obtain a reform in the present system of levying local taxation exclusively upon income derived from real property, whilst that derived from personal pro perty entirely escapes. It is erroneously stated that this exemption is balanced by charges on personal property, for imperial objects. Mr. Gladstone has adopted this line of argument in the debate on the 21st February, o n M r . Geschen's motion for a select committee to inquire into the subject of rating. He is reported to have said, "Real property enjoys exemption which it would not be possible to maintain a single moment after you removed the exemption of personal property from local taxation ;" and again, " Real property in various forms has borne the main part of local taxation, and personalty the main part of Imperial taxation." The accuracy of these statements the committee deny, and they challenge the fullest and most impartial investigation into the real facts of the case. It appears from Mr. Gladstone's speech that the Government have no intention toremove this injustice. All that is proposed to do is to rate some real property now exempt, such as Government pro party, metallic mines and woods, and to divide the payment of the rate between owners and occupiers. The committee cannot accept these proposals as an equitable and permanent settlement of the question, for the real question at issue is not touched. Sir Massey Llpes concluded by moving the adoption of the report, which was seconded by Mr. Willson, and carried una.ni niausly. AMERICA. WASHINGTON, March Bth. Resolutions were introduced in the Senate to day, and referred to the Financial Committee, pro viding that half the amount of the import duties should henceforth be receivable in currency, and in structing the Secretary of the Treasury to sell all surplus gold. It is reported that Sir John Young the Governor- General of Canada, intends to leave Ottowa fur the Red River Territory immediately on the adjourn ment of Parliament. SOUTHAMPTON, March 9. The North German Lloyd steamer Main, from New York, has arrived here with 110 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 95 sacks of mails, and $65,500 for London, $34,300 for Paris, and $1,200 for Bremen. On the Ist inst. the Mein passed wry large icebergs. Her mails will be de livered this afternoon. QUEENSTOWN, March 9. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Cork, from Halifax, arrived here at 11.45 a.m. to-day, and, having landed mails and passengers, she pro ceeded immediately for Livcrpool. All well. Specie on freight nil. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, March 8. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at. 112 ; the highest quotation dui - inglthe day was 113 E; the lowest, 112 k. Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 9 " 1885 llok. " 1867 llOl. 10-40 it 109 i. Illinois 136. Erie Cotton —Mid. upland 29lc "'4 • Petroleum—Standard White 2Bc. Flour, extra state, 11.90 c. to $5.50e. Corn, old sl.2c. According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s report the receipts of cotton for the last four days, at all ports, have 1 - een 34,000 bales; shipments to England, 31,000 b:des ; to France, 4,000 bales ; and to the Continent, 6,000 bales. Middling Upland, 10, freight and cost per steamer. THE CAPE, PLYMOUTH, March 9. Tl►e Union Company's steamer Saxon, from the Cape, has arrived here with 53 passengers and 33 sacks of mails. Her dates are : —Cape, 4th Feb. ; St. Helena, 12th ; Ascension, 16th ; and Brest, Bth inst. She could not communicate with ►lladeira owing to a heavy gale blowing. The S3XOII'S mails were forwarded by the 10.25 a.m. train. News from Natal to the 22d January state that the gold fields were not paying. The Northern gold fields were closed against Europeans till an arrange ment was made with the new Chief of the Mababile. The meeting of the Natal Legislature has beer prorogued to April 5. The Cape Parlia ment seEsions were opened on January 24, and a bill was brought in fur abolishing capital punish ment. The Provincial Synod had accepted Bishop Twells' resignation. The Basutos had cleared out of the Free State, and conquered territory and farms there were selling well. The Table thy docks were to be opened on March 15th. The barque Lady Cecilia, from Coconado, for London, put into Table Bay much damaged by the cyclone, reported by the last mail. The Roman arrived out on January the 29th. INDIA. BOMBAY, March 6. The Viceroy opened the Kanghoun Railway on the Ch inst., and travert.ed the line 'successfully. An entertainment was given afterwards to Sir Salar Jung, at which 150 guests were present. TIIE INDIAN 'TELEGRAPH EXPEDITION. Ihe following telegram has been recci► ed by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Com pany (Limited) this morning, March 9th " BOMBAY, March 7. " HALPIN TO OSBORN. " Aden, March 7.