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They are not new in our history. At every period in which new sources of wealth have been discovered, and fortunes have been rapidly made and as rapidly lost, and men have been millionaires one year and bankrupte the next, the same language has been used with much the same rearm. Successful men in England all go into Parliament or strive to go there. The nabobs of two or three generations ago, when India was the Potosi of this country, were the nouveaux riches of that day, and were the objects of the same personal veneration and political alarm that are now entertained towards railway directors and commercial financiers by men poorer than themselves. From the catastrophe in which everything threatens to be submerged in a flood of gold, Mr. Fswcarr has done some thing to save the nation, by the clause which he has induoed the House of Commons to pass, for transferring the legitimate expenses of elections, the 004 of hultings• poll-clerks, polling-booths, &c., from the candidates to the county and borough rates. What these expenses I, are very few persons have anything like an ade quate idea, though returns of the expenses of elections are among the document. annually laid before Parliament. Mr. Lowe, two sessions ago, when he was in the full swing of his crusade against vulgar poverty and more vulgar wealth, regaled the House of Commons with a few extracts from this Libor Aureus, or golden book of the British constitution. The expenses of the oloo tion for Stafford he told the House were 5,400/. ; for Stoke-upon-Trent, 6,7001. ; for Sunderland, 5,0001. ; for Westminster, 12,0001. The Northern Division of Durham cost 14,620/. ; and the Southern Division, 11,0001. ; South Essex coat 10,0001.; West Kent cost 12,000/. ; North Staffordshire, 14,000/. ; North Warwickshire, 10,0001. ; South Warwickshire, 13,000/. ; North Wiltshire, 13,0001. ; South Wiltshire, 12,000/. ; and the North Riding of Yorkshire, 27,0001. ; all ae Mr. Lows remarked, legitimate expenses, but by no means the whole expense. Mr. FAWCETT'S clause will do something to reduce these enormous totals, but it will not do very much. Its provi sions are confined to the expenses inourred by the returning officer, which are a very small portion of those which the law allows. If the House is really in earnest, it will support the clause proposed by Mr. LABOUCIIERE, prohibiting payment for the conveyanceof voters to the poll in counties, and Mr. MILL's clause which forbids the employment of paid canvassers, or of any other agents than the one appointed under the Corrupt Practices Act. Even supposing these proposals to be accepted, the largest purse will still have the greatest advantage in populous constituencies. The hiring of places for public meetings, of committee-rooms, the printing of bills and circulars, and the other appa ratus of a fair canvass, will often involve the spending of thousands of pounds. The rich man will still find that the portal of St. Stephen's is • one of those gates which open most readily to golden keys. Then there is the ample field of poet-electioneering charity. The benevolence which is shown after one contest, if it be not carried to the donor's credit at the next election, is still a pledge and assurance of equal liberality after the next victory. The relation of member and constituency seems sometimes to be of an almost sacred character. Cities in the old world often had in other places their guest friends to whom they were bound by ties of mutual good service. But the allegiance was slight and fragile as compared with the affectionate interest which binds members to the boroughs which they have wooed and won, and to their individual inhabitants, one by one. The religious welfare of his constituents is dear to the member, as is evinced by his subscrip tions to their Churches and Chapels ; the Hospital and Dispensary which alleviate their physical ills come in for a share of his re gards; even their amusements are not too trivial for his kindly patronage; and the member's purse, or cup, or whip, his prize for the races, the rifle, cricket, or archery match, may show how keenly he appreciates those healthful exercises, which display at once manly strength and skill and the graces of the feminine figure. As there were in old times men who built churches to save their souls, so there are now men who found hospitals to save their seats. Dockyards and waterworks and railways afford a field in which political benevolence may gratify its longing desire to do good. Nominations to the Custom house and Excise will still remain to afford proof of the regard which makes a member feel himself to be the father of his borough, in the sense in which a King is supposed to con sider himself the father of his people. If it is no longer possible for candidates like the Honourable Mr. &must &arum, at Eatanswill, to present green parasols to the wives and daughters of voters, he can still, without suspicion of corrupt practices, shake hands with men washed for the purpose, kiss the