The Sun. — London, England, 1869-09-10 00:00:00

LETTER FROM MR. BRIGHT. The Right Hon. John Bright has addressed the fol owing letter to Mr. L. ICaberry, jun., of Rochdale, on the subject of Free Trade :—" I thank you for the newspaper. There are knaves in the world, and there are simpletons, and the one class preys upon the other. The Tory party is always driven to these tricks ; they cannot other wise appeal to the multitude. If they complain that bac many customs' duties have been repealed, they will perhaps kindly tell the working men what duties they will put on again. Is it the duty on corn, or cattle, or do they wish a duty on imported cotton ? If a foreigner will not buy cheaply from us, will it mend the matter if we refuse to buy cheaply from him or from some other foreigner? If wages have risen from 20 to 50 per cent. since 1850, is this consistent with a wrong policy as to our foreign trade? The pamphlet to which you refer bears the marks of having been written in Bedlam ; it is a mere confusion of figures and is wholly without logic or s..nse. The good harvest will tend to restore health to the general trade of the country, and when we have a sufficient supply of cotton, Lancashire will recover from its present distressed condi. tion. It is more cotton we want, and -not more taxes on imports. I suspect the people of Lancashire will not fail to understand this." LAW AND POLICE. EMBEZZLEMENT AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—At the Surrey Sessions, on Thursday, the head waiter in the service of Messrs. Bertram and Roberts, the contractors for refreshment at the Crystal Palace, was convicted o: embezzlement. He was sentenced to twelve months' im• prisonment with hard labour. TALKING IN THE STItEETS.-A man was charged on Thursday, at the Wandsworth Police-court, with making a noise in the street at night. The magistrate said that although loud talking might be tolerated in the streets during the day it could not be permitted at night. The prisoner was, however, discharged. LORD CLINTON'S SECRETARY AND THE ALBERT INSURANCE COMPANY. -0 In the Bankruptcy Court on Thursday, Mr. J. J. Kent, public accountant, No. T.`,5, Dasing,hall-street, filed a statement of accounts under the bankruptcy of Charles Anderson Hustler, late of Duke-street, Manchester-square, secretary to Lord Arthur Pel ham Clinton, late M.P. for Newark. The bankrupt's accounts show the following summary : To creditors un secured, 1729195. 10d.; creditors hohling security, £712105.; liabilities on bills discounted, £5O ; liability as shareholder in Albert Life Office (unascertained); total, £1,492 98. 10d. By good debts of Lord A. P. Clinton, £4OO estimated to realise £lOO ; by property in the hands of creditors, £162 ; by deficiency of £1,230 90. 101 ; total, £1,492 9s. 10d. The bankrupt's expenditure is stated to have been £3OO per annum for the last two years. He stated in his accounts, " I am liable upon forty shares of £2O each in the Albert Life Assurance Company in the hands of Messrs. Small page and Co., for any calls that may be made thereon." Lord Albert Pelham Clinton's debt is stated to have been contracted in 1864 and 1868 for "services rendered and money paid by him at various times."—Adjourned. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION IN LIVER POOL. A boiler explosion occurred on Wednesday evening al the rice mills of Messrs. Clark and Co., Pair•street, Liver pool. The engineman was so severely injured that he died a few minutes after his body was exhumed from the daris which the explosion had caused to fall around and upon him. The fragments of the exploded boiler, which had occupied a place in the engine•room on the basement of the premises, had been blown with great violence some yards from the bed of brickwork in which the boiler was erected. The unfortunate man was found completely buried beneath the fragments thrown together by the explosion. The poor fellow was dreadfully mutilated and scalded. He had received three large scalp wounds. The deceased had only that evening entered upon his employment on the premises as night engine-driver, and he had not been at work more than half an hour when the es. plosion occurred. The building itself is but slightly damaged, .and the contents of the mill and warehouse adjoining are insured in the office of the Nest of England. A STRANGE CRIME. , A shocking murder, the circumstances of wticti aro involved in mystery, was lately committed in Catchina, one of the suburbs of St. Petersburg. The police, having been informed that a murder had been perpetrated •in the house of the Grande Perspective, occupied by M. Glebow, his wife, and his mother-in-law, proceeded to the spot, and found the latter, a woman about 40, lying in a small ante chamber with her throat cut. The relatives of the victim, on being interrogated, declared that the deceased had gone to vespers on the preceding evening, and had returned in high spirits ; that the family had supped at eleven o'clock, after