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This Theatre IS NOW OPEN EVERY EVENING with Mr. H. T. Craven's famous drama of THE POST-BOY; a new grand spectacular fairy extravaganza, entitled THE WHITE FAWN, by Mr. F. C. Burnand; and an original Farce, by Mr. Wilmot Harrison, called SPECIAL PERFORMANCES. For particulars see bills. Box-office open daily from ten to live. BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES. THIS EVENING. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. BELLES, DING DONG THIS EVENING. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. ELECTRIC SPARKS THIS EVENING. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. R OYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. A tumult of applause nightly greets the Spanish lady artiste LA PEREIRA in her terrific flights from the Lofty Trapeze—pronounced by the whole of the Press to be the most marvellous achievement yet attempted by any femi nine performer. " Mdlle. Pereira's performances upon the lofty trapeze are not t') be surpassed for elegance and agility. Nothing more recklessly daring, or, we are bound to add, more easy and elegant in their style of performance than these feats have been witnessed in Lo ndon within our memor y ."— Morning Post, April 14. M. AGOUSTE, the Champion Equilibrist of the World, in his extraordinary act of Equilibrism. In addition to the above attractions LES ECIIASSE, and the wonderful SPANISH TROUPE, Every Evening. -- Open at half-past 7 ; commence at 8. Morning per formances, Wednesday and Saturday, at half-past 2. Children under ten half-price to Morning performance only. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, SISTERLY SERVICE: Messrs, Belford, Harcourt; Miss Sheridan. After which, THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thome, James. and Robson; Mesdames Swanborough, Lydia Thompson, Sheridan, Hughes, fie. To conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. • S ADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.— THIS EVENING. Triumphant success of Professor ANDERSON and his FOUR DA.UGIITERS. 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S., 1, Grosvenor-park-road, Waltham stow, N.E. ‘lll,---413r. SI I U4 11111., LONDON, IVEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1868. The receipt of additional intelligence from the Earl of BELMO RE, by the Colonial Secretary, respect ing the attempted assassination of the Duke of EDINBUBGH, leaves no room for doubt that the assassin was a Fenian. The dastar3iy attack of O'FARRELL was made, it seems, in obedience to messages sent from conspirators in this country, who ordered the death of the Prince. It is under stood that O'FARRELL was selected by lot to perpe trate the crime, though whether the selection was made in this country or in Australia is not stated. The attempt was to have been made when the Prince landed in state, but the opportunity did not occur, without risk of injury to others. This, if true, was a piece of very unwonted forbearance on the part of a Fenian, since the risk of injury to others has hitherto put no re straint upon their outrages. Clerkenwell is a notable instance of their total disregard of human suffering and recklessness of consequences. The New South Wales Government are evidently con vinced that the criminal is only one 'of many, and are determined to root out the conspiracy from their midst. They have marked their sense of the outrage and the resentment of the injury done to their honoured guest with praiseworthy prompti tude and liberality. They have offered £1.,000 re ward for the apprehension of each accomplice of O'FARRELL'S, and already we learn that one arrest, believed to be au important one, has been made in Victoria. We may hope that the vigour and libe rality with which the colonial authorities have taken up the affair will succeed in discovering the whole of the nefarious band of associates who are thus carrying treason and disaffection and secret assassination into the prosperous and loyal colonies of the southern seas. It would be the greatest possible gain to Australia herself to get rid of such men at any cost. We know by painful experience in this country that no man or woman's life is secure from their attacks, since in their unscrupulous aim they have no regard for the lives or limbs of those who have no possible connection with them. What they can have proposed to themselves by the murder of the Duke of EDINBURGH it is diffi cult to imagine. He is neither the Sovereign nor heir apparent, and has not even a nominal connec tion with Ireland. Such a wanton murder only testifies to the cruel and cowardly nature of their aims, which seem rather to harass and irritate than to effect any definite end. If the Duke of EDINBURGH had been murdered in Sydney, Ireland would have been no nearer the repeal of the Union ; and, in fact, how little connection there is between the Irish people themselves and the Fenian conspiracy is shown by the unbroken cordiality of the recep tion given to the Prince and Princess of WALES in Ireland itself. There is much cause for thankful ness that no member of this wretched conspiracy should have been found to attempt the Prince's life during his Irish visit, since it is evident, from the disaster at Sydney, that no attention on the part of the authorities and no loyalty on the part of the people can insure the frustration of such a scheme. We hope that more information will be brought to light by the arrest of O'FARRELL'S accomplice, and that the offenders may at least learn that such crimes cannot be committed with impunity. The dullness of the House of the Lords was yes terday once more enlivened by the Rupert of debate, and his remarks were the more interesting as he touched upon the subject now uppermost in men's minds—the Resolutions of the leader of the Oppo sition in the House of Commons. The main object which the noble lord had in view was to seek infor mation from Lord RUSSELL as to the course which h e would take in reference to the House of Lords and the resolutions now before the other branch of the Legislature. In doing this he took care not to enter too fully upon the subject so as to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the orders of the House. Before the Easter holidays an eminent member of the House of Commons submitted to that assembly some important Resolutions, and the motion to consider them was carried by a