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London, England, 1870-03-22 00:00:00

harvest from the Land Company, for some
£300,000 is said to have been paid by the
latter as commission for " floating," out of a total
of £050,006 expended for similar purposes,
the entire capital of the Land Company being a little
over three millions. Amongst minor payments—
mere trifles and scarcely worth mentioning—was a
bonus of £5,000 to the National Bank for permis-
sion to open an account. The suit before the Vice
Chancellor was an application by the liquidators of the
Land Company to compel the National Bank to refund
this £5OOO. That the transaction was "disgraceful,"
tie Chancery Judge established by a very plain
dilemma. If the Land Company were a solvent
concern, the Bank ought not to require any bonus
for opening an account, simply because all banks were
anxious to get sound custom. If the Land Company
was not solvent or safe, the £5OOO ought not
to have induced the directors to deal with it. After
recent experience the public will readily anticipate
another fact, which remains to be stated. Mr.
Harvey Lewis, M.P., Mr. Henshaw, and Sir
J. M'Kenna were directors both of the Land
Company and the National Bank, while
three other directors of the company
were also on the board of the Credit Foncier.
Thus, the gentlemen who had to decide upon the
spending of the money, and those who had to deter-
mine the receiving of it, were one and the same ; and
the game amounted to another of those see-
saw transactions which seem to have been so
numerous in connection with the National Bank.
The Vice-Chancellor ordered the £5,000 bonus to
be refunded. Mr. Harvey Lewis has likewise
another excellent opportunity of refunding to the
electors of Marylebone the trust which they re-
posed in him, but which they have since re-demanded
in vain. When Mr. Lewis spent last
session abroad it was to no purpose that his con-
stituents appealed to him to give up the
post which he could not—at least, did not—fill.
He would, he said, clear himself from the "false,
fictitious, and fraudulent" verdict, and be punctually
in his place next session. We do not profess to settle
the exact interpretation which is due to the Vice-
Chancellor's stinging phrase. That Mr. Lewis must
decide. But the Vice-Chancellor has not yet had
cause to with draw the words; on the contrary, the
embellishment of " disgraceful" has just been added.
Will Mr. Harvey Lewis either produce the long-
promised explanation or meet the oft-expressed
wishes of his constituents ?

THE MISSING NEW ZEALAND STEAMSHIP

MATOAKA.

The following is a correct list of the passengers
who embarked on board the above vessel in New
Zealand for the passage to London. The Matoaka
sailed from Lyttelton, New Zealand, on the 13th of
May, 1869, anl has never since been heard of :
Rev. G. Grant, Alice Grant, Alfred Grant, Arthur
William Grant, Miss Catherine Kennaway, Miss
Sarah Kennaway, Soper (servant), William
Allison, Mrs. S. Allison, H. Allison, S. Alli-
son, M. Allison, J. Allison, M. Allison, D.
Allison, Dr. Iliffe,- Mrs. Iliffe, F. C. Wilson, Mrs.
W Non, William Wilson, Catherine Wilson, H. Hand-
cock, Mrs. 11-indcock, Elizabeth Handcock, Caroline
Handcock, S. J. Henry, Mrs. Henry, James Henry
and infant, C. H. Hoskyns, Mrs. Hoskyns, C. H.
Hoskyns, F. J. Hoskyns and infant, Louis B Hens-
ley, Mrs Mary Hensley, Edith Mary Hensley, Archi-
bald Brown, W. Coup, W. B. Pusey, Dr. Evans,
W. S. Wildman, W. C. Cooksey, W. H. Moss, and
Master Henry Wilcox.

The Queen arrived in London about noon to-day
from Windsor, and proceeded to Buckingham Palace, where
her Majesty will remain, with Princesses Louise and Beatrice,
until Friday, when the Queen is expected to proceed to
Claremont.

The Speaker's Dinner and Levee on Wednesday,
Mai ch 23, is unavoidably postponed.
The venerable Earl of Roden died on Sunday at
Edinburgh, in his 82d year.
The death is announced this morning of Lady
Caroline Baillie-Hamilton, daughter of the fourth Earl of
Abingdon. _ _

The limes of India refers to a report in Bombay
that 10,000 persons out of a population of 50:000 have died
of a virulent plague in Zanzibar.

