The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-04 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(ram ova orN coniumrommare.)
PARIS, WEDNEYDAT EVENING.

The Emperor on leaving the Exhibition on Mon-
day did not go out,according to the programme, by
the gate fronting the Ecole Militaire, exactly op-
posite the one by which he had entered. On the
contrary he returned as he had conic by the Pont
de Jena. What can have been the reason for this
inconvenient departure from an arrangement an-
nounced and upon which the public had calculated
I have heard a suggestion which I incline to think
correct. By 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Monday
his Majesty must have been aware of M. de Bis-
marck's answer to M. Benningsen's intorpellations,
which unmistakeably means that Franco shall not
have Luxemburg unless she fights for it ; and
stung by such a check he did not choose to pass
under the shadow of the colossal equestrian statue
of the King of Prussia, which he must
have done had he left the building by the Ecole
Militaire gate. The Prussian commission had in
the course of the morning pulled off the great gar-
land of laurels which was hung around the helmet,
but this delicate attention did not suffice to re-
move the objection.
It is noticed by the papers that the telegram with
the report of Bismarck's speech, which left Berlin
on the morning of April 1, was kept back from the
public till the same hour on April 2. The Moniteur
du Soir contained a wretched paragraph last night
trying to make out that Bismarck's speech was
quite satisfactory to France, and being rightly
interpreted meant that Prussia had not the least
objection to the King of Holland doing what
he liked with his duchy. But the government
having slept upon the matter feels that this con-
struction is too absurd, and accordingly the big
Moniteur this morning does not reproduce the rea-
soning of its little brother, but contents itself with
giving a report of what took place in the smallest
possible print.
The Empress is indisposed ; and in consequence
the usual Thursday evening reception and a grand
dinner which was announced for to-morrow arc
postponed. I presume that the treacher an north
wind which accompanied the bright April sun on
the opening day of the Exhibition gave her Ma-
jesty one of those annoying grippes which are now
very prevalent.
Visitors to the Exhibition will do well to bring
with them a sufficient wardrobe for the whole
period of their stay, and postpone the experi-
ment of a French coat (unless they would put
up with a ready-made one) to some future op-
portunity. The strike of the tailors is uni-
versal, and not one of the great houses will
undertake to execute an order within any given
time. There is to be a meeting to-morrow between
a committee of masters and workmen, at No. 14,
Rue St. Anne, but a fashionable tailor on the
Boulevard des Italiens tells me he has very little
hope that an arrangement will then be come to.

it is scarcely credible, but yet a fact, that the great
majority of the Senate referred to ministers as
worthy of favourable consideration a petition
praying that all private manufactories of lucifer
matches should be suppressed, and that
the state should have a monopoly of making
safety matches by a peculiar preparation of phos-
phorus. It was in vain that Baron Buteval pro-
tested that such a law would involve the revision
of various treaties with foreign countries, and that
it was nut the duty of the state to stand in the
place of fathers of families, who should take care

that children did not poison themselves ~cith
lucifer matches, or of the police and law c”iirts
whose business it was to punish crime and culla-
ble neglect. The petition was sent to the ministry,
where, of course, it will go into the waste paper
basket.

The Bourse has not recovered, and closed (Ara
weaker than yesteniay.

ENGLAND AND SPAIN.

IMPORTANT DESPATCH OF LORD STANLEY.-
DEMAND FOR COMPENSATION AND AN A. 1.0.
LOGY.

This morning was issued *hatch of ozrispon.
dence respecting the seizure by a Spanish revenue enther,
the Toro, of a British coasting vessel belonging to Gibraltar,
called the Queen Victoria. It will be seen from th,
lowing important despatch of Lord Stanley, dated SatuN
day last, that her Majesty's government insists upon toe
restoration of the ship, proper pecuniary indemnity,
an expression of regret for the outrage committed cai
British flag :

