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

THE HORSE SHOW.

The Metropolitan Horse Show opened this morning
for the first public shilling clay at the Agricultural
Hall. The attendance at the hour of opening was
very large, and is rapidly increasing. An altera-
tion has been made in the prizes awarded on Saturday.
The third prize of £5, in Class 5, for riding-horses (fine
action and quality essential), of any weight, exceeding 15.2
hands high, was given to Mr. Wm. Morley for "Countess"
(No. 150). This decision has been recalled, the horse
being disqualified on account of swollen sinews and the
prize has been awarded to Mr. Henry Spencer Lucy, for
" Twilight." In class 8 the first prize was taken by Mr.
Fresby for his horse " Daisy." In class 9 the same gen-
tleman took the first prize for his horse " Dunstane." The
judging, now that the most important awards are made.
is a very tedious performance to the general visitor, and
seems only to interest the professional talent present.
London, England, 1870-06-06

CRYSTAL PALACE. -T HE ONE
PLACE FOR A SUMMER HOLIDAY. The PALACE of
the PEOPLE'S PLEASURE THIS DAY.
Palace open for admission from.. .. .. 9 till 8.0
Champion Skaters,Vaulters, Little Rarey, &c. 1.0
Display of Terrace Fountains .. 2.15
Cinderella, the Great Burlesque .. .. 3.0
Festival Organ and Promenade until.. .. 9.0
Admission as usual One shilling. Children half-price.
Extra trains as often as required from London-bridge, Lud-
gate-hill, Victoria, Kensington, and intermediate stations of
both lines. Excursions from all parts.
Note.—The Grounds in great Summer beauty. Never more
enjoyable.
London, England, 1870-06-06

MONETARY N E WS-SAT URDAY.

Quietness has been the feature of the Stock Exchange
to-day. Railway stocks have been depressed, and
lower in value, but foreign bonds have been firm. Consols
have been quiet, at 92g, 92, ex-div. for delivery, and 92
15-16ths, 93 1-16th ex-div. for the 6th of July. Reduced
and New Three per Cents., 92k, 92/. Bank Stock, 234,
236. India Five per Cents have been done at 111* ex div.,
and India Bonds at 21s. to 265. prem. Exchequer Bills
par to ss. prem.
The demand for foreign bonds has not been active ; but,
with the exception of Portuguese, which have receded
.he tendency has been favourable. Turkish Five per
Cents have continued steady, at an improvement of *.
Peruvian (1865) and Spanish (1869) are each better,
whilst Honduras shew a rise of 1 per cent. The New
Peruvian loan has marked 1* to 2 prem., and the Spanish
3} to n prem.
American Government securities have been quiet, and
the Five-Twenty bonds have been * lower. Atlantic Ist
mortgage bonds, and Pennsylvania general mortgage
bonds, however, are 2* and * better respectively.
The feature in the market for English railway stocks
has been the demand for Caledonian resulting in an
improvement of li. On the other hand, Great Northern
A., has fallen 1; Midland, ; London and North-Western,
; Great Western, g ; London and Brighton, * ; London
Chatham and Dover, ; and Metropolitan, g.
Indian stocks have been firm. Canadian shares have been
steady, and Great Western have risen g. For foreign
shares there has been very little demand, and Lombards
have follen *.
Bank shares have been quiet, and prices have shewn no
change.
Telegraph shares have sold slowly. Sub-marine have
risen 3,' but Falmouth have fallen * ; Silver's India-
Rubber, A and Telegraph Construction, 1.
There has been a fair, but not to say active, demand for
money to-day, and three months' paper has not been
negotiated under nto 3 per cent. The supply of capital
has been moderate.
The directors of Hooper's Telegraph Works recommend
a dividend of 58. per share, being at the rate of 15 per
cent. on the paid up capital. The further call of £3 per
share is indefinitely deferred:
The directors of the Penluoular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company recommend a dividend of 3 per
cent. for the half year ended March 31st.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE ROYAL VISIT TO READING.

The first of July has now been definitely fixed upon by
the reception committee for the Prince of Wales to lay
the foundation stone of the new grammar school. The
Mayor and Corporation will meet the Prince on his
arrival at the Great Western railway station, and present
an address. Then, a procession will be formed, which
will march to the school ground. On the grounds
the Berkshire Volunteers will be drawn up as a guard of
honour. The ceremony will be performed with masonic
honours, and the whole of the Sunday-school children,
will take part in the proceedin.gs. For the musical portion
of the ceremony, the Reading Philharinonic Society, and
the Grenadier Band have been enlisted. On the ground
the Bishop of Oxford will offer up prayer, and the singing
of the Hallelujah chorus will bring the proceedings to a
close.

