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London, England, 1870-05-31

BILL.

The House went into committee on this bill. The various
clauses were agreed to without opposition.
TURNPIKE TRUSTS ARRANGEMENTS BILL.
This bill went through committee.
BALLOT BILL.

The adjourned debate on the second rcadinz, of this bill
was fixed for June 13.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS,

On the debate on Mr. Hughes's motion being resumed,

Mr. RussELL GURNEY moved as an amendment that an
humble address be presented to her Majesty representing
that the five statutes for determining and establishing the
constitution of the new governing bodies of Shrewsbury,
Winchester, Harrow, Charterhouse, and Rugby Schools
have been considered by this House, and humbly to
express their desire that, as since the passing of the Pub-
lic Schools tact (1868), the Endowed Schools Act (1.869)
has passed, her Majesty will be pleased to refer back
those statutes to the special commissioners appointed
under the Public Schools Act, in order that they may
have the opportunity of reconsidering certain parts of the
said statutes with reference to the principles applied in the
Endowed Schools Act to other endowed schools.
Mr. NEWDEGATE moved the adjournment of the debate,
and, after some discussion, the House divided, when the
motion was lost. •

A division took place on the amendment with the Lol-
lowing result—ayes, 64 ; noes, 26.
MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL.
This bill was read a third time.

The House adjourned at ten minutes to three.
London, England, 1870-05-31

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London, England, 1870-05-31

EAST SUFFOLK ELECTION.

Lord Mahon, it will be seen, has been returned
by a clear majority of somewhere about two hun-
dred as member for East Suffolk. Sir Shafto Adair
led slightly during the early part of the day, but
was soon distanced, and at last defeated overwhe]m-
ingly by hix Conservative opponent.
ISLE OF WIGHT CONTEST.

Mr. Baillie Cochrane, it seems, has only delayed
the issuing of his address until after the funeral of
Sir John Simeon. He goes in hopefully, or at any
rate affects to do so, for the support of the Con-
servative portion of the constituency.
London, England, 1870-05-31

TRADE AND NAVIGATION.

The accounts of the trade and navigation of the United
Kingdom for the four months ending 30th April, 1870,
have just been published among the parliamentary papers.
They are divided under several heads—articles free of
duty, articles subject to duty, computed real value of
principal articles imported, exports of British and Irish
produce, and their declared value, shipping and articles
charged with excise duties. The variations in the import
of corn are considerable. In the four months
ending April 30th, 1868, the imports of corn
were 1,796,431 cwts. In the same period of 1869
they rose to 4,179,910, and in this year they were
2,719,069, while barley and oats chewed little variation in
the three pears. The import of raw cotton, which dimi-
nished by 700,000 in 1869 as compared with 1868, increased
one million cwts. between 1869 and 1870. The import of
paper, which was only 77,898 cwt. in 1868, was this year
109,833 cwt. The imports of iron and steel have some-
what increased, while silver ore has fallen from
£36,416 value to £11,244. Silk has largely
increased, and timber diminished. West India
sugars shew fluctuations proving that the trade stands in
need of the changes introduced by Mr. Lowe's last
budget. The exports of British and Irish produce shew
page after page of closely printed figures whose amounts
and Whose declared money value are reckoned in many
instances by millions. The total amount of cotton yarn
exported in the first four months of 1870 was 0,475,167,
and its declared value £4,876,900. The declared value of
the 2,053,777 lbs. of cotton manufactures exported in the
same time was £18,170,056. Less gratifying is it to find
under the head of duty paid spirits that the total quantity
"retained in the United Kingdom as beverage only" is
steadily increasing being in 1868, 4,963,856 gallons, and in
1870 5,422,232 gallons.
London, England, 1870-05-31

AUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.—
Lessees—Messr4 H. J. Montague, D. James, and T,
Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7 30, en original Comedy, by A.
Halliday, entitled FOR LOVE OK MONEY.• At 9.45, the new
Burlesque. by Conway Edwardes, entitled DON CARLOS; or,
The Infante in Aims Supported by the following Company:—
Messrs H. J. Montague, G. Honey, H. Irving, W. H. Stephens, C.
Garthorne, E. Elton, and Thos. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power,
Cavendish, Amy Fawsitt, K Irwin, L. Claire, J. Beauclerc, R.
Evelyn, Kemp, T Lavis, F. Garthwaite, R. Power.
N B.—On Saturday, June 4, will he produced a New and Ori-
ginal Comedy in 3 Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, supported by the
whole of the Company, and in which Miss A. Newton will make
her first appearance at this Theatre.
London, England, 1870-05-31

CRYSTAL PALACE.-THIS DAY.-
SHILLING OPERA. "Faust."—The FAIRY ROSE GAR-
DEN. 3,000 of the newest and choicest roses in pots. Their
fragrance pervades the entire building,
Palace open for admission from ..
Fairy Rose Garden open from ..
Display of Terrace Fountains ..
Gounod's Opera Faust ..
Festival Organ for Promenade .. .. until
NOTE.—The Palace and Grounds never more worthy

