The Sun. — London, England, 1869-09-01 00:00:00

F°' TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. 3IOSS and SON Lave made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their business. For trades and ad dresses, see following advertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. The RARE COMBINATION` of EXCEL LENCV with CHEAPNESS will be found in every grticle sold by E..MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all :lasses. Commodious apartments for measuring and fitting. in the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, which contain a very large and diver sified stoa of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for - nun.- Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders front persons who are not known to the firm should I.e accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be rheerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the ..Don.y will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, From which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps. and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for mlgnitude, 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 Establishmonts 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 aro the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTtiBLISIIMENT. 155, MDIORIES 156, 311NORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85. ALDGATE 86, ALDGAT] 87, ALDGATE 88, ALDGAT E ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET %07, 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, TOrrhNHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS, B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION }lead Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association are Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The Report which the directors have now to submit to the proprietors differs in its tenor but little save in one or two particulars from that laid before them in 1868. The income of the year, it will be seen, amounts to £540,499 18s., and the total charge to £445,077 10s. 9d. The difference, £95,422 7s. 3d., added to the balance of the surplus fund at the commencement of the financial year, raised that item to £1,002,974 15s. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, Jusz 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. £ a. d. Dn. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 007,1;52 8 6 Premiums on new assur- X s. d ances 13,566 5 1. Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 371,548 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,508 4 11 Profit and loss, balance of account Total income £1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors, HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF THE SEAR s. d. CR. Dividend to proprietors Jlaints on decease of lives assured .lditions to those under X 0. d. 8,880 4 0 participating policies 24,304 6 6 ?olicies surrendered Re-assurances—now Ditto old 51,009 4 1 405,561 12 1 10,618 11 2 Commission Medical fees 760 18 0 Income tax.. 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16;238 910 436487 6 9 Total charge Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance-sheet • . 1,04974 15 9 £1,448,052 6 6 Tha total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. id., of which sum £13,560 ss. ld. is for new assurances effected in the year. The interest from investments is £120,950 12s. 10d., or £l2s. per cent. on the net amount of the company's realised assets existing in June, 1868 ; and in connection with this important feature of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and loss account again exhibits a considerable profit, amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000. It may be remembered that a profit of nearly equal amount was announced in last year's report. Turning to the items constituting the charge of the year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material; as was observed of a previous occasion, the proper quin quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex ceeds £30",000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management. are greater by nearly £+oo than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the compan)'s securities into the names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, those expenses must be regarded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET, JUNE 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured, and additions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' fund Surplus fund £6,757 17 0 £7,6;5,813 0 10 Examined and approved. TFIOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, ASSETS. Amount invested in fixed mortgages X 1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 1 2 Ditto ditto Temporary secu rities 198,207 17 0 Current interest on the above investments 80,934 4 6 Cash and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the compa ny ' s policies 165,387 1 8 Agents' balances Sundry accounts 57331 7 9 Value of preminr..ts (1867) .... 4,506,167 18 0 aloe of re-P;ssurauces 85,706 14 5 £7,675,813 0 10 The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95,422 7s. Bd. already mentioned, as is shown by the augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. The Direction of tho Company is now constituted as follows : WILLIAM FREDERICK OE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairman. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, Ese., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq. SirJ. BullerEast, Bt., D.C.L. T homas Godfrey Sambrook°, Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq. F.R.S. Admiral Tindal. CharlesTbos.Holeombo,Esq. Right lion. Sir John Young, Joshua. Lockiro d, Esq. Bart.,lCC. B. THE " SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE " NEW FA L " SEW Tlll LOCK-T 1 Rif AND Till: NEW EIIDROIDEEY- S7' ITC IT. Work by Hand and Treadle. and In a Portable Case for Travelling. THE " SINGER " SE WING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. 