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London, England, 1870-09-17

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Lon, Brigh, and S Coast 39 40 Madras guar 5p a
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133, 1 Oude and Rohilkund g
ton and orth-Western 127 1271 5p c
127, 3, 61 Scinde, Punjaub, and
Lon and South-Western 85 87 Delhi guar 5p 0
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THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

LYCEUM—Farce. Innisfallen, or the Men in the Gap.
SADLER'S WELLS—Farce. Hamlet.
QUEEN'S—Midsummer Night's Dream. Farce.
PRINCE a' WALES—M. P. Comedietta.
GAnrri—Dolly. Bluebeard. Beggars' Opera
VAumavnia—Chiselling. Two Roses. Don Carlos.
EkruAND—A Day After the Wedding. School for
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NATIONAL STANDARD—LittIe Emily.
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London, England, 1870-09-17

DEATHe .

On the 13th inst., at Edinburgh, Sir St. Vincent-Keene
Hawkins Whitshed, Bart., aged 70.
On the 13th inst.' at Clapham-common, Mary Ann, the
relict of James Horne, Esq., aged 80.

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AT a GENERAL COURT OF PROPRIETORS,
held at the BANK OF ENGLAND, on Thursday, the
15th September, 1870 :
RESOLVED,—
That the best thanks of this Court be given to the
GOVERNOR, DEPUTY-GOVERNOR, and COURT OP DIREC-
TORS of the BANK OF ENGLAND, for the great ability
with which they have conducted the business of the
Corporation during the past half-year.
ORDERED,—
That the above resolution be advertised.
HAMMOND CHUBB,
Secretary.

IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN.
CUSTOMS LOAN for £1,000,000 sterling.
Notice is Hereby Given, that the BONDS of the above Loan
are ready for delivery. Holders of Scrip receipts are hereby
requested to send in the said Certificates forthwith, and the
oonds will be delivered a few days After.
Printed forms for. listing the Scrip Certificates can be had on
application.

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London, England, 1870-09-17

THE WAR.

PARIS PREPARED FOR A SIEGE.

The -Liberte says that Paris must suffice for itself, and it
has nothing to do with the discussions of diplomatists.
These_ must not interfere with the duty that lies before
Frenchmen to defend their capital. Paris at this moment
is in the position of Achilles, when he cast off his feminine
vestments, and his golden tunics, at the sight of arms.
It has to prove itself in the face of the enemy
first of all, and afterwards of Europe. Such
a proof it says, will have been given before a week has
passed. Our woods burn, our bridges are blown up,
our roads are cut, our public gardens are
turned into parks for artillery, our boule-
vards into cantonments and our saloons into hos•
pitals. After the lapse of fifty-eight years, Paris follow
the example of Saint Moscow—Moscow, the true Russian
town. In 1812 the flames of Moscow inflicted such
injuries on Imperial France that she died three years
afterwards. In 1870 the flames in the suburbs of France
will save the French Republic. Let diplomatists, then,
discuss and .combine, weigh the pros and cons, measure
what humiliations France can undergo, and estimate
what Prussia may exact for her renown, but we must
make up ourminds to fight. With our Chassepots our mit-
railleuses, and our cannons, we will furnish arguments
for discussion. We shall soon see how much simpler the
negotiations at London, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Wash-
ington-, and even at Berlin, will become when we can
answer captious counsels and exorbitant demands with
the simple words, " Paris has resolved to resist coute qui
London, England, 1870-09-17

THE TERMS- OF PEACE.

The Manchester Courier, speaking of the concessions
likely to be demanded by Prnssia, says it would be better
for France to abandon her foreign possessions and retain
her integrity at home. Not only would such a course be
pleasanter to Frenchmen, but it would secure the rest of
Europe against the perpetual disturbance of its peace,
certain to result from any annexation of French territory
to Germany. Here are reasons abundantly sufficient for
the friendly interposition of Foreign Powers. Why is it
Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues hold so persistently aloof
from all interference ? Why does England take no note
of the question which within a very short period may
affect her very existence as an independent Power

Saunders' Hews Letter regards the siege of Paris as a
certainty. No matter what statements may be made that
Prussia will be.shiasfied with nothing less than the occu-
pation of .EV4ace and Lorraine. The Morning Mail
considers that the division amongst the Re-
publicans will materially facilitate the siege. The
Irish Times regrets that the institution of -an
orderly Republic at Paris should be followed by the pro-
clamation of a Red Republic at Lyons. There is division
where all should be united. The same paper considers
that there is something more than a mere geographical
connection between the movement at Lyons and those 4
Savoy and Nice.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Edmund
Beales, M.A., to the Judgeship of the Cambridge County
Court, vacant by the death, of John Collver, Esq.
THE Duo D'AUMALE ON THE SITUATION.—The
Gaulois says :—" A gentleman just returned from England
has related to us a conversation which he lately had with
the Princes of Orleans, and especially with the Duke of
e revenge.
Her situation will
defend itself, and the Prussians will be baffled in their
Aumale. After deploring the situation in which we are
placed the latter said France has undergone a terrible
sheordealbutf
rise again takebeainainndg sp a e frightfuldesperate.
Paris rev
efforts against the capital. As for ourselves, we have
offered our services to the Government of the National
Defence ; we have placed ourselves entirely at its dis-
posal, and we bitterly regret the Government should have
refused our offer, following in that respect the example of
the preceding one."
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careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa,
Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately
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Chemists, London.—Advt.
London, England, 1870-09-17

