The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-09 00:00:00

(FRO3I A CORRESPONDENT.)

English Church is threatened with a new
secession. This time it is not to the Papal but to
the Patriarchal Church. The theological travellers
look, not towards Rome, but towards St. Petersburg.
'The simultaneous discussion on Papal Infallibility
and the visit of Archbishop Lycurgus to this
country have given a new direction to the
thoughts of those restless persons who are never
contented save when they are "going over." We
are not prepared to say that the secession will be
on a large scale. It is quite possible, moreover, that the
persons who eventually leave the English for the
"orthodox" Church will be considered more noto-
rious than influential. At the same time, any move-
ment of this kind is not to be despised, but should be
well weighed by all persons who direct the policy of
the National Church.
The real ground of offewse, the proximate.. cause of

Dublin

the threatened rupture, are the recent legal deCisions
with respect to ritual. The Ritualist -party com-
plain of the judgments in themselves, and of the one-
sided way in which it is attempted to enforce the
rubrics. They point out that if they err by excess,
others err far more grievously by defect. We will
assume that this complaint is well founded ; but we
see in it no reason to justify secession. In the first
place, if the Ritualists are offended by the fact that
they only am selected as defendants in suits for
breaches of the rubric, it is quite competent for them
to institute proceedings against the party which
has attacked them. Far be it from us to recommend
this course. There has been already
far too much of brother going to law with
brother, and we do not desire to sea a bad
example• followed, however great the provocation.
Much better would it be for the Ritualists to agitate
for any change in the law which they think desira-
ble. The strength of their position hitherto has
been the love of toleration and fair play which per-
vades the En:lish mind when not perverted by
theological bitterness. That advantage would be
lost if the Ritualists undertook the role of prose-
cutors. At the same time it is for them to consider
whether even this step would not be better
than the very serious ono of deserting the Church
into which they have been baptised. Far better
would it be to work on steadily in the hope of ob-
taining. her liberty. The time is probably not far
distant when the State will refuse to be troubled
any longer with such questions, will allow English
Churchmen to have as much or as little ritual as they
please. Every year the desire to grant the widest
toleration increases, and the dislike of these ecclesi-
astical lawsuits intensifies. It would argue much
petulance and impatience if the Ritualists hastily
forsook the English communion. Any way, they
have no right to expect that the law will be set aside
to please them. If they think the law is bad, let
them endeavour to get it repealed, and to
talk of secession if the bishops enforce the law, sounds
too much like a threat for the chief pastors of the
church to be able to heed it. After all, ritual is not
doctrine. If the English courts should declare against
any dogma which the,Ritualists cherish, then we not
only could not blame them for seceding, but we do
not see how they could do otherwise. But even the
most dogma-loving mind cannot suppose that lighted
candles are necessary to salvation, or that Eucharistic
vestments are articles of a standing or falling
Church. Therefore, to forsake a Church which does
in their opinion hold the true faith, in order that they
may have freedom of conscience in another Church
not in their opinion altogether sound, is a weakness
unworthy of men of earnestness and learning.
While the Bishops should not be terrified into
doing, or leaving undone, anything contrary to their
judgment, it will be wise for them just now, and,
indeed, at all times, to grant the widest possible
liberty which they can give consistent with
loyalty to the Church of which they are . overseers.
The example of a party organisation like the Church
Association is not one that men, who ought to be- •
long to no party, should .follow. Let them recog-
nise earnestness wherever they see it, and seek to
temper rather than to destroy enthusiasm even when
it is not ahogether wise. More has been lost
to the Church by repression than by
toleration. The Bishops cannot set aside the law of
ritual ; but let them not seek to enforce it vexa-
tiously. To be hot against ritual is just as unphilo-
sophical as to be hot in its behalf. There are other
and more important questions than this to occupy
the minds of both " bishops and curates " just now.

Her Majesty will, during-the present week, stand
sponsor in person at the christening of the Earl of Burford,
infant sou of the Duke and Duchess of St Albans.

A marriage is arranged between the Earl of Derby
and Mary Marchioness of Salisbury.
Mr. Bellew is about to give a series of readings in

According to the Morning Post there is not the
slightest foundation for the statement in the Observer of yes-
terday that Mr. Bright has intimated his intention of resign-
ing his seat in the Cabin9t, and consequently for the report
that Mr. Mon della is to succeed the right hon. gentleman at
the Board of Trade.

