The Sun. — London, England, 1867-03-07 00:00:00

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EV EN ISO, MARRIED DAUGII ERS. Messrs. Th ,rne, Belford, and G. Murray ; Misses Johnstone anu Hughes. Alter which, the Burlesque, ESMERALDA ; or, The Sen sation cat. Messrs. Thorne J ameb, Robson, and Turner; Nesdames A. Swanborough, Hughes, Newton, Weathersby, and E. Host. To conclude with A. SUIT OF TWEEDS. _ THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Y. B. Chateerton. THIS EVENING, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Messrs. Phelos, T. Swinbourne, Barry Suliivan, Barrett, F. Barsby, C. Warner, J. Robins; Alesdaaaes Hermann Vezin, ii. Vandeuhoff, Isabel Adams. To conclude Iv th the Pantomime. entitled NUMBER lily; or Harlequin and the Gnome -King of the Giant /to untain. Commence at a Quarter to Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Slanag - er, Mr. Bucks. one, TO-NIGHT. ALE ON FuR LIFE. Messrs. Eothern, Chir;pendale,Com,ton,HOWO, Rogers, Clarke, Braid, ndal, Gord.u, Vincent, itc. ; Mesdames Chippendale, Moore, Hill, Wright, Laws, &c. Alter which, DIAMONDS AND HEARTS. Messrs. Chippendale, ilo , e, Farrea, Hog, r , Clark, Braid, Wel:tilers by ; 31esdanics Burke, m, orc, y, Mathews, &c. To cotelude with MRS. Will tE. Mr. Comp:on. Commence at Seven. OYAL LYCEUM THENTE , E.— B ) Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. 1 , e. liter. rrIS EVENING, ROUGE Ef Nullt. Maurice D'Ar lad a Gambler), .$; r. Fechter ; Messrs. Emery, Evirns, )lore and, Yitzpatrics. Dalton. Reynolds, Lomas, :Newboun.l, Aintre,%s. Anderson, Viv.an, Bennett, and Edwt.rd Prize; )1 iss ll rade, Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss Grattan, and Miss Carlotta ,Leclercq. rrecede3 by THE' TWO POLTS. Mr. H. Widdicomb. THEATRE :ole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. T jIS EVENING, Seven, by the kind permission of J. B. 131131c.tone, Esq , the Comedy ot PAUL PRY. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Biting on, It Phillip., Ashley, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Allred Mellon, Miss E. Pitt. To conclude with the New Grand Burlesque ot TUE MOLT?.:f AIN DH U; or, TUE KNIGHT, IHE LADY, AND THE LAKE. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Pd.ul Bediord, Ashley, R. Korner, and C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Altred Aiiss Furtado, Miss Hughes, Miss Emily Pitt, 45re. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. New Management. Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Manager, Mr. H. ig BAD THIS EVENING, LAVATEIL; OR, Nor A BAD JUDGE. Messrs. 11. J. Montague, O. Murray, and Charles Mathews ; Mesdames Harris and M Palmer. After whi,h, A COMICAL COUNTESS. Mr. and Mrs. Charles MatheWs. Yellowed by A ROMANTIC IDEA. Messrs. Addison, Murray, and C. Mathews ; Mesdames E. Farren and C. Mathews. To conclude with an ATROCIOUS CRIMINAL. Mr. J. Clayton. Doors open at half-past Six; commence at Seven. HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. tiefton Parry. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, MY TURN NEXT. Mr. Belmore, Miss Foote, miss Lennox. 4fter which, Boucicault's drama of FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, Belmore, Wake, a Grden,Vollaire; Mesdames F. Jrisephs, C. Saunders, B. Foote, Raymond. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, HIS LAST LEGS. Mr. C. Verner, Mr. C. IL Fenton ; Mrs. Buckingham White and Miss Went worth. Followed by. at half-past 8 o'clock, a new and original Drama, by T. W. Rob rtson, entitled SHADOW TREE 8 HAI,' V. Character. by Messrs. Vining. J. G. Shore, C. Ver ner, F. Villiers, H. Forrester, H. Mellon, and Cathcart ; Misses Montagu, Minnie Edmonds, and Katherine Rodgers. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ASTLEY'S. Under the Sole Management of Mr. W. 11. C.NATION. Production of a Drama founded on Charles Dickens's beauti ful Christmas story, "The Battle of Lite," and the Nation al Burlesque Opening of " Hush-a-Bye, Baby." EVERY EVENING during the week, Layle Bernard s screaming Farce, MI uDY ASHORE. Alias Caroline Parkes and Mr. W. 11. Stephens. After which, a dramatic adaptation of Dickens's beautiful Christmas story, THE BATTLE OF LIFE. Messrs. Fer nandez, Atkins, Richardson; Misses Edith Stuart, Marion, Thirlwall, awl the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with the Nation-al Burlesque Opening . of BUSH-A-BYE, BABY; terminating with Mr. Hick's mar lineasti Scene. Mipses Nisbett, Caro- Parkes, '1 hirlwall, Malkin, Clifton, Mrs. Canfield ; Messrs. Atkins, Stephens, Milano. and Arthur. THE GROVE OF GOLDEN PALMS now in hill bloom at the Thespian Garden, T LIE &TIM ROYAL, AS t L r.Y'S. Will shortly be transplanted to the distant shores of America. THE LATEST SAILOR'S HORNPIPE is in troduced by Hiss Camine Parkes into Bayle Bernard's screaming Farce of inlollY ASHORE, TiLEATRi, ROYAL, thTLEY'S, EVERY EVEMAG. "SUN" NEWSPAPER.- G. R. 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LONDON HOUSES, 154, 155, 156, 157, Minories ; 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, Aldgate ; 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street ; 1,2, 3, Hart-street ; 137, 138, Tottenham-court road ; 283, Euston-road. COUNTRY BRANCH—Bradford, Yorksbire. A POPULAR HISTORY of LONDON from -CIL the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present time Part the Second—From 1066 to 1867. E. Moses and Son, corner of Minories and Ahlgate ; New Oxford-street, and Tottenham-court-road, London And Bradford, Yorkshire. Gratis and post free on application. 1:1 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tiiis DAY. —MOrDitig, 211. B.u.—Afternoon, 2h. 21.1.. 1:o-Moratow.-.horning, 2h. 44m.—Afternoon, 3h. Om 44,3+ 4 j I ,- Cy;N-7- 7p•' L. - LYDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1867 fresh development of Fenianism is a matter of grave regret, and it is evidently the result of an elaborate organisation. Lord NAAS, in reply to a question from Mr. MONSELL, read last night to the House the telegrams which had been received from Sir THOMAS LARCOM, the Under Secretary ; and from Commander WILLIAMS, who is stationed at Youghal. According to the first of these the wires between Dublin and Cork, Dublin and Limerick, and Dublin Junction were cut in the course of the night before last, and all communication with Cork, Limerick, and Tipperary was therefore cut off. There was a general though not formidable rising from Drogheda to Dundrum. The numbers were variously estimated at from 1,000 to 4,000. Several of the police stations had been attacked, though without success. The line from Thurles to Dublin was found to be blocked by sleepers, and in one part the rails were torn up. The tele gram from Youghal was briefer, and stated that a body of Fenians had attacked the police-station at