The Sun. — London, England, 1870-04-07 00:00:00

CAUTION. MOSES and SON E. beg to inform the Public that thoy have adopted and registered a TRADE MARK, consisting of the words " The Standard," with the initials "E. M. & S." underneath, and that henceforward every at tide 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 lug the said Trade Mark. For trades and addresses see following advertisement. „ THE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS_ THE MAN.” BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES, BEST WORKMAN6HIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and sowe. Every description of Clothing ready-made or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and SON'S. ' For the convenience of Ladies accompanying their Sons there is a separate department for Boys' Clothing, and it is furnished with a splendid assort ment of Suits, Ov, rcoats, and Clothing for all occa sions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate syitem of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Any article not worn or injured will be exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Philp Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is unequalled for mag nitude, variety, and cheapness. A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from ss. 4d. the pair. Complete Outfits for all climates, with every re , quisite for the voyage. List of Prices, with Rules for !elf-measure, Pat terns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. ' E: MOSES and SON, Ready made and Bespoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all classes. E. MOS ES and SON'S Est blishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SCN LONDON: CORNER OF MINORIE3 AND ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENUAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON ROAD. Country Branch: BRADFORD, TOIIKSHIRE. NOTICE AND CAUTION MACNIVEN AND CAMERON, Proprietors of the renowned Waverley, Owl, and Pickwick PENS, beg to intimate to the Trade that the NILE PEN is patented, and that the Name and Trade Mark "Phaeton" are registered. Several parties who infringed our rights have by the 1 aw Courts of England and Scotland been found liable in heavy damages.' A Reward will be given for information of the manufacturing or of the vending of spuri )us imitations. 717 J OUUNALS have recom mended these Pens to their Readers; see Blackwood's Magazine for May, 137 0 . Standard says: "The Waverley Pen is a treasure " Sun says:—" 1 hey create both wonder and delight." Sold everywhere, is. per Box By Post, is. id. MAC% IVE N & CAMERO 23, BLAIR-STREET, EDINBURGH. AGENTS—MILLINGTON & HUTTON, LONDON; and FREDERICK GREEN & Co., 21, WALL-STREET, NEW YORK. Shippers supplied by the Patentees. TI .4 LECTION OF CHURCHWARDENS.-TO THE PARISHIONERS OF ENGLAND and WALES. The Easter'Vestries will shortly be held You are invited to elect only such Churchwardens as will act upon the principle that all Parishioners (poor as well as rich) are equally entitled to the use of thgir Parish Church. This is the p r i nc ipl e o f our A nc i ent Paro chial" Law. and is also in accordance with the Teaching of the Gospel. On behalf of The LOZ DON FREE AND OPEN CHURCH ASSOCIATION. ALFRED BUCKLEY. Chairman of Sub. Committee. S. R. TOWNSHEND MAYER, F.R.S.L. Papers on the subject may be had gratuitously on apidication to the Resident. Secretary, 25, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C. - TWIN G °SNELL and CO.'S CHE RRY TOOTH -PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness . , protects the et amel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 61 Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper That es-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSI BLE AG CA AM ARE LLA restores the Human Hair to its p Inv., no matter at what age. J No. GoSNELE, and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfectin this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a ower price. • Sold in buttles, 3s. each; also as., 7s. GI, and 13. each, ino'.u4 inz brash. .tle.t Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lou don, E.C. r HEATRE ROYAL, II A YMARKET 11 Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS RVENING, at 7. It:CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT. Blr Clark and Mrs Chippendale. After which, at 7.40, oUR AMERICAN COUSIN: Characters by Mr Sothern, Mr Buckstnne, Mr Chippendale, Mr Braid, Mr itogers; Mrs Chippendale, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Owynne, Miss C. Hill, &c. , Concluding with MY WIFE'S MOTHER: Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mrs Chippendale, .&c. Box-office open daily fron Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER THIS EVENING. at Seven o'clock, Ml' PRECIOUS BET.iY: Messrs J. G. Taylor, C. J. Smith ; iss Eliza Johnstone. After which, THE PROMPTER'S BOX: a Story of the Footlights and the Fireside. Mr Benjamin Webst , r, Mr Henry J. Byron Mr,. I). Boveridge, Mr R Phillips, Mr C. H. Stephen son, MrJ. G. Taylor, Mr C. J. smith, Mr A alley, Mr W. H. Eburae, Miss Furtado, Miss Lavis, and Mrs Alfred ellon. To be followed by WHITEBAIT AT GR KENWICH: Messrs J. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson, Ashley; Mrs Leigh Murray, Miss Lennox Grey. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. R, U 1 A L L ea and PR m IN C E M S S ' S r. Benjamin E THIS EVENING, at 7, YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER After which, PAUL LAFARGE: Messrs. J. Rouse, W. Rig nold, Geo. Belmore, Vollaire ; Mesdames R. Leclercq and Le thiere. With A DARK NIGHT'S WORK; Messrs W. Rignold, G. Relit-lc:re, iI. Crel!in ; Misses r. Leclercq, Barnett, &c. LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs Mansell (elegantly redecorated by Macintosh). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, SAMPSON'S WEDDING. Aft r which. at 8.39, CIIILPERIC, by Nerve: M. Marius, G. Vincent, Odell, Angyalil, H. Rowland, Aynsley Cook and %I. Herve; Iffeidames Dolo,ra, Romanslli, L. Wilson, and Emily Muir. 