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RUMOURED SECESSION TO ROME.—The Advertiser says it was stated on Thursday night, with all con- fidence, that a lady of distinguished rank, and whose husband fills a most important Government office, has joined the Church of Rome. It is no less confidently affirmed that the noble lord, her husband, will speed- ily follow. The Echo, without affirming the truth of this rumour, believes the lady alluded to is the Coun- tess Spencer, wife of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. THE COUHTS OF JUSTICE SITE.—The Law Journal understands that great efforts are being made to effect a compromise between the Chancellor of theExchequer and Sir Roundell Palmer with respect to the site of the new Courts of Justice. The first meeting between these two gentlemen, which was held under the ans- pices of a member of the Conservative party, resulted in widening the breach between them. Since that date pressure has been put upon Mr. Lowe by leading members and supporters of the government, and there is now a strong probability that the advocates of the Carey-street site will ultimately win the victory. AN OLD MAN OF SEVENTY SUED FOR BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—At Turriff Small Debt Court a case which excited great interest—being the first breach of promise case tried at that court—was de- cided. A woman named Mitchell, belonging to the parish of Leslie, sued Wm. Oldham, a tailor in Fyvie, for 212 damages, in consequence of defender having engaged to marry pursuer and failed. The case came up at last Court, and was continued for the ap- pearance of the pursuer. The appearance of the parties in Court caused much merriment to the numerous spectators—Oldham being over seventy year of age, leaning on a staff, and evidently weakly in body and mind his would-be wife was a decent looking country woman, between forty and fifty years of age. The case was gone into at great length, but before going into the merits, the Sheriff gave the aged defender a last. chance of closing the case by taking the lady. Are you quite sure you won't have her yet, old gen- tleman ?" The old gentleman" declined the offer, and witnesses were then called. A plea of insanity was set up for the defender, and two medical gentle- men were brought to support it; but one of them li- mited his evidence to Oldman's being imbecile to a de- gree that rendered him incapable of managing his af- fairs, and the other merely considered him of a weakly nature. The parties had only met three times ere the banns were proclaimed, and no attempt was made to deny that promise of marriage had been made. A couple of clergymen, who had tried to arrange a com- promise, were also examined—the one stating that the defender was not capable of managing his affairs, or in a fit condition to be married, and the other de- poning as strongly on the other side, and adding that he would have married him without any hesitation. The Sheriff found for the pursuer, but as she seemed much better without her husband, lie thought twenty shillings would cover all the loss she had sustained. He did not attach much importance to what had been said about the defender being weak-minded, as many weak-minded people get married. (Laughter.) De- cree for £1 and expenses accordingly.

It is said that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is expected to visit the Right Hon. the Earl Fitzwilliam at Wentworth Woodliouse, near Rother- ham. some time dft ine: the present year. THE ROYAL VISIT TO H ULL.-tSome arrangements have already been made with regard to the approach- ing royal visit to Hull. The Prince and Princess of Wales, on leaving Manchester on the afternoon of Wednesday, 21st July, will go by rail to Brough, and they will be driven thence to Brantingliamthorpe, the seat of Mr. Christopher Sykes, M.P. Next morning they will proceed by the Hull and Selby branch line of the North Eastern Railway to the West dock at Hull, arriving there at one o'clock. The train will run up to the quays of the new dock. Various addresses will be presented. As the low state of the tide will prevent the dock being opened from the 11 umber, their Royal Highnesses will enter a steamer in the lock pit, and be conveyed thence into the dock. A grand luncheon will afterwards be given by the Dock Commissioners, in a new warehouse, decorated for the occasion, to which 1,200 guests are to be invited. Whether any further festivities will take place is at present uncertain, as the Prince wishes to be in Lon- don on the same evening. The Mayor and Corpora- tion, however, are desirous of entertaining their Royal Highnesses at the Town Hall. A letter has been re- ceived from Earl de Grey and Ripon intimating that thfi Queen has given her consent to the new dock being named the Albert Dock,

The report of an English gentleman having been drowned in the Rhine turns out to be incorrect. MORAL LAw-A bill is before the Canadian Parlia- ment respecting seduction. It provides that a seducer, under promise of marriage, of an unmarried female of previous chaste character, shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, at the option of the court, but shall not be condemned on the sole evidence of the female. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE'S LIABILITIES.—A correspondent of the Standard writes The Duke owes Mr. Padwick £b9,OOO he also owes a Jewish gentle- man jEl 23,000. But if, for the next three years, he is content to live at the rate of £10,000 a year—his wife's income-all these debts will have been paid off, the estates bringing in £70,000 a year. He has, unfortu- nately, backed up heavily another nobleman, but the result of this gallant act remains to be proved. On Friday the Ulster General Assembly had under consideration the report of the committee appointed to suggest what instructions should be given to the committee on endowments in their future dealings with Government. Some difficulty arose as to the Wording of the resolution conveying the general i n- Btructions to the committee. These were decidedly in favour of the levelling-down" policy but some mem- bers thought there should be a condemnation of the levelling up" policy. The latter phrase was objected to and it was ultimately agreed to declare that the Church would give no countenance to any proposal for the endowment of error. THE NEW FACTORY ACT.-A printed document has just been issued from the Factory Department, which is a memorandum of what has been agreed upon by the inspectors in respect to the granting of modifica- tions to particular trades. Taken in conjunction with the understanding come to between the inspectors in April, 1868, this memorandum will extend the modi- fications referred to to the following trades and occu- pations. Modification 12, which gives permission for the hours of work to be taken between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., or between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., as may be de- sired, will now apply to all trades carried on in Lon- don, Edinburgh, and Dublin, to all trades dealing in molten metal; to newspaper printing offices to fac- tories in which no person is employed under sixteen years of age; to factories in connection with retail shops, or dwelling-houses occupied by the employer to factories in which the persons employed are of a class necessarily possessing superior intelligence and education; and to warehouses in which goods are polished, cleaned, wrapped, and packed up. In re- spect to the following trades the hours of work under this modification may be taken between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. only—viz., letter-press printing, bookbinding, and the manufacture of cigars and tobacco. In none of these trades, however, can children under twelve years of age be employed after six o'clock in the even- ing. Under Modification No. 17 male young persons during the night may be employed until the 1st July, 1870, in breweries, marine engineering works, and oil and seed crushing mills. Modification No. 25, which refers to the granting of the eight half holidays on different days, and which authorises the substitution of another day for the Saturday half-holiday, may be granted when required to the occupier of any factory. The employment of male young persons of sixteen years of age as male adults may be authorised till the 1st July, 1870, in the enamelling of metal, metal tube making, boiler making, gasometer making, marine engineering, in breweries, and in chemical works, when the application is accompanied by a medical cer- tificate that the labour would not be prejudical to health.-Star.