Castlemartyr in the night. The troops had left Youghal to assist the civil force, and the tele graph wires had been cut. Lord NAAS added, for the satisfaction of the house, that most ample pre parations had been made, and that the military authorities throughout the country were fully pre pared. The news received in London last night fully confirms the previous statements. Great excitement prevails in Dublin, where large quantities of arms and ammunition had been seized. Yesterday morn ing 1,000 Fenians took possession of the Market house, and fired on the police, who returned the fire. A body of Fenians, 200 strong, had disarmed and captured the constables at two suburban stations, and carried them prisoners to Greenhills, near Tallaght, where, it is said, they muster 5,000 or 6,000. The military yesterday brought into D üblin 208 prisoners, the main body of insurgents having gone north wards through the mountains. One hundred and five young men are missing from the drapery esta blishments, and it is worth notice that half of the insurgents who assembled in the vicinity of Dublin on Tuesday night were said to be youths of 18 and 20. This is just the class from which Fenianism gains its largest number of recruits, but the leaders are evidently Irish-Americans. Two prominent characters—JOßN MoRRISSEY, the prize-fighter, and an individual giving the name of GODFREY MASSEY —have been arrested ; and, no doubt, among the other captures some will be found who know a good deal cf the origin of the outbreak. The cutting of the telegraph wires and the de struction of the railway lines leave us very much in the dark as to what is occurring in some parts. Late last night the afternoon mail from Cork had not ar rived in Dublin, S 3 that great uncertainty was felt. The attacks on the police stations have been in some places attended with severe fighting, and there is no doubt whatever that the Fenians are really in earnest this time. What end they propose to themselves, whether they really believe it possible for them to dis lodge the English and to establish an Irish Republic, may well form matter of conjecture, but there can be no uncertainty whatever as to the course to be pur sued by the Government. However much we may pity the misguided youths who are enticed from their employment by the specious professions of mischievous impostors, no leniency can be shown in dealing with the offenders. The inzeitte must be crushed with a strong hand, not only in the inte rests of England, but of Ireland. The well-disposed and peaceable citizens of Dublin have been sub jected to risk, annoyance, and alarm, while in other parts of the country actual danger has been incurred. If we are to keep up a form of government at all, -we cannot allow such outbreaks to be committed with impunity, and must sum marily punish those who are concerned in them. Feuianism has suddenly developed itself with un expected strength, but its career will be propor- tionately short, and we can hope that the accounts which we now publish will record the progress of the last of these dangerous and foolish exploits. On Tuesday last a conference of delegates from the principal trades' unions throughout the kingdom was held at St. Martin's Hall, Long-acre. The reason of the meeting being called was partly in consequence of the judgment lately delivered in the Court of Queen's Bench, and also to make arrange ments for the production of witnesses to give evi dence on behalf of trades' unions before the Royal Commission now about to commence its sittings. air. GEORGE POTTER, the President of the Working lien's Association, was in the chair, and explained the reasons which had led them to call this confer ence. He said that the trades did not object to a commission of inquiry, but they really desired that investigation should take place. We are glad, at any rate, to hear this straightforward statement, although we doubt if the prediction that followed will be realised in its entirety, namely, that " they would come out of it with honour and credit." Mr. POTTER was appointed chairman of the conference, and a secretary and treasurer were also chosen. A representation was made by some one to the effect that the Royal Commission were to sit with " closed doors ;" and he said, with great indignation, that "as a trades' unionist, he protested against being dragged before any secret tribunal." This is very absurd to begin with, and quite out of character, when we remember that all the proceedings of the trades' unionists themselves are carried on secretly, and that in the case of the outrages on those who differ from them all is done in a mysterious manner. It was suggested that the conference en masse should wait on Mr. WALroLE and represent the feeling of the meeting; and to " claim that the inquiry should be open to all." It is not settled whether the Com mission will sit with open or closed doors, but we have no doubt that the latter alternative will not be adopted without good reasons for so doing, and at any rate, as we said before, so much fuss about the matter is uncalled for, and we do not recognise the right of those who have caused this inquiry to be made at all through their outrageous and vexatious course of action to dictate terms, and to claim that their ways should be taken. The Royal Commission is instituted to inquire into the undue exercise of power wielded by those unions, and not to bow to its behests and follow in its wake. Yesterday another meeting was held, and a re port was brought up from the previous committee, which advised that the conference should di3cuss the question of the committee of inquiry before the legality of the trades' unions. It was arranged that the secretary should write to Mr. WALPOLE and request that he receive a deputation. The secretary of die Sheffield trades spoke very strongly about the affair, and declared that the indemnity proposed by the bill was not well devised, for any man who could commit such an outrage as the one refel red to would not hesitate to swear falsely before the com mission. Mr. INI`DONALD seemed inclined to infuse a wrong spirit into the matter ; and the tone he adopted was quite unwarrantable under the circumstances. lle said that they should not ask any favour from the Home Se cretary or the Commission. They should claim as a " right for their Committee to be present, and act as they thought fit in the interest of the Trades' Societies." If this request were not com plied with, his advice would be for the trades to have nothing to do with the Coramiss.ion. Accord- The public will learn with regret the seriou, state of affairs in Ireland. There is every reasor: to believe that the disturbances will be irnmediatel3 repressed, and that the agitation can only be of very temprary II:Auto, since the authorities are fully prepared for any contingency. Still