The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-22 00:00:00

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H ER MAJESTY'S OPERA. (THEATRE-ROYAL, DRUB,Y-LANE'. Mdlle. CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG. Grand Extra Night. TO-MORROW (THURSDAY), April 23, Verdes Opera, RIGOLETTO. Il Duca, Signor Fraschini ; Rigoletto, Mr. Santley; Sparafncile, Signor Foil; Monterone, Signor Casaboni ; Borsa, Signor Agretti ; Maddalena, Madame Trebelli-Bettini ; Giovanna, Mdile. Hersee ; La Contessa, Mdlle. Corsi; and Gilda, Mdlle. Clara Louise Kellogg. Conductor —Signor Arditi. Doors open at Eight o'clock; commence at half-past Eight. Stalls, One Guinea ; kmphitheatre Stalls, 7s, and 55.; Reserved Box Seats, its. 6d: Gallery, 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and plans may be obtained at the Box-office of Her Majesty's Opera (Theatre Royal, Drury-lane) ; and at the new Box-office of Her Majesty's Theatre, under the Colonnade (second door from Pall-mall), open daily. rrHEA:TRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. 1. S o le Lessee, Mr. Buchstone. THIS EVENING. A CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT. Messrs Compton and Kendal; Mesdames Chippendale, Dalton, Lewis To be followed by A HERO OF ROMANCE. Characters by Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Clark, &c.; Mesdames Robertson, Fitzwilliam, Chippendale, Dalton, Laws, and Daubigny. Concluding with INTRIGUE. Mr. Howe, -Mr. Kendal, Mr. Clark, and Miss Burke. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, GO TO PUTNEY: A Tale of the Boat Race. Messrs. G. Belmore, G. J. Taylor, Miss Harris, and Miss Emily Pitt. After which, at 8, NO THOROUGHFARE. Mr. Fechter (his 102nd appearance here), Mr. Billington, Mr. H. Neville, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. J. Smith, and Mr. Benjamin Webster; Miss Carlotta Leclercq (her 102nd appearance), Mrs. 4.lfred Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Lewis, &c. Commence at 7. QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING. MARY JONES. Messrs. W. H. Stephens, Wyndham, Sanger, and Miss P. Markham. After which will be produced OLIVER TWIST. Master Dawkins (the Artful Dodger), Mr. J. L. Toole; Fagin, Mr. Ryder ; Oliver, Miss M. Hodson; Bumble, Mr. L. Brough; Bill Sykes, Mr. H. Irving: Nancy, Miss Nelly Moore. 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. Addison, Jordan, Montgomery, Heath, Sylvia, H. Everard, and H. Hodson. Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. W. 11. Liston. Box-office open daily from Ten till Four. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7, POOR PILLICODDY. Mr. D. Murray, W. Gresham ; Miss Polly Marshall, E. Bar nett, and Mrs. Addie. After which, JEANIE DEANS ; or, The Heart of Mid-Lothian. Mrs. Dion Boucicault; Messrs. G. F Neville, J. G. Shore, Maclean, H. Forrester, D. Leeson. W. Gresham, and Cathcart; Mesdames Litton, Fitzgerald, E. Barnett, and Mrs. C. Harcourt. Concluding with the Farce, No. 1, ROUND THE CORNER. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN.—Elegantly repainted and redecorated.—Under the management of Miss Fanny Josephs.— New and Talented Company. 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 five. B UTTERCUPS AND DAISIES, THIS evENING. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. BELLES, DING DONG THIS Ev.ENINC. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. ELECTRIC SPARKS THIS EVENING. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS HOLBORN. Increased and unequalled combination of talent. Bril liant success of the Holiday Programme. Unprecedented and enthusiastic reception of the Spanish lady LA PEREIRA in her terrific flights from the Lofty Trapeze. "Mdlle. Pereira's performances upon the lofty trapeze are not to 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 London within our memory."— Morning Post, April 14. " The concluding exploit of swinging across the arena on the lofty bar beneath the ceiling, and the descent, by limo-light, in a series of gr..ceful gyrations, may be pro nounced the most marvellous achievements yet attempted by any feminine performer."-=Telegraph, April 16. M. AGOUSTE, the Champion Equilibrist of the World, in his extraordinary act of Equilibrism. Unanimously ac knowledged by the entire London and provincial press to be incomparable. In addition to the above 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. Doors Open at HALF-PAST SEVEN; performances commence at EIGHT O'CLOCK. 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. Thorne, James, and Robson; Mesdames Swanborough, Lydia Thompson, Sheridan, Hughes, &c To conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. S ADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.— THIS EVENING. Triumphant success of Professor ANDERSON and his FOUR DAUGHTERS. Astounding Novelties never before witnessed in London. The WORLD of MAGIC and SECOND-SIGHT. Miss LIZZIE ANDERSON, the only European Lady who can perform the Great Japanese Butterfly T r i c k ! Miss Louise Anderson, Miss Flora Anderson, and Miss Ada Anderson, each in her great specialite. 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WILLIAM HOLDICH and CO., LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, 105, Fleet treet, City, and No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common. WILLIAM HOLDICH and Co., LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, Established 1842, at 105, Fleet-street, City; Southern Branch—No. 5, The Pave ment, Clapham-common. Patterns gratis and post free, vith Price List. TO LICENCED VICTUALLERS. ESTABLISHED 1842. VATILLIAM HOLDICH and CO ., LICENCED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, No. 105, Fleet-street, corner of Farringdon-street ; and at No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common (Southern Branch). Ullts LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 18G8. The House of Commons had yesterday I o consider the subject of Capital Punishment, and Mr. GILPIN moved a resolution in favour of its total abolition, which he supported by the usual arguments that are made in this case ; but we believe that the public will endorse the opinion of the House in re jecting it by a large majority. This question has over and over again engaged the attention of the Legislature, and many zealous advocates have taken up the matter with more energy than discre tion ; but the general feeling of the House has been against total abolition, and very justly so, for if put into practice the principle would not answer the ends of justice. Nothing short of extreme measures can be found sufficient to deter criminals from carrying out their deadly schemes, or if even with the fearful