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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-11

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

FIRE AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
Among the sufferers by the fire at Constanti-
nople are many Maltese•. The English Consul has
afforded assistance to numerous families who were
in great distress. More than £16,000 have been
subscribed for the relief of the sufferers by the Ex-
change Establishment and the bankers. In the
Italian Parliament the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
stated, in reply to a question, that the Italian Go-
vernment would render all possible services to the
destitute. He said that 900 dead bodies had been
found at Constantinople since the fire.
London, England, 1870-06-11

LONDON GAZETTE—•L .st Evening,

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 9.
In accordance with the provisions of her Majesty's" •
Order in Council of 22d February, 1870 :—Lieutenant
en Bainbridge and James Charles Clarke have been
placed on the Retired List, from the Ist of April, 1870.

BANKRUPTS.
A Chabord, Camden-street, Camden-town. •
George L. Norman, solicitor, Sackville street, Pic 9.
_ow
Richard Thomas Strangman, general merchant, G%Ol.
brids-road, South Hackney, and Railway place, -r
church-street.
W. Tom, accoucheur, Mina-rord, Old Kent-road.
Newman. Wolf, Cheapside and Berners-street, OVu.'"
street.

• Ito
The report of the Royal Commission of Inquiryli
ea
the state of Primary Education in Ireland has been issu.s.
this week in five volumes. The reports of the colon,'
e
sioners were published a few days since in an abbrei3'
form.
The new lectures on physiology at Trinity- Ot
lege, Cambridge, by Professor Foster, will, we anderst'9llhis
be open to all members of the University, so that
liberal act on the part of the 'college is practically eclui.vill
lent to the foundation of a professorship of physiology
the University.
It is considered to be " probable," on account of 11,
suggestion from the law officers of the Crown to that
effect, that the trial of Michael Davitt and John Wilsl,
the suspected Fenians, will take place at Leeds,, the
being, it is said, many circumstances which render it dell
rable that the venue should be laid in that town.

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D [INV LLE and Co., Belfast, are the hniest hol a
de
of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r omme,„„
by the medical profession in preference to French brand • 7"0
uotatio;
plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Q
on application to Messrs DUNVILLR & Co., Royal Irish
tilleriss, Belfast ; or at their London Offices, 4, Beaufort Buildhlib-
Strand, W.Ol.
London, England, 1870-06-11

VICTIM OF A TELEGRAM.

Mr. !Frederick Stripplin, lately a cotton merchant in
Vicksburg, Mississippi, is at present enjoying the pleasing
ho-pitality of a solitary cell at the Central Police Head-
qw6rters, under circumstances which, as far as known at
present, are decidedly of a peculiar and unusual character.
He arrived in this city in the latter part of last week,,e
it appears, with his wife, and took passage for himself
and the latter on the steamer leaving for Europe on
Saturday last, whither he was going on a business trip.
Scarcely had he got on to the steamer before two detec-
tives arrested him, took him before the Recorder at Jersey
City—the arrest being made at the Jersey City wharf,
where the steamer lay—and thence took him a prisoner to
the Police Headquarters in New York, where he was
locked up, and is still kept in close confinement. The
sole ground of his arrest was a telegram from Vicksburg,
requesting his arrest on a charge of embezzlement. This
telegram stated no amount of alleged embezzlement, or
the names of any party or parties from whom he is
alleged to have embezzled. It was supposed that since
the reign of King Kennedy had ceased the period of
arbitrary and illegal arrests was at an end. Mr. Douglas
A. Levien, jun., counsel for Mr. Stripplin, obtained &
writ of habeas corpus in the case yesterday, and this
morning the prisoner will be brought before Judge Bar-
nard. His counsel claims that there is no ground for
the arrest in the first place, and that in the second place
it was wholly irregular and illegal, in the absence of spe-
cifications of the charge, and without proper requisition
from the Governors, respectively, of Mississippi, New
Jersey, and New York.—New York Times, May 27.
London, England, 1870-06-11

THE PROTESTANT CONFERENCE IN AMERICA.

The International Protestant Conferences• to be
held in New York from the 22nd of September to
the 2nd of October next, will be attended by many
distinguished divines and laymen from Germany,
Denmark, and France, in addition to those from Eng-
land and America itself. Professor Tholuck, of Halle,
Count •Berustorf, Professor Revel, of Florence,
Bishop Martensen, of Copenhagen, Dean Kind, of
the Grisons, and the Rev. Eugene Bersier, of
France, will, it is expected, testify to the state of
religion in their respective countries, while
Dr. de Pressensd, of Paris, will give a
dissertation on the (Ecumenical Council. The
American and English representatives, it will be
observed, are men upon whose speeches and opinions
much dependence can be placed by their fellow
countrymen. Dr. Stoughton, for instance, will speak
on religious, spiritual, and ecclesiastical relations
between the United States and the British Empire ;
Dr. James M'Cosh, on materialism and positivism ;
Dr. John Cairns, on modern infidelity; Mr. Charles
Reed, M.P., on family religion; Mr. Davis, on
Christianity and the press; the Hon. W. M.
Evarts, on legislation upon moral questions ;
Professor Wolsey, of Yale College, on the Constitu-
tion and Government in America, as related
to Religion, and the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, on
" War and its Prevention." Lord Shaftesbury is
also mentioned as tLe reader of a paper, but it is not
considered probable that he will cross the Atlantic. It is
said that the Queen takes a warm interest in the forth-
coming Conference, and that her Majesty has con-
veyed in a private letter to the Duchess of Suther-
land her feelings with respect to the religious as well
as international importance of the meeting.

