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

OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden.—Verdi's Ii Trovat?re.
8.30 p.m.
ITALIAN OPERA, Drury Lane.—ll Barbiere di Siviglia. 8.3 ) psm.
HAYMARKET—At Seven, No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book.
And A Kiss in the Dark.
ADELPHI—At Seven, No. 1 Round the Corner. Free Labour.
PRINCE OF WALES'S—At 7,30, Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest
Mamma,

LYCEUM—At 7.30, His Own Rival, Breaking the Spell. At R3P,,
Little Faust.
OLYMPIC —At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, Mary Warner.
fhe 'Varsity Boat Race.
uturv—At Seven, First Night. The Princess of Trebizonde.
QUEEN'S—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Axe and Crown.
STRAND—At Seven, Loving Hearts, Kenilworth.
VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos.
ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Frou. La Belle Sauvage
WOODIN'S OAP.PET-BAG AND SKETCH 13,(( K. Egyptian Hall, Pic
cadilly, every Evening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn
ings at 3, Admission ls, 2s, 3s.
CHRISTY MINST2ELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 ; Wed-
nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 ail the year round.
Zo LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily ( except Sun-
days). Admission, ls. ; on Mondays, Eld. Children under

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MADAME TX:MIMI; EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from it a.m. till
3.0 p.m., and from T till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra
London, England, 1870-06-06

STARTLING DOINGS IN CASHMERE.

Among the news from India which has just arrived is a
report of a startling communication which has been re-
ceived from Mr. Hayward, the traveller, with reference
to aggressions that have been carried on by the Mahara-
jah of Cashmere at different times within the last twelve
years in the Gilgit valley. Taking advantage
of dissensions among the ruling family in
that Trans-Indus territory, he seized the fort of
Gilgit in 1858 ; and an expedition to Yassin was under-
taken on a large scale in 1863. On the latter occasion the
inhabitants of the place, taken by surprise, were obliged
to seek refuge in a hill fort some miles distant, and were
afterwards induced to lay down their arms by promises,
that they should remain unharmed. A massacre
followed which will only find its parallel in
the history of the Indian mutiny. On the hill
side, where the massacre occurred, Mr. Heyward, seven
years after the event, counted 14 .still entire skulls,
nearly all those of women and children. " The ground is
literally white with bleached human bones, and the re-
mains of not less than 400 human beings are now lying on
this hill." By a treaty passed in 1846—the treaty under
which the Maharajah of Cashmere is a ruler at all—" the
limits of the territories of Maharajah Goolab
Singh shall not at any time be changed with-
out the concurrence of the British Govern-
ment." The Maharajah has, however, conquered Ladakh
and Baltistan, and Mr. Hayward attributes to him " con-
tinued attempts at aggression in the direction of Yarkand
and Badakhshan. " Mr. Hayward says it is " well known
that Russian agents have already met with a favourable
reception in Cashmere ; " and he observes, " That the
Maharajah is now intriguing with Russia by the route of
Gilgit, Yassin, Kolat, Hissar, and Bokhara cannot be
doubted."
London, England, 1870-06-06

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associations, and the somewhat alarming catalogue
of feminine acquirements and feminine ambition
constantly paraded before our eyes, it istolerably cer-
tain that all English lathes are not yet too wise. The
Derby Day is famous for its follies, especially on the
homeward road ; but the neighbourhood of Tooting
last Wednesday has really the distinction of having
reached the ne plus ultra of absurdity. The
Prince of Wales went to the Derby.
Passing by Tooting, he raised his hat to
a group of ladies, who were regarding_ him,
we may suppose, with enthusiastic devotion. In
doing so—fortunate occurrence—he dropped his
glove. Here was a wonderful chalice ! A chance to
be striven for valiantly and resolutely. A scramble,
a rush ensued, and the trophy was borne off in
triumph by the feminine conqueror of Tooting, to the
overwhelming disappointment of her competitors and
to the very natural amusement of the Prince. No doubt
the prize will be carefully treasured and ostenta-
tiJusly displayed. Encouraged by this success, the
ladies of Tooting will henceforward look to the great
race days as eagerly as the bookmakers of the Ring,
in the expectation of something not " turning up," but
tumbling down for their benefit. Perhaps we did not
need Epsom week to demonstrate that, however wise
"ariniactical our nineteenth century we are not likely
to want either men or women to run the race of folly,
and in this case, at least, no one can dispute that the
ladies are the winners.
ORGANIC MATTERS IN BREATHED AIR.

The Medical Times, in alluding to what it terms
Professor Tyndall's sensational lecture about the so-
called atmospheric germs, lays before its readers how
much and how little of such doctrine it considers
they ought to believe. Dr. Angus Smith, it says,
hit upon the ingenious plan of washing the air, and
then analysing the washings. His results were ex-
traordinary, chewing that there were as many as
seven parts of ammonia in a million of air, as evinced
by the rain-water examined. A part of this ammonia
certainly developed organic matter of some kind, but
the question arose, What is organic matter? Organi
matter and germs, continues our contemporary, are
two totally different things, organic matter being
present in fluid, and germs being deposited in this.
For organic matter to assume life some special and
subtle force is needed, but, unfortunately, the nature
of this has hitherto remained undiscovered. One
great question of the present day is whether specific
germs are necessary to give this life, or whether the
ordinary forces of nature, especially light and heat,
are not capable of infusing this life-giving force.
One thing, it adds, is certain—that to talk of all
organic matters in the atmosphere as germs is absurd.
London, England, 1870-06-06

SUICIDE OF A FAMILY.

