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Mr. and Mrs. RANDALL, the, celebrated Burle s q ue Duettists. ~.....tEeturApf the inimitable Stittaii'Orator, W. WEST, and E3IMA. WESTs„ Kngagement for six nights onlY • of DUGWAR, Juggler and • Equgilatft. 248 g KATE - PALMER, thattlyaLlimbrella Belle, is engaged for a , period at this Hall only. - New 'OvepthilN.-iiit'all Orchestra. teho.onY' 6d'; Staltsl,.l6.-; Orchestra is 6d; Private Boxes, 0 334 °". tiox-offfca open frOm 10'ee, 5, Aand Anniversary THURSDAY, A pril 28. _ . MADAME _TUSS-AAJD'S EXHIBITION, _. .. Baker-street.—A POR'ISA„IT, MODEL of TROPMANIN ori n?W added.—On View, amongst innumerable other relics, the cip,'l ll al Lauette aq&-linife of the actual. Guillotine used for the ,Pitation of Louis XVI., Marie Antoinette, and upwards of ...4,.,,,0 Persons of the best :and worst blood in France. Also an ' e xact r oo „, copy of the guillotine as ,in use. Admissio n, ls. ; extra ____ ' 4 . 8 , 6d. 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ASSOCIATION (Established 1810). TRUSTEES Thomas Baring, Esq ,M. P. I Thomas Hankey, Esq. It W. Crawford, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. The report and balance-sheets of this Association for the year 1869, exhibiting in full details the amounts assured, ages of the members, with particulars of the invested fund, may be had on application to the chief office, or to the agents The annual income from premiums is .. £r4 000 From interest on investments ... ••• ••• 19,000 he invested fund, after payer ent of all claims, exceeds 415,000 The whole of the profits divided among the members. Cash bonuses have already been allotted to the assured, amounting to £lOO,OOO. W. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. No. 15. Moorgate-street, March I, 1870. DARTRIDGE AND COOPER. MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E. 0.) THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 2 s. os. Par ream. 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An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books , Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage les, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, &c , post free. Established 1811 NRIVALLED SPECULATION S U SPLENDID SUCCESS. With , a Single Stake of Twelve Shillings you can realise £3,000 —with'Xl, £22,000 !!-,with £2. D 7,060 !!—with £B, 37,000! For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. B RITISH HOME FOR INCURABLES, Clapham-rise. Instituted 1861. PATRONESS. Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALE-S. TREASURERS. . . _ George Moore, Esq.; Mr. Alderman Gibbons. This Institution, extending its operations to all parts of the king .ow, provides for those afflicted with ineurablo diseases a home for life•, with every comfort and meds cal att ndance. Patients are admitte i, and annuities of £1 obtained by election. No person under ) ears of a_ e, nor of the pauper class, is eligible. Full particulars and the necessary forms may b procured from thP Secretary. Donations and annual subscriptions are earnestly solicited. BANKERS. Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.. Lombard-street, E. O . ; and Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W. EDWD. W EAVE Et, Secretary. Offices, 73, Cheapside. • ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL , Gray ' s -inn-road, is the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Railway , Terminus, King's Cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. Vice-PJ tron— His Rcyal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish the principle of fr,e admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendande of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit, the assistance of the benevolent, hundred premises of this hospital are capable of containing seve ral more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Hansom, and are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown , Drummond Co,, Abchurch-lane • also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; a ; nd il C ii o a . Glyn and 'Co.; Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, G rote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Bar clay and Co. W street; and at the Ilmoss p ' i D ta e l a f e r o o n m , a l n o d tos. Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners- HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and clothing for the 126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. 150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street. 94 girls in the Refuges. 19, Broad-street, and Ealing. 870 children. e e t c e r r et ß ary ank . 115 will keep boy or girl for one year. Contributions received by the Lond ut ot . t o.vi a . n ma d ta v i v Ab e i tm s, in s 114, High Holborn, an. 41, L w oth iL btry ik No. 8, Great Queen -street, Lincoln's-inn-Bells. FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON F EAIAL PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN STITT:UK/NT President —Rev. CANON DALE_ C ONT RIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear neatly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon gnat, Salt, and Co., 73, L ombard street, ; Francis Ni c h o ll s it.sq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, Is4C. E. W. THOASi Seg., 200, Euston-road, OCTAVIIIS WIGRAM, Esq Governor. 