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Mr. Fechter (his 90th appearance here), Mr. Billington, Mr. H. Neville, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. J. Smith, and Mr. Benjamin \Vehater: Miss Carlotta Leclercq (her 90th appearance), Mrs. Urea Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Lewis, &c. Commence at 7. NEW QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG ACRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. ALFRED WIGAN. At Half-past Seven, DEARER THAN LIFE. Mr. J. L. TOOLE as MICHAEL GARNER. At a Quarter-past Ten, LA VIVANDIERE. LA VIVANDIERE.—Mont Blanc and Cha mouni.—NEW QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long Acre. QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING. MARY JONES. Messrs. W. H. Stephens, C. Wyndham, Sanger, and Miss P. Markham. After which will be produced a New and Original Drama, entitled DEARER THAN LIFE. Michael Garner. Mr. J. L. Taole. To conclude with the Extravaganza. LA VIVANDIERE ; or, TRUE TO THE CORPS. The Scenery by Messrs. W. and T. Grieve, Johnson, and Assistants. Messrs. J. L. Toole, L. Brough, and Sanger; Misses P. Markham, F. 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I t , SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE delivers the L NTE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn, 8; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, 9.4.5. )rE LATE J. SMITH'S, 39 EDITION of " UN " at , Bow-street, den. Covent-g 111 HE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at mr.. SMITH'S, " Camden Stores," 78, park-street, Camden • t .Wn. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1868. The President of the Ministry, Prince Carl von A UERSPERG, has written a letter in answer to the re inrmstrances of some Church dignitaries against the Civil Marriage Bill. This reply is couched in very moderate terms, and is yet fully explicit in his re solve to keep to present arrangements. There is a good deal of truth in the remarks here made, which must strike all who attentively consider them. In the first place, the Minister refers to the op portunity which was most full afforded by the debate on the bill in the Reichsrath, and this opportunity was not neglected either. Considering the stage at which the bill has now arrived, the Ministry must respectfully but firmly decline to interfere in the matter of arresting its progress. The law as at present constituted does not permit the Courts to take cognisance of reli gious teaching, or to regulate the administration of the Church's affairs. The letter concludes by stat ing that the Government is at all times ready to keep within the legitimate limits of State power, and while it desires to afford "powerful support" to the authority of the Church, and entertains the highest regard for " religious liberty," it cannot agree to exceed the bounds of State authority. Finally, therefore, the Ministry declines to enter upon the remonstrance which might lead the sentiment of duty in the minds of officials astray. On the whole, it seems as if the Government had got out of this awkward r.ffair with as much suc cess as possible, and they have contrived to maintain their consistency, while they have not put forward their opinions in a vexatious style. All kinds of reforms and alterations are certain to be resisted at first, and must certainly prove unpalat able to some, but the principle to be followed is to make all other considerations give way to that of the public good. The present Ministry in Vienna has indeed a difficult task before it, and deserves to be con gratulated for the spirit and courage which they have displayed. Austria has taken a fresh start, and seems likely to make more real progress in a month now than she did in a year before ; and that she may go ou in this fashion will be the earnest hope of all independent minds. From Dresden we learn that the Second Chamber sanctioned the abolition of capital punishment after an animated debate by a majority of two-thirds of the members, A spirit of progress appears to be infused into most of the Constitutionalists just now, and the old and irk some doctrines and notions are gradually vanishing before a better and freer condition of things. In Berlin they are occupied with settling the various arrangements connected with the new ad ministrative organisation of Schleswig-Holstein, and Schleswig has been fixed upon as the seat of Government. It is declared semi-officially that the Danish Government have confidentially notified that the journey of the Danish Minister of War to Paris has only been undertaken in con sequence of private affairs, but whether this be true or not it is difficult to say. In Paris the circum stance seems to have given rise to a good deal of discussion, and the effect on the Bourse was not propitious. Perhaps, however, the chief rea son of this was that men's minds were unsettled before, and therefore any occurrence at all of a significant nature was naturally construed in an unfavourable manner. There is no doubt that either for prevention or for active ser vice great preparations are being made in France to forward all military arrangements, and the ob ject in view seems to be to allow of a French army entering the field at twenty-four hours' notice, and therefore it is not extraordinary to find that people are beginning to lose faith in the oft-repeated assurances as to the security of peace, and that sort of argument which has been so common of late. Some are quite impatient at the state of things, and would rather get it over, and let a deci sive war be succeeded by a long peace that we could believe in. The Government, as is generally the case when the public mind is dissatisfied and impatient come in for a large share of the blame of the situa tion. They are told that they are insincere, profess one thing and practise another, and uphold principles that they virtually deny by their acts. Thus they talk largely of the effi cacy of liberal doctrines at home, but meanwhile they prosecute the Press; and abroad we hear of the advantages of a peaceful policy, and all the time an extensive system of military preparations is being carried on, which burdens the country and perplexes the public mind. One thing is observable in all tLis, and that is, a satisfactory change has taken place in the way of expressing opinion. It is far easier now than it used to be to arrive at some definite knowledge of the public mind, and what is popular, and what is not popular, is freely commented on, and by this means the truth is more easily arrived at than it used to