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THE MORNING POST, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1872 porating the suggestion of Mr. Gladstone, was agreed to. cTlie other business was disposed of, and the House adjourned. the other side by the Rugbyites. The disagree-, ment appears at present to be radical and irrecon- ciliable.

Possibly, if each party give in a little, a compromise may be arrived at, and a really national game of football be firmly established. The prominence of late attained by football, in consequence of the establishment of the contests as a whole was that put in a few plain wordB by Mr. Bouverie. Any permanent udicial tribunal, he holds, will, in spite of fate, be governed by rule and precedent, and precedent is an atmosphere fraught with danger to the spirit of enterprise and local improvement. There is a story current in Parliamentary circles of a decision once given by Mr.

Dodson himself, who, as the Americans would Bay, "going it blind on pre-" cedent," refused a hearing to the clear majority of the inhabitants of a town on a bill affecting their local interests. Some explanation probably M. Thiers replied by asking in what manner it was possible to apply these ideas of reduction. He said the expenditure fixed in the budget could not be reduced. It was not the work of the present Government, but a legacy of the preceding only increase made was in tlie war estimates Ihe Government did not wish to make war, but the increase arose from the necessity of replacing the war material which had been exhausted during the war with Germany, of fortifying the frontier, repairing the fortifications of fans, and creating an army which should not be an illusion.

M. Thiers defended the arrangements between the Government and the Bank. Replying to M. Thiers, M. Randot enumerated the iriT nUna-heiJrposed' Puy one oi in the war estimates, and the suppression of the Ministries of Agriculture and tlt rrks- The general debate then closed.

M. Chesnelong, amid cheers from the Right, demanded that the discussion of the Catholic petitions should be placed on the order of the dav for to-morrow. He argued that it was an impossible and unworthy proceeding continually to postpone the consideration of this matter. The Assembly, without further debate, decided against M. Chesnelong, and the discussion of the petitions will therefore not take place to-morrow.

TJPie of the committee on M. Lefranc's Press Prosecutions Bill was distributed among the deputies to-day. It is stated in military circles that General Cissey, the Minister of War, will demand a credit of 200, 000, OOOfr. for engineering works, the half of it to be employed in the construction of 20 forts reund Paris, and the remainder in the fortification of the frontier between Longwy and Bel-fort, after the departure of the Prussians. The Prussians are actively pushing forward the new fortifications at Metz and Strasburg.

CANNES, March 15. Mr. George Ewstis, formerly a member of the United States Congress, and long time a resident in France, died here this morning. GERMANY. BERLIN, March 15.

In to-day's sitting of the Upper House the budget for 1872 was passed unanimously. The Minister of Finance pointed out that the State commenced the financial year for 1872 with a surplus of more than 14 millions of thalers. In consequence of the suppression of the war fund, the abolition of the customs, amounts credited to the North German Confederation, and the increase in the sums derivable from the customs due, 44 millions of thalers can be utilised for the reduction of the State debt. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, March 15.

An imperial decree, dated March 13, has been published, dissolving the Bohemian Diet, and ordering new elections to be held at once. The new Diet is convoked for the 24th April. VIENNA, March 15, Evening. In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the Reichsrath a credit of 500,00011. was granted for relieving necessitous Roman Catholic priests.

The Minister of Public Worship held out a hope that similar assistance would be granted for Old" Catholic clergymen. ITALY. ROME, March 15. The Opinione says that the Pope will not leave Rome. FUNERAL OF MAZZINI.

PISA, March 14. The funeral of Mazzini took place to-day. About 12,000 persons were present, among whom were many students, and some deputations from the provinces and the communes, and from working men's societies and Freemasons. No speeches were delivered, and perfect order prevailed. BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, March 15. It is stated that the Ministers of Powers having treaties of commerce with France have been requested by their Governments to renew their representations against the modifications made by France in the customs duties. Several Powers have determined to take reprisals if certain reimposed duties, particularly on the importation of cattle, be not withdrawn by the French Government. INDIA. CALCUTTA, March 15.

The Indian budget will probably be submitted to the Legislative Council on the 15th April THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, March 15. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending yesterday shows the following changes as compared with that of last week Increase. Fr. Treasury balance 19,000,000 Cash in hand 2,300,000 Decrease.

Current accounts 27,333,000 Bills discounted 5,100,000 Notes 1,400,000 Advances 666,000 THE PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, March 15, 3.30 p.m. The Bourse has been flat. Rentes closed at 56.60, or 17c. lower than yesterday.

