The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-12 00:00:00

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Kellogg; and La ('ontessa,lidlla. Titiens. Conductor—Signor krditi. Doors open at Eight o'clock; commence at half-past Eight. Stalls, One (l ,ti nea ; km)liitheatre Stalls, is, and Is.; Reserved Box Seats, 1,35. G 1: Gallo ny, Is. GI Boxes, stalls. an-I places may be obtained at the new Box oftice. of Her lla•ies , y's Theatre, under the Colonnade (second door from Pall-mall), open daily from 10 till 5, under the super intendence of Mr Nugent; also at the Box-office, Theatre Royal, Drury-lane (un ler the portico in Brydges-street), open from 10 till 8. Tickets also at all Librarians' and Music-sellers'. THEATRE ROYAL, II A YMARKET. Sole Lls,,ee, Mr. Buckßtone. THIS EVENING. THE LADIES' CHAMPION. Mr. Ken dal, Mr. W. Gordon, Mies 10u,3 Burke, and Miss F. Wright. To he followed by A HERO OF ROMANCE. Cha,meters by Messrs. Sothern, Wiekstoul, Corn?ton. Chippenttle, II );:,re, Clark, &c.; Meslamll RA3rtson, Fitzwilliarn, Chippendale, Dalton, L tws, an 1 Daubigny. 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After which, STREETS OF LONDON: Badger, Mr. Vining Messrs. Dominick Murray. .T. G. Shore, IL Forrester, Maclean, Cathcart. and (iresham; Mesdames E. Stuart, E. Barnett, and Mrs, Addle Doors open at half-past 6; commence at 7. N.B.—Mr. ALLERTON will make his first appeartnce in Inn don on MONDAY next, June 15, in the character of H XMLET. QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. 1.033 CC an , l Mautg.er, Mr. W. 11. Li:qua. THIS EVENNG, at 7, MARY JONE'3. Followa 1 hy. at a vtrter to 8, STILL WATEII,3 RUN DEE? Me. mil Mr. 4. Alfro 1 Wigan. To can lala with 1i..',E1 3 YOUR, DDOR 17 - K,',li.alD. Mr. T. L. Toole. 1 1 11EATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN.—Elegtntly LL repainte 1 and rclecurated.—Under the management of Miss Fanny .Tosephs. THIS EVENING, at 7.30. WHO'S TO WIN 1.1131? After which, at 8.15, FOUL PLAY. For particulars see bills. Box-office open daily from ten to lye. 11017 AL ANIPIIITRE kTRE AND CIRCUS, H0r,8.-KtN. 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NO MING I\IPOSSIULE AGUA A NIA It ELLA r33tores the Ullman Hair to ii oriAtino hue, no matter at what age. JNO. 41032`.: ELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the nyhtt eminent Chemists, sueco:Nled in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It. is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7.3. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street, London. E.C. CH WEPP E'S MINER AL WATERS. Orders specially prepared for Export to every Climate. Manteactories—Loncion, Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow, Derby, - 7r, 7r t vj .....t..0.1 -7 -., g-.; - ..'i":)- 1 ?)111I 4 0" c I', -,::::'S LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1868. Mr. HARDY may be congratulated upon having fulfilled the promise given by the Ministry in a most successful style, and apparently to the satis faction of all parties. The task is so difficult that it is the more creditable to them to have accom plished it. The purport of the measure is to amend the Law of It., , gistration, so far as it relates to the year 1868. At the same time the Government have wisely borne in mind the importance of not curtailing or abbreviating any of the " preliminary processes" of making claims, olfjections, and such like. To have done this would have offended the prejudices of a great many, and certainly it would have militated against the progress of the Governinent scheme, and not have given the new It form Bill a fair chance at starting. We think we may safely affirm that Mr. llAnDy's proposition, as yesterday submitted to the House, will prove ex tremely popular, and has every chance . of speedily passing through the Legislature. Some alterations and emendations will be made on it, no doubt, but the general principle of it will remain. Some hin drances have been placed in the way of expeditious progress by the clauses of the Scotch Bill which dis franchise seven of the English boroughs, and, besides that, the Boundary Bill is not yet completed, so that a large number of electors can not tell whether they will belong to borough or county ; the lodger claims besides cannot be pre ferred until a late period. The " revision" is the part which will have to be shortened, and this bill proposes that the revision should commence in September, both for towns and counties. This will work a comprehensive change in the matter, and, according to the arrangements proposed, the vaca tion Judge in Chambers will be empowered to have additional revising barristers, should they be re quire], to one-third more the number than at present exists. The period of three weeks will be given for it, and in order to do away with the inconvenience that might arise from numbering the lists from one end to the other, it is proposed that they shall be num bered by polling districts, and by this means the work can be completed by the last day of October. Mr. HARDY said very truly that it would not be at all expedient to shorten by any further change the time allotted for the purpo, , e of registration, it would not be just to the electors, especially the new classe3 among them, and above all it must be borne in mind that the object desired by a speedy dissolution could be effected before this time. The House would have ample opportunity of settling the debateable policy, and it will be very advisable that the new Ministry, whoever they be, should have some weeks afterwards to prepare their schemes for the regular Session. Mr. GLADSTONE, for a wonder, quite agreed with the proposal of Mr. Manny, and he offered his assistance in facilitating the progress of the bill as much as possible. We are glad to see that the right hon. gentleman also rendered ample justice to the Government for the exertions which they had nride to secure an early dissolution, and he agreed as to the wisdom of clearing the stage of revision for the powers of abbreviation. The second reading is to take place on Monday, and therefore we may now be under the impraision that the new Parliament will meet at the beginning of Decanb,tr, or if anything in the way of change be effected in the present plan it may, perhaps, assemble at an earlier p.ri ,d. After this i'uportant matter of the Dissolution had been agreed upon the house went into committee upon the B. lary and Mr. lIInuEuT moved an amendment on Clause 4 being taken into eDnsid.mation, which was to the effect that the report of the Select Committee should be adopted. The ikon member showed very clearly that there was a good deal to say on behalf