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Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers, and John the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14,-street, Adelphi, London. IT MAJESTY'S OPERA. (THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE). Tam Ns in " Fidelio." TO-MORROW EVENING (SATURDAY), April 25, Beethoven's Opera, FIDELIO. - ----- - Don Pizarro, Mr. Santley; Il 3linistro, Signor Gassier; Rocco, Signor Foli ; Jacquino, Mr. Lyall; Florestano, Signor Bettini; Mtreellina, Mdlle. Sinieo; and Leonora, (Fidelio), by Mdlle. Titlens Conductor—Signor A rditi. Doors open at Eight o'clock; commence at half-past Eight. Stalls, One Guinea; kmphitheatre Stalls, 7s, and 55.; Reserved Box Seats. ICs. 61: Gallery, is. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be obtained at the Box-office of Her Majesty's Opera (Theatre Royal, Drury-lane) ; and at the new Box-office of Her Majesty's Theatre, under the Colonnade (second door from Pall-mall), under the superintendence of Mr Nugent, open daily. HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Bae,kstone. THIS EVENING, A CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT. Messrs Compton and Kendal ; Mesdames Chippendale, Dalton, Lewin. To be followed by A HERO OF ROMANCE. Characters by Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Clark, etr.; Mesdames Robertson, Fitzwilliam, Chippendale, Dalton, Laws, and Daubigny. Concluding with INTRIGUE. Mr. Howe, Mr. Kendal, Mr. Clark, and Miss Burke. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Solo Proprletor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfied Mellon THIS EVENING, GO TO PUTNEY: A Tale of the Boat Race. Messrs. G. Belmore, G. J. Taylor, Miss Harris, and Miss Emily Pitt. Atter which, at 9, NO THOROUGHFARE. Mr. Fechter (his 10 ith appearance here), Mr. Billington, Mr. H. Neville, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. J. Smith, and Mr. Benjamin Wes)ster; Miss Carlotta Leclercq (her 104th appearance), Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Lewis, &e. Commence at 7. QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING. MARY JONES. Messrs. W. H. Stephens, Wyndham, Sanger, and Miss P. Markham. After which will be produced OLIVER TWIST. Master Dawkins (the Artful Dodger), Mr. I. L. Toole; Fagin, Mr. Ryder; Oliver, Miss M. Hodson; Bumble, Mr. L. Brough; Bill Sykes, Mr. H. Irving: Nancy, Miss Nelly Moore. To conclude with the Extravaganza LA VIVANDIERE; or, TRUE TO THE CORPS. The Scenery by Messrs. W. and T. Grieve, Johnson, and Assistants. Messrs. J. L. Toole, L. Brough, and Sanger; Misses P. Markham, F. Addison, Jordan, Montgomery, Heath, Sylvia, H. Everard, and H. Hodson. Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. 130 X-office open daily from Ten till Four. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Solo Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7, POOR PILLICODDY. Mr. D. Murray, W. Gresham ; Miss Polly Marshall, E. Bar nett, and Mrs. Addie. _ . After which, JEANIE DEANS ; or, The Heart of Mid-Lothian. Mrs. Dim Boucicault; Messrs. G. F. Neville,' J. G. Shore, Maclean, H. Forrester, D. Leeson, W. Gresham, and Cathcart; Mesdames Litton, Fitzgerald, B. Barnett, and Mrs. C. Harcourt. Concluding with tho Farce, No. 1, ROUND THE CORNER. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLB 0 RN.—Elegantly repainted and redecorated.—Under the management of Miss Fanny Josephs.— New and Talented Company. This Theatre IS NOW OPEN EVERY EVENING with Mr. H. T. Craven's famous drama of THE POST-BOY• a new grand spectacular fairy extravaganza, entitled THE WHITE FAWN, by Mr. F. C. Burnand; and an original Farce, by Mr. Wilmot Harrison, called SPECIAL PERFORMANCES. For particulars see bills. Box-office open daily from ten to five. BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES. THIS EVENING. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. DING DONG THIS EVENING THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. BELLES. ELECTRIC SPARKS. THIS EVENING. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Increased and unequalled combination- of talent. Bril liant success of the Holiday Programme. Unprecedented and enthusiastic reception of the Spanish lady LA PEREIRA in her terrific flights from the Lofty Trapeze. Pereira's performances upon the lofty trapeze are not to be surpassed for elegance and agility. Nothing more recklessly daring, or, we are bound to add, more easy and elegant in their style of performance than those feats have been witnessed in London within our memory."— Morning Post, April 14. , 4 The concluding exploit of swinging across the arena on the lofty bar beneath the ceiling, and the descent, by lime-light, in a series of graceful gyrations, may be pro nounced the most marvellous achievements yet attempted by any feminine performer."—Telegraph, April 16. M. AGOUSTE, the Champion Equilibrist of the World, in his extraordinary act of Equilibristn. 'Jnaniinously ac knowledged by the en-ire London and provincial press to be incomparable. In addition to the above the wonderful SPANISH TROUPE Every Evening. 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GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold iu bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street, London, E.C. ttg ~4bl 4 . „.-I_7.,:tiof;i, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1868. It must be admitted that Mr. Hun has not been fortunate in his first venture as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and every one must sympathise with him in his ill-luck at having a deficiency to make up instead of a surplus to dispose of. At any rate he has made the best of the thing so far as he could. He had not the excited auditory, the crowded house, and the other agencies which ordinarily ren der the occasion of a Budget the scene of so much excitement and such eager anticipation. People are not in a very great hurry to hear bad news, or, at least, what is not pleasant, and it was found so on the occasion referred to. On the whole, the Budget is a good one, and will most likely meet with approval from all sides, except perhaps in the case of some prejudiced few. Seldom, indeed, has a Chancellor of the Exchequer had to take a retro spect of more unpropitious times than had Mr. HUNT yesterday. As he said at the commencement of his speech, " We have had two bad harvests, and a commercial crisis to encounter. Notwith standing all this the retrospect of the finan cial condition of the country is not unsatisfac tory." Besides the unfortunate events above alluded to, there is the Abyssinian war, which of course greatly increases the difficulty of the position, and adds to the