biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-24

CLERGY ORPHAN SCHOOLS.
Boys' School, St. Thomas'-hill, Canterbury.
Girls' School, St. John's-wood, Marylebone.
2,114 children have been gratuitously educated, maintained,
and clothed in these Schools since 1749.
20 children will be ELECTED into them on May 25.
The circumstances of the candidates are painfully urgent.
The Committee earnestly APPEAL for support, that they may
be able to fill the Schools.
An annual subscription of £lls., or a life donation of £10105.,
gives a vote at every election.
J. RUSSELL STOCK, M.A., Secretary.
Bankers—Messrs. Drummond.
Office, 63, Lincoln's-inn-flelds.
London, England, 1870-05-24

CANADA.

TORONTO, May 23.
A detachment of the 60th Rifles has started for the Red
River.

QUEENSTOWN, May 23.
The Cunard has arrived from New York, and after
landing some passengers, proceeded for Liverpool.
The Holland also arrived, and sailed for Liverpool after
a short delay.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
- • - •

FENIANS MOVING ON CANADA.

(By Atlantic Cable.)
NEW YORK, May 23.

Simultaneous despatches from Montpelier, Vermont, and
Buffalo announce Fenians moving on Canada in large num
hers. This afternoon they left Buffalo, Burlington, and
Plattsburg for the frontier.
London, England, 1870-05-24

MISCELLANEO'

Pd
10 Berlin Waterworks (L) 14f 141
27 Canada Company 79 81
I 0 Ceylon Company (L) 4 3 dis
20 Colonial
10 Cred. Foncier of E (L) 2} 21
100 Crystal Palace
13 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 55f pm
71 Gen. Cred. & Dsot f pm
14 Gen. Stm Navigation 29 31
45 Hooper's Tel. Works 3 2} die

MINING SHARE LIST.-MAY 23.

Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS.

Mining Offices, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London,
Except a demand for East Lovell, the market is very quiet.
Assheton, Prince of Wales, 16s, 18s
Australisn United, n, 3{ Providence Mines, 38, (k)
Bwlch Consols, 31, 31 Rosewall Hill and Ransom
Bronfloyd, United, 255, 30s
Chiverton Moor, 4/, 5} South Oondurrove, 3; 31
Chiverton Valley, Tankerville, 174, 18
Cook's Kitchen, Tincroft 334, 35
Chontales (Gold), 11, 11 Tan-yr-Allt,
Drakewalls, 28s, 30s Taquaril (Gold), 164
Don Pedro North Del Rey, 3,3/ Trumpet Consols,
East Bassett, 88, 9 Van, 81, 83
East Caradon, 41, 41 Van Consols, 4, 41
East Lovell, 301, 318 West Chiverton, 56, 57
East Wheal Grenville, a 21 West Frances,
Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), West Maria,,and Fortescue,
17s, 19s West Drakewalls,
General Brazilian, West Caradon,
Great Lacey 18, 19 West Tankerville,
Great Retallack, West Panty Go,
Great Wheal Vor, 101 114 Wheal Agar,
Marke Valley, 68, 7 Wheal Crebor,
New Lovell, Wheal Grenville, 14, 24
North Crofty, Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes,
North Treskerby, Wheal Mary Ann,
Pacific, 74, 8 Wheal Seton. 23, 25
London, England, 1870-05-24

THE THEATRES, &c.

HAYMARKET—At Seven, No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book.
And A Kiss in the Dark.
PRINCE OF WALES'S—At 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest

Mamma.

LYCEUM—At 7.30, His Own Rival, Breaking the Spell. At 8.30,
Little Faust.

ADELPHL—At Seven, Too Much of a Good Thing. The Prompter's
Box. The Enchanted Wood.
OLYMPIC -At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, Mary Warner.
The ' Varsity Boat Race.
GAIETY—At Seven, The Man of Quality. The Princess of Tre-
bizonde.

QuEEN's—At Seven, Nly Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Axe and Crown.
STRAND—At Seven, Loving Hearts, Sir George and a Dragon.
VAUDEVILLE—For Love or Money. Don Carlos.
ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Frou. La Belle Sauvage.

GLOBE-At Seven, The Man o' Airlie. Robert Macaire.
WOODIN'S CARPET-BIG AND SKETCH BoOK. Egyptian Hall, Pic-
cadilly, every Evening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn-
ings at 3, Admission Is, 2s, 3s.

• •
ORmisTy MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every N ight, at 8 ; Wed-
nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 &M. till
.5.30 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra
'rooms, 6d.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily except Sun-
days). Admission, Is ; on Mondays, 6d. Children under
twelve, Cl.
London, England, 1870-05-24

HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.

This day her most gracious Majesty completes her fifty-
first year, having been born on the 2• th May, 1819, at
Kensington Palace—in which birthplace, "in a palace in a
garden," eighteen years afterwards the young Princess
received very early one morning in the June of 1837 the
announcement of the death of her Uncle King WILLIAM IV.,
and of the consequent elevation to the throne of this vast
Empire. For three and thirty years, therefore , she has been
reigning over a loyal and happy people during that period,
vindicating her right to the glorious title of being, as she is,
the most constitutional of all our Sovereigns.
London, England, 1870-05-24

II E R STF.