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This Tax having been abolished, the PREMIUM is NOW the only charge for Fire Insurances. FARMING STOCK.—No Extra Charge ie made for the use of Steam Thrashing Machines. The Reverion - axy Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. g q uivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years. Any sum not exceeding £15,600 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Aseured Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee of - a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part nership. The advantages of modern practice, with the secu rity of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of a CENTURY AND A HALL ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary. FOREIGN and COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TRUST (SECOND ISSUE), in Certificates of £lOO each, bearing 5 per cent. juterest. To be issued at £BO. TRUSTEES. The Right Hon. Lord Westbury. Lord Eustace Cecil, M.P. Geo. Wodehouse Currie, Esq. G. M. W. Sandford, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. The successOlii; Foreign and Colonial Government Trust, which was formed in May, 1868, has called for an extension of this mode of investment. In compliance, therefore, with a general desire, it has been determined to open a subscription for a second issue . not exceeding • £600,000, in Certificates of XICO, to bear 5 per cent. interest, to be issued at £BO. The object, which is now well understood, is to give to the Investor of moderate means the same advantages as the large capitalist, in diminishing the risk of investing in Foreign and Colonial Government Stocks, by spreading the investment over a number of different Stocks, and reserving a portion of the extra interest and the. amounts received in redemption as a Sinking Fund to pay off the original capital ; and, in addition, to give to each Sub slriber a pro rata participation in the ultimate reversion in these different Stocks. which will remain when the return - of the original capital has by these means been accom plished. The Trust of the Second Issue will last for twenty-five years, at the expiration of which time it is estimated that a large proportion of the Certificates will, in all probabi lity, have been paid off, and that a large proportion of the Stocks will still remain for distribution as a reversion; accordingly the Trust will be wound up as soon as all the Certificates have been drawn, or at the end of twenty-five years, whichever shall first happen, the remaining Stocks being then sold, and any Certificates not previously drawn being first paid off, after which the balance will form the reversion to be distributed pro rata. For ,each £BO of the total amount subscribed will be issued a Certificate of £l.OO with Coupons attached, bearing 5 per cent. interest, payable at the.4"Banking-house of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co. half yearly, on the 15th of January and the 15th of July, the first Coupon for the proportion of the half year falling due on the 15th July next. In addition to the Interest Coupons, a Coupon, repre senting the share accruing to the Cortiticate-holder in the above reversion, will be attached to each Certificate. This Coupon of Reversion will be retained by the holder when the Certificate is drawn, and entitle him to a pro rata divi sion of the ultimate reversion. The advantages of the investment may be summed up as follows: 1. Interest at £Gs. bs. per cent. on the - amount sub scribed. 2. A bonus of £2O per cent. by the repayment of capi tal at par. 3. A revel sion, eventually divisible among the holders • of the Coupons of Reversion. Application to be made in the annexed Form, accom panied by a deposit of £lO per cent. Payments to be made as follows : O n application £lo 0 0 On allotment 7O 0 0 £BO 0 0 Prospectus and Forms of Application may be ob tained of W. B. Rose, Esq., Secretary, and of Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., Solicitors, at the same address ; and of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., Bankers, Lombard-street, where all subscriptions must be paid. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TRUST (SECOND ISSUE). To the Trustees of the Fund (care of Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., 6, Victoria-street, Westminster, London). Having paid to Messrs. Glyn and Co., to the account of the Foreign and Colonial Government Trust (Second Issue), the sum of £ , as a Deposit on Cer tificates of £lOO each in the said Trust, I request you to allot to me that number of Certificates, and I engage to pay the further Instalment df £7O per Certificate upon that or any lesser number that you may allot to me at the time named in the letter of allotment, in default of which my previous payment will be liable to forfeiture. Name Address Description Signature SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square. The only free Hospital for diseases of women. Subzcriptions and donations are much needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hat chard, Piccadilly; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs. Barclay, Coutts, Glyn, Ransom; and by the Secretary. COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal -11 street, Lincoln's-inn. The Committee earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current expenses. Assistance is urgently needed. J. W WALDRON, Secretary NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861. Cinder the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGB, E.G., whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan Ctiris of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of the kingdom. The object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house, and laundry, to lit them for domestic service; and, if not other wise provided for when they attain 16 years of age, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. Office, 121, Pall-mall S. W HENRY KINGsCOTH, Treasurer W H.Wlswiax, Secretary. PAINLESS and PR &CTICAL DENTISTRY, by Mr. B. L. MOSELY, the Dentist by special appointment, 312, REGENT-STREET, exactly opposite the Royal Polytechnic, and 23, MoORGATE-STREET, CITY, Established 1820. This, the most perfected system of painless dentistry, originated and invented by Mr. B. L. Mosely, is recommended by the Hospitals and adopted by the profession as one of the greatest improvements of the age for the alleviation of pain and restoration of the natural functions, can solely be obtained in such perfected success (the result of forty years' practical experience) at his only residences, as above. The superlative excellence of this system is perfect immunity from pain, no operations, stumps and decayed teeth rendered useful, loose teeth and tender gums protected. Qualities: These teeth never change colour or decay—in fit unerring ease and comfort unsurpassed —detection impossible—the facial anatomy faithfully studied - and youthful appearance restored—mastication and arti culation guaranteed. The " Times" of March 6 says :—" So good an imitation becomes the next best thing to the original." Teeth from 55.; sets, sto 30 guineas. Consultation free.—Only addresses, 312, Regent-street, exactly facing the Royal Polytechnic; and 23, Moorgate-street, E. C., opposite the Star Insurance Office. A VETERAN.—A vacancy in the Kilmainham Royal Hospital has been created by the death of an old sergeant n amed John Rice, who lived to the age of 96 years.die was 75 years old when admitted, after 14 years' service. He fought at Flushing, Salamanca, the Pyrenees, Badajoz, where he was one of the forlorn hope, and at Bayonne. He was wounded in the head, and dis charged with a ball still lodged in his body. For some years past he had been bedridden, and it is stated that he would have long since died if he had not been admitted to the hospital. Among the candidates for the vacant place is a man who is now 78 years of age and bedridden. He served 25 years, and was in all the great actions in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, He has nine clasps as dis tinctions for his services.. - -• RUMOURED RETIREILT.NT OF MR. BRIGHT. The 'Globe is informed, on authority which it be lieves Who trustworthy, that Mr. Bright will not re turn ickiiis duties as President of the Board of Trade. The re sons for this step are not given. It has gmerally been believed that the illness of the right hon. g itleinan required only cessation from labour in ord -.to disappear. - ~,. - ' , TIIALEE AND TUE O'PONIDGMITE. . . , Th ',Donoghue has falleplmt9 sad disfavour with the N - 1 , nalists foi his support of the Land Bill on the setOd reading, and al - sb" for his speech on the Coerce Bill; but he has risen- to proportionate favour*ith the. Ministry. ..The Staiulard , mentions a rut ar that the member for , Tralee will shortl ' quit his . native _ heath, and take ppst• . a colonial governor. ThiS, it is thought, will gi .a seat to the Attorney-General fOr Ireland. An op sition, however, is threatened to the law officer*the person of Lieutenant-Colonel Hicks,'of Kidwe, - Park, Maidenhead, who has very powerful influe and territorial possessions in the neighbour hood , ralee. ' The colonel is the gentleman whose child s recently stolen by its nurse at Maiden head. . . CONVENTS AND. MONASTERIES. - a Th i ivision on Mr. Newdega,te's motion for a select mmittee to inquireinto the conventual and 11 . ,Q1.1 ' „institutions of Great Britainwas i apg4 iiii g . 