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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-02

MONETARY REPORTS—Yesterday.

A quiet feeling has been the characteristic of thg Stock
Exchange markets to-day. The business doing has been
only moderate, and the quotations have been without
material alteration. Consols have been firm, and it pet
c mt. better, at 94, 921 for money, and 94, 921 for the
March account. Reduced and New Three per Cents.,
924, 93. Exchequer Bills, 2s. dis. to 3s. par. India Five
Cents. have been done at 1111, 1111 ; and the Bonds, at
295., 255. par.
The feature in the market for English Railway stocke
bas been the advance of 2i in Great Western, caused by
the announcement that the dividend for the half-year end-
ing December 31st, would be at the rate of £4 4s 6d pet
cent. against 2 per cent. for the first half of 18G9, and 1i
for the preceding half-year. Great Northern A has risen
1, but Caledonian and South Eastern have fallen and
London and Brighton is -A- lower.
There has been less firmness in the money market. The
d mand for accommodation has been less active, and the
supply of capital has been rather more plentiful; at the
same time, however, no bills have heen taken under 3 uer
cent.

The rates. on Italy are rather higher, otherwise Prie'3
tilicw no material change.

The bullion operations at the Bank to-day have com-
prised the purchase of £7,000.
On the whole the tone of the market for foreign stocks
has been healthy, and the movements generally have been
favourable. Argentine (1868) and Turkish (1869) have
risen f, and Guatemala, (1869), New Grenada, Peruvian,
Anglo-Dutch, and Ttirkish (1862), ; but Danubian
(1864), and Spanish have fallen per cent. •
American securities have been dealt in to a fair extent.
Erie shares shares have fallen , Atlantic Bonds and Illinois
Central
Russian scrip is quoted at 3, n prem.
Very little business has been doing in Bank Shares, and
prices have been without material alteration.

Mining Shares have been dealt in quietly, at about vre-
vious quotations.
Telegraph Shares have continued depressed, and British
Indian Submarine have further receded k.
London, England, 1870-03-02

THE TELEGRAPHS.

The new business of the Post Office continues to
assume increased proportions. Every day last week
sheaved a larger numer of telegrams than on any cor-
responding day of the previous week, with the ex-
ception of Sunday. On Sunday the total of mes-
sages declined by 56 but on the other six
days of the week there were respective rises of
319, 408, 73, 140, 159, 168. Notwithstanding this
augmented business, the despatch of messages has
greatly improved in regularity. The per-tentage
sent out between the hours of business has varied
from 83 to 90, whereas in one day in the previous
week it fell to 71.
London, England, 1870-03-02

For Indian Railway Stocks therahasieen a moderate

demand, and prices have been withottt alteration. Cana-
dian shares have been in fair request, at about late rates.
In foreign shares no movement of importance has taken if

place. f
Hooper's Telegraph Hooks have been quiet at * dis..
i prem. Telegraph Construction shares have been fiat
and i lower. India Rubber -.hares have supported pre-
vious quotations.
In miscellaneous s% ;cities the transactions have beell
very moderate. Peninsular and Oriental Steam shard
have fallen about £2, owing to the collision between the;
Bombay and the United States war steamer Oneida. k
The shares of the National Telegraph Company ar• 1

quoted at to 14.
The Ville de Paris has arrived at Brest, from New

York, with 43,500 in specie.
The Bank of Holland has further reduced its rate fro'

4i to 4 per cent.
Silver has been firm, at 604 per ounce. For Mexican
dollars there has been a fair 'demand for China at 59g.
Of the £191,500 brought by the Neva from the Weat
Indies, £145,000 in silver, and:2o%ooo in gold.
The directors of the Great tuxemboUrg Railway Com-
pany announce a dividend of 7s. 6d. per share, being at
the rate of 31 per cent. per annum, against two per cent.
per annum for the corresponding period last year.
At a meeting of the Agricultural Hall Company the
directors' report was adopted, and a dividend at the rata
of 8 per cent. per annum was declared.
The traffic returns of the South-Eastern Railway for
the week ending February Ile present a total of £20,612,
being a decrease of £528, when compared with the Corr•'
sponding week of 1869.
London, England, 1870-03-02

THE WAR OFFICE.

The London correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian says :—" All sorts of rumours are afloat
as to differences of opinion in official quarters re-
garding the details of the new arrangements at the
War Office. It is only certain that the present
system is very unpopular, and very gravely con-
demned by men of all opinions."
London, England, 1870-03-02

THE DIVORCE COURT.

Captain DAWSON-DAMER asked the Secretary of State
for the Home Department whether it might not be practi-
cable, and in the interest of public morality, to impose
some check upon the publication of the proceedings of the
Divorce Court.

Mr. BRUCE said the subject was very fully considered
by this House on a discussion of the Divorce Court Bill in
1859. On the recommendation of the late Sir Cresswell
Cresswell a clause was proposed which enabled the judge
on his discretion to hear cases with closed doors, but after
full discussion by this House the clause was rejected.
The House thought that, on the whole, public morality
was a gainer rather than a loser by publicity. (Hear,

HE THIRD BRIGADE AT ALDERSHOTT.
Mr. SIMONDS asked the Secretary of State for War if it
was intended to re-establish the Third Brigade of Infantry
at Aldershot, which had been broken up during the winter
months; and, if not, whether the brigade-major was not
entitled to some consideration, seeing that the necessary
expenditure of such officer entailed upon him a loss in
amount of more than his regimental pay and staff allow-
London, England, 1870-03-02

WESTMINSTER.