M1).. GOLDWIN SMITH AND MR. SUMNER. Mr. Goldwin Smith has addressed another letter from Ithaca to the editor of the Beehive. Remark- 'n!^ 'as keen blamed and ridiculed for having 1 v'- ? r iV' ^uvnr,ei' 8 speech, and the demonstrations w ,i< i oliowed, as affording ground for serious apure- 4iW Smith thus proceeds to jns'ify himself: i • Simmer did not speak merely fur himself being chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, lie spoke as the organ of the Senate, which, instead of re- jecting the treaty in secrer, session, according to its custom, threw open its doors that he might denounce and menace England before the world. All his col- leagues except one voted with him all who spoke supported and commended him. His speech was re- ceived with acclamation, as a faithful expression of the feelings and intentions of the country, by the great organs of public opinion, especially by those connected with the party in power. The antipathy to England had for some time been assiduously cultivated by the press and the President himself, if the circumstantial statement of the great journal of his own party was to be believed, had expressed sentiments similar to those of Mr. Sumner on the question at issue. The propen- sities of the Annexationist Party had been excited by the insurrection in Cuba; and the annexation of Canada had been propounded in a quarter so influential as to cause alarm to the Canadians themselves. If this state of things was not serious, I do not know what state of things is. There are circumstances in the present condition of this country, and tendencies among certain sections of its people, which, if I am not very greatly deceived, will constitute a standing danger so long as an angry question remains unsettled between the two nations. I know, and in my former letter I recog- nised the fact, that the American people in general are too sensible and too right-minded to wish for war. But nations very seldom wish for war. They drift through diplomatic complications, and under the in- fluence of excited feelings, into situations in which war becomes inevitable. We were beginning to drift into one of these situations we should have drifted further if the danger which lay before us had not been dis- tinctly presented to the popular mind and therefore I believe you will have no reason, as a friend of peace, hereafter to regret your publication of my letter."

THE MINES REGULATION BILL. On Friday, a deputation from the Mining Associa- tion of Great Britain, accompanied by a large num- ber of members of Parliament, waited upon the Home Secretary on the subject of the Mines Regulation Bill. Mr. Walter Williams, the chairman of the Associa- tion, said the deputation desired that, if the system of inspection was extended, men should be appointed to the office of inspector of the same character and position as the present inspectors. They did not think it desirable to have two systems of inspection at their mines, and they considered that the inspectors should be the persons to carry out the provisions of the Work- shops Regulation Act. The Association asked that the check weigher should be liable to be removed they did not wish to have power to discharge him ar- bitrarily, but they wished that he should be liable to removal.—Mr. Bruce asked who should be the judge? —Mr. Williams replied the master. The Association desired to have the clause requiring the division of mines into parcels and districts struck out. With re- gard to ventilation, the masters were ready to take all the responsibility of properly conducting their niines, but they desired to be exculpated from the conse'- quences of accidents which it was perfectly impossible to guard against. They also thought that the use of gunpowder should be allowed in cases approved by the Government Inspector.—Mr. Elliott, who bore his testimony to the fair spirit in which the workmen had discussed the provisions of this bill, suggested that a magistrate should be the person to whom the masters and men might appeal in case a dispute arose as to the discharge of the check weigher. Another of the deputation suggested that when a master had reason to find fault with a check weigher he should summon him at petty sessions,and the magis- trate might then have the power of deciding the mar- ter.—Mr. Bruce said he was quite prepared to give that suggestion a favourable consideration.—Another point raised related to the hours of employment.—Mr. Bruce said that the term 12 hours relating to the em- ployment of boys mentioned in the bill was meant to include the time for dining as well as for working in fact all the time the boys were under the ground. —Mr. Elliott, South Wales, proposed a limitation of hours per week or fortnight for boys rather than per day, the hours of limitation to be mutually decided by the masters and the men.—Mr. Bruce said that that suggestion, with some other, might be worth considering-that the boys should not be underground for longer than say 13 hours per day. The workmen had already suggested a maximum of 60 hours per five days, and not more than 10hours per day, for boys between 12 and 16 years old.—Mr. Wickliam also of- fered a few remarks upon the bill. He said if boys were not allowed to go into mines having thin seams before they were 12 years old, they would never enter the mines at all. He was remarking on the educa- tional provisions of past acts for colliery boys, when Mr. Bruce said the educational features of past legalisation in reference to mines had broken down the colliery population were an extremely ignorant one and the Government could not consent to any legislation which did not provide for the improvement of the education of colliers.-Several of the deputation dissented from the Home Secretary's remarks about the ignorance of colliers but the Home Secretary reiterated his opinion in a stronger form.—The deputation then withdrew.

