The Sun. — London, England, 1870-04-01 00:00:00

CAUTION. MUSES and S 0 N E beg to inform the Public tha t the y have ado p ted and registered a TRADE MARK, consisting , of the words " The Standard," with the initials "underneath, and that henceforward every ankle of clothing manufactured by them will have a label or ticket attached to it, with the said trade mark printed thereon. All persons are hereby cautioned against imitat ing the said Trade Mark. For trades and addresses see following advertisement. s THE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE MAN." BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES, BES r WORKAIANz , IIIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. 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 system of sell-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 Plain Figure; from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is unequalled for mag laitude, variety, and cheapness. • A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from as. 4d. the pair. Complete Outfits for all climates, with every re quisite for the voyage. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Pat terns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free E. MOSES and SON, Ready made and Bespoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Wooliendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all classes. E. MOSES and SON'S Est Ablishments 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 SON. LONDON: CORNER OF 3fINORIES AND ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON- BoAD. Country Branch: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. CUILDHALL, 24th MARCH, 1870.—The Com mittee for Letting the City's Lands will meet at Guild hail, on WEDNESDAY, the 3th April neat, at half-past One o'clock precisely, to receive proposals for Leases in Lots of the several Houses, Nos. 8,9, 10, 12, 13, and 14, Butcher-row, and Nos. 2,4, 6' 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, and 36, Whitehorse-street, Rateliff. A Plan of the Property may be seen, and further particulars and Forms of Tender obtained, upon application at the Architect's Office, Guildhall. FERDD. BRAND, Comptroller. 1870. THE following is the House List of GOVERNORS and DIRECTORS of the BANK of ENGLAND for the year ensuing:— FOR GOVERNORS. ROBERT WIGRAM CRAWFORD, Esq., Governor. GEORGE LYALL, Esq , Deputy-Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. , ...... ~....-...... Retry Wollaston Blake, E5q..... ... John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Thomas Newman Hnnt, Esq. John William Birch, Esq. ' Charles Frederick Huth, Esq, Travers Buxton, Esq. Alfred Latham, Esq. Mark Wilks Collet, Esq. * William Lidderdale, Esq, James Paulson Currie, Esq. Alexander Matheson, Esq. Benjamin Buck Greene, Esq. James Morris, Esq. James Alexander Guthrie, Esq. Georg,: Warde Norman, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, EFq. Baron Heath. *David Powell, jun., Esq. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq Albert George Sandeman, Esq Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq. Christopher Weguelin, Esq. N.B. The Gentlemen against whose names an asterisk is placed are new Candidates for the Direction. --- - - - - The Election for Gov, rnor and Deputy-Governor will be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the sth April. and tor Directors on Wednesd.,y, the 6th April, from Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon till Four in the Afternoon. TORN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY fl TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrantee to the breath. Price is. 6d.— Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE, A GUA. AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offerad to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each; also 55., 7s. 63., and 15s. each, includ ing brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. E. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL _ - . . After which, at 7.45, PEEP 0' DAY : Messrs 3. B. Howard Lewis Nanton, Barrett, J. Neville, F. Charles. C. Moore, M-Intyre, W. F. Vokes, and F. Vokes; Mesdames Edith Stuart, Barrett, Michells, Amy Roselle, Hastings, Harper, and Rosins Vokes. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at 7, AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. Mr Bnekatone; jun., and Miss F. Wright. 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. Uwynne, Miss C. Hill, &c. Concluding with SHOCKING EVENTS: Mr Compton, Mrs Chippendale, and Mrs E. 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MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 5.30 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra rooms, 6d. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, Open daily (except Sundays). Admission. Is.• on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. 