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( AFTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Theatre FVANS' to SUP. After Lyceum Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Adel phi Theatre After Olympic Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After etrand Theatre FVANA' to SUP. After New Royalty Theatre ...... EVANS' to SUP. After St. James's Theatre FVANS' to SUP. After Prince of Wales' Theatre....E VANS' to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, E VANS', Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. KIN LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXTIITITTION, 1845. This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole- Imm o . Sold in nettles, 3s. Sd., at the Retail Houses in London by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or vzheinsnlA at SI. GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the RA Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded " Rinahan's LL Whisky." COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, and BUSINESSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for insertion received until the 27th of the month at their AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES, 5 , Azar-street, S , rand, W.C.. and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Railway Station. TrUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION as (incorporated by Act of Parliament , 14%01 . I '• P T -I ..ELL-STREET. COVICIrT-GARDEN. LONDON, ADVANCER MONEY unon Personal Security, Bills of Sale Freehold or Leasehold Proner y, for one, two, or three years, renayable week y, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER. Secretary. JAPANESE. —FLORAL HALL , COVENT GARDEN.—Sixth Week.—Unabated Success. This extraordinary groups of JAPANESE artistes continue to give their Performances EVERY EVENING at Eight; I VEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at Three. Stalls, 55.; reserved seats, 2s. 6d. Admission, ls. Tickets to be ob tained at the Box-office from 10 till 5; also at Mit chell's, Old Bond-street; Austin's, St. Jam e s' s Hall ; a nd Rohl), Prowse, and Co., Cheapside. N.8.:-Skating on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, from 3 till 5. T H E X F OR D, 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., Tin; MUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LONDON. OPERATIC SELEC TIONS. —Principal artistes, Nitwits Russell Birrie. and Fitz Henry ; Me.srs. A. St. Albyn, I' ox, Husk, J Evans and Bury, with Extra Band and Chorus Conductor, 31r. F. on ghmans Solo Cornet-a-Piston. Mr. REYNOLDS, of the Coldstream Gua ds' Band and A. Mellon's Concerts. COMEDY. by Messrs. 'HARRY SYDNEY, G. W. ROSS the celebrated JAPANESE JUGGLERS; the Brothers BAT.F,, the Wonders of the World Md Ile. GERTRUD E and her Troupe of Performing Dogs, this Evening. 'tr. RORT. FRASER, Comedian, with his crop of comical'. ties and his new song, "THE BOY AT MUGGY." NOT ICE.—The Bros. HANLON, the celebrated America Acrobats, will make their re - appearance T EVENING!' E XHIBITION, 31ADAME BAKER-STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS, NEW ADDI rross. —Life-size Models of the KINGS and QUEENS of ENGLAND, from WILLIAM of NORMANDY to QUEEN VICTORIA. Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 tin 10 pan. Admittance, ls. ; children, under ten, half-pric e ; extra rooms, 6d. A RGYLL ROOMS. GRAND CASINO Windmill-street. Pi ccadilly. , These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirelyre decorated, are now OPENI EVERY EVENING for Concert and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Luca CURTI. Manager, AT. GRENET. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. Reserved Seats, Two Shillings. wESTO N'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Sole Proprietor; SWEABEY and HOLLAND. Enthusiastic reception of the Grand Selection from Donizetti's favourite Opera of " LUCIA DI LAMMER MO rt OR." Mr Principal vocali sts — Edgardo, Mr. H. De Brenner ; Auro, . Rowland Lascelles ; Henrico, Mr. P. Conj. ; Lucia, Miss Annie Tremaine. Irish Minstrels, every evening at Nine o'clock, with songs, dance; and Irish anecdotes, under the direction of Pat Corri. ARTHUR LLOYD'S Burlesque Drama, entitled " MUGGET'S BROOK ,• Fannino th Wicked Squire ;" Jolly Nash, Emma Bruce, Paddy , Patrick Sellers, Frank Ellmore, Jig Dancer ; Le Petit Blondin, from the Crystal Palace, engaged for a limited number of nights previous to his departure for the Paris Exhibition ; Jean and Victor, the Sensation of London. Band of 30 first-class per formers, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P. Conar. Prices of admission —Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Area, Gd• ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Can ho secured at the Box Office, between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open e ver y Evening at 7 o'clock. \oN'T FORGET BENEFIT, W. II OLLAN D'S HALL, HOLBORN AT WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC , NIGHT. av ailable Talent in London for TO-MORROW this Great Festival All tho WEST 0 N'S GR AND MUSIC HALL, HIGH HOLBORN. GRAND Sole Proprietors, Sweasey an d H olland. FESTIVAL on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1867. Mr. W. HOLLAND'S BENEFIT NIGHT. On which occasion the following Artistes will appear : The Alhambra Company (by the kind permission of F. Strange, EN.), consisting of Levy and Distin's Instru mental Union ; J. Green, the Alhambra favourite ; Fred. Evans and Amy Rosalind, the Brothers and Sister Kiralfi, the celebrated Hungarian Dancers. Also, the great Comic Artistes —Arthur Lloyd, Jolly Nash, Harry Sydney, Harry Liston, J. F. Brian, La burnum, Fred. French, Leggett and Joe Allen, Diamond and Bryant, the Brothers Dean, Misses