The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-28 00:00:00

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THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY of ST PATRICK. Instituted in the year 1784. Under the Patronage of her MAJESTY and his Royi . _ Highness the Prince of WALES. The EIGHTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY FES TIVAL of this Society will be celebrated at Willis's Rooms, King-street, S+. James's, on ST. PATRICK'S DAY, the 17th March, 1870, His Grace the Duke of AI3ERCORN, K.G., in the Chair VICE-PRESIDENTS. The Marquis of Lansdowne. The Marquis of IJeadfort, K.P. The Earl of Cork and Orrery, K.P. The Earl of Egmont. The Earl of Clonmell. The Earl Vane. TheiViscount Harberton. The Viscount Crichton, M.P. . The Lord A. Edwin Hill Trevor, M.P. Toe Lord Dunsany. T le Lord Dufferin and Claneboye, K.P.. K.C.B. The Right Hun. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. STEWARDS. The Right Hon. William Cowper-Temple, M.P. Colonel the Hon. Dudley Fitzgerald de Ros. The Hon. Robert Harris Temple. Lieut.-General Sir George St. Patrick Lawrence, K.C.S.T., C.B. Sir Georgo Frederick Harvey, K.C.S.I. Captain Sir F. Leopold M‘Cliutock, R.N. 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Box-office o pen from 11 to 4. sum LONDON, MONDAY, FEE. 28, 1870. WE presume that few of our readers who have kept clearly in view the real object of investigation in the miserable trial which has occupied so many days would have required more than the ten minutes' con sideration which the jury gave to it. It is by no means so certain that the public generally did under stand the question at issue. Two judicially distinct matters were necessarily so mixed up in the trial that it is pardonable if ordinary readers became confused, and supposed that the real matter of inquiry was if Lady Mordaunt had been unfaithful instead of if Lady Mordaunt was insane on April3o, 1869. Unfortunately the answer to the second question could be ascer tained only by raising the first. Lady Mordaunt had accused herself of adultery; that fact was indis putable. Lady Mordaunt is now insane; that fact is equally indisputable. Was there any connection between the two facts ? Was the terrible charge merely the offspring of a diseased mind, with no real foundation ? or was that charge no less true than the mental disease is now real? It was natural enough that the relatives of Lady Mordaunt should endea vour to save their name from blemish by asserting the first hypothesis ; it does not seem to us quite so natural that Sir Charles ➢lor daunt should have attempted to prove the second. He cannot doubt that his wife is suffering from the most terrible disease that can befall a human being. He can have little doubt but that this disease began, at all events, within a very short time of his instituting proceedings against her. He must have foreseen the fearful scandal to which such a trial as this would give rise. It would have been noble magnanimity on his part if he had suffered in silence the cruel wrong which he believes he has suffered. But let us not judge him harshly; we are not all heroes. None of us can tell what we should do if placed in such agonising circumstances as his. He supposed himself to be in possession of perfect wedded happiness. He had a wife "super latively beautiful," allied with the first fami lies in the land —a wife of whom any man would be proud, and who he supposed loved him. A. child is born to him whom he believes to be his own. Suddenly, in a moment, he finds his domestic honour ruined, his happiness shipwrecked. He is told by the mother of the child that it is not his, that it is the child of his friend, that she, the wife whom he loved and trusted, had sinned, not once only or with one man, but again and againwith many men; and that instead of being the high born lady surrounded with every luxury she had been a miserable harlot, selling her body to every passer-by in order to win her bread. There is something in credibly horrible in such a revelation as this. It is the very lowest depths of infamy without the smallest excuse for it; it is the nethermost abyss of hell without the temptation. Ho will not believe anything so fearful. He rather chooses to think that his wife is suffering from passing delusions not un common at child-birth. But then came damning proofs, evidence so strong that he is compelled to believe it, evidence so criminating that, so far as regards tha worst of it, there is no attempt to set it aside on the part of those most in terested in clearing themselves. lie is bound to be- lieve that ho has been shamefully betrayed ; and what wonder if, being thus compelled to admit the truth of one part of the accusation, he believes all the rest, believes that his wife is not merely an adulteress, but has fallen lower than the lowest of her sex ? and what wonder if he, thinking this, seeks to be set free from the loathsome bond which binds him to such a woman ? We might have wished that he had resolved otherwise, we might have wished him to shew himself a hero or a martyr; but are we quite sure that we should have been heroes and martyrs in such a case ? Anyway this unfortunate man is greatly to be pitied. That his wife was - guilty, that her child is not his, no one can entertain a doubt. The non-ap pearance in the witness-box of those who should have proved otherwise leaves no uncertainty upon that point, and Lord Penzance in summing up indicated clearly enough what his judgment would have been if this had been an ordinary divorce case. It is some little alleviation of the shame of this case to think that Lady Mordaunt's moral power had been impaired by the disease which afterwards destroyed her mental power, and that her sin was but another form of her terrible misfortune. For her fellow sinners, if there are more than one, there are no words of condemnation too strong. They must be left to the execration of society and the sting of their own consciences, if, indeed, they have any. A good deal has been said in the course of this trial about the injury done to the morals of tho p3ople by the publicity which the case has obtained. There aro two sides to this question. No doubt-it is an unpleasant thing for journalists, who have higher a3piratious than the largest circulation in the world, to be compelled to serve up day by day such moral garbage and filth as this trial has provided. Doubt less, too, there is many a parent who resents the in