The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-05 00:00:00

THE SUN.—LATEST EDITION to he seen in the Coffee Room, at the "Southampton Arms," High street, Camden-town, where all Sporting and Politica events are freely discussed. CAUTION. M OSES and SON E. beg to inform the Public that thoy have adopted and registered a TRADE MARK, consisting of the words " The S anclard," with the initials "E. M. & S." underneath, and that henceforward every article of clothing manufactured by them will have a label or ticket attached to it, with the said trade mark printed thereon. All persons are hereby cautioned against imitat ing the said Trade Mark. For trades and addresses see following advertisement. MOSES and SON, Merchant Tailors. F. E MOSES and SON, Juvenile Clothiers. EMOSES and SON, Gene ra l O u tfi t t ers . 12/. L - 1 MOSES and SON, Habitmakem E 1 1 MOSES and SON, Linen and Woollen _rj. Drapers. Il MOSES and SON, Hatters and Hosiers. -ILi• - V MOSES and SON, Boot and Shoe Manu -1 4 • facturers. F MOSES and SON'S Rules for Self-Measure • Post Free. MOSES and SON'S List of Prices, post free F. yi MOSES and SON'S Fashion Sheet, post free. MOSES and SON send Patterns, post free. F. yjMOSES and SON mark all Goods in Plain ' 1 • Figures. MOSES and SON supply Outfits for all E Classes and Climates. V . 4 MOSES and SON have the best Styles and . Materials for all Classes. V MOSES and SON, Corner of MINORIES and 1 '4 • ALDGATE. M EMOSES and SON, EIV OXFORD-STREET, • Corner of HART-STREET. ] MOSES and SON, Corner of TOTTENHAM -1 COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. EMOSES and SON, BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. • LONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. CHESTER RACES, 1870.—GRAND CUP DAY. On Wednesday, May 11th, a SPECIAL FAST DAY TRAIN will leave Euston Station, London, at 6.20 a.m., and Chalk Farm 6.25 a.m., for CHESTER—Arriving at Chester about 12 Noon. Fares for the Double Journey:— Closed Carriages, 12s. 6d First Class, 21s. No Luggage allowed. For further particulars see Bills. W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, April 30, 1870. G REAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CHESTER RACES. ..._, • On Wednesday, May 11th, a FAST EXCURSION TRAIN will leave Paddington at 6.30 and Reading at 7.30 a.m. for CHESTER, returning from Chester (Station Platform) at 6.30 p.m. the same day. Passengers travelling from Metropolitan Stations to Paddington by the 6.0 a.m. Train from Moorgate-street, and by the 6.5 a.m. Train from Westminster Bridge, would be in time for the Excur sion Train. For further particulars see hand bills. J. GRIERSON, General Manager. Paddington, May, 1870. THE NILE PE N. " STATIONER " says—" The successful inventors of the Waverley, Owl, and Pickwick Pens have just patented the 'Nile' Pen, which, by a combination of the turned up and turned down points, writes freely without scratching, and holds an unusually large supply of ink." "SUN" says—" Speaking, after a severe test of their lasting qualities, the Nile Pen is a marvel." . . .. Sold everywhere, le per Pox. By Post is. ld. MA CNIITEN & CAMERON, 23, BLAIR-STREET, EDINBURGH. AGENTS--MTLIINSTON and Hurron, LONDON. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. 6d.— Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. Ais now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each; also 55., 75. 6d., and 15s. each, includ ing brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. T HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARK ET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, NO SONG NO SUPPER: Mr Kendal, Mr Compton, Mr Edward Osborne, Mr Clark; Miss F. Wright, Miss Francis, Miss Fosbroke, and Miss F Gwynne. After which, at 8 precisely, BARWISE'S BOOK: Mr Sothern, Mr Chippendale, Mr Compton, Mr Kendal, Mr Buckstnne; Miss Robertson, Mrs Frank Matthews, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. And (by desire) A REGULAR FIX: Mr Sothern, &c. Concluding with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER THIS EVENING. at Seven, TOO MITCH OF A GOOD THING: Messrs B. Phillips and Ashley; Miss Marla and Miss Nelly Harris. After which, at 15 to 8, THE PROMPTER'S BOX a Story of the Footlights and the Fireside. Mr Benjamin Webster, Mr H. J. Byron. Mr J. D. Beveridge, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Stuart, Mr J. G. Taylor, Mr C. J. Smith, Mr A shley, Mr W. Eburne, Miss Furtado, Mrs L. Hurray, and Mrs Alfred siellon. To be followed by THE ENCHANTED WOOD: Mr J. G. Taylor, Mr Ashley; Mrs Alfred Mellon, Miss Patti Josephs, and Miss Clara Thorne. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. L YCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs Mansell). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, BREAKING THE SPELL. Aft r which. at 8, LITTLE FAUST: Mr T. Maclagan, M. Marius, sir Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr Wilmot; Millie. Debreux, Mesdames Lennox Grey, Lawson, Lee, and Emily Soldene OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborotigh. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clocla, WIDOWS' WEEDS. Messrs Crouch, Turner, and Mesdames E. Bufton and Anstiss. Followed by SIR GEORGE AND A DRAGON. Messrs. James, Terry, Fenton; Mesdames Santley, Dashwood, Goodall, Hughes, Anstiss, and Metcalfe. And A FISH OUT OF WATER. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND Lessees—Messrs H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EV 4.1 ING, at 7.3.), an original Comedy,' by A. lalliday . entitled FOR LOVE OR MONEY. At 9.45, the new Burlesque, by ; Conway Edwardes, entitled DON CARI,OS; OR, THE INFANTE IN ARMS. Supported by thfi following Company—Messrs H. J Montague, G. Honey, H. Irving, W. H. Stephens, C. Garthorne. E. Elton, and Thomas Thorne; . Mesdames Nelly Power, Cavendish. It. Irwin, L. Claire, J. 13eauclerc, R. Evelyn, Kemp: Amy Fawsitt, T. Lavis, F. Garthwaite, R. Power. TilE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at Mr. BEAITMONT'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street. Strsztd. 'THE SUN.—LATEST EDITION to be seen JL every Evening, at Eight o'clock, at Mr. GILLMAN'S, " The Wheatsbeaf," High-street, Camden-town. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied as soon as published, every Evening, by S. WILSON, newsagent, and special agent for the North-western District, 24, Delancey-street, Camden town, N W PORTING.