" LORD STANLEY TO 81R J. CRAMPTON.
" Foreign-office, March .4.
_

" Sir,— 1 have received from Mr. Consul Dunlop a copy
of his report to you of the 19th of Feb., on the case of the
Queen Victoria, and, having again consulted the law OE.
cern of the crown, I am at length in a position to instruct
you as to the reply which you should make, on behalf of
her Majesty's government, to General Calonge's letter of
the 9th of Jan. last, of which a copy was inclosed in you
dispatch of the 11th of that month.
"The Queen ViCtOtia was relied so long ago as the nth
of Jan., 181;6, by a Spanish guards-costa, on the high
and not within Spanish waters, while on her voyage from
Gibraltar to Laraiclte, her crew being first terrified into
submission ; she was taken to Cadiz, where her crew were
dispersed, money being given to enable them to depart
from Cadiz, and threats of violence being used if they
should remain in the place. The master of the vessel
was for a time placed under restraint, and his papers
were taken from him ; the name of the vessel was defaced
from the stern, and on the second morning after hat
arrival at Cadiz she was reported as having been found
derelict off Rota, at the mouth of Cadiz harbour. This
allegation, however, was afterwards abandoned, and no
the following March, without any intimation of legal pm.
ceedings being pending against her having been given to
her Majesty's consul, who was in constant communication
with the Spanish authorities with a view to her release,
the vessel was condemned, for having been found landing
contraband goods on the Spanish shore or close thereto,
and the goods found on board her sold under a public
advertisement.

"I do not think it necessary to recapitulate at length
the proceedings at Cadiz, as reported by her Majesty's
consul, or the ineffectual remonstrances which, under in.
structions from her Majesty's government, you made at
Madrid, when demanding redress for the' outrage which
had been committed on a British vessel on the high sc.s.
" It is enough to refer to the assurances verbally given
to you by the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, as re-
ported in your despatch of the ith of June, that he greatly
regretted that her Majesty's government should have sup-
posed that the delay in replying to his representations re.
ganling the Queen Victoria had proceeded from disincline.
tion on the part of the Spanish government to do justice
to that of Great Britain, and that the matter was in the
hands of the Finance Minister with a view to the institu.
tion of a most searching inquiry into the facts of the mit.,
which he agreed with her Majesty's government in eon.
sidering to be of a serious nature.
"In his letter of the 24th of May, inclosed in your
despatch of the 26th, the Spanish Minister for Foreign
Attain had previously assured you that he had • earnestly
impressed ou the Minister of Finance the necessity of
hastening as much as possible the proceedings in order
not to delay the satisfaction due to her Majesty's gee. re-
inent, either of well-founded explanations or of the pu :jab-
ment of those who had infringed the law in a manner Car.
responding to their offence, if, in fact, the result should
prove such infraction.'
" tip to the 6th of November last, however, no such
solution hail taken place, and it was only on the tith of
January of the present year that, is reply to your letter et
the 6th of November, expressing, hy my direction, the sur-
prise of her Majesty's government at a satisfactory reply
having been so long delayed, the Spanish Minister for
Foreign Affairs announced to you that the Finance Minister
and the council of state had discovered • that the nature
of the matter in question did not, and does not, nit of
the action of the executive, as it is solely in the province
of the Spanish tribunal to decide upon the legality or ille-
gality of the capture of the Queen h turns, the cargo of
which consisting, as it almost entirely did, of tobacco,
could not but excite suspicion concerning the true destine.
tion of the vessel.' _ _

