SHIPPING.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVALS.

June 5. Eag'o, ketch, 41 tons, Loverock, from Roro tonga. Auckland, s.s., 450 tons, Wall, from Sydney. ' Golden I?le, schooner, 70 tons, McDonald, from Lyttelton. Oomerang, p.s., 154 tons, T. Chrisp, from Napier. Kate Grant, schooner, 40 tons, Davies, from Wangarei.

Jtots 6.

gamson, p.s., Mundle, from W ngarei. Mary Ellen, schooner, Rawling, from Mer cury Bay, with 4000 feet timber, 10 tons gum, 4 tons flux.

Aquila, cutter, 27 tons, Champion, from Russell, with 47 tons coals.

Morning Light, cutter, from Great Barrier, with 40 sheep.

DEPARTURES.

Wontta Wonga. s.s., 750 ton?, T. Beale, for Honolulu. Bella TVTarj, 276 tons, Copping, for Hobart Town.

EXPORTS.

Per s.B. Wonga Wonga, for Honolulu—l boxsovs., Cruickshank, Smart and Co. ; 1 box seeds, 4 coils rope, 6 do. do., Owen and Graham. — Cruickshnnk, Pmarfc and Co., agents.

Per s.s. Airedale : From Dunedin —1 case Q-anderson ; 1 parcel, Stoll ; 1 case, Bastard ; 4 eases, Cosgrave; 1 parcel, Lazarus ; 3 bundles, 2 cases, 1 grate, 1 keg, Phillips ; 4 cases, Koinpthorne. From Lyttelton—loo sacks oats, Jenkins ; 1 box, Bastard ; 1 parcel, Barbel*. From Wellington—l 7 kegs butter, Ebden ; 1 cass, 1 parcel, Stewart; 1 case, Warmoll ; 17 bags bones, Henderson. From Nelson —1 package trees, Clarke.—Henderson and Macfarlane, agents.

Per p.s. Comerang, from Napier : — 400 sheep, 52 head cattle, Banks; 150 sheep, Buckland. —W. J. Hurst and Co., agents.

Per Dancing Wave, from J-yttelton: —630 sucks wheat, 112 ditto barley, 300 ditto oats. G-. W. Binney, agent.

IMPORTS.

Per schooner Golden Isle, from Lyttelton : —665 sacks wheat, 200 ditto barley, 200 ditto oats, order. —J. Roberton & Co., agents.

The s.s. Airedale passed the s.s. Keera at ahchor, at 2.30 p.m on the 4th.

The s.s. Tauranga took her departure for Russell, at 3 p.m. yesterday, with a number of passeugers. Captain Blick, ftn-merly of the s.s. Auck land, and late of the p.s. 'Williams, is about to resume his command of the former vessel, Captain Wall having come down to take charge of the p.s. Williams. During the short, time Captain Blick has been engaged in tht Thames trade, he has, by his gentlemanly bearing and attention to passengers, earned many friends. Golden Isle. —The schooner G-olden Isle, Captain McDonald, arrived in harbour on Saturday afternoon, from Lyttelton, after a long passage. She brings a full cargo of grain for Messrs. J. Roberton and Co.

DEPARTURE OF THE WONG A WONGA.

The powerful s.s. Wonga Wonga, T. S. Beale, Esq., commander, took her depar ture this afternoon for Honolulu, carry ing the English mails, via San Fran cisco. The following is a correct list o' passengers : —From N ew Zealand—Saloon : Rev. J. C. Jenkins, Mr. H. B. Johnston, Mr. end Mrs. Benjamin Seymour, Messrs. Edward Oiven, Henry Jackson, Colonel Thompson, Messrs. Richard Burshaw, William H. Ailing ton, Charles C. Jackson, Edward Johnson Andrew, E!len,Mi\ and Mr3. Nottage, Mrs.Rd. Mopller, Mrs. Rnnshaw, Miss Jans McClaren, Mr. Matthew Hill.. Second cabin : Win. OrofF, Albert Hasting, Henry 0. Bloomer, Arthur Bloomer, Arthur Bond, James W. and John Smith, Alex. Bryson, James Wilson. From Sydney:—Messrs. A. Leeper, B. Billyard, 1). Jj. Williams, B. Ro.-hfort, D. M. Berry, J. C. Lyons, F. Rice, Mr. and Mr;-'. Malcolm and child, Messrs. J. C. Fullarton, Thomas Cocker, T. H. Phillips, James McLeod, Iliir ford, T. O'Connell, Hepworth and servant, ii. E. Dio Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Fisher and servant, Mrs. Addey, Miss Hurford, Messr3. 0. Fitz gibbon, Charles Terrance, and 30 in the steerage.