large majority. This was important, as the change thereby proposed certainly justifies any inquiry being male as to the course to be_taken in respect to them in the House of Lords. Lord DERBY was certainly fully justified in assuming that the noble lords opposite to him have matured their plan in concert with Mr. GLADSTONE, and could therefore s tate what line of policy they would take. Lord RUSSELL might well be supposed to take the respon sibility of conducting the matter, became he had addressed a public meeting on the subject, and put himself very prominently forward in supporting these Resolutions. Lord DERBY entered with a spirit worthy of his earlier days into an analysis of Lord RUSSELL'S career respecting the Irish Church, and showed his inconsistency. He concluded his criticism on the assumption that the noble lord ad hered to that " last phase of his opinions, though it was at least a fortnight old," but the alterations he has made during the last few years have been so extraordinary that much allowance must be made for the judgment passed upon him. In 1866, when Lord RUSSELL was Prime Minister, a motion was made by a noble lord for inquiring into the state of the temporalities of the Irish Church, and the noble Premier resisted the attempt as most imprudent, and he defeated the attempt made. The next year, when out of office, Lord RUSSELL actually made the same motion himself that he had opposed the previous year when brought forward by another. A commission was accordingly ap pointed. Without waiting for that commis. sion to report he made an expression of opinion relating to the distribution of the income of the Protestant Church in Ireland. These changes of opinio❑ are, indeed, startling ; and it is not to be wondered at that so►ne curiosity should be expressed as to what the future course of so eminent a states ma❑ may be. It is quite idle for the supporters of Mr. GLADSTONE to affirm that the course pur sued by the Liberal party has been consistent for years past when the line taken by its leaders has been so tortuous, and their notions so vague at one time and so extreme at another. In the face of this sudden effort to disestablish the Irish Church Lord DERBY wishes to glean some intelligence as to the feelings of their Lordships' House on the question, in order to ascertain what will be done should the House of Commons affirm the principle of the Resolutions referred to. We entirely concur with Lord DERBY'S advice to the Government ; it is plain and straightforward, and sets the case very clearly before us. Whatever be the determination come to by the present House of Commons, which was not elected under the auspices of the present Prime Minister, the noble earl truly said he and his colleagues " are too well aware of the importance of the question, and of the duty they owe their SOVEREIGN, to think of resigning their offices, under any amount of pressure and opposition, however factious, if any such should be offered, until they have had a fair opportunity, if not of perfecting the measure for the Reform of Parliament, at all events of testing the sense and feeling, not of the existing consti tuencies, but of the larger constituencies created by the Reform Bill of last year." This is very true, and the ingenious hints given by Lord RUSSELL only show the game a little too clearly, and reveal the motives that urged on the pre mature and hasty discussion of an important scheme,when, in all common consistency, it belongs of right to the new Parliament so close at hand. Mr. DISRAELI and his colleagues have every right to meet the next Parliament, which owns its pri vileges to them ; and it is quite absurd to declare that they should resign office and make way for those whose policy was not acceptable to Parlia ment or to the country when they were last put on their mettle. Lord RUSSELL said that the framers of the Resolutions thought of framing a bill upon them, and submitting them to both Houses, and then submit it to .the sanction of the QUEEN The noble lord' further intimated that the. Ministers would be doing a great constitutional wrong if they refused to resign, and advised the house to resist the opinion of the House of Com mons. The Duke of ARGYLL made one of his most virulent speeches on the audacity of the Earl of DERBY in venturing to ask the question he had no right to expect an answer to. In the House of Commons the debate on the Resolutions was continued, but with very little spirit, and was adjourned after an attempt had been made to count out the House, which proved ineffectual from members flocking in ; but the oc currence showed how thin the attendance was. Mr. MOWBRAY'S speech was a good one, and he showed the House how momentous was the change contemplated by the framers of the Resolutions. It touched the Crown, it affected the House of Lords, by the removal of the Lords Spiritual from Ireland from its precincts. He re plied to the taunts of Lord lIARTINGTON, that the policy of the Government was not to keep things as they are. They had, on the contrary, admitted that some legislation was necessary, though the actual moment before us is not the proper one to choose. He concluded his impressive remarks by intimating that the Government would appeal to the new constituencies, and not to moribund con stituencies. Mr. IVIIALLET said that he had sup ported Mr. GLADSTONE, but he condemned the right hon. gentleman for bringing forward his scheme as a concession to Fenianism. Lord ROYS. TON, while he admitted the " grievous anomalies of the Irish Church," declared that the attack on it was pressed forward with too much haste, so that the country could not well consider it, and this was the more unsuitable, as in some parts of Ireland it was not popular. On the whole Mr. GLADSTONE came in for some pretty plain hints, and by this time his most ardent supporters must feel that his zeal has outrun his discretion, for if he at tains the summit of his wishes he can do nothing this year, so that he has wasted a great deal of the session with his efforts to do the work that belonged to a later period to discuss and dispose of. Whether the majority be large or small that settles the first Resolution ; it has evi dently failed to meet the expectations of its framers, for a more spiritless debate could hardly have taken place on so important a subject. It is supposed that the division will take place to-morrow, and what next ? as Mr. COBDEN