.. 10. 0 till 7. 0
11. 0
2.15
2.45
8. 0
a visit
London, England, 1870-05-31

CRYSTAL PALACE.-
-GOUNOD'S FAUST, um
Smith.—THlS AFTERNOON at
Faust .. Mr. Vernon Rigby
Valentine Mr. A. Cook

Wagner .. Mr. 0. Summers
Siebel ~ Miss A. Thirwall
Full orchestra and chorus.
manager, Mr. Friend. New see]
AdMission to Palace and Thi
tickets. Stalls, 2s. 6d.
London, England, 1870-05-31

THE MODERN STAGE.

Has the influence of the French school of acting, asks
the Daily News, proved on the whole beneficial to the
English stage during the last few years ? When we speak
of French acting, we are too apt to forget that there is
bad as-well as good French acting, and that between some
English actingand some French acting the difference is in the
kind rather than in the degree of badness, and, that there
are conventional vices and absurdities peculiar to the
French as there are others peculiar to the English
tradition and school of acting. Nevertheless
it cannot be be• doubted that the best dramatic
art is to be seen in France, that is, in Paris ;
though even in Paris the same causes which have
operated to the deterioration of dramatic art in England
have not been wanting. An eminent German actor, who
was in London two years since, remarked that the most
popular company in London appeared to imitate ama-
teurs performing a drawing-room charade. There was Cie
same self-consciousness, the same indifference to dramatic
illusion, the same familiarity with the audience, the same
trivial disposition to burlesque. The observation, if some-
what hypercritical, was not unwarranted. There is a
new school of young English actors who seem to mis-
take inartistic weakness for simplicity, the absence of
all art for truth to nature, and languid impertinence
for high-bred ease. In short, dramatic art they have
none. Of the manifold requirements of that most
difficult of arts, of the veritable instinct, the vivid sensi-
bilities, and the disciplined mastery of emotion in its in-
terpretation they have not the faintest idea. Not only do
they commit absurd improprieties in attempting to realise
their own conceptions of real life, but whenever they are
not speaking they cease to act at all. As to listening, or
filling up the scene with appropriate and intelligent by-
play, they think it much more natural to stare at the stalls
or to " gag " for the gallery. In all these respects a
lesson is to be learned from the leading members of the
French company now performing at the Princess's, and
we trust that it will be heeded.

A f-lUSSIAN MILLIONAIRE.—The Russian noble-
man, Count Koucheleff, a man of enormous wealth, and
a well-kn Own amateur of art, has just died suddenly at
St. Petersburg, from the effects of an apoplectic attack.
By his will his vast properties pass to his nephew, and
his brother-in-law, the famous spiritualist medium, Mr.
Douglas Home, derives no benefit from that document.
CLOSE OF TILE REICHSRATH.—The North German
Gazette has an article on the close of the Reichsrath,
which states that the expectations of those who predicted
the failure 'of that assembly have been disappointed. 1 t
must be admitted that great progress has been made
during the last three years with respect to new politic
institutions. A backward glance at the measures which
have been passed by the Federal Parliament can well
I hpr a
justify
nt thhas oome e remark of
pommy," a Southern man of the people,
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London, England, 1870-05-31

CRYSTAL PALACE.-FIRST GRAND DlS-
ki PLAY of FIREWORKS, with great floral devices 100 feet
in diameter, the Radiuscope, and other novelties.—Special Illu-
mination of the Fountains in full play, Thursday next (day
after the Derby). The Palace open for admission from 10.0 till
9.0. Alberto Randegger's comic operetta, the Rival Beauties,
at 8.0. Characters by Messrs. Cummings, Maybrick, and Marler ;
Miss Edith Wynne and Miss Ellena Angele.
A Billiard Match between the Champion Players, Messrs.
Cook and Roberts, Jun., at 3. The table will be placed imme-
diately in front of the great Handel orchestra, from the seats
upon which the game may be watched with ease. Reserved
seat tickets for the orchestra will be issued on the day.
The Fairy Rose Garden open from 11 till dusk. The Cold-
stream Guards Band at 6.30. Fireworks at about 10 o'clock.
Palace lighted up for promenade till 11.
Admission 2s. 6d. or by is. 6d, tickets, purchasable this day or
to-morrow. These, with the new June guinea season tickets
(admitting to the grand fetes in contemplation for the next few
months, and generally until the 31st May, 1871), may be had at
the Palace, at Exeter-hall, and usual agents.
London, England, 1870-05-31

GUN LICENSES BILL.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that in defer-
ence to private representations by members of tie House
he had concluded not to press the measure in its present
form. He proposed to retain the game license, giving
it the effect of a license to carry arms under the proposed
act.

