The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-02 00:00:00

Ise, and sourlY bow en passant. Rousby (36 4 )7 much ? we are cture (135) re ad and respect- Ferdinand and Torquemad T views are, 86 leve r surjass ed ank," or 050 is a mere effec t ) « The . G en tle rt of old Izaak orsleY )otton. H than his ( 147) letail is krt of the Or" lutely astonish" es, contributes ighest admir e " Irphans," in , 8 The Virgin 6 unt of bean t Y , enchant nie°' fi ve por traits , Ir. Wells', the .oup of L ord n grande tenu °l his State at' 3able this Yea r :,anthorn"- -C ; g his anima te ° a bullyraggi n g ig the latter'. in prospectiv e, is Titus Oates 1. Mr. done anything Dulation, than divorced B ; of Rome," i° n. G oodall's dering, in hat suffide°` g of Alcs eo d Lewis ar e but are other the illustrious M. Geretn e9 ' is profoundly )g in its sever e larshal, Duk e ; of the first 01 t shot down i° a prone on his g . His close' He is arrayed ply dressed as stockings an d ing just dove off with their officer alon e r have Dona" white, one of y middle of a adding of the e muddy foot he point froln le moment of nry VIII. and ierine," is an" ;nt as an As is Trial of St. las ever done ilustrator of :409) " Saie picture is in' Imbination of ad tendernes s s (412) " 'Ti e f O'Neil i 5 Haidee" an d 4) of Miche l through one we the opinio n 'hese remarks e Exhibition. THIS DAY.) ninal Cour t maing. Th e ers, of wheal ary, 17 wit h racy, 1 wit h , murder an d 10 with rczb mnding &C. nd jury, ad' ;ainst a ma n ;hat the pa' nd she mad e He said 1 1 ° —l.s. 3d. nd his sister , in her has' 1 struck the lowa. The him, an d teed to do sot the prisoner it immediate the amount in using the e spur of malice, the f the case Langan g R. Ross an d Wandswort h inst the Po' ;tits, and the dmissible it was made: eman name ly assaulting ['he evidence the woman, vas the man• leavoured to nen ts. Th e everal other to their IA- THE MONEY MARKET AND CON 111 ERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The transfer-offices at the Bank of England being Closed to-day, the Stock Exchange, as usual, was s hat• The Mining Exchange was also closed. The Corn Market to-day opened very firm. Ad lianeed prices had to be paid for both wheat and Spring corn. It is notified that on the 2d of May the offices of t he Company des Services Maritimes des Messa geries Imperiales will be removed from No. 4, Moor gate-street to No. 97, Cannon-street, E.C. (opposite t he Railway Station). Notice is given that the Scrip Certificates for the Bo nds of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company a re ready f or d e li v e ry , i n exc h ange f or th e a ll o t men t letters and receipts. A special meeting of the Ottoman Railway Com pany is called for the 13th of June, " to receive the report of the Council of Administration of the ar 14,angenients entered into with the Imperial Ottoman G overnme n t for the settlement of the company's cla ' n 's.” A copy of the chairman's report, with regard to the result of his visit to Constantinople in connection with the affairs of the undertaking, has also been circulated. It mentions that the balance dil e to the company will be immediately paid, and so cl ose all questions between the Government and the t) ,. 4l Pany up to the dates specified of June 30, 1869. der the arrangement for the future, a payment will also be at once made for the half year ending 31 st Decembe r , 1869, o f £28,000 or 50 p er c e n t. o f th e amount d ue o n J anuar y 1, 1870 ; th e b a l ance t o e Paid at the end of the six months, when the ac counts shall have been examined and adjusted, with re ference to any corrections and to the realised Profit of the half-year. This proportion of 50 per cent, i s b ase d upon t h e amoun t o f i n t erest d ue to e debenture holders. The same principle will be zapplied at the commencement of each half-year, 'onnediately after the company's accounts have Leen delivered to the Government—namely, the 50 Per cent. for the debentures will be at once paid, without waiting to examine the accuracy of the teeetints, and the adjusted balance due will be Paid at the expiration of the half-year. Sir Mac donald St e ph enson remar k s . t h at "N ot hi ng can he More just, equitable, or reasonable than this arrangement." The Bank of England have given notice that on ht uAay, the 2d of June, Consols New £5 per Cent s., New £3 100. per Cents., New £2 10s. per C e nts., Annuities for Terms of Years, and India 15 1 Per Cents. will b e t rans f era bl e w ith ou t th e di v id en d d f on the sth of July n e x t. Al so th a t th e trans ,,ec book s o f E ast I n di a S toc k w ill s h ut on F r id ay, t he 10th of June, and re-open on Wedneslay, the 6°l of Jul P rivate l e tt ers f rom Ri o by th e p res ent mail state thatt the B raz ili an G overnmen t h a d res ol ve d tc de- P a t ch Consilh e i r o Galtrao by next steamer to Eng land to d ec id e a ll t h e ra il way quest i ons l e f t unse ttl e d b / r the resignation of Dr. Sobragy. vi e Liverpool Journal of Commerce states ;—" Ad diteee from L ee d s announce th e meet i ng o f th e ore of Ors of Messrs. Sydney, Emsley, and Co., spinners, ii, n; Low Moor, with liabilities understood to be t ed• The offer of a composition of 25.!6d. in the —tpoun d, paid in cash in July, and ls. 6d., in three I tt Zat instal t n e nts, at s ix, t w el v e, and e ightee n d; 13 ._ 4t118 ) making a total of 4s. in all, was, after some - 'ellssio n , accepted." i l 2 ll e Mancheste r Cou r ier says :—" Telegrams from ot ql na rep or t th e f a il ure o f M r . Willi am H argreaves, lal sh anghai, and the liabilities are reported to be BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. SATURDAY. 