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There was no dullness to redeem in the latter por tion of its course, because throughout the speeches have been animated by particular brilliancy, and the speakers have entered fully into the importance of the case. The chief interest of the evening centred in the speeches of Mr. DISRAELI and Mr. GLADSTONE, each of which was remarkable in its way. That of the leader of the Opposition was chiefly distinguished for his reference to the Irish Church question, concerning which he had made up his mind rather suddenly at last. While be certainly can lay claim to having enunciated this decided opinion before the close of the debate, still it was at the eleventh hour then, and the right hon. gentleman could not speak with the authority of one who was advocating a long-cherished scheme, and pursuing a policy of whose wisdom he had long been the exponent. We may presum e that Mr. GLADSTONE thought he was making a grand hit, for he kept his remarks on the momentous question of the " Church" until the end, and then shone forth in all the lustre and glanced with all the zeal that generally distinguishes converts, especially when they seek to convert others. We have no fault to find with the right hon. gentleman for declaring that the Irish Church Establishment must cease, but he must not arrogate to himself the right of settling when, how, and where it shall cease, and, above all, not lay claim on the part of his party to any merit on that score. Mr. DISRAELI very successfully dis posed of that part when he complained of the incon sistency of his being called upon at the very outset of his Ministerial career to settle a question that had taken so long a time to consider. All the cir cumstances that had conduced to bring about the Irish crisis had taken place during the period of Mr. GLADSTONE'S holding office, and hence his strictures upon the late and present Ad ministration are quite beside the mark. Since then no effort was made to alter or change or do away altogether with the grievances now so bitterly com plained of ; there is every ground for animadvert ing upon those who now insist upon "sweeping changes" taking place immediately. Mr. DISRAELI was most effective in the latter part of his speech, when he deprecated the tactics of the Opposition and denounced their inconsistency in seeking on a sudden to commit the House to a decided policy on the spur of the moment. "I deny," said the right hon. gentleman, " your moral competency to do that without an appeal to the nation ;" for the new House of Parliament is the right and fitting place to have this momentous question settled. As for the tenure of the Irish Church Estab lishment, that is now only a question of time, and the most ardent upholder of its merits cannot iu his heart believe that it can last in a permanent form after the opinion of the House has so decidedly pronounced against it through the speeches of its leading members. In one of the allusions in which he is so happy, Mr. DISRAELI referred to the passage of arms that has lately taken place in the House of Lords, and he showed how he could select some THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, _MARCH 17, 1868. o b s en vations "if he were to borrow words which he had heard were used in another place. But so long at i..east as I have any part in the conduct of the busing ss of this House, there will be I hope one House of Parliament at least that may be a model of mannE rs. I will say nothing rude in respect of an augvist assembly that seems for a moment -.to have lost that perfection of manner which I once thought it possessed." It was, of course, impossible for Mr. DISRAELI to have I passed over altogether the affair in the Lords. We think that his rebuke was both dignified in tone and decisive in effect. If those Peers who indulged for a brief space in passionate invective and ex treme littleness of spirit, alike unworthy of their own reputation and unsuited to the occasion, have returned to their ordinary state of quiescence, they will themselves; feel, if they do not own, the justice and truth of those temperate but forcible remarks which last night fell from the leader of the House and head of the Cabinet. Such sneers and satire, as were all too plainly visible in the speeches of last week in the House of Lords, were all the more ill timed when directed against the PREMIER, because he has never himself been personal in his speeches, and has always in his public career preserved a temper and tact that could not be surpassed, and which have, indeed, excited the admiration of friends and foes. Mr. DISRAELI was certainly fortunate in having to refer to points that excited laughter, and thus wound up a heavy debate with a spirit that aroused and sustained the House. Some years ago the right hon. gentleman delivered a speech, indeed a quar ter of a century has passed since he uttered it ; he then thought that no one had listened to it, but he has just found out that it was only too well appre ciated. It seemed as if he was pouring water upon sand, but it now