After some discussion the bill was read a second time.

SALE' OF POISONS (IRELAND) BILL.

The House went into committee on this bill. The
various clauses were agreed to, with some verbal altera-
tions, and the bill passed through committee. .
PUBLIC HEALTH (SCOTLAND) SUPPLE•
MENTAL BILL.

The order for going into committee was discharged and
the bill was referred to a selectcommittec, to be nominatd
by the committee of selection.
METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS (LOANS)
London, England, 1870-05-31

NEW LAW COURTS.

IVlr- Alderman LAWRENCE asked the First Commissioner
sheiks when a block-plan of the New Courts of Law,
g the proposed approaches to the Courts, would be
Placed in the Library for inspection.
Mr. AYRTON said the plans "were under consideration,
and they could not be produced until the whole of the
Matters had been fully decided.
London, England, 1870-05-31

The New Commander in Ireland.

General Sir William Mansfield, who is about to
succeed to the command of the forces in Ireland on
the expected resignation of Lord Strathnairn is
the fifth son of ;the late Mr. John Mansfield, of
Diggeswell-house, Hertfordshire. His paternal grand-
father was the late Sir James Mansfield, at one time
Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas. He has seen much service in India
from 1845-6, when he served with his regiment in
the campaigns on the Sutlej, up to that trying period
in 1857, when the destinies of the British Em-
pire ..in India seemed to be trembling
in the balance. During the whole of that
struggle he performed the most conspicuous and
valuable services, and was almost immediately after
selected to fill the post of Commander-in-Chief of
the army of Bombay. A few weeks ago he was
advanced to the dignity of G.C.8., and is now en-
trusted with a command the importance of which
cannot be over-estimated.
London, England, 1870-05-31

BLACKWOOD ON LOTHAIR.

The Telegraph severely condemns " Blackwood's "
attack on " Lothair, and complains that the critics found
nothing to blame in their leader or their leader's books
when he led them to power and to pelf. Mr. Disraeli's
career is not, however, ended, and some members of his
party have been premature in their petty attacks on a
lion who has not lost his strength.

The Bishop of Winchester has collated the Rev.
Dr. Monsell, vicar of Egham, to the rectory of St.
Nicholas, Guildford, vacant by the prefermeut of the
Right Rev. Bishop Ryan to the vicarage of Bradford.

Thirty-four guns were fired from the American
yacht Mudge, at Stonington, Connecticut, in honour of
the victory of the Sappho, and the bunting was set on all
the vessels in the harbour.

On Saturday morning it was discovered that a
commercial traveller, who had arrived at the Alliance
Temperance Hotel, Carlisle, on the previous evening, had
committed suicide by cutting his throat.

A Royal Commission is about to be despatched' to
Demerara. Complaints have reached the ears of the
Colonial Office as to the cruel treatment to which many of
the coolies are subjected.

Among the parliamentary papers yesterday are
returns of railway accidents, affidavits in the Queen v.
Fenelley, returns of fees in the common law and superior
courts, and of imports of copper and other ores, report on
the grouping of private bills and general Police (Scotland)
Bill.

Mr. B. Webster and Mr. 11. J. Byron are to appear
In the " Prompter's Box," on June 13, at the Standard
Theatre,
London, England, 1870-05-31

Enlightened Criticism.

The Daily News wonders whether any answer to
the question often asked about the Conservative
leadership is to be found in the extraordinary article
on " Lothair" in the current number of Blackwood.
The critic attacks the ex-Premier's romance with
a vehemence of which our contemporary
thinks there are few literary precedents.
Lothair, according to the verdict of Maga, is "more
extravagant than the romances of the London Jour-
nal, and, in point of art, on a level with the drop-
scene of a provincial theatre." Its pictures of high
life are likened to the "gin-inspired dreams of the
assistant of some fashionable haberdasher, who
enjoys glimpses of great houses and great
people when he goes out with the goods."
After this, it is not surprising to be told that when
the member for Buckinghamshire addresses the
House, the audience will be listening for the tinkle
of bells, Possibly Ur. Disraeli may be consoled to

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find that his illustrious rival fares no better, but that
the critic (is he one of those "who have failed in
literature and art? ") thinks the two Parliamentary
chieftains are after all better employed in writing
dull and foolish books, than in pelting each
other with fragments of the Constitution. The
Daily News, criticising the critic, wants to know
whether Disraeli is to be discarded like Canning,
Peel, and. every other man of high capacity who. Lies
served the Tory party. If so,- the ConservativeS.
will have a good deal more reason to regret the
severance than the brilliant author of " Lothair."

