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Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this company, can he had of STRINGED, PEMBBROKE, and Co., Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C. THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wehington,"Wellington-street, d .rand. " THE APPAREL OPT PROCLAIMS THE MAN.'' E. MOSES & SON (the ORIGINATORS of the READY-MADE CLOTHINa SYS TEM) supply Ready-made Clothing equal to Clothing made to measure, and Clothing made to measure equal to the best that can be cbtained. E. MOSES and SON possess unequalled resources for the MANUFACTURE of CLOTHING, and are consequently able to supply the public at lower prices than any other house in the trade. E. MOSES and SON'S STOCK for the WINTER SEASON comprises an immense essortment of Overcoats, and every descrip ion of Clothing hr all ages, all occasions, end all classes, in all the newest designs and materials. E. MOSES and SON give particular at tention to CLOTIUNG for YOUNG GEN TLEMEN. For the convenience of Ladies -accompany-inn their Sons there is a separate department for this important branch of their busines< , , and it is furnished with a splendid assortment of Suits, Overcoats, and Clothing for all ocnsions, incinclinc: all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. 3InSES end SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should '•o accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be cheerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the money 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, end Boots and Shoes, is un squalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea ,sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening. at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT, 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINOR' ES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATI 97, ALDGATE 88, ALDO AT it S 9, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH'. 506 NEW OXFORD-STREET 307, NEW OXFORD STREET 508, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 8, HART-STREET TOITLNHAM-COUET-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. T HE " SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE "NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCH. Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. THE << SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p culler simplicity of these Machines enables any one to require their perfect use in a Yew hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free ME "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY Chief Office in the United Kingdom:j 147, CHEkPSIDE.: CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established 1824. The ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, exceeds £227,000 The ASsUItANCE FUND, safely invested, is over £1,649,000 Forms of ProisOsal, and every information, can be ob tained of GEORGE CUTCLIFFF, Actuary and Secretary, 13, St. James's-square, London. S.W. SHORT SUMMARY OF THE rosnioN OF THE PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62. Ludgate Iii!!, London, E.C. Branch Office —7, King-street, St. James's. The Annual Premium Income of the Company, at the close of Im6B, was £220,978 Os. 10d., and the Total Amount Assured £4,832,197. The Business is divided under two heads :- Ist —The General or Ordinary Business, being the same as that transacted by other Companies. 2nd—The Industrial or Working Class Assurances. The Premium Income of the General Business was £52,432, and the sum Assured £1,662,960. The present value of the lia bility of this Branch by the Carlisle 3 per Cent. Tables, throwing off the entire load ing, was £139,322 15 8 The Premium Income of the Industrial Branch was 16R,546, the sum Assured X 3,169,237, and the Estimated Reserve 50,000 0 0 £189,322 15 8 The Liability of the Industrial Branch does not admit of being estimated in the same way as that of the General Branch, on account of the very large proportion of Policies which constantly large, so that the balk of the assurances are, in fact, risks for short terms only ; the estimated re serve for the lial ilitics of this Branch of the business is shown by the result of 14 years' experience to be abundantly suffi cient. The Assurance Fund on 31st Decem ber, 1868, was £241,301 13 4 The average duration of the whol.e of the Industrial Policies was considerably under three years. The average age of the Assured in the Industrial Branch was 19 years. A detailed List of Asset# can be bad on application. H. BARBEN, Secretary. THE "SUN" NE WSPAPER.-G. R. G,...ENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgewaro road, lelivsrs the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver Copies ir. Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by ( 7 145 o'clock Orders by post punctually attended to GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital.. Two Millions. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. ' DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq. DETETY-CHAIRMA-N— Frederick H. Janson, Esq. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq Richard M. Harvey, Esq Try. Bonham-Carter, Esq J. G. Hubbard, Esq Charles Wm Curtis, Esq G. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq, M.P Charles F. Devas, Esq John Martin, Esq Francis Hart Dyke, Esq Rowland Mitchell, Esq Sir VT. B. Farquhar, Bart Juries Morris, Esq James Goodson, Esa Abraham J. Roberts, Esq Archibald Hamilton. Esq Henry Vigne, Esq Thomson Hankey. Esq SECRETARY—Thomas Tallemach, Esq, ACTUARY—SamI. Brown, Esq. N.B.—Fire Policies which expire at Michaelmas must be renewed at the Head Office, or with the agents, on or before the 14th of October. The Government Duty is totally abolished. Prospectus and Forms of Proposat, with stodemen` of the asset- and liabilities in the Life Branch, free on application to the Company's Agents,or to the Secretary. MUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL LIABILITY. NON-FORF WITURE POLICIES by a LIMITED NUMBER of PAYMENTS. PROFITS may be APPLIED so as to make POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETIME. BRITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 4, Queen-street -place, Southwark Bridge, E.O NEW POLICIES ISSUED. New Policies issued. IP6B 1869 In Weeks. 3 .. 86 -L14,250 ... 108 - 18,481 Excess 22 £4,211 In 52 weeks ending April 7th, 1569 --£539,442 LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—Daring the Storms of the past twenty-two modis the National Life boat Institution contributed to the saving of 1,633 lives from various shipwrecks and 44 vessels from destruction, The stitution also expended £36,134:1n the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £4,250 for rewards. The Institution has now 210 Lifeboat Stations under its management. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London snd country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution. 14, John-stmet Adelphi, London. L ONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. CONVERSION OF DEBENTURES INTO DEBENTURE STOCK. The Directors are now prepared to enter into arrange ments for converting the Debentures of the Company into equivalent amounts of Perpetual Four per Cent. Deben ture Stock, and also to receive applications for allotments of the same Stock, at par. to be applied in the repayment of Debentures falling due. Any amount of Stock, not being a fraction of a pound, can be slbscribed for and transferred. A commission of 4 (one-half) per cent. is allowed to ap plicants, and the Stock will be inscribed in the Company's books free of all expense. The interest will be paid half-yearly on the 15th Jan uary and 15th July, by warrant. The Stock thus raised will be entitled to the same priority against the property and income of the Company as the Debenture Bond Debt, ranking before the Com pany's entire Stock and Share Capital of Thirty Millions (£30,000,000), and will be the first charge on a net income now amounting to upwards of Three Millions (XE,000,000) annually. Further particulars and forms of application may be obtained by letter addressed to the undersigned. STEPHEN REAY, Secretary. 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GUA AMARELLA. restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what ace. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect in!; this wonn irful liquid. It is now offered to the public IL a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Soil in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel passaage, 93, Upper Thames itreet London. E.C. KEATING'S INSECT FOWD ER, KILLS MOTHS, and iLL OFFEN-IVE INSECTS. Sold in Packets, ls., and Tins, 2s. 6ti. ani 4s. CI. each ; or ls. Packets. free by post, for 12 Postage Stamps. Also in Bottles, with Bellows, ls i'd. and 3s each, by THOMAS KEATING', Chemist, 79, St. Paul's Churchyard,;London, E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager. Mr. F. B. Chatv.rton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF T FIE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA. new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault: Messrs. Barrett, IL Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, Joh/. Rouse; 31 rs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLIT3IES. THEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARKET. sole Lessee, Mr. Ruekstone. . _ THIS EVENING. at Seven, FOUNDED ON FACTS : Mr Compton ; Mrs E. Fitzwilliam : Miss F.Wright. At a Quarter to Eight, the New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES: Air Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr. Braid, Mr Buckstone, jun.; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hill, ere. Concluding with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY : Mr Kendall, Miss F. Gwynne, &c. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: Messrs Ash!ey, C. H. Stephenson, and Misses Maria and Nelly Harris. At 1•i to 8, LOST AT SEA: a London Story. Messrs A. Stir ling, G. Belmore, E. Atkins, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, C. J. Smith, R. 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AS USUAL, ONE SHILLING.—Rese - ved Seats at the Palace only. ATACCABE.—GREAT ST. JAMES'S HALL, ITA Regent-street and Piccadilly. LAST MGHT BUT TWO. 3/AC CABE TO-NlGHTwillgive theFOITETH IL FAREWELL PERFORMANCE of his univer sally popular Entertainment BEGONE, DULL CARE, which attracted the largest and most fashionable audietce on Monday ever assembled in the Great St. James's Hall. Throngs are turned away nightly. Secure your seats in advance for the final performances. Every Evening at Eight o'clock, and SaturJay next at Three and Eight. Full Orchestra. Conductor, T. G. HARRIS, M.D. AT A CCAB E. —TO-NIGHT, at Eight, in Twenty-four of his original Personations and Songs—A superb exposition of Ventriloquism—New musical effects—Complete Programme ; complete Orches tra ; and a complete Entertainment. GREAT ST. JAMES'S HALL. 2,000 Shilling Seats. yACCABE has achieved a much greater suc cess than any other artiste who has attempted nightly to errertaiu an audience, having by his own un assi,ted efforts been enabled to c natinue the same round of characters for the past four years, without change or interruption, and on every occasion to draw forth the flat. tering and tumultuous approbation of the largest number of spectators ever drawn together by a single performer. GREAT ST.JAMES'S HALL, FOR ONE WEEK ONLY. THE FOURTH RECEPTION of FREDERIC HACCABE'S FAREWELL REPRESENTA TIONS of his universally popular "BEGONE, DULL CARE, in London, will take place THIS (Thursday) EVENING, at the GREAT ST. JAMES'S HALL, Regent-street and Piccadilly. Maccabo cannot possibly appear in London for some time to come after SATUR DAY NEXT, on which day he will give an EXTRA AFTERNOON PERFORMANCE Prices of admission —Sofa stalls, 55.; stalls, 3s. ; balcony, 25.; area and gallery, Is. Tickets and Programmes can be obtained at Mr. Austin's Ticket Office, 28, Piccadilly; and at all the principal Music-sellers and librarians. Manager and Business Agent, Mr. JOHN F. SUTTON. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. ,zole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At S, FORMOS A : Yessrs. Barrett, II Irving, David Fisher, Brittain, Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Mac donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED PLUMES 711- 7 1 1.3 lit • - 1 * 1, t ginning to end as this pompous announcement by the foes of the Imperial Government of a formidable demonstration being imminent and all but inevitable on the 26th of October—when the day passed over without there being any demonstration at all. It is about upon a par, in its way, with that ridiculous prediction of the high tide which was to cause so much devastation, but which never came off, or with those Apocalyptic announce ments from Crown-court, of the destruction of all things—that Last Day of Dr. CUMMING'S, which has £o often been postponed. NAPOLEON 111. has never been more strongly in power, as the head of the French nation, then he is at this very time when he is about to constitutionalize the general organization of his Government. IT is always interesting, and often encouraging, to contemplate the representations of social and domestic life, and the