seems that the water came from a golden goblet. The years that have passed have been :momentous for changes, that in some sort have attended the character of the state of things of that day, but Mr. DISRAELI did not take refuge from his position ; on the contrary, he de clared that in his conscience the " sentiment of that speech was right." It may have been expressed with all the " heedless rhetoric," which ordinarily characterises speeches delivered below the gangway, but still the right hon. gentleman affirmed that his historical cons cience declared that he was right. A great autho rity in the House has declared that history is not to be alluded to, and in pursuance of his theory he has been going about the country delivering history to illustrate his meaning. But Mr. DISRAELI takes a truer, bolder, and more statesmanlike view of his subject, when he says that " Irish policy is Irish history ; and I have no faith in any statesman who attempts to remedy the evils of Ireland who is either ignorant of the past, or who will not take lessons from it." This is very true, and well worthy the consideration of the House. The Government, Mr. DISRAELI declared, was quite able to carry out their policy towards Ireland without having recourse to a committee on the state of that country. A charter, it is hoped, will receive her MAJESTY'S sanction which will in stitute a Roman Catholic University. No endow ment is required, because it is expected that the House will not refuse to do as much for the Roman Catholics of Ireland as it does to assist the London University. Respecting the land a great deal has been promised, and even last night Mr. DISRAELI declared if they had had the opportunity the Go vernment would have introduced a Reform Bill for Ireland, which would add greatly to the Popular privileges of the people of that country. " There are many members of this class who look with ap prehension upon a measure of that kind. Ido not, because I believe we arc on the eve of a policy for Ireland which will settle a true community, and which will terminate the sorrows of afflicted cen turies." On the whole this debate on the Irish question has not been without its uses, and now we hope that the good sense of the House will prevent the more important among its members from at tempting to disturb the Government again until it has had a fair opportunity of dealing with the ques tion. Mr. GLADSTONE uttered some visionary re marks at the close of his speech as to the necessity of the House making some definite declaration on the question of the Irish Church ; but we hope that the discretion which has characterised the right hon. gentleman so far will still distinguish him, and that, upon reflection, he will allow the matter to rest where it now is, referred most appropriately from an expiring House to the fresher energies and patriotic x D erience sentiments, m des or ir e e e o x r m ten o d r e e d eb u t of a n not more w r earnest s r liament. It would seem from the news brought by the Hansa, from New York on the sth, that the Im peachment party have already met with some check in their hasty proceedings. They may refuse to receive the protest of the Democrats, and may decline to listen to any independent remonstrance, but they can hardly refuse to hear the reproof of the Chief Justice himself. The House Committee, we learn, presented the twelve Articles of Impeach ment against President JOHNSON to the Senate on the 6th of March. The Senate resolved to organise itself as a court on the. following day, and sent notice to Chief Justice CHASE to appear and pre side. The Chief Justice, however, sent a commu nication to the Senate dissenting from their action in receiving the Articles of Impeachment before the Court was organised. Whether Mr. CHASE was ap pointed at the independent action of the Senate, whe ther he was unwilling to identify himself too much with the Radicals, or whether he was really sensible of the incorrect and illegal manner in which they were conducting an affair of much moment, may be matter of speculation. At any rate he has admi nistered a decided reproof to the Senate Court, and has given expression to that sentiment of popular indignation at the indecent haste with which matters have been pushed forward in mani fest disregard of even ordinary conventional forms. The breathless haste with which the whole of this last Impeachment motion has been conducted, augurs very ill for the fairness and deliberation of its trial. The accused is evidently condemned unheard by his self-constituted judges, and it seems as though the failure of their former attacks had redoubled their rancour and intolerance. The several State Conventions throughout the country are naturally beginning to express their sentiments on the all-exciting topic of the day. The majority of them, however, are inclined to support the PRESIDENT. The Ohio Re publican Convention has adopted a resolution ap proving the Impeachment, and another in favour of General GRANT for the Presidency, and Mr. WADE for the Vice-Presidency. In Pennsylvania the Democratic Convention has