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Admission, Is.; on Mendays, 6d. Children under twelve, Ad 0.,i13: ,14:11,1-1 111 x, VONDON, WEDESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1869. An appeal in behalf of oar " Gutter Children"— a most moving appeal both from pen and pencil__ has just now been issued from the press by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Anything from the hand of this famous artist would at all times be entitled to consideration. In the present instance, as in so many previous instances, it commandsit. Our attention is arrested at once by the tender humanity, guiding alike the steel nib and the steel point, when pen and pencil are held alternately in the kindly grasp of CRUIESTIANK. It has for a considerable time past been very notice able, in regard to the labours of this skilled man of letters and draughtsman, that, as a ru'e, he works now, really, with a will, only in the cause of charity and in the interests of ben evo - len ce. His favourite clients are the very lowliest among the outcasts of oar civilization. Their extrication from their miseries is wLat he is perpetually striving to see accomplished, and (so far as in any way may lie within his power) t-I aid in accomplishing. The Demon l)rink is his bet e no i re. Non-tea-totallers call it a craze. No matter to him ! He perseveres unflinchingly. He seizes every po.sible and impossible opportunity—whether by writing orby etching, by means of woodcuts, or of graphotype—for the inculation of the blessings of temperance. Long before and long after the publication of his two me morable serial of " The Bottle" and "The Druukard's Children," Gronoz CRUISSIIANIC bad undertaken, systematically, and certainly most earnestly, to deal with the one perilous vice of his age, as WILLIAM HCGARTH dealt with all the varied vices of his generation. " The Bottle" and "The Drunkard's Children" were, in their tragic power and in the startling moral they conveyed, worthy of the genius of the HOGARTH of of our century. But, apart from " The Bottle" and " The Drunkard's Children," there have been pro duced . by the same master-hand, fitfully and at un certain intervals, an extraordinary multitude of little sketches, woodcuts most of them, all inculcating the same moral, often with a painful, now and then svich a pathetic eloquence imposssible to resist. During upwards of sixty years this eminent artist has been conspicuously before the public, as a great and original illustrator—an illus trator not merely of books, but of the age in which he has lived. His reputation links this later half of the nineteenth century with the earlier days after the close of the eighteenth. It connects the time of LEECH and TENNIEL with that of GILRAY and ROWLANDSON. Associated first of all with the grotesque and the comic, the artistic genius of CIWIKSHANK has for a long time past, but more par ticularly during these later years, been employed almost exclusively in the interests of humanity and of morality—the Droll has disappeared in the Philan thropist. His course has been more consistent, in this matter, we believe, than the majority may probably conjecture. It may be said, for example, that his later labours contrast rather strikingly with some of the earliest works with which his name was first of all identified, such for instance as the famous serial produced together by PIERCE EGAN and GEORGE CaunisHaNK-4hat, namely, of Tom and Jerry, of Corinthian Tom and Jerry Juniper. Yet, in point of fact, between Now and Then, there was a distinctly traceable consistency ! For, as is probably but little known now, the earliest issue of that very serial about Tom and Jerry, had inscribed upon it for the first number or so, " Life in London is Death"—the two words we have here italicized being struck out afterwards, as, in their general effect upon the title page, a little too sombre and appalling. Anyhow, for years and years past, GEORGE CRINKSHANK's artistic labours have been not merely, as they were for a long while covertly and consistently, but very openly and quite avowedly those of a pictorial moralist or philanthropist of the pencil. Squalor, ignorance, cant, drunkenness—but, above all, drunkenness—have been the demons he has, with his magic etching needle, or now with his pen, now with his pencil, been striving heart and soul to exorcise. His latest effort in this way, is in many respects not the least notice able—his written argument and his pencilled appeal in behalf of the poor little " Gutter Children !" In illus tration of the humane (!) proposition set forth ori ginally by Miss MARIA S. RYE—namely, for the sending away in ship-loads, from our shores, of the Arab class littered about in the kennels of our prin cipal towns and cities, the class spoken of now generically as Gutter Children—GEOßGE CRC:IK SHANY.S last drawing reveals to us Miss RYE as a carter-ess, standing whip in hand, by her mud-cart, while a fine lady and a spectacled philosopher are sweeping together the little girls in heaps by the kerb ston e —a plun3p clergyman shovelling them up, and tossing into the nearly brimmed mud cart, scoopful after scoopful of—the Gutter Children! More eloquent in their persuasiveness, however, than all the arguments cogently set forth by CRUM SHANK himself in his earnestly written appeal are the cries ho has put into the mouths of some of the little creatures just tossed into Miss RYE'S mud-cart —" Mother ! Mother ! I want my mother !" " Oh, mother ! Mother !" " I want my father !"—before the miserable cart-load is clattered away for exporta tion. MENTALITY is the art of making things pleasant all round. In spite of FRoissAwr's charge that we English people take even our pleasures sadly, Geniality has always been with us the most popular of arts. It is that which made llAnixy such a popular Minister in the reign of Queen ANNE. It is that which made PALMERSTON such a popular Minister in the reign of Queen VicroltrA. It is that which makes Mr. Citani.zs DICKENS the most popular of novelists now. In fact, of all professors of Geniality there is none so proficient as he. He bas the art to conceal the art. He is full of bonlammzie, and he is able to make everyone else pleased with himself, and with all the world, without knowing why. His speech at the dinner to the Harvard crew was an admirable speci men of his temper and skill. He had to console the losers in a great contest in the presence of one of the victors. He could not eulogise the first beyond a certain point without appearing to be instigated by national vanity. He could not depreciate them without thereby depreciating the losers, nor without the implied reproach that they had been beaten by men of no prowess. He hit the happy mean. His praise was discriminating ; his consolation was delicate. Ile said nothing more of the Oxonians than all the world knows; and in commending the Harvardians he told the world—the English world, at all events— a great deal that it did not know. Let us add, too, what perhaps is not known to all the world, that Harvard is no modern university, but is quite ancient by the side of our own London Uni versity; is older than Wadham, Pembroke, and Worcester Colleges at Oxford, and dates from the time when Queen ELIZABETH was ruling England with a somewhat iron rod, as these old alumni of Cambridge, the founders of Harvard, had found to their cost. With an origin