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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-25

Just published, price is Gd., by post is. Bd., the Second Edition
with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus-
tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks.
lIEVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND
QUACKERY By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the
"Medical Circular."
London: H. Balliore, 219, Regent-street.
The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday
Review, Punch, Weedy Dispatch, Public Opinion, and other
journals, recommendinit its universal perusal, are reprinted with
this edition.
London, England, 1870-05-25

ENGLISHMEN ABROAD.

The Cologne Gazette tells a sad story which reflects no
credit upon the doings of Englishmen whilst travelling.
On November 24, 1869, an Englishman and his wife en-
tered the Hotel de Russie of Frankfort, the husband
giving himself out to be a man of great literary impor-
tance in the service of " the far-famed house" of
Murray. The hotel keeper was quite taken
in, and received his guests with unusual dis-
tinction. By and bye, when a large accoun
had been run up, the literary man was suddenly called
away on business, His wife, however, was left
at the hotel. Very soon she received a tele-
gram from her distinguished spouse, informing her. that
a sad accident had happened—broken bones and other
misfortunes. With streaming eyes she came to
" the only too philanthropical hotel keeper,"
and explained her terrible case. Her hus-
band, she said, had omitted to leave money with
which to pay the bill, and she did not know what to do.
The landlord's heart was touched ; he opened his purse,
and generously presented the lady with sixty thalers.
She then went to join her husband. It soon occurred to
the landlord, after her departure, that it was time
he had heard from his grand English friends,
but no letter came. He therefore wrote to them to their
London address. No such name was there known. In
vain inquiries were made in every direction. No traces
of the couple were to be found till early in the present
month,when they were discovered in an hotel in the Strand.
As the hotelkeeper happened to be in London at the time,
he confronted the culprits ; but they only pointed to their
empty purses, and he had to be satisfied with reproaching
them for their baseness. The Cologne Gazette says that
this is no exceptional case ; that almost every year
Englishmen visit the German baths, live expensively at
first-class hotels, and then decamp without paying their
bills.
London, England, 1870-05-25

FORM OF MEMORANDUM,

To be signed by each Creditor leaving Securities to be stamped.
The undersigned of for good and valuable con-
siderations him thereto moving, does hereby assent and agree in
respect of the several Bonds and Securities specified in the sche-
dule at foot hereof, and in respect of the Coupons belonging to such
Bonds, to the plan of reorganisation set forth in a Protocol of
reorganisation dated the 24th day of May (a printed copy of
which Protocol is deposited at the London and County Bank,
Lombard-street, London), and agrees upon notice by adver-
tisement in the " Times" London newspaper to surrender
the said Bonds and Securities, and to accept in lieu thereof
the new Bonds and Share Certificates respectively specified in
said Protocol as exchangeable therefor. And the said
does hereby authorise Lewis H. Meyer, C. N. Jordan,
Rudolf C. Burlage, and Henry Amy, all of New York City, or
the survivors or survivor of them, and any person or persons
to be named and appointed by the major part of them in the
place of any one or more of them dying, resigning, or becoming
incapable, to act as his agents, and on his behalf to carry into
execution the said plan of reorganization. And the Bonds and
Securities named in the annexed Schedule are herewith delivered
to the London and County Banking Company, to be accordingly
stamped with a Memorandum referring to the said Protocol, in
order that the title to such Bonds and Securities may hereafter
only pass subject to such Agreement.
Dated this day of One thousand eight hundred and
seventy.
(Signed)
London, England, 1870-05-25

THE ISLE OF WIGHT.

Hardly are Sir John Simeon's remains cold before
the politicians begin to battle for his seat. Mr.
Baillie Cochrane, who is out of Parliament at pre-
sent, and instead of boring the House of Commons,
bores only the readers of the Morning Advertiser,
will be the Conservative candidate. Mr.
Moffatt, late M.P. for Southampton, who lost
his seat for that borough at the last general elec-
tion, is a candidate in the Liberal interest
At the last election Sir John Simeon won,ttgainst Mr.
Baillie Cochrane by 1,358--to 1,118.
London, England, 1870-05-25

BENEFICES BILL.

The House went into committee on this bill.
Mr. W. N. HQiXmQN said that if the bill was proceeded
wish he should move that the Chairman report progress.

Mr. LOWTHER hoped the committee would not proceed
with the bill at so late a period. .

At a quarter to ten the House divided on the motion
to report progress. The result was—Ayes, 15; noes, 52.
Several clauses were amended, and the bill passed
through committee.
MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL.

At five minutes to two the House went into committee
on the Married Women's Property Bill, and with the ex-
ception of one, which was omitted, the clauses were agreed

The House adjourned at two o'clock..

LONDON GAZETTE—L .st Evening.

WINDSOR CASTLE, MAY l
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour cf
Knighthood on William Brown, Esq., 0.8., late Accountant-
General in the War Department.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 21.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. David
Eckstein as Consul at Victoria, Vancouver's Island, for the
United States of America.