embarrassment of the Financial Minister. The manner in which it is proposed to deal with this burden will not be popular, but under the peculiar circumstances of the case we do not see how the Chancellor of the Exchequer could have done better, and so doubtless it will come to be looked upon when people have got over their first vexation at finding the income tax in creased. Mr. Hum' informed the House that he intended to resort to an additional income tax of twopence in the pound. As he said, very truly, it would be most inconvenient to raise the requisite sum by putting on an indirect tax for some time, and then taking it off again, ant as it is confidently expected that the Expedition will be over by the end of May, it would not be advisable to put a tax on articles of consumption in order to get the sum required. The excess of expenditure over income for the year 1867-8 is one million six hundred and thirty-six thousand. The original estimate fur nished by Mr. DISRAELI at two hundred thousand for putting the army on the coast of Africa will not be exceeded, but the expenses of the Abyssinian Expedition from the beginning of this year must be reckoned as at the rate of six hundred thousand pounds per month, which is thus made up—Sea . transport, four hundred thousand ; provision for troops, twenty-eight thousand ; provisions for baggage animals, ninety thousand ; extra advance to troops, ten thousand ; coals, t wen ty-six thousand ; and miscellaneous, thirty five thousand. Taking for granted that the Expedition will be over by the end of May, its total cost will be five millions, of which three millions will have to be provided. The arrangements which Mr. Hum' has made respecting the collectingof the Income Tax are very excellent, and will conduce to making people get over the awkward necessity as BOOR as possible, It avoids the very objectionable plan resorted to by Mr. GLADSTONE of raising the additional tax in the first half year, and let things take their ordinary course, and to meet the emergency he proposes to take power to issue Exchequer Bonds for a year, to be replaced when the second half year of the tax comes in. This is far preferable to the course pursued by Mr. GLADSTONE, but that right hon. gentleman, it must be confessed„gene rally put his own scientific schemes first and the con venience of the public last in his calculations. Mr. HUNT showed that, putting out of sight the Abys sinian Expedition, the estimated surplus on the ordinary reserve and expenditure of next year's income would be £922,000 ; and taking this into account, with the sum raised for the increased Income Tax, it would leave £3,722,000 to meet the expense of the war in Abyssinia; hence it is con sidered that when the war expenses have been met there will remain for next year a surplus of £720,000 over and above the extraordinary expenditure of the year. During the past year there has been a great increase of revenue from the dog license, and this is attributable to the improvement in the mode of levying the tax, an example which might with advantage be followed ib respect to other assessed taxes. Mr. GLAD STONE expressed his general assent to to the scheme, but made a most extraordinary de claration even for one so accustomed to deal in remarkable statements as himself ; he actually in formed the House that an additional twopence in the Income Tax had not been causel by the expedition to Abyssinia, but by the faulty management of the present Government in adding to the ge neral expenditure since they came into office. Making all possible allowance for prejudice, it is really most perverse of Mr. GLADSTONE to talk after this fashion, and Mr. IluNT's spirited reply to his insinuations was exceedingly well timed, and met with general approval. Referring to the self-com placency with which the leader of the Opposition had referred to occurrences that took place when he was in office, Mr. HuNT very happily remarked that he did not know if Mr. GLADSTONE supposed that all the good fortune had come from the pre- THE SUN, LONW)v, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1868. sci ence, sagacity, and good administration of him selic. and his friends, but that he himself thought tha 1 " those who are not inclined to be as partial wo ald believe that the rains and sunshine of chance had. had almost as much to do with the prosperity of tivhich he boasted as the Government whose lin es happily fell in such pleasant places." As for abt tse, which Mr. GLADSTONE so plentifully showered upon the Estimates of last year, we agree with Mr. HUNT that the right hon. gentleman ought, in common courtesy, to have advised the House not to agree to them at the time when they were first proposed, instead of waiting a twelvemonth to dis close his objections. Another very good point in Mr. HuNT's reply was that passage in which he declared that there was an " increased parsimony as well as an increased extravagance," and that the Government, in which Mr. GLADSTONE held so prominent a place, was in a great part responsible for some of the expenses into which Lord DERBY'S Government had had to launch, for they had not left the army and navy in a proper state of efficiency and defence. Factious objections of this sort are the more unbe coming in Mr. GLADSTONE, when we all know per fectly well that the real fault of the Abyssinian difficulty lies with his friends. Had Lord RUSSELL when he was in office acted with more decision and discretion we should not have had the war taken place at all, and Mr. HUNT would not have had to propose to the House an addition - in the Income Tax, which, though temporary, is inconvenient ; but as it often happens in this world one sows and another reaps. Mr. HUNT may be congratulated upon the manner in which he has performed his arduous task, and he has given a good promise of something as a Chancellor of the Exchequer in some of the most important requirements of that office. The bill which Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE last evening introduced to the House of Commons with respect to the Government of India proposes some important modifications of the existing system. Its principal features are not, indeed, entirely new to us, having been the subjects of rumour and specu lation in Anglo- Indian circles for some months past. