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It may very fairly Le asked whether, when mem bers rewsemble after their brief and hard-won holiday a little more energy cannot be infused into the work ; whether private members may not be induced to be more sparing in their speeches, less eager to engross the time of the house on ques tions of local or secondary importance. The debate on the Land Question cannot be uninterrupted, but if there was a general desire to help it instead of hindering it, the wheels of the State coach would turn a little faster, Again, members who have any of the 320 amendments on the list may surely be gently asked to reconsider their proposed refornv, and see whether " le jeu vant la chandelle," whether all the amendments are of really vital importance. A perfect measure would be a vely desirable thing no doubt, but unluckily it is likely to take a little more time in preparation than the nineteenth century can well spare to any one question, however engrossing or important. CAPTURE OF ENGLISHMEN BY . BRIGANDS A telegram, dated Athens, April 12, sent through Mr. Reuter's office, states that thirty brigands, after a conflict with Bens d'armes, have seized two Secre taries of Legation—one Englishmln and the other Italian ; three English travellers and two women. The brigands released the women, but kept the m —for whom they expected a heavy ransom—in their custody. Another telegram, dated Athens, April 12, trans mittedby Mr. T. Cook, states that Lord Manchester ( ? Lord Mandeville), Mr. Voner, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Herbert, Secretary of the English Legation at Athens, and one of the Secretaries of the Italian L-gation, were taken by brigands at Marathon yes terday. Two ladies who had been arrested were liberated. The ransom demanded for the rrisouers is £2,000. Cook's party reported all safe. (kri'a Oral Tar lIER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 13. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nesses Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Bea'rice, left the Castle this afternoon at hal-past 3 o'clock for Osborne. The Prince of Wales rode out, atten&•d by Major Grey, yesterday. The Princess of Wales, atten led by the Hon. Mrs. St'inor, drove ou►t yesterday. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, April 13. Tho Epoca of to-day sates that numerous; priQstg refuse to take the oath to the Constitution, and ad vises the Government to avoid the app(alanee of persecution. The merchants of Madrid have e'ectA a commit' ee in order to draw up a pro'eA against the new tariff for licenseq. El Diario EBpagnol pretinis to have information that Cuban money was the principal stimuLint of the recent outbreak at Grac.a. The I emps asserts that the crssolution of the Cortes has been postpone) ___ The rumour curreut that Senor Rivcro would shortly resign his seat in the Cabinet, and that the formation of an exclusively Progressibt Ministry would follow appears to be unfounded. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 13.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : per Cent. per Cents 73 67 End.of month 73 72f r)rodit Mobilier 270 Transatlantic 205 .;redit Foncier 1282 50 Paris Gas 1715 Suez Canal 315 Bank Shares 2817 so Itsizan rives 55 45 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 4B 15 Spanish Threes Home Debt —. Deferred —. Cash Orleans .... Western Northern ... ...... 1180 Strasburg • • 615 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6071 Sardinian Austrian 795 Lombard 433 North of Spain 65 Saragossa ...... 82 Roman 49 RAILWA' INDIA. GiLLE, April 13 (Afternoon). 11.R.11. the Duke of Edinburgh has met with the most cordial reception from all classes in Ceylon. A ball has been given in honour of his Royal Highness, at which 1,500 guests were present. Two elephant kraals have taken place, and fifty animals were captured. 11.M.5. Galatea will proceed afterwards to Am tralia. AMERICA. (By Cable). WASHINGTON, April 13. The Special Joiut Congressional Commi*tee have agreed to report favourably on Washburne's Postal Telgraph Bill, placing the telegraph lines under. the control of the Post Office Department. The passage of this bill is, however, considered doubtful. NEW YORK, April 13. The Cunard steamship Cuba arrived here at 2 a.m. to-day North German Lloyd steamer Hermann ar lved here at 4 B.M to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1121 ; the highestquotation during the day was 112/ ; the lowest, 1121. Sterling Exchange on London .5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 11 1885 17 1867 . 