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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-03

RATES AND RELIGION,

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At an an agricultural meeting in Somersetshire Arch-
deacon Denison expressed his belief that there was an
end of religious teaching with the introduction of the rate
system. He said :—" If once you establish an education
rate in this country it is as, demonstrable as any proposi-
tion in Euclid, you cannot have any• school which shall
have any religious education in it at all. Directly you
have established a rate at all, you must have
a body of managers of all people who contribute to
the rate. They will try for a time to
arrange the religious difficulties, which they will
certainly find to be impossible ; and then they will say,
' Well, we will cut them up by having no religion at all ! '
That is what you must come to if you have an education rate.
This is one of the things with which it is very kindly
proposed to saddle us. For my part, if I am compelled
by law to pay an education rate, I must pay it. I don't
mean to go to prison. The inevitable consequence will be,
I shall withdraw from the support of schools every six-
pence I now contrjbute as a voluntary subscriber, which
would amount to at least five times the utmost rate I
could be made to pay."
London, England, 1870-06-03

The Ladies' College at Cheltenham.

_
There is an institution at Cheltenham known as
the Ladies' College," which has attained a well-
deserved fame for the successes it has ensured to a
large number of English girls in respect of their educa-
tion. Of late years whenever a "local " or other
public examination has been held in the neighbour-
hood of Cheltenham, the names of some
students .of the college have invariably been
prominently forthcoming in the honour lists. It is
only a few days, indeed, since the announcement was
made that all the five pupils of the first-class who went in
for the sy_gaeu's examination of the University of.
London fromfielienham " passed," while two of the
number-gained certificates. To a school, in which
efforts have been so happily undertaken for the cul-
ture and higher education of young ladies, the eyes
of those who have it in their power to assist and
encourage good works, do not long remain closed.
It is a pleasing duty to record that a Peninsular
hero, Colonel Church Pearce, has been one of the
first admirers of the college and he has become its
benefactor. Knowing full well that in _ the
army. there are many officers young as well as
old in service, who have not the means of
giving their daughters the • opportunity of
a worthy education, the gallant colonel has devoted
£l,OOO for a scholarship at the Ladies' College, to be
open to girls, whose fathers are in the army, but
whose positions in • society are threatened by
pecuniary trials or other circumstances of misfortune.
London, England, 1870-06-03

LITERATURE.

Edwin Drood. Nos. 11. and 111. By Charles Dickens.
At the heart of the labyrinth evidently preparing for us
in Edwin Drood is Jasper the Opium-Eater. Nothing finer
than the suppressed passion of several of the scenes described
in these two numbers of the his new serial story for May and
June has ever been written by Mr. Dickens : the quarrel
between Edwin and young Landless, in the second num-
ber, for example, and the astounding outburst on the
part of Jasper, at the very close of the third number, just
published. The mysterious visit to the old Cathedral of
Cloisterham (coupled with the winding staircase depicted
on the green cover) has about every touch of it an eyrie
suggestiveness. What is the concealment that is getting
in readiness, and what is the subsequent revelation? A
quarter of the story has already appeared, but the drift of
the plot cannot, as yet, in the least be conjectured. Al-
' ready, however, Mr. Dickens has -created for us a cluster
of new intimatee,---known but yesterday, but familiar to
our imaginations for ever afterwards.; Durdlee, with his
dinner-bundle. eapsea, with all hie absurdities. ,Mr.
Grewgious•—a -Wonderfully humorous Conception. Mr.
Orisparkle, whose very 'fame is refreshing. Ma—that
pretty old piece of china. Durdles' deputy—stoning
• everybody he can get a
,shy at, with his " blind you,
s'elp me ! I'll stone your eyes out, s'elp me !" The
Landlesses, Pussy, Bazzard, and a whole throng
of others, the tones of whose voices, the sound of whose
footsteps, the trick of whose every movement, the very sit of
whose clothei—all are now as vividly realised by us as have
been (apparently for half a life time) those of the many well-
known figures in the Dickens' Gallery of Originals—Sam
Weller, Dick Swiveller, Sim Tappertit, Joe Gargery,
Tim Linkinwater, Bob Cratchit, and a very world of
other inimitable characters. The simple fact of
of the matter is this, we take it, that Mr. Dickens so
thorOughly realises his own creations, to begin with, that
his reflection of them upon the mind's eye of his reader
has all the clearness, minuteness, vividness, crispness of
outline of a veritable photograph. His letterpress is in
itself pictorial. Insomuch so that we could very readily and
• very willingly dispense with his later illustrators. Mr.
Fildes, to our mind, is no improvement whatOv
upon Mr. Stone. We sigh for the return of the days wheß,
IL K. B. was scrawled at the corner of the woodcuts in
Modell Ilumphrey's Clock, or when Phiz was floutished on
the margin of the graphic etchings adorning al. monthly
instalments of " Pickwick," and " Nickleby," and
" Copperfield." The, only added charm now in any way
degrable would he to have the green nlnbe're without
the illugtraticais.
London, England, 1870-06-03