" General Calonge, in hie letter of January 9, goes on to
say ' that, in view of the non-intervention of the lintish
consul and of the parties interested in the inquiries set
on foot at Cadiz, and although they made no reclamation
at the proper time, confiscation decreed against this chip
should be declared void in equity, thus leaving open the
road for the 'add consul, and the other persons whom it
may concern, to present themselves and defend then in-
terests before the tribunal which take-, cognisance of the
matter, and to elnint what they may conceive to he due to
them by right ; and further, ' that, if in the final result
of the trial, the British government should consider that
there be notorious injustice committed to the detriment of
the defendants, there would then be a fitting opportunity
fur treu:iug by diplomacy.'
" Her Majesty's government regret to say that they can
attach nu weight to these tarty assurances extracted from
the Spanish government after the lapse of nearly a year
from the time that the wrong was dune, and of more than
half a year since a prompt settlement' of the question
was formally recommended to the Spanish Minister el
Finance by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, as stated to
you by the latter in his letter of the 11th of June, inclosed
in your desp.teli of the lOth of that month.
" Her Majesty's government must observe, in noticing
that part of the statement of General Calonge iu u high he
asserts that the British consul and parties intereqed omit-
ted to intervene and make reclamation, that General ea.
longs has been misinformed on this subject. From the
moment that the news of the seizure of the Queen Vicuna
came to the knowledge of the British consul, he made in-
cesaant and urgent dennuida for the delivery up of the
vessel and cargo—demands which her l'ilajesty's govern.
motif regret to state were wholly ineffectual to prevent the
unlawful proceedings of those who persisted in condemning
and confiscating the property seized.
"The original capture, then, was a lawless and wholly
unjustifiable act; justice, though frequently demanded
has been denied ' • the sale of the Barge and of the seas&
was illegal ; and all the proceedings taken against the yee
eel were not only contrary to juxtice, and therefore void,
but they must have been taken with a full conviction of
their illegality, and were adopted, as her Majesty's govern-
ment are conetniined to believe, fur the purpose, or in a
of the purpose, of covering or concealing the unreal law.
less ace of the captain and crew of the Spanish guilds.
coact..

" In this state of things her Majesty's government mast
decline to accept the conclusion act forth in Cener.il
Calonge's letter of the 9th of January, that the coati:es-
tion decreed against the Queen Victoir, shall he &dared
void, so as to open the root for the consul and other re'
sous interested to present themselves :old their
interests before the proper tribunal. 00 the contrary,
her Majesty's government must at once in,i,t on the im-
mediate restoration of the ship and cargo, or their full
value, and on proper pecuniary indemnity to her espy=
and Crew ; accompanied by an expres.sion Of rcgrct
dressed to her Majesty's government fur the outrage Louis
matted on the British flag.
" You will furnish General Calogne with a copy of this
despatch, which is the reply of her Maposty s tit
to his letter of the 9th of January, and smi wig ss
the earnest hope of her Majesty's government t1...t t.bo
government of her catholic 3lajesty will not snow this
matter to assume the proportion of a sei Mileicnes
between Great Britain and Spaiii.-1 am, ac..
(Signed) " %NT t)."

The brother of the Tycoon is yia•c
pouted at Marseilles, with a suite rer.,lls. Ile
brings with him 30 youths belonging to the iiio.t nt
families in Japan, who are coining to cwwplc to tl.c.r ~iac-
ation in France.
A letter front Wellington (New Zealan.l), dated
two months ago, nays Ilia excellency
Canterbury, proposing to Lave for ()tag., to.xt
reception has been most enthusiastic, an.l e,in.eially et
Westland, the site of the west coast diggo,.. Three
years ago no one had ever crossed the Sinitherti
dividing the east and west coasts of the .11i.1,11.• bland.
There was &tradition that a party of a lion Ired naf., es
had once attempted it, but all save two or Caw. 1.a.1
perished. The discovery of go:afield* quickly changed
everything—passes were discovered. bridle tro 14. col. 3111.1
finally a road made, along which Cobh s Ameriv in coaches
now rapidly bowl. Hie excellency and 'old" r. 1.: to Hold'
tika, the principal town on the west coast, in two days;
the illuminations in his honour attracting four thousand
people in the streets, which two years ago ware primeval
forest. The only accident, we are told, was a slight ca-
plosion of gas at the' Prince of Wales twr.i.ltouse..7
The Fenian prisoner 141`Clure was itioa 0,41
yesterday by the Knockadown ccsuitguardsnien as the
leader of the party which sacked that *Labia.