suggestions for reform, which are con tained in the literature of a past generation. It is surprising how rapidly opinions and proposals which were thought revolutionary at the time of their first promulgation becc.me obsolete and antiquated. We are diem disposed to complain that progress seems slow and the labour involved in necessary changes wearisome; but we may always take courage by noting the immense difference which separates the conditions of to-day from those of even a few years back. A writer in the Saturday Review has justly been amazed at the strange things he has found in a work on " Cottage Economy," by COBBETT—the famous Radical, who wrote such excellent English, and was looked upon in his time with such suspicion. It would certainly cut a mild figure by the side of a treatise on the same subject by even a moderate Reformer of our own day. To a certain extent a representation by COBBETT of the age in which he lived must be fallacious. His egotism was so absorbing, his idiosyncracies so strange, that no considerable body of his fellow-men could endorse his opinions and prejudices. He was a political party and a religious sect by him self. But he was also a Radical, and suffered severely for his faith. It might have been expected that a work on cottage economy by a thinker who in many respects so far outstripped his age would present no very striking contrast to a similar treatise of the present day, and would have advocated in a crude form some of the ideas which are now becoming developed. But though peasant life has advanced at no great pace, the doctrines set forth by COBBETT are startlingly primi tive. Radical as he was, the ideas he gave to the world fifty years ago are separated by a surprising dis tance from the most Conservative theories of to-day. Plenty of work and plenty to eat he regards as the two sole essentials to cottage happiness. To him labour is no mere drudgery; it is the one blessing of life ; and provided the larder be full, all other considerations books, education, amusement-- so many vanities. _ His v food system is as simple as his general theory of life's necessaries. According to the "Cottage Economy," there are only three kinds of meat and drink worthy of consump tion—bread, bacon, and beer. The woman who cannot make and bake bread is unworthy of her husband's affection, and little likely to retain it. The man who is not satisfied with fat bacon as his sole article of animal food commits a positive sin. " There is nothing like haying a store of meat in the house, for the running to the butcher's daily is a ridiculous thing." Now-a-days the cot tager regards fat bacon as better than nothing, indeed ; but is not so overwhelmed with the ridicule of daily running to the butcher's as to refrain from claiming fresh meat whenever can be got. To COBBETT the man who could not live on solid fat bacon was " fit for the hospital." The potato, according to this antiquated economist, was an absurd article of food, partly because it formed the staple of Irish diet, partly because it involved so much paring and washing and boiling. Tea was still more objectionable. It wasted time, it wasted money ; it impaired the strength, it weakened the intellect; it gave rise to idle and immoral habits, and finally brought its victim to a pre mature grave ! Such were the trifling evils attendant upon the cup that cheers but not inebriates. It was costly, COBBETT declared, and required great expenditure of time in the making. Beer was the proper alternative to the miserable stuff with which the present generation is poisoning itself in guileless simplicity ; but by substituting beer for tea the cottager straightway added ten or fifteen years to his life. But let not the beer-drinker prematurely rejoice at this potent testimony to the virtues of his favourite beverage. COBBETT, for one thing, though beer cheap, and allowed less than three shillings a week for the liquor expenses of a whole family, supposing tea to be eschewed. Given these three requisites—beer, bacon, and bread—it seems that a man may even dispense with religious obser vances. Two flitches of bacon are preferred to fifty thousand methodist sermons; in fact, with plenty of salted hog, the peasant undergoes no temptation, and , can scarcely do wrong. Indeed, COBBETT seemed to hold that poverty was the chief, if not the only, cause of irreligion." _ In other respects the Radicalism of fifty years back contrasts still more startlingly with the advanced creed of the present day. What Radical in these times would think of denouncing machinery as an evil ? But in those days the hostility to mechanical aids was at its height. COBBETT declared that all new improvements were abuses ; division of labour was bad ; and rather than attempt to make progress with machinery and organisation, people ought to go back to the time of their grandfathers. Probably the age when every man pitched his tent under the shadow of his own vine and fig-tree, clothed himself with skins, and lived on the produce of his flock and his plot of ground, would have best (pleased the author of " Cottage Economy." Extremes meet ; the very advanced Radical of to-day marches towards Com munism by going forward; the advanced thinker of half-a-century ago strove to reach the same end by going backwards. Most men of culture now think field labour for women an evil, only to be tolerated because of the difficulty of abolishing it. COBBETT thought that, next to baking bread and salting bacon —the most honourable vocations for women were digging and hoeing. Nothing enchanted him so much as the sight of a pretty woman planting cabbages. For many years past the Legislature of a benighted nation has been struggling to get rid of the Truck system of p a ying w ages; our Reformer of a past age thought the farmer would be a fool if he did not pay in kind. Self-interest must shew him that he ought to pay for nothing in money when he can pay for it in anything but money. The efforts of enlightened persons now-a-days are much directed to providing innocent recreation and amuse ment for the poor ; " Cottage Economy " stigmatises all amusement as a species of vice. But education comes in for the largest measure of unmixed contempt. Reading and writing were all very well doubtless— otherwise COBBETT himself could hardly have consis tently turned author ; but the art of bread-winning should be taught first, and instruction given afterwards. Children should not waste their time in the idleness of what is called education ; book learning comes very well after other more important things. It gave COBBETT unmixed pleasure to find a child just turned six helping