RE DENNY GARDNER, Deceased.—Pursuant
to an Act of Parliament of the 22nd and 23rd Vict., cap.
35, intituled "An Act to further amend the Law of Property,
and to relieie Trustees," NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all
Creditors or other persons having any CLAIMS or DEMANDS
upon or against DENNY GARDNER, late of 42, Compton
Road (formerly No. 18, Northampton Terraces), Canonbury
Square, Islington, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, who
died on the -sth day of August last, and whose will,
with a codicil thereto, was proved on the 25th day
of August last in the Principal Registry of Her
Majesty's Court of Probate by Robert Savill, of
Bushey in the county of Herts, gentleman, and John Dawson of
Russell Villa, Ampthill-square, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman (the executors named in the said will) are hereby
required on or before the 17th day of October to send in
particulars of their debts, claims, or demands, to Mr. John
Chapple, of 25, Carter-lane, Doctors' Commons, in the City of
London, solicitor, and notice is hereby also given, that before
the 17th day of October next the said executors will proceed to
distribute the assets of the said Testator among the parties en-
titled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which they
shall then have had notice, and that the said Executors will not
be liable for the said assets, or any part thereon, so distributed
to any person or persons of whose debt, claims, or demands
they shall not then have received notice.
Dated this 16th day of September, 1870.
J. CHAPPLE, 25, Carter Lane, Doctors' Commons,
Solicitor to the said Executor.

BANK OF ENGLAND,
15th September 1870.
THE GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the BANK
OF ENGLAND give notice—
That the GENERAL COURT held at the Bank this day is
ADJOURNED till TUESDAY next, the 20th instant, at Eleven
o'clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of taking the determi-
nation by Vote, in pint or writing, of the Question on the fol-
lowing Resolution proposed at the Court for a Dividend, viz :
That a Balf-Year's Dividend of Interest and Profits
be made en the sth of October next, of £4los per cent.,
without deduction on account of Income Tax.
The Voting will commence at 11 o'clock, and terminate at 4.
HAMMOND CHUBB,
Secretary.
London, England, 1870-03-21

RACING AUTHORITIES.

The Field draws attention to the recent letter of
Admiral thous in the Times, in reply to Sir Joseph
Hawley's resolutions, and says that, if not
curiously unintelligible, it is characteristically
illogical. A few years since, just after Gladiateur
won the Derby, the Admiral saw that the French
had an enormous advantage over our stall-fed stock,
but that as long as the yearlings fetched fancy
prices there would be no reformation by improve-
ment in breeding. In reference to this observation
the Field says :—" We have not the slightest fear as
to the use of first-class_stallions being discontinued
although of course the subscription will fall. Death
and default, says the Admiral, have lowered the
market, as no doubt they have ; but then what could
follow but default from the reckless conduct of a few
foolish young men who brought about this artificial
state of things ? We are coming again to a similar
state, from which we augur anything but the decline of
racehorses. Why 'the best article,' otherwise the
highest-priced yearling—take the range of the last
few years—has seldom been worth as many shillings
as some infatuated youths gave guineas for him.
Admiral bus imagines or rakes out a number of
cases which are not worth much; while so far as the
personality of his argument goes, we must again insist
that as the most successful sportsman of his time, Sir
Joseph Hawley is the most fitting man to inaugurate
reform."
London, England, 1870-03-21

BRISTOL.

For the present the working-man lion of Bristol
is lying down witli the middle-class lamb. After
much fierce antagonism, all three Liberal candidates
are working together in perfect harmony, with the
view of bringing about the test ballot which is to
decide their respective claims. They have addressed
numerous bodies of electors, but, in all cases, it has
been agreed that no attempt should be made to gain
the vote of any gathering until the test ballot comes
off. This will be the first practical experiment of the
kind ever tried ; for the ballot at Manchester between
Mr. Milner Gibson and Mr. Ernest Jones was only
in view of the probable disqualification of Mr. Birley
—which never happened. All these three Bristol
candidates have declared in favour of legalising mar-
riage with a deceased wife's sister.
London, England, 1870-03-21

PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.

Mr. JAMES WHITE asked the Secretary to the Treasury,
when the return of public income and expenditure, ordered
by the House on the 24th July, 1866, and presented on
the 11th March 1867, would be issued.
Mr. STANSFELD said the return, with that for 1868
would be laid on the table as soon as possible.
DEATHS IN THE METROPOLIS.

