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THE OBSERVER, APRIL 2, 1876 4 tive. It ought to have removar 1111,011 nf rKo f. THE THEATRES. intention of discarding the idea of designating the teaming Deen benehted by them? We could reckon the names of those who have done anything worthy at their University for the advancement of learning within the last quarter of a century on the fingers of one hand. Abundant onnr.rt.ro.iKM whether, after all, the Imperial designation would be the one selected by the Ministry to recommend to the Queen.

Everybody was beginning to hope that the new Indian style would not interfere with the old English style, when Mr. Disraeli announced that the new name would be Empress of India. Everybody then felt instinctively that the new title would supersede the old one, and that in giving an Empress to India we Bhould practically lose the Queen of England. Empress would not be Queen writ large. It would be a new form for the Monarchy a break in the long continuity of English regal history a new departure from the oldest of our institutions.

The ancient line of English lungs would merge into a new one, and the name of King and Queen of England which, with only a single break, has been honoured in these islands for nearly a thousand years, would be lost in a new title which has only foreign and disagreeable associations, and which will sound strange and repulsive for a couple of generations. These were the thoughts that, passing through the minds of the great bulk of the people, caused the sudden change and revulsion of feeling about which so much surprise has been expressed. There was an eager response to the proposal to include India in the Queen's title but the enthusiasm was checked, and the whole tide of feeling turned, when the Pkimk Minister spoke the one word which it was instinctively felt would change the character of the English Crown. Lord Shaftesuury's resolution exactly satisfies this feeling. His Lordship nsks that, in seizing a fit opportunity to supply an omission in the Act by which India was transferred to the Crown, there shall be ne danger of making an innovation which everybody regards with reluctance.

The people of England would rejoice that India, and even the Colonies, should be recognised in the Queen's title but they want to have an effectual guarantee that they shall themselves still be able to recognise their Queen. It seems to ub that the House of Lords should be more ready than the House of Commons has been to respect this national feeling. We are face to face with a great difficulty, perhaps with something of a danger. Mr. Disraeli himself has recognised it by assuriug the House of Commons that, so far as he and his colleagues are concerned, they will not advise the assumption of Imperial titles in England.

But the members of the House of Lords know better than anyone else how a supposed higher title supersedes a supposed lower one and though no new Emperor can be as high in position as the wearer of an ancient kingly crown, the popular, and even the courtly practice, is to make Imperial a larger word than Royal. Even while the discussion has been going on, the tendency of the newer title to supersede the old one, has shown itself in many ways. People will talk of the Empress-Quekn, and then of the Empress, and the result which public opinion has so greatly dreaded will inevitably come to pass. The Government can have no control over this part of the business. Even the he ENCORE WHISKY Is recommended by the Medical Profession throughout the kingdom as the pure and safe alcoholic stimulant.

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The Czarewltch the finest Cigarette ever manufactured. THE OBSERVER. XOA'DOiY, SUNDAY, APRIL 2. The House of Lords has at thig moment the opportunity of doing one of the greatest services it has ever rendered to the Crown and the Constitution. Lord Shaftkshury's motion on going into committee on the Royal Titles Bill expresses so exactly the feeling of ninety-nine Englishmen out of every hundred, that we believe its acceptance by the House of Lords would be hailed with an outburst of national satisfaction.

When it was originally suggested in the Queen's Speech that an addition should be made to the style and titles of the Sovereign, recognising the transfer of the direct government of the Indian Empire to the Crown, everybody agreed that the opportunity presented by the visit of the Prince of Wales would be a moat fitting one for this purpose. The word Empire-in the Speech suggested to some persons even that the title would be Empress, and there was at first some willingness to accept the word. But, on second thoughts, the instinctive conservatism of all loyal men with respect to the Monarchy suggested the undesirableneas of ajjy change which might endanger the old associations which have gathered round the throne. People began te ask themselves how they should feel if the old titles of King and Queen became merged in the new words Emperor and Empress. There could be but one answer to this question and men who had answered it for themselves began to ask it of each other.

But while these questions were being thought over and talked about, it was at first doubtful initio Ul those who imagined that Lord Salisbury had suddenly become a convert to Radical views of University Reform, and that the Bill which he had introduced would turn out, on examination, to be an ab solutely revolutionary measure. Some apprehensions of this sort were undoubtedly raised by the speech with which His Lordship accompanied the introduction of the Bill, and which led to the touching spectacle of a Liberal Archbishop of Canterbury rising- to moderate the innovating impetuosity of a Conservative Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Fuller information has removed all cause for anxiety on that score. The names of the Commissioners nominated by the Government to carry into effect the provisions of the Bill are such as could hardly excite a single throb of anxiety in the most Conservative of hearts; and the extent of the po wers they will exercise is such that, whatever the Bill may look like in ita permissary aspect, there can be little reason to dread any practical consequences of a very revolutionary character from its enactment. Both these points came out pretty-clearly in Friday night's debate on Lord Morley's motion to omit the name of the Dean of Chichester from the clause appointing the Commission.

The proposed appointment of Dr. BunGON as a Commissioner has aroused a feeling which was but inadequately described by Lord Granville as one of strong amazement" among all those acquainted with Dr. Bubgon's mental characteristics and the appointment was defended by Lord Salisbury and the Lord Chancellor on curiously conflicting grounds. The former said that Dr. Buhgon was appointed because he was not a man of extremo theological views," the latter defended the appointment on the ground that although Dr.

