The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-04 00:00:00

THE BULL-FIGHTING.

No doubt the officers of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals did a laudable thing
by interfering with the bull-fight ; but it is not
certain that their interference was managed in the,
proper way. The Law Journal takes exception to
the fine and exciting raid upon the ring just when
the bulls were beginning to feel the darts
shew signs of serious business. "We • hold
the conduct of the officers to have been
wrong, seeing that
___the animals could be
protected without incurring the risk incident to pro—
ducing an excitement in a large audience. A cry of
6 Tiro !' in the midst of the uproar would have been
a heavy price to pay for the zeal of the Pall-mall
philanthropists." As it was, the stoppage of the
performance caused intense excitement and a scuffle.

EARLY LESSONS IN FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
The Pall Mall Gazette relates a story with regard
to Japan. When the treaties of ten years ago
opened the Japaneso trade, everything was
done tor ready money, and the English and
American agents introduced the dollar which had.
long been the principal coin used in the Chinese
foreign trade. Finding that all the monies of Japan
had conventional values, of which the Go-
vernment was the sole regulator, an opening for a
little speculation of exchanges was seen and seized.
commencement was made with the szeni, an iron
coin. The foreign merchants took 4,800 azeni's from
the Japanese customs for every dollar which they
bought in the market of Shanghai for
800, to 1,000 cash or s zenis indifferently,
thus realising a swift and facile profit of at
least 380 per cent on every transaction. This soon
told upon the Japanese Treasury, and the kobang, a
gold coin valued at 16s. Bd., was introduced with
a worse result. The market became glutted, and
one German humbly requested the customs tq
change 250 niillion dollars in one day.
The Tycoon's Government, having learnt a lesson;,
began to speculate on its own subjects, who in their
turn raised the prices of their goods, in order to
recoup themselves for what they wore thus mulotedt
In the end the Government were compelled to de
what they should have done at first, definitely closed
their ." Change," and, the gain was at an end. -
CM/ROI( AND STATE IN SPAIN.

Tue split between the Progressiets and tI4
I.Tnionieta in Spin, has had at least one remarkabli
effect, The retirement of the party opposed to
ecclesiastical changes has been 'followed by a very
trenchant measure affecting the position of the
clergy. This bill gives to the clergy the same civil
rights as are enjoyed by other citizens of Spain,
and grants them freedom of action in all re-
ligious matters, the publication of bulls and other
dispositions from Rome, without the neces-
sity of submitting them previously for the Go-
vernment exquatur' but takes from the bishops
all the temporal jurisdiction to punish, banish, and
remove curates. The number of bishops is to be
greatly reduced. Their salaries will be cut down.
The deans, prebendaries and canons are likewise to be
put on short allowances. In fine, the Ecclesiastical
Budget of £1,604,466 has been reduced by £311,680.
Nevertheless, it is maintained that the Spanish clergy
are still better paid than those of other Catholic
countries.

The redOubtahle George Francis Train has been
appointed Superintendent of Agencies for the Life
Association of America.
The Review states that the growing tendency of
public opinion in the United States seems to be in favour
of the abolition of State Insurance Departments and the
substitution of a National Insurance Bureau in their
place.
EGRESS FROM PUBLIC BUILDINGS.—It is not
probable that the genius of the architect will ever attain
the grand result of design in public buildings, that they
shall be so perfect in arrangement as to afford complete
immunity from danger in the event of a panic occurring
amongst the members of audiences assembled within their
walls. Although. however, architects and their works share
the common lot of imperfection, it by no means follows that
the men who pursue a noble profession should not strive
after improvement, and we fear it is incumbent on us to
state as our conviction that the limit of improvement in the
providing means for the rapid egress of audiences front
public buildings, whether theatres, churches,or other places
of public resort, has by no means been attained as yet.
Where the audience are well conducted and leave a build-
ing in the most orderly manner, it yet is certain that many
minutes elapse between the first movement to depart and
the exit of the last individual. That this should be the case
at all, and especially that it should be the case with places at
once so liable to destruction by fire, and yet, so much fre-
quented by the public as are theatres, fully bears out our
statement that the architect has much to do yet before he
may say " I cannot improve on it."—The Mechanics'
Magazine.
MR. G. H. MOORE, M.P., ON MISREPRESENTA-
TION.—A Mr. Bolster of the county of Limerick, speaking
at some club, attributed to Mr. G. H. Moore words which
that gentleman denies having used. Whereupon the mem-
ber for Mayo wrote a very irate letter. Says he :
" I do not accuse Mr. Bolster of a deliberate fiction in the
utterance of this story ; because I have no reason to
b3lieve him intellectually capable of either fiction or
deliberation ; but, undoubtedly, his account of the
occurrence in question is as completely fictitious,
both in letter and in spirit as as anything
related in Gulliver's Travels." After explaining
what he really did say, Mr. Moore proceeds ;
" Nature has formed bolsters of all descriptions—animal°
and inanimate •, but they are all of the same type—long
two ends them
bags stuffed with feathers—useful sometimes to support
the heads of other men, but having only -
selves—one as much like a head as the other ;
bolsters
standing on eiher end are in an anomalous potion and
the Chair.mant of the Limerick Club on his leg before
s Mr
gene ra l Gladstone,op d all exception, the
pNtNiaona,
bteoytohnat rule. It was the
most stupid Irishman that •
was
nthoatexhcee
was ever heard to speak on
this side of the Channel ; and he has taken pains to prove.
on lib rot= to Ireland, that he is just the same at hon.',