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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-27

AGRICULTURE AND THE CORN TRADE.

The weather during the past week has been exces-
sively dry, and generally favourable for agriculture.
The young wheat plant does not as yet appear to have
received any decided damage, but it is, nevertheless, very
thin and weak, and is sadly in want of moisture. In
the northern parts of the kingdom the want of rain has
not been so severely felt as in the southern counties,
where the unexceptional dryness of the season has so
severely tried the wheat plant that considers ble appre-
hension has been caused as to its ultimate safety. On the
other hand, however, the soil has been placed in such a
favourable state for sowing, that with a few steady
soaking showers, the most remunerative results may be
anticipated. The supply of grass in the pastures
has been far from equal to the requirements, and, as
cattle are not required to keep down the wheat, more
inquiry has been experienced for feeding stuffs, and
the quotations have had an upward tendency. The
Easter holidays have to some extent restricted business;
nevertheless, rather more steadiness has been apparent,
and there has been a tendency to higher rates. As
regards wheat, owing probably to the somewhat less
favourable tenour of the reports from the agricultural
districts, the trade has been rather firmer, and the quo-
tations have been well maintained, with a tendency to
improvement. Any permanent advance is, however, not
anticipated. The Baltic ports are now quite open for
the season, and shipments have re-commenced, though
not with the expected vigour. In America, the export
inquiry has been very brisk, and large quantities have
been forwarded to this country. Therefore, as there
is still a good supply in warehouse, it is probable
that our wants will be supplied for some time to come.—
Magnet.
With the exception of Monday we have had a sudden
transition to summer weather, and vegetation has every-
where tilheerlefarVest
trees h wokeave suudp fromd
on
burst
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intong s uabundant
bTI
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me ar,
everywhere are fast expanding, and the meadows
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have assumed a vivid green. ut there has yet been
little growth, and we wait for genial showers to germinate
the seed corn and soften the crust of the soil, which in
heavy land is extremely harsh. Wheat, caring less for
rain than other things, has felt the sunshine and
begun to grow, and this has made the vacant
spaces, which in many places abound, still
more visible ; although several pieces that were
early sown in autumn and got strong before the
fluctuations, look as well as could be desired. Such cases,
however, are but few. For Easter week we have had a
steady time, and the value of wheat in several towns has
rather hardened, but there has been a want of activity
notwithStalldi4g the IQW price47-Marli Lns &MCP'.
London, England, 1870-04-27

Just published, price is 6d., by post is. Bd., the Second Edition,
with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus-
tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks.
REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND
QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the
"Medical Circular."

London: H. BaMere, 219, Regent-street
The numerous reviews of this startling work, by the Saturday
Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Ppinion, and other
journalshis edition, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with
t.
London, England, 1870-04-27

FRANCE.

PARIS, April 26, Evening.
The Count de Chambord, it is stated, leaves his
friends at perfect liberty with regard to the vote on
the Plebiscite. M. Emile 011ivier has addressed
a letter to the electors of the Var urging them to
vote affirmatively, while M. Raspail, in a letter to
his friends, advises them to vote negatively, and
wholly to abstain from any participation in disturb-
ances.

BOURSE, April 26.—Three o'clock—The marke
closed as follows :

!+ per Cent.
: per Cents - 74 65
End of month 74 55
Credit Mobilier 241 25
Transatlantic 2OO
credit Foncier l3OO
Paris Gas 1672 50
Suez Canal 295

Bank Shares 2820
Ital4an wives 56 50
Austrian Fives
Ottoman Loan
Do. Debt 49 75
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred —
Cash
Orleans
Western
Northern ... ll7Bl
Strasburg • • 6lBl
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 6121
Sardinian
Austrian 7884
Lombard 4l7*
North of Spain 69
Saragossa
Roman 5O

RAILWAYS
London, England, 1870-04-27

"In plot, details, coherence, completeness, and in the unflagging
interest which carries the reader resistlessly to the end, 'The Heir
Expectant' is a triumph of nove'•istic skill. A much more copious
analysis than we have attempted would fail to represent the im-
pression of rich and varied power which the admirable novel
before us leaves on the mind."—Saturday Review.
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
London, England, 1870-04-27

ILIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Morning. Evening
WEDNESDAY lO min past 12 35 min past 12
THURSDAY 56 mitt past 12 18 min past 1
FRIDAY.. 35 min past 1.....,., 52 min past 1
SATURDAY. 10 min past 2 24 min past 2
SUNDAY 38 min past 2.- ,52 min past 2

win pas.,
MONDAY 10 min past 3 26 min past 3
TvilaDAY.... • 40 min past 8 46 min past 8
London, England, 1870-04-27

COLONIAL LIBERALITY.

