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...,........___,.......... ___ _ F OR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. 1 LONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, RAIL WAY. on an unusually large scale, in every depart- WAR WICK RACES, ment of their business. For trades and ad- September 7th and Bth, 1869. dresses. see following advertisement. The following Service of Express Trains between Euston, Victoria, Kensington, and Broad-street Stations and Leamington is now in operation, week days only : A RARE COMBINATION. iThe RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL- I' , 4 I • LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be found AI 5 , 1 . I ' 1 '41 4 .?.2 '-'-' !E!! Ei -14 : in every said° sold by E. MOSES and SON. ,5 I -..r- -: . 4 -c.) i oo ~ , i , E ver y d e scription of Clothing ready made, :., N ,3 or made to measure, for all ages, and all 'id A' 'A c ' c c 4 =CI. el •%.'• 2 I.T, A. 5,2 2;g 7 4 ilasses. -• 5 4.0.ti,q.,i , t.t, - , 0 glen o c-, ca c-, o Commodious apartments for measuring ...„ . end fitting in the spacious and elegant Show 422 -oo.to c...- 14 -- ,A --- a . .C 3 :14 -1 , . .1. ,A.: "3 '7 . d'' s F5g"U, Rooms, which contain a very large and diver- ,i - . 4 .0 fa., mco .:, t- t_ sitierl stock of materials. -, 5 p1,t ,,, 54 or-or , , il , For the convenience of Ladies accompany- ii -.0,..n , 00 r---14 ing their Sons there is a distinct department ' , :l ,s '4 l ,a 7.4 -1,-i cc -1 , _,,, no ezo.e,c,-, ...,,, a --,--o ,-,...e.-4 , 1. for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. --' 5 s:' , 4l 44 cNi ,1 . 0.0 -45 :644-.4 0.00e3 Orders by Post are attended to with care ' , 4 . _ .4,5 -o-.....050 ~ e , c , and punctuality, and the easy and accurate .'"-% gi .r. cs .0 eq - 41 '3 4 0'4'7 , 3 ~7,32,`F., system of self-measure introdneed by E. - 1 5 4 FOO 1,, ~ : q -46 .1,, 4..:1 CV cs Cf 3 MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee -N • .., ..., „ s a faultless tit. ' m • - ~,,3,5 .0.. -. 71 'I ; i s' E - ' 4 '. '+' ol ''a a . ''' oq , ,'?'s .z' ,?.. Orders from persons who are not known to ; - ._i .-. 5 d,,,,„,, „ cli ,1 . 7 5 „i 4 the firm should be accompanied by a remit- -1 -I 4 --. ........ G . 4... 4 1 .. 11 tance, or a London reference. :4 ,e. ' • , C • J '') , e • .... 00 . I' ' • Any article not worn or injured will be Es ?IA Fi c i c. 7: 0 1 c. ... , o t : rd g " - 711 q c' " 1' O' :: ; 2- ‘ ,5)2 lheerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the z .-, ' 1 E, -- , 3 cs o o 04.1.1.-41 , 1-s -,-. :money will be returned. ; :'l6 -. ...t o 04 : 3 '4 3 ; w, ~ ,M) •= CD All Goods are marked in Plain Figures , 0'? z so : i co p .. et = .--. cs from which no abatement can be made. q- 5 :et- oo N.. 7.) S X, 00 d,os aq eq .14 The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats , :s, and Caps. and Boots and Shoes, is nn- k 3 `; F. : 2, : : `'4' . '',ll ' l ' 4 -r- o -•3 ; Bco m i - 5 ,?-ig,-, equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap- - , 5 .i e , • oo - 4 5 dr-t , 0.-40,... ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with I i every requisite for the voyage. E,., 0 Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea- :P. .--.= 0 2, sure, Patterns, and Fashion - sheet, gratis and 5 ~ r, f. Dt - . ~, d 9 .. 0 - 'f- : post-free. 2 . 4. ~,, E. MOSES and SON'S Establishmonts s. --1 -1 .._:, > 0 '.. are closed every Friday evening at sunset till ' --- . s--1 •., g ~...., - ?... 4 Saturday evening at sunset, when busi n e ss OVt: a IA s.. 4-. is resumed until eleven o'clock. 2 2 -? <1 vg E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be- ehe t",l •- 0 0I: 0 , Z o ba w .9 0 . .F.l spoke Tailors, Habitma7gers, Woollendrapers, o 0 • gro al ..., ~1 . , a , ' 2 , 73' 'l2 , Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac- Pap c, ' g - ; 0 0,9 turcrs, and General Outfitters for all 4l -.. 414 a Zi pai`iw Classes. Return Tickets from London to Leamington are avail- The following are the only addresses of E. M OSES able for Two Days. and SON:— By order. LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. By order. W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, September, 1869. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85. ALDGATE 86, ALDGATI ALDGAT I*l 88, ALDGATE 33, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 50C, NEW OXFORD-STREET sO7, NEW OXFORD-STREET iOB, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCff. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 133, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. BRIT ANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Head Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association are Equitable Rates, . Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The Report which the directors have now to submit t• the proprietors differs in its tenor but little save in one or two particulars from that laid before then, in 1868. The income of the year, it will be seen, amounts to 0510,499 18s., and the total charge to £445,077 10s. 9d. The difference, £95,422 is. 3d., added to the balance of the surplus fund at the commencement of the financial year, raised that item to £1,002,974 15s. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, JVNE 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. £ s. d. Dn. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 Premiums on new assur ances Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 X s. d ..... 907,552 8 6 371,548 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,508 4 11 Profit and loss, balance of account ~... 47,991 13 1 Total income £1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,I HENRY ROSE, Auditors. CHARGE OF THE TEAR e. d. CR. pividend to proprietors •••• :lams on decease of lives assured .dilitions to those under participating policies 24,304 6 6 e.licies surrendered Re-assurances —new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 £ s. d. 8,880 4 0 303,614 3 6 405,561 12 1 Commission Medical fees Income tax 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 9 10 436,187 6 9 Total charge Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance-sheet £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. ld., of - which sum £13,560 ss. ld. is for new assurances effected in the year. _ _ The interest from investments is £120,959 12s. 10d., or £4 2s. per cent. on the net amount of the company's realised assets existing in June, 18CS ; and in connection with this important feature of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and loss account again exhibits a considerable