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such a duty ; that men who did not hesitate to
starve the bodies of the poor at the risk of being
tried for manslaughter, should be called upon to feed
the mind when neglect would involve no such risk.
We forgave Mr. Forster because the proposal was
meant to be a pis alter. But his opponents would
make this remedy in the last resort the regular and
only course.

We have spoken of the political Dissenters. There
are Dissenters who are not political, and who are
taking no part in the agitation against the Education
Bill. There are men like Mr. Baines, who certainly
have no love for the Church, but who are honest
ence.igh to confess that the religious difficulty has no
existence, or if it has, that it can be met by the con-
science clause. They sympathised with Mr. Forster
when he spoke of the old Puritan blood coursing
through his veins making him rebel against the
exclusion of religion from the Bill. They sympa-
thised with him when he declared that he would
never get out of the religious difficulty by making an
irreligious difficulty. The question now is if these
moderate men are sufficiently strong in numbers and
in influence to enable the Government to stand its
ground. If so, all may be well. If not we see grave
political complications, involving far more serious
danger to the Liberal party than that which arose on
the Reform Bill four years ago.

Her Majesty and the Royal Family will arrivb at
Windsor Castle on Wednesday next. Preparations are being
made for their reception.

Prince Arthur will attain his 20th year to-morrow.
Ho was born on the Ist of May, 1850, and entered the Royal
Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1867.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales honoured the performance at the Prince of Wales's
theatre with their presence last evening.

It is said to be the intention of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer to throw over his plan for equalising, or
ratber of increasing, the taxation of railways.

It is rumoured that her Majesty's Theatre is to be
converted into a home for tragedy and the legitimate drama,
and that Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Herman Vezin, and others
among our best tragedians, have been communicated with
respecting a scheme the details of which are not yet settled.
Miss Louisa Laidlaw, formerly of the Princess's,
Lyceum, and Adelphi Theatres, died a few days ago of
consumption.

Gouuod is at present suffering from a painful but
temporary affection of the hand, which (says the Musical
Standard) prevents his finishing a new work on which he
is engaged. _

Air. Charles Wright, Treasurer of the Haymarket
Theatre, announces his benefit for Wednesday night, when
" Barwise's Book" will be performed, with other entertain-
ments.

A telegram from Alexandria announces that a new
palace at Ramleh, near that city, which has just been con-
structed for the Khedive at a cost of about £200,000, has been
entirely destroyed by fire.
ACCIDENT ON A RACECOURSE.—Yesterday Cap-
tain Herbert of the 9th Lancers sustained a heavy fall while
riding in the regimental races at Aylesbury. Mr. Alfred
Cooper, surgeon, of Jermyn-street, was sent for, and it was
found that the injuries sustained by the gallant officer were
not of a dangerous nature.
The Army and Navy Gazette thinks that Lieu-
tenant-General Lord Frederick Paulet, C. 8., is not unlikely
shortly to be offered a command.
Rear-Admirals Sir William S. Wiseman, Bart.,
K. 0.8., and John Bourmaster Dickson, it is stated, have
signified their desire to the A dmiralty to be permitted to
retire under the new scale.

FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS. —At twenty minutes
to twelve o'clock last night a fire broke out on the premises
of Mr. John Hill, a furniture dealer and shop-fitting manu-
facturer in the New-cut, four doors on the east side of the
Victoria Theatre. The premises were speedily destroyed.
The scene in New-cut was of a most distressing character.
Several of the small houses caught fire on the roof, and the
poor occupants were throwing their scanty stock of goods
out of the windows into the streets. A fire also took place
in Tottenham-court-road last night on the premises of
Messrs. Heal and Sons, upholsterers. A large amount of
property had been saved. Fortunately, the front ware-
houses were saved

News of a murder is brought by the West African
Mail. Oko Jumbo had surprised one of Jah Jah's canoes
and murdered the whole crew, numbering 40.

The Bucks Militia, which has its head-quarters at
High Wycombe, is not to be called out for training this
spring, in consequence of the prevalence of small-pox in
the town.

There has been some sharp discussion in the
Scottish Chamber of Agriculture upon the subject of the
Game Laws, and the general feeling appears to be against
the Lord Advocate's bill.

