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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 109th appearance here), Mr. Billington, Mr. H. Neville, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. G. Belmore. Mr. C. J. Smith, and Mr. Benjamin We nter; Miss Carlotta Leclercq (her 109th appearance), Mrs. &lfred Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Lewis ; dm. Comm'ence at 7. QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, PAUL PRY. Mr. J. L. Toole. Followed by ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. After which will be produced OLIVER TWIST. Master D Iwkins (the A rtful 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. Doors open At Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Mlna.ger, Mr. W. H. Liston. Box-office open daily from Ten till Four. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN.—Elegantly AL repainted and redecorated.—Under the management of Miss Fanny Josephs.—New and Talented Company.—This Theltr3 IS NOW OPEN EVERY EVENING with Mr. H. T. Cravm's famous drama of THE POST-BOY; a now grand spectacular fairy extravaganza, entitled TUE WHITE FAWN, by Mr. F. C. Burnand; and an original Farce, by Mr. Wilmot Harri:ton, called SPECIAL PERFORMANCES. For particulars see Mlle. Box-office open daily from ten to five. BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES. TIIIS EVENING. - --- ---- THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN, DING DONG BELLES. THIS EVENING. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. ELECTRIC SPARKS. THIS EVENING. • THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. YAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. A tumult of applause nightly greets the Spanish lady artiste LA PEREIRA in her terrific flights from the Lofty Trapeze—pronounced by the whole of the Press to be the most marvellous achievement yet attempted by any femi nine performer. _ _ . "Mdlle. Pereira's performances upon the lofty trapeze are not t' be surpassed for elegance and agility. Nothing more recklessly daring, or, we are bound to add, more easy and elegant in their style of performance than these feats have been witnessed in London within our memory."— Morning Post, April 14. M. AGOUSTE, the Champion Equilibrist of the World, in his extraordinary act of Equilibrism. In addition to the above attractions LES ECHASSE, and the wonderful SPANISH TROUPE, Every Evening. Open at half-past i ; commence at 8 Morning per formances, Wednesday and Saturday, at half-past 2. Children under ten half-price to Morning performance only. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole I esseo and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborongh. 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. 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A few months back and the prophecy that sue% would havo been the case would have been received with incredulity ; but although the despondency and alarm which then chequered all our feelings with respect to Dr. LIVINGSTONE'S expedition has happily been removed, the interest in his proceedings has been, if possible, heightened by it. Sir RODERICK MURCHISON, who presided over the meeting, must have especially rejoiced on the auspicious occasion. He has throughout kept up his hopes for the safety of his old friend and associate, but the certainty that he is alive and prospering in his toilsome and dangerous expedition is far more satisfactory than the best-founded belief. In opening the proceedings, Sir R. Mutt CHISON congratulated the society on the success of the Abyssinian expedition, as well as on the safety of Dr. LIVINGSTONE, and he expressed an earnest hope that the illustrious traveller would soon bring his illustrious labours to a happy end. The Secretary then proceeded to read a letter from Dr. LIVINGSTONE, dated Bemba, February 2, 1867. It bad been sent by a party of black Arab slave traders from Bagamayo, near Zanzibar, who had penetrated for the first time to Zemba, coming by A shorter way than the Europeans. These traders at first refused to stay more than half a day, and con sequently Dr. LIVINGSTONE was compelled to hurry over his despatch to Lord CLARENDON, but he sub sequently persuaded them to wait an hour or two more, which has enabled him to give a somewhat fuller account of his proceedings. He could not, he says, have gone round the northern end of Lake Nyassa, because the Johanna men would have fled at the first sight of danger, as in fact they did fly on hearing a report of the acts of the Mazitu at the southern extremity. Had he got them past the lake he believes they might have been faithful to him, but he did not much deplore their loss, as they were inveterate thieves. Of course he was un aware of the consternation the wretched MOOSA and his crew had occasioned among his friends, and indeed throughout all England, by their fabrica tions. We find by letters of a later date from Dr. KIRK that the Sultan of Johanna has been ad dressedtlia t ty he respecting the conduct of these men, and will probably be punished for it. The intense fear of the tribes of one another has been one of Dr. LiviNGSTONE'S chief difficulties throughout. Thus, when he left the shores of the lake he endeavoured to ascend Kirk's Range, but the people below wore so much afraid of those above that it was a long while before he could get his loads carried up. Another obstacle is the fear of all connected with the slave trade for the name of anything English. Dr. LIVINGSTONE intended to cross at the middle of the lake, but all the Arabs at the crossing station fled as soon as they heard that the English were coming, and the owners of two dhows on the lake kept them out of sight for fear they should be burnt as slavers. We have to thank this fear for some of the delay in hearing from the travellers. He had written some letters in hopes of meeting with an Arab slave trader, but they all" skedaddled" as soon as they heard that the English were coining. We get this letter at last through a party of slave traders whom LIVINGSTONE had perhaps encoun