which M. Glebow and his wife retired to their chamber, but at what time the widow went to bed was uncertain. In the middle of the night Mine. Glebow, the younger, was awakened by the cries of her young son Theodore who usually slept in the apartment of the mother-in.law, and, on entering the room, she found the latter in the state above-mentioned, with the child lying over the body and crying. She immediately informed her husband, who went to give information to the police. As no doors had been broken open, nor any property carried off, the crime is sup posed to have been committed by one of the inmates of the house. The Birmingham Gazette, writiug upon the milers' strike, says there is now some prospect of its being brought to a conclusion to the satisfaction of tho masters and the men. A meeting of the nailmasters of Hales Owen has been held at the house of Mr. P. Trewolla, when it was decided that a requisition should be drawn up and sent round the districts where the Men are on strike, for the signatures of masters willing to pay the '64 list. The lint has been stint roucd during the present week, and has been most extensively signed. Most of the masters seem quite willing to gay the 20s. to tho pound, but do not relish the idea of holding a public meeting. The men, on the other hand, seem quite determined to remain on strike till the masters have held a public meeting, and positively decline to meet less than 30 masters. Mr. Wheelhouse, M.P., delivered an address at a meeting of the Leeds Conservative Association. He said that few speeches bad been made since the end of the session, because the Liberal members did not wish to discuss their future policy. He believed that the Irish land question would he treated in a very different spirit from that of the Irish Church. He thought the Li berals would be false to their principles if they made a dis tinction, and for his part be should like to have as Radical a measure as possible proposed, in order to see if these gen tlemen would be silent when their own estates were brought into question. An institution of a somewhat novel character has been added to those now existing in the Church of England. It is under the direction of a Council of Reference, consisting of Lords Lyttelton, the Earls of Glasgow and Strathmore, Lord Eliot, Lord Richard Cavendish, the Hon. C. L. Cour tenay, Sir H. E. F. Lainbert, the Hon. H. Walpole, the Hon. C. L. Wood, the Hon. and Rev. H. Douglas, the Hon. and Rev. R. Liddell, Mr. R. Brett, Mr. R. Few, Dr. Gully, and other gentlemen, and its object is "to afford to the working clergy opportunities of refreshmlnt to body and soul at the lowest reasonable cost." The institution is near Malvern, and the Rev. James Skinner, M.A., Vicar of Nowlands, has teen appointed warden provisionally. THE DEAN OF LIMERICK'S PLAN FOR THE SUS TENTATION OF TILE IRISH CHURcH.—A plan for the future sustentation of the Church of • Ireland has been put for ward by the Dean of Limerick, in a sermon in the Limerick Cathedral. He said—lf the Church of Ireland is to be maintained at all, it is on the principle of all its members combining for the purpose, an d giving each one in proportion to his means. There is a plan which you have seen referred to in th e newspapers, and which has been suggested by the Irish Church Act itself, called commutation. It means that the Government, in place of continuing to pay the incomes of the existing clergy during their lives, should hand over the sum which it is supposed will be sufficient to pay each annuity to the governing - body of the Church, and let that body be the future paymaster. You may ask of what use will that he I answer at once, of no use at all, if that is all that is done ; only an injury, in making the clergy dk.pend for their incomes, not on Government s..ff.urity, but on a voluntary a3soe7ation. But while thus by itself it gains nothing, or worse than nothing,commuta ii6fi may be turned to a means of immense benefit if, by the strenuous and united efforts of all classes, clergy and laity, put forward for a few years, the sum thus handed over by the Government to the Church could be preserved untouched a 3 a future endowment. The interest of £5,000,000, even at the low rate of interest that is to be had from the public funds, is £150,000 a year. Let £250,000 a year more be raised by subscriptions, not for ever, but for a very few years, during the lives of the existing clergy, and firer you have that annual income of £150,000 a year secured by endowment for ever to the Church; enough to give £l5O a year each to one thousand clergymen in the Church I of Ireland. ME7 ROP 0L I TAN G 0 S.V 1 3 — 7 hztrsday Some years ago when Prince Napo' i n male celebrated Ajaccio speech, which drew down upon him the wrath of the Emperor, one of his confidential advisers in Paris asked me if I could direct public attention to this speech, as his Imperial Highness was very anxious to make a tapage. There was no need of any assistance to produce that