of his proposition, and so successfully did he urge his arguments that he carried the amend ment by a majority of thirty-six. It was unfortu nate that in the discussion which took place on this subject the harmony that had till then prevailed throughout the evening gave place to angry recri minations, and once again our model House of Com mons seemed eager to exchange its time-honoured character for propriety, and to ape somewhat the fashion of a transatlantic assembly. Mr. ADDERLEY passed some very just strictures onMr.BRIGIIT'S policy, and showed how that hon. member had acted in consistently by declaring that Birmingham ought to have a third member, and then objecting to the a - Iditions prefixed to its area. Of course this called up Mr. BRIGHT, and he descanted in his most in dignant manner about the policy which Mr. Dis- RAELI had borrowed from Lord BOLINGBROKE. The rival plans of the Committee and Commis- sioners found able advocates in Mr. P. GURNEY and Mr. BRUCE, while Mr. OSBORNE enlivenei the dulness of the debate by one of his characteristic speeches. The hon. member is par excellence a JOB'S cJtuforter, and on this occasion he predicted that the new Parlia ment woul I alter what they did with the " boun &ries." Good service was done to the cause of progress by the succ.!ss of the amendment, and the report of the bill is fixml for Monday, when Mr. DISRAELI will bring in a clause with respect to 1 compound hcu3eholders. The Scotch Reform Bill also recAved some finishing touches, and perhaps as mnch was done yesterday by the House as any day this session, which is satisfactory, for no time is to be lost in getting through the necessary arrange ments. The House of Lords has often drawn upon itself a good deal of unpopularity by its reluctance to sanction changes and innovations whether good or bad. The very name of change is so unwelcome to some of its older members that they take it for granted that any alteration in the regular course of things must be for the worse, and accordingly duty and inclination combine to make them immovable. Wo see less of this now-a-days than our forefathers did, but the caution and immobility.of the Upper House often proves extremely irritating to enthusiAstic reformers and eager innovators ; who are convinced that they could promptly set the world to rights if they were only allowed to carry out their theories uninterruptedly. At the same time it must be acknowledged that the Lords have often done the people good service, for which they have not always been thanked. They have the advantage of the preliminary debates in the Commons, which not only elicit the whole facts of a case, but test public opinion, and call forth the comments of the Press. Thus the decisions too ha: tily arrived at in a thin or indifferent House of Commons are often subjoeted to a timely re vision in the House of Lords. The Upper House, too, is naturally more independent, not of direct corruption, which is happily unknown in our Parliamentary existence, but of those indirect influences which must naturally affect more or less a body so constituted as the Commons. Where there are many members representing the same kind of constituencies or occupied in the same profes sions, there muit naturally be a good deal of sym pathy between them, and some interests are un doubtedly very strong in the Commons. The rail way interest is unduly powerful, and more than once it has happened that the public, who take little notice of the host of minor measures daily discussed by Parliament, have been surprised to find that bills which materially affect their comfort have gone through all the preliminary stages. Chairmen and directors of railway companies do not always see with the eyes of their passengers, and what may appear to the one side very fair and reasonable may be altogether objected to by the other. We have a notable instance of such a difference of opinion in the case of the amalga mation of the South-Eastern railways, and it is very fortunate for the public at large that railway bills, like other bills, must pass through the House of Lords before they become law. The M trquis of CLANRICARDE last evening gave notice that, on the motion for the sec )ndi reading of the South-Eastern and London, Brighton, and South Coast Railways Bill this day, he should move that the second read ing be postponel for six months. Public opinion has been freely expressed since the bill passed the Commons, an I therefore we may hope the Lords will arrest its progress in its present objectionable form. The Sou kern railways are for many reasons very convenient for those whose daily business calls them to London, and the Charing-cross terminus enhances the advantages which they always pos sessed. Those who were in the habit of travelling by these lines, and of enduring the martyrdom of trying to catch a train at the London-bridge sta tions on a busy afternoon in the season, vainly deluded themselves with the expecta tion of a great increase of comfort and convenience, and the saving, perhaps, of their cab or omnibus fare to the City. Mistaken mor tals! They find that they must s..t off against these possible gains a very decided addition to their yearly expenses, and suburban residents who have taken houses a few miles out of London, allowing so much a year for their railway expenses, now begin to find that they must alter their calculations. The good old custom of meeting friends or seeing them off on their journeys is likely to prove an expensive luxury, according to the regulation by which every one who enters a station must pay 61 If a parcel whose transit has cost sixpence is delayed in its transmission, and the owner has to enter the station to ask for it, he must pay another sixpence, we presume, for asking the question. The increase of fares is, however, the great evil of the new bill, and as the Lords have interfered once or twice before to guard the working man's rights against the encroachments of railway companies we hope they will do so now. Three-halfpence a mile for third-class passengers makes a serious addi tion to a poor man's rent, and so, too, does the proposal to charge every distance under six miles as six miles. Thus ninepence will be the minimum charge for a third-class passenger by one of these Southern lines. IVhat the express train passengers are to pay is as yet mercifully concealed from them ; but, judging from the specimens afforded us, it must be something alarming. How ever, we must hope the Lords will take the trouble to inquire a little more closely into the rights of the matter than the Commons have done, and that they will eff •ct some substantial alterations in the bill before it is