tered accidentally. Dr. LIVINGSTONE gives an interesting account of his adventures, and adds some information re specting the people, which shows they are not all so degraded and ignorant as was believed. Some of their towns are of considerable eaten;:--the town of Mataka, about 50 miles from Lake Nyassa, containing 1,000 houses. Mataka, the chief after whom it is called, is the most powerful chief in the country, and evidently a man of some intelli gence and character. He wished to be shown how to make use of his cattle in agriculture, and was anxious that :some of the freed African boys who followed Dr. LIVINGSTONE, and who had been educated at a school in Bombay, should remain with him, but they would not do so. Dr. LIVINGSTONE promised to get for him some other boys acquainted with Indian agriculture; some of MA TAKA's people having, without his knowledge, com mitted some acts of plunder, he ordered the captives and cattle to be sent back. I his was done before LIVINGSTONE'S arrival, and was his own independent act. The expedition having accidentally fallen in with the strangers, Dr. LIVINGSTONE heard of the affair, and MATAKA was mush pleased at his approval and the present he gave the chitf as a token of it. Dr. LIVINGSTONE remained in this part from the middle of July till the end of September, and thinks it the best point he has seen for an influential station. This is highly satisfactory, since the characterof MATAKA will be a great assist ance in establishing communications with it. Further to the north-west the travellers found a very hospitable people, though there are many vari ous tribes, and the Mazitu enjoy an unenviable re putation. It was the fear of the Mazitu that made the Johanna men take to flight. After crossing the Soangwa river, and emerging from the valley, the party ascended the plateau of Lobisa. The hills in one part rise 6,600 feet above the sea, and in these highlands no grass is to be found. The people are poor and wretched' having been decimated by the slave trade, and here the party suffered actual hunger, having to live chiefly on an indifferent kind of mushroom. Down on the banks of the Chambeze they came again to animal life and fared better. Dr. LIVINGSTONE has happily retained his health, but unfortunately the party have lost all their medicine. The news in this letter is not the latest we re ceive from the travellers, since Dr. KIRK, writing from Zanzibar, on the Ist of March, reports that LivixGsTon bad been at Ujiji in the middle of last October, where he would meet the agent in charge of stores and letters. Dr. KIRK had sent Sir SAMUEL. BIKER'S map, with an account of all he had ex plored, for Dr. LIVINGSTONE left England before Sir S. BAKER'S return. No doubt this information will afford valuable assistance to the enterprising and indefatigable traveller, whom we may hope to welcome home to his own country crowned with still greater laurels than he has yet won. The Customs Parliament in Prussia seems to have been very busy in arranging various matters, and some decisive progress has been made. The Navi gation Treaty between the Zollverein and Spain was laid before the House, and also the Commercial Treaty between the Zollverein and Austria, toge ther with the drafts of bills affecting modifications. It is stated by a semi-official organ that in conse quence of the refusal of the North German Parlia ment to pass the bill treating of the public debt of the Confederation, it will be necessary to reduce by three million thalers the naval estimates. The result will be very mortifying to the vanity of the Prussian Ministry, and it certainly interposes a check upon their grand scheme of constructing a navy. The failure, for the present, at any rate, is most com plete, and the more we dwell upon the several de tails of the matter, the more we can realise its force. The immediate discharge of one thousand sailors and marines will be rendered necessary in the first place, and also the disarmament of seven more ves sels that were to have been employed in cruising in the East Asiatic waters in the North Sea, for the reTcahle o f f ail t u h r e e e of m.v t e li t e te b A ill o w , i a l s l t l a ik f e r si o i m the Bay of Mexico, and ca use th e se purpose of guarding the Elbe, and also to relieve i o n t v h o er lv v e es t s h el e s. " ' entire stop page" of the harbour works of Kiel,which significant thing. The works in must be indefinitely postpone d , or at least for a considerable period, and no means will be left in the hands of Government for building ships. What with one thing and another Count BISMARCK has not been fortunate of late, and his disappointments have been for the most part sudden and unex- petted. This last affair is a serious thing in all re spects, for it directly militates against the favourite project of the Berlin Government. There is no occasion for Prussia to become a naval power, and therefore no actual blame attaches itself to the North German Parliament for the course they have taken, but at the same time one cannot help thinking of the bitterness of feeling it must have caused in certain quarters. For many reasons the North-German Parliament may be congratulated upon having shown proper spirit, and they have shown that they intend to judge for themselves, and not to be dic tated to. So far Count BISMARCK and his friend have been caught in a trap for a time. We heard of nothing but the great benefits that were sure to ensue from the establishment of this Parliament, and yet some of its first decisive steps have been to invalidate the policy of its promoters. It is diffi cult to say what next will be resolved upon by the Prussian Minister, for he is always and can generally hit upon very ready in reserve, some expedient or other [when affairs look the blackest ; but, be his future course what it may, the present discomfiture is certain and completr. It is folly to attempt too much, and in the instance of Prussian success has been as trying to her states men as misfortune and defeat have been to other politicians in different