result. The speech made " row" enough in all conscience, and led to his Highness's eclipse for some thing like four years. lam reminded of the incident by the fact that the Prince has made another and still more re markable speech, and that this time he has not only incurred no rebuke, but is by common consent looked upon as the coming man should his cousin succumb to the " rheumatism" which is now twinging every Bourse in Europe. The Prince who was thus prematurely anxious to get talked about is a very able man. In face he is the very image of his famous relative the First Napoleon ; but he is much taller. He has frequently visited England, and took part in the festivities of the International Exhi bition of 1862. He is 47 years of age to-day, and his marriage with the Princess Clotilda, daughter of the then King of Sardinia, was the first move of that diplomatic game which led to the victories of Magenta and Solferino, the establishment of the Italian Kingdom, and the " revendi cation " of Nice and Savoy. Prince Napoleon held an important command in the Italian war of 1859, but he contrived to be just in time to be too late for the final battle. I was travelling in Italy at the time (finding it, by the way, extremely difficult to get out of the country, all the railways being seized by the Govern ment for the conveyance of troops), and I well remember the ridicule which was poured down upon Prince " Pion pion," as he was nicknamed. He is certainly more of a statesman than of a soldier, for not only was he late at Solferino, but he threw up his command in the Crimea. Should he come to the throne, I suspect that one of his first acts will be to withdraw the French troops from the Papal States, and allow his father-in-law and the Pope to arrange matters by themselves. Was Mrs. Stowe's article on Lord Byron intended to make a tapagel If so, the purpose for which it was written ihas been entirely fulfilled. A new manager or conductor of that publication has signalised his accession to the editorial chair of Mac millan's Magazine by an event which has brought the September number to a fourth edition within a week of publication. It was rather a bold stroke. When the announcement of the article was first made the solicitors of Lord Byron's representatives waited upon the pub lisher and besought him that it might be stopped. When he refused their request they endeavoured to get a legal injunction, but were unable to do so. And thus the terrible narrative saw the light, and thus everybody is reading it, and everybody is denouncing its authoress. I never remember such a unanimity of opinion on a question of ethics. In the United States, where the article appeared at the same time as in Eng land, the condemnation of Mrs. Stowe is far more vehe ment and emphatic even than in England. Speaking of Macmillan, I may call attention to Mr. Grove's article in the present number of the magazine, " The New Testament under a New Aspect." It will, as he says, startle many persons to know that the story of the woman taken in adultery recorded in St. John's Gospel is not found in either of the three chief manuscripts, the Vatican, the Alexandrine, and the Sinaitic, nor indeed in any manu scripts until the middle of the sth century. How it got into our English Bible, is a question which Mr. Grove has not answered. In connection with the Byron sandal I may mention that the remarkable article which appeared in the Times on Monday week, aeccepting all Mrs. Stowe's state ments, was written by the Hon. Mrs. Norton. It was written during the absence of Mr. Delano, and but for that circumstance would probably not have appeared. At any rate there appeared a few days later in the same paper a leading article of a very different purport, and admitting that there was a good deal to be said on the other side. Let me add here that the authorship of the famous letter by " An Amateur Critic," on " Formosa," which appeared in the Times, is attributed generally to Mr. John Oxenford. This may seem remarkable, considering that Mr. Oxenford is the regular dramatic critic of that journal, and that in that capacity he had spoken favourably of the play. But, here again, it was necessary to effect a modification in order to harmonise with the popular tone. One scandal drives out another ; and Mr. Boucicault has been put into the shade by Lord Byron. Have any of your readers noticed the large number of lady writers now writing in the magazines ? " Gone over to the women" is the cry raised afresh nearly.every month by some jealous males. For instance, at the present time the .St. James's Magazine is edited by Mrs. 'Liddell, authoress of "George Geith;" the Argosy is edited by Mrs. H. Wood, authoress of " East Lynne," mid both ladies are writing several tales in Tinsley 's Magazine; Miss Yonge, authoress of the " Heir of Redclyffe," is editing the Monthly Pueet. Airs. S. C. Hall assists in editing the Art Journal.