GREEK AND TURKISH BRIGANDAGE.

Mr. Dow writes to the Times on the subject of
Brigandage, and concurs in Captain St. Clair's states
ment that the " East is little known." He illustrate-
the truth of this by an anecdote. He spent some
years in the valley of the Meander and heard a good
deal about brigands. On one occasion it was said that
a number of brigands had been despatched in a lane
near the bazaar, and on proceeding to the spot he found
that it was true. The place was in the possession of
well-armed police, and some dead bodies in the
vicinity bore traces of " summary execution." There
was great excitement in the village, and the next day
the men took away the bodies of their fellow villagers
for burial; but there was an end of brigandage in that
quarter for some time. The brigands, if such they
were, were Turks, but, adds Mr. Dow, "Had they
been Greeks, the story would have got into the Greek
newspapers, and might possibly hav 3 been discussed
in the English Parliament as an instance of the
oppressive nature of Turkish misrule."
London, England, 1870-06-11

INCOME-TAX (INDIA),

Sir DAVID WEDDERBURN asked the Under Secretary
°I State for India whether it was the case that the Act
raising the Income-tax from one per cent. to three and
°Ile-eighth per cent. received the assent of the Governor-
General of India on the sth of April, 1870 ; and, whether
the report was correct that the salaries of public servants
In India had been taxed at the rate of 5i per cent. for the
month of April last, the additional Income-tax of 21; per
cent. being thus doubled for that month.
Mr. DUFF GRANT said that no official information had
Yet been received on the subject, but he might say that
nothing was less likely than that he would do so,
London, England, 1870-06-11

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD AND DR. BALL.

The authorities of Oxford University have intima-
ted, through the Chancellor, Lord Salisbury, to Dr.
Ball, M.P., their intention of conferring upon him
the degree of Doctor of Laws, in recognition of his
distinguished Parliamentary services. Last ses-
sion Dr. Ball was one of the principal
speakers in the House of Commons in opposing the
Irish Church Bill, and his fierce invectives against
the Government measure of last year, have been con-
tinued against the Land Bill this Session. Dr. Ball
is, member for Dublin University.

LORD 07HA GAN.

General satisfaction is felt in Ireland at the eleva-
tion of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland to the peer-
age. Since his lordship's promotion to the first
judicial position in Dublin, he has increased the
number and attachment of his personal friends, and
gained the confidence of political opponents, not only
by his impartial conduct in official life, but also by
his courteous and straightforward disposition towards
all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance.
Baron O'Hagan, who is a Roman Catholic, took a
large share in the preparation both of the Irish
Church Bill and the Land Bill, and it is probable
because his presence is especially desirable in the
Upper House in the approaching debates that the
honour has been conferred at this period. This will
be the first occasion in the history of Great Britain
and Ireland that an Irish Catholic Chancellor will
have a seat in the House of Peers. Baron O'Hagan
has selected as the barony which confers the title—
Tullahogue—the ancient residence of the once
renowned clan of the O'Hagans.
London, England, 1870-04-23

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velling and Commercial information, derived from the best
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London, England, 1870-04-23

THE MINES REGULATION BILL.

The Amalgamated Association of Miners assembled
in conference at Wrexham have condemned Mr.
Bruce's bill for the regulation of mines. It is not
stringent enough, they declare. Better enactments
as to the labour and education of children ought to
be. provided. The provision for the inspection of
mines is also considered bad. Practical men ought
to be appointed as inspectors, and the number ought
to be greater. One delegate said he had been a
miner for upwards of twenty-nine years, and during
the whole of that time he had never seen an
inspector in any colliery he had been connected
with. '
London, England, 1870-04-23

TIIE MONKWEARMOUTII COLLIERY STRIKE.

The miners evicted by the owners of these collieries have
determiucd on holding daily meetings away from the
colliery. Great quietude is said to prevail at the colliery,
and there is no likelihood of any disturbance.
A quantity of ladies' wearing apparel was found
on the banks of the Thames, near Windsor, on Friday
morning. In the evening the body of a woman named
Woods, aged 23, was found at some distance from the
place where the clothes were discovered.
London, England, 1870-04-23

HIGH WATER AT
Mor
SATURDAY. 40 min
SUNDAY 0 mm

LONDON BRIDGE.
ming. Evening
past 7 20 min past 8
past 9 45 min vast 9

MONDAY 25 min past 10 5 min past 11

TUESDAY 40 min Past 11 0 min past 12
WEDNESDAY 10 min past 12 ..... ....35 min past 12
THVESDAY... ..... , ..... , —56 mill past 12 18 min past 1
;I.EII)AYst si • .I• 35 min put 1, 52 min put 1
London, England, 1870-04-23