too late. The news from Sydney informs us that before O'FARRELL paid the penalty of his crime he con fessed the justice of his sentence. Ile left a letter, in which .he stated that he was so certai❑ of the success of his atrocious attempt that he sent an ac count of the as3assina.ion and an address to the Irish people to the proprietors of two Irish papers. This goes far to confirm his own assertion that he was a Fenian, and we hope that the colonists will be well on their guard againit his associates. The Duke of EDINBURG:I, with a humanity which does him credit, was very averse to the execution of his would be murderer, and requested that the case should be referred home. The Sydney Executive, however, felt they could not consent to this, as the guilt of the criminal was so unmistakeable, and so entirely without palliation. The names of the papers with which he WaS in communication are not stated, but it may well be asked which they were. We are glad to find that before leaving Sydney the PRINCE was able to take part in another public entertain ment, and laid the foundation stone of the New Town Hall on the 4th, sailing for England two d a ys later, where we may hope very shortly to wel come him among us. TII E. SUN, LOAD' )", FRIDAY EVEN THE "P. AND 0." FLEET. ' The latest addition to the splendid fleet of steam ships owned by the Peninsular and Oriental Com patiy—viz., the Travancore, a vessel built and engined by Mr. J. Key, of Kirkcaldy—was taken out for a trial on Wednesday. She left the Southampton Docks at 11 30 a.m., proceeding direct to Stokes Bay, where one run was made on the measured mile, and then steamed round the Isle of Wight, returning into Southampton water at 6 o'clock, and the Lon don portion of the visitors left by the 7 15 p.m train. The Travancore is a screw steamer of 400-horse power nominal (indicated power during the run, 1,405) ; her gross tonnage being 1,899 i, and registered ditto, 1,185 ; length, 281 ft. 6in. ; breadth of beam, 35ft. sin.; and .depth of hold, 27ft. Bin. Her true mean speed when on the measured mile, with a strong southerly wind blow ing, was 12.245 knots; steam, 241 b; vacuum, 22in. ; revolutions of engines, 59. She had 751 tons weight of coals, water, and stores on board, and her draught was 16ft. 6in. forward and 18ft. 2in. aft., the mean being 17ft. 4in. There was a large party of ladies and gentlemen on board, including. Capt Cuming, R.N., Admiralty Superintendent at Southampton ; Mr. F. T. Scudamore, one of the secretaries of the Post-office ; Mr. Chetwynd, accountant-general of the'Post-office ; Mr. W. Page, Mr. E. Yates, Mr. Bidwell, Mr. Boucher, and Mr. Joyce, of the Post office; Mr. Willis, Mr. Cockraft, and Mr. Adders an, of the Admiralty; Colonel Macpherson, late Acting Governor of the Straits Settlements ; Mr. Campbell, secretary of the African Steampacket Company ; Mr. T. M. Mackay, of Leadeahall-street ; Mr. Key, builder of the ship; Mr. Hadlow (the recently-elected chairman), Mr. Thornton, C. 8., Mr. L'Estrange, Mr. James Allan, and Mr. Henry Bayly, directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company ; Captain Bain, Mr. A. M. Bethune, Captain Black, Mr. A. Lamb, Captain Engledue, and other officials of the company. During the run home the party on board partook of a sumptuous dejeaner, under the presi dency of Mr. Hadow, who availed himself of the opportunity to propose the health of the builder of the Travancore, and expressed the satisfaction which the performances of the vessel had given to the direc tors and others. The toast having been responded to by. Mr. Key, Mr. Frank Scudamore proposed " Success to the Peninsular and Oriental Company," which, he said, really meant success to the com mercial and maritime interests of the nation, for anything which would injure so important an arm of the great postal service of England must exercise a corresponding influence injurious and detrimental to the whole commerce of the country. The Tra vancore, which is commanded by Captain It. Meth ven, one of the oldest officers in the service, leaves to-morrow with the outward India, China, and Australian mails, and on her return from this voy age she will be despatched to the other side of the Isthmus of Suez for service on those stations. Two Lap screw steamers, of 3,000 tons and 600 horse power each, are now in progress for the company-- viz., the Magdala, constructing by Messrs. W. Denny Brothers, at Dumbarton ; and the Llin dostan, by Messrs. Day and Co., at Southampton. The Magdala is expected to be ready for sea its 'about six months, and the iiindostwa in about 13 months. LATEST INTELL MEN Ch. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. ALEXANDRIA, June 11. Her Majesty's troopship Serapis sailed to-day for England with troops belonging to the Abyssinian expedition. Captain Roberts, of the 4th King's Own, who was seriously wounded before Magdala, and was since reported dead, accompanies the troops. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, June 11. Subscriptions for an equestrian statue of King Frederick VII. have been open.ld in this capital, and amount to 20,000 thalers. Lugo ad litional sums have been promised. AMERICA. WASHINGTON, June 11. The Senate pissed to-day Mr. Stevens' Bill, which was agreed to by the House of Representa- tives on the 14th ult., and which provides for the admission of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama to representation in Congress, on the conlition that the constitutions of those States shall never be so amended as to de prive of the suffrage those now entitled to vote. ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTIA VIA QUEENSTOWN. NEW Yonx, June 2. General Schofield assumed the control of the War Department yesterday. President Johnson has appointed General Stoneman to succeed General Schofield in the command of the First Military District. The Senate has passed a vote of thanks by 37 to 11 to Mr. Stanton fur his public services, and by 11 to 30 have refused to vote the thanks of the House to Chief Justice Chase for his conduct during the Impeachment trial. Ex-President Buchanan is dead. The counsel of Mr. Davis and for the prosecu tion recommend the further postponement of the trial till October. The Nt.w J'ork herald says that the Fenians threaten an attack upon Canada at Prescott and Cornwall. The Canadian authorities have ordered the volunteers to be in readiness, and have doubled their pay. NEW YORK, June 3. General Stoneman has assumed the command of the First Military District, and has issued an order continuing in force all the existing orders. The Senate has rejected Mr. Stanberry's nomi nation as Attorney-General. A resolution has been introduced into the Senate excluding the Southern States from participation in the Presidential election unless such States have been admitted to the Union under the Reconstruc tion Act before the Presidential electors were chosen. President Johnson has ordered the Executive Department to be closed, and draped in mourning, on the day of Mr. Buchanan's funeral. The New York papers publish intelligence from St. Domingo, stating that it is rumoured General Saluave has been assassinated by his own troops. General Superon, in the interest of Cabral, with 3,000 men, hal headed a revolt at St. Domingo against General Baez. The Cunard Royal mail steamship Scotia arrived at Queenstown at 6 a.m. to-day with 251 cabin passengers and $1,302,658 in specie. She lauded 81 passengers and 91 sacks of mails, and proceeded immediately for Liverpool. All well. SOUTHAMPTON, June 12. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Delta passed the Needles at 10.35 a.m. to day. TILE WFST INDIA MAIL. PLY3I6UTII, June 12. A large steamer, believed to be the La Plata, with the West India mail, was reported off Fal mouth this morning. The vessel was under full steam and well to seaward. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. GIBRALTAR, JUNE 10. The Ceylon, from Southampton on the 6th inst., arrived to-day at 3 p.m., and leaves at 6 p.m. for Alexandria. Experienced fine weather. BOURSE, June 11.—T closed as follows :- 41 per Cent. End of month... It&l'an Loan 3 per Cent End of month 7O 50 Mexican Loan ... 22 Credit Mobilier End of month... 295 Spanish Threes Credit Fonder _1515 HOMO Debt — End of month... Deferred 35 50 Cash Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern__ 597 Western Eastern • • Sardinian Austrian 560 Lombard 377 North of Spain 66 Saragossa Roman.. .ree o'clock.—The market RAILWAYS. 42 DESTRUCTIVE DAY.) This (Friday) morning, at the early hour of 2 o'clock, the inmates of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, and the inhabitants generally of the Asylum-road, Peckham, were aroused from their slumbers by the spring of policemen's rattles and cries of " Fire." It was quickly ascer tained by the neighbours that a destructive fire was raging in the premises of Mr. D. R. Thomas, a grocer and cheesemonger, carrying on business at No. 146 in the before-mentioned road. The inmates, who were fast asleep at the time of the discovery, had the greatest difficulty in escaping from the burning building. The powerful land, steam, and mantra power engines, by Shand, Mason, and Co., arrived from numerous stations of the Metropolitan Brigade. Plenty of water having been obtained. from the mains of the Southwark Company, the firemen went to work under the direction of Mr. Foreman Hamlyn and h ea d-engineer Joseph Per rard, but they were una bl e t o get the fire extin guished until the ro c k i n t ra d e was destroyed, and the building partially d es t r oyed, The back front of the premises of Mr. M e tton, a chemist, were also severely injured by the action of the flames. The losses will fall upon the Royal and London and Southwark fire offices. TIIE LATE EARL OF SIIREWSBURY.—The lying in State of the body of the deceased Esrl of Shrewsbury having boon fixed for yesterday, Ingestre Hall was visited by a great number of people, chiefly from the contiguous villages. The body was placed in one of the lower rooms of the hall, which was dal Ironed for the occasion, six wax ta pers serving just to show the contents, and barely showing, till the visitor was accustomed to the gloom, that a detach ment of yeomanry cavalry, of which the successor W the earldom is major, was on guard. On the coffin were the earl's coronet, admiral's hat, uniform, and sword, and at the foot was the earl's robe of State. There were also the Orders of the 11 , -11-orner of Greece, St Louis of France, and St. Anno of Russia, besides the various British Orders to which the deceased earl belonged. The interment will be performed in the little churchyard close to the hall, and besides the relatives about 49 of the prin cipal tenants are invited as mourners. VISIT FROM SIR ROBT. NAPIER.—It is rumoured, we believe, on good foundation, that Sir Robert Napier, soon after his arrival in England, will pay a visit to Gen. Scott, at Lis residence near Welehpool.---Oswestry Adver tiser. EXCLUSIVE ? VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE are the properUes of Lamplough's Pyretic Saline, curing the worst headaches, sickness, skin, or biliary affections. Pleasant, palatable, 844 ivisorMthag• kOld by 6 4 11 chgaziati.--E4Airq I\G, JUNE 12, 18C8. CORRESPnNDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, June 11. Though the Emperor is at Fontainebleau, he is not taking his holiday. There is constant telegraphic communication going on between him and his Ministers, and yesterday us courier went down with a large portfolio full of papers. Before the Emperor left Paris he went to see a new apparatus for raising vessels. A barge was sunk at Courbevoie, and the machine, consisting of two cylinders, worked by divers, brought the barge to the surface in seven minutes. The affair was superintended by M. Duprey de lArne, Director-General of Naval Con struction. This is likely to prove a very useful invention. A certain Dr. Bollentuit, superintendent of a bydropathic establishment is endeavouring to carry out a scheme for bringing sea water to Paris. He believes that he can carry the water from the Channel to Paris at a very small cost, and have it laid on to every house just as ordinary water is. His object in starting this idea is to obtain for our nearly two million inhabitants the great therapeutic advantages which he believes are to be derived from the use of salt water. The news from Belgrade is very serious, and at present we do not know what to make of it. There is a suspicion that Russia is at the bottom of the affair, but at present the Paris journals withhold their comments, desiring to have further details before they express an opinion. Meanwhile, we have information from the neighbouring country of Roumania, which spews how unsettled is the condition of all the Danubian Provinces. A little while ago the Austrian Government endeavoured to persuade ours and your to unite in insisting upon the withdrawal of a certain document published by Stephen Golesco, the Prime Minister, which the Vienna Cabinet considered offensive. Thereupon Prussia interposed, and declared that such pressure would stultify Prince Charles in the eyes of his subjects, and that the most serious consequences would • result. I fear that after the murder at Belgrade we shall hear of further complications. A Vienna paper vouches for Prince