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London, England, 1870-03-30

LOPD GRANVILLE S NEW ZEALAND POLICY.

The Hon. Grantley Berkeley writes to the Standard
in reference to Lord Granville's despatch as to New
Zealand. In the first place he expresses an opinion
that under the Gladstone Government no lover of
his country ought to remain silent when the dan-
gerous schemes that are invented to keep the present
Ministry in power, are undermining the stability
Of the kingdom. He contends that if his lordship's
advice that large concessions are unavoidable
to appease a prevailing discontent with which
the colony is otherwise unable to cope, is pur-
sued, the savages will receive them not in a spirit o
thankful amity, but as the coward admissions of a
beaten adversary. If, he says, the spirit, or rather
the no spirit, of Lord Granville's despatch is carried
out, then let the deserted colonists in New Zealand,
if they must stay there, entrench themselves to
defend the lives of their wives and children, and
give up all further hope of gain through cultivation.

THE RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY.

. The Dean of Durham, in a letter to the Times,
demurs to the suggestion contained in Lord Russell's
letter on the religious difficulty in the Educa-
tion Bill, that there shall be no religious
teaching whatever in any rate-paid schools. To alow
that there shall be no teaching whatever of the Bible
in the day school, the Dean says, is to concede the
very point for which all the advocates of religious
education, both in and out of Parliament, have
always contended. Mr. Gladstone, he observes, will,
there is little doubt, adhere to his suggestion of a
" conscience time table " at the beginning of
the day. Let half an hour, therefore, be
devoted to this purpose, at which the
children of Dissenters will, he is convinced,
attend almost as much as others, and let
formularies be relegated to the Sunday school. We
shall then have an education of which no
reasonable person can ckmplain, and shall be saved
from the national danger and the bitter contests
which would be the result of an attempt to force a
secular system, whether in name or reality, upon the
country..

THE BANKRUPTCY LAW.

• Mr. Justice Willes approves of the stringent
punishment • provided in the New Bankruptcy Act
for cases of • fraudulent bankruptcy. At the Liver-
pool Assizes two prisoners were indicted under the
Bmkruptcy Act, 1861, for concealment of several
hundreds of pounds' worth of property at the
time of their bankruptcy; arid a third pri-
soner was indicted under the Bth sec. 24, 25 Vic., for
aiding and abetting. They were all found guilty,
and • Mr; Justice Willes, in passing sentence, ex-
pressed a regret that the offences had been com-
mitted while the Bankruptcy Act of 1861 was in
force, as it limited his power of sentencing the pri-
soners to a punishment adequate to their guilt. As
it was, he could award them "only " twelve months'
imprisonment, with hard labour. ; but had the new
law reached their case, the infliction would have
been much more severe: If twelve months' hard
labour be a small matter for fraud in bankruptcy,
future insolvents may well act :on the principle of
honesty being the best policy.
London, England, 1870-03-30

tney, were asiting for more. They must be
taken down -a bit. •So the priest,, instead of
getting £4OO a year, as the Protestant chaplain .did,
received nothing, and was told, moreover, to find his
awn appliances, which he did_ at a cost of £l5O. This
was his reward for giving 2 hours a day towards
the work of reclaiming for the benefit of
the State those who had broken its laws.
And all this was done under the very shadow of the
Houses of Parliament. More than that, Mr. White
was at last forbidden to continue even his voluntary
and unpaid labours. because ho had been guilty ofthe
high crime and misdemeanour of publishing, in one
of --the newspapers, the Correspondence between
himself and the visiting justices; who, in
their reverence for " a free and open Bible,"
declared that " the labourer is. not worthy of his .
hire." Is not this story enough to make those of us
Vvho are proudest of our Protestantism blush for it?

Let 11ie2srs. Whalley and Newdegate take this mattei
up, and we promise them that they will then do fal
more for Protestantism than they have hitherto done
by all their maunderings about "the Romish
arehy,"
London, England, 1870-03-30

THE BALLOT.

