The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-07 00:00:00

ITALY.

FLORENCE, April 6.
The vote on the appointment of the four commit-
t:es charged with the examination of the Govern-
ment financial bills was taken to-day. 86 Deputies,
nearly all membeas of the Left, declared their in•
tention not to take part in the nomination.

It is stated that this arose in cona.Lqu..nce of a vote
of the Chamber yest_rday, to rass to the orckr of
the day over a motion to adjourn the nom.nation of
the committee on the Bank Convention, until a list
of the sha eho'ders of the Bank Lad been furnished
.o the members. •

AMERICA.
(Per French; Atlantic Cable.)
NEW Yoitx, Ap.il G
COMMERCIAL INTELLICLENCE.
ctosixo rlacEs.

Gold closed at 112 ; the highest quotation during the day
was 1121 ; the lowest, 1114.
Sterling Exchange on London
5-20 U. S. Bond; 1882
V/ 1885
„
1867
10-40 „
Illinois
Erie
Cotton—Mid. upland
Petroleum—Standard White
Flour—Extra State, $4 50c. to $5 10c. Corn—Old
mixel, $1 Oc.

Mrs. Fawcett is about to lecture in Dublin on the
"Electoral Disabilities of Women."

The SteaM Navigation Company at Odessa has
decided to employ women in the sale of passenger-tickets.

The duties of General Lefroy, late Director
General of Ordnance at Woolwich, lfave been assumed by
Colonel Adye, C. 8.,

A deputation will shortly wait upon the Post-
master-General with reference to the recent advance

in the rates of postage to the colonies.

The other day a labouring man was married al
Burton, in Derbyshire. His wife dropped down dead
within an hour after the ceremony.

At the recent election for Bristol the Liberal
Dean, Dr. Elliott, recorded his vote in favour of Mr.
Elisha Robinson, a Dissenter and member of the Libera-
tion Society.

It is reported in the Diocese of Exeter that the
Rev. Charles Voysey, on his resigning Healaugh, will be
presented to a valuable Cornish Living by a very. Broad
Church layman.

In addition to the donation of £1,200 a year to
the London Mksionary Society, Sir Francis Crossley,
M.P., has givelr ten thousand pounds to the Pastors' Re-
tiring Fund.

_Le Nord of to-day says that according to a rumour
in circulation at the Hague, there is probability of a mar-
riage between the Prince of Orange and an English
Princess.

The Bishop of Rochester has instituted the Rev.
Thomas Dale, D.D., to the deanery of Rochester, vacant
by the death of the Very Rev. Dr. R. Stevens, on the
nomination of the Crown.

Miss Emily Faithfull has added to the number of
her other industries by commencing a course of instruc-
tion in the art of reading "for ladies, clergymen,
and members of Parliament," in Prince's-street, Hanover
square.
Mr. Francis Phelps, of Lee Priory Mansion, near
Canterbury, recently shot a burglar, who has been
brought before the magistrates and committed for trial.
He was in an exceedingly weak condition and had to bb
accommodated with a chair.

A report of Mr. Adams, Secretary of Legation in
Japan, hews that the total number of cases of silkworm's
eggs exported from that country' to France and Italy
in 1869 was 6,359. The" gross weight of the commodity
was 319,8291b5.

LATIN gRONIINCIATION AND VIVA VOCIa Ex-
AIGNATIONS. —ln reference to the pronunciation of4atin,
a correspondent states that the old manner of pronouncing
the vowels and some of the consonants of Latin words ha,
been revived in the 'University of Cambridge, and, fol-
lowing the high authority of bit.. Munro, the Professor of
Latin, the Latin grace on Sunday week was read in the
Rail of Trinity College very much as it is heard in a
Scotch school. The change has bean adopted at King's
College, and will probably soon become universal. Per,
haps the new old method will be required from the corn,
petitors at the next weewa woks examination.—. Record.
THE " NILE " PEN.--Messrs. AVNiven and
Cameron, of 23, Blair-street, Edinburgh, the inventors of
the Waverley, Owl, and Pickwick pens, have just produced
another beautiful metallic pen, to which'they have given the
name of the "Nile." Admirable as their former productions
have been, their last new pen must be. termed a marvel, and,
speaking after a severe test of their lasting qualities, we
pronounce them a most delightful pen, as they glide over the
paper with an case and rapidity that would astouhli tLo
most practised penman.