Lord ani Lady Muncaster, after a fatiguing
journey by era and land, via Marseilles, arrived in London
shortly niter :ix a.m. on Saturday from Athens, and are
staying with his lordship's relatives, the Right Hon.
Edward Ilorsman, M.P., and Mrs. Horsman, on Richmond-
terrace, Whitehall. A few hours after his arrival Lord
Muncaster visited the Earl de Grey (Lord President of
the Council), brother-in-law of the unfortunate Mr. Reginald
Vyner.

Archdeacon Sinclair, now in his 73rd year, is suf-
fering from a complication of alarming maladies, among
others serious spitting of blood and congestion of the lungs.
The more alarming symptoms are, however, we are glad
to hear, slightly ameliorated.

Haydn's " Creation" will be performed on Friday,
the 20th instant, for the only time this season, under the
direction of Mr. G. W. Martin, at St. James's Hall, Picca-
dilly.

Frith's " Mrs. Rousby," in the Academy, has been
sold for 350 guineas, and E. M. Ward's "Judge Jeffries" for
£l,soo—the purchaser of both being Mr. Brooke, of Ken-
wood Tower, Highgate.

Anthony Trollope will contribute Casar as the next
volume of Blackwood's " Ancient Classics for English
Readers."

Napoleon's Expenses at St. Helena have just now
been made public, for the first time, through Baron Pey-
rouse's "Memoirs and Archives," 1809-1815, the military
expenses being 1,446,000 f. ; the civil, only 145,000 f. ; those
of the Emperor's household, 750,000 f.
George Grove, Editor of Macmillan, and Sec-
retary of the Crystal Palace Sydenham, is about to publish
for the benefit of amateurs a band-book to Beethoven's
Symphonies.

Mr. Toole, on Friday next, the 13th inst. will
take his benefit, and make his last appearance there at the
great east-end theatre of the Standard.

The great organ for the Albert Hall at South Ken-
sington is being got in piecemeal, and will be put to-
gether as rapidly as possible so soon as the domed roof is
completed.

A new, two-act comedy by Mr. Cheltnam, the
author of " Evendale," and son-in-law of the late Leigh
Hunt, will be speedily produced at the Charing-cross
Theatre.

A photograph of the heads of seven of the Greek
brigands has been published by the London Stereoscopic
Company, Cheapside, and a more villainous set of counte-
nances it would be difficult to imagine.

Tramways between Whitechapel Church and Bow
Church were formally opened to the public to-day.
The general rules and regulations for the forth-
ciming prize meeting at Wimbledon were issued by the
National Rifle Association on Saturday. There is no mate-
rial alteration from the rules in force last year.

John Bull mentions rumours of secessions to the
Greek Church among-advanced Churchmen.

A detente fund has been started in Liverpool to
defray the costs of the recent action against the proprietor
of the Porcupine.
The South London Press states that the defalca-
tions of the late collector of Queen's taxes in Lambeth
(John Purssey) are estimated at about £4,000.

Should the Government decline to have a religious
census, John Bull understands that the Church authorities
will undertake to arrange one for her own members.
Favourable accounts continue to be received from
Frogmore, regarding the Princess Christian and her
child.

A. despatch from Rome states that in the vote for
the establishment of a universal Catechism, taken in
Thursday's sitting of the Council, there were seventy non
placets and fifty conditional placets.

We understand that a proposal has been made by
Colonel Morgan to our corporation with the view of pro-
viding a park for the inhabitants of Swansea.—The
Cambrian.

The Paris correspondent of the Standard has
reason to know that great military precautions are to be
taken, and that extra supplies of ammunition have been
sent to all the infantry barracks in Paris.

A Treasury minute has been published, autho-
rising the discontinuance of the separate annual state-
ment of Colonial Governor's pensions. The statement
will in future be printed with the estimates.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, May 7.
The Queen, accompanied by' their Royal Rig

nesses Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Beatrice, left 03borne this afternoon at 3 o'clock,
and arrived at Windsor Castle at half past six
o'clock.

May 8.

Her Majesty and the Royal Family and the Ladies
and Gentlemen iu Waiting ai tended Divine service
this morning in the private chapel.

The Prince of Wales rode out on Saturday, a
tend;:d by Lieut.-Col. Teesdale.

