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A BRITISH WORKMAN'S NEWSPAPER, We extract the following occasional note from the Pall Mall Gazette :—" Whenever we hear of the journals which circulate especially amongst the working clashes, a paper called Reynolds s is generally cited as a particular favourite; and so indeed it must be if we are to rely upon the word of the publisher, who advertises a guarantee that its circulation is 'over 300,000 weekly.' In this popular paper, with a sale which only that of the Telegraph cam rival, the bulletin announcing the birth of a prince at Sandringham is headed in large type, Another Inauspi- cious Event,' The death of the unhappy baby is thus chronicled:— A HAPPY RELEASE. We have much satisfaction in announcing that the newly'born child of the Prince and Princess of Wales died shortly after its birth, thus relieving the working classes of England from having to support hereafter another addition to the long roll of State beggars they at present maintain.

THE ANGLO-CANADIAN FOUR-OARED RACE. With regard to the great match between the English and St. John's (New Brunswick) four-oared crews, the New York Clipper of April 1st has the following :—On the evening of Wednesday, March 15, a final meeting of the Paris crew and their friends took place at the Bee Hive, in the above-mentioned city, the object being to appoint a committee to manage all affairs connected with the event. The chair was occupied by Dr. Thomas Walker, and Mr. Mont. Chamberlain acted as secretary. A portion of the articles of agreement was read, shewing wherin they differ from those of the Lachine Regatta of last year. Messrs. Thomas Walker, M.D., A. Chipman Smith, D. D. Robertson; George F. Smith, and C. E. Potter were appointed a committee to manage all affairs connected with the match, and have power to add to their number, which they intend to do to a limited extent. For tha information of the meeting Dr. Walker read, by request, an extract from a letter received from Charles B. Elliott, of Greenpoint, New York, in which he says, in reply to questions asked by Dr. Walker, that fce thinks he can make an improvement on the boat built by him last year for the crew. He proposes to build a boat not over forty-two feet in length and seventeen or seventeen and a half inches wide, weighing less than one hundred pounds. He will build such a boat at a cost of 200 dollars, and furnish a duplicate of it at his own expense, arranging that the first boat shall be delivered on the steamer in Boston for St. John. He says the cost of the boat need trouble the gentlemen interested in the race very little, as he will take stock in the match and do everything in his power to push it for- ward. Between 3,000 and 4,000 dollars are already sub- scribed, and the committee will doubtless have little trouble in raising the balance required to secure a success- ful termination of the affair. The course on the Kenne- beccasis was measured on the ice on Tuesday afternoon, March 14th, by Mr. James A Mahood, C.E., and Dr. Walker, so that an exact three mile stretch may be counted on with certainty. It commences about two hundred yards from the shore of the bend or cove below the Claremont House, and extends in a line nearly parallel with the shore in the up-river direction, or is, in other words, the old course on which previous matches have been contested.

THE INSURRECTION IN PARIS. PABIa, Monday. After two days' silence respecting the military opera- tions the Journal Ofiiciel has come out with a grand bulletin of Saturday's victory. The Federals, it declares, retook their positions at Neuilly, maintained those they occupied at Issy, and relieved Bagneux, while the Ver- sailles troops actually retreated. It is unlucky for the a-edibility attaching to this flourish of trumpets that the Commune version is not supported by the Red journals, for both the Vengeur and the Mot d'Ordre acknowledge that the Government forces have gained ground. General Cluseret, who is acting War Minister at present, is not, it is true, aiming so much at the acquisition of territory, as at the concentration of his forces. He has issued two proclama- tions, one of which is remarkable for its moderate tone. He complains of the general confusion existing in certain quarters, which might give rise to the suspicion that paid agents of Versailles were endeavouring to disorganise and fatigue the National Guards. The rappel is beaten at all times and seasons, and the generate is beaten during the night, so that every one grows confused and no one obeys the signals. General Cluseret therefore orders that the generate shall only be beaten by his own order or hy that of the Executive Commission, and solely when a general rising is required. The rappel will be only beaten oy an order from each district commander for the muster of a certain number of battalions. Further, Cluseret complains of the incessant cannonading which wearies and irritates the people. He reiterates the order to remain strictly on the defensive, and not to play into the adversary's hands by wasting their ammunition and their energies. He protests against the general ten- dency to violence, which is a symptom of weak- ness, and advises them to be as calm as they are strong. This is all very well, but the latter part of this same pro- clamation will be less generally acceptable. The General directs a levee en masse of all able-bodied citizens between 19 and 40. Between the ages of 17 and 19 service is optional, after that it is compulsory. This is probably in view of the grand decisive action which is confidently expected. The Versailles forces are f massed on the plain of Longchamps, where not many weeks since the German Emperor held his grand review, and it is in this direction that the great fight is looked for. It is, of course, possible, and greatly to be desired, that such a conflict between Frenchmen may be avoided. The loss of life would be deplorable, and as it is it is bad enough, for the shot and shell which keep pouring into Paris often maim and kill inoffensive citizens. A day or two since a woman, whose husband was compelled to serve with the forces, brought him his dinner. They sat down together at the corner of the street to take the soup, when a shell killed the husband on the spot, cut off the wife's cheek, and wounded four passers-by. This was in the neighbourhood of the Arc de Triomphe, where the fiery rain pours most steadily. It is by this quarter that the Versailles troops hope to force their entry. They can easily get to the heart of the city when they are once masters of the Place de la Concorde. Mont Valerien, which rears its majestic front at the end of the Avenue de PEmpereur, as it was formerly called, is the great object of attention, It keeps up a duel of artillery with the 51st bastion of the Parisian enceinte, and is a most formidable auxiliary to M. Thiers. A still more valuable assistant to the Government exists in the growing un- willingness of the people to enrol themselves, and M. Cluseret will only increase the number of refractory recruits, who have fallen under the ban of the Commune. There is a growing talk about compromise 'and conciliation, which augurs favourably for the future. The most remarkable symptom of it is in the Red papers. M. Milliere, in the Commune, has an article plainly entitled Conciliation," and the Cri du Peuple, another extreme journal, discusses the bases of a possible compro- mise. Yesterday there was a grand meeting of the delegates of the Republican Union, and 18 members of the Commune, at which a scheme of compromise was consi- sidered, which when finally approved, will be taken to Versailles. It is to be feared that the Commune will not accept the advice which the Petit Journal is bold enough to give, declaring that it is the one which should give way. Another noticeable sign of independence in the press is the article in the Rappel yesterday, objecting to compulsory service during civil war as being oppressive to the conscience. Henri Rochefort writes an article in