ARRIVAL OF THE KEERA.

The fine s.s. Keera, Captain J. Bain, arrive in the Manukau this morning. She left Wan" gmmi at 12.45 p.m. on the 3rd inst., wind S.E., light ; made a good run to the West Capi», when the wind flew round to the north and blew a hard gale, having stock on board Captain Bain thought it advisable to ran for shelter until tho weather should moderate; brought up under Opuanake and remained there untill 7 a.m. on Sun/lay, when she got under weigh, with the wind from N. W. and arrived at Manukau Heads on Sunday night. Paasrd a fore and aft' schooner off the West Cape supposed to bo the Fairy, from Onehunga bonricl for Lyttelton.

Passengers.—Saloon: Messrs. Beauchaup and Day, and two in the steerage.

ARRIVAL OF THE AIREDALE.

The Circular Saw Company's s.s. Airedale, A. Kennedy, Esq., commander, arrived in the Manukau yesterday afternoon from the Southern ports, bringing tho English mails and passengers for transhipment to,the Wonga Wonga. Passengers — Saloon: From Bluff, Mr. Jackson, Mr. GJrainger. From Dunedin, Mr. and Mrs. Renshovr, Miss McLaren, Mr. and Mm. McGregor, Mr. W. Q-off. From Lyttel ton, Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison., Mr. an..! Mrs. Hunewood, Messrs. E. Johnston, Owen, Allington, FT. B. Johnston, Rennie, Cowie. From Wellington, Mr. Hill, Miss Saddler. From Nehon, Mr. Grut, Mrs. Ledger and two children, Mr. A. Alias, and ten in the steer ago.

Wo are md jbted to M. A. K. Adams for our Southern exchanges.

ARRIVAL OF THE COMERANG.

The p,s. Comerang, Captain T. Chrisp, arrived in harbour at four o'clock yesterday morning from Napier via the Thames. She

left Napier on Tuesday evening last, and landed her cargo afc the Thames in first-rate condition, having lost only one sheep during tlio passage. Passengers—Messrs. Isaacs Moray, Bvyson, and Haigh. The Comerung will leave Ihe wharf for Poverty Bay this evening.

ARRIVAL OF THE EAGLE.

The ketch Eagle, Captain Loverock, re turned from the South Sea Islands on Satur day, bringing a cargo of oranges. She left Rorotonga on the 20th ult., and made a good run to the land of 14 days. Passed the Hen and Chickens on Saturday evening, and arrived in harbour at daybreak yeslerdaj morning. She experienced variable winds to the coast, and on Saturday had a strong northerly gale, during which her mainsail and jib were carried away. Passejtgees. — Messrs. McCann and Donald.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

ARRIVAL.

Keera, sb., J. Bain, from Wang.mui, with 828 sheep, 10 calves, 12 bullocks, Carey, Gilles, Hunter & Co.; 20 keg 3 butter. J. Bain; 10 ditto ditto, L. W. Eaton.—J S. Macfarlane, agents.

COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star Office, Monday afternoon

Messrs. S. Coehrane and Son sold by auction this morning, a four-roomed cottage, having a frontage to Cook and Union-streets, for the sum of £83.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

S UOET.LAND-sTREET,

MAILS will close as under :— For Thames and Coromandel, this day, at 5.30 p.m., and to-morrow 10 a.m., and 5.30 p.m. For Wangnrei, per p.s. Samson, to-morrow, the 7th inst., at. 3.30 p.m. Mails per s.s. Auckland will close on Wednes day, the Bth June, a^ under : — For India, China, Mediterraneian Ports, and Continent of Europe, at 10.30 a.m. For the Australian Colonies, at 11 am. For tho United Kingdom via Suez, at 11 a.m. For the United Kingdom via Marseilles, at 11.30. a.m.

For Money Orders, Registered Letters, and Newspapers, at 10 a.m. Late Letters for Sydney and tho United Kingdom, via Southampton will be re ceived till 11.30 a.m. For Tauranga and Opotiki, per s.s. Tan ranga, on Wednesday, Bth inst., at 3.30 p.m. Mails for Taranaki and the Southern Pro vinces, ppr s.s. Airedale, will be made up at this office immediately after the arrival of the s.s. City of Melbourne from Hono lulu.

S. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster,

POLICE COURT.

The following is the rota of attendance of Magistrates at the Police Court, for the week ending June 11, 1870 : — Tuesday, June 7th—Messrs. G-. M. Mitford and H. Morrow.

Wednesday, June Bth—Messrs. L. D, Na than and D. L. Murdoch. Thursday, June 9th —Messrs. J. 0. Newman and C. H. Otway.

Friday, June l©th—Messrs. &. B. O*en and Or. P. Pierce.

Saturday, June 11th—Messrs. R. F. Porter and Thos. Ritchie.

The Evening Star. MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1870.

The intended strengthening of the Australian and ISTew Zealand Squad ron and return of the Galatea to our waters may be looked at from various sides. To the " colonial gentlemen," after their miserable fiasco, it will be balm to the feelings, and make their

precipitate retreat have, to themselves at least, the aspect of a small victory. To Earl Granville it will be salvation from the nest of hornets that have been buzzing round his ears since his ill-omened despatch. To Exeter Hall it will be a righteous con cession to outraged humanity, as intended to put down the unspeakable horrors of the " Queensland slave trade;" while with the young ladies of Atistralia it will cause many a heart to throb with delight at the anticipated pleasure of again caressing " the darling prince." It is rare that such a small gift from ministerial hands can bestow such wide-spread satisfaction ; and we wonder how the " colonial gentlemen" can ever hope to raise another " groan," or express another drop of " blood" from colo nial agony, after this most satisfactory denouement to the Colonial question It may be but a solitary ship that is detached from the navy of England, but how freighted is she with the satisfaction and the aspirations of mil lions. With the majesty of England floating in her standard, hope swel ling her sails, protection in her guns, and love at the helm, the Q-alatea cornea the harbinger of happiness to the colonial empire of the Southern seas. What! though the " conference" was an untimely birth; what! though Messrs. .Peatherstone and 8011, basking in the sunshine of royalty, and enervated by rubbing skirts with peers, should fail to obtain the English regiment which was never expected; enough for us to know that the Gralatea with her i

royal captain is despatched for ser vice on the Australasian station.

If the Gralatea came as an instal ment of that naval protection which is promised to these colonies against foreign aggression', if the vigorous policy already initiated of leaving the colonies, nolens volens, to provide their own military defence were really to be seconded by British squad rons cruising in the Pacific as an ocean police ; and if sufficient force could be detached to shield us from invasion in time of war, then might we, as a people, feel an interest in the South Sea Fleet. But when common sense tells us that so nearly matched are the navies of England and America, of England and France, that the first broadside would be the signal for the immediate massing of the fleet around the coasts of England, as the army is being centred, we can see in the Gralatea nothing more than the symbol of Earl Grauville's " last penny and last ship" which are to be spent in the protection of the colonies. It is difficult, however, to disabuse our minds of the impression that this strengthening of the Squadron is in some way connected with the royal captain of the Gralatea. It is only in human nature that he should evince predilections for the A ustralian sta tion ; and that the experiences of his1 former visits should have an attractive influence on even a stronger mind than that of His Royal Highness. Thefulsomeflatteries pouredoutonthis the first scion of royalty ever seen on these coasts, the convulsions of loyalty into which especially the people and Parliament of New South "Wales worked themselves, and the fluttering of female hearts by which he was perpetually surrounded, were enough to warm the blood and turn the head of a young man more staid than any of the royal house. In a paroxysm of devotion the legislature in Sydney enacted that anyone who refused to fall down and -worship when the Queen's health was drunk should be cast into Cockatoo ; while we are credibly informed that the ladies in that loyal city stole into the bedroom of his Koyal Highness in his absence, and collected the hairs from his combs and brushes as souvenirs of the royal visit. Now it were a pity that all this wealth of affection should be wasted, and not only would personal feeling on ,the part of the Prince, but a desire on the part of statesmen to cultivate this wild un trained devotion to proper purpose, tend to the return of the Galatea. Probably pocket money will this time be provided to his Royal Highness; and we have no doubt that by the various little mementoes of affection which he will scatter over the colonies in his two years' stay, he will bind more closely the ties be tween our colonists and the Royal Family of England. The eventual possibility of a royalty of our own, with Prince Alfred on the throne, surrounded by a colonial peerage, may be among the things in the hazy vista of futurity; and alto gether the strengthening of the Aus tralian squadron by the coming of the Gralatea may be pregnant with events not dreamt of in our philosophy.