THE BITER BITTEN.

NEW YORK, May 20'
•
A German, named Peter Kaiser, living in Palls3de t
Avenue, Yonkers,Westchester county, obtained a wart°
not many days since, in which he charged a fello
countryman, Henry Fleck, proprietor of a boarding-h°llse
in Jefferson-street, with having, on April 9th, while tea
tifying in a civil suit before Justice Donohue, d
committe•
perjury in regard to some moneyalleged to have been P3lii
by Fleck to the complainant. Yesterday morning, an
before Fleck had been arrested, he swore out a warrant
charging Kaiser with wilful and corrupt perjury in
affirmation relative to a like charge in the warrant obtai i
lle
by the. latter. Roundsman Austin, in whose hands tne
documents indicated were placed, secured both parties'
and locked them np. In the afternoon Fleck had an ex
ci
that
mination before
Police-Justice Baird, when it was did.°
Kaiser ad agreed to sell the defendant some °°
cords of wood, and had receipted for 150 dollars paid him
by Fleck to bind the contract, which receipt was offereo,
in evidence. All this had been denied by Kaiser in hii
affidavit charging the other with perjury. A number °f
lawyers and a justice of the peace were called by the
defence, each testifying that Kaiser was not to be believ
under oath. Both parties were represented by counsel
and, after a patient hearing of the case, the court clis-
charged Fleck and held Kaiser without privilege of ba'„'
on a charge of wilful perjury.
London, England, 1870-06-03

The Denham Murders.

Mr. F. Charsley, the Coroner under whose war-
rant the Denham murderer was committed,
explains the motives which actuated him
in refusing to allow the prisoner to be present at
the inquest. He says that in ordinary cases it is
right for a party apprehended on suspicion to be
present at the inquest, but in this case the chief
constable gave him what he could not but feel a
sufficient reason for not doing so, namely, that after
what had occurred, it would be hardly safe to bring
up the man. The course adopted by the chief
constable, in placing the coroner's warrant
in the hands of the governor of the county gaol,
had the effect of preventing a recurrence of the
scenes which took place outside the police-court and
at the railway-station at the prior hearing before the
magistrates. While he fully believes they could
rely on the efficiency of their police, he has no
doubt that an attempt would have been made
to carry the threat of the populace into execution,
and the resistance, though successful, would probably
have been attended with serious consequences. All
this, he says, has been avoided by the adjourned
hearing at the county gaol at Aylesbury.
London, England, 1870-06-03

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and NI anageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
THIS ENENING, at 7 o'clock, LOVING HEARTS. Messrs
Edward Teary and Turner; Mesdames Buf ton at, drantley.
Followed by KENILWORTH. Messrs David James, Terry,
Turner, and Fenton; Mesdames Sant!ey, Anstiss, Goodall. Met-
calfe, and Moore.
London, England, 1870-06-03

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London, England, 1870-06-03

London Pauperism.