4 4aif3 Oire*: -- Tint 3li.'l.Sreii; * aegate*lSl IoA the battle had not a large number of Liberals come to his aid. He was• supported by Professor • Playfair,• Mr. White, Sir David Wedderburn, Sir John Lubbock, Mr. M'Laren, two of the Grosvenors, and several other Liberal members. THE LICENSING SYSTEM. The Glasgow Herald publishes a communication from a correspondent to the effect that Mr. Bruce may not introduce his Licenses Bill this year. There is too much work. " The work before the House is already so great that the right hon. gentleman foresaw there was no chance of carrying so large and important a measure this year, and he has consequently come to the con clusion that it will be better to wait." A large and important measure means a measure which is urgently needed, as the Licenses Bill undoubtedly is. It is curious logic that the best mode , of dealing with urgent claims is to postpone them. If this bill give way, together with so many others, the work of the Session will be reduced to very small pro portions. MR. HARVEY LEWIS, M.P. An " influential meeting " of the Marylebone electors has been held to consider the position of Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P. for the borough,as affected by recent disclosures before Vice-Chancellor Malins. A full explanation was given by the National Bank director, and the meeting agreed that Mr. Lewis de served its full confidence, implying no doubt that the " false, fictitious, fraudulent, and disgraceful" epithets of the Vice-Chancellor were only so much libel. It • unfortunately happens, however, that this " influential meeting" consisted of those gentlemen who had acted as chairmen vice-chairmen, &c., of the various district committees in support of Mr. Harvey Lewis at the last election. A. vote of continued confidence from these personages is not astonishing. The question is, what do the rest of the electors think ? THE INSURRECTION AT THE RED RIVER. The Government has borne with the Red River insurrection in Canada for some time. Now, how ever, it is stated that measures are to be taken that will surprise the insurgents of that settlement, if they continue their opposition to the incorporation of the territory in the Dominion of Canada. An expedition will be sent against them, consit ting of a steel battery and troops to the num ber of a thousand men. THE IRISH LAND QUESTION. --- --- The opinion of the Irish Roman Catholic bishops upon the Land Bill, expressed fro m their res p ective districts, is apart from any intention they may have of taking any united course of action with regard to the measure. There are improve !l-lents, which they would wish to see introduced into Mr. Gladstone's measure, though the task of recasting the bill is acknowledged to be almost h ipeless. The bishops desire that the right of tenants throughout Irela nd g enerally of improving their holdings should be recogn ised ; that the tenant in case of an attempt to raise his rent should have the right of appeal to the Land Court for adjustment; that all tenants on parting from their farms should have the right to sell in open market their goodwill and improvements ; that all clauses against tilling any portion of grass farms be null and void ; and that tenants should have the right to subdivide their firms within reasonable ,limits in favour of their re lations. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT SLIGO. The report is issued of the Commissioners ap pointed to inquire into the existence of corrupt prac tices at the last election for Sligo. It . is stated that such practices have e ivxtensely conteexiste st d at the last three elections. At the last Major Knox, the Conservative candidate, polled 241 vote, and Captain Flanagan, the Liberal candidate, 220. The Commissioners find that s ixteen persons were guilty of bribery , b y either voting or agreeing to vote for Major 'Knox, or by reframin or agreeing to refrain from voting, in promises of money. Several of these subsequently this f Captain Flanagan. The bribery proved at this . election fell short of what took place on former . occasions. Major Knox's connexion with Sligo, with a view to his being a candidate, involved an expenditure of about £4,028. Part of this money was spent by him in re lieving cases of distress, and these cases did not amount to actual bribery. Captain Ethelred Knox advanced a sum of £3OO to be expended in bribing electors. Both candidates spent money for payment of mobs, consisting principally of non-electors. and many of Major Knox s. supporters were afraid to Violence and i n timidation prevailed at the election vote. COMPULSORY SWEARING IN IRELAND. A. party of armed men visited the dwelling of a tenant of Sir Percy Nugent, Bart., of Donore, named Loughry. Hearing a knock at the door LoughrY, who was in bed, went down, when two men caught hold of him, presented a pistol each, and swore him not to pay a sum of thirty shillings which b a d been in abeyance with his landlord for two years and a half, threatening that if he did h e would have cause to rue it. The history of the 30s . i s a ke y to the transaction. Loughrf holds under one of the best and kindest landlords in the country and has done so for years. Some time since a wiseacre put it into his head that his farm contained an acre less than he paid rent for. Some sort of measurement was made for him, and he tendered his rent in two instances minus the 30s. It was refused, and Loughry is a defaulter of-two quarters of rent. The above proceeding furnishes a pretext for his perse vering m the refusal, but it remains to