The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-16 00:00:00

METROP OLITAN GOSSIP-SATURDAY. I am not fond of murders : therefore, though "the Chelsea Tragedy " is the one subject of talk to-day with all Londoners, permit me to pass it by with no other reference than that the neighbourhood in which it has taken place is almost the last that the novelist would have fixed upon for such a terrible event. It is quiet and respectable, even to dullness. There are no slums or suspicious looking passages, such as make one look askance if walking by them late at night. Trimness and primness are the cha racteristics of the district, and yet it has been stained with a crime as horrible as ever took place in Ratcliffe Highway. This has been a satisfactory week in Parliament, so far as the Irish Land Bill is concerned ; but very unsatisfac tory as regards the Women's Disabilities Bill. The Ladies seemed to be in sight of the Promised Land, and just as they glimpsed it they are sent back into the wil derness. Mr. Gladstone's speech was most unsatisfactory. But Mr. Gladstone is not an obstinate man. He will, if he does not wear himself out before then, be open to conviction in the course of a few years, and our daughters will be enfranchised if our sisters are not. As for the Land Bill, the first and toughest half is over, and the part which remains, and the authorship of which is, by common report, assigned to Mr. Bright, will not take long to get through. The amendments now occupy only fifteen pages of the parliamentary papers, instead of about fifty, as they did some two months ago. More than three pages are filled by Mr. Morrison's amendments, and as he is not likely to press them to the embarrassment of the Government they at all events need not be expected to squander much time. Many other amendments are by supporters of the Government. Mr. Vernon Harcourt is one of the Government's candid friends, and so he means to ask Mr. Gladstone on Monday about the Royal Com mission on primary education in Ireland, concerning which there have been many rumours. But Mr. Gladstone is not likely to give much information. Irish land is enough for this session, as the Irish Church was for last; Irish education must wait till next year. If the rumour referred to be true, Mr. Lowe will find himself in as diffi cult a position in 1871 as he hasbeen during the present ses sion, but for exactly opposite reasons. Mr. Lowe is a great Conservative in some matters, does not like the Land Bill, and has kept almost unbroken silence upon it. In education he is a great Radical, and if, as is supposed, Mr. Gladstone goes in for denominational education in Ireland, it will be con trary to all the Chancellor's ideas. But it does not follow that he will on that account say so, or that his action will be in any way affected thereby. At last Sir Robert Collier has the opportunity of carrying out with the weight of Ministerial authority the reform which he has long advocated—the appointment of, public prosecutors. The matter is to be referred to a select committee, consisting of Sir Robert himself, Mr. G. Hardy, Mr. Harcourt, Mr. Russell Gurney, Mr. Bonham-Carter, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Hibbert, Dr. Ball, Mr. Downing, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Rathbone, Mr. Scour field, Mr. West, Mr. Staveley Hill, and Mr. Eykyn. New Ireland has appeared to-day. It is a well got up paper of sixteen pages—Spectator size. The writing is moderate. The projectors say that hitherto, while the Germans in London have had their Hermann, the French their International, the Scotch their London Scotsman, the Irish have had no organ. The editor knows nothing of party politics or religion. He cares not if a man be Liberal or Tory, Protestant or Catholic, provided he is true to Ireland and works for her. Fenianism is looked upon as a mistake, and Fenians are invited to give up their physical-force weapons and unite with those who are endeavouring to obtain a national Parliament. The " national vestry " at West minster has not time to attend to Irish ques tions (rather hard upon us after giving up two sessions to Irish legislation). The paper contains a tale, literary reviews, the first of a series of articles on the Irish abroad, and well-edited general news. Altogether, if this is to be a fair specimen of the paper, there is nothing to complain of in its tone. The proprietors of the Daily News are telling rather a different story respecting Mr. Dicey's resignation from that told by Mr. Dicey's friends. The proprietors say that he completely altered the tone of the paper with regard to several important subjects, especially the Emperor Napoleon ; that he dismissed several of the old editorial staff, and replaced them by inferior men, and that when asked to have a conference with the proprietors he gave it to be understood that he must not be interfered with. Whereupon he received notice to quit at once with the balance of the agreed salary for a year, so that he got twelve months' salary for nine months' work. The matter would not have been mentioned if Mr. Dicey had I not given his own version of the matter. The proprietors now wish that theirs should be made public. In support of their accouut Mr. Frank Hill, the present editor, writes to the Spectator to say that he has never been un duly interfered with. I mentioned in a former letter that Mr. Spofforth's place had been taken by Mr. J. E. Gorst, so far as regards election matters. It is now decided that Mr. Dickson will be the new solicitor to the Conservative party, a post also held by Mr. Spofforth. Mr. Dickson is a comparatively young man, but has for some time past been doing a very lucrative business. Salford does not choose to take all its news from its bigger sister Manchester, and so a new daily paper is to be started in the twin borough to be called the Salford Chronicle. It will be the organ of the extreme Orange section of the Conservative party. The jeunesse dor& at Oxford are getting too troublesome. Some fast young patricians at Christ Church have just been amusing themselves with breaking through a window into the library, and carrying out some valuable busts, among them one of the late Dean Gains ford, by Woolner, and putting them into a bonfire in the quad. When the thieves endeavoured to take the busts out they found these valuable works of art crumble into a heap of lime. A little while ago Dean Liddell's door and a statue outside it were painted red. Quite recently some of the same set fell upon the bugler of the rifle corps which was to meet in the " Tom " quad pre viously to marching to Blenheim, and threatened to duck him in the fountain. They then began to pelt with potatoes some companies of volunteers which happened to be pass ing, and set up a chorus of shouts and hurrahs as the band began to play. The Colonel threatened legal proceedings unless an apology were offered, and this was sent. For the first-mentioned offence it is expected that there will be a general rustication. JACKSON'S TRIUMPH. The Rev. J. Jackson, the vicar of Ledbury, who was recently convicted of immoral conduct in the Court of Arches, has returned to that parish, and was received with a great demonstration of opinion against the decision of that court. Several floral arches were placed across the streets, flags were suspended from many of the houses, and from 800 to 1,000 persons assembled, including a large number of the poor parish ioners. On his appearance at the railway station, cheers broke forth from the large assemblage. The rev. gentleman thanked his neighbours and parishioners for the kind reception which they had given him, even when suffering from what he, and he might say a large portion of the public, considered an unjust decision, the effect of which had been to reduce him to a state of poverty. BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. DAMAGES, £so.