The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-18 00:00:00

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

In order to afford Mr. Pechter some relief in his arduous
performance of Hamlet, Mr. Harris, on Tuesday night,
announced for representation Sheridan Knowles' admired
play of " The Hunchback," with a cast in all respects much
superior to that which has been the fashion of late. Thus
we had Mr. Ryder as Master Walter ; Mr. Hermann
Vezin, Sir Thomas Clifford ; Mr. Shore, Modus, Mr. Mea-
dows, Fathom; Miss Heath, Julia; and Miss Leclercq,
as Helen. It was exceedingly gratifying to see so brilliant
an audience as that on Tuesday, and the reception of the
piece was marked by the greatest warmth and geniality.
Mr. Ryder's Master Walter, as was to be expected from so
capital an actor, was a most praiseworthy performance,
and elicited very general applause. The noble sentiments
with which the part abounds were brought out with all
that judgment and discrimination which is required to
give a correct interpretation of the talented author's mean-
ing. Here and there; it is true, there was a superabund-
ance of impulse; but, as a whole, his embodiment
of the part was deserving of high commendation.
The Sir Thomas Clifford of Mr. H. Vezin was marked by
all that reality and naturalness which has so distinguished
all this gentleman's efforts. There was none of that
maudlin namby-pamby nonsense that of late has been in-
fused into the part by actors who, to suit their own pur-
poses, have brought the character down from its proper
position to a level that suits their own abilities. Sir Thomas
is no doubt a favourite part with young comedians, but, then,
how veltraTareirnlitly to develope the actions and
feeling of a gentleman placed in the position of Clifford.
That Mr.Vezin had thoughtfully studied and mastered the
part was evident from every sentence he uttered, and seldom
if ever has the termination of the third act been given with
finer effect. Mr. Shore's Modus was good, but it would
have been better had he given us a little more of the scholar
and not so much of the simpleton. Modus, we take
it, is by no means a dolt, but a well-read, bashful
gentleman, and in succeeding representations, if Mr.
Shore takes the hint in the friendly spirit it is intended his
next representation of the part will be very greatly im-
proved. Miss Heath's Julia was a very fine performance,
one, in fact, that few actresses of the present day can
approach, and certainly none surpass, and Miss Leclercq's
Helen, although somewhat artificial, was a very pleasing
rendering of the part. At the fall of the curtain the ap-
plause was loud and enthusiastic, and the whole of the
principals received the honour of a recall. The play has
been mounted in a very admirable manner, the dresses
being supurb, and the scenery magnificent.

