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PALACE.— THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office open fromll to 4. 'A r ., n& c„ C 7 SI. fill LONDON, SAI URDAY, FEB. 5, 1870. 1T is worthy or note that a considerable modifiCa tion has of late been effected in the practise of the law :courts touching the duties and obli gations of married persons. Little by little modern requirements are leading our legal authorities to affirm the independent exist ence of man and wife. On more than one occa sion lately the county:court and superior court judges have given decisions of quite a new tenour respecting the liability of a husband for his wife's debts. Formerly the law made a hard and fast distinction; whilst living together, the husband was answerable for his partner's debts on account of necessaries, but not for luxuries out of keeping with his station in life. This liability is now becoming moro and morn restricted. Later judgments have laid down the unquestionably novel doctrine that the wife is not to be regarded as the husband's " better half," but only as his avant. 11er power to contract debts depends entirely upon the extent of the authority she derives from him. If he forbid her to pledg' his credit, she has no legal power to do so; and it would seem that only in case of necessity, if the wife were insufficiently supplied with proper requisites, would it be safe on the part of a tradesman to trust her. The case of " SunUBSOLE v. IhyTlin" is an example of the practical application of this theory. Within eleven months, ending August 1869, Mrs. HATTER was supplied with credit goods, chiefly wearing apparel, to the value of nearly £129. Mr. HAYTEn ad mitted his liability for £3O, but disputed the rest. It was shown that he had forbidden his wife to pledge his credit, and that he had supplied her moderately well with money. Mrs. IIAYTER had not previously been in the habit of running bills, and, moreover, of the whole £129, about £lOB had been contracted between Juno and August. During the latter portion of this period Mrs. ITAy-rEn made the acqaintance of a Mr. SPRY, with whom she ulti mately left her home. Of the latter circumstance nothing was made ; the vital question was whether the articles were supplied by the authority, express or implied, of the husband ; and on the evi dence that they were not, the case went in favour of the defendant. These decisions are an important warning. The application of the principle to individual cases as yet remains somewhat uncertain ; under some circiun stanc3s there can be no doubt that the bus ban I would be liable; but the necessity for caution i 3 clear. As Mr. Justice KEATING says, "it etnnot be too widely known that a man who deals with a married woman gives her credit lit his own very treat risk." THE tocsin has been sounded amongst the brewing fraternity. This body is angry with the Beerhouse Act of 1869, which placed beer licences under the control of the magistracy ; and it is apprehensive lest worse things should happen in 1870. A meeting has accordingly been held at Cambridge, to form a brewers' union "for the special defence of the rights and interests of the trade." The height of impudence has been variously defined, and is doubtless not easy to realise; but the arguments used at this Cambridge meeting of brewers must come very near the ideal perfection of audacity. It was urged that by taking the control of beerhouses from the Excise and giving it to the magistrates, the number of licenses granted has been considerably reduced. Further interference is threatened. But by previous legislation the number of drinkshops was made unlimited. On the faith of previous legislation, brewers' money was largely in vested in public-houses, The reduction now being made deteriorates the value of these investments, is an interferenc — e with vested interests, and therefore a clear injustice. Eliich is the neat syllogism by which the logicians who gathered at Cambridge are about to persuade the nation that the Act of 1869 must be repealed, and that any further legislation of the kind cannot be thought of. We must, however, suggest that no Act of Parlia ment is irrevocable, and that capitalists who invest money in consequence of any measure must do so subject to the future will of the nation. If legisla tiou could not be altered to the inconvenience of traders, when should we have any now laws ? A. railway shareholder might employ a precisely similar argument against a Railway Act he invbsted money, he might say, under certain conditions, which ought not to be infringed at the risk of meddlinkidth his property. With equal justice might a shipowner protest against the new Merchant Shipping Bill. It is true that in the reign of WILLIAM IV. Parliament was indifferent enough and foolish enough to pass an Act by which the Excise was virtually bound to give a licence to everybody who chose to ask for one. But is this flagitous transaction to bind the nation eternally for the benefit of brewers ? The Act was not passed primarily for the good of "the trade," and subsequent Acts will not be primarily for the opposite purpose. The investment of capital was a secondary effect of the measure—it was the brewers' own affair ; and the State has in no wise any concern with it. "The trade" affirms that forty millions sterling were spent upon the brewers' houses, which are now so sadly deteriorating in value. The figure may be correct ; we have no wish to doubt it, for we know that a great deal too much was so spent. It is too true that a vas: number of houses are under the control of brewer:=, anq that very many are amongst the most noxious and objectionable of the class. In them the liquor traffic is to be found in its worst form The beerhouse-lceoper, being entirely under the control