The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-29 00:00:00

!i 1 te J Ft 7 FROAI LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. - _ --- plu or rouorroos AND mosso Nurriacru.ao TO SS ONTLINILD AT TON forum OP TER CRUCT RHUMBA& COURT ON wizsurror, sarrrosaw.arszar.) BANKRUPTS. • PIOSIARD WATnoN MAXIS, Litt.lobar, Yaws, corn factor, to war-. reader Sept. at 11. BIM ILIUM Cemii.ra Goorrarre,Winebester, scrivener, Sept. 10 , 1 . Ticsias Sao& M. D. rand, homer, Sept. 10, at 1. • Josrpm FAGS, We . teourne-plare, _groper, Sept. 16, at 12. JAM. I FIRIDAI.I..IIIWICb. L.Lnaed waterman, tiept. 11, at 11. thicsow I %evening, Kent, coal merchant, Sept. 1 1 . at 11. THOMAS lieurini, savermaka, Kelt ODTU drake, Sept. 11, at 11. Jamas Rimer Lori, Whibdable_ est, nail rasher, Sept. 11, at 11. Wrtalan .111111TV.M COOPS., hiIILOU•II.3II.OTUTCRISSICI, 0111.TUSS 1111 _poem, Sept. 11, at 11. 16, at 12. WILLI AIR COI LP PI HOOD. MMaidstone,apothocarf , SoPt• ~ C O ODZS, FOOZ=I, 110110W117, 11, at 11. JAMS Wane BiIiSISDS, -street, Liverpool- oommissioa traveller, Sept. il,•at 111. WILLIAM foram Bowan Tettenham 2 builder, Sept. 11, at 1. TIIOII/111 FROMMIIO3I, 11/11bTTIM740113. Paildwecten, contractor. Sept.lo. at 11. °SOWS I Victoria-terrace, Rackney-triok, butcher, licit. 10, at 1. Jaunt Csoca, -coed, Victoria-park, mica cover manu facturer, Sept. 10, 1. Bemuse Commis, South-etreet, Brampton, *Wet klePt. 10, at Samar Amato Miaow, Rutland-yard, Knightebridge, coach with, Sept at 1. Janet biota, I ahem, Surrey. tabor, Sept- 11, at 11. THolles 01104..11 W3Ltiesex, Southampton, ehipping desk, Sept. 11, at It. 4:Buta LADD,FriSiesWerle-plare, Kentish Town, and Kentish Town road, mb prorietor, Sept 11, at It. ZeWelle Celia, p Candle, Northamptonshire, school proprietor, Sept. 11, at it. 17 AIMS Th 1011•8 Clapluun, beer retailer, Sept. 11, at IL JeUre Jugs Kamm, Month-terrace, Homey-road, grocer, (Mkt. 11, at 1. Wituen NAIBB, Bed 11111-etreest, Regent's-perk, wheelwright, Belt 11, at 1. Baehr PoLi.ekr, JOHNSON, (Meat rollee-etreet, Camden Town. late clerk, 1.1. pt. il, at 1. - .a rorrow, '-----Mreet, Orars-inn-road, oonunia .. NIIATI _ eketegterr, tiept. 11, at 1. Paw? 04011 M, Oavozo ,Gotton-street rop/F, taker, Sept. It, at 1. 19. WILL Ltia Cocksasu. , it.reungham, Pargeott, Sept. 9,4 Jowl Plows, i. law& Eau's, Btatordsh.AeSolnaterSept.9,6tll. sT(011 . 11 TATIAI. Statordßhire, late beer - keine keeper. See 6. 9, at It Joie SHAM, 'Anstalt, Staffordshire, grocer, Sept. 9, at 12. DAVID Day l! Cwmfelin, olmnorganabire, tinplate manufac truer. Sept. I, at 11. !tweet. EDW ARD POI.IIITNIT, Somersetshire, auctioneer, Sept.B, at 10. DOSABT terra Pass; Taunton, fieenersetab., baker, Sept. June Hay sa,Creat Griniaby,Linoolnah.oratchmaker,Sept.B, , s a t 12. ELIZABITZ 'smote and BOSSIIT WILLIAM 'CUNT, L MID" CUOSIXTR, CI en dealers, Sept. 14 at 12. Rosser DINLY Joussroe Birkenhead, merchant, Sept. 11, at It THOMAS Osseous, Preston:watchmaker, Sept.. at 11 . Ogrowa WOOD and Psalm WooD, ton-OPon-Idedlock grooms, Sept. 9, at 12. SAMIUSL ASIII N, 'Pass , lleShli ßm e ki = 10, at It DOSKRT Hoe ANIITI , N, Manchester, and Chamblee, hotograpber, Se . . 10, at 12. WILLIAM Diociza, w °meter , Yournelmart .OTXT• Sept. 8, at IL Man CPC...resii., Cardiff, marine store maim Sept. 12, at 11. Joss TNOWAS, 0,11.1111e5, late grocer, Sept. 19, at 11. ie _ Jour Jo um, Ram, Herefords's., cabinet maker, Sept. 10, at 12. XI,DA&D liarthaosulm. ear th e aware dealer, Kept 4, at 10. Bowl LA °LAM, Gateehead. Durham, grow, Sept. 10, at It JOSS OSObal a Dsies, Newbsuy, Berks, coactibuilder,flepta, at 11. E. awe Duarte, Eleanor, Derbyshire, journeyman painter, Sept. 9, at 12. Mites Houma Masai u., Coventry, watchmaker, Sept. 18, at S. Jo MATTHEWS, jun., Great Milton, Oxfordshire, cat le dealer , Sept. 8, at 10. BAKST loans, West Hatch, Somersetehire, basket maker, Et ?pt. 12, at IL RADOS'S, Sheffield, bookmaker, Sept. 11, at 1. WILLIAD WILIaAII AMISS"' MOW and rasomucit Munro, Benton 4 en- Ha gineel lese ar-ocui,9=ingliam, Yorkshire, agent to a friendly society, Sept. 8, et 91. Joni CIiRIALST, Leamington Priors, milkman, Sept. 5, at IL JAWS STALLARD, Bristol, dealer in butter , SeM! . 11, at It Sam - IL Wass, Bristol, windrow chair maker, Sept. 11, at 11. (Loom BAKIS, licre tl fsanlAT, Sept. 1 1 , at 12 . Rosmairos Seise. boarding-housekeeper, Sept. 11. M 12. liras LLOYD, Mold, Flintshiru = %ooer, Sept. 18, at 12. Tiaras Heroes, Mold, PIM Mulder, Sept. 16, at If. Juts' os Vans, Liverpool, co bu dder, agent, Sept. 9, at 12. Wiussa Mosso, Liverpool, baker, Sept. 9. a I. WILLIAM M'Dowsm, Canearthen,travellingdraper,Sept. 6,at12. Taoists &camp Hmer,Weatbary,Wiltehire, miller, Sept. 9, at It kimonos! Kassa Plymouth, licensed victualler, Sept. 18, at Joan Hou.sr, , Staffordshire, galvaniser, Sept. 18, at 12. Jeans COLLLSB, Swansea, licensed victualler, Sept. r, at 2. 14 ANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. or. 1886. B DANDY Doom PAUIIIJI, cleat in the emet guard servies. • Victoria-eilla, Peckham, lea. 4. Osamu Do Pas Roseau., Cambridge-ft:Trace, Padding ton, retired caber of the Bengal civil service. &gust M. Jesse DROWN, Loughborough, gunmakers DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. Eel ors I. .7aancla,Rningli-Ist dividend of a. 5 , 1., an and after August 80, at Peter's, Bedruth. Virtues' E. Sarni, Phillack, Cornwall-let dividend of Se on and after Angola 30, at Peter's, Bedruth. Mecums 0. arzems,Redruth, Cozuwall-dividend of fa tlid, any day. DIVIDENDS. Sept. 18. J.Loraaw, Balm., Lancashire, brewer-asert Newban, Cherry Willingham, Lincolnshire, groatr-Sept. la P. Webb, Sale, Cheshire, idicemake-Sept. MIT. White MMu s:ham, Cheshire, grooer-tkptl4. E. Holmes, Mobberley,Mes`sire, builder -Sept. O. T. Dawes, Briton Ferry, Olamorgana ore, E:r==. 