3 11;14:;::. N C l u iE n c s T olß Y u 51)s. 94 3i 4j 3{ a " 14 ) for Account per cc _ 94 • o e: e t ; ,•~w 21 b p• ~ Per Cent. Jam. 1894 per , 3 C A , en Jan. 173 -"it ies o expire stli Jun.,M loi — 1) , - V rs, exP . ) 0 . w r 30 yrta, aspire sth April 188 i — t x ''' (Red See Telei.,raph). A lig., 190 t• — (44- '4.11 - t Bills, £3,000 2 1 p. Ct. par ..1- . , 1 , i. £lOO, £ : 2ov 6c £5O , 4 pm '1 11: 9 f England Stock. 41 per Ceni O tt , :, °Pening la , a 'a 4 per Cent. Bonds — "Br-Colonial Omnium Ititl,DIA.N JOVERNMENT SECURITI „. E . s. D, St ock, 101 per Cont., April 18/....., ____— . iy, u Poning, for Account 1)„'' ? Pur Cent. July, 11'89 1) - 1 Per Cont. P Oct... 18 j) '. E nfaced Pape, 4 pct. Cent -- b: 5 per Cert.,.. Jan. 1872 .... ... ..• 3: :1 per Cont. May 1874 ". , be, Cent., Rup. Del'. 18.72 — la , do b ' 1882.. .... - 1 - Deb 5 per Cont., A ug. 18r. „„. ~ ~ c ' 'isiodE 4 £1 000 i ncler £I.OOO — pm k rzfiti t: i i:: : :; rlnGhNlic, y6.7,ol,lri();se_n‘GLOSlN(.3 PRICES 14. _ k A.i.te,int 11)tri,,,, itoods 5 per cent _ 1,4 D. 1859 _ 11 IIImn 5 per Cent ....... 1 1 1 i r,or Cent. 185? _ ho . . • do 1858 ...... h o. 186 1 ••• 1). Ellii 1860" 89 1.," do., ‘`) 5 per Cent., 1865 ... O .0 . ... ..... _ 11 . • Account . . +II9A :I,:crek 6 per Gilt% 3 -, ,,; . i1,,nt.. ••• 4 . ' s 2 her Cont. 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Acco un t ..• • • ......................... .). _ w ... f • . • ................ ts o. 62 .De err - JJ , ................ ..• ...... • r . .. .I)tiod. tof t:ttirnte: jo a : .notLflol.:.:. ded — 1)0 G°veznizerit, 186 4 gg o an do, 1868 S DAY.) alting Thoo• man's art ll _; separate uck three L, threw bi t° as taken t° :o prosecute' w-street, 6• itt with ao7 oress. The ome bruin( ht she wel l ; had earoe . d hen the pry ter what shu off his coa t and she waa her moth er locked her T;soner 68./ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1870. SHARE LIST. IZAILWAYS-ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Closing Business Paid. Name. Quotations. done. St Bristol and Exeter lOO 78 80 80 St Caledonian 100 731 741 74 1 St Cambrian lOO 15 20 20 Cornwall all 21 31 St Dublin and Belfast Junction 100 . . . . St Dun, Prtb, and Aber. Jnnc 100 70 7 . 2 20 East London all 4 6 20 Do 20 Do St Glasgow and S.Western 100 116 117 St Great Eastern lOO 42 421 421 1 St Do East Anglian, No. 2 100 61 71 St Great North of Scotland 100 15 16 St Great Northern„ .lOO 121 122 1214 St Do A 100 126 127 127 St Do B ... 100 126 128 St Gt. So. and West(lreland)...loo 98 100 St Great Western Consolid...loo 71 711 724- 1 St Do South Wales 100 68 70 St Do West Midland—Oxford 100 44 45 St Do do Newport 100 86 38 St Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 130 131 1301 St Lond, Bright'n, and S.Coast 100 43 431 454 4 St Lond, Chatham, and DoVer 100 141 154 16 St Do Metrop Extension A...., 100 9 11 St London and North Western 100 1261 1274 1274 4. St London and South Western 100 881 891 St Manch, Shef, and Lincolnsh 100 51 511 521 St Do New. issued at £5O dis 30 St Metropolitan St Do Preferred... lOO St Do Deferred 100 ... 10 Do Redeemable St Metropolitan District 100 37 38 371 St Midland lOO 1241 125 1264 1 St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 94 96 St North British. lOO 34 35 St Do Edin, Perth, and Dunde 100 13 15 St North Eastern—Berwick lOO 1264 1271 1354 St Do Leeds 100 89 90f 89 St Do York St Do Stockton and Darlingts 100 178 180 St North London lOO 120 122 10 Do New, 1868 64 11 1/ St North Staffordshire 100 59 61 St North and So. West. Junct 100 102 105 St Rhymney lOO 52 54 St Shropshire Union 100 62 63 St South Devon 100 46 48 SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE THREATENED ASSASSINATION OF THE EMPEROR. St South Eastern 100 76/ 771 771 1 St Do Preferred ...100 1091 110 1111 12 St Do Deferred... lOO 41 411 411 f St Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok'g. all 121 131 St Taff Vale The Times thinks it would be too early as yet to pre iiounce any opinion with respect to the alleged attempt upon the life of the Eta Perot Napoleon. A young man, named Baurie, 22 years of age, late from London, was arrested on Friday evening, and he, it is said, admitted his intention to assassinate the Emperor. Ile had a loaded revolver about him, and was the bearer of letters from persons in London to persons in Paris, re vealing an extensive plot, with which the Work ing Men's International Association is supposed to be mixed up. Numerous arrests have been made ; some of the alleged conspirators have escaped, but a quantity of shells, cartridges, and nitrate Of potash has been seized. Unfortunately, these disco teries seem to establish a connection between the present Conspiracy and the plot of last February, and as at the latter-named epoch many person§ *ere imprisoned and inquiries were m a d e w hich h ave l e d t o no results, it is impcssible to say how long we may be kept in the dark . on the subject of this n ew t reasona bl e c ombination. We do not know to what extent even the spontaneous confession of the prisoner may help the French police in their inves; tigation. What is certain is, that the affair has hitherto only had the effect of winning loud cheers for the Emperor as he and his Empress drove out in an open carriage off Saturday afternoon. That France prefers personal rule td a republic, a Napoleon to a Rochefort, is a point which it reqUires no Plebiscite to clear up ; but that does not prove that France prefers persona) rule to all other forms of Government, or.that she thinks that despotism may best be tempered by Plebiscites. The result of ari Appeal to the people under the pressure of such terrors as haunt the French voters at the