thus venerable for America, Harvard has also had a history full of honour. Mr. DICKENS told how, a short while ago, a volume was published in the United States containing ninety-five biographies of young men, well born, well nurtured, and trained to peaceful pursuits, but who, when the war trumpet sounded, obeyed the call, and died in behalf of their country. Fortunately for Oxonians, they have no such trial of their patriotism - and courage to undergo. If they had, we do not doubt that they would come well out of the trial, and would shew that in the serious business of war, as in the light business of sport, they are worthy competitors of the men who have crossed 3,000 miles of ocean to compete in the first, of the men who are fellows to those who counted not their lives dear when their country demanded the sacrifice of them. The; is another point suggested by Mr. DICKENS'S speech. We mean that it rests mainly with English writers to bring about that perfect harmony between the two great nations —or, rather, the two branches of the same great • nation—which both profess to desire. The politicians have failed hitherto. They have done their best, and that best is only the bringing things to a deadlock. Fortunately, the ulti;na ratio retjunt is not the last argument of nations, and as it is the nation which rules on both sides of the Atlantic, statesmen have not yet taken up arms because they cannot get on with their pens. They have learnt to say with the LAUKEATV, Wait, my faith is large in Time, And that which shapes it to some perfect end. They have learnt to believe that time will cure many an ill which nothing else will cure. They have learnt, too, that international sorenesses are best healed by non-intervention on their part, and by letting the aggrieved parties come to know each other better. The Harvard men have not won the blue ribbon of the Thames, but they will take back the olive-branch of peace. Mn. BAXTER has intimated to his constituents that further reductions in the official staff of the Admiralty are contemplated. We understand that similar reductions in the War Office are under con terniplation. This will be sorry news to the gentle men who, when they first set foot within tlp gates of Whitehall and Pall Mall, thought that they were provided with an easy profession and a modest income for life. Unfortunately, the men who are destined to fall victims to economy are just the men who will experience most difficulty in getting other posts. The majority of them are not fond of hard work, and some of them are incapable of work requiring much intellectual effort. They took service under the Crown because the service conferred social posi tion, did not make any severe tax upon their brains, did not engross too much of their time. and secured an addition to their private in comes. The result has been that the Govern ment offices have been filled by gentlemen thrice as numerous as would be needed if a different principle governed those establishments. The blame is not all on one side. It is not wholly the fault of the officials if their object is to do as little work as they can for their money. It is partly the fault of the system, which gives scarcely any scope to men who really wish to be industrious. A few well-paid posts there are, but they arc, or at all events have been in times past, given under the pressure of political influence rather than as the reward of merit. If merit were properly rewarded, there is no reason to doubt but that there would be merit to reward. If it were known that industry and ability bore fruit in the Civil Service, as in other professions, a higher class of men would be obtained, greatly to the public benefit. As it is, what happens ? Industry excites the disap probation of colleagues and wins no commendation from superiors. Zeal is discountenanced as the one thing to be avoided. Some years ago a Government clerk, fresh from Oxford, with plenty of brains in his head, investigated the business done in his office, found out that a large number of gentlemen were paid salaries, small—enough indeed for gentlemen, but large foi the work—in order to write " I have the honour to be." He drew up an elaborate scheme, in which he offered to contract for the whole work of the department at £1,500 a year. It was a bold thing to do ; none but a very young and inexperienced man would have ventured upon it. He soon found that he had made a terrible mistake. The wrath of the chiefs was excited. They saw their rights of patronage attacked; they saw that the Government service was in danger of becoming a service of hard work. So they discharged the vials of their indignation in the form of a letter, calling upon the young reformer to apologise for his "insubordination" or to resign his post. His pride would not permit him to apologise for a fault which he had not committed, and he chose resignation. Years passed by, and the reformer was left out in the cold. At last, after a long interval, his political friends returned to power, and, as he had a cousin in a ducal Cabinet Minister, he was put into a comfortable post of about ten times the value of his clerkship, and in which he never fails to remember TALLEYRAND'S advice, surtout point de zele. While such is the guiding principle of the Government offices, it is needless to say that the y will not be efficiently and economically worked. The present Government are determined to insist upon the latter quality. But they must do something more than turn adrift clerks if they would have the former. They must let it be understood that pro motion will be entirely by merit, or they will gain nothing by their reforms. Perhaps the competitive systeni has been carried far enough in one direction : but there is no reason why it should not be applied in another. Hitherto we have been demanding from civil servants a knowledge of science, literature, and lan guages enough to stock a schoolmaster. We cannot in crease our demand for this kind of knowledge, and it is doubtful if a more abundant supply of it would be of any advantage to the country. But we can test a man's proficiency in his work. We can say to one who is anxious to rise to a higher post that has fallen vacant, " Prove your fitness for it ; shew that you are more fit for it than your colleagues, and you shall have it." Let our statesmen look to this. Let them not content themselves with the lower praise of having cut down expenses: Let them seek also the more excellent way of inducing the QUEEN'S servants to put their heart into their work. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1869. STATE OF TRADE. AIANCLIESTER, Aug. 3L—ln yarns for shippers the market is again very &A, and all descriptions are fully id. per lb. lower than on Friday. Even at this decline there seams to be no disposition on the part of merchants to give out orders, and this branch of the market closes tamely, with a disposi tion to further depression. The market for home trade yarns is also quiet, and the business has been much under an average. Spinners are accepting prices Id. per lb. under the rates of Friday. The cloth market seems to sympathise with the feeling of stagnation in Liverpool, and although there is not a very pronounced alteration in quotations, the value of gads of all descriptions is unques tionably lower. During the last few days the de mand appears to have fallen off entirely, and the only offers spoken of are merely made with a view to test prices, and are generally far too low to admit of acceptance. To-day the tone is decidedly dull, and buyers are willing to accept a reduction on their previous quotations. The business done has been decidedly small. Statistics of the Calcutta market show that stocks still keep up to the full amount, that recent shipments have been full, and we have very little hope of an impulse from that quarter. Manufacturers are again going on short production, and some of the larger mills are going from four day's work per week to three, owing to the unprofitableness of the trade. CARDIFF, 30TH.—The future prospect of the steam coal trade are decidedly of a more cheering character than they have been for several weeks past, and hopes are now entertained of a return to that state of activity which characterised business previous to the commencement of the late depression. Inquiries from the mail packet stations indicate an increase in the com panies' purchases, which for the past few months have been below the average. About the usual quantity is being sent to the French ports, and to the principal foreign and continental markets larger clearances are being made. Owing to the stoppage of several of the collieries, the supply is considerably below what it was two or thoe months ago, and this has had a favourable effect upon the market. The house coal trade is quiet, the intense heat having caused a considerable diminution in consumption. Inquiries for rails are still numerou4, and there is reason to believe ironmasters have suf ficient orders to keep their establishments fairly employed during the winter months. LEEDS, 31st.—The markets in the cloth halls this morning have been tolerably well attended, and the disposition to purchase goods was as active as at any late market. The buyers were not eager to lay in large quantities of either ordinary or winter goods, and scarcely anything was done in the way spring patterns; yet some fair selections were made of almost all the current-going fabrics, and rather more goods left the halls at the close of the markets than on this day se'nuight. Tweeds hold a good position, chiefly those of sombre colours, including dark browns as well as steel mixtures, and a fair quantity of orange mixtures also changed hands. In heavy goods the chief demand was for beavers. Thick meltons and white hairlists sold to a mode rate extent, but the demand was not brisk. There was no change in prices noticeable in any class of goods. MA RKE7 S-21115 DAY. LIVERPOOL COI'TON MARKET. Aug. 31..—Sales probably 6,000 bales. The market very dull. - LUXURIANT AND -BEAUTIFUL HAIR.--AIRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR Daktssit4 o never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youth ful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragiance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth, it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In - large bottles—. trico Ea Shillings. Sold by moss LerNinerP Depot, 2136, High Holborii - . THE INT.ERNAT_TONAL AQUATIC CHAMPIONSHIP. There is still a chance that the English and American champions, James Renforth and Walter Brown, will con test their prowess in a sculling match. Brown has not yet withdrawn the £25 posted to bind his acceptance of the challenge, and a meeting of the Englishman's backers is to be held this week, when probably the terms of a match will be drawn out and offered for acceptance to Brown. Renforth is quite ready to row on the Thames instead of the Tyne. THE II UMBER TRAINING SHIP SOUTHAMPTON. The first annual meeting of the supporters of this insti tution was held on Monday on board the vessel. About MO ladies and gentlemen were taken aboard. After luncheon the chair was taken by Admiral the Hon. A. Duncnmbe, president of the institution, who called the attention of the company to what the boys ou 'card that ship had been, and what their prospects are. It was cheaper to train these boys in early life to become honest, useful members of society, than to have to be at the expense of building and maintaining prisons for them. This was the first year of the institution's exist ence, but already the progress they had made and the good they had done were manifest. Of the seventy or eighty boys, there were trong contingents from Sheffield, Bradford, Halifax, Leeds, and other inland towns; indeed, the whole of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire were open to send boys, as far as their means allowed. Most of the boys would, it was hoped, take to a seafaring life, and they all knew that men were wanted for the merchant navy. No establishment in England was supported with less expenditure upon staff or office work, and it would, he hoped, soon become self-maintaining. But £l,OOO was required to clear off the debt incurred in fitting the ship, &c. Sheffield had contributed upwards of £5OO, Bradford £3OO, and ho had no doubt that other towns would give proportionate support. There are now eighty-five boys on board the ship. ABYSSINIA. It may be remembered that prior to the Abyssinian ex pedition from this country the Armenian Patriarch at Jerusalem had set on foot a religious mission for the libera tion of Consul Cameron and the missionaries. Archbishop Isaak was placed at the head of it, and the Armenian expo • 'Bijou vanished into the interior of Abyssinia, nothing more being known of its movements. Latterly the Patriarch has applied to England for assistance in tracing his missing brethren, and thanks to the energetic measures adopted by the British authorities, assisted by the Khedive, the Archbishop, and his companions, have returned from their adventurous mission in safety. Arch bishop Isaak has just had a long interview with the British Consul at Alexandria, and has given him an account of the journey. The Armenians fell into the hands of a barbaric chief and suffered great hardships, but escaped during a battle. After wards they found their religious dress a pro tection, and