this , ing to this doctrine the Royal Commission will Devisnes were put up for sale, as he does not in tend to hunt again, at all events for the present. have to be the slaves of the unions as much as any of the poor victims they delude and denounce. No less than 7,875 f. were paid for 13 pair of hounds. We hope that more moderation will be displayed Baron de Herissem paid 1 ,550 f. for two, named Fanblas and Pandour. An amateur paid 1,700 f. before the proceedings actually commence, or for 12 beagles, and 12 puppies, not of very splendid the Trades' Unions will rank still lower in breed, realized the sum of 2,860 francs. public estimation, instead of cheating themselves. The Minister of the Emperor's Household and Those who have demurred as to the necessity for the Fine Arts has drawn up an account of the gene having this commission had better peruse the re- ral position of the Tiaras (the establishment for port of this meeting, and we think that the tone breeding and improving the culture of horses). It is about to be presented to the Chambers. This ac there met with will convince them of the propriety count particularises the present number of horses in of some restraining influence being used when such the 23 depots for stallions and their value. The extreme opinions are held on matters that affect horses which entered the establishments up to the such great interests. end of December last were, in number, 1,074, valued at 3,961,551 f., and the horses which left for sale, 123 in number, produced 495,100 f. There remained in the establishment, on the 31st of December, 951 horses of the estimated total value of 3,169,151 f. Shortly before I closed my letter it was snowing heavily, and it had been snowing for more than an hour previously. The French weather prophets have been remarkably accurate in their predictions up to the present time. The procee,lings of the North German Parlia ment do not appear to be exactly what Herr Bls- MARCK desired. In the first place, the election of the President is not what was anticipated, and we question very much if Herr SIMSON prove so mode rate as some seem to expect. We never thought that the Berlin Government would find things go so very smoothly as they declared at first, and it was not natural that they should care for the feel ings of the various States and provinces that had been greatly outraged by the harsh course of the Prussians, and they were certain to wake out of their dream before long, and to recognise that German unity means Prussian exterminers. The object of Herr BIS3IARCK'S present decision is to in duce the Southern States to join, and then to con vert the Prussian Sovereign into a German Emperor. This, we trust, that he will not succeed in doing; but if he does, he cannot possibly prosper in the long run by so doing. The best proof of the folly of talking about this new order of things improving the freedom of the German is that the most strin gent regulations are laid down, and we find it said that the Government will not make any real objection to the publication of reports of what takes place in the North German Parliament so long as the speakers keep within proper limits. This is liberty after a fashion, and we wonder at any one allowing themselves to be taken in by such very transparent devices. " Proper limits" is a very significant term, and includes a wide or narrow range of subjects as may suit the convenience of the authorities. There is too much reason to fear that another distinguished name must be added to the long list of brave and good men who have fallen martyrs in the cause_of science and enterprise. The name of Dr. LIVINGSTONE is known and honoured through out the whole civilised world, and to him belongs the glory of having greatly increased our know ledge, not only of the African interior, but of the character and habits of its people. His achievements are familiar to all of us, and there seemed good reason to hope that before his career was finished he would leave permanent traces of his exertions even in that barbarous and dangerous country. If the news which Sir RODERICK MURCHISON transmits to us should unhappily prove to be well founded, Eng land has lost a man of whom she may well be proud, and the accounts bear, unfortunately, an appearance of probability. We must hope even yet that they may be exaggerated or mistaken, and in this hope all Europe will share. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. STATE OP TRADE. MANCHESTER, March G.—Messrs. Ellison and He)wood,:cottonbrokers, of Liveipool, have issued their circular for the present month, and in their re view of the trade during February estimate the im ports into the country at 239,364 bales; total ex ports light, being 64,287, against 91,587 for the same month last year. They estimate the quantity taken for home k consumption at 38,793 bales per week, and the actual consumption at 40,000 per week, against 42,000 in the previous month, and 45,000 per week during the latter part of last year ; the receipts at the American ports up to February 22 they give at 1,309,000, against 1,295,000 the same date last year. Of the Manchester market they give what appears to be a very reliable account. With the exception of a temporary improvement at the close of the first week, during which a com paratively good business was done at low prices, and whereby producers were to some extent relieved of stocks, the Manchester market has been exceedingly dull and gloomy in tone during the month ; and, notwithstanding the return of goods has been much reduced by the further spread of the short-time movement, the tendency of stocks has been to accu mulate. The uncertainty in which the ultimate ex tent of the American crop is involved, and the dis couraging accounts and returns received from the principal foreign markets, have deterred buyers from operating to an extent sufficiently large to take off the reduced production of manufacturers. All departments of the trade, both home and foreign, have been slack, buyers for the more distant mar kets being very cautious. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the position of producers continues most unsatisfactory. It has improved a little during the past week, owing to the rapid de cline in the price of cotton, but it is still very unremunerative. Messrs. Ellison and Heywood's comparative table of prices shows a elechne of ld. per lb. in cop twist, id. in mule and water twist, 3d. to 9d. per piece in 41b. to 51d. printers, 6d. to 9d. per piece in 71b. to 8 lb. shirtings, and id. to id. per yard in domestics. BELFAST, sth.—Flax.—The supplies in the mar kets of Ulster during the past week were about equal to those of the week preceding. Demand, except for very fine qualities, has not been by any means active. Prices have not undergone any change of importance. Yarns.