Napoleon's pacific tendencies. He is credited with desiring the unification of Italy and the restoration of Poland. But it is addel that he sees the time for these changes is not come. There is certainly a good deal of agitation among the Poles just now, and they seem to think that before long they will be able to utter something more than pitiable com plaints against the outrageous oppression of the Russian Government. The Brunswickers are just now debating who shall be their next sovereign. The general impression seems to be that they, will unite themselves to Prussia, but that the connection between them and King William will he, as in the Duchy of Lauenburg, only a personal one. Perhaps they won't be consulted in the matter any more than the lianoverians have been. We hear the last of the Tunisian difficulty to-day. The Bey completely " caved in." He wrote a letter to our consul expressing his extreme regret at the temporary sus pension of diplomatic relations, and his formal adherence to the financial convention, whereupon up went the tri colour, and all was harmony again. The Montt cur is likely to come into the law courts. The Government wants to transfer it to M. Plon, the Imperial publisher, but the present personnel claim a large compen sation, declaring that the official journal belongs to them, whereas the Emperor and his Ministers consider it to be. Government property. According to present appearances the dispute will have to he decided by the judges. M. Henri Rochefort is said to have sold 80,000 copies of the first number of La Lanterne, and thereby to have made £640. If he go on at this rate, he will be getting over £30,000 a year. It is rumoured that he has been wounded in an encounter with the Prince of Moskowa, but I believe there is no foundation for the report. A hairdresser is the fortunate winner of the great prize of £6,000 in the lottery for the Enfants Paurres. Much amusement was caused in the Corps L4gislatif by the appearance of the lucky man in a :tate of high excite ment. He would come to see his deputy, and insisted upon the honourable member going off with him in ( r ler to obtain payment of the money forthwith. As the elections are close at hand, of course the deputy went, amid the laughter of his colleagues. THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. Eitreme Sea Friday, F. June 12, D. T . 111 W. Ito F. D. WR. to 8 a.m. P; 12 9 Nairn - 2 Aberdeen Leith - Shields - - N.W. 2 2 E. c. 2 !gcarborough 30'21r. 59 54 W.S.W. 2 2 B.E. o.cb - 2 Yarmouth 3)'24r . 159 56 W.N.W. 2 3 B. c.o. - 2 II elder - N. Cuxhaven - % ;55 W. 2 2 N.W. f.o. - 2 ( Jpel .! lear 3O 33r. 54 ;53 8. 2 2 S. c.o. - 2 sPt 39•3::r. 155 152 N.W. 2 3 W. c.b. - 1- oly ben - 1. ver)00l - 1 Arilroiman 30•2 ff. sri ,52 W. .W 3 3 N.W. c.o. - 2 iireencasile 30•1•3 f. 154 52 W.S.W. 3 2 E. c.o. - -- Penzance - 2 Plymouth - 1 - - I - 1 ortsmouth j 30'31r. 'GI; 53 N. 1 4 W.N.W. c. - 1 I. 311tbm „ 3o'l:9r. 62 57 N.W. 3 1 W. - t•reGrisNez - - _ 'treat - 2 1 orient. - 2 1 .,, c ),,f 0r t 3o'29s. 61 56 N.E. 4 5 N.W. b. - 1 I :in rri 30'238. 63 61 W. 3 3 W. c. - (*.min 13".) 67 65 - N.W. - - - b. - 4 Mussels ... • - - - _ Paris - - Strasbourg - - 1 i c ) 3 71 0 3 0 " :::: 29;4f. 1 S.W. 17. -:- hearts Con tent (6 a.m. loca l time) 30'285. 55 W.S.W. 1 3 W.S.W. b. - 2 rxrLA NA TI4 Barometer corrected and reduced to n deg. a sea level. Theletters falling ; s., steady—indicate direction of motion of the r., ruing; f. , mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm Weather : b.—blue sky ; c.—clouds. detached ; f.—fog ; h.—ha.ll; I.—lightnirg ; m,—nristy, hazy ; o.—overcast, dull; r.—rain; s.- snow; t.—thunder. Bali.-fall, snow or hail (melted) during last 24 hours. Boa disturbance. REMARKS. The atmospherical pressures at all stations are high, especially i n the south-west of Ireland. Since last evening there has teen some diminution in the north of Scotland, whilst scarcely any change has occurred at other stations. Temperature is nearly the same as yester day. During yesterday light and variable winds prevailed, and this ni 'mg the wind is northerly at• southern stations, but in our western and northern districts it is moderate from W. to S.W. Th e weather is dry, and the sky is generally overcast, but clear at some stations. The Parisians are beginning to think that the embellish. ment of their city may cost too dear. Madame Rachel charges £l,OOO for converting a hag into a Hobe ; but with Baron Hanssmann thousands are but as a drop in the ocean. A certain M. Leon Say has b een pu b lishing some statistics which show how enormously expensive the beauti fying process, as applied to Paris, has been. First comes t h e Rne Turbigo, with £2,700,000 against it ; then the Rue eaumur, with £2,540,000; then the Boulevard Haussmann, w hi c h (the Emperor of Paris is clearly an unselfish man) costs only a little over £2,000,000, though bearing its maker's name . The first of these streets is still unfinished, and will cost three millions before it is completed. Building is not the only occupation in which this active-minded Adile e ngages. He has a perfect mania for altering the names of streets and the numbers of houses ; and a story is told of a Parisian who left his house in the morning, and on returning to it in the evening found that he no longer lived at No. 76 this street, but No. 26 that. Naturally enough), he began to doubt his own identity when a house substantial enough to outlive his descendants of the third generation could be thus transformed in a few hours. All the world is " going to the dogs." There is scarcely a State but what is increasing its taxation and making fresh loans. As the Morning Post says: " Everywhere increased taxation and quasi-bankruptcy ! The borrowing game is over ; excessive burdens begin in most continental States, and yet with all this it is doubtful if many States will be able to produce respectable and satisfactory budgets in 1869. Since Napoleon 111. came to the throne all the world has got into debt. The Crimean war is fraught with yet untold evils, for from that period the soldiering and fighting curse began to afflict Europe, and is now bringing most countries to a state of bankruptcy." Can anything be done to relieve the conscience of Europe from the burden which must lie upon it so long as Russia is allowed to work its wicked will in Poland ? It is not absolutely necessary that the Poles should be trodden under foot, even though governed by a sovereign who is not of their race. In Galicia Austria allows her Polish subjects to " breathe freely," as Prince Czartoryski says. The Morning Poet believes that Europe has shown a very Short-sighted policy with regard to the