A YOUTHFUL AND EXPERT PICKPOCKET.—Louisa
Pitt, Who at first gave the name of Shore, aged 15,
was charged with picking pockets in the South
Kensington Museum, and stealing a purse of Bs. 9d.
from the person of Amy Gardener.

The 0101201 was committed oh the Bth February,
London, England, 1870-03-02

THE NAVAL RETIREMENT SCHEME.

For years despairing officers have looked forward
to the scheme developed on Monday night by Mr.
Childers. Grievances have been entertaine4
by preceding Governments, and a patchwork
.ort of system of remedies applied. Now,
however, the First Lord of the Admiralty
has really considered the demands of all branches
and grades:: The substitution of the new plan of
promotion and retirement for the old will entail an
increased cost of £54,000 for the coining year,
but this extra expense will be reduced year
by year until a saving is effected instead ;
and in twenty or twenty-five years the annual
amount gained to the country will be no fess than
from £300,000 to £350,000. The evil of the
unemployed officers has been met by a plan
of compulsory retirement at certain ages
for all ranks. On the active list at present there are
3,150 officers, of whom there is employment for only
1,804. In a short time the number of officers
will be about adequate to the demands of
the service. An increase of pay will
thus be available for those ranks that most
need it, of whom the warrant officers, are
especially remembered. Mr. Childers dwelt on the
fact of his having studied tha three great desiderata,
efficiency, economy, and contentment. Whether
these results are obtained, or likely to be' attained,
the voice of the navy will soon decide.
London, England, 1870-03-02

UNITF.ItSITY TESTS.

A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette com-
plains, and the Gazette endorses the complaint, that.
the question of University Tests seems only too
likely to drop through this year. • Mr.- Gladstone
gave a favourable answer to the deputations which
waited upon him to demand. the abolition of Univer-
sity Tests. Some action in regard to them was pro-
mised in the Queen's Speech ; and we have had every
reason to hope that Government was deter-
mined at last to take up the subject in
earnest. Hitherto, however, it has made
no sign. Whilst questions as compulsory
pilotage have received all clue attention, such a
sample bill as that which would be required for the
abolition of University Tests remains in the back-
ground. The correspondent suggests that the
Government are anxious not to pledge themselves to
the principle of abolishing. tests in England for fear
they should alarm the susceptibilities of the Irish
members in regard to the Catholic university in
Ireland. The Gazette, however, - rejects such an
assumption as unworthy of Mr. Gladstone and his.
Government.
London, England, 1870-05-07

CAUTION,

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registered a TRADE MARK, consisting of the words " The
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henceforward every article of clothing manufactured by them will
have a label or ticket attached to it, with the said trade mark
printed thereon. All persons are hereby cautioned against imitat-
ing the said Trade Mark.
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For trades and addresses see following advertisement.

MOSES and SON, Merchant Tailors.
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MOSES and SON, Linen and Woollen
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r MOSES and SON, Hatters and Hosiers.
ALI •

MOSES and SON, Boot and Shoe Manu
facturers.

ir MOSES and SON'S Rules for Self-Measure,
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E MOSES and SON'S List of Prices, post free.

E MOSES and SON'S Fashion Sheet, post free,

M-14 MOSES and SON send Patterns, post free.
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JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder;
gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay,
and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d.—
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London, England, 1870-05-07

THE SUN, LONDON SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 73 1870.

SHAR

THE WEEKLY PRESS.
THE PLOT AND THE PLEBISCITITIL

RAILWAYS-ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

The Saturday Review says that the distiust with which
the news of a fresh plot against Napoleon 111, was at first
received shews the strength of the popular belief in tho
completeness of M. 01livier's conversion. A month ago a
similar announcement would have commanded general
assent. The extreme Republican journals might have
attributed the discovery to the inventive ingenuity of the
police ; but with the great majority of the public the
character of the Cabinet would have been a sufficient
guarantee of the truth of the statements put forward by
their authority, 'To-day the fact that M. 011ivier is
Keeper of the Seals is not regarded as furnishing any
such security. It is assumed as a matter of course that a
politician who undertakes the part of an Imperialist
Minister will be ready to evolve a plot out of his own con-
sciousness whenever su.th a disclosure appears opportune.
So far as the results of the plebiscitum are affected by
this discovery ,the Emperor will be the gainer; and if
there are any rural districts in which the peasantry are
too indolent to go to the poll wheh exhorted and urged to
de; so by the officials; they may perhaps be driven thither
by this new evidence of the bloodthirsty tendencies of the
Republican party. That any man possessed of political
principles, or even of political instincts, should allow
himself to be influenced by such an event is highly hn-
probable, but then neither political principies nor politica
instincts are sufficiently common among the peasantry or
the bourgeoisie of France to make it a matter of much mo-
ment how those who do possess them vote. It is fair to
say, however, that the intention of voting affirmatively
seems to be shared by more Liberals than
we should have thought possible,- and M. Guizot's letter
will no doubt do the Government very substantial service
in this direction. We can understand that men who.
after abandoning all expectation of seeing Parliamentary
institutions restored to Erance in their own lifetime, have
had their hopes at once excited and gratified by M.
011ivier's advent to power, should be loth to confess that
they have been deceived. But we are not the less con-
vinced that the ratification of Parliamentary changes bs
anything else than a Parliamentary vote is a mere deht
si3n, and that the most consistent course which a Liberal
voter can take 14 to bola aloof in contemptuous
abstention, leaving it to these :who likely to hold their
liberties as tenante-at-will of the Emperor to renew the
contract at the polling-booth.
London, England, 1870-05-07

THE VALUE OF MONEY.

