The Sun. — London, England, 1869-09-08 00:00:00

THE ALBERT LIFE .ASSLT.RANCE COMPANY. On Tuesday Baskell (Messrs. Brandon) applied to Uzi Bloxam, the chief clerk in the Chancery Chambers, tc take out a summons, on the part of a number of policy holders, for leave to inspect the books and documenti of the Albert Life Assurance Company. The chief clerk granted the application- The summons of Mr. W. T. Manning, on the part of some petitioners to wind up the company, for an order tc have notice of all applications, also came on for hearing. Mr. Musgrave (Messrs. Lewis and Co.) opposed, as alsc Mr. Green (Ashurst and Morris) for the company. Mr. Manning said that Mr. Kirby, one of the provisional liquidators, had not the confidence of the policy-holders, and the meeting had been held to get a re. presentaticn before the judges in support of his scheme. Mr. Musgrave and Mr. Green objected, as there was nc order made to wind up the company. The Chief Clerk. after a long discussion, refused the application, and it has to ga before the judge. It was announced that the judge would come to town on the 17th inst., and sit at Lincoln's• inn to hear the petitioners and the other applicants in the ;natter. THE HARVEST. Correspondents from Yorkshire complain that the importance of early cutting is not generally recognised in that county. Where wheat is allowed to become dead ripe before it is cot, there is an increase of bran at the expense of the flour. The grain when fully ripe is more exposed to the influence of weather and the feeding value of the straw is affected. The use of machinery in harvesting has greatly facilitated the process, saving both time and money. There are two kinds of reaping machines—one which is called a mannat machine, in which the cut corn is raked off by an atten• dant, and one in which the corn is both cut and delivered automatically. Each kind has its special advantage, and a combination of the two principles was exhibited at Plymouth some time since. The methods of securing the harvest differ greatly in different parts of the country. In Yorkshire men are engaged foi a month, and are well paid. It is not unusual to give a good labourer from 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. a day, in addition to food and lodgings, but, in such a case, be is expected tc work early and late. In Norfolk, and Suffolk, each hand is allotted so many acres of corn to cut and carry, receiving a fixed sum whatever the time occupied. This plan is said to work well as the men have an incentive to despatch. Last week was a very favourable one for the harvest throughout the country. Accounts from the East of Scotland state that no one remembers a finer harvest in the way of weather. It is curious, after this, to find Gloucestershire complaining of frosty nights. The general accounts are, however, favourable; and the Mark-lane Express pronounces the country to be now safe. So much has been said of the ravages of insects among ourselves that it is interesting to notice the complaints of our con tinental neighbours in this respect. The destruc tion of cockchafers is a regular business in some parts of France. The General Council of the Seine Inferieure has during the last three years set aside a sum of money to encourage the destruc tion of white worms and cockchafers. In 1868 the actual payment for this aurpose was £BO, but the allocation for 1870 is carried to -£6OO, and many perons hope this credit will he completely exhausted. The Seine Inferieure seems, notwithstanding this liberality, to s uffer severely from these winged invaders, for we find the councils of arrondissements and agricultural societies of the department uniting in the wish that the destruction of cockchafers shall be rendered compulsory. RIR WILLIAM AI?MSTRONG ON WORKING MEN'S AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTES. Sir William Armstrong presided on Monday over the annual meeting of the Northern Union of Mechanics' Institutes, held in Newcastle. In his opening address he expressed surprise that mechanics' institutes failed as they did to lay hold of the working man. They opened, he thought, a way out of the road of a degrading course of life. The neglect shewn to them was caused, he thought, by the want of education among the classes for whom such institutions were intended. "To men who can neither read nor write Mechanics' Institutes can have no attractions whatever, and I sus pect that if all working men were to stand up for exami nation in reading and writing, it would be found that while absolute impossibility to do either would be rare, comparatively few would prove qualified to read and write with such ease and fluency as to make either reading or writing a matter of pleasure rather than a matter of labour. Only let us have reading and writing thoroughly taught at school, and men will then be in a position to realise the pleasures and ad vantages offered by mechanics' institutes. The question of elementary education is therefore intimately mixed up with the progress of mechanics' institutes, and I conceive there is no question which can engage the attention of Parliament of such vital importance as that of a national system of rudimentary education. Even if it went no further than a thorough teaching of reading and writing, it would confer inestimable benefits upon the people. If a compulsory system of education be inadmissable, let us at all events remove from careless, selfish parents every temptation to keep their children from school. Let us take care that they do not save their pockets, or other wise benefit themselves, by keeping their children at home, or sending them prematurely to trade. Let us sweep away all those impediments to school edu cation which arise from difference of religious opinion, and let us leave to parents, however poor and ignorant, no possible excuse for preventing their children from acquiring the precious advantages of education." In conclusion, Sir William advised all large firms to do as he had done, establish mechanics institutes with schools attached ; so that in the schools the children might learn, in the institutes the men might find intellec tual amusement and obtain culture. The amount of the schooling might be taken out of the men's wages. In Massachusetts, last year, 170 persons changed their names, not including brides. During the past week large quantities of fish which are peculiar to the tropical regions have been seen alone the southern coast of Ireland. Shoals of the bonita, the dolphin, sword-fish, and other species are observed. This visit is attributed to the unusual warmth of the weather in this latitude. THE PRINCE NAPOLEON AND THE COBDEN CLUB. —Some of our readers may be interested in knowing that the Prince Napoleon (Jerome) wai elected in July last an honorary member of the Cobden Club. In a cordial letter to the honorary secretary, Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., his Imperial Highness warmly expressed his sympathy with the international. Objects of the club.—Daily News. - - -- A fine sample of French criticism is given by a M. de OetTey, in a periodical edited by M. Arsene Houssaye., The subject in hand is a volume of lyric poems by M. Fridolin Werm, who is especially praised for his thoroughly German-like poem, "We are Seven." As a/German composer " lifted " " The Last Rose of Summer " to his side of the Rhine, why should not M. Wtrm take his good things where he can find them? THE DUNKELD BRIDGE TOLL DISPUTE.—The Dunkeld Bridge nuisance has culminated in a most wanton outrage. The well - known Hermitage within the Atholeipolieies at Dunkeld was on Sunday night blown up" - by gunpowder, and the beautiful building is now a. mass of unsightly ruins. The Rebeccaites richly/ deserve to be defeated on the postage question after such a piece of vandalism.l'rtit British Daily Mr. Alderman Crewdson, a Manchester magis trale, on llonday granted a warrant for the apprehension of Michael Gallagher, "minister, Reformed Church, Milton- Ftyeet, off Moss-lane, Stretford-road," for having on Sundt., according to the information of Mr. F. Hutton, one of the wardens of the church of St. John-the -Baptist, Llultne, L ee n " guilty of riotous, violent, and indecent behaviour." The proceedings arose out of the disturbances which took }lwo at tho above-named church on Sunday. AN ANECDOTE OF PRESIDENT GRANT. -- A t Nashua, N. IL, on Wednesday, just as the train was starting off, President Grant noticed a little girl vainly endeavouring to get to the car, that she might shake llamas with him. The child in her disappointment burst into tears, and the President, pointing to her, asked some one to bring her to him. Two men seized her, and hold ing her above their heads, rushed with her to the car, and the General had just time to embrace her with both hands, when the train bore him rapidly away. Many of the crowd saw the act, and their parting cheers broke forth anew.