biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-25

RAIL WAYS.-LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS

at Birkenhead lOO 91 93
00 Do. 44 per cent. Prefer all 96 100
at Buckinghamshire
at Chester and Holyhead lOO 64; 6
at Do. 54 per cent.
at Do. 5 do.
st Clydesdale, guaranteed... lOO
st Colchester Stour Valley
at East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lOO 132 131
20 Gloster and Dean Forest all
s Gt. EaSkl., p.c 100 ...
Do. H. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100
st Do.do. Woodbrg.Ex., do 100 „.
st Gt. West ,W. Mid., Hord 100 57 90
60 Hull and Selby all 110 112
at Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 217 222
at London and Blackwall lOO 93 95
st Do. 44 per cent lOO ...
st London, Chat., &c., 44 pc. 100 ...
at Do. Corn. Fund, 5 do 100
at London and Greenwich
at Do. do Preference lOO ...
at London, Tilbury, it South 100 83 85
st Lowest.oft,gua 4 percent lOO 75 81
ord, Pref lOO
st Do. de 6 do
l
5i 'PI 1;1 t allaall L 37. 56
ast blanch.,l
land Midland,
50l
10
Nldoidrtlihoernutt CEraabyt.L,
SO Do. do. 6 do. all
st N. Eastern—Hartlepool ... 100
at N.West. A perp. pref, 5p c. 100 107 109
at Do B minimum 14 p.c lOO
at Notting. & Granth R.& C... 100 91 93
25 Preston and Wyre all 44 46
Royston, Hitch., and Shop lOO 132 134
st Shrewsbury and Hereford PA 132 134
10 Do do 8 2 91p
8 S. Yorksh. and River Dun 100 97 90
D 4 per cent Sua IOJ 78 80
5 do
st Viet. Station and Pimlico lOO
st West Cornwall
20 West London, Class A all 13 14
20 Do Cl B all
20 Do do C all
st Weymouth and Portland lOO
Fit Wilts and Somerset

32 94 931

DOCKS. it -Is
st East and West
Lovdon and St. Katherine lOO 61 63 Lo
100 D oDeb. stock, 4 per cent
Millwall Freehold Land
Dock. 10) 28 31
Southampton 1)0 72 75
I Surrey CorawotoLtl , 100 110 113
London, England, 1870-01-25

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.

Tins EVENING, at 7 o'clock, A KISS IN THE DARK.
After which, at 20 to 8, Ik.EW MEN AND OLD ACRES; Mr
Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Miss Robertson, &c. Concluding
with THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS:
Mr. A. Wood, Miss F. Wright, &c.
London, England, 1870-01-25

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Jan. 24.

The Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria arrived
here yesterday afternoon. He was received at the
railway station by the Crown Prince, other mem-
bers of the Royal family, and the Austria❑ Em-
bassy.
A guard of honour was in waiting.
A grand dinner at the Royal Palace will be
given in his honour to-day.

ARRIVAL OF THE C A.PE MAIL.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 21.

The Union Company's steamer Briton from the
Cape on the 19th of December has arrived with 20
pmsengers. Der dates are :—St. Helena, Dec.
27th, and Madeira 15th of January. The mails
will be forwarded by the 7.40 train this evening.
The Great Eastern was not ( xpected at Table
Bay till the day after the Briton sailed. The
barque Enterprise, from Swansea, for St. Paul's
de Loando, with coals, was burnt on November the
11th. The crew were rescued by the barque Au-
riga, and landed at St. Helena on December 17.
The Chiltern, steam tender to the Great Eastern,
arrived at Table Bay on December 13. h, and re-
ported that the Great Eastern was coming on at
half power.
London, England, 1870-01-25

THE ADDRESO.

The first event of the political season is the
Queen's Speech ; the second the address in reply to
it. There is always much curiosity manifested as
to who will move and second the address.
uuour says that the Hon. Francis Egerton
And Sir Charles Dilke will be the happy men this
\'‘a.r. Mr. Egerton, the son-in-law of the Duke of
stands cut as a singularity—he is a
Anal in a Tory family. Of Sir Charles Dilke
;,)thing need be said, ho is so well known. He is
M.P. for Chelsea, a good speaker, an advanced
thinker, the author of " Greater Britain," and the
After of the Athenceion. He is one of the rising
:.en of the Liberal party.
TILE SOUTHWARK CAMPAIGN.

A. calculation in the Times gives 3,500 votes to
Beresford at the Southwark election. This
•.;ill leave 8,500 to the two Liberal candidates, assum-
that 12,000 electors out of the 18,000 on the register go
to the poll. But such preliminary reckonings are never
trustworthy. Who knows that this interesting
contest will not evoke a greater number than 12,000
voters ? Mr. Odger's polling card is a novelty: It
says :—"Mr. Odger respectfully solicits your support
• a working man, for the assertion of the principle
at the working classes, who constitute a vast majo-
.::ty of the people of this country, have a right to be
ti. etly representod in the House of Commons."
A fresh element has been introduced into this con-
,.,st in the shape of an appeal from the Ladies'
-'.,eiety for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases
%.-!.s. The committee earnestly request the Southr-
rk to assist them by refusing a vote to any
candidate who will not support the repeal of the ob-
noxious statutes.
London, England, 1870-01-25

RIIPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.

WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions
of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred
Medical men to be the most effective invention in
the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel
spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a
soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi-
site resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and
Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that
it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A
descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can-
not fail to fit, forwardel by poet, on the circumference of
the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the
manufacturer,

Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London.

A Single Truss, 165., 210., 26i. 6d., and ils. 6d. Postage,
Is. A Double Truss, 81s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage,
ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss. 425. and 525. 6d. Postage,
Is. 10d.

Yosi:ofllee Orders to be made payable to John White,
Post-office, Piccadi'ly.
London, England, 1870-01-25

FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS.-THIS DAY.

This morning Captain Shaw returned to the
Metropolitan Board of Works particulars of seven
fires that had taken place in London since yester-
day morning, but only one was deserving of notice
and that happened in the premises belonging to
Mr. Wainwright, a watchmaker, carrying on busi-
ness at No. 112, Oxfcrd-street. It commenced from
some unknown cause in the basement, and
rapidly reached the other portions of the
building, including one of the shops belonging
to Mr. Whitbread, a stationer. The engines of the
Metropolitan Brigade from numerous stations
promptly attended, and a plentiful supply of the
Grand Junction Company's water having been
immediately obtained, the firemen went to work,
but by that period the flames had ignited the pre-
mises of Mr. Saunders, stationer, and those of Mr. R.
H. Hoare, tobacconist. By great perseverance on
the part of the firemen, the fire was eventually
extinguished, but the first-named premises were
for the most part destroyed, and the two adjoining
extensively burned and damaged by water, &c.
The losses will fall upon the Sun and Imperial Fire-
offices.

A telegram has been received from Alexandria
stating that her Majesty's Indian troopship Croco-
dile arrived at that port at one p.m. on the 21st
inst. ; all well.
At this time, when tho. principles and practice of cc-
.aperative societies engross so large a share of attention, it may
be well that Messrs.:Parkins and Gotto should remind the no
bility and gentry that they have for the last twenty years adopted
the pract.ce of buying the best goods in large quantities direct
from the manufa turers, marking every article in plain figures,
and retailing them at the smallest possible profit for roody
money; and where, front distance or other causes, cash pay-
ments have been impossible, they have never increased the price
of the articles delivered. They respectfully solicit an inspection
of their stock, consisting of portrait albums, writing-cases, dres-
sing-cases, dressing-bags, despatch boxes, envelope-cases and
blotting-books, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, ornamental
goods, purses, pocket books, cigar-oases, reticules, opera-glasses,
scent-cases, smelling-bottles, electro-gilt and elegantly-mounted'
articles—in fact, an endless variety of articles to suit every taste,
purpose, and pocket —Perkins and. Gotto, 24 and 25, Oxford-
street, W.
London, England, 1870-01-25

BIRTHS.

OunITT- On the 23d Jan., at Baiham, Surrey, Mrs. Chas•
Cubitt, of twin daughters.
GOWER —On the 22d Jan., at Titaey Park, Surrey, the
Hon. Mrs. LOYOSOR Gower, of a son.
MARRIAGES.'

BRADEN— CRO:CFORD-011 the' 23d Jan., at St. Paul's, Old
Brantford, Mr. Charles Braden, of Bermon.l,ey and
Peckham, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. dent'
Croxford, of Breutford.

Heed--CASE—On the 22d inst., at St. Helen's Church,
Bishopsgate, MI. James Hagley, of York, to Elizabeth
Frances, eldest daughter of Mr. Chas. Case, of Bishops"
gate-street within.
London, England, 1870-01-25

THE RED RIVER REBELLION.

The New York papers state that the Rod River insur,
gents have held a council, and accepted a Bill of Rights-
which was posted over the settlement. It declares that
the people are tore-elect their own Legislature, which shall
pass all local laws over the veto of the Executive, by a
two-thirds vote, and no act of the Dominion is to be
binding on the people till it is sanctioned by the local legis-
lature. This bill also makes many other provisions, among
which are the payment of military, civil, and municipal ex-
penses out of the Dominion funds, the common use of both the
English and French languages in the legislature and courts,
for all public documents and Acts of the Legislature
being printed in both languages, and for a full and fair
representation of the settlement in the Canadian Parlia-
ment. The English and French settlers approved of the
programme. Governor McDougall declined to guarantee
these rights, as he had no authority to do so.
London, England, 1870-01-25

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Jan. 24, Even'ng.
The British squadron sailed to-day for a fort-
night's cruise off the coast of Portugal.
The American war steamer Richmond arrived
here to-day.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN
(HEAVY) MAIL.

GIBRALTAR, Jan. 24.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ceylon leaves at nine this morning for Southamp-
ton. All well. •
She may be expected on the evening of the 28th
inst. (Friday).
London, England, 1870-01-25

LOCAL SANITARY DOINGS.