Mr. JOHN TALBOT moved for a return of the number of
deaths in the metropolitan district in the years 1868 and
1869, and in the months of January and February, 1870,
upon which a coroner's jury have returned a verdict of
" Death from starvation" or " Death accelerated by pri-
vaton ;" specifying in each case the amount of out-door
relief (if any) which the deceased had received, also stat-
ing whether admission to the workhouse had been de-
clined by the deceased.

The return was ordered.
LIVERPOOL IMPROVEMENT BILL.

Mr. CHARLES FORSTER moved that the minutes of the
evidence taken before the committee on the Liverpool
Improvement Bill, in session 1867, be referred to the com-
mittee on the Leeds Corporation Gas, &c., the Leeds Cor-
poration Gas (Purchase, &c.), and the Leeds Gas Bills.
The motion was agreed to.
PRESERVATION OF PEACE (IRELAND) BILL.
Mr. .3,100 RE gave notice that on the motion for the
second reading of this bill he should move that it be read a
second time that day six months.
THE ROYAL ENGINEERS.

Mr. JAMES WHITE asked the Secretary of State for War
what duties formerly carried on by the departments at
present placed under the control system are now performed
by the Royal Engineers ; and, if it be the case that those
duties are satisfactorily performed, and have entailed no
increase in the superintending staff of that department,
what reduction had been made, in consequence of those
diminished duties, in the number of officials under the con-
solidated system of the new Control Department.
Mr. CAr.DWELL was understood to say that duties now
performed by the Royal Engineers, would for the future
be placed under the direction of the Control Department.
London, England, 1870-03-21

TEE " NATIONAL " PRESS IN JEOPARDY.

Most people expected a violent explosion of rage
from the "National" Irish papers at the announce-
ment of the Peace Preservation Bill, which, amongst
other provisions, furnishes punishment for seditious
articles. The journals in question have proved
fully equal to the occasion. One or two extracts will
suffice. The Nation is anxious to be very explicit in
dealing with this " brutal threat : "—" We tell the
Ministry that we defy it. The world must see that
we scorn and spit upon a tyranny so infamous
if it really be attempted. The Irishman
is of opinion that the Hibernian members
have betrayed their country. The Flag of
Ireland is comparatively mild, observing that the
English Government does not govern in accordance
with the popular will, or there would be no neces-
sity for coercion ; a sentiment which is remarkably
true, for if the English Government ruled in accord-
ance with the popular will as represented by the
Flag of Ireland, it would abandon Ireland to the
beneficent rule of that journal and its brethren.
London, England, 1870-03-21

CONGRESS.

SENATE, Feb. 25.—Mr. Howard from the Com-
mittee on the Pacific Railroads, reported a bill
legalizing the arrangements of the Union and
Central Pacific Railroads in regard to their junc-
tion. Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to punish prize
fighting, the U. S. Courts to take cognizance of the
offence. Mr. Howard introduced a bill to divide
the State of Texas into three parts ; the portion
east of San Antonio and Trinity Rivers to consti-
tute the Territory. of Jefferson, and that west of
the Colorado to be the Territory of Matagorda ;
the central division being the State of Texas. He
said the assent of Texas to this partition would be
required before her admission. The bill was
referred to the Committee on Territories. The
credentials of General Ames as Senator-elect from
Mississippi were presented, and referred to the
Judiciary Committee. The resolution referring the
credentals of Senator-elect Revels was considered
and defeated, only the Democratic Senators voting
for it. Mr. Revels was then sworn in as Senator,
a motion to that effect having been carried by a
party vote of 48 to 8 The Senate adjourned u:iiil
Fib. 28—The Vice-President presented resolutions
of the Rhode Island Legis'ature ratifying the
Fourteenth, and of the Virginia Legis'ature ratify-
ing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth, Amendments.
Mr. Johnson presented resolutions of the Virginia
Legislature, asking a reduction of the tax on to-
bacco. Bills were introduced by Mr. Edmunds
amendatory of the Census Act, and Mr. Sumner to
enforce the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment.
On the motion of Mr. Stewart, the Secretary of State,
London, England, 1870-03-21

ARRIVALS AT WARWICK.

Knoclany, Bismarck, Hastings, Castanette f, Champagne
Charlie, Marshal Ney, Knight, Sunlight, Symmetry c, Ben
Nevis, BomLastes, Skirmish, Grasshopper f, Cauldron, Ch:l-
- Moose, Ecarte, Midshipman, Lisette, WhiteLall, atd
Fan.