would say. According to Earl RUSSELL, the programme that lies before the Opposition cannot possibly be carried out this year, and therefore the work will, after all, be in complete. It was not the way to persuade or to impress the ignorant for Mr. GLADSTONE to be in such haste to put forward his motion on the subject, and the question of disestablirhment itself would have stood a much better chance of being settled if it had been left alone for another year. Passing the House of Commons is not all of the affair, and to produce controversy and excite suspicion of motives is not the way to attain a diffi cult object ; so that looking at the question under an y aspect it cannot be said that a very satisfactory result is likely to be arrived at, and that a very suf ficient reason can be given for curbing this unex pected move made so inappropriately. The disputes concerning the Erie Railway in America have for some time past attracted a good deal of attention both in this country and in the United States. The singularity of the whole affair, the vehement antagonisms of the two wealthy rivals, the enormous wealth accumulated by them, the bribery practised in the courts, the open abuse and recrimination passing between the lawyers in open court— all have combined to render the quarrel be tween the DREW and VANDERBILT parties a remark able one, even in the States. A new element has just been introduced into the affair, and one of a most painful and harrowing nature. One of the most fearful railway accidents on record has just occurred on the line between Buffalo and Port Jervis, by which twenty-three persons are known to have lost their lives, sixty-nine have been wounded, and four are yet missing, with little hope of their reappearance. The circum stances under which the catastrophe occurred were peculiarly harrowing. The line between the sta tions of Ilarrowsburg and Port Jervis is naturally a dangerous , one. It runs along a narrow road excavated from the side of the rock which towers above the ravine through which runs the Delaware river, a narrow stream at this point. There is a plateau a short distance below the railway line, and from thence the fall to the river bed measures 125 feet ! Naturally such a route demanded the most vigilant watchfulness over the state of the rivers, and the greatest care in driving the trains. On the night of the 14th of this month, however, a train from Buffalo to New York was, through the careless ness of its driver, nearly an hour behind time. He, contrary to rule, endeavoured to gain lost ground by going full speed along the dangerous part. The result was that the rails gave way, and four carriages broke off, and with their half-awakened occupants crashed down the precipice into the river bed, where soon the horrors of the scene were in tensified by the burning of one of the cars. The catastrophe was almost beyond description, and it was some hours before the mangled bodies of wounded and dying could be extricated from the wreck. Some were even burned to death beforethey could be rescued, and a child which had been flung into a brook in an inaccessible gorge died wailing there where no help could reach it. The awful nature of the accident has scarcely a parallel even in American railway history, and the whole of it is due to tho DREW and VANDERBILT quarrel. Last THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1868 , March the general superintendent of the Erie Rail way reported that owing to the severe weather and heavy traffic " The iron rails have broken and worn out beyond all precedent, until there is scarcely a mile of your road except that laid with steel rail where it is safe to run a train at the ordinary passen ger speed." The condition of the iron, he added, gives him, much anxiety for the safety of trains. Yet nothing was done, and the directors excuse them selves on the ground that they have issued stock to the amount of $10,000,000 to purchase new steel rails, but are withheld by the injunctions served upon them. So in waiting for the issue of this un worthy quarrel men's and women's lives are to be sacrificed by the score and measureless suffering in flicted ! Here is a warning for our railway direc tors against the extravagance of misplaced eco nomy. LATEST INTELL LGENCE. (REUTER ' S TELEGRAM.) TILE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. SYDNEY, April 1. The attempt on the life of the Duke of Edin burgh has caused an outburst of horror and in dignation throughout the colonies. Enormous demonstrations have taken place, and numerous addresses have been signed. Prayers and thanks givings have been offered up in all the churches. The assassin O'Farrel was tried by a special com mission. The defence set up was insanity, but the prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to death. His Aoyal Highness has recovered from hie wound, and sails for England on the 4th April. • AUSTRALIAN MAILS. GALLE, April 20. The Geelong, from Sydney 28th of March , arrived to-day. MELBOURNE, ,March 31. The Ministry has resigned in consequence of the Governor objecting to the Darling grant being again inserted in the Appropriation Bill. A new Ministry is being formed. The shipments of gold to:England during the moth amount to 183,500 ounces. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, April 29. It is stated that Count Vitzthum, formerly Saxon Minister in Londou, has been appointed Austrian Minister at the Court of Brussels. The announcement of Baron Mysenburg's ap pointment as Austrian Minister at Rome is con tradicted. The Presse publishes intelligence from Galata, stating that the persecutions of the Jews in that district have been carried out under the direction of the Prefect Lupasco, the same person to whom attaches the blame of certain Jews having been drowned near Galatz last year. In reply to the protests of the Austrian Consul, the Prefect justi fied his line of action as taken in consequence of the express instructions of Minister Bratians. THE WAR IN THE BRAZILS. PARIS, April 29. The Moniteur of this morning in its bulletin says A. telegram from a Brazilian source affirms that the principal positions of fiumaita have fallen into the power of the allies. The fortress of Humaita alone still resisted, but did not appear likely to hold out much longer." RIO DE JANEIRO, April 10.. The latest intelligence from the seat of war an nounces that the outer lines of the Paraguayan position have been taken by the allied troops. Curupaity has been abandoned, and it is supposed that Ilumaita was also being evacuated. All the cannon had been removed. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 27.--Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : ti ver Cent. End of month... ItAl'an Loan - 3 per Cent End of month 69 45 Mexican Loan ... 19 75 Credit Mobilier End of month—. 252 50 Spanish Throes Credit Fonder ...1472 N Home Debt — End of month... Deferred — - RAILWAYS. Account Orleans • ... 8661 Northern ....................................... 1185 • Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... s7Bf Western Eastern ............ .. — Sardinian Austrian ........................... . Lombard North of Spain 7l Saragossa Roman The Bank Returns, The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the r e turns of the cir culation of the public and joint-stock banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending the 28th of March. These returns, combined w ith the circulation of the Scotch period, and th e average c ir- E sa n m g e land for the four w e eks ended cathunledatli2roisnsth b hof'Mtthnaekrs3chafonrk(ttohhfee nearest date furnished by their returns), will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the Unitod Kingdom when compared with the previous month : _ Feb. 29, Marc . 2ey 186 S. 1868. 'lncrease. Decrease Bank of England 1 23,418,426' 23,282,741 135,705 Private Banks 2,733 ,09 61 2,754 , 1851 19 069 1 Joint-stock Banks 1 2,24 0 ,1 31 ' 2 , 3 24,963. 34,729 Total in England :3,411,6 5 6; 2 ° ,359,769 81,887 Scotland 1 4,370,2 0 71 9,2;1,731 14,93 1 6,98 Z,2361 6,097,1851 98,473 Ireland L_____— —1...........—. —.--. United Kingdom. ' 38,89 4 , 091 38,728,669 1 _ 165,430 And as compared with the month ending the 30th of March, 1867, the above returns show an increase of £1,192,495 in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of £1,466,954 in the circulation of the United Kingdom. On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the several banks the following is the state of tho circulation:— The English private banks aro below their fixed issue X 1,176,755 Tho English joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue ... 413,777 Total below fixed issue in England ... £1,590,532 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... 1,522,463 The Irish banks are below their fixed issue ... 257,388 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the mouth ending the 25th of March was £21,253,808, being a decrease of £216,975 as compared with the previous month, and an increase of £1,829,088 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 28th of March : Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,684,606 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 2,305,402 Being a decrease of £134,753 as £4,990,008 compared with the pre_ vious return, and an increase of £ 20,097 when com p ared with the corresponding period last year. The contest in Liverpool for the office of select vestryman has resulted in favour of Mr. Martin, Roman Catholic, Mr. Ball, who was largely supported by the local Orange party, having retired. A sad accident occurred at Chicago on Good Friday. The Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary was filled with worshippers, and the ;eight of the multitude caused a portion of the floor to give way, which raising a great dust led some one to cry " fire." A terrible panic ensued, and in the ru h that was made for the doors four women were crysliNl to death, and twenty or more persons were seriously injured, three of them having since died. PRESENTS TO SUIT Evi,:nr PUnI'OSE, TASTE, AND POCKET AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.—Photographic Albums a choice of 3,000 ; despatch boxes, writing cases, dressing cases, travelling bags, envelope cases, blotting books, ink stands, desks, book slides, work boxes, tea caddies, hand bags and reticules, card cases, purses, stationery cabinets, scent bottles, albums for postage stamps, crests, &c.; cigar oases, card baskets, pocket books, electro-gilt and elegantly mounted articles. Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Ser. vices, in every type. Parkins and Gotto, 25, Oxford' street. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly sew itd freOs GoasesPent ureuid ►lee—Edam., COAIIESFONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY, April 28. The country is giving unmistakeable signs of resenting the system of official candidates. Two elections for the Councils General—the bodies which regulate the affairs of the Departments—have just taken place, and in each the Government candidate was defeated. At Chartres he was, though sub-director of the Credit Foncier and supported by the Prefect, defeated by 2,398 votes against his 1,578. At Vaucluse there were three candidates—a Liberal, an Im perialist, and a Clerical. The second received the smallest number of votes, though a Government official, and retired. At the second scrutiny the Liberal was elected. These results do not augur well for the five elections to the Corps L6gislatif which are now impending. Somewhat contrary to expectation, the commission of the Senate appointed to report upon the, new press law have produced a favourable report. M. Devienne, the president of the commission, being ill, the report was read by M. Ferdinand Barrot. It is a long docuMent, occu pying more than five columns of the Paris papers, and is one of those exhaustive and exhausting papers in which the French delight. It attempts to hold the balance between the reactionary party and the Liberals, and it was frequently cheered while being read. The Emperor was congratu- fated for having presented the rare spectacle of asovereign voluntarily - surrendering a l ortion of his power. -Unfor tunately, the /c/«t of this sacrifice is diminished by the much more brilliant one on the part of the Emperor Francis Joseph. " After fifteen years of tranquillity," says the report, " there were two courses to take, to lay down these arms (the laws of 1852 against the press) and to preserve them for future eventualities, or from the present time to reform them and destroy them. The first course was that of prudence ; the second that of courage and confidence. The Government has preferred the latter." The much-talked-of reduction of the Prussian army amounts to 9,000 men— a • mere cypher. But it is said there will