Sir C. E. Trevelyan, in a letter to the Times,
graphically depicts the relationship between
pauperism and crime. London, he says, is the fore-
most city of Christendom, and at this season the
delegates assemble there of societies which
have for their object the evangelisation
of the world. Yet this London is in
its pauperised demoralized state, a scandal of the
age. It is a whited sepulchre which indeed appears
beautiful outwardly, but within is full of
dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. The
relation of the vagrant to the criminal class
Sir Charles looks upon as of the most
intimate kind. Among other startling statistics
he states that in London it is estimated that one
person in 150 is a housebreaker, a pickpocket,
a shoplifter, a receiver of stolen goods, or a
human bird of prey of some sort, which
gives upwards of 20,000 of this class. According
to two independent calculations, there are about
150,000 children whose parents live in chronic indi-
gence, and about 100,000 of them loose in London
streets, all more or less debased. The enormous facts
of London charity—the wholesale indiscriminate
action of competing societies, crowned by the
munificent individual gifts of rich charitable per-
sons, are, he submits, responsible for this, having
erected mendicancy into a lucrative scientific profes-
sion. Labour he considers the great antidote to
crime, but the effect of modern charity has been to
suspend the primeval law, "In the sweat
of thy brow shalt thou eat bread till
thou return into the ground." Drunkenness
and crime follow in the wake of this, for there is
no form of sin and sorrow in which the former does
not play a part. The only remedy he suggests
is by leaving the relief of destitution to the
Poor-law, and by throwing the strength of voluntary
effort into the great work of training the young to
industrious habits, and lending a helping hand to those
of mature age who are still capable of performing a
useful part in life.
London, England, 1870-06-03

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London, England, 1870-06-03

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London, England, 1870-06-03

THE MURDER AT WAKEFIELD

The inquest on the body of the woman found in a back
yard at Wakefield on Wednesday morning with her throat
cut was resumed yesterday. It was proved that Johnson,
the man in custody, was in the company of the deceased
at an early hour on Wednesday morning, and had been
driven from her several times by various policemen.
When last seen together the two were staggering about
one of the streets of the town in a drunken state. A few
hours after the body of the murdered woman was found
Johnson pledged two shirts at different pawnshops, and
and in different names. Both of these were damp,
and had been, apparently, recently washed. Stains
of blood were discovered on each shirt, and also
upon his jacket. The woman Welsh, who is also
in custody, was in Johnson's company at one of the
pawnshops, and was heard to ask him if there were any
marks on one of the shirts. The inquest was adjourned
to next Tuesday.
London, England, 1870-06-03

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AMERICA.

NEW YORK, June 2.
The Federal troops fired upon a party of Fenians at
Williamstown, New York. Some were wounded.

The present tariff has been strongly denounced by the
Democratic State Convention of Ohio, and the Govern-
ment policy has been condemned.

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London, England, 1870-06-03

E ITION.

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London, England, 1870-06-03

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The Denham Murders.

Mr. F. Charsley, the Coroner under whose war-
rant the Denham murderer was committed,
explains the motives which actuated him
in refusing to allow the prisoner to be present at
the inquest. He says that in ordinary cases it is
right for a party apprehended on suspicion to be
present at the inquest, but in this case the chief
constable gave him what he could not but feel a
sufficient reason for not doing so, namely, that after
what had occurred, it would be hardly safe to bring
up the man. The course adopted by the chief
constable, in placing the coroner's warrant
in the hands of the governor of the county gaol,
had the effect of preventing a recurrence of the
scenes which took place outside the police-court and
at the railway-station at the prior hearing before the
magistrates. While he fully believes they could
rely on the efficiency of their police, he has no
doubt that an attempt would have been made
to carry the threat of the populace into execution,
and the resistance, though successful, would probably
have been attended with serious consequences. All
this, he says, has been avoided by the adjourned
hefiring at the county gaol at Aylesbury.
London, England, 1870-06-03

