The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1868.

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is around me—not ashamed to call a spade, a spade
—to call treason—treason, not patriotism ; to call
murder, murder, and not an error in judgment."
It is always a relief to meet with downright
declarations like this, and, apart from all party
considerations, they are much to be valued, for
they represent the spirit of English independence,
and show the national character in its truest attri-
butes. Temporising schemes can never reaLly
answer instead of a sound policy, and party
manoeuvres will always defeat themselves in the
end, for they must be detected, and reveal them-
selves in their true colour to the community.

There seems to be good reason to doubt whether
the successes recently achieved in Paraguay by the
Brazilians are really so substantial as the first in-
telligence asserted. The Brazilians, as we know of
old, are skilful adepts in the act of making the
worse appear the better cause, and of converting
what is at least a doubtful and unprofitable
victory into a positive and lasting triumph.
It is necessary therefore to receive their statements
with considerable reserve, more especially as from
the geographical situation of Paraguay we get
nearly all our news through Brazilian channels.
Even the intelligence which we publish to-day from
the seat of war, however, gives rise to a suspicion
that the former account was over-coloured. The
Estremadura steamer, which left Rio Janeiro on the
24th ult., and reached Lisbon on Monday evening,
reports that Asuncion has not been abandoned by the
Paraguayans, as was at first stated, and that the
three ironclads which had ascended the river had
returned. It is more than probable that the other
parts of the story will need a little modification,
now that the first excitement is over. The Bra-
zilians, we are told, have seized two forts, and two
corvettes and a steamer have reascended the
river as far as Humaita, without sustaining
any damage. If Humaita has been abandoned
by the Paraguayans, it is no great wonder that
they did not offer any resistance to the advance of
the vessels. It is a significant fact that this exploit
should be so solemnly chronicled. We are told
that a flotilla of small Paraguayan boats attacked
two Brazilian ironclads on the night of the 2d of
March, but the greater part of the assailants-650
in number—were either shot or cut to
pieces by the Brazilian sailors, and the
rest were sunk in their boats. This
statement again, we must accept with considerable
reserve. Since the attack was made by night, it is
not very easy to understand how the Brazilians
were able so accurately to distinguish the number
of their adversaries, or how they could be certain
that all were so summarily disposed of, leaving
none to escape. We apprehend this attack and
its repulse have been made the most of in order
to counteract the effect of the news about the re-
turn of the ironclads and the retention of Asuncion
by the enemy.
The whole of the Brazilian story has been sub-
jected to very searching analysis by the correspon-
dent of a contemporary. The Brazilians have no
reason, he declares, to be proud of the
achievement. He does not deny that they passed
Humaita, but he denies that they forced the
passage. The vessels started on a dark and
foggy night, when firing was altogether a matter of
guesswork, and the rising of the river prevented the
torpedoes and other obstacles from hindering their
progress. Some of the French and Montevidean
papers go so far as to affirm that the Brazilians
passed Humaita without firing a single shot—a state-
ment not wholly improbable, since we are told the
sides of the vessel were completely covered with
sandbags, and since it was in the same glorious
manner that they passed Curupaity some months
ago. Of course the Brazilian leaders were wise to
take advantage of any accidental circumstance
which might favour their plans, such as the darkness
of the night or the unusual height of the river, but
the passage so accomplished is not to be reckoned as
a triumphant victory. The same writer believes
that the capture of the Paraguayan port by Marshal
CAXIAS was no such great achievement as was re-
presented. The odds against the defenders were
very great, and the Brazilians brought their needle-
gun into action. The Paraguayans, he asserts,
retreated to Humaita in good order, and he gives
the numbers engaged on either side as six hundred
foot, fifteen hundred horse, and twelve pieces of
artillery with the Brazilians against 1,500 men in
the garrison. The spirit of the Paraguayans and
of their leader is reported to be undiminished, and
they are resolved to maintain their independence to
the very last. The position of the Brazilians is
really not very secure. Their fleet is divided into three
divisions, separated by the Paraguayan forts, and
when the river falls the torpedoes and other dangers
will impede the return of the advanced vessels. It
is very possible that as the passage of Curupaity did
the Brazilians no actual service, so the much-
vaunted passage of Humaita may rather assist than
retard the triumph of Paraguayan independence.