A return of the contributions to relief-funds by our
colonies is not the least interesting proof of the close-
ness of those ties which are at present seriously occu-
pying the attention of the Government and the public.
It appears that the amount contributed towards
the Patriotic Fund by the several colonies and de-
pendencies of the Crown, amounted to
£315,389 15s. Bd. To the Irish Famine
Fund there was contributed from the same source,
£33,106 14s. 6d. In the case of that chief of
all our colonial disasters. the Indian Mutiny.
Victoria and South Australia alone contri-
buted £27,803, while to the Cotton Famine Fund,
independent of an unreturned sum from Queens-
land, New South Wales, "Victoria, and West Aus-
iiralia contributed £20,914. It should be added that
large sums, of which there are no official returns,
were given directly to different associations and
charitable bodies.
London, England, 1870-04-27

MR. NEWDEGATE'S FIGURES.

--- -
According to the member for North Warwickshire
and his friends, the number of nuns in Great Britain
is 6,000, a statement which is rather wide of the
mark. 'There are 216 convents in England, and 17 in
Scotland; and the total number of professed
nuns and lay sisters (excluding novices) amounts to
rather more than 2,600 ; or less than half the number
stated by the advocates of parliamentary interference.
Perh however, the hon. member includes the
ap s,
novices, and also those young girls who are tempo-
rary inmates of the religious houses, many of them
merely for educational purposes. Even in this way
the figures would scarcely reach 6,000. Of the con-
vents in England, not more than twenty, and of
those in Scotland only one, belong to the " cloistered
orders."
London, England, 1870-04-27

THE RED RIVER.

Mr. TORRENS asked the Under Secretary of State for
the colonies whether there was any truth in the state-
ment contained in the Toronto Globe of the 2nd instant,
that "in view of the intended expeditionary force to Red
River the Canada Rifles were not to be disbanded."
" That this expeditionary force was to consist of not less
than 2,000 men, of whom a fair proportion are to be impe-
rial troops." And that "the artillery required was to be
furnished from England."

Mr. MONSELL said so far as the Imperial Government
was concerned the Canadian Rifles would be disbanded.
With respect to the second part of the question, the
motion was under consideration, and it would not be for
the public service for them to make any communication at
present.
London, England, 1870-04-27

PAINLESS and PRACTICAL DENTISTRY,
by Mr. B. L. MOSELY, the Dentist by special appointment,
312, REGENT-STREET, exactly opposite' the Royal Polytechnic, and
23, MoORGATE-STREET, CITY. Established 1820. This, the most
perfected system of painless dentistry, originated and invented by
Mr. B. L. Mosely, is recommended by the Hospitals and adopted
by the profession as one of the greatest improvements of the age
for the alleviation of pain and restoration of the natural functions,
can solely be obtained in such perfected success (the result of
forty years' practical experience) at his only residences, as above.
The superlative excellence of this system is perfect immunity from
pain, no operations. stumps and decayed teeth rendered useful,
loose teeth and tender gums protected. Qualities: These teeth
never change colour or decay—in fit unerring - ease and comfor t
unsurpassed -detection impossible—the facial anatomy faithfully
studied - and youthful appearance restored—mastication and arti-
culation guaranteed. The " Times" of March 6 says :—" So good
an imitation becomes the next best thing to the original." Teeth
from 55.; sets, sto 30 guineas. Consultation free.—Only addresses,
312, Regent-street, exactly facing the Royal Polytechnic;. and 23,
Moorgate-street, E. at opposite the Star Insurance Office.
London, England, 1870-04-27