THE IMPROVED RAILWAY COMMUNICA
TION BETWEEN LONDON AND THE ISLE

OF WIGHT.
At a meeting of the Sandown (Isle of Wight) localboard
held on Friday, a letter was read from Mr. Scott
general manager of the South Western Railway on the
subject of the new fast trains on that railway which com-
menced running on the Ist inst. The letter stated what
arrangements had been made, and added that the steam-
boat company had cordially co-operated with the South
Western Railway Company in the matter, but Mr. Scott
complained that the Isle of Wight Railway Company had
declined running a morning train except on three days a
week, thus depriving Sandown and the neighbouring towns
of the advantage of the service for half the week. Mr.
Scott in his letter asked the Sansdown Board to assist the
South Western Railway Company in inducing the Isle of
Wight Railway Company to run their trains daily. A
memorial on the subject to the latter company was
adopted.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE EDUCATION BILL.

The Standard says that the majority by whom the'
Education Bill is approved consists of Conservatives,
whose votes at elections are always recorded against Mr.
Gladstone, of Ministerial Liberals whom that statesman
thiliks it unnecessary to regard or conciliate, or of men who,
for one reason or another, are not governed by ordinary
political motives, and cannot be purchased by poli-
tical concessions. The opposition consist of those
poi ical Dissenters and irreligious Radicals who in every
burongh in England form the moat active, compact and
thoroughly-organised section of the Liberal party, who
vote as one man, and whose abstinence at a critical
moment might destroy, r s their enthusiastic support in
the great contest of 1868 created, the present Liberal
domination, Hitherto the Ministry, under the in-
fluence of Mr. Forster, has stood firm. But Mr.
Forster is a very peculiar character, a politician who rates
principles higher than party interest ; a Minister who
would be perfectly content to see the Ministry broken up,
and to retire for ever from office, if he could first see the
main ..bjects of his policy carried out beyond risk
of recall. And such a man is so utterly out
of harmony with his colleagues—his views and aims
are so different from theirs—that there is no saying
how soon the influences of party and of the party
managers may prevail over his simple and single-
minded earnestness, and induce the Ministry to
insist on a modification of the bill to suit the interests of
the Cabinet and the wishes of those whom the Cabinet
dare not offend. The tone of Mr. Gladstone's conversa
Con on this subject with all who have • approached him
differs utterly from the spirit of Mr. Foster's few amend-
ments, and suggests very sinister anticipations as to
his probable course. The Conservatives must be on their
guard against a surprise.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE ROYAL FAMILY AND IRELAND.

It has bean rightly said that no one can accuse
the Irish of having made little of the Royal Family on
their visits to that country. In honour of one of the
Georges, Dunleary was called Kingstown, and a large
obelisk commemorative of his visit was erected
where he landed. The Cove of Cork, in honour of
the Queen's visit very many years ago, has also been
called Queenstown. On every occasion that the
Princes have visited the country, the fealty, enthu-
siasm, and joy of the people has been shewn, and
never has there been an occasion known in which one
of them was unkindly molested. Yet in spite of this fact
Ireland is even less patronised and blessed by royal
visitors than Canada, though only a few hours divide
the one from England, while a transatlantic voyage
is entailed in going to the latter. In Ireland, too,
the resources for those sports, of which the Prince
of Wales is such a supporter, are almost as great
as in England. There are stag hounds in Meath,
foxhounds in all the counties, fishing in the Shannon,
shooting in Kerry,boating on the far-famed Killarney
Lakes, and yachting at Connemara ; and then for
scenery, there are old round towers, mountain
waterfalls, glens, and woods, and all those lovely
sights and romantic places for which, of all the
members of the reigning family, the late Prince
Consort appears to have shewn most admiration.
It is, under all circumstances, with unmitigated plea-
sure that one hears of Tollymore Park
being purchased for an Irish Sandringham.
Already the gratification in Ireland at even the rumour
of such a fact is unbounded, . and there is no
reason whatever to fear that it is insincere in any
Irish heart.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE ROYAL FAMILY AND IRELAND.