BALMORAL CASTLE, May 22.
The Queen went out yesterday morning with Princess
Louise, and in the afternoon with Princess eatrice.
Princess Louise went out riding in the afternoon, at-
tended by the Hun. Harriet Phipps and the Hon. Eva
Macdonald.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Tees-
dale, was present yesterday at a luncheon given by Baron
and Baroness Lionel do Rothschild in honour of the Bing
of the Belgians.

His Royal Highness went afterwards to St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital (of which he is President), and minutely
inspected all the wards.
The Prince and Princess of Wales gave a dinner in the
evening to the King of the Belgians.
The band of the Coldstream Guards (conducted by Mr.
Fred Godfrey) was in attendance during dinner, and played
a selection of music.

His Majesty the King of the Belgians honoured Major-
General Sir Francis and Lady Seymour with his presence
at a small party given by them at St. James's Palace yester-
day afternoon.
London, England, 1870-05-24

SAD CALAMITY AT SEA.

The Asterias, of Boston, Captain Sloane, 800 tons
register, bound from Cardiff to Hong Kong with 1,230
tons of steam coal on board, and fourteen hands, all told,
when twenty miles off Sandy Island, on Saturday last,
at a quarter to 10 a.m., caught fire and blew up. The
captain was killed and one of the crew. Three men and
the second officer were badly injured. The surviving
portion of the crew took to the boats, and were picked up
by the brigantine Success, of Dublin, and taken to
Mounts Bay, whence they were brought to Penzance yes-
terday. It appears that when the explosion occurred
the deck parted in the middle, and each side was blown
up. The captain, who was blown overboard. as was
also a coloured man who was at the wheel, was picked
up alive, but died almost immediately. The uninjured
sailors had barely time to get the ship's two boats afloat,
and their less fortunate companions into them, ere the yards
and rigging came down about them. On arriving at
Mounts Bay, in consequence of a calm, the men took to
their boats again, intending to row to Penzance, but a
breeze springing up they were taken in tow by the
schooner Beryl. The explosion is said to have
occurred from a seaman going below with a light.

ASSAULTS AT THE LONGFORD ELECTION.
At the Longford Petty Sessions yesterday Mr. James
Murtagh, Dublin, was charged by Sub-Inspector Ball
with having assaulted a man named Doyle on the day of
nomination in Longford, when followed by a mob, and
with assaulting himself by tearing his tunic. Mr. Murtagh
had a case against Mr. Ball for an assault, which was
withdrawn, and the other cases dismissed. Mr. H. L.
King Harman, father of the defeated candidate, was
charged by Sub-constable Mowry with an assault on the
same day, by giving him a punch with a stick
when he refused to discharge a prisoner he
had in custody on his order as a magistrate.
Mr. Harman denied having made an intentional
assault, and had a cross case against the polieeman
for giving him a punch and a kick. Evidence having been
taken, the magistrates dismissed both cases. Mr. Molloy,
assisted by Messrs. Fair and Fleming, appeared for Mr.
Harman; and Mr. Murtagh and Mr. M`Loughlin, assisted
by Mr. Reynolds, appeared for the constabulary There
were a number of other cases arising out of the late election,
which were withdrawn at the suggestion of the Bench.
London, England, 1870-05-24

THE NEW ROSARIO SILVER MINING
COMPANY (Limited). The Share List of thi Company
will be closed on Saturday next, 28th inst., for London ; and, on
Monday, 30th, for the country.
By order,
H. W, MATHIAS, Secretary.
174, Gresham House, May 24th, 1870.
London, England, 1870-05-24

Development of Irish Industry.

Condensed milk, the making of which has hitherto
been confined to America and Switzerland, is now
manufactured in large quantities at Mallow, where
rich grazing grounds enable the cattle to supply a
peculiarly nutritive kind of milk. The great success
of the butter merchants in the south of Ireland,
tempted an enterprising gentleman, Mr. 3. H.
Newnham, to try what could be done with
dairy produce in another direction. Mr. Newnham's
scheme has met with unexpected encouragement, and
he now employs permanently sixty pairs of
hands in condensing over 200,000 gallons of
milk, the quantity which he sends away annually
in tins to all parts of the world. In order to ensure
superiority and genuineness in his milk, Mr. Newn-
ham has it all tested before it leaves Mallow by the
Professor of Chymistry at Queen's College, Cork.
Getting up Evidence.