Certain proceedings at Canterbury and Northamp-
ton throw a cheerful light upon the style in which
our health legislation is interpreted and worked by
local magnates. At the former place the persons in autho-
rity have had the refinement and discretion to esta-
blish the premises for carrying out the Contagious
Diseases Act in the centre of the city. The inhabi-
tants have been so annoyed by the disgraceful scenes
which have taken place that they have
prepared a memorial begging the Government to
remove the cause. A. day or two ago 60
women were summoned to this delectable
institution. Their conduct, and the behaviour of an
idle crowd which assembled, was of a kind to
which the reporter's phrase of "better imagined than
described" may be most fairly applied. At North-
ampton the guardians recently had the cool audacity
to resolve that the Vaccination Act should. not be put
in force in their district. They have just repented.
A. letter from the Lords in Council, asking what the
guardians were doing. in the way of vaccination
brought them to their senses. They decided to
enforce the Act, and so far the matter
ends well. But what can we say of the crass stupi-
dity which can resolve and solemnly record that an
Act of the Legislature, obligatory on the whole
country, should not be carried out in a certain district
How can healthy legislation work well in the hands
of such persons ?
London, England, 1870-01-25

THE LOSS OF THE SPRINDRIFT.

The fate of this vessel will probably be the
the cause of much controversy between State De-
partments. It will be remembered that the inquiry
into the circumstances of the case took place before
Mr. Patteson and the Nautical Assessors at the Green-
wich Police-court. The result was that Mr. Patteson,
discharged the captain and blamed the pilot. Tho
Trinity Board, although they did not acquit the pilot,
censured the captain for negligence, Next, the
Board 01 Trade reviewed the whole ease, and enaorseu
the opinion of the Elder Brethren. They laid it down
that the presence of a pilot does not akolve the
master from all responsibility in cases where no local
or technical experience is needed to prevent the
loss of a vessel. Seeing his decision practically
reversed, Mr. Patteson in self-defence communicated
with the President of the Board of Trade, and laid
ksforo him in rather a hot corresponder.ci, a
vindication of the judgment at Greenwich
of himself and his nautical assessors. He
quotes the clause of the
111erchant Shipping Act
by which he formed his judgment. It enacts—
" That no owner or master of any ship shall be
answerable to any person whatever for any loss
orslazuzLiicursonad._ or _lnca-
London, England, 1870-01-25

SOME STORIES OF MALLOW.

Tile Mallow election is not one of engrossing in-
,orest, as neither of the candidates are very eminent, nor
are any very important principles, beyond those
usually involved in party contests, at stake. Yet
some stories afloat as to the election aro worth
noting. One of the Liberal candidates, the
o-le, too, who is raid to have the best chance, is Mr.
Munster. Now that gentleman stood at the general
election for Cashel, and was defeated. An election
petition followed, and the facts elicited showed clearly
that Mr. Munster had by no means clean hands. Indeed
the borough was so disgracefully corrupt that a.
Royal Commission has just finished its inquiry
into its electoral state. While (as the Pall
Mall Gazette does well to point out) the report
of the Commissioners is still pending, and Mr.
Munster's share of culpability in the proceed-
ings of 1808 remains undecided, he presents him-
self before the electors of Mallow as a fit and
proper person to represent them in Parliament.
And the Mallow electors before whom he has pre-
sented himself are not altogether better than they
should be. An inquest held last week reveals before
the time some pretty little political doings. The
coroner had to inquire into the death of
a man named Stack, who died from
drinking too much whisky. It turned out
that the deceased was one of a lot of others
treated ad libitum in the public-houses in which Mr.
Waters (the other Liberal candidate) holds his com-
mittee meetings. The gentleman who ordered the
whisky would say nothing as to where the money
came from ; he would admit only that he ordered
the spirit. This event ought to reduce Mr. Waters's
chance.
London, England, 1870-01-25

LIORM of BEQUEST.—NATIONAL HOS-
PITAL for the PARALYSED and EPILEPTIC,
Queen-square, Bloomsbury :—I give and bequeath to the
Treasurer for the time being of the National Hospital for
the Paralysed and Epileptic, established in London in
1859, the sum of —, free of legacy duty, to be paid out
of such part of my estate as may by law be bequeathed for
charitable purposes, and to be applied to the general use
of the said Hospital.
The Institution comprises an Hospital for In and Out
Patients, a Samaritan Society to relieve the more &Ai-
tute out-patients and their families, a convalescent home,
and a pension fund for the incurable.

E. H. CHANDLER, Hon. Sec.

HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT,
golden-ssnaret W._

President—His Grace the Mika of GRAFTON.

The Committee of Management earnestly APPEAL for
FUNDS to help thom to meet the heavy current expenses.
Upwards of 18,000 poor persons have been relieved in the
last six years.

GEORGE WOOD, Secretary.
London, England, 1870-01-25

APRIL.

Aldershot 7,78- riingsbury

FRANCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
PARIS, Jan. 24.

The Figaro of to-day says that although the
workshops at Creuzot are generally closed on Sun-
day, nevertheless almost all the men reported them-
selves to the overseers as ready for work. The re-
mainder declared their intention of resuming work

to-day.
A journeyman turner named Sangis, who incited
bis comrades to violence, was arrested on Saturday.
Six other men also were arrested for endeavouring
to arouse resistance to the authorities.
The Prefect of the Department of the Seine aLd
Loire has caused the public meeting which was to
to have been held yesterday to be adjourned, but
several private gatherings took place.
It is asserted that the men on stlike who have
been arrested would not resume work, but will re-
main peaceable ; 82 per cent. of the operatives have
resumed work.