his father to reap. It was gratifying to see so small a boy fit to be trusted with so dangerous an instrument as a reaping: hook. "Teaching to read does not tend to independence like teaching to reap." here is a problem for the Birmingham League : should our educational machinery fur the future consist solely of night schools for the benefit of those who, having learned to gain a livelihood, are fit to be taught reading ? The Radical philosophy of fifty years back is more Conservative than the crotchets of the most rigid rural dignitary in these times. The Radicalism of a man who was looked upon as a firebrand, is a system of patriarchal life which the most ultra-Tory of 1869 would ' never hope for. Such is the difference of fifty years. Will the next fifty years make a similar change ? Will FAWCETT and MILL and FAVRE be as anti quated and out of date. in 1926 as COBBETT is now ; and if so, what will be the result ? • SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The 20th of October, observes the Times, has come and gone, and there has been no riot in Paris. What next ? Have the rowers which first aroused and then allayed this popular storm the means of evoking it at their pleasure? And, if so, is the riot for ever given up, or is it only adjourned? It is for the Emperor Napoleon to answer these questions. It may be always in his power to crush opposition ; but he might find it more for his advantage simply to disarm it. It seems difficult to doubt that a clear-sighted ruler like tho present French Monarch must realise to the full extent his present situation. It is impossible for us to discover on what principle the Emperor's policy during these- last few months has been based. We have no hesitation in acquitting him of deli berate equivocation ; we are willing to admit that he acted on upright, generous impulses. But then his besetting uneasiness and his habit of endless wavering and repining have almost spoilt everything. He probably thought he could win all if he could but gain time. Yet what has delay really achieved in his favour ? He has created an impression that he meant to take away with his right hand what he had given with his left. He awaited his adversaries on the 20th of Oetober and they disappointed him. What if his adversaries, in their turn thought their own time would come on the 29th of November? What if they were getting ready for the encounter which they shunned on Tuesday last ? Of course the Emperor may have it in his power to bear down all opposition with the strong hand. But a reliance on mere force is scarcely consistent with good policy. It is hardly compatible with public right, even such as is laid down in the Imperial Constitu tion. The Emperor may be entitled to employ sheer force against dynastic adversaries, but he can never be justified in drawing the sword against constitutional opponents. In a purely constitutional conflict he must seek not the army's but the people's support. Now that the Queen's 'Writ of Privy Seal and Letter Recommendatory have been issued to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, the Daily Irews thinks we may hope for an early termination of the scandalous exhibitions which so many of the clergy have• lately been making of themselves at public meetings and in the newspapers. Among minor advantages, the issue of the congd will, it may be hoped, put an end to the distressing impecuniosity which has thus early overtaken the Cockspur-street Committee, for there can be no use in summoning the clergy at great expense to pray the Queen "not to recommend the said Dr. Temple to the roe of Exeter," now that she has already done so. The hollow agitation against Dr. Temple has not collapsed before it has done some good. Simple and sincere minds, who a fortnight ago were distressed because they were not sure that there was not some ground for the outcry against Dr. Temple, have been greatly relieved to find that after all his opponents have nothing tangible to allege. Unable to find heretical doc trine in his sermons, the latter are driven to say that his appointment would cause "great scandal" in the Church ; but as they themselves are mainly responsible for the scandal by their misrepresentations, they are not entitled to use it as an argument against the Royal choice. Their letters and speeches only show how necessary it is that wise and charitable men should be called to the chief places in the Church. Loud as is the outcry which Dr. Temple's opponents have made, they have sail nothing against him which they have not surpassed in decrying one another. Things have gone far enough when a Low Church Dean denounces a pious and learned High Church Divinity Professor in the public prints as a "leper ;" and it is alarming to think how the vituperative capabilities of the English language may be developed if this controversy goes on. If the Dean and Chapter of Exeter read the newspapers, they will surely have mercy on the whole Church, and bring this turmoil to an end by performing their ministerial duty. It is officially announced, says the Standard, that the Crown has issued the conyO d'ilire to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter for the election of Dr. Temple. Thus far, then, it would seem that the emphatic protest which the nomination has elicited from Churchmen of all shades of opinion has had not the slightest weight in shaking the determination of Mr. Gladstone. He knows perfectly well that the selection of Dr. Temple has aroused an almost unanimous feeling of indignation and disgust, and he shews his sense of it by hurrying on the completion of the appointment as quickly as possible. The result is that the Church is to be saddled with a bishop whose conspicuous characteristic is that he either will not or cannot free himself from the charge of holding and sympathising with the triply'-condemned heresies of " Essays and Reviews." And it is a Liberal Premier, Mr. Gladstone, the High Church champion of orthodoxy, who does this. He it is who makes use of his position to affront and outrage the Church, and to make her sons know and feel how galling the yoke of the State may be when it is imposed by a reckless or vindictive statesman. It is difficult to acquit Mr. Gladstone of acting with deliberate intention in this matter, seeing that the object of his choice has no claims whatever to the distinction awarded to him, and has, besides, the positive disquali fication of being branded as a teacher of unsound doctrine. There can be but one object to be gained in forcing such a bishop upon the Church, and Mr. Glad stone may rely upon it that sooner or later he will be made to feel the strength