The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-21 00:00:00

THE RED RIVER DIFFICULTY. The correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette telegrai •'. om New York as follows concerning the Red River ineo..7 ction :—" We have received further advices here regal g the state of affairs in the Red River country. From ,ese it seems that Father Thibault and Colonel Desala Irry had induced the half-breeds to send a deputation to ttawa in order to effect a peaceable settlement of the ifficulty. The latest despatches from Minnesota make no eference to the apprehended Indian aggressions and the edarm seems to have subsided." THE JUDGES' CIRCUITS, The Judges met on Thursday morning ana arranged the spring circuits as follows : Home.—Chief Justice Cockburn and Mr. Justice :eating. Northern.—Mr. Justice 'Mlles and Mr. Justice Brett. Western.—Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Justice Hannen, Midland—Mr. Justice Montague Smith and Mr. Baron Cleasby. Oxford—Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Lush. Norfolk—Mr. Justice Byles and Mr. Justice Blackburn, South Wales—Lord Chief Justice Bovill. North Wales—Mr. Baron Chaunell. TIIE GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION LN WALES. The inquest touching the deaths of Evan Havard and ',he little child Leek, who lost their lives by the late ex olosion of gunpowder in Brynmawr, was opened on Wednesday afternoon before Mr. E. J. C. Davies, coroner.— Evan Jones said: lam assistant to Mr. David Watkins. grocer. Last Friday evening I was helping Pickford's man to unload some oats at the lower warehouse in Well-street, when the deceased, Evan Havard, came in and took a candle and lighted it. I asked what he wanted the candle for, and he said that he was going for some powder, which was kept in the upper warehouse. I told him it was too dark to go for powder, and to go back and tell them to come next morning, as Mr. Watkins had a rule to prohibit us taking a candle to the powder-house. lie put the candle out and put it back on the window. I believe he went to the powder-house. The first thing I saw afterwards was the fire coming out of Libanus Chapel yard. I was blown off my feet by the force of the explosion. I went down to the shop, and there met Mr. D. Watkins, and told him that something had happened to the powder. I went back and saw all the place blown to pieces. There were some sacks burning. I am not certain how much powder was in stock, but I knew there were four barrels, which would contain 100 lb. each when full, but I do not know how much was in them at the time. We kept three sorts of powder. There were only four barrels in all. We keep the keys of the warehouse in the shop, and anyone in the shop could take the keys and go to the warehouse. We also kept some powder there weighed in pounds. The candle was left with me. I did not see the man that day lighting any matches, but I saw some on the shop floor, but cannot say where they came from. There was no paraffin kept by Cr. Watkins. There were some empty barrels above, but none below. I went to the warehouse the day before for some bran, but did not notice how much powder was in stock. It was at the end of December we had some powder in last. We had in then ten barrels, half-a-ton in all. Empty barrels were kept to put a quarter of a hundred in, if required, but we always get it in 1001 b. barrels. The inquest was adjourned. THE BRIDGWATER ELECTION COMMISSION. MR. LOVIBOND'S CASE. In the Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday the rule calling upon the Bridgwater Commissioners to shew cause why a mandamus should not issue calling upon them to grant a certificate to Mr. Lovibcnd, the solicitor to Mr. Kinglake, indemnifying him from the consequences of the evidence given at the hearing of the Commission, was argued at great length. The Attorney-General (Sir Robert Collier) shewed cause against the rule. He said the Commissioners were a quasi judicial body, to whom the Legislature had entrusted great powers and considerable confidence, because it gave to them the same powers as judges of assize, such as summoning and compelling the attendance of witnesses, and committing them for contempt; and, in fact, they were constituted in the same way as judges on election petitions. The question he should deal with was whether a witness was bound to answer a question which criminated or tended to criminatehim. It involved difficult points of law and fact. The law says where any witness shall answer any question put to him by the Commis sioners which criminated or tended to criminate him, he shall be entitled to receive a certificate. He should con tend that it was in the discretion of the Commissioners to give or withhold such certificate, and their determination would be final. Mr. Justice Blackburn went with the Attorney-General as far as the exercise of discretion was concerned; but he had doubts as to whether the Commissioners' determina tion was final and conclusive. The Lord Chief Justice : Do you go so far as to say that if a witness has answered satisfactorily the substance of the questions put to him, that he is not to be indemnified, a 9 at common law, for something merely incidental that, in the opinion of the commissioners, may not be satis factory? The Attorney-General submitted that if a witness refused to answer a simple question, it was in the discre tion of the commissioners to grant or withhold a certia- cats. The Lord Chief Justice: But in this case the great pur pose of the examination of Mr. Lovibond was tending to criminate him. The Attorney-General: Whether the question tends to criminate is sometimes a matter of fact and sometimes a matter of law, and requires a judicial discretion. The commissioners have exercised that discretion, and it is not competent for this court to review that discretion. The Lord Chief Justice—lf lam right in the estimate of Mr. Lovibond's evidence, it comes to this—That, although Mr. Lovibond has abundantly admitted the question of bribery, and answered most frankly, yet be cause he refused to admit that Mr. Kinglake was, in his opinion liable for the bribery—he having given the fullest evidence on the general bribery, and merely resisting that conclusion—he is to be refused a certificate. In such a case it is difficult to say that the decision is to be final. The Attorney-General: The Court has expressed an opinion in the cue. The Lord Chief Justice: I have put it hypothetically; nut I have expressed my individual opinion on that part of the case. The Solicitor-General followed on the same side as the Attorney-General. He assumed that the discretion of the Commissioners had been wrongly exercised; and in that assumption, he still submitted that discretion was given by the Act absolutely, and at all events this court by mandamus had no power to review the discretion so exercised. Mr. Henry James briefly supported the rule. The Lord Chief Justice said tha rule must be made absolute. There were two questions—one of fact and the other of law. The first was whether Mr. Lovi bond had answered the questicn so as to en title him to the certificate; and, secondly, whether the Court of Queen's Bench had the power of calling upon the Commissioners by mandamus to give him that certificate. Taking the latter point first, if there had not been any new language imported into the new Act, his lordship agreed that they had no power to revise the Commissioners' decision ; but they were of opinion that the rule should be made absolute. The new Act gave power to the Court of Queen's Bench to reverse the withholding of a certificate. The mandamus could not issue to the committee of the House of Commons, because that body had ceased to exist, and as the Commissioners were still in existence, the mandamus must necessarily go against them. As to the question of fact his lordship thought there was no doubt ➢lr. Lovibond was entitled to a certificate ; at any rate to make the rule absolute, so that the law may be still further con sidered on the return of the writ. Expressing his own individual opinion his lordship considered that Mr. Lovi bond had been most unfairly and unjustly treated by the Commissioners, who seldom gave him an opportunity of answering any question put to him. His evidence was given frankly and freely, and so as to entitle him to a certificate. The conduct of the