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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-21

THE HUSH LAND BILL.

PROTEST AGAINST THE SECOND READING.
Dissentient :

Because some of the provisions of the bill are opposed
to the just rights of property, and are admitted by its
advocates to be unfit to.be made the law in England and
Scotland, and to be only justified in Ireland on account
of the existing relations between landlord and tenant in
some parts of that country which they consider,excep-
tional, and hope may be removed under the operation of
this measure.

Because it is proposed that these provision; instead of
being imposed for a limited period to meet an exceptional
state of things, are to be enacted permanently, and
thereby appear to be established as principles which
ought to exist by law at all times between landlord and
tenant ; and any attempt to repeal them, although the
exceptional reason for their introduction may have passed
away, will be attended with serious opposition and dis-
content.

Because this enactment of them as principles is likely
to lead to agitation for the extension of similar provisions
to England and Scotland, in order that one system of per-
manent law on the subject may be established throughout
the United Kingdom.
Dunsany, Malmesbury,
Moore (-Drogheda), Kilmaine
Templetown, Grinstead (Enniskillen),
Manchester, Saltoun,
Dunsandle (for first and Oranmore,
second reasons) Somerhill (Clanricarde),
Digby, Saltersford (Courtown),
Redesdale, Clements (Leitrim).
Lucan,

The Duke of Richmond has placed upon the notice
paper of the House of Lords several amendments to the
clauses of the Irish Land Bill. The more important of
these relate to the scale of compensation for the distur-
bance of a tenant's holding, and to the lowering of the
term of years which will exempt a landlord from liability
to penalties for eviction. The amendments embody pro-
visions unsuccessfully put forward in the Commons by Mr.
Disraeli, Dr. Ball, Mr. Plunket, and Mr. Bruen.
London, England, 1870-06-21

RAILWAYS.

Bristol and Exeter B6 88
Caledonian 7Bl 78i
Great Eastern
Great Northern 124 125
Do. A
Great Western
Lancashire & Yorashire 13341341
L. B. and South Coast
Lon. Chat,, and Dover
Lou. and North-Western 12911298
Lon. and South-Western 91 92
Man., Shef., and Lincoln 53 .534
Metropolitan 7Ol 70
Midland
North British 3B 484
North-Eastern Consols
Do. Leeds
Do. York —

South-Eastern
I 80m.,8ar., &CLlnd.g.s pc 10711081
East India guar. 5p c
Grand Trunk of Canada 141 15*
Do. Ist Preference Bonds 661 67e
Great Indian Pen. lg. 5 p c 1081109/
Great Western of Canada 15} 15}
Madras g. spc lOBllO9
Sciude, Delhi, do.
Scinde, Punjaub, do lO6 1071
Dutch Rhenish 241 25
Eastern of France
Great Luxembourg l4l 141
Northern of France
Ottom. (Smyrna to Aldin) 6i 7
Recife and San Francisco 151 16
San Paulo (L.) guar. 7p c 21 21
S. Aus. & Lom. Veneta. 161 16

BANKING COUPANIES.
I'd Pa
10 Agra Bank IL) A .... 11 111 10 Imperial Ottoman spm 25 Alliance (Limited) .. 145 151 20 Lon. Char. of Austrlia 23i 241
10 Anglo-Austrian .... 15 17 pm 20 Loudon and County 50 51
20 Anglo-Egyptu (Lim) 241 25 15 Londo a Joint-Stock 341 351
50 British NorthAmrcn 54 56 20 Ludn & Wstmiustr 63 64
20 Ch.of India, Australia 17 18 10 Metropolitan 9 9
25 Char. Merc. of India 30 31 20 Midland (Limited) 1 dis, par
10 City
25 Colonial
4 Consolidated (Limtd) 51 pm 25 Union of Australia.. 451 461
20 Eng., Scot, & Aust. 0 175 185 15 Union of London .. 391 405
20 Imperial (Li; sited) l9 195
London, England, 1870-04-13

S ORTING IN TELLIGEN OE.

CITY. BETTING.—Tuis D.Y.
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
6 to 5 agst Sabinus (taken)
sto 1 agst Blue Bell colt (atken)
sto 1 agst Wildbad (taken and offered)
CHESTER CUP.
7to 2 agst Sabinus (offered)
100 to '8 agst Glenfalloch (taken)
100 to 7 agst Socrates (offered)
100 to 7 agst Formosa (offered)
15 to 1 agst Sider°lite (offered—take 16 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Thorwaldsen (offered—take 22 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Morna (offered—take 25 to 1)
1000 to 30 agst Newsman (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Paul Jones (offered)
50 to 1 agst Macgregor (offered)
50 to 1 agst Cock of the Walk (offered)
20 to 1 agst Mr Brayley's lot (offered)
TWO THOUSAND.
5 to 2 agst Kingcraft (taken and offered)
7to 1 agst Sunlight (offered)
Bto 1 agst Stanley (offered)
. Bto 1 agst King o' Scots (offered)
9to 1 agst Astolfo (taken and offered)
1000 to 70 agst Hawthornden (offered)
1000 to 60 agst Normanby (offered)
DERBY.
7to 1 agst Sunshine (8 to 1 taken)
15 to 1 agst Macgregor (offered)
15 to 1 agst Stanley (offered)
20 to 1 agst Briigwater (offered)
20 to 1 agst Captivator (offered)
20 to 1 agst Camel (offered)
25 to 1 agst Palmerston (taken)
30 to 1 agst King o' Scots (taken)
80 to 1 agst Astolfo (offered)
1000 to 30 agst Exciseman (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Blue Bell colt (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Nobleman (offered)
London, England, 1870-04-13

THE BRIGHT SIDE OF TAXATION.