CUT BETTING.—TIIIS DAY.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
sto 1 agst Miss Dayrell (offered--t 4103 11 to 2)
9to 1 agst Sabiuus (taken)
12 to 1 agst Benbow (taken and offered)
100 to 8 agst Gertrude (taken and offered)
100 to 8 agt,t Ashfield (offered)
15 to 1 agst Walter (offered—take 100 to 6)
20 to 1 agst Blue Bell colt (taken freely)
20 to 1 agst Goant des Bataillos (offered)
20 to 1 agst Lades (offered—take 25 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Lelia colt (offered—take 25 to 1)
200 to 9 agst Myosotis (offered)
25 to 1 agst Captivator (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Vestminster (offered—take 200 to 7)
1000 to 30 agst Oxonian (offered)
50 to 1-agst Syrian (taken and offered)
1000 to 10 agst Claudius (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Newsman (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Annie Wood (taken)
0 ESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Sabinus (offered-25 to 1 taken)
TWO THOUSAND.
5 to '2 agst Kingcraft (offered)
5 to 1 agst Astolfo (offered)
15 to 1 agst Stanley (taken)
DERBY.
Bto 1 agst .Kingcraft (offered)
10 to 1 agst Sunshine (wanted)
15 to 1 agst Bridgwater (offered)
20 to 1 agst Stanley (taken and wanted)
1000 to 15 agst Captivator (offered)

VLNCENNES RACES.
PARIS, March 20, livening.
The Races at Vincennes were run this afternoon with the
!calming results:—

Prix de St. Mirde.
London, England, 1870-03-21

THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.

Mrs. G. Butler, secretary of the Ladies' National
Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases
Act? has addressed a meeting. at Liverpool on the
subject. She said the object of this legis-
lation might be briefly stated to be to
separate vice: from the bodily penalties which God
and nature had attached to it. Such a law was the
placing over a brothel the words " You may enter
here and sin with safety." By this Act she said a
woman was required to prove before a magistrate
that she was chaste. Was there ever such a mon-
strous law in existence ? The chastest
woman could not prove her own chastity.
This law, she contended, struck at the root
of all confidence in females by introducing the spy
system amongst them. It encouraged women to
denounce women from hatred, jealousy, or revenge;
and already it had - had its effect in that way.
Women had got rid oft heir step-daughters by denounc-
ing them to the police, and. it placed in the hands
of procuresses a most dangerous weapon by
which to make poor girls what they wished them to
be. Mrs. Butler said she had been asked why in a
previous address she alluded to the rebel Wat Tyler.
The allusion, she said, did not originate with her.
Nevertheless, she would say that whatever was
righteous and noble in Wat Tyler's anger
she desired to see aroused in the men of
England now. For. what, she asked was
the outrage which called forth Tyler's
wrath, compared with the outrage to which thou-
sands of Englishwomen had been subjected.
London, England, 1870-03-21

THE PREMIER AND THE DUBLIN
COUNCIL.

At a special meeting of the Municipal Council of the
City- of Dublin, held in the City Hall, on the 14th instant,
the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor in the chair'
resolutions regarding the Irish Land Bill were drawn up,
And directed to be forwarded to the Prime Minister. The
resolutionists expressed the desire on the part of the Council
to declare that it viewed with disappointment and appre-
hension the complicated and inadequate, though well-
intentioned, propositions of the Government. The Govern-
ment Bill, if passed in its present state, would only
embitter the relations between landlord and tenant with-
out touching the giant evils of insecurity of tenure and
liability to capricious evictions. Further, it is urged on the
premier that considering the results of inadequate legis-
lation on this all-impertant subject, it would have been
better for the peace and happiness of Ireland that no
such attempt had been undertaken, if the subject be not
effectually dealt with. '
The following is the reply of Mr. Gladstone :—" 10,
Downing-street, Whitehall, March 17, 1870. My Lord
Mayor, I have received with sincere regret
your Lordship's letter of the 14th, and the in-
closed resolutions of the Municipal Council of
Dublin, which declare that the provisions of
the Land Bill now before Parliament will additionally
embitter the relations between landlord and tenant, and
will practically leave as they are the evils of insecure
tenure and liability to eviction.

I own myself unable to comprehend how, eviction being
now attended with no charge to the landlord, the induce-
ments to it can remain practically untouched when it comes
to be burdened with a charge which may amount to several
and in a large class of cases, to seven years' rent of the farm.
The resolutions of the Municipal Council do not specify
the provisions which they desire to see introduced into tllp
bill. I can therefore only say that the Government All
be most ready to propose or adopt any amendment which
may be shown to conduce to the completeness and
efficiency of the measure, but that they do
not see in what manner the plans described as perpetuity
of tenure, or as valuation of rents by public authority,
could be rendered consistent either with any fair interpre-
tation of the rights of property, or with the general wel-
fare of the people of Ireland, and the most effective
development of her agricultural industry.—l have the
honour to be, my Lord Mayor, your most faithful and
obliged servant, "W. E. GLADSTONE."
London, England, 1870-03-21

THE BRIBERY PROSECUTIONS.

The trial of Mr. Vanderbyl and Dr. Kinglake, for
bribery at Bridgwater, will probably take place this
week. The trial of Sir Henry Edwards and Mr.
Burrell, who are charged with bribery at the Bever-
ley election, will not be proceeded with at the pre-
sent York Assizes.
London, England, 1870-03-21

DUTY ON SUGAR.