Our law reports are not yet free of the tedious
Wicklow peerage case, though its last appearance
was not to settle the possession of a peerage, but the
fees of a solicitor's clerk ! Mr. Samuel Brown
sued Mr. Octavius O'Brien, by whom he was
formerly employed, to recover £42 4s. for work per-
formed and services rendered. Mr. Brown, who en-
joyed a salary of 30s. a week, with scrivenery allow-
ance, was informed by Mr. O'Brien that the
Wicklow Peerage would be disputed,, and
that he would make something nand-
some out of the case. Mr. O'Brien was concerned
for the Earl of Wicklow. In 1869 Mr. Brown was
numbered among the fashionable arrivals of
the London season, and in 1870 he returned
faithfully to the metropolis, after a short
absence. In both cases he was paid a pound a
day, and in 1870 he was also to be paid for overwork.
His office included some diversion among its labour,
for he was engaged in getting up the evidence, and
he reckoned as part of his work taking the witnesses
to the seaside, so that no one should get ht them.
The pleasures of these trips seem in the
minds of the jury to have almost entirely out-
weighed any other consideration, for they were cruel
enough, while recognising the plaintiff's claim to re-
duce his demand from £42 4s. to one tenth,
£4 Bs. 9d.
London, England, 1870-05-24

HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT,
Golden-square, W.
President—the Right Hon. the Earl of STRAFFORD, F.R.S.
This Hospital has relieved upwards of 24,000 patients since its
foundation, and is in great NEED of FUNDS to meet the heavy
current expenses. EDMUND WYLD, Secretary.
London, England, 1870-05-24

Progress in Japan.

No longer content to remain a secluded and almost
unknown island, Niphon is gradually pushing itself
forward into the "highway of nations" as a country in
which commercial interests may flourish, enlightened
laws be administered and social relations fostered. The
sacred barriers which for ages have been
.allowed to
surround the Mikado and his Court have within the
past few years been broken down, and Foreign
Ministers may now visit him at his capi-
tal as they will. The young Prince,
himself appreciating the wisdom and value of
intercourse with his people as well as with visitors
from foreign countries has latterly issued decrees
in which he calls the old practice " a foolish one,"
fraught with possible danger to that" God country." He
desires that the " nine walls " surrounding Japan may
no longer be considered as the boundaries without which
thename and influence of his nation are not to pass.
and he repeatedly warns the Japanese that one day's
neglect in improving their land and in opening com-
munication with the great world round them may
cause hereafter one hundred years of sorrow and dis-
grace.
London, England, 1870-05-24

Progress in Japan.

No longer content to remain a secluded and almost
unknown island, Niphon is gradually pushing itself
forward into the "highway of nations" as a country in
which commercial interests may flourish, enlightened
laws be administered and social relations fostered. The
sacred barriers which for ages have been allowed to
surround the Mikado and his Court have within the
past few years been broken down, and Foreign
Ministers may now visit him at his capi-
tal as they will. The . young Prince,
himself appreciating the wisdom and value of
intercourse with his people as well as with visitors
from foreign countries has latterly issued decrees
in which he calls the old practice " a foolish one,"
fraught with possible danger to the " God country." He
desires that the " nine walls " surrounding Japan may
no longer be considered as the boundaries without which
thename and influence of his nation are not to pass.
and he repeatedly warns the Japanese that one day's
neglect in improving their land and in opening com-
munication with the great world round them may
cause hereafter one hundred years of sorrow and dis-
grace.
London, England, 1870-05-24

MORNING EDITI N.

THE GLOBE MARINE INSURANCE COM-
PANY (LIMITED).

Capital, £500,000, with power to increase, of which it is pro-
posed to call up only £lOO,OOO, or £4 per share.
£1 per share will be payable on application.
L 3 „ ~ , PI allotment.

BANKERS :
The London Joint Stock Bank.
The Manchester and County Bank,

The List of Applications for Shares will be closed on 'Wednes-
day, the 25th instant, and the allotment will be made on Friday,
the 27th instant.

Copies of the Prospectus Circular can be obtained, and copies
of the Articles of Association can be inspected, on application to
Mr. Edward Carey, at Lloyds ; Messrs. G. and A. Lindo, Solici-
tors, King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street, E.C. ; Messrs. Chad-
wick, Adamson, Collier, and Co., 65, Moorgate-street, E.C., and
64, Cross-street, Manchester ; and Messrs. Shepherd and Grieve-
son, 10, Old Broad-street, X.C.

S A U C E.—LEA and PERRINS.
THE "WORCESTERSHIRE,"
pronounced by Connoisseurs
" THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE."
Imcrole the appetite, and aid, digestion.
UNRIVALLED FOR PIQUANCY AND FLAVOUR.

ASK FOR " LEA AND PERRINS" SAUCE.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS,
and see the names of LEA and PERBINS on all bottles

gnd labels.

Agents—Crosse and Blacicwed, London, and told by all Dealers
in Sauce throughout the Wurld.
London, England, 1870-05-24

JUDGES (UNITED KINGDOM).

Mr. HUNT moved an address for a return of the number
of days on which each of the judges of the United King-
dom, whose salaries are charged upon the Consolidated
Fund, sat in court or at Chambers during the year 1869 ;
chewing, in the case of each judge (other than County
Court judges), the number of days he was employed upon
each class of business, viz., criminal trials, nisi prius, in
banco, appeal, election petitions, &c., and the salary of
each judge.