of his cuperior, is obliged to sell whatever stuff may be rent him. Tho publican divides the profit with the brewer, instead of getting it all himself, and he therefore adulterates more freely than his happier brethren. Betweorn the poison that is originally sent from the brewer, and the additional poison that is contributed by the seller, the beer of the brewer's house becomes the most injurious of its kind. The fact is notorious. That the business is profitable, and that the original forty millions have Droved an excellentlinvestment, which the rraternity have every interest in keeping up, there can be no doubt; but it is rather too much to have the privilege of distributing this filth throughout the land proclaimed as a sacred right, with which there must be no interference. Nor is the trade only injurious to the consumer. It is well known that a regular system of fraud upon publicans is practised by certain astute brewers, esp ecially in the metropolis, where the field for energy of this kind is great. These persons aro in the habit of forcing up the trade of their houses to a fictitious point by selling "good" drink at a low price, and then disposing of the goodwill at a preposterous figure ,to some unwary victim who purposes getting a living out of the business. No sooner are the "good" drink and the low thrill withdrawn than the bubble bursts, and the worth less investment reveals itself. These practices are not, indeed, universal, but they are far too com mon to be undeserving of consideration. Very likely some of the forty millions has been well spent in this way. If it has, the public may rest assured that the outlay has been ampl y recompensed. But whether recompensed or not is no concern to the nation. Legislation is not for the purpose of benefiting or injuring any special class of the community, and if any class derives exceptional profit from a law, it does so at the risk of changes. The laws are for the people at large. The good of the people requires that the licensing system be revised ; and if, in securing this end, a most iniquitous traffic be stopped, so much the better. THE cost of the diplomatic service is an instructive example of the sort of national economy to which we have been accustomed in this highly-favoured land. Only the other day we noticed a complaint to the effect that business amongst ambassadors and attaches was railing vir, small States, with their embassies, had vanished from the list of independent countries, and that the number of appointments open to aspiring diplomatists was much diminished. It might be naturally inferred from such a complaint that the cost of the service had been proportionately reduced. The reverse, however, is the case. The vote for the various embassies in different parts of the world has teen augmented of late years by over £lO,OOO. It was £129,955 in 1851, and it is now £140,450. The money saved in one quarter has been spent in another. By withdrawing our diplomatists from Saxony, Hanover, and Frankfort, £lO,OOO a year was gained; but part of this economy has been lost by a rise in the Berlin charges from £4,300 to £9,500. The events iu Italy in 1859 and following years were a good thing for us, because they led to the union of the embassies to the Two Sicilies, Sardinia, and Tuscany into the one embassy to Italy. This gain has, however , been more than spent in the liberal increase of salaries all round. The cost of the establishment at Paris has advanced 23,200 a year since 1851; that at St. Petersburgh, £3,000; that at Con stantinople, £950; that at Vienna, £4,050; and so on. It would be rash to presume that all these additions were not needed, or that the ad vance of salaries had not been earned. But the increase all round is decidedly unsatisfactory. Nothing is easier than to send an extra attache to one place, or au additional secretary to another. The temptation to patronage on such cheap terms must be all but irresistible. Some of the items are palpably unwarranted. What dealings have we with Persia to need an esta bishment costing £7,000 a year ? Mexico is another instance. This miserable country formerly involved a diplomatic expenditure of £4,800, but since JUAREZ has been in power he has happily re fused intercourse with our barbarous nation, and the yearly tax of £4,800 is suspended. But the British embassy will no doubt commence opera tions again, if the Mexican PRESIDENT will be hind enough to permit it; and it is worth while inquiring whether the privilege of sending an ambassador to witness an unequalled number of revolutions and re bellions is worth paying so dear for. In the case of divers other unimportant States, the increase of diplom'atic expenses has been quite needless. The original sum was fully as much as they were worth. To gain in one quarter but to lose in another is very dispiriting work. It is rumoured that the Government will, if the business of the Session permit, take the Real Property Intestacy Bill out of Mr. Locke King's hands, and adopt it as a Ministerial measure. A clotli manufacturer of Guiseley, near Leeds, has been charged with forging and uttering certain bills of ex change. Ile is committed for trial at the next Leeds Assizes, bail being refused. Figaro reprints an ordonnance which, it remarks, M. Hausmann would not like to see applied in his day— " Shall be flogged, any fellow or inhabitant of Paris who shall presume to build a nowhouse. (Signed) Louis XV I' The Record expresses dissatisfaction with many points of Sir Robert Phillimore's judgment in the Purchas ritual case, especially as regards vestments; but it believes the Court of Appeal will reverse the Dean of Arches' decision. The Globe states that "sixty clerks are to be dis missed from the War Office; and ominous letters have been sent to the heads of other