The Sun. — London, England, 1869-11-10 00:00:00

A BEACAS IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. Captain Alexander A. Greig, of Horton Kirby, has been summoned before the county magistrates at Sidcup, Kent, for assaulting Mr. Hamilton Cornwall, a clerk in the Horse Guards, and residing at the Vicarage, Eynsford. Mr. Cornwall said he was returning home by the 4.30 p.m. train from Victoria Station, with a fellow clerk from the Horse Guards, named Willoughby Gordon O'Neil. At Herne-hill they changed carriages into the city portion of the train, and got into a first-class smoking carriage. Witness sat next to the defendant, who gruffly remarked, "I wish you had kept out—you are not wanted here." The conversation then turned on a stormy meeting held at the Darenth Vale Literary Institution. Witness was a member of the Institution Committee, and Captain Greig was one of the subscribers. Captain Greig became excited, and said the institution was ill-managed, which was chiefly the fault of the committee. Witness replied that it was not defendant's paltry subscription whiCh kept the institution up, and that if he or any one else said the committee did not do all in their power to further the interests of the institution, they did not tell the truth. Captain Greig said, "You are a great man in your own estimation, but a great fool in everybody else's." In some further conversation about the institution, wit ness said to the captain, "If you had an atom of spunk in you, you would have attended the meeting and made known your complaints there." Defendant then struck witness a blow in the face with his clenched fist, remaiking, " I will knock you down in the presence of these gentlemen." Witness immediately left the carriage. In cross-examination complainant stated that the blow was slight, and did not disfigure him, or cause him any suffering beyond the feeling of a gentleman who has been insulted by another. The Bench inflicted a fino of and 12s. 6d. costs. Captain Greig was then charged in a second summons with sending a threatening letter to Mr. Cornwall. The Bench dismissed the sum mons. A third and cross summons was then heard, in which Captain Greig summoned Mr. Cornwall for making use of language calculated to produce a breach of the peace, as given in his own evidence. The Bench in this case fined Mr. Cornwall 10s. and costs. GAROTTB ROBBERY AND MURDER The Coroner for East Surrey held an inquiry on Tuesday at Newington, respecting the death of John Baxter, aged 66, a bank messenger. Mrs. Mary Ann Fitt said that the deceased had lodged at her house for the last eight weeks. On Sunday evening, the Ist of August, he left home with the intention of visiting a friend, and as ho did not return during the night she made inquiries about him, and was informed that he had been taken to St. Thomas's Hospital. She went there and found him lying in bed, and he informed witness that he was re turning home about eleven o'clock along King's-row, Wal worth, when he was suddenly seized upon by two men by the neck, who threw him down and rifled his pockets. He further said that he called out " Murder !" and "Police!' but was struck so violently in the face that he became in sensible, and was unable to recollect anything more. games Hill said that between eleven and twelve o'clock on Sunday night, the Ist of August, he was in bed, when he was suddenly awoke by the cries of "Murder !" and !" which arose outside his house. He got out of bed and pulled the window blind aside, and then saw two men scuffling on the ground in the carriage road. He dropped the blind for the purpose of dressing himself, but hearing further cries of " Murder !" lifted it again with the intention of opening the window, when he saw a man in a kneeling position, and another laying hold of him by the neck with one hand and striking him violently in the face with the other. The third person he was unable to see, owing to its being very dark. Several of the neighbours came out, and witness shortly afterwards went to bed, be lieving it to be merely a drunken quarrel. Polite-constable Robert BlTherson said he was on duty in Hill-street, Walworth, on the night in question, when he was called to King's-row, Walworth, and was informed that a man had been knocked down and robbed. He shortly after wards saw the deceased sitting in a chair in front of Mr. Hammond, the builder's, house. There was much blood shout his face, and he said he had been knocked down and violently assaulted by two men who demanded his money, and because he would not give it they rifled lais pockets. Witness asked whether he could give a description of the persons, but he said he could not, as they out their hands over his eyes. Deceased was unable to stand, Ind witness took him on his back to St. Thomas's Hospital. Witness had made every inquiry, but had failed at present )f obtaining any clue to the offenders. George Balwin, a lairymo.n, said that on the night in question he was going ko a stable at the back of his premises to feed his horse, when he heard a man call out, "Murder !" and "Police!" tnd he also heardpersonsaskingformoney. He ran through `.he house to the front door, when he saw a man walk away. sr. ~,„et 7Z cz:en noticed a second man, who looked very pale and trembled on seeing witness. He walked away in the direction of the Walworth-read. The witness, hear i ng groans, proceeded in that direction, and then saw the deceased lying flat on his hack. He would 1)e able to identify one cf the men actin. The nth Fr , Wilt) was dressed in a white " wide-awake," had an overcoat on, which was covered by a smo.k. Mr. Frederick Pollock, surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, received the deceased on the night in question. Upon examining him he found ,he 'sad sustained a fracture of the right thigh bone, which was set, and he was afterwards retained and put to bed. He became in a bodily weak condition, and expired on Friday morning last from the injuries he had received. the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." LAW AND POLICE. THE AFFAIRS OF BARICED'S BANK.—In the Master of the Rolls's Chambers, before the Chief Clerk, Mr. Lording and Mr. Hanson appeared in support of a summons calling apon the latest vendors of Barned's Bank to pay a com promise of £l5 per share as their contribution towards the creditors of the Banking Company. Mr. Hanson said that the accounts relating to the payment required from the latest vendors had taken a very long time to arrange, being very complicated. The call upon the shares was £4O, but though the parties were not unable to pay, it was thought that a compromise to £l5 per share would save a great deal of litigation. There were 755 shares, and £l5 per share would amount to £11,300. The chief clerk said that the 49th general order, stated that compromises could only be made in cases where there was an inability to pay on call. He should therefore adjourn the meeting for the considera tion of the Master of the Rolls. TIIE MBERT LIFE AssuR.A.NcE COMPANY.—Vice-Clian zellor James has heard further arguments on the applica tion to appoint a representative on the part of the policy holders of the Albert. Mr. Chattens, the accountant, was proposed as a paid representative by one section of the shareholders. Another section proposed a committee without payment, and this application was supported by the representative of the Indian policy-holders. A •neeting of the shareholders was said to be in contemplation. Both applications for a repre sentative being refused, a scheme for the recon struction of the company came before his Honour, and was adjourned. INFRINGING A LABEL.