The Princess of Wales drove our, atten led by
the Marchiones3 of Hamilton.
Their Royal Highnaises the Prince and Princess
attended Divine service yesterday at the Chapel
Royal St. James's.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.
THE PLEBISCITE.

PARIS, May 9, 12.20 a.m.
The result known up to the present time of the
voting in the provincial arrondissements, not in-
cluding the Department of the Seine, is 506,536,
ayes, 89,310 noes. The return from the arrondisse-
ment of Lille, including the town, shows 65,367 yeas
and 13,803 noes, the number of registered voters
being 92,146. No returns have yet arrived from
other large towns.

PARIS May 9, 4.5 a.m.
The number of erectors who abstained from voting
in the Department of the Seine, including Paris, is
estimated at 93,000.

In the arrondissement of Marseilles, including the
eiky, with 76,627 registered voters, the voting has
been 34,829 noes, 18,412 ayes, 866 votes being an-
nulled.

In the arrondissement of Toulouse, with 30,817
registered votes, the voting has been 12,534 noes
and 9,112 ayes.
In Bordeaux the result has been 18,469 noes
and 10,127 ayes.
Total result of the voting in 101 arrondissements in
various parts of France, with an aggregate of
2,085,964 votes, his been-1,496,771 ayes, 252,739
noes ; 32,072 annulled.

PARIS, May 9, 4.30 a.m.

The total result of the voting in 115 provincial
arrondissements, with 2,119,106 votes on the re.
gista, is as follows:--1,811,494 ayes, 483,278 noes
35,992 abstainers.

Returns have now been received from 181 arron-
dissements, with 4,276,788 registered voters, and
give 3,073,936 ay-es, 493,789 noes.

7 a.m.

The results of the voting known up to this hour,
including Paris, give : —5,180,000 ayes, 1,300,000

Returns frotu 106 arrondissements have yet to be
received.
It is calculated in official quarters that the final
result will, be about 6,500,000 ayes and 1,500,000
no_s, and abstentions will probably amount to one-
fifth of the registered voters.
The returns of Lyons, with 79,597 registered voters,
give 35,769 noes, and 22,294 ayes.
PARIS, May 9, 10 a.tn.
Up to the present time the result of the voting on
the Plebiscite is as follows : —Ayes, 6,189,506 ; noes,
1,315,881.
The results from 37 arrondissements are still to be
received, as is also the votes of the army and the
navy and Algeria.
BOURSE, May 7.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :-
1} per Cent.
3 per-Cents 74 52 I Itt‘l,an Fives 57 25
End of month— 74 571 Austrian Fives
Credit Mobilier ... 227 Ottoman Loan
Transatlantic 197 50 Do. Debt 5O
Credit Foneier ...1300 Spanish Threes
Paris Gas 1677 Rome Debt
Suez Canal 287 50 Deferred ......
RAILWAYS Casli
Orleans
Western
Northern
Strasburg
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 6lO
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 385
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman 5B

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP.-SATURDAY.

It is, I believe, pretty well decided that the new posts

at the War Office constituted under the War Office Bill
which has just passed through the House of Commons,

and been introduced to the House of Lords,
will be conferred upon Captain Vivian and
Sir Henry Storks. Captain Vivian is at present
a Lord of the Treasury. specially charged to look