MAY 23.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Senor Feodoro
Rueto as Vice-Consul at Liverpool for the United States of
Venezuela.
London, England, 1870-05-25

SUNDAY CLOSING OF PUBLIC HOUSES.
A great open-air WORKING MEN'S DEMONSTRATION
will take place at Lismore Circus, Haverstock Hill, on SATURDAY,
May 28. Speakers :—Rev. J. Morgan, and Messrs. G. Dibley, J.
Hilton, and J. Leicester ; the Rev. E. Mathews, M.A., Travelling
Secretary of the Central Association, will attend as a Deputation.
The Chair will be taken by M. A. GARVEY, Esq., LL.B., Barrister-
at-Law, at Five o'Clock, p.m.

QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY
TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT.

The Report and Accounts for the year 1869, presented to the
Shareholders at the Annual Meeting, on Thursday, 19th May,
1870, at which BERNARD HALL, Esq., presided, showed, in the

LIFE BRANCH,
That the Deaths were 20 per cent. under the expectation, and
the total amount paid in satisfaction of claims 12 per cent. under
the sum so expected, the result being an addition to the Life
Fund of an amount equal to 57 per cent. of the Net Premiums
received during the year, viz., £21,417,
and,
That notwithstanding the divisions arising out of two quin-
quennial valuations, and the payment of all Claims and expenses,
the amount now at the credit of the Life Fund is over 53 per cent.
of the entire net Premium received, not only on Policies actually
existing, but on every Policy issued since the formation of the
Company.
In the FIRE BRANCH,

That the Premiums for 1869, after dethicting re-insurances,
amounted to £140,104, being an increase of £17,974 on the Income
of 1868.

£17,800 of the balance at the disposal of the Shareholders was
appropriated in payment of a Dividend of Ten per cent.
The Fire Reserve Fund was increased to £86,000 by the addi-
tion of £6,000, and the sum of £9,062 was carried forward to
next year's Accounts.

The income of the Company was shown to be £237,896, and the
Funds in hand L 467,772,
Memo.—The Company has paid in satisfaction of Fire Claims
over £600,000.

J. MONCRIEFF WILSON, General Manager.
THOS. W. THOMSON, Sub-Manager.
J. K. RUMFORD, Resident Sec., London.
London, England, 1870-05-25

FOURTH EDITION, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,

ANNALS OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE
By GEORGE WEBBN.: DASENT, D.C.L.

"A very interesting novel. Wit, humaur, and keen observa-
tion abound in every page. For a long ti hile we have not a work
of fiction containing such a fund of varied entertainment."—Times.
Hurst and Bla,ckett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
London, England, 1870-05-25

S A U C E.—LEA and PERRINS.
THE "WORCESTERSHIRE,"
pronounced by Coonoisseurs
" THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE."
Im prove 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 PERRINS on all bottles

and labels.

Agents—Crosse and Blackwell, London. and told by all Dealers

in Sauce throughout the WL,rld.
London, England, 1870-05-25

YOUNG ARABS.

. Mr. Needham, master of the Meriden Workhouse,
directs attention to that important measure, the In-
dustrial Schools Act of 1860. He expresses a fear
that it is much neglected, and details a plan that
has been found very efficient for carrying its
provisions into effect. He says the resident magi-
strate of the Meriden Union, who is also chairman of
.the Board of Guardians, instructs the relieving offi-
cers to bring befOre him all young vagrants under the
age of 14 years applying for admission to the tramp
ward. It he finds them eligible under the fourteenth
section of the Act, they are sent to the -workhouse
for a period not exceeding seven days, until they can
be dealt with by the justices. Mr. Needham recom-
mends a general adoption of this plan as an— im;,
portant means of rescuing wandering and neglected
children from a criminal and vicious life, and of at
once capturing runaway children who have com-
mitted criminal acts.
London, England, 1870-05-25

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brought. The only delay in the matter arises from
a want of funds, but as a collection has
been now set on foot to defray the costs of
the legal proceedings, it is expected that a hearty
response will be given to the appeal for money by
those in the metropolis who believe that ladies have
some rights in the question of government which
may be established by a little strenuous exertion and
determination.
London, England, 1870-05-25

WATERING CATTLE ON RAILWAYS.

There is at last some hope that the cruelty result-
ing from the neglect to water cattle while
in the course of transit by railway will
be obviated. The Privy Council have
issued an order with a view to meet the requirements
of the case. The order contains a schedule with a
selected number of watering places on each line,
based upon the theory that cattle should have
a draught of water at intervals of time not
exceeding twelve hours. Railway officials are not
celebrated for too close an application of moral
science to the performance of their duties, but special
arrangements should not be wanting to make them
fully acquainted with the necessity of carrying out
these regulations.
London, England, 1870-05-25

ANGLO-AUSTRIAN FIVE PER CENT.
STERLING BONDS.
Holders requiring Certificates are requested to apply at the
Office of the Committee of Anglo-Austrian Bondholders, Council
of Foreign Bondholders, No. 117, Palmerston Buildings
HYDE CLARKE, Secretary.