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London, England, 1870-06-03

VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.—
Lessees—Messrs H. J. Montague, D. James, and T,
Thorne.—THlS. EVENING, at 7 30, an original Comedy, by A.
Halliday. entitled , FOR LOVE OR. MONEY. At 9.46, the new
Burlesque. by Conway Edwardes, entitled DON CARLOS; or,
The Infante in Aims. Supported by the following Company:—
Messrs H. J. Montague, G. Honey, H. Irving, W. H. Stephens, C.
Garthorne, E. Elton, and Thos. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power,
Cavendish, Amy Fawsitt, K Irwin, L. Claire, J. Beauclerc, R.
Evelyn, Kemp, T. F. Garthwaite, R. Power.
N.B.—On to-morrow (Saturday), June 4 (at 8 o'clock), anew and
original Comedy, in 3 Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, supported by
Messrs. H. .I.. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, H. H. Stephens,
and T. Thorne ; Mesdames A. Newton (her first appearance at
this Theatre), T. Lavis, and Amy Fawsitt,
London, England, 1870-06-03

London Pauperism.

Sir C. E. Trevelyan, in a letter to the Times,
graphically depicts the relationship between
pauperism and crime. London, he says, is the fore-.
most city of Christendom, and at this season the
delegates assemble there of societies which
have for their object the evangelisation
of the world. Yet this London is in

its pauperised demoralized state, a scandal of the
age. It is a whited sepulchre which indeed appears
beautiful outwardly, but within is full of
dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. The
relation of the vagrant to the criminal class
Sir Charles looks upon as of the most
intimate kind. Among other startling statistics
he states that in London it is estimated that one
person in 150 is a housebreaker, a pickpocket,
a shoplifter, a receiver of stolen goods, or a
human bird of prey of some sort, which
gives upwards of 20,000 of this class. According
to two independent calculations, there are about
150,000 children whose parents live in chronic indi-
gence, and about 100,000 of them loose in London
streets, all more or less debased. The enormous facts
of London charity—the wholesale indiscriminate
action of competing societies, crowned by the
munificent individual gifts of rich charitable per-
sons, are, he submits, responsible for this, having
erected mendicancy into a lucrative scientific profes-
sion. Labour he considers the great antidote to
crime, but the effect of modern charity has been to
suspend the primeval law, "In the sweat
of thy brow shalt thou eat bread till
thou return into the ground." Drunkenness
and crime follow in the wake of this, for there is
no form of sin and sorrow in which the former does
not play a part. The only remedy he suggests
is by leaving the relief of destitution to the
Poor-law, and by throwing the strength of voluntary
effort into the great work of training the young to
industrious habits, and lending a helping hand to those
of mature age who are still capable of performing a
useful part in life.
London, England, 1870-06-03

Law not Equity.

Mental aberration is, by common consent, the
most deplorable of all the manifold afflictions from
which humanity suffers, and it is certainly not an
evil which any one would lightly or knowingly incur
for the sake of pecuniary gain. It is, therefore,
not a little singular to find it positively
asserted by no mean authority that this calamity de-
prives the sufferer and his relatives of their claims
for help. More especially is this dictum to be mar-
velled at when the assistance demanded is not
eleemosynary,but only the fruits of prudent investment.
On what grounds the claim made on behalf of a lunatic
member of a sick fund is incorrect and illegal it is
impossible for ordinary minds to understand, inas-
much as madness, more than any other ailmentr un-
fits the sufferer for providing for himself or. his
family. Why, then, should an arbitrary rule
bar him and them from profiting by the
prudent accumulations of his sane days ? Yet the
late Mr. Tidd Pratt, the well-known Registrar of
Friendly Societies, not only decided against the 9-
plicant in a case of this sort, but endorsed his decision
by the emphatic declaration that any payment made to

the representative of an insane person on the ground
of sick money, would subject the secretary of the
society to prosecution for misappropriation of the
funds! Itis no wonder that when this extraordinary
decision was repeated to Mr. Serjeant Wheeler
at Liverpool the other day, when trying
a similar case, he should have declared his
total dissension froin it. However, he promised
to examine the decisions on the question before
giving his judgment, and we shall probably learn in
a few days whether this distinction between mens
sana and corpus sanuni is to be included among the
-happy inconsistencies of our English law.