penalty that now hangs over them they persist in their evil efforts, it is not likely that the safety of the community could be properly protected if this law was abolished. Of course there was something to be said in defence of the resolution as there is on all similar proposi tions, but the arguments will not stand investiga tion, and if we come to consider them we shall see that they do not rest on a sure and solid basis. Mr. GILPIN performed his part of advocate very creditably, but whatever he could urge was more than answered by those who opposed him. Mr. GREGORY spoke very truly when ho said that " the question was not one of reforming the heart or saving the soul of the murderer, but of prevent ing the QUEEN'S subjects from being murdered." Many instances were given by the hon. member to show that the retention of capital punishment exer cised a most deterrent influence on the most har dened criminals, and the police officers who were examined before the Commission all agreed in de claring that many more murders would have been committed had it not been that the offenders feared the penalty of death following on their crimes. Besides, there is another thing to consider —that if the punishment of death be abolished, there will be no hold on those who are confined in convict prisons, for they could gratify theirrage a n d passion without scruple if they once thought they could not be worse off than they were. So far as saying that imprisonment for life is as bad or nearly so as capital punishment, the best way of getting over that is to mention that if any one can see a chance of bringing in insanity to excuse a criminal they always do so, and the friends and advisers of the accused are always eager to have the extreme sentence com muted into one of perpetual imprisonment, anything in short rather than that the culprit should be hanged. " A witty French writer said some years ago," concluded Mr. GREGORY, " that he would not mind doing away with capital punishment if `Messieurs les Assassins' would only set the example," and this is a very correct way of putting the question, for the best-intentioned people seem to forget in their arguments that there is the case of the murderers to consider, and in their eagerness to do away with the awful penalty of the law being inflicted, they overlook the fact that the still more awful crime of murder has to be checked by the authorities, and put down so far as human efforts can effect it with a strong hand and a deter mined will. Mr. MILL spoke very forcibly on the subject, and said that he was always sorry when he had to go against the views of the philanthropists, whose exertions had effected so much for the good of society in many respects, but he could not agree with them in this instance. He said very truly that we must not call the punishment of death a failure, or measure it by its effects on those who THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1868. were constantly in sight of the gallows. In order to estimate its real effect we should look rather at those who were not so hardened in crime, and seek to find the effect that it produced on them " by the horror it threw around the first prompt ings to crime, by the check it interposed to that gradual decline in the State, never suddenly reached, when crime ceased to revolt, and punishment to deter. It is the tendency of this age to put a stop to all extreme punishments, a far more creditable feeling than some of the sen timents which animated our predecessors ; but still it will not do to go too far, even in a humane and kindly direction. It is not possible in this world to let mercy override jus tice, it may temper it stern decrees ; but so long as sin abounds and vice flourishes, there must be stern checks interposed, and stern penalties enforced. Of late, indeed, it seems the more strange to have all this excitement upon the matter, when there have been so many crimes rife among us, and we had better surely wait until such an exploit as the Clerk enwell outrage was settled, a case belonging to the past, before we take up new doctrines, and attempt experiments that are doubtful at the best. The House of Commons has decided well and wisely in coming to the decision it did yesterday, and the more the subject is considered the more will it ap pear so. The rapid progress of the Impeachment Trial at Washington will surprise many. By a telegram dated Monday we learn that the case for the de fence had been suddenly closed on that day, and the resumption of the trial by the Managers of the prosecution is fixed for to-day. The evidence for the defence has been abruptly terminated by the refusal of the Court to receive the testimony of Secretary WELLES and others who were called to prove that the Cabinet, including STANTON himself, advised the PRESIDENT to veto the Tenure-of-Office Bill, upon which so much of the case as regards STANTON is now based. They agreed further to show that the Cabinet had since agreed that the act was inapplicable to the case of Mr. STANTON. It is not very easy to see on what grounds these witnesses were excluded from the case, as the prosecution had previously summoned several witnesses of the same class to depose to private conversations. It would seem as though the court wished to put the PRE SIDENT at a disadvantage by thus suddenly termi nating his case. Possibly Mr. JOHNSON is indiffe rent as to the matter, knowing that, after all, the issue depends rather on the strength of political feeling and the balance of political parties. It has been throughout the manifest desire of the prosecution to hurry on the trial. Every effort to obtain some delay has been frustrated, and it seems as if the prosecution were actually apprehensive of too much coming to light. The Managers of the case have throughout manifested their animus against the PRESIDENT in the most unreserved fashion, though the Senate has not always supported them. By the fuller intelli gence brought by the mail steamer City of Ant werp, we learn that when the defence offered the evidence of General THOMAS relative to his conver sations with Mr. JOHNSON, the Managers objected to its being received, but the Senate voted that it should be admitted by 42 to 10. We have pro bably got to the truth of the Radical story about seizing the % ar-office at last. General THOMAS, on cross-examination, admitted that he had threatened to use force on his own responsibility, but that the PRESIDENT had never ordered him to use force or threats to obtain possession of the War Office. Mr. JOHNSON, however, irritated by STAN TON'S Contumacious refusal to yiold poszmoion, must have known that he could not lightly use such ex pressions, nor advise any subordinate of