CAUTION.-POPULAR ERRO R. -PRIC E'S
BENZODYNE. the newly-discovered Cure for Cough, Bron-
chitis, Consumption, and all wasting diseases, Cholera, Dysentery,
&c., has nothing whatever to do with petroleum spirit, falsely
called Benzoline, &c. This unique remedy may be obtained of all
Chemists, and through the Proprietor, Mr. PRICE, Analytical
Chemist, 2, Lower Seymour-street, London, W.
Prices—is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 48. Gd per bottle.
London, England, 1870-05-25

MIRACLE PLAYS.

A. visitor to Munich gives an interesting account
of the singular Passion Play, which was to be per-
formed at the little retired village of Ober-
Ammergau on Sunday last. This remote corner
of Bavaria boasts the distinction of being the
only place at which the old traditional mysteries or
miracles are still performed. The Church at first
tolerated them, only stipulating that they should not
be played until the afternoon, for fear of their attrac-
tions withdrawing worshippers from the churches.
After a time, however, the -rivalry grew dangerous,
and the anathema was directed against them. The
only one which survived the ecclesiastical maledic-
tions and the restrictive decrees was the one we have
specified. At first they were too popular to be easily
suppressed, so the Church turned them to account
by interpolating a sermon between the parts. Our
modern oratorios are said to have originated
thus, as the members of the Oratory wrote hymns
and set them to music to draw the young people to
the churches. This device succeeded so well that a
musical sacred drama was called by the name of
" The Oratory." The play itself is of some-
what formidable dimensions, extending from nine
in the morning to six in the afternoon, so that the
audience or spectators, whichever they are called,
must be tolerably patient. Great interest is felt in
the performance at Ober-Ammergau on account of
its rarity, and strangers flock to the little village
from all parts of the continent to witness it.
London, England, 1870-05-25

THE GLOBE -MARINE INSURANCE cpz,
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.
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£3 „ )1 „ 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 wiil 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. Undo, 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, E.C.
London, England, 1870-05-25

DR. KING'S DANDELION and. QUININE
LIV PILLS (Without Mercury).
The very best remedy for
BILE, WIND, INDIGESTION, ACIDITY, HEADACHE,
HEARTBURN, &c.,
And acknowledged by many eminent surgeons to be the safest
and mildest pills for every constitution.
In boxes at 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6cL, at all chemists.
London, England, 1870-05-25

INTEREST AND PRINCIPAL

PAYABLE IN GOLD

It is proposed to issue a New First Mortgage, covering the
whole line of road from Salamanca to Dayton, and including all
the branches and leased lines. The bonds secured by this mort-
gage shall have thirty-two (32) years to run—sinking fund accu-
mulative of one per cent.—bear seven (7) per cent. interest, pay-
able semi-annually, and shall have the power of voting, the same
as ordinary stock in other roads ; that is, one vote for every $lOO
of bonded debt represented. This mortgage shall be for
$10,000,000 Gold, and be distributed as follows, viz.
Ist Divisionals in hands of public .. $5,714,500
Four years over due Coupons .. 1,600,060

$7,314,560 7,314,500

Ist Divisionals in Debenture Trust .. .. $1,415,900
Four years over due Coupons .. .. 396,452

$1,812,352.... 1,841120:356527
Over due Coupons on Ist Divisionals, prior to 16th
January, 1867
Surplus to be applied to new equipment, expenses of
reorganization, contingencies, &c., &c. .. 462,431

$10,000,000
NEW SECOND MORTGAGE, INTEREST AND PRINCIPAL
London, England, 1870-05-25

GOVERNMENT AID.

At the anniversary dinner of the Royal Geo-
graphical Society the Duke of Argyll replied to the
toast of " The Houses of Parliament." He said he
was almost ashamed to accept the thanks of societies
such as this one for the small—he might almost say
the paltry—sum which the Government had now
offered for the extrication of Dr. Livingstone
from Africa. He expressed his fear that the assist-
ance which they were now sending to the great
traveller, amounting only to 21,000, although it
might be sufficient to extricate him from Africa,
and enable him to return from Lake Tanganyika,
might not be sufficient to enable him to complete
his investigations. His Grace suggested that if there
were any doubt whatever on the matter, a voluntary
subscription should be set on foot, and he ventured
to say that ten times the amount would be raised.
London, England, 1870-05-25

THE MONEY MARKET

AND

cOMM FIRCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
To-day being the commencement of the fortnightly set-
tlement in shares and foreign bonds, business in the Stock
Exchange has been only to a moderate extent. Neverthe-
less a healthy feeling has been, 'at the same time preva-
lent, and the value of most classes of securities has
been maintained. Consols, however, have continued
quiet at 941 to 941 for delivery and the June account. Re-
duced and new Five per Cents., 92i to 921; Exchequer
Bills, par to 5s prem ; Bank Stock has marked '233 to 234
India 5 per Cents. have boen done at 114 to t 141; and India
Bonds at 20s to 25s prem. _ _