profit, amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000. It may be remembered that a profit of nearly equal amount was announced in last year's report. Turning to the items constituting the charge of the year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material; as was observed oa a previous occasion, the proper quin quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex ceeds £309,000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management are greater by nearly £BOO than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the company's securities into the names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses must be regarded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET, Jurrz 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured, and Wadditiois thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' fund S urplus fund 1,002,974 15 9 £6,757 17 0 £7,675,813 010 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CR ASSETS. Amount invested in fixed mortgages £1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 Ditto ditto Temporary secu rities 198,207 17 0 Current interest on the above investments 30,934 4 6 Cash and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the company's policies 165,387 1 8 Agents' balances Sundry accounts Value of premiums (1867) Value of re-assurances 85,706 14 5 £7,675,813 0 10 The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95,422 7s. 3d. already mentioned, as is shown by the augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. The Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows : WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairman. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq. SirJ.BullerEa.st, Bt., D.C.L. '1 bornasliodfreySambrooke, Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., -E‘l. Adrni ra I Tin dal. CharlesThos.Holcombe,Esq. Right lion. Sir John Young Joshua Lockwojd, Esq. Bart., K. 0.8. MACHINES, ►rHIE " SINGER" SEWING THE "NEW FAMILY SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCH. Work by Hand and Trea'llc, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. THE " SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p tuliar simplicity of these Machines enables any one to tcquire their perfect use in a few hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free. THE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Chief Office in the United Kingdom: 147, CITE A.PSIDE. Branch Depfits or Loca Agents in every Town COMPENSATION IN CASE OF INJURY, AND A FIXED SUM IN CASE OF DEATH Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY BIND, may be secured by a Policy of the RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. An Annual Payment of r 3 to £6 ss. insures £l,OOO at Death, aid an Allowance at the rate of £6 per week for Injury. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS ALONE may be provided against by Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Journies. For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to the Local Agents, or at the Offices, 54, COaN}ULL and 10, REGENT STREET, LONDON. !WILLIAM J. VIAN Secretary. TILE UNITED LAND COMPANY (Limited). 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THE TOODLES. And THY PILGRIM OF LOVE Messrs. E. Terry, Bruce, ac.; I.IO2cIaMGE Richardson, Newton, ioabrooke, rnE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1869. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS] Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-office open fromll to 4. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pm k, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. r A , j , , ,e_itri, • ,;,_ 4 4# ',,_,/ q)i) . 11 LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 6, 1869. THACKERAT once dubbed a celebrated politico literary newspaper "'[he Saturday Reviler." Among all the journals of the metropolis, the particular organ thus referred to, is the only oue that has taken up, and enforced, and emphasised the frightful imputation directed against the memory of Lord BYRON by the authoress of " Uncle Tom's Cabin "—commenting upon it, in fact, con amore, with a sort of relish, or gusto, as though it were a something entirely con genial to its tastes. Fragmentary passages are quoted by it from Lord BYRON'S .diary, from Lord BYRON'S letters, from Lord BYRON'S poems—broken sen tences are given, vague words are italicized, casual allusions are utterly distorted in their appli cation and significance, inferences of the most unjustifiably disgraceful kind are deduced from mere passing ejaculations. And all this is done in cold blood, with a deliberate intention to fix upon Lord BYRON, if possible, the horrible guilt imputed to him—according to the rambling, and incoherent, and (even in the dates) erroneous statement of an American story-teller—upon the authority, or at any rate, upon the pretended authority of Lady BYRON. The real question now more immediately before the public, at the present moment, in the matter of this so called " True Story" in Macmillan's Magazine for September, is—not the credibility of the story itself (that is a matter for consideration afterwards) but the credibility of the two women, one dead, one living, upon whose authority that story has now been related. How far are we to believe what is thus stated by Mrs. STowE in the name of Lady BYRON ? That is, first of all, the question submitted to us for our consideration. Fortunately, two witnesses, one as to Lady BYRON, one as to Mrs. STOWE, have just now made their appearance before us with something like evidence upon the matter—namely, as to the cre dibility of these feminine (though one hardly likes to call themferninine) assailants of Lord BYRON'S reputa tion. Mr. W3I. HOWITT writes a letter to the Daily News about Lady BYRON, whom he knew very well personally. " A Member of Congress" writes a letter to the Times about Mrs. BEECHER STOWE, his countrywoman. Speaking of Lady BYRON, Mr. HOWITT writes to the Daily News, among other things, this :—" lam sure, " he says," that Lady BYRON was a woman of the most honourable and conscientious intentions but she was subject to a constitutional idiosyncracy of a most peculiar kind,-which rendered her, when under its influence, absolutely and persistently un just. lam quite sure from my own observation of her that, when she was seized by this peculiar con dition of the nerves, she was helplessly under its control. Through this the changes in her mood were sudden, and most painful to all about her. I have seen her of an evening in the most amiable, cordial, and sunny humour, full of in terest and sympathy ; and I have seen her the next morning come down as if she had laid all night not on a feather bed, but on a glacier—frozen as it were to the very soul, and no efforts on the part of those around her could restore her for the day to a genial social warmth. In such mo►nents she seemed to take sudden and deep impres sions against persons and things, which, though the worst might pass away, left a permanent effect." Of this, he gives two very striking illustrations. Speaking of Mrs. STOWE " A Member of Congress," addressing himself from Paris to the limes, begins what he has to say upon the matter of her credibility by observing that "Americans in Europe are of ten sm.