babies, flirt with the young ladies, and compli ment the mothers. The blandishments of members are not made illegal by the Election Petitions BilL As legitimate expenses are dimi nished, and direct bribery becomes dangerous, a large and spontaneous charity will increase, until the public conscience awakens to the sense that indirect corruption may be baser than direct bribery ; and that the man who affects to be a munificent patron will prove generally but a faith less representative and servant. LORD BROUGHAM'S AUTOBIOGIUPHY. concern- SOON after the ing Dr. CatrvEs's claims upon the MSS. auto biography of the late Lord BROUGHAM, we expressed a decided opinion that the work in question would never see the light in its present form. There were valid reasons, we hinted, against the publication, and it needs no special knowledge to divine what these are. His late lordship was too vigorous an opponent and held too strong opinions to make it expedient to pub lish his private views upon his colleagues and contemporaries while so many are alive to be pained at his outspokenness. The solicitors' dispute now going on in the Times only touches upon Dr. Calmar's original share in preparing the autobiography for the press. On Saturday the advisers of the late Lord Bitotromut contradicted the Times' report "that certain letters " and papers were entrusted to Dr. CAUVIN byLord " BROUGHAM for the purpose of writing an auto " biography of his lordship," and insisted that the doctor's duty was one of " arrangement" only, coupled with an express injunction that he was to write nothing. Dr. CAl:Tyne s solicitors reply to-day with the following extract from a letter written to their client in November, 1866, by the present Lord BROUGHAM : Three gentlemen have read the MBB., viz.—Mr. Henry Beers, Mr. Elwin (lately editor of the Quarterly), and very recently Mr. John Forster. They all agree in opinion, in which I entirely concur, that the MB. will require great and very careful revision, and, above all, arrangement, before it can be rent to the press. Mr. Forster was here for a week last month for the express purpose of reading the MB., and, while he perfectly agreed with me that if possible the actual publication ought to be deferred till after Lord Brougham's death, yet he was meet decidedly of opinion that it ought to be revised and rearranged while he is alive, in order that alterations and corrections may be adopted by him, and that much information which the reviser may require may be obtained from Lord Brougham's own lips• . . . . Of course you will un derstand that the book will be published as Lord Brougham's Autobiography ; as his biography by himself, for which reason we are so desirous that any recasting or material alterations should be prepared in his lifetime and submitted to him. The "very careful revision," and the " delay in " publication" both point, if our theory be correct, to the piquant character of these memoirs. Lord BROl7ollAll'e Well known opinions ; the fact of his being actively engaged in the most stirring party conflicts of the country ; his relations with the great Liberal leaders ; his attitude when first let loose upon the House of Peers ; his fierce in dignation at what he regarded the political and social infamies of his time--would combine to make his genuine autobiography a literary curiosity. .... Elvill we ever see it, or will it be so pruned down and modified as to be a genteel and colourless parspbase of what the real man said ? DIPSOMANIAOS. SCOTLAND is the place for hopeless drunkards, conscious of their infirmity. We mean no satire upon the social habits of the country. The nips of whisky at all hours, the neat spirit drinking at meal-times, and the comparative im punity from ill effects engendered by the pure mountain air make the sister-ootintry a seducing place to those endowed with chronic craving for alcohol. Dean RAMSAY'S interesting book on the social characteristics of the Scotsman of the last century, shows of what long-standing, and how deeply rooted, are drinking customs north of the Tweed, and the present action of the Lu nacy Board for Scotland shows a ju dicious appreciation of the effects of the national habit when carried too far. " Persons un " able to resist the tendency to excessive drinking " should be allowed to place themselves under " control and treatment without the authority of " the Sheriff," wrote this wise board in 1866, and by the Lunacy Amendment Act passed in the same year it was made lawful to receive into asylums patients who should have expressed in writing to the Commission of Lunacy a wish to bo restrained. In Scotland 14 persons were admitted into public asylums and throe into private ones in the year 1867. These patients, we are told, are not necessarily all dipsomaniacs, a hint to which wo can only reply we fervently hope they were. If it be once recognised that a help less, nerveless drunkard may be legally protected from himself, some of the worst evils arising from the worst of vices have a chance of abate ment. It is dangerous to