—A suit has been brought in the Rolls Court by Messrs. Tonge and Co., cloth manufac turers, of Manchester, against the firm of Ward, Armitage, and Co., commission agents. The plaintiffs are the manufacturers of a mixed fabric of worsted and cotton, known as " Tonge's Chintz Poplins," and their manufac tures bear an embossed ticket or label with those words. The defendants purchased a large number of pieces of similar fabric in the United States, and had them labelled " Tung's Chintz Poplins." The label was not like the plaintiff's with the exception of the words. The defendants, when taxed with the imitation, said it had been done without their knowledge, and undertook that the offence should not be repeated, offering to pay £5O to the Royal Infirmary. They objected, however, to a public acknowledgment on which the plaintiff insisted, and henco the suit. His lordship said it could not be held that the defendants had transgressed in ignorance, as they were legally and morally bound by the act of their manager. They must therefore submit to a decree, with costs, including the hearing of the cause, with an inquiry as to damages to be made at the risk of the plaintiff. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. AT HORNSEY.-At Clerken well Police-court, Henry Tucker, charged with causing the death of a fellow workman at Hornsey by shooting him with a gun, has been committed for trial on the charge of Manslaughter. The Countess Percy gave birth to twins, both girls, at Alnwiek Castle on Sunday morning. Both mother and children are doing well. THE LIVEP.POOL TOWN COUNCIL AND LOAD Dtnzny.—The first meeting of the new Town Council has been held. The following letter from the present Earl of Derby was read Knowsley, Prescot, November sth, 1839.—The Worshipful the Mayor.—Dear Sir,—On behalf of Lady Derby, as well as in my own name, I have to request that you will personally accept, and communicate to your colleagues in the Town Council, rur expression of our deep and sincere gratitude for the high mark of respect paid by you and them to the me mory of my ever-lamented father. Even while the sense of the irreparable loss we have sustained is most strong in our minds, there is consolation in the knowledge that out regrets are shared by the whole English people, and that a life devoted to the national services has closed amidst expressions of national gratitude and esteem.—Believe me, dear sir, faithfully yours, DERBY." The letter was re corded. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. WHITBY. Mr. W. H. Gladstone has addressed a tolerably unanimous meeting of his constituents. The speech of a young politician who seeks re-election pre viously to taking a junior office is not generally remarkable for important statements ; and Mr. Gladstone seems to have made no exception to the rule. He frankly informed the electors that he did not know what the Government land scheme was. But if the Government propose the Ballot, he will "by no means quarrel with the desire of the working men for it "—a cautious declaration which is not much to the purpose. The question is, what will Mr. W. H. Gladstone and the other members of the Government do if an independent Liberal proposes the Ballot ? Nobody doubts that if the Government makes the proposition the Premier's son will sup port it. MR. AYRTON ON GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS. Mr. Ayrton, too, has addressed the electors of the Tower Hamlets, as a preliminary to his re-election after accepting the Chief Commissionership of Public Works. And a very remarkable speech it was. Mr. Ayrton does not charge Free Trade with the present depression in trade. The decline of shipbuilding in East London was, he said, owing simply to the fact that with cheaper iron, coal, and lower wages in the North, vessels could be made there quite as well, and at a less cost. True, the trade had only recently quitted London, but it was simply the rash proceedings of specu lators which had kept it there. Mr. Ayr ton does not believe in reciprocity. This is all very well and in the ordinary course of speechifying; but the rest of Mr. Ayrton's address — that portion in which he speaks about his new office—is really a phenomenon. He describes him self by a series of negatives. He expresses much contempt for public school and university education. His functions do not resemble those of an mdile. He knows nothing of architecture, surveying, sculp ture, painting, or gardening. More than this, it is not his business, he says, to know anything of the occu pations and fine arts which bear upon the duties of a Public Works Commissioner : What he had to do was to see that people in office did not make too many demands on the public purse for public works and buildings; above all, to take care that people who had fancies did not indulge them at the public ex pense, and that nothing was taken out of the national taxes which he did not believe was actually necessary. Such is Mr. Ayrton's opinion of his duties, and of the spirit in which he ought to administer them. The Times declares it to be a disgrace to the country for the only public officer who corresponds to a Minister of Works to betray this mean and niggardly estimate of his functions. SOUTHWARK. Mr. Milner Gibson has declined to stand for South wark. He has no doubt that the electors would have returned him, but his health and other influences will not permit him to prosecute an expensive and labo rious canvass extending over three months. The Conservatives intend to make a fight in this borough, hoping that between the two stools of a moderate Liberal and a working man's candidate their oppo nents will not fail to come to the ground. CHESTER. Some doubt appears to exist as to the probable Liberal candidate for this city. The Liverpool Mercury states that the Hon. Norman Grosvenor, son of Lord Ebury, has been named by the Marquis of Westminster as one he would wish to see succeed him, and the leading Liberals of all shades have agreed to support him. This being the case (continues our contemporary), any attempt by the Conservative party to put forth a candidate for the representation of Chester will be futile. On the other hand, the Advertiser announces that Captain Grosvenor, the eldest son of Lord Ebury, and the senior repre sentative of Westminster, intends vacating his seat, in order to stand for Chester. Should ho decide upon this course (says the Advertiser), General Peel will come forward in the Conservative interest, for Westminster, and Sir John Lubbock is spoken of as the Liberal candi date. THE IRISH SEATS. The arrival of the writs at Waterford and Tip perary have not yet introduced any party element into the electoral contests at these two places. At the first there are three Liberal candidates—Mr. B. Osborne, Sir H. Barron, and Mr. G rubb. The rejected of Nottingham, Mr. Osborne, is assisted in his canvass by Mr. Blake, the late member, and as ho does not mind going the " whole hog " of Irish demands, he is a popular candidate. No Conservative has yet come Corward. Mr. Heron, Q.C., may be opposed in Tip perary by Mr. Peter Gill, who represents the Fenian interest, and has a large following of the lower orders. But Mr. Heron is very advanced, and with his fixity of tenure and sectarian education doctrines. he seeni3 to satisfy the tenantry without any special Fenian flavour. CONSERVATISM IN TILL METROPOLIS, The Cons •rvatives of London some time ar-o founded an association for ti;L: r of their ,1,.. Ana their Cal ._(.3 nc,...