biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-22

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS EVENING, at 7, MARRIED LIFE; Mr Buckstone,
Mr Chippendale, Mr How 4.. Mr Kendal, Mr Rogers, Mrs Chip-
pendale, Mrs Frank Matthews, Mrs E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hiil,
Mrs Laws.
After which, at 8.30. "HOME." Mr Sothern, Mr Chippendale,
Mr Compton, Mr huckstone, jun., Miss Ada Cavendith, Miss
Fanny Gwynne, and Miss Caroline Hill.
Concluding with FAMILY JAR 3. Mr Compton.
London, England, 1870-06-22

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Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at
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clncorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859),
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And 38, QUEEN'S-ROAD, BRIGHTON,
ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale,
Ereehold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years,
r °Payable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly dis-
c ounted: Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. •
EDWARD HARPER, Secretary.
London, England, 1870-06-22

SENATOR REVELS AND HIS SISTER.

The following extracts of a letter, written to two
gentlemen of Brooklyn, by Senator Revels, of Missis-
sippi, in relation to his sister Eliza, will be found in-
teresting :

66 WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29, 1870.
" You are aware of the friendly relations existing be-
tween myself and my sister Eliza, of my offer, years ago,
to take her to my home, as acknowledged by herself, and
of her refusal to leave New York at that time. You are
aware of the itinerant life which, as a minister in the
African Methodist Episcopal Church, I must necessarily
have led ; that after my sister was reduced to positive
poverty, through breaking her leg, she did not communi-
cate information of her misfortune to me, and that it was
only by accident I heard of her being an inmate of the
Coloured Home. All of this, which you do not know of
your own knowledge, you heard her acknowledge, on the
occasion of your accompanying me in my visit to her at
the Home. You will remember that on that occasion she
expressed no present desire to quit the Home, as being
unable to bear the• removal, and regretted only that she
had not accepted my offer at the time it was made,
when able to have taken advantage of it. The superin-
tendent or physician, I know not which (having mislaid
the letter), with whom I have been in correspondence,will
inform you that I have communicAted with him as regards
the arrangements I will make in the event of her death.
In consequence of an attack upon me by a New York
paper 1 am compelled to ask your attention to this
matter. . Go to my sister and instruct her, so far
as her poor, shattered intellect will permit her to compre-
hend, as to the efforts being made to ruin me in public
estimation by the surreptitious use of her name ; tell her
on no account must she touch a single cent of their money,
for it is intended to be my blood money, and will turn to
ashes in her use. You are aware she is not in a mental
condition to justify the entrusting her with money, except
very small sums at a time. She told me that the people
about were very kind to her, and that she had everything
necessary to her comfort. Oblige me by keeping a super-
vision over her, in conjunction with the Rev. Mr. Reay,
to whom I have already spoken on the subject. If she
really requires any money—that is to say, if small sums
from time to time would add to her comfort—let the super-
intendent inform me, and I will remit to him. With an
invalid wife and family, other circumstances known only
to myself, and a distance of 1,400 to 1,600 miles to travel
before reaching my home, I cannot possibly think of
taking her there even was she able to bear the removal,
which she is nct ; and nowhere else could she be so well
cared for as where she is at present. By promptly attending
to this matter you will not only oblige myself, but will be
rendering service to that great party to which we owe so
much, for it is that party which is being attacked through
me. The urgency of business in my hurried trips to New
York has given me no subsequent opportunity for visiting
you.—Very truly yours,
"H. R. REVELS."
London, England, 1870-06-22

THE INJTJRY TO THE CROPS.

It is not to be supposed, because the rain came
down in torrents all over England on Thursday
night and Friday morning last, that all
protest for complaint against the long continued dry
weather has been removed. We are told that in Eng-
land haymaking this season will yield at most only
one-third of the usual crop. Young clover has
been also much injured, the prospects of any
fair grazing have been seriously diminished, and
wheat upon light soils has suffered somewhat. The
want of rain has totally destroyed all growth
in the two Castilies in Spain. These pro-
vinces are entirely deprived of irrigating canals, and
the grave results which have followed ought to be a
warning for the future to bvery landowner at home
or abroad. The drought of the present year has
extended in Europe from France eastwardly
as far as the confines of Asia. In America it has
also prevailed, the most serious effect of it, in that
country, being the destruction, by fire, of large tracts
of forest along the Pacific coast.
London, England, 1870-06-22

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENMAL PRESENTS

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort
ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights, &c., in Italian,
Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported
and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her
Majesty, 149, Strand, W.C., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS lo illustrate the new edition of
Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly facilitate the inte-
resting study of MINERA LOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had
at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERA-
LOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand.
London, England, 1870-06-22

LOUIS BLANC ON CHARLES DICKENS.

