biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-22

The mission which "Our Ocean Highways" has to achieve
is to afford Travellers OF ALL NATIONS a means, in the
simplest and readiest of forms, that of the alphabet, to find
their way, safely and easily; over the whole world.
The success already obtained by the first annual, for 1870,
is a guarantee for the future. The whole British Press have
applauded the enterprise ; many American and Continental
Journals have encouraged and sympathized with the move-
ment, which is international, and made in the best interests
of all countries.

The host of elaborate special Handbooks and Guides
which abound at the Railway Stations give many minute
details to which a condensed Gazetteer of the World, in a
moderate-sized volume, cannot lay claim. But what it does
claim is, that it contains every necessary particle of Tra-
velling and Commercial information, derived from the best
and original sources.
It is a matter of just pride and congratulation that all the
great Ocean Steamship Companies, and many eminent Com-
mercial Shipping Firms, have 'cheerfully acceded to the
E litor7s application to forward Printed Forms of Ques-
tions to their Correspondents and Agents all over the globe
for reply.
Many of the home and continental ports have already sent
in the requisite information ; those more remote will all be
in time to have the latest authentic intelligence inserted in
the next annual volume, which will be published on the Ist
of December next, so as to be received and utilised by the
Ist day of the New-year in almost every part and city of
the globe.
It will embody an amount of topographical, statistical,
commercial, railway, and shipping intelligence, such as can-
not be found in any other publication. A valuable addition
will be a FOREIGN PORTS' DIRECTORY, containing the names
of British and American Ministers, Consuls and Vice-Con-
suls, Clergymen of all denominations, Physicians, Banks,
Managers and London Correspondents, Chief Merchants,
Ship Brokers and Ship!ptrrz A gen tfr,. klOycrs Agents,-Ne ws-
papers and Editors, Hotels and Proprietors; in short, no
labour or expense is beinc, spared to render the work of
paramount universal utility.
Our Ocean Highways" Monthly Supplement, incorpo-
rated with the "Anglo-American Times," the leading organ
of America in Europe, is essentially for the use of passengers
by our great Ocean Steamship Companies. Each number of
the Supplement and each bi-monthly number of "The Anglo-
American Times " will contain, in addition to a Ports' Rail-
way and Steamers Summary, a Skeleton Tour, taking the
traveller from the steamer, on his arrival in port, to some
one of the great European centres, guiding him on hie way
and ensuring his comfort at the most eligible hotels. These
Supplements accompany the passengers in the homewaid.•
bound steamers, provision having been made for the Agents
of the respective Steamship Companies regularly receiving
them for distribution at all foreign ports.
Communications, suggestions, and correctionsare earnestly
solicited from all Travellers, either by letter to the Editor, or
personal interview, at the Buckingham Palace Hotel,
London.
London, England, 1870-04-22

INDIA.

(By British Indian Submarine Cable.)
• BOMBAY, April 21.
Mr. Forsyth, commissioner of Julinder, has been
appointed to go to Yarkand.
A good harvest is expected in the Punjaub.
Sir Seymour Fitzgerald has gone to Mahablesh-
war for the hot season.
Her Majesty's ship Teazer has arrived.

BOMBAY MAIL.

MALTA, April 21.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Vera leaves at 8 this evening for South ampton,
where she may be expected on the 30th instant.
The Massilia from Southampton, 9th in,tant,
arrived at 4 a.m. , on the 18th, and left for Alexandria,
at 11 p.m. the same day.
London, England, 1870-04-22

'WHAT WILL BE THE BESITLT

The effect of this change in England and Scotland
are set forth in a Parliamentary paper. The present
duty of 5 per cent. upon passenger traffic produces
£450,279 in England, and £39,209 in
Scotland. The new duty of one per cent.
on the gross receipts from goods and passengers
will yield £344,944 in England and £43,323 in Scot-
land. Thus the richer country gains and the poorer
loses. Everything depends upon the proportion
which the goods' traffic bears to the passenger traffic
on the different railways. Those which carry
the largest per tentage of passengers of
course paid the greatest amount of duty,
and will gain by the transfer. The South-
Eastern, for example, had. a total traffic of
£1,433,503 in 1869, of which £1,623,244 was from
passengers. It is obvious that it will be
better for this line to pay 1 per cent.
on the whole,'than 6 per cent. upon the passenger
receipts. In fact, whereas it formerly yielded £30,349
in duty, it will now return only £14,335. The North-
Eastern, on the other hand, has a passenger traffic
of £982,031, and a goods traffic of £3,081,000. It is
better for this railway to pay 5 per cent. upon the
former sum than 1 per cent. upon the two put
together. Its duty will be increased from £30,231
to £40,042. Most of the great railways will gain.
London, England, 1870-04-22

BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a Vacancy has occurred
in the Direction of this Bank by the death of John Ranking, Esq.,
which will be filled up at the ensuing Annual General Meeting.
By the terms of the Deed of Settlement it is required as follows:
"That every Proprietor intending to become a Candidate, or to pro-
pose some other Proprietor as a Candidate for the office of Direc-
tor, must, within Ten days from the time when the advertisement
shall have been inserted, signify by some writing under his or her
hand, to be left within the said Ten days at the Office of the Cor-
poration, either his intention to become a Candidate, or the name
and place of abode of the Candidate intended to lad proposed by
Lim or her." . _ _

Names of Candidates cannot, therefore, be received after the
30th instant.