It has bean rightly said that no one can accuse
the Irish of having made little of the Royal Family on
their visits to that country, In honour of one of the
Georges, Dunleary was called Kingstown, and a large
obelisk commemorative of his visit was erected
where he landed. The Cove of Cork, in honour of
the Queen's visit very many years ago, has also been
called Queenstown. On every occasion that the
Princes have visited the country, the fealty, enthu-
siasm, and joy of the people has been shewn, and
never has there been an occasion known in which one
of them was unkindly molested. Yet in spite of this fact
Ireland is even less patronised and blessed by royal
visitors than Canada, though only a few hours divide
the one from England, while a transatlantic voyage
is entailed in going to the latter. In Ireland, too,
the resources for those sports, of which the Prince
of Wales is such a supporter, are almost as great
as in England. There are stag hounds in Meath,
foxhounds in all the counties, fishing in the Shannon,
shooting in Kerry,boating on the far-famed Killarney
Lakes, and yachting at Connemara ; and then for
scenery, there are old round towers, mountain
waterfalls, glens, and woods, and all those lovely
sights and romantic places for which, of all the
members of the reigning family, the late Prince
Consort appears to have shewn most admiration.
It is, under all circumstances, with unmitigated plea-
sure that one hears of Tollymore Park
being purchased for an Irish Sandringham.
Already the gratification in Ireland at even the rumour
of such a fact is unbounded, and there is no
reason whatever to fear that it is insincere in any
Irish heart.
London, England, 1870-06-06

DRAPERS' ASSISTANTS.

An appeal on behalf of girl seamstresses is made in
the Daily Telegraph. A fair correspondent writes to
describe, with wonderful minuteness, the trials of
"six or eight" young ladies, who have all to work
" fourteen hours every day, and sixteen hours on
Saturday." Of course the tender chords of sympathy
so often touched before by " neglected wives," and
"clerks " whose salaries are small, are again
unwound, and a leading article taking the thousands
milliners in London for its subject, is issued full
of severe rebuke to the givers of fashionable
balls, and the heartless dressmakers of Bond-street,
while the public, who are neither ball-lovers nor dress-
makers, are given a thrilling picture of the monoto-
nous wearying life of the little " draper's assistant."
The Daily Telegt aph is no doubt right in bringing
forward the subject in harrowing colours, and
with due condemnation of the guilty parties. No
one who is returning home at a late hour
of the evening in London can help noticing
the worn faces that pass him in Regent-street,
Oxford-street, and Bond-street, and one cannot help
believing that such haggard and wan looks are caused
by long hours of work, and want of nourishing food,
which wretchedly small earnings will not allow the girls
to buy. The Daily Telegraph blames all concerned in
this work of murder, "dowagers " and " ladies
anything grand, are reproved for wearing new
"artistic absurdities," every night, giving no mercy
thereby to the makers of such articles, while women
in general are blamed for not showing common sense
in the choice of their apparel at dances and flower
shows. To the mind of the Telegrafila the dress most
suitable to the movements of the dance is a "simple
one," which will not be torn to shreds by even the
slightest touch. Finally, the Telegraph censures the
inspector whose duty under the Factory Act is to
visit all drapers' establishments, for his carelessness
and blindness in cases where cruelty and a hard life
are too obvious on the faces of the girls employed.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE IRISH ORANGE INSTITUTION.

In agreement with the liberal spirit of the time,
one of the oldest institutions in Ireland (the Orange
Society) is about to be partially reorganised. For
many years the Protestants of the sister country have
expressed objection to the society being a secret one,
from which representatives of the press, and all other
persons interested in its operations, but not actually
belonging to it, were excluded. The Grand Lodge
is now sittinc, at Enniskillen under the presidency of
the "Grand' Master," a very loyal Orangeman,
the Earl of Enniskillen, and a removal of those old
and condemned observances is under consideration.
It is also understood that a resolution providing that
DO member shall be expelled for taking part on a
public platform with persons professing Liberal
politics, or for giving his vote to any candidate
of whatever principles he may wish, will also be
brought forward and no doubt acceded to. The recent
vigorous speeches in Belfast of Mr. Johnston M.P.,
one of the most idolised of Irish Orangemen, Captain
Archdall, R.M., Mr. Stewart Blacker, Lord Crichton,
and others have probably tended to produce this
desire for reform, in an association celebrated in
history, for its undeviating line of conduct, as well
as for its age and strength.
London, England, 1870-06-06

