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G. Taylor, Miss Lavis Mrs Leigh Murray, and Miss M. Hai ris. Box-effice open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for bookin4 Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. THIS EVENING, at 7, YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER a l A fte r which, PAUL LAFARGE: Messrs. J. Rouse, W. Rig nold, Geo. Belmore, Vollaire ; nesdames R. Leclercq and Le- Oder*. LYCEUM TIIEATRE (under the management of Messrs Mansell (elegantly redecorated by MacTntosh). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER: Messrs G. F. Neville, Odell, and Wilmott; Mesdames Rignold and Morgan. Aft r which, CUILPERIC, by Herve: Messrs M. Marius, G. Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Aynsley Cook, and 11. Hervd: Mes dames Deism, Fit2luman, Remanent, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1870 _ WI) X 41,131. LONDON, FRIDAY, JL4I?CiI 18, 1870, Mr. OSBORNE has again made his voice heard, in the House, and his numerous friends and admirers, must have rejoiced to find that he came among them with unimpaired energies and unabated zeal. Ile could scarcely have chosen a more appropriate theme for his discourse on this occasion than the topic which, on Wednesday, engaged the attention of the House of Commons. With his usual skill, Mr. OSBORNE turned the tables on Mr. LIDDELL, who had spoken just before him, by declaring that his experience of elections had been cast in a happy land ; he had known nothing of the ups and downs of thelpopular vote. He could well take up a logical position in discussing the question :—" I unfortunately have bad some experience of general elections in more lively latitudes; and I must sly, with my experience of the last general election in a midland borough of England; and with my more recent experience, of an election at a seaport town in Ireland=-(laughter)—in spite of logic, and .in spite of all these stock arguments which I have heard so often repeated on this Ballot question, unless you do introduce secret voting the whole system is a farce." It must, indeed, have seemed idle to the ntwly elected member for Waterford to be told that the advantage of the present system was that a man might record his vote without fear ; well might he say that the practice was at direct issue with the theory. Another strong point of his argument may be found in the passage where he pleads the rights of Conservative working men, and points out that great injustice may be done them if they vote as members of a minority. It is all very fine to tell them they have logical miudF, but they are more fully convinced of the fact that they have breakable heads. Secret voting was well described by Mr. OSBORNE as a protection against a tyrannical majority, or a protection for working men against the tyranny of their fellow-workmen. "You must remember that corruption is a wide-spread disease among all classes, and intimidation is not confined to the rich and powerful. Every man likes to be powerful and to control his own society. I flatterno class, but I dread tyranny as much from the mob as I do from the wealthy ; and I would give protection to both by the system of secret voting." This is a far more candid and straightforward manner of deal ing with the question than that adopted by too many reforming enthusiasts, who can see no merit in the upper ranks of society and recognise no fault among the lower orders. Never, perhaps, have we been called upon to report a more painful and unsatisfactory story than that of the collision between the Bombay and the Oneida. The facts, as now repotted, are almost incredible to Englishmen, and we can only take refuge in the hope that the distance has lent some inaccu racy to the current versions. The New York papers give, it is true, full details of the calamity, and there is a partial confirmation of the narrative in the news received from Hong Kong, of the suspension of the Captain of the Bombay for six months. If it be true, however, that the English vessel went on her way unheeding, having injured the Oneida to such an extent that she sank in a very brief space, carrying with her over a hundred men, the case assumes a very startling aspect. Should this be proved to have been the fact six months' suspension is apunishment totally inadequate to the offence. If it be not true it is not easy to see why the commander of the Bombay should be punished at all. Let us hope for the credit of humanity and the honour of British seamanship that the sentence may rrove to have been intended to punish some - negligence in navigation, some error in judgment, or inatt mtion to duty, not, an act of cruel indifference or calculating selfishness which it is difficult too strongly to condemn. TILE EDUCATION DEBATE. The education debate will be resumed to-night by Mr. Harcourt, in support of the amend ment, who is to be followed by Mr. Man della on the other side. A great number of gentlemen are bent on speaking, and the mino rity are determined, it is said, to move the adjournment again in order to obtain a morning sitting on Monday or Tuesday for the conclusion of the debate. This will, of course, be resLtel by Ministers on the ground that it is urgent to go on with the Land Bill in Committee nezt week; but it would not be matter of surprise if the dissentients had their way. Mr. OSBolucE put the facts of the case before the hoo. members without gloss or varnish when he told them that