- cultivation, for London Toryism has grievously run to seed of late. One seat was gained last autumn, but all the rest, new and old, were won by the Liberals, in most cases ny thousands of votes. To counteract this Anarchic tendency the association was formed, and it has just held its second annual meeting. Mr. Charley, M.P., presided. The objects of the society, he explained, were to educate the people, to get Liberals off the register, and get Conservatives on. What could be more beautifully simple than such a programme ? If the association can turn only five thousand enemies off the register in most of the London boroughs, and elevate only five thousand of its friends, the work is done. Some may think that the job, though simple, is of - slightly formidable magnitude; but, then, lock at the magnitude of the reward. Thorn has been—so says the report of the Association—a complete break-down of the Liberal policy. In foreign matters, commerce, the colonies, and Ireland, the Gladstone Ministry has comp'etely failed, and disgusted the country. The reaction, the society thinks, is coming. Is not this encouragement to attempt any . enterprise, even the political conversion of the stiff-necked metro polis ? EDUCATION. We mentioned recently that the inhabitants of New castle were moving in the matter of education. We have now to record a meeting of schoolmasters in the Northern town. They agreed in favour of compul sory education and local rates, but did not discuss the "religious difficulty." They first demanded a Minister of Education. With regard to the manner of compulsion, they would have that every child should pass Standard VI. of the Revised Code before being allowed to work. After being allowed to labour, and until 18, everyone should be compelled to attend. a night-school for technical education. The latter provision is surely a harsh one, without some condition of restricting the hours of labour more severe. THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE IRISH CHURCH. The decision of the Irish Church Episcopacy to form and vote as a separate order or House in the new body is being very strongly criticised. Those who favour a single house are now—arguments on the merits of the question failing to convince— beginning to denounce the proposed course as illegal. The clause of the Act which gives right to call an assembly, is as follows: And nothing in any act, law, or custom shall prevent the bishops, the clergy, and laity of the said Church-, by such representatives, lay and clerical, and to be elected as they, the said bishops, clergy, and laity shall appoint, from meeting in General Synod or Convention," &c., &c. Those of our readers who are lawyers will perhaps be able to gather for themselves whether the terms of the Act are such as to forbid any gathering except as one house, acting and voting as one body. EXTRA POLICE IN IRELAND. The imposition of a tax for the maintenance of an extra police force at Cappawhite ~since the murder of Mr. Bradshaw has canged much irritation amongst the farmers of that district. The whole assessment was £75 for three months, and about twenty persons were made liable to the tax. Only £2B has been paid, of which sum £2O has been contributed by four persons. The defaulters were summoned at the Petty Sessions, and a lively contest took place between their legal defender and the magistrate. The former declared that the imposition for extra police ought to be levied only upon those persons who were supposed to sympathise with the assassins. There were few in the country, he said, who were not perfectly satisfied that the peasantry of the neigh bourhood had nothing to do with the murder of Mr. Bradshaw, and they were indignant at a slur being cast upon-them. -The wording of 4he Act implied an imputation, and it was passed as a kind of punishment in order to force perso:ls who know anything con cerning an outrage to conic forward and give infor mation. The defendants disclaimed all know ledge of Mr. Bradshaw's murder. The magistrate agreed with this statement. lle was quite sure that the peasantry in no way synipathised with the crime ; but the imposition of a tax for extra police did not imply any imputation. Lltimately a d ec i s i on was given that the defendants must pay; but the magis trate stayed execution in order to have a further opinion on this interesting point. SMALL MOPETITIES. The Times' corninisgcner is now considering the conditions of agricultmal life in Galway and Clare. His letter from this wild legion is chiefly interesting, as sheaving the working of small proprietorships. In 1857 the vast property of the late Marquis of Tho mond was sold by the Encumbered Estates Court, and nurchased in small lots by the occunying tenantry. len years . trial clearly proves that where these pur chasers cultivate the land themselves prosperity and improvement are evident. But where they have sublet their holdings, and turned them selves into landlords, little progress is to be seen, and the sub-tenants feel themselves in the power of a class like the old grasping middle-man. The Com missioner quotes the following evidence : Where Class No. 1 purchased, vast improvements are observable in the way of building, fencing, and, in seine few instances, draining. In a word, they have applied a good deal of labour to the land, and are enjoying the fruits of their labour in the increased value of their holdings. . . . Class No. 2, with few exceptions, had to take the stock from the land to sell it, in order to make up the purchase-money, and then let it to tenants, not at such rent as they themselves held it at, but in some cases at twice and thrice the rent. This class of new landlords has certainly done a vast deal of harm in the country; being themselves hungry for money, they squeeze as much out of their unfortunate tenants as possible. . . . These lands, with an odd exception, are still unimproved, and are likely to remain so. rilE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1869. TILE GORHAM JUDGMENT. It is not a little singular that some of those papers which are now reviling Mr. Gladstone for his advo cacy of comprehension in the Church of Eng land, who are denouncing him as a traitor for appointing Dr. Temple as a bishop—are at the same time endeavouring to discredit him because, iu 1860, ho agreed with Bishop Bloomfield in wishing to exclude Mr. Gorham from the National Church, as that gentleman did not hold the doctrine of baptismal regeneration. Bishop Bloomfield dissented from the judgment of the Privy Council when they decided against the Bishop of Exeter. His lordship was rewarded by the following letter from Mr. Glad stone : It is, I trust, not wholly improper that a layman should write to thank his bishop; and I must be early in offering thanks to your lordship from the bottom of my heart for the act you are to-day announced as having clone on behalf of the Church of England—not the last, I trust, and surely not the least, but the greatest in a line of services as long and bright as adorns the name of any of the pre lates of modern times ; an act of faith and courage, and of fatherly protection to weaker men, for which Tory name will, I trust, be blessed to the latest generation. The _Record says that "time has proved that the archbishops and the judges were right, and that both Bishop Blomfield and his admiring disciple, Mr. Gladstone, were blinded by prejudice." EMIGRATION. The movement on behalf of the unemployed poor to present a petition to the Queen, praying for assist anco to emigrants, is a reality. Working men are offering copies for signature in a hundred different parts of the metropolis. Very large numbers of names are being affixed. THE FRENCH TREATY. Mr. Edmund Ashworth contributes to the recipro city discussion a searching investigation into the operation of the commercial treaty with France. There can be no doubt that the silk trade of Coventry and Macclesfield has suffered. Our exports of silk to foreign countries generally have remained almost stationary, whilst in the case of France they have dimi nished by one-fourth. Our domestic trade has not been of sufficient extent to counterbalance this deficit; for though the home demand hasimmensely increased, it is the French who chiefly furnish the supply. What is the cause of this superiority ? " Our maim facturers can obtain the raw material at the same price as the French; they probably possess cheaper machinery and cheaper coal, and they escape the expense of importation. This ought to give us a decided advantage in the competition, and