The return was ordered.
NEW NATIONAL GALLERY.

Mr. BERESFORD HOPE moved for copies of correspon-
dence between her Majesty's Office of Works and the
architect of the new National Gallery ; and of the report
of the architect upon the design for the new building.

The papers were ordered.
THE SLIGO DISFRANCHISEMENT BILL.

Colonel FRENCH gave notice that on the motion for the
committal of this bill, he should move a resolution to the
effect that it would be undesirable to proceed with this
bill until the measures with respect to the Irish repre-
sentation were completed by the introduction of bills
for the extension of the suffrage and redistribution
of seats in the country were before the House.
London, England, 1870-05-24

MARKETS—M oNDAY,

LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY.--Prom Essex and
Kent the receipts of wheat have been limited. The trade
has been dull, and prices have had a drooping ten-
dency. The show of wheat has been moderate. With
a dull market, prices have had a drooping tendency. Moderate
supplies of barley have been on offer. The trade has been quiet,
but prices have ruled firm. Malt has been dull, on former terms.
Oats have been in fair supply and improved request, at rather
more money. Beans and peas have been firm. Flour has been
steady.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.-The supply
of beasts has been short. The trade has been firmer, at improving
prices. The best Scots and crosses have sold at 4s. 10d. to ss. 6d.
per 81bs. For sheep, the supply of which has been less extensive,
the demand has been steady, at 2d. per 81bs. more money for the
best Downs and half-breds Ss.' 2d. to ss. 4d. per 81bs. Lambs have
sold slowly. Calves have been quiet, and pigs have been dull.
Beasts, 3s. 2d, to ss. ; sheep, 3s. 2d. to ss. 4d.; lambs, 6s. 6d. to 7s. 4d.;
calves, Bs. 10d. to ss. Bd. ; and pigs, 4s. 6d. to ss. Bd. per Blbs. to
sink the offal. Total supplies ;-Beasts, 2,790 ; sheep and lambs,
26,280 ; calves, 146 ; and pigs, 120. Foreign ;-Beasts, 930 ; sheep
and lambs, 10,000 ; and calves, 137,
LONDON COLONIAL MARKET, MONDAY.--The sugar mar-
ket has ruled dull, but values are without change. In refined
goods there hs been little doing, but prices have been supported
for both store and unstored goods, Coffee steady in value and
demand for both plantation and native Ceylon. Rice very in-
active. Metal dull. Tin steady. Copper quiet,

LONDON TRADE REPORT.—MoNDAY.—The tallow market
has ruled flat, at 445. 6d. for Y.C. on the spot and month. Stock
34,626 casks, against 32,642 casks last year, Oils quiet. Linseed
firm. Rape oil without change.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY. —Market firm.
Sales, 10,000 bales, of which 2,000 bales for export and specula-
tion.
LIVERPOOL. COPPER MARKET, MONDAY.—Bars, 67 to
67} ; ores, 13 to 131.

AMSTERDAM, MONDAY.—Banca tin ilau , 178.
LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKEL MONDAY.—The supply of stock at this market was very small,and the attendance of
buyers was by no linsQll'.4 - _
was dull, and Wham P,merous ; therefore the cattle trade
demand, at 11.10' ;'ere lower. Sheep and lambs were in fair
saw, 1,4,.. „Ler prices for each sheep in the wool. There were
sot" • .iie grass cattle in the market. Beef, 61d. to 7d. per lb.;
-
~ton, 7id. to std. per lb. ; clipped lambs, 30s. to 455. each.
1,578 cattle and 7,668 sheep in the market.

CORK BUTTER MARKET, MONDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 100 s. ;
seconds, 105 s. ; thirds, 925. ; fourths, 85s. ; fifths, 70s. ; sixths
not quoted ; 1,300 firkins in the market. Mild-cured, no change ;
240 firkins in the market.
London, England, 1870-05-24

UNIVERSITY TESTS.

The Council of the Senate has given notice of a special
congregation on Wednesday, to receive the present of the
statue of the late Prince Consort, and to decide whether
the University seal shall be affixed to a petition to the
House of Parliament, which sheweth that a bill, entitled
" A Bill to alter the law respecting religious tests in
the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dur-
ham, and in the halls and colleges of those universities
respectively is now before your honourable House.
That the said bill, while removing divers restrictions,
tests, and disabilities, fails to provide proper and adequate
safeguards for the maintenance of religious instruction,
worship and discipline, in the said universities, colleges,
and halls. Your petitioners humbly pray that the said
bill, in its present form, may not pass into law.
London, England, 1870-05-24

THE GREEK MURDERS.