—New York Tina:, August 27. ADVERTISEMENT. I —Holloway's Ointment and Pills. Illieuinatism and Gout.—Theso purifying and soothing remedies demand the earnest attention of all persons liable to rheumatism, gout, sciatica, or other painful affections of the muscles, nerves, or joints. The ointment should be applied after the affected parts have been patiently fomented with warm water, when the unguent should be diligently rubbed upon the adjacent skin, unless the friction should cause pain. Holloway's pills should be simultaneously taken to reduce if, flammation and to purify the blood. This treatment ablites the violence and lessens the frequency of gout, rheumatism, and all spasmodic diseases which spring from hereditary predisposition or from an accidental weak ness of constitution. TLe ointment checks the local. malady, the pills restore the vital powers. CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION ITV NOTTINGH.AM. A grand Conservative demonstration has been held in Colwick Park, near Nottingham. More than 30,000 persons (including Colonel Wright, M.P. for the borough, and Mr. T. B. T. Hildyard, M.P. for South Notts) were present. A procession was formed in the Great Market )lace, Nottingham, and marched to Colwick Park, two miles distant. The committee had decided that there should be no political speaking, but that the day should he devoted to field sports and other amusements. The rule was, however, broken when Mr. Patterson, the President of the Constitutional Society, proposed " The Health of Colonel Wright." Colonel Wright, M.P., then rose, and amid much cheering, said that they were attached to the State, and they wished to see the Queen on her Throne and the House of Lords to continue to assist the House of Commons in governing the country. During the past session the measure which his friend (Mr. Hildyard) and himself went to fight against had been carried. They opposed it, however, tooth and nail, and he believed both of them were in every division on that bill. Of course, it was a forlorn hope, and they knew that at every division they must be licked by a tremendous majority. He thought now that the Liberals themselves would begin to fear what had occurred when they saw the steps which the Roman Catholic Bishops and Archbishops were already taking in Ireland. It was stated the other day at the Liberal demonstration that he (the gallant colonel) was against education, and that he had given two votes against the Endowed Schools Bill. A reference to the division list would shew there was no division on the Endowed Schools IBM at all on the second reading. Therefore that was not an exactly correct statement, though he had no doubt it was supposed to be right at the time. If they had wished to go against education they should not, as a great number of them did on the Conservative side of the House, and himself among the number, have voted for the exemption of the ragged school from rating. The demonstration was considered a great success ANOTHER STORY OF POLICE JUSTICE. A correspondent of the Telegrarh, signing himset Victim," writes, telling a very strange, an almost im probable, story of the injustice of the police. The follow ing is its substance :—On the evening of the great boat race he was going along the Old-street-road to the City-road, being about to take an omnibus to London Bridge. Suddenly he was startled by a blow from a stick on the top of his hat. A dozen roughs then set upon him. He ran away, seeking a policeman ; was followed and thrown down, but, being nimble, managed to escape into a confectioner's shop. The crowd outside began to grow, and the confectioner turned him out. " Victim " again tried to escape from the mob, sought in vain for a policeman, but again failed in both attempts. "The mob," he gees on to say, "followed me, forming a sort of half-circle round me, till I got as far as liunhill-fields burying-ground, when I was keavily thrown down, my pockets immediately rifled, and my watch taken. I then walked on till I came within the precincts of the City's boundary, followed by part of the rabble, when I met a policeman, whom I accompanied to the Moor-lane Police-station, and it may be judged what a state of mind I was in. I was waiting, as I thought, till the inspector was disengaged; but unfortunately I happened to say, " What a shame it was there was no police at band !" My face was all bruises, and I was exhausted from the exertions made to escape from the mob. Immediately I had complained that there were no police, at a signal— a word from the inspec tor—an officer said, " Will you walk this way, sir?" open ing a door. I thought, of course, it was to go into another room to state my case, but I found it was to be locked up. Everything I bad was taken from me, and upon my remonstrating against being locked up I was told I should go presently. About an hour after three officers came into the cell, where there was a drunken man lying on the floor. They asked where I lived. I told them they bad made a mistake in locking me up, when the middle one gave me a violent push backwards, with You are drunk." When they had got outside one of them said, 'You will not go while there are any shops open ; the more you say the longer you Fill stop there.' They also told me I had got company. _4 little after ten I attracted the notice of a kind-hearted officer, to whom I explained that my poor wife at home would be distracted, and that I had a poor afflicted daughter to whom the result might be serious. I heard him represent my ease from the door, and I was soon liberated. After signing for my property I had been divested of, and having said I should take a cab home, an officer followed me, and when I had got into the cab put his head in at the window, and said. " You'll stand a glass of ale, won't you, sir ? " Thus was a respectable City merchant, of seven teen years' standing, confined in a cell with a irnnken toau for three hours and a half, without examination or charge made. I beg to say I was perfectly sober, baying been out all day from ten in the morning, and had only during the day taken three glasses of claret wine. I have received two letters—one from the Superintendent of Moor-lane Station and one from the Commi,sioner—very unsatisfactorily recommending me to apply to the nearest metropolitan station, as the robbery was committed out of the City. Of course, being detained for three hours and a half, my properly was lost, and the thieves had a tin;; opportunity to escape." LAW AND POLICE. THE HABITUAL CRIMINALS ACT.-At the Surrey Ses sions, on Tuesday, a man named John Dunn was charged with stealing a watch and chain at Croydon Races. Fifteen previous convictions having been proved against him, he was sentenced under the Habitual Criminals Act 1 .:o eight years' penal servitude and seven years' police sur veillance. THE Woor.wrar FRAUDS.—The three men charged with plundering the Government stores at Woolwich, were on Tuesday committed for trial. The prosecution assert that the 258 cwt. of waste paper sold and unac counted for consisted, not of waste paper, but of uncut reams which might be resold as new. DANGEROUS READING.—At the Lambeth Police•conit, two lads under 16 were charged with burglary, and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. It seems they had been studying the lives of highwaymen, and broke into the rouse of a tradesman, carrying off £6O. t: CASUAL POOR.