The Clearing House returns, observes the Economist, shew
unmistakeably that the trade of the country is augment-
ing. This increase, supposing it to be maintained, is a
steady cause operating day by day to increase the value
of money, and is 'therefore more potent than any other
cause. We do not, however, expect any very marked
change at present, because there are three counteracting
causes which are coming into operation, and which will
tend to depress the value of money as much as the aug-
mentation of Wade tends to raise it. First, the money
market, as we have several times pointed out, has been
unusually dear, in consequence of Mr. Lowe's new mode
of taxation. A large sum of money has accumulated in
the Bank of England, who are not so anxious to make use
of it as the world out of doors. But the effect of this
cause will now tend to diminish. Government will soon
be paying, more than they are receiving. Ultimately the
Bank of England will not be unusually rich but unusually
poor; and then we shall see the reverse effect
from Mr. Lowe's operations. Secondly—what
is even more material—bullion tends to come
here ; and unless we turn the exchanges b 7 some
large loan largely paid in cash, probably bullion will
continue to come here. Thirdly—Any tendency to a rise
in the value of money would at once tend to bring con-
siderable sums from abroad, where the rate of interest
is still low, and where capital is still seeking employ_ment.
The £52,000,000 of bullion now in the Bank of France
chews how large is the amount which might thus be
poured in upon us. On these grounds we do not expect
money at present to risein value, though any large
foreign loan, or any considerable operation affecting the
exchanges, might raise it as the American speculation
actually did in the spring of last year. But such excep-
tional causes act only for a moment. What remains is
that trade is reviving, and that a revival of trade always
in the end brings a good rate for money, though it cannot
always do so immediately.
London, England, 1870-05-07

ANOTHER ASIAN MYSTERY.

If there be as much meaning concealed under
the names of the characters in Lothair as com-
mon rumour says there is, we have
looming in the imminent future a trash
gunpowder plot. One of the most interesting
characters is named Catesby—Monsignor Catesby.
If all the names of his characters have
a hidden meaning, can we avoid the con-
clusion that while calling one of them Catesby,
Mr. Disraeli smelt gunpowder ? else why so peculiar
and yet so well known a name ? But this conclusion
involves us in a further and very serious
difficulty. People will say that all the
more prominent characters in "Lothair" are intended
to be taken as personifying living- persons, and
that Monsignor Catesby is intended as a pour-
trayal of a well known and no lass admired
priest in London, Monsignor Capel, and in one
place in the novel this mysterious name is actually
printed Capel instead of Catesby. Surely the ex-
Premier does not intend his readers to adopt both
the conclusion of which we first spoke and its
sequence—that there is a coming gunpowder plot and
that Monsignor Capel is to take part in the conspiracy.
London, England, 1870-05-07

THE PUBLIC DEBT.

Mr. Cunrrr asked the Secretary to the Treasury
whether the statement of the capital of the funded and
unfunded debt issued on April sth, in which it was stated
that the total debt of the country on March 31st was
£801,406,563, includes the five millions of stock which
was created for the purchase of the telegraphs.
Mr. STANSFELD stated that the seven million of stock
for the purchase of the telegraphs was included in the
SUM.
London, England, 1870-05-07

THE SUEZ CANAL.

A. very important improvement is to be made in
connection with the Suez Canal. Thanks to the
public spirit of the Khddive, the coasts of the Red
Sea are to be provided with lighthouses
similar to those already erected at Damietta,
Burloo, and Rosetta in the Mediterranean
at the approaches at Port Said. The
Viceroy has given orders for the immediate construc-
tion of two first-class lighthouses, one of which, 180
feet high, will be placed at Saouakin, and furnished
with a revolving light, having a range of thirty
miles. The other will be at'll._asgarib, one day's sail
from Suez, being 150 ft. in height, and having a fixed
light of the first order. It is at once apparent that
this will confer an immense advantage on ship-
owners, and greatly facilitate the navigation of the
canal, which has already exceeded expectation. The
change which it islikelyto make by the substitution
of steamers for sailing ships is being felt in the ship-
ping trade. A steamer can make three round voyages
from Calcutta or Bombay in twelve months, and thus
each steamer will displace three sailing ships of equal
tonnage. All the steamers lying up unsold have
passed from the builders' hands, and those that were
built on speculation were sold before finished.
London, England, 1870-05-07

JAPAN.

OICAIIAMA, April 10.
The Flying Squadron has arrived here,

AMERICA.