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London.' r, E LATEST EDITION of „ THE suiN wipplL:d, as soc n! published, Every Evening, by W. Cavendish street, A GEXA Dhllt (late Oxford--street Newspaper Agent, Ao. 4, Old frill.: LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " t may be seen at Eight o'clock every Evening at Mr. R. NEWPOUTIe, the Oxford Arms, High-street, Camden-town Messrs THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1870. THE LATE EDITION o f " THE SUN" at Mr. BEAUMONT'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-stree'. Strand. THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at W. SMITH'S " Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden town. THE THEATRES, &c. ADELPHL—At Seven, My Prec!ous Betsy. The Prompter's Box 11 hitebak at Greenwich. UAYMARKET—At Seven. A Co-Operative Movement. At 7.40, Our American Cousin. And My Wife's Mother. LYCEUM—At 7.30, Sampson's Wedding. Chilperic. OLYMPIC—At Seven, Little Emily. The Princess PRlNCEss's—At Seven, Your Life's in Danger. Paul Lafarge. A Dark Night's Work GAIETY—At Seven, Young Hopeful. 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Repetition or, in other words, use does not st the infinite variety of the scheme first projected, now, as nearly as possible, twenty years ago by the Prince CoNsoßT—the scheme long since familiar to us and ,to other countries of Christendom under the well-known title of International Exhibitions.. Since the Crystal Palace was first projected in 1850, the idea then brought to light has, as one may made the tour of the world. The notion then realized on the greensward of Hyde Park in '5l. has been realized, more or less comprehen sively in others of the capitals of Europe, in Paris at one time, in St. Petersburgh at another—to say nothing of the International Art Exhibition at Man chester, or of the great omnium gatherum at Dublin —bearing, of course, all the while, especially in remembrance the grand intermediate display which took place in '62 at South Kensington. Coming as these demonstrations do, apparently in cycl s, the scope of which seems in some mysterious way to be matter of uncertainty, it will be perceived that there are indications already of the next of these in rotat!on, the Grand International Exhibition designed to take place here in London in the year immediately ensuing. The proceedings which took place yesterday at the rooms of the Society of Arts in John-street, Adel phi, were obviously, only very slightly, preli minary. Nevertheless, as the merest com mencement, as marking the fact of an ac tual starting point, the occasion was intrinsic lly full of interest. As clearly enough indicating her MAJESTY'S personal ca. e for the undertaking, Prince CHRISTIAN, it will be seen, occupied the po.ition of chairman. Practice making perfect, we doubt no' that all the more esscnt'al details of the enterpfis.) will be sedulously seen to and cared for thr,,ughout. ITECENT proceedings with a view to the repres sion of bribery have not proved particularly satis factory or hopeful; b e ut it is evident that the Govern ment and the judges are doing their little best. Simul taneously with the announcement of the bills for dis franchising Beverley and Bridgwater, comes the news that a notorious offender at Norwich has not only met with conviction, but has actually received sentence. Here is a little progress. If these measures of retri bution are not all that we could wish, they are, at least something. Disfranchisement is a remedy which is to be tolerated only for want of a better, for it deprives of the right to vote many persons who have exercised that right with perfect propriety, and who ought not to suffer through the mere accident of residing in a town containing an exceptionally large proportion of corrupt electors. The fear of disfralichisement does not restrain candidates, for these are at liberty to transfer their attention elsewhere. The fear of disfranchisement does not restrain voters, for men who are prepared to sell themselves will not forego their gains alto gether because of the probability that the career of iniquitous profit will be brief. The punish ment awarded to Beverley and Bridgwater is, in short, pure and simple retribution ; yet in these bad times we are thankful for small mercies; and it is a comfort to find that the open toleration of bribery is not without limit. Moreover, these two boroughs have not only failed to turn their advan tages to good use, but their title to the repre sentative privileges they have abused is highly doubtful. Bridgwater and Beverley return each two members, and either under the most favourable circumstances would be amply honoured with one. With a population of 10,800, as in the case of Beverley, and 11,300, as in the case of Bridgwater, these two boroughs have hitherto enjoyed decidedly more than their fair share of electoral good things. It is likely, too, that if the • rogues were eliminated, the honest voters would not be sufficiently nume rous to form a constituency, and thus the injustice they suffer through disfranchisement is reduced to a minimum. Moreover, the representa- tion will not be lost. Many districts are inade quately represented—the whole of Scotland is an example, and thus the loss of Bridgwater and Beverley will be the gain of some deserving towns or counties. Disfranchisement is a highly convenient mode of redistributing seats, though as a punishment it has not the best of logic on its side. At Norwich the success of justice has been as imperfect as at Bridgwater. By a sentence of six months' imprisonment for municipal bribery, Ilardiment has met with a severe bat not disproportionate punishment. Yet this triumph of justice is materially impaired by the facts that, out of seven prosecutions for parliamentary