the Mot d'Ordre on the subject of dictating journalists," in which he says that M. Pyat of the Commune has quoted a page of Flourens' last work, Paris Livre," and has fixed upon that one which reports the conversations Roche- tort himself held with him on the subject of Bazaine's 1 treason. M. Rochefort complains of this conduct aa disloyal, and declares that Pyat's position in the Govern- ment should induce him to act with due circumspection and impartiality. If the dictating editor of the Vengeur shelters himself behind sixty thousand bayonets for the purpose of reviving his old quarrels he will do himself no credit thereby. It is very extraordinary that a member of the Commune should continue to direct a. journal, all the more so when this elect of the people pre- sides daily at the suppression of other journals which he does not direct. M. Rochefort points out the importance of strict impartiality in this line of action, be- cause, he says, the Vengeur is printed at the same place as the Mot d'Ordre, and M. Pyat could easily engage in a quarrel with the latter, and sup- press it, on the ground that it disagrees with a member of the Commune, and thus he could make a profit by supplying the subscribers he had deprived of their former publication. He declares, in conclusion, that the only way in which M. Pyat can shew his impartiality will be by suppressing the Vengeur, as lie has suppressed the Liberie, but he does not think that the year 1871 will see this sacrifice. The resignation of Ranc has created some sur- prise, he has written a letter to the members of the Commune to explain his meaning. He declares that he disapproves of the course taken by the Communal body, and not wishing to cause disunion at a time when the Republic ought to be united, he has determined to retire He therefore re-enters the ranks, and becomes again a simple soldier of Paris, of the Commune, and of the Republic. The arrest of M. Delescluze was in consequence of a violent altercation between him and M. Pyat, as General Bergeret's was owing to his dif- ferences with the former Central Committee, who are thought, however, to have made a blunder in defying him. M. Permesole, a member of the Commune, is said to have been killed on the outposts. If personal discom- fort and risk are powerful arguments, the members of the Commune ought certainly to be ready for a compromise. M. Thiers has promised to send three safe conducts for the delegates whom the League for the Defence of the Rights of Paris propose to send; but it was decided last mght that in view of the urgency of the situation M. Desounay, one of the selected delegates, would start at his own ns without waiting for the safe conduct. It IS believed that the chief of the Executive is himself favourable to conciliatory measures, but that the majority of the Versailles Assembly will not be satisfied without a forcible suppression of the insurrection. The Timet Paris correspondent telegraphed the follow- ing on Monday evening :— The firing has, on the whole, been very slack to-day. A few shells fell early this morning in the direction of the Arc de Triomphe, but afterwards the firing ceased for aome hours, and the public were allowed to advance almost up to the Arc de Triomphe and along the adjoin- ing streets. Late this afternoon the firing recommenced vigorously, and none but those on duty as soldiers or ambulanciers were allowed to pass beyond the Rond Point of the Champs Elysees. An im- mense crowd was standing there just now watch- ing the shells, which were falling pretty thickly. I saw one hit the Arc, but without doing it much injury. It has so far escaped remarkably well, but the houses in the adjoining streets have suffered severely. I have just returned from AsnPeres, where an engagement was ex- pected this morning. There was no fighflng, or apparent probability of a fight, up to four o'clock. Frominforma. tion collected on the spot, I should say that yesterday afternoon's engagement at Asrniferes was a very sharp one. The Versailles troops made a reconnais- sance in strong force, and carried pftrt 0 e v* aoe* A sharp fusillade was kept up for nearly t ree ours, and the wounded were numerous. There was also a severe combat of artillery. The Communists shewed considerable resolution, and though at first repulsed had at the end of the conflict rather gained than lost ground. They speak in high terms of the capacity displayed on the occasion by their new General, Dombrowski, aud seem to have unusual confidence in him. Rumours have been flying all about Paris this afternoon of negotiations for peace. „ They are possibly due to the lull in the firing, and the postponement of the attack on the Porte Maillot, which has been expected for the last two nights. The gate is said to have been partially destroyed by the shells, and a breach made in the wall close by. People are so indignant at the bombardment that the desire for negotia- tions for peace is scarcely as great as might have been expected. Not a few profess their preference for resist- ance to the utmost. Banicades continue to be built in the interior of Paris. It is proposed to place torpedoes near the gates." AFFAIRS AT VERSAILLES. VERSAILLKS Monday. -at.Damber of Parisian* who flock to Versailles is I constantly Increasing, t-ney worry irom tne city for fear of being taken prisoners or detained as hostages. The other day at the Northern Railway station not fewer than thirty thousand tickets were taken and the trains succeeded each other all <lay at intervals of half an hour. Each train had nearly fifty carriages, and carried about four thousand passengers. Some diminution took place on the report of the intention of the Commune to stop all men under 35 years of age who were required for the civil war, but shortly afterwards the tide of emigra- tion proceeded as rapidly as before. More than eight hundred yonng men who had been ordered to serve in the levee en masse, contrived to effect their escape. They slipped over the ramparts by means of ropes. There is a great deal of talk about conciliation, and patriotic men, who regret to see so much blood shed, are most impatient for the Government of Versailles and the Commune to be reconciled. On the other hand it is asked upon what terms the Government, which was elected by universal suffrage, can treat with the chiefs of a power which imposed itself on Paris. The greatest indignation is felt against the extreme violence which has been dis- played by those who seek to substitute one reign of terror for another. The commission which was appointed to in- quire into the law which proposed to make the courts-martial still more arbitrary in their proceedings has rejected the proposition, and it is thought likely that the National Assembly will follow their example. It is to be feared that, after all the efforts which are made, things will be left to take their course so far as conciliation is concerned, on account of the difficulties which attend its fulfilment. The agents of the Bonapartist party are more lavish of their gifts than ever, and seem to redouble their efforts in proportion to the spread of anarchy and disorder. The officers and soldiers who return from Germany are eagerly assailed by these emissaries, and, besides this, some per- sons who were devoted to the old regime have contrived to slip into the high places of the Government where they can carry on their schemes of restoration at their leisure. Should this state of things be long continued, it is ex- pected that the various parties will issue military pro- nunciamentos, wirch will give rise to complete confusion, and perhaps necessitate the intervention of the German armies. VERSAILLES, April 10, Afternoon. Since the despatch of my telegram yesterday the situa- tion has undergone no change. On the right bank of the river the combatants still occupy the positions in which the close of Saturday's fight left them, and on the left also things are in statu quo. The artillery is always at work, and several times each day there are fusillades both on the Neuilly side