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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, Cd. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park Open daily(except Sundays) Admission. ls.• on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve. 6d. ,?4 '4. , • • - --4/ 4 • 1.4'1-4- LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1870. On and after May 10th THE SUN will be pub lished as a MORNING and EVENING NEWSPAPER, at the price of One Penny. The Morning Edition will be published at 8 a.m., containing four hours' later news than the other morning papers. Special Telegrams will be given in this edition from the leading capitals of Europe, America, India, and all parts of the United Kingdom. With the exception of London, most of the leading towns in Great Britai❑ have had the advantage of a publication at 8 a.m., giving later news than can appear in the usual editions of the morning papers. The recent development of telegraphic communi cation has made additional news available at 8 a.m., and has thus increased the advantages which may be secured by placing before the public the latest infor mation prior to their entering upon the engagements of the day. The principles upon which THE SUN has been conducted for a long series of years will be consis tently maintained—the Editorial management re maining in the same hands as hitherto. The Evening Editions of THE SUN will be pub shed at 3.30 and 7 p.m. TE LE members of the Jockey Club will probably consider themselves hardly dealt with in bein.2 . ewn pared to the members of the Greek Goverillnent. Nevertheless, the comparison is in many resp,.c!s a ust one. Like the Administration at Athens the Government of the Turf Empire has sacrificed the spirit of its constitution to the letter. Like the Greeks it has pleaded formality as an e7;(.llse for neglecting to guard against a great prac tical evil; like the Greeks it has persistently stood by regulations which have been lielate]l again and again. At the Newmarket Craven Meeting. Sir Joseph Hawley, in a true reforming span, moved for a committee to inquire into the abuses of the turf, at the same time an nouncing his intention of submitting to this com mittee a very trenchant scheme of reform, including certain provisions well calculated to restrict the great and rapidly spreading evil of betting. The Jockey Club refused to grant such an inquiry. It had no objection to a committee, provided the subject of betting was not to be touched upon ; but betting was beyond its jurisdiction, and it could not frame laws to control it. Sir Joseph refused to accept an inquiry on such terms, and his motion was therefore con- temptuously rejected. On Wednesday the matter again came under notice, and a committee was ap pointed for the purpose of investigating the abuses of the turf—minus betting. This procedure greatly resembles the doings of those wise Ministers who lately offered the Marathon brigands any terms—no matter how degrading or ridiculous—except only the terms which would ensure the object in view. The Jockey Club are prepared to attempt any reform except that without which all amendment is utterly vain and useless. There is much reason to doubt whether betting does not come, even literally, within the scope of the Club's powers. On divers occasions that august body have passed laws which to the unsophisticated mind mar vellously resembled laws intended for the regulation of betting. It is quite certain that any ordinance with this " object would command obe dience on every regular racecourse in the kingdom. But, at any rate, if the Club cannot interfere with betting, it is quite idle to appoint a committee. It is all very well to establish a " close time," or to put handicaps in order, or to settle the two-year-old question; but such laudable procedures labour under the disadvantage of being not to the point. What is wanted is protection for the public, not for professional turfites. The latter must look to themselves. For the vast misguided section of the community to which speculation upon a race is an affair of blind gambling, horses and "events " have no meaning, save as symbols of investment. No matter what restrictions may be placed on the general con duct of these contests, the demoralising game of chance will go on as before. But once set up the regulation that a bet is void unless the horse actually starts, and the system of gambling would cease, because no one would be able to make a profit by it. There would be no betting except at the post. Let this be done, and other reforms will prove a valuable supplement; leave betting untouched, and no other reform is worth having. The refusal of the Jockey Club to exercise its