1091 10-40 „ 4 • Illinois Erie ' Cotton--Mid. upland Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra ' State, $4 40c. to $5 Oc. Corn—Uld mixed, $1 9c. CANADA. ToßoNro, April 13 In consequence of the apprehended Fenian raid the 16th Regiment left for the Eastern ftoutier afternoo:i, and the London Ontario 11,!:d battery has been ECht to the S , . Clair River:• OtTAwA, April 13. It i 8 stated that a irL.asure su peildirg the Hal)eas Corpus Act will to passed by the Dominion Ilous of Commons to-day, and will i.ciive the GovernorL General's immediate aesent. On Monday (Easter Monday) the Stock Exchange will be closed, that being one Of the fixed holidays of the establishment. SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. tV EDNESDAY. On Monday afternoon an hon. member asked Mr. Gladstone if it was intended that the house should ad journ on the following day at seven and reassemble at nine. Members were immensely relieved, and stewed relief in a burst of cheers and laughter, when the Premier replied " the House will adjourn at any hour that it thinks fit." M.P.'s must have been as great blunderers as the sporting prophets if they did not understand what that meant, if they were not prepared to lay any odds that there would be a count out. Had there been any doubt at-all on the matter it must have been set at rest by a glance at the notice paper. For instance there was a motion to be moved, and a speech to be made about the patent laws. Now patents may be very bad things, but long speeches are worse, especially in sight of the holidays, and so Mr. Macfie must have known long before he rose that he was fore-doomed to extinction. Never theless, there was a very animated debate before that painful event happened. The House met at 2.30, and the first quarter of an hour was occupied in catechising. At a quarter to five Mr. Gladstone moved that the House at its rising do adjourn till the 25th. Thereupon up rose a tall and spare gentleman, with a bald head, compensated for by a beard that reached down to his waist, and proceeded to complain of the conduct of the Government. Who was he' He rose from the Liberal benches ; was he, too, one of the " cavernous " members whom the Spectator has recently christened, and the Daily Telegraph has just rebuked ? Not at all. It is Sir Wilfrid Lawson, a genuine Liberal, if there ever was one, and a hearty supporter of Mr. Gladstone. But he has a grievance, and one that is not without some just ground. It is, that while the Gdvernment is introducing measure after measure it has neglected to introduce its licensing bill. Last year, said the member for Carlisle, a large number of members voted against the Permissive Bill, solely because the Home Secretary had promised to introduce a bill of his own, and when these members went down to their constituents, and were asked why they had so voted. this was the only excuse they had to offer. The Irish Land Question was doubtless very important, but it affected only one part of the kingdom. The Education Bill was a measure that ought to be passed : but education was no protection against drunkenness. University Tests constituted a matter in which a small section of the community were interested; but what was its importance to the community compared with that of the licensing question, which affected every class, and especially the poor? Were the poor of this kingdom to be told that while the Govern ment found time to legislate for young gentlemen betaking themselves to Oxford and Cambridge, it had no time to rescue working men and their families from the misery in which the liquor traffic involved them? Sir Wilfrid then paid the new member for East Devon a compliment by referring to his election speech, in which Mr. Ken naway insisted on the importance of dealing with the liquor traffic, and of converting it from a curse into a blessing. Ido not believe that that is possible, added Sir Wilfrid. But the Government believes that it is, and it is bound to produce its measure, or else to let the associa tions formed for the purpose of putting this traffic down do the work in their own way. The member for Carlisle concluded a twenty minutes' speech with a powerful appeal to the Government not to postpone this matter any longer. Up rose Mr. Peter Rylands, Mr. Bernal Osborne, and Sir Selwyn Ibbetson. The last was selected by the Speaker, and after a few words he was succeeded by the member *for Waterford. He is looking a great deal older than when I heard him at Liskeard some years ago, in fact he is beginning to appear quite the elderly gentleman, and his jokes have no longer the brilliancy that they used to have. Perhaps the shine was taken out of them in the Waterford water-butt. But Mr. Osborne's voice is as strong as ever, and it rang through the House as he denounced the idea of introducing any fresh measures this session. He then proceeded to castigate members all the way round, though in a thoroughly good-humoured manner. He rallied them upon their " thirst for information," which made thdm occupy an hour or an hour and a half of every evening in. asking questions. Formerly, he said, it was only the Members for large towns who used to put ques tions, but now there is no borough, however insignificant and: miserable, whose member does not snake a speech undue the pretence of asking a question. Then let M.P.'s look at the course pursued with regard to the Land Bill. It was met with open hostility on the Opposition benches, and by " most inconvenient support" from members on the Liberal benches who had been Judge- Advocate-Generals, and so forth, in former administre.