4' - `ll, I LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1870. A proposition from the Leader of the House of Commons, before the close of March, to the effect that morning sittings should be at once commenced is, to say the least of it, sufficiently startling. Backed as Mr. GLADSTONE is by an overwhelming majority, the House seemed last evening to be in no way disposed to yield very readily to his dictation. The proposal, in point of fact, was simply, as we be lieve and as was at once asserted by the Leader of the Opposition, unprecedented. No Government Leader, in our recollection, has before this advised the concession of morning sittings before Easter. Scarcely two months of the session have yet elapsed, and already Ministers, unsatisfied with their com mand of the Government nights, are sweeping aside ruthlessly the privileges of private members. For tunately the House of Commons is of itself perfectly alive to its own interests. And in the Leader of the Opposition, independent members, whether seated upon the right hand or upon the left hand of Mr. SPEAKER, can recognize upon the instant one who ii prepared to vindicate the rights of the House when ever those rights are threatened with encroachment, or in the smallest particular in any way seriously jeopardised. It should be remembered, as the member for Whitehaven took occasion to remark last evening, that prior to the session of 1862, that is, up to as recent a period as eight years only from the pre sent time, morning sittings were very rarely in deed held before July, before the period of mid sarnny:r. Nay, with the solitary exception of 1867, they hal not commenced until the middle of June. During the following session, that of 1868, they commenced exactly in the middle of June—namely, on the fifteenth. In 1869 they began on the 4,h of May. Mr. GLADSTONE'S arrangement now is for their commencement this afternoon at two o'clock—on the Ist of April, so far as the House is concerned, very appropriately. There cannot be two opinions, of course, as to the necessity of affording every reasonable assistance possible to the Government in carrying forward, as rapidly as may be in any way practicable, the busi ness of legislation during this more than usually laborious session. The necessity for that no one dis putes. The only question is as to the reasonableness of the Prime Minister's proposition. Granted that there is urgent need for the hastening of the legislative toil of the Lower House successively in regard to the fore most of the great Government measures, in regard to the Irish Land Bill, in regard to the English Education Bill, in regard to the projected measure for the closing up at last of the long-vexed question of University Test?, and in regard to that other proposed and vitally important min:sterial measure founded upon the request of the COmmittee on Election Proceed ings, a measure this last involving, as every one knows perfectly well beforehand the application at length of the Ballot in the future working out of the national representation. Granted that all this is indeed very needful—that the House should afford every facility to her MAJESTY'S Ministers in discussing these comprehensive and complicated schemes of legislative improvement —nevertheless it cannot, at the same time, but be borne clearly in mind that to hasten measures of this mag nitude through Parliament thus early in the session, through the medium of morning sittings, thus imprudently precipitated, interferes very seriously indeed with the rights, to say nothing of the mere personal convenience of private members, while affording anything but a guarantee for the greater security of deliberate and well-considered legislation. As Mr. DISRAELI very forcibly pointed out last even ing, the House of Commons, as a rule, is denied the advantage at these morning sittings of having as participators in the discussion of momentous schemes of innovation or of reorganization like those involve I in the Irish Land Bill and the English Education Bill—" the gentlemen of the long robe, whose pre sence in the discussion of such subjects is extremely desirable," as well as " some of the most enlightened members of the commercial body, whose opinion upon great subjects of policy is always looked up to and always has considerable influence upon the debates and discussions of the House of Commons." The Law Courts, the Stock Exchange, and, besides these, the very Committee Rooms of the House of Commons itself, drain away summarily from the deliberations of the lower branch of the Legislature at these morning sitar:T.3 there very important sections of the national representatives. There is that perfectly obvious disadvantage in yield ing to the urgent demands of the Pi ime Minister — by beginning, on All Fools' Day, what is ordinarily postponed until the approach of Midsummer. Op • pressed with a sense of the varied and complicated labours before it, the House, nevertheless, yields to the dominant Minister, backed as he is by an over whelming phalanx of supporters. It gulps the bitter pill of the morning sittings, tempted to do so ~_ L at the moment by that very fleeting Lump of De light, immediately afterwards—the once more un diminished Easter Reces3 In answering Mr. SOMERSET BEAUMONT'S rather painful question last evening, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was grimly . facetious. The inquiry was addressed by the member for Wakefield to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Touching, as it did, howev,r, rrather upon the breeches pocket than upon the nervous system of JOHN BULL, the query was responded to, not by Mr. OTWAY, but - by Mr. LowE. Whether there were any - debts still owing by Spain' and Portugal to this country, and, if so, what were they, and whit might be their aggre