In an article contributed to the irreconcilable
Rappel, M. Louis Blanc contrasts the manner, in
which England and France look upon their great
writers. Placing Mr. Dickens below Shakspere as a
humourist, with less sensibility than the author of
"Don Quixote," less depth than Richter, and less
bonhommie than Sterne, M. Blanc considers that his
writings were on the whole productive
of great good, and that the genial influence
of his novels was effective, though the
moral effects were weakened by the comic colouring
given to some of the characters. There may be some
difference of opinion as to M. Blanc's statement
that France pays 'less honour to her national
celebrities than England does to hers. No doubt
Charles Dickens has received the sorrowing honour of
the whole nation; no doubt in his lifetime Englishmen
were proud of his genius and his sympathetic nature;
but many instances might be given where the honour
was only given when the writer was lying in his
grave. The comparison between Dickens and Jean
Paul is no comparison at all: the two men were
essentially different in all their characteristics, and
their writings have no point of resemblance.
Again, the writings of Sterne may have more
bonhomie, but assuredly no English critic would place
the two names in the same page as humourists.
London, England, 1870-06-22

THE NEWARK ACCIDENT.

A frightful collision on the Gl. eat Northern line (says
the Telegraph), with a sacrifice of at least sixteen lives,
comes to enforce, with disastrous emphasis, a repetition
of the lessons and warnings which past horrors of the
kind have rendered too familiar. As in the case' of a
similar calamity some time ago in the same district, the
sufferers were excursionists, returning home in crowded
carriages. The collision was of tremendous force,
and the destruction of human life was instantaneous
and extensive. The first reflection, indeed that most
people will make on reading the story, will be the very
obvious one —how closely liable is every passenger train in
;ntiond to such an accident at all hours of the day or
night ! While we have double lines of rails and a con-
stant stream of traffic flowing both ways, it is simply Im-
possible to plan any absolute prevention of such casualties
as that of yesterday morning.

The Daily News supposes it would be too much to ex-
pect that the excursion season should pass over without
accident. It seems to be a law of Nature that the num-
ber of aeaths should bear some average to the extra num-
bar of persons who travel by railway during the excursion
period. The first contribu:ion to this fatal average has
been made by the Great Northern line—a line that has
been by no means distinguished for the number of
its acculenEs. Happily in this instance, at least so
far as we can judge at present, the accident appears to
have been really accidental. Neither the guards, nor the
engineers, nor other servants of the company, are impli-
cated, as in other railway accidents, in the present fatal
catastrophe. But an occurreuce like this makes it some-
what awful to contemplate the lose of life which would
result if it happened that two fast trains filled with pas-
sengere, should come into collision from opposite points.
And the present calamity proves that such an accident is
quite possible.
London, England, 1870-06-22

THE LATE BISHOP GRANT.

The body of Dr. Grant, late Roman Catholic Bishop of
Southwark, arrived at the Cathedral last night, where
hundreds of persons, who had intimation of the intelli-
gence,were congregated, both in and outside the building.
The Requiem, will lre sung to-morrow at 11.30 a.m., and
the body of the deceased bishop will be conveyed to the
Norwood Orphanage Cemetery for interment. The fune-
ral will be strictly private.
London, England, 1870-06-22

LADY GODIVA.

The legend of "Lady Godiva " was a theme for
Poets before Mr. Tennyson sung her triumphs, and
although the truth of the story has been called in
question by an age which pays more attention to
utility than to the philosophy of a younger day,
Coventry will not let its heroine sink into utter
oblivion. Monday being the week of the great fair
the city of ribbons was unusually lively, and visitors
poured into the place to witness the pageant. The
procession paraded the streets, and the small boys of
the city no doubt had an opportunity of learning
the full meaning of Lady Godiva's self-abnegation.
She was dressed in skin tights reaching to the waist,
and a short petticoat. Among the other characters
represented were the Earl of Mercia (Lady Godiva's
husband), Edward the Black Prince, ' Mary
Queen of Scots, King Henry VIII., St. George
in armour, King Richard IL, King Edward
IV., and Sir John Falstaff. The promoters of the
show might have added to our knowledge of history
by including some other celebrities, such for instance
as Guy Fawkes and Jack Cade, and if Mr. Whalley
and General O'Neill, the commander-in-chief of the
Fenian army, had been honoured with representa-
tives, the anachronism would have been complete.
London, England, 1870-06-22

FATAL ACCIDENT.-TWO DEATHS.