- tiow. The House laughed at this sally against Mr. Headlam. I foresee, continued Mr. Osborne, such a slaughter of the Innocents as has never been witnessed before. Already there are hon. members engaged in setting up the tombstone and writing the epitaph of the Education Bill. Mr. Osborne concluded by protesting against any further measures being introduced during that sesdon, and by urging the Government to devote all its energies to the passing of the Land Bill. Once more Mr. Rylands got up, but he was met by loud cries of " Bruce," and the Home Secretary then ex plained the course that he meant to tro He did not altogether abandon the hope of introducing the Licensing Bill, but he was not sanguine as to the possi bLity of passing it. He then cut a small joke about the advisability of hon. members practising total abstinence it their talk, and concluded by stating his intentions with regard to the Mines Bill. Mr. Beresford Hope followed, and in his usual grotesque style entreated the Government to pass the Education -Bill this year. Then rose Mr. Mundella, black-bearded like Sir Wilfrid Lawson, but not, like him, bald-headed, and he delivered a fierce philippic against the Conservative party for their opposition to the Land Bill. Hereminded the House, in a voice increasing in loudness and vehemence with every word, that they had passed only one and a half clause of the Irish bill, that there were only twelve Government nights before Whitsuntide, and that nothing had been done with regard to the estimates ; and then, waxing still more fierce, he shook his long fingers against the opposite benches, especially against Lord Claud Hamilton, for having talked against time last week so as to prevent any progress being made in the Land Bill, and warned him that he was imperilling the very existence of his class by his factious conduct. Then he went on to speak of . the Education Bill, and implored the Government to pass it, for the Liberal party were fully prepared to support it. A soli tary " No" from the bench - behind him made Mr. Mun della turn round to see who had uttered it, and finding that it was Mr. Potter, M.P. for Carlisle, he added the measure does not suit him, nothing but secular educa tion ever will satisfy him, and that, said Mr. Mun della, with a shout "you never will have." The atmos phere was now getting rather heated, and Lord Elcho was not quite the man to cool it. He is the most consummate of dandies. Buttoning his coat and folding his arms, as though he were a sculptor's model, he proceeded to take Mr. Mundella clown, and told him in Parliamentary phrase that he was an upstart, a humbug, and an impertinent fellow, and he ought to keep in his own place, and not come lecturing noblemen. The vanity of this particular nobleman was so absurd as to be amusing rather than annoying, and the member for Sheffield took his punishment with a smiling face.. Lord Elcho felt it to be his duty also to defend the Conservative party and Mr. Headlain, whom he held up as a true follower of that hero of Lord Elcho's admira tion, the late Lord Palmerston. He exhorted the Con servatives and the "weak-kneed" Liberals to continue their opposition to the Land Bill, seeing that it was a dangerous attack upon the rights of property. It was time now for Mr. Gladstone to interpose. re did so with perfect good humour. He laushingly regretted that after he had agreed to let the House have a fortnight'S relief froM the Irish Land Bill, it should have been brought up again ; and he spewed great tact in recommending to the. Opposition the example of one of their most esteemed members (Sir John Pakington, who subsequently acknowledged the compliment, but defended his party in their much talking). He, of all men; had most right to speak on the education question, yet he had kept silence in order that progress might not be delayed. Mr. Gladstone then warned Lord Elcho that the conduct of himself and sours of thosa whom he had defended was far more dangerous to the rights of property than any measure which the Government had brought forward. He then referred to what had been said on the l'iepsing question, and added that if the House was, as had been said, overworked, the fault was with Alit assembly which had endeavoured by every means in its power to add to the labours already imposed upon it. He concluded with a cheery expression of confidence that if honourable members would exercise some degree of self-command after Easter the Government would be able to accomplish all that could be reasonably expected of it. Mr. Peter Taylor entertained no such hope. Dark and louring, he rose and demanded why the Prime Minister did not insist tenon sitting through the :Easter holidays, and threaten to sit till October, if that should be necessary to get through the business. He himself had proposed, to make the House a eal working assembly by paying members, but his motion had been defeated, and he asked hon. members with what face they could go down to their con stituents with a Coercion Bill and a clause and and a-half of the Land Bill. They will be very glad to see us, said Mr. Neville-Grenville, especially when they hear that we have been sitting up night after night and working double tide. An hour and a-half had now nearly