LITERARY NEWS.—Messrs. Hurst and Blackett
announce the following Works in their List of Publications
in preparation :—" The Court and Society from Elizabeth
to Anne," illustrated from the papers at Kimbolton,
edited by the Duke of Manchester.—" The Life of 3. M.
W. Turner, R.A.," from original Letters and Papers in
the possession of his Executors, Friends, and Fellow-Aca-
demicians, by Walter Thornbury.—" The Life and Cor-
respondence of Admiral Sir Charles Napier," from his
Private Papers, by Major-General Sir E. Napier.—" The
Okovango River," a Narrative of Travel and Adventure,
by Mr. Andersson, author of " Lake Ngami."—" The Life
of the Rev. Edward Irving, with Selections from his Cor •
respondence," by Mrs. Oliphant.—" Henry IV. and Marie
de Medici," by Miss Freer.—" Memoirs of Royal Lathes,"
by Emily S. Holt.—" The Recreations of a Sportsman,"
by Lord William Lennox.—" The Secret History of the
Court of France under Louis XV.," by Dr. Challice.—
" Java; or, How to Manage a Colony," by J. VV. B.
Money, Esq.—" Recollections of a Fox Hunter," by
" Scrutator."—" A Saunter through the West End," by
Leigh Hunt.—" Sketches from Russia," by Lady Char-
lette Pepys.—" Wheel within Wheel," by the author of
" Alice Wentworth."—" Ice Bound," by Walter Thorn-
bury.—" Under the Spell," by the author of "Grand-
mother's Money."—" Thinking and Acting," by the
author of " Helen Lindsay," &c.
MUNIFICENT PRESENTS TO BARNSLEY.—Mrs.
Locke, widow of the late Mr. Joseph Locke, the emi-
nent engineer, has just made known to the local autho-
rities that, in consideration of the interest ever shown
by her lamented husband in all relating to the town
of Barnsley, and as a memorial to him, she purposes
presenting the town with a park or recreation ground. For
that object a piece of ground known as the High Style
Field, has been purchased, and Mrs. Locke, through her
agent, Mr. W. Wagstaff, of Great George-street, Westmin-
ster, states that she will have the place laid out in the man-
ner the town may think best, build a wall round it,
and
erect a house for the keeper, the whole to be conveyed to
the local Board of Health, together with a fund suhfficitt nies
to insure its being kept up for the purpose for whi t
n
intended. In addition to the- above munificent
dpornaesttino ,
Mrs. Locke has announced that she will make
a
The money is to
.
trustees, to be by them invested as the
of £2,000 to the Barnsley Grammar-school, at which
institution Mr. Locke was educated
be paid to the
"Locke Fund," leaving to their discretion how the kn..
terest is to be applied, suggesting, however, that some por-
tion of it might be applied towards the qualifying
of some of the scholars for the work of mining or colliery
engineers, as, looking at the position of Barnsley as the
centre of a great coal district, that branch of education would
be more advantageous than the ordinary academical course.
Mrs. Locke has also made known to the heads of the Catholic
school in Barnsley, the foundation-stone of which was laid
by Mr. Locke, and who for years had been a liberal sub-
scriber to the old school, that she is prepared to present it
with £l,OOO in remembrance of the interest so long taken
in it by her lamented husband.
DR. LIYINGSTONE.—The ceremony of naming
the steamer City of New York, at Glasgow, on Friday, was
performed by Mrs. Livingstone,
wife of Dr. Livingstone,
the celebrated African traveller. At a meeting which took
place after the launch it was mentioned that Mrs. Living-
stone had, two
hours previously, received a
letters from her adventurous husband, despatched from
the embouchure of the Zambesi river. Dr. Livingstone and
hia party had returned to that point, all well, after having
accomplished an arduous and successful The results of that
exploration
into
the interior of Africa in that latitude. packet of
journey had exceeded his most sanguine expectations,
founded,
geoortic I-
founded, as these were, on
previous
thoy have beephn termed she
ledge. The Victoria Falls, as
- et in height, and about 1,000 feet
had deduced to be 100 feet
in width. When he was enabled to survey the actual
scene, he ascertained that the height wa§ 300 Mt, ealsl the
2,oQQl—#olncr,

THEA TRI!,-R0 Y AL, B. AYMARKET.
Lessee, M. J. B. Buckstent,
THIS EVENINIT, the nerterraances will co7tram,e with
A DUKE IN I)IITICULTIF.S. Mrs. Stirling Nis F.
Baydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. iiuckstone,
Mr. CoMpton, Mr. Howe, ctn.
After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the oridnal music by the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama at THE MILLER AND HIS 3IES.
And A DAUGITTER TO MARRY.
Commence at 7.

T CIE N. -
T RE-ROY AL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Last Week of the Season.
Tills EVENING, THE SECRET.
After which, a new orizinal comic drama, written by Sarni.
Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ; or, Possession
/crinQ Points of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester,
J. Rouse, Medlin; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &c.
To conclude with HANDY ANDY. Handy Andy, Mr.
John Drew.

OYA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manacr, Mr. A. Harris.
PHIS EVENING, THE HUNCHBACK. Messrs. Ryder,
Hermann Vezin, Shore, Meadows, &c. ; Misses Heath and
C. Leclercq,
To conclude with THE RENT DAY.