Commissioners was most irregular and uncalled for, and they, therefore, granted a rule. The other judges agreed, and the .Attorney-General intimated that he should appeal. The appeal of the Rev. James Kelly was pro cee d e d with on Thursday, and at the adjournment of the court he had not concluded his opening. He contended that the judg ment of Lord Penzance was opposed to morality, and that evidence had been wrongfully excluded. This latter meant that letters of- Mrs. Kelly, written twenty years no, expressing her contrition for accusing her husband wrongfully of an improper connection with a female fliend were not received as evidence. At the trial Mrs. Kelly said she should never have written them had not her husband said that to regain his confidence she must do so. As to refusing his wife the Sacrament, the rev. appellant argued that as a clergyman could refuse a stranger who was not in a position to approach the Holy Table, so a fortiori he could his wife when he knew that her circumstances stood in the way of her receiving it in a right frame of mind. Mr. Kelly also argued that the doctor's evidence did not chew that his wife's ill-health was due to his ill -t reatment. The book that Mr. Kelly forbad his son to read, as it was cal culated to "stimulate the passions of youth," was, we are tcld, none other than Vumas's ". Three Zasketeert," and ktuttninetlaile ow of much METROPOLITAN GOSSIP—Jan. 18. There is little new in the political world. The arrange.. ment which I mentioned a week ago has been c:•nfirmcd. Lord Cairns will continue to lead until Easter. By that time it will be seen if Lord Derby will consent to lead, and the High Church Conservatives, some fifty in number, will consent to follow him. Government, as I mentioned some time ago, intend at present to push on the Irish Land Bill to a third reading in the Rouse of Commons before Easter. The remarks of Mr. Bright about the impossibility of driving six omnibuses abreast through Temple Bar have had the ' effect (probably the intended effect) of exciting much dis satisfaction among the Liberal party, and urgent appeals have been made to Mr. Gladstone by the Liberal journals not to slacken his hand. Government waited to test public feeling, and see how far it will support them in the many measures which they propose to pass at some time or other. Four years ago Mr. Gladstone seemed to have outstripped the popular wishes, and he fell. He will not make this mistake again. Hence it must be very satisfactory to him to see that the incimatien of the Irish land bill being the only measure of the session is received with anything but satisfaction. The inconvenience caused by not filling up the vacant English judgeship has been greatly felt this week. Mr, Justice Ilannen has been sitting in the Full Court of Divorce. Another judge has to be at Chambers, and thus it becomes extremely difficult to obtain the presence of three judges in baneo. They are so sitting to day, and the nisi Arius cases intended to be heard to-day have to be postponed or abandoned, either alternative being very vexatious to suitors. The Lord Chief Justice has already pointed out the inconvenience arising from this state of things, and as the Solicitor-General was present at the time, it is to be hoped that he will report the remarks to the Lord Chancellor. The new Junior Conservative Club is making gr...; progress. The number of members joining is very large, and, although the subscription is only five guineas, as much as .£3OO has been received in a single day. There is likely to be another great nunnery case before long. Your reAers will remember Mr. Arthur Wagner, the High Church clergyman of St. Paul's, Brighton, who was instrumental in inducing Constance Kent to confc. , ; that she was the principal in the Road Murder. At the time of her confes , ion 871^ was an inmate of his Arri;lican ber of the H-aL~ the oft b,,uest c a I 11 the ground ti already been ente-i•ecl in the Probate Court. There was a distinguished ainlienee last night at King's College to hour Dean Goulburn read his paper on " The existing mode of electing bishops, and any alteration that may be made therein consistent with the union between Church and State." Mr. J. G. Talt,i, 1.P.. for We. 4 Keat, was in the chair, and Sir John Pakington, Sir John Hay, and other well-known gentlemen were present. The Dean held that Parliament would not consent to any fundamental alteration, but that the Act of Pramuni: e ought to b repealed, inasmuch as it was a usurpation by Henry VIII. Sir John Coleridge, the ! . .ii.olicitor-General, reads a paper on freedom in the Church at Sion College to-night, and it is eagerly anticipated by Churchmen. "Nothing is sacred to a sapper" or to Mr. Cook. He has already organised an excursion through the Suez canal. Mr. Cok,fils, started on Monday with a party of tourists for the Nile, and in February, Englishmen who find politics a bore will have an escape offered them on the very eve of the Parliamentary session by Mr. Cook, pine, who starts for Lower Egypt, the Suez Canal, Palestine, Asia Minor, and Greece, for seventy-five days; or for a forty da3Y H) to Alexandria, Cairo, and the Suez canal. Theatrical matters are becomingmore lively, though the first item I have to mention is the reverse of cheerful. The Holborn Theatre is closed, and it is understood that the house has involved Mr. Barry Sullivan in a heavy loss. He had been assisted professionally by Mr. and Mrs. Her mann Vezin, who had done their best to support the legi mate drama against the modern sensational and realistic school. The best modern plays, Lytton's, Sheridan's, and others, had been brought out in a style that Charles Kean might have envied. The failure is another illustration of Mr. Boucicault's assertion that while there are plenty of persons who talk about the legitimate drama,they do nothing to support it. To-morrow night will witness the produc tion, at the Queen's, of Mr. Tom Taylor's new historical play, "'Twist Axe and Crown." A large outlay has been made upon fittings, properties, and dresses. Mr. and Mrs. Wybert Rousby, well known to theatre-goers at Plymouth, Hull, and Jersey, are to have two of the principal parts, and Mrs. Rousby's dress alone has cost £5O. While writing this play Mr. Taylor went to Jersey to see Mr. and Mrs. Rousby's style of acting. That he was well pleased with it may be gathered from the fact that the success of his piece will be dependent upon their rendering of it. Mr. W. S. Gilbert (son of the well known novelist) has produced at the Olympic a burlesque on Tennyson's " Princess." Mr. Robertson's new play "N:htingale," at the Adelphi, is severely criticised. There is a talk of Laving no fewer than four grand opera houses in London, and it is said that the funds aro already forthcoming for a very large one over which Sir Michael Costa it to preside. Another opera is to be devoted to the works of Offenbach, and that most outree of actresses, Mdlle. Schneider. Meanwhile Her Majesty's remains closed. Nilsson is gradually travelling west, and has come as far as Paris. The Parisans, in spite of their political difficulties and excitement, have found time to give a very hearty reception to the prima donna, who has appeared as Ophelia in Thomas's Opera. Wagner's "Lohengrin," is to be brought out at Brussels, and immense are the preparations for it. Art has sustained no slight loss by the death of Mr. Aaron Penley. He was one of the best known members of the Water Colour Institute, and his sunsets were equalled only by the late Francis Denby's. The two last weeks have been a busy time for artists They have been sending in their pictures to the exhibitions, which will shortly be opening their doors. Amen; these are the the water-colour exhibition at the Dudley Gallery, and the Ladies' Exhibition. The opposition to the Royal Academy, who, it will be remembered, held an exhibition in Bond-street last year, have split into two sections, and are holding rival exhibitions. This is rather costly work, as the rent of one suite of rooms is £3OO for the season— r sum that will need a good many shillings to cover it. Mr. Story is now in Rome, and another equallywell known American sculptor, Mr. Power, is at Florence. Perhaps nst even itsCf otters a livelihood to so many artists as Florence does. There are in the Italian capital a hundred copyists el ys at work in