TIPPERARY ELECTP)N (')MMITTEE.
THlti DAY.)

fra c•aitinittee appointed to try the merits of
win ce.plaintir4 of an 1111.ille election and return
• . el Tipperary sat again this morning, Sir P.
111 the chair. The evidence un behalf of the
• was proet edeil with.
MK.:iatia, parish priest or savernii.e..
" stated th it. em the day of tlection, he
r ~.r, in cos to pall t.a l'artaiii White. They
thettealces Im.y:tidy and orderly. Witness

to tAcht• thcm—quit.e the juntntry.

Irivud, aceonquinieil the *iziWra to the poll;
hd I.e about IVO altogether. They were not
a - Ilear.' that Dome rioting had
, but witnessed none. I 'sea no apiritual
eto ,ontrul the votes of the electoiK. Lord
•'!‘ . ,st,usiac proprietor in his neigh.
I lis would lie gratifying to hint if his
rap:ails \Vilitv. Through the influence
:.t four of the s °tent vote I contrary to the
I iunally, hut witness. never Made it
' . .

• • t ..hiretiotalthough he was aware of the
• ••. t•t,•• Is fore the :Iry
aals .ltt. tuled the turtling of the clergy of
K and signed the resolution stating
,• • •• N., 1,1'11,114 of the clergy would Le used to
trtorn of Captain NVltite. tln the Sunday
...o• e • ',toll witness addreis.ell his congregation in
,;. : t,,00r of l'apt.tio \Vint, and against Mr.
-v.:kr front theylrtforto of the altar and
. .

•. loft .•.• the statutt of the diocese in doing so.
• t •ii..1•1,e of the ItisholdKillaloc, and not of the
.;.Moat IVltat I said to the congregation in the
a. t tt 'aptain White would more faithfully re-
• th, „mot) ~r Tiris•raty than Mr. Waldron, who
!,.tt,_,•••l hi, patty. also t-ferred to a matter of vital

•...1 611:, til namely, the tenant right question.
I I I not .:e.ptaintc•l with I*.,pt.,in White personally,
• from hi. ni.odp, bta.tiglitfia ward address, I expected

fnoll hi in.

I maid Yu, dit. that tilt:l:c

thin:: that intim no d nue in his favour, and that was
i. aath U•Lito'n fatlicr was onr of the lasi of

an.l wan a father to his tenantry. " Thin," I
" i. important to you. who have the power of voting
• : r ..f parliament, :mil if you agree with me you
.:1,• to suppoit Captain White."
. . . .

I:, s..P.lgine 'Malone, parish priest of Tortron, near
•. ,z!,. stated that he :,cromparutsl between 30 and 411
el voters in his district to the poll on the ninny of eloc.
li. About the saint• Imilder of persons who were not
wont with them for amusement and curiosity.
In [thin a mile fr Nenagh they met Mr. Waldron 's
ders ; but although no soldiers or police were there
• dhing offen-ive was said to them, and they were not
!, steel. NVitness sent his compliments to them. Wit-
, •- no spiritual influence over the voters, and
• inn I lot

$ ss,,,,,ssssno 11- I adilrekiiesl the congregation from the
$ r ell the Sunday before the elect ion in favour of Captain

Ilev. Frincis Stud.tart, rector of Itorrisokane,
tel I .11n a clergyman of the established church in the
Nttlet lii' of the county of Tipperary. Was at Nenagh
:I. t! iy of election (ruin II to :I o'clock. I saw no in-
: tedrtion, and no attempt to prevent any voter from
! t•itt_; for Mr. Waldron. I voted for Waldron, but was
dl interfered with. I have known other elections in
1,1.m1, rot! saw nothing in this election more violent than
witin.ssed at others. It was well known who lin
telt tl to vote for ee but I was able to walk up and down
:..e st, ids of Nenagli without molt station.
[Left sitting.]

roURT ul' 0,111.110 N COUNCIL.—(THIS DAY.)

A SCENE IN MITT.
A ountin di council was held tide morning at
ra.ll, .a which the Loma M %son presided.
Mr. I)‘via, before the regular loneness coin
• enewl, rose for the purpose of bringing before the court
.:ue,tion of privilege which he said greatly reflected
ohm his character ax a member of the corporation' and
,1,0 awn the corporation it,elf. He waa about to pro-
bet.