CRYSTAL PALACE.—THIS DAY.—WHIT-
MONDAY.—The Gardens radiant with Flowers. The
Park never more beautiful. The specially atti active Holiday
Amusements consist of Grand Spectacular Burlesque (produced
in great splendour by E . T. Smith), CINDERELLA, or PRINCE
FELIXand the GLASS SLIPPER. Characters by Miss Caroline
Parkes, Miss Thirlwall, Mrs. Horsman, Mr. J. G. Taylor, Mr.
J. Russell, Mr. 0. Summers, Little Rowella, arc. Corps de
Ballet and 300 performers. Scenery by Mr. F. Fenton ; Stage
Manager, Mr. J. H. Friend. Miscellaneous amusements comprise
the performances of the clever Lenton Family, Moe and Good-
rich, the graceful American Skaters, the Almonte Troupe of
Vaulters, Little Rarey, and other popular favourites.
Display of Terrace Fountains, Orchestral Band, and Festival
Organ daily.
Fine Arts and Industrial Courts, Picture Gallery, Techno-
logical Museum, Statues, Flowers, luxuriant ferns, Round Foun-
tain Basins, Orangery, Monkey House, and the thousand and
one other attractions of the Palace of the People's Pleasures.
Out Door Sports :—Velocipedes, Boating, Pony Riding, Rifle
Shooting, Archery, Cricket, Quoits, Croquet, Gymnasium, Swings,
Steam Velocipede and other Roundabouts, and innumerable
other amusements.
The Aztecs, Automaton Chess Player, Working Bees, Perform-
ing Dogs, Views from the Tower, Stalactite, Cavern, Tripede
Horse, &c.
Admission as usual ls., or by guinea season tickets. Present
issue dating 12 months from June 1, at all agents ; Exeter Hall ;
and Palace entrances.
London, England, 1870-06-06

GREAT FIRE AT FALMOUTH.

A fire, which raged six hours, broke out in Falmouth
yesterday morning, destroying business premises, stock,
and furniture of the value of some thirty thousand pounds.
Twelve of the best houses in Market-street were burnt
down, besides lofts, cellars, and small tenements. The
loss is, to some extent, covered by insurances. The town
was visited yesterday by large numbers from other parts of
the country to inspect the scene of the conflagration.

A telegram from Llangollen says :—" Joseph Watkins,
a joiner, bathed in the canal at Llangollon this morning,
and died of cramp in the stomach immediately on comin g
out of the water."
London, England, 1870-06-06

OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden.—Verdi's Il Trovatore,

8.10 p.m.
ITALIAN OPERA, Drury Lane.-11 Barbiere di Siviglia. 8.3 p.m.
HAYMARKET—At Seven, No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book.
And A Kiss in the Dark.
ADELPHI—At Seven, No. 1 Round the Corner. Free Labour.

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 8.3 ,
Little Faust.

OLYMPIC -At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, Mary Warner.
the 'Varsity Boat Race.
0-way—At Seven, First Night. The Princess of Trebizonde.
QIIEDN'S—At Seven, kly Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Axe and Crown.
STRAND—At Seven, Loving Hearts, Kenilw. rth.
VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos.

ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Frou. La Belle Sauvage
WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH B',( K. Egyptian Hall, Pie
cadilly, every Evening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn
Tugs at 3. Admission ls, 2s, Is.
CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed-
nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.
ZO LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily (except Sun-
days). Admission, ls. ; on Mondays, 6d. Children under
, 6d.
MADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till
S.O p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra
6d.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE EDUCATION LEAGUE.

The Right Hon. Mr. Forster met a deputation from the
Education League, at Bradford, on Saturday. The
spectators stated various objections against delay in the
operation of the bill, mode of election of school boards,
permissive nature of compulsion, and claimed entire free-
dom of admission to schools. As to religious teaching
the deputation asked that no money from national or
local sources should be applied to direct or indirect ad-
vancement of any religions, and urged that to leave the
question of denominational teaching to the decision
of school boards was to provide causes of
serious contention and scandal hurtful to religion.
Mr. Forster, in replying, pointed out that owing to his
official position he could not go at length into any argu-
ment. It was a misconception, he said, to suppose that
immediate action would not be taken under the bilL
Serious action would at once be taken after its passing.
The amendments had met some of the objections to the
modes of election of school boards, but the Government
still left their appointment to town councils, believing
these bodies to be best suited for the purpose, and. that
they would discharge their duties faithfully. As to com-
pulsion, Mr. Forster admitted that he was a convert to
the principle, (but did not believe that was the feeling of
the country, and thought that if left to choose between
enforced compulsion and no compulsion at all, the
House of Commons would choose the latter alternative.
Referring to the religious difficulty, Mr. Forster said the
principles of the bill were that the Imperial Government
would not in any way interfere in religious education, and
would not prevent parents who wished it from having re-
ligious instruction given their children in the same schools
and by the same men as other teaching was given. He
held that the bill did not admit concurrent endowment,
and concluded by intimating that whatever pressure
might be put upon him he would only pursue the course
which he considered conscientiously to be right.