The Small-pox in Paris.
The prevalence of small-pox in the French capital
has become so alarming that the epidemic has been
the subject of a question in the Corps L6gislatif. It
is stated in the official statistics that 2,935 patients
have been cured from the disease in Paris since
it made its appearance in November last.
692 persons have died, and at present there are
706 sufferers under treatment. The Due de Oau-
mont la Force and Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne
were last week both attacked on the same day. One
of the more remarkable victims who have just
succumbed to the malady is M. Duval, the cele-
brated butcher, who started the cheap dining houses
known so well in Paris as Bouillons Duval. The
doctors are of course making money very fast, as in
addition to the positive sufferers they have clients in
thousands of nervous people, who will insist on
having themselves vaccinated. One practitioner is
said to have netted a sum of £9OO within the past
three months, solely in vaccination fees.
London, England, 1870-06-03

SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS TO-DAY,

The Royal Institution, at 8 p.m., when Professor Max
Muller will lecture on the Migration of Fables.
The Archreological Institute, at 4 p.m. '
The Philological Society, at 8.15 p.m.
Thc Aeronautical Society, at 8 p.m., at the Society of
Arts.

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MISSION.

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London, England, 1870-06-03

The English Exodus.

Among the benevolent-minded ladies who at-
tended at the platform of the St. Pancras Station, On
Wednesday, to brighten the departure of the last
party of emigrants who have left London,
were the Countess of Gainsborough, the Hon.
Elizabeth Waldegrave, the Hon. Mrs. Hobart,
and Miss Verney. Three hundred and fifty
men, women, and children, were entertained by these
noble-minded women at a parting festival in one of
the large waiting-rooms of the terminus. A tea-
table had been spread, and presents of provi-
sions to the - women and toys to the
children were distributed plentifully at it. Encou-
raging speeches were made to the emigrUdits by
Mr. White, the emigration commissioner from
Canada, and some of the ladies, and thanks were
returned by several of the men, some of whom stated
that they had " begged hard for work " befoie they
resolved to start for a new life in an England
where starvation was unknown. When the
station master gave warning that the train
was about to start for Liverpool, the
women hastily collected their little ones and
their small bundles, and. amid many expressions of
regret at parting, and of hope and blessings in the
new life, and of gratitude for help proffered in an
hour of sore need, the train passed away from Lon-
don. The character of each adult :in this case was
well known, and none but " respectable hardworking
people" were permitted to enjoy the aid given. There
are thousands of people still in the East-end of London,
auxious to escape from a life of prolonged misery and
struggling, and it is, therefore, to be hoped that the
good work in which high ladies of the laud are not
too proud to take a part, will be recognised and aided
by the wives of the English gentry and by the gentry.
themselves, until the " want of employment" cry
which is heard of so often, and which will once more
be a subject for the " special consideration" of the
House of Commons on Friday, June 17th, will have
ceased, or nearly so, from the land.
London, England, 1870-06-03

DEATH OF CONSUL CAMERON.