Burgost held strong views on various questions, and did not fail to express them, it was not to be supposed that other members of the Commission were in perfect harmony with him, or would refrain from expres-" sing their own opinions on the matters with which they would have to deal." Between these two opposite views, one of which represents the Dean of Chichester as in equilibrium and the other as a strong force, counteracted by equal and opposite forces, it is not difficult to make our election. We incline to the latter theory of the Dean's influence on the Commission, and are disposed to ask with Lord Granville for the name of the learned counsel on the other side." Scarcely Lord Selborne, we should imagine and yet his Liberalism, mild as it is, is more pronounced than that of any of his Liberal colleagues. On the whole there is, we repeat, very little danger 01 extreme views of University Reform finding- favour with the new Commission and considering that it is by them and not by Parliament that such important questions as those of clerical fellowship and clerical headships are to be decided, they will be manifestly able to mould much of the legislation of the future in accordance with their very moderate views. The real danger of the situation is not so much that they should go too far in reform, as that they should mistake the direction which reform ought to take. The remarks which fell from Lord Salisbury about idle fellowships, in his speech on introducing the Bill, and which have provoked somewhat excessive protest from those upon whom these observations seem to reflect, indicate, we think, one species of error into which the Commission may possibly fall.

Having no taste for Quixotic enterprises in controversy, we are not about to enter upon a defence of the system of idle fellowships. Undoubtedly they are an anomalous growth of modern times, and however excellent a work it may be to provide a certain number of clever young men with a moderate annuity during such time as it may take them to make their way in the professions, it is unquestionably a work which did not enter into the designs of the pious founder. Nor are we concerned to join those who are at present contending for the valuable service which idle fellows render to their University. They may be, as is now alleged, the salt of the academical earth, purifying the narrow provincialism and priggishness of the resident fellows by a wholesome infusion of exoteric ideas and experience of the outer world or, again, they may not be this. The Commission, we repeat, must deal with these fellowships as seems good to them, and should they, as they may, decide on reducing their number very largely, no one, in our opinion, will have much right to complain.

The Commission may say, with much force, that though they will not altogether prohibit the employment of academical revenue iu providing prizes for academical successes', it is their duty to restrict severely a use of endowments which makes so wide a departure from the intentions of their donor. The application of such endowments was designed, they may say, to have relation not to the past, but to the future. It was intended that a student should be made a fellow, not because he had done something, but in order that he might do something, and that in furtherance of the special objects for which Universities exist. The soundness of such a theory as this it will be impossible to dispute, The danger to be guarded against lies in the attempt to apply it, and the danger will arise in its full force, if the Commission take the easy road of simply attaching residence as a condition of tenure to the large majority of col lege fellowships. If this is done the supporters of idle fellowships will immediately be able to change their defensive for an offensive attitude and admitting that the application of endowments which they are defending does not assist in furthering the ends for which Universities exist, they will ask whether these ends will be furthered by the changes suggested by the Commissioners.

And this question the Commissioners will find it by no means too easy to answer. The two main functions of a University are the function of teaching and the function of learning that of imparting to its students the best knowledge of the time, and that of adding to the sum of their knowledge by independent study, The firBt of these functions on the whole, fairly well performed by the Universities already, and if a larger share of endowments were needed and demanded for those who are engaged in the work of tuition, it ought not to be withheld. But it is well known that this is not needed or demanded. Already a sufficient share of these endowments is applied in this manner indeed, a more than sufficient share, since it is a common complaint at Oxford, at any rate, that able men cannot be tempted to reside and undertake the duties of tuition by the offer of fellowships to which these duties are attached as a condition of tenure. It is obvious, then, that any mere readjustment of endowments at the expense of idle fellowships must sro to enhancing the endowment, not of tuition, but, supposedly, of learning.

And if so, we shall have to ask what security the Commissioners win nave that such a step will further the object they have in view. The advocates ot xne euaowiueui. 01 research are, we know, prepared with an elabo rate scheme of checks and safeguards, designed to provide that the fellow who devotes himself to research shall really do the work for which he is endowed. If the Commissioners see their way to establishing effective securities of this kind, there will, of course, be no more to be said but, failing this, it will become necessary to protest against any rearrangement of endowments which assumes that a resident fellow, merely as resident, ia likely to come one whit nearer to the ideal of the pious founder than the non-resident fellow waiting for briefs in London or writing articles for the Press. For a long series of years these endowments for the supposed benefit of learning have been in existence, and to what extent has uj or in maia, thouirh th.

propose to persevere with the Royal Titles Bill, Summonses have been issued by the Liberal whim to the members of the Oppostion in the HouVof Lords, requesting them to support Lord Shaftaa. bury resolution to-morrow night. The Deanery of Ripon has been offered to, and believe accepted, by the Rev. Mr. Freemantle.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday (SatureWv in Downing-street. The Ministers present were HI Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, tha Duke of Richmond and Gordon, the Earl of MsJW bury, Mr. Secretary Cross, the Earl of Carnarvon" Mr.

Secretary Hardy, the Marquis of Salisbury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon Ward Hunt, and Lord John Manners. D' G' Despatches were received yesterday (Saturday the Colonial Office from the Governors of the i India Islands and the Falkland Islands. DesnateC were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands the Bahamas, and to the Governor-General 0 Admiralty Appointments, Yesterday. Captain Michael Culme Seymour appointed to the Monarch, vice A. Hood, C.B., promoted to Se Rear-Admiral; Captain William Codrington bd! pointed Private Secretary to Mr.