The progress of the Impeachment trial in the
Senate Court shows that the prosecution finds it
very difficult to produce any substantial evidence
against the accused. They are making a great
deal of the story that President JOHNSON in-
structed General THOMAS to obtain forcible
possession of the War Office, notwithstand-
ing the distinct denial of all the chief
parties concerned. They produced several
witnesses to testify that the General had threatened
to use force to obtain possession of the War-office,
and that he had peremptorily demanded it of Mr.
STANTON. A peremptory demand, however, or
even a threat, is a very different thing from a
forcible seizure, and Mr. STANTON'S own conduct
will hardly bear a searching scrutiny. The managers
of the trial have filed as evidence copies of the PRE-
SIDENT'S letters to GRANT, relative to disregarding
STANTON'S orders, and also Mr. JOHNSON'S message
to the Governor of Alabama, advising the rejection
of the Constitutional Amendment. Reports of the
PRESIDENT'S speeches against Congress have been
filed as evidence, and reporters summoned to testify
to their accuracy. All this shows that there is very
little real evidence to be brought against the PRE-
SIDENT, no dangerous assault on the liberties of the
people, no flagrant abuse of his prerogative,
no open subversion of constitutional law can be
proved against him. If it could, we should not find
the prosecution turning over dusty files, measuring
words, and guessing at intentions, when they are
so bent on carrying their point. America has
changed, indeed, if she is afraid of words, and
a new era has dawned for her politicians.
In England we are far more reticent and
courteous in our political dealings, but the notion
of impeaching a minister for a hasty speech (whose
libel consisted in its truth) would be indicated on all
sides. As the Radicals object to free representa-
tion and free discussion, perhaps it is no wonder
that they should also object to the right of free
speech when not exercised by one of their own
party.

MAILS FOR TIIE UNITED STATES FROM SOUTHAMP-
ToN.—The Postmaster-General has made a further contract
with the Hamburgh-American Steamship Company for the
conveyance of mails to Now York by their packets which
sail from Southampton every Friday. Mails for the
United States will accordingly be made up in London, and
forwarded to Southampton by the day mail of every Fri-
day, for conveyance by one of the Hamburgh-lunerican
Company's packets.—General yost Office, 6th Apil.

LATEST INTELL IGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

HUNGARY.

PESTH, April 14.
M. Asztalos, one of Kossuth's principal agents,
has been arrested upon a criminal charge.
The Croatian deputation for the definitive settle-
ment of the relations between Croatia and Austria
is shortly expected here.

PORTSMOUTH, April 15.
Her Majesty's Indian troopship Crocodile arrived
here this morning with troops from Alexandria.

AMERICA.
(By Atlantic Telegraph.)
WASHINGTON, April 14.

The Impeachment trial was resumed to-day
before the Senate. General Sherman, who was
examined as a witness, deposed that when Presi-
dent Johnson offered him the post of Secretary of
War, he, the President, claimed the right under the
Tenure of Office Act to make an ad interim ap-
pointment, and expressed a wish to get a case
before the Supreme Court.

SOUTHAMPTON, April 15.

The North German Lloyd steamship Baltimore has
arrived here with 38 passengers and a large cargo.
She left Baltimore on the Ist inst. On the Bth
she spoke the French brig Santsonic, and on the
14th the Norwegian bark No. 68 and the steamer
Hermann—all bound west.

LIVERPOOL, April 15.

The Inman steamship City of Antwerp left New
York for this port on the 11th inst. with $17,000

in specie.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS,

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, TUESDAY, April 14.