present moment can scarcely be Considered a fair index of their • real wants and tendencies. Whatever improvements the new Con stitution may actually introduce in the olicy of the French Government, that Government will continue to stand on the same principle on which it always Stodd—: the demoralization of the sound Liberal party and the readines6 of the mass of the people to accept order with out any certain guarantee of liberty, rather than establish a liberty which, in their apprehension, may lead the way to revolution. But at the time of the formation of the January Ministry we were led to hope not only that order was to be made consistent with liberty, but that liberty itself was to be so constituted as to become the best security against revolution. If the Emperor obtains as large a majority as he anticipates, if, above all thing/S i he obtains the votes, be they few Or many, that are really worth having, there will be so many of them given ad terrorens and so many ad misericordiam, that we shall not be able to say to what extent he may have to be eon= gratulated upon the favourable result. The Standard is afraid there is no room for the sugges tion that the last plot against the life of the Emperor of the French is in any part the manufacture of the police authorities. The conspiracy seems a great deal too real; the Government hastens to give names and particulars without waiting for the termination of those tedious, not to say cruelly prolonged, inquiries to which it invariably has resort when it has strong suspicions but no evidence. It would of course be unjust to adopt at once the state ments of the Journal Officiel, so far as they affect indi , - Viduals not under arrest, and who may probably be able to explain satisfactorily their relations with Baurie. The Journal Officiel identifies these conspirators with the International Working Men's Association, the head quarters of which are in this metropolis. But whoever the organisers of the plot may be, we trust that if they are unearthed within the British empire, British law will be strong enough to punish them according to their deserts. We cannot allow our hospitality to be abused by scoundrels who call themselves politicians and patriots, and are nothing m ore nor less than murd erers ; an d happily, public opinion has so grown since 1858 that there need be no fear that a stupid in dulgence for political crime will induce juries to refuse to do their duty. Messieurs les assassins can no longer offer the plea that they struck their blow to rescue an oppressed country. If France does not possess every liberty a great nation ought to possess, every liberty is within her grasp, and the only shadow of extenuation that could be suggested for the murder of the Emperor Napoleon has vanished. This conspiracy, assuming the truth of the information we possess upon it, is a crime for which no excuse can be found, and it is more, it is a prodigious blunder. The conspirators will have confirmed the power of the Sovereign they soucht to kill, and strengthened the dynasty and the form of tiovarn. ment it was their object to overthrow. 10 Do C 6 3 6 St Waterford and Cent. Ireland 100 10 Waterloo and Whitehall Turkish 6 per i I, IJ t • ii,. AcccuLt Po 6 p'r Cent. 185 e D.) Account Do £lOl Bonds 731 Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account — !I n £lOO Bonds 731 •• ••• Do. 5 per cent. 1865 • 48 I Do. Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 ••• 721 1 Do Account Do '1 por Cont., Guaranteed — Do do, Scrip — Venezuela 3 per Cent. -- D, 6 per Cent. 1864 - ••• ... - • D , 6 per nent.,1862 — Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian o par Cent Ex 10 Florius Belgian. 4 por cent., Ex. 25f. ....... . Dutch 24, per Cent. Ex. 12 Gui! Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates . . French Itentos, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 25f. ...... !tallith 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. zsf Do Account — CLOSING PRICES. Couso!s, Money, Do. Account, May 4 93/ 4 THE BANQUET AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. On Saturday evening the president, Sir Fran cis Grant, and Council of the Royal Academy, enter tertained a distinguished company at a banquet in the new. galleries, Piccadilly. The Prince of Wales, the Prince Christion, her Majesty's Ministers, Earl Derby the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Lord Cairns, Mr. Chares Dickens, and all the principal R.A.'s were present. The only departure from the pro gramme of toasts usually given was the omission by reluest of Sir E. Sabine, " the Learned Socrates," and the substitution of that of '• Literature," coupled with the name of Mr. Dickens. Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, who was received most warmly, said :—Mr. President, your Royal High nesses, my• Lords and gentlemen, I beg to acknowledge the toast with which you have done me the great honour of associating my name. I beg to acknowledge it on behalf of the brotherhood of literature, present and absent, not forgetting an illustrious wanderer from the fold, whose tardy re turn to it we all hail :with delight, and who now sits —or lately did sit—within a few chairs of, or on, your left hand. (Cheers.) I hope I may also claim to acknowledge the toast on behalf of the sisterhood of literature also, although that " better half of human nature," to which Mr. Gladstone r; ndered his grace ful tribute, is unworthily represente I here, in the present state of its rights and wrongs, by the devour ing monster, man. (Cheers and laughter.) All the arts ; and many of the sciences, bear witness that women, even in their present oppressed condition, can attain to