Viscount BITTY presenea a petition from Antigua
praying for the equalisation of the duty on sugar.

INEIV WRIT.

On the motion of Mr. GLYN a new writ was ordered
to be issued for Bristol, in the room of the late Mr. F.
H. Berkeley.
London, England, 1870-03-21

WESTMINSTER.

EXTRAORD:NARY CHARGE AGAINST A MAJOR—WITH-
DRAWAL—George Holland, 47, a major in the army, was
charged with stealing a cheque jot £6O, the moneys of the
Emigrants and Colonists Emigration Aid Society, 5, Queen-
square, Westminster.

Colonel Francis Cornwallis Maude said—l live at. Queen-
square, Westminster. From information I received I thought
it my duty to give the prisoner into custody on Saturday
evening for misappropriating a cheque with which I
had entrusted him. I made all the inquiries I could, and
on Tuesday evening at half-past eleven I found I had
been misinformed, and came down here at once to
bail the prisoner, but it was too late to do so, and I attend
here now to withdraw from the charge and make any apo-
logy he may desire, which shall not prejudice any proceed-
ings be may take in the matter, and I have to express my
regret I did not take proceedings without consideration
and reasons which may have to be explained in another
place.

A gentleman for the prisoner was about to address the
Court, when
Mr. Dayman said it was quite unnecessary, and at once
ordered his discharge.
London, England, 1870-03-21

GOVERNMENT TAX ON RAILWAYS.

The question of the modification of the passenger
traffic on railways is raised by the Railway News. It
will be known when Mr. Lowe produces his budget
whether the taxes on locomotion have received his
attention There is a report that instead of
the present rate of duty levied upon passenger
traffic, Mr. Lowe would be willing to substitute
1 per cent. on the entire gross receipts of the rail-
ways from goods, minerals, and passengers. The
Railway IVews decidedly thinks that the best plan
would be to abolish the duty altogether. Such a
proposal as the above is an unwarrantable inter-
ference with trade. Many articles, such as coal, are
carried at a rate that would leave scarcely any margin
of profit to the company if 1 per cent. on
their conveyance was exacted. And there is an injus-
tice in taxing the gross receipts, as the shareholders
already pay an income tax on the net receipts of
railway companies. It is not right to tax first the
industry, and then the result. Such a policy is in-
consistent with the spirit of free trade, and' not in
accordance with the just and practical principles of a
true commercial policy.
London, England, 1870-03-21

SALE OF SHIPS.

Mr. MELLor. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if
the following paragraph recently inserted in the news-
papers was correct, viz. :—" We have a curious little
item of dockyard news, the Mutine, a wooden corvettee
pierced for seventeen guns, and described in every way fit
for service, was recently put up for sale by auction, the
highest bidding was £6,000, but there was a reserve price
put upon her of of £8,600, and she was therefore
bought in. It is now stated that the gentleman
who offered £6,000 has obtained the ship, by
private arrangement, for £4,500, not the mere hull and
standin^• gear, be it •remembered, but sails, spars, stores,
engine, and, in fact, everything that was on board when
she was paid off."

Mr. BAXTER said the report was altogether incorrect.
The ship had been put up for sale, and, as a bid of only
£4,600 could be obtained, it was bought in. An offer of
of £6,000 was afterwards made, but withdrawn by the
party making it. On the ship being again put up for sale
only £3,900 was obtainable, whereupon an offer of £4,500
was accepted.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

In reply to Mr. BOUVERIE,

Mr. GLADSTONE said they would not be able to go into
committeo on the Navy Estimates before the 11th of April ;
and, with respect to the Easter holidays, he could not say
when the House would adjourn, but it would re-assemble on
Easter Monday se'nnight.
REGULATION OP MINES BILL.
Mr. BRUCE said he could not proceed with this bill until
after the Easter holidays.

PRESERVATION OF THE PEACE (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. G. MOOUE rose and moved that the bill be read a
second time that day six months.

(LEFT SITTING.)

FRANCE.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

PARIS, March 21.

The French Cabinet are unanimous upon all home
questions and also upon the line of policy to be
adopted towards the cEcumenical Council. The
members are actively engaged in the consideration of
the constitutional faculties to be transferred to the
Corps Legislatif, in order promptly to submit pro-
posals to the Senate.

NORTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION.
BERLIN, March 21.

In to-day's sitting of the North German Parlia-
ment the Bank Note Bill, which suspends the right
of single States to issue bank notes, was read a
second time.

The motion to extend the law also to Treasury
Notes was withdrawn.

THE FRENCII FUNDS.

According to Reuter's telegrams the French
Relates to-day were quoted 73f. 60c. Flat.

t• Late of the Convict Service" writes to the Globe
confirming the statement of the Government, that
O'Donovan Rossa's complaints of treatment in prison aro
untrue. " O'Donovan Rossa has, I know, often deserved
a flogging, but he has not had it ; he has been confined in
what are called ' irons'—merely means to prevent him
committing further acts of insubordination when under
the away of his ungovernable temper.
London, England, 1870-03-21

THE IRISH CHURCH CONVENTION.