- Mac. milieu's Maga:iae contains, besides the article by Mrs. Stowe, "A Brave Lady," by Mrs. Craik (Miss Muloch), authoress of " John Hal ifax ;” " Estelle Russell," by Miss Olney; "Children's Literature," by Miss Yonge ; " Lady Duff Gordon," by the Hon. Mrs. Norton. The story in Temple Bar, "Red as a Rose is She." is by a lady. Miss A. B. Edwards is the authoress of the principal story in Good Words, " Debenham's Vow." Miss Emily Davies has an article in the Centensporary Review, which used to be par excellence a man's magazine. The writer of the article on "Bells," in the Churchman's Shilling Magazine is Miss Stothert, of Bath. Nor is this the only field in which women are elbowing men out of the way. The first are now competing with the second for private secretaryships. The private secretary of Sir Charles Lyell is a lady, who is preparing a popular edition of his great work. Sir Francis Goldsmid, M.P. for Reading, has a lady secretary, known in the literary world as the translator of Schleiermacher. Who will now say that women are deprived of their rights? Relating to magazines I may mention that Mr. Edward Spender will have *an article on Defoe in the October number of Meliora, and that Mr. Towns bend Mayer's story in the Churchman's Shilling Magazine. " The Trials of Margaret Brandreth," will be brought to a close in the October number, and will be succeeded in November by a short story from the authoress of "Son and Heir "and " Kings ford." Mr. Mayer will probably retire from the editorship of this magazine shortly, and will in that case transfer his services to another periodical of a similar character. He will be accompanied by several of the present contributors to the first-mentioned monthly. The change is induced in some measure by the dissolution of partnership which takes:place between Messrs. Houlston and Wright. the publishers of the magazine. Mr. Houlston, sen., died a abort time ago, and Mr. Wright leaves the firm. The latter gentleman has given a large sum for the copyright of Ince and Gilbert's outlines of history. There are about ten of these little volumes including the histories of England, France, Scotland, Greece, Rome, &c.. and the sale of some of them has been enormous. That of the first, I believe, is about 400,000, and the Sultan of Turkey has recently ordered 500 copies. A history of Ireland is to be added to the series. Still on literary subjects, I may state that the author of the tourist's sketches of Switzerland in the John Bull is Mr. Cobb, whose interesting articles ou Russia, which appeared some years ago in the Western Morning News and the Churchman's Family Magazine attracted a good deal of notice at the time. Another item is that the Partnership between Messrs. Elliott and Vizetelly, pro piur rieto . R rs oboifnEsocnh, of O xford, oes of the Clubs, efubs, has been dissolved, and that no longer writes for that paper. Another is that the penny Conservative journal Britannia has been purchased by Mr. Chambers, of the 'English Churchman. Lastly, let me call your readers notice to the the interesting article on. " Alnwick Castle" in this month's Art Journal. , Of new books I have not much to say this week. Russia appears to be the favourite country for literary travellers just now. While Mr. Hep worth Dixon is travelling in one part of the empire, and Sir Charles Dilke in another, Mr. M. D. Conway, a frequent contributor to the Fortnightly Review, has fore stalled them, and will very shortly publish his notes. Mr. Maclear's volume in Macmillan's Sunday Library, " The Apostles of Miditeval Europe," is published to-day. Messrs. Longman and Co.'s announcements for the new season include an illustrated edition of the Lord's Prayer, by P. It. Pickersgill, R.A., and the Brothers Dalziell ; " Fairy Land," a child's book, illus trated by Richard Doyle the " History of the Norman Kings of England," by Mr. Thomas Cobb ; the concludin g volumes of Mr. Froude's " History of the Reign of Elizabeth ;" a new biography of Albert Purer, by W. B. Scott ; new editions of Aristotle's Ethics and Hume's works ; a book of travels in the Pampas of South America, by Richard Seymour ; a - Welsh history by Jane Williams ; " The Mythology of the Aryan Nations," by George Cox ; " The Geology o f E ng l and and Wales," by Mr. D. Mackintosh, P.G.S. ; Students Manuals of Irish and Indian history, the first by M. F. Cusack, the second by Col. Meadows Taylor;" The Lif eand Letters of Faraday," by Dr. Bence Jones, and the " Life of Olive r C romwell, " by J. A. Andrews. Finally, in this department of my letter I have to record, with regret, the death, from fever, of Mr, Edward Wood at the early age of 30. Mr. Wood was the author of " Curiosities of Clocks and Watches," "Giants and Dwarfs," and " The Wedding Day in all Ages and Countries," and was a joint author of the "History . of Clerkenwell." His writings were certainly not very original, but they displayed muck industry. Ecclesiastical matters come next upon my list. Th e translation of Bishop Wilberforce_ to Winchester is now taken for granted on all