The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-23 00:00:00

VELOCIPEDE FEATS IN GERMANY. A Berlin correspondent says :—" I have to report two feats of velocipedism, both of them extraordinary, though in different ways, but neither of them to be recommended for imitation. Several members of the Berlin Velocipede Club have lately been staying at Warmbrunn, near the j * ;ot of the Schneekoppe, which is the loftiest peak of the Giant Mountains, and 4,990 feet above the level of the s ea. The summit consists of a very sharp cone, about 600 feet high, and is ascended by a steep and rugged zigzag. Derr Langer, who enjoys a great reputation for his skill in riding the iron horse, sent up his machine without the knowledge of his friends, and then ascended the mountain in the company of three other gentlemen. As soon as he had reached the top, and before his friends are able to interfere, he vaults iota the saddle and rolls down the first portion of the zigzag. At the first turning he and his machine tumble over ; but, nothing daunted, he mounts again and rolls down the second portion, coming to similar grief at the end of it. Hero his friends overtake him, and oppose his apparently suicidal intentions with such good effect that at last be promises to walk as far as the Riesenbaude, at the foot of the cone. Here, however, be mounts again, and rushes off at a perfectly breakneck pace. The little brake applied to one of the wheels bad hardly any effect, and the machine flew over stones, watsr•channels, and bushes, so that he probably spent quite as much time in the air as on terra-firma. He afterwards effectually jammed the hind wheel with a piece of wood, and then things went on better. In this manner he reached Seydorf, at the foot of the Schneekoppe, in an hour and a half, a distance which requires about six hours, or rather more, on horseback. Herr Langer had three more falls in the course of his expedition, and at one or two particularly steep places he was obliged to dismount. His friends, who followed in his track, never expected to see him alive again ; but, nevertheless, he reached his destination without any other damage to himself or his machine than breaking one spoks of the hind wheel. Some other members of the Berlin Club went from the Josephinenhtitte to Warmbrunn, a distance of eleven English miles in 47 minutes. The first six miles and a half, which is all down hill, was done in 23 minutes. And now for the second feat, which in not so much one of velocipedism as one of raising the wind \Large posters announced last week that Maim strum, a Swedish velocipedist, would drive his machine along a tight rope gt feet from the ground. On Sunday afternoon, a few hundred people paid their money for the best places to see this wonderful performance, which was to take place near the Alsen Briicks, and a few thousand others looked on from outside. The exhibition that followed was certainly a bold one, not from a velocipedistic point of view, but as an attempt to swindle the Berlin public with such an arrant piece of humbug. Attached to the velocipede was a sort of pendulum, weighted with about 5 or 6 cwt., which made it almost physically impossible for the machine to diverge from its vertical position. ' To make the chances of an accident still more improbable, there were iron bars at inch side as a sort of balustrade, so that under no cir cumstances could the machine fall over altogether. It was then drawn along the slightlyinclined rope at an elevation of about thirty feet, by five or six men, by means of cords, and then allowed to descend slowly with the bold velocipedist upon it. The people were so enraged at the imposition that had been practised upon them that the exhibition was received with groans and yells, and the police had the greatest difficulty in saving the principal actor from being lynched on the spot. A little rioting following, in the course of which one unfortunate young man was mistaken for the real offender, and experienced some very rough treatment. Eventually, however, a small party of soldiers was called in to assist the police, and quiet was restored without any serious injury to life or limb." LAW AND POLICE. A Cotoszr, AND HIS BUTLICR.—CoIoneI Rich, of the Royal Engineers, the Government Inspector of Railways, and his son were summoned for having assaulted Michael Givast, butler. There was a cross summons taken against the butler for assault. The colonel Stated that the defendant had been his butler for some time, but had had notice to leave in consequence of drinking. On Sunday, at luncheon, he seemed in an unfit state to wait, and at dinner time became very violent. He complained of not having had a proper dinner in the kitchen, and the colonel ordered him to leave the house, and with the aid of his son, he was put out after a scuffle had taken place. It was proved that the butler had quarrelled with his wife in the course of the day, and was very violent. Michael Givast, in evidence, said that the food was not sufficiently good in the kitchen. Mr. Woolrych said that the butler had given sufficient cause for his master ti ccmplain. and was not master of his faculties on the day in question. Under all the circumstances, he should dismiss both summcnses. AN ELECTION ACCOUNT.-At the Liverpool Assizes the landlord of the Queen's Hotel, at \mbleside, brought an action against the Hon. Charles Howard and Mr. Mrshall, the candidates at the last election for East Cumbeland, to recover the balance of an account for hire of horses and carriages used during the election. The account was £63 and the amount in dispute only £l7 Bs. The counsel for the plaintiff stated, however, that more than £l,OOO was at stake, other claims being pending. The allowance fixed by the committees was two guineas a day per carriage and pair, the plaintiffs charging three guineas, 10s. for the driver being allowed in both cases. The ordinary charge is one guinea the car riage and ss. the driver. The plaintiffs said the carriages were wanted for very long journeys over some cf the steepest roads in England, and the jury held that the charges were reasonable, and gave a verdict for the amount claimed. FISH FOACHIVIS.-At the Town Hall, Brentford, two fishermen and a beerhouse-keeper, were brought up on remand charged with the unlawful possession of a quantity of carp. The prisoners borrowed a van late on Wednes day evening, and at six o'clock next morning were observed coming towards Brentford with the van. A constable noticed a wooden cistern in the van, and took the men into custody. It was found at the statian that 200 carp were in the wooden tank. No witnesses were called for the defence, and the Chair. man said the Bench had no doubt of the fish having been obtained unlawfully. They should inflict a fine of £5 each, or one months' imprisonment for unlawful posses sion. COMMERCIAL SLANDERS.—A case of some interest to commercial men has been tried at the Liverpool Assizes. The plaintiffs are the proprietors of the large drapery establishment in that town known as Compton House, and the defendant a haberdasher in Liverpool, was charged with asking two commercial travellers if they had heard the news that Compton House bad stopped payment. For the defence it was said that the travellers themselves had used the words. It appeared that at the time there were mischievous rumours afloat which had no foundation, and the plaintiffs were only anxious to give them public contradiction through the press. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs who said they would be satisfied with an apology. Damages, one farthing, Mr. Justice Hays refusing to certify the plaintiff's special jury. THE ROTHERHAM STEEPLE CHASE.—At Liverpool, on Saturday, an action was brought by Mr. Dale, a fishmonger, at Manchester, to recover damages for injuries received through the falling of a stand at the Rotherham steeple chases, of which the defendants were the committee. Mr. Dale went to Rotherham to see the races there, on March 25th, and paid for admission to the stand, which fell to the ground, injuring him severely. Mr. Manisty, for the defendants, contended that the stand was properly made, but that stays which had been placed there were taken away by sonae persons unknown to the committee. The judge therefore ruled that unles sit could be proved that the defen dants knew that the wrongful acts had been committed they were not liable, and, under these circumstances, the plaintiff was nonsuited. CONVICTION OF A CONSTABLE.