- prised by the comments of the London Press on the affairs of their country, but [that] the great attention just now paid to a recent article of Mrs. BEECHER STOWE, with reference to Lord BYRON, causes more than usual astonishment." "We all know," he adds, " that that lady is a mere sensationalist writer ; that nothing from her pen is considered by the American public as historically reliable, and that she will at any time sacrifice truth, if by doing so she can succeed in attracting notoriety." After comment ing upon the notoriously untruthful statements upon which the fiction of " Uncle Tom's Cabin" was built up, " A Member of Congress " goes on to say that, " As the great notice which a certain class of Eng lish philanthropists gave that book at the time gave her the only literary reputation she ever had with us [that is, with the Americans], we [i.e., the Americana] are not grieved that she should now turn ungrate fully on all England by calumniating the private character of her greatest modern poetic genius.', So far—even that, we might say, is tolerably strong flavoured But it is not by any means strong flavoured enough to express the scorn excited in the mind of " A Member of Congress" by Mrs. STOWE'S last proceeding : for the writer ends by saying em phatically—" In America the BEECHERS are known as mere sensationalists, without true merit or sub stantial talents. While the crowd is amused with their sayings and antics, the thinking portion of the people pay little heed to anything emanating from their fruitful pens." Remember, this is said by an American citizen and by "A Member of Con gress," addressing himself to all Europe and America through the columns of the 7 imes newspaper. In pagan tombs there are found deposited little earthern vessels, hermetically sealed, and symboli cally containing the tears of the survivors of the deceased—little classic relics known aslachrymatories. As a sensationalist Mrs. STOWE has allowed herself to enact for a while the jumbled parts of a ghoul, a resurrectionist, and a Brinvilliers of reputations. She has, so to speak, torn open the moulderingcoffin of Lady BYRON, she has abstracted thence not a lachry matory but a vial of wrath containing a secretion deadlier than vitriol—the which, after violating, in turn, the awful repose of his tomb, she has poured, to the last drop, into Lord BYRON'S coffin, upon his crumbling dust. It is strange, and it is affecting to the last degree, to remember at this moment how, in the noblest por tion of his very finest poem, namely, in the fourth canto of " Childe Harold," Lord BYRON, standing i❑ the midst of the ruins of the Colisseum, and little foreseeing what Time, thus, had in store for his tar nished but splendid reputation, uttered this pathetic and impassioned ejaculation : " Oh Time ! the beautifier of the dead, Alorner of the ruin, comforter And only healer when the heart bath bled Time the corrector when our judgments err, The test of truth, love—solo philosopher, For all beside are sophists, from thy thrift, Which novor losos though it cloth defer— Time the avenger! unto thee I lift My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift : Amidst this wreck, where thou hest made a shrine And temple more divinely desolate, Among thy mightier offerings hero are mine, Ruins of years—though few yet full of fate : If thou hast ever seen me too elate Hear me not ; but if calmly I have borne Good, and reserved my pride against the hate Which shall not whelm me, let me not have worn This iran in my soul in vain— shall they not mourn ?" Referring to his own and his' ancestral faults," as being only among the causes of the wounds from which he " bleeds withal"—it is then, almost imme diately afterwards, that he adds— " in this page a record will I seek. Not in the air shall these my words disperse, Though I be ashes ; a far hour shall wreak The deep prophetic fullness of this verso, And pile on human heads the mountain cf my curse ! That curse shall be forgiveness.—Have I not — Hoar me my mother Barth ! behold it Heaven ! Have I not had to wrestle with my lot? Have I not suffered things to bo forgiven ? Have I not had my brain seared, my heart riven, Hopes sapped, name blighted, Life's life lied away ? And only not to desperation driven Because not altogether of such clay As rots into the souls of those whom 1 survey." Among the " things to be forgiven," the deadliest of all, it would seem, was what has been thus reserved for his name and for his fame posthumously ! And yet—in spite of Lady BYRON'S hallucinations, and in spite of Mrs. SrowE's sensationalism—we have still a full conviction that BYRON'S apostrophe to Heaven and Earth, from the midst of the Colisseum, will be answered, to the full, eventually, and that in his in stance, in the end, Time will, in truth, be the Aven ger. WHATEVER, be the result of the three election commissions now being held—and we presume that at least two of the peccant boroughs are doomed to political extinction—one thing is very certain, that all our legislation hitherto has failed to put down bribery. Various Acts have been passed, but they have proved as frail as packthread. The compara tively stringent measure passed last year, and which was the most creditable achievement of Mr. DISRAELI'S Administration, has turned out to be as powerless as its predecessors. While the debates on the subject were still fresh in the memory of candi dates, constituents, and legal agents, while the clauses of the newly-written law, with the penalties for infringement, stared them in the face, these parties set to work to renew the electoral debauchery and corruption which they had practised with im punity on former occasions. With impunity—these words explain the audacity of the offenders. It is not legislation that has been in fault, but the non-infliction of the penalty. There had been laws against