The Figaro mentions, under reserve, a rumour
that the witnesses have stated, before the Court of
Indictment, that M. Ulric de Fonvielle, while with
the apothecary to whose shop the body of Victor
Noir was taken, exclaimed, "He has killed my
friend, but he has himself received a famous box on
the ear."

According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
day, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 73f. 67c.
Undecided.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Jan. 23.

A meeting of the majority of the Cortes was
held yesterday, at which it was resolved to reject
the motion of Senors Castelar, Martas, and Rod-
rigues, which is to be brought forward to-morrow,
proposing to exclude the Duke de Montpeusier as
a candidate to the Throne. This motion will be
opposed by the Government.
The Duke de Montpensier has been elected by
an immense majority as Deputy for the Asturias.
London, England, 1870-01-25

THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE.

- ----- -
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Tars EVENING, at 7, I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL. At 7.45,
BEATJTY AND THE BEAST Messrs. Fred. Vokes, Brittain
Wright, Harry Boleno, &c.; Misses Vokes, Harriet Coveney,
Kate Santley, &c.
London, England, 1870-01-25

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

10 Angio-American tei., Hui all 191 211 21 *
10 Anglo Mediter Tel., 1im.... 10 ..:01 201 20
at Atlantic Telegraph lO 17 19 16
at Do. 8 per cent.
at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim lOO 180 10
it Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 262 267
10 Do. ' New 0 12 13p
25 Indo-European Tel., lim all 23 21
5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lim all 21 31
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all 1 1p
10 Mediterra. Eaten. Tel., lim. all 9 10 81 9
25 Reuter's Telegram all 78 80
20 Societe Transatlant., lim all 18i 18: 171 IR
at Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all 11 11
5 U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 7 8
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all i 1 51
London, England, 1870-01-25

do. ' £B4 15s. d 0....
1866, £lOO Bonds,

£B4 15s. do —

Do. do
Do Nicolas Railway
Sardinian per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cen
Do. Account
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred
Do. Passive
Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded

Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Turkish 6 per Cent

Do Account

Do 6 per Cent. 1858

3o Account

Do £lOO Bonds 72
Do 6 per Cont., 1862

Do. Account 661 1
Do £lOO Bonds 6Bi 1

Do. 5 per cent. 1865 —
Do Account . 43}
Do 6 per Cent., 186 b —
Do. Account
D) 4 por Cent., Guaranteed —
Do :do, Scrip —
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —
Do 6 per Cent. 1864 —,
Dividends on the above payable in Lo idol)
Austrian a per Cont. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail, —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. .
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
I tnliar. 5 per Cent. 1351, Ex. 25i ,
Do Account sif 4
TWO O'CLOCK

Jonsols, Money 924 ad
Do. Account, Feb. 3
London, England, 1870-01-25

THE VOLUNTEERS AND THE GOVERNMENT.

The Northern Volunteer officers have had a
meeting at Newcastle to consider the sugges-
tions of the Secretary of State for War in
regard to the capitation grant. The chairman was.
Sir Bedworth Williamson, Bart., M.P., who assured
the officers present that Mr. Cardwell would not
desire to force upon the Volunteers anything that
w odd not be beneficial to them as a body. Each propo-
.,iou of the Government was considered at length
t exception taken to nearly all of them. Al resolu-
tic.)i) .to the effect that the proposals and alterations in
rin:.2.tion would tend to effect a large immediate
reduction in the strength of the Volunteer force, and
ultimately produce the certain annihilation of effi-
cient battalions, was carried by acclamation.

GOVERNMENT AID TO SCIENCE TEACHING.
A large meeting of science school managers,
teachers, and others has been held at Huddersfield,
under the presidency of Mr. Baines, M.P., to con-
sider the subject of the aid which should be extended
by G overnment towards the advancement of science. A
recent " minute" of the Department of Science and
art seems calculated to throw discouragement
on the local institutes, and to withdraw in some
degree from the amount of encouragement
Government has hitherto afforded to such educa-
tional schemes. Mr. Baines and other speakers
laid down the principle, which was afterwards em-
bodied in a resolution and carried, that the extension
of scientific instruction is necessary, if we wish to see
the manufacturing prosperity of the nation main-
tained; and therefore State aid should be given
liberally to such objects.
London, England, 1870-01-25

THAMES.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY ON THE RlVER.—Henry
Forbes, aged 21 years, a labourer, of 14, Carpenter's-
terrace, Bow-common, was brought before Mr.
Lushington charged with being concerned in a
large robbery of brandy and linen on the river.
John Rose, police-constable, 265 V, was on duty
on the 7th of August last in Church-row, Battersea,
and saw the prisoner in company with two other
men preparing to unload a barge containing cases
of brandy and rolls of linen. Some of the cases were
put into a cart. He interrupted the proceedings of
the gang, and the prisoner and his companions
jumped into a boat and rowed across the river. He
was unable to pursue them and they escaped. The
whole of the property and a horse and cart were
seized. He took two men into custody who were
in attendance on the horse and cart, and they were
discharged by Mr. Dayman, the magistrate at the
Wandsworth Police-court. He took the prisoner
into custody last night, and he said he was hard up
when he joined in the robbery.
The prisoner—l was engaged by three men to
help them.
Inspector Reed, of the Thames Police, said that
in August last a serious robbery was committed on
the river, and 12 cases of brandy and 3000 yards of
linen stolen and taken up the river for the purpose
of being landed at Battersea. He was in company
with Rose last night and captured the prisoner,who
said, "I was got very nicely into this. Holmes told
me he wanted me for a row up the river. I wish 1
bad never seen him." Two men had since been con-
victed for their share in the robbery, and were now
undergoing penal servitude. The brandy and linen
were intended fur shipment to Singapore. He asked
for a remand to enable him to bring up the owner
of the stolen property, and the lighterman and
barge owner who had the care of the property.
Mr. Lushington acquiesced and remanded the pri-
soner for a week.