be more important reductions in August. Meanwhile we are told that a portion of our troops in Algeria are coming back, and Our eastern fortresses are so abundantly supplied. with provisions that it will not be necessary to buy any more in their behalf for some months. The Presse tells us that a supplement to the Yellow Book will be presented to the Chambers before the end of the session, and adds : " We have often said that this publication appeared to us indispensable. Public opinion knows nothing of what has been going on in international politics for the last six months. A collection of documents proving that the most cordial relations exist between Prance and Prussia, for instance, or Italy and Russia, would do more to calm the public mind than all the observations of the little Afoniteur — than all the pacific declarations." This is quite true ; but is it not rather cruel of the " Journal de l'Empire " thus to speak of the official organ ? The Paris journals still discuss the Abyssinian expedi tion, and are now beginning to believe that we do really intend to withdraw our troops. But M. de Girardin cannot resist having a sneer at England, and his paper (the Liberte) has the following sarcastic para graph :—" The moral of the history (of the war) is found in this news published by the Patric : 'We learn by letters from Suez of April 16 that the military hospital established by the English, upon laud granted by the Viceroy, has been inaugurated. The erection of this hospital is a permanent institution. A large barrack is about to be added to it for the detachments of the English army which traverse the isthmus on their way to and from India.' The English army may henceforth quit Abyssinia in all security. The taxpayers will be reimbursed." In other words, the Liberte would have its readers believe that the Abyssinian expedition was undertaken in order to give England an excuse for establishing barracks upon Egyptian territory, and that we shall get back our five millions. Great is the credulity of jealousy. A report has just been published respecting the Societh de Secours Mutuels. They answer to your friendly societies At the end of 1866 there were 5,614 of these societies in France, whereof 3 , 916 were " approved," and the re mainder were " authorised." The first are ruled by a president named by the Government, but enjoy, as a com pensation for that partial surrender of liberty, certain civil rights not possessed by the others. The " approved " Societies have 94,050 honorary and 500,740 participating members ; while the " authorised" societies have 10,187 and 282,178. Thus, reckoning only the participating mem bers, there are 732,918 persons who give evidence of pro vident habits—a small number, unfortunately, compared with the population, and only about half the total of the new National Guard. The subscribers di have a so clalimm in to relief 6 in sickness, and 195,7 28 of them d cai 186. Funds are also given to defray tles cost of the funerals a deceased members, to pension widows and orphans and the aged. The property of the societies at the end of 1866 was about £1,746,000, of which two-thirds belonged to the " approved" societies. The receipts were about £537,000, and the expenditure, including the items abovementioned, was about 2478,000. One curious fact is mentioned, that whereas female members are a little .more frequently ill than male members ( 28 against 27), the illnesses of the first are con siderably s horter than those of the second (16 days against 20). Thus, in the long ruu there are 549 sick days per 100 men, an d on ly 482 per 100 women, a fact which should overcome the reluctance which has hitherto existed to admit women on the supposition that their more frequent sick ness would exhaust the funds of the societies. A certain Mr. James Cane, of English parentage, but who has lived all his life at Tours, has just died, and, after spending his years in works of charity, has left a m illi o n francs (£40,000) for the poor. He left instructions that he was to be buried without any religious service. THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. 'Further telegrams of the same date as those already made public, from the Earl of Belmore to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, intimate that the assassination of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh was attempted by O'Farrell in pursuance of messages sent from conspi rators in this country, which ordered the Prince's death. It is understood that O'Farrell was selected by lot to per petrate the crime, and that the attempt would have been made when the Prince landed in State, but that an oppor tunity of doing so without risk of injury to others did not Occur. -- - The New South Wales Government offered £lOO reward for the apprehension of each accomplice, and one arrest, considered to be important, has been made in Victoria. H. S. BRYANT. A special Court of Common Councl is to be held on Friday next, at three o'clock, to consider the following motion to be made by Mr. John Symonds :—" That an address be presented to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, expressing the horror and indignation felt by this court at the recent attempt upon the life of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, and congratulating her Majesty, with the most sincere and heartfelt feelings, upon his providential escape from mortal injury." The Town Council of Birmingham, on the motion of the Mayor (Mr. Thomas Avery), seconded by Mr. Alderman Phillips, has agreed to an address to her Majesty expres sive of deep sympathy, also of indignation at the attempt on the life of the Duke of Edinburgh, and of congratula tion on the escape of his Royal Highness. The Medical Press and Circular says :—" If the tele-, graphic information respecting the character of the injury received by his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh can be depended on, the nation has to he thankful that the life of the Prince has been saved by one of the most extraordinary escapes which has ever been recorded •in the history of gunshot wounds. If the ball, which we are told entered the back half an inch from the spine, and in a downward direction, had taken the cource which in nine hundred anA„ninety-nine cases out of every thousand it would have taken, it could not have failed to pierce the heart and great vessels, the lung, diaphragm, and intestines, or