A. lamentable accident has occurred at Month Whit-
tington, near Sheffield. A boy descended by means of a
rope to the bottom of a coal shaft, in order to recover a lost
cricket ball. He was unable to get back to the surface, and
his uncle went down to assist him, but both were
overcome by choke-damp, and lost their lives. An inquest
Was opened last night, but was adjourned to enable the
Government inspector to be present.
London, England, 1870-06-22

FIRE NEAR BOLTON.

A great fire occurred yesterday, at a cotton mill
belonging to Messrs. Joseph Whittam and Sons, situated
at New Bury, near Bolton. The mill contained 28,000
spindles, giving employment to 130 pairs of hands. The
damage, which is estimated at £25,000, is nearly all
covered by insurance in six offices.

The four men in the custody of the Manchester police
for an attempt at incendiarism in a timber yard, were
dismissed this morning.

LONDON GAZETTE.—LAST EVENING.
FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 21, 1870,
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas
H. Pearce as Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, and of Mr.
Oscar Malmross as Consul at Pictou, for the United States
of America.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 18.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint John, Earl of
Stair, K.T., to be Lieutenant and Sheriff-Principal of
the Shire of Ayr, in the room of Archibald, Marquess of
Ailsa, deceased.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Colin
Macdonald to the church and parish of Knock, in the
presbytery and Island of Lewis, vacant by the transpor-
tation of the Rev. Ewen Campbell to the church and
parish of Lochs.

THE TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT
AT NEWARK.

The following are the detailed particulars respecting the
terrible accident which happened yesterday on the Great
Northern Railway between Newark and Claypole Stations,
and about 100 miles from London:—
OFFICIAL REPORT.

The following is the latest official announcement re-
specting this great disaster :—" An up goods train from
Doncaster passed through Newark at its appointed time
without stopping at 1.24 a.m. When about half a mile
south of Newark, an axle of a waggon belonging to
another company, loaded with potatoes, broke off
close to the inside of the wheel. This threw the
waggons which followed off the rails on to the down
line. At the moment the engine driver of the up
goods train felt the jerk caused by the breakage of the axle,
a down excursion train which was returning from London
to Yorkshire passed him. This train was timed through
Newark without stopping, and when the accident hap-
pened it was running at from twenty to twenty-five
miles per hour, and to its regular time. The engine of
this train ran into the waggons which bad been thrown
across the down line of rails, was truned round, and
thrown completely clear of both lines, bringing the ex-
cursion train to an immediate stop. Six of the front
carriages were thrown off the rails, three of them being
piled up near the engine, and almost destroyed.
The passengers of these carriages suffered very
severely from the shock and the subsequent breakage of
the- carriages. The engine driver, Hurst, of Doncaster,
and several passengers, were killed on the spot ; the fire-
man and some other passengers were so seriously injured
that they died shortly afterwards. The total number of
deaths up to the present time, including the driver and
fir; man, is 16, and about 20 morn are injured, and remain
at Newark.

_R;S:
London, England, 1870-06-22

THE GAMBIA SETTLEMENT.

The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian
writes :—" Some curious facts are stated in connection with
the contemplated sale of the settlements on the Gambia
to the Government of France. No notice whatever has
been given to the British merchants and others resi-
dent or having their mercantile establishments there, and
strong remonstrances are about being made against their
transfer iu the manner contemplated. The recent state-
ments made by Mr. Monsell in Parliament, in reply
to a question on the subject, are said to betray great
want of knowledge of the real circumstances of the
colony. According to these the only design was a rectifi-
cation of the frontier, whereby "we were to to take in ex-
change- a certain amount of territory on the banks of other
streams in lieu of that which we have heretofore held
along the sides of the great river which is the most navi-
gable on the West Coast of Africa. The bargain is
described by those who know the country as entirely
one-sided, and as having no other recommendation
than that of enabling us in future to save a .certain
outlay on civil and military authorities upon the
cost for which the position of the swamps and jungles
the French propose to hand over to us will afford no
pretence."

GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICAN
• TRAVELLERS.

The very small and excessively uncomfortable steamers
that cross the Straits of Dover have long been a subject
of wonder, as well as of disgust, to American travellers.
The excuse for employing such craft has consisted in the
shallow and inconvenient ports on the French side. But
we in this country have not carried railway trains on
steam-boats in vain, for the House of Commons has just
apprOved what is known as the "International Communi-
cation Bill," the effect of which is that large steamers will
be built capable of making twenty miles an hour, and
of carrying twelve railway carriages on the lower,
and twelve on the upper deck, so that pas-
sengers can go from London to Paris without
changing their seats. This new traffic will be carried on
independently of wind and tide, and, from the great size
of the vessels, there will be little cause to fear sea-
sickness. In order to accommodate these vessels, special
harbours are to be prepared at Dover, on the English
side, and at Andrecelles, near Boulogne, on the French.
Short railway trains will run to these harbours, which
will be fitted with hydraulic lifts, for embarking and dis-
embarkiir, the trains. The Commons' approval of the
bill is subject to the assent of the French Emperor,
which, it is said, is certain to be given. Thus, then, a
nuisance which seemed destined to be everlasting, is
likely to be swept away, and European travel will be
attended with one disagreeable incident the less.-::- New
York Times.
London, England, 1870-06-22

KENT VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION.