gate? That was the question —and a question, too, it must be addmitted, sufficiently delicate under the circumstances. In answer to it, what says the Chancellor of the Exchequer ? " The Government of Spain is indebted to this country for money, provi sions and stores supplied in the Peninsular war— (a laugh)—to the amount of £7,701,000. The Spa nish Government have a counter claim of £60,000 (a laugh)—leaving a balance in our favour of £7,641,000 -- (a laugh). The Government of Portugal is indebted on the same ground to the English nation in the sum of £2,489,000. Neither the Government nor Parli unent has ever taken any step towards surrendering these claims." That is the response. " Has the Government," naively asks the member for North Northamptonshire, " made any application for the payment of these sums ?" Whereto, with a charm ing air of bewilderment that again provokes hyste rically " a laugh," Mr. GLADSTONE'S Chancellor of the Exchequer (grimly humourous wag that he is) asks, in his turn, of Mr. DISRAELI'S Chancellor of the Exchequer "Which Government ?" " The prtsent one," says. Mr. WARD HUNT. " No," says Mr. LOWE, laconically. Whereat, again, hy,terically, the House gives "a laugh." And so the matter terminates. Lightly put, lightly an swered, the question still remains, as in very truth, no laughing matter. Money, provisions, stores, sup plied in the Peninsular War, still owing for by Spain to the tune of from £7,000,000 to £8,000,000. Money, provisions, stores, stilt owing for by Por tugal to the tune from £2,000,000 to £3,000,000. Together, upwards of £10,000,000. Is the item to be struck off as a bad debt, or is it to remain there in perpetuity as a brand upon the national honour of Spain and Portugal. The heart's blood of England is not taken into consideration at all—it is simply a question of stores consumed, of money spent, of provisions devoured. For very shame's sake, the Spaniards and the Portuguese ought to long for COBS] T'S wet sponge, and for a draught of mingled lethe and nepenthe. DEATH OF GENERAL GREY. We regret to announce the death of General the Hon. Charles Grcy, who expired shortly before ten o'eock last night at his residence in St. James's Palace. THE BRISTOL ELECTION. It is said that the Conservatives will petition ag,ainst the return of Mr. Robinson, on the grounds of bribery and treating. E-ESIGNAION OF LORD COURTENAY, FOR EAST DEVON. Lord Conrtenay has issued an address to the electors of East Devon announcing his resignation. The notice is not dated, and no place of address is given. NOMINATION AT NEWARK. The show of hands at Newark yesterday was in favour of Mr. Serjeant Sleigh, the Conservative candidate. A poll was demanded on behalf of Sir G. Grey and Mr. Bristowe, the Liberal candidates. Sir Henry Storks, athird Liberal retired yesterday morning. His opinion on the Contagious Diseases Act, and the fact that he was looked upon as the Government nominee, damaged his prospects. His advocacy of the Contagious Diseases Act caused many voters to withdraw their promises, and the popular feeling against him was, every hour growing in intensity. Yesterday Mr. Mundella, M.P. for Sheffield, had a conference with the three Liberal candidates, and some representatives of the Government also visited the borough. The object of this intervention was of course to prevent a division in the Liberal camp. THE 3IACKONOCHIE PROSECUTION. The English Churchman states the circumstances under which the proposed pi oceedings against Mr Mackonochie before the Judicial Committee collapsed last Saturday. Late on Thursday he filed affidavits by his three curates and two churchwardens, in each of which it was denied, in the most positive and unequivocal terms, that the paten or chalice is raised above the head, or that any pros trations are made during the prayer of conse cration. These affidavits were in answer to the three on which the petitioner relied, which stated that the prayer of consecration is muttered in so low a tone as to be inaudible by the congregation, and therefore the deponents were only able to say that, judging from time and other circumstances, they verily believed the acts complained of did occur during the prayer of conse cration. In consequence of the filing of the above five documents, which, after all testify merely to a bare com pliance with the letter of the law, whilst its spirit remain, flagrantly violated, the counsel for Mr. Martin withdrew the motions which had been presented to the Court. Further action will now come, if at all, from his lordship the Bishop. • The rumour of Sir Graham Montgomery's intended resignation of his seat for Selkirk is without foundation, and that the hon. baronet hopes to resume his parliamentary duties after Easter. A movement has been set on foot for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the memory of the late Lord Brougham in the shape of a Central Hall and Free library. .the Government has been memorialised by the inhabitants of Lymington to enclose the New Forest, with a view to its cultivation. Thirty-eight admirals of different grades will„it is stated, be removed from the Active list to-morrow or soon afterwards. Rear-Admiral Houston has declined to accept the new scheme. By a lire last evening at the Cambrian Railway Works, Oswestry, the oil-sheet manufactory was corn -oletely gutted. The