un questionable power is quite intelligible. But it can have no greater success than to gain a little breath ing time, at the end of which a worse thing will befall the jealously-guarded interests of the turf. At present this unrestrained gambling affords an agreeable excitement, and a fine source of profit to the professionals at the expense of the general public. Those who make a trade of racing mostly gain, whilst the deluded mob pay the cost. Disagreeable as it may be, however,, to suffer interference with such an eligible source of booty, it will be the duty of the Legislature to make good the shortcomings of the Jockey Club, and to act in the interests of the nation, not in the interests of the turf. The question is only one of time. Mr. Bruce's answer to Mr. Hughes may be taken as evidence that the onslaught is preparing. Of course it will be beyond the power of the law to establish that bets on horses which do not start are void, for all betting is already void in th e eyes o f t h e l aw ; b ut as such a quiet remedy will be impracticable, so the blow must be all the more severe and uncompromising. Turf gambling flourishes now because bets are regarded as affairs of honour; and if the turf tribunal decided that no dishonour, nor any social penalty, was to be awarded to the repudiation of certain kinds of betting, the thing would be done at once. Parliament must be content with a rougher style. The entire apparatus by which pro fessional bookmakers angle for the earnings of the working class and the lower middle class, requires to be ruthlessly swept away. When that end is se cured, we shall all be very thankful for anything the THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1870 Jockey Club can do in the way of reforming handi caps, sustaining the stamina of horses, and th• other excellent objects which the committee will gravely consider. THE passing of the third clause is a great event in the history of the Land Bill. It is the keystone of the whole measure, and it has been latterly dis cussed in a spirit which marks a disposition to make progress. The word " progress " may sound absurd in connection with a bill which has been on the way for weeks, and of which only two clauses out of sixty (the second was postponed) have been disposed of. But this third clause involves the great principle of the measure. Once settled, only minor considerations remain, and only lesser delays may be anticipated. By this clause it is esta blished that a landlord has not such uncontrolled property in his estate as to be allowed to evict a tenant at pleasure. Non-payment of rent, or other grave offence, is an excuse for dispossession; but unless there be some such just plea, eviction is to be treated as a civil injury for which compensation may be claimed. A maximum sum is fixed, the smaller the holding the greater being the scale of award. Thus the occupier of land valued at £lO a year may possibly secure a sum of money equal to seven years' rent in case of arbitrary eviction, whilst the occupier of a farm above one hundred pounds cannot at the utmost receive more than one year's rent. These are the highest figures, and will be awaded only in the most flagrant cases. All the circumstances will be taken into consideration, and the amount will be adjusted by the Court, so as to make good, as far as possible, the exact loss sustained through the arbitrary eviction. For instance, if the landlord offers a lease which the tenant does not accept, such an offer will be valued as a set-off against the claim for damages, in case the landlord afterwards thought fit to deprive the occu pier of his holding. This compensation scheme clearly introduces a startlingly novel principle into the English law. Nothing of the kind exists at present in any part of the British Islands. Hitherto the land has been considered as within the absolute control of the owner ; his power to dispossess tenants is limited only by the original bargain ; and if the occupier makes a bad bargain, so much the worse for him—he has no redress. By the Land Bill the proprietor's rights are decidedly curtailed. No matter what contract he may make with his tenant in the first instance, he cannot evict at will without running the risk of paying a sum of money—perhaps a large sum—as the price of the luxury. This great principle—and in the present circumstances of Ireland it is a just and necessary one — has been maintained with slight modification by Mr. Gladstone. But the struggle was most desperate. The clause was openly assailed, and covertly under mined. The Opposition united against it ; and even the present discipline of the Liberal party wavered to such a degree that on one memorable night