quite as great distinction, and can win quite as lofty names, as men. (Cheers.) Their emancipation (as I am given to understand) drawing very near, there is no saying how soon they may " push us from our stools" at these tables, or how soon one better half of human nature, standing in this place of mine, may eloquently depreciate mankind—(a laugh)— addressing another better half of human nature sit ting in the president's chair. (Cheers and laughter.) The literary visitors of the Royal Academy to-night desire me to congratulate their hosts on a very in teresting exhibition, in which risen excellence su premely asserts itself, and from which promise of a brilliant succession in time to come is not wanting. (Cheers.) They naturally see with espe cial interest the writings and persons of great men —historians, philosophers, poets, and novelists-- vividly illustrated around them here. And they hope that they may modestly claim to have ren dered some little assistance towards the pro duction of many of the pictures in this magnificent gallery. (Cheers.) For without the patient labours of some among them, unhistoric history might have long survived in this place, and but for the researches and wanderings of others among them, the most pre posterous countries—(a laugh)—the most impossible peoples —(laughter)—an d the absurdest suppositions, manners, and customs, might have usurped the place of truth upon these walls. (Cheers and laughter.) Nay, there is no knowing, Sir Francis Grant, what unlike portraits you yourself might have painted if you had been left, with your sisters, to idle pens, unchecked reckless rumours, and undenounced lying malevolence. (Cheers and laughter.) I can not forbear, before I resume my seat, adverting to a sad theme, to which his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales made allusion, and to whichthe president re ferredwith the eloquence of genuine feeling. (Cheers.) Since I first entered the public lists, a very young man indeed, it has been my constant fortune to number among my nearest and dearest friends mem bers of the Royal Academy who have been its grace and pride. (Cheers.) They have so dropped from my side one by one that 1 already begin to feel like the Spanish monk of whom Wilkie tells, who had grown to believe that the only realities around him were the pictures which he loved—(cheers)—and that all the moving life he saw or ever bad seen was a shadow and a" dream. (Cheers.) For many years I was one of the two most intimate friends and most constant com panions of the late Mr. Maclise. (Cheers.) Of his genius in his chosen art I will venture to say nothing here, but of his prodigious fertility of mind and Wonderful wealth of intellect I may confidently assert that they would have made him, if he had been so minded, at least as great a writer as he was a painter. (Cheers.) The gentlest and most modest of men—(hear, hear)—the freshest as to his generous appreciation of young aspirants—(cheers) —and the frankest and largest-hearted as to his peers—(cheers) —incapable of a sordid or ignoble thought—(cheers) gallantly sustaining the true lignity of his vocation= (cheers)—without one grain of self-ambition, whole somely natural at the last as at the first, "iii wit a man, simplicity a child"—(cheers) —no artist of what Boyer denomination I make bold to say ever went to his rest leiving a golden memory more pure from dross or devoted himself with a truer chivalry to the art-goddess whom he worshipped. (Loud and con tinued cheering.) LAD v ERTISEMENT. 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Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' lives complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation..". Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agory from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s Vd; 2 lb 4s 6d; 51b Ils.; 121 b 22s 24 lbs 4 B. 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The Daily Pew declares that Mr. Bruce has very sue' eessfully vindicated himself from what was in reality an attack made upon him for commuting the sentence passed upon Jacob Spinas. Evidence, it seems, was obtained which conclusively satisfied Mr. Bruce that Spinas was, in fact, a criminal lunatic. This is as far as it goes satisfactory. But the whole matter points irresistibly to the necessity . that exists for a public Court of Criminal Appeal. As the matter now stands, a pri soner, if reprieved at all, is reprieved upon evidence of which the public knows and hears nothing, and upon the testimony of witnesses who are neither examined upon oa th nor submitted to any cross-examination. The Home Secretary may accept or reject their evidence as he likes, and his verdict is as unimpeachable as his grounds for arriving at it are secret. One murderer—let us say Spinas—is reprieved. Another—let us say Sheward—is left to his fate. The public is absolutely ignorant what evidence has or has not been offered, and why it has or has not led to a reprieve. It is not to be wondered at that the judgment of the Home Secretary should be per petually impugned, however wisely and rightly it may have been given. That the decision of a Court of Criminal Appeal should be absolute is necessary. But that this appeal should be to a Court which sits in secret, which admits just such evidence as it thinks fit, which has no recognised mode of procedure, and no system of its own—in which counsel cannot appear, and in which there is but one judge, who, besides being unused to judicial functions, has other most serious calls upon his time, and who, in consequence, appoints exactly as many assessors as he thinks necessary—all this is as bad as it well can be. A Court of Criminal Appeal