yet we are beaten out of the field." Mr. Edmund Ashworth thinks there is only one reason to be assigned—trades unionism. The workmen, by continued struggles with their masters, had so unsettled the trade, and so enhanced the rate of wages, that, even before French competition was in the field, the industry of Coventry and Maccles field had a'ready been curtailed. Some of its branches I ad bo2ii removed to other English towns, and one I,: d been driven to Germany. The French Treaty bee:i the occasion of the falling off, but only thron, h the rate of wages required by the English workmen. " Under these circumstances, a demand for the repeal of the treaty means a demand for the protection of the silk-weavers at the expense of the community. " CRUELTY TO CATTLE. A little while ago Miss Burdett Coutts published a letter in which she pleaded the cause of mercy against the cruel and avoidable sufferings to which animals are so unnecessarily subjected while in transit by railway or by steamboats. This benevolent lady, as usual, has added example to precept. It is now four years since the Scotch Agricultural Society granted a medal to Mr. W. Reid, of Granton, for his improved cattle truck, furnished with spring buffers, and troughs, &c., so as to give fodder and water to cattle in transit; but no specimens of his simple contrivance have ever been brought into use. Miss Coutts, however, has offered to fit up ten of Reid's cattle trucks at Le: own expense for the use of the North British Company, and on Saturday six head were sent from Edinburgh to London in one of these improved conveyances. This is the proper way to solve the difficulty. Everybody knows what are the — v 1,4,,,,,th0 sufferings which cattle vii aI r pin ••••••.--, • r• at," cr of food and water, lack of buffers to the trucks to prevent concussions, and the lack of battens on the floors of the trucks to enable the animals to steady their feet. Then is no difficulty in remedying these evils. The one difficulty is to get the remedies carried into practice. The benevolent persons who are assisting Miss Coutts call loudly for the interference of the Privy Council. TEE OVEREND AND GURNEY CASE. Dr. Thom, who is conducting the Overend and Gurney prosecution, seems baffled at every turn. He got the trial at first appointed for the Cen tral Criminal Court. From thence, however, it was removed to the Court of Queen's Bench. In the Queen's Bench a rule prevails that no one but counsel shall be heard. Dr. Thom thought to "appear on his own behalf," as the phrase is. To obtain counsel would cost money. He has applied for money to the Government, and has been refused : the Crown has been asked to take up the prosecution ; that request has been set aside : Chancery has been called upon to supply the funds, and ,here, again, Dr. Thom was unsuccessful. Finally, the Court of Queen's Bench was asked on Monday to allow the prosecutor to appear personally and as no formal moti on c ou ld be made the Lord Chief Justice told the applitaut that he was out of order, and he had to "resume his seat" CRIME IN LIVERPOOL. The head constable of Liverpool has the pleasure to announce a decrease in the number of larcenies of all kinds committed in the important town which he protects. Last year the total of offences of this kind was 12,0741 this year it is 10,584. But there is one species of iniquity which continues to prosper and flourish unceasingly. Needless to say it is drunken ness. There were 14,451 drunken cases in 1868. There were 18,803 in 1809, and all previous years show much smaller numbers than either of these two. THE POET AND THE SPIRITS. The Spiritualist Committee of the Dialectical Society has, after a long recess, resumed its meetings. Among the first evidence taken before it was that of Mr. Gerald Massey, the poet and mag'sman. He told the committee a most extraordinary and inex plicable story ; one, too, which from the posi tion of Mr. Massey is hardly capable of contradiction. The poet is not a professional spiritualist ; ho holds himself aloof from those who live by wonders, for the reason that many of them are impostors. He does not trouble himself to "try the spirits," yet he would have us believe that he has been in communication with another world. The " medium " was his late wife, who seems to have been weakened nnto death by experiments upon her. He would put her into an electrical sleep, would write something, and put it upon her head, and she would tell what the writing was. She did this once in the presence of the Duke of Argyll and Sir David Brewster. The Duke held her eyes while she read correctly a paper which Sir David held over her head. When Mr. Massey was writing upon the sonnets of Shakspere, a difficulty occurred to him as to two of them. He obtained a stool—a " Planchette " we presume—for his wife ; and from information written out by this stool, guided by Mrs. Massey, his difficulty was removed—the sonnets were shewn to be not genuine. A communication was made also that a child had been murdered and buried in his garden ; the kitchen door slammed and opened in the night, &c. He dug below and discovered bones. The wife, however, became " unsexed " by these phenomena, and did not live long. THE NOVEMBER METEORS. Astronomers are in a state of doubt ; they are un certain as to whether their "grand annual show," the November meteors, will be seen in England this year. One computation says the " shower" will be going on while the sun is shining and making thorn invisible; there would be a great deal to look at if we could only see it at three o'clock in the after noon of Sunday next. But another authority has it that at five a.m. on the succeeding . Monday the shower will be visible at Greenwich. So doubt prevails ; ann tueru IN no alternative DuZ to keep close watch. PRICE OF GOLD. The quotatiSh of gold at Paris Is about at par, and t le short exchange on London is 25f. 15.3. per LI sterling Oncomparing these rates wtth the English Mint price of lia.loo. per ounce for standard gold, it appenrs that gold at the above price is slightly dearer _in Paris than in London FOREIGN NOTES. , THE INDIAN PRESS ONOHE DEFICIT. Considerable irritation seems to exist in India respecting the state of the finances. The Friend of India asks who is to blame, and why has the deficit only now been discovered ? Increased taxation, always unpalatable, is intolerable in a time of peace, and is irritating in the middle of a year of depressed trade and shattered incomes. The evil, it con siders, goes back to the abandonment of Mr. Wilson's policy, and the entrusting of a revenue of 50 millions to mere amateurs. Not one of the so-called finance ministers would have been trusted to manage a bank, and because England cannot or will not send out another James Wilson the work that ought to have been done in 1861 is incomplete in 1869. Sir Richard Temple gets but scant credit for his financial policy. The Jfopissilite thinks that his reign as Financial Minister is at an end, and that it would be a great thing if ho would or could remain absent on leave until he could be nominated to the post of Provincial Administrator for which he is far better qualified. The Pioneer does not give him the whole of the discredit which rests on his department, for he inherited a bad system and mediocre subordinates. But for all that is known he left India for England in a state of perfect complacency with his financial performances. Most of his shortcomings are chiefly negative, but some of the errors in the estimates—such, for instance, as the omission to include in the expenditure £105,230 on account of inte rest on the loans raised this year—ought to have been impossible. Great praise is given by all parties to Lord Mayo for his frankness and promptitude in dealing with the difficulty. AN INDIAN ASSURANCE COMPANY. The Anglo-Indians, having some reason to be dissatisfied with their connection with English