EW TINATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.—
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, the new drama, MAGLIORE; THE
PRESTIDIGITAWR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, &c.; Bliss K. Kelly, Miss 11. Simms, &c.
To be folloWed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS.
Messrs. J. I. Toole, Ehurne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
-Kate Kelly, Miss E. ,horne, and Mrs. Chatterley.
Alter which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul
Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Miss Laidlaw, and Miss Julia
Daly.

Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY:TTALI. CONCERTS!'
stminst er- road.
Proprietor .. • • ....C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,

(This opera bas never been produced in this or any other
except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
rideduentry,
success which charactise the most popular works of
this er-at Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Marla, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, 11. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonolm tns.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.

John Martin's 'three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAL—Morning, 6h. 48m.—Afternoon, 7h. 21m.
TO-WRROW.-Morning, 7h. 54m.—Afternoon, Bh. 50m.

WEATIIER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 18, 1861.
THEItMOMETEII, IN THE SHADS.
55 —highest since noon yesterday.
40 —lowest this morning and during the night.
52 —this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.23 ; still falling.
WlND—East-South-Easterly—light; with fine cool
weather.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1861.

CIVIL WAR IMMINENT IN
AMERICA.

The reports from America, by the Baltimore,
which left New York on the Gth, are more warlike
than anything we have yet had. When the New
York Herald states that the naval preparations of
the Government in that city have created intense
excitement, it states what it must surely know
as a fa, t. It could hardly also create the report
that on the sth a panic had prevailed among
Stock operators. By the last accounts we
were informed that the Government got its
loan easily taken, which agrees very well
with the statements both of its immediately
commencing preparations, and of the panic on the
Exchange. The information of the " Washington
Correspondent of the New York Herald" is pro-
bably of about the same value, so far as his know-
ledge of the Cabinet's intentions goes, as letters
of London Correspondents of country papers here
would be; still it looks the same way, "that the
country is on the brink of a civil war." From
Charleston the language is that " a terrible
moment is evidently at hand." From Washing-
ton and New York the expression, surely half
rhetorical, is, " that within 24 hours' war will be
upon us." Activity and excitement are intense,
and every thing looks warlike. The full equip-
ment of the Powhattan frigate for sea, and its-
being ready to sail, accompanied by two steamers
with sealed orders, appears to be a fact also. But
the rumour that the South Carolina General had
threatened to shell Fort Sumpter, if it were not
evacuated within 24 hours, may prove to be only a
rumour. On the whole, so much of the telegrams
just arrived scent to be more than rumour as to
give rise to the gravest apprehension.

'Whatever may be insinuated to the contrary, the
BadgeL is unquestionably a success. Is there any
doubt about it? Look at the state of the Funds
since Mr. GLADSTONE'S financial oration of-Monday
was delivered before Parliament! Have they
fallen ? On the contrary. They at once advanced
upon the morrow of the Financial Statement.
They are still advancing. There is no sign in that
barometer of the approach of foul weather. As the
quicksilver runs up in the tube—the Consols rise
in the monetary column devoted to City intelli-
gence. Nor can it be wondered at that the effect of
this last Budget speech should have been thus favour-
able. For what, in point of fact, is the situation as
therein explained by the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer ?

