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Mr. BELL, who is the future Conservative candidate, proposed her MAJESTY'S Ministers, and was well received on his own account, and also in consequence of the theme of his discourse. The trust reposed in the present advisers of the Crown had been well placed, and no better proof could have been given, he added, than that afforded recently by the retirement of the First Minister. W hen LordllEßßT found that he could no longer continue in office on account of his failing health, he gave up the proudest office a subject can hold, that of the Premiership of England, amid the regret of both sides of politicians and all grades of the country, for friends and foes concurred in " re cognising in him the first Conservative in the land, their most distinguished countryman, whom all England delighted to honour." The present Pre mier was, he contended, a man of the most exalted intellect, and would combat most manfully with the quasi-Liberals. It had been hoped that some of the members of the Administration would have been present, but the very arduous duties which now press upon them prevented the poor from doing so. They, however, have the satisfaction of finding that their services have been appreciated by the numerous as sembly, and ample justice awarded to them. Ad miral DUNCOKBE made some very interesting ob servations on the Hull Conservative Association, referring to the fact that until lately working men had not had an opportunity of judging of politics for themselves, they had been kept hard and close at work, and therefore all they learned on the sub ject was gathered from political agitators who went about disseminating their extreme:opinions. For tunately for themselves and the country a new state of things has arisen, and people begin to reflect on their own account, instead of forming their opinions second-hand, as it were, from others. Respecting the Irish Church, Admiral DUNCOMBE said that he had long been of opinion that there were anomalies connected with that Establishment, but he did not want to put the axe at the root of the tree and level it entirely. Mr. GLADSTONE'S course in taking the matter up in such a hurry, after doing and saying nothing on the subject for years, showed that it was for him a "stalking horse" to power. Lieutenant-Colonel PEASE, as President of the Hull Conservative Association, responded to the toast, and observed that he had been a member of the Association for twenty-fire years, and of various other associations as well ; hence he could bear testimony to the zeal with which they had laboured to keep in peace with all around them and preserve the best interests of tin country. Mr. GLADSTONE'S undue haste to act before the new Reform Bill comes into operation, on the subject of the Irish Church, was ably descanted upon by the speaker, and he then passed on to topics of a more local and particular interest, declaring that it was a " cheering thing for them to witness the pro gress that had been made of late in the town, and many around him had worked their way up to their present position by their industry, perseverance, and talent; hence their co-operation was of the greatest consequence, and should be fully appre ciated." The prevalence of these associations through the country is not a thing to he wondered at, and cer tainly shows that more of the working classes are of moderate opinions than some are ready to imagine. The more the mind of the people is allowed to think for itself, the better for all concerned, and we expect these Liberal Conservative Associations will, in the course of time, render great service to the community, and even now they must offer a wholesome resistance to the encroachments of the more extreme sections of the Radical party. There is no tyranny like that of the demagogue, for he gives no quarter to any one who differs from him, and those who have intelli gence and spirit enough to discern and resent his unfair estimate of public affairs must hide their CTHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 186 . 8, diminialled heads, for he cannot stand criticism. A more f air and equable view of things is more in accord ance with the feeling of this country, and suits far better with the genius of our Constitution, for despotism and anarchy are alike uncongenial to it, and freedom flourishes in the true acceptation of the term, removed from either extreme and subject to no restrictions. The Hon. F. STANLEY, one of the members for Preston, has written a letter on the subject of the Irish Church, which was read on Tuesday night at a large meeting in the Corn Exchange of that town. In this Mr. STANLEY regrets his inability to attend personally, and then makes some observations on the subject before them, which are of interest at this juncture. Having been for the last few years connected with the South of Ireland, he frankly avows that his opinions have been thereby " somewhat modified from those he formerly held on this point, as the evils of the present anomalous system are, in the south of Ireland, but too appa• rent." Respecting the proposal of Resolutions in the present session of Parliament, Mr. STANLEY believes that such a course will not be a desirable one by any means from what he knows of Ireland. A measure of the magnitude of the one proposed cannot possibly be completed in principle, far less in detail, within the limits of this session, and hence promises will have been held out to Ireland which this Parliament cannot redeem, r.nd the new House will have to argue " upon the merits of pro posals not then before it, and approved for the support they received from a representative assembly diffe rently constituted." This is very correct reasoning, and it is to be hoped that when Parliament reas sembles the urgency of it may be deeply impressed upon the