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IMPERIAL LAND COMPANY of MAR SEILLES and CONSOLIDATED LAND COM PANY of PRANCE. The Holders of Debentures and other CREDITORS of the above-named Companies are requested and advised to COMMUNICATE. without loss of time, the amount and other particul ars o f th e i r CLAIMS to the Directors of the CREDIT FONCIER of ENGLAND, who were appointed, at the Meeting of Creditors held on the Ist instant, a Committee for giving effect to the resolutions then passed for the removal of the present Liquidators of the Mar seilles Company and the appointment of others in their place. F. MO WATT, Chnirman of the Credit Fonder. St. Clement'a Rouse, Clement's-lane, London, 9th November, 1869. A GENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce commodi les valuable to every householder WO and low. This offers a highlyremuneratireCommission to IradeFmln, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants, &e. Apply with two stamps to R. MARRISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. COHN 14 OSNELT., and CO.'S CHERRY 'N TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay. and imparts a plefwant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. ficl.—Fled Bull Wharf, 93, Upper. T ha mes- street London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. GUA. AMARELLA restores the Human Hail to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of ono of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect inf; this wont: rf ul liquid. It is now offered to the public IL a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bnll Wharf, Angel 'message, 93, Upper Thames street T.ondon.E.C. BRITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION. Ffea(l Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing featnres of this Association are Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. IVII O'S U R AIN GER? LICENSED VrenTAimins' TOBACCONIST, SHEPHERD'S-BUSH. 'I he SPORT [NG EDI I lON of "THE SUN" can be seen at GR UNGER'S Establishment, as above, every evening by Eight o'clock. 'DOOR SICK and HELPLESS CHILDREN. —The ROYAL INFIRMARY for CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge -road. Instituted 1810. Increased PECUNIARY ASSISTANCE is most urgently needed, and solicited, for continuing relief to the poor little suffering inmates at this Hospital. Officr, Waterloo-bridge-road, S.E. Fan! ers- Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 71, Lona bard-sti get ; and Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59,- Strand. SUAI4EO J, F. RENIVI`T, kitcntory. THE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at W. EMITITS Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden town, THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wollington,"Wellington-streoto .3:puad, I "1 1 HE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE MAN.'' F. MOSES & SON (the ORIGINATORS of the READY-MADE CLOTHING SYS TEM) supply Ready-made Clothing equal to Clothing made to measure, and Clothing made to measure equal to the best that can be ebtained.l E. MOSES and SON possess unequalled resources for the MANUFACTURE of :.11.0THING, and are consequently able to .supply the public at lower prices than any other house in the trade. E. MOSES and SON'S STOCK for the WINTER SEASON comprises an immense ssort men t of Overcoats, and every d eserip ion of Clothing bi- all ages, all occasions, sod all easses, in all the newest designs and zua terials. E. MOSES nnil SON give particular at b,ntion to CLOTHING for YOUNG GEN TLEMEN. For the convenience of Ladies neeompa• ying their Sons there is n separate department for this important branch of their business, and it is furnished with a splendid a..sortment of Snits, Overcoats, and Clothing for all occasions, including all the favourite designs azd the most fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punc,unlity, and the easy and accurate system of self-measurn introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should '.e accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will he cheerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. ;1 The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un &Palled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every 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 evening 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 turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, ►IINORIES 83, ALDGATE 34, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATI! 87. A LDGAT E 83, ALDGATE: Sa, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD STREET ,08, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. HEATHER'S TRUST (under the Managemen of the Clothworkers' Company). At a COURT, to be holden nn the Ist December next, this Company will DISTRIBUTE to Six Poor Widows of decayed Housekeepers the Amount divisible under the above Trust, being about £8 to each. Printed forms of appl'cation may be obtained at the Company's Offices, Clothworkers' Hall, Mincing-lane, London. The applicant must insert therein particulars relative to her condition and circnn.stances, and name references from -whom information may be obtained for verifying the same. The application, with certificate of her marriage and a certificate or other proper proof of the death of her hus band, must be left at the Company's Hall previously to the 23d November inst., addressed to OPEN ROBERTS, Clerk. Clothworkers' Hall, Nov., 1869. SHORT SUMMARY OF THE POSITION OF THE PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C. Branch Office-7, King-street, St. James's. The Annual Premium Income of the company, at the close r f t-glg, was £220,978 Os. 10d., and the Total Amount Assured £4.832,197. The Business is , livided under two heads:- - Ist --The General or Ordinary Business, brink the same as that transacted by other Companies , . 2nd—The Industrial or Working Class Assurances. The Premium Income of the General Business was £52,432, and the sum A ssured .£1.562,960. The present value of the lia hility of this Branch by the Carlisle 3 per Cent. Tables, throwing off the entire load ing. wa4 £139,322 15 8 The Premium Income of the Industrial Branch was 168,546, the sum Assured £3,169,237, and the Estimated Reserve 50,000 0 0 £189,322 15 8 The Liability of the Industrial Branch does not admit of being estimated in the same way as that of the General Branch, on account of the very larger proportion of Policies which coast ntly larse, so that the bulk of the assurances are, in fact, risks for abort terms only; the estimated re serve for the liabilities of this Branch of the business is shown by the result of 11 years' experience to be abundantly suffi cient. The Assurance Fund on 31st Decem ber, 1868, was .. £241,301 12 4 The average duration of the whole of the Industrial Policies was considerably under three years. The average age of the Assured in the Industrial Branch was 19 years. A detailed List of Assets can he had on application. 11. HARDEN, Secretary. ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCES. TIIE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE A- COMPANY, in anticipation of the above, beg to Intimate that on all new I , surances now effected there will only b. , payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty for the time between the date of the Order and Midsummer Pay next. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES: Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpool, and Lombard-street, London, CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING. Important Announcement. Increased Share of Life Profits. ALL NEW INSURAN CIS. with Participation, EFFECTED AFTER IST JANUARY, ISCR, will become entitled to an INCREASED SHARE OF THE PROFITS, in accordance with the Resolution passed at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders. JOHN H. McLARRN, Manager. JOHN E. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London, THE LATEST or SPECIAL. EDITION of "THE sUN " every Evening, at Eight o Clork, at Nlr ROBERTS', "The Black Cap, - High-street, Camden-town rr.HE LATE EDITION' of "THE SUN" at J. SMITH'S. 39. Bow-street, Covent-garden. REAT WESTERN RAILWAY. LEAMINGTON AND WARWICKSHIRE Irk; MEETING, November 23d, 24th, 25th, and 26th, 1869. On TUESDAY, NOvember 23d, a FAST SPECIAL TRAIN (Ist and 2d class) will leave PADDINGTON at 9 a.m. for LE.A.IdINGTON and WARWICK, calling at Reading and Oxford only; also a Return Special Train will leave Warwick on Friday, November 26th, at 5.30 p.m., and Leamington at 5.40 p.m., for Paddington, calling at the same stations. Trains leave Paddington for Leamington and Warwick daily (except Sundays) at 6.0 a.m., 8.0 a.m. (3d class), 10.0 a.m., 10.55 a.m. (3d class), 12.30 p.m., 2.20 p.w. (3d class), 3.30 and 6.20 p.m. ; and Warwick for Paddington (calling at Leamington), at 7.10 a.m. (3d class). 7.45 a.m., 9.44 a.m. (3d class), 10.35 a.m., 12.14 p.m., 2.4 p.m. (3d class), 5.52 p.m., and 7.51 p.m. J. GRIERSON, General Manager. Paddington, November, 1869 LONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. SHREWSBURY RACES, Noveml er 15, 1(, 17, 18, and 19, 169. On SUNDAY, November 14, the Express Train leaving EUSTON STATION at 5 o'clock p.m. will be continued through to SHEEWSBURY the same ss on week days, for the conveyance of Passengers, Horses, and Carriages, and will arrive at Shrewsbury at 9.30 p.m. For particulars of Expr, ss Train Service see small bills. W. CA WKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station. November. I8(9. " WW"IN'S RETURN TO LONDON." W. S. WOODIN "AT HOME" with his great Original CARPET BAG and SKETCH-BOOK. OPENING NIGHT—MONDAY, Nov. ?9. Fir.-t Morning Performance, SATURDAY, Dec. 4. The large Room EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly, is now in course of adaptation and decoration. Plan of Stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond street. p OYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Proprietor—Mr. J. S. Sweasey. LW) THE GREATEST NOVELTY IN LONDON IS LE PETIT BLONDIN MiD HIS SISTER BLANCHE, who dance a complete Set of Quadrilles on the Double Tight Rope, without the aid of a Balancing Pole, and perform Feats never attempted by any other Performer, ECLIPSING THE ORIGINAL BLONDIN. Miss Carlotta Verte, Serio-Comic and Dansense ; M. P. Feaster, and Mrs. Macnamara (their first appearance here). Great Success of Mr Louis Lindsay. Miss Louie Sherrington, the fascinating Serio-Comic; Miss Claremont; the Sisters Rushbrcoks ; Mr Rowland Lascelles: and Mr Walter Laburnam. Prices of Admission as usual. Balcony, Gd.; stalls, Is. Mr. P. Corri, Musical Director. ItVir Special Notice.—Mr. J. Husk's (Chairman) Benefit on Friday, Nov. 19. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Rake - -street.— ON VIEW, a PORTRAIT MODEL of the late EARL of DEBBY. Admission, ls.; Children under ten years of age, 6d.; extra rooms, 6d. Open from 11 a.m. till 5 p.m. and from 7 p.m. till 10 p.m. AL RGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL -STREET, The extraordinary success which has attended the production pf the Shadow Dance, with the brilliant and varied effects of the electric light on the groups of dancers that nightly partici pate in it, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance Music Selections presented in the often-changed programmes, have had the gratifying effect of making the i r sent one the most extensively patronize I season since its first opening. The celebrated Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient chef, Signor Luigi Curti, performs the choicest and latest com positions of all distinguished composers —the solos in which are assigned to the eminent ettphonionist, Signor L. Mosca ; Messrs. W. Graves, L. Silberberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mk Thomas Pitts. Professor Italliman M.C. Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 2s. R. R. BRINELL, Proprietor THEA'IRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. R. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA. new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault &lessrs. Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, /oh/. Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Bnekstone. THIS EVENING. at Seven, FAMILY JARS : Mr Compton Mrs E. Fitzwilliam. At a Quarter to Eight, the New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES : Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr..l3raid, Mrßuckstone, jun.; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hill, &c. _ . _ Concluding with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY: Mr Kendall, Miss F. Gwynne, ecc. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, MY PRECIOUS BETSY: Mr Atkins, Mr C. J. Smith, and Miss Eliza Johnstone. At 15 to 8, LOST AT SEA: a London Story. Messrs A. Stir ling, G. Belmore, E. Atkins, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, C. J. Smith, R. Romer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss } liza John stone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray. To 'conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Edmore and Mrs. Leigh Murray. Box-office Open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. OPEN FOR THE WINTER SEASON. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING 'Messrs Asli!ey. D. Leeson, and Misses Maria and Nelly Harris. At 15 to'. THE WILLOW COPSE: Mec , srs R. Phillirs, J. (I. Taylor, A shley. Stuart, W. Rienold, D. Leeson. O. J. Smith R. Romer, W. E. Eburne, Miss Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon. Mrs Addle, Mi s M. Harris. Re. GLO.IIE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. A t 7. 5, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Sir Simon Simple, by Mr. H. J. Byr.