the noble animal, the British voter, was a poor, timorous creature, afraid to vote openly lest his person or prztperty should suffer. Those who listened to this speech had indeed a grand opportu nity of hearing an experienced individual discourse of his election adventures in the sister countries of the United Kingdom :—" I have a little acquaintance with the town of Nottingham; I left it because it was a little too lively for me, and I am not prepared to say I have b:nefited by the change. (Great laughter.) I have shown you what occurred in Eng land—" the land of the free." Now look at Ireland. ever there was a country where open voting and free dom of election is not only difficult, but impossible, it is Ireland. Look what happens in Ireland when there is an election. The pollee and military occupy The ground in large numbers, the voters come up at the peril of their lives, and "your committee accompany you to the ground armed to the teeth." No one who considers this. will be surprised to hear that in Ireland the people are for the most part afraid to exercise their pri vileges and record their votes. But, pursued Mr. OSBORNE, in his rambling but effective style, look at the recent election for Tipperary, represented by a distinguished Queen's Counsel. "Heis in the same boat as myself—two popular members obliged to fly for their lives. Tipperary contains 10,000 voters, of whom six thousand stayed away on ac count of fear. Would they have been afraid if you had had the Ballot ?" asks the hon. member for Waterford, with finished irony and pointed sarcasm ; and then adds, with an unanswerable force of argu ment, "I can tell you this, if you wish to supersede the revolver, you must have the ballot-box. Free dom of election in Ireland is a farce. If you wish to supersede vote by bullet, you must have vote by ballot. I have my doubts of the Government bring ing in a bill ; the noble lord has got too much to do to send the telegrams 'right." Mr. OSBORNE cannot be accused of mincing matters at any rate ; but neither should we be justified in saying that he exaggerated or set down aught in malice. He has narrated his adventures in a striking manner and in a spirited style ; and while he succeeded in adorning the tale for the amusement of his auditors, he pointed a moral for their edification. He has passed through many ordeals and braved many perils of land and water to have the proud satisfaction of standing before the members of the House of Commons as the representative of a constituency, and to tell them that the. mode of securing that representation is neither worthy of the character of their augur assembly nor conducive to the credit of free Inst tutions I The perils of the seas are being brought vividly under our notice at present. The long continued suspense respecting the City of Boston is reaching its climax, the melancholy story of the Oneida is still fresh in our minds, and to-day we are startled by the news of a terrible catastrophe, which occurred last night in the vicinity of the Channel Islands. Of the origin of the fatal collision between the Normandy and the Mary it would be premature to speak. A dense fog is said, however, to have been the proximate cause of disaster. The history of collisions at sea is alu ays painful and unsatisfactory one. A seafaring life has, as we all know, its inevitable perils, which cannot always be avoided by the utmost prudence and watchfulness. There are gales which no skilful seamanship can suc cessfully battle ; there are rolling billows whose resistless force no craft, however seaworthy, can sur mount unharmed ; there are rocky coasts, and hidden reefs, and floating ice islands, which no chart can indicate, and no experience accurately fo• etel. There are cyclones and hurricanes which the science of meteorologists may prophesy, but cannot elude; there are sea fogs and land fogs, leakagts and fires at sea, whose dangers no human providence can alto gether shun. But a collision cannot be placed under any of these heads. The sea is wide enough for all. A very small degree of watchfulness and seaman ship will suffice to enable two vessels to steer clear of each other. We do not hear of vehicles driving into each other on the high road, if the drivers are in full possessio❑ of their senses. Why should vessels run deliberately into each other at sea, when the space is so much greater, the consequences of colli sion so infinitely more disastrous ? Every year our wreck register tells us a painful story of loss of life and property from this cause. The property w a e must look upon as wilfully wasted, the men who arc sacrificed must be numbered in the cata'oguo of Preventible Deaths. Whether from carelessness, a fault not ordinarily passed over at sea, or from stupidity, or from petty professional pride, is not easily apparent, but the fact remains that collisior.s at sea form one of the regular sources of fatal and disastrous accidents. LITERATI:UIt. SMITH, PAYNE, AND CO - - It sounds commercial, ,but it is comic to the last degree of comicality. It represents no bank ; or, if any, the bank (may we say it_?) whereon the wild time grows—the time for leisure and for laughter. It is the conjunctive title assumed to themselves by a couple - of wags, worthy of each other, and so adtnir ably well matched in competition with their rival leaping-poles of pen and pencil, that their wits jump together ha - moniously —hither and thither —across the Channel—from Dover to