minds of hon. members. Mr. STANLEY'S " candid avowal" does him great credit, and he seems to have taken a liberal view of the whole question, both as regards the Church in Ireland, and also as relates to the mode of treating it in the House. Personal experience in Ireland has rendered him a good judge on the matter, and he is able to speak of the importance of somethiug being done, while he at the same time is fully alive to the danger that may arise from acting hastily and rashly. The more the subject is considered the more plain does it appear that Mr. GLADSTONE has acted in an unprecedented manner, and that in forcing the question forward at the wrong time he has not in reality rendered good service to the cause he professes to have so much at heart. At any rate, it is a satisfaction to meet with a straightforward statement like that contained in this letter, and the case is put very clearly before us in it. Among the many crowded vessels which will this day leave the port of London there will perhaps be little leisure or opportunity to give particular notice to a steamer taking her departure for Quebec. Canada is not so distant nor is the voyage so dan gerous as to render the incident remarkable ; but, nevertheless, the trip of the St. Lawrence de serves especial attention. She carries with her, bound for a new home and a new career, some 150 emigrants, men, women, and children, from the east end of London, with the just and reasonable view of transferring labour from a country where it cannot find suitable or sufficient employment to a land where work is plentiful and hands are scarce. In the eastern parishes of wealthy and populous London every garret and kitchen is thronged, every call for hands is answered by at least five times the number. In poor and thinly-peopled Canada the material sources of the country are undeveloped, the , land waits for clearing, for ploughing, for sowing; the mines are nndug, the houses unbuilt, all for lack of some of that superfluous industry and capital which can find no scope for action in the Old World. In this respect the times are out of joint, and the distribution of the world's popula tion wants readjustment. On one side of the equator meat is an undreamt of luxury to a large proportion of the inhabitants ; on the other, they are boiling down sheep for the fat. On one side of the Atlantic bread is sold at an oppres sively high rate ; on the other, vast tracts of fertile land lie idle and unclaimed. It has often puzzled explorers to estimate the population which could be supported by our unused and now unprofitable territories in North America by the produce of agricultural labour alone ; but mankind is like a flock of sheep, and the tide of emigration has never turned in that direction. The busy cities of the States, the gold fields of California and of British Columbia, rather than turn their course to the less immedately attractive, but more substan tially remunerative rural districts of Canada or the Red River. 'Yet, as we know, gold digging is but au uncertain and dangerous trade, while the wealth to be drawn from the tilling of the soil is more durable and more certain. There is room, too, for active and industrious labour in other trades ; and the regret which no doubt many emi. grants feel on leaving England will be fully atoned for by the sanguine prospects]which are held out to them by those best informed on the matter. Mr. DIXON, the Canadian Government emigra tion officer in this country, says that farm la bourers, by industry, can very well save enough in two or three years to make a beginning on land of their own, which can be obtained under the Labour Act, or they can purchase a partially cleared farm. The newly-arrived emigrant, no matter how poor he is, can always have a place of his own, and can fill up his time by working for the neighbouring farmers, who, during five months of the year, are always in want of hands. Mr. DIXON, in commu nicating with the East-end Emigration Committee, suggests that should they be able to make any further shipments of emigrants, part of them should be sent to St. John's, New Brunswick, where num bers might find employment, and where the necessaries of life are cheap. Nova Scotia holds out the same advantages. The Government agent at St. John's fully confirms these statements, and undertakes to assist any number of emigrants sent to that port in finding employment. The passage is no longer formidable, since the St. Law rence is expected to reach her destination in four teen days, and every effort has been made to give the emigrants a favourable start. Each of them is furnished with a free passage and a good supply of clothing, as well as with provisions for the voyage, at the cost of the committee ; and besides the assist ance which the Government agent at Quebec is expected to give them on arriving a small allow ance is to be made to each family when there. The agent will make arrangements for sending them to those parts of the country where labour is most in request, so that they will not be left to shift for themselves friendless in a strange country. They are not, however, men or women who need shrink from trouble or uncertainty. They have all fought through the terrible winter at the East-end without receiving parochial relief, and the men are for the most part blacksmiths, fitters, sawyers, and labourers, who have been thrown out of employ ment by the collapse in the Thames shipbuilding trades. They are just the class to succeed in Canada, the men being, most of them, in the prime of life, with families, some with growing sons and daughters, who will be able to render their parents valuable aid in settling in their new country. The East End Emigration Committee is m posed of bankers, shipbuilders, merchants, and other persons of standing in the neighbourhood who have witnessed the