It is reported that a strong effort is now being made
to induce Mr. Gladstone to being in a bill during the
present session embodying the principle of vote by
ballot ; and a memorial to this effect, signed by many
members of. Parliament, is, it is said, now hi course
of signature. It is known that the expediency of
making certain changes in the existing system has
been under official consideration.
London, England, 1870-03-30

NEW ZEALAND.

Mr. EASTWICK asked the Under Secretary of State for
the Colonies why the correspondence with reference to
New Zealand, promised in her Majesty's Speech, had not
been laid upon the table of the House, and whether it
would be in the hands of members before the sth of April;
and if not, whether he would fix a date on or before which
it would be obtainable.
Mr. MONSELL said that the correspondence was in type.
and would be ready in the course of next week.
THE WATER BOUNDARY.
- -

Viscount MILTON asked the Under-Secretary of State
for the Colonies if he would lay upon the table of the
House a copy of such letters, correspondence, and en-
closures from Governor Douglas (at one time supposed to
have the full title of Colonial Governor of her Majesty's
Possessions on the Pacific Coast of North America) or his
secretaries, and from the Secretary to the British Com-
mission on the Water Boundary question, as were received
by the Colonial Secretaries, warning her Majesty's
Government of the apparent intentions of General
Harney, or the United States forces, to invade a part or
parts of her Majesty's dominions on the coast of the
Pacific, before and up to the year 1859 inclusive.
Mr. MONSELL replied that the matter related to the

foreign and not the colonial department, being a subject
of dispute between this country and a foreign country.

IRISH RAILWAYS.

Mr. STACPOOLE asked the First Lord of the Treasury
if it was the intention of the Government to introduce
any measure with respect to Irish Railways this session.
Mr. GLADSTONE replied that he would be a sanguine
man who would Like to approach the subject this session
of Parliament. At the same time the subject was not
unworthy of serious claim upon the attention of the
House.
London, England, 1870-03-30

THE COST OF POLITICAL FRIENDSHIP•

Anglo-Colonus writes to the Pall Mall Gazette on
this increase of colonial expenditure. He observes
that why our • great dominion in South Africa
Is termed a " military or maritime station "
only, he cannot tell. However, taking the catalogue
as officially published, he says the figures shew that
this class of possessions cost us—in 1867-68,
£1,778,302,' in 1859-60, £1,655,199, making a slight
increase due chiefly to Malta, Gibraltar, and Bermuda,
which are garrisons and not colonies. The writer, by a
process of classification of "self-governed North
America, self-governed Australia, New Zealand, and
miscellaneous," shews that, the total increasa of cost
being one million,the extra surnof29oo,ooo is expended
on our North American possessions. In other
words: he says, almost the whole of the increase in
what is called our colonial expenditure is simply at-
tributable to our political relations with the United
States.
London, England, 1870-03-30

SCARLATINA AT MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE.

An unusually severe outbreak of scarlatina has
occurred at Marlborough College, Wilts, and three
of the pupils have died of the disease. The Pall
Mall Gazette comments on the conduct of the
authorities, who, apparently coming to the conclusion
that they would at any rate have no more deaths
there, proceeded to break up the school and send
the boys to their respective homes. Probably a con-
siderable per-centage of these boys carried infection
about them in their clothes, and possibly a
small per-tentage had the germs of diseas9
in them. They are put into railway car-
riages to travel many miles to their own homes.
Will it be surprising if this dispersing of the scholars
should carry a malady peculiarly infectious to a good
many places as yet free from it ? If such is the case,
it is to be hoped that the friends and relatives of
any boy who has been made the innocent medium of
such a misfortune will make the case public as soon
as possible.
London, England, 1870-03-30

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.)
THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL.
ROME, March 29

It is stated that the General Congregation have
to-day voted the Schema de Fide, which up to the
present time bad been under discussion, and that
to-morrow other schemata will come on for debate.
London, England, 1870-03-30

THE COST OF THE COLONIES.