and municipal bribery, only two ended in convic tions, and the acquittals were greeted with boisterous Joy by the good Norwich folk, proving that corrup tion still ranks as a high virtue in that borough, that interference with bribery is looked. upon as tyranny, that justice in short, so thoroughly rotten is the electoral principle of the place,would be efficiently vindicated only by sending half the consti tuency to join Har4inient. Nevertheless this conviction must act ass a certain terror to evildoers. Ilardiment was one of those subordinates who are prepared, for a duo con sideration, to do the actual dirty work, the detail of corruption, the ladling out of the gold, and the tap ping of the beer. His Into Night to render it more difficult in the future to set machinery like himself in motion. Candidates may escape, but agents like Hardiment, whether they operate at Parliamentary or Municipal elections may always be run down. Their deeds are too notoriens t 9 be covered with those Pleas of ignorance and unsusnecting innocence which so admirably serve the turn of the "great " bribers. In truth the men of Norwich did their bast for Hardiment. They steeped themselves in perjury for his special benefit, but all in v&n And it is difficult to imagine that the result in sucl cases can ever be different. It is lamentable tha our elaborate machinery should produce no better issue. That the source of all the mischief should remain unchecked is a discredit to English j urispru dence. But it is obviousl.y better than nothing to keep the subordinates in order. THE spell of the past ten years has been broken, and Cambridge has at last won the University Boat Race. The crews were more evenly matched than for some years past; the struggle was close and exciting; and the pace, though slower than of late, was fairly good. The contest, in fact, has been worthy of the interest it excited. The inter-university race has become more and more of late years a national event, and in 1870 the enthusiasm has reached its culminatingpoint. Within the last few days the nation, and especially the denizens of the metropolis, have been afflicted with an aquatic mania. Public business has suffered a total eclipse from this important athletic performance. The one intent of the British mind during the last few days has been to get the British person properly encased in blue, the one wish of the British soul that Light Blue might be in the as cendant. Much of this exceptional interest is doubtless to be attributed to the general conclusion that Cambridge had a really good chance of winning' that, notwithstanding prestige of- victory and sup posed suneriority of style, the Oxford eight seemed to possess no advantage on the river. The result has justified public confidence. The betting fraternity laid odds on Oxford, but of all classes of the community, that which delights in wagering has in general the smallest claim to acuteness. It is true that the Oxford men preserved the famous catch," which their opponents had but imperfectly acquired. On the other band, however, the Cam bridge crew displayed excellencies of style to which the Dark Blue could lay no claim, whilst the advantage of weight and strength lay in a markel degree with the Cantabs. On the whole with a net equality of style, it is to superiority of power that the issue of the contest is to be attributed. The victory of Cambridge, so long looked for and so long unrealised, will give unqualified satisfaction. It is a question which the humblest seemed to have at heart. A Light Blue success was the one thing needed to preserve this contest from degenerating into a mere formal walk-over, the ratification of a foregone con clusion. The race will now hold its place in public esteem, and it is well that it should Le so. It may be that too much attention is given to athletic sports, and undoubtedly the excessive importance attached to the University race is likely to develope muscular Christianity still more. Yet it is clear that the average Englishman is not yet prepared to devote himself to the feast of reason and the flow of soul ; he prefers body to mind ; and it is just. as well that his tastes should take a healthy direction. Boating is one of the purest of English sports, the annual event one of the most creditable of celebrations. It is by upholding the one and developing the other that the tendency to far more pernicious tastes may be held in dike& TRAGIC AFFAIR AT TODMORDEN. About two o'clock yesterday morning s 111lliani Hirst, a fanner, living at Greave, Todniordt'n, made a desperate attempt to murder three of hii four chil dren by cutting their throats a large carvirg knife. llirst also set upon his wife,• but slyn eficapad wi.hout much injury, as did also - a younger Fon: One of the diughte's fled from t h e h ou3 p, and was found lying iu u field, wheie she had fal'eu from the 1035 of blood. fli•st was suffering from &lirium tremens. the rs:.su'A of three days' drinking. No deaths have yet OCCUrred. SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Wednesday Night. A shocking tragedy was perpetrated to-day in the village of Prinlaws, near Leslie, Fifeshire. A man named Wyse shot his wife in the breast with a gun, and then committed suicide. A son, who worked in an adjoining quarry, on going to dinner found the mother and father deal, in a pool of blood ; one barrel of the gun was loafed, and it is supposed Oat after shooting his wife he misse I himself with the first shot, then reloaded, and discharged with th ramrod. Wyse, who is a rabbit catcher, had displayed signs of great mental excitement several days pre vious to the frightful occurrence. A NIGHT OF FIRES. A fire took place last night in the premises be longing to Mr. J. Culpeck, a fellmonger, carrying on business at No. 31, Long-lane, Bermondsey. It was caused by the overheating of a stove in one of the drying Louses, a building three floors high. Th e