countenance aught likely to trench upon the liberty of the subject; and, save in rare instances, tho wildest vagaries of delirium tremens do not land the madman guilty of them in a lunatic asylum. Few doctors care for the responsibility the necessary certificate implies. But enable a man to shut himself up, and who can estimate the diminution of drunken ness likely to follow? penes in the cases where counties are divided upon the division in which the election takes place, and one by Yr. Fawcett requiring caution money as a guarsate• splint futile candidatures. Neither of th se proposals ought to create difficulty ; but the liberals will do - well to stay is town and to be very watchful until the bill shall have been reported and pawed through its final stages. The olasse is a substantial gain to the cause of purity and free representation, and its retention in the bill is wen worth vigilance and resolution. ACCIDENTALLY POISONED. ON Saturday an inquest was held at Notting hill on the body of a lady who died through swallowing a strong in mistake for a weak solution of strychnine. Her medical adviser having directed that five drops of the more potent liquid should be diluted with water and taken at meal-times, the lady proceeded to mix a draught, placing the dose in a bottle which, apparently, had previously hold similar medicine, for it was identical in form with that containing the poisonous quantity of strych nine. Subsequently mistaking the bottles, she drank the wrong fluid and died in half an hour. In commenting on this case, the Cow- NEB, overlooking, as we think, the real cause of this lamentable accident, condemned the practice of placing poisonous medicines in bottles of ordi-. nary form, and suggested the use of danger-bot tlea, dark in colour, and of rough exterior. Now, supposing two such bottles to be at the disposal of a patient, one having been emptied by the due ab straction of daily doses, it is difficult to see how any peculiarity of colour, form, or surface would prevent the empty one being used as the vessel in which to carry away in the pocket, a diluted portion of the stronger medicine. The cause of the accident in the present and in many similar instances would seem to be due to the growing practice of prescribing highly con centrated and poisonous medicines, the task of dilution being left to patients, nurses, and ser vants, who have other things to think about, in stead of the dilution being allowed to remain, as formerly, part of the duty of the druggist. IT is supposed, but we hope without due au thority, that a vigorous attempt will be made in the House of Commons to get rid of the clause inserted on Saturday in the Elections Pe titions Bill, throwing the necessary expenses of candidates upon the constituencies. Liberal members are bound, in justice to their prin ciples, to be present and support the retention of the clause. Nothing is more likely to make the electors choose good men and keep them than to have to pay for them. Useless contests promoted by local busybodies will be rarer, and a healthier atmosphere generally be created. JUDGING by the letters we receive and the gossip we hear, the lodger franchise is puzzling everyone. Lodgers are not rated, nor are they in the parish books, and the difficulty of ascertaining whether a par ticular lodger's claim is well founded in boroughs where thousands are claiming will be great. We shall be agreeably surprised if the revising bar risters are not often spectators of extraordinary scenes of confusion. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) TH3 ORLD333 DILL. The Time* thinks it may be regarded as certain that nothing further will be added to the above bill which can provoke discussion. Viewing it as an experiment, our contemporary does not recommend the immediate applica tion of the bill to the sister kingdoms. The work done on Saturday afternoon was, on the whole, satisfactory, and the success of Mr. Faweett's proposal to throw the neceesary expenses of elections on the constituencies was a considerable compensation for the failure of Sir F. Goldimid'e claim, providing that votes given to a candidate convicted of bribery, by himself or by his agents, should be thrown away, and that the next candidate, if be had polled • third of the whole number of electors, should take the seat. The bill is, in fact, emphatically a good bill, and, with the exception of Mr. Fawcett's amendment, and one or two other clauses, which, as taxing provisions, cannot be touched by the peers, represents the views of the government, and will, therefore, command the anent of the house in which their influence is supreme. -- 1 Having referred to the valuable addition which Mr. Fawcett's chines has made to the bin, the Daily News proceeds to comment on Mr. Disraeli's opposition to Sir W. Hutt's proposal to introduce a clause prohibiting the interference of peers at elections in the terms of the reso lution annually passed by the House of Commons. Mr. Disraeli's argument, that a peer of the realm ought to "vote for a member to represent his