at last reached the territory of Kassai, Lord Napier's ally. The Archbishop says that one great result of Lord Napier's expedition is that the white man is everywhere regarded with awe. A handful of disciplined troops might obtain ascendancy, but there are several strongholds as impregnable as Meg-dale. COTTON IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. The New York Tribune says :—" The cotton crop of 1869 is so well advanced that we may safely estimate it at three million bales—half a million more than last year. Supposing that it nets the planters 25 cents, per pound (greenback) it will bring them $300,000,000, which is more than they received for the largest crop ever grown. Formerly, they would have received less than 6200,000,000 for such a crop, and would have owed more than half of it to their merchants or factors for advances, and a still larger share to the negro•traders for field•hands ; so that, when marketed and settled for, they would have still been heavily in debt. Now, they owe less than half they will receive to their labourers, who will spend the money at home, instead of sending it off North to pay for dead horse. We have often heard that the South would never again grow a full crop of cotton ; but we think differently. If we do not produce five million bales within ten years from the overthrow of the rebellion, it will be because the planters can do better growing sugar, rice, tobacco, &c., than by pushing up the cotton supply to a maximum, and thereby running down the price. The South never did a better business than she bids fair to do this year." The Oxford and Harvard boats are now on view at the Crystal Palace. An application for release from cus'ody was made on Tuesday to Mr.CommissioncrWinslo w,on behalf of a bank rupt named William Smith, who describes himself as a jour nalist, editor, now:paper, proprietor, commission agent, general agent, and engineer, of Salisbury-street, Strand. The debts were over £l,OOO. The application was not opposed, but it appearing that notice had not been given to one of tho de taining creditors, the bankrupt returned to prison. An application was made on Tuesday to Mr. Allen, the chief clerk at Vice-Chancellor James's chambers, on Lel.alf of a shareholder in the Albert Life Assurance Company, that Mr. W. J. White should bo appointed a pro visional liquidator in the place of Mr. Kirby. Mr. Allen de clined to grant the application, and adjourned the matter for the decision of the judge. A huckster in the market at Wallsall had a card suspended on his stall bearing the words, " Quarter of tea for Bd. and a glass of rum given away to wash it down." An officer of Inland Revenue happening to pass by noticed the card, bought a quarter of a pound of tea, and was treated to a glass of rum. He afterwards sum moned the man for selling the rum without a license, and a fine of £25 was inflicted. DEFALCATIONS BY A NOTTINGHAM LACE MANA GEIt.—We (Noitinghanz Express) regret to state that the manager of a large warehouse in•this town, has assconded. On Saturday he went to one of the banks and drew the money necessary to pay the wages of the workmen, but instead of returning with it he has not since been heard of. The amount he has taken with him is stated to be nearly £4OO. - A TRYING NOTE.—There is an anecdote related of RuMid, the great singer, which illustrates the peculiar power of the human voice. In an opera by Pancini, called "Il Talismano," in which Rubini was singing, ho bad to sing a phrase in which a high B flat occurs, which he was accustomed to attack and hold out with great power, to the delight of his audience. The public flocked to hear this wonderful note, and never missed calling for a repetition of it. Rubiui had &ready sung the note on seven previous occasions, each time twice ; and on one evening, when an admiring audi ence waited for the production of the wonderful note, Rubini was dumb. He opened his mouth, extended his arms, and tried to utter the note which would not come. The audience cheered, applauded, and encouraged him in every way, but the obstinate B flat refused to be sounded. One more effort, and the force of his powerful lungs over came the obstacle, and the 13 flat rung among the audience with brilliant vigour; but something in the mechanism of his voice had given way, and though feeling acute pain,he continued the scene, forgetting hia suffering in the trium phant conquest he had obtained. When he left the stage he saw the surgeon of the theatre, who examined him, and found that in the exertion of producing the obstinate note he had actually broken his collar bone.—The World of Wonders. A WEDDING BREAKFAST.— Mar tin Greener, architect, of Sunderland, came up for his last examination and discharge in the Newcastle Bankruptcy Court, a day or two back, the hearing being attended by a great many spectators. Mr. Henry Eason, who appeared on behalf of certain creditors, remarked that if ever there was case before the court in which the bankrupt deserved the most severe punishment that could be inflicted under the powers of the Act, Greener was that man. He had hitherto moved in a good social circle in Sunderland, and had but one child, a daughter. This daughter was married on the 3rd of June, to a Mr. Perkins of Leeds, and a most elegant wedding breakfast was then provided for the guests, while valuable wedding presents were lavishly bestowed on the young couple, and their house at Leeds furnished in a most splendid manner. Within a week afterwards, however, the father, who had made all this outlay, was compelled to come into court. One of the creditorj, a Mrs. M'Donald, had provided a breakfast at 12s. 6d. a bead, exclusive of wine, and had instructions also to be careful in her selection of plate, g l as s, linen, and other additions to the tables. All this sum Mrs. M'D ona:d had lost, with the exception of a soli tary 12s. 6d., which had been returned by the clergyman who performed the ceremony at the altar. A photograph of the distinguished group of visitors who partook of Mr. Greener's hospitality was also taken, at the cost of £3. Mr. Vincent, a music -seller, also supplied a grand "Col lard" piano, paid for with a three mouths' bill, which was dishonoured ; and, unfortunately, the writ which was in consequence issued failed to be served upon the bank rupt until a few hours after the wedding ceremony. The instrument, however, had ,not been returned. He now asked his honour to send Greener to a jury for trial. Greener, be contended, had infringed every penal clause in the Bankruptcy Act, had embezzled and removed goods, and had defrauded creditors. His llonotir thought 4 _a bad can, Paid it eitery_ed Igo judgment. THE NATI.UN.AL T_EIIIPEI?.d.NC.E