LARGE MEETING OF MINERS.
A large open meeting of miners' was held on Saturday
afternoon in the vicinity of Lochgelly, Fifeshire. The
meeting was addressed by Mr.Macdonald,Secretary of the
Miners' Association, who strongly urged on those present
the propriety of standing out for a reduction in the hours
of labour, as also for an increase in the rate of wages.
After deliberation it was unanimously resolved that the
miners' of the country should commence on Monday, the
6th inst., to work only eight hours a day, and a demand
for an advance of wages, to the extent of at least sixpence
per day, should be made upon the coal and iron masters
at the same time. It is understood that the masters have
no objection to lessening the hours of work, but little hope
is entertained that the demand for an increase of wages
will be favourably received.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE EDUCATION BILL,

The Standard says that the majority by whoin the
Education Bill is approved consists of Conservatives,
whose votes at elections are always recorded against Mr.
Gladstone, of Ministerial Liberals whom that statesman
thinks it unnecessary to regard or conciliate, or of men who,
for one reason or another, are not governed by ordinary
political motives, and cannot be purchased by poli-
tical concessions. The opposition consist of those
polical Dissenters and irreligious Radicals who in every
borongh in England form the most active, compact and
thoroughly-organised section of the Liberal party, who
vote as one man, and whose abstinence at a critical
moment might destroy, Ls their enthusiastic support in
the great contest of 1868 created, the present Liberal
domination, Hitherto the Ministry, under the in-
fluence of Mr. Forster, has stood firm. But Mr.
Forster is a very peculiar character, a politician who rates
principles higher than party interest ; a Minister who
would be perfectly content to see the Ministry broken up,
and to retire for ever from office, if he could first see the
main objects of his policy carried out beyond risk
of recall. And such a man is so utterly out
of harmony with his colleagues—his views and aims
are so different from theirs—that there is no saying
how soon the influences of party and of the party

managers may prevail over his simple and single-
minded earnestness, and induce the Ministry to
insist on a modification of the bill to suit the interests of
the Cabinet and the wishes of those whom the Cabinet
dare not offend. The tone of Mr. Gladstone's conversa
tion on this subject with all who have approached him
differs utterly from the spirit of Mr. Foster's few amend-
ments, and suggests very sinister anticipations as to
his probable course. The Conservatives must be on their
guard against a surprise.
London, England, 1870-06-06

SUICIDE OF A FAMILY.

The journals of Berlin publish accounts of an extra-
ordinary suicide in that city. A small dealer, named
Kuth, resided in the Strasse Sebastian with his wife and
four children; whose ages ranged from ten to
eighteen. A few days back a relative of the family
received a letter from the eldest son, written in such terms
as to foreshadow a catastrophe. The person to
whom the communication had been addressed at once
informed the police of his fears, and an entry into the
house was effected, but too late to prevent the tragedy
which had been consummated. The mother and four
children were lyin€, on a bed, dead from strangulation,
and the father was hanging by the neck behind a door.
According to the letter of the son the entire family had
consented to die together, but the motive for such a reso-
lution remains a mystery.
London, England, 1870-06-06

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THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION BILL.

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It is as we feared, says the John Bull. Mr. Gladstone
has not had the courage to stand his ground against his
secular tail. His amendments—for poor Mr. Forster has
only to move them—are all against the Church ; all, too,
in derogation of the principle of the. bill as affirmed
without a division at the second reading. This is a policy
peculiar, we believe, to the present Ministry. The second
reading used to be a
.final affiimation of at least the
principle of the bill ; Ministers stood or fell by what they
then asked the House to agree to. It has been reserved
to Mr. Gladstone to catch the second reading of a great
measure on one principle, and then, by postponing the
committee and entering into secret negotiations with the
minority, substitute another in the guise of " amend-
ments." The propositions now introduced are not amend-
ments in any parliamentary sense; they are new clauses
going to the root of the measure before the House.
The question on which Parliament and the
country concentrate their attention is the religious question.
As regards the religious question, which is the backbone
of the measure, the principle affirmed at the second read-
inn is exchanged for another, which has never had a
second reading, or even a first, in the House. We appre-
hend this is a course without precedent nnder any other
Ministry. It-is true that the entire bill is not yet sur-
rendered to the Secularists. They have still to fight, or
more probably, to dictate a second capitulation on th
rate-supported schools of the future. But on the far more
-vital question of the existing grant-aided schools, they
'have obtained more than they dared to demand. No con-
-i are made or indicated to the objections of the
-"clay ; and the odious clause 21, enabling a
--;ty of managers to transfer a Church
trust, is retained. On the whole,
gay thoughtful Churchman
4n the bill as it now )
Archdeacon
•-,1 on,
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE EDUCATION LEAGUE.

