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Government and the Indian administration have
lately shown much moreinterestin matters connected
with irrigation, and, although Sir ARTHUR COTTON,
after his 40 years' experience, and his long acquaint-
ance with the delays and indifference of govern-
ments, naturally looks with suspicion on all official
pledges, yet we may hope the pressure of public
business will keep them up to the mark. It seems
strange that, in a country in which the Anglo-
Saxon element so largely predominates, an under-
taking of such vital importance and comparatively
easy achievement should have been overlooked, but
we must remember that India is not England. The
climate is exhausting and unfavourable to energy,
while thesystem of government is altogether different
from our own, and the classes who would be most
active and most interested in forwarding any such
measures at home take little part in public matters.
Indian affairs generally want that enterprise and
vigour with which great undertakings are pushed
forward in England. The administration is con-
ducted in a different spirit, and public interests
suffer for lack of the vigilant supervision of the
House of Commons. With regard to this
matter of irrigation no Indian Government has
acquitted itself creditably. This very scheme of
the Orissa works has been the subject of a good
deal of comment. The company have expended
nearly a million of money, but are standing still for
want of capital. There can be no doubt, from what
has been already achieved, that the undertaking
will be highly remunerative. Therefore it is the
more amazing to the projectors to be compelled to

stop half way. The Government, instead of giving
them the assistance that was wanted, proposed to
buy up their undertakings altogether, on
terms which were anything but favourable.
It is no wonder that those wbo had gone through
all the preliminary labour, and borne the expense
of an undertaking truly national in its cbaractel
and on the scale in which it has been conducted,
should shrink from so disheartening and unprofit-
able an arrangement. The Orissa Company, too,
began their work when there was little immediate
prospect of success, and when irrigation was less
thought of than now. Having had the courage and
the confidence to advance the capital necessary
for the commencement of so vast a work, totally
unaided by the Government, it was not fair for the
Government to expect to come in and reap the
credit and the profit of their labours. Some idea
of the undertaking may be formed from the fact
that, according to the opinion of the most compe-
tent engineers of the country, the canals now in
course of construction will, when completed, convey
water for the irrigation of about 700,000 acres.
Neither are the returns to be expected from this
undertaking merely visionary or speculative. Even
in its present imperfect state the prospects of wide-
spread success are most encouraging. The natives
are glad to avail themselves of the immense advan-
tages conferred upon the soil by systematic irriga-
tion, and the more it is applied to the lands the more
will be the applicants for leases. We find that
by the report of the end of March there had then
been signed in connection with the Kendrapara
Canal alone leases fur about 26,000 acres, most of
them being for
,three years, and that applications
from cultivators of laud under the same canal were
being received at the rate of from 2,000 to 5,000
acres daily. The natives have proved their anxiety
to get the water by cutting the smaller channels
necessary to convey it to their fields. In other
parts of the disaict affairs are almost equally pro-

mising, and now that matters have been adjusted
with the Government, we may hope to see the
works both at Orissa and at Behar carried on
rapidly and uninterruptedly to their full comple-
tion. The Behar undertaking is equally im-
portant, and indeed is thought by many higli
authorities to be more promising than the Orissa,

but more interest is naturally felt in the progress
of the Orissa works, owing to the failure. The Go-
vernment of India has agreed to guarantee the
company for the water supplied, an arrangement
which the directors themselves admit can hardly be
too highly prized. By the terms of the contract it
is provided that the company shall be paid for the

water supplied, not by the the cultivators, but by the
Government, at the price charged to the cultivators,

BD that the shareholders have no longer any risk of
loss. The Government will of course have a share
in the profits, a fair and satisfactory arrangement,
which will, no doubt, work, to the advantage of all
parties.

II (A' URABLE A I:TILLERY COMPANY.

On Wednesday evening the members of No. 1
Company, 11. A. C., entertained Captain Defries
at a dinner at the New City Club ; Lieut. Alfred
occupied the chair ; and after grace the usual loyal
toast was received in that loyal manner that cha-
racterises it at all convivial meetings of the gallant
members of this time-honoured requirement.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the
evening, " The health of Captain Defries," spoke
in glowing terms of the great tact and persevering
energy and increasing activity by which this inde-
fatigable officer had succeeded in bringing No. 1
Company to its present eminently satisfactory con-
dition. It was. rapidly increasing in numbers, and
he had no doubt would shortly become the strongest
company in the whole regiment. He also refer-
red, in a touching manner, to the dreadful acci-
dent that had befallen Captain Defries at Staple-
burst, and how glad every member of his company
was, after so much anxiety, to see him safely re-
stored to health, and able to resume the command
of his devoted comrades.