THE RITUAL COMMISSION.—The ritual commis- sioners, according to the John Bull, have agreed to a report on the Lectionary, in the consideration of which they have been engaged for a long time. They have prepared an extra table of lessons for use at Evensong on Sundays, have changed many lessons for holydavs, leaving only four first lessons from the Apocrypha, and about 47 for daily service. The books of Chron- icles are to be read, the Lessons curtailed, and the divisions of chapters not always followed. The Gos- pels and Acts are to be be read once in the year at evening prayer, and the Revelation in Advent. WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER IN MEXICO.—The West India and Pacific Company's steamer Crusader, which arrived in the Mersey on Sunday, brings news from Mexico. The condition of affairs in that country had become deplorable in the extreme. The writer of a letter from Merida says (speaking of events which took place in February) I send you a list of gen- tlemen shot by order of the Government within five minutes after they had been forcibly seized and taken from their houses on the mere declaration of a ser- geant of the revolutionists who, to save his own life, stated that the unfortunate victims had given money to raise the revolution. The names of the decease 1 are Miguel Sastre (formerly English Consul), mer- rhant; Jakinum Gatierez, gentleman; Gustave Can- ton, merchant; Juan Kafuno, merchant; Jose M. Espino, merchant; Dano Nasuera, merchant; and Joseroca Sicero, a youth of 22 years of age. Besides these, a great many other persons of position are in prison who have also been condemned to be shot. Will you believe it possible that such atrocities exist ? What a country and what a race WILLS AND BEQUESTS. — The will of the Right Hon. William Pleydell Bouverie, Earl of Radnor, of Coleshill House, Berks, and Longford Castle, Wilts, was proved in London on the 1st inst., by his sons, the Right Hon. Jacob, now Earl of Radnor, and the Right Hon. Edward Pleydell Bouverie, P.C., M.P., the joint acting executors. The personalty was sworn under £160,000. The will was executed in 1863, and a codi- cil in 1864. Amongst the bequests are two legacies of £10,000, one being left to his daughter Lady Jane, wife of Mr. William Ellice; the other to his daughter Lady Mary, the wife of Lord Penzance (heretofore Sir James Plaisted Wilde), Judge of the Probate and Di- vorce Courts and to his said two daughters he leaves his rings and his shares in the Metropolitan Associa- tion for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrial Classes. He has left legacies to his servants, and to each of his labourers working on his estates zel. A provision is made for his son Edward from his estates at Folkestone, Kent, and those in Wiltshire. The re- sidue of his property he leaves to his eldest son, the present Earl, heietofore Viscount Folkestone. — The will of Sir James Einei son-Tennent, Bart., formerly M.P. of CO, Warwick-square, Pimlico, and of Tempo, Ireland, was proved in London, by Mr. John Pender, formerly M.P., of Crumpsall House, Manchester Mr. John Pitt Taylor, of Eccleston-square, barrister-at- law and Mr. James Torrens, of Belfast, the acting executors and the trustees. The personalty was sworn under £ 6,000. The will is dated 1864, and the testa- tor died March 6 last, aged sixty-five. His only son, Sir William Emerson-Tennent, Bart., succeeds to the settled estates in Ireland, from which a provision is made for his wife and his only surviving daughter, Eleanor.-The wills of the Hon. Francis Henry Wm. Needham and the Hon. William Erskine Cochrane were proved under nominal sums.—The will of Dame Sybella Martha Farquahar was proved under £12,000; that of Dame Maria Sutherland under £ 4,000 and that of Dame Majrift Hart, under £ 8,000.—Illustrated. London News.

SHOCKING MURTVER LONDON. An itinueat was held in London on Saturday on the bodv of Henry Johnson, 37. Thcdef-easedwasala- bnnreremploved at the EastenVConnties Railway, and about a fortnight ago a man named James Dalton, a f07,i Ili VI]t R'ZO In,.l shoemaker, called to see him. Winlst they ware too- ther deceased was heard to say Oh prav for God's sake do not kill me." A woman named Clayton, on hearing this, entered the room and saw Dalton strik- ing Johnson with a poker. She called to her husband, and they succeeded in wrenching the weapon from the prisoner's arasp. When apprehended Dalton said, I did it I wish I had given him more he owes me money and he will not pay me." The prisoner after- wards said, "I do not care if I am hanged for him." The medical evidence went to show that the wounds on deceased's bodv were caused by such an instrument as a poker. The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Wilful murder against James Dalton." Robert Johnson then stated to the Court that his brother did not owe the prisoner any money. He had promised to lend him 18s, and he had not done so. The Coroner issued his warrant for the committal of the prisoner to Horsemonger-lane Goal and for his trial'at the sessions of the Central Criminal Court.

THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. LETTERS FROM GLADSTONE AND BRIGHT. The following communication has been received from the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, in acknowledg- ment of resolutions in reference to the Irish Church Bill, adopted at a large open-air meeting at Bradford 10, Downing street, June 12, 1869. Sir,—I have had the honour to receive the resolu- tion passed at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Bradford on the 10th instant. So far as that resolu- tion refers to myself personally, I accept the commu- nication with respectful gratitude. So far as it ex- presses the sense of the great community of Bradford. with reference to the Irish Church Bill, I regard it as giving utterance in words to that deep and intelligent conviction to which the nation gave by its acts, at the time of the general election, the most authoritative constitutional expression, and which, I believe it still cherishes with unabated confidence and resolution.— I have the honour to be, sir, your faithful servant,- W. E. GLADSTONE. At a meeting held in Birmingham on Monday night the following letter was read London, June 9, 1869. Dear Sir,—I must ask my friends to excuse me if I am unable to accept their invitation for their meeting on Monday next. The Lords are not very wise, but there is sometimes profit to the people even in their unwisdom. If they should delay the passing of the Irish Church Bill for twelve months, they will stimu- late discussion on important questions, which, but for their infatuation, might have slumbered for many years. It. is possible that a good many people may ask what is the special value of a constitution which gives a majority of 100 in one House for a given policy, and a majority of 100 in another House against it. It may be asked also why the Crown, through its minis- ters in the House of Commons, should be found in harmony with the nation, whilst the Lords are gene- rally in direct opposition to it. Instead of doing a little childish tinkering about life peerages, it would be well if the peers could bring themselves on a line with the opinions and necessities of our day. In har- mony with the nation they may go oil for a long time but throwing themselves athwart its course, they may meet with accidents not pleasant for them to think of. But there are not a few good and wise men among the peers, and we will hope their counsels may prevail. I am sure you will forgive me if I cannot come to your meeting.—Believe me, very truly yours, JOHN BRIGHT. The above meeting, at which the Mayor Mr Hoi land, presided, was crowded. After the foregoing letters had been read, Mr. Thomas Lloyd moved and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain seconded, the following i o solutIon ° That this meeting is of opinion that the Irish Church Bill, introduced by Her Majesty's ministers, beino- wise in policy and just in principle, and having passed the House of Commons by large majorities in accord- ance with the national will, as declared at the late general election, ought speedily to become law. Mr. Sampson S. Lloyd rose to move an amendment, and at ten had been an hour and a half on his legs without having been able to make a sentence heard. It was announced that Murphy, the Protestantlectnrer, would address jjie meeting, but he was arrested on entering and was locked up to prevent a breach of the peace.

CURIOUS POINT IN A BIGAMY CASE.—A singular point was raised in a case of bigamy, which came under the notice of the Liverpool magistrates on Mon- day. A sailor named John Miller was charged with bigamy. The two marriages were both proved, but the defence set up was that the first woman married by the prisoner was his father's brother's wife, and as that marriage was illegal, according to the Act of Parliament 5 and 6 William IV., it was in point of fact no marriage at all; that, therefore, the prisoner could not be charged with bigamy.—He was reman- ded, in order that the case might be argued out. SAD ACCIDENT ON LAKE WINDERMERE.—A sad affair occurred, on Monday, on Lake Windermere. A battalion drill of the Westmoreland Rifle Volunteers, Lieutenant-Colonel Whitwell, M.P., commanding, took place on the Belle Isle. On being dismissed for refieshment, five members of the Kendal corps went to the head of the island to bathe. Three of the num- ber jumped into the water, sank, and were drowned. 1 heir names were Scott, Wells, and Shepherd. The sad fatalitv is attributed to cramp. Colonel Whitwell was immediately on the spot, and from a boat rendered every possible assistance. Two of the bodies have been recovered. ACTION FOR LIBEL.-In the Court of Excheouer, on Monday, Mr. R. W. Jackson, M.P. brought an ac- tion for libel against Mr. Bell, the proprietor of the South Durham Mercury. The libel was contained in a letter, in which Mr. Jackson was charged with bri- bery, personation, and other offences at the election for Hartlepool.-The defendant now entirely retracted the charges, which lie said were without foundation, and expressed his regret at having circulated them, and apologised to the plaintiff.—Mr. Huddleston, on the part of the plaintiff, accepted the apology, and, subject to a pi ivate arrangement, a verdict was entered for the plaintiff—damages 40s.—The record in a second case-Jacksun v. Murrell—which was against the wri- ter of the letter, was withdrawn. 1:> ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A NURSE.-At the Han- ley (Potteries) Police-court, on Monday, a charge of attempting to murder was made against a girl named Edwards, aged 11. She had been employed as a nurse by a family named Street, and tin Friday was sent out for an airing with her charge, an infant of six months. When she returned the infant was ill, and a doctor was sent for. He pronounced that the child had been poisoned, and the prisoner, when questioned, confes- sed that she had purchased a pennyworth of red pre- cipitate while out, and had made the child swallow two-thirds of it. When asked why she did this she answered that she wanted to kill the child. The child has since recovered. The magistrates were averse to sending a girl of the prisoner's age for trial at the assizes, and so discharged her. ANOTHER CONFESSION OF MURDER.—An extra- ordinary confession of murder is reported from Hull. Thirty-three yeal s ago an old woman named Lister disappeared mysteriously from Stockton-on-Tees, and some months afterwards her dead body was discovered hidden in a hedge. Her only son, who bore a very bad character, was suspected of having murdered his mother the suspicion arising mainly from the circum- stance that on the morning before her disappearance the old woman said her son was pursuing her to mur- der her and rob her of two pounds. At the coroner's inquest an open verdict was returned, the jury inclin- ing to the opinion that the deceased had committed suicide, from the fact that a razor was found lying beside the body. The son died a few days ago at Hull, and, conscience stricken, he confessed' on his death-bed that 33 years ago he murdered his mother in a plantation at Elton, near Stockton-on-Tees. SURGEONS' EVIDENCE.—An action in the Common Pleas, in which judgment was allowed by default, Poole versus the Great Eastern Railway," has been heard before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burcliell, and occupied more than a couple of hours, to recover compensation for personal injuries. The damages were laid at £ l,500. Mr. Powell, Q.C., and Mr. F. Turner, were for the plaintiff, a clerk in an insurance office living at Pon- der's End Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. Marriott were for the company. On the 21st May last year, on the plaintiff's going home a collision happened at Totten- ham, and he was knocked from one side of the car- riage to the other, and injured. Three medical wit- nesses on his behalf declared that he had received a concussion of the brain, and for the company two sur- geons declared there was no concussion of the brain, but only disease of the heart, which had been of long standing. Mr. Under-Sheriff Burcliell said the scien- tific evidence of the medical men was remarkable. The jury had to decide when doctors differed" and he advised them to import common sense into the case in considering the scientific evidence. The jury as- sessed the damages at JE300