his to attempt forcible measures without producing serious results. On the other hand, it is likely enough that the soldier, annoyed and thwarted by STANTON'S determination to hold his grouad, should have fallen back on his profession and threatened to obtain vi et arnzis what he could not get by parley. A significant fact was mentioned a day or two since which serves to show how strong is the Radical dis like to Mr. JOHNSON, and at the sane time how apprehensive is the party of his re-election. A bill has been introduced into Congress providing that no President nor Vice-President shall be eligible for re-election, being manifestly directed against almost the only President of late years who has throughout maintained his indifference to a further lease of power. The importance of an extensive system of irriga tion in India is admitted on all hands, but, at the same time, whenever the subject comes under dis cussion there are always objections raised to the manner of carrying it out. Private members are usually very ready to criticise particular methods of raising money or of applying it to the given purpose, but the fault of Governments is generally that of doing too little. In the Indian department, more perhaps than in any other, we reap the disad vantage of frequent changes of administration. First w e had for many years at the head of the Board of Control Lord HALIFAX, then Sir CHARLES WOOD, whose main object seemed to be to hinder all im provement and retard every possible reform. Then came Lord STANLEY, whose brief tenure of office was engrossed by the transfer of authority from the East India Company to the Crown. After him came Sir CHARLES WOOD again, then others in quick succession, Lord CRANBORNE and Sir STAF FORD NORTIICOTE. Supposing that any one of these statesmen were strongly in favour of irrigation, what chance would there be that their successors would carryttout their views ? Such drawbacks are of course in a great measure unavoidable, but we should like to see a little more energy and interest in the internal affairs of India shown by our legis lators. The supineness which seems inseparable from Anglo-Indian life pervades the atmo sphere of Downing-street and the House of Commons when Indian affairs are concerned, and though the recent transactions of the Indian Govern ment with the Irrigation Companies called loudly for inquiry very little attention was paid to them. We must have a change for the better in regard to matters of such interest, and we hope the new Par: liament will look after them a little more closely than the old. TIIE LEADER supplied us on Tuesday with inte resting morsels of information about Boucicault, Patti, Gonnod, Dord, and George Eliot, about the Oak, L'Abime, and the Broadway, the source.of which, through pure inadvertence, remained, we regret to find, unacknow ledged. Already we have ourselves taken occasion more than once to direct attention to the great improvement evidenced of late in our young but vigorous weekly con temporary of London and Liverpool, and we have plea sure, therefore, while now making the amende fur an acci dental oversight, to endorse our previous words of com mendation. Thirteen of the finest wooden ships in the navy have been sold for £so,ooo—about a sixteenth cf their original cost.: Proceedings have been commenced in the Court of Queen's Bench to compel the Bishop of London to pro secute for heresy the Rev. Mr. Bennett, vicar of Frome, one of the principal of the ritualist clergy. Mr. Bennett has published some essays avowing belief in the Real Presence. In consequence of the ritualistic practices of St. Mark's Church, Kenningt)n, and public avowal by the incumbent of his belief in certain doctrines of the Catholic religion, the committee of the Licensed Victuallers' School have withdrawn the children—nearly 200 in number— froni that churah. LATEST INTELL IGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE WAR IN ABYSSINIA. Sir Stafford Northcote has received the three fol lowing telegrams from Sir Robert Napier : 1. Without date.—" Head-quarters and Ist Bri gade crossing Takazze, and ascend to the plain of Wadela, 10,600 ft. Theodore on the Bashilo. Pri soners well. Troops well." 2. Dated Camp Dildee, March 25.—" Head quarters reach Enade (?) to-morrow, and Mochet 27th. All going on well. News from prisoners. Rassam released from chains and treated civilly." 3. Dated April I.—" Head-quarters and Ist Bri gade at Abdicorn, 10 miles from the Jidda River ; 2d Brigade 12 miles in rear, with elephant batte ries. Will concentrate at Sindiay, on left bank of the Jidda, while Theodore's road across is being re paired. Distance from the river Bastille., 20 miles ; from Magdala, 30 miles. Latest news from pri soners 25th of March ; all well. Troops all well." HUNGARY. BUDA, April 22. The Empress of Austria gave birth to a Princess at five o'clock this morning. Her Majesty is doing well. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, April 22. Baron Meysenburg will not leave here for Rome on an extraordinary mission relative to the Concordat before the Emperor has sanctioned the laws in reference to the religious question passed by the Reichsrath. It is believed in official quarters that the ques tion of the reorganisation of the army will he settled in a manner favourable to the unity of the army. The Anglo-Austrian treaty of commerce was signed to-day. . _ It is stated that Count Stackelberg, the Rus sian Minister at Vienna, will replace Baron Budberg at Paris, and himself be succeeded by Count Orloff or Baron Knoring• The Wanderer asserts that apprehensions are en tertained of an invasion of the Turkish Archipelago by the Greek party of action, and alleges that to be the reason why the French and S wedish squad rons are cruising in those waters. A meeting of the members of the Left was held yesterday to discuss the financial question. The Ministers, Dr. Brestel and Dr. Berger, were present. The majority of the members spoke in favour of covering the deficit by the imposition of special taxes on the wealthier classes. Dr. Brestel, the Minister of Finance, declared himself ready to accept any modification of his scheme which might be agreed upon by the House, excepting only a decla ration of national bankruptcy. Dr. Berger hinted that the Cabinet would resign should a pro posal to declare a national bankruptcy be adopted by the m ajority. TURIN", April 22, Morning. The marriage contract between Prince Humbert and the Princess Margherita of Genoa was signed yesterday. The contract was witnessed by the French, Prussian, and Saxon Ministers. Prince Napoleon will not be present at the Florence fetes. PLYMOUTH, April 22. The Spanish storeship San Francisco de Borga, Captain Jandine, from Cadiz and Ferrol with quicksilver for London, put in here this morning leaky. The leak will be stopped by her own arti sans, and she will then proceed on her voyage. FRANCE. ROCRSE, April 21.