SUICIDE BRIDGE.—A dissipated woman, named
Turner, was brought before Mr. Lushington, on
remand, charged with attempting to commit suicide
at the Old Gravel-lane bridge over the London
Dock, St. George-in-the-East, where so many per-
sons have drowned themselves. She had been a
week on remand under the spiritual advice and
guidance of the rev. chaplain of the Clerkeuwell
House of Detention, and she was now in a better
frame of mind and repentant. It was understood
that a kind hearted and Christian lady was in at-
tendance to take care of her, and put her into some
asylum.
Mr. Lushington addressed the prisoner, and said
she had time to repent. The act she had committed
was a foolish and wicked one. Our lives, said the
learned magistrate, are given to us for better things
then to throw them away. You have committed
an offence against all lairs human and divine. You
have been in prison for a week, and are now dis-
charged.
London, England, 1870-01-25

THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.

The report of Consul-General Plumb to the State
Department has recently been filed at Washington, and
the conclusions are most unfavourable to the insurgents.
Mr. Plumb says that practically the rebellion in Cuba is
at an end. The rebels are scattered in various districts,
and confine themselves to the prosecution of a guerilla
warfare, not being strong enough to take the field, and not
holding any position of the slightest strategic or political
lmoortanoe.

A telegram states that the brig Jones Brothers, of
Newport, has been in collision with the Newarp light ship
and drifted away with a part of the crew, who are supposed
to be lost. The remainder of the crew have beau landed at
Great Yarmouth.

The Times says it has good reason for stating that
"slips," owing to insecure foundations, of more than ordi-
nary magnitude, have lately occurred on some of the river-
front portions of the dockyard extension works on St. Mary's
Island, in the Medway.

On the death of Sir George Seymour, her Ma-
jesty was pleased to telegraph, after the sad intelligence
reached Osborne, her sympathy with his family in the
following gracious yet simple words :—" I feel moat
deeply for you all, and much regret your noble father."
There are some cases of the foot and mouth disease
in the Kirkham, Scorton, and Rochdale districts, and seven
head of cattle are affected at Higher Antley, near Accring-
ton ; but, with these exceptions, it is believed Lancashire is
clear. The borough of Preston has just been declared free
from the epidemic.

The death is announced this morning of Honorine
Dobrowolski, Viscountess Exmouth. She was married to
the Viscount in 1850, but leaves no family. Tho heir
presumptive is his lordship's nephew, Mr. Edward Fleet-
wood Fellow) son of the Hon. Fleetwood Fellow, who died
in 1866.

The value of property in Ireland at tho present
time is indicated by tho following fact :—ln the Irish
Landed Estates Court last week, the' lands of Rathbaae,
near Limerick, containing 131 a. 2r. 88p., held under fee
farm grant, and producin3 an annual profit of 437153..8g.,
were VA f9r,42.200.. , :
London, England, 1870-01-25

OIFERTORY GIFTS.

rho rector of Stoke Newington, Nortffiondon, has
just got to the end of a thirteen years' dispute with
his churchwardens. The bone of contention was the
offertory fund, concerning the application of which
the rector had very cosmopolitan notions. He
claimed a right to apply the money
in aid of the poor of the parish, the
schools, dispensary, district visiting society,
curates' fund, organ fund, choir fund, Bishop of
London's fund, missions, stained glass, and specialities.
The churchwardens had much more restricted notions
as to the proper uses of the offertory. The Bishop of
London was appealed to, and has just given judg.
mint. He decided that the money may be applied
in aid of the parish poor, the schools, the dispensary,
district visiting society, the Bishop of London's fund,
home and foreign missions, and the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel, in such proportions as the
rector and churchwardens may agree upon. The
Bishop does not think the benefice ill-endowed, or
he would have allowed the offertory to be applied to
the curates' fund.
London, England, 1870-01-25

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

WIFE BEATING.—George Gray, a tailor, living
in Tom's-court, Grosvenor-square, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting his wife,
Honorah Gray.
The complainant, who had a black eye, said that
last night her husband, who was a tailor, came
home drunk, he having taken home a coat in the
morning and spent all the money he received in
drink. He was going to sell the bedstead, and on
her interfering he struck her in the eye and black-
ened it. She did not wish to press the charge, as
it was a twelvemonth since he last struck her.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—What ! He has not actually
struck you for a twelvemonth ! That is moderate,
indeed. Does he bring home his earnings ?

The complainant said he did when he worked,
but she had also to work very hard.