Th.. Lnun dl ‘V,.11 interfered ;md said it appeared to him
1...1 it would he very injuili( ions for the hon. member to
s 7, cd. I Loud cries of "Hear, hear," and "Order.")
I! knew the wibject to which the hon. member was about
: ,:11111.1, ; he considered it would be very damaging
t. the corporition if the hon. member proceeded any
i.rtb,r. Mew:, he. r.)

Deputy Li ItNEI.I. Laid if there was to be any discussion
:pen the matter, he should move that it take place with
doors. I" No, no," and confusion.)
Mr. \ wished to know what the matter was that
n.lereil it necessary that the public should be excluded?
Cain I cries of " Hear, hear.")
Mr. Deputy 111 ICSKLI. peniAted in moving that strangers
i!i) withdraw, and the 'notion war put and carried.
Mr. (Nix then, amid a scene of great confusion, de-
t amiled a division.

A division acconlingly took place, whin it appeared that
acre were For the motion to exclude strangers, 86;
otinst it, 41 —45.. . _ _

Th. motion was consequently declared to be carried,
and the further proceedings took place with elated doors.

The innster-tailors of Paris held a meeting on
Monday afternoon in the Salle de la Redoute, Rue de
Vrenelle, St. Honori:, in number about 1,500, and came
to the resolution that a committee of ten members of their
holy should put themselves in communication with ten
delegates of the workmen in order to come to an under-
standing about the claims of the latter. The masters have
since published a statement declaring that they saw no
likelihood of an arrangement in the face of the exorbitant
demands of the men. This strike is of great importance
he reason of the number of persons engaged in the con-
flict ; not lees than 2i,000 in Paris. "We learn," says
the Astra.," that the corporation of London tailors has
sent to the Central Committee in Paris a telegraphic
despatch to announce that they had placed 200,000 fr. at
the disposal of their French brother workmen."
BANGN LIZSIG ON ENGLISH CRITICN.—Baron
biebig, writing to Fraser's Mayazirie for the present month,
in defence of his estimate of Lord Bacon, says in the course
of his communication :—" I found that there existed in
England a class of literary men perfectly unknown in
France and Germany ; a class formed by gentlemen of
education, who, on the whole, are not addicted to profes-
sional studies, and wbo are generally devoid of profound
knowledge either in philosophy or natural science, but
who take part Mould frequently lead public opinion on,
the most difficult and complicated scientific questions, se,
for instance, on the value of Darwin's theory; on tbe
cause of fertility of the soil ; on the Atlantic cable ; on
utilisation of sewage, &c. Frequently these gentlemen
are members of parliament, and also have often a certain
influence on the press • and thus, as in an instance I could
mention, do their best prevent such views as clash with
their preconceived opinions from being nude known.
Moreover, as their contributions are almost always anony-
mous, it becomes difficult—sometimes impossible—to show
their went of right to meddle with such questions. I found
that the judgment of these gentlemen was determined by
peculiar rules or canons ; that they possessed a logic of
their own ; and that with them ' experiment' meant Nome-
thing quite different from what we, or at least men who
have every day to deal with it, are accustomed to attri-
bute to this word. I discovered, further, that there was
a kind of demon, who was my worst enemy, concealed
under the wonls ' induction,' principles,' and • axioms' of
Eacon. I had studied attentively my' Whewell' and my
and had learned from them that by the word ' in-
duction' is to be understood the logic of facts, so that, in
eoler to know the signification of Bacon's induction, no-
thing remained to the but to study Bacon's works. My
little book on Bacon contains all I was able to gather in
this behalf. Reading lately in the third of the admirable
lectures delivered by Professor Huxley, at the Museum of
Practical Geology, ' I do protest that of the vast number
of cant, in this world, there are none to my mind so con-
temptible as the pseudo-scientific cant which is talked
shout the Baconian philosophy,' I was ready to burst into
Pynipathetic laughter at finding that the eminent nett'.
rifig also had stumbled upon my demon. But I was less
troilcrit than Huxley, for I ought to have avoided the
struggle with that class of society whose judgment is de-
termined by Bacon's axioms, whereas, now I am stig-
rnstieed as a malicious foe of England and Englishmen,
who dips his pen in mud and poison to attack the man
whom his countrymen so deeply revere end respect. How.
14.1. indifferent I may be to other imputations, I am not
.ill willing to accept patiently the undeserved reproach
of has ing hostile to England. It is true, I was many years
fell of bitterness, mid I may say ful of hatred,againd
the ..tee e•rnentioned class of scientific dilettanti ; but I
conf. ss my wror.g, for I love England ; I love the land
and the English. During my travels in England and in
so:Aland I learned much, and spent with my friends there
the ippiest days of my life. I dare my there is no man
••ri IL, Continent who admires and esteems Englishmen
tbsn I do. My friends in Germany and France even
"'en•ech me that in this respect I go rather too far; and
ti••• fact is, that my criticisms against England, attentiveld.y
samined. will be found to be those of over•regard ; aura
• . . . .