Mr. MONK asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs- whether the courier,Alexandros Anemayanni, who
accompanied our fellow countrymen to Marathon on the 11th
April was the same individual whose name appears in the
Foreign Office List for 1870 as a courier in the service of
her Majesty's Minister at Athens ; and, if so, whether he
was at the time of the massacre still in her Majesty's
Service, or when and for what cause he had been dismissed
from that employment.
Mr. OTWAY replied that Alexandros Annemayanni,who
accompanied the unfortunate party to Marathon was the
same person who appeared in the .Foreign Office list as
interpreter in the service of the British' Legation. This
list, however was not an official publication, although it
was a very useful one. It was true that he was dis-
missed for misconduct, but Mr. Erskine did not state
what that misconduct consisted of. Alexandros was paid
up to the 13th September,flB66.
PRIVILEGES TO NAVAL OFFICERS.

Lord HENRY SCOTT asked the Secretary to the Treasury
whether any recommendation had been made by the
Treasury to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
which had led to the withdrawal of the privilege hitherto
enjoyed by the officers of her Majesty's navy while serving
on foreign stations, enabling them to send letters to and
to receive letters from their relations find friends at a re-
duced rate of postage, and if he would state the reasons
upon which the recommendation, if any, has been based.
Mr. STANSFELD replied that for some time the officers
of her Majesty's Navy, and also the officers serving on
board ships on foreign stations, and also the officers serv-
ing in the army in India and the Colonies, had enjoyed
special priveleges. Various technical and troublesome
questions had from time to time arisen as to the condi-
tions under which they were entitled to these pri-
vileges. But besides this the contracts for the
packet services involved a charge very often upon the
colonies and dependencies, and it appeared a matter of
doubtful expediency and equity ; and they should on
their own discretion give special exemptions to their own
subjects when the charge of these exemptions fell
upon the dependencies and colonies. For this
reason, and in consequence of the advantage
of simplicity of arrangement, the Government
came to the conclusion that it would be advisable to dis-
continue these exemptions. The correspondence would
throw no additional light upon the subject, inasmuch as the
decision of the Government was arrived at on the general
grounds he had stated.
London, England, 1870-05-24

SAVIOUR'S HOSPITAL and REFUGE,
• Alfred-terrace, Upper Holloway, N.—This Institution
a ords a Refuge for Women seeking to abandon a life of sin,
especially those about to become mothers, and provides a Home
for the Children of such. FUNDS are very urgently NEEDED.
Bankers, London and South Western (Holloway Branch).
HUGH R. GOUGH, Hon. Sec.
London, England, 1870-05-24

AQUATICS AT OXFORD.

The Oxford University eight-oar races were continued
last night. Balliol bumped Brasenose at the Cherwell ;
Pembroke. bumped Lincoln near the Gut ; Wadham
bumped Merton at the Longbridges ; and New College
bumped Magdalen at Saunders-bridge. There was a fine
race between Oriel and St. Edmund's Hall, but the latter
got off.
London, England, 1870-05-24

Enclosure of the New Forest.

A meeting has been held at Southampton to con-
sider the proposal to enclose and cultivate the New
Forest. Captain Maxe, RN., prOposed the first
resolution in favour of the object, and urged the
desirability of carrying it out under such conditions
as would be best calculated to give profitable
employment to the people, increase the pro-
duce of the soil, and promote the comfort
and independence of the labouring poor. He stated
that a farmer living in the forest had estimated that
nearly the whole of the 60,000 acres would bear
profitable cultivation, while another gentleman had
spoken to the effect that 30,000 acres might
be regarded as simply corn-growing land. The
resolution was carried, being supported by, among
others, Mr. William Warner, of Botley, a large land-
owner and farmer, who expressed his belief that
there were thousands of acres in the New Forest
that would well pay for cultivation, and which for
years had yielded no return.
Capital Punishment in Holland.

The abolition of a death penalty has been voted
by a large majority of the Legislature of Holland.
Before the third reading of the new penal code was
assented to, however, th House adjourned to consider
a question of exception. It was proposed that where
the victim of the assassin or assassins was the chief
of the Bund, or a Prince of any one of the different'
countries comprising the Confederation, the
old rule of capital punishment should not be de-
parted from. The upholders of the " Divine right"
who seek to have one law for the patrician and
another for the plebeian, have shewn a feeling which
will be reciprocated by the Imperialist section of the
German people, although the logical and practical
will laugh at the idea of making the murder of a
crowned person an essentially worse act than the
murder of an ordinary man.
London, England, 1870-05-24

Sixth Thousand. In 1 vol. Crown Bvo. Illustrated. Price 3s.
HISTORY OF THE PIANOFORTE, with an
Account of Ancient Music and Musical Instruments, by
EDGAR BRINSMEAD.

" Clear, brief, and pithy, it contains the crime de la crime of
the subject—a lucid disposition of facts in simple, unaffected
language."—Examiner.
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"Best account of the piano we have yet met with."—Morning
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Cassell, Fetter, and Galpin, London and New York.