the Uffizi Gallery alone. Many ' f then spend titer whole lives in paint ing the same sieture over and over again, on the principle that practice makes perfect. Among them are eight or ten ladies. Ono of the pictures most frequently copied is the tryptich of Fra Angelico, with its border of angel musicians. Four artists aro always copying this work. It takes them a week to copy an angel, and the week's work brings in about £3. At the Pitti Gallery Raphael's Virgin Ia the favourite picture. It takes two months to complete a copy of this work, and so popular is it that artists have to enter their names ten or twelve years beforehand. The greater number of the artists are Italian, some are French, some German, but there are very few English. Mr. William Rossetti's long-announced " Life of Shelley' is out at last. It has been published by Moron, who also has brought out a volume of poems by Lord Teignmouth. His lordship's appearance in the literary world will sur prise most persons, for he has been known hitherto only as a Dissenting preacher. Dr. Pusey has written another letter to Dr. Newman, which forms a continuation of the " Eireni con,"and discusses the possibility of a "Healthful Reunion"- - a rapprochement which Archbishop Lycurgus, of Syra, will hardly be likely to favour. The author of the "Annals of an Eventful Life ' 9 is , I am told, a writer on the staff of the Times, although his colleague, Mr. Edward Walford, when reviewing the book in the Times on Monday, appears to be ignorant of that fact. Mr. Walford, after having oscillated several times between the Anglican and Roman Churches, has lately set up an iron meeting-house on his own account. Another Times writer, Dr. Dasent, the well-known Northern scholar, has just been appointed by the Government to the post of Civil Service Commissioner. The writers in the leading journal have been fortunate in promotion for many years. Mr. Steinmetz has written a "History of Gambling in All Countries," whioh ought to be " a caution," as the Americans say; and Captain Burton, whose book on Dahomh readers of travels will remember, has just brought out a book on Paraguay. A new periodical, the Club Magazine, is announced, and claims to be the " Suez Canal between the Europe of the reading public and the Asia of contributors." Whence it would seem that writers are m-)re numerous than readers. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY) Sale? probably 10,000 bales, The market eras quiet. BREAKFAST. -EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND Colt - FORTrNO,—The very agnmable character of this preparation has r: r. it a general favourite. The 'Civil be vice Gazette' ro mirks:—" The singular success which )!r. Epps attained by his ho CeOpathic preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by a iy experimentalist. By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with & deli cately flavoured beverage wiech may save us many heavy doe- Vire' villa." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Ball only is ptu-'-wts. ::.11ALtri "JIBS Zias sat C9-,IICZAD Mac CIAMPI iiviga. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1870. iIgSCELLANEOUS NEIF; ground for flea works, water for - bridging, cost of brushwood, &c., is not required by any other arm of the service. These views are laid down in the me morial to Mr. Cardwell. - . . _ .. , writer - has taken —, far more pains - man tne -- ,• .7 . .':t!, an COMMERCE!. ,- -, 4 4i proper authorities to ascertain the precis , ' It appears from an 'official report at St. Petersburg that causes of those mysterious deaths that have fro): , Russian imports, especially articles of luxury, have con time to time occurred in our madhouses, both put'., : siderably increased of late. The increase in the importa and private. Ho says that in his researches 110 1: . tion of tea during ;the year was 80,000 cwt.. and in examined, "not the medical attendants and othe coffee 70,000 cwt. On the other hand, the exports servants of an asylum whose interest it is to veil ugly have been gradually diminishing, and there has been a truth, and sprinkle hells with rosewater, but a num ber of ex-patients who had never been too mad considerable decrease in the exports of corn, flax, and to observe, and ex-attendants, male and female, who wood. The increase of imports is readily to be accounted had gone into other lines of life, and could now for by the late tariff reduction. afford to reveal the secrets of these dark places." . THB ISLAND OF ST. THOMAS. These very attendants have told him that " the The Pall Mall Gazette learns, on good authority, that keepers know how to break a patient's bones president Grant Ind his entire Cabinet have decided that without bruising the skin," and that " the the honour of the United States demands the prompt con doctors have been duped again and ,again elusion of the purchase of St. Thomas, negotiatod by Mr. by them." In this letter Mr. Reads enumerates Seward. High time, too. This purchase of St. Thomas several cases, the facts of which he has carefully col- has been an unquestionable discredit to America. Mr. lected, where wilful cruelty has resulted in death. Seward represented to the Danish Government that the He chews us the evidence that was given at inquiries chiefly by medical men and attendants. The result United States wanted the island very badly, and were was generally a complete failure of justice. willing to pay a fair price for it. The sum was agreed In conclusion, to prove the importance he attaches to upon, and the Danes made every preparation for handing the subject, ho offers "a reward of £lOO to any over the possession, when Congress refused to ratify the parson or persons who will give such evidence as may bargain. The affair has remained in this state until now. lead to the conviction of the person or persons who The behaviour of the United States has been a flagrant have killed William Wilson, by kneeling on him, by example of disregard for the honour and interests of a walking (knees downwards) upon . him." " it is friendly nation. interest," he says, "that c'oses men s minds in these dark places. We must employ the same instrument to open them ; it is our only chance." TM: FINSBURY 3FURDER. The unfortunate Cecilia Aldridge, who was so barbarously murdered in Finsbury last Friday night, appears to have been one of a large family. No fewer than twenty young women have represented themselves to be the sisters of the murdered woman, and all within less than a week. In every instance the police have carefully investigated the pretended relationship, which has invariably turned out to be an attempt at fraud. One young woman was an excellent imposter; she could command bitter tears at discretion, and displayed acute grief at the sight of her "sister's" body. But she, too, was found out. ller mother told the police her daughter had given her trouble from childhood through a habit of falsehood. Of course, the object in these cases is to excite substan tial sympathy ; and great, indeed, must be the desire of gain which would induce a woman to claim kindred with a person such as Cecilia Aldridge seems to have been. We have often heard used the phrase "to lie like a tombstone." An example in support of the phrase may be found in Handel's tomb in Westminster Abbey, which gives both the day and the year of his birth wrong, if the contemporary register is correct. There is some prospect that a revival of pugilism will be attempted in the United States very shortly. Jem Mace and Tom Allen, both Englishmen, are endeavouring to get up a match for some 2,500 dollars aside and the "champion belt of America." Up to January 3rd, how ever, the two parties had not been able to come to an agreement, and so this great encounter yet remains in abeyance. A telegram from Dublin states that the steamer Fairwater foundered, after collision with another vessel. The Fairwater was a very fine vessel, and when the colli sion occurred was on a voyage from Penarth to Cork. The crew were all saved. The barque J. Mann, which arrived at Plymouth on Monday, reports the wreck of a large vessel in about lat. 48 N, long. 63 W. Portions of wreck, cargo, and deckload were floating about. The Cornet, of Liverpool, is a total wreck at Maceio. The appeal of the Rev. James Kelly, incumbent of St. George's Church, Liverpool, against the judgment of Lord