LEA GLIB FETE. The annual fate of the National Temperance League took olace at the Crystal Palace on Tuesday, and was without doubt a great success. The weather was most propitious —a bright clear day, tempered with an invigorating breeze—and the magnificent grounds were seen to perfection. At an early hour London-bridge, Victoria and other stations were besieged with an eager crowd, many of whom were great in the grandeur of their regalia, and a most observable circumstance was that in the majority of instances the greater portion of the visitors to Sydenham were accompanied by their wives and - .lfildren. Cheap trains were run from all parts )f the country, and by eleven o'clock both the interior and exterior of the Palace presented a most Eve/ appearance. At that hour a conference was held, at which some excellent papers were read, and this meeting was largely attended. At 11.30 there was a cricket match between two temperance clubs, and 'a noon Mr. Mann's band discoursed some excel lent selections from the Handel Orchestra, which were listened to by a greater throng than is usually the case on great fete days. At one o'clock a monster meeting was held in the concert room, at which Archdeacon Sandford, the Rev, W. H. :M ilburn, M. A . , and other gentlemen were announced to speak. Perhaps the great feature in the exten sive and well-arranged programme was the concert of 5,000 children of the Band of Hope Union, which took place at three o'clock. After this there were open-air meet ings, a display of the great fountains, performances on the great organ, and other entertainments too numerous to mention. We give extracts from the papers read at the Conference, over which Mr. Samuel Bowley presided. The Rev. GEORGE MAUNDER read a paper on " The recent ecclesiastical movement in reference to intempe rance." He observed that the Baptists had of late been very active in the effort to stay intemperance. The Society of Friends were also very active in the movement. Though there had been no official recognition of teetotalism, no doubt the weight and authority of the Society of Friends were on its side. One of the most important movements was that of the National Church, a Committee of Convocation of the Province of Canterbury having directed its attention to intemperance. The report prepared gave, not only the experience of parochial clergyman, but of many of the most influential persons in the country. In thus acting the Church had won great honour, and set an example worthy of following by every section of the Church of Christ. As to the Wesleyans, few men denounced with greater force the drinking customs of the country than their founder. From the presidential chair more than once a cheering voice had been given to the great work of social refor mation, and at the last Conference a meeting seldom equalled was held on the question, and he was glad to state that a vast number of the younger ministers had given in their adhesion to the cause. Mr. T. A. SMITII was announced to read a paper on " The medical use of alcohol," but owing to ill-health his essay had to be read by Dr. Ellis. It commenced by saying that if alcohol were used as cautiously as opium and other dangerous poisons the question as to its use might be left to the medical profession ; but such, as was well known, was not the case. Alcohol was not used in its purity like other poisons, and many medical men recommended the use of beer, spirits, and wine, but it was impossible that the prescriber could know the strength of what he prescribed. In the hospitals it was now the practice to recommend the use of alcoholic beverages, whereas in former times they used to bleed people. In 1867, in ten of the metropol tan hospitals, £6,744 was spent in wine and spi r ts, and a considerable amount was also expended in malt liquors ; in fact, it had been said that next to the butchers' and bakers' bills that for alcoholic beverages stood pre-eminent. The London Hospital might be called the " Alcoholic Hospital," as spirits were approved of by doctors, nurses, and students alike. Dr. Gardner, of Glasgow, at the meeting of the British Association at Oxford, gave it as his opinion that too much alcohol was used. But the chief evil that arose from medical practitioners advising the use of alcohol was that it seemed to give weight to the popular idea that alcohol was good for them ; and as the drink was liked, of course people soon found an excuse to take it. From this it would be pretty evident that in many instances doctors ordered alcoholic drinks —which were such nice medicines—to please their patients. The medical men who were in the habit of not recom mending alcoholic drinks were, at all events, as successful as those who did, and they did not run the risk of making drunkards. The Rev. G. M. MuRPHY next read a paper on " Public amusements and the drinking customs." They (the teeto tallers) were sometimes asked why they did not provide other amusements ; but had he time he could prove that the teetotallers had done more than anyone to produce good entertainments. The rev. gentleman went on to condemn the Derby Day, pigeon shooting, tavern rum) ing matches, &c., which, he said, were generally promoted by "mine hosts " for their own benefit. The drinking at public dinners was next touched on. Teetotalism was filing at the chain of custom, and in time it must go, and then persons would wonder how they could have been the slaves of custom so long. The music-halls were the curse of the age, led to dis honesty, insolence to parents, brutality, and drunkenness. The great aim was to make the halls pay, and when that was the case both music and morality generally suffered. The songs were generally of a nonsensical character, but the words gave no idea of the indecencies with which the -ingers of them interpolated their performances ; and of a necessity the frequenters of music-halls soon became oblivious to anything of a high-class nature. The National Temperance League had determined to send out commissioners to visit these places and report, so that the licensing magistrates would have no excuse to grant licences where indecencies and immorality were rampant. The health of the Bishop of Lichfield continues to improve. The nervous prostration is gradually passing away. THE SUICIDE FROM THE CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—The efforts employed to trace out the identity of tke deceased have at length been attended with success. The body has been identified as that of a young man named Cousins, a pastrycook and confectioner by trade, whose friends have long been tradesmen of Pristol, and whose sisters still carry on business there. Ile had been drinking heavily. BITING A MAN'S NOSE OFF.