biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-21

DENMARK AND THE WAR.

The Post says the departure of Denmark, from the line
of strict neutrality—already publicly marked out for her
by herself—would be like the letting out of many waters.
At present the great forces of Europe are held, as it were,
in artificial restraint. We know not what other secret
treaties or what alliances underlie the external calm, and
are ready for development on the first overt step being
taken by any one of the now neutral Powers. Denmark
is, no doubt, differently situated, in an international or
diplomatic sense, to the other on-looking Powers. It is
generally felt that Denmark was harshly and unjustly
treated by Prussia, and sympaty with her has been widely
expressed. And it has, moveover, been assumed that
Denmark would naturally endeavour to regain that which
had been taken from her on any fitting opportunity
arising. If ever Denmark became a belligerent, the
situation would be altered ; the equilibrium would be
upset ; questions now in abeyance would arise ; and
the other Powers, thereupon moved to action,
would communicate the impulse, so that we might, not
improbably, see the face of Europe divided into
two great opposing camps. If such be the poli-
tical situation of Europe at this moment, the
responsibility attaching to the first disturber of the
equilibrium, the opener of the sluice-gates restraining the
neutral Powers, cannot but be tremendous.

Mn EDMUNDS' CASE.—We (Daily News) are re-
quested to state that the reason why the Government did
not divide upon Mr. Russell Gurney's =than on the
Leonard Edmunds' case was, that the Attorney-General
had expressed his readiness to lay a " copy of the judg-
ment ''- upon the table. Under these circumstances there
was no point before the House on which the Government'
who were anxious to meet the issue raised by Mr. Russell
Gurney's speech, could have challenged a division.
THE DENHAM TRAGEDY.-111 the event of the
grand jury finding a true bill in time, Mr. Baron Channel
has decided to try the Denham murderer at Aylesbury
to-morrow. The prisoner has lately been visited by his
father, a tailor, residing at Daventry, near Byfield,
Northamptonshire, who first recognised the prisoner as
being his son by a photograph sent to him. Had it not
been for this the prisoner intended to keep his real name
and antecedents a'mystery. The scene between the pri-
soner and his father in the cell was an exceedingly pain-
ful one. The old man was greatly affected, and shed
many aears. The prisoner maintained that cool, callous
demeanour he has from the first displayed. He has a
written statement drawn up, which he wishes to read at
the trial. Since the recognition of the prisoner by his
father and his sisters a photograph of him has been sent
to his wife, who now resides at Braes, in Warwickshire,
with her friends. She recognises the photograph as that
of her husband, and states that he deserted her twelve
years ago,
London, England, 1870-07-21

THE INDIANS ON THE PLAINS.

Whether or not we ought to be now or at any other
time fighting the Indians, or on the eve of general Indian
war, it would seem that there is no doubt that, being on
the verge of war, we ought to have some soldiers on the
Plains. Wherever the Indians now like to go in a band
of five hundred or a thousand they find themselves supe-
rior in strength to our forces. Of officers there seems to
be plenty, and the young gentlemen who lament that
they cannot be out in active service instead of being
shut up in the artillery school at Fort Monroe are
probably profitably employed in studying the algebra and
geometry which disturb them so much. But if men are
not to be had elsewhere, it appears as if the four or five
hundred soldiers stationed at that fort might be employed
to better advantage in doing garrison duty in some fort
on the Plains that now has fourteea or twenty men in it,
and has to shut itself up when the Indians take to the
war-path. Everybody says the one thing, too, except
the Indian agents and the Congressmen who prac-
tise their economies in the safety of Washing-
ton and the full view of admiring constituents, by
cutting down the Army Appropriation Bill—while,
perhaps, adding something to bills like that which was the
other day stigmatised as a mere scheme to lay hold of the
farms of the Mission Indians in California. General
Sherman says there are not soldiers enough : General
Sheridan says he cannot keep the field, and must content
himself with guard duty ; and there is but one account
from the-settlers. It is possible that the reports of the
coming tr( üble are exaggerated ; but Sheridan says that
the Indians of the Northern and Seuthern Reservations
both are off their reservations, and that he distrusts them
entirely, naming Red Cloud by name. Possibly that
gentleman does, as has been suggested, place some reliance
in the 'assurances of certain great orators here in New
York, when he was with us, informed him that rather
than the red man should suffer injustice, they would
themselves grasp the United States by the throat and
compel it to be just. At all events, the army is mistaken,
or Red Cloud begins to fear his " young men" are irre-
strainable. Perhaps they are really so ; and perhaps
they are conveniently so. In either case, reflections are
suggested as to the propriety of the " treaties " we make
with these potentates.—Nation.
London, England, 1870-07-21

TWEEDIE'S TEMPER.
FACT AND 11
CONT]

General Review of the Tempe-
rance Movement.
Chronicle of the Temperance
Movement.
Teetotalism an Agent in Civi-
lisation.
Researches Respecting Alcohol.
The Result of the Personal and
Professional Experience of the
Benefits of Total Abstinence.
Physiology of Drinking.
Analysis of Bitter Ale and Beer.
Judicial Testimonies.
Statistics in Reference to Intoxi-
cating Drinks.
Pre/Ad...LW Declarations.
London—W. Tw
London, England, 1870-07-21

A SHIP AGROUND.