struggles and sufferings of the industrious poor, and have set themselves seriously to consider what best may be done for their relief. They felt that it was not sufficient to collect alms and to distribute charity when thousands of able bodied men were without the prospect of supporting their families by their own labour. A severe winter or sudden collapse of a particular trade must always produce extensive and exceptional distress, which must be met by prompt and liberal aid from the benevolent. These sources of distress being only temporary, the object is only to get over the time until they have passed away. Thus the longest winter must end at last in the summer sunshine ; and a temporary panic like the Cotton Famine, though very alarming for the time, is certain to pass over. But the present condition of the shipbuilding trades on the Thames does not give intelligent and experienced observers reason to hope that things will be better next year. The little work that might be had is frightened away by the trades' unionists, and the Clyde is a formidable rival to the Thames. The lower classes of workmen, however anxious to work themselves, are fettered by the voluntary in action of the shipwrights, who cannot live on 6s. 6d. a day, so that after much trouble and inquiry the gentlemen interested in the locality arrived at the conclusion that the wisest and kindest thing they could do would be to send off as many emigrants to the New World as were willing and fitting to go. Mr. SAMUDA and Mr. GREEN, the well-known shipbuilders; Mr. BuLuvANT, Mr. limo, and others, have selected the men from Poplar and the adjacent districts, and the Man sion-house Relief Committee have given the whole of their balance of £2OO to the committee. Lord OVERSTONE has given £BOO, the balance of a similar fund, and there can hardly be a more suit able mode of applying such funds. We are sorry to find that the committee are obliged to slacken their labours for want of means. Surely some of those who are so ready with their kindly contri butions in the winter will come forward to help in this good work, which we may reasonably hope will enable the emigrants henceforward to keep the wolf from the door by their own unaided exertions. LATEST INTELL IGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PORTUGAL. OPENING OF THE CORTES. LISBON, April 15 (Evening). The Cortes were opened to-day by the King in person, who delivered a very brief speech. His Majesty said that the Queen had gone to Italy, by invitation of her father the King of Italy. The Minister of Finance woald shortly present bills to the Cortes for improving the public credit, and for reorganising the financial system of the kingdom. Public instruction was receiving atten tion. Measures had been taken to tranquillise the country. INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MESSINA, April 16. The Ripon passed Messina at midnight. All well. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, April 16. The National Steamship Company's steamer Denmark, from New York, arrived off Queenstown at three o'clock this morning with $66,700 in specie. She landed passengers, and proceeded for Liver pool. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 15.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : Bank Sharon 3160 Ital'an Loan — End of month — Mexican Loan 19 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred RAILWAYS. 41 per Cont. End of month — 3 per Cent End of mouth 6B 15 Credit 3fobilier End of month 255 Credit Foncier 1467 50 End of month — Orleans ... 8581 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern—. 575 5471 Western Eastern Sardinian ........... . ........................ 45 Austrian 550 Lombard 3721 North of Spain 74 Saragossa Roman 47 CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, April 15. The great event of the day is M. Baroche's speech. The Keeper of the Seals went down to Rambouillet, a few mile; from Paris, to lay the foundation-stone of a new parish church, towards which the Emperor had subscribed £4,000. While taking part in this ceremony the Minister made a formal announcement in favour of peace. He men tioned, first, that it was intended to carry out forthwith the construction of the new roads, and he then went on to say that this work was essentially one of peace, and " could not be undertaken by a Government at an epoch when peace was not assured, or when war appeared imminent or even pro bable. The earnestness with which the Government hastens the execution of this work is, then, an additional proof that it wishes peace, and that it has no reason to be lieve in war. Y(s. gentlemen, the Emperor wishes peace, a peace honourable and worthy of a great nation. France, confident in its strength, is prepared for all eventualities by the development of its military organisation, and does not seek war, and we are convinced that no one intends to declare war against her ; the peace of Europe will not be troubled. Do not, then, believe in those cries of alarm, those words of war which error or malevolence reproduces in a sort of periodical manner. Give yourselves up with security to the works of agriculture and indUstry." This speech has produced on the whole a good effect, especially as we have. telegrams from Berlin giving the subs once of pe ceul ar icles in the official Prussian papers. eve: heless, it is absurd for M. Baroche or his master to speak of " malevolence," or to chide the people for not giving themselves up with confidence to peaceful pursuits, when they have just been called upon to enter upon military training whether they will or no. As the Siecle points out, such a statement coming from an English Minister would have been decisive, but in France the question of peace or war is decided by the Emperor himself. At the same time we gladly accept M. Baroche's speech as a