Ward Hunt, vice Captain Seymour to the Monarch; Stafi--Siigeoa John Buckley to the Flora additional, for AsceS Hospital, and James Trimble to the Sinus Assistant-Paymaster BouchierB. Savile to the Flora! for TOPICS OF THE DAY. lesterday the armistice between the Turks and the Herzegovina insurgents was to commence, and is to last for twelve days. In as far as we can gather from the confused accounts forwarded by telegraph, the insurgents themselves were not directly a party to the convention which was concluded "between tha Turkish commander and the Prince of Montenegro, at the instance of General Rodich, the Governor of Dalmatia. However, Prince Daniel's authority is practically recognised throughout the insurgent districts, whiie the Prince has it in his own power to secure the enforcement of the most important provision of the armistice, the permission to revictual the beleagured fortress of Niksics through Montenegrin territory.

In the course of this week the insurgents are to have interviews with General Rodich, and it is possible some understanding may be arrived at which will prevent any resumption ot" hostilities but our hopes of such a result being obtained are not sanguine. The insurgents have apparently held their own through the winter; and both in Servia and Montenegro the war party seems to be getting the upper hand. Everthiog depends, as we have pointed out from the beginning, upon the attitude of Russia and Austria towards the rising. The insurrection was fomented by foreign agency, has been kept alive by foreign agency, and has only been terminated by foreign agency. If Austria is sincere in her avowed desire to keep the peace, and if Russia is really acting in unison with Austria, the insurrection is at an end but if either of these conceptions should prove unfounded, we are only on the eve of a far more serious dbturban.ee in the East.

During the next few days the question whether order will be restored jn the Herzegovine will be decided, and upon the decision of that issua there depends, unless we are mistaken, far graver consequences even than the fate of the Ottoman Empire. Meanwhile, the policy of England, who is almost as much interested in these issues as any Continental Power, will, we presume, be directed by Lord Derby from Baden-Baden. To-morrow will reveal. to the taxpayer what is in store for him. It is not to be expected that Sir Stafford Northcote will have much that ia pleasant to announce.

It will be fortunate indeed if an additional penny in the Income-tax be not announced. AU hopes of large remissions of taxation must be dismissed, if they were ever entertained. It is the lot of Sir Stafford to exhibit that ill luck in finance which seems to attend the proceedings of 6very Conservative Government. It is true that he has been fortunate so far. He calculated the revenue in a way which none of his predecessors have done, discounted the prospective elasticity of the revenue, and estimated that it would yield In point of fact, the revenue yielded 77,11,693, or about a million and a half more than was anticipated.

But in the next year the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be embarrassed by certain new difficulties. In the first place, it is to be remembered and the fact seems to have been forgotten by some commentators on the prospects of the year that if Sir Stafford Northcote scheme with respect to the National Debt is to be carried out, an increase in the expenditure will be -essential. The Chancellor of the Exchequer put the expenditure for 1 1875-76 at for the following year it is to be 27,700,000. It ia clear, therefore, that we must see our way to raise 300,000 more than we formerly raised. In the second place, it is pretty clear that the worst quarter in the last year was the last, and that the revenue has, in the last three months, exhibited proofs of the general depression in trade.

Of course this state of things will more or less continue, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer must make his calculations on this footing. The termination of the charge of assault preferred bv Mr. Palmer against constable James Bugg, 450 can hardly be considered satisfactory. There can be bo doubt whatever that every possible endeavour is made by the police in Buch cases to shelter the cul prit, and although we are told that Colonel Hender son did not approve of the device which was adopted to baffle Mr. Palmer when the.

men were paraded for his inspection, we yet have not heard that he has expressed his disapproval in any tangible manner, or that the inspector who allowed Bugg to change his number with another constable has been reprimanded, we are also sua in the darK as to whether James xugg, 4ou is the same James Bugg who, a few years ago, when in the City Police, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment tor a brutal and unprovoKed assault, and whether Colonel Henderson is aware of this fact. It is also said that an organised system of defence exists in the police force that Mr. Bugg will have his expenses paid him by a subscription amongst the members of his division and that this method of. defeating justice has the express approval of Colonel Henderson. It is to be hoped that on all these points some inquiry will be made in the House of Commons, ice Metro politan Police Force is bo doubt, in a certain sense, efficient, while its members are, as a ruie, civil but any one with experience of police courts must know perfectly well that the tone of the force is essentially bad, and that nothing, is more common than for a magistrate to tell a policeman that he does not believe him upon his oath.

Esprit de corps is commendable enough in its way, but Colonel Henderson is unfit for his position if he allows it to assume the shape of an organised system for screening offenders by devices such as those practised at the recent parade. In the present case there can be no doubt whatever that. Mr Palmer was very brutally assaulted bv a con stable, and that it is perfectly well known in the division who the offender is. It says very little for the character of the force that it should be impossible to bring him to justice. The annual debate on Monastic and Conventual Institutions has ended as it alwav does end.

It, nevertheless, serves better purposes than do certain discussions, such as those on the Permissive Bill and on Female Suffrage, to which we are annually treated once a year and Mr. Newdegate and the more sensible amongst his followers are not without very reasonable and strong grounds for the position which they take up. JNo one for a moment asserts that an Englishman's home is not his castle, or supposes that in English convents any very gross crueltr or immorality is carried on hut there is a broad distinction between a private house, in and out of which people can come and go as they please, and the convent, where, if needs be, what goes on can be kep a profound secret; and because an Englishman house is his castle it by no means follows tost -jLJEK MAJESTY'S OPERA, DRURY LANE. Ilia nobility, gentry, lubacribera. ant tho nuMlc are tf ully Informed that thai' OPERA.