The very extensive Distillery now being erected.
at Belfast, with all recent improverneuts for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Messis. DUNVILLE & Co. who have gained
a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to he
called •` The Royal Irish " istillery."

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Morning.. Evening .
Titunsnar 40 ml.l past 5 0 min past 6
Fiti DA Y .
SATURDAY . 5 min past 7 40 min past 7
SUNDAY I omin past 8 ,.,2 min past 8

MONDAY 35 min past 9 20 min Past 10
TuEsDAY 2 min past 11 42 pin East 11

SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT.

WEDNESDAY.

' Nine p.m. is rather late to begin a day's work, especiall3
if you have done a day's work already. But this is the
year of Ireland's vengeance, and the Saxon has to worl
double tide. If the punishment is deserved, it must b(
confessed that it is also severe. I could dilate upon tin
cruelty by the hour, but I should not help myself
thereby, and should weary your readers. It
is enough to say that we have not had a
single count - out this session. Truly this -it
a terribly " earnest " Parliament, and one is in
dined to sigh for the good old times of poco curante Pal•
merston. However, there was some alleviation yester-
day. If we had that very tough and stale and tasteless
joint, the Land Bill, all the morning, we had a variety of
dishes in the evening—one of them, at least, well flavoured
and spicy.
Mr. Peter Taylor led off with his motion for leave to
bring in a bill to " restore the constitutional practice " of
payment of members. Note that Chartism has gone out
of fashion, and that the five points are now always pro-
posed—at least such of them as have not yet been granted
—as highly constitutional `and Conservative measures.
Did not Mr. Bright call household suffrage a
part of " the old lines of the constitution "
long before Mr. Disraeli educated his followers
into that belief ? So, too, Mr. Peter Taylor, Radical of
the Radicals, contends that to pay M. P.'s is " an ancient
and constitutional practice." As a matter of fact, he is
right, for all the world knows that Andrew Marvell, M.P.
for Hull, was the last member to receive payment. But
then Mr. Taylor's ploposal was really an innovation, for,
instead of proposing that members should be paid by
their constituents, as in the time of the famous Hull
statesman, he asked that they should be paid out of the
consolidated fund, a point which Mr. Gladstone took care
to make the most of. Nevertheless, Mr. Taylor's was a
very able speech, delivered with much fluency and elo-
quence, and wit, and he repeatedly called forth cheers and
laughter. The mirth was very loud when the member for
Leicester came to mention the minimum amount which
he proposed to recommend, and hon. members, especially
the county squires, seemed hugely tickled •at the
salary of £l5O a year. He urged with no little
force that the country suffered by the absence
from the House of the large number of able men who were
deterred from entering Parliament by want of pecuniary
resources. He went too far in saying that unpaid services
ware of very little value, and in saying that he exposed
himself to attack from several members. Mr. Taylor
spoke for an hour. Mr. Gladstone took half that time to
answer him. lie was more than usually emphatic, and
slapped the large buhl box on the table with such fre-
quent and resounding blows that it sounded as
if a boxing match were going on. If there
is such a desire on the part of the country
for poor men as representatives, why don't they
elect them and subsidise them? said the Premier. Such
cases have been known, but they are rare exceptions.
Then where are we to stop ? Are we to pay magistrates,
sheriffs, municipal representatives, poor-law guardians,
volunteers? Are we, continued the Premier in a tone of
consternation which excited no little amusement, to pay
the Peers ? for they, too, are members of Parliament. A
voice called put " Jurors :" and Mr. Gladstone,
for once, had no answer to the interpolation. But he went
on in true Palmerstonian style to praise the illustrious
assembly before him as the finest in the world. Mr.
Hibbert contended that Mr. Taylor had begun at the
wrong end, that he ought rather to have reduced the ex-
penses at elections, to which Mr. Taylor might have re-
plied that that may be all very well for men who have
money to spend, but could scarcely be of much service to
those who have none. Mr. Cross argued that if M. P.'s
were paid, magistrates ought to be paid, as indeed they
used to be. But how would that be liked in Lancashire,
where there are 800 magistrates, one for every
policeman 1 Vicount Bury rather wearied the House in
his experience of America and Canada, and was very
severe upon Mr. Taylor for suggesting that it would be
wise to diminish `the social consideration now shewn to
M. P's. Amid shouts of "'Vide," Mr. Collins made a
joke, and the question was then put. A feeble "Aye"
was followed by a vociferous "No." Nevertheless,
Mr. Taylor challenged the Speaker's decision, and
amid cries of "Oh," the House proposed for
a division. The scene was exactly the reverse to that
which was presented- when Mr. Bryan and. Capt. White
d:vided againsf the Irish Land Bill. It was the ayes this
time who were but a „little company, and it was the noes
w:io arrayed themselves in an army. No sooner was the
dsor thrown open 'than M.P.'s, who had heard nothing of
the debate, came crowding in. There they were of all
sorts and sizes and shapes, redolent of the dinner-table
au.l something more, eager to qualify themselves for
taking part in the division, by • being present at the time

