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London on Sunday morning . She , with the Princesses Louise and Beatrice , will accompany Her Majesty when Parliament is opened , and we doubt not will be received with the enthusiasm invariably extended to the Royal Family on all public occasions . His Royal Highness the Prince of

"Wales has reached Gwalior , on his Indian tour , and been magnificently received . There was a grand review and sham fight of Scindiah ' s troops organised specially in honour of the occasion . As to the banquetting , receptions , return visits , and the like , we think we need say little . Scindiah

himself must be taken as expressing the feeling of his people ; and he , at the banquet given at his palace in honour of the Prince ' s visit , expressed himself most warmly on

the occasion , declaring afterwards in open Durbar that while many Scindiahs had preceded him , not one had been so highly honoured . On Wednesday , tho Prince reached Agra , and left for Jeypore yesterday .

. On Wednesday , H . R . H . the Duko of Edinburgh , presided at the biennial dinner of the Dover National Sailors '

Home , an institution which , during the period of its existence , has received moro than four thousand wrecked seamen of all nations . There were present to support His Royal Highness the Earl Granville , Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports , the Mayor of Dover , Mr . C . L . Freshfield ,

one of the Borough Members , Admiral Sir W . Hall , Colonel Mackenzie , 0 . B ., 78 th Highlanders , the Rev . W . Tate , the Secretary and founder of the Sailors' Home . The usual loyal and complimentary toasts were then proposed ; after which the Duke rose , and proposed in eloquent terms the

toast of the evening , namely , " Prosperity to the National Sailors' Homo of Dover , " alluding in the course of his remarks to the splendid efforts of the Secretary and founder of the Institution , to the excellent work it had accomplished , and particularly to the service it had rendered to

the shipwrecked passengers and crew of the ill-fated Northflcet . It is almost needless to add that the toast was received with the greatest enthusiasm—Mr . W . Yate acknowledging it appropriately . The other toasts , including that of Earl Granville , having been disposed of , the Duke vacated the Chair , and the Company dispersed .

Several Cabinet Councils have been held since our last Budget , and there have been , as usual , at the commencement of the month , a number of political articles , which have appeared in the current numbers of the monthlies . There are , too , several vacancies in the House of Commons

—the elections to fill which are attracting no small amount of public attention . Among these vacancies must be mentioned that of Manchester , caused by the . lamented

death of Bro . Callender . No doubt the rival parties will strive their utmost to secure the vacancy , Manchester being next to London and , perhaps , Ave may add , Liverpool , the most important constituency in the United Kingdom .

The strike at Erith is still in progress . Both parties claim to be succeeding in the purpose they have in view . Messrs . Easten and Anderson say they are getting new hands daily , while the men out on strike appear to take a very hopeful view of the case . But , under any

circumstances , it is most lamentable to note these terrible struggles between capital and labour , which , so far from having interests that are hostile to one another , must be said to be literall y iu the same boat . Capital will not unlikely be diverted into other channels if labour is so often in antagonism

with it , and labour will not be forthcoming to a sufficient extent if capital does not hold out a kindly hand to it in its efforts to achieve , legitimately of course , a better position . We have said before that something like Courts of Arbitration should be established , as we believe is the case in

1 ranee , so that all these disputes might be settled off-hand , and without creatine ; that amount of ill-feelinsr between these too grand sections of the manufacturing communit y which there is no doubt exists , and has existed for a considerable time past .