—The fullewing message re ceived : " His Excellency the Viceroy to Captain Halpin. " Am heartily glad to hear of the successful lay ing of the Cable to Men, and congratulate the company of their success." We regret to announce the dcath, after a long illness, of Mrs. Lew:s, wife of Richard Lewis, Esq., the harr'ster, anfl the well lci,m%n secretary of the National Lifeboat Institution. Mr. Lewis lost his o!,ly cLild, grown Op (laughter, about three years ago. THE MALT TAX, It was proposed by Mr. THOMAS DUCKHASI that a depu tation be appointed to wait on the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to the Excise duty on malt. The motion was agreed to, and several gentlemen were nominated to address the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject. The secretary (Mr. Algernon Clarke) read a long instruction respecting the points which should be brought before the right hon. gentleman. It stated that the deputation represented seventy-two Chambers of Agriculture in forty counties of England and ' Wales,_ with a total constituency of 17,000 members. The malt tax is prejudicial to the agricultural interest because it interferes with the most remunerative rotation of crops, and limits the growth of barley. It also acted as a fine upon high farming. By the excise restrictions farmers are deprived of a source of profit on their . business from the use of malt and gram as food for animals. The English farmer is placed at a disadvantage as compared with the foreign farmer who is free to use germinated grain without payment of duty, and to compete in our meat markets against home produce. Mr. Gladstone's Malt for Cattle Act is inopera tive because of the expense. Professor LEONE LEVI laid a resolution before CA Chamber to the effect that the International Decimal Association advised a parliamentary inquiry into the monetary system. The Professor suggested that the Chamber should appoint a sub-committee to consider the question, with a view to gettinc , a committee of the House of Conilnons to inquire into the matter. On the motion of Mr. PELL, M.P., the meeting thanked the Profe ssor , an d re f erre d t h e quest i on to the Executive Business Committee, in order that the matter might be brought before the Council in April. The best mode of providing for the extension and main tenance of the education of the industrial classes next engaged the attention of the Council. It was brought forward by the Bev. E. LACON WILLES, M.A. (of the Leicestershire Chamber), who moved a resolution approving the Education Bill, inasmuch as it sought to give school accommodation ; but objecting . to the length of time a child is required to be kept at school, up' to ten years being late enough to compel such attendance. The motion was seconded by Mr. Willis Bond, of the Worcestershire Chamber. One or two of the speakers attempted to raise the religious question, but objection was taken to it, and the meeting decided that it should not be introduced. The resolution was carried unani mously. Mr. A. STAISTIN, of the 'Warwickshire Chamber, moved a resolution objecting to the rating principle of the bill. Mn. GEOnGE ANDREWS (Devon), seconded the proposi tion, and upon a division it was carried by a large majority. Captain CRAGIE proposed, and it was agreed that the further discussion of the subject be adjourned until the April meeting. The meeting shortly after adjourned, to enable the deputation to wait upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer. MISSI . SSIPPI DISASTER.— Accounts from Cincinnati, February 23rd, state that the captain of the Emma has telegraphed from Cairo that %eventy lives were lost by the burning of the steamer. The pilot has fur nished the names of many of the missing persons. The first clerk made an attempt to save a lady, but unfortu nately perished with the others. TUE RED RIVED.—A letter to the St. Paul Press dated Pembina brings intellige n c e f rom Winnipeg that the Governor of the Hudson Bay Company and one of its prominent officers had been arrested by the orders of Gen. llidle. Their cause of offence is thas they were tampering with the members of the Provisional Government, in order to defeat the bill of Rights. The letter adds that a leading Canadian had taken his oath of allegiance to) Provisional Governmeiat. TIIE COLD IN AMERICA.—TIIO snow-storm °Nilo 21st of February blocked up the railroads in every direc tion in Montreal, and the trains were all stopped. The Portland train, with the English mails, was also snowed in. 