should be open, and its verdict should be final. The Home Secretary's Court is not an open court, and as long as it sits in private it will never or very seldom be able to give a verdict which will remain unques tioned. THE ROYAL ACADEMY DINNER. The Royal Academy banquet, says the Telegraph, is the solitary and supreme exception to the proverbial tedium of public dinners. The event constitutes a Momentary pause in the tumultuous hubbub of English life. There is one afternoon and evening of the year on which there is an end of politiqpi turmoil, of commercial anxieties, of forensic bickerings, and when the foremost men in the State meet as friends on neutral ground. They have come together to testify their admiration and respect for art. Amidst all the happiness and all the en lpyment, there were ? of course, two dark spots. Two of the most distinguished artists with whose works we have been familiar for a generation have been called away before their time, and their names, save in the way of honourable and mournful mention, will no more be heard at the dinners of the Royal Academy. Mr. Maclise and Mr. Creswick are gone. It is impossible to look without strong emotion at the splendid " last work " of Daniel Maclise, for which an appropriate place has been found this year ' • or at the two last pictures of Thomas Creswick, which speak to us of bygone days, and revive the old affection in which the artist was deservedly held. Thus the most earnest sorrow at parting is alleviated by the very force of the esteem that enhances the regret. A true artist has the con solation that he leaves nothing but regrets behind. He is the friend of everybody, and everybody is his friend. More happily placed than those on whom the sterner and more combative functions of life are cast, he need excite no animosities, and leave no bitterness of feeling behind him. His triumphs are won on fields unstained by blood. Even among a rtists,Maclise and Creswick were singularly amiable and gentle men, and it may be said with out exaggeration that their premature death has been felt as a national loss. But if the banquet, like all h uma n affairs,. had its shadows, it also had' more than customarily bright and significant incidents ; and we rejoice to find on the list of the guests present a the Royal Academy dinner such names as those of MM. Gallait, Jtrome, Meissonier, and of other great foreign artists. The Empire, or the Republic, of Art-- for we will not quarrel about terms—is universal, and we are glad to see how the principal artists of the Continent are beginning to understand that British art holds no mean place among the great schools of the world. THE GREEK GOVERNMENT AND THE BRIGANDS, The Post observes that the distrust of the Athenian Government evidently felt by Arvanitakis, the Chief of the brigands, seems to have had no small share in causing the death of the prisoners ; for they rejected all offers except such an one as would place them beyond the scope of Government vengeance. They also refused to sur render to the Government, even under promise of a par don after trial, and proposed, instead, that a "Procureur du Roi" should be sent to them, and that the form of a trial should be gone through at Oropos, to be followed by their pardon. Under, any other circumstances it would be difficult to advocate such a mockery of justice ; but graver interests than the dignity of Greek justice were at stake, and it is perhaps not too much to say that, rather than sacrifice the lives of the prisoners, the Greek Government should have consented to the demands of the brigands, and have thus got over the diffi culty which the thirty-ninth article of the Constitution placed in the way of the liberation of those in whose safety their honour was involved. They refused to avail themselves of the loophole offered byj he brigands, and still maintained the course they had adopted. This, as before stated, was to surround the brigands, convince them that escape was impossible, and then allow them to treat with their ransom on the liberation of the eaotiva. The brigands would appear to have been confident. tna►t the British Government would use force, if necessary, to compel that of Greece to give way on the point of an amnesty. And it is quite incredible that the fear of the indignation which the death of the captives would not fail to awaken in England was not sufficient to induce the Athenian Government to devise some means by which the letter of the law might be evaded. It is impossible to acquit that Government of being even the indirect cause of the murder of our countrymen, and we are fully justified in exacting the amplest reparation that can be suggested. The telegraphic cable between Caithness and the Orkneys, which has recently been laid, will be in working order in the course of the present month. THE LATE SOUTHWARK ELECTION. The expenses of Mr. Odder and Sir. S. H. Waterlow, the two defeated candidates at the last Southwark election, were published on Saturday. Mr. Odger's amount to £667 45., while Sir Sydney's are £4,779 18s. 21,700 of this was expended for clerks, canvassers, &c. Mr. Labouchere, Who retired after a short canvass, expended £BOO. Colonel Beresford's expenses have not yet been pub blished, but are said to be considerably below Sir ta, WitterlOW'o. METROPOLITAN GOSSIP.-SATURDAY. 