The Harraton collier steamer arrived at Sunderland
from Hamburg yesterday morning. The captain reports that
on leaving the Elbe on the 18th inst. he saw a screw
steamer, supposed to belong to Hull, aground on the
Schaarhow Sand. Schaarhow beacon was removed the
same morning. No hostile fleet was seen. Two Sunder-
land vessels passed and were entering the Elbe.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY AT

OXFORD.

The reception and soiree given by the Mayor of Oxford
(J. Hughes, Esq.) and Mayoress, in connection with the
Royal Agricultural Society, proved a very brilliant affair.
Between one and two thousand ladies and gentlemen were
present, including many of the leading personages con-
nected with the society, the Corporation of Oxford, the
resident heads of colleges, and university autho-
rities, and many of the residents of the city
and county. The Town Hall was devoted to
objects of art; and the spacious Corn Exchange was
used for dancing, which was kept up with unflagging
spirit until past two in the morning. The Town Hall
yard and adjacent rooms were fitted up as at the Com-
memoration balls, and formed an excellent lounge and
receptacle for the large and fashionable party. The
weather is again lovely for the two great shows. The
admissions yesterday by payment of five shillings were
9,207, and by season tickets 760—total, 9,967.
London, England, 1870-07-21

1; TUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION
i Tx (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859),
4, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT.GARDFN, LONEON,
And 38, QUEEN'S-ROAD, BRIGHTON,
ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale,
Freehold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years,
epayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly dis-
ounted. ' Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope.
EDWARD HARPER, Secretary.
London, England, 1870-07-21

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, at 7, THE SCHOOL FOR SCAB DAL. Mr.
erry, Mr. D. James, Joyce ; ➢lesdames Ada Swanborough, E.
ufton, Hughes, and E. Fowler.
And THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD.
London, England, 1870-07-21

', 'OlZ,_:., ING ED '! TION.

OZOKERIT (PATENTED).

IT INAHAN'S LL WHISK Y.- DUBL IN
EXHIBITION, 1865.
Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork Branded " Kina-
han's " LL Whisky.
This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Gold
Medal.
Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome.
Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Housei -a London ; by the
Agents in the principal towns iri England ; or wholesale at
8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON; W.

IMPERIAL PAR MA “LN

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-AVEDNESDAY.

The Speaker took the chair at twenty minutes past
twelve o'clock, a quarter of an hour later than usual, in
consequence of the inability to form a house.
London, England, 1870-07-21

THE LATEST EUROPEAN DIFFICULTY.

During the last two hundred years there has been
probably no country in Europe which has done so much
to set its neighbours quarrelling as Spain. In its day of
power it represented the secular arm of a dominant
Church, and dealt out fire and sword in pitiless malignity
to subject Provinces. When once its decline had fairly
commenced, the great Powers of Europe, by way of com-
pensation, reduced their haughty rival to a state of tute-
lage, and since then Spain has been to the West what
Turkey has been to the East of the Continent—a
" sick man" in the family of nations. Once more
it seems as though the Peninsula might become the battle
ground of rival empires, and as though the question of
the " Spanish succession " would assume an aspect even
more grave than it did a generation ago. The true dan-
ger of a contingency like the present lies in the fact that
both in France and Prussia there exists a national senti-
ment predisposing the people and Governments to war.
A dispute arising from such a cause as the present, would
appear to be little likelyto excita popular feeling in North
Germany. There is cherished, however, and by none
more intensely than by the party of liberal reform in
Prussia, a feeling that the consummation of German
unity will be impossible without a war with France.
The possible dangers of the situation are increased by the
fact that both France and Prussia are in possession of a
highly efficient and available military establishment. The
possession of thoroughly organised armies and the most
perfect of existing engines of war, presents a strong
temptation to test their capabilities by actual use. The
warlike élan of 1866 could be without difficulty rekindled
in Prussia, and the French Emperor might probably be
found not indisposed to risk a conflict in which he would
have the almost undivided national sentiment to support
him, and in which success would do more to confirm his
dynasty than all the liberal reforms he could devise.
It is probable, moreover, that the active opposition of
France would be to the Spaniards a most powerful reason
for supporting the new candidate, and the elements for
constituting an international quarrel would thus be ren-
dered complete. It is evident that the present aspect of
the question has already created no little excitement in
the higher regions of diplomac ; and the statement
recently made in the Corps Ltgislatif by the French
Minister of Foreign Affairs, " that under no pretext "
would his Government permit a German Power to place
one of its Princes on the throne of Charles V., sounds
uncommonly like a defiance of Prussia. Whether the
latter Power is disposed to take up the gauntlet, a few
days will probably determine. —New York Times.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, EDINBURGH.—At
this court, on Monday, Lord Ardmillan on the bench,
Albert Elenowsky, sixteen years of age, was found guilty
of culpable homicide in having shot dead a lad named
M`Donald, at Easter-road, Edinburgh, on the 6th of
May last, and was sentenced to four months' imprison-
ment. •
London, England, 1870-07-21

INVASION OF PRUSSIA.