and on that of Meudon. But it is mostly maintained from windows and the covering of woods, and more noise than work would be a fair sum- mary of what has been done since noon yesterday. Mont Valerien has been very noisy all night with the rifled 24-pounders throwing 481b. long shells. The precision of the gunners in this fort is remarkable, as they fire right up the Avenue de Neuilly and the Avenue de la Grande Armée; and their accuracy of aim would be sure to involve the destruction of many houses. Only in two or three instances have I seen the shells directed against the Porte Maillot and the batteries erected on the portion of the ramparts close to it explode anywhere else. I think I have seen a hundred fall at the gate, and it is reported that breaches have been made in the rampart to such an extent that the insurgents have been obliged to withdraw their batteries for some distance. As columns of National Guards have been observed coming from time to time down the Avenue de la Grande Armde, shells have been thrown in there, and also into the open space outside the Arc de Triomphe, from which the several great avenues branch off. Through the Bois de Boulogne the insurgents have succeeded in making their way up to the village itself, which they now occupy. The Mayor has escaped, but they have taken the Muni- cipal Councillors and sent them into Paris as prisoners. They have large numbers of skirmishers in the wood, and they occupy the chateau of Baron Rothschild near Long- champs. From his windows, the windows of the houses in Boulogne and the shrubberies in the Bois, they fire on the Soldiers stationed along the right bank of the river from Suresnes to St. Cloud. Mont Valerien is devoting its fire to clearing the woods of this portion of the insurgent army, but if the guns were brought to bear on the village its de- struction in a short time would be inevitable. In the course of yesterday a regiment of Gendarmes advanced from Courbevoie towards Asniferes, which is close by, and which is occupied by the insurgents. They were driven back by a hot fire from the insurgents. To-day artillery is being sent here. Within the last twenty-four hours the rebel Nationals have been driven back by batteries placed behind a barricade to the height over the village. An action on a very large scale is spoken of as likely to be fought in a day or two. It is said that M. Jules Favre obtained from the Prussians during his visit to Rouen yesterday a further modification of the treaty, and that, from 80,000 men, the French Government will be allowed to augment the army of Paris till it numbers 150,000 or more. This morning the obsequies of Generals Besson and Pechot, killed in the attack on the Bridge of Neuilly, were performed at the Cathedral. The Place St. Louis, in which the cathe- dral is situated, was lined with the Boldiers of the54thRegi. ment, ranged in three double lines on each side. A guard of honour of the same regiment was ranged up the steps of the church, and from the entrance door to the screen of the sanctuary, soldiers, fully armed, stood while the coffins were being carried up, and during the funeral service. Over the black palls the flag of France was spread on each coffin, and on it were the kepi, tunic, and sword of the Gererals. The porch, the altar, and the pillars of the Cathedral were draped with black cloth, and hundreds of lights burned along the nave. The coffins were placed side by side in front of the screen, at their head being a large crucifix, and around them were tall wax lights. At 9 o'clock the coffiins were borne in, followed by a number of Generals in uniform, among whom wasGeneralTrochu. The Bishop, a most venerable-looking man, took his seat on the episcopal throne The Mass for the dead was then chanted amid mournful strains of vocal and instrumental music. At the elevation of the Host the soldiers along the nave presented arms and dropped on one knee. There was a grand solemnity about the whole service. M. Thiers and M. Jules Favre were present. Several persons from Paris who escaped by lowering themselves with ropes from the ramparts have arrived here. Some are said to have made their way out through the sewers. General Henry has not escaped, but he has been removed from Versailles.—Timet Versailles Cor- respondent. DEVASTATION ON THE PARIS OUTSKIRTS. Neuilly is, without metaphor, a city of the dead. As far as the principal avenue is concerned, there is nothing remarkable to be seen. Brown-red spots upon the pave- ment mark the passage of death, while holes ploughed in the ground and trees torn up and scattered shew that the struggle was a desperate one. The side streets present a heartrending spectacle, and give us a foretaste of what we are to expect should the Versailles army force an entrance into Paris. Piles of bodies, Versaillais and Federals, littered the doorsteps, and lay in heaps upon the staircases, while long, thin lines of blood marked the progress of some victims, wounded unto death, who had crawled into a cup- board or beneath the shadow of a fireplace, and lay there still, with calm, white faces,, fixed in ghastly relief in the light that penetrated down the chimney. In some in- stances there had evidently been a severe contest, handtc hand. Men lay in two and threes, one upon another, and 1 felt like a ghost in some Icelandic tale of horror, the only living creature among so many dead. The distant fusillade and crash of shells served but to increase the stillness and impress me with the general hush. I was astonished to remark thai several women had fallen, in one instance pierced by many balls. All of them were in the can t iniere uniform, some with a gaily-painted little cask strapped round their waist, others with pistols undischarged still in their belts. There was one lying alone within a court- yard, a handsome young woman, with black hair braided about her temples, a smile upon her lips, and the frag- ment of a sabre in her hand. She belonged to the 68th battalion, and had been struck down by the explo- sion of a shell. Further on, half buried under a heavy door which had fallen from its hinges, were two men, one a sailor and the other a soldier of the line, killed by fragments of the same projectile, and half across the door and over the courtyard stones were trails of some long creeper just bursting into e.. Many houses are unroofed and open to the sky, while shattered blocks of stone and heaps of bncks and slate render some of the narrow lanes almost impassable. I find upon inquiry that a very large pro. portion of the victims of the last few days are women, counting together those who have been killed by accident and those who have perished sword in hand. One lady, indeed, bids fair to rival Theroigne de Mericourt- "Citoyenne Eudes," as she is called, wife of the general of the same name, who now commands at Issy, and who is a member of the Com- mune. It is said that she has been under fire several times, and has picked off her men with soldierly sang froid. I wandered from street to street and about the charming villas that nestle among trees along the Neuilly road, and a melancholy sight they are. Everywhere choice shrubs lying prone upon the ground, and fragments of china vases and splinters of green shutters—statues wltboùt lIeads, fountain tazzas overturned, otucomestom down, and verandahs bent and broken.