Two persons baye been fined at Edinburgh police
court, for working locomotives on a public highway, with-
out having taken the precaution to send a man with a flag
sixty yards in front to warn the persons by.
Mr. W. J. Lovesey bas been appointed by the
Lord Chancellor as stipendiary magistrate for the Borough
of Sheffield, in compliance with the petition of the Shef-
field Town Council.

The Scotttish metrical version of the Psalms was
composed, it seems, by an Englishman, one Francis
Rouse, son of Sir Anthony Rouse, who was one of the
lay commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.
At Liverpool last night, John Singleton, a sailor,
in a drunken fit attacked his mother-in-law with a razor,
and dangerously wounded her. He was taken to Bride-
well, and there committed suicide by hanging himself.
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A. Roman despatch says that the Pope, in con-
formity with the unanimous opinion of the Congregation
of Cardinals, has resolved not to communicatd the French
Note to the Council.

The Scotsman says :—" It is now no secret that
the memorandum reverting severely on the Greek Govern-
ment, which appeared in the metropolitan papers on
Tuesday, was from the pen of Lord Carnarvon."
Mr. G. Vivian Poore, M.D. London, M.R.C.P.,
been appointed private medical attendant to Prince
Leopold, whose health (says the Lancet) requires close
medical supervision.
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Sir George O'Donnell intends to contest the
county of Mayo on Nationalist princfples. A county
meeting will be held on Wednesday next to select the
candidate of the Liberal party.

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A requisition is being signed in the county of
Mayo, requesting Colonel Ouseley Higgins, now staying
at Genoa, to become a candidate for the vacancy caused
by the death of Mr. G. H. Moore.

Lord Mahon, son of the Earl of Stanhope, and the
unsuccessful opponent of Mr. Gladstone at Greenwich,
will probably be invited to contest East Suffolk against
Sir Shafto Adair. Lord Mahon was prepared to stand in
the Conservative interest for Norwich.

Two of her Majesty's' judges have consented to
preside next week at religious meetings—namely, Mr.
Baron Pigott at a public anniversary of the Baptists in.
Regent's Park, and Mr. Justice Lush at a meeting in con-
nection with the same body on Wednesday.

Intelligence from Cuba has been received at New
York that the Spanish volunteers are in a state of mutiny,
snd that Count Valmesada refused to obey the orders
of Senor Caballero de Bodas, Captain-General of the
island.

A large number of graduates of Dublin University
held an indignation meeting yesterday. Resolutions dis-
approving of the recent memorial to Government in
favour of the opening of Trinity College to all creeds were
passed unanimously.

The subscriptions to the fund for defraying the
costs of the projected inquiry upon sewage utilisation by
a committee of the British Association amount now to
upwards of £1,200. The committee will begin their in-
vestigation forthwith.
The Weekly Register has authority for stating that
after the dogma of infallibility has been promuigatecl,
there will still be work enough to detain the Council
another year in Rome. Archbishop Manning is expected
home in the first week of July.
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The Rev. W. Tlornby, M.A., vicar of St. Michael's
in the Fylde of Lancashire honorary canon and rural
dean, has been appointed by the Bishop of Manchester to
the archdeaconry of Lancaster. Canon Hornby is cousin
to the late Earl of Derby.

Experiments made to ascertain what colours are,
most quickly and easily perceived by the eye seem to
chew that bright yellow is the colour most easily disting-
guished, and is therefore suggested for railway signals.—
Photographic News.
The agent of Lord Ormthwaite's estate, in county
Kerry, Mr. George Sandes, whose sub-agent was fired at
some few weeks since, dare not leave his residence with-
ont a body guard of constabulary. Mr. Sandes has re-
ceived several threatening letters within the last few
days.

The Merchant Shipping Code, after being read a
second time, will be withdrawn, and, it is said, Mr. Plim.
soli will move for leave to bring in a bill to provide for
the inspection of all unclassed ships, and to enforce the
adoption of a maximum load line to be painted outside
the vessels.

Dr. Hardwicke, the medical officer of health for
Paddington, has instituted proceedings in four cases of
neglect of vaccination ; and Mr. Mansfield, the Maryle-
bone magistrate, in adjudicating upon the cases, expressed
himself strongly against the ignorance and obstinacy
which.hindered the effective tveration,9f the Act.