In the Police Court to-day there was an average number of drunkards. A ease of assault in the Samoan Archipelago w-is ruled to be outside the bounds of the Police Court in Auckland ; and a good miring case fell through a hole in the indictment, 'Jbe very painful cases of indecent exposure were concluded, and resulted in the infliction of two months' imprisonment, with hard labour. The unhappy man keenly felt his position. At the same time there is a debt of public gratitude due to the two gentlemen, who. doing violence to their own parental feelings, brought forward their litUe girls to give evidence in the case. Few are disposed to feel the obligations of citizen ship in upholding the law in ordinary cases unattended with unpleasantness; fewer still where parental tenderness and j respect for the innocence and purity of j childhood so pleaded, The action of these gentlemen is deserving of the thanks of every father and mother in Auckland. |

I vß\vs (o hand via Wanganui sSatos! th.it a general native meeting is to be j held at Pariaka, inranaki, on the IStli I September. It is summoned by Te Whiii and Toha, and messengers wi'l be sent to; all parts of the island. The object of the j meeting is to re-establish n general peace. Te Whiti says that Taranaki commenced the war, and Taranaki must end it. j

Persons desirous of assisting in the formation of a cotton company, at Fiji, are requested to call at the office of Mr J. t5. Maefarlane, Queen-street. It will be seen by advertisement that the p.s. Oomcrang will leave Auckland at four o'clock this afternoon for Poverty Bay. Be tarn tickets will be issued at easy rates, thus affording an excellent opportunity for tourists to pay a visit to one o/' the most delightful parts of the

colony. It is notified by the Chief Justice Sir George Arney, that John Williamson, Esq., Curator of Intestate Estates, shall have the administration of the goods and chattels of Edward Penney, deceased; and Charles Walton, deceased.

Notice is given that all debts due to the estate of W. A. Clarke, late of the Royal Hotel, will be sued for if not paid by the 20kh inst.

It will be comforting to tho people of this city to read tlie account of the recent explosion of a naif ton of gunpowder in Argyleshire. Of course the cause is un known, as it always is in such cases, all in tlia establishment and about it being blown lo pieces. The shock was felt eight miles away, and this be it remem bered whs from half a ton of the explo sive. 'Jhis city is less than eight miles from the Albert Barracks, and there are o good many half tons of gunpowder there. The striking of a hobnail, or a flash of lightning, or anything between these ex tremes, would be considerably felt in the city we should think, and the warders would not return to comfort us with an account of the cause of the accident.

The Blue Jackets of the Rosario are like their gallant Oaptain of the right stamp, they have offered to give an Evening Entertainment at the Parnell Hall early next week, the proceeds to be devoted to the Orphan Home.

We observe that Mr. W. Thorne Has commenced business as barrister and solicitor in Auckland.

The Wesleyan Band of Hope soiree will be held in the Pitt-street school room this evening. Captain Peek amongst others will address the meeting.

Libel.—The Holtitika paper of May 30 states that Mr. David Curie, proprietor of the JRoss Guardian, was arrested on i hursday last on a charge of libelling the Chairman ol the County Council, in con nection with the £oh-i-noor Company. Mr. Curie was to be brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court, hokitika, on Monday. Ihe case excites considerable interest both in Hokitika and Hoss.

An accident, resulting from intemper ance, occurred, on the Great South Koad, on Saturday afternoon. Two men were riding fast down the descent at this side ot Martin's farm, when one of them, who was very much the worse for liquor, was thrown from his horse with great violence. His companion galloped off after the horse, leaving his friend senseless at the side, of the road. Fortunately, the coach came up at the time, and Constable McGovern, who was a passenger, assisted by others, raised the man from his prone condition. It was found that he was quite sensoless, and had a nasty cut on his head. Water was poured down his throat, and he soon recovered sufficiently to be left to his own devices.