By order of the Court.
R. W. BRADFORD, Secretary.

124, Bishopsgate-street within,
London, E.C., April 20, 187 u.
London, England, 1870-04-22

LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.

The Pall Mall Gazette discusses at some length a
thing which everybody does, but comparatively few
do well. Letter writing has, indeed, become less
of a special talent since it has become a uni-
versal accomplishment, and though Rowland llill
has multiplied our correspondents a thousandfold,
he has not increased the number of our Chesterfields
and De Savi,n6s. The Pall Mall Gazette thinks that
the decay of the art is not surprising, since it
requires leisure, and we are always in a hurry.
It is not worth while to spend much
time on that which is to be sent at once and for a
penny. It is only when we are writing from a
foreign land, and the stamp is more valuable than
the time spent on the epistle, that letters worth
reading are likely to be written. Even
in our ordinary correspondence, however,
we get letters of very various characters,
though too often they have one point of family re-
semblance—their illegibility. Medical and literary
men are proverbial ofienders in this respect, but they
find a good many to follow their example. Lawyers
and commercial men, on the other hand, usually write
as if they meant their letters to be read. It is a curious
fact that some habitually cautious men lose head as
soon as they take pen in hand, and commit them-
selves to the wildest promises and statements.
Women, who are constantly doing the same thing,
are naturally less wary, and their imprudence is, there-
fore, less surprising. Our critic concludes his analysis
by the assertion that the best letters read in recent
days before legal tribunals have been written by a,
woman, though he qualifies the compliment at a few
lines distance by the suggestion that women writers
should habitually use ink which fades out after a.
given time, and thus obliterate their epistolary ilk.
discretions.

THE SPELLING DIFFICULTY.

We have often been told that the most formidable
difficulty in competitive examinations is not to be
found among the higher branches of science,
or the more recondite departments of study,
but in the every day orthography of ordi-
nary life. , Mr. Alexander Ellis, who has just
been reading a paper on " The Spelling Difficulty "
at the Society of Arts, seems to share this ouinion.
Ile says that when we find out of 16,000 pupils in
inspected schools, only 256, or less than one in 60, can
read a simple narrative or write a simple paragraph
correctly, we cannot but feel that something must be
due to bad material as well as to bad brains, bad
teaching, and bad attendance. For himself he has
been able to read and write for fifty years, but cannot
venture to read a page of the " London Directory
with any certainty, while as for the names of history
and geography, and the foreign correspondence
of the daily press, he gives them up as
honelem. Aloot of the reeepihk_ the_ lame of
London, England, 1870-04-22

MAZZINI AI,ID THE REPI3BLIC.

The Times observes that next to the benevolent Pontiff,
Giovanni Mastai Ferretti, we know of no man more hope-
lessly a prey to sore tribulation than " the High Priest 'of
the Idea, ' Giuseppe Mazzini. Indeed, those two dis-
tinguished Italians have not a little in common between
them. Both are labouring under a morbid conviction of
their own infallibility ; both are anathematizing a sense-
less world that refuses to acknowledge it. Mankind re-
fuses to be converted to the tenets of Mazzinian Repub
licanism. But what is it but the terror the revolution
inspires that stands in the way of the true republic ; that
induces the majority, despairing of the omnipotence of its
predominant vote, and losing all trust in the calmness and
security of free discussion' to place its reliance on the
army and administration? At all times and in all coun-
tries it is revolution that plays into the hands of reaction.
You constitute yourself a self-governing nation ; you esta-
blish universal suffrage on the broadest basis ; you have a
free Press, the right of meeting and association, and, upon
any question arising, instead of joining in a legal opposi-
tion—instead of awing authority by an attitude of firm but
peaceful resistance—you strive to ripen discontent into
rebellion, to pervert demonstration into riot. In the
rear of those who seek for redress there are those who are
bent on mischief ; under the pretext of a legitithate
grievance, they come out with their watchwords of Repub-
licanism, Federalism, Communism ; they mix up social
with political questions, till the people who understand
them little, and trust them even less, shrink back terrorised,
and seek safety in big battalions, in a state of siege, in
anything that can put down riot and save society from
anarchy and the State from dissolution. The
majority can never be revolutionary. It will always
oppose revolution. Nay, the wish for reform itself
will die away before the dread of revolution. We shall
certainly not be suspected of any partiality to the scheme
of a plebiscite. We deem it an unfair and
But
tTational
B
means of putting any question to a people. let the
I
appeal be made on tnat or any other principle, so long as
the choice lies between an indifferent or even a bad bro-
vernment and no Government at all—between a Napo-
leon and a liochefort, a Victor Emmanuel and a Mazzini
—there need be no uncertainty as to the result.