General Raasloff, the Danish Minister of War, had,
says the Presse, two interviews with our Foreign Ministei,
the second of which took place on Saturday. The Presse
professes itself able to tell what passed at the meeting.
It was only " very incidentally " that the General referred
to the question now pending between Prussia and Den-
mark ; and the Marquis de Moustier "confined himself to
expressing the sympathies of the French Government for
a solution which might conciliate the grave interests in-
volved in the question, but he did not say a word of
the intervention of a diplomatic note in order to assure
the execution of the sth article of the Treaty of Prague."
It is possible that the General had hopes of something
more definite than this, and in consequence of his disap-
pointment has returned home sooner than he intended. I
see that the Independence Beige considers the war fever
is over for the present, and states that the pessimists have
put off the conflict until the winter. Ido not myself find
this. On the contrary, the funds continue to fall steadily,
and the Bourse is very dispirited. Perchance this was the
final cause of the bellicose rumours. At all events, the
Mats, a strongly pro-Prussian journal, does not believe in
them. In an article which has attracted some attention,
M. David says the Vienna Cabinet has lately asked that
of Paris to form an alliance with Austria and England, to
the exclusion of Prussia and Russia, and that the reply
from the Tuileries was, that our Government saw no reason
why it should separate itself from Prussia. The same
journal affirms that the Danish Government has asked
the intervention of France with regard to the Schleswig
affair, but that our Government has declined, and at the
same time expressed its confidence in the moderation of
Prussia. "If these two facts are true," says M. David,
" and we have good reason to believe them so, it is clear
that the Government of France does not desire war, and
that, far from preparing for it, it avoids with the greatest
care everything which might give rise to a disagreement."
In spite of all these arguments, reasonable as they seem,
and anxious as the French people are to accept them, they
still doubt if they ought to do so. Marshal Niel's activity
is stronger than M. David's logic. For instance, I men-
tioned to you in my last letter that there was to be a camp
formed at St. Maur, near Paris. This will make the fifth that
will be held this year simultaneously. The others are at
Chalons, Lannemezan, Sathonay, and Pas des Landers,
near Marseilles. These do not include the active divisions
of the Ist and 3rd Corps and the cavalry at Luneville.
M. Emile de Girardin has always been a great advocate
for a European Congress. He advocated one twenty years
ago. He was in favour of that proposed by the Emperor
in September 1863. He now revives his favourite expe-
dient, and ridicules the diplomatic senility of men who, like
Lord Russell, say that a congress before a war is impos-
sible, and that it must take place after war. The proprietor
of the Liber•te is a long-headed man, and I should not be
surprised to find that he had some private knowledge of
an intention on the part of the Emperor to renew his
former proposal.
The clerical party are announcing their policy with
regard to the elections. The Univers, recalling M.
Rouher's famous jamais by which the road to Rome was
closed against Italy, says that the electors must require
something more even than this. Catholics must demand
that " the rights of the Pope be recognised, and that
official candidates should engage to maintain them,
independently of the policy and the promises of the
Government. That policy has been too change.
able, and important promises have been too often
forgotten not to render other guarantees neces-
sary." The Journal des Villes et des Campagnes says:—
" Between a candidate, even an official one, but sincerely
devoted to the Church, and a candidate even indepen-
dent, but hostile to Catholicism, our choice cannot be for
a moment doubtful. We accept the first, although he is
official, because the second does not assure us of that com-
plete liberty for our faith which we demand before all
things." Thus the Government is assured that its candi-
dates will be accepted—without enthusiasm, it is true, but
still accepted, if only they are devoted Catholics.
There is a very improbable statement in the Liberte to
the effect that the Emperor is going to Constantinople,
Greece, and Egypt, and that while he is in Greece he will
visit the battle-field of Pharsalia, and in Egypt will occupy
himself with documents relative to the sojourn of Cmsar
in that country. I suspect that the Emperor has had
enough of Julius Cresar. The book fell very dead, for it
was very dry. He should try his hand at gossip, and he
will get as large a sa7e as Queen Victoria.

There has been a tremendous gale in the Mediterranean,
and on Good Friday Toulon was visited by a hurricane,
so that communication between the ships and the shore
was impossible—a very rare event at that sheltered port.
Marseilles was choked with ships which had entered for
safety. An Austrian ship of w.kr era;ged her anchors,
awl being carried against one of the jel,l,ir, or ‘b.
Napoldon, sank.

The Prii: ce Imperial is now so co npletely restored to
health that he is about to make a tour in the West. He left
yesterday morning for Cherbourg, where, after visiting the
dockyards and other works, he will go on board the Reine
llortense to Brest, and from thence he will travel by
rail to Rennes, and visit his godmother, the Countess
Baclocchi, who, you will remember; had such a terrible acci•
dent soine months ago. From Rennes he willreturn to Paris.
He will be accompanied by his great friend, the young
Conneau, the son of Dr. Conneau, who aided Napoleon to
escape from Ham, and who has lately been made a
senator. It is arranged, I believe, that young Conneau
shall receive his first communion at the-same time that the
Prince makes his. This is now postponed to May 5. It
was at one time intended that all the boy volunteers
whom the Prince commands should take a like part in the
same ceremony, but it is now al'andoned, though it is pro-
bable that they will serve as a guard of honour.
M. Pinard, Minister of the Interior, has presented an
analysis of the reports sent in by the Prefects of Depart-
ments as to the working of the new conscription law. The
Prefects all say that it has been well received, that the
country is full of patriotic enthusiasm, and that the dis-
turbances which took place at Toulouse and Bordeaux
were the work of gaol-birds. The Prefects write what th.
Emperor wishes to read.
General Dumont has been reviewing the French troops
at Civita Vecchia, and has bestowed upon them rewards
for their gallant performance with the Chassepot upon
the Garibaldians at Mentana.