Captain Charles Duncan Cameron, F.R.G.S., formerly
British Consul in Abyesinia, and whose imprisonment by
King Theodore was the prime cause of the Abyssinian,
war, died at Geneva on Monday last. Captain Cameron
entered the army in 1846, serving as ensign in the 45th
Regiment. From 1846 to the end of 1847 he was engaged
with the Irregulars in the Kaffir war for which he
received the Kaffir war medal, and he served again
through the Kaffir war of 1852-3. In the Russian war he
served under Sir William Fenwick Williams, of Kars. On
the death of Mr. Plowden, in 1860, he was appointed
Consul in Abyssinia, to reside at Massowah, where he
arrived in January, 1862, in which year he attended the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg on his expedition to the interior
of that country. On the Bth May of that year he left
Massowah for Gondar, bearing presents and a letter
from the Queen to King Theodore. He arrived at Gondar
on June 23rd, and was favourably received by the King.
But in 1864 he met with the King's displeasure, and was
imprisoned from January 2nd to April 17th, when he was
given over to Mr. Rassam, who had been sent out
on a special mission for the purpose of obtaining his re-
lease. In the following July, however, he was again im-
prisoned by the King, this time having for fellow pri-
soners Mr. Rassam, Lieutenant Prideaux, and Dr.
Blanc, of the Indian Army, and a number of
other Europeans who were resident in the country.
The story of their release by Theodore, after two years'
captivity, on Lord Napier's appearance before Magdala
(April 11, 1868), is too recent to need recapitulation.
Captain Cameron, on his release, returned home, where
he arrived in July, 1868, broken down in constitution by
the sufferings he had undergone.
London, England, 1870-06-03

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THE C tPITAL QUESTION.

We publish herewith a western call for a Convention to
meet next October at Cincinnati, to consider the location
of the capital of the United States. The invitation is
very broad, and we trnst it will be widely accepted. Con-
gress is now pressed to authorise novel expenditures, for
objects nowise pressing, at our present seat of government;
and these expenditures, if justifiable at all, must assume
that Washington City is the permanent capital of the
United States. If this be so—if the stupendous acquisi-
tions, and discoveries, and upturnings, of the last seventy
years, have left Washington incontestibly the point at
which Congress should sit, and the Executive transact the
diplomatic business of the nation, then let the people, by
some direct and emphatic declaration, so proclaim it. If
it be not so—if the American people, for reasons satisfac-
tory to themselves, prefer a different location for their
capital—then it is high time the fact were ascertained
and respected. The question has been raised • it
ought to be fully considered and decisively adjudicated. 2
It is not well that million after million be spent in en-
larging public grounds and multiplying public edifices
destined to be abandoned ; nor is it right that such ex-
penditures should be incurred in order to strengthen the
argument against relocation based on the vast amounts
of public money expended on the present Capital. Let
us first decide that the Capital is or is not to remain where
it is ; then act in conformity to our knowledge. And,
now that our Westward march has been arrested by the
Pacific, while our Southern boundary seems permanently
traced by the Rio Grande and the Gila, it seems fit that
the Federal metropolis shall be placed where it is to
remain, or that it shall be conclusively located where it
now is.

We respectfully suggest that Congress authorise the
President to select an able Commission to survey the
whole field, and report what action would most conduce
to the national well-being.—New York Tribune.
London, England, 1870-06-03

MORE DISTURBANCES IN ITALY,

Some particulars of the insurrectionary movement on
the shores of the Lake of Como are given in a Florence
telegram. The band, numbering about fifty men, and
carrying a flag with the inscription "God and the
People," upon arriving at Casino seized the ammunition
in the Customs guardhouse. The sentinel resisted, and
was taken prisoner, but afterwards released. Pur-
sued by the troops and the Carabineers, the
band took to the mountains ; but when they
came to Gira they found the place occupied by the
troops, whereupon they retreated to Colico, where they
were again met by the troops and dispersed. The band
comprised some non-commissioned officers who had
deserted from Pavia after the mutiny there. General
tranquillity (the despatch adds) prevails fn Italy ; but
unfortunately a Naples telegram comes to hand with the
information that a fresh Republican band has appeared in
the province of Terra di Lavoro, and there is a rumour
that twenty-five Greek brigands have disembarked on the
coast of Calabria.

CANADA.

