The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-26 00:00:00

FOR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their business. For trades and ad dresses. see following advertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. The RAKE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CBEAPNESS will be found in every article sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all - .lasses. Commodious apartments for measuring and fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Booms, which contain a very large and diver sified stook of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young G.utlernen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punc'nality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. 3f OSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons wile are not known to the firm shonl.l accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be theerfully exchanzed. or, if desired, the noney will be returned. All Goads aro marked in Plain Figures, tram which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, end cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with ?very requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evenine: at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac tururs, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES Ind SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 115, 'AINORIES MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDOATE 84, ALDGATE 95. ALDGATE 88, ALDGATII 57, ALDGATE BS. ALDGATE sa, ALIMATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH 606. NEW oxFon. D-STRE T 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET , 09, NEW OXFORD-STR KM' 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TO I"TENHA3I-C OURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 'THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA, new four-act Drama, by Diorr Boucicault: Messrs. Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, Joh:. Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL, AI)ELPIIL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7, MY PRECIOUS BETSY : Mr Atkins an I Miss Liza Johns. one. At 5. TILE SERPENT ON THE TIE RTH: Messrs R. 1 hil lips, E. Atkins. Stuart, C. H. Stephenson, W. IT Eburne, Dal ton C. J. Smith, R. Romer; Mrs M. Eburne. Mrs Leigh Murray, Miss Eliza Johnstone. Mrs Stoker, &c. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr Atkins and Mrs. Leigh Murray. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Last 3 Nights of "Acis and Galatea:" Tills EVENING, at 7 o'clock, PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE, 2 acts, by Dion Boucicault. After which, Handel's Opera of ACIS AND GALATEA : Cupid, Miss Summers: Acis, Mr Vsrncn Rigby: anion, Mr Montem Sm'th: Polyphemus, Herr Formes: Galatea, Miss Blanche Cole. Wusical Conductor, Mr :r. L Hatton: Conchrling with the Farce of A QIIIET FAMILT. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Prices: Stalls, 7s: Dress Cir,!le, r,s Upper Boxes, 4s: Pit. 2e; Gallery, Is. Private Boxes, 1:2 12s 64, ,C 2 2s, and £1 Ils I 4 OYAL STRAND THEATRE. t Sole f.essee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr CI leke. Followed by THE TOODLES: Mr Clarke, A fter which, JOAN OF ARC: ires:l.sThorne. 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UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS TO LET, consisting of Three ROOM, and Dressing Room, with use of Kitchen. Nice harden. Four minutes' walk to 'Bus and Rail to City and West-end.-44, St. Baul's-road, Camden-square, N.W. COMPENSATION IN C ASE OF INJURY, AND A FIXED SUM IN CASE OF DEATH Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY KIND, may be secured by a Policy of the RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. An Annual Payment of £3 to £6 Is. insures £l,OOO at Death, and an Allowance at the rate of £6 per week for Injury. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS ALONE may bo provided against ")., 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, 51, CottNuiLL and 10, REGENT TEE ET, LONDON. WILLIAM J. VIAN Secretary. BRITANNIA FERE ASSOCIATION [lead Offices, 42.), Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association aro Equ i t blo Hates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settl«•Tuent t.f JOHN MESSENT, Manazer. 011 N GOSN F,LT, and CO.'S ('•IIII'RKY TOOTEI PASTE ii greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the, teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from dec►j, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to th ,, I ..eath. Price ls. tid.—Led Dull Wharf, 03, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at wind age. .IN 0. GOSNELL and CO. li , tve at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect iw; this wonc,rful liquid. It is now offered to the public IL a mere concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also Ls., 7s. 6d., end 15s. each. ncluding brush. Red 1'3;111 11711Hrf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Tbanies- Areet London. EA,. " SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. TUE " NEW FAMILY " SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCH. Work by Haud and or Treadle e, lling. and in a Portabl e C ase f Trav THE SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS TIIF. BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p miler simplicity of these Machines enables any one to , t , zquire th?ir perfect use in a :etc , hours. Illustr.Ved Price Lists post free. THE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Chief Office in the United Kingdom: 147, CBE APSIDE. Branch Depots or Loca Agents in every Townj CRYSTAL PALACE —THIS EVENING.— MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS, with the Immensely Successful Great Device of the ARC DE TRIUMPIIb and Grand ILLUMINATION of FOUNTAINS (including the North Great Fountain Basin, with its High Jets playing), the Cascade of Fire, Cornet, Magnesium, Balloons, .Ir.c. ; Also, " Maritana," at 3. The Display at 8. Coldstream Guards Band at 6.0 and during Fireworks. - Palace Open for admission till 9, and Lighted up for Promenade till 10. Notwithstanding the great cost of this combined Fete the price of admission will be ONE SHILLING, Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d., at the Ticket Stand. METROPOTATAN & GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. GREAT BOAT RACE—ENGLAND AND AMERICA. Hammersmith Bridge the best point of view, within /Ire minutes walk of Hammersmith Station. EXTRA. TRAINS from Moorgate-street, cal ing at all inter mediate Stations. METROPOIA FAN and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. OXFORD AND HARVARD UNIVERSITIES BOAT RACE. On FRIDAY, August 27th, the Ordinary Train Service will he suspended, and SPECIAL 'I.II,AINS will run between the hours of 12 noon and 6 p.m., to Stations on the Hammersmith Line and Kensington (Addison-road). And from 5.34) p.m. until 14) pan , from Stations on the Hammersmi h Line and Kensington (Addison-road). The following Special Fares will ba charged during these periods :- Ist Class. 