several of the Government supporters went over to the other side, and many more left the House. This third clause, with its rude blow against what are called the rights of property, has met with more reluctant acceptance than the whole of the Irish Church Bill. Nothing, in fact, but the unanimous protests of the press, and the stern attitude of the constituencies, succeeded in getting the clause through unimpaired. The electors of Newcastle, in particular, have de served well of their fellow-voters by the promptitude with which they brought Mr. Headlam to account. This unfortunate representative earned a good deal of temporary infamy by an amendment which was one of those neat contrivances for taking the • sting out of a thorough measure, in which the House of Commons so much excels. It is not that Mr. Headlam's conduct was more obnoxious than that of other Liberals—Mr. Fowler for instance. It is not that ho shewed a disposition to assert the independence of the Liberal party. For it would be a grave misfortune indeed if all that the Government proposed were to be accepted without demur, and the country thus fell under the rule of an irresponsible bureaucracy. Mr. Head laufs error lay in proposing an amendment designed t) grievously r strict the operation of the compensa tion clauo, after amendments to the same purport had been rejected again and again. Nothing could be more exhaustive than the battle on this point. In every conceivable way the reluc tant property-holders of the House strove to curtail the efficiency of this intervention with their ancient privileges. And though it is true that the question raised by Mr. Headlam was new in the letter, it embodied the same principle as that of many pre vious amendments, Mr. Fowler's, for instance. Surely, after so much loss of time, the country had a right to complain of any further frivolous and vexa tious intervention. No servile acquiescence ought to be required of members ; but after this remark able provision had survived so many persistent attacks, it would have been well if the House had gracefully accepted the result. It is to be hoped that the good rule of not fighting the same battle again aed again will be observed in future. The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Louise and Beatrice, and possibly Prince Leopold, attended by the suite, will leave Osborne this day (Saturday), en route for Windsor Castle, via the London and South Western Rail way. The Queen comes to London on Monday, and goes to Claremont about Tuesday. Prince Arthur may be expected to arrive home from Canada with the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade, in her Majesty's ship Crocodile, early in July. 'the Lord Chancellor has made an order that the offices of the Court of Chancery be closed on Saturday, the 28th inst., for the celebration of her Majesty's birthday. Mr. Boucicault is to have the direction of both the Adelphi and Princess's Theatres next season, though they still remain in Mr. Webster's hands. Mr. Liston, of the Olympic Theatre, bas made an engagemant with Miss Bateman to appear at that house on the 23d inst., in " Mary Warner." Max M. Von Weber, son of the composer of " Der Frieschutz," has been made Counsel to the Ministry of Commerce of Austria.—Musical Standard. A telegram from Port Said announces the arrival there, on the afternoon of the sth inst., of her Majesty's Indian troopship Jumna, all well, after a satisfactory passage through the Suez Canal. It is believed that on the occasion of the anni versary of the birthday of her Majesty the Queen several civilians who have lately retired from the Admiralty will receive the honorary distinction which public rumour has already bestowed upon them. The Cunard steamer Siberia, which loft Liver pool for Boston on the 19th of April, was spoken on _ . the 30th by the steamer India. The Siberia was put ting back to Queenstown under canvas with a broken shaft. Last evening Captain R. C. Cutting, late com mander of the Guion steamship Idaho, committed suicide by' shooting himself through the head at his office, Alex andra-buildings, James-street, Liverpool. The motive for the fatal act is not at present known. DEATH OF SIR JAMES Y. SimPsoN.