CRYSTAL PALACE.—Next Thursday—Unusual
Combined Attractions.—FlßEWOßKS, Operetta, Billiard
Match, Rose Garden, Military Band, &c. Admission by
eighteenpenny tickets, purchaseable this day and to-morrow
(Wednesday) only ; by payment at doors on the day, 2s. 6d.
Guinea season tickets free.
London, England, 1870-05-31

870.

appeared to him to have been draw r: up in a fair and
comprehensive spirit, and he hoped it would not be ship-
wrecked to meet the views of doctrinaires, who had no
better system to offer. With respect to church rates, the
Archdeacon recommended the continuation of the church-
rate system on the present voluntary basis.

MORE AGITATION FOR HIGHER WAGES IN
THE COTTON TRADE.

A conference of operatives' delegates, representing the
cotton trade of Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire,
met at Bury on Saturday. It being reported that the
masters in both districts were willing to give an advance
of wages equal to that taken off last year, if the town of
Blackburn would lead in the demand, it was resolved that
no opportunity should be lost on the part of the workmen
to press their claims. Meetings are arranged to be held
in all the districts to ascertain if the members would sup-
port a strike, if such be decided upon. The conference
was a private one.

SMUGGLING AT VENTNOR, ISLE OF WIGHT.
A capture of smugglers has just taken place at
the Isle of Wight. A. coastguardsman, named
Hoare, on duty at Luccombe, observed a suspi-
cious-looking sailing boat make for the shore,
and land twenty-five tubs of spirits in Steel Bay, about
two miles east of Ventnor, close to Luccombe Chine. He
fired his pistol to give an alarm. He took possession of
the tubs, but the smugglers pushed the boat from
the shore, and sailed away into the English
Channel. Information was immediately forwarded
to Mr. Taylor, RN., Chief Officer of the Detective
Coastguard Station, who called up a boat's crew, and had
a four-oared galley launched front Ventnor Bay, in order
to pull round Dunnose Point, and if possible to cut off the
smugglers. In twenty-five minutes time from the intelli-
gence being received at Ventnor the Coastguard boat
reached the spot where ,the tubs had been landed. The
smuggler was now some miles out at sea, with a good
breeze in her sails. It seemed doubtful whether she could
be overtaken, but the coastguardsmen immediately started
in pursuit, and, bending to their oars in fine style, after
a long pull of about twenty minutes, and a good
deal of dodging on the part of the pursued, the boat
was at length captured. There was only one man in her,
Noah Williams, of Ventnor, who was taken prisoner and
brought back to Ventnor in his own boat by two of the
coastguardsmen. The tubs were taken to Shanlin, and
forwarded to the collector of Customs at Cowes.
Williams was taken before a magistrate, and remanded.
London, England, 1870-05-31

ALLEGED MURDER IN WAKEFIELD.

A young woman, who is a stranger in Wakefield, was
found in a back yard in that town this morning with her
throat cut in a shocking manner. She was seen in com-
pany with a soldier about midnight last night, and he is
supposed to be the murderer. The police are in pursuit of
him. It is said that a soldier endeavoured to exchange
his regimentals for a civilian's dress in a village just out-
side Wakefield this morning. An inquest is to be held
this evening.

Edward Driver, clerk, late in the employment of
Richard Noverre Bacon, proprietor of the IVorwich. Mercury
newspaper, was charged at the Norwich Police Court
to-day with embezzling money, the property of his em-
ployer. Prisoner was remanded till Saturday. The
accused was formerly a clerk at the Norwich Union Fire
Office.

At a meeting of the Stirling Town Council yesterday it
was resolved to throw open the richly endowed hospitals of
the burgh for educational purposes. A scheme was pro-
pounded for the establishment and endowment of elemen-
tary and advanced schools to furnish education to all
classes at a nominal fee. The amount to be placed at the
disposal of the Council, after satisfying annuitants, will
be £4,640. This action was taken under the Endowed
Schools Act.

The Independent Orange Association have issued an
address in which they express their approval of the Irish
Land Bill and the Ballot Bill. A report is in circulation
that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is about to
purchase an Irish residency in the neighbourhood of Belfast.
On Tuesday next the central committee of the Orange
Institution will meet at Enniskillen. The Earl of Ennis-
killen will preside.
A warrant was issu-d yesterday for the arrest of Mr.
Sullivan, the Mayor of Kilkenny, for contempt of court, in
not appearing to answer the complaints of two constables
and a woman for assaults with a stick in the public street.
The Mayor, who has been in Dublin for sometime, had the
case postponed several court days, on the plea of not being
able to attend at Kilkenny from illness. The magistrates
had adjourned specially until yesterday on his promise to
attend, but finding him again absent the warrant was
ordered to be issued at once.
London, England, 1870-05-09

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London, England, 1870-05-09

SPAIN.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
The following appeared in our Third Edition of Satur-

day :

NADRID, May 6, Evening.
In to-day's sitting of the Cortes Senor Ardana;
urged the House promptly to consider the question
of the election of a Sovereign, and to decide between
the two candidates, the Duke de Montpensier and
Marshal Espartero.