You will be glad to hear that M. Eugbne Forcade is
much better, and that there is a prospect of his recovery
to reason.

Prince Gortchakoff is preparing a diplomatic circular,
whose object is to officially inform the various Powers of
the incorporation of Poland with the Russian Empire, and
to assure them that, in spite of this change, rendered
necessary for the unification of the empire, there will be
no alteration in the management of Polish affairs.
The report just presented to Parliament by Mr. Fenton,
her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at Munich, on the
commerce and finance of Bavaria, contains some interest-
ing statistics relating to the telegraph system of that
country. The telegraph is in the hands of the Government.
The entire length of the lines amounts to 2,070 English
miles. The number of telegrams forwarded in 1865 war
005,403, and in the previous year 459,307. The large increase
was chiefly owing to a reduction of the tariff on messages
from a graduated scale, according to distance, to one
uniform charge of 9d. for every message of ten words to
any station within the kingdom. The receipts shew a net
profit of over 5 per cent., without taking account of the
Government telegrams, and of those sent in connection
with the railways, which also constitute a branch of the
public service of the country.

It is now supposed that the recent revolution in Japan
will prove favourable to the interests of foreign commerce.
The Mikado (spiritual ruler) has sent a message to the
representatives of the foreign Powers, informing them that
the functions of the Tycoon (secular ruler) have been abol•
151104, and inviting the Ministers to return to Osaka.
CONFESSION OF MURDER.—The prisoner Low,
sentenced to penal servitude for life for the attempted
murder in Cambridgeshire, and who will be removed this
week with other prisoners from the county gaol, has made
a full confession of his guilt to the governor of the gaol.
He says he was asked by Williams to ride ; he got into the
cart on the Cambridge-road. Helsaw the boy at the turn-
pike. He had a cap on and the jacket with the odd but-
ton, as sworn to by Williams. Sat on the same side of the
cart. as Williams did. He accidentally felt a shovel at the
bottom of the cart. When past the wash-pit he struck
Williams with the shovel downwards. Thought he was
dead as be did not call out. Low then robbed him and
threw the shovel away, and went away. He had no blood
upon him. At night he put the purse and money under
his pillow. The purse was buried the next morning. He
told his wifo that he found the money on the common,
when she burst out crying, and said she did not believe it.
He had never told his wife how he got the money.
A MAIDEN SESSION.—At the Oxford City
Quarter Sessions there was not a single prisoner for trial,
and, in accordance with the custom of the city, a pair of
white gloves was presented by the Mayor, Mr. J. R. Carr,
to the Recorder, Mr. W. li. Cooke, and the same compli-
ment was paid to the Mayor by the Sheriff, Mr. F.
Greenwood. It is now something like 50 years since that
Oxford City could boast of a maiden Quarter Sessions.
The Recorder, in thanking the Mayor, congratulated bim
and his brother magistrates on the condition of Oxford.
TILE TEA DUTY IS REDUCED. —Hornirnan's Pure Tea is
sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. This interesting fact will, when
fully known, even further increase the demand for these
Choice, long-approved Teas. They are not sold loose, but
only in Fakes, signed "iiorniman," 'Ando.

A FRENCH VIEW QE nTr3 10LICE

AUTHORITIES.