The prisoner said his wife gave him provocation.
Mr. Tyrwhitt, in ordering the prisoner to find
one bail in £lO for three months, remarked that
the prisoner was evidently one of those fellows
who drank away all his wages, and then com-
plained what a hard world it was.

FIFTY-ONE CASES OF DESTROYING CLOTHES IN A
WORKIIOUSE.—DanieI Savage was charged before
Ir. Tyrwhitt with destroying his clothes while a
casual in St. James's Workhouse, Poland-street.

The case was proved against the prisoner by
Densham, superintendent of labour, who stated
that it was the fifty-first charge of the kind they
had during the past three months.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for four-
teen days.
London, England, 1870-01-25

EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND.

On Saturday the Lord Advocate of Scotland
received a deputation from the Universities of
Edinburgh and St. Andrew's touching the need for
the Government to take measures to improve the
burgh schools, so as to better prepare the students for
the Universities. The Lord Advocate gave a more pre-
cise reply than deputations usually obtain. He believed
that the Government would come to some decision
on the subject of Scotch Education before the meeting
of Parliament, and their conclusions would be
made known at an early date. The deputation
from the University of St. Andrew's urged that the
entire question of Scotch education should be dealt
with.
London, England, 1870-01-25

THE NEW CHINESE TREATY.

The committee appointed by the merchants and
shipowners interested in the China trade has
addressed a letter to the Chambers of Commerce
requesting them to use their influence in opposing
the ratification of the new Treaty with China. These
authorities hold that the Treaty of Tientsin was
favourable to British commerce; but its advantages are
little improved by the new Convention, whilst in some
respects they are deteriorated. In Article 3of the
new Treaty it is agreed that British textile
fabrics shall pay both import duty, about 5 per cent.,
and transit dues equal to half import duty, or about
2:1- per cent., simultaneously on importation, an.l that
the goods shall thereafter ho exempt from all other
taxes or charges whatever in the treaty port pro-
vinces. Now, this new import of 21 per cent. is to be
levied upon goods taken for local consumption,
which have previously been liable to no transit dues.
In this case the 2!-: per cent. will be a clear addition.
So it will, too, in some of the northern parts of China,
where the transit dues have hitherto been very
small. The good provisions of the Convention weigh
nothing in the balance against this retrograde step.
London, England, 1870-01-25

ILLUMINATIONS AT CALCUTTA.

The illuminations at Calcutta, in honour of the arrival
of the Duke of Edinburgh, were so successful that the
Viceroy sent a special recognition of his satisfaction to the
Chairman of Justices. The Duke also caused his thanks
to be conveyed to the Commissioner of Police for the
arrangements which were made for his reception. One of
the Calcutta papers has a laugh at the fact of the word
"Welcome " having been emblazoned ovor the door of an
undertaker's premises on the illumination night ; it ven-
tures to think the Prince might decline the implied invi-
tation, coming from such a quarter.
London, England, 1870-01-25

AFFAIRS IN JAPAN.

Political affairs in Japan aro reported to be in statu quo,
and the Mikado's government is considered to be tho-
roughly established beyond the chance of a counter revolu-
tion. Rumours have been current about Satuma's inten-
tions, and the Japan Herald states that 25,000 of his men
are in Yeddo, but these accounts are authoritatively con-
tradicted. The native Government have promised to drain
and scavenge the foreign settlement at Yokohama, and
great facilities are now said to exist there for the repair-
ing of ships, so that commercial prospects are improving:
but business is, nevertheless, reported to be dull.
London, England, 1870-01-25

SEWAGE UTILISATION.

The committee appointed by the British Associa-
tion to investigate the sewage problem recently ap-
pealed to the different town corporations for assistance
in conducting the experiments. A number of towns
and private families have promptly answered
and promised contributions towards the great cost of
this undertaking. Devonshire has been especially
forward—Plymouth, Devonport, Torquay, and Exeter
having contributed. Amongst the other towns are
West Hartlepool, Paisley, Coventry,Oxford, Penzance,
Wakefield, Sc. The total number, however, is only
twenty-five, which will not be sufficient. he com-
mittee accordingly appeal to the remaining corpora-
tions, adding that if the total be insufficient to meet
the expense of the inquiry, the subscriptions will be
returned. It will be disgraceful indeed if such an
investigation be allowed to fall through.
London, England, 1870-01-25

AN ECONOMIST AND PHILANTHROPIST.

Mr. Samuel Bailey, who has just died, was once a
fanious personage. Had his decease taken place
some years back, it would doubtless have been uni-
versally discussed, and his life and writings made
the subject of numerous memoirs. But
moral philosophy is a department of know-
ledge that progresses and alters with the times,
and even the deepest students of such subjects often
outlive their fame. It was chiefly of moral philo-
sophy that Mr. Bailey wrote. Thirty-five years ago
his a Rationale of Political Representation"
was published, and was considered remark-
able for originality and acuteness. It has been
superseded only by the later works of Mr. Mill.
The importance of Mr. Bailey's " Considerations on
Representative Government,' and "Dissertation on
the Nature, Measures, and Causes of Value," is now
more thoroughly recognised than it was at
first. Many other works of interest to the
student of metaphysics and moral philo-
sophy proceeded from Mr. Bailey's pen, such as
"Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opi•
nions," a review of "Berkeley's Theory of Vision,'
"The Theory of Reasoning," "Letters on the
Philosophy of the lluman Mind," In practice as in
theory Mr. Bailey was ever at work. For nearly forty
years he was chairman of the Sheffield Banking Com-
pany, of which successful enterprise he was one of
the original founders. "Having no near relations,"
says the Sheffield Independent, " the late Mr. Bailey
has bequeathed to the trustees of that town, of which
lie was an inhabitant, the sum of £60,000, to be
applied to the general purposes of the trust."
London, England, 1870-01-25

THE CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP.