were heavily brihed.; yet the Tribune says that its
friends in the Legislature meant well, though they
judged ill, as time will make plain. But in turning
on a brother editor for what it terms a false state-
ment, the Tribune is by no means so careful in its
language as the following extract from the same
paper will show :---
.. The statement blazoned in a city journal that ill?
editor of the Tribune ever asserted, surmised,. or guess°
that the Hon. James W. [lusted was paid ,000, or all
other sum, for supporting the Tweed Charter,7 is a bast!
fabrication. Mr. Greeley never alleged nor insinuated 010
Mr. Husted was paid a cent for voting for or against auY
bill ; and whoever asserts the contrary as of his own ]ca°w-
ledge is a liar."
London, England, 1870-04-27

The mission which " Our Ocean Highways" has to achieve
is to afford Travellers OF ALL NATIONS a means, in the
simplest and readiest of forms, that of the alphabet, to find
their way, safely and easily, over the whole world.
The success already obtained by the first annual, for 1870,
is a guarantee for the future. The whole British Press have
applauded the enterprise ; many American and Continental
Journals have encouraged and sympathized with the move-
ment, which is international, and made in the best interests
of all countries. _ _ _

The host of elaborate special Handbooks and Guides
which abound at the Railway Stations give many minute
details to which a condensed Gazetteer of the World, in a
moderate-sized volume, cannot lay claim. But what it does
claim is, that it contains every necessary particle of Tra-
velling and Commercial information, derived from the best
and original sources.
It is a matter of just pride and congratulation that all the
great Ocean Steamship Companies, and many eminent Com-
mercial Shipping Firms, have cheerfully acceded to the
Editor's application to forward Printed Forms of Ques-
tions to their Correspondents and Agents all over the globe
for reply.
Many of the home and continental ports have already sent
in the requisite information ; those more remote will all be
in time to have the latest authentic intelligence inserted in
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It will embody an amount of topographical, statistical,
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Our Ocean Highways " Monthly Supplement, incorpo-
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Communications, suggestions, and corrections are earnestly
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personal interview, at the Buckingham Palace Hotel,
London.
London, England, 1870-04-18

A VALUABLE IMPORTATION.

M. Gustave Flourens was the journalist who pro-
claimed the Republic in Paris, and attempted to getup
an insurrection on the night of Rochefort's arrest. Ile
has been entrusted with an address from some Irish
citizens to the French nation, which address he has
sent to the Marseillaise. It runs thus :

"Au Peuple Francais, Citizens : The Irish people is
oppressed as you are. Misery and famine ravage Ireland
under the English domination. The noblest and
best of her sons languish in the dungeons of England.
Her industry is sacrificed in favour of English trade.
Crushing taxes consume all her resources. French citi-
zens, we appeal- to you in the name of our country so
cruelly oppressed, and we ask of you to denounce the
odious hypocrisy of a Government which pretends to grant
all liberties whilst it treats us like the enslaved peoples
of the East. ' Saint et Fraternit4.' "

In despatching this precious docuinent to the Mar-
seillaise M. Flourens thinks " it is a great honour and
a great reward for us that wherever there are op-
pressed men, they turn their eyes to us." M. Flourens
may rest assured that there is one thing which the
English people do not consider an honour and a re-
ward, and that is for French sedition mongers to aid
in fomenting discontent in a country which affords
them a shelter from the punishment of their deeds.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPH].
Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. R WEBSTER
THIS EVENING. at Seven, TOO MUCH OF A GOnD THING
Messrs C. H. Stephenson, Ashley; Miss Mar:a and Miss Nelly

Harris.
After which, ut 15 to 8, THE PROMPTER'S BOX: a Story
of the Footlights and the Fireside. Mr Benjamin Webst r, Mr
H. J. Byron Mr J. D. Beveridge, Mr R Phillips, Mr C. 11. Stephen-
von Mr J. G. Taylor, Mr C. J. .."Inith, Mr Ashley, Mr W. 11. Eburae,
Miss Furtado, Mrs 1.. Murray, and Mrs Alfred , ellon.
To be followed by MY PRECIO. S BETSY: Mr J. G. Taylor
and Iliss Eliza Johnstone.

Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking
Places can be secured a fortnight in advance.
London, England, 1870-04-18

THE 11101thAUNT DIVORCE CASE.

In reference to thegreat case of "Mordaunt v. Mordaunt,
Cole, and Johnstone," public interest seems likely to be
`baulked for the present. It will be remembered that an
ord:r to stay proceedings was made by Lord Penzance by
consent of parties, with the view of trying the question
whether insanity should be a bar to a petition for divorce
and it was expected that the appeal from this order,
entered on behalf of the petitioner, would be argued
before the full court in the course of the next sittings.
There are, however, no appeal causes set down for hear-
ing in the new list, and it appears that within the last
few days notice to prolong the term of summons has been
filed on the part of the respondent, which has thrown the
case over to the Easter Sessions of the Court.
London, England, 1870-04-18

THE BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, April 14.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding tiguras of the previous account:—

DEBTOR.
April 7.
tr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
Capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857)
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches
Reserve of landed pro-
perty 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
Banknotes to orderand
receipts payable at
sight 42,547,494 83
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor 154,113,216 42
Current accounts, Paris 330,8214,355
Do. branch banks 43,510,238
Dividends payable 1,856,096
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

April 11.

182,500,000 -

7 014,776 02

7,014,776 02

22,105,750 14

22,105,750 14

4,000,000 -
:1,413,056,850
_-

42,595,312 79

159,044,687 81
316,140,732 57
44,450,192 -
1,288,282 -

5,254,204 91

5,565,193 54

1,305,522 15

1,305,522 15

12,454,•269 84

10,667,959 95

2,209,765,258 97

April 14.

fr. c.
1,301,809,612_65

105,C89 68

267,560,788 53
260,093,224 -

7,033,200 -

.872,400 - -

15,746,100 -

7;568;750 -

39,521,40 --
34,605,900 -

1,165,600 -

1,201',300 --

60,000,000 -

12,980,750 14

80;595;187 21

100,000,000 -

9,103,074 -

1,189,415 95
8,610,466 81
London, England, 1870-04-18

VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.-
Lessees— NI essrs H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne.
THIS EVE NING. at 7, an original Comedy, by Andrew Halliday.
entitled F, LOVE OR MONEY. A new Burlesque, by Conway
Edwardes, entitled DO CA, L' OR, TUE INFANTE 1N
ARMS And a new Farce, by F. Hay, entitled CUPBOARD
LOVE. Supported by the following Company—Messrs H. J.
Montague, G. Honey. H. Irving. W. H. Stephens, C. Garthorne.
E. Elton, J. G. Gates. .H. Blend, J North, and Thomas Thorne;
Mesdames Nelly Power, Cavendish, Amy Fawsitt, Kathleen Irwin,
Louise Claire Jenny Reauclerc, Rose Evelyn. Kemp, T. Levis, F.
Garthwa'te. R. Power, J. Norton, Fellowes, and A. Newton.
Box-office open daily from 10 ti.l 5.
t lle. 63; balcony stalls, 4s; boxes, Ss; upper circle, 2s; pit, is
6d; gallery, C.l.
London, England, 1870-04-18

C LERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing £227,000
ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested £1,649,000
SPECIAL NOTICE.
The NINTH BONUS will be declared in January, 1872. and all
With-Profit Policies in force on the 3uth June, 1871, will participate.
Assurances effected before June 30th, 1870, will participate on two
Premiums, and thus receive a whole year's additional share of
Profits over later Policies.
Forms of Proposal, Balance Sheets, and every information, can
he obtained from any of the Society's Agents, or of
GEORGE CUTCLIFFE,
Actuary and Secretary.
13, St. James's-square, London, S.W.
London, England, 1870-04-18

RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK.