bribery before, but they had never been enforced. Guilty boroughs, like Sudbury, St. Alban's, Totnes, Reigate, Lancaster, and Yarmouth, had been disfranchised, but that was no punishment to the venal voters in those towns. If their votes could not fetch money they did not care to have them. They were quite willing to run the risk of disfranchisement for the sake of a bribe, since they valued the franchise only for the bribe. They believed that there was no other risk. Had they not a right to believe it P Convicted bribers were not removed from the magistrates' bench. Double dyed perjurers, steeped to the lips in lies, went un prosecuted by the Government, and suffered neither in trade nor in the estimation of their fellow towns men. Moreover, it was always easy to obtain an indemnity by volunteering to give evidence. Just as BROADHEAD and his associates escaped hanging by confessing their murders, so the depraved electors of the corrupt boroughs escaped prosecution by telling what they knew, with the certainty that they would not only obtain a certificate of exemption from the Commissioners, but be applauded by their neighbours as clever actors in a laughable comedy, the LISTONS and MATTnEws's of electioneering. Thus it came to pass that, in spite of Mr. DISRAELI'S measure, the last general election was as corrupt as ever. Thus it happens that disclosures are now being made which must make every honest Englishman blush with shame. Thus it is that while the corruption of Bridgwater is being exposed there are other boroughs not far off, especially in an adjoining county, whose guilt is probably quite as deep although not brought to the light. The sinners did not credit the sincerity of the Legislature. They believed that the new Act would be as the old Acts, very stringent in letter, but never enforced. Reckoning upon their past experience, they were quite prepared to run the risk of punishment for the sake of a certain profit. The bribe was ready to hand, the penalty was so remote that it was not worth weighing against a Bank note or even half a sovereign. It must be, then, with something very like dismay that these hoary-headed sinners now find themselves in imminent danger of a criminal prosecution. The Commissioners would seem to have received instruc tions that there is to be no shamming on this occa sion. Mr. GLADSTONE would appear to have resolved with Mr. DISRAELI that the plague spot of our Constitution shall be cut out. The first seems to have determined that the measure passed by the second shall not be a dead letter, shall not be a laughing-stock, as all former Acts have been. In all these towns the Commissioners have exhibited a severity quite unknown before. One man has been fined for con tempt of court ; another has been committed to prison for the same offence; others have had cer tificates refused; and at Bridgwater, the worst of the offending boroughs, the Commissioners have made a special report, in order that the Attorney-General may be able to prosecute within the twelve months allowed by the law. All this vigour looks as if Ministers were in earnest. We sincerely trust that they will confirm this impression. Let them resolve that they will, with out respect of party, prosecute the worst offenders, and punish them on conviction. Candidates, con stituents, and legal agents will be convinced that bribery, if not a disgraceful, is at least a dangerous offence, when they see their fellows inmates of some of Her Majesty's gaols. IT is a grievous pity that Mr. RoEntex's friends do not induce him to retire into private life. Every fresh speech that he utters makes us the more inclined to laugh, until we remember that this is an " Atticus" whose folly should rather make us weep. The one-while reformer and economist now hates reform, and talks of " pitiful " economy. Ile declares at the Cutlers' Feast that England must have a navy capable of contending with all the other navies of the world put together, and then — for he is not even consistent—he goes on to say that the Volunteer movement has made invasion an exploded idea. It is not worth while wasting words over a man so thoroughly illogical. But we would ask him two questions : Is efficiency compatible with economy, and are we not more likely to obtain the first by practising the second ? And has he ever heard of the practice of self insurance ? If not, let him ask our great shipowners what it means. They do not insure their ships, because it pays them better to be their own insurers. The contingency of losing all their vessels is possible, but is so improbable that it is not worth the heavy burden of insuring every ship. So is it with us. The contingency of Fran ce uniting with Prussia, Russia with Turkey, Italy with Spain, and all with the United States, in order to invade England, is within human conception, but is so extravagantly absurd a supposition that we should be simply madmen if we were to provide against it. In fact, we could not do so if we would. We should have to turn all our adult males into soldiers and sailors. We should have to give up our trade and manufactures in order to pre vent an invasion which would destroy them, It would be, in fact, a case of proper vitanz virendi perdere causas. Enough and more than enough of the senile folly of this poor old man. Let us turn to a more pleasant subject. The Marquis of lIARTINGTON offered to the Sheffield Cutlers a new idea. lle proposed that the Irish land question should next year be taken out of the list of party questions. It was a startling tinig to ry b may es aisapli for t and it. fall proposition. Is not thi s th e very question of all others upo n w hi c h th e O ppos iti on h ope th a t the Ministry y t et i t s he s r u e b jiseest hasionc thl iAnd hitherto this not been included in the rota of party questions. With the exception of Mr. BBIGHT, there is, we , believe, no prominent statesman who has committed himself by any definite propos Then it must be remembered that the Conservative party themselves complained last year that Irish problems should be made the battle ground of parties. As they were in a mino rity the protests were perhaps not entirely disinte rested. But the Minister who now proposes a truce belongs to a Government and to a party strong almost beyond precedent; strong enough to carry their measure ruthlessly if they choose, strong enough to bear secessions far more numerous thanthere is any likelihood of taking place. Once more, it is certain that this question must be settled, and that without delay. Which is the more likely to settle it, the party who are in a large majority, and who have just settled one great problem, or the party which, for the present, is in a hopeless minority by reason of its opposition to that settlement ? The Conservatives will do well to take counsel with the nation before they reject the POSTMASTER-GENERAL'S offer lof an armistice. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) THERE are two points at issue in the great BYRON controversy—the accuracy of Mrs. STOWE'S nar rative, and her discretion in telling it. On the second point there can, we think, be very little difference of opinion. For eight years of wifehood, for thirty-six years of widowhood, Lady BYRON kept secret this terrible story, supposing it to be a true one. She died as she lived, honoured and beloved, and no blot rested on her fair fame. Why, then, attempt to vindicate her nine years after her death? Because, says Mrs.STOWE, the Countess GUICCIOLI has attacked- it by her recent " Recollections." But has that book met with such a reception as to render imperative an answer involving such a fearful revelation as that which Mrs. STOWE has made ? Surely not. The testi mony of the mistress is not likely to prevail against that of the wife, and the COUNTESS'S is, for the most part, not evidence at all in the legal sense of the word, but mere hearsay. Moreover, Mrs. STOWE was not one of the executors to whom Lady BYRON entrusted her papers—was, therefore, not one of the only three persons who were, or are, at liberty to make these papers public. But the strongest argu ment of all is contained in Mr. WILLIAM HOWITT'S letter published in the Daily News of Saturday. Lady BYRON, he says, was highly praised for her reticence with respect to her husband's misconduct. " But no sooner was BYRON dead, having left a carefully-written memoir in his own justification, than Lady BYRON sought to buy this up. She, in fact, never ceased her exertions till she had procured the destruction of her husband's own carefully-prepared defence. No sooner was this accomplished, no sooner had she stifled his posthu mous cries for a fair hearing by the public, than, if we are to believe Mrs. STOWE, she proceeds to blast his character to all posterity, by not merely whispering into the ear charges of the most dam ning and revolting nature, but she puts these into writing." Mrs. STOW; in seeking to justify Lady BYRON, has really done her serious injury. The other and more important question is not, we think, yet ready for a positive judgment. There is much evidence to support the charge against Lord BYRON, and the evidence is cleverly put together in the Saturday Review. On the other hand, is it possible that Lady BYRON would have allowed her daughter to be called after her rival, and that rival guilty of incest ? Is it likely that she would have lived with BYRON thirteen months after the discovery of his crime ? Add to these argu ments the eccentric conduct to which Mr. HOWITT bears witness, and which suggests that Lady BYRON herself was not always sane, and we have strong reasons for doubting the truth of this monstrous story. We deeply regret that it should ever have been published. Having been published, it ought to be sifted to the uttermost. LATEST INTELLMENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, Sept. 4. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 137 f ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1374 ; the lowest, 1351. Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 18S° 66 " 1885 1221. tc " 1867 l2ll. 10-40 Illinois 1384 Erie 314• Cotton—Mid. upland 3sc. Petroleum—Standard White 32}c. Flour, extra state, $6.45c. to $7.5c. Corn, old mixed, $1.20c. QUEBEC, Sept. 4. The strike of the ship labourers has been com promised, and order is restored. The Allan (Glasgow) steamship Prussian arrived out to-day. BOSTON, Sept. 4. The extra Cunard steamship Siberia arrived out to-day. QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 6. The Guyon steamship Nebraska, from New York, arrived here at 6 a.m. to-day with 94 passengers, some of whom were landed, and she proceeded im mediately for Liverpool. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Paris, from New York, arrived here at 9.20 a.m. to-day, with £3,000 in specie, and having landed mails and passengers she proceeded immediately for Liver pool. All well. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 5. The Minister of Finance has made a speech at the Council of the Credit Establishments, wherein he states that the public debt has been reduced in 1869 by 1,342,000 Dutch florins (£445,100 ster ling), 9,050,284 paper roubles, and 1,091,090 silver roubles. There remained the advances made to the various railway undertakings, amounting to 30,148,867 roubles. The Minister further stated that the Imperial Bank had purchased in 1868 bullion to the amount of 5,923,304 roubles. SPAIN. MADRID, SEPT 4. The Minister of Justice has proposed that the number of the clergy should be reduced to five archbishoprics and thirty-two bishoprics. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. ',4. —Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 4} per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cont End of month 7l 65 Credit Mobilior 212 15 Transatlantic! 270 Credit Foncier 1720 Paris Gas 1605 --- EAILWA Bank Shares 2855 Itall'an Fives 54 50 Austrian Fives -- 1 Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 43 25 Spanish Threes 28 Rome Debt — Deferred ! s. Cash ... P5B Orleans Western Northern .... 1092 Strasburg .. 597} Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 605 Sardinian Austrian 9Bll Lombard 522* North of Spain 52 Saragossa Roman 521 DuNvILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta ion Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co , Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-builrlings,Strand, Loudon, IY,C.—[Ad Tex moment; • THE ELECTION gQ3IMISSIONS At Norwicn, - on Saturday, the evidence of Mr. WSltt man, manager of the Eighth Ward, wis taken pi: vately, in consequence of the state of his health. Fisher, the man convicted for contempt, was brought up, and having answered questions put to him tolerably freely, was released from custody. At Bridgwater, in the examination of Redfern, Vanderbyl's partner, that gentleman said that he sent Lomas with £1,400 at the last election to Fenelly, the other partner. Fenelly went to ltome, and Lomas to France, to avoid being examined during the inquiry into the election petition. Barham, the Liberal lawyer, gave a long history of the election. lie denied that he was personally guilty of corruption. ART AND LITERARY GOSSIP, Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, are about to publish a new serial work, entitled " Cassell's House boll Guide." It will embrace every department of domestic and social economy.