be. The Opinion Nationale has an article which is entitled " Peace or War," and mentions some points relating to the state of things in Europe that are dilated upon with its characteristic ability. All the Cabinets of Europe declare to each other that their intentions are most pacific, while the high prices of food and the difficulties of commerce are felt to be burdensome everywhere. It seems strange in the face of all.this to have to consider " whence is the danger of war ?" Prodi gious armaments appear, and it is impossible to explain away this awkward proof of the likelihood of war. Six divisions in lieu of three will form the camp of Chalons this year, and no one can deny that there is great haste being made in the organisation of the new National Guard. This journal declares that all doubts must speedily be set at rest by questions asked in the Legislative Body, and that the Government must not cease to declare whether its policy be peace or war. Public opinion, it is added, should be so distinctly pro nOunced as to admit of the Government clearly indicating its course, and putting a stop to this very undesirable state of things. The question is to find out what France, whose interests are in terested, and the Government think of all this —a somewhat novel mode of argument to meet with in a French paper. But the time has gone by when the intelligence of Frauce can be wholly ignored, and when it is no longer considered necessary to consider a little how this change will affect the people, or that policy be a popular one on the whole. At the present time a war would be much to be deplored, but it is idle to say that the sky is all clear, and that no indications of hostility pre sent themselves. On the contrary, each trifle seems to be made into magnitude and importance, and again and again the simplest rumours are in vested with an imaginary significance, and all be cause of the restless and unsettled condition of the public mind in Paris. Those who are familiar with Lord MAcAuLAT's famous description of the brilliant scene at West minster when the beauty and genius, and rank and fashion of the day assembled to witness the im peachment of WARREN HASTINGS, will read with interest the vivid accounts which reach us from time to time of the proceedings in the Senate Court of the United States. America in , deed may well be deeply interested in the trial, for it is one which has no parallel in her history. Not only her elected ruler is arraigned to answer grave charges of misdemeanour and maladministra tion, but her Constitution .itself is upon its trial. The old land-marks are broken :down, the old securities removed ; new theories are in the ascendant, and men of standing and experience deliberately give utterance to views and sentiments which of oil they would have been the first to denounce. The eager audience which daily fills the galleries of the Senate may not, indeed, be attracted _by eloquence like that of SHERIDAN'S celebrated oration, nor may they wit- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1868 ness so brilliant and courtly a spectacle, but in these graver and soberer days there have been few occasions of so deep an interest, few which are likely to exercise so sensible an influence over their country and their generation. The leading features of the trial are of course familiar to every one, and it needs no skilful jurist or elaborate reasoner to detect the flaws in the case against President JOHNSON. His accusers urge that he has failed to recognise the authority of Congress, but the reply is ready. Con gress, as at present constituted, does not accurately represent the people. Mr. JOHNSON, indeed, does not avail himself of this plea, which is a very strong one in his favour, and he cannot justly be accused of disregarding the wishes of the sovereign people unless those wishes are fully and constitutionally expressed. The Constitution di vides the representation among so many States, but a considerable portion of those States are altogether unrepresented. We should cer tainly not regard any act of Parliament as binding which was passed, while ten or twelve counties were altogether omitted from the repre sentation. Senator D.wis, a Democrat from Ken tucky, raised this objection during the trial. When the Chief Justice took his seat on March 23, on the resumption of the trial, Mr. DAVIS submitted a motion that the Southern States being unrepresented the Senate was incompetent to try the impeachment. We may easily imagine that this objection was very quickly overruled, the two members for Ken tucky being the only Senators who voted for the motion. Mr. Davis, however, had the satisfaction of entering a just and constitutional protest, and we are glad that, even as at present constituted, the Senate can supply some men with honesty and fearlessness enough to do so. Mr. JOHNSON, as we have said, does not make this protest, which is a matter of some surprise, since he has frequently pointed out the inconsistency and unconstitution ality of the partial character of Congress. Most probably, however, he is anxious to set himself right with the public, to give a full answer to the charges brought against him, and to meet his enemies on their own ground. He could not have done this if he had refused to recognise the legality of the tribunal which arraigned him. As it is, he has answered the impeachment clause by clause with a full and circumstantial statement, making the reply, in fact, a vindication of his career and character while in office. On one point, in deed, he takes high ground, standing on his consti tutional prerogative. The ninth article of the impeachment charges him with attempting to se cure insubordination among army officers. The PRESIDENT, in answering this, reminds his accusers that he is Commander-in-Chief of the Army by the Constitution. He could hardly, therefore, encourage insubordination against him self. He defends himself from the charge of re moving STANTON unjustly on two grounds. He holds that his oath of office made it his duty to re move him, as he believed his retention of the Secre taryship was incompatible with the public welfare ; and further, he declares the Tenure-of office Bill to be unconstitutional. His accusers contend that the PRESIDENT was bound to uphold the Act as long as it was on the Statute-Book un condemned by the Supreme Court. To this the PRESIDENT replies that he disregarded it on pur pose to bring the question of its legality before the Supreme Court. Mr. JOHNSON asserts that he has always recognised the authority of Congress and enforced its