assurance offices, are projecting one for themselves. A company is being esta blished, to be called the Bengal and Upper India Life Assurance Company. It is to confine its business to India, to be managed entirely in India, and the whole of its capital is to be invested in Government securities. A meeting was to be held at Meerut on the 16th of October to organise the company, and almost all the shares had been disposed of before that date. EARTHQITAKES IN GERMANY The North German Correspondent states that the recent shocks of earthquake were distinctly felt at Frankfort, Wiesbaden, Mayence, and other places. A correspondent from the first-named city describes the shodk as one of great severity, his house being shaken to its foundations. The Frankfurter Zeitung gives some details of the subterranean commotion at Gross Geran, between Mayence and Darmstadt. Not less than 200 shocks were experienced, seven of them being violent ones. That felt on the 31st of October was so severe that men, women, and children ran into the streets, and horses broke away from their mangers. The inhabitants are in great terror, and dread the fate of Lisbon. BRITISH A3IBRICA. A despatch of considerable importance, addressed by Earl Granville to Governor Musgrove, respecting the Con federation of British Columbia with Canada, has been communicated to Sir John Young. The Colonial Secre tary says . that New Rupert's Land and the North-west Territory are to be united to Canada, and her Majesty's Government is of opinion that British Columbia should also be united with the Dominion. Earl Granville believes that the interests of all the provinces will be more advanced by such a union, and that it will better enable the wealth, credit, and intelligence of the whole to be brought to bear on every part than by each taking care of itself, possibly at the other's expense. The establishment of a British line of communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is evidently more feasible under a single Government. The distance between Ottawa and Victoria presents a diffi culty in the way of immediate union, but that very difficulty will be an advantage if it forces on the completion of easy means of communication. Earl Granville also authorises Governor Musgrove to take such constitutional steps as may pro mote the favourable consideration of the question. The Constitution of British Columbia will, he adds, oblige the Government to enter personally on many questions, such as the condition of the Indian tribes, and the future posi tion of Government accounts, with which otherwise they need not be concerned. AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. On the 26th of October the eighth general meeting of the American Social Science Association was begun in New York. Mr. Samuel Eliot, the president, gave the opening address. He explained the aims of the Asso ciation, and touched upon the work that was before it. Among the projects to be carried into effect during the coming winter was a Handbook for Emigrants to America, with the design of aiding them in finding suit able occupation and settlements. Mr. Spofford, the libra rian of Congress, read an interesting essay cn the Public Libraries of the United States. At the second day's session some valuable papers on important subjects were presented. One, on immigration, inquired into its causes and its value to the country. Assuminz ths inimig,ration into the whole Union to be 300,000 souls per year, the country gains 53a6.500 000 nor or more than $1,000,000 per day. A paper was read on the mode of electing Presidents for the United States, its defects, and its remedy. It declared that all who had considered the subject had arrived at one conclusion, that a change in the Constitution was imperative. Mr. Curtis read a paper on the Civil Service in which he urged the necessity for its reform. The reputation of the service had been ruined. There were in it some men of the highest honour and ability, but these qualities did not make them any surer of their position. The objection to reform showed rather a desire to oppose than reason in opposition. The paper closed with an earnest appeal to the public co nscience and comm o n s en se t o g ra ppl e w ith the trading politicians. The Rings of every kind would resist. Let them resist, the public duty was to rout them. THE FIRST AMERICAN IRON SAILING 'VESSEL. The j'reiv Fork Times gives an account of the first iron sailing vessel built in America. It is a barque called the Iron Age, intended for the carrying trade to Europe and the East. She is 630 tons register, 156 ft. long, 31 9-12 ft. beam, and 18 ft. hold, and is said by her owners to have cost no more than a wooden vessel of the same capacity, to be far more serviceable, being insured at lower rates. The hull is con structed wholly of Pennsylvania iron, which is said to be the best in the world for the purpose, and the wood work of the interior is of American oak and ash. The only imported material is that of the rigging, pumps, chains, and anchors. The workmanship is of a very high order. The cost of the vessel at the ship yard at Wilmington is $lOO per ton, while tho cost of English vessels of corresponding size and quality, is about $94 per ton. The chief item in this difference is the cost of outfit, and the heavy duties on it. There is also a heavy protective tariff on the Pennsylvania iron. The owners first consulted several English and Scotch builders, but finding the pressure of business delayed the executors of their orders, they determined to try what could be done in their own country. They are highly gratified at the result of the experiment, and are confident that if the duty on materials were removed, the Americans could defy all competition in ship building. Their iron is they affirm superior to the English for plating, being more serviceable, and one-eighth of an inch less in thickness than the Mnglish metal. GLOBE THEATRE.--Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and P r incess of Wales and suite honoured the per formances at thi s th ea tre with their presence on Monday During the ev en i ng his Royal Highness sent for Mr. Sefton Parry, and w as pleased to express a wish to see Mr. Byron. The Prince very cordially congratulated Mr. Byron on his piece and his acting. CRYSTAL PALACE. - ne Shilling Day, Tuesday, Nov. 9 . — Admissions by season tickets, 1,341; ditto on payment, 862; total visitors-2, 203 , - . . . LADVEENISEMENT. I Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Indisputable remedies for bad legs, old wounds, sores, and ulcars, if used according to directions given them ; there is no w "nd, bad leg, ulcerous sore, or bad breast, however obstinate or long standing, but will yield to their healing and curative p roper ti es. Numbers of persons who have been patients in severa l o f the large hospitals, and under the care of eminent surg eo ns without deriving the slightest benefit, have b een thoroughly cured by Holloway's Oint ment and Pills. For glandular swellings, tumours, scurvy, and diseases of the skin, there is no medicine than be used with so good an effect. In fact, fo r removin g the worst forms of dis ease d epen d ent u p o n the condition of the blood, these medicin es are i rres i st ible. IADvsaTISEIIENT.f A vo id Medicines: they always aggravate chronic complaints : b u t D u Barr Y's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, w hi c h Yields three times the nourish mentof the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, health y li ver, pure blood, by Du Barry' gularity, anc' energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We ex refreshing sleep, functional re tract a few out of the 68,000 cures:—" The Pope's health restored —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since abandoning all other remedies, be has confined himself eutirels complaint, wasting away, Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,118. —"Rune, July 21, 1866. to Du Barry's llevalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumel a plateful at ever , / meat. It hai, produeed a surprisingly bene flcial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel the most intolerable nervo t u le s b a il g it i y u: lout food tee hig,iy, From tho "Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness do Brohan, of seven years' liver palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and nation, Ilattilency, Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart do Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' ze n r . v ., o , usness, with a nervous dyspepsia. 