—T 1 closed as follows : 4j per Gent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 69 25 Credit Mobilier End of month 221 25 Credit Fonder 1468 75 End of month,. .ree o'clock.—The market Bank Shares Ital'an Loan — End of month — Mexican Loan „ l9 50 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes „ 37 25 Homo Debt — Deferred — RAILWAYS. Account Orleans ................................ B62k Northern ............................. Lyons and. Mediterranean Southern..... Western Eastern • ......................... Sardinian .................................... 42} Austrian ....................................... 55 - 2 i Lombard ....................................... 363 North of Spain 7O Saragossa Roman WHA7 RI7UALISTS THINK OF THE IRISH CiIURCH. In an article entitled " The Premier's Canard," which severely rates Mr. Disraeli for his attempt to get up an electioneering "No Popery" cry, the Church 7 ivies thus speaks of the Irish Chlirch : " As to the Irish Church, we haft) expressed our opinion of its spiritual demerits often enough in our columns. And we cannot see why, if the Scriptural mode of dealing with communions which have failed to do their work were enforced, its candle stick should not at once be removed. But its merely legal position is strong enough, and we more than doubt whether its disestablishment would remedy, or even abate a single Irish grievance. Moreover, the Irish Church is of great use to us Catholics. It is the drunken Helot whom we hold up as a warn ing. See, we say, what mere Protestantism, fettered with the chains of Episcopal succession and ancient liturgical forms, comes to. Protestantism free and unattached, and not tied to any Catholic usage, may do some good in its way, but the Irish Church is an abject and disgraceful failure. Its clergy do not work, do not think, do not write, do not keep their flocks from rushing off into the wildest Dissent, and that is what the Church of England would be come if the Puritans were to get the supremacy which they desire. Whereas, if the Irish Church were disestablished, and the clergy had to fall back on the voluntry principle, it is just barely possible that they might begin to earn their bread honestly by doing a fair day's work for their wages, athing certainly not attempted now by out of the two thousand who occupy the Irish Clergy List." fifty ecclesiastics General Sir James Simpson, who for a time held the chief command in the Crimea, died on Satur day. The reported release of Colonel Nagle, one of the Jacknell prisoners, is devoid of foundation. He is to be put upon his trial for the third time, after twelve months' incarceration. Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P. for Lambeth, whose election on the last occasion cost him the moderate sum of £l,lOO, probably the smallest sum that ever won a metropolitan borough, has announced his in tention to do without committee-rooms, public houses, and the rest of the stock election machinery. He declares that he cannot afford to pay even £l,lOO for his seat again. In the House of Commons, on Monday night, Mr. Fawcett moved that a vote of £5,600, asked for the purpose of maintaining St. James's Palace, be refused, as the queen did not now reside there. The motion was negatived. The Rev. T. Nash, curate of Sible Hedingbam, Essex, has been found dead in a ditch near the village. A nugget of gold, weighing eighty pounds, and estimated to contain 1,000 ounces of pure gold, has just been discovered near Maryborough, Queensland. It is thought that there are large deposits in the neighbourhood. The Duke of Edinburgh returned to Sydney on the 2d ult., from a very short visit to Queensland. His Royal Highness next proceeded to New Zealand, where extensiye arrangements hays been made for his reception, CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY, April 21. The "black spots" go on increasing. The Prussian papers which reach us are beginning to adopt a very unsatisfactory tone with regard to the relations between the two countries. The Ereuz Zeitung explains the secret of the Danish Minister of War's visit here, by declaring that it was connected with a large order for Remington rifles, and that the officers who attended bim stopped on their way through Hanover and told them that better times were:in store for them. The Correspondance Bullier publishes a letter from Berlin which states that " the con fidence in the durable maintenance of peace has not been strengthened by recent events. It is no great consolation for us to read in the French journals that the war against us is only adjourned, and that if it is postponed till next winter it is because Marshal Niel has always been a partisan of a winter campaign." There have been rumours to the effect that the Prussian Government has made representations to ours respecting the Hanoverian officers who have taken re fuge in France, but the semi-official Etendarcl denies this. A story, for which there is better foundation, is told to the effect that there has been something like a quarrel between M. Rouher and Marshal Niel, respecting the enormous war budget. The Minister of War justified it, saying, with some warmth : " There is at Berlin a man, enjoying the esteem of the country and the confidence of the King, who occupies himself only in studying upon the map the road to Paris." The Minister of State replied : " There is also at Paris a man who, by his talents and the glorious reminiscences of his career, particularly at Sol ferino, has acquired general respect and the confidence of the Emperor, and who, excited by patriotism, is for ever studying the shortest route to Berlin." Letters from Vienna, though pacific, speak of dis quietude which is likely to produce unfavourable results. It is believed that Napoleon, in spite of the representations of the Austrian Government that Austria must attend solely to her own affairs, relies upon the support of Francis Joseph. This belief makes the Viennese angry, since, say they, it shews that Napoleon has no considera tion for Austria and the difficulties by which she is surrounded in her present work of reorganisation. It is, therefore, with great dissatisfaction that the subjects of Francis Joseph hear that he and the Empress will, as soon as possible after the recovery of the latter, go to Paris and return the Salzburg visit. Another matter which the Prussians lay stress upon is the recent proposal for a disarmament made by some of our semi-official journals. It is remarked at Berlin that