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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-29

THE THEATRES, &c.

HAYMARKET—At Seven. No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book.
And My Husband's Ghost.
Pr.l.Ncm OF WALES'S—At 7.30, Quite b 1 Accident M.P. Dearest
Mamma.
LYCEUM—At 7.30, Sampson's Wedding. Little ,st.
ADELPHL—At Seven, Too Much of a Good Thing. The Promp
ter s Box. My Precious Betsy.
OLYMPIC—At Seven, Frou Frou The 'Varsity Boat Race, My
Turn Next,
GAIETY—At Seven, The Happy V.llage. Lucky Friday. The
Princess of Trebi2onde.
QUEBN's—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown.
.`:TRAND—At Seven, Widow's Weeds. Sir George and a Dragon.
A Fish Out of Water
VAUDEVILLE—For Love or Money. Don Carlcs. Cupboard Love
ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Frou. La Belle Sauvage.
GLOBE—At Seven, Milky White. Robert Macaire. Vandyke
Brown.
WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Picca-
dilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at 8; Saturday Morn-
ings at 3. Admission, ls, 2s, 3s.
CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed-
nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S EiIIIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 5.30
p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls. ; extra rooms, 6d.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park Open daily(except Sundays)
Admission. Is.• on Mendays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d.
London, England, 1870-04-29

EARL GRANVILLE ON CONFEDERATION.

Earl Granville has addressed a despatch to the
Governor of Prince Edward's Island respecting the
proposed incorporation of the island into the
Dominion. The terms offered by Canada were rejected
by her neighbour, on the ground that they did
not comprise a full and immediate settlement of land
tenures and indemnity to the Imperial Government
for loss of territorial revenues. Lord Granville
thinks the Government of Prince Edward's Island
will act unwisely if they allow them Selves to
be diverted from a practical consideration of their
own real interests " for the sake of keeping alive a
claim against the Imperial Government which it is
quite certain will never be acknowledged." With
this intimation the despatch closes.
London, England, 1870-04-20

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE,

AQUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair
to iN pristine hue, no matter at what age.
JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of
the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder-
ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated
form, and at a :ewer prim

Sold in bottles, 3s. each; also 55., is. Cd., and 15s. each, inclnd
ing brush.

Rid Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon.
don, E.C.
London, England, 1870-04-20

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION

(Established 1810).
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M. P. Thomas Hankey, Esq.
IR. W. Crawford, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, MP.
The report and balance Sheets of this Association for the year
1869, exhibiting in full details the amounts assured, ages of the
members, with particulars of the invested fund, may be had on
application to the chief office, or to the agents.

The annual income from premiums is
From interest on investments ... 19,000
Ihe invested fund, after paprent of all claims, exceeds 415,000
The whole of the profits divided among the members.

Cash bonuses have already been allotted to the assured,
amounting to £lOO,OOO.

W. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
No. 15, Moorgate-street, March 1, 1870.
London, England, 1870-04-20

THE ERIE WAR.

The Erie war is still progressing steadily in the States.
Mr. Burt, the champion of the English shareholders, has
(attended before the Assembly Committee on Railroads to
¶rge the passing of a bill repealing the Directors' Classifica-
on Act. There was a full attendance of members, and
many Senators were present. Mr. Butt commenced his
attack by read ug tto Classification Act of 1869, and then
repated his arguments before the Senate Commit-
tee, entering very fully into the whole case, com-
plaining that the sharehol :ors' chartered lights had
been taken away behind their backs, and denouncing the
conduct of the directors in applying for the Classification
Act as a breach of trust. He defended the combination in
England as absolutely necessary for the protection of the
shareholders, who could not otherwise compote with Fisk
and Gould, who held the company's purse. After
Mr. Burt had concluded his address, Mr. Shearman,
the counsel of the Erie directors, spoke at consi-
derable length, Mr. Burt disputing several of his state-
ments as he went on. The next day the committee re-
assembled, when Mr. Crouch, on the directors' side of the
contest, read a long paper against the repeal of the Act. Mr.
Burt subsequently replied, and declared that Mr. Crouch's
shareholders were bogus and his protest bogus, written in
New York. No ono in London, said Mr. Burt very shrewdly,
would have used the expression "Board of Stockholders," for
there was not such a body in England, but there was in New
York! The share capital had been increased $53,500,000 in
the two financial years 1868-69, and the not earnings were
reduced, while there were 64 more persons killed and 152
moro injured on the road than in the two former years. The
Legislature had tied the stockholders' hands, and he asked
them to cut the bonds as a matter of simple justice.
London, England, 1870-04-20

CAUTION.

'EI -MOSES and SON
I,i. beg to inform the Public that they have adopted and
registered a TRADE MARK, consisting of the words " The
Standard," with the initials "E. M. & S." underneath, and that
henceforward every at tide of clothing manufactured by them will
have a label or ticket attsched to it, with the said trade mark
printed thereon. All persons are hereby cautioned against imitat-
ing the said '1 rade Mark.

For trales and addresses see following advertisement.