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE obtained leave to bring in two measures, one of which it will be ne cessary to pass during the present session, inasmuch as it refers especially to the Council of India, many of whose members have to resign their seats this year. It will be remembered by those who take an interest in Indian politics that the constitution of the In dian Council has always been a matter of difficulty. There have not been wanting critics and censors who have laid the blame of every failure and mis chance in an Indian administration at the door of the Council, and the attempt toreconcile the two parties, the;old company interest with the newer and more energetic spirit of Reform now prevalent, has been a serious perplexity to all governors and Secreta ries of State. The Council, as at present con stituted, consists of 15 members, half of whom are elected, and the other half nominated by the Crown. They hold their offices for life, and are the advisers, and to some extent even the con trollers, of the Secretary of State. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE speaks highly of the services which they have rendered him in the discharge of his official dutieg, and commends their judgment and laborious exertions. However, if report speaks truly, these same Councillors have often impeded the action of the Minister. Sir STAFFORD NORTH COTE argues, possibly with reason, that the Secretary of State is usually a person with no personal ex perience of India, and that he is called upon to control the proceedings of the Indian Governors in every department. " lie is charged at once with military duties, with financial duties, with the ad ministration of home affairs, of foreign affairs, of judicial affairs, and with the management of great railways and other public works." In short, lie combines in himself the several offices of a Cabinet, and he has neither the guidance of public opinion nor the advantage of Parliamentary debates to guide him. How could he, asks Sir S. NORTH COTE, possibly get through such an amount of business without able and experienced council lors ? The Secretary, moreover, is able, if he chooses, to override his coun cil on general matters, but in financial questions he cannot do so. This is one of the points which Sir STAFFORD at first thought of proposing to amend, and he would have done wisely to have suggested a change. The Council might in the majority of instances be amenable to reason, but the case which the Indian Secretary himself instanced as possible, though not very likely,:shows that there is some defect in the manner of administration. "At present the Governor-General might send home a despatch pointing out that certain sanitary measures were necessary in the larger towns, and the Secretary might be convinced that the Governor-General was right ; but the Council might, by a small majority, refuse to sanction the expenditure necessary. If an epidemic broke out, and if the Secretary were called to account by Parliament, his answer would probably be that he had no power, and that he had been overruled by his Council." We cannot but regret that Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE has not thought it expedient to alter a system under which such anomalies are possible; more especially as the want of a wise and liberal expenditure at the right moment has often coot India dear. The councillors whose long Indian experience and characteristic caution make them especially valuable in many ways are not precisely the men who march with the times, who recognise a public want, and are ready to meet it half way. With regard to the Indian part of the affair, Sir STAFFORD %ORTILCOTE holds that the Executive of India should be as strong as possible, and that whatever control is necessary should be exercised in this country. He is inclined, therefore, to give the Governor-General power to nominate his own Coun cil, but owing to representations made to him, he allows the Secretary of State the nomination, with the understanding that the position of councillor is to be the reward of the oldest and the most capable civil servants. Another change or two is to be made in the manage ment of the finances and completes the bill respect ing the Council, which, as we have seen, proposes no great alteration. The other and principal measure is intended to strengthen the hands of the Governor-General and the Lieutenant-Governors, and to provide for the long-talked-of change in the government of Bengal. At present the only means by which the Governor- General can legislate for the Punjab, or any of those distant parts which are without a legislature of their own, is through the Legislature of India, which is not well qualified to deal with these wilder and ruder forms of life. The new measure, there fore, empowers the Lieutenant - Governor of the Punjab or any other governor of a province without an individual legislature, to propose regulations to the Governor- General iu Council which he might adopt, giving them the force of law. These wild and uncultivated re gions need prompt and vigorous action, and all the constitutional delays and discussions which are productive of so much good in more civilised and settled countries, only do mischief by giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation. With regard to the Government of Bengal, the Orissa famine has had something to do with the change proposed. We all know the story of that tragedy, and how much misfortune and misery arose from the inertness and indifference of Sir CECIL BEADON and his advisers. In the course of the inquiry held on the subject it was proved, says Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE, that the peculiar relations of the Governor-General and the Gover nor of,Bengal were inconvenient and embarrassing —another instance of the evils of divided authority and divided responsibility. A special committee of the councillors of India took the matter in hand and made a report. Four out of six proposed some alterations, but the remaining two boldly advised that Bengal should be constituted into a full go vernment like Madras and Bombay. Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE himself favours this scheme, but the Council decided against it by a majority of one. Ile might have overadden their decision, but knowing that Sir J. LAWRENCE was averse to it, he contented himself with writing to India and asking for the full opinions of the Government on the question. These papers he will lay before the House of Com mons, so that when the bill introduced last night comes under discussion they may be well qualified to decide on its provisions. Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE has at present merely given the Governor-General the power to erect a third Presi dency if he pleases. Another important point is the admission of natives into the Indian service, and in this respect the new bill proposes great improve ments. The Secretary of State holds that the un covenanted service of India ought to be, as far as possible, a native service, and the expression of this opinion found favour with the House. We shall look with interest for the discussion on this mea sure, which we hope will result in some salutary and long-delayed changes. LATEST INTELL MENGE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, April 21. Most of the papers are quite unreadable this morning. All the Opposition journals, i.e., all the principal ones, give the address which M. Jules Favre delivered on taking the seat in the Academy left vacant by the death of Victor Cousin, and this address occupies seven columnS. The majority of them promise M. R6musat's reply to-morrow, but the Arcnir National gives it to-day, and thus nearly thirteen columns of that journal . are occupied w ith a matter in which English readers cer tainly will take no interest. More than a column is occupied with the names of the captains who have been appointed to command the various regiments of the Na tional Guard. Some two columns are taken up with a discussion upon the Budget of 1864. Thus you see cor respondents have not a lively time of it this morning. The article in the Moniteur has produced no effect. The pessimists are in as great force as ever, and, as they form a large proportion of the nation, the belief in the imminence of war is still very prevalent. The Emperor has been to visit the camp at St. Maur. The German papers describe the great works which are going on for the defence of 'Arayenec, and mention that iron plates for defending the forts have been received from England. The prevail ing distrust is producing disastrous effects upon the trader of the country. There were seventy-five declarations of bankruptcy in Paris during the first fortnight of April. One of the journals which were suppressed at the coup d'etat, the Emancipation, organ of the democratic party in the South of France, is about to reappear, under the direc tion of its former editor, M. ArmandDuportal. Under these circumstances, the projected Avenir Meiidional, which was to have represented the same party, will not appear, M. Baudrillart, the new editor of the Constitutionnel, vice M. Paulin Limayrac, appointed to " another administra tive function," has not yet broken silence. No doubt he thinks the more. We are to have a discussion in the Corps L4gislatif on the economic system of France. MM. Brame and Pouyer- Quertier have given notice of their intention to bring the matter forward ; and the commercial treaty with England will no doubt be pretty fiercely attacked by our Protec- tionists, who are still far too numerous. Several months ago the Empress visited the cholera wards of the hospital at Amiens, and was deser ve dly praised for her courage. Some of the eullgies were, how- ever, too fulsome, and the Gazette des Etrangers publishes a letter (undated) from her Majesty, deprecating such exaggerated laudation. She says :" I dislike the fuss that has been made about my journey to Amiens. There was no courage or merit in that visit—nothing but a simple duty of my position, which I am very happy to have fulfilled. Don't talk to me, therefore, of heroism ; I saved nobody, and, indeed, it is likely that more than one poor patient must have been inconvenienced by the preparations made in the wards for my reception. Let us reserve high-sounding words for really great things, such as, for example, the sublime devotedness of the nuns, who are not content with visiting the sick for an hour, as I did, but remain with them till they recover or die." One of the Paris correspondents of the Independance Beige denies the statement of the North-East Correspon dence, that Queen Victoria had written personally to depre- cate any discussion between France and Prussia on the question of disarmament. The correspondent says that her Majesty would very gladly see a disarmament. There is no doubt that she would; yet she may question, for all that, if it is likely to be facilitated by a controversy ,'".t now. How low the drama is falling in Paris may be judged from the fact that 1,000 representations of four of Offen bach's plays have produced £135,000. Offenbach's portion of this smn is £B,OOO, and he will have another £4,000 for the right of representing in the provinces. Mozart re ;eived for his " Zauberfliitte " a hundred crowns. It would seem that in Russia the highest office in the Church, as in England the highest office in the State, is open to the poorest subject. As with us, a barber's son has before now become Lord Chancellor, so with the Russians a maker of hand organs has become Metro politan of Moscow. The venerable Philaret, concerning whom Dean Stanley recently wrote a most interesting account in Macmillan's Magazine, has been succeeded by a certain Ivan Popoff, who was born in Siberia, though how long ago is not stated. His first spiritual charge was on the island of Sitka, in Russian !North America. How arduous a charge it was may be imagined when we state that no fewer than eighteen languages were spoken by the inhabitants. Popoff set himself to learn them all, though he did not succeed. His wife fell a victim to the severity of the climate, and he then went to St. Petersburg to urge the establishment of a bishopric of Kamschatka. Ile sub sequently took the cowl, and rose to the dignity of Archi markirite, but when at length after long delay the above mentioned bishopric was established he was appointed to it. Tie has now attained to the well-earned dignity of Metropilitan of Moscow. " Philalethes" says that when nearly four years ago the young Prince of Denmark became King of Greece he ("Philalethes") was full of hope for the kingdom, for he thought it would . cause order to succeed to anarchy, and honesty in Government finance to duplicity. That favour able impression was general. Greek stock, which for years had been nearly at zero, rose to 40 ; yet, now that stock is unquoted, and the credit of the Government is nil. The Greek is always being contrasted with the Turk to the disadvantage of the latter ; yet, the Mohammedan pays his debts, while the Christian does not. "In Greece at this moment we see nothing but a struggle of individuals for power, not with a view to the advancement of the nation, but for the personal aggrandisement of each candidate. In Turkey are two statesmen, ruad Pasha and Aali Pasha, striving by every honourable means to make front to the world, and to gain for their Government and country the respect alike of friend and foe. s ' This letter is given by the Star in the largest type, and there is little doubt, we presume, that the writer is Mr. Layard, M.P. The death of the Bishop of Hereford places at the dis posal of the new Premier his first piece of valuable church