MEXICO. MATAMORAS, March 14. The specie conducta has arrived here from Zacatecas. corps, or in some other of the auxiliary services, which great physical power can be dispensed with, and in which, in default of weak men, strong men that could be better utilised elsewhere would have to be employed. Before, however, a young man is definitely destined to a non-combatant branch, he is to be required to appear before the proper autnorities two years in succession, in order that, if time should have cured his defect, the State may be enabled to decide accordingly.

The eldest of orphans, the supports of families, the brothers of soldiers under the standards, ecclesiastical students, public teachers, may be exempted. The right of exemption will be bo strictly limited, however, that, for instance, unless a young man who is in preparation to be a teacher engages himself to pass ten years in the career he is pursuing, he is liable to serve. Ecclesiastical students must have entered major orders or received consecration before the age of twenty-six years. In case of war, except in the case of ecclesiastical students, there are to be no exemptions whatever. Minute, yet broad, regulations provide for the decision of all appeals for the registration of the young men liable to serve, and similar matters.

A comprehensive scheme of recruiting is the first condition of an effective reorganisation. Upon the subject of the reorganisation of the French army, the provisions for scientific instruction and speedy mobilisation, we shall have more to say on another occasion. A great event in the football world will come off to-day at Kennington-oval. The "Association Cup" is to be contested for. This may now, perhaps, be considered as the Blue Riband of Football.

The Cup was only established this year, and during the whole of the present season the various clubs belonging to the Association have been playing against each other, until now there are only three clubs left in that have not been beaten. These clubs are the celebrated Wanderers, the Royal Engineers, and the Queen's-park Club, Glasgow. The Scotchmen not long ago played the Wanderers, but the game was drawn and as this northern club could not arrange to come so far south again, they have retired from the contest, and thus have left the final tie between the Wanderers and the Royal Engineers. The Wanderers' Club comprises nearly all the best football talent in the country. The great players, who have represented the universities and public schools, are mostly to be found enrolled in this, the leading club of the Association.

The Wanderers, in fact, are the creme de la creme of the Association players. At any time, as has been proved, the Wanderers would be most difficult to beat but on this occasion they will, no doubt, be specially formidable, for now they will be enabled to muster in their greatest strength. In their other ties they have been liable to lose for the occasion the services of some of their best men, whose first allegiance may have been due to their local club whereas now that all but the Royal Engineers have been disposed of, they will all be free to play as required. It will be seen, therefore, that the scientific soldiers will have a task before them that might well cause them to feel doubtful of success. The habit of working together and understanding each other's play will materially help the Engineers.

The Wanderers will probably bring into the field more players of admitted excellence than will their opponents, with their much more limited area of choice. The leading club will doubtless show more exceptionally brilliant individual form than the Engineers can be expected to shew. But, if we mistake not, there will be an amount of cohesion, co-operation, and almost of discipUne among the soldiers that will at all events go far to place them on a par with their so to Bpeak more loosely organised but highly skilled rivals. Anyhow, the game cannot but be unusually exciting. Greek is about to meet Greek, and the tug of the mimic war must be severe.

The victors will until next year claim to be at the head of the Association clubs. But the vanquished will still be able to say that they have proved themselves superior to all others save the winners of to-day. It should be remarked that in one respect this match will be unsatisfactory. The Association does not represent half of the Football Clubs in the country, and therefore the contest between the Association Clubs can only determine which among those clubs is the strongest, and not which is the strongest club in the whole country. The contest, in fact, is of a limited nature.

It is true that the Association is now very large, extensive, and powerful that it is really the leading football institution. But it is no less true that the devotees of the Rugby game, and its modifications, are extremely numerous, and that the players of this description of the game are just as brilliant, as noted, and as important as the members of the Association. Possibly next year we may have a Rugby Cup to be competed for by the clubs playing this game. If so, we may, perhaps, have to liken the one contest to the St. Leger and the other to the Derby.

It would be more satisfactory, however, if all the clubs in the country could agree as in the case of cricket to play identically the same game. Then the rivalry would assume a very different and a much more interesting aspect. The trial of strength and skill would be for the football premiership absolutely. The excitement in such case can readily be imagined. We fear that such a result can as yet scarcely be hoped for.