—At the Rochdale Police-court, Michael Hester was charged with biting off the end of Martin Barrett's nose, While Barrett and some companions were seated in a public-house at Whit worth, the prisoner and other men entered, and without any provocation, picked a quarrel with Barret and his companions. Hester, after striking Barrett several times, seized him by the nose, and bit the end clean off, and escaped. He was apprehended on Sunday night, and when charged before the magistrates, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to prison for four months. MISS FAITIIFULL AND MR. GRANT.—The Vic toria Magazine gives Miss Faithfull an opportunity of saying a few words about the recent action for libel which .he brought last month against Mr. Grant, editor of the llorning Advertiser. It will be remembered that Mr. Grant, in a recently-published volume on " The Religious Tendencies of the Age," associated Miss Faithfull's efforts for the improvement of the social position of women with the Secularists, who disbelieve Chris tianity. Mr. Grant's mistake did not originate rah himself, but was transferred from a London paper. So far, therefore, he is not much to blame. But, unfortunately, he declined to give Miss Faithfull the apo logy which she demanded. Hence she, having no other ibject than to relieve her work from the discredit and the damage that would be inflicted upon it by the stigma of infidelity, brought an action for libel, and recovered damages sufficient to carry costs, and Mr. Grant was pro nounced to have acted with honour. Miss Faithfull now makes an emphatic declaration to the effect that she is not only a Christian, but an attached member of the Church of England. TEE ART-GIFT.—The art-gift itself is only the result of the moral character of generations. A bad woman may have a sweet voice ; but that sweetness of voice comes of the past morality of her race. That she can sing with it at all she owes to the determination of laws of music by the morality of the past. Every act, every impulse, of virtue and vice affects in any creature face, voice, nervous power, and vigour and harmony of invention at once. Per severance in rightness of human conduct renders, after a certain number of generations, human art possible ; every silt clouds it, be it ever so little a one ; and persistent vicious living and following of pleasure render, after a c6r tain number of generations, all art impossible. Men are deceived by the long-suffering of the laws of nature, and mistake in a nation the reward of the virtue of its sires for the issue of its own sins. Tile time of 'their visitation will come, and that inevitably ; for it is always true that if the fathers have eaten sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge. And for the individual, as soon as you have learned to rea-1, you may, as I said, know him to the heart's core, through his art. Let his art-gift be never so great, and cultivated to the height, by the schools of a great race of men, and it is still lint a tapestry thrown over his own being and inner soul ; and the bearing of it will show infallibly whether it hangs on a man or on a skeleton. If you are dim-eyed, you may not see the difference in the fall of the folds at first ; but learn how to look, and the folds themselves will become transparent, and you shall see through them the death's shape, or the divine one, making the tissue above it as a cloud of light, or as .a, winding.slae#,—The Qum?, of the Air, By John Ruskilt,lALA TILE' MUTDER AT IVEIT-P01?T. Only a retV - factS are yet reported concerning the murder of Mr. Hunter, a farmer, at Newport, County Mayo. It forms a terrible commentary upon the discussion of 1 ,10 land question, which is now going on with unremitting vigour in the press. The victim was (as we have stated) a Scotch settler, named Hunter, a respectable farmer, who was shot dead while driving home from Newport, which is situate about four miles from his own house. His wife and son and a servant were seated on the car along with him. On reaching a certain part of the road not far from his own house there appeared to be some impediment in the way, and the vehicle was stopped' Immediately a man, who had been awaiting the 01 1 P °r• tunity, came up to him, and, lodging two pistol balls in his body, killed him on the spot. One account st ates that he was turning down off the road towards his b ons° when the assassin met him. The rest of the family w ere allowed to escape uninjured. The cause is stated Sg agrarian. Mr. Hunter had taken the lease of a f ar° containing bog, on which the tenants of the adjoin in3 farm claimed th e ri g ht to cut turf. He was advised to b ring an action of trespass against one. He selected a farme r named O'Neill, obtained a decree, and on Friday se d a growing crop. No one would act as bailiff, and obtained a special warrant, and took charge himself. Sunday evening he drove with his family into Newl' °rt ' and on his return was shot as he was turning off the road into the farm. This is the first agrarian murder in 5 133.° within living memory, Two men have been arrested on suspicion. FORGERY AND FRAUD. A person named Whelpley, described as a commissi°3 agent, who had been arrested on a warrant, was chat -gall at the Mansion House, on Tuesday, with forging and uttering a bill of lading for the delivery and transfer °f a large quantity of timber, with intent to defrau d id r ; Lewis, John Mason, and others of £l,OOO. The face an'', head of the prisoner were covered with surgic3l bandages. Mr. Lewis, who appeared for t hd prosecution, briefly stated the circumstances. It appeared that the prisoner called upon Mr. Mason, tbs prosecutor, and wanted to have an advance of £3,ooouP ou timber, which he said was on its way from Quebec t° London, he giving the name of Mr. W. A. Arnastroeg, producing at the same time bills of lading amounting, 11.8 said, to about £9,000. Mr. Mason hesitated, °P°' which the prisoner said, in a high-handed Inaonerp' that if he would not make the advance there W er : others who would. Mr. Mason eventually made an 3,e0 vance of £l,OOO, not wishing to lose a cus'o.ner, wh ich paid by a cheque to the prisoner, who then left, statill he was going upon the Continent. The cheque w as after ci wards exchanged for gold and the prisoner decane I°t to America with the money. He was arrest ed night at a house in Connaught-square, while at suPP e T i ; From £4OO to £5OO in gold was then fo und ti l t his possession, and jewellery, all new, to the ao 3°11 ; of from £lOO to £2OO. It was a champagne soPP e ,: Evidence was given in detail in confirmation of the stal ment of the solicitor for the prosecution, and to the effe.ce that the bills of lading he had given in exchange for tv cheque were forged, and were not represented 131' timber, as alleged by the prisoner. Eventually, to adnl c i e . of the attendance of the prosecutor, the prisoner ivi' s manded for a week. MR. GEORGE HUDSON. otof T t h yh e eseoiltrr N klaep: orthern Daily publisher the folloicl4 Express letters :—" Chipechase Castle, Hexham, August , f e °' 1869.