departments inquiring what is the lowest number of employes they can continue to go on with-" A large tenant-right demonstration took place yester day at Letterkenny, county Donegal. About ten thousand persons were present. The meeting was ad dressed by several Roman Catholic and Presbyterian clergyman, and resolutions were passed in favour of fixity of tenure at fair rents. During the proceedings the platform gave way, and about two hundred persons were precipitated to the ground. Many of them sus tained fractures and contusions, but no one was seriously injured. A. very "serious difficulty is reported." between the Government of Peru and the owners of two British ships, Messrs. Moran, Golloway, and Co. The captains of these vessels, the Prince Rupert and Star of Brunswick, which had been detained for overloading, had been prosecuted before the Peruvian Judicial Tribunal for demurrage. The captain of the Star was fined £3,616, and of the Prince £2,613. An animated diplomatic correspondence between Earl Clarendon and the Peruvian Alinister is anticipated. Mr. H. F. Beaumont last night addressed the members of the Barnsley Working Men's Liberal Associa tion. The hon. gentlemaA briefly reviewed the prin cipal measures of last session, and said that he had expected the Irish Church Bill would have done more towards the pacification of Ireland than it seemed to have done. With regard to the future, he had great •onfidence that the Government would be able to deal with the Irish land question. He expresses his approval of Mr. Leathara's bill for the adoption of the ballot, and was sanguine of its success during the coming session. Mr. Beaumont also referred with satisfaction to the reforms effected in the army and navy, and spoke strongly In favour 4,ff an effort being made to reduce the national debt. A general opinion prevails in Waterford that the Government will act on the Rs•port of Baron llnghas, who tried the petition against the return of Sir 11. W. Barron, and issue a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the corruption which was disclosed es having existed amongst the freemen electors of the city. Colonel Akroyd, M.P., in reply to a deputation fro:n the Halifax blanch of the License Amendment League, which waited upon him yesterday, expressed him self opposed to total prohibition of the liquor truffle, but favourable to a considerable amendment of the law with regard t) i t. About eighty casks of oil, in petroleum casks, have been picked np along the coast between Fowey har bour, Cornwall, and Charlestown. It is stated that s3veral dead bodies have been seen floating some dis tance from the shore. The casks are in good condition. and have apparently be n in the water but a very short Una. The L.,ncet states with " much satisfaction" that the Admiralty have ft rwarded a formal and final offer tt the Seamen's Hospital Society; that the sick sailors of the mercantile marine will, Leforo many months are over, lit housed in the infrtnary of Greenwich Hospital ; and that, in consequAice, the Dreadnought will soon be numbered among institutions of the past. The inquiry touching the loss of the ship Kenil worth concluded at Liverpool yesterday. The captain in bi, statement attributed the loss of the ship to the errors in the chronometers. The court, however, was of opinion &hat ho had not exercised sufficient caution in bringing hip ship up Channel, and directed that Lie certificate should be suspendod for six calendar mouths. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1870. 711 E OBSEQUIES OF MR. PEABODY. NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (Evening). Prince Arthur will attend the final obsequies of Peabody. Ihe Secretary of the Navy has sent a letter to Captain Commerell, congratulating and thanking him for the faithful discharge of the duty of con veying Mr. Peabody's remains to America. The Secretary expresses regret that the arrival of the Monarch five days earlier than she was expected had prevented the assembling of a larger fleet for her reception. THE RICH MAN'S BURIAL. We come to the churchyard slowly, For the rich man has passed away ; And the words that bury the lowly Must be over him read to-day. And hushed is the voice of revel, For the music end mirth are done, And we come to the greensward level, Where beggar and prince are one. He moved amidst pomp and splendour, His ccffers had wealth untold, But "dust to dust" we render, And nought we say of his gold. For Death will not pause or tarry While the rich man gathers his store, Too heavy a load to carry, The boundary passing o'er. There is silence in place of laughter, There is space whore his train should bow; And his guests must join him hereafter, But they shrink from his dwelling now. There were suppliants round him daily; But a long farewell they bid, For the gold that glimmers so gaily Shines not through the coffin lid. He claims but a six.-foot measure For all that he called his own ; He bath said goodbye to his treasure, And gone on his way alone. Nay, wo are vainly guessing, He carries wealth to the grave ; He bath taken the poor man's blessing, He bath taken all that ho gave. Freely be spent his treasure, Unfettered by creed or clan, For as God had given full measure, He gave to his brother man. There were dwellings where vice held revel, And the poor waged a deadly fight, With all that could tempt to evil, With all that could turn from right. Where the light and the air of heaven Were choked from their sight and breath, And the water so scantily givon, Hold lurking disease and death ; Where the lessons of school and teacher Were lost mid the oaths around, And the voice of the earnest preacher Seemed but a mocking sound; For the heart and the hand were weary Of the ceaseless struggle with siu, And dreariness grew more