Penzance, whereby a judicial separation was decreed on the wife's petition, was commenced to-day, before the learned Judge-Ordinary, Baron Channel, and Justice Hannen. The greater part of the sitting was occupied by the rev, respondent reading a portion of the correspon dence in the case, and he had only got to four out of the nine points on which he objects to the judgment when the court adjourned. The Pall Mall Gazette, in its notice of the death of Dr. Rowland Williams, states that only four of the writers of the "Essays and Reviews" are now alive. This, says the Globe, is a mistake. Mr. Baden Powell and Dr. Rowland Williams are dead. The other five are living, namely : Dr. Temple, Bishop of Exeter; the Rov. B. Jowett, Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford ; the Rev. 11. B. Wil son, Rector of Great Slaught on ; the Rev. Mark Pattison Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford; and Mr. C. W. Goodwin (a brother of the Bishop of Carlisle), who is one of her Ma jesty's Consuls abroad. An inquiry was held yesterday at Wednesbury into the death of Ann loran, aged 70, whose death was said to have been accelerated by ill-treatment on the part of the relieving officer. The deceased woman had 2s. a week from the parish, and l.s. a week from her daughter-in-law. A fortnight ago she sent fur her parish money, being too ill to fetch it, but the officer refused to give it. She then went het self, but was refused the money. She went again later and received it, but was attacked with a fit of apoph xy in the pay room, from which site dii d. The jury returned a verdict that death proceeded flora apoplexy, caused by cold and exposure, cud added that they thought the relieving officer was culpable iu compelling the attend ance of the woman, knowing her ago and illness. This verdict they desired might be laid befo.e the Board of Guardians. FOREIGIc NOIT/r= PRYNCE PIERRE PIONLPAIITE nt ITALY. Our correspondent in Rome,writing on the 15th, layst-tr "Prince Pierre Bonaparte's affair has caused great interest here, as he is by birth a Roman, and resided here in his youth. He was banished from the Roman States for a crime very similar to that he has just committed, the murder of an officer of gendarmerie, named Cagiano, the brother of the late cardinal at that name. Prince Pierre was then a resident of Viterbo, and was in the habit of going out armed with pistols to seek discreditable adventures in the homes of the citizens and peasantry, to whom he was a perfect object of terror. Cagiano was sent to arrest him, andhaving been previously on friendly terms with him, did so without violence, simply requesting the Prince to follow. The latter did so, but as soon as they reached a dark lane in Viterbo the Prince took out a pistol and shot the poor officer dead. These details are matter of notoriety here, and are a suffi cient indication of the violent and cowardly character of the Prince. But for the influence of his father, Lucien Bonaparte, he wouldl have been sent to the galleys, but in respect to his family he was allowed to escape." VARL DE onyx AND RIPON ON TEE SERVV"Eq Earl de Grey and Ripon, the President of tlr - ' Council, has been making a speech at Rotherham l>. township adjoining _Sheffield) - which ought carry comfort to many a trembling heart. As Grand Master of the Freemason's, the noble earl attended the laying of the first stone of a hospital. At the banquet which followed he proposed the toast of the Army, Navy, and Volunteers. Those persons who believe that the Gladstone Cabinet are seeking the destruction of all three services, or at any rate think very little of " impairing their effi ciency," will be surprised to hear that a member of the Ministry declared "no one was more convinced than himself of the vast importance to this country of the efficiency of her military forces." The ser vices of both forces, were (the noble Earl went on to declare) "written in the most glorious page of Eng lish history," Thus, and with much more to the same effect Earl de Grey "orated." What the Government were doing (said he) was simply trying to discover the great problem of how to render the forces most powerful in time of war, at the least cost in time of peace. Surely a problem worthy of dis covery. LONDONDERRY. If Mr. Serjeant Dowse becomes Solicitor General fir Ireland, his re-election to his Londonderry seat will not, according to the Northern Whig, be passed by unopposed. Alderman Rose, of London, who was returned for Southampton in November, 1862, will come forward as the Conservative candidate. NOTTINGHAM. Many of the Nottingham electors do not wish to lose Colonel Wright as their representative, and they are signing a memorial to induce him to reconsider his determination to resign. Some accounts, how• ever, state that there is small chance of this request being successful. Colonel Wright, it is said, pro mised to resign within a brief period after his return in November, 1808, provided the petition against him were withdrawn. lie is now about to redeem his promise. THE BRIDGWATER ELECTION. The rule nisi to shew cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel the commissioners of the Bridgwater election petition to grant Mr. Lovibond, one of the witnesses, a certificate, was argued yester day in the Court of Queen's Bench. The Lord Chief Justice animadverted strongly on the conduct of the commissioners. He said the court were of opinion that Mr. Lovibond had given his evidence fra , ikly and fairly. They did not consider the commissioners had given him a fair opportunity of answering the questions put to him. This conduct he said was most irregular and uncalled for; the rule was therefore made absolute. Mr. Justice Blackburn, Mr. Justice Mellor, and Mr. Justice Lush said they agreed with his lordship. The Attorney-General gave notice of his intention to appeal MR. HUGHES, M.P., AND MR. ODGER.. The member for Frome has upheld Mr. °doer's candidature at a very large meeting in Rotherhithe. M 7. Hughes considers that the return of a working man to Parliament would be good, for the old rea son that artisan representatives are needed for the full comprehension of artisan questions. He like wise put forth at this Rotherhithe meeting a newer and more original reason. He has unbounded faith in the sagacity of the people, or People—Mr. Dickens nlay determine which. When one part of the nation is right and the other wrong, it is generally the mass of the people, in Mr. Hughes' opinion, that uphold the true opinions. " They went right when the great slavery question with respect to the colo nies of England was before the country. It was the people who pulled the repeal of the Corn Laws through. No doubt they were led by men of the middle class, but it was the energy and determina tion of the people which pulled the enactment through. And in the last great question which came before the people of England—the great war in America—the masses of the people kept the upper classes in the right direction, and prevented this country from getting into a war with America." As an expounder of thisinnate perception of the fitness of things, Mr. Hughes told the Rotherhithe electors that they could not have a better man than Mr. Odger. It appears that a Tory friend of Mr. Hughes has expressed a desire to see Mr. Odger in Parliament. On being asked why, the Tory friend replied, "I would sooner have my coals in my grate than all about my floor." ROCHDALE POLITICS. Mr. Potter addressed his constituents on the topics of the day on Wednesday evening. He pronounced in favour of those changes which have long been part of his political creed—the ballot, the abolition of nominations and the official declaration of the poll, and the reform of the licensing system. Mr. Potter is an advocate of the Permissive Bill, and though he cannot hope for such a measure from the Government, he still relies upon some concessions to temperance principles. Mr. Potter declares for a purely secular system of educa tion ; he will strenuously oppose the extension of the Contagious Diseases Act ; and is in favour of the bill to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister. Mr. Potter ridicules the reciprocity cry. Other causes than free trade must be adduced to explain the depression of trade : A return was presented to the House of .COmmons last year of joint-stock companies which had been