-At Marylebone Yolice court, a constable, named Keely, 102 D division, was charged with violently assaulting another constable in the execution of his duty. It appeared that the prisoner had been drinking, and that his conduct was outrageous, and that he had previously been transferred from another division for a similar offence. The magistrate said he must deal severely with the case, and sentenced the prisoner to three months' hard labour. Eminent engineers have pronounced the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge unsafe. Timid travellers, in eon• sequence, are avoiding, passing over it. ANTLIUD FLOOR AT OXFORD. A curious dise...very has been made in one of the ti ree old houles in Et.4ul street, between .Kettall Hall and Trinity College, now .undergoing repair. Upon the removal of the flooring boards, in a room on the ground floor, having underneahh them a considerable depth of earth and loose rubbish, the original ffoor of the room, which is ten feet square, was brought to light. It was laid with "trotter bones," in a pattern of squares arranged angle-wise, within a border. The pattern was defined by bones about two inches square, rubbed or sawn to an even surface, and filled in with the small bones of sheep's legs, the knuckles uppermost., closely packed and driven into the ground to the depth of from three to four inches. It has been hastily and needlessly destroyed. Floors thus composed full two centuries since are now not unfrequently dis covered during the alteration of the timber and plaster edifices of -the early part of the seventeenth century. Oxford has 'upplied several example®. THE CATTLE DISESAE. A grave outbreak of eczema epizootka—of the so-called foot and mouth disease—among horned cattle in Brixton, Clapham, Camberwell, and other parts of Surrey, will, unfortunately, all too soon, test the working merits of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, passed shortly before the proro gation of Parliament. The epizootic, it is reported, has broken out with peculiar severity among the dairies of South London, and is extending with great rapidity. The Lancet says :—" The disease is more disastrous to the condition of the animals affected than to their life. The milk is early lost, the flesh wastes very quickly, and it is often long before the health of the affected animal can be reinstated. Eczema ep:zootica is highly contagious, spreading by means of the discharges given off by the eruption about the mouth and hoofs. It is by measures based upon this view of its mode of diffusion that the disease alone admits of effective control. A ques tion of much interest to the profession, in connection with the prevalence of the epizootic, is the prol,ability that the milk from cows affected with the disease maycommunicate an eczematous, or aphthous malady to man, particularly to children." STREET RUFFIANS. A most extraordinary letter appears in the Dail News, signed "H. II.," which will, perhaps, serve as a caution to parents against entrusting their children unadvised on errands into the streets. The correspondent vouches for the following state ment :—" Between twelve and one on Tuesday last, I was passing on business along the top of Leicester-square, when I noticed a big, gentlemanly-dressed man, about 50 years of age, evidently following and dodging a very pretty, neatly-dressed little girl, apparently about 9 years of age. Seeing the child run across the road, almost at the risk of her life, in consequence of the vehicles, and the fellow still following, overtaking, and accosting her, I determined to follow behind, if possible, unob served, and watch him. My suspicions of his infamous intentions were strengthened by the fact that he several times took hold of her cape, and endeavoured to lead her down some of the lowest slums of that locality. Each time, also, that they passed a low coffee-shop he brought her to a complete stop by taking hold of her cape, and endeavouring to pull her in. He also tried to get her into a low oyster-shop, a low sweetmeat-shop, and a fruit shop. At last I met with a policeman, whose number and initial I have, to whom I pointed the man out, together with my suspicions. Oh,' replied he, I can't inter fere ; he must know the child ; he looks a respectable gentlemen, and he wouldn't walk alongside her and take hold of her like that if he didn't know her ; any how, I can't interfere.' I replied, I believe differently, for she has run away from him several times. Will you watch his movements?' `Well,' replied he, we do hear o' some strange things sometimes, and cases of even little children being molested, certainly, but I can't take any notice.' During this colloquy the child, still with the fellow sticking close to her side, was fast getting out of sight ; fearing I might lose them in some of the neighbouring slums—for they were now near towards the Seven-dials—l ran after them. On the way I met another policeman, and told him, but with a similar result. Having followed them backwards and forwards several times through the streets, she at length got into Greek-street, Soho, where I saw her run across the road, and knock hard at a door, and the fellow then quickly retraced his steps. As soon as I could, without his perceiving me, I went to the house, where I found the child in a very terrified and agitated state, and in such a fainting condition that water had to be given to her. With the permission of the people in the house, I at once asked her whether she knew the gentleman that had been following her about. She replied, No, sir, I have come here to get away from him. I live at Fulham, and he has been following me about for more than an hour. He followed me all about last week, and got into the omnibus after me. He keeps nn asking me to go with him to his rooms, or to some coffee-shop ; and he says if I will go with him he will buy me a new dress, and give some money, and a beautiful gold ring off his finger, and he will take me to the All'anabra as well. I told him I had come out on ail errand for my mother, and could not go, and then he w a nted me to come out to-night, and meet him at half-past eight.' in answer to my further inquiry, she told me she was 11 years of age. On hear ing her statement I requested the people to take care of her while I followed the fellow, and try td find out who he was. In a few minutes I got in sight of him again, still loitering about. Here I saw him go up to a respectable, lady-like looking girl, about 15, who was looking in at a draper's window, and accost her. What he said of course I do not know ; but she looked at him very disdainfully, and walked sharply away. He then walked on a little further, and accosted another respectable-looking girl, apparently about 12 years of age, but she also refused his con versation, and went quickly away. lie went to another street, and seeing a little girl, certainly not more than 7, with her school-bag on her arm, and standing looking at some photographs, he crossed over to her, He stood close behind her for a minute or two, and talked to her, and then took hold of her arm and tried to lead her, but she broke from him and ran away. I lost sight of her through people passing, but I think she ran into a house a little higher. He followed up, and while standing opposite the place where I think she went in, evidently wondering which way she bad gone, some women came and tossed over him some dirty water. At this he became greatly annoyed, said it was a disgraceful thing that a respectable man could not walk along the streets without being insulted in that manner, and that he would go for a policeman. I now caught sight of a policeman at the bottom of the street just coming up, so I hurried towards him, told him as quickly as I could the circumstances, and asked him if he would demand his name and address, as I would try and take out a summons against him. I got, however, the same reply ;he could not, he was afraid, demand it. On arriving at the top of the street, the fellow—fur though dressed like a gentleman, I cannot call him one—peremp torily required the policeman to obtain for him the name of the women who threw the water over him. What did they throw it over you for ?' inquired the police man. I don't know,' was the reply. ' Well,' rejoined the policeman, ` this gentleman scenes to know what for; he ssys he has been watching you for more than an hour, and be says he has a charge to make against you, and he requests me to ask for your name and address.' He, of course, wanted to know what for, and, with very great re luctance, he eventually gave it on my giving mine, which, of course, I did. He then said he held a very good position. and would like to talk with me quietly about the matter. I, however, refused any further conversation with him, as I considered his proposals to little girls during the last two hours perfectly disgraceful, and it was only because I did not wish to expose him to any lynch law of the gathering crowd that I did not tell him publicly more, but I would certainly summon him if I could. I then re turned to Greek-street, Soho, and finding the little girl still there, I got the woman to bring her with me to Marlborough-street Police-court, where I endeavoured to get from Mr. Knox a summons against him. He, however, thought I had better see Messrs. Shaen and Roscoe, the solicitors to the Society for the Protection of Women and Children. We took the little girl there, and saw the managing clerk, but he too was of opinion that though there could not be the slightest moral doubt from the child's statement as to the fellow's atrocious intentions, yet nothing could be done because no crime had been per petrated." A man named Aile, of Leeds, has met with hi; death under very painful circumstances at Morecambe. Ha strolled along the sands in that treacherous locality until cut off by the in-coming tide, end then, although beckoned to stand his ground until a boat could be sent to him, per sisted in endeavouricg to make for the shore. The channel was deep, and the poor fellow went dcwn almost at once, and never rose again. His body has since been recovered. The outbreak of foot and month disease in Surrey and other parts of England is all the more dangerous, as it is not, it seems, to be wholly accounted for on the theory of infection. At a meeting of the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society on Thursday, Mr. Egerton, of