A comparative return of the sums paid out of the
British Exchequer for the maintenance and Govern-
ment of the various colonies. is not encouraging
to the taxpayer. There is an almost uniform
increase. Canada, for instance, required a
charge of £937,905 in 1867-8, whereas in
1858-9 the sum paid on behalf of this
possession was only £203,649. The cost of Gibraltar
has advanced during the same period from £286,402
to £420,405; :Yalta from £280,705 to £414,704;
Hong Kong from £184,202 to £216,896 ; Nova
Scotia. front £127,643 to £303,421. The Cape
of Good Hope has decreased in burden
from £527,750 to £377,324 ; and the W€ st
Indies have declined from £214,928 to £155,930.
The expense of New Zealand fluctuates
remarliab.y. In 1859-00 it was as low as £88,173 ;
but in the three years when the war against the
Maories was most severe the totals rose to £935,246,
£1,216,347 and £1,031,068 respectively. In
1867-8 the cost had diminished to £173,255.
Altogether the net expense upon the colonies has
progressed from £2,921,751 in 1858-9, to £3,969,426
in 1867-8. In some of the intermediate years, how-
ever, it was higher : and further returns may be ex-
pected to mark a decline of outlay in this direction.
London, England, 1870-03-30

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London, England, 1870-03-30

GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY IN AUSTRALIA.

Sir Charles Nicholson discoursed at the meeting. of
the Royal Geographical Society on the progress of
geographical discovery in Australia and New Guinea.
The speaker first dealt with the searches for the long
missing explorer, Dr. Leichardt. Various expedi-
tions, he said, bad been fitted out as
rumours arose, without any definite result beyond
tracing the footsteps of his party to a point some-
where to the south-west of the head of the Gulf of
Carpentaria. There were those, however, he ob-
served, who ye:. believed in the pcss:bility of some of
Leichardfs party still surviving, and amongst the
most generous and enthusiastic supporters of this theory
was Dr. Musller, who for years bad never desisted from
his efforts in the search for his illustrious country-
man. After dealing in detail with Eastern and
Northern Australia, Sir Charles gave a general
sketch of the main geographical explorations which
bad been made, and concluded with an urgent appeal
for explorations in the fertile and beautiful islands of
New Guinea.

PUBLIC B USINES3.

The much-looked-for Budget is fixed for Monday,
April 11, and the Easter vacation will commence
after the next clay. Mr. Gladstone had hoped to get
his Land Bill through committee before Easter; but
this is obviously out of the question now. It
is doubtful if even the compensation clauses
can be cleared off before that time. The
Peace Preservation Bill will, it is expected, be finally
disposed of, and receive the Royal assent by tlib end
of this week.
London, England, 1870-03-30

CHINAMEN IN AMERICA.

The immigration of Chinamen into the United
States of America is not unnaturally looked
upon with disfavour by the white labourers;
and the question of protecting the latter
from such immigration is much discussed.
Senator Lawrence, speaking in the Californian
Senate, remarked that the use of steam had now
brought America very close to the Chinese empire,
and it was a fact that China was so densely
populated that one hundred millions of its inhabi-
tants could well be spared. The consequence
was that as long as Americans insisted on
demanding "cheap
.labour" the Chinamen would
swarm in upon them in countless numbers.
The white labourer were now obliged to come
down to the Chinese scale of prices, or starve,
beg, or steal. The total number of Chinese on the
western coasts of America was 89,500, though the
speaker said this estimate was much too small.
In San Francisco alone they amounted to
18,500, of whom 4,500 were females. The senator
thought the time was come for united action in this
matter. "Better, by far," said ho, " that a wall of
fire, high as heaven, and broad as the Pacific, should
separate us from this loathsome race than that they
should obtain a foothold on this coast—better even
in a pecuniary point_of view."
London, England, 1870-03-30

CHANGES AT THE ADMIRALTY.

Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, Bart., K.C.8.,
has signified his intention to the Admiralty to retire,
after a very distinguished career. Sir Sydney Colpoys
Dacrt.s,.K.C.B., the First Sea Lord at the Admiralty,
wi►l become the junior admiral, in consequence of the
retiremenls from the list of full admirals.
London, England, 1870-03-30

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London, England, 1870-03-30

TIIF TICE:IEOIINR CASE'

The West Surrey Times promises us that the Tich-
borne case will open in ,:good romantic style in the
ensuing Easter 'term. • The commission sent to
Australia and Chili to collect evidence has completed
its labours and returned. The claimant to the
baronetcy, Sir Roger Doughty Tichborne, as he is
usually called, now awaits only the pleasure of the
Courtof Probate, in order to commence operations,
It will be a long case in all probability.
London, England, 1870-03-30

MEDICAL ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

Sir JOHN GREY then moved the second reading of this bill,
the object of which was to abolish the present system of
practising by diploma, and in its stead to have a strict and rigid
examination of all p,rsons desirous of entering the profession,
and in event of passing a certificate of merit and competency
was to be given, which would bear upon it the authority of
the State. _ _

After a short discussion the debate was adjourned, on its
being intimated by Mr. Forster that the Government in-
tended to introduce a bill on the subject very shortly in the
other House.

The Attorney and Solicitors' Remuneration Bill went
into committee, but progress was reported after clause six
had been passed.

The second reading of the Sale of Liquors Bill was post-
poned until the 27th.of April.

The house then adjourned.

The very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Alessi s. DUNNTLLLE & Co., who have gained
a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be
called "The Royal Irish - istillery."

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Morning. Evening
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TIIIIIISDAY... .....
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Salisbury 12, 13
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York 17, 18

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Harpenden 2O, '2l
Bath 24, 25
Stamford '26, 27
Croydon .. 26, 27
Epsom. 3l to June 3

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam
Do

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... 12 Of ... 12 1'
Antwerp — ... 25 421 ... 25 47
Brussels
Hamburg h — .., 13 lot ... 13 10
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main — ... 1204 ... 121
Vienna — ... 12 65 ... 12 70
Trieste ... ... 12 65 ... 12 70
Petersburg
Copenhagen
Berlin
Madrid..
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Milan — ... 26 25 .., 26 30
Genoa — ... 26 25 ..„ 26 30
Naples
Palermo — ... 26 25 ~. 26 30
Messina
Lisbon
•
Oporto ... 524 ... 524
London, England, 1870-03-30

FRANCE.

PARIS, March 29, Evening.
M. Ledru Rollin has arrived in France, and is
staying at Fontenay, ne, r Paris.
BOURSE, March 29.—Three o'clock—The marks t
closed as follows :

per Cent.
3 per Cents 73 97
End of mouth 74 171
Credit Mobilier
Transatlantic 202 50
13redit Foncier 307 50
Paris Gas 1785
Suez Canal 337 50
RAIL WA

Bank Shares 2BlO
Italan wives 55 70
Austrian Fives
Ottoman Loan
Do. Debt 46 75
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred —

Cash
Orleans
Western
Northern ... 11771
Strasburg .. 6l3i
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 626}
Sardinian
Austrian Bl2l
Lombard 505
North of Spain 7O
Saragossa
Roman 5O

SPAIN.

MADRID, March 29.

In to-day's sitting of the Cortes the Government
denied that any Lostile engagement had taken place
id Cuba, adding that such could not occur, because
the only body of troops at present traversing the
island was a band of 500 men, under the command
of a Colonel.

EGYPT.
ALEXANDRIA, March 29.

It is asserted that a French firm at Marseilles have
purchased, for commercial purposes, from the native
chiefs, a tract of land situate on the Arabian coast,
opposite Pirim, and extending for six miles inland.
The traffic through the Suez Canal is increa'ing
steadily.

AMERICA.
(Per French Atlantic Cable.)

NEW YORK, March 29.
The Guion steamship Minnesota arrived here
at 1 a.m. to-day.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 11.11 ; the highest quotation during the day
was 112 ; the lowest, 1114.

Sterling Exchange on London
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1382
1885
1867
106
1401
Erie .................................... .
Cotton—Mid. upland
Petroleum—Standard White
Flour—Extra State, $1 50c. to $5 10c. Corn—Old
mixer+, $1 sc.

0-40

nois

According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s
report he receipts of cotton at all ports, for the last
four• days, have been 30,000 bales. Shipments to
England, 14,000 bales; to France, 4,000 bales; and
to the Continent, 10,000 bales. 3liddling Upland,
10 7-16 d., cost and freight per steamer.
PORTLAND, March 29.
The Allan steamship Nestorian arrived out to-
day.

