The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-19 00:00:00

SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. WEDNESDAY. Now that we are half way through May the interest in parliamentary proceedings has become very much diminished, and although under the rule of our "earnest" Premier holidays are forbidden, the House is several times in the course of an evening in such a state that it might be counted out. As for the Peers' Gallery, it was left last night for a considerable time to one solitary Westminster Scholar, the Speaker's Gallery had but ten occupants, and even the Strangers', which has occupants though it is only a road bill that is being discussed—even this gallery was but half full. On the opposite side the Press Gallery had, indeed, its usual staff of reporters, but the " able editors " were as few as coroneted carriages in Pentonville. Can you wonder at it? Read the " questions "in last night's list. There was the old annual about Hamilton-place, that sacred street which all the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men cannot get through, which not even an Act of Parlia ment can open, though it is a case of all London against six "swells." Some years ago the matter might have excited some interest; but tve have long since submitted to our fate ; we acknowledge ourselves beaten by Mr. Wentworth Beaumont and his neighbours, and it is only when poetic vengeance comes upon them in the shape of a great jewel robbery, that we are for a moment aroused from despairing apathy. That certainly was not amatter to draw a large attendance last night, either of M.P.'s or strangers. Akin to this was Mr. Denison's question as to whether cabs would be permitted within the sacred enclosure between the Marble Arch and Apsley House. There was deep design in that ques tion, however. Mr. Denison meant to force Mr. Ayrton into cutting through Hamilton-place by turning hansoms and growlers into Hyde Park. This was a horrible suggestion, so horrible that Mr. Denison thought it would frighten our most popular of 2Ediles into doing something decisive. M.P.'s would seem to have been taking their walks abroad, for after the questions about Hamilton-place and Hyde Park came one about that great triumph of British art, the Guards Memorial iu Waterloo- Place. Profane contractors have been piling up road stones on the base thereof, and all the vast and complex machinery of Parliament was set in motion last night by Lord Claud Hamilton, in order to remedy this great and shameful wrong. Sir Henry Hoare made use of the same illustrious organisation to put Kensington Gardens in order. Sir John Hay, who ought to have been a canon so fond is he of great guns, had a question about Sir Joseph Whitworth's piece. There were some other ques tions of a different class, but is it not a terrible waste of time that the first representative assembly in the world should be compelled to pacify hon. members, whose anger is excited by a heap of road-stones ? Drowsy as this catechism was, it was liveliness itself compared with the debate which followed. Sir William Payne Gallwey—bald-headed, grey-moustached—M.P. for the populous city of Thirsk, who makes one speech in each Parliament, delivered himself last night of an oration about the Folkestone and Boulogne and Calais and Dover packets. He began at five ;he went on for more than three-quarters of an hour, one word in every two seconds. The Westminster Scholar could not stand it, and fled. It was a welcome relief when Mr. Shaw Lefevre got up had rattled off his reply in true official style. The Channel steamers not being Government vessels, the Secretary to the Board of Trade did not feel himself under any obligation to de- fend them. Still he was a trifle more eulogistic than he would have been hadhe been actUallysuffering the horrors of the middle passage. However, he gave us hope of im provement before long, and, after speaking for twelve minutes, sat down with an appeal to the venerable baronet not to go to a division. Probably Sir William Gallwey never meant to do so ; for, no one seconding his motion, he would have found the right hand lobby rather a forlorn place. However if he could not divide he could make a second speech, which was listened to or rather not listened to by a gossiping house. At last there was a cheer, the first which the Yorkshire baronet had excited. What was the good thing he had said? That he would say no more. The next notice of motion was one by Mr. M`Cullagh Torrens, praying the Queen to provide passages to colonies for emigrants at cheap and uniform rates of charge. But there's sometimes a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, and it was so on this occasion. Torrens is not a common name, but there are two M.P.'s who own it, and both sit on the same side of the House, and both take a great interest in the colonies and emigration. Now it so hap pened that when Mr. R. Torrens, the M.P. for Cambridge borough, two and a half months ago brought forward a similar motion, which was negatived ; this fact was not forgotten by the watchful Speaker. He has quite long hours enough, and so have Ministers, and he had no in tention of allowing a violation of the rule which prohibits a motion to be made similar in substance to one already moved in the same session. Of this he gave Mr. McCullagh Torrens due notice, and so instead of making his speech the M.P. for Finsbury was compelled to explain that he would not be able to make it, where upon up jumped Mr. Macfie to move the amendment which he had put upon the notice paper. He was received with shouts of laughter and cries of order—almost the first sign of life for the evening. The mover of the amendment was thus as badly off as the member for Finsbury. Both had intended to " orate," • both were picked up short. The laughter subsided ; the Speaker, vis pietate gravis, rose, expounded the House of Commons law on the point, and then called upon Mr. Graves. Now Mr. Graves is a great commercial autho rity, and he had an important subject, the want of a commercial member in the Council of State for India. He spoke well (barring an excess of quotations), and he was not too long, in fa ' t he occupied less than half the time taken by Sir William Gallwey ; and at twenty minutes to seven Mr. Crawford, M.P. fur the city, as great a commercial magnate on the Liberal as Mr. Graves is on the Conservative benches, rose to speak on the motion. Jude • from his statements, it certainly is not the fault of the errunent that com mercial men are not on the C 011..