Some impatient individuals reading an article in
the Pall Mall Gazette, on " the boon which Mr.
Lowe has in store for us," may be inclined to
characterise it as an attempt to extract
honey from gall. Nevertheless, there is much truth
in the statement of our contemporary, that if
the history of English taxation were
more widely diffused, our present fiscal
system would be better appreciated. The
article points out that although this system is not
faultless, it is at any rate a vast improvement upon
the Georgian plan, and an immeasurable advance
upon that pursued in earlier times. For instance,
the popular objection urged against the income
tax is its "inquisitorial" character, but the principle
upon which it is based is so ancient as to justify
us in calling it thoroughly Engish. In the 13th and
14th centuries all personal and moveable property
was the subject of taxation, but the
method became more and more searching
in every successive reign. Complaints were
frequent that collectors entered and searched
every apartment in peoples' houses, and in the
returns which have been preserved not only is every
article mentioned, but the very room in winch it was
found. What says the impatient taxpayer of 1870
to this retrospective bit of the " good old times ?"
London, England, 1870-04-13

THE SUNDAY BANDS IN THE PARKS.

A deputation from the Sunday Bands Committee
waited on the First Commissioner of Works this
afternoon, relative to the withdrawal from the com-
mittee to perform music in the parks on Sun-
day. The. Secretary said the privilege had ori-
ginally been given to the committee, but
it had been removed to the hands of
a private speculator in chairs. Mr. Ayrton said the
performance of real good music would never have
been objected to; but when trashy dance music was
introduced to the programme, it became highly
objectionable, and vitiated the public taste. He
denied that the committee were trustees fcr the public,
and with respect to the band provided under present
arrangements, he was not, at all events at present,
inclined to make any change on the assumption that
the Sunday Band Committee were in the perform-
ance of a public trust.
London, England, 1870-04-13

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London, England, 1870-04-13

WESTAIINSTER.

Edward Everett, a man who bad evidently seen
better days, was charged with attempted suicide.
It appeared that yesterday the prisoner travelled by
the Citizen R steamboat to Battersea Bridge about a
quarter to five. Just as the passengers were landing
prisoner leaned over the after sponson and threw his
ticket in the water; then he jumped in himself.
Graves, the mate, got a " hitcher,'' and laid hold of
him. A Thames police boat was passing, and they
re'•.ieved him of the prisoner. He only said, " 0
Lord ;" that was while the mate was holding him.
A Thames police-inspector, George Concher, proved
taking the prisoner to the workhouse. He said he had
seen better days, and could not starve about the
streets. Prisoner said voluntarily, and after due
caution, " I am staving, and if I was set at liberty
I should go and do the same thing. I have nothing
further to say." The prisoner was committed for
trial.
London, England, 1870-04-13

SCIENCE AT *CAMBIDGE.

The University of Cambridge does not display any
particular enthusiasm on behalf of natural science.
The Syndicate has questioned the colle,7es respecting
their willingness to promote this branch of learning.
The replies mostly denote " a want of concurrence in
any proposal to raise contributions from the corpo-
rate funds of the colleges by any kind of direct tax-
ation." The Syndicate, therefore, can endow only one
Professor's chair of Experimental Physics, at a cost
of £660 a year. The outlay for a building and appa-
ratus will be £6,300.

TWO SIDES OF THE EMIORATION QUESTION.
Two letters appear in the Times on the subject of
Emigration. One is written by Mr. R. W. Phipps,
of Toronto, and holds out the attractions of Canada
to intending emigrants; the other is by the Rev.
T. L. Hanson, o(Ontarto, Canada Wrest, who wishes
it to be understood that there are two sides to the
question, the favourable and unfavourable. The
chief object of Mr. Phipps is to point out
what class of emigrants should come to
Canada, and what should not. It is useless,
he says, to send the refuse of workhouses,
the irreclaimable idlers . Changing their country
does not change their habits. Neither does he consider
it advisable to encourage to any great extent the
emigration .of mechanics, for the reason that Canada
has a sufficiency of that class already. The description
of labour needed, he adds, is that of agricultural men,
who have been used to farm life in England.. Such
men will find good wages, and acquire farms of their
own. Mr. Hanson complains in his letter that the
unfavourable .aspect of tlaa_ attest-ion of emicration
London, England, 1870-04-13

SECOND READINGS.

The following bills were read a second time :—Bedford
and Northampton Railway Bill, Dublin Trunk Connect-
ing Railway Bill, North British and Mercantile Insurance
Company Bill, Shoreham and District Water Bill.

METROPOLITAN AND ST. JOHN'S WOOD
RAILWAY.

Mr. CHARLES FORSTER moved that this House will,
upon Monday the 25th April, resolve itself into a com-
mittee to consider of authorising the cancelling of the
bond, which under the fifty-third section of " The Metro-
politan and St. John's Wood Railway (Extension to
Hampstead) Act, 1865,' has been given by the Metro-
politan and St. John's Wood Railway Company to the
Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty Treasury, for
securing the completion of the railway authorised by
the said Act."