—J OHN ROBERTS supplies the LA TES I' EDITION of "THE SUN" as Boon as pub lis ed.-4, Bath-street, City-road. E.O. T" SUN " NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road, delivers the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " as soon as published. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1870.; rrHE LATEST or SPECIAL EDITION of "THE S " every Evening, at Eight o'Clock, at Hr. ROREnTs', "The Black Cap," High-street, Camden-town. THE LA LEST EDITION of " THE SUN." J. HJLMES begs to inform his friends and the public generally that he supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN " as soon as published.—No. 10, Hampstead-road, N.W. rTIFIE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " be seen Every Evening by 810 at Mr. ROBERT Britannia, Kensal New-town, THE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN " supplied as soon as published, containing all the LATEST NEWS r.ncl SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H. W. HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Blackfriars-road London. THE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W, ALEXANDER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, 10. 4, Old Cavendish street, Oxford-street THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN' may bo seen at Eight o'clock every Evening at dr. It NEWPORTS% the Oxford Arms, High-street, Camden-town rirllE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at j_ W. SMITH'S • Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden• town . , . ~ ~. . t. jig . 1111 ~.,4/..--_„,,,,„ t..---- . the protection of the guardians, and is frequently visited by the inspector. The utmost care is taken in the selection of the nurses, and as there are always a multitude of applicants, there ought to be no difficulty in obtaining proper persons. The payment is generally liberal, ranging from 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. a week, and the supervision by the Poor law officers is satisfactory. We do not say that there are no drawbacks; but they are just such as the children would have been exposed to, if they had been brought up in their own homes. For instance, they are not always cleanly; they are too often crowded into a room without a proper separation of the sexes. Yet these are not the faults of the board ing out system specially, but of the class to which these children belong. On the other hand, there is a vast mass of testimony in favour of the system. Mr. Henley, Poor-law Inspector, was commissioned by the Board to inquire into the working of the system in Scotland, and in a volume of nearly 200 pages, just presented to Parliament, he has described the operation of the plan, and quoted the evidence in favour of it. It is particularly gratifying to find repeated testimony that the children look upon their foster-parents as their own, dreading only to be separated from them and sent back to the work house, and often returning in after years of adolescence and manhood, to take counsel with them in any difficulties. One objection to the system will occur to most persons. So long as the children are in the work house or the district school they are certain to be educated. It is by no means so certain that they will be when they are sent to the cottage of the farm-labourer. He will be keen enough to appreciate the value of the few pence which his adopted child may earn in shouting to the sparrows, or following the plough. It should therefore be made a condition of boarding out. that the child shall be sent to a Government in spected school for a certain number of hours every week. If it be said that the pauper child will thus be put on a better footing than the labourer's own child, we reply so much the better. What is wanted is some means of bringing home visibly to the labouring classes the benefits of education. Even the dullest hedger and ditcher will discern them if in his household his own son grows up a dunce, while the pauper boy becomes a scholar. In those few English unions where the boarding out system has been adopted the education of the boarders has generally been attended to by the guardians, and it is satisfactory to know that guardians south of the Tweed are as much pleased with the plan, which to them is a new experiment, as are their Scotch con freres, with whom it has been in operation for more than a hundred years. HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS CHRISTIAN. FROGMORE, May 4, 1870• Her Royal Highness Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein has passed a quiet night and is doing perfectly well. The infant Princess is very well. " THOMAS FAIRBAN,K, M.D." THE MASSACRES IN GREECE. it will be very gratifying to the public to learn that his Majesty the King of the Hellenes, feeling most acutely the position in which Mrs. Lloyd has been placed, presented that lady with £l,OOO out of his own private purse previous to her departure from Athens. , i"t:e..:;i..a.,.....\7f.;_ : ? . . 43 ,,, ii sit ' '' '-'l‘ o7l ', l 7, tlifi ' l° z...._.,„,,„„....,a ... ~i, , : , L i, ' l. .<7,'''', 4- ' 4 ',:,'::::'''',. -) _- 4 ‘, ,- ~. , PIER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, May 4. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty went out this morning. THE THEATRES, &c. HAYMARKET—At Seven, No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book. And My Husband's Ghost. PRINCE OF WALES'S—At 7.30, Quite bj Accident M.P. Dearest Mamma. LYCEUM—At 7,30, Breaking the Spell. Little Faust. ADELPIII.—At Seven, Too Much of a Good Thing. fhe Promp ter's Box. The Enchanted Wood. OLYMPIC—At Seven, Frou Frou The 'Varsity Boat Race, My Tvrn Next. GAIETY—At Seven, The Happy Vlllage. Lucky Friday. The Princess of Trebizonde. Qt EEN'S—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown. STRAND—At Seven, Widow's Weeds. Sir George and a Dragon. A Fish Out of Water VAUDEVILLE—For Love or Money. Don Carlos. ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Frou. La Belle Sauvago. GLOBE—At Seven, Milky White. Robert Macaire. Vandyke Brown. WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Picca dilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at 5; Saturday Mot n ines at 3. Admission, ls, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 ; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. MADAME TCSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 5.30 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls. ; extra rooms, Cd. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park Open daily (except Sundays) Admission. ls.• on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6,1. LONDON, 7HUI?SDAY, 31.1.1 7 5, 1870. THE very word " baby-farming" excites such ter rible associations that our readers will be surprised to learn there is a portion of the kingdom where the practice is not only passively recognised, but actively adopted by the executive, and is found to answer in every way. The system known as boarding out has, however, only a superficial analogy to baby-farming. In the latter case the child is put out too often only in order to be "put away." It is a child of sin and shame, and the mother would save her reputa tion at the cost of a life. The baby-farmer understands what is wanted ; understands that the " little stranger" is anything but " welcome," and that if it should languish and die no tears will be shed, no questions will be asked. It is otherwise with the Scotch pauper infant. This child is " boarded out " in order that it may have a better chance of moral and physical health than it would have, if reared in the workhouse. In truth, the workhouse is by no means a good nursery. It contains, as a rule, all the least reputable of the labouring class without the purifying influence of honest industry, Poverty is not necessarily vicious, but, as has been remarked in the current number of the Westminster Review, the workhouse concentrates into one society that which, when distri buted over some thirty parishes, was rendered com paratively harmless by the large admixture of a better principle. It is the seething together in a cess-pool of the foul streams which, when plentifully diluted with water, are deprived of their fatal power. Some attempt has been made to correct this by the establishment of pauper schools, not in the workhouses, but in distinct buildings intended for wider areas than a single union, and therefore called district schools. Neither the union nor the district school seems, however, to have answered. There was a fair outside appear ance, but within all was rottenness. Mr. Tufnell, the Government inspector, reported most favourably of the Eton Union School; yet within a very short time afterwards the school was broken up with his approval. More than 40 per cent. of the girls placed out as servants and apprentices had turned out ill. The children were removed to the Central London District School, at Han well. but here they did no better than before. It was sound that both schools were chargeable with the same defect. " Children are brought up under con ditions the very reverse of those which by the con stitution of human society, and the experience of all time, are pointed out as naturally best adapted for the development of the child's powers, physical, intellectual, and moral." In a word, family life did not exist in these schools. This dif ficulty had struck a well known German philanthropist some time before. Pastor Bram of Neukirchen foufid his solution of it in persuading Christian parents who were either childless or had few children to adopt one or more pauper children as their own, and in five years he disposed of 288 in this way. But at the same time he admitted that his principle was novel, and that persons were slow in carrying it out. IN o matter tiaougn they might be sighing and longing for little ones, they were loath to satisfy the yearnings of their heart by taking children who were not their own. We believe that in the United States the system has been more readily received, for labour being dear, Western State farmers have been glad to receive children, and rear them, in order that they may get the benefit of the children's services as soon as these are worth anything. It is, however, to Scotland that we must turn for the solution of our present difficulty. Labour is not so valuable in this country that farmers •or other em- ployers will care to be burdened with the maintenance a a strange child merely for the sake of prospective advantage. Nor are the English middle and upper classes, with their very decided, not to say exclusive, ideas about family life, at all likely to introduce pauper children into their households and treat them as their own children. Even if there were a greater willingness to do this, the wisdom of it would be somewhat doubtful. It would not be prudent, for instance, to give paupers any additional incentive to improvidence. If it were a common thing for pauper children to be made gentlemen and ladies of, the labouring classes would be even more reckless about marriage and paternity than they are at present. The Scotch system arranges that a child shall be brought up in the same sphere of life as his parents. Assuming that the child has either become an orphan, been deserted, or, by the entry of its parents into the workhouse, been sepa rated from them, it is, while quite young (if an infant, so much the better) handed over to a " nurse," the wife of a cottager for the most part, and brought up by her with her own family. She receives.a payment from the Poor law guardians until the child is old enough to earn its own living, that is until it is 10 years of age, and during the whole of these years the ehild is under MEETING OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. General Peel, according to notice, brought for ward his resolution asking for a committee to inquire into the present state of the turf. Considerable dis cussion ensued, in the course of which Sir Joseph Hawley inquired whether it was intended to alter the existing system of betting. It was unanimously voted that there should be no repeal of the resolu tion of 1842, which declares that " the Jockey Club shall take no notice of betting." General Peel declining to act the following committee was than agreed to, the three first names being those of the stewarls of the Jockey Club :—Captain Lowther, Admiral Rouß, Lord George Manners, Marquis of Aylesbury, Duke of Beaufort, Lord Calthorpe, Earl Wilton, Sir Joseph Hawley, and Messrs. H. Chaplin, M P., W. S. Crawford, H. Saville, and George Payne. CONVERSAZIONE AT THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. The Council