COLLINGWOOD, ONTARIO, May 18,

The steamer Chicora arrived at seven o'clock this
evening, having again been refused permission to pass Ste
Marie Canal. Colonel Wollon, commanding the British
forces, waited on General Cooke, in command of the dis-
trict, and asked the intention of the American Govern-
ment with regard to the Chicora. General Cooke replied,
" My instructions are absolute ; nothing whatever con-
nected with the Red River Expedition can pass the canal.
I must, therefore, absolutely refuse to allow the Chicora
to pass."

TORONTO, ONTARIO, May 19.
The Globe and Telegraph this morning have strong
articles in favour of building a canal on British ground
round Sault Ste. Marie, and that the privileges
now employed by American vessels in Canadian canals
shall cease until the question at issue is adjusted.

HALIFAX, May 18,

Dr. Tupper enters the Dominion Cabinet as Receiver-
General, in place of Mr. Kenny, who has been appointed
Governor of Manitoba.

WASHINGTON, May 19.
With regard to the dispatch from Collingwood, Canada,
received to-day, announcing that the steamer Chicora
had arrived there, having been absolutely refused
permission to pass the Sault Sainte Marie Canal, it
should be stated that the last orders of this Government
had not reached the commandant at the Sault when
the Chicora sought to pass. Ere this the order under
which she was refused has been reversed.-- New York
Times.
London, England, 1870-06-03

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LITERATURE.

Edwin Drood. Nos, 11. and 111. By Charles Dickens.
At the heart of the labyrinth evidently preparing for us
in Edwin Drood is Jasper the Opium-Eater. Nothing finer
than the suppressed passion of several of the scenes described
in these two numbers of the his new serial story for May and
June has ever been written by Mr. Dickens : the quarrel
between Edwin and young Landless, in the second num-
ber, for example, and the astounding outburst on the
part of Jasper, at the very close of the third number, just
published. The mysterious visit to the old Cathedral of
Cloisterham (coupled with the winding staircase depicted
on the green cover) has about every touch of it an eyrie
suggestiveness. What is the concealment that is getting
in readiness, and what is the subsequent revelation? A
quarter of the story has already appeared, but the drift of
the plot cannot, as yet, in the least be conjectured. Al-
ready, however, Mr. Dickens has created for us a cluster
of new intimates—known but yesterday, but familiar to
our imaginations for ever afterwards. Durdles, with his
dinner-bundle. Sapsea, with all his absurdities. Mc.
Grewgious'—a wonderfully humorous conception. MA
Crisparkle, whose very name i's refreshing. Ma--that.
' pretty old piece of china. Durdles' deputy—stoning
everybody 'he can get a shy at, with his " I'll blind you,
s'elp =ne t I'll stone your eyes out, s'elp me !" The
Landlesses, Pussy, Bazzard, and a whole throng
of others, the tones of whose voices, the sound of whose
footsteps, the trick of whose every movement, the very sit of
whose clothes—all are now as vividly realised by us as have
been (apparently for half a life time) those of the many well-
known figures in the Dickens' Gallery of Originals—Sam
Weller, Dick Swtveller, Sim Tappertit, Joe Gargery,
Tim Linkinwater, Bob Cratchit, and a very, world of
other inimitable characters. The simple fact of
of the matter is this, we take it, that Mr. Dickens so
thoroughly realises his own creations, to begin with, that
his reflection of them upon the mind's eye of his reader
has all the clearness, minuteness, vividness, crispness of
outline of a veritable photograph. His letterpress is in
itself pictorial. Insomuch so that we could very readily and
very willingly dispense with his later illustrators. Mr.
Fildes, to our mind, is no improvement whatever
upon Mr. Stone. We sigh for the return of the days when ,
H. K. B. was scrawled at the corner of the woodcuts in
Master Ilumphrey's Clock, or when Phiz was flourished on
the margin of the graphic etchings adorning the monthly
instalments of " Pickwick," and " Nickleby," and
" Copperfield." The only added charm now in any way
desirable would be to have the green numbers without
the illustrations.