The motion was agreed to.
CANADA.

Mr. MONK asked the Under Secretary of State for the
Colonies whether his attention had been called to a tele-
gram dated Ottawa, April 8, which appeared in the Times,
to the effect that the Minister of Finance had stated that
the Canadian Government intended to disregard the
opinion of the law officers of England as to the appropria-
tion of the Intcrcolonial Railway Loan of last year; and
whether the Government had received any information
confirmatory of that statement.
Mr. MONSELL said through the courtesy of Mr. Reuter
his attention had been drawn to the telegram, but the
Government had received no such intelligence, although
they had received two telegrams from the Governor of
Canada on two other subjects.
London, England, 1870-04-13

DISCOVERY OF SKELETONS.

The journal de Trevoux (Ain) publishes a letter nom
Neuron, stating that some labourers in digging up a
held in that neighbourhood to plant it with vines, came
on about eighteen or twenty skeletons buried two or
three feet below the surface, without order and a short
distance from each other. These remains are sup-
pised to be those of different victims of Dumollard,
who was executed a few years back for murdering and
robbing young females whom he had decoyed away from
Lyons under the pretence of taking them to situations at
farm houses. Only seven or eight bodies were then dis-
covered, but as a large quantity of women's wearing ap-
parel *as found in his cottage, many other crimes were
believed to have remained unrevealed. The work-
men, on coming upon these skeletons, are said to have
buried them afresh from a foolish fear of being
themselves compromised, and no investigation has yet
been made.
London, England, 1870-04-13

IN THE WAKE OF RORY.

The Pail Mall Gazette has another article qn the
wake of Rory," describing the various outragce
which have rendered Meath the great blood-
spot amongst the counties of Ireland. Speaking
Of the policy of " Rory of the Hills," the writer
states that the majority of the small farmers in this
part of Ireland, though not active agents in keeping
alive the system of terror which so largely prevails,
are secret sympathisers in the Rory movement.
The policy theory is that the object of
" Rory " and his men is not merely to
execute a sort of wild justice in cases
where anything like oppression on the part of land-
lords or agents has been practised, but to prevent
rents from being raised. Farmers of fifty acres and
more, the article states, have been, and still are, all
doing remarkably well, and have a fear that landlords
will .take advantage of their prosperity to exact
higher rents from them, unless terrified into not
idoing so.
London, England, 1870-04-13

THIRD EDITION.

The Third Edition of The Sun of last Evening was published
iu time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m.

SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK.

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(REUI ER'S TELEGRAMS. )

AIESSINA, April 13.

The Per2insular and Oriental Company's steamer
Delt-t passed through the Strai's of McssiLa at 10.30
this morning en route for Mastilies.

BRINDISI, April 13.

The Adriocie and Oriental Company's Lteamer
Briniibi, 74 hours from Alexandria, with 79 passen-
ger,,, has arrived here. Letters can be delivered in
London on S,turday morning.
London, England, 1870-04-13

THAMES.

George Wilson, aged 40 years, and described as a
labourer, with no fixed abode, was brought before
Mr. Lusbington, charged with stealing a gold signet
ring, the property of Mr. William Pettit, of No. 2,
Crombie's-row, Commercial-road, on the Bth instant.
The prisoner entered the shop of Mr. Pettit, a
silversmith and jeweller, on Tuesday afternoon last,
and said he was commissioned to order a lot of gold
watches for a friend of his, the captain of a ship in
the London Dock, and that he also wanted to pur-
chase a gold signet ring for himself. Many rings
were shown to him, but he did not purchase any, and
he left the shop without making a purchase. Soon
after he had left the shop one of the rings shown to
him was missing. Yesterday afternoon the prisoner
went into another shop belonging to Mr. Pettit in
High-street, Poplar, and told the same tale there.
He wished to look at some rings, but the shopman,
who had received au account of him and was on his
guard, was sure he was the same man who had robbed
his master at the Commercial-road shop, and gave
him into custody. He was identified by his master,
and could give nos satisfactory account of himself.
He was remanded for a week.
London, England, 1870-04-13

THE DISTURBANCES IN SPAIN.

Things are far from quiet in the Spanish peninsula.
Some important Carlist chiefs have just entered Spain,
and it is expected that a Carlist movement will shortly
commence in several provinces. With respect to
the conscription disturbances, letters from Barcelona
state that the outbreak there had a purely socialistic
character, and the conscription was used as a convenient
pretext. The troups fought with great bravery, capturing
formidable barricades by artillery, and that
the insurgents, although deserted by the ma-
jority of the inhabitants, made an obstinate
resistance. Some particulars have been received of
the outbreak at Garcia. The attacking party consisted of
four columns of troops, but only one of them took part in
the fight. Two soldiers were killed, and thirteen
wounded. The loss of the insurgents was nine-
teen dead and ten wounded, and forty-two pri-
soners were captured by the troops. The
latter also took 79 rifles and 20,000 cart-
'ridges. Courts martial have been improvised in the
♦illages to the neighbourhood of Barcelona, which are
occupied by the military. Small columns of troops are
still in pursuit of fugitives, who are scattered in various
directions. From these details it is obvious that the
fighting has been of a severe character.