'Twelve inches of snow fell during the last storm on the hills from Danburg and Holderness. On the 21st of February, the thermometer at St. Paul was 30 de,grees below zero, in Chicago ei g ht d egrees b e l ow, an d at , Jack sonville ten degrees below. A letter from Fort Abercrombie states that on Friday, the 11th, there was the most tem pestuous storm on the Plains experienced this winter. It is supposed that a party of six soldiers were frozen to death on the Plains. Great damage has been done by a huge freshet on the Upper Connecticut Valley. Great alarm prevails among the people in the valley, and many families had left the place. Tirr MONTENEGItO QtrzsTioN.—The Journal des .Wats reproduces an article on the Montenegro question from the Turquie, a semi-official journal of the Turkish Government, and comments on the haughty tone it has asssumed on taking part in the discussion. It speaks with little respect of those Powers without whose interposition Turkey would long since have disappeared from the map of Europe. The Journal des Debats thinks that the Turquie writes history after a very convenient fashion when it declares that the time has passed for the Govern ment of the Porte to make concessions to any other country. THE THORNCLIFFE STUlKE.—Messrs. Newton, Chambers and Co. have been favoured with another threatening letter. This time Mr. George Dawson is the recipient, and the epistleruns as follows :—" Mr. Dawson you may think are a gentleman but I think you are a bad devil and people talks how bad it is to shoote anybody but I would sooner shoote you thiss morning than shoote a pigeon and thcr would be no more sin nor any harm in shooting you for starving so many poore children and men and women thou deserves hell fire and if you dont go to hell no body will for sin and crime you have caused men to run themselves into be a man and act fair man to man and dont be such a fien do good on earth for you will do-non in the grave and show people you act like 3 lA3II and shows reason." An aurora wab seen in Ireland and at liulyliead last night. THE ORIGIN OF THE NAPLES BANKS, The Saint Public of Lyons, in a letter from Naples, gives the following account of th e an t ece d en t s o f Si gnor gives the following account of the antecedents of Signor Buffo-Scilla, who has attained such unenviable distinction by the crash of the Naples banks. A gambler in difficul ties borrowing 20f.—such was the starting-point of this extraordinary mania. Signor Ruffo-Scilla, having had his pockets cleaned out one evening at play, bor rowed 20fr. in paper from his neighbour (a female), pro mising to return the sum in gold the next evening, and he kept his promise. Gold was then at 15 per cent. premium, so that the 20fr. produced 3fr. fOr the four and twenty hours. • • The lady thought the operation original, and offered to renew it for a larger sum. The reimbursement was again punctual, and at last, all the persons of the society w an t e d t o lend in their turn. Ruffo, reduced to exjedients to raise a small sum, accepted the ofers, but fixed fifteen days for repayment. In pro portion as his credit improved, and his operations extended, he extended the period of liquidation, and diminished the rate of interest so far as to have no term less than a month, and not to pay more than 4 per cent. monthly. Everybody was persuaded that Ruffo had found the means of returning this prodigious interest by operations with the money changers, and he took good care not to contradict that opinion. As long as the mystery was kept up the banks prospered ; but presently the receipts and expenses no - longer b l^need, and 10 and 12 per cent. interest was offered to secure fresh depositors. Presently rivals appeared, Ruffo bought them up, and that course proved a great blunder. From that moment banks sprang up as by en chantment, and every day a fresh programme was issued. The walls were covered with Fargo placards on which millions upon millions were arraved in endless succession. In proportion as the number increased, the competition advanced the rate of interest, which was car. tied as high as 30 per cent. The customers of Ruffo at last went off cis masse to his rivals, and one fine morning he found himself in presence of demands of reimbursement amounting to 23 millions, whilst he had scarcely one in his strong box. • SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE DEBATE ON THE IRISH LAND BILL. --- The Times observes that the debate on the Irish Land Bill has been once more adjourned, but there is neither heart nor substance in the opposition to the principle of the measure. It may be true that everyone finds fault with all its details, as Mr. Henley declared on Tuesday night ; but