2nd Class. 3rd Class. Single Journey Retiirn Journey Spocial Trains will run at frequent intervals to and from the Paddington Terminus of the Great Western Railway from Hammersmith and Kensington (Addison-road). Passengers from Westminster-bridge and intermediate Stations must change at Praed-strut Station. T I ONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE, FRIDAY, AUG. A SPECIAL TRAIN will leavo EUSTON STATION at 2.50 p.m., calling at Chalk Farm at 2.55 and Kilburn at 2.51► p.m., for lIAMMERSMITII STATION (Turnham Green Road), for Chiswick Mall. Returning fromßammersmith at (.30 p.m. . . Passengers holding Return.Tiekets• will be at liberty to return by any other Tain from liammPrsrnitb, joining the Up Trains to Euston, Chalk Farm, and Kilburn at Willes den Junction. FARES :- IRETURN. Ist Cl. 2d CI. I.F. Gd. ls. I is. Gd. ls. is. Od. 9d. IVELL, Gemara' Manager. ,69. SINGLE. From Ist Cl. 2d Cl. Euston ls. 9d. Camden Is 9d. I Kilburn 9d. 6d. W. CASVK Euston Station, August, 18. rgi E UNITED LAND COMPANY (Limited). The Holders of the INTEREST WARRANTS for the INTERIM DIVIDEND at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, for the fuur m3mhs ending 31st July, are requested to present the same for P TM ENT forthwith, at the Offices, 33, Norfolk street, Strand, W.C. By order of the Board. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th Juae, 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 to the proprietors differs in its tenor but little save is ono or two particulars from that laid before then, in 1868. The income of the year, it will be seen, amounts to £510,499 18s., and the total charge to £145,077 10s. 9d. The difference, £95,422 7s. 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, JUNE 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE Y EAR. 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,t52 8 6 371,518 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,b08 4 11 436,187 6 9 443,077 10 9 Profit and loss, balance of account 47,991 . 13 1 Total income £1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF THE TEAR t. £ P. d. s. fl. 8,880 4 0 Dividend to proprietor 4 Claims on decease of lives aseured Additions to those under 305,614 3 6 participating policies 24,304 6 6 P.dicies surrendered Re-ar•surances new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 Commission Afetlical foes -,561 12 1 10,618 11 2 7GO 18 0 Inrometax 3,017 13 8 Expenses of management 16,238 9 10 Total charge Balance of account, June 3U, 1869, as per balance-sheet 1,002,97-1 13 9 21,418,052 6 Tho total of premiums received is £371,518 12s. Id., of which sum .£13,50 ss. lii. is for now assurances effect©d in this 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, 1868 ; and in connection with this important feature•of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and lass 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; ns 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, JUNE 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured, and additions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' fund Surplus fund £6,757 17 0 £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, Cx 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 dial) Funded securities 491,303 4 2 Ditto ditto Temporary secu rities 198,207 17 0 Current interest on the a.boveinvestments 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 doe 3 not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95,422 is. lid. already mentioned, as is shown by the augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surphts fund. The Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows : WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, EsQ., Ch a i rman . ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, Esc,., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. Georgo Russell, Esq. SirJ. Buller East, Bt., D.C.L. homas Godfrey Satubrooke, Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq. Admiral Tindal. CharlesThos.Holcombo,Esq. Right Hon. Sir John Young, Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart., K.C.B. LONDON and COUNTY BANKING COMPANY. _ Notice is hereby given, that a-DIVIDEND on tho CAPITAL, of the Company, at the rate of Six per Cent. for the half-year ending 30th Juno, 1869, with a BONUS of Two and a Half per Cent., will be PAM to the Pro prietors, either at the Head Office, 21, Lombard-slroet, or at any of the Company's Branch Banks, ou and after MONDAY, the 16th inst. By ord,4- of th- - Board, W. AIeKI..:WAN, General Manager. 21, Lomb:trd-streut, Aug. 6, 1869. rim SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1869. THEATRE - BuYA L DIZURY- L Aole Lessee and Marnr:or, Mr. E. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At S FORMOS A : Messrs. Barrett, 11. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Mac clonal& and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHE. Tuts EVENING, at 7, MY P ECIOTTS BETSY: Mr Atkins and Miss Johnstone. At S, THE SERPENT ON THE HEA I: TH : Mr R. Phillips, Mr E Atkins, Mr Stuart. llrs M. Eburne, Mrs L Murray, &c. And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh Tins EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. THE TOODLES. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; %1 esdamen Goodall, Lydia Maitland. Button. To conclude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. Mr. D. James, PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. Tins EVENING, at 7, PR ESUMPTiVE EVIDIrNCE. After which, Al, Is AND GAL &TEA : Herr Formes, Mr V. Rigby, Mr M. smith, and Miss Blanche Cole. To conclude with A QUIE!' FAMILY. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THItEE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. 18. Boa-office o 2en:f rona 11 to 4. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. 'furs EvENING, at 7.30, — A ROVING COMMISSION. After which CTIECKM A N. Followed by THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with IN FOR A HOLIDAY Mr Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver Miss Saunders, &c. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, 11. J. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. CHRIS7.I" MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G ARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve. 6d. • t • evt . • lz - fir j'A SUIT 4 4, I k eg • LONDON, THURSDAY, AUG UST 26, 18G9. When ROBERT BURNS first read " Titus Androni cus," he finished his perusal of it by thrusting it be tween the bars of the grate in the " house-place," thereby summarily committing it to the flames. The authorship of that revolting drama is to the last degree doubtful, and is only in any way very faintly, and dimly, and confusedly traceable to SHAKSPERE. However, people may think in regard to an excep tionally horrible tragedy like "Titus Andronicus," there cannot be one moment's question whatever about the fact that Crime or Vice in some shape or form is the legitimate theme of the world's greatest dramatists. The only room for argument left is as to the manner in which a theme of that character may be dealt with. It is an accusation of very old standing against dramatic literature that its influence is per nicious and demoralising. It was from an exagge rated conviction to that effect that the Puritans closed all the theatres during the interregnum of the Commonwealth. And the natural and all but in evitable result of their doing so was visible in the re action which set in almost immediately after the Restoration. The dramatists of the Reign of CHARLES 11. became conspicuous among the demoralisers of an age especially distinguished by its pro fligacy. Even " glorious JOHN" DR] DEN—even the author of the "Hind and Panther"—while catering for the public at the theatres, allowed his august singing robe to be draggled in the mire of those (as they were at that time) social bag nios. Intervals there have been, during which it is undeniable that the glory of the Dramatic Art has been degraded and has become prostituted. Looking to the history of the Drama, however, as a whole— regarding its character generally as an art, or rather as a concentration or accumulation of a variety of different arts—poetry, sculpture, painting, oratory, being among them very noticeable indeed—looking to the comprehensive influence of the Drama upon civi lised races, alike iu Pagan and in Christian times—in classic Rowe and Greece, in the France of COItNEILLE and RACINE, in the Spain of CALDERON and LOPE DE IGA, in the G„,ruaany of GOETHE and SculLLEtt, in the England of SHAKSPERE and of SKAKSPERE'S can temporaries and successors—it would be idle and monstrous to deny the humanizing, and benignant, and elevating influence exercised by an art like this, a master art that more vividly than any other " holds the mirror up to nature." Th.,t in i , s development, in its varied fluctuations, in its alternating and often widely contrasting phases, it has been flawed and marred occasionally, is, as a matter of course, not one jot less undeniable. But its failures in this way have been, as compared with its main success (that, namely, of a most benignant influence) have been only, as the passing spots upon the sun's disc, the faculve and inaculse observable at intervals in the midst of the splendour of the great luminary. As if in signal recognition of the beneficent influ ence, as a whole, of the Drama, it especially has, been the favourite medium for the display of the scholar ship of our ecclesiastics in this country, the editing anew of one of the masterpieces of the old Greek dra matists, insomuch that it has long come to be a fami liar joke that the surest method of winning a Bishopric was to edit a Greek play. One of the most laborious undertakings of one of our greatest moralists —Dr. JOHNSON—was the editing of the plays of SHAKSPERE. About the happiest, certainly the most powerful of all the works of imagina tion produced by the late Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. MILMAN, was his drama of " Fazio." And so on. Instances of a similar kind, inci dents having about them a kindred significance, might be very readily multiplied. But, fur all this, every now and then, the shock of a qualm seems to come upon playgoers, and of course more forcibly still (because they know nothing at all about it) upon non-playgoers, startling them into a conviction that the drama is necessarily and inevitably, always run ning a desperate hazard of proving itself to be intrinsi cally demoralizing. Some individual dramatist at these times is seized upon, all of a sudden, as a scapegoat. Some particular play is selected as a target against which all sorts of horrid imputations and disgraceful accusations shall he directed. It is precisely thus at this present moment with regard to Formosa, and with regard to its author, Mr. DION Boucicauur. Witnessing the onslaught made upon this particular dramatist, listening to the choral objurgations which are still being loudly directed against him, one might really suppose him to be the concentration into one of all the prurient dramatic authors who have, at any period, disgraced that department of litera ture. Now, without going into the question of the good taste or not displayed iu the putting together of the materials of this particular drama of Formosa, against which the prudes of criticism are inveighing so very vociferously, one cannot, in fair-play, but remember the whole of the antecedent labours, as a dramatist, of Mr. DION BOUCICAULT Ever since the production of his first hi idiant comedy of "London Assurance," in the March of 1841, when he was not yetnineteen [Mr. BOUCICAULT was born on the 22d of December, 1822], he has been writing, with sufficiently radiant success, in a glare of publicity. Until now, there has not been occasion for a hint being thrown out of his demoralizing influence as a dramatist. Prima facie the evidence is all in his favour. Added to which, the people who tolerated, without a murmur, the indecorous vagaries of a SCHNEIDER are, now, going into rhetorical hys terics over the 46 Railroad to Ruin." One can't help remembering rather vividly, in the midst of all this hubbub, the long since notorious fact, that one of the most pitiable spectacles to be seen amongst us, at any time, is that of the British Public:in;one of its periodical fits of Virtuous Indignation. Supposing, however, instead of " the British Public," we put it here in this present instance, "a Very Small Clique." What then? THE deliberations of the Trades Unions' Congress have, so far, reflected much credit on the working men of England. Previous gatherings of artisans, especially on the Continent, have too frequently wasted their time in vague declamation, or in discussing violent and socialist remedies for practical grievances. The Congress at Birmingham has begun moderately and wisely. The delegates have been considering the distribution of wealth by temperance instead of by confiscation, and in place of seeking for the best means of promoting the efficacy of strikes, they have approved of peaceful settlements by arbitration. Few persons, we imagine, will question the propriety of Mr. POTTER'S exhorting the trades unions to make war with that most formidable enemy of the artisan class—drunkenness: Even those who believe in the " working man's beer " must admit that the