The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 28 1869.

FOR TOURIS I'S AND EXCURSIONISTS.
E. MOSES and SON have ride prcTaratio7:s,

on an unismity 1 trg,l.l in crfry d-rart-
n..ent cf to sr I.usit.eis. For trAes and ad-
dresses, Pee foro*ibg a Ivertiseuent.

A IIATIE COMBINATION'.
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Every (lcser'ption of Clothing ready made.
tr.2de to measure, for all a2;oF, and all
dasFeg.

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commodlore= apartments for measuring
end tit tire. in the spacious and eleant Show
eoreus,y Lieh contnin a very large and eivcr-
satied of materi.l4.
For the convenience of Ladies accompa y-
ing their Pons there is a distinct department
for Your g GPTlVenwn's Clothirg.
Orders by Post are attended to with care
and punctuality, and the easy and accurate
system of self-measure introduced by K
NIOSE!,-; and SON enables them to guart.ntee
a fanitleFs

(trd.rs hem persons who are not known to
11. e firm should i.e neeompanied by a ri mit-
three, or a Tendon r•femiee.
Any article not worn or injured will be
cheerfully ,xeltanged, or, if desired, the
money will he returned.
All Cto,ds are marked in Plain Figures,
from N.hieh no abatement can he made.
The Stork of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats
and ('ape. and Boots and Shoes, is un-
equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap-
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Complete Outfits for all Climates, with
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Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-men-
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are closed every Friday evening at sunset till
Saturday evening at sunset, when business
is resumed until eleven o'clock.
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Hatters, -Hosiers, Boot and Shc.o Manufac-
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Sole Lessee and Manager. Mr. F. 2. (..!I)sttPrton.

On SATURDAY NEXT, Julyll will be represented fcr the
first time on !my stage a orrma of modern life. in fur acts,
called FOli NIOSA; or, The Railroad to I7uin. Written by Dicn
Bourica.ult. he fo lowing performers have been selected to re-
present the numerous charact, rs with whi h this niece abounds:
Messrs. Barrett. H. Irving, David Fisher. F. Charles, Brittain
Wright. 3oht. Rouse, J. Morris, J. Ro,nolds. J. B. Johnstone,
Webber. Cullen, Mitchenson, and J. B. Howard ,his first appear-
ance in London) ; 11r4 Biilington Misses M. Brennan Beatrix
Shirley, E. :quart, Dalton, Mervyn, Ilan, and Katharine Rodgers.
The scenery in London and on the Thames has been painted by
William Beverley and assistants.
The performances to commence with the farce of BELLES
OF THE KITCHEN, in which the celebrated Yokes Family
will appear.
To conclude with the farce el FARROWED PLUMES.
Stage Manager. Mr Edward Stirling.
Doors open at half-past six: commence at seven o'clock.
Box-office oxen from ten till five daily.