dreary Mid squalor, and blows, and gin. And the sick must pine and wither, And youth wear vice's brand ; Then the rich man we mourn went thither And gave with no spring hand; Till through the thronging city The noble buildings rose, Showing a stranger's pity For England's wants and woes. Then the ties of home grew stronger, And the skies shone forth above, And the poor man was poor no longer, With purity, health, and love. And many a spire and college In his own native land, Temples of Faith and Knowledge, Bear witness to his hand. Whero lingered vengeful feeling, Where kindred blood had poured. Ile came with gifts of healing More potent than the sword. His hand hath linked two nations, His gold hath bridged the wave, And coming generations Shall guard the gifts he gave. So though we bear him sighing Forth from the cheerful sun, And leave him lowly lying With all his good work done, No gloom has that reposing, Nor bitter are our tears, His story fitly closing I❑ honour, love, and years. Vainly, Life's eager toiler Clings to his gems and gold, When Death, the mighty spoiler, Draws near to loose his hold. But at the mystic river Earth claims the miser's hoard. Heaven's blessing waits the giver tiV ho lendeth to the Lord. F. Y. TRANSFER OF THE TELEGRAPHIC LINES TO THE GOVERNMENT. A ceremony, not in itself perhaps very imposing, but nevertheless one in which the public have con siderable interest, was performed at the General Post-office last night. The transfer of the tele graphic lines to the control of the Post-office was made an occasion for the inspection of the " Metro politan Corpsof Telegraphic Messenger Boys," and a large number of officials connected with the Postal and Telegraphic Departments, accompanied by their friend; assembled to witness it. As Mr. Scuda more, who presided on the occasion, remarked, the public are closely concerned in the character and conduct of the boys who have to carry telegrams to their final destination. It is of little aval that a message should travel at lightning speed from one end of Great Britain to the other if the messenger charged with delivering it to the person addresAd dawdles over his work, and as the messenger is usually very young this accident is by no means uncommon—more time is frequently wasted over the last 100 yards than over the first 100 miles. The Post-office authorities have, there fore, very wisely taken in hand the boys used as messengers by the various telegraph companies, and have organised them into a corps, drilled and disciplined after the model of the Volun teers. Colonel Taylor, of the 49th Middle sex Volunteers—the Post-office corps—has under taken the task, and though he has only been at it a fortnight, his juvenile regiment already pre sents a very respectable appearance, and last night marched into the hall of assembly, and went through the few movements necessary to get them into proper position with credible precision. They number about 600, and are between the ages of 13 and 15. They have been given a uniform similar to that worn by the letter-carriers of the Post-office, and every effort will be made by sing ling out for special reward and promotion those of them who behave well, and who have become too old for their present duties, to connect them per manently with the department, and infuse into their ranks an esprit de corps. At least, this hope was held out to them by Mr. Scudamore in a few practical remarks thoroughly to the point, which tkiey loudly cheered. Colonel Taylor ad. dressed them to the same effect, and the guests, who had already taken refreshment upstairs, were then asked to withdraw, in order that the boys might fall to work undisturbed at the supper kindly provided for them by Mr. Scudamore. Among the guests were many ladies employed hitherto by the telegraph companies, but whose services have now been transferred to the Post office. We believe the arrangements necessary for the new system are already on a very satisfactory footing, but it will probably take some little time to get them into smooth working order. The public will have good reason to congratulate itself if all the arrangements are as judicious as that made t .score an (flici,n.t, well-urganisA corps of Tele- Altssenger Boys. The very extensive Distillery now beiog erecttd at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of [rich whisky, by 3lessis. DUN VILLE & Co., who have gained A, world-wide celebrity for their line old Irish whisky, is to be called The Royal Irish Distillery." LEIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening. SATURDAY 8 min past 5 23 min past 5 SUNDAY 40 min past 5 56 min past 5 *IONDAY 10 min past 6 30 min past 6 TUESDAY. 5O min past t A ruin 'past 7 TOWN TALK. WEDNESDAY 3O min past 7......54 min past 7 .......... 32 miu past 8 0 min past 9 FRIDAY B5 miu past 9 .10 min past 10 (From the Western Mail of this Morning.) LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. As the Parliamentary Session is now close at hand, the political forces are fast mustering for the encounter. Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli—hav ing both been invalided during the long vacation, the latter suffering for a while from gout, the for mer from the profouud physical exhaustion caused by the wear and tear of labour unusually hard even for him—are sufficiently renovating in health to confront each other on the green benches to the right and left of Mr. Speaker. It is noticeable that., whatever changes of importance have taken place among the leading members of the Lords and Coin mons, the chiefs of either party are unremoved, and, for the time being, it would almost seem, un removable. As securely as the Prime Minister holds his own in the Commons, the member for Bucks retains his place undisputedly as leader there of her Majesty's Opposition. While in the House of Peels, Lcrd Cairns, still as a matter of course (for it would be gratuitously ungracious to say as a matter of necessity), heads the great Conserva tive party, just as Lord Granville, equally as a matter of course, heads the ranks of the Whig Radical Ministerialists. From the Government bench in the Commons there will now be missed the shock of grey hair and the bushy grey beard of the " Member for Nineveh," now relegated as, in every sense, Ambassador Extraordinary to the all but vice-regal court of the Spanish Regent Serrano. From the front Opposition bench, in the same house, there will be missed, on the other hand, the familiar John-Bullish features of the Earl of Derby of to-day, the Lord Stanley of yes terday. As a substitute for the latter in his capacity, now for some time past, of Mr. Disraeli's first lieu tenant, there is—no one Whereas, in lieu of Mr. Layard's half-sullen, half-defiant countenance, the of CULLIIIIVLIZ will lac abc gratification of recognising the truculent smirk of the " Constitutional-Radical" member, as he calls himself, for the Tower Hamlets, recently promoted from the post of Secretary at the Treasury to that of the Chief Commissioner of—which is it ? Public Works-, Woods, and Forests, or Parks and Palaces. Whichever of those titles may appertain the must strictly by right to Mr. Ayrton, certain it is that in dealing with the latter—that is, with the parks and palaces—the member for the Tower Hamlets is already contriving the most conspicuously to sig nalise his singular unfitness for the place allotted to him. Ilis laconic acknowledgment of the M- I quiry addressed to him by one of his constituents as to whether it was his intention or not to discontinue the cultivation of flowers in the parks, beginning with the east-end park of Victoria, was worthy of Mr. Lowe. It was as offerhively reticent as any oracular utterance ever vouch safed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to any one waiting upon him in deputation. The noto rious ignorance, moreover, of Mr. Ayrtoa in regard to all matters of art renders it peculiarly unfortu nate that to him, by preference, should have been allotted, just at this precise moment, the post of the Chief Commissionership. For there can be no doubt about it that we are exactly at a turning point iu the history of the metropolis. Take, in illustration of my meaning, the actual state of that noblest of all our metropolitan improvements—the Thames Embankment. An lE.lile worthy of his place, and gifted with the artistic taste befitting that office, might so avail himself of that superb iit; as to transform London from the ugliest into one of the most splendid cities in Christendom. Granite pedestals are there already, placed at inter vals all along the whole of that grand esplanade. Decorate those pedestals with appropriate groups of sculpture—commemorate there in memorial sta tues of marble and bronze the great men, or, at any rate, the pick of the greatest men adorning the his tory of the Three Kingdoms, and that superb and imperial promenade would at once become one of the most magnificent spectacles anywhere to be found among the European capitals. Border the roadway with trees, while thus adorning it with masterpieces produced by the sculp tor's chisel and mallet, and, there, upon the banks of the Thames—a noble river co.npared with which the Spree, and even the Seine, dwindle to insignificance—one might see our rn.:t7opolis cow petieg for beauty and splendour with Berlin, the city of satu. s, and with Paris, the city of boule vards. As it is, think of Mr. Ayrton being our littu.-stuann, and despair ! Thanks to a long series of utterly incompLteut Chief Commissioners, the statuary of the London squares and streets has passed into a proverb of absurdity and hideousness. The " intelligent foreigner" one so often bears of, if he goes anywhere when he comes to London, for a dead certainty goes to Leicester-square, than which there is not a greater disgrace anywhere to be found in this largest and wealthiest city in the whole world. The long-ruined equestrian statue in the centre of it is at the present moment in a more flagrant state of dilapidation than ever. The broken figure of the King has very iceently, by some practical joker, been lifted from the saddle during the night time, and deposited at the base of the whole scarecrow monument—leaving the pole-propped horse with a hole in its back, and altogether a more ridiculous object than it was rendered a year or two ago, when some other humourist painted it all over with red spots like the common hobby-horse on wheels so:d in the toy shops. Imagine, for one moment, any exhibition like this being tolerated for years in one of the public places in the French capital. Yet Queen, Lords, and Commons see In quite powerless to sweep out of sight this ludicrous abomination from the very heart and centre of the great metropolis. Even our costliest memorials somehow contrive to get botched by an oversight—and this after the most deliberate consideration and most lavish ex penditure. There is the Albert Memorial, for ex ample, now rapidly approaching its completion in Hyde Park—a sumptuous work, that will have cost in the end, at the very least, a million of money. Yet already, now that the poles of the scaffolding are being removed from the summit of it--now that one can see the beautiful proportions and designs of the golden cross by which the whole is surmounted, as well as the clustered statues im mediately below the cross, each of them also of shining gold—lo ! and behold the entire structure, huge though it really is in itself, is dwarfed to com parative insignificance by the monstrous building simultaneously in course of erection immediately opposite it—that future shibboleth