14. W. Bad. Iratalrfers, Olaraceganeure, 91. J. Brook, Holmarth, yarn spinner-80n 21. B. Harft, Hobnfoth, seal dealer—Sept. 21. C. Woodbett ei n- Ley, YMombire, night watchman -- dept. 21. J. Caldwell, Yorkshire, wheelwright. PARTNERSEIIPS DISSOLVED. W. Harris and J. H. dtanstleld, Hudderatield, linearbseers 0. F..l.lWarwick-street, Regent-etreet, and H. J. R. Bush , BeaktzOolden-square, surgeons-W. Openshaw, A. Open- Maw, and . Kennedv, Manchester, Tarn agents-O. L. Baps worth and L. Cook, tahaperata-sheet Without, boot manufae turers-J. Jones and E. Downes, Trinity-SUVA, Southwark, drapers-E. J. Forge sad C. Fawcett, King's-crom-market, Sib =engem-E. Smith and 0. Waribington,Bury, leisahimoise manufacturers-T. Bturlsnd and Z. R. Merton, Birmingham, metal brokere-J. Sutherland and J. G. Hedley, Tench-street, Warp' , carpentervi-A. A. Massaro and J. H. pkruancles, Pal merston Old Broad-street-0. Peattie and F. R. A. Bo'd. Fenchurch-orret, commission merchanta-E. R. Stevens and W. Hodgson Great St. Helen's Bishopegate-street, ac- Broadnts- U. Dinthon and A. Canna:wise, Oreakam-house, Old street, merc hant s - E. dales and H. Harland, Croydon, watchmakers-J. Smith and J. Fairhurst, Blackburn, Lance. C.ollll3llexioll agent•-0. H. Walker, L. M. Tatham, • and A. L. Kaye, Rugby, Warwickshire, and douth-whart lime merchants-E. Meyer and E. L. Neumegen, Cannon-atrect, City, COMIDLISIOD merchants-J. Millington and J. Kay, Man chester, 4 , OI3UniVIDOG agents-T. Moore and P. Smith, Mancha ter, fancy warehoueereen-H. Roe and B. Apostolo, Liver pool me .tto-Anne Luscombe and R. B. Lethbridge, Mod- Devonabire, maltritenv-S. 0. Pearson and W. Dmikin, Liverpool, ship broken-J. Hobbs and E. S. Harwell, oxford_ terrace, Edgware.road, butchus-W. E. Sewell and A. Crabtree, Btanningley Yorkshire, tannem-D. L. Brooke, T. B. Wright, end H. Mitchell, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, manufacturers, se far an r,gards T. B. Wright-W. S. Lincoln and F. W. Lincoln, Rev Oxford-street, b.e,aPellM-• AL Richardson and J. W. tßusland, Sharp's-wharf, W a ppi n g bottled beer merchants-D. Hall and A. H. Bunting,' City, commission meats- F. Woodward and IriFoo - d. WMnesbury, and Binning ham, attorneys-F. D. Harwood and 0. Maydon, BarkinVzen co, hordrs-H. C. Cooper and B. Lims, 0 auctioneers-L. oth, W. Aah„ aad F. 1 .17=1, potato merehants-T. Messes and W. Fernihongii, Bolton, grassers-C. Wayte and J. twirer, Upper Clanton, worimmillwii - J. Davies W. W. Wareing, Widnen Lancaahire, grease manufacturess . Cram and R. Barnes, Blackburn, joiners. 1100T(.8 SEQUESTRATIONS. BOSSIT Burrow, Olaagow, ooacbbuilder, Sept. 4, at the Faculty Hall, olaegow. AROSISALD ALISO:4, Waggon, merchant, Sept. 8, at the Faculty Hall, Glaegow. THOMAS IiSIISTON, 'Lorick, builder, Sept. 2, at the Tower Hotel, Hawick. JAW F.Y.1., liihrimaing, grocer, Sept. 4, at the DgliTlloll Arms Hotel, Irvine. doss M'Ossoos. Damon, Argyllshire, joiner, Sept. 1, at the Crown Hotel, Damon. °AVIV Wargo Croashouse, Ayrshire, late maraud, Sept 2, at the Gam eDotal, Kilmarnock. Jams Honor', Paisley, late spirit dealer, Sept. 2, at the County Hotel,, Paisley. Peres Glasgow wine merchant, Sept. 1, st the Faculty Hall, Warsaw. INDIA-OFFICB, Aram 27.—The Queen has been gractxj, _pleased to nominate and appoint his Puha, Viceroy of Egypt, Ci.o B. ~ to be an Th e ral oorary %night Grand Commander of the Most Ex alted Order of the Star of India. - - - CBOWN-OFFICI, AUGUST 24.—The Queen has been pleased by a writ under the great seal of the United Kingdom to all Mr William Baliol: Brett, Knight, bee Majesty' Seolicitor-Oeseral, to the state and degree of a loilent-at-law. The Queen has also been plumed by letters patent under the great seal of the United Kingdom to ooniuntute and appoint Sir William Baliol Brett, ser jaant-at-law, an adeStional justice of hes Majesty's C our t of Common Pleas. Citown-OPYWB, AUGUST 25.—The Queen has been pleased by kitties patent, under the great seal of the Mated Kingdom, to constitute and appoint Ham serjeant4M-law, an additional _justice asiigned " T hold pis before the Queen herself. The Queen has been sand, by a writ under the great seal of the United to can Anthony Closeby, Esq., one of her Ma jesty's counsel learned in the law, to the state and of a Nerjeant-at-law. The Queen lass also been p by letters patent, under the great seal of the Muted King dom, to constitute and appoint Anthony Cleaeby, ear jeant-at-law, an additional baron of her Majesty's Court of I Exchequei. His Excellency Mr. Ilererdy Johnson, Minister of the United States, has returned to Penton's Hotel from Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire, where he kas bean on a visit to the Primo Minister. SUBIBYALTY Arrotrnarre.—Mr. Alderman and Senior Sheriff-elect Cotton has appointed Mr. Alex ander Crosley (of the firm of Creeley and Burn, 25, Hi:chin-lane) to be his under-sheriff. This will D 3 the fourth time that Mr. Crosley has served the office of under-sheriff—first to his brother, Sir C. D. Croeley, next to Mr. Sheriff Mechi, and last year to Alderman Sir Sidney H. Waterlow. Mr. Alderman Cotton has appointed as his chaplain the Rev. F. G. Blomtleld, M.A., rector of St. Andrew TJndershaft. Mr. Sheriff-elect C. W. C. Hutton Lea appointed Mr. Robert Nee, of the firm of Sloe and ltobinaon, of 1, Pariah-street, Tooley-stree_ to be bel under-sheriff, and the Rev. W. F. Elliott, M A., incum bent of St. John's, East Dulwich, as his chaplain. Tux DISSOLUTION.—Before the dissolution of parliament on the oth November there must be another c laati oetaber an. At present, parliament stands prorogued to Tho Irish Times says that Colonel Taylor, M.P., is spoken of as the not improbable successor to the Earl of Mayo as Chief Secretary for Ireland, a n d a dd s th a t suc h a • would be very popular. B AGEL -TRAVELLING BACK Hand =Wing ort:OC e tt 0= Eogn i.6 ll= B A ll l 11l Wars, Loudon. D UBBING CASES in Walnut and Coromandel weeeatis Moreooo, nod Solid . tor lLodiol sod with snow sad Mated boot l's. SA to 43X-IMIIIIME- BROTFIEBA I Diodes. -- - --- ---- ----L._ ----- _ DESPATCH BOXES and WRITING OASES in . non to id. to llO t tLY .. 0RMA.08 4 3 GREAT BAG fAlEFl Ta ttreit, 37. Ladrat"bill. ALLEN'S PORTMANTEAUS. 37, Strand. ALLEN% DEESSING-BA OB . 37. Straset. ALLEN'S OVERLAND TRUNKS. 37, Strand. ALEN'S 131111PAT(Patented.CH BOMBS. 37, Strand . ) ALLEN'S ILLUSTEATpEDod two. CATALOGUE or is Arti ALLEN'S mm MEDAL.O awarded for neatest ensnares. QANtibirklitB' UId.I3II.IiLLAS, for Bain or dim 1 , - 7 (nom Prim Medals swiudidt on Toes All triunes of Pox and 0D..111 estelreten maks!~ the& trade mark. To prevent mistakes the paha° are impendsill informed Mat ==anibrallse him their name AttoSeked. sad that then* 0111.7 te are 140. Banent.etreet ; Of, Ineeheneet ; a i = Bids: 10. Royal s°—N.B. Observe the name end -- s. WILLI All OHUBTON and SON, Roams and amantAxia Lama wirnasaLonium. 