in liquida tion during the last six or seven years, and the amount of loss sustained by their failure. He desired his reciprocity friends to direct _their attention to these figures. There had been, at the date of the return, 480 joint-stock com panies in Chancery, of which the whole property was lost. Their paid-up capital amounted to £1,116,000; and the number of contributories was 61,900. If there were 61,900 families in Great Britain whose average loss was £5OO, they might imagine to want extent that loss affected their purchasing powers. The amount stated, moreover, w.ts ependent of calls of from £1 to £430 per sliare in other companies, number ing 218; and of many companies not in Chancery which wert! making calls but paying no dividends. This, although not the sole cause of the stagnation of trade, ac counted for much of it, and he believed the sufferings of the people had been mitigated rather than increased by our commercial policy. MIL PELL, ON THE IRISH LAND QUESTION. At tie annual meeting of the Lutterworth Conser vative Association, Mr. Pell, Conservative mem ber for South Leicestershire, spoke on the Irish land question. He said, astho owner and occupier of land in England, he thought he might fairly go into Ireland, confer with the tenantry there, and see for himself how far Mr. Bright's statements were correct. Mr. Bright had always held that what the Irish tenants wanted was to be the proprietors of the land. With all due deference to Mr. Bright, he did not think Irish tenants wished to h rish landlords. Ile thought their view was that by status, and not hy contract, they were entitled to the occupation of the land in Ireland. Mr. Pell expressed a hope that whatever measure Government brought forward, it would be one that the country would un derstand, and which would teach the people of Ireland once for all that the law of the land must not be trilled with, and that order must be main tained. A LANDLORD'S VIEW. An Ulster Landlord and Tenant (Mr. Sinclair) returns to the Irish land question in another letter to the Standard. He refers to the alleged inclination of Irish landlords to turn their lands from tillage to pasture, thus causing diminished sustenance for man, and diminished employment for labour. He admits both consequences, but cannot say that he wonders such should be the case. As an em ployer of labour, he says he has found it almost impossible to get work done by task, save when starvation was the alternative. Tho endeavour of the Irish day workman is to do as little as pos sible in a given time. He adds to this the pleasant prospect of being a mark for the waylayer or assassin, which stares in the face the overseer who is conscien tious enough to seek for his employer a fair day's work for a WI. day's pay. The ox and the sheep, he ob serves, endeavour to serve their masters by covering their bones with beef and mutton, to the best of their ability ; if they suppose themselves badly treated, as they often are, they do not avenge their wrongs by arson alai murder. There is, therefore, he argues, a strong inducement for an active owner of land to keep it as pasture in his own hands. The writer adds that he quite agrees with the right hon. member for Birmingham, that the more closely such a state of affairs is looked at the more difficult does it seem to make legislative enactments which will satisfy tenants, with their present ideas, and preserve the legitimate rights of the owners of the-,sml. MR. MAGUIRE, M.P. AND TIIE POPE. According to the Cork Examiner, his Holiness Pius IX. has favoured the member for clork with a special audience, and it appears t 4 the Pope was pleased with the policy of Mr. (iiaostone's Ministry. He said it was with great satisfaction he observed that ; the Government and Parliament of Eng land had of late evinced a real anxiety to deal with Ireland in a wise and gene rous spirit. lie also expressed pleasure at the prospect of a measure " to improve the condition of the cultivators of the land." "He had reason to think the intention was wise and good, which it must be wheu it was for the benefit of a people and a country." THE VOLUNTEERS. A meeting of metropolitan and county Volunteer Engineer officers has just been held in London, and a memorial has been drawn up for Mr. Cardwell's consideration. The Volunteer _Engineers hold that their claim for an increase of capitation grant cannot reasonably be overlooked, oven if the demand be refused to the Volunteer force generally. Their position is an exceptional one. The wear awl tear of their uniforms are greater than is 0 tbathaarad the _Mr*. THE HERCULES ACCIDENT. Captain Palliser states that the shells which broke up the 10-inch gnus on board the Hercules ought not to be called "Palliser" shells, as they were not de signed by him. Only about 700 of these peculiar shells had been made, and it had been agreed that they should be recast in a better pattern before news of the accident had been received. Captain Palliser says he is quite ready to test the comparative efficiency of pointed chilled cast-iron to flat-headed steel projec ti!es, the former being his, and the latter Mr. Whit worth's. This test, he adds, should have reference only to penetration with oblique incidence, for the superiority of the Palliser shot in direct penetration his not been questioned. BISHOPS AND SrFFRAGANS. One of the varied questions that are continually arising in connection with the bishops of the Church was discussed at King's College, London, on Wed nesday, by Dr. Coulburn, Dean of Norwich. The very rev. gentleman spoke earnestly and elo quently on the subject of the election of bishop:. Briefly stated, his opinion is that the State has too much power in the appointments—the Church should be given a louder voice. The Dean proposes to give that voice by making the election by the dean and chapter a reality, and no longer a sham. Sir John Pakington endorsed the proposal ; but took no note of the objection to it, that it would be giving power to the clergy merely, and not to the whole body of the Church. It may be remarked that in the appointment of suffragans the bishops are using the power of nominating a few from which the Queen is requested to choose. Ikre then is the " double control." Some difficulties are arising as to these same suffragans. What are they to be called ? Right reverends, lordships, sirs ? Will they lose their present preferments on consecration? Will they sit in Convocation, be "endowed," or only given an unspecified sum annually ? In short, what posi tion are they really to hold ? A QUESTION OP ORDER. A correspondent of the Times, referring to the observation of the Emperor Napoleon, " for order I will answer," asks, "is there no one who can or will answer for order in England ?" He says he resides in a district near the centre of England, within eight miles of a large town, and still nearer to barracks containing a strong force of soldiers; yet for months the neighbourhood has been almost as disturbed as in the worst parts.of Ireland. Informing his readers that the place of his residence is Chapeltown,. near Sheffield, he complains that the disquietude in question arises from the dispute between the masters and men at the Thorncliffe Collieries. They have, ho says, employed about 300 non unionists, who are able and willing to work for Cs. a day. These " black sheep," as they are technically called by the unionists, as well as their wives and children, are subjected to brutal assaults little short of murder. In addition to this there have been two attempts at riot on a large scale. He writes, therefore, to ask—"is there no ono whose business it is to answer for the order of the district ?" Another correspondent gives some strange par ticulars as to this want of order. Threats of determined and lawless violence have been loudly and openly made. The new houses are to be wept away ; the lives of the masters and the non-unionists are to be taken. " Black sheep," unless in large bodies, have been and still are unable to leave their residences without an escort of police. Their children cannot be sent to school. They cannot attend a place of worship on Sunday. They cannot fetch physic for sick members of their families, unless escorted by a policeman. The dead cannot be buried without knots of Unionists, larger or smaller, follow ing and hooting at the funeral party. All