Calais, from London to Paris--if not from grave to gay, from lively to severe, from lively to gay, and from gay back again to lively. Carrying out the jest with which they have started, Smith, Payne, and Company, in other words, Mr. Moyr Smith, the artist, and Captain Bertrand Payne, the arch-wag, man of-letters, publisher, what not—these two in combination with those who are evidently im plied by the Co., namely, Messrs. Noxon and Son, of Dover-street, Piccadilly, have produced a book full, from cover to cover, of fun, frolic, and facetiousness, capable of scaring away a whole legion of Llue devils, of tickling dyspepsia into goad humour and of calling forth , a chuckle from the veriest hypochondriac. Here is the title of the vo:ume The Anglican• Mysteries of Paris : Revealed in the Stirring Adventures of Captain Mars and his Two Friends, Mes sieurs Scribbley and Daubiton. Depicted and Described by a New Firm with an Old Name, Smith, Payne, and Co. London : E. Moxon, Son, and Co. Since Richard Doyle's pencilling of the Ad ventures of Messrs. Brown, Jones, and Robin son, we have had no such_ book as this by Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Company I A book in which are recounted and depicted the " Anglican Mysteries of Paris,"—meaning the stirring and sur f rising adventures encountered in the French capital by Captain Algernon Milleflnir Mars of the Royal Volunteer Horse Marines, and his two par ticular fi lends and fellow-travellers, Messrs. Scribbley and Daubiton. The former of these two friends of Captain Mars, mewling Mr. Frank Scribbley, is the long-legged sub-editor and back-bone of The Kasper, a weekly journal of vitriolic criticism. The other attached companion and compatriot is a sort of Pocket Hercules of Art—a genius working away at High Art, with a very short arm, but a ver3rlong brush, from one of the upper rungs of a very tail ladder, typical of the altitude of his aspirations—Mr. San An gelo Daubiton by name, and in his own estimation, at least, a person of stupendous capabilities. Setting out together, these three, to wit, Mars, Scribbley, and Daubiton, may be said at once to have gone and been and done it—meaning Paris ! They have evi dently enjoyed themselves first of all, and by their faithful record of all they have seen and heard have enabled us afterwards to be participators in their enjoyment. Unwilling to hide their light (hearted ness) under a bushel, they preface the visible and risible narrative of their adventures with a Dedi catory-Page on which their Book is formally in scribed to The Prince Imperial of France, " a very good Little Boy" —as a sJuvenir of a very pleasant visit to Paris—the inscription being proffered to his Imperial Highness " with his august Papa's gra ciou3 consent as a reward for progress in his English Studies." Turning the leaves after reading this Dedication, we come almost immediately upon the delineation of the facade of " The Epicurean" one of the most imposing (literally) edifices in the metropolis, in which the three friends concert their plans over a banquet. The grand entrance of this stupendous dininghall—erected, we are told, from the designs of Mr. Daubiton—is, in its architectural arrangement, very much like the glorification -of one of those astonishing structures capable of being built up with a child's box-of-bricks. The inside is worthy of its exterior. At the close of the sympo sium, we behold the three friends pledging each other, in zig-zag attitudes, intenied by them to represent the perpendicular. As it is, they are evidently half-seas over, long before they attempt to cross the Channel. Glimpses are caught of them next at the Victoria sta - tion, and afterwards on the Quay at Dover. On deck and down below, later on, one or the other of them is seen in the agonies of Crossing. Then the comic business, as they say in the Pantomimes, in earnest begins, the pace of the three friends soon becoming fast and furious. Through these adventurers it would be utterly impos sible—without the pictures it would be simply idle and absurd—to attempt following them incident by incident. All that one can reasonably attempt is to instance some among the more salient' occur rences. Bent upon figuring away in the Bois de Boulogne—Captain Mars attires himself in the astounding uniform of the Royal Volunteer Horse Marines, a sort of cross between a Lord Mayor's Man-in-Armour and a Crystal Palace ,Forester! Scribbley deems it advisable to go as a Man of the Period, fresh from Rotten Row ! Daubiton, with a railway rug (apparently), a wide-awake and an ostrich feather, goes in grandly for artistic effect The collective appearance of the three may be readily enough conjectured. Not their horsemanship, how ever, when they are thus attired ! That must be seen in order to be appreciated—the representation of itbeing on plate 14. Another incident worth noticing is that delineative of a visitpaid by the trio to the studio of Monsieur. Gustave Dore. The appearance of the three travelling Englishmen, afterwards, at the Fancy Dress Ball given by their Imperial .Majesties •at the Palace of the Tuileries, is, to put it mildly, nothing less than exeruciitingly ridiculous. Captain Mars modestly petitions the Emperor to appoint him Mar shal of France, offering thereupon to assume the supreme command of the whole Army, the Police, the National Guard, and the Sapeurs and Pouipiers, as well as of every man, women, and child in the French Empire ! The