Daily News says that the report that the Go vernment intends to send a force against the Red River insurgents is incortect. .rhe lire at Boulogne is supposed to have onginated in spontaneous combustion in the cargo of the East India man Allahabad, which stranded in a fog near Ambleteuse In the 17th instant, her freight, consisting of coffee, sugar, indigo, &c., having been.removed to the vault in question. It was found impossible to fill the vault entirely with water and at 10 p.m. all a p er tures were hermetically sealed, and the fire was not supposed to have burnt itself out entirely until noon yesterday. The subject of life assurance is now one of the greatest importance, and at a time when doubts are so rife as to the position of various companies, it is important to know that there are some, the British Equitable being one, that confine their operations solely to English lives. At the annual meeting—a report of it'appears in another column— the fact was distinctly announced ty the managing director, and it was supplemented by an equally important statement, that during the existence of the company it had never pur chased or amalgamated with any other office, but that the present Euccess had been entirely owing to the care and prudence with which its affairs are managed. These cer tainly are two very important things in the affairs of a life office, because often times the number of policies issued by many are made up by a considerable number of risky foreign lives, and the financial position seemingly improved by n►nalgamation. That au office has been enabled to reach the sound and solid position of the British Equitab:e, with out either of these two very questionable arrangements, is a matter that *ill not be lost sight of by intending insurers; and another remarkable fact is, that by simple and sheer hard work it pulled throu,sh a panic, Lot only without in jury, but with a new business, taken in the very period, exceeding the entire of some of the old offices. Such results could never have been obtained bad it not been for the thorough-going character of the managing director, to whom every member of the company is under a debt of gratitude fur his untiring exertions. "it,A, ( .11 7- t ' igm - -iT i 11111141! GIIT ._ , . ~_-.,`- ' 1" ' 11.1 BER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 31. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, arrived at the Castle this morning from Claremont. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, April 1. The aQsertion of the Presse that Prince Pierre Bonaparte had left his residence is unfounded. 'The Prince was still at Auteuil last night. SOURS; March 31.—Three o'clock—The markt t closed as follows : q per Cent. 3 per Cents 73 95 Ital'an Fives 55 75 End of month.— 73 971 Austrian Fives Credit Mobilier 265 Ottoman Loan - Transatlantic 2OO Do. Debt 47 Credit Fonder ...1297 50 Spanish Threes Paris Gas 4805 Home Debt — Suez Canal 325 Deferred — SPAIN. MADRID, March 31. In to-day's sitting of the Cortes the remaining elaus.2s of the Public Safety Law were adopted. Senor Becerra, the Colonial Minister, has tendered his resignation, and will probably be succeeded by Senor Moret. MADRID, April 1. Senor Moret has been appointed Minister of Marine. AMERICA. PHILADELPHIA, March 31. President Grant sends a Special Messlge to Con gress. He says that the 15th amendment makes four millions of people voters ; that the newly en franchised race ought to strive to make themselves worthy of their new privilege ; that the race more favoured heretofore should withhold no legal privilege of advancement from the new citi zens ; and that the framers of the Constitution believed the Republican form of Government could not endure without intelligence and education being, diffused generally among the people. The Presi dent calls on Congre:-s to take measures to promote and encourage popular education, and urges people to see that all possessing political rights shall have an opportunity to acquire knowledge, as by such meats only can the benefit contemplated by the 15th amendment be secured. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, March 31. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 112; ; the highest quotation during the day was 112; ; the lowest, 1111. Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1885 1867 1061 Illinois 10-40 Erie Cotton—Mid. upland Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra State, $1 50c. to $5 10c. mixed, $1 7c, CANADA. Corn—Old OTTAWA, March 31. The Dominion House of Comtnons discu sed to day a resolution for an address to the Crown praying that an Imperial Act should - be passed declaring the mutual financial arrangements between the several provinces of the Dominion, as settled by the Confe derati,n Act, to be final and unalterable. An amendment was carried, asserting that the Dominion Parliament possesses absolute control over the public funds, but that no subsidy be vottd in future to the Government of any province, except those which have been provided by existing Acts. The additional subsidy granted to the Nova Scotian Government last year gave rise to the motion re ferred to. INDIA. - (BY BRITISH INDIAN CABLE.) BOMBAY, March 31. General Gordon has been suspended from the command of the Poonah division by the Government of Bombay. This event is causing much discussion in military circles, but no particulars have as yet transpired. The papers iu reference to the case went to England by the last mail. WEST AFRICAN MAIL. LIVERPOOL, March 31. The West African mail steamer Maneingo, with 27 passengers and a quantity of specie, has arrived here. Among the passengers are Lady and Miss Kennedy, from Madeira. The general state of health on the West Coast was goof. Trade was at a stand still at Bonny. The gold trade on the coast was bad, owing to the war between the natives and Dutch. A tremendous fire had occurred at Congo, in which several factories were destroyed. The loss is esti mated at £12,000. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN VIENNA. 70. The Austrian Government has brought in a bill for invalidating the election of members who, like the Czech deputies, refuse to take their oath in the . Reichsrath. Dr. Giskra, will continue to perform the duties of Minister of the Interior until the Reichsrath is closed. It will be remembered that Dr. Giskra resigned in consequence of differing . from his colleagues on the question of electoral reforth now - agitating Austria, and since his withdrawal from the Cabinet, rumours of further Ministerial changes have been rife in Vienna. These are positively .contradicted by the correspondent of the Eastern Budget, who asserts that Dr. Giskra was the only refractory member of the limner Cabinet, and hir retire ment has restored harmony to its councils. The Emperor retains his confidence in the Government, and Count Beust preserves a strict neutrality in the matter. The special correspondent of the Constitutionnet maintains that the Electoral Reform question was not the real cause of Dr. Giskra's retreat. The reform of the electoral law has become a matter of necessity, the Em peror says in his speech and while declining the scheme pro posed by Dr. Giskra, he pronounced himself in favour of direct elections. Dr. Giskra's project was incomplete, and the whole question will gain by a postponement till next session. Meanwhile the Ministry propose, with the Emperor's sanction, to bring forward a provisionary law for the direct representation of those towns and districts In which the scrutiny of the Diets has given no result or has returned a candidate who absents himself for poli tical reasons. Dr. Giskra resolved to retire from office for a time, but he will no doubt be leader of the majority in the Chamber. His official career is by no means con sidered as closed, and, according to this authority, his withdrawal has not strengthened the Ministry. An ex-policeman named Crawford, living at Killallen, near Clonmellon, has been fired at whilst sitting in his own house, and desperately, if not fatally, wounded. He is agent to Captain Maguire. A. Frenchman, who was exhibiting some relics and cther curiosities, produced among other things a sword, which he assured his visitors was " de sword dat Balaam had." A spectator remarked that Balaam "had re sword, but only wished for one." " Ver' well, dis is the one he wished for." THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY AT FULDA.—The North Gernugn Correspondence states that the Prussian G3vernment has forbidden the public subscription set on foJt to found a free Catholic University at Fulda. THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.—A Brussels letter in the Journal de L , :ege says:—"The G-aulois of Paris publishes very unfavourable accounts of the Princess Charlotte. According to that print her state has become much worse, and an intense fever prevents her t.om leaving her bed : in a word, her situation is said to be almost desperate. I know from the best authority that there is happily not a word of truth in that state ment," - MAGAZINE DAY. BLACIMOOD—has more than usual variety this month. Two instalments of its current serial stories, " john," and " Earl's Dene," each the sixth instal ment. An anecdotal review of Combes' acccount of the "Pi incesse desUrsins." Four sprightly prattlings from Cornelius O'Dowd. Three pieces of " padding " —and two biographical papers, wondrous in their contrast : one on " Chatterton, the other on that right noble preux-chevalier of Catholicism, the " Count Charles de Montalembert." FRASER —gc,s in this once' uncompromisingly for ponder() icy. The "Agricultural Labourer" is the first theme, the last being "National Armies and Modern Warfare." Between which two extremes, pastoral and thunlerous, we have an Eighth chapter on "Life in India," and a First Lec ture (by Professor Max Miit!er), on the " Science of Religion:" " The Cost of a Napoleon," not wanting in cynical suggestiveness, is appro priately enough followed by what is, at any rate, not wanting in music, some rhythmical lines by William Atlingham on the " Rising of Jupiter." " Irish Politics and the Irish Priests," as if that was not enough, is followed by Professor Rogers's views on " Capital, Labour, and Profit. "A Fortnight in Kerry," by tho Editor, is succeeded by " The Future of Turkey," as sketched by John Vickers. After which we have some charming stanzas, entitled "Jietrorsum," from J. G. Whyte Melville. MACMILLAN—Ieads off with au excellent paper by J. H. Fyfe, on "Sir George Cornwall Lewis," a man of mark, equally eminent as a Statesman and a Phi losopha. Miss Dinah Muloch concludes, in the present instalment, her serial story about " A Brave Lady." Those who list (shall we say in the blues?) may consult, according to their own pleasure, the next l paper,by A.P. 4, on—" Consultative Commit tees iu matters Ecclesiastical." A. Freemati—is the very one to tell, as it ought to be told, all about " The. Origin of the English Nation." Commend us to the paper on " Sinollett at Nice." But guard us from such namby-pamby metri cal maundetings as those indulged in by no leas gifted a man than the Dean of West minster, anent a theme so awful in its sublimity as the divine incident of "The Transfiguration." THE CORNHILL— is, as usual, chiefly remarkable for its new instalment of Charles Reade's powerful and enthralling serial story, "Put Yourself in his Place," the illustration to which, for April, is worthy of having been pencilled by the late George 11. Thomas. LONDON SOCIETY—in its turn, too, has a very charming embellishment, really pencilled by an artist of that name, W. L. Thomas, to wit—a draw ing entitled " Springtime." THE VICAR OF BULLHAMPTON-by that inexhaus tible tale-teller, Anthony Trollope—is more than ever interesting in its present number, which, by the way, is its penultimate instalment. A double number and a half will, the next time, bring the story to its conclusion. Gillmore, the Squire, is thrown over, that is, jilted, most shamefully by Mary Lowther, and our sym pathies are for the first time with him, and with him thoroughly. The denouement, we clearly foresee, in the revelation at last of Walter Marrable's worth lessness—the demonstration of which, as we con ceive, will mainly rest with Carry Brattle, that faded flower of the flock of the bluff old miller of Bull hampton. METROPOLITAN GOSSIP. Tile state of business in Parliament is really amentable. Ireland stops the way everywhere. On Government nights there is the Land Bill ; on private nights there are the Madden and kindred cases ; and even the Wednesday morning sittings are not free, for yesterday saw a long dis cussion about the Party Processions Act. Mean while all other measures are shunted. Mr. Bruce, as I anticipated in" my last, has abandoned the hope of passing his Licensing Bill, and, although it was thought probable at one time that he would introduce it so that it might undergo a thorough discussion before next session, it is generally believed now that he will not do even this. Mr. Forster is trembling for his measure, and we are only too likely to have an autumn and winter of agitation, and of an unholy alliance between the Secularists and the Noncon• formists, united in hostility against Churchmen, and therefore of course exciting -the last into all kinds of bitterness, wrath, and evil speaking. As for trades' unions, London cabs, law reforms, University Tests, and the Ballot, there seems at present to be absolutely no chance for them. Truly, Ireland is ter ribly avenged. Nor is the mischief likely to end here. It is no secret that the report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into education in Ireland have drawn up this report, that this report is in the hands of the Government, and that it favours denominational edu cation. This fact will give an impetus to The League, who will appeal to the prejudices of the No-Popery party, in the hope of obtaining their assistance in throwing out Mr. Forster's bill. Altogether, I foresee an unpleasant period of sectarian strife and all uncharitable ness. The rumour of Mr. Bright's resignation has given rise to regret among all parties. Strongly as Conservatives used to denounce him, they respect him; and the most candid of them cannot forget that he advocated household suffrage long before they were educated into the conviction that it was a great Conservative measure. Assuming that the rumour is true, there will be much speculation as to the way in which the Government will fill up the post. The post itself is not one of great importance, but it confers a seat in the Cabinet, and to that seat both Mr. Forster and Mr. Stansfeld have the strongest possible claim. Mr. Forster, however, will scarcely like to give up his Educa tion Bill to another person, and in order to carry out the great reform with which he has identified his name will probably prefer to remain outside the select circle of the fifteen. Mr. Stansfeld, by the bent of his mind, is more fitted for the duties of the Board of Trade; and I am inclined to think, judging from internal proba bilities, and not from any positive information, that he will be the man. Hitherto Mr. Shaw•Lefevre has done all the work of the office. This was always Mr. Bright's inten tion, and on accepting the Presidency of the Board of Trade, he made - it a stipulation that he should have the member for Reading under him. But Mr. Lefevre can hardly expect to be taken into the Cabinet just yet. True he is a little older than Mr. Goschen was when Lord Russell promoted him. But Mr. Gladstone is scarcely likely to repeat the experiment made by his predecessor, and which so deeply offended a large number of leading politicians. Speaking of Earl Rusiell reminds me that " The Com plete Letter Writer" has been at it again. He is still labouring under the delusion that a Liberal Government cannot get on without his advice. Last year he did all the mischief he could by writing letters to Mr. Chichester Fortescue in favour of concurrent endowment in