sides, and the income, it is added, will be £10,509, or more than that of London. In reality, the income will be £7,000. It may fairly be asked if the Church would not have been better served by the division of this enormous diocese, and a division of the old income. The see of Winchester in cludes the whole of London south of the Thames, except, I believe, Stratford, which, being in Essex, was transferred to the diocese of Roches ter when Dr. Claughton succeeded Dr. Wigram. It includes also Surrey, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands—a jurisdiction clearly beyond the capacity of one man, be he even as efficient as Dr. Wilberforce. There is still nothing definitely stated about the new Bishop of Oxford, but I have heard nothing to alter my belief that the Master of Balliol will be chosen. The Bishop of Bath and Wells has now definitely resigned, so that Mr. • Gladstone has virtually three mitres to bestow. Bishops Gilbert and Phillpotts make no sign, and it is understood that the latter, at all events, means to continue the administration of his huge diocese from his bedroom at Torquay. I have not yet heard who will succeed Lord Auckland, hut I believe Mr. Gladstone will on this occasion select a Cambridge man, the new Bishops of Salisbury, Winchester, and Oxford being Oxonians. Among those whose names are most in favour are Canon Cooke, of Exeter; Dr. Barry, formerly Head Master of Cheltenham, and recently appointed Principal of King's College, London ; Dr. Thompson, who succeeded Dr. Whewell as Master of Trinity College; and Archdea con Bickersteth, the Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation. Canon Miller would stand a good chance if it were not for the fact that it is the Cantabs' turn to have a mitre. In making his appointments Mr. Gladstone will be guided by the prevailing theological tone of the diocese. Salisbury is an essentially High Church diocese, and therefore the selection of Dr. Moberly for that see was appropriate. Bath and Wells is not very pronounced on either side, saving that Bath is almost entirely under the control of Simon's Trustees, and, therefore, ao far as that city is concerned, a Low Churchman would be preferred. It is possible, however, that Carlisle will fall vacant before long, and that Dr. Miller may be reserved for that diocese which is, perhaps, next to Manchester the most thoroughly " evangelical" in the kingdom. The Ritual Commissioners have not yet finished their labours. But they have agreed to recommend a new Lectionary, the division of the services, short services on week days, so that men of business may attend them, and an alteration in the Burial Service. They have not entered upon questions of doctrine, but in selecting new lessons have taken the advice of the Divinity Professors. They have also determined to call attention to the sale of livings and to the scandal caused by the non-retirement of aged and incapacitated incumbents. The site for the new Roman Catholic cathedral has been bought, but Archbishop Manning has determined that he will not lay a single stone until he has sufficient funds in hand to make great progress with the work. Another Roman Catholic prelate well known in Rome, Mgr. Nardi, is now in England, and has just been establishing in Ken sington a confraternity of Peter's pence. Of art matters the principal topic is the International Exhibition of 1871. The preparations are now so far advanced that the publication of particulars is authorised. 'Me exhibition will be held in South Kensington, opened on May 1, and closed on September 30. It will be the first of a series. The articles exhibited will be of a less miscellaneous description than in previous exhibitions, and will be confined to the most important products of our own and other countries. A certain space will he allotted to each nation exhibiting, and English Commissioners will select from the articles submitted to their choice. There will be no prizes, but every exhibitor will have a certificate stating that he has had the privilege of admission. There will be ten distinct classes, and each year will be more especially devoted to a special class. Eighteen hundred and seventy-one will be a fine art year. Subsequent years will be devoted to mechanical inventions, manufactures, &c. Thus every years's exhibition will be different until 1881 brings round again the same class as will be exhibited in 1871. The site of the Exhibition will be on the ground originally purchased by the Commis sioners of the Exhibition of 1851. There will be a glass cloister on three or four sides of the Royal Horticultural Gardens communicating with the Albert Hall, which is now fast approaching completion. Thus Mr. Cole will once more have the pleasure of seeing Albert Land thronged with a motley crowd of all nations. I mentioned in a former letter that this had been one of the worst years ever known for artists, and yet it has been the best year ever ever known for the chief of our picture exhibitions. In 