—Sir, —May I beg the favour of your finding 61) .„, — : for the enclosed. I think Mr. Hudson has brough t P . '„ name forward too prominently, as many other gen tieuv a deserved more credit than myself. The 1 41 q . ,: r 0t r, Sunderland, Mr. Robert Hodgson, and Mr. -e °-e ,,,c1 ax:elbrB w lstiGiic o r:i r n— k ys s d lliayr n h ftddah a ei r eata d hr fAugslulerin o c.ye n :TersoaHsly t i .shl Taylor,—As e s o o n m s m e i o t n t fli t par t A d of u u e g . t — u h tion which you kindly originated is now :11-YetphlALoOesgite .dtl,u:ibt:sb‘ucerbei:P:itutf;:i.oPeg-51: my duty, es well as my pleasure, to express mY gr. 3 , t „ e „do thanks to you, and through you, to the numerous Ir;.`c."-„0 who have so handsomely contributed towards it. na y hardly tell how I can in adequate terms exPr ess in gratitude for their recognition of my eerviees the promotion of public works. I assure Vutie. am deeply thankful to you and the other gelltiie men who have been associated with you in furtherirlbe subscription for my annuity, and to the large n u i ra n fe of friends in Newcastle and Sunderland, as our other places, who have so handsomely responed to Y, appeal, and have thus secured for my re maining c1111° ;je comfortable competency. I shall ever reflect with Prt'he and satisfaction on my connection with your district; „ o f knowledge that I was enabled to assist in giving the t r o ll) Newcastle its high level bridge, to Sunderland its " s to r e and, by a system of combination of your railw aYst t ° l. 4 e , s erta' the productiveness of many which were not so, and 1: e ,, ' coar ing the system to Scotland, is a great pleasure, and ft" go t pensates me for any suffering I may have endured. deep conclude my letter without publicly expressing illttiocS obligation to Mr. Elliot, who during all my rn isf° ,l l. an ci has been to me a most kind and considerate friell t he who also so warmly assisted you in the promotion i ° I, to subscription. Allow me again, my dear Mr. fro a ° o h express to you my warmest thanks for all your kit ado which can never be effaced from my recollection• yours very truly, GEORGE HUDSON.—R, TitylOro Chipchasc Castle." a 00 At the Norwich Commission further evide°_ce,ol3ol adduced on Tuesday as to the distribution of the cias to provided from Mr. Allen's house. The money Lave bern very imperfectly paid away in bribes. larger Herr Krupp must look to his honours. i i ;: e 0 0 1 block of steel than has ever issued from his sv,°rloo tong in in progress of casting at Osnabruck. It weig n - the wor' - whereas the block with which Krupp astonislieclo, but l3o at the Great Exhibition in 1862 weighed onlY has surpassed that feat in later years. der ci3i : A Dublin correspondent telegraphs, - 11 lie' r- Tuesday This evening Captain the 1 101 .'% o ver l Ward and Mrs. Ward were on a road loconaotl" o etio engine with the Hon. Randal and Clara Fa rs° l4 l3 ;, Iti r c 7 turning a sharp corner of a street in Parsons° tech an a Ward slipped off the stool on which she was held'aa falling on the ground, the wheel ran o ver her killed her on the spot." t ike Wer e On Monday, meetings of the nai lers on s rroposedit; held at Old Hill and Hales Owen. Mr. Ilaelrctt 1) 4 c ola,' resolution to the effect that if the nlasters did v with their demands of the 18G1 list before tha 3 t 6 e iv " l „, 1 1; work would not be resumed till the list of 1 , 8 0 , aan to them. This latter is about 10 per cent• hia`ana ea s 'l4 former. Mr. Tibbetts seconded the resolutio nitoou being put to the meeting it was de clared to bo carried. WV ) tea stori n t ea, KILLED BY LIGHTNING, —A terriul e led so a aver the town of Caldwell, New ,TerseY, l a, on the evening of Sunday, the 15 of Aug"' the afetl' ii , man, Stephen Pierce, was walking home fr o°. c og W o e dist Episcopal Church, in company wi th , 3 t i, an ie te d. when the village was suddenly illuminated n'; the g oo _ a light, and Pierce and his companion fell to the :Po . r _ ot aieg The lady was stunned, but she soon but screamed for help. When help arrived P . a ber • omOn'e hie f ee found of Young man who had at-c too cei . o mangled remains. His boots were strinnene'foores his limbs were severed and lacerated, aud th b iro in i i is not recognisable by those who had e thir a ce. The unfortunate young ma n is said to be se t _ e cause. tt family who have lost their l ives by the nIT THE OXFORD AND HARVARD ° . -A le ox f o rd letter appears in the Times, signed bY t . I T. I). , ; v io cl on the late International race —"J• C' Tlll 7 j. f th e bishire, A. C. Yarborough, F. Willan, I._stoces oroiiie„ reading as follows Before the eir iyeive o l e r3 late race between the Oxford and 11arv..rtour r have passed from the recollection le ot, i l in of 1 1 .0 to we are desirous, through the n best t 1 Legg of columns, of publicly tendering; ou nd n' 0 the - the Thames Conservancy Board a the O ratra iea r °TI the river and Metropolitan police for , courses c rangernents made by them for keeping wroioe that occasion, and expressing the deep ol it l ci ' 6 cons - de , e 0 under to them for their great courtesYseubjeat, an jot with respect to all our wishes on the 1, who W ure afo 4 dally to Captain Baynes and Mr. Lorc _ m ots. 0 ,0 actively engaged ill carrying out the arircor g ratn ialc heartily we thank these gentlemen, ant 0. to Of on the EUCCC23 which crowned their effor e T alc , oth ef THE PUBLIC HEALTH.. —Last , w or th i r teel - ro o , mortality was 24 per 1,000 in London, 0 1 1 0 it' d 10 56 large towns of the United ICingdorocqding Lon f o oro et In the eleven large English towns, I deaths were referred to diarrluea ; considerable decline upon the three pr ev ' ptl s reg i ,eer. births, The deaths from zymotic diseases I t:t o e l r is 20 having fi the persrn i fe4e r, 6 rested average number being 493.3 from diptheria, 87 from whooping-efw e. o li t i a P o d from small-pox, 20 from measles, 14 ou f , r° ,_ ll : C O Ll f f r i o entl o t . YP ti ll e tia : fever, 18 from enteric fever, and 13 In to 10 childie lio ca to :Ldndi.)3,-I,,7l(7i3tdbeeatvelsie ro to, t se di' fever. Simple cholera proved fatal' o onti ce .. adults. The mortality from scarletle the wt : increase. The mean temperature duringll, Dot 51 tagibqcl - W3B Saturday 68.4, &gees, or 0 degrees above the ave:a3o. gt:niated n i 1 ; 11 .4. :~