"THE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE
MAN:"

BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES, BES
WORKMAN: HIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at
E. MOSES and SON'S.

Every description of Clothing ready-made or made
to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes,
at E. MOSES and SON'S.

For the convenience of Ladies accompanying
their Sons there is a separate department for Boys'
Clothing, and it is furnished with a splendid assort-
ment of Suits, Ov..rcoats, and Clothing for all occa-
sions, including all the favourite designs and the
most fashionable materials.

Orders by Post are attended to with care and
punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of
self-measure introduced by E. MO~ES and SON
enables them to guarantee a faultless fit.

Any article not worn or injured will be ex hanged,
or, if desired, the money will be returned.

All Goods are marked in Plain Figure , from
which no abatement can be made.

The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and
Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is unequalled for mag-
nitude, variety, and cheapness.

A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from
bs. 4d. the pair.

Complete Outfits for all climates, with every re•
quisite for the voyage.

List of Prices, with Rules for self-measure, Pat•
terns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free.

E. MOSES and SON, Ready made and Bespoke
Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters,
Hosiers, Bost and Shoe Manufacturers, and General
Outfitters for all classes

E. MOSES and SON'S Est .blishments are closed
every F 1 iday evening at sunset, when business is
seamed until eleven o'clock.

The follow ing are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SCN

LONDON:

CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE.

NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET.

CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON

ROAD.

Country Branch:

BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE.
London, England, 1870-04-20

PARTRIDGE AND COOPER.
MANUFACTURING STATIONERS,

192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E. 0.)
THE PUBLIC SITPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES.

CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 208.
Par ream. s. d.
Fine Cream Laid Note; a cheap paper . 3 0
SuperfLie Cream Laid Note; much approved ... .
Supeifine Thick Cream Laid Note; especially recommended 5 6
Extra Surerfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note . .. 7 0
Straw Paper, " Patent;" adapted for rapid writing .. 2 6
Large Commercial Note Papers 35., 45., 55., and 6 0
Foolscap Papers, bine or cream.......... 105. 6d., 12s. 6d., and 14 6
Outsides Foolscap
Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 45.; ruled ditto, 4 6
Tinted Lined Note

The New Vellum Wove "Club House" rote, five quires for
2s. 6d.

Rnperfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s 6d, 5s 6d, & as 6cl
Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s 6d • per 1,000
Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., 3s.
COLOUR STAMPING (Relief) reduced to ls. per 100. Polished
steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the
prices charged by the retail houses.
An LLLUSTRA TED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip-
tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Ink-stands,
Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling
Writing Cases, Desks, &c., post free. Established 1841
London, England, 1870-04-20

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
Eiitor'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
the next annual volume, which will be published on the Ist
of December next, so as to be received and utilised by the
Ist day of the New-year in. almost every part and city of
the globe.
It will embody au amount of topographical, statistical,
commercial, railway, and shippiefi intelligence, such as can-
not be found in any other publication. A valuable addition
will be a FOREIGN PORTS' DIRECTORY, containing the names
of British and American Ministers, Consuls and Vice-Con-
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Managers and London Correspondents, Chief Merchants,
Ship Brokers and Shipping Agents, Lloyd's Agents, News-
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Our Ocean Highways" Monthly Supplement, incorpo-
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personal interview, at the Buckingham Palace Hotel,
London.
London, England, 1870-04-20

jI.OYAL. STRAND THEATRE
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough.

THIS EVENING. at 7 o'clock. WIDOWS' WEEDS. Messrs
Crouch, Turner, and Mesdames E Burton and Anstiss.
Followed by SIR GEORGE AND A DRAGON. Messrs.
James, Terry, Fenton; Mesdames Santley, Dashwood, Goods
Hughes, Anstles. and Metcalfe.
And A FISH OUT OF WATER.
London, England, 1870-04-20

UNRIVALLED SPECULATIONS
SPLENDID SUCCESS.
With a Single Stake of Twelve Shillings you can realise £3,000 !
—with £l, £22,000! !—with £2, £27,060! !—with £B, 37,000!
For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT,
general Merchant, Guernsey.
London, England, 1870-04-20

VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.-
Lessees—Messrs IT. J. Montagl;e:b. James, and T. Thorne.
THIS EVENING. at 7, an original Corady, by Andrew Halliday,
entitled FOR LOVE OR MONEY. A new Burlesque, by Conway
Edwardes, entitled DO .1 CA RD ; OR, THE INFA 'TE IN
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, W. H. Bland, J North, and Thomas Thorne;
Mesdames Nelly Power, Cavendish, Amy Fawsitt, Kathleen Irwin,
Louise Claire, Jenny Reauclerc, Rose Evelyn. Kemp, T. Lavis, F.
Garthwaito, R. Power, J. Norton, Fellowes, and A. Newton.
Box-office open daily from 10 till 5.
Fulls; 6sl balcony stalls, 4s; boxes, 3s; upper circle, 2s; pit, is
6d; gallery, 6cl.
London, England, 1870-04-20

Just published, price is 6d., by post ls. Bd., the Second Edition,
with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in Illus-
tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks.
114VELATIONS OF QUACKS AND
QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the
"Medical Circular."
London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street.
The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday
Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, and other
journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted wi.h
this edition.

ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES,
AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPER,
Devoted to American Intelligence, ENLARGED to 24 PAGES.
Reports of Congress, Personal, Financial, Mining, Railroad, &c.
Members of Parliament, Commercial Men, and those having an
interest in the United States. will find this newspaper of use.
Published every SATURDAY MORNING, price 4d.,
15, Catherine-street, Strand.
London, England, 1870-04-20

THE LA. CEST EDITION of '4 THE SUN."
J. H3LIIES begs to inform hie friends and the public
generally that he supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE
SON "as soon as published.—No.lo, Hampstead-road, N.W.

rrEiE LATEST ELATION of " THE SUN" to
.2_ be seen Every Evening by 810 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCK's,
Britannia, Kensal New-town.

THE SUN.—LATEST EDITION to be seen
every Evening, at Eight o'cloc't, at Mr. GuAziA.N's, " The
Wheatabeat," High-street, Camden-town.

THE LATESI EDITION of "THE SUN
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NEWS I nd SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by 11. W. UAREI3,
Newspaper Agent, 4, Blackfriars-road. London.
London, England, 1870-04-20

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SAVE ME ritom MY FRIENDS.

Even poor Mr. Murphy must have felt the truth of
this adage, when he learnt what his friend Mr.
Steel said in addressing a Greenwich mob. The
lecture hall in that town had been taken, and the
money paid for it, but when one of the trustees
found that a disturbance was imminent, he offered to
return , rcmh:td -fa tio pse sf

the room. At the hour appointed for the
lecture, a mob assembled ; but the superin-
tendent of the police, with his men, refused
any admittance to the hall. A. deputation was then
formed to wait on the trustee who had offered to
return the cheque; but soon after a Mr. Steel said
that that gentleman could not be seen, and that as
400 policemen and 90 soldiers lined the hall, Murphy
would not attend. "He regretted that the police
had been called upon to act in such a way as to prevent
any of her Majesty's subjects addressing their friends.
He thought it was a great mistake, and a course of
action which seriously affected the liberties of the sub-
ject." Was Mr. Steel joking or in earnest? Surely if we
feel bound to prevent, even say the commission of
suicide, we are also morally bound to prevent an im-
minent disturbance in which without doubt blood would
have been shed. Would Mr. Steel have been better
satisfied if the authorities had stood on one side and
allowed Mr. Murphy to attempt to lecture and have
permitted the fight that would almost to a certainty
have ensued ? Mr. Murphy has been very glad on
previous occasions to obtain the protection of the
police.

THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN "
R ipplicd, uR sot n as published, Every Evening, by W.
At, EX-A. DEB (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, o. 4, Old
Cavendish street, Oxford-street
London, England, 1870-04-20

THE CARLISTS.

The Inclepenelance Beige of Monday evening, publishes
the following telegrams
GENEVA, Saturday.
It is asserted that Don Carlos has convoked his partisans
here for the ISth of April.
LONDON, Saturday.
Cabrera has officially announced that he has completely
abandoned, since the 19th of March, the direction of the
political enterprises of the Carlist party.

fERSECUTION OF NATIVE CHRISTIANS V

J iPAN AND CHINA.
News from Japan reports that an active persecution
is
still going on against the native Christians. At Na,„
_ousakl
in particular there have been loud complaints. Sir Hari/
Parkes, the English representative, remonstrated with
the authorities, but did not succeed in obtaining any cow
cessions. A joint representation of all the Foreign
Ministers is spoken of, and would seem to be very
.desir-
able, inasmuch as a search for all native Christians
has been set on foot. It is gratifying to learn
that the foreigners are surprised to discover the strong
root that Christianity has taken in Japan, and that the
victims of persecution are now numbered by the thousand
instead of by the hundred, as formerly. The French
Minister, M. de Rochechouart, has succeeded in obtain"
ink reparation for the outrages committed on Roman
• Cathohc missionaries and converts at Nganking. Tll°
offenders have been punished and compensation
made to the sufferers. At Kinkiang a g 113"
rantee of 6,000 taels was demanded. The Chinese
authorities at first refused compliance, but a movement
of the gunboats altered their opinions. At Kweichow and
Szechien, where sixty-seven houses and a church were
destroyed, one of the missionaries being killed, vigorous
measures have been taken. The ringleader of the riots
has been condemned to imprisonment, and his principal
coadjutors to various degrees of punishment. The converts,
houses are to be rebuilt, and 1,750 taels paid so
compensation to missionaries for their personal losses,
30,000 taels being paid for the death of Abbe Rigaud, His
murderer has been sentenced to death. M. de Roche'
chouart also obtained the expulsion of the leading rioters,
and the Viceroy has issued a proclamation in which Chris'
tianity is declared to be completely free.
London, England, 1870-04-20

DEATHS.