The Government forwarded to all the magistrates
in Ireland on Monday night copies of the Peace Preserva-
tion Act, with circulars of instructions.
When the Session is more advanced, a contem-
porary says, Mr. Charles Buxton will bring forward a
motion with reference to the enormous military arms-
MAID of—Eaalue.
London, England, 1870-04-13

THE NEW PRESS LAW IN FRANCE.

The Pall Mall Gazette thinks that the new press law,
which is slowly making its way through the Corps Ugis-
latif, has some interest for Englishmen after their recent
experiment in dealing with press offences in Ireland. A.
good deal was said during the debates on the Peace Pre-
servation. Act as to the humiliating spectacle presented by
this country, now for the first time taking a step back-
ward in respect to freedom of opinion, when contrasted
with her neighbour just entering upon the full
enjoyment of her rightful liberties. Not to
mention the differences of fact which make the
parallel utterly inapplicable, we are not at all
sure that Irish journalists would have fared much better
under an exact reproduction of the proposed French
system than under the exceptional severities to which
they are for the present subjected. It is true that by the
new law press offences are replaced under the protection
of trial by jury ; but there are juries and juries, and the
French type of this constitutional bulwark is certainly
not likely to chew too much mercy to revolutionary
journalism. The list for each canton is framed
in the first instance by toe juge de paix with the
help of the mayors. It is then revised by a
commission composed of all the juges de paix in
the arrondissement presided over by the prefect and sub-
prefect. A process of this sort seems very well calculated
to give the jury panel a thoroughly official impress ; and
If M. Henri Rochefort were in possession of all the mate-
rials for forming a judgment, we suspect that he would
prefer to take the chance of extra-judicial violence in
Ireland to being tried by jury in France. It is fair to say
that the Ministry have promised to make some
modifications in the jury law, but this is the instrument
by which all press offences will be tried in the
meantime.
London, England, 1870-04-13

DUTY UPON FIREARMS.

Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE objected to the proposition of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer respecting the tax upon fire-
arms. He suggested that the tax should be made upon
the barrels, and that the urchin who fired at crows in the
field should be exempted from the tax.
Mr. PEASE said that the Irish population of the North
of England had an "awful habit" of carrying revolvers.

In one night the police had reports of three cases, where
Irishmen had drawn their weapons in public houses.
Many of the Irishmen had acquired the American habit
of carrying revolvers, and this was a state of things which

demanded the attention of the Home Office, as well as
that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Sir T. COLEBROOKE suggested that some discrimination
should be exercised in levying the tax.

Mr. GREVILLE NUGENT agreed with the last speaker.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER pointed out that
the resolution before the House only affirmed the prin.
ciple of taxing the carrying of fire arms. He did not
tend to put a tax upon the possession of fire arms. The
question as to whether any modification and exemption
should be made was a fair one for consideration. It would
be premature, however, to enter into the question at the
present time.

Lord C. HAMILTON suggested that the Chancellor of
the Exchequer might draw a distinction between weapons
which were intended to be used in violence and those only
intended for sport.

THE TAX UPON RAILWAY COMPANIES.
Sir T. BAZLEY complained that the tax upon the railway
companies was quite a new one, and he argued that it
would be a tax upon industry. He hoped that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer would continue the gathe
license, and relieve the railway interest and the public at
London, England, 1870-04-13

THE HALFPENNY POSTAGE.

The Daily News observes that the halfpenny postage to be
charged henceforward on printed matter passing through
the Post-office will be a considerable boon to important
sections of the community. It will at once open remote
agricultural districts to the newspaper press, and enable
the farmer to have his daily paper delivered at his own
door without that doubling of its price which he has
hitherto been reluctant to pay. To the daily papers them-
selves the boon will not be a great one. Mr. Lowe called
the penny stamp a " tax on knowledge," but it was at
least a tax which fell lightly on newspapers, since
the vast bulk of the morning papers are distributed all
over the kingdom without any help from the Post-office
or any payment to it. There is probably not a little town
in the United Kingdom in which the Daily News is not
delivered at the doors of its subscribers at the published
price on the day of publication. One of the difficulties of
the change will be that of limiting the halfpenny stamp
to printed matter. The public will soon begin to ask why
it is limited to such matter at all. Is a printed circular
easier to carry than a written letter, or is it more impor-
tant to facilitate the delivery of such circulars than the
delivery of letters ? If it can pay to carry six ounces
of printed paper for a halfpenny, it will surely pay to
carry a letter of half an ounce for the same sum. The
Post Office is not yet as useful a message-bearer in large
towns as it might be ; and we think we may now fairly
claim that letters and printed matter shall be subject to
the same tariff. Mr. Lowe has struck off the last of the
taxes on knowledge. It only now remains to do exactly
the same for that commercial, friendly, and family inter
course which is so important to the welfare and comfort
of the nation.
London, England, 1870-04-13

THE STEAM ROLLER.

Professor Huxley enforced a lesson in a practical
manner at a lecture delivered by him a day or
two ago. He exhibited a number of large razor-
edged flint stones, some with frightfully jagged edges
and terrific points, and many of them of great
size. These were picked up from the roads as
specimens of the cruelty inflicted on horses at the
present time. The inscription upon the black board
to which they were attached was as follows :
"Instruments of Horse Torture employed in the
Nineteenth Century on the Roads of the South
of London, within the four-mile radius of
Charing-cross. April, 1870." Professor Huxley
is of opinion that public bodies laying down loose
stones ought to be compelled to use the steam roller.
His audience were decidedly of the same belief
London, England, 1870-04-13

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THE noAntaxci-OUT OF PAUPER GIRLS.