flames could' not be conquered until the drying house and the contents were destroyed. A tire, which for a short time created some alarm, broke out in a shed used as oil and lamp stores, belonging to Messrs. Kelk, Waring, and Co., the contractors, temporarily placed in Upper Thames-street during the forma'ion of the new street to the Mansion House. It was caused by one of the boys in drawing off some paraffin oil. Her Majesty the Queen will leave Windsor Castle Osborne about Wednesday next. The Queen has, through the Home Secretary, declined to attend the inauguration of the Albert Memo rial at Belfast. The Prince and Piincess of Wales have been asked, but their arrangements will not allow them to visit Belfast this year. To-day is the anniversary of the birth of his Royal Highnoss Prince Leopold. His Royal Highness com pletes his 17th year to-day. The Emperor of Austria has conferred on Sir John Bowring the insignia, with the Star, of the I. and R. Order of Francis Joseph. The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, the Gover nor of the Hudson's Bay Company, left Liverpool this morn ing in the Moravian, for Canada. It is again rumoured at the clubs to-day that Lord Northbrook will bocomo Minister of War. Mr. Ayrton, it is said, will succeed Mr. Bright at the Board of Trade after Easter. Vice-Admir,il Warren, the Commander-in chief at the Nore, will not give up his command for another month. Abbe Coppi, the Italian historian, has died at Rome at the age of 87. _ Mr. John J. 11. Saint ha 3 been appointed Recorder of Newark, in the place of Mr. Bristowe, M.P. GREAT TOURIST PARTIES IN PALESTINE.— The two parties of tourists travelling through Palestine, under the arrangements of Mr. Cook, we have just learnt by advices from Damascus, include 60 ladies and gentlemen of England and America, 20 of whom are ladies. On Monday, the 28th of February, they commenced their journey towards Jeru salem, where, after visiting the Dead Sea, the JorJan, and Jericho, they spent their first Sunday. Front thence they travelled through Ju lea, Saunria, and CI ililee, to Nazareth. One hundred and eighty horses, mules, and asses, 3 . 11 77 men are employed for :he aveunnno,latiou of GO travellers After visiting the North of Palestine au I the Lebanon, the programm e provides for trips to Ciprug, Smyrna, Ephesus, Constantinople, Athens, and other places in Greece, returning by Italy and Switzerland, the tour to be completed by the first cf May. SOMNAMETILISM.—At WolverliamFton• early on Tuesday morning a man named . Job Edwards, while walking in his sleep, fell from a three-story window into the street, and was seriously injured. It is believed tha t he supposed he was getting out of the ldteljen window lutQ the tELQI'I...!,I4I-,A.k.Vated ,7 4 elrirnbr I 1 ER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 6. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Plincess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds ais morning. The other inembers of the Royal Family also wen out. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, April 7. The Droit says that the examinations of the imprisoned persons charged with being implicated in the alleged plot against the Emperor will be completed by Easter. BOURSE, April 6.—Thri closed as follows : o'clock—The mark et per Cent. 3 per Cents 73 85 End of month 73 63 e lredit Mobilier 270 Bank Shares 2815 ItaFan vives 55 90 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 47 20 Spanish / T hrees 28 25 Homo Debt — -- Deferred Transatlantic 192 50 Credit Fonder 1260 Paris Gas Suoz Canal 265 - RAILWA' Ca,h Orleans ' Western Northern ... llB2l Strasburg .. 620 byons and Mediterranean Southern..... 622- 1; Sardinian Austrian Lombard 4671 North of Spain ' Saragossa Roman 5O SPAIN. MADRID, April 6 During the recent disturbances at Giacia, Senor Bret, the Alcaie of the town, and two members of its Municipal:ty have been shut by the rioters, although they were members of the Republican party. (TIMES TELEGRAM.) MADRID, April 5, 11.30 p.m. The rumoured disturbances at Cadiz and Valencia are untrue. All is in pei feet order there. The latest accounts from the Barcelona are dated half-past 9 th's morning. At that time the drawing for the conscription had began there, and artillery had opened five at Gracia. There has been no com• munication since from that town, as the telegraph lines were cut immediately afterwards. Strong Lo-lies of troops are at Barcelona, and reinforce me Ai are on their way thither. The drawing was effected to-day in Carthagena and Salamanca p.acefully. Thi Cortes to-night passel a bill fcr the levy of 40,000 men to fill up the ranks of the army. ITALY. FLORENCE, April 6. The vote on the appointment of the four commit t:es charged with the examination of the Govern ment financial bills was taken to-day. 86 Deputies, nearly all membeas of the Left, declared their in• tention not to take part in the nomination. It is stated that this arose in cona . Lqu..nce of a vote of the Chamber yest_rday, to rass to the orckr of the day over a motion to adjourn the nom . nation of the committee on the Bank Convention, until a list of the sha eho'ders of the Bank Lad been furnished .o the members. • AMERICA. (Per French ; Atlantic Cable.) NEW Yoitx, Ap.il G COMMERCIAL INTELLICLENCE. ctosixo rlacEs. Gold closed at 112 ; the highest quotation during the day was 1121 ; the lowest, 1114. Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bond; 1882 V/ 1885 „ 1867 10-40 „ Illinois Erie Cotton—Mid. upland Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra State, $4 50c. to $5 10c. Corn—Old mixel, $1 Oc. Mrs. Fawcett is about to lecture in Dublin on the "Electoral Disabilities of Women." The SteaM Navigation Company at Odessa has decided to employ women in the sale of passenger-tickets. The duties of General Lefroy, late Director General of Ordnance at Woolwich, lfave been assumed by Colonel Adye, C. 8., A deputation will shortly wait upon the Post master-General with reference to the recent advance in the rates of postage to the colonies. The other day a labouring man was married al Burton, in Derbyshire. His wife dropped down dead within an hour after the ceremony. At the recent election for Bristol the Liberal Dean, Dr. Elliott, recorded his vote in favour of Mr. Elisha Robinson, a Dissenter and member of the Libera tion Society. It is reported in the Diocese of Exeter that the Rev. Charles Voysey, on his resigning Healaugh, will be presented to a valuable Cornish Living by a very . Broad Church layman. In addition to the donation of £1,200 a year to the London Mksionary Society, Sir Francis Crossley, M.P., has givelr ten thousand pounds to the Pastors' Re tiring Fund. _Le Nord of to-day says that according to a rumour in circulation at the Hague, there is probability of a mar riage between the Prince of Orange and an English Princess. The Bishop of Rochester has instituted the Rev. Thomas Dale, D.D., to the deanery of Rochester, vacant by the death of the Very Rev. Dr. R. Stevens, on the nomination of the Crown. Miss Emily Faithfull has added to the number of her other industries by commencing a course of instruc tion in the art of reading "for ladies, clergymen, and members of Parliament," in Prince's-street, Hanover square. Mr. Francis Phelps, of Lee Priory Mansion, near Canterbury, recently shot a burglar, who has been brought before the magistrates and committed for trial. He was in an exceedingly weak condition and had to bb ac commodated with a chair. A report of Mr. Adams, Secretary of Legation in Japan, hews that the total number of cases of silkworm's eggs exported from that country' to France and Italy in 1869 was 6,359. The" gross weight of the commodity was 319,8291b5. LATIN gRONIINCIATION AND VIVA VOCIa Ex- AIGNATIONS. —ln reference to the pronunciation of4atin, a correspondent states that the old manner of pronouncing the vowels and some of the consonants of Latin words ha, been revived in the 'University of Cambridge, and, fol lowing the high auth or ity of bit.. Munro, the Professor of Latin, the Latin grace on Sunday week was read in the Rail of Trinity College very much as it is heard in a Scotch school. The change has bean adopted at King's College, and will p r ob a bly soon b ecome un i v ersal. Per, haps the new old method will be required from the corn , petitors at the next weewa woks examination.—. Record. THE " NILE " PEN.--Messrs. AVNiven and Cameron, of 23, Blair-street, Edinburgh, the inventors of the Waverley, Owl, and Pickwick pens, have just produced another beautiful metallic pen, to which'they have given the name of the "Nile." Admirable as their former productions have been, their last new pen must be. termed a marvel, and, speaking after a severe test of their lasting qualities, we pronounce them a most delightful pen, as they glide over the paper with an case and rapidity that would astouhli tLo most practised penman. The very extensive Distillery now being erected. at Belfast, with all recent improverneuts for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messis. DUNVILLE & Co. who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to he called •` The Royal Irish " istillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning . . Evening . Titunsnar 40 ml.l past 5 0 min past 6 Fiti DA Y . SATURDAY . 5 min past 7 40 min past 7 SUNDAY I omin past 8 ,.,2 min past 8 MONDAY 35 min past 9 20 min Past 10 TuEsDAY 2 min past 11 42 pin East 11 SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. WEDNESDAY. ' Nine p.m. is rather late to begin a day's work, especiall3 if you have done a day's work already. But this is the year of Ireland's vengeance, and the Saxon has to worl double tide. If the punishment is deserved, it must b( confessed that it is also severe. I could dilate upon tin cruelty by the hour, but I should not help myself thereby, and should weary your readers. It is enough to say that we have not had a single count - out this session. Truly this -it a terribly " earnest " Parliament, and one is in dined to sigh for the good old times of poco curante Pal• merston. However, there was some alleviation yester day. If we had that very tough and stale and tasteless joint, the Land Bill, all the morning, we had a variety of dishes in the evening—one of them, at least, well flavoured and spicy. Mr. Peter Taylor led off with his motion for leave to bring in a bill to " restore the constitutional practice " of payment of members. Note that Chartism has gone out of fashion, and that the five points are now always pro posed—at least such of them as have not yet been granted —as highly constitutional `and Conservative measures. Did not Mr. Bright call household suffrage a part of " the old lines of the constitution " long before Mr. Disraeli educated his followers into that belief ? So, too, Mr. Peter Taylor, Radical of the Radicals, contends that to pay M. P.'s is " an ancient and constitutional practice." As a matter of fact, he is right, for all the world knows that Andrew Marvell, M.P. for Hull, was the last member to receive payment. But then Mr. Taylor's ploposal was really an innovation, for, instead of proposing that members should be paid by their constituents, as in the time of the famous Hull statesman, he asked that they should be paid out of the consolidated fund, a point which Mr. Gladstone took care to make the most of. Nevertheless, Mr. Taylor's was a very able speech, delivered with much fluency and elo quence, and wit, and he repeatedly called forth cheers and laughter. The mirth was very loud when the member for Leicester came to mention the minimum amount which he proposed to recommend, and hon. members, especially the county squires, seemed hugely tickled •at the salary of £l5O a year. He urged with no little force that the country suffered by the absence from the House of the large number