A Bristol paper says tam, at a largely-a t ten !ecl meet-
ing of -the executive committee and council of the Bristol
Working Men's Conservative Association, it was unam-
-nously resolved to present a petition against the return of
lir. Robinson at the late election.

The official returns issued by the Indian Govern-
the messages exchanged between India and Europe has
been published. The total number during the past
mouth was 5,406, being an increase of 1,004 compared
With
London, England, 1870-04-22

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St Dun, Prtb, and Aber. June-100 70 72
20 East London all 4 6
20 Do
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St Great Eastern lOO 371 391 41/ 4
St Do East Anglian, N 0.2.-100 61 71
St Great North of Scotland 100 15 16
St Great Northern 100 119 120
St Do A 100 126 127 1271
St Do B. lOO 126 128
St Gt. So. and West (Ireland) 100 98 100
St Great Western— Consolid 100 71 711 711
St Do South Wales 100 68 70
St Do West Midland—Oxford 100 44 45
St Do do Newport 100 36 38
St Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 1251 1274
St Lond, Bright'n, and S.Coast 100 43 43/ 461 1
St Loud, Chatham' and Dover 100 14+ 151 161
S t Do Metrop Extension A 100 9 11
St London and North Western 100 1264 1271 128
St Loudon and South Western 100 881 891 921 31
St Manch, Shef, and Lincolnsh 100 51 511 53 24
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St Metropolitan lOO 791 80 781 1
St Do Preferred...
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10 Do Redeemable
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St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 94
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St Do Leeds 100 841 8.51
St Do York
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St North London lOO 120 122 120
10 Do New, 1868
•St North Staffordshire 100 59 61
St North and So. West. Junct 100 102 105
St Rhymney lOO 52 54
St Shropshire Union 100 G 2 63
St South Devon 100 46 48
St South Eastern 100 764 771 784
St Do Preferred ...100 1091 1101

St Do Deferred... lOO 41 41i
St Staines, Wok'hani, & Wok'g. all 121 131
St Taff Vale

10 Do C 6 3 6
St Waterford and Cent. Ireland 100
10 Waterloo and Whitehall
London, England, 1870-04-22

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London, England, 1870-04-22

A SINISTER. RUMOUR.

The somewhat sudden and untimely death
Anson Burlingame in St. Petersburg has given rise,
it would seem, to a rumour which the Boston
Advertiser denounces as cruel and absurd. It is that
the American diploinatist was poisoned by his jealous
associates in the Chinese Embassy. The Advertiser
points, out that the nature of Mr. Burlingame'a
disease is sufficient to confute the story, and, in fact,
it needs no further explanation than a Russian,
winter to account for an attack of inflammation in
the lungs, when the sufferer has been for years
a resident in warmer zones. There is ne
reason, says the American paper, to sup-
pose that the relations of the members of the Embassy
were otherwise than cordial. It may well be askeo
what possible profit the Mandarins could hope to gait
by the death of their able representative. The
success of the mission was entirely due to Mr. Bur-
linghame's personal character and influence, and half
the prestige of the Embassy would be lost if it were
merely presided over by a Chinaman, however
able.

A PLEA FOR LOPEZ.
A. " Commander It•.) " writes to-i

Paraguayan struggle, desiring as " one who has seen
something of both belligerents" to give his version
of the story. Brazil was, he says, the aggressor at
the opening of the war, though the first blow was
struck by Lopez, Who merely took the initiative to
save himself. Brazil had long wished to "round off"
her empire by annexing Paraguay, and induced the
Argentine States to join her with that object. As to
the question of cruelty we must not measure
Indo-Spanish doings by an English stan-
dard. Lopez was forced by military neces-
sity and self-preservation to repress conspiracy
and treachery with a vigorous hand. He did not
hold human life more cheaply than his neighbours
of the Argentine Republic, neither was he more
ambitious than the Brazilians. The principal charges
against him are that he was unscrupulous, selfish,
and cowardly. The first may be admitted, the two
last are wholly false, and those who came in contact
with him—especially his foes—were forced to recog-
nise him as a great man. The " Commander" hopes
the civilised world will one day look at the whole
question fairly, not through a Brazilian fog. When
that is done he believes the extermination of the
Paraguayan race will be regarded as one of the
greatest crimes in modern history.