and Messrs. D'Aubin and Warde, and Mr. and Mrs. W. Randall. Miss Rosins Collins will perform one of her Popular Violin Solos. Miss Isabel M'Mahon, the Irish Peasant Girl (by the kind permission of Dr. Corry, of the Prince Patrick Hall, Liverpool. Also, the pleasing Serio-Comiques—airs. Brian, Miss Louie Sherrington, Miss Georgians Smithson, Miss llarriet Coveney, Mrs. Barry, Miss Emma, Bruce. Together with the Grand Operatic Selection from LUCIA. DI LAMMERMOOR. H. De Brenner, P. Cord, Rowland Lascelles, J. Hunter, O'Hara, Miss Annie Tremaine, and Miss Brougham. Mesdames Losebini and Constance. Tho IRISH MINSTRELS, with P. Cord, Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers, Harry and Katie King. Fanny and Emma Gilboa Gifford. Le Petit Blondin on the Tight Rope. Jean and Victor, the marvellous Hori zontal Bar Perforrers. Les Freres Gerrard. the great Classical Gymnasts, and 11. Baker's unrivalled Band of 30 performers. Musical Director, Mr. P. Corti. Leader, Mr. J. Baker. Prices for this Night only—Stalls, 55.; Balcony, 2s. 6d.; and Promenade, Is. Private Boxes can be secured at the Box-office any day between the hours of Ten and Five. SPECIAL NOTICE. —Doors Open at Six, commence at half-past. UJust published, 2d; sent by the author for 3 stamps, GLINESS and BEA.UTY ; being a Pamhle descriptive of articles and means used for imprpoving t the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 218, H igh Holborn, Londonearance. SPANISIT FLY is the ac ti ng i ngredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CATHARIDES OIL. which speedily prodnoes whiskers an thi e f ens hair, 3s 6d, Ss 6d, Ro s e , ! 6cl; Bent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—ALEX. 248, High Holborn. London, and all Chemists. IVONDERFUL DISCOVERY. —Corns cured in one day by usithr ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removing the very root. Price 4s; sent by post for 60 stamps. —248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. flAllt-CURLING FLUID, 218, High H o lb orn, London.-4LRX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID one, Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is apoded. 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Donations and subscriptions thanki ully received Williams, Deacon, and CO.; , d and by the und ersigne, oy Messrs. FRANCIS LEAN, s ecretary Hibernia-chambers, London -bridge S.E. rinllE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another Lome to the 12 now in operation. Last ,ear no fewer then 455 poor, friendless, yowl(' females were rejected iron) t of FITNDS and room. making a total of 3,087, who have beer, sent away in fire years. • he new home the Committee wish to form wo-ild be for young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 18 , who have been ltq astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen street Cheapside; ur by Messrs Barclay and. Co., Lombard-street. No. 23,340. Now ready at all the Ltraries, in 3 vols., SyßlL's SECOND LOVE. By JULIA KAVANAGIT Author of "Nathalie," "Adele," kc. " A clever, interestfnz, and eminently readable novel. The plot is intricate tvid well worked out. 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THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL has -A- URGENT NEED of FUNDS.—Donations and Sub scriptions will be thankfully received by Messrs. Dimsdate and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs. Drummond and Co., Ch %ring cross; Messrs. Coutta and Co., Strand; Messrs. Hoare, Fleet -street ; and by the undersigned, at the Hospital, Liverpool-road, N., CHARLES FINN, Sec. HELP for the DESTITUTE SICK.— METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL. Devon shire-square, City. Instituted for the immediate gratuitous Relief of the Slot Poor of eve!) , Nation and Creed, without letters of recommendation. FUNDS are urgently needed to maintain its efficiency. BANKERS—Messrs. Barnett, 'Roams. and Co.. 62, Lombard street.JNO. GURNEY FRY, Chairman. GEO. 0 itOILTON. Secretary. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients Once it was established at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted free. R ANKERS —Messrs. 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This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de pendent fosSupport on voluntary contributions and ~gaai es . It afrorqprelief to a v erag e number of in-pa ;cuts, and, in addition to this, the number of attendance of the iestitute sick has for a oensiderable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee ear estly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the pr 'nines of this Hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abehurch•lane; also by Messrs. Coutta and Co.; Drummond and Co.;Giyn and Co. ; Il err i ee and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Yresoat, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Beacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Bernera-street : and at the Hogpital. from 10 till 5. ,STWORD §COrettrY. ~~~~ THE NO Z ETR GERMAN " N , EW . i SPAIEft • - ; , r4si s* -- fP' 4 • • . A. 131 • ; • ) ` / . • ' • \ A )Mk4f .