The Customs Inspector at Saarbruck reports that
French troops crossed the frontier on Tuesday, and after
searching the Custom House at Solsterhohe took two
Customs' officers prisoners.
THE EMPEROR'S DEPARTURE.

The Emperor Napoleon was expected to leave Paris on
Wednesday night for Strasbourg. The 9.50 p.m. train
from Paris to Strasbourg was crowded with
troops, and a notice had been posted at the railway
station during the day that no other passengers would be
taken. A battle is expected somewhere about that loca-
lity a day after the Emperor has reviewed the troops
there.
London, England, 1870-05-13

MARRIAGES.

On the 7th inst., at St. Andrew's Holborn, Frederick Selo'
mour, youngest son of Mr. H. Banks, 4, John-stret
Elizabeth Belsham, adopted daughter of Mr. and j-
Lucy Balham.
On the 11th inst., at Forton, Gosport, John Thomss 1111'.
Esq., R.N., to Lucy Mary, eldest daughter of the B
rtO'
B. Denuys, chaplain to the Military Prison, Gospo.

DEATHS. L'— v r"
On the 10th inst., at Hastings, Mr. John Gilliam, °LI
,
stnith, of 6 Setle-street, LincOln's-inn.
On the llth inst., of bronchitis, at Wandle-road, CroYdor',
in her 82d year, Mrs. Mary Newman, late of Holtton.
____—.......!

vvWS,
London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM .A.Nl,.l''' 10,
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, .o°'
Strand, in the Precinct of tiie Savoy, in the County
of
Middlesex.—Friday, May 13, 1870.
London, England, 1870-05-13

THE THEATRES, &c.

HAYMARKET—At Seven, No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book
And My Husband's Ghost.
PEINCE 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 Thins.
ter's Box. The Enchanted Wood.
OLYMPIC—At Seven, Frou Frou The 'Varsity Boat Race, My
Turn Next.
GAIETY—At Seven, The Man of Quality. The Princess of Tre-
bizonde.
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 From, La Belle Sauvage.
GLOBE—At Seven, Milky White. Robert Macaire. Vandyke
Brown.
WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Picca-
dilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at 8; Saturday Morn-
ings at 3. Admission, ls, 2s, 3s.
CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed-
nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.
MADAME Tusserml ExltorrioN, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 5.30
p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra rooms, 6d. 1
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park Open daily (except Sundays)
Admission. ls. •on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d.

The Promp
London, England, 1870-05-13

The Wicklow Peerage Claims.

Mrs. Howard declares that she is delayed in the
prosecution of her case, with respect to the claims of
her son, partly by want of means, but chiefly by her
inability to obtain a printed copy of the judgment
given by the Lords' Committee for Privileges in
April last. Mrs. Howard complains that the non-
surrender of the decision is unfair and unjust to her,
and she denies the accuracy of the statement that any
of her witnesses have as yet received compensation
from the House of Lords.
London, England, 1870-05-13

ITALY.

FLORENCE, May 13.
The Opinione of to-day announces that a fresh
band of insurgents has been formed at Vecina of the
same political character as that at Catanzaro. The
Government has some time had information of im-
pending disturbances, and had reinforced the troops
in that district to meet the emergency. It is believed
that this band will disperse on the approach of the
troops.
London, England, 1870-05-13

The Contest at Mallow.

The Liberal candidate has triumphed at Mallow by
eight votes. The Times' correspondent attaches much
importance to this election. In the first place, it seems
to show that Mallow is pledged to Liberalism, for
after repeated trials the Liberal voters have come off
triumphant. Major Knox maintained the contest
under most favourable circumstances, being the
adopted champion of the Conservatives, while pre-
senting a political programme of an advanced
" National" policy going beyond what Mr. Waters
could accept. Thus his failure will be a blow to the
Tory-Repeal party, and the moral effect of the election
will be of far greater value to the Ministry than the
simple retention of a single seat.
The Longford Nomination.

The speeches at the nomination of candidates for
Longford were of an ,amusing, as well as a significant
character. For many years the representation of
the county Longford has been in the bands of the
Greville family, and all the efforts of other candidates
at elections have failed to turn success in an opposite
direction. A magistrate, who seconded Mr. George
Greville on Tuesday, referred to some particulars
which served to shew the strategems,
which, it is alleged, were necessary, were
practised in the interest of outside candidates. He
said he could not omit mentioning the acts of Lady
Ross, the grandmother of Mr. Harman, which were
fresh in the memory of many present. From her
hatred to the Catholic religion and to Catho-
lics, and with a view of securing to her
grandson the peaceable and undisturbed re-
presentation of the county, that lady was sup-
posed during her long lifetime to have banished
from her estates 10,000 human beings, and this she
did in order to vest in her successor the power she
possessed of returning whom she wished as the repre-
sentatives of the county Longford. Captain Harman
did not allow this attack on his relative to pass
unnoticed. He accordingly rose from his seat, and,
without giving a direct contradiction to that allega-
tion, declared that none of his ancestors had hung a
number of rebels in 1798, as a certain member of the
noble house of Greville had done opposite his own
gate-house, in Ballinamuck. Captain Harman's
retort was received with loud cheers, and, as has
been already stated, the show of hands resulted in
his favour.
London, England, 1870-05-13

An English Editor in Paris.