—ln the Bail Court, Miss Reeves brought an action for breach of promise against Mr. Adams, a civil engineer, living in Walworth-road. The plaintiff was a servant at Forest-hill, and in August last she went with the defendant from London Bridge to Forest-hill, and, accordin g t o p l a i nt i ff ' s story, defendant seduced her in the railway carriage. She afterwards visited the defendant, and ultimately she went to live with him. After being th ere for a few weeks, according to the plaintiff' s evidence, she left because the defendant would - not per form his promise to marry ; the defendant, on the other hand, alleging that it was on account of the plaintiff repre senting herself to the tradesmen thatshe was Mrs. Adam s . Two sisters of plaintiff were called, and corroborated de fendant's promise to marry. The defendant (who was described by his own counsel as ` an ugly man ") did not deny the improper intercourse, and that he gave her money for it ; but he emphatically denied ever having made a promise of mar riage. The plaintiff indignantly scouted the idea that she had ever had any affection for the defendant, who was " perfectly blind ! " The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £5O. Amongst the Parliamentary papers published to day are Report of the select committee on the Burials Bill, Index to the Report of the Committee on the Tramways Bill, and return of Expenditure for Diplomatic and Con sular Establishments in 1868. A meeting of card strippers and grinders has b e en held at Oldham, and has decided th a t the whole o f th e operatives of tilt town who are employed in the carding rooms should form a union to resist, as they allege, any encroachment which might be attempted. SPIRIT OF TH 14', PRESS. THE EMPEROR AND HIS MINISTRY. 'The Times, in discussing the changes in the French. Ministry, remarks that M. 011ivier becomes thus the be ginning and end of the 011ivier Ministry, and the Cabinet attains a character which may either win over to it or array against it the whole of the Chamber and country. Whatever signal errors may have marked M. 011ivier's conduct during his late tenure of office, whatever proofs of excessive complacency may, with more or less justice, be imputed to him, he is certainly still far from being irre trievably committed to any system of government incom patible with the extremely liberal principles he has in variably professed throughout his career. The future liberties of France, he has himself proclaimed, would be gauged by the degree of zeal exhibited by the nation in behalf of its Sovereign and Government during the ordeal of the Plebiscite. It is but right that M. 011ivier and his Sovereign should shew their sense of the belle majorite which the Minister sued for, and which has been vouchsafed to him so far beyond his own expepta tion. The French people, in M. 011ivier's estimation, has deserved well of its Government. Such Constitution as was deemed best suited to its wants and interests has been bestowed upon it. Is it too much to ask that this Con stitution should be immediately brought into operation, that the people should soon be admitted to the exercise of their newly-established rights, and that the Government bhould be conducted in obedience to, or at least in harmony with, the wishes of a true majority of the nation—a majority in a Chamber obtained by a fair and honourable appeal to the nation's suffrage ? Such, we conceive, are the questions with which men of all Liberal parties will immediately beset the new Administration ; they are the questions which M. 011ivier and the Emperor, who places so much confidence in that statesman, will be called upon to answer. The Emperor and his Ministers have, in the Plebiscite, had their own wa y completely. They have carried everything before them with a good fortune which has been as surprising to themselves as mortifying to their adversaries. But they have now reached the point where their adversaries awaited them. On what majority will the new 011ivier Ministry depend for support in the present Chamber ? What chances has it of improving its position by the election of a new Chamber. A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT. The Standard declares that the threatened walk over of Sir Shafto Adair for East Suffolk has produced a strong feeling of disappointment, and even indignation, amongst Conservatives throughout the c oun t r y. East Suffolk is a thoroughly Conservative constituency. The local party managers are represented as promising that at the general election they will have a colleague for Mr. Corrance, and will return again two Conservative members. Assured as we are of the preponderance of Conservative opinion in the constituency, we hesitate to lend implicit faith to such a promise. Possession counts for a good deal even in elections. If Sir Shafto Adair once takes his seat as member for East Suffolk it will be a diffi cult task to eject him. The East Suffolk Conservatives have not apparently amongst them a county gentleman ready to fight the election when the odds are overwhelm ingly in his favour. Can they hope to find one who will come forward when Sir Shafto Adair has got firm in his saddle ? What we desire to point out to them is that, even if they have the best reasons for believing that the seat surrendered to Sir Shafto Adair now could be wrested from him at the general election, they are altogether in error in supposing that this temporary sacrifice of a vote in Parliament, when a vote appears of small importance, will not inflict a serious injury on the Conservative cause. The Conservative party in consti tuencies like East Suffolk has a comparatively easy task. It has naturally a majority, and it needs but a little care to maintain it ; but the Conservative cause in many con stituencies has to wage a very desperate battle. The East Suffolk Conservatives may console themselves with the prospect of another election, which will restore them the seat they seem at present disposed to give up without a struggle ' • but however just th e i r ca l cu l a ti ons they must pot expect Conservatives throughout the country to share their confidence; and they will, if they let Sir Shafto 4.dair walk over the course, very seriously prejudice the Conservative cause. POPULAR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. The Post points out that the National Society are moderate in their demands for the religious education of the people. The Bishop of Gloucester assured the Prime Minister the other day that the society is perfectly willing to co-operate with the Government in promoting education, and that it has already given proof of this its disposition by the wide discretion it has conferred on the managers of its schools with regard to the Conscience Clause. No doubt the Society looks at the education of the people from its own point of view. It objects to religion being separated from educa tion. At the same time, it concedes that the State should aid the schools of other denominations, and it makes no oppositon to schools supported by rates. It must not be forgotten, in dealing with the education question, that the State is in the position of having con tracted engagements with the various denominational bodies, on the faith of which they have invested large sums in founding schools. As we have in the matter of national education to