Serious Accident.— A serious accident occurred yesterday afternoon to a young man named John Cottar, by which he sustained a fracture of the leg. It appears that Cottar, who is in the employment- of Captain tlutton, was coming to Auckland from Mangere, and had reached as far as Penrose, when he observed a half-caste—whose name was subsequently found to be Barlow—riding furiously towards him from the opposite direction. Cottar states that the horse made directly at him, and that he took up a stone and tlirew it at the animal to endeavour to get it to alter its course, at the same times singing out loudly to the rider to mind where he was going to. The half-caste, however, far from being pleased at Cottar's tactics, appears—if the latter is to be believed—to have made a dash at Cottar, whose only safety lay in jumping over the stone fence which bounded the road. This he did, but losing his footing, he was precipitated a distance of many feet—there being a deep hole just on the other side of the fence —breaking hi? leg in the fall. He cried loudly for assistance, which very soon arrived, and he was brought to ihe Auckland Police Station in a cart. Dr. Nicholson vras at once sent for, and on arrival, pronounced the leg to be fracture 1, and recommended the man's removal to the hospital. The recommen dation "was immediately carried into effect, and Cottar removed to the hospital, where he at once received proper medical I reatnient.

POLICE COURT.—Monday.

(Before T. Bitch'e, Esq., Dr. Kenderdine,

and J. May, lisq., J.P.'s.)

DETJNKENNESS.

James Davis, James Johnson, and Thomas Green, were each fined 5s with costs, or to be imprisoned for 21 hours. Anne Swift, for n second offence, was fired 10s. and costs, or to be imprisoned for 48 hours. BEBACn OF YAGBANT ACT. JTenry E. Webb appeared, on remand, to answer the charge of indecent exposure. Defendant was not able to bring forward rebutting evidence (is promised. Mr. Joy, who appeared for defendant, made an address of great ability and eloqueuee, ex plaining away the grounds of the charge, but the Court found I lie prisoner guilty on both charges, and sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprisonment with hard larbour for each, of the two eases, the second month to commence at the termination of the first sentence. AUCKLAND MUNICIPAL POLICE AGT. Abraham Fletcher was charged with having, on the 31st May, in Franklyn-street, com mitting a breach of the above Act, in cruelly ill-treating a horse. The informant, Mr. Gregory, coming for ward aud stating that he found himself unable to substantiate the charge, the case was dis missed. Samuel F. Benslead was charged with a breach of the same Act, for neglecting to take the proper side of the road in passing the conveyance of James Colville, on June 1. j James Colville, deposed : I was going up ; Queen-street on Wednesday last, and I saw I defendant coming up driving a dog cart; I ! went to the- left-hand side, the proper side, and he took the same side, and striking my horse, cut in his leg a wound five inches long, at the same time striking him with the whip. To Mr. Wilson (who appeared for the de fence): I was standing on ihe dray, aud wa* either on the middle of the road, or rather to the proper side of it, on first approaching. |

For the the defence, Mrs. June Edwards deposed : I am the wife of Charles Edwards, of the Army and Navy Hotel. I was with Mr. Benstead in his buggy on the Ist June. I recollect the accident. Colville was on his right hand side of the road, so much so that defendant could not pass. Colville was on the road, behind the airt. To the Bench : We had passed the body of the dray and would have passed the horses without touching, only Colville called out " gee," when the horses turned across our path, and I felt the clog cart touch.

Dismissed with costs of Court. assault.

Vigo Hall was charged by Q-eorge Evans with having, on board the schooner 'Excelsior,' at Tutuilla, in the Samoan Group, violently assaulted him, by striking him and knocking him down, and kicking him, on the 25th April. Mr. Joy for prosecution ; Mr, Weston for the defence

Counsel for the prosecution stated that there is no British Consul at this island, and that Auckland is the first port since touched, and that there is no necessity for laying informa tion before the termination of a voyage.

Mr. Wesfcon proceeded to address the Court, and contended that it had no juris diction in the present cage. If the Court was to deal with the matter the information must be laid under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. '1 he Court was of the same opinion as Mr. Weston.

Mr. Joy asked that the information should be amended if the Court considered it neces~ sary, but for his own part he did not think it was.

Mr. Weston objected to any amendment of the kind. The plaintiff could only bring his case under the Justice of the Peace Act, 1866, and by that Act the Court had no jurisdiction. After some further discussion the Bench decided that it had no jurisdiction as the case was brought before it, but they would have if information was brought under the Merchant Shipping Act. The case was dismisssd under the Justice of the Peace Act, 1866.