1 Weiit ddWri td the Hduse of Commons last night, and Anything more horribly dull than the proceedings I never encountered. For nearly tifd lidura a scanty hand of. M.P.'s discussed Colonel Botef and his patent. Then came Lord Crichton on Irish magistrates; then/ and no wonder; Sir Lawrence Palk ealled attention td the terribly unsatisfactory condition of public business. If hOn. members, in spite of the consciousness of this fact, Will diecusi every con ceivable topic—topics that might and ought to be got rid of in ten minutes—what chance is there of great ntefiakires like the Education Bill getting through ? As it was, the few niembers who were present looked terribly tired and weary, and those who spoke did so in a low, de pressed voice ; so that it was scarcely possible to hear a consecutive sentence. Thin as was the attendance in the earlier part of the evening, it was still thinner as the hours went on, and the gentlemen of the gallery looked wonderfully bright at the prospect of a count out. The attempt was made while Mr. Bentinek was delivering an interminably long speech about the Tor nado question. There were only some twenty members present, but a score or two rushed in, and so frustrated the purpose of the philanthropic M.P. who had moved the count. Having done this, they rushed out again ; for they could not for them selves endure the di'eary talk which they were yet cruel enough to inflict upon the Speaker: Great was the indignation of the gallery ; but it is an ill wind that blows no one any good, and by keeping a house, Mr. Goschen was able to get on with his Poor Relief Metropolitan Bill, and Mr. Chambers got his Marriage with a De,ceased Wife's Sister Bill ihroiigh its final stage in the Commons, prior to its ignominious rejection by the Lords. If the Lower House was dull last night so was it not on Thursday, so will it not be on Monday. Mr. Newdegate, though so lugubrious and depressing, has yet succeeded in eliciting more excitement this session than any other member of the House. There was a very lively scene about three o'el sck on Friday morning, and, by the way, there were some rather severe remarks because Mr. Glad stone had for the seeond time left the House when dila matter came on. Yet when a Minister has been hard at work all day at his official residence, and then has sat for eight or nine hours, he may well be pardoned if he goes to bed. After all, he was not the only person who did so. On Thursday night, as on the former occasion three weeks ago, it was not expected that Mr. Newdegate's motion would come on, and Mr. Dodson left the House, no less than Mr. Gladstone, The Premier will not be caught napping again. He hati fixed a definite hour •for Mr. Newdegate, and your readers may therefore think of us about bedtime on Mon day, think of us as engaged in a fierce conflict, in which all the winds of theological passion will be let loose. I nope no heads will be broken. I believe that the Liberals will win a seat in East Suffolk. Their candidate, Sir Shafto Adair, is a very strong man, and has come into possession of his title and estates since he last did battle on be half of his party. The Conservatives have ng men of real position they can run against him. They have asked Lord Mahon—but he is scarcely likely to win the seat. He is very young, and has no connection with the county. He is far more likely to get in for Norwich, where he will in all probability come forward in the event of a writ being issued. Mr. Rodwell, Q,C., who was spoken of, as a candidate for East Suffolk, is a brother of the Rector of St. Ethelburga, Bishopsgate-street. But while the lawyer is a Low Churoh Conservative the parson is a High Church Radical. The announcement to-day made by the proprietors of the Pall Mall Gazette that their paper will cease to appear as a morning journal, and will return to RI old size, will take no one by surprise who is acquainted with newspaper matters. At the same time it will excite keen regret among all persons who know how to appreciate a re illy good paper. To my mind the Pall Mall Gazette was beyond all comparison the best of the morning journals. Its news was more varied, its correspondence admirable, its leaders full of thought instead of being mere windbags as those of some of the most widely circulated journals are, and its reviews were preeminently fair and honest. It had the one great merit, moreover, of being utterly free from Philistinism, the curse of modern journalism. But the public would not buy it. The article was good, too good for readers who want to be amused only, or to read common-place ideas in good English. Many and many is the person to whom I have dilated on the merits of the Pall Mall, and I have always received the same reply : " There was too much of it," as though the readers were bound to read the whole of it. Others complained of the extra sheet, and of the large size, as though the Times had not its extra sheet also, and was not a good deal larger. Unfortunately prejudice proved too powerful in this case, and it was found impossible to obtain a re munerative circulation. Advertisers, moreover, were shy of the paper. They remembered that several changes had taken place since it wasfirst established in February 1865, that it was brought out for a few weeks as a morning paper, that it then returned to its evening edition only, that it was reduced in price, then raised in price and enlarged, and made a morning paper once more. Confidence is a plant of slow growth, and these frequent changes rudely checked that growth. Ours is the loss, for we shall no longer have upon our breakfast tables every morning a journal which it was a liberal education to read. The Archbishop of Canterbury is really in better health than he has been for some time past, but he still finds close attention to business try him. In fact, he is now suffering not so much from any bodily effect of his late attack as from mental indisposition, not, of course, in the way of mental incapacity, but in the form of that kind of irritability which accompanies such cases as his. The