M. A. Wolff, a correspondent of the Figaro, gives an
amusing account of a visit he lately paid to London. A
friend of the writer, one M. Espeleta, had been robbed of
70.000 f., and the thief, escaping to England, succeeded in
obtaining a good post in London. Meanwhile, he was
tried by the Paris Assize Court, and sentenced to ten
years' imprisonment. The thief did not think it necessary
to change his name, and his employers, seeing the account
in the French papers, began to be suspicious, and the result
was that he tendered his resignation, which was imme-
diately accepted. M. Espeleta was then communicated
with, and had no doubt that the London gentleman was
the thief. He went to the Parisian authorities, and they
told him that they were powerless in the matter, as the
Anglo-French Extradition Treaty did not include " abuse
of confidence." M. Espeleta then decided to go to London
to see what the English magistrates could do in the affair,
and in company with M. Wolff he set off. Arrived in
London, M. Wolff seemed to have experienced:nothing but
surprise. The first functionary that they visited was Sir
Richard Mayne. His astonishment was extreme to find
him in a little house, without a military post at his
door, or one soldier to act as sentry ! More still was he
astonished that Sir Richard received his visitors "not as an
important functionary, who is thinking only of an opera
dancer all the while his visitor is explaining to him the
cause of his visit,. but like a man of the world." The
head of the metropolitan police confirmed the statement of
the Parisian authorities as to the Extradition Treaty, and
seems to have perfectly astounded M. Wolff by saying
that he was only an " arm of justice ;" the law was
stronger than he was. He advised M. Wolff and his
friend to see a solicitor, who also said he was afraid nothing
could be done ; but, never mind, they would go and see
a magistrate. They went. The magistrate was alone,
without even an assistant judge. He wore no robes or
uniform. " But," says M. Wolff, "my
_stupefaction was
great indeed when I heard him speak with civility to
the witnesses. He actually said ' sir' to them. He ques-
tioned them with kindness, and encouraged them to defend
themselves fearlessly. The affair before him was a quarrel
between two sailors. The accused were at the bar ; they
stammered out some words of excuse. Peter accused
Paul, and Paul said that it was Peter who began the row.
The magistrate listened to-both with the greatest atten-
tion and then said, in a paternal tone, ' My lads, I could
send you to prison, but if •I sentence you to pay a light
fine I hope to give you a lesson by which you will profit.
You may now go away, and do not begin again."
When their affair came on, however, the magistrate
could do nothing. They then returned to Sir Richard
Mayne. M. Espeleta, greatly disappointed and
no wonder—at having lost 70,000 francs, gravely
asked Sir Richard whether, if he met the thief
in the street, and he laughed in the face of his former
master, he might not at least give him a caning. Sir
Richard smiled, and said : " Well, if you do, you will
have to go to prison for assault, and I (the Prefect of
Police) have not the power of liberating you! " This
announcement completed the surprises which M.
Wolff received, and after recovering from it he re-
quested to be allowed, under the guidance of
an agent, to visit some of the lower parts of
London. Sir Richard answered : "I have never granted
to any one what you ask of me ; but I understand the in-
terest that this sombre picture of London has for a
foreigner. To-morrow evening at nine o'clock a man will
call at your hotel. You may follow him without fear.
He is my surest agent, and the most intelligent. He will
do the honours of London." M. Wolff does not give us
the result of his investigations ; but, as one is led to sup.
pose, reserves it for another occasion.

ATTEMPTS TO UPSET RAILWAY TRAINS.