Why, according to the very clear Financial
Statement of Monday, the position of the country
is simply this in regard to the new financial year
just commencing. We have a balance-sheet
vouched to ns in plain black and white of so much
estimated revenue and so much estimated expendi-
ture. The expenditure being £71,823,000—the
revenue £69,900,000. Consequently—deducting
that estimated amount of expenditure from that
estimated amount of revenue—there is a clear
surplus shown at the end of the financial year of
£1,923,000. Dealing with which anticipated
balance in the nation's favour, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer does what every Chancellor of the
Exchequer would by necessity do under the like
circumstances. He proposes to ease the shoe of
taxation precisely where, according to his own
judgment, it pinches the most tightly. He pro-
poses to take off a penny of the Income-tax, to re-
duce, that is by a penny, the' Property and
Income-tax during the last three quarters of the
financial year—thereby diminishing the surplus
already mentioned by £850,000. So that the looked-
ter surplus at the close of the year would then be
"suet £1,923,000, but-11,073,000. This still
considerable surplus Mr. GLADSTONE proposes, by
another of his resolutions in Committee of Supply,
to dinlioith
Yet further by abolishing altogether the
duty Upon r
~.t,
Oc-
tober the, 4b
this from the Ist of Oc-
; ta"4135-
sup reducing the already diminished
plus to a min.
nuum amount but very little
over the round sum GC X 400,000 altogether.
Yet, even then, holding
in the nation's favour, going crt for half
in hand a balance
a million of meney—after paying up all the
year's liabilities, after retnittio,,
t 5 a Penny upon the
Income-tax, after dooming the already sentenced,
and last session only temporarily reprieved, paper
duties, to die the death inexorably upon the first
day of October : yet, in the face of facts like these
—in the presence of a steady rise in the 11144
there are these sneers, and shrugs, and whispers
of depreciation heard in regard to Jr, GLADMXE'S

new Budget! As though it .were some gcherne
showing upon the face of it a deficit instead of a
surplus, as though it involved an increase instead
of a decrease, at once in direct and indirect taxa-
tion !

Ministers could contrive, however, in defiance of
the sinister prognostics of the Times and Company to
enjoy even w ith a relish their bangs et,and as it might
be called, without much exaggeration, their ovation
yesterday at the Mansion-house, as the guests
there, in the Lord Mayor's palace, of the chief
magistrate of the city of London. The majority of
the Cabinet Ministers, at any rate, were there to
enjoy it thoroughly; they could hardly do otherwise
than enjoy it under the circumstances. While both
the Colonial Secretary and the Lord Chancellor
spoke agreeably enough, and each of them
very much to the purpose—the speeches
of the evening were indubitably those delivered by
the Prime Minister in speaking for himself and his
colleagues, and by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
in acknowledgment of the toast of the Commons
House of Parliament.

Among all the pleasant sentences that fell last
evening from the lips of those who spoke at the
Lord Mayor's table in the Mansion•house, not one
could well have been more agreeable to listen to
than the one which, uttered as it was by the
voice of the First Minister of the Crown,
may be said with literal truth to have
comprised within it an epitome of the whole finan-
cial and political situation :—" After a season the
most inclement," said Lord PALMEItSTON, " which
in former times might have produced either a
famine or a financial crisis, my right hon. friend
the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been able to
propose to Parliament and the country a surplus
of revenue over expected expenditure, which has
enabled him to propose a large remission of the
burdens of the people, without diminishing
in the slightest degree those military and naval
means of defence to have diminished which, in
the state in which the new world now is, would
have been a betrayal of the trust which
has been confided to us." Reviewing the whole
position, well might the noble Viscount observe
in regard to it—" This is most encouraging."
' Adding these words, as happy auguries of the
future in Christendom —" The function of England
is to endeavour by the influence which she justly
possesses to maintain the peace of the
world. She has no ambitious objects, she
has no aggressive policy, she has no
warlike propensities. We wish not only to
enjoy ourselves the blessings of peace, but we wish
by the legitimate exercise of our influence on other
countries, to secure for the rest of the world that
blessing which we prize so highly ourselves."
That is in truth the natural and rational policy
of England. Let but Ministers persist in that
policy, really and truly act upon that
policy, and the peace of the world
may yet, for a long while to come, be protracted.
Let them but begin, moreover, to show themselves
again really in earnest in their long since avowed
solicitude to ameliorate the political situation of the
country internally, and they may revive and re-
claim their dwindled popularity as Reformers—
they may still even now, before it is quite too late,
rehabilitate their almost shattered, their certainly
very seriously damaged, reputation as a Liberal
and Reforming Government.

