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London, England, 1870-07-20 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION.

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ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale,
Freehold or Leasehold Property; for one, two, or three years,
epayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly dis-
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UFRUF ZU EINER.-MASSEN VERSAMM-
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1870. Abends, 81- Uhr in der Deutschen Turnhalle, 30, Stainton-
terrace, Old St. Pancras-road, King's Cross. Zur GRUNDUNG
EINES HITLFS. VEREINS fair Verwundese,pler provissirsche
Ausschuss.
N.B.—Die Gallerien sind fair Damen resewirt.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT OXFORD,
July 18th to 22d.
ORDINARY TRAINS leave Paddington for Oxford at 6.0 a.m.,
8.0 (3rd class), 9.15, 10.0, 11.0 (3rd Class), 12.30 p.m. ; 2.20, 2.45,
(3rd Class) 3.30, 4.50, 6.20, 7.0, and 8.10 p.m.
ORDINARY TRAINS leave Oxford for Paddington at 7.15 a.m
9.5, 9.20 (Ist Class, 2nd Class, and 3rd Class) 11.55 a.m, 2.2 p.m.,
2.35 (3rd Class): 4.0 p.m, 5.8, 6.25, and 9.3 p.m.
On each day of the show the 6.50 and 10.15 a.m. trains from
Paddington, and the 9.19 a.m. from Bishop's Road, and the 11.5
a.m. from Reading will be continued on to Oxford, and special
trains will leave Oxford at 8.15 p.m. for London, and at 8.50 p.m.
for Reading and Basingstoke, also at 4.45 p.m., for all stations
up to Slough inclusive.

On Tuesilay. and Wednesday a special train will also leave
Oxford at 7.10 p.m. for London, calling at Reading, Twyford,
Taplow, and Slough ; and on Thursday and Friday there will be
an Excursion Train at about the same time, by which ordinary
passengers can travel. _

- A Special Train will also leave Oxford at 7.30 p.m. for Reading
and intermediate stations.

For full particulars of special trains and excursions from the
principal stations, see special bills and local advertisements.
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Paddington, July, 1870. .

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

On Saturday, July 23, an Excursion Train will leave Padding-
ton at 3.25 and Reading at 4.35 p.m. for Bath and Bristol, and
will return on Tuesday. July 26.
On Sunday, July 24, an Excursion Train will leave Paddington
at 8.40 a.m. for Twyford, Henley-on-Thames, Reading, Theale,
Aldermaston, Woolhampton,l Thutcham, Newbury, Kintbui y,
and Ilungerford, returning the same day.
For full particulars see handbills.
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Paddington, July, 1870.

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DIRECT SUBMARINE ROUTE TO INDIA.
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TELEGRAMS from the UNITED KINGDOM are NOW SENT
by this Company's Cable in connexion with the ANGLO-
MEDITERRANEAN and BRITISH-INDIAN Lines, at the follow-
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Ten Words. Twenty Words.
To Men .... .................. £1 16 0 8 0
„ Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, and
other stations west of Chit-
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„ Ceylon and Stations in India east
of Chittagong .. ............ 2 1 0 3 1 0
„ Gibraltar and Malta 0 10 0
„ Portugal (all 5tati0n5).......... 0 9 0
„ Spain (ditto .. ........ 0 9 0
Half the 20 word rates for every additional ten words. From
the Provinces and Ireland, One Shilling extra.
Messages for the New Submarine Route are received at all the
Postal Telegraph Offices in Great Britain and Ireland. The
public should order them to be sent " VIA FALMOUTH."
These words will be transmitted free of charge.
Messages are also received at the Company's Station, No. 74,
OLD BROAD-STREET, and sent direct by wire to their destina-
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London, June 14, 1870.

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the balance by two equal instalments, at intervals of 3 months.
Certificates for such shares may be exchanged for Share
Warrants payable to bearer at any time when fully paid up.

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Engineers ; Director of the Phcenix Silver-Lead and Blende
Mining Company (Limited), 12, Copthall Court, E C.
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Prospectuses, containing full particulars and forms of appli-
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at once to the Bankers, or to the Secretary, at the offices of the
company.

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Cross, S.E.

OFFICIAL RECONSTRUCTION IN NEW
YORK.