after army matters, and he.will in his new capacity be
Financial Secretary of War. Sir Henry Storks will be
Surveyor-General of Ordnance. The Government are
anxious to get him into Parliament, and would have done
so at Newark if they could, but the strong feeling excited
against Sir Henry by his support of the Contagious
Diseases Act rendered it useless for him to go to the poll.
Speaking of the above-mentioned Act, I may state that
it is the intention of the Government not to repeal it.
Ministers declaie that they have an excellent answer
to all the allegations which have been made against it ;
and though Mr. Bruce promised yesterday's deputation
that an inquiry should be made into the working of the
Act, the Government are already satisfied that it is work-
ing well and should not be repealed.
As I anticipated a week ago, the Liberals gain a seat in
East Suffolk. The Conservatives cannot find anyone who
will venture to spend seven or eight thousand pounds in
opposing the Whig baronet ; they say that Sir Shafto
Adair is safe to be made a peer in a year or two, when
they will recover their loss.
The Cobden Club are hoping that Mr. Gladstone will
preside over their annual dinner this year. The club is
now an influential political body ; it includes about 150
members of the House of Commons, a large number of
ex-M. P.'s, and a goodly array of peers. Some of the
most distinguished continental politicians also are enrolled
in the pink-covered, cream-tinted little book which con-
tains the " list of members."
The name of Cobden suggests the Commercial Treaty,
and with reference to that your readers may have noticed
a leader in the Timei of Thursday, commenting upon.the
report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, and a
letter which appeared in the Times itself a little while ago.
Both report and letter were written by a Manchester
gentleman named Stagg, who is connected by
marriage both with Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden.
When the treaty was about to be first settled he was sent
to Paris to arrange some of the details, and now that a
change is proposed he is going over again, by the invita-
tion of the French Government, to give evidence before
their committee. He is preparing a work on the political
economy of the Manchester trade, and some little time
ago he had a letter in the Times calling for a revision of
the duties under the Treaty, and so ably written that it
attracted the particular notice of the chiefs at Printing-
house-square, and induced them to ask for further com-
munications. These will shortly appear in the columns
of the leading journal, and the writer will be paid an
unusually large sum for them.
The select committee appointed to inquire into the
operation of Mr. Osborne Morgan's Dissenters' Burials
Bill have found it impossible to modify the bill so as to
make it in accordance with the wishes of its opponents.
They have therefore proposed that in the event of any
parish or any private individual giving land properly
railed in and prepared as a burial ground for Dissenters,
such parish shall be exempt from the operation of the
Act. I believe that Mr. Mowbray was the originator of
this suggestion, and that it will be accepted as a satisfac-
tory compromise by High Churchmen like Archdeacon
Denison ; that it will be accepted by Dissenters is less
6.15 a.m. I certain.
_ _ _ _

A good many of the Upper Ten have been spending the
Easter holidays in Paris—among them the Marquis and
the Marchioness of Westminster,and the Earl and Countess
of Shrewsbury. They had an opportunity of witnessing
Patti's farewell performance. It consisted of the
second act of " Don Juan," the third of " Faust,"
and the fourth of " Hamlet." The Prima Donna
was regularly bombarded with bouquets, and while
acting Ophelia was nearly buried alive with flowers. The
receipts at the Opera that night were over £l,OOO. Bene-
dict has also been bringing out at Paris his new cantata,
"St. Cecilia." The Duchess of Gramont, wife of the
French Ambassador at Vienna, and who is spoken of as
successor to Count Daru at the Foreign Office,was daughter
of M. Mackinnon, the head of the Mackinnon clan, who has
just died. Lady Margaret Beaumont, who has just been
robbed of £lO,OOO worth of jewels, is the daughter of the
Marquis of Clanricarde, and her husband is member
for South Northumberland, and one of the wealthiest com-
moners in England.
Of late weeks the dead walls of London have been
plentifully placarded with conspicuous bills, declaring
that Will o' the Wisp was the only Conservative, and
chief political comic journal. The field thus occupied does
not seem to have been very fertile. Yesterday there
appeared in the Court of Bankruptcy a certain Mr.
Titus Danker, who stated that his liabilities were
£1,638, and his assets £5OO, and that his failure
" was attributable to his connection with the publication
called Will o' the Wisp." He added that he " had executed
a mortgage on the assets of the paper to a person named
King, who had provided him with funds to carry it on,
but instead of improving, it only became worse." It
will be remembered that this was the paper which
Mr. Hamilton Hume started, and which, during the
reign of Mr. Corry was distributed to the ships in Her
Majesty's navy, with the view of teaching them loyalty.
The accession of Mr. Childers had a chilling effect upon
the journal in question, and loud were Mr. Hume's com-
plaints. Remembering the failure of the Arrow and
that another comic paper still in existence belonged to
Sir William Russell, the bankrupt M.P., it would seem
as if comic journalism were not a lucrative employment.
It is melancholy to think of jokes having to be prepared
when the sheriff's officers are in possession. Neverthe-
less, in spite of numerous "comic " failures in London,
Dublin is about to have a comic journal of its own,
called Zosimus, the nickname of a fool once well known
in the streets of the Irish capital. It will be illustrated
by Mr. O'Hea.