'The Queen returns to Windsor Castle to-day from
Claremont.

General Grey was this morning, we regret to say,
in a hopeleso condition.

The Right Hon. the Speaker will hold his levees
on the evenings. of Saturday, April 2, and of Wednesday,
April 6, at tei: o'clock. Full dress.

-
Lord Courtelay, who purposes to resign his scat
for East Devon, has made the necessary application to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer for the stewardship of the
Chiltern Hundreds.

A fire broke out in the vaults of the Custom
ouse at Boulogne yesterday. A portion of the cargo
e Indiaman Allahabad, which was stranded on
h at Andresselles, and other good, were con-

sumed
London, England, 1870-03-30

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THE TREATY WITH FRANCE.

Mr. BIRLEY asked the Under-Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs whether our Ambassador in Paris had
received instructions to make any representations to the
French Government concerning, the revision of the com-
mercial treaty between Great Britain and France for the
mutual interest of the two countries; and,:if so, whether
there was any objection to stating the nature of such
representations.
Mr. OTwAY said no replies in the character of remon-
stration had been addressed to the French Government.
Lord Lyons, however, had received certain instructions,
but it would not be right to make those instructions gene
rally known.

SHEERNESS DOCKYARD.
Mr. PEMBERTON asked the First Lord of the Admiralty
whether men were still being discharged from Sheerness
Dockyard ; and whether it was true that, in consequence
London, England, 1870-03-30

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IIfARRIAGES.

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Admiral Barnett to Amelia, daughter of the late John
Janvrin, Esq., of St. Aubin's, Jersey.
GINDER —HARVEY— On the 24th inst., at Lewisham, Mr. J.
11. Cinder, of Islington, to Matilda, only daughter of Mr.
F. Harvey, of Lewisham.

DEATHS.

BROWN - On the 26th inst., at the Parade, Epsom,W. Brown,

Esq., agel 66.
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Esq., aged 74.

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IS I7SSANITY SICKNESS ?

An important case to Friendly Societies has been
before the Newport mag:strates, involving the ques-
tion, Is insanity sickness ? A. summons for £2,
sick pay, due to Mary Ann Pit►nan, on
account of her husband being insane in
a lunatic asylum, had been taken out against the
Great Western Sick and Funeral Society. It was
proved that Pitman had been in the society ten
years. The wife had received sick pay to the amount
of £3O, until about eight weeks ago it was suspended
on the ground that insanity was not sickness.
Her husband had been in the asylum two years.
The bench decided against the society and made an
order for payment of the amount. A case of the
same kind was similarly decided a short time since.
London, England, 1870-03-30

A LATE LIBEL CASE.

-In the late libel case of " Williams v. the Duke
and Duchess of Somerset," it will be remembered
that the defendants apologised and retracted all im-
imitations upon the plaintiff. But the matter seems
to have by no means dropped, Dr. Williams
afterwards published an " Authentic Narra-
tive," the truthfulness of which the solicitors of
the Duke of Somerset, Messrs. Beachcroft and
Thompson, have denied, in the columns of the Times.
The solicitors particularly refer to a note received by Dr.
Williams, which the Duchess declares she never wrote
and which would seem therefore to be a forgery.
This state of things does not look like a settlement
of the question. Dr. Williams may consider himself
re-libelled ; and the parties may possibly again figure
before, the public.
London, England, 1870-12-16

GUN ACCIDENT.

Yesterday afternoon a visitor on board the yacht
Avoca, belonging to a Havre gentleman, took up a
revolver lying in the cabin, when the captain, removing
it from his hand and explaining its make, snapped two
or three caps. He was repeating the process when one of
the barrels sent a full charge into the abdomen of the
visitor, who now lies in a dangerous condition.
London, England, 1870-12-16

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A SCREW STEAMER ASHORE.