been spent in discussing the state of public business, and members were beginning to think that they were scarcely expediting it by their talking when up rose the Whalley amid a chorus of " oh's." He was not to be put down, however, and so hon. members fled en masse while he declared that he would use every means which the forms of the House would permit to oppose denominational education. At a quarter past four Sir J. Lawrence made a speech about the house duty, which few members were there to hear. Then came notices of motions. Then sugar and guns, then the patent laws, and then the order for release. Sonie hon. member and public benefactor crept up to the Speaker, and suggested that there were not forty members present. The Speaker, nothing loth, took the hint, counted, and found that the suggestion was well founded, for there were only twenty-five. So the House was counted out, and adjourned for the holidays. I wish I• knew who was the philanthropist that released: us. He deserves to be immortalised in undying verse, or, better still, to be returned free of expense at all future elections to the illustrious assembly wheieto he has been so great a benefactor. LOJNDON, 7HUI?SDAY, APRIL 14, 1870. The Duke of MONTPENSIER has received his sen tence from the Court-martial appointed to try him for the duel in which he caused the death of the Infante Don ENRIQUE. Ho has escaped with a slight penalty, for one month's banishment and a fine of eleven hundred rounds, do not constitute a serious sentence, when we consider the offence with which the Prince has been charged ; at the same time it is difficult for English readers fully to realise the state of things abroad, or to estimate the very different views which are entertained with respect to duels and duellists to those which prevail among our selves. It is necessary that this circumstance should be taken into consideration when any criticism is passed upon the affair, and when we take note of the proceedings of foreign courts of law and judicial inquiries. The Duke of MONTPENSIER was placed in a very awkward position by the attacks of Don ENRIQUE, and no one can deny that he had received the utmost provocation before he had recourse to the mistaken but apparently inevitable mode of satisfac tion which issued in so fatal a termination. It would have been quite impossible for him to remain in Spain without vindicating his honour, which his adver sary had so vehemently assailed by his persistent libels. To do this would have entailed heavy sacrifices on him, for he was in all the excitement and eagerness of his candidature for the throne, a candidature which had succeeded so far as to justify well-grounded hopes for the result. Don ENRIQUE exhibited the utmost intolerance when the Duke came to Madrid, and lost no opportunity of insulting him, no matter how much he outraged good taste, good sense, or good feeling in the process. So far as the duel itself can be taken into account, the whole story goes against Don ENRIQUE. Ile hadall the advantages of choice for pistols, position, and the right to fire, but nothing mollified him, and he conducted himself from first to last with the greatest brusqueness; in fact, his conduct rather resembled that of a savage than a gen tleman of Position, and certainly did more to excuse, if not to justify, his antagonist than the most vehe ment partisan of the Duke could have effected by his advocacy. The fist time the Duke fired in the air, and naturally enough considered that th's gracious act would lead to the termination of the encounter. But Don ENRIQUE was not to be put off in this man ner, and insisted on the prolongation of the duel. He got the worst of the second exchange of shots, and again the Duke was anxious to desist. All sen sible persons would have agreed that enough had been done to satisfy the most aggiieved recipient of real or imaginary wrongs ; but no, the indignant champion was resolved to proceed, and accordingly the last and fatal moment arrived. Don ENRIQUE'S third ball went far from the mark, but that of the Duke of MONTPENSIER'S struck him iu his dart tompl', and he fell dead without a word. It is no exaggeration to say that he died the victim of his own infatuated course of proceeding, and that he persisted, in skite of every opportunity afforded by his adversary, in carrying on a contest which had Aready been too far prolong!,l. The whole t ry of the MONTPENSIER duel contrasts Most favou-ably with the tragic scene which was enacted at Auteuil, and the Prince of the ORLEANS fallli . y seems to have been distinguished for a quality which was essentially wanting in the representative of the BonapartiAs, that of self-control. From first to last he seemed free from passion, and quite prepared to act in a manner becoming a chivalrous opponent. Let us hope that some good may arise from the painful dis closures and sad scenes attendant on these encounters, and that we may soon see the beginning of the end of the system that has been so pertinaciously followed in foreign countries since it has died out in ours. True, the affair at Auteuil was not a duel, but it was in consequence of the projected duel