Every Session of Parliament seems to charac-
terise itself by some peculiarity—that of 1860 was
distinguished as the "Talking Parliament ;" this
of 1861 will be known, probably, as the "Wed-
nesday Parliament." Owing to the Government
having slipped out of its pledge to the country

which enabled it to overthrow the DERBY Minis

try; owing also to its declining to make Govern-
ment measures of Bills for which it votes, which at
loast it does not oppose, and which some of its
members strongly support—the Bills relating to
Civil and Religious liberty fall into the hands of
private members, and their second readings come on
on a Wednesday. That has become, therefore, the
day on which all measures springing from the love
of freedom and of equal rights for all—springing
from the deeply-seated sentiments which
are the glory of the Anglo-Saxon race,
and which have made us the country we are
—Wednesday has become the day on
which the genuinely English measures have
been all discussed this year. The day on which
the love of Equality fights with zeal to retain
Privilege ; on which the consciousness that Reli-
gions opinio,ls and practice are no jazt ground for
civil disadvantages, contends with Ecclesiastical
supremacy and domination ; and on which the efforts
are made to extend political rights to -wider circles,
and to expunge item by item the legi/lation of in-
tolerance and bigotry from our statute-book or our
judge-made law.

Hence it has fallen to the lot of this day to dis

close or to seal the reactionary character of the pre-
sent Parliament. The 'Wednesdays of 1861 will be
black days in the calendar of civil and religious
liberty. With hardly one exception they have been
fatal to its demands. Church-rate abolition was
carried by a majority perfectly ignominious after
so long a discussion and in so plain a case.
Then, Mr. LOCKE KING'S measure and Mr.
BAINES' successively fell a sacrifice to the
open zeal of Toryism, and the covert zeal of
Whiggism against the extension of popular power.
And now, again, yesterday, Wednesday vindi-
cated its claims to be considered the. field-day of
political and religious bigotry by the rejection of
two of the most common-sense bills in the interest
of religious liberty which could well be conceived.
Mr. DISRAELI, if we can excuse his humbling
himself to such an alliance, know well what he was
about, when he invited the political aid of all the
clergymen of the country, offering them in return
a measure to facilitate the collection of Church-
rates, not to abolish them. Nothing like a bold
stroke. He has thus converted sleeping friends of
Toryism in every village into active friends, and by
their help he has beaten the Liberal party in
numerous battles, and will, while the Liberal ranks
are officered by Whigs, beat them in many
more. He is on the right tack to upset
the Government. Even their Budget will
not save them. Indeed, we should not be
at all surprised if, emboldened by Wednesday
successes, the Tories should show fight on the
Budget itself, and should determine to have two-
pence off the Income-tar, or something off tea and
sugar, and so save the Lords the odium of rejecting
a second time a bill which repeals a tar. Should
Mr. GLADSTONE find the Opposition taking this
course, he may thank himself for it. He contri-
buted to the Tory triumphs of Wednesday, and if
theycarryan amendment on his resolution forrepeal
of the paper duty, his vote of yesterday will be like
the eagle's feather which winged the arrow to his
own breast.

A s to Mr. DILLWYN'S bill, it was a measure of tlx
most obvious equity. Property is left to endow
schools. No religious limitations are expressed in
the foundation deeds. One would suppose that in
such a case no sectarian qualifications would be re-
quired of either the masters or trustees. But our
Courts have laid down a rule that if religious or
godly persona are required• ae trpteo, or if religion