patronage. The deceased prelate, who was born in 1793, was educated at Ori e l C o ll ege , O x f or d , an d was first class in classics and in mathematics in 1813. He was successively Professor of Moral Philosophy, Bampton Lec turer, Principal of St. Mary Hall, and Regius Professor of Divinity. In 1848 Dr. Hampden received from Earl Russell the bishopric of Hereford, which carries with it the patronage of two archdeaconries, the precentorship, chancellorship, and treasurership of the cathedral, and livings. The annual value o f th e see i s £ 4,2J0. thirty-six Through this vacancy on the episcopal bench the Bishop of Lichfield ceases to be junior prelate, and will now take his seat in the House of Lords. Dr. Hampden had for the last year or two been in a precarious state of health. The immediate cause of death concussion of the b ra i n, occas i oned by a was, however, severe fall from a chair in his own dining-room, which the right rev. prelate sustained last Saturday afternoon. Dr. Cahill, o f Albert-terrace, Albert -gate, and Dr. Quain, of Harley-street, the bishop's medical advisers, were called in immediately after the accident. They were unremitting in their attention, but their eminent and skilful services proved unavailing. Archdeacon Denison has delivered a characteristic charge at Taunton. He commenced by deploring a gradually growing disposition to throw to the winds, as so much waste paper, " solemn contracts, engagements, and obligations, directly or indirectly connected with religion, however they may have been ratified by law, and pledges of national faith, so soon as they are taken to obstruct the course of political or social expedience, or to interfere with that worship of material prosperity which divides with the pride of intellect the idolatry of our time." Ho pleaded for the continuance of the Irish Church as a State institution, on the ground that although it is not the church of the majority, it is the church of the truth. The archdeacon maintained that though it be possible to understand a Legislature such as is now the Legislatme of the United Kingdom, if it allow itself to touch the question at all, affirming the majority principle, it is not possible to understand such affirmation in the mouths of individual Churchmen—in mouths, that is, where it is now heard continually. Certainly those Churchmen who do so affirm it have nothing to say wherefore the same principle should not be applied in all cases in England and Wales, wheresoever a parliamentary return shall chew that the people who are not of the Church are more in number than the people who are of the Church. He goes on to criticise Mr. Gladstone's church rates bill as " another blow dealt by Churchmen's hands," and the bill of Mr. Coleridge as " an attempt to unchristianise the universities." The "Colenso Plague Spat "is described as " eating fast into the spiritual and temporal life of the Church of England." The Dean of Westminster is " the captain of the Colenso army a motley host with some respectability about it, but not much to spare." Finally, we arc assured that after the course which has just been taken by the Opposition leader, " the history of man furnishes no sadder example of the power of a great intellect to lead astray, than the public career of Mr. Gladstone." A deputation from the Senate of the Queen's University has had an interview with the Earl of Mayo, at Dublin Castle, for the purpose of urging on Govern! ment the claims of the university to parl amentary repre sentation. His lordship said he would bring the matter Moro culle3gues. If a member were given to the Queen's University, 01 a place in Ireland would, he thotiglit. have to be o!.flan Lisef.l, THE FENIAN TRIALS AT THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-THIS DAY. Of the five prisoners placed in the dock of the Central Criminal Court on the morning of this the fifth day of their trial, on the charge of murder, William Desmond is the one upon whom the terrible mental strain to which they have been exposed during proceedings so protracted has most severely told. Ms countenance is most deathly pale, and its haggard expression has become inten sified daily. The other accused—Timothy Des mend, Nicholas English, J o h n O' Keefe, and Michael Barrett— are little altered in appearance. The latter has lost a little of his bright colour, but maintains his usual determined and somewhat defiant manner. Prior to the opening of the proceedings, Ann Justice, who was ac quitted yesterday on the first indictment against her under the direction of the judges, came into the dock for a few minutes for the purpose of speaking to her solicitor. When the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Baron Bramwell had taken their seats upon the bench, the Attorney-General stated that he had come to the conclusion that the evidence that had been given against O'Keefe, though in itself bend Pc, was not sufficiently strong to implicate him in the conspiracy with which the prisoners were charged, and was not such as would justify him in pressing for a conviction against him. In this view the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Baron Bramwell concurred, and, under the direction of the learned judges, the jury at once returned a verdict of not guilty. O'Keefe was imme diately discharged from the dock. Unlike the woman Justice, he descended the steps leading to the passage below without having taken the slightest notice of his companions. To the application of Mr. Montague Williams, who asked that Ann Justice and O'Keefe should be imme discharged on the other indictments, The Lord Chief Justice replied that it would be better co make that application at the conclusion of the present trial. Whether he would proceed with the other indict. ments was a matter for the Attorney-General to decide. Mr. Straight then proceeded to address the jury on behalf of Timothy Desmond, first pointing out the distinc tion that existed between his case and that of the other prisoners, and then commenting upon the character of several of the witnesses who had given evidence. The informer Vaughan, who had deserted from the army, was, he believed, a man to whom the jury would not give cre dence unless his testimony was confirmed and substantiated "up to the hilt." It would be remembered that he had stated that Mullany and he were acquainted, whereas the latter distinctly declared that until at the police court he had never seen him. Referring to the circumstances of the conspiracy, the learned counsel argued that the evidence of Mullany did not in the slightest degree criminate Timothy Desmond. He did not mention his being present at any of the meetings which had been held