of several political disputants that the fatal visit was paid, which entailed such disastrous consequences, and might have led to still more serious complica tions. What is wanting in this matter is time for thought, and if the lookers-on will reflect uron the sad and solemn consequences of these affairs, which originate in a hasty word, and terminate in evils that cannot be redressed, and regrets that can never be palliated, they must acknowledge that a change for the better is earnestly to be desired and demanded. The Spanish encounter bears the palm over the Auteuil tragedy, but princes as well as meaner in dividuals might employ life to a better purpose, and meet death in a holier fashion than by engaging in such affairs of honour, where misfortune is blame, and success is compromising. If the fashion were adopted in St. Stephen' swbich prevails in some large schools, where recreant scholars are kept in the schoolroom on holidays to complete their unfinished tasks, wearied M.P.'s would have but a small chance for escaping for a while from the Eight of the green benchee. The most easily satisfied mortal must be forced to acknow- IPdge there would be very little hope of good marks or favourable comments, or certificates of industry. Arrears of work are accumulating at a frightful rate, and all parties are begining in these early spring days to break down prospectively at the terrors of an August kitting. When Midsummer has turned Mr. GLADSIDNE will, indeed, very likely play the tart of . the scholastic RHADAMANTIIUS, and insist on retaining the would-be truants, who have failed to accomplish their tasks, and as meteorologists indulge us with visions of a tropical summer, England will have to go through another of her national penances on account of her sins towards Ireland. The truth is, that the con dition of Parliamentary business is mo.A unpro miaing—Education, the Ballot, the Licensing ques tion, and awhole . h( st of other measures of more or less importance, for which the country has been waiting patiently year after year, are gradually grow jpg fainter in the distance. Week after seek g•es -by, nights and nights are spent over a clause or half a clause. Words are altered, eliminated, addol, Ministers and Opposition and in lep(nderit m tubers weary themselv.s and each uther in endless (FscusEitn.s, and here we a e at the Easter holidiys with the great measure of the st - scion not yet at its fourth clause is committee! e House can hardly be charged with want of iLdastry, for the sittings have been carried on far past mid night, aul the alteration in the usual hours Ills been made much earlier than ordinary. When the morning sittings were proposed before Easter a great outcry was raised, but the inexorable facts we r " . SUL METROPOLITAN. GOSSIP.-WEDNESDAY. Members spent the last hours of the prm-Easter session in recrimination and reproaches about the state of public business. Well might they do so. The condition of affairs is most deplorable. All that has been done is to pass the Coercion Bill, and to get a clause and a half of the Land Bill through committee. There are now nearly 350 amendments to the latter measure to be discussed. This is the way in which the House has fulfilled , its pledge that the bill should go through Committee before the recess. The Conservative party are not alone to blame for the delay. " Weak-kneed " Liberals must bear their share of culpability. The result of the proceedings of both is that it will require the utmost exertions on the part of the Government to get the Land- Bill passed during the present session, and that not a single member off the Treasury Bench believes that any other measure of importance will become law. If con fession• were followed by repentance there might be some hope of improvement. But some of the members who took part in yesterday's scolding match gloried in their shame; and Lord Elcho especially, the very incarna tion of puppyism, exhorted Lord Claud Hamilton and his congeners to continue displaying their "fluency" with the highly patriotic object of obstructing legislation. is a poor prospect that we have before us, and I do not wonder at Mr. Osborne's gloomy vaticinations (things must be looking bad when he is cast down) and Mr. Mundella's stormy eloquence. The holidays will certainly not be too long, considering the number of hours the House has been working. On Monday week M.P.s will have to begin again the weary task of plodding through the details of the Land Bill with its interminable amendments. Three days later Mr. Newdegate will bring on (if he can) his motion for appointing a select committee to inquire into the condi tion of conventual and monastic establishments. If he does succeed I can promise your 'readers such a stormy debate as has not been witnessed for many a day. I was present at the debate. It took place between half past one and half-past three on Saturday morning, and I beheld such a scene of excitement as it was impossible to adequately describe. I see the Ministerial journals are divided on this question, the ,Times supporting Mr. Newdegate (and carefully sup pressing-, by the way, the fact that his victory