without limitation is mentioned in the deeds—that
the only religion and godliness known to the law
is that of the sect which forms but one half the
nation—which is the sect lucky enough to have
appropriated to itself the throne, and the high
offices, and the ecclesiastical patronage and endow-
ments of the country—and that hence, trustees and
masters must all belong to the Church of England !
Mr. DILLWYN's Bill merely provides that when the
Church of England is not mentioned, suitable per-
sons of any other denominations shall be eligible for
trustee ships. We have certainly not one word to
say against the merits of the Church of England,
as a Church; but, living in daily intercourse with
men of all sects, we are prepared to deny utterly
that its members are more religious, especially that
its members show themselves more amenable to the
dictates of religion in social life, than those of other
Churches. Probably few who voted against Mr.
Dsaawvat's Bill would say they did. We are utterly
at a loss, therefore, to conceive of any but purely
party reasons for opposing a bill which would but
conform the law in this case to the state of society.
As each of us would now be ashamed to take note
of another person's religion as a bar to intercourse
on dealing with him, or appointing him to civil
office, why should notice be taken of it in such a
case as the upright administration of a religiously
open school trust ?
The rejection of the Bill to legalise marriage
with the sister of a deceased wife is equally reac-
tionary. The principle of the Bill has been affirmed
in four Parliaments; it has passed triumphantly
in thirty-four divisions ; it nas all but passed the
House of Lords, and' now, in this session of 1861,
a Parliament which has enabled a Liberal Ministry
to take office has rejected it—by a narrow majority,
indeed, but still by a majority ! Mr. DISRAELI'S
clergy have whipped up the Tory members well,
the Liberals have been perfunctory, and so the
canon law of the Church of England is to be
fastened on the necks of Dissenters for another
year at least. The tables of the Prayer-book are
turned into law for those who never use the Prayer-
book. The half of the nation which rejects those
tables must obey them, or their marriages must be
treated as null in law, and their children as illegi-
timate. Reason may laugh at the absurdity of the
canonical prohibition ; Divines may tell us that it
has no more foundation in Scripture than in reason.
But it is in the Prayer-book of the Church of Eng-
land—it was transplanted thither from the canons
of ascetic ages, reverenced with all their absurdities
by that Church, and therefore it is to be obeyed by
all Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen, whether
they respect the authority of the Church's set
canons or not ! Church supremacy is now the
battle-cry of Tories. They rally to it with zeal
for political purposes. Bat they must be ashamed
of it soon. Even Austria will make them blush,
for she has just denied the perfect civil equality of
all sects. Our Tories must brush up—they will
soon be behind their pet German Power.
The division was adroitly taken on an amendment,
which did not touch the merits of the case. The
Bill was limited to England, as so many other
Bills are. It was not wished, we presume, to com-
plicate the case with the difficulties of opposition
from Scotland and Ireland ; bigotry was known
to be intolerant in both countries, and not likely
easily to surrender the power to coerce those who
differed from Church formulas and standards. More
Liberal England was therefore the part of the
Empire to which it was proposed to apply the Bill,
with little doubt that the excellence of its working
would cause it to be extended to all other parts of
the Empire. This moderation was now turned
against it, and a convenient pretext afforded to.the
timorous to vote for its rejection. It was at best
but a matter for committee. But the error was
that Liberals made no muster while the Tories came
down in full force. The Treasury whips aro not
equal to the Opposition whips, for these divisions
against the Liberals are rapidly chilling their zeal
for the Government.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs.
Gladstone have removed from their house in Carlton-house-
terrace to the official residence in Downing-street.
PORTSMOUTII, Thursday Morning.—The Mac-
duff, transport, arrived at Spithead with head-quarters of
the First Royals from China, under the command of Colonel
Holcombe.