laws, though he has held it right to veto some of its acts on constitutional grounds. Ile has always protested against the exclusion of the eleven States, whose exclusion renders Congress only a partial representation of the Union; but notwithstanding this protest, he affirms that he has recognised the existing Congress by approving some of its enactments, and by sending to it his messages and objections. With regard to his Western speeches, Mr. JOHNSON states that they were incorrectly re ported, but he claims the right to criticise the pro ceedings of Congress, not as PRESIDENT, but as a free American citizen, entitled to free speech and free thought. In this the PRESIDENT has reason on his side ; for though what he might say as PRESIDENT of course, more influential than what he might say as a private individual, there are no just grounds on which to deny him a right which every American strenuously claims. The prosecution were very soon ready with their replication to the PRESIDENT'S reply, and showed such eager ness to press on the case as to excite some sensation in the Court itself. The House of Representatives attends every day to support the Managers of th e Impeachment, who seem very well able to dispense with such external encouragement. General BUT LER is to reopen the case, a task no doubt most congenial to him. Meanwhile, whenever the public feeling is tested, it declares itself against the Radicals. Connecti cut is the latest victory of the Democrats, who have just carried the elections by an increased majority. We learn this by a telegram dated yes terday, but from the fuller correspondence brought by the mail we find that owing to the balance of the parties there has been great popu lar excitement respecting it, and that each party was confident of success. The Connecticut election was the second of the spring elections, and affords another indicatio❑ of the growing aversion to Radicalism. In the Southern States, too, there are signs of vitality. Arkansas, like Alabama, refuses to accept the new Constitution, so that the Radicals are beginning to find that their long lease• of ill-em ployed power is drawing to a close. Few can regret it. Neither at home nor abroad have they maintained the public interests or the national honour. They have used place and power for selfish ends, regardless of consequences. They have impoverished the Treasury and exasperated the people, and they may rest assured that what ever temporary triumph they may gain will soon be reversed by the unmistakeable verdict of the community at large. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY, April 7. The unfortunate subscribers to the Mexican loan have just had a meeting to consider their position. Viscount do la Guerronniere presided, and notwithstanding his inti mate relations with the Emperor, who for his services made him a senator, he spoke out very plainly, and said that all which the Government had promised to do for the bondholders up to the present time was quite inadequate. He was much applauded, and a committee was formed for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain the repayment of all the money subscribed. It is not likely that they will be successful, but they may get about two millions sterling► more than is offered them at present. The Government, finding that M. Horn's pampmet, "Le Bilan de l'Empire," was producing a very unfavour able effect, has prepared an answer to it. Another pamphlet also is announced in defence of Imperial finance. It is entitled " Qu' a fait la France." What has made France ? Great preparations are being made for the Prince Impe rial's first communion. Tt is fixed for the 20th, the Emperor's 60th birthday. It is believed that all the members of the Imperial Family, including Cardinal Bonaparte, will be present. The " Book of Hours," which will be presented to the Prince, is a most sumptuous work. It was ordered by the Empress of M. la Roue, paleo-caligraphist, of Paris. It contains 125 pages, most gorgeously illuminated, and entirely by hand. So laden are the leaves with gold and colour, that it is difficult not to believe that they are not solid gold. The prayers are written in a round hand, easy to read ; the general get-up of the book is Gothic. Such A work as this would have occupied the lifetime of one of the medhuval monks. I should not be surprised if M. la Roue were to make the almost-forgotten art of illumina tion quite the fashion. The Situation, a journal founded a year ago in order to oppose Prussia, has ceased to appear. It is stated that the ex-King of Hanover started it, and that in consequence of the recent confiscation of his property by Bismarck he has thought it desirable to economise ; and finding that the Situation had actually no influence, and a circu lation of scarcely 100 copies, he determined to discontinue this most ineffectual organ. It is rumoured that M. de Kerv6guen is so terribly cut up by recent events, that he means to resign his post as deputy for Toulon. The trial is adjourned till the 17th. Some time ago the Minister of Education appointed a commission to investigate the subject of agricultural instruction in the rural schools. The commissioners have made their report, and M. Duruy has based upon it cer tain recommendations which he has addressed to the Emperor. As education is exciting much interest on your side of the Channel, you may like to have a summary of what M. Duruy says. Ile proposes that during the six winter months, when there is little out-door work going on, the school shall be opened for all children morning and afternoon.• During the other half of the year the elder children will attend only one class a day, and the rest of the day will be spent in the fields. Hitherto agriculture has hardly been made a branch of school education. A regular programme of instruction is now to be drawn up, and will comprise a knowledge of soils, manures, drainage, horticulture, the management of woodlands, and the elements of botany, physics, and chemistry as applied to hygiene. Once or twice a week the teachers will give a lesson on agriculture, and accompany their pupils to the field and the farm. Thursday is to be set apart for this outdoor lesson, and no doubt that will be the favourite day of all the week to the pupils. Visitors to some parts of France —for instance, the Puy do Dome, La Vend6e, La Manche, and several other departments—would have an opportunity of seeing a strange sight. Ranged in the market-place they would see a number of young women and some young men, and, passing up and down, a man armed with scissors, who