^•‘;'• • ) . t • ; _ - O'A); • .rAWZIAEN imr . In • I • 411111111111111 k4f 04 V--) • 141 y ate- •.1 -40kNi ‘• • t s t It nnorr. "*. _ the course of t e North German Parliament of the 28th Bismarck made the following remarks establishment of an upper hou se , as proposed several members : usp oit ult.btinyn:choeofunt " With regard to the motion for establishing an Upper House of itself it can but be welcome in prin ciple to every Conservative. It is a drag attached to the vehicle of State to prevent a too rapid descent in slippery places ; it is a wore extensive participa tion in State affairs of those who have something to lose, and of those who are not inclined to play too high at the cost and danger of the State, because their own stake is too large. It is the transfer to our country of one of the principal advantages of English institutions—an advantage I find in the fact that there are in England a large number of almost royal existences, by which I mean, of totally disinte rested persons who have nothing material in the world to wish for that could lead them into judging of the welfare of the State otherwise than according to their own calm and settled convictions. I should rather characterise them as contented persons who have no desire to seek the satisfaction of social and financial efforts in the department of politics. consider that an extraordinary advantage for Eng land. People do not experiment in that country so easily, while those who feel inclined to do so have a very high stake of fortune and prosperity to lose. Nevertheless we have not thought it advisable to make the already complicated machinery of the constitution we have laid before you still more cum brous by the interpolation of a third, or, if you like, of a fourth element. 1 cannot easily picture to my self a German Upper House that could be interposed between the Federal Council—Which, I repeat, is altogether indispensable as the o"gan thron.. l llo#4l the sovereignty of the incliilifttal States continues to find expression --that could be 'interposed between this Federal Council and this Parliament, a middle element to some extent superior to Parliament in importance upon the social scale, and sufficiently subordinate to the Federal Council and those whence it derives its powers. We would not have sovereign peers as members of the Assembly, who, on their part are inclined to rival the lesser sovereigns in social position. The Federal Council to a certain extent represents an upper house, in which his Ma jesty of Prussia is primus inter pares, and in which thatremnantof the high German nobility finds place that has preserved its sovereignty. Now, I consi der it practically too difficult of execution to attempt to complete this upper house by adding to it non sovereign members. And I consider it impossible to depress this sovereign upper house in its ingre dients outside the presiding power so far that it would resemble a House of Lords ; nor would I ever venture even to suggest such a step in presence of a gentleman like the King of Saxony. The principal reason, however, why we have not proposed any division of the Parliament into two houses remains in our unwillingness too greatly to complicate the machine. The legislation of the Bund can even now be brought to a standstill by a lasting difference of opinion as betw een may occur the anyF Federal Council b system ; but and Parlia ment,in a three-chamber system—if lam allowed to call the Federal Council a chamber—the probability of this standstill would be materially increased. We should become too cumbrous." PRICY 4d. STAMPED sd. United Stares mail waggons was pulled from his seat by the mob and beaten ; his horses were stabbed, and otherwise maltreated. The mail waggons have by law the right of way on all occasions ; thedriver's offence was an attempt to cross the line of the pro cession. At least 10,000 Irishmen participated in the parade. The procession was of great length, a large number of waggons having been pressed into the service for the day. Consequently, during the hours of the parade, all communication between the upper and lower portions of the city was suspended. Traffic was at a standstill. Any person venturing to cross the line rendered himself an object of attack. The Bowery and the parallel streets and avenues were crowded with long lines of cars, detained by the mob. As the better class of New Yorkers live in the up-town streets, you can imagine the result of the suspension of transit between the two ends of the city. Many passengers for the ocean and coastwise steamers sailing at noon yesterday were left behind ; their baggage, however, having been put on board the night before, was taken out to sea. Never before were the Irish so insolent and arro gant. 'They seemed to have determined that the Americans should suspend business on St. Patrick's day, nolens volens. Fancy our indignation at being ordered about by drunken, brutal Irishmen, whose only title to authority were the green badges they had Placcd. in their button-holm,- and., the iTiertifi and clubs they carried. And yet the mayor of the city ostentatiously presented to the 69th RegimAt (which led the procession) a stand of colours, com plimenting his " Irish fellow citizens" on their patriotism and other virtues, and expressing his warm sympathy with all their movements. Major Hoffman's friends may say that this presentation and speech took place before the riot. But after the riot, after the mayor knew that the officers of the law had been brutally assassinated by the mob, he favoured a gathering of Irishmen with his pre sence, and " rejoiced to be able to speak in praise of the splendid appearance of the men who on that day paraded before him," some of whom must have shown to him bloody hands as they passed and saluted him. "He defied the world to produce a better procession or a greater array of honest faces !" Agricultural Prospects. .._ _ Last week opened with a fine dry day, at times sunny, with the wind from the south-west. Monday morning was fine, and it continuud dry up to noon, when rain was experienced, with a wet after noon, but a starlight night ; wind S.S.W. to S. ; thermometer 52 deg., barometer, 29.30. No field work of any description .could be accomplished on this day, not even on the lightest soils. Tuesday was a fine bright and breezy day, after a heavy gale of wind in the night, which was favourable for