`ll. Messrs. .1. o!arke, Parson°, itc Mesdames Hughes. P,erend. and Mrs. Stephens. To conclude with A BREACH OF PROMISE. Box-office open from 1; till 5. H OLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN . THIS EVENING, and during the week (Thursday and Friday excepted) at 7 o'clock, STAT h. SECRETS: Mr George Honey. At 7.45. Lord Lytton's celebrated Play of IHE LADY OF LYONS: Parry Sullivan; Messrs. IV. H. Stephens, Charles I+ orsman, Lin Rayne, Lunt, Evans, &c.; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mrs C. Horsman, &c. To conclude with THE LO CTERY TICKET. On Thursday and Friday (for positively the list times) Moore's great Tragedy or THE GAMESTER. Principal Scenic A rtist—Mr Julian Hicks. Acting Manager—Amon SULLIVAN. II OYAL STRAND THEATRE. i%• Sole lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS : Mr Cl trke. Followed by THE TOODLES Mr Clarke. After which. INO; Messrs Thorne. James, Fenton, Turner Meedamea Sheridan, Newton. Maitland, &c. To conclude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL rrlIF, " SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. It. GLENIE delis ars the LATE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn, 8, Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, 9.55. SPORTING.--J OHN ROBERTS supplies the LI LATEST EDITION of "TH hl SUN " as soon as pub hhed.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. T HE "SUN" NE WSPAPER.-G. R. GENIE, Sporting Library, 4. Connaught-terrnce, Edgeware -road, delivers the LATE FISITION of "THE SUN " at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. 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Brennan, Mac donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED PLUM LS Straw mattresses, chimneys to our houses, silver forks, are all luxuries when compared with the mode of life led by our ancestors a few generations back. The luxuries of a former age have become the objects of daily use in our own. Luxury, if it be moral, is a stimulus to progress, and helps to raise the general level of mankind. It is also a direct and fruitful source of labour and wages. That last word leads to a very important subject. The idea that there is anything degrading in taking wages M. BArDnri.- LART most strongly deprecates. A number of per sons agree together to build a house. Some have money enough to wait for repayment until the house is finished and occupied ; the others have not. The first pay the second for their labour; give them wages, that is, while they—the capitalists—look to be paid hereafter. But they run the risk of not being paid at all, for the house may not be tenanted. There fore they must have a higher rate of compensa tion to induce them to enter upon the under taking. But no wrong is on that account done to labour. If capital does not get thus remunerated for the risk it incurs, there will be less available for works of industry, and though labour may get more in proportion to capital than it gets at present, it will get really less ; and as men are supported by realities, not by relations, this is an important consideration. 'Of late years the attempt has been made to unite the capitalist and the labourer in the same person. It has often succeeded ; it has sometimes failed. The problem to be solved before co-operation can be said to be established is, are workmen sufficiently trained and educated in habits of perseverance and self-denial to be able to bear losses ? If they are, co-operation will succeed; if they are not, it must fail. M. BAUDRILLART devotes a whole chapter to the evils wrought by drunkenness. This, perhaps, is the least thorough portion of his work. For instance, he finds in the misery of the very poor an excuse for drinking, forgetting that it is drinking which has caused the misery. A man who does not drink need not be very poor. A man who does drink will be worse off in proportion as his wages are high, for he will have fuller opportunities for gratifying a habit that ruins both body and soul. Nevertheless there are in M. BAUDRILLART'S pages many forcible argu ments against the ruling vice which cu±ses the working men of both England and France. Few families have shown so large a measure of hereditary ability as the ADAMSES of Massachusetts. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, a man of the highest talent, has just been defeated as Democratic candidate for Governor of his State. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, jun., read an important Essay at the Social Science Meeting of the American Association just held in New York, " On the election of Presidents of the United States ;" and HENRY BROOKS ADAMS is the author of an elaborate paper in the October number of the North Anirican Review "On Civil Service Reform," which has been much discussed by the American press. Considering that the father of these gentle men was the well-known Minister in London dur ing the Civil War, that their grandfather and great-grandfather have interwoven their names into the history of the United States, the family presents a spectacle Fare in the world, for we are more apt to inherit the bad humours and diseases of our progenitors than their ability and virtues. The two subjects treated by these brothers are closely allied. At the meeting of the Social Science Association at Albany in February last the follow ing question was asked in the paper " On Protec tion of the Ballot" :—Can any good reason he suggested why the people of this country should not directly vote for their Presidents as they ever have for their Governors?" The present system not only renders fraudulent voting most unnaturally effec tive, but exactly points out the localities where it is needed to produce result, and almost how many votes are required. Fraud has become a political necessity to counteract fraud. Violations of the ballot are only possible in large cities where voters are unknown to each other and in scattered but law- less communities ; and the question is how to restrict within legal limits these crowded and lawless portions. We answer, by removing the prizes from the grasp of the successful politicians, that is, by reforming and making permanent the posts in the Civil Ser vice. But CHARLES FRANCIS ADA3IS, jun., is dis cussing how the greatest of all the posts, that of the PRESIDENT, is to be filled. We believe that it would be for the interests of the country to lengthen that officer's term, but we feel sure that the country would not be thrown into these rapidly recurring turmoils of excitement if behind the PRESIDENT'S election there were not numberless offices contin gent on it. Few are deeply interested in who is to be King, unless that King does in some way affect themselves or their relatives. It is the personal in terest introduced into the election of a PRESIDENT which has made it of such overwhelming importance to the people, and has led to so much fraud and has hitherto escaped ed on the ground of i,re e corruption. ntia lh o e elections, c contested t r ste y fraud, only by a miracle as it were. This good fortune cannot continue for ever. The subject cannot be too much discussed. The solution If the problem will be arrived at when that system of elections is devised under which the effects of frauds shall be restricted within the narrowest pos sible limits." Mr. ADAMS considers that a direct popular vote would be an improvement on the pre sent system, while he admits that it would be cum brous, liable to fraud, as well as t o grea t d anger i n case of a close vote. " Even