Polish question. Our contemporary asserts that " it is every day more and fore evident that a barcier is required for that overpower ing mass of brute force which the Cabinet of St. Petersburg ' Russian civilisation :' and when the time does come, Cs it must before long, when 411 these matters are again brought into question, it will not he forgotten that Poland, if once reconstituted as an independent kingdom, would offer the best of all barriers that could be esta olimhed, if not the only one that has any chance of being maintained. At present, deprived of their name, their ianguage, their property, au.l even of their religion, the Poles are in a deplorable state indeed ; but brighter days for them appear to be at hand, and the time they havebided so long, and with such unwavering patience and determina tion, may be much nearer than anyof us atpresent suspect." If this is anything more than a mere journalist's flourish it means, we suppose, that the Prince who is now on his travels " Without any political object," will, before long, be reviving the glories of Sigisnaund 11. in Cracow, or even in Warsaw. Yet, we fear that a whole sea of blood lies between him and his throne. Russia will not let Poland go without fighting harder even than she fought at SebastmoL ..~ ~ tit~~~w~ ~~~rl~Tw.~L~wa~ A REFRACTORY ENGINE. A singular accident has occurred on the Brecon and Merthyr Railway. As one of the luggage trains was pro ceeding in the direction of Brecon the driver fancied he saw something wrong with his engine, and stretched him self as far as he could on one side to get a view of its movements, when just at that moment his head came in contact with a telegraph post, and he was killed on the spot. Two days later this particular engine was again concerned in another tragedy. A new driver had it in charge, and was going at the usual speed towards Taly bout, when, from some cause or other, the engine (so we read) ran wild, and passing through Talybout at a tremen dous speed, ran some distance and fell down the embankment, pulling the carriages after it, a heap of wreck and ruin. The poor engine-driver was found under his engine much in jured, but it is not thought fatally. Fora lung distance the railway was covered with luggage, and sosut up that the passengers by subsequent trains had to got out and walk some distance. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOA INSTITUTION. A meeting of this institution has been held at ifs house in Jelm-street, Adelphi—Mr. Thomas Chapman, F.R.S., in the chair. Several awards having been voted to the crews of many of the society's lifeboats for bravery displayed in en deavouring to rescue wrecked vessels, it was reported that on the application of his Excellency the Governor of the Isle of Man the institution had decided to station a lifeboat at Ramsey on that island. James Ryder, a member of the Manchester Corporation, had, • through the Manchester branch of the Lifeboat Society, liberally promised to defray the cost of the boat. A lady at Plymouth had presented to the institution the lift boat that was about to be placed on board the pilot ship at Burry Holmes, near Llanelly in memory of her late parents. The Right Hon. H. T. L. Carry, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, bad, forwarded the society a liberal donation of £lO. The thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, was ordered to be presented to Admiral G. A. llalsted, late secretary of Lloyd's, in acknowledgment of his long and valuable eo-operation while occupying that ofF.ce. The lifeboat "Manchester Unity," of the Indepen dent Order of Odd Fellows, would be exhibited at the Crystal Palace during their forthcoming fete. It was re ported that legacies had recently been bequeathed to the society by the late Miss Louisa Hall, of Ma - da Vale, £l,OOO Stock ; the ltVe Mr. E. A. Bromehead, of Lincoln, 4100 ; the late Dr. G. E. Aldred, £lOO ; awl the late Mrs. Mary Chapman, of .Aldborough, £6O. The committee expressed their regret at the death of Admiral the Earl of Shrews bury and Talbot, who for many years past had been a warm friend and liberal supporter of the National Lifeboat institution. • At Falmouth, on the 3d instant, a lifeboat regetta took place amongst the nine lifeboats of the institu- Goa stationed in that locality. It was witnessed with great ieterest by the numerous visitors to the Bath and West of England Agricultural Societs's Show, whose committee divided £2l amongst the lifeboat crews. The race was won by the Gool boat, which is named the Ox fordshire, and was enlivened by . the presence of 500 sailor boys from her Majesty's training ship Ganges. These lads were addressel by the Mayor of Falmouth, and by Mr. Lewis, the secretary of the institution. The latter, in a few earnest and forcible remarks, pointed out that the same courage and noble indifference to danger when duty called, which English seamen manifested in times of war, were displayed in times of peace in the services rendered to humanity by the boats of the National Lifeboat Institution. The thanks of the institution were ordered to be expressed to Mr. J. Freeman, in acknowledgment of his handsome gift of the polished granite- slab in which the society's barometer is fixed in front of the Falmouth Custom House. Reports were road front the inspector and the assis tant- inspector of lifeboats to the insti.ution on their recent visits to various lifeboat stations o the society on the The Marquis of Hastings, before quitting Paris, left with the Jockey Club a Emu of 10,000 fr., of which 7,500 fr. were for the poor of Paris and 2,500 fr. for the English Church at Chantilly. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.—The number of pas sengers over the Metropolitan, Hammersmith, and St. John's•wood Railways on Whit Monday was 127,636 ; and the total number for Whitsun week, 641,031. In the case of Darby v. Beales and others (which was tried in the Bail Court a fow months Lack, and was an action against WU tm Beaks, one of the directors of the projected new Reform Club, for expenses in connection with it is now stated that the matter has been arranged, the deft ndants agreeing so pay a certain sum of money. The Irish Church Commission (says the Dublin Expre.,;) have concluded the collection of information. They have prepare valuable schedules, sheaving the number of members of the Church in each parish, and the gross income of the incumbent, and all deductions, and all the sources whence the income is derived. The report may be shortly looked for. - THE CANADIANS AND THE DERBY.