—A poor woman was charged at Guildhall with deserting her two children, aged 3 and 6 years. It appeared that she applied for admission to the casual ward of the West London Union at eleven o'clock at night, in heavy rain. She was told the ward was full, and ran away, leaving the children at the gate. She was sent to prison for seven days, but the magistrate reminded the union authorities that they were bound to 'lnd room for all who applied for admittance. THE PONTLOTTYN RIOTERS.—At the Merthyr Pollee court, the five prisoners charged with murder and riot at Pontlottyn have been examined. The riot arose from a quarrel between Welsh and Irish, and resulted in the death of one man. The magistrate said it was a shocking affair, but the charge of murder could not stand. The prisoners were therefore discharged, to the great satisfac. Lion of the Welsh population. PLAIN PREACHING.—FemaIo preachers were the feature at the Round Lake camp meeting. One of them: mounted on a water hogshead, made a sensation. " Shame on you young woman with that brazen healgear, and that ungodly hump on your hack! Where's the modesty your mother teched you to kerry through life with you." [Here a very pretty girl vanished into the wood.] "There's a full grown man chewing a nasty filthy weed that the pigs would'nt tech. Next to godliness, young man, is cleanliness. lif I didn't love the human race as I do, bless God, I'd like to get down from this waggin and sicken you tobacker chawers with your nasty mou'vhsful." —Evening Wisconsin. CURIOUS MARRIAGE.—A curious marriage oc curred last week in St. Louis. A stone-blind bridegroom was led by his blushing bride to the altar of a Justice of the Peace. That honest and benevolent functionary feat it to be his duty to inform the poor blind man that the chosen of his heart was really one of the ugliest women in the world, and that she had already, to his certain know ledge, buried two husbands. To this the bridegroom responded that he had seen the lady a great many years ago, and that according to the best of his recollection, she was then "a thing of beauty" and "a form of life And light." A s the unfortunate. man insisted upon being married to this dream of his earlier and happier days, the knot was tied ; Lilt the justice swore that he could not in consciem, take the f ee f or doing ; and so the poor vi c ti m was' led away rejoidng.---Xeto York Tribu»c, August 27. THE PUBLIC llE.turtr.—Last week the rate a mortality was 23 per 1,000 in Loud on' "-5 in thirteen other U large towns of the 'nited Kingdom, and 2i . In the English towns there were 119 deaths from ri'lr s r . l" s h ew i ug but a alight f ur th er decrease up ' en tl7e f our previous weeki. In the metropolis 2,136 births and 1,331 deaths were registered. The latter exceeded by 3S the eatimatel number, but were less by ;,; than those of the previous week. The deaths from zymotic diseases were the corrected average number beim : Five persons died from small-pox, 19 from measles, 170 from scarlatina, I from diptheria, 75 from 9 from typhus fever, 23 from ente r i c whooping -cough, fever, 12 from simple continued fever, and IGI frorr diarrhtea. The mortality from scarlet fever continues to increase, Six children died from simple cholera. The mean temperature of the week was ,50.1, or 2.9 below the average. Between the highest day and the lowest nigh! temperature there was a range of more than 33 degrees. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1869. COLORADO, (From the Anglo-American Times.) No. I. Colorado, the Switzerland of America, though now but a territory with less than 100,000 inhabi tants, exclusive of some 15,000 Indians, is destined soon to become a State. For many reasons Colorado may claim attention as the most interesting district on the continent, not even excepting California. The stupendous features of its scenery, its healing climate, the richness of the valleys, the wealth of its minerals, and the extraordinary character of por tions of its surface, are all instances in point, and our readers will not therefore find fault with us if we devote two or three pages spreading over as many numbers to its description. We are aided in this by a very interesting work by William Black more, au admirable compilation illustrated by large maps, as well as by the pamphlet of Mr. J. P. Whit ney, of Boston, Massachusetts, who was Commis sioner from the Territory, to the Paris Exhibition. Colorado was organized as a Territory from Kansas, Nebraska, and Utah, and extends over an area of 106,475 square miles, running in length 400 miles east and west, and in breadth, north and south, 280. It may be divided into two portions, the eastern half embracing a vast fertile, well-watered plain, desti titute of timber, but covered with a rich nourishing grass ; but it is the western half which fascinates the imagination, as it comprises that portion of the Territory which resembles Switzerland. From these densely massed mountains flow the Colorado to the Pacific, the Rio Grande to the Gulf of Mexico, the Arkansas and the Platte, the two greatest branches of the Missouri. It is the mother of rivers, and the gigantic streams have noble sources. Interspersed through the mountains, yet strangely connected, are wido valleys, as extensive as Cashmere, and like it em bosomed in the hills Although these are nume rous, there are four now pretty well explored, all being designated Parks—the North, South, Middle, and San Luis. They are in juxtaposition and longitudinally annexed, the smooth area con taining 9,400 square miles in elliptic form, its southerly bend ending within the territory of New Mexico. Of these Parks, that of San Luis is by far the largest and the most southern, being oval in shape, with a length of 210 miles from north to south, and a breadth of 100 miles from east to west, its entire area being estimated at 18,000 square miles. It is entered at the north by the Poncho Pass, penetrating the Cordillera from the valley of the Arkansas Through the plain flows the Rio Grande Del Norte for a distance of 150 miles, entering through the western rim and issuing in the south. Nineteen streams descending converge into the San Luis Lake, which is flesh, though without an outlet. The Sahsvatch River rises in the Sierra M ietnbres, and byan easterlycourse converges towards the San Luis River, and both streams flow into the lake occupying the centre of the Park for adength of 60 miles. The plain is smooth and continuous as a surface of water with isolated, volcanic butes, an immense elliptical concave bowl, intersected by 35 mountain streams, which descend from the gigantic ranges wherein the plain lies low, though itself 6,400 feet above the sea level. Among these mountains rise 17 peaks at equal distances, though each differing in shape, the highest attaining an altitude of 16,000 feet above the sea, or nearly 10,000 feet over the plain. Around the edge of the oval valley at its junction with the moun tains runs a smooth glacis, resembling the sea beach, the conjunction of the land with the ocean. From it arise on every side the mountains until they attain an elevation of perpetual snow, which girdles the circle by a white rim. On the eastern side the escarpment of the Cordillera rises abruptly, on the western the crest of the Sierra Aliembres is more remote, the intervening ridges in cceasing in height as they retire. This shelving flank of the Sierras, completing the amphitheatre, has a superficial area equal to that of the plain, so that the enclosure within the encircling band of snow is at least 18,000 square miles. Ascending to 5,000 or 6,000 feet above the plain, the snow line is reached, and it is marked by its naked granite and snow, equally around the basin. From this elevation the interior is swept by the eye at a single glance, the smallest objects being discernible with a telescope through the brilliant atmosphere, and it requires no great effort of imagination in our readers to picture the scene that lies below. Governer Gilpin in his description likens the Palk to the Valley of the City of Mexico. They are twin basins of the great plateau alike in physical structure. The park of the City of Mexico is only a tenth part iu size and grandeur that of the San Luis Park, but the simili tude, as component