The anual Prize Meeting of the Rent Volunteer Asso-
ciation is taking place to-day at the Government ranges,
Milton by Gravesend. The prizes which are to be awarded
will be presented to the successful competitors by
Viscount Sydney, the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, prior to
the review at Woolwich, which is fixed for the 2nd of
July.
London, England, 1870-06-22

THE INJURY TO THE CROPS.

It is not to be supposed, because the rain came
down in torrents all over England on Thursday
night and Friday morning last, that all
protest for complaint against the long continued dry
weather has been removed. We are told that in Eng-
land haymaking this season will yield at most only
one-third of the usual crop. Young clover has
been also much injured, the prospects of any
fair grazing have been seriously diminished, and
wheat upon light soils has suffered somewhat. The
want of rain has totally destroyed all growth
in the two Castilles in Spain. These pro-
vinces are entirely deprived of irrigating canals, and
the grave results which have followed ought to be a
warning for the future to every landowner at home
or abroad. The drought of the present year has
extended in Europe from France eastwardly
as far as the confines of Asia. In America it has
also prevailed, the most serious effect of it, in that
country, being the destruction, by fire, of large tracts
of forest along the Pacific coast.
London, England, 1870-06-22

THE FASTING GIRL INQUIRY.

The costs of the inquiry relating to the death of Sarah
Jacob, " the Welsh Fasting Girl," has been laid
before Parliament. The counsel's fees amount to
£l6O ; of which Mr. C. E. Coleridge gets £127. The
solicitors' charges amount to £284, but will be probably
reduced on revision. The sums paid or due to witnesses
make a total of £378.

THE REVISION OF THE HOLY
SCRIPTURES.

One of the " Companies" for the revision of the Bible
commences to-day, the first being assembled at the Jeru-
salem Chamber. There are two " Companies," one for
the revision of the Old Testament, and the other for
the New, and it is 'the latter which begins its work.
The committee will direct their attention, in the first
Instance, to a revision of the Synoptical Gospels. The
Old Testament " Company " will meet for the first time on
Thursday, the 30th inst. The Bishop of Llandaff will
preside. •
London, England, 1870-06-22

FALL OF AN INSURANCE OFFICE

Yesterday morning the premises of the Royal Insurance
Office, Park-row, besides which excavations for a new
building were being made, suddenly collapsed and became
a heap of ruins. Fortunately the clerks were warned a
few seconds before the accident, and they rushed out
and escaped ; thus no lives were lost and no injuries
sustained.
London, England, 1870-06-22

IRISH FISHERIES.

The River Shannon abounds in fish, principally
salmon, but, owing to the want of due precaution, a
large amount of money that might be obtained from
the development of the fish, and the sale of them,
is annually lost to the country.. In November last it
was ascertained that the weirs of Roosky, James-
town, and Knockvicar on the Shannon
River were most defective, and proceedings were
instituted with a view to providing fish passes at
those places. From a Parliamentary paper just
issued, it appears that the Irish Fishery Commis-
sioners have resolved to undertake these improve-
ments at an early period at a cost of nine hundred
and odd pounds, a sum which will have to be borne
by the public. There is no doubt whatever that the
fisheries of the sister island have been only to a small
degree made use of as yet, and it is therefore to be
hoped that the arrangements necessary for the
culture of fis'i in Ireland's chief river will be COm-.
menced with alacrity and promptitude. The success
of the Kinsale fisheries this year is a proof of all that
can be gained, when willing and energetic minds
undertake the work.

BABY FARMING.

It is really time that the conventional something
was done with the system of aiding immoral trades
by means of advertisements in the public journals.
It has been shewn that the hideous Camberwell
baby farming establishment was maintained solely
through the publicity of the press. Advertisements of
innocent appearance, but of whose real character very
slight investigation suffices to judge, were inserted
in various forms in several papers. But for this help
baby farming would perish from lack of custom.
Surely such a disgrace to the press ought not to con-
tinue. The Times hints at a law against these
advertisements : " If the honour of
.prOprietors can-
not be trusted to refuse aid to notorious villainy, it
will become a grave question whether such offences
London, England, 1870-06-22

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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. PRIOR, Analytical
Chemist, 2, Lower Seymour-sti eet, London, W.
Prices—ls. lid., 2s. Pd., and 4s. Gd per bottle.
London, England, 1870-06-22