Ireland. This year, by a curious inconsistency, he is joining the League in their opposition to Mr. Forster's bill; an opposition which they base in great measure upon the sanction which, they say, is given to that same principle. As it turned out, the Whig Nestor was last year merely mischievous without doing any harm; had, that is, the will to do mischief, but lacked the power, it is to be hoped that the same result will attend his amiable intentions on the present occasion. By the way, while I am still on the education question, let me advise your readers to study the first article in the London Quar terly Review just issued. It is a very able criticism of the League's tactics and policy, and is written by the well-known Wesleyan Minister, Dr. Rigg. The rumours respecting the retirement of the Lord Chancellor become more and more definite. It is said that Lord Hatherley finds the work too much for him, though he is only 69 years old—quite a juvenile age for the holder of the Great Seal. Certainly he looks very weary and worn, and he has been a hard-working man for the last twenty-five years. Still it is rather soon to be retiring, and an economical Govern ment will scarcely relish paying a pension of £5,000 a year to a Chancellor who has held the seals for only sixteen months. Lord St. Leonard's, however, held the seals for only ten months, and has been receiving a pension for seventeen years—i.e., £85,000. Besides him there are Lord Chelmsford and Lord Cairns, who are receiving the lame pehsion. bt course, if Lord Itatherley should resign there can be no doubt as to his successor. Sir Bounden Palmer will then be able to take the high post which he might have occu pied in December 1868 but for his conscientious scruples on the Irish Church question. By his elevation, to the peerage the Government will obtain a much needed accession to its ranks in the Upper House. Lord 'lather ley is a very poor speaker, and Lord Granville has but feeble phalanx to oppose to the re-united Conservative leaders who now sit together on the front bench, and in clude Lord Cairns, Lord Salisbury, Lord Derby, and Lord Carnarvon, besides the Duke of Richmond. It is expected that the change on the woolsack will take place after Easter. There is talk of the O'Donoghue getting a Colonial Governorship. lam sorry to hear it. Not but what he is fit for it, but I fear his acceptance of office will destroy the moral effect of his conversion from " Nationalism " to the support of the present Ministerial policy in Ireland. There are so many Irishmen who will sell their souls for a place that they will be sure to suspect The O'Donoghue of having done so, and to say that his recent speeches in defence of the Ministry were prompted by a lively sense of favours to come. Moreover the O'Donoghue's removal from Parliament would involve another election in Ireland, and in the most disturbed part of Ire land ; and that in itself is a great evil, espe cially as it is only too likely that there will be fresh elections in Waterford and Tipperary county. Another well-known Irish member, Colonel, or Captain White, as he is indiscriminately called—the seconder of Mr. Bryan's motion for rejecting the Land Bill—has met with an awkward accident while hunting with the Pytchley hounds, and will not be able to attend to his Parliamen tarydnties for some time to come. Accidents, illness, and scandals are the order of the day. Not only are Mr. Bright and Captain White hors de combat, but Captain Moncrieff, of gun-carriage fame, is down with serious illness, caught on the damp and dreary marshes of Shoeburyness ; Mr. Deutsch, of " Tal mud " celebrity, is invalided ; Mr. Robertson, the dramatist, whose sad condition I mentioned in a former letter, is worse, and I fear past recovery ; and Mr. Boa: cault has been suffering from quinsey. As for scandals they are past counting. The elopement of the wife of an eminent Dissenting minister with a riding master has almost ceased to be a nine days' wonder, so rapidly have events of this sort succeeded each other. The daughter of a northern peer married to an officer in the Guards eloping with her husband's fellow officer is much talked of ; but the scandal pre-eminently is an approaching divorce suit, in which the Lord-Lieutenant of a very important English county is the petitioner, ana a very distinguished person is co-respondent I must beg to be excused from giving particulars. Under the head of gossip rather than scandal is the rejection of a very well known London journalist at the Reform Club. The nura ber of black balls was unprecedently large (fifty in number): though the journalist was proposed by Mr. Brand and Mr. Glyn. The son of a well-known M.P. has fared little better. At the Guards' Club there is great excitement in consequence of the discovery of serious irregularities in the accounts, to use a mild term. The Lord-Lieutenancy of Ayrshire, vacant by the death of the Marquis of Ailsa, will probably be bestowed upon the Earl of Eglinton, who, though a young man (he is only twenty-nine), is very popular in the county, and observed a strict neutrality as regards his tenants, during the severe contest at the general election. Finally, in the way, of gossip, the scurrilous Queen's Messenger has been, revived under the title of the Plain Speaker, but as it is published at a shilling, it is not likely to have , e larej 91re:dation: This week has been a busy time for artists. 