WASHINGTON, May 6.

An excited debate took place yesterday evening
in the House of Representatives, on the bill provid-
ing for Government grants of land in and of the
Northern Pacific Railroad. Several. members strongly
denounced that section of the bill which restricts the
company to use American rails, as the remit of a,
corrupt combination of land speculators and high
tariff members.

PRINCE RUPERT'S LAND.

OTfAWA, May 6.

The Premier has announced in the Dominion
House of Commons that the boundaries described in
the Manitoba (Prince Rupert Land) Bill had been
changed so as to include Portagel prairie, thereby
making the population of the new province of Canada
17,000.
London, England, 1870-05-07

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 7. 1870.

MAZZINIAN AGENTS IN ROME.

A correspondent at Rome writing on May Ist, says :
"I am sorry to have to record the renewal of the at-
tempts of the Mazzinian agents in Rome at wholesale as-
sassination of the Papal troops. On Thursday night,
at the Cimarra barracks, near Santa Maria Maggiore, the
sentry on guard was alarmed by a slight scratching noise
in one of the vaults below the building. He gave
the alarm to his comrades, and a sortie was instantly
made, headed by two of the officers of the Legion.
On descending to the vaults they found that
the mine which had been made in 1867 by Cucchi and his
agents with the intention of blowing up the troops had
been renewed and extended, and that a large
barrel of gunpowder had been placed exactly under the
central arch of the building ready for use. A pick, shovel
lanthorns, and some engineering tools were scattered about
the vault, which had been hastily abandoned by the-
worthy successors of Monti and Tognetti. It is
supposed they were alarmed at their work
just in time to escape by the subterranean
passages with which this district of Rome abound.
A more infernal project it would be difficult to imagine,
as the Cimarra is the depot for the young recruits, and
for the School of Cadets, few of whom are more than
eighteen or twenty, and who are all of respectable, and
many of noble French families. The gendarmerie ar-
rested three Milanese yesterday on suspicion of com-
plicity; but their examinatson has not yet taken place."
London, England, 1870-05-07

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, May 6.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, drove
out yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty drove out this morning.

The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday, attended
by Lieut.-Col. Teesdale.
The Princess of Wales, attended by the Coun-
tess of Morton, drove out yesterday.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.

PARIS, May 7.

The Official Journal of this morning confirms the
seizure of the Siecle, the Revell, and Avenir for pub-
lishing an alleged proclamation of the Emperor of
the year 1848.
The paper adds :—" The Government leaves to
the honest feeling of the public to judge this trick,
and rightly to appreciate the same."
BOURSE, May 6.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :

1 per Cent.
3 per Cents 74 60
End of month.- 74 75
Credit Itlobilier ~. 230
Transatlantic 197 50
Credit Foncier 1307
Paris Gas 1680
Suez Canal 290

Bank Shares 2790
It&Fan wives 57 25
Austrian Fives
Ottoman Loan
Do. Debt 5O --
Spanish Threes 29 25
Home Debt —
Deferred
Cash
Orleans
Western
Northern
Strasburg
uyons and Mediterranean
Southern.... 6lO
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman.

RAIL WA'

790
385

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, May 6.

It is authentically asserted that a Note of Cardinal
Antonelli has been read by the Papal Nuncio here to
Count Beust, and that the latter received a copy at
the same time. The note of the Cardinal is an an-
swer to the Austrian Note of the 10th February re-
ferring to the Council. This Note had been ad-
dressed to Rome independently of the steps taken by
other Foreign Cabinets in the same matter at the
time when the Canones Ecclesix were about to come
on for discussion. Cardinal Antonelli, in the reply,
starts from the Roman stand-point, and displays a
certain feeling of annoyance, probably resulting
from a full appreciation of the Austrian Note, which
caused the subsequent diplomatic steps of other
Powers.

To-morrow the Official Gazette will publish the
appointment of the State Councillor Ilolzgether as
chief of the Ministry of Finance, likewise the ap-
pointments of Herren Petrino and Widman, both
Deputies to the Reichsrath as Ministers respectively
of War and Agriculture.
London, England, 1870-05-07

Dr, 4i per Gent., 1860
D'y 3 per Cent., 1859
D., 6 per Cent., 1862 ........... ... ....
Dc inglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bomb 93k
Do. do. £B4 15s. d 0.......
Do., 186 G, £lOO Bonds
Do. do £B4 15s. do. —
Do Nicolas Railway 6B} 7j
Sariliuian b per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Con . —
Do. Acc/.unt
*
Do. 1867 29-1
Do. Account
Do. New Deferral ... ....... .
Do. Passive —
Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded —
Do. Account - —
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864 —
Do do, 1868
Turkish 6 per Cent
D., Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
D • Account -
-Do •C10(' Bonds —
Do G per Cent., 1862
Do. Account
11,, £lOO Bonds ..
Do. 5 per cent. 1865 4Bk 9
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1866 72* 3
Do Account
Do 1 por Cent., Guaranteed .... ...
Do do, Scrip —
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —
Do 6 per Cont. 1804
ay 6 per (1ent..1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Anginal' o per Cent Ex 10 Florin, ......
Belgian. 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2i per Oeui. Ex, 12 G 0,;... —

Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates,
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
4%1W, sper Cent. 1851, Ex. 25f ..
Do Account
CLOSING PRICES.
Consols, Money 931 4
Do. Account, June 1 i?4l I

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(THis DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Lizzie Connell, a well-dressed unfortunate, was
charged, before Mr. Knox, with loitering in George-
street, Langham-street, for an unlawful puriose.
From the evidence of M. Louis Janman, of 4,
George-street, Langham-street, it appeared that
about half-past one that morning he was returning
home, and saw the prisoner trying the door of his
house, and watched her, and saw her try several
doors. He continued to watch the prisoner, but so
that she should not know him again he hopped so as
to make it appear that he was lame, and having de-
tained her until a constable arrived he gave her into
custody. A constable produced a blank key ready
for filing out, and said the prisoner was a dissipated
person. Mr. Knox committed the prisoner, who
pretended to faint, for three months, with hard
labour.
London, England, 1870-05-07

NAPOLEON 111. ON PLEBISCITES.

Napoleon the Third is not the first great man who
has found his written words rise up in judgment
against him. Rulers of States; whether on thrones
or in cabinets, should certainly possess either
very keen foresight or very long memories, if
they are in the habit of committing their views to
paper. Unluckily, the prisoner of Ham did not
forme the Imperial necessities of 1870, or he "DAM

The Memorial Diplomatique refers to the dispatch
of the Marquis de Bonneville, in which he brought
under the notice of the French Government
the desire of the French prelates at Rome
to take part in the Plebiscite, and re-
quested permission to collect their votes at the
Embassy. The Memorial has been informed that
the Emperor's Government has fully appreciated the
patriotic sentiments of the Episcopate, but at the
same time has not deemed it expedient to
establish a precedent which, by making an exception
in favour of the clergy, might give rise to erroneous
interpretations. French laymen residing abroad are
not authorised to participate in the Pl6biscite by
recording their votes at the legaaons and consulates
of France.
London, England, 1870-05-07

POLL CLERKS.

Mr. KEKEWICH asked the Postmaster-General whether
the bill which he proposed to introduce relating to the
procedure at Parliamentary elections would contain any
provision for regulating the fees payable to returning
officers, and deputy sheriffs, and poll clerks, and whether
his attention had been directed to the stibject
The Marquis of HARTINGTON said he hoped the hon.
gentleman did not wish him to anticipate the statement
he should have to make to the House next Monday. The
subject referred to had not been considered by the corn.
inittee, but he was much obliged-by his calling his atten•
tion to the matter.
London, England, 1870-05-07

LONDON BURGLARIES.

When the public who find the enormous police
rates levied for the protection of their property, feel
it necessary to express an opinion that they do not
get that which they pay for, the authorities at
Whitehall become unduly sensitive. The numerous
burglaries that have lately remained undetected by
cne metropolitan police force have naturally drawn
'forth strong strictures both on the part
'of the press and the ratepayers. The prin-
cipal of these robberies have been com-
mitted, not ia back and out-of-the-way places,
but on large premises and in open thoroughfares.
For instance, the daring attenibpt at Mr. Atten-
borough's, jeweller, in Fleet-street, the robbery
on Wednesday, at Lady Margaret Beaumont's, in
Piccadilly, of goods to the trifling amount of
£lO,OOO, the recent robberies at Lady Napier's
and the American Minister's—but need we multiply
cases ? It appears that the Daily Telegraph published
an account of a burglary at Mr. \Voodgate's well-
known curiosity shop, which was erroneous. Upon
this Colonel Henderson builds the oppor-
tunity of informing that paper that during
the six months ending 31st Deoember, 1869,
compared with the previous six months, there was a
diminution of serious crimes to the amount of 13 per
cent. Of course the Whitehall authorities cannot
be expected to say what diminution there will
be in the ensuing six months; but a few more
" hauls" such as that at Lady Margaret Beau-
mont's will soon make up
in the quantity of
property stolen for a diminution in the number of
cases, tolerably large though the percentage may be.
London, England, 1870-05-07

LICENSED HAWKERS.

Mr. R. DUFF asked the Secretary of State for the Home
Department if he would lay upon the table of the House
the regulations the Government intended to enforce for
the registration of hawkers when the licence on that class
was abolished.

Mr. BRUCE replied that if it were the pleasure of the
House to accept the recommendations of the Government,
he should not proceed by regulation but by a bill.
London, England, 1870-05-07

LEGAL EDUCATION.

In a paper read at the Juridical Society on the
proper object and constitution of a legal University
or Council of Legal Education, Sir George
Young said that a commission, something of
the nature of the Civil Service Commission,
was wanted, which would fix the curriculum of study,
appoint the examiners, and give certificates—such
certificates to be necessary qualifications for call or
admittance. Upon this commission it was, he con-
sidered, unnecessary and undesirable to place men
merely as representatives of the profession or of the
nroffesional. societies—the work to be done
London, England, 1870-05-07

THE BUDGET.