deal with the children of the poor, it is right that we should not strain respect for conscience in a degree which neither they nor their parents require. It is a wholly gratuitous assumption that the people themselves object to religious teaching, and it can hardly be denied that their wishes upon this matter ought to be consulted. MURDERS IN CITIES. The crime at Chelsea suggests a practical question to the Telegraph. Is it really the case that the denser the crowd the larger the city, the more numerous the police, the more constant the observation, the greater are the facilities for sudden, daring, almost open crime, the smaller the securities for property and life ? It was long ago said that the criminal's highest chance of safety lay in the thronged, intricate, ever-baffling maze of the great metropolis ; and that no more true or more awful solitude can be found than amid the myriad faces of its streets. But is the real truth a blend ing of both these descriptions ? Is London, by its size, its complexity, its vast swarm of ever-changing human atoms —seldom settling down, always suspicious and repellant of each other—a c t ua lly the safest place for the offender against society, th e mos t p er il ous p l ace f or t h e offender against society, the most perilous place for the tranquil and unoffending member of society? We should be most reluctant to believe such a theory, but the Chelsea tragedy sheds a dreadful light on the ease with which the worst crimes may be committed. Two old, well-known, respectable persons disappear, and their household place is taken by a new man, shifty, hypocritical, un k nown to those who h a d relations with the master. There are entrances and exists at untimely hours, and with unseemly companions, unwonted to the staid and reputable predecessors ; an usurper, in a night, rises into the place of the quiet householder and pro prietor, who must have been known to many people in the district by sight and by speech. Yet not a whisper of suspicion rises to any lip ; the Huelin household sink into a bloody grave, and no one misses them. Their home is found empty and insecure ; the police enter, stare inno cently about, and go out again, bellying gladly—it re li eves them of trouble—the easy declaration of " a neighbour " that " it's all right." And so the murder lurks hidden till the positive physical touch of blood puts a keen and-honest carman on the fatal scent. Who is my neighbour? is an old inquiry. There are doubtless, manifold reasons why the homely and kindly old term should receive no enthusiastically liberal interpretation in London. But, if only for purposes of police, it cer tainly does seem expedient that the phrase should be ap plied to those who live next door ; since stolid and un genial indifference to our neighbours is one of the first aids to the plunderer and the murderer—to the common enemy of all those disconnected and jealous elements that compose our city society. ASSOCIATIONS OF THE INNER TEMPLE. ---- When Queen Elizabeth, remarks the Daily News, granted a coat of arms to the Inner Temple, she gave them the well-known cognisance of the winged steed. The horse of the Muses seems a very inappropriate symbol of the devotees of " Coke upon Littleton." Its meaning, as well as that of the emblem of the lamb, which the Middle Templars boast, has been the subject of much dispute. After all, there is a sort of appropriateness in the winged horse. Popular associations with the Temple are as full of literature as of law. We do not see why one of the lights of the upper tier of the newly opened hall should not have been occupied with the figure of Charles Lamb, whose connection with the Inner Temple is probably more historical than that of Henry 1., and is at least as interesting as that of Hera clius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, or of William Mareschall, Earl of Pembroke. That essay of Elia, which discourses of " the Old Benchers," will be living literature when Tenterden and Thurlow are but the shadows of names. Why should not the Benchers ornament their hall with a statue of Ruth Pinch by the fountain ? With out, however, seeking an adventitious interest from the accidental association of literature, or travelling back to the Knights Templars or the Knights Hospitallers of St. John, the history of the Temple, since those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged back do ride, became the place where " studious lawyers have their bowers " touches at a thousand points the larger history of England. The graceful ceremony which took place on Saturday, when the New Hall of the Inner Temple was opened by the Princess Louise, adds another link to that graceful blending of the new and the old, of law and of life, of youth and of learning, which is twined about the Temple. Whether the Inns of Court are destined, in are age of reform, to be improved out of existence, to be swallowed up in a great Legal University, or otherwise to lose their present form and character, is a secret which we shall not try to unveil. The Temple will, in any case, remain a historic possession. COAL IN CHlNA.—There is at last a prospect of the vast mineral wealth of China being turned to some account. Tring Footae has received permission to open up the coal fields at Nanking and Kinthaing, where coal of a very superior quality is obtainable. He intends to send to England for competent engineers and the requisite machinery. Good specimens of coal have also been obtained at San-ti, some 200 miles above Hankow. REPORTED FIGHTING IN CHINA.—It is said by the China papers that an Imperialist army, under the Viceroy of Kansuh, has met with a serious defeat from the Mahomedan rebels, and is totally demoralised. The Mahomedans are willing to lay down their arms on con dition of three provinces—Kansuh, Shanse, and Yunnau —being allotted to them. The defeated army was the finest of the Imperial forces. The Rev. A. Campbell, rector of Liverpool, died on Sunday at a very ad vance d age. He had been ailing for some time. It is said that some French ultra - Imperialists, more zealous than wise, circulated a rumour in the provinces to the effect that the Left had ordered 3 _ 2 , 00 0 gui ll oti nes t o be prepared for use after the 9th of May, the date fixed -for a new revolution ; and that not a few .were found halnoil9 on9Asla 4mbelipyo the .rtimour, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAI , MAY 16, 1870. THE DRAMATIC COLLEGE. The performance that took place on Saturday at Drury-lane Theatre in aid of the funds of the Dramatic College resulted in a great success. Tie house was crowded in every part. The entertain ment, which was under the direction of Mr. Sothern, was honoured with the patronage and graced by the presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The programme comprised Mr. Buckstone's excellent comedy of " Married Life," and Sherid " School for Scandal," both supported by the most prominent members of the principal London theatres. In bis own comedy Mr. Buckstone represented his original character of Henry Dove with the same force of humour which characterised his performance of the part when the piece was produced at the Hay market nearly thirty-six years ago. Mr. Benjamin Webster acted Mr. Dismal for the first time, and Mr. J. L. Toole also undertook the labour of fresh study with the responsibility of Mr. Samuel Coddle, a part originally identified with the late Mr. Farren. The respective peculiarities of Mrs. Coddle, Mrs. Lynx, Mrs. Younghusband, Mrs. Dismal, and Mrs. Dove were very happily portrayed by Mrs. Hughes, Miss Caroline Hill, Miss Robertson, Mrs. H. Leigh, and