PERJURY BY A BANK MANAGER. At the Mansion House, on Saturday, Mr. ? am tic] • Green way Finney, the general manager of the English Joint-stock Bank, Limited, appeared on remand to answer a summons charging him with having com- mitted wilfuL and corrupt perjury before Mr. George Woolford Lawrence, a special examiner of the Conrt of Chancery, on the 27-th of November, 1SC6.—Mr. William Gillett, who said he was formerly a member of the firm of Brightwen aud Co. identified < he entry in the books of that firm of the receipt of £ 2,000 on the 2nd of January, 186G, from W. H. or S. G. Finney as in his handwriting. He did not know the defen- dant at all, but had heard his name. The entry was Finney £ 2,000." The chorines for the repayment of that sum were signed by witness, and filled up by clerks named WLeeler and Shelley.—Mr. James Abbiss said I was one of the directors of the English Joint-stock Bank in the year 1865. On the 8th July, 1S65, I was not aware of any such cheque as jB2,250 being drawn in favour of Mr. Bradlaugh, and I never knew of that payment. It was never reported to any board meeting at which I was present. I was not aware of any por- tion of that money being handed to the defendant. With reference to the sum of £2,000 paid to Mr. Ho- ward in September, 1865, with regard to the pur- chase of the Bideford Bank, I was not aware of that payment; and the drawing of that cheque was never reported at a board meeting at which I was present. I never bewof the payment of £4,000 to Mr. Weller, and it was never reported at any meeting at which I was present. I consequently never knew of the return of any part of that snm to the defendant. The defen- dant never reported at any meeting at which I was present the receipt by him of the sums from Bradlaugh, Howard, and Weller.—Cross-examined I believed any commissions paid on the purchase of banks were al- ways included in the purchase money.—Re-examined I always considered that the sums mentioned for tho purchase of the banks of Olding and Co., Bideford, and Nottingham, included commission.—Mr. Lewis, upon that evidence, asked that the defendant might be committed for trial.—Mr. Littler intimated that as the Lord Mayor had committed Mr. Finney for trial on another charge, he would not make any objection to a similar decision in this case. He therefore, on his behalf, would reserve all observations, and post- pone the calling of witnesses until the defendant could be tried by a jury, when he believed he would be able to show his complete innocence of all the matters al- leged against him.—The defendant, on receiving the usual caution jjfrom the Bench, replied, I am not guilty. I reserve my defence."—The Lord Mayor there- upon committed him for trial.—The defendant was bailed in his own recognizances in £ 2,000, and two sureties in jEl,000 each.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO MANCHESTER. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Princess, will visit Manchester on the 19th July, the opening day of the show of the Royal Agricultural Society, and they will remain in that neighbourhood, as the o-uests of the Earl of Ellesmere, until the evening of the 21st, when they purpose going to Hull. The Prince is to open the new dock there on the 22nd. As usual on such occasions, the Royal movements and occupa- tions are mapped out beforehand in a way which will account for every hour of their time, and afford the amplest opportunities for public welcome. If the Prince and Princess should be able to fulfil all—or even something less than all—the engagements set down for them below, none will question that they have done their part in requital of the popular greet- ings and enthusiasm. Their three days' visit will in- clude, besides attendance at the show ground, the reception of addresses from the Corporations of Man- chester and Salford,a public progress through the city, an evening reception at the Assize Courts, and nume- rous other appointments, according to the annexed pro- gramme :— Monday.—Their Royal Highnesses will leave London on Monday, the 19th July, going direct to the show ground, arriving at the Old Trafford Station, alongside the ground, at about three o'clock. The Council will entertain their Royal Highnesses at luncheon in their tent on their arrival. Their Royal Highnesses will in- spect the show ground at their leisure, and then leave for Worsley, through Trafford Park, or go by barge along the canal at about 5 or 5.30 p.m. Tuesday.—Their Royal Higlmes?es will leave Wors- ley at eleven by barge, or drive through Trafford-park, arriving at the show ground at about twelve o'clock. They will stay in the show ground until 1.30, and will lunch with the local committee, under the ex- pected presidency of Lord Derby, at 1.45. At three they will visit the leaping ground and witness the trial of hunters. At 4.30 they will walk through and inspect the Royal Horticultural Society's exhibition, and drive to Worsley to dinner. Their Royal High- nesses will leave Worsley at 9.15 p.m., to visit the Assize Courts, arriving at ten, to receive an address from the Mayor and Corporation of Manchester, and attend an evening party. Wednesday.—Their Royal Highnesses will leave Worsley at ten, driving through Salford, when the Mayor and the Corporation of that borough will present an address in Peel Park. The Royal party will leave Peel Park at 11 30, and drive through Manchester by Victoria-street, Market-street, Portland-street, and Stretford-road (the route taken on a previous occasion by Her Majesty the Queen) to the show-ground, arriving at one. At one the Prince will preside at the meeting of members of the Royal Agricultural Society, as announced. At two o'clock their Royal Highnesses will lunch with the local com- mittee, Lord Ellesmere presiding. At 2.45 they will visit the leaping ground to witness the trial of hunters. At four o'clock the Royal party will leave the station alongside the show ground on their journey to Hull, and it is proposed that the distance shall be performed in two hours. Mr. Henry Whitworth, the local secretary of the agri- cultural meeting, was in London on Friday, when, at a meeting with Colonel Kingscote, the prince's equerry and Lord Ellesmere, the foregoing programme was ap- proved, as submitted by the executive committee.