Capt. DEFP.fEs, who appeared much moved at his
enthusiastic reception, rose amid prolonged cheering,
and in an earnest and elegant address thanked the
chairman for the very flattering manner in which
he had been pleased to refer to his efforts to further
the interests of No. 1 Company and secure its effi-
ciency, but in this he maintained he was but doing
his duty, which as an officer and a gentleman he
was compelled to carry out ; and he was happy to
state he had ever experienced a real pleasure in so
doing, upheld as he had been by the active co-ope-
ration of Lieut. Alfred and non-commissioned offi-
cers, and the willing support of his men. He
thanked them one and all sincerely for this sponta-
neous outburst of good feeling on their part
toward him, and begged to assure them that this
high public honour they were pleased to accord
him would ever be gratefully remembered by him
as a token of the high esteem and regard in which
he was held by the members of the No. 1 Com-
pany. Ho added, in conclusion, that he felt so
completely overcome with this unexpected demon-
stration of their approval of his efforts as their com-
manding officer that he trusted they would pardon
his inability to express himself as adequately as
the occasion demanded. (The latter part of this
distinguished officer's speech was totally inaudible,
owing to the tremendous cheering which followed,
and was prolonged for several minutes after he sat

down).
The " Healtbs of Major Robinson and Lieut.
Alfred " were proposed and received in the most
hearty manner.

Several other toasts followed, incluJing the
"Non-commissioned Officers and Privates," " Mr.
Ilenry Defries (brother of Capt. Defries)," which
were duly responded to.

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The tout ensemble was one of unprecedented suc-
cess, and passed off with great eclat.

TIIE DUKE OF EDINBURGIL—Letters have been
received from his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh
which fully confirm the information already published iu
the papers, and announce his singularly rapid and happy
recovery, and his probable arrival home early in June.—
British Medical Journal.

LATEST INTELL MENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

Nt.w YORK, May 21.

The Chicago Republican Convention has unani-
mously nominated General Grant for the next Pre-
sidency, and has passed resolutions denouncing any
repudiation of the public debt, and approving the
impeachment of President Johnson.

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS.

(Fr.ox OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, THURSDAY, May 21.
The Journal des Debats is generally credited with being
inspired in its foreign policy from Berlin. On that ac-
count an article which has just appeared in that paper
with regard to the relations between England and Prussia
has excited a good deal of attention. The article attri-
butes Count Bismarck's moderation in the Customs Par-
liament entirely to the representations of your Govern-
ment. I presume there is no doubt that Lord Loftus has
been commissioned generally to urge moderation, but that
he has, as the Debats goes on to affirm, promised the active
assistance of England in case Prussia is attacked, is more
than I believe. The Temps of to-day well points out that
since the annexation of Savoy and Nice England has
ceased to look upon France as her chief ally, and has
been yearly drawing nearer to Prussia ; but the Temps
thinks, and rightly thinks, that to pledge your country to
armed intervention in the event of a foreign war is what
Lord Stanley would neither have ventured nor wished
to do.

There is something more to-day about the Luxembourg
fortifications. The AMt ir National, a well-informed
journal, denies that England has requested the King of
Holland to hasten the destruction of these works.
The truth is, the King-Duke is short of money,
and his Ministers are in a state of chronic crisis, and
thus it is not at all likely that any of the Powers who
signed the Treaty of London would press him, just now,
The above mentioned journal declares that it was left to him
to decide what constituted the conversion of Luxembourg
from a fortress into an open city ; and that in all proba-
bility no further demolition will take place. If this betrue,
we shall have further trouble arising out of this matter.
This is the more likely, inasmuch as our Government
having failed to negotiate the purchase ,of the Great
Luxembourg Railway, negotiations are now going on at
Berlin for that purpose. I think it is very unlikely that
our Government will allow Prussia quietly to obtain pos-
session of this line, at the same time that the fortress
still remains, to all intents and purposes, as strong as ever.
Cardinal Antonelli has instructed the Papal Nuncio
here, Mgr. Chigi, to demand the continuance of the
French occupation of Rome until the meeting of the
General Council. There seems no reason to suppose that our
Government has any thought of terminating the occupa-
tion. I attach very little importance, therefore, to the
statement of the Gazette PiCnmontaise, to the effect that a
convention has been concluded between the Papal and
Italia n Governments, by wl.ich the first will recognise the
kingdom of Italy and put an end to the French occupa-
tion, while both Governments will come to an agreement
as to the strength of the Tap& army.
It appears that Algeria does not reap the small benefit
which is to be derived from the new Press Law without a
direct decree by the Emp( r 4.. The consequence is that
the Algerine papers are condemned to silence upon the
condition of the country, just at the time when there is
most need for the Government to become acquainted
with it.