parts of the mountain anatomy, is in all respects absolute, as in the other Parks which occupy longitudinally the centre of Colorado. Around the elliptical circumference of the plain, following, as it were, the shore we have described, here bending into the indentation of the mountain, there pursuing its intrusion into the plain, is a road of unequalled excellence, the circuit being 500 miles. Nor will it be difficult for our readers to imagine the views presented to the traveller passing on it around the basin. On the one hand, through gorges clad in forests up into the skies, he traces the rising mountains; on the other, spread in all its grand extent, stretches what to his eye is a per fectly level plain, diversified with groves of alames and volcanic cerritos. Away in the distance is the blue water of the great lake, and streams and rivers rolling solemnly over the level land in strange con trast with the brooks which come tumbling down the mountains, at intervalsonixing their cold currentswith the numerous hot springs, and forming a tempera ture which seems to delight the trout with which they abound. At either extremity of the oval the two giant chains of mountains appear to meet so as to form the basin, and the scenery naturally assumes a variety where the great rivers enter and leave the valley. The soil is composed of the eroded materials of igneous or basaltic rocks, underlaid with these rocks, which Liebeg has pronounced to be the most productive for cultivation. It yields over 30 bushels of wheatto the acre,over 50 of barley or buck wheat, and grows Indian corn fairly. Fruit ripens luxuriantly, as springs all kinds of roots, pota toes being especially fine. Cattle, horses, and sheep thrive all through the winter, the valley being pro tected by the mountains, and preserving a genial and equable climate, it being predicted that the choicest stock in America will yet be reared it this favoured spot. Fort Garland furnishes a proof of the salubrity of the climate, as though from 100 to 500 men are there quartered, not a death occurred from natural causes during a period of three years. The pine, with which the foot- hills are densely covered, besides furnishing fuel, bear a nut whereon pigs thrive. The pasturage is scarcely interrupted by the winters, and though it dries up gradually in August, the grasses retain all their nu tritious qualities. It may appear singular that a wild region, almost unknown in Europe, and but little known America, should possess the best roads on that Continent, but we believe this to be a fact, the natural tracks being scarcely surpassed in any part of the world. There is now a population in the San Luis Park of 24,000, Mexico-Americans, who have remained within their mountain barriers, ex cluded from the world,though adopting the language, religion, and the political and social institutions of their rulers. Beneath the soil there is said to be a continuous pavement of peat, which maintains the saturation of the super soil. In the middle of the plain is a perfect crater, with a diameter of 20 miles, from the centre of which the wall around is seen, forming a circle in height 500 ft et. It is perforated by three rivers, traversing the liorthern, western, and southern edges. The soil accumulated within the basin is of the fattest fertilly, drained through the porous formation which sintkrlies it. This sin gular valley, as the chief Park of Colorado, is at tracting much attention in America on account of its singular beauty, but more still for the effect of the attual,here on pulmonary diseases. From Deliver the Poncho Pass, at the entrance of the c s bhlo2tt this m sfr i l l o) e ma s r ; kt a hl n s7. ( i l lil D ab e ne n s v ars e e r n I nd y r l eN s d o e o be n raa b s sielkyrae acces sible, c i ( h i e e s d I b b Y y a r l k r v a ' h il not only for tourists and health-seekers, but for emigrants. According to Mr. Blackmore it pre sents one of the finest fields in. the United States for the industrious settler; and. it certainly might well tempt the imagination, for; the gifts with which'' nature has endowed it make it more nearly in love liness appear the Garden of Eden than any other spot on earth of which we have read, not even ex cepting the Valley of Caslnnere. MIS CELL ANEO US NEWS. -- o TIIE ELECTION COMMISSIONS. e -- ATimissioners of Bridgwater are very success fully prcseeuting their inquiries. They are now examining the local wire pullers. Those of the Liberals went about last year trying to ..et " a man with money "to stand. To each o ne t o whom appli cation was made they very particularly hinted tha. he would be required to spend a good round sum. They did not tell him in what way. he was (of course) to infer that ; they thought most to whom they spoke knew what was meant. Mr. Pender, of Totnes notoriety, was one of those requested to become a candidate. Tie could not do so, however, as Totnes - was still burdening his hands After searching far nd long, the lawyers discovered Mr.Vanderbyl,and persuaded him to serve his party. How the election was conducted on the Liberal side; of the barefaced and open bribery, the obtain ing of some of the money from a member of a firm in which Mr. Vanclerbyl was a partner, and the rest from Dr. Kinglake, the brother of the candidate, our readers know. That the Conservatives also bribed is attested very conclusively. What is now wanted is a revelation of their dark secrets. At Beverley a most extraordinary reason was given for bribery. A witness who had paid £25 for votes stated he had done so as " a blind" to draw out the Conservatives ' • that a petition might be presented. How a blind should draw anyone out is not quite clear. The Hon. Marmaduke Maxwell, the Liberal candidate at the last election, was examined on Monday, and stated that, so far as he knew, not a penny of his money was used for bribery. There was at first some mystery about a sum of £2OO, which he had paid without asking for any accounts. The whole matter was, however ; happily cleared up. THE AMERICAN PRESS. One reason given for the single unfortunate black ball which excluded the London correspondent of the New York Tribune from the Reform Club, and which gave such deep offence to the Right lion. John Bright and Mr. W. E. Forster, was that he wrote against England. While Mr. Smalley takes the American view of such international disputes as the Alabama affair, and regards them from an American standpoint, perhaps all the more strongly on ac count of the views hostile to his own by which he is surrounded, nothing can be more fair to England than his remarks on ordinary events which pass before his eyes, such, for instance, as the Harvard crew, as they appeared for practice on the Thames, and all relating to a race so exciting as to draw towards it the strong interest of both nations. His criticisms of the men, their style, their boat, were more out spoken than those of English critics, and of their justice there can be no better proof than the result. As the Harvard crew disavowed any other than a University character, Mr. Smalley appears to regret that they did not, in justice to their University, take Kelley as a coach, who in a fortnight would have greatly improved their style, which, with their strength, pluck, and endurance, would have mate rially altered their chances of success. As regards physique, he considered them to be at least the equals of the English crew, but faulty in style, whence he argued that Harvard's success could only be gained through their undeniable "strength, pluck, and en durance." The correspondent writes : " Perhaps you will remember that this enterprise was to show the English, among other things, how a racing boat ought to be built. The Harvard men brought over a craft which was looked upon in America as the perfection of the boat-building art. They have found it so inferior to the English that they have discarded it, and ordered another from an English builder. Their miracle of Ame rican architecture turns out to be ill-proportioned, built on radically wrong lines, and so much heavier than the English boats that the difference would of itself cost them the race. Meantime, they borrow a boat from the Lon don Rowing