way in which all these are de picted—in perspective lines, dwindling away into the remote distance in which they are lost in a vanishing point—is a sight to see ! Plate 23 is the one on which the whole of this panoramic view is delineated. Rebuffed, but dec rated by the Emperor, Capt. Mars gets into a difficulty with a Monsieur le Mari, by reason of certain attentions paid to Madame. The result is a duel with Hydropults, in the which the belligerents are all but drowned. Bent upon distinguishing hims , lf in litera ture by writing a popular History of Paris, Scribbley is next portrayed under various astounding circum stances—now smashing Carlyle, now knocking Dickens off his pins, now reducing Kinglake to his proper level, and so forth. Purchasing a few tons of paper, a million quills, and ink in proportion (all this again is she wn in perspective), he sets to work on his opus magnum. Then we have Daubiton—out-doing Delacroix in horrors, regarding Chillay as an up. start, considering De l'Huile a humbug, and the like Ac ioice specimen of the Caddus Britannicus on plate 34 is finely conceived and admirably delineated.. It looks alarmingly, as though it were, a likeness ! The Flaneur, ignorant of "le boxe," on plats 41, is also deliciously absurd. As, on the next plate, is the result of his wrestling match with friend Scribbley. Daubiton in ChAncery, " as in France," is another wild whimsicality. Altogether the book, as an elaborate piece of dro'lery, is an astonishing evidence of the Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Com exqu'site and most poignant sense of the ridi culous. Ir will be welcomed equally wi , h roars of laugh•cr around the drawing room tables of France and of England. Her Mjesty's Indian troopship Crocodile is re ported by tJegrain to have arrived at A!cxaedria on the morning of the 14% inst. ; all well. The ni-xt examination of candidates for adtnissicn to the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering will be held towards the end of next month. All applications must be made,before the 20th inst. ronticai parties are rather in a state of confusion just now, The Radicals are beginning to chew the same dis trust of Mr. Gladstone that Mr. Bright and his friends (who are left far behind by the present "advanced "men), used to manifest towards Lord Palmerston. They are im patient that the Prime Minister does nor" move on," for- getting that to disestablish the Irish Church, settle the Irish Land question, and bring in an Education Bill, to say nothing of reforming the army and navy, is not bad work for fifteen months. This suspicion has been exhibited on Several occasions during thA present - session. The Radicals are angry becatise Mr. Gladstone will not pre raise to deal with the University Tests Bill this year; are angry again because Mr. Forster will not consent to State intervention in religious teaching by prohibiting such teaching ; angry once more because Mi n i s t ers were not prepared, on the very day after the report of the committee on the conduct of elections was drawn up, to legislate upon one of the points mentioned in the report, at the bidding of a private mem ber. Clearly there is no need for the Conservative party to abdicate just yet, nor for many a day to ceme. Its work will be that of assisting Mr. Gladstone to resist the pressure put upon him by the extreme section below the gangway. Such an idea would have seemed absurd to Conservatives fifteen months ago, but thess aro rapid days, and we are moving on very fast. The position, howev er , i s not exactly parallel to that of ten years ago. Though the Conservatives are supporting the Government on the Education question they have de termined to "go in" for several amendments on the Land Bill. This was resolved upon at the meeting at Lord Lonsdale's residence (which by the way is almost next door to Mr. Gladstone's). About 160 members of both Houses of Parliament were present at the meeting, and Mr. Disraeli spoke for more than an hour. There is not the smallest wish on the part of the Opposition to reject the bill, but„they think that the general support which they will give it entitles them to some concessions on the part of the Government. Some Of the amend ments it will be out of the power of Ministers to accept, and I scarcely think that the Lords will insist upon them, But it is early yet to speak on that point. With refer ence to the Education Bill, I may add that it is believed the Ulster Conservatives will take no part in the division. They say that they were deserted last year by the English Conservatives, and that these must fight their own battles alone this year. Moreover, the Ulster men are afraid that if they support denominational education in England, it will be extendet to Ireland. • The Wednesday debates have not usually been lively this Session. Yesterday's was an exception. The Game Laws and the Ballot are both questions which arouse good deal of political feeling. The first was settled for the time by a definite promise on the part of the Govern ment that a Ministerial measure dealing with tho flatter would be brought in. The second gave .ise to a very animated discussion. Mr. Leatham poke for more than an hour; but the speech f the afternoon was Mr. Bernal Osborne's, whose picture of himself and Mr. Heron, " the two popular candidates," fleeing from their constituents, was admire., ble. Very good, too, was the touch about his having left Nottingham, because it was