—Times Correspon- dent. M. Glais-Bizoin has. been arrested. The Prussian agents at the Northern Railway Station ensure the regularity of trains. Some difficulties having arisen, it was arranged that a detachment should be posted at the junction with the ceinture railway. The Commune is determined to make its subjects fight. Schoolmasters, exempted from military service under every regime up to the present, will now be compelled to join the ranks. Immediately following upon this de. cision, many instructors have fled precipitately from the schools. The Cure of St. Eustache, Paris, who had been arrested, was released on Saturday night. On the following morning he performed High Maoa in his church. When the Cure ascended the pulpit, an extraordinary scene immediately ensued. The men waved their hats, the women their handkerchiefs—a most enthusiastic welcome Not a word was spoken. Says the Parisian correspondent of the Times:—" I spoke lately of an emigration of 150,000 persons; this figure would have to be doubled now, and would still be below the fact. Paris is becoming a desert. Its great houses are half empty. By day, and in the finest possible weather, hardly any passengers are to he seen on the Boulevards, which, during the siege, were so animated." As in the time of the siege, a Special Commission has been appointed to build barricades distinct from the other defences of Paris. Rochefort declares that during the siege he was prepared to defend his barricades with 30,000 Orsini bombs, and he recommended the Commune a fortnight ago to prepare in like manner. It is doubtful if many bombs remain after all the seizures that have been made, but the barricades are being raised vigorously. Three very important ones are now building by the Place de la Concorde to block first, the line of quays; second, the Rue de Rh oli; third, the Rue Royale entrance to the boulevards.—Daily News Correspondent. At the Hotel de Ville there is an exhibition the like of which was probably never seen before. Here it is that all particulars may be obtained of those who have been killed or wounded during the different engagements. In the long corridors you meet everywhere, wandering pur- poselessly, with handkerchiefs to eyes, the female relatives of the fallen. But not even this sight brings home the horror of the struggle so forcibly as another that meets your eyes. This is a series of photographs—photographs of the dead whom no one has yet recognised. Side by side with these are the number of the regiment to which the dead belonged, and that of the coffin in which their remains have been enclosed.—Telegraph Correspondent. The correspondent of the Standard speaks highly of the Government troops :—" The appearance of the troops is satisfactory in the extreme, and I find it difficult to realise that the orderly, respectful, and tidy troops whom I now see here are the soldiers whom I saw dirty, ragged, and undisciplined at Tours, and drunken and disorderly at Bordeaux. I have not seen a soldier pass an officer with- out saluting him, and the officers as invariably return the salute—an act which in times past they frequently omitted to do. The men were clean and cheerful. It was evident that the discipline was severe. When not at work I observed the soldiers engaged in diligently cleaning and brightening their equipments, and the officers moved about them with an air of attention and interest in their work which impressed me as a great and favourable change. Most of the regiments are composed entirely of young troops, the levies of October last, but their rough work had aged and hardened them, and they looked fit for any. thing."

NEWS FROM AMERICA. A correspondent writing from Philadelphia on March 29th saysSenator Sumner, of Massachusetts, in the Senate, on the 27th of March, delivered his address against the President's policy of forcing the annexation of St. Domingo, which he has for several weeks past been preparing. He had a crowded audience, the House ad- journing early to allow the members to go over to the Senate Chamber; the Diplomatic Gallery being crowded with representatives of the foreign Lega- tions, and the Senate floor and galleries being filled by hundreds of spectators, many ladies among them. The speech, which the Senator read from printed slips, occupied several hours in the delivery, but it is not up to the usual mark of its author's ability, possibly be- cause its subject is not of such momentous importance as those with which he has usually dealt. It is vindictive and bitter against the President, and, although no reference is made to its author's supercession as chairman of the Foreign Committee, it is evident that has added spice to its temper. The San Domingo contest is one that of course, attracts but little attention in Europe, com- pared with its engrossing importance to the American politician. Of the speech itself, the warmest supporters of the Administration can. not say that it was not forcible and effective. It did not touch the point of the expediency of acquiring San Do- mingo, nor in any manner prejudge the questions the com- mission were appointed to consider. The policy of an- nexation was one thing, and the acts by which the President had sought to carry out that policy was another. Taking the incomplete official evidence that had been laid before the Senate, Mr. Sumner deduced from it that the President had both negotiated a treaty and levied war without the authority of Congress, and in direct violation of the Constitution, employing the navy of the United States to uphold a usurper against his own people, and entering into a compact with that usurper (through an ambassador illegally appointed! to defend^ him against all enemies at home and abroad • whereas it was expressly provided in the Constitution that the assent of the Senate was necessary for a treatv and that Congress alone had the power of making war Mr. Sumner further maintained that to enforce this com- pact the ships of war of the United States, their officers and crews, had been placed by the President under the orders of a foreign and half-civilised ruler, and that this arbitrary and unauthorised conduct had been persisted in even after the compact by which the President agreed to do it had been rejected by the Senate. There can be no doubt that the effect of Mr. Sumner's speech will be damaging to the President. After it had been finished, strongly-uttered but brief replies were made by two or three of the partisans of the Administration, including Mr. Morton and Mr. Frelinghuysen; but they were without much effect, and Mr. Schurz, of Missouri, supplemented Mr. Sumner's attack in a speech even more telling because devoid of the needless classical quotations and ostentatious learning the Senator from Massachusetts always introduces into his public efforts. The debate will be continued yet for several days. Messrs. Wade, White, and Howe, the San Domingo commissioners, accompanied by their secretaries, stenographers and scientific staff, reached Washington cn the night of the 27th. Their report will be submitted speedily to Congress, but it is under- stood that they are not prepared to advise the annexation of San Domingo. The debt of the country is not large enough to constitute any serious obstacle, being less than two millions of dollars, but more than one-third of this is represented to be duetoBaez and his family for arrears of official salary, and this is sus- picious, to say the least of it. While the commissioners were going up the River Potomac a circumstance occuned which will gravely excite the ire of the Republicans in Congress, and possibly call for legislation at their hands. Dinner was served on the steamboat, and Mr. "Frederick Douglas was not per. mitted to take his seat at the table with the other passen. gers, the social equality of the negro with the white man not yet having been admitted in Virginia. The last but one of the eleven children of Henry Clay dIed. at his home near Lexington, Kentucky, on the 25th instant. This was Thomas Hart Clay, who was minister to Hon. duras under the presidency of Mr. Lincoln. He was sixty-nine years of age. Another prominent man has died within a few days in Virginia—Charles Carter Lee, the older brother of Robert Edward Lee. He was a man of literary tastes and of a most amiable character. The Joint High Commission have been honoured with an excursion to Mount Vernon, the home and burial place of the great American. All the British Commissioners were of the party, which was conveyed on board the United States war steamer Tallapoosa. After several hours spent in visiting the tomb and the house and grounds, the guests were brought back to the city, and the time of the return trip was passed pleasantly at the festive board.