At the institution of Civil Eng,ineers, Mr. R. Price
Williams read a paper on " The Maintenance and Re-
newal of Railway Stock." The author began by stating
that the experience now possessed, extending. over nearly
forty years, enabled the average life of each individual
part of a locomotive and of other rolling stock to be accu-
rately ascertained. Tables were submitted, based on data
furnished by several engineers, showing in minute detail
the average lives and the net cost of the several parts of
an engine and tender of recent construction, and therm"
by calculation the mean money life of the whole structure
was determined. It was shewn that the lives of the
different parts of the engine varied considerably, from the
break-blocks and other small items which required to be
renewed every six months, to the side frames, plain axles,
and other parts, which lasted thirty years. The first series
of extensive renewals, which occurred at intervals of five
years, consisted chiefly of the replacement of the brass
tubes, and amounted during the period of longest life,
or thirty years, to £973. The renewals of the crank
axles followed in periods of hix years, and cost,
during the whole thirty years, £256. The great bulk
of the renewals, however, took place at intervals of seven
and ten 3Tears, and included the engine tyres, boiler, fire-
box, and other costly portions, amounting altogether to
£2,119 during the same period. The whole net cost of
the renewals in thirty years amounted to £4,890, equiva-
lent to an average cost of £163 per annum. The
total net cost being £1,788, it followed that the mean
money life of an engine and tender of this type was 10.97
years, or practically eleven years. If the number of miles
run were taken as the measure in life, and if 20,000 miles,
per annum were assumed to be a fair average performance
in steam, it followed that when an engine had run
220,000 miles, an amount would have been spent upon it
in repairs equal to its first cost.
London, England, 1870-04-18

Total
CILEDITOR.
April 7.
fr. c

Cash in hand and in

Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 259,664,296 66
Do. branch banks 261,233,512
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks
Do. on French Public

199,251 70

6,857,000 -

'7OOOO -

Securities 16,738,200
Do. by branch banks • 7,481,150
Do. on railway shares

and debentures.
Do. branch banks .
Do. on Credit Fancier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
60,000,000

39,560,900 -

34,537,400 -

1,143,500 -
1,136,100 -

1857)
Government Stock re-
serve 12,980,750 11
Do. disposable
Etentes Inunobalisees

(Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000
Rotel and furniture of
the Bbuk and landed
propel IT branches
Expenses of manage-

9,102,839 --

went
Sundries; ...

1,166,319 10
7,586,658 65

Total
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of
France.

(Signed) ROULAND.

TELEGRAPHS FOR CHINA.--The Danish frigate
Tordenskjold with the floe steamers Cella and Great
Northern have arrived in the Thames to receive some 2,300
miles of Hooper's telegraph cables for the China seas. The
first section of these lines measures 1,200 miles, and will
extend from Posetta to Shanghai, and the remaining 1,100
miles will be laid between Shanghai and Hong Kong. The
Tordenskjold carries out the shores' end and part of the
cable, and the other two vessels are intended
to convey the remainder of the line to China
and leave England next month. The cables consist of a
copper conductor, a strand of wires, covered with layers of
pure India-rubber, over which is placed the " separater" and
a coating of patent material, which has been found to effec-
tually resist the a sof e greatest enemy a submarine
has, the terado. S, o mens 'aiely arrived from the Persian
Gulf of gutta-percha and India-rubber insulated wife show

the attacks of these animals far morn prevalent on gutta-
porcha than India-rubber in its natural state; indeed the
latter of late has been steadily gaining ground in preference
to gutta-percha as au electrical iimulatiug material.
A siligliTai piece of inconsistency has just been
exhibited in Paris. M. Buffet, the ex-Minister of
Finance, whose retirement has just made so much sensa-
tion, prohibited the Turkish railway lottery loan, and
prosecuted the newspapers which advertised it.
These journals have just been fined £4 each
for an illegal advertisement. The curious thing
is that the Cr4dit. Foncier, the Suez Canal,
and numerous other companies have lottery loans,
which are advertised in newspapers and placarded on the
walls. Lottery loans of Russia, Austria, and othe
countries are also oconlY AegotiAtesl i rfiriA
London, England, 1870-04-18

THAMES.