of able men who were deterred from entering Parliament by want of pecuniary resources. He went too far in saying that unpaid services ware of very little value, and in saying that he exposed himself to attack from several members. Mr. Taylor spoke for an hour. Mr. Gladstone took half that time to answer him. lie was more than usually emphatic, and slapped the large buhl box on the table with such fre quent and resounding blows that it sounded as if a boxing match were going on. If there is such a desire on the part of the country for poor men as representatives, why don't they elect them and subsidise them? said the Premier. Such cases have been known, but they are rare exceptions. Then where are we to stop ? Are we to pay magistrates, sheriffs, municipal representatives, poor-law guardians, volunteers? Are we, continued the Premier in a tone of consternation which excited no little amusement, to pay the Peers ? for they, too, are members of Parliament. A voice called put " Jurors :" and Mr. Gladstone, for once, had no answer to the interpolation. But he went on in true Palmerstonian style to praise the illustrious assembly before him as the finest in the world. Mr. Hibbert contended that Mr. Taylor had begun at the wrong end, that he ought rather to have reduced the ex penses at elections, to which Mr. Taylor might have re plied that that may be all very well for men who have money to spend, but could scarcely be of much service to those who have none. Mr. Cross argued that if M. P.'s were paid, magistrates ought to be paid, as indeed they used to be. But how would that be liked in Lancashire, where there are 800 magistrates, one for every policeman 1 Vicount Bury rather wearied the House in his experience of America and Canada, and was very severe upon Mr. Taylor for suggesting that it would be wise to diminish `the social consideration now shewn to M. P's. Amid shouts of "'Vide," Mr. Collins made a joke, and the question was then put. A feeble "Aye" was followed by a vociferous "No." Nevertheless, Mr. Taylor challenged the Speaker's decision, and amid cries of "Oh," the House proposed for a division. The scene was exactly the reverse to that which was presented - when Mr. Bryan and. Capt. White d:vided againsf the Irish Land Bill. It was the ayes this time who were but a „little company, and it was the noes w:io arrayed themselves in an army. No sooner was the dsor thrown open 'than M.P.'s, who had heard nothing of the debate, came crowding in. There they were of all sorts and sizes and shapes, redolent of the dinner-table au.l something more, eager to qualify themselves for taking part in the division, by • being present at the time that the House was cleared. Soor, all too soon, the ayes returned, bulky Mr. White, Mr. Morrison, Mr. J. S. Potter, tall and slender Mr. Fawcett, white haired Mr. MacLaren, minute Mr. Dixon, and a few others. Then the four tellers advanced with measured steps—Mr. Taylor and Sir Charles Dilke doing duty for the Ayes—and the numbers were announced, amid laughter : Ayes, 24 ; noes, 211, A dull half-hour followed. It was all about water and cisterns, and the strange coincidence was that everyone who took part in the debate spoke in a drowned voice, so that scarcely a word was heard. Some one (I believe Mr. Bruce) promised on the part of the Government that the mat ter should be attended to, and 59 the subject ended. Suddenly we passed from the semi-silence of subdued eloquence to oratory so loud that Stentor might have envied the voice which uttered it. The orator was not the least of a giant. He was rathirpelow the average size, quite a dwarf, in fact, by thegide of his own col league in the representation of London, Mr. Cran ford. But then he was an Alderman, and was once the most august of personages, Lord Mayor. Need I add that the speaker was Mr. Lawrence? But as strength of lungs does not imply cogency of reasoning, I will add that the hon. member spoke forcibly in more than one sense of the word. His subject was the House Tax, and he gave some very remarkable figures to show how unequal it was—how, for instance, men who had built mansions costing £30,000 were assessed at only £BO or £lOO a year, andhow burdensome the tax was to the working classes. He broke new ground for the teetotallers by showing them that whereas ordinary houses are rated at 9d., publichouses are rated at only 6d. After a few words from Mr. Collins, who must have his say on every sub- ject, Mr. Stansfeld got up and answered —no, that is the wrong word, for he did not answer Mr. Laurence. He only said that there were other taxes more objectionable, which must be reduced before this one, and so Mr. Lawrence withdrew his motion. Mr. Hughes followed with a motion about the governing bodies of the public schools, a ,subject naturally interesting to the father of Tom Brown, but apparently not interesting to M.P.'s generally, for the House was almost empty. Even Mr. Newdegate has departed. How is that ? All the evening until the , last hour he has been in and out, talking, to this member, and sending messages to that ; for is he not going to reap the fruits of his great victory, by getting a 15 elect committee appointed to inquire into the management of convents -- those dens of iniquity, &c., &c. ; and does not Mr. Cogan mean to rob him of his triumph if he can ? What then has become of our hearse-like member? Well, the fight is put off, for how lon g I k now no t, b u t it won't come on to . _ night, and Mr. Member for North Warwickshire has made the wisest motion he ever made in his life—he has moved on and gone to bed. With such a bright and shining example before me I could not do otherwise, 80 I left " Tom " Hughes talking, and caught the " members' train." A conference of the paper-makers of Lancashire, Cheshire, and other counties, was held in Manchester yesterday, at which it was resolved to raise the price of all kinds of paper 10 per