General Prim replied that everybody was desirous
of terminating the provisional state of things, but
up to the present his efforts to give a King to Spain
had been fruitless. He believed it necessa►y that
the Cortes should accomplish its constitutional
mission before s-pztrating, but he did not know if the
political edifice could be completed as desired by
Senor Ardanaz. General Prim also declared that
he would not oppose any solution, and repeated that
he did not wish to be beaten upon the Monarchial
question. He declared the rectitude of his intentions
and the absence of all personal ambition. Ile pro-
mised that the question should be submitted to the
Cartes before that body separated.
London, England, 1870-05-09

OVER-REGULATION.

The Royal Commission appointed by Mr. Cardwell
to inquire into the question of over-regulation prices
is now hard at work. It seems scarcely necessary
to observe that officers are in the habit of buying,
and of subsequently selling, their commissions
at prices above those fixed in the service
scale. The point to be decided is whether there can
be any official recognition of this custom—a matter
of the utmost importance at a time when the modi-
fication of the purchase system is under considera-
tion. The decision, of course, has not yet been
arrived at; but the United Service Gazette notices
that there is a strong impression in well-informed
circles that that decision will not be in favour of
an official recognition of the custom.
London, England, 1870-05-09

ROLLS COURT.

The Master of the Rolls delivered judgment in
the case of Smith, Knight, and CO. (Pipon's claim).
The company had issued a debenture by Smith, one
of the partners of the firm, and they attempted to
make it a set-off agairpt a creditor. His lordship
said that the court could not sanction anything
so closely approaching to a fraud, and decided ac-
cordingly.
His Honour also gave judgment to-day in the
case of Cottrell v. Barker. Testator had left an
annuity, and the party who had the reversionary in-
terest of it on the decease of the tenant for life
sold his interest. Ile subsequently filed a bill to
have the bargai❑ set aside on the ground that he did
not reoeive.the value of the reversion. His lordship
said the agreement was quite valid, and that the
plaintiff must pay the costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-o'ms DAY.)

MAALBOROUGH-STREET.

Bridget Delany, a young woman, was charged be-
fore Mr. Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting an elderly
female named Margaret M‘Natnara, residing in
Smith's-court, Great Windmill-street. The com-
plainant said that on Saturday evening she was
walking along Pulteney-street, when the prisoner,
without any provocation whatever, abuse I her
and threw a handful of mud in her face. She
took no notice of the prisoner and went away, and
while going up the court where she resided a little
time afterwards the prisoner came behind hef,
knocked her down, blackened her eye, and threw
some little articles of grocery she had been purchasing
about the place. The only answer the prisoner made
to the charge was that she had been drinking. She
was committed for two mmths with hard labour.
London, England, 1870-05-09

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THAMES.

Frederick R9bson, aged 23, was charg2d, before
Mr. Lushington, with being drunk and unable to
take care of a horse and cart he was driving, or
attempting to drive, on Saturday evening. Mr.
Lushington asked where the horse and cart had been
placed? Police-sergeant 116 K replied lo the Green-
yard.- Mr. Lushington said the fees would amount
to 15s. It was a very dangerous proceeding for a
man to be driving a horse and trap along a crowded
thoroughfare like the Mile-cud-road on a Saturd..y
evening. He fined the prisoner 35., which he paid.
London, England, 1870-05-09

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NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
liehmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861.
Under the patrona,,e of H.B.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.(3.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 289 Destitute Orphan
Oirla of all ages, classes. and denominations. from all parts of
the kingdom.

Tl.e ::;hje-.t of e Charity Is to give orphan gills a plain Eng-
lish education, an' practical instruction in the kitchen, honse,
and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other
wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain
suitable situations for them.

The Committee earnestly appeal for support. Tho Charity is
entirely sustained by donations and subaeriptions.

HENRY KINGROOTE, Treasurer
W H. WAYWICK. Secretary.
Office, 121, Pall mall S. W

SAMARITAN FREE ITOSPI ['AL for WOMEN
and CHILDREN, Lower Seythour-street, Portman-square.
The only free Hospital for diseases of women. Subscriptions and
donations are much needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hat-
chard, Piccadilly; Sir Samuel Scott, Hart.; Messrs. Barclay,
Coutts, Glyn, Ransom; and by the Secretary._

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMAIA PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.
President—Rev. OA.Nos DALE.

COrrateuriOns for the support of the homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
greet, Salt, and Co., 78, Lombard street, K.C.; Francis Nicholls
kaq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, S.C.
E. W. THOMAS, See., 200, Euston-road, N.W.
London, England, 1870-05-09

BRI'T'ISH HOME FOR INCURABLES,
Clapham-rise.

nstituted 1861.
PATRONESS.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALE '.
TREASURERS.
George Moore, Esq.; Mr. Ald rman G bbons
This Institution, extending its operations to all parts of the
king om, pr vides for those afflicted with incurabb- diseases a
home lor Rh) with every comfort and med; cal att ndance. Patients
are admitte I, and annuities of £1 obtained by election.
No person under 1.0 3 ears of a e, nor of the pauper class, is
eligible.