Talton, stated that the complaint had broken out spontaneously in his herd. There bad not been a single herd of strange cattle near the place. The cattle herd at Tymo Park, too, had been assailed iu the same way. Leeds is to have a free public library. At a mcet- Lg of the Council of that torough on Thursday, it was re solved to give effect to the de( of a public meeting of the inhabitants held in March lest, by vppointing c•Aumitteo to establish a public lil racy. There wen some oppos:tion, and an amendment to the motiou was t.'reatened; 1 ut was declared in:Willis-Me; end the Town tTh•rk that if the CouLcil did not act in ercordance wi:h ths! resolution of the inhabitants, any individual ratepayer might put the Act in force. The " over zealous" character of the police has been illustrated at Rochdale. A "drunken countryman," in a piece t eing acted at Pablo's Circus, was going through his part, and causing the other actors to cry out " Police!" To the surprise of the performers and some of the audience two police-officers rushed into the ring, declarirg they could not permit a drunken man to interfere with the progress of the pet formance, collared the unfortunate actor, and dragged him out of the circus. Ate although Hickey loudly pro -I:stud he was not drunk, but acting the character, they kept him until Bellowed by Mr. Pablo, who, amid pro tracted roars of laughter from the assembled crowd, es• plained the plot of t 2 piece to the police. Iyho at length air Lip their charge. rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE REPRBSEIsITATIVE BODY OF THE TRISH CHURCH, The letter of the Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin is an important document—proving that if the disestablished Church be not speedily started on her new mission it will not be through the want of active Rad earnest labour on the part of her leading prelates. They are called on, they say," to repair a breach in one of the oldest Churches in Christendom. The State, which represented and acted for the laity, having withdrawn from all connection with the Church, it became a matter of necessity to devise means to reintroduce the lay element in a manner which should be in consonance with the principles and rules which had heretofore prevailed in her ecclesiastical constitution." Prece dents, they affirm, were not wanting which might have justified the Archbishops in summoning the laity as well as the clergy to consult on Church affairs. But they thought it well that the clergy should consider on their own behalf the expedients they deem necessary, and that the laity should themselves meet and prepare a scheme of representation. The clergy are summoned to meet in provincial synods—an institution which, though long obsolete, is capable, the Archbishops think, of being made useful in remodelling the represen tation of the parochial clergy in the General Synod. The proportion of the parochial clergy now called would be by no means an adequate representa tion at the present day. It will be the immediate duty of the provincial synods to settle this difficulty. Addressing themselves to the laity, the Arch bishops earnestly hope that such a scheme of repre sentation may be adopted as will render the representative body of the Church complete : " If we have been slow to proffer any suggestions as to the way in which the laity should arrange the scheme of their representation, this has arisen altogether from an apprehension lest we should appear to limit that freedom of action on their part which we sincerely desire to see them exercise ; and we are anxious to express in our own flame, in the name of the whole Episcopal body, and, as we are confident, in the name of the entire clergy, our readiness to cooperate in this work, by counsel, or by any other means in our power." The clergy and laity of the united diocese of Down, Connor, arid Dromore held a - meetirig r.t . Belfast on Friday, under the presidency of the Bishop. It was resolved that a diocesan synod, consisting of all the clergy of the diocese and an equal number of lay representatives, should meet on the 7th of September. ACts,.wnetner sne liability or tile Tromezva7 Aug MR. CHILDERS'S cnrisE. Mr. Childers goes off to-night in H.M.S. Agin court for a four weeks cruise in the Mediterranean. A correspondent of the United Service Gazette asks whether it is true that in these days of economy the First Lord of the Admiralty has " wasted " £1,500 of the public money in fitting up a suite of apartments for himself and his family on board the vessel. " This is a large sum," says the correspondent, "and one which seems inconsistent with the zeal for retrenchment which Ministers have proposed." He has probably forgotten that the same right hon. gentleman commenced his career as First Lord by offering to give up his official residence ; and a few months after the public was gratified to learn that some of its money had been expended in making a garden to the house. journals made some eatirleal remams on the whole affair, and shortly afterwards crowds assembled and broke the windows of the monastery by throwing stones. The police restored order at the time, but a disturbance took place at Moabit shortly after, on the occasion of a juggler's exhibition. The pollee had great difficulty in rescuing the unfortunate exhibitor from the fury of the crowd, and the Fathers were so disturbed by the affair which took place near the monastery that they resolved to leave until a high wall had been built round the sacred precincts. LANDLORD AND TENANT. Concurrently with this display of indignation at Omagh, something to much better purpose was going on at Crom Castle. The tenants of the Earl of Erne met to present a testimonial to his lordship, and to express their thanks for the happiness and content which his good deeds had brought his people. " There were no evictions on the estate ; no Scullyism," said one tenant. " No matter what his arrears might be, the tenant had leave to sell to the highest bidder." The Earl thought that his system of " tenant right" was as good as anything Parliament could devise : "I think, as far as it is possible, that every tenant on my estate may call his farm his castle for as long as he conducts himself honestly, quietly, and industriously. And should he wish to leave in order to find a better land lord, I allow him to sell his farm, provided he pleases me in a tenant. Therefore if any man lays out money on his farm judiciously, he is certain to receive back the money, hhoniti he wish to go elsewhere." Ills lordship must not, however, forget that this sysein is dependent on the good disposition of the landowner, and that such fair dealing is by no means universal in Ireland. ➢LORE DEMONSTRATIONS. Tho Orangemen keep up their excitement and indignation with undiminished spirit. Their last grand demonstration at Omagh, in Tyrone, mustered from '20,000 to 30,000 people—so says the Express. The Marquis of Hamilton and Mr. Arch doll, M.P., were preSent; but of course the clerical gentlemen made the strong speeches and moved the fiery resolutions. The clergymen relieved them selves of much feeling touching " Gladstone's trea chery," tho " betrayal by English statesmen," and the "desertion by English Protestants." Finally. the Rev. H. Henderson expressed his confidence that the loyalists of Omagh could chase the Fenian hordes from one end of Ireland to the other. It is pleasant, however, to learn that this very unpromising beginning ended in a resolution to support a Protestant sovereign, and to labour by all legitimate and constitutional means to promote the interests and liberties of Ireland. TUE NORWICH ELECTION COMMISSION. The Commissioners investigating the charges against the borough of Norwich have not obtained a very great deal of information from the agents of the several candidates. The fact is admitted that the Liberals bought the show of hands ; but, with this exception, both the Liberals and Conservatives declare that the last election was pure so far as the Candidates and the head party men were con cerned. The Liberal agent, Mr. Corks—the gentleman on whose evidence we have already commented—stated on Friday that there were 70t , corrupt voters in Norwich, many of whom he Lelieved the Conservative Itatt " times." But the ' Liberals (he declared) did not lay out a farthing improperly. Another Liberal agent spoke of spending £2:3 for protecting Liberal meetings. fie also was positive in his assertion that nothing inipropr had taken place. Evidence much to tl.e same effect was given by the solicitor who managed affairs for Sir Henry Stracey, the Conservative can,Fdate. The Conservatives, he said, had no time for canvassing. did not so much as think of obtaining the show of hands improperly, and had not within his actual knowledge committed bribery. He gave orders that no voter should be employed. Of course he heard of houses in which men were ready waiting to take money for their votes ; but he was not aware of any illegal practices on the part of the Conservatives. It was suggested that he had shut his eyes to things going on around him, and he admitted that he took very little interest in politics; but he declared that he made no inquiries about corruption because he had never intended to corrupt the borough. THE•. BISHOPS. It was at first asserted that none of the sick and infirm prelates would avail themselves of the Resignation Bill; but now one after the other they begin to " fall in." The