A correspondent calls attention to the lamentable
fact that 80 per cent of girls sent out to service from
workhouse schools at the age of 16 return again at
some time as paupers, and generally as pauper mothers.
He suggests " the boarding-out plan "as one present
alleviation, which might become a great cure, and
says that there are many ladies in country places
living in idleness, which is a burden to them,
and maiden ladies and widow ladies collected in
watering places and other localities where the
affluent classes congregate, with no poor around them
really needing relief, at any rate with not enough
misery near them to expend their benevolence upon.
If only some few of these poor girls, he adds, could be
transplanted to such villages, and placed in decent
cottage families, under the care of these ladies, a
double purpose would be served—the children would
get personal care and sympathy, which is what a
child, and especially a girl, most needs, and the
ladies would get an object on which to expend their
sympathy. To enable this system to be carried out
the writer advocates an amendment of the law which
as it at present stands prevents the guardians of the
poor from letting any child out of their hands, unless
the person taking the child will adopt it altogether.
London, England, 1870-04-13

VOLUNTEERS AT EASTER.

By thousands and tens of thousands, says the Telegraph,
our volunteers and their friends will on Monday next
betake themselves to the south coast for that memorable
adventure. Grey-haired veterans and professional war-
riors may say what they will, but we cannot think it a
matter of slender consequence to the country that the
youth of England should give up their scanty hours of
spare time to martial exercises and the use of arms. On.
Monday night the Chancellor of the Exchequer in-
dulged the House again with the old story of Ryder
Ali, who is becoming nearly as great a nuisance as
Lord Macaulay's New Zealander, and his memorable
dictum that it was not what he saw, but what he
did noe see, which inspired him with fear. Ac-
cording to Mr. Lowe, it is in the " borrowing
power " of the kinoodom that its strength resides, in its
latent faculty of drawing bills upon posterity—in the
simplest form of the expression, upon its Credit, which
is an unseen thing. Surely, we may venture to use
Hyder Ali a little for our own purposes, and we think
that venerable personage might have been more reason-
ably affrighted at the latent spirit of the British nation
even than at its faculty of borrowing money without
stint or delay. Now we look upon the bold, active young
men who are about to take part in the Easter Review
at Brighton, and on their fellows throughout the
country, as an embodiment and as living wit-
nesses of the martial spirit which still animates
the country, as it has animated it for the last
eight centuries. It is quite possible—nay, it is probable
—that a corps of Regulars might out-manoeuvre and des-
troy a corps of Volunteers ; but all the Regulars in Chris-
tendom would not defeat in the long run, a couple of
millions of well-armed and determined men, fighting for
all they hold dear in life. Therefore it is that we think
the Volunteer Review has a great significance, and there.
fore it is that we heartily bid God-speed to our young
friends on the Brighton Downs at this Easter season.
They, at least, have hit upon a wise way of spending
their Easter holidays.
London, England, 1870-04-13

THE LICENSING BILL.

Mr. Bruce has made up his mind to try again.
Notwithstanding one failure, and his answer of
despair to a question, put the other night, the
Home Secretary has not given up all hope
of a Licensing Bill this year. He now
promises to move for leave to bring
it in on Thursday, the 28th, immediately after the
Easter rec-ss. Thus, with the Tests Bill, there are
two highly important measures not yet introduced;
one first-class bill, that on education, not yet in com-
mittee ; and the great measure of the session has not
advanced beyond its first clause.
TIIE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION BILL.
The deputation which waited upon the Premier
on Monday afternoon did not adopt the League
system of marching a battalion of 400 men to storm
Mr. Gladstone's official residence. The number was
small, but it represented fully 5,000 Noncon-
formist Ministers, and almost every sect had its dele-
gate. There was a Baptist, a Unitarian, a Wesleyan,
a representative of the Methodist New Connexion, a
Primitive Methodist, a Presbyterian, and an Inde-
p3ndent, besides several others. This body of Dis-
senting Ministers is hostile to three points in
the bill, the power given to local boards to
determine the form of religious teaching in rate-
supported schools; the Conscience Clause, which
they say requires a Nonconformist British citizen to
claim religious toleration in schools supported by
national money ; and the permissive arrange-
ment for religious inspection. On the whole, these
Nonconformists think the religious provisions of the
bill amount to concurrent endowment. Mr. Glad-
stone tendered no direct reply.
London, England, 1870-04-13

SPAIN.

MADRID, April 12, Evening.
The Government has announced that the Court-
martial, in conformity with the demand of the public
prosecutor, has condemned the Duke of Montpensier
to one month's exile from Madrid, and a fine of
30,000 f.

AMERICA.
(By Cable).
NEw YORK, April 12.

The Cunard steamship Samaria arrived here at 10
p.m. yesterday; the National steamship Erin at 6
a.m. to-day ; and the Hamburg and American
steamer Holsatia at 2 p.m. to-day.
The Inman steamer City cf London also arrived
out to-day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 1121 ; the highest quotation during the day
was 1131 ; the lowest, 1121.