Mr. G. MILLES asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whether, in the promised permission to sprout barley, so
that the operation be conducted within a quarter of a
mile of a kiln, he will exclude the words " hop oast " from
the definition of "kiln," without which exclusion the per-
mission would be practically nullified to a large number
of farmers in hop-growing counties.
The CnANcELLoR of the ExcnzQuE4 said he had no
doubt " hop oast " was a kiln, and ha feared it would be
attended with great danger to except it, as proposed by
the hon. gentleman. He was sorry that farmers in hop-
growing counties would suffer in consequence, but he
could not agree to do as the hon. gentleman desired.
London, England, 1870-05-07

SPORTING INTEL LIGENCF.

NEWMARKET MEETING.—YESTE RD AT.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.
Void.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS.

Igerna c
Lady Grant
Little Princess

HANDICAP PLATE.

Playmate
Lady Ilighthorn
Enffeld

Nine ran.
NEWMARI Ed:T STAKES.

Nobleman
Demidoff

Champion

Four ran.
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Cocoa Nut .
Old Sam
Ti:;-Bit

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Seven ran.
HANDICAP PLATE OF 200 SOVS.

Musket • .....
Lady Blanche f .. 2
Miss Polly
London, England, 1870-05-07

THAMES.

Dennis Magrath, an Irish labourer, was brought
before Mr. Lushington, charged with committing
several impudent robberies. On the previous after-
noon the prisoner entered a beer-house, No. 48,
Catherine-street, St. George-in-the-East, and par-
took of some beer. He then went into the yard
behind the house and stole some wearing apparel. A
woman named Maria Blaumberg, the owner of the
leaving shop, then produced a pillow case and table-
cloth, on which she had advanced a shilling. The pri-
soner returned soon afterwards and produced two
aprons, which he left on the counter. One of the
aprons was identified by Juiia Sullivan. The pri-
soner pleaded guilty, and the magistrate sent him to
prison for three months.
London, England, 1870-05-07

THE THEATRES, &c.

HAYMARKET—At Seven. No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book.
And My Husband's Ghost.
PRINCE OF WALES'S—At 7.30, Quite by Accident M.P. Dearest
Mamma.
LYCEUM—At 7.30, Breaking the Spell. Little Faust.
ADELPHI.—At Seven, Too Much of a Good Thing. the "'romp
ter's Box. The Enchanted Wood.
OLYMPIC—At Seven, Frou Frou. The 'Varsity Boat Race, My
Turn Next.
GAIETY—At Seven, The Happy V.llage. Lucky Friday. The
Princess of Trebizonde.
QUEEN'S—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown.
STRAND—At Seven, Widow's Weeds. • Sir George and a Dragon.
A Fish Out of Water
VAUDEVILLE—For Love or Money. Don Carlos.
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, Is, 2s, 35.
CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3 ; 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, Is. ; extra rooms, Cd.
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London, England, 1870-05-07

ANNEXATION.

It has generally been thought that the Senate of
the United States would not pass the treaty for the
annexation of San Domingo. The Washington cor-
respondent of the Philadelphia Ledger is, however, of
a diffbrent opinion. He believes that, after all, the
acquisition will be made. "In a conversation be-
tween the President and others, it is given out that
the President stated there can be no doubt of the
annexation of St. Domingo to the United States;
that in the last week some seven or eight
Senators had concluded to vote for annexation;
and, were it put to a rote at once, a two-
thirds vote would be had in its favour, with one
or two votes to spare." This intelligence is very
different from previous reports; but it is thought in
other quarters that there is some prospect of tho
bargain being .struck.
London, England, 1870-05-07

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY.

The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack at
five o'clock.

The Inverness County, &c., Boundary Bill passed
through committee. _ .

The Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Supplemental Bill,
and the County Courts (Buildings) Bill were read a third
time and passed.

Their lordships then adjourned at twenty minutes psi
five.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FnmAy.
The Speaker took the chair at five minutes before four
o'clock.

TRAMWAYS BILLS
The second reading of the Tramways Bill was postponed
until next Friday.

• GREECE.

Mr. OTWAY laid on the table the correspondence of the
Government with the Greek Government with respect to
the late murders by brigands.

POLITICAL PRISONERS.
The O'CoNon DON asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, when the Commission of Inquiry
into the condition and treatment of the political prisoners
will be issued ; and whether he can state what is to be the
scope of that inquiry, and by whom it is to be con-
ducted.

Mr. BBIICE said he hoped that the Commission for an
inquiry into the condition of the political prisoners would
open in the course of a few days. It would inquire into
the complaints made by the prisoners themselves, and also
those of their friends as to the treatment and the diet that
was given them. It would consist of two gentlemen
having the special confidence of the Irish people, and of
two English gentlemen, and would be presided over by
Lord Devon.
London, England, 1870-05-07

HUDSON'S BAY.

Viscount MILTON asked the Attorney-General whether
the Act of William 11. and Mary, "for confirm-
ing to the Hudson's Bay Company their privileges and
trades," was not limited to a period of seven years, long
since expired.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that the Act of William
11. and Mary did limit the period for seven years, and the
noble lord was quite right in supposing that period had
long expired. (Great laughter.)
London, England, 1870-05-07

JUNIOR ATHEN2EUM. Notice is Hereby
Given, that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of this
CLUB will be hold at the Club House, 116, Piccadilly, on TUES-
DAY, 101 h May next, at Four o'clock p.m., PETER M•LAGAN,
Esq., M.P., Trustee, in the Chair.
By older of the Committee.
GEORGE B. WRIG liT, F.S.A , Secretary.
London, England, 1870-05-07

GREENWICH INDIGNANT.