adopted resolutions diametrically opposite, condemning the Impeach mentas grossly partisan and unjustifiable. In one re spect, however, both the Democrats of Pennsylvania and Republicans of Ohio agree—in recommending the currency payment of bonds, a not very hopeful sign of the times. At Baltimore a mass meeting had been held denouncing the Impeachment, and en dorsing the PRESIDENT'S policy. If the people of the States will rally to the PRESIDENT'S support, and give open expression to their sentiments, the Radi- cals may soon find that they have been acting in haste to repent at leisure. The expense caused by the Abyssinian expedition to the British taxpayer has been lately made the occasion of much remark, and not a little anxiety has been excited in some quarters by rumours that the estimates had already been greatly exceeded, while millions and half millions were reckoned up with alarming rapidity. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that a question respecting the truth of such reports should have been last night put to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons, or that Mr. WARD HUNT should have deviated from the ordinary rule in giving an answer. Captain VivrAN asked whether the estimate of the probable expenditure on account of the expedition, which was presented to the House in November, was likely to be exceeded; if so, to what extent, and owing to what circumstances. This query was somewhat widely comprehensive in its character, inasmuch as if fully answered it would have unfairly antici pated the Budget. Members' patience can surely endure until the regular time for making the finan cial statement, now close at hand ; and, as Mr. HUNT observed, the custom of making piecemeal financial statements would be a very inconvenient and unsuitable one. At the same time he thought the present occasion an exceptional one, and he gave a very satisfactory answer. It appears that the statements which have unsettled the public mind have been greatly exaggerated, being set afloat no doubt by persons who, for rea sons of their own, have been always opposed to the expedition. The estimate which was laid before the house in November last stated that if the expe dition lasted, as was anticipated, until the end of April, the expenditure would amount to three millions and a half, and; in certain eventualities, it might extend to four millions. Up to the present time Mr. HUNT believes hat the lower amount will cover all expenses, so that there is as yet no great discrepancy between the fact and the anticipation. So long as the work is well done the country will not be disposed to quarrel, but we hope on every account that there will be no unnecessary delay in pushing forward to Magdala and effecting the objet; of the under taking as quickly as possible. _ The invention of the patent tube well has proved an invaluable assistant to the aCvancing army, and by its means henceforward trocps in hot coun- tries will be relieved from one of the most pressing and terrible of their en3rnies. Neither courage, nor fortitude, nor good generalship, no tried experience, can supply the wan; of water. Man and beast alike suffer, droop, and ?erish, but with the aid of this wonderful mechanism the dry earth beneath the feet of the men can be called on to supply their wants. A very inteesting series of experiments were made on Saturday last by Mr. NORTON, the holder of the patent, and some engi neers associated with him, in prasence of most of our prominent engineers and men of science. Tubes of various sizes were experimented upon. The tube is driven into tle ground by means of a monkey, the pumping apparatus is affixed, and water comes up as if by magic. Within nineteen minutes from the commencemett of the operation water was produced at the rate of ten to twelve gallons per minute from a depth of fifteen or sixteen feet. A larger tube driven into the earth by a monkey of great power gave so copious a supply, that it was computed that even by hand some 1,000 gallons of water per hour could be obtained. A much larger tube was after wards tested, which took greater force and longer time to drive into the earth, but when it was fairly done, and the pumping apparatus fixed, water poured out in such abundance as to amaze the lookers-on. Of course water might not be equally procurable from every soil, but there can be n o q uestio n as to the v alue and importance of the application. The tubes are easily removed from their position, and can thus be taken as part of the equipment of the army, and we hope that henceforward no army will be without them. The water is perfectly pure, clearing itself as it proceeds from its first thickness, and while we may congratulate our Abyssinian forces on this seasonable addition to their resources, we must not overlook the effect which Mr. NORTON'S patent is likely to produce upon our own metropo litan water supply. With an abundant supply of cheap pure water drawn from out of reach of sur face drainage, we may fight with some confidence against those spectres of typhus and cholera, which arc more deadly