MKAHoK wlU COMMENCE oil TUESDAY, April S5. The proapectua wilt be uiiblishe'i on Monday next. Applications lor boxe. statu. In the utunuiinieciui be made ito ili.

Bailey, at tbebnx-oiBoe, under tne poriico or the lhaatre, which lsopenfially from 13 to also to Maaara. Chappell, Meaars. La con and Olllar. anil Mr. llubb.

New Bunl-atreet Meaars. Keith and l'i r.wae, 49, Cheepalde Mr. Haya. Royal Cramer Kegent-atreet Mr. Olllvlar anil Mr.

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Ilnckatone. ijtat Three weeks nf Mlm i''l lion's engagement- KVEltY KVKNINU. at 7:80, A CO After which, at hakaeare's twined-. In live acta, MEASURE FOIl MEASURE. Ml.ia Nellauu as IsabelU, i porls-l by Mr.

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YGEUM THEATRE. Leasee and Maiiasrer, JLA Mra.Bateman.Laat -Six Nlghta of Othello. KVEliV EVENING, at 7:45, OTHELLO. Olhello. Mr.

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OnweX At 7, THE KENUK.V0U8. liox-uttirv olen 111 till 5. r.o bnukuur fees. Morning Performances of rihAkeapeare. I'laya will he jsiveu every Wednesday and Saturday from April 22 till May in-clualve.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, V. n. Cnatterton. 132nd, 1.13rd.

134th, 13JUi. 13fltb. and itlghu. and last four week of the eugaKemmit of Mr. JOSEPH JKFKKRSON, who will APPEAR EVERY EVKNINO In the character of KIP VAN WINKLE, In the famous drama of that uame, written by Dion Bouclcault.

TO-MORROW (Monday), and during the n-oeJc. ats. the drama of KIP VAN WINKLE Kip Vun Winkle. Mr. Joseph Jefferaon, supported by Mr.

Osmond Tearle, Mr. K. Shepherd, At r. P. W.

Irlah, Mr. J. B. Johuaon, Mr. Chapman, Mr.

T. W. Thorno. Mr. 0.

J. Smith, Mr. G. Weatoil.and Mr. E.

F. Edgar Mr. Mellon, Ml3S Alice Hamilton, Ml.a E. Lea, Misa and Master Grattan. Preceded by- the laughable farce of TUB WHITE HAT Mr.

H. Wrluht. Miss Macloual.1, 4c. To conclude with HEAD OK A CLAN Mr. F.

W. Irlah. Doora open at half-paat C. commence at r. Prices from Id.

to 4 is. Hox-ufflce open from 10 till 5 daily. OY AL ADELPHI THEATRE. Proprietor, JL) B. Webstflr.

Lataee an4 Manager, F. II. six UJrfurd jf the rtvjv of the sreu Irish drama PKKi O' HAY it, Savour neon Deehsh. written by Mr.Bdwuuil Falconer. TO MO liOW (AliKidayi, riM durii.jr the week, at will be jerf ormM for tha i.Uiar.ii, l.lKlrd, l.UUth, l.lMth.

l.lMtr.. ami 1.197 th tliuea, ihd (Treat liuh patriotic. jHtetlcHJ. truthful, and ronmutli drama L-r PEEP O' J)A V. Characters by Metunt.

S- Mftery, H. Sinclair, Jams Fernandez, M' I tyre, W. Terrias, S. Calhaum, J. G.

Shore. F. AIurelMiiI. Eve nrrt Mian LvdJa Foots. Miss Ku ispeth, Mian Cicely 2iutt.

Mm. Man ticus. Pattern Fair, Irlah Jig. Kacrlun Klght, represautM by two kuudral auxiliaries. New and ehuracterlstic scenery by F.

Liyils. PrMI(il by Uje fartyt of VAIVKE BKOWN: Mr. J.Clarke. To couclutl.) with the farce of MY OWN OBOST. Doors oin at minmenco 7.

Pricea from W. to 3 guineas. Bux-office o.a from lit ml 5tliiiiy. MISS MAGGIE MOORE and Mr. J.

C. WIL-LIAMSON will make Oieir FIRST APPEARANCK in Eug-iKild, at the ROYAL A11ELPHI THEATRE, In an drama, entitled PTRL'CK OIL-, or, the Penusylvantau Dutchman, on EASTEK TRUCK OIL or, the Pennsylvanian Dutchman. KASTKR MONDAY. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

Manager, Mr. Horace Wlgan. EVERY" EVKNINli.at7:3.1, will be performed REAL AND IlEAL, a coniodietta, by llorat- Wian. at by Uie new, original drama ALL KOR by Palgrave aii't Herman Menvale. The authors wih ij be known tnat the irtof Hugh Trevor has hen adauted from the characisr of Sidney Carroll, in "'Hie Talaof Two Cities." by the express jiernilsa.u of the late Charles Dlckena.

Box -urBce open. Private boxei from 1 Is. to C5 a. stalls, 7a. dress circle, 5s.

boxes, 2s. cd. 2s. sal-lory, Od. MR.