PERUVIAN FOUR AND A HALF PER
CENT. LOAN OF 1862.
En vertu des pleins pouvoirs quo le Supreme Gouverne-
ment du Perou m'a confles, j'ai decide quo tousles titres de
l'Emprunt Peruvien 9i per Cent. de 1862, que soot encore en
circulation, soront remb.mrses au pair, plus le coupon echu
le lre Juillet prochain.
Le rembourse►nent aura lieu h Londres chez Messrs.J.
Henry Schroder and Co., 145, Leadenhall-street, et les
porteurs du dit emprunt peuvent toucher, le montant de
leurs titres, plus le coupon echu le premiere Juillet prochain,
partir du 2 Mai, sous deduction d'un escompte de 1 per
cent. par an du jour du payement jusq'au lre Juillet.
Les titres qui n'auront pas ete present& au rembourse-
ment du 2 Mai au lre Juliet, 1870, cesseront de porter
interet.

Paris, 20th April, 1870.
(signed)
TORIBIO SAN Z, Inspecteur Fiscal et Agent Financier
Special du Perou en Europo.
[TRANSLATION.]
In virtue of the full powers conferred upon me by the
Supreme Government of Peru I have determined that all the
Bonds now in circulation of the Four and-a Half per Cent.
Peruvian Loan of 1862 shall be Redeemed at par, together
with the Coupon due Ist July next.
The reimbursement will take place in London at the
Counting-house of Messrs. J. Henry Schroder and Co., 145,
Leadenhall-streat, and the holders of these Bonds can re-
ceive the amount of their Bonds, together with the Coupons
due lst July next, on and after 2d May next, less interest at
the rate of 1 per cent. per annum from the day of payment
to the Ist July.
The Bonds which shall not have been presented for pay-
ment between 2d May and the Ist July, 1870, will cease to
bear interest on the latter date.
Paris, 20th April, Ib7o.

(Signed)
TORTE TO SANZ,
Fiscal Inspector and Financial Agent of the
Peruvian Government in Europe.

In virtue of tho authorization of Mr. Toribio Sanz, Fiscal
Inspector and Special Financial Agent of the Peruvian Go-
vernment in Europe, we hereby give notice to the holders of
the 4i. per Cent. Peruvian Bonds of 1862, that said BONDS
with the Coupon due Ist July next, will be PAID on and
after MONDAY, the 2d May next, less discount, at the rate
of one per cent. per annum, from the day of payment to the
lst July, at our Counting-house, 145, Leadenhall-street.
The Bonds and Coupons must be left two clear days for
examination before payment. _ _

J HENRY SCHRODER and CO.
London, 22d April, 1870.
London, England, 1870-04-23

FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

Sixty Days. Three Days
London Bankers
London, Prime Commercial lOB-1081
Paris, Bankers
Bremen, Bankers
Hamburgh, Bankers 35 —351
Frankfort, 0.3,1 " 4u-401
Berlin and Cologne
Antwerp 5.25-5.20
Amsterdam, Bankers
S wiss
Express Stocks are weak :
Adams 6l to 611
American Merckants' Union 38 to 88
Merchants' Union, old Stock 8 to 8
United States
Wells, Fargo, and Co l9 to 197
State stocks are active, particularly New Tenessees, in
which there is considerable speculation :
Tennessee 6s, ex coup.. 59 Illinois coupon 6s, 1877.100
Do. new bonds 53 Do. 1879 100
Virginia 6s, ex coupons 70 Illinois War Loan lOO
Virginia 6s, new bonds 69 Ohio 6 per cent. 1875 102
Georgia 6s
Georgia 7s, new bonds 93 Do. 1886...1031
North Carolina 6s
Do. new bonds 21 Do. 1878 95
South Carolina, 6s B7 Do. 1883 95
S. Carolina, new bonds Michigan 7 p cent. 1878 93
Do. Aprl and Oct Bll Michigan 7 p cent War
Missouri 6s
Do. 11. and St Jo les 92 N.Y k reg'd vounty loanlo9l
Louisiana new bonds... 721 N.Yk coup. S'aty loan 1119 i.
Do. 6s, Levee bonds 76 N.Yk 7s, Canal In. 1870.105
Connect.cut 6s 100 N.Yk 6s, Canal In. 1873.106
Rhode Island 6s lOO Do. 1874.105
Alabama 55...
Alabama 85.........
Illinois Canal bonds Do. 1878.105
1870 lOO N.Yk ss, Canal In. 1874.105

5.181-5.17;

Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia hankers, report
as follows on the Bth April:—Pennsylvania Railroad
Shares, 57f 571; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 99 100; Sixes, 2d
Mortgage, 95 97.
London, England, 1870-04-23

IRISH SEATS.