The President has sent to the Senate four nominations
for offices in this city that involve considerable changes in
the Federal patronage, and are, for thiq reason, especially
important to the politicians, though they are also not
without a more legitimate importance to the people.
They are, Thomas Murphy for Collector of the Port,
Moses H. Grinnell for Naval Officer, Noah Davis for
United States District Attorney, and Thomas Hillhouse
for Assistant Treasurer. We believe these nominations
to be eminently good ones, and such as will subserve the
purposes the President had in view in making them.
They will certainly secure an honest and efficient admi-
nistration of the public service, which we regard as the
primary consideration. Doubtless they were aimed also
to insure greater harmony and unity of action among the
several sections of the Republican party in this neigh-
bourhood, and this is, perhaps, a proper occasion for the
President's attention when solicitude for party is in the
least likely to be identical with solicitude for the country.
Since Mr. Grinnell has been Collector of the port a cease-
less and bitter criticism of his appointment has been kept
up. Only the malignant and mean have made these cri-
ticisms personal; for none who have• any sense of self-
respect venture to impugn that gentleman's integrity
and business capacity. But it was a perfectly fair
criticism that in the peculiar position of the Republican
party in the State it could not afford to waste so impor-
tant a post as the Custom Howe; and in Mr. Grinnell's
occupancy that post was clenly not well economised for
party purposes. It seems, therefore, to have been deter-
mined at head quarters to make such a change as would
give the best use of the patronage here toward inducing
among the Republicans that harmony that might give
them at least a chance to carry this State. As the
President has made this appointment after ample time
taken for the study of the political difficulties here—a
proverbially knotty point for Presidents—we believe it
will be found fitted to secure the good results of greater
party unity and power expected of it. Mr. Grinnell will
make an excellent naval officer, and w ill find the post
undoubtedly more congenial to his tastes th an the one he
leaves. The other appointments are marked by the best
judgment that characterises the Fresident's choice of men.
—New York Herald.

The statement published by the Daily Telegraph
according to which as late as the 15th of July Lord Gran-
ville addressed energetic representations to the Prussian
Government at Ems, is officially declared to be completely
unfounded.

The Daily 7 eleyrapla complains that the Convoca-
tion of Canterbury has not asked one Canadian or
American scholar to help in the work of the revision of
the Old and New Testament. It may be mentioned, in
reply to this, that at the late meeting of Convocation a
resolution was passed providing for such an invitation,
and as the companies will not meet again until October,
American scholars will, in all probability, by that time
have reeeived cordial invitations. —Globe.

SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT.

TUESDAY.