be seen whe ther his pretended entire ignorance of the men will altogether excuse him from payment, as he seems to expect. LOCAL TAXATION. The official returns in reference to local taxation for the latest period of twelve months pre ceding the month of June, 1868, have been pub lished. They shew, among other things, that the total amount of Church rate collected was £230,707, being a decrease of £1,769 as compared with the amount for the preceding year. The amount of ex penditure in 1868 for public works 21by082 loca 673 l boards, was £1,231,241; against for 1867 ; for private works, £99,285 ; against £69,818 ; for general expenses, £173,279 against £144,020; for loans and interest £451,428 against £328,366, making the total expenditure, ex clusive of balances, £1,955,233 in 1868, against £1,024,877 for 1867. The returns shew the grand total of rates, taxes, tolls, dues, &c., levied for 1868, to be 25,175,740232,326,303. For 180 7, R 4,974,046 ; debt, 230,018,844. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND THE STATE. Mr. W. P. Pattison, in a paper read in London, has pointed out that Mr. Lowe's Bill for the Aboli4 tion of the Registration of Friendly Societies could not be regarded as a final measure. It merely clearod .09 w for Author legiglation, lie - Was hopeful that Cfovernment might be thsposeo to take up this question in an earnest manner. There was a popular delusion that the regis trar's certificate was a guarantee for financiut soundness, and some harm had been done in that way by the system. Mr. Pattison, said there were now about 2D,000 friendly societies of all sDrts, with between three and four millions of members.. A classification -of • these societies 'was necessary on account of the varying rates of liability for sickness and mortality in different occupations. Thus a classification such as this might be adopted :—J. 'Affiliated friendly societies. 2. Ordinary societies which had an extensive organi sation and transacted businessin various parts of the kingdom. 3. County societies.. 4. Local, city, or town societies. 5." Local' village societies. 0. Trade societies. 7. •Sharing. clubs.. -8.- Deposit benefit clubs. 0. Burial societies which were industrial in surance companies. 10. Trades unions, which pro vided allowance's for sickness. COMMISSIONS ON LIFE INSURANCE. The system of commissions on life insurance has been discussed in the Times. Dlr. Hardwick defends it. Ho claims that it ought to be tried upon purely commercial principles and be tested by the same standard as is applied to all other contracts of agency. But fur the persevering application of the agents ; h observes, vast numbers of the policies now in force would never have been obtained. " 'lit-Commission, " following up the question, says ho should like to linowskigrir-many.,of the policies companies now winding up in the"Ohancery Courts? He contends that the non-commission business is the only true one, as it insures the recommendation of the best office without regard to individual interest. The best actuaries, he adds, have not so learnt their business as skilled economists without knowing that the mutual principle is the true prin ciple of life insurance. THE PECULIAR PEOPLE AGAIN. Parents are as much bound to afford their sick children medical aid as they are to find them food. It is a pity this is not forcibly impressed upon the very " peculiar " people, to which class belong the parents of a poor child upon whom an in quest has been held at Hadleigh in Essex. The de ceased was taken ill, apparently with scarlet fever. The mother and father,.it seems, were fond of the child, but they refused to call in any medical aid, because they belonged to the "peculiar people." The words of the mother at the inquest were these—"We disbelieve in any medicine at all ; we always .believe that a person will recover by the prayers of faith, unless they are sick unto death, and that it is the will of the Lord they should die." Another woman who assisted to nurse the child uttered similar cant ex pressions approving of this cruel treatment. She said she used to believe in medical assistance and take medi &ne herself up to the time when her sins were par doned, sixteen years ago. The coroner warned the father, who was also examined, that the jury might possibly return a verdict of manslaughter against him, but he nevertheless attempted to justify his conduct by quoting passages of Scripture in support of his doctrine, but in this he was stopped by the coroner. The jury did not, however, return a- verdict of uanslaughter. A SQUARE MILE OF IMPOSITION. Mr. G. C. T. Bartley, recently inquired at the instance of the Society of kr ts into the educational requirements of a square mile of London, having Haggerstone for its centre. The result of those inquiries was pub lished, and shewed a large amount of demoralisa tion existing throughout the locality. Mr. Bartley now says that during the last two or three years the district is utterly demoralised by so-called charity. The very name of Bethnal-green, he states, is enough to bring money from many persons' pockets, the con sequence. being that rents have gone up, and scarcely a tenement, however miserable, Is unlet. Among many other instances he mentions the fact that the charity tickets distributed to the poor to enable them to receive groceries, bread, coals, &c.,'are constantly used to buy fresh butter at ls. 10d. to 2s. a pound. Biscuits, the nice sweet ones, be says, are also pre ferred, and consequently purchased with charity tickets in many cases, instead of bread. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The opera season has commenced, and the opening piece on Tuesday night, was made more attractive than is usually the case. The debut of a new prima donna took place. Mdlle. Mathilde Sessi appeared for the first time on an English stage, and her effect on the audience was undoubtedly favourable. Her part was that of the heroine in "Lucia di Lammer moor," and when, in the scene where Lucia has gone mad, she displayed her renowned length of hair, the audience was electrified. The " glory "of the young Austrian certainly is of a surprising character, and was probably no small part of the cause of the applause which greeted her. Her voice is a pure soprano of compass and flexibility. Graziani, Capponi, Rossi, and Mario were all efficient in their parts, and a new chef d' orchestre, Signor Vianesi, gave evidence of a firm and beneficial control over the band. THE KINDEFDNESS OF GENIUS. A very pretty story comes from St. Petersburg in reference to Madame Patti. The great cautatrice is said to have discovered behind the scenes of the Opera House in that city a youthful prodigy. A little girl nine years of age had heard the prima donna several times in the part of Margherita, and imitated her singing to such perfection that Madame Patti almost imagined it to be an echo of her own words, or, as Moore hath it— A lingering sound, a spirit air Of melodies that had been there. Finding, however, that it proceeded from a clever and well-endowed little girl, she offered to adopt her. This was declined by the parents, but her patroness has procured her admission into the St. Petersburg Conservatoire. The name of the little girl is Adler. ESPIONAGE AND EXILE. M. Gustave :Flourens, the leader of the Rochefort emeute in February, appears to have acquired fame at the expense of his quietude. After having for a long tune escaped the attentions of the French police, their agents seem to have discovered his residence in the Haymarket, whence he writes to a friend who publishes his letter in the Marseillaise. He complains in that communication that a person had treated the waiter at his hotel with a glass of ale and offered him a monthly pension if he would give up letters addressed to I\l. Flourens, and letters which that gentleman might send to be posted. He mentions having led the waiter's acquain tance and two other gentlemen a good long walk, finally having them off the scent in the Strand. He offers to pay a handsome reward to anybody who will bring them back to him. And this is the way, adds M. Flourens, in which French public money is spent, while the workmen expelled from Creuzot by Schneider-Pacha are dying of hunger with their wives and children, THE TOURS VERDICT. Prince Bonaparte has escaped, but his triumph was only narrowly obtained. Eighteen of the jury were for acquittal and eighteen for condemnation— the prisoner getting the benefit of this inde cision. This statement has been in circula tion for the last day or two, and has not met with contradiction. One writer says that the first eleven papers that were drawn from the urn and un folded by the foreman were for condemnation, by a strange freak of hazard, and those who had signed for acquittal began to look round and ask themselves, "Am I alone in my opinion ?" B u t the noes turned up quickly, and as the required majority of twenty was not forthcoming, Prince Pierre Bonaparte escaped. The feeling of utter amazement in France at the issue seems to be in no way diminished. The Chester Courant states that Mr. George Jackson, of Tattenhall Hall, near that city, has esta blished on his farm a building to be used as a cheese ilctory, on the American plan. Mr. Jackson intends to work the factory for one year, buying the milk of 500 cows from farmers in the district, besides using what is produced on his own farm. He will at the end of that period publicly state the result. - - Monsignor Isai, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, is stated to have received a letter from the Earl of Claren don, expressing the pleasure with which her Majesty had learnt of the safe return of the Armenian Bishop and his companion, who were sent by the Patriarch to Abys sinia, to endeavour to procure the release•_of the British captives, and who were themselves detained for many months. A frightful explosion occurred on Tuesday afternoon on the premises of Messrs. Long, extensive brewers, of South sea. A large boiler in an engine house adjoining the main building exploded with terrific, force, completely destroy ing it, and forcing the main portion of the boiler through the brickwork of the original building. A