Sterling Exchange on London lOBl
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882
1111
1885
110 f
1867
106}
1581
Erie
Cotton—Mid. upland 23kc
Petroleum—Standard White
Flour—Extra Stato, $4 40c. to $5 Oc. Corn—Old
mixed, $1 Dc,

0-40 „

iuois

According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s
report the receipts of cotton at all ports, for the last
four days, have been 23,000 bales. Shipments to
England, 15,000 La les ; to France, 4,000 bales; and
to the Continent, 3,000 bales. Middling Upland,
10 11-16 d., cost and freight per steamer.

TIIE DEFEAT AND DEATH OF LOPEZ.
Itio DE JANEIRO, March 18.

The arlvices from Paraguay are to the sth inst.
Oa the Ist March General Camera, with the Bra-
zilian Cavalry, overtook Lopez, who had with him

1,000 men, and utterly (Ideated him. Lopez having
refused to surrender, was killed by a Brazilian

Lancer.

Resquin, and other Paraguayan Generals and offi-
cers surrendered. Caballero was killed. The

mother, sister, and children of Lopez, as well as Mrs.
Lynch, were captured.
General Camera has been made Viscount of
Pelotas.

THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA MAILS.
LIVERPOOL, April 13.
The West African Mail Company's steamer Bonny,
flo►n the West Coast of Africa, has arrived. Amongst
the paEs?n,;ers
.are King George Pipple and Mince
Charles Pipple of Bonny. The news from the coast
is unimi ortant.
London, England, 1870-04-13

LONGFORD.

Tlie National party have speedily found another
candidate to iightlheir battle for the seat from which
Mr. Grcville-Nugent has been dispossessed. Captain
Harman, son of the Hon. Kin:4- Harman, will stand
on " Conservative-Repeal " principles, and will receive
the support which was lately given to Mr. John Martin.
It remains to be seen whether the Longford priests
will continue the practices which ended in Mr.
Grevillo-Nugent being first elected and then un-
seated. Unfortunately, if they do not " exert
themselves," the Nationalists will. The late
petition sheaved quite clearly that neither party had
any ground for the assumption of superior electoral
morality. Still, it is none the less true that the
Longford priests are in need of reform in this parti-
cular. The Cork Examiner, a Roman Catholic paper,
says their conduct cannot be too deeply deplored.
London, England, 1870-04-13

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH IN INDIA.

The Times remarks that though it is probable none but
Anglo-Indians will thoroughly appreciate the marvellous
incidents of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to
India, it is certain that the interest of the
narrative will be acknowledged by all classes of readers.
The story is as good as anything in the "Arabian
Nights," with the advantage, or perhaps the disadvan-
tage, of reality. The old mediseval titles, it is true, have
disappeared, and, instead of the King of Beder and the
Prince of Bengal, we are introduced to Rajahs and Nabobs of
smaller state and less familiar names ; but the pomps and
pageantries of Oriental life are still there, and with this
prodigious difference—that, instead of the courtesies
shewn by one Sultan to another, the scene before us
represents the homage offered by the feudatories of an
Asiatic Empire to the son of an English Queen. Nos
must it be forgotten that of all the States and Princi-
palities represented in the Royal Company there was
hardly one but had been in arms against us
within the past century. Nothing less than the
pacification of India and the reconciliation of its
native chieftains to the British Government is
symbolised by the gatherings and festivities here described.
That the Queen's son should be welcomed and entertained
by the Queen's representatives in India, as in all other
parts of her dominions, was only natural, but the beha'
viour of the native princes on this occasion has been a com,
f spectacles
Indian
fseu successively se ixyceeleydexceedingly
presenteestir
plete surprise to those best acquainted with the country
t traditions.cen
treTshoe aatndthites grea
prising, and may be taken to denote an epoch in the his.
tory of British rule.

In one of Mr. Lincoln's first cases he appeared tc
defend a man accused of murder. Circumstantial evidence
told strongly against the prisoner, but having suddenl3
and unexpectedly received succour, Mr. Lincoln arm(
and said that, as the case stood, he could not look fog
anything but a verdict against his client ; but he asked
permission to a new and very material witness upon
t etand. He then eallqclkis witnget_lv,ho p5y(419,1.5,
iamisiene utak
London, England, 1870-04-13

DEATHS.

ABBOTT-01 the 10th inst., the 'tight Hon. John Henry
Abbott, Lord Tenterden, aged 74.
CHALK —On the Bth inst., at Eythorne, Kent, Frederic A.
Chalk, Esq., aged 64.

London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM. ANDREWS,
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sox Office, No. 112,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of
Middlesex.—Wedneitty, April 13, 1870.
London, England, 1870-04-13

BIRTHS.

HALE-On the 11th inst., at Surbiton, the wife of Thomas
Hale, Esq., of a son.
HENEAGE —On the 11th inst., at Hainton Hall, Lady Eleanor
LieJeage, of a daughter.
.111ARRIAGES.

BRYDON— HENDERSON On the 7th inst., at All Saints', Gor-
don-square, John M. Brydon, Esq., Blenheim-road, St.
John's-wood, to Lydia Janet, youngest daughter of James
Henderson, Esq., Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square.
NORMAN—SANDYS— On the Ist ult., at Bltaugulpore Fite
Indies, Major-General Henry •Wylie Norman to' Alice
Claudine, daughter of Teignmouth Sandys, Esq.
London, England, 1870-04-13

TOO MANY BILLS.