cent. This step, they say, is rendered necessary by the increase which has taken place in the cost of raw material. The Italian correspondent of the Guardian says that antiquarian research is busy at Rome. Buildings on the Palatine Hill have been disinterred, and a street which still shews a solid pavement of basalt. One house is shewn to have been the property of Tiberius Nero, the father of the second Imperator. The Pope continues operations at his own expense. The Dublin Standard is informed that the secre tary of the Dublin Freemen Commission—Mr. R. Ross Toad—has left for London.with the draft-report of the commissioners, and that the publication of that document may be expected in a few days. This paper hopes that the temporary disfranchisement of the city of Dublin will not be continued longer. The public adjudication of the concession for the construction of telegraphic lines between England and Portugal and Gibraltar took place at Lisbon on Monday last. The Minister of Public Works announced that the concession has been definitely granted to M. Jules Despecher, the representative of the Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta Telegraph Company, KEON'S DION AND TIIE SIBYLS. In the current number (April 1870) of The Cads° t ile World, published at New York, we observe that tl serial republication of the Class'cal, CLristian N °/e of "Dion and the Sibyls," by Mites Gerald ICe °l/i Colonial Secretary of Bermuda, and author ° " 'Harding, the Money Spinner," &c., is commences; Fublished four years ago by Mr. nerd,, of New Burlington-street, " Dion" was imme 3 ia te ' l upon its first appearance revi e wed at sotne J oyr!th by ourselves in these columns, and with the arPr °l3 o to which we conceived the wo r k and its anther w ee respectively and very justly entitled. Regar dil'g Loth w;th that high approbation which we tbu s deavoured to express, we are gratified to observe t' new evidence of the success achieved by these at ° ll c'e intensely classic and intensely Christian imag irlivg n i The author has availed himself of the opportuni t t 7 a this very conspicuous reptint, to precede the work i s its new form with the following admirably expres s % Dedication—a dedication that addressed to soV u ae else than Lord Lytton would breathe only the lang (l3.c k of hyperbole, but addressed to him, is within the O r in every particular : "1 dedicate the following work to Edward Vl' Oa t Lord Lytton, not only in appreciation of one of the• W b l - 0 searching, comprehensive, indep en d en t, and. indefatie thinkers, and One of the truest and highest men of ge ni l e y " of whom it has ever been the l o t o f hi s own coun try „' the English-speaking races to bo p rou d, an d th e fate of c ° 7 temporary nations to feel honou ra bly j ea l ous; n ot sell.: admiration of a mind which nature made great, and svb i ' d study has to the last degree cultivated, whose influenc e authority have been steadily rising since he first begile to labour in literary fields more varied than almost all in to 4 ° l which ONE person had previously d a red t o carr y the , of the intellect; but still. more as au humble token o f t grateful love which I feel in return for the faithful a nd o ° 4 sietent friendship and the innumerable services with W ll ; i ii c g a great genius and a great ma n h as h onoure d me d il 4 r twenty 3 ears. "MILES GERALD 10E ° ' "Paris, Jan. 18, 1870." Immediately afterwards the Editor of the CCath i/ World pens the following, by way of Introductw o "The historical romance of Mr. Keon, now re publis h 1 with the author's most cordial permission and his fl it. corrections, was first printed in London, in 18G6, , a Bentley, publisher in ordinary to the Q ueen . The ec 14 , 1° 40 was brought out in a very handso me s tyl e , an d sold A t high price of a guinea. Notwithstandi ng th e h e avy P ric c e3 ; ' which the work was furnished to our transpontine kis s :g (or at least to the upper ten thousand' of them), it is 8 t 1 4 moment out of print, and an effort made about two years so b" to procure copies for sale in this country w as u usucces s t, The copy kindly sent us by the author was accidentally ~j t b laid for several months, and this circumst a nce, together w e the desire to give our readers the opport u nity of per „sl d the work as soon as their attention should be directed t ° to by a notice such as it s hi g h mer it d eman d s, ca used ° g ti t delay the proper public acknowledgment to the author se a the present moment. It s success i n E ng l an d , i n s pite of I P ti nationality and religion of the writer, is no slight proof °f be intrinsic excellence, especially . when we consider this ventured into a field which the subject-matter of ths 1/°° would turn into the v er y h ome an d h ea d quarters o f Bne e prejudice. "To every effect adequate caus e; an d, i n this instance'to, those who take up the story o f Di on , ono cause o f its suc ce n d will, before they have gone half wa y th roug h it s e vents $ " (1, adventures, speak for itself. Yet, however light to re 3 .o the work has, we feel convinced, been in the last dale laborious both to plan and to execute. Easy wr it ,. il ! ( l said Thomas Moore, 'very often makes fearfully °""a reading.' We believe the converse h a s often 1 0° equally true. • •od " We are glad to learn that Mr. Keon has recently receOrit a far more gratifying recognition of his distinguished t r ' e A t than any other to which a Catholic author can aspic°• an audience granted him by Pius IX., His Holiness cOP punted him on his services to literature, and gave ht °l beautiful rosary of amber as a token of his august f a cet/ 1 ' 1; "One word more, and we s h a ll l e t th e s t ory i tse lf h e g l o f to be heard. The epoch of Dion was the turning-P°W all human history= the hinge of the fateful gates, the ru meet of the mightiest and most stupendous transitio s world has ever known, the