The chief controversy which the Church Wnven-
don has called forth has naturally been the mode of
appointment to bishoprics and benefices. The status
of the Episcopacy when its members aro once
appointed is not a matter of so much importance.
The choice of the fittest clergyman for a -vacant
parish is to be made. as far as has been decided. on

THE PROPOSED TUNNEL ,TO FRANCE.
Mr. J. F. Bateman, F.R.S., has been explaining
the proposed subway to France, which he and Mr.
J. J. Revv, C.E., have recently brought before the
public. Air. Bateman said his scheme was to construct a
covered way from England to France by means of a
tube of cast iron 13 feet in diameter, and eight inches
thick, to be laid below the sea from Dover to Cape
Grisnez, a distance of 20 or 21 miles. The tube
would be composed of rings 10 feet in length, formed
of six different segments bolted together. It would be
built up within the inside of a great horizontal
chamber about 80 feet in length, which, for conve-
nience, they had called a bell. This would be 18 feet
in diameter, and eight inches thick, closed at one
end and open at the other. The total weight of the
bell, ho said, was such as to allow its nearly
floating. To move it forward would require a
pressure of about 1.500 tons, but the machinery
was capable of exerting a pressure of 4,000 tons.
This would be sufficient to force aside any accumu-
lation.of sand, or to cut o any soft rock with which
it *gilt off
come in contact. To maintain the tube in
'it dace Tres would be in the ground as the
work progressed. Mr. Bateman proved that it would be
impossible to use locomotives, and said the only plan
was to work the traffic by pneumatic pressure. He,
estimated that the tube could be constructed in five
years, and that it would cost, allowing one million
for contingencies, eight millions of money.
London, England, 1870-03-21

TIIE WANDERING THESPIANS.

This very talented company of amateur comedians
on Saturday last gave a performance at the St.
George's Hall, in aid of the funds of the Great
Northern Hospital. The entertainment commenced
with an original comedietta, in one act, entitled, " He
would be a Bohemian," in which Mr. C. A. Thorpe
gave a capital representation of a scapegrace nephew.
This was followed by a new drama, in four acts,
entitled " A Wife's Redemption." The piece tells
the story of a fashionable, aristocratic young lady
married to a millionnaire on the Stock Exchange.
While prosperity lasts all goes right, but when ruin
is brought about by a panic the fashionable lady
leaves her husband to bear his ruin alone. Of course,
foe une is recovered, and with it the young wife, but
not before, a sharp lesson has been taught her for her
former heartlessness. Mr. Walter Stephens, the
author, supported the part of Gerald Noel, the ruined
millionnaire, with much ability ; and Mr. Thorpe, who
had the part of a cold man of the world to embody
again, showed much dramatic talent. The part of
Ethel Loftus, the wife, was sustained by Mrs. Mire-
house, and the more lively sister, Helen, by Miss M.
Stewart. The Countess= Loftus (a Belgravia mother)
was represented by Miss Agnes 6ullivan with great
dramatic talent, who must be highly complimented
fi r the composure and tact with which she ren-
dered the entire part. 'I he performance. concluded
with the musical burlesque of " Alcestei," in which
Mr. Lane, who, by the bye, played very excellt ntly in
t e drama, played the part of Polax, and Mr. C. Da-
venport Adinat us. Alcestei was admirably supported
by Miss Sullivan, and there was such a capital dash
and spirit in hlr terformance that it called forth the
most enthusiastic app'ause. ihe hall was tilled by
a %cry brilliant audience, and the talented company
may therefore well congratulate themselves ou the
great success that has attended this praiseworthy
object.
London, England, 1870-03-21

THE IRISH LAND BILL.

The minority against the second reading of the
Peace Preservation Bill will be very inconsiderable,
the great majority of the Irish Liberal members
being understood to acquiesce in the necessity
of some stringent measure, although they may
take exception to certain details in committee.
There is, in fact, a considerable number of them
who are believed to entertain the idea that if

passed the Act will prove but very partially open a-
live for various reasons. Should the second reading
pass to-night, Ministers propose to ask the House to
consent to go into committee on Tuesday, on the
grolnd of urgency, and no other Government busi-
ness will be brought forward until this is concluded.
London, England, 1870-03-21

DUAL GOVERNMENT OF THE ARMY.

The Army and Navy Gazette calls the expression
44 dual government " an "invention of the enemy." It
is the cover of the attack on the power of the
Crown, and on the office of Commander-in-Chief.
The Secretary of State has, time after time, asserted
his complete supremacy over the Horse Guards ;
the Horse Guards has repeatedly admitted the
subordination of the Commander-in-Chief to the
Secretary of State ; but, for all that, there is a pre-
text that a " dual government" exists. We are also
told that the Duke of Cambridge was possessed of a
devotion to General Forster, which inclined him to
take to himself a good. deal of "business,"
which the outer world believes to have been
managed by his secretary.