troduction of such moral offal into his pure household. But the second at all events have a remedy. A father cannot say that he has been taken unawares ; he knew well enough beforehand what his daily paper contained, and it was easy enough for him to keep it out of the bands of his daughters. Only let him be quite_ sure that they do not get hold of anything Nvorse. The Mordaunt case is innoccuous ness itself compared with most French and not a few English novels. The details of this case tire disgusting, no doubt, and that is their anti dote. French novels are not disgusting, and that is their principal mischief. It is one thing to set forth details in all their naked hideousnes ; it is another, and a far more dangerous thing, to clothe vice with a seductive veil of pruriency. There may be, as the Pall Mall Ga:ette says (though our contemporary has not fallen behind its competitors in reporting this case), something very degrading in the sight of the public crowding into Lady Mordaunt's lying in -room, and listening to the talk of the monthly nurse and the scandal of the female familiar. Bat there is far more dangerous employment than that. Disgusting vice is not one hundredth part as dangerous as the vice which does not disgust. The m)rbid anatomy of adultery is an almost harmless study compared with the glorification of it in such dramas as "La T 1 aviata " and " Formosa," and a score of novels which mieht be named. Then it must be remembered that publicity is a great safe guard against wrong doing. The dread of notoriety takes the place of conscience in the minds of those whose moral instincts are torpid. The proba bility of figuring in the newspapers as a co respondent in the Divorce Court will prevent many a man from debauching his friend's wife who would not have been deterred by any respect for the obligations of friendship or by any regard for the decalogue. Then, again, publicity is not seldom a protection against slander. Is it not better for the Prince of - Wales, for instance, that five million broad sheets should have published his com plete exculpation than that thirty million people should have believed him guilty ? Finally, we trust that this great scandal, as it has been justly called, will not be without its warning for the class who are chiefly affected by it. Countesses will learn that if they resort to such places as the Alhambra, they run no little risk of damage to their reputations. They must learn to deny themselves the amusements of the fast counterjumper and the nymph of the pavement if they would not Le counfounded with them by democratic cynics. r 1 I 1\ eirtlll4l HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 27. Her Majesty and the Royal Family attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Prince and Princess of Wales attended Divine service yesterday at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. LATEST INTELL IGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. Paris, Feb. 28. The committee appointed to report on high class educa.ion has been nominated. M. Guizot will act as as president whenever the Minister of Education should be absent. Among the members of the committee are the Duke de Broglie and M. Remusat. BOURSE, Feb. 26.—Three o'clock—The marktt closed as follows : Bank Shares 2885 Italian wives 55 85 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 45 60 Spanish Threes Rome Debt 22 Deferred 8. Cash. Orleans Western Northern Strasburg • • 6OO Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6l7* Sardinian Austrian 765 Lombard 49Bk North of Spain 69 Saragossa Roman 4} per Cent. 3 per Cent End ofmonth 73 90 Credit Mobilier 202 50 Transatlantic 212 50 Credit Foncier l7BO Paris Gas 1740 Suez Canal 337 50 RAILWA' 45i AMERICA. THE LEADER OF THE CONSERVATIVE NEW YORK, Feb. 27. The Guion United States Mail steamer Nevada arrived here at two p.m. to-day. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 28. PEERS. The Duke of Richmond was unanimously chosen on Saturday, at a meeting of Peers, to be the Conservative leader of the House of Lords. The proposal was moved by the Marquis of Salisbury, and seconded by the Earl of Derby, and was, moreover, followed by a definite promise from Lords Salisbury and Carnarvon that they would take their places in future by the duke's side on the front Opposition bench. The Inman Royal Mail steamer Etna arrived here from Liverpool at 2.40 p.m. yesterday; em barked mails and passengers, and proceeded for Halifax at 9.40 a.m. to-day. All well. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Feb. 26. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 114 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1171; the lowest, 116 i. Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll4t. " 1885 ll3/. " 1867 ll2l. 10-40 it 112. Illinois 143. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 2311c. Petroleum—Standard White 2Bic. Flour, extra state, ss.oc. to $5.60c. Corn, old mixed, sl.4c. According to Messrs. Moffatt Davidis and Co.'s report, the receipts of cotton at all ports for the week have been 83,000 bales, and since the Ist of September 2,124,000 bales. Shipments to England, 46,000 bales; to France, 8,000 ; and t• the Conti nent 7,000 bales; , and since the Ist of Septem ber, 1,170,000 bales. Stock, 570,000 bales. Mid dling upland, 10i cost and freight per steamer. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25. In the Congress the House of Representatives some days ago passed a resolution favouring an in crease of fifty millions in the paper currency. Ile Senate on Thursday replied to this by passing a resolution declaring that, to add to the present amount of irredeemable paper currency of the country would be to render more difficult and remote the resumption of specie payments; to encourage and foster a spirit of speculation ; to aggravate the evils produced by frequent and sudden fluctuations of values ; to depreciate the credit of the nation ; and to check the healthful tendency of legitimate business to settle down upon safe and permanent bases ; and, therefore, in the opinion of the Senate, the existing amount of such currency ought not to be increased. This resolution passed the Senate without division. The Senate thus opposes inflation of the currency ; the House advocates it. The currency will therefore probably remain at its prssent limits. BRAZIL MAILS. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 28. The Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Com pany's steamer Galileo, Capt. Lee, left the Mersey to-day with the ship letter mails, 11 passengers, £1,500 in specie, and a general cargo, direct for Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, and Buenos Ayres. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. SuEz, Feb. 28. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Behar left at 3 p.m. yesterday for Bombay. perty. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVE IN ING, FEBRUARY 2- 2 , 1870. SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. SATURDAY. "Coming events cast their shadows before. Waterford has answered my prayer, has given us back our Osborne, and already, while he is still on his way, as fast as steam can bear him (I would he could come by " wire "), his quickening influence is felt. Instead of dying of dullness, we are animated, almost merry ; and how great will our mirth be when " the universal representative," the ex-M.P. for Wycombe, Middlesex, Dover, Liskeard, and Nottingham, is once more among us in the flesh. If there be anything in the aphorism, "laugh and grow fat," how corpulent we shall all be getting in a few days. Lean and hungry-looking Mr. Newdegate will be as jolly and rotund as Mr. James White or Mr. Ward Hunt, and those massive men will be saying with the great Banting himself— " Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt." I found the House unusually full last night. There was scarcely any green leather to be seen. What had brought hon. members down ? Perhaps some of them had come to Westminster to hear the verdict in the Mor daunt case, and having come so far thought that they might as well look into their club—St. Stephen's Club— the finest club in the world. Some of them had certainly come out of the fulness of their hearts to shake their col leagues by the hand as they congratulated each other on their happy recovery from that preternatural gravity under which they have been suffering ever since Parlia ment assembled. But there was another cause. The House always relishes a personal scene, and there was pro mise of more than one last night. First of all, the conquering hero of Southwark had an opportunity of making his voice heard for the first time. Though a colonel, he is not in the army. Nevertheless, so great is the military fervour which inspires him that he was prompted to ask information respecting matters in which he, as a Thames wharfinger, could hardly be expected to take much interest. Then came the initiatory laugh of the evening. It was not a very lively subject which prompted it. There is not at first sight much food for mirth in the parish hearse. But the man who can make a surplus out of a deficit, and who can prove that two plus two equals five can do anything —can find a joke in the gravest subject, in the grave itself. So, on being asked by Mr. Lowther if it was necessary to take out a licence for parish hearses, Mr. Lowe said that it had not been usual to do so hitherto, but should such duty be levied hereafter, the hon. member would have the credit of the impost. Then came the first of the two sensation questions of the evening. Mr. Eylryn, M.P. for the not particularly pure, though royal borough of Wifldsor, asked if the Mr. W. H. Cooke, Q.C., who had been reported as guilty of corrupt practices at Beverley, was the Norfolk County Court judge of the same name, and if so, what steps the Government intended to take with respect to the learned gentleman. Due notice had been given of this question, and so Mr. Bruce was en trusted with the answer. It was scarcely an answer. Government had not had sufficient time to consider the matter; it was not clear that the Corrupt Practices Act applied to his case ; and anyhow Ministers were not pre pared to give a decisive reply. After a brief interlude, in which Mr. Forster made one of his clear and ready replies to a somewhat intricate question, there ensued the event of the evening. Mr. Pemberton, ohe of the new Conservative who won a county seat for his party at the general election, arose amid loud " Hear, hears," from the left side of the House to ask what steps the Government intended to take with respect to the hon. member for Wednesbury, who had been reported guilty of bribery by the Bribery Commis sioners at Bridgwater. Mr. F. Walpole, another of the county conquerors, followed up the question by asking whether this was the same Mr. Brogden who had been declared guilty of bribery at Great Yarmouth. This was a Roland for Mr. Eykyn's Oliver. Mr. Cook is a Tory, and Beverley is a Tory borough : but Mr. Brogden is a Liberal, and Bridgwater is a Liberal borough. Here was a " knot " worthy of the interposition of the "god." To move a resolution that a Liberal was no longer a fit mem ber of that House, and to get him sent to Coventry, was a portentous event, not to be even imagined without a shudder. Jupiter was fully equal to the occasion. Mr. Gladstone's answer was in Palmerston's best style, without falling into Palmerston's fault of treating a serious matter jocosely. First of all he secured the sympathy of the House by complaining that Mr. Pemberton had given no proper notice of his question. Then ho went on to skew that Mr. Brogden's proceedings took place at a period anterior to the passing of the Act, and then as the cheers arose crescendo, they became fortissimo when the Premier said that perhaps it might be necessary to enquire into the electioneering antecedents of members on both sides of the House, and then it would be for the House to con sider with whom the initiative of the investigation should rest. There was a grand shout at this, and Mr. Gladstone saw that ho had said enough and sat down. But Mr. Pemberton is not a man to be " sat upon " without re sisting the operation. He is a barrister, and has therefore plenty of assurance. Before the ministerial cheers had died away he was on his legs again, and as soon as that was seen cheers became converted into a noise very much the reverse. Shouts of " order " and " chair " greeted the member for East Kent. He struggled on bravely, and at last was compelled to move the adjournment of the House in order to put himself in order. He then said that he had put his question simply because of the question which had been put by Mr. Eykyn, and that he had not given Mr. Brogden notice of his question simply because he did not imagine that the answer to it rested with the M.P. for Wednesbury. There was a lull after this ; but though the House was