New York, whatever that State may be aczustomed to within its own limits," says this paper, "might not see with equani mity vast opposing majorities rolling up from the wilds of Texas to settle some closely. contested election." If the PRESIDENT had not 60,000 posts to give away, would not New York take a calmer view of the question ? or would the hunters for votes on the wilds of Texas be found so, ready and nu merous ? So conclusive, however, is this objection considered that while the existing system stands condemned, relief is not looked for in that direction. Therefore the writer falls back on the electoral system conducted by districts. All agree in con sidering a change in the Constitution to be impe rative, and while we desire to take the tuft of hay from under the donkey's nose, by which he is led into these excesses, such papers recommend shackles and restrictions on the animal's movements. The following is the plan suggested : "Two members of ...b. ...allege, rospresenting the United States Senators, should be electAd by a vote at large. Each district should elect, also, one member of the college. Any number of thousands of fraudulent votes in a given district could only affect three electoral votes under this system, instead of 33, as was tbo case last year, or the grand result, as would be the case under a general popular vote. All incentive to great fraud would thus be removed. The re gu l at i on of th i s su bject is especially re served to the Stat e L eg i slatures b y A r ti c le 2, section 1 of the Constitution." Mr. HENRY BROOKS ADAMS criticises the present Administration in his ,Essay on Civil Service Re form. He bla mes G narafor giving way pressure, and di sappointing the pu bli c expec t a ti on by his selecti ons for office. That the public have to the caucus been disappointed is undoubtedly true, but this is more because it looked for something superhuman, ascribing, as it ought not, godli k e attr ib u t es t o the PRESIDENT. Th e e ssayist forc ibl y p a i n t s th e difficulty of the task, which really involves the de struction of a very powerful system of Government, this, too, in th e f ace of an amazing and the overth row of all its p o litical machinery ; apathy on the part of the p eop l e. They elect GRANT, place hi m on the horse, p u t a spear into his hand, an d po i nt out the dragon he is to slay, like ST. GEORGE, and then go quietly home to eat and drink and be merry. But the PRESIDENT is not ST. GEORGE, and after running two or three tilts at the monster, and finding it ca se d i n i mpenetrable scales, with strong and danger ous c l aws, from which he receives a few scratches, he al so returns, takes a railway ticket, and tours abo u t th e country. Then those who d i d not give him even the assistance of their presence, abuse their ch amp i on for having (apparently at least) abandoned the enterprise, leaving the dragon to prey on them. What the Administration did in the way of reform was to economize by cutting down the numb er o f employes, leaving untouched the origin of th e ev il , while pairing away some of its excresences, but what credit do they get for that? Why, Mr, ADAMS talks of those cruel scenes which for uionth4 followed the inatiguatiozz and reduced the city of Washington to such a condition as is caused by an ordinary pestilence or famine. ft must have been a cruel necessity to kind-hearted men to throw out of employment so many clerks ; but whose is the fault—that of the Prince of Politi cians, ANDY JOHNSON, and the system which brings men like him to the front, or of Gen. GRANT? The late President had party friends to satisfy, and while we believe him to have been thoroughly honest per sonally, his training blinded him to the dishonesty of using the Treasury as a means of rewarding his political supporters ; so he appears to have been alike indifferent whether he created a post or signed a criminal's pardon. Tie left the Augean Stables full, and it was GRANT'S unpopular and miserable task, to clear them out. So these "wretched women and worn-out men were ground to death under the wheels of this slow-moving idol of faction ;" but this Juggernaut car is the creation of others, and was set in motion in this case by ANDREW JOHN SON, not by GRANT. The Administration is open to attack where it followed the example, more especially of its last predecessor, and it deserves credit for every effort it has made to get out of the well-worn track. Mr. ADAMS, however, says "it was reserved for the Administration of President GRANT to descend lower than the worst of its pre decessors in the scale of self-degiadation." No thing appears to us so disingenuous, caring as we do neither for Republican nor Democrat, as the per- sistent efforts to describe GRANT'S Administration as a failure. This is the tune to which the corres pondents of the London papers nearly all sing ; but when they come to state facts the music is in much the same harmony with the words, as the " Dead March in Saul" would be at a ball or " The Girl I left Behind Me" at a funeral. Putting aside the reform in the Civil Service, which is GRANT'S her culean task, and one he must not attempt to evade, finance was the great and immedite subject for con sideration. He bad to turn out the thieves ;to reduce the Army, Navy, and superfluous officials ; to take measures for paying off the debt and rais ing to a higher level the credit of the country. So successful has Mr. BounvELL been in all these that, notwithstanding the dislike with which the Demo crats regard him as an avowed Radical leader of the New England type, nothing can be said against him, and even those who were loudest in denunciation when he was placed in office have been forced into silence. And why ? Because his Administration has been marked by ability, good sense, and an honesty which even the American press consider it useless to attempt to tarnish. The fruits, are au extra ordinary reduction in the expenditure, and an equally extraordinary increase in the receipts, as well as a rise of over ten per cent. in the value of the Bonds. Does Mr. ADAMS consider this to be a conspicuous failure? lie contrasts the two Ministers from Massachusetts—Secretary BoUTWELL and Attorney- General HOAR. The Finance Minister he describes as " the type of that narrow political morality which has obtained so general a control of America, the product of caucuses and party promotion." We confess to a partiality for the " narrow political mo rality" which achieves the undeniable results se cured by him. By these he must be judged, notby the opinion of this or that politician, this or that essay- ist, or this or that " able editor." Mr. BOUTWELL is a man in whom the European bondholders have a far greater interest than they are aware of. He has effectually helped to raise the value of their pro perty, and if he can only continue his course, vast numbers, who have scarcely heard his name, will owe him no small debt of gratitude. Judge HOAR is described as ote of that refined class who have been driven from politics, but whom reformers hope to restore. We are not qualified to give an opinion on the work of the Attorney-General, nor can it be judged by the same tests all can apply to that of the Secretary of the Treasury ; but it is passing strange to find members such as the two discussed, belonging toan Administration which, as Mr. ADAMS says, has descended lowest in the scale of degrada tion. We cannot expect the gigantic task of re forming the Civil Service to be performed in a year, for the reason he gives that it involves the whole political machinery of the Republic; nor do we ever hope to see it accomplished, unless the people shake off their apathy. Democratic writers may attempt to fasten the blame on the Administration, but honest men will tell the people that most of it lies at their own door.