too lively, but without benefiting much by the change. His description of Mr. Lowe's experience at Kidderminster, in 1857, also told very well, and the House did not mind the delicate snub which he gave to the 'Marquis of Hartington, the only member of Government present. Lord Claud John Hamilton was almost as lively, though in a different fashion. He was received with cheers and counter cheers. Mr. Gladstbne is looking very much better than he did oefore the session began. I saw him about two months ago at Professor Tyndall's lecture, in the Royal Institu tion, and he was then appearing terribly worn and anxious. Now he seems far more happy, feeling, no doubt, that his two principal measures are, according to all human probability, sure to be passed ; Ind, I presume, taking very little thought about the threatening letter which he has received from an irate Rutschuck-Varna railway shareholder at Ghent. Mr. Disraeli is far from strong. Mr. Bright is about the ame. There are those who say that he will never sit on the Treasury bench again, that he will resign nis seat at • the Board of Trade to Mr. Cardwell, mad that the latter Minister will be succeeded by Lord Northbrook, who, as Mr. T. G. Baring, had much expe :ience of War Office matters. Bristol friends tell me that the chances are in favour of air.. Kirkman Hodgson. But as that gentleman has offended some of the clergy (who have great influence in Bristol) by declaring himself a Broad Churchman, and as he is, moreover, not on good terms with the temperance party, it is impossible to speak with any approach to cer tainty. Mr. Odger is generally supposed to have no hance. There is great soreness amon g scientific men because . . A. HUSBAND TT SEARCH OF Tin WIrE. lovernment is withd raw i ng t h e pecuniary •aid which A very strange case was on Wednesday investigated It has giv en hi t h erto for scientific objects. It by the W a k e fi e ld b ench of magistrates. A young woman named Fanny Lumb, a d omes ti c servant, i n the employ ' can been notifi e d th at h enceforth the Government will Of Mr. C onacher, Bond-street, i n that town, charged A 'lave nothing to do with eclipses of the sun or t h e moon, tnd that gentlem en w h o are i nterested in "Bailey's middle-aged south- countryman, named Frederick Pincher, with assaulting and threatening to stab her. She stated beads " must gratify their curiosity at their own expense, t she had never seen the man i . n her life until afe YOur readers are aware that within the last week or two weeks ago, when a fellow -servant pointed, him to her ag outlawry has come to an end, and it has been re- I9itering in a suspicious manner about the place, and a croritauttenrerzatrdersfoteo accosted e her and claimed to s 1,1 marked in some journals that there never was an short Eibolietcpurpa faewfoZgg thing in it. This is very far from being the case. Many disappeared for several weeks, but fears ago a gentleman, then young, having been rather ago, and continued his annoyances. O Monday mornineeo extravagant, went abroad, leaving some of his debts un- ,t half-past eight o'cloc o l;, h t e h r e t piiisoner came t s o ai h d er h mastrl paid. A Regent-street tailor thereupon outlawed him, s n t e ag'h a e n r if 'sl l ij )r dl s d e n n o c l come vlri v ea rv a a n n d,' taking e h w er o bi rwo or three years later the gentleman returned, and his the hand, he dragged her some distance into Arundele !tether having died in the meanwhile, he was now become street. There two men came to her help, and she ran td 4 wealthy man. Perfectly ignorant of the fact that he e t h o e police-office itte upon to .i e e r ont e i lain of ao the iie o t u o tr u a t g o e f t t h h a e t I h v a a y d b e untile ;vas that terrible thing—an outlaw—he went to the the following night,when he came willi a cart, accompanied tailor's shop, paid his bill, and ordered another suit. The by several men, one of whom told Me. Conacher that he ;alders, not wishing to lose a good customer, was very vas a detective, i .iend had been employed br Pincher a td i careful not to inform him of what had been done, tense- s ca p r geh o e ff nded s . wtirte prfso o n rt er ly cro a s f s t - e e r x w a ar m ds ined her at euently the outlawry was never reversed. For forty years length to show that he married the girl at Croydon the subject of it went on living in blissful ignorance, and and that she lived with him at several places in the luring that time he filled more than once influential s s e o e u n th,. bup,efsohree, ImiotuivgVshdeeaeldanarrtitetdhgasthsehehildadnreivvel public offices, like that of high sheriff for little while ago at Croydon with an uncle. He also his county. county. But at last his conditi on w as dueed his pocket-book, in which he said his wife -had revealed antillurtehe to "Fanny i " was si t i i spicimli revealed to him in a very unpleasant manner. He had to bring an action to substantiate his Leath= : % . hether the woman is y e our n wi e f r e m er a not, ert is noti right to the possession of certain property. He for us to judge ; but whether she is your wife or not, you gained the action, but the defendant pleaded that the have no right to assault her.—The Prisoner : I did not do so. I said, " I love you as I love my life. I'd lay down plaintiff being an outlaw, had no civil rights. This news and let you go over me." —The bench sent the prisoner to fell like a thunderbolt upon the plaintiff. Fortunately six weeks' imprisonment, in default of finding sureties to for him the judge ruled that the objection ought to have keep the peace. ' been taken at the outset of the proceedings, and could . THE MERTHYR TYDFIL BOARD OF HEALTH.