The pruning knife" is finding its way to the
Board of Trade, five of the clerks—viz., one assistant to
secretary, two seniors, and two supplemental clerks—having
received an intimation that they are to be superannuated.
_ _ _

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The new club, established in Grafton-street, Pic-
cadilly, for noblemen and gentlemen who are or have been
members of a university, or are members of a recognised
learned society, will be opened next Monday. For the first
two hundred members the entrance fee is to be five guineas,
beyond that number the fee will be trebled.
THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE'S BANKRUPTCY.--The
court has fixed Wednesday, the 11th of May next, for the
last examination and order of discharge, sitting to be held
before the Chief Judge under the bankruptcy of the Duke
of Newcastle.
THE CITY OF BOSTON.—Messrs. Inman have as yet
heard nothing of the City of Boston, nor has any telegram
been received from the Cruiser steam-tug at Cro ikhaveu.
The Limerick and Clare Farmers' Club has passed
resolutions condemning the Land Bill as insufficient, and
declaring that, if fixity of tenure is not guaranteed, "no
alternative will be loft" but to agitate for the repeal of the
Union.
THE WELSH CHURCH.-111 view of the attack upon
the National Church in Wales, the National Association for
Freedom of Worship has issued a spirited address to the
Welsh people (printed in both Welsh and English), remind-
ing thorn that for fifteen hundred years, until a very late
period, they had a free national Church, thatis, parish churches
free and open to all, rich and poor alike, and calling upon
them,to resist the attempt to make their Church into (what it
sadly is too much, in fact), a mere pewed Episcopal English
sect; and the address urges upon the parishioners, at the
approaching Easter vestries, to demand at least two free
Welsh services—say at 9 a.m. and at 7 p.m.

The Australian papers received to-day announce
the death of Mr. Edward Denison, M.P. for Newark.
which took place in Melbourne on the 26th of January,
He went out for the benefit of his health. Mr. Denison
at the time of is death was only 29 years of age. He
was the only son of the late Bishop of Salisbury by that
prelate's first marriage. He was a Liberal, and had sat
for Newark since December 1868.
.

LETTER FROM LORD NELSON.—An hitherto
unpublished letter of Lord Nelson appears in Notes and
Queries. It was addressed to Perry, the editor -of- the
Morning Chronicle, on the deatb. of Sir William
Hamilton :—" My dear Mr. Perry,—Our Dear Sir
William left this world at 10 minutes past
ten this morning in Lady Hamilton's and my
arms, her attentions to him to the last, & altogether for
near twelve years have been such as to call forth all our
admiration of this Excellent Woman—As I should wish
neither to have too much nor too little said in your paper
on this occasion, I entreat that I may see you as soolV as
possible in Piccadilly, and you will truly oblige, NELB
BRONTE. —D. o'clock, April 6, 1803."

The motion of Mr. -Derinty C. Robinson on the
subject. of the local government of the metropolis is likely
to give rise to a considerable amount of opposition. Mr.
Robinson proposes that, in order to secure efficient muni-
cipal' government for the metropolis, the best plan would
be to extend the present jurisdiction and powers of the
corporation of the City of London over the whole metro-
politan area. To this Mr. Henry Gower has given notice
of amendment, disapproving. of this principle, and approv-
ing of the creation of municipalities in the various metro-
politan boroughs outside the City of London, with joint
committees for the management of affairs between the
the court and the other bodies interested.

There- is now no *lidpe-of'any more lives htiving
been saved from the Normandy. Another passenger lost
wa3 Mr. John, the son of Captain John Grut, of Guernsey.
The depth of water in which the unfortunate vessel went
down—about twenty-eight fathoms—renders it impos-
sible for any diver to go down to recover the specie and
bonds from the mail rooms ; therefore it will prove a total
loss to the underwriters.

On the Ist or April next, and thenceforward,
registered newspapers for all places abroad, without dis-
tinction, will be chargeable according to weight, and each
newspaper, whether sent singly or in a packet containing
more than one, will be liable to a separate rate of postage
for every four ounces or fraction of four ounces.

AUSTRALIAN Al EAT. —A most nutritious, excellent,
and delicious article of food, suitable for all cllsses alike, is now
being imported into this country by Messrs. W. J. Coleman and
Co., 13, St. Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap. It is Australian COOKED
MEAT IN TINS, of the finest quality; and not having been salted, or
subjected to any chemical process of preserving, it possesses the
flavour and taste of the best kinds cf fresh meat. Whether eaten
hot or cold it is equally good, and as it can be purchased at a con-
siderably less price than butchers' meat it cannot fail to become
in great demand, to which it is justly entitled.