John B ull is informed thai the Bishop of Bath and Wells, whose diocese has been administered by a commissary bishop for some months past, will avail himself of the new measure. It is at least understood that Bishop Chapman will cease to officiate as -com missary after Christmas. The same journal regrets to hear that the illness of the Bishop of Lichfield has necessitated the postponement of the Arai diaconal Conference, at Derby, which was fixed for Wednesday. According to the opinion of medical advisers a short rest is all that is needed to restore his lordship. INSOLVENT ASSURANCE COMPANIES. A memorial from the policy-holders in the Indian .ranch of the Albert Life Assurance Company proximatel' brought about the collapse of that office. This document set forth that the Indian business had been the mainstay of the company for many years past. The insurances in force connected with that department amounted to 2i millions sterling ; the annual revenue from premiums and interest being £120,000. But notwith standing this groat financial success, the in terests of the Indian policy-holders were wholly unrepresented, and in fact the directors of the Indian business had no shares in the company. The funds had been withdrawn from Calcutta without any reason being assigned. The advertisements con taining statements of the reserved fund had ceased to appear. In view of these and other facts, the memorialists declared that the Indian clients had lost confidence in the concern, and the fullest expla nations were demanded as the only means of restoring the company's position. The explanation came. The office suspended payment. The discuk.sion as to the " something" which must be done to prevent such calamitous occurrences for the future seems generally in favour of greater publicity. The Railway News gives its opinion in favour of applying to assurance companies pro visions relative to their accounts similar to those which have been passed in regard to railways. The Times City editor still contests this proposal, arguing that people should not look to a West-end Government office, like the Board of Trade, to take the enterprise of the country intolead ing strings. There ought to be a commercial organi sation to supply independently what is wanted. The writer maintains that any formal statistical returns would be useless, or worse. Then, it may be asked, why publish reports at all ? The statement of the Albert Company informs the public that during 1867 new policies were issued for £644,085, that the premium income was f.:317,033, and the payment for claims ,220,190. This is all. Nothing is said as to the expense of conducting the business, as to the amount of funds at the beginning or the end of the year, or as to the net issue of the twelvemonths' transactions in increasing or lessen ing the assets. If assurance companies cannot be compelled to publish more than this, the public might almost as well be kept in the dark altogether. The Insurance Record, in endeavouring to calm the panic which has naturally followed this catastrophe : makes an important statement. It points out that this is the first great crash in the history of life assurances. Two companies have previously failed ; but they were of small proportions. " This in itself should help to soothe the fears of alarmists. But we have it in our power to go much further than this, and to state distinctly and explicitly that, with one or two excep tions only, the whole of the life offices of this country are in a thoroughly sound and solvent posi tion." The shareholders are liable to the extent of £l7 a share, and it is even doubtful, as the company was founded ixllB.3tLiincl _llQt regulated by any COINAGE. Mr. Hubbard has written another letter on Mr. Lowe's proposition to make a charge for coining; but really it seems time to inquire cui bono ? The Bank director does not contest the Chancellor of the Exchequer's theory as a whole. Mr. Hubbard grants that there ought to be a charge for minting, and that it ought to be levied upon the owner of the bullion; but maintains that the amount of this mintage ought to be just as much, and no more, as will cover the cost of coinage. The main theorem is conceded ; the rest is matter of detail—important indeed ; but of small interest to the general public. TILE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE. There is a flaw in the new cable to America, and the electricians have refused to certify it as a per fectly sound one. But it appears that the fault is not of a nature to interfere with business. Under the original bargain between the French Cable Com pany and the Construction Company, the former agreed to pay £90,000 in fully paid-up shares thirty days after the landing of the cable at St. Pierre, and a further £20,000 in six months after the landing at Duxbury. In consequence of this fault, however, the £20,000 will be left in the hands of the French company for two years, the constructing parties guaranteeing to pick up and repair the flaw, if needful, during that period. THE HARVEST. The crops are just now being gathered in, and the farmer is learning, for better or worse, the amount of profit his year's work is likely to bring to him. Mr. James Sanderson, the well-known writer on agricultural topics, expresses an opinion that the harvest, on the whole, will be a satisfactory one, and that, notwithstanding the poor wheat crop, the yield of the season will be found superior to last year. Of the cereals nothing very encouraging can of course be said, except that there is abundant straw. But wheat is not so bad as might have been expected from a frosty May and a wet, sleety June. The ear is very poor, with a soft touch ; many of the plants are deficient ; smut is very prevalent ; and blight has destroyed a great deal. The deficiency on the average per acre is estimated at four bushels, or 13 per cent, a yield 23 per cent. under that of last year. The large area under cultivation will, how ever, make up a great portion of the loss. Barley is very poor; oats are worst of all. Potatoes, however, are average; peas bulky t • the root crop is invariably good ; and pastures have yielded a "double feed." So that the stock produce is abundant, and will compensate sufficiently for the ro or cereals. In concluding his letter on this sub ject, Mr. Sanderson calls attention to the remarkable disparity between the price of bread and butcher's meat. It is an anomaly, however, which he thinks cannot long exist. In all probability bread will slightly advance, and meat get lower in price, "as it is only reasonable to suppose that if the short supply of fattening food last year increased the price of meat, the abundant supply this year will cause a cor responding reduction." HARVEST CARTING BY STEAM. The Messrs. Howard, of Bedford, have found yet another use for steam power in farming work. A steam-engine, first employed for ploughing purposes, is now used also for drawing waggon-trains for corn. This discovery is of much importance. It has previously been proved that ploughing, breaking the land, and drilling can be done by steam; but the gathering in of the harvest compelled farmers to keep up their staff of horses. But now the missing link has been supplied, and agricultural studs can be reduced all the year round, saving from £2O to 25 . a year on the keep of each, besides the prime cost RECIPROCITY. The _Railway News understands that the new treaty of reciprocity between Canada and the United States has been fully discussed and agreed upon between Mr. Fish, the Secretary of State, and the Hon. Mr. Rose. There is good reason to believe that on the reassembling of Congress steps will be taken for completing the arrangements and obtain ing the sanction of the respective Governments to the treaty. Almost everywhere in the States does this measure meet with favour. This renewal of a tre;ty which the Americans themselves suspended may in sonic degree be regarded as the beginning of a new commercial policy. INTERNATIDNAL COURTJ'SIES. Another link in the chain of good-fellowship now being formed between the little kingdom of Belgium and the United Kingdom was completed on Friday, on the occasion of distributing the prizes won at Wimbledonby English volunteers, under the auspices of the Anglo-Belgian Prize Committee. Of the 1341 given in prizes, King Leopold contributes annually a sum of £l5O. There had been 450 entries, and every thing in connection with the competition had passed off successfully. Col. Thompson referred to the forth coming visitof English volunteers at Lidge, and stated that although the citizens wished the volunteers to come in as large numbers as possible, there would be a limit to the distribution of medals and invitations to the King's banquet to 600, and they had already received upwards of 400 applications fcr tickets. The Lord Mayor presented the prizes, and referred to the rifle movement as the step which had proved the cordial feeling existing between all classes of people in this country towards their Belgian brother hood. Altogether, the proceedings were of a most enthusiastic character. PROSPECTS OF EMIGRANTS. The Spectator is publishing a series of articles on the " Working Classes in the United States," by a gentleman who was specially sent out to investigate the subject. This writer found that working men who go to the States have to bear much hostility against England for a while, and that few of them who are not thoroughly settled