interests, to protect his property, and to interfere in the general business of a free country, just as any other individual," is in reality an argument for the abolition of the House of Lords. It L a confession, or an accusation, that a seat in that assembly does not afford its occupant any adequate means of representation and protection, and of participating in the general business of the country. In other words, according to the spirit of Mr. Disrseli's argument, the House of Lords is an obsol e t e i ns titution, discharging no useful function in the State, and involving, on the part of its members, disqualification and disfranchisement rather than privilege and power. However, Sir William Hutt was well advised in withdrawing his clause. To make that a matter of statutory prohibition which is already forbidden by the common law, as set forth in a declaratory resolu tion of the House of Commons, would be to weaken the, earlier authority. Two provisions, says the Star, still remain to be coa aidered oa the report —oar by Lord Milton, axing the ea. HYDO-!&u xzwrnios. The Tort thinks Mr. Gladstone neither did the State nor himself service when on Saturday he encou-aged the organisers of the demonstration in Hyde-park to go on with their project, and his encouragement is all the more reprehensible because it was given in a manner calculated to enable him to repudiate the responsibility of having given it. If he bail really the interest of the working men at heart he will for the future use his influence rather to present than to encourage their compromising and discre diting themselves by such absurd and inooneequential ex hibitions, and will confine himself to legitimate and eon utitutional means of advocating the causes they may have at heart. TEE 111110111.10 TIMXCIIIAPH BILL. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will to-night bring before the Howe of Commons the Ma:Aria Telegraphs Bill as amended by the select committee. The Teleraph has a long article strongly defending the measure, and insitting that it would be an act of sound judgment in the home to pass it at once. Much will nocuesiarily depend on the course taken by the opposition. But the question is in no sense a pasty affair; and Mr. Gladstone, to whom, in conjunction with Lord Stanley of Alderley, the initia tive of the measure is really due, might gracefully lend the aid of his inßuence and authority, sea practical states man, to clear the impedimenta out of the way. There is time to pass the bill, if both sides of the house desire to do so, but there is not time for aimless criticism or merely factious delays. TEE CHEDIT YONCIER. The belly News remarks that it is poor satisfaction to those who have embarked 2,000,00 W. of money in the Credit Foncier to be now told, after two half years, that there is no dividend ; and, further, to gather from the accounts that the penitent trustees, who con fess to past error, are drawing personal fees to the extent of 2,4001. per half year, and that the management of the company costs the shareholders 23,0001. per annum, while there is nothing but loss for themselves. The whole history of this mysterious insti tution is instructive. The periodical reports to the share holders, contrasted with each other, are strong evidence of the utter credulity of the many who, allured by high dividends, place their money in the most perilous of ad ventures, and prefer darkness to light mainly in the hope of ultimate escape. In fact, they cruise about the quick sands of a financial Goodwin with eyes wilfully shut. THE BRIBERY BILL. ELECTION EXPENSES. HOUSE OF COMMONS.— . Tara 18. (Clause providing for returning officers' expenses out of rates.) At every election for any county or borough, the ex penses lawfully incurred by the returning officers for the provision of hustings, poll clerks, polling booths or moms, and any other necessary requisites for the con duct of the election, shall be defrayed in the case of any county from the county rate, and in the caae of any borough out of the monies, and in the manner and proporticms mentioned in the Act of the sixth year of Victoria, chapter eighteen, section fifty-five, with respect to the expenses of carrying into effect the provi visions of that act ; and the account of such expenses shall be made, allowed, and paid in the manner pro vided in the said act: provided, that it shall not be lawful for any person to be nominated as a candidate at any such election, unless he or some person on his behalf shall, before 1 o'clock in the afternoon of the day receding the day of nomination, have paid to the re officer the sum of one hundred po u nd s t o b e applied in the following manner (that is to say) : Where a poll shall take place at any such election, the re turning officer shall apply the monies so paid t o hi m by any such candidate who shall not, at the close of the poll, have received a number of votes equal at least to one-tenth part of the votes received by the successful candidate, if only one, or by such one of the successful candidates if there