1111. DENIS FOGAIITY AND HIS WIFE.

Mr. Denis Fogarty, of Greenwich, formerly of
Ireland, has been ordered to pay 3s. a week towards
the support of a wife whom he had not seen for
twenty-three years. Nearly a generation ago Mrs.
Denis Fogarty, dissatisfied no doubt with .the fortune
which had made her the better half of Mr. Fogarty,
took it into her head that she would cheat
fate of its decree, and one fine morning
she turned her back on the man whom
she did not love. Before going, however, she
accused him of high treason, and of having served in
Smith O'Brien's army. Poor Mr. Fogarty was im-
prisoned, but one can imagine his joy when, on
regaining his liberty, he found that he was to be
burdened no more with his treacherous wife. Wisely
he determined to leave the country which had proved
so unfortunate for Lim, and many a year had well-
nigh obliterated his cruel wrongs, when lo ! his evil
genius makes her appearance and claims him for her
Own. The poor Irishman refused to have anything
to do with her. Besides, he had another
Mrs. Fogarty, and there were likewise six pledges.
Brought before the magistrate, he declared that he
would go to prison rather than pay for his truant
wife. Mr. Fogarty thinks he had quite enough of
Mrs. Fogarty, and most people will think so too.
London, England, 1870-06-22

THE FENIANS AND THE RED RIVER.

The New York papers contain the following telegram,
dated Toronto, Ontario, June 7 :—" It is stated that
about one hundred Chicago Fenians threatened a raid on
a camp at Sault Sainte Marie. Preparations having
been made to meet them, it is believed that
they decided to go to Dulntl% Intelligence has
been received from Fort Garry that a large meeting
of French settlers had been held at White Horse Plains,
when fighting and resistance to the Red River expedition
was unanimously favoured. It is believed that a declara-
tion pf independence will be issued. Riel is making no
preparations to oppose the expedition. The Manitoba
Bill will probably be adopted by the Red River Legisla-
ture. Two companies of the United States infantry have
arrived at St. Joseph's."

P kYMENT OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
There certainly seems to be no good reason why any
person claiming to be a member of Congress, and who is
ousted from his seat by a successful contestant, should be
paid either in full or in part. The action of the House in
such cases is equivalent to a verdict that the member has
occupied a position to which he was not entitled, and the
loss of pay and perquisities would be a very proper
penalty. Yet we were told by Mr. Dawes that during the
present session 150,000 dols., had been paid to persons who
had taken their seats as members, but had subsequently
been superseded. The plan proposed, of paying half com-
pensation in such cases, seems to us to be indefensible, for
the reason that it places a.premium, so far as it goes, upon
fraudulent returns. The true course would be rather to
impose some penalty, like the costs of an action at law,
in order to discourage untenable claims.—New York
Times.
London, England, 1870-06-22

AII,I3MIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY RILL.

The Times is not surprised that the law lords exhibited
their usual ingenious diversity of opinion in the matter of
the Married iNomen's Property Bill last night. The
reeamire has passed the Commons, where it has been pre-
ferred by a large majority to a rival measureless thorough
in its principle and less complete in the remedy it affords.
The change in the law would at once give a better posi-
tion to every woman, and not merely to the woman who
is sufficiently provoked and sufficiently strong-minded to
take an unusual and most hostile proceeding against her
husband. It would not supersede marriage settlements,
for the settlement is as much to protect the woman from
herself as from her husband ; but it would in thousands
of households give greater moral influence to the wife,
and tend to the happiness and prosperity of both her
husband and herself. Indeed, the right of women to the
possession and disposal of property being admitted, we
cannot believe, until it is shown by argument strongez
than any used in the House of Lords last night, that
dm ceremony of marriage ought to " act on a woman
like a conviction for felony," and reduce a person of
aside pendent fortune into a dependent on the bountynf
ane
London, England, 1870-02-25

40,913,269 39,681,373

United Kingdom.

1,261,816

And as compared with the mouth ending the 2nd of
Dec., 1869, the above returns show a decrease of
V 12,119 in the circulation of notes in England, and a
decrease of £50,413 in the circulation of the United
Kingdom.