—An appli not be pleaded afterwards. Supposing this course had cation has been made to the Master of the Rolls on behalf been taken, the outlaw would have found himself in a very of the Merthyr Tydfil Board of Health to further suspend unpleasant position. - the sequestration issued in July, 1869, foe- breach of an Mr. Gladstone has completed the Episcopate, ana injunction i a o g n e granted th ien 11 3 i 6 v 8 er reepu . ninf: e he3% fromar have echbaerg there are now only two of the bishops who have at- constructing temporary works to remove the evil coif these are the full age of man—threescore years and ten; plained of, and propose to remedy it altogether by a dif teunthliNeesploaorfd tp a e d se b wage. The Master of the Rolls these are the Bishops of St. David's and Llandaff. The singularly questratiOn.te dilatorybe suspended their I movements, g but allowed th e e en se two newest bishops are, however, rather advanced in years ; both of them are 60 years of age, and the present Premier can hardly h ave th e same horror of the until the first d ay i n E aster Term.A 'Geer TO A S OLICITOR.-- A case of some interest to the present Bishop of Gloucester and Bri s t o l received a predecessor had. When the public h as b een decided in Vice Chancellor Stuart's Court. A solicitor named French received a gift of a the offer of his bishopric from Lord Palmerston, ex- large sum of money from Miss Harrison, his sister-in-law. ex plained that he was a Conservative, and might have A. bill was filed to set aside the deed on t er ground of P to vote against the Government, and that, there- tclemclu.e influence, but the Vice-Chancellor, after quoting a fore, the Premier might like to withdraw his sozitoonr or aLtciordrneEl.down s h ilY e he s r t e an it d r e as laid d a down rofe t s h s t n n a o l offer. But the jovial Minister replied, " Co me a l ong relationship towards a child, shoull accept p a reward or and have some lunch. There is only one thing I have to gift from the infant, drew attention to the dissimilar made.eircums circumstances under was s nde n r o s w e led r e e h ey tt n e te i i i f e t m inl e i r s case e had been s ask of you—don't die." It does not seem clear to what school the new Bishop of Chichester belongs. I had always of singularly acute and business-like matter, and lad y was e b v e e r dismissed acted supposed him to be a Low Churchman, but an Orange most l emProbabl t e he tha d t fe el a t dvr a t d age had 'been taken, paper speaks of him as a Ritualist of the highest type, p es r p le c ssio y nal as capacity. e The bill must n There seems to be no other foundation for the state- sosts. , - '•- le went than that Archdeacon Durnford was one of the THE FAMILY ENDOWMENT SOCIETY,—An applicatiA c l ergy who treated the Greek Archbishop with hospita- has been made to the Chief Clerk in Vice-Chancellor lity when he visited the diocese of Manchester. Speaking James's Chambers in the case of the Albert Life Assurance of bishops, I may mention that it is highly probable Company. The application had reference to a premium Government may be called upon to establish a bishopric connected with the Family Endowment Society. Both societies (which had been amalgamated) were now in for Liverpool before long. Chancery, and the question was as to the payment of the Bfa curious coincidence' two Madera of antagonistic premium. An order had been made that applications schools at Oxford were preachin g w ithi n a stone's throw o f Should be made before the 30th of March, orotherwise - each 'other in London on Sunday. Mr. Liddon was the 'parties would not be entitled to full payment. It was one of his " conferences," whi c h is the last new name for Pointed out to the Chief Clerk that many policyholders of po e rt a a ne n: e lgamate companies might not be aware of the im sermons, borrowed from Rome. At YOI.IE-street Chapel 1 ' of the' order, and he referred it to the Vice- (Mr. Stopford Brooke's) Professor Jowett preached one Chancellor. Vice of his quietly eloquent sermons, so sedate and I TAE R IGHT ....HE xvIGHT OF USING TRAMWAYS.—An application ;,.yet so full o f f ee li ng , as thoroughly English has been made before Vice-Chancellor Malins on behalf of in the style of delivery as Mr. Lidden's is French. ket "It i fin the Live r p oo l T ramway Company to restrain the Liver- The Profe ssor t oo k f or hi s s ished," and for pool Omnibus Company from using the Liverpool tram his subject th e comparat i ve uncerta i nty of life. He Way. M r . B ev i r, w h o appeared for the plaintiffs, asked argued that whil e we mus t all recognise th e uncertainty ithat the motion might stand over till Easter term, as the of life, yet we mu s t bear in mind that the chances are that 'evidence was not complete. He said the Liverpool Tram each of us will live a certain number of years, varying way Company was entitled to an ex c l us i ve us ` e - of the tram way for eighteen months, but th e L iverpool Omnibus according to our present age, and th at as we ' see the Company were using it. The question in the case de period diminishing year by year, we ought to take stock pended upon the construction of the Act Parliament of what we have done, and how we may best turn to best yttgdde7ewnndaonf