M. Cr6mieux has written to the journals to deny that
he has gone to Bucharest. He hopes that the Roumanian
Government will treat the Jews better in future, and
that there will he no need for him to interpose.
M. Forcade, the accomplished writer in the _Revue des
Deux Mucks, who went mad at the Manin obsequies in
Venice, has, after a brief interval of improvement, become,
I am sorry to say, so much worse that he has been sent to
a madhouse.

The new English church at CompiZgne, which has been
built through the liberality of the Hon. Mrs. Russell
Barrington, has just been opened and consecrated by
Bishop Smith, of Victoria. There was a large and
fashionable attendance, and the offertory amounted to
£3O. Fifteen years ago there was not a single house
near the church, but numbers of villas now cover the
ground.

A " Biblotheque de la Paix " (Library of Peace) has
just been started here. It will consist of publications
intended to prove the horrors of war. The first pamphlet
written by M. Leroy-Beaulieu, states that from 1853 to
18G6 no fewer than 1.743,491 men fell on the different
fields of battle, and that the warlike expeditions in which
these battles were fought cost nearly two thousand millions
sterling.

According to the Journal dos Debats, which is supposed
to he inspired from Berlin, Bismarck's moderation in dis-
couraging the Unity Address in the Customs Parliament
is due to the counsels of our Government. The Debats
declares that " there is no doubt about the intimacy of
the two Courts and Cabinets ; it is based on a close family
alliance, on the analogy of creeds and the community of
interests. Prussia is to-day England's best ally on the
Continent, as England is Prussia's best ally. The English
are of opinion that Prussia, in accomplishing what she did
in 1566, promoted at the same time the interests of Eng-
land, although it was not without regret that they
viewed the misfortunes of Austria, which they wish to
see reconstituted, but without injury to Prussia as she
actually exists. These have been the representations, it
seems, of Lord Loftus, who declared that his Government
was desirous of maintaining the status quo, ane that it
would do all in its power to prevent its being disturbed ;
that if the disturbance proceeded from Prussia—that is to
say, from its attitude, its language, its writing, or its acts—
the British Government would not only disapprove such
conduct, but would formally condemn it, reserving to
itself the right of supporting the adversaries of Prussia in
order to keep her within bounds ; that if the disturbance
originated with other Powers than Prussia, the latter
rn ght rely on the most energetic aid of England, and even.
o 1 her effective support." We very much doubt if
our Ambassador has gone so far as this. It is likely enough
that he has counselled moderation, but to intimate that
England would be willing to support Prussia in the event
of a war with France, is so utterly opposed to the wise
principle of non-intervention which has governed Lord
Stanley's foreign policy, that we do not believe Lord
Loftus was ever authorised to give any such pledge.
During the great debate on the Anglo-French Commer-
cial Treaty in the Corps L6gislatif, M. Rouher read a
letter from Mr. Gladstone, strenuously denying that he
had ever said that England would profit by the treaty
five times as much as France. This letter was sent to M.
Rouher through the French Ambassador in London.

" Dualism has become the State form of the Austrian
Empire," says the special correspondent of the Tintcsat Pesth.
That there is an Emperor of Austria and a King of Hungary,
perfectly distinct in idea, though identical practically, we
have known for the last twelve months. The Hungarians
are determined, however, that so far as the subjects are
concerned the dualism shall be a reality. When, there-
fore, the treaty of commerce with Prussia and the treaty
of „avigation with England were laid upon the table of
the Hungarian Diet, exception was at once taken to the
title by which the sovereign was described. This objection
it was proposed to meet by calling him " his Imperial and
Royal Apostolic Majesty." But even this does not satisfy
the jealous Magyars, and the Minister of Commerce has
undertaken a further alteration by way of satisfying
their susceptibilities. Foreign consuls are now being
appointed, who will be accredited to the Hungarian Court
of Pesth, and reside there. The correspondent of the
Times mentions, by way of caution, that Hungary is not
Turkey, and that the Hungarians are extremely jealous of
foreign intervention, so that the consuls will have to avoid
meddling with the politics of the country.