1111 sal ox.roiDeramer. 0112 i BEOGDFIVEI CLASSIC JBWELBY. oARIS FIRST—CLAS S SIL VER ADIDAL, 1867. - 0I EN WOODEN'S 18-carat OOLD CHAINS. It becomes doer that bad as London is agreed to be in hotel socommodation and &ergs% it is a model of comfort and economy in ooaiparison weer where else. It is at least statitinaryin its iniquity, but all other regions are yearly &Avowing in the flowery path of ;swindling. Priem are rising all over the world, and the localities which one wwnld expect to find most simply modest is their charges are the very regions in which the traveller finds of tb, df I himself more cruelly shorn. As to those out of the way regions, whether in the Highlands or the Lakes, in Ireland or in Svritterland, we have an obvious word to say which probably every grumbling tourist hears without paying attention to it. Their season is abort, and they must make their hay. The ag grieved traveller admits the maxim, but thinks they try to make too much hay. But does he fairly oonsider the facts of the case ? If he were to be content with the rode accommodation the country originally afforded, he might expect country cheapness. In many such a spot he will still find a cheapness which staggers him, and which he generally begins to corrupt by paying extravagantly for service or for sandwiches at his departure. But by-and-bye come other tourists ; the aboriginal accommodation is immanent ; some complain of small rooms, some of defective ottani ance ; some demand civilised luxuries, and an acute native of the nearest large town sees his way to the building of a large barrack of an hotel, the importation of an army of waiters, and the furnishing of all the customary requirements of comfortable existence. But for all this extra work he must be paid extra. It is not only that the three months' profits must pay the interest on the building of the house, they must pay every body concerned for breaking off from their nine months' avocations in order to take up for a quarter of the year a business totally different. Thus from the master down to boots everyone in the establishment is reasonably entitled to a far higher than usual rate of pay. The same with supplies of all sorts. The demand is intermittent, and therefore the advantages of purchasing in a steady market are lost. The same with the means of conveyance. And again there is not only to be considered the shortness of the season, but the risk. All the show places are subject to fits of fashion. A gust of accidental favour, a visit of the Qumeav, a popular novel, may turn the great tide of tourists another year in quite a different direction, and leave the barrack gloomily tenantless. Whoever fairly considers these things will not wonder at exceptional prices in Highland inns for brandy and soda. The comparison of them with the Rhine omits one of the most essential points of the case. The Rhine has been for generations an in stitution. Its seasons are as certain as the sun. Moreover, the ways of its tourists are nearly uniform. Everyone dines at the table d'hate and drinks the wine of the country. In the smaller side routes the traveller has no choice, for if he does not conform he starves. But let anyone call for London stout, or demand a separately cooked roast of beef or leg of mutton at the very beat and cheapest of continental hotels, and we will not say what he will got, but we do say that his bill will be a " caution." But while in fairness we put in this word for the maligned native establishments, far be it from us to assert that they are everything that we may reasonably wish, or perhaps venture to hope for. Moreover, even in old-established and in- evitable halting places, in our greet cities for ex ample, or at our seaports, where the hotels are always nearly full and often overflowing, the accommodation is lees, and the charges greater than we might fairly expect. No doubt we now demand more than we did. The frowsy old fashioned inn pleases us no longer. The venerable waiter and the joint which made the round of every sitting-room are alike gone. We must have large and lofty bedrooms, a magnifi cent dining-room, numerous attendants, and a cook prepared to furnish every possible dish at the shortest notice. We have also established two important reforms. There is a ladies' coffee-room, so that it is not necessary for families to take always a five-shilling parlour when they want tea on arriving or breakfast before starting. Then it is equally unnecessary now-a days to comply with the ancient obligation to order wine " for the good of .the house." But granting all these how much have we still to com plain of 1 Wine, if we do order it, fa four times its natural price. If the dinner is uneatable there is no landlord to appeal to, and we can only vent our indignation on the waiter, who has no more relations with the 000 k than he has with the Grand Lama. If the bill is enormous we are invited to the window of the tureen, where an engaging young woman, with a sweet smile just tinged with a haughty languor, proves to us that every thing is quite correct according to the " tariff of " the company." Lastly, though attendance is duly charged in the bill, we are generally re minded, with more or less directness of appeal, that the waiter or the porters expect a private shilling, which last imposition let everyone act his sternest face against. Now if we grant that in big hotels we cannot have personal supervision, and that so large and expensive buildings and establislunaate must in evitably involve high prices, we must yet insist ; that the prices are for the most part utterly too high. The conclusive proof of this is that hotels ' of equal comfort are to be found in which the rates are not above one-half of the figures of others. Perhaps the extravagant ones do not show a greater amount of profit in dividend, but I then there must be mismanagement and waste, if not peculation, to account for it ; and there is no reason that the public should pay for carelessness in hotel directors. But the public, as we have said, is powerless. The faults are patent, bat there seems ao remedy. A moment's thought will, however, show whence arises this helplessness. There is plenty of competition among hotels to produce the usual remits of free trade in good and cheap service ; but travellers are essentially a