proof that for the present there is to he no war. This is a great point gained, even though the Emperor should in his own mind be merely deferring it until he has com pleted his military preparations, and' until the Emperor of Austria has completed those which to-day's pavers announce. The Courrier Francais has reappeared, and by way of making a sensation announces that an alliance has been formed between Russia, Prussia, and the United States, and that the French Government is endeavouring to get up a counter alliance between France, England, and Aus tria. Of course this is a mere catchpenny statement. The long quarrel between the Russian Ambassador here and Baron Meyendorff has had a serious result. Your readers will remember that when Baron Budberg was returning to France a few weeks ago he was assaulted by Meyendorff at a railway station on the frontier, and that the matter was attempted to be got over by spreading a report to the effect that the assailant was mad. But it turned out that he was not mad, and so the Ambassador tvas compelled to fight him, and in order to do that was forced to resign his post. The two met in Belgium, and the Ambassador was wounded. There are various Amours as to who the new Minister will be. It is be lieved that General Fleury will replace our Minister at St. Petersburg, M. de Talleyrand. As to Royal movements, they are numerous enough. In the first place the Emperor has promised that he will, if possible, attend the great maritime exhibition at Havre. The King of the Belgians is said to be coming to Paris ; if this be true, his visit, happening so quickly after last year's, will excite gossip. The Princess Clothilde, wife of Prince Napoleon, is gone to Turin, to be present at the marriage of her brother, Prince Humbert ; and her sister, the Queen of Portugal, has also left Lisbon for the same city. As for Prince Napo leon, Parisians are talking about the somewhat bad taste .which he displayed in taking part in a " Freethinkers' " dinner which was held on Good Friday, of all days in the world, Austria is about to reorganise her army, and will under the new arrangement render it compulsory for all her male subjects to serve. From the age of 20 to 34 every citizen will be held to service : five years in the active army, five years in the reserve, and four years in the landwehr. Certainly, if, as N:. Limayrac declares, the existence of large standing armies is the best guarantee of peace, Europe may sleep quietly just now. The confinement of the Empress of Austria is expected to take place towards the end of the month. The event takes place at Buda, the Emperor being desirous of still further conciliating his Hungarian subjects by making one of his children a born Hungarian. A monthly nurse of that country Las been engaged, and is now installed at the palace ; but the rearing of the child after the month will be entrusted to an English nurse. The Empress Elizabeth was herself brought up by an English nurse, and las learnt to value that training. The principalities of Waldeck and Pyrmont are now being administered by a Prussian director, the Prince of Waldeck having found the task of ruling his 5,900 sub jects too onerous. Another of these German kinglets, the Duke of Anhalt, who at 74 years of age finds his 182,000 subjects too much for him, is now making arrange ments to be relieved in a similar manner. It is believed that the Duke of Mecklenburg is negotiating a like arrangement. What will become of the Alnianaeh de Gotha if things go on at this rate? The Ex-King of Hanover, like many another amateur journalist, has found that journalism is an expensive luxury. The Situation, a newspaper which he established at Paris, has cost him £60,000 in ten months. He had not even the satisfaction of knowing that his money had been spent to any purpose, for the paper had no circulation. Nevertheless, he contemplates starting another. It would seem as if his Majesty had more faith in the influence of the press than he had when he was in possession of his throne. The young King of Bavaria is so much out of health, ve believe mentally, that his physicians have counselled him to take a long journey, and he will in all probability go to Egypt. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph refers day by day to alarming rumours from Spain, which lead him to expect another revolution. Telegrams speak of strikes, but they are probably something worse, since Catalonia has been declared in a state of siege. " Strikes" seem to be quite an epidemic just now. Charleroi, Geneva, Turin, Barcelona, Bologna, Lisbon, have all been in fected by them, and in most cases the " strike " has been accompanied with violence. At Lisbon the disturbances seem to be very serious, and it is rumoured that the Government will have to suspend the right of personal liberty. The Queen has already left for Turin, in order to be present at her brother's marriage ; but it is doubtful if the King will now be able to be present at that occasion. Ali Pasha has written a report concerning the insurrec tion in Crete. He maintains the position always assumed by the Turkish Government hitherto—that that Govern ment is in no way responsible for the insurrection, and that it would have died out long ago but for the encourage mmt given to it by foreign Powers. Thus, there would seem to be little chance of amendment in the administra tion of the island. The report of Mr. Scudamore to Lord Stanley of Alderley upon the advisability of working the electric telegraphs by the Post Office has just been published. It is prefaced by a letter from the late Postmaster-General, in which he states that for some years he had been in favour of uniting the managements of the telegraphs and the post. In the report itself, Mr. Scudamore compares at some length the results of the Belgian and Swiss systems with the