It is true that the Association have recently modified their rules somewhat in the direction of the Rugby game. But for all that, a marked, an essential difference between the two games still exists. While in the Rugby game the great aim is to pick up the ball while bounding along the ground and to run off with it, and in the Association game it is positively forbidden as a rule to even touch the ball with the hands, it is evident that it is the principle rather than a question of mere details that is the point of difference. Men accustomed to the fiercer fun of the Rugby game often deem the Association game insipid. On the other hand, the Association players in general think, we believe, that the Rugby game is too rough and too dangerous to limb for adoption among grown-up men and parents and guardians have a horror of it for the schoolboys they have to watch over.

But for all this the enthusiasm for the Rugby game among those who play it is something quite marvellous. So much so is this the case that it seems quite out of the question to expect that the game will be modified in any way affecting its cardinal feature. The two styles are really antagonistic. The Rugby game is mere handball, not football, sav the adherents of the Association dribbling is the epithet of reproach levelled at The House of Commons lent a willing ear yesterday afternoon to a scheme unfolded by its Chairman of Committees, Mr. Dodson, for reconciling the growing demands of business upon the lime and attention of hon.

members with their personal occupations and convenience. The scheme itself was, at first sight, promising, and it was one on the preparation of which Mr. Dod-had evidently bestowed more than ordinary (nought and care. But after a short debate, in which acknowledgment was cordially made by everv speaker of this fresh proof of Mr. Dodson's desire to ameliorate the system, for the smooth working of which he is responsible, the House, as with regard to the kindred suggestion of Grand Committees, took time to think.

Shortly stated, the scheme of Mr. Dodson has for its object to put an end not altogether, for that he admits would be impracticable, but as far as possible to the present system of local and personal Bills considered and dealt with by the two Houses of Parliament, and to substitute for it "an extended and im-' proved system of provisional orders." These orders, however, are not to emanate, as at present, exclusively from Government Departments, but are to spring from a permanent tribunal of a judicial character created specially for the purpose. Mr Dodson asserted and the House cheered the sentiment that the duty of investigating and sanctioning these provisional orders ought not to be thrown on the existing Judges and further, that the proposed tribunal, like its Parliamentary predecessor, ought to be an imperial tribunal, whose commission should run throughout the United Kingdom. Indeed, it was mentioned subsequently that the amount of private bill legislation in Scotland or in Ireland is not such as to require or justify the creation of separate tribunals for either of those kingdoms. The tribunal will consist of three Judges or Commissioners, equal in dignity, ability, and emolument to the Judges of the land and their inquiries are to be held either locally, or, as may be found more convenient and economical, centrally in London, Dublin, or Edinburgh.

As to the question of appeal, Mr. Dodson proposed that this should lie to a joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament, and inclined to the opinion that the right of appeal should not be absolute, but that it should be in the discretion of the Standing Order Committee to grant or reject the application for a rehearing. So far Mr. Dodson. The House of Commons, while welcoming his suggestions for the improvement of private bill practice, exhibited a natural and wise reluctance to destroy or even to discredit the existing procedure until the details of the system proposed to be put in its place have been carefully filled in and considered.

The House, in fact, suspends its judgment it entertains, but refuses to stand committed to the project. We propose to take advantage of the interval reflection afforded by the adjournment of the debate to indicate a few of the difficulties which, in our opinion, Mr. Dodson will have to overcome before his reforms can meet with general acceptance. Few will be prepared for the statement, but it is nevertheless true, that the aggregate of capital invested in the different securities having Parliamentary sanction such as shares and debentures of railway, gas, and water companies, mortgages by corporations, harbour boards, fcc. equals, if it does not exceed, the amount of the national debt, i.

800,000,000. Mr. Dodson's scheme accordingly touches not only the enterprise but the investments of the country. After satisfying the House that its convenience will be consulted by the change, he must convince opponents as well as promoters of private bills that is to say, representatives from time to time of every interest in the country that the system which he recommends will work equally well for them. He has to reconcile the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the cost of this new tribunal and lastly, he must ensure in the tribunal itself the possession of that elastic and flexible character so properly insisted on by Mr.

BotrvERiE. Nrw, as to the convenience of the suitor. From Mr. Dodson's own admissions it is by no means clear that suitors of Parliament are so dissatisfied with the Parliamentary tribunal as he evidently thinks. For if so, how docs he explain his own statement, that persons and public bodies, having in many cases the alternative of procuring similar powers by provisional order or by private bill, deliberately turn their lacks on the Government departments and apply to the House itself Cumbrous and expensive as the machinery of Parliament is represented to be, it is resorted to year after year, and on subject after subject, in preference to the much-vaunted provisional order," easy of obtainment and inexpensive as this is Baid to be.