migratory and dis integrated class. They do not learn by each others' experience, for they have no means of ascertaining it. They have no way of eommuni eating to each other that one hotel is dear and bad, and another cheap and good. So the dear and cheap stand on equal terms. The rare in stance of an establishment being denounoed by name in a letter in the newspapers does nothing to remedy the general evil. One or two persons are thus warned to avoid it, but even these do not learn where to find a better. Then there is no encouragement to improvement, for nobody writes to recommend good hotels, and if they did, their lettere would not be printed. Commercial travellers act differently. They hang together and stand by each other. The conse quence is that they get far better attendance at far cheaper rates than the general public. This proves what is wanted. Tourists and travellers, instead of writing to the newspapers, should form an association. Each should send up his bills and his comments to the head office. A register would there be kept which every member might inspect, and select from the list the establishments on his THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1868. 4*.ititp which bore the beet character. I ie not now; but it ie obviously find weeommond it to thoimeidoralisst ineontalinf. • A CHARITY* AUDIT HOARD. FROM time to time propositions havo been made to ensure a fitting control over the sums extracted from the pockets of the benevolent public. A more complete satire upon the professedly business habits of a practical nation, than the system tolerated now, it would be di fficult for the most ingenious to devise. There is absolutely no oheok upon the professedly pious or charitable quack who chooses to advertise for contributions. He may be a disgraoe to his cloth, s harpy who has been morally convicted, time out of mind, of obtaining money upon false pretenoes--a clerical vagabond, shunned by his brethren, ors broken down professional man, who finds it easier to beg than to work. If the advertisement and the plea De but specious enough the money is certain to pour in, and it is but the other day that the re cords of our police-courts showed that a brougham and horse, ivory hair-brushes, and other articles were readily obtained upon the mere assertion that a new philanthropic association was being formed. It is not, however; the mere vulgar swindler whose depredations do meet harm. Our criminal law allows many of these to escape through its meshes, but when conviction follows detection the punish ment is sufficient for ite purpose. It is the "Society" with an amateur committee and an expensive secre tary and staff against which the public requires protection most. It is such items as " working " expenses," " rent of chambers," " office " charges," " cost of travelling," and the like, which need an independent audit ; and for the control of which the average committeemen are ridiculously inadequate. There are hundreds of societies the affairs of which would bear the moat rigid examination ; there are hundreds more to which publicity would be death. A charity asidit board composed of volunteers, or delegates from the leading societies, with a professional ad viser at their elbow, would be an effectual instru ment for separating the wheat from the chaff. The constitution of this board is, moreover, of far lees consequence than that it should have a recog nised existence. If it were once known that all individuals or associations asking for sub scriptions or donations from the public for any charitable purpose could claim the periodical certificate of an independent body that they were expending their money honestly, the absence of such guarantee would be a fatal testimony in their disfavour. This is really all that is required. The good impulse; of the many kind-hearted affluent people who subscribe on hearsay, and from a hearty but wandering desire to do good, require the commonest protection from the wolves in sheep's clothing who are ever on the watch to turn those impulses to their personal benefit. The more trustworthy the names under which a reli gious or benevolent society is launched, the greater the necessity for its officers being subjected to indifferent and unimpulsive criticism. To those who know the routine of " charity work," who understand the lax management and dele gated trusts which form part of its conditions, it is simply amazing that so large a proportion of the subscribed funds should ever find its way to its destined objects. In the ordinary affairs of life unaudited accounts, or accounts audited only by those responsible for expenditure and receipt, are found to lead to one inevitable and natural re sult. If the worthy people who are habitually ready to give help either to the poor and suffering, or to the advancement of religion, would but de vote their attention to seeing that their money is not misapplied, it is certain that existing sub scriptions might produce double their present re sults. It is comparatively easy to give a guinea to a smiling or importunate secretary, or in reply to a touching advertisement. Let it be held to be a still more important duty to ascertain precisely how that and similar guineas are distributed ; and though the comforts of a certain specious class might be diminished, the course of real charity would be proportionately advanced. CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Thk3 Times ratan's to the charge of extravagance which it preferred Or other day against the government, with the elsjeelsew of proving that, although Mr. Wad stone and Mr. Childers had a perfect right to ooitmst the results of their own policy with that of Mr. Disraeli and his colleagues, yet the late government had oertainly not reached a standard of administrafivo sirtue. It is, the Timm argues, not the money spent, but the work produced which is the important matter for consideration, and our contemporary emphatically denies, especially with regard to the navy, that the results are at all commensurate with the cost. We want, not a curtailment of our effective expenditure, but a wise and unflinahing reduction of our ineffeotive expenditure, and the Times trusts that the statesmen of the ensuing parliament may deal with a bolder hand than they have ventured yet to show with the abuses of the great speeding