drying the land, although this was still too wet to get on. Our advices are—from Norfolk—" Since Saturday last we have had a much higher temperature, with the wind from the S.W." From Northumberland— " The weather continued cold, with snow and sleet up to Saturday, when it became a little milder, and much rain fell. Since Sunday it has been flue and spring-like ; the weather has veered from N.E. to S.E. and S.W. Weather unsettled to-day." From Lancashire—" The heavy fall of snow on Friday last was followed on the succeeding day by a com plete thaw, and we have since had open weather and a mild temperature, betokening the commencement of a long protracted spring. Much agricultural work has to be done, and the character of the season during the month of April will be of the highest im portance to the agricultural interest, not oily in these kingdoms, but on the continent of Europe, where the same severity of weather and protraction of field work have prevailed as we have experienced tiFte. As regards the future course of the trade, however, the more interesting question is involved in the prospect of wheat supply for the half year which in list elapse before next harvest becomes avail able. The past six months have furnished us with equal to three-and-a-half millions of wheat and flour, and it is generally admitted that an importa tion of five and a half millions more will be required to provide for our necessities up to the close of the cereal year ; it is therefore a matter of some import ance to consider whence this large quantity can be furnished, and, if obtained, whether it can be forced from abroad except by a considerable advance in the range of prices. So many important sources of our usual reliable supply have been in a situation similar to our own as to exhausted stocks at the last harvest time, deficient production, and a more or less preju diced quality, that it may be doubtful whether even advanced prices will serve the purpose of effectu ally filling up the void." If these views should prove correct, the farmers need not be afraid of obtaining remunerating prices for the small stock of what they are still supposed to hold. The condi tion of the samples will not have been improved dur ing the last week of March, and it is to be feared that many soft lots will now be brought forward if recently thrashed, and such a circumstance for the moment is against " agricultural prospects ;" but there will be a change with finer and drier weather. Wednesday morning was thick and threatening, but the day was sunny and cloudy at intervals, with occasionally slight showers. Field work might be proceeded with on light soils. The accounts from the east coast of Scotland stated : " Since Saturday we have had a fine change in the weather, and vege tation will now push on." From the west coast the remarks were •to the same purport, stating : " Since Saturday last the weather has changed to mild." On Thursday morning a slight white frost was experi enced, with the wind from the W. to W.S.W. ; thermometer at 41 deg. at 9 a.m., and 53 at mid day ; barometer down to 29.35 in. A good deal of field work would be done. Our advices from Suffolk ran : " Since our last we have had a decided change in the weather, which is now mild and favourable for the growing crops. The land, however, is still too wet for much progress with spring tillage." From Warwickshire our advices stated : " The severe weather noted last week was followed on Fri day by a deep snow, which caused serious obstruc tion to traffic. On Satvrday a rapid thaw set in, with a heavy fall of rain, causing the greatest flood which has been known for years, and doing very consider able damage to property, as well as to the wheat plant. Spring sowing is quite at a standstill for the present, but the weather is now much milder, with the wind S. and S.W." Friday was a favourable day for field work on the light ssils, and a good deal was accomplished. Our advices from the West Riding:of Yorkshire says : " Since our last week's report we have had some rain and frosty nights, but the weather has been much milder than dur ing the previous week ; drier, however, is needed for spring tillage." Saturday morning was fine, but there were slight showers during the day, and the evening had a rough appearance, with the wind from the W.N.W., and some thunder was experienced. On the whole, during this week, rather more progress has been made with spring tillage, particularly on the light lands, but much finer weather is needed to give a nice finish. In some counties provender is reported to be getting scarce and dear ; at the leading ports there are, however, good supplies, and whether for pigs or cattle there is plenty. Brank is about as cheap as any other ar ticle, and can be bought at 28s. per qr., weight 501 b. per bushel. Grinding barley at 325., sane weight. Other articles in proportion. Mal,ttinf; qualities of barley appear to be nearly. exhaub ed, lane Express of yesterday. and seed samples comman d high prices. —Mark- In the sitting of the 29th Count Bismarck con cluded a speech against Deputy Lasker's amend ment—that true reports of Parliamentary proceed ings should not be liable to prosecution, in the fol lowing terms : " One of the preceding speakers, the deputy for Berlin, has taken this opportunity of complaining that at times a hardly forced' tone of courtesy is cast aside. If in this remark he alludes to a warm discussion in which I engaged some days ago, I should like to submit one point to his consideration. When one has fought hard for five years and has attained that which we are now debating ; when one has sacrificed in so doing one's time, the best years of one's life, and one's health ; when one re- members the trouble it has cost to get 22 Govern