grasps the hair of those before him and calculates what it weighs. These market-places are the sources from whence Parisian chignon-makers draw their supplies of hair. The peasants do not part with their hair because they are poor, but because it is the custom to do so. Another source of supply is found in the convents, but as the nuns have usually had their hair confined in nets or caps, it is not so valuable as that of the young folks who spend their time in the open air with " Hair loosely flowing, robes as free," as one of your poets has it. About 40,000 kilogrammes of hair, i.e., 88,0001 b., are obtained from these sources. But this is not enough, and half as much more is obtained from Italy, Germany, and Belgium. The hair in its natural state is worth from 163. to 325. per lb. The home supply alone is worth about £336,000. Some interesting statistics have been given of the popu lation of France. It numbers 37,586,815. The number of proprietors is 9,981,935 ; the number of houses, 7,507,047 ; of manufactories, 141,706 ; of chateaux, 418,055. The soldiers are put down at 476,678, and the sailors of the Royal navy at only 15,574. There are nearly three million persons without any profession ; a little over 50,000 are in gaol, nearly 30,000 are insane, nearly 42,000 idiots, and nearly 13,000 women live in houses of ill-fame. 13,782 magistrates judge, and 11,179 defend the nation. It takes nearly 33,000 doctors to kill the sick, but only about 2,000 to bury them when they are killed. There are more spinsters than bachelors, and the two together are 8,379,016. France contains 3,000,000 horses, 400,000 asses, 330,000 mules, 330,000 bulls, 2,000,000 oxen, 5,000,000 cows, 4,000,000 calves, 1,400,000 goats, and 4,000,000 pigs. The Nova Scotians are intensely dissatisfied with the Confederation scheme which was carried out last year. Four prominent members of the local Legislature are now in this country endeavouring to obtain a repeal of the union, so far as their country is concerned. In order to counteract their influence :\ Dr. Tupper, who was one of the chief promoters of the union, has come to England, and this fact renders the repealers more bitter than ever. Their four representatives have drawn up a statement in behalf of their party, which is certainly very strong, though, of course, it is ex parte. They state that last year a memorial, signed by 31,000 persons, was sent to England, urging that the Confederation might not be carried out until the people had had an opportunity of expressing their opinions in the then approaching elections. Their prayer was unheeded, the Unionists urging that delay would discredit the Confederation. Since then only three of the Nova Scotian delegates who were in this country last year in order to promote the scheme have ventured to appeal to the constituencies : two of them were ignominiously de feated, and the third—the late leader of the Government— was returned by a small majority, at a ruinous cost, and under protest on the ground of bribery and corrup tion. The result of the returns for the Confederate Parliament was, that 18 members opposed to confederation were elected, and only one in favour. For the local Legislature the numbers were 36 and 2. The members of the first-mentioned body took their seats under protest, and for forty days fairly tested the new system, the results of which far exceeded their, worst anticipations. The Canadians protected their own manufactures against those of the mother country by increasing the ad valorem, duties from 10 to 15 per cent. They protected their breadstuffs against those of the United States, largely used in the maritime provinces, by duties on flour, corn, and corn meal. They laid on stamp and newspaper taxes, which were unknown in Nova Scotia. They also taxed the bank circulation, which at once raised the rate of discount from 6 to 7 per cent. Nor is this the whole of the grievance. The Confedera tion subjects the colonists to enormous cost and great inconvenience, compelling them to transact, in a city eight hundred miles away, a vast amount of public busi ness formerly despatched in their own capital, within easy reach of the whole population. It tranfers to the Government at Ottawa powers more extensive than the Queen and the Imperial Parliament in practice ever exer cised; and vests in that Government, which the people of Nova Scotia can rarely hope to influence, the entire patronage of the Post Office and Revenue depart ments, and of the lighthouses and public works, con structed at great expense by the people of Nova Scotia. It transfers the ownership of the provincial railways, built at a cost of a million and a half of pounds currency, to the Dominion, without equivalent or compensation. It takes from Nova Scotia the regulation of her trade, of her banking system and savings banks, of her sea-coast and inland fisheries, of her militia, of her courts and criminal law. The protest seems to intimate that motives not entirely pure or unselfish induced the dele gates to hurry on the confederation. One fact is sufficient to show the. utter recklessness and haste with which the British North Ameiica Act and the Intercolonial Railway Grarantee Act, which accom panied it, were pa:4sed, when it is stated that Nova Scotia had at that very upon her own credit;' provided for all that part of the road which crossed her territory, that. she ix now under contract to build it, and is anxious to complete her fair and full share of the Intercolonial Rail way without any guarantee or aid from the Imperial Government, Finally, the colonists ask only that they may be allowed to regulate their own affairs, promising to reduce instead of increasing, as the new Parliament ban donft, duties on British manufactures, and also to con sttixt t:nir ittiblio works without any gumlike from the imptrki /o:44,befttitr, SUFFERINGS OF A ,SHIPWRECKED CREW. The journals of the Mauritius contain accounts of the rescue, by the French brig Pionnier, of the patisengers and crew of the Atieth Bahaman, in all fifty-seven persons, who had been wrecked on a reef off Sandy Ireland, on the 26th of November last. All got safely ashore, and the second mate with several men immediately started in a boat for the Mauritius for assistance, and arrived there after a difficult voyage of twelve days. A steamer was at once despatched, but, having met with bad weather at sea, was forced four days after to put back. The Pion nier was at that moment about to sail for Madagascar, but the captain, named Dclaselle, determined to endeavour to rea,O.b. -the sufferers ; he arrived off the