It is bad enough no doubt to be a French Impe-
rialists, and have plots, bombs,-aud_picratecipateslip...,
prepared for one. It is bad, also, to be a Republican
and be arrested for complicity in designs
of which one knows nothing. But what
amount of pity can be too great for
a guileless Englishman who enters the capital and.
forthwith meets with the hostility of both parties ?
Such a fate, we are informed, befell an English news-
paper editor who visited Paris this week.
He had no dealings, friendly or hostile, with.
picrat e of potash. And yet his cab-
was. impounded by the .rioters, overturned, and went-
to form a barricade. It is always well to make ,the.
best of a misfortune. Instinctively the editor rushed.
oil to the telegraph office to entertain his readers
with an account of his mishap. The French officials,
however, displayed a decided preference for fur-
nishing the British public with their account of the
doings in Paris, and the telegram was accordingly
kept back. Of course it is useless to ask the rioters
for an explanation of their conduct—barricade
makers have no 'consciences ; but why was the tele-
gram retained it was commonly believed that the
French Government had given up these tricks ; but
it seems that even an 011ivier Ministry cannot keep _
down the over zeal of small official& More- -
over, there is a decided unfairness about
the thing. Mr. Smalley, the London correspondent
of the New York Tribune, has lately been guilty of :
sitting at table with M. Gustave Flourens, he has
received letters addressed to M. Flourens, and yet he
has been in Paris a week without suffering arrest.
It is true that Mr. Smalley knew nothing of what the -
letters contained—but what does that matter ? The
arrest of Mr. Smalley is demanded in the name of
liberty and equality.
London, England, 1870-05-13

Iron as a Material for Shipbuilding.

At the annual meeting of the members of the Iron
and Steel Institute, Mr. Charles M. Palmer read a
paper on " Iron as a material for shipbuilding, and its
influence on the commerce and armament of
nations." The value of land for agricultural pur-
poses had, he said, tended to diminish very
greatly the growing of timber for ship building,
and foreign nations were unable to supply in suf-
ficient quantities and at a reasonable price good wood
for the purpose. Dr. Fairburn in a work on iron ship-
building had pointed out the superior advantages
which wrought iron possessed over all other mate-
rials. So superior,in fact, were. the facilities for
uniting different pieces of iron to those of com-
bining wood, that a plate 14 inch in thickness
would be 134 times stronger than the wood sheath-
ing combined in the ordinary manner.

MOSES and SON
E. beg to inform the Public that thoy have adopted and
registered a TRADE MARK, consisting of the words " The
S andard," with the initials "E. M. & S." underneath, and that
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.
For trades and addresses see following advertisement.

Ti MOSES and SON, Merchant Tailors.
E

E MOSES and SON, Juvenile Clothiers.

yjMOSES and SON, General Outfitters.
F. •

10 MUSES and SON, Habitmakers.
_i2J•

EMOSES and SON, Linen and Woollen
. Drapers.

iLI.4 MOSES and SON, Hatters and Hosiers.

MOSES and SON, Boot and Shoe Manu
facturers.

"LI MOSES and SON'S Rules for Self-Measure,
• Post Free.

MOSES and SON'S List of Prices, post free
J•

IEI MOSES and SON'S Fashion Sheet, post free.
..12J. .

ti MOSES and SON send Patterns, post free.
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-L1 MOSES and SON mark all Goods in Plain
'4 • Figures.

EMOSES and SON supply Outfits for al
. Classes and Climates.

EMOSES and SON have the best Styles and
. Materials for all Classes.

ILI MOSES and SON, Corner of MINORIES and
ALDOATE.

-IR]MOSES and SON, NEW OXFORD-STREET,
• Corner of HART-STREET.

MOSES and SON, Corner of TOTTENHAM-
I ' • COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD.

MOSES and SON, BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE.
F.
London, England, 1870-05-13

The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.

The Earl and the Countess of Spencer appear to
have had pleasant recollections of their lengthened
tour last year in the north-western provinces of Ire-
land, inasmuch as they have just set out upon a second
tour in Fermanagh, Sligo, Monaghan, and Galway.
Their Excellencies reached Enniskillen on Tuesday,
where apartments had previously been taken at an
hotel on the banks of the romantic Lough Erne.
From this the Viceregal party intended to proceed to
Belleek, to Pee the potteries, and thence to Bunndora,
one of the finest watering-places in the west.
It is somewhat gratifying to know that the head
of the Government in Ireland is enabled to become
a tourist, without fear of danger or troublesome mo-
lestation at a time when so many tales of outrage
and discontent reach England from the sister island.
The Amended Wine and Beerhouse Act.

Sir Henry Ibbetson's bill to amend and con-
tinue the Wine and Beerhouse Act of last
year, has been printed. The provisions, which
are only intended to extend to England,
have been passed chiefly with a view of mak-
ing more stringent the regulations under which
licenses are granted, and beerhouses allowed to be
kept open. One of the chief clauses of the new mea-
sure directs that all shops which by the 1869 Act
should not be open within certain hours for the sale
of fermented liquor, shall likewise not be open for the
sale of any other article whatsoever during the pro-
hibited hours.

The Chancery Appeal.
It appears that serious inconvenience is caused to
London, England, 1870-05-13

THE BRAZILS.