ments to agree to one small paragraph, or even upon a matter of punctuation ; when one has reached this point, gentlemen who have heard little about these conflicts, who can know nothing of official pro- cedure, then step forward in a manner I can only compare to somebody hurling a stone through my closed window without knowing where I stand. He does not know where he may hit me ; he does not know what matters of busi- ness may be in progress at that moment which he impedes and what others he frustrates altogether by this opposition. He does not know what foreign questions hover in the balance which would admit the different treatment upon energetic support of the Government by the Parliament in comparison with that they meet when people see that Parliament does not go unconditionally with the Government, and that very slight cause would suffice to bring about a serious and deep breach. Under such circumstances it is very easy, without being artificially nervous, to get into a state of mind I cannot better characterise for the hon. deputy than by recommending him to read in one of the early scenes of 'Henry the Fourth' what sort of an impression Henry Percy felt when the lord there spoken of came to him, demanded his prisoners, and then inflicted upon him—wounded and battle-weary —a lengthy oration as to weapons and internal wounds. The passage is at the commencement of the piece, and begins, do remember me that when the fight was done, there came a certain lord,' &c. I feel something like Percy felt when I hear these sort of speeches made about things for which I have suffered and fought, and necessarily understand better." Opening Public-Houses on Sunday. The following is a copy of a bill respecting the sale of liquors on Sunday, brought into the House of Commons by Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr. Bailey, and Mr. Baines. It is entitled " A bill for further re gulating the sale of fermented and distilled liquors on Sunday in England and Wales. " Whereas the restrictions on the sale in England and Wales of fermentedand distilled liquors during certain hours on the Lord's day and certain other days imposed by an act of the session of the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter 118, intituled An act to repeal the act of the 17th and 18th years of the reign of her present Majesty for further regulating the sale of beer and other liquors on the Lord's day, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,' have been attended with great benefits, and these benefits would be increased by an exten sion of the said act : Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled , and by authority of the same, as follows : " 1. The provisions of the recited act im p osing in England and Wales restrictions o n the o p ening of houses and other places f or the sale of fermented and distilled l i q uors at certain hours on Sunday, Christmas -da y , Good Friday, and on any day appoin ted for a public fast onratfhtear contained,shallnligiving,and x (subject to re thea fermented consu med on the prem ises) be extended to the whole of the above- ment i on ed days, and as regards fer mented and dist illed liquors When sold as aforesaid s h a ll be extended to the times between half-past two an d e ight o'clock iu the afterno on and 10 and 11 o'clock in the afternoon on the above-mentioned days, and all the provisions of the recited act shall apply and be construed accordingly. Provided, that where any person who Loltn fide carries on as part of his ordinary daily trade the business of an eat ing -house keeper or otherwise of selling meat, con fectionery, oother • r victuals to be consumed on the premises, nothing in this act contained shall pre vent such person from opening his house for the sale or from selling in the if thivact had not passed, any meat, confectionery, or other tictuals for consumption on the premises, or any fermented or distilled liquois for consump tion premises by persons who lo iaa ) fide have purchased any such meat, confectionery, or other victuals." THE BOARD of MANAGEMENT of the LONDON HOWEOPATIIIC HOSPITAL wish to call the attention of their friends t its position—during the past year the beds 'nave been almost constantly filled, and the drain on the resclurces of the Hospital has consequently been great. 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Tim ES.—if statistics could settle the question - of Reform, it ought to have been long since dispos e d of and aid aside. We have had Blue-book after Blue-book, and Parliamentary papers upon Parlia mentary papers, ex' ibiting the effect, as might be supposed, of all possible alterations viewed in all pos sible lights. The present Government have nut been so prodigal of figures as their predecessors in office, and bystanders striving to be charitable have, in fact, felt some difficulty at times in resisting the impression that all the short-lived proposals of which they have been sponsors were mere guesses made blindfold, but the deficiencies of the Admi nistration have been nude up by the assiduity of private members. Every man who has his own solu tion of the pending difficulty moves for a return setting it forth in a statistical form, and the embar rassment occasioned by these multitudinous rows of figures has not been lessened by a suspicion that, like supernumeraries at a theatre, the same facts are constantly presented to our view, dressed up after a slightly different fashion. This endless series of details has become oppressive, and part of the good effect produced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last Tuesday was, perhaps, occasioned by the relief he promised, or seemed to promise, to overburdened members when he declared that the Government had sought to solve the