countries. The harbour and works of Kiel have been a project so near the hearts of the Prussian authorities that it seems scarcely probable that they will reconcile themselves with out an effort to their cessation. Were there any real reason to give for all this anxiety to set up a navy on a large scale we could afford to be sorry for the discomfiture that has befallen them, on na tional grounds, but as it is it is but the vain endeavour to appear something that nature has not intended them to be that has met with a check, and hence curiosity may employ itself in wondering what will be done. The best advice that can be given to the Berlin Government is to counsel them to give up their idle projects, and expend the time and money thereby saved in developing resources that are natural to the country. It is doubtful if disap pointed ambition and vain desires will conform to such wise but unpalateable projects, and it will be no real nage cause of wonderment if we find that the wily Count at the head of affairs has devised some ingenious scheme for gaining his end, and outwitting the Parliament, if he does not defy them openly. The Lea River Conservancy 13 a subject of great interest to the public, and all that relates to it is sure to be regarded with attention. The Select Committee, to which the bill to " make better pro vision for the preservation and improvement of the River Lea and its tributaries" was referred, has been holding its sittings for some days past. The purpose of this bill is of a comprehensive character. It is promoted by the Board of Works, and is also n accordam;e with the Royal Commissioners of TO LICENCED VICTUALLERS. ESTABLISHED 1842. wILLIAM HOLD ICH and CO., LICENCED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, No. 105, Fleet-street, corner of Farringdon-stroot ; and at No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common (Southern Branch). EXCELLENCE COMBINED WITH CHEAPNESS EMOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke • Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Out fitters for all classes. Every article the best of its kind inliaterial, Style, and Workmanship. 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The Conservancy Board is to give notice to parties who may c.,auso and suffer sewage to flow into the river to discon tinue such flow, and in the event of a refusal being met with, the Board are to have power to stop up the outlet of any drain, pipe, or channel, and may enter any lands and recover all expenses incurred by them in so doing. This is a very excellent arrangenseut, and if it only be properly enforced, a great advantage will be gained to the public health, besides other benefits being derived. Some discussion ensued as to the manner in which the Board should be constituted, and it is now pro posed that the number shall be thirt±en. These are to be from various quarters, the trustees of the River Lee are to elect five, and others are to be appointed by various companies, and the Lord Mayor, Metropolitan Board of Works, &c. These plans are good so fat as they go, and the board being constituted as it is proposed, will represent so many different interests that it can hardly failito repre sent the several interests concerned. Regarding the body who are to elect the trustees the bill is to be altered so as to extend the right to all " riparian freeholders of property of one hun dred a year in the way mentioned in the third clause of the bill ;" and these will ba entitled to vote in addition to those who may possess the right of vot- ing. So far as can be judged from these brief de tails it seems that progress has been made in the right direction in this matter ; and the knowledge that competent persons have taken the matter up will impart satisfaction to those who duly estimate the importance of the affair. The clause that places the river Lea under one Conservancy Board is an admirable one, and cannot fail to promote the de sired end of improvement. LATEST INTELL LGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) SPAIN. MADRID, April 29. The official Gazette of to-day publishes the ap pointment of General Pezula as Captain-General of Madrid, and that of the Marquis de Novalesches to the post of Captain-General of Catalonia. In to-day's sitting of the Cortes the debate on laud mortgage banks was continued. In the Senate the Budget came under discussion. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, April 30. It is asserted that negociations between the Western Powers and Austria have been renewed upon the initiative of the French Cabinet, for the purpose of sending a common maritime force into Greek waters. The object of this measure would be to put a stop to the communication carried on between the Greek harbours and Candia, and thus to cut off further supplies from the insurrection, The appointment of Count Vizthum, formerly Saxon Minister at the Court of St. James's, as Austrian Minister at Brussels, is confirmed. FRANCM. BOURSE, April 29.—Threk o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cont. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 69 43 Credit Mobilier '253 75 End of month 251 23 Crodit Foncier _1472 50 End of month — Bank Shares Fan Loan — End of month — 11.xican Loan 19 50 Do Bonds Spanish Threos 371 Homo Debt 33} Deferral s. Account Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 58 0,E RAILWAY 556 i Western Eastern .