There are now four Irish seats open to the enter-
prise of would-be legislators. In Mayo a vacancy
has just been caused through the death of Mr. G. H.
Moore; at Dublin the writ for one mem-
ber is suspended; in Longford, Mr. Reginald
Greville Nugent has been unseated; and
Mallow Las lost Mr. Munster in like manner.
At the two latter places electioneering is going on
with greac activity. Major Knox is again in
the field, opposed by Mr. Waters, Q.C. Mr.
Waters is on the spot, and busy waking a
canvass of the electors. For Longford, Mr, King•
Harnian, lira' "Tory-Nationalist /1 candidate;..ilie'i:
treinely active—going from place to place, and speak-
ing at each the same set speech with which he opened
the campaign. As yet there are no evidences of
enthusiasm' among the " National " party in his
favour—nothing like the fervour with which Mr.
Martin's candidature was taken up whilst he was in
America.
London, England, 1870-04-23

THE CONSEQUENCES OF REJECTING THE IRISH LAND BILL.

The Spectator declares that if Liberals give way to this
kind of despondency, things will soon be in an inextricable
mess. We hear it said on every side—in the country,
where Mr. Gladstone is loved, as often as in London,
where he is rather esteemed—that the session must be a
failure ' • that what with its own bigness, and the over-
plus of talk, and the cumbrousness of Parliamentary
forms, and the silent dislike of Liberal squires to any
interference with property, this Irish Land Bill can never
become law; that if passed at all, it will be passed in a
shape which will make it nearly useless. The despondent
remark is circulated by.those who detest the bill, caught
up by those who only aetest the Government, repeated
and exaggerated by those who do not understand the
measure, and dread all they do not understand, until it
infects the whole party, and the possibility of giving up
the bill, or whittling it down to inefficiency, is openly.
discussed. The faintheartedness is not, perhaps, unna-
tural, for Parliament never took holiday more wearied.
more perplexed, or less satisfied with itself ; but we wish
the croakers would tell us what they think will happen if
their prophecies prove correct. In the first place, how if
the bill dies either of poison or of atrophy, is her Majesty's
Government to be carried on? It is quite impossible for
Mr. Gladstone, conciliatory and even yielding as he tries
to be in the matter, fearful as he is of his own earnestness
lest it should betray him into dictation, to allow his bill
to be either rejected or spoiled, and yet remain respon-
sible for the administration of Ireland. He would be a
traitor to constitutional government if he did. He was
taunted last week with arrogance for saying that if Mr.
Fowler's amendment were carried he must withdraw the
bill, told with flippant superciliousness that his Govern-
ment presented itself in "a chronic attitude of resig-
nation • " but he was only arrogant if it is arrogance
to state a patent truth in the simplest possible way.
What else could Mr. Gladstone do but resign ? He is
pledged up to his lips, pledged to England and Scotland,
as well as to Ireland, to pass a measure large enough and
satisfactory enough to terminate the agrarian war which
for the last half-century has been raging in the sister
island ; he has prepared such a measure, he has obtained
for it the approval of the people, and is he now to with-
draw or smother it, to tell Ireland that he can do nothing
for her master grievance, and England and Scotland that
he does not care? Ireland is just now halting and
divided, willing to wait, half-inclined to hope, but we do
not hesitate to say that within a month of the withdrawal
of the bill, more especially if it is talked out—for that will
add to the injury the aggravation of scorn—every cry in
Ireland will be drowned in a single shout for repeal, a
shout in which landlords, who know that the worst that
can happen to them is fixity, may yet be induced to
join.
London, England, 1870-04-23

CI UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE.
Established 1821.
Subscribed Capital Two Millions.
11, Lombard-street, London, E.O.
DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN--William Steven, Esq.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Frederick H. Janson, Esq.
Richard M. Harvey, Esq
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John Martin, Esq
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London, England, 1870-04-23

ITOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
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London, England, 1870-04-23

THE WATERFORD ELECTION.

The petitioners at Waterford have altogether
failed to support the charges of treating or undue
influence at Mr. Osborne's election. Yesterday they
unconditionally withdrew the charge made against
the Rev. Mr. Kent, and expressed their regret at
ever having brought it forward. The decision of the
judge will probably be given to-day.
London, England, 1870-04-23

SOCIAL PROGRESS AT NEWBURY.

At the Newbury Quarter Sessions there were no
prisoners for trial, and the Recorder was accord-
ingly presented with a pair of white gloves. This con-
dition of Newbury bliss, however, is not without
alloy. By way of assuring the Recorder that
the borough was not getting too good, the foreman
of the grand jury read a presentment deploring the
prevalence of drink in the neighbourhood. New-
bury possesses a population of only 6,161, and
yet it contains more than sixty licensed houses,
one for every hundred people, small and
great. This horrifies the jury, white gloves
notwithstanding ; and well it may. They de-
clare that the law is systematically disregarded,
more especially in the sale of liquor during pro-
hibited hours. They desire better laws, and a reduc-
tion in the number oflicences, licences, and in the hours
during which drink may be sold on Sundays. The
Recorder said that much more might be done with
the existing law, if it were properly enforced,
London, England, 1870-04-23

CURE BETTER THAN PUNISHMENT.