of the indignant feeling which he has provoked. In presence of the dogged determina tion with which he has pressed forward this appointment there seems very little hope that it can be successfully re sisted, but we trust that, at the least, it will be met at every stage by a firm and unanimous, if unavailing, pro test, which shall gather up the sense of the whole Church against it. Mr. Gladstone must not be permitted the satisfaction of finding that the Church is a silent accomplice in the indignity to which she is to be sub jected. The Telegraph is exceedingly glad to find that Mr. Roe buck has not been put down, and will not be put down. Thrown out of Parliament by a local artisan resentment which he may be proud to have provoked, he seized the occasion of his overthrow to make one of the happiest and pluckiest speeches that he had uttered during his whole political career. Not much had been heard of him since things at Sheffield went so contrary ; but the other night, at the annual meeting of the Dewsbury Mechanics' Institute, he came to the surface as fearless, as racy, as original as ever. Now the working man is not less his care than in the days when he had more direct and practical relations with the working class, and when he aided in procuring for the people the broad franchise lately conceded with such nappy results. But in these days, when the workman has got what was his right as a citizen, Mr. Roebuck rings in his ear a new, a gentler, a not less noble demand—that the workman shall himself do what it is at once in his right and in his power to do as a man and a gentleman. It is just possible that he may be accused of cold hearted indifference to lowly ambition when he says that the true object of the working man should be, not to get out of his station, but to be happy in it. The facts, however, are in his favour when he reminds us that for one George Stephenson there are millions who never can and never will be George Stephenson; and surely it is immeasurably better for workmen to surround themselves with simple and elevating pleasures in the place which they actually occupy ; than to to repine, and fret, and make all around them unhappy, because they cannot at a bound overleap the barriers of the social state in the country where their lot had been cast. It is a strong point in favour of Mr. Roebuck's theory, that James Watt's invention was in spired by the homely tea-kettle at a tranquil and comfort able fireside; and has not somebody said that in the calm of the affections the intellect finds its happiest work ing time ? The Pest remarks that the advantage which an Irishman gains bygoing to America is often of a more than question able nature. If the wage is high, the work is laborious, and it is accompanied by conditions which make life neither pleasant nor long in the land of his adoption. It would be difficult to say how far the feverish state of existence through which an Irishman passscs who settles in New York, and the reckless conscious ness which he soon arrives at that, merry or not, his life will be a short one, have contributed to swell the ranks and keep up the funds of the American Fenians, But that mischievously useless movement has found its chief support amongst the Irish in the towns. Irishmen who have gone out to the West, and have planted their roof-trees upon land of their own, have had more pressing interests to occupy their thoughts than the invasion of Ire A.mcria, as in the old country, it is the people who had n , Allin'; to lose who have joined the movement. Landowners, whether in Wexfurd or in lowa, have stood aloof from it. For Ireland, as fur her far more wealthy neighbour, emigration must continue to be a resource upon which there will be a greater demand at one time than at another, according to circum stances, but of which neither e..un try can ever expect to be wholly independent; and for Irishmen who have the good of their poorer fellow -country men at heart, it ought to be a question of the deepest interest how far they can aid a mcvcment which seeks to rescue Irish emigrants from the destroying toil of the cities and to transf.A. them to the hopeful Western States, where they may realise what in their native country is, and must ever be, nothing more than a dream. One thing is certain, namely, that the waste of Irish life upon. `,ho public and other works of the eastern cities of Ame.ric,, lamentably great, and that the stream of emigration ,i.ennially adding to it. It is surely worth an effort t;• ,educe that waste, especially as there is such good reason to believe that the undertaking presents no insupersbl , Cdflicaltics. CONFI1?.211 A TION - OF 711 E .A 7 ETV BISHOP OF SALISBURY. - The ceremony of confirming the election of tho Rev. Dr. George Moberly, D.D., formerly Head Master of Winchester College, to the Lb_lopric of Salisbury, took place on Wedne'sday, in the parish church of St. Mary-le- Bow, Cheapside. The Litany Service was read, after which Sir Travers Twiss, the Vicar-General of the Province, took his scat at a table in the body of the chance], the Bishop Elect remaining in his pew. Dr. Robertson, the Proctor for the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury, presented to the Vicar- General the letters patent of the Queen opened under the Great Seal, which the Vicar-General directed the principal registrar of the province, Mr. F. Hart Dyke, to read aloud. The Bishop elect then advanced from his pew and took his scat opposite the Vicar-General, who ordered that all oppescrs should be called. Mr. Kerkman made the usual proclamation, but no one opposing, the Bishop knelt before the Vicar-General and took the usual oaths. The Vicar-General then formally cenfirmed Dr. Moberly's election, and signed the usual documents. A. , * .A 4, Mania ,„_ HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, Oct. 25. The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of Ely went out in the morning. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, went to the GlaE:salt Sheil in the afternoon. LATEST MULL MENCII (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA.: (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Oct. 27. The National steamship Company's steamer Virginia arrived here yesterday. The Allan (Glasgow) steamship St. David ar rived out to-day. The steamers which leave to-day for Europ e take out $475,000 in Epecie. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1291 ; the highest quotation dot' ing the day was 1301; the lowest, 1291. Sterling Exchange on London 1081• 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 l2Ol. 16 " 1885 1191• 16 " 1867 ll7. 