On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the
several banks the following is the state of the circulation:—
The English private banks are below their
fixed issue ... £1,380,506
The English joint-dock banks are below their
fixed issue

457,442

Total below fixed issue in England ... £1,837,948
The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... '2,225,776
The Irish banks are above their fixed issue ... 701,762

The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng-
land in both departments during the month ending 29th
of Dec was £19,091,239, being an increase of .£648,033,
as compared with the previous month, and an increase o
£906,873 when compared with the same period last year.
The following are the amounts of specie held by the
Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the let
of Jan. :

Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks ... £3,087,604
Gold and silver held by the Irish banks ... 2,757,358

£5,844,962
being a decrease of £79,689 as compared with the pre-
vious return, and an increase of £314,579 when compared
with the corresponding period last year•

The actual reduction in the number of artifi-
cers and labourers in Chatham Dockyard under
the new estimates, as compared with the total pro-
vided for in the current year, will be 433, the total
in the year 1869-70 being 3,102 ; in 1870-1 it will
be 2,669 ; decrease of wages nearly £29,000. The
total reduction in the estimates for the yard is
£29,972. Fifty-thr. e weekly payments will have
to be made in 1870-1. The cost of the salaried
establishment will be reduced from £20,585 to
£18,082. There is au item for mechanic writcrs
of £1,247, which used to be charged in the labour
item.

The very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all recant improvements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Messis. DITNVILLE Co., who have gained
a world-wide celebrity for their fins old Irish whisky, is to be
called The Royal Irish Distillery."

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Morning. Evening
FRIDAY.. 39 min past 0• 23 min past 10
SATURDAY 8 min past 11 49 min past 11
London, England, 1870-02-25

STRRET TRAMWAYS,

Mr. SIIAW-LEFEVRE gave notice that to-morrow
he would bring in a bill to facilitate the construction of
street tramways.
REVISION OF STATUTES.

Mr. LOCKE KING asked the Attorney-General
what progress had been made in the revision of the
statute law, and how soon an expurgated list of statutes
would be presented to Parliament.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said a bill was in a
forward state of preparation.

INDIAN PENSIONS.

Colonel SYKES asked the Under Secretary of State
for India whether the Secretary of State for India would
bring in a bill, similar to Act 32 and 33 Victoria, for the
commutation of the pensions of officers and others of her
Majesty's Indian service, so as to place officers and others
drawing pensions from the revenues of India upon the
same footing with respect to the commutation of their
pensions as was enjoyed by pensioners on the revenues of
England.
Mr. GRANT DUFF said no such bill was wanted.
the Secretary of State for India /Laving already the
power to commute pensions, but for certain reasons not
considering it proper to exercise it.
London, England, 1870-02-25

TILE STAGNATION IN ENTUBPILISE.

The great falling off in late years of railway and
joint-stock enterprise of ail kinds is abundantly
shewn by the sums in shares and loans
which Parliament has been asked to sanc-
tion. In 1869, the aggregate amount of capital
proposed to be raised by shares and loans was
£29,221,706. Of this total £17,756,335 was
in shares, and £11,465,371 in loans. In
1868 the total was rather more than
25 millions; in 1867, over 421 millions; in 1866,
" the " year, not less than 1751 millions ; and in
1865, 1261 millions. Here, indeed, is a falling off.
The largest amount raised in 1869 was £3,333,000
on behalf of the Port of London and Billingsgate
Railway. No other sum was as high as twe
millions.
London, England, 1870-02-25

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IMMORAL PUBLICATIONS.

It is satisfactory to learn that the Society for the
Suppression of Vice, in doing the work of a public
prosecutor, has laboured with great energy, and
with a large result. It has been the means of
destroying 129,681 prints, 16,220 illustrated
books, five tons of letterpress of the same
character in sheets, large quantities of infidel
and blasphemous publications, 16,00.5 sheets of
songs, &c., 5,503 cards, snuff boxes, &c.; 844 en-
graved copper plates, 428 lithographic stones, 95
wood blocks, 11 printing presses, and 28 cwt. of type,
including stereotype of several entire works of the
grossest immorality. As each prosecution costs the
Society about £3O, this destruction must have
been expensive work. But the trade still flourishes,
nevertheless. We hear of large seizures by energetic
policemen, and great doings on the part of the
Society. Every now and then the police go down
to Ilolywell-street and capture cart loads of dirt.
But it always reappears in the interval between
one visit and another. Anybody who chooses to pay
a visit to the well-known and delightful spot can
bear witness to the fact that the police come once in
a long while, and the crop of obscenity blooms again
immediately they aro gone.
London, England, 1870-02-25

SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

Mr. CHARLES DALRYMPLE asked the Vice-
President of the Council whether in poor and populous
districts, where it was reported that school accommodation
was insufficient, the Groverwent, for the sake of stimu-
lating local efforts. would be prepared to offer grants for
building on a more liberal scale than at present during
the year of grace allowed to school districts under the Bill
upon Elementary Education.

Mr. FORSTER said he must refer to the answer he
had already given. When the Education Bill had received
the consent of Parliament it would of course become
necessary to reconsider all the conditions of the grant.
London, England, 1870-02-25

MR. BURLINGAME.