transition of transitions; the moment on this earth of a superplanetary, supercosmic There were two suns in the heavens; one rising, nev er ,b set ; the ether going down, to rise no more. At no eV ° , J . , Lad human gonius,„LLz •t 1 so luminous, or human Pr'. poised itself on wings wide, in a sphere so sul)10' but this genius was f or th e fi rs t ti me con f ron t e d in its oo: sphere by divine inspiration and a supernatural autho rit) ; The L " etting of a classic though p agan d a y saw t h e d"" jii ,t day of Christianity. Th e re were t wo suns i n one 511' the same moment. Th e d ou btf u l cross -li g ht s of civilisations overarched the world with a vault of shift' 7; contending, contrary, and awful splendotirs—those of ° , llO order in the utmost intensity of their radiance, those of other in their first, glimmering beginnings; a seeming e t ° lo ,l fusion ; an interneche war ; a hazy mingling of ettlf o. glories as full of Meaning as it was of mystery." EXORBITANT 'MEDICAL CHARGES. Another 7 0 arising out of the New Cr os s acc id en t h as b een triecl t the Kingston Assizes. Th e pl a i n tiff formerly 1°9,41 :a -ern in Bishopsgate, and at the d a t e o f th e accident the just sold, his business, intending to live in th e country.. The company at first pleaded that bu t plaintiff was not a passenger by the train in questiontibe, the fact having been established, they withdrew the P ee s, and limited the inquiry to the assessment of dar' l , 3 e 'eir proposing that this should be left to the mediee',.'„r, tlemen on both sides. The doctors were, hew' for unable to agree, and finally a verdict was giv'e n ll , ,900. 2300 damages, the plaintiff having claimed *'''fost Serjeant Parry for the-Company mentioned that the claim had been £2,000, but it was afterWriot doubled. The pl a i n tiff' s counsel explained °tett this was owing to th e costs which aln °ll/ 411 0 to £7O and £BO on each side per diem. the Chief Justice, in summing up, animadverted uP °ll OlO practice of swelling medical charges in cases where it T he thought the company would have to pay the bill. jury jury appended to their finding a declaration that the ni cal charges had heen most exorbitant. On e of the dee ,,rs "- charged three guineas each for thirteen visits. b hp MURDER AT THE GOLD DIGGINGS.—George Dyer, e ., was recently charged at Bow-street, on his own con f t be sion, with having murdered his fellow-workman at gold diggings in Victoria, has been brought up for fo-Ab et ufi t examination. Superintendent Thomson stated he had received a telegram from CaP Standish, the Commissioner. of Police at Melbourne:2, this effect :—" Dyer's statement strongly eurroborno. Obtain further remands. Cannot yet issue wars ea Mailed letter." The prisoner was accordingly reinan inr t• until the arrival of the m a il w hi c h i s expecte d i n a '- night. Bail wag accepted. 01 THE MOCK 'FRE NCH :CO UNT.— A rthur de Uiss., , rp has passed himself o ff as a F renc h C ount under s ec ; g 0 1 different names, has pleaded guilty at the Central Crio°oo,3# Court to the charge of obtaining a large quantity Of g from French firms under false pretences. He Was tenced to five years penal servitude. 1, itsa9f THE CASE OF M. DEMETRIUS P APPA .—T u o tri M. Demetrius Pappa on a charge of appropriating of of money belonging to the Oriental Commercial 13son0 which he was manager, has been postponed till the n session of the Central Criminal Court. ta rA A RATE COLLECTOR IN DIFFICU LTIES . - - id collector has applied to the magistrate at N,',7.0e 0 worth -- for - advice. He had received two Clintl° in payment for rates for which he had give n , flie regular receipt, and they had been dishonoured. • his magistrate said he did not think the case came I ntioO. the criminal laW, but the collector must bring an on the cheque. FELONIOUSLY SHOOTING.—At the Leeds assizes 11 01 named Edwards has been charged with fel'ool° shooting a travelling draper, who trespassed 0 1 1 ,, el . grounds. The only noticeable point in the case vi a 'bil exemplary character given to the prisoner, wi lo l hee l founded a night-school at his own expense, and 119 1.011 i a scripture reader in the parish. He was eve n " acquitted. org • e THE ROBBERY BY A GATESHEAD SOLICITOR. -- Zor, Briggs, solicitor, on bail, was tried at the Durham A ria ter Sessions on a charge of stealing . four plated spoon e o ,,s , other articles from the landlord of an hotel in tha t : 10 The plea of dementia failed, and the jury found vuiltv. He was sentenced to six months' Imprison - to, CAUTION TO UNLICENSED REFRESHMENT,„ :II O OI 4 KEEPERS.—The proprietors of the Derby Star ‘-' ° ,oo o Hall have been heavily fined for having:, 1011, deprived of the spirit license for their for resorted to the method of purchasing sPir it° their customers in licensed houses. When ire if, one entered the hall and wished a glass of beer he ga,,,,0t messenger the money, and the messenger thereupood re to the nearest public house, purchased the liquor , all s olo ° turned with it. It was proved, however, that 0a,,, t0 a• occasions no money was taken there, but that th e tities sold were entered in a book, and the Do c that this system was illegal. - 4 , vt • In consequence of the demonstrations agal. , isu - Tardieu, the Council of the Faculty of Medicine boy tided to close the school until the Ist of May. Mr. Julian Courtauld, a member of the firs ha' ic s Courtauld and Co., crape manufacturers in Esseiico poisoned himself accidentally while labouring nuclei:, 0 ;11 indisposition. The unfortunate gentleman se as n rliai C ne o twenty .sic years of age. adopted Th o aI petitionl a n e y t T o o p y education should be imperative instead of option% , local no denominational schools should ported suported b Y u l4 at rates ; and that teaching in rate-supp schools e ll° n u t u Council asking has h n e aLi i by entirely unsectarian and undenominational. F . t o , tstiDosllai k