defendants) tramway. i Mr. Glasse, authorising t c l i ie fo l r a account the residue, so that at the end we, too, might )oreclereeetdeduti°e an m adjourn say appeared t ar t e he Vice - Chancellor m y with something of satisfaction, imperfect as it must staagyer ial gm 21stA A1261 - - -Ifr , ' l ::---- 4,,12 " 4 th-ii i AltaLikile..f . UlSl2l2lohed.lP k. 142,1_12..a:12_:_1a,..::::" METROPOLITAN GOSSIP—MARcir 17. A letter from India gives me a very lively description or the reception of the Duke of Edinburgh in the Puujilb. His reception at the railway station was a most maw' cent spectacle. There were nearly seventy elephants, in prgeous trappings, and with howdahs of green vel vet, embroidered with gold. A large number .of rajahs were invited to meet the Duke, and their cau? was one of the sights of Lahore. The Naha rajah of • Cashmere, bei n g a ver y great swell, put up at a house. At the State dinner there were about 30 untlemen and 14 ladies, and a most sumptuous banquet it. was. Still more brilliant was the conversazione after dinner. But the grandest sight of all was the dance in the Montgomery Hall. The splendid uniforms and the v,ried costumes of the native princes, together with the elaborate toilettes of the ladies, made up a luxurious feast of colour. In the morning before the ball the Prince had . to go .through the formality . of receiving the Rajahs. Etiquette is a very serious thing in , India,. and the Duke had to be "coached" 'IP beforehand as to the amount of attention he • was to chew to each prince. He had a throne with a carpet around it, and according to the rank of the rajah was the nature of the Duke's movements on the carpet. The ICing of Cashmere had to be met on the edge of the carpet, and to be led hand in hand by the Duke to a seat beside the throne. Tho King's son, a little boy of eight, was to be .met in the cent re o f th e carpet ; other ra j a h s h a d to be received standi n g, o th ers s i tt i ng. The Duke wen t through the formality v er y we ll , an d a l together he won golden opinions by his affability, and by the respectful courte s y which he chew e d t owar d s t h e Li eutenant- G overn or, Sir Donald M`Leod. O ne o f t h e presents offere d by the King of Cashmere to the Duke of Edinburgh was a sh awl worked by hand, and which had taken 100 men threP years to make. An American letter, written from on board H.M. Monarch, describes the interest which that vessel has excited. Considerable curiosity was manifested in the vork'ng of the compound pivoting gun-carriage invented by Capt. R. A. E. Scott, R.N. When the secretary the navy, and some members of Congress went down to Annapolis, to see the vessel, Captain Commerell got UP steam and went down the bay, and fired one round from each gun. Altogether the Americans have been greatly impressed by the vessel and her armament. The chief event in the literary world is the illegal selling of the American edition of Tennyson's poems by no fewer than four Glasgow publishers, and the legal proceedings to which this incident has given rise. In the statement of facts set forth by Mr. Tennyson and hill publishers, Messrs. Strahan, it is stated that the latter have the sole right to publish the Laureate's works for a period of five years. Of course neither author nor pub lisher could let such a glaring infringement d copyright pass unnoticed, and a legal injunction has been obtained against the sale of the American edition. The title of Miss Evans's (" George Eliot's") new poem, which is to be published in " Macmillan's Magazine," is " The Legend of Infal," and Mr. Anthony Trollope% new tale, which is to appear in the same periodical, entitled " Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite." B 7 the way, Mr. Trollope is re-publishing in a volume hiS " Lotta Schmidt " and other tales which he ,has con tributed to some of the magazines anonymouslY• Mr. Hepworth Dixon's book, which I referred to some months ago-, is to be called "Free Russia," and will. as I said then, deal with the emancipation of the serfs. The book will be out very shortly, and leave its author free to look after his new venture, the paper which he 15 about to start under the name of Light. Professor Max Miiller's lectures on the Science of Religion, which he has been delivering at the Royal Institution, are to be pub• lished in four consecutive numbers of Eraser's Magazine. A new weekly, called Charles's Wain, is to appeav, on the 22nd, at the low price of a penny. It will be; published by Captain Charlton Tucker, a former officer 4 in the army, who has -lately entered the publishing bull•. ness, and is shewing much spirit and enterprise. This gentleman is publishing a new edition of Mr. Charles, Kent's poems, which edition will include many newpiecee written by the author during a recent Continental journey Mr. Robert Buchanan will have a new book, "The Book. of Orm the Celt," out in a few days. Miss Phelps, the American authoress of "The Gate's Ajar," has just pub- 3 dished a new book called " Hedged In." The new volume of Macmillan's " Sunday Library " will be by Miss Keay,' and the title of it "Nations Around." Mr. HenryWheatley's " Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall," just out, con tains some interesting information about Burlington House. Mr. Lowell has republished a series of his magazine articles with the title "Among my Books." Mr. Austin, author of " The Season," turns out to be the writer of the clever