Monday will see a new novel out, called " The Higher
Law." It is written by Mr. Maitland, author of " The
Pilgrim and the Shrine "—a very clever but very heretical
tale. Mr. Moncure Conway's new, book will be called
" The Earthward Pilgrimage," Mr. Spender's will be
called, " Fjeld, Isle, and Tor." Mr. Crace, the well-
known decorator, has published an address to working
men on " Art Training." Mr. Montgomerie
Ranking is publishing the stories from whence " The
Idylls of the King " are taken. Mr. Whymper, who was
the first person to ascend the Matterhorn, has in the
current number of the Alpine Journal an account of
Greenland. The prolific Mr. William Morris has just
published his translation of the Icelandic Poem, " The
Story of the Volsungs and the Niblungs." The price of
Mr. Leslie's picture should have been £2,000, not £l,OOO,
as stated in my last letter.

Le Figaro says that M. Flourens has left London,
and continues, " We have confidence that free England,
the refuge of cosmopolitan revolution, will not allow
foreign conspirators, who menace the lives of friendly
sovereigns, to remain upon her territory."

Lord Redesdale has discovered that, according to
existing plans for the extension of the Government offices
one end of Parliament- street will be wide and the other
inconveniently narrow. As usual, the matter being
pointed out, will be remedied.

The Army and Navy Gazette understands that
there is a probability that there will be no drill season at
the Curragh Camp this year. At least, it is not at all
likely that Lord Strathnairn will command if there is, as
he will resign his command in June.

John Bull understands that the Select Committee
on the Burials Bill will recommend a clause exempt-
ing any parish from the operation of the proposed
Act, if it provides a suitable burial ground for Noncon-
formists.

The Hon. rilarli Rolle has issued a circular to the
tenants on his estates, expressing his wish to take upon
himself in future the liability to pay Church-rates in cases
where his tenants have a conscientious objection to pay
the rate.

The Spectator" feels the deepest suspicion" of Mr.
Kinnaird as the member who uttered the words com-
plained of by Mr. Whalley.—" Why not Mr. Kinnaird?
No party feels more gall or bitterness in their hearts for
the ridicule which Mr. Whalley brings on the extreme
anti-Romanist party than the Recordites."

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals has commenced to publish a monthly
periodical called " The Animal World," the object
being to teach, in the words of Miss Burdett Coutts's
letter, " the absolute duty of man towards the lower
animals."

A singular instance of motherly love was brought
under the notice of the Sheffield magistrates on Friday.
The mother of a lad who stood charged with pocket-picking
had come all the way from America to him the moment
she heard he'was in custody here, and she now produced
a return-ticket for recrossing the Atlantic the moment her
unworthy son got at liberty. The Chief Constable was
instructed to liberate the prisoner on finding the story told
by the mother was accurate.

THE LOGIC OF IRISH DISAFFECTION.
At a public meeting in Kells to adopt a congratulatery
address to Mr. Radcliffe, J.P., who was recently fired at,
the Rev. John Nicolls, J. P., made a somewhat noticd)i'
speech. He said the quiet old town of Kells had lately
acquired a notoriety to which it was long unaccustontea•
eat
11,1 times long gone by Kells was distinguished as the s-ti
of piety and learning, and they had still some monttune
remaining—in their beautiful crosses in their'old
and in some monastic remains—of what the town Avas iu
,1:,
dAys of yore ; but latterly Kells was gradually slid
sinking into that doom which awaitd every town ii'tfci
County Meath. Instead of its hitherto quiet, unobserv, ,
Progress, Kells had most suddenly acquired a most Inle
At
viable .notoriety, and the town, in common with the en'
county, had been put outside the pale of ordinary law' 03
the present time it was occupied by a force of police re
military that would be quite sufficient, if the town ye .
declared in a state of siege, against any visible enerair3l,;
and if every other part of Ireland required the ,
amount of physical force to prevent or punish outrl;
they would require scattered over the whole surface of
country upwards of 100,000 men. There was no greto
difficulty in defining the causes that had led
the existing state of things in that neig,l,l"°„-i
hood and throughout the whole country. The Pe°:„r:
who were created by God had not a way' of ,„f
Multitudes of them had been driven from their Wt.";
had been forced into the towns, and when in the to''cl:
they had not an opportunity of earning their bresi.,
and when men who were willing to earn their brelf,
inim'who, when left in their homes, were moral, uPrlgpri
and well-conducted—were reduced to a state Of Inis-„.
and want, they became not only wretched and cli6e"„,e
tinted, but as an inevitable consequences they beeDlo
demoralised in every sense. If the spirit which •vi
Productive of outrage and crime was beginning to
,1),,e11J
wade the land, and manifest itself in outrage, they Cl4l
easily account for it by the fact that these men jy
not only been expelled from their homes, not 011,4,
deprived of those rights which they, as human heiliff;t
were possessed of, but they had, by the treatill'ail
they had received, been placed beyond the reach a
these influences which could be brought to bear on Oa,
and well-conducted people. Was there any man iu ea
senses who would say that if Englishmen had been tre3t
a; Irishmen had been treated, they would not have he
as bad in committing outrages? They would have heed •
far away and worse than Irishmen ever were. The lan
was shut up on the people, they had no opportunity
earning their bread, and if they turned criminal, no on
could wonder at the result.