"e rt passionate bat disappointed lore; addrrsan
t"';',ni,,oes. What I might quote in favour of this
stitoneii t is doubtless of no great weight, and I am almost
4'11.00,1 to he obliged to allude to it ; but at all events,
slight proofs founded outsets are better than strong pro.
te,t.di.ns in words. I am a friend of English literature,
aid I almost more English than Gennan works ;
twenty.two years ago I caused Darwin'. excellent 'Journal
of the Voyage of the Beagle' to be translated into German
,
my friend Dieffenbaeh ; and later I induced the pub-
-ober of my ' Letters on Chemistry' (Winter, in Leipzig),
act of my 'Agricultural Chemistry' (Viewsg, in Brune-
° 4"k ). to publish in German the work of Thomas Buckle
I' History of Civilisation'), and the works of J. Stuart Mill.
The ,•iiecess of these works was such (several editlens
h sing appeared) that since that time any English author,
'Rmittru; to whatever scientific order, bas been sure to be
known. in Germany, and translated into German."
.L'usixiX GENERAL ORNIBUIS COMPANY (LIMITED).
TrAttic neeipts for the week ending March 31, 10,7871.
14,

THE DISTRESS IN POPLAR.

DEMONSTRATION OF THE UNEMPLOYED.
(THIS DAY.)

•
Pursuant to a notice that "a procession through
the streets of London" would urge upon the government
" to take their present condition into consideration," the
unemployed met at 9 o'clock this morning at Bromley
Hall-fields, Bromley. The whole of the members
of the distress fund committee, with Mr. Mum-
mery, the president, were present, and when
the order was given for starting, over three thousand men
hail assembled. The procession wan headed by the com-
mittee, followed by a brass band and then a banner of
humble pretensions, with the inscription " Representatives
of the Distress in Poplar." Other banners were displayed
bearing the mottoes, " Time and Strength is Ar.dt.
ing ;" " Work is our Want—our Ship-yards are
Empty ;" and " t'nity and Freedom bring Peace
and Plenty." The best possible order pre-
vailed among the procession, which, by the time it. reached
Whitechapel. numbered between 4,000 and 5,000. The
route taken was along the East India-mad, Commercial-
road, Whitechapel, Leadenhall-street, and by the
Mansion-house, in passing which the progress was
very slow. Turning into Moorgate-street they pro-
ceeded to Finsbury-square, and thence into
u,, making their way to Farringilowstreet. On
passing up Fleet-street and the Strand the quietness
of the destitute men attracted much attention, and on
arriving at Trafalgar-square a halt was node, it living
the intention afterwards to march through I'll-mall, St.
Jamess-street, Piccadilly, lark-lame, Oxford-street,
lielboni, and then hoinewanL While the procession was
moving men were walking on either aide of the pavement
carrying a box, which served ex a receptacle for such
assistance as the passers-by were disposed to give to
• alleviate the distresred condition of the men and their
I families.