The market for Foreign Bonds has been without feature
of importance. The business doing has not been extensive,
but the tendency generally has been favourable. Spanish
1867 to 1869 have been in request at full quotations
In the market for English Railway Stocks there has been
a sarong demand for North Eastern at an advance Of 1,
otherwise no movement of importance has taken place.
Indian Railway stocks have been quiet, and wi hout
change. Canadian shares have been inactive, but not lower.
In Foreign shares very little business has been doing.
Telegraph Construction shares have been in request, and
have marked 34f to 34k. Hooper's Telegraph Works have
been done at 2i to 31. ,
Bank Shares have been firm, and the quotations have
been well maintained.

For Telegraph Shares there has been only a moderate
demand, but Falmouths have risen I.
At an extraordinary meeting of the Caledonian Rail-
way Company held in Glasgow, yesterday, Thomas Hill,
Esq., presiding, authority was granted to raise a nominal
sum of £988,521, by the creation and issue of new shares
or stocks, which the company are empowered to raise by
certain acts of Parliament, and to exercise to the extent
of £361,884 the power of raising money on mortgage by
these and other acts. A considerable amount of discus-
sion took place as to the expense connected with law and
Parliamentary business, and the loss arising from the
competition with the North British Company. Mr.
George Smith moved that the directors be asked to
reconsider the question with a view of lessen-
ing the 'call upon the shareholders at present,
but he ultimately did not press the amendment, and the
chairman's motion, to grant the authority asked, was car-
ried. In the course of the discussion, the chairman men-
tioned that the Caledonian board were to have a meeting
with the North British directors, perhaps next week, when
he h2ped some arrangements might be come to beneficial
to both companies.

MARKETS—(Tats DAY.)
London, England, 1870-05-25

VOTING PAPERS.

A past " deputy returning officer " affords the
public the benefit of his experience in reference to
the voting papers scheme of the Government. He
submits that, however delightful in theory, it is a
most unpractical one. In proof he in-
stances the necessary manipulation in the
folding up of the papers, which will never be pro-
perly accomplished in the hurry and turmoil of an
election by any but the more intelligent and cool-
nerved voters. Then the deputy-returning officer
is to be so careful in the way he opens
and unfolds the papers that neither he nor those
around him are to catch sight of the names of the
candidates voted for. The ceremonial prescribed he
really considers borders on the ridiculous. Besides
these difficulties, the past deputy sees no end of
others. If the voter is to retire to a compartment
alone to mark his vote and fold his paper, he believes
that the time thus occupied will be found so im-
mensely to retard the proceedings that the poll
would close before even a majority of the voters had
polled.
London, England, 1870-05-25

CATTLE PLAGUI

Sir S. IBBETSON asked whether the Government had
received any official intelligence with_ respect to the re-
ported outbreak of cattle plague in Doubs, in France
Mr. FonsTER said inquiry had been made, and from
intelligence received it appeared at present that the
report was unfounded. However, a sharp look out would
ba kept.
London, England, 1870-05-25

LADY GUARDIANS OF THE POOR.

The question of Miss Burdett Coutts's election as a
guardian of the Bethnal Green Union will shortly, it
is expected, be tried in the law courts. Nis, Coutts,
it may be remembered, was nominated by a ,corking
man, and although the lady received a majority ofvotes,
the clerk of the union did not take them into account
in the belief that a female could not hold office as a
guardian of the poor. The working-man proposer Mr.
Atkins by name, thereupon appealed to the Poor.
Law Board, who suggested that the case should
be referred for decision to a court of law, and to the
Court_ of
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London, England, 1870-05-25

was something extraordinary. The consequence was
that the occupants of the strangers' and ladies' galleries,
as well as the reporters, had to withdraw, and the
debate was carried on until a quarter-past eleven,
when it was adjourned. Mr. T. Hughes then moved
for leave to introduce a bill, having for its object the
suppression of turf betting, and the evils arising
from horse-racing. He was successful, but nor
without a division.
London, England, 1870-05-25

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

The Times' correspondent repeats the rumour,
whispered in more than one quarter, that the Duke
de Saldanha, who has just effected a change of
Ministry by force in Portugal, intends to do all he
can in favour of the Iberian Union. If this should
prove to be the case, the bloody revolution which took
place last Thursday in the streets of Lisbon vvillgain an
importance far exceeding that of most other affairs of
the kind in the Spanish peninsula. It has generally been
understood that the Duke is favourable to a union
between Spain and Portugal. But the Portuguese
people are much opposed to their nationality being
merged in that of their greater neighbour, though if
an understanding be come to between Saldanha and
the Spanish leaders, the wish of the people will avail
little.