shall be more than one, as shall have received the smallest number of votes, in and towards defraying the lawful expenses of the returning officer relating to such election; and after any such election the Set • o ffi cer shall forth with repay to any such candidate w shall have been declared elected without a poll, or who, whether de clared elected or not, shall have received a number of votes equal at least to such tenth part, the monies so paid by or for him aa aforeesid)—(M. Fewoett)-- brought up and read the first time :—Question put, " That the clause be read a second time:"—The com mittee divided ; ayes 78, nose 68. AT Adam, W. P. Allen, W. B. Amberier, visa. Ammon, Major Anatanthor, Bir R. Ayrtoo, A. B. Baines, B. Bar, M. T. Beaumont, W. B. Blake, J. A. Bonham-Carter, J. Bright, Jacob Brum, Lord C. Buller, Sir A. Butler, C. B. Candlish, J. Y. ChsT. Clive, G. Dims&le, R. att_elo s ti, C. 0. Dull, N. E. , J. F. Harks R. A. ITBrii. Fawcett., H. Milton, Viset. Forager, W. IL Moffatt, 0. , Portman D. F. Monk, C. J. Gamlen eon, T. Eitriesi N. D. N. Murphg Monad!, W. al:, Gladstone, W. B. Naafe, y C. Ooklimid, Mr F. H. O'Brien, Sir P. Gent, J. E. 08 1 1 , 7, Sir J. Omehen, G. J. Otway, A. J. Ozzia d, l34 J. Parry, T. G. Baimay, J. Markey, T. Bearden, D. J. Hartington, Man et Reptea, G. W. ri r dem ia, L ß. Ruassil, A. Schreiber, C. S. T. Stone, y W. U. nglake, A. W. Talor, P. A. bout se e r, H. Vis , .C. P. IMMO% J. A. Waders, Mr T. B. Lemma, O. White, J. /oaks,, G. J. Wyld, 3. oaks, J. TIILLIIIIB. I .4Pts, Mr M. O'Logltlen, Sir C. Lusk, A. Mal, & NOBS. Hay, Lord W. ?Airington, Ettr J. Hay ley, J. W Ste J. C. Nen. te a rey Wat a L ___ A d FL Kliftrod. T. 8. B. ?Pritchard, J. Awns, F. 8. Raiford, N Kahan, Lad rash, D. Huddlestone, J. W. Notheakficl, N. N. dit Herat, 0. W. Rumen, Mr C. Kw:slake, Sir J.B. J. D'A. Kendal Kavanaghl. N. , A. gthitide6 0. J. A. 8 8r n =wal,n MIL O. ll=erast, IL A. M. Stanley lAwd Lindsay, Col. Bargees, C. P. Lowther, J. Tottenham, Lt.-Col. Mamas% Lord J. Trevor, Lord A. Manta. P. W. Turner. R. Mayo, tral ot Warm, R. B. kWh/M. T. A. Whitbread, 8. Montagu, Lord S. Wynne, W. R. 0. T11T.1.21/14 l ir= ,J, R. Noel, G. J. N Sir 8. H. Montgomery, Ob 0. &Faa7 ,*/. H. Commit', J. D. Collier, Bib R. Y. =oak P. D. Dent, J. D. Da*, Bir E. if= C.B. Ci ta. D B IA, TfBire AnL H. Beaux& 0. C. Booth, Etir R. 0. Boater* E. P. Bntt, Sir Carter, 8. Cava, & Dined. B. Du Caw, C. Eats, H. W. Dierks. IL C. Pas" Col. G o l d er, O . A. L. Gordo!. B. & Graves, B. It ciaraamo Ortfilth, C. ar tS. A. KerveY. &Id A. TZB MALT TAX. The report of the select committee appointed to inquire into the operation of the matt tax was published this morning. The ooildusions arrived at by the committee upon the evidenos laid before them are that this tax prevent. the farmer from cultivating his land to the greatest advantage ; that it obstructs him is the as of a valuable article of food for cattle ; that, by making it necessary to employ a large additional amount of capital in the important trade of malting and brewing, it has created, and tends to foster, two large monopolies ; and that, by materially increasing the price of beer, it encourages adulteration, and prevents to • peat extent the habit of brewing amongst the labouring people. The committee are of opinion that the tax ought to be repealed, provided some means for raising the same amount of revenue, if required, be substituted, either in the shape of a brewer's license or some other form. Mr. Bright received an enthusiastic reception, a day or so since, at Clare, as he pared through it on his way to Inchmore, the beautiful residence of Marcus Good body, 3.P. In the evening the town was illuminated, and bonfires were lit on the hills. Another protestant demonstration, under the presidency of the Fail of Realskillen, is to oome off to morrow. Great exertions are being made to render it successful—at least, in point of numbers. A placard has been posted throughout the county Fermanagh stating that the Earl of Enniskillen " hopes and expects every protestant, from 14 to 16 years of age, will be at his post on that day, to enter his protest against the meditated at tach open the established church and the protestant con stitution, by the enemies of both." The Coik Reporter states that James Stephens has returned to Paris, having completed an engagement. which he had entered into with a Burden railway com pany se an " engineer." He is now again giving lemons in Hugh& FOREIGN NEWS (THIS DAY.) (!1111017011 AIIZZIOT.) THE CONSPIRACY IN SPAIN. MADRID, 'my 20. It is stated in political circles that the Duke de Montponsier, fueling affronted at the steps taken against himself and his consort, has deter mined to renounce his position as an Infant of Spain, his rank as captain general in the army, and all his Spanish dignities and decorations. Numerous secretly printed pamphlets, contain ing violent articles against the (WOOD, are in circulation in Madrid and tto provinoes. PORTUGAL. LISBON, JULY 19. The King has postponed his visit to Cintra. Bishop Alves Martino has been charged with the formation of a new ministry. The Spanish frigate Villa de Madrid is still here. It is said that the Duko and Duchess of Moat pensior will not tako up their residenee in this country, but will proceed to England, as the Spanish Government objects to thoir remaining in Portugal. SERVIA. BELDRADI4, Ant 19, Enterngo. A requiem for the soul of the deceased Prinoe Michael was celebrated in the cathedral here to day. Prince Milan, wearing a colonel's uniform, the military authorities, the ministers, and all the consuls were present at the ceremony. be Court. OSBORNE, Jura . 18. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by the Duke and Duchess of Coburg and Prince Leopold, Colonel Du Plat being in attendance upon horseback ; and her Majesty and the Royal Family walked in the grounds this morning. _ _ Prince and Pnncess Louie of Hesse and Princess Louise, attended by Baroness Grancy and Baron Rabenan, dined with the Prince and Princess of Leiningen yesterday on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. Admiral Farragut, Commodore Pennock, Captains Strong, Le Boy, and Wyman, and Commander Shirk, of the navy of the United States of America, arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon, and had the honour of being presented to the Queen by the Duke of Edinburgh. Princess Louise was present with her Majesty during the presentation. Mr. Benjamin Moran, Secretary of Legation of the United States of America, and Charge d'Affaires, accom panied Admiral Farragut and the officers of his squadron to Osborne, and was present at their presentation. JULY 19. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon. The Duke and Duchess of Coburg, and Prince and Princess Christian visited the American frigate Franklin, in Cowes Roads. Their royal big/messes were received on board by Admiral Farragut and his officers. On leaving the ship their royal highnesses visited the Prince and Princess of Leiningen on bows' the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert Her Majesty and the Duchess of Coburg, Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince • Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, attended Divine Service at Whiprdngham Church this morning. The Bev. George Prothero officiated. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were in atten dance. The Duke of Coburg, attended by Major-General French, Seymour, C. 8., and Major von Hanks, have left for London. The Lord Chancellor arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellis, drove to Wimbledon on Saturday. Prince Louie of Hew, attended by Major von Hesse, arrived at Marborough-house, on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales gave a dinner in the evening in honour of Lieutenant-General Lord Napier of Idagdala The Earl of Derby presided, on Saturday, at a meet ing of her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1861. There were present :—The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Earl Granville, Lord John Manners, M.P., Lord Overstone, the Bight Hon. R. Lowe, M.P., the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, M.P the Bight Hon. G. W. Hunt, M.P., Sir A. G. Spearman, Nat., Bir Charles Lyell, Bart., Sir R. Murchison, Bart., Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. C. H. Gregory Pendent of the Institution of Civil Engineers), Mr. ring, and Mr. Edgar Bowring, C.B. (secretary). A meeting of the Finance Committee was previously held, attended by Lord Derby, Lord Granville, Lord Overstone, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Bruce, Sir A. Spearman, Mr. Baring, Mr. Thring, and Mr. Bowring. Tho Duke of Cambridge, attended by Lord Henry Lennox and Colonel Clarke, HE., visited on Saturday the Albert Works, Silvertown, and inspected the great floating dock building there for Bermuda. On leaving, his royal highness was saluted by the Me gan', bearing the broad pennant of Commodore Edmon stone. The Duke of Cambridge, General Commanding in -Chief, will, according to present arrangements, visit Portsmouth about the 31st inst. for the purpose of inspect ing the 33rd Regiment of Infantry (the Duke of Welling ton's), recently returned home from Abyssinia. Prom Portsmouth his royal highness will proceed to Winchester to inspect the Dragoon Regiment there, also recently re turned home from Abyssinia. MB Royal HigKnee/ the Duke of Coburg and smite have arrived at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham gate. The marriage of Lady Emily Craven and Mr. Van de Weyer will take place the week after Goodwood ROM Lady Harriet Ashley gave birth to a daughter on Saturday. Her ladyship and infant are doing well. Cardinal Cullen had slightly improved yester day, but was not out of danger. THE QUELY'S Vuirr TO THE CO:ill/um F.