departments. The Deily News also makes a comparison of the financial policy of both governments, and sums up the results of its investigation by observing that, with a tory govern ment in power, the estimates, under some pretext or other, are always creeping up, and the expenditure is always in excess of the estimates, while under a liberal administration the estimates are reduced, and the ezpeadi ture kept rigidly within them. The &or still protests against the appointment of Lord Mayo to the Indian viceroyalty. There is a levity, a frib ble-like insensibility to momentous interests, about the whole affair which is thoroughly characteristic of Mr. Dia. raeli Referring to the prevalence of robberies with violence in the streets, the Teierap4 suggests that the pollee force of the metropolis is not only numerically inadequate to cope with this particular development of crime, but is not sufh ciently rapid in adjusting itself to the altered circum stances. "OHN BROGDSN'S BRACELET& - MIN BROODEN'S BROOCHIB. "OEN BROOMS' =ma S OEM and WEDDING 'OEN BROODEN'ti NEWEL/LOB& - 01ili BitOGDBN'S SLIMING& LGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY. '. 16, HENBGarden.IBITA-STREET, Covent- 19BEAN'S SEA SALT, the SUBSTITUTE for ) ILA. BATEUNO.—A daily Bath prepared with this B eal the natural atorogemage for weeddy infante sad ohlkhea. tyrod and ard by Dr. Hama Resostmendad bY the= Patronised tbs NAM,. Sold In bags _and bozos by throughout oldliaod worteI.—TIMLAN and 80N, la, WONIX. woodutzed, Lou.ond HO. Beware of isaitaticas. ATTENTION IS INVITED to the Report of the Sixth Segfenniel Inesetlioti_n of the BOOR AMI CABLE LIFE ABM/ANUS SOCIETY, and to the Sped& Pam. ohlet expleining its roonomioal sai t rzuler system of " Minimum Nemiestie" free on 1 LONDON , OFFICER. No. I,"faIIiADNEEDLESTILEET, RO ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Royal EPITOME O Inauranee-bsadin f ss, L ANNUAL ampora for Int onikerdelrisekLonon. and Liverpoo/ no ROYAL has never Dada larger _bcdy_of Constituents than now. FIER BRANCH. Premiums in ler Bei:li t :weer revenue than in any precedine Year LOMB The in ler7 MMUS Net Pro after miltd' losses and =Vow LAMS TB BRANCH. Annual overage of new business in 181644 MOWN, Ditto duziag previous Itskiguennium SAWN Amount added to Life Reserves in Ills UMW Life Proposals now effected winrtin the inaressed share of profits recently conceded to - PERCY N. Manager and A JOHN B. JOHN N. Secretory in London. Await. Mg. D AIL Y NNW a PRIM ONE PENNY. SCALE OF CHARGES FOE Pee Lfae. • s. d. s. d. PROSPECTUSES of NEW cowpirrras, taco IMPORTS of Ylrif TINE/8 sad ELEC 7 lines 10 11y 1 6 TIONS LEGAL NOTICES lO do. 10 0 do. 1 0 PUBLIC COMPANIES atetoblialted), Ito I do, I 1 Ditto, ditto. Leader Page 0 do. 6 6 do. 1 6 AUCTIONS, TRADES. Aitusziaorri, ROOKS. CHARITIES, XLSCELLA THE WEEKLY PRESS. Commenting upon the Abergele catastrophe, the Saturday Review contends that as long as goods trains and passenger trains are on the same line together we may =pert some other strange and mom unforeseen accident. A mechanical and physical impossibility for a collision is the only thing to be depended on ; and towards this re sult the separation of the passenger traffic and the goods traffic is the only step which can be depended upon as even approaching to a certainty against danger. Short of this one cardinal revolution in our railways, all else is not much better than a makeshift and a stop gap, or, to speak plainly, a mockery and delusion. A pe rusal of the report of the Marriage Law Commission will, says the London Review, satisfy the hesitating betchelor, as well as the sorrowing husband, how various are the ways in which their single blessedness may be des troyed and their ruin effected. In England, the road to matrimony is fairly direct; and when the parties are of the same religion marriage can be celebrated in Ireland as easily as anywhere else ; but so far as Scotland is concerned, the commissioners' report really con firms the oft-repeated statement that it is almost impos sible to say who are and who are not married in that part of the United Kingdom. A mere enumeration of the Scotch modes of marriage is enough, without any ad vocacy, to condemn them as disgraceful to any state of civilisation, and leaves but one feeling, that of surprise, that such a state of things should have been tolerated so long as it has been. It would, however, be short-sighted policy to attempt any emendation of the Scotch marriage law by itself without making an effort to place the marriage law of the three kingdoms upon ono basis. This the commissioners propose to effect by having marriage recognised as • merely civil contract which the parties may accompany by any religious ceremony they please. The London liana, admits that there may be objections to this plan, but observes that until the report of the com missioners shall have attained a wider circulation and discussion than it has yet received, it is impassible to say what difficulties these suggestions may meet with, especially from the Roman catholic clergy. Speaking generally, the Zrootiner does not believe that the character of the representatives or of the constituencies will be substantially changed by the operation of the new franchisee. Our contemporary, however, draws attention to an attempt which is being made to abuse the new fran chise in order to swell the list of tory voters. Despairing of being able to show any =Detentel increase of patinas among the householders, tory agent.] have been for the last three weeks busily at work getting notices of claims signed and sent in by young men living with their parents or their employers,upon the impudent pretence that so much is reckoned or their board and lodging, and that each has a bedroom of his own. It is perfectly clear that such claims are wholly unsustainable under the terms of the Reform Act; that they are preferred in a spirit of faction and of fraud, and that they will be rejected in every instance where the attention of the revising bar rister is called to them, and the claimants or their wit nesses are subjected to question upon oath. Anticipating the possibility of a struggle at no remote period between Prussia and France, the Spectator enters into a comparison of their relative strength, and without attempting to predict, should the great fight come