't'lAfr' ItlaTU R BA>- ( IS IN PARIS. | The Pari^correspondent of the Timl's gives the fol- lowing account of what passed in the streets of Paris on Thursdnyn-id Friday :— It was on Thursday the most important disorders occurred. At Belleville, at-the extremity of the Boule- vard du Temple, in the direction of the Eastile, they becrana little after noon, and grew so threatening as to require immediate measures of pre"altItion and, if necessary, of repression. Before six o'clock the Paris Guards took up the position assigned to them in that onarter, in the midst of hooting from thecfrowd, which they bore with the utmost patience. At half-past seven the crowds had already covered the Place Chateau d'Fau, incessantly moving about, singingthe "Marseil- laise," and shouting. Before nine they they demolished one of the offices or stands of the Omnibus Companv with iron bars and hammers, and farced their way into two houses, said to be of ill frmre, vfrhere they broke all the furniture. A Commissionarx of litfcPolice summoned them in the usual form, by sound of drum, to disperse and as no attention was paid to tfcCBum- mons, the Infantry of the Paris or Municipal Guard moved forward at the ouick step. The' serriedt;mass of rio( ers then su l ^etilv gave way, and fled ifa all cliractions before the steady advance of the troops, tend in fchree nuarters of an hour the wlio'e ground was cleared. The trooris received every assistance from the tradesmen roused to indignation by the ravages committed in the shops. The sereents-de-vil'e succeeded in arresting about 30 of the ringleaders. On the Place de la Bastille the panic was very great during the latter part of the day. The cafes and shops were all shut up, and be- fore eight o'clock the great onen space in the centre of which the column stands was completely covered with people. The crowds became greater and more tu- multuous every moment; they began to throw sticks, stones, and other missiles at the carriages and omni- bnses that passed all this to the accompaniment of seditious cries and songs. For some little time the only force on the ground was the sersreuts-de-ville, and they were powerless to repress the disorder, in spite of the assistance they received from a number of bystanders. The scene, however, soon changed. A little before ten the .troops were heard approaching. They were the Paris Guards, who advanced, and without making use of their weapons, drove. the rioters before them and soon cleared the Place. The crowd dispersed in various directions in the '^jftrent'Vitfeets, and disappeared. Before midnight tranquillity hadjjeen restored in that quarter. On this occasion two or three sergents-de- ville were hurt more or less severely. Some 20 or 30 rioters were arrested. A little after eight o'clock large bodies of men covered the Boulevard Montmartre,sing- ing the "Marseillaise," and shouting for Rochefort. Before ten a formidable band of men in blouses, armed with sticks or iron bars, advanced from the Bastille, yelling out the Marseillaise they demolished the kiosks and tore up the benches as they passed along. The usual summons to disperse was made three times by the peace officers the Paris Guard then charged, and the rioters ran in all directions. But a fresh band appeared armed with heavy sticks, shouting and sing- ing, breaking the kiosks and the gas-lamps. The Guard again charged the rioters again ran away, but soor re-formed more numerous than before. Half-a-dozen persons who had got into carriages in front of the Pas- sage de 1'Opera between the Rue Lepe'.letier and the Rue Drouot, attempted to harangue the crowd. In a few minutes a sort of barricade was thrown up in front of the Varietes Theatre, with carriages upset, kiosks, benches, and fragments of iron railing—in fact of all that could be laid hands on, while an armourer's shop in the Rue Vivienne was attacked, but ineffectually. As appearances were every moment growing more se- rious, a large body of the Paris Guards male their appearance and surrounded the rioters near their im- provised barricade, whilst strong detachments of ca- valry, which had been dispersing the mob and restor- ing order at Belleville, charged the masf and swept it before them up the Boulevard in the direction of the Chaussee d'Antiu. The fugitives wieake l their ven- geance on the kiosks, smashingthe glass as they lan on, and blowing out the lamps, some uttering cries of de- fiance in their reti eat, others calling upon tl e troops not to fire. The barricade before the Varie'eo soon removed by the sejjfgentef-de-ville, aided by the in- habitants of the quarter Th:J last charge upon the Boulevards Montmartre and Italien occune l a little after one o'clock, and before two they were comple ely cleared, and calm restored. Detachments of troops, however, continued for some time to patrol the whole line. The officer commanding the cavalry ha.l taken his measures so well that 500 rioters were all sur- rounded and capture! on the Boulevard, in aldition to those who were arrested in other quarters. There are but few of the many kiosks which line 1>0: h sides of the Boulevard and of the Rue Royale the glass of which is not shattered and the poor women who gain their living by selling newspapers there are in despair. On Friday, an enormous mass of promenaders, but peaceable and apparently inoffensive, thronged the Boulevards from the Rue Chausee d'Antin to the Rue Lepelletier and the Rue Drouot nearly the whole of the day. At half-past five the mounted and foot guards (Paris) moved, with drums beating, from the barracks of the Rue de la Banque and Rue de Tournon to the Mairie of the Rue Drouot, where they took up their station for night service. At seven o'clock the atten- tion of all who were within hearing was attracted by the tramp of the horses coming down the Boulevard. It was a long and imposing train, for there were three regiments of cavalry, one of hussars, one of diagoons, and one of cuirassiers, who had come from Versailles and laler a second one of cuirassiers. They were very loudly cheered on both sides as they rode slowly down the