A lively discussion took place as to whether the defendant should be discharged or whether the present information should be amended. The Bench dismissed the ease, leaving it to the plaintiff.to lay another information. In the matter of William Poley y. William Hogg there was no appearance, and the case ■was accordingly dismissed. THE WINDING- VV. Several mining cases under the Limited Liability Act were adjourned until Friday. In each case the defendant was sued by the official liquidator, to show cause why —a petition for a winding up haying been granted —he should not pay a certain amount called for by Mr. Otway. The following case wa3, however, proceeded with:— C. H. OTWAY V. PREDSHICK HENEY JOINEB. Mr. Beveridge appeared for the defendant. Mr. Otway asked for on adjournment, in order that his counsel might be present. The defendant was sued for £380, being the amount of capital remaining unpaid upon £76 shares in the Monarch Gold Mining Company. There were several other cases, but all were adjourned until Friday. Mr. Beveridge said he certainly did object to th se cases b^ing brought up to Auckland at all; they ought all to be heard at the Thames. Just as the adjournment was granted, Mr. Rees came into Court, and said he was pre pared to go on with one case at once, viz.— OTWAY V. SXEWABT. Mr. Beveridge took objection that the words should read, "quartz mining company," and not gold mining company, which objection was allowed, and the case was dismissed -with costs.

The Court then rose

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

WELLINGTON,

May 81.

A telegram received from Dunedin states that Mr. Vogel's explanation to the Welling ton deputation yesterday, received there by telegraph, is generally considered unsatis factory both by the Press and the public. Here also people are dissatisfied, and a petition to both Houses of the Legislature is in course of signature.

A sytein of telegraphic money orders ha 3 been arranged, and will be brought into opera tion immediately. The first month of the red iced telegraph tariff shows an incrcasn of 5015 messages over last month under the old tariff, but a decrease in revenue of £345 12s. Gd.

A private letter from Dr. Featheraton states that Sir G. Grey is likely to stand and be elected to Parliament for Newark. He also believes it is finally arranged that Brogden and Co.—great railway contractors —will send a stuff to survey and report upon the Nelson and Cobden Kail way. If so, Mr. Brogden is quite willing to entertain a schema for estab lishing a system of railways throughout the North. Island, capital being no great object with him. Mi\ leathers ton was going down with Mr. Brogden to North Wales to inspect a railway there with, a two-foot gauge. This, though at present laughed at by engineers, seems likely to be extensively adopted. It is perfectly safe with a speed of 30 miles an hour, and the cost is diminished £1000 a mile for every foot of gauge reduced.

ARRIVAL OF THE KEERA.

The s.s. Keera arrived in the Manukau this morning from Wanganui. The papers re ceived by her contain no news of interest.

The Chronicle of the 2nd instant says :— " Colonel McDonnell proceeded to Wellington yesterday by the s.s. Wangunui. We believe that the object of his journey is to see Mr. ¥ox in connection with the payment of the sum now owing to the force of Kemp and Topia, who accompanied him."

THEATRE ROYAL.

Notwithstanding- the inclement state \ the weather on Saturday evening, there ks capital house at the Theatre Royal. YPhe" celebrated drama of " All that Glitters mo t Gold" was produced, and we cannot spet in too high terms of the acting of the -L>le company. Mrs. Harry Jackson as Ma\ha the poor factory girl (> quite won the heart of tho audience by her simple and girl-like actbg in many scenes being loudly applauded. Ig' Joseph Rayner, as the common son of JasC Plum, played in his usual quiet, gentlemaVy manner. Mr. Joyce was again excellent^ the old man, his bye play with. Lady Left. bridge being capital. Mr. Simmonds fair* convulsed the audience in his impergonatiol of Hoby Twinkle, and was honoured by tw( calls before the curtain. Mrs. Howard aa Lady Lethbridge, was a capital make up, and! she played remarkably well. We hope to see this lady in such parts again. Miss Raymond' undertook the small part of Lady Valeria, and played that small part well. Mr. Howe was rather out of his element as Sir Lascelles, but ha did his best, which was not bad. The " Quiet Family" concluded the evening's amusement, in which Mr. Sam. Howard kept the house in one continual roar of laughter, as the poor henpecked husband. To-night the great two-act drama of " The Poisoner, or the Isle of St. Tropez," and " The Phenomenon in a Smock Frock," will be produced.

INQUEST.