Just published, price is 6d., by post is. Bd., the Second Edition.
with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in ills's-
tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks.
REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND
QUACKERY By DETEOTOR. Reprinted from the
"Medical Circular."
London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street.
The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday
Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, and other
journals, recommendiny its universal perusal, are reprinted with
this edition.
London, England, 1870-05-24

Capital Punishment in Holland.

The abolition of a death penalty has been voted
by a large majority of the Legislature of Holland.
Before the third reading of the new penal code was
assented to, however, the House adjourned to consider
a question of exception. It was proposed that where
the victim of the assassin or assassins -was the chief
of the Bund, or a Prince of any one of the different
countries comprising the Confederation, the
old rule of capital punishment should not be de-
parted from. The upholders of the " Divine right"
who seek to have one law for the patrician and.
another for the plebeian, have shewn a feeling which
will be reciprocated by the Imperialist section of the
German people, although the logical and practical
will laugh at the idea of making the murder of a
crowned person an essentially worse act than the
murder of an ordinary man.
London, England, 1870-05-24

IIIL

The Outrages at Christ Church.
The wilful destruction of six- or seven pieces of
valuable sculpture, although considered a serious
and unbecoming offence, is not meeting with that con-
demnation at the hands of the undergraduates at Christ
Church which the public might have expected. On
the contrary, general commiseration for the sen-
tenced Housemen, and justification for their
crime, seem to prevail. The resident Christ
Church undergraduates at a meeting unani-
mously passed a vote of sympathy with
the Dean and other authorities in the matter, but
they refused to adopt a resolution expressing regret
at the occurrence, and advising the culprits
to give themselves up. The outrages
are spoken of as a " childish " and " thoughtless "
freak, and the undergraduate mind altogether
banishes the idea of its being wicked. It is, moreover,
urged that at the hour of midnight men
of twenty are not always cognisant of the
full consequences of everything they may
do. Some of those who attempt to defend
the guilty parties even contend that all " young
things do not depend so much upon themselves as
upon those that train them," and venture to express
an 'opinion that the lads against whom so much
outcry is • now raised were not the only ones
at fault. It is also thought very hard that
college men should not only be publicly expelled,
rusticated, gated, and rated, but should be threatened
with a felon's dock as well. As public feeling in
the matter has been pretty widely ' and
severely expressed, it may be well to know how far
it coincides with the views of the inmates of the
college where the acts were perpetrated. That
the feeling of the residents themselves are in accord-
ance with the statements here made is testified to by
more than one Houseman at Oxford.
London, England, 1870-05-24

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turned to such noble account, was a chemist and
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on Professor Simpson, who tried a number of experi-
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chloroform as an antesthetic. Chloroform, it will be
remembered; was discovered by Soubeiran in 1831,
but it is owing to the intelligence of Mr. Waldie that
the inestimable boon conferred by Dr. Simpson on
society was not delayed.
Enclosure of the New Forest.

A meeting has been held at Southampton to con-
sider the proposal to enclose and cultivate the New
Forest.. Captain Maxe, R..N., proposed the first
resolution in favour of the object, and urged the
desirability of carrying it out under such conditions
as would be best calculated to give profitable
employment to the people, increase the pro-
duce of the soil, and promote the comfort
and independence of the labouring poor. He stated
that a farmer living in the forest had estimated that
nearly the whole of the 60,000 acres would bear
profitable cultivation, while another gentleman had
spoken to the effect that 30,000 acres might
be regarded as simply corn-growing land. The
resolution was carried, being supported by, among
others, Mr. William Warner, of Botley, a large land-
owner and farmer, who expressed his belief that
there were thousands of acres in the New Forest
that would well pay for cultivation, and which•for
years had yielded no return.
London, England, 1870-05-24

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THE NEW AUSTRIAN MINISTRY.

Count Beust, in a circular to the Austrian diplomatic
representatives abroad respecting the programme of Count
Potocki's Cisleithan Cabinet, states that this programme
contemplates the establishment of a popular Parliament,
secure from future mutations by virtue of its election by
direct suffrage, and which shall embody the nation's
wishes within the limits of the present Constitution, and
in no other manner. The appeal to universal suffrage is
to be preceded by the dissolution of the Reichsrath and of
the several Cisleithan Diets. To the new Diets a plan
will be submitted for the enlargement of their prerogatives,
which will subsequently be submitted for approval to the
Reichsrath. The,Diets will at the same time be called
upon to sanction direct elections for the Reichsrath upon
a liberal basis. The programme also proposes to strengthen
the Upper House by the election of some representatives
from the several Cisleithan Diets. In case the Diests re-
fuse to sanction the proposed electoral reform, the Go-
vernment will be constitutionally empowered to order
direct elections. Imperial decrees have been issued in
accordance with these announcements.

The Lord Lieutenant and Lady Spencer have re-
turned to Dublin.

The Limerick Chronicle reports that the exodus
of emigrants from that county to America still continues.
The Oxford University Sculls will be rowed on
June 7, and ,two following days. The University Pairs
on June 14 and two following days.