Exeter Hall, famous for its gatherings, has just
been the scene of a very interesting assembly, show-
ing how harmony can be evolved from social
discords. Eight hundred children from the reforma-
tories, refuges, and ragged schools of the metro-
polis were formed into a choir, and the proficiency
of these little waifs and strays and pariahs of our
civilisation, gathered in from the alleys and gutters,
and even the prisons of London, was as surprising as it
was gratifying. The statement of M. Hanbury, one
of the hon. secretaries, gave satisfactory evidence of
the amount of work accomplished. The twenty
institutions represented by the amateur musicians
present maintained 1,321 children, 800 of them being
in refuges and industrial schools. What sort of chil-
dren they are who recruit those institutions we may
learn from the following statement.—" The children
belonged to several different classes, amongst which
were entirely destitute children, children verging on
crime, neglected children, and abandoned and
degraded outcasts, girls liable to temptation,children
of vicious and criminal parents, and destitute crip-
ples." What chance have such children, we may
well ask, alone and unaided, against their
surroundings? The Earl of Shaftesbury,
who was the president on the occasion,
seized the opportunity to make a very vigorous 'no-
test against secular education. "I care not," he
exclaimed, "what I surrender, so that I retain the
Word of God. I will surrender everything—all deno-
minations, all Church establishments, all institutions
—every single thing—l will surrender the House of
Lords—l will surrender monarchy if you will—but, by
the blessing of God, we will never surrender the Bible
A singular suggestion is to be made, we are told,
when the Education Bill again comes before the
House. It is that the "boys' beadle," a functionary
whose office it is to look out vagrant and destitute
boys in London, and provide for them in institutions,
shall be employed in every town and city.
London, England, 1870-04-23

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13, St. James's-square, London, S.W.
London, England, 1870-04-23

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER
THIS EVENING. at Seven, TOO MUCH OF A GOnD THING:
Messrs 0. H. Stephenson, Ashley; Miss Maria and Miss Nelly
Harris.

After which, ut 15 to 8, THE PROMPTER'S BOK: a Story
of the Footlights and the Fireside. Mr Benjamin Webst r, Mr
11. J. Byron, Mr J. D. Beveridge, Mr R. Phillips, Mr C. H. Stephen-
son, MrJ. G. Taylor, Mr C. J. Smith, Mr A shley, Mr W. H. Eburae,
Miss Furtado, Mrs L. Murray, and Mrs Alfred ellon. -

foieloliOvreiiirilf.FßEciot,S BETSY: Mr J. G. Taylor
and Miss Eliza Johnstone.

Boa-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking
Places can be secured a fortnight in advance.
London, England, 1870-04-23

NO HOUSE, HOTEL, or SHIP should be
without it. Vide opinions of the
Press.
Sold in Jars, at 3s. 6d. per gallon, by
all grocers and oilmen.—Depot, 66, St.
John-street, West Smithfield, E.O.
London, England, 1870-04-23

CAUTION.
MOSES and SON
IE. beg to inform the Public
of t that thoy have a
dopt d' dopted
Theand
registered a TRADE MARE, consisting he
Standard," with the initials "underneath, and that
henceforward every &Webs of clothing manufactured by them will
have a label or ticket atts.ched to it, with the said trade mark
printed thereon. All persons are hereby cautioned against imitat•
ing the said Trade Mark.
For trades and addresses see following advertisement.
London, England, 1870-04-23

UNRIVALLED SPECULATIONS
SPLENDID SUCCESS.
With a Single Stake of Twelve Shillings you can realise £3,000 1
—with £l, £22,000 11—with £2, £27,060 11—with £B, 37,000!
For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT,
General Merchant, Guernsey.
London, England, 1870-04-23

THE JESUITS ON INFALLIBILITY.

Three prominent Jesuits, an Englishman, a French-
man, and an American, have just preached on the
same subject—Papal Infallibility. They take
different tactics. The English Jesuit, Father
Gallwey, argues with those who fear the
approaching definition as a possible error,
and says with regard to the question of liberty that the
present condition of " that lifeless skeleton of the
ancient English Church from whose dry bones all
life has been crushed out by the iron heel of
Cesar, is worse than their position under the
rule of the Vicar of Christ." The Frenchman, Pere
Felix, who has succeeded Pere Hyacinthe at Notre
Dame, takes ground not usually supposed to be
favoured by Jesuits. If Pontifical Infallibility be,
lie says, a truth certain and revealed, though
not yet defined, what calamity can be
apprehended from its promulgation? " One thing is
absolutely certain, the recognition of a truth can
never become a misfortune for humanity. It is not
by disguising and veiling truths, but by affirming
and publishing them that the nations are saved." This
is a fact which Englishmen are generally more prompt
to recognise than the disciples of Ignatius Loyola.
The third on the list, the American, Father Clarke,
of Baltimore, indulges in what on the other side of
the Atlantic might be called " tall preaching." " The
face of the earth" he says, "may be completely
altered. . . . The strongest empires of the
present, like those of the past, may tumble.
into ruins ; the roar of the British lion, which, in
his pride and power, has almost girdled the earth
with the carcases of the Governments he has
destroyed, may be hushed in death; the American
Eagle, pierced with the shafts of tyranny or treason,
may fall fluttering in agony from its airy height
into the dust, and die ; but Peter shall live on, speak
on, judge on, in the person of his successor."
London, England, 1870-04-23

STATE OF TRADE.