Will Ministers make any statement this afternoon ?
was the question asked by everyone yesterday. It was
sad to think that nothing they could say would turn back
the desolating flood of war which is 'now threatening to
overwhelm Europe. Still, the expectation that they had
some communication to make attracted many anxi-
ous inquirers to Westminster, but fewer than
I should have expected. The first part of the
sitting in the Commons was occupied by a discus-
sion about a railway bill, in which Mr. Charles Gilpin
seemed to be very angry about something or other, and
Mr. Lefevre seemed to be one of the objeets against
which his wrath was directed. At one time a division
seemed inevitable. Now, divisions on private bills are a
nuisance. Members, as a rule, don't know what the dis-
pute is about, and therefore don't care to take sides. So
when Mr. Gilpin threatened war there was a loud cry of
" agreed, agreed," and as when people are ignorant about a
matter their unanimity is wonderful,the majority obtained
their wish, and the House proceeded to uninteresting
topics. After the petitions came the notices of motions,
and Mr. Cross let it be known that he in-
tends to be troublesome, by giving warning that
he should call attention to the late period -rat which
the estimates are brought forward, and move a resolu-
tion with the object of preventing suck tardiness here-
after. But Ministers 'need not fear any assault now.
They have a tower of strength in " Historicus." He
has left the Irreconcilables, among whomhe sat throughout
The education debates, has crossed the gangway, and yes-
terday sat immediately behind that bench on which he
hopes to have a place before long-- to wit, the Treasury
bench. He rose to ask whether Ministers here were going
to issue a proclamation of neutrality, and rose again a
little later to inquire if it was intended to introduce
a bill giving effect to the recommendation of
the Neutrality Commission. Mr. Eastwick asked
another question respecting the crisis, and then amid
cries of " Order," which meant that gossiping M.P.'s
were to hold their tongues, Mr. Gladstone rose. He
looked sad and sorrowful, and hesitated in a way most
unusual with him. The Government,
_he said, would,
undoubtedly, issue a proclamation of neutrality when the
proper time arrived. Unhappily, there could be no doubt,
this time was close at hand ; and then he read the telegram
which had just been received from Lord Lyons, announc-
ing the departure of a messenger from Paris to Berlin
with the declaration of war. Government would also intro-
duce a bill to give, effect to the recommendations of the
Neutrality Commission, sore tidings this for hon. mem-
bers, for it means the prolongation of the session by at
least another fortnight, some say a month.
Then we passed to other topics. Lord Edmond Fitz-
maurice wished to know if after what had taken place in
the House of Lords ministers still retained the hope of
passing the University Tests Bill. Mr. Gladstone re-
plied that though at first they had thought the course
taken by the Lords fatal to the bill they did not now.
think it their- duty as yet to despair. There was
a chance of passing the bill this year ; but, he added very
significantly, it must be passed in a form consistent with
the main principle of the measure. Colonel Knox then
put a long question, which no one heard, and which
seemed as if it would never come to an end. After Mr.
Fortescue had replied to it, Mr. Beresford Hope, in
his grotesquest manner, referred to . the memorable
Friday morning sitting when members sat for
thirteen hours at a stretch, and asked, amid shouts of
" oh " from the Radicals if the Government did not think
that " the patriotic support " given by the Opposition to
the Education Bill ought to be rewarded by some conces-
sion on the point which had excited so much keen contro-
versy. Mr. Forster's reply that Government meant to
adopt Mr. Hibbert's proposal seemed to please that gen-
tleman but no one else. In a low voice, so low that
we should not have known that he was speaking, but
for the "movement of attention" (as the French
say) which was exhibited by members, Mr. Disraeli
was understood to ask if Government had any papers to
lay before the House, or any statement to make with
respect to the Continental crisis. With the same sad
look and sorrowful voice, Mr. Gladstone prorcised that
the papers should be laid upon the table at the earliest
possible moment. It had not been practicable to do so
hitherto because they were of an extremely delicate
character and involved other Powers. After a few
words from Lord John Manners about the Education, 1
Bill there was rather a lively scene. Mr. Gladstone an
nounced a fresh slaughter of the Innocents. Mr. Bruce,
who has been peculiariy unlucky this year, having had to
postpone his Licensing Bill and his Cabs Consolidation
Bill, is now constrained to abandon his Mines Regulation
Bill. That has shared the fate of the Merchant Shipping
and other second-class measures. But, alas ! that was not
the only sacrifice demanded by tempus edax. Amid
an audible groan from the Radicals, the Premier an-
nounced with great regret that though Ministers had
clung to the hope of passing the Elections Bill during the
present Session, they were now compelled to abandon it.
All that they could hope was to complete the Land Bill,
the Education Bill, the Estimates, and one or two other
important matters ; and it was useless to enter upon a
measure involving so much detail as the Elections Bill
in the third week of July. Thereupon fol-
lowed rather an exciting incident. Two members
rose together from the below-gangway benches. The one
was pale and bald, the other florid and hirsute. When I
say that the first was our old friend and favourite, Mr.
Bernal. Osborne, you will suppose that the cry by which
M.P.'s denoted their selection of the man they wished to
hear was all for the witty Waterf ordian. Not a bit of it.
The cry was " Leatham, Leatham." The Radicals guessed
what he was going to say, and they cheered him as he said
it. The " it" was a notice that as the Government had given
up the Elections Bill for the session, he should proceed with
his own Ballot bill on Wednesday. Mr. Bernal Osborne
then had his turn. His wish was to know all about Mr.
Reed.' Mr. Childers received a most lusty cheer from all
parts of the House on this his first re-appearance after his
illness. I would not by any means imply that the First
Lord of the Admiralty is Moliere's " Malade
Imaginaire," but he certainly is a " robust in-
valid." He looks stouter then ever, and is
bronzed as though he had been- yachting instead of sub-
mitting to a surgical operation. He read the whole cor-
respondence between Mr. Reed and the Admiralty, which
by the way, confirms in every point the statement of your
London correspondent, and chews how entirely misin-
formed the professional journals were upon this matter.
Seeing his foe once more before him, Sir James Elphin-
stone, who has the care of all the navy upon his
mind, asked Mr. Childers what steps he was
taking at the Admiralty to maintain the efficiency
of the British Navy at this crisis. Quietly but firmly the
Whitehall chief declined to give any information, and ex-
pressed, amid the cheers of the House, his surprise that
such a question should be put. Then there was another
lively scene. Mr. Cavendish Bentinek does not like the
long hours we have been enduring lately, and he pre-
tested very vehemently against them, and especially
against the morning sittings. Mr. Bass, amid disappro-
ving interjections from members with owlish proclivities,
said he wished that every sitting was a morning one. Then
there was a violent shout of laughter, and every head was
turned to the end of the Ministerial benches nearest the
Speaker's chair. The laughter was so uproarious that
even Mr. Gladstone joined heartily, forgetting for the
moment all the sad events of the last few
days. What was jt all about ? It was a
very simple incident. Mr. Bernal Osborne was
making a remark, but whereas he had asked his
qugstion about Mr. Reed from one end of the House, he
noiv suddenly appeared at the othor end. Considering
that the House, or rather the room which goes by that
name, is only a few dozen yards long, I do not see
anything very remarkable in the fact that a
member had contrived to make his way from
one end to the other. But hon. members are like
schoolboys, glad of a diversion in the midst of
their work, and being in an unusually sedate mood
yesterday afternoon this translation of Mr. Osborne was
seized upon as a most welcome joke, and gave rise to
some of the loudest laughter that I have ever heard. Soon
after this Lord Charles Russell took down the mace, and
the House went into committee, just in time for members
who cared to do so to make their way to the other Cham-
ber to hear if the Foreign Minister would be more commu-
nicative than the Premier had been.