—Anglo-American Times. THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR IV/GAS. TWENTY-SEVEN LIVES LOST. WIGAN, Tuesday Night. The explosion of fire-damp which took place yes terday afternoon at No. 5 pit of the Moss Hall Coal Company, near the Platt Bridge Station, Hindley, proposes to be a much more serious matter than at first considered. At the time of writing only eight dead bodies have been brought to the surface, but 19 men and boys are reported missing, and there is not the least doubt that 27 lives have already been lost. To this number an addition will i❑ all probability be made in a day or two, for several of those who were brought up alive are so fearfully injured that their recovery is considered impossible. An additional complication now is the firing of the mine, and it may be long, therefore, before the missing bodies are recovered. FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE-(THIS DAY). One of the most exciting, in fact agonising, scenes that has been witnessed for some consider able time on the Surrey side of the river, occurred this morning between the hours cf two and three o'clock. The painful circumstances connected with this d;stressieg affair may be thus briefly narrated —lt appears that a policeman of the M whilst patrolling his beat in Great Suffolk-street, Southwark, noticed an unusual glare of light in the ground floor of the premises belonging to Mr. George Dunton, the proprietor of the Bath Arms, ale and refreshment stores, situate at No. 131, in the before. named thoroughfare. Being con vir.ced that the building was on fire, he at once sprang his rattle, and two men coming up, he de spatched one to fetch the fire-ladders from the police-station, at Stone's-end, and another to call the escape and the engines. This was a work of not more than 5 minutes, but the flatlaCS rolled up the staircase and ignited not fewer than eight rooms of the establishment. At that time there were on the premises the proprietor, his wife, and child, the servant maid, Susan Goddard, between fifteen and sixteen years of age, and three lodgers. None of those persons were able to get down to the door, owing to the violence with which the flames progressed. The police tried to reach the upper floor of the building, but one ladder was too short, and at the same moment persons were seen upon the roof of the house partially obscured with sparks and smoke, and one man was on the third floor window sill almost in a state of nudity. Mr. Superintendent Garforth, of the M division, who came up, and suggested that the two ladders should be spliced toge ther, 'which was done by the man on the window sill throwing some blankets and sheets out of his bedroom, which were tied round two ladders, and the police, with the aid of Mr. Roberts, the proprietor of the Prince of Wales coffee-house, and a friend of his, raised the ladders upon their breasts, and by that expedient the man was enabled to reach terra firma in safety. The other parties who were upon the roof managed to get down at the back, but not before two men were scorched. As soon as the ruins were sufficiently cooled Mr. Illamlyn and some of his men went in search of the serva,:it girl, Susan Goddard, and they found her sn dre ulfully burnt as to prevent any means of identifica .ion. GREAT FIRE AT WAPPING. t the above fire was at its height another one of o more extensive character, but fortunately not of a fatal character, happened in a large sail and rag warehouse in Orange-court, Wapping, which for a time illumined the eastern portion of the metropolis. Mr. Superintendent Swinton, of the London Salvage Corps, with Mr. Gatehouse, tilt; chief officer of the Eastern Division of Brigade, at tended with about a dozen engines, and in spite of a. good supply of water the fire was not extinguished u atit the property was entirely destroyed. TIIEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THTs EVENING, at 7 o'clock, FAMILY JARS. After which. FEW MEN AND OLD ACRES: Mr Buckatone. ConclaclinE with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. TITLE EVENING, at 7. MY PRECIOU 4 BETSY, Followed by LOST A T SIC/1: Mr A. Stirling, Iktr Belmore, Mr E. Atkins, Mr Beveridge, Mr Stephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Homer Miss Rose Leclereq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr if Belmore and airs L Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. TIM EVE:SIMI. at 7, A HOUSEHOLD F kIRY. At ".'S NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr H. J. Byron. And BREACH OF PROMISE. Mr J Clarke and Miss Hughes. PRINCESS'S TH EATRE. THIS EVENING, 7. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. Mr Ashley and the MISSCS Hants. With THE WILLOW COPSE Mr. Benjamin Webster. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLD ORN. THIS EVENTING. at', STATE SECRETS. After which. THE L ‘DY OF LYONS: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vczin &c. And THE LOTTERY TICKET. ROYAT. STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and 111ann geress. Mrs. Swanhoroneh lfris EVENM4. nt 7.30. AM()N-1 TUE BREAKERS: Mr C!arlzp. With TRH TOODLES. ud ISO. Concluding with THE CHOPS (...F THE CHANNEL. CBRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Repots-lark, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Adhlission, Is.; on Mondays, Gd. Children under twelve. ad. ROYAL ALIIA'SEBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS. Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office open fromll to 4. '4 7 41" Pa" ' Sint N:" / „.9 tross LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17, 1869. THE Working Men's International Congresses, which have now become an annual event, shew not only that Socialism still lives, but that it is actively aggressive. It is not content to be a theory ; its advocates are not satisfied to be philosophers. It is a creed, and they are proselytisers. This is a very serious fact, and may well cause anxiety to politicians who can look a• few years ahead. Doubtless great nonsense is talked at these, as at all other congresses. But the mischief is that the men who talk it are thoroughly in earnest, and are as ready to act as they are to talk. GARIBALDI two years ago raved ahout universal peace at Geneva, just before he set out with his red-shirts for Rome. VICTOR HUGO has been indulging in bombast of a similar kind ; and give him the opportunity, and he will be found putting his principles, such as they are, into action in the streets of Paris. The gravity of the position consists in this, that any day events may happen in France which would give the Socialists an opportunity of attempting once more to inaugurate a reign of uni versal peace and brotherhood with a second per formance of the bloody drama of June, 1848. How are we to guard against a fresh outbreak of this "red-fool fury of the Seine ? " We say "we " for it is our affair when our neighbour's house is on fire." Physical force will do something for them and for us. , But we want to kill Socialism, not merely to scotch it; and Socialism being a matter of opinion and belief, is not to be got rid of by massing large bodies of troops in the chief cities. These may prevent a forcible demonstration of Socialism, but cannot eradicate it. What is wanted is something that will convince working men of the inherent unsoundness of their creed, of the harm which its development will work on them. Until this is done, nothing is done. France, which has originated the disease, has also supplied the remedy. That remedy is popular political economy. There is at Vincennes not only a fortress, not only a prison, but a convales cent asylum. Thither the sick from the Paris hospitals are taken in order to recruit their health. Some time ago the EMPRESS suggested that there should be "conferences" at this asylum, with the object of developing the moral and the intellectual energies at the same time that physical strength was being restored. The audience was, of course, not very refined, nor very highly educated ; but it belonged to just that class whence Red Republi cans are taken, just that class which needs instruction in the first principles of political economy. But though low in the social scale, these convalescents are too shrewd to be put off with second-rate teachers. So the EMPRESS has sent them no less illustrious a one than a member of the institute, the author of three works that have been " crowned" by the Academy, and two of them rewarded with the great Monthyon prizes— we refer to M. BAUDRILLART. He has lectured to them on economic errors and prejudices, on capital, luxury, labour, property, wages, associa tion, popular credit, intemperance, taxation, and other like topics. These lectures have just been published, and a most interesting and brilliant volume they make. As internationality is now the order of the day, it would be well if this book were trans lated, and circulated in England and all those other countries between which there is a reciprocity of ideas. It is impossible to analyse a work of three hundred and fifty closely printed pages in a few lines ; yet we will attempt to give some idea of the book in order to induce our readers to study it for themselves. M. BA UDRILLAILT is amusingly sarcastic upon FOURIER and those other social reformers, who, believing that GOD is absent from the world which He has madb, have kindly undertaken the heroic task of supplying the place of the missing Deity in order to save us from ruin. Theirs is a strange method of procedure. They would obtain universal harmony by letting loose all the passions ; they would construct their ideal city out of the seven deadly sins. M. BAU DRILLART then goes on to correct the popular error that money is synonymous with riches. From this error arises the equally false notion that money ought not to go out of a country. Circulation is one thing, and production is another, and a very different thing. The first is of little avail unless it stimulates the second. With a passing compliment to English workmen, who are declared to be much better political economists than the French—too good in fact to be communists-31. BAUDRILLAUT proceeds to demolish communism in a few terse sentences. It is opposed to the principles of individual responsibility and worth, and it converts the man into a mere cipher, the people into a herd. There are other errors to be encountered. For instance, some persons place the source of riches in gold, others in land. Neither of these is of any value except so far as man makes them of value. Therefore education is the true sole ' tion of most economic difficulties. It teaches us among other things that if the wants of the consumer exceed the means of production, there is misery; if there is an equilibrium, there is stagnation ; if pro duction exceeds consumption so as to permit of an excess which can be put by, there is progress. There are three great instruments of production ; the soil and natural agents, labour, and capital. It is a common error to confound the means of consumption with capital. A man hills a stag, and after satisfy ing his hunger with a portion of the flesh, puts by the rest for another meal, and so creates a consump tion fund. But there is nothing saved with the object of producing and obtaining a new product from the article saved. But if he makes of the stag's horn a weapon for the chase, he creates a means of productive capital. There is a material, and there is an immaterial capital. The second is not less -valu able than the first. If civilised Europe were to be subjecte I to a new invasion of barbarians who should destroy our railways and telegraphs, the knowledge of the way to construct railways and telegraphs would still remain with our engineers, and be avail able for fresh works. M. BA UDRILLART then enters upon the difficult question of the lawfulness of luxury. Premising that it is the duty of every man to produce more than he consumes, h e a im b ow luzury is really a. pleatii;nl of degree, BEVERLEY ELECTION COMMISSIOY. The Beverley Election Commissioners—Mr. Sorjeant O'Brien, Mr. Barstow, and Mr. Famersham Cox—reassem bled in the Tea Room of the House of Commons on Tuesday morning. Mr. D. D. Keene, Q.C., was the first witness called. He had, he said, been a candidate for Beverley in consequence of a requisition signed by 495 persons, which was the number who subsequently voted for him. He had a communication with Mr. Todd on the subject in the middle of June, but nothing was then said about money. The only arrangement made was with his (Mr. Keene's) brother, that he should see to the expenses, and that the witness would repay them. That conversation took place about ten days before the election. The sum of £5OO was mentioned, but his brother knew that if he paid five times the amount he would be repaid. There was a petition against the return of Sir Henry Edwards, but he (the witness) was no party to it. After his brother had gone down to Beverley he thought there was a disposition in favour of the Liberal party, and stated his opinion that £7OO would pay the expenses. In reply to farther questions, the witness said he knew nothing about the way in which the money was spent, and that he had only canvassed a portion of the borough. Mr. Rose, of the firm cf Baxter, Rose, and Norton, par liamentary agents, was the next witness appointed to be examined. When, however, his name was called, a tole gram was banded in to the commissioners