change in the Pall Mall Gazette is not the only matter relating to journalism which I may mention to day. Mr. Edward Dicey,who succeeded Mr. Thos. Walker as editor of the Daily News, has ceased to occupy that post. The Cambria Daily Leader, a daily paper first published at Cardiff ten and a half years ago, appears for the last time to-day. This decease is a little remarkable. Every one who knows Wales is aware how intensely Liberal it is, nevertheless the old Liberal daily paper has dis appeared before the new Conservative daily paper, the Western Mail. This is an exceptional incident, and even less pronounced Liberal diAricts will furnish no parallel to it. The incident is due to exceptional cir cumstances. Unlimited funds have been forthcoming for the new paper, the Marquis of Bute standing banker. Moreover, the Liberal paper was very poor, and fre quently changed hands while the Conservative was con ducted with much spirit. Its editor is Mr. Hamilton Hume, of Will-o'-the- Wisp and Governor Eyre connec tion, Yet even he and his patron will not, I think, be able to convert the Welsh to Tory principles, though for the sake of its news they may read the Tory journal. The new arrangements at the War Office are expected to be made known immediately. The nature of them has not leaked out. It is expected that a good many of the " upper class" clerks will send in their resignations. I have not had time yet to form any adequate idea of the Royal Academy Exhibition. The general impression is, I think, that this year's show is not equal to last year's, and that considering what excellent pictures have been rejected, there has been a good deal of inferior work admitted. The absence of Holman Hunt and, save for one small work, Frederick Leighton is of course a serious drawback. Mr. Millais is unusually strong, how ever. Mr. Frith, who paints for the public, and has the satisfaction of knowing that he succeeds, if the selling price of pictures is the test of success, is in great force. A melancholy interest attaches to Maclise's picture of the Earl of Desmond borne from the battle-field by his captors. Altogether there are 888 oil paintings, 134 water colours, and 194 sculptures. The May magazines are peculiarly strong. Mr. Froude reviews in Fraser Father Newman's new book. In the same magazine Mr. Leslie Stephen writes on the Religious diffi culty, Professor Max Miiller on the Science of Religion, and Dr. Russell has a contribution entitled " Arundines Nili." In the Contemporary Review Professor Maurice discusses Father Newman's book. The Fortnightly has many attractions, a criticism on Dante Rossetti's poems, by Mr. Swinburne ; an histo rical article about Queen Anne, by Mr. Kebbel ; an article on the electoral disabilities of women, by the wife of Professor Fawcett and sister of Miss Garrett ; and a translation of a modern Greek poem, by Mr. Edward Herbert, one of the unfortunate victims of the Greek brigands. Mr. Tom Hood has some verses in London Society. A. new serial edited by Mr. Salk aua entitled NogNnti fn me .Prattn4 Day, will appear in June, and in the autumix smoother serial called The Waif is promised. Mr. Boucicault is writing a new play, whereof the scene will be laid in the same county as " The Colleen Bawn." ' It will be called "The Rapparee." The same fertile writer is dramatising Mr. Dickens's new tale, "Edwin Drood." Mr. Robertson's new play, " M.P.," brought out this week at the Prince of Wales's, is well spoken of. SPORTING INTEL LIGENCF. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRM TELEGRAPH.) LATEST 13tTTING AT THE ROOMS. T THOUSAND. 2to 1 agst Kingcrgt (offered-45 to 20 taken) 9to '2 agst Macgregor ;taken freely) 11 to 2 agst Stanley (taken) 6to 1 agst King o' Scots (taken, 100 to 7 agst Sunlight (taken) 100 to 7 agst Hawthornden (taken) 25 to 1 agst Claudius (taken) 33 to 1 agst A stolfo (taken) 50 to 1 agst Champion (taken freely) 500 to 7i agst Nobleman (taken) THE DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Stanley (taken) 10 to 1 apt Macgregor (taken) 11 to 1 agst Sunshine (taken) 100 to 6 agst King o' Scots (taken) 20 to 1 agst Bridgwater taken) SCRATCHINGS. Two Thousand Guineas—Prince of Wales, Bruce, Gong, Etruscan, St. George, Bridgwater, Aeronaut, Flyaway Jack, Goldsborough, Bruce, Oliver Cromwell, Stanhope, Cradle, Demidoff colt. One Thousand Guineas—Sister to Tarquin, Columbine f, Crucifixion f, Lucy Bertram, Cradle, Calypso, Decoßetti, Helen ll'Gregor, Regolbocho f, Eveline f, Carfax. THE PARIS RACES. PARIS, May 1. The follovt hag are the results of to-day's racing at Long champs : _ Prix d'Anteuil - Ddpeche, 1 ; Isa, 2 ; Fausso Alarms, S. Prix des Cars—Gabier, 1 ; Finisterre, 2; Absolution, 3. PriX Diennal—Sornette, 1; Florian, 2 ; Don Carlos, 3. Prix do la Ocupo—Mortomer, 1; Capitalists, 2 ; Car- dagne, 3. Prix de l'Etoilo—Outrotupr, 1 ; Montreal, 2 ; Fleuriste, 3. Pia de Suresnes—La Neva, 1 Gourbi, 2 ; L'Aspirant, 3. Carl! . BETTING.—Tms DAY. TWO THOUSAND. 2to 1 agst Kingcraft (taken and offered) 45 to 20 agst Macgregor (taken and offered) 5 to 1 apt , Stanley (taken and offered) 6to 1 agst King o' Scots (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Sunlight (taken) 100 to 7 agst Hawthornden (offered) 25 td agfft Astolfo (offered) 25 to 1 agst Claudius (offered) 50 to 1 agst NohlOtatin (offered) 50 to 40 on Kingcraft gVel Macgregor (taken) sto 2 agst Stanley and Kitig e'Scota coupled (taken and wanied) TATTERSALLS'-SATURDAY EVENING. TWO THOUSAND. 2to 1 agst Kingcraft (offered -9 to 4 taken) 4to 1 agst Macgregor (offered —take 9to 2). 11 to 2 agst Stanley (offered -6 to 1 taken freely) 6to 1 agst King o' Scots (taken) 14 to 1 agst Hawthoinden (taken) 100 to 7 agst Sunlight (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agst Champion (offered) PLACE BETTING. 