that the House was cleared. Soor, all too soon, the ayes
returned, bulky Mr. White, Mr. Morrison, Mr.
J. S. Potter, tall and slender Mr. Fawcett, white-
haired Mr. MacLaren, minute Mr. Dixon, and a few
others. Then the four tellers advanced with measured
steps—Mr. Taylor and Sir Charles Dilke doing duty for
the Ayes—and the numbers were announced, amid

laughter : Ayes, 24 ; noes, 211,
A dull half-hour followed. It was all about water and
cisterns, and the strange coincidence was that everyone
who took part in the debate spoke in a drowned voice, so
that scarcely a word was heard. Some one (I believe Mr.
Bruce) promised on the part of the Government that the mat-
ter should be attended to, and 59 the subject ended.
Suddenly we passed from the semi-silence of subdued
eloquence to oratory so loud that Stentor might have
envied the voice which uttered it. The orator was not the
least of a giant. He was rathirpelow the average size,
quite a dwarf, in fact, by thegide of his own col-
league in the representation of London, Mr. Cran-
ford. But then he was an Alderman, and
was once the most august of personages, Lord Mayor.
Need I add that the speaker was Mr. Lawrence? But as
strength of lungs does not imply cogency of reasoning, I
will add that the hon. member spoke forcibly in more than
one sense of the word. His subject was the House Tax,
and he gave some very remarkable figures to show how
unequal it was—how, for instance, men who had built
mansions costing £30,000 were assessed at only £BO or
£lOO a year, andhow burdensome the tax was to the working

classes. He broke new ground for the teetotallers by
showing them that whereas ordinary houses are rated at
9d., publichouses are rated at only 6d. After a few words
from Mr. Collins, who must have his say on every sub-

ject, Mr. Stansfeld got up and answered—no, that is the
wrong word, for he did not answer Mr. Laurence. He
only said that there were other taxes more objectionable,
which must be reduced before this one, and so Mr.
Lawrence withdrew his motion. Mr. Hughes followed
with a motion about the governing bodies of the public
schools, a ,subject naturally interesting to the father
of Tom Brown, but apparently not interesting to
M.P.'s generally, for the House was almost empty.
Even Mr. Newdegate has departed. How is that ? All
the evening until the, last hour he has been in and out,
talking, to this member, and sending messages to that ; for
is he not going to reap the fruits of his great victory, by
getting a 15 elect committee appointed to inquire into the
management of convents -- those dens of iniquity,
&c., &c. ; and does not Mr. Cogan mean to
rob him of his triumph if he can ? What then has
become of our hearse-like member? Well, the fight is put
off, for how long I know not, but it won't come on to-
. _

night, and Mr. Member for North Warwickshire has

made the wisest motion he ever made in his life—he has
moved on and gone to bed. With such a bright and
shining example before me I could not do otherwise, 80 I
left " Tom " Hughes talking, and caught the "members'
train."