of Cock neydona —" Halbert 'All," as it is pretty cer tain to be designated by the majority of isi tors coming to it from the east of Temple Bar. This same Albert Hall, by the way, after looking in the earlier part of its growth, like a gigantic gasometer, has of late assumed to itself very much of the appearance of Miss Havish im's bridal cake (upon a stupendous scale), worm-eaten and blackened by age, just as it was so long known to Pip and to the readers of " Great Expectations." A kindred spectacle of desolation close by is carrying disfigurement ruthlessly through a consi derable part of Hyde-park and Kensington-gardens. Here, however, the design is unquestionably a great metropolitan improvement—meaning the thorough cleansing, at last, of that weedy and pestilential bathing-place of the West-end, the lake-like cur rent of the Serpentine. The process of cleansing it appears to involve au elabonite displ ty of engineer ing reminding one of the earthworks before Sebas topol, with railroads!, and spindling wood ~11 bridges, and bal:ast tr,4ins running to and fro, as though the work undertaken wor,3 redly one of au impe rial char:lett:l% As for the other pieces of water scattered about the metropolis, such as the Ornamental Water in St. James's-park, the Round Pond near Kensing ton Palace, and the lake in Regent's-park, there is an end this season to the short-lived delights of skating, the weather here has so completely broken. What with the alternation so very rapidly of frost and thaw during the last few weeks, the brittle, friable, rotting, crumbling stone with which, by a most unhappy mischance, the elaborately orca mented structure of the new Houses of Parliament has been built, has given deplorable evidence again that it is, in truth, only too rapidly perishi ng . Lumps of the carving are perpetually dropping about, not unfrequently to the endangerment of life to the passers-by, and in one instance recently to the imminent peril of one of the officials resident in the palace of the Legislature. If the outside of the Rouses of Parliament is wasting away under the mere effects of wind and rain, and heat and cold, the inside is being more and more richly decorated. Oddly enough, at a time when it is scarcely ever used, even for the few mi nutes set apart annually for a court ceremonial, the canopy, hangings, and " furniture" generally of the throne, have, wi.hi❑ a recent interval, been gor geously renovated and newly embroidered—to no purpose apparently, as it happens, seeing that her Majesty has intimated the impossibility of her opening Parliament again this year in person. So that those ridiculous-looking functionaries, the Lords Commissioners, will once more have to sit in a row huddled up i❑ their robes of office, each of them wearing his cocked hat, there to await the helter-skelter rush to the bar (like so many over-grown schoolboys) of the honourable the mem bers of the House of Commons, meaning just a few of them, hustling in their midst Mr. Speaker au d the Sergeant-at-Arms—there to listen to the Royal Speech intoned by the Lord Chancellor. Even when the Queen went there last the Royal robes were on the throne, not on the Sovereign. Yet, though unworn for years, those insignia are:still of importance, it would seem, in the eyes of her Majesty. In consequence of the Duchess of Argyll's recent seizure with paralysis ; her Grace has been constrained to tender her resignation as Mistress of the Robes, being succeeded in that court office of high dignity by her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Sutherland. Until this nomination was announced in the London Gazette, many half expected the post might have been allotted to the Lady Constance Grosvenor of old, now Marchioness of Westminster. In rarliamentary circles the talk is still as to the contest for precedence of the two great Government measures now eagerly looked forward to in the com ing session—the Prime Minister's Irish Land Bill, or Mr. W. E. Forster's Bill for the further. ance of the cause of National Education. Either of them would, in one sense, be work enough for a session ; but both of them will have to be in troduced. The only doubt is as to which of these two cumbrous and heavily laden legislative omni buses Hill contrive to slip in first through the needle's eye or the Temple-bar, whichever you may like to call it, of the Legislature at Westminster. The over-economies upon which several of our pre sent administrators have adventured, especially Mr. Childers and Mr. Cardwell, under the advice of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the forestalling the national income, a process as painful in the way of drawing blood as paring John Bull's nails down to the very quick ; but, above all, the arrogant colonial policy inaugurated by aid. Granville —are the weak points, the chinks iu the armour, at which the deadliest blows of the Opposition will certainly Le directed in their attack upon Mr. Gladstone's strong Government. The vulnerable place, the Achilles' heel of that powerful Government, is certainly its most mistaken policy in regard to the colonies. There are distinct indications in the art world of the approach of spring time. The private view of the general exhibition of water-colour deawin,s, for example, took place to=day iu the Dudley Gal lery, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly; while to morrow week the private view will be held, at th e gallery in Conduit-street (No. 9), of the Society of Female Artists, the press being admitted to the latter exhibition on the previous day, namely, this day week. Let me direct your attention to a charming paper on Miss Mitford, contributed by the author of " Mary Powell " to the new number of Mac millan. It is especially worthy of note ; also, that a fourth