—During a stay in Normandy Miss Neilson has given readings from the Eng lish poetsin Dieppe and iu Etretat. Tennyson's " Charge of the Light Brigade " caused a profound sensation. — A new comic paper will shortly be published, conducted by Mr. Robert Abraham, late editor of Judy, who will be assisted by some of the principal members of the last named journal.—Messrs. Moxon and Co. are publishing a uniform edition of the works of Thomas Hood. It will consist of thirty-six monthly parts at ls., and eight quarterly vols., at ss. each.—lt is not often that a school can boast of a more brilliant list of scholars than the follow. ing individuals, who were the late Dean Waddington's con temporaries at the Charterhouse in 180 S-11 :—Sir C. Cres well, Sir C. G. Young (Garter King-at-Arms),Archdeacon Hale, Archdeacon Hare, the two Havelocks (Colonel William and Sir Henry), Mr. George Grote, and Bishop Thirlwall.—A new operatic burlesque by Mr. Alfred Thompson—the plot being that of " Linda di Cha mounix "—will shortlybe produced at the Gaiety Theatre. —The publication of Now-a-Days, a journal which numbers some able contributors, and is devoted to the interests of women, is deferred till the Ist of December. The magazine will then be enlarged.--'the Broadway and the North British Review have changed their editors. —The tenor, M. Michet, goes to New Orleans for six months, in return for 72,000 francs.— Mr. Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle " has so delighted his countrymen that he is asked to build a theatre of his own, and go on acting Rip for thirty years. The Lydia Thomson troupe of "blonde burlesquers" cleared 75,000 dole. in forty-five representations in New York. The grave Philadelphians do not like their coming. —Workmen have succeeded in effacing the black stains on M. Carpeaux's group of statuary in Paris. — Miss Cushman, the great tragedienne, is lying dangerously ill at Edinburgh. Sir James Simpson and Professor Spence are in constant attendance.—Mr. W. S. Gilbert is writing a burlesque for the Gaiety Theatre.— The Musical Standard says :—Miss Minnie Hauck has entered into an engagement with M. Merelli to sins at Moscow.— Mr. S. B. Mills, an American composer, has just finished a grand oratorio in four parts.—Rubin stein has just composed a grand cantata, entitled "The Tower of Babel," which will be executed for the first time at Konigsburg. At Vienna during next winter one of his oratorios, " Paradise Lost," will be performed.— Apropos of Mrs. Beecher Stowe's fantasies about Byron, it may be mentioned that the Countess Ratazzi (Princess de Sohuss) is occupied in writing the words and music of au opera, entitled " Byron," describing the career of the great poet. Mr. Murphy is creating great excitement at Market Ilarborough just now. There have been slight riots; he himself has been mobbed. The Sheffield papers give great prominence to tit, statement that the Duke of Norfolk has given £l,OOO to lb,. Sheffield Infirmary. The number of volunteers who have already announced their intention of being present at the Belgian f6tes exceeds 1,000. The time for closing the lists has been extended to Saturday next. On Saturday afternoon the skiff race for £2O, between Stephen Renforth, brother to the champion, and Hugh Minnigan, both of Newcastle, took place on the Tyne, from the High Level Bridge to the Meadows House, and resulted in Minnigan winning easily by five lengths. It is just made public that Lord Stanley has bee!. a. member of the Financial Reform Association. He has just been applied b for his subscription, however, and seems to have forgotten all al out his connection with it. He i eplies t' ,:t ho will pay up; tut th ,, y must take his tame off immod'- ately, as he does not agreo with the policy which the society advocates. There is happily a prospect that the Cott:lies, d'Alteyrac's scandal will to set at rest by an arranceinew between tho countess and her creditors. The countess ha: offered to compromise with her creditorz, and is iu a position to make a composit'on. An early elhy lea been appintut! for a meeting of the parties interested. Jt is thought them will be a unanimity of opinion as to the accoptal)ilit:, of the tot mi. Money is being subscribed in the county of Gal way for the defence of the prisoner Barrett, who is to b tried at a special commission for firing at Captain Lambert. A "Barrett defence fund" has been started, and a public• concert given in Galway by a temperance society in its aid, Barrett's solicitor, according to a local paper, protests against this method of raising funds, and recommends the prisoner to apply to the Government for the aid of counsel. A feast of fat men has been held at Norwalk, Connecticut. One hundred and forty of the greatest men of New England and the adjoining States, assembled for running, jumping, and wrestling matches, and trials of strength. All the 140 weighed over 200 pounds, and several of them more than 300 pound. They were all weighed, and Mr. John A. P. Fisk, of New York, attained the glory of being the heaviest, weighing 358 pounds, and was, consequently, elected president for the ensuing year. Mr. Lincoln, of Springfield, came next with 329 pounds, and was elected vice president. A CORONER'S JURY'S VERDlCT.—Although "trial by jury" is looked upon as one of the most valuable safe guards of public liberty, the verdicts given by jurors are frequently calculated to bring the " institu tion" into contempt. In this class will probably be reckoned the verdict of a jury on Friday at Colney hatch on a lunatic who was found self-strangled and dead in the asylum at that place, viz., "Death from fatty degeneration of the heart, accelerated by the deceased having strangled herself The Advertiser and Times, Oswego, N.Y., says "We saw a novel experiment involving the explosive power of gas. In the new tank excavation, no w i n a forward state, at the gas works in this city, an old well had been pumped out and then filled up, after leaving an aperture benc.th. Into this space a limited quantity of gas was introdiced from the gas pipe, sufficient to form an explosive co.npound with the air in the covered well. A match trigg( r touched off the mine, when a general upheaving of th surrounding earth took place, loosening up the soil and waking easier digging." FAGGOT VOTES IN SCOTLAND.