BUENOS AYRES, April 14.
Exchange on London, 49g. Wet salted ox hidea,
39. Number of beasts slaughtered, 45,500. Sales,
37,500. Shipments, 21,000. No stock. Dry hides
for Germany, 46 ; ditto for America, 47. Sales,
44,500. Shipments. 280,000 (?) Stock, 5,000.
Freight to Antwerp, 15 to 20 ; to the Channel, 17 to
25. Wool firm. Tallow, 151 15g. Lumber, 41.
Coals—Cardiff, 10. Cadiz salt, Bf.

THE CAPE MAILS.
PLYMOUTH, May 13.
The Union Company's steamship Natal is expected
hourly here with the above mails, having left Madeira

on the 4th of May. She is the company's
colonial steamship at the Cape, and has been put on
to bring home the English mails in room of the
company's steamer that broke down on the passage
out. inter-
London, England, 1870-05-13

The New Irish Church.

The agitation among the churchmen in Ireland
with respect to the tendencies to ritualistic practices,
alleged to have been already manifested by members
of the Church governing body, has become very
serious, and now not only the " Manual of Short
Prayers," but also phrases in the Book of Common
Prayer itself, are condemned. Several meetings of
indignant parishioners, finding that "certain expres-
sions in the prayer book are capable of being
distorted by Ritualists for the purposes oftheir doc-
trines," have resolved to pay all subscriptions for the
maintenance of their respective churches to trustees
and not •to the representative authorities, unless
certain rules and canons in the existing Prayer-book
are altered. Much painful controversy has arisen on
account of the differences among those who are
anxious to remodel a substantial and independent
Church establishment; and the ecclesiastics who
have had the temerity at • the present juncture to
exhibit partiality for observances objected to, are
meeting with much grave and apparently just
censure.
London, England, 1870-05-13

THE LA FEST EDITION of " THE SUN."
J. HOLMES begs to inform his friends and the public
generally that he supplies the LATEST EDITION of 'THE
SUN" as soon as pablished.—No. 10, Hampstead-road, N.W.

►JI}I LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN "to
be seen Every Evening by 810 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCK's,
Britannia, Kensal New-town.

THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN "
L may be seen at Eight o'clock every Evening at Mr. E.
NEWPORTS% the Oxford Arms, High-street, Camden-town

THE LATE EDITION of " THE SIIN" at
W. SMITH'S " Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden-
London, England, 1870-05-13

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

The management of this popular theatre may be
congratulated in having added another to the OW
lengthy list of successful pieces which it has Pre-
sented to the public from time to time. Mr. .11. ri,
Craven's two-act comedy, " Bar wise's Bo k," wbic3
was produced a fortnight ago, has now thoroucliP,l
established itself, and now nightly draws a crowded
house. Without possessing any of those very Prod
minent and striking features which have appertained
to some of the pieces in which Messrs. Buckstone a°
Sothern have delighted Haymarket audiences'
" Bar vise's Book " is certainly entitled to be
s
considered pleasing, inasmuch as it g°ll
easily and has plenty of situations. It 1/1 f
be hardly necessary to say that the acting °,3
the piece is excellent in every particular. 11-1
Charles Mulcraft, a gentleman by profession, of Jr
Sothern, and the more rustic Robert Cuckfield of
,
Mr. Buckstone being most effective representations
whilst the characteristic parts of Mrs. Mulcraft7
lady by inference, sustained by Mrs. Frank Matthews'
and Miss Robertson's Ellen Petworth are eclu3lif.
excellent ; Messrs. Chippendale, Kendal, and CI;
ton, and Miss Fanny Gwynue are also pleasing. „
comedy is preceded by "No Song, No
Suppe, ,A
and followed by Mr. Morton's popular farce, Ate
Regular Fix," in which Mr. Sothern convulses ti'
house. The performances close with a " Kiss i° be
Dark," which terminates a very agreeable evening'

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. -(THIS DAY )

Sales probably 12,000 bales. garket firm.

It is stated that Bishopt McCabe has issued a circu-
lar to the clergy of Longford county, advising them not
take any part in the election, which comes off to-morrov,
(Friday).
The borough of Doncaster, which has long
siaered itself entitled to parliamentarepresentation,is
about to bring its claims before Parliament for one of the
seats which will be vacant.
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THE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACE.