immoderate use of spirituous liquors is the vice from which the poor suffer most and from the removal of which _they would most largely benefit. What priestcraft and despotism have done for some continental countries, intoxica tion is doing for the working class of England. " The present state of the liquor traffic has been created by every possible combination of ignorance and class legislation, by encroachments or mis takes of Government, parties, Excise, land lords, brewers, and drinkers ; nor must we forget M.P.'s and would-be M.P.'s who assist landlords, not only to adulterate beer, but boroughs, in the hope that they themselves may adulterate the House of Commons." Such is Mr. POTTER'S vigorous view of the case. He believes that the public-house, albeit an old institution, is at odds with the nineteenth century, and especially with anything like democratic governMent. If democracy succeed in overturning this old institution, it, must, indeed, deserve the foremost place amongst theories of Government. Mr. POTTER'S remedy is not altogether the same as ours, but it is to be applauded so far as it goes. The London delegate thinks that if the workman wants beer he should be enabled to drink it cheap and good at his club " like a man," and not dear and nasty in the pot-house, " like a pauper and a fool." The best results are to be hoped from such a change as this. If the artisan will have beer, decidedly it is better for him to have it at his club than at the public house. But if the latter be abolished there is no reason to fear that its evils will reappear in the former. Let the artisan once devote himself to the rational pleasures of a working man's club, instead of the beastlygratification of the drink shop, and his inte rest in beer wiil speedily wane. Even though he may get it " cheap and good," he will soon learn to manage without it. Let Mr. POTTER once overturn the public-house, and we have no fear that a rival will spring up in the shape of a working man's club. Surely the Trades Unions could not better employ their rapidly-increasing strength than in a movement of this kind. Those who uphold the efficacy of beer, and those who do not, can meet on this common ground. " The beer question is not the public-house question." Scarcely less gratifying than the serious considera tion which the delegates were disposed to give to this question was their almost unanimous approval of arbitration as a substitute . for strikes. The principle of a third and disinterested party being called upon to decide the disputes of masters and men has passed beyond the merely experimental stage. Courts of arbitration have already been established in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, and many more of the chief northern towns. Their good effects have already shewn themselves. Mr. KETTLE'S system has been the means of settling more than one dispute ; and at Nottingham, it is agreed, the courts have made a radical change in the relations between masters and workmen. Indeed, the advantage of such a pacific means of settlement is self-evident. A strike or a lockout is an appeal to force which must injure both parties more or less ; arbitration not only involves no loss, but is more likely to end in impar tial justice than a violent struggle. The one thing needed is that both parties should have confi dence in the court to which they refer their difference, and that they should fully commit them selves to its action. Given this condition and the system must prove beneficial. Nor does it seem . likely that this requisite will be wanting ; for the unions, taught by bitter experience, are recognising the new tribunals all over the country, and of the many delegates who expressed their opinion on the subject at Birmingham, not one was wholly against the remedy. ANY person taking up an American paper during the last month might be led to suppose at first glance that another Fenian invasion of Canada had occurred, or that the Indians had perpetrated a raid of more than usual ferocity, or that the hostility between the Chinese and the Irish in California had culminated in a war of races. " Rumou r of an engagement," " Large forces gathering," " Desperate encounter," are some of the headings which meet the eye in the New York journals. The fact is, that a civil war is now raging in the United States—a war of no inconsiderable dimensions—be tween two railway companies. The Erie directors claim the control of the Albany and Susquehanna line, which would give them a direct route to the West free from competition. The Susquehanna Company, on the other hand, aver that their line was con structed for local purposes, and that the district has no concern with through traffic. They accordingly resist the claim of the Erie Company. Not fewer than nine lawsuits are now in progress to decide the ownership of this disputed railway. But though the people of the United States are fast in most things, their legal procedure, from causes upon which we need not enlarge,is often painfully slow, far too slow for the impatient Erie directors. They de termined a few days ago to take possession of the Susquehanna line by main force. A writ was issued by a judge—it will be interesting to learn how this authority was obtained—and a large force proceeded to take possession of the rolling stock. The Susque hanna men were not disposed to submit to defeat with out a s truggle. Three engines were captured by the Erie party. One was sent up the line, but the Susque hanna partisans upset it, and ran a train behind the Erie force, thus making prisoners of about twenty men, including the sheriff. The Erie army lost ground by this skirmish. The combatants took up their position at the opposite ends of a tunnel, and awaited reinforcements. By the afternoon of the 10th the Erie army was raised to 800 men, whilst the hostile array was not more than half that number. Emboldened by this superiority two trains full of Erie " troops "were sent through the tunnel. They were met by a Susquehanna train, and a collision took place, both engines being destroyed. Then came a pitched battle, in which stones, pistols, and clubs were freely used, until the arrival of a regiment left the combatants no choice but to gather up the wounded, who were very numerous, and retire. The soldiers prevented any further encounters, but the railway armies remained in presence, rations were served out regularly, and when the last mail left the determination of each party to succeed remained unchanged. To us in England this fight for a railway seems extraordinary ; but it is, in fact, only one chapter in the history of the Erie railway—a history which furnishes a strange commentary on the American system of local government. For months past the Erie Company, the shares of which are held chiefly in England and Europe, has