The Right Hon. Mr. Forster met a deputation from the
Education League, at Bradford, on Saturday. The
spectators stated various objections against delay in the
operation of the bill, mode of election of school boards,
permissive nature of compulsion, and claimed entire free,
dom of admission to schools. As to religious teaching
the deputation asked that no money from national or
local sources should be applied to direct or indirect ad-
vancement of any religions, and urged that to leave the
question of denominational teaching to the decision
of school boards was to provide causes of
serious contention and scandal hurtful to religion.
Mr. Forster, in replying, pointed out that owing to his
official position he could not go at length into any argu-
ment. It was a misconception, he said, to suppose that
immediate action would not be taken under the bill.
Serious action would at once be taken after its passing.
The amendments had met some of the objections to the
modes of election of school boards, but the Government
still left their appointment to town councils, believing
these bodies to be best suited for the purpose, and that
they would discharge their duties faithfully. As to com-
pulsion, Mr. Forster admitted that he was a convert to
the principle, Ebut did not believe that was the feeling of
the country, and thought that if left to choose between
enforced compulsion and no compulsion at all, the
House of Commons would choose the latter alternative.
Referring to the religious difficulty, Mr. Forster said the
principles of the bill were that the Imperial Government
would not in any way interfere in religious education, and
would not prevent parents who wished it from having re,
ligious instruction given their children in the same schools
and by the same men as other teaching was given. He
held that the bill did not admit concurrent endowment,
and concluded by intimating that whatever pressure
might be put upon him he would only pursue the course
which he considered conscientiously to be right.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

THE LORDS AND THE GREAT BILLS OF THE SESSION.

The Saturday Review observes that it is curious to con-
trast the tranquil passage of the Land Bill to the Lords
with the excitement which a year ago attended the
progress of the Church Bill from the Lower to the Upper
House. It was a most stirring crisis when Lord Derby
announced his intention of opposing the bill altogether,
and a struggle thus began which for a week engrossed
public attention. Now there is scarcely the smallest stir
of curiosity as to the course the Lords will take. Every
one knows that they will pass the bill, and every one
feels that, if they try to improve the shape of the bill,
they will only be discharging the function which they
exist to discharge. The experience of this session amply
confirms the experience of the past, that they, under the
modern constitution of England, are quite unfit to take
the initiative in legislation. They are properly a Court of
Review, with a power, however, to defer bills of minor
importance, as well as to criticise and amend bills
of primary importance. The good sense of
the Peers may, we will hope, be trusted not to
turn the discusion of the Irish Land Bill into an
opportunity of squeezing out of the Government a series
of petty advantages for the landlords, which would eitheP
be rejected in a mass by the Commons, or, if allowed,
would spoil the wholesome working of the bill, without
doing the Irish landlords any real good. Nor is there
much reason to fear that the Education Bill will meet
with a hostile reception from the peers. The clergy, on
the whole, are satisfied with it, and the bishops will hesi-
tate to make an ecclesiastical question of what is widely
accepted as a very fair settlement of a great national
problem. No bishop has opposed the bill in his communi-
cations with the clergy of his diocese, and the bishops are
not at all likely to begin a sudden opposition in the Lords.
The Conservative peers on a semi-religious question will
scarcely be inclined to be more ecclesiastical than eccle-
siastics, and thus it may confidently be expected that the
two main measures of the session will have an easy
passage through the Upper House.
London, England, 1870-06-06

DESCRIPTION OF RAILWAY.

The DEVON AND SOMERSET RAILWAY. 42 miles in
length (shown on the accompanying map, coloured red), com-
mences at Norton, near Taunton, Somerset. forming a junction
with the Bristol and Exeter Railway there, and terminates at
Barnstaple, Devon, crossing by a direct route from east to west,
Milverton, Wiveliscombe, Bampton, Dulverton, North and South
Molton, Swinbridge and Landkey, saving nearly 40 mile., on the
existing route from the West of England to Bristol and the
North, and bringing the entire district traversed within much
easier reach of the Metropolis.
The present route from the north, north-east, and east to
London, England, 1870-06-06

DEATHS

On the Ist inst., at Bonny Brook, Little Kimble, Picol
Joseph Quartermaine, aged 77.
Cn U 3cl inst, at Chelsea, Henry Charlton Orton, seers'allr
to the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Companft
aged 57.