PANE -On the 19th inst., at 29, Portman-square, the 11°F3*
Julian IL 0. Pane, aged 42. •
MARTIN—On the 18th inst., at his residence, Richmond-bill
Alfred Martin, Esq., of No. 33, Gracechurch-street, age
59. •

London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREI'
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No% 11„1
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the CouraY
3Liddleaex.—Wedueetlay, April 20, 1879. -
London, England, 1870-04-20

BLACK OR WHITE GOWNS.

The dispute which has been going on for some
time between the vicar of St George's, Wolver-
hampton, and his parishioners, as to the use of the
white or black preaching gowns, seems as far off its
termination as it did at the commencement. The
Bishop of Lichfield has, nolens volens, been dragged
into the struggle, and he seems—at all events with
some people —to be in rather bad odour.
At a vestry meeting the other day it transpired
that, owing to this unseemly quarrel, the
parishioners are stopping the supplies, and that, from
want of money and congregation, the whole work of
the parish is coining to a dead-lock. To avert the
actual closing of the church, the vicar has agreed to
return to the black gown for preaching in; but
another person—Dr. Selwyn—had to be consulted,
and having once, at the vicar's own desire,
sanctioned the change from black to white,
he, as might have been anticipated, was
not very willing to countenance a vice versd
movement. Correspondence with his lordship
ensued, but without obtaining the requisite sanction,
the Bishop replying that as the change was made
after due inquiry before him, the return from white
to black—if made at all—must be made after fur-
ther discussion, and in his (the Bishop's) presence. Thus
affairs at present stand, and at the meeting referred
to things wore said that one would scarcely
expect to find even at a vestry. All this bad
feeling and heart burning -is caused by the simple
question of whether the Vicar shall preach in
black or white ! -
London, England, 1870-04-20

GENERAL CORDON.

A little while ago the announcement was received
that Major-General the Hon. A. H. Gordon, of the
Bombay army, had been suspended. The case is yet
involved in much mystery, but the Times of India
throws most light upon it. The general was sus-
pended by order of the governor in council
for sending direct to the commander -in -
chief. in India certain representations regard-
ing the acts of the commander-in-chief in Bombay.
An " officer .of experience " condemns the suspen-
sion. He says the Articles of War declare that any
officer may forward direct to the highest authority
any representation he may. feel himself called upon
to make, in the event of his not receiving what he
considers redress from his immediate superiors.
This was General Gordon's case. General Gordon
was, moreover, appointed by the Home Government;
and therefore it is not competent on the part of the
Bombay Government to suspend him from his duty.
Such is the statement of the officer of experience.
The Times of India, however, can offer no opinion of
its own ; neither therefore, can the British public,
until the other side is heard.

HEALTHY PROFESSIONS.
Statistics prove that the army and navy are
healthy professions. Out of 870 general officers of
the British and Indian army, who were alive on the
let of January last, eight had seen seventy years of
active service. But the army is in this respect far
behind the navy. Out of 307 admirals, who were
alive at the same date, no fewer than twenty-six, or
nearly 9 per cent., had served before the year 1800.
London, England, 1870-04-20

SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN
and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square.
The only free Hospital for diseases of women. Subscriptions and
donations are much needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hat-
chard, Piccadilly; Sir Samuel Scott, BarL ; Mess's. Barclay,
Coutts, Glyn, Ransom; and by the Secretary.
London, England, 1870-04-20

THAMES.

John and James Uram, young men, brothers, were
brought before Mr. Lushington, charge I with steal-
ing a quantity of household furniture, the property
of John Ellis, a ropemaker, of No. 92, Wellesley-
street, Stepney, and eloping with his wife. It ap-
peared that the prosecutor and his wife did not live
very happily together, and that both prisoners lodged
in the same house as Ellis and his wife, and evidently
knew of the discord that existed. They formerly
lived at 43, Salmon-lane, Limehouse, and Mrs. Ellis
suddenly quitted her husband's roof and went to live
with her cousin in N orfolk-terrace, Whitechapel.
The prisoners went away some time previous, and
they wore found in the house where Mrs. Ellis was
living. She rented one room only. The brothers
rented another. It was alleged by Mrs. Ellis that
the prisoners had stolen his goods and stolen his
wife, and shared her affections between them. The
wife, however, said that in consequence of her hus-
band's ill usage she sold her furniture, and the
charge against the prisoners was totally untrue. Mr.
Mansfield :said there was no evidence against the
prisoners, and therefore they must be discharged.
London, England, 1870-04-20

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, Tues3ay Night.
There is great satisfaction in the provinces with
the resolutions that have been taken as to the
Plebiscite. The Committee of the Senate orders
that the vote shall be taken between the Empire with
order and a Republic. The Right and Left Centres
have joined in support of the Government. The
Extreme factions are broken up.
M. Darn's second note has been officially commu-
nicated to the Roman Government.

The announcement of the Plebiscite will be accom-
panied by an Imperial proclamation, and followed by
a Ministerial manifesto.