off, to which side victory will incline, yet ventures to say with confidence that North Germany has serious reason to think deeply before she abandons the hope of peace with France. MADAME RACHEL AND HER WARES. There is nothing new in the business of and vending cosmetics. As we have en another owes. remarked, Mrs. Turner, in King James's time, did a pro fitable business in the very . same line. The Vicar of Wakefield had occasion to interfere with his wife and daughters when engaged in concocting some mese of face-weak. The curious in such matters might trace an unbroken suocereion of the vendors and ammeters of perennial beauty from the days of Poppies to the time of the Empress Engfaie Nor is it likely, nor would it perhaps be desirable, to attempt to prohibit the trade carried on by the " Arabian Perfumer to the Queen," especially se the law or pubbc . polls., is unable to ppaat a atop to ler more nefa rious traders in a worm than this. t Ear o do Levison justice, she is open enough inkier dealings. body may proms a tariff and price-current of the curious Bend-i&ted wares. It is before us at this moment, and there is no secret about the matter. The price s is en sconced, es they . say, in plain figures—the wholesale price and the retail price. Each separate box, pot, or packet of trails is to be bad at the price of one sovereign each, or W. the doses • except the choicer salves and powders, which are jus t the price. If there ars who can be made to believe in the virtues of P re water which distil+ sparingly in the form of dew from magnetic rock in the interior of the Sahara, witioh is brought to Morocco en swift dromedaries, and the sole right of impwUng which, at an enormous outlay, has been purchased by Moderns Rachel," why--arreedde mis ter-es—it k a matter for *beta or their husbands, parents, or guardians. OY, if women Can be realist Use and idiotic enough to " the Royal Arabisn Toilet of Beauty, as a by Madams BacW foe the Sultana of Turkey, from 100 to 1,000 gain " Arabian fumi gated oils for Bridal Chamber Lamps," „ Jordan water, ea 20 guineas pea bottle," " Souvenirs de Ma:sage, at one hundred guineas," and " Bridal Toilet Caine* arranSt two hundred guineas," and " IRo Bridal Bath at 184. pas dozen cakes goods are bought sold in open market. We do not even go to the extent of seying that all this sort of thing doe* the purchasers much harm except in pocket. Paint and enamel do not enter largely into the Levison catalogue and Be eight pages of nastiness. We can quite believe that fi ve pounds expended in barley-meal, lard, and a shilling's worth of colouring matter, together with plen tiful use of the parish pump, comprise the materials of the women's stock-in-trade. There se something—there ix very much—in the plea that if women, old or young, want to be beautified, " repaired," and " finished," they must pay the price demanded by the painter, varnisher, sad decorator, or leave it alone. Venus was always a mercenary dame, and Corinth was proverbial for high figures in venal charms.—Saturday Review. PRIVATE Enterr2oBB.—A circular has been sent from the Home-Office to the governors of the different gaols, laying down the following rules with respect to private executions:-1. For the sake of uniformity, it is recommended that executions Mould take place at the hour of 8 a.m. on the first day after the intervention of three Sundays from the day on which sentence is passed. 2. The mode of execution, and the ceremonies attending it, to be the same as heretofore in use. 3. A black Hag to be hoisted at the moment of execution upon a staff placed on an elevated and conspicuous part of the prison, mil to remain displayed for one hour. 4. The bell of the prison, or, if an arrangement can be made for that ',ar mee, the bell of the parish or other neighbouring church, to be tolled for fifteen minutes before and fifteen minutes after the execution. NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART AT Lana, 1868.—Return of admialionsday, Auguet 28, by season tiekets, 1,600 ; by payment of 24. 641. each, 1,73 2 ; total, 3,332. change. The Pays, thereby assuming for itself the autho rity which the public inclines to concedo to 3t. Paul de Cassagnac's new red ribbon, says it feels e its duty to contradict the rumours current at ti' Bourse yesterday that the Emperor was unwell, and to state that his health was never Dior • making I flourishing• Advice!, from Cagliari state that the powder magazine there 1163 blown up. Several persons were killed and a considerable number injured. The eumai u; the disinter is not known. In seizing the Loaterne, the list of subscriber. appears also to have been taken possession of. Among these, says the IMbals, is • certain number of public functionaries and government clerks. The Gazette do Midi publishes a letter from Nimes announcing the death of M. Snuier, tether of the young man who received a stab at the electoral me,ttlis inz in that place. Upwards of 6,000 persons attemle 1 funeral. Madame Victor Hugo before her death espr e. , ....4 a desire to be buried at Villequier, in the rants tomb with her daughter, Leopoldine, who died twenty-fire year , 3-' Victor Hugo and his two sons Charles and Francis will .1,!. company her remains to the French frontier, where till will bid the deceased a solemn farewell. DANOBROtta AcelpgrrT TO M. DE MoNI4- irmaintr.—A telegrams from Maids*, in the depotnier of the Doube, Mateo that the life of hf. de Youtalember t bas been placed in danger by a carria g e accident. 110p..1 are entertained that be will recover. The count's sert.i.ot was killed. MUSDirt OF A plugs.—lle Italian journal dr. Nee Surieea has the following :—" A telegram 211601111 that the venerable Cure of Bardonneche has been murder.' in his bed. The whole house wail in disorder. The i • dal authorities immediately proceeded to an inrestißit,":. but nothing baa been discovered tut to the perpet r aor 4 1 the mime." 8110C111,10 MURDER li t/ P1111.4.