island in two days, but the currents in those waters are dangerous and require such great precautions that two days more were occupied in getting the shipwrecked persons on bard. They had then passed twenty-five days in a state of horrible anxiety, and at the moment of their rescue their provisions were almost exhausted, as three bags of rice only remained. providentially for them, their supply of food had been made to hold out by the circumstance of large flocks of birds having alighted on the island, probably attracted by the un usual sight of living creatures in that desolate spot, aid being so tame that they allowed themselves to be caught by the hand. The island, about two miles long, is almost destitute of vegetation. The only drink it fur nished was brackish water which rose through the sand on holes being dug. The sufferings of the shipwrecked people were increased by a violent tempest on the 15th December, which carried away the sort of tent they had erected for their shelter ; the wind was, in fact, so violent that they were forced to cling to each other to resist it. The approaching Royal visit to Ireland promises to throw the Church agitation into the shade ; still, so far, it has been the principal topic of discussion in political circles. While some regard the vote as decisive of the downfall of the Church Establishment, the Conservatives assert that all is not yet lost. The Orangemen of the North have not yet had time to speak out fully, but some of their organs take rather high ground and assume an air of confidence as to the ultimate result. Both the Queen and the House of Lords are appealed to with a view of checking Mr. Gladstone in his "unconstitutional " course. The Jesuits are denounced as the real wire-pullers, and when this is known, argue the Protestant journals, the reaction will come. The moderate Roman Catholic party look upon the vote with different feelings. They contend that the maintenance of the Church Establishment is the only international question between England and Ireland. All other matters of debate exist for the two countries in common. A great deal of interest has been manifested as to the view which the Wesleyans would take of Mr. Gladstone's endeavour to disestablish the Irish Church. The Wesleyan Magazine, which is looked upon as an organ of the Conference, goes in for a regular argu ment in favour of the threatened establishm6nt, in which it maintains that if the Church in Ireland is an alien institution, so also are the Crown, the Lord- Lieutenant, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Act, and the whole system of British law in the sister island. The Protestant minority in Ireland, it is argued, have been persevering in their Loyalty to the Throne, and have bene fited their native land by their industry and enterprise. Why, then, should the State now repudiate them " for the gratification of the disloyal?". Mr. Hare's electoral scheme is being hardly criti cised just now. Those who recognise the objects of the plan, who desire what is called personal representation and representation of minorities, who see no danger to the country from equal electoral districts, even these admit the machinery proposed by Mr. Hare to be impracticable. Mr. Boyd Kinnear, wri ting to the Daily News, has machinery of his own to substitute. He would divide the country into electoral districts—whether equal or not does not matter—each district to return one member, and each elector to possess one vote, and to be allowed to tender it for any candidate he chooses, whether standing for his district or not. Then the 658 candidates who have polled most votes should be declared elected. In order that there might be no votes thrown away, Mr. Kinnear proposes party organisation, to be headed by a central committee, n London, in communication with the party in each dis trict. A close canvass would determine those districts in which votes were needed, or might be dispensed with, if any district h a d a super fluity of party votes they might give them to a local candidate, or tender them to the one indicated by the committee in London, who would know who was most in need of the votes. To the objection that the elections would thus be worked by party committees Mr. Kinnear answers, that arrangements of this kind are inseparable from every system of voting that is not clearly local, and perhaps, he adds, not entirely from that. Vested interests are beginning to cry out against the proposition of the Government to purchase and work the electric telegraph system of the country. Mr. Robert Grimston, chairman of the Electric and International Company, declares in the Times that the provisions of the bill which is to effect the transfer of the tele graphs to the State are in the highest degree unjust. lie points out that if the Postmaster-General choose to exercise the powers sought in the bill, he may buy any one of the smaller companies whose shares stand at merely a nominal value in the market, and, with the resources of the nation at his comtnand, lower the tariff to such a figure as would coerce the larger and more pros perous companies into selling their property at a price wholly inconsistent with its value. As to arbitration, the arbitrator is to be appointed. by the Board of Trade, or, in other words, by the Government itself. " Will," exclaims Mr. Grimston, " the com mercial classes of this country, represented by their members of Parliament, sit quietly by and allow the pro perty of private trading companies to be confiscated in such a manner ?" The company represented by the writer is unwilling to sell its property. It is earning a very handsome dividend. The lowness of tariff in Belgium and Switzerland is carried on, as far as inland messages are concerned, at a loss to the respective Governments. All the inconvenience of a Government having the sur veillance of every message passing along the wires is pointed out, and the writer concludes by saying that he does not believe Parliament will pass the bill. BANQUET TO SIR W. JENNER.—The colleagues and friends of Sir William Jenner, Bart., M.D., YRS., intend to express their gratification a the honour recently conferred upon him by the Queen by inviting him to a dinner in the library of University College, London, on Friday, the 24th instant. Professor Parkes, of the Army Medical School, Netley, will preside. THE HON. COLIN LINDSAY.—The Church Review regrets to announce that a recurrence of illness in a more severe form has compelled Mr. Colin Lindsay to resign immediately his position as president of the English Church Union, and to throw upon the council the duty of appointing a successor for the remainder of the present official year. THE IRISH CnuncH.