of the Society of Arts held a conversa zione last evening at the South Kensington Museum. The Chairman of the Council received the members from eight till a quarter' to nine. At ten o'clock their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princes of Wales made their appearance, arrivjng by the gar den entrance. The route taken by their Royal High nesses lay through the South Court, the North Court, the Raphael Cartoon Gallery, the Sheep shanks Galleries, and the Competition Gallery. Their Royal Highnesses were cordially welcomed as they made their passage through these galleries, the band in the North Court celebrating the arrival of the Royal personages by playing " God save the Queen." Their Royal Highnesses took their departure about a quarter after twelve o'clock, retracing the course by which they had entered. There was a very large and distinguished audience, and the proceedings passed off with the greatest eclat. ADELPHI THEATRE. Last night a new fairy extravaganza, by Mr. H. J. Byron, entitled " The Enchanted Wood," was pro duced, and met with the most unequivocal success. The plot is taken from the German, and, briefly stated, is as follows :—Three princes, falling into the power of a magician, were compelled to assume the shapes of a bear, an eagle, and a dolphin for six days in the week. At the hour of one on the seventh day they were permitted to return to their human form for twenty-four hours. An old baron, entering the enchanted wood, was in duced to part with his three daughters to the transformed princes, and seven years afterwards his son went in search of the ladies, and, on hearing that if he could find the Princes' imprisoned sister and kill the monster who held her in his toils, he would break the spell which - bound them, he sought her in the magician's castle, and, after a variety of adventures, eventually succeeded, and received her for his wife as a reward. The extravaganza abounds in puns, breakdown dances, popular tunes, and all the usual accompaniments of modern burlesque ; it is sup- ported by a number of ladies new to the Adelphi company, amongst them being Miss Patti Josephs, Clara Thorne, Maria and Nelly Harris, Shelley, and Graham, and the scenery and appointments are of the utmost splendour. The pretty entertainment has been most carefully put upon the stage, and from the enthusiastic applause with which it was received last evening it will doubtless prove a great and lasting attraction to the Adelphi. There was not a single seat in the theatre unoccupied. The departure of the Queen and the Royal family from Osborne has been postponed till to-morrow, owing, it is understood, to the indisposition of his Royal Highness the Prince Leopold. It is expected thet her Majesty will come to town on Monday, ann will visit Claremont on Tuesday. . „ A State concert will take place at Buckingham Palace on the 11th inst., and a State ball on the 17th. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, May 5. The Official Journal of this morning publishes a report of ➢I. 011ivier, dated the 4th inst., which says : "At the time when the Plebiscite was decreed, the investigation of the plot of February had been closed. We had delayed this in order that the involun tary coincidence should not have the appearance of an electoral intrigue ; but the Revolutionists have not been stopped in their career by the legal armis tice which we granted. They thought that destroying the Sovereign through a crime would be tana mount to certain destruction of the State, and therefore they resolved, before the Bth of this month, to execute their designs, which had been long prepared. Under these circumstances, it is our duty to have recourse at once to public justice." A decree of yesterday's date annexed to the report convokes the Chamber for Public Prosecution i❑ the High Court, for the purpose of stating the facts connected with the plot. A report of M. Grandperret is also published, fill ing five columns and a half, in which the facts which occurred in the secret meetings held at the lodgings of Dupont, Fontaine, Guerin, Sappia, and others are narrated. Several of the conspirators have confessed, and from the confession of Guerin it transpires that the plan for the intended outbreak, and the assassination of the Emperor by means of nitro-glycerine, was pro posed as far back as July, 1869, by Dupont. The rising had already been prepared for the 26th of October last, but the attempt was then abandoned. At subsequent meetings, however, the preparations for the insurrection and the plot against the life of the Emperor had been continued. A letter of Mazzini, addressed to Sappia, which has been seized, informs the latter that he cannot come to the banquet at St. Maude, and adds, "Duties similar to those for which you are making your preparations retain me where I am at present." A letter of Vachu, one of the heads of the Internal Association, has been found at Marseilles at the house of Bastelica, referring to political projects, and to relations with Rochefort. It says, " I am going to secure the co-operation of the other centres at Lyons, Rouen, Roubaix," &c. After an account of the disturbances of February last, M. Grandferret's report refers to the confession of Beaury, recently arrested, who declares that Flourens had encouraged him in the plan to assassi nate the Emperor. M. Grandferret also states that Beaury received three letters from Flourens, two of which he burned ; the other has been found by the police. This letter signed Gustave, is dated 20th April, and the writer says :—" There is not a mo ment to be lost. The man with the patent might leave for the country, and then everything would be delayed. Only go out at night, and thenin a cab. Do not fail, I shall be very shortly in Paris to support you. All depends upon you. Once more, I must repeat what I have already said, either you ought not to have had anything to do with it, or you must be successful." Experts in handwriting declare the letter is the same as that from Flourens as confessed by Beaury. The letter of Beaury of the 24th April, signed Camille, declares that he will " perform the amputa tion at any price." He asks of Ballot another remit tance of 140 francs. Another letter of Flourens, dated 19th April, which was seized on Ballot, and the authenticity of which is acknowledged both by the mother and brother of Flourens, advises Ballot not to advance any more money, because . that 4 ‘ which I purpose . doing is in a fair way to be realised." Simultaneously Flourens organised, with Sauret, Greffier, and others, measures to bring about an in surrection. M. Grandferret, in conclusion, gives an account of the seizure of the bombs, and states that of the 21 bombs 17 only came from the ironfounder Repet. Another foundry therefore still exists, not yet discovered. Ballot, who was recently arrested, declares that he had remitted for Flourens 1,100 francs to Sauret, 550 francs to Beaury, and 1,400 to Greffier. BOURSE, May 4.