The omnibus drivers and conductors in the employ
of the Birmingham Omnibus Company are at present on
strike on a question of wages.
The negotiations entered into by the Khedive
relative to judicial reform in Egypt having been success-
fully carried through, his Highness has ordered the lands
adjoining the Suez Canal to be allotted in equal propor-
tions and sold publicly.
A. remarkable case of longevity is reported from
the parish of Woollavington, in Somerset. In the parish
register for the year 1768 the following entry occurs :
"John and Samuel, sons of John and Joan Collins (being
twins), were baptised." Samuel, it is stated, is still alive,
being 102 last March, " and able to go to shop with his
basket."

According to a despatch in the American papers
received yesterday the Red River New Nation says that
Colonel Rankin, of Canada, was expelled from Winnipeg
because of his Fenian proclivities ; that he offered Riel
the services of two or three hundered filibusters from the
United States, and the offer was declined, without thanks,
London, England, 1870-05-25

WHO SHALL BE MAYOR p

The Canadians are not content with Fenian
troubles on the frontier; they are indulging in a
small civil war in their chief city. Quebec has been
the scene of a most extraordinary municipal dispute.
Two gentlemen claim the office of Mayor,and what is the
most remarkable part of the story, they appear to
have taken the law into their own hands in the
matter. M. Tourangeau claims to be the lawful mayor,
but M. Garneau, his rival, having succeeded in gaining
the control of the police by his own vote in the
Police Board, of which the acting mayor is
chairman, took possession of the City Hall.
M. Tourangeau, instead of ruling his fellow
cstizens, found himself a prisoner, for M.
Garneau was determined to wield his wand of office
with resolution, and assumed, according to the ac-
count, a kind of military dictatorship. A.
military guard from the citadel garrison was,
by the last intelligence, in full possession
of the avenues to the City Hall, with orders to "let
anybody out, but nobody in." Very likely the
thieves and pickpockets of other cities would
have no objection to a double judicial
authority, if it ended in so convenient
a standing order for the guardians of the police
courts. Of course the good citizens of Quebec are
quite capable of managing their own business, but
prejudiced observers at a distance are a little puzzled
to know, while mayors, and police, and military are
all so busily employed, who is looking after the
thieves ?
London, England, 1870-05-25

RUPTURES-BY ROYAL I.ILTTERS PATENT.

WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of
1851 and 182), is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred Medical
men to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment
of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its
effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moc-
Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and cicse
ness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep.
A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can-
not fail to fit, f)rwarded by post, on the circumference of the
body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manu-
facturer,
Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London.
A, Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A
Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. Bd. An Um-
bilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post
office, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
ELASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of
Weakness and Swelling of the L"gs, Sprains, &c. They are
porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like
an ordinary stocking Price 4s 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each
Postage, 6d.
JOHN WHITE Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.
London, England, 1870-05-25

GOVERNMENT AID.

At the anniversary dinner of the Royal Geo-
graphical Society the Duke of Argyll replied to the
toast of " The Houses of Parliament." He said he
was almost ashamed to accept the thanks of societies
such as this one for the small—he might almost say
the paltry—sum which . the Government had now
offered for the extrication of Dr. Livingstone
from Africa. He expressed his fear that the assist-
ance which they were now sending to the great
traveller, amounting only to £l,OOO, although it
might be sufficient to extricate him from Africa,
and enable him to return from Lake Tanganyika,
might not be sufficient to enable him to complete
his investigations. His Grace suggested that if there
were any doubt whatever on the matter, a voluntary
subscription should be set on foot, and he ventured
to say that ten times the amount would be raised.
London, England, 1870-05-25

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AI A Y 25, 1870.

CAPTAIN DE GROOT'S STATUE OF
FRANKLIN.

Captain Albert de Groot, designer of the Vanderbilt
bronze, has conceived the idea of erecting a statue of
Benjamin Franklin in Printing House-square. He pro-
poses to construct the statue at his own cost, and present
it to the Press and printers of New York, who will then,
it is to be hoped, procure a suitable pedesdal and railing
for it and place it in the square. A model of the proposed
statue, which is to be of bronze, eleven feet in height,
has been on exhibition at the counting-rooms of
Baker and Godwin. So far as can be judged from the
model, the attitude and expression of the figure are
natural and good. Franklin is represented as wearing a
plain citizen's dress. With left foot advanced, head
raised, and holding a roll of papers in his left hand, he
appears to be about to address some public assemblage.
The model is rather too small to enable one to form a fair
idea of anything more than the attitude and expression.
How the details may be carried out will be matter for
after consideration. The pose of the right hand,
it strikes us, is nct very graceful. It is too claw-like.
London, England, 1870-05-25

A FACT FOR EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS.