to plan the carrying out of the explosion, and yet, if he could have included him with the other accessed men whom he identified, he would certainly have done so. The evidence of the carman, Stratton, amounted only to this, that he believed Timothy Desmond was one of the persons he had seen wheeling the truck ; but there was no substan tial corroboration of his statement. As to the alleged con versation between Timothy Desmond and Vaughan, it was clear that in recounting it the informer had not adhered to the truth. (The Lord Chief Justice here pointed out that the assertion that the learned counsel's client had men tioned that they had all the information necessary for them to carry out the details of the explosion on the 12th of December from Ann Justice, who had been into the prison, was manifestly false, for it was proved beyond all doubt that Justice had never been admitted to the House of Detention until the following day.) Mr. Straight, resuming his argument, commented on the remarkable fact that the House of Detention was actually environed with police-constables in uniform and plain clothes at the very time that the explosion took place, and asked whether, if a little more caution bad been exercised, the catastrophe might not have been avoided altogether. The evidence of Sutton, the police-constable, and Inspector Thompson, he contended did not advance the case adversely a single stage, and he earnestly and with full confidence asked the jury to declare by their verdict that there was nothing to associate his client with the conspiracy with which the prison ers h ad been charged. Mr. K eog h , who appeared for English, after remarking upon the temperate manner in which the Attorney-General had stated the case for the prosecution, directed the atten tion of the jury to the evidence of Mullany, which dealt in the first place with the O'Connor meeting —a meeting which it had been distinctly proved had been called simply for the purpose of collecting funds for the erection of a church. The testimony of this informer was altogether uncorroborated, and even he did not presume to say that at the meeting at which the initiatory steps in connection with the explosion were taken the prisoner English was present. The humanity of the law, the jury would remem ber, laid it down that a prisoner was not to be condemned on the evidence of an informer unless his testimony was substantiated. Turning to the statements of the women who were called to prove that English was one of the men often seen going into Mrs. Martin's house, and to the evi dence of the police constable Bunco, who said he recog nised him as a frequenter of Ka vanagh's, there was nothing that amounted to identification, such as a capital charge demanded. The same observation applied to the evidence given by the woman who kept the Bells public house, the carman Stratton, and the little boy who looked out of the window of a house in Corporation -row and saw the men with the truck and barrel on the 12th of December. Of all the witnesses called to speak to the facts which transpired on the day of the explosion, not one of them spoke to having seen English there. Whoever might have been the person who fired the barrel which caused such devastation, it was not the loan whom he was called upon to defend, and to connect him with the con spiracy in any way there must be nothing like a flaw in the chain of evidence by which it was sought to identify him. At this stage Mr. Warner Sleigh applied that a gentle man who had employed William Desmond, and had come forward to give testimony in his favour, Might be examined. Mr. William Sparks Hall, a bootmaker in Regent street, had been in the habit of employing William Des mond since 1861. Was in his service when arrested. He was a steady, industrious man, and one of his best workmen. He worked on the premises. The police-constable Chisholm was recalled at Mr. Baker Greene's request, to give some explanation of the arrest of Barrett and O'Neill. 'The witness was most ob tuse, but it was elicited after much trouble on the part of the Lord Chief Justice, that the two men were not crigi nally arrested on the present charge. They were taken into custody for some other offence, were discharged, rearrested, and in consequence of information received were brought from Scotland to Loudon, when OSeil discharged and Barrett kept in custody in. connection Nvitili the Clerkenwell explosion. Mr. Baker Greene, the counsel for the prlsaner Barrett, in addressing the jury, remarked that the revzquilitity he felt was greatly augmented by the fact that thia the first time he had been called upon to de&lld a tetQ w creature whose life was trembling in the Itataxtw,, with two exceptions, the ftr*t time Le lAA igklteia ra.ttk any criminal ProcMllngk Untingent the atAXlAllitnqft under which the pritlenell IMMINiI !I NA itiWliqfP.YAitn, and the weight of legal Wont pelvvelA et idlfe 111 N officers of the Crown anti the lest el in the proseention hretight to be awillmit tkziw, tit` learned counsel tikat the itNK;Aitt would Kay of the pollee wag that th W V itnOtbs- Tinitt4 the e&1 0 all .the \voila ova =they Wq-Z ;RI t'llw JIMA , tf: tsklne nentimiiiin4 raft fittiw6 ?',Pt, 16 ClaNia, 14411Th'iliS which made it very much the worse for the facts. TI • Attorney-General, Mr. Baker Greene continued, was much to be commiserated, on having to found his case on testi mony such as that offered by Mullany. When that testi mony came to be tested, numerous inaccuracies were dis cernible, and his evidence was utterly at variance with that of the witnesses called to corroborate him Both the apprentice Morris and the workwoman Keppell directly contradicted him in reference to the time and places at which he saw the man named Jackston after the explosion. Mullany had also stated that ho did not know Vaughan, and yet Vaughan posi tively declared that ho bad boon acquainted with him for some months. The evidence of Vaughan was compara tively immaterial as affecting Barret, but it needed a pass ing reference. Ile did not identify Barrett as being asso ciated with the Fenian movement. Mr. Baker Greene then proceeded further to examine the evidence as to the presence of Barrett in Pultoney-court, the place to which the powder, according to the theory of the C rown, was taken. Only two witnesses gave positive evidence, the one Martha Kernpsley, and the other her brother, bath stating that the man they supposed to be Barrett was at the court two months before the explosion. The testimony of Martha Kempsley was open to the remark that when taken to identify Barrett after his arrest she did not at first recognise him, nor did the description of Bar rett by the girl and her brother at all tally with that given by Mullaney. It was a romarkabl o fact that though it was asserted that Barrett had lived at Mrs. Martin's house, the Crown had not called the person who of all others would have been able to 'rove it. The learned counsel then dealt with the ovi ience of Stratton. The day before the explosion he saw some men with a truck, but he did not identify Barrett. Nor did the witnesses, Wells Clifford, Reigate, and the bcy Moseley. With reference to the day of the explosion, the first witness called was Isaac Allen, who was returning from the Cattle Show. Ile said ho saw a man standing by the barrel, and that was Barret, but this witness had admitted that he had said that another person was the man. The next witness was Bird, whose evidence was diametrically opposed to that of the previous one, for he deposed to seeing three men. We shall continue the repo rt ; 14 our late Lchtion, st. Tirrairt.'"'