- They have been asked and they have refused ; a case of nolo episcopari in fact. When Mr. Crawford had finished Mr. Eastwick had the .parole. Mr. Eastwick understands Eastern affairs if any one does, and his remarks were fre quently applauded. In fact he is one of those new members who have gained the ear of the House, and to whom the House is always ready to listen. Not that he is an orator. He simply talks in a conversational manner, but he always talks well, and understands what he is talk ing about, a quality which the House values a good deal more than eloquence. While he spoke the Treasury bench was occupied by Mr. Gladstone (asleep I fancy), Mr. Ayrton who used to make India a specialit4, and Mr. Grant Duff, who ought to have been Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, but who nevertheless is not doing badly at the India Office. The Marquis of Lorne entered the House while Mr. Eastwick was speakimf, for the young nobleman naturally takes some interest in the de partment over which his father presides. The other mem bers who took part in this debate may be divided into three classes : there were the members representing great critics, and as such largely interested in the trade of India, viz., Sir Thomas Bazley, Mr. Muntz, and Mr. Graham, representing Manchester, Birmingham, and Glasgow, as Mr. Graves had represented Liverpool ; there was Sir Charles Wingfield, who like Mr. Eastwick has a special acquaintance with India; and there were members of the Government—Mr. Grant Duff and Mr. Gladstone. Fortunately for the House the Premier has learnt to tame that once most unruly member—Mr. Ayrton's tongue—by putting its owner into office, and so, though the First Commissioner of Works was one of the few Ministers who listened to the debate, and though, previously to December, 1868, he would have given us an hour's speech on the subject, he refrained, and after a debate of two and a half hours, in which the unanimity of the speakers was wonderful, the motion was with drawn, and nothing came of it, as is apt to happen when everybody is agreed. The purging effect of an Indian debate upon the House of Commons has been proverbial from the days of Macau lay downwards. Your readers will therefore not be sur prised to learn that by eight o'clock the House was very thin. This is the witching hour of dinner, and the benches are at this period of the evening always in a rather forlorn state. Yesterday there were other reasons why they should have been inure than usually empty ; the occur rence of an Indian Debate as already mentioned, and the fact that Mr. Fawcett had a motion coming on. Mr. Fawcett is a very clever man, but I am bound to say he is net a favourite. Conservatives look upon him as a second edition of Mr. Mill, thorough going Ministerialists think him a pragmatic doctrinaire, and if the Professor were to hear the remarks made upon him by those shrewd and generally impartial critics, the occupants of the Press gallery whenever he rises to speak, I do not think he . would le! pleased. Let it be understood that I am passing no judgment upon him. I am simply recording the fact that he is not popular either downstairs or upstairs, and I do so simply to explain the catastrophe which happened last night. I 'said at the commencement of this sketch that our " earnest " Premier does not allow us the luxury of count-outs. There is no rule without an exception, and that exception happened yesterday. Soon after the Professor had risen, a member (one of those who are said to do good deed by stealth and blush to find it fame) stole up to the Speaker and suggested that there were not forty members present. The Speaker went through the usual preparations for counting heads, and Mr. Glyn Aid not think it necessary to use his Mr. Disraeli put his professor into a book, and thereby inflicted condign punishment upon Mr. Goldwin Smith ([think that by a slip of the pen I said Professor Rogers' on a former occasion). Mr. Gladstone punished his by allowing him to be counted out. This is only the second count-out of the session, and on each occasion Mr. Vaavcett has been the victim of it. Scarcely an undesigiiel anincidence. I am thinking. IMPORTANT MEETINGS. NATIONAL SUNDAY LEAGUE. —The annual meeting was held at Freemasons' Hall. The report stated that the number of persons taken by Sunday excursion trains in 1869 was 13,000, the amount paid to the London, Chatham and Dover and the London and Brighton Companies being nearly £l,BOO. As the London, Chatham, and Dover, the South Eastern, and the B r i g ht on C om p an i es intend to run excursion trains on Sundays during the the forthcoming season, the League would not run their occasional t ra i ns . Th e S un d a y bands were carried out as usual by the League in Battersea-park, and by East London friends in Victoria-park. During the win ter the League had carried out "Sunday evenings for the people" on the original St. Martin's Hall basis. The re ceipts of the year from all sources had been 2,300 3s. lid., while the expenditxre left a balance of £62 2s. 6d. in favour of the association. BAND OP HOPE UNION.—The annual conference took place on Tuesday morning, in Exeter Hall. In the even ing the anniversary meeting was held in the great hall, and was very largely attended, the buildinc , being insuffi cient to accommodate the crowd attracted by the event. As at previous gatherings, the platform was appropriated to the Band of Hope choir of 600 voices. Mr. Edward Baines, M.P., occupied the chair, and was sup ported by Mr. Charles Reed, M.P., Mr. M. H. Dalway, - M.P., and many well-known temperance advocates. The Rev. G. W. APCree, the secretary, gave an abstract of the report, which states that every year serves to establish the importance of the work, its intimate relations to the education, physical health, and morals of the people, and of its ultimate spread throughout the nation. The income for the year was £2,570 16s. 7d., and the expenditure £2,448105. 10d., leaving a balance of 2122 ss. 9d. The chairman referred to his own experience of thirty-two years as proof of the advantages and benefits of teetotalism, and mentioned that Dr. Living stone, Mr. Cobden, and many other distinguished men had personally assured him of their conviction that the movement was a right one, and that they had virtually bean voluntary abstainers themselves, under the most trying circumstances. BAILWAY BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. —The twelfth anni versary festival was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Lord Colville in the chair. The Duke of Richmond and many other distinguished men were present. A donation of 100 guineas from the Queen was announced. In propos ing the toast of the evening, Lord Colville observed that the enormous railway system of this country re quired an army of something like 300,000 men for its efficient working. How that army did its duty might be gathered from the fact that in the year 1869 only seventeen railway passengers met their death from causes beyond their own control, that was, supposing the number of travellers to have been no greater than it was in 1867, at the rate of one in seventeen millions. Unhappily the immunity enjoyed by railway passengers did not extend to railway employes, as would be seen by the dreadful catalogue of cases relieved by the society which had been circulated in the room. The object of the institution was to afford assistance to cases which were beyond the aid of the companies. That assistance it gave in the way of pensions or gratuities to members, or their widows and families, and of education to their children. The income from all sources in 1869 was £5,396 ; there was an invested capital of £25,200, and the number of men in the service contributing was 29,200. Donations amounting to the liberal sum of £l,lOO were announced. GENERAL DOMESTIC SERVANTS' BENEVOLENT INSTI TUTION.