Club to practise in, and after trying it once, the improvement in their rowing is manifest. Does it not occur to them that men who have brought boat-building to that state of superiority, are likely to have brought the art of rowing their boats to about the same point ?" Nothing could be more emphatic than Mr. Smal ley's remarks on the notion that the Harvard crew would not have fair play. He takes much more trouble to dissipate so untruthful an impression, and to censure so ungenerous an idea, than he does to reply to some ill-natured remarks made about him self for entertaining a grudge against Harvard, as one of the Yale crew which was beaten in 1852 by Harvard. In 1857 Mr. Smalley was one of the Union six which beat the Harvard eight for the Beacon Cup over the Boston course, and, as he remarks, the victory might be set against the de feat by those who attribute to him such contemp tible motives. Comparing the prize fights betwce❑ Heenan and Sayers, and lleenan and King, he observes, that these were contests of ruffians, on whom vast sums were staked ; while this is a rivalry between gentlemen, and he knows enough of the English character to be aware that if Harvard leads through Hammersmith• bridge " They will be cheered to the echo by the great mass that will look down on them as they pass beneath. Nor (he adds) do I suppose that Harvard would exactly stop rowing if they were not cheered." If Mr Smalley were always as good a prophet as on this occasion, and wrote so forcibly the plain, unvarnished truth, the 7'ribune would have as re liable a correspondent as any newspaper in the world, however agreeable or disagreeable the reading to those who perused what he wrote. In conse quence of his letter an article appeared in the Tri bone, which must have done much to prepare Ame rica for what actually happened, and to explain the reason why defeat might be anticipated for the gallant and venturesome Harvard crew. The concluding words of this article were prophetic : " And in dae time put forth a strength and speed that will astonish, if not win." Judge Louia Dent has written to Secretary Bout well a letter so good that we cannot refrain from giving it entire : "Washington, D. C., Aug. 17, 1869. "To the Hoe. Geo. S. Loutwell.—Sir,---I shall make little apology for asking your attention to my. letter, and less for the nature of its contents. You wore the first to deny the political orthodoxy of my friends and myself, and, by all the rules of the forum, I am entitled to a de fence. Again, you hold an office of the Republic, and your acts, therefore, are legitimate subjects of criticism by the humblest citizen thereof. But in some respects we aro alike ; for instance, we are both aspirants for place, with this difference : You aim to be the next Presi dent, with every assurance of success, except in the opi nion of the people, while I seek an humbler place, with my hopes in disastrous eclipse, except in the judgment of Mississippi. So, in the probable results of the future, we both stand adverse to the judgment of the country. In the pursuit of your ambition you aro ungrateful and un scrupulous as to the means of success. Your organ, the New York Sun, in the same breath ridicules the capacity of your master, and dwells with emphasis upon your pe culiar fitness for his office. Your excellent tool, Mr. Tul loch, became so reckless in the manipulation of your De partment, in the interest of your ambition, and so defiant of the wishes of the President and the country, that to save yourself from an explosion of popular indignation, you found it convenient to transfer him to another sphere of scandalous activity, where his talents might be exerted with equal effect and less effrontery. Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas, not to mention anything so humble as myself, wero obstructions in the way of your success, because through President Grant's intervention in exclad ing the proscriptive clauses from their ;organic law these States are brought into the Union, and firmly welded to his support. Now this is in direct conflict with your systematized plans, for what General Grant gets, in the next presidential election, clearly Boutwell will not get, and therefore have you denounced the Conservative Republi cans, who are for Grant, that you may obtain the pro scriptive Republicans, who aro for Boutwell, and by some strange, dexterous management, and occult political strategy, you have so worked upon the confidence of the President as to cause him to flourish the club with which you intend to break his head, by inducing hint to join you in denunciation of the Conservative Republicans, a party created by his magnanimity, and triumphant through his encouragement. But, sir, your purpose is easily dis cernible, and has a two-fold object—namely, to destroy the National Republican party ,in the South, and then to reconstruct from its shattered fragments a Boutwell party, with no Richmond in the field to strike for your crown. But, if you cannot succeed in this scheme of desperate enterprise, you mean to ruin a result from present appearance much more likely to be reached. Your official intervention for Wells, for instance, gave 30,000 majority to Walker. Your letter to Stokes gave Tennessee to Sonter by an overwhelming vote of 70,000. Your marvellous political sagacity, now active in Missis sippi and Texas, will repeat your calamity, and again overwhelm you with discomfiture and defeat. Superadd to these results of your unapproachable folly the imposi tion on these States of your iron-clad oath, and the alien ation is complete, landing them into the outstretched arms of Democracy. But the consequence of your folly does not stop here. Ohio and Ponnyslvania and other States will decide their political status in October, and the North will echo back the condemnation of the South, rtud peal in your ears this fact that there is still left enough of the incorruptible virtue of the Republic to rebuke you f ipoot o nhffr r elective franchise. But, sir, this will not deter you from your mad course. You will still persist, until every of superstructure s N i d p vp e o huo r e u nl s in r a t t party r inc t; a c mol tuot; uorwesp stricken ieytn i ru s iecomonnb, tedrsrdap pointedeadb3o, bou a yut w sano a e :cystrr, Senate ntt t az tatnkrt ears Secretary au oath to administer your office impartially and for the exclusive objects of its creation—to collect the revenue and control the finances of the country ? Is not that office the property of the nation, and yourself only clothed for a time with a little brief authority ? Then, Sir, how do you explain this perversion of its legitimate uses and functions into a means and an instrument of oppression to force and compel an election of obnoxious rulers upon the eothpea:wrewitiri,oilylaae,luretsetssolgssnrartuuladprni eyn psupports repression of that most sacred right, the people of the South ? Is such a course consistent with your oath of office, or do you call this a great moral idea.? But, Mr. Boutwell, though you have thus prostituted the power of your office fur purposes of oppression, without the warrant of conseionce or law, it. may br, that you can ted me by what authority you presume to pronounce upon ni3 political orthodoxy. Who constituted you the Pope of Republicanism? Who gave you authority to hurl the political anathemas of the party ? Again, what right had you to commit the Administration to your policy. Have you yet to learn that you tire only a part of the Ad ministration, and not the whole of it, though your friends believe that a monomania has seized your mind on that subject, and that you verily believe yourself the State ? Very respectfully, "Louts DENT." LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL lIAIR.—MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance 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 rothoves all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large bottles— Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfumers Depot, 266, High Holborn BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS. Lord Hobart is one of the many persons who hold to the belief that the recent anti bribery legislation has utterly failed. He writes expressing his opinion that the nature of the evil altogether forbids the success of such remedies as have been tried hitherto. Forty-eight members of an Assembly professedly representative, in a country whose population is about 30,000,000, and which is perpetually congratulating itself upon self government, are returned by 11,000 electors, being the aggregate constituencies of thirty boroughs— that is to say, by less than one six-hundredth part of the whole adult male populatien, and less than e hundredth part of the whole electoral•body. The suffrages of these 11,000 electors thus acquire an importance which voters in larger constituencies can not attain. A considerable amount of political power is placed in the hands of a small number of persons, who send to Parliament only those who have abundance of money to distribute amongst them. In a small constituency each elector is a con siderable fraction of the whole. Consequently lie sets a price upon his vote and takes bribes. Ne penal enactments can prevent the secret operatior of this evil. The State may prevent one person from taking money from another by force, but it cannot restrain payment by common consent. To en.. force penalties for secret bribery is more difficult than to enforce them for private gaming which is generally admitted to be impracticable The only mode of destroying this evil, says Lord llobarL, is to redress the electoral balance by sweeping away these disproportionately small con stituencies. " Venal voting is the result of a defect in our institutions—the poisonous fruit of a tree planted and watered by the State ; and the attempt to repress it by punishing those who eat the fruit, instead of cutting down the tree, seems sin gularly absurd." Lord Hobart is in favour of Mr Ilare's scheme of representation. IRISH LAND TENT:RE. Colonel Fulke Greville-Nugent, BI.P. for Long ford, points out concisely the difference—which is the essence of the whole Irish land question—be tween the conditions on which the Irish and the English tenants enter upon their land. lii. England the landlord invariably furnishes the dwelling-house, stables, barn, cow-sheds, awl other necessary offices, besides gates, fences, &c., on the farm, and the occupier has merely to provide what is necessary to till the land, to sow, and reap, and gather in his crops ; whereas in Ire land, as a general rule, the landlord supplies only the land, and the tenant has to erect everything he requires. The same law prevails in both countries, but owing to these circumstances its effect is widely different. The English landlord, when he turns out a tenant, gets back his land and the buildings, whicl , are all his own ; the Irish landlord gets back hi* land with buildings which are not his own, and the occupier cannot claim a sixpence. Colonel Grevillo- Nugent believes that the Irish grievance is without a parallel. RECONSTRUCTION OF IRISH CIIIICII. it has been found impracticable to get together a general meeting of Irish Church lay representatives during the present month. At the meeting held in Molesworth Hall on the last day of August it was decided that this general Lay Conference should be composed of one-fifth of the representatives chosen in the various dioceses. Thus a double election will be neeersary. The diocesan lay representatives must be chosen first, and then one-fifth of these will have to be selected for the Dublin Conference, The arrangements, it has been found, cannot be completed before the end of the month, and the Archbishops have accordingly determined to convene the general meeting for the 15th of October. This postponement, however, says the Dublin Mail, have the advantage of enabling many staunch friends of the Church, who are now absent on summer tours, to be present at the several parish and diocesan meetings. Many gatherings, lay and clerical, continue to be held, in preparation for the forthcoming synods. At one of these—a meeting to elect lay representatives for Trinity Church, Limerick—an amusing scene took place. There were five candidates for two seats, and the parishioners, before proceeding with the election, decided on hearing an exposition of the views of each with regard to the reconstruc tion of the Church. Five speeches were accord ingly delivered, and three of the speakers declared themselves strongly in favour of such a revision of the Prayer-Book as would exclude the Ritualists from the Church. Two of them, Mr. John Browne and Mr. Samuel Bradshaw, said they would give power to the Church body to dismiss any clergyman •' who preached doctrines contrary to the Word of God." The meeting rightly considered that interpretations of what is "contrary to the Word of God" differ very much; and accordingly avoided the beginning of strife by electing two mode rate speakers. One of these said he hoped the Church would never become a " fat Church." "THE MISSION OF PEACE." Cardinal Cullen, as mentioned yesterday, has ordered three days' devotion in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Dublin, to return thanks for the passing of the Irish Church Billl. His Eminence says that the foundations of peace and union have been laid by putting an end to a religious ascendency which had its origin more than three hundred years ago in the decree of a small Irish Parliament, representing on ly a fraction of the whole people. " The united wisdom of this great empire, with the applause of all that is liberal and enlightened of every creed, has deter mined that, for the future, ascendency shall make way for religious equality, thus removing the great occasion of discord." THE EMPEROR, NAPOLEON. Last Monday will be remembered in the City as the severest day of panic on the Stock Exchange since the terrible trials of 1866. There can be no doubt that the Emperor of the French has not fully recovered ; and in Paris, London, and Vienna his illness has been reported as of the most serious character. The French funds went down on Monday hour after hour, until they reached a price fully four per cent. below that quoted before the Emperor's illness commenced. The agitation in Paris spread to London and Vienna, affecting all other stocks, just as if the death of the French ruler would put an end to the value of everything. The Times says, however, that this alarm did did not pre vail outside the Stock Exchange. It points out that the uncertainty of French affairs has already done so much harm that it is doubtful whether the effects of the Emperor's death on the stock markets of the world have not been fully dis counted. " Suppose the Emperor Napoleon were to die " has been a question that in every country . has stood for more than fifteen years in the way of all enterprises requiring large means and undis turbed confidence, and when illness was not avail able, the possibility of assassination has served. It will not be extravagant to estimate the deprecia tion caused by this fear at a total of from 100 to 160 millions sterling. In other wo r d s , the seetirit'e s of the world would have improved to this extent hail it not been for the feel'of doubt . 