The coming of the present number of the
Financier after a long dull period, is like to
the coming of the early spring, or to an angel's
visit, if, without too great an effort, we may
imagine anything angelic in the commercial
world. But let us go from fancy to fact. Trade is
improving. The Financier tells us that advices
from the provinces have not been so favourable for a
long time past. From Newcastle-upon-Tyne there
are more goods ready than some of the lines of
steamers can get across to the Continent, while the
cisarriyninsugchcoaalssattoisfNacetworcyassttlaete”
must be looked upon as effete. From the various
thhoauts ethhoel 'id
dcaogael tor
fa de a
seats of the iron trade we receive
the
woollen
tsearma
all
activity
i c
tidyauintylld.
Bradford grati-
fying assurances, both in regard to the raw and the
manufactured article.
In
worsted
businesses,
advises t st atoeo, thatth thein things
sare n
greater
iinnetsws
oifnoldsinygalrensya is rns,noatnid a
notice-
able. recently apparent in the yarn trade has subsided,
but thatgr
greater niter demand
ocierat ebus
Reports from Halifax have a somewhat simi-
lar appearance, and at Leeds the woollen trade is
moderately steady. At Manchester there are some
ratherable.
large contracts in hand. The Nottingham lace and
Huddersfield cloth trades are also looking up. In
Continental and American orders,. too, there is a
slight improvement. Everything in fact is lively
but the Birmingham gun trade, a circumstance we pre-
sume more particularly inauspicious to the Fenians.
London, England, 1870-04-23

tIRIENDLF,SS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FICMAL PREVENTIVEI and REFORDIATORY IN
STITUTION.

President—Rev. CAN DALB,

001TErenTioNs for the support of the Homes in 1868 aro ear-
nestly solid tedt which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Elan
quet, Salt and Co., 78, Lombard street, E. 0.; Francis Nicholls
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry OhaMbers,
E. W. THOMAS, Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.
London, England, 1870-04-23

THE GLADSTONE AMENDMENTS.

We are still, remarks the John Bull, without the amend-
ment in the Education Bill which the Premier and Mr.
Forster promised to lay on the table before the recess.
On the other hand, the Government have shaken the con-
fidence so generously accorded to Mr. Forster by political
opponents, and must expect their new proposals to be re-
ceived with no small degree of suspicion. In this position
Mr. Gladstone will be reduced to the humiliation of
throwing himself on second or third rate men, like Mr.
Mundella, who will push forward with characteristic con-
fidence to propose their tertium quid. This. is already
understood to take the shape of the "time Conscience
Clause," so vaguely, and, we must think, ignorantly in-
dicated by Mr. Gladstone. Our consolation is, that if
any Education Bill struggles through the Lower House
under such "leading," the Lords will be in a position to
restore the principles adopted without a division at the
second reading, and, after improving the details, return
it to the Commons a much better measure than it has ever
yet been. After all, Mr. Gladstone—thanks to the Libe-
rals—has a good chance of getting none of his omnibuses
through Temple Bar this session. The solitary passage
of that rude unregistered cab—the Irish Church Bill—for
which he is indebted to Conservative forbearance, bids
fair to be the only great measure of the most popular
Minister, and the largest majority which the present
generation is acquainted with. Yet as we have said
elsewhere, the Land and Education Bills may both be
carried, if the Government prefer principle to party.
London, England, 1870-04-23

BRITIsn HOME FOR INCURABLES,
Clapham-rise.

. -
Instituted 1861.
PATRONESS.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES.
TREASURERS.
George Moore, Esq.; Mr. Alderman Gibbons.
This Institution, extending its operations to all parts of the
king ,om, provides for those afflicted with incurable diseases a
home for life, with every comfort and medical att, ndance. Patients
are admitte 1, and annuities of ) obtained by election.
No person under *2O y ears of a.;e, nor of the pauper class, is
eligible.
Full particulars and the necessary forms may b procured from
the Secretary. Donations and annual subscriptions are earnestly
solicited.
London, England, 1870-04-23

LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management
of Messrs Mansell).
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, S AMPSON' .4 WEDDING.
Ann!' which. at 8, LITTL N FAUST: Mr T. Maelagan, M. Marius,
Sir Aynsley Cook. Mr. Odell, and Mr Wilmot; Mdlle. Debreux,
Me 'dames Lennox Grey, Lawson, Lee, and Emily Soldene_

I) OYAL STRAND THEATRE.
;)4 Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough.