A conference of the paper-makers of Lancashire,
Cheshire, and other counties, was held in Manchester
yesterday, at which it was resolved to raise the price of
all kinds of paper 10 per cent. This step, they say, is
rendered necessary by the increase which has taken place
in the cost of raw material.

The Italian correspondent of the Guardian says
that antiquarian research is busy at Rome. Buildings on
the Palatine Hill have been disinterred, and a street which
still shews a solid pavement of basalt. One house is shewn
to have been the property of Tiberius Nero, the father of
the second Imperator. The Pope continues operations at
his own expense.

The Dublin Standard is informed that the secre-
tary of the Dublin Freemen Commission—Mr. R. Ross
Toad—has left for London.with the draft-report of the
commissioners, and that the publication of that document
may be expected in a few days. This paper hopes that
the temporary disfranchisement of the city of Dublin will
not be continued longer.

The public adjudication of the concession for the
construction of telegraphic lines between England and
Portugal and Gibraltar took place at Lisbon on Monday
last. The Minister of Public Works announced that the
concession has been definitely granted to M. Jules
Despecher, the representative of the Falmouth, Gibraltar,
and Malta Telegraph Company,

KEON'S DION AND TIIE SIBYLS.

In the current number (April 1870) of The Cads° tile
World, published at New York, we observe that tl
serial republication of the Class'cal, CLristian N°/e
of "Dion and the Sibyls," by Mites Gerald ICe°l/i
Colonial Secretary of Bermuda, and author °
" 'Harding, the Money Spinner," &c., is commences;
Fublished four years ago by Mr. nerd,,
of New Burlington-street, " Dion" was imme3iate'l
upon its first appearance reviewed at sotne Joyr!th
by ourselves in these columns, and with the arPr°l3o
to which we conceived the work and its anther wee
respectively and very justly entitled. Regardil'g
Loth w;th that high approbation which we tbus
deavoured to express, we are gratified to observe t'
new evidence of the success achieved by these at °llc'e
intensely classic and intensely Christian imagirlivgni
The author has availed himself of the opportunitt 7a
this very conspicuous reptint, to precede the work is
its new form with the following admirably express%
Dedication—a dedication that addressed to soVuae
else than Lord Lytton would breathe only the lang(l3.ck
of hyperbole, but addressed to him, is within the Or
in every particular :
"1 dedicate the following work to Edward Vl' Oat
Lord Lytton, not only in appreciation of one of the•Wbl-0
searching, comprehensive, independent, and. indefatie
thinkers, and One of the truest and highest men of genil
ey"
of whom it has ever been the lot of his own country „'
the English-speaking races to bo proud, and the fate of c°7
temporary nations to feel honourably jealous; not sell.:
admiration of a mind which nature made great, and svbi' d
study has to the last degree cultivated, whose influence
authority have been steadily rising since he first begile to
labour in literary fields more varied than almost all into
4°l which ONE person had previously dared to carry the ,
of the intellect; but still. more as au humble token of t
grateful love which I feel in return for the faithful and o°4
sietent friendship and the innumerable services with Wll;iiicg
a great genius and a great man has honoured me dil4r
twenty 3 ears. "MILES GERALD 10E°'
"Paris, Jan. 18, 1870."
Immediately afterwards the Editor of theCCathi/
World pens the following, by way of Introductwo
"The historical romance of Mr. Keon, now republish 1
with the author's most cordial permission and his flit.
corrections, was first printed in London, in 18G6, , a
Bentley, publisher in ordinary to the Queen. The ec14,1°40
was brought out in a very handsome style, and sold At
high price of a guinea. Notwithstanding the heavy Pricce3;
'which the work was furnished to our transpontine kiss :g
(or at least to the upper ten thousand' of them), it is 8t 14