`-'‘--1 KM DI ry t., /kit/ Irafiat HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, April 23. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Christian, drove out yesterday after noon, and also this morning. The other members of the Royal Family also went out. THE ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE, MAYBURY.: High Festival was yesterday kept at the Royal Dramatic College, Maybury. For the fourth time the pensioners were given " a public holiday, or treat," pursuant to the will of the late Mr. T. P. Cooke, whose birthday, and that of " the immortal dramatic poet, Shakspere," fall, by a curious coinci dence, on the same day (the 23d of April). There was gathered together to celebrate this event a larger company than had ever before assembled, notwith standing the unpleasantness of the weather at some portions of the afternoon. Under the presidency of Mr. Webster, of the Adelphi Theatre—whose genial manner added so much to the general enjoy ment a most pleasant afternoon was spent. Among these present were Mr. and Mrs. Billing ton, Mr. J. Clarke, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Larkens, Mss Carlotta Leclerq, Miss Nelly Moore, Miss Louisa Moore, Mrs. Alf. Mellon, Miss Fur - tado, Mr. Cummings (son-in-law of Mr. S. P. Cooke), Mr. Gaston Murray, Mr. Phillips, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. W. Sams, Mr. Cullingford, Mr. R. Churchill, Mr. Stainton, and Mr. Borlase The banquet, which was most excellent aad abun dant, was prepared by Mr. Edwards, Kingsland. The usual loyal and patriotic toast was drank with all the honours, and then came the " immortal memory of Shakspere," drunk upstanding and in silence. Mr. 'Webster, in giving the toast, said most appropriately that if a volume of the great poet's works could be found in every house in England the community would become much more enlightened than they are at pre sent. Another toast—the toast of the day—was then drunk : " The Memory of the Testator," who had endowed the institute with £2,000 Consols, the interest to be appropriated to the purpose of a tri ennial prize, to be presented to the author of tha best drama. Three years ago the prize was gained by Mr. Slous for " True to the Core." Now, Mr. Webster announced that the prize had been ob tained by Messrs. Dilley and Albery for a nautical drama, " The Mate of the Mountjoy." Mr. Slous's play had brought no less than £5OO to the institution, a proof of the foresight of the lamented testator. Then came the health of the successful authors, which was received most enthu siastically. Mr. Webster was now obliged to depart to town, duty calling him away to delight another audience. Mr. Stainton took the place of chair man, and proposed the health of Mr. and Mrs. Cummings, the latter the daughter of the late Mr. Cooke. By drinking their health they would be doing .as great an honour, and coming as near to Mr. Cooke as was possible. The toast was warmly responded to, and Mr. Cum mings briefly returned thanks. The company were occasionally enlivened by songs from Mdlle. Lieb hart, Miss Julia Derby, Mr. F. Kingbury, and Mr Stirling—Mr. Kingbury presiding at the pianoforte. Mdlle. Liebhart most charmingly rendered several pieces, and the greatest delight was evinced by the pensioners. The young basso, Mr. Stirling, too, and Miss Derby, were much complimented. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE, OXFORD, APRIL 23. In a Congregation held this day, at 3 o'clock, the new pass examination Statute was promulgated • Professor Rogers raised a point of order with re spect to the power of Council in matters of Uni versity legislation, and a discussion followed, iii which the Vice-Chancellor, the Registrar, Profes sors Rawlinsou and Couington, the Master of Balliol, and the Rector of Exeter took part. Mr. SANDFORD, of Christ Church, then com menced the discussion of the statute, the general tenour of which he approved, but upon which he proposed no fewer than seven amendments. Ile wished to have all the regular examinations, except Responsions, once only in the year. He desired an optional entrance examination, a by-examination for failures, and various other changes. Professor CONINGTON thought that in the un avoidable absence of the Dean of Christ Church some other member of Council should have ex plained the objects of the statute. He asked for explanation on the subject of a clause appended to the Form of Statute, as circulated, and was an swered by the Vice-Chancellor. Turning to the statute itself, he objected to dealing piecemeal with the examinations, and expressed a fear that scholar ships would suffer from the proposed alterations. The MASTER of BALLIOL thought he might sal that Council did not intend to deal with the pass examinations only. Professor 11. SIIITH objected to the separation of mechanics from mathematics, but otherwise al'" proved the statute. - The MASTEIt of UNIVERSITY proposed amend ments on the subject of the books to be taken up by candidates. Mr. WATSON, of Brasenose, and Prof. BURROWS submitted amendments on the same point, and the latter proposed that mechanical science should be made an optional subject, and that fourth classes should be abolished. Professor BARTHOLOMEW PRICE defended the statute generally, and especially the requirement s of mechanics. Mr. KING, of Merton, objected to the presenta tion by candidates of the same author at both exa minations. Professor CLIFTON thought that mechanics migh t , well be made a sep ara t e su bj ec t. Th e amo unt 0 1 pure mathematics and of algebra which it required was very small and easily learnt. Mr. FOWLER, of Lincoln, put in an amendmen t to remove the objection pointed out by Mr. King. The congregation was then dissolved. The University sermons on Sunday next will b° preached—in the morning by the Rev. Dr. Moberly' of Balliol, Barupton Lecturer ; and in the afteruooll by the Rev. Dr. Miller, of Lincoln College. '1 sermon on Friday, May 1 (St. Philip and S t * James), will be preached by the Rev. J. R. of Merton, at Merton College Chapel. In a Convocation to be holden on the 28th ins t. ' at two o'clock, it will be proposed that the Vic e- Chancellor be authorised to pay out of the Univer sity chest :-1. A sum of £5O towards the es t a bli. 9ll- went of a bathing-place for members of tijo University. 