The Telegraph says the Sappho is a splendid specimen
of the broad but shallow model which was so triumph-
antly introduced to our waters by the America. It may
well be believed that the early risers on board the Vectis
steamship saw a gallant sight when the two stately rivals,
thus prepared, spread their snowy wings to the breeze, and
stood away, beam and beam, for the open sea. Unluckily,
the Vectis—which was to be the goal or turning-point of
the race, and the winning post of the preliminary beat out
to seaward—lost sight of the yachts ; and thus the first
heat of the match ended in a manner satisfactory to no-
body. The Sappho, we believe,. beat out her sixty miles,
and then, finding nothing to round, ran back
again, arriving at the winning-buoy an hour and
a half behind the Cambria, and, nevertheless, indubitably
the winner. Mr. Ashbury refused to entertain for a
moment any idea of disputing her triumph in this, the
the first of the three heats. He struck his flag on Tues.
day evening, because it was abundantly clear that the
Sappho had outsailed the Cambria for that day upon
her best point; and that, "goal or no goal," she was
clearly the winner. Something, the salt-water
authorities say, mutt have been the matter with the
beautiful English schooner. She was out of trim, in
spite of every every experiment, or else unlucky with
slants of wind and the hundred shifting currents of a
Channel tide for she went sluggishly all day, and after
the first three hours was passed by the Egeria—a yacht,
which, although a fine craft would never match
herself ordinarily with that of Mr. Ashbury in
beating to windward. There is a vast deal, too, in the
handling of a schoonor's sails. A yacht captain in a match
might quote Mr. Browning's lines, "A little more, and
how much it is ; a little less, and how much is away
and the Sappho was splendidly sailed by her master and a
crew of forty or fifty picked men from the Solent. If
Tuesday's match were final, we might find some comfort
in being thus beaten with British aid—killed " with a
feather from our own wing; " but we must be as generous
as Mr. Ashbury, and hope to win a similar race in the
second heat, and after that, in the triangular and crowning.
contest which is to follow ; while we freely grant that the
Sappho won all the honours on Tuesday, and shewed her-
self a noble sea-boat.
London, England, 1870-05-13

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BETTING PROSECUTIONS AT LIVERPOOL.

The Liverpool magistrates yesterday fined T. H. Scragg
£lOO, or six mom ha' imprisonment, L r betting; and a man
named Wells 05, or two months' imprisonment, for frequent-
ing Scragg's house for the purpose of betting. Appeals are
lodged in both cases.
London, England, 1870-05-13

THE PLEBISCITE.

The Daily News declares that France "assembled in
her comitia, ' according to the pompous phraseology of a
democratic Empire, has pronounced her will, and who
believes the report ? That is the plain question which,
now that the public places are deserted, and the mounte-
bank has doffed his parti-coloured costume, and put up
the urns, and the thimbles and the cards, and all the
juggler's paraphernalia, in his waggon, M. 011ivier and
his master will have to answer to their own consciences in
the midst of all the difficulties and responsibilities of a
formidable victory. The value of the majority
to its possessors will depend on the use they make
of it. If M. 011ivier persevers in his present
policy of violent weakness, if he continues to be
nothing better than a supple and sentimental Rouher, or
a feeble and futile Morny ; if the Irreconcilable press,
which has served the Government so well by its excesses,
is to be martyrised by- incessant prosecutionss ; if 2/1-
Pietri is to be encouraged in paralysing the prosperity of
the country by police riots and mock conspiracies; if the
annual budget of expenditure is to maintain its exalted
level of ninety-three millions sterling; if the fields are to
be drained of labour by annual conscriptions of ninety
thousand men : if the present Legislative Body, two-
thirds of which represent, nothing but the de-
vouring activity of the Administration, is to serve
out its six years' term of office ; if local self-government is
still to be controlled by an agent of the Executive ; if
electoral reform is to be indefinitely postponed—it needs
no gift of prophecy
,to predict a rapid and a final dissolu-
tion of this vaunted Plebiscitary majority, and a preci-
pitate fall from the proud height of national hope upon
which the Second Empire now stands as if such hope were
not another name for national resignation.
London, England, 1870-05-13

GREECE.

ATHENS, May 13.
The Opposition regaids the reply of Mr. Erskine
to M. Zaimis as equivocal, and rather as a confirma-
tion of his despatch to Earl Clarendon of the 16th
April. They have, therefore, sent a fresh deputation
to M. Zairilis, demanding of him a formal denial of
the charge imputed to them, and thereby repel the
calumny which compromises the whole nation.
London, England, 1870-05-13

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London, England, 1870-05-13

WEARMOUTH COLLIERY STRIKE.

The strike at this colliery is virtually at an end.
Yesterday (Wednesday) and to-day a considerable num-
ber of the men signed an agreement to resume work.
In a day or two the owners will have two hundred
hewers at works, also more than one-third of those who
went out.

THE ISLE OF ELY AND THE EDUCATION

BILL.

At the adjourned Court of Quarter Sessions for the Isle
of Ely, held at March yesterday, it was resolved that a
petition be presented to Parliament by this court, praying
that, considering the heavy burdens, the funds raised by
local taxation are called upon to sustain, any law passed
for the extension of education among the poorer classes
may not include provisions, whereby such funds shall be
further burdened with payments for the education of the
poor other than children of paupers and vagrants. Mr.
Richard Young, late M.P. for Cambridgeshire, and
other magistrates, deprecated any action being taken by
that court on the subject.
London, England, 1870-05-13

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London, England, 1870-05-13

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, May 12.

Dr. Waldeck, Councillor of the Supreme Court,
and formerly a member of the Lower Home of
the Diet, died last ni;ht from a cancer in the
i
stomach. '
AMERICA.
Pit ILADELPHIA, May 12.

The intelligence sent to Government from the
Darien Canal Surveying Expedition indicates that,
although th. surveys are not yet completed, the con
struction of a canal across the isthmus is impracti-
cable.
London, England, 1870-05-13

The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.