edition (revised) has just now come into my hands of one of the most delightful collections of essays and sketches of late years contributed to our popular literature, meaning the "Every Day Papers" (reprinted from All the Year Round) by Andrew Hal ii lay. They are so fresh, so sparkling, and so un studied, that no reader of them can wonder they are running, thus, througheditiou after edition. Anyone in scare.' of fun, " pure and simple," cannot possi bly do better than turn at once to the inerii,st book " out" since Doyle's " Brown, Jones, and Robinson"—naniely, to the splendid quarto volume very recently published by the Messrs. Moxon and Co., descriptive of the adventures of three English men at Paris—the drollery, here, being the joint product of Mr. Moyr Smith and of Captain Bert rand Payne, the latter being the recognised head of the great publishing house of Dover street, Pic cadilly. One of the most remarkable political pamphlets of modern times I have just received a "proof" of, before publication. It is by Mr. Dudley Baxter, and is entitled ".English Parties and Conser vatistn." Sub-divided into nine chapters, it ex tends to 76 octavo pages. It contains not only a most lucid exposition of the past in regard to the Tories, the Whigs, the Conservatives, and the Radicals, but enforces very hopefully the need there is now of developing and carrying out a compre hensive scheme of Progressive Conservatism. THE NEW MOSAICS AT WESTMINSTER. The figures designed by Mr. Poynter, A.R.A., and reproduced iu mosaic at Venice, are now fixed in their place in the Central Hall of the Houses of Parliament, and last evening the hall was lit up in order that the effect of the new decorations might be tested. Some persons will, no doubt, regret that the stonework of the Hall has been touched at all, and would have preferred the grained roof, the carv ing, and the clustered pillars in their original sim plicity. But those persons who thought that the Hall was Cold and bare and wanted the warmth that colour gives may rejoice, for at night the enamelled panels overhead are nothing short of dazzling. First in importance is the picture occu pying the vacant space over the entrance to the Lords' lobby. This was shortly described some days ago, but the tessera had not then been cemented to the wall, and the picture could not be seen from the floor. It is now visible enough, and the dull glaze of the mosaic work does not prevent the sight of it from most points of the hall. St. George is the central figure, and in placueoefntwhheiechon;fer.nptioo.),nna-1 and somewhat vulgar dragon,eale figures representing p ter has not ventured, female 4 , Fortitude" and "Purity" stand on either side and inspire our patron saint. Notwithstanding the ele vation, the proportions of the three figures are well preserved, and Signor Salviati's workers at Venice have faithfully reproduced a very noble composi tion. The base of the picture is formed of panels, on which the rose and the lion are conspicuous, and on the middle of which is the legend " St. George for England !" The picture is on a gold ground, but is sufficiently toned down by the figures and their accessories. Not so the base, which, from some points of view, refidcts the light isf the gaselier so strongly on its surface of gold enamel that there seems to be a row of foot-lights directly in front of it. The illusion is com plete, and the roof, when seen by any one stand ing immediately below the gaselier, is equally glittering. It used to be dark and gloomy ; now each polished surface of the mosaic-work refleetb the light, though not so as to obscure the archi tectural devices which fill the panels. Then are over 14,000 square feet of these enain , 2l mosaic decorations in the roof, an..l 20 0 „ pt. e fee‘ i n t h e picture ; though that may seem a lanu surveyor's mode of measuring artistic work. Two uteri s which the material possess s are its pore: of resisting the efl',!cts of cliniate, and the ease. will which it, may be cleaned. If, two or thre, hundred years hence, the nio,,aic3 are washed with a little acid their many colours will shine forth a: brilliantly as ever ; and it is doubtful whether a: that time a vestige will be left of the beautifu frescoes bene:lth, which have cast so much !about and money. When the companion saints, St. An drew, St. Patrick, and St. David till the vacan. spaces assigned to them, the Central Hall satisfy to repletion those who think that in ow gloomy climate art should supply what it can 01 light and warmth to our interiors. Already thi. favourite portion of the Houses of Parliamen! has been transformed, and overhead is a blaze oh colour. • F xra3rit , 11 tar ) . HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 4. Her Majesty, accompanied by * her Royal High ness Princess Louise, drove in the grounds yes terday afternoon. The Queen drove out with Princess Beatrice this morning. Prince Leopold al so wen t out. LAIEST INTELL MENGE ( RE UTE R'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW Youx, Feb. 4. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1201 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1211 ; the lowest, 1201. Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll5l. 64 " 1885 ll5. 44 • " 1867 ll4. 10-40 , L Illinois l37i. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 2sic. Petroleum—Standard White 3lc. Flour, extra state, ss.oc. to $5.60c. Corn, old mixed, sl.4c. NEW YORK, Feb. 4. According to Messrs. Moffat, Davidis, and Co's. report, the weeks receipts of cotton, at all ports, have been 105,000 bales, and since the Ist of Sep tember 1,845,000 bales. Shipments to England, 44,000 bales ; to France, 6,000 bales ; and to the Continent, ;4,000 bales ; _and since the Ist of September 980,000 bales. Stock at all ports 530,000 bales. Middling upland, 11, cost and freight per steamer. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 4. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Balti more, from Liverpool, arrived here at 8.40 this morn ing, and having embarked mails and passengers she proceeded for New York at 4.20 p.m. All well. SPAIN. MADRID, Feb, 4. A rumour is current that the Government, in reply to a semi-official question, as to the truth of the report that Prince George of Saxony was about to be brought forward as a candidate for the throne, had stated that in reference thereto nothing as yet was definitively resolved. INDIA. BOMBAY, Feb. 1. 7lbs. shirtings, sr. sa. ; 8k shirtings, 6r. sa. ; 40 water twist, 12k. Market quiet. Cotton very firm—fair Dhollerah, 283 a. ; Oomrawuttee, 310 r. Exchange on London— 6 months' bank bills, 1.11 13-16 ; 4 per cent. Government Securities, 95; 5 per cent. ditto, 1081 ; 51 ditto, 1121. Freights, going ships, 355. ST. VINCENT, Jan. 15. The London, Belgium, Brazil, and River Plate Royal Mail Steamship Company's steamer City of Limerick arrived here to-day, ten and a half day' from Falmouth, and sailed for Rio de Janeiro. F RANCE. PARIS, Feb. 5. The Administration of the Post-office announces that the postage of unpreraid letters from the United States of America to France and Algeria, and forwarded via Great Britain, is to be SO cents for letters weighing 10 grammes. Advices received here from Senegal state that Lltdior, the leader of the insurgents, has been de feated by a French column of troops, and com pelled to retreat beyond Uayor. The rebels in the neighbouring part of the country are surrendering to the French authorities. BOURSE, Eeb. 4.—Th closed as follows : If per Cent. lO3 90 3 per Cent 73 70 End of month 73 571 Credit Mobilier 206 25 Transatlantic 202 50 Credit Foncier 1735 Paris Gas 1670 Suez Canal 345 RhaLWA Lree: o'clock—The market Bank Shares 2900 Ital'aa Fives 54 95 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 44 90 Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred .Ys Orleans ... 9784 Western Northern Strasburg .. 598 f Lyons and Mediterranean ............... 990 Southern..... ................................. 607/ Sardinian .................................... 54 Austrian ....................................... 775 Lombard ....................................... 502} North of Spain Saragossa Roman 451 MUSICAL AND THEAMICAL MEMS. (From the Musical Standard). Most of the French Municipal Councils have re duced the annual subsidies granted by them to the opera houses. Hasselt has an ancient musical society which ham just celebrated the three hundred and fiftieth anni versary of its foundation. A brass double bassoon, called the " Helikon," has been introduced into the orchestra of the Phil harmonic Society of Brussels. M. Alexandre Prevost, the organist of St. Roch, has received the Ottoman Order of the Medjidie— a strange decoration for a Church official. More Saturday evening concerts are announced ; Mr. John Boosey being the entrepeneur, and St. James's Hall the scene of action. At the second series of Exeter Hall Saturday evening concerts, oratorios and cantatas, as well as operatic selections, will be performed. Mr. Ramsden, of Leeds, is exhibiting a melody harmonium (fitted with a contrivance which he styles the "patent pedal substitute"), ordered by the Queen, and shortly to be sent to Balmoral. LAW INTELLIGENCE —(Thu Day). COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. IN RE C. A. PULLER. This morning an application was made on behalf of a creditor named Williams, that an order should be granted to issue execution against the debtor, notwithstanding the registration of a deed of com position, providing for the payment to creditors of one shilling in the pound. It had been shown that the assets of the debtor were sufficient to pay a composition of at least seven shillings in the pound. The chief answer to the motion was that the credi tor had delayed coming into Court for a period of ,ver eight months. The Chief Judge, in an elaborate decision, reviewed the whole of the :acts and the law as aFecting deeds of registra ; and held that this was a deed which could not be sustained. His lordship has therefore issued an order that it should be declared invalid ;tnd fraudulent; that the registration should be cancelled; and that the creditor thould be allowed to proceed upon his judgment. Notice of appeal was given. A meeting of the Dagenham (Thames) Dock Company will be held on the 15th inst., to submit to the proprietors for their approval a bill to be in troduced into Parliament, for the suspension of legal proceedings against the undertaking, and for authorising its transfer. -"vr- - M 0 N COMMEI The atten& restricted, an trifling ; but i no diminution are firm at thei: that will have those required induces the be will go higher been another Northern Stoc ing is an adva i 3 little dema open market Consols ar , ditto, for A , ChlCed, 92 d EXchequer prem ; dit Par ; June, - 44 per Cent., India Stool ditto 5 per Ce Cent., Oct., 6 per Cent., Bonds In the For toying. Ita t o 8 61 ex div to X 44 ; Span Turkish (186; 41 )(1 New Ch . The new Chilian Loan American the Ten-For to 201 7 • and 2 In the Rai is again a ris b eing now 1( Caledonian 3 71 to 381 ; eashire and Brighton, 44 14i to 151 ; 1241 ; Loud Iletropolitar North East( South Easte: In Telegi teuance are can, 19i to to 14? ; Chi 3 4_to 3} pre In Bank Marked 58 t to 321 ex di don and Cot to 21 prem. Angio-Austi Great Lu: Lombardo-1 There were day, There w Scottish was eve] a v l o va ne iit ie in r; meet ing. was col director, capita], °celirrel a 91 3i i tt e° o \c' i Per c, 3 IM( '‘v 2 1 D o . fo Exthkl b . 0 1 .0 % ,, ak of Ck ter° __nad a 44.0 IN •4titt.; ; L D e . 0.0 4 o . .:•• • 1) 0. 11 0 . t 0 0 t