PniNCE ARTHUR AT THE REVIEW.—At the head of the Fourth Division—for which, through some unexplained hitch, we had to wait a very long time-was I Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, gigantic in scarlet and gold; and by his side, slender and slim, in the modest uniform of a Lieutenant of the Rifle Brigade, rodeH.R.H. Prince Arthur. It was noticed that his Royal Highness wore the new Rifle shako, a very light and graceful head- gear with a slender plume and it was also remarked by the ill-natured that, instead of turning to salute General Sir Hope Grant and his staff, his Royal head was deci- dedly inclined towards the Grand Stand, with its amazing display of pretty ladies. The Prince looked admirablv well, and was, it is almost needless to say, greeted with tremendous acclamations,—Daily Telegraph* It is now well known, that the Chinese "face" tea with mineral powder to hide the defects of worthless brown leaves, and so pass off the inferior sorts as the best Messrs. W. H. and F. J. Horniman s mode of direct im- portation, and supply to the public (through Agents) of tea free from mineral "facing P0"' > °U1? £ v,Tr:V advantageous to consumers, as urn o' ,renotJ1' ricii flavour, and real cheapness is thereby secured, > old only in Packets. For local Agents see advertisement. EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF A COUGH BY PCKVELI, S BALSAM OF ANISEED. HerMa.je.sty s Gunboat, Netley. —Wick, North-east Coast of Scotland, September 7, 1868. Dear Sir- Having had a most distressing and severe cough, which caused me many sleepless nights and restless days. I was recommended by his Lordship the Earl of Caithness to try your most invaluable Balsam of Aniseed, and I can assure you with the first dose I found immediate relief, even without having to suspend my various duties and the first small bottle completely cured me therefore I have the greatest confidence in tuily recommending it to the million. Mosfc respectfully yours, To Mr. POWELL." W. LINZKLL, H.M. G.B. Netley. The above old-established medicine is invaluable in re- moving Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Difficulty of Breath- ing, Night Cough, &c., and those troubled with Asthma will find it an excellent remedy. Prepared and sold by Thomas Powell, 16, Blackfnars-road, London, and sold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the world, in bottles, at Is. lid. and 2s. 3d. Ask for "Powell's Bal- sam of Aniseed." 15868

SPIRIT ()F mt PRESS. THE VOITOTEEBS AT BRIGHTON. The Times thinks we have reason to be gratified with the material for soldiers which the Volunteers offer tc the service of the country. A Review, however, as itf name implies, is an opportunity not only for recognizing past work, but for judging of the improvements and the modifications desirable in the future, and it would be tc treat the volunteers as a mere toy force, unless, aftei offering them our congratulations, we considered the lessons which may be drawn from the experiences of the last few days. What is more probable than that the special taste for gunnery thus evinced, corresponding as it does to the passion for rifle shooting which originally stimulated the movement, would enable tht Volunteers to render most invaluable service ir the occupation of defensive works? It may be a true instinct which leads the best of the Volunteers tc the mechanical branches of military work, rather than tc that general field service which, though apparently mora simple, demands an amount of combined training verj difficult for them to acquire. But the very same consideratior should direct this impulse to that kind of mechanical oi defensive work in which the deficiencies thus indicated arE of least importance, and would point to the wisdom 01 converting Field Batteries of Volunteers into garrison bat- teries. It is no disparagement to the Volunteers, in short, to say that they cannot do everything. The only ques' tion is what they can do best, and whether they would not do well to confine themselves to certain branches of the services. Let the force be exercised in taking advantage of cover, in throwing up earthworks, in defending intrenchments, and in working guns in position. Let us make up our minds, after due consideration, for what work the volunteers are best fitted, and then let their training, so far as possible, be closely directed to this end. The change would be welcome to all true Vo- lunteers. At present they are exposed to constant criti- cisms on imperfect attempts at displaying acquirements which cannot be expected of them. In the other case, it would be the duty and pleasure of good critics to make the public understand that the volunteers were as useful as they were comparatively unobserved. The Daily News says that the vivid descriptions given of the march on Brighton are supplemented by a companion picture of the sham-fight of which the Sussex Downs were the theatre. While many readers will be content to enjoy the humour, and to animate themselves with the spirit of the stirring scenes which graphic pens have placed before them, others more critical will be eager for the moral of the story. What is the lesson it tells of the condition of our Volunteer force? The most inveterate croakers will with difficulty find material for grumbling, and for that habit of national self-disparagement which is chiefly displayed in the criticisms of spectators upon actors. In the three essential conditions of military efficiency, the Volunteers who were at Brighton shewed that they have the raw material of good soldiers in them, and, indeed, have made considerable progress in the manufacture. They have, to begin with, an excellent physique, as the two days' march to Brighton shewed, in the case of some men who were not exceptionally vigorous, activity and power of endu- rance they have submitted themselves to discipline, and are masters of their drill; and they have education and intelligence. Easter Monday was well spent in a sham battle, which was not all a sham, and in play which exhi- bited the result of past work, and had the promise of future performance in it. The Volunteers are our National Guards and it is with no spirit of exultation, but rather in one of thankfulness, that we contrast, in itself and in the qualities which it displayed, the mimic fight at Brighton with the fearful tragedy now in course of enactment in Paris. The Post considers the actual results of the last Brighton Volunteer review, so far from suggesting that these gatherings are either unnecessary or undesirable, confirm us in the view that they are very useful, and that they ought ought to be continued. They present the military authorities with the best means of testing the acquire- ments and capacities of the force. They afford the Volun- teers opportunities of learning how much they have to learn. They act all stimulants to the energy of the indi- viduals composing the force. If the Volunteers are.deli- berately to be retained and reckoned amongst the defen- sive resources of the country, then unquestionably no stone should be left unturned in the endeavour to raise the standard of their efficiency. As year by year these reviews occur it will be possible to gauge what has been done and gained. The reviews must not be considered as means of teaching. Camps of instruction, brigading with the regular troops, the substitution of qualified officers, the extension of the Mutiny Act and Articles of War to the force— these and such like means and measures must work the change required in the Volunteers. The Advertiser declares that, in allowing 20,000 or 25,000 men to indulge in a yearly sham fight at