—The demand during the early part of last week was decidedly dull ; towards the close of the week improvement was apparent, which was the result of the abandonment of the proposed American Tariff. Not much improvement in home demand. The business on English account was considerable. Scotch orders more numerous. A fair continental trade has been accomplished. Stocks not large. Very little change in prices. Linens, brown, power-looms.—Heavy linens, cloth suitable for the foreign clothing trade, printing lawns, and coarse sets of roughs are not in active demand. Prices of cloth for foreign clothing trade are a shade easier, others without change. Fine and medium sets of roughs are inactive demand, at full rates. Cloth for dyeing and hollands continues in fair re quest, at steady prices. An improved demand ex ists for light linens. Handloom.—Light linens for bleaching, heavy linens, diapers, and damasks con tinue in moderate demand. Prices of all, except heavy linens, have a slightly downward tendency. Linen handkerchiefs and the finer sets of cloth for dyeing and hollands are in active request, at full prices. Cambric handkerchiefs and printing lawns are dull of sale. Bleached and finished linens.—A fair home trade has been accomplished. Conti nental demand not active. No much doing on American account. Stocks small, prices firm. NOTTINGHAM, 6Tll.—ln hosiery the home trade is good, but not particularly busy, as, owing to the pre valent idea that cotto n will be lower, buyers are ythere healthy Sprin g t ra d e . I n th e foreign ex cessively cautious. There is evrey p ros p ec t, how ever,l ar e o n department baen the seasons when t between e r e o thoroughly is not mu c h d o i ng, as we w business is active. Yarns keep their price, and have not at any time fallen in proportion to the reduction of cotton. The entihoeyel D hosiery manufactures are moderately well impuring the week there has been a marked i m p r ovement in the lace trade workmen generally, but principally in the export business. PARIS, Wednesday Evening. In consequence of the religious observance of Shrove Tuesday, several papers have not appeared to-day. The Moniteur was published, but it does not contain any news of importance. It, however, announces the departure from Lisbon of the Portu guese Commission, appointed in reference to the Exhibition. It is composed of Councillor Palha de Faria e Hacerda, Chief of Division of Commerce at the Ministry of Public Works in Portugal, and of several gentlemen connected with that department, and some civil engineers. The Moniteur also states that a private telegram from Bombay mentions that the Emir Schir-Ali- Khan has been completely beaten by the troops of Azim Khan, and compelled to take refuge at Herat. There was another meeting of Ministers yester day at the Tuileries, under the presidency of the Emperor, when the discussion was renewed relative to the project of law for the relaxation of the restrictions now in force in regard to public meet ings. There are some reports to the effect that France, as well as England, is to have a modifica tion in the composition of its Ministry. For the moment I have not authentic information sufficient to enable me either to confirm or contradict these reports, and I therefore merely mention their existence. One of the papers has mentioned that the Minister of the Interior, the Marquis de la Valette, is about to retire, and to be superseded by M. Baroche, the Minister of Justice. This report, at all events, is apparently unfounded, for it is known that the Emperor places great confidence in him, and men of all shades of opinion acknowledge the zeal and liberal spirit which have characterised the administration of the department. While I am speaking of the composition of the French Ministry, it may be well to explain a point upon which some misapprehen sion exists in England. What is meant by a Minis ter without a portfolio (portefeuille) does not seem to be generally or accurately understood. A Minis ter without a portfolio is simply a Minister who does not hold any specific office, but who participates in Cabinet Councils, gives explanations, and defends the Government in the Chamber, and affords gene ral assistance to the Administration. The Adminis tration of France is composed of nine Ministers, called the Minister of State, the Minister of Justice and Public Worship, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Marine and the Colonies, the Minister of Public Instruction, the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, the Minister of the Household of the Emperor and the,Fine , Arts, ,and the Minister President of the Council of State. There is, a saying of the grandfather of Charles the Fifth that the Ministers of a King are the spectacles to which he is obliged to have recourse when he does not wish to look upon the course of events with his own eyes. Railway and Other Compan•es. RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE. A Cabinet Council has been held to-day at the Tuileries, at which the Emperor presided. It lasted a considerable time, and, if I be rightly informed, a final decision has been arrived at, both in regard to the proposed law respecting public meetings and the regulation of the press. The latter project will, I think, be satisfactory. In the absence of " metal more attractive " the peculiar weather forms a general and interesting topic of conversation. The most learned astrono mers announced that there would be a partial but rather extensive eclipse of the sun this morning. The fact is, that there was a total eclipse. The appearance of the clouds at the time for the eclipse was dark and gloomy. The sun was not to be seen at all. The time for the greatest observation, according to astronomical prediction, had hardly passed away when the sun broke forth with great splendour in its full proportions. The snow then began to fall, and fur nearly an hour it snowed slightly, the dun shining all the time. Such a spectacle as this, perhaps, Las not been often wit nessed. The cold has relaxed a little in it 3 rigour. In the Chairps Ely sees a remarkable phenomenon attracts many. The beautiful and rare tree, known as the pear tree, of Japan (pirus japonica) which exhibited its red buds some days ago, has, under the influence of the frost, broken forth into full flower. The mild weather seemed to stop its process of vegetation, but winter for this tree seems to be its spring. At all events it is now in full and beautiful flower. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the office, Cornhill ; Mr. J. Clay, M.P., in the chair. The report stated that there had been a con siderable falling off in the number of poli cies and tickets issued, the causes of which were attributed to the commercial depression of the year 1866. The income of the company from pre miums increased from £84,543 in 1865 to £91,682 in 1865, or at the rate of 8.44 per cent. The total income from all sources was £94,091. The total number of general accident policies on the books during the year was 33,957, and of railway accident policies and tickets 471,262, making together 505,219 insurers during the year. The balance at the credit of revenue account was £45,891, out of which the directors proposed to pay interest on the paid-up capital at the rate of 3 per cent. for the half-year ending the 31st of December, making, with 3 per cent. in September, 6 per cent. for the year. In addition to this a bonusof 10s. per share was declared, of which one moiety would be paid in cash to the shareholders, and the other moiety applied iu augmentation of the share capital. The claims for compensation during the year had been 24 for fatal accidents, amounting to £14,600, and 2,584 for personal injury, to £35,077—t0ta1, £49,677, being 54.18 per cent. of the income. The directors had made arrangements for issuing short term policies for one or three months, to cover the risk of accidents of all kinds during the journey to and from Paris, and while residing there. They had also prepared journey and excursion tickets cover ing the risk of accident by railway or steamboat alone during the journey. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the report was adopted, and the retiring directors and auditors were re-91ected. The price paid for hounds in Paris shows the in creasing taste for hunting. The hounds of M MADRAS. The traffic receipts on this company's south-west line for the half-year ending the 3 1 st of Decembe r last amounted to £190,736 against £ 185,898, for the first half of the year, and £1 92 , 055 for the corresponding half of the previous year. On the north-west line the receipts for the six months have been £33,955 against £27,778 for the first half of the year, and £33,058 for the corre sponding half of the previous year. The mileage of the south-west line had been the same throughout. On the north-west line the open mileage had increased 28 miles during the half-year, equal to 23f per cent. The receipts had shown much steadiness under the unfavourable circum stances of the stagnation of trade, failure of crops from drought, famine prices of food, and distress, which during the last year had afflicted the south of India, but were now happily disappearing under the ihflueuce of the late favourable mougoout THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 186. LATEST INTEL LIGEN . (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, March 7. Count Taafe will assume the porfolio of Minister of the Interior to-morrow. The Emperor has sanctioned the proposal for a second Austrian naval expedition to the East for scientific purposes. SPAIN. MADRID, March 6 (Evening). The Minister for Foreign Affairs has addressed a circular to the Spanish representatives abroad, com plaining of the calumnious attacks of foreign jour nals upon Spanish institutions. The Minister says that Spain is too noble to reply to such attacks, and will not give importance to their authors by pros-- eating them before the courts of law. MARSEILLES, March 7. Advices received here from Constantinople assert that the Porte has formally agreed to the conces sions to S2rvia, and that certain fresh concessions will also be made to Egypt. A rumour had reached Constantinople of a san guinary engagement between the Turkish troops and the insurgents in Thessaly. The latter had entrenched themselves on the plain of Orta, where they repulsed the Turks, who lost 300 men. ST. PETERSURG, March 7. Russia has declined to adhere to an international monetary treaty. The Austrian Government has declared that it will take the subject into consideration. PLYMOUTH, Thursday Morning. Brevet-Colonel Owen, C. 8., Staff-Colonel of Royal Engineers for the Western District, died suddenly this morning, at his residence. In consequence of the Fenian outbreak, the armour-plated screw steamship Caledonia, 30, Capt. the lion. Fitzgerald A. C. Foley, flag of Admiral Yelverton, is under orders to leave Hamoaze this afternoon for the Sound, where she will embark de tachments of Royal Marines for conveyance to Ire land. The gunboats Earnest, Hind, and Rainbow will probably follow. AMERICA. NEW YORK, March 5, 5 p.m. Sterling Exchange on London, 108. Gold, 1361. 5-20 United States Bonds, 109.1. Illinois, 116. Erie, 52k. Cotton : Midland Upland, 32c. Stocks depressed. Petroleum refined, 28c. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SUEZ, March 4. The Nubia arrived at 1 p.m. to-day. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 6, Two o'clock.—The weakness exhibited yesterday prevails to-day. French Threes are offered at 70f., and Italian Fives at 53f. 75c. a fall in each case of 10c. Credit Mobilier shares have reeeded to 498 f. 75c.—a decline of Bf. 75c. Credit Foncier have lort 5f., the price now being 1,5051. The same downward tendency is noticeable in the Railway department. A decline of I- in Con sols is telegraphed from London. Three o'clock.—The close has taken place as fol lows: 11 per Cents lOO 40 Do. end month — Bank Shares 3560 Lta!Mu Loan 53 65 Do. end month 53 80 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Spanish Threes - - Home Debt 3 per Cents. 7O Do. end month 7O 02f Credit iobilier 498 7.) Do. end month . 501 25 Credit Foneier — Do. end month 1505 loierroU Arg. For Account. 935 Orleans Northern 1232 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 941 25 Southern 5BB 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 416 25 North of Spain lll 25 Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona — Roman. — THE AZTECS. Prior to their departure for Italy these very in teresting personages are holding a series of public receptions daily, at the Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover-square. The marriage of the Aztecs caused a new sensation, and at the same time a very great desire appeared to exist amongst a great number of persons who delight in natural curiosities to wish them joy before commencing their wedding tour. To meet this wish the happy pair at once consented to receive company, and for the last week or so their drawing-room has been very fully and fashionably attended. The Aztecs are unques tionably the greatest human curiosities ever seen, and although the peculiarity of their conformation would lead to the belief that sense and reason were strangers to them, yet both receive their company in the most affable and cordial manner, and enter tain them in a variety of ways. The departure of the Aztecs is fixed for an early period, so the pre sent attractive receptions cannot be continued for longer than a few days at the outset. The Murder and Suicide in Bermondsey. - -,-- This morning Mr. Carter