English. In 1860, in Belgium, the pro- portion of telegrams to letters sent was 1 to 218. The Government reduced the price from 15d. to 10d., and immediately the proportion rose to 1 telegram to 114 letters. A further reduction to sd. has raised the propOrtion still further. It was in 1865 Ito 48. In Switzerland, too, a low rate—lf. for 20 words—prevails. In 1865 the proportion was 1 telegram to 69 letters, while in the United Kingdom the proportion, which in 1863 was Ito 197, had only risen in 1865 to Ito 151. This is caused not by divided management merely, but by the fact that while Governments would arrange for the benefit of the community, private companies work fcr their shareholders -only. Mr. Scudamore then passes on to consider the objection that the subordinate agents of the Post Office depart ment in the small provincial towns are incompetent tc control the telegraph. He answers that there is nothing peculiarly disqualifying in a postmaster, and that an in creased pay would bring greater efficiency to the work. A e to the preliminary matters consequent on the Government taking the business of the companies, he thinks that the whole of the companies' property and rights might be bought for £2,400,000, and as much as two millions and a half would be required to start the scheme. If we got the same proportion of telegrams to letters as Belgium, and set the average of product of each telegram to Is. 2AI. deducting all charges, there would be, Mr. Scudamore skews, a net produce of something over half a million. The following estimate of expense, Mr. Scudamore thinks, may be relied on as one which will not be exceeded. For maintenance and repairs of lines—i.e., the actual cost to the four existing companies in 1865, with an addition of 10 per cent. to meet the extensions made by the Post Office-2130,00G ; for expenses of management and super. vision, for the expenses of transmitting and receiving stations, and for all other charges incidental to the trans mission of messages, being at the rate of 7d. per message on 11,200,000 messages £326,000 ; in all, £456,000, against a net produce of £SO4>NO. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. CALEDONIAN. The adjourned extraordinary meeting of this company was held on Tuesday in Glasgow. Mr. T. HILL, late deputy-chairman, took the chair, and explained that the board had that morn ing appointed him chairman, vice Lieutenant-Col. Salkeld, resigned. He had only accepted the office on the understanding that his appointment was an ad interim one, pending the selection of a gentle man who would undertake the duties permanently. He adverted to the position of the company, and admitted that they had made a mistake in having anything to do with the Portpatrick Rail way ; but various considerations seemed at the time to justify that step, in accordance with the former fighting policy of the board, and he therefore con tended that they had only done what was necessary to defend themselves against the North British and Glasgow and South-Western Railway Companies. For the future he thought that with careful manage ment and the carrying out the working agreement with the North British they need not despair of seeing a considerable increase in the balance avail able for dividends. It having been intimated that the Lord Ordinary had recalled the interim interdict granted at the in stance of Mr. Glen, a resolution adopting the ac counts and declaring a dividend in accordance with the half-yearly report was moved by the chairman, seconded by Sir T. Gladstone, and carried unani mously. THE GRESHAM LECTURES. Yesterday, according to public advertisement, was the day appointed for the commencement of the Gresham Lectures for the present Easter Term. These lectures, founded by the late Sir Thomas Gresham, are supposed to be delivered every law term in the large hall especially erected for the pur pose in Basinghall-street. The subjects treated of are astronomy, physic, divinity, rhetoric, law, geometry, and music. It is provided that the lectures shall be delivered in Latin at 12 o'clock, and in English at 1 o'clock, with the exception of those on geometry and music, which are given at 7 o'clock in the evening, and in English only. The first series of the present term was on " Astronomy," the lecturer being the Rev. Joseph Pullen, 8.D., of Corpus Christi College, Incumbent of St. Benedict, Cambridge. At 12 o'clock Yesterday there were five persons present in the hall, three men and two youths, who were evidently familiar with the place, prepared apparently to sit out both the Latin and the English orations, but when Mr. Pullen should have made his appearance a beadle, vested in a rich gold-laced habit, came up instead, and an nounced that Mr. Pullen had appointed Mr. Ed ward Alfred Hadley, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to deliver the lecture for him, and that Mr. Hadley had only that moment sent him a note stating that he had got a severe cold, and could not lecture, but that he would come to-morrow. The disappointed auditory calmly dispersed on being informed by the beadle that he would at once proceed to the chambers of Mr. Hadley, who appears to be a barrister in Lincoln's-inn, in order to secure his attendance for the English lecture at one o'clock. The writer of this notice asked the beadle as he was leaving whether the lectures were ever delivered in Latin, and his reply was, " Oh, no ; .not for years." Shortly afterwards he asked one of the youths the same question, and his re ply was, " Oh, yes ; when there are three per sons present." The question was then put to the youth, " Have any Latin lectures ever been lately delivered ?" and his reply, after some hesitation, was, "Yes, certainly there have been Latin l ectures." Next followed the question, " What would have been the case to-day, as there were five