Brigh- ton or Dover, the motto of the volunteers is reversed. It is defiance without defence. What does it mean? It means, if it means anything, "See, gentlemen on the Continent, what we could dO;" and the worst of it is that they do see it, and form their opinions accordingly. Any German soldier present on Monday must have come to this conclusion—" It is very good of these English domestic warriors to suffer themselves to perform for the benefit of a gaping crowd of sight-seers. It is amiable, but it is not business—it is not an earnest ^of war; it is a joke on a sufficiently small scale. There is a good deal of fuss and feathers,' and some very creditable file-firing with those new Snider guns, which must frighten the fat Southdown muttons: but it would not resist an attack under our Von Moltke with 500 field guns. What do these English mean ? We thought they were a practical people. What a capital place is Brighton to shell! What an invitingly open town!" Once more, let it not be thought that we are desirous of casting the slightest reflation upon our citizen troops. We repeat, that they have done all that could be expected from them. Thft>y have done wonders in surviving the almost systematic efforts to keep them back, if not to break them doWD. They have been flattered and snubbed, humoured and fooled by turns. Had the nations of Europe been stationary in their warlike equip- ment and organisation, the volunteers, as they are, might have sufficed to make England secure, and even strorg. But the vast military mechanism of Germany requires that we, too, should make a practical effort to keep pace af far as possible with her progress anti development. That we are not doing so by means of Brighton reviews and sham-fights is painfully patent to the civilian as well as military apprehension. THE LICENSING BILL. The Telegraph quotes the old proverb, So many men, so many opinions," and points to Mr, Bruce's Licensing Bill as a practical illustration of its truth. The advocates of the temperance movement, with whose motives we deeply sympathise, though we are constrained to differ from many of their suggestions, will think that Mr. Bruce has not gone far enough. The partisans of free trade in liquor will say that he has gone much too far in the way of interference. We have the publicans already coming forward to tell us that the ten-year clause is an unrighteous and unconstitutional invasion of the rights of private property. Their opponents reply that no man can claim a vested interest in the degradation and misery of his fellow-citizens; that compensation might as well be demanded in the case of slave-ships or disorderly houses as in that of a gin palace. Many are of opinion, that without any special legislation whatever we might, by the mere enforcement of the law as it stands, get nd of our super- fluous publichouses. In this country we have no desire to import anything like paternal Government." From the moment Englishmen cease to govern themselves, they will lose the great characteristic which makes them of some little account in the world. We say—still speaking of London-that the detestable vice of drunkenness—the fruitful mother of other vices—is not only not on the in- crease, but is distinctly on the wane. Although there are far too many drunkards amongst us, the opinion of their fellows is against them—not with them. The respectable working men scout a drunkard, and avoid his society in a way which would have astonished our upper classes at the beginning of the century. This result has been brought about, we will not say under had laws, but. at any rate, under laws feebly ad- ministered. We would say to that section of the Temperance partisans who are of opinion that their object can be realised by a system of repression, that their object is ours, although we believe that it can only he attained by a different path. We are not hopeful of good results from the project of handing London over to the great brewers and distillers. We do not believe in the advantage of shortening the "hours;" for tipplers will get at their drink somehow, and their way will be an illicit Way. We scarcely believe that the publicans could make out a case of vested interests but we would not have one respectable house interfered with, now, or ten years, or twenty years hence. Why should we ? The keepers of such houses are the very men we want. Finally, we have a great belief in the energetic enforcement of existing law-very little in bran-new schemes, a la Sieyes, for turning the world topsy-turvy, and making things right Upon paper. We believe, most of all, in the humanising influences by which we are surrounded, and we cannot resist the multiplied evidences of a better state of things, gradu- ally developing on every hand. THE CONDITION OF PARIS. The Standard remarks that the nearer the consumma- tion of the civil war in Paris seem to approach, the more anxiously must we look for the occurrences of every day or hour. If the insurrectionary party shews, as it is likely enough to do, in the last stages of the conflict any- thing like the courage it has lately exhibited, M. Thiers Will capture Paris inch by inch, and will^ have for his Peace, not, indeed, a solitude, but something very much like a ruin. But even this prospect is not so depressing and so alarming as the contemplation of the uses to which the Commune, or the men who govern under that name, may put their authority, in the hours Which immediately precede their overthrow. It is clear that tha Revolution is pitiless to its own partisans, that it imprisons them at its whims, and what may we not, therefore, apprehend, in the twelve hours or so that may elapse between such successes on the part of the army of Versailles as make the surrender of Paris a certainty for the morrow and the actual taking of possession? In any other city, in any other country, such an evidence of the defeat of a tyrannical minority would stir into something like courage the population which had suffered under the rule so doomed. But that cannot be predicated or hoped for of the partisans of order in Paris. They will be help- less until their present masters are beaten, and then they will shew themselves unrelenting in their cry for the punishment of the vanquished. That, how- over, is a later question—one that will come with the future relations of Paris to Francf. and the character and form of the Government of the country, which the victory of the Versailles Government will raise in such a manner that they must be at once met and Settle in terms definitively, if in fact but provisionally. The question of the moment is the fate of Paris during the short time which will elapse before its suppression of the insurrection by the armies of the Government of Versailles. The prospect is one from which we would fain avert our eyes. At the best there will be slaughter and devastation. Too probably the restoration of order and authority will only follow an attack involving a ter- rible destruction of life and property, and too possibly the triumph which that attack secures will be preceded by outrages which will recall the worst times of the first revolution.

An exhibition of industries, arts, and manu- fnctures is now open in the Cutlers' Hall. Sheffield. Those ladies who have not yet used GLKNFIELD STARCH are respectfully solicited to give it a trial, and carefully follow out the directions printed on every package, and if this is done, they will say like the Queen's Laundress that, it is the finest starch they ever used. When you ask for Glenfield Starch, see that you get it, as inferior kinds are often substituted foe the sake of extra profits.