and dangerous foes than King THEODORE himself. LATEST INTELL LGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE AND THE EAST. PARIS, March 17. The Constitutionnel of this morning, whilst re producing an article from the Pays Rounzain, a Bucharest paver, says : " The French Government has always avoided mixing itself up in the internal affairs of Roumania, and especially in questions of persons, but it has never been indifferent to anything which might interest the future welfare of the country, for the development of which it has incessantly and sin cerely laboured, and whose consolidation is of such importance to,the tranquillity of Eastern Europe. The Government had two objects in view, which have been successively attained—first, the union of the Principalities ; and, secondly, the accession of a foreign Prince to the throne. It would indeed be strange that it should now desire to destroy its own work. The Prince of Hohenzollern represents what tho Government considers the last word of its policy in the Danubian provinces. We regret to see certain parties attempt to endorse reports tending to estrange the Roumain people from a friendly Power. At one time they endeavour to make the public believe that the French Government is in favour of the restoration of Prince Couza, at another that the Emperor Napoleon should have given a promise at the Salzburg interview not to oppose the annexation of Roumania to Austria. We arelauthorised formally to deny allegations so thoroughly opposed to the policy of the Emperor Napoleon, and to that of the Emperor Francis Joseph. ITALY. ROME, March 17. The Pope held a public Consistory yesterday in the ipresence of the members of the diplomatic corps and other distinguished personages. After having taken the oaths the six new Cardinals re ceived their hats. The Pope afterwards held a private Consistory, at which he precognised bishops for the dioceses of Quito, Louisville, Erie, and Buffalo, and appointed other bishops in partibus. His Holiness then conferred the ring and titles upon the new Cardinals. Cardinal Bonaparte received the title of St. Puderitius, and was appointed member of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars. The ceremonies concluded with the usual rites and the granting of in- dulgences. Count de Sartiges, the French Ambassador to the Holy See, gave a reception in the course of the day. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, March 17. Monsignore Bianchi, the Papal .Nuncio to the Swiss Confederation, has sent in a protest to the Federal Council against the prohibition that Catholic nuns should superintend educational esta blishments. SOUTHAMPTON, March 17. The North German Lloyd steamer Union, sail ing to-day for New York, takes out gold coin from London to the value of £30,000. WEST COAST OF AFRICA MAILS. LIVERPOOL, March 7. The steamer Ethiope, with the above mails, arrived in the Agrsey this morning with dates from Benin, February 16 ; Brass River, 10 ; Fernando Po, 13 ; Cameroons, 14 ; Bonny, 16 ; Lagos, 18 ; Accra, 20 ; Cape Palmas, 23 ; Sierra Leone, 28 ; Teneriffe, March 7; and Madeira 9th. The different stations upon the coast were very healthy, and trade was generally good. At Came room the traders report a bad oil season, but fa vourable accounts were received from Brass River. A serious riot occurred on the sth March at Ma deira in consequence of the arrival of a candidate for the Portuguese Cortes. The troops opened fire upon the people, who refused to disperse until the candidate went on board the ship that brought him from Lisban. All was quiet when the mail left. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. A special general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern to consider the propriety of raising £1,300,000, and to attach thereto a preferential dividend of 10 per cent. per annum, and an additional privilege of participating in the profits of the company ; Mr. J. S. Wortley in the chair. Mr. SAWARD, the secretary, having read the no tice convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN said he felt much gratified at the confidence shown by the public in the board in having subscribed so largely towards the proposed new stock. He had also to announce the disap pointment he felt in having failed to obtain the sanction of the shareholders to raising the proposed capital. He then explained that on a former occa sion they had been obliged to abandon the scheme for amalgamating the Anglo-American Telegraph Company with the Atlantic Telegraph Company, owing to some differences as to terms. If a union of the two companies could have been formed on equitable terms, he believed they would have had a company of greater power, and it would have had the effect of postponing for a longer period the probability of competition. They then proposed to raise £1,300,000 to pay off the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, and take possession of the pro perty in accordance with an existing arrangement between the two companies ; but when the proposi tion for raising the capital was made to the last