this is dis graceful enough ; but when the disturbances culmi nate, as they did on the 17th of January, in an effort by hundreds of armed men to attack the colliery property and take the lives of the non-unionists, it is quite time, the writer thinks, for the authorities to interfere, E3UGUATIOY. The Lord Mayor writes to the Times on the subject of emigration. Ho says he was anxious at one time that all existing societies for pro moting emigration should be amalgamated. Now he thinks that, looking at the mag nitude of the work to be done, the deep responsibility attached to its proper conduct, together with the diversity of views between the several associations, and the subject of State and pauper emigration, the British and Colonial Emigration Society, of which he is the president, had better continue its labours without any change. His lord ship refers to the 'example of Mr. Goschen and others who have subscribed £2,000 towards the assistance of 4,000 emigrants. ll° urgently appeals for further aid to carry out a work " which has the merit that if successful it achieves permanent results, and is not, like so many charities, merely a stop-gap." ANOTHER. SCENE AT TILT MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. The greatest respect for the representative of the "majesty of the law " only tends to make one more indignant with the continually-recurring scenes at Middlesex Sessions. A squabbling vestry or town council may be tolerated, but a squabbling law court cannot be endured. It is not as if Mr. Deputy- Assistant-Judge Payne only had ono or two uproars in his court. They are always occurring. SessiOn after session he practically confesses his inability to rule the bar over which ho presides. Not the slightest respect whatever is shewn to him. The counsel joke him, insult him, and reply to his censures with what are very like jeers. Another episode was enacted on Wednesday. One lawyer bandied with the other so pettishly that the judge interposed " Counsel must not speak to one another." The same learned gentleman than began to bully the jury; but one of them silenced him by saying, We are not to be intimidated." Then ho seems to have turned attention on the judge, who soon became sharp. "I knew the law," cried the bench, " before you were born." "Age," returned the gentleman at the bar, " gives experience, but not knowledge." And in this way the properly calm judicial temper is kept in the court. INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM. Amongst the many changes in journalism which the year 1870 will bring, -there is one, not of very general importance in itself, which is yet worth noting. The Bath Express and County Herald will shortly be issued as a " high Class Liberal paper." The prospectus issued by the proprietor, a model of its kind, marks the great alteration in the tone of newspapers which recent years have wrought. lle promises to provide a Liberal, not a partisan paper, to judge ques tions on their merits, not as they are connected with persons. "No party (he remarks) can be, or at all events ought to be, efficiently served by a one-sided view of men and things. He who does not act fairly by an opponent, is not in harmony with truth, which in every aspect should be the aim of a journalist." Rigid consistency is not promised. All subjects will be fairly considered as they arise—religious questions as others. On this latter point the remarks of the prospectus might be taken to heart by other than journalists. "The Bath Express will not aim to be the organ of any religious party in particular. Acknowledging the paramount importance of religious sentiments in every relation of life, public and private, it yet desires to recognise all Christian. Churches as so many branches of the one great universal Church. If pre tensions are set up which interfere with practical usefulness or the public good, it will not hesitate to expose them ; but it would at all times prefer to encourage the mutual forbearance and mutual con sideration which a common sense of fallibility should produce." Would that this spirit prevailed more extensively in all our religious dealings. MRS. STONE'S VINDICATION. The opinions of the leading American journals touching Mrs. Stowe's fresh contribution to the Byron controversy have already been announced in brief by cable. The full text of these criticisms shews that the telegraph in no way over-rated the stringency of their censure. The .Nen, Fork Tribune, which is the most favourable, and holds that Mrs. Stowe has well-nigh made out her case, wishes "more than ever that she bad been content to hold her peace." The Nation says that " the only additional proof of the charges offered are more extended and explicit reports of the conversation in which Lady Byron revealed the secret." This conversation will help to confirm the impression of many people that she was not sound in her mind on this subject in later years." Tho Boston Advertiser, without any question as to Mrs Stowe's honesty in telling the - ".True Story," declares that the revelation was utterly useless and worse. Lady Byron needed no defence. "Mrs. Stowe has filled the literature of a year with foulness and dirt—and this in an age when we have dirt enough of our own to contend with, without disturbing the scandals of a past generation. In striving to defend one lady, she has besmirched the r3putation of another, equally pure and estimable in her known character. She has done this without the means to snbstantiato the horrible charges she has made." The New Fork Times affirms that Mrs. Stowe contradicts her former " True Story ;" that she contradicts the story which she now declares Lady Byron told her; and that she contradicts, in the last part of her present volume, the accusations which she makes in the first part. In common with the rest of its contemporaries, the Times asks, Why tell the story at all ? iroiv LUNATICS' RIBS GET BROKEN. An interesting letter from the well-known novelist, 1 . :i=1 : =11:4 ,t 31 . = .2 . ,,,1fa11-Gazette • • • 0112 FRANCE AND ITALY. The letter of the Comte do Boigne, deputy of Savoy, on the Roman occupation, has created, it is said, a great sen sation in Italy, as it is clear that M. 011ivier is pledged to support the French occupation during the Council, and especially to enforce the terms of the Convention, which are as yet unfulElled on the part of Italy as regarding the Pontifical debt, which is subjected to a tax of 8 per cent„ contrary to the stipulations of the convention. M. 011ivier gave his word to the Savoyard Deputies that not only would ho maintain the status quo, but that no overture from Italy would be received during the sitting of the Council. The Nuzione has a very angry article on the policy of the new Cabinet, from which tho revolution had hoped for full support. AUSTItIAN JOURNALS AND THE COUNCIL. The leading journals of Vienna are very indignant with the CEcumenical Council for its attack upon modern philo sophy. The eighteen theses on this subject form the first volume of the propositions elaborated by the preparatory commissions, and are to be presented in the form of anathemas. The Vienna papers are apprehensive that this indicates such a preponderance of the I7ltramon tane element, as will ensure the acceptation of the Dogma. The opposition of the Austrian prelate, Strossmeyer, however, gives hopes to the ene mies of Infallibility, and there is a belief in some quarters that the Papal party will esteem it wiser, on account of the absence of unanimity on the subject, to accept the petitions of the extreme faction in favour of the Dogma simply as expressions of individual opinion. RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN PRUSSIA. A good deal of discussion Las taken place in rrussra With respect to religious orders. The Extreme Left are anxious to suppress all the monasteries and nunneries in the country, but the Prussian Government has no con stitutional power to fulfil their wishes. The number of religious recluses living in Prussia is generally over estimated. There are, says the _North German Correspondent, 4LO monks and 612 nuns in Prussia, bit the former are chiefly employed in the cure of souls, and a great majority of the latter, spend their time in:nursing the sick and furthering educa tion. The laws are already quite severe enough to pre vent abuses or too rapid a growth and extension