MR. GOSCHEN ON THE MINISTRY. In replying to the toast of Her Majesty's Ministers at the Lord Mayor of London's Easter Banquet on Monday, Mr. Goschen made the following observations :—He had to return thanks on behalf of the Executive of this great country. The Lord Mayor had said with great truth that was neutral ground. He did not represent one party only in the city of London, but the citizens at large. Being trusted with the destinies of the nation, the Government must try to rise to the height of that position. They had been about two Sessions and a half in office; they had tried to be industrious and to confront those problems for the solution of which they had been elected, and there was no one felt such deep disappointment as they at the small amount of result from a vast amount of labour. They had attempted to deal with domestic legislation, and had cleared away some of the problems that had barred the progress of law-making, and they now felt there were many measures deeply affect- ing the interests of the country with which they were prepared to deal. The stupendous events that had hap- pened in Europe had entirely absorbed the attention of the Government and the country. And what had we to do now ? We had to buy back our army, which belonged at this moment to the officers, and not to the nation. It would cost us a large sum of money, but he believed the result would be adequate to the expense. The anxieties attendant on events abroad had been, indeed, intense and overwhelming. The Government had been exposed to much comment, and rightly so. They were glad that every action of theirs was jealously and narrowly scruti- nised..They were prepared to submit their policy and their actions to the fair and impartial verdict of the country and they had not been sorry to see that, what- ever might have been the feelings of the moment or the criticisms of Continental writers, their policy in its broad features had not been called in question as having been other than honourable to the country at large which they had represented in such momentous times. They had pursued a policy which was called a policy of isolation but it had been at all events a policy of unsel- fishness from beginning to end; and he believed there were many countries in Europe which would prefer the disinterested neutrality of England to the sinister policy of some Continental States. He knew the way in which the people of Continental nations regarded the policy of England. They would not believe in our honesty, and always fancied that at the bottom of our policy there were some Machiavellian designs. It was a fixed doctrine among Continental politicians that this country abolished the slave trade because we were jealous of the competition of the French and Spanish colonies, and that we were favourable to Denmark because we were afraid of Kiel becoming a German harbour. Again, one of the views taken on the Continent was that we had been on the side of France because we were afraid of the commercial competition that would arise if certain French provinces should become German. He said most deliberately that, as regarded international politics, we were more honest and more single-minded than any other country in Europe. The habit of self-depreciation in this country had reached an extreme which was not at all understood on the Con- tinent. People there believed it when they were told that we had not got a ship that could go to sea, or a gun that would not burst if an attempt was made to fire it; and they said that if Englishmen were the first to tell such tales, why, surely, they must be believed. It seemed to him (Mr. Goschen) that public opinion in this country was something like a good strong horse out of condition, because it had been fed only on green meat. Recent events in Europe should teach us to rely— not on treaties, for they were often scattered to the winds; not on alliances, for they were occasionally faith- less in times of trouble; not on the word of statesmen, for secret treaties were produced which shook the confidence of every honest politician-but upon ourselves; and he believed that in all essential points England was as strong as ever. Knowing that this was a serious moment in the history of Europe, it was time that we should take measure of ourselves that we should know what we could do, and that we would, if we were called on, hold every man to the obligation to defend his home and to maintain if* J Slory of England at the same height at which it had been held through many generations. oome other toasts appropriate to the occasion were 'rom chair, including the health of the Bishop ?< miy'TT38 r^eacher of the Spital sermon of the day; lhe House of Commons," with which the name of Mr. R- "• Crawford M.P., was associated; and "The Burmese Envoys, to which Paden Woon, Chief Secretary to the King of Burmah, responded in excellent English. Mr. Goschen proposed the health of the Lord Mayor in complimentary terms, and Viscount Gort that of the Lady Mayoress, which were received with every mark of respect. The band of the Coldstream Guards played at intervals during dinner.

An extensive exhibition of industries, arts, and manufactures, was opened in the Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, by the Master Cutler, on Monday. The exhibition is under the auspices of a committee of working men, who represent an organisation numbering 2,500 of the operative classes of Sheffield. THE EGYPTIAN ARMY.—Some idea may be formed of the very complete manner in which the Khedive is organising his army from the fact that he has upwards of 100 American officers in his service. The most important position is held by an officer who acquired a very respectable reputation in the American civil war, and who, with his colleagues, is said to be converting a half-disciplined horde into an efficient standing army. This work of military organisation not only occasioD8 an enormous outlay, but it Introduces into Egyptian politics a considerable element of uncertainty. THE STRATFORD MURDER,—The execution of Michael Campbell for the Stratford murder is fixed to take place at Chelmsford Gaol on the 24th instant. The convict seems quite resigned to his fate and is daily visited by Father Calls, a Roman Catholic priest, to whose minis- trations he appears to pay assiduous attention. Campbell, who seems an intelligent man, occupies his time by reading pious books. He says he did not strike his victim with a knife, as stated, but with a small jemmy which he carried. The culprit served in the army for seven years, but deserted. SACRILEGE.—On Sunday last St. Paura Church, Old Charlton, near Woolwich, was burglariously entered, and a number of articles belonging to the church stolen. Among them were a pair of reading stands, of open work, with a lamb in centre; one large and one small plated alms dish, the centre of the large one had the monogram J. H. S." engraved on it; an ivory handle knife, with brass back, and a bottle of wine. The alms dishes are supposed to have contained about 10B. A reward of JB10 has been offered for the apprehension and conviction of the thieves, but up to the present time they have not been discovered. WOMEN JUBOHS.—At the close of the term of the Court of Laramie, Wyoming, at which some women jurors served, Judge Howe expressed the thanks of the commu- nity to the jury for their honest, impartial, and capable discharge of their duties, and added that he was prepared to endorse fully and unqualifiedly the excellent results that spring from the influence and presence of women in the jury box; that he had not been able, with the closest observation, to detect the least objection or unfitness in women to serve in that capacity, and he had reason to be- lieve that the introduction of her refining and humanising influence marked a new and improved epoch in the admi- nistration of justice. EMIGRATION FROM INDIA.