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FRANCE.

PARIS, April 29, Evening.

M. Lermina, one of the persons arrested yester-
day at the meeting held in the Theatre des Folks
Bergeres, delivered in the course of his address to
the meeting a long indictment against the Emperor.
He demanded that sentence of death should be
passed upon his Majesty, but, considering that the
Republic had abolished capital punishment, be pro-
posed that the penalty should be commuted into
penal servitude for life. This tirade was frantically
applauded by the audience. A rumour was current
to-day on the Bourie that an attempt had been
made to assassinate the Emperor, but the report is
entirely unfounded. M. Jules Favre has written a
letter to M. Grevy, in which he announces his adhe-
sion to the manifesto of the Left. The French clergy
support the Plebiscite.

PARIS, April 30.

The Bishops of Arras and Annecy have addressed
a circular to the clergy in their dioceses in favour of
the forthcoming Plebiscite.
BOURSE, April 29.—Three o'clock—The mark e
closed as follows :

per Cent.
3 per Cents 74 10

End of month 74
Credit Mobilier 235
Transatlantic l9B 75
Oredit Foncier 1295
Paris Gas 1675
Suez Canal 3OO

Orleans

RAILWAY

Bank Shares 2820
Ital'an Fives 56 65
Austrian Fives -
Ottoman Loan
Do. Debt —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred —
Cash
975

.Nept;r-n
1638510 f
Northern ...
Strasburg . 616;
uyons and Mediterranean
Southern-- 6OB
Sardinian
____

Austrian
Lombard

7921
400

North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

ITALY.

FLORENCE, April 29.
The Chamber of Deputies bas approved the esti
mates for the Ministry of Justice.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 29.

The Sultan, upon receiving the annual report of
the Council of State yesterday, expressed his satis-
faction at the work performed by the members, and
added that progress in the various provinces of the
country had never been more conspicuous.
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His Majesty stated further, that the relations with
the Allied Powers bad become more and more
friendly, in proof of which he referred to the recent
visits of foreign Sovereigns and Princes.

The Sultan directed the attention of his Govern-
ment to the construction of railways and roads, and
also of fortifications in accordance with the require-
ments of the empire.

His Majesty also urged the establishment of rural
banks, model farms, and an improved organisation of
the navy and army.

INDIA.

CALCUTTA, April 28, Evening.

The Friend of India reports a serious rising at
Ulwar, in Rajpootana, where 2,000 Thakoors and
their followers have rebelled against their Chief.
BOMBAY, April 29, 6.39 p.m.

The Delhi Gazette of to-day understands, upon
reliable authority, that the Black Mouutain tribes
have renewed their raids at Agrore.

AMERICA.
(By Cable).
NEW YORK, April 29.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 1151 ; the highest quotation during the day
sas 1151; the lowest, 1141. .
Sterling Exchange on London
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882
1885
a, 1867

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Illinois

Erie

23i

Cotton—Mid. upland 23lc
Petroleum—Standard White
Flour—Extra State, $4 70c. to $5 30c. Corn—Old
mixed, $1 16c,

According to Messrs. Moffat, Davidis, and Co.'s
report the week's receipts of,cotton have been 50,625
bales, and since the Ist of September, 2,590,000
bales. Shipments to England, 27,750 bales ; to
France, 5,000 bales ; and to the Continent, 3,000
bales ; and since tho Ist of September, 1,755,000
bales. Stock at all ports, 347,000 bales. Middling
Upland, 10d. cost and freight per steamer.

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TOWN TALK.