been under the absolute control of certain directors, of whom the noto rious Mr. FISK is the chief. The whole property of the shareholders is at the absolute command of these men. Theysquander at will the money entrusted to their care. On one day the shares have risen to an extravagant height, on the next they have been depressed to the lowest point, through the specula tions of these directors. All efforts to dispossess them have failed. It is nominally the rule both in England and America that the shareholders should have the supreme control; but in this instance the proprietors of a line which has cost many millions cannot rescue a single dollar. This state of affairs is owing chiefly to the pecu liarity of the American Constitution, which gives each State complete control over its own affairs. If Congress could interfere with the Erie Railway it is not improbable that justice might triumph over jobbery. But the power of intervention lies with the State Legislature of New York. The system of local elections in the United States is the greatest blot in the government of that country. At New York the wires are pulled by some of the most disreputable charactors in the State, and it is rarely by any chance that a citizen of integrity and influence for good can find his way to the local Parliament. The legislators are for the most part worthless, and their services are bought and sold. After months of waste and swindling in connection with the Erie Company, some of the unfortunate shareholders imagined they saw means to redeem their abused property. Their calculations were, however, defeated by this State Legislature, which passed a law virtually recommitting the Erie rail way to the care of Mr. FISK and his friends for a term of years. This iniquitous measure received the sanction of the State Governor, and the share holders are now entirely powerless. So com plete is the power of the local Governments in America, so entirely are they free from central control, that on oue occasion when the Erie directors were in jeopardy they had only to cross the New York frontier into another State to be quite safe. The long series of scandals which have preceded this exciting Susquehanna conflict chew that one of two remedies is imperatively called for. The New York people must entrust their local affairs to respectable men, or they must seek the intervention of the central authority in extreme cases. craTai erav Tya -In • HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, August 23. The Queen went out in the morning and in the afternoon with the Princesses. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, August 25. The Allau (Glasgow) steamships North Ameri can and Damascus arrived at Quebec to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSNIG PRICES. Gold closed at 133/ ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1331 ; the lowest, 1328. Sterling Exchange on London lO9l. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188' ) 46 " 1885 l2l. 44 " 1867 l2O. 10-40 44 Illinois Erie 3Ol. Cotton —Mid. upland 3sc. Petroleum—Standard White 32e. Flour, extra state, $6.70e. to $7.30e. Corn, old mixed, sl.loc. HALIFAX, Aug. 25. His Royal highness Prince Arthur was yesterday the guest of the Bishop of Halifax. SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 2G. The North German Lloyd extra steamer Bremen, from New York on the 11th, passed the Needles at 10.25 a.m. to-day. BOMBAY MAILS. MussixA, Aug. 25. The, Peninsular and Orientnl Company's steamer Pera passed _Messina at nine this evening (Wed nesday) en route for Marseilles. MALTA, Aug. 25. The Massilia leaves at 2 a.m. to-morrow for Southampton, where she may be expected on the night of the 3d proximo (Friday). The Nyanza, from Southampton 14th inst., arrived at Malta on the 23d at 10 a.m., and left for Alexandria at 3 p.m. the same day. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 25. llalil Bey's complimentary mission to Livadia has been postponed iu consequence of the indis position of the Czar. Daortd Pa3ha is expected to return to-morrow, via Varna, with new propositions for carrying out the Roumania Railway scheme. FRAN CE. PARIS Aug. 26. The official journal of to-day states that the amnesty lately granted by the Emperor does not apply to those who have been convicted of offences against the life of his Majesty or any other political personage. • LYONS, Aug. 2G. The Empress and Prince Imperial have met with a moat enthusiastic reception during their short stay here. Her Majesty and his Imperial Highness leave this morning for Toulon, where they will embark for Corsica. Bo URSE, Aug. 25.—Three o'clock —The market closed as follows : 44 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month— 73 421 Credit Mobilier Transatlantic '2B7 5C Bank Shares ...... 2875 ItaFan Fives..,,,, 56 30 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan 327 50 Do. Debt 45 25 Credit Foncier ,1775 ......... -- - Spanish Threes ... 28 50 Homo Debt, Paris Gas 1670 I Deferred — - RAILWAY& Cash Orleans ... V6B Western Northern .«1120 Strasburg • • Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 620 Sardinian Austrian B37} Lombard 550 North of Spain Saragossa Roman 57 MARKET S-21118 DAY. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. Aug. 26.—Sales probably 8,000 bales. The market quiet. EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE aro the properties of Lamplougu's Pyretic Saline, curing the worst heailacheg, sickness, skin, or biliary affections. Pleasant palatable, and invigorating. Sold by all Chemists.—[Advt.] EXPORTS Fr.om PARIS TO THE UNITED STATES.— Mr. Consul Nicolay reports to his Government at Washing ton that the exports of morchandiso shipped from Paris to the United Status in the three years 1866, 1867, 1863, amounted in value in the aggregate to 462,090,778 f. ; 180,617,837 f. in 1866, 149,904,716 f. iu 1867, 131,478,225 f. in 1868. Of the whole amount, 100,55 i,071f. were for merinos, bembazines,and crapo ; 47,137,403 f. leather, 22,886,972. kid gloves; 25,531,2831. buttons and trimmings; 24,665,013 f. furnishing goods; 21,530,9391, fancy goo d s; 20,339,2171. bats and hatters' goods ; 19,935,986 f. jow o l r y ;cotton goods 16,029,511 f.; shawls, 14,071,462; silk, 11,799 , 767 f. ; l aces,; 10,582,675 f. ; artificial flowers and feathers, 10,576,481 f. perfumery, soaps, eec., 9,629,578 f.; woollen c10th5,8,024,341f. glass and porcelain, 8,999,519 ; linen goods, 5,219,359 f. bronzes and works of art, 4,526,715 f.; hair, 2,476,157 f. ; books and engravings, 2,113,1861.; wines, 943,7681.; liquors, 361,061 f. 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 tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co , Belfast; or 4, Beaufortrbuildings, Strand, London, w,o.