London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREW
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TIIE SUN Office, No. 1122
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County or
Middlesex.—Monday, June 6, 1870.
London, England, 1870-06-06

THE OTHER GREAT RACE.

It was thought that there could be no greater
surprise than the Derby, but Friday produced a
greater in the Oaks. It astonished everybody that
Kingcraft should beat Macgregor ; but the
wonder was greater when Gamos proved
triumphant over Sunshine, Pate, and Hester. Only a
fortnight ago Gamos performed most wretchedly in a
race at Bath against Recorder and Macgregor, the
defeated favourite in the Derby. He never passed the
post, but was left several hundreds yards in the rear.
Hester, a famous filly, the winner of the
One Thousand, and the still more famous
Sunshine, were competitors in the Oaks. But the
dispised Gamos defeated each of them. The moral
of these two terrible races needs no enforcing. Put
not your trust in horseflesh. It is clear that not the
least reliance is to placed on what is called "public
form." A. horse may win easily one day and be beaten
as easily the next. It may, in sporting phrase, prove
a " pig " to-day and a " clinker ' to-morrow. What
with the unfair practices of owners and jockeys, and
the vagaries of the horses themselves, the fact that
an animal gains a victory on one occasion is not the
slightest guarantee that it will win a similar contest
against precisely the same competitors.
London, England, 1870-06-06

CHARLOTTE 13 R ONTE.

Hours at Home, for June, has the beginning of a series
of unpublished letters by Charlotte Brontt, which will
give quite an impetus to the circulation of the magazine.
The following letter is a characteristic specimen of the
easy and affectionate style in which the author of " Jane
Eyre" was wont to address her intimates :--

" Haworth, Jan. 1, 1833.

" Dear E.,—l believe we agreed to correspond once a
month. That space of time has now elapsed since I
received your last interesting letter, and 1 now therefo
hasten to reply. Accept my congratulations on the
arrival of the New Year, every succeeding day
of which will, I trust, find you wiser and
better in the true sense of those much used
words. The first day of January all present
to my mind a train of very solemn and important reflec-
tions, and a question more easily asked than answered
frequently occurs, viz. : How have I improved the past
year, and with what good intentions do I view the dawn
of its successor? These, my dearest E., are weighty con-
siderations, which (young as we are) neither you nor I can
too deeply or too seriously ponder. I am sorry your too
great diffidence, arising, I think, from the want of suffi-
cient confidence in your own capabilities, prevented you
from writing to me in French, as I think the attempt
would have materially contributed to your improvement
in that language. You very kindly caution me against
being tempted by the fondness of my sister to consider
myself of too much importance, and then in a parenthesis
you beg me not to be offended. 0 ! E.,. do you think
I could be offended by any good advice you may
give me ? No, I thank you heartily, and love you, if
possible, better for it, I had a letter about a fortnight
ago from Miss—, in which she tells me of the birth of
Mrs.—'s little boy, and likewise tells me you had not
been at—for upwards of a month, but does not assign
any reason for your absence. I hope it does not arise
from ill health. [I am glad you like " Kenilworth." It
is certainly a splendid production, more resembling a
romance than a novel, and in my opinion one of the most
ihteresting works that ever emanated from the great Sir
Walter's pen. I was exceedingly amused at the cha-
racteristic and naïve manner in which you expressed
your detestation of Varney's character, so much
so, indeed, that I could not forbear laughing aloud when
I perused that part of your letter ; he is certainly the
personification of consummate villany, and in the de-
lineation of his dark and profoundly artful mind Scott
exhibits a wonderful knowledge of human nature as well
as surprising skill in embodying his perceptions so as to
enable others to become participators in that knowledge.]
Excuse the want of news in this very barren epistle, for I
really have none to communicate. Emily and Annie beg
to be kindly remembered to you. Give my love to —,
and as it is very late, permit me to conclude with the
assurance of my unchanged, unchanging, and unchange-
able affection for you.—Adieu, dearest E. I am ever
yours.
London, England, 1870-06-06

'AYS,

BANKING COBIPANIES.