(From the Western Mail of this Morning.)
LONDON, Friday Evening.
I cannot recall to recollection any Session of Par-

liament when the House of Commons, on resuming
its labours after the Easter holidays, woke to the
realisation of the fact of so very little (virtually
nothing) having yet been accomplished in the way
of practical legislation. There was a half-expressed
acknowledgment of this in that rallying crack of the
Treasury Whip, the note addressed to the Liberal
members by the three G's—it sounds like some ab-
surd match to the three R's, or the three K's of Sir
William Curtis— G. G. Glyn, the hon. member for
Shaftesbury, the absurdity of the thing being this,
that a whole quarter (actually one moiety of the
session) has thus been allowed to run out, with a
Government in full and undisputed possession of the
field, backed by an overwhelming majority, led by a
cluster of administrators arrogating to themselves
the character of working statesmen, and having at
their head a Prime Minister who has, beyond any
doubt, all through his career, shown himself to be a
very glutton of parliamentary labour. Yet, granted
all this, there still glared upon the recognition of
everyone, on the re-assembling of the Houses on
Monday last, that we had all come within sight of the
close of April, and that nothing, literally nothing,
had as yet been done. It bears somewhat the aspect
certainly of an anti-climax--even of a fiasco. But
then, the strong Ministry are, at last, put upon
their metal. They will now have to. make up
for lost time by pulling, as Pat says, " with a
will and a half." With the Irish Land Bill to begin
with, they must contrive to make head-way some-
how. The rest will be seen to afterwards as best
may be, in due sequence. As yet their most telling
hit is felt to be the Budget, but many of the
sions of that bill remain to be carried out.

The sanguinary brigandage of Greece has, within
these last few days, rendered that of Italy mild and
exemplary by comparison. The disastrous telegram
that ushered in the week made all London aghast
and horror-stricken. The massacre was 'so wanton,
so ruthless, and so wholly unanticipated. Perhaps
nothing could realise to Western Europe in any way
as vividly as an atrocious incident like this, the
widely different stage attained, here and there, in the
matter of civilisation. In order to bring ourselves to
the same level with the lieges of King George of
Athens, we should have to go back far beyond the
period of Dick Turpin or of Claude Duval, who were
gallant gentlemen of the road, compared to these
pitiless and ruffianly cut-throats in the neighbour-
hood of the violet-crowned Acropolis. Quite ob-
viously the Government is in a large degree respon-
sible for this deplorable catastrophe.
Horror on horror ! For, simultaneously with these
tidings of atrocious bloodshed, partly at Athens,
partly at Thebes, there came from St. Petersburg,
the full particulars of one of the most ghastly and
sickening murders that has for a long while past been
anywhere perpetrated. The poisoning, strangling,
and bludgeoning to death of a debauched old noble-
man, whose dying agonies were drowned by the
squalling and strumming on an old piano of one of
the abandoned women who was thus, one hardly
knows whether to say actively or passively, an ac-
complice ! The victim's murdered remains being
afterwardsstowed away--with the buckled strap still
tight about the neck—in a gaudy, bran-new, yellow
leather portmanteau. As in the instance of Thurtell
and Ware, or of O'Connor and the Mannings, vic-
tim and murderers appear to have been about equally

disreputable. The fact being so, however, only
seems, somehow, to enhance, instead of in any way
mitigating, the horror excited by these exceptional

kind of atrocities.

Napoleon's appeal once more to the Plebiscitum is
surely in no possible respect to be wondered at.
Antieus-like, he has always gained strength from
touching what one may call his mother earth—De-
mocracy. Thrice already his name has drawn in-
creasing numbers frOm;the urn of the ballot. As
president of the 11th of December, 1848, he gained
affirmative votes to the number of 5,587,759. As
president for ten years he had the coup d'etat con-
doned on the 2d of December, 1851, by 7,473,431;
while as emperor he was proclaimed by 7,824,189
voices. One very curious calculation was made on
first counting the votes upon the second of those
three occasions. The aggregate numbers for and
-against, when first written out carelessly on a slip of
paper, stood by mistake thus :-
7559795 15559.

the pros being divided from the cons by a longitu-
dinal bar. Accidentally glanced at from the back,
the numerals as seen through the slip of paper re-
vealed in myatical characters the word " Empereur."
If you have any doubt upon the matter try it ! The
whole was based upon a miscalculation. But in less
than a year afterwards the word came out more
clearly than ever by nearly eight million votes. These
votes have been always so consistently on the cres-
cendo with Napoleon 111., that upon the Bth proximo,
I rather anticipate that the grand aggregate of his
supporters will, for the first time, even exceed the
astounding total he has twice so nearly approached,
of 8,000,000.
Whence possibly can come these absurdly un-
founded rumours in regard to her Majesty the Queen?
Only a very little time ago it was distinctly and cir-
cumstantially announced that her Majesty was again
going to be married. And now again—even more
distinctly and more circumstantially—another gobe-
mouche has affrighted the Queen's lieges by an
account of the perilous hazard run by the Sovereign
and the Princess of Wales together, when pursued in
an open carriage by a rampant runaway waggon,
the whole incident, from beginning to end, being
utterly without foundation.