The reported increase in the number of the Cabi-
net Ministers is quite unfounded.
l3ouasE, April 19.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :

lippe:rgait
77

-End of month 74 62}
credit Mobilier 275
Transatlantic 197 50
Foncier 1320
Paris Gas 1682 50
Suez Canal 3lO

Cash
Orleans .. 975
Western
Northern ... UK'
Strasburg
Lyons and Mediterrauean
Southern..... 616-14
Sardinian
Austrian 805:1
Lombard 4OBl
North of Spain 63
Saragossa
Roman —

Bank Shares 2830
Ital'an rives 56 SO
Austrian Fives
Ottoman Loan
Do. Debt... 4B 80
Spanish Threes
Homo Debt —
Deferre4

RAILWA"

ITALY.

FORENCE, April 19.
The Opinioine asserts that since the abandonment
of the Candidature of the Duke of Genoa, the
Spanish Government have not entered into negotia-
tions about any other candidate to the Throne, and
that, in fact, all rumours to the contrary have no
foundation whatever.

GREECE-

ATHENS, April 19.

The brigands have taken Mr. Frederick Vyner,
Mr. Herbert, and Mr. Lloyd to a house on the coast,
where they are kept as prisocers, but are well

treated.

The brigands still demand besides a ransom of
20,000 livres an amnesty, which cannot however be
legally granted.

AMERICA.
(By Cable).
NEW YORK, April 19.
The Hamburg and American steamer Silesia
arrived out at noon to-day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 1131 ; tlui highest quotation during the day
was 1131 ; the lowest, 1131.
Sterling Exchange on London
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882
1885
1867

1094
1.124
1111
1101
10Gi
141

10-40
Illinois .
Erie

Cotton—Mid. upland
Potroleum—Standard White
Flour—Extra Stato, $4 50c. to $5 10c. Corn—Old
mixed, $1 15c,
London, England, 1870-04-20

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pronounced by Connoisseurs
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ASK for " LEA and PERRINS' " SAUCE.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS,
and see the names of LEA & PERRINS on all bottles and labels

Agents—Crosse and Blackwell, London, and sold by all Dealers
In Sauces throughout the World.
London, England, 1870-04-20

LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management
of Messrs Mansell).
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, SAMPSON'S WEDDING.
After which at 8, LITTL FAUST: Mr T. Maclagan, M. Marius
Mr Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr Wilmot; Mdlle. Debreux,
Mesdames Lennox Grey, Lawson, Lee, and Emily Soldene.
London, England, 1870-04-20

BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA,
Incorporated by Royal Charter.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a Vacancy has occurred
in the Direction of this Bank by the death of John Ranking, Esq.,
which will be filled up at the ensuing Annual General Meeting.
By the terms of the Deed of Settlement it is required as follows :
" That every Proprietor intending to become a Candidate, or to pro-
pose some other Proprietor as a Candidate for the office of Direc-
tor, must, within Ten days from the time when the advertisement
shall have been inserted, signify by some writing under his or her
hand, to be left within the said Ten days at the Office of the Cor-
poration, either his intention to become a Candidate, or the name
and place of abode of the Candidate intended to bo proposed by
him or her."

Names of Candidates cannot, therefore, be received after the
30th instant.

By order of the Court.
R. W. BRADFORD, Secretary.
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124, Bishopsgate-street within,
London, E.C., April 20, 1870.
London, England, 1870-04-20

WESTMINSTER.

John Sloman, a rough-looking fellow, of about 17,
was brought before the magistrate, charged with the
following disgraceful outrage :—The complainant
said he was standing near his own residence, in King's-
road, Chelsea, when the prisoner came up and, with-
out the slightest provocation, struck him in the m,.,st
sava.;e manner. The defendant said he was first
attacked, but this was proved to be untrue ; and the
magistrate committed him to prison for fourtc.en
days.
London, England, 1870-04-20

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITIITION.

Presidont—Rev. CANON DALE.

()Mammon for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
(pet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard street, E. 0.; Francis Nioholls
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C.
E. W. THOMAS, See., 200, Euston-road, N.W.
London, England, 1870-04-20

Do £lOO Bonds

Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do. Account —
Do £lOO Bonds 74 31
Do. 5 per cent. 1865 47i 8
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1866 7ll

Do Account
Do 4 por Cent., Guaranteed
Do do, Scrip
ustrtan o per Cent Ex 10 Florins
B-Agian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f
Dutch 2} per Cant. Ex. 12 Guil
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....,
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
!Wiwi 5 per Omit. 1851, Ex. ksf 551
Do Account
CLOSING PRICES.
Concols, Money! q4/
Do. Account, May 4 94;

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This DAY).

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John Steptoe, a young man, was charged with
stealing some brass harness fittings, the property of
Messrs. Nardin and Peacock, egg merchants. It
appeared that the harness room of the prosecutors
was forcibly entered and the property taken away.
Fosley, a detective, took the prisoner into custody,
and ascertained that he had offered the stolen articles
for sale to a female named Isaacs in Great Crown-
court, who, however detained them, and gave them
up to the officer. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and
was committed for six months with hard labour.
London, England, 1870-04-20

THE GUN-TAX.