by a clerk, which stated that Mr. Rose was unavoidably detained at Brighton, but could be in London and appear for examina tion any time after two o'clock in the afternoon or the morning. The inquiry was thereupon adjourned till to-day. HEATHENISM IN DEVONSHIRE A fow days ago an appeal to the Court of Quarter Sessions at the Castle of Exotcr was made against a conviction at Petty Sessions of two men—one a farmer's son and the other his companion, both of whom had been sentenced to im prisonment, the former for three months, for trespassing in pursuit of game on the property of a neighbouring farmer. The conviction was confirmed, and the men, who had escaped, have been lately apprehended and committed to prison. A contemporary referred to this as a very hard case, and spoke of the prisoners as respectable men. The writer of these lines visited the parish of Nymett Rowland, in North Devon, where these men and other members of the family live. The bead of the family is an old man, and he is the owner of 30 acres of land. On this property he has no house, but in a barn, without windows or doors, he, his wife, his son, three daughters, unmarried, and a numerous pro geny reside. There is scarcely a vestige of furniture in this dilapidated building, and the manner in which these people live is of the rudest, coarsest, and even savage like character. A pit dug in the centre of the barn serves for the dormitory in which the members of the family sleep, with the exception of two of them. These two are a daughter and her friend, and they sleep in a hayrick in an adjacent field. To the clergyman of the parish and the neighbours they behave in the most shameful manner. They sing obscene songs when the reverend gentleman passes ; they perform the most disgusting and nameless acts when he is in the company of ladies; and those who are obnoxious to them they pelt with stones and mud as they go by their wretched domicile. In the summer they may be seen in the fields at work almost in a state of nudity. De predations in the neighbourhood are frequent. Gates and gate-posts, and other objects of utility, often disappear; and threats of violence are common. We may add that members of the family have been several times con victed of offences. And yet these people continue their savage habits to the annoyance and disgust of their neigh bours, treating the remonstrances of the clergyman with mockery, ribaldry, and obscenity, and setting the rules of civilised life at defiance.—Times. Mr. Robartes will probably take the title of Lord Robartes of Truro. Lord Edward Howard is expected to claim the name of Lord Glossop. The Bishop-Elect of Carlisle will be consecrated in York Minster, on the 80th inst., by the Archbishop of York and four other prelates. THE ROMANCE OF CRIME IN 'WOLVERHAMPTON. —On Tuesday, Francis Love surrendered upon his bail in the Petty Sessions Court, Wolverhampton, before the mayor and two other magistrates. The brother-in-law of a county member and a baronet, ho forsook his wife at Mossgate, in North Staffordshire, to follow Mary Plant, his senior by eight or ton years, whom he was charged with robbing of £lOO, under the circumstances recently reported. A technical objection was raised against the prosecutrix being a married woman. The magistrates con sulted, and they reluctantly liberated the prisoner. HONESTY OF SIR CURTIS LAMPSON AND MIL "EAnonv.—Sir Curtis and Mr. Peabody frequently worked together. They could thus pull a heavier weight. There was an American railroad they had recommended, and it purchased, in consequence, its iron on credit. It turned out to be a swindle. Of course the ironmasters felt badly, and so did Messrs. Peabody and Lampson, but all parties knew what a commercial recommendation meant— "we believe the thing to be good "—and there the matter was supposed to have ended. After every effort to recover payment from America had failed, Mr. Lampson went to Mr. Peabody and said—" Peabody, we must pay for that iron." " How so ?' replied the latter. "We surely never guaranteed those bonds ; we only recommended them. You thought them safe, and so did I. We cer tainly cannot be held responsible for them." " No, not legally, I know," answered Mr. Lampson. "Nor morally either," rejoined Mr. Peabody. " Perhaps not,' continued Mr. Lampson. "You aro a just man, and so am I. I didn't come to argue the matter. These men ought to be paid, and, by Heaven, they shall be." The iron masters were paid. Mr. Peabody joined with Mr. Lampson in doing it. The case was exceptional, even when tried by the h;ghest code of commercial honour recognised by the merchant princes of the Old World, and redounded to the credit of both. It is satisfactory to add that the railroad company eventually redeemed its bonds. TIIE LATE M. DE SAINTE-BEUVE.—A Paris letter, in the Nord of Brussels, says :—"A curious scene took place at the breaking of the seals in the house of Sainte;- Beuve. The three executors, M. Trouhat, secretary to the late • author, M. Lacaussade, former secretary, and the notary were there with the juge do pair, when some persons unknown came on the scene. The judge was about to break the seals when one of these said, ' I am he mandatory of the Princess Mathilde. I claim in her name a bundle of letters written to the deceased by her •mperial highness' A second said I am a commissary of police. I come to support the demand, and I oppose the opening of the papers.' The executors, having con sulted together, replied:—` Since the question has taken a legal turn the tribunals will decide it. The letters referred to will remain under seal.' A third unknown said :—` I have come from the family of the testator. I oppose the opening of the seals, and still further the execution of the will. We will prove that the testamen• tary document was inveigled and. falsified. It is dated only eight days before death occurred, and we know that M. Sainte-Beuve no longer wrote.° Porn all quarters come people whom nobody knew claiming to be his relations, amongst them being a provincial attorney. This promises a fine lawsuit." A TOWN COUNCILLOR COMMITTED FOR STEAL ING GEESE.