Diary Ann Brown, aged 12 years, and Sophia
Brown, 43, her mother, wife of a mechanic, were
charged, the former with stealing, and the other with
feloniously receiving, knowing to be stolen, a large
quantity of property belonging to Messrs Longue-
haye and Co., of No. 3 and No. 5, Bedford-place,
Commercial-road, East. John Cook, a detective of
the K division, went to the dwelling of Mrs. Brown,
No. 66, Sidney-street, Stepney, and found a roll of
chintz. He also discovered in the house and seized
four sauce pans, a fire shovel, a coal scuttle, a set
of fire irons, a large pewter goblet, and a great
variety of other articles, all new. The girl was id
the practice of visiting shops and stealing anything
she could lay her hands on, and her mother encou-
raged her and received the property. The prisoners
were remanded.

FIRES THIS MORNING.

+

No less than 16 fires took place in the metropo-
litan district from six o'clock on Saturday morning
up to six o'clock this (Monday) morning. A dis-
tressing accident by fire took place in the premises of
Mr. F. Cader, No. 3, Dorset-street, Spitalfields, by
which Mrs. Rachel von Cader, aged 35, was terribly
burned. She was removed to the hospi`al, but no
hopes are entertained of her recovery. A fire likewise
took place in the premises of Mr. Fletcher, a dairy-.
man, in Fitzroy-yard, Primrose Hill, which de-
stroyed the provender, stores, burned the roofs, and
severely damaged the stable. The fire was caused
by a spark falling from a lighted candle.
London, England, 1870-04-18

PROGRESSIVE PRISONS.

Many prison governors are earnestly endeavouring to
struggle against the obstacles of the present system, and
to employ their inmates at really useful labour. For ex-
ample, Wakefield prison (the only one in England with
steam-power) is a perfect hive of industry (but, as in many
other gaols, too much confined to mat-making). Leeds
Gaol exemplifies a great variety of occupation. So do Hol-
loway prison, Coldbath Fields prison, and some others.
At Coldbath Fields, printing and bookbinding, carpentry
and blacksmithwork are included amongst the employments.
At Swansea Gaol the prisoners weave their own blanketing
cloth and Welsh flannel. At Pentonville (convict prison)
about 10,000 pairs of boots and shoes were made last year.
`•The manufacture of dowlais for exportation has recently
been introduced with satisfactory results." In the prisons
of Salford, Bedford, Taunton, Durham, Devonport, New-
castle, York, Stafford, Bristol, Cardiff, &c., the expenses
are kept low by employing prisoners at the masonry, car-
pentry, and other useful work required within the walls.
Thus at Devonport the expenses per head are £l7 per
annum as compared with £26 at Exeter. At Salford the
cost is even less. Several hundred separate ledger accounts
with private purchasers of prison goods (mats, &c.) indi-
cate the great attention devoted. at Salford to efforts
to turn the prisoners' occupation to some ad-
vantage for the ratepayers and for themselves.
The official report of Sussex county gaol at Petworth,
states that " the factory profits (hand-loom weaving and
making ship's fenders), after deducting instructors' wages
are £lOO ;" (with about 100 prisoners). Shrewsbury prison
report says :—" The classification of prisoners, and substi-
tuting remuerative for penal labour, according to their
conduct after three months, has been attended with excel-
lent results." (At this prison out 1,600 committals, the
average of sentences is one month. The average cost
per prisoner (of all English gaols) is £37, the wiii,rage
earnings £2 10s. (less than 2d. per day). In many prisons
the cost is £4O, £)0, £6O, or upwards, rising to 2104 at
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London, England, 1870-04-18

INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.

The Daily News refers to the " Frou-Frou" ques-
tion, which has recently been rehearsed in the court
of Vice-Chancellor James. The case originally came
up under the title of " Wood v. Wood," when an
injunction was obtained by the assignees of Messrs.
Meilhac and lialevy's rights as to the per-
formance in this country of a version of " Frou-
Frou." This injunction Vice-Chancellor James,
dissolved, purely on technical grounds ; and
until Thursday next, when the renewed apulica-
tion for an injunction will be made, an important
question must remain undecided. That question is
whether foreign dramatic authors under the
existing International Copyright Acts, or by virtue
of any convention confirmed by order in 'council, are
really able to secure a marketable property in their.
productions in this country. The question to be dis-
cussed, says the Daily News, lies really in a nutshell.
It is—what sort of adaptation or annotation
of a French author's play is entitled to be regarded
as a fair one, and not, as the copyright convention
between France and England expresses it, a "pirati-
cal translation ?" Until this question is settled it will
be mere hypocrisy for us to reproach our kindred
across the Atlantic with their blindness to the claims
of justice in this respect.