There was but a medium attendance of Peers, though as
a rule their lordships take peculiar interest in Foreign
affairs. The Duke of Argyll was the first Cabinet Minis-
ter to appear, and then Lord Granville followed. With
them Lord Russell talked for a while, and as he held a
paper in his hand it was clear that he was about to
speak. As soon as the time for doing so came, he
moved from the Ministerial bench to the bench below
the gangway, and asked five questions at considerable
length, and in a voice which for him was loud, though, as
he turned himself away from the gallery, it was difficult
to hear him. As soon as he sat down, Lord Cairns rose
and asked the question which Mr. Vernon Harcourt had
asked in the Lower House with respect to the Neutrality
Law ; and Lord Granville, on rising, gave a similar

JULY 20, 1870.

answer to that which Mr. Gladstone had given. He
then, turning full towards the gallery, and in a
voice unusually distinct and emphatic, as though
he wished every word to be heard and knew
well that his remarks would in a few minutes be read in
every capital of Europe, answered Lord Russell's ques•
tions. Important as the occasion was, Peers could not
resist a laugh when the Foreign Secretary said that Lord
Russell had given him private notice of only two ques-
tions ; that one he had omitted to ask, and that the four
others were new. He then went on to make the brief
statement which you will have published long before this,
and on sitting down was cheered. No one took notice of
what followed : with Europe preparing for battle, there
was little chance that Lord Stratheden would get Parlia-
ment to listen to his dissertation on the slave squadron off
the coast of Africa.

E IAL PA RLIAN/E T.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY.

The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack at
five o'clock-

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took the opportunity of de-
nying the authorship of a a circular which had his name
attaehed, asking their lOrdshiPs to attend in their places
on the occasion of the second reading of the Ecclesiastical
Titles Repeal Bill.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE intimated that it was not
his intention to.proceed further during the_ present session
with the Bankrupt Law Amendment (Ireland) Bill.

The Medical Officers' Superannuation Bill passed
through committee.
The Telegraph Extension Act was read a second time.

The Earl of Kimberley moved the second reading of the
New Zealand (Guarantee of Loan) Bill.—Earl Grey bad
great objection to the principle laid down in the bill, as
he objected most strongly to guaranteed loaning of any
kind. He thought that if one colony was favoured others
ought not to be denied the same favour.—The Earl of
Carnarvon did not object to the principle of the bill, but
said that it was was quite opposed to the policy of the
noble earl. Two or three months ago he had refused
a loan on the ground that it was unwise' to encourage a
colony to borrow.—Earl Granville said it was true he ob-
jected to loans in general, but the present was quite an
exceptional measure, and one that was justifiable. The
friendly natives had behaved admirably, and it was
thought that they should be employed as far as possible in
useful occupations, such as making 'roads, which would
not only have the effect of opening up the country, but
would tend to its pacification.—The bill was then read a
second time.

The reports of amendments on the Public Health (Scot-
land) Supplemental Bill and the Liverpool Admiralty
District Registrar Bill were brought up and received.
The Petty Customs (Scotland) Abolition Bill and the
Passengers' Act Amendment Bill were read a third time
and passed.
Their lordships adjourned at six o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY.
The Speaker took the chair at five minutes past two
o'clock.

THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.

Lord OTHO FITZGERALD, Controller of ,the Queen's
Household, brought up her Majesty's reply to the address
from the House in reference to the Thames Embankment,
which was reserved to the Crown, and which had been
reclaimed from the river at the expense of the ratepayers
of the metropolis. The reply stated that as no public
offices could be erected without a vote of Par-
liament, the House had in its own hands the
means of giving effect to the prayer in the address.
Her Government would not ask for such a note unless
they had reason to suppose it would meet with the
approval of the House.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

Lord OTRO FITZGERALD brought up: the reply to an
address to her Majesty, praying her to appoint a commis-
sion to inquire into the law relating to friendly societies.
Her Majesty stated that she had given directions for a
commission to issue for the purpose in question.

SECRET TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND
DENMARK.

Mr. A. SEYMOUR, the member for Salisbury, gave
notice that on Thursday next he should ask the First Lord
of the Treasury whether the Government had any infor-
mation other than that furnished by the newspapers as to
the existence of a secret treaty between France and Den-
mark, and whether at any time during the last six months
a formal proposal for mutual disarmament had been made
by France to Prussia, and refused by the latter Power, as
stated by French and English journals.