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Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon.
ANNUAL BENEFIT of MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, and
Last Night of the Season.
THIS EVENING. at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Bel-
more and Mrs. Leigh urray.
At Eight. the popular comedy of MASKS AND FACES: cr,
Before and Behind the Scenes: Triplet (his or'ginal character).
Mr. Beniamin Webster: I eg Woffington, Mrs. Alfred Mellon;
Mabel Vane, Miss Fur: ado.
After which, ONE OUCH OF N 1 TITRE: William Penholder
(his original character), Mr. Benjamin Webster; Constance,
Miss Furtado.
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r Leader of the Lords—that is, of the enormous
majority in that House, meaning the great party of
the Conservatives—instead of finding at the close of
the session that the authority entruste 1 to him in
that capacity had already, within an interval of some
four or five months, slipped out of his possession,
awakens not only himself but everybody else to the
recognition of the truth that it is more fixed within his
grasp than ever, and that in one sense as a party
leader, as a Constitutional party leader, he has shown
himself to be master of the situation. Only promoted
to the House of Lords on the formation of Mr.
DISRAELI'S Ministry, and consequently bolding his
own there as one of the youngest of the recent
accessions to the ranks of the peerage, Lord CAIRNS
has, within these last few days, evider.ced his readi-
ness aLd his capacity to deal with a great emergency.
The determination with which the ex-Charxellor
entered upon there recent negotiations with Lord
GP.ANVILLE, as the representative of Her MAJESTY'S
Government, is almost wholly, if, indeed, it be not
wholly, unparalleled in the history of this country,
since. the first commencement of the great epoch of its
existence u..der a purely constitutional Government.
A Parliamentary Chief has never acted more
boldly, more 1 romptly, or with a more masterly
precision than Lord CAIRNS took upon himself to act
with upon this recent occasion. He had had the
leadership of his party confided to his keeping. He
has now fill: ly earned a right to its retention. And
he has done so by assuming to himself a responsibility
the magnitude of which it would be almost impossible
to exaggerate. But for the resolution he has dis-
played in this matter, but for the extraordinary moral
courage he has very signally shown himself to be
possessed of, what, in point of fact, might not at
this moment have been the peril in which the
whole machinery of our Constitution would,
in all human probability, bare been placed ! An
agitation of an alarming character would for certain
be spreading at this present instant far and wile all
over thecountry. The people would havebeen angered
to the very last degree against the Lords as obstruc-
tives. A collision sooner or later between the Lords
and the Commons would have become a matter of
certainty. What the ulterior consequences of all
this might have been—probably not later than
next year, possibly this very autumn--it is not
agreeable, even now that the danger has
passed by, to contemplate, even in the way
of vague conjecture, as a hypothesis. That imminent
danger—a danger that, until but, as it were, yester-
day, seemed, in a manner, to be all but inevitable—
Lord CAI RNS has been the immediate means of avert-
ing. Thanks to the courage with which he took
upon himself the responsibility of acting off-hand for
his Party, a compromise, a most honorable and a most
conscientiously considered compromise, was entered
into, was rendered possible, was providentially realized
—to adopt a recent phrase, within the six-
tieth minute of the twelfth hour. Instead
of storm, and turmoil, and chaotic confusion, all has,
since then, in the political world, been calm, and
orderly, an I perfectly tranquillised. The Lord of
Misrule, but yesterday, seemed to be dominant, ap-
peared certainly to be in the ascendant. Whereas
to-day the councils of the nation have the aspect, on
the contrary, of being presided over by the genius of
universal reconciliation. Lord CAIRNS, has not only,
as we conceive, deserved well of his peers by his
last, act of benignant audacity —be has, also, de-
served well of the Crown and of the Nation.
Thanks to his quiet determination, within a few
minutes conversation with the noble Earl, the 1 eader
of th t Government is tha Home of Peers, the noble
and leant ed lord has swept aside, as with a wave of
the hand, a whole world of difficulties. The responsibi-
lity thus assumed by Lord CAIRNS is so enormous and
weighty in its character, at the same time that ins
assumption by him is so benignant and tranquilis-
ing in its inune hate consequence-, that it is but
just an I fair, it is but right:aul remarkable that it
should be taken fully, and promptly, and gratefully
into the national consideration.

THE Telegraphs Lill passed through the committee
of the House on Tuesday morning by large majori-
ties ; but while nearly all the voting was in favour
of the bill, nearly all the talking was against it. No
one seems to imagine that the Government will lose
by the purchase, but some honourable members feel
profound regret that the telegraph companies
should be so well paid. The CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER was anxious to explain that he alto-
gether washed his bands of the transaction, and
would not regard himself as in any way responsible
for the " immense price" which the Government
was called upon to pay. Mr. LOWE will not, how-
ever, find it so easy to relievi himself from
responsibility. What he inherited from his prede-
cessor, Mr. HUNT, was a conditional agreement,
which he was at liberty to carry out or not as he
pleased. Mr. LOWE stated to a deputation a few
weeks since that he had not decided whether or not
he should conclude the agreements with the telegraph
companies, and the Marquis of HARTINGTON dis-
tinctly informed the House on Monday night that
they were at liberty to proceed with the measure or
otherwise as they pleased. Mr. LOWE himself said
that he would not proceed with the bill unless the
House gave the Government a permanent monopoly,
which is a conclusive proof that he had the power to
reject the bill if he disapproved of it. While Mr.
Iltryr may claim the credit of the measure if it is a
good one, Mr. LOWE cannot avoid responsibility
if it is a bad measure. Mr. HUNT made
such arrangements as enabled Mr. LOWE to
hold in his hand for twelve months the offer of
the telegraph companies to sell their business. He
was thus placed in the most advantageous position
that a dealer can occupy, and it is certainly his fault
if, under the circumstances, he has made a bad
bargain for the country. He is not generally
supposed to be the man to make an improvident
bargain, and as in this case he has had abundance
of time to consider the transaction, we may assume
that he has fully protected the national interests, and
that the public will not suffer in a pecuniary sense
from the agreements which he has sanctioned and
concluded.