held an inquest on the bodies of Eliza Catford, aged 37, and George Cat ford, aged four. Mr. Catford said on Tuesday morning he left•his home to act as a juror on an inquest held by Mr. Carter in the neighbourhood. He resided at 23, Grange-road, Bermondsey, where, with his wife and children, he occupied the ground floor. His wife appeared in her usual health, but expressed some dissatisfaction at the loss of time resulting from the inquest. He told her the case could not "occupy the jury long, and that he should be back to dinner. On his return at a quarter to one o'clock he found the wretched woman and her son lying on the bed quite dead, with their throats cut in the most shock ing manner. The child's head was nearly severed from the body, and the wound on the neck of the woman, although not so formidable in extent, was deep enough to divide all the respiratory passages. The deceased woman, it was said, was subject to fits of depression and symptoms indicating aberra tion of intellect. The jury returned a verdict of temporary in sanity. MADAME VIARDOT.—It is true that Modes music, written originally for Guadagni, a male contralto, and afterwards altered for M. Legros, one of the high nasal French tenors, of which the race is, unhappily, not yet ex tinct, had never before such a perfect exponent as it found in the sister of Malitran—the accomplished and impas sioned Madame Viardot. Art on the musical stage can go further, and rise no higher, than in her imperso nation. Who that saw her will ever forget her absorbing sorrow at the tomb of Eurydice, the rapture which burst into every feature, animated every fibre of her frame, and thrilled in every tone of her voice, when she was permitted to hope that the beloved one might still bo rescued back to life—the pleading grace, blent with indo mitable resolution, with which she cleft her way among the grim wardens of Death's prison -house, subduing them by the charm of song—the anxious, eager questioning step with which she went to and fro among the spirits of the Elysian fields—the inexpressible triumph of the moment of recognition, with its celestial music, when her hand closed on the well-known hand of the wife so bit terly mourned, so courageously sought—the desperate after-conflict and despair, when hope was all but wrecked by her disobedience of the condition of ransom ? Taking every circumstance and difficulty into account, it may be truly said that there has been no such personation on the opera stage in our time—not forgetting nor undervaluing the Medea, the Semiramis, the Romeo, of Queen Pasta.— ' Dickoneti " All 04 lear Round," RAIL' LITERATURE. Sir Brook Fossbrookc. By Charles Lever. Three Vols. Blackwood and Sons. To say that • " Sir Brook Fossbrooke" is one of the cleverest and one of the pleasantest of the many very clever and very pleasant tales, for which we are indebted to Charles Lever, is to award it high praise in deed, as the readers and admirers of " Harry Lorrequer" and " Charles O'Malley" will testify, but those who may have glanced over the pages of this very chartning story, as it appeared some little tine back in Blackwood's Magazine, will very readily admit the truth of our apparently extravagant assertion. The style is delightfully easy, and sparkling with all Lever's customary vivacity and humour, but is at the same time more courtly and refilled than we rem.:tnber it in his earlier pro ductions. Sir Brook Fossbrooke himself is a complete original, and very skilfully is his peculiar character depicted. Here is our first glimpse of him as the Colonel's guest at the mess dinner. SIR BROOK FOSSBROOKE. The man who now joined the group was a tall, gaunt figure, with a high narrow head, from which the hair was brushed rigidly back to fall behind in something like an old-fashioned queue. His eyes wore black, and sur mounted with massive and much-arched eyebrows; a strongly-marked mouth, stern, determined, and, except in speaking, almost cruel in expression, and a thin-pointed projecting chin, gave an air of severity and strong will to features which, when ho conversed, displayed a look of courteous deference, and that peculiar desire to please that we associate with a bygone school of breading. He was one of those men, and very distinctive are they, with whom even the least cautious take no liberties, nor ven ture upon any familiarity. The eccentricities of deter mined men are very often indications of some deep spirit beneath, and not, as in weaker natures, mere emanations cf vanity or off-springs of self-indulgence. If he was, beyond question, a gentleman, there were also signs about him of narrow fortune : his scrupulously white shirt was not fine, and the seams of his well-brushed coat shOwed both care and wear. " There goes one of the strangest fellows in Christen dom," said the Colonel, as the other left the room. "He has already gone through three fortunes; he dissipated the first—speculated and lost the second—and the third he, I might say, gave away in acts of benevolence and kindness —leaving himself so ill-off, that I actually heard the other day that some friend had asked for the place of barrack master at Athlone for him ; but on coming over to see the place, he found a poor follow with a wife and five children a candidate for it ; so he retired in his favour, and is con tent, as you see, to go out on the world, and take his chance with it." Innumerable questions pressed on ,the Colonel to tell more of his strange friend; he had, however, little beyond hearsay to give them. Of his own eiperiences, he could only say that when first he met him it was at Ceylon, where he had come in a yacht like a sloop of war to hunt elephants—the splendour of his retinue and magnificence of his suite giving him the air of a royal personage —and indeed the gorgeous profusion of his pres3uts to the King and the chief personages of the court went far to impress this notion. "I never met him sine)," said the Colonel, " till this morning, when ho walked into my room, dusty and travel-stained, to say, I just heard your name, and thought I'd ask you to give rue my dinner to-day.' I owe him a great many—not to say innumerable other atten tions ; and his last act on leaving Trincomalee was to pre sent mo with an Arab charger, the most perfect animal I ever mounted. It is therefore a real pleasure to me to re ceive him. Ho is a thoroughly fine-hearted fellow, and, with all his eccentricities, one of the noblest natures I ever met. The only flaw in his frankness is as to his age; no body has been able to get it from him. You hear him talk of your fathers—he might talk of your grandfathers; and ho would too, if we hal only the opportunity to lead him on to it. I know of my own knowledge that he lived in the Carlton House coterie, not a man of which except him self survives; and I have heard