There must be, deep down in the national instincts, some strong, clear sense of the value and superiority of the Parliamentary tribunal to account for this proceeding, so much at variance with all economical theories. Perhaps there is also in this course a tacit protest against officialism and departmental routine, which is nowhere more vigorous than on i rovisional order questions. In either view, it is 3 fact worth noting, when the proposal is advanced, that Parliament should divest itself of jurisdiction nd hand it over to a permanent tribunal. As to cost, we cannot help thinking that Mr. Dodson very much under-estimates the responsibilities entailed by his new machinery.

Is it rea- liable to suppose that three men, travelling all over the kingdom, will be able to transact the business of which two hundred and fifty members of Parliament are now complaining, though ie work is brought to them cut and dry in London Moreover, the new udges must work 8 a higher pressure, for they must have the -irk all done in time to admit of contested cases ing heard on appeal whilst Parliament is sitting, double the number of Judges, at least, will pro-lbly be required and if none but first-class men be trusted and employed, here is at once a call Upon the Treasury for salaries equal to those of If-a-dozen puisne judges. Mr. Dodson says the suitors, and not the public, will pay the r-6 dignitaries but as the suitors' fees at present Mt into and form part of the Consolidated Fund, Chancellor of the Exchequer will probably view the question exactly in the same light. attempt, however, to underpay the Judges, employ men of an inferior stamp, would, of flse, nrove fatal to the scheme. between England and Scotland, and for the Association Cup, will not unlikely cause the question to be seriously mooted.

And if it he at all feasible so to combine the rival styles into one universal set of rules, possibly the attempt will be made. The love for and the practice of football has so greatly increased of late years that already it may be looked on as one of the great national pastimes. Formerly the game was confined almost, if not quite, exclusively to schools and colleges. Now the game has spread so much that nearly every district, town, and village has its club or clubs. It is needless and beside the mark to moralise on thiB.

It is a fact significant, according to the views of the onlooker. Athleticism is clearly in the ascendant. Never was there more excitement about the great boat races. Cricket is more than ever the rage, almost the madness, of the people of England. Athletic Bports at school and university are established institutions.

Football has grown from a mere school game into a general winter amusement. It would seem as if, while the wear and tear of brain augments, that, as a corrective, muscular exertion is felt insensibly to be almost a necessity. Be this as it may, however, the fact is undeniable athletic exercises of various kinds gain ground in the country. The great race of next Saturday and the great football match of to-day will, by the crowds of excited spectators assembled to witness them, testify to this phase, this characteristic of the stirring times we live in. SECOND EDITION, MORNING POST OFFICE, Saturday, March 16, 12.30 p.m.

REUTERS TELEGRAMS. AMERICA. NEW YORK, March 15. The Assembly of New York has finally passed the Erie Classification Bill as passed by the Senate. Gold closed at HOf the highest quotation during the day was HOf, the lowest 110.

Sterling exchange on London, 109. Five-twenty United States Bonds, 1885, 112f do. 1871, 109 do. 1867, 112 Central Pacific Railway Shares, 102 Illinois Shares, 134 Erie, 43i Union Pacific, 37 do. 6 per Cent.

Gold Bonds, 92 do. 7 per Cent. Land Grant do. 83. Cotton Middling Upland, 22f.

Petroleum Standard white, 23. Flour Extra State, $7.00 to $7.20. Corn Old Mixed, 69c. Red Spring Wheat, $1.59. The Hamburg American steamship Holsatia arrived here at 7 a.m.

to-day. THE FUNDS-THIS DAY. CITY, Twelve o'Clock. Consols for Money 92 to 92g Consols for Account (April) 92f to 92 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. (neuter's Telegrams.) FRANCE.

PARIS, March 15, Evening. The Memorial Diplomatique states that the Sultan, in order not to disturb the friendly relations existing between Turkey and Russia, has refused the offer of the envoy of the Emir of Bokhara to invest the Sultan with the Suzerainty of Bokhara as a protection to the Emir against Russia. The envoy has consequently left Constantinople. M. Lebeau, the director of the official journal of the Commune, has escaped from Versailles and arrived in Brussels.