The journals of Berlin publish accounts of an extra-
ordinary suicide in that city. A small dealer, named
Kuth, resided in the Strasse Sebastian with his wife arid
four children, whose ages ranged from ten to
eighteen. A few days back a relative of the family
received a letter from the eldest son, written in such terms
as to foreshadow a catastrophe. The person to
whom the communication had been addressed at once
informed the police of his fears, and an entry into the
house was effected, .but too late to prevent the tragedy
which had been consummated. The mother and four
children were lying on a bed, dead from strangulation,
and the father was hanging by the neck behind a door.
According to the letter of the son the entire family had
consented to die together, but the motive for such a reso-
lution remains a mystery.
London, England, 1870-06-06

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London, England, 1870-06-06

London—W. TWERME 337. Strand.

ERNEST GRAHAM : A Doctor's Story. Contain-
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as diveit the youth of the Profession. Written by a Physician.
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London —W. TWEEDIE. 337. Strand.
WAYS AND MEANS. A Story of Life's Strug-
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"Of the presentM work of Mrs. BBalfouralfour, after careful and intensely
interested perusal, and with a distinct and lively recollection of all
her previous works, we are perfectly free to say that we regard it as
her masterpiece."— Weekly Record.
Cheap Edition, paper boards, price ls. 6d. Post free Is. Bd. In
handsome cloth, lettered, Library Edition, crown Bvo., price 3s. 6d.

London—W. TWEEDIE. 337. Strand
London, England, 1870-06-06

NEW LIBERAL CLUB.

The Daily News understands that the preliminary
arrangements for establishing another Liberal Club are
now completed. The Conservatives have set their rivals
an example in this matter. When it was found that
the candidates for admission into the Carlton
were duite as numerous as the members, it was
resolved to provide additional accommodation for
the aspirants. and accordingly the Junior Carlton was
founded. A like scheme is in progress with regard to the
Conservative Club. It would appear, then, that if
Mr. Disraeli is in a minority in the House, he
can muster a formidable majority in St. James's-street
and Pall-mall. It is sometimes wise to take les-
sons from the enemy. The Liberal party may skil-
fully turn to account the ingenious tactics and care-
ful strategy of powerful and wily political opponents-.
To meet clubhouse with clubhouse is a new way of carry-
ing on a contest ; but it way be none the less a prudent and
wise policy. The day is probably distant when cl'ibs will
cease to be indispensable adjuncts to our system of
oovernment.
London, England, 1870-06-06

LARGE MEETING OF MINERS.

A large open meeting of miners' was held on Saturday
afternoon in the vicinity of Lochgelly, Fifeshire. The
meeting was addressed by Mr.Macdonald,Secretary of the
Miners' Association, who strongly urged on those present
the propriety of standing out for a reduction in the hours
of labour, as also for an increase in the rate of wages.
After deliberation it was unanimously resolved that the
miners' of the country should commence on Monday, the
6th inst., to work only eight hours a day, and a demand
for an advance of wages, to the extent of at least sixpence
per day, should be made upon the coal and iron masters
at the same time. It is understood that the masters have
no objection to lessening the hours of work, but little hope
is entertained that the demand for an increase of wages
will be favourably received.
London, England, 1870-06-06

STATE OF ITALY.

The Daily News declares that Italy desires and needs
nothing so much as peace and tranquillity. Her condi
tion is one of protracted convalescence. To the vast
majority of her population who constitute the living
social organism of the country ; to the population who
live by labour and industry, revolutionary riots and dis-
turbances such as we have lately heard of are relapses
into fever. Reckless agitators may dream of establishing
a purer form of government on the ruins of the monarchy
by means of incessant attempts at disorder, and by expe-
ditions of fifty dupes a-piece sent to take cities and pro-
vinces by storm. But they will find themselves
encountered and arrested by the indignant good sense
of a sober-minded people, who are growing every
day more and more intolerant of professional
revolutionists, who, when they ask for work and bread,
offer them a fine proclamation and a visionary Republic.
These obscure follies of an incorrigible fanaticism suffer
the fatal discredit of being confounded with the vulgar
operations of banditti. It is impossible to believe that
any true patriot who has ever played the part of a respon-
sible statesman in the face of Europe can hope to benefit
his country or to attain his ideal by means so ridiculously
disproportionate to the ends. No man's name has been
more often taken in vain than that of Mazzini. Those
who are most ready to recognise his immense past ser•
vices to Italy will be the least willing to identify his aims
and purposes with the mischievous absurdity of the insur-
gents who, for want of any other more intelligible title,
are described in the telegrams as Mazzinians, and whose
exploits even the American Fenians might envy.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF A WRECK.—WhiIe
some men were engaged a few days ago in recovering the
wreck of the bark Bristol, which was lost at Padstow, in
a severe storm in March, 1869, two sett; of chains, hawse
pipes, &c., were found, leaving no doubt that another ves-
sel unknown must have been totally wrecked with all on
board at the same time and in the same place as the
Bristol. From all information that an at present be
gathered it is Apposed that she was a French schooner or
brig of about 100 tons, and had a crew of six men.
London, England, 1870-06-06

POISON POISONED.