it is also true, as he immediately confessed, that everyone ends by expressing his approval of it as a whole. It does not matter on what side the member sits. Mr. Read, the representative of the farmers of Norfolk, certainly shewed no excess of sympathy with the Irish cha racter, and bluntly said that no Government could possibly yield the whole or the half that Irish tenants or their spokesmen demanded ; but he added that the bill gave all they could justly claim. Mr. George Henry Moore, ap proaching the subject with all the prejudices of a patriot from Mayo, supported the bill as a conscientious attempt to do justice to Ireland, and frankly said that if Irishmen were disappointed by its provisions theyivere disappointed because they had been misled and &hided by false advisers. It is scarcely necessary to refer to further evidence. Mr. Samuelson and Mr. Read, from opposite sides of the House, brought to bear on the bill independent judgment founded on personal inquiry. It was pronounced by Mr. Samuelson to be on the whole admirable, and Mr., Read's judgment was equally decisive. On the whole, he saw the bill was calculated to do a great deal of good, and he had never doubted, when once he had heard its principles ex plained, that it would be his duty as well as his desire to support it. Such is, we are persuaded, the conclusion of all dispassionate persons who have considered the subject, and the function of Parliament is now almost limited to seeing that the principles of the bill are properly worked out in its several clauses. The Standard thinks that the debate on the Irish Land Bill improves in value and .interest as it proceeds. The able speech with which Dr. Ball concluded the first night's discussion brought forward new and more complete views of the subject, and gave life and significance to the de bate. Mr. Read very justly urged that a limit should be imposed on retrospective claims to compensa tion, and that twenty years' enjoyment is sufficient remuneration for all tenants' improvements. The O'Donoghue accepted the bill as a satisfaction of all just claims, and a deathblow to the profitable business of "trading patriots" —a remark for which some of the hon. gentleman's former friends will be duly grate ful. Mr. Henley pointed out that one effect of the bill would be to induce the landlord to consolidate farms as far as possible, and thus gradually to extirpate the nume rous class of small occupiers ; and the Solicitor-General for Ireland failed to disprove a suggestion which shews how very far the real purport of the bill departs from the intentions of its authors, and how very imperfectly its provisions have been considered. As the debate proceeds the de termination of all parties to accept the bill, and try to make the best of it becomes more and more apparent, but, at the same time, it becomes more and more clearly evident that the bill has been devised in ignorance and constructed in haste, and that only a very careful revision, and very extensive amendments can render it tolerable to the landlord, advantageous to the permanent interests of the tenant, or consistent with the primary conditions of social justice and agricultural progress. PUBLIC PROSECUTORS. The Pall Mall Gazette says after the experience of the last few years and the very strong observations of the Chief Justice in the course of the Overend-Gurney trial, it is by no means creditable to the Government that they should have thrown the responsibility of legislating on the subject of public prosecutors upon the shoulders of a private member. Fortunately, Mr. Eykyn has not been daunted by the refusal of the Home Secretary to do his duty in the matter, and has brought forward a very simple and practical proposal which, if it does not give us all we might perhaps de sire in the shape of an active prosecution of criminals by and on behalf of the public, does at least go far to systematise and bring into regular working order . the loose, capricious, and often scandalously d e f ec ti ve arrange ments by which this branch of the administration of justice is at present supposed to be provided for. We would fain hope that, now the Government have had an opportunity of seeing Mr. Eykyn's p ro p osa l i n a prec i sa and specific form, thy will be shamed into adopting the measure as their own, and that, if there are any signs of reluctance in this respect, sufficient pressure will be applied by their supporters in the House of Commons to prevent any further delay in the passing of this most necessary and important reform. THE (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. The Post declares that from the horns of any dilemma there is always sozne manner of