The Bicn Public of this evening announces that M. Thiers will not pass the Easter vacation in Paris. The fall on the Bourse to-day was occasioned by a rumour that M. Thiers had stated to the Budget Committee that a loan would shortly be issued. The rumour is considered unfounded.

M. Gambetta visited M. Thiers to-day. VERSAILLES, March 15. It is stated that M.

Thiers refuses to accede to the proposal of the Committee of Inquiry into the capitulations during the war that the results should be published. M. Thiers considers the publication inexpedient, as the majority of the officers concerned are on active service. Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers has unsuccessfully endeavoured to shake the determination of M. Thiers.

M. Thiers spoke yesterday with the Committee on the Budget, and more than ever insisted on maintaining the tax on raw materials. Yesterday a grand dinner was given at the Italian Legation on the occasion of the fete of the King of Italy. M. de Re'musat and all the foreign ambassadors, including Lord Lyons and the American, Swedish, and Portuguese Ambassadors, were present, as well as M.

Fournier, the new French Ambassador to the King of Italy. The Committee on Pardons has rejected, the appeals of Preau de Vedel and Girard, who are under sentence of death for complicity in the assassination ef the hostages. VERSAILLES, March 15, Evening. The Committee on Electoral Law, after an exhaustive debate, rejected the principle of suffrage of two degrees. The committee maintains the principle of universal suffrage.

M. Jules Simon declared to-day to the Committee on Primary Instruction that he would maintain his bill textually as presented. The question of Marshal Bazaine's conduct at Metz greatly occupies the attention of the public. The conclusions of the Committee of Inquiry are very severe against him. It is believed that Marshal Bazaine would be tried by court-martial but for the difficulty with regard to the constitution of such a court, as the accused can only be tried by his peers.

Marshal Vaillant and two admirals are the only officers available as members of such a court, the other marshals having capitulated. Some deputies advocate a special law for the formation of a court of generals having held chief command. M. Grevy presided to-day in the National Assembly. The general debate on the Budget commenced, in the course of which M.

Feray advocated a system of economy and the prompt presentation of the budget of 1873. M. Germain demanded the simplification of the service of the Treasury by the suppression of all costly intermediaries, and urged a reform of the arrangements between the Government and the Bank, and a reduction of the interest on loans from the Bank to the State. M. Randot condemned the heavy expenditure proposed in the budget.

He complained of the omission of several essential details of the expenditure, and opposed the heavy new taxation announced. He would successively present several amendments which would effect a total saving of 250,000, OOOfr. and reduce the budget to the figure of that of 1860. might be given of this extraordinary ruling but the story affords an illustration of the sort of decisions which may be expected where rules are laid down and pushed to their full extent by a permanent judicial tribunal, not influenced by the fresh ideas or the new blood infused into the House of Commons at every general election. The reports of the Commissions which have been appointed to take into consideration the various projects of law submitted to the National Assembly are beginning to present themselves in profusion.

Yesterday it was the Commission on the proposed prosecutions of the Press to-day it is M. le Marquis de Chasselolp-Laubat, Minister of Marine and Minister President of the Council of State under the Empire, who, in his quality of rapporteur of the bill on recruiting for the army, claims our attention for the vast and comprehensive scheme upon which he and his colleagues have been occupied during so long a period. The future of France the future of every Continental nation since the recent development of enormous power on the part of Prussia-must more than ever depend upon the extent and efficiency of the military organisation at the disposal of the Government in the event of hostilities. Even island empires bike our own feel the necessity of fundamentally emending the superannuated systems of defence which are no longer suited for the emergencies of an epoch when a million of men can be concentrated by a score of railways on the frontier of an enemy within a fortnight. France has paid dearly for the folly which caused the forces of the country to lag so far behind the perfection to which a dan gerous neighbour had brought the means of swift and overwhelming attack.

It is but natural that one of the first preoccupations of the statesmen and legislators who now stand at the helm of affairs should be to endeavour to make up for the precious opportunity which has been wasted, and, even though what has been done may not be undone, to prevent by solid and scientific preparation the possibility of fresh disasters such as made the outnumbered and out-generalled legions of France the inmates of German prisons, and brought the exulting Prussian and Bavarian within the gates of Paris and beneath the desecrated Arch of Triumph. The public misfortunes have lightened in one respect the task of the Commission. There is no longer any fear of hearing the cheap eloquence of shortsighted and shallow demagogues raised in opposition on those grounds of peace-at-any-price and ideas not arms which formed the staple of the spouting patriots who frustrated the Imperial scheme of 1867-8, when Marshal Niel would have given France an active force of twelve hundred thousand trained soldiers and a reserve of the whole nation more or less prepared for war. MM. les Orateursha ve been taught a lesson since M.