difficulty of enfranchisement without minutely scanning the numbers who might be enfranchised. Mr. Disraeli's declaration that figures wdre, after all, of no great importancemis verychearing-, but perhaps it was too goal to be true. Mr. Gladstone's inquiries last night implied a mistrust of' other parts of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech, which it was, perhaps, no more than the duty of the Leader of the Opposition to express, though in this case we be lieve it to have been unnecessary. With one excep tion, the concessions made by Mr. Disraeli could not be evaded, even were there a desire to recede from them. It may please him to be mysterious in his answers to questions, but the result will not be affected by his mystery. lie has abandoned the Dual Vote. The reduction of the County Qualifi cation will 'be frankly made if a promise to co-operate with the House means anything; and the Lodger Franchise will be secured by the insertion of a clause which any one could carry. There is but one part of the Reform problem which is not yet settled, and we fear cannot be settled without some reference to wearisome statistics. It is the Borough Franchise. Every other difficulty has been cleared away, and this difficulty, too, will doubtless be overcome in the pre sent temper of the House of Commons, but it is not yet overcome. It must be faced, and the current week, or so much of it as the Budget will leave at the elisposal of Methbers, r might be:, profitably vofeitto,,arri;kattainatic% pf thaJilearra of meeting it; The pieeesa - ,ivill dae made easier by first examining,: the 'means which will, not serve the purpose of Par liament. A return presented on Saturday gives the last stroke to the abandoned £6 rating franchise, the adoption of which at any time Mr. Gladstone himself, much as he may regret the " ten minutes" bill, must confess to have been altogether impos sible. It appears that the total number of such occu piers assessed at a rateable value of above £6 in the borough constituencies of England and Wales is 750,071. We know also that the total number of male occupiers at £lO rental and upwards is 639,043. The total number of electors which might by possi bility be added to the register by substituting the one qualification for the other would, therefore, be 111,028; but as, in fact, out of the 639,043 £lO occupiers no more than 451,699 have their names placed on the register, and the proportionate num ber of perasns nominally qualified who fail to get on the list increases as the value of the qualification diminishes, it would be a liberal estimate to believe that the enfranchisement of occupiers rated above £6 would add 70,000 electors to the borough con stituencies. Even if we added those rates at £6—a number not included in Saturday's return, but ob tainable elsewhere--the total of new electors who would probably reach the register would not exceed 100,000. If it were worth while to descend to de tails, it could be shown that the number thus added would be found in the small country boroughs, and the electors in all metropolitan constituencies, and most of the large towns, would experience no ap preciable change. It ie unnecessary, however, to pur.n. Ruch •Axaminstion. b...4...(1 prujent, finding favour with a section of the House of Com mons, is to accept the household rating franchise proposed by the Government shorn of the cheeks of personal payment of rates and additional residence. We may observe, by the way, that it is doubtful, on the legal construction of the Government bill, whether the necessity of inhabiting the whole of a separate building, which Mr. Gladstone deprecated as a third check, is really required by it. The effects of a rating franchise pure and simple, with out any security for the payment of rates except through the landlord, were thoroughly examined by the Lords' Committee in 1859, on the influence of the Small Tenements Act on municipal elections ; and it is only necessary to refer to the evidence given before the committee to acquire a know ledge of its working more complete than satisfac tory. The lords, without a division, arrived at the conclusion that, " as a test of fitness to take part in municipal affairs, as well as a security against corrupt and fraudulent practices, actual, direct, and continuous payment of rates should be the indis pensable condition of the municipal suffrage." If we understand, however, Mr. Gladstone's position aright, he would shrink from an unfettered house hold rating suffrage as much as, if not more than, members sitting on the Conservative benches, and his objections to the checks incorporated by the Administration in their bill are founded on the arbitrary and capricious manner in which he sup poses they would operate. He would himself sug gest a definite limit, and, deferring to the house, a rating limit, below which the rates should uni versally be paid by owners instead of occupiers, and down to which enfranchisement should be car ried. Ratepaying clauses he would altogether abolish. The arguments against this scheme are obvious, and, we think, conclusive. It is plain that a £5 rating limit is the highest that could be fixed upon them, and we should have householders above and householders below that limit not pay ing their rates, and, in fact, differing in no sub stantial respect save that an arbitrary law divides them, and one is chosen to be a Parliamentary voter and the other left. The distinction is not sufficiently reasonable to be permanent. If the personal payment of rates is not to be required from the voter, how can his neighbour be excluded because he does not pay rates ? Lord Grosvenor avoids this difficulty by his propsal that the Small Tenements Act should be made universal in application at a£s