not during the even ing agitated again to the same extent, there was to be another breeze. This time the wind blew from the Minis terial benches. Mr. Somerset Beaumont rose to ask if the report in that morning's papers of a speech made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which he declared him self opposed to all treaties of commerce, because they were the source of the heresy of reciprocity, was correct. Mr. Lowe said that the report was " not inaccurate." Then, said Mr. Beaumont, who as one of the negotiators of the commercial treaty with Austria, no doubt felt personally affronted by the Chancellor's most unflattering remark, "I give notice that I shall ask the first Lord of the Treasury what he thinks of his colleague's avowal." I fancy I know what Mr. Gladstone thinks ; it is that his colleague would have done best to hold his tongue. The Premier's explanation will require all his ingenuity, and if he does not privately give Mr. Lowe a rap on the knuckles for thus pouring con tempt upon the great achievement of 1860, he must have the temper of an angel and not of a man. After Mr. Beau mont rose Sir George Jenkinson, and that of course was the signal for everyone to talk as fast and as loud as pos sible. The Wiltshire baronet's question was so unusually short that hon. members did not discover for some time that he had sat down. The Speaker's " Order, or-der" reminded them of their manners, and announced the be ginning of the formal business of the evening. This was commenced by Professor Fawcett who seems to have a vested right in a particular seat near the door which is always given up to him, whoever may be sitting in it when he enters. This is not the only advantage which the Professor derives from his blindness. He is unable to refer to notes, and so he always has his ideas well in hand ; never pauses or stumbles, never repeats himself, never says " Mr. Speaker " while he is collecting his thoughts. It was a plain, straightforward, urgent, speech, which drew from both sides of the House sympathetic cheers as he described tl mischief wrought by political patronage, the unpleasant pressure to which it exposed M.P.'s, and the corruption it wrought in constituencies. Mr. Gladstone's reply was short, but it was satisfactory. The whole of the Civil Service is to be thrown open to public competition. The days of aristocratic exclusiveness are at an end. The Diplomatic Service is to be as open as the Indian Service, or as the Church and the Bar. Henceforth there is no reason why a butcher's son should not become Ambassador, just as there is none why a linendraper's son should not become an archbishop, and the son of a barber Lord High Chancellor. Thus does the people's Parliament destroy one by one the barriers which class had erected. After the cheers that had greeted Mr. Gladstone's announcement had died away, the House thinned, and there was a dreary interval of some hours. Woods and forests were dry debating. Poor-law relief was still drier. There came a diversion when Mr. Bourke, Lord Mayo's brother, and successor to Lord Derby at Kings Lynn, rose from his seat, immediately behind Mr. Disraeli's, and made his maiden speech. He had a good subject. It appears that until very recently it has been held that no stamps were necessary for building leases, but that lately the Court of Exchequer had decided that such stamps were necessary. Now, the effect of this 'lecisio' is to invalidate about a million of these lease Lc:Ale:lo , A the kingdom, and loud and frequent were the cheers . a 3.:;;,:tcd the Indian Viceroy's brother as he depicted the extreme bs.:- . ±-frip to which this decision would expose many a hardworking but poor man. The matter was not allowed to remain with one side of the House. Liberal members like Mr. Kinnaird, expectant ministers like Mr. Denman, advanced Radicals like Mr. Osborne Morgan denounced the decision, and declaredthat it paralysed industry, and shook the foundations of pro- Mr. Lowe's promise that he would do something for the future did little to allay the storm which kept gathering louder and louder, until at last the " god " once more interposed, and Mr. Gladstone promised that the whole matter should be investigated. Then came a most dreary time. Sir John Hay, who seems to be advocate•general for everybody who has a grievance, from Sir Joseph Whitworth down to Jack Tar, made an inordinately long statement about a, coastguao offictir, ,de an Nwaly THE EDUCATION BILL. A committee, of which the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Petrie, and Lord Howard of Glossop are members, has been formed on behalf of English Roman Catholics to watch the course of the Edu cation Bill through Parliament, and to endeavour, in conjunction with several Roman Catholic mem bers of Parliament, to have certain amendments introduced into it. IHE ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE.' It is rumoured that the forthcoming opera season will probably be the last in Covent Garden Theatre, as it is reported that the authorities of the Post Office have completed the purchase of the building with the view of converting it into a cen tral telegraphic depot. THE ELECTION FOR SHERIFF. The nomination for the vacant office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex will be held in the Guildhall on Thursday next. A contest is likely to ensue. DEATH OF ADMIRAL LEEK& Admiral Sir Henry John Leeke, K.C.8., K.H., died at his residence, Uplands, Fareham, Hants, on Saturday afternoon. He entered the navy in Sep tember, 1803, as a first-class volunteer, on board the Royal William, then lying at Spithead, and bear ing the flag of Admiral Montagu. Between the period of his advancement to the rank of lieutenant, the 24th of November, 1810, and the receipt of his second commission, bearing date the 15th of June, 1814, he was again employed in the Mediterranean and also at the Cape of Good Hcpe. On one oc casion, while the Persian, with a host of French prisoners on board, was off Cape Trafalgar, on her passage home, the prisoners, in the absence of the crew (who, worn out by fatigue, had all, with the exception of Mr. Leeke, the quartermaster and two men, gone below), assembled on the deck, and were in the act of making a rush aft, when Mr. Leeks seized a cutlass, threw another to the quartermaster, and, with much gallantry, succeeded in keeping them off until the alarm had brought the ship's company to his assistance. On the 26th of March, 1819, Captain