While our several rival leagues and unions and
associations are waging war to the knife over tech-
nical differences of detail and abstruse theo-
logical disquisitions, there are a few awk-
ward facts which it would be well not
to overlook. The Middlesex sessions have just opened,
and as usual the calender is a tolerably heavy one. It
contains the names of 71 prisoners, whose antecedents
and belongings are specified, as well as the crimes
with which they are charged. Let us see what rela-
tion these seventy-one English worthies bear to our
national aLd denominational perplexities. Of these
seventy-one, forty-one, or considerably more
than half, have been imperfectly edu-
cated; eight, or more than a tenth, can
get no further than elementary reading. Twenty-
one more can neither read nor write, while the
remaining one has been well educated ! So much for
the combination between vice and knowledge,
of whose dangers we have heard so much
Truly, the easy and convenient fashion of suffering
our City arabs to grow into manhood untaught,
while we are settling whether we can reconcile the
elaborate doctrines of Catholic, and Church-
man, and Nonconformist, and whether the
Decalogue shall be taught before or after geography
and spelling, produces practical results that can
hardly, we should imagine, satisfy the religious
scruples of the denominationalists, or suit the philo-
sophical enlightenment of the secularists.
London, England, 1870-05-25

MURDER IN MID-OCEAN.

Mr. Charles S. Spencer, counsel for Thomas H. John-
son, who is charged with the murder of Edward Barrus
on board of the ship Morning Light, when at sea, has
made an argument, in the extradition proceedings before
Commissioner Osborn, in which he claimed that the
evidence had merely shown the accused to be guilty of
manslaughter, and that therefore he could not be extra-
dited under the Ashburton treaty, which only
recognises murder and attempts at murder as extra-
ditable offences. Mr. Spencer also held that the
Morning Light was not a British vessel, asserting
that the testimony sheaved that she belonged to New
York, and that her registry as a British ship ship was
only made to save her from capture by the Confederate
navy during the late war. Mr. Francis F. Wurbury,
counsel for Mr. Archibald, the British Consul, replied
that the language of the treaty was that all persons
should be extradited who should be charged with the
crimes enumerated, provided the evidence was sufficient
to hold them for trial in the place or country where
found. He said it was for the jury to decide the
degree of the defence. The decision in the case was re-
served.
London, England, 1870-05-25

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

Whilst Holland has decided to abolish the penalty
of death, North Germany has come to the contrary
resolve. A new penal code has been under
the consideration of the North German Par-
liament, and one day a deputy proposed
to abolish capital punishment. Count Bismarck pro-
tested in vain. The proposal was adopted. But the
Count is not a man to be easily beaten; he
generally has his way, in spite of all the many Par-
liaments of which North Germany can boast. The
motion has accordingly been withdrawn. Neverthe-
less, the general tendency of the new penal code is to
lighten punishment.
London, England, 1870-05-25

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

Whilst Holland has decided to abolish the penalty
of death, North Germany has come to the contrary
resolve. A. new penal code has been under
the consideration of the North German Par-
liament, and one day a deputy proposed
to abolish capital punishment. Count Bismarck pro-
tested in vain. The proposal was adopted. But the
Count is not a man to be easily beaten; he
generally has his way, in spite of all the many Par-
liaments of which North Germany can boast. The
motion has accordingly been withdrawn. Neverthe-
less, the general tendency of the new penal code is to
lighten punishment.
London, England, 1870-05-25

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The Princess of Wales drovo out yesterday morning and
again in the afternoon.
The Prince of Wales presided at a meeting of the Albert
Hall Committee, held at Marlborough House.
His Royal Highness in the evening dined with Lord
Houghton, in Upper Brook-street.
London, England, 1870-05-25

YOUNG ARAB&

Mr. Needham, master of the Meriden Workhouse.
directs attention to that important measure, the In-
dustrial Schools Act of 1866; He expresses a fear
that it is much neglected, and details a plan that
has been found very' efficient -for carrying its
provisions into effect. He says the resident magi-
strate of the Meriden Union, who is also chairman of
the Board of Guardians, instructs the relieving offi-
cers to bring before him all young-vagrants under the
age of 14 year's applying for, admission to the tramp
ward. It he finds them eligible-under the fourteenth
section of the Act, they are sent to the workhonse
for a period not exceeding seven days, until they can
be dealt with by the justices. Mr. Needham recom-
mends a general adoption of this plan as an im-
portant means of rescuing wandering and neglected
children from a criminal and vicious life, and of at
once capturing runaway children who have com-
mitted criminal acts.
London, England, 1870-05-25

ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ACT,

The repeal of an Act eh though of compara-
lrfely iedent date, has long b&Ti'absoluteiy obsolete,
is at length fairly in contemplation. The Ecclesias-
tical Titles Act is no longer to encumber our
statute book, in which it is certainly undesirable
to retain a mere dead letter. The bill now before
the House of Lords recites the Act of 1851, and also
the Irish Church Bill of last year, and pro-
ceeds to recite that no foreign prince or potentate
has power to confer any title or dignity within the
United Kingdom, and that all assumptions of
rank not conferred by the sovereign are wholly void,
but it is not necessary or expedient to impose
penalties on those ministers of religion who may be
designated by certain titles of office, even though
they are connected with the name of a town or place
within the United Kingdom.
London, England, 1870-05-25

THE ISLE OF WIGHT.