—At a meeting of the Metropolitan Working Men's Conservative Association, held at the offices, 11, Parliament-street, Westminster, the following resolution was unanimously passed : " That this association looks forward with confidence to the ulti mate triumph of the Protestant Church, and calls upon Protestants of all classes to support her Majesty's Govern ment in their noble defence of the Irish branch of the Established Church." Mu ELDER AT MANCH EST ER. —A woman named Ann Jackson has died at the workhouse, Manchester, from injuries sustained at the hands of Martin Nolan, a man living with her as her husband in Wood-street, Deansgate, close to the back of the City Police-court. On Tuesday night they had a quarrel, the result of which was that the woman was put out of doors. She then bioke the windows, and made a great disturbance in the street. Nolan, incensed at this, rushed out, knocked her down, and brutally kicked her, breaking several of her ribs. She was taken up by the neighbours in a state of insensibility, and carried to the Royal Infirmary, whence, after a slight examination, she was for some reason removed to the workhouse, where she died on Tuesday morning. In addi tion to her ribs being broken, it has since been discovered that she had received a stab. Nolan is in custody on a charge of murder. THE DISMISSAL OF INSPECTOR MILLER.—TiIe Easter General Quarter Sessions were held at Reigate on Tuesday. Lord Hylton presided, and there was a large attendance of magistrates. The chief constable (Captain Hastings), in presenting his report, referred to the dis missal of Inspector Miller, for taking in and distributing copies of the Police Service Advertiser. He said that a large amount of public obloquy had been cast upon him for dismissing this officer, and he had consequently placed the whole of the facts before the Constabulary C omm it. tee. The report of the committee was brought up, an d it stated that the chief constable had full power to dis miss any man from the force ; and that, after inquiry, it. had ascertained that, contrary to the express injunction of the chief constable, the officer in question had not only subscribed to, but distributed to his men, the Police Service Advertiser. As the chief constable deemed that an objec tionable newspaper, the committee were of opinion that he had acted rightly in dismissing the officer, who had improperly, after caution, persisted in reading it. Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P., denounced the dismissal as an arbitrary act, and regretted that the law gave the magis trates no power to interfere. Lord Monson justified the course pursued by the chief constable, as did other magis trates, and the subject dropped. a diffUrt HER MAJESTY. -- a -- WINDSOR CASTLE, April 7. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princeis Christian, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon. • Princess Louise went out riding, attended by Lady Churchill. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, drove out this morning. Prince and Princess Christian visited her Maje-z -ty this morning, and remained to luncheon. AN ENGLISH CRECHE. Moved, probably, by the sufferings recently de tailed at coroners' inquests by the baby-farming system, Lady Fetre has just been instrumental in raising a largo sum of money in order to found a creche on the model of those existing in France and Germany and some other parts of the Continent. It is in contemplation to take a large house in the neighbourhood of Oxford-street, in a very poor dis trict adjacent to Manchester-square. Here mothers who have to gain a livelihood away from their homes will be enabled to leave their children during the day. The little "ones will be well cared for by the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, and will be fed and clothed free of expense to their parents. It is also proposed to have in the same house a " Class of Perseverance" for poor girls, to keep them out of bad company until they are old enough to go to service. These girls will assist the sisters in tending the children, and will receive food, clothing, and education gratuitously. The creche Is designed for the benefit of the Roman Catholic poor, the subscriptions to it having been raised ex clusively among the wealthier members of that body. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Tuesday, April 7.—Admissions on payment, 1,109 ; ditto by season tickets, 1,366; total visitors, 2,475, LATEST INTELL MINCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE WAR IN THE RIVER PLATE. PARIS, April 8. The Moniteur of this morning says :—Letters from Rio de Janeiro, dated 11th March, contain authentic information from Paraguay which con firms the forcing of the passage of Humaita by the Brazilian fleet and the storming of the Estabeleci mento redoubt. The citadel of Humaita had not, however, yet been carried, and the army of Lopez, which had been prematurely announced to have re treated into Bolivia, was massed in front of the Brazilian positions in Tayute. The occupation of Assompcion by the Brazilian squadron appears to be confirmed. AUSTRALIAN MAIL. GALLE, March 23. The Bombay, from Sydney, Ist inst., arrived to-day. The Geelong arrived at Melbourne on the 11th, and Sydney, the 14th. The Simla arrived at Galle, 22d March. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, April 8. The Cunard extra steamer Tarifa, from New York, arrived here at 9.35 a.m. to-day with 61 passengers. She landed the despatches and 67 pas sengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 9.50 a.m• All well. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 7—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 4i per Cant. End of month... Ittasan Loan 3 per Cent End of month 69 271 Mexican Loan ... 19 50 Credit Mobilier End of month... 272 50 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier ...1470 Home Debt End of month... Deferred — - RAILWAYS. Account. Orleans , ... 870 Northern ll9O Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... 