Leeke was appointed to the Myrmidon, 20, on the western coast of Africa, where he cruised with great activity against the slave trade, and either liberated or contributed to the release of upwards of 3,000 blacks. In May, 1820, having the command at the time of her Majesty's ships Myrmidon, Morgiana, Thistle, and Snapper, he landed at the Pongas, in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, and, at the head of only 170 seamen and marines, added to 180 black soldiers of the 2d West India Regi ment, contrived to burn eight towns, to demolish a battery, and to effect the utter defeat of a barbarian force of 5,000 men, commanded by King Munga- Brama, a ruffian who had murdered an officer and several men belonging to the Thistle, and had re tained three others as prisoners. During the three years that he remained on the African station Capt. Leeke surveyed the coast to the extent of 600 miles. Sir Henry, as a flag officer, afterwards commanded in chief the Indian navy. His respective commis sions bore date—as captain, May 27, 1826 ; rear admiral, April 15, 1854 ; vice -admiral, May 2, 1860 ; admiral, Jan. 11, 1864. His Royal llighness the Prince of Wales and a distinguished party are expected to visit Lincolnshire next week, for the purpose of hunting the Burton country with Mr. Henry Chaplin, the master of the hounds. The visit will be strictly private. The who are members of the National Education League h we had a meeting, and appointed a com mittee of five, includiug Mr. Dixon and Sir Charles Dilko, to draw up amendments to the Government Bill. The Pope (says John Bull) has at last ceded to the incessant solicitations of his friends, and relieved Father Hyacinthe of his monastic vows. Father Hyacinthe is to become a secular priest, under the title of L'Abbe Lovson The house carpenters and joiners of Glasgow have demanded a reduction of their working hours from ten to nine hours per day. The masters have declared themselves willing to concede an advance of a halfpenny an hour, but they refuse to reduce the working hours. The Memorial Diflomatiqzte declares that the papers seized at the houses of the persons arrested in Paris during the recent riots, reveal an extensive conspiracy, including nearly all the continent, and affecting more par ticularly Italy, Austria, and Hungary. Cook, the champion, and Dufton played a match at billiards on Friday night, at the Corn Exchange, Aylesbury, 1,000 up, Dufton receiving 200. At 460 Cook made 95 spot strokes, and won. Continuing, he made 41 more spots, which is said to be the greatest break ever recorded.. Sir John Lubbock, the new :nember for Maidstone, is the fourth baronet, and was horn in 1834. He was educated at Eton, whence he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where ho took his B.A. degree in due ecurse. He was married in 1856 to a duughter of the Bev. Peter Hordern, of Chorlton-cum-llardy, and succeeded his father in 1865. At the hearing of a charge against a Glasgow butcher, for being in possessiou of the carcase of a cow unfit for human food, Dr. Johnstone thought the carcase neither unwholesome nor unsound, and to prove it had eaten a por tion of the meat. after it had been cooked. A. professor and his assistant declared that the cow was suffering from pleuro-pneumonia, and utterly unfit for human food. De- Endant was convicted and fined. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Kingsbridge Railway, held to-day, it was stated that having found it impossible to get funds to complete the line, the directors recommended the abandonment of the question. This was put to the vote, the result being for the abandonment, a share value of 24720 ; against, £1,020. The line, which is about one-third made, was to have been worked in con nection with the South Devon. The American House of Representatives and the Senate have once more come into direct opposition. The former passed a resolution favouring an increase of 50 millions in the paper currency. The Senate, on the contrary, has declared against any addition to the present amount of irredeemable paper money. It is likely, therefore, that the currency will remain 9* its present. THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL MEMS. A new farce, " Phobus in a Fix," and the cele brated Irish drama " Peep o' Day," are to be per formed at Drury-lane on Monday. The Charing-cross Theatre opens on Monday. Mr. Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Vezin, and an excellent company, open to-night at Astley's in Shakspere's " 0 thello." The " Man of the World" will be performed on Thursday next. A sensation drama, " Light in the Dark," is an nounced at the Surrey. (Prom the Musical Standard) " Dinorah" is being performed ; and the" Hugue nots" at Buenos Ayres Auber's latest decoration is the Grand Cross of the Turkish Order of the Osmali. A setting of the " Stabat" by the Viscountess de Grandval, is announced for performance at Paris. Rossini's " Messe Solennelle" has been given at Sydney, N.S.W., under the direction of Mr. John Gibbs. News of the illness of Mdlle. Patti reaches us from St. Petersburg ; the lady is suffering from quinsy, induced by the excessive cold. A concert is to be given in Paris on the anni versary of the death of Hector Berlioz, the.pro ceeds being devoted to raising a monument to the deceased master. A discovery of great interest has been made in a convent near Biberach in the shape of six vocal compositions, each for four voices, from the pen of the immortal Haydn. They are to be published in ➢Munich. Our American cousins are preparing a monster festival as a Beethoven centenary ; the scale of operations promised is even more extravagant than usual—a band and chorus of five thousand, with an audience of two millions to wit ! The French Ministry are warmly patronising music, and encouraging art in every possible way. M. Emile 011ivier, the Premier, is a distinguished violinist, and has published several pies. s. M. Maurice Richard, the Minister of Fine Arts, is also stated to be an accomplished player. Mr. Barnby has completed his "-Rebekah," we understand, but it is not yet printed. The Festival of the Ely Diocesan Church Musi cal Society is to take place in Ely Cathedral on May 24th. Their Royal llighnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales honoured the . porformances at the Adelphi Theatre on Saturday oTennig. wearisome defence. But , there was a lower depth of dulness still. Mr. Newdegate rose to speak, and the reporters