—A dreadO murder has been committed in a house in the Imp.' Bab lone, in Para. A room was tenanted byte brothers of the name of Dimo, both men under 30 year' .: age. They are sons of a certain Greek merch3nt i• Heeler Khan, who died it few years ago, leaving h o ar in comfortable circumstances. Ile family, .er. were litigious • the property left them war in arioj, manners frittered away ; and the brothers Div. against whom character nothing otherwise " hitherto been advanced, became Involved in .1 ,1,. .. Amongst their debts was one of 1,000 kre• upon which a certain Turk had recovered judgccen t, 1 3 which be had transferred to one Nicholas Anthot"'" l°-- los, formerly a Greek merchant, but of late practiimg '''' a quasi-advocate and know d'ofeires in the kral tir , " Consular Court. Anthonoco , ulos had pur,uoi the ride!' brother, StephanoDimo, for tM debt, andhad him artestot on account of it, though he was momentarily at libeftr, , on the ground of ill-health. On Wedira7 erem last the two brothers Dime were seen issuing the home in which theodged, carrying IrM r " them a large bong the lan d suspecting that thev furtively removin their effects, step_poll them. Resislaw' was oforod, the =Midis were coiled, and the boo ire open ed,gaze intowhien,t, th t e o co li r e se ounstenba of the un tio i n ort o u f na th t n n poulos was found doubled up in it, with • P 4l through the neck. and tho head nearly' severed f t . Dime had invited Anthersocopoular toff their loging , debt. draw up an arrangement for the settlement of the body. Both brothers veere arresbxl. t appears thin e, and, when there, Stephan° ,dlot him from b e hind With l pistol, and they afterwards both mutilated teabody 0 order to force it into the boa. The murdered te a " ' a wife and children. strhohowolm! be Court. PENSION WALLIS, LUCERNE, Atrousr The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely, Sir William James, and Sir Thomas Biddulph, returned yesterday evening to Lucerne from the Ptate. Prince Arthur, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Xlphin stone, has arrived at Lucerne. This day is the anniversary ci the Prince Consort's birthday. Deepatehes were sent yesterday from the Colonial Office to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong song, Labium, the Straits Settlements, Malta, and Gibraltar. The following deputations had interviews with the Earl of Devon, at the aloe el the Poor law Board, yesterday, via., from Brumley and Wharfdale Unions, and the Town ships of Holbrook and Humid, consisting of Mr. Boecroft, M.P., Mr. B. Bolton, Yr. C. Huneworth, Mr. J. C. Tawasll, Ms. Mann, Mr. Pox, Mr. Whitehead, Mr. Green, Mr. Nicholson, and Its. Shapero ; from the Town ship of Leeds, eonsisting of Major Middleton, Mr. lus hes, Ili. Co gill, Yr. Maass, and Mr. Lamps ; from the Leeds Board of Overseers, consisting of Mr. T. Green wood, Mr. B. Craig, Mr. T. B. Stead, Mr. C. Heaps, and Mr. C. Naylor. We (Poet) understand that the baptise of the infant son of Ike Prince and Princes Mary Adelaide of Teel is Se take place on Timidity next. His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-SW*sln is emoted to arrive os Monday - - - os Tuesday seat boat Gemeetty. Advicee from Athens state that the King of the Bellenes had received the following telegrephie despatch from the Emperor Napoleon :—" Plonshiires, Angina 4. I thank you Majesty for having informed me of the happy deilvenniae of the gums. I partake of the jay which the birth of a son bar mused both to yourself and all your kingdom. The Respires joins her congratulations to mine, and we both offer lip prayers for your Majesty's prosperity and that of your family." The Prefect of the Heine-Inferieure has an nounced to the conneil-general of that department that the Harm and Empress will visit the ralulation at Havre towards the 9th or 10th of net month. A committee, consisting of the Earl of Har rowby, Sir Joseph Napier, Bart., Major-General Sir W. Hill, be Bishop of Meath, the Deans of Canterbury, Chester, and Cork, Archdeacon Stoptord, Dr. Salmons, Beene Professor of Divinity, Trinity College, Dublin ; the Bev. Dr. Lloyd, provost ad Trinity College, Dublin with the Bishop of G "bb •altar as president, has been formed for the purpose of establishing an Italian Church Refor mation Fund. the object of which shall be the assistance of those Italians who have evinced a tendency towards reforming their own church after the manner of the United Church of England and Ireland. The Dean of Chester and Dr. Gayer, Q.C., ecclesiastical commissioner for Ireland, have consented to act as honorary secretaries to the fund. The poet of Deputy-master and Controller of the Royal Mint has become vacant by the death of Mr. W. H. Barton, a son of the late Sir John Barton, treasurer to her late Majesty Queen Adelaide. The ap pointment is in the gift of the Lords of the Treasury. TRW NEW PARLIAIHINT.—Under this head a contemporary gives the following vague rumour :—lt is said to be arranged that the new parliament shall meet on Thursday, the 10th of December. The swearing-in of members will occupy that and the two following days. The Queen's speech will be delivered on Monday, the 14th, and, in all probability, the division on the amend ment to the address will take place on the night of Friday, thi 19th of December. 5 ds le do II mous , Ditto, ditto, Leader Page 0 So. 5 0 do. 1 0 PARAGRAPH ADVERTISEMENTS 5 do. 7 6 do. 1 6 BIRTHS. MARRIAGES, aod DEATHS , 5 do. Doxserzc siolveras wan:limn/was 4 de. 1 0 dA 0 3 Tess wordmake a line s • single letter or *Pre wants as a worst The above le also the soak for the "Szrazie" ••• ADT21122107 71 OP DOXESTIC 2717•771 WL771110 PLIL, 01 RIBPLOP I 2 7 270012180 DOB 710 tienwswes, 808 llnessio 12 711 " Diaar News" Fos Owe Bioirma smut ; moan tuns son In a, 01 BIZ 712 18 ro i i., aim Rz7IWCI ALLOW= TO 722 07801 OP TIM PAPS& As the "DLIXT News" excludes beta its °ohm= a ollenelve Athertieemente—and as a high clam Paper earaalAtea rely erten idvely amongst private families in time higher and middle classes of @cagey, and as it is now sold at a price within the reach of all— bath Beiployers and Sorrento will And tt a most valuable chums] is making known their wanta to each other. NOTICE TO GENERAL ADVERTISERS. Thu "Dmxv N 1•111," as an acknowledged sutlioritY upon eon. martial and Monetary (portions, enjoys a high position, end tts extensive and rapidly !meowing cireulation sines its Mood= In prim to One Penny renders ft an invaluable medium to all kinds a Advertisers. Post-office Orders for Advsetisements should be made payable to Yr. Joszan 1i.42211110T0N. Poeteoifice, FlB4-11treeta. Postage Stamps received for amounta up to Ms. Offices.Bouveriestseet, Pleistatrest, E.C. tendon. gite erpreoo. PRINCIKEIR. Twos Evenleo, A CHARMING PAUL—AFTER DARK: A TALE OP LONDON LIM Me. Vining, Mem& Wake Ley, Deininbek Murray, Montagne, _ffhere,4._,_Misees Manion and Leek:al.