We are authorised to state that his Royal High-
ness the Prince Consort will hold Levees on the part of
her Majesty at St. James's Palace on Saturday the'4th of
May next, and on Wednesday the 15th of May next. It is
understood that the Queen will hold two Drawing Rooms
at St. James's Palace t3wards the end of June next.
At a meeting of the creditors of the Faringdon
and Wsntage Bank (Messrs. 1 arnes, Medley, and Ansell),
held at Faringdon yesterday, Mr. R. P. Harding, accoun-
tint, explained the causes of the failure and the present
position of the estate. A composition was agreed to of 10s.
in the pound, ss. on or before he 4th day of May, and the
balance secured. The total liabilities are about £96,000, of
which about £45,500 are expected to become claims against
the estate. The assets available for distribution, including
the amount from the separate estate of Mr. Barnes, aro
estimated to produce about £22,500.

SUICIDE OF A MASTER TAlLOR.—Yesterday
evening an inquest was held by Mr. Langham, the deputy
coroner, at the Bricklayer's Arms, King-street, Regent-
street, cn the body of Mr. David Taylor, a master tailor,
aged 75, who committed suicide by hanging himself by
means of a white pocket handkerchief thrown over a room
doer, at his residence, 16, Poland-street, Oxford-street.
Family grievances were stated to be the cause of the de-
ceased's rash act. The coroner having summed up, the
jury returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity."
ANOTHER CONVICTION FOR MAKING AN IMPRO-
PER CENSUS RETURN.—Mr. Richard Evans, of Bugle-
street, has been summoned at the Guildhall, Southampton,
by James Potter, for having on the 9th of April unlawfully
refused to answer Mtn, he being one of the census enumera-

tors for the parish of St. Michael, such questions as were
put to him touching his census return. The defendant
pleaded not guilty, but the evidence being conclusive, he
was fined 20s. and costs, and ordered to make a fresh return.
—ll7iltshire Mirror.

DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.—The death of John
Hill, who was believed to have been the oldest man in
England; he having reached his 104th year, took place at
Rochester, on Sunday last. The deceased was born at a
village in Sussex in the year 1758, and during the early
part of his life. was employed in agricultural pursuits. He
was always remarkable for being a man of very abstemious
habits, and also an early riser, both of which, probably,
conduccd to his longevity. Until within the last few
months Hill was in the habit of taking his daily walks
about the city, and notwithstanding his advanced age had
the appearance of being a hale old man. The deceased
lived during the reigns of five English sovereigns, and
was in the frequent habit o f conversing on events which
took place during the first few years of the reign of George

111., 9f which he had a perfect recollection.
THE ADRIATIC.—A letter from Trieste, in the
Vienna Prase, says :—" We learn that contracts have just
been made here for a supply of provisions for an English
fleet which is expected in a few days, and which will re-
quire a dozen oxen daily. There are several indications
that for some time England is following with attention not
only the affairs of Syria and those of her own possessions
in the Mediterranean, but also the eventualities of tho
Adriatic."

POST-OFFICE (MONEY ORDER-OFFICES) DEFAL-
cszioNs.--A Parliamentary return shows tl2at losses and
defalcations have occurred in the money order-offices of
the United Kingdom to the amount of £5,065 since 1841.
Thirty-one offices are returned defaulters ; one (Barnet) in
_the considerable sum of £2,701, and another (Jersey) in the
sum of £1,135. The defalcation of lowest amount is
£2 Os. 10d. in a Perthshire office. These losses and defal-
cations, it seems, have formed no charge upon the public
revenue, but have been made good from time. to time out of
the proceeds of unclaimed money orders.

MURDER IN GLASGOW.—At an early hour on
Sunday morning, a party of men, accompanied by some
loose women, were drinking in a shabeen in Meuse-lane,
Glisgow, when a slight quarrel arose between two of the
men—Patrick Keeney or M'Kenna, and Daniel Fraser. A
few moments afterwards the other parties left the house,
Paving Keeney and Fraser alone in the lane. At about 4
a.m., a police constable found Keeney lying dead on the
road, a fatal stab on the left breast having been inflicted.
Suspicion immediately fell upon Fraser, who was appre-
hended, and a knife marked with blood found in his posses- A
01(44 The deceased mad Iwo left a wi4cw and one