The borough which has the honour to be repre-
sented by the Prime Minister, has been giving vent
to its indignation at not being allowed to listen to
Mr. Murphy's instructive lectures. Greenwich
and Woolwich folks have held an " indigna-
tion meeting," numbering, it is said, 2,000,
and they demand a parliamentary inquiry as to what
they term the recent suppression of the right of
public meeting by a large force of police in the
town. One gentleman declared his belief, seconded
by cries of "No, no," and followed by immense cheer-
ing, that had not Mr. Gladstone been one o f their mem-
bers no such oppression would have been attempted. As
to this last expression of belief, what would they
have ? Would they rather have Murphy than
Gladstone ? Is is that while they do not love the
great statesman less they have come to love the
great firebrand more ? Anyhow the peace has to be
preserved, even in Greenwich.
London, England, 1870-05-07

THE NATIONAL . GALLERY.

Mr. BENTINCK asked the right hon. member for the
University of Cambridge whether the Trustees of the
British Museum were aware that an important sale of
engravings by Marco AntOnio was about to take place at
Frankfort on the 17th instant, and whether they have
applied to the Treasury for authority to purchase at the
market value such samples as were not contained in the
National Collection.
Mr. WALPOLE said the attention of the trustees had not
been called to the matter at present, but a special meeting
was convened for Tuesday next to take the matter into
consideration.
London, England, 1870-05-07

MAY.

The Saturday Review says that the tendency of the pre-
sent time is towards the abolition of the seasons. We
turn night into day and winter into summer. Winter is
no longer a time in which locomotion becomes perceptibly
more difficult and much social intercourse impracticable.
A generation or two back a country gentleman underwent
a period of partial confinement as soon as the roads be-
came bad and the nights long. We have changed all
that, and, except for a few trifling inconveniences, we can
pursue our pleasure and our business in November as
well as in May. The natural consequence is that most of
the old poetry of the seasons strikes us as exaggerated
and absurd. No one who lives in London can really be
much affected by the arrival of the spring. The weather
may or may not be a little More agreeable, but the fact
that daylight is beginning to invade the sacred hour of dinner
probably gives. greater annoyance than can be counter-
balanced by the appearance of a few dirty green leaves.
Emotion at so trifling a change is altogether out of the
question ; and, except a few market gardeners and
fruiterers, who have to struggle against the ordinary
course of
nature, few of us.pay much attention to the ex-
ternal symptoms of the season. Civilisation in this, as in
other cases, tends at first sight to make life more monoto-
nous.,
If the world could be made into a perfect sphere,
and its orbit become accurately circular' we should hail the
change with enthusiasm. By a variety of skilful appliances,
we smooth over the great contrasts of life, and succeed
in gliding gradually and without a shock from one stage
to another. The Sun rises and sets over London as else-
where, but if anybody happens to witness these pheno-
mena, he regards them with supreme indifference, because
he has elaborately prepared himself to be as independent
as may be of sunlight.

Tin Edinburgh Courant reports a conference of
farthers and papermakers which was held in the offices of
the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture on Wednesday, with
reference to the growth of fibre forpapermanufactureAlarge
number of plants, including bent, broom, thistles, nettles,
ttc., were mentioned as being suitablehbut difficulties were
expressed in the way of growing these to the extent neces-
sary for manufacturers. Straw was spoken of as being
the material best adapted for the purpose, if it could be
trarehased at a sufficiently cheap rate.
The will of Mr.. Edward Stanley, of Cross Hall,
Lancaster was proved under £140,000 personalty ' by the
Earl of Dartrey, the testator's son-in-law, and his son.
His real estate, and most of his personal estate, he leaves
to his son Edward absolutely. The testator was deputy-
lieutenant for Lancaster, aLd a younger branch of the
'family of the Earl of Derby. The will c,f Mr. 'Frederick
yVibithirechas just been proved under £20,000: Accord.
,tu the Illustrated 4tope km left to twelve choritsble
WHititi,oll4 locraw Qi 'NAM .
London, England, 1870-05-07

THE RED RIVER

►Sir CHARLES ADDERLEY asked the Under Secretary of
State for the Colonies what information the Government
had received relating to the settlement of the Red River
affairs and the admission of that territory as a province
of the Dominion of Canada.

Mr. MONSELL said he had stated yesterday that the
negotiations with the Government of Canada and the Red
River delegates had closed, and he had to-day the
satisfaction of stating that a bill was passing through
the House for the ratification of the agreement.
The expedition, therefore, would be one of
peace. It was proposed to constitute a new province, to
be called Monatoga, which would have all the usual privi-
leges, and be represented by two members in the House of
Legislature.
London, England, 1870-05-07

ASSESSMENT OF RAILWAYS AND CANALS.