—And IL&BMR JONES'S BMTMOAY. illnitre THEATRE, LONO-ACEM Manager, Yr. W. H. Liston. Tars Evisyse,_ at I, TOMPKUVS TROUBLES. Mr. L. Though Mum Yeas/pc—And THH LANCASSTRI LAM. Maws. Bravo. 114phass, Wyndb..7, Clayton, and a Lamy; mamma Hobos, mandarin, and We Moore. RTRAND. marslivronr _IFINIMILT LEUMICI.—TICE YIELD 07 TEN 07 GOLD. —And MARRIAGE AT ANT YAWL Tose Demme, THE TERBOROF LONDON. Nesera s. %- . odds, Memos, Dirwood, te. ; Mesdames W. Heodereow, ate.—Nr. H. L e-bir ds; Orville Yaeger . — And THE MILD ascaomo. War& Pttt, BA Ire.; Was J. *Remy. men WATER AT LONDON BRIDOX To-Deo —Womb& lib. elsi.......A.ftemoos, oh. fts. To-N•asow—Norgeg, Ob. litia.......Aftersons, Oh. 39m. NOTKIL liamsou a &PIM% KAILLIAGIA, 11,11 a DIUMIII. an rectivell satel 12 o'clock tca tassettoa alma mob& Pries fa Ili A SECOND EDITION of Um EXPRESS, COrI'AINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Lateet City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, II PIIBLIBEIID EVERY E'VENINO. XONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29. THE HOTEL QUESTION. Twin a year the British public which reads the newspapers wakens up to the fact that it is cheated at hotels. The first season is in spring, wnen all the world eomes to London for polities or fashion, for changing the ministry or for dancing, for the May meetings in Exeter-hall or Epsom heath. Then indignant letters appear about the charges in the ancient hostelries or the modern caravansa ries of this Babylon, the price of a glass of sherry is chronicled, the airs of lady managers are criti cised, and public opinion is evoked to an extent which shows how extremely powerless public opi nion in the nineteenth century is to effect a remedy of any abuse which it is ever so unanimous in con demning. Then comes the autumnal season, when London is a mere populous desert, when everybody rushes from it or through it, when its hotels are mere roosting twigs for birds of passage on their distant flights, and when the world that writes to the newspapers is on the Rhine or the Righi, at Milan or Madrid, in Lapland or Lochaber. From every quarter alike then come the groans of the traveller. Old reputations based on a dozen editions of " Murray" are swept away with an angry dash of the pen. Foreign systems are com pared with British to the alternate discredit of both. Spots once sacred to cheapness are now proclaimed tainted with the unholy list of foes. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) FRANCE PREPARED FOR WAR OR PRAOIi. The Phy.ee Liberal of Tooloom e,ntaie 3 th e following: If we are well informed—and we belies, we are_ Marshal Niel delivered a speech to the Counci!•den ,f Toulouse the subetan a of which wee that the army animated by th.: best spirit, its ivraament oomplot., a minds full, the firuocial resouros of tho cou+dry ahaustible, and tl.at comparing France with utter countries, it might be affirmed with pride Chit Fno c , alone was in a position to make peace or war. ATTACK OF PRISONERS ON 'TIMM WARDERS. NINE PERSONS KILLED. The prisoners confined in the gaol of earth y_ gena, in Spain, have made an attempt to k i n the warders. It was found necessary to use for against them. Nine prisomwe were kal ud, several wounded, (THBOUOU itannine e AXIIINOT.) THE BRAZILS. BAHIA, Amin, Li. . _ _ E x change on London, 181 to 14. Ruey Whites, 3.600 to 4.200 role. ; browns, 3,300 t , 3.500 4 rei5. Cotton, 14.000 to 14.200 reie. PERNAMBUCO. Amin It Exchange on London, 181. Sugars: Whito,, 6.000 to 6.200 rata ; browns, 3.900 to 4.000 re+.l Cotton, 15.100. _ the hiassageriee Imperialno atorituor arrived at Pernambnoo on tho 11th inst. OUR PARIS LETTER. (mos ous °wig ~~vr.) PARD3, FILIDLY EVRKING. M. Beingwtrlot, the Heidelberg ocnriatpouden of the Temo--aho is the opposition candidat f the Moselle, with the qualification that he speak. German (the language of the majority of the c m stituency), and is an exile of ULU—giant NI T particulars than have yet been published of C o in de Bizmarek'sfall from his horse. According to account M. de Bismarck, with two of his friends, M. de Kendell and Count de Blankenbourg, took a gallop across country after dinner, and M . de Bismarck's horse fell in it bog, awl laid upon his rider. The letter atitea, con formably with the telegraphic despatches, that M. de Bismarck sustained no serious injury ; but it confirms what has been already said, th.e. he suffers in the muscles whenever ho moves. This account reads serious, but the latest telegram, affirm that M. de Bismarck has quito rocovee.l from the accident. M. de Villemeesant, while expressing his hp, rance of the reason why the authorities have pro hibited the sale of his paper, the Figaro, in filo streets, says he hopes the public will tale; the trouble to go to the book shops where his journsl may legally be sold, and observes, as truly as maliciously, that the circulation of the Figurer sur passes that of all the government prints together. The Figaro is prosecuted for having publish .l report of the trial on the prosecution institut-1 against M. Pastoureau, the Prefect of the Var. M. de Villemeesant relied upon an article in the C.A.., which, as he construed it, permitted the publi,A tion of reports of libel cases when a public func tionary was the defendant. The government dis putes this interpretation. It is beyond all doubt that M. Pastoureau, who was a prefect at the time of the coup onlered a man to be shot without trial, and as he was n,.' killed the first time, he had him brought out and shot again. M. Dolesvaux's court, without going into the truth of the matter, hold that the story was defamatory in regard to M. Pastoureau, and, therefore, criminal. The Figaro was accordingly condemned in I,ooofr. fine fur merely repeating well-known historical fact. _ _ The LibertE says, under the head of Ist news" : We are assured that all the troop+ not in camps of , lutions are daily marched out. This sort of exercio , usual only in winter. If our information is correct, is the ooncluaion r The Bourse was somewhat firmer. Bente, fin• account, rose 73e., closing at 70fr. /42e. Itanin rose 121 e. In other securities there was little ' " I