The names of the three undergraduates who have
been expelled from Christ Church, Oxford, are Edward
Majoribanks, Edmund Pryor, and Robert Russell.

About 6,000 persons left the Mersey last week for
Canada and the United States, and it is expected that
at least 7,000 more will embark before the close of this
week.

•
A violent storm burst over St. Etienne (France)
on Saturday, and the lightning fell in various places ; in
one striking a young girl on the head, killing herinstanta-
neously.

The Whitsuntide holidays, it is now stated, will
commence after the proceedings of Thursday week, and
the House of Commons will reassemble for business on the
following Thursday, June 9.
London, England, 1870-05-24

BREACH OF PROMISE

Yesterday, in the Sheriff's Court, Preston, £250 damages
were awarded to a Miss Ann Dent, for non-fulfilment of
a promise of marriage made to her by Mr. William Birt-
whistle, landlord of th Peel Arms Inn, Accrington. In
August, 1866, the defendant occupied a farm near Btoad-
hook. In September, 1864, Miss Dent went to live as house-
keeper at Mr. Hardgreaves's, Broadhook, and she became
aequainted with the defendant. The case was entered for
hearing at the last Lancaster assizes, but defendant allowed
judgment to go by default.

AWFUL SUFFERINGS OF A SHIP'S CREW.
Twenty-one of the crew of the ship Mariana, we learn by
the Bombay mail, have died from starvation. Capt. Stuart,
of the ship Tweed, which left Bombay on April 2, for Eng-
land, having on board some invalided troops, reports that
on the 7th, when in lat. 9 N., long. 69 S., he fell in with the
Mariana, of Chittagorg, flying signals of distress. The
Tweed was at once hove to, and Captain Stuart went on
board the Mariana, and to his horror found twenty-one of
the crew dead, and most of the survivors sick, the vessel
having been without water or provisions for many da3 s.
Captain Stuart remained alongside for twelve hours, and,
having supplied water, provisions, and medicine to those on
board, left the vessel.
London, England, 1870-05-24

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London, England, 1870-05-24

GENERAL LYING-IN HOSPITAL, York-road,
Lambeth.—From the year 1765 this Hospital (not in
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door patients ; poor women are also attended at home by com-
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ance. Total in and out patients in seven years, 9,393. The
annual expenditure is more than the reliable income. Deaths of
subscribers, and the increased cost of provisions, &c., have
affected the power of the Weekly Board to continue the relief
hitherto afforded, and they are compelled to make this SPECIAL
APPEAL for AID.
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London, England, 1870-05-24

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London, England, 1870-05-24

BRITISH CONSULATE IN CHINA.

Mr. RTLANDS asked the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, if there had been a recent inquiry, con-
ducted under the authority of the Government, into the
Consular Establishment in China, with a view of effecting
areduction of the expenditure on account of the several
Consulates ; and if so, whether he was willing to lay upon
the table of the House the report of the Departmental
Committee, if any, presented on the subject.
Mr. OTWAY said the papers had already been laid upon
the table of the House. It was not the practice of the
Foreign Office to make departmental inquiries ; but he
might say that there had becu reports received from the
consuls. The result of those reports had been such as to
enable Lord Galway to make a saving of nearly £lO,OOO in
the auditing of the accounts in that country.
London, England, 1870-05-24

Q MALL-PDXandVACCINATION HOSPITAL,
►, Highgate-hill, Upper Holloway.—FUNDS are requested in
support of this Institution, which is the only one in or near the
metropolis for the exclusive treatment of this disease. Number
of admissions in 1869, 493. Donations will be thankfully re-
ceived by the bankers, Messrs. Barnett, Hoare and Co., Lombard-
street ; J. F. Masson, Esq., Resident Surgeon, at the Hospital ;
or by R. H. Wilkins, Esq., Secretary, 19, King's Arm's-yard,
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nervous diseases.
The Institution comprises the Hospital or In and Out
Patients, with a country branch, the Samaritan Society, and the
Pension Fund for the incurable.
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London, England, 1870-05-24

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London, England, 1870-05-24

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.