extrication ; and in the instance of the Council before the hostile Matador adopts the ultinta ratio and slaysthe Papal Bull, before even the Picadors take to worrying him with the pointed darts of 'rejected Concordats, there is an obvious and large method of settling the question—by emptying the arena. If the French, Austro-Hungarian, German, and American bishops with draw iii a body from the Council, to the number of upwards of two hundred, its (Ecumenical character must be tho roughly destroyed, and its decrees as a General Council be no longer binding on the Catholic Church. This plan for nullifying the intentions of the Vatican, is, we hear, being taken .into immediate consideration by the prelates belonging to the countries in question, and, if carried into effect, would no doubt prove fatal to the pretensions of Rome, which would hardly assume to impose laws upon countries whose clerical representatives had seceded from the assembly in which they were passed. THE CASE OF CAPTAIN MADDEN. The Daily Newsremarks that the trial of Captain Madden for the outrageous and unprovoked assault upon Mr. J. R Clarke and Mr. Brown, in Manchester, has had a curious result in a verdict of guilty, and in a sentence of twelve months' imprisonment. Evidence was again given that the prisoner was labouring under mental delu sion, but it seems to have failed to convince the jury ; and yet Mr. Justice Brett in passing sentence has stated that the case will be taken into considera tion by the Secretary of State. But the evidence of the prisoner's insanity has not prevented the magistrates from committing him for trial, nor the jury from convicting him, nor the judge from sentencing him, and it is difficult to see with what justice the Secretary of State can inter fere. To do so is simply to remit the case from the public tribunals to the most unsatisfactory tribunal any where in existence. Suppose the Home Secretary remits the sentence, the public will ask why the evidence placed before him could not have been put before the Manchester magistrates and the Manchester jury? and if it was put before them, and failed to satisfy them, but satisfies Mr. Bruce, will not the populace ask, and ask with reason-- whether, had the prisoner been a poor man without powerful friends, any such review of his case would either b...v e been nst-a4 or crrant.7:l9_ The Foundation Stone of a Wesleyan chapel was laid at Burslcm the other day, and it was announced that portions of the coffin, the shroud, and the hair of John Wesley had been deposited in a bottle to be fixed in a crevice. A petition has been forwarded to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the Manchester Home trade Associa tion asking the hon. gentleman if ho should have any sur plus to consider the claims of sugar and coffee for a further reduction of duty. The lion. Robert O'Brien, brother to Lord Inchiquin, and also to the late William Smith O'Brien, dropped dead last evening, at his own house, while dress ing for dinner. It has been ascertained that death resulted from heart disease. The sudden demise of this lamented gentleman plunges several noble Irish families in mourning. Captain Elgard reports that the Ilroadstairs life boat, Samuel 3lorrisou Collins, of the National Lifeboat Institution, went out to the assistance of the brig Volunteer, of Shoreham, which went on the sands last night. Some of the lifeboat men boarded the vessel, and succeeded in getting her off and bringing her into Ramsgate harbour. - - The Telegraph announces that the differences on the subject of foxhunting between Lord Curzon and Mr. Nowdegate have boon satisfactorily adjusted. Mr. Nowdo gate having withdrawn the pamphlet which gave great umbrage to Lord Curzon and his friends, it is to be hoped that peace will once more reign in that portion of Leicester-- shire known among bunting men as "the Atherqutto country." THE PRINCE AND THE fORTEII.-I'llo London correspondent of the North British Daily Mail relates the following anecdote :—" A friend of mine found himself at the Paddington Station a few days since, and, seeing a commotion among s t th e porters, he inquired the cause, and heard that the Prince of Wales, who had shortly before arrived from Windsor, and had perhaps been timing the train or the mileage rate, left his watch on the seat of the carriage. A porter, seeing the watch, hastened after the Prince, who, on its betng presented to him, said Keep it, my good fellow; keep it." The effect on the fraternity may be imagined. THE CITY OF BOSTON Tli:A3lSlill'.