THE ARMY PURCHASE SYSTEM.
The United Service Gazette trusts that Mr.
Jardwell may not retire from- office. He is the very
man who favours the abolition of the purchase sys-
tem in the army, and has proved himself the most
courageous enemy of departmental abuses of the
worst kind. He has already taken the first steps
towards the abolition of a system much to be depre-
cated; and, strange to say, at the same time reports
begin to be circulated about his removal to the Board
of Trade. He is too able a man to be rightly
shelved, and if he is shelved the public may be
sure that there is some back-stairs intrigue at work
in the matter. The House of Commons has now
thrown in its way a favourable opportunity of settling
a long-vexed question. Appeals have been
e the
compensation
end
made in the Press and in Parliament to such
an extent that a concession was at last made
of a promised Royal Commission to inquire into
the Over-Regulation system. This was an abuse
i
at
tithhaend hitherto
when
nudwiae shted,al andl
see thtehreatfor
the
•
gwen to officers, when this system is done away
with, will be the total abolition of the purchase
system.
London, England, 1870-03-21

MISPLACED SYMPATHY.

It certainly was difficult to tell where Lord
Nlalmesbury's steward,Mr.Elliott,had got to. There did
not appear even as much chance of his again turning
op as there was in the case of the great Spoke. We were
told that fora long time Mr. Elliott had been depressed;
that one day he left a carriage for the purpose, as he
told the coachman, of seeing a bit of land and return-
tng in a quarter of an hour ; that he never returned;
that, on search being made, he was traced to the
bank of the adjoining river ; and that no
further tidings could be obtained of the
" unfortunate gentleman " as he was sorrowfully
2, ailed. It was very sad, but there could be no doubt
the missing man had committed suicide. Strange to
say the river was dragged again and again with no
cesult, and the public, whilst still believing that he
had altogether vanished from terrestial scenes, were
A a loss to account for the non-appearance
the body in the river. It now seems
that no tragic death has closed the career
.)f the steward. He has absconded. Lord
ffalmesbury says some of his tradesmen's bills have
been left unpaid for two years. He entrusted Mr.
Elliott with the payment of his bills, and the conse-
pence is that the " depression" exhibited by the
man whom we have lamented in a somewhat
untimely manner, was brought on simultaneously
with a corresponding depression in Lord Malnics-
.
bury's purse.
London, England, 1870-03-21

THAMES.

A PROTECTION ORDER REFUSED.-A respectable middle.
aged woman, named Harriett Isabella Lynch, wife of James
B. Patrick Lynch, residing in Bow, applied to Mr. Paget,
under the Matrimonial Causes and Divorce Act, for an order
of protection against hrr husband. It appeared from their
joint statements that Mrs. Lynch was married on the 17th
of June, 1859, at the parish of St. Mary, Southampton. The
husband left his wife in October, 1866, and she has never
heard of him since. In answer to questions from Mr. Paget
she said he went to sea as purser of a ship in the British
and Oriental Company. She received his half-pay for three
months, and it was then stopped. She went to the office of the
company to make inquiries, and was informed he was dis-
missed for drunkenness, and the people at the office did not
know what had become of him. She knew that her husband
took to drinking in a most fearful manner. She believed
that after his dismissal from the British and Oriental Com-
pany he joined the service of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company, and that he died while in their service.

Mr. Paget—Died ? Then you don't want a protection
order. Yon are a widow.

A solicitor said that undoubtedly Mr. Lynch was dead,
but there was a chance of his turning up. The woman had
acquired some property by the death of her mother, and he
(the solicitor), one of the executors of the will, wished to pro-
tect that property.

Mr. Paget—l certainly cannot give you a protection
order.

The Solicitor—The family of Mrs. Lynch have not heard
of him for four years. It is not conclusive he is dead. I
believe he went away with the intention of not returning.
Mr. Paget—The fact of a man sailing on a long voyage
is not desertion. I must decline to grant the order.

REPRIEVE.—The Governor of Newgate, on Satur-
day afternoon, received an intimation that the sentence of
death passed on Jacob Spines, for the murder of a woman
in a hotel near Finsbury-square, would bo commuted to one
of penal servitude for life.

THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.—The Oxford crew
leave Oxford on Thursday morning, and will have their first
row on the London water in the afternoon of the same day.
The Oxford boats leave Oxford in the care of Timms, the
attendant at the Oxford University barge, on the previous
Wednesday, by road. The race, it is expected, will take
place between half-past five and six o'clock on the day
named Wednesday, April 6th. Odds of 6 to 4 are
freely current on Oxford.

The very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Messi s. DIINVILLE & Co., who have gained
a world-wide celebrity for their fine bld Irish whisky, is to be
called "The Royal Irish Distillery."