II E NILE P E N.
" STATIONER " says—" The successful inventors of the
Waverley, Owl, and Pickwick Pens have just patentrd the `Nile'
Pen, which, by a combination of the turned up and turned down
points, writes freely without scratching, and holds an unusually
large supply of ink."
• " r'urz " says—" Speaking, after a severe test of their lasting
qualities, the Nile Pen is a marvel."
Sold everywhere, Is per ox By Post, ls.
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AGENTS--MILLINGTON and HUTTON, LONDON'.
London, England, 1870-04-22

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION

(Established 1810).
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I Thomas Hankey, Esq.
R. W. Crawford, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
The report and balance-sheets of this Association for the year
1869, exhibiting in full details the amounts assured, ages of the
members, with particulars of the invested fuqd, may be had on
application to the chief office, or to the agents.
The annual income from premiums is .. ...£64,000
From interest on investments ... ... 19,000
Ihe invested fund, after payment of all claims, exceeds 415,000
The whole of the profits divided among the members.
Cash bonuses have already been allotted to the assured,
amounting to £lOO,OOO.
-

W. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
No. 15, Moorgate-street, March t, 1870.
London, England, 1870-04-22

VAUD EVrLLE THEATRE, STRAND.-
Lessees—Messrs H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorm2.
T IS EVr: • ING. at 7, an original Comedy, by Andrew Halliday.
entitled FOR LOVE OR MONEY. At 9, the new Burlesque, by
Conway Edwardes, entitled DO • CA .1,2 ,S; OR, THE INFANTE
IN ARMS. Supported by the following Company—Messrs H. J.
Montague, G. Honey. H. Irving, W. H. Stephens, C. Garthorne,
E. Elton, and Thomas Thorne; Mesdames Nelly Power, Cavendish,
Amy Fawsitt, K. Irwin, L. Claire, J. Beauclerc, R. Evelyn, Kemp,
T. 1 avis, F. Garthwaite, R. Power, J. Norton, Fellowes, and A.
Newton.
Box-office open daily from 10 till 5.
London, England, 1870-04-22

NA'rIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Richmond,' Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861.
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of OAXBAIDGIII, E.G.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of
:he kingdom.

Ti.e object of e Charity Is to give orphan girls a plain Eng-
lish education, ani practical instruction in the kitchen, house,
Ind laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other
wise provided for when they attain lb years of ago, to obtain
suitable situations for them.

The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The CJltarity le
entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.

HENRY ICINGSOOTB, Treasurer
W 11. WAR WIOIC, _Secretary.
Office, 121, Pall mall, S. W;

Earl:Russell paid a visit to the French Senate on
Monday, and was present during the debate on the
second reading of the Senatus-Consultum.

According to a medical report of the Wilts County
Asylum, just issued, there are a greater number
of insane paupers in that county than in any other in
England.

Major Knox and Mr. Waters are actively contest-
ing the representation of Mallow. Both gentlemen
addressed the electors yesterday. It is stated that Mr.
Mathew, of the English bar, will also become a candidate.
London, England, 1870-04-22

"THE APPAREL O}3'II',,F,IIOCLADIS THE

UST 11ATE1UAL9, BEST STYLES, BES
WORKMAN:, lIIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at
E. 310,DES and SON'S.

Every description of Clothing ready-made or made
to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes,
at E. MOSES and SON'S.

For the convenience of Lalies accompanying
their Sous there is a separate department for Boys'
Clothing, and it is furnished with a splendid assort-
ment of Suits, Ov rcoats, and Clothing for all occa-
sions, including all the favourite designs and the
most fashionable materials.

Orders by Post are attended to with care and
punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of
self-measure introduced by E. MOsE3 and SON
enables them to guarantee a faultless fit.

Any article not worn or injured will be ex hanged,
or, if desired, the money will be returned.

All Goods are marked in Plain Figure , from
which no abatement can be made.

The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and
Caps, and Booth and Shoes, is unequalled for mag-
nitude, variety, and cheapness.

A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from
ss. 41the pair.

Complete Outfits for all climates, with every re-
quisite for the voyage.

List of Prices, with Roles for F elf-measttre, Pat-
terns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free.

E. MOSES and SON, Ready made and Bespoke
Tailors, Habitmakers, Wooltendrapers, Hatters,
Hosiers, Beet and Shoe 31auufactura's, and General
Outfitters for ail classes

E. MOSE 3 and SON'S Est .1 blishmeats are closed
every Friday evening at sunset, when business is
esumed until eleven o'clock.

The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON.

LONDON

CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATF,.

NEW OXFORD - STREET, CORNER OF HART -STREET.

CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON-

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Country Branch:

BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE.
London, England, 1870-04-22

THEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARKET.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Prickstone.
• 'fills VENING, at 7 o'clock, ,MY HUSBAND'S GHOST:
Nr Clark anti Mrs Fitzwilliom.
After which. at 7.40, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES: Mr
Thokst.,ne, Mr Chippendale. Mr Bowe, Mr hogers. Mr Buck
t•itone, jen.. Mr Braid: 3liss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Miss C
Hill, Mrs E. Fiizivill.atn.
7Concluding with NO SONG NO SUPPER: Mr Kendal. Mr
qomptou, Mr Edward ‘o4borne, Mr Mark; Miss F. Wright, Miss
Foabroke, Mik,s Owynne

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. 'WEBSTER
THIS EVENING. at Seven, TOO MUCH OF A GOnD THING:
Messrs C. H. Stephenson, A shley; Miss Maria and Miss Nelly

Harris

After which, ut 15 to 8, THE PROMPTER'S BOX: a Story
of the Footlights and the Fireside. Mr Benjamin Webster, Mr
H. J. Byron, Mr J. D. Beveridge, Mr R. Phillips, Mr C. H. Stephen-
son. MrJ. G. Taylor, Mr C. J. Smith, Mr Ashley, Mr W. H. Eburze,
Miss Furtado, Mrs L. Murray, and Mrs Alfred ellon.
To be followed by MY PRECIOUS BETSY: Mr I. G. Taylor
and Miss Eliza Johnstone.

Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking
Places can be secured a fortnight in advance.
London, England, 1870-04-22

THE MINER'S CONFERENCE.

A meeting of the miners' delegates has been held at
Wrexham for the reception of reports from various
districts as to the eight hours' principle. It appeared
that in the Wigan district the eight hours'
system had been adopted, and that it was about
to be at Farnworth and Kearsley. In the neighbour-
hood of Bolton the men had been working nine hours,
but a resolution had been passed at a meeting in
favour of the eight hours' system. In Roch-
dale the system has been partially adopted,
but in Woraley it had not been commenced.
The same was the case with St. Helens.
The report from Oldham and Ashton was that there
was a strong feeling in favour of the eight hours'
movement, and it was expected that an effort would
be made to adopt it in a fortnight. The delegate
from Staffordshire stated that any attempt to enforce
the eight hours' principle in the places which
he represented would result in a severe struggle
between the men and masters. The chairman stated
that in Lancashire there were about 40,000 miners,
12,000 of whom were in the Wigan district, where
the system of eight hours' daily work was now being
carried out. Resolutions were carried in favour of
the movement, and a " permanent agitator " was
appointed.
London, England, 1870-04-22

AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' EARNINGS.

The return of the average rate of weekly earnings
of agricultural labourers, in respect of the Michaelmas
and Christmas Quarters, 1869, and the Lady Day and
Midsummer quarterslB7o gives some interesting statis-
tics. In the South-Eastern Division the wages of men
average from 10s. to 1.55. ; women, ss. ; and children
under 16, 3s. 6d. In the South Midland, men, from
10s. to 12s. 6d. ; women, 28. Gd. to 4s. 6d. ; and
children under 16, 2s. Gd. to ss. In the
Eastern Division the men earn from 9s. to
12s. 6d. ; women, 2s. 6d. to 4s. Gd., and children
under 16, 2s. to ss. In the South-Western Division
meu gel frplA 89. Gd. tQ.lls, omp, 4al ts?._ Off.;

The fine weather which is doing the country so
much good is remarkably favourable to the spring
crop of emigrants. At present the exodus from
Liverpool is in excess of anything known before. On
Tuesday 2,300 people left the Mersey for the. States
and Canada ; on Wednesday, 2,325 followed their
example ; 1,500 were set down for Thursday ; and
three steamship loads for Saturday.
London, England, 1870-04-22

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REU'ER'S TELEGRAMS.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, April 21, Evening.
M. 011ivier received an autograph letter from the
Emperor yesterday, congratulating him on his skeech
delivered in the Senate.

It is expected that the proclamation of the Em-
peror respecting the Plebiscite will be issued on
Saturday.
Complete liberty will be granted for public meet-
ings previous to the Plebiscite. PlacaMs alone will
be subjected to official control.
M. Picard has publishei a letter, counselling his
electors to vote negatively, and in another, addressed
to M. Grevy, he justifies his abstention from signing
the manifesto of the Left on the grounds that Depu-
ties cannot assume a responsibility for doctrines
promoted by journals. The Avenir National censures
this letter, and considers the writer as lost to Demo-
era ly.

Many of the workmen front the foundries and
metal works in Paris have struck, and up to the pre-
sent the masters manifest a determination not to

BOURSE, April 21.—Three o'clock—The market
.:loseszi as follows :

per Cent.
per Cents 75 10
End of month 74 721;
Credit Mobilier 270
Transatlantic 195
Orodit Foncier _1320
Paris Gas 1695
Suez Canal 3OO

Bank Shares 2820
It&Fan gives 56 40
Austrian Fives
Ottoman Loan
Do. Debt 49 20
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 24t-
Deferred ...... "-
'EL - Cash .
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420

LISBON, April 20.
London, England, 1870-04-22

DUBLIN.