•••• Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragosia, Roman 43 40 365: 375 The Catholic Aged Poor Society held its annual dinner at the Albion on Monday evening last. The Archbishop of W,stininster, in proposing the health of her Majesty, said :—" I have the happiness to propose to you the health of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and I am confident that I shall interpret your thoughts and feelings, and that I shall represent the universal desire of the Catholics of England, in laying at her Majesty's feet an expression of our profound and heartfelt sympathy. Eight-and-forty hours ago we were all wounded by the tidings of a deed which I have no words to describe. It was an axiom among the Pagans, Maxima debetur puero reverentia."The grace and dignity of youth exacted from them a special reverence. In its presence immorality was abashed, and brutality held its hand, but we have been shocked and wounded in every manly sense by the assassination attempted against the son of our Queen —against a youth innocent of all offence, free from all the animosities and broils of political con tention, noble and generous in his bearing, and engaged in a public mission of royal benevolence to the people of Australia, and in the kindliest offices of charity to the national service in which he bears a part. This horrible and guilty deed has aroused, I am confident, in the heart of every Christian, of every man, and of every mother in her Majesty's dominion; a sorrow, an indignation, and a sym pathy, the expression of which, for the want of a more prompt and better opportunity, I desire on this occasion, in the name of the Catholics of England, most respectfully to lay at her Majesty's feet." The correspondent of a contemporary at Turin mentions an odd circumstance which took place at the ball given by the Philharmonic Society of Turin on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Humbert. During a polka the Princess of Piedmont's train caught in the spur of an officer of Lancers, and was torn to rags. Before the Princess had time to ap peal to one of her ladies, the Crown Prince of Prussia had produced a pretty little morocco itui, from which he extracted a small pair of scissors, and, kneeling down at the feet of the bride, skil fully cut away the wreck. He then rose, bowed profoundly, returned his necessaire to his pocket, and resumed his place by the King's side amidst thunders of applause. The correspondent, warm ing with his subject, goes on to say—" From that moment he was the hero of the evening. Every body acquainted with Italian character will at once understand the delight of all present at the readi ness, gallantry, and fertility of resource displayed by the Prince, in whose favour Turin society was always strongly prepossessed." A slight passage of arms took place on Tuesday night in the House of Lords between Lord Derby and Lori Granville which may afford useful matter for reflection both to statesmen and to sporting men. Lord Derby had alluded to his having receiv , :d in formation that a recent political meeting at Mr. Gladstone's private house ha I been attended by the Duke of Argyll and Lord Granville ; and the latter requested to know how Lord Derby had obt dued such information. Lord Granville said that during the meeting in question an individual, aipposed from his lurcher-like appearance to be either a Treasury runner or a Newmarket tout, had been observed amongst the shrubs opposite Mr. Glad stone's house, apparently intent upon noting down the names of those who entered, and observed that such illicit practices are not usually countenanced either by high-minded politicians or by honourable sportsmen. tORREsroNDENcE PROM. PARIS (nom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, April 29. News is scarce to-day. The semi-official journals still discuss King William's speech, and resolve to find in it nothing pacific. There have been rumours of interviews between the Prussian Minister and our Minister of Foreign Affairs, and it is assumed that they had an unfriendly import. But peace is in the ascendant to-day. I am told that the majority of the Council are very anxious that the Emperor should make a deci sive declaration during his approaching visit to Orleans ; and I am even assured that the Emperor has promised to do so, but, lest his promise should be inisundersfo6d, ho has sent word to the War Minister and the Minister of Marine that he fully approves their resistance to any re duction of their Budgets. Consequently, there will be no reduction, and therefore no relief for us unfortunate and overburdened taxpayers. The conscription has given rise to disturbances at Nimes. A Government paper thus describes it. Ten young men who had drunk too freely at dinner attacked an unarmed citizen, and one of them was arrested immediately. His comrades endeavoured to release him, and two more of them were then captured. A crowd then gathered before the prefecture, and the gendarmes fearing mischief appeared on the scene. The musket of one of them went off accidentally, and inflicted a fatal wound upon a comrade. The gendarmes were shortly afterwards reinforced by troops, and the crowd disappeared as if by magic. Such is the semi-official account of the transaction. It evidently is an incomplete representation of what took place ; for, as everyone asks, if the disturb ance were not more serious than this, why did the gendarmes load their weapons, and why were the troops called out ? It is rather amusing to see how strong It; the influence of party spirit upon our journals. To-day, for instance, the Opposition journals announce, in the largest print, fresh defeats of the Government, and the semi-official journals announce a Government triumph. Both are right, but both are guilty of a suppressio reri by taking no notice of the fact which does not please them. At Mrac, in the Gironde, three Opposition candidates for the municipal council beat three Government candi dates, and the Avenir National is jubilant. The Etendard knows nothing of that event, but tells us that at Corrdze and Moisdon two Government candidates have been elected councillors of arrondissements. Some of the journals have been blundering respelling the approaching elections to the Corps LLlg,islatif. The Figaro has been exhorting the electors of Dordogne to choose M. de Malleville, and has given a biography of him ; but it turns out that the Figaro has got hold. of the wrong Malleville, and the Etendard sarcastically asks what value the electors will attach to the advice of so ignorant an adviser. The Etendard goes on to say : " Decidedly the Figaro has got into a muddle with its universal biography. In the same number in which it confuses M. de