—Three o'clock—The market closed •as follows : 4} per Cent. 3 per Cents 74 25 End of month 74 271 `•redit Mobilier Bank Shares 2830 ItaPan Fives 56 80 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 49 Spanish Threes Rome Debt — Deferred — Cash ... 965 656 1175 Transatlantic 195 Credit Fonder _1290 Paris Gas 1667 50 Suez Canal 285 RAThWA' Orleans Western . Northern . Strasburg • • 6l3k Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 55 Sardinian 55 Austrian 7B6} ...., 382 k Lombard. North of Spain Saragossa Roman TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 4. The Levant Times of to-day publishes an article headed " What is to be done with Greece ?" in which the writer recommends that after obtaining justice the Legation at Athens should be suppressed and only a Vice-Consulate maintain , d there. SPAIN. MADRID, May 4, Evening In to-day's sitting of the Cotter the amendment of Senor Gardoni to clause 12, on the ldil on parliamen tary disqualifications, which proposes to limit the proportion of functionaries in the Cortes to one-fifth of the members, was rejected by 97 against 60 votes. The whole clause was finally expunged by 96 a g dust 87 votes. Senor Mata said that such a clause ought not to be referred again to the committee, the Cortes being unwilling to listen to any further discussiou of the matter in question. These words were received with much applause, and caused considerable commotion. AMERICA. (By Cable). NEW YORK, May 4. The Guion steamship Manhattan arrived here at 10 p.m. yesterday. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1141; the highest quotation during the day Ras 1141; the lowest, 11% Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ~ 1885 ~ 1867 1091 1111 1101 113-a 10-40 „ Illinois Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 22ic Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra State, $4 80c. to $5 40c. Corn—Old mixed, $1 14c, THE TRAMWAYS BILL. The following are given as the settled resolutions of the Tramways Committee :-1. That provisional orders be substituted for certificates. 2. That the consent of ratepayers be not required in boroughs governed by a municipal council. 3. That the consent of such municipal council be given at a special meeting, at which two-thirds of the members shall be present. 4. That local inquiries by the referee of the Board of Trade be at the discretion of the board.-5. That the Board of Trade, after considering objections, shall have power to proceed. with the provisional order, notwithstanding that certain of the local or road autho rities refuse their consent, and shall report to Parliament their reasons for the same.—. That clause 5 of the bill conferring powers of sale upon the promoters be omitted. —7. That the provisional orders shall specify the nature of the traffic for which the tramways are sanctioned.-8. That the maximum tolls be inserted in the provisional orders.--9- That the Metropolitan Board be the local authority for the metropolis, except for the City ; but the consent of the vestries be necessary as road authorities, subject to resolution 5.-10. That a locus standi be reserved for the owners and occupiers of property fronting a road or street, through which it is proposed to construct a tramway, to appear before referees at any local inquiry directed by the Board of Trade, and also before Parliament.-11. That power be given to loca, authorities to make byelaws for the regulation of traffic, and for licensing drivers and conductors of vehicles.-12. That power be given to local authorities to remove tram ways found injurious or disused.-13. That the bill be extended to Scotland. The Marquis de Caux has sent 1,500 f. to the Central Plebi scitary Committee. The marriage of Mr. W. C. Bovill, eldest son of Lord Chief Justice Bcvill, with Miss Taylor, daughter of Mr. Pitt Taylor, of Eccleston-square, was solemnised this morn ing at St. Peter's Church, Eaton- square. The officers of the 17th Lancers will dine together on Thursday, the 2d of Juno, at the St. James Hotel, Picca dilly. The Duke of Cambridge will preside. A telegram from Suez states that her Majesty's Indian troopship Jumna, with the 77th Regiment on board, entered the Canal on the morning of the 3d of May, en route for Port Said and Portsmouth. Yesterday afternoon the council of the Royal Agricultural Society determined to accept the invitation o: Wolverhampton to hold in that town the exhibition of 1 871 Henry Kelley's north country friends last night presented him with a purse of £6O and a gold medal, in re cognition of his services as a rower. At the annual meeting of the Reform CIO, to-day, a great effort will be made to liberalise the committee, and to reduce the number of blackballs which disqualify can didates. To-morrow a special meeting of the City Comis missioners of Sewers will be held to sign a petition to the House of Lords against the second reading of the Metropo litan District Railway Bill, and its extension to the Man sion House. The Board of Admiralty, having decided to ap point a flag officer as second in command in the Mediter ranean, the appointment has been offered to and accepted by Rear-Admiral Key, at present superintendent of the dockyard at Portsmouth. The hearing of the Tipperary election petition wil commence on the 26th inst. Another party of emigrants, about a hundred and fifty in number, will leave the St. Pancras station this evening for Liverpool, en route for Canada. They are sent out under the auspices of the Working Men's Emigration Association. A new and cheap monthly publication, entitled " The American and Continental Monthly," has just made its appearance. It consists of a variety of excellent original writings and a choice selection from the best American and Continental publications. The idea is a good one if it is wel carried out. The book is very neatly printed, and altogether there appears to be the best prospect for its permanent success. PIGEON COURIERS.