An inquest was held at the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, on Saturday afternoon, before Dr* Groldsbro' and a jury, upon the body of M&rj Taylor, who died within the Asylum on Thursday last. Deceased was one of the un fortunate inmates, and had been ailing for some little time back, and on Thursday night she gradually sank and expired. After hear ing the evidence, the jury returned a verdict " That deceased died from natural causes." By the rules of the establishment an inquest must be held upon every person dying -within the walls, no matter what cause death may proceed from. The late Inspector of Asylumi pointed this out in his last report as unneces sary and vexatious, and recommended that the system should be discontinued, but up to the present time it has not, hence the inquest on Saturday.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE ENTER TAIN WENT.

We feel confident that it is needless to remind the friends of the Institute, and the public generally, of the entertainment'to be given in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute, to night. The bill of fare, as given in another column, is varied, copious and good j and the object being to popularise the

establishment, and infuse new li m us i appeal to the public spirit 0 ] Auck. land. If success attends the enter nruent [tonight, we believe it will be, not ily tbe beginning of a series of similar enterti merits but be followed by a course of lect is, dig! cussion class, and all the usual ac Bpani ments of a Mechanics'lnstitute. Iff meets indifteience from the public—well, i won't say what will follow. The prices, Mulling for the public, and sixpence to memTs, f O j an entertainment, which, unless we arrnigin. formed, will be really excellent, cann«dete r anyone ; and we shall attribute a smalktten. nance, if such there be, to a utter disaceful indifference towards the Institute. |

ENGLISH NEWS.

A CHILD LIVING WITH ITS DEAD MOTHER.

On March 12, Mr. Carter, the coroner, held an inquiry at Long Ditton on the body of Mrs. Simpson, who was for many years land lady of the Clarence Hotel, Teddington. She had lately been residing with her youngest son, a boy aged five years, in Prospect Place, Long Ditton, For some days past, though the child was frequently playing in front of the house, the mother could not be seen. Some of the neighbours out of curiosityjinquiredofthe child whether he had had plently of food du ring the week ; and he replied that all he had had was what was left in the cupboard, and there was plenty still remaining there. Upon missing the child's mother one of the neighbours inquired how sbe waa and whither she had gone. The little child with great simplicity replied, " Mamma is lying in bed, and she will not speak to me, and she is so cold, like a lump of ice, when I lay in bed with her." The same person said, " Perhapi she is dead," when the boy replied, " I think so too, for she is so cold, and I can't get her" to apeak at all. " The aeigboura were thetf determined, if possible, to unravel the mys« tery overhanging the sudden disappearance of the mother of the child, and upon entering the room found ths unfortunate creature ly ing stiff aad dead in the bed, and they were of opinion that she had been dead two or three days, and the poor child had been lying at her siae in bed during that time. Tlifl:'; learned coroner having referred to the ex- ? traordinary manner in which the unfortunate la ly had been found dead m bed, said he con* sidered that it was necessary for a post mortem examination to be made, and the enquiry wai therefore adjourned for that purpose.

ATTEMPT TO BRING THE DEAD TO LIFE.

The Cosmos gives an account of certain ex* perioients made by two French deofcors on the head of the parricide Belliere, who was re cently executed nt Beauvais. The head was handed over to the medical men within five minutes of the execution. The expression of the face was one of stupor, not of pain. There was no evidence, we rvo told, that either the j jaw or the tongue had made the leaßt move* 1 nient after the knife had fallen. One of the 1 experimentalists began, by shouting in the I ear the name of the condemned, but no coil- ..<, i traction of the muscles of the face was ap'| parent j a similar result attended the placing of a sponge, dipped in ammonia, under the ,^ nose. The head even submitted to the oau* I terisation of an eye without blinking. Elec- i tricity, by means of I^egendre's pilot was then | applied, and a variety of tricks pJsrfonrredi j not quite to the doctors' satisfacjupn, we j suppose, for they do not seem to -. jg? dis covered what they half expected—tliat the ] brain retained its consciousness. In conclil'^ j sion, we are told, it ispi-oposed on the occasion i of the next execution to inject fresh blood into I the veins of the guillotined man's head, and J to discover, if possible, whether the phenomena j noticed by Dr. Brown Sequard, in the case of | a dog who had been subjected to the process. ?l and thereupon gave signs of voluntary move-- j ment, can be reproduced ; all of which seems- | to us a ghastly sort of trifling.

MR, GLADSTONE THREATENED WITH ASSASSINATION.

We read in the Stad Gend :—" Within tlj| past few days there has been a pressing cor*

1?HB EVENING STAK, JUNE 6, 1870.