It is all very well for Mr. Bass to declare his con-
viction that not one publican in a thousand adulte-
rates his liquor ; but there are a great many very
good judges who think differently. The question
is not whether this brewer or that publican is guilty,
but whether the practice is common. On this point
there is a good deal of evidence against Mr. Bass.
For instance, a clergyman, who is a gaol chaplain,
quotes instances of persons whom he has found in
pr:son in a state of complete insensibility from
drugs which they had taken in liquor. One young
policeman took two small bottles of porter, and was
shortly afterwards apprehended in the act of running
a muck on the high road, and stabbing the first
person he met with. It was proved that
he had taken no more than this very
small quantity of drink. This clergyman likewise
asks what becomes of all the coculus indicus imported
into the kingdom, if a good deal of it is not put into
beer. About 850 cwt. of this inviting substance
finds its way into England annually. No doubt it is
easy enough for rich people to get pure beer; but the
poor man must take what he can get from the retailer,
and very bad stuff it often is.

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London, England, 1870-06-06

DIRECTORS,

The Right Hon. the Lord Poltimore, Poltimore Park, near
Exeter, Devon, Chairman.
John Arthur Locke, Esq., North Moor House, Dulverton,
• Somerset, Deputy-Chairman.
Sir William G. Throckmorton, Bart., Buckland, Faringdon,
Berks,
Thomas Collett Sanders, Esq., Minchenden Lodge, Southgate.
Henry Georges Moysey, Esq., Bathealton Court, Wellington,
Somerset.
John Thomas Nash, Esq., South Molton, Devon.

ENGINEER.
Richard Hassard, Esq., M.1.C.E., 1, Westminster Chambers,
Victoria Street, S.W.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Combe and Wainwright, 9, Staple Inn, London
Messrs. Riccard and Son, South Molton, Devon.
- - - -BANKERS.

The National Provincial Bank ;;F England, 112, Bishopsgate
Street Within, London, E.C., and its Branches.
SECRETARY.
R. M. Muggeridge, Esq.
Offices : 13, Little Queen Street, Westminster, London, and
Taunton, Somerset.
London, England, 1870-06-06

00VERNATENT

Three per Cent Console ,424 9241 d
Do. for Account 9215-16 931.16 id
Three per Cent Rdcd- 921 921
News per Ceut
Exchequer Bills, March, par spm
Do., June
Bank Stock
India 5 per Cents.... 1114 1114 id
Can.6pcJan.&JulylB77-84 1074108
Do. 5 per cent do. 984 994
Domin. of Can. 5p c 1903 974 184
New S. W. 5p c 1871-76 102 103
New Zealand 6 p c 1891 ll2 114
Do. 5 per cent 99 100
Do. 5p c Consolidated
ueensland 5p c 1882
Victoria
6 p c Jan.& July 1154116
Do. 5 no do. 104 104

RAIL'

Bristol and Exeter B4 86
Caledonian 771 784
Great Eastern
Great Northern
Do. A
Great Western 744 741 ,
Lancashire & Yorsabire 135 136 1
L. B. and South Coast
Lon. Chat., and Dover
Lon. and North-Western 13141314
Lon. and South-Western 92 93
Man., Shef., and Lincoln 531 54
Metropolitan 671 671
Midland
Northßritish 3O 394
North-Eastern Consols
Do. Leeds —
Do. York —

South-Eastern
Born., Bar., &01.1nd.g.5 pc 10711081
East India guar. 5 p e
Grand Trunk of Canada 15 151
Do. Ist Preference Bonds 67$ 68$
Great Indian Pen. g. sps 10811091
Great Western of Canada 151 15
Madras g. 5 pc lOBllO9
Sciude, Delhi, do.
Scinde, Punjaub, do lO7 108
Dutch Rhenish 251 25
Eastern of Franco 231 24
Great Luxembourg l4l 141
47 48
Northern of France
Ottom. (Smyrna to Aidin) 7 7
Recife and San Francisco 16 16
San Paulo (L.) guar. 7p c 201 21
8 Aus. & Lora. Venetu. 151 15
London, England, 1870-06-06

POISON POISONED.

It is all very well for Mr. Bass to declare his con-
viction that not one publican in a thousand adulte-
rates his liquor ; but there are a great many very
good judges who think differently. The question
is not whether this brewer or that publican is guilty,
but whether the practice is common. On this point
there is a good deal of evidence against Mr. Bass.
For instance, a clergyman, who is a gaol chaplain,
quotes instances of persons whom he has found in
pr:son in a state of complete insensibility from
drugs which they had taken in liquor. One young
policeman took two small bottles of porter, and was
shortly afterwards apprehended in the act of running
a muck on the high road, and stabbing the first
person he met with. It was proved that
he had taken no more than this very
small quantity of drink. This clergyman likewise
asks what becomes of all the coculus indicus imported
into the kingdom, if a good deal of it is not put into
beer. About 860 cwt. of this inviting substance
finds its way into England annually. No doubt it is
easy enough for rich people to get pure beer ; but the
poor man must take what he can get from the retailer,
and very bad'stuff it often is.
London, England, 1870-06-06

CHEAP ➢IEDICINE FOR THE ➢IIDDLE CLASSES.