like the change. But after four or five years' residence our countrymen would appear to become more American than the Americans themselves. The English mechanic does not gain much by emi grating, except a good education for his children—in which respect the new country is far ahead of the old one. His wages are higher, but the cost of living rises in proportion. The unskilled labourer ; however, gains a great increase of wages, comfort, and liberty. The agricultural labourer gains every' thing. artorsz. The Field and _Land and Water are in dm' puts touching a question of the highest moment, Wha t kind of a grouse season is it ? The latter journal's " predictions have been fully borne out." The bags are, indeed, not so heavy as they were wont to be in time of plenty; but taking into consideration the dire mortality caused by the grouse disease, the sport has been better than the most sanguine could have anticipated. The Field, on the other hand, declares that this year's grouse -shooting is wretched. The week's experience in the North hal been bad, and there is nothing better to be hoped of the southern campaign. The question ought not, one would think, to give rise to much difficulty; bill as these eminent authorities are at variance , it is not for the ordinary mind to decide. Perhaps, if there be little grouse-shooting, our legislators will have more time, in the language of the Queen's Speech to " gather that practical knowledge and experience which form th e so lid basis of legislative aptitude." MORMONISM% Mr. Frederick Whymper, who is "doing " the Pacific Railway in the columns of the Field, has of course spent a week in .Mormondom. Many people at Utah, he says, expect that before Brigham Young's death he will receive " revelations " commanding im portant changes and that the abolitio n of p ol yg am y will perhaps b e one of them. All the efforts of the United States peoplowill probably not suffice to extin• guish this evil; but it may readily die out. The women of Utah are becoming more and more opposed tc polygamy ; and the influence of the Pacific Railway is not likely to diminish their aversion. " Young Mormon women, a tt en ding, as they sometimes d o (under penalty of being cut off from the Church), the ball 3 and entertaiments of Gentiles,' seem as tonished nt the deference shown them. That a man should bow to them— should consider it a favour to be allowed to go fos to fetch for to carry' any trifle for them—is a new thing." Utah might be a happy State without this vice, for the people are industrious and undeniably temperate. FOREIGN NOTES. A BERLIN CONVENT. A convent has been opened at Moabit, the north- western suburb of Berlin. The ceremony took place on the 4th of August, and the speech of the day was delivered by Herr Miller, who directs the affairs of the Catholic societies at Berlin. He said that Dominicans and Fran ciscans met there in friendly co-operation and opened a place for religious exercise at a time a fanatic storm had arisen against convents in Austria,. The Prussian Government had only imitated its former tolerance i permitting them _moo lovefit; there. Whet Berlin THE PORT OF OSTIA. Some interest has been excited by the opening of the new port of Ostia. It was once the emporium of Roman commerce, but gradually fell into decay. In the sixth century it was superseded by the port of Civita Vecchia. The great accumulation of mud at the bar of the Tiber which has been going on for a long time, and the pestilent character of the Ostian marshes, have discouraged any attempt to undertake works on the spot. Of late, how ever, a great deal has been done in the way of draining, and the docks will be commenced. It is expected that the navigation for large ships will be practicable in November. VIE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE. A second warning has been given to the Gazette of St. Petersburg, a German paper. This is attributed to the opposition which it has sliewn to the introduction of the Rus sian language into the tribunals of the Baltic provinces. The Germans in those provinces are greatly displeased at the proposed change, which they believe is the prelude to a complete reorganisation of the tribunals on the base of the new Russian system. NOVA SCOTIA. The annexationiats are still busy in Nova Scotia, though they are divided as to the best course of proceeding. One party advocates a direct annexation movement involving complete severance from the mother country. The other party prefer an anterior policy of independence, leading, they think, to the desired result—incorporation with the United States. THE AMERICAN HARVEST. While our own food prospects are being anxiously dis cussed, and bread is actually rising, encouraging news reaches us from the other side of the Atlantic. The New Yo i rk Tribune, which gives a full account of the condition of the crops, declares there is abundance for man and beast. Millions of bushels of wheat, according to this authority, will sell for a dollar or a little more a bushel. Potatoes may not bring over a dollar a barrel, and peaches may be bought for 25 cents a peck. It is to be hoped that these pleasant anticipations may be fully realised. COLORADO. Several exploring parties are now passing down the rivers of Colorado, which contains some of the finest scenery in the United States. Valleys named by the miners "parks," are embosomed in the Rocky Moun tains. Mr. Samuel Adams has been descending from Breckenbridge, with a party of eleven men and four boats. The river fell 2,000 feet in forty miles, being nearly all rapids. After passirg the rocky cation of Blue River, which took him down 230 feet in a mile and a half, he entered a magnificent park, which he called Pacific Park. Ile reports that the country possesses great agricultural and mineral resources. TILE INDIANS IN KANSA% Representative Clarke, of Ransas, had a conference with the Osa;o chiefs, and has laid the result of it before the Indian Commissioner. Mr. Clarke urged that the Department should at once ascertain the wishes of the Indians with respect to their removal South and the sale of their present reserve to the Government for the use of the white settlers only. The whites are already nettling in great numbers on the Indian territory, and thus the aborigines are anxious to move southwards. The Com missioner has promised to investigate the matter, and sub• mit the facts to Congress. LAND SLIDE IN COLUMBIA. The town of Stockport, in Columbia County, has been the scene of great excitement . on account of a gigantic land slide. The place where the phenomena occurred was five miles north of the city, and comprises nearly five acres. The movement was very gradual, - and the surface of the earth undulated like the Waves of the ocean. No noise was heard until the moving mass struck the base of the intervening hill, where there was a dull rumbling sound, resembling distant thunder, and a quivering sensation like a slight 'Shock of earthquake. The earth caved in to a distance of over eighty feet, and the surface; as indicated 1,3- trees and fences, moved over a space of over-600 feet. TIIE SUSQUEHANNA RAILROAD, The Susquehanna Railroad war, which has been going on actively for some time past, has now, it appears from the American papers, assumed most serious proportions. The friends of the present management declare that the quarrel originated from a refusal of the Susquehanna Company to enter into a combination with the Erie Company to transport no coal over their road except that furnished by mines with which the Erie is now under contract, thus perpetuating the coal monopoly. Whatever the origin, the quarrel is now a very desperate one. President Ramsey ha% a force of 1,000 men at the Bainbridge Tunnel, while Admiral Fisk has about the same number encamped at a short distance, each party being determined to retain passe sign of the road by force if necessary. Appeals having been made to the Governor of the State, in apprehension of a collision, a regiment has been called out and ordered to the scene of strife. It is rumoured that the Pennsylvania and Delaware and Lackawana Railroad Companies have offered Ramsey a loan of a million dollars each to carry on the war. Mr. Fisk was arrested in Albany on the 10th of August on charge of conspiracy, but was admitted to bail. THE CUBAN INSURRECTION. The Cuban Junta iu New York has received despatches from President Cespedes, which they describe as of great importance. Puerto Principe was to be attacked on the 15th, the attacking force waiting for the artillery, which was only just landed. General Quesada had in his com mand 7,000 men, well armed and supplied, besides 8,000 more armed only with the machet.l. News from another quarter, however, informs us that 20,000 Spanish troops are to be sent to Cuba in September. A COLONIST'S VIEW OF TILE NEW ZEALAND WAR. It is as well that all sorts of opinions should be heard on difficult subjects. A colonist, writing from Hawke Bay . , New Zealand, says that the two parties —war and peace—are about evenly balanced. For his own part his sympathies are with the natives, who believe that they are only fighting for their rights. He thinks them a fine race of men, "fully equal to what the Scotch were in the days of Bruce, and superior to the population of the Scotch Highlands some fifty years since." The natives still hold the best of the land, and are unwilling to part with it for a few pence per acre to the Provincial