10-40 44 Illinois 138;• Erie Cotton —Mid. upland 26 1 1°• Petroleum —Standard White 34c• Flour, extra state, $5.75c. to $6.35c. Coro, 0 ld mixed, sl.Bc. THEATRE-ROYAL, Tars EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING Mr A shley, Mr, Stephenson, and the Misses Harris. Followed by LOST A T SEA: Mr A. Stirling, Mr G. Belmore, Mr E. Atkins, Mr Beveridge, Mr Stephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Romer; sliss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr et. Belmore and Mrs L Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENiNG: at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. At 7.45, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr H. J. Byron. And BREACH OF PROMISE. 11Ir J Clarke and Miss Hughes. THEATRE-ROYAL, ITOLBORN. Tnis EITF:vING, THE LOTTERY TICKET. After which, THE GAMESTER: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Ifra.Hermann Vezin, &c. And THE WATER VAST. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanhorourh. EVENING, at 7.30. AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr flerke. With THE TOODLES. And THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G NRDENS, Regent's-T.93k. OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission. Is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve. Ad. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. la. Box-office open from ll to 4. LONDON, TIIIII?SDAY, OCT. 28, 1869. One of the oddest phrases in the English lan guage is the one in wbich any one says he is agree ably disappointed. Yet that is the very phrase which precisely expresses the mixed feelings with which the Paris Correspondents of English jour nalism, without exception, traversed the dripping streets, and boulevards, and open spaces of Paris on Tuesday last, the 26th of October. They were agreeably disappointed. They went to describe what took place, and nothing took place. They went to photograph the expected demonstration on the pages of their notebooks, and there was no de. monstration whatever to photograph. They have only enabled us to see through their own bino cular vision as through a stereoscope the vacant spaces in which there ought to have been, according to the political. false prophets of the hour, this long-looked-for revolutionary outbreak. Reading their accounts, the pedestal is there, so to speak—but, upon it, there is visible no struggling and entangled group of the LAocooN. There is not even seen upon the empty square of the pedestal the brawny figure of the reposing HERCULES. It is simply the pedestal, and nothing more than the pedestal. "Into each life some rain must fall," according to LONGFELLOW. and it certainly fell on that day into the life of Paris. And it fell not in opportunely. Mobs are as effectually dispersed by dis charges from the tubes of fire-engines as by discharges from the more ponderous and rigid cylinders of artillery. It was not, however, that the floodgates of heaven were opened on Tuesday over the French Capital. It was simply that there was a continuous drizzle like a Scotch mist, accompanied by a raw wind of the most dispiriting character. The raw wind and the drizzle, however, were quite enough. According to LEIGH HUNT'S description of a similar day in London, it might be said quite as accurately that, the day before yesterday, in Paris " all the pave ments were a dancing wash, and all the women were distressed Venuses de Medicis." Only, that, of the latter, there were visible out of doors very few indeed•—the male foot-passengers even being very sparsely distributed about the leading thorough fares. It was one of those miserable days in autumn when— " Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger lily," as sings the Poet Laureate : and heavily hung the dank blossoms of the red and yellow dahlias all along the Champs Elysees. Not a soldier was visible anywhere in all Paris, saving only the solitary sen tinel carefully buttoned up in his overcoat marching up and down in front of some public building, or shared for an interval of shelter into the coffin-like niche of his sentry-box. Even when the rain abated, and ceased in the afternoon, the sun gleaming out from among the clouds and the roads swept clear of moisture, the people remained still in doors, and to the last there was no demonstration whatever. In regard to the EMPEROR'S reception, we spoke yesterday as to his being cordially greeted immediately upon his ap pearance on the terrace in the gardens of the Tuileries by a crowd of two thousand persons who were there on the watch for him, and who welcomed him with a burst of acclamations. Cheered very heartily on the evening of the 25th at the Opera, he was again very heartily cheered on the evening of the 26th, itself, in the Theatre Francais. There is no question of it that the whole thing was a false alarm raised by the irreconcilebles without any foundation. There were the leaders of a riot if they could but have seen their way to get one up. Only —there were no followers. There was the watch word, but no one would answer it. M. Bar:BE said a few words, or read a few words, under the column of Luxor in the Place de la Concorde, but, with what ludicrous result by the way ? Why the chance passengers who listened for a moment, as they passed, to hear what the damp gentleman was saying to all space--offered him coppers, derisively, as though he had been (as in point of fact he was for the time being) a street mountebank — to his intense indignation. Seldom, indeed, has there been witnessed such an absurdity from be- NATIONAL EDUCA TION UNION. We are now enabled to give a fuller account of the orga nisation of the Union at Manchester, branches of which will, it is believed, be established in the principal cities and towns throughout the country. Already a similar associa tion has taken root at Birminghani,practically in opposition to tho Education League. Among the Vice-Presidents of the Manchester Union are the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquis of Salisbury, Earl Nelson, Earl of Ellesmere, the Bishop of St. David's, the Bishop of Ripon, Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of Colombo, and Lord Sidmouth. Among those who have expressed their approval of the movement in favour of supplementing and improving the present religious deno minational system of national education aro Lord Robert Montagu. 