Malleville, of the Refonn banquets, with the Marquis de Malleville, it seriously affirms that the con queror of Magdala is Sir Charles Napier, that he was an English naval officer, and commanded the Baltic fleet in 1854. The truth is, that the commander-inchief of the Abyssinian army is a general of the land army, named Sir Robert Napier, and that Sir Charles Napier, who took Cronstadt one evening after dinner, died in 1860, at the age of 74 years. To-day he would have been 82." The reference to Sir James Graham's friend and the dinner at the Reform Club is decidedly neat. _ _ • Every day we hear of some fresh democratic journal being started. They are so numer ous that I have now cea sed to refer to them. But there is one mentioned to-day which deserves notice on account of the brilliancy of its staff. The paper is to be called the Democratic. It is to appear weekly, and will, in fact, be a review. Among its contributors, I am told, will be Louis Blanc, Victor Hugo, Ingar Quinet, Michelet, Jules Simon, Bethmont, and others. The Arcadians have closed their club. They fi n d, I suppose, that there is such a thing as being more Napo leonist than Napoleon, and that it is useless for them to resist the concessions which the Emperor has resolved to give, and which—and far more than which—the country demands. It appears that it was not Pr6vost-Para.dol, but lUmusat who introduced Jules Favre to the Emperor the other day, when the new Academician presented hi s address. It was 116musat who replied to that address, and as the first was no less anti -Imperialist than the second, it may be imagined that the persons concerned looked forward to their interview with some curiosity. The Emperor said little, but what he did say was decidedly neat : " I thank you, M. Favre, for speaking so well of one (Victor Cousin) who, during the latter years of his life, was such a devoted adherent of mine." This was at the same time good-humoured, and yet sharp. The correspondent of the Times gives a very picturesque account of the festivities which succeeded the marriage. The t o urnament afforded opportunity for the display of some splendid costumes and gallant horsemanship. The knights were divided into three sets of thirty-two each, named re:Tectively Spanish, Italian, and Flemish, with violet, blue, and red and green for their predominating colours. The Duke of Aosta, brother of the bridegroom and the hero of Custoza, was conspicuous for his gallant bearing, and made his horse leap obstacles which other steeds re fused to take. One curious part of the performance was the hurling of javelins against a target, that, when its centre was hit, let loose a number of birds which flew out fluttering, dismayed by the crowd and the noise and the strangeness of the scene. The illuminations were brilliant in the extreme. Turin is one of the most regularly built cities in Europe, and the façade of its streets offers peculiar facilities for lamp decora - tions. The view down the Via di Po across the bridge, to where the church of the Gran Madre di Dio stood lambent with rose-coloured fire, was superb. At the banquet Tokay wine of 1760 was served to the guests, a remi niscence of the old days of friendship between the Houses o f Hapsburg and Savoy, so long int erru pt e d, b u t now aga i n renewed. The King took no food, having a habit of dining early, but he walked about and talked to the guests, and made himself generally agreeable, and no end of witticisms are attributed to him. The Duchess of Aosta had a reception, and pleased people by her affability a nd by the absence of the hauteur which would not have been unnatural, but would have been very disagreeable, in one who had been lately raised to Royal rank. The Princess Clotilda had a return indisposition to that which prevented the Russian Ambassador from waiting upon Prince Napoleon, and she was prevented from receiving his Excellency. The illness in both cases was of more than usually diplomatic brevity. In the midst of all the festivities there is much general discontent, which threatens to burst forth in some shape or other. The meal tax is not to he voted until after the rejoicings, having been deferred at the express command of the King, but the evil is only deferred, and politicians declare that they are walking on hot embers. Brigandage has again assumed very formidable proportions, and rages almost up to the gates of Naples. The amnesty given in honour of the royal marriage will let loose a crowd of dan gerous characters, so that the plague is likely to increase. An attempt has been made to terrify the brigands and their supporters by an example of severity. Two brigands having been captured and condemned to death, two of their comrades had to perform the office of executioners. The crowd that stood by jeered the latter, telling them that they had an opportunity of sliewing their prowess. One of the executioners, stung by their taunts, accomplished his task at one blow, and the severed head of his wretched colleague rolled down over the side of the hill. The second execution was a horrible scene. The blow had to be repeated ten times, and still without putting an end to the sufferings of the helpless victim. " Derided by the other brigands," says the narrator, " Pizzuti threw himself like a famished beast upon the body of the still breathing Serra plunging the dagger into every part of his body. It was the most terrible scene ever witnessed, but with all this, Serra was not yet dead. At last the captain thought fit to inter fere, and a revolver discharged in the ear of the mutilated wretch brought the dreadful proceedings to a close." The second anniversary of the Czar's escape from the pistol of Karakozoff was celebrated on the 16th with great pomp. There was a grand procession through the streets of St. Petersburg, and a "Te Deum " at the Kazan Cathedral. The Czar will probably go to Kissingen during the summer. The Princess Dagmar has been in delicate health during the winter, and has had to maintain a recumbent pc.sition. She is now better, and drives out, followed by