---Last night, shortly before eight o'clock, Professor Sir James Y. Simpson died in Edinburgh from disease of the heart, with symptoms of angina pectoris. Sir James was born in 1811, and was appointed in 1840 to the Professorship of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh, for his discoveries in connexion with chloroform, which are well known. The nomination for the candidates for the repre sentation of Mallow took place yesterday in the Court house, which was crowded with a riotous and desperate mob. Scarcely a word uttered during the proceedings could be heard. The tumult in the body of the Court was almost bewildering, and the partisans of the rival candidates at tacked each other fiercely, and the fighting continued with little intermission during the proceedings. Major Knox and Mr. Waters, Q.C., were nominated, and the show of hands was in favour of :Mr. Waters. A poll was demanded for Major Knox. Cunrit J 1 , HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, May 6. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nesses Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty drove out this morning. The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday, attended by Lieut.-Col. Teesdale. The Princess of Wales, attended by the Coun tess of Morton, drove out yesterday. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, May 7. The Official Journal of this morning confirms the seizure of the Siecle, the Revell, and Avenir for pub lishing an alleged proclamation of the Emperor of the year 1848. The paper adds :—" The Government leaves to the honest feeling of the public to judge this trick, and rightly to appreciate the same." BOURSE, May 6.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 1 per Cent. 3 per Cents 74 60 End of month.- 74 75 Credit Itlobilier ~. 230 Transatlantic 197 50 Credit Foncier 1307 Paris Gas 1680 Suez Canal 290 Bank Shares 2790 It&Fan wives 57 25 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 5O -- Spanish Threes 29 25 Home Debt — Deferred Cash Orleans Western Northern Strasburg uyons and Mediterranean Southern.... 6lO Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman. RAIL WA' 790 385 AUSTRIA. VIENNA, May 6. It is authentically asserted that a Note of Cardinal Antonelli has been read by the Papal Nuncio here to Count Beust, and that the latter received a copy at the same time. The note of the Cardinal is an an swer to the Austrian Note of the 10th February re ferring to the Council. This Note had been ad dressed to Rome independently of the steps taken by other Foreign Cabinets in the same matter at the time when the Canones Ecclesix were about to come on for discussion. Cardinal Antonelli, in the reply, starts from the Roman stand-point, and displays a certain feeling of annoyance, probably resulting from a full appreciation of the Austrian Note, which caused the subsequent diplomatic steps of other Powers. To-morrow the Official Gazette will publish the appointment of the State Councillor Ilolzgether as chief of the Ministry of Finance, likewise the ap pointments of Herren Petrino and Widman, both Deputies to the Reichsrath as Ministers respectively of War and Agriculture. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, May 6. The Customs Parliament has voted the second reading of the Tariff Bill with several amendments, among which one moved by Herr von Patow, pro posing as a compromise between the House and the Government that the import duties on yarn should not be reduced, and that instead the import duties on pig iron should be reduced to 15 silvergroschen, and those on rice to 2f silvergroschen, and that on the other side the proposition of the Government to levy a duty on imported coffee should be accepted. Herr Delbruck, in the name of the Government, agreed to those terms. ITALY. FLORENCE, May 8. Captain Vivian, an Extraordinary English Cabi net Courier, arrived here yesterday, en route for Athens. He continues his journey to-day. ROME, May 5. Two-thirds of the French bishops and priests have requested to be allowed to record affirmative votes for the Plebiscite at the French Embassy. The Government has thanked them, but said that it could not accede to their request, as the law did not autho rise it to do so. AMERICA. (By Cable). NEW YORK, May 6. The Hamburg and American Company's steamship Saxonia arrived here b-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 114 ; the highest quotation during the day, Ns as 115 ; the lowest, 114 i. Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1885 ~ 18 67 10-40 ~ Illinois ................................... : .................. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra State, $4 80c. to $5 40c. Corn—Old mixed, $1 14c, According to Messrs. Moffat, Davidis, and Co.'s report the week's receipts of cotton have been 58,000 bales, and since the Ist of September, 2,650,000 bales. Shipments to England, 23,000 bales ; to France, 11,000 bales ; and to the Continent, 2,000 bales ; and since tho Ist of September, 1,795,000 bales. Stock at all ports, 353,000 bales. Middling Upland, 10 7-16 d. cost and freight per steamer. INDIA. (Per Indo-European Telegraph.) CALCUTTA, May 6 The final result of the Government opium sale yesterday shows a decline of 213 rupees in Patna descriptions and 231 rupees in Benares, as compared with the prices realised at the corresponding sale of 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Billisgton will shortly return to their old quarters, the Adelphi. The -Worth German Correspondent of Wednesday' contradicts reports which it hears are current of a contem plated proclamation of King William as Emperor of Ger many, of an approaching entran ce o f th e S out h ern S tates into the Northern Confederation, and other matters of a similar character. The Beehive, in alluding to the "supposed trades union outrage at Manohester, says : " Supposing the surmise is correct th a t thi s i s a case of the brickmakers again, we have a right to oontend that Broadheadism and brickmakorism are not to be confounded with trades unions nor trades unions with them." DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is recommended by the medical profession in preference to French brandy. Sup plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations on application to Messrs, DUNVILLE & Co., Royal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfast; or at their London Offices, 4, Beaufort Buildings Strand, W.C. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning, Evening SATURDAY 0 min past 6 22 min past 6 SUNDAY 50 min past 6 18 min oast 7 MONDAY 50 min past 7 30 min past 8 TUESDAY 10 min past 9 50 min past " 9 WEDNESDAY ' 3O min past 10 ..... lO min past 11 THURSDAY 40-rain past 11 0 min past 12 FRIDAY", ...... .......... .. 8 min past 12 ...., 34 min past 12 TOWN TALK. (From the Western Mail of this Morning.) LONDON, Friday Evening. The opportuneness of that deadly conspiracy against the "charmed life" of the Emperor Napoleon accounts for—almost justifies—the utter incredulity with which its first announcement was received by Messieurs the Parisians. ft was an unbelief so absolute, however, as to amount of itself t 9 an out rage against the Government. There is, neverthe less, no mistaking by this time the genuinenesi or authenticity of the revelation. The hour and the man were there, but, happily, they did not exactly " hit it off " together. The hour was known, and the man was caught. Upon the wretched would-be assassin was found a loaded but undischarged revolver. At one of his haunts a magnificent haul was made of deadly missiles, and projectiles, - and detonators— bombshells fashioned like muffins or teacakes, and a certain comparatively harmless apology for nitro glycerine. Discovered by times, as it was (thanks, upon the first hint of it, one rejoices to know, to the Loud )n detectives), the revealed conspiracy comes in aid superbly of the plebiscitum. ith Wwhat result Europe will have learnt, far and wide, within a very few hours after you have completed to-mor row's publication, namely, by the thrilling of its nervous system—no longer diplomacy, but the electric telegraph. Although too late for any detailed mention in my last week's letter, I attended the private view at the Royal Academy. This annual feast of the eyes oc cupied me some hours on Friday afternoon—inter rupted, as the private view always is, by those en counters among friends, whose aggregate name, on that day of days, is Legion. Celebrities of all kinds " there do congregate." Dukes and archbishops " are as plentiful " as the reasons of Jack Falstaff. Painters and critics are there for awhile, as the phrase is, upon the same platform. The throng at intervals is so intense that the notion of its being a view at all, much less a private view, comes at last to be the very wildest of absurdities. Regarded as a whole, the collection this year is one of average merit. The academicians have greatly distinguished themselves. An outsider has, here and there, surpassed himself ; Mr. Marks, of this, being a very signal illustration. His picture of "St. Francis preaching to the Birds" is beyond any work hp has ever yet produced. It ought to secure to him, at the very first opportunity, his enrolment as an associate. It is a masterpiece, at one and the same moment, of the tenderest sensi bility and of the quaintest humour, in its pathetic, grave, and grotesque whimsicality, being almost, one might say, in the same breath, a provocative of tears and laughter. Since the last year's exhibition three of the R.A.'s have disappeared ; two of them men of mark ; one as a battle-scene painter (Jones), the other as a landscape painter (CrLswick), the third—dead within a week before the opening —in many respects the greatest of the whole forty academicians. Daniel Maclise died after a four - days' illness. Apparently with twenty good years before him, he