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IVPONETARY REPORTS-SATURDAY•

Owing to the holdiays, the attendance of members in' till
Stock Exchange to-day has been limited. The business
doing in all classes of securities has been very moderate:°'
and the fluctuations have been neither numerous 11.,
important. Consols opened heavily, but eventually
returned to their former quotation, of al, 94,
for delivery, and 94k, 94j for the May account.
duced and New Three per Cents, 92g, 92k.
Bills par to ss. prem. India Five per:Cents, 113,11°)
and India Bonds, 20s. to 255. prem.
market
Considerable firmness has been the feature of the Mar'
for English railway stocks, and, without exception, t:
alterations have been satisfactory. Great Northern,::
ditto B, Great-Western, Lancashire and YoricsiZ
London and Brighton, and Midland have risen 1.
chester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, North-Eastern,
800
wick, ditto ; York, and South-Eastern, ; and getti:
politan, London and North-Western, and Grey
Eastern, f.
Indian railway stocks have been steady in value!
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the demand has been far from active. Canadian all9'l,
have been quiet, and foreign shares have been neglectec. I
Very few changes have taken place in the vniu:
foreign bonds, and the movements have been far ir°,e
important. Peruvian 1865 have risen*, and an advanci,
of and *has Olen place in the value of New Gren3e
deferred, and Russian scrip respectively. Port"gue:t
(1853) have receded and Turkish Five per Cents. 1 I)"
cent.
American Government securities have been dull. 5133
Five-Twenty (1882 and 1885) Bonds have receded 1, ,a3'
the 1887 * per cent. ; but Virginia Bonds have risen ,
Mining shares have changed hands quietly, and 06:
has not been much demand for Bank shares. The nlll°
tions have been without alteration. ,„.
In telegraph shares the transactions have been enu
a moderate extent, but prices have been maintaine,4
Telegraph Construction shares have been* better. SWerst
Incliarubber have been firm at 50, 51, and HooPer'fr3.
ato*dis.
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doing, and the fluctuations in prices have been trilling.'
In the money market to-day, the inquiries for acc
modation have been very moderate, in fact the Wine,
doing has not been sufficient to stamp quotations. ''beet
has been a fair supply of capital, and three months' P 313
has been negotiable at 2* to 3 per cent.
No bullion transactions have taken place at the 33
to-day.
Washington advices state that a memorial has beets
before Congress asking for aid to lay a cable bet Wee
California, China, and Japan.
The share list of the Des Moines Valley Railroad '
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According to custom, the Stock Exchange will be nifified
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London, England, 1870-04-18

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President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCB, K.G.
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voluntary contributions and legacies.
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to this, the average number of attendance`of the destitute sick has
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I. James and False Brethren.
11. Indian Theism.
111. Fra Paolo Sarpi.
IV. Mr. Renouf's Reply on Pope Honorius.
V. Dr. Molloy on Geology and Revelation.
VI. Mr. Tennyson's Arthurian Poems.
VII. The Ministerial Education Bill.
VIII. Is Ireland Irreconcilable ?
IX. Controversies on the Council.
X. Roman Documents.
XI. Notices of Books :—F. Knox on Infallibility; F. Gratry'S
Letters; F. Newman's Grammar of Assent, &c., &c.
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HAYMARKET-At Seven. My Husband's Ghost. At 7.40, New
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LYCEUM—At 7.30, Sampson's Wedding. Little Faust.
ADELPHL—At Seven, Too Much of a Good Thing. The Promp-
ter s Box. My Precious Betsy.
OLYMPIC—At Seven, Frou Frou The 'Vars:ty Boat Race, My
Turn Next. .
GAIETY—At Seven, The Happy V liege. I tick y Friday. The
Princess of 'I rcbizoude.
QUERN s—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Axe and Crown.
TRAND—At Seven, Widow's Weeds. Sir George an 1 a Dragon.
A Fish Out of Water
VAUDEVILLE—For Love or Money. Don Carlos. Cupboard Love
ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Frou. La Belle Sauvage.
GLOBE —At Seven, Milky White. Robert Macaire. Vandyke
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London, England, 1870-04-18

111TIRPHY AND " THE TELEGRAPH."