The first match of the season of this club took place yes-
terday. The prizes were three pieces of plate, of the value
re,pectively of £lOO, £3O, and £2O, the course being from
Gravesend round the Nore Light and back. The following
vessels entered :—The Julia yacht, 113 tons, Mr. G. F. Moss,
owner; Rose of Devon, 148, Mr. E. Johnson; Christabel,
52, Earl Annesley ; Muriel,. 40, Mr. H. Bridson ;
Oimara, 167, Mr J. Wylie; Vanguard, 60, Col. Verschoyle;
Vindex, 45, Mr A Duncan ; Fiona, 77, Mr E. Boutcher.
There were three prizes—one of £lOO for the first vessel,
£5O for the second, and £2O for the third. Time allow-
ance, 20 seconds per ton, but no time allowed for ton-
nage above 100 tons. This arrangement with regard to the
time allowance was not approved of by the owner of the
Fiona, and he consequently declined to start his vessel.
The steamer Eagle, which accompanied the match, reached
Gravesend at 11 o'clock, and Lord Alfred Paget directly
started the yachts at a little more thin half-spent ebb. They
all cast to starboard, and made a short beard on the Essex
shore, and commenced a hard beat down the river
against the south-east breeze. The Nore was
rounded by the Oimara at 2h 52m 40s; Vanguard,
2 54 8 ; Rose of Devon, 3 7 25 ; and Vindex, 3 15.
The yachts ultimately got back to Gravesend and terminated
the match, as follows :—Rose of Devon, 6h 18w 50s; Van-
guard, 6, 19, 4 ; Oimara, 6, 21, 3 ; Julia, 6, 30 ; Christabel,
6, 30, 10; Muriel, 6, 31; Vindex, 6,. 31, 14. The Van-
guard won the first prize by time, the Muriel the second,
and the Vindex the third ; but Mr Duncan protested against
the Vanguard taking the prize, on the ground that she had
violated the " rule of the road." The protest has been re-
ferred to the Sailing Committee.
London, England, 1870-05-24

PUBLIC BUSINESS,

Mr. BoUVEBIE asked the First Lord of the Treasury,
what arrangements he proposed to make relative to
public business before the Whitsuntide Holidays.
Mr. GLADSTONE said with respect to the business to be
disposed of before the adjournment, it was not proposed
to proceed before the Whitsuntide holidays further with
the University Tests Bill than the second reading. It was
necessary to complete the Irish Land Bill in order
that it might be sent up to the other House before the
adjournment, in order to allow their lordships to make
their arrangements before the adjournment. It was of
the highest importance that further progress
should be made with the estimates, more par-
ticularly those for the navy, and also with
the propositions mentioned by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer on thp occasion of the Budget, Those
were the measures necessary to dispose of before the
holidays. With respect to adjourning on the Tuesday
Mead of the Thursday next week, he must be guided
okay byillt !Mutt 14- P049,_Nr1149% • - ;Ng .t.k.
London, England, 1870-05-24

The Outrages at Christ Church.

The wilful destruction of six or seven pieces of
valuable sculpture, although considered a serious
and unbecoming offence,is not meeting with that con-
denination at the hands of the undergraduates at Christ
Church which the public might have expected. On
the contrary, general commiseration for the sen-
tenced Housemen, and justification for their
crime, seem to prevail. The resident Christ
Church undergraduates at a meeting unani-
mously passed a vote of sympathy with
the Dean and other authorities in the matter, but
they refused to adopt a resolution expressing regret
at the occurrence, and advising the culprits
to give themselves up. The outrages
are spoken of as a " childish " and " thoughtless"
freak, and the undergraduate mind altogether
banishes the idea of its being wicked. It is, moreover,
urged that at the hour of midnight men
of twenty are not always cognisant of the
full consequences of everything they may
do. Some of those Who attempt to defend
the guilty parties even contend that all " young
things do not depend so much upon themselves as
upon those that train them," and venture to express
an opinion that the lads against whom so much
outcry is now raised were not the only ones
at fault. It is also thought very hard that
college men should not only be publicly expelled,
rusticated, gated, and rated, but should be threatened
with a felon's dock as well. As public feeling in
the matter has been pretty widely and
severely expressed, it may be well to know how far
it coincides with the views of the inmates of the
college where the acts were perpetrated. That
the feeling of the residents themselves, are in accord-
ance with the statements here made is testified to by
more than one Houseman at Oxford.
London, England, 1870-07-16

THE PREVENTION OF SEA SICKNESS.

The scheme of Mr. Henry Bessemer, the well-
known engineer, by which he hopes to confer an
inestimable benefit upon humanity by the prevention
of sea-sickness, has been developed in a•letter written
by that gentleman to the 71m6s. His system
in no way interferes with the external form
or with the sailing qualities and safety of
the vessel, but is based on the well-known law
that all bodies which revolve or roll, in so doing
move about a centre where there is no motion, and
all beams that vibrate move also about a
centre, from which point the distance passed
through by any part of the beam is as
the distance from the central point. To meet this
mechanical law Mr. Bessemer proposes to suspend
the saloon by suitable mechanism. A. heavy counter-
balance weight beneath the centre of gravity, will at
all times keep the saloon poised on the centre of the
vessel's motion, and therefore free from pitching and
rolling. Many difficulties of course suggest them-
selves, but Mr. Bessemer states he has studied the
question for a long period, and is satisfied that every
obstacle has been -: surmounted. The success
of the scheme would be advantageous .in
a commercial point of view, but the relief to
travellers would be a boon which none but those
who have experienced the horrible sensation can
properly appreciate. To be able to get across the
Channel—to say nothing of the Atlantic—
without being compelled to suffer agonies compared
to which all other sufferings are contemptible, would
have an effect so great, that Mr. Bessemer deserves
the thanks of the country for even attempting a
remedy.