The penny postage was introduced by ROWLAND
HILL, and carried out with the approbation of the
country at a large pecuniary sacrifice. Our tele-
graphic arrangements will be placed on a uniform
and moderate system, not only without loss, but
with a positive advantage to the Exchequer. It is to
be hoped that the advantages which may be con-
ferred by cheap telegraphy may not be marred by a
rigid determination to extract a large profit out of
the telegraphic service. Mr. LowE's determination
to secure a permanent monopoly does not augur well
for a liberal administration of the service under his
dominion; but even Mr. Lowit will scarcely be able to
act constantly in defiance of public opinion, and when
the advantages of a w ell organised system of telegraphy
are felt, there will be a universal demand for its
extension.

No one will regret that the telegraph companies
are well paid for their development of a system
from which so much public advantage has already
result«l. That their businas has been found on
examination to be much more profitable, and there-
fore much more valuable, than it was supposed to be,
is in all respects a matter for satisfaction. We must
not forget that for many years the business
of the companies was carried on under
very discouraging circumstances, and that they
deserve the credit which is due to perseverance under
difficulties. That a more liberal policy on their part
would have been also a more profitable one to them-
selves we are all now aware, but we do not all know
the difficulties whiCh prevented the adoption of that
policy. T hose who retire from the telegraphic ser-
vice will do so with the consciousness that they have

been engaged in an undertaking that has largely
contributed to the national prosperity ; and we
repeat that it is a source of unmixed satisfaction that
they retire from the position which they have so
long occupied with that abundant reward which in
this country usually follows persevering and well-
directed efforts.

ALMOST every mail from India brings some grati-
fying detail of the progress of enlightenment amongst
the native population. Some years ago a Brahmin,
named MOOLJEE, ventured to visit England. The
offence was considered unpardonable by . a caste
which regards itself as far superior to any other sec-
tion of humanity, and which looks upon contact with
any other race as contamination. For crossing
the ocean the unhappy MoOLJF.E was ex-
communicated, and was thus condemned to
a social ostracism, of which "few out of
India can have any idea." But light will make
way even amongst Brahmins, and one by one the
members of MOOLJF.E'S caste began to recognise him
again. It might not, perhaps, after all, be such a
heinous sin to visit England. Encouraged by this
removal of the ban, ➢IooLaEE has started for England
once more with—strange to say—six more Brahmins.
More wonderful still, their departure was witnessed
by hundreds of their sect, who wished them God-
speed. Nor is this all. From time immemorial it
has been part of the Hindoo creed amongst the
higher castes that no widow can marry a second
time. As most Hindoo girls are wedded
when children, and as many never see their
husbands after marriage, this is a cruel and inju-
rious restriction, which the British Government has
done its utmost to remove. During many years all
efforts to this end proved vain. But the tide has just
turned. One Hindoo judge offered himself up as a
sacrifice for the rest of his countrymen, and advertised
himself in the papers as ready and willing to marry a
widow. His challenge produced no effect for a
long time. No woman dared to face the prejudices
of her race. But the first plunge has been taken at
last, and one of the most important items of news
from India during the year has been the plain state-
ment that a Brahmin widow has married again. Unfor-
tunately, the Brahmins have not yet got over their
horror. To go to England was bad, but that
enormity might be overlooked. For a widow to
marry is clearly an inexpiable offence. There is
great lamentation in the land; the Brahmins are
weeping for their widow, and will not be comforted
because she is not. The Indian editors sagely
suggest that this excitement should be allowed
to cool down a little, and the great re-marriage
principle will win in the end. It seems they
are right, for the latest great announcement from
the empire is that another widow has resolved to
marry again.

LATEST INTELL [GEN CE

(REU'rER'S TELEGRAMS.)

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THE JOURNEY OF THE PRINCE AND
PRINCESS OF WALES.
BRUSSELS, July 28.
The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived here
yesterday, and were received at the railway sta-
tion by the King, who conducted their Royal High-
nesses to the Palace.