Governments, who lock it up in sheep-runs of from 30,000 to (50,000 acres. The "land question" seems fated to be a source of perplexity whether in the Antipodes or in the Sisier Island. (From the Anglo-American Times.) It is reported that in consequence of the recent aetioe taken by the President, the Conservative Republicans of Mississippi will unite with the Democrats, and nominate Mr. Dent as Governor on the regular Democratic Ticket. By mail the news was that several prominent offiee.holders were about to be suspended for taking active part in the Dent movement, and surprise had been expressed that the President had not signed the papers announcing the re movals on his recent visit to Washington. The tone of the cable despatches is to the effect that the President had sot his face against the Conservative movement, and there is no doubt that he did express sym pathy with the Radical branch of the Republican party in a late interview. It is not improbable that General Grant has been moved to this action by the success of his enemy, Andrew Johnson, in Tennessee, who will probably be returned as United States Senator to the next Congress. The Hon. Bailie Peyton, however, is to run against him, and Colonal Peyton will, it is believed, use all the influence ho can muster, which is considerable, and carry on the canvass with more than ordinary vigour, as personally he hada quarrel with Andrew Johnson in 1864, then military governor, who, by military force, broke up the M'Clellan meeting inaugurated by Col. Peyton. Andy John son at the time was on the Republican ticket for Vice-Presi dent, and this arbitrary use of his power to prevent any elec toral ticket to be run against him in Tennessee has not been forgotten by Colonel Peyton. It is only natural to suppose that General Grant must heartily desire the de feat of Andrew Johnson, and a political movement which has forwarded his views is not one likely to recommend itself to the President. The New York Herald regrets as an unwise interference his open avowal of sympathy with the Mississippi Radicals. It gives him credit for good intentions, while saying that he is inexperienced, and a mere instrument in the hands of Radical politicians and of the Cabinet. But all this is mere conjecture. A telegram, however, from Now York on the 14th inst., says that great discontent has arisen in the South from the course of the President favouring the Radicals; and that this discontent finds vent in shooting "niggers." But the action of the President does not show an inclination to interfere, as ho is reported to have declined to do so on the petitions forwarded by prominent citizens of Missis sippi, asking Lim to remove General Ames, who, they asserted, had used the influence of his command to forward his election to the Senate. The campaign in Texas is likely to be exciting between General Davis and Governor Hamilton. Dr. Boulds Baker runs on the ticket, with the latter for Lieut.-Governer. Running is the only word to describe the action of both on the outbreak of the war, for they then fled together as staunch . Unionists from a not agreeable fate, and now they will rue together for the Executive power. Gen. Davis favours the immediate division of Texas into other States, but immediate action is opposed by Governor Hamilton, who thinks it ought not to be attempted till warranted by ipflux of popula tion. Colonel Haynes, chairman of the Republican Com mittee of the regular organization, has appealed against the Houston organization, which nominated General Davis, and he publishes a letter of Governor Pease, who says that Grant had assured him he would not interfere with the Texas election. The - Sappho, with her owner, Mr. Douglas, and the friends he brought o7er froth New York, crossed from Queenstown to Cowes, where they were immediately made hon. members of the Royal Yacht Club. The pas sage from New York was very fine, the breezes being light nearly all the way, and a heavy fog lying on the water. Some of the runs made by the Sappho were extra ordinary ; indeed, we believe, that in oue day she logged more miles than the Cuba, which was crossing about the same time, did throughout the voyage. The Sappho is very heavily sparred, as may be gathered from the fact that her main boom is 80 feet long. This answered for a smooth passage, but in a heavy sea way the weatherly qualities of the yacht would be severely tested. She has, however, made the most extraordinary passage ever per formed, and after being fairly tested she has shown a mar vellous speed in ocean sailing, whatever may be the result in the English Channel. The schooner Daunt less ran for the Emperor Napoleon's Cup, starting last Mon day from Cherbourg across the Channel to the Nab Light off Portsmouth, and back to Cherbourg. France was re presented by her crack yacht the Mystere. She, however, was completely beaten. The race between the Dauntless and the Fgeria, successful in gaining prizes in the Royal Yacht Squadron and Royal Victoria Yacht Club Regattas, was close, the difference being but a few minutes in fa vour of the Egerict, but both were badly beaten by the Guinevere. The wind was light, and the Dauntless, like the Sappho, is better calculated for an ocean race than to compete in such narrow waters as the Channel. The Woman's Suffrage Meeting at New York, at the Bureau, on Aug. 3, was characteristic of the sex. Mrs. Norton, after inflicting upon those present the letter of a Mrs. Love, notwithstanding the opposition of Miss Anthony, who first objected to anything from Ithaca being "aired" there, and again that it was irrelevant as it had more to do with Catholicism and schools, announced the present to be her last appearance there, as a relative had died and left her a comfortable sum, provided she dropped all connection with the movement. " Going to sell yourself," angrily exclaimed Miss Anthony. "Fact or irony?" asked Mrs. Wilbour. "Irony," answered the cowed Mrs. Norton, who proceeded to show that woman was su perior to man. Finally the women resolved—" That men take our places in the prisons, and at the criminal dock also, and receive the punishment for our crimes, as well as tho compensation for our labours, and the credit of our graces." Mrs. Blake dropped with great violence on the head of the sago Horace Greeley, who employed a reporter to describe their dresses at their last meeting, thus leading them to infer that he was growing emulous of the reputation of a Jenkins. To mark their disapprobation, she proposed amidst groat ex citement, that in endeavouring, by malicious reports and violent denunciations, to crush the cause of Woman's Suffrage, Horace Greeley is false to all the philanthropic professions of his life, and a traitor to every pledge he has ever given of devotion to liberty and the cause of human progress. Mr. Greeley found so many supporters that the resolution was floored, while all admitted him to be wrong. It must, too, be reassuring to that gentleman that Mrs. Blake did not propose to assassinate him, though "it was the custom of the West to shoot the editors, and let the subordinates go." Miss Anthony said that people looked on these meetings as gala days, and if the ladies had a social time, a little chit-chat, it went into the papers when there was a dearth of news as serious business. To Mrs. Wilbour's remark, that Mrs. Norton was grave enough, she answered " Yes, grave enough to scare anybody." It is evident that the matron and the maid will have it out on a platform before long. Evidently feeling that their mode of transacting business was not likely to raise their business qualifications in the estimation of the public, Miss Anthony added, " though our talking may be re garded by some as rather desultory, we aro all the while educating the people, and adding converts to the cause." The proposed change of the seat of Government from Washington to St. Louis has excited the inhabitants of the latter city, where a National Convention is proposed to bo called, the difficulty being whether the invitations would be generally responded to. In view of this it was suggested to start the question at the Commercial Convo cation, which was to meet at Keokuk on the 7th August. This was the day of the eclipse, and when the question is sprung on the surprised meeting there will be a darkness over the land, if the time be properly chosen. A great earthquake is also predicted to occur early in August, and if it came off simultaneously a startling impression at least would be made. St. Louis is believed to contain 220,000 inhabitants, the blocks being 2,000, with 24 building lots of 25 feet frontage each ; but one , sixth more space remains to bo laid out, giving a total of 55,992 lots within the city limits. HEALTH OF NEW YORK.