—The twenty-fourth annual meeting was held at the Hanover-square Rooms, Lord Ebury in the chair. The report stated that there were fifty-four pensioners now on the fund, seven of whom were receiving £2O per annum each, and the remainder £l5 per annum. The total number of pensioners elected since the formation of the society had been 103, who had been paid the sum of £10,500. Arrangements were in progress for the erection of an asylum for aged and decayed servants. The registry was working well, and gave general satisfaction to both employers and - servants ; no servant being admitted on the registry who is not a member of the institution. The total income for the year had been £1,763 9s. 7d., and the expenditure, including £BlB paid to pensioners, £43 in temporary relief, and 2416 invested, had been £1,694 2s. 3d., leaving a balance of £69 7s. 4d. Mr. Villiers has been elected chairman of the Convents Committee. The Lev a nt Times states that Mrs. Lloyd's pension from the Greek Government is to be £4OO a year. - The marriage of the Marchioness of Hastings and Sir G. Chetwynd, Bart., is to be solemnised the second week in the ensuing moth. The new Roumanian Cabinet has published its programme. Its watchwords are to be " Morality, Le gality." It is stated that the pay of the Commander-in- Chief in Ireland is henceforth to be £2,000 per annum instead of £4,000. The account of the reception of the Rev. Mr. Jackson at Ledbury is incorrect. The parishioners gene rally took no part in the proceedings. Yesterday morning about 10.30 it was discovered that Mr. Firth, photographer, of Dudley-grove, Padding ton, had committed suicide by taking poison. He leaves a wife and six children with one child lying dead. James M'Donald, a young Irish labourer at Bolton while crossing the railway was knocked down by a goods train and had his head completely severed from his body. The real mystery of " Edwin Drood " is now sup posed to be the substitutiOn of Mr. Fildes in the stead of Mr. H. K. Brown (Phiz) as illustrator of the work. London Figaro. The Imera, a Greek journal published at Trieste, recommends as a remedy for the present condition of Greece to abolish the Constitution, and to put the power into the hands of King George. It appears from the return of Metropolitan Pau perism for the first week of May, which is published to day, that the numbers irf receipt of relief amounted to 140,500, or 40,500 less than at the close of February. Mr. Zerah Colburn, the well-known civil engineer, died at Belmont, near Boston, U.S-A., on the 27th ult. Mr. Colburn was formerly editor of The Engineer, and afterwards proprietor and editor of Engineering. He was also the author of a number of papers read before the In • stitute of Civil Engineers, of which he was a member. He was in his 37th year. Senor Madoz, the bearer of a letter from Marshal Prim to Marshal Espartero, stating - that an important frac tion of the Cortes wished to elect him as King, and asking for a statement of his views, has returned from Logrono with a letter from Espartero, declining to accept the proffered dignity on account of his age. The reply has caused much disappointment in Spanish political circles. THE SANITARY CONDITION OF PARIS,—The mor tality reports continue to chew an unsatisfactory state as regards the health of the French capital. The smallpox is increasing in fatality, no less than 179 deaths from that cause having been returned in the week ending May 14. The total number of deaths in Paris from all causes during the week was 1,210. The mortality of London during the previous week was 1,314, which, comparing the respective populations of the two capitals, 3,214,707 and 1,825,274, gives a very disadvantageous prominence to the Paris figures. A. practical illustration of the value of the new Torquay harbour in a pecuniary point of view has just been afforded, which is of considerable importance to the inhabitants. Hitherto only vessels of small tonnage have been employed in the coal trade, owing to the depth of water not being sufficent to accommodate ships of a larger class, and the cost of the best coal has been at the rate of 245. to 255. per ton. On Monday night a large screw collier having nearly 600 tons of coal on board entered the new harbour, and lying alongside the quay in deep water dischargedher cargo into the stores close by, from which the best kind is retailed at 18s. 9d, per ton , creating quite a revolution in the coal trade.—Weste rn orning News. PROMOTION BY BRIGANDAGE.—There was a poor gendarme, who, for long, long years, aspired after the rank of a corporal. He was a good soldier, brave enough, and the least refractory in his company; but his only patron was himself. So he deserted, and turned brigand. Here he was able to display his talents. He was soon well known to all the heads of the gendarmerie. They tried to catch him, and missed catching him five or six times. Giving up that game, they sent a friend to treat with him. " You shall have your pardon, and, to make up for your trouble, you shall be made a corporal to-mor row, and a sergeant in the course of the year." His ambition was satisfied. He consented to be made cor poral, awaiting patiently his sergeant's stripes. He had long to wait for them. One day, his patience was worn out, and he returned to the mountains. 'He had not killed three men, before they made haste to make him a ser geant. He afterwards rose to be an officer, with no other patrons than the persons he had put underground.— Dicken's " All the Year Round." A NEW STIMULANT.—It cannot be too widely known that persons who object (whether for good or bad reasons) to take or to administer alcohol in cases of prostra tion, or in those numerous morbid conditions of the nervous system which are akin to the exhaustion of fatigue or innutrition, may avail themselves of an admira ble substitute of a perfectly safe character, against which neither the conscience nor the palate will rebel. The substitute is nothing less than Liebig's extract of meat, an article well known and in generaluse in respectable households, and frequently used in the preparation of beef tea, and for gravies, &c. As ordinarily used, the extract is certainly not to be regarded as a stimulant, except in so far as all nourishments are stimulating ; but when made into tea of very' great strength it is another matter. A teaspoon f ul mixed in a teacupful of hot water (the water need not be boiling hot), with a sufficiency of salt to render it palatable, acts as an immediate stimulant, being quickly assimilated, and affording an im petus to the circulation while actually nourishing the tissues. The drink thus prepared is of a fine dark brown colour, very nearly approximating to the colour of coffee, and is extremely palatable. In its effect it differs from alcohol ; it does not provoke the tongue to action, or dis turb the healthy action of the brain, but it gives warmth to the whole frame, tone to the nervous system, and a steadiness to the operation of the senses. It is, in fact, one of the most valuuable of restoratives, and especially useful, as above remarked, to those who need the aid of alcohol, but have an objection to take it, or to whom, perhaps, it may be repugnant. It is proper to remark that a constant use of strong infusions of the extract by-healthy people is not to be advised ; it, in fact, might prove injurious, just as th e excess i ve use of alcohol must prove. In common with all other stimu lants, it must be used with caution, but many cases occur in which it would prove a real blessing, and a safe sub stitute for brandy, wine, &c.—Dr. I\i'Dominnn, in Gardener': Magazine. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 19; 1870. LAW AND POLICE. FALLING OVER A PLANK.—A case has been tried in the Court of Queen's Bench to recover damages for injuries sustained through the alleged negligence of the defendant's servants. The plaintiff, a shopkeeper in Bayswater, was running along the road, when he fell over a plank which the defendant's servants had laid across the pavement to carry sacks of flour into a baker's shop. The plaintiff was seriously injured, but the defendants contended that it was usual for millers to lay down planks. Mr. Justice Hannen would not deny their right to use the pavement in that way, but they were bound to take reasonable precautions. Verdict for the plaintiff. Damages £2O. IMPORTANT DECISION ON PARTNERSIIIP. — The judges of the Court of Queen's Bench and CoMmon Pleas decided an appeal—" Kendall v. Wood "—from the Court of Exche quer, which has an important bearing on partnership relations. The parties were Manchester merchants and the plaintiff sought to recover £l,OOO from the defen dants, that amount having been paid in excess to the defendants by his partner without his knowledge. The co-partner had paid, the partnership moneys in discharge of . his own debt, and the defendants gave him a receipt on the partnership account, but they afterwards transferred it to his own debt. The question was whether the plaintiff could recover the £l,OOO paid by his partner. The court held that plaintiff was entitled to recover, and entered the judgment accordingly. THE WARRANTY OF A HORSE.