large piece, about 3 cwt., was projected over the adjoining buildings, and fell at about 100 feet distant, doing great damage, out without injuring any person. Three men were picked out of the • dßris dead, and two were taken to the hospital suffering very severely. The shock was felt for some distance round. THE 'MURDER OF MADAME LOMBAItD. On Monday, at the Court of Assizes of the Seine, Francois Latheauvers, twenty-eight years of age, was indicted for the murder of Madame Lombard, on the 28th of Jamiary last. He did not'- deny his guilt, and appeared to be but little- Moved, by the proceedings. He described in the coolest manner the way inwhich he committed the criiYie. " I took my knife," he said ; "I supported henhead on the table, and cut her throat." A cry of horror rang through the court as these Words - were _Uttered, but the prisoner merely glanced at the crowd, and resumed his former impassive at rude. The jury retired _for _a quarter of an hour, and •bi light in a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner was sen teAcedlodeath. ' iL • THE GUI:] E?(CHANG A NEW WAY TO "I.3AR", THE MARKET. 'he business at the Gold. Exchange on the 15th was not. y brisk, and the changes were without special note. d opened at 111 k, and sold up to 112 about 11 o'clock, , , _ Lnent advance, the market closicg very firm at 1121. After the close of the Board there was little business done, and the price was steady at about 111; to 112. The clearances for Monday, reported yesterday, were $92,187,000. About nine o'clock yesterday morning a clique of brokers, intent upon fun, captured a bear of huge proportions, which was being exhibited by his keeper in Now-street, near the Exchange, and, with the aid of his master, succeeded Ira introducing him to the Gold Room, where were congregated a large number of operators actively engaged in " bearing" the market. Bruin surveyed the scene calmly, and then, following the example of some human " hears," when hey want to operate with vigour, made a rush for the ring, which he seemed to consider his exclusive domain. He cleared the arena at once—just as other "bears " some times do when they are very strong and fierce—and had the market all to himself. He promenaded the precinct sacred to gold for a few minutes, and then imitated the other "bears" by leaping upon the railing and cutting up other antics suitable to his bearish nature. The brokers who were enjoying the sport needed only a real bull to make the entertainment perfect, and in default of an animal induced his keeper to engage in a little friendly set to. This was done to the delight of a multitude of brokers and spectators, who had been summoned thither by the novel spectacle, and the contest was kept up for some time — t he bear at last cowing out victorious. The keeper was rewarded for his trouble with a small hatful of stamps, and led his pet away. The business of the Exchange was then resumed, but the effect of the bear's visit seemed to be felt all day. Not withstanding strenuous efforts on the part of the " bulls to put up the price, it would not "stay put" for any length of time. THE SOCIALISTS IN RUSSIA. An accurate description of the Socialist conspiracy in Russia is given in one of the Russian papers. The curious society which has attracted so much attention of late was first established by the student Karakozoff, who fired at the Emperor Alexander in St. Petersburg, in April, 1866. Its members are hence called Karakozofft chgki. Karakozoff at first beionged to a similar society known as that of . Ishutyn, a young man who spent the whole of his fortune of £6,000 in orga nising a revolution against the Government, and was ultimately captured and executed by the police. The active members of the conspiracy profess the socialist doctrines of Herzen, and especially of Bakounin. " Our motto," they say in their proclamations, " is hatred of all who are not peasants and do not belong to the people. .. . either of morality or of honour towards anyone else To be scrupulous about the means of obtaining our objects is mere weak ness and folly. Qui rent la fin, rent les inoyens." The revolutionary committee describes its plan of action as follows We should begin with the military commanders, the rich, and the journalists. . . . The first should simply be put to death without ceremony ; the second deprived of their wealth ; and the third silenced." Next comes a list of the names of men who have been sentenced to death by the committee. Among these are General Alderbeg, General Trepoff, Count Schouvaloff, and M. Katkoff (editor of the Moscow Gazette). As for the Emperor and his family, their lives are to be spared, but only for a time. "We will keep the Czar alive until the day when the liberated peasants shall immolate him on the ruins of the Russian State." The " organic statutes "of the society are based to some extent on the writings of John Stuart Mill and other philosophers, but contain many original notions peculiar to the Russian socialists. Thus there are to be no individual or domestic rights; all property and political action is to be