a stalwart Cossack footman. The 'myth* Passe says that the official report cf the work done in the arsenal of St. Petersburg during 1867 sheers that it was four times as great as in the preceding years ; and during 1817 about two cannon a day were turned out, besides 100 converted into rifled guns. A large number of copper cannon are now being cast. At the arsenal of Biansk men have been working night and day. A semi-official Servian journal says that the Porte has summoned the Nizams and the Itedifs in all haste, and sent them to the Servian frontier. The heights of Nisch are being armed. Troops are being concentrated neat Ka.mienetz. The journal in question professes to be astonished at all these preparations, since the most pro found tranquillity prevails in Servia. A Greek vessel, the " Crete," intended to run the blockade of the Cretan ports, has been captured by the Turks. ME _VEIN/lAN TRIALS AT THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-THIS DAY. The proceedings in connection with the trial of Burke, Casey, and Shaw were resumed this morning at the Cen tral Criminal Court. When Mr. Baron Bramwell and Mr. Justice Keating tcok their seats upon the bench, the former, addressing the Attorney-General, said, as the-result of a consultation with his learned brother, he wished to ask whether the lam officers of the Crown thought there was sufficient evidence against the prisoner Casey to press for a conviction. To this it was answered, that it had been proved that Casey when at Birmingham was found in close connection with Burke, then engaged in procuring arms, and had also lived with. him in London, from which circumstances it must be as sumed that he was fully acquainted with his designs and the way in which they were carried out. After further discussion, in the course of which both the learned judges expressed a strong opinion as to the faint ness of the evidence, the Solicitor-General intimated his determination to withdraw the ca , e against Casey, and the jury, under the direction of the bench, pronounced a ver dict of " not guilty," the foreman remarking that the course adopted by the law officers of the Crown was one that he and his colleagues fully approved. Mr. Lewis, who was counsel for Casey, intimated that he had witnesses in attendance who were prepared to prove that his client was engaged at Messrs. Pickford's at the very time that he was stated to have been associated with Burke. Mr. Baron Bramwell remarked that though it might be hard upon Mr. Lewis's client to be prevented from shew ing that he was innocent, all that could be now done was to act upon the verdict of the jury that he was not guilty. Casey was at once ordered to be discharged from custody, there being no other indictments against him, and he left the dock immediately, without saying a word to, or taking any notice of, either Burke or Shaw. Mr. Ernest Jones, wl_o apt e ired for Burke, then pro ceeded to address the jury, admitting that Burke had been engaged in the purchase of arms, but contending that there was nothing to shew that they had found their way into the hands of the insurgents, or had been pro cured for the purpose of the Fenian conspiracy. With the exception of that of the informers, there was no evi dence proving that the whole transaction was not one of perfect innocence, nor was there, further, any testimonybut theirs connecting the prisoner Burke with those who were known to be actively engaged as Fenians. Having com mented upon the cautious manner in which, according to the ruling of various learned judges, the statements of approvers must be received, the learned counsel minutely examined the evidence of Mullany, Massey, Devany, and Corydon, men whose characters would be rightly esti mated by the jury. That evidence was full of contradic tions, came from a source so tainted, a n d was so unsubAantiated, that he argued the jury could not found a conviction upon it. Mr. Pater then addressed the jury for the prisoner Shaw, pointing out that the only particle of proof that he had ever been in Liverpool or passed under the name of Mullady was farnis'aed in the testimony of Corydon. Of his being in Birmingham the only evidence was that of the witnesses Kynock, Amelia Tye, and Fisher--a man of indifferent character—and was of the most insufficient kind. The fact that Shaw had been arrested in the neighbourhood of Dublin at the time of the Irish rising, with a pistol in his possession, could not he construed into a greater offence than that of carrying arms in a proscribed district, and the jury would probably - say that he had been sufficiently punished by being kept in prison for fifteen months. He fearlessly asked for a favourable verdict. Continued in our Late Edition. THE RUSH CHURCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—l venture to ask space for a few remarks upon a subject which affects not myself only, but all those clergymen and laymen who have personal interests to serve by maintaining the Irish Estab lishment, and who, notwithstanding, are not ashamed to say that its removal might ba advantageous to religion and the commonwealth. Very recently certain persons of high official and social rank have thought proper to charge me, in a manner designedly offensive, with " assailing the Church of which I am, unhappily," so it is said, " a member ;" with " retaining emoluments which I have denounced as a usurpation and an injustice ;" and with making " persistent and bitter attacks upon the Establish ment of which I am a member and a minister." The Dublin newspaper which gives currency and approval to these injurious personalities denies me the opportunity of making any defence in its columns. Those charges are, for the most part, untrue. No assault was made by me upon the Church. The injustice of the present monopoly of Church revenues in Ireland by the Anglican mino rity was never denounced by me as a usurpation for which the present recipients are blameworthy. Nor was any bitterness, save the unavoidable bitterness of truth, tue3 by me in refuting the historical and statistical