A STRANGE WILL CASE,

During the hearing of an application to Lord Penzance
on Tuesday for a second grant of probate, some curiou
circumstances came to light. It seems that aperson named
Richard Ingall died in April 1807, and in July of the same
year his wife sold off all the property and
went with one child to Mexico, leaving another
(the present applicant) in this country. Soon after
her arrival in Mexico Mis. Ingall got married again, and
there the affair seems to have stood for some months. The
father of the deceased happened to come to London, and
there met with afriend who remembered attestinganother
of Ingall's wills than that on which the wife acted ; but as
there was at that time no property, things were allowed
to remain quiet. Lately, however, some £OOO or k7OO had
come to the estate, and Mr. Bayford to-day asked for a
grant of probate on this will, which the person in London
spoke to attesting. Citations had been served on the
administratrix in her husband's presence, and she had
been ordered to return the letters of administration,
but had failed to do so. There was a diffi-
culty in the way of twice granting probate. Lord
Penzance said that, under the circumstances, he would
grant the application. It was unfortunate that the ad-
ministratrix bad not returned the letters; but all these
facts would have to be recited on the grant.

THE SALMON FISHERIES COMMITTEE.

The select committee of the House of Commons
appointed to inquire into the working of the existing
salmon fisheries laws met again on Tuesday, Mr. D odds
in the chair.

The examination of Mr. Frank Buckland was pro-
ceeded with. He said that it would be impos-
sible to make one general rule that would apply to all
cases of salmon fishery as regarded nets. He considered
that it was very desirable there should be a maximum
as well as a minimum size of net ; and that a power
should be reserved in any Act of Parliament for the making
of by-laws to meet special circumstances. lie described
the large amount of fish caught in the river Tyne from
year to year, which was enormous. He considered that
the employment of the Coastguard and the police in the
protection of the fisheries would prove very bene-
ficial. He thought that power should be given to the
conservators to regulate the size of the meshes, subject
to the control of the Home Office. He considered
it desirable that a small mesh of net such as the Act of 1861
prescribed should be used at certain times of the year
whoa there were no salmon in the river. Scurbs then
came up, and the two-inch nets would not take them, and
consequently a great many escaped. The power should
be given in the first instance to the conservators, and in all
cases sanctioned by the Home Office having central power.
The minimum size of the mesh, be suggested, should be
an inch and a half ; and the maximum size three inches.
He also thought that Parliament should sanction the
use of trammel nets, where they may be neces-
sary, under proper regulations. With regard to the
licenses, he thought there should be a graduated scale and
a maximum scale, because in some cases a man having
paid a £5 license might catch £4CO worth of fish in the
year, while another, having paid the same, might only
catch one &h. He would suggest for the consideration of
the committee that the rod licenses should pass on
from district to district, because in some instances
a tourist would in fishing pass to several dis-
trict rivers in a day or two, and by the present law he
would have to pay for each. Therefore he (witness) thought
the license should be allowed to pass from one to
another, and the money afterwards divided between the
conservators of the districts. The license he would have
made personal. The licensed rods, he thought, ought to be
numbered, because when poachers were pursued they left
their rods behind, and there being no clue to the owners
of the rods, they escaped detection. He considered it
most important that the law with regard to the annual
close-time should be altered. That opinion, however, was
totally against the conclusion come to upon that point by
the Royal Commissioners in 1860. In Ireland and Scot-
land the number of days for fishing was 168, and he
would have it altered, so as to commence a
little later or earlier than the Ist of September,
according to the circumstances of the districts. In
England the number was 154 days, but he would not
have that altered. Power should be given to conservators
to apply to the Home Office to have their close-time
varied, so as to meet the differences of early and late
rivers. The cause of the rivers being late was owing partly
to geological causes, partly to temperature, and partly to
the formation of the rivers themselves.
The committee soon afterwards adjourned.

THE LATE VICE-ADMIRAL SEYMOUR, C. 8., M.P.
—The death of this gallant and distinguished officer tool;
place on Sunday, at Tetworth, Sunnioghill, and not at
Hampton Court, as stated.