persons present ?" to which his ingenuous reply was, "Well, I suppose there would have been a Latin lecture if there bad been anybody to deliver it." An hour was to elapse before the delivery of the English lecture, and at five minuths to oue the writer again mounted the steps of the hall. At this time there were three or four persons inside—quite sufficient to form the retuilite quorum of three'— but the beadle politely opened the glass door about an inch, and politely said, "No lecture to-day, sir ; the gentleman is ill." This was the way in which the first day's Gresham Lec ture came off. The second of the astronomy course is fixed for to-day, in Latin at twelve and in Eng lish at 1, if Mr. Pullen can attend or Mr. Hadley can get rid of his cold. During the present term the Rev. J. W. Burgon, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, has to deliver English and Latin lectures on divinity, Dr. Abdy on law, Dr. Symes Thomp son on physic, and the Rev. Charlton Lane on rhe toric—at least, that is the statement contained in the announcements which the civic authorities who appoint the lecturers and are entrusted with the arrangements make to the public, .to _whom they Bay the lectured are entirely free. DUTCH-IiIIENISII. The receipts for the fortnight ending March 31 amounted to £11,251, and for the corresponding period of last year to £11,707, showing a decrease of £456. The receipts since the commencement of the present book year, on the Ist of May, 1867, including the above, amounted to £276,211, show ing an increase, as compared with the correspond ing period of last year, of £24,982. The working expenses for the fortnight amounted to £5,048, or 44.86 per cent. of the receipts, and for the cor responding period of last year to £5,225, or 46.16 per cent., showing a decrease of £177. The working expenses from the Ist of May, 1867, to the 31st of March, 1868, amounted to £117,697, or 42.61 per cent. of the receipts, and for the corresponding period of last year to 42.13 per cent. BRITISH SHIPOWNERS' COMPANY. An extraordinary general meeting of the share holders of this company was held at the offices, Liverpool, yesterday. Mr. Charles Turner, M.P., presided, and Mr. S. R. Graves, M.P., was a l so present. It was resolved to reduce the shares of the company from £2O to £lO each, on which £7 10s. is paid up. The directors were also authorised to declare interim dividends when they feel justified in doing so: THE LATE VOLUNTEER REVIEW. The following is a copy of a letter received by the Mayor of Portsmouth from Major-General Lindsay, sind of the Mayor's reply thereto :-- "Government House, Portsmouth, April 14. "Dear Sir,—l have much pleasure in expressing to you how much gratified I am at the success which attended the arrangements of the municipality under your auspices upon the occasion of the review yesterday, and also my obligations to you for carrying out those mea sures which I thought essential for the order and regularity of the assembly and movement of so large a force as was brought into Portsmouth. Nothing could be better than the manner in which the marching-pastground was kept, and the free passage of the troops secured by the several routes of march to the lines. The arrange ments outside the railway station were also well managed, kid enabled the various corps to proceed to the station of their destination without a check.—l remain, faithfully tours; " JAMES LINDSAY, Major-General. "The Mayor of Portsmouth." "Guildhall, Portsmouth, April 14. "Dear Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge and thank yod for the very satisfactory communication just received. I need hardly assure you that such an expres sion of approval will be greatly appreciatea by the inhabi tants of this loyal and ancient municipality, all of whom were extremely desirous to give a hearty and enthusiastic welcome to the volunteers of . England. Your kind testi mony to the efficiency of our arrangements, enabling the largest gathering of volunteers to march past and reach the lines uninterruptedly, will be very gratifying to the committee, and I conceive to the volunteers themselves. Should the commanding officers be willing on some future occasion to visit Portsmouth, the committee will be only too glad of the opportunity to render similar services with, I have no doubt, equally approved results.—l have the honour to be, dear sir, very faithfully yours, ' " R. E. DAVIES, Mayor. "To Major• General Lindsay, Inspector-General of Reserve Forces." OBJECTING TO BE EDIICATED.—Artemus Ward's valet, for whom he provided in his will, declines to enter college, and has taken his former position as bell-boy in an hotel. THE LATE MARQUIS or SALISBURY.—The funeral of the Marquis of Salisbury is appointed to take place on Monday afternoon, when the remains of the deceased peer will be deposited in the family vault in Hatfield Church. We understand the funeral will be of a very private character. AN INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH. -At last there is a practical proposal brought before the public for an Indo-European telegraph under English managem€nt. The Indo-European Telegraph Company has issued its prospectus, inviting subscriptions for shares. They pro pose to have a nominal share capital of £450,000, in 18,000 shares of £25 each, only 17,000 now to be issued. At the head of the board of directors appears the name of the Hon. Robert Grimston, the chairman of the International Telegraph Company. The object of the company is to establish and work a direct and independent line of tele graphic communication overland between England and India. The proposed new line will pass from London through the North Sea, Prussia, Southern Russia, and Persia, and from thence by the lines of the Indian Government to India. Exclusive concessions have been granted by the Prussian, Russian, and