Full particulars and the necessary forms may b procured from
thP Secretary. Donations and annual subscriptions are earnestly
solicited.

BANKERS.

Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.. Loml, ard-street, E. *. ; and
Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross,S.W._

EA.VE 11, Secretary.

Offices, 73, Cheapqde.

][,, ING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal
street, Lincoln's-inn. •I he Committee earnestly APPEAL
for UNDS to defray the heavy current expenses. Assistance is
urge tly needed.

J W. WALDRON, Secretary
London, England, 1870-05-09

COLONEL BOXER.

The Service papers are by no means agreed respect-
ing the right and wrong of Colonel Boxer's case.
The Army and Navy Gazette and the Broad Arrow
support him ; the United Service Gazette takes the side
of Sir John Pakington. Says the Broad Arrow,
" Colonel Boxer had done his country a great ser-
vice ; his penurious country refused to reward him,
but left him to commerce to set himself right. He
did so, and lo ! two rival cartridge makers, Eley and
llaw, find it profitable to quarrel. The Control—oh,
that Control !—sees the opportunity of utilising that
quarrel, and the result is Colonel Boxer is
sacrificed. It is a scandal to the country, and
no credit to the disingenuousness of the War
Office." The Army and Navy Gazette holds
without shrinking, that Colonel Boxer stands excul-
pated by the official communication received on _4th
' January, 1868, from the -Weir-office, authorising him
"to 'look for his- reward to royalties or other re-
muneration he might receive as a patentee from
private manufacturers." The United Service Gazette
is just as positive on the other hand. Colonel Boxer
has been most righteously dismissed from his ap-
pointment for secretly receiving a royalty on goods
supplied to his department for the use of the public.
London, England, 1870-05-09

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

` This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to 'establish the
principle of fr•. o 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 earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevolent,
as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several
hundred more beds had she Committee the requisite funds to
maintain them,

Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown,
Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Lrummond and Co.; Glyn and Co.; Berries 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.
London, England, 1870-05-09

TTOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
aerrestry—nottetted- Tornborpurolasso of fol. awl

clothing Plithe
126 Boys on board the Ohicheeter Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Groat Queen-streot.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing.

870 children. •
£l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank,
114, Iligh Holborn, snd 41. Lothbnry, KO. t and by
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary.
No. 8. Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-Beds
London, England, 1870-05-09

UNRIVALLED SPECULATIONS
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With a Single Stake of Twelve Shillings you can re tlise £3,000 !
—with .£l, £2`2,ooo!!—with £2..£27,030!!—with £B, 37,000!
For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT,
General Merchant, Guernsey •
London, England, 1870-05-09

lIEBIG *COMPANY'S EXTRACT of MEAT.
J —AMSTERDAM EXHIBITION. 1869. FIRST PRIZE,
being ABOVE the Gold Medal. Supplied to the British, French,
Prussian, Russian, Italian, Dutch, and other Governments. One
pint of tine flavoured Beef-tea at 2id. Most convenient and
economic "stock."

CAUTION.—OnIy sort warranted genuine by the Inventor, Baron
Lieblg, whose signature is on every genuine Jar.

Ail: for LIEBIG COM I• A N 1"S EXTRACT, and not for
LIEBIG'S EXTRACT of M r AT.
London, England, 1870-05-09

A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR.

The Telegraph declares that in Edinburgh last week
there died a man who was the greatest conqueror in
human history. He did not fight with battalions against
battalions, his weapons were not cruel and deadly, and
his foe was no guiltless people or helpless country, whose
beauty and fertility were made its crimes. He waged his
glorious war against our common enemy—his compas-
sionate heart and his capacious brain were his
arsenal and armoury, and his triumyhs, instead
of being bought by weeping and anguish, have
stayed floods of, tears, and prevented a world of
agon3r. Therefore it is that while we would have buried
him like a king if he had only won victories in war, and
while we would have filled, in that case, the public:
journals with eulogies of his greatness and catalogues of
his styles and titles, we now lay James Simpson to rest
like a private citizen of some respectability, and cursorily
mention his decease in a paragraph as an incident of the'
week's news. 'We are instructed that " the
last enemy " which shall be destroyed is death,
albeit as yet that splendid promise is incompre-
hensible. But death had an ally, bitter, mysterious,
and merciless, which seemed equally invincible, and
lent death half its horrors, and cast upon life itself the
shadow of an infinite fear. Pain stalked through the
world with authority, apparently for ever and ever, to
rack-our nerves and torture our senses—there were times,
it seemed, when all who live must be delivered over to
its tyranny. Then, after all those years, the hour came
and the man : James Simpson was one of the foremost
pi neers in giving to chloroform its widest and most essential
apilication. The gain has been priceless, and at that
one pitiful word from science, pain, the despot, was dead.
Now he is dead—the brilliant Scotch doctor, with the
large head which held such a glorious brain, and the lion-
like locks which covered it. It .is part of the mystery of
things that he was killed by angina pectoris—the "breast-
pang," which is, perhaps, the very keenest agony that
can be borne by mortal man, at least during its paroxysms.
Nevertheless, on his death-bed his own beneficent
anaesthetic greatly assuaged his sufferings, realising that
Eastern legend which says that the good deeds of a man
gather round him in the shape of angels, and make his
dissolution easy,
London, England, 1870-05-09