succumbed thus abruptly to heart disease. His seemingly prema ture death was accelerated by the fact that his enor mous amount of brain-work was in no degree coun terbalanced by what ought always to be cared for as the counterpoise to intellectual labour—bodily exer cise. Toiling incessantly at his easel, he never, or hardly ever, dreamt of taking, what ought to have been the daily rule with him, a constitutional. The great novelist, who paid so exquisite a tribute to Maclise's memory at the Academy dinner on Satur day, acts more wisely in this particular than his de parted friend ever had the care to do—Charles Dickens, still with the light elastic tread of youth, doing habitually his ten or twelve miles a day walking, town or country, wet or dry, at all times and seasons. It is melancholy to think of, that Daniel Maclise was allowed to be laid in the grave quietly, almost obscurely, at the close of last week, without his honoured remains being followed to that neglected grave by any one of his brother academicians. The President was not there, the secretary was not there, the treasurer was not there, the librarian was ab sent ; they were all away—attending to the arrange ments of the banquet. Why, in France the banquet would have been postponed—the whole thirty-nine would have been there as chief mourners ; the Minis ters of State would have been present, the Sove reign would have been officially represented by one of the court dignitaties, soldiers would have lined the %hole way from the great artist's house to the place of sepulture. certainly, here again Sterne was right —they do manage these things better in France than amongst ourselves. Even as it was on Saturday, literature was alone represented at the grave of Daniel Maclise by Hepworth Dixon and J. C. Jeaf freson, the novelist and the traveller. Maclise's last picture is interesting, of course ; but it is unsatisfactory. In the drawing it is admirable, but in the colouring sombre and lugubrious. Others of the academicians shine forth this year resplen dently—Poole, with a very glory of colour, in illus tration of Boccaccio's Decameron—Herbert, with two superb classical landscapes—Landseer, with a wonderful portrait of Voitigeur, and a still more wonderful group of monkeys—Millais, with the sweet, haunting face of Raleigh in his boyhood—E. M. Ward, with his limning to the very life of the ruffianly and infuriated Jeffreys, of infamous reputa tion—Frith, with his Sir Roger de Coverley and the Perverse Widow—Hook, with his delicious, blue, briny Brimming and Doggerbank —Horsley, with the Banker's Private Room, the finest of all his interiors —Cope, O'Neil, Elmore, Calderon, Faed, each with works of art worthy of their reputations. Among the lady contributors Mrs. E. M. Ward stands forth conspicuously—fairly surpasses herself —with her charming historical picture of the inter view between the divorced Empress Josephine and the little prattling King of Rome in the presence of Napoleon the Great, Emperor and King, Conqueror and Lawgiver. Among the foreign contributors the place of honotir is at once assumed, by right, by M. Gerome— ecce signum !—his marvellous representation of "The Death of Marshal Ney, Duke of Elchingen and Prince of Moskowa." Among the general outsiders, Marcus Stone takes a distinct step in his historical picture of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn, observed in their coquetries by Queen Katharine of Arragon—Charles Goldie far surpassing his " Saint Augustine" of last year by his new and, as yet, his ablest work of art, " The Trial of St. Perpetua"—J. B. Burgess, the young paiuttr who startled London art-critics a few seasons back with his " Spanish Bullfight" audience, contri buting, in 1870, to the Academy collection another fine Spanish scene, taken from an incident in the last year's insurrection. " Lothair's" brilliant glitter of ,wit and persiflage has fairly dazzled the reviewers into admiration. Such a chorus of praise on a new book has not for a long while past been audible. The critics seem to have been awed into eulogium by Mr. Phesubs' charming impertinence when he speaks of them super ciliously thus ---" The critics—you know who they are—the men who have failed in literature and art." A thought unconsciously borrowed, or lam very much mistaken, from one of the earlier novels of Edward Bulwer, now Lord Lytton. Dickens's new number (2) of " Edwin Drood" is chiefly remarkable for the passionate scenes in which the hero of the tale and a young Anglo-Oriental, named Neville Landless, are the interlocutors. The Pall Mall's cessation as a morning paper, on Saturday, took one by surprise, but its announce ment of its immediate return to its original