—An action betweentwo horse dealers has been brought in the Uourt of Common Pleas. The plaintiff imported a black horse from Hanover, which the defendant agreed to buy, provided it passed the Veterinary College, which it did. A few days after it had been taken to the defendant's stables its leg swelled, but nothing serious was apprehended. A week later the plaintiff and defendant agreed to an exchange of horses, and the plaintiff asked if the horse was all right. The defendant said it was, and this was the .warranty sued on, for the horse grew worse, and had to be destroyed. The defence was that his disease was of old standing, and he was substantially in the same state when exchanged as when originally purchased. Verdict for the plaintiff—damages £85.. A SECRETARY OP A NEWSPAPER IN THE BANKRUFTCY COURT.—Mr. Charles Fowler, late secretary of the Oxford Times Newspaper Company, came before Mr. Registrar Roche, at the Court of Bankruptcy, ou an application for order of discharge. He ascribes his failur e to his having taken a farm at Bicester, which resulted in a loss of upwards of £3,000, and to the Oxford Times Company having turned out a failure ; also to his being and involved in two Chancery suits. He owed to unse cured creditort £2,030, besides liabilities of £10,965, of which £10,154 are in respect of Chancery suits. The assets are merely nominal. The bankrupt had been required to file additional accounts and some vovchers, but, as the latter had not been produced in time, an adjournment of the sitting was ordered. DIFFICULTIES OF A THEATRICAL MANAGER.—At the Wrexham County Court, before Mr.. B. Vaughan Wil liams, Miss Laura Selwyn and Miss May Mayfield, actresses, brought an action against Mr. Philip Hannan, manager of the Wrexham Theatre Royal,' to recover £l2 2s. Bd. for services rendered. Miss Selwyn conducted the case on behalf of herself and her sister. She said : The action is brought to recover a balance due for the - joint services of myself and this lady (Miss Mayfield), at the rate. of 355. per week, and also another claim for thirty-three morning performances. I charge for the thirty-three extra morning performances at half salary price, 2s. Gd. a time (£4 2s. (;d.), as is customary in the profession. I also claim a week's in lieu of a week's notice, as we were summarily dismissed.—Mr. Hannan : The ladies were engaged by the week, and if they. consent to act as extra performances, I have a right, as manager, to have their services. I have played in Scotland on New Year's Day three or four times, and have never received a farthing extra. His Honour : Would not Mrs. Charles Kean be rather surprised if she were called upon to give an extra performance without additional remuneration ?—Mr. Hannan : The cases are different. We did not have full performances. Subsequently Mr. Hannan admitted that £3 2s. 2d. was owing to the plaintiff, and his Honour thought that the ladies ought to have something for their extra work, and he gave judgment in their favour for 26. Miss Selwyn then applied for her expenses incoming from Birmingham to attend the case, which were granted. OBSTRUCTING THE POLICE AT A FIRE.-- Ch aries Hill, a servant at Claridge's Hotel, was charged, before Mr. Tyr whitt, at. Marlborough-street Police-court, with behaving in a disorderly manner and obstructing, Police-constable Win. Field, 78 0, while on duty at a tire which occurred this morning on the premises of sfessrs. - Benham, auc tioneers, of Oxford-street. The constable said that he was on duty that morning about a quarter past one in Marl borough-mews, there being a fire in Messrs. Oxenhatn's warehouse, in Blenheim-mews, and the police had to use some degree of force to keep the crowd back to enable the engines to he. worked. He requested the prisoner to keep back, but he refused, said he did not care a for the police, that he could settle one or two of them, and aft s er flourishing a stick about, threatened to punch his head, and he was then taken to the station. The prisoner said he was pressed by the crowd on all Bides, and was very sorry for what had occurred. Mr. Tyrwbitt sail that there was generally seine great fool who interfered with the police on such occasions. It was necessary that the police should keep a space cle it for the firemen to work in, and to prevent them being pressed on by the crowd, - and any sensible per son must know that. The prisoner would be fined 10s. or 7 days. PCILSE SNATCHING IN THE STREET.—Patrick Wellerd, a lad about 18 years of age, wns finally examined at the West minster Police Court, charged with stealing a purse contain ing a quantity of silver money and a coin, from the par son of Mrs Harriett Truseott, a lady residing at 57, Winchester street, Pimlico. The prosecutris is the wife of a Govern ment ON*, and was in Warwick-place at half-past three in the afternoon, carrying her purse in, her hands. The pri soner suddenly snatched it and ran away ; he was followed by Clough, a detective, and ran into an area, where he was captured, and the purse found in the dustbin. He pleaded guilty. Clough stated that he had made inquiries, and the prisoner was not known to the police. Mr Arnold charac terised it as a most audacious robbery in the open day, and sentenced him to six mouths' hard labour. ATTEMPT OF A CHILD TO COMMIT SticinE.—Louisa Beau mont. aged 12, living at 16, York-building, North-road, was charged at the Highgate Police-court to-dlp with attempting to commit suicide by throwing herself into the Seven Ponds, W 1 st Hill, Highgate. A gentleman saw the defendant in the pond and res uod her. She tried to drown herself 'be cause her father and mother-in-law bad beaten her. The father sai it was entirely false. She was remanded, EXCHANGE NO ROEBBERY.—SoIomon Pearce, a tall, yOung man, with only a pair of trousers and a "check Shirt " on Ida person, who was described as a seaman, was brought before Mr. Lushington, at the Thames Police-court, charged with stealing a soldier's coat and cap A policeman, named Franklin, 162 H, met the prisoner early this morning in Whitechapel with a soldier's tunic on him, and from his general bearing and nautical strides, being convinced he was not a soldier, asked him where he had picked up the uniform coat and cap, to which the prisoner replied that he .lad exchanged his own coat and hat for ,the red tunic and ci.p with a soldier he had met on London-bridge. The prisoner here said he was it little intoxicated and wore his own trousers. Hu . thought exchange was no robb'ery.. He was on one side of the river, the soldier on the other, and, they exchanged clothes. (Laughter.) Franklin—The tunic and cap belong to a sulelier of the 2d battalion of the Grenadier Guards quartered in Chelsea Barracks. The prisoner was perfectly sober when he took him, but appeared like a hog in armour. Mr. Lushingtou remanded the pri soner until Friday, and.directed inquiries to be made about him. lle believed it would turn out that the soldier who had unlawfully got rid of his uniform , was a deserter. DESERTING A FAMILL—George Groves, an engineer, aged 42 years, was charged at the same Court with. desert ing his,tive children and leaving them chargeable to T the Poplar Union. The prisoner's children had beck charge able to the Union since the 31st of March last, T . aucbthat he was separated from his wife. The prisoner obtained em ployment in Messrs. Hewett's factory, Barking, worked there three days, and got drunk, for which he was dis charged. The prisoner, in defence, said he allowed his wife £9 per month while be was in India, and while he wes away she committed adultery. Mr. Lushington said the prisoner could earn large wages, and that lie had left his family with the parish without excuse. He sentenced him to be im prisoned for ono month and kept to hard labour. Oliver Wendall Holmes says that widows who, cry easy are first to. marry again. There is nothing like wet weather for transplanting. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—An order received from the Admiralty directs that no more applications from the NVorkmen at Chatham dockyard tUemigrate at the expense of the Government will be received by the Admiralty after Thursday next. The applications from the hired and other workmen who are desirous of being sent out to Canada by the Admiralty are very large—not as the Globe said, very small. THE- CHELSEA MURDER. ADJOURNED INQUEST UPON THE REV. MR. HEULIN. Yesterday afternoon Dr. Diplo:k, the coroner fcr West Middlesex, resumed, at the Chelsea Workhouse, the adjourned inquiry into the circumstances attending the murder of the Rev. Elias Heulin, aged 84 years, who was alleged to have been killed and buried by a plasterer in his employment, namod Walter Miller. In front of the workhouse, in the board-room of which the inquest was held, a large crowd assembled, and a body of police maintained order. The court itself was densely crowded by clergymen and gentlemen. Mrs. Harriet Sydney, 6, Rutland. street, Brompton-road, deposed that she bad known Mrs. Miller by living in her house. On Sunday, the Bth instant, she took tea with her at her house, at 26, Seymour-place, Fulham-road. Waiter Miller was then present, and. Mrs. Middleton entered the room while they were at tea. Mrs. Middleton said to Mrs. Miller, "Mr Heulin is very well satisfied with the manner in which Miller has done his work, and he is to have the head charge of all Mr. Heulin's property." No details were mentioned as to Mr Ileulin's property. Ccroner—Were you there'again on Monday ? Witness—Yes, sir, at half-pist three o'clock. Miller was there then. Ile was in the kitchen when I arrived. He wore a pair of light grey trousers. He generally wore those trousers on holidays. His usual trousers on working days were cord ones. Miller was in his "usual joking spirits," and while eating he joked much. While Miller was at his tea Mrs. Miller ironed one of Miller's shirts, which was rather unusual, for witness generally washed and ironed all Miller's shirts. She washed and ironed a shirt ; it was a full fronted one. A Juror Nitta Mrs. Miller at all excited ? Witness--NO ; but Miller said " I am going to Hornsey, for I think by going there it will be a deal better for me than remaining here." Mr. Stainsby asked the coro er to read au anoymous letter sent to him, calling him a busy fool, who, by coming for wb.rd to give evidence, wanted to make himself notorious." He cautioned him not to tamper with the life of a fellow creature, and it was signed "A Friend at present." The Coroner said that a man, who was ashamed to sign his name, was unworthy of notice. Harriet Middleton, who resides at No. 2, Sydney-mews Fuller's-road, deposed that she had known Miller three years. She then deserted home on the night of Monday week. Miller called ut her house disguised as a Frenchman and gave her the keys of No. 15, Paulton-square, and after telling her that Mr Houlin had gone into the country, said that he was Mr Heulin's nephew, and that she was to go and take care of his house. In answer to the Coroner, the witness said that she had seen Mr. Huelin on the preceding Saturday, and that be had asked her what she thought of Miller; and she said, "I think he is an upright sort of man." Mr. Huelin then said " I have to pay him £l2 for that house in Wellington-square. It has cost me a great deal." Wit ness had been employed by Mr. Huelin to clean down the house in Wellington-square, and it was arranged that she was to take care of 15, Paulston-square while Mr Huelin was in the country. The witness created consider able surprise in court by saying "I'm very sorry he has boen murdered, for if he had not been I should have had a good summer's work. He promised to employ me all the summer, and I have lost all that." By a Juror—lf Miller were to come to me disguised as a -Frenchman, shaking his head, and wearing a pair of spec tacles, I should not know him. He spoke "like a broken Frenchman." The Corner said that he slidUld not go into the question of Miller having taken possession of Mr. Heulin's house, for it was clearly proved that certain property belonging to Mr lleulin was found on Miller. Inspector Fisher said that there was a witness who could prove that Miller had on Monday week cut off a portion of his whiskers, awl dyed the remainder in order to disguise himself. Inspector Prescott, of the T division, here stepped for ward, and producing a ring, said he wished to make a statement. Mr. Vincent, a watchmaker in the King's road, told him that on Wednesday morning, the 11th, Mrs. Middleton brought the ring to his shop, and said that she wanted it made smaller to fit her finger. In the evening a young girl came, stating her address as 14, Paulton's-square, and asked if it was done, and was told no. Next morning the old woman again attended, and said she must have it as she wanted it, and Mr. Vincent told her it was not worth a penny. She did not come again, and Mr. Vincent took it to 14, Paulton's-square, where, from his discription, the women were recognised as Mrs. Middleten and her daughter. The Coroner called the two women in separately, and they steadily denied that they had taken any ring to Mr. Vincent's, or that they knew Mr. Vincent or where he lived. The old woman declared that she never left the house on Wednesday. Mr. Sharp Vincent, the silversmith in question, was then called in, and positively identified both the women as having called about the ring. Other evidence was adduced, the effect of which has appeared in the course of the other proceedings, and the • jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Miller," recommending that the Home Secretary should grant Piper areward. LIFE kT SEA. Mr. Plimsoll's Bill, which is just published, contains the following provision with regard to load lines, their position to be determined by the builder, and the surveyor's of the Board of Trade and of Lloyds : —" The load line shall be marked on the ship 1. By cutting in a conspicuous position on the combing of the main hatchway, in legible figures or letters at least one inch long, the maximum proper immersion amidships, the maximum proper immersion by the head, and the maximum proper immersion by the stern. 