livet, such an injury to any of these viscera being almost certainly fatal. That it should have tra- Velled a distance of 12. inches on the outside of the ninth rib, and lodged under the skin of the abdomen, without even touching the peritoneum, is all but incredible, and the fact, if true, will add another to the few extraordinary cases in which balls have glanced from their natural directidn and taken a totally unexpected course. Cases are on record in which a ball entering the hip came out at the heel, where it entered the temple and Passing over the bones of the head lodged at the opposite side. Mr. Lawson narrates a case in which a grain of shot, striking the eye, passed from side to side under the con j tinctiva ; and a case was communicated to the Surgical Society of Ireland about a year ago, in which a bullet was removed from the heart of a man who received it in the battle of Salamanca thirty-three years previously." The following is from the Edinburgh Courant :—" No thing, perhaps, could so thoroughly show the deep-seated affection for the Royal Family, and the ducal Prince in p articular, than the prompt and fervid prayers that were offered up on Sunday in the Established churches of this city for his speedy recovery, and for consolation to his royal mother the Queen, under this severe affliction. Many tears were shed as the ministers conducted this pathetic part of their devotions. We believe we record the universal sentiment of the people of Edinburgh when we repeat a remark on this subject by an old man return ing home after the communion service, I'Vla could help rreetuf, for he was ju2t a bairn o' oor THE FENIAN TRIALS AT THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-THIS DAY. It is a curious fact, and one not without significance, that while Michael Barrett—who, by the verdict of the jury before whom he was indicted, has been adjudged to have been the chief actor in the mad and abortive attempt made to rescue Burke—is now in the condemned cell in Newgate, awaiting the carrying out of the dread sentence of the law, the trial of the man for whom he risked so much and has suffered so severely has only reached its second stage, and, if it result in a conviction, will be followed in the person of the instigator of the crime by a punishment falling infinitely short of that which has been visited upon the too obedient follower. Burke—who, if the ev idence of the informer Mullany, corroborated as it has been by other witnesses, is to be believed, planned the explosion at Clerkenwell, and gave directions how it should be accomplished—will, if found guilty, be transported or imprisoned for a term of years. Barrett, who carried out the infamous device, will expiate his crime upon the gallows. The difference in the physiognomy of the con vict and the prisoner now on trial is indicative of the parts they played in the terrible outrage. The face of the former, as he stood in the dock, denoted in every line dogged determination ; the aspect of the hitter is that of reckless daring. Now that he has been brought to trial, his one olject would appear to be to make himself the conspicuous c litre of a sensational drama. Everything is done f r fLet. WV() tl e ,thee pris iners sit down or lean u'etly over the front of the dock, he is always on the alert, occasionally addressing an observa tion to the warder behind him, or pointing to his com panions to band him a document or newspaper, which he conspicuously scans, or, looking across the court, smiles scornfully el the witnesses as they enter the box to give their evidence against him. Anon he takes a pen daintily inland and indites a note which he hands to a policeman to pass to his solicitor ; not an unusual course to be pur sued by a prisoner, but done, in this instance, with an air which is theatrical in the extreme. The first evidence taken this morning was that of Amelia Kaye, assistant to Mr. Kynock, gun . manufao: turer t of Birmingham, who identified Burke as thopur chasei of a quantity of ammunition and firearn sat her master's shop in December 1865, the goods being sent directed to Mullady at a house in George -street. The witness thought that the prisoner Shaw had on one occa sion brought a letter to Mr. Kynock's. The goods were purchased in the name of Winslow,. According to the evidence of Mr. Kynock, the first purchase made by Burke, calling himself Winslow, con sisted of two millions of military percussion caps and 250,000 caps for revolvers, amounting in money value to £385. The goods were delivered to the prisoner at - the railway station on the order of the witness, and several other purchases were made—one of 500 rifles with bayonets--at dates between December 23, 1865, and the 13th January, 1866, the sums paid amounting to £1,970. The prisoner Shaw witness had Seen at his own shop, and Casey, he believed, at Burke's warehouse in George street. (A number of letters from Burke to Mr. Kynock • were put in and read.) It was elicited by Mr. Lewis that when examined in November and December, witness expressed the opinion that Casey was the man he bad known as Mullady. H a d Shaw not been taken into custody, would have been under that impression still. In reply to Mr. Baron Bramwell, the witness said that when he first saw Casey in the police-court he did not recognise him. Mr. William .Tames Hill, who had supplied the pistols for Burke through. the last witness, was examined as to the dates at which the several purchases had been made, saying, in cross-examination, that he was indirectly told that the arms were to be sent to South America ; and a youth named Samuel Whitehead, working in Mr. Kynock's manufactory, was called to prove that he had seen the prisoners in the warehouse in George-street, Birmingham. Mr. Day, the agent who let the warehouse in George street to a person na•ned Winslow, identified by him as the prisoner Burke ; Inspector Alantell, of the Birming ham police, who produced the name-plate from the house in George-street occupied by Burke ; the foreman of the order-shed at the railway station, who deposed to forward ing a number of cases addressed in the name of Winslow at Liverpool ; and Samuel Marriott, who deposed to the reception and delivery of the same at the Liverpool sta tion, were also examined. Some further evidence WAR given as to the arrival of the goods at the Liverpool station, and their removal ; one of the witnesses stating that Casey was the man who