R 0 YA TA

A.D. 1720.
EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION.

(Established by Oud.rter of his Majesty George the First),
For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES.
Offices—ROYAL EXCEIANGE, London.
Branch Office-29, Pull Mall, S.W.

OCTAVO'S WIGRAM, Esq Governor.
JAMES STEWART 119DCISON, Esq Sub-•Governer
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq Deputy-Governor.

DIRECTORS.

IL.lbert Barclay, Esq.
John Garratt Gaitley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
Edward James Dauiell, Esq

William Tetlow Hibbert,
Esq.
Wilmot Holland, Esq.
EgArton Hubbard_ Esq.

William Davidson, Esq Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
Lancelot William Dent, Esq. George Forbes Malcolmson,
Alexander Druce, Esq. Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Eq. Lord J osceline Wm. Percy.
Charles Hermann Goschen, Charles Robinson, Esq.
Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq.
Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq. William Wallace, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, Samuel Sony, Esq., F.R.S.

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may bo effected on
advantageous terms.
FIRE DUTY. This Tax having been abolished, the
PREMIUM is NOW the only charge for Fire Insurances.
FARMING STOCK. - No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machine. 4.
Equivalent reductions have been made in tho 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 Aseured

Libeial participation in Profits, with the guarantee
of a large invested. Capital tstock, 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 HA.T.,7.
ROBERT P. STEELE. secretary.
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON,
London, England, 1870-05-09

THE COUNTY COURTS.

The Judicature Commission are said to have in
preparation a bill for the consolidation of all the
statutes relating to county courts. These statutes,
says the Solicitors' Journal, number nearly twenty,
and the complications arising out of the numerous
clauses, which repeal other clauses and parts of
clauses, are sources of so much difficulty in practice
that it is altogether unsafe for any but regular
county court practitioners to advise on any matter of
detail. "The rules of practice, the construction of
which is a frequent cause of contention, are also to
be remodelled. It is improbable, of course, that any
consolidating bill can be passed this session."
London, England, 1870-05-09

UARDIAN FIR.E AND LIFE OFFICE.
Established 1821.
Subscribed Capital. Two Millions.
11, Lombard-street, London, E.O.
DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN = Frederick H. Janson, E,q.
Henry Hulse Berea, Esq Richard M. Harvey, Esq
Hy. Bonham,: arter, Esq J. G. Hubbard, Esq
Charles Win Curtis, Esq G. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq, M.P
Charles F. Devas, Req John Martin, Esq
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq Rowland Mitchell, N:sq
Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart ;Imes Morris, Esq
James Goodson, Esq Abraham J. itobarts, Esq
Atchibald Hamilton. Esq Henry Vigne Esq
homson HanAey. Esq
' SECRETARY—Thomas Tallemach, Esq
ACTUARY— Semi. Brown, Esq.
The Government Duty is iotally abolished.
Prospectusf,e and Forms of Proposai, with statemen of the
Asset , and Liabilities in the Life Branch, tree on application to
the Company's Agents,or to the Secretary_
London, England, 1870-05-09

THE REVISION OF THE BIBLE.

The Post thinks the two Houses of Convocation have
been more thyn usually practical in their present session.
They have discussed two great questions—the proposed
new Lectionary and the revision of the Bible. Of the
expediency of such a revision there C 441 hardly two °pi,
pions in the minds of those who are familiar with the
original languastes of both Testaments. No one doubts
that the English version is the noblest one extant,
For fidelity of rendering, for felicity of diction, and
magnificence of rhythm, it has never been exceeded. But
it does not follow that it may not be greatly improved by
the removal of some acknowledged blots. It is not
creditable to English scholarship nor to theology that
admitted errors should be allowed to go uncorrected. It
is only against errors that any effort is to be
made Nobody wishes to see an absolute re-transla!
don. No one desires to be rid of the grand old
periods which have rung so impressivgly in the ears of
Englishmen for centuries. I would be a positive loss
and mischief if any portion of the English version not
actually incorrect in its rendering were to be altered. Only
faulty parts are to be amended, and Convocation has done
wisely in resolving to call in the- highest scholarship that
can be found withont reference to the conntry qr the creed
of the scholar. By this means it will secure for the
new version an acceptance with all classes of
Christians which could be obtained in no other
way. It will not then be the version of a party,
or be open to suspicion of any kind, but being the pro-
duct of the highest scholarship of the age it will have
claims upon the respect of the world which none will bq
able to gainsay. It will be many years before the task is
done, and many more before the new version will have
found its way to the homes and affections of the people
but when it will have done so the Christian Church wilt
be in possession of a treasure past all price,