—There is an elaborate paper in the Tribune, August 5, occupying a space which would about cover a page of the Londoc Times " On the Health of New York," showing that the population of the city has been greatly over-estimated, that the death rates have therefore been false, and that the tenement house system has rendered Now York perhaps the most un healthy city iu Christendom. The general impression is that there aro not less than 1,000,000 of inhabitants on Manhattan Island, and numerous estimates go beyond this; but the Tribune works out a total not exceeding 800,000. The deaths for the year 1863 were 23,439, which calcu lated on a million, gives a rate of 25.45, and this was the actual return made by the president of the Board of Health. Calculated, however, on 800,000, the rata is over 31, and it is the accuracy of the latter the Tribune sets itself to prove. By over-ost . mating the population, and conse quently arriving at a comparatively low death rate, the Board of Health has not only lulled itself into security, but satisfied the population that a great improvement had been effected, and that New York hold a comparatively high place in the health average of cities. In consequence efforts have been remitted which would otherwise have been made, the streets remain as filthy as ever, the tene ment system has been permitted to grow, and the lower parts of the town have become more densely thronged than any city of Europe. It has been found that diseas e and death increase, other things being equal with the density of population, and notwithstanding tho great ad vantages of Manhattan Island in a sanitary point of view, there is no higher death-rate than in these tenement houses. In London, St. George's-in-the-East, has been found the most unhealthy distriet. It numbers 6,169 houses, with eight inhabitants in each, yet, although inhabited by the poorest of the population of London, tne tenement houses of Now York are far more unhealthy. Dr. Cyrus Ramsay asserts the death-rate in these houses to be at least one in twenty, that is fifty in a thou sand, and he adds if there be any error it is that the pro portion of deaths is larger than described. By working out two separate calculations the writer through one arrives at the death rate of New York as 31.22, and then as 31.46. The last return of the English Registrar-General for the week ending Aug. 14, was at the rate of 26 per 1,000 in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 20 in Dublin, 22 in Bristol, 25 in Birmingham, 35 in Liverpool, 35 in Manches ter, 34 in Salford, 27 in Sheffield, 25 in Bradford, 27 in Leeds, 31 in Hull, 27 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 25 in Glasgow. In Paris for the same week it was remarked 23, as being very low ; in Berlin 38, and in Vienna 33. The writer in the Tribune alludes to a mode of calculation in Prussia which the English Registrar-General does not seem to touch on, viz., thats h t i i oh still-born children u eooont forare cal culatedthe in the death - rate, which high rate there. Comparing the estimated rate in New York at 25.45 per thousand, the citizens were justified in considering the figures satisfactory, the more so as in 1855 the death rate was 34 ; but it is from this dream of security that the writer in the Tribune has set himself to rouse his follow-citizens. The census will be taken next year, and it will then be conclusively shown whether the Tribune be right or not, while we believe there is but too much truth in the result at which it has arrived through its elaborate figures. General Prim is a true Spaniard, and it requires but little scratching to find out what that is. Wherever they have colonized, wherever they have ruled, a state of lawlessness and cruelty, of treachery and falsehood have supervened. It is in vain to hope for better things from a change, it is vain to anticipate improvement from expe rience, for whothor tho oupportoro of a dospot or with a cap of liberty aloft it is the same cold-blooded atrocity. Even the semblance of a Carlist rising has been sufficient to disclose Prim's character, and the style of men who achieved the revolution which dethroned Isabella. Prim's orders were to shoot everybody instantly, and such in structions are but too congenial to the national tempera ment not to be fully executed. A case so atrocious was told in the Times of Wednesday as to be almost incredible, considering that no provocation had yet been given, the blood was not excited by strife, nor the commissions of Prim's officers endangered. A colonel, named Don Josti Casalis, shot eight men peacefully seated in a grove, who, never dreaming of danger, welcomed the approach of the soldiers. As is the habit in the country each carried his fowling-piece, and because the guide, whom the colonel had pressed into his service, had not in formed him that armed men had gone that way, he ordered the lad to be instantly shot as well. This guide proved to be the son of ono of Prim's moot trusted friends, whose ire was naturally considerably excited. No doubt Prim will be highly delighted when he finds a story that damns him self and his Government circulating throughout the civi lised world, and he will learn to appreciate the value of such a brave and judicious officer as Don Josd Casalis, who was promoted to the rank of colonel for this exploit. Tho truth is, that the race which presumes to rule others abroad, is unfitted to rule themselves at home ; and from this sample of how they deal with the peasants of their own country, we may form a pretty accurate idea of what their proceed in g s are in Cuba. It is said that Jordan has accumulated a considerable number of Spanish prisoners, and he has let the Spaniards clearly understand that he will retaliate if their ruthless executions be persisted in, which has had a considerable eff ct in checking their cruelties. The conscription in Cuba has commenced, all men being liable between 20 and 25, and 15,000 conscripts have already been obtained in Trinidad. Reports of Spanish victories are even less re liable than the reports of Spanish defeats, and there are plenty of both. This, however, appears to be the case, that nothing has yet been accomplished to suppress the insurrection, which is as lively as ever. OccußnmEs.—Mr. Curtis, a banker and lawyer, - - of Boston, assaulted a Mr. Churchill in a train when 011 the way from that city to the country with a carpet and small toy waggon, which the latter gentleman place so as to incommoda the former. Mr. Curtis, on expreesi his annoyance, was answered with the not very peitiee n but somewhat impertinent re mark, " You are no gee tle. man." Mr. Curtis's reply was even l e ss pe r tinent and WI impertinent, for, as h o sa id i n t es ti mon y, '• be took bell ie f , Churchill's nose and turned it in a moderato and elit e : manner," whereon Churchill called him a scoundrel! wisdom of bestowing this epithet on a man who was readY with his personal liberties, and had j us t accurately or; veyed the situation of his proboscis, was, to say the le as j of it, doubtful ; for, in reply, he received a well-plan te blow on the bridge, which simultaneously taPPed well-planer, Churchill's claret and smashed his spectacles. Mr. Cur," - was brought up for assault, and the judge, after saYi n ,„'" some hard things, sentenced him to two months' imPri'l, - rnent. On the sth August a serious lot eccurred at "' - c i bile, where a large meeting of negroes, whohadessemble„, to celebrate the return of the Republic candidate to C4 O gross, were attacked, three negroes being killed and wounded, as wall as four police-officers and three 0 ": 110 white men wounded. The negroes talked of burning,,w, effigy of Col. Mann, the Democratic candidate for (Are gross, and the Mayor and other Republican leaders W e t i r earnestly entreated to postpone the meeting. Th e e d gather d barrels were, however, lighted, and the negroeseater a in a crowd of over 1,000, all more or less armed. It is sa . o, that accid en t a lly a white man trod on the foot of a negrrid. when a pi s t o l shot was heard, and firing became g e° %)3, This was the report given by the General Press DesP a- ,, , d although not very int e lligible. Before the fi r i ng the creart dissolved like m e lti ng snow , a w i se proceeding-on tits Cout —the folly being having assembled there et all. „ e a l e human nature is governed by two I mu l se s—the one _7, to like a fool, to rush into danger ; the p other, like a c"" rush out of it— the stronger influence being the l a tter. , o , ten minutes there was a dead silence in that part of The bile, broken only by the tread of white patrols :1 1 i ° steamboat Cumberland exploded her boilers on the vna river on Saturday last. Twenty persons wore killed, ' the boat blown to pieces. BUDGET OF PEESONAL.—SitJ. Anderson, C 0..- a sea dor of the French Cable expedition, arrived at Qllee ll-- „ ° ;ty, last Saturday in the China.—Mrs S. L. Cross, of Lake,-iti, Wisconsin, who owns some real property in that vic tr , requested to be allowed to work out her road tax in son, and she was permitted to do so —Olive Logan to be the best swimmer at Long Branch.—Colonel p, Wilson, of the celebrated Fire Zouaves, has bee n :, pointed an inspector in the New York Custom Li cal , S tt ' te d Charles R. Buckalew, it is announced, is to bo by the Democrats for the State Senate of Pennsylvao`..or, Gen. F. T. Dent, and F. D. Grant, the President S e tte have been visiting Niagara Falls.—Ex-Senator Lafelere. S. Foster, of Connecticut, who was for several year s n r t ed siding officer of the United Slates Senate, has acc ep t the position of Professor of the Yale Law Schee ], is is Mudd has got back nearly all his old practice, but b , e „oog bad health.—The Elmira Advertiser says there is a ,Ji c le• lady in that place so refined that instead of saying: ) , of guard she says African Sentinel.—William icetecexrio Easton, has been appointed Chairman of the PenneY,,, l j o ie Democratic Committee.—Mr. Thornton, the British P• gig ter, is quite a lion in North-eastern Massachusetts• far odd looking English coach was taken by the nativ es o i o t• hearse.