111Gli WATER AT LONDON— BRIDGE.
Morning. Evening
MONDAY 45 ruin past 4 8 min past 5
TUESDAY '-'0 min past 5 50 min past 5
WEDNESDAY lO Damn past 6 35 min past 6
THURSDAY... ..... ........ 0 min past 7 30 min past 7
FRIDAY.. ..... le
...,,,...40 rain past 8
London, England, 1870-03-21

THE ONEIDA AND BOMBAY COLLISION.

The .11'ew York Times administers a salutary re-
buke to its contemporaries for their violent display of
national spirit against the commander of the Bombay.
The English captain has been tried and condemned in
New York before his version of the story has been
heard. The Times protests against such invidious
haste. Sailors in general are not in the habit, it says,
of running down each other's ships and leaving the
crews to sink; and British captains have ere now re-
ceived chronometers or addresses from the United
States Congress and other sources, for going out of
their way to assist distressed American sailors."
London, England, 1870-03-21

PRINCE BON kPARTE'S TRIAL

-----
The trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte for the murder of
Victor Noir commences at Tours to-day (Monday). It is
supposed that the proceedings will last four days. Prince
Bonaparte has gone to lours, accompanied by the
Governor of the Conciergerie of Paris. He will
lodge at the Penitentiary, in the apartments of
the Governor. The crime with which he is charged
is that of " voluntary homicide of the journalist, Victor
Noir." The penal significance and gravity of this charge
are aggravated by another, that arising out of
the shots fired by the Prince against M. de Fon-
vielle, the companion of Victor Noir; and, rice
rersa„ this attempt, which forms another count of the
arret demise en accusation, is aggravated by the accom-
paniment of the shot fired on Victor Noir. This is by
virtue of article 304 of the Penal Code, which enacts that
voluntary homicide without premeditation (»zeurtre) shall
be punished with death where it has preceded, accom-
panied, or followed another crime. Otherwise the penalty
awarded to the same crime by the Penal Code is
perpetual labour at the hulks (travawx forces a per-
petuite). The Solicitors' Journal remarks, however,
that a declaration of extenuating circumstances by the
jury would very notably reduce the penalty. "And the
presiding judge, if the facts brought out by the trial appear
to him to warrant his doing so, has power to deviate from
the questions in the indictment, and put the case to the
jury under a mitigated aspect, such for example as
wounds which have caused death without the intention
of causing it. The exercise of the right of the president,
combined with a declaration of extenuating circumstances
(which allows the Court to bring the penalty down two
degrees), may in such a charge bring down the conse-
quences to a mere nothing, especially if the prisoner
pleads provocation, an excuse which per se has the effect
of reducing the penalty."
London, England, 1870-03-21

TIIE MONTPESSIER DUEL.

Much has been said as to what the Spaniards think of
the duel between Don Henri de Bourbon and the Duke
of Montpensier, and as to the political effects it may pro-
duce, but it is not until after the lapse of several days
that the exact circumstances of the combat are given.
The " toss up " for position and first shot was gained by
Don Henri, so that he had both these advantages
over the Duke of Montpensier. One of the seconds
clapped his hands thrice successively, and at the
last clap one of the principals was to fire. These
claps were instead of the words " ready " (or prepare),
"present," •` fire." The first shot, that of Don Henri,
was evidently fired in a hurry and much too high, The
Duke replied with a similar result. Don Henri's second
shot was better.aimed, for the Duke asserts that he heard
it whistle near his right ear. The Duke's second shot
struck the pistol that his antagonist held as
a guard, and wounded the holder of it slightly.
It seems that whilst they were reloading Don
Henri approached his doctor and said, giving
him his watch, "The Duke improves in his aim, and if I
do not hit him this time time I shall be killed." He fired
his third shot more calmly, but still without effect. Mont-
pensier then fired—it is needless to say with what effect
but he affirms that he is shortsighted, and that he fired at
random, and must have struck his adversary by chance.
On examining the victim, it was found that his blood and
brains were gushing from the horrible wound. The only
thought of all the persons present seems then to have been
their own personal safety ; they all disappeared with great
precipitation, leaving the unfortunate man quite alone,
stretched on the turf in the agonies of death. All being
now over, it was the right moment for the police to ap-
pear, and, after a considerable interval, the corpse was
carried to the chapel of a neighbouring cemetery, and
thence to Madrid, where it was taken possession of by the
Freemasons of which society Don Henri had been a
member. The body was embalmed, and exposed to the
public for twenty-four hours; the neighbourhood of the
house where it lay was thronged by dense crowds, com-
posed principally of the lower orders, and shouts of
"Death to the assassin !" were heard from time to time.
The Duke had to be bled the same day, and sheaved
symptoms so alarming as to induce him to prepare for
death. When he recovered somewhat, he offered to adopt
his late enemy's children as his own, or to do everything
that lay in his power for them, but they refused. It is
believed, says one writer, that they will be adopted by
their uncle, the ex-Kin? of Spain. By a curious error of
translation, Don Henri, in the letter which brought about
the duel, was made to call the Duke a "pastry-cook."
Vhe word actually used means a puppet.