—[A4 Ye' tieement GARIBALDI AS A FARMER. We have heard comparatively little of Garibaldi lately. He has retired for a time from the busy world of exciting politics, and has gone to settle down in Caprera to the quiet life he really loves. TbQ Times correspondent has visited him there, and tells his reflders of the wonderful things he has done in his island home. " His active mind has not been content just to satisfy itself with tilling a few acres of wheat. He has made the barren, rocky place in which he lives an island of myrtle and laurel groves. All round ; in the hollows, the orange and lemon are growing in thickets, while on • More exposed sites there spreads a wide plantation of olive and almond, overtopped bp the cypress, the pine, and even the date palm, though the latter bears no fruit. Garibaldi himself drinks no wine ; but be is, nevertheless, a wire-grower on a large scale. His hill-side are covered with low-, closely-pruned vine-stocks, an importation from the most celebrated Piedmontese and Tuscan vineyards. By this thrift the hospitable General is enabled to place choice wine before the guests who crowd upon him. The General's orchards do not yield many apples, pears, or peaches, but the prickly pear and the carob-tree are so prolific that their produce is thrown with a full hand to fatten swine. Garibaldi's dairy is supplied with milk and butter by six cows of the tall Cremona breed. Numerous herds of cattle roam at large in the island, providing the esta blishment with mountain-fed butcher's meat. The same constant properity does not attend all the General's under takings. All his efforts to root out a poisonous weedwith which the island once teemed have not been altogether successful, and the propagation of his flocks and herds is thereby sensibly checked. The attempt to acclima tise the silkworm has turned out a failure, the soil being une:Topitious to the growth of the mulberry. Garibaldi, however, peints with exul tation to the flourishing condition of his potato fields. There is no treat he so heartily enjoys as a dish of his own potatoes, baked under embers, with his own hand, in the open air--a treat which calls up reminiscences of his camp life on the Tcnale or the Stelvio, or of his pioneer's experience in the backwoods of the Mississippi or the Plate. Garibaldi indulges in the luxury of a flower garden. The bees which he has lately introduced, and of which he has already nine hives, do well, and on so gusty spot as that bleak rock of Caprera is little less than a prodigy. Garibaldi has not, it must be admitted, been single-handed in these achievements. His right and left hands have been one Earberini, from Parma, for many years the General's companion at Caprera, and a German named Weber, whose aid and example supplied theory and practice to a man who could bring to his work little more than an amateur's earnestness and good-will. It should also be borne in mind that the General's friends are legion, and that there is nothing in the shape of garden imple ments and agricultural machines, nothing under the de nomination of seed, plant, or graft, of dead or live stock, nothing that could minister to his watts or gratify his fancy, that has not been freely tendered, suggested, pressed, and even forced upon him. It is, however, not a little interesting to see a man who has played so striking and yet so unequal a part in contemporary events, who has had his sublime, and again his next door-to-sublime moments—to see such a mall, we say, give so solid an evidence of strong sterling sense in a manner in which he takes counsel from himself alone. It would be well for Garibaldi's countrymen if they would spare a little of their admiration for their hero in action to bestow it on their hero in repose. The world has heard enough of Garibaldi as a Camillus or Mareellus. It would be well if Italy could appreciate his worth as a Cincinnatus." TIIE ALBERT INSURANCE COMP.ANY, Messrs. S. L. Price and A. R. Kirby, the provisional official liquidators of the Albert Life Assurance Company, have issued their statement of the position of the company with a proposal for the arrangement of its affairs. They tate that the paid-up capital is 2176,000, and the un called amount £324,600; while the liability under policies and annuity contracts is limited to the capital and funds of the company. Mr. Charles Jellicoe and Mr. Arthur Bailey, the actuaries, having been consulted, have given an opinion. which is stated at length, both rs to the actual position of the company and the most likely mode of reconstruction. They state that the policies in force on the 31st December last represented a total of £8,207,041, on which annual premiums of £312,657 were payable, and -snnuities of £19,307. The present liabilities they esti mate at £1,407,932, and the assets, including uncalled capital, at £421,500, shewing a deficiency of £986,432. They then observe . :—" If a compromise be. effected reducing by one-half the claims of the annuitants and immediate credi tors, we think that, taking the assets to be of the value of £421,500, the company would be in a position to pay, as the claims arise, nearly 80 per cent, of the sums assured. But, inasmuch as there are several elements of uncer tainty in the case, and as a aluation of the liabilities at the present date has yet to be made, we think that in any proposal for the arrangement of the company's r.ffairs it would be inexpedient to engage to pay in the flrst in stance more than 75 per cent. of the sums assured under the policies. The following is an estimate of what would be the position of the company thus reorganised:—The above item pf £1,147,487, viz., value of liabilities under policies, would be reduced to .£137,173 ; the above item of £150,445, viz., the value of liabilities under annuities would be reduced to £272,223 ; claims admitted and gene ral debts would be reduced from £110,500 to L 55,250 ; totAl, £267,646. Assets, including uncalled capital esti mating the loans on policies at 10s. in the pound, £421,500 ; apparent surplus, £153,854." The liquidators point out that should the business collapse and the company be continued in liquidation, the result will be that the estimated liabilities entitled to rank against the company will amount to £3,260,000 ; and that whereas, under a reconstruction, continuing policy-holders will be secured on the average to the extent of 75 per cent. of the amount assumed, under a liquidation they would only receive a trifling dividend spread over several years. It is,-therefore, proposed to reorganise the com pany on the basf:S of an average reduction of 25 per cent. of its assurance" liabilities ; but the reduction on each policy would be 2:scertained before the policy holders were called upon finally to determine es to continuing their policies." In order to carry out these arrangements, they state ttst it will be necessary