—On Tuesday after the race at Newmarket for the Two Thousand Guineas eighteen London pigeon fanciers flew a match with pigeons. The conditions were the first bird arriving home with the name of the winning horse to be the winner, and a blue pigeon of the Antwerp breed, the property of Mr D. Hird, of the Kent-road, flew the distance, about 60 miles, in 1 hour and 33 minutes. The stakes were 18 guineas. THE CITY EXCELSIOR MUSICAL SOCIETY.—The closing concert of this flourishing society was given a few evenings ago at the George Hotel, Aldermanbury, and at tracted a very large attendance. The programme was as usual an excellent one and afforded the greatest satisfaction to the entire company. The quartette "The Men of Har. lech," , a as excellently given by Messrs. C. and G. Thurston, Harrison, and Gillard, and the best songs were those sung by Mr. H. Gillard, "The Blush of Early Morn," and "Let me Like a Soldier Fall," Mr. Pocklington, " To the Clouds" and "Rudier than the Cherry," and Mr. R. Odell, " Hark the Clarion." The comic element, was well supported by Mr. Lay, and the reading by Mr. Burcham Cooper, " The Bash ful man," excellent. Altogether the concert passed off in the most satisfactory manner. A correspondent at Plymouth says that the statemelii, in the Echo that the master butcher at Plymouth had been convicted of receiving bribes from the contractor is not correct. The master butcher, who is also a farmer, has sold bullocks to the contractor ; but has taken no money from him for which full value was not given. The Admiralty officials were fully informed by the master butcher of the transactions, and have pronounced them to be irregular, and he has been dismissed, the office being abolished, but he will probable receive superan nuation. It is rumoured that M. de Grammont will be the new French Minister for Foreign Affairs. M. 011ivier has written to the Monzteur Universe!, declaring the Government will not be driven into reaction by the conduct of the Republicans. . _ " rhe attention of the Bishop of Chester has been called to the circumstance that recently the Greek Arch bishop of Syra and Tenos took part in the services at St. Margaret's Church, Liverpool. The incumbent has been communicated with, and has satisfied his lordship by giving an assurance that " such an occurrence is not likely to arise again." The girls employed at the white work in the cotton mill at Airdrie had another dispute in connection with wages on Monday, and • almost 600 of them ceased from work. It appears that fifty of the girls who had struck on Friday were not allowed to begin again, and the rest of the girls stopped on Monday morning en that account. The girls seem determined to remain out till their demand is acceded to. The Caledonian Railway Company has provided a handsome saloon carriage for the special accommodation of the sugar brokers who travel daily between Greenock and Glasgow, their increased trade necessitating greater accommodation. The brokers and the railway authori ties took a trial trip together a day or two ago, and the company provided a luncheon which was consumed during the journey. Fresh disturbances have taken place in Lurgan, a town in the county Armagh, which has of late become rather notorious in this respect. An evening or two ago an Orange drumming party entered the town from two villages adjacent. They entered the district known as the Pound, which is inhabited by Roman Catholics. The constabulary attempted to turn them, and they then attacked .the police, who were obliged to draw their swords. Subsequently order was restored. 01 2 't577 diseased fish of various kinds were seized and destroyed at the two London fish-markets during the last month. Father Ignatius preached the other night at St. James' Chapel, Brighton, to a very large congrega tion. The service was conducted in full Ritualist style, the Rev. Mr. Purchas being arrayed in a magnificent crimson cope, and the banner bearers, choristers, &c., splendidly attired. Father Ignatius in his monk's dress and leathern girdle formed a striking contrast. A PHILOSOPHICAL CELEBRATION.—The Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society has just been keeping its fiftieth birthday with all the honours. It claims to be one of the oldest and most L accessful philosophical societies out of London. The Yorkshiremen of an earlier generation were evidently as remarkable for their shrewd ness and " hard headedness " as their descendants, since scientific study occupied by no means the same position half a century ago as it does now. Mr. E. Baines, M.P., who presided, delivered an interesting address, and boasted of the number of honourable names associated with their society. In the second session of its existence, William Smith, who is called the father' of practical geology, gave a lecture, as Professors Owen and H ux l ey an d S i r John Herchel have done since. Besides these, Dr. Whewell, of Trinity College, Sir H. Rawlinson, and others, have assisted, and the association has become a great success. More than a hundred students attended the last geology lectures, and a museum, thrown open to the public at the charge of one penny, secured 50,000 visitors. A BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LABOURBR.--A strange colloquy took place at the Uxbridge Sessions between the Clerk and a labourer named Hammond. Hammond was called to give evidence in a case of assault. The Clerk : From what I know of this class of men I think I must hesitate before swearing him. (To witness) : Do you know the nature of au oath? Witness (rubbing his head) : I dun'no what you mean.—The Clerk : Can you read— have you read the Bible ? Witness : No.—The Clerk : Can you write ? Witness : No.—The Clerk : Well, you know your name, how do _you spell that ? Witness : I d un ' no. —The Clerk : Have you ever been to ch urc h ? Wi tness : Y es, once or twice when I was a young 'un. The Chairman : We cannot take that man's evidence, Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith : But, sir, he cannot be so bad as that. I will put the questions in a different form. (To witness) : Now, my man, tell me, do you believe in future rewa r ds and punishments? Witness seemed more perplexed than ever, and did not answer.