Mrs Frank Matthews; whilst Mr. W. H. Vernon and Mr. Kendal represented Lionel Lynx and Frederick Younghusband. At the conclusion of the comedy, which was acted with great spirit by all concerned, Mr. Sothern came before the curtain, and, after expressly acknowledging on be half of the committee the deep sense of gratitude felt for the patronage and presence of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, an nounced that the total receipts amounted to £448 17s. 6d., and that the necessary expenses incurred were £ll9 12s. 6d. ; thus leaving a balance for the Dramatic College of £329 ss. This statement, ren dered with equal clearness and promptitude, elicited a general round of acclamations. "The School for Scandal" followed, supported by the strong cast originally announced— the only change made in the latest programme being the substitution of the name of Mr. George. Perren for that of Mr. Santley as the executant of the incidental song. Miss Amy Sedgwick was Lady Teazle, Mrs. Chippendale, Mrs. Candour ; Mrs Alfred Mellon, Lady Sneerwell ; Miss Edith Stuart, Maria ; Mr. Chippendale, Sir Peter Teazle ; Mr. Addison, Sir Oliver Surface ; Mr. James Anderson, Charles Surface; Mr. Alfred Wigan, Joseph Sur face ; Mr. Barrett, Rowley ; Mr. J. Clarke, Moses ; Mr. Compton, Crabtree ; Mr. Bancroft, Sir Benjamin Backbite ; Mr. H. J. Byron, Trip ; Mr. H. J. Montague, Careless ; and Mr. Stuart, Snak. With such a combination of established favourites it need not be added that the comedy fully maintained its hold on the attention of the audience. It may be mentioned that the interest with which the audience regarded the Royal box was heightened on this occasion by the presence of Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, whose first visit to the theatre being thus made in bis seventh year will probably link with the memory of his eany enjoyment a remembrance of the Royal Dramatic College which may not be disadvantageous to the future interests-of that institution. THE COLLISION BETWEEN THE ONEIDA AND THE BOMBAY. Some official correspondence and documents relating to the collision between the United States corvette Oneida and the steamship Bombay have been presented to Par liament. The most important item is a note from the Board of Trade to the Foreign Office. In this note the course taken by the Board of Trade is fully summed up by Mr. Shaw Lefevre. He says : --Lord Clarendon will observe that the statutory duty imposed •on the Board of Trade under the circumstances, is that of reviewing the sentence passed by the naval court upon Captain Eyre for a breach of the 33rd section of the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862." From the replies which the Board have made to the applications of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and of Mr. Eyre, Lord Clarendon will see that in the performance of this duty the Board have expressed their opinion that, not only is the conclusion of the court concern ing Captain Eyre's conduct after the collision justified by the evidence, but the sentence of six months' suspension pronounced by the court is inaduquate to the gravity of the offence. Lord Clarendon will also see that the Board of Trade entertain a very strong opinion concern ing the obligation upon masters of ships which have come into collision to stand by and render assistance to each other. And they have expressed in no measured terms their condemnation of conduct such as that of which Captain Eyre has been found guilty. At the same time they think it important to remark that such conduct was for the first time made punishable in this country by the act to which I have referred. And, so far as they are aware, no other maritime nations have any law by which such an offence, if committed by the captain of one of their own ships, could be punished at all. Look ing, therefore, to the matter in an international point of view, it appears that British law compels the performance by masters of British ships of the duties in question, whether towards British or foreign ships, by means of a sanction which no other nation enforces against its own shipmasters. The Board of Trade have not power to re open an inquiry which has been terminated by the decision of a naval court, except for the purpose of mitigating any sentence which the naval court may pronounce, nor would it be within the scope of their functions as a de partment of Government to take civil proceedings against the Bombay or her owners on behalf of the sufferers by the collision. The only proceeding which it would be possible for her Majesty's Government to institute in any such case, would be a criminal proceeding against the master or crew of the ship causing the collision for culpable negligence or misconduct leading to loss of life. Such a proceeding, however, being penal, must be supported by distinct and conclusive evidence ; and the Board of Trade would not be justified in attempting such a proceeding in the present case, unless reasonably satisfied that it could be proved that the colli sion in question was due to culpable negligence or misconduct on the _part of the captain or crew of the Bombay. Upon this point, however, the decision of the Naval Court is entirely favourable to the Bombay ; and the Board of Trade, as at present advised, see no reason for thinking that decision wrong. Not only, added Mr. Lefevre, was there no reason for doubting the justice of the Court's decision, but the best professional opinions were in favour of that decision. It is, however, within the power of the United States Go vernment to raise the question by a suit for damages against the owners of the Bombay. In such a suit the issue would be raised in the form most favourable to the Oneida • and the civil courts which would try the case would be in no degree bound by the decision of the Naval Court at Kanagawa. THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT: The Senate resumed its sittings on the 12th of May, M. Rouher was in the chair. The President proposed that the different committees should be named. M. Chevalier called attention to the importance of the measure concerning the postal treaty between France and England The. President pointed out the difficulties of the case in the present aspect of affairs, the old constitution having been virtually put aside, and the arrangements for the Senatus- Consultum not being completed. He therefore advised the postponement of the bill untill the new state of things was formally established. The Legislative Body also sat the same day, M. Schneider in the chair. M. Raspail was in his place. The drawing of the bureau took place. The President said that France was impa tient for the official proclamation of the late vote on the Plebiscite, and he proposed that the Deputies should meet the next day to examine the results of the election. M. Pelletan desired that they should have a public sitting for the discussion of the bill on the press. Before the proceedings terminated the Govern ment was asked concerning the purchase of the Roman remains by the State, to which the Minister of the Fine Arts said he must decline to give an answer. MARIE rs-SAT URDAY. LONDON PRODUCE ➢iARKETS,SATuarAY.—The demand for tea has been very quiet, and prices have been without change. Raw sugar has been dull, and lower to sell, but refined has been been tolerably firm in value. Coffee has been steady, at previous quotations. LONDON METAL MARKET, SATURDAY.—Iron has been firm in value and tin has been steady, but copper has been quiet. The aggregate business concluded has been very moderate. LONDON OIL MARKET, SATURDAY.