—On Wednesday, the 6th of August, her Majesty is expected to leave Osborne in the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, on her visit to the Continent. According to the present ar rangementa we understand that it is probable the Queen bark from the Victoria and Albert at Cher bourg, and proceed thence by rail for Paris and Lucerne. If this arrangement is carried into elect, the yacht is ex pected to return direct to Osborne from Cherbourg to con vey the Prince and Primes Louis of Hesse from her Ma jesty's marine palace to Antwerp. On the Queen's ret urn !I'm Switzerland it is understood that the orders for the Victoria and Albert will be to proceed to Havre to receive her Majesty and mite on board for re-conveyance acmes Channel to Osborne. THE TnfterrY-ftousft.—This afternoon a special court of the Trinity Corporation will be bald at the Trinity house, Tower-hill, when hie Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, E.G., who was re-elected master of the honourable brotherhood last Trinity Monday, will be sworn in with the usual mummy. The will then proceed to elect his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales as one of the bon. elder brethren, and his royal highness, who will accompany his royal brother, the master, will be duly installed into office. Their royal highneesee will then at tend the grand annual entertainment of the Trinity Corpora tion, which will be upon a male of great misguidance. The Duke of Edinburgh will preside as head of the cor poration, and amongst those invited, in addition to the Prince of Wales, are the Duke of Cambridge, the Premier and most of her Majesty's mististen, Lieut-Gmeral Lord Napier of ala, the statesmen who are honorary mem bers of the Corr agi tt the Lord Mayor, the Governor of the Bank of and man of the lead ing_merchants and ehipowners of e City of do BURNING OF M. GLADBTONE EFFIGY.—A correspondent informs us that, on Sabbath evening last, the Orengemen of Coalialand, Killyman, !Roughen, and Newnulls, assembled near the last-named place, and burned Mr. Gladstone in effigy. The effigy was got up . in the most ridiculous costume—the prevailing colour being green ; and, having been placed on a low wall, was shot at, and afterwards Norf./ern Mids t . burned, amid great groaning.— THE WORK OF THE SEBBION.—The increase of public acts up to the present time is 67, and of loos' 146. The macs commenced on the 19th November. THE ROYAL AURI EICEB7ICUL7UItith Slimy 4 Lsli. Market day found the Leicestershire Curn. —whom quaint Old Puller coLobr a t tv l t wo years ago for their " masculine loans," ail th, good silver which rattled in their pockets from "—with a strictly divided duty, but stria ty, KLOW yard was well attended in the afternoon.m.l the large horse ring was surrounded thrss, when the classes came oto parade. (•„ The „ itt . in which Cream Gorse, n Barkby Il o lt , and Th', Coplow have long been names of renown, dearly loves a horse. Nearly every ono had a wya among the stock classes, and you found select round the bull Commander-in-Chief, or coa np , ul4 Mr. Booth's beautiful pair of yearlin g Patricia and Lady Gaiety, whose rival ela,. wo believe, be re-tried in public both at (a nnealt and Wetherby. Still the visitors gemrally to care very little about shorthorns, and to 1:1') w just as much of what are called " limey p •. as of the weight and colour of those '• Sei m nozzar's seventeen lean kine," which Lord I: Montagu has drawn from the .; ...• of his biblical lore and duly •,, in Jionserd. If you want4ll t•• • friend, the Abyssinian pump and th.• were the surest finds for him. At th.• 1 Yorkshir-men mustered strong, and a. proud of their prowesa with Angell/ s, t• iy I) - f: went, and Brigadier. If Go -a- 11 ead a /11 v.:,. managed the first hunter broodinare quartet of winners would have la .1 •It T.. . butter and cheese shed was a most affair, and those who know what a pier',. ;.,. meat of farmers' wives and datight.,.. tho cheese tents at the Cheshire ": hardly have fancied that they \• • country which pitches nearly 2 - • • . of new milk cheese annua ll y at • Leicester fairs, to say nothing •.. Stilton," and a "smattering •,f I. There was merely one counter, which ws. i.•• over by an old labourer in fustian, as Arthur Clough onto said, - a yelkw. oolitish appearance." The first pri,•• : , the new milk cheeses came from the I. 1:•• Hinckley, and Nuneaton districts ; tool th• • ;. were divided into three classes 451 b., exceeding 451 b. and not exe.s,iih Lf • and each entry contained six cheese.... to judge from the rind and general the touchstone of merit, and some of the tan. of Stilton had well earned the late Mr. Moore's eclectic definition of perfeethal, -• ripe, rusty, and rotten." At the last Mr, fair the highest price for new milk cheese v.