form as an evening paper delighted the West-enders, draw- ing even a hilarious hooray from Mr. Punch in Fleet street. While the prose of Mr. Disraeli's last effusion li l been eulogised by tile press with a sort of chorro unanimity. Mr. Rosetti's poetical lines have ce. tainly fallen in pleasant places —whether here Fraser, where they have been most lovingly b s9(lie ' l they , by Shirley, or here in the Fortnightly, where t' ir l have been lauded with a kind of rapture by j) Swinburne. t1) 13 There is a siular attraction in this Di e-n di number of the Fortnightly, in the shape of a g hastly translation, by the late murdered Edward gerbe in of the appalling Greek poem of the ValliP ire ' b i memory of the massacre of Gardiki, in 1 812 ' fir order of Ali Pacha, of Joamina, through the r; . less agency of Thanasi Vayi, otherwise A.thanaslw Vayas. It now appears that to the pen of Mr. u 3 - 1 ,10 Hoey, once editor of the Irish Nation, is attrib utaw he the remarkable article in the last number of t i Dublin Review, entitled interrogatively, 46 I s Irel° l/ Irreconcilable ?" Cornelius O'Dowd is as lively and whitusie3l ever in the May number of Blackwood. Sc alce u te could the copy have left his hands at Trieste en ° tile for Edinburgh when its author, Charles Leve r ' o f ever gay and ever exhilarating Harry Lorrequer e 0 old, Cornelius O'Dowd of nowadays, must have b , e o3 stricken to the heart by a home affliction, whic h ' or been only too long impending over him in his ehartit, ing villa in the environs of that most picturesque ° o p port of Austria on the north-west shores ei Adriatic. His wife, nom for two years bed rid er under a mortal disease, has, at length, sunk and the wasting malady. „ r rti° Charles Reade is drawing rapidly now to - a ll the close of the most realistically sensational 01 r , his startling romances of every-day " Pat P i ti e j self in its Place," in the Co . rnhill. When coWP le iog are we, then, to have in lieu of it, the forthe uni novel by George Meredith ? soil Miss Braddon begins her new story rather h e voce in Belgravia. When she has warmed W e d plot, we shall doubtless have our interest awak en o in regard to Rupert's Quest—a quest probabli tor , search of the mksing father and enormous tunes of his betrothed. George Eliot's 800 li P ret of poetry in Macmillan, I am disposed to conje ettl u e will find but few readers. Not so in that 001, magazine Anthony Trollope's easy but vigorous e° , t , mencement of his new serial tale of " Sir Harry I° o spur, of Humblethwaite." It seems curious tile popular novelist like Anthony Trollope should f urt o thus the interests of a rival magazine to Ids ° , ll shilling monthly of D.t. Paul's, to which he has bt f contributing for some time past in the share 43 gratuitous supplement, thrown i n , a d u plicate is - o d of a story otherwise published quite separately, independently. Another curious incident, ag 3iv j worthy of note in regard to two other widely P ° l- I t ie novelists, both of whom have recently gone in f ir c)r ' o o addressing of a larger and lower audience. 1 ":„ 0 Collins catering for Cassell's Magazine, and Ila rr ;, Ainsworth for the largely-circulated family Pu bil tiou called Bow Bells, for the which the last - u' o f tioned is now preparing a romance of the daY 3 Charles the Second. SHOCKING vv MURDER OF ONE BOY 13 ANOTHER. sb' t A boy named Alex. Macdonald, aged 15, was A i , last night by another boy in Easter-road, Edinburgo Macdonald was an apprentice to a gasfitter, returning from his work. He had got opposit e ii i; house where he stood talking to a youth, wile ° murderer came up, and putting a pistol behill a , left ear shot him, and he died a f ew m i nu tes o :f7 he wards. The murderer is 16 or 17 years of age , son of a Polish shoemaker at Leith. FALL OF A BURNING HOUSE• • . 4 Of A fire took place lastight in the premis e- Mr. G. Hassen, a furniture dealer, of No. 137, 5 %; mour-street, Euston-square, and was not Pu t ° O l until the back workshops w er e b urn t out, the 1. ", e destroyed, and the upper part of the dwelling-hI o consumed. All of a sudde n the whole front of ' ll , building fell, and nearly covered Engineer Hu ts ings and several firemen. They all managed to 1 : 5 away, and just in time, except one fireman, Who "03 so seriously injured that he was obliged to be reulo v to the hospital. THE POPE ON NEWSPAPERS. c 0 1 ' 1" The Vatican gives us the Pope's opi n i on on he newspapers, as expressed in a recent audience V 1 "IY granted to sundry Venetians. Th e C ounc il sa id 1 0 0 supplies newspapers with th e i r ma t er i a l s . False t be , exaggerations, good or evil, nothing comes amiss to Ti ter Happily, he added, w e h