2. A sum of £25 annually towar e ; the maintenance of such bathing-place. It proposed that if the above grants be made th° should be applied under the direction of the Fol ic° Committee. Iu a Congregation to be held immediately after wards forms of statute will be promulgated for 016 appointment of a Professor of Comparative Pi ll lology at a stipend of £6OO a year, and for a change in the time of nominating the masters of 61° schools. The Taylorian Professor of Modern Euror ea u Languages (Mr. Max Muller) will begin a collo of Lectures on the " Principles of Etymology; Tuesday, the 28th of April, at 12 o'clock. Tb es lectures will be continued on Tuesdays, Thurs daY ds ' and Saturdays, at the same hour, and will be ( I ' 4l vered at the Taylor Institution. FABRICATING VOTING PAPERS.—At the Shea°, Police Court yesterday, two men, named James Co ted Alfred Turner, were charged with having fab''st voting papers at the recent election of guardians. v''„ 4 the voting papers were lying at the houses of the 11 payers, the defendants and several others visite d a P,1:1, ber of houses, and, in the absence of the voters , glle" 0 the papers in favour of tho candidates in whom thof interested. The charge was clearly proved, and the V7 llO , sentenced Turner to eix weeks' and Cox to two r ' °l2 imprisonment. SrAIN'. BIADRID, April 23d (Evening). The Queen has accepted the resignation of the Ministry. Senor Gonzalez Bravo has been charged with the formation of a new Cabinet. The funeral of Marshal Narvaez will take place on Sunday. Tranquillity prevails in the Peninsula. DENMARK• COPENHAGEN, April 22. The Landsthing by 360 votes against 13 has de cided that the Municipality Bill shall be read a third time. It was explained that the object of this was to facilitate in the interval between the second and third reading an understanding being come to between the Government and the Rigsraad on the question. It is, however, unlikely that such an understanding will be arrived at. AMERICA. (By Atlantic Telegraph.) CROOKHAVEN, April 24, 5 a.m. The Cunard steamer Australasian, from New York on the 15th inst., is now passing Browhead Signal Station en route for Queenstown. THE CAPE DIAIL• SOUTHAMPTON, April 24. The Union Company's steamship Briton, Capt. Kerr, with the above mail, has arrived here. She brings 67 passengers, £2,700 in specie, 1,662 pack ages of cargo, and 40 bags of mails. The Celt, with the outward mail, arrived at Table Bay on the 19th March. From the Equator, 38 N. lat., the Briton expe rienced heavy gales, a head sea was in the Bay, with heavy south-westerly winds and thick rain. On the 16th ult., off Cape Infanta, she spoke the English ship Algiers, with coolies for the West Indies ; on the 31st, the Dutch barque Pekin, for Amsterdam ; on the 11th inst., the English barque Memento, for Madras ; on the 17th inst., the French barque, Jean Baptiste, bound south, the English barque Dolphin for Rio, the ship Wel ford steering south, and the ship Daphne for Mel bourne ; on the 22d instant she signalled the steamer City of Limerick, which had hove to in a heavy south-westerly gale, with a damaged rudder. which was declined. The The Britonßrton i left t er c ed assistance , apeTownon the 20th March. The Governor had issued a proclamation declar ing the Basutos British subjects, and the country inhabited by them British territory. It was stated 'that the Burghers had captured one 'of Moshesho's strongholds, inflicting great suffering upon the Basutos. Governor Woodhouse started for Free State on the 19th. He was to travel without a retinue, and by the Cape corps a w h il d l t b h e e m m e o t un a t t ed O po ra l i i l e g e e . River The colonists have petitioned her Majesty pray ing for consideration in the event of any alteration in the duties on wines. Business at Cape Town in all branches was very dull, the season was fine and provisions abundant and cheap, which considerably mitigated the dis tress which would otherwise prevail. It is stated that gold fields of great richness do exist between the Zambesi and the transvaal in the Mekonos country. These fields are described as only 60 miles in length and 20 in breadth. From specimens which have been obtained from the quartz it was considered that the yield of gold will exceed the Australian and Californian averages. Port Elizabeth papers say that the native stronghold (Kilme) was taken by the Free State Burghers on the 22d ult., capturing 1,500 horses, 8,000 sheep and goats,.ll,ooo head of cattle, with the loss of only three men. The Basutos went off in the directions of Thalia Basige Moshesho's stronghold. The Colonial Parliament was expected to meet on the 28th May. Trade at Port Elizabeth was no better, and was generally dull. There was little demand for winter goods, and money was abundant. First- class mercantile bills on London, 90 days, were se llin g at 2 per cent. ; the Bank drawing rates on London, 90 days, discount. The produce market was dull, and the prices of wool and skins were lower than for many years. FRANCE. PARIS, April 24. The election for the department of the Ariege has been appointed to take place on the 16th of May. A report has been published, dated 15th April, from the Consuls of England, France, Greece, Prussia, and Russia, residing at Jassy, and authen ticating the persecution and expulsion of the Jews from Roumania. DREADFUL ACCIDENT NEAR DERBY.—A shock ing accident occurred at Alfreton, near Derby, on Wednes day morning. Charles Ottewell, a carter in the employ of Messrs. Simons, manufacturing chemists, Little Chester, was descending Highland Hill, in charge of two horses and a waggon loaded with vitriol, when, from some un explained cause, the vehicle was overturned and its con tents were scattered about the ground. Both the horses were dreadfully burned, and died shortly afterwards in great agony. Ottewell, too, was so much injured that his life is despaired of. eni t Pan brni tee () 111111 that ito c Far t Ot t , Lash traff Nlet a uo !eba !et u ;hat AIN Pe: 3 . 7 0 144 Nevi can t , 4r. Ai . l l lirk t„, e , it , , n -gb, vuii fi alli l " LAi D ( u , ti mr„ e D I 1), D 4