vested in the community The nation is to be divided into co-operative unions under the direction of elected superintendents. Every individual is to be employed in manual labour, and only to be allowed to exercise his mind during his hours of leisure. Marriage is to be abolished, and children are to be supported and educated at the expense of the union. These " organic statutes " are contained in two numbers of the secret organ of the committee, entitled " Izdania Obshchestva Narodnoy Razpravy "(Publications of the Society of Popular Justice). One of the members of the conspiracy, a Government official named Lopatin, has been arrested at Stavropol, the capital of one of the Caucasian provinces. He.did not remain in prison long, however, for his accomplices enabled him to escape. Some days after the provincial treasury chest, containing 160,000 roubles (225,000), was stolen, and this theft is universally attributed at Stavro pol to Lopatin and his band. The sect of the Skoptzi (mutilated) is giving much trouble just now. TIIE GOVERNMENT TRAMWAYS BILL. 1. WEDNESDAY. The Select Committee on this bill resumed their sittings this morning—Mr. Lefevre in the chair. Mr. Denison, Q.C., was heard on behalf of the Lanca shire colliery owners. The learned counsel said that the object which those who instructed him had in view was to prevent those tramways falling into private hands. The colliery owners wished a general scheme to be settled, but they regarded the whole thing at pre sent as experimental. They proposed that the local authorities should make bye-laws regulating the light and heavy traffic, and the nature of the rails was to prevent common cart wheels getting into them,. and in juring both the rail and the wheel,and more especially the making of regulations so a' to prevent long lines of coal trucks getting in the way of the light traffic. The colliery owners were quite prepared to assent to a clause which would make it incumbent on them to run their coal trucks at a given time which was not to interfere with the ordinary traffic. What they were most anxious to prevent was either town coun cils, local boards, or private speculators, from ocquiring a monopoly in thAramways.—The Chairman said the con cession would terminate in thirty years, irrespective of any debt created.—Sir Joseph Heron, the town clerk of Manchester, said that the debt would be extinguished in two years, or additional security given.— Mr. Denison said that what they were afraid of was this, that the local speculators would make arrangements whereby they would sell their under taking to others who would make the tramways, com peting with those of the coal owners, and run alongside of them at a ruinous loss, because it would divert from them all their light traffic. The case was altogether dif. ferent to those of canals and railways, because they formed a new mode of transit, while in the case of tramways the promoters actually took off a portion of road already con structed, and which belonged to one person as much as to another. The question of tolls was a very serious one, because, unless it was subject to constant revision, it would turn out most oppressive to the trader s, and realise an inordinate profit to the promoters of the tramways. Mr. Round, who appeared for the gas and water com ranies, next addressed the committee on their behalf, and stated that the provisions inserted in the 20th down to the 25th clauses, which were agreed on last year, had not been found sufficient. The gas and water companies asked the promoters of the bill to give them a plan of their works, whether they proposed to alter them or not. They might in some way affect them without actually touching them. Mr. Shrubsole, parliamentary agent, next appeared for the Trustees of turnpike roads over which the tramways proposed to run, and stated that the trustees were content with the principle of the bill as it stood, but would object to it if it was varied. They proposed an amendment to the effect that there should be power to make a condition prior to giving their consent that the tramway promoters should recoup them for any amount they might lose from the ordinary tolls, also for injury to roads in consequence of the works. Sir J. Heron, Town Clerk of Manchester, said that he did not think it would be possible to work the general goods traffic by means of the tramways, and with that view they proposed an amendment to the effect that the promoters should not carry parcels of a greater weight than 281bs. other than passengers personal luggage, the effect of which would be to confine the tramways to omnibus traffic entirely. That amendment was only proposed by the corporations of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and Leeds. They also proposed that the tolls paid by the licensee should be left open and settled by the Board of Trade, and that in the event of a tramway being subse quently purchased by the corporation, it should be ac quired at the actual value of the existing works without any allowance being made for good will, compulsory sale, &c. The committee adjourned at four o'clock.