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The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-OLlceOr ler.— BAH., YDu BARRY and Co., No. 77 Regent street, London; and all Grocers and Chemists AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, Oct. 23. Ile sensation of the week has been Father Hya cinthe, who, since he landed, has been pursued by reporters and the clergy, the sinners and the saints, all alike curious. The Father, in his ill-advised ignorance sought a peaceful asylum in our great Republic; be might as well from a tepid bath he thought too hot have plunged into boiling water. He, avoid our interviewers ? No, sir ; he may know something of the errors of Popery, but it would take the best detective in Europe to escape reporters, although in compassion for his weakness they have not interviewed him to death. I dare say there are not many of your English readers who know what the Father looks like, but he has come to America, and the world will soon know it. He is short, being sft. Sin. ; thick, with close-cut crisp black hair retreating from his forehead. Ile has bright white teeth and rosy cheeks, with au aquiline nose, which looks rather small on his well rounded face. He appears to be about 40 years old, with a meditative eye and aspect. His dress is black, and the reporters express their suprise in a man so renowned having so homely an appear ance. We always associate renown with some thing grand and striking. Sailors have a prejudice against carrying the clergy as passengers, but the Pereire, which took out Father Hyacinthe, has made a wonderfully quick voyage, claiming, in deed, to have made the fastest on record. But this will soon be like our evening papers, each of which is said to have a circulation double that of all the rest combined. If the dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church can accelerate the speed of a steamer, there ought now to be some wonderful runs to Europe, for Archbishops and Bishops are jostled against in every second passenger, all on their way to Rome, whither it is said even Father Hyacinthe may go. I would be curious if he did to know what sort of a dressing he would there get. A reporter tried to " corner" him about his religious views. He considers Protestants to be Christians holding Christian doctrines and being baptized. He lent towards liberality. The Catholic Church is divided into two parties, the Ultramontane, or stand-still party, and the party of progress in both religious and political thought. In his sermons in Notre Dame he attacked the spirit whence came the In quisition ; and at the Peace Congress in Paris he delivered an address advocating peace. The Supe rior of his Convent kept constantly remonstrating, and at last, wearied by this restraint, the monk quitted the Convent, and the Superior gave him ten days to return or be excommunicated, whereon he embarked for America. He remains a priest, al though not in good odour at Rome, and intends to remain in his Church. He has left the hotel, and taken up his residence with a friend in Brooklyn, to escape the interviewers, who to his intense annoy ance publish imaginary conversations, attributing to him all sorts of opinions. The Episcopal Church of St. Ann's, erected at Brooklyn at a cost of $350,000, was opened on Wednesday, Bishop Nl'llvaine, of Ohio, preaching. He believes that the Second Advent draws near. lie alluded to the Ritualistic practices as calculated by their gorgeous ceremonies and obscure meanings to deceive hiding man from himself, whereby he may be deluded into the belief that he is alive unto God and growing in grace. Freights are rising in consequence of shipments of grain. The committee of the Cham ber of Commerce, appointed to consider the com munication regarding the drawback for tare on cotton as recommended by Liverpool, have re ported adversely to the application. Next to Father Hyacinthe the statements of the gold ring regarding the President's connection have occupied public attention. The regret is universally ex dressed that General Grant's good nature should have permitted him to• tolerate acquaintances of such a character. There was a rumour that another combination is forming to lock up money and " hear" railway shares and other stocks, especially those of the Vanderbiltlines. It is probable that some remedy may be discovered for punishing these con spirators against trade, and it is certain that Con gress will take up the subject. The effect is damaging to the commerce of the country, and tends to make gamblers of all trwlers. The Pacific Mail Company are negotiating a new rate of fares with the directors of the Panama iiaieroad, but the result is not yet known, though it will doubtless end in reducing passage rates. The trade with California is depressed. The Hon. Samuel B. Ruggles, now in Europe, is to proceed to Suez for the opening of the Canal to represent our Chamber of Commerce. Mr. F. Underhill has been elected president of the Gold Room for next year, vice Mr. Cox, who received thanks. The suits are progressing in the Supreme Court Cham bers against Cox and others to compel the Gold Exchange to settle the gold transactions of the 24th September. Mr. Jordan, the receiver appointed by the Court, has announced to the creditors that he is prepared to pay 25 per cent. on the adjusted claims. During the panic four per cent. per day interest was charged in some cases in carrying over contracts, but a pawnbroker has just been punished for charging daily a quarter of a dollar interest on a loan of two dollars ; this was twelve and a half per cent a day. IV hat a conscience the man mus have ! Marshal Barlow has both work and re sponsibility falling heavily on his shoulders for the operations of the Cuban patriots ; the Anna, a steam yacht is now detained by him on suspicion. We are holding a sort of (Ecumenical Council of Evangelical Churches. The Rev. Dr. Matthews was chosen president, and the evils of schism and the importance of unity was one of the first sub jects discussed. Bishop M'llvaine and numerous eloquent preachers spoke, among them Beecher, and the Council made a declaration of principles, which amounts to the Union of all orthodox churches. The lawyers, too, have made a formal appeal in behalf of the New York bar, in favour of the new Constitution. The Woman's Parliament has had a preliminary meeting, but they exclude reporters, and see no fun in banter. While they are de nouncing the male tyrants, the latter are laughing at the rebellious slaves in the newspapers, and the slaves having excluded the reporters, furnish very piano accounts of their own doings. Mr. Fisk, jun., has been giving evidence about his residence, and he has availed himself of his ancient peddling pro fession to disclaim any residence. He says he re sides at No. 313, West Twenty-third -street. He had been separated from his wife and had no chil dren, his wife resides at Boston, and on the door plate is Fisk's name. He purchased and fitted up a residence for Mrs. Mansfield, where a witness swears Fisk frequently lodged and boarded. He was assessed as a citizen of Boston, his horses and carriages also were kept there. The object was to set aside the attachments against