—An annual Parlia- mentary return shews that in the year 1870, 4,026 immi- grants from India were introduced into the island of Mauritius, and 7,742 into the West Indies, the latter number comprising 4,943 brought to British Guiana, 1,893 to Trinidad, and 906 to Jamaica. From 1843 to 1870, 349,001 immigrants and liberated Africans have been introduced into Mauritius, and 225,993 into the West Indies, India furnishing 475,464 of the total number. In 1870, 2,842 returned home from Mauritius, 421 from British Guiana, with earnings amounting to j212,290 re- mitted for them through Government agency, and 408 from Trinidad with jei0,782 so remitted. Since 1843, 7,621 have returned home from British Guiana, and more than £128,000 of earnings were remitted through Govern- ment agency for 6,313 of them; 97,418 returned home from Mauritius, but there is no account of their earnings remitted, nor any complete account for the West India Islands. MR. C. SEELY, JUN., M.P., ON THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT. —A deputation from the Midland Associa- tion, for obtaining the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act. waited upon Mr. Seely, Jun., M.P. for Nottingham, at the Flying Horse Hotel, in that town, on Monday, to request his support in the House of Commons. Jn reply, the hon. gentleman said he had always been opposed to 'hose Acts, and had seen no reason to change his opinion indeed, from what he had seen and heard, his objections to the Act had been strengthened. He, however, did not think it would be advisable to take any steps in the House until the Royal Commission (which had been sitting some time) had made its report. There was a notice on the order book of the House for the repeal of the Act before the Commission had issued its report, but he did not think any good would come of it. He considered the Act a gross infringement of the per- sonal liberty of the subject, and should most certainly vote for its repeal. The two front benches of the House of Commons were in favour of the Act, and any bill for its repeal would have to be conducted with great general- ship, in order to bring it to a successful issue. He be- lieved, however, that the country, if polled, would be 20 to 1 against it. CAPTURE OF ILLEGAL FisHEns.—While one of the West Highland steamers was on its homeward trip this week, a fishing boat drew alongside and began dis- charging a cargo of newly-caught herrings. While the transference was going on, the small tender attached to the Jackal hove in sight, and caused no small amount of alarm and bustle among the parties concerned. Mr. R. Spillers, the master of the tender, by means of the glass, noticed that things were not as they should be, and bore down with all speed, but was only in time to see the steamer move off with the smack m tow. Mr. Spillers, baulked in catching the smack, had his attention drawn to another at some distance, which he regarded as suspicious-looking. 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THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) DISCRIMINATION.—Farmer (to Whip"): I say, Jim. if the tox should break there, he'll be headed by them nl coats!"—Whip: '"Taut the coats, 'but them aaisim them.' They keeps on a chatterin' all the while A SEA OF TROUBLE.—A telegram from Paris, the other day, stated that:—" The exodus of families continues oa a grand scale." We wish the people of the Parisian Exodus well out of their Red Sea. Two DROPS OF COMFORT.—Publican: P-o-on my word! Things is coming to a pretty pass "— Cabby: Lor* bless yer, guv'ner, you ain't no call to be afraid. Why, Mr. Bruce, he tried to reform the ca bs! WeH, ?ere we are !—Has we wos !—No better, an' no WU8 BRIGHTON REVIEW.—Adjutant (to inexperienced officer with unmanageable horse): "Now then, Major J one*, your men are retreating. Mount, and follow them at once!—Major: "It's all very well to say' Mount!' but that is just what I've been trying to do ever since the firing commenced." MISAPPLICATION.—Clergyman's wife (who takes great interest in her Industrial School): "Jane Brown, I'm sorry to hear from your mistress that you are not diligent at your needlework Now, you know who it is that finds work for idle hands to do'?"—Jane Brown (art- fully thinking to propitiate): "If you please, 'M, yeom dew, 'M CASE OF CENSUS CONSCIENCE. —Conscientious head OF family (an old lady, giving the paper, on Monday, to the Enumerator): Here is the paper, Mr. Accumulator, but I want particular to say something for the information of Her Majesty, bless her heart, likewise her family! Which you see it says slept or abode,'—and I wouldn't deceive Her Majesty and her Government on no account, and the fact is I didn't sleep a wink all the blessed night by reason of a tooth, which I hope you'll explain to the Queen, and say I couldn't have it took out on Saturday, a* my dentist is of the Jewish persuasion, which I don't blame him for, quite the reverse, but I am going to hi*" to-day to have it extricated, and so please to say that I only 'abided,' &c., &c., &c., &c. (From Fun.) NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS.— Granted: but no one desires a succession of ill-luck. IN TERROREM.—The present state of affairs in Paris may be described as the Reign of Error. But it should be remembered it is within a t" of being identical with the Reign of Terror. AN INJURED FEMALE.—Strong-minded Wife, looking over papers filled up by feeble Husband Pray what do you mean, Mr. Chankey, by returning yourself as Head of the Family, insulting your wife by calling her a Female ?" A RETIRING DISPOSITION.—Agony of mind of Jobber, late of the Stock Exchange, on finding that according to Instruction 23, he must return himself either as a Re- tired Farmer or Retired Grocer." We believe that he eventually returned himself as a lunatic. PUTTING HIM DOWN.—Small and Feeble Husband (meekly) to Head of the Family (Mrs. ) filling up paper: "What have you put me down as, dear?"—H. of F. "I have put you down as an idiot, sir."—Collapse of S. and F. H. UNIFORM.—The revolutionary Government in Paris, which gives itself the questionable title of La Commune, has departed considerably from the simplicity of old Re- publicanism. The red flag is now adorned with gold fringes and tassels, and glittering inscription. The Mili- tary Commanders, in common with the troops, display the white feather. In other respects the only thing about them that can strictly be described as uniform is inca- pacity. (From Judy.) One Key to Irish Grievances- Whis-key. The best Revolver out—The world. When a newspaper apologises for a libel it has printed, does it do penance in its own sheets ? Ask DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—" What is the matter?" Why Clara's new chignon has come home half an hour before the Doddleson's dance, and it is at least five shades lighter than the rest of her hair!" A TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE.—" What have I got here?, Somethink rayther choict, I can tell you. The new Special Schneider Patent Safety, these is. Won't ignite on no box at all unless there's a R in the month, and won't burn then, unless it's Leap Year."

The Board ot Trade inquiry respecting the colli- (ion between the steamship Himalaya and the barque Cornwall, during a fog in the Bristol Channel, on March 19th, has resulted in the officers of the Himalaya being absolved from all blame. THE COUNTESS OF DERWENTWATER'S RELICS. —The "relics" of the "Countess of Derwentwater," which have been for some time in an unoccupied house in Murton-street, Sunderland, have been taken possession of in consequence of her ladyship's bankruptcy. ACCIDENT TO THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY'S DRAG. —As the Earl of Shrewsbury was driving a party of friends to Lichfield Racecourse on Tuesday, in his private- omnibus, the vehicle was run into by another omnibus, which came rattling along without a driver. His lordship's drag was nearly smashed, and several of the inmates must have been injured, as blood was seen to flow freely. Assistance was promptly at hand, and the Countess and several ladies returned at once to Lichfield-Sporting Life. EMIGRATION TO CANADA.—The first party of emigrants sent out during the present season by the Clerkenwell Emigration Club took their departure for Canada from Euston-square on Monday evening. This society, which has alreadj assisted in this way 1,706 of the poor and unemployed, intends to forward a second party on the 27th inst., and funds for that object are much needed. The Rev. A. Styleman Herring superintended the departure on the Monday evening. The emigrants pro- ceeded to Liverpool, and thence to Quebec by the Allan line of steamers. REPUBLICANISM IN LONDON.—It is now announced, that Mr. G. W. M. Reynolds has been invited to preside at the proposed demonstration inHyde Park next Sun- day also that Menotti Garibaldi will take part in the. proceedings. Last Sunday night, it is said, the landlord* of the Wellington, Hotborn, refused to allow the Republi- cans to hold their discussions in his establishment, and' notified that the prohibition would be permanent. At present the party is broken up into two sections, but the leaders of each are anxious for a reconciliation, and are now watching events in Paris, in order to be guided by them in their future action. At a meeting of the Velocipede Association, re- cently formed at Surbiton, John Keen won a race against nine, doing five miles just, under 20 minutes. Two sisters, named Mary Jane and Isabella. Hill, while waiting, on Good Friday evening, at the Briton Ferry station of the Great Western Railway, were pushed by the crowd under the wheels of an approaching train. One of them was killed on the spot, and the other survived until the next day.