2. By painting on the outside of the hull, either along the whole length of the load line on each side or along the load line on each side for a length of not less than four feet at the bows, a length of not less than four feet at the stern, and a length of not less than four feet amidships, a band of white or yellow not less than six inches broad, bordered, with black for a width on each side of not less than three inches, or a band of black not less than six inches broad bordered with white or yellow for a width on each side of not less than three inches, in such manner that the centre of such band shall through out every part of its length correspond with the load line. THE AMERICAN FENIANS. The doings of the Fenians in America occupy some space in the New York papers received yesterday. The New York Times of the 6th says :—" There is everyreason to believe that the Fenians, to use their own expression, mean business this time. The utmost activity prevails among the officials of all grades here and else where, although quiet seems to reign in and around head quarters. Men are being despatched daily to different points to facilitate the con concentration of the " 1.K.A." which, it is said, already numbers 33,000 men, well disciplined, and fully provided for a long campaign. General O'Neill says that he will not lack means to aid him in the coming tug of war, as he daily receives liberal contributions of money from all parts of the Union. Yesterday one gentleman alone placed 10,000 doll. at his disposal for the good of the cause. Men are only too willing to join in any expedition against England, so that, numerically speaking, his army is strong. The same paper, in its issue of the following iday, says :—" The Councils of the Fenians become daily more frequent and secret. Yesterday pursuant to the call of . General O'Neill, the members of the Executive Council of Nine, appointed by the late Congress, arrived in this city, to confer with him on the approaching expedition. During the day nothing was done at head-quarters, a. quorum not having reached the city until a late hour. At a late hour last night, however, a secret meeting was held. The business transacted thereat did not, of ccurse, transpire, but it was ascer tained that its object was to decide upon the time when the movement shall take place. The council meets again to-day. THE MASSACRES IN GREECI.—A fresh series of despatches (the 9th) respecting the tragedy in Greece has been issued frem the Foreign Office. It principally con sists of documents which have been presented to the Italian Chamber of Deputies relating to the murder of Count Boyl, the Secretary of the Italian Legation at Athens. In a despatch dated Florence, April 30, Signor Visconti Vocosta, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs alludes to the want of vigilance on the part of the autho rities charged with the maintenance of order in Greece, and says that it had violently excited public opinion. " The Greek Government," he adds, " has had a proof of it in the steps taken by all the diplomatic representives accredited at Athens. We have had a clear proof of it also in the haste with which the Austrian Government has let us know that it is ready to co-operate with us in any measures we think proper to adopt with reference to Greece: A similar communication has also been made by the Cabinet of Vienna in London." The letters from Mr. Erskine to Lord Cla rendon are four in number, and they are all dated May 7. In one of these he encloses a translation of the depo sition made by the guide of the military detachment which fell in with the tourists while they were still on the plain of Marathon. The guide distinctly de clares that he repeatedly warned the party through the dragoman Alexandros to drive slowly and keep with the soldiers. " This statement, as it appears to me," adds Mr. Erskine, "is most conclusive against Alexandros, who indignantly denied in my presence that any such warning had been given to him." In another despatch, Mr. Erskine says it would almost look as if Alexandros was the person who supplied the information as t o th e travellers' movements to the brigands, and as if another person, named Costa, who is in custody, was th e me di um of communication with them. On May 7 all trace of the brigands had been lost. MINNESOTA AND ITS LOCAL PRESS. (From the Anglo-American Times) We have before asserted our belief in the value to the emigrant of local papers from the most out of-the-way parts of the district where he proposes to settle; for the information which can be extracted 'by those who know how, is little less than from an ac ual v;sit, though the general features of the coun try should first be known. The local journal does not write articles expressly to convey information, and if it did it would fail in doing that to which we desire to direct the attention of emigrants. It is the multitude of little facts unconsciously commu nicated, prejudicial to the growing district It orn one point; or from another telling, without being sen sible of the fact, of its rapid rise in material pros perity. Better still, it gives truthful little glimpses of the state of society, whether hat mony ordissensiou prevail, if the people are church-going, trading and enterprising ; whether the children go to school, the men to business, and the women to their household work ; what they buy, eat, drink, and do ;' whether their streets are paved, lighted by gas; their fields fenced, their cattle abundant, carriage cheap, and population increasing ;—itifor rnation on all such points can b st be gathered from the local papers, where they least intend to couvey it. We have before us two of a late date, the St. Cloud Journal, from St. Cloud, Minnesota, and the Alex andria Post, from Alexandria, in the same State. St. Cloud is a town in Stearns County, ou the Mis sissippi, some disiance above St. Paul, and Alex andria is away west, in Douglas County, almost as near to:Fort.Garry and " President" Riell, as to St. i'aul. The first item the St. Cloud Journal gives tells of the departure of a surveying party to run three lines from the city for fifty miles west; the best to be selected, and continued to Georgetown on the Red River, connecting with the first division of the Sr. Paul an I Pacific, the work being really on behalf of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The .lournal con - detnns " the contemptible spirit of narrow mean ne-s " which had just induced the Minnesota House to defeat the bill for the erection of a Nor mal school at St. Cloud, and, as " the stupidity of the action is its own severest comment," the editor, who was at'a loss for wot ds, was happily 'relieved. News, as might be expected, is neither plentiful nor, when not local, is it fresh. Iv is not, however, the little items of intelligence which interest us, but the spirit of the press. The people evidently take au interest in the leading magazines of the States, for there are short reviews of the Atlantic, the Galaxy, the River Side, Our Young Folks, and others, each succeeding notice being more compli mentary than the last, and as he carries us along we wonder to what climax the editor will attain, or when the poverty of language will briughitn to a stop. Intermixed with the local news are what p inters c ill " puff pars," and they fall like snowflakes on our path as we run down the columns. At St. Cloud what is termed " Personal " has a strong smack of the personal; for instance, we are told that " Captain W. H. Hall and Mr. 0. H. Camp bell, two jolly boys from Kingston, rendered their phizes visible in our office on Friday.'' fhis is followed by the intelligence that groceries continue at panic prices at Boyd's. It is natural for us to con clude that Boyd's is the place to buy sugar, coffee, and tea • but a little further on crops up a para graph which raises a doubt :—" Huber gives from 5 to 7 pounds of sugar for $l.OO ; 4 pounds of good Rio coffee for $l.OO ; 5 pounds of nicest dried peaches for $l.OO ; lard, 221 cents per pound, and everything:else in proportion. Give Huber a trial." The reader could scarcely have made up his