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ITALY.

PWRENCE, June 2c

No more fears are entertained in Calabriaof an increase
of brigandage. The Filadelphia band have dispersed.
Ten of Nathan's followers are still in the mountains pur-
sued by the troops.
The frontier garrisons have been strengthened, and the
Swiss gendarmes watch the Swiss frontier. The Opinione
of yesterday censures the Swiss Government for not con-
fining the refugees to the interior.
MILAN, June 2.
Sixty persons, several stud6nts being among them, have
been seen in the north of Como.

THE ROMAN COUNCIL.

Raus, June 2.

According to the intelligence which is published in the
Memorial Diplomatique the (Ecumenical Council will be pro-
rogued from the first of July to the fifteenth of October.
The dogma of Infallibility will be proclaimed on the Feast
of St. Peter.
London, England, 1870-06-03

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A VESSEL ASHORE.

The barque Medora, of Penzance, Read master, 360
tons register, principally belonging to Messrs. W. D.
Matthews and Sons, Penzance, which left that place in
ballast yesterday bound to Quebec, went ashore in a dense
fog this morning about five o'clock, on the rocks near
Perran, in Mount's Bay. The steamer Earl of Arran
went out to try to tow her off, but could not, but will
wait till next tide to make another attempt.

A report from the island of Lewis states that up to
Wednesday the catch of herrings showed a deficiency of
3,000 trans as compared with the catch of last year up to
the same date.

At the Liverpool Police-court, yesterday, two women
were charged with attacking an American gentle-
man named Larwill, on Wednesday evening, and robbing
him of £7OO. The prisoners were remanded.
The Kildare police have arrested a man near Ennis-
killen, who answers the description of the one who com-
mitted an outrageous assault on a child some time since,
in Glasgow, from the effects of which she died.—The man'
who stabbed his wife the other night has been committed
for trial on the charge of murdering the infant born
during the struggle with kis elder victim, who is reported
to have since died.
The Western Morning News of this day (Friday) comments
on the fact, that although shipwrights and joiners have
been discharged from Devonport dockyard, on superan-
nuation at the rate of half a gang a week, many of them
being of the most efficient and experienced workmen of
the service, there have been no corresponding discharges
of leading men or petty officers of which there is one to each
gang, many of whom, therefore, are now supervisors with-
out anything to supervise. The treatment of the officers
throughout the whole series of discharges has presented a
marked difference to the treatment of ordinary workmen.

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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1870

rsE OF TUE LETTER «H.»

A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, signing
himself an " Aitch-dropper," writes against the
Orthcepic crusade undertaken during the last 30 years
for the recovery of the letter H in the speech of the
southern part of Britain. All this fuss and
clamour, he contends, about a single letter
shews that there is at 'the bottom of it a strug-
gle with nature. That aitch-dropping is no
Cockney vulgarism, he submits, is proved by
the use of that letter before a consonant in the Bible.
In Latin, which enjoyed a metropolitan standard of
pronunciation, II," he says, was held for nothing.
Quinctilian opined it might be abolished, and
Aulus Gellius that it was used or omitted,
ad lthituin, as exemplified by Virgil—thus
" ahena "and " aena." Turning from classical grounds
in support of his argument, Aitch-dropper instances
the unpleasantness of witnesing the gasping efforts
of many worthy citizens to preserve the shibboleth
of gentility to the extent, even when dropped, of
going back to pick it up, and sometimes after sticking
it in the wrong place to go back and drop it.
Let them, he asks, if they stick to purism do
something for " R," so that we may no longer hear
such phrases as " fort " for "fought" " tort " for
" taug,lit " and "he had no idear of height." Let
aspiration, he submits,-be retained for elocutionary
purposes if you like, but let us not be troubled with
this affectation at our country houses and firesides.