The electors of-Dublin are not at all satisfied with
their position. Since the unseating of Sir Arthur
Guinness last year the city has . remained with only
one representative in Parliament, Mr. Pim, a state
of things which is viewed as a grievance by Liberals
and Conservatives alike. Nor is this all. The electors
represent that under the English and Scotch Re-
form Acts 41,11 the cities in England. and
iiiore than 200,00 Q inhabitants„ had
their number of members increased to three. The
population .of Dublin is 258,000, and it received no
similar increase. Thus, instead of having three mem-
bars, Dublin returns but one. A petition, praying
for the speedy issue of a writ, is receiving many
signatures.
London, England, 1870-04-22

Cl* UARD lAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE.
- Established 1821.
Subscribed Capital Two Millions.
11, Lombard-street, London, E.O.
DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN Frederick H. Janson, Esq.
Richard M. Harvey, Esq
J. G. Hubbard, Esq
G. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq, M.P
John Martin, Esq
Rowland Mitchell, Esq
:Tames Morris, Esq
Abraham J. Hobarts, Esq
Henry Vigne, Esq

Henry Hulse Berens, Esq
Hy. Bonham-carter, Esq
Charles Wm Curtis, Esq
Charles F. Devas, Esq
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq
Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart
James Goodson, Esq
Archibald Hamilton. Esq
Thomson Hankey, Esq
SECRETARY—Thoi
ACTUARY—Si
The Government Duty is

mas Tallemach, Esq,
aml. Brown, Esq.
totally abolished.
Proposal, with statement- of the
ife Branch, free on application to
Secretary.

Prospectuses and Forms of
Assets and Liabilities in the Li
the Company's Agents,or to the
London, England, 1870-04-22

_Just published, price is 6d., by post ls. Bd., the Second Edition,
with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus-
tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks.
REVELATIONS OF ' QUACKS AND
QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the
"Medical Circular."
London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street.
The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday
Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, and other
Journals. recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with
this edition.
London, England, 1870-04-22

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London, England, 1870-04-22

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE,

AQUA AAIARELLA restores the Human Hair
to its pristine hue, no matter at what age.
JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of
the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder-
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ing brush.

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London, England, 1870-04-22

JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder;
gives the teeth a pearl whiteness protects the enamel from decay,
and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d.—
Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London.
London, England, 1870-04-22

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
is the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Railway
Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—
His Rcyal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828; the first to establish the
principle of fr,e admission to the sick poor, without the delay and
difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on
voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition
to this, the average number of attendance'of the destitute sick has
for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevolent,
as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several
hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to
maintain them.

Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown,
Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ;
Drummond and Co.; Glyn and Co.; Berries and Co.; Ransom
and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Bar-
clay aqd Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-
street ; and at the Hospital from 10 to 5.
London, England, 1870-04-22

A.D. 1720.

It 0Y A L EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION.
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First),
For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES.
Offices—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London.
Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, S.W.

OOTAVIIIS WIGRAM, Esq Governor.
JAMES STEWART lI9DGSON, Esq Sub-Governor,
OHARTYS JOHN MANNING, Esq Deputy-Governor.

DIREOTORS.

Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Garratt Gattloy, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
Edward James Daniell, Esq.
Davidson, Esq
Lancelot William Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq.
Charles Hermann Goschen,
Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell,
Esq.
Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Medical Referee, Sami

Tetlow Hibbort,
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Wilmosq. t Holland, Esq.
Bpi-ton Hubbard, Esq.
Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
George Forbes Malcolmson,
Esq.
Lord Josceline Wm. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.
mei Solly, Esq., F.R.S.

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANOES may be effected on
advantageous terms.
FIRE DUTY.—This Tax having been abolished, the
PREMIUM is NOW the only charge for Fire Insurances.
FARMING STOOK.—No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machines.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years.

Any sum not exceeding X 15,600 may be insured on one
Life.

This Corporation affords to the Assured
Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee
of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption
under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part-
nership.
The advantages of modern practice, with the secu-
rity of an Office whose resources have been tested
by the experience of a CENTURY AND A HALE.
ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary.
ROYAL Excx.►NGE, LONDON.
London, England, 1870-04-22

THE RAILWAY TAX.

Mr. Lowe's scheme for changing the tax upon the
number of passengers carried by railways to a per-
centage upon the gross receipts is being severely
criticised. The Pall Mall Gazette fears that the
Chancellox of the Exchequer has this time betrayed
an uncommon obscurity of apprehension. It is
notorious that many railways do not exist at all
for purposes of special taxation, or, in other words,
are not possessed of any fund which can, upon any
known principle, be made subject to deduction on
the part of the Slate. In the case of the railways
which pay n o dividend to their shareholders, the tax
will come either out of the sum devoted to working
expenses, and will thus be obtained at a distinct risk
to human life, or it will be taken from the fund
set apart for the payment of the debenture-holders
or other creditors of the company. The only rational
tax of the kind would be a percentage on the net
earnings, but Mr. Lowe does not impose this because
it would be a clear addition to the income-tax.
London, England, 1870-04-22

TIM NONCONFORMISTS AND FDITCATIGN,

The Rev. J. W. Dale, President of the Congrega.
tional Union, made a very vigorous speech against
denominational education at the Newcastle meeting
of Nonconformists. He contended that unless town
councils and local boards investigated the spiritual cha-
racter of the schoolmaster; it was impossible to teach
religion in the school, because it was acknowledged
that an irreligious man could not teach religion.
Again, the children who -it was intended should be
benefited by teaching religion in the schools would
never be affected by it. These children were not
found in the rural districts, but in the
large towns, where the great diversity of opinion
would prevent the teaching. He believed that
the Bible might not only be read, but might be ex-
plained
and enforced, under such conditions that ad-
vantage should not be taken by people for the pur-
pose of inculcating the characteristic tenets of any
particular Church. This, in his opinion, was the
best resource.
London, England, 1870-04-22

LIBELLING THE EARL OF SEFTON.