A scheme has just been started the want of
which has long been felt among the middle classes.
The labourer and the artisan have their sick clubs
and trades' unions; but clerks and small tradesmen
are obliged to open their doors to the paid doctor, whose
presence in the majority ofinstances is very burdensome.
A clerk with £lOO or £2OO a year is no more able to
pay for medical advice thus obtained than a working
man, and it is to meet this state of things that the
scheme in question has been started. A subscription
of a guinea a year will ensure to members of the new
society medical attendance for themselves and their
families. The scheme is intended to be self-sup-
porting, and to apply to clerks and persons in a
similar position whose income is under two hundred
pounds a year.
London, England, 1870-06-06

HOLBORN AMPHITHEATRE.

An entertainment entitled "The American Ethoscope"
has been pi•oduced here, which will be largely patronized
during the holiday season. It is an enlarged production
of that generally known as " The Ghost Illusion," which
was introduced some time ago by Professor Pepper. In
the Great Mirror on that present occasion we have a com-
pressed representation of "Faust' and "Marguerite ;" the
music being sung by Mr. G. Loder, Signor Angyalfi, and
Miss Sarah Nelson. There is also a second part, which
Consists of a variety of the most comical and fantastic
illusions, which., with the admixture of dancing and the
violin perforr;lances of the Albanos, produces an enter-
xunt of a ery excellent and pleasing description.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE OTHER GREAT RACE.

It was thought that there could be no greater
surprise than the Derby, but Friday produced a
greater in the Oaks. It astonished everybody that
Kingcraft should beat Macgregor ; but the
wonder was greater when Gamos proved
triumphant over Sunshine, Pate, and Hester. Only a
fortnight ago Gamos performed most wretchedly in a
race at Bath against Recorder and Macgregor, the
defeated favourite in the Derby. He never passed the
post, but was left several hundreds yards in the rear.
Hester, a famous filly, the winner of the
One Thousand, and the still more famous
Sunshine, were competitors in the Oaks. But the
dispised Gamos defeated each of tht....3. The moral
of these two terrible races needs no enforcing. Put
not your trust iu horseflesh. It is clear that not the
least reliance is to placed on what is called "public
form." A horse may win easily one day and be beaten
as easily the next. It may, in sporting phrase, prove
a " pig " to-day and a " clinker ' to-morrow. What
with the unfair practices of owners and jockeys, and
the vagaries of the horses themselves, the fact that
an animal gains a victory on one occasion is not the
slightest guarantee that it will win a similar contest
against precisely the same competitors.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION BILL.

It is as we feared, says the John Bull. Mr. Gladstone
bas not had the courage to stand his ground against his
secular tail. His amendments—for poor Mr. Forster has
only to move them—are all against the Church ; all, too,
in derogation of the principle of the bill as affirmed
without a division at the second reading. This is a policy
peculiar, we believe, to the present Ministry. The second
reading used to be a final affiimation of at least the
principle of the bill; Ministers stood or fell by what they
then asked the House to agree to. It has been reserved
to Mr: Gladstone to catch the second reading of a great
measure on one principle, and then, by postponing the
committee and entering into secret negotiations with the
minority, substitute another in the guise of " amend-
ments." The propositions now introduced are not amend-
ments in any parliamentary sense; they are new clauses
going to the root of the measure before the House.
The question on which Parliament and the
country concentrate their attention is the religious question.
As regards the religious question, which is the backbone
of the measure, the principle affirmed at the second read-
inu is exchanged for another, which has never had a
second reading, or even a first, in the House. We appre-
hend this is a course without precedent under any other
Ministry. It is true that the entire bill is not yet sur-
rendered to the Secularists. They have still to fight, or
more probably, to dictate a second capitulation on th
rate-supported schools of the future. But on the far more
vital question of the existing grant-aided schools, they
have obtained more than they dared to demand. No con-
cessions are made or indicated to the objections of the
National Society ; and the odious clause 21, enabling a
temporary majority of managers to transfer a Church
school in defiance of the trust, is retained. On the whole,
it seems to us impossible for any thoughtful Churchman
to accord any manner of support to the bill as it now
stands. It is abundantly evident that Archdeacon.'
Denison in not destined to remain in a state of isolation,
London, England, 1870-06-06

HALF-PENNY POSTAGE CARDS.

The Government proposal to bring out a half-
penny postage card has set all the stationers by the
ears. " Some others" of that ilk consider that
explanation is needed of the fact that one
firm have received orders to prepare within
a certain period a large number of the new
halfpenny stamps, while no opportunity has been
afforded to their fellow manufacturers to tender for the
supply. They would also like to know the
amount the authorities have sacrificed by thus
London, England, 1870-06-06

NEW LIBERAL CLUB.