errors and misstatements by which it was sought to defend the Establishment. It is easy, of course, to detect the impudent fallacy palmed upon the public by those who, when their misstatements are exposed, complain that the Church, forsooth, is assailed. For instance, when a noble lord is charged with announcing that the Irish Church " became the United Church of Eng land and Ireland" in the reign of Elizabeth ; or when an ecclesiastic gravely relates that a parish situate to the east of Lough Derg adjoins another parish which is on the verge of the Atlantic, it is easy to understand, although not to approve, their motive in throwing odium on the person who ex poses their errors by unfairly representing him as au enemy of the Church. It is evident, however, that clerical and lay members of the United Church are bound to maintain truth, and especially to oppose the spread of such falsehoods as may be em ployed for the temporal advantage of the Church itself. To argue that beneficed clergymen and lay men deriving pecuniary advantages from the Irish Establishment ought to resign their emoluments and offices before venturing to express opinions un favourable to it is analogous to saying that naval officers who object to the flogging of sailors should leave the navy, or that the directors of any com pany who may venture to denounce profitable frauds ought first to resign their appointments. If such arguments were to prevail no honest man would remain in office, and reforms would be abandoned to the discretion of the dishonest and corrupt. Clergymen, moreover, who cease to act as minis ters of the Establishment must at the same time cease to act, at least in these countries, as ministers of the Church, for they thenceforth cease to possess the cure of souls. They cannot enter secular pro fessions. Irish clergymen who conscientiously dis approve of the Establishment may indeed take office in the English branch of the Church, but they will not thereby escape calumny. In fact, the very same newspaper which now censures me for retaining my Irish benefice abused me a few years ago for having, as it was untruly reported, resigned it for au Eng lish benefice ! But to retire from the ministry, because of the unrighteousness of the present arrangement of Irish temporalities, would be ab surd ; inasmuch as such a course would not tend to remove or lessen, but rather would perpetuate, that unrighteousuess. It would be somewhat like the folly of a man with a diseased limb who should kill himself instead of seeking surgical aid.—l am, &c., April, 1868. W. MAZIERE BRADY, D.D. At a moment when the uppermost thought in the public mind is the treatment of Ireland and the Irish there is, says the Times, something worthy of attention in a little publication which, though slight in form and jesting in its tone, sets forth in a vivid manner the evils of the system rigorously pursued up to a recent period with regard to Roman Catho lic prisoners, and by no means even now abandoned in some of the principal metropolitan houses of de tention, and still maintained with unmitigated stringency in similar ones at Glasgow and a few other gaols under the government of visiting jus tices—an appellation which sounds rattier strangely when compared with some of the decisions of that honourable body in the county of Middlesex. Th e absurdity of filling our prisons with Roman Catho lic convicts, and then den 3 jag or restricting as far as possible the only means by which their reforma tion can be effected, is ably exhibited in the hu morous little sketch, " Biddy in the English Gaol," a witty dialogue, accompanied by a series of ad mirable illustrations due to the clever and always kindly pencil of Richard Doyle. the facts embodied in the not imaginary closing scene furnish material for a keen amount of satire, and in this instance satire is directed to its legitimate end, the redress of a wrong and the exposure of folly. F- • (c our t thrugar, HER, MAJESTY. OSBORNE, April 29. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Christian, drove out yesterday after- noon. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked in the grounds this morning. The other members of the Royal Family also went out. WATER COLOUR EXHIBITIONS. The Old Society's Gallery. By an unusual arrangement both the Old Society at the East-end of Pall Mall (5), and the New Society, or, as it prefers to call itself, the Institute of Painters in Water Colours, at the West end of the same great thoroughfare (53), opened each its Gallery on Saturday last to Private View , instead of selecting, as they have hitherto done, two distinct Saturdays for that purpose. In conse quence, on the double private-view day we had a surfeit of good things in the way of these always charming Water Colour Exhibitions—a department of art in which England stands hitherto altogether unrivalled. Seniores priores, and therefore first as to the Old Society—now in the sixty-fourth year of its existence, it having been instituted originally as far back as 1804. Twenty-eight out of the twenty-nine members, are this season among the number of the Exhibitors—the only defaulter among the members who fails for once to put in an appearance, to our very great regret, being Mr. T. W. Burton. There is but one picture contri buted by C. Haag, and there are as many as twenty contributed by C. Smith—the least industrious and the most industrious (numerically) among all the Member-Exhibitors. Twenty-six out of the twenty seven Associates supply the walls with their contri butions—the one defaulter here being E. B. Jones• Altogether there are close upon three hundred pie' tures hung upon the walls and screens of the gallery, 297 in all, to be precise. John Gilbert, who sup plies half a dozen contributions, arrests our atom- tion directly we have crossed the threshold by the characteristic force and the thoughtful e xpres. " sion of (8) " Sans pear et sans reproche. Friederick Taylor never pourtrayed a more ant' mated scene than his (12) " Wild Fowl, a Flight Winter," in which there is all the life and rustling flutter of reality. For once forsaking his favourite [risk cabin scenes, F. W. Topham takes us in (3 1 ) and again in (116) to Spain and among the Spaniards : the latter being an incident of tavern life, a quarrel over a game of cards. C. Branwhite , on his part, eschewing for once the snowy winter time, reveals to us (35) " A Sunny Afternoon ih November." G. Rosenberg's fruit (42) " Secondari Colours," is barely successful. Whereas T. Larnonee (57) "Return from Fairyland" affords as charming a view of Kilmeny, as even that vouchsafed to us through the verse of the Ettrick Shepherd. J• 1: Jenkins, in (69) " Laid up for the Night—on the "names," surpasses himself : the picture has all the hush of evening upon it. Carl llaag's one contribution this year (110) is worthy of him- - .