Jv les Javke and M. Jcles Simon and the rest assured the Corps Le'gislatif that the statements of the Imperial Ministers with regard to the forces of Prussia were "fables" and "exaggerations." Unfortunately it was Fiance that suffered in order that MM. les Orateurs might be convinced. There is no longer any need of having recourse to shifts and devices in order to persuade French representatives not to dismount all the cavalry and disband half the artillery. M.

de Chasseloup-Laubat and his colleagues have been encouraged in their labours by the impulse of a public opinion which has at length no doubt that the most burthensome military organisation is a slight and trifling rate of assurance against possible risks. Two provinces and five milliards are a pledge that the policy of Thorough in the work of Army Reform will be the only acceptable policy to the country. The Commission has understood its obligations in this sense, and the report which has been presented to the National Assembly is the summary of a scheme of recruitment which goes to the very limits of thoroughness. It may be doubted whether even Prussia has as yet put in practice a system which so literally makes the army conterminous with the nation. In the first portion of the report is contained the exposition of the general principles which constitute the foundation of the new project universal military service, the suppression of substitutions, the obligation of enrolment in the public force from the age of twenty to the age of forty years, the prohibition of bounties.

Soldiers actually under the standards are to have their rights as electors in abeyance. Entrusted with the honourable duty of defending the safety and authority of the State, they are to hold themselves aloof from those party politics which, though they may be the necessity of free government, are the destruction of military discipline, and French soldiers, so naturally brave and daring, must for the future above all things be disciplined. Dispensations may be granted in particular cases or classes of cases; but a dispensation is to be always only temporary, and can never amount to a definite liberation from the common obligation. In order to prevent that confusion which must always arise from divided command and divided responsibility, every armed body is to depend directly on the Minister for War. The second portion of the report deals with the exceptions and limitations which must be present in every scheme, however complete.

The general provisions which have hitherto governed the selection of the annual contingent will still be preserved. Although every young man as he reaches the prescribed age must enter as a soldier, it is only a certain proportion of young men that will be called upon to serve for a long term of years. What thiB proportion ought to be will doubtless form the subject of careful discussion in the Chamber. It will, we may rest assured, be as great as the condition of the finances will admit. The only definite exemption from regular military service occurs in the case of young men so undergrown as to be unfitted for the career of arms.

Even these pigmies, however, are not to be suffered to escape the duty of yielding what utility is in them to the public service. If too short and slight for the combatant ranks, they can at least be trained to act as drivers the transport and commissariat HER MAJESTY, dtc. PROM THE COURT CIRCULAR. "WINDSOR CASTLE, Friday. The Queen, accompanied bv Princess V.otric w.ivj and drove in the grounds this morning.

1118 JwtceUency the German Ambassador and Counter Bernstorff, the Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, aad the Countess of Mount-Charles arrived at the Castle this afternoon. THE TURKISH AMBASSADOR. The severe accident his Excellency Musurus Pasha oat with has occasioned considerable anxiety amone hm numerous friends. During yesterday many personal calls and inquiries were made at the Embassy. Sir James Paget attended upon his excellency about mid day, with Mr.

Forbes, his ordinary medical adviser, and soon atterwards the following bulletin was issued: His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador slept well, as4 has lesB pain than he had yesterday." Her Majesty sent early yesterday morning to learn the condition of his excellency, and inquiries were also made by the Duke of Cambridge, the Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lome, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Tait, the Nawab Nazim of Bengal and Prince SolimanKudr Bahadoor, the Russian Ambassador and Countess deBrua-now, the French Ambassador, the German Ambassador and Countess Bernstorff, the United States Minister and Misses Swedish Minister and Baroness Hochschiltl, the Italian Minister, the Danish Minister and Madame Bulow, the Spanish Minister, the Brazilian Charge d' Affaires. M. E. de Plener, Count and Countess Alexander Kiel-mansegge, Mr.