Two items in Mr. Lowe's Budget—that relating
to gun licences and that reducing the sugar duty—
have not given the greatest sat sfaction to
the agricultural classes. An Essex farmer
says the tax on guns would be a reform if
provision were made for exempting fire-arms
carried for the purpose of scaring away birds.
This could easily be done by the farmer, when he
gets his licence, obtaining free certificates for
persons engaged for the purpose mentioned. The
name of each man or boy would be on the
certificate, ' and they would be liable to
punishment if they were in possession of guns
except for the purpose named. The correspondent
goes on to say that in his county there is a feeling
that the old game licences should in some way be
retained as the class of persons who formerly held
them need no relief. No doubt the gun tax will
bring in more than the game licences; but in
many instances it will be from the pockets of the
poor man. The Fieldis decidedly oppose(' to Mr. Lowe's
new gun tax, and thinksit will fall very heavily on bird-
keepers and schoolboys; but the latter difficulty
could be removed by issuing licences for short periods.
A correspondent in the same paper asks, who will
benefit by a reduction of the game licence ? Game
is a luxury, and the rich can afford to pay for it ; or
if it is the property of the holder of the land, it ought
to be preserved for any one who chooses to pay a
pound.
London, England, 1870-04-20

FRACTURED RIBS IN ASYLUMS.

The two deaths at Hanwell and Carmarthen
Asylums a few days ago have caused the Pall Mall
Gazette to institute inquiries as to some of
the cases where patients have died from frac-
tured ribs. It gives fourteen which have
occurred of late a ears, and in some instances
the deaths have been strange ones, not to use a
stronger, but perhaps more truthful expression.
Here is a specimen of the cases mentioned. At Wake-
field, in October, 1808 :—" A patient died, according
to the jury and medical evidence, from natural
causes. Examination showed that two ribs
were fractured on each side. At the
inquest it was suggested that they had been
broken after death, but, as the Commissioners
observed, " the facts disclosed were such as to
account for them in a far more probable way." No
one was punished. Our contemporary is of opinion
that the results of the inquiries held by the Commis-
sioner in Lunacy are of the most unsatisfactory kind.
The witnesses who are able to give good evidence are
as a rule the persons themselves implicated.
The Commissioners themselves say that certain
patients who were examined "impressed us with a
belief that they had been tutored." It is time to con-
sider whether these helpless lunatics do not at least
deserve as much protection as criminals in our prisons
receive as a matter of course. Hanwell Asylum has
obtained an unhappy notoriety, and severe as were the
remarks of the Commissioners the j ournal quoted thinks
they might with advantage have been more so.
It is impossible not to come to the conclusion that
the evidence of the witnesses, doctors, attendants,
patients, indeed all concerned, was so unsatisfactory
as to be worthless, while the attitude of the visitors
is as contumacious and stubbornly shameless an that
of the ex-guardians of St. Pancras.
London, England, 1870-04-20

DESPERATE AFFRAY.

The Japan Herald records the circumstances of
a butchery which occurred at Yokohama on a Sato'
day evening in February, at a restaurant called the
Commercial, kept by a Frenchman, named Pierre
Gamen. Gamen had received instructions to purchase
some Japanese curios for a friend in Europe, who
had remitted the money, which Gamen 113 u,
stowed away in the house, unknown, as he believed, to has
boy, a Japanese. On the evening the household retired
to rest as usual, and all was quiet until about half-Past
one o'clock on Sunday morning. Gamen heard a tap 141
his bedroom door. He sang out, " Who's there ?" and
received a reply from the boy that he wanted to speak to
him. He opened the door, and was passing into
the outer room, when he received a fearful blow from
an adze, which inflicted a severe wound on big
head, struck him on the left arm, cutting him severely
being a powerful man, he closed with his assailant, ana
endeavoured to wrest the weapon from his grasp, receiving
another wound in the attempt. At the same time he
shouted for help, and aroused a woman who was in the
house, who, sendine, forth a succession of screams, alarmed
the neighbours and 'a
European cook, who was sleeping in
an outhouse in the rear of the premises. Arriving on the
scene, Emile, the cook, rused at the Japanese and tried to
get possession of the weapon he had been using with such
deadly effect, while the woman at the same time bela-
boured his head with some bottles that happened to be
in the room. Neariy stunned by the blows, and find-
ing he was losing his hold on his murderous weapon,
he relinquished it, and quickly, drew a knife, with
which he stabbed his opponent, inflicting no less than
seven wounds before he received his coup de grace from the
hands of Emile, who sent the adze crushing through has
skull, felling him dead on the spot. Gamen was lying in
a dangerous condition, but at the time the mail left hopeo
were entertained of his recovery. The money and the
property, which no doubt had excited the cupidity of the
boy, were untouched.
London, England, 1870-04-20

NECKS.