The Earl and the Countess of Spencer appear to
have had pleasant recollections of their lengthened
tour last year in the north-western provinces of Ire-
land, inasmuch as they have just set out upon asecond
tour in Fermanagh, Sligo, Monaghan, and Galway.
Their Excellencies reachd Enniskillen on Tuesday,
where apartments had previously been taken at an
hotel on the banks of the romantic Lough Erne.
From this the Viceregal party intended to proceed to
Belleek, to see the potteriPs, and thence to Bunndora,
one of the finest watering-places in the west.
It is somewhat gratifying to know that the head
of the Government in Ireland is enabled to become
a tourist, without fear of danger or troublesome mo-
lestation at a time when so many tales of outrage
and discontent reach England from the sister island.
The Amended Wine and Beerhouse Act.
Sir Henry Ibbetson's bill to amend and con-
tinue the Wine and Beerhouse Act of last
year, has been printed. The provisions, which
are only intended to extend to England,
have been passed chiefly with a view of mak-
ing more stringent the regulations under which
licenses are granted, and heerhouses allowed to be
kept open. One of the chief clauses of the new mea-
sure directs that all shops which by the 1869 Act
should not be open within certain hours for the sale
of fermented liquor, shall likewise not be open for the
sale of any other article whatsoever during the pro-
hibited hours.

The Chancery Appeal.
It appears that serious inconvenience is caused to
London, England, 1870-05-13

Mortuary Fees.

The Daily Telegraph undertakes to enlighten a
correspondent on the subject of mortuary fees. " A
Dissenter " writes to our contemporary to ask whether
the clergyman of a parish has power to claim a
mortuary fee from the estate of every one. who
during his lifetime has had an income of £4O and
upwards. He supposes a case :—A. gentle-
man • who, during his lifetime, has attended
a dissenting place of worship, and owned
no allegiance to the vicar of his parish, dies:
He is buried in the unconsecrated part of a general
eemetery by the minister of the chapel where he
formerly attended. The clergyman demands from the
widow a sum of money as mortuary fee due to him-
self. Would the law of the land sustain
the clergyman in his claim ? The Daily
Telegraph answers this question by another,
The editor asks whether such a custom exists in the
place referred to. An Act of Henry
he says, declares that these payments shall
be demanded only in places " where mortuaries
There have been accustomed.,, was a case
in the Consistory Court of London in 1839, when the
Marylebone guardians were refusing to pay the
burial fees of paupers to the rector of the parish.
The suit was dismissed because it was governed by
particular Acts of Parliament.
London, England, 1870-05-13

THE PLEBISCITE.

The Daily News declares that France " assembled in
her comitia," according to the pompous phraseology of a
democratic Empire, has pronounced her will, and who
believes the report ? That is the plain question which,
now that the public places are deserted, and the mounte-
bank has doffed his parti-coloured costume, and put up
the urns, and the thimbles, and the cards, and all the
juggler's paraphernalia, in his wagon, M. 011ivier and
his master will have to answer to their own consciences in
the midst of all the difficulties and responsibilities of a
formidable victory. The value of the majority
to its possessors will depend on the use they make
of it. If M. 011ivier persevere in his present
policy of violent weakness, if he continues to be
nothing better than a supple and sentimental Rouher, or
a feeble and futile Morny ; if the Irreconcilable press,
which has served the Government so well by its excesses,
is to be martyrised by incessant prosecutionss ; if M.
Pietri is to be encouraged in paralysing the prosperity of
the country by police riots and mock conspiracies; if the
annual budget of expenditure is to maintain its exalted
level of ninety-three millions sterling ; if the fields are to
be drained of labour by annual conscriptions of ninety
thousand men : if the present Legislative Body, two-
thirds of which represent nothing but the de-
vouring activity of the Administration, is to serve
out its six years' term of office ; if local self-government is
still to be controlled by an agent of the Executive ; if
electoral reform is to be indefinitely postponed—it needs
no gift of prophecy to predict a rapid and a final dissolu-
tion of this vaunted Plebiscitary majority, and a preci-
pitate fall from the proud height of national hope upon,
which the Second Empire now stands as if such hope were
not another name for national resignation.
London, England, 1870-05-13

CHINA.

Colonel SYKES asked the Under Secretary of State for
War whether the Foreign Office has received, officially or
otherwise, confirmation of a statement in the North China
Herald of 15th March, 1870, of an indignity offered to
both the English and the United States Consuls when
calling on Viceroy Li.
Mr. OTWAY answered that no official intelligence had
been received of the transaction. If any indignity had
been put upon the consular officers it would be the duty
of the Foreign-office to make inquiries ; but he was bound
to say that the reports from newspapers in China were
not always verified on investigating the matters to whieh
they referred.
London, England, 1870-05-13

Otc;•imi INTELLIGLNw.

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THE CHESTER MEETING
THM DA f.
(BY ELECTRIC TBLEGRAPO
HANDICAP PLATE.

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Benevolence
Blucher
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Cestrian Handicap of 5 sous each; with 50 added, .T.Y.C.

Twelve subs.