fetched the packages away. The delivery-orders were identified by Bit.. Kynock as being in the handwriting of Burke. The carman who had conveyed the casos from the railway station to ihn-- warehouse in George-street, Birmingham, said to have boon occupied by Burke, would be unable to identity rim who sitrued the receipt. . The consignment note proved to be in the handwriting of the person known by the name of Winslow was produced and read. All the receipts for goods given at the Liverpool station, it was stated, were signed in the name of Lawrence. A shipping clerk at the Birmingham railway station named Fisher, deposed that the goods were brought by the prisoher Shaw. in answer to Mr. Pater, the witness stated that he was not now in the employ of the railway company. His con duct had been complained of on several occasions in conse quence of his drinking. Had been in the company's service 15 or 15 years. The witness was severely cross-examined as to a subscription that had been raised by his fellow workmen on his representation that he had s child dead, and needed funds to bury it, whereas he had no child dead at the time, though one had died at some time, the date before which he was unable to fix. Elizabeth Hiorns, lodging-house keeper, Liverpool, iden• ified Burke as having visited a person named Preston at her house on several occasions. By Mr. Ernest Jones—Had seed Corrydon at her house twice. Elizabeth Sidon in April or May, 1866, had let a room to a person called Edward C. Winslow, whom she now recognised as the prisoner Burke. A friend named Beecher afterwards joined, and the two loft after about six weeks. Only saw Winslow once afterwards, when he called to ask for letters. Continued in our Late Edition. It is impossible to believe that the conviction of -let,. 'Barrett has given satisfaction to the general public, while it must have grievously disappointed the law officers of the Crown. Out of nine persons originally charged with taking part in the deadly outrage of the 13th December, only one has been found guilty and sentenced to death. One was discharged by the magistrate; another, Mullany, - i vas admitted as Queen's evidence ; the grand jury ignored the bill against O'Neill ; the case broke down as against Ann Justice and O'Keefe ; and of the four who remained in the dock three were acquitted. The prosecu tion was conducted by a formidable bar, inclubedin d su g the Attorney and the Solicitor-General, and it may asme that the case against the prisoners was presented to the jury in the most efficient manner, and that no point was over looked which had been detected by the watchfulness and ingenuity of the police. When it is further remembered that more than four months have elapsed between the commission of the act and the trial at the Old Bailey, that the prisoners were remanded again and again at the instance of the prosecution, and that all the talents and the energy at the service of the crown have been devoted to the elucidation of the crime, we must be content to believe that we know all that could be known of it, and that no negligence or unskilfulness has interposed to shield the offenders. 'William Roupell, we are informed, will shortly be teleaSed from detention at Portland Convict Prison His health has severely suffered during his punishment and his return to the world—broken down and despised— will be a bitter discipline for some who, it i on Pr s rumoured, wore morally as crimina ll y as he.—South Londess. It is stated that the Liberals intend to propose Mr. Brand as Speaker in the Reformed Parliament. The death of Mary, daughter of the late John Singleton Copley, R.A., and sister of the late Lord Lynd hurst, aged 94, is announced. The steamer Isle of Arran, of Holyhead, sank, after being in collision with the royal mail steamer Aus tralasian, on Saturdv morning. Six hands were lost and two saved. The trial of Canoness Julia De Ebergenyi, alias Baroness Maria Vay, for the murder by poison of Mathilda Rueff, wife of Count Gustavus Chorinsky, son of Gus tavus Count of Chorinsky, Baron de son of governor of the archduchy of Austria below the Euns, has resulted in the conviction of the prisoner, who has been condemned to 20 years' imprisonment. 1 1 he Cork police have received a report that about 50 men were met on Sunday by two constables near Carrynavar, and stopped. Some of the men produced re volvers, threatening the police, who theieupon allowed the party to pass unmolested. No arrests have been made. The Papal Government has signified its readiness to join an international convention for the care of the wounded in tim i of war, concluded at Geneva. The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived in London on Monday night from Trentham. The Post states that the Duke of Wellington has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex. The editor of the news per La Cigale has been p a ordered to quit Belgium. THE TEA DUTY IS REDUCED —Horniman's Pure Tea is sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. This interesting fact will, when fully known, oven further increase the demand for these Choice, long-approved Teas. They aro not sold loose, but only in Packets, signed "Horn - Mon," Leaden. Michae An, • - Clyt * la 11 -t0 & i* Jan Tit 4 -11: * Mi/1 HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, April 28. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Chris tian, walked in the grounds this morning. The other members of the Royal Family also went out. LITERATURE Meg. By Mrs. Eiloart. Three Vols. llurst and Blackett. Mrs. Eiloart is making rapid progress as a novel writer. The opening chapter of this new story re veals powers for which we had hardly given her credit. There is a simple pathos about the vivid description of the deathbed of poor Joe and the desolation of the unfortunate Meg which at once arrests the reader's interest and atten tion. The succeeding chapters do not entirely fulfil thee expectations. We do not particularly admire the strong-minded female professor of art who engages Meg as a model for her pupils, but who herself finding no joy in any " thing of beauty, revels in the ugliness of a hideous " Boadic3a —a masterpiece of art and horror that is to transmit the name of its delineator to future ages. We have rather too much of this extremely vulgar dame, and her yet more vulgar, lunch -loving mamma ; but the next episode in Meg's chequered career is, indeed, singularly