A telegram reached Kirkcaldy yesterday stating that
the screw steamer Victoria, Captain Gay, belonging to
Allan and Co., London, had gone ashore at North Ber-
wick. Crew saved. Cargo required to be discharged.
The Victoria is 350 tons burden, and was making her first
voyage to London, with a general cargo, a part of which
only is insured. The vessel left here early on Wednesday
morning, when a strong easterly wind was blowing. Some
hours later a severe storm of wind and rain set in, and con
siderable anxiety was felt for her safety.
London, England, 1870-12-16

THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

DRURY-LANK—A Domestic Hercules. Amy Robsart.
Phobus's Fix.
HAYMARKET—The Wolf and the Lamb. The Palace of
Truth. Uncle's Will. Blue Devils.
frlTßATM—Millinar's Holiday. Green Bushes.
YenDEvELLE—Chiserinag. rwo 1v( es. Elizabeth, or
the Invisible Armada.
STRAND—Oa and Off. Living at Ease. The Idle
'Prentice.
GLOBE—Board and Residence. Taming of the Shrew,
Marco Spada. Ballet Divertisemont.
OPERA COMIQUE -La Joie Fait Pour.
Letorieres.
ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. Fernande. Chris
mas Eve.
Ormirre—Nell and (Burlesque) Paul and Virginia.
ROYALTY Wealth, and Whittington Junior and his
Sensation Cat.
GAIETY—Happy Village. Zampa. Trornbalcalzar.
QUEEN'S—Day after the Wedding. Midsummer Night's
Dream.

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STANDARD —The Wife's Tragedy.
Wakefield.
HOLBORN—The Married Bachelor. The Odds. Jezabe
PRINCE OF WALES'S. Queen Stork. Ours. Locked
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POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After-
noon and Evening.
EGYPTIAN HALL—Poole and Young's Panorama of the
Franco-Prussian War.
AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the
Arena.

ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening.
PALAIS RovAL—Professor Faber's Talking Machine.
The Wizard of the East.
ALHAMBRA—Promenade Concert.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10
p.m. Is.; extra rooms, 6d.
London, England, 1870-12-16

CAPTAIN RELIEF FUND.

The City Committee of the Captain Relief Fund have
received up to the present time the sum of £4,010, of
which the greater part has been paid at the Mansion
House. During the last fortnight £346 have come
in. The Portsmouth committee have met with the
4reatest success, and obtained the sum of. £38,000.
lii all the fund amounts to nearly forty-three
thousand, but a balance of nineteen thousand still
remains to be collected in order that the distribution
scheme of the committee may be carriei out. It is
some illustration of the danger of diverting charity
too much abroad that this sum has not yet been
reached. In ordinary times it would have been
covered long ago.
THE CUMULATIVE VOTE.

Mr. Dudley Baxter is of opinion that the late elec-
tions for the School Boards afford a favourable
opportunity of estimating the influence of the cumu-
lative vote and the ballot, both new principles in
English elections. He cites Several instances to
prove that the effect of these changes altered the
result of the election. Mr. Hutchins, the Catholic
c Indid ate in Marylebone, who polled 9,252 .votes from
only 1,857 voters, would, under the old system, have
been far down the poll. Mr. Lucraft, the working man,
who was the lowest elected member for Finsbury,
and had. 5,990 votes from 1,838 voters, would
have failed if his supporters had not been allowed to
cumulate. Plumping, says Mr. Baxter, will always
be used when there is enthusiasm and organisation,
and at the last Middlesex election Lord George
Hamilton came in by a majority of 7,500 plumpers
and 326 split votes, while Mr.. Smith was brought in
for Westminster by 7,000 plumpers, and less than 600
split votes. Mr. Baxter appends to his letter a
table of the votes for Greenwich, which he thinks,
shews the electioneering lesson of the danger of a
ticket equal in number to the members to be elected.
Dr. Miller, Mr. Macgregor, Mr. Johnson,, and Mr.
Lemon stood together, and in consequence Mr.
Johnson and Mr. Lemon were both beaten by Mr.
Waugh, who had a majority over them of 2,400
votes, but a minority of 150 voters.
London, England, 1870-12-16

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with Addenda, containing additional Pacts and Oases, in illus-
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Review. Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, or other
journals, recommending its universal perusal, aro reprinted with
this edition.
London, England, 1870-12-16

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FRIENDLY WARNINGS.