Some surgeon has been kind enough to explain
that the deformity which has saved Rutterford's
neck from the rope can be artificially produced. This
disclosure was no doubt quite proper ; it is now,
indeed, an established principle that the people
cannot prudently be kept from crime through
ignorance ; but, really, the idea of men
making themselves unfit to be hung is very
unpleasant. Of course the information is not
needed in Ireland, where abundant safeguards
against hanging are already provided. But there is
no knowing what might happen in England. The
experiment would very likely be unsafe ; yet the
chance of its being tried is decidedly awkward to
contemplate. The question of substituting some
other machinery seems to require consideration. The
Spectator recommends shooting. It obviates all pain,
and has a most impressive effect.

DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS,

Upwards of three hundred emigrants have left the
East-end of London for a free passage
toCanada under
the auspices of the Family Emigration Society.
Almost all classes of skilled and unskilled workmen,
with their wives and families, were represented in
the batch, and every family had either been reduced
to the utmost destitution, was on the parish rates, or
in a certain way to come upon them. Of the thou-
sand sent out last year by this society all, without
exception, have succeeded, their settlements for the
most part being around Toronto. The society sends
unmarried women to Australia only,
London, England, 1870-04-20

THE CONSERVATIVE BENEFIT BUILDING
SOCIETY. co,,perating with the United Land Company,
Limited. Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, W.C.
INVESTMENTS for capital and savings for all classes of the com-
munity. Five per Cent. interest per annum paid on Shares, and
Four per Cent. per annum on Deposit Department, with power of
withdrawal at fixed periods.
The UNITED L AND COMPANY, Limited, co-operating with
the Conservative Benefit Society. Plots of Freehold Land on sale
in 30 counties. The cost of the land payable in monthly or, other
easy instalments, with or without building advances.
CHARLES LEWIS CIRUNEISEN,
Secretary.
Prospec. uses explanatory of Investment, Land and Building
Departments, free of charge.
London, England, 1870-04-20

THE THEATRES, &c.

PRINCE or WALEs's—At Eight, School. Dearest Mamma. Quite
by Accident
HAYMARKET—At Seven. My Husband's Ghost. At 7.40, New
Men and Old Acres. And No Song No Supper.
LYCEUM—At 7.30, Sampson's Wedding. Little Faust.
ADRM.III.—At Seven, Too Much of a Good Thing. The Promp
ter s Box. My Precious Betsy.
OLYMPIC—At Seven, Frou Fron. The 'Varsity Boat Race, My
Turn Next.
GAIETY—At Seven, The Happy V.llage. Lucky Friday. The
Princess of Trebizoude.
QUERN s—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown.
TRAND—At Seven, Widow's Weeds. Sir George ant a Dragon.
A Fish Out of Water
VAUDEVILLE—For Love or Money. Don Carics. Cupboard Love
ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Frou. La Belle Sauvage
GLOBE—At Seven, Milky White. Robert Macaire.
Brown

Vandyke

WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Picca-
dilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at S; Saturday Moin-
in.;s at 3. Admission, is, Is, 3s.
CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed-
nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 5.30
p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls. ; extra rooms, 6d.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park Open daily (except Sundays)
Admission. ls.• on Mendays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d.
London, England, 1870-04-20

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

IT is reportect that there will be a compromise with
regard to Mr. Newdegate's motion, and that instead
of a House of Commons Committee there will be a
Royal Commission appointed to inquire—not into
the discipline 9f monastic institutions—but into the
conditions upon which they hold property. The
two objects are so utterly different that we can hardly
imagine the member for North Warwickshire
assenting to the substitution of one for the other.
We do not see that Roman Catholics could reason-
ably object to the latter inquiry. Their religious
societies have no legitimate claim to the possession
of property on any other tenure than that under
which property is held by other religious corpora-
tions. We see no reason why a small minority of
Christians should be granted privileges which are
forbidden to the majority. We do not expect that
Mr. Newdegate will be content with this limited
investigation. He is moved, not by any particular
regard for legal equality, but by a deep and implac-
able hatred for monastic institutions, especially
those of the Roman Church. He wishes
to place them on the same footing as
gaols and madhouses, and to subject them to
Government inspection. This is the object which he
has had in view all his life. This was the matter
which the House of Commons debated with such
angry passion shortly before the adjournment for
the recess. In this object we trust that he will
wholly fail.

Our reasons for wishing this are numenus. In the
first place there is a strong argument that no religious
body ought to ba subjected to any disadvantage be-
cause of its religion. There ought to be equal justice
for all religious bodies. The same argument which
woukl commend to public approtal the proposal
to inquire into the acquisition of property by
monastic institutions shpug wile public disapproval
London, England, 1870-04-20

I(ING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn. The Committee earnestly APPEAL
for FUNDS to defray the heavy current expenses. Assistance is
urgently needed. _ _ _ _

J. W. WALDRON, Secretary

NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861.
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of °AMBRIDGE, K.G.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of
the kingdom.
The object of e Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng-
lish education, an practical instruction in the kitchen, house,
and laundry, to lit them for domestic service; and, if not other
wise provided for when they attain 16 years of age, to obtain
suitable situations for them.