-, i „ cwt., but the American factorycheese h as seriously with all makes up to 751. z... - thing, four cheeses go to the hundr..k. which is 1201bs. in Leicestershire, or than in Warwickshire. The second cheese, which includes the make from 31.1 1 .; August 27, is nearly twice the size ei th. weigh, which is made from August 27 to the • u• 1 of the season, and is considered the I).A two. The hard-bake weather had this advantage. the it proved how steam can beat the sun wh.s th y are fairly pitted against each other in a ploutr.htitz match, with Fowler of Leeds, or Howard Bedford to back steam. Fowler took both tim and second prizes, to the amount of 1:10/., competition for " the best application of •ti.gh power to the soil," and Howard the tint lnio it the class for its " application to occupations et moderate size." To Fowler's lot there prize gold cup of 1501., given by th e Vir..roy for " the best implement for th. , ..taitiv t tion of the soil by steam power, ; 0m..in.11 4 strength with simplicity of construction for lb.. is foreign countries, where skilled labour for is difficult to obtain." In implements strip , !r • steam cultivation, the Leeds firm took seven 1...• • and the Bedford three. The latter firm beat great antagonists, Ransom° and Sin's, for g. • purpose wheel ploughs, light land • ploughs, general purpose swing plough:. • • land swing ploughs, subsoil ploughs and : •-- rows, but suffered defeat from them in parrz ploughs. Whitehead was the champi,n the week in brick and tile mschines, will produce 12,000 solid or perforated hr. _• or 1,600 pipes per day ; while Hunt and Pl:t -ering. for draining tools, E. H. Bonk!! cultivators, the Beverley Ironworks for do! crushers, Armies and Barford for rolh.r. Ransoms and Sims for turn-wrest pluugl, • • patent wheels, were either prize takers ot medalists. Mr. Norton was one of the tilt Alo. medalists who received this recognition in tho at: for any speciality of invention ; and thy,,, wii, had a drink at his Abyssinian pump, whirl] forth a never-failing stream of water a: o,ld iee, allowed that it was well deserved. This prep must have been a formidable rival to the Grin? Stand and other liquor stores • and really 0 , 1 ' that it made no matter if Leicester ran :bort in soda-water, provided it had " Abyssinian" to to in its room. Clayton and Shuttleworth medal for their combined revolving liquid mess:tn.. and drop drill for turnip and other seeds, and 31.. Marsden, of Leeds, for his steam stone-breakent. The traction engine was always performing groaning circuit in the centre of the yard, With. 4! times, one of those large portable houses un attached to it in which some of the gnat Univ. went firms lodge their men for the week. A very large number of engines of from mu ti 20-horse power were drawn up in the yard. The Tuxforda, of Boston, had, as usual, a tine array. ofan dtainwoonsogrtt_oon and the other with the extra eiplinvA ntheeirwhi°thriwtnhted portablordinary e en v P •d n i:. valve—a class of engine with whi,h they were so eminently successful in the rail competition at Bury last year. Thin niz bad also a very noteworthy and adjustable pima revolving screen in their combined thrashing irg perfect finishing machine. Taking the implela° l ! yard throughout it is beautifully arranged. bat rt is becoming too much, year by year, a kind 01 huge bazaar, into which a number of things fora their way which have no more real bearlag_ l practical agriculture than the pegtops gal lery of the Agricultural-hall last Christmas, a" were described in their specification as " a new in vention for communicating motion to the peri phery of wheels." The weather held up most relentlessly all dk' and hence the horse ring, which ought to bee been laid down with tan, continued of such a cast iron character that the horses had very little chance of showing themselves and their psoa perfection. Those, however, who have seen Mt. Tailby's Orangeman go in the hunting field h s. i the pleasures of memory to fall beck aP°P . ,... far, with the exception of the strike over prinuan the prize sheet, it has been a most successful :meet ing, and most admirably managed la all it'll de partments. partments. Nearly all the leading showers agriculturists left on Saturday for do l. to look after their harvest, an c , hard-fagged officials of the society must ha been right thankful for the solid bar of 1, which, under the new rules of beginning in the middle of the week, is now secured to Sunday. Already considerably upwards of 3.7. have been taken at the gates, and if the conv itt auj shilling days--Monday and Tuesday—are thr•'" the great towns in the neighbourhood only P a t / their sight-seeing hosts, as is expected, tho 0r due homage to " hoof and horn " by sendolitf°o , will be more than doubled. How the olaar will be dealt with at that poor station, which not very much more than equal to the crisis 6 cheese-fair, is a stern problem which vexed tin Leicester mind. The population of Guatemala is 800,000, this of Nicaragua 300,000, and that of Costa Rica 130,000. THE Naw Pozm BY litaToff.—Notwithsta ndig the contrariety of opinion which has been exPro' d the subject, Mr. Henry Marla y has still no doubt of de authorship of the poem recently discovered by iliPu u ": the British Museum. It speaks Hilton's mind, style, and contains touches worthy of him. Mr. /in Men from Mr. Rye as to the signature hang_ 7, 1 '. instead of " 11. ;" but, it it is signed ~r . 10 l i r awe the possession of tt W copyist. 14 it 11 'a HE 1" xl la ar • t d. CII tl4 • n tr sum • re bl d • tzr 1 hu ij • or ad r. de • a .114 'I r i I