Persian Govern ments, and transferred to the company ; the concessionaires, Messrs. Seimens and Halske, having also tendered for the construction of all necessary works for £400,000. The land lines are to be constructed with iron posts, except in Russia, where the abundance of timber makes the use of it much cheaper. The rate for short messages to India, which is now £5 is., will be reduced to £2, and the directors calculate a yearly dividend of 20 per cent. upon the expenditure of £425,000. " Radical " writes a conspicuously-printed letter to the Times to suggest an increase to the income of the Heir Apparent. He points out the advantages which would arise from his Royal Highness having a residence in Ire land ; but, of course, the question arises as to how it is to be paid for. The writer reminds us that the con• stitutional grant from the public revenues to the Prince of Wales since the accession of the House of Hanover has always up to the present time been deemed to be £lOO,OOO per annum, and when George 11. persuaded his Ministry to cut down the grant to Frederick Prince of Wales to £50,000 a year, on the ground of his " undutifully " going into opposition, the reduction gave rise to a very acrimonious debate in the House of Commons. The diminished grant was voted, but it was not found by experience that the Prince laid aside his opposition tendencies. When the establishment of the present Prince 'of Wales was settled it was deemed that, as the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall had increased from a few thousands to £50,000 per annum, a grant of similar amount to that granted to Frederick Prince of Wales would be sufficient, and our present gracious Prince has only £50,000 a year of the public money allotted to him. When the value of money and the expenses of living as compared with those of a century ago are considered, together with the increasing demands for representation made on the present Prince, " Radical " believes that a Reformed Parliament will cheerfully vote the additional expenditure required for a constitutional monarch's eldest 'son. The direction of the wind is frequently indicated by a straw., and there can be little doubt that this letter is put out as a feeler whereby public opinion may be tested as to the merits of the suggestion. COURT-MARTIAL IN ABYSSINIA.—The first court martial which appears in the military orders of Sir Robert Napier, Commander-in-Chief of the Abyssinian Expedi tionary Force, was held in February at Sonde, on Captain Macnaghten, of the 3d Bombay Light Cavalry, who at Camp t 1 dooda, on the 15th of November last, entered the tent of Lieutenant C. L. Halbert, of the same corps, then in arrest, and violently assaulted him, by repeatedly striking him with a whip. Captain Macnaghten was found guilty and sentenced to be reprimanded ; Sir Robt. Na pier, however, intimating that the prisoner deserved a severer sentence. Captain Macnaghten was ordered to be released from arrest Wad to return to his duty. elf lila %G.. Or Iv e tr , leat HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 15. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nesses Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, went to Aldershot Camp this morning. Her Majesty honoured Sir James Clark with a visit at Bagshot Park on her return. 71IE _IMPERIAL JAPANESE. -..--- The extraordinary performance of the Japanese troup now engaged at the Lyceum Theatre demands more than an ordinary passing notice. The troupe consists of twenty male and female artistes se lected from the Imperial Court of the Tycoon at Yed 10, by Professor Risley, who, it will be remem bered, some years ago produced a great sensation in the metropolis by his graceful and unparalleled performance. Mr. Risley, during his travels, visited Japan, and, on witnessing the feats of the troupe, set about making the necessary preparations for their visiting the Old and New Countries. Of course such a step involved innumerable difficulties, but all having been satisfactorily surmounted, the troupe left Japan, and during the last year gave their entertainment both in America and Paris, in each place creating universal wonder and surprise. For an Englishman the task of dis tinguishing the male from the female performers is somewhat difficult, the dress of both being seemingly so nearly similar; each also possesses the remarkable power of grasp of the foot, the bones of which seeming to move with the same pliancy and rapidity as those of the hand. It is some what difficult to describe what these Imperial Japanese really are, because the familiar terms gymnast, acrobat, or athlete, would fail to convey a correct idea, and with the one word con veying the meaning of the three combined, and something more, we are yet unacquainted with. Of this fact we are well convinced, that no troupe of artistes, remembering very well the Japanese who gave a series of performances at the Floral Hall about a year ago, have ever achieved any thin g like the extraordinary wonders accomplished by the Imperials of Professor Risley. We rather hesitate to attempt a description of some of their feats, because they are of such a surprising nature that written words can but very faintly convey a true notion of the actual reality ; but in order to excite the surprise and curiosity of the lovers Of the wonderful we will just mention some of their performances. Dismissing the open ing acrobatic evolutions, posturing, and group ing by the two juvenile prodigies, Yonekichl and Shintharo, with silent wonder ; we next come to the Dancing Drum and Flying Tubs by Hamm kiri Denkichi. The performer, lying on his back with leg erect, receives on his feet a large drum, which he causes to revolve, turn over from end to end, and, in fact, doing anything he pleases; some dozen of small tubs are next handed to him