ave goo d j ourna l s , w hi c h of il „ Ist act the evil wrought by the b a d ones , an d h e won' th e as to pay Italy the compliment of having 00 largest proportion of good journals. Yet there t de' people who wished to silence the Catholic press, ,th i trcii . Glared it to be the cause of a ll th e ev il s i n the (-J" The Pope's answer to an appeal to exercise his auth o r ll to this effect deserves to be rememberogved political as well as religious intolerance. y 0 willingly, gentlemen ; but on condition that t ber 4 will pledge me your word for it that henceforth d en' shall not be a single anti-Catholic journal." " The, i s c e like tlemen," rem ar k e d th e P ope . i n conclusion, "wow the to shut the mouths of others, that they may keep 3 ;o u conversation to themselves." We fear th a t i nclina , " not restricted to the Italian opponents of the press- LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND Ala'itl ter W The Atheneum has the following :—Sir J O, Scott wrote sermons, and so we need not be 0 ,4 ° 1 e ter' at a novelist who appears in a new char e. 3 o but it is with surprise, as well as g reat pl easur e, t „L' c ieV hear the next volume of the new series of " Classics for English Readers" will be " Cmsar,".ntof' Anthony Trollope.—Readers of Mr. Laurence OliP, Of, " Piccadilly " must have been amused with his t. A s ",, t a,7", tion of the character of "spiritual medium :" " The 'tim e were penned under an impulse which seemed at th e ge t irresistible. I found myself unable, by any eonseir of volition, to control either the plot or the style. be P" with his farew e ll t o t h e world :—" I can , no way affected by the fate of the book, is it likely I s h a ll ever see or hear the criticisms of ,cli!'; it may be the subject." As usual, the etern.-- a is stW proves a most t rans i en t a di eu. E scape d f rom his cf,, retreat with Mr. Harris on th e b an k o f L a ke Brlnts of Oliphant is learning, in Pall Mall, what society thy, s i " Piccadilly."—The readers of the Glasgow Hat e so for a long time entertained with a series of graP t ipite4 gossiping articles on men and manners in the " s ty, States, by Mr. David Macrae. A selection of the i t - , them, in two volumes, will be published imnied i , he e tit i t " The Logical Method of Political Economy" is r esOf of a volume on which Mr. J. E. Cairnes is at o e engaged.—We regret to hear that it is the intend s th e Miss Marie Wilton to retire from the stage as s oon re s'A run of " M.P." is over. We trust that in the inter English comedy, which can ill afford to lose so O A s ti!' i , mate an artist, this decision will be reconsidered. ,f ; ', 7o of money subscribed in Germany for presentan o th e Baron Liebig has, by his request, been devoted and foundation of a prize, to be called the Liebig 31e1 tions to be given from time to time for scientific investlg, i f in subjects connect e d w ith agr i cu lt ure .—A monkelhl' order of La Trappe has invented a new potatl 6 oollr machine, by means of which a man can easily Pee 1 6 of potatoes per hour. 40 1 thoti- e s) The Musical Standard says :—A ship of a `',/ bee tons burthen, christened the Gioachino Rossini, has launched at Genoa,. This is the first known ins e tile o such an honour paid to a composer.—A bibliogrioo, musical curiosity has been recovered to the Belletic the shape of a complete collection of certain Pr ° ... t h Ge o by Belgian composers of the fifteenth and s ixte9., e tunics. Both words and music of many of according to the Guide Musicale, long . been sougn ovi ;lo.; tiquaaians, and the musical ; their interest for t i l oP a readers, depending upon the recollection that . I ., t ivos_ n days Flemish musicianship was of a highly e o u' re u l tin order.—Not satisfied with "the anvil chorus ', Ol , coo s to to the " Harmonious Blacksmith ") our American perlo hay.e introduced the triangle as an instrument 0 piv sion in one of the musical interludes during service. Many of the men who have been, or 83 : ( ',.bei employed in Chatham Dockyard, are about to psi:o l l 6 og selves of the offer made by the Admiralty of 065 1 . 0 e0 them tclemigrate to Canada at the end of the P month or the beginning of June. . For the fifth time- the offer of the Middleton has been refused—on this occasion by the eod of Egham (Dr. Monsen) who pleads his advance 4 The the unsatisfactory health of a r aember of his fainilP living is valued in the clergy list at £950 a year. 030 Le .Nord says :—" It is stated from ma,drlavor General Caballero de Rodas C apta i n -General of 0 10 3 nali, has discovered that .the English Consul-Oette,ecret that island has been from the commencement the " agent and intermediatory of the insursrents."