It was stated at a meeting in Dublin the other
evening that five hundred gentlemen differing in
politics and religion had joined the Irish Home
Government Association, and that their united efforts
to enlighten and educate the people. on the question
of Federation had been successful to an extent
scarcely to have been anticipated. It .was now gene-
rally felt in Ireland, one speaker said, that the
loyalty of the Irish and Australians should be won
over once for all by England, and that the
only way to do so was by giving each an indepen-
dence distinct from England. The opportunity of
Irishmen being allowed in their own country to dis-
cuss measures for the welfare and regeneration of
the land with their own experience of her wants,
with their spirit of patriotism and with their own
powers of eloquence, should be conceded in Ireland
just as it was to the isle of Man or to
Canada. Though the audience consisted
of only two dozen • gentlemen the speeches
were less characterised by moderation than by
menacing warmth. Mr. Butt, Q.C., in the course of
his observations, said : " They endeavoured to obtain
what they required by moral force, but if anything
else were required they could bring to their aid the
physical force of 12,000,000 Irishmen, whom Eng-
land could either make friends or foes by her deci-
sion in this question of Federation. The English
Minister who would make them the foes of England
would be a traitor to his country." One of the
Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, Professor Gal-
braith, was even more explicit. He believed the
state of Irish feeling at
,present was highly dan-
gerous to England. "He did not say anything by
way of a threat, but merely as a friendly warning."
London, England, 1870-12-16

BOMBARDING PARIS.

It is exceedingly difficult to get at the truth re-
specting the postponement sine die of the bombard-
ment of Paris. By a correspondent of the Daily
News at headquarters we were told that Von Moltke
and the Generals wished to open an attack, but that
the King refused permission. The Times Berlin cor-
respondent says pretty much the opposite. General
Moltke and Von Blumenthal and Colonel Rieff,
Commander of the Siege Artillery, believe,
he reports, that a bombardment would be
arduous and probably not successful ; whilst Count
Bismarck and the Prussian War Minister consider that
such an attack would produce a strong impression
upon the inhabitants. And so the matter remains
in uncertainty. But some facts are well ascertained,
and people may draw their own conclusions from
them. The inhabitants of Berlin grumble loudly at
the delay, and yet the siege artillery remains in the
park (the pieces have not been put in position), and
not a shot is fired.
TAIPEItIAL REVELATIONS.

More of the Emperor's despatches, papers, and
documents have been published by the Government
of National Defence. The last series consists chiefly
of telegrams to and from the various authorities on
tue conduct of the war. They 'are full of the most
shameful revelations of incompetency and mis-
management. One general telegraphed that the depot
was sending him heaps of maps, but not one of the
French frontier. Another says his men have no
food. A third announces himself as destitute of
money. A fourth piteously exclaims that he cannot
find his regiments. There were no revolvers in the
arsenals. Some of the fortresses had no salt beef or
biscuit. One corps had no civil assistants, no ambu-
lance waggons, no train, no weighing machines.
Bread and biscuit were wanting. So much for the
late French Government. So much for the concen-
tration of power in one energetic mind that our
Conservative friends tell us is of so much service.
London, England, 1870-12-16

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THE POSTAL CARDS.

It is not known, probably, that even in the matter
of postage cards Ireland is getting a large share of
justice from the Government. The cards issued by
the authorities in Ireland are nearly an inch broader
and longer than those sent out from the London
Post Office. Why this convenient partiality is shown
to the sister island has not been officially
made known. We may, however, assume that it
is a felicitous stratagem for gratifying the Irish pro-
pensity of writing plenty of correspondence, as well
as of assuring Irishmen that the cheap luxuries
extended to them are offered with every possible
security against grumbling. By the bye, the Post-
master General of the Unite,' States will, it is under-
stood, urge in his forthcoming report the adoption
'by the American Post Office of the postal cards now
used in Germany and England. Ile will also, it is
said, press for the abolition of the franking privilege,
which now prevents the Post Office Department from
being self-sustaining.
London, England, 1870-12-16

MIDNIGHT MEETING MOVEMENT. Office, 5,
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this Institution has been instrumental in rescuing a vast number
of poor girls from a life of degradation and misery. The plan
adopted has been to seek the wanderers in the streets of London
and gather them together at the midnight hour, when short and
faithful addresses have been given.
During the present year the Meetings have been held nearly
every week in some of the most frequented districts of the
metropolis.
The promoters have abundant evidence that these efforts have
been most successful in effecting a great moral change in many
fallen ones.
To enable them to continue their important work, FUNDS are
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Stabb, Hon. Sec. 5, Red Lion-square, W.C., London ;and at the
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London, England, 1870-12-16

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RETREAT OF THE FRENCH FROM ORLEANS.