France has armed far beyond any other nation, and is still arming ; and it is, therefore, absurd for her to speak of disarmament as though it rested with other nations to take the first step. The Constitutionnel contains a long account of the arrangements which have been made for giving our troops experience in camp. The semi-official journal says: "The new armament ( the Chassepot ) necessitating new manoeuvres, it has been necessary to establish upon several points of territory camps where the army can rapidly adapt itself to the changes of tactics which we have been compelled to adopt." The largest camp will be at Chalons. The battalions of two corps d'armee will succeed each other there. There are to be sham fights. Every general will have in turn to attack some other general. Spectators will have an opportunity. , of seeing that France has made a good purchase in her new' rifles, for they will be tried against dummy soldiers. ThiS year there will be a camp close to Paris, at St. Maur, and one of the chief attractions to visitors will be the Turcosi who will perform their national dance every evening. The Prince Imperial has returned to PariS "in perfec health," the Government organs tell us. Prince Napoleon has arrived at Turin; so has the Prince of Prussia; and thq Paris journals point out that Sadowa, is more thought of than Solferino, for the Italian cities through which the German prince passed were illuminated, while no sucli, honour was paid to the French Prince. This is scarcely fair. Prince Napoleon is a frequent visitor to Italy, being the King's son-in-law, whereas this is, I believe, the first time that Prince William has been in the country. We learn that Count Stackelberg„ now Russian Minister at Vienna, is to succeed Baron Budberg as Russian Minister at Paris. The conduct of the latter, i n challenging Baron Meyendorff, is said to have given the Czar much satisfaction. If so, how comes it to pass that Baron Budberg's formal resignation has been actually accepted? • The Exhibition is disappearing very slowly, for grea; care is being taken to remove the various parts so that they may not be injured. With equal slowness the new opera-house is approaching completion. This magnificent building will not be completed for eighteen months or two years. Lamartine is in very bad health, and he is no longer able to write. . H'e has one of his young relatives living with him, and she acts as his amanuensis. The usual terrible sequence of famine has appeared in Algeria. Between January 1 and April 9, 1,089 beggar were found dead of typhus in one town. The deaths are very numerous in other places. THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND. -~ - (FRO3I OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, TUESDAY. The morning, after another night of rain, the sky again, cleared up, and towards mid-day, when his Royal High , ne ss the Prince o f Wales was to receive his de g ree of LL.D. at the hands of the university, and to uncover tI4 statue of Burke in front of old Trinity, the sun shone out bright and warm, though still with a tendency to showei ?Jost of the flags, saturated with rain, and not a few of the decorations destroyed by a stiff wind, had been removed, so that the leading streets did not present the gay aspect they bad during the previous week. The crowds, too, were no t quite so great along the line of the royal route, though at the College itself, and within view of the statue, side paths, streets, platforms, windows, and ever y point from which the unveiling could be seen were one dense, living mass of people, enthusiastic in their loyalty, and glorying in the royal recognition of a name and a me n of whom Irishmen u n i versa lly h ave ever y reason to feel proud. In the university itself every preparation had been made for the suitable reception of the royal and viceregal party, and at every window and niche appeared the students in their caps and gowns, the platform of t h e previous week having been removed. The Examination Hall was crowded With a select and fashion=- . able assemblage, and outside every inch of space was crowded by the students and the subscribers to the Burke Statue Fund. At two o'clock the royal cortege arrived amid the warmest greeting, at the chief entrance to the college, the Princess of Wales again receiving the lion's share of the ovation. I do not think it necessary to repeat myself as to the rejoicings; which were characterised by all th e exube ranee of those of the previous week. Nor do I enter into details of the conferring of the degree, or of the words employed in the inauguration. I shill only state that degrees of LL.D. were conferred on his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cam. bridge ; that the Comitia having been closed, the sight` Hon; Sir J. Napier, Bart., vice- c h ance ll or o f the uni versity, addressed the Prince, explaining to him th e o bj ec t for which his Royal Highness had been requested to honour the meeting with his presence; that the Lord Chief Justice, on the part of the subscribers to the statue, presented . the statue to the Provost, Fellows, and scholars of Trinity Col lege ; that the Provost returned thanks on behalf of the university ; that a procession was formed to conduct their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the royal and viceregal party to the platform adjoining the statue ; that the statue was then formally handed over to the college authorities by the Lord Chief Justice on the part of the subscribers ; and that, thereupon, his Royal Highness the Pi ince of Wales, at the request of the Provost, and during a blink of sunshine, amid smart showers which were so ashamed of themselves as to disappear almost as soon as they came, proceeded to unveil the statue—an act performed with princely grace and dignity—and amid the most rapturous plaudits, with waving of hats and hand kerchiefs of the assembled thousands. The ceremony of the unveiling over, the royal and viceregal party proceeded to visit the Royal Irish Ica,demy in Dawson-street. Thence they passed over to the Royal Dublin Society's Spring Cdttle Show in Kil dare-street, where an immense crowd had assembled, and where a display of cattle and implements, greatly in excess in number and quality of any previous year, were sub mitted to royal inspection and review. The show, as I intimated to you in a previous letter, is in the exten sive park and courtyard attached to Leinster House. It will be open for three days, of which this is the first. The front entrance is to-day most elaborately deco. rated, and presents a very fine effect, while inside and throughout the various departments the greatest anima tion prevails. The royal party, who were two