Messrs

THIS EVENING. at 7 o'clock. WIDOWS' WEEDS.
Crouch, Turner, and Mesdames E Burton and Anstiss.
Followed by SIR GEORGE AND A DR GON. Messrs.
James, Terry, Fenton; Mesdames Santley, Dashwood, Goodall,
Hughes, Anstiss and Metcalfe.
And A FISH OUT OF WATER.
London, England, 1870-04-23

THE CONSERVATIVE BENEFIT BUILDING
SOCIETY, co-operating with the United Land Company,
Limited. Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, W.C.
INVESTMENTS for capital and savings for all classes of the com-
munity. Five per Cent. interest per annum paid on Shares, and
Four per Cent. per annum on Deposit Department, with power of
withdrawal at fixed periods.
The UNITED L AND COMPANY. Limited, co-operating with
the Conservative Benefit Society. Plots of Freehold Land on sale
in 30 counties. The cost of the land payable in monthly or other
easy instalments, with or without building advances.

CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN,
Secretary.
Prospec'nses explanatory of Investment, Land and Building
Departments, free of charge.
London, England, 1870-04-23

THE FENIANS.

The Government have received information that a
number of Fenians have arrived in London from
America. Colonel Fraser, of the City of London
has warned the proprietors of the Tinges that
an attack might be made upon the office of that
journal, and of course precautions have been taken
to frustrate the attempt, should it be made. Since
then the police have been engaged in taking down
the names of persons living at all the regular
lodging-houses in the metropolis.
London, England, 1870-04-23

BISHOP FRASER ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

The Bishop of Manchester, at the annual meeting
of the Diocesan Church-Building Society, over
which he presided, referred to the • present
and ' future of the Church of England.
He • said he proposed to build on the old
foundations, where those foundations had been solidly
and wisely laid. He pointed .out that the strength
df the Church would be found in her working, not
for the people, but with the people, not set-
ting herself, in the persons of her minis-
ters, against the mighty current of public
opinion, but trying to guide it into safe channels.
The clergy were, he said, a privileged class, simply
that they might do a great national work,
and he held that they were not the minis-
ters of a sect in any narrow sense, but
the ministers of a Church which by her Consti-
tution ought to bty as• wide as the empire to which
they all belonged, chewing that in her tolerant bosoM
every legitimate fOrm of Protestant Evangelical
Christianity might find a home.
London, England, 1870-04-23

THE THEATRES, &c.

°::n]; C? WALES'S—At Eight, School. Dearest Mamma. Quite
by Accident
HAYMARKET—At Seven, My Husband's Ghost. At 7.40, New
Men and Old Acres. And No Song No Supper.
LYCEUM—At 7.30, Sampson's Wedding. Little Faust.
ADELPHI.—At Seven, Too Much of a Good Thing. The "'romp
ter's Box. My Prec;ons Betsy.
OLYMPIC—At Seven, Frou Frou The ' Varsity Boat Race, My
Turn Next.
GAIETY—At Seven, The Happy V.llage. Lucky Friday. The
Princess of Trebizonde.
QUEEN s—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown.
- TRAND—At Seven, Widow's Weeds. Sir George and a Dragon.
A Fish Out of Water
VAUDEVILLE—For Love or Money. Don Carlcs. Cupboard Love
ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Frou. La Belle Sauvage.
GLOBE—At Seven, Milky White. Robert Macaire. Vandyke
Brown.
WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Picca-
dilly, every Evening (except Satm day) at 9; Saturday Mo, n-
in sat 3 Admission, Is, 2s, 3s.
CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed-
nesdays and saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till F.RO
p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls. ; extra rooms, 6d.
ZooLoutcAL GARDENS, Regent's-park Open daily (except Sundays)
Admission. 18.• on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d.
London, England, 1870-04-23

HIGH CHURCH AND LOW CHURCH.

A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette
laments that the Low Church clergy are
losing their influence over the poor. Their
services and their churches sadly want brighten-
ing up. The sermons are too long, the music
is not music, and the churches are very uncom-
fortable. Under these circumstances it is not sur-
prising that "sinners in weak health holding Evan-
gelical opinions" find their way from the
draughty church to the comfortable Dissenting
chapel. Those who are physically stronger
and intellectually more critical take refuge with the
Ritualists, who "scorn warmth and ventilation, but
throw life into the services, and give their congre-
gations good music." Then those who are
not blessed with this world's goods are,
moreover, inclined to ask the Low Church
"if Heaven is only a place for pewholders." The
complainant is well aware that the income derived
from the pew rents is an object to men who, "in
visiting the poor might be seldom out of each other's
drawing-rooms." In the same way the preacher
who addresses a select congregation of pew-holding
grocers, never preaches against the tricks of trade,
and the customers of his flock turn with disgust to
Wesleyan or Ritualist. The writer, who looks at
matters somewhat en nair, is, like other reformers,
puzzled to suggest a remedy. His facts, however,
plead strongly in favour of the free-church system.
London, England, 1870-04-23

A.D. 1720.

li, OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION.
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First),
For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES.
Offices—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London.
Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, S.W.

OOTAVIITS WIGRAM, Esq Governor.
JAMES STEWART H'DGSON, En Sub-Governor.
°HAULM JOHN MANNING, ESCI Deputy-Governor.

DIREOTORS.

Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Garratt Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
Edward James Daniell, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq
Lancelot William Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq.
Charles Hermann Goschen,
Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell,
Esq.
Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Medical Referee, Sam

William Tetlow Hibbort,
E
Wilmosq. t Holland, Esq.
Egerton Hubbard, Esq.
Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
George Forbes Malcolmson,
Esq.
Lord Josceline Wm. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.
mei Sony, Esq., F.R.S.