It is often asked why railway and canal com-
panies are not made to pay their full share of local
taxation, and certainly when we are officially told
that the corporation of Birmingham are
now losing £3,330 annually in consequence of this
exemption, it would appear that such a cor-
porate grievance, which necessarily concerns
the taxpayers who have to provide for all
local improvements in our corporate towns, demands
effectual redress. A draft bill with this object has
been adopted by a conference of municipal authori-
ties held in London, on Thursday.
London, England, 1870-05-07

LANDLORD LIFE IN IRELAND.

Mr. D'Arcy Irvine; whose butler was recently shot at;
and who has written dii/ers strange epistles of various
kinds, sends to the Dublin Mail a striking account of
landlord life in Ireland. He says that his two
hundred tenants guard his castle and park
night and day; and , all are to assemble
on the ringing d the castle bell. "My castle is so built
that six men can contrifirid all round it, and could shoot
nny number of assailants without being open to any
danger or risk themselves. In fgeti the castle
was besieged before, and the defensive works are even
snore improved now than formerly, and, by building up
the windows, could stand a siege of cannon, as the walls
are from tell to five feet. thick, built of the
most solid possible masonry. I enclose the copies
Of notices which are placarded over the district to my
tenants, the public, and t4e Ribbonmen ; and I have
received from the Messrs. Rigby ail ample stock of the
best revolvers and Snider rifles:" One of the notices
referred to is addressed to the public, and runs thus :
" In consequence of threatening letters having been re•
ceived, and an attempt to put the threat into execution,
undertaken by two assassins, Castle Irvine and the park
have been put into as state of siege ; and the public are
requested and cautioned nit to enter the grounds, as I
have no idea of using any politeness, but-intend to have
the first shot.—HENRY MERVIN D'ARCt IRVINE:" The
other notice is to the Ribbonmen, warning them that no
quarter will be given.
London, England, 1870-05-31

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL CASTLE, May 29.
The queen went out yesterday morning with Princess
Beatrice.
In the afternoon her Majesty, attended by the non. Eva
Macdonald. drove out.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday morning.

In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales dined
with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Stafford
Flonse. In attendance were the Countess of Morton and
L ieu Col. Teesdale.

ASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-DAY.
he Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi's
dinner and evening party, to meet his Majeity the King
of the Belgians and H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge,

Lady Isham's dance at 12, Upper Brook-street, Mayfair.
The Countess of Caledou's ball postponed from yesterday.
Mrs Goodman's first dance.
The first Guards' Club annual dinner at Willis's Rooms.
The 18th Hussars' annual dinner at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate,street, at eight p.m. precisely.
London, England, 1870-05-31

TOO MUCH COTTON AND TOO LITTLE.

CORN:

From the accounts of the Southern papers, in relation
to the prospect of the crops on the second week in May,
it seems that the universal complaint at some points is
that too much hunt has been planted in cotton and too
little in corn, so much so as to warrant the prediction that
from present appearanceir " cotton seed will have to take
the place of corn for man and beast next fall and winter."
This is unfortunate. Before the var it was the great mis-
take of the South to be obliged to buy from year to year
the actual necessaries of life and rely for payment thereof
upon the growing staple, and when ,the crash came she
was like an unprovisioned garrison, filled with brave men
with empty stomachs. The South must rely more upon
her awn fields for her breadatuffs and provisions and less
upon the grain and bacon of the great West. If a lesser
breadth of cotidn be planted the price of the staple will
be correspondingly increased, in consequence of a dimin-
ished supply, and in any event; provided in the meantime
plenty of corn and grain be planted, they will have plenty
of food for man and beast without paying five-fold for the
same to the West and California. The danger of the
South in the future lies in having too much cotton and too
little corn.—New York Herald.
London, England, 1870-05-31

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.

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to its pristine hue, no matter at what age.
GOSNE 1.1. and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of
the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder-
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London, England, 1870-05-31

BLACKWOOD ON LOTHAIR.

The Telegraph denounces Blackwood's criticism on
" Lothair " as the most ungrateful production that ever
illustrated the caprice of party men, and the fate reserved
for all great natures who lend their talents to faction. A.
hundred times in those same pages, the ability and
eloquence, the policy and labours of " the leader of the
Tory party " have been lauded in terms which were no
doubt extravagant. They discovered nothing to blame,
these time-serving critics, in their master's books, or their
master's blood when he led them over the ruins of Mr.
Gladstone's. Deform Bill to power and pelf. They
were silent enough when he ruled the coun-
try as Premier, entertaining Royalty, and seated,
by his own audacious genius, in heights from
which his splendour warmed the ranks to which
he had lent the use of his brains ; but the creatures
which thus plague a lion that has not lost his strength
may yet find themselves taught decency. Mr. Disraeli's
career is not ended ; and some once numbered in the
ranks of his "party" have perhaps shewn him a little
prematurely what fate is reserved among them for great
wen worn out in alien duties. He cannot alter his name
and extraction, nor take back the lavish gifts of eloquenet
end generalship with which he has, in past years, en-
riched their losing cause ; but he may find before his
close the occasion for a " noble penitence;" and, if that
occasion come, to seize it would be but a just and honour-
able revenge, by which he might, perhaps, teach those
who stand by " Church and State" a little more caution,
reverence, and decorum, together with that which Jew
and Gentile alike understand by the " grand old name of
gentleman."
London, England, 1870-05-31

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