The Standard says that, thanks to some of Mr. Glad-
stone's most devoted and most intolerant supporters, the
whole question of the conduct of public business by the
Government was brought before the House on Tuesday ;
and the Premier had to admit that he and his colleagues
had undertaken too much ; that they had endangered the
passage of the measures which they regarded as of the
most importance by the introduction, in deference to the
clamour of sections of their supporters, of others which
ought to have been postponed to a more convenient season,
that is to say, to the next or the following session.
The mischief of the " dead lock " at which Parliament
has arrived, of that " block " against which Mr.
Bright so shrewdly, and, let us add, so honestly warned
his constituents, and through them his colleagues, is not
so much that the principal measure of the session is so
little advanced—everybody knows that the question
whether an Irish Land Bill shall pass this session is not
one of time—but that so much necessary and useful work
has been hindered by discussions on subjects which the
Government ought to have at once distinctly stated would
not be entertained this year. The Government, as Mr.
Osborne said, has introduced too many bills, and Mr.
Gladstone pleadedtuilty to the charge, but urged " ex-
tenuating circumstances." "We have introduced too many
bills, framed aprogramme far too vast," he said, " but
then you, the House of Commons, have been as bad as
we. Our fault, indeed, is that we have yielded to the
pressure you put upon us." There is something in this
excuse. The fact of the pressure is incontestable ; but
then it is the necessary characteristic of a real statesman
—or if the word seems too big for these times—of an
honest Minister, that he should be able to resist pressure,
and not risk the passage of his principal measures, and
make a fool of Parliament, merely to give a trifling and
momentary satisfaction to some noisy supporters. The
result of Mr. Gladstone's weakness is that we have before
Easter a murder of the innocents upon a scale which Mr.
Bernal Osborne cannot parallel in his long parliamentary
experience, and which Sir John Pakington, whose remem-
brances of the House of Commons go further back than
Mr. Osborne's, cannot recall.
London, England, 1870-04-13

The provisions of the - third

amended

raise some very serious qua

Eons ; but after all there is no reason

to fear that it will fail to do justice, if the Tiouse will
but restrain itself and get it passed. The danger is

not that the measure will be a bad one, but tha,
there will be no measure of any kind.

It is stated that Earl stair is to be the new Lord-
Lieutenant of Ayrshire.
The flight Hon. B. Disraeli and Viscountess
Beaconsfield have left Grosvenor-gate for Worthing for
the Easter recess.

Mr. Gladstone is a good deal fagged by the work
of the Session, and Mr. Disraeli is far from well. Both,
it is to be hoped, will benefit by the holidayy.
It is said that Lady Amberley, following the
example of Mrs. Fawcett and other ladies is likely to
deliver a lecture in her own neighbourhood.

Three Peers are at present engaged in preaching in
vrrious parts of the country—Lord Radstock, Lord Farn-
ham, and Lord Teynham.

It is said the " Countess " of Derwentwater intends
to make another raid upon the Greenwich Hospital
lands, with the view of getting in the rents due in May.
With extraordinary generosity, tho King of
Prussia has conferred upon Prince Frederick of Schleswig-
Holstein and his heirs the title of Count.

Three gentlemen cadets, of the senior class at
Woolwich Academy, were dismissed this morning by the
Governor.for misconduct. The police commissioners had
complained of the cadets at Woolwich races ; an inquiry
was ordered, and the cadets, who were confined to bar-
racks. threw a mum into the moat on Saturday niaht.
The Select Committee on Salmon Fisheries con-
tinued their sittings to-day. The witnesses examined were
Mr. J. E. C. Walkey, vice-chairman of the Exe Fishery
Board, and Mr. Trelawney Hallett, of Axminster. Their
evidence was confined to the two local rivers.

It is stated that a large number of old men-ot-war
will be very shortly brought to the hammer by a firm of
London shipbrokers, as it is the intention of the Admi-
ralty to clear the Medway, Portsmouth Harbour, and
Hamoaze of all such vessels as are not absolutely required
fop present or future service.

Sir Lawrence Palk- will, after Easter, call atten-
tion to the unsatisfactory state of English legislation, and
inquire if it is to be entirely sacrificed to measures for
Ireland.

At the Drogheda Petty Sessions yesterday, an
Englishman, named Richard Burdoch, and his wife, were
committed to the Assizes on a charge of sending a letter to
James Lang, manager of the Whitworth Mills, threatening
his life. Bail was refused.

Cattle diseases have greatly decreased in intensity
in Norfolk. The official returns made up to yesterday
shew that last week there were only seven cases of pluro-
mieumonia, and twenty-two cases of foot and mouth
diseMe throwelnt illfLaQuntY,
London, England, 1870-04-13

ANOTHER TRADES UNION OUTRAGE.

A daring outrage has been perpetrated at Rotherham.
A Sheffield contractor, some time back, purchased a bed
of clay at the Holmes, near Rotherham, which he let to a
Mr. Thomas Slack, a master brickmaker, to make
into bricks. Two or three days ago a deputation
from the Brrickmakers' Uniou waited upon
Mr. Slack, and requested him to discharge the men
in his employ, adding that they did not consider
him entitltd to engage men for brickmaking purposes.
Mr. Slack declined any terms or negotiations with them!
whereupon they left, intimating that unless he discharged
the men, he would "hear about it." Up to Saturday all
was safe, but between midnight on Saturday and 6 a.m.
on Sunday, 5,000 new bricks were completely destroyed.
The police are investigating the matter.