rating limit, and that all householders rated at and above that sum should be bound to pay their own rates. Ratepaying and the franchise would in that case go hand in band. Where the one was found there would be the other also, and where rates were not paid the franchise would not be given. The old scot and-lot franchise would, in fact, be revived, with a limitation adapted to the circumstances of modern life. But the difficulty of carrying out such a pro posal would be almost insuperable. It may not be impossible to make the Small Tenements Act apply everywhere in respect of houses rated at £5 and under, but we cannot suppose such a violent change as would be involved in the administration of our parochial system by taking out of the operation of the Act and similar local Acts all householders rated above that limit. We put aside with some reluc tance a suggestion which has much to recommend it ; nor can we find in Mr. Poulet Scrope's sugges tion to exempt from rates both owners and occu piers of the lowest class of houses sufficient to counterbalance the reasons against eleemosynary legislation. We fall back on the Government pro posal to enfranchise rated householders personally paying their rates, and we ask whether it is true that under the operation of the Small Tenements Act the enfranchisement thus conferred would operate capriciously and arbitrarily. Mr. Glad stone quoted last week a valuable return to show the disparity between the numbers which would be admitted to the franchise where the Small Tenements Act bad been adopted, and where , it was not in force. He assumed that all male occupiers within the £6 rating limit would be excluded in the boroughs under the Act, and that all male occupiers whatever would get on the register in the boroughs not under the Act, and he dwelt on the absurdity of allowing a local vestry to determine whether householders should be enfran chised by tens or by hundreds. A return, abstracted in the electoral returns of last year, refutes Mr. Gladstone's essential assumption. Before the pass ing of the Small Tenements Act the direct payment of rates by the householder was a necessary qualifi cation of the municipal franchise, and by comparing the number of burgesses with the number of occu piers in any borough before the adoption of the Act we can ascertain the proportion of occupiers who failed to qualify as burgesses, and who would fail to qualify as Parliamentary electors, from non payment of rates. We find that Mr. Gladstone's hypothetical disparity disappears. The proportion of occupiers failing to qualify is nearly the same as the proportion the small Tenements Act would ex- chide, and the vote of the vestry adopting the Act would enact as a rule what had before been the practical result. The Small Tenements Act, by doing away with the necessity of the personal pay ment of rates, raised the number of municipal bur gesses in the boroughs where it was adopted from 101,000 to 251,000; or, in other words, out of 254,000 householders otherwise qualified no more than 101,000 paid their own rates and were placed on the municipal register. The prima facie objec tion grounded on the assumed variability of enfran chisement vanishes, and all further argument on the subject is met by the provision in the bill enabling any householder to claim to be rated, as explained by Mr. Hardy. The President of the Poor-law Board declared it to be the intention of the Government that the occupier claiming to be rated should be enabled to deduct the rates he paid from his rent, and, although the clause to which he referred would not carry out this intention, we may assume that the alterations necessary for the purpose will be brought forward by the Government. If this be done, and the inevitable corollary be adopted that the rate to be paid by the occupier making his claim to be rated shall be no more than the com pounded rate paid by the landlord, all pretence of a fine on the enjoyment of the franchise will be swept away, and no more will be demanded of the occupier than the proof of responsibility involved in a readi ness to meet the tax(ratherer as well as the landlord, and the minimum a trouble occasioned by the necessity, under which compound occupiers above £lO now labour, to claim to be rated. Subject to certain simple alterations the Borough Franchise proposed by the Administration seems convenient and eligible. There is no reason why longer resi dence should be required from the occupier of a house below £lO annual value than from a £lO oc cupier, and the unwise attempt to make a distinc tion in this respect, if not prudently abandoned at power onee, t o ought deductto b a t e committee. from the land lord's ri rent will of course be clearly given, and the rates exigible from the compound householder can not be higher than the compound rates. The re given s, when up paid,in diversity of definition of the qualifying tenement he under the bill and under the existing law would probably prove nugatory in practice, and may be prudently reconsidered. It may be doubted whether the necessity of making a continued claim is of any real value, while it certainly provokes much irrita tion. These are, however, the incidental circum stances of a ratepaying franchise. The franchise is in itself simple ; it is a test of responsibility ; it is elastic, and when fairly carried out will operate, as Mr. Gladstone very happily expressed it last week, like a law of "natural selection," bringing on the register every onp who is ready to prove his personal I :fitireas'for-the trust. It will be the .- Work of the ,ItOtA're Of. . 