The Daily News understands that the preliminary
arrangements for establishing another Liberal Club are
now completed. The Conservatives have set their rivals
an example in this matter. When it was found that
the candidates for admission into the Carlton
were duite as numerous as the members, it was
resolved to provide additional accommodation for
the aspirants, and accordingly the Junior Carlton was
founded. A like scheme is in progress with regard to the
Conservative Club. It would appear, then, that if
Mr. Disraeli is in a minority in the House, he
can muster a formidable majority in St. James's-street
and Pall-mall. It is sometimes wise to take les-
sons from the enemy. The Liberal party may skil-
fully turn to account the ingenious tactics and care-
ful strategy of powerful and wily political opponents.
To meet clubhouse with clubhouse is a new way of carry-
ing on a contest ; but it it ay be none the less a prudent and
wise policy. The day is probably distant when cribs will
cease to be indispensable adjuncts to our system of

government.
The Post says that against the two hundred and eighteen
deaths which have occurred in one week in Paris, only
nineteen were registered in the same week in London. This
is the hightest number which has been registered since 1868,
and the victims for the most part were unvaccinated
children. In the face of such clearly conclusive results
the opponents of compulsory vaccination have nothing to
object except theories which have only a fanciful foun-
dation. Two generations have come and gone since
Dr. Jenner made his discovery, and no proof is forth-
coming that vaccination has operated prejudicially to the
human frame. So far from that, there is overwhelming
testimony to its sanitary power ; and when Parliament
is asked to withdraw the compulsory enactments on this
subject in deference to fanciful prejudices, unprejudiced
people have, we must think, a right to call attention
to convictions which are supported by evidence. We can-
not permit the folly of ignorant people to keep the door
open for the admission of a terrible disease.
London, England, 1870-06-06

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London, England, 1870-06-06

PORTUGAL.

The Minister of the Interior, Senhor Sampaio has re-
signed on account of his Conservative of opinions. Diaz
Ferreia has been appointed Minister of Finance. The
Italian Minister will leave Portugal, it is thought in con-
sequence of a difference with the Government.

AMERICA,

WASHINGTON, June 4

The amendment to the Tax Bill imposing a tax of 5 per
cent. on income derived from the interest of the Govern-
ment Bonds has been rejected on reconsideration by 92 to
72 votes.

June 4.

The Senate has adopted a resolution asking the State
Department for information respecting the Jewish mas-
sacre in Roumania. Mr. Wayne M`Teigh, of Pennsyl-
vania, is appointed Minister to Constantinople. News
fyom Cuba states the son of Cespedes, the rebel chief has
been executed.

NEW YORK, June 4.

Gold closed at 1141 ; the lowest quotation having been
1141 ; Sterlin exchang on London, 1091.
Week's receipt of cotton, 23,000 bales ; shipment to
England since September, 32,000 ; France, 2,000 ; to the
Continent, 2,000. Total receipts since September,
2,785,000 bales.

MALTA TELEGRAPH.
The following has been received :
" Canning to Osborn.

"Noon, June 4.—The expedition in latitude 41.23 N.
longtitude 9'55 W. The cable perfect. All going well."
Works have resigned. Count Adlerkrewz has been ap-
pointed Minister of Justice, and Herr Bergstroem, Assis-
tant Judge to the High Court of Justice, has been ap-
pointed Minister of the Interior. Herr Wernersberg is
to be Minister of Public Worship. There is no difficulty
with the Reichstag.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
TREMENDOUS FIRE IN GLASGOW.

A fire broke out on Saturday afternoon, after all hands
had left work, in the muslin factory of Messrs. Young,
Strange, and Co., Bridgeton, Glasgow. The building
and its contents were completely destroyed. The da-
mage is estimated at from £20,000 to £30,000.

RETURN OF THE GREAT EASTERN
STEAMSHIP.
Ths Great Eastern arrived at Falmouth this morning,
and is now lying at anchor, near Pendennis Castle.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Sole Lessee Mr, Brckstone.
THIS EVENING, at 7 o'cicck, NO SOING NO SUPPER: Mr.
Kendal, Mr. Compton, Mr. Eda aid Osborne, Mr. Clark; Miss F.
Wright, Hiss Francis, Miss Fosbroke, and Miss F. Gwynn.
Aft,r which, at 8 precisely, BARWISE'S BOOK: Mr. Sothern,
Mr. Chippendale, Mr Compton, Mr. Kendal, Mr. Bnckstone; Miss
C. Hill, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Fanny Gwynne.
And (by desire) A REGULAR FIX: Mr. Sothern, &c.
Concluding with A MSS IN THE DARK.