B. Moran and among many others the following distinguished friends of his excellency and family The Duchess of Inverness, the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll and Lady Elizabeth Campbell, the Duke and Duchess of Alarlborough and Ladies Churchill, the Duchess Dowaeei of Somerset, Prince and Princess Victor de Broglie, r-nnce and Princess Soltykoff, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Mrs. Brand, the Marnuis and Mar chioness of Donegall, the Marquia of Bowinont, tne Marquis and Marchioness Townshen.l. the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesburv.

the Marntii. and Marchioness of Ripon, the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Countess of Kimberley, the Eirl and Countess of Arran, the Countess of Courtown, the Earl and Countess of Lauderdale, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, the Dowager Countess of Kinnoull, the Earl and Countess of Verulam and Ladies Grim-ston, the Countess of Buchan, the Dowager Countess of Essex, the Earl and Countess Cowper, the Countess of Charlemont, the Countess of Cork, the Countess Poolett, Viscount and Viscountess Pollington, Viscount Enfield, Viscount and Viscountess Halifax, Viscount Eversley, Viscount Sydney, Lord Methuea, Lord Cardross, Lord and Lady Edward Thynne, Lord and Lady Henry Somerset, Lord and Lady Hobart, Lord and Lady Alexander Russell, Dowager Lady Colchester, Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton, Lord and Lady Lord Lyveden, Dowager Lady Raglan and Hon. Mis Somerset, Lord and Lady Abercromby, Dowager Lady M'Gregor, Dowager Lady Stanley of Alderley, Lruiy Francis Gordon, Lord Wrottesley, Lady Sanuys and Hon. Miss Sandys, the Premier and Mrs. Gladstone and Miss Gladstone, the John and Lady Pakington, the Right Hon.

Sir otanoru anu j-auy Nortncote, tne Kigut Hon. Sir William and Lady Hutt, the Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey and Lady Georgian Grey, Hon. Spencer and Mrs. Ponsonby, Hon.

Gerald and Ladv Maria Pon-sonby, General Hon. Sir Edward Cust, Field-iLushal S.r William and Lady Gomrn, Sir Moses Montetiore, Sir Henry and Lady Bentinck, Lieutenant-General Sir J. and Lady Sarah Lindsay, Sir Philip and Lady Grey Egerton, Sir Spencer and Lady Rotinsjn, Sir Henry Holland, Sir J. and Hon. Lady Sebright, Sir J.

and Lady Shaw-Lefevre, Sir Charles and Lady Stirling. Colonel Challoner, Mr. and Lady Frances Lindsay, Mr. and Lady Rose "Weigall, Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont.

Mr. and Lady Charlotte Russell, Mr. and Lady Harriet Lindsay, PREACHERS FOR TO-MORROW. St. Pall's Cathedral.

Evening, the Very Rev. Dr, Scott. Westminster Abbey. Morning, at 10, the Connor, vicar of Newport Afternoon, at the Dean. Chapel Royal, St.

James's. Morning, at 12, the Right Rev. Lord Arthur Hervey, D.D., Bishop of Bath and Wells. Chapel Royal, Whitehall. Morning, at 11, the Very Rev.

R. W. Church, M.A., dean of St. Paul's Afternoon, at 3, the Rev. Canon Miller, D.D., vicar of Greenwich.

Chapel Royal, Savoy. Morning, at 11.30, the Rev. Henry White, M.A., chaplain of the Savoy and to the Speaker of the House of Commons Evening, at 7, the Rev. Dr. Monsell, rector of Guildford.

Temple Church. Morning, at 11, the Rev. Dr. Vaughan. Trinity Chapel, Conduit-street.

Morning, at 11, and Evening, at 7tjhe Rev. John Macnaught, M.A. Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. Morning, at 11.30, the Rev. Henry Howarth, B.D., rector of St.

George's, Hanover square, and chaplain in ordinary to the Queen. St. Matthew's, Spring-gardens. The Rev. R.

Hay-Hill, M.A. St. Thomas's, Regent-street. Morning, at 11, the Rev. Dr.

Lee Evening, at 7. the Rev H. R. Belcher. Surrey Chapel.

Morning, at 11, and Evening, at 0.30, the Rev. Newman Hall. St. James's Hall. Afternoon, at the Rev.

Newmas Hall Evening, at G.30, the Rev. G. W. M'Cree. The Dowager Countess Cowper entertained at dinner on Thursday evening, at her residence in St.

James's-square, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Mary Primrose, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Earl of Clanwilliam, Viscount Sydney Lord William Hay, Lady Victoria Ai-hley, Hon. Mr. Wood, Hon. Mr. Vesey, Hon.