JOHN CLAYTON'S BENEFIT, TI1URS-PA ffth April, when he will play HUGH TREVOR In ALL KOK HER. mr the I30rh time, and HI GH 11E la THE RE-UULAlt FIX. Mr. Surplus, Mr. Arthur Cecil.

TLJOYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Mr. Henry JLV Neville, Sole Lessee. Oreat succeas of the new French drama, Th? Oasfon or, l-ve anrl Loyalty, adapted to the KiiijUih bv W. Musketry.

KVKKY KVKNINU durinif the week, at THE ASeON. Mrs. llc-udby aj Mario Stuart, Misses Fauuy Josephs, Hax-loton. Annie Taylor, Maud Braiconibo. Btauuioiit, Hopq, Seymour, Al'Gill, Mrs.

Stpheiu; Mr. W. H. Fbhor, Mr. Albert Bernard, Mr.

Jlj.Uows, Mr. Vollaire. Mr. Hay well, Mr. Oeitrge Neville, Mr.

Lytton and Mr. Henry Neville as the GascMi. Preceded, at 7, by FASCINATING FKI-LOWS, uew farce, by tho author of Ite: oa my Discretion." Ae. To conclude with 'TWAS I. Doors ojen at lUii offloe hours 11 to A.

No bvokiug feea. Prices from 6d. to Ci 3i. Ni. free list.

GAIETY THEATRE, Strand. Sole Lessee and Manauer, Mr. John Holl loghead. EVERY NIGHT, WIG AND 10WN and SPELLING KKE. Monday and Tuesday nitjhu, Mr.

Twole'a Benftilt, and laat iifKbtd but eight. Wednesday af Mr. Mrs. BanduLtnn Saturday afternoon, KiLhIieu: Mr. IMieipa.

Night 7:15 to n. Af tsnioons 20 to 5. Prices from tVI. No food. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.

and Manager, Misa Marie Wilton (Mrs. Bancroft. X.AST SIX NIGHTS of MASKS AND FACES, which will be acted on MONDAY, at a quarter past far the 126th time. Mr. CVghlaii, Mr.

Ai cher, Mr. "ood, Mr. Teesrtale, Mr. Glover, Mr. Markby, Mr.

Mr. Bnucrft; Mf58 Ellen Terry, Miss Augusta Wilton, tea Breitiuui, and Master and ML Glover. Box-oiTice hour.s 1 1 fill 5. No Doors ooened at 7:15. Notice Wrinkles a Tale of Time, written by Henry J.

Byron, will be acted fur tho rirat time ou Thursday. April 13. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.

EVERY EVENING durMjRtheweek.at 7, TWO TO ONE: Mr. C. H. Stephenson, Misses M. Jones and Williams.

At 7:15, the enormously successful ctmaly, by C.S.ChBUnam. A LESSON IN LOVE: Messrs. H. Cox. J.

G. Gra-hame, and W. H. Vernon Mesduiues Marion Terry T. Lavw, and Sllss Ada At last six nights), tlie absurdity, by Messrs.

and Hay, CRACKED HEADS: Messrs. E. Terry, H. Medamwi L. Venn aud A.Claude.

At n-AS, THE RIVAL OTHELLOS. written by H. J. Bvmu, characters by Messrs. E.

Terry, M. Matins. H. Turner, Carter: Misses A. Claude, M.

Jones, Ac The theatre will be open on Saturday. April Is, when will be produced the grand opo-mtic bin-league, by K. C. Buruand, L'Afficaine. 'or full particulars A0d further aIvertiseinents.

VAUDEVILLE THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. D. JAtueaanft T. Thome.

Enormous success c-f Our Hoys. KS'EBY KVEN1NO, 7:30, A WHIRLIUFG. At 8, a now aa.l urigl-ml comoly, lii three ncta, en tltlwl OUB BOYS, by Han ry J. Byron. Ooncludln with A FEAKFUI.

FOG. Supported 6y Moaara. Wm. Far-rju. Thus.

Thome. Ctiaa. SupleD. C. W.

(JarUioms, A. H. Roosrts, .7. r. Heraanl, A.

Auatln, and Tlavtd James Mosdames Amy BfHelle, Knte Buhop.TlinresaValery, Cicely Kichanls, Sophie Larkln, 4c Freellit outlrely ausponded. BOYAL COURT THEATRE. Lessee and llamistr. Mr. HAKK.

EVKRY EVENING, at 8 o'clock pra-clsoly, will be iierformed Mr. J. Palnravc Simpson's comedy, lu three actd, A SCRAP OK PA PER. Characters will be playel bv ilartse Bolwruon (Mrs. KeruiaJ), Misa IlolllngalieBil, Miss fiunhes (Mr3.

Murray). Mlaa Alice Ingram, Mtas Cowle, Misa Korke Mr. Keurt Mr. c. Kelly, Mr.

Keinhle, Mr. R. Cathcart, and Mr. Hare. Tiie uew aoenery by Mesars.

Gordon aud Harford. After which, at 10 A QUIET It I'll HER, nw one-act lilay, a'laptM rrr-m tho French, by Charlea F. Cog-titan. Characters by Mr. Hare, Mr.

C. Kelly, Herbert. Misa Piowiien. Bux-oiTice open dally from 11 to 5. No roen Tor bonking.

Door open at 7:30. Acting Manager and Treasurer, Mr. JOHN Hl'Y. (OLOBE THEATRE. EVERY EVENING, at a new dnitna, in three acts, entitled JO, adapted from Charles IMckens's Bleak House' Enormous success of Miss Jennie Xfle as Jo, the Misses I.