Hardly are Sir John Simeon's remains cold before
the politicians begin to battle for his seat. Mr.
Baillie Cochrane, who is out of Parliament at pre-
sent, and instead of boring the House of Commons,.
bores only the readers of the Morning Advertiser,
will be the Conservative candidate. Mr.
Moffait, late M.P. for Southampton, who lost
his seat for that borough at the last general elec-
tion, is a candidate in the Liberal interest
At the last election Sir John Simeon won against Mr.
Baillie Cochrane by 1,353 to 1,118.
London, England, 1870-05-25

MURDER IN MID-OCEAN.

Mr. Charles S. Spencer, counsel for Thomas H. John-
son, who is charged with the murder of Edward Barrus
on board of the ship Morning Light, when at sea, has
made an argument, in the extradition proceedings before
Commissioner Osborn, in which he claimed that the
evidence had merely shown the accused to be guilty of
manslaughter, and that therefore he could not be extra-
dited under the Ashburton treaty, which only
recognises murder and attempts at murder as extra-
ditable offences. Mr. Spencer also held that the
Morning Light was not a British vessel, asserting
that the testimony shewed that she belonged to New
York, and that her registry as a British ship ship was
only made to save her from capture by the Confederate
navy during the late war. Mr. Francis F. Wurbury,
counsel for Mr. Archibald, the British Consul, replied
that the language of the treaty was that all persons
should be extradited who should be charged with the
crimes enumerated, provided the evidence was sufficient
to hold them for trial in the place or country where
found. He said it was for the jury to decide the
degree of the defence. The decision in the case was re-
served.
London, England, 1870-05-25

HAILSTORMS,

The recent great hailstorm in Philadelphia was in some
respects remarkable, and did much damage, but it
has often been far exceeded in violence and destructiveness.
In Jackson, Louisiana, in 1834, a fall of hail not only
beat down houses and trees, but killed numbers of cattle,
although it lasted for only nine minutes. During a storm
in Germany, described by the Abbe Maury in a paper
read before the Royal Society in 1798, hailstones fell that
weighed eight pounds ; and there seems good evidence
that in the storm of July 24, 1832, at Tussi, a single hail-
stone was found that weighed fourteen pounds, and that
one at least passed through the roof of a house. Heyne's
grave statement that a hailstone fell in India during the
reign of Tippoo that was of the size of an elephant,
is incredible ; but that there have been plany hail-
stones large enough to destroy the life of either
men or animals, is certain. During .'the early days of
California iheie was a story of a hall storm having killed
every person in a little mining camp in the mountains
save one poor fellow, who escapgd, ;ouch bruised and
hurt, to tell the tale. Some meiOrologists have supposed
that ships have been sunk'by 't4 sudden weight of these
frozen idlssilest and that catastrophes attlibuted to con-
tact with mountains of ice have indeed`-been caused by
that substance, but coming from a vertical rather than a
lateral direction.

---Fortunately for mankind, hail-storms are commonly
not only limited in duration, but rconfined to very mode-
rate areas. That which visited Philadelphia does not
seem to have been heardof elsewhere. The great French
storm of 1788, considered, we believe, the most severe on
record, extended in two parallell2lines—one of five
hundred, the other of six hundred miles in
length ; but the mean breadth of each was only nine
miles, and this instance is accounted altogether unusual
and phenomenal. Sudden changes of weather, 'it would
appear, ought,philosophically speaking, to produce these
storms, since they are occasioned by the rapid freezing of
the water held in suspension in a warm currrent of air on
contact with a cold current in a higher region. Still,
although our climate is so changeable, and the thermo-
meter so swiftly capricious, especially in the Spring—and
although hail-storms are in general more frequent in
temperate than in tropical regions--we seem to sscape
with a very small proportion' of them. Other regions
where the tsinperature mucih inoiv equable, the south
of France for instaneF, are on 'the other hand much
oftener oxposecl to them) visitations, Our comparative
immunity on the Atlantic coast is perhaps due to the ab-
sence of lofty mountains, which are found to be strongly
conducive to the formation of hail.—New York Times.

A fire occurred on the premises of Messrs. Firth,
Riley, and Co., cotton spinners, Brighouse, on Monday
morning. Great damage was done to the stook and
machinery, and 'a large number of hands will be thrown
out' of employment:
London, England, 1870-05-25

FENIAN ATTACK ON CANADA.

The Fenians have after all commenced the raid
which has been threatened, believed in, and dis-
believed in again and again. Very
.cleverly the
Brotherhood have managed their enterprise, what-
ever success it may have. When the reports of an
attack grew serious, the Canadian authorities made
every preparation; they sent troops to the frontier,
and suspended the Habeas Corpus Act. Now that the
precautions have been relaxed, the " invasion " has
been attempted.
London, England, 1870-05-25

ARCHDEACON DENISON.