ADELPHI THEATRE.—New Company.—New
Drama.—At 7.30, FREE LABOUR, a drama, in four
acts, by Charles Reade, played by a new company, selected from
first-class theatres. New scenery by Hawes Craven.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE,
Wych-street, strand.
_

S, le Lessee and Manager, Mr W. H. LisToN.
Miss BATEMAN as MARY WAR ER every Evening during
the week, assisted by .llessrs. G. Belmore, W. H. Vernon, Blake-
ley, Elliott, David Fisher; Mrs. Poynter and Mrs. W. H. List in.
In rtply to numerous applications at the Box Office, and to
prevent disappointment to parties de'irous of securing Feats
several weeks in advance, Mr. W. 11. LISToN feels compelled to
annoui, cc with regret that, in consequence of previous arranve-
=cuts. the I,r liant engagement o th s distinguished Artiste
must POSITIVELY TERMINATE on SATURDAY, JUNE 25.
CommencinT with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Concluding
with THE 'VARSITY BOAT RACE. Box Office open from 10
till 5.
London, England, 1870-06-06

DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS.—
A NEVI R-FAILINC-1 REMEDY.—Prepared without any
mercurial ingredient,will be found invaluable to all who suffer from
bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness,
dizziness of the eyes, 86c. For habitual costiveness, as a family
aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly ex-
cellent; mild iu their operation and grateful to the stomach, they
create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole ner-
vous system.—Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, chemist, 81
King William-street, ('haring-cross, London, and by most drug°
gists, in boxes, I (1 and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d.
Be sure to ash f.,r Dr. -e.,tt's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine
are in a squat', green pa, kage, with " William Lambert, 8, King
William-street, Chari :o-cross," engraved on the Goveznment
stamp. •
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE MORDAUNT CASE.

The result of the decision now arrived at is very unsatis-
factory. Not only is there the authority of the opinion
of Kelly, C. 8., against this decision, but the arguments
in favour of that view seem certainly stronger than those
relied on by Lord Penzance and Keating, J. We have
before pointed out (ante 350) that there is no real analogy
whatever between a suit for dissolution of marriage and
a criminal proceeding, and also that it has been
decided that a lunatic may prosecute a suit for
nullity of marriage (Hancock v. Peaty, 1 P. M. & D.), or
for a divorce (Parnell v. Parnell, 2 Hagg. 169) ; the
present decision, therefore, creates an anomaly, which
indeed Keating, J., seems to think may be a proper case
for a private Act of Parliament. The case may yet come
before the House of Lords and be again argued, and Lord
Penzance expressed himself ready to give any assistance
in his power for the purpose of facilitating the appeal.--
Solicitor's Journal.

The late kidnapping of a little girl, still unfound,
has given rise to all sorts of rumours amongst the lower
classes of Madrid. They believe that there are French-
men who steal and take away children.

The Congregational Union of England and Wales
have issued a protest against the proposed appointment of
a Bishop of Madagascar as an infringement of that
healthy rule of Christian fellowship under which almost
all Protestant missionary societies have abstained from
operations in fields already occupied. The London Mis-
sionary Society has also protested.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Duke of Edinburgh have been very recently made the
theme of two fortunately harmless and ingenious hoaxes.
A couple of letters, seemingly written the one by the
Prince to the Duke, the other by the Duke to the Prince
of Wales, appeared originally in an Irish paper,
and which have been translated in the Independant
Beige. Though written with a certain smartness, these
letters are so evidently a hoax that it is scarcely necessary
to deny their authenticity, butwe have authority for statinu
that both coumraunioations are forgeries.

DUNVI LLE arid Co., Belfast, are the largest holders
of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is recommended
by the medkal profession in preference to French brand • Sup-
plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations
on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Royal Irish Dis-
tilleries, Belfast ; or at their London Offices, 4, Beaufort Buildings
Strand, W.C.
London, England, 1870-06-06

SPAIN.

MADRID, June 4

Marshal Espartero has sent a reply to the manifesto of
his partisans, absolutely refusing the crown. In the Cortes
the bill for electing a king was discussed ; and Senor
Aria's amendment requiring the election to be carried by a
large majority of those deputies whose elections are con-
firmed, was adopted 106 to 96. The amendment requires
170 votes for the election in place of 89, which would
satisfy the requirementf of the bill. The Montpensierists
opposed the amendment. The amendment will be sub-
mitted a second time to the vote. The Ministry will
oppose it.
London, England, 1870-06-06

London-•W. TwxEniz. 337. Strand.

TRUGGLES OF A VILLAGE LAD, THE.
Shelving that nothing is difficult when you try. Illutuinatc3d
fancy cover, Is. ; cloth boards. is. 6d. Post free for stamps.

tundon—W. TWEED E. 337. Strand.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE IRISH ORANGE INSTITUTION.

In agreement with the liberal spirit of the time,
one of the oldest institutions in Ireland (the Orange
Society) is about to be partially reorganised. For
many years the Protestants of the sister country have
expressed objection to the society being a secret one,
from which representatives of the press, and all other
persons interested in its operations, but not actually
belonging to it, were excluded. The Grand Lodge
is now sitting at Enniskillen under the presidency of
the "Grand Master," a very loyal Orangeman,
the Earl of Enniskillen, and a removal of those old
and condemned observances is under consideration.
It is also understood that a resolution providing that
no member shall be expelled larapestailtilt..""
public platform with persons professing Liberal
politics, or for giving his vote to any candidate
of whatever principles he may wish, will also bo
brought forward and no doubt acceded to. The recent
vigorous speeches in Belfast of Mr. Johnston M.P.,
one of the most idolised of Irish Orangemen, Captain
Archdall, R.M., Mr. Stewart Blacker, Lord Crichton,
and others have probably tended to produce this
desire for reform, in an association celebrated in
history, for its undeviating line of conduct, as well
as tor its age and strength.