set themselves to sleep. The attendant cruelly aroused those of them who had regularly laid themselves out at full length. The Sergeant-at-Arms had forbidden such irreverent behaviour. Gentleman of the press who wished to snooze, must snooze sitting or at half length. They did their best to comply, and Mr. New degate did his best to soothe them with his drone -drone--drone, which, if it does not soothe, maddens. What it was all about I don't know except that the hon. and funereal gentleman seemed very anxious to hang one of his constituents whom Mr. Bruce had decided not to hang. It was over at last, and Mr. Bruce made, for him, a very spirited reply, showing that he had not cheated Calcraft without good reason. Then the mace was taken down, and the House went into com mittee, and Mr. Hermon, who occupies the front Oppo sition bench as though he were an ex-Minister, instead of in his second session, shewed himself very curious about the newFinancialSecretary and Clerk of the Ordnance; and Mr. Ward Hunt, mindful of the economy which he did not practice in the Abyssinian expedition, endeavoured to make up for past extravagance by keeping Mr. Card well without his colleague. But the bill went through committee, and Mr. Lowe's Coinage Bill was read a second time, and at last came the question which some of us had been waiting five hours to hear, the removal of clerical disabilities, proposed by Mr. Hibbert, who, being a Dissenter, is certainly disinterested in the matter. OLLIVIEIt ON OFFICIAL CANDIDATES. The debates on the system 'of official candidatures in - the French Corps Legislatif was full of interest on the la it day. It was carried on by Emmanuel Arago, Gamier Pages, Granier de Cassagnac, and M. 011ivier himself. Bifore making his full speech M. 011ivier, after the fashion cf the French Chamber, interposed with a few sentences of considerable importance. M. Granier de Cassagnac had been alluding to the speech of the Minister of the Interior on the pre ceding day, which he believed expressed the sentiments of the Government. M. 011ivier exclaimed that there should be nothing equivocal in the matter, and asked if M. de Cassagnac meant to separate the declara tions of policy made by the Minister of the Interior, M. Daru, and by the Keeper of the Seals. M. de Cassagnac replied that he did not separate those declarations if the I.3eper of the Seals did not separate them himself. M. 011ivier replied, " I do not separate them, and to both of them I attach the same meaning. The members of the Government will remain faithful to the opinions which they have always expressed on the electoral question, and at I have already said, in the elections which take place under their administration, they will not put in practice the system of official candidatures, but will maintain a complete neutrality." The applause which fol lowed this declaration from the Left benches and those of the Left Centre, was loud and long. It called M. Granier de Cassagnac to the tribune, to speak strongly on behalf of th e sys t em attacked. It was, he said, the right and the duty o f a government to take a prominent part in the elections. The turbulent and revolutionary spirits were not always the wisest, and the peaceable part of the population was not represented by them. Many honest men shrank from the conflict and said to the Government, "We pay t axes in order that you may govern us ; govern us then. We have founded a govern mant and chosen a dynasty. We wish to maintain it. Are the deputies we have sent to represent us faithful or unfaithful ?" That is all they wish to know. M. Thiers suggested that matters might be further simplified by these electors adding " Represent us, and you will govern us more easily still.' M. Granier de .Cassagnac retorted that M. Thiers was too much a master of words not to know that argument which proved too much proved too little, and concluded by recapitulating the services which preceding Governments had rendered to the country. The Minister for Foreign Affairs had said that he had passed eighteen years in domestic retirement, but those years M. Cassagnac and his colleagues had passed at the side of the Emperor, assisting him in giving France the security which she now enjoys, the prosperty to which none can be indifferent.— M. 011ivier, in reply, acknowledged the services rendered to France by former Governments and answered in detail the arguments brought against him. The example of Casimir Perier had, he said, been held up to him, but the situation was very different. When Casimir Perier came into power the country was disturbed by the effervescences of liberty, when the 011ivier Ministry were called to office —and they were virtually called on the day when that Chamber signed the interpellation of the 116—the country was disturbed by the too great concentra tion of power. (Loud applause.) " The mission of Casimir Perier was to satisfy the spirit of order ; ours," continued M. 011ivier, "is to reassure the spirit of liberty. But Casimir Feller, in giving the spirit of order the satisfac tion it demanded, would have been but a poor politician if he had not respected the fundamental laws of liberty and we should be contemptible as statesmen if, absorb e d in the thoughts of the liberty demanded from us, we did not respect the fundamental laws of order. This is the difference between the two situations, and the explanation of the different lines of conduct." After declaring that they had no wish to separate themselves from their predecessors for the mere sake of separation, the Minister continued, "If the Sovereign confides in us to-day, is it not because we represent those principles which during long years inside and outside the Chamber we have sup ported with the unchangeable obstinacy of conviction ? M. de Cassagnac has told us that .we are mistaken that our course is dangerous and uncertain. I am not sur prised that he should think so. But, gentlemen, I con jure you, understand our situation ; understand that we should weaken the Government in whose name we speak in an irreparable manner, if we offered to the.country the afflicting spectacle of men who arriving at power by means of certain principles, disavow, efface, and renounce the principles which have supported and advanced them. No, no. We shall not do this !" M. 011ivier sat down amidst enthusiastic applause from the Left and the Left Centre. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. The notice papers for the week promise us a dull par liamentary time. The Irish Land Bill does not come on for second reading until next Monday; the Education Bill is fixed for this day fortnight ; and the other subjects set down for discussion are so very far from being exciting that they are for the most part rather uninteresting to the general public. For this evening however an important measure, the Coinage Bill, is down for committee— the House of Commons will discuss the " making " of our money ; and the clauses of the Attorneys and Solicitors Remuneration Bill will be gone through—the House thus turning to the means of spendinc , money. The questions are more numerous than important. The first question to be put to Mr. Chichester Fertescue to-morrow evening has been described (we fancy by the Premier) as " the longest question that ever one person put to any other person." The qUestioner is Sir Thomas Bateson. He calls attention to Mr. Madden's case, and asks, in effect, whether, while that gentleman (a Conserva tive) has been dismissed from the magistracy by a Liberal Government for " language of studied insult to the Queen," Mr. Butt, Mr. Heron, and the Earl of Granard (Liberals) have not used equally insulting language, and yet have been retained in their respective offices.—Captain Dawson-Damer desires, apparently, that the Divorce Court should not be a public one. He asks whether it would not be possible and expedient to impose some check on the publication of the reports. —Lord Claud Hamilton follows Sir Thomas and moves for copies of correspondence on the same sub ject. We may anticipate a spiriting debate upon the question.—Mr. Dodds comes forward with a bill for reforming the registration of votes ; and Mr. Rylands brings in his bill to extend to the whole of Sunday the present restrictions on the sale of beer ' ' and other fermented or distilled liquor." On Wednesday the Scotch Game Laws are to be dis cussed. On Thursday the Metropolitan Relief Bill is to be brought on for second reading. Committee on the Life Assurance Bill is fixed for the first named day. The Army Estimates are to be moved by Mr. Cardwell on the latter. On Friday Mr. Secretary Bruce will introduce a very im portant measure indeed—a bill to amend the law for licen sing the sale of spirituous liquors. Going on in the same line, Mr. Donald Dalrymple will move a resolution that it is desirable to legislate for the proper reception, deten tion and management of habitual drunkards. Tie Irish Land Bill (as we have said) comes on next Monday, March tha 7th and the Education Bill on the following Monday, Mardi 14. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE PUBLIC.-- Twice during the present week the Prince of Wales has received (for the first time in his life) tokens of public disapprobation. On Monday night he was hissed at the Globe Theatre. The Princess was cheered enthu siastically by the uprising audience when she appeared in front of the box. 'the cheers were changed to hisses when the Prince appeared. His Royal Highness coolly surveyed the scene through his opera glass. 40n Thursday night, at a volunteer supper in the City, the toast of the Prince's health was received with a few cries of "No no." The ch a i rman rec ommended those who objected to retire. The health was then drunk without opposition.—Manchester Examiner. BUTTER FROM MUD.—A fortnight ago we drew attention to the fact that the butter of South London was adulterated with tallow, starch, manganese, salt and water. We tho ug ht th en th a t we had reached the Ultima Thule of adulteration, but an ingenious individual has since added another sophisticating agent. A friend has in his possession a specimen of pure white fat, taste less, and perfectly inodorous, which has been ob tained by a clever analytical chemist from—what do our readers suppose ? Simply from a portion of Thames mud, taken from the river at Batter sea ! And we are afraid that this new discovery of science is no longer a secret, for the owner of a small wharf on the bank of the Thames had an offer this week from a person desirous of becoming the tenant, and on asking the purpose for which the wharf was required ho was told it was to be used for manufacturing butter, to be sold to the poor at a shilling per pound ! No doubt it was the intention of this philanthropic individual to have sup plied the public with dairy butter fresh from the bosom of old Father Thames.—South London Press. THE POLICE AND THE CABBIES. —Mr. Knox, the magis trate at the Marlborough -street Police-court, oymbies about the action of the police towards cabmen. He says that about 200 summonses are taken out against cabmen every week. Making reasonable abatement for dismissals, it might be taken that about £4,000 annually is taken out of the pockets of the cabmen, who are, after all, only trying to earn a living. There is no part of his duty which gives him more pain than being compelled to deal in this wholesale way with this class of cases. THE PRICE OF A BROKEN HEART.—A breach of promise case, of a painful nature, has been brought to a close at the War - wick Court. A respectable mechanic at Coventry sued Mr. Dickson, a traveller for £6B 6s. 6d., for having failed to perform a promise of marrying his daughter. The girl had left her situation at Perrott's restaurantin London to be educated, with a view of being married to defendant in six months. She died of a broken heart, and this action was brought to enforce her father's claim. An agreement was made, and a verdict entered for £35. LITERATURE. One Maiden Only. By Edward Tainsh, Author of " St. Alice." Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. Very vividly does this story open upon us. It is a wild night on the Cornish coast, and an anxious group are watching the struggles of a shipwrecked crew. Among the watchers are Mr- Spenser, the old clergyman of the village, and his daughter Beata and his two foster sons, Geoffrey and Hartley Leighton, who have been educated under his care since the death of their father. The two young men are regarded as brothers at the vicarage, and to Beata they are very dear brothers. A. boat is despatched to the rescue of the drowning men, and Hartley volunteers to be of the party In the moment of danger, when his life trembles ill the balance, Beata Spenser, in the agony of her emotion, discovers that Hartley is mere to her than a broth€r. The scene is very effective throughout, ►nd it is the prelude to a very enthralling atoly The autlan's meaning with regard to the title of the work is not explained to us ; it may mean that one maiden only could act like the unselfish and devoted Beata, but more probably, we arc inclined to think he title has referenca to the conduct of Hartley in offering to more than one fair damsel the devo tion of his fickle heart. When absent from the more perfect Beata Hartley amuses himself with Etta, and every reader of his history considers the hero rightly served, when (both ladies being en lightened by the gossipping letters of a common friend) he is refused by the one and the other ! This occurs at the very beginning of the story. The first volume is a very eventful one, and is for that reason perhaps the most interesting. We shall not reveal the ultimate issue of Hartley's courtship, or explain the different effects which disappointed love produces upon the hearts and lives of Beats and Etta. The different development of their characters is very cleverly and effectively pour trayed. The names of the heroines of this tale are indeed somewhat eccentric. We have not only Beata and Etta, but Elia and Ailleen, assuredly four as peculiar appellations as were ever bestowed upon four fair ladies. The love story of Geoffrey and Elia is very tenderly and delicately touched upon ; it is more of a dream than a reality. We are, how ever, inclined to smile at the indignation with which Geoffrey, and the author also, regard the conduct of Elia's uncle. It is true that every teacher is not a GeoffreyLeightou. Elia's guardian was certainly defi cient in discrimination, but the fierce denunciations of his " reptile" nature are, to say the least of it, extravagant to a degree. The two brothers, Geoffrey and Hartley, are as dissimilar as two brothers could well be. The vicissitudes of Hart ley's character and career are very skilfully described ; 'we follow him with interest throughout, and close the third volume of the story with regret. " One Maiden Only " will find favour with many novel leaders, and that Maiden will assuredly be no other than Beata Spenser. Misunderstood. By Florence Montgomery, Author of " A very Simple Story." One Vol. Richard Bentley. Few who have read " The very Simple Story, " so charming in its simplicity and so pathetic in its truthfulness, will i very readily forget the picture of little May, in ber night-dress, standing 011 tiptoe at her mother's chamber door,- or that other picture,when she has gained access to the forbidden room, of the living child asleep on the bosoin of the dead mother. The pictures and the nar rative of " The Simple Story " were worthy of each other. The same authoress in this new book now before us:describes to us with tender, loving touches the trials and emotions of another mother less darling. Florence Montgomery is, indeed, gifted with a wonderful appreciation for the joys and sorrows of childhood, and marvellous in sight into the workings of little hearts. The hero of this tale, the child who is " misunderstood" even by those who love him best, is Humphrey Dun combe, the elder of the two sons of Sir Everard Duncombe. The mother has been dead a 'few years before the opening of the tale, and the bright impetuous Humphrey and the gentle, timid Miles are left to the care of Virginie, their French nurse, at their father's country seat. Sir Everard, who is much engaged with Parliamen tary duties,spendsasrnuch time as he possibly can with his beloved children. He is a most tender and devoted father, but the object of the story is to show how easily some children may be misunderstood by hasty, superficial observation, even of an affectionate parent. Little Humphrey Duncombe is outwardly gay and vivacious, ready to yield t o the impression of the moment, but is gifted with a ten derly susceptible heart. To his father he always appears thoughtless and possessed of little feeling, but his mother had been well acquainted with the depths of his affectionate heart. Her memory lingers lovingly in his thoughts, and her picture in the ne glected drawing-room is his favourite place o f re fuge in the troubles of his childish life. The little story is narrated with the same charming natural ness of style and tenderness of feeling so conspi cuous in the former writings of Florence Mont" gomery. PARLIAMEN7 AND THE PRESS. Parliament is unluckily a body of finite powers, and a very narrow allowance of time. Its capaui' ties for doing business must be limited by the num ber of hours in a year during which an elderly' gentleman can be kept sitting in a Gothic chair 10 a full-bottomed wig. But to debates in the press there is no more limit than to currents in the ocean : they flow on boundlessly for ever, rambling hither and thither, and traversing ever, region accessible to the human mind. More over they are conducted in a way which frees the participants from many temptations. It mei be laid down as a general maxim, that a man is greater humbug on his legs than in his arm-chair. Nobody ever made a telling speech without more or less deceiving himself in order to deceive his audience. It is said, I know, that anonymous writing is objectionable, because the want of re sponsibility tempts a man to use unjustifiable weapons of warfare. That may be true, and, t lo ' doubtedly, many cases occur in which the system operates chiefly in this direction ; yet we must net forget that it has certain complimentary advan' tages. To say the truth I have often wished, 1 0 spite of philosophers and moralists, that more instead of fewer people were anonymous. Perhaps the press would be better if all articles were signed ; I cannot argue that point, but sermons and speeches would often be more honest if their authors were concealed• When I have seen a good genuine philanthropist learn to bring his benevolence to market, and to purchase with it social popularity, or a place in Parliament, or it may be nothing, but applause at public meetings; when I have seen a [statesman degenerate into a blatant stump-orator, or a power ful preacher appeal to bigotry or ignorance W help him towards the episcopal bench, I have wished that their preaching or speaking might be done byroe o in masks or converted into anonymous articles, and, therefore,incapableof win nig g popular renownfor the authors. The responsibility which is imposed upon public actors often does them good ; but w ith the responsibility comes a temptation which few too l have the power thoroughly to resist. 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