ADULTERATION OF TEA.
1
Formerly, it appears, tea was adulterated with 0' ,
leaves of various pants, and so extensively did the Pr3l
tice prevail that it was actually announced that sole'4 •
injury had been done to the timber of woods and under
woods. But from the report of the Commissioners
Inland Revenue, it would appear that 'science has oh'
viated such a necessity. Instead of substituting Englis
for Chinese leaves, modern tea-dealers revive the aPP.ette
ante of the exhausted article. Prussian blue and a hand
guns give what is called a "facing " to black tea; „Pot
there are materials, it is to be feared, 13cb.,
of so innocent a nature, by which h,,tice
tea is converted into green. This latter Prtior
appears to be so general as to have become a ten d it
and recognised part of the tea-dealer's business ; iotls
is not a little amusing to see how entirely uncont to
they are of the real nature of their acts. They write
the Board of Inland Revenue that they doubt wue" to
.it can be contrary to any statutory provisions 1,0
convert black tea into green ; that, if this realliy,
the case, they must, of course, give up the practict;
bat that they hope to find the Inland
Oilicers are mistaken in so informing them, as it, rfe•
be extremely inconvenient to them, and a great inter
rence with their trade. The Commissioners add that tt d
fear they may be open to the reproach of having deParin
from the calmness of official style and phra,seolog. s,
pointing out to some of these gentlemen in their relmlete
that there is another law besides that in the statu 0
book which they had somewhat contravened. Nothin,:;ts
shew better the state of feeling upon this subject among.
dealers than the following letter from one of them
the commissioners of Inland Revenue.—Gentlemen, the
scarcity of green tea having taken place, while we be
an abundant supply of black tea this season, I sue'___ls
much obliged by a reply to the following .question:
it legally tight to stain black tea green, or vice versd,
such staining there being no increase in the weight, ellct
tea having duly paid the legitimate duty ?—Your 113":0
obedient servant." The board have lately had a e3"r
under consideration which shews howgrievously the Pee:.„-is
classes are defrauded in the article of tea. The detect,l"„t
was made in the north-east of London. It appears Lon.
the proprietors of some of the docks and wharves in -1-40-;
don where tea is bonded, have been in the habit of Pej
mitting the sweepings of the warehouses to be rereev,jcl
by certain persons, who at one time were P.
for taking them away, but who latterly, in have
sequence of the demand for such sweepings, ha% •
had to pay for them. These sweepings were silo
quently picked and sifted, and considerable quantiket
of impure tea were obtained, for which a ready mar lb.
was found as "tea-dust," at from Bd. to is. 4d-
,Par
Ito
Samples of this tea being sent to the Inland Rev Cott
Laboratory for analysis, produced the following reer
report from Mr. Phillips :—" The tea bought atSd. Per
lb. consists of small fragments of tea-leaf, pine and °„t.bat
woods, a trace of starch, and 24'39 per cent of saud.
purchased at ls. per lb. consists of fragments of tea-le`
lst
pine, and other woods, a trace of starch, and 1-o.°
cent of sand. The sample purchased at is. 4d. Pak],
consists of a mixture of green and black tea, bits W°'r
and 6.69 per cent of sand. '
The Pall 31a11 Gazette thinks these observations of 4rstbt
Board of Inland Revenue clearly shew that in the Ft-ise
place the officers of Customs-should have power to reevo
to admst suspicious tea for home consumption, ,D 9,0
when the duty is paid. Anything more absurd ",sre
their not having such power in cases wit to
they are certain of its spurious quality it is diffielLill
imagine. In the second place, there should be a Pr,e.r; of
constituted staff of inspectors to detect adulteration'ed
tea after importation, as well as home-mandact."bed
spurious tea, and all offenders should be severely PlUltioo
on'detection. This, of course, necessitates a little au;ls,
on the part of the Treasury and the Home Office, wr,eost
perhaps, as it only affects our health andcomfort, is 3'w".-
too much to ask.