LONDON PAUPERISM.

Sir C. E. Trevelyan has another letter in the

Times on " London Pauperism," in which he further
describes the evils arising from indiscriminate
charity. Through the golden harvest reaped by
the indolent and the imprudent, the demoralisation,
he says, spreads in a continually widening circle, and
even the working classes have become tainted. Not
only the habit, but the very idea of thrift seems to
have been abandoned. The ordinary practice is to
spend all that is saved from weekly earnings in
various kinds of selfish indulgence in which the
public-house always comes in for the largest share,
and when a bad time comes to pawn household furni-
ture, clothes, and tools, with the full assurance
that on application to a charitable society the
" honest workman out of employ" will receive the
earliest help. Sir Charles argues that a "condition
precedent" which governs the whole subject is that
charitable societies should not supplement Poor-law
relief, but that each agency should take care of its
own class of cases. Until this is done Poor-law ad-
ministrators will never feel that they exercise their
functions at their peril.
London, England, 1870-06-06

POTUGAL.

LISBON, June, 5.

. .
Marshal Saldanha proposes the increase of the army by
30,000 men, or that a constituent Cortes should be con-
voked.

GREECE.

ATHENS, June, 5.

The King and Queen have left Athens for Corfu.

The Prime. Minister has written to Sir Roundell Palmer,
correcting some of the statements in his speech on the
Marathon tragedy, as to the understanding between the
Greek Opposition and the brigands. The Minister of
Finance has forwarded a similar letter to Sir H. Bulwer.
London, England, 1870-06-06

CHEAP MEDICINE FOR THE MIDDLE CLASSES.

A scheme has just been started the want of
which has long been felt among the middle classes.
The labourer and the artisan have their sick clubs
and trades' unions • but clerks and small tradesmen
are obliged to open their doors to the paid doctor, whose
presence in the majority ofinstances is very burdensome.
A clerk with £lOO or £2OO a year is no more able to
pay for medical advice thus obtained than a working
man, and it is to meet this state of things that the
scheme in question has been started. A subscription
of a guinea a year will ensure to members of the new
society medical attendance for themselves and their
families. The scheme is intended to be self-sup--
porting, and to apply to clerks and persons in a
similar position whose income is under two hundred
pounds a year.
London, England, 1870-06-06

SPEECH-DAY AT ETON COLLEGE.

'the 4th of June—the anniversary of the birthday of
Teorge lll.—was eelebrated at Eton on Saturday with
the customary academic exercises and rejoicings. The
festivities began at half-past eleven, when the boys
assembled in the arcade under the Upper School. At
twelve the delivery of the speeches, of which the fol-
lowing is the programme, began in the Upper School :
1. Urmson, " Speech on the India Bill," Burke ; 2.
Wodehouse, K. S., Promotheus," Ashchylus ;3. Bonsor
" The Theatre," Rej. Addresses ; 4. Smith, " Marat
Charlotte Corday," Ponsard ; 5. Preston, " Saul,"
Alfieri ; Stapylton, " Abner," Alfieri ; 6. Vaughan,
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice," Byron ;7. Mr. Lyttel-
ton max, Toinette—Currey, Argan, "Le Malade Imagi-
Aeire," IVloliere. 8. Goodford, " Electra," Sophocles ;
9. Freeth, K.S., " Philip von Artevelde' " Taylor • 10.
!Goldney, K. S., " Strafford," Hume ; 11. Currey, 'Dr.
l'angloss, Rawlins, K.S., Dick Dowlas, Mr. Lyttelton
Waiter, " The Heir at Law " G. Colman ; 12.
Mitchell, K. S. , " The Parabasis in the Ards,"Aristoph ; 13.
Ld. Clifton, Don Cesar (Die Braut von Messina), Schiller.
14. Perry, K. S. "Macerinus," M. Arnould ; 15. Wilson,
41.• S., " King Henry VI." Shakespeare ; 16, Mr. Lyttel-
,‘oh, max., " Antony "—Julius Caesar," ditto ; 17. Smyth,
Thought suggested by a College Examination; 18. Raw-
, K.S., "Dissertation upon Roast Pig," C. Lamb.
s-uhe elocution was so uniformly good that it would be in-
"diens to specify any individual display. The visitors
proceeded from the Upper School to the College, and
shortly after four o'clock, Dr Goodford, the Provost, en-
tertained about 120 guests at a banquet in the ancient
College Hall, where the splendid old plate of the founda-
tion was displayed for the inspection and use of the
visitors. The shortest but perhaps the most important
speech made upon the occasion was that delivered by Dr.
ornby, who stated that the school was now humerically
111 a very prosperous condition, the number of boys being
--in the upper school 831, and in the lower school 49,
making a total of 880. At half-past six o'clock the visitors
boas start for
ltssembled in the Eton Brocas, to see the pocession of
Surly Hall, at which placer theerews
landed,
i and were entertrined at a banqet, after which
they rowed back to Windsor.
London, England, 1870-06-06

LONDON PAUPERISM.