—Considerable excitement was manifested in sporting circles at Toronto in reference to the Derby. The stakes placed on the result were larger than any previously known there, and some say that as much dols. changed hands in the city. One enterprising individual is said to have obtained a tele gram direct, and netted a handsome sum by the transac tion.—Toronto Globe. THE .8113.4111 ER CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.—in addition to the circuits already noticed, the North Wales Circuit has been fixed by Lord Chief Justice Bovill, the judge on that circuit, as follows :—Newtown, July 16 ; Dolgelly, July 20 ; Carnarvon, July 23 ; Beaumaris, July 27 ; Ituthin, July 30 ; Mold, August 3 ; Chester, August 6, where his lordship will . be joined by Mr. Justice Mon tague Smith. A round robin was recently presented to the maser of a great school complaining of the sourness of the beer supplied to the boys. The master sententiously re plied, " My dear boys, all men and all things are imper fect. You, too, have your faults, and you ought to occupy yourselves with correcting them, instead of undertaking to reform my cellar. When you have corrected the acidity of your own tempers it will be high time for you to com plain of the sourness of my beer." SUICIDE OF A BELGIAN OFFICER.—An inquest has been held in the board-room of the Mile-end Work. house, on the body of M. Michel Fratz, an' officer of the Belgian army, who committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had for some time had a lawsuit pending in connection with property coming to him upon his marriage, the anxiety attendant upon which had affected his mind. The jury considered that the rash act w, s committed in a fit of temporary insanity, and returned a verdict to that effect. THE CALAIS COAL MINES.-111 the year 1866 there were 30 coal mines at tvork in the neighbourhood of Calais, Producing 1,621,400 tons of coal. In 1811 only one mine was at work, which raised 4,933 tons. In 1855 the district numbered 7 colleries, and seven years later this was increased to 27. From 1851 to the Ist January 1867, a total quantity of 10,000,000 tons have been obtained from these mines, of which 6,500,000 tons, or nearly two. thirds, since 1862. In 1866 the total quantity obtained was 1,621,400 tons, or about one-tenth of the total produce of France. The minority of the Ulster Presbyterian Assembly have prepared a protest against the pro-establishment resolutions of the majority, which but little exceeds them in number. In one of the articles of this pro test it urged that the Assembly ought not to have omitted to condemn, lest it should be taken as approving,"present ecclesiastical arrangements in Ireland. The opportunity of having " the evils to which Presbyterians have been subject for two hundred years removed," and at the same time securing that " indiscriminate endowment" shall not take place, has (they say) been lost. A committee is appointed to answer these statements. A remarkable scene has been witnessed in Bir mingham. An old edifice, formerly used aq an asylum, had fallen into the hands of a man named Phillips, who claimed to be the owner. A few days ago he made arrangements fox selling the property, and this step created so much indigna tion that an attack was made on the premises. The mob in vain•called for Phillips, and the premises were forcibly en tered. The windows were speedily demolished, the house ransacked, almost every article of furniture wassmashed, the stairs were torn down, the doors pulled away, and the work of destruction was proceeding with marked success when the police interfered, and after a severe struggle the mob was b aten off. Phillips, his son, and the auctioneer were not 4 . , be found, having made their escape previous to the atta:k. THE LATE EARL OF SHREWSBURY. —The lying in state of the body of the deceased Earl of Shrewsbury having been fixed for Thursday, Ingcstre Hall waivisited by a great number of people, chiefly from the contiguous villages. The body was placed in One of the lower rooms of the hall, which was darkened for the occasion, six wax tapersserving just to show the contents, and barely shewing, till the visitor was accustomed to the gloom, that a detach ment of yeomanry cavalry, of which the successor to the earldom is major, was on guard. On the coffin were the earl's coronet, admiral's hat, uniform, and sword, and at the foot was the earl's robe of State. There were also the Orders- of the Redeemer of Greece, St. Louis of France, and St. Anne of Russia, besides the various British Orders to which the deceased earl belonged. The interment will be performed in the little churchyard, close to the ball, and, besides the relatives, about forty of the Dri4ginal ions AttAYASil4Sl9l4Ink . _ . , „ 16' in. 4 I E 7 7 11 1 , 4 1 gar F 1 ER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, June 9. The Queen drove out in the morning, with the Duchess of Athole in attendance ; and in the after noon her Majesty again drove out, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by Miss Mac gregor. EDUCATION IN BIRMINGHAM. A public meeting_ was held in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Tuesday evening, " to take into C msideration the deplorable deficiency of the pro visions for education in this town, and the means proposed by the Birmingham Education Society to reint.dy the existing evils." The Mayor (Mr. 'l'. Avery) rr..-sided ; and letters of apology for absence were read from the Earl of Lichfield, Lord Leigh, Lord Lyttelton, the Bishop of Worcester, Sir John Pakington, the lion. C. G.' LyttAton, M.P., Mr. George Dixon, M.P., &c. There was a large at tendance. His worship, in opening the proceedings, said that it was evident the Educational Society had undertaken a highly honourable but laborious, difficult, and costly work. One of the first condi tions with which they commenced their organiza tion was to endeavour to obtain local rating powers. The object to be achieved was so vast, and so purely of national interest and importance iu its character, that some power, either imperial or local, was necessary to cope with a difficulty so long seated and profound. But, as this power could not at pre sent be obtained, the society had, with great energy and resolution, commenced the work themselves. .1 hey had first obtained some most valuable infor mation, from which it appeared that there were in Birmingham rather more than 45,000 children be tween the ages of . three and fifteen. Roughly speaking, at least half of those who were destined hereafter to take an active part in the inauufactur: ing, social, and poli.ical duties were absolutely without education of any kind, so far as could be ascertained. Was not that a necessity, an evil of the first magnitude, calling for all the