meeting it was carried by a show of bands, upon which his friend, the Rev. Mr. Nicholson, demanded a poll, and the result was that the motion was re jected by a large number of votes being recorded against it. This adverse decision was the result of a pet clause of Lord Redesdale's being inserted in their Act of Parliament. It required that before the company could create and issue new capital there should be a majority of three-fourths of the votes recorded in favour of such a proposition. The public had subscribed above £1,000,000 towards the new capital, and if they could have carried the re solution to create and issue the new preference stock, they would have got the remainder of the money in the city of London, and thus been enabled to pay off the Anglo-American Company ; but they had been defeated by a small minority. He be lieved that seven-eighths of the shareholders were in favour of the measure, but the clause referred to enabled a very small minority of the shareholders to defeat the proposal. They supposed, however, on appealing to the shareholders generally, and by ' holding the present meeting, that so beneficial a measure to the company would be sanctioned by the requisite majority, but as the time approached for holding the meeting the directors perceived from the transfers coming into the office it was intended to defeat the measure again, and it appeared that about 30 or 40 shareholders were enabled to repre sent by proxies more than a fourth of the votes in the company, and under those circumstances it would be useless for the directors to submit the re solution for which the meeting had been convened. Under those circumstances they had received from the Anglo-American Company a proposition which was not so favourable to the Atlantic Telegraph Company as the directors thought they were entitled to. The circular that had been sent to the proprietors, stating the proposed terms by the Anglo-American Com pany, WaB signed by Mr. Morgan, a gigantic holder of shares, in which three other gentlemen had joined him, and these gentlemen commanded more than one-fourth of the votes, rendering a majority of three-fourths of the votes impossible, so that Lord Redesdale and the law had given the power into the hands of these gentlemen. The company was in a position to return all the money subscribed for the new shares, but the law did not give the directors power to offer the subscribers compensa tion. He then went through the circular issued by Mr. Morgan, embodying the elements of the pro posed agreement between the two companies. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the Chairman. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF DIVORCE. efore the Right Hon. Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.) THEATRICAL DIVORCE CASE.-CRABB V. CRABB. It will be remembered that in this case the peti ioner is a lady prominently known to the pub- lic at large as Miss Herbert, the manageress of the St. James's Theatre, and at present performing at the Lyceum Theatre in the character of Madame la Pampadour. She was married to the respondent in 1855, and in 1857 she was confined of a son. At this time her husband was carrying on an adulter ous connection with the female servants in the house. In the year 1857, while she was recovering from her confinement, a separation, which appears to have been mutual, took place between them. The petitioner was to have an allowance of £lOO w year. The respondent went to India, and has not since returned to his wife. The question for the court to decide was whether this deed of separation did not nullify any petition for the dissolution of marriage. Sir James Wilde said that it appeared that the separation was mutual, and that although the court, the petitioner having proved her husband's adultery, would have granted a decree, for a judicial separation, yet, as that had not been applied for, there was no alternative but to dismiss the petition. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. BREAKING A Wo3fAN'S LEG.—Michael Neal, a powerful man, living at No. 24, Little Coram-street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt on a warrant with assaulting Charles Bond, a spar-maker, living in Lloyd's-court, Crown-street, Soho, and also with assaulting Police-constable Joseph Jacobi, 72 F, and he was further charged with assaulting and breaking the leg of Mrs. Mary Ann Boni. Charles Bond (who has a wooden leg) said—On the 28th Feb., 1867, I went home to No. 4, Lloyd's Court, and had not been home more than five minutes when my wife told me that a Jemale, who lived with prisoner in the same house, had a day or two before thrown a pail of filthy water over her. I told the woman that I would not put up with it, and the prisoner came downstairs, and, without saying a word to me, gave me a violent blow in the eye, and then another, and as I was falling he gave a violent kick at my wooden leg and broke it, and also kicked me on the hand so as to prevent me working for six weeks. My wife, who was lying ill in bed from the effects of previous illusage she had received, got up and asked the prisoner if he was going to murder me, and the woman then gave my wife several violent blows and the prisoner gave her such a kick that it broke her leg, and she was in Charing-cross Hospital for several months in consequence. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Then he broke two legs? Witness—Yes, but one was a wooden one. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Was the prisoner taken then ? Witness—No, sir. Although there were five per sons in the house at the time, not one of them would go for a policeman, and so the prisoner escaped. I applied for a warrant, and seeing the prisoner yes terday caused him to be taken into custody. By the Prisouer-1 never spoke a word of anger or friendship to you. T never struck you with a bed-post. Mary Ann Bond said—On the 28th February, 1867, I was in my room. The woman the pri soner had with him had tried to throw a pail of filthy water over me, and had illused me. told my husband what had occurred, and he said he would speak to the prisoner in the morn ing, thinking he was not then at home. The woman seeing my husband, said, " Go down and give it to him ;" and the prisoner then came down and knocked my husband down. I went to the pro tection of my husband, when the woman caught hold of me and struck me, and the prisoner gave me a violent kick on the leg and 1 fell, and on my trying to get up I found that my leg was broken ; and while 1 was lying on the floor and unable to get up, and my leg bleeding, the woman threw a pail of water over me. I was taken to Charing-cross Hozpital, having received a compound fracture of the leg, and there was a piece of bone yet to come out. Mr. Tyrwhitt—When did you leave the hospital ? Witness—On the 17th of October. Police-constable Joseph Jacobi, 72 F, said-1 was called yesterday by Mr. Bond to take prisoner, who was in a public-house, into custody. I told the prisoner the circumstances of the case, and that there was a warrant out for him. He asked to see the warrant, and I told him that he could see it at the station. The prisoner refused to go, and struck me a violent blow in the mouth, cutting it, and it bled a great deal. With the assistance of Dowdell, 173 F, after a good deal of trouble I got the pri soner to the station, and he was then charged on the warrant. The prisoner said he was assaulted first, but that was denied. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Has the prisoner shoes on? Mr. Bond—Yes, with iron plates on them. Mr. 'fyrwhitt (to the prisoner)—You are one of those bad and violent fellows who haunt London unhappily. You broke the woman's leg, and you will go for three months with hard labour for that, and ono month for the assault on the man. CONSERVATISM IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE A meeting, which was expected to be of consi derable importance, was held on Saturday at the Lion Hotel, Petty Cury, Cambridge. The purpose , was to inaugurate publiztly " The Cambridgeshire, isle of Ely, and Town of Cambridge Conservative Registration Society," and the circular announced noon as the time of meeting. Lord Hardwicke, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, attended to pre side,M.P., was also present. and Lord Royston, The last-named nobleman suggested that the meeting should be adjourned until half-past one. This suggestion was agreed to, but even at the later hour only about thirty gentlemen were present. Having taken the chair, Lord Hard wicke stated that two months ago a preliminary meeting was held, at which a working committee was appointed, which committee, under the chair manship of Mr. E. Hicks, prepared rules, and a scheme of payment for the support of a Conserva tive Registration Association. These rules were to have been submitted to the meeting held on Satur day, but Lord Hardwicke said he thought it would be ridiculous to proceed with such slender support as was afforded him. Ile had not a single gentle man of the county but Mr. Hicks to support him who was in any way considered to be a Conserva tive leader. When he saw so few of the respectable yeomen and gentlemen of the town of Cambridge present he felt that the meeting must become known to the public as one of so little value that he felt bound to recommend that the proposed rules should not be proceeded with any further. He did not see how thirty gentlemen, situated as those were who had assembled, could expect to guide the wishes and councils of the Conservative party of Cambridgeshire. lie recommended that the meet ing should be adjourned to some future time, and, painful as it was to be met as he had been that day, be announced himself as willing to take the chair on a future occasion. Mr. S. Peel proposed the adjournment, which was se conded by Lord Royston, M. I'., who stated that his idea was that the county gentlemen had no opinions at all on this question of registra tion. He had another idea, and that was that this general laxity of political feeling was prevalent over the whole United Kingdom, in the House of Com mons and out of it. If political feeling was to be dead in the country, let it be so ; but if at a future time they wanted to unite together, they would have to blame themselves for not having taking time by the forelock. He trusted that if the farce was to be kept up—for nothing but a farce could he call it -he should not again be called upon to give up a day, and to go down from London to attend a meeting at which no practical results could be ob tained. The motion for adjournment was carried, and the proceedings closed. THE GYE AND MAPLEsON OPERA COALITI9 seems to have come to naught, since Mr. Mapleson is now announcing the commencement of his season at Drury lane. THAMES. ASSAULT ON THAMES POLICE CONSTABLES ON THE RlVER.