him give imitations of Burke, Sheridan, Gavin Hamilton, and Pitt, that none but one who had seen them could have accomplished." But even more delightful than Sir Brook Fossbrooke is Sir William Lendrick, the Chief Baron, high in the opinions of other men, but highest of all in his own sublime self-esteem, who when we first encounter him has been struck with paralysis, and who proves to be perhaps the most untractable patient that it ever fell to the lot of Physician to administer to. As good Dr. Beattie calls for his morning visit, he meets at the door the Solicitor-General, and while he exchanges greetings with him the Chief Baron observes him from the window. The ensuing scene will best describe the man : A DIFFICULT PATIENT. In thc, rh Uf drawino•-rouni, in a deep recess of a. window, sat the Chief Baron, dressed as if to go out, with an over coat, and even his gloves on. "Come and drive with me, Beattie," cried he, in a feeble but harsh voice. "If I take my man Leonard they'll say it was a keeper. You know that the Post has it this morning that it is my mind which has given way. They say they've seen me breaking for years back. Good heavens! can it be possible, think you, that the mites in a cheese speculate over the nature of the man that eats them ? You stopped to talk with Pemberton, I saw ; what did he say to you ?" " Nothing particular—a mere greeting, I think." "No, sir, it was not; he was asking you how many hours there lay between him and the Attorney-General ship. They've divided the carcass already. The lion has to assist at his autopsy—rather hard, isn't it ? How it im bitters death to think of the fellows who aro to re place us!" • "Let me feel your pulse." "Don't trust it, Beattie; that little dialogue of yours on the grass plot has sent it up thirty beats; how many is it ?" "Rapidvery rapid; you need rest—tranquillity." "And you can't give me either, sir; neither you nor your craft. ' You are the Augurs of modern civlisation, and we cling to your predictions just as our forefathers lid, though we never believe you.", " This is not flattery," said Beattie, with a slight smile. The old mau closed his eyes and passed his hand slowly over his forehead. "I suppose 1 was dreaming, Beattie, just before you came up; but I thought I saw them all in the Hall, talking and laughing over my death. Burrowes was telling how old I must be, because I moved the amend ment to Flood in tho Irish Parliament in '97 ; and Eames mentioned that I was Curran's junior in the great Bagenal record; and old Tysdal set thorn all in a roar by saying he had a vision of me standing at the gate of heaven, and in stead of going in, as St. Peter invited rue, stoutly refusing, and declaring I would more for a new trial! How like the rascals !" For once the wise lawyer is correct in his estimate of his own untractable nature, ever on the alert to take offence. As the physician leaves him he ex- claims— " There is another thing . ; not that it much matters ; but it might perhaps be as well to send a few lines to the morn ing papers, to say the accounts of the Chief Baron are more favourable to-day ; he passed a tranquil night, and so on. Pemberton won't like it ; nor Hayes ; but it will calm the fears of a very attached friend who calls here twice daily. You'd never guess him. He is the agent of the Globe office, where I am insured. Ah, Doctor, it was a bright thought of Philanthropy to establish an industrial enter prise that is bound, under heavy recognisances, to be . grieved at our death." Very charming is Lucy Lendrick, the grand 'ilatighter. of the old Judge, and her-frank, bright nature is very vividly portrayed. Very skilful, also, is the portrait of the other Lucy, the un happy wife of the worthless Captain Sewell. The story is very interesting, and will amply repay perusal, while some of the characters to which it introduces us will long linger pleasantly in the memory of the reader. ROYAL GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND. ---- The annual meeting of the members of the Royal General Theatrical Fund was held yesterday in the saloon of the Theatre Royal, Lyceum, and ras numerously attended. Mr. Cullenford, secretary, said he had received a letter from Mr. Buckstone, their respected treasurer, containing the painful intelligence of the death of his youngest son, and as that day was appointed for the funeral he would be un able to preside at their meeting as. chairman. Upon this Mr. Swinbourne, of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, was asked to take the chair, which he assented to. Mr. Cullen ford, secretary, then made his financial statement for the past year ending Feb. 28, and from this it appeared the admission fees produced £l3 55., the members' subscrip tions £731 ls. 10d., being an increase of £4O over last year; interest on stock, £397 6s. 101.; freehold ground rent, £5 18s.; profit on a cricket match between theatres and music halls, £45 ls., which was got up and carried out by Mr. G.Murray, to whom great credit was due. The annual dinner produced £B9l Bs., which was also an increase on the former year; arrears, £9 95.; and the reserved fund, £306 15s. 41d.; making a total of £1,900 ss. 9d. The funded property last year was £12,972 13s. 91(1., but this year there was added to it £506 4s. 91d., making a capital of £13,478 18s. 7d. The expenditure for the year had been £1,400, leaving a balance of £5OO in favour of the fuud for the year. The report was then received and adopted. Thu several officers and members of the committee were re appoi►.ted, and thanks were voted to them for their past services. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Buckstone for his services as treasurer, and condolence expressed to wards him in the hour of his affliction. Thanks were voted to the press for the advocacy of the interests of the institution, and a similar compliment having been passed to Mr. Swinbourne for presiding, he acknowledged the same, and the proceedings terminated, 4 :6, ofig 4 , (Efin al '' \* ,c.O-.,,,?,.. 11/ e En 111 . . z, .11 HER MAJESTY, &c• WINDSOR CASTLE, March 6. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four, attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe. Prince Leopold also drove out. BUCKINGHAM PALA.cI4I, March'6. ller Majesty the Queen left Windsor Castle at half-past 3 o'clock this afternoon for London, ac companied by their Royal HighneLses Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry of Prussia, and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, Lady Susan Melville, Lidy Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Flora Mac donald, the Hon. Florence Seymour, Lieut.-Genera l lion. C. Grey, Alajor-General Hon. A. N. hood, Colonel Hon. A. Hardinge, Mr. Legg, Capt. voa Schroetter, and Mr. Sa,hl. The Royal party left Windsor by a special train of the Great Western Railway. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louise, and escorted by a detachment of the 14th Hussars, drove from Paddington to Marlborough House, and visited the Prince and Princess of Wales. Her Majesty and Princess Louise afterwards drove to Buckingham Palace, attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Colonia the Hon. A. Hardinge. The Hon. Caroline Cavendish has succeeded the Hon. Flora Macdonald as Maid of Honour in Waiting. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, visited the Prince and Princess of Wales yesterday afternoon. Mr. Dickenson, of New Bond-street, had the honour to submit yesterday to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales the enamel of the Queen which has been just completed by Mr. Tilt. The Earl of Zetland arrived at his residence in Arlington-street, Piccadilly, on Tuesday, from his seat in Yorkshire. The Countess Percy will have assemblies at Northumberland House on Tuesday, the 12th and 19th instant. The Countess of Mahnesbury continues in the same precarious state at Heron Court, near Christchurch , Hants. The Countess Cowper had a small and early party last evening at her residence in St. James's-squar e. Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Righ t Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., entertained a select party l as t evening at dinner at their residence in Carlton-gardens. Reported Death of Dr. Livingsto-e. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-With profound grief, which I am sure will be shared in by the nation at large, I transmit to you the following letter from Dr. Kirk, the former companion of Livingstone, and now Vice-Consul at Zanzibar, addressed to the assistant secretary of the Royal Geographical Society. If the detailed accounts which are on the way to myself should arrive before Monday they will b e communicated to the society on the evening of that day. It appeared that my lamented friend had crossed the Lake Nyanza to its western side, and was there attacked by the same treacherous people, th e Mazite, a branch of the Caffre race, described by him in his last book of travels: It may he well to.. state that the nine Johanna men who escaped, au d on whose evidence alone we at present have to rely, are natives of the Comoro Islands. If this cruel intelligence should be substantiate d, the civilised world will mourn the loss of as noble and lion-hearted an explorer as ever sir, your obedient servant, RODERICK I. MURCHISON. Royal Geographical Society, 15, Whitehall-place' " Zanzibar, Dec. 26, 186 6 . cc My dear Bates,—l have written fully to Sir Roderick three weeks ago, via the Cape of Goo d Hope and St. Helena, again via Mauritius an d Suez, with all information we yet have got regard" ing poor Livingstone. " As I am going to Kilwa and Mikindany for few days to see if anything is there known o f the sad story, and to seek for any letters which WI have been sent by Dr. Livingtone before crossing Lake Nyassa, I write a note to you that may go by any ship passing here while lam absent. On t h° sth of December nine Johanna men of the par t ?' which accompanied Dr. Livingstone came to Zanzi bar, reporting that on the west coast of NYa' s ' e3 ' some time between the end of July and Septem ber ' they were suddenly attacked by a band of Alall te ' and that Dr. Livingstone, with half his party, W ere murdered. Those who returned escaped, as ° i l l say, through being behind and unseen, and they all deposed to having helped to bury the dead body of their leader the same evening. Although in the details and in other things the accounts of the voions men differ, they all agree that they saw the bodYt and that it had one wound, that of an axe , on the back of the neck. One man saw the fatal blow giv en . " The attack was sudden, and Dr. Livingstone had time to overpower those who faced 11 ° 11 ' and was struggling to re-load when cut down fr °ll.l ll behind. I fear the story is true , an d that we shall never know more of its details. Full state:4l olo have gone home, but this may reach Aden by 1111 American vessel during my absence. " You will see, if this arrives first, that we hav e sad news for the society on the remain' yours, " J. KIRK." Death of "Artemus Ward." A few minutes past four o'clock, yesterday . - after noon, died, at Southampton, the well - k now American humourist, " Artemus Ward," wh ose name, reserved for the affection and esteem °f private intimacy, was Charles Brown. The ex treme delicacy of his constitution was evident to a.. his newly-formed English acquaintance,. from th° first day of his arrival among them ; but latterly. the audiences who crowded to hear his quaint n': playful "lecture," at the Egyptian Hall, rai ls have felt that the peculiarly original enter; whose real tamer was making them laugh in a P it t of a melancholy certainty that he would 13% long retain the power of appearing daily on the lit ti t stage, to explain the details of the panorama than was " rather worse than panoramas generally are. 0 One Saturday morning's performance , at which an , extraordinary crowd of notable personages a , g th r--- . ... as though .by some sad and silent determinationtte. take farewell of their favourite, proved the la . e g li Mr. Brown quitted London that same day 7 h° l3ll3 a a l to return, but hoping against hope. e America, have liked, he said, to get back again to 0 just to tell the folks there how kind a ll yoti h a ri.. been to me," meaning the many hundreds of " . 13 0 fishers" who saw in him a pleasant , graceful type vu.' of American fun, as free from a speck ill 0, Lre• garity as it was from a shadow of - a CO.: nattie , Some of Mr. Brown's best productions as brio essayist have been penned d urin g that visit and closing passage of his life, the e ro t to the t° " old country." Th e series of PP he wrote for Punch gave a fresh star _od, his fame, showing as they did a keen, though ge ti i humoured power of observation, able to deal %v _ontri il' new themes better than with old. His last - lit tle bution to literature was a clev er and tirae;iy_ 00 article, about " Converting t he Nigge,' se.,, New Year's volume of " Savag e Club FaPeri3rota Those who had the fortune to meet Air. .01 knew bin) ',rill very soon knew him ; and those who ~ 0 in mourn the loss of a gentle-barted compar__,,,,, whose shrewd, sensible say It is et fulness were most charmingly blended. rio t ' in P • man, not of the jester on platform and _ of his ings, gravity and P7 lO that we are all thinking, now that then ews but 00 death has come by no means unexpectedlyoia " o u f v .. natural and spontaneous was his assuinpu f fitnea B titious character, that there seems no lack 0 . , re . in that form of mortuary language in whic h : ga d, i 4 A r touvii Ai gretfully chronicled the death of