singly, with which he makes a kind of pyramid, the large drum being at the top. He then causes the whole to revolve, and finally jerks away the whole of th e sma ll er tubs, and catc h e s the large drum again upon his feet whilst it is spin ning round with extraordinary velocity. This per formance, of itself a wonder, is exceeded by that of the chief, Hamaikairi Sadakichi, and his son, Mikiehl the little wonder, or, as he is more familiarly termed, " All Right," from the great glee with which the little fellow makes use of the expression when he seems to be in the most perilous of positions. Th e " act" is called "La Perche from the shoulder without socket or rest," and the performe r has a large flexible bamboo cane, about twenty feet long, placed in his hand. This 1 1 places on his shoulder, and little " All Right' then mounts by hands and feet to the top, sits down, grasping very composedly the cane with one leg, and then suddenly holds himself out by his fee at right angles from it. He goes through the same performance with his hands, the cane all this time being balanced by the chief in the position e have mentioned. Another wonderful perform' ante on a suspended bamboo is accomplished by Ma t " zungoro. This young man, while the cane is swinging about some 20 feet from the stage, twists and twirls about it with the greatest rapidity, and every ne vi and then he descends " with a run" to within au inch of the end, and there suddenly stops himself to receive the applause the daring act calls forth. The lady slack rope dancer Omatzan is another wonder, as she performs without a balance pole, an d carries in its place a Japanese umbrella, which, re" markable as it may appear, does not seem th e slightest incumbrance to her. Her aplomb on d ie rope is truly surprising, and altogether she leave: Blondin quite i n th e s h a d e . Of course we have the delicate and beautiful butterfly trick gracefullf performed by Namingaroo and Komong, and he r little daughter Ozunei perform various acts of top spinning —..the most striking bein g th a t acco mplishe d by the little lady, viz., spi nn i ng th e top on th e of what appears to be an artist's camel's hair pencil Yonekichi and Shintharso then g i ve anot h er illust ll, , tion of the wonderful lithesom ness o f li m b , by Oilst, ing their bodies into all manner of shapes and CO tortions ; the one placi ng th e so l es o f hi s f ee t on 5 shoulders ; the other throwing his body back 110/no, his hands touch th e groun d, an d hi s head con es to his heels. The great closing feat is per form! by the Chief and littl e " All Ri g ht." T w o laddeP , 0, weighing, we are told, over 3 cwt., are fixed t gether like the letter L inverted ; the 101 , one is balanced on th e sol es of th e f ee t of the chief , whilst his son ascends to the top, and on reach l ' l s the second ladder, which it w ill be u n derstood 18 . , right angles with th e l ong one , th e b oy w inds h lO OO self in and out the st aves un til h e reac h es t he extra ,4 end, and there he g oes th roug h ano th er s et of ant i which, but for th e con fide nce th e littl e fellovi e hibits, would be looked upon with great alarm: t turning by the s ame p er il ous way , " All Big ht reaches the top of the lo n g l a dd er , f r om wine ° 0 seizes a sliding pulley, and fi na lly d esc ends W, the rapidity of lightning, a thin cor d extend i " from the top of the proscenium down to the d f i d, circle. It is impossible, as we have already said, adequately to describe all the wonders perforrne ct _ cif3 t the Imperial Japanese. They are certainly the M wonderful that have ever been exhibited 'l' _ fa London, and although some of their feats aPr o a very hazardous, yet the calmness, precision!, :be d confidence with which they are all accomP,us t he takes away any unpleasant feeling, and invests b, entertainment with an interest altogether aste ° and iug' remarkable which renders e s it e n o t n e e d o i f n t t h h e e o e originstrtnroto! THE NATIONAL REFORM UNION.—A Ineeti o4 o :o the executive committee of the National Reform lje i°° held last evening, at the offices, 19, Parliament-str eet o Henry Hoare in the chair. The arrangements f °r - 0 1 coming metropolitan meetings in favour of Mr. Gladat°llfr• resolutions were discussed; and it was mentioned thill j:et' John Bright, M.P., had consented to preside at the r° „00 ing on Wednesday next, to be held in the Me troe" Tabernacle. 7 , f „. 10 CAPTURE OF A ROYAL STURGEON IN THE . 0 - - 4 : it* —While a fisherman, named Henry Mellish, W as 1. „ -i' tet' yesterday morning in the river Medway, near Be e ' he -S io bridge, he caught a "royal" sturgeon, whicb, it s brought to land, was found to measure 7 feet 6 inc hed weight being 1301bs. The fish was at once preeensof the Mayor of Rochester, who forwarded it to W'tlnglit Castle as a present to her Majesty. The sturgeon yesterday is believed to be tho largest ever captured English river. eS ti' THE OXFORD.—We understand that 3 t .;1 monial is to be presented to Mr. Ferdinand JongtviitU ;ate chef d'orchestre at the Orford. When we recollected to what zeal Mr. Jonghmans has for many years 1.410,e1ia1l ,utroduce the works of the best composers to 3 leti%ootiC audience, we feel that ho is fully entitled to the '- about to be conferred on him. ni o . l ° l l FRENCH MACKEREL FISHERY.--The —aedipg", ,fishery on the French coast is at present elOecne tbundant. Two smacks have just returned to DiO r ' be # with 13,060 fish, and the other with 13,525. I k l s n ° o °. ,elonging to Boulogne has brought in nearly 18,u— t . bst All receive with satisfaction the announcement' fie amsequence of the Reduction in Duty iloritimat:ilorir" Teas are sold 8d per pound Cheaper. 2,600 A- 11 ' . 0 tiO Agents—Confectioners in Loudon and Chet st : Provinces—Supplyklorniznan'iToa only F"`"".. . ........ XI