‘ The Bedowee's Devotion"—being a very re .narkable work of art, as the portraiture of al l oriental scene of the most vivid and impressive character, though the sketch reveals no we re than the solitary figure of the Bedowee upon hi s knees on a strip of carpet in the desert, hi the side of his hampered camel. For light and shadow out of doors, commend us to (153) J. Burgess's fragmentary picture of the " Bishoie Palace, Beauvais." From the truly execrable is the portraiture of dramatic horror, we should like to have been warned before coming to (1 78 ) Griddle's " Lady Macbeth." R , a li ng the aelectel sentence upon the cataleguo— ,, Out, ou t larvae i spot"—we are almost fain to ad lees; the .vords to the picture itself. It is, for all the world , like a badly executed caricature. 1.) ac attention ought to be paid by the visitor to the smaller, but, as a rule, not lesser pictures displayed upon the screens, som e of them being gems in their way. Instance this:, F. Sinallfield's (207) " First Rose of Summer , Fred. Walker's (213) " Well Sinkers," H. B:ittan Willis's (223) "In the Meadows, near B u rnhain , , , emerset," Birket Foeter'a (279) " The Donkey , and others, which it would be unnecessary here to particularize. the Institute of Painters in Water colour Otherwise—as we still like to term them—the Net society, makes a goodly show again in its alway s attractive suite of apartments in 53, Pall-Mall, where for the present season 316 Works of Art are (count' ing those both on walls and screens) exhibited. Seventy-seven exhibitors contribute these 316 Pic' tures, so that none among them can be said to have been very industrious. Almost upon the threshcl' come sprays of lilac (3), by Mrs. Mary Margatt 4 f catch us by the button-hole, as it were,—we we re nearly going to say, hold u 3 with their mastering odour, like the lilacs of Walt Whitman. So like are they to reality. A larger and more ambitious theme, however, a theme chosen from human life, not from merely vegetable existence, lures us on a little further with its instantly visible grace, sweetness, tenderness. Henry Tidei l (10) " Jeanie Morrison," that is the " dear, de ar Jeanie Morrison" of the homely, charming verse of Motherwell. Nothing can be more ba c ; witching than those young childish forms al l , faces—the unconscious prettiness, of the little 0 11 ' the rapt attention of the boy-lover. C. Gre e° ' If he does not take us into his own room a t the theatre, carries us instantly (presto ! at a glance) " behind the scenes" in his large and cleverly draw° picture (36) of " The First Bouquet"—a picture e safe, we should imagine, to be engraved. 1 ' Clown of the Christmas Pantomime is in the s at d. of handing her First Bouquet to the little ch i ', lancer, who is accepting it shyly—the manager obi servant of the incident, good-naturedly but cur °• lessly, by a look over his shoulder. Harlequin, of little stage imp in red, a ballet girl, and one those horrid supper-room swells, or gents, as 0 1 were called in the days of Albert Smith, 0 divers other kindred figures true to life, In a up the rest of the spectacle behind the geWg: e scenes -of a much less real spectacle in which te ,, o majority of them are actors. Edward H. Corbo ul l, (53) " Salome Dancing before Herod " is radia ntly and voluptuously painted, the:one all -absorbing 3 , traction of the picture being the form of the daug ri , ter of Herodias. Augustus Boavier, who c unt io butes four sketches to the gallery this year, reve:a. m to us in (96) " The Token," about the best of t heme For expression we know nothing finer i n , ja whole collection than Guido Bach's (2 13 ) ' o f M.aria"—a prayerful face, the remembranc e which has a tender haunting beauty of its ova. 410 lovely pastoral perspective is opened up to vie w in ‘, very centre of Edmund G. Warren's (23 1 ) " Ch 3 l4) ing Pastures"--a painter whose sylvan scene ( 4 „4 entitled " The Children of the Forest," has 3n° th e rare excellence of its kind. Here, again, as i ll o f Old Society's Gallery, the screens are d e serving oub especial examination. And no wonder, for am b 9 the treasures, there, will be found a sketch (3010 er)tb Rosa Bonheur, and one by (304)—t 0 g with H. G. Hine's (309) marvellous view of °A tti ng moreing in a back street in London—not f o rge ~ Andrew C. Gow's (283) " Looking to his .A r oie r, an admirable study, after the manner of Meis"f tbAG though having nothing whatever of course 01 wonderful artist's microscopical minuteness. ller Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, a c ', ° partied by the llcn. Mrs. Stonor, visited Alfred Ps()c,l, whine eFtablishment (Maison Sans Rivale, 86, (-) " s {t.oat street), on Tuesday last, making several purchases - his recherché collection of fancy boxes and bonbons' the The violoncello of Herr Maximilian Bobrer4tott renowned German player, was sold the other day, gt Bart, to an amateur at k'rankfort for 4,0001. °ll • Mr. Leys, the eminent Belgian pa inter, i 5 visit to this country, that i° All receive with satisfaction the announcenient, , s pur consequence of the Reduction in Duty llorninial" risoct Teas are sold 8d per pound Cheaper. 9,500 Au tb ; „ ° th - Agents—Confectioners in London and -Chemists m" Provinces—supply Horuinzan's Tea oal •in Packets-