The Archdeacon of Taunton has not yet ended
hif; labours in reference to the Government
Education Bill. He forwards to the Standard a
copy of a letter which he has addressed to the
Secretary of the National Society for the education
of the poor in the principles of the Established
Church. In it he says that being unable to
accept the position taken by the Committee
in respect of the Education Bill as de-
tailed in their memorial lately addressed to Mr.
Gladstone, he has to request that his name be re-
moved from the list of members of the society.
London, England, 1870-05-25

WATERING CATTLE ON RAILWAYS.

There is at last some hope that the cruelty result-.
ing from the neglect to water cattle while
in the course of transit by railway will
be obviated. The Privy Council have
issued an order with a view to meet the requirements
of the case. The order contains a schedule with a
selected number of watering places on each line,
based upon the theory that cattle should have
a draught of water at intervals of time not
exceeding twelve hours. Railway. fficials are not
celebrated for too close an application of moral
science to the performance of their duties, but special
arrangements should not be wanting to make them
fully acquainted with the necessity of carrying out
these regulations.
London, England, 1870-05-25

BANKRUPTS.

Notice of Adjudications and First Meetings of Creditors.
To Surrender under the Bankruptcy Act, 1869.
In London. .

William Bennett, jun., Queen's-road, Peckham, dealer
in bricks, June 8, at 11.
Horace Horne, Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square,
June 10, at 11k.
Nathaniel Charles Marchant, New North-road, Hoxton,
late licensed victualler, June 6, at 12.

The Princess Dowager Julia Obrenowitch, widow of
Prince Michael, has just made a short stay at Belgrade.
Before returning to .Austria she signed an abdication of
all the rights and property she derived from her marriage,
in favour of the State of Servia and the young Prince
Milano.

The Vice-Chancellor of Ireland (Mr. Chatterton)
when leaving the yard of his residence, Fitzwillam-street,
Dublin, on horseback, last Friday evening, was flung to
the ground. He sustained a dislocation of the shoulder,
and is at present suffering rather severe pain, but other-
wise there are no serious symptoms.
London, England, 1870-12-06

BIRTHS.

On the 2d inst., at 3, Palace-gardens-terrace, Kensington'
W., the wife of Hugh Ross, Esq., of a son.
On the 2d inst., at 6, Upper Phillimore-gardens, Kensing.
ton, the wife of James Livesey, Esq., of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the Ist inst., at St. Andrew's, Walls-street, Hui,ll
Edward Johnstone, Esq., of Broncroft, Shropshire,
Mary, the daughter of Henry Tudor, Esq., of Portlan'"

place.
On the Ist inst., at St. Peter's Church, Regent-square, 'lt,'
B. Horsfall, Esq., of Bellamour Hall, Staffordshire, t'
Lucy Martha, second daughter of the Rev. Thos. Nolan'
8.D., vicar of St. Peter's, Regent-square.
DEATHS.

On the 2d inst., at 282, Kingsland-road, Thomas Reece,

Esq., aged 75.
On the Ist inst., at 13.5,IEbury-street, S.W., John Bennett,
Esq.

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London, England, 1870-12-06

COMMUNICATION WITH PARIS.

The German officers at Versailles are said to be
convinced that the Government at Tours has means
of underground communication with Paris. Some
facilities of the kind have been discovered and de-
stroyed ; but the Germans remain satisfied that others
yet exist. The balloons and pigeon mails are merely
blinds. The operations of CI elast fe w days, tbk ugh they
have not proved successful, have certainly displayed
a unity and concert on the part of Trochu and
Aurelio which the uncertain means of pigeon post
could seemly secure. On the other hand, it is a
fact that several outside events of importance
have'not been known to the people of Paris until
after a lapse of some days. This, however, does not
prove that the Government was ignorant of them.
The victory of Orleans was soon known to the be-
sieged.
London, England, 1870-12-06

THE MOVEMENT ON MANS.

The Journal de l'Orne says the army of the Grand Duke
of Mecklenburg is proceeding towards Mans. A few
days'since such a daring movement was not dreamed of,
and yet it is being accomplished with the
success that usually distinguishes the Duke. While
it was supposed that they intended to reinforce
the corps of General Von der Tanu after his Orleans
defeat, the Duke's army suddenly threw themselves upon
Dreux. So little were they expected that the greater
part of the artillery had been sent off the
preceding evening in another direction, so the
town was carried with little trouble. The recapture
of Dreux by the Prussians was the first part of a series of
engagements and deieats, in which some detached com-
panies of French saw fire for the first time. Unfor-
tunately there was insufficient communication between the
battalions, and the right were not informed of the dangerous
position of the left. The battalions encamped on the
right of the forest of Senonches did not know of the
retreat of. Colonel de Marty, who abruptly abandoned his
position, notwithstanding its defence works. The eva-
cuation of the forest made an opening, whi?.ll the Prussians
cleverly availed themselves of, to make an improvised
attack on the weak French position at La Fourche.
London, England, 1870-12-06

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