theGrandOpera-house, on the ground of Mr. Fisk's non-residence. There has been a meeting of delegates from Buffalo, Susquehanna, and Port Jervis, when a general strike was resolved on along the Erie Road among the labourers. The men had told the manager, Jim Fisk, as they call him, that if they were not paid by the 15th inst. they would strike the next day. Fisk had said that if they aid not receive their pay before the 16th they might quit work, and failing to pay, he endeavoured to excuse the default by asserting that the freshets had delayed the money. A cooler shuffler never lived. On the one hand he is at the bottom of a conspiracy to levy a toll on the trade of New York, regardless of the ruin he in flicts and the derangement to the trade of the coun try. On the other hand, he leaves the workmen of the hue unpaid till the defrauded labourers strike and derange the traffic of the road. Ile then attempts to puzzle a court as to whether he has a lee 1 habi• tat:on and a name, while he is filling up the news papers with affidavits and statements to prove the President's complicity with his scheine:% Eight hundred men make their work felt on the new Post office. The area all, with a base of 25 feet below the side walk, has reached the length of 400 feet. The concrete foundation of the main vans are nearly complete. 'I he granite pillars, coming from _Maine, not having arrived had delayed the work, but they are expected immediately. WasmNaToN, Oct. 22. Our citizens have got up a memorial to bring their grievances before Congress. They com plain of impediments placed in the way of the Distrizt of Columbia, to which no other part of the Union is subjected, preventing various im provements, and not only neglecting the work, but choking others off doing it, even to the paving of the streets. "We asked of Congress," it says, " the privilege of paving Pennsylvania avenue at the expense of the property holders, al though the Government is holding jurisdiction over all the avenues, and under solemn compact to pave and keep in order the same. As yet we have failed to obtain any law enabling us to act in any of the above-mentioned cases. 'We hope that jus tice may yet be accorded to us by your honourable body, and that such laws may be granted us as will place us on equal footing with other cities in other States, and that this mixed and uncertain power be abolished. Should it be deemed inexpedient, and we should still fail to obtain redress at your hands, we respectfully ask your honourable bodies to place the District of Columbia under the laws and government of the State of Maryland, the State of Massachusetts, or any other that may be deemed proper." Even the power of substituting a hand some building for the discreditable sheds on Penn sylvania-avenue, known as the Market House, has not been conceded, although the citizens have sub scribed the necessary funds. Naturally the minds of property-holders turn in fear to the threatened remo val of the seat of Government. They consider it rea sonable that agreat nation like our's should take pride in the permanent location of the capital, in the pos session of grand and stately buildings, taking twenty years to erect, arguing that the constant agitation retards improvement, and lessens the comforts of the officials by checking the erection of houses and in creasing the expenses of living. This agitation is, too, in the face of an Act of Congress, permanently locating the Goverment here. Our real estate holders are very tender as regards our comfort, but in my own person I have not yet realised their generosity. The National Intelligencer has again changed hands, a new editor having been installed. Mr. Moriarty, the president of the Irish Association of Philadelphia, has been doing his best here in be half of the Fenian prisoners confined in " British Bastilles," as the phrase goes. He has had inter views both with the President and with the Secretary of State, who have rather abothering way of referring such applicants to each other. The President does not hesitate to say that his sympathies are with the prisoners, but this can do the people in gaol little good, while the Fenian leaders loudly assert it to be the duty of our Government to insist upon their be ing set at liberty. The President replies that he would be highly gratified at their release, and refers the delegation, of which he has received many on the same subject, to Secretary Fish. That gentlema❑ assures Mr. Moriarty that he has already exerted his influence, and that he will continue to exert his influence, and always uphold the rights of our citi zens abroad. They have had a scare in Canada about these Fenians, and I suppose as long as they continue to create these scares Mr. Gladstone will be afraid to let out those he has captured, however anxious he may be to be rid of them at any price. There was a grand wedding at a Presbyterian Church, Mr. Baston, assistant cashier of the Freed men's Savings Bank, being the coloured bridegroom, and the daughter of the cashier of that bank, Annie Wilson, a young lady of dark complexion, being the bride. She contrasted sweetly with her white satin, trimmed with blonde and lace. General Howard of course took a conspicuous place in the ceremonies, and there was a gentleman present about whom you may have heard, ex-President Roberts of Liberia. The bride and bridegroom started imme- diately to New York on their wedding tour. The case is being tried of Texas against George Peabody and Co., and according to Judgeraschal the alleged facts are that in 1862 the Military Board of Texas ap pointed Mr. John M. Swisher to sell 300 of the Texas Endemnity bonds iu Europe ; that Droege and Co. were employed by Swisher to effect the sale ; that 149 of these bonds were offered to George Peabody and Co., who detached the coupons and sent them to New York for redemption, conceal ing the fact that the bonds were not indorsed by the Governor of Texas ; that these coupons were cashed by the Assistant-Treasurer at New York on presentation by Dabney Morgan and Co., where upon George Peabody and Co. purchased the 149 hoods. but afterwards enjoined the money in th, hands of Proege and Co., on the ground that the circular of Mr. Chase had given notice that these unindorsed bonds would not be paid; that in Oct., 1866, the bonds were redeemed, and the money paid to Dabney Morgan and Co. for George Peabody and Co. ; that all the parties had notice of the necessity of the indorsement, and of the Rebel purposes for which the bonds were being used. The remaining 151 bonds are still in the hands of Droege and Co. The amount involved is $350,000 in gold. George Peabody and Co., Dabney Mor gan and Co., and Droege and Co. are made parties. When the case has been heard I have no doubt it will assume a very different appearance. The impres sion here is that the Hon. William Windom will be elected United States Senator by Minnesota, which will in that case transfer him from the House of Representatives to the Senate. The tide appears to be turning against Andrew Johnson, and many here have some confidence that be will not be suc cessful. Governor Merrill will probably succeed Se nator Grimes, but Representative Allison is strongly supported, and he may be the choice of lowa. The Post-office Department receive many complaints on the subject of the late deliveries of the mails. There has been more trouble, as you may conjec ture, in this Department than perhaps in any other, as our country is so vast that it really is much to the credit of our organizing powers that the mails can be worked so well. The chief complaints are from New York City, where, it is said, that letters dropped in the box in the afternoon remain there all night. What detains the trains from that city I know not, but they are sometimes hours behind, and have lately been very irregular. It is said that the Money-order Division progresses favourably, re