585 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman.. 550 9 77 k 72 92} THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE RACKET MATCH. The single match was played yesterday at Prince's Club, Hans-place, Sloane-street, and proved even a more hollow affair than the double one on the preceding day. H. Fairs (" Punch") again marked, and the times are by a stop watch of M. F. Dent and Co., 33, Cockspur-street, Charing-cross. A large number of spectators were present, and at 2h. sm. 10s. p.m. C. J. P. Clay, Trinity College, Oxford, having won the toss, elected to go in against W. S. 0- Warner, Trinity College, Cam bridge, the rubber being the best of five games. The Oxonian's band served him in good stead, as be quickly scored five aces before Warner got him out by a well-judged one into the right back corner. Warner was in and out as quickly, Clay's next band bringing him one more ace, after which his opponent got his first score. Clay's total did not rise beyond 7, the Cantab making the score 6 to 7 at his next attempt, and after getting his op ponent out won the game right off in 7 minutes 30 seconds. Second (Game.—This very much re sembled the first, as Warner was 4 to 1 chiefly through his good service, when Clay made it Ox ford 5, Cambridge 4, by some really good returns. On the Cantabs gaining the court he went ahead very fast, and was soon 12 to 5. Clay got one more ace only and then lost the game, at 15 to 6, in.7min. 53sec. Third Game.—This was very easily gained by Cambridge, whose representative was 3to 1 and 4to 2. Clay made one by his next band in, after which Warner went right away till ho was 11 to 3. The Oxonian got oue more ace, when his opponent won the game, in 7, n i u. at 15 to 4, as well as the match at three games love. It will thus be seen that Cambridge has won both the racket matches this year, although de feated in the athletic sports, billiard matches, and boat race. STATE OF TRADE. - MANCHESTER, April 7.—A quieter market in cotton at Liverpool to-day, with a decline of id. per lb. at the commencement of business, had the effect of lowering the tone here, and has produced a marked depression. The market for shipping yarns spinners are firm, their quotations. andh has a s a s d u h m e e r e d a r aqtuhieert estrongly b u t o t They appear to have a good deal of confidence in hare indisposed at present to vitalityof follow reported at Liver pool. In home trade yarns we have had only a t e h the gh depression price moderate trade to-day. Prices are from ed. to id. per lb. below the extreme quotations of Sa turday, and are again at about the level of Fri day. A report from Liverpool at noon of rather more doing in cotton has not had m uc h influ ence. It has caused a little more inquiry, but not much more business. In cloth there was a fair amount of business effected last week, and espe cially in the re-sale lots, the prices of which were low enough to compete very successfully with the lowest rates at which manufacturers could afford to offer their cloth. Between Friday and the close of yesterday prices had advanced considerably, and manufacturers had put up their quotations so as to cover the advance in the values of cotton. To-day the quieter tone of the Liverpool cotton market (noted above) appears to have induced buyers to withdraw from purchasing for the moment, and the business done has been small. The still high and well-sustained prices of yarn, however, compel manufacturers to adhere with a good deal of perti nacity to the high rates for cloth now ruling. There are still some re-sale lots of cloth in the market. Messrs. J. Slagg and Co. report of this day's cloth market :—" Our market has been restless and ex cited during the week, and prices show a consider able advance on our quotations of last Tuesday. The large number of resale lots offering have im ported considerable irregularity and rendered pro ducers' rates unobtainable. Though the high quot. tions of to-day are generally well maintained, the uncertain tone of the Liverpool market has tended greatly to restrict operations." LEEDS, 7th.—The attendance of buyers in the cloth-halls this morning was not large, and was chiefly confined to the representatives of local firms. There was nothing lik e an i ma tion in any depart ment, purchases bein g mos tl y for supplying orders on hand or to keep stocks assorted. The home trade buyers are doing very little as yet for the fall trade, which always has a relative bearing to the harvest, and it is too early yet to form any correct idea as to the probabilities of the latter. The sales to-day have incl u d e d tweeds, un i o n meltons, white diagonals, hair lists, f ancy coa ti n gs, and plain cloths in fair proportions, and throughout prices were with out noticeable change from last week. The flax trade is showing some improvement, and prices of the raw material, yarns, and threads are all firm. ROCHDALE, Gth.—The fl ann el market to-day was of an ordinary chara c t er , no l arg e amount of goods being sold, and prices being firm. The same re mark applies to both the Yorkshire goods and the wool trade. The order for 8,000 pieces of flannel for the Government, which was last week expected to fall into the hands of some of the manufacturers who had tendered for it in this district, has been given to an Irish firm. According to reports here it is questionable whether the order will not be executed in Belgium, it being said that the goods required can be procured cheaper in that country than in either Ireland or England. THE TEA DUTY Is REDUCED.—Horninzan,'s Pure Tea is sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. This interesting fact will, when fully known, even further increase the demand for these Choice, long-approved Teas. They are not sold km, but only in Packets, signed " klorniman," London. THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW. P01:TS3IOUTII, Tuesday. The arrangements made here with regard to the review of the Volunteers on Easter Monday have ended in a complete bungle. The Volunteers have undoubtedly been placed in a false position, and the extraordinary part of the matter is that neither the War-office authorities, Major-General Lindsay, commanding the Reserved Forces, and his staff of Volunteer inspecting officers ; Sir George Buller, the general commanding Portsmouth and the south west district ; the commanding officers of the Volunteer corps intending to be present, or the local Review Committee appear to have the power or the will to remedy the blunders that have been com mitted. It is unfortunate, as a day's great lesson in the art of war over an unlimited extent of ground covered with " lines" of fortification and detached forts of unparalleled size and strength, offering one of the finest fields in Europe for a mock fight, is in danger of being abandoned for an absurd attempt at a " march past" on a strip of sea shore not much larger than the Temple-gardens. Every one concerned acknowledges the absurdity of the Southsea-common scheme. but no one