Mr. Llngfellow, the poet, is at present in Oxford
The degree of D.C.L was conferred on Tuesda; in F p cis.)
Convocation upon the poet. There was a large attendance
of Whs. The proceedings wt re quite formal, end only cc-

cui led a few moments.
Mr. Vernon Ilarcotrt has given notice that on
Thursday he will ask the Secretary of State for the Home
Department wl.et Ler her llajesty's Government will be pie-
-1•, red, in tLe n. xt sei-sicnrof Parlia meat, to introduce a bill
for the reform of the registration of the municipal and par-
litmentaiy voters in England and Walt s.
On Friday elating Sir Reundell Palmer intends
to call the attention of the House of Commons to the report
of the Marriage Law Commissioners; and will inquir'
whether the Government contemplate introducing a mea-
sure next session for the purpose of establishing a marriage
law as nearly as possible uniform for all parts of the United
Kingdom, upon principles of equality as between all
churches and religious denominat!ons.
TILE CROPS IN TUE MIDDLE STATES.—A private
letter from a traveller in Pennsylvania and Western New
York writes as follows :—" The wheat crop in Pennsyl•
vauia is the largest known for six years. Farmers have
just commenced harvesting it. Many of the farmers here
who were offered $2 50c. per bushel for their crop last
year held it for a rise,' and now it is a drug on the mar•
ket at $1 25c. Add to this the bountiful crop now being
cut, and New England may expect to buy flour for $5 pet
bushel. The same is true of the wheat crop in Western
New York. Fruits of all kinds are also abundant."
A STRANGE FRIENDSHIP.—A manor house, near
Fleetwood, has recently been taken by :Messrs. Porter
and M'Candlish (of the firm of Sykes, Porter, and Co.),
and while the lawn was being mown, the eggs in apart.
ridge's nest were accidentally destroyed. The parent birds
were consequently left desolate, but they soon found
little ones by adoption. A hen in the neighbourhood
had taken under the maternal protection of her
wings some young partridges, which she was
rearing with a commendable constancy, but suddenly
the partridges whom the mowers had bereft of
their offspring made their appearance in front of the coop,
and the consequence was that the young partridges left
their adopted mother and took to birds of their own
feather. They have not, however, forgotten that a debt
of gratitude is due from them, for although they now
absent themselves daily from the hen's coop, they
return every night, and rest there until early morning,
when they are again regularly called for" by the two
elderly partridges.
PARLIAMENTARY CHANGES--By the death of
Admiral Seymour. which was reported on Tuesday, the
present House of Commons has lost its eighth member
since the opening of the session. The Liberals who have
died are Sir A. W. Buller, Sir R. Clifton, Captain
Calcraft, Sir J. Johnstone, and Captain Speirs. The
Conservatives who have been removed by death are Mr.
C. Bell, Sir T. Gresley, and Admiral Seymour.
The mortality in the peerage has, as usual, been more
than twice as high as in the Commons, not-
withstanding the late hours of the latter and
their 200 additional members. Seventeen peers have
died since the beginning of the session, viz., the Marquis
of Anglesey, Earls De laWarr, Fingall, Glasgow, Radnor,
and Wicklow, Viscounts Gough and Strangford, and Lords
Broughton, Castlemaine, Cloncurry, Hawke, Kenyon,
Leconfield, Stanley of Alderley, Taunton, and Wynford.
The viscountcy of Strangford and the baronies of
Broughton and Taunton have become extinct, and the
youthful Lord Kenyon will not attain his majority until
1885. The average age of the deceased pears is 73
years, and of the Commons barely 50.
THE PRUSSIAN AR3IY.—The ue of the single
eye•glass is becoming more prevalent in the Prussian
army than is acceptable to the notions of some of the
generals of the old school. In the garrison of Coblenz,
where the Queen Augusta Regiment of Guards is quar-
tered, it is adopted by many of the officers. An officer
of that distinguished regiment, Major von der Hardt,
was lately transferred to Moyence, and on going out
with his brigade, glass in eye, was informed by the
colonel that the commanding general positively
prohibited its use by the officers of his garrison. The
gallant major was much dismayed, and urged that after
sixteen years' use of the glass be could not suddenly dis-
pense with it ; ire requested an interview with thegeneral,
which was grafted, but the general was inexorable. In
this emergency Major von der Hardt applied for leave,
and returned to Coblenz and laid the case before General
llerwarth von Bittenfeld, the commander-in-chief of the
Bth Army Corps. He, unwilling to decide on so delicate
a subject, availed himself of the King's presence at Ems,
and verbally consulted Lis Majesty, who characteristically
replied, "In God's name let him wear his glass, so that
my oilman can see I don't care if they use one,glass or
two."—Peal .111-all Gazelic.