but somewhat spiteful criticisms upon Tennyson, Browning, and other poets, which appeared some little while ago in Temple ,far; the czalcioDlS trl being republished in a volume, GENERAL LINDSAY. It is stated that General Lindsay is to be placed upon the regular staff of the army for six months, and sent out to Canada as a sort of Commissioner from the War Office, to complete the evacuition of the Dominion by its former imperial garrison. PETITION AGAINST RETURN OF MR. B OSBORNE. The petition against Mr. Osborne's return for Waterford city - charges Mr. Osborne with bein,g, guilty, by himself or his agents, of giving or pro mising money to voters, and supplying meat and drink to influence them corruptly. It also charges using and threatening to use violence and force to intimidate voters, and the abduction or duress of voters. LOSS OF TIIE MAIL STEAMER NOR. MANDY. SOUTHAMPTON, March 17. The London and South Western Company's steamer Normandy, Captain Harvey, left here last night for the Channel Islands (about twelve o'clock). _ At four a.m., thirty miles from the Needles, the screw steamer Mary, bound from the Danube for London, ran stern on into the Normandy during a very thick fog. She struck the Normandy abaft the midsbip section, cutting her down to the water's_edge, and the after cabins and bold filled immediately. The numbers lost are : Captain Harvey, chief mate, chief and second en gineers, 3 sailors, 7 firemen and carpenters, 3 first class gentlemen passengers, 4 second-class lady pas sengers, and 10 deck passengers. RUMOURED DIFFERENCES LN TILE FRENCH CABINET. The Francais, which is considered the accredited organ of MM. Darn and Buffet, gives an em Katie denial to the rumour of divisions in the French Cabinet, published in the Prone. " Several journals," says the Francais, " speak of a difference which occurred at the late Ministerial Council. We know nothing a what passed in the council. We can, however, affiym that M. Emile 011ivier and M. Dam, who were said tot* divided in opinion, are perfectly agreed. The members of the Cabinet may have different views on certain political questions. The object of Cabinet Councils is to bring these different opinions into a harmony which secures the homogeneousness of the Cabinet, and renders ea c h Minister individually res p ons ibl e for the conduct of the whole Ministry. It is thus that matters should stand, and it is thus th e y d o s t an d, and the Cabinet of January 2nd pursues a p o li c y from which none of its members with. draw. The same journals speak of an intervention of Prince Napoleon between two conflicting members of the Minis. try. This intervention never took place, because the conflict never existed." The Soir cautions its readers against putting faith in the rumours set afloat during the last faw days, " with a zeal too great to be altogether die. interested." The Soir declares that the majority of the Cabinet have decided to assume an attitude with refe. rence to the Roman question which shall enable them to retain the support of the minority. THE DUEL IN SPAIN. • '--"'".77 The Nord summarises the views expressed by the Spanish papers on the late fatal dueL It is doubted whether the Duke of Montpensier has render himcelf amenable to the law, but there is no doubt that the im pression produced by the occurrence in Spain Ns unfetveur able to him. The proof of this is found in the language of the Madrid papers which have hitherto supported him. The Correspondancla merely says that Don Enrique de - Bourbon has died as the result of a dentele diJagreable brought about by a fly-sheet published some days ago. El Universal speaks coldly of " the disagreeable question which has been raised between two high personages," and adds In another place that it has heard that the " Infante Don Enrique died suddenly this morning." The Epoca says that the magistrate who had to investigate the case judicially finds that the death of the Infante was accidental ; it took place while he was trying his nista some disappointment has been felt in Paris because ;lie Ministers have declined to take advantage of the birthday of the Prince Imperial to release the political Primers of February. . Tne IYCZU Y ork Herald of the sth instant states that the United States Government arc awaiting the offi cers' reports on the collision between the Oneida and the Bombay before framing rules for a searching investigation into the circumstances of the disaster. Previous to her departure from St. Petersburo• ~,, Madame Patti rece i ve d from a club of noblemen a brooch of the value of £3,000, and the members of the orchestra of the Italian Opera presented her with a golden crown of laurel on which was inscribed, "A. 'Adelina Patti. l'Orchestre de l'Op6ra Italien." We understand that Mr. Wilson, of tho New York Associated Press, has offered a reward for the dis covery of the person or persons who originated the rumour respecting the arrival at Queenstown of the missing ship City of Boston. The Western Daily Press says it is probable that Mr. Odger will consent to a test ballot between himself, Mr. Kirkman Hodgson, and Mr. hobinron, the three B Liberal candid a t es for ristol. Mr. Hardinge Giffard, Q.C., will, according to a wide-spread report, offer him self as a consehative candidate. Mr. Giffard fought Cardiff at the last general election, and made 2, q 55 to 2. Qk;2:„, , ~., • 1) I) "tttl D, D 1 Dat, D c we e U ( rpm 4404, it a; iS i, b ti; •q ezi bil Do no For t