The Sheffield Daily Telegraph, against the editor
and managing proprietor of which paper Sir
John Karslake on Wednesday obtained leave in the
Court of Queen's Bench to file a criminal information
for a libel on the Earl and Countess of Sefton and
the Prince of Wales, has an article in explanation of
the offence. The article states that the telegram
came to hand and was, without the editor's
knowledge, supplemented by a line which men-
tioned names. It was not until the next
morning, adds the writer, that the editor saw the
imprudent addition. That line excited his disappro-
bation, and the danger of adopting such floating
statements was gravely pointed out to the person who
did it. Tho absence of the editor at the time was,
the article states, owing to illness.
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and the certainty of rapid increase in value, and consequent
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The Debenture Stock now offered-for subscription being an
absolute first mortgage charge on 42 miles of an English Rail-
way, passing through a rich mineral and agricultural district,
and which, when completed, will represent a total capital of
t;708,700, offers an excellent investment for capitalists.
By order of the Board of Directors,
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13, Little Queen-street, Westminster, 2nd June, 1870.

DEVON AND SOMERSET RAILWAY,

ISSUE OF £260,000 PERPETUAL SIX PER CENT, A DEBEN-

TURE STCCK.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To be retained by the Bankers.

To the Directors of the Devon and Somerset Railway Company.
Gentlemen,--Having paid to the National PProvincial Bank of
England the sum of Pounds, being 10 per cent. on £ of
Six per Cent. First Mortgage A Debenture Stock of the Devon and
Somerset Railway Company, I request you to appropriate and
allot and to issue to me scrip certificates of the said stock, and I
hereby agree to accept the same, or any less amount that may be
appropriated or allotted to me, and to pay the balance of the
amount of such stock, according to the terms of the Prospectus
attached hereto, dated 2d June, 1870.
Name(in fu11)............................
Address .
Profession (if any).. .
(Addition to be filled up if the applicant wishes to pay up in full).
I desire to pay up my subscription in full, receiving interest
thereon, from the date of payment.

Signature

Applications, accompanied by the payment of £lO per cent. will
be received on the enclosed form, which must be tilled up and for-
warded either to the National Provincial Bank of England 112,
Bishopsgate-street, Within, London, or its branches ; or to the
Secretary, at the Company's Offices, 13, Little Queen-street, West-
minster, London.

The above is abridged from the detailed Prospectus, which,
with Forms of Application, may be had of the Secretary at the
Offices of the Company.
London, England, 1870-06-10

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Mr. Doyle, M.A, Fellow of All Souls, will be the
President of the Oxford Union next term.

Mr. Barker, who was injured by being thrown at
the horse show on Monday afternoon, died on Wednesday
night.
London, England, 1870-06-10

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EN ENING, JUNE 10. 1870.

NEW MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT..
The Times gives a list of members of Parliament who
have been elected since the commencement of the present
session, with a few particulars relating to them. They
amount in all to fifteen. Colonel Marcus Beresford, of
Putney-hill, Surrey, was returned for Southwark in
February last, upon the appointment of Mr. Layard as
Minister at Madrid. Mr. Ralph Bernal Osborne,
was elected for the city of Waterford in the
Liberal interest, in the room of Sir Henry W.
Barron' who had been unseated on petition—Mr.
Samuel Boteler Bristowe, the new Liberal member
for Newark, was elected in March last in the place of the
late Mr. E. Denison.—Mr. George Browne, of Brownes-
town, county Mayo, was returned in the " National "
interest, for the county of Mayo, in May last, in the
place of the late Mr. George • 11. Moore.—James Henry
Robert Innes-Ker, Marquis of Bowmont, the new Liberal
member for Roxburgshire, was elected in March last, in
the place of Sir William Scott, who had accepted the
Chiltern Hundreds.—Mr. William Henry Forster, was
elected for Bridgnorth in the Liberal interest
in February last, in the room of • Mr. H.
Whitmore, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.—
The Hon. George Frederick Nugent Greville-Nugent
succeeded in May last to the seat for county Longford,
which was held for a short time previously by his brother,
the Hon. R. Greville-Nugent.—The Hon. Auberon
Edward William Molyneux Herbert was returned
for Nottingham in the Liberal interest in
February last, in the place of Mr. C. I.
Wright, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.—
Mr. Denis Caulfield Heron, L.L.D., Q.C., was returned
in the Liberal interest for Tipperary, in February last, in
the place of the Fenian J. O'Donovan Rossa.—Mr. John
Henry Kennaway, the new Conservative member for
East Devon, was elected in April last upon Lord Cour-
tenay accepting the Chiltern Hundreds.—Sir John
Lubbock, the new Liberal member for Maidstone,
was eleeted in February last in the room of Mr.
William Lee, who had accpted the Chiltern Hundreds.—
Arthur Philip Stanhope Viscount Mahon, was elected
for East Suffolk in the Conservative interest a week or
two ago, upon the succession of the Hon. J. M. Henniker
Major to the Upper House.— The Hon. David
Robert Plunket, Q.C., was elected in the Con-
servative interest for Dublin University in Feb-
ruary last, in the place of Mr. Anthony
Lefroy, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
Mr. hlisha Smith Robinson was returned as the represen-
tative of Bristol in March last in the place of the late Mr.
F. Henry F. Berkeley.—Mr. George Waters, Q.C., the
new Liberal member for Mallow, was elected in May last
in place of Mr. Henry Munster, who was unseated on
petition.
London, England, 1870-06-10