—Secretary Boutwell has confirmed the al? 0 ," meet of Hiram Smart as deputy naval officer at 1 305° ,,,a George J. Ti. Hawley, Charles Russ, Frank Olmste d, H. Bromley and son of Hartford, and Stephen N‘r•l c e li• of Waterbury, have gone for a six weeks' trip t° lee foreia.—Although Vice-President Colfax does no t re nz ift o as many gifts as President Grant, the business he do es is not without its value; previous to leaving Denv er , :ola• presented with a pitcher made of Colorado silver an"ri is -- Mr. R. S. Ayer (Wells Republican) has been electe(ie. the First District, Virginia, instead of D. M. Nor te° eV diana Republican, coloured), as heretofore reportedc re, Hon. James M. K a v ana ugh, Democrat, has b e , e goo' elected delegate to Congress from the Territory De pto tans.- Sing-Man and Choy-Ch e w, th e Chinese Ine r f le aso now in Chicago, had a reception at the Sherman 1-'Ol on Thursday, Aug. 5. They were to leave for New - " rr iaeci Monday night, Aug. 9. General Meade and family li d o ill at Cape Mary, August 6. The general was Isere° io bi o the evening, and a grand dress ball was to be gil eil gos o honour the next night at the Stockton Hotel. dot Maybaum, a merchant of Newark, New J erS l,', , g S ' mortgaging his place for a sum far beyond its Old/ thered some $lO,OOO from his neighbours and absce e t.ii iroa Roobling, the engineer, left to his wife and c ol ' oil , $lOO,OOO dollars each, to the Widows' Home a° l , g ad dren's Home in Trenton, New Jersey, $15,0 00 o ° l l ost' to Charles W. Swan, his foreman, $30,600, wit h 3 r 041 that his sons should take him into the firm.—ile v • °. . 1:0 Prime, one of the editors of the New York Obserarefor gone on a journey round the world, by way of S . ,' pud e ; cisco, Japan, China, India, the Holy Land, an d He will take particular pains to visit missionary "" and write to his paper about them. BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—Mr. -p• 3 ' has issued his directory of the members of the Pie" o boa Stock Exchange for the year 1869-70.—Me n h 3T ro „es i s caught stealing and selling the Union-square sP 3r „ ; 000 New York.—lt is reported that there are s l2 e °P , -0 14 g ld in the vaults of the United States Assistant Tles'ts are in San Francisco, and that the commercial inter of of suffering in consequence.—The Royal Canadian L°oecr i n ter' 100 will resume business on the 1 5 th 1113 100 tons of frozen poultry, packed in ice during the ' r have been received and disposed of in Fanelli' a' 11 l ; ket in Boston since the Ist of April.--The shilllo:tirtop ter left Boston, Wednesday, Aug. 4, for eonstairdipo, wi:b. nearly 80,000 muskets, consigned to th e 0 1 1. Government.—'Three Turkish officers have he en , - ..01 55 // chester, New Hampshire, examining the miaow?:a aid s facturing works of the Amoskeag Company, sv, of purchasing machinery for the use of the I , n y„ l i s gi t 'o, vernment. —The British bark, Bessie Young, , B " - sav a re Liverpool, is reported ashore on St Catherine s ha r r „' lv e The who .t exports from San Francisco for .',"'Ord:„ 28,000 sacks, valued at $500,000. —The stearesV o lo lo ,;ell sailed from San Francisco for Hong Kong, via o f nod on Wednesday, Aug. 4, with $673,000 in treasur!;,oos, or $435,000 is for Yokohama, $206,000 for Hong i s- va lue $32,000 for Shanghai; also merchandise to the joei e o $78,000, including a ten stamp quartz mill f° r 0 0 11 ri General Joseph E. Johnston, on behalf Of rer,4l/ appointed for the purpose, has presentedti;g fore, to a committee of citizens of Savannah Set f the P or e the advantages of that port as the terminus o Th ror , jected line of steamships from North Gerrn i Sitig2rto' are several other contestants for this prize, in e ra no,. folk, Wilmington, Charleston, and other Sou t h4 i nee t —At the locomotive works in Taunton AlASS .y r ce 00 jo s very novel machine, designed for freight se e Pacific Railroad, is building. It looks like tn .ri ole o; joined ; it has six driving wheels on each side alp 55 or 60 tons ; the boiler is 38 feet long, and e f,d flre i lea' the centre, are the stations of the engineer " w ith dell it carries its own wood and water, dispensing . o lll rilte der, and can be driven in either direction e n l n v' oc ia, The machine will be finished during the e f , 13 . 0 „, /o, lr , of, labouring men's convention, held in Virginia u l " o t e de has passed resolutions, declaring that the il i a fie ; 0 11 Asiatics and their employment in mines er c i br ieg, e r oit , ' labour must be discountenanced, or it iv",, ec iatla "irrepressible conflict" likely to end in bloodnf etw eello. —The Pacific Railroad has reduced the fare "' sto p Francisco and New York to $l5O, and to S 0 1h, c itl General Lewis B. Parsons, of St. -1-'° t bo o souri, has reached London on his way baA s s o e seo S from an extended tour through Europe. lie to Pre. ' o. passage in the City of Antwerp, as he desires , _ ogg b f, 0 0 at the University International contest. 'D l _O4 e ° graduate, on this occasion he is deeply interests success of the Harvard boys. WA tG la 17. 4 I ADVERTISEMENT. I Holloway's Pills. t coo et p, Weather.—This is perhaps the best counsel tuill o 'o6 circulated at this season. Will all follow it ? _„ r ieo l 4ol lY one change his raiment as the tempsramentj,% of 'r to tta; next best advice is to have in readiness a '1" firs t ways pills, and with them them to oppose 1410 lion or stop the advancing symptoms of disea s ,t e r DIV catarrh, or cough should be lett to itself; all b y OPerf the foundation of danger, if not u ndermi,n e T e vey• means, and none surpass Holloway's for ow e , o ts ~ *l 3 co ° asthma, diarrhoea, and a host of other cou , Pl io t O t aic iOe' ing the weak and delicate when the daY i s , 0 toe lo Ot: mornings or evenings are cured by FlollowaY safe.oo, Du BARRY'S Delicious Health Reßlo6o..gieoler;ol.otoree, Arabica Food, which contains three times the nou' e dieS , , i o , l o 9/ best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other retn ett ol Pjir perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs , !' rg ..l ° a wl , ( A t freshing sleep, functional regularity, and eu%.„,sig- i ds, o ov enfeebled, removing speedily and effectuallY er o, pepsia), habitual constipation, diarrhoea, Wew' s9 feo,cl complaints, flatulency, nervousness, bilious/0 11,0,00,010,9c1. throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in t h t e e rte,_,,' l o l ,,t rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions , I'V he sriv,,r 9 io.:,jjol . " irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation 1 01- ,ll ol r aFhe . , debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, ns,ustit „Op o 0 sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, Mein° th.„ oo C SO. scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the IN; o f 01'010 t ver between the shoulders, &c. Wo quote a few " u Foo a, fo —The Pope's health restored by Du Berry's to ffo ec ite%icfr i6sB,e4xlc3e.lle?t,ome, especially July 2siln,cleB,66.—The health of rel Afi'' 08 0 has confined himself entirely Food, of which he consumes a plateful at hey s toDo abandoningßarr;lol o ther re e o t tr . 0 1: cif 0 1 )0 0 produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on Dif b ighll at il,,,s l, Holiness cannot praise this excellent food Of P" ot.P O ll, the Gazette du Midi, July 25. Cure No. 49, 83 ' - ou sns' s ,;o_,t o l(o ll4 ; indescribable agony from dyspepsia,., 1`."11,8"' cough, eonstipation, flatulency, spasms, sickneeo. vicastios, and vomiting. Maria Jolly. Worthen" , Liug', n plasilidig e oti° ll , Cure No. 47,121: Miss Elizabeth Jacobs , °_f sne ss,,,,,t Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme ne rvo.,.. go orL.._„o ' O oP gatherings, low spirits. and nervous fancies. 1 ,. % 8 10 —Beware of the many unsavoury and roar ie t big'd 4 2 1 1 11) 0 bons to which, without authority, Baron lls; I'ool'oo I n tins, a, audaciously t ls lid ; attachedl lb 2s Od; 21bs . . 001 5 lbs O Co , stool ,50 „ , 21 lbs 40s. Also Du BARitY's 118v ALENTA 's for s 00 e s " " Y for 67 %0 t' f icr• PoWnEa is packed in tin canisters: for 12 at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 3 ° 0, 8 6 d 550,,,t, 1 , 0 0 ( tl O —being about one penny per cup. The 30 ° p o st- 0 ' Of free of carriage in England on receipt °l t _stres t, RAR YDU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Bogen all Grocers and Chem i i 1 , BIRTIIS. 18 -, BRADFORD—On the 20th inst., at Brought° f a fofr Of 1 lade, th wife of Lieut.-Colonel 13radforcl, 0 , 0 00 Wands-o'ol4h COVENTRY-On the 20th inst. at Mrs. Edward Coventry, of adaughter. clif CiV ir 0 MARRIAGES. a Jo" a lllLLlEn—ViotEns—On the 19th inst., at Tofu Atr• tIJ o,NlSloEjuitiehiw,moarfkiloll,'rie-arnrreihsamJaelsn_eset,reeeltd,eus.tcri -.IV3P'-ftt.. o b n et ly h, daughter of Mr. J. b'• Vick ers ' ° f " O f If pri oa, I.lill, E.C. , 5 ...• h • ter of jVaas.l2elOnit'tNpinEeeiLlLMCkiOfril"etlthlo,eEF2slrqsat•nienesslatrSiAt;:l3ltilli cit°ls.- de l cop- NORTH—On DEATBS. the 20th inst ,at Bray, co. Viriek,!,,' et w C A harles Napier Nort:), late 60th Rifles, agda d.,„,biio, HarrisonTn:._. On the 20th inst. at Oatlavds, nearboUrve.: 00C i Watson, Esq., of St. Peter's -o,3u' hill, aged 71. g, , i . A IDO W c / 4 ,0 London • • . Printed and Published by WILLIA'; i j il, P / $. of No . 112, Strand, Printer, at Dia SUN oince :°iLiactle° in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the CouLltY o f Monday, August 23, ISM. 11111, 'A` ~.