mind to accept that invitation when he hears of a • " re volution in the prices of groceries and proviSions. Down to the bottom they go. At Limperich's." In large letters, Pickit and Abbott attract us thus— THE " REGULATOR," and our readers must remem ber that all this is in what are called the editorial columns. " A short time since people could only get five pounds of sugar for one dollar. Pickit and Abbott put in a stock of groceries, and imtne diately six pounds for one dollar became the stand ard price. This house is not only the Regulator' in dry goods and clothing, but in groceries as well. It always keeps goods down to low prices, and is just the place for people to buy." Well, we must have got to the end of the groceries at any rate ! Not a bit of it. " Take Notice—Fresh groceries at J. B. Mills', cheap as the cheapest. Goods delivered, free of cost, in any part of the city." Up crops Limperich again- and Huber, and others, one coupling, drugs with his groceries, Edelbrock add ing, " Anything you want." Such items would be come dry reading to those who did not want any thing, but these paragraphs are interlarded with per sonal notices, such for instance as this : O. G. Wall, Esq , the quill of the Caledonia Journal, has gone and got married. Good boy." Looking over the adver ti:etnents we see the competition in St. Cloud it self, the competition between St. Cloud and St. Paul, and the competition of the State generally against the eastern and foreign markets. Tee journal begins by declaring that at its office job printing can be done as well and as cheaply as at St. Paul, and it begs its advertisers to remember that its circulation is double that of any other paper in Northern Minnesota. But several busi ness men of St. Paul, New York, Boston, and Philadelphia advertise, and goods of every deectip lion are evidently on sale in the stores of St. Cloud. Winslow and Co. offer $lOO to any one who will produce a better axe made in the Union than their's, and as the American axe is the best, they must claim for their's the highest place. Sleds, waggons, bateaux are also manufactured. Bonham is re tdy for any tin, sheet iron, or copper work; the St. Cloud waggon factory turns out every variety of vehicle. Owen, dresses lumber into doors, window frames, cornices, &c. Spicer and Carlisle, as fur niture manufacturers, ask the patronage of their townsmen ; bankers, lawyers, doctors offer their services, and we may couple with the last under takers and monument makers. The restaurants prominently announce their ability to supply fresh oysters, which they offer to cook in any style ; and among the hotels the Fountain House gives a glowing description of the scenery around, the White Bear Lake being one of the most beautiful in the State, well stocked with fish and game, both row and sail boats are there, and the Hotel, for in door recreation, provides a billiard table The St. Paul and Pacific Railroad give their' time-table for trains to St. Anthony Junction, Manotnin, Anoka, Itasca, Dayton, Elk River, Big Lake, Clear Lake, St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, and Forts Ripley and Abercrombie, stopping for dinner, 20 minute s at Crow River. The Milwaukee and St. Paul add to their time-table the intelligence that a full night's rest can be obtained in the Palace Sleeping Cars. An estate agent offers for sale amongst others—" A good 11 story frame house with an L; a good well, and four acres of land, in the city limits. Price $1,200. Long time given if desired.-160 acres of land near the city with good building, suitable for hotel. Price $4,000." A con siderable number of announcements are advertised of complaint against, citizens who had abandoned their homesteads, with notice of the caucelment of the entry unless the complaint be answered. One entire sheet of the paper is taken up with a Post office advertisement for contracts to carry the mails in all directions through Minnesota. Settlers were beginning to move into the Otter-Tail county, • and Mon golia county is laighlypraised by t to editor-it) an article. He states there are 15,000 acres there of Government land still vacant, but the railroads have a great deal more, which can be had on favourable terms. A correspondent gives some items about Litchfield, where he says a beautiful park has been planted and laid out by the railroad company ; and he takes the houses of one street and thus gives a list of all the . shops. This town evidently is so new that even the people of St. Cloud did not know where it was, and the writer desires to inform them how much it has grown in seven months. "Deputy" supplies a long account of the pineries on the Upper Mississippi, their extent and character; full of interesting information. He takes camp by camp, and firm by firm, and arrives at his estimate of the logs likely to be carried to market during the coming season, as 83,000,000 feet. The Alexandria Post is not so mature a journal, having as yet good space to grow with its town. Among its announcements, we are told, two prizes were to be given at the Spelling Match that night— one open to all scholars of the county schools; the other to " any one who participates." Musk rats are coming in, being quoted at 10 to 11 cents ; and by the 20th March the grade of " Spring rat" will be quoted higher by the fur buyer. "The fur trade is quite dull, but few pelts being brought in." The bounty for killing wolves has been repealed. The Minnesota Iron Works seem to be making a push, as attention is called to their advertisement in both papers. Although the I 'ost devotes much of its space to religious matters, it is not above the fel lowing quaint appeal to its readers:-- "We (that is, the devil and the rest of us) have not, in our rapacity of printers, received a mince pie or a d° ll g s ; .nut this winter. We mention this with regre.t, b e t's we had hoped that the custom of- cheering the heart through his stoma c h, s o succ e ssfully inaugun i e - last winter, would be conti nue d iudefinitely. g' s • mince pie season closed 2" At a debating society this subject was coesi dered ; That woman's suffrage w ould be a grracl Cl 7 -33 than whisky as it is.' Some twentY • duals participated in the disci , ssion• above tie rest wits Long Praitie M‘Kinneh a good display of Ii brush on his chin• iris argtunents were - forcible, but not clear ; but t t was no damage to the debate, as Major 13r°" . jumped up and pitched into the assemb la g e .; frightful amount of historical facts, in wili of Quetni Esther, Charlotte Corday, and J°, 311 , 1 , 1,e Arc, were brought out in full prominence. „, graceful John ,Galbraith, when he took the 3 knocked things endways, and the timid le 3r , e Qlo p row . ; but , t the graceful" was allowed to be , Over" without harm to the debat e . " - The i g h t matical Wymar" threw in some problems wu lee cooled things down that the judges arrived a. t i l e d merits of the debate, and the question was den, in the affirmative. The weather at St. Clold, e, the 24th February was described as beautiful l y bnt the sun shining brightly, and furs at a discoun t ' ; on March sit had become colder at Alexandr ia, a lcz the editor of the Post again urges loggers t 9 ,t 4 be i r advantage of the late fall of snow to get „r• work completed, as " the sledding season is.t 3 P4o ing off," and no time should be lost: 4 .he4 up those engaged in ice cutting to has'eg 'A' he work, as the snow was befinnindto melt.; noticed the first flock of wild geese from tli e , s „ ° , l - u s e. as having a few d iys before passed over his 1 , 1 ", - f,• It is evident that Otter-Tail county is 6 'l o le vourite just now in Minnesota; that the As State is making rapid progress ; that the Pe ° r as are well satisfied with their prospects, and that o, air of prosperity and content reigns through°,l,; and we could have no better indicaticn of this til through the inspection of such journals. lie also AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE. WASHINGTON, April 20. pith Mr. Cyrus Field has been here in companY Lord Walter Campbell, a son of the Duke of Arg o and he was at the White House on Wednesd a Y 4 introduce him to the President. Gen: Grant .P ot, left with his family to visit his son at West r f i er and he will not return till MOnday. A grew' , 11, cursion has carried off Messrs. Boutwell. Cre ss" ..a Hoar; Senators, Representatives, many ladies , t h ey guests to Norfolk, on board a new steamer, an d a t t . will not be back till to-morrow. The Pres iue se . the Vice-President, and the entire New Yor k c i o l publican Delegation in Corgres had a gran ds ,% e t entertainment here last Wednesday. No C 3 .