The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is
entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.
HENRY KINRSCOTE, Treasurer!
W Ef. Wisvrioic, .Secretary.

Office, 121, Pall mall S. W

'TOMBLESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
I are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
160 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing.

870 children.
£l6 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank,
214, High Holborn, bud 41, Lothbttry, E.C. • and by
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Beeretary.
Ito. 8, Groat QtQQA-etreet, 7.inoolv'a inn Nelda,

On the Chatham Dockyard Extension Works 250
more convicts will be employed as soon as they can bo
selected from the various prisons.

TEE WRITING OF " WAVERLEY."—A party of
young men, while sitting in a house in George-street on a
summer evening, had their attention drawn to a window,
where solitary hand apeared, working without stay or
wearii.,..s at a desk, and tossing down page after page of
MS. upon a rising heap. " I kale same every night," said
young Menzies ; " I can't stand the sight of it when I
am not at my books. Still it goes on unwearied, and so
it will till candles are brought in, and nobody knows how
long after that." It was Walter Scott's hand writing the
last two volumes of " Waverley," seen as he sat in a back
room in No. 30, North Castle-street; long his Edinburgh
residence. Some eight years after its commencement it
was found among old lumber in an attic, and completed
prqk j. 4 Ale.W Weeks.
London, England, 1870-04-20

THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARK ET,
Solo LCSSCC, Mr. Buckstone.

THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clOck, , MY HUSBAND'S GHOST
)1r Clark and Mil; Fitzwilliam.

After which, at 7.40, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES: Mr
Buckstnne, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr ►'ogers, Mr Buck-
stone, jun., Mr Braid; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Miss C
Hill, Mrs E. Fitzwilliam.
Concluding with NO SONG NO SUPPER: Mr Kendal, Mr
Compton, Mr Edward •sborne, Mr Clark; Miss F. Wright, Miss
Fosbroke, Miss F Gwynn°
London, England, 1870-04-20

BRITISH HOME FOR INCURABLES,
Clapham-rise.
nstituted 1861.
PATRONESS.
Her Boyal Highness the Princess of WALES.
TREASURERS.
George Moore, Esq.; Mr. Alderman Gibbons.
This Institution, extending its operations to all parts of the
king iom, provides for those afflicted with incurable diseases a
home for life, with every comfort and medical att, ndance. Patients
are admitted, and annuities of Liu obtained by election.
No person under 'O ) ears of it,;e, nor of the pauper class, is
eligible.
Full particulars and the necessary forms may 13 , procured from
the Secretary. Donations and annual subscriptions are earnestly
solicited. _ _
London, England, 1870-04-20

THE NATIONAL DEBT.

The lingering echoes of the budget discussion
almost all play upon the words " national debt."
The fine surplus of this year has called forth
many noteworthy expressions of opinion that some-
thing - .ought to be done towards diminishing
thb great British burden. Some thinkers are impressed
with theyAlnerican example,,, others hold that debt
reduction would be a "good spec ;" and between the
two classes the reduction party appears to have
attained considerable proportions. It seems likely
that future years will witness a vigorous agitation on
the debt question. One writer calculates that if Mr.
Lowe had devoted his four millions and their interest
to repayment, in eight years he would have paid
off more than £33,000,000, and earned out of interest
another million annually fur his reducing fund. In
six years more he would have paid off another
£33,000,000, and earned a million more for his fund.
In twenty years' time from the commencement of
his operations (say April, 1890), he would have
reduced the debt by more than R 100,000,000; and
his reducing fund, without any additional
burden on the public, would have stood at
£7,000,000. Then the process goes on rapidly. The
second £100,000,000 is swept off in twelve years, the
third in nine, the fourth in seven, the fifth in five. In
a total of 53 years a debt of five hundred millions is
extinguished, and the reducing fund at the end of
that time stands at nineteen millions. If it be
thought needful to keep a National Debt as a form of
public investment, the remaining £300,000,000 might
be retained for this purpose. This writer, it may be
noticed, makes no provision for a war.
London, England, 1870-04-20

The Longford Nationalists are not disposed to
tolerate Mr. Harman King's curious medley of Con-
serrative and Nationalist principles.. They have
asked for explanations. Mr. King may be a Conserva-
tive if he pleases ; but his Conservatism must be Suf-
ficiently elastic to admit of a more pronounced
Nationalist " platform" than that given in his ad-
dress. In that document Mr. King stated that if
the British Legislature failed to do justice to Ireland,
he would pronounce for an Irish Parliament. He
has now found reason to change that view. Another
address has appeared, which contains this sentence :
" From a well-grounded conviction that Irishmen
alone are entitled and competent to regulate the
alfitirs of their native country, I firmly believe that
the time has come when they should claim the
restoration or their native Parliament, and upon that
platform—Home Rule—l boldly take my stand."
There is now no doubt of Mr. Harman's pure
Nationalism. The question is what has become of
his Conservatism ?