1 have already mentioned some of the pictures which are to be sent in to the Royal Academy. I may add that Mr. Millais has a charming picture of a child floating down stream in a cradle, and Mrs. Ward an historical picture of an interview between the divorced Empress Josephine and her husband's son, Napoleon 11., " King of Rome." Mr. Sydney Hodges is sending a portrait of the Prin cess Claudine, sister of Prince Teck. The large group of the Princess Mary has not been finished in time for the Academy for a very good reason. Her Royal Highness wished to introduce into the picture the last new arrival, and so she is represented nursing her baby with her two other children grouped below her. The work, though far from finished, is sufficiently advanced to chew that it will be one of the artist's best portraits. Pasting from art to its anti-climax, Madame Tussaud has aided to her wax-work exhibition the illustrious Mon talembert. Her last addition was Troppman, the ma' derer. Such is fame. The list of books to come is long and interesting. rro fessor Mountague Bernard has nearly ready " A Historical Account of the Neutrality of Great Britain during the American Civil War." Mr. Daniel Grant, one of the un successful candidates for Marylebone at the last election, and who is not unlikely to represent the borough when the unfortunate electors have got rid of Mr. Harvey Lewis, has a work publishing by Longmans, called " Home Politics," and dealing with the growth of trade in its relation to labour, pauperism, and emigration. Mr. Stewart Ross's " Ignatius Loyola, and the Early Jesuits," will be out in April; so, too, will Bishop Ellicott's " Comments and Suggestions on the Revision of the New Testament." Professor M'Cosh, for merly of Belfast, and now of Princeton College, New Jersey, has nearly ready " The Laws of Discursive Thought," and Mrs. Henry Fawcett (née Garrett) has in the press "Political Economy for Beginners." Mr. Baring Gould has coming out "In Exitu Israel ;" Miss Yonge a second series of " Cameos from English History." Mr. Myers's new volume of poems, mentioned on a former occasion, will contain his "St. Paul" and "St. John." April will see Mr. Rossetti's poems, which I promised many months ago ; May, Mr. Swinburne's new volume, " Songs before Sunrise;" and I hope before Midsummer we shall have Mr. Locker's "London Lyrics." A book called " The Terrible Sights of London," and dealing with destitute children, has just been written by Mr. Thomas Archer. Mr. William Black, late editor of the London Review begins in the May number of Tinsley's Magazine a new novel called " The Monarch of Mincing-lane." The new magazine, the American and Continental Monthly opens brilliantly with articles by Emerson, Lowell, Beecher, and Wendell Holmes. M. Taine, whose writings are almost as well known in England as in France, has just written a book "On Intelligence," and M. Emile Montdgurt has just translated Shakespere into French in 18 3-A franc volumes.' SEIZURE OF ARMS IN IRELAND. The Sligo correspondent of the Dublin Mail reports * seizure of arms made in the town of Tubbercurry. On Saturday last a large barrel arrived at Ballymote, pur' porting to come from Rawlinson, of Leeds. It was directed to Robert Clarke, Tubbercurry Clarke being the carrier between his home and Bally mote. The barrel was brought to Clarke's house, but Clarke was not at home, and he did not expect the goods. The barrel was finally opened; it was found to contain rifles, swords, bayonets, and ammunition. Clarke imme diately communicated with the police. It is suspected that some miscalculation made by the real consignee did not come to meet the cask; and thus it fell into the hands of the authorities. The police are " actively inauirinc." Sugar owing is said to be thriving amazingly in New south Wales and Queensland. The Echo states that the O'Donoghue has not, as yet, received an appointment to a governorship. A MOSLEM UONSPIRACY IN TUNIS.—A. general belief, it is said, prevails in Tunis that the late outbreak of fanaticism in that town was part of a conspiracy to massacre the Christian and Jewish inhabitants, and the Mahomedans that were in the em ployment of the Europeans. The plot was organised by a few fanatical Moslems, and they intended to run simultaneously through the streets, killing all obnoxious persons who came in their way, and proclaiming' wsA against the infidel. One fanatic carried out the scheme, but was quickly arrested and executed, his con federates, for some unexplained reason, not having come forward. While the body of the culprit was being interred, a Dervish began inveighing against the Chris tians. He was at once arrested and received the Basq nado. The fanatic wounded no less than 32 persons in his course, one of them being a child in arms and two others Moors, in the service of the - United States, and thQ Italian Consulatek The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Nlessis. DUN VILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be called "The Royal Irish ' istillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. ....._. . Evening FRIDAY ... , SATURDAY 10 min past 3 25 min past 1 SUNDAY 40 min past 3 55 min past 0 MONDAY 10 min past 4 24 min past i 4 TUESDAY 40 min past 4 50 m i n past '''