31. P., Mr. W. F. Cowper, 31. P., Lord E. Howard, the Hon. E. Egerton, M.P., the Hon. Wilbraham Egerton, M.P., the Hon. Algernon Egerton, 31. P., Colonel Akroyd, M.P., Hugh Birley, M.P., Edward Baines, M.P., Henry Wyndham-West, M.P., R.R. Wing field Baker, M.P., H. Cecil Raikes, M.P., W. Finnic, M,P., Colonel Gray, 31. P., J. Hick, M,P., F. Lowden Corrance t M.P., J. S. Hardy, M.P., C. Buxton, M.P. (East Surrey), the Dean of Durham, Dr. Kennedy, Regius Pro fessor, Cambridge; the Master of Trinity College, Cam bridge, Archdeacon Allen, the Rev. Canon Birch, Chap lain in Ordinary to the Queen and the Prince of Wales ; Rev. R. Payne Smith, D.D., Regius Professor of Oxford.; the Rev. Canon Norris, the Rev. Dr. Sedgwick, Ce,P: o n of Norwich ; the Hon. and Rev. Canon Lyttletor., the Rev. Canon Moseley, of Bristol ; the Rev. G. B. Lee, Warden of Winchester College ; the Rev. Dr. Ba rr y, P r i nc i pa l of King's College, London; the Rev. Dr. Scott, Head Master of 'Westminster School, and some thirty or forty other gentlemen whose names are more or less known to the public. The general secretary is the Rev. W. Stanyer, M.A. The Church of England, the Roman Catholic, and the other religious bodies, will, it appears, be represented at the Congress, which is to be held on the 3rd and 4th of November, in the town-hall at Manchester. There will be four sessions of three hours each. The readers of papers and speakers have all been selected. At the first session the Earl of Harrowby will preside; at the second, Mr. Hugh Birley, M.P.; at the third, the Hon. Algernon F. Egerton, 3f.P. ; at the fourth, Mr. W. F. Cowper, M.P. At the close of this fourth session, from two o'clock to five, on Thursday, the 4sh of November, the concluding address will be delivered, which is expected to excite very great interest, inasmuch as it will be the winding-up of the business of the Con gress. Each reader will be allowed twenty minutes ; each speaker ten minutes. During the first session the readers will be Lord Robert Montagu, 31. P., the Rev. Dr. Barry, of King's College, London, Mr. W. Romaine Callender, J.P., and the 11ev. W. J. Kennedy, Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools. The speakers are Lord Edward Howard, the Rev. F. Meyrick, late Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools ; Mr. T. W. Allies, secretary of the Roman Catholic Poor School Committee ; and the Rev, J. Pitcairn, vicar of Eccles. During the second session the readers will be the Rev. Canon Norris, late her Majesty's Inspector of Schools ; the Rev. Canon Toole (Roman Catholic) , the Ven. Archdeacon Allen, late her Majesty's Inspector of Schools; and the Rev. C. Sewell, late her Majesty's Inspector of Schools. The speakers are Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., the Right Rev. Bishop Ryan, the Right Rev, the Bishop of Colombo, the Dean of Durham, and the Rev. Canon Mel ville. During the third session the readers will be Colonel Akroyd, M.P., Mr. Alexander Redgrave, her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Factories ; the Rev. Dr, Rigg, Principal of the Wesleyan Training College ; and the Rev. W. K. Morrison, of St. James's, Halifax. The speakers are Mr. W. F. Cowper, the Rev. Dr. Bell, of Goole, and the Rev. Canon Norris. During the closing session the readers will be the Rev. J. Bardsley, St. Ann's, Manchester; Mr. Jchn Flint, Registrar of the Duke of Newcastle's Commission on Education ; the Rev. T. S. Dale, Secretary of the Birmingham Association ; and Mr. R. G. Gainsford, Sheffield. Torn Thumb is disconsolate in California. He has found a fellow four inches shorter than himself. TUTORS AND STUDENTS.—An evil custom pre vailed at the end of last term, which, it may be hoped, will soon go out of fashion. Men engaged private tutors, fully occupied their time, and then, at the end of term, went off without payment of their fees. Such conduct is both mean and cruel. It is mean, since it is a violation of a tacit pledge. It is cruel, because it spoils the holidays of those who most deserve them. Better is an honest "plough" than a "pass" which is tainted with stinginess to the teacher. Are the claims of cards and betting so imperious ?—Oxford Under graduates' Journal. An ice and cold-producing machine has been invented by Franz Windhausen, Brunswick. The action of the machine, we are told, is based on the principle of producing cold and warmth by the expansion and compres sion of atmospheric air, which is accomplished by means of mechanical power. The machines require no chemicals— nothing being used in them but water and atmospheric air. They may be wrought by steam, water, or wind, and they produce from 100 lb. to I,ooolb. ice per hour,according to size, at a cost of from 2d. to sd. per 100 lb.; this difference resulting from the varying prices of fuel and the mode of working chosen. One of their uses is to cool rooms, cellars, theatres, hospitals, compartments of ships, &c.— North German Correspondent. THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT PENGE.—The death of a lady at Penge by poison has created an immense sen sation at that favourite metropolitan village. At the inquest on Wednesday the evidence disclosed much domestic unhappiness, and it is alleged that the husband, a Mr. Fowler, ill-used his wife and placed strychnine in her way in order that she might poison herself. The deceased, however, was a stout, resolute sort of a woman, whose will, it was stated, was not at all likely to be influenced by mere sentimentality. The inquest was adjourned. REMARKABLE COINING STORY.—In the spring of 1746, an elderly woman gave information against her maid for coining, and the trial came on at the Old Bailey. The mistress deposed that having been left a widow several years ago, with four children, and no possibility of maintaining them, she had taken to coining; that she used to buy old pewter-pots, out of each of which she made as many shillings, &c., as she could pass for three pounds, and that by this practice she had bred up her children, bound them out apprentices, and set herself up in a little shop, by which she had got a comfortable livelihood ; that she had now given over coining, and indicted her maid as an accomplice] The maid in her defence said, "That when her mistress hired her, she told her that she did something up in a garret into which she must never inquire ; that all she knew of the matter was, that her mistress had often given her moulds to clean, which she did, as it was her duty ; that, indeed, she had sometimes seen pieces of pewter pots cut, and did suspect her mistress of coining ; but that she never had had, or put off, one single piece of bad money." The judge asked the mistress if this was true ; she answered " Yes ;" and that she believed her maid was as honest a creature as ever lived; but that, knowing herself in her power, she never could be in peace; that she knew by informing she could secure herself; and not