On Monday afternoon an attempt was made by an ex -
-ailway guard, named Samuel Jenkins, to throw the train
going from Hagley Review to Kidderminster, containing
almost 1,000 volunteers and other passengers, off the line,
near Hodgehill, in the borough of Kidderminster, and
about a quarter of a mile from the Kidderminster station.
This train was due at about half-past five, and some plate-
layers employed on the line observed Jenkins placing some-
thing on the line in three distinct places about 100 yards
apart. Finding himself watched he ran off, and they sent
information to the station. Upon examination the police
found that a piece of old rail had been placed cross-
wise on the metals, 100 yards from this a piece of iron
and a sleeper chair, and about 100 yards further a large
piece of an old boiler, wedged on to one of the rails by
a large stone about 101 b. in weight, and jammed so tightly
that had the train escaped the other obstructions this must
have thrown it off the line. The obstructions were re-
moved, and five minutes afterwards the Volunteer train
came by, with the Wolverley, Tenbury, the three Kidder-
minster, Bewdley, and Stourport
and their friends. The delinquent was found in a beer-
shop, sitting at a window which overlooked the line,
so that had the catastrophe which lie had attempted
taken place he would have witnessed it. Upon being •
captured Jenkins suddenly produced a razor and threat-
ened to cut the officer's throat, and might have done so
had not a man named Bennett jumped over some rail-
ings and assisted in securing him. They conveyed him
to the police-station, where he became riotous, and it was
found necessary to take every precaution lest he should
attempt violence on himself. He resigned his office of
guard while under suspension, a few weeks ago, and there
has for some time been something strange in his behaviour.
On Monday morning a diabolical attempt was made to
upset a passenger train on the Denny branch of the Cale-
donian Railway, near Larbert, by some person placing
a number of " chairs" on the rails, and setting the points
of a fork at " half-cock." Fortunately, the driver
of the train, which was proceeding northwards, observed
the obstruction on the line in time to slacken the speed ;
nevertheless, considerable damage was done to the plant.
The tender of the engine, which was foremost, was knocked
off the line, the leading axle being broken, and two cattle
trucks were also thrown off. No person was injured. The
line was blocked up for several hours, during which time
the passengers for Denny and Larbert were put to some
inconvenience by having to walk between the two places.
Upwards of sixty " chairs " were destroyed, a number of
rails twisted, and a quantity of sleepers rendered useless.
The matter is being investigated by the police.
The North British Mail says : " Some villains, not yet in
the hands of justice, yesterday attempted to upset a pas-
senger train on the Denny branch of the Caledonian Rail-
way, near Larbert, by placing a number of ' chairs ' on
the rails and turning the ' points' diverging from the
branch to the south main line. Fortunately, hoWever, the
obstructions were observed by the driver of the advancing
train in time to prevent the threatened catastrophe.
Several waggons were displaced, but none of the passenger
carriages or their occupants sustained the least injury.
Some consequent delay to traffic, of course, occurred, and
considerable damage was done to the line and rails."

The ironworkers in the South Staffordshire dis-
;Het have turned out on strike in opposition to a pro-
posed reduction in wages. There is some probability that
the dispute will not be of long duration, as the men have
already offered to meet the masters half way.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed
Friday, May 1 (the Feast of St. Philip and St. James),
for the consecration of the Hon. and Rev. Charles A.
Harris, M.A., a brother of the Earl of Malmeshury, who
has been nominated by the Crown to the bishopric of
Gibraltar, in the room of the Right Rev. Dr. W. J.
Trower, resigned. The consecration will take place in
Canterbury Cathedral.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A VOLUNTEER.—A party of
volunteers, who had been at the review at Portsmouth on
Monday, were somewhat saddened by an accident at the
Basingstoke Station, which proved fatal to one of their
number. Russell Johnson, a young man, who was a mem-
ber of one of the southern or south-western artillery corps,
persisted in crossing the line at a time when a luggage
train was standing by the platform. He had just stepped
from the platform, and bent down to pass under one of the
waggons, when the train was moved. Of course the wheels
ran over him. Both his legs were broken, and he was so
seriously injured that, notwithstanding all the efforts
which were made by the medical men under whose care he
was placed, he died on the following morning at the County
Hospital at Winchester.

THE BALLOT IN GREECE.—An interesting letter,
written by Mr. IL Arthur Arnold, and dated from
Athens, appears in the Times, on the ballot in Greece.
In that country party feeling runs extremely high, and
the excitement is general. An election was, at the time
the letter was written, going forward in Athens. There
were thirty candidates for the five seats in the Grecian
Legislature. The polling places are churches. The
writer describes how the voting is conducted. Thirty
ballot-boxes are placed on the floor cf the church, each of
them bearing the name of a candidate. Upon one-half of
the box, painted white, is written " Yes," and on the
other half, painted black, is written " No." A clerk
attends the voter, with thirty bullets, and when opposite a
box, pronounces the name of the candidate, and hands the
voter a bullet. Passing his arm up a funnel about a foot
in length, the voter's hand arrives unseen at a division in
the box, and he drops the ball to the right or left, ",yes"
or " no," as the chse may be, and so on throughout the
whole thirty. This system, Mr. Arnold declares, ensures
perfect secrecy, and the best order is maintained. Though
sometimes a stupid voter makes a mistake, as all the can-
didates aro liable equally to suffer from it no discontent
s caused by it!

Cirtribt

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 14.
The Queen went out in the grounds this morning,
accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princess
Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Prin-
cess Beatrice.