to form a new company to take over from the old company all its assets and undertake all its liabilities on the reduced scale. The policy. holders to be entitled to 80 per cent. of the future profits, the remaining 20 per cent. to be reserved for the shareholders of the present company. It being indispen sable that the new company should be formed by shares, it is proposed to issue to the present shareholders fully paid-up shares in the new company of the nominal value of £5 in proportion to the amounts paid up in the present company, and thus secure an equitable division amongst them of such 20 per cents of the profits. The new shares in no case` , to be entitled to more than G per cent, per annum until - •,the policies have, either out of the existing assets or future profits, been made up to their original amount. '..rhe actual result would be that the re-organised company would practically be a mutual assurance company. but having 20 per cent. of its profits set aside for the old shareholders in the Albert Life Assurance Company, from which it had obtained its business. It is further proposed that, at the end of one year from the date of the reorganisation of the company, a re-valuation of all the assets and liabilities shall be made, and such additions made to the policies as the result of such investigation may warrant. The proposed average reduction of 25 per cent. has been put at a maximum amount in order to place the company on a perfectly safe footing. It is intended to make it part of the constitution of the new company that in future there shall be a thorough investi gation of the assets and liabilities at the end of every third year by two independent actuaries of high standing, one to be nominated by the shareholders, the other by the policy-holders. This proposal will be circulated among the shareholders, policy-holders, and other claimants on the company, and the liquidators point out the absolute necessity of a prompt decision on the matter. It is in tended to propose at the forthcoming meetings that representatives should be nominated to form a central committee for assisting the liquidators to carry out the proposed arrangements. Sir John Craven Carden, Bart., of the Abbey, TereTlemore, is a candidate for tho represontatioon of Tip perary. Sir John'D. Coleridge (the Solicitor-General) was at Devonport on Tuesday, and delivered t he inau g ural address at tho opening, at th o - Devonport Mechanics' Institute, of an exhibition of arts, science;.and manufactures. PLACES OF RELIGIOUs WOESIIIF.- 1 ./Ilder the yew Charitable Trusts Act, gives power to the majority of trustees to deal with cbar:,..v e:Aat . e3 is , there a provision to extend the A cts to plz,cs ,` , git3:ereil, and lona fide used as places of religious wor,lifl). Treasury is cmpov,cred to prescribe a scale of fees 0' ;be charged by the Board of the Chuity Commissioners. THE POLICE IN THE OLD KENT-ROAD.—Another daring outrage has been perpetrated in the Old Kent-road, near the Lord Nelson, not more than 100 yards from the house where Mrs. Peake was so brutally treated. It appears that about half-past 11 o'clock Commander L. A. Butler, R.N., residing at 6, Champion-terrace, Camber. well, was taking his usual stroll, and when near the Lord Nelson he was suddenly run at full butt by a man who made a snatch at his watch-chain, a portion of which he succeeded in making off with. Luckily the watch, a silver one, remained safe in the pocket of Mr. Butler who, upon recovering himself, raised a cry of "Police," but as usual none were to be found for a quarter of an hour. Mr. Butler atatod_tl* hesould identify the thief. THE 132ITISIT ASSOCIATIOY: EXETER, WEDN-EspAr• .To-day brings to a close the visit of the British Associa tion to this hospitable city. The week spent here has bee n a busy and a pleasant one, and if the hosts have been 5s ~ satisfied with their guests as the latter have been wit' those who have catered for their comfort and in o ° l way studied their convenience, nothing but happy recollee' tions will be mingled with the retrospect. The second soiree, at the Alhcrt Memorial Museum , 1115 t night, was as brilliant as the first, which it Close/Y resembled in all its surroundings. To-morrow franY : ( ;! the members intend to explore K e nt' s Cavern, ITI ) '`; others are off on excursions to different 'places of inte rest to strangers on the Devonshire coast. Only a few sections met this morning, and these we re occupied but a short time in clearing o ff the papers whi cil emained to be read. The attendances generally we re comparatively small, and the interest attached to the di s• cussions appeared to be on the wane. In the Biology Section two curious papers were read b 3; Sir Duncan Gibbs. 'The first was to spew that a Pen d9il ic condition of the leaf.shaped cartilage at the ba of the tongue, called the epiglottis, was fatal "- longevity, because it interfered with breathing. Of sole thousands of p ersons w h o were exam i ne d the el r• was found verti ca l i n more than se ve , llf-; P al; merston, This was th e case w ith Lords "; merston, Campbell, Brougham, Lyndhurst, and ot lmer who had lived long. Sir Duncan, in his second Or el. ' endeavoured to prove that those Jews of p ecu liarlYe Au ,i guineo-oleaginous aspect had the epiglottis pendant , gil l never lived long. This was owing to the quantity of used in cooking their food. I' o Among other papers read in the Biology Section one on "The Natives of Vancouver's Island ;" another " The Race and Elements of the Irish People Alcl l, third on " The Paces of Morocco." Various matherna';—.," botanical, and physiological subjects were discusse d ui l ,„ the respective sections, but they possessed no pop interest. In the atbotnic Section a paper was read bY 3) di r ; Dircks illustrating the policy of the patent laws. 1 1l ‘ 7, discussion which followed, the general opinion of section appeared to be that it was s imply d u e to rove that they should be pr o t ec t e d. Thi s v i ew was 01 1 Pe sed : e l Ex-Professor Rogers, wh o urge d th e argumen ts adva ll— n i by extreme political econtwists against the continu a Pe e" the patent laws. A paper on " The Frankincense Lands and Trees" ‘114.: read by Mr. George Birdwood, Professor of Botany, 61f4list Medical College, Bombay. The author treed at t r . e b i o length the use of frankincense as shewn by the ' l- to and the ancient classic writers. Coming do wn recent times, he mentioned that in the , e3 i r f i l Part of the present century it was believed tha t - ` 11 " . , -, / was the home of the frankincense. But between -I—of and 1846 Commanders Cruttenden and liewpthoree't l e the Indian Navy, and Surgeon-Major Vaughan , e f o • Bombay Medical Staff, proved that Arabia and the el P oe site Somali coast produced the bulk of the frankilicei'D. used