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on
tvantageoue terms.

FIRE- DUTY.—This Tax having been abolished, the
PREMIUM is NOW the only charge for Fire Insurances.
FARMING STOOK.—No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machines.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by.persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one
Life.
This Corporation affords to the Assured

Libeial participation in Profits, with the guarantee
of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption
under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part-
nership.
The advantages of modern practice, with the secu-
rity of an Office whose resources have been tested
by the experience of a CENTURY AND A HAI?.
ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary.
RovAL EXCIIANGR, LONDON.
London, England, 1870-04-23

PAINLESS and PRACTICAL DENTISTRY,
by Mr. B. L. MOSELY, the Dentist by special appointment,
312, REGENT-STREET, exactly opposite the Royal Polytechnic, and
23, MoORGATE-STREET, CITY. Established 1820. This, the most
perfected system of painless dentistry, originated and invented by
Mr. B. L. Mosely, is recommended by the Hospitals and adopted
by tho profession as one of the greatest improvements of the age
for the alleviation of pain and restoration of the natural functions,
can solely be obtained in such perfected success (the result of
forty years' practical experience) at his only residences, as above.
The superlative excellence of this system is perfect immunity from
pain, no operations, stumps and decayed teeth rendered useful,
loose teeth and tender gums protected. Qualities: These teeth
never change colour or decay—in fit unerring - ease and comfort
unsurpassed —detection impossible—the facial anatomy faithfully
studied - and youthful appearance restored—mastication and arti-
culation guaranteed. The "Times" of March 6 says :—" So good
an imitation becomes the next best thing to the original." Teeth
from 55.; sets, 5 to 30 guineas. Consultation free.—Only addresses,
312, Regent-street, exactly facing the Royal Polytechnic; and 23,
Moorgate-street, E. C., opposite the Star Insurance Office.
London, England, 1870-04-23

THEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARK ET.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone.
THIS F VENING, at 7 o'clock, MY HUSBAND'S GHOST:
itir Clark and Mrs Fitzwilliam.
After which, at 7.40, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES: Mr
13uekstnno, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr Buck-
stone, jun., Mr Braid; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Miss C
Hill, Mrs E. Fitzwillin.m.

COncluding with NO SONG NO SUPPER: Mr Kendal, Mr
Compton, Mr Edward ~aborne, Mr Clark; Miss F. Wright, Miss
Fosbroke, Miss F liwynne
London, England, 1870-04-23

• THE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE
• MAN."

BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES, BEST
WORKMAN,HIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at
E. MOSES and SON'S.

Every description of Clothing ready-made or made
to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes,
at E. MOSES and SON'S.

For the convenience of Ladies accompanying
their Sons there is a separate department for Boys'
Clothing, and it is furnished with a splendid assort-
ment of Suits, Ov moats, and Clothing for all occa-
sions, including all the favourite designs and the
most fashionable materials.

Orders by Post are attended to with care and
punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of
self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON
enables them to guarantee a faultless fit.

Any article not worn or injured will be ex hanged,
or, if desired, the money will be returned.

All Goods are marked in Plain Figure , from
whichno abatement can be made.

The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and
Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is unequalled for mag-
nitude, variety, and cheapness.

A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from
4d. the pair.

Complete Outfits for all climates, with every re-
quisite for the vayage.

List of Prices, with Rules for self-measure, Pat-
terns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free.

E. MOSES and SON, Ready made and Bespoke
Tailors, Habitmakers, Wooi:endrapers, Hatters,
Hosiers, Boet and Shoe Manufacturers, and General
Oatfltters for all classes

E. MOSES and SON'S Eat blishmetits are closed
every Friday evening at sunset, when business is
esumed until eleven o'clock.

The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SCN.

LONDON:

CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE.

NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART -STREET.

CORNER OF TOTTENIIAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON-

ROAD.

Country Branch:

BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE.
London, England, 1870-04-23

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
is the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Railway
Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vice-P,,tron—
His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCE, K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to 'establish the
principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and
difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on
voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition
to this, the average number of attendance-of the destitute sick has
for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnehtly solicit the assistance of the benevolent,
as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several
hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to
maintain them.

Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown,
Hansom, and Co., Abchttrch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ;
Urtutmond and Co.; Glyn and Co.; Harries and Co.; Ransom
and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Bar-
clay and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-
street; and at the Hospital from 10 to 5.

NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham common,
Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861.
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of °AMBRIDGE, E.G.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
Girls of all ages, olasses, and denominations, from all parts of
the kingdom.
TLe object of e Charity Is to give orphan girls a plain Eng-
lish education, ar..! practical instruction in the kitchen, house,
end laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other
wise provided for when they attain 115 years of ago, to obtain
suitable situations for them.

The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is
entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.
HENRY KINGBOOTE, Treasurer!
W H. WA.swics, &oretory.

Office, 121, Pallmall, ENV;