hours later in leaving the Castle, and hence two hours later in leaving the College and Academy, than was originally designed, were received with the utmost enthusiasm, and, in com pany with th e o ffi c ers of the society, they passed through the principal halls and galleries, surveying the finest cattle and the most perfect agricultural implements that the elreen Isle or its stock-breeders and artisans can produce. lam not "at home "in a cattle show. I plead igno• ranee as to the special features of " blood and culture " in bulls, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, or poultry. I have not :ven learned the accredited nomenclature of the farm eard, and I am satisfied I should be certain to blunder if I vied to single out as worthy of first prizes or of particular eerriniendation some of the finer-looking animals among the shorth orns the Ayrshires, the Devons, the Alderneys, ,r the v ar i ous other kinds of fat cattle. Other pens than mine will do these justice, and the awards of the judges, which you will have in good tone, will be infinitely more likely to be correct than any judgment I could express or form. I shall only say that the show is on all hands regarded as of the very highest crass in every department, and that the appearance of the royal and viceregal party lends to it an attraction and an enthusiasm greatly in excess of all previous displays. I have only time to add that to-night his Royal High ness and other distinguished visitors will be entertained at a conversazione in the Council Chamber of the society, and that the invitations issued to meet his Royal High. ness are most numerous. To-morrow night the great citizens' ball comes off. It will be a brilliant affair. THE FENIAN TRIALS AT THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. -THIS DAY. When this morning, for the third time, the Fenian prisoners William Desmond, Timothy Desmond, Nicholas English, John O'Keefe, Michael Barrett, and Ann Justice were placed at the dock of the Central Criminal Court, it was observable that the excitement and anxiety incidental to the first two days of the trial had severely told upon them. The appearance of the woman Justice was less changed than that of her companions, owing, perhaps, to the fact that the evidence adduced had not told so directly against her. The few moments that intervened between their coming into the dock and the arrival of the judges was occupied by the prisoners in communication with their attorneys and counsel. The first witness called was Thomas Rees Clifford, s warder in the House of Detention, who resided at the time of the explosion in Corporation-lane. On the after noon of that day, looking from the window of his house. he observed three men with a truck leaving the prison. As the men passed they looked back towards the prison. Two were drawing the truck in the road, and one man was walking on the pavement. (The prisoners being called npor to stand up, the witness gave it as his belief that the mei with the truck were Timothy Desmond and English. Th, third man was Allen, who had been arrested and die charged). Hannah Gillis, going through Woodgate-street, on the night before the explosion, at about ten o'clock, saw the prisoner O'Keefe. Mr. Montague Williams was about to cross-examine the witness, when the Lord Chief Justice intimated that it would be only a waste of time, as the evidence was not of the slightest value. Objection was taken by Mr. Baker Greene to the examination of a warder named Richard Maskell, who was in charge of the prisoners, amongst whom was Burke, in the House of Detention during the time they were exercising on the 12th of December, as what was done in the absence of the accused could not be used as evidence against them. The objection being overruled, the witness proceeded to State that on the day in question the prisoner Burke was in one of the exercising grounds of the prison, and the prisoner Casey was in the adjoining ground. There were two rings of prisoners, and Burke was in'the outer, one, and falling out of the rings he leaned against the wall, at as great a distance as he could get from the spot where the explosion took place 'the following day. Burke took off his boot and wiped his foot with his hand, looking at the houses in Corporation-lane. He then put on his boot, rejoined the ring, and proceeded with the other prisoners. This was two or three minutes past four. Having seen the effects of the explosion next day, the wit ness said none of the debris reached within five yards of the spot where Burke leaned against the wall. The next evidence was that of a little boy, named 'Walter Holgate, who, the day before the explosion, wa s running round the buildings near the prison ; and saw a truck in the road and a barrel on the pavement, and pointed it out to Charles Moseley; a companion. George Rayner, a constable on duty inside the House of Detention on the 13th December, saw Ann Justice at twenty minutes past twelve. She applied to see Casey. She stated she was his aunt, to Worth, one of the warders. Having been admitted, she remained in the prison till twenty-five minutes to one. Leaving the prison she went to a beershop opposite and spoke to a person named Allen. At one o'clock a woman named Parry, representing herself to be Burke's sister, was admitted. Witness followed her when she left, but eventually missed her, as she was in a cab. Coming - back by Short's -buildin gs,witness saw Ann Justice. He also observed her at a later period with Timothy Des mond, at the public-house referred to above. This was about twenty minutes past three. They were joined by Allen and a man not in custody. Allen, leaving the other, entered into conversation with Ann Justice, and subse quently Timothy Desmond and the unknown man walked towards Corporation -lane. This was shortly before four. When the explosion took place witness was blown down. Getting out of the prison, he and an officer named Sutton went to St. James's -walk, and there saw Justice and Allen. Knocking down the latter, he took him into custody. Justice was also arrested. Saw Timothy Desmond running from Short's -buildings. He was taken into custody by Sutton. The prisoners were taken into the prison. In the scuff% which ensued the hats of Timothy Desmond and of Allen were knocked off and picked up by a warder. When the prisoners were removed the next morning Timothy Desmond had on a white billycock hat. By Mr. Straight (who appeared for Timothy Desmond): When he first saw Timothy Desmond he thought he was the worse for liquor. William Mired Worth, warder at the House of Deten tion, passed Ann Justice into the prison as deposed to by the former witness. She was seen by him outside the prison