of monastic power. It is more difficult to deal with the brotherhoods, sisterhoods, and private congregations, concerning whom the information is very incomplete. There is no doubt h,wever, that these societies are protected by the spirit of the Prussian Constitution, which secures the fullest religious liberty to all who live under it. TEE RIIINS OF AN ANCIENT CAPITAL. rrajanopolis, the capital of the Roman province of Thracia, has just been discovered about four miles from Dyen, near Emos. In the time of the Romans this town had two hundred thousand inhabitants, but its site is now a desert. Its decay is attributed to the miasmatic emana tions of the river Hebrus. The remains of a large aera imoVAimcgbaulkszoiso AN AMERICAN DILEMMA. According to the Washington correspondent of the Notion the anxiety of the American President to keep the peace between the Executive and the Senate, has not been successful. A quarrel broke out during the two weeks' December session, and the Senate has shewn a worse temper than ever before. The quarrel has originated with the Attorney-General, Judge Hoar, who has expressed in language more forcible than civil his opinion of political jobs and jobbers. His official ap pointments have often been made in defiance of senators, members, and local representatives. Naturally those who were less rigid in their principles disliked him extremely, and accuse him of having acquired too great an influence over the President and his Cabinet. Lately the Attorney General sent to the Senate a list of nine circuit judges, several of whom were displeasing to Senators. Judge Woodruff, in particular, occupied a place which certain Senators wished Judge Hall to have. Those nominations were referred to the Judiciary Com mittee, together with that of Judge Hoar himself, as Associate Justice. The Committee requested the President to publish all papers which in any way concerned the candidates, implying at the same time that ib expected to find evidence of serious mistakes on the part of the President and his chief legal adviser. The Presi sident refused to accede to the request until it was modified, but in order to conciliate the Senate, nominated Mr. Stanton to the Supreme Bench before any vacancy actually existed, so that the Judge's predecessor still sitting on the Bench ,has atttmled his State funeral. The Senate was not, however, to be pacified, and the Judiciary Committee reported unfavourably on Judge Hoar. The committee consists of seven members, only one of whom supported the Attorney- General. The object of the malcontents is not only to prevent Judge Hoar from rising to the bench, but tO drive him from the Cabinet. The position of the President is, therefore, a very awkward one, and is thus stated by the Nation :—" If the President compels Judge Hoar to remain in the Cabinet, he practically slaps the Senate in the face, and accepts the war it has declared. If he permits Judge Hoar to retire, he sets, perhaps, the most dangerous precedent which it is in his power to csta blish—a precedent which is of itself a revolution in the American form of government." CUBAN" AFFAIRS. A Cuban steamer, with part of the Hornet's crew on board, has been seized by the authorities in consequence of the intimation of the Spanish Consul at Charleston that she intended to violate the neutrality laws. The passengers and crew were mostly Cubans. Among there were a son of General Cespedes, and Colonel Ryan, 6e Cuban filibuster. They all declared they had no inten tion of making any aggressive movements. From Havana, the sixth of January, it is reported that a body of insurgents is moving towards the Eastern Department, and that simultaneoudy with this advance some well-armed bodies were sent to the centre of the Cinca Villas district. The supposed ob !ect of this expedition is to destroy the sugar-cane fields. The woods in the neighbourhood of Puerto Principe halm been cut down, thus depriving the insurgents of a place for attack. THE POOR-LA 1P AND CHARITY. A meeting, under the auspices of the Social Science Association, was held at the rocens of the Society of Arts last night to hear and diQcuss a paper on "The best means of obtaining concerted action between representatives of the Poor law and private charity respectively." The chair was occu pied by Mr. T. CharnberA, M.P., and amongst those present were the Earl of Lichfield, 1)r. Stallard, Mr. Talbot, M.P., members of boards of guardians, and others interested in the question. The CHAIRMAN stated that the paper had been written as a compromise betwe n several parties, and was not to be taken as binding upon any body. Mr. ALSAGER Him read the paper, which had, be said, been prepared by practical men connected with the administration of the Poor-law. The views expressed in it were that either directly or indirectly supplementary relief must be given until a more complete classification of paupers can be effected. The Poor-law, police, charitable, and general agencies were at present working not in concert, but in opposition to each other, and so had failed to accomplish their pur pose. Excellent as the law might be in providing for the necessities of the poor, it failed altogether to promote habits of economy and self-dependence, and it therefore needed reforming. Then came the question whether the existing supplementary agen cies were to continue in opposition to the Poor-law authorities, or should work with them. Paupers were of two classes—the temporary or casual, and the chronic or permanent ; and it was held that under the existing system a man who casually falls into pauperism was likely to become demoralised by association with older and less honest prac titioners. It was maintained, therefore, that the law should relieve absolute necessity only, and that further aid should be given, as in eases of sickness, by private charity, thy , object of which should be to set the recipient on foot again, and urge him to gain his own living and to make provision for the future. The question as to chro nic pauperism should be reduced to one of discri mination and combination of agencies legal and voluntary. lie would advise that the part of the minute recommending the printing of a list should be adhered to, and that there should be every op portunity for those engaged in the relief of the poor to know the proceedings of others similarly engaged. As a detail the establishment of work rooms for those requiring relief was advised, the workers to be paid out of the charity funds. To wards such a house for the reception of women to se w, the guardians should be required to contribute at the same rate as if the women were still at their own homes. To effect this half the amount spent in iudiscrithinate relief would, if properly applied, be more than sufficient. Those who would not avail themselves of the work rooms should be com pelled to go to the workhouse, unless absolutely incapable .of useful labour. It was believed that this system would effect an entire change of the demoralising agencies at present in operation. Mr. ALEXANDER THWAITES 7 of 11,!ading, gave an account of the system adopted in that town, by which pauper boys were drafte d from the union through district schools into useful employment. Dr. ROGERS said that, seeing that the average earnings of the working classes twelve and sixpence per vvt .ek, there only did am n o ot un s t ee t m o to be much chance for those habits of providence which the upper cla sses so highlyf yearl h r a ee lf o - y listmmended. (Hear, hear.) Th e publication of for relief sho uld be ur ged on Mr. (Glfotshcoliseenl,vahnodaPhrelY b e lieved that it would be a wise plan to leave casual mendicants to be dealt with by the police. The increase of the cost of pauperism since 1852 was £2,000,000, the population having increased by 5,000,000. in Ireland the increased cost since 1860 was £838 7 000. The meeting was adjourned until n ext Monday week. LADVER TISFYIENT. I—lioiloway's Oiuttueitt and Pills. — Rheumatism and Gout. —These purifying and soothing remedies demand the earnest attonticu of all persons liable to rheumatism, gout, sciatica, or other painful afflictions of the muscles, nerves, or joints. The ointment should be applied after the affected parts have boon patiently fomented with warm watet, when this unguent should be diligently rubbed on the adjacent skin, unless the friction