Drummond, Nelly Harris, V. Robertson, Lee, and Louisa Hibbert Messrs. Klockton, E. Price. C.

Hteyne, J. 15. Jtae. C. Wilmot.

and J. Burnett. Preceded, at by a new and orlpinal farce, THE TAILOR MAKES THE MAN. The whole rod cod muler the direction of Mr. Edgar Bruce.

Secure your seats al once at the box-oSice aud libraries. CRITERION THEATRE. Last Ten Nights of the Season. Laat Ten NiRhta of Misa Lydia Thompson and the entire company, previous to their provincial tour. On MONDAY next, and every evening during the week, PAUL PltY Lionel Brough, Mias Jt.iohol Mniter, Sc.

After which, for the lB8t nights, P1FF-PAKF: Miss Lydia Thompson, Willie Edouln, Lionel Brough, and the enlire company. Thursday. April 13, last night of the season. Saturday, jiiml Miss Lydia Thompson and the entire cyou-any, one nisht unly, at the Staudard Theatre. Blue CRITERION THEATRE.

Easter Holidays. THE GREAT DIVORCE CASE. Mr. Charles Wyndham specially rotamed. This case is set down for hearing Saturday, April 15, al the Criterion Theatre.

Also the grand Easter burlesque of ROBIN HOOD, witn new scenery and otTeofs. special engagement of Messrs. Harry and Charles Kjyuor. Miss Eliza Weathersby and a powerful company. -Bus plau now upon.

ER A' I TI Manaeer. Mr. Mortm- mTHV ptrcwitfn A HORNET'S NEST. At Arthur Sullivan and W. 8.

Gilbert's cin- JUK' Mr- Sullivan. At MADAME r.mny Moinenn, jnss iara Miss Murrelie. ami At Ka santloy Messm. K. Cotte, Counell, Camjibell, aud Felix Bury.

Prices from (id. to 3 3s. Box-offlce open 10 till 5. Carriages 11. THE DUKE'S THEATRE, Holborn.

Lessee and Manager, F. C. Huruand. Production of a uew and original dcima by H. Roeco.

Tremendous success of A Tale of a Tub. TOMORROW (Monday), aud during the week, at 7:30, a new drama, by ltobert Ueece, entitled AN OLD MAN: Messrs. F. H. Macklin I).

JSi aus, Danvers, and Itlghton Meadamos Minnie LiQdlay, M. JOaly, and Louisa Moore. At 9:1 A TALK OF A RUhton At 10, ON TUB UINK; or, the Gin He Left Behind F. Dewar. lllgrhton, and Danvera Mesdame8 Arualla, Daly, Wood, Louisa Moore.

tc-Hr. Mowbray's benefit Saturday next, April 8. 11 OYALTY THEATRE. POM, by Bucalossi, (-iucetl under the direction of Mrs. V.

H. LISTON. EVEltV EVEN- Ttiitri-ij urw miiu wngnii cmnc opera, inioreeacts, will oe Mr. Artistes: MNaea Pattie Lav erne, A. Goodall Messrs.

J. Uouse, Ki'jirht Aahtou, Clifton, and Dal ton. Full band and chorus. Conductor, M. WtKissens.

iVox -office hours 11 to s. ALHAMBRA THEATRE ROYAL. EVERY EVENING the performance will commence at 7:13 with the A OCIKT FAMILY. At 8, DON JUAN, with the following Powerful cast M.lino. Rose Boll, Mesdames Newton, Chambern.

ltob-on. Hilton. Beaumont, Vane, heltou, aud Mdlle. Fanchita; Messrs. Jarvt, Hall, Paul, and Harry Paulton.

In act HBlletj" Jn act i the Spanish Daucei'S, "The Caaanobas." aud the Fiji At in. the GRAND TURKISH BALLET, with Mdlle. Plt-tcrt. ine. Pertoldi, Mdlle.

8Ismoudl, and the renowned Alhambra corps de bullet. At 11, Comic Pantomimic Ballet, by the Lauria Doors open Prices from lid. to ci sa. Box-offlce open from 11 a.m. p.m.

No chanre for booking. XJOYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, W. Holland, the People's Caterer. One week longer only Enor-inoiia success ot tho irreai drama, Sentenced to DeMhTMr.

G. Conquest hla original chanw-ter aupported by Harry Taylor, Sidney. c. Misses Snaie VatiKhan, Johnson. 4c.

Doors open sUmcSSI "IV'30' by the great "rani. ENTEf.cv.D TO DEATH. Prices from 6d. to 3 guineas. stage Sf' SS' 5110 cn8manw.

W. Parker secretary, Thomas "1O0YAL SURREY THEATRE. V. HOL- TTrY AV1.iLIlMsur;.'H,,,DOUIloine hat he will on SATUE- painted by Mr. Charlo.

Brwkes and niSSSi Msteufto MaKKSdaf ful eirectii by the cebrated machlnUt, W. ItoblSSA from Dlbdln's worka by Sydney Daii, NocriJS. JfiVS siral to place thla new drama on Ihe stagoInd lrdfr.v.'tKS cast as powerful as poealble.W. Holland pumiy no th4t. gre" torourtt" Sr.