The Daily News remarks that the premature and unex-
pected death of Mr. Anson Burlingame at St. Petersburg
is the abrupt conclusion to a romantic career. A native
of New England, and imbued with the desire to make a
name by making a sensation, he succeeded in exciting the
surprise of a civilised world, and in becoming the subject
of controversy, of admifation, and of envy. It is diffi-
cult to understand how Mr. Burlingame managed to
play what was a double part without neglecting the
interests either of those for whom he acted or of those
whom he conciliated. • It may be that the predictions of
Mr. Burlingame will be verified, and that his mission may
prove a benefit to all the parties corcerned. As to this,
the future must determine. For the present, we have
to lament the decease of one who was a good repre-
sentative of the versatile and cultivated American of
modern times, who owed much of his reputation to the
charm and polish of his manners, and who, if he had been
spared, would probably have performed some notable act
to illustrate his country and his race.
London, England, 1870-02-25

TRADE UNIONISTS AND THE EDUCATION BILL.

A conference of trade delegates at Halifax has
been usefully employing its time in discussing the
Government Education Bill, with the assistance of a
League representative. The League objections were
substantiated—in particular the points that compul-
sion ought to be universal, instead of permissive, as Mr.
Forster proposes, and that the settlement of religious
teaching ought not to be left to the school boards.
The Government bill, too, contains a clause retaining
school pence, but allowinc, those persons to escape
payment who sign a statement of their inability.
This the League thinks highly injudicious. Such a
provision will, it is maintained, brand with pau-
perism those poor families who seek free education.
The trade delegates endorsed these views. A resolu-
tion was passed declaring the League Bill to be the
I only proper one.
London, England, 1870-02-25

TILE EDUCATION BILL.

The doubts we expressed as to the genuineness of the
enthusiasm with which the Secularists welcomed Mr.
Forster's Education Bill •arf), says the Standard, daily re-
ceiving fresh confirmationiu the growingly hostile attitude
of the Birmingham League. Judging from the tone of the
League meetings of the last two days, it would seem that
the Birmingham Leaguers are rapidly passing through
the disagreeable process of disenchantment. They
are beginning to understand the bill as everybody
save themselves understood it just a week back, and it is
quite manifest that the more they examine it the less they
like it. The obvious design of the Secularists in suggest-
ing these " vital amendments," is to bring the bill
into literal conformity with the original scheme of
the Birmingham League. We are confident, however,
that Mr. Forster will not consent to play fast
and loose with the country in this fashion at the
arbitrary will of the Secularigti.. The principle of up-
holding the denorainationai zys while affording ample
scope for the establishment of secular schools, is the chief
condition of the support he has already received, and it
will assuredly be withdrawn if thAt principle is thrown
overboard for the sake of conciliating the Secularists. The
whole scope and purpose of the bill will be diametrically
reversed, and the favour it has won in its present form
will be changed into a resolute opposition.
London, England, 1870-02-25

THE CENSUS.

Mr. CANDLISH asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department what means he intended to adopt to
take the census of 1871, and if, previously to introducing
any bill on the subject, he would refer the question to a
Select Committee. 6
Mr. BRUCE said the intention of the Government
was to adopt the course usual on such occasions, that
was, to introduce a bill. It was open to the hon. member
or any other hon. member of the House to move to refer
the bill to a select committee. On the part of the Govern-
ment he was not prepared to make any such motion.
Mr. HADFIELD asked the right hon. gentleman if
he meant to adopt the course pursued in 1851 or 1861?
Mr. BRUCE asked the hon. gtntleman to be good
enough to wait until he saw the bill.
SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.

Mr. GREGORY asked the Secretary to the Treasury
if he would place in the library the model of the build-
ings of South Keagii?gton Museum, and the explanation
of the model.

Mr. STANSFIELD said the Government had no
objection, if accommodation could be found.
London, England, 1870-02-25

CANADA.

Mr. ROBELT FOWLER asked the Under Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs whether the statements made
in the Canadian papers were true, that after the recent
massacre of Indians in the territory of Montana, the
United States troops were allowed by the British autho-
rities to cross the frontier in pursuit of the fugitives who
sought refuge there.
Mr, OTWAY said there:Ns-as no information on the sub-
ject in the Foreign Office.
London, England, 1870-02-25

CONTENTS.

John.—Part V.
Austen and Miss Mitford.
The. Antagonism of Race and Colour.
Earl's Dene.—Part V.
The Opening of the Suez Canal—Part 111.
In February.
Oornel us D'Dowd.