moment out of print, and an effort made about two years sob"
to procure copies for sale in this country was uusuccesst,
The copy kindly sent us by the author was accidentally ~jtb
laid for several months, and this circumstance, together we
the desire to give our readers the opportunity of per-
„sl d
the work as soon as their attention should be directed t° to
by a notice such as its high merit demands, caused °g tit
delay the proper public acknowledgment to the author sea
the present moment. Its success in England, in spite of IPti
nationality and religion of the writer, is no slight proof °f be
intrinsic excellence, especially. when we consider this
ventured into a field which the subject-matter of ths 1/°°
would turn into the very home and headquarters of Bnee
prejudice.
"To every effect adequate cause; and, in this instance'to,
those who take up the story of Dion, ono cause of its succend
will, before they have gone half way through its events $"(1,
adventures, speak for itself. Yet, however light to re3.o
the work has, we feel convinced, been in the last dale
laborious both to plan and to execute. Easy writ,.il!(l
said Thomas Moore, 'very often makes fearfully °""a
reading.' We believe the converse has often 10°
equally true. • •od
" We are glad to learn that Mr. Keon has recently receOrit
a far more gratifying recognition of his distinguished tr'eAt
than any other to which a Catholic author can aspic°•
an audience granted him by Pius IX., His Holiness cOP
punted him on his services to literature, and gave ht°l
beautiful rosary of amber as a token of his august facet/1'1;
"One word more, and we shall let the story itself heglof
to be heard. The epoch of Dion was the turning-P°W
all human history= the hinge of the fateful gates,
the ru
meet of the mightiest and most stupendous transitios
world has ever known, the transition of transitions; the
moment on this earth of a superplanetary, supercosmic
There were two suns in the heavens; one rising, never ,b
set ; the ether going down, to rise no more. At no eV°, J.,
Lad human gonius,„LLz •t 1 so luminous, or human Pr'.
poised itself on wings wide, in a sphere so sul)10'
but this genius was for the first time confronted in its oo:
sphere by divine inspiration and a supernatural authorit);
The L "
etting of a classic though pagan day saw the d""jii,t
day of Christianity. There were two suns in one 511'
the same moment. The doubtful cross-lights of
civilisations overarched the world with a vault of shift' 7;
contending, contrary, and awful splendotirs—those of °,llO
order in the utmost intensity of their radiance, those of
other in their first, glimmering beginnings; a seeming et°lo,l
fusion ; an interneche war ; a hazy mingling of ettlfo.
glories as full of Meaning as it was of mystery."

EXORBITANT 'MEDICAL CHARGES. Another 70
arising out of the New Cross accident has been trieclt
the Kingston Assizes. The plaintiff formerly 1°9,41
:a -ern in Bishopsgate, and at the date of the accident the
just sold, his business, intending to live in
the
country.. The company at first pleaded that but
plaintiff was not a passenger by the train in questiontibe,
the fact having been established, they withdrew the Pees,
and limited the inquiry to the assessment of dar'l,3 e'eir
proposing that this should be left to the mediee',.'„r,
tlemen on both sides. The doctors were, hew' for
unable to agree, and finally a verdict was giv'enll, ,900.
2300 damages, the plaintiff having claimed *'''fost
Serjeant Parry for the-Company mentioned that the
claim had been £2,000, but it was afterWriot
doubled. The plaintiff's counsel explained °tett
this was owing to the costs which aln°ll/4110
to £7O and £BO on each side per diem. the
Chief Justice, in summing up, animadverted uP°llOlO
practice of swelling medical charges in cases where it The
thought the company would have to pay the bill.
jury jury appended to their finding a declaration that the ni
cal charges had heen most exorbitant. One of the dee,,rs
"-