The Pars correspondent of the Morning rose says
"The singular and exceptional position in which Queen
Victoria, her Ministers, the Opposition, the Parliament,
and the people of England are placed towards each other
at the present moment, I find is creating a considerable
amount of interest amongst those who surround the
Emperor Napoleon 111. Continental statesmen have
been so long accustomed to regard the workings of the
British Constitution as a machine which never seriously
gets out of order, that they are amazed at the present
aspect of affairs. A general impression prevails that Eng-
land is about to pass through such a political crisis as we
have not witnessed since the days of Cromwell, An
important personage, communicating with a member
the Imperial Cabinet, I am told, writes prephetio
of the severance of Church and State, of the
adoption of the system of universal suffrage, and the
invasion of the people into what is called the oligarchical
citadel of the governing aristocratic) circles, Tbo same
authority says, the Royal Family feel that there is no
statesman of the present day capable of controlling the
imminent crisis with which the British Constitittion Is
threatened. We are told by this foreign observer of Whto
is taking place in England that the country has no Nth
either in Mr. Disraeli or Mr, Gladstone i and by 011 Th
eludes by saying: 'I informed yon when Lori PaimePion
died, that the political tranquillity of JnglAgit4 oxpire4
with him.' "

Mr. Bearden's extraordinary notice of motion is the
subject of much comment and more ridicule, When the
member for Athlone handed it to the clerk at the table,
that functionary referred it to the Speaker, who appears
to have decided that a question couched in such lan,
guage could not be recorded in the parliamentary
journals. The Speaker is said to have addressed A
strong remonstrance to the eccentric M.P., and to have
intimated that if he attempted to persevere with his
!notion he would receive a rebuke which he would by no
means care to have administered, A well-informed con-
temporary remarks on the regret with which the people of
the metropolis have regarded the untimely departure of
the Court for Balmoral, and expresses a wish that the
real state of public feeling sh,,uld bo bol lly and unre-
servedly laid before the
.A937.91'941:1 pay her icspowll4
Advisers,

THE MINISTRY AND THE scorerr
REFORM BILL.

The insertions and alterations in the Scotch Reform flll,
to be moved on Monday next by the Lord• Advocate, on
behalf of the Government, and referred to by Mr. NS,
raeli in his statement on Thursday night, are as funOWEI
Page 2, Clause 3.—After " voter" insert, " or to vote
who shall have been exempted from assessment or pay-
ment. of poor rates on the ground of inability to pay, or
who shall have failed to pay, on or before the 20th day of
June in any year, all poor rates (if any) that have become
payable by him in respect of said dwelling-house, or as an
inhabitant of said burgh, up to the preceding 15th day of
Way, or shall have been in the receipt of parochial relief
within the twelve calendar months next preceding the
Aid last clay of July. Provided also. that no man shall
under this section be entitled to be registered as a voter,"
Page 3, Clause s.—Leave out from " 3 Has " on line 1,
to " may " on line 7, and insert, " Provided that no
man shall under this section be entitled to be registered,
or to lote, who shall have been exempted from assessment
of or payment of poor rate on the ground of inability to
pay, or who shall have failed to pay, on or before the 20th
day of January in any year, all poor rates, if any, that
have been payable by him in respect of said land and
heritages up to the preceding 15th of May, or who should
have been in receipt of parochial relief within twelve
calendar months of the next preceding said day of July."

Page 8, Clause 20, line I.6.—Leave out from "on" to
" also "in line 30. Line 33—Leave out " such " and "so
rated." Line 35 --After "May" insert, "or who shall
have been in the receipt of parochial relief within the
twelve calendar months preceding the last day of July."

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL CASTLE, May 19.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, arrived at
the Aboyne Station at one o'clock, and drove from
thence to Balmoral.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday after-
noon, accompanied by Princess Christian.

The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince
Arthur, and attended by MajiT Teesdale and Lieut.
`Colonel Elphinstone, left Marlborough House in
the evening for Balmoral, ou a visit to the Queen.

LAW INTELLIGENCE-7 111 S DAY.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Giffard.)
LYON V. HOME.