6 to 4on Kingcraft (offered) 6to 5 agst Macgregor (offered) 6to 4 agst King o f Scots (taken and offered) 7 to 4 agst Stanley (taken and offered) 5 to 2 agst Hawthcrnden (taken and offered) 5 to 2 agst Sunlight (taken and offered) sto 1 agst Claudius (offered) CHESTER CUP. 9 to 2 agst Sabinus (offered) 9to 1 agst Glenfalloch (offered —take 10 to 1) 10 to 1 agst Starter (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Muster (offered—take 100 to 8) 20 to 1 agst Wild Flower (offered) 20 to 1 agst Vintner (offered) 1000 to 40 agst Paul Jones (offered) 1000 to 40 agst Socrates (offered) 30 to 1 agst Cecil (offered) 1000 to 30 agst Vestminster (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Morna (offered) DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Kingcraft (offered —take 9to 1) 9to 1 agst Macgregor (offered —take 10 to 1) 10 to 1 agst Sunshine (offered) 12 to 1 agst Stanley (taken) 1000 to 60 agst King o' Scots (offered) 1000 to 20 agst Captivator (taken) 100 to 3 agst Camel (offered) 1000 to 20 agst Astolfo (offered—take 1000 to 10) 1000 to 10 agst Champion (offered—lake 1000 to 6) THE TWO THOUSAND, The Newmarket First Spring Meeting commences Monday. On Tuesday the great race of this turf heak, quarters is run. The list of probable starters may be taken as follows : HORSE. SIRE. DAM. JOCKEY: Kingcraft. . King Woodcraft ...... T. French Macgregor ......Macaroni ......Necklace........J. Snowden Sunlight King o' Scots ....King Tom Grimshaw. Stanley ........Knowsley ......Allegra ........J. Osborne Astolfo .. Orlando .. .. Prudence .. Fordham Hawthornden ..Lord Clifden ....Bonny Blink ....J. Adams Claudius : ...Caractacus ......Chaloner Prince of Wales..Chlr.d'lndustrie.Ten - sion .. .. .. .. Cannon Chancelier......Monarque Chevrette ........Butler Nobleman...... Marquis . . Champion ......Skirinisher ....Fistiana:.........Maidment Normanby......Thormanby ....Emily.. ..........Custance Some quote Claudius and Nobleman as doubtful runners. The Field prefers Kingcroft or Macgregor :—"Kingcraft —ever a special favourite of ours—has at various times en countered fierce opposition from the pencillers by the way.' Now he is as firm as a rock in the betting. And, as he has undergone a splendid preparation, is sure to go straight, and has a tremendous dash of speed, we believe this fine son of King Tom is bound to finish first or second in the Guineas. No vic tory would be more popular than Lord Falmouth's who is one of the purest sportsm en w e h ave . Ki ng o ' Scots, though fancied by the Newmarket Solons, who vow he cannot be defeated, is, if his public performances are cor rect, an uncertain and moderate horse. And we shall indeed be astonished to see this colt, with his suspicious forelegs, win an important race like the Guineas, for which soundness and goodness are essential qualifica tions. Macgregor, who has been sneered at and condemned by nearly every turf critic, has ever had a good word from our pen, and to us it is eminently satisfactory to find this son of Macaroni first favourite for the Derby and second for the Two Thousand Guineas. That he is a racehorse we have no doubt, and, as Macgregor has had our recom mendation when friendless in the market, we shall not desert him now, as he is sure to be first or second for the race under discussion. Stanley the Field pets down as a second-class horse ; Sunlight is a coward ; Hawthornden may be set down as a non stayer. Bell's Life pronounces for Kingcraft :—ln the face of the great support accorded to Macgregor, King o' Scots, and Stanley, it is difficult to harden the heart, and plump solely for a colt like Kingcraft that has recently undergone opposition o f th e most ' om i nous ki n d. W e must, however, our belief in his b e i ng the best public per former in the race, and to our thinking he can hardly be beaten unless by the best privately-tried horse, Mac gregor. King o' Scots and Stanley are a pair that we pass over with reluctance, believing that the trying tackle of the one a n d th e o th er is such that no mistake ought to have been made. Land and Water expects Kingcraft will win the Two Thousand, and King o' Scots will get a place. "As for Macgregor and Sunlight, they will be nearer the last than first—a remark Ido not feel justified in making about Stanley and Hawthornden, as both are very fit, and likely to be well up. Sunshine is very well, and I am told that she will win the One Thousand, although the general impression is that she will not even be sent to New market. _ "Hotspur," of the Telegraph, pronounces also for King craft, with Stanley in the first three. The Sporting Life writer observes : Presuming King craft has not made the improvement expected, or his forml is not what it was, the Two Thousand would be one of , the most open on record, and one hardly knows where to look for the winner. I am disposed to conclude that he, retains all his fine speed, and as I know nothing beyond the influence of money and mere hearsay about Macgregor, , I shall elect Kingcraft, Stanley, and Sunlight as my repesentatives, according the preference to Kingcraft and Stanley, with a strong recommendation of Sunlight as ai place investment. The Sportsman's critic says :—" If I were to be inflivj enced solely by arguments based on public form, my selec tion would, be Macgregor and Kingcraft, in the order named, for though Macgregor is a " dark" horse, I take , him to represent Sunshine. As, however, I have such grave doubts as to whether Lord Falmouth's horse will quite stay home, I must stand by Macgregor and King o' Scots ; and Kingcraft may secure the honours of a, place.