INDIA.-RUBBER DEADENING SOUND.—We once
visited a factory where some forty or fifty coppersmiths
were at work in a shop above our heads; but what was
remarkable scarcely a sound of their noisy hammering
could be heard. On going upstairs we saw the explana-
tion. Each leg of every bench rested on a cushion inadq
of indiarubber cuttings. This completely deadened the
.• • .
sound.— Citainben's Journal,

()LOSE OF TIM CUSTOMS PAILLIAMENT,--The
Prussian Government sustained a defeat in the Customs.
Parliament on the question of increasing the duty on,
Coffee, which so exasperated the Finance minister,
Camphausen that on leaving the Iquse, he said
aloud in the hearing of Some of theeputies, "We
must get rid, as speedily as -possible of a Par-
liament which does not understand its mission." ThiS
threat was almost immediately afterwards put
goeutitat
London, England, 1870-05-09

INTERNATIONAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

Earl Fortescue presided over a conference at the
room of the Society of Arts on international mea-
sures, weights, and coins. That the question was
well ventilated may be taken for granted from the
fact that ..ainong the speakers were-Sir •Charles Adder-
ley, Professor Leone sir John Bowring,
Mr. Baines, M.P., Proses- Airey, and others
well known° in Ps ts, science, and literature. Thr
first resBlution demanded the attention of the Legisla-
ture at the earliest practical tinie with a view to
the establishment of some convenient uniform deci-
mal system throughout the United' Kingdom. Th
was carried unanimously, as was another in favour of
the substitution for troy ;,;;;--jght.of, notthei. avoirdu-•
pois, butln'hilOgrammerWith its divisions and mul-
tiples. A motion to the effect that the introduction
of a universal system of weights and measures would
not be complete without a corresponding system of
international coinage, the same being based on a
gold standard of the tinenesii-vii nine-tenths, with
one-tenth alloy, and identical mint regulations in all
countries, was carried.
London, England, 1870-05-09

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Morning. Evening
.50 min past 7 —3O min past 8

MONDAY
.

.in pa.
TUESDAY...
WEDNESDAY 30 min past 10 10 rain past 11
THURSDAY... ..... ........40 min past 11 0 min past 12
FRIDAY...,.. 8 min past 12 34 min past 12
London, England, 1870-05-09

PARTRIDGE AND COOPER.
MANUFACTURING STATIONERS,

192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER. OF CII/NCERY-LANE), LONDON (B.O.)
THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES.

CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s.
Par ream. B. d.
Fine Cream Laid Note; a cheap paper
Superfine Cream Laid Note; much approved
Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note; especially recommended 5 6
Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note .... T 0
Straw Paper, " Patent:" adapted for rapid writing ........ ... 2 6
Large Commercial Note Papers ,...35., 45., 55., and 6 0
Foolscap Papers, blue or cream.......... 105. 6d., 12s. 6d., and 14 6
Outsides Foolscap
Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 4s. • ruled ditto, 4 6
Tinted Lined Note „five quires for ls. Gd., or 5 6

The New Vellum Wove "Club House" r ote, five quires for

2s. 0

Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s Gd, 5s 61, &Gs 61 .
Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s Gd per 1,000
Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., 3s.
COLOUR STA :t1 PLNG (Relief) reuced to ls. per 100. Polished
steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the
prices charged by the retail houses.
An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip-
tion, with prices of Account Books. Copying Presses, Inkstands,
stationery, Cabinets, Postage .tales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling
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S AUC E.—LEA and PERRINS.
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and see the names of LEA & PERRINS on all bottles and labels

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in Sauces throughout the World.
London, England, 1870-05-09

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFo:
ASSOCIATP:N

(Established 18:0)
TRUSTEES '

Thomas Baring, Esq , I Thothas Hanley, Esq
R. W. Crawford, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M P.
The report and balance-sheets of this Association for the year
1869, exhibiting in full details the amounts assured, ages of the
members, with particulars of the invested fund, may be had on
application to the chief office, or to the agents
The annual income from premiums is ...Le4,000
From interest on investments ... 19,000
Ihe invested fund, after payrr ent of all claims, exceeds 415,000
The whole of the profits divided among the members.
Caqh bonuses have already been allotted to the assured,
amounting to 1100,000.

W. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
No. 15, Moorgate-street, March , 1870.