—Notwithstanding the discussion in last session of Parliament it would appear that the practice of creating faggot voters is not yet dis continued. In tho roll for the county of Edinburgh, just compiled, nine new names appear as "joint proprietors" of one place in WestiVynd, Dalkeith, and three as j ointproprie tors!of another small house in Plummer's close. Of these the majority are resid( nt in Edinburgh. Other non-resident joint proprietors and lif e-renters have been enrolled on properties iu Dalkeith, South Leith, Duddingstone, &c., the whole number thus enr)llect being upwards of twenty. The in troduction of such a class of nominal proprietors, on whichever side it,is practised, cannot be too strongly repro bated, and we are much surprised to find that any further creations of this kind have been attempted. The creation of these new voters cannot fail to attract notice in next sess i o n of Parliament, and will, we trust, resultin measures being taken to render their continuance impossible.— London Scotsman. AN EARL ON PATRONAGE AND TIIE IRISH CHURCH.— The Earl of Mountcashcll has addressed a letter to the Daily Express on the subject of Church patronage, apropos of the Duke of St. Albans' letter to the parishioners of Redbourne. Lord Mountcashell saye',that several years ago, when the vicarage of Kirconriola, better known as Ballymena, became vacant, he .adopted a course similar to that just adopted by the s Duke of St. Albans. "Having studied Church history,' the noble lord adds, "I, more than forty years a go , came ici‘flio conclusion that the patrons of benefices in the Church, no matter by what means they name to he such, are nothing more or less than trustees for the religious welfare of the parishioners." He believes :hat in the early centuries of Christianity the sale of ,ivings, and " the disposal, for filthy lucre, to unscrupu lous aspirants of the spiritual care of parishes and congre gations," would have be en sti g matised as simony. He believeithat the practice had its o ri g in in the Italian Church of Rome,. and that at the time of the Reformation .zircumstances occured to prevent its being abolished. by a very natural transition Lord Mounteashel proceeds consider the claims of those lay patrons who are to re ceive compensation for the loss of patronage inflicted by the Irish Church Act. How far they have a right to ap propriate these moneys to their private use ho leaves to the decision of their own consciences, but he suggests that the whole ought to be devoted " towards making up for the heavy losses to the Church and clergy" which the political and religious enemies" of Irish Churehmeti havo AIWA. THE HARVE97'. The Daily News in an article . upon too narvest - bas the following- remarks. " This year, of course, there have been the usual prophecies of a deficient harvest, and a few weeks since it was generally believed that the wheat crop would be immensely deficient in quantity and very bad in quality. But ripening time brought ripening weather, and in the hot sunshine the prospects of the future brightened, till from some quarters we were informed that after all there would be a crop not much beneath the average. Still there were stories of serious damage. The corn was much laid, and having been weak in the straw, could not recover in brilliant sunshine. It was, as a rule, thin and root-fallen , small in the ear and shrivelled in the kernel. But as harvest came on, prices went down—a strange accompani ment of a bad harvest. Then, too, the harvest weather has been so fine that we are almost suffering from drought, and since the harvesting began everything has been in favour of the crops. From one end of the island to the other there comes one testimony—splendi , l harvest weather. By this time the greater portion of the harvest is gathered in, and the ingathering has gone on without a single drawback, except it be one that is reported foie Norfolk—" too much young clover among the barleys." Everywhere, too, the condition of the grain is reported excellent. The housing, at any rate, has been as well done this year as it was last year, however different a croy , there may be to house. As to the yield of the mei), it seems at present premature to pronounce any decisive opinion. The outside public may be content to wait and see what Mark-lane will say a month hence. Harvests have a great tendency to get better as we get into there, and a harvest which has ripened better than was hoped , and has been gathered in better than was feared, may possibly yield better than was anticipated. It is evident that the crops are very unequal, and perhaps we must not, ater all, expect the crop to turn out quite an average one, but it may be confidently said that it will not fall sufficiently below it to make any great difference in the price of bread and flour. The country markets were all down ou Saturday." TOBACCO CULTIVATION IN IRELAND. One of the Irish papers (the Irish Times) calls attention to a new grievance under which our neighbours across 01 Channel groan. Tabacco was introduced into Ireland i ll 1586, and promised to flourish luxuriantly on the soil but for the interference of the English Government. A fine of £lOO may now be imposed upon any person cultivati n g more than one pound of the plant of which we air told there was brought from abroad, in 1866, no less than two millions one hundred and fifty thousand pounds weight' The climate and soil of the country, our Irish contemparnr/ insists, are as suitable for the culture of the weed as for the raising and production of potatoes, salads, carrots' and turnips, which were introduced into Ireland in t he same century. The first restriction in tobacco culture was in 1661, under an Act passed by the English Parks' ment over the heads of the Irish House then sitting'' Lord North, during the American war, making a bid for the favour of the Irish, sought to remove the Pr o. hibition, and succeeded. From that time until 1831 Old cultivation of tobacco became general in the county W er ford, " whereupon the Legislature came to the deterrlio2l Lion of preventing all future growth of the plan t ill , Ireland, and a Ministerial measure was brought in fOl that purpose." During the debate it was stated and shewn that great numbers were employed on , tobacco fields ; in the neighbourhood of EnniscorthY alone between five and six hundred persons. It 11 , 113 also elicited that there were some proprieto rs the county who made no less than £lOO per acre by t h, e plant. The prohibitive enactment was, however, carrieali and remains in force up to the present. The Doi! Y hell