offensive, and we are amazed that the taste of the authoress did not pre vent its introduction. We are the more earnest in our condemnation of its errors be cause we so cordially recognise the abilities mani fested by Mrs. Eiloart in her, new production. It was a noble motive that prompted the authoress to select as the heroine of her story one out of the ranks of the very lowest and most ignorant, and, consequently, the most degraded of the inhabitants of this great Christian city. Very tenderly is the poor, ignorant Meg treated by the hand of her his torian, but very outspoken in its dire truthfulness is the narrative of her life of sin and shame. When we first meet her, in that masterly first chapter to which we have alluded, weeping by the death-boa of poor Joe, the whole situation excites the reader's mingled commiseration and indignation at the revelation of such destitution and such depravity, so much ignorance and so much misery, here unfolded to our view by a skilful hand. \Veen, however, later on we find Meg still in" ignorance," according to her biographer , installed as the mistress of the artist to whom she had sat as a model, and for whom she entertains not the smallest particle of affection—then it is that, as we have said, we do marvel at the sin gular want of discretion and good taste that could induce Mrs. Eiloart to introduce such a situation, so described, into such a work as this ---3 work written, as we feel assured, from the highest motives and for the best of pur poses; a work, moreover, dedicated to her own young daughter. For the rest, the awakening of Meg to a sense of her degradation , her resolute reformation, her devoted sacrifice----all this is very powerfully and very beautifully told. The situation of the unconscious sisters is also veil cleverly designed, and on closing the book (having eased our mind as regards one particular episode) we again congratulate the author of " JohnnY Jordan" upon the rapid development of her literal powers. A Girl's Romance. One Vol. Edmonston and Douglas. A charming little tale is this, very simple and unpretending, and yet containing in one little volume matter of as much interest as may be found in many a work of three times its dimensions. l'Ve will not destroy the little romance by attempting to analyse it, it is well worthy a perusal. The closing chapter in which imagination gives way W reality, and little Janet at length understands her own heart— " And all her falser self Slipt from her like a robe," ;. 'rho lituto suene in which Robert Bligh flies to the rescue of th:i drowning Lyinington conies upon the reader with an effect which the most skilful novelist might be proud to accomplish. We very heartily felicitate the writer of this little romance, and if this is a first essay in novel-writing, we may predict for 1301 much future success. Songs and Verses. By an Old Contributor to " Maga." Blackwood and Sons. The readers of Blackwood will be glad to fle d some of their old favourite " verses, social an d s cientific," reproduced in this elegant little volume . It is enough to mention some of the titles of these verses to recall them at once to our pleasant remear brance. Who, for example, does not remember 44 Gaiter" and 44 Monboddo," and the delightftl,l temperance song, " I'm very fond of water ; in every verse of which the author expatiating uP °rl his devotion for aqua pura as the best beverage f or breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper, &c., continually arrests himself to exclaim— " But I forgot to mention," and tells us how he invariably qualifies the wat er into tea, or beer, or wine, or brandy, or gin! Tales from the Diary of a Sister of Mercy. ° a° vol. By C. M. Brame. Burns, Oates, and C 0; A very interesting series of tales, most of them a very sensational, but all of a very instructive cba' racter, are here collected—" The Double ga r : riage," " The Fatal Accident," " The G a mbler .° Wife," " The Besetting Sin," and others of a s iolt :: lar description. 46 The Priest's Death" is a pathetit' little story of one of those many unrecorded niarti.r3 who meet death in the most malignant form Willie ministering by the sinner's death-bed. Biographies and Miscellaneous Papers of Washingo" Irving : Collected and arranged by Pierre Wl"' One vol. Bell and Dalby. o f In this volume are collected scattered writings a Washington Irving, which 'he had himself intencie to publish in a united form. His nephew, l‘ir' is Pierre Washington, has very happily fulfilled intention, and the many admirers of the au thor ° the " Sketch Book" will find much to interest theme in the papers here collected. The legend of eci.i o ; and the chronicles of Fernando the Saint, oce llll ot the chief part of the volume. Among the minor sketches - there is a charming account of the yo u a ful Margaret Davidson, the sister of the w ell-kue !to Lucretia Davidson, who, like her sister, learne u lisp in numbers, and who also, like her, expire d the early morning of her life-- "Rose elle a vecu ce quo vit la rose, L'espace d'un matins' Camilla. By Madame de Gasperin. Edulo°°l4- and Douglas. This Mae tale, t r anslated from the French, re; cords the struggles of a girlish heart, in the bitt n e y conflict of love and duty, and the heroine, as others have done before her, finds that bylosing.' she in reality, ultimately gains all. The elle Illy little extravagant, but the little work is eviaeli a written with the effusion of a French writer as French woman. Groombridge's Annual Reader. By Mark Al' tuP# Gower. Groombridge and Sons. ad' This very excellent volume is designed as a r o f ing book for schools, and contain s a reper io . all the principal events of the y ear 1866-1.1.0 - The French Exhibition, the execu tion of iNI °I t he Tian, Abyssinia and the captives, Mr. PeabodPstil. lions of the Nelson Monument, the visit of tb e has tan, and every other theme of interest vih ich h ao attracted attention during the past year, ar e considered in a brief but explicit manner. Char The Paris Exhibition. By Eugene Rimmel• man and Hall. Fr • Another of Eugene Rimmel's elegan t 0.-3 r to ° , r ea art is this very attractive memorial of tbeA red P ar i s Exhibition of 1867. Beautifully boa tenlorip,l grace fully and abundantly illustrated with Pi ci e , t bi9 re presentations of the chief articles ex bibs little volume affords at once a hist or y of the 'ion and an exposition of its contents.