`,; 1 10 . meeting can be held tillthePresident's return• ing the last, the route of the Winnipeg expeditie tiS ; p • discussed at the instarce of Mr. Fish, who ha'', it formally signified to the Mash Minister theouor could not be permitted a right cf way throug h to territory. In this he is upheld unanimously by to Cabinet; and General Sheridan w ill establish ,11., head-quartets at Pembina during the avinnce it is expected he will h av e to direc e/ 11 ,. tary operations against the Sioux, w ho threate e t he alter Indian war in Montana and Dacoul h ' l jr, troops beingalready on the move for Minnesota. r ph Orton, President of the Western Unioi Telei Company, is here opposing Mr. Hubbard, "', l ; advocating a postal telegraph scheme. NV e con.lrof to receive unsatisfactory accounts of-the vcori; iu Tpc the telegraph by the Government in England. naval court-martial on COmmander Upcher has eluded its work, and the impression is that he the be acquitted. The Vice-President adds s;e d Order of Oddfellows last Tuesday, wh e n theY ee it brated their fifty-first American au nivel sarYo``: . Manly, once agent of the Freedmen's Bu: in Rielimon has been exittninel by the 6 01 e 111 rill which is investigatin g - th e c h arges against ile",heer Howard, as h.is b e en Si mon W o lf an d D r . lan I. Certain deeds are said to be ! II office of the Recorder, b ear i ng G en era' 0 5 1 ward's name, and Manly ca s hed t h e Congrega t4- ,03) lhurch Bonds. The Investigating Cominit tee mr ee examined the l ate n t b r i c k was una ble fo r upon a ret,olt ; teat published n o t emanatiul , „ d er . them. The Presilent is looking out for a si v i Ti v Se residence, and is said to b e nego ti a ti ng t he per' i ty, of the Bartholome w F arm , P r i nce George Celor in Maryland, near the District line. General t he gat of Ohio has proposed a Bill to redu ce A tli Navy to three Rear-Admirals, six Cow wodor,e'le other ranks in proportion, on the same priociP but is embodied.in the new Army Bill. There ;:1"° three Commodores at .sea, and there are ten ~r? mirals employed in Washington ; but that therevillo not more on the briny is no fanit of the offieell'o? would be glad to be employed. For - days an" , 0 0, a weary debate on the Tariff has been geit t itO and every one is getting heartily . sick of jute pig iron, &c. The ventilation of the Hall of th e bo tO presentatives was discussed, but, as usual, W l ;r a tef reaching a result. Telegraphs, the Ri ve r arid t Channel Communication, Steamship , S1 11) 14 1 Consolidation of the Laws relating to 11 ° Office, and Laud Grants hare b e en considere d " s , second Louisiana contested election has been de% h' invalid, and Mr. Stev e nson was d e feated 1 0 Sp a strenuous effort to make another long speeehr, a ige' subject, which much annoyed that Represeil, - , 0 1 49 Tne Post-office Department is issui n g $lO O 'l'o ,l daily of the new series of postage stamps . tl can hardly imagine the sensation caused Richmond calamity. You will, I know, particulars, but at a distance you cannot real"-oe feelings it has raised. Mrs. Brewis, wife of ° ti re the victims, has di e d o f gr i e f, an d ot h er ladl e :10 5 in a critical state. Ge nera l S c h o fi e ld' s brothe' among the killed. R. H. Maury, jun., is the n Y of the well-known scientific naval officer. n or' Aylett was alike distinguished as l aw yer all u lerr nalist. Major Kelly, of Fredericksburg, Was el off, ing with him when the crash commen ced, au ' l ' . Aylett was killed by a beam from the gaderY; il lfe r S. Bocock, who was severely hurt, h a d been 51)- colr, in the House of Represe n t a ti ves an d in the oro federate Congress. The interest is absorbieg; o tir telegrams front all parts of t he c ou n t r y keep tiov e ing into Richmond. Collectors of Cust ,4ls „io l l been informed that the new D om i n i on w ill e - e tir enforce the Fishery Laws, that the li c enses h e r Ar e fore granted have been revoked, and fisherve-offer to be warned that the United States canno t "?' protection in case they violate the American Times. 0 01 The Musical World is responsible for the c ot t incredible statement th a t th e R ev . C. Procter, of o f 6 ,(1 Richmond, has refused t o a ll ow th e c h o ir to parish church to sing at a concert i n a id o f the I to ed Infirmary, on the ground that they might be req sing secular music. • The Gaulois publishes a telegram fou l g 4 statirm that Madlle. Eugenie - and M. Augus te : 0 0 1 i both well known in the literary w o r ld, have P:,;1; suicide at that town. Th e cause ass i gne d is li e ' aovpr at the gambling table at Monaco. They took 10, tin e but, as this did not act quickly enough, they 811 selves. The Oaulois suppresses the names. clg (.1 0 1 The Rev. W. Harrison, rector of Birch, ar, e re,,a e r lain to H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge, d e ,," v 3 TYOO . addressyesterdaymorning at the Church of St. IN-Ltt i t „ . 07 mary, Cannon-street, on the subject of 3.lora s s l Ye,rd sions. These missions have been established -L, and occupy 87 stations in Greenland, Labrador Indies, &c. BIRTHS. w ife - On the 23d ult, at Barton, Staffordshire, the -oti' , B--riok oft" tU Took, Esq., of Port Elizahetti, South Africa , moors' On the 13th inst., at Egerton` H ouse, B o lton -la" wife of Edward Ashworth, jun., of a son. 111 A RRI AGES. • 4)B o ''t? On the 17th inst., at St. Mary's Church, L 0 w":-isje 6 b lel Caldwall Masters, Joseph ollins, Esq., her d ( pug Victualling Yiud, Malta, to Agn ess Ellen, ail' . 1 4 Gibson, Esq., Lewisham, Kent. fi etj t ', ) On the 17th inst. at St. Michael's Dawlish, F ran Pauter, of 25, ' Maryland -road, St. Peter's Pa r ti ic ' v so l Mary Jane, only daughter of M rs . Mathews, Jor place, Dawlish. DEATHS. 0 1)41 On the 16th inst., Wm.' Ward Abbott, Esq., ofsip St. Neots, and 26, Bedford-row, London, aged . 11 , On the 14th inst., at Bombay, from gastric fever , J . % Or ie liam Macnamara, commander in the Peninsular. a° tat Company's service. s op J On the 14th inst., at South Lambeth, Anne 3 la ria, 6e °r Mr. Samuel George Redfearn, aged 33 Yefi r , l ',e ' daughter of Mr. Richard Carpenter, of May L°"' tonstoue-road, Essex. p 0 110; ti Loudon: Printed and Published byWILLIA3I 3 . 40 , Of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at T H E SUN Oftio , rio otl Strand, in the Precinct of the S avo y, in the " Middlesex.---Thursday, ?Jay 1.9, 1870. N° . -.......,-. KIN Ax. o • th o ▪ v, • • ,1 Ns_ colebr .11.11,11. 'alpure 1 tile A s ' 4 tic t Lts NI U TUA it, 1114 h I , ) ,YANCP.s Lease 0 rtw tree 11. It W. 117-rrii e)otyl and ; ! 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