Boulevard. As night drew on, the crowds 011 the Boulevards—the majority of them curious to see what was going on—became enormous. At ten o'clock the Italian Boulevard was barred by a line, composed of sergeants-de-ville, from the Rue Lepelletier to the Rue Favart, which is opposite. To the rear of this line—that is, towards the Boulevard Montmartre — the mounted guard held the causeway, and the in- fantry with their arms grounded, one of the sideways while the mass of spectators, who were kept at a re- spectful distance, stood in a vast semicircle in front of the troops. In the Rue Faubourg Montmartre numerous groups were assembled. On the Boulevard of the same name scenes of disorder occurred the Marseillaise" was roared out, and seditious cries uttered but the squads of sergeants-de-ville succeeded in clearing the way. In the Rue Montmartre there was a collision between the sergeants-de-ville and the rioters, and a good many of the latter w ere ariested. On the'Boulevard Poissonnier all traffic was stopped. The quarters of the Bastille and the Faubourg du Temple remained tranquil, aud in front of the new barracks of the Prince Eugene strong bodies of ser- gcants-de-villeweresialioued. At eleven o'clock the Rue Lepelletier was crowded, but the sergean's-de- ville at length succeeded in driving them all back. Here several persons who had disregarded the order to dispense were arrested. On one of the prisoners two poniards are reported to have been found. Meanwhile, the Boulevard Italien continue 1 to be densely crowded cries were occasionally lieai d, but not so often as the previous night and I believe there was uo demolishing of kiosks. At half-past eleven a body of cavalry, flanked by the infantry of the Paris Guard, moved sieadily up towards the Chaussee d'An- tiu, halting every three or four minutes. The latter cleared alt the sideways, and the former swept the middle spaces. The same operation was peffornied wherever the groups re-appeared in the same place, which they did, though in fewer numbers. At twelve o'clock—that is, more than two hours earlier than the previous night—the Boulevard was clear and tranquil. I have not heard of any bloodshed, though it is said that a pistol was fired at the sergents-de-ville in the Rue Bergere, and the man was arrested before lie had time to throw away his weapon. Bellville was again invaded 011 Friday night by a band of men who at- tempted to recommence the disorders of the preceding days, but before midnight order was restored there also. It is said that there are over 700 persons now in cus- tody. Many of them are youths, soniegarcuns de caje, some who, they themselves say, were only inoffensive spectators. On Saturday, Paris was tranquil and it is hoped that Friday night was the last act of the drama which has been played for four days past. Thepow er- I fnl measures taken by the authorities, the imposing display of the armed force, supported by the police and the Municipal Guard,against which all attempts wotnd seem, hopeless, the active part which the population have taken iutheve-establishment of order, and, not least the moral effect produced by the appearance of the Emperor and Empress on the scene where the greatest riots occurred, all encourage the hope that this factitious agitation is nearly at an end or at least that it will not intensify into insurrection.

The morganatic marriage of Dom Ferdinand, ex- King of Portugal, with Fanny Elsler, must be a second union, as the celebrated dancer had accepted in 1854 the hand of a rich Prussian banker. The other sister, Theresa, surnamed The Majestic, became the wife of Prince Adalbert, the brother of the King of Prussia. Fanny was born in 1610, so that she has now arrived at the age of 59. Rumour, when she was yet young, placed the Duke De Reichstadt amongst her warmest admirers.

THE SHAM INSURANCE COMPANY. At the Central Criminal Court on Friday, before Mr. Commissioner Kerr, George Edmund Reid, 42, clerk, and Edwaid Jones, 25, servant, were indicted for a conspiracy to obrain various sums of money from Alfied Shingleton and other persons, with intent to defraud. From the evidence it appeared that there "a< a company established in 1855, called the Friend- in-Nee 1 Life Assurance Company and the Sick Fund Friendly Society, which was subsequently amalga- mated with the Provincial Union Assurance Society of which E. Reii was an agent and collector. That society was wound up in June, in 18G3, and during the liquidation Reid established the National and Provincial Union Assurance Society, and then took some offices in Chatham place, in Blackfriars. Peo- ple who had subscribed to the previous society for years, and did not know of its failure, continued their payments in the belief that it was the same concern. It was proved that on applying for policies due to them various excuses were made by the prisoners, and small sums offered in settlement, with the representation that the society had been wound up. It was also proved that the Provincial Union was wound up by Mr. Henry Chatteris, and that none of the money paid by the witnesses had found its way into his hands as liquidator. The company's affairs did not realise a single farthing. In November last another company was promoted by Reid, called the National Provincial Union Assurance and Loan Society, and a prospectus to the public soliciting applications for the 10,000 shares of £ l each with which the company was formed. The directors were gentlemen's servants, and the curious relations respecting this part of the case will be fresh in the memory of attentive news- paper readers. Three of the directors had been sum- moned at the Guildhall before Alderman Causton with the prisoners, but the prosecution against them was withdrawn, and they were discharged. Mr. Harris and Mr. Griffiths addressed the jury for their respective clients, urging that there was no intention to defraud and that the case for the prosecution had failed. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners. Mr. Commissioner Kerr sentenced Reid to five years' penal servitude, and Jones to 12 months' hard labour.