doubting but that the maid's real inno cence would appear, she concluded that the poor girl would come to no harm. The judge flew into the greatest rage, told her he wished he could stretch the law to hang i!er, and feared he could not bring off the maid for having concealed the crime ; but, however, the jury did bring her in nct guilty. At a Fpeeial meeting of the Council on Tuesday the following . resolution was sclopted:—"The President and Council of the English Church Union, having carefully discussed the circtnstt.r.c , s connected with the nominn- Lion of Dr. Temple to the see of Ex( ter, and having also considered the various and confbeting repro -tentatious which have been made to them from branches and members of the Union, are of opinion that it would be premature ou their part to recommend any action by the Union in its collective capacity at the present stage of the case." The G uardiau publishes the following from the Dean of Yolk:—' 6 Sir—My tame having ,tppeared as a member of a committee for oppos ..iirg the election of Dr. Temple to the see of Exeter, wi:l you permit me to state that my name was so used with out my sanction, and that There declined to be a member of the committee as proposed.—l am, your obedient ser vipia ArGs. PVMNPAL DORM York, Oct. 22.1863.'. SPAIN. MADRID, Oct. 21. This evening several meetings of members of th: Cortes have been held, discussing the question 01 the candidature to the throne. Many of the Pro' gressist party do not think the Duke of Geno a : suitable choice. The U n i on i s t s, on t h e other hand' are unanimously in favour of the Duke of M° °. pensier. Very animated discussions took place. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 25, Evening. Yesterday aft ernoon th e E ng li s h Ambasoci°t visited the Crown Prince of Prussia and Prin k Louis of Hesse at the Beglerbey Palace. of The Sultan gives a grand dinner in honour , 0 the Princes at th e P a l ace o f Dohnabachtsc he till evening. The Duke of Aosta arrived at noon in the ya cht Vendetta, escorted by four steamers having board members of the Italian colony at COO All' tinople. At The Prince was c or di a ll y rece i ve d . H e s tage t the Sultan's Ki os k i n th e valley of the 6sce Waters on the A s i a ti c s h ore. D ur i ng his BOY the same ceremonial is being observed as on the oc er sion of the visit of Prince Napoleon. The Austrian Colony at thi s cap it a l, numwe r iog f nearly 4,000 pers o ns, h as appo i nte d a commi ttee o 40 members to make preparations for welcoraw° their Emperor. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Oct. 2 7 ibe The Empress E ugen i e , accompan i e d 11 Khedive, left for Upper Egypt yesterday. The International Commission on Consularefilri°' diction will meet at Cairo to-morrow. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA MAILS. MALTA, Oct' 21. 4 The Peninsul a r an d O r i en t a l C ompan y's stool:l3'e Ripon left at 8 this evening for Southampton , she may be looked for about the night of the proximo. / The Peru, from Southampton IGth inst., atr ia at Malta o n th e 25th, a t 8 . 30 a . m., and left at midnight for Alexandra. FRANCE. Paris, Oct. 28.0 The Official Jou rna l of thi s morn ing state s t13 ; 0 0 the Council of State h as t a k en i n t o conside l- o f the Senatus Consultum o n th e a ppointw aet communal mayors, and the bill on free Pu ptiri education. LITERATURE. 40- l ll Viola. By the Author o f " C as t e ." 3 Vo ls . 0 and Blackett. tieg . The story of " Viola" is unus ually illt e ` -s h otit The attention of the reader is arrested throu— 'l tb: and it is quite imp oss ibl e t o f ore t e ll, even 11-ti nt close of the third volume, what the dew:We e:le i the the plot is likely to be. Th e fi rs t chapter c) c oie first volume, pleasantly entitled " Making 3 o o f slip ball," introduces us to a charming eeThfith love and happiness. Viola Dalton, raclie li „,,, a uti' both these invaluable att rac ti ons , ea ch more " of fying than any compound in the laborater; bet Madame Rachel, is making a cowslip balli ° lo ferf little sister Rosalie, aided by her affianc ed, selr Lionel Beverley. The glow of a spring d ay ~bter shine illumines the landscape, and briP h bitP ~‘ glow suffuses the thoughts of t h e e igbri Viola, but the experienced reader ; r ing surmises that such happiness (especialli °c o lonic) as it does in the fi rs t c h a pt er o f the firs t %pea° is too good to la s t. A ser p en t, as usual, ' b r io in' among the flowers of this p a radise, an d o t ag pise' truder is no other than Viola's cousin, l is The name of this fair and treacherous claelse her itt somewhat unusual one, b u t it appears t° t ser instance a sufficiently appropriate appellaZ;i OSP gesting as it does something of the asp er t ie ss o Caspian is as s u re dly as deep as her only 11 1:0 th e (that we ev er remem b er ) the Caspian S ea, ev ili" tender, truthful Viola, and her devoted but 8°133000 arrogant lover are unable to resist her tres.e;ofer machinations. The character of CasPisl3 oria drawn. Her pursuit of Lionel even to I•ll`.olting' her very unwomanly conduct there, i 0 re;iotori i Viola is very natural throughout all her, sots io Her marriage is a mistake, and her imprtle`,r exposing herself to temptation, in the chi/1;01e titled "In the Fire," makes the reader tor y Of for her safety. The moral of the s p rOf ° , however, well worked out, and viol a .p . 1P ; herself worthy of the sympathY " c l w oo 4 has called forth. The change o f re ader in Mr..Nuneham is disappointing to the re'eelf,de well as to the heroin e . The chivalry en d nite r be votion of his n a t ure disappear e ntirely ; of 0' has consented to stoop to one grievous s hould be ception. It is p er h aps na tural that it 13 , a et ) ,, ° so, supposin g , th a t i s t o s ay, that suc h tide meter could cond esc e n d to such a n „ . 8c P lot 131 do not wi s h t o spo il t h e m ystery of t' e to oft () ; further revelations. We have said en ou g h , as an interesting„viols borateourfirst as:triyo.o as to the eted • ere - of The very extensive Distillery now be l % f ote 4 . ° 0 at Belfast, with a ll recen t improvements for the l° fat 0 1 %0 Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE t Co., 1. 51 , /, is t ° a world-wide celebrity for their tine old Irish Wit' called "The Royal Irish Distillery." rt 12, 00 a HIGH WATER AT LONDON ---- egg / i .F.G MORNING. n m in I"' TIIUnSDAY 40 men pest 6 ...... D R ~t FRIDAY 48 min past 7 ..•... u!, in po t 0 os 15 SATURDAY 12 min past 9 ...... . 5 m in P o t , SUNDAY 38 min past 10 ...... 1„ Y d t gP MONDAY 50 min pest 11.....•• , rajo TtiI3SDAY.., l s .rain past Mew.