—A case of an extraordinary character was heard at the County Magistrates' Office, Reigate. Mr. Henry Wesley, a builder, and a member of the Com mon Council of the borough of Reigate, was charged, with his son, also named Henry Wesley, with stealing two geese, the property of William Lanaway, of Horley, about five miles from Reigate. The evidence went to shcw that on last Saturday morning, about 10 o'clock, the prisoners (although the witnesses were not altogether clear as to their identity) wore seen with a dog and a gun in a cart near Holley, and about the same time they passed through the turnpike gate. After nine o'clock that night the prosecutor had eight geese safe by the side of a pond, and soon after ten o'clock two men, believed to be the prisoners, passed through the gate again in their cart, and in a few minutes after the report of a gun was heard by more than one person. Next morning one goose was found dead in the pond, and two were missing. Informa lion was given to the police, and Inspector Hibbard, from information went on Monday to the house where the elder Wesley lived with his sister. On searching the premises he found sundry indications, such as goose feathers and blood,which confirmed his suspicions, an d in a saucepan which was boiling on the fire he found the necks and giblets of two ecr3e. He then asked no sister of the elder Wesley where she got the gceeo, when, according to his statement, she said that her brother had brought two geese home on Saturday night, and said that they were some that had been shot on the way home from Holley. lie then arrested the elder prisoner, cautioning him against making anystate ment ; and at the same time telling him that ho would ac company him to any respectable tradesman in the town or out of it, if he could show that he had bought the geese. The prisoner did not make any sign of a compliance with the suggestion, and he was taken into custody and locked upfor the night. The son was afterwards apprehended and locked up. The sister of the elder prisoner was called, but she denied that she had ever made the statement imputed to her by the police. On the evidence the magis trate (Mr. Farquhar) thought himself justified in discharg ing the son, but committed the fatint for t r i a l to the Surm§gpions in Decemi. tral/ u1!1r „7,1"-•• l) - • ' 1 ; HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, NOP. 1G• Her Majesty, accompanied by his Majesty the King of the Belgians and her Royal Highness Princess Louise walked out this morning. LATEST MTELL IGENC.B (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YOEK, Nov. IG. The Inman steamship City of London Ar rived out yesterday. The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Russia arrircd out at 7 a.m. to-day. The Guiou steamship Mauhattan arrived here to-day. The lowa (of the Anchor line) also arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 127;,) the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1271 ; the lowest, 127. Sterling Exchange on London lO9. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll5l. . it " 1885 ll3i. 46 " 1867 10-40 66 Illinois ,_. 1151. .... 1071. ... 139 f. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 25 1 0. Petroleum—Standard White 340. Flour, extra state, $5.20c. to $5.80c. Corn, old mixed, sl.Bc. Telegraph communication with the South being interrupted, Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s report of mid-week's cotton receipts has not yet been re ceived. HALIFAX, Nov. 16. The Inman Steamship Company's steamer City of New York arrived here at 3 p.m. to-day ; a l/ well. Heavy weather. OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL. PORT SAID, Nov. 16, Evening• The fetes in inauguration of the Suez Canal hal e commenced by religious ceremonies in the open air , which were performed both by the Ulemas and th e Catholic priests. The latter was concluded by 3 speech and a benediction from Monsignore Bau er ' the almoner of the Empress Eugenie. MonsigOre Bauer applauded the consummation of the work , and thanked the Khedive, who had '° mortalised his reign by co-operation in °Pe of the greatest undertakings that any century had produced. The speaker then dwelt upon th e complete liberty which the Kedive had granted to Christianity, and thanked the Empress Eugenie for the deep sympathy she had displayed with th e work ; and he also thanked M. de Lesieps for th e great exertions he had made to effect its comP le i tion, and the Princes and the Representatives Foreign Powers for their presence. Great enthusiasm prevailed. The Viceroy and his Ministers, the Empress Eugenie, the Austrian Emperor, the Prince s Prussia, Holland, and Hesse, the diplomatic rePre" sentatives of all nations, as well as an immense cow course of distinguished visitors, were present. PRUSSIA. NEuwiED, Nov. 16, Evening. The marriage of Prince Charles of Roumania a na , the Princess Elizabeth of Neuwied was cele yesterday in the presence of the Queen of Pruss ia/ the Grand Duchess of Baden, the Count a nd Countess of Flanders, all the members of the Hohenzollern family, as well as the representat ives of the principal sovereigns in Europe. brateu TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, NOV. 11 . # The Council of Ministers are sitting to-daY consider the reply of the Khedive, which arrival this morning, and in which his Highness 0 1111- stantially concedes all the points demanded by the Sultan, except that one relative to the con tractio n of foreign loans. The English and French Am bassadors have recommended the Sultan to v l3lye that point, which, however, his Majesty is rePre sented as disinclined to do. Should the EgYP ti l question not receive a final solution, Mr. 111° will return to Constantinople after the conclusion 'of the Suez Canal ceremonies without going 03 11l contemplated leave to England. ..* This telegram has been delayed by bad workivg the Turkish lines. FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. IG.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : Bank Shares ...... 2770 30 Ital'an Five 5........ 53 -- Austrian Fives ... ---. ...... Ottoman Loan ... ' '25 Do. Dobt ..... .... ` 4 ' Spanish Threes ~. -4 's 2 2 f Home Debt.....• ...-• Deferred ..... ...• -- Cash Orleans ... Westorn ....., 620 Northern ..• ...... 10 91 Strasburg • • 575 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... sB lk Sardinian 51 • Austrian 7711 Lombard 49 6- 1. - North of Spain 47 Saragossa Roman 4 81 11 per Cont. End of month, — 3 per Cent End of month 7l 55 Credit Mobilier ~ 197 50 Transatlantic 230 Credit Foncier 1650 Paris Gas 1565 - RAILWA' THE VISIT OF THE KING OF 7-lIE BELGIANS TO LNGLAND. 'ace The success of the National Reception Covioll in promoting steps for the presentation of a cebi'a; gratulatory address to the King of the Belgianfga awoke the slumbering energies of the Natio:nal re Association, the principal officers of which showing signs of activity for the same :Purl)°" with the view of forestalling the National Iteeehl); t tion Committee. It was certainly the dal °b National National Volunteer Rifle Association to ha l° ue- f first in the field for thanking the J:ill3g of the Belgians for his hearty reception big the English Volunteers o n their visit t° f or then; kingdom, but it is not now fair to attempt to deprive the National IleceP ti° a Committee of the honou r o f having initiated, an r to a great exte n t p er f ec t e d, th e ar rangeniell ts w f b % presenting such an address to his Majesty. a exertions of the National Reception Conyolittet have, up to the p resen t ti me , m et with the w arnies encouragement ; and it is to be hoped that jea lous will not prevent a successful termination a th eir labours. ,ed The very extensive Distillery now being ere --t a at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE & Co., w ho have PotllLleo, a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish w hisky, 15 called "The Royal Irish Distillery." lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 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