1868 the sum taken at the doors of the Royal Academy was about £ll,OOO. This year it was nearly £20,000. The receipts averaged nearly £250 a day. There are to be two winter exhibitions this year, one as before at the Dudley Gallery (Egyptian Hall), the other close by, at the Old Bond-street gallery. The latter exhibition is being got up by the gentlemen who opened the supplementary exhibition of rejected pictures. Still on art matters, I may mention that the Queen has presented to the Royal Academy the bust of herself, execßted by the Princess Louise ; that Mr. Durham has completed the Leigh Hunt memorial, which will be opened on October 19, and that the omnivorous South Kensing ton Museum is going to devour the National Portrait Gallery. A very bold inventor, Mr. G. W. Jones, of Essex street, Strand, occupies nearly a column and a half of the smallest type in the Times to describe a marvellous pro ject which he styles "Universal Penny Railways." The principal features of his scheme are that all the main lines running from London shall be trunk lines ; and on each of them, at the most convenient positions, and averaging about sixteen miles apart, a turnpike or stop-station will be erected. Every passenger, at starting, will pay one penny (or 3d. second class, or Gd. first class), and for that payment he will be conveyed as far as the first turnpike or stop-station (alight. ing at any intermediate station) on the trunk line. if the passenger proceeds beyond the turnpike or stop station he has to pay again (the same toll, ld. or 3d. or Gd.), and pursues his journey to the next turnpike or stop station, with the right of leaving the train at any intermediate station ; and so on throughout the entire length of the trunk line. The third class passengers will not have tickets, but will merely pass through a turnstile and deposit their pennies on passing. As this class is two-thirds of the whole number of pas sengers, a considerable cost now incurred in printing, issuing, and collecting tickets will be saved. The railways will become the property of the nation, so that there will be no intricate cross accounts to be kept. There will be fast trains run ning at double the ordinary speed, and double the ordinary fare. There will be no excursion trains, the ordinary fare being so low as to render them unnecessary. As it would not be possible to purchase the whole of the £500,000,000 worth of railways at once, Mr. Jones would have the Government buy up the Irish lines, and also a few of the pi incipal English lines, such as those from London to Holyhead and Edinburgh. • Mr. Jones is clearly a firm believer in his plan, for his advertisement in the Times must have cost him some £25. Lovers of the Christy Minstrels may like to know that the Christy Minstrel Hall at St. James's Hall, London, has been newly decorated, and has new scenery. Among other miscellaneous topics I may mention that the Seyssel Asphalte Company are now laying down one of their pavements in front of the War Office ; that Mr. Benjamin Edgington, the well-known tentmaker has just died, leaving a very large fortune, and that there is likely to be a very sharp contest for the Lord Mayoralty of London, on account of Mr. Lawrence's intention to offer himself for re-election. As Mr. Lawrence is M.P. for Lambeth, his friends think that it will be useful to have a Lord Mayor who will be in the House of Commons when the proposed reform of the metropolitan corporations comes on. Mr. Gladstone is gone to Raby Castle, to stay with the Duke of Cleveland, and so an end is put to the rumour of his serious illness. MISCELLANEOUS NEIVS. THE SUN, LONDON, FEIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1869. XX.TRA PARLIAMENTARY ITTTERANCES. Three speeches from members of Parliament are reported simultaneously. Mr. Henley and Colonel North, the representatives of Oifordshire, hav e been " orating " a ft er an agr i cultural d i nner at Biceste r; w Mr. Alb er t P ell, the ell known Leicestershire member has been satisfying the farmers of Ashby-de la-Zouche, that the agricultural labourer is in first class condition. Mr. Henley's speech was the most amusing. The session he had just gone through was the dullest he remembered ; as hervy as lead. 1 he great problem members had to solve was. how to sleep without " snoring. They had the arrange ments of the'' letting out of a great 1" to settle; that was uninturesting enough, though tobudy did know whit would b 3 the etfeet of Then the I louse tried to enliven itself by linfling how to get something oat of nothing ; or, i.L other words, how to repAy creditors out of a bankrupt's estate. The provisions of a meastire for preventing the cattle plague completed—in l r. Henley's cata logue—the work of the session. 