The London correspondent of the Manchester
Miardian states that the difficulty as to the Con-
-, alive leadership in the Lords has been solved.
veral of our contemporaries have settled the matter
s ) often before that we are chary of accepting infer-
:nation which is not directly official. This
writer assures us, however, that Lord Cairns has
tnen asked to retain his place. On the whole if his
torclship could be brought to consent, his retention
would be about the best arrangement the party could
m Ike. If one section won't have the Earl of Derby,
t..1:1 the Marquis of Salisbury is impossible, Lord
atirns is certainly better than either of the other
p..)ers who have been named.
London, England, 1870-01-25

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London, England, 1870-01-25

THE CANTERBURY HALL AFFAIR.

An inquiry of an extraordinary nature was re-
sumed this morning before Mr. Carter, Coroner,
at the Canterbury Music Hall. On the 13th inst.,
a young woman who wore a thick veil, took a box to
the receiving-house of the Parcels Delivery Company,
in Loughborough Park, Brixton. The box was
covered with brown paper, and was secured by means
of string. It was addressed to Thos. Morton, Esq.,
Canterbury Music Hall, Westminster-bridge-road.
The bcx was taken on the following morning to Mr.
Morton, who found it contained a dead child. He
sent a messenger to find the delivery mai:, but
being unable to do so, he called in the police, who
took charge of the box and its contents. The fol-
lo-97ing words were written in ink on a piece of
paper, which was pasted inside the box :—" This
is yours ; bury it; that's all I ask." Dr. Mon-
day, by whom the post-mortem examination had
been made, found that the child was covered with
dirt, and the base of the skull was fractured i❑
two places. Mr. Morton, in his evidence before
coroner, said he knew nothing about the child. The
woman cannot be traced. The jury returned a ver-
dict to the effect that the child died from a fracture
of the skull, but how the injury was received there
was no evidence to show.

RAILWAY it ND OTHER COMPANIES.
London, England, 1870-01-25

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPILI.

THIS EVENING, at 7. OPEN TO CONVICTION. Messrs
George Belmore, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, Miss L.
Grey, and Mrs L. Murray. At 8, THE NIGHTINGALE:
Mr Benjamin Webster, Messrs Arthur Stirling, J. D. Beveridge,
Skinner, Miss Furtado. Mrs Alfred Mellon, Miss Eliza John-
stone, Mrs Caulfield, &c. To conclude with DOMESTIC
.I.CO.NOMY: Mr G. Belmore and Mrs Leigh Murray.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, at 7, CORRUPT' PRACTICES. After which,
CHILPE RIC: Messrs M. Manus, (1 Vincent, Odell, Lapierre,
Coghlan, and M. Hers-6; Mesdames Dolaro, Fitzinman, Ito-
manelli, Nellie Nesbit, • and Miss Emily Muir. •

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Tars. EVENING, at 7. AFTER DARK: mrvining. Followed
by THE STR SOF LONDON: Mr Vining; Messrs Philips,
Ashley, Stuart, Ilignold, Taylor, Lseson, Eburne ; Mesd.unes
Barnett, Stoker, Brewer.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough.
Tins EVENING. at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr
Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And INO. Concluding with
THE CHOPS OF THI CHANNEL.

WOODIN'S CARPET - BAG AND SKETCH BOOK,
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, every Evening (except Satni day) at
8; Saturday Moininzs at 3. Admission, ls, 2s, 35.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex-
cept Sundays). Admission. ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children
under twelve, 6d.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS
Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. le. Box-office
open fromll to 4.
London, England, 1870-01-25

WORKING MEN'S CLUBS

The Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners have
met at Birmingham to consider the advisability
of establishing a Trades Hall and Social
Club for the members of trade societies
now holding their meetings in public-houses.
It was stated that there were fifty-four trade socie-
ties in Birmingham, which spent out of their funds
for the use of rooms at publichouses on an
average £3,000 a year, either in drink or
direct money payments. It was estimated that
the money spent by the members themselves
on the occasion of their meetings could
not be less than £9,000 a year. The Rev. H. Solly
gave full particulars as to the working of similar
clubs in London and Liverpool. He showed how
beneficial they were in the way of economy and
affording information, and pointed out the temptations
to excess, caused by meeting at a public-house. A
good representative provisional committee was formed
to carry out the objects of the meeting- and to canvass
the other trades of Birmingham for support. We
hope soon to see other towns following the example
of the Birmingham working men.
London, England, 1870-01-25

SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK AND THE CHINESE.