The Queen has consented, if her health permit, to
open the Hall of Arts and Sciences at South ;Kensington,
which is rapidly approaching completion.
The death is announced th's morning of John
Henry Abbott., Lord Tenterden. The deceased peer, who

'as the second baron, was born on the 6th August, 1796,
and succeeded his fathor in 1822.

The Premier and Mrs. Gladstone have left town
for Hawarden Castle, Flintshire.

The general post, or first delivery, will be the only
delivery in London and its suburbs on Good Friday.
Government has decided upon a reduction of the
light dues levied by the Trinity House on ships entering
British ports.

A presentation, consisting of an address, a service
of plate, and a purse of a hundred sovereigns, was made by
the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion 'louse, this afternoon, to
Captain Charles Mercer, for his services in connection
with the recent visit of the King of the Belgians to this
country.

The treaties of commerce between Austria and
China, Japan, and Siam have now been ratified by the Aus-
trian Roichsrath.

The New York papers to hand this morning state
that the Peabody tomb was entered on the 30th of March
by burglars, who stole the silver plate and handles from the
casket. The thieves were arrested on the following day,
and the plunder was recovered. The result of the trial has
not yet been received.

The Kreutz Zeitung announces that Count De
Bismarck has been for some days past indisposed and ob-
liged to keep his chamber.

M. Cudwieux has presented to the Chamber of
Representatives his report on the bill relative to capital
execu,ions. Ile concludes in favour of their taking placo
in the interior of prisons.

The very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by 31 essis. DIiNVILLE & Co., who have gained
a world-wide celebrity for their tine old Irish whisky, is to be
called "The Royal Irish Distillery."
London, England, 1870-04-14

TIM GOVERNMENT AND TUE MONEY MARKET.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer's rejoicing about
the three millions of stock which he so safely
and secretly put upon the market is considered
out of place by the financial community. Mr. Lowe,
in his Budget speech, claimed credit for placing a
portion of the money required for the telegraphs
with such remarkable skill that "none of the papers
were aware of what was going on." The Ttmes
holds both that secret operations of the kind are not
creditable, and that this particular job was not managed
so secretly as the Chancellor of the Exchequer
fondly imagines. There was a marked effect upon
the funds, and week after week surmises
were expressed that some operation of the kind was
going on. While all other classes of securities were
improving in price, Consols showed continued heavi-
ness, and there is reason to believe that this heavi-
ness, .
influence
to its exceptional character, and the
peculiar which mystery always exerts, was
more potent than any that would have resulted from
an open announcement of the Government require-
ments." Moreover, it is never deemed desirable that
Government should exercise the power of acting by
occult processes on any of the markets.
London, England, 1870-04-14

WESTMINSTER.

James Ormand, a powerful young man, was
charged with the following cowardly assault
Ram Dennison, a weakly young man, whi) stated that
he had given the defendant no offence of any de-
scription, said that last night he was passing into
Regent-street on an errand, when the defendant
came up stealthily behind hits, and, seizing him by
the throat, struck him four or five violent blows in
the face. Defendant said he had heard that com-
plainant had threatened to strike his sister. Mr.
Arnold—Had he struck your sister? Defendant—
No, he had not. Mr. Arnold—lt would have been
time enough to have interfered if you found he had
ill-used your sister. He fined him 50a., and ordered
him to find bail for three months.

THAMES.

Alice Jameson, an unfortunate woman, dressed in
a good deal of tawdry finery, was charged with
attempting to commit suicide. A police constable
saw the prisoner at three o'clock this morning in
great trouble, and crying and groaning, near the
canal bridge, in the Mile-end-road. He asked her
what was the matter with her, and she said she was
tired of her life. He remonstrated with ber and
advised her to go away, and to go home and forget
her sorrows. She said she was determined to end
her existence. At last he persuaded her to leave, and
she went towards the canal. He intercepted her,
and made her go the reverse way. He saw her go
away from the canal. He remainei about the spot
for some time, and the prisoner returned and got
upon the parapet of the brilge. She was about to
throw livr.,elf off into the water, when he seized her,
and dragged her away from the spot. A woman in
the court, with whom the prisoner had been living
four pars, cffered to take her home ani look after
her, as she had been drinking. The magistrate said
the wretched women of the street, calling themselves
unfortunates, were always drinking,to excess. The
prison r, wha was in a deplorable condition, and
labouring under delirium tremens, said she had no
friends in London, and knew no rela►ive except an
uncle at Backs in Suffolk. Remanded. •
London, England, 1870-04-14

THE FRENCH FUNDS.

According to Reuter's telegrams the French
:enter to-day were quoted 731. 60c.

The subscriptions for defraying the expenses c:
the proposed inquiry by the Committee of the British
Association on the Treatment and Utilisation of Sewage
do not, as was affirmed, amount to f:12,0W. The suns
subscribed at the present time is somewhat short of £1,300,
and although this amount has been deemed sufficient to
justify the proceeding with the inquiry, the committee
hope that many more tywns will yet take part in contri-
buting, and enable it to carry out to a thoroughly prac-
tical end the important duties which its memberk
undertaken gratuitously in the public behalf.