charged three guineas each for thirteen visits.
bhp
MURDER AT THE GOLD DIGGINGS.—George Dyer,
e.,
was recently charged at Bow-street, on his own conf
tbe
sion, with having murdered his fellow-workman at
gold diggings in Victoria, has been brought up for fo-Ab et
ufit
examination. Superintendent Thomson stated
he had received a telegram from CaP
Standish, the Commissioner. of Police at Melbourne:2,
this effect :—" Dyer's statement strongly eurroborno.
Obtain further remands. Cannot yet issue wars ea
Mailed letter." The prisoner was accordingly reinaninrt•
until the arrival of the mail which is expected in a '-
night. Bail wag accepted.
01
THE MOCK 'FRENCH :COUNT.—Arthur de Uiss.,, rp
has passed himself off as a French Count under sec;g 01
different names, has pleaded guilty at the Central Crio°oo,3#
Court to the charge of obtaining a large quantity Of g
from French firms under false pretences. He Was
tenced to five years penal servitude.
1,
itsa9f
THE CASE OF M. DEMETRIUS PAPPA.—Tuo tri
M. Demetrius Pappa on a charge of appropriating of
of money belonging to the Oriental Commercial 13son0
which he was manager, has been postponed till the n
session of the Central Criminal Court. ta
rA
A RATE COLLECTOR IN DIFFICULTIES. --id
collector has applied to the magistrate at N,',7.0e0
worth --for - advice. He had received two Clintl°
in payment for rates for which he had given ,flie
regular receipt, and they had been dishonoured. • his
magistrate said he did not think the case came IntioO.
the criminal laW, but the collector must bring an
on the cheque.
FELONIOUSLY SHOOTING.—At the Leeds assizes 11 01
named Edwards has been charged with fel'ool°
shooting a travelling draper, who trespassed 011,, el.
grounds. The only noticeable point in the case via'bil
exemplary character given to the prisoner, wilol heel
founded a night-school at his own expense, and 1191.011 i
a scripture reader in the parish. He was even"
acquitted.
org • e
THE ROBBERY BY A GATESHEAD SOLICITOR.--Zor,
Briggs, solicitor, on bail, was tried at the Durham Aria
ter Sessions on a charge of stealing. four plated spooneo,,s,
other articles from the landlord of an hotel in that: 10
The plea of dementia failed, and the jury found
vuiltv. He was sentenced to six months' Imprison-to,
CAUTION TO UNLICENSED REFRESHMENT,„:IIOOI4
KEEPERS.—The proprietors of the Derby Star ‘-'°,ooo
Hall have been heavily fined for having:, 1011,
deprived of the spirit license for their for
resorted to the method of purchasing sPirit°
their customers in licensed houses. When
ire if,
one entered the hall and wished a glass of beer he ga,,,,0t
messenger the money, and the messenger thereupood re-
to the nearest public house, purchased the liquor, all solo°
turned with it. It was proved, however, that 0a,,,t0a•
occasions no money was taken there, but that the
tities sold were entered in a book, and the Doc
that this system was illegal. -
4, vt
•
In consequence of the demonstrations agal.,isu -
Tardieu, the Council of the Faculty of Medicine boy
tided to close the school until the Ist of May.
Mr. Julian Courtauld, a member of the firs ha'
ics
Courtauld and Co., crape manufacturers in Esseiico
poisoned himself accidentally while labouring nuclei:, 0;11
indisposition. The unfortunate gentleman seas
nrliaiCneo
twenty .sic years of age.
adopted Th o
aI
petitionl a n e y tTo opy
education should be imperative instead of option% , local
no denominational schools should ported suported bY ul4
at
rates ; and that teaching in rate-supp schools ell°
nutu Council
asking
has h neaLii
by entirely unsectarian and undenominational.
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