11in • mg ch Las haunted commercial circles. Perhaps thorough constitutional reform may put an end t ter rors ; perhaps, the Times thi n k s, they 12y pr l c e rtilft. another fifteen years. TIIE ALBERT ASSURANCE COMPANY. An influential meeting of the Albert Office policy holders was held in London yesterday. Some of the metropolitan banks interested in this catastrophe were represented, an d many B om b ay an d C a l cu tt a policy-holders were present. Arrangements bare been made to secure united action amongst the policy-holders and annuitants. There is one point on which all these interested parties are united.: in whatever respect they may differ, they all agree upon the necessity for appointing an independent liquida tor instead of Mr. Kirby. ARTISAN EDUCATION. At the iu.eetinz of the committee of the South tallordshirejr,aidational Associaticin,tord LytteiCon called attention to the good which employers may do encouraging the attendance of young work people at night schools, and by instituting a system of yearly examination. One firm in the Wolverhampton neighbourhood holds an examination of this hind with very good results. The position of employers gives them an influence in the promotion of education which persons not similarly situated cannot attain, however well disposed The South Staffordshire Association is about to open an essay competition amongst the artisans of the neighbourhood. It has wisely resolved that all artisans shall be eligible, whether members of institutions or not. TECIINICAL EDUCATION FOIL 'YOUNG AGRICULTURISTS. Mr. J. Bayley Denton pleads in the Times fox technical education for the young in the agricultura districts, and - explains at some length what he means. He thinks that school children should be instructed the habits of the horse, the cow, the sheep, the hen, and other farm-yard animals; the use of the plough, and implements of husbandry ; and taught to garden, sow, and reap. The boys should have some practical lessons with the tools they are likely to use ; should be instructed, for instance, in the way to follow the plough. And when they go to service their masters ought to give them some special work to do, and keep them to it until they understand and are tolerably proficient in it. INFECTED CATTL/e. The practice pursued by many Irish farmers of clearing out their diseased herds and sending the infected animals to this country is clearly calculated to perpetuate the ravages of pleuro-pneumonia. To put a stop to the objectionable custom, the• Chamber of Agriculture Journal suggests that an inspection of all cattle previous to embarkation at the Irish ports should be put in force. The safety of British herds must no longer be imperilled because there may exist a great body of graziers in Ireland who do not wish that store cattle from their island should be so particu larly healthy and safe as to be very popular with English graziers. It is to the interest of Irish breeders, but not to that of graziers, that store cattle from Ireland should find a growing demand from graziers on this side of St. George's Channel. Obviously it is for English graziers to insist upon a proper watching of the export of Irish cattle. TRADE DEPRESSION. " A Lancashire Employer " finds the causo of the present depression of trade in trades unionism. It is impossible, he writes, that " hard times " so severe, and so prolonged, can be the effect of any ordinary panic, still less is it the result of Free Trade. It is the impatience of control, the stronger aversion to labour, the increasing desire for short hou:s and high wages on the part of working men—all of which are encouraged by the unions— that have brought us to this pass. The unionists, says " A Lancashire Employer,' act on the principle that labour is necessary to capital, and that they are at liberty to enforce what terms they think 'roper. Where go the enormous supplies of—l had almost said mxuries—but, however, of butcher's meat, fowls, salmon, and other fish, butter, eggs, and milk, constantly increas ing, but ever rising in price, while bread alone remains cheap? The writer knows many cases where joints have been purchased by the working man without hesitation from under the fingers of well-to-do customers, who had passed them passed them by as being too clear. And it is a well-ascer tained fact that the yearly cost of food for many an alder man's table exceeds that of similar families many degrees higher in the social scale. All this may be quite right, but what becomes of the plea of low wages? The truth is, the classes who are ever complaining, ever "striking," are well off ; the suffering poor and the crowds in our gaols and workhouses are non-unionists. It is the system of restriction and of preventing the skilled workman from employing his skill, of spreading the least amount of labour amongst the largest number of hands, and of thrusting down the non-unionists, that is the true and only cause of the present trade depression, according to this writer. TIIF FASTING GIRL OF WALES. The fasting girl of Wales, who has created so much "sensation," is yet holding out, refusing or unable to take meat or drink, and lying still upon her bed powerless in will or inclination to rise and walk. A correspondent of the Times—Dr. Robert Fowler, of East London—has been to see her. Sarah Jacob lies (he says) in a clean and tidy room full of small shelves and drawers. She is 13 years of age, is very pretty, and surrounded by appropriate decorations, is made a show child of. Or. rowier's suspicions were at once aroused by her appearance. Everything connected with the child's movements tended to confirm his thought, that she was simulating disease ; and an examination did not remove the first impression. The child shrinks as if with pain at the slightest touch, and goes into 3 fainting fits "—hysterical cryings and sobbings— when an examination is long continued. Dr. Fowler, however, persisting in his investigations, heard gurgling in her bowels which must have been produced by fluid there ; saw various indica tions of deception, and came generally to the conclusion that she was deceiving oven her father and mother. The case, he very distinctly declares, is simulative hysteria. The construction of the bed and room make the concealment of food an easy matter, and the only way to rouse Jacob from her position is by some sudden alarm. Her disease— for disease it must be said to be—might easily be cured; but the girl must be removed from the cottage, and taken to some hospital or infirmary. CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPING. The scarcity of domestic servants in the United States, and the extremely high p r i ce o f prov i s i ons , has led an American lady to propound a rather remarkable scheme. Mrs. Peirc e sugges t s th a t th e principle of co-operation should be applied to house keeping ; that a number of families unite and esta blish for their common benefit a provision store, a kitchen, a bakery, and a laundry. These institutions represent necessities common to all famili e s, an d by this mode of union nearly one - third the cost of living would, in the opinion of Mrs. Peirc e , b e save d. It is likely that an organisation of this kind will be started in Cambridge (U.S.) next November. The Daily News a pproves of the sch eme , remar ki ng that most people now " put ot . tt" their washi ng an d baking, and that this idea is merely extending a co-operative system which already exists. But our contemporary fears that some little diffi cu lt y w ill b e met with in the adoption of a common kitchen, and thinks it wise that Mrs. Peirce has left this part of the scheme optional. INTERNATIONAL OCEAN RICE. The proposed ocean match between the American yacht Dauntless and the English Cambria has fallen through ; and the Sportsman is disposed to lay the blame upon our on n countryman. The match had Leen arranged, but the parties could not agree upon the day of sailing. Mr. Bennett, the American owner, wished to start on the 15th, but Mr. Ashbury, the English yachtsman, preferred an earlier date. The sporting journal can see no reason why, if Mr. A shbury really desired an ocean race, he should not have closed the bargain and started on that day. " The Americans have already shewn their willingness to cross the Atlantic in their yachts, and we should regret to see a proposed race abandoned on a mere quibble as to dates." THE XIIEDIVE'S SON. It has been finally arranged that the eldest son of the Viceroy of Egypt shall commence a course of study at Oxford. The young prince will dwell at Grandpont House, the residence of Alderman Randall. The regulations of the university prescribe that all students must be inmates of a college, or, according to the ordinance of last year, reside with a licensed lodging-house keeper. The Alderman has not a license; but royalty commands indul gences, and an exception to the usual rule is made in this case. FOREIGN NOTES. CHANGE OF MINISTRY IN NEW ZEALAND. The chief political event of the month in New Zealand is the defeat of the Stafford Ministry, and the acceptance of the Premiership by Mr. Fox. This gentleman will adopt a new war policy. Regardinv the policy of the Stafford Ministry to be practically calculated to bring on war with the King party, Mr. Fox proposes to withdraw the forces now in the interior, weed them and convert them as far as possible into a purely defensive array. Without cravenly turning his back to the enemy, he fur ther proposes to withdraw advanced and isolated posts, and to give up the attempt to hold such of the confiscated lands as we are not able to occupy. The assistance of troops from Great Britain is a cardinal point in Mr. Fox's scheme. For the last four years, says the Times corres pondent, the Stafford Ministry has resolutely refused to advise the Governor in reference to troops, or to offer one sixpence towards their maintenance. Great Britain has practically been forced into removing them, whether desirous of doing so or no. The present Government gives up the self-reliance policy altogether. It will have recourse at once to Imperial troops. 