James FerJan dcz. who will, by kind permission of F. B. ChatttwS ppearance at this theatre; The favouriMMtSS 'Sta. FimS.

the Adelphi and West Knd theatres, la and her drat appearance at this theatre. TSSSeSmts of jl? Fawn ami Mr. Harry Taylor, and wm Jlr mud many other great Surrey farouritea. The drama wUl be nVXiT.TSX tlu.ier the Immediate direction of the author, by J. H.

Dovne manager. For full cast aud further particular, see aunlum CAST-OFF CLOTHES. LEWIS HART, of 15 Stookbrldge-ternice, PimUoo, London, S.W. (facing yjoto'i Station), begs to Inform ladles and genUeSenre. quiring lrberal prlcea, coupled wl til CASH paymenta.

for all superfluoua wothing. jewellerr. uniforms, furniture, Ac, to address all parcels and letters only to 13, StocktMldge-terrace, rimtleo. S.W. P.oordera re-mittel per return for PARCELS (the price subject to approval), or Mr.

and Mra. Hart will attend at anytime in town or country. Private r-ma forties and gentlemen calling personally. Established. 1310.

the resident fellows may, indeed, have had, ample leisure, security against pressing need, access to all recorded knowledge, intercourse with cultivated minds; but, on the other, they have lived in an atmosphere, if the truth must be told, most favourable to strenua inertia and dilettantism, and most hostile to real hard work. After all, the life of a resident fellow is the life of a coterie, refined and cultivated no doubt, but still of a coterie, anrl good work seldom great work never, we might minosi, say -issues inence. And what it has been ia the past there is no security that it will not be in the future. The Commission, therefore, would do well to hesitate, lest in their zeal against idle fellowships they fall into the error of endowing one form ot idleness at the expense of another. As regularly as the year comes round the institu tion of Civil Engineers gives a dinner to its members and friends at Willis's Rooms.

As regularly as the ainner is given some nobleman, or member of Parlia ment, or other distinguished visitor, ia sure to observe that when he thinks of the Suez Canal, and of the Pacific Railway, and of the Atlantic Cable, he cannot but say, in the words of the great Latin poet, Qua regxo in ferns nostri non plena laboris and as reiru larly as this dear old quotation ia received, so is it certain that Mr. Lowe will get upon his legs and declare that Greek and Latin, and Art, and Poetry, and History, and other such studies, are mere rubbish that civil engineering is the one and only pursuit worthy of an intelligent man and that a successful civil engineer is the noblest work of God Mr. Lowe has let off this oration of his year after year, until at last it has become somewhat a matter of curiosity what new terms of he could coin for science and literature, and in what new phrases he could best express the profound reverence with which he is filled by the contemplation of such divine objects as a long tunnel, a deep canal, or a thick sub-marine cable. This year, however, the member for London University has fairly outdone himself. Now, not very far short of half a century ago, the right hon.

gentleman took a very creditable degree at Oxford, and, as he subsequently spent the ten freshest years of his life in teaching that logic and tireek philosophy which he now regards with so scanty respect, it is somewhat astonishing to find him launching out into the extraordinary statements which he has this year ventured to make to the assembled Civil Engineers. The Civil Service Commissioners would make short work with a candidate for a tide-waitership, if he were to state in his history-paper, that in the days of the dynasty of Lancaster the English mind' was divided into two schools, of which one, that of Brunel, and Bazalgette, and Stephenson, devoted itself to engineering, while the other, that of Tuppf.b, Chaucer, and Shakspeare, took to writing poetry that the poetical school got the better of the engineers, and that the consequence was that the nation was crushed and practically annihilated by the return of the House of Stuart and the Hanoverian invasion. It is not too much to Bay that, apart from 6uch little liberties with history as are involved in putting Demetrius Poliobketes and Archimedes before Socrates and Plato, and mixing up Attila Genseric and Alaric as if they were three members of the same firm, the gist of Mr. Lowe's oration lay in the profound reflection that civil engineering enables civil engineers to make large fortunes which true enough and also enables civilized nations to repel the incursions of barbarians which, from the point of view afforded by history, is hardly accurate. Whenever Mr.

Lowe is holding forth upon the defects of what is commonly known as a liberal education, and contrasting it, very much to its disadvantage, with much more elevated pursuits, such as architecture, or civil engineering, he speaks with a certain amount 01 personal bitterness, as if in some unexplained way, he shared the feelings of the young gentlemen atDr.BLiMBER's academy, and regarded the GreeksandRomansashisprivate enemies. Paradox of this kind is all very well, once in a way, as an after- dinner speech, and is an agreeable relief to what Thackeray used to call "the 'Mars, Bacchus, Apollo, virormn' style of oratory. Unfortunately, Mr. Lowe is so fond of his paradox, and has repeated it so often, as to almost force us to the conclusion that he seriously believes in it. It is well enough, of course, to say pleasant things after dinner; and no doubt civil engineers have no objection to being lauded.

It is, however, some what questionable praise of a great calling to point out that those who pursue it often realise large fortunes. A civil engineer can make a great deal of money, of course, if he is fortunate; but so, for. the matter of that, can a licensed victualler, or a bill dis counter; and, if Mr. Lowe is to carry his principles to their strict conclusion, he ought to consider gin dis tilling and bill discounting nobler and more elevating pursuits than art or philosophy. When he goes on to tell us that engineering enables the civilised world to repel the incursions of barbarians, he wanders away from the regions of fact, where he is usually at home, into those of imagination.