Reconstructing the Edifice.
The Passion Play in the highlands of Bavaria.
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UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

A declaration in favour of the mixed system of
education has been forwarded to Mr. Gladstone from
the Provost, Vice-Provost, and a large number of
Fellows, Tutors, and Professors of Trinity College,
Dublin. These influential memorialists are con-
vinced of the advantages of united academical
education. They believe that the association of
young men of different religious persuasions in the
same lecture halls, and at the same common table, is
productive of the best results in assuaging the feelings
which aro apt to spring from differences of religious
creed, and in teaching all to tolerate and respect the
conscientious opinions of others. These advantages
are especially estimable in Ireland, where sectarian
animosities prevail to a greater extent than elsewhere.
To destroy such a system, and replace it by denomi-
national colleges would be productive of the worst
results.
London, England, 1870-02-25

THE BILL FOR TILE REGULATION OF HINES.

The Pall Mall Gazetfr r"^. tares that a novel and impor-
tant principle has of late teen introduced into legislation,
and underlies sevefal measures which have recently
passed. It operates by simply shifting the burden of
proof from the parties hitherto bound to produce it,
and requires it from the other side. It is proposed that
in future, in the event of accidents from explosion
or otherwise, it will be, for the colliery owners to prove
that all reasonable precautions have been °buoyed, that
the ventilation was good and ample, &c. ; otherwise they
will be held liable to penalties. Wo see no objection to the
onus of proof being laid onthe owners • but the application
of the principle should be carefully watched, and it will pro-
bably be well discussed when the bill is in committee. The
bill does not err on the side of too much vigour, and is
obviously capable of amendment ; but it is a real advance,
and has at least the merit of consolidating the various
laws which affect mines and the working of them.
London, England, 1870-02-25

EPPING FOREST.

Sir CHARLES DILKE asked the First Lord of the
frea,mry whether his attention had been called to a letter
in the _nines of Monday last, from Colonel Palmer,
the sole surviving verderer of Epping Forest, in which he
stated that if the Queen should see fit to appoint a Lord
Warden, and cause a second verderer to be elected, ho
would then be in a position to protect the rights of the
Crown in the forest for the benefit of the public. And,
whether he was aware that the same gentleman stated, in
his evidence before a committee of the House in 1863, that
courte were actually held for the protection of the forest
up to the year 1854, "until the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests and the Attorney-General refused to
give to such courts the assistance and•support which they
had a right under the Act of Parliament to require and
expect."
Mr. GLADSTONE said it was not desirable to enter
into the matter in any angry spirit. It was quite
true that courts were held up to 1854 ; but as the Govern-
ment had undertaken to deal with the matter they desired
to do so in the most amicable spirit which would, he
thought, lead to the best results. (Hear, hear.)
London, England, 1870-02-25

A GEOLOGIST UPON FLINTS.

Sir Roderick Murchison upholds the argument
for the steam roller in a smart letter to the Time&
In his neighbourhool cartloads of rough, unbroken
flints are poured out on the roadway, and left to be
ground down by the light carriage wheels and the
feet of horses, for few heavy waggons pass that w*y.
This nuisance is often inflicted when the road is per-
fectly smooth. "'The frequent conversion of our
spiare into this p3culiar quarry of chalk flints has
resulted in the fact that the central part of the road
is already much higher than its sides ; and, therefore,
in the absence of any other explanation, I am
left to suppose that the parochial or public operator
who has produced this phenomenon is determined
to convince an old geologist like myself what a won-
derful amount of denudation can be produced by the
diurnal friction of comparatively small bodies, and
the occasional descent of water from that central'
elevation which he himself has created in our road-
way."
London, England, 1870-02-25

THE CIFURCII IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Bishop Gray, in his charge to the Synod, which
met at Capetown in the latter part of January, gives
Dr. Colenso up. He is thoroughly weary of the
mathematical prelate, and he thinks all other Church-
men are weary also—as well they may be; for Dr.
Colenso is still unvanquished. He holds his own
against all hostility. Bishop Gray thinks contro-
versy can do no good. The Bishop of
Natal's works, though they made a great
stir at first, have sunk into oblivion. "It costs little
to start an objection—to make an assertion, or a
denial; but it might require a volume to refute
objections, and to establish the truth of an asserted
position; and who has the time for writing such
books, or who would purchase them, or devote days
and weeks to reading lengthy discussions on the
details of a thousand different questions ?" And in
this mode Dr. Gray gets rid of the unbelieving pre-
late.
London, England, 1870-02-25

MAIDSTONE ELECTION.-(THIS DAY.)

The polling at Nlaiastone commenced this morn-
ing at eight o'clock. At ten the numbers stood as
follows :

Sir John Lubbock (Liberal)
Mr. Foster White (Conservative) 727
ELEVEN O'CLOCK.
Sir John Lubbock
Mr. Foster White
Majority for Lubbock, 40.