'Commons next week to remove the defects apparent in the machinery sketched out in the bill -of the Administration ; but the idea of the bill will probably receive its sanction, and be enacted in the Reform Act of 1867. Serious Irish Riots on St. Patrick's Day. (From the Correspondent of the Morning Herald.) NEW YORK, March 20. " What shall we do with these Irish ?" is the question that every native American hereabout is asking of himself or of his neighbour. The riots and outrages in this city on Monday were the last turn of the screw. The insolence of " our Irish fellow citizens" has at last become intolerable. Throughout the whole city there exists on the part of the Ame ricans a feeling of indignation against the Irish, more bitter than any that has ever heretofore had place. Not even after the riots of 1863, or during the hottest period of the Know-nothing excitement, was there so general a sentiment of dislike or de testation for the Irish portion of our population as there is at the present time. Some of the bloody scenes of Monday fell under the observation of your correspondent. Coming from Brooklyn to New York at one o'clock, and passing through Grand-street, in this city, his attention was ar rested by the evident signs of disorder prevailing among the thousands of people throning- that thoroughfare and the neighbouring streets and lanes. By published order the various societies of Hiber nians, Sons of Temperance, Longshoremen, and the like, had been instructed to assemble in the triangle formed by the junction of East Broadway and Grand-street, there to break into procession. At the time that your correspondent reached this point the marshals and officers of the society were be ginning to form the procession. This work, owing to the drunkenness of the "patriots," was one of great difficulty ; in fact, the triangle was filled by a yelling, boisterous mob, which had shut up the entrances to the numerous diverging streets and forbidden the passage not only only of vehicles but of pedestrians. Your correspondent's attention was first directed to a truck standing near the entrance of Pitt-street. This was surrounded by a crowd. A man stood upon the truck, gesti culating wildly, and pointing in various directions. Finally this man seized the reins and endeavoured to drive down Pitt-street. In an instant a violent commotion began ; stones were thrown at the ad venturous driver ; swords flashed, staves were bran dished. The driver was either pulled off or knocked off the truck. He was at once set upon by the mob, stabbed, beaten, kicked, and rolled in the mud and snow. A policeman appeared, swinging his club. He seized the unfortunate truckman, and endea voured to draw him upon the cart. Ile in turn was knocked down, beaten, and stabbed. Another policeman appeared, to be served in the same brutal way. Another and still another officer rushed into the midst of the crowd—each in turn to be stabbed, beaten, and trampled upon. At last some of the injured policemen managed to gain a footing upon the truck, and to ply their clubs upon the heads of the mob. For a moment this battle continued; then the truck, seized by a hundred brawny hands, was tipped over, and the policemen thrown sprawling upon the ground. Here they were again set upon and most frightfully beaten. One by one, other officers appeared. The alarm was conveyed to the nearest station-house, and telegrams were sent to all the precincts. Unfortunately, the officers were compelled to straggle in ; there could be little of concert of action among them. As each blue-coat approached it was swallowed up by the mob. Thus 22 policemen in all were terribly wounded. At last a detachment of police advanced in solid phalanx, marching down Grand-street upon the rioters. The mob instantly scattered, and in two minutes the ground was clear, save where dotted by the bodies of the unfortunate guardians of the public peace. Thera they lay, fifteen of them, too badly wounded to stand erect. Four sat on the kerbstone washing their bleeding heads in the muddy stream of the gutter. Two sat on a neighbouring doorstep, the blood streamin g from their wounds, and flowing across the flagging. One hung half insensble to an awning-post ;another leaned against a lamp-post. For the space of 50 feet either way the muddy snow was daubed with blood. Blood was everywhere ; on the ash-boxes, I on the coal-boxes, on the shutters of the grocer's windows, on the steps of the lodging-house, on the flagging, on the inverted truck. A bloody sword projected from a box of garbage. Bloody frag ments of staves and batons were scattered about, showing that the marshals of the Irish societies had been the leaders of the riot. The wounded police men were borne to the nearest station-house, pass ing in long and bloody procession through the streets, a trail of blood telling to the following crowd the route they had taken. In a short time the procession in Grand-street was formed, and the Irish moved toward the central portion of the city. At the point of junction of East Broadway with Chatham-square a policeman endeavoured to arrest a disorderly " Son of Temperance." Thereupon a burly Irishman, mounted on a powerful horse, charged at the officer, striking him across the head with a heavy sabre. The officer pluckily attacked this ruffian, and finally captured him. lle was taken to the station-house, where it transpired that his name was Clark, and that he was a marshal of one of the societies of the "Ancient Order of Hi berniaus." Numerous other outrages were com mitted during the day. Several horses were stabbed, cut, or frightfully beaten. Numerous peaceable citizens were assaulted. The driver of one of the ‹)/ NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " CASTE." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., 31 Y SON' S By the Author of " Caste," V I F E. &c. Hurst and Bla.ekett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.