should cause pain. Holloway's pills should be simulta neously taken to reduce inflammation and to purify the blood. This treatment abates the violence, and lessens the frequency of gout rheumatism , and all s p asmodic diseases which spring from hereditary predispositions, or from any accidental weakness of constitution. The ointment checks the local gialedy—tllopille ream the vitel power. ST ATE OF THE SUN. Professor J. D. Steele has sent to the Elmira (New York) Advertiser the following cormilueica tion for quieting needless fears There appeared in the Llmira Advertiser some weeks since a paragraph, copied; I believe, from a Michigan paper, declaring that a column of mage netic light is shooting out from the sun at a pro digious speed—that it already reaches halfway to the earth, and that, in all probability, by another summer we shall have a celestial and atmospheric phenomena beside which our rudest winter winds will seem like a ' June morning in ParacEse.' In fine, that when this big tongue of fire touches the earth it will likely lap up our globe at one mouthful. Very many have made inquiries of me concerning this prodigy, and with your leave, I will try to satisfy their curiosity, and perhaps allay their fears. It has been known for some time that !luring a total eclipse red flames were seen to play about the edge of the moon. During the eclipses of 1868 and 1869 it was definitely sealed that they are entirely d scounected from the moon, and were vast tongues of lire darting out from the sun's disc. By observations with the spectroscope, and also.hy means of the wonderful photogrephs of the sun taken by De la Rue during the eclipse of 1860, it was discovered that these fire . tnouirains consisted mainly of burning hydrogen gas. This 'vas precious information to secure in the midst of he excitement and novelty, and in the brief diva iion of a total eclipse. It did not, ho , ev,,r, satisfy Scientific men. For two years Mr. Lockyer, aided by it grant from Parliament to construct a superior itistrument, had been experimenting and searching In order to detect these flames at other times than at the rare occurrence of a total eclipse. On the 20th Oct., 1868, he obtained a distinct image of one of the prominences, which he afterwards trace.i en tirely round the sun. Astronomers can, therefore, !tow study th,--se flames at any tone. 'fee re tilts of observations now being taken show that stories rage upon the, sun with a violence of which we can form no conception. Hurricanes sweep over its surtace with terrific violence. Vss& cyclones wrap its fires into whirlpools, at I - 1X eottom of which our earth eculd lie iike a bottler in a volcano. Huge flames dart out to enormous distances, and fly over the sun with a speed greater than that of the earth itself through space. At one time a cone of fire shot out 80,000 miles, and then died away all in ten minutes' time. Besides such awful convulsions, the mimic diselaY of a terrestrial volcano or earthquake sinks into insignificance. There is nothing in these pheno mena to alarm us. They have, in all probability, happened Constantly for ages past. That we have now means of investigating their nature and mea suring their height and velocity furnishes no cause of anxiety. Rumours of these discoveries have crept into the .papers, and, exaggerated by repeated copying and sensational additions, have given rise to these mysterious and uncalled-for predic tions." LI,S7 FOR THE USE OF VISITORS TO THE METROPOLIS. MUSEUMS. Au tiq aarian —Somerset House. Admission by application to the secretary. Botanic Royal Botanic Society of London. Regent's park. Admission daily by orders from fellows. Royal Gardens, Kew. Open daily, 1 till 6, free. British—Great Russell-s rent. Open free on Mondays , Wednesdays, and Frida s, 10 to 4 ; summer months 1 0 till 7. Closed Ist till 7th January, Ist till 7th May, and let till 7th September; al o on all thanksgiving days. City—Guildhall. A collec on of antiquities, &c. Daily fo till 5. Geological—Jermyn street. Open daily (except Fridays) tree. India—lndia Office, Charles-street. Asiatic natural his tory, antiquities, &c. Open free o❑ Mondays, Wednes days, and Fridays, and on Thursdays by orders. King's College—Strand. 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Open free, Mondays , Tuesdays Wednesdays, and Saturdays. National Portrait. Gallery-29, Gretr, eorge-street. free, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Trinity House— Trinity-square, Tower-hill. Models of lighthouses, &c. Daily, 10 till 4. Tussaud's Waxwork-58, Baker-street. Open daily till 10 p.m. ls. SUBURBAN PLACES OF RESORT. Cremorne Gardens —Chelsea. is. Crystal Palace - ?ark—Sydenham. Open daily, Is. ; Satur days, 2s. 6d. Greenwich Park —Greenwich. ()non free Hampton Court Gardens.—Open free daily. Highbury Barn and Gardens —llighbury. 6d. and is by refreshment tickets. Kew Gardens—Kew. Open free, daily at ote o'clock. Richmond Park—Richmond. Open free, daily. Rosherville Gardens—Gravesend. Open daily. 6d. Royal Horticultural Gardens—Kensington. Admission by members' order. Windsor Great Park—Windsor. Open free. Windsol Castle may be visited on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fri days, by tickets obtainable at the Lord Chamberlain t 4 Office, in the Castle. The Admiralty have rewarded Mr. H. Palmer, a millwright employed in Chatham dockyard, with the sum of £25 for an improvement which he hag effected in the machinery employed in the roperY of the establishment. (ADVERTISEMENT.) —Henceforth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessing s it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope , whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Gazette du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21,1866. The health of the 110 1 1 Father is excellent; especially since, abandoning all other reale' dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalent a Arabica. Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal; It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, alio' his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." NV° o Fiftys ea r s , extract a few out ofmore than 68,000 c u res :—Cure No. 58,216, of t h e Marchioness de Brehan, o f seven y ear s' liver complaint wa sting away, debility, ner vousness, w i t h a ne rvo us palpitation , all over, bad digestion, const an t s l ee plessness, and the most in' tolerable Np 60 c. i4e9.: 8 Lord-Lieutenant32n: er , u years' agitation. ofWaterford, e s crCure indescribable a b N i eo. of .1 many g,7:7nl agony years' from L o r d dd Stuart : p p o a d d y sp e p sia,4 nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spastno , sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure No. 46.270: Mr' James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lunge' spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. In n ' portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and more the° sloppy imitations to which, with out authorit y , Baron Liebig S name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is,d; llb 2s 9d; 2 lb 4s 6d; 5 lb Ifs; 12 lb 225; 24 lbs 4 B. \ o U BARBY'R RDNALENTA. RAMA CIInCOLA PowDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at Gs, for 2;43 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 55 4 —being about one penny p er cu p . The 30 s and 55 s tins are seat free oicarriage in England on receipt of Post Office Orden--; BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Loudon; an d all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. GI ms—On the 19th inst., at Laddiagford, 7alding, Kent, m rs . Charles Gibbs, of a daughter. GODDARD—On the 19th inst., at Kilburn-park, the wife of Lieut. Cob Goddard, of a daughter. AIARRIAGES. HAUBISON—PAIN—On the 19th — inst., at St. Andrew's' Holborn, George Henry, fifth son of the late WilHaul Hari ison, of Upper Thames-street, to Jane, the second daughter of the late Oliver Pain, of Stratford, Essex. WHITE —WHITE—On the 20th inst., at New Shoreharat .liard White, of Watling-street, London, to Rose, th e third dau b . hter of Thomas White, of MidlAtrst, Sussex' DEATHS. BURCION —On the 19th inst., 1 , 4 , — ;• ., J0hn T. Burgon, late of 35, Bucklersbury, city, aged 81. FRANKLIN—On the 19th inst., at. 14, SoUtibtstZee.f, FiOS' bury, A. G. Franklin, egad 48. 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