—James Cleary, of No. 1, Gainsford court, Horselydown, lighterman, and aged 31, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with violently assaulting Robert Bruce, No. 104, and Thomas Abbott, 101, of the Thames Division of Police. A few minutes past one o'clock this morning the com plainants, who were doing duty on the river in their police galley, saw a barge aground, and in a very dan gerous position on the Limehonse shore. They rowed towards the barge and went on board. They found the prisoner in the cabin fast asleep and aroused him. Cleary immediately attacked the constables. lie kicked a lantern out of Bruce's hand, threw him on the floor of the cabin, and was about to jump upon him when Abbott interfered and seized the prisoner. A violent struggle took place, and both officers were repeatedly struck. The violence of the prisoner was extreme, and the constables were obliged to handcuff him. Several buttons were torn off Bruce's uniform coat. The defence of the prisoner was that the barge of which he had the care was blown on shore by the high wind, and that he did not know Bruce and Abbott were Thames Police officers. Mr. Edward William Chapman, of Tooley-street, Horgydown, said the prisoner was his servant, and had charge of the barge. Cleary was a well-con ducted man, and had been in his service 20 years. The prisoner did not know the police constables, or who they were. Mr. Paget---They had their uniforms on, and must have been known. _ _ Mr. Chapman—Tile light of the bull's-eye lan tern might have terrified him. Mr. Paget did not believe the Thames police con stables were unknown to the prisoner. The only doubt he had on this case was whether he ought not to commit the prisoner to the House of Correction and to hard labour without the option of paying a fine. That was the proper punishment for persons guilty of violent assaults on the police. Ile had not deviated from that course more than half a dozen, times since he had been a magis- trate. The reason he did not commit the pr soner to the House of Correction was that he was in charge of the barge, and his master had given him a good character. The Thames police were entrusted with the protection and security of the floating -property on the river, and must be pro tected. He sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 50s. to the Queen. Mr. Chapman immediately paid the penalty. TIM Tinian I 41 HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 16. The Queen walked in the grounds this morning, and drove, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise. Prince Leopold walked in the grounds. Princess Beatrice went out. The Prince of Wales, attended by Capt. Ellis, rode out yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Marchioness of Car marthen. LITERATURE• Samuel Lover's Poetical Works. One Vol., pp. 506. Routledge and Sons. A charming volume is this elegant collection of pathetic and humorous poetry, now published for the first time in a complete form, by the Messrs. Routledge. It is more than simply acceptable. We are grateful for it. We place it side by side with Moore's Melodies. We treasure it up on our bookshelves as a work reflecting the genius of the Irish race quite as vividly, quite as picturesquely, as even those radiant effusions of the chosen Bard of Erin, the author of " Lzlla Rookh." The Poetical Works of Samuel Lover in their hitherto scattered or uncollected form have already received the timbre of an immense, and, it might even be said, of a na tional popularity. The celebrity won by them need only be illustrated by a passing enumeration of several among them—as, for example, the Widow Machree—Molly Bawn—Rory O'More—the Angel's Whisper—the Low-Backed Car—the Four-Leaved Shamrock. The wit, the fun, the frolic humour—. the tenderness, the grace, the sweetness of these charming ditties —who knows them not (who knows anything at all of Irish songs), and who (knowing them) bears them not in grateful recollection ? And so remembering them—grate fully that is—we hail with delight their appearance now in this collective form, beautifully printed, daintily bound, abundantly embellished with illus trative engravings, and adorned with that most appropriate frontispiece of all for a volume like the present—a volume containing the lays and lyrics of one of the world's true song-writers a faith fully engraved portrait of the author taken from a photograph. Altogether, the