Sir C. E. Trevelyan has another letter in the
Times on " London Pauperism," in which he further
describes the evils arising from indiscriminate
charity. Through the golden harvest reaped by
the indolent and the imprudent, the demoralisation,
he says, spreads in a continually widening circle, and
even the working classes have become tainted. Not
only the habit, but the very idea of thrift seems to
have been abandoned. The ordinary practice is to
spend all that is saved from weekly earnings in
various kinds of selfish indulgence in which the
public-house always comes in for the largest share,
and when a bad time comes to pawn household furni-
ture, clothes, and tools, with the full assurance
that on application to a charitable society the
"honest workman out of employ " will receive the
earliest help. Sir Charles argues that a " condition
precedent" which governs the whole subject is that
charitable societies should not supplement Poor-law
relief; but that each agency should take care of its
own class of cases. Until this is done Poor-law ad-
ministrators will never feel that they exercise their
functions at their peril.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

THE LORDS AND THE GREAT BILLS OF THE SESSION.

The Saturday Review observes that it is curious to con-
trast the tranquil passage of the Land Bill to the Lords
with the excitement which a year ago attended the
progress of the Church Bill from the Lower to the Upper
House. It was a most stirring crisis when Lord Derby
announced his intention of opposing the bill altogether,
and a struggle thus began which for a week engrossed
public attention. Now there is scarcely the smallest stir
of curiosity as to the course the Lords will take. Every
one knows that they will pass the bill, and every one
feels that, if they try to improve the shape of the bill,
they will only be discharging the function which they
exist to discharge. The experience of this session amply
confirms the experience of the past, that they, under the
modern constitution of England, are quite unfit to take
the initiative in legislation. They are properly a Court of
Review, with a power, however, to defer bills of minor
importance, as well as to criticise and amend bills
of primary importance. The good sense of
the . Peers may, we will hope, be trusted not to
turn the discusion of the Irish Land Bill into an
opportunity of squeezing out of the Governments series
of petty advantages for the landlords, which would either
be rejected in a mass by the Commons, or, if allowed,
would spoil the wholesome working of the bill, without
doing the Irish landlords any real good. Nor is there
much reason to fear that the Education Bill will meet
with a hostile reception from the peers. The clergy, on
the whole, are satisfied with it, and the bishops will hesi-
tate to make an ecclesiastical question of what is widely
accepted as a very fair settlement of a great national
problem. No bishop has opposed the bill in his communi-
cations with the clergy of his diocese, and the bishops are
not at all likely to begin a sudden opposition in the Lords.
The Conservative peers OR a semi-religious question will
scarcely be inclined to be more ecclesiastical than eccle-
siastics, and thus it may confidently be expected that the
two main measures of the session will have an easy
Passage through the Upper House.
London, England, 1870-06-06

OUTWITTED.

The Protectionists are fighting a hard battle in the
United States, but the American papers tell us that
they have just met with a serious and un-
expected discomfiture. Some time since Mr.
Commissioner Wells, the Special Commissioner
of the Revenue, made a most important report,
shewing plainly how greatly the commercial interests
of the country suffered under the almost prohibitory
tariff. This report, which attracted a great deal of
attention, of course aroused the ire of the
Protectionists, who assailed the Commissioner
with true Yankee energy and decision. A com-
mittee of the House of Representatives has since
been appointed, called the Committee on Manufac-
tures, with the view of thoroughly investigating the
question. The majority of this committee (Pro-
tectionists, of course) exerted themselves to procure
a host of evidence refuting Mr. Wells's statements.
They spared neither trouble nor expense in so doing, and
prepared a re2ort most bitterly hostile to a man
whom they represented as wilfully false or inex-
cusably ignorant of what be professed to know.
It was their charitable intention to get
this report printed and circulated without giving
Mr. Wells an opportunity of answering it, but
unluckily for this honourable design, the minority
thought differently. They forwarded to the Commis-
sioner the heads of the report, inviting him to reply to
it, which he did in full, supplementing his former state-
mots by plain and irrefragable evidence from the
Customs, &c. This reply the minority incorporated in
their own report, which they obtained the permission
of the House to have printed with that of the ma-
jority, and accordingly the startled Protectionists,
instead of having the field to themselves, found, to
their horror, when their report appeared, that to it
was attached a, crushing reply from their arch
enemy to the whole of their ingeniously prepared
attack.
London, England, 1870-06-06

DESCRIPTION OF RAILWAY,

The DEVON AND SOMERSET RAILWAY. 42 miles in
length (shown on the accompanying map, coloured red), com-
mences at Norton, near Taunton, Somerset, forming a junction
with the Bristol and Exeter Railway there, and terminates at
Barnstaple, Devon, crossing by a direct route from east to west,
Milverton, Wiveliscombe, Bampton, Dulverton, North and South
Molton, Swinbridge and Landkey, saving nearly 40 miles on the
existing route from the West of England to Bristol and the
North, and bringing the entire district traversed within much
easier reach of the Metropolis.

The present route frOm the north, north-east, and east to