It is stated that the relatives of the late Mr.
l'arkin deffrock, who was killed at the Oaks Colliery, are
in good circumstances, so that the appeal to the public for
subscriptions on their behalf, however kind and welbin-
tentioned, is unnecessary.

At a sale of auto-raphs which has just taken
place in New York one of William Penn fetched 15
dollars ; of Edgar Poe, II dollars ; of George Washington,
25 dollars ; of Beethoven, 13 dollars; of Robert Iturn,,,
711 dollars ; of Lord Byron, 75 dollars; of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Il dollars; of Napoleon Bonaparte, 43 dol-
lars ; of Marshal Ney, 7 Malaria; of Robespierre, 9 dol-
lars ; and of filirabeau, 7 dollars 75 cents.

No less than nine monster steam packets are
duo this month at Southampton, (run, New York.
Early yesterday morning the goods warehouse of
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company at Hud-
dersfield was destroyed by fire. A large amount of valuable
stock wax burnt, and the damage is variously estimated at
from 10.000 f. to 1 1,0001.

W.—The Queen ha% been
pleased to present the Rev. Percy Wemyss l'hillips Nutt,
M.A., to the united vicarage of Kew with Petersham, in
the county of surrey, and diocese of Winchester, void by
the death of the Rev. Richard Burgh Bryan.— no.ette.
RF:MoV AL OF ANOTHER. CITY CIIC twii. —A scheme
has been prepared for the removal of the church of
St. Mildred at the eastern end of tho Poultry. For
many mouths past it has had no congregation. By the
removal of the church a large space will be obtained for
the improvements which have long been required in
that neighbourhood.

Cll MIt•A L TOY:l.—pr. Divers, Lecturer on Natu-
ral Philosophy at Charing-cross Hospital, writes to the
TimcA :—" I. it not time the public were cautioned
against the dangers of 'chyinical toys? more especially
as the printed assertions often sold with them making
them out to be harmless, are not to be relied
upon. Within the last two years or so a great
number of these toys have been brought out,
most of them either highly poisonous or ihingerouidy
combustible. Thus, Pharaoh's Serpents,' composed of sul-
phocyaniile of mercury, arc highly poisonous, and during
combustion evolve boost noxious vapours. ' Linnes du Diable,'
formed of metallic sodium, burn with great violence if they
are either heated or moistened with water—in this respect
exceeding phosphorus in danger—and scatter caustic alkali
about the place when they are used as directed. ' Sun-
shine in Winter Evenings ' and ' Fiery Swords,' formed of
magnesium, are apt in the hands of children to cause nasty
burns, through the rapidity of their combustion and the
molten and white-hot particles they cast off. ' Sensation Ci-
garettes,' charged with gun cotton, project, when fired, very
noxious vapours into the mouth ; o' the Wisp Paper,'
Parlour Lightning,' Fireflies," Aerial Glowworms,'
&c., all formed of pyroxilin, or paper rendered explosive by
the action of concentrated nitno and sulphuric acids, are
highly intlionn.ableand dangerous—the latest proof of whichi
is the terrible accident last week at Mr. Laidlaw's workshop.
I have myself known bad injuries caused by experimenting
with sodium and water, and also with dowers of sulphur
and chlorate of potassium, the rubbing together of which
in small quantities is so often recommended in books on
' Parlour -Magic,' Sc., as an amusing experiment, quite
free from danger. The use of chemical toys in educating
children in the science of natural phenomena must be ex-
oreditgly slight, and quite incommensurate with their
dan_ger."
HIGHLAND SPORTS AT GIBRALTAR. —TIIC annual
Highland games of the 78th Roaa-shire Buffs took place on
the North Front on Thursday last, under most favourable
auspiees. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh
kindly honoured the game with his presence, and officiated
as judge. We observed among the spectators Sir Richard
and Lady Airey, Major-General and Mrs. Crutchley, and
all the notabilities of the garrison. The most successful
of the sports were the long jumps, the Highland dancing,
and the throwing of the hammer. An accident (which
was happily averted) nearly happened when this
last game was in progress, as the hammer passed close
by the head of a holy who was standing in
dangerous proximity to the ropes. An additional
race started for the seamen of her hlajesty's ship Galatea
wax well contested, and afforded much amusement. The
tossing of the caber, owing to the high wind, was rather
a failure ; and only one roan succeeded in turning it.
Several extra prizes were given by the captain and officers
of the Galatea, two by his royal highness for dancing,
and one by the officers for a race open to the whole regi-
ment. Highland hospitality was the order of the day ;
and great praise is due to the committee for their ad-
mirable arrangements, which were so well planned, and
so successfully carried out. We trust that the
Enaguetas may remain in Gibraltar another year, and that
we may once more have an opportunity of witnessing
those interesting national sports.—Gibrattar Chroilick,
March