THE IRISH LAND BILL

Now that the Irish Land Bill has passed the threshold
of the House of Commons, and is about to be discussed by
the Upper House, the Special Commissioner of the Times
thinks it a fitting time that he should declare his opinion
of its merits, and point out any provisions of the bill which
he believes are still open to improvement. He has no
doubt that the Peers will be pressed to consider many
objections against the measure, two only of which appear to
him to be plausible ; namely, the one to Ireland may be made
the theatre for repeated lawsuits in the settling of claims
to tenant right, and the other the liability of the new Act
to check the operation of " free contracts " between land-
lord and tenant. These objections Mr. O'Connor Morris dis-
misses from his observation as trivial, inasmuch as he does
not believe, in the first case, that the bill will, as is feared,
be a fruitful source of bickering ; and, in the second, he
ers that, although the measure may serve to make
contracts less free and open, it will give a preponderate
advantage by causing them to be more just and equal to
both parties. Mr Morris does not think that the bill is perfect,
although the House of Commons have amended its main
structure considerably by defining Ulster Tenant
Right, and by making it clear how all claims under the
right are to be vindicated ; by causing landlords counter
claims in respect to the demands of the tenant for im-
provements to be more fully recognised and by bringing
down the power of " contracting out of the bill " to
tenants of £5O instead of those of £lOO. The Special
Commissioner is of opinion that the bill is still open
to improvement in its style and language.
The House of Lords will also, lie believes,
haVe to decide whether the elaborate safeguards provided
for the Irish tenant may not, as they stand, be open to
evasion by an unconscious landlord. The Equities
clause ought also to be recast, and made less ver-
bose ; so also, ought the sixteenth clause, by which
a head landlord may in certain cases be made liable
to sub-tenants on account of disturbance. Some
definitions in the bill, he contends, are also imperfect,
especially the cardinal one of a " tenant," which would
include leases removable for ever—a tenure probably not
contemplated. The Commissioner, finally, holds that
Mr. Blight's proprietary scheme ought to be discussed in
a liberal spirit by the Peers. Although believing
that the success of Mr. Gladstone's Land Bill
will not be perceived at once, by making a desert blossom
as a rose, yet he hopes that this new act of settlement will
gradually make the Irish peasantry feel that ney are no
longer outlaws in their own land, and that law is not an
image of wrong to them, that it will gradually eradicate
evil habits of violence, disorder, and ruthless combination ;
that it will in some degree cement and unite the ill-
compacted frame of Irish society ; that it will tend to
attach a generous-hearted people to institutions no longer
hostile to them.
London, England, 1870-06-10

BILL.

Mr. Dalrymple gave notice that when this bill came
under the consideration of the House he should move that
the Lords' amendment be not agreed to.
INDIAN FINANCE.

The motion standing in the name of Mr. Fawcett has
been postponed until the Ist of July.

WASTE LANDS.

Mr. WALSH asked the Secretary to the Treasury
whether it was the practice of the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests to permit encroachments to be made
in those wastes of manor in Wales of which the Crown
was-lord, on condition that the encroachers paid either the
estimated value at once or an annual rent calculated at 5
per cent. on the estimated value; and whether, if this was
the case, he would take steps to put a stop to the practice.
Mr. STANSFELD said no such practice existed. Where
encroachments did take place the rights of the Crown
were always taken care of, and the interests of the Com-
mons duly protected.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS ACT.

Mr. A. JOHNSTON asked the Secretary to the treasury,
whether any, and if any, what steps had been taken to
carry out the provisions of Section 16 of the Charitable
Trusts Act, 1869.
Mr. STANSFELD said under the section referred to, a
scale of fees had to be prepared. That had been done,
and it was now under the consideration of the treasury.