This morning judgment was delivered in the im-
portant spiritual case, which involve the ownership
of a large sum of money which it is alleged was
given freely by the plaintiff to the defendant.

The Chancellor, giving his decision, com-
mented upon the extraordinary nature of the case
and the weakness of the plaintiff in entertaining
the belief of Mr. Home's powers that she had done,
but stated that in his opinion she was under the
undue influence of ➢lr. Home, and therefore his
judgment would be in her favour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAl'.

MARL BO RO UG Ei-STREET.

THE MAnguis TOWNSHEND AND THE STREET
SINGER.—Anna Scanlan, address refused, was
charged before Mr. Knox, by the Marquis of Town-
shend, with begging.

The Marquis Townshend said that, on the pre-
vious afternoon, he heard the prisoner singing in
the middle of Oxenden-street, having a child in her
arms. He asked her if she was in distress, and she
said she was, and wanted to pick up a few pence.
He asked the prisoner where she lived ; and on
her telling him, he told her that he would go with
her to see if her story was correct. She objected to
walk with him, and he therefore proposed that he
should follow her, and she walked on, but did not
go in the proper direction of the place she had stated.
She walked into a public-house with a man she met,
and he then sent for a constable, on whose ap-
proach she ran away, but was afterwards taken
into custody. He saw the prisoner receive money
from a servent, in Oxenden-street, and she said
the servant gave her money every week, but he
had since ascertained that to be untrue.
The prisoner said that when she had her child
she was in service, and having lost her character,
and being ashamed to go amongst her friends, pos-
sessing a voice, and seeing other persons going
about singing, she did the same, thinking there was
no harm.

Mr. Knox said the charge of begging could not
be sustained. As far as he could understand the
matter, it appeared that the Marquis wanted to as-
sist the prisoner.

The Marquis said he would not have charged
the prisoner had she not attempted to deceive him.
Mr. Knox, in discharging the prisoner, said that
if she chose to step round to No. 15, Soho-square,
the office of the Universal Beneficent Society, he
had no doubt that a helping hand would be ex-
tended to her, for her own benefit and that of her

The Marquis said that something should be done
for the woman if she applied.
AN EXTRAORDINARY FANCY.—Marie Portti, a
Frenchwoman, whose husband was said to be a
singer at the Crystal Palace, was charged before
Mr. Knox with being concerned with a man not in
custody in stealing at No. 10, Porter-street, St.
Ann's, three sheets and other articles, the property
of Mr. Louis Moore.

Mrs. Mary !Ann Moore, wife of the prosecutor,
said that the prisoner occupied a room in her house,
and having left she went into the room, when she
missed some sheets and other articles, and found in
the room nine cats and a dog, which caused such a
stench that it made her quite ill.

Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner to give the
police an opportunity of tracing the property.

WESTMINSTER.

DARING HIGHWAY RO BBERY. —John Danday,
alias Goody, before convicted, was charged with
being concerned with two others not in custody in
assaulting Thomas Hopkins and stealing from his
person a watch.

The prosecutor, who had an impediment in his
speech, said he lived in Stanley-road, Fulham, and
was returning home rather the worse for liquor last
night, and when near the Weatherby public-house
he was attacked by prisoner and two other men,
who knocked him down and stole his watch. He
called " Murder !" and " Police !" and held the pri-
soner on the ground until assistance came. The
prisoner's companions tried to get him away, and
bit witness in the hand in so attempting.
In cross-examination witness positively denied
that he crossed the road and laid hold of prisoner ;
he took him in the act and held him.

Thomas Escott, a servant out of place, proved
hearing cries and proceeded to the spot. Prosecu-
tor was attacked by three men, of whom he held
the prisoner. They tried to get the prisoner away,
but failing, said, '° We shall get run in directly,"
and ran away. Witness fetched a constable and
had the prisoner taken.
Prisoner cross-examined this witness with some
ingenuity, to show that he was not there, but failed
to carry the point.

Albert Byant, 263 T, proved that last witness
fetched him, and he took prisoner into custody ;
the watch was not found. Prosecutor had been
drinking.

Prisoner said some gentlemen saw the whole
affair ; he was innocent, and although he had been
in trouble before, he had been lately getting 101
honest living.
Mr. Selfe said perhaps some of the gentlemen
would hear of this, and come forward ; he remanded
the prisoner for a week.