—TWO Gays before the City of Boston left Halifax her Majesty's troopship Orontes sailed from the same port for England, arriving after a passage of twelve days, during which time she encountered fearful weather. We' may estimate to some extent what this weather was when we are told that all the horses on board belonging to the 16th Regiment, perished. When this news was heard in Halifax, a gloom AVM cast over the whole place, and caused a despair of th e sa f e t y o f t h e Ci ty o f B os t on to set in. There can be no doubt that this vessel met with most violent galci, and from later news we also know that large fields of ice are floating in the track from the Canadian ports to Liverpool. If the City of B os t on , th roug h a b a d look-out, or an igno rance of the proximity of icebergs, struck some ice while going at the rat e o f t en or t we l ve knots, there would scarcely be the very smallest chance of any vestige of pas sengers, ship, or cargo existing to tell the tale. The time is net yet come. to lose heart, however, as professional men in Liverpool declare that if she has lost all steam power, and is proceeding under sail, she cannot yet be seasonably exrected May the re4Alt Fug the4e 002 24 N correct. • - THE CASE OF PRINCE PIERRE BONAPAR TE. CHARGE AGAINST A LocAt, Vicg-Chancellor Malins has delivered judgmenton aninformati 4 on preferred by a mill-owner against the Local Board of Bishop Stort' ford, calling upon the Court of Chancery to restrain the B )ard from permitting the sewage of the town to flow int° th. 3 river Stort, so as to create a nuisance. The plaintiff's witnesses complained that the river was in such a state th.lt fish could not live in it, animals could not drink the water, and that it had been converted from a pure and pleasing stream into a foul and filthy sewer. The loca l board tendered evidence contradicting every mate rial allegation m a d e by th e p l a i n tiff . The Vice-Chancellor said it was of the highest joy portance that the Court of Chancery should in; terfcre where a nuisance had been created ; but it was 01 equal importance that it should exercise its jurisdiction to stip those who came into court with a trivial charge. He was satisfied that the allegations of the plaintiff were utterly untrue and grossly exaggerated, and he therefore dismissed the bill, with costs, against the plaintiff, wh° had set the Attorney-General in motion. THE KELLY DIVORCE CASE.—The public have heard the last of the Kelly divorce case. A few weeks ago Mrs-, Kelly asked for an allotent of permanent alimony when the case came before Lord Penzance it transpiral that the rev. respondent had been " incapacitated " from rending at Liverpool, and had, therefore, to employ a curate in his place at St. George's Church. Yesterday, in making the petitioner an allowance the Judge of the Divorce Court allowed th e sum pa id to the curate to be deducted from the income ; but he said that seeing that Mr. Kelly's income was principally derived from his wife, he thouglA, that she should b e a ll owe d one - half of what her husband possessed, especially as some of his money had been spent in " needless, and in some respects wasteful expenditure, in useless litigation." Mrs. Kelly will, therefore, receive £164 per annum. BARKED'S BANK.—In the Rolls Chambers an application has been made in the winding -up case of Barned's Bank ing Company with regard to a clahn . of £40,00 0 on a shareholder who had left the country on. account of the proceedings, and now offered £7,500 in discharge of the debt. • The Chief Clerk asked whether the compromise was offered on account of inabililty to pay, and being answered' in the negative, he doubted whether he could sanction it. The only cases in Which compromises had been taken was where there were legal difficulties, and where the pa r ti es cou ld no t pay. Thls was the first case of the kind, and must be further con sidered. A BANKRUPT ADMlRAL.—Yesterday was fixed for the examination and order of discharge sitting under the bankruptcy of James Thorne ' an admiral in th e r oyal navy. The prelimi nar y li s t o f debts filed by the bankrupt showed a total of £226 2s. id., and his statement of ac counts £253 9s. Bd., with no assets. He stated his expendi ture fbr two years had been £773, and he was entitled to £156 per annum (less income tax), as an admiral in the royal navy. His Honour said that, as the bankrupt did not appear the sitting must be adjourned sine die, and at the end of the day he would be proclaimed if he did not appear before them. Order accordingly. • SENTENCE OP DEATIL—At the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, William Cunningham Cunningham of Glasgow, has been sentenced to be hung at Glasgow, on the 28th instant, for the murder of Julia M'Leod, a woman who passed as his wife. The jury recommended him to mercy. THE KENSAL GREEN TRAGEDY.