turning a large revenue at a small outlay. It has been in operation four years, and during the fiscal year, ending June 30, the sums transmitted reached $46,000,000; you may reckon the increase, as the previous year yielded only over $16,000,000. That ceaseless intrigue for place continues at work to oust the incumbents, and to fill the offices of the Senate with new men, who are pronounced to have better claims. If an official does the work well for which he is paid it may form a claim on his country, but gives him none on his party. While he is doing the drudgery of Government a politician may be actively on the "stump" to aid an election, and that man is rolling up claims which the party must meet, while those of the office-holder are vanishing. If rotation in office arrives at the point of turning out old members of the party trained to the Govern ment work to make way for new members of the same party with claims of a later date, then I foresee a chance for the Bill of the Representative from Rhode Island. Secretary Boutwell has taken high ground in Texas, having issued an order for the removal of every office-holder in the Treasury De- partment in that State who favours Hamilton's election as Governor. The empldgis of the Gal veston Custom-house and at Brownville feel this ; but so does the ;Secretary, who will be made to feel it more before long. It is, however, in keep ing with party tradition, and Mr. Boutwell is es sentially a party man, never having professed to be anything else, awl it was known when he was no minated to the pest that he would act as he now does. Mr. Thomas Clyde, of Philadelphia, has purchased the ironclad Algonquin for $30,000 on her 'ejection by the Ilaytien Government, which duchnal the purchase on our naval officers re fusing to tal_ • .e her to sea on trial, as the cost would have been a third of the sum to be paid for the ship. Mr. Clyde - has also bought the _ _ paddle steamer the Shamokin for $25,000. A sin gular instance is reported from Tazewell County, Llinois, showing the difference between the revenue as formerly collected and now. Supervisor Bloomfield reports to Commisioner Delano that the county for the year ending September 20, 1868, paid a revenue tax of $134,000 from all sources, and fur the year ending September 20, 1869, paid a tax of SHB,OOO. During the former year all of the dis tilleries in Pekin were run most of the time, and the tax for the greater part of that period wag t wo dollars per gallon. During the past year only one distillery was run continuously, and it alone paid tax of $135,000, being more than the whole county paid the previous year. Supervisor Barbour has resigned, in view of the increased work thrown o e the post by enlarging his district to all the New England States, and it is not easy to fie ' qualified candidates who will accept it. B erman Grodt of St. Paul, Minnesota, being conv icted of aiding a distiller in robbing the reven ue was sentenced to pay a fine of 500 dollars' ;and to be imprisoned for 18 months. Th e distille r, Wherman, has absconded. In the Supreme G° llr e Judge Ewing fell insensibl e w h en arguing a e f s ,, in which he had b een counse l f or 20 years. D' u was much excited by the argument of Mr. and was speaking wLh unusual energy, when, feel ing ill, he was all owe d t o s it, b u t, a s he was pro ceeding, fell from his chair in a state of un c°l ' ; seiousness. Physicians were summoned, but i t ` vas two or three hours befor e he rec ov ered, and be now r ‘ lies at the Capitol in a precarious state. The Ccint ts immediately adjourned, Judges and coun sell° hurrying to the side of the old lawyer, who is AP' proaching his 80th year. LONDON GAZET TE —Last 'Evening. DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 8. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Anthony t; grave, Esq., to be Governor and Commander-in -011ie' the Colony of British Columbia and its Dependencies' WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 9- „ D g 2d Regiment of Life Guards —Lieutenant Frederick 1°"-A, to be Captain; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant gt'or Richard, Viscount Downe, to be Lieutenant ; ; Robert Toler, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieuteani' . . BREVET. 10 0 Lieut.-Colonel Edward Brown, retired on pensio o l 1 Foot, to have the honorary rank of Colonel. rtr Lieut.-Colonel George Beresford Brydgeslcae° , t he tired full pay, Royal (iate Madras) Artillery, to b are honorary Captain rank of re Colonel. „or, and Bvet-Major Charles Metcalfe Wu -- Bengal Staff Corps, to be Lieut.-Colonel. The following promotions to take place in continua of that which has been made in succession to hitliur-e F. Adams, C. 8., deceased:— , n d Captain and Brevet-Major Charles William Al e— ° 1 Payne, half-pay, Unattached, to be Li eu tenant-CoVi ° r. Captain Thomas Fraser Dixon, 39th Foot, to b e ',51.,t0 The following promotions to take place in succ ess ` °- Major-General Egerton Charles William Miles who died on the 23d October, 1869 : out . ' Brevet-Colones Alexander Maxwell, C. 8., from Colonel, half-pay, 46th Foot, to be Major-Gener aL ; it of Captain and Brevet-Major Digby St. Vincent BO - ° t. Unattached, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Li eute°- Colonel. 7 1 t 11 Captain William Molesworth C. Acton, half - P a, ' •ot Foot, Superintending Officer of the Recruitiog Glasgow, to be Major. a t he The under-mentioned Officers, having colliPx ° o t n i e 00 qualifying service with the rank of Lieutenan t-v i — sra e r to be Colonels, under the provisions of the For' I rant of 3d February, 1866: h Foot" Lieutenant-Colonel William Kelty 111.'Leod, 74 „ t ;, ar o ' Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Howard Vyse, . 1... " - t ° Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Lennox Peel, 52LIF°°' Pisa! 'LLS7 FOR THE USE OF VISITOR, THE METROPOLIS. TO --- MUSEUS. Antiquarian—Somerset House. M Admission by to the secretary. Ti 001 . Botanic —Royal Botanic S yof London. park. Admission daily orders from felloWs. Gardens, Kew. Open daily, 1 till 6 free. Ar 11 01 g /, British—Great Russell-s reef. Open! f ree on ° t bs I A " Wednesdays, and Frida e, 10 to 4 • s ummer ni,„.° ll ae till 7. 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J. 411 Chief NAVAL ofthe e I ITEMS.—Surgeon Bureau a . for several been Assistant, ordered to the European Squadron. .1:000 and frequently Acting Chief ai P o ba. a p n e ci p ar willtm en t , i s about u-loSf Lit Medicine gbeeoi i r el i ; :a y . nejd; SaTut rriieesrry: s,r :f: Years.—Bear -Admiral Thomas J• nand will been appointed Port-Admiral of-San Francisca, s°;,,lttff y be ar r d eb o 'e n ved from the command of the Mare Islaa a o fth e the Ist of January.— Commander Walk,efbro,itsl", steamer Sabine reports to the Department frora `-'l' board, - tress T e m U e n n i r t e e e d Oct. 1, her arrival there from Lisbon. All well on al c Rear-Admiral Lauman, commander Sta—s fla shi L sailed fr° „t g p ancaster for Rio Janeiro Oct 20• 5 13° 19 : 1k DO Squadron. ..d s li e " captain's order to remove . a sa r i e l e o e r nt f l rom be t e h n e Nor is the administration of the NavY leD- t t ee Besides the trial of Dr. Green, to 0 1301 ' men, for refusing s. i,..iis t, th: t found Guilty, e l a b m ut en the on Se coaclildea ea turoiasltobny of Commander has signals forCtsohme v m ue a n n it d e e d r s S t e a e t l e ey, o f Pau thyo.ofth ic rie S° el Navy has as t all 13 : eg ee t' 11 cruelty to e board retary ti his vessel.etieu 13 announced. may here add that a uniforin ° 1 ; 00 0 States Army and 3V „51111°Ot 13;05t :el adopted. lci, till.:l:cici;elifola ,0 BIRTHS. LAl' vevaisll' HEATH—On the Bth inst ,at 3, Harley - st reet, sq uare , the wife of Charles . Heath, Esq. , of a r 114 0 .jelif HARDEN—On the Bth inst a t Deal, Mrs. V. • of a son. MARRIAGES. 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