book is so delightfully welcome of its kind that, while giving to the writer of it the assurance of our unaffectedly grateful admira- tion, we are fain to convey also to the publishers some expression of our sense of obligation to them- selves. Dean Swift's Tale of a Tub : and Battle of the Books One Vol., pp. 356. Wm. Tegg. Another of those charming little pocket-volume reprints of our English classics with which Mr. Tegg has already enriched our bookshelves, here conveys to us two of Jonathan Swift's most famous masterpieces. Happy for the world of letters and for his own reputation as a believing Christian would it have been, however, had Swift's " Tale of a Tub" been conceived in a more reverent spirit. But for its flagrant indecorum as an audacious satiro upon themes the most holy, the Dean of St. Patrick's would have been raised to a bishopric. As it is, the wit, though great, redeems not the profanity of this eccentric disquisition. The other treatise, again, entitled the "Battle of the Books," is too fragmen tary ever to be regarded as more important than a humorous trifle. Palmer's Index go The Times. One VW., pp. 165. J.6..inal Quarter of 1867. Samuel Palmer. Here at last is what so many have long been wishing for—actually accomplished, actually placed within our reach, as a thing substantially realised ! A comprehensive and. compact" Index to The Times" most carefully compiled and most admirably arranged. The ingenious compiler of this Index dedicates it in so many words to the proprietors and editors of The l imes newspaper as " The most im portant and influential journal in the world," and as one " whose moral influence directs the minds of the people, the senators, and the Government of the nation," proffering to them this Index as an attempt to classify and arrange the immense mass of informa tion contained iu the columns of that unquestion ably first and greatest of all newspapers. As the motto to this experimental or tentative issue of his volume—Mr. Palmer has selected a sentence from Lord Macaulay to the effect that " The only true history of a country is to be found in its news papers." A far more effective motto, however, we cannot but think, might be chosen for all the sub sequent volumes of the series—a motto selected from Lord Lytton, who once remarked very finely in the House of Commons, that if he were asked to addace some distinct exemplar of all the forces and resources and evidences of Modern Civilization, he would suggest as the most appropriate, the file of a Daily Newspaper—the noble lord may have said yet more tersely, pointedly and empha tically (for we don't recall his precise words to mind : " Hansard " would give them, of course, exactly, if looked to)—the file of the Times news paper. The Index here submitted to the public it is intended shall be continued quarterly—each quarterly volume thus published containing, like the present one, fully as many as 30,000 distinct refer ences. In it are given in extenso : " the Births, Deaths, Marriages, Bankruptcies, Wills, Civil and CriminalCases,Parliamentaryrroceedings,Speeches , Loc.il and Foreign News, Naval and Military Intelli gence, Court Journal, Railway News, Money and other Markets, Foreign Intelligence, &e., all being classified in full, and the index so arranged as to do for any file without any paging or marking." The volume now published is a very treasury of infor mation, and deserves—what it will doubtless core' mand—an immense circulation. FIRE AT A LICENSED VICTUALLER'S.-- (This Day). This ntorning at a few minutes before 3 o'clock A fire of an alarming character, and well-nigh attend" ed with fatal consequences to a whole household , happened in the premises belonging to Mr. J. Mortimer, licensed victualler and proprietor 01 the King and Queen Tavern, No. 34, Tbres Colt-street, Limehouse. It appears that as police-constable of the K division was passing along his beat his attention was directed to an unu sns , / glare of light in the bar, which was accompa nie ' by the cracking of wood and the breaking of glas S ' Feeling satisfied that the premises were on fire, ha raised the necessary alarm. At that time 1 ° Mortimer and the whole of the other intnat eg were in bed, soundly asleep. The officer, . 1) / repeatedly knocking at the shutters and springl his rattle, managed to make the residents aw e; that they had not a moment to lose in saving tbel ., lives, for the bar by that time was burning ful l ously, and the heated smoke was ascending in stic, bodies as to nearly stifle the parties. They, 1 1 10 ever, managed to reach the street in safety. fire escapes and the engines of the Metropolto Brigade both quickly attended, and plen t y Of 'Po, East London Company's water having been lc cured, the firemen managed to get the flames c o f tinguished, but not until a serious amount ea damage was done, which is thus officially recur elf by Capt. Shaw :—" The bar and contents sev er a damaged by fire and heat, and rest of house 'to contents by heat, smoke, &c. The origin °L o . fire unknown. Insured in the Phoenix Fire -co' 110 00/