The Romans were better engineers than the Goths, and all the mechanical and material resources ot the Lastern Linpire were powerless before the incursion of the Turks. Had Mr. Lowe chosen to take the trouble of con sidering beforehand what he intended to say, the occasion was one not unworthy of his abilities Within the last ten years the triumphs of engineering have been very great. We have cut the Isthmus of Suez, and provided ourselves with a straight route to India we have put Europe into direct telegraphic communication with America; we have driven a railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific we shall, before long, tunnel the Channel, as we have already tunnelled the Alps; and, according to Count Van Bylandt, we are going to drain the Zuyder Zee, and convert its bed into rich pasturage. Still further triumphs await us in the future.

Before the present century expires some other source of power than coal will have to be discovered. Wrhen we have used up our stores of bottled sunshine, we shall have to turn our attention to the tides, to the trade winds, to the solar heat, and to the almost ceaseless stock of power contained in the larger rivers. Without looking forward to the time when the great seat of manufacturing industry will be transferred from Eng land to the base of the Himalayas, we can yet see before us in our own time a future for engineering sufficiently ample to afford better material for an after-dinner speech at Willis's Booms than is to be found in a paradoxical contrast between tne Jf latomc ideas, on the one hand, and the theory of the steam engine on the other. It is Mr. Lowe's failing that he can never see the really broad aspect of the question to, which he addresses himself.

It is poor praise to tell such men as Sir John Haweshaw, Sir Joseph Whitworth, Sir William Palliser, and Sir Joseph Bazalgette that they are doing something better than reading Homes, because they can make more money out of engineering than out of Greek. Dean Gaisford once concluded a sermon in praise of a life devoted to learning and research by observing that it led to peace in the next life, and occasionally to preferment and emolument in the present. Those who knew the Dean were always of opinion that he intended this remarkable peroration as a solemn joke. It was reported yesterday in political circles that the Government intend to announce to-morrow their influence of the Court, should it be given in favour of the old title, would be insufficient. The title may, of course, be strictly localised, but the Emtress of India overshadow the Queen of England.

We may, of course, be told that this will not take place but who can guarantee us against it? And if no guarantee, except that of dropping the obnoxious word, can be given, the risk ought certainly not to be run. The Bill has been forced through the House of Commons on a false issue. It has been treated on the side of its supporters as a party ques tion and many members whose opinions were hostile to the word Empress voted for it be cause the Liberals, as a body, had spoken and voted against it. liut the very tact that party motives have thus triumphed in the Lower House imposes a more serious duty on the House of Lords, Even if it were a party question, it could not be well to involve the Crown in a party triumph, and the House of Lords would be performing one of its highest functions in preventing such a catastrophe, They have of teu shown that on great national ques tions they can rise above mere party considerations, and act with an exclusive, regard to higher interests. Lord Shaftesbury is not a party man and he can not be suspected in this matter of acting for party reasons.

He knows more of popular feeling than most members of their. Lordship's House, and he will be able to tell them how this matter looks to classes whose loyalty it is folly to endanger. It is by popular feeling and not by any party considerations that the whole movement against the proposed title has been originated and is sustained. There is almost wilful blindness in treating the opposition as a party move. An appeal to the patriotism and public spirit, as opposed to the party feeling of the members of the House of Lords, ought never to be out of place but on this question it is peculiarly timely.

As a matter of feeling probably a large majority of the Lords agree with Lord Shaftesbury. They understand the risk which attends the meddling with ancient insti tutions, and can afford to take it into consideration It is possible, of course, that Lord Shaftesbury's resolution may be overborne by Ministerial opposi tion but that depends, perhaps, on the absence of some of his sympathisers. But this is a matter in which names weigh more than votes. If every member of the House of Lords who feels actively hostile to tampering with the Queen's title were to be in his place, and give his vote for Lord Shaftesbury's resolution, the expression of opinion against the new title would be decisive of its fate. The protest of a large number of men who, like the Lords, have no other interest to serve than those of the Crown and the Constitution, will weigh greatly with Heb Majesty in deciding her choice.

The vote is likely to have historical consequences, the magnitude of which none can at present foresee. It marks the point at which the Constitution is to enter a new groove, to run on a new line. The Crown is advised to abandon the ancient landmarks which the fathers set up the historic associations which are the root and nourishment of loyalty are to be Bhifted, and no one can Bay how far they may wither in the process. Even if the danger is not probable it is possible, and whenever it became actual those who had made their protest against it would look back with great satisfaction on their vote. They may, however, have the still better, because more immediate, reward of knowing that their disinterested and patriotic protest may save the Crown from taking an unpopular step.

The title of Empress once taken, is irrevocable. To stop the running of this risk, however small the danger may seem, is the obvious duty of every Peer who feels that it ia undesirable to incur the peril of a needless change. The sole question is of this one unpopular and obnoxious word. Any other would be innocent and the resolve of Her Majesty to adopt some other would be met with a grateful response from the nation. Every member of the House of Peers has an opportunity of doing something to promote this happy change.

Even if he feels that the popular apprehension is groundless, still the apprehension is there, and he will do well to allay it. But if he sees that there is a reason in the public dislike of the new title he will not do his duty without making it his serious business to record that opinion and send that advice to the Queen by means of his vote. The change may be forced upon a reluctant nation but we believe that, whether it is stopped by the action of the Peers or allowed to proceed, those who vote against it will be regarded, before long, as the wisest and most disinterested friends both of the Crown and the Constitution. The debate in the Lords last Friday night on the University of Oxford Bill was, in its way, instruc v..