-Linseed oil has been in moderate request, at 325. 6d. to 325. 9d., and rape has been firm. Other oils have sold slowly, LONDON TRADE REPORT, SATURDAY.-The tallow trade has been firm. Y.C., spot, 445. 3d. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, SATURDAY.-The sup plies of meat have been limited. The trade has been steady, as follows :-Beef, from 2s. Bd. to 4s. 6d. ; mutton, 3s. 6d. to ss. 2d. ; lamb, 6s. Bd. to 7s. ; veal, 4s. Bd. to ss. 2d. ; and pork, 4s. to 55.4 d. per Blbs. by the carcase. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, SATURDAY. -The market has been fairly supplied. The demand has been steady, at about late rates. Prime meadow hay, 80s. to 85s. ; inferior ditto, 60s. to 70s. ; rowen, 50s. to 655. ; prime clover, 110 s. to 1265. ; inferior ditto, 80s. to 955. ; prime second cut clover, 100 s. to 110 s. ; inferior ditto, 80s. to 90s. ; and straw, 20s. to 28s. per load. READING CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.-The welcome change in the weather has had its effect on the corn market this week, and trade generally has been dull. Sales were only effected slowly this morning, and last week's prices have been but barely maintained. The supply of both English and foreign wheat has been but moderate, and barley, beans, and peas have been inac tive. Similar features will no doubt characterise the business to-day. LEEDS WOOLLEN TRADE, SATURDAY.—Though there is a quiet feeling in the woollen cloth trade, and no large purchasers or orders have been quoted this week, there is more activity in the inquiries for autumn and winter goods, and manufacturers are as well employed as they have been for some time. Milled meltons, strong tweeds, fancy coatings, and blue and brown beavers are amongst the most prominent fabrics for the close of the year. Nothing decided can be said about thin tweeds for ladies' attire, but there is ground to believe that orange and brown shades will be in vogue. To-day's markets in cloth halls have been much the same as last Saturday. The purchasers were confined mostly to small selections of goods, including a few light spring and summer fabrics, tnd ordinary plain cloths. There were fewer inquiries after job lots (that is, goods offered below the regular market price) than we lately had to notice, and the prices of goods for the coining season were firm. Colonial and home-grown wools are also firm in price. The flax trade has slightly improi , ed as compared with last month. The supply of raw material is quite equal to the demand, and prices are rather irregular. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—A good supply of wheat coastwise and foreign, and country. Red wheat quoted at 475. to 48s. Foreign wheat Is. less. A small supply of farmers' wheat, but the millers were unwilling to buy at an advance. Oats, a plentiful supply ; Scotch oats, 235. to 255. There was no change m other sorts of grain. NORWICH CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—The supply of wheat at our market to-day was fair. Trade, however, was flat ; the farmers held out for an advance. Before the close of the market a small amount of business was transacted, at (in some cases) 6d. per qr. less than last week. There were but few sam ples shewn of oats, beans, or barley, and trade in them was sta tionary. Flour was steady, at last week's prices. LEITH CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—Wheat continues to rise. Flour ls. per sack higher. Barley brings extreme rates. Oats, moving off rapidly, bring full prices. Peas 6d. per quarter lower. Beans ls. dearer. The arrivals in the week amount to 19,035 quarters of wheat, 2,990 quarters barley, 4,714 quarters oats, 438 quarters beans, 3,634 quarters peas, and 4,270 sacks flour. • • •• THE VOTE DT FRANCE. A return of the total polling on the Pldbiscite has been published. It is hardly likely that any appreciable varia tion will be found in the official declaration about to be made. The return is as follows : AYES. Vote of the 89 Departments 7,016,227 Vote of the Army in France ' ' 249,492 Vote of the Navy Civil population of Algeria Army of Algeria 36,165 Total NOES. Vote of the 89 Departments Vote of the Army in France 40,181 Vote of the Navy 5,874 Civil population of Alge r i a Army of Algeria 6,029 Total 1,560,709 As the polling of the army is the most interesting part of the entire vote, the following details, on the authority of the Temps, will be acceptable : Camp of Chalons— Ayes 6,921, noes 1199; Cavalry at Luneville--Ayes 2,110, noes 140, nu ll 26; Angers (garrison)—Ayes 824, noes 268, null 268 ; Garrison of Brest (70th Regiment)— Ayes 798, noes 519 ; Garrison of Toulon—Ayes 1,667, noes 523 • Garrison of Chambery—Ayes 1,924, noes 358, null 21; Garrison of Avignon—Ayes 1,526, noes 209, null 9, abstentions 9 ; Garrison of Auch (2d Horse Chasseurs and remounts)—Ayes 815, noes 8 ; Garrison of Mirande— Ayes 2,995, noes 428, null 31; Garrison of Orldans (Bth Regiment) Ayes 1,153, noes 96, null 4;. Garrison of Abbeville (3rd Dragoons)—Ayes 250, noes 139, null 33 ; Garrison of Beziers—Ayes 354, noes 159: Garrison of Poiti ers —A yes 888 , noes 35 ' • Gar rison of Dijon—Ayes 251, noes 120 ; G arr i son o f Albi— Noes 82, abstentions 2 ; Garrison of Bayonne— Ayes 1,346, noes 83, blanks 4 ; Depot of 77th Regiment—Ayes 218, noes 21; Chasseurs—Ayes 100 ; Military Hospital— Ayes 113, noes 17 : sth Cuirassiers and 9th Regiment of Foot in Loir-et-Cher—Ayes 2,095, noes 252 ; sth Mili tary Subdivision—Ayes 1861, noes 369, null 37 ; Garrison of Nice—Ayes 854, noes 202, null 19 ; Garrison of Mont pellier (2nd Regiment of Engineers)—Ayes 701, noes 369; 87th Regiment of Foot—Ayes 705, noes 236. DISTURBANCES IN PARIS. The numerous arrests which have been made in Paris, amounting to 558, seem to have deterred the rioters from making any further attempts. Great difficulty is expe rienced by the throngs of curious idlers who press to the spots where the disturbadces have taken place. As many as three thousand have been noticed wandering about. The Faubourg St. Antoine looked like a fair, a significant sign of the tranquillity of the public mind, was that the soldiers passed in an out of their barracks without attracting any hostile demonstration. None of those arrested can hope to be let off, for the police made no prisoners until they had gone through the necessary legal forms of inquiry, and thus they are o cruilty of the offence of conspiracy to rebel lion. The authorities desired, by adopting this course, to check any serious disturbances which might have ensued from the excitement produced by too much severity, and also to lessen the number of preventive arrests by limiting their prisoners to those guilty of decided outrage of the law. The experiences of the preceding months led the authorities to charge each police-agent who made an arrest to make an inquiry and an interroga tory of the accused in a s'immary manner, and to put down the chief points of the affair. According to the old system, on the morrow of any outbreak the prisons were crowded with a medley of persons, of whose offences, names, ai_d homes the police were alike ignorant. The numerous investigations that were requisite took up a great deal of time, whereas by the new method of proceeding, each prisoner was brought to the Prefecture with his history well known. The result will be that nearly all those lately arrested will be tried im mediately. About forty of th e chief offenders will be kept back, they were found provided with arms that they had fired off, wounding soldiers and private individuals. The inhabitants of Belleville were very zealous in their efforts to render assistance