—Mr. Smith : Come, have you ever heard of a God or a devil ? Witness : I dun no.—Mr. Smith : Do you know how old you are? Witness : I be more nor 20.—Mr. Smith : I think I must give him up, your worships. The "witness" was then ordered to stand down. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE ELECTORAL DISABILITIES OF WOMEN. The Times admits that the mas f women are, perhaPs , as well qualified to judge between o two rival candidates for the House of Commons as the mass of men, or thV . would be if they gavt the requisite attention to the su,°_ , ject. These are the stock arguments in favour of tir, change, and we should be ready to admit their cogen c y A ti tswomen and men were nothing but taxpaying an d consuming machines, or if all the work of life were tau° of mere physical and intellectual labour. But if we hav, s to take into account, in addition, a variety of delicat e moral and domestic relations, it becomes apparent that such pleas as we have mentioned do but touch the first and most superficial part of the question. We are not Pr e A pared, in judging of such a question, to put instinct o,°.'-` experience entirely aside, and to argue from the theoretia cal capacity of the sexes . Th e grea t wor k which wol is have discharged from th e beginning of the world to t d day is the care of families, the nurture of children, an the many delicate offices of domestic life. This, ro r ' over, is the work which men never have d one, and, speaking generally, never can do. Such subje cts tter ought to be, and generally are, a secondary 1 113- „ t „ in the lives of men ; they are of first-rate iinl 3° ante in the lives of women. To treat men and women on an equality in political matters would be, therefore, 68 ignore the essential distinction of their nature, and, ht far as it goes, would tend to confound things that oug to be kept apart. It is ridiculous to think of women , • if the language of some of the speakers, as in the condi tion of the negro in the Southern States, or to compare WI with the women of India and Turkey. Their Wills a' T : t u their minds are free, and their indirect influence in : matters in which they an interest is imp:tell s :a They are simply debarred from being distract _ and excited by questions which would witluirs.: them from their natural sphere, and they .g r ''' a relieved from the roughest and hardest work of life. " f believe, with Mr. Scourfield, that the great majority ° women would deeply lament being burdened with so troublesome a responsibility. The labours and thoughts of life were meant to be divided, and it would be an 11 . 11- fortunate day if women were ever encouraged by pal ment to forsake the hearth for the hustings and the ing-booth. Nature, no doubt, would soon bring us nue., to the teaching of experience ; but meanwhile ras, ll -' fine natures would be spoilt, and many a happy home w" ordered. The Daily News remarks that the House of Conira° llS has resolved on a very small, but very important, exten; sion of the elective franchise. After a very characteri stl debate, Mr. Jacob Bright's Bill for Removing the gl ee ,: toral Disabilities of Women was read a second time bY majority of 33-124 to 91. The measure thus sanction ed • in principle has on a first glance a somewhat revolui tionary appearance. In its terms it seems one stroke to double the electoral body, anc l _me bring into the pale of the Constitution that half of the people who are at present excluded frora We do not of course, anticipate any great results f ro ai the bill. It will neither flood the country with wome n lecturers, nor make our wives and daughters politicians. The female element which it Nv ci introduce into the political arena is alref' , vo ters completely measured. The new female " will constitute but one quarter of the elec tor's even in the city of Bath while in Manchestr they will be but a seventh, in Bristol an eightTh' and in Northampton a fourteenth of the con stituene l ; The measure is a-mere act of justice which will have ro ll but beneficial results • and even should it give the wn.r a e r of England a greater knowledge of politics ; and a qui, c ' e - 0 ,5 sense of the meaning and value of our political greab n : and freedom, it will only bring a quickening and elevat i g influence into our political life, and even in social life no but give men and. women one more topic of Coraul" interest and common pursuit. LOTHAIR. The Standard declares that the literary merits of "Lothair" have had the effect, so far, of diverting attt; tion from the purpose which, me imagine, prompted composition. Mr. Disraeli cannot complain that tw shining qualities of his story have not been fully aPP o f ciated by that particular class on whom nearly all letters look with disfavour. We never remember i'.•; instance in which the professional critics were so unanin; and cordial in their praise as in the case of "Lothair. mellow art with which the tale is constructed, the e""' and grece with which the mirror is held up to society, the seemingly careless perfection of the style, the cor,u2; eating wit, the interest of the incidents, the charm ef characters, all these have been profuseip t h oug h not warmly acknowledged ; and Mr. Israeli, who ka: never shewn himself greedy of compliments, must be more than satisfied with the judgments passed upon JU' brilliant volumes. But disappointment, we feel con' winced, will predominate in his mind over every feeling of satisfaction, should the public fail to perc e i ve the inn er signification and final motive of "Lothair." De they know what I really mean?" is the question, we will b: bound to say, which its author is asking himself 3 this moment. The succ ess o f " Lothair," as a litera r y performance, is assur e d, an d everybody is agreed tha t Mr. Disraeli has, i n a mos t consp i cuous manner , adorned a tale. We are convinced that he equally intende and d W point a moral; and if th a t b e m i sse d th e serious more important part of his labour will'have been utte rly I thrown away. t has often been said that art should be its own end, and that the attempt to employ it for a moral purpose is a lamentable mistake. There is , no doubt, a certain amount of truth and Proloi et Z in this view, but perhaps the way in which it usually put requires qualification, and all that ca n be said with justice is that ar t s h ou ld never be suborcw nated to moral design. " Lothair "is a spl endid _ tion of this principle. Indeed, unless Mr. Disraeli h a u placed upon the title-page a highly significant Latin cl u T tation we should perhaps find it difficult to prove that h_ l4 ., aim has been more than to amuse. But when the v er : first words we read, on opening these seductive volumj are that a knowledge of the things with which they d e a is a matter of life and death to young fellows, it Now ; „ argue excessive dulness to deny that we must look " Lothair " for a meaning which does not lie upon the en'' face and saute aux yeux. THE FARMERS' LAST GRIEVANCE. Of all classes in the community, says the Te/egr %- farmers possess the greatest ge n i u s for discovering or 11 , veilinggrzevances.