THE FERNDALE COLLIERY EXPLOSION. At the former explosion at this colliery, on the 9th of November, 1867, when 168 persons lost their lives, the resident manager was also killed. He was believed to have shown culpable negligence in the superinten- dence of the colliery, and against him a verdict of man- slaughter was returned by the jury at the coroner's in- quest. The pit is laid out in three sections or district, each district separate from the other, and to a certain extent having its own system of ventilation, yet not so distinct as to be entirely free and independent in its supply of air from the others. For a day or two previous to the explosion on the Otli the barometer indicated an increasing density of the atmosphere, and on the morning of the accident it was exceedingly close in some parts of the district. The men went in to work at the usual hour, and by seven between 500 and 600 had gone down and distri- buted themselves through the several districts, from 110 to 120 of them going into the South or Duffryn division of the coalpit. The firemen had previously re- ported that all was right, and the overman and resi- dent manager had been there according to custom. Everything went well until twenty minutes past seven, when there was a loud explosion in the Duffryn work- ings, and in a moment all the roadways .and airways of that district were choked with clouds of dust, car- ried forward by the blast to the upcast shaft. In a moment those who had escaped the fire made their way to the bottom of the shaft, but, unfortunately, the violence of the concussion had driven out the supports, knocked down the air passages, and caused such enormous fragments of the roof to fall in, that many parts of the workings w ere effectually cut off from ventilation. The colliers perished in their dread- ful prison, suffocated by the choke damp. Of the whole number, about one-half, it is believed, came out alive. The rest were killed. The men working at the btrrtviri <>f the shaft wei v aware in a moment that some disaster had happened, and signalled to the banksman but he had previously seen the cloud of dust ascend the flue, and knew what was the matter. The explo- sion, though fearfully violent in the spot where it oc- cune-l, was not of sufficient force to make itself dis- tincily heard or felt in the other districts. The dust driven onwards along the airways had its effect upon the ventiiation of the Blaenliech district, and thus the workmen knew there that something serious had hap- pened, and came out. but in the Rliondda division many of the colliers lniew nothing of the occurrence until they were told of it. All the hands then left their working places and came out. On the surface, besides the blast of dust up the ventilating flue, there was a slight vibration of the houses, which was not mis- understood by the occupants, fur they came running in lai ge numbeis tx> the pit, u lifurt unatel v to have their worst fears confirmed. By a continual change of working parties the work of recovery was kept in con- stant piogiess, and by ten o'clock more than a dozen bodies had been removed, and by twelve there were nearly 40 brought to the bank. After that hour the recovery proceeded very slowly, in consequence of the numerous falls from beneath which some of the bodies had to be dug out. Those who were in the immediate neighbourhood of the explosion were frightfully burnt aud disfigured, having been blown about with incredi- ble violence, until men's bodies had lost all resem- blance to those of human beings. Those, on the con- tiary, who escaped the fire but were overtaken by the afterdamp were little injured, and bore a placid look. At the bottom of the pit the bodies were wrapped in canvas before being sent up, to conceal the horrible injuries they had received from the gaze of the crowds through which they were then carried. In most of the cases of burning it was impossible to identify the bodies from the features. The proportion of deaths from burning was, however, very much smaller than at the explosion of lS6ï. On this occasion the after- damp was the chief cause of death. The number of bodies recovered by ten o'clock was nearly 20, and by twelve 'hey had increased to 39, but from that hour to six o'clock the number had increased to only 41, from which an inference may be drawn of the difficul- ties encountered by the searching party. It was then calculated that there must be about twenty men in the workings. MEPTILYR, Saturday.—The forty-fifth body was brought up at ten o'clock yesterday morning, and it was then thought that the remains of 13 men were still in the workings. Further search was stopped by the timber in the Duffryn district having got ignited. Steps were taken to extinguish the fire, but without avail, and at a conference of the mining engineers it was determined to divert the current and to enclose the burning portion, so as to prevent the access of air. The cause of the explosion has been perhaps some- what elucidated. In the heading in which it is sup- posed to have occurred, an open safety lamp was found upon the ground which had evidently been unlocked after having been closed by the fireman. Near at hand, in the same heading, npon the body of a man who was one of the first sufferers, was found a pipe filled with tobacco, which, against the special rules of the colliery, he had carried into the pit. The inquest has been opened by Mr. Overton, county coroner, at Pontypridd. The jury went by train to Ferndale, about six miles distant, to view the bodies. Most of the men had been burned to death, very few- having been suffocated.—The Coroner said he had written to the Home Secretary, asking him to send another colliery inspector or two down, to make ex- aminations of the working places, and to give the re- sult in evidence at the inquest.—The inquest was ad- journed for three weeks.