The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-18 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1870.

LADY EMILY PONSONBY'S NEW NOVEL.
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
N 0 It A. By LADY. EMILY PONSONBY,
Author of "The Discipline of Life," &c.
Also Now Beady, in 3 vols.,
M Y II E R 0. By MRS. FORRESTER,
Author of "Fair Women," &c
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—THIS DAY.—Grounds
refreshed by rain, never more delightful. The luxuriantly
foliaged ferns round crystal fountain now most beautiful.
Palace open for admission .. .. 10 till 7.0
Display of terrace fountains .. 3.0
Orchestral band .•. .. 4.15
Festival organ and promenade until 8.0
Fine arts courts, new picture gallery, statues, and portrait
busts, fountains playing, orangery (the orange trees, which for-
merly belonged to King Louis Philippe, in full flower, as well
as camellias, azaleas), &e.
Admission this day, ls., or by guinea season tickets ; present
issue dating to Ist May, 1871, at all entrances and agents. " The
best guinea's worth in the world." Children and schools half
price.

. payment on account of
Government, amounted
-er, the Greek Treasury
payment of the loan, a
,11a, net amount of pay-
;cutive may therefore be
;nder present arrange-
which the Government
in respect of a loan
ly sums into the. British
£2,000,000) will be paid
tas been made by Great
icish Loan, raised during
be probably extinguished
in 1900. The English
mperor of the French,
the payment of interest
;. With respect to the,
amounting to £500,000
;nteed to New Zealand,
will not become wholly
nigh the liability has
Ise English Government
!or a loan of three mil-

in 1903. Other small
loans, British responsibility for which still exists, have
been guaranteed to Dominica, Antigua, Montserrat,
Nevis, Tobago, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Grenada, British
Guiana, and Trinidad.
Army Reductions.

Amongst the official documents published is one
containing the correspondence relative r,t_o the
reduction of field officers in the Guards.
The Military Secretary announces to the Under-
Secretary of State the approval of her Majesty that
the appointment of Major-General attached to the
Foot Guards be retained, and that one of the Majors
in each of the regiments of the Brigade of Guards
be gradually reduced, retaining the Lieutenant-
Colonel, who would have the command of a battalion
in addition to that of the regiment. He announces
that in accordance with this arrangement the vacancy
.
in the Grenadier Guards caused by the prom otion of
Prince William Frederick of Saxe-Weimar
to the rank of a major - general would
not be filled up. In letters to the
Military Secretary, and the Duke of Cambridge,
Colonel Hardinge points out the inversion of promo-
tion.resulting from this act of the Government, and
the anomalies that must arise from such a compro-
mise between the conflicting principles of a purely
regimental or a distinct battalion organisation.
The Duke of Cambridge in forwarding this corres-
pondence to Mr. Cardwell, strongly recommends
it to his serious consideration, as, " under existing
circumstances, these officers, as well as their succes-
sors may feel their interests very much affected." Mr.
Cardwell ultimately declines to sanction the proposed
arrangement that in the event of Colonel Harding
retiring from the command of the Coldstream
Guards, promotion may be allowed to go-on in the
regiment. Having regard to the inquiry just about
to be commenced by the royal commission upon the
subject of over-regulation prices, he suspends further
'judgment in the matter.
The Queen's University in Ireland.

The report of the President of Queen's Col-
lege, Belfast, gives a most satisfactory account of the
progress of that institution. A larger amount of
interest must necessarily attach to the well being of
Queen's College, inasmuch as it. affords the most
genuine promise of a better state of things for Ireland
in the fact that, although largely supported by the
Protestant denominations, it has always num-
bered ninny Roman Catholics • amongst its
students. Dr. Henry observes in his report
that he is able to give the most satisfactory testi-
mony as to the working of the great principle of
uniting the conflicting schools of Irish opinion
under the shelter of one institution. From
the foundation of this college, he adds, friendships
hare been formed amongst young men of different
creeds, of which he receives constant evidence in
tracing the history of many former students, whether
of those adorning their professions at home or of
Others filling public posts abroad with ability and
success.

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be an Aristides. in his justice, by asking him to con-
sider hypothetical cases. " Supposing ,a Catholic
governor should act as you have done to Pro-
testant prisoners ?" " But we have no Catholic
governors," answered the civic represensative. " But
suppose we were in a Catholic country." " But we
are not in a Catholic country." In this way-
the enlightened alderman refused to consider the
question in any other than a dogged manner,
the most that could be got from him being an
acknowledgment of the law in the case. For in-
stance, he knew that by law the priest ought to have
access to the creed register of each prison, but in this
matter lie objected to obey the law. Being pressed, he
thought the priest might perhaps be" allowed'to look
at the register under surveillance." Verily, after all this
evidence, one is bound to believe that the utility and
-wisdom of select committees of inquiry need never
again be questioned.

',UPI° last December the total
it, made by the British
to £1,213,823. As, howeve
remitted to England in part
sum amounting to £74,624, ti
moats by the English Exec
reckoned as £1,139,198. IT
meats with Sardinia, by w
Of that country pays (in
contracted in 1855) half-year]
Igxchequer, the sum lent (i
oft by 1903. No payment ha
Britain in respect of the Turk
the Crimean War, and it will b
by the Sultan's Government
Ministry jointly with the En
guaranteed in the matter, tl
upon the sum of five millions.
colonies, it seems that loans
have been, since 1858, guaran
the first instalment of which
redeemable till 1888, althoi
already been diminished. Th
bvame answerable in 1868 fl
..)Ens to '-t4iniada -raleetnikkAe