Victor Emmanuel has again been seriously indis-
posed, as Bismarck has been likewise, though the
two are already pronounced once more convalescent.
There is a talk still of Spain finding her King at last
in old Baldomero Espartere. A selection like that,
however, would be the merest temporary settlement
of a long-continued difficulty.
The literary event of the hour, to which everyone
is looking forward with the most eager expectation
is, as a matter of course, the publication of the new
three-volume novel of " Lothair," by the ex-Pre-
mier on Monday. Mr. Disraeli's early appearance on
the front bench of the Opposition, on the reassem-
bling of the House qn Monday last, had a double
significance—implying that he was well rid of his
last proof sheets, and that he was well rid, also,
of his recent indisposition. Whether the character
of " Lothair" be drawn satirically from the life or
not—whatever sarcasm there may be in the delinea-
tion of it—one may feel perfectly certain before-
hand it will not -Want in finish.

A monster benefit in a bijou theatre ! What do
you say to that ? Something of the kind is really
being accomplished, and, I am glad to add, under
the happiest auspices, here in Loudon, clown Soho-
way. Yes, there at what was once Miss Kelly's
Theatre, now known, and very popularly know n too,
as the Royalty, Miss Oliver, the manageress, is
taking her own benefit—as Alexander Dumas, pore,
used to run out his monster dramas in fifteen acts—
over three nights in succession, last night, to-night,
and to-morrow. Not a Bumble in London is there
to be horrified by this latest instance of Oliver
asking for more. The regret is that she has not
gone in for a whole week by preference. And the
remark is, that if she had, every night would have
been a bumper.
The dramatic event of the week is the sixth
triumph just now won at the Prince of Wales's by
Mr. T. W. Robertson. Tbe purely domestic drama
of nowadays is what Mr. Robertson has all along
gone in for. And hitherto with the happiest

have

results. His productions in this way
been the very making of the Prince of
Wales's Theatre itself, of its radiant little
company of comedians, and of the author's
own brilliant and now securely established
reputation. In regard to that one house, be
has indulged himself during these last five years with
one little superficial eccentricity—the laconic, often
monosyllabic titles of his pieces there produced.
" Society" came first, then " Qurs," then " Caste,''
then " Play," then " School," and now—not even
one word—two letters, " M.P." The bit this time
has again been unmistakable. And the effect of the
success was perfected when Miss Marie Wilton (Mrs'
Bancroft), the manageress, while apologising at the
close of the new play for the non-appearance of the
author before bis delighted audience by reason of his
still severe indisposition, intimated that she had sent
him tidings of the growing success at the end of each
act, and would now cap the climax of all by news of
the final verdict.
Two or three weeks ago I told you of the comple-
tion of a new novel by that very original and bril-
liant writer, Mr. George Meredith, and of the pro-
bability of its speedy publication. The intimation, I
now see, is repeated by the A thenteum. I may add
here, however, in regard to it, that this novel will
be published by- Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co.,
though, I believe, it is still undecided whether it is to
be issued from the press altogether in three volumes,
or piecemeal, and illustrated, in the pages of the
Cornhill. . _

At the last meeting of the Royal society, lu
Burlington House, Piccadilly, a wonderful contri-
vance was exhibited by Mr. Cromwell Varlet',
the civil engineer—a contrivance by which, to
the astonishment and delight of the assembled
philosophers, the phenomena of a comet's tail, and
of the streamers of the aurora borealis, were repro-
duced in miniature.
All the artist world of London, and a great part
of the literary-world of London as well, i 3 grieving
over the death of one of the most gifted of English
painters, in his old home in Cheyne-walk, Chelsea;
one who ought, long since, to have been Sir Daniel
Maclise, and who might, years since, had he e 0
pleased, have been President of the Royal Academy,
instead of being simply—what he certainly was-00
of the greatest of the Royal Academicians.