ccmes forward with the power to carry out a new pro gramme for Monday next. The original plan pro posed by the heads of the Volunteer forces for com bining a march past on Southsea-common with the review at Hilsea and Portsdown was feasible enough with an army of 17,000 or 18,000 men, but when the numbers asking to be present rose to 30,000 the affair assumed a different complexion. It then, in fact, resolved itself into a question of time. How long would it take these 30,000 men to march past the reviewing officer on Southsea-common ? What time would afterwards be occupied by them in marching from Southsea-common to the scene of the proposed review? And what time would re main for the review after arriving on the ground, and for despatching the Volunteers home again ? At the meeting of the volunteer officers held at the War-office on Saturday last, Major-General Lindsay—the representative of the War-office in volunteer matters—distinctly stated that, after having visited Portsmouth and inspected the whole of the ground at Portsdown and at Southsea, he had come to the conclusion that a march past on Southsea common, and a Review under Portsdown with so large a number of Volunteers, would be impracticable in one day, and that they must choose either the review proper, between Hilsea lines and Portsdown-hill, or a march past and such other dis play as they could arrange on Southsea-common. By some as yet unexplained means the officers pre sent decided in favour of the march past on South sea beach, and abandoned the review. The local Review Committee at Portsmouth were astounded on this decision being made known ; Sir George Buller and all the officers and his staff were equally surprised, and all military men in the garrison ridiculed the idea of marching past, and afterwards massing 30,000 Volunteers on so small a space of ground, The Mayor of the borough, accompanied by the officer commanding the 2d Hants Artillery, and a member of the local Review Committee, went up to London yesterday, and had an interview with General Lindsay, at which they pointed out the extremely small extent and the unsuitable nature of Southsea-common for any massing or manoeuvres of large bodies of men. They urged the necessity for holding the review of the Volunteer army at Hilsea and Portsdown, and of abandoning the idea of any march past on South sea-common, and maintained that otherwise the re view of 1868 must prove a failure and discredit to the Volunteer organisation generally. To this rea sonable statement Major-General Lindsay appears to have had but one reply :—" The Volunteer offi cers had decided the matter for themselves on Saturday last at the War-office, and he did not see how it could now be altered." This morning Colonel the Hon. W. J. Colville, the Assistant- Volunteer Inspector of the district, and the imme diate subordinate of Major-General Lindsay, the Inspector-General, arrived at Portsmouth, and m ade an inspection of the ground at Southsea and of the line of the old fortifications of the town. The Mayor brought under Colonel Colville's notice the general impression entertained by all acquainted with the locality, both military men and civilians, that it was imperatively necessary to reconsider the question, and substitute the review proper of the Volunteer forces at Hilsea and Portsdown for the Southsea.- common attempt at a parade. With Colonel Col- Ale, however, the Mayor was not more suc cessful than with General Lindsay, the answer being again "that the officers of the Volunteer Corps who met at the War-office on Saturday were alone re sponsible for the difficulty." Thus far the department of the Government entrusted with the special super vision and control of the Volunteers make no attempt to relieve them from the dilemma in which they find themselves unwittingly placed, and unless Lieut.-General Sir Geo. Buller interferes by giving a decided opinion upon the practicability or im practicability of any attempt at anything on South sea-common the affair may go on to a disgraceful failure. The chances of the review of the Volun teers yet taking place on ground between the Hilsea lines of fortification and the crest of Portsdown-hill lies in the probable interference of Sir Geo. Buller as the officer selected as reviewing officer, and in an awakening of the War-office authorities to a sense of the responsibilities of their position. What ever plan may be eventually carried into effect by the Volunteers on Easter Monday must be ap proved by the constituted regular military autho rities, and especially with regard to its practic ability. If an impracticable scheme such as the proposed Southsea-common affair is attempted, it will not be the Volunteers who will be held re sponsible for the failure which must follow, but the representatives of the Horse Guards and War-office Generals Hon. J. Lindsay and Sir George Buller. In the meantime the Volunteer Review arrange ments wait, and the regular military authorities stop the way. Colonel Warde arrived There this evening from London, bringing written conditions from Major- General Lindsay to submit to the Mayor and the Review Committee. They are to the effect that only on condition that the Volunteers have entire possession of the main road from Cosham to Ports mouth from 9 a.m. and throughout the day, with barriers at named points, and a bridge of barges built solely for the use of the public over Hilsea Creek, a march past of the Volunteers at Southsea, with a field day at Portsdown, can be at all enter.. tained. The Mayor is requested to put his inten tions upon paper, and to state what force of police he ca❑ muster, and what power he has to keep the road clear from Cosham to the borough boundary. At a meeting of the committee held this evening, a resolution was passed unanimously accepting the conditions specified by General Lindsay. Col. Warde will take back to London the official reply of the committee, and an official telegram is expected in reply from Gen. Lindsay sanctioning the original programme for the review, of a march past of some portion of the Volunteers on Southsea common, and afterwards a sham fight at Hilsea and Portsdown. WORN CoIN.—A vote of £15,000 will be again proposed this session to cover the deficiency in the weight by wear of silver coin being received at the Mint at its nominil value. There will also be a vote of £5OO to pal premium at 2 per cent. on old copper coin sent in to the Mint, and the carriage of bronze coin remitted in e% change. Fore Itey i s Chonta Mist The Eitea m 30th it ' Mn °6 l A -114p Ne w o D o a j oI 0 0 " i P 9 4 I Do