when he went off duty at half-past two, and when he returned at ten minutes past three. She was speaking to Allen. Also saw Timothy Desmond between half-past three and a quarter to four. He joined Justice and Allen, who were standing at the Prince of Wales beershop. They then separated, and the explosion took place a quarter of an hour afterwards. Justice and Allen then ran up St. Ja7mes's-walk. They and Timothy Desmond were captured. Thomas Knowles, a constable on duty at the House a Detention, gave evidence of the woman Parry's visit to Burke on the 13th December. She came and left in a cab. John Goldsmith, another constable, saw Justice, Timothy Desmond, Allen, and a man not in custody in company in the immediate vicinity of the prison on the day of the explosion. Ambrose Sutton, the police-constable who captured Timothy Desmond, was the next witness examined. When the explosion. took place he was thrown down, but, imme diately getting up, he saw Justice and Allen running. They were arrested. Saw Timothy Desmond also running away from the prison, in the direction of Clerkenwell green. Seized him, and conveyed- him into the prison. To the best of his belief had seen O'Keefe in the neigh bourhood the same afternoon. To the Court the witness stated that he would not posi tively swear that. he saw O'Keefe. Desmond and Justice must have seen witness watching them. Isaac Allen, who had come up to the cattle show from Reading on the 13th December, was in . Corporation - lane, when he saw a barrel removed from a truck and placed against the wall of the prison. It was then covered with a cloth, the truck being wheeled away. Barrett was one of the men who assisted in getting the barrel out of the truck. William Desmond was like one of those men he saw standing in the passage of a court close by, but could not swear to him. The explosion took place two minutes after witness passed the spot. The late Lord Chief Baron, Sir Frederick Pollock, occu pied a seat on the bench during a portion of the morning. Henry Bird, a dairyman, was serving milk in Corpora tion-lane on the 13th December, at about a quarter to four, when he observed a truck and three men with it. When I first saw it, it was being wheeled along from the direction of Bowling Green-lane. Two of the men were drawing the truck, and one was walking by the side. In Corporation-lane the men turned the truck round and ran it back into the gutter. The barrel then fell out. One of the men spoke in Irish, as witness supposed, and the truck was taken away. Only one man went back with the truck, another man wisted the barrel round and threw a covering over it. Two men were present at the time. They then moved away. The next thing witness saw was a gentleman, in appearance, standing on the same side as the prison wall. When he passed witness he crossed the road. He was not one of the three men. When the man went up by the barrel he proceeded :to examine the head of it, as if he were looking for a direction. He took a fusee or a match from his pocket and applied it to the head of the barrel. Having got it lighted he pulled the tarpaulin over it and went into the passage. After serving two customers witness came again into Corporation-lane, and spoke to a police constable, named Moriarty. When he got into Coburgh-street the explosion took place, scarcely a minute having elapsed since he had spoken to Moriarty. Was sure that Barrett was the man that walked to the barrel and applied the fuse. At that time he was dressed in a long brown coat, and wore a high hat. When he went to identify him at Millbank his whiskers were off. On the 13th December his whiskers were very long, and he bad a very high colour. When shown several prisoners at Millbank, witness at first thought another man was the one who had fired the barrel, but when he saw his side face he was convinced that Barrett was the man. Was only able to see his side face on the afternoon of the explosion. Believed that Timothy Desmond was one of the men seen with the truck. By Mr. Straight—When at the House of Detention the day after the explosion he had said he could not identify Timothy Desmond, as he did not feel confidence in him self. When before the coroner he did not swear to any of the men. RUSSIAN REWARDS TO CIRCUS RIDERS.—The extravagance of the Russian public in loading their fa vourites, such as the Lucca, the danseuse Granzoff, Madame Volum and other actresses and actors, with magnificent presents, is well known, and that at a time when so many thousands around are suffering the extremities of famine, and when all classes are complaining of straitened cir cumstances and the Res angusta domi. Now, in the ab sence of greater stars (the theatres being closed in Lent), the riders at Hinne's Circus receive large silver tankards as rewards for leaping through a hoop ; and, when re called by the plaudits of the multitude, which here, on the banks of the frozen Neva, as erst by the sunny shore of the yellow Tiber, asks only forpanon et Circenses, bound back into the sawdust of the arena, and there stand bowing and smirking in their flesh-coloured tights, and gracefully waving their costly trophies to the enraptured adieu. Ton ci r , . T ar . HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, April 21. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louise, drove in the grounds this morning. Prince and Princess Christian, and Princess Beatrice, walked in the grounds, and Prince Leo pold drove out. NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE• The Lyra screw sloop, Captain Parr, was paid off at Portsmouth yesterday, and placed in the 3d Division of the Steam Reserve at that port. The troopship Orontes was placed in No. 8 dock at Portsmouth yesterday for repairs before being put in commission for further troop service. The Liffey screw frigate, 31, Captain John 0. Johnson, arrived and anchored at Spithead yesterday from Plymouth, exchanging salutes with the Vic tory, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley. In consequence of the severe gale of wind still continuing to blow, the Bellerophon and Urgent have remained at their anchorages at Portsmouth, and the authorities have not attempted to remove the military invalids from the Hotspur. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty:—Hugh B. Rooper, midshipman, to the Prince Consort ; E. D. A. Ommaney, shipman, to the Royal Oak; Ernest Duncombe, midshipman, to the Octavia ; Frederick Elton, assistant clerk, to the Pallas ; John Hill and James A. Shawyer, engineers to the Avon ; Edward Ingle dew and Thomas Spence, engineers, to the Philo mei ; W. P. Guyer, engineer, to the Dwarf ; James Grant, Ist class assistant engineer, to the Avon ; Michael J. Shannon, lst class assistant engineer, to the Philomel ; and Benjamin Taylor and Anthony M. Brumage, Ist class assistant engineer, to the Dwarf. EDMUND BURKE. " We hear him in conversation at the club, with Johnson and Goldsmith, and Reynolds and Wynd ham, winding into his subject like a serpent, as Goldsmith said of him ; bidding some too grave and anxious gentleman to 'live pleasant;' fascinating the great-hearted Johnson with ' his knowledge, his genius, his diffusion and affluence of conversation,' and making him cry, 'Sir, that fellow calls forth all my powers.' We see him in the House of Commons, in his tight brown coat, with his spectacles and a little bob-wig with curls, beginning his oration with folded arms and an air of humility, and gradually rising to thunderous denunciations of the noble lord in the blue ribbon ; or later on, of those vain petulant upstarts in a neighbourhood count* who were wickedly proscribing the sacred ministers of religion, prosecuting their virtuous and innocent Sovereign, and covering with humiliation the august daughter of the Camaro. We may follow him from the heat and vio lence of the House, where drunken lordlings and squires derided the greatest man of their time, down to the calm shades of Beaconsfield where he would with his own hands give food to a starving beggar, or medicine to a peasant sick of the ague ; where we would talk of the weather, the turnips, and the hay with the team men and the farm bailiff ; and where, in the evening stillness, he would pace the walk under the trees, and reflect on the state of Europe and the distrac tions of his country. While Fox was squandering tens of thousands at the gambling- table, we may watch Burke supporting Barry for several years at Rome ; anxiously pressi n g his last half-guinea upon the friend less Emin ; rescuing Crabbe, though a perfect stranger to him, from a debtors' prison, and main taining him in his own house until a provision was found for him ; and on every occasion ready to extend not only sympathy, but a share of his slender purse, wherever he found penniless genius or worth. And, finally, we may look with tragic emotion on the pathos of that crowning scene which left the remnant of the old man's days so desolate and void." —John Morley. GUSTAVE DtmE.—Their Royal Highnesses tho Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Teck honoured the Exhibition of Gustave Dore's Paintings at the Egyptian Hall with their presence yesterday. * The - Arehbishop of Westminster contradicts tho statement which appeared in the Manchester Examiner that the Pope had thanked Mr. Gladstone for his attitude on the Irish Church question. The Standard says Viscount Ingestre, formerly M P. for South Staffordshire, will be brought forward as the Conservative candidate for Stafford. The Cork Examiner says that the subscription to the fund raised for the wife of Captain Mackay amount° to £2OO. The Army and Navy Gazette is of opinion that by this time the Abyssinian expedition must be over, and Sir R. Napier must either have been repulsed or taken Mag dala or the captives, or both. A correspondent of the Freeman calls attention to the subjects which are proposed for discussion at the May meetings about to be held in Dublin, as announced is the placards and advertisements. As these meetings are under the auspices and are attended by the highest digai" taries of the Establishment, it is not very remarkable that the Irish people should feel aggrieved at being obliged to pay towards the support of a system which at ever/ opportunity wounds their feelings on the most sensitive points. The subjects which they propose to discuss are the following: Is not the Pope Antichrist ? and Rome the Babylon of the Apocalypse ? 2. Is not the Pope the ma° of sin, and Rome the mother of harlots ? 3. Has not tb° Church of Rome borrowed the celibacy of her religious orders from Paganism ? 4. Romanism is only Paganism baptised. 5• The Papacy came hot from hell, and its Pro" sence makes a hell upon earth. 6. Roman Catholics yr. affectionately requested to attend. A curious case, which has been talked about fog some time, was opened on Monday before Vice-Chancello r Gifford. The plaintiff is an aged widow lady named Lyon , who seeks to recover money and securities to the value of £60,000, which she alleges were improperly obtained froul her by the defendant, Mr. Douglas Home, the well-known spiritualist. Mrs. Lyon alleges that in 1866 she became to' painted with soma spiritualists, who lent her books 00 spiritualism, and directed her attention to the great , medium, Mr. Home, who had just o p ene d an "Ath enae um' at Sloane-street for the encouragement of the belief. 0° October 3, 1866, she went to 72, Sloane-street, where the 4.thenteum was, and where Mr. Home resided. Havleg . , made known the object o f h er v i s it , M r. H ome, by t h e aid of a table, set the spirits of the other world in motion, en d the consequence was that Mrs. Lyon received some corn' forting assurances, for which she proposed to reward O r ' Home by a handsome subscription ; but having no chequ e , book with her she p os t ponel the donation till a second interview, when she was again much cheered by the result of Mr. Home's inquiries. These were in regard to he r husband, who had died some years before, and they W el° to have been worth to Mr. Home, or his Athenaeum, the sums of £3O and £5O. At a third interview between Home and the plaintiff at the plaintiff's house, the spirit , with Home's assistance, communicated the tidings, love Daniel," meaning presumably Mr. Home; "he iB to bo your son; he is my son—therefore yours." I li• table then ecstatically kicked up its legs. The defendaull Home, further informed her that it was the will of th e spirit that she s h ou ld a d op t hi m as h er son, that a frien d of Home's named Hall should be sent for, and that sb e should produce stock receipts for the sum of about £24,000• Under the influence, as Mrs. Lyon alleges, of Home's sP li ritual powers and ascendancy, she wen t, on th e 10th of October, 1866, to the Bank of England, and there trace" ferred the sum of £24,000 stock to Home. Shortly after this Home, at another interview, assured her that it Ifi . `,l the spirit's will th a t she s h ou ld d estroy h er ex i s ti n g 'Wil l and make another will bequeathing everything she pos sessed to Home, and that a Dr. Hawksley and a Mr. Ru der were to be the attesti ng witnesses. The will to this effe ct was soon afterwards prepared for the defendant by W it ' c i Martin Wilkinson, a solicitor of Li nco l n ' s -i nn -fi e lds, 3° was executed by the plaintiff, and attested by Mr. Wa it ' son and Mr. H a ll. 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