to the police, and many of the pri soners were handed over by them to the soldiers. ASSASSINATION OF A PRINCE. The further details of the tragedy which has just occurred at St. Petersburg throw little light on the mysterious murder of Prince Louis of Arenberg though it appears to be now believed that the;t was the motive of the murder, several articles of jewellery belonging to the Prince being missing. It will be remem bered that the Prince, who was military attache to the Austrian Legation, was found murdered in his bed. He had two servants, a valet de chambre and a groom, who had both been with him for several years. The groom, on the night of the murder had gone out on leave to assist at a diplo matic entertainment. The house in which the Prince resided, occupying the grond floor of it, has two entrances, one of which leads to the yard and stables, the other opening on the street. The night porter - opened ' this, the Prince's servants the other. On Friday, May 6, the Prince told his valet to call him at half-past seven. On Saturday morning the groom, returning from the party about five o'clock in the morning, knocked at the door opening on the yard, but could get no answer. He then went round to the other door, and was let in by the porter. The groom went to bed undisturbed, and at half past seven the valet went in to call his master. He was much astonished at the confusion prevailing in the room, and as he did not see the Prince in the bed, which was turned upside down, he was frightened, left the room hastily, and called the groom and the porter, with whom he returned to his master's bed. Then they found the Prince's corpse under the pillow cases and blankets ; life had been extinct some hours ; the body was ties to the bed by the ropes torn down from the blinds ; the legs were firmly tied with a shirt twisted and knouted ; the mouth and the nose were covered with a neckerchief tied tightly over them. Sub ls e e n q g u e e d n t l t y o it e n w e a s discovered r d t h e r a e t r s t . h e C neckerchief et e h k a be , d the - Austro-Hungarian Minister, was sent for at on ce ; th e chief of the p o li c e was already in the Prince's bed-room. From, the information received, it seems that the Prince of Arenberg returned home at half-past'two, coming from the Yacht Club. According to his custom, and to prevent his servants from waiting up for him, he had let himself in by the door open ing on the yard which he shut after him. He did not usually lock the door of his apartment, nor the door of his bedroom. It seems also that when his valet went to bed he did not lock the entrance of the corridor leading to a door opening on the yard. Therefore, access to the victim's bedroom was easy. The state of the body led to the supposition that the crime had been perpetrated about half-past three in the morning. Either the Prince was in his first sleep, or reading a newspaper found near his bed. Nevertheless, from the state of the room, it is evident that a serious struggle took place. The lamp was thrown down, and the contents of a matchbox w ere on the carpet. It is very likely that the Prince was thrown upon his bed, where he was gagged and strangled. A Moujik, Gouri Chickshow, has been arrested on serious suspicion. He cannot explain how he spent the night from Friday to Saturday, and rouble notes, with blood-spots on them, were found on him. Prince Louis of Arenberg was the son of Prince Pierre, of Arenberg, and of Princess Talleyrand de Perigord. He was born in 1837 and he was a twin-brother of the Prince Augustus. He was major in the Austrian regiment of Hussars, and Chamberlain to the Emperor of Austria. His eldest sister, Princess Mary, is married to Count Charles de Merode. The Prince, at the time of the murder, was intending to make an excursion into the Caucasus with Colonel Blanc, the English military agent. He had already taken leave of his friends for that purpose. A REVOLUTION IN SOUTH AMERICA. The steamer La Plata, just arrived at Lisbon from Rio Janeiro, states that a revolution has broken out in the province of Entre-Rios, The President, General Urquiza, had been assassinated by a band of 300 men, led by General Lopez Jordan. The Argentine Government were send ing troops to the scene of action. THE PRE TENDED PRO C LAMA TION.—The Siècle and the Temps have persisted in their assertions that the proclamation for the publication of which some of the Irreconcilable journals were seized is an authentic one, and in proof of their veracity say that its original is in the Imperial Bibliotheque, and that it was never denied by its supposed author, or the other hand, the Patrie declar es th a t th e proclamation is a false one ; but in answer to the above charges explains that a copy of all printed matter is taken to the Imperial Bibliotheque, and that the appearance of the docu ment in question in such a place is no proof of its genuine character. It 'proves that it has been published, but -- nothing. else. As for the denial of the proclamation, that was done im mediately in the most public manner. So soon' as. he heard of this document, whose signature 'was ascribed to his cousin, Prince Napoleon, who was at Paris at the time he wrote to the different journals to declare that the work was a forgery. Prince Louis Napoleon could not deny thO . statement himself, because he was in Etgland at the time, but the prompt contradiction of his cousin answered every requisite end. INVESTMENT IN AMERICAN RAILROADS. The Public Ledger of Philadelphia continues its attack on the " wild-cat" railroad bonds offered by American sellers in European markets. The sub ject of investment in American railroads is one of general interest on this side, and deserves careful consideration. The points advanced by the Ledger are therefore worthy of close attention, and may be thus briefly stated. The best newly located railroad will not earn six per cent. on its cost in less than five years—some of the projected works thousands of miles beyond any traffic, and indeed beyond civilisation, will not doso in fiftyyears if they are carried to completion, and not abandoned in despair from the utter hopelessness of any return of profit whatever. Many of the enterprises have no cash capital in them as a base for loans ; and all the risk, therefore, falls on the mortgagee. Those who have resuscitated some of the wild Western railway enterprises are careful not to invest in them any money of their own,but become, instead of rail way-makers, eager bondsellers, and that leviathan borrower, the Northern Pacific Railroad, makes the modest proposition to transatlantic capitalists for a loan of $100,000,000 on long and " very pro mising" bonds without a dollar of paid-up capi tal, or having turned a shovel full of earth towards the formation of the road. The Ledger stea dily opposes the large land grants, as tending to alienate to monopolists the national domain rightfully the inheritance of coming generations; and the Northern Pacific is as great a " leviathan" in its cry for American land as for European cash ; in fact, it wants to have many countries to sell. The supports for the superstructure of the Ledger are these two—the improbability of railroads con structed in the Far West paying, at least within many years, and the impolicy of large laud grants. Putting aside the alleged dishonesty—the "rings" within the companies, as asserted by Senator THURMAN—these are what remain ; and they have no more right to be accepted because the Ledger says so, and the Philadelphia correspondent of the Times backs the assertion, than have the state ments of the bondseller, except in so far