in trade. In 1847 Mr. 11. J. Carter, F.E. B " lished a description of the franki ncen s e t r ee found I'; 1 0 in the Ifadramant. That plant has lately flowerre"olo Bombay, and it is no doubt identical with the a re Madow plant of the Soumalis. Altogether there three frankincense plants. GAS FOR LIGHTHOUSES. Professor Tyndall has just reported to the 13° '", :‘ ,. - e ht rrade on the proposal to substitute gas for oil irk "v houses. Having read the reports and papers stlifi nitt i tl f o by the Commissioners of Irish Lights, he vis ite u re' establishments referred to, and, by a series of p 0 ge es' meats and observations conducted during several to -e days and nights, established the facts and cawelig o the conclusions which are embodied in his in teresti and valuable report. With the desire of chechiegge, observations, he availed hims e lf o f the service s of oe of Valentin, the principal assistant in the Boyal Chemistry. The first step was to compare experin3entaed the illuminating power of the gas light nosy ewPil. at Ifowth Daily with that of the most powerfinf'or lamp in use for the same purpose. This lamp 1135 „trie concentric wicks, which give rise to four cellee-ljeit cylinders of flame, the interior flames radiating libb t light through the exterior cnes. A greater body of is thus sent forth than could possibly be obtained frO dorig single wick. Such a four-wick lamp was plac ed in ° 6 fee t room, and by means of a Bunsen's photometer, 3 A t e" long, was compared with the gaslight now eopl e Y ad H owth Baily. The burner of this light, devise C rr constructed by Mr. Wigham, consists of a series —0;e0 centric rings, furnished with fishtail jets. of 2S jet s iS rings from the centre comprise a group this is the light which, in ordinary circuinstencm burned at Ifowth Baily. But to the central " r 0 ea ch be added in succession four other circles of burn ers ' e a comprising 20 jets. Thus, the lowest light ereP i g e ,l 131 , emitted by 28 jets, the next in power by 48, the t ''" pts 01. 68, the fourth by 88, and the last by 10 8 c o of gas. It is possible, therefore, to e mploy l i t ; ;, l e et The first lid five different powers ; and the superiority of over the oil flame was very strikinglY 51 1 8 0 „q graduated experiments. The 28-jet burner Pess-ri r 44 times, the 48-jet burner 41 times, the 68- j et bur Der times, the 88-jet burner N times, and the 10S Je t ' 13 times the illuminating power of the four-wiek to the Professor Tyndall's visit, on a summer evening, eloyq: lighthouse in Dublin Pay, was unexpected. I f : bt i t t " The 28-jet burner was in action, and he ljg a emitted appeared to be a very fine oe. I e Ans o c e rs rD keeper to pass to the 48-jet and the 16b-let bn.1.011138 succession. The ease with which he did s o cony° if e ot that complete practical mastery o ver the apParet ti f 9 a ' r , th already attained, is certainly attainable." Professor's observation had been limited to t'loveiegi i 5 house. But, he says, the atmosphere itself throng` the betA the light has to pass to assist the ma riner 0) 0 every giesfeije photometer. He therefore arranged with CaP t3in y etie tl9 and Mr. Wigham a programme of distant and it will readily be believed that obse r ec otie n was taken to give the oil-lamp fair pi:lY." it r. /'.16 28-jet gas-burner was afterwards made to bur:ct'g , c hit 4 when observed from Poolbeg, a very brilliant ligh , obe se says Professor Tyndall, "it was impossible t 0 fit• O of the two lights was test. Captain Rob erts ham, and myself were unanimous on this re "f t ! in 7,, subsequent trials were magnificently interesting' °f eeen 9.50 an oiled calico screen was placed in fr°ll :ov t , 4 . 11 light ; the gas flame had slightly the adventstgu"pereior!" oil in penetrative power. The same feeble 15dry was manifested when an additional screen 01 and a sheet of muffled glass were added to th! t ' bur een 10 p.m. we passed from the 28 - jet to the 68:J13,00°1ft The decided superiority of the:gas flame was in 3 of lig " ' I° 3 apparent ;it exhibited a very brilliant globe _ added' 10.10 the 6th and 7th rings of the burner wer, u , jets being now employed; the light the oil-flame, which, when burning alone, 511 ° 73e n f the I appeared to shrink and pale before the WO " was trulY4Liotils: jet burner." The Rev. Rneevw. preaching Thomas is announeedo,m, " sensation" has 10 1 0 1° near ed. dated fro v n er : described as years of age, and only an lo ch than Tom Thum 2 t. to a she: cl o du b ia. l y e n , u t h m e b of "youthfulservEi c esnag:leis:o,llo7lcl ' ate , The Derby 3/ J. R. Selwynl Buxton, and received frele tbe piety to t cl h o e ct n o e r r t v h t e s i s n k k a s (his lordship's sc n) :—" I inn glad to 13° 1030 state that the Bishop is slowly improving in health, t _ a io ho is still sleeps b r eb e s s ectrtieber the t : faconolrolboy:i 0:11:10:::::0, able to a w iv e d l e i l i a v k o i horlfimoaP,bout two hours every 'l e i; e t, of , r s e very much out of order." oshifeo O niia n rlsvi l esr V .ammi e i d rua. nesd ay, at the Norwich Elotion fr t COT /11 1 1°. Beverley,tive interest. rlVdy T i'l The £lOO o c t.ih e l r e , oo s o t l a dw t e aL d si bcg that irva el a n : gtaehnset:c x i ericoe on 0:1: :eri.0::!: Samuel Bignold, who was returned in the L' el ' ° At r y parliamentary te odns a h l e lo lm th d e o not take a bribe Win a ce t ed tl n l e e A,eo 0 . 1 ho voted for Keane, the Liberal candidate, att' r , : ft , 0 0 '1 1854 e, io:neteeionfosrfottriethCoolsieberv:atii:l: 016: 1859 he voted for the Conservative, and got £ 2. —, ice election being toldhe received 155., and voted for the Conso rt pt be Nv Ile:me that they were in "for the double event." Wednesday, election. e eiu. freeman Ar; atnibeecilasPt:ce:3:l:o, it a confirmed this man's statements. ___ -_----.....------ ew gunvessel Favourite, A <Of The screw in spaid off at Portsmouth yesterday WO P n the third-class steam reserve. WO The troopship Simoom, Capt• Lethbridge, dot removed from the Warrior dock- at rortsa)foti yesterday, after having had her bottom c lean c " for e newly coated with anti -fouling composition, lie preparing for further troop service. rlet t ' Captain Lo- liteca Tu Li esda it y - . G G.C e l3 . .9 having returned from leave of ah se 00 eneral the Hon. Sir James l'orke Sea ace, resumed command at the Aldershott Divisio3 Commander E. H. !Murray i e AP' pointed to her Majesty's ship Virago, vice Billg " superseded. Ca t ' The armour-plated screw - ship Warrior, ,iii., 11. Boys, arrived at Spithead yesterday frora ! r , i i , mouth, exchanging salutes with the Duke of 11 ` e lington, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir J. 11 1 1 :0 K.C.B. Capt. Boys leaves the IVarrior to joini 1,0 was vice iii, Excellent gunnery ship at Portsmouth, and I ' 4l succeeded by Capt. Stirling. f