The Anglo-Chinese press complains loudly of the Chinese
want of courtesy towards the British representative. The
North China Daily News says that Sir Rutherford Alcock's
interview with the Viceroy and the Imperial Commissioner
Ma, was extremely unsatisfactory, owing to great rude-
ness and discourtesy on the Chinese side. The British
Minister was kept waiting for nearly ten minutes outside
the Yamen doors, although due notice had been sent of his
intended visit, and the Viceroy's manner is described as
blustering and loud. On complaint being made, the
Viceroy protested that no intentional discourtesy had
been shewn in the delay, and, on Sir Rutherford's return
to his vessel, the presents were sent with the accustomed
formalities. These, however, Sir Rutherford declined to
accept until an official of due rank should have been sent
to express regret for the apparent discourtesy. Late at
night this official made his appearnice, and Sir Rutherford.
rafused to receive him.

The Courier gives a slightly different version of the
story, making the matter even worse. The British Minis-
was, it affirms, kept waiting for a quarter of an hour, and
when he remonstrated, "the attendants shouted, and
clamoured, and drowned his objections." This journal
confirms the account of Sir Rutherford's refusal of the
presents. The Overland China Mail finds some consolation
in the belief that the insolence of the Chinese arose from
the policy of the Minister himself in supporting the repre
sentations of Mr. Burlinghame. It hopes this unpleasant
experience will convince Sir Rutherford of hie ri9t2lo as
to the cordiality of the Chinese.
London, England, 1870-01-25

THE PESHAWUR FAIR.

The Peshawur fair has justified the favourable expecta-
tions that were formed of it, and proved a complete
success. The sickness which prevailed in the valley was
a great drawback to it at first, but an improvement in the
public health has taken place. The .A.meer of Cabul ful-
filled his promise of assistance by despatching a large
contingent of merchants, and the Marahajah of Cashmere
supported the project by sending in special products from
his territories. These two contingents contributed greatly
to the success of the fair.
London, England, 1870-01-25

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

This morning, an application was made to the
Chief Judge in the matter of Daniel Tidy, builder,
of Belsize-park. The bankrupt had been adjudi-
cated, but his goods were seized by an execution
creditor, named Louis Chilvers, on four bills of
exchange for £lOO each. Application was now
made to stay the sale of the effects until the appoint-
ment of a trustee, on the ground that it would be
prejudicial to other creditors. Notice had been
given to the claimant of this application ; but his
lordship said an affidavit must be produced that
other creditors would be damaged by the sale. It
was stated that it should be procured ; and an order
was granted to restrain the sale, on condition that
due notice was given to the creditor.
London, England, 1870-01-25

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS,

Tun cOMISIANDE.I-fll-CMEP.

The Advertiser publishes a startling rumour, one
which, however, is not unlikely to be true. Our
contemporary states (to put the matter briefly) that
the Duke of Cambridge has resigned his post of com-
mander-in-chief, and is to be Eucceeded by Lord
Strathnairn. Reports to the sane effect have long
been in circulation, and there is to doubt that the
Government and his Royal Highress are entirely
in . opposition as to the economical military
policy which the former is carrying out. The
most important point of difference is that
of the double control. The Duke insists that the
command of the army is the right of the Sovereip—
so soon as.it is taken away the Crown ceases virtu-
ally to have power. He represents the Sovereign.
Parliament, he thinks, has enough power in its hands
hr the control of the finances. His Royal Highness,
L Ic:refore, refuses to aid in any way the transfer of the
army from. . his command to that of Mr. Card-
the representative of the house of Commons.
Whether the Government is so determined that it
takes no note of the Duke's protest, or his Royal
f Ugliness feels, if overruled, the necessity of
r'ignition time will decide. It was stated some
lc back, apparently on his authority, that though
oti to the Government scheme, he still meant to
!. =k place.
London, England, 1870-09-19

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London, England, 1870-09-19

SPORTING- INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALLS'—This EVENING.
CESAREWITCH.

10 to 1 agst Wheatear (taken and offered)
1000 to 70 agst Tabernacle (taken awl offered)
1000 to 70 agst Tabouret (offered-1000 to 60 taken)
190 to 7 agst Hawthornden (offered)
20 to 1 agst Falkland (taken)
20 to 1 agst Mars (taken)
1000 to 40 agst Adonis (taken)
1000 to 40 agst Make Haste (taken and wanted).
30 to 1 agst Typhoens (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Bonny Swell (offered)
1000 to 30 agst Recorder (taken)
40 to 1 agst Royal Rake (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Pax (taken)
2000 to 40 agst Cherie (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Ploughboy (taken)
500 to 10 agst True Blue (taken)
5000 to 75 agst Sister to Cherie (taken)
5000 to 50 agst Spy (taken)
1000 to 9 agst Nightjar (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
100 to 7 agst Podesta (offered)
20 to 1 agst Tabernacle —offered (25 to taken freely)

CITY BETTING—THIS DAY.
CESAREWITCH.
100 to• E 9 agst Wheatear (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Tabouret (taken and wanted)
25 to 1 agst Bonny Swell (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Blueskin (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Faraway (taken)
500 to 10 agst Normanby (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

1000 to 70 agst Podesta (offered)
3000 to 100 agst Tabernacle (taken, after 40 to 1 take
to £100)
33 to 1 agst Fichu (taken after 40 to 1 laid)
London, England, 1870-09-19

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