as the ono may be disinterested, and the other may not be so. The run is against the Northern Pacific Railroad, but it is openly maintained in the Senate that against the projected line all the weighty influence of the Union Pacific Railroad is thrown, though that is denied by a Nebraska Senator ; to say the least, it is probable ; and the Union Pacific Railroad in itself embodied everything brought as a charge by Senator THLRMAN against its Northern rival. It was projected and constructed by a "ring" without means, who made its members the contractors, and built the property for themselves, by themselves, extracting from the work a large profit, and all at the cost of the nation in general and of the bondholders in particular. The "ring " made theirfortunes even to that scatter-brained in di vid.ual, GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. But who lost ? Here was a railway ring selling bonds without any "money basis or a shovelful! of earth " for a line through the farthest and wildest part of the far W est, thousandsof miles from civilisation, which has proved one of the most remunerative properties ever constructed. Nor that only ; for it has conferred a. great, public benefit, on the nation more especial) , but on the world as well ; yet there is not a charge advanced by the Ledger against the Northern Pacific which could not with truth have been ad vanced against it. One of the accusations brought against the Northern Pacific in particular, and the far West lines in general, is the inducement for immigration, the plots, and models of towns, the Edens pictured in the howling wilderness of Da cotah and Northern Minnesota, and the through tickets offered. It is on this point that the whole argument breaks down. Railway construction in the Far West and settlement, essentially go hand iu hand ; and it is because the railway promoters will promote immigration also that the Government accord these land grants, and on that justify the concessions. Divorce the two, and the Ledger is right ; but let the two work together, and the Ledger, we do not hesitate to say, is wrong. Take the Kansas Pacific, and mark the effect of the line towards Denver City as it progressed. Civilization seemed to roll on with the revolving wheels of the cars. We grant that a demon preceded its course, a most extraordinary conglomeration of Western devilment ; but on behind came the peaceful and industrious settlers in daily increasing numbers till, like a pent-up pond when the flood-gates are opened, immigration poured up the valley, turning the howling wilderness into a scene of life and bustle, of rising towns, of ploughed fields, and droves of cattle. What does the Philadelphia Ledger say to this?—which, we assert, after the Union Pacific, to be ere railway which most boldly thrust itself into the wilds where the Indians roam, and no civilization was near. Is the statement then correct with which the Ledger set out as to the earn ings of the best newly-loc a t e d ra il roa d s ? an d are th instances quoted as the experience of European capitalists in the Atlantic and Great Western and the New York and Erie applicable? The 'Erie, as every one knows, is a fine line, running through the most populous of the States, and having its terminus in the metropolis. It would pay handsomely if its earnings were not intercepted ; and it is no fault of the enterprise, but of those who manage it, that it is not profitable to the proprietors. Much the same might be said of the Atlantic and Great Western ; and we venture to predict that both will eventually prove in a high degree paying concerns. But it is not against such enterprises that the Ledger writes, although it has to go to them as instances; and we take this in itself to be a proof of weakness, for surely a great and well-informed journal like the Ledger, if it had any good and well-authenticated cases in point, would have brought them forward. While, therefore, the Ledger fails to support by illustration its assertion, we give two remarkable instances in refutation. Nor do we believe that the Ledger, or Senator THURMAN, or the Philadel phia correspondent of the Times, appreciates the movement now going on in Europe towards what the last calls " the howling wildernesses." There never before existed anything like the emigration now becoming general over this continent, and by what is it mainly induced ?--by constructing Western Railroads through the waste places, whereby a poor family is put on an available estate. The en terprise with which these undertakings are in the United States carried through has been a main cause for the worlds having given the Republic the preference, and men in vain point to countries as possessing greater advantages where the land is as cheap and plentiful ; they are all passed unheeded, the steady and increasing tide flowing freely to the Far West ; and when the Ledger speaks of a railroad not paying under 50 years, it drops that steady, un exaggerated tone so peculiar to it. What will be the case in the United States fifty years hence is beyond human ken, but some conception of what is going on there may be formed from this simple fact that up the narrow valley of the Kansas the immigrants pass at the rate of 2,500 daily, and we ask our readers to glance over HEPWORTH DIXON'S account of his travels through that country four years ago to get an insight into the astonishing changes. Let those who have an old file of the New York Herald turn back to the state ments of that paper, when men began to talk about connecting New York with San Francisco by rail. The Herald jeeringly suggested a tunnel to Europe or a communication with the moon ; never theless the hue has been formed to the benefit of all, except perhaps the Pacific Steamship Co., which it has run out of existence, or rather diverted it from a San Francisco and New York Company, via Pa nama, to a San Francisco, China, and Japan Com pany ; and a singular thing, too, and we wish our readers to note this fact, to the benefit of the very undertaking which forced the change, and we fully believe the result v ill prove of the P.S.N. Co. as well. We ask our readers to note this fact, because it affords a proof that what kills in Europe, but spurs in Ame rica. The field is su open, the yield in reward of well-directed enterprise so abundant, that projects here termed w ild are there feasible; and we maintain that a rich harvest will be reaped by judicious European investment in West era enterprise, though great care should be exercised in the selection, and no statements accepted on the mere words of those who have bonds to sell or on the statements of the papers which have an object to serve in crying them up.