agrees with the Irish Times that this statute might we' be repealed, although the quality of the tobac ca ci grown in Ireland would probably be of a coarse s° inferior description. In fact, what is grown e; 1 perimentally or ornamentally defies some of hardest smokers to use it with impnnity, and it been described by an Irish gardener as "not only onn" - ; but dhrink—two pipes of it being aiqual to as many gla sie , o' whisky." However, the circnmstance only affec ts „ collateral branch of the question, and if tobacco on grown at a profit in Ireland, we see no just cause or in'P e i diment why it should not, and we trust that a movell e will be made to take the obstructive statute out of way. DEATH OF GENERAL THE HON. SIR CHARLES GORE, G.C.B. On Saturday morning, about half-past nine o'clocicr General the Hon. Sir Charles Gore, G.C.B. and IC- 11 ;: the lieutenant-governor of Chelsea Hospital, died et II'" residence at the hospital. The gallant deceased, wh o sv- „, 1 fourth son of Arthur Saunders, second Earl of Arran, S born on the 26th December, 1793, and was father of t he Countess of Errol and brother of the Duchess of Inverilesl He entered the army as ensign in October, 1808, and ser v ,, e 7 in the 43rd Regiment from July 1811, to the close a t"" war in 1814. He was present, and was one of the s tere ; ing party, at Fort San Francisco, at the investment ° t Ciudad Rodrigo, also at the siege and storming a that fortress and Badajoz, and at the battle of Salaraawe3' aide-de-camp to General Sir Andrew Barnard. He W:n afterwards aide-de-camp to General Sir James KeloP the battles of Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive (9th, 10 th , and !iits December), Orthes, and Toulouse. He was also in "y," action of San Milan, capture of Madrid, storming a heights of Vera, the bridge of Yanzi, and all the o'l6 wishes of the Light Division from 1812 to the end a the war, in 1814. Sir Charles Gore afterwards accoroPeud", General Sir James Kemp with the troops to Ceng for He, however, returned to Europe in time al the campaign of 1815, and was first and PrineTty aide-de-camp to Sir James Kemp, and in that 0131`ci,-AJ was present at the battles of Quatre Bras (where he a horse shot) and Waterloo (where he lost three 11°11:it and afterwards accompanied the army to Paris. I le !is% on half-pay in August, 1825, and in April the folle'iso year proceeded to Canada, where he served on th e 13 Ifil for some years as Deputy-Quartermaster-General. rj served for some years in North-America as Major-Gene fA on the staff, and as Lieutenant-General Comman dills the Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, &c. For his services '" 4 Peninsula he had received the war medal with nine a 135,030: and in 1E36 he was made a Knight of the Royal P verian Guelphic Order, having previously been r°l‘ ,fias Companion of the Order of the Bath, of which h e 1 0 made Knight Commander in 1860, and a Grand A Cressle. 1867. He was appointed col o n e l of th e 91st (the r liti shire) Regiment of Foot in 1855, and was transfers opt 1861 to the 6th (the Royal Ist Warwickshire) Il e g:ob. of Foot, which colonelcy becomes vacant by hie / Zi t o , Sir Charles was appointed lieutenant-governor a ' 1 % 3 - pl. Hospital on the death of Field-Marshal Sir Hew Dielil" Ross, in December last. The Manchester Guardian says that some of t o Th e ci v mysterious circumstances connected with the elle c oer murder of the woman who was found in the canal at veto ton have been cleared up. The clothes of the docessecilloi been identified by her mother, and the pocket h arAer a marked Halliwell" has been satisfactorily ac count ° 4y d On Thursday the body was exhumed for the second ti rae ' a minute examination was made by medical men. 11i 4 e t y 0 1 informed that this examination resulted in the 1301;;;Ief the surgeons expressing an opinion that all the 1 passage o f a boat 13,j1° - r might have been caused by the iu 0 ' water. A MYSTERIOUS DISIPPEARANCZ.--The 0 York Times, of the 20th ult., has the following' }‘ 1 1 1 ° 0 recent number of a well known magazine an accollotar to given of several men whose names were once /W i t - 0 missed society, from who were suddenly and incoroPrelleP'-ett no trace o n m f t t k h e e m ir w c a u s st l o n m ft a b r e y hi r n e d so , rts. In most inatiftba police or the tireless quest of friends alike failed to °I.- 0 any kin light upon the mystery. Oc a c n u d rr t e h n e c i e n : C.lfirtihese°: l vn: Lan d . a n re common everywhere. The story a chi', i ce. l tai Lansing, a man once well known in this State, tn i " , i ii r i‘ e i me s m i. bred by a few survivors, is so far different be esh' r. Speke's that no explanation of it has ever Ye t t ft published. The magazine writer truly says that h e l ls a New York hotel one afternoon forty years a go, to ' ho a boat for Albany, where he resided. The Por ter h 1 :06 handed him his bag was the last person known t° -- „,,,a e k ,e e en him alive. He never reached the Albany boat , - 00 was never heard of again. Naturally his disaPP esl. 3 loo6 high writer ho crented a profound sensation, for he held a hi and was a ' man full of years and honour. ' The writer t d whom we have referred says .---' His place on earth 11$5, been made vacant ; but there is not, nd can never be di e h r g e ey c np o eo r rt d ahl o eb f s how, iosdtyhtol f pt o ll r i when, te or where. that day ; he may have lived for years afterwards.' - 1- '' - 10 , W ith t' l ..en. e 13 - ft authority when we say that every incident connect° W to the disappearance of Chancellor Lansing is wellicnoolo a gentleman common W general body of the I)ubliC, is mistnko We opeak ° Itb authority when we say that every incident con necte to the disappearance of Chancellor a nsiog is WCI b lO a gentleman now living. Tue secret was lo c Vl n o n ra ofil:eadil n u Ilbd e j ll , by a distinguished citizen of this State, now cle ceilg ol whose name always commanded and does still onta r° o respect. The survivor was enjoined to publish all the A re d ea t 7 o cumstances ii when certain persons specified ive .8 condition has been fulfilled, and it is probable t° A ,„ a ve narrative calculated to startle the public will yet 1 ","7, 1 , lot to the world. There will then no longer be rea l t e 'te. a single doubt in reference to Chancellor Lansing 0 •i ord We do not feel ourselves at liberty to hint at the 0 & is ph thi+v o f of the revelation to be made, but this WO 'nay will be well authenticated, and that It will term f i tiii the most remarkable pave in flit Weierif et tlig rti mon of this eountfYi% '— •