A SAINT OF THE STAGE.—There is a little vil-
lage in the Tyrol, called Castelruth, with a chapel on a
hill close by, which contains the shrine of one of the most
remarkable of the saints of the stage. This saint was the
queen of the ballet in the middle ages, the most impas-
sioned of expressive pantomimists,with eloquence in every
look and gesture, language in eye, hand, foot, and a most
subduing beauty in her whole person. She was more
charming than her name, which was Kummernits ; and
more lovely than the statue now before her shrine, on the
chin of which is a very magnificent heard, which anyone
may see growing, if he will only wait long and look sharp
enough. A bearded ballerina does not seem a likely per-
son to break the hearts of lovers, but the truth is that
Kummernits was endowed with the appendage in order
that her legion of lovers might be kept at a distance,
and their hearts, as well as her own, sound, and free from
breaking. All mediaeval princedom was at Kumenernitz's
feet. and she prettily bade it "Co to !" Chivalry in flaunt-
ing feathers and character,, whispered soft nothings in
her ear, and she cried " Fie !" upon it. Young I'o'er-do-
wel! merchante chinked the gold in their purses before
her eyes, and Kummernitz shook the finger of scorn at
them with a "marry come up!" From ermined suitors
she took refuge in oratories ; from others she fled to more
or less dark corners in cathedrals ; and she threatened the
young merchants that their audacity should he made to
cool its heels in prison. They only called her "cruel,"
worshipped her more ardently or impudently than ever,
and at length they so threatened to Pure easeader At, rs
that the honest-hearted beauty rushed to her confessor
and declared that she waa at her wits' end, and that
nothing but a miracle could save her. The confessor put
his hand paternally under her chin, looked in Kummer-
nitz's eyes, and was on the point of making her a com-
pliment, when the virtuous ballet-dancer exclaimed that
she had it " You have what'" asked the confessor. "At
least." said Kunnuernitz, " I feel that I shall have it. I
have been praying to the Virgin for a month, that I might
become as unattractive in appearance as the silly fellows
who beset me, and in a dream she touched me under the
chin, and said my prayer would be granted as soon as the
band of a man should be placed there too." The story
runs to the effect that on the prettiest chin in the whole
world there grew a beard of most patriarchal amplitude.
On the upper lip, that would have puzzled /Indies to
excel, there sprung up a very majestic moustache. anti on
the loveliest cheeks that ever graced earth or Olympus a
pair of the most redoubtable whiskers started up, to deter
, all who might approach. " exclaimed the conica-
-1 sor, " you certainly have got it ; but, having got it, what ,
will you do with it ?" Kurnmernitz hardly knew ; but
she found that a queen of the ballet with a beard must
necessarily resign royalty ; and so Kummemitz withdrew
into a cloister, where she astonished and gratified the sisters
on dull evenings by her SOH remirs put into action of her old ;
dancing and pantomime days. In memory of the saltatory
' saint they have preserved her bones at Cartelruth, where
they are enshrined in thin silk and decayed tinsel which
have a very corps de ballet aspect about them; and any belle
Helene who may be in perplexity about how to keep her-
self as good as Kuruinernitz did, has only to kneel in
prayer before the beard-growing statue, in order to learn
what may be got by the process.—Corahiff Mayn:ine fur
April.