—James Cankin, wno 13 charged with the manslaughter of his stepfather, Philip R ,lpli, at Kensal Creel', has been examined at Hammer smith. Police-court, and committed for trial. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A LOVER. Walter Wells, the young_ farmer who wa s c h arge d a t W orces ter with shooti ng his cousin, Miss Emma Wells, owing t° anger at her refusing to 'receive his addresses, has been found guilty, and sent e n ce d to t en y ears ' pena l serv itude. Miss Wells was seriously hurt. CHARGE OF LIBEL—A horse-clothing manufacturer , named Hargraves, has been charged with libel at the Carlisle petty-sessions. The libel complained of was pub lished in ,a local publication called the Democrat, and accused the complainant, a merchant, named Irving, of giving working men short weight and similar devices. The defendant was admitted to bail.-- William Slates., biscuit manufacturer and banker of Car lisle, who was the Democratic candidate at the last Car lisle election, was also summoned as the publisher of the Paper, but as he did not appear a warrant was issued for his apprehension. Hargraves was his nominator at the election. BAD BUTTER.—A provision dealer, named Fielding, has been summoned, at Sheffield, for having in his possession about 3501 b. of butter which was nearly putrid. The defendant, who has a large business, did not deny that the butter was bad, but said he sold it to confectioners for fancy bread, &c., at 9d. per lb., and had done so for seventeen years. He had sometimes 200 firkins (or ne arly 17,000 lbs.) of the butter; which was Canadian butter, on his premises. The B enc h or d ere d the butter to be destroyed, and fined him 205., the extreme penalty under the bye law. FORTUNE TELLING EXTRAORDINARY.—A Mrs. Ann Morgan, a Welshwoman, has just given proof, before the Birkenhead magistrates that all the ladies from the Princip a lity are not so wise as they ought to be. Mrs. Morgan, who is between 50 and 60 years of wan has lived in Birkenhead seven years, an apprenticeship in a large town, which, one would have imagined, would hive taught her better. As a proof of her confiding dis position, it turned out that a strange man called at her house one evening, engaged lodginge, slept there the night, and next morning decamped with a vest and pair of trousers belonging to another lodger. Instead of going to the police, Mrs. M o rgan went to a Mrs. Steer, who was supposed to know a thing or two through the medium of the evil eye. That good lady applied her weird optic to a magic looking -glass, and saw the thief, who as is usual in such cases was " a stout man with dark complexion." Having drawn a "silver shilling " from Mrs. Morgan, and given her the address of the house where she could find the thief, that inno cent person went away rejoicing. On calling at the place indicated, however, she became alive to the swindle, a nd gave information to the police. Mrs. Steer has gone for a month to exercise the evil eye through a prison windoar grating. A MAIL-CART DRIVER FINED FOR BLOWING HIS HoRN.—A mail-cart driver, named Harris, has been fined. 158. and 10s. costs for blow ing hi s h orn unnecessar ily and annoying the inhabitants of Newbury by disturbing them from their slee p. The Bench thought the nuisance Was intentional, and fined him accordi The writer of "Talk in the Town," in the Globe, mentions that it is authoritatively asserted that the office of Master of the Rolls is to be abolished, and that Lora Romilly will be transferred to the vacant Lord Justiceship• The days of the Home Circuit are, it is positively asserted in circles where the best information should be obtained , numbered, and after the summer assizes its members wilt be at liberty either to remain in town through the whole year, or to direct their attention to fresh fields and pas' tures new. The Dublin correspondent of the (Robe has received private information from several parts of Tipperary, stating that the people are is the wildest state of excitement at the return of Mr. Heron, and, that subscriptions have been raised, to which the very poorest havo contributed, to en deavour to unseat him. At be Tipperary mooting, yester day, resolutions were passed protesting against Mr. Heron'e return. Mr. Gill said there were thirty eases of personation, and charge d the Government with suppressing and misdeli- - - vering dm telegrams. BIBLICAL REVISION.