LOTTERIES.—Mr. Bruce affirms that is
within the scope of his authority, as Home SecretarY,aci
determine when the law against lotteries shall be enf°rtet•
and when it shall be allowed to remain a dead lettio
With respect to particular applications of,. we
Act in question we have nothing to say, he' • e•
that,What protest against this most extraordinary doe ,Dat,
What makes it especially remarkable is the fact; the
according to the account which Mr. Bruce gave '3' alr
matter on Friday evening, the Home Office does not is
stain from interference in cases where it to
not prepared to enforce the law, but onlY,_,o
perpetrate a series of inoperative demonstravivr
against law breaking, and then leave the intending ,-
breakers to pursue their course without further Incetioa,
distinettlio
tion. " The practice has been, without exeePt rip
to communicate with the promoters of the lot F 4
pointing out to them that, however meritorin
the object, the proceeding itself is illegal ;0
subjects them to prosecution." The circuinsteAt
that such a remonstrance has very cormqia
had the effect of putting a stop to the lottery is not joe
to the point. Mr. Bruce claims the right to deternl.o,o
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same month. His Majesty the King of Prussia,
usual, visit the same bath in the course of the sit-elleas
and the Kings of Bavaria and Wurtemburg, as /'
the Grand Duke of Hesse, are also expected.
to be
A Japanese newspaper, which is intended ain
despatched to Japan by every mail, is being cone., rode
Paris by the Gillot process. The editor is M. -1-4.,y° of
Rosny, a professor of languages. The first nunwero,wit
which 1,500 copies have been printed, contains an 04%0,
of the trial of M. Pierre Bonaparte, and political
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without any political or literary articles. It is 14
in the form of a small pamphlet with a paper cover.
The " Convent Defence Committee " saYs of
Westminster Gazette, held a meeting, after the defFewas
Mr. Newdegate's motion, on Monday night, when of
resolved that the committee should watch the prog,eo the
the inquiry proposed by Mr. Gladstone to inquire insandstate of the law concerning conventual institution also
their tenure of property. A vote of thanks was their
offered to the Irish members of Parliament for
effectual opposition to the proposed inquiry.
A New Yoik letter of the 24th ult. Of al
Geller
The Fenian Congress adjourned yesterday.
O'Neill was re-elected President, and it is undeltive,
that a policy "was determined upon. Nothing pOS
utica
however, is known of the proceedings. The Exqssaeci
Council elected by the Chicago FenianCongresshas2, e to
an address announcing the removal of the central oth§-0,/
Philadelphia, protesting against their treatment in
York, and promising active military operations. SO
A THING FOR THE HUMANE SOCIETY T.
by
To.— Are people at all aware of the cruelties praNcvi ttise j
bird fanciers ? For example, do they know h° shops
pens that so many of the little captives in the beirtiftincl!
are blind ? It is a piteous sight to see the o.et,t, an°
straining sightless little eyeballs towards the fig
to find 'the nightingale trilling its sweetest in utteiriiial-
ness. But it makes the blood curdle to learn that th °boa
ness is caused by ruthless Huberts, who delibera t eqn the
out the eyes of birds with red-hot wire AQ there
ignorant belief that it improves their song. these
would appear to be no law in the land to proteu_:e time
miserable victims of revolting cruelty. When s,°"-„te owls
ago, it was discovered that, in order to prevent taewir,wn,
flying away, the sinews of the wings of the bird sx iuserable
those practising this iniquity. got off on some Pffli tat t.o
legal quibble, and we suppose it would be
punish a bird-fancier, whose ignorance being equal
brutality, leads him to believe that " blind birds g
best."—South London Press.
DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.--A decree of ,or the
Charles of Roumania has convoked the Chamberstvlneat
13th of May. The Prince has issued a decree of
tteM,stints
for all press and political offences. Official
oeu'oj,ls
state that the most . complete calm 3/4nquid
at Tekoutsch, and that a searching I
will be made into the disastrous occurrences
lately taken place there. The result of the e° lof the
which the Ministers have had with the chiels..._istera
parties has been very satisfactory, and the Dll°
expect a majority in the Chamber. the
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