Mr. Murphy writes to the Birmingham Gazette a
letter, which, he says, is a (c vindication " of himself,
and which he sent to the Telegraph, in answer to
numerous attacks, but it was refused insertion. The
Protestant champion, amongst other excited lan-
guage, makes use of the following :----" You have in-
cited the Romanisrs to kill me ; and your suggestion
that some day or other I should come to a violent end
has already had some effect, for on the evening that your
article appeared I was set upon and violently beaten.
Talk of the Irish Coercion Bill ! There is as much
occasion for its application to your office as there is
for its application to the most extreme of the Irish
press. It is the plan of these Irish papers to suggest
that such and such persons are objectionable.; and
murder follows. You have taken the same line of
conduct as is used by your Irish friends to encourage
and inspire Rory of the Hills."
London, England, 1870-04-18

THE INSPECTION OF CONVENTS.

The Times has further correspondence on what
may now be designated " this much-vexed question."
Sir Charles Clifford demurs to Mr. Newdegate's
describing his oratorical efforts at the Stafford Club
as " the somewhat dictatorial demands of Sir Charles
Clifford and his colleagues for the appointment of some
other court of inquiry than that upon which the
house has decided." He says that at that meet-
ing no speaker demanded the appointment
of a court of inquiry into monasteries and
convents. One and all protested against inquiry
in any shape as a grievous insult to Catholics, and as
a violation of the plainest principles of the consti-
tution under which we live. Mr. C. Weguelin writes
on the same subject. As a Protestant he asks leave
to enter a protest against the committee in question.
We are, he says, doing our best to pacify Ireland.
We have sacrificed our sectarian prejudices, and dis-
established the Irish Church. Is it, he asks, worth
while running the risk of undoing all the good thus,
as we hope, effected, and of setting every Protestant
and Catholic in Ireland by the ears for the sake of
undertaking the hopeless task of convincing a few
bigots that their views of conventual establishments
are false ?
London, England, 1870-04-18

SURREY.

" Clam" was the title of the piece performed at
this theatre on Easter Eve. Clam née Jose! hine
Weatherwell is the daughter of a sea captain, who,
having had a difference with his wife, deserts her and
her two daughters, and goes off o❑ the long voyage.
The wife shortly afterwards dies of a broken he.irr,
and leaves Clam and her sister Nelly " to the waves
of the world." The piece is similar to the celebrated
drama " The Streets of London," and it gave the
greatest satisfaction to a very crowded audience.
London, England, 1870-04-18

THE BALLOT.

The Edinburgh Review has an article entitled "The
Ballot, not Secret Voting." The writer undertakes to
prove that the Ballot, such as the British people
imagine and desire it, has no existence whatever, and
that it is only a figment of the imagination. What-
ever advantages, he says, are found in connection
with secret voting are readily attainable by
slight modifications of our present system,
while whatever disadvantages discredit our
present system, exist elsewhere in an
aggravated form under secret voting. The
writer reviews the working and result of the Ballot
in the United States, and quotes from letters written
by Mr. Horace Greely, of the .New York
Trzburtey the Hon. T. 0. Howe, senator from
Winconsin, and the Hon. Darwin E. Ware, a pro-
minent lawyer of Boston. From this testimony he
Irgues that in America State elections and candi-
lates are so numerous, that no other machinery
would suffice; and that if the Ballot involved
secret voting the Americans would despise it,
because in America publicity is regarded as the only
safeguard of purity. As regards Australia, referring
to the evidence of Mr. Childers and Mr. Torrens, he
asks whether a system which frequently allows the
state of the poll to be known before the election can be
3alled secret voting. In France he says secret voting
has afforded the means of concealing and defeating
the popular vote. Under all these circumstances it
may, he concludes, without rashness be asserted
that no method of secrecy has ever yet been devised
which will prevent the personation of electors by
false voters.
London, England, 1870-04-18

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THEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARK ET.
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