4 MELBOURNE PARLIAMENTARY SCANDAL A parliamentary scandal is current in Melbourne, which, if founded on fact, is very discreditable to some of the colonial legislators. It is said that three members of the Assembly were promised a sum of £5OO by a squatter in the Western district ror assisting him to obtain posses. sion of a valuable tract of land by means of a " dummy." The rule of the Lands Office is that the man who proves that any selector is not in good faith a settler, and does not comply with the necessary conditions, is entitled to the forfeited allotment. This rule gives facilities for fraudulent transactions. It is currently rumoured that some of the legislators derive large sums as agents in transactions at the Crown Lands' Office, where matters are made easy by the assistance of Ministerial supporters. These charges are denied in tato 1)y the accused Persons. but a full pa I, ntary inquiry is - tole deraiiided, ma is to be loped. \ll be granted. ki3gTUALIAN HEAT. The demand Australian Austian meat still exceeds the supply. The I .alian manufacturers have found 01.1 t how to preserve ` ra lian meats co as to land them la England in 38° and palatable condition. A 111" t: preserving compal as been established at War rnara bout and another a‘ . llarat while others are in ca nton ' elation in various P'. There is every probability Of n t very extensive expelrade springing up if the P rcsen demand for Australia reserved meat continues. THE SLATE I DE IN THE SOUTH SEAS. A schooner, nam e d . Daphne, has b een ca ptured i n the South Seas by Polynesians on board, ho are said to have been ki_ll napped. The captain of 1 -0 schooner was charged at the Melbourne Police-cov. t wit the offence of kidnaPPl F- 5. Rosario, with a nroubero_f. the natives, and Capta, b, that he had examined th`t. amer ' which he found to be incorrect. There wee papers s s under the VolY" nesian Labour Act, f:)lethe fortes of fi ll : one natives to Queensland as . t)ourers, but they " ' 1. 7; signed in the presence of in . es . e , i ns tc , . 1 : t o partie,s of the Rosario, state of missionaries or others un neerned. The Vr t t Boner had a permit from the Ques, aand G ov erulli e !' n to bring fifty labourers to that c 0.,, b ut cAlo t i, Palmer found him at the Fiji's, with 106 ,I t i ve „, box` f two-thirds of them naked, and the rest cov, edw ith hits ° rag. Since this prosecution the Que e n s l an d G o , rnme nt lit ,6 cancelled the permit granted to Lim. Un, rtn uate l i t ; the evidence before the magistrates was not it fliCiO t convict any of the culprits. AUSTRALIAN DIAMONDS. A prospecting party from Melbourne have lately 101 :, some important discoveries of diamonds in New P ul t ,' Wales. Diamonds of good quality and in great nori'b`A were found in the vicinity of the Cudgegong Elv er ' t he public company has been started in Melbourne fo r je purpose of working the mine. Applications wed ° t he in excess of the number of shares. The news froo e 5 diamond region has been so f avoura bl e th a t the gr e , s e confidence has been felt. A second com p an y is in c° ' ni of formation, which proposes to w or k a l a rge Ar e :Af ground in the same district. A number of pearls have 3 ; e 0 been discovered at the fisheries near Nicol Bay, W es ' r Australia. THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT AND THE DUKE or EDINBURGH. -Ile Overland China Mail states, upon the best city, that Prince Kung has cleeared to the I;r ' uls li Minister that he will not receive the Duke of Edinb t ;i on his expected visit to Pekin. The Prince i 3 to have given the notice in ord er t o k ee p his EnS 3l ness out of Pekin altogether, a n d SO avo id discusEil'j o e question of an interview with the Emperor' , 4 13 Chinese are very unwilling that a barbarian i t he see the Emperor, and this accounts f° l ,, extraordinary attitude which the Governwel'", ed assumed in the matter. The Japanese have behnv":i.gh differently; the Mikad o will rece i ve th e D u k e of Edi °v" 0 1 with due attentio ns , an d l ie h as , a t grea t e xpell''' e to down to Hongkong f or carr i ages an d h orses , in °r ` ler co afford the Prince a more comfortable mode of convey`Tl than that in vogue amongst the Japanese. LORD AND THE INANC, e ,g9M Lord Mayo has = resolved to discourage . the e 5 l t o' expenditure of Indian officials. He has addresse' graph letters to the Governors and Chief Gomuli'i' - t lis calling their attention to the discrepancy betw e ::, t r budget estimates and the actual revenue and eiPe''Diot. He expresses a hope that they will impress on their lu Je dinates the duty of sanctioning no unauthorised exl'er:or tore, and will encourage by every m ea ns in their I) ,i c o t any efforts for the reduction of public expenditure, 31) : D ia lessening the cost of any department without its efficiency. FAMINE 1N THE PUNJAB, Toc O. Rain is still very much wanted i n th e Punjab. Hissar district matters are becoming extremely' crjfo 'iiiroiti from the continued drought. Dining the month s ° . f . and July the people lived chiefly on jungle he rr ' e ' o pli fruits, which were unusually abundant, but the ,ersyrli• gradually became exhausted, and the people at ning of August were losing heart. In the Kamal . d r o t tli s 224,484 persons were fed at the public exPen se lire 6 month of June. The authorities are exerting therDse,itli to the utmost to supply the people with food 0:10:eilt work, but the majority of them are women and CLI from whom little labour can be exacted. A DIPLOMATIC ENTANGLEMENT. Sir Rutherford Alcock, according to the Orcrian(- / 0;7 00 Mail, has fully approved the conduct of Mr. o ' l 7o' the Formosa affair, including th e ca pture of lon'dir This is not a little singular, as th e F o r e ign f ile- Tbe tinctly censured the policy adopted by M r . Gibson. 01 11 Overland Mail suggests that Sir R. Alcock 15 50 lie I'° convinced of the injustice done to Mr. Gibson tbat elected to mark his personal approval in spit' ° censures of the Foreign Office. HAMBURG HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION; JO „ s e The International Exhibition o f H am burg w 0 the 4th of Septelnber, and attracted many visitoo' 40 8 Exhibition received much support from abroad, in ° l c- 01 0 of prizes, and so many demands for space were roi';` e ;•i'elf, it was found necessary to devote an annexation ei‘c°;il9 to the horticultural department, and reserve the 01 ,0 1° park for the exhibition of flowers. Queen Victorie pcsl splendid silver-gilt cup for the best asso rtment ° I i g'1 1 1 :: it which was won by Mr. Meredith, of LiverPl,le ' King of Prussia also sent a cup, and other vu were contributed by foreign potentates. Various le"" are taking place in honour of the occasion. THE FRANKFORT SWISS. 101 )61e The Swiss Government does not intend to . measures adopted by the Prussian authoriPeno",oo respect to those citizens of Frankfort who hav e ,, n° „ -- /1 f: become Swiss citizens to escape the conscriPti°-'01(%" Prussians, it is said, are willing to make some c °, ll , B ce s; in order that the Swiss may not be offended. S it too Government has signified to the Prussians that ° se be' disapproves of the trade in naturalisation whi ch A li tl o carried on in some of the cantons, and (1010" future it will not be permitted. 10 1 re Durrvu,LE and Co., Belfast, are tb holders of Whisky in the world. 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