—Anglo-Ameriean Times. THE METROPOLITAN AND PROVINCIAD PRESS. The Economist considers that a marked change is pa ssing over the position of the metropolitan press, and t hat it is losing influence, vigour, and circulation. Two Pape rs, the Star and the morning Pall Mall Gazette have di ed, within the year, and four within the last few years. OnlY six morning papers are left, two of which, the Advertis er and the Post, are supported by class connection s. No, European capital has so few daily i 01 1 ;- nals, and their total circulation is probablY not equal to half that of the Paris or New York press. There is a lack of energy about the. Proprietors. Only two journals have anything like a go o d foreign staff ; only one seems to have a provincial staff et any kind; and the telegraph wire is almost unused. mass of information which a journal like the Hew } T or s Herald, for example, will pubish any morning—fres' news from all parts of the world, whole columns of tele grams by cable, letters from all the cities of the Union -- seems wonderful to men who study the London news' papers and note how they are filled. Nothing now is we_ reported in them except Parliamentary proceedino o ! which are well reported because it is traditional to r epory them well, and members complain, we know not wit° what justice, that even these grow worse and worse- Of municipal news there is next to nothing—of countY news nothing at all unconnected with imperial, polities, In the whole London Press there is not so as a letter from Scotland, while Manchester iniaghti be almost on the verge of civil war without London knowing that anything had occurred in Manchester. Time Was when the London papers were the only ones which exer cised any political power. Men repeated the Timm 1 their opinion, and to quote the ideas of a provincia l paper seemed an absurdity. Nov it is doubt: ful whether provincial papers do not .reflect opinion more accurately than London papers. The political importance of London itself has de clined, and no longer sways the country. Power has passed to an electorate which does not take its view from London society, or even from London,—which prefers i ts own views, its own politics, and, to a growing ex" tent, its own men. There is even a dislocation of ideas between London and the provinces so great that an article, reflecting very accurately the ideas of the club world, is criticised in Manchester or Birmingham because it reflects them, as an expression to be scrutinised with something of hostility, not accepted as a guide. At the same time, while their opinions have thus lost weight, the London journals have lost their ancient monopoly of news. The telegraph has equalised the position of almost all localities. Birmingham knows everything of importance as soon 8 . 4 Belgravia, and Edinburgh reads the gossip of the lobbies at the moment when it is being read in London. Indeed, Birmingham is apt to hear the news first of the two. There are difficulties, too, in the nature of the trade. A successful newspaper is extremely profitable, but the capital required is considerable, and the adventure is one that can hardly be attempted by an association. Come?: tition becomes in consequence extremely difficult. 11 ' e are inclined to believe that, apart from accident, the fall of the London Press and the rise of the provincial Pres s will continue until we see something like the state of things in America, where each journal, however good, finds geographical limits to its circulation, and the journals of the greatest city have no universal influence and only a nominal precedence in the newspaper world• a change which in England will be a very grea t one indeed will make provincial opinion th e opinion of the great trading cities—much more Win" tial than that somewhat over-cautious and f e eble, but acute set of ideas usually described as " London opinion. There is crudity very often in the opinion of the pro vinces, but it is• masculine and broad, which opinion at present in London certainly is not. A TALE FROM CHILI. A horrible story of brigandage reaches us from Chili- Don Gomez y Lagoberon, a famous bandit captain who, from his fastnesses in the Sierra Profunda, has long de flea the Chilian authorities, was recently pursued, with the brigands under his command, by a body of troops, which succeeded in cutting him off from his followers, and driving him to take refuge in a cavern situated near the summit of one of the lofty mountains constituting the above-named range. In this cavern he had con cealed a female captive, whose husband he had robbed and slain, and whom he had for some time compelled to live with him as his mistress. The soldiers made several attempts to reach the entrance to this cavern, to which there was only one means of access —a mere mountain goat track ; but Lagoberon, a man gigantic stature and Herulean strength, rolled h eav y r ocks down upon them, and succeeded in beating them off, after several men had been severely injured. The officer in command, unwilling to sacrifice his troops uselessly, re solved to starve the bandit out, and " sate down" b e f o re the place. After two days' blockade, however, the soldiers grew weary of so tedious snd humiliating an expedient, so they improvised an escalade of the robber-chieftian's strong hold, and succeeded in capturing him. To their horror, they found that Lagoberon had cut off one of his unfortu nate companion's breasts, and eaten it. The poor woman was discovered in a dying state, having sustained a fearful loss of blood ; and she expired shortly after her rescue from the clutches of her barbarous paramour. The butcher was conveyed to Talea where he •was promptly tried and condemned to death by the garotte. In South America, execu tion I follows sentence with s t ar tli ng ra pidit y ; an d Gomez was straightway conducted to the scaffold, guarded by a strong escort of mounted gendarmes. While the executioner was engaged in adjusting hi s t o il e tt e d e mor t, th e co nvict drew a whistle from his pocket, and blew a whistle from his pocket, and blew it sharply ; whereupon about sixty of his men, who had introduced themselves amongst the crowd surrounding the scaffold, rushed upon the gendarmes , and massacred them ere they could offer any resistance. They freed Lagoberon, and completed their enterprise in a manner not devoid of a certain ghastly humour, by garotting the executioner ; after which they escaped , almost unscathed, to the mountains. There they are probably still at liberty, practising their pro fession to the terror of the whole country round. It should be observed that to facilitate their flight they " annexed" the horses of the fallen gendarmes ; and that a good many of them seized women from the throng gathered upon the place of execution, car rying them away, flung across their saddle-bows- The social condition of Chili as revealed by this narrative is one of almost hopeless degradation, only to be equalled by that of Mexico, Greece, and certain districts of Central Africa, where murder, lust, and rapine are the rules of life. Civilisation penetrates but slowly into these savage countries, of whose existence we are scarcely eve r re minded save by some appalling and revolting inc ident, like the Marathon massacre, or the cannibalism of Don Gomez y Lagoberon.—Daily Telegraph. The Broad Arrow believes it is quite true that Sir William Mansfield has been offered the command in Ire land, but it is not so certain that he has accepted it. The National Rifle Association are busy preparing for the annual camp-out at Wimbledon. The camp will be ready to receive occupants on the Bth of July, and the shooting will commence on the 11th of that month. HYDROPHOBIA.—A writer in the Leipsic Journal gives the following as a cure for hydrophobia :—" Take immediately, warm vinegar, wash the wound clean therewith, and then dry it ; afterwards pour upon the sore a few drops of muriatic acid, because mineral acids destroy the poison of the saliva, and the evil effects of the latter is neutralised." The appointment of Prince Dittrichstein-Mensdorfr (not Dietrichstein-Mensdorff as given by Reuter's tele grams) in the room of Lieutenant Field-Marshal Baron Koller, as Governor of Bohemia, is hardly likely to give satisfaction in that country, or to. foster a better under standing between Vienna and Prague. Prince Dittriell stein-Mensdorff has the reputation of being a strong Con servative, and thoroughly German in his views.—Pall Mall Gazette. LAD vEh TISEMENT. 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