on Satur day morning was obtained through a violation of the pledge that the matter should not be brought forward after 12.30), and the Daily Telegraph opposing him. Without passing any opinion upon this subject, I may just point out two things : first of all, there is a grave legal difficulty in the way of inspecting "monastic institutions." Such institutions have no legal existence, for they are forbidden by law, and if the State appoints Government inspectors it stultifies itself by recognising the existence of associations which have been established in defiance of itself. The other point I will put in the form of a question. How comes it to pass that those M.P.'s who have near relatives in nunneries are just the persons who most strenuously resist the inspection of them ? Sir John Cole ridge, the only member of the Government who has spoken on the question, has, I believe, a near relation in a convent, and yet he opposed Mr. Newdegate's motion. Mr. Matthews, M.P. for Dungarvan, who has both aunts and sisters nuns, was indignant to the verge of passion at the proposed intrusion upon these ladies' privacy. We do not find that persons who are so unfor tunate as to have relations in mad-houses resist Govern ment inspection. On the contrary, they claim it, because they believe it necessary. The inference is that the Op position to the inspection of nunneries arises from the belief that it is not necessary. During the present week the best known of the London )lurches have been crowded with w n.shippers. In many of them there have been as many as five or six services a day, and most of them thronged. At St. Barnabas (Pimlico), St. Paul's (Knightsbridge), St. Alban's (Hol born), St. Mary Magdalene's(Paddington),and most of the other " advanced" churches, there will on Good Friday be the following services at different hours :—Litany and latter part of Commination Service; Matins and ante-communion office ; Meditations on the last words from the Cross with hymns, lasting for three hours; Evensong, Litany, Commination Service, and Ser mon. In some of these churches the "Reproaches" are sung, being adapted from the Roman service of Tenebrse; and the chanting of the " Miserere" (the 51st Psalm) forms one of the features of the day's devotion. On Easter Day there will be at all these churches at least four cele brations of the Holy Communion, beginning at five in the morning. The Easter Services begin on Easter Eve at 8 or 9 o'clock. I believe that there is good foundation for the report that if any fresh ecclesiastical prosecution is instituted against High Church clergymen, High Church laymen will retaliate by prosecuting some of the Low Church Bishops for their sins of omission. Of course men like the Bishops of Ripon and Durham lay themselves open to proceedings every time they officiate. It is to be hoped, however, that we shall be spared the' pain of further quarrels, which, if continued, must lead to a die' ruption of the Church. lam glad to see that the five High Church clergymen to whom the ilishoiaa Louden wrote his recent letter, have condemned in strong terms the abuse which the Church Times poured upon that prelate, and also the publication of his letter, which wad meant to be private. The Indian Civil Service competitive examinations took place last week, and the questions were more monstrously absurd than ever. What can be the good of knowing the dates of all the eruptions of Vesuvius for instance? Such knowledge is simply - lumber. It does not develope the mind in the acquisition of it, nor is it of any service when acquired. No fewer than 300 candidates left the room one afternoon in consequence of the extreme and unfair difficulty of the examination papers. The National Education Union is at last beginning to bestir itself. Aroused by the , incessant activity of the League, it is now issuing circulars broadcast and appeal. ing for funds. The, schemes of the two associations are contrasted. Mr. Cowper-Temple, Lord Palmerston's stepson,lB chairman of the Union, Colonel Akroyd, M. P., is the treasurer. Dr. Barry, Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P., Mr. Buxton, M.P., and Mr. F. S. Powell, late M.P. for Cambridge, are the hon. secretaries. The first concert season of the year may be said to close this week. A few nights back I had a great treat in listening to Mr. Henry Le'slie's choir. This gentleman is going to give four first rate concerts in May and June. He will have Nilsson (who, as well as Patti, has just been taking farewell of Parisian opera-goers), Jima di Murska, Volpini, Sinico,Monbelli, Trebelli-Bettini, Mongini, Gar- Boni, Foli, Santley, and other well-known singers. Mr. Disraeli's new novel is anticipated with great curiosity, all the more because it is understood that the right hon. gentleman has taken his revenge upon a certain well nown Quarterly reviewer, Lord Salisbury, to wit, by bringing him into " Lothair." A very different writer, Dean Stanley, has a new book in the press entitled " Chapters on the Ecclesiastical History of England During the Last Twenty Years." The Bishop of Argyll, Dr. Ewing, is about to bring out a series of seven monthly papers