Our readers will be sorry to hear that the health of the eminent retired judge , Sir John Coleridge , is in a state far from satisfactory to his extensive circle of friends . Lord Coleridge and other members of the family have been

summoned to Sir John ' s residence , and by the latest , advices there has been a slight improvement . Bnt Sir John Coleridge is well advanced in years , aad the statement that his health is not as it has been must doubtless havo caused

considerable anxiety among his friends and well-wishers . How great soever the commercial progress we have made of late years , it is an unpleasant fact that commercial frauds increase almost in a corresponding ratio . Hardly a day passes but wc find cases reported in tho papers

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m which either companies or individuals are proved or alleged to have been guilty of transactions which will not bear the light of clay . Now it is a case of fraudulent bankruptcy , now the directors of a company are accused of utilisino- the securities of their clients . We

noted two or three cases of this kind last week , in one of which the presiding magistrate refused bail . On Thursday the trial of the promoters of the Eupion Gas Company was commenced , at Guildhall , before the Lord Chief Justice , and at the moment of writing is still in progress . Under

these circumstances we naturally abstain from offering any comment on the case ; but , true or false , such repeated charges as these are an ugly sign of tho times we live in . On the same day on which the commencement of tho Eupion case was reported , we noticed as many as five cases of various kinds of fraud . In two out of the three tried at

the Central Criminal Court convictions were obtained , the other standing adjourned . Of the two cases brought under the notice of the magistrate at the Southwark Police Court , in one the prisoner stands remanded till Tuesday next , in the other the prisoner was sentenced to six months' hard labour .

The Annual General Court of the Royal Free Hospital , Grays Inn Road , was held on Thursday , Mr . James Hopgood , chairman of the committee , presiding . The receipts from all sources during the past year amounted to a little over £ 7800 , the balance at the bankers at the end of the

year amounting to £ 2500 . The amount of Government Stock temporarily held by the trustees , and available for general purposes , is £ 2166 13 s 4 d . It was intimated , further , that Mr . George Moore intended to found a convalescent hospital for the reception of patients from the Royal

Free and St . Mary ' s Hospitals , and also that nearly the whole of the late Mr . Milne ' s estate had been realised , and , as the accounts would shortly be closed , the Hospital would come into possession of about £ 9000 . The report having been adopted unanimously , and a vote of thanks to the Committee passed , the meeting came to an end .

Already the presidents of the two University Boating Clubs are doing their utmost towards getting together the crews for their annual contest on the Thames , which will take place this year on the Sth of April . In a week or

two ' s time the crews , we presume , will be complete , and go into training for the grand struggle . As the race falls somewhat later this year , the visitation of " blue " fever , to which London is annually subjected , will be somewhat more prolonged .

The Alphonsists have entered on what , without inclining one way or the other , we hope will prove the decisive campaign of the war which has so long raged in the North East Provinces of Spain . The telegrams from Madrid report the achievement by the Royal troops of more than

one very substantial success . The London Carlist Committee announce the repulse of one attack on their lines . Which will triumph in the end it will be time enough to announce when the end has come . What most people desire is , that Spain may enjoy peace , and so have an

opportunity of developing her magnificent resources . There has also been some fighting between the Turks and the insurgents , in which the latter appear to have suffered a defeat . The Austrian Consul General in Belgrade reports the situation in Servia as menacing , and goes so far as to

say that it will be extremely difficult to restrain any longer the warlike disposition of the people . It is also stated that the Prince of Montenegro gave Schcet Effendi , the Turkish envoy from Ali Pacha , a very cold reception , contenting himself with saying , in reply to the Turk ' s request , that he

abstained from all interference , but not offering to forbid his subjects to join the insurrection . This Eastern question seems to become more serious every day . Hungary has lost ono of its ablest men—Francis Deak , with whose name and fame most Englishmen are familiar . His countrymen

paid him honours commensurate with his worth and tho great services he had rendered to the state . His body had fain in state since Sunday , and on and around the coffin were a number of wreaths , one of which had been placed there by the Empress Elizabeth . On Thursday , the

funeral took , place the attendant procession comprising , besides the relatives of the deceased , several of the m : jst notable men in Hungary . Some thousands of representatives from the different Hungarian Societies and authorities ,

deputations from tho comitat of Zala , where Deak was born , and from Pesth , which he had represented iu the Diet , together with a number of priests , Count Andrassy as representative of the Emperor , and the Hungarian minis-