—It is pleasant tO tiee the ultra Low Church Rock arguing earnestly in favour of Biblical revision. In this week's issue it has the follow ing :—" If we are not to adjust and re-adjust the language of a translation to the necessary changes of the vernacular tongue of England, we shall in time drift clean away from the sense of Scripture as understood by its original writers, and by our translators. To make no readjustment is, therefore, as foolish in itself and as fatal in its effect to the interests of Scripture as it would be to keep our clocks and watches unregulated by any readjustment, in consideration of the loss and gain incidental, and necessarily incidental , to the most perfect timepiece, made by the hands of man ; and surely it is of as much importance to have the tame piece of eternity (if we may be allowed the expression) regulated from time to time in accordance with the truest utterance, as fully ascertained as possible, of the sacred oracles themselves, as it is to regulate the time-piece which helps to mark the daily round of our earthly toil, and directs our temporal labours in the orbit of Punctuality. —The Rork. A QUESTION FOR DOCTORS OF DIVINITY.—Th e Queen of the sth of March contains the following query : —" Can any lady recommend any Sunday toys, for very young children—fo ur t een mon th s old? 1 find the Noah's Ark is not safe, as they break off the limbs from the figures and put them in their mouths." It is, indeed, a little difficult to know what theological toys can lie recommended to persons of such tender years that they. put all they possess into their mouths ; perhaps thirty - n 44 t i rgcles of the nature of ninepins p:ght suit The Paris correspondent of the Standard sends over the text of the acte d' accusation against Prince Pierre Bona parte for the murder of Victor Noir. The Procureur- Gdndral declares that the following facts have been elicited: —On the 10th of January last MM. Yvan Salmon, eomm only called Victor Noir, and Ulric de Fonvielle, editors of the Marscillaise newspaper, proceeded to Auteuil to deliver a challenge to Prince Pierre Bonaparte from M. Paschal Grousset on the occasion of a letter inserted by the prince in the Arenir de.la Corse newspaper on the 30th of De cember. M. Grousset pretended that he was insulted in that letter though he was not named therein, and re quired a reparation by means of a duel. He had accom panied his two seconds to Auteuil. On his side, Princo Pierre had on a previous clay, January 8. sent a challenge_ to M. Rochefort, edito r o f th e M arse ill a i se, on a ccount of an article wherein he was insulted. After recounting the fact of Victor Noir's death, and the conflicting aCC° l ' l ` tB of the catastrophe given ')3, Prince Pierre and M. Ulrio de Fonvielle, the Procureu r sa y s :—" The information h as elicited the followin g p ar ti cu l ars . S evera l person s hase_ noticed on the fac e o f th e accuse d the unequivocal marl. of a blow. Dr. Morel, w h o saw th e P r i nce a t about half-past two, declares th a t h e h a d a v ery roil trk on the left ch ee k, with an appearance 0 ' swelling and ecchy mos i s . Th e same o b se rvation was made by Dr. Pinel, and several other witnesso.. Besides, utterance s w hi c h were no ti ce d as having fallen from M. de Fonvielle tend to shew that NI. Victor Noir really struck the Prince in the face. The Procurer cites several witnesses who reported having heard M. d ° Fonvielle s a y, i n d escr ibi ng the scene, that M. Victor Noir had struck the Prince on the face. At the police-station , whither he was taken to make his deposition, M. Fonvielle, in relating the circumstances, said that his friend, " fee l ; ing himself affronted, advanced, and then, you understand.' —And in saying these words Fonvielle raised his hand as if to strike. On the other hand three persons who saw Victor Noir's death relate that the accused had struck Victor Noir in the face before shooting him. " However that may be," adds the Procureur, " and even were the version of the accused to be accepted, it is nevertheles s established that l i e w ilf u lly cause d the death of Victor Noir; justice cannot admit that a crime is justified by the act of violence which the victim may have allowed himself to be dragged into comm itti ng . It is equally certain that the_ accused fired his pistol at M. de Fonvielle. The Prince is therefore accused of committing the crime of volun tary homicide on the person of Yvan Salmon. With this circumstance that that crime was followed by that which is specified hereunder Secondly, of having committed on the same hour, da) , and place, on the person of M. Ulric de Fonvielle, an attempt at voluntary homicide, which attempt failed through circumstances independent of the perpetrator's will. Crimes foreseen and punished by Articles 2, 2 95, and 304 of the Penal Code: Done this 28th February, 1870.—(Signed) The Procureur-G6n6ral, GRAND FERRET. eirtnibtit 3p Zi t) et