at a shilling called " Pre sent Day Papers on Prominent Questions in Theology." The long expected Speaker's Commentary is coming out 7,t last in octa - to volumes. The Pentateuch will anneal' during the 'Present year. Genesis has been done by the Bishop of Ely. The first nineteen chapters of Exodus Job and the Epistles of St. Peter and Jude, by Canon Cook; the remainder of Exodus and Leviticus, by the Rev. Samuel Clark ; and Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua, by the Rev. T. E. Espin, rector of Wallasey The Bishop of Bath and Wells has done Judges, Ruth, and Samuel ; Professor Rawlinson, King 9, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. The. Psalms are done bY the Dean of Wells ; Proverbs, by the Rev. E. IL Plumptre ; Ecclesiastes, by the Rev. W. T. Bullock, secretary to the " S.P.G."; the Song of Solomon, by the Rev. T. L. Kingsbury; Isaiah, by Dr. Kay; Jeremiah, by Canon Payne Smith ; Daniel, by Archdeacon Rose, Ezekiel, by Dr. Currey ; the minor Prophets, by the Bishop of St. David's, Prebendary Huxtable, Professor Gandell, Rev. F. Meyrick, and Rev. W. Drake. Matthew and Mark heve been done by the Archbishop. of York and Dean Maisel jointly ; Luke, by Archdeacon Jones ; John, by Canon Westcott ; the Acts, by the Bishop of Chester; the Romans, by Dr. Gifford; the Corinthians, by Professor Evans and Rev. Waite ; Galatians by Dean Howson ; Philippians bY Dean Jeremie ; Ephesians, Colossians, Theaalonians, end Philemon by Professor Lightfoot, Canon Westcott, and Dr. Benson jointly; the pastoral epistles by the Bishop of London ; the Hebrews by Canon Kay ; the Epistle of St. John by the Bishop of Derry ; St. James by Dr. Scott; and the Revelation by Archdeacon Lee. All parties are represented in this undertaking, but not the extreme of any party, except Canon Payne Smith be reckoned an extreme Low Churchman. Dean Stanley and Dr. Pusey, though both Biblical scholars, have no part in the work. The editor is Canon Cook, but the plan of the work was settled by a committee consisting of the two English Archbishops, and the Bishops of London, Llandaff, Gloucester and Bristol, and Chester, Lord Lyttelton, the • Speaker, Mr. Walpole, and the Dean of Lincoln. During the progress of the work the editor consulted with the Archbishop of York and the Regius professors of Divinity at Oxford and Cambridge. The authorised version of 1611 has been reprinted without alteration, but notes will give corrections and amended readings. The comment will be chiefly explanatory, presenting in a concise and readable form, the results of learned investigations, carried on in this and other countries during the last half century. When a fuller discussion of difficult passages or important subjects is necessary, it will be placed at the end of the chapter or of the volume. Among other literary news, it may interest your readers to be told that the Graphic is now carried on by n limited liability company, and that Mr. Frederick Locker will shortly be connected with the editorship. Mr. Dickens's new story, which Mr. Fildes is illustrating, is being published simultaneously on the other side of the Atlantic in Every Saturday. The sale on this side is already about 50,000. Lord St. Leonards has been writing " Observations on the Irish Land Bill " which shew that at the ripe age of 89 he still takes interest in public questions; these " Observations" will be published. Mr. O'Connor Morris, the Special Commissioner of the Tones in Ireland, has written on the same measure in the Fortnightly Review. The author of the article in the Quarterly Review issued to-day, entitled " Non-His toric Times " is Mr. Fergusson, the well-known writer on architecture, and author of that splendid work " Tree and Serpent Worship." Mr. Fergusson believes that much of our religion is borrowed from Brahminism, and he is about to visit Devonshire, in order to hunt up traces of the ancient faith. Another visitor to the 'West is Mr. MacCallum, the artist, who is going to paint a number of the old ships of war in Hamosze before they are broken up, and he has received special facilities for the purpose from Mr. Childers. Mr. Eirikr Magnusson is busy in translating from the Icelandic " The Lily," a song to the Virgin, written by Eystein Asgrimsson, an Augustine monk, who died in 1361. Mr. Whymper is publishing "Scrambles among the Alps," which will include an account of the first ascent of the Matterhorn. To-day being Maunday Thursday the Queen's - charities were distributed in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, with the tJawtl ceremony. The Bibhup her Majesty's Lord ):ti g h Almoner, officiated, assisted by the Sub-Almoner, the contributions being made to 51 aged men and 51 aged women, the number of each sex corresponding. with the age of the Queen. H The accouchement of Princess Christian is ex pected during next month. Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, yo-ungest daughter of the Queen, attained her thirteenth year today, having been born on the 14th of April, 1857. The llon. Mrs. Westby, aunt of Lord Ra Is`gek died on Tuesday last at her residence, Yoticgato, Regent'e park. • lhe officers of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich have accepted a challenge from the officers of the Royal Engineers to row an eight-oared race at Putney before the middle of June. This morning one cf the Salvage Corps, named Batten (who had been left on night duty at tho premises de stroyed lately by fire in tho Dlinories), was found buried inder the debris of a portion of an upper floor, quite deal. A shocking explosion occurred last evening at the Mersey Chemical Works, Warrington. The boiler was used for evaporating caustic potash. A man named WoodS a stoker, aged fifty, and a lad aged seventeen, named OdaYi died of the injuries they sustained. Four others were oe" riously injured. The Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Tramways Bills, it is understood, have agreed to report that the various projects should be subject to provi sional orders of Parliament, and not to a certificate of the Board of Trade. DEATH OF M. DE BERIOT.—This once famous violinist, and who was even better known to the last gene ration as the husband of the great Madame Malibran, has recently died at Louvian in the 68th year of his age. For years past he had been blind and paralyzed, and lived habi __ tually in Paris, but bad lately returned to his native towns Louvain, where he was attacked with his fatal illness. FIRE IN DRURY-LANE.—LaA night a fire broke out on the premises occupied by Messrs. Flavell, timber benders, of Parker-street, Drury-lane. The fire engines were quicklf on the spot, and a good supply of water was provided. Not withstanding their exertions, however, the premises were destroyed. The results of the fire will be distressing, inas much as the workmen employed in the factory have lost their tools. FIRE AT TRENTHAM HALL.—Yesterday morning a fire broke out at Trentham Hall, the Staffordshire real' deuce of the Duke of Sutherland. Just before five o'clock it was discovered that a closet used as a depository for household implements was in flames. An apparatus for extinguishing fire had been arranged in the Hall by the Duke of Sutherland, and if it were not for the existence of this agency of protection it is probable that the building would have been entirely destroyed. The closet was de" stroyed, and the adjacent apartments ware more or less da maged. The fire was *nth ely extinguished in about a° hour and a half after it was discovered. Sir John Simeon, Dart, M.P. for the Isle of Wight is suffering from severe illness, and has been ordered bY his medical advisers to give up his attendance in Parlis ment for a considerable time in order to recruit his health. The London correspondent of the Manchester Courier writes :—I watched Mr. Gladstone closely when his Chancellor was expounding his heresies about direct and indirect taxation, and he affected to be very busy writing. By the way, the Premier has been seized with lb remarkable fit of literary activity lately. He w rites / writes away night after night—he must hav e co vered reams by this time—and nobody knows whether it is 14 private diary he is keeping, or whether he has been pigued by the keen interest evinced in the appearance of AO° Disraeli's novel, to commence a new series of articles for " Good Words " or fresh Homeric speculations. A WONDERFUL EXPLOIT.—A. woman slept ill Stonehouse Workhouse, Plymouth, on Sunday night , aged 92 years. She had walked from Greenock to Trur° (Cornwall), leaving the former place six w ee k s before Christmas last. Her walk occupied her eleven weeks and four days, and she is now on her way back to Scotland , having left Truro on Monday week. The woman states , in proof of her age ' that she was born in th e 92 n d Bee" ment, and that in the year 1798 the regiment was sent to Ireland during the Rebellion. At that time she was lq_ years of age. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER. The journa l s O Toulouse publish accounts of a mysterious murder at Boux (Haute-Garonne). A tailor disappeared more than two months back, leaving a wife and three children. 11e had attended a fair at Saint Wat, where he went to Pay a debt of £32 and was seen a t an i nn w ith 1 115 creditor, who liad been overheard to say to Win' " Pay me the interest only, and leave the capital to another time." A short time back an anonymous wilting was pi c k e d up i n a s t ree t o f Saint' B•Sat, bearing the words, " Search the cellars of the town' and you will find the man ou are looking for." 111° authorities in consequence made a perquisition, aided by dogs, and disc overe d some h uman rema i ns i n a va ult beneath the inn in which the tailor had been last seen. The body had been cut into pieces, and buried beneath _es thick layer of salt, by which it h a d been preserved frail decomposition. ine inaurititis papers confirm the statement Oa Sir Henry Barlcley, the Governor of the island, wil ; succeed Sir Philip Wodehouse in the Government of the Cape Colony, - - , what ( Th E esta,bi c hain; Crw• _in, Th e W OO% mated l'egarc 3 CTJ Par 1 -Htt c NP 3 er tie 3 w 2 D 0.5 A 1444: Argenti, 1) 0 414 Cl di‘ 111 i Lot , Bar date tic X9:2 Air. /les,: Lo p , Lop ( 811011 lave les, (*ly e 39th F r of a grew Bteat D b