energies of benevolent, resolute, statesmanlike minds to struggle with? It further appeared that the society, wi.h laborious effort, had' accumulated funds by which up to the present time they had supplied gratuitous education to nearly 5,000 children ; and having, with so much success, commenced this good and noble work, they then desired to come before their constituents to give an account of their stewardship, describe the operations in which they were engaged, and appeal for public .sympathy, appreciation, and support. He wished them most heartily God speed, and be was persuaded that both that meeting and the town at large would liberally supply them with the con tributions which they required. The Rev. Dr. Wilkinson, the rector, moved "That the existing provisions for the education of the people of Bir4 mingham were insufficient to meet the wants of the community." He said the investigations which had been carried on by the committee were deeply important, and the results presented in their annual report were highly interesting. At present an expenditure was going on by the committee in connection with that society at the rate of about £2,000 a year that was, there were school orders issued to parents of children which, if used, would entail an expenditure on the society of that sum ; and if additional subscriptions were not forthcoming, the society would have to give notice—indeed, they had area ly given notice—that the number of orders must be diminished, the effect of. which would be that many of the children who were now receiv ing education would be sent back upon the streets. The total number of those who had received orders was 3,009 ; the total attendance, 214,416 ; and the total possible attendance, 255,336. The sum ex pended by the society up to the time of the issue of the report was £397 18s. 5.1., of which there had been paid in respect to children attending Church of England schools, £274 13s. Bd., and in respect to children of schools of other denominations, £123 2s. 91. The parents themselves chose the school to which the children should be sent. The rev. gentleman made an earnest appeal fir further support to the society, which, if continued, would be the means of making many a child a credit to the town where otherwise it would be a disgrace and a reproach. The Rev. R. W. Dale, Independent Minister, said that be tween the ages of three and six there were 15,000 children in Birmingham who were neither at school nor at work. The society had put its hands upon about 6,000 of these children, and there were about 4,000 actually attending school, and receiving in struction which was paid for by the society. Was any considerable number of these children to be turned out of school into the streets ? The present income of the society, for ordinary purposes, amounted to rather more than £5OO a year, and in order to carry on the work already in hand they re quired £2,000 a year. The parents were too poor to provide the money. 300 cases were taken at random, and it was found that the average income, after deducting rent, was Is. lid. per head per week. 300 other families were taken, and 80 of them were found to be the families of widows, or of women whose husbands had forsaken them, and the average income of these 80 families, after deducting rent, was 104 d. per head per week. Where, then, were the funds to be obtained ? Some said get a rate, and he believed in that, but they could not get a rate this year, nor next, nor perhaps the year after; and meanwhile what was to become of the children ? He seconded the motion. Mr. Councillor Bald win suggested that till a rate could be obtained persons should rate themselves voluntarily at id. in the 'pound on the property they occupied, which would raise quite sufficient if generally paid. The motion was unanimously agreed to. Archdeacon Sandford moved;—" That the Birming ham Education Society, having been formed to meet this deficiency by raising funds to provide instruc tion for the poor, and by taking steps to obtain rating powers on behalf of education, is worthy of the support of the town." Alderman Hawkes se conded the proposition, 'and it was carried. The Rev. C. Clarke (Unitarian) moved—" That, in consequence of the large amount now being paid for the school fees of poor children, the expenditure of the society is very much above its income, and this meeting pledges itself to make efforts to secure such addition to its funds as shall enable the com mittee to extend their operations, or at least con tinue them on the present scheme, so that none of the 5,000 poor children now at school may be dis missed back again into the streets." This was se conded by the Rev. Canon Gover and unanimously agreed to. A vote of thanks tb the Mayor termi nated the proceedings. MEETING OF ELECTORS IN ST. PANCRAS.-- On Wednesday evening a number of the residents in Camden-town met at the Elephant Tavern, 224, High street, to organise a branch of the Marylebone Reform League and Wade's Electoral Association. The meeting was convened by bills announcing a public meeting, and was well attended. A deputation from the central council was in attendance, and explained the objects of the association, which were much approved of by the audience. Messrs. Henwood, Last: ey, Campbell, and Spencer addressed the meeting, after which, a sufficien t -number of members having joined, officers and committe e were chosen, and the branch put iu working order. Messrs. J. Dunn and R. Hedges were elected chairman and secre tary, and the branch will meet every Wednesday evening/ at eight o'clock, at the Elephant. PR f EY • EDUCATION (IRELAND.).—The Roya l Commission on Prim•try Education (Ireland) met ou Wed nesday at the offices of the Commission, 46, Upper Sac''' ville-street, Dublin. There were present—the Earl of Powis, the Earl of unraven, the Bishop of Meath, Sir I l' Kane, Master Brcadce, Rev. Dr. Wilson, Rev. B. M. Cowie , Mr. Deas?, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Stokes, and Professor Sulli van. The secretaries, Messrs. May and Dunne, were attendance. The prices of Horniman's Teas are greatly reduced; their well-known superiority has attracted a host of spurious linitationg; therefore notice all Genuine Packets are signe d ' " Ilornintan c 0.," London. 300 Confectioners are Age° . in London and 2,200 Chernisteinthe Country. Tt activ in ti that cease vertu off. the The Ti, whiel for t Ge or Th soli for A 94i t Cent; 'mem In Lotul Luxe Th 3 pe: Di Nev I\TeVcr A Dc S a ,1n Dc Dc,, -v..;zet Dc Dc -I3•Lat Ar;c Au st 'l"3l7aL )3 '41 D, 0, 111 1)( D ( I) ( 1) ( C D gin, D~ ui g~l „.. iree U , 11( I)( r , -13( • tat 11 1 • la ID ( ( 11,,, 'Ju boo NeR eri ll Pu~•i