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withholding the transaction from the usual compe-
titor. " Another stationer " complains that whereas
the Government agents are not called upon
to pay for the stamps in advance, their cost
being generally eight times the value of the
material to which they are affixed, it is impossible
for a non-agent to obtain a capital on the profit thus
locked up. " A Tax-payer" defends the Government
practice on the ground that it can make a better
bargain for the public, through its agent than other-
wise.
London, England, 1870-06-06

ENGINEER.

Richard Hassard, Esq., 1, Westminster Chambers,
Victoria Street, S.W.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Combe and Wainwright, 9, Staple Inn, London.
Messrs. Riccard and Son, South Molton, Devon.
BANKERS.

The National Provincial Bank of England, 112, Bishopsgate
Street Within, London, E.C., and its Branches.
SECRETARY.
R. M. Muggeridge, Esq.
Offices : 13, Little Queen Street, Westminster, London, and
Taunton, Somerset.
London, England, 1870-06-06

ITALY.

FLORMIICE, June 3,

The Official Gazette gives full details of the dispersion of
Nathan's band, and his flight into Switzerland. The
authorities have seized a quantity of arms and ammuni-
tion belonging to the Republicans at Fortone. No other
bands have been seen.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 3.

The Levant Times has been sentenced to suspension for
a month. Its offence was having reprinted an article re-
flecting on the Porte, from the Independence Belleap&

AMERICA.
WASHINGTON, June 3.

The amendment to the Tax Bill, which proposed a tax of
5 per cent. on the incomes from interest on Government
Bonds, has been rejected by the House of Representa-
tives. It was lost by 22 votes, after an animated
debate.
The son of the insurgent loader Cespedes has been
executed at Cuba.
The Hanover has arrived at Now York, and the Leipzig
at Baltimore.

NEW YORK, June a

Gold closed at 1141; the highest quotation during the day
was 1141'; the lowest 1141.
Sterling Exchange on London lO9l
Five-Twenty U.S. Bonds, 1882
Ditto 1885 III
Ditto 1867
Ten-Forty ditto 1867 lOB%
Illinois Shares
Erie
Cotton, Middling Upland
Petroleum, Standard White 27%c
Flour, extra State
Corn, old Mixed $1 09c.

SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM „Tune 3.

There have been several modiAcatiOns in the Ministry.
The Ministers of Justice, of Finance, and of Public
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QUACK ADVERTISEMENTS.

The Telegraph does not as yet furnish a satisfac-
tory explanation of that quack advertisement affair.
It will be remembered that a day or two ago at
Guildhall, a man named Orr declared that
a certain advertisement of a nauseous cha-
racter had been inserted in the Telegraph
for thirtyshillings (much above the ordinary charge),
and that he could get any advertisement inserted by
paying a sufficiently high price for it. The Telegraph
denied that any such advertisement had appeared.
The man Orr the day after handed to the magistrate
a receipt for twenty shillings for the insertion, not
of the precise advertisement in question, but of one
of precisely the same purport, though different in
form. Whereupon the Telegraph publishes the
following:—
With reference to the case of Mathew Orr, recently re-
ported in these columns, it is necessary to repeat what
has been already stated here and what was originally
stated by Mr. Montague Williams, that the advertise-
ments brought under the notice of Sir Robert Carden
never did appear, and never could have appeared, in this
paper. In what way Orr is to be dealt with, not only for
his statement of falsehoods, but also for the manner in
which he obtained insertion of a different advertisement
in a disguised form, and which wholly escaped the notice
of the head of the advertisement department, is a matter
now under consideration.

Now, it is quite possible that the noxious notice, in
a " disguised form," might have obtained insertion.
The difficulty is about the higher rate—twenty shil-
lings for an advertisement, which, according to the
usual tariff; would not have been charged above one-
fourth.
London, England, 1870-06-06

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, June 4._

The Independence Beige thinks that the French Minis-
ters will adopt means to procure a general election in
consequence of the great difficulties with which they are
surrounded.

The King of the Belgians will not, it is reported, return
to London next month.

_
It is thought likely that the Belgian Ministry will resign
should the King oppose the dismissal of the Procurateur-
General.

RELEASE OF THE GIBRALTAR CAPTIVES.
MADRID, June 4.
Mr. Bouell and his nephew have been released, and are
now at Gibraltar with the Prefect of Cadiz.
London, England, 1870-06-06

DEATHS

On the Ist inst., at Bonny Brook, Little Kimble, Bucks,
Joseph Quartermnine, aged 77.
Cn the 3d inst, at Chelsea, Henry Charlton Orton, secretary
to the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph CompanY,
aged 57.

London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office No. 112,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of
Middlesex.—Monday, June 6, 1870.

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