> They constantly have some pet trie s that especially burthens their souls. If they have nor long drought, or excessive rain, or a cattle plague, ° sheep rot, they have potato or turnip disease, or gual l t ° o , dear. Then they have the malt tax, the highway ra - so and a thousand other items of malignant oppression ; o f that they not only exclaim, " Damn the natur% e y things !" but they blaspheme their morning paper as ;orte discover that something new has been said or , in Parliament to vex them. We have, h ° f a t ever, recently discovered something, to us t he least, quite fresh. We find that among t he worst of woes waiting on agriculture is the editor Of Mark Lane Express. W e k now no thi ng a b ou t that g` bt , tleman. He belongs nominally t o th e P ress , no cic' ll or s but we never dared to imagine that he was as other edit are : we always imagined him to be four-fifths farmer a ot a only one-fifth literary—able to tramp over a thous a acres a day, and knowing at a single glance the qualiti o . everything grown thereon—perpetually in top bootsw o cessively florid, very John Bullish, and very stout. fancy portrait of our imagination may be exceedingly like the mark ; but we are amazed at discovering that aiy press representative of English agriculture is act' s, the bete noire of the Farmers' Club. He reitj paper at the Salisbury Hotel on Monday, ,7 43 - a straightway it roused the ire of the assenn , : su t agriculturists—not because it was offensive, because it was the production of their own Secretn. ,, , Editor. We have never clapped eyes on our doubtlere estimable contemporary; but what can his paper 119 '`it contained to excite the ire of all the farm ers ? Doe ,5, sneer at their honourable calling? Does it •` speak dl respectfully "of guano ? Does it ma k e cu tti ng realm' if about mangold wurzel ? D oes it c h a ff t h em a b o ut the threshing machin es ? D oes it " t h aw up " Chambers„ ° t . Agriculture? We are quite in th e d ar k ; but to our "°`;. , o sider " intellects there seems some thi ngas o dd in a fari ne c li attacking the Mark Lane Express, as in a Low Char,. parson's swearing at the Record, or a pugislist's refusing take in Bell's Life. ENGLAND AND G E. Some remarks have been made abroad, says the Po s ts r the tone of the English press, and especially 01 journal, towards Greece. It has been suggested thwi o . proposing a temporary occupation of Athens we C lot selled a more adventurous expedition than that a* - i o g Abyssinia, on account of the relationship between s'- u 0 George and the Czar. We cannot think that suc h of of argument would have weight with any Englishin‘—re spirit ; but there is just enough of speciousness in it.T t be commend it to those who would at any price av°' id risk of collision with foreign Powers. The most ti ni however, need be under no apprehension. The Pea ce Europe is not and cannot be threatened by this outlio The action to be taken is not yet definitively settled, but o f were to involve a temporary occupation of a pertilile Greece, such a measur e wo u ld be dictated by no 1' 9 40 intentions either towards the Sovereign or people d b country. We do not covet one inch of Greek soil `- "cl we desire is that brigandage should be extirpatedi, Greece rendered safe for foreign residents and trav e y bich That a state of things should continue under c ith robber Chieftains can treat on equal terms tb Ministers of State and Foreign Envoys, correspond of members of the Opposition, and consult laYrYer'-vet eminence in the capital, is no longer to be tolerated. dopt we are menaced with the displeasure of Russia if we a t hat such action as is manifestly advisable. We replY „ w e Greek brigandage is a European evil, and that the Y o ' r , of that devotes its energies to the complete eradica t b i c tor. that evil cannot but be regarded as a universal bene' a ting No other Power could quarrel with England for a n g er ro or however ,tungly, her right to provide, in such way ~g Wing seem best to her, against a repetition of the sichu horrors thitt have now occurred. THE NEW SUGAR DUTY.—Already the public tirr,: feeling the benefit of the Chancellor of the Exellecluceor Budget, in the reduction of the duty on sugar' nd t beY Burners are saving one half-penny in every pou purchase.—Times. the The Times has the following paragraphsend East Suffolk election :—" to A meeting has decided to - . ce , a requisition to Sir Edward -Kerrison, which has I t o been signed in the Market. The meeting was oPP°s e ,, se d a stranger coming forward, and a feeling WaS op P° in favour of no opposition in the event of Sir 14.;cbc er y Kerrison refusing. We are informed' that it is unlikely Sir E. Kerrison will accede to the requisition. -r - 2 11'00 ORIENTAL DISCOURTESY.—On the fete of mft— nco r the European consuls paid the customary visit to the,. l 'J, of Tunis. The Prime Minister made a speech, but aclui - ,„, sing himself solely to the representatives of Em il Austria, England, and Italy, turned his back to themh i among whom were those of the United States, Sp , r c i e , Belgium. These latter, when the Minister had conchlu_., protested against this violation of all diplomatic courtero: and would not accept the apologies offered until the 84' cation had been repeated to them. ac c N e 18 23 5 I ditt tot. th e to 1 0011 2 to Cab pr eit 114,1 I'M 14 1 45: Lot t ,. (hett 4 4kb tgyl .4 1 t() tio:;4 Th, 21aart g s , 4l A . f°l ' tit, the 111 , 1 tat nt„_ l I N 44 itt Do