Mr. Payne's King of Clubs, by Ace of Clubs
'Lemonade, 3 yis, 6st 121 b • W. dray 1
Mr. Ambery's c by dhevalier d'lndustrie—Lady de
Trafford, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b Ashforth 2
Mr. J. Mumford's Filou, 3 yrs, 7gt 71b • Hardy 3
The following also ran :—Prior, Patrician, Cheddington,
Green Riband, Playmate, Leoville, and Pyrenees.
A Plate of 50 sovs ; weight for age, with selling allow-
ances ; gentlemen riders ; professionals 51b extra- Six
furlongs.
Mr. Johnstone's Cawdor, by Van Galen—The Thane,

5 yrs, 10st 91b (in 51b ex) (501.) Hudson 1
Mr. Ray's Maurice, 4 yrs, list 21b (501.) Mr. Bevill 2
Lord Calthorpe's Bull Dos, 3 yrs, lOst 21b (in 51b extra)
Jeffreys 3
The following also ran :---Sovereign, A.atietent, Gordian
Knot, and f by Claret.

Cheshire Stakes of 200 soya, added to a Handicap Sweep-
stakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft ; winners extra. Gros-

venor Course. Fifty subs.
Lord Anglesey's President Lincoln, by Kobinoor—
Topsail, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b (car. Bst 21b) T. Chaloner 1
Mr. K, Brayley's Lily, 5 yrs, 7st 31b ....... .......Kenyon 2
Mr. Hodginan's Vestininster, 4 yrs, 7st 121b...Butler 3
The-following also ran !—Cmdirial York, Thorwaldsen,
Lord Hawthorn, Consternation, and "Tot Out,

Dee Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 100 added, for ihree,yr-
olds ; winners extra ; second to receive 20 sovs out of
stakes. Grosvenor Course. Eighteen subs.
Captain Machell's Bonny Swell, by Macaroni—Bonny

Bell, Bst 101 b
Mr. M. Dawson ns Coutts, Bst 101 b
Lord Wilton's Muster, Bst 101 b

Jeffery 1
.T. Chaloner 2
Kenyon 3

Lord Coventry's c by Tim Whiffler—Whiteleg, Bst 101 b

Maidment 4
Two-year old Plate of 200 sovs ; winners extra ; 3 sovs
entrance. Five furlongs. Fifty entries.

Mr. F. Mouncey's Shannon, by Lambton, dam by
Newminster—ltigolette, Bst 71b Snowdon 1
Mr. G. Jones's Lady Atholstone, 9st (inc. 71b ex)

Morris 2
Mr. Mortimer's Jack-in-the-Box, 9st lib (inc. 51b ex.)
Jeffery 3

The following also ran :LLord Stanley, Caradoc, f by
Defender—Galot, The Knight, Miss Sharp, and Baron
Au dley.

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas ; weight for age.

Two miles.

Mr. T. Smith's Starter, by Voltigeur—Camiola, 4 yrs,
9st 71b Osborne 1
Mr. Hodgman's Paul Jones, 5 yrs, lOst Parry 2
Captain Atkin's The Boy, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b Wyatt 3
The following also ran :—Stanton, Performer, and
Disturbance.

Marquis of Westminster's Plato of 100 sovs, added to a
Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each; weight for age,
with allowance&. •

Mr Payne's Newsman, by Newminster—Pauline 3 yrs,
6st Mb (W. Gray) 1
Mr J P. Craven's Ware Hare, 3 yrs, Est 71b (Webb) 2
Mr Elliot Bower's Realite, 6 yrs, 7st 51b (less blb allowed)
(G. Jarvis) 3
London, England, 1870-05-13

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(CF, ITRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS).

1E GREATMEETING OF ROMAN CATHOLICS ON
EDUCATION.
A great sting of the Yorkshire Roman Catholics on
education was held at the Leeds Mechanics' Institute last
night. Upwards of two thousand persons were present.
The Duke of Norfolk presided, and recommended Catholics
to support the Government bill lest a worse measure should
be proposed next year.
Lord Howard, in moving the first resolution against the
exclusion of religious teaching and in favour of the exten-
sion of the Senominational system, urged that Roman Catho-
lics should exert themselves to establish schools. Referring
to a statement that had been made that there was a large
class of neglected Irish poor in Leeds, the noble lord offered
to give .£2O apiece to the first five schools that might be
established in Leeds by the hiring of room.
The resolution was supported by Sir Charles ( lifford
and others, and was passel with about twenty or thirty
dis,.entients.

On the motion of Mr. Charles Langdale a petition to Par-
liament was adopted, urging that the Government does not
sufficiently extend the denominational system, and praying
that Roman Catholics should not be compelled to send their
children to schools whose teaching they could not conscien-
tiously app ove.

8ET77.1-Nci PROSECUTIONS AT LIVERPOOL.
The Liverpool magistrates yesterday fined T. H. Scragg
£lOO, or six mon. hs' imprisonment, f. r betting; and q.man
named Wells .£25, or two months' imprisonment, for frequent-
ing ScragLfs house for the purpose of betting. Appealore
lodged in both cases. - 4"4"-

THE NOMINATION AT MAYO.
The nomination of a member of Parham /AO represent
the county Mayo, in the room of the late W. 11biire, took
place at Castlebar, yesterday. Everyttig passed off
quietly. Mr. George Brown, brother-in to to Mr. Moore,
was declared duly elected after the nomination, there being
no contest.