I could see enough to shew me that the enemy were not
above two miles from the gates of the city. The National
Guard was turning out and going to the trenches. Every
street of the town—at least every principal street—
was choked with artillery and infantry. They con-
tinued to cross the bridge all the evening. General
d'Aurelles, after stopping about an hour at the Hotel
du Loiret, took himself off with such speed that he
left some of his aides-de-camp here, who were
captured. It was one of his aides-de-camp who
told me it was impossible to attempt to follow up the re-
treating army ; the roads were impassable, the men in a
very bad temper, and it would be madness to attempt it.
Colonel Reilly was left behind, having probably had no
information and no escort from the French headquarters.
However, this I know, that'all the military attach& were
simply .; caught here, being unable to follow up. Of
course no railroad was going. It was thought the mcn
in the trenches might hold out all
.night, and then,
with the big guns that had been posted round
the place,•they might keep 'off the enemy for some time,
till the army had completely evacuated the city. The
troops continued to pass, through faster and faster. At
about eleven, batteries of ," artillery passed through
galloping; probably they were some of the guns which
had protected the retreat. The bridge of boats was
burning. It was expected that after the last man
had passed, the stone bridge would be blown up,
and when I ' went to bed very late at night, I
eipected every minute to be awoke by a fearful explosion
and the rocking -of
.the house where I have my billet.
It was not so, however, and after listening for some time
to the infantry tearing along as hard as they could
go, I went to sleep, and was, only roused this morning
by firing under my windoW. The Prussians were
in -the town last night soon after twelve, and
the 'firing on' the quay this morning consisted of
a few shots exchanged by the French who still loitered
en. the other side of the . river, and the Prussian
advanced guard in the town. At nine the whole Prussian
army marched in triumph into Orleans, bands playing
and colours flying. I believe the French army made
good its retreat. . The number of men taken in the town
was'not great. The losses were very slight on the French
side, owing to the men not holding well. This battle will
be. another inexplicable thing, of which there have been so
many in this war. Half the French artillery never fired
a shot. Battalions of infaUtry, which had not been under
fire, walked off the field saying they were retreating.—
Daily News Correspondent. •
London, England, 1870-12-16

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it is inconceivable;why there should be any of these
frightful accidents anywhere throughout the United
Kingdom.• More particularly, bearing in mind the
additional fact that by means of electric intercom-
munication, otherwise applied, the throbbing of all
the ciocka .at the various stations, may readily
enough be rendered, so to speak, automatic. Supe
posing a block to occur anywhere on the line, by
the instantaneous flash ofa telegraphic message, right
and left, the neighbouring stations, both- up and
down, might be at once warned betimes. Remember-
ing all the shunting to and fro that has to be gone
through in so many different directions upon every
trunk line of railroad during the twenty-four hours,
and remembering also the complication of machinery
comprised in what is called the rolling stock, as well
as the constant wear and tear fo which the timber
and metal of which it is constructed is being sub-
jected perpetually—it is obvious that there
must be_a liability to mechanical accidents at uncer-
tain intervals, in spite of the utmost precaution,
in the way of guardiing them off. The splitting of a
wheel tire, the snapping of an axle, the fracture of a
cog or tooth of iron, the parting of a single link in.a
coupling chain, anything of this kind may un-
doubtedly, in defiance of . every endeavour to guard
against s urprises of sucira description, occur at any
moment at any part of a journey. But,
with the electric telegraph there to aid in
flashing information at once of what has occurred in
both directions up and down the lino, to warn the
othertruina of what has happened, and of where it