Mr. and Hon. Miss Char-teris, Mr. Cheney, ke. Accident to the Marquis of Headfort.

The Meath Hounds met at his lordship's seat in Ireland on Thursday last and, whilst in the act of mounting his horse, the noble marquis was thrown, and, we regret to state, sustained a severe fracture of the collar-bone. Lady Charles Innes Ker. We have to report a very unfavourable bulletin of her ladyships condition, dated 12.30 yesterday "Her ladyship passed a bad night and is weaker, but quiet just now." All her frienda are very anxious. The Earl of Lonsdale's Will. The recently deceased Earl of Lonsdale appears to have disposed of his vast riches after an equitable manner, which may serve in future as a model for wealthy testators.

He is understood to have bequeathed to his nephew, the successor to his title, nearly the whole of the immense landed estates in his possession, the splendid domain of Lowther, and his residence on Carlton-terrace that is, two houses thrown into one, and filled with objects of art of very great value. He has also named him residuary legatee, a contingency which it is expected will yield quite a quarter of a million sterling. To Mr. William Lowther, M. P.

for Westmoreland, and next brother to the new earl, he has devised his estate at Barnes, valued at upwards of 50,000, together with a handsome legacy in money and, as that gentleman now acquires the Barley thorpe pioperty im Rutlandshire on his brother's accession to the great Lowther estates estimated at quite 10,000 a year, the term "younger brother's portion assumes a very pleasant signification on the occasion. To his two children, Mrs. Broad wood and Captain Lowther, R.N., the late earl has left, it is said, the sum of 130,000 each, together with legacies of 20,000 to each of their sons. He has, moreover, remembered several of his more intimate friends in bequests of 5,000, besides leaving as much to each of his executors, and to bis private secretary. He, also, has devised a life interest in the sum of 20,000 to his at tendant, who has for many years acted as a sort of nurse to him, in addition to an annuity for life of 500 already secured to her.

Lastly, to his distant cousin. Miss Lowther, he leaves tlo.OOu, and to his nephew, Mr. Cavendish Bentinck, M.P. for Whitehaven. 25.000.

all these legacies being duty free. Altogether, though he disposes of estates to the value of nearly 160,000 a year, and of a personalty not far short of a million, his will seems to be considered fair, just, and liberal in every phase, and precisely what might have been expected fro the fairness, justice, and liberality which ever distinguished the testator during his lifetime. At the Levee held bv her Maieatv last Mr. F. Mocatta was presented by Mr.

Nathaniel Montefiore. The TREATY of COMMERCE with FRANCE. The Foreign-office informs us that the denunciation of the Treaty of Commerce with France was communicated to her Majesty's Government yesterday. We believe that in consequence the Treaty will expire on the 15th of March, 1873. This will of course give opportunities for negotiating the arrangements to be finally determined on between the two countries.

REPORTED RUPTURE BETWEEN URUGUA AND GREAT BRITAIN. The South American mail steamer which has just arrived brings intelligence from Monte Video to the effect that the diplomatic relations between the Government of the Uruguayan Republic and Mr. M'Donald, the English Minister, have been suspended, and that the latter had retired to Buenos Ayres, at which city he would remain and await instructions from the English Government. The causes of the rupture had not been made public, but the Monte Video Siglo says that it had been informed that one of the causes of the dispute with the British Minister had been removed viz. a debt of $250,000, which the Government of Uruguay recognised without agreeing to fix the time and conditions of payment, fearing that some unforeseen political difficulties might happen to prevent its fulfilment.

With respect to the lamentable state of the Oriental Republic, the Reoista del Banco Franco Plateuse of the 18th ult. says The political situation of the country is such as to defy definition, and if we were doctors we believe that after having felt the pulse of this unfortunate collection of individuals called the Republic Oriental, we would say it was affected with a destructive intermittent fever." The Volunteer Review at Brighton. Last night a rumour was prevalent in Brighton that some hitch of a serious nature had occurred in the arrangements which are being made for the Easter Monday Review, and it is believed that the rumour contains an unpleasant amount of truth. The War-office alleges that the site of 6,000 acres is not sufficiently large for the manoeuvres which they intend to carry out, and it is believed they have sent sent something like an ultimatum to the effect, that if the site cannot be extended in a southerly direction the project must be abandoned. Wds the most forcible objection to the plan.