'he other measures, some half down of which we ren .ember, would pro blbly have been considered ver:—. nimportant by Mr. Henley's auditory. They were be ter pleased doubt lesa with his condolence with them on the subject of foot and mouth disease, and his - , ,congratulations in the matter of the harvest. Colonel North, in his speech at the same meeting, after fervently thanking the Almighty that in this country men might differ in vi ew, and do so with benefit to the country, entered into a long protest against reductions in the army L exuenditure. His argument 'was, that our country is a mercantile country; a mercantile country requires a largt army ; a soldier is only made efficient after long training; the training costs - money, but a trained soldier is a man not to be matched ; therefore—it being expedient, we presume, to turn out unmatch able men—the number of men we have at present should not be reduced. Mr. Pell's speech at Ashby de la Zouche was a pan on the discovery that the agriculturalist did not go to the workhouse every winter. This, Mr. Pell said was the popular idea ; and, it being absurd, it fol lowed that the agricultural labourer was not nearly so bad as he was considered. A remarkable paper, too, had been read at the recent meeting of tho British Association, by Professor Leone Levi, showing that the rural population did not lag in the rear in point of education, as was generally supposed. Com paring the agricultural county of Rutland with the manufacturing county of Lanca shire, the comparisonw as greatly in favour of the agricultural district. The Professor found that out of 100 women who had been married in the county of Rutland, 84 of them could write their names; while in the much-lauded county of Lanca shire only 54 could write—au advantage of 30 in favour of the county where the old and primitive institutions were kept up. THE ELECTION COMMISSIONS. The Election Commissions are getting their clays of dullness. They are doubtless thankful enough to have them, as the continued exciting revelations to which they listened must have been slightly injurious to the nerves. They now relieve the chill monotony of examining corrupt electors by getting angry with men who are telling palpable untruths, and by threatening instant committal to prison. The pro ceedings at Beverley on Wednesday may be thus summed up : Evidence received of bribery of various men by small amounts, the sums varying from ss. to les. The even tenour of the inquiry at Bridgwater has been. interrupted by the self-contradictions of a man named Moggs. That gentleman swore that he had told all he knew ; did not speak of having fetched £5OO for bribery purposes from the house of a sur heon in the town ; and yet was proved conclusively to avedone so. The Commissioners keep him in bliss ful uncertainty as to whether he will be prosecuted. IRISH LAND TENURit. At a banquet given at Shibbereen to Mr. Downing, M.P., several Irish members unfolded their platform on the land question. Sir John Gray, of course, declared for fixity of tenure, adding that it was absurdly late to talk of thirty-one years' leases. This opinion evidently delighted the audience. Mr. -Downing himself thought that insecurity of tenure should be put au end to, but he could not go so far as Sir John Grey. Mr. Maguire held that the question should, like the Church difficulty, be settled once for all, leaving nothing undone. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE IRISH CHURCH. At Belfast the Bishop of Down and Connor has presided over the first of the Diocesan Synods now being convened to prepare for the work of Irish Church reorganisation. The prelate urged upon the meeting the necessity of sheaving - th e Churches of England and the Colonies what was the form of ritual and government which they intended to adopt for the disestablished body. If the latter would co-operate with the former, there must be a clear understandingas to the doctrines it would foster. Rethought the very first resolution they oughtto adopt should be to the effect " that the doctrine, ritual, and government of the Church of England, as contain e d in the Thirty-nine Articles, be adopted- and accepted by the Irish Church as her form of worship and Church policy." In addition the Bishop suggested that an aggregate committee be appointed, for the purpose of considering and reporting to the Synod the various matters connected with the reor ganisation of the Church. This was done, the chosen committee numbering forty-one lay and forty-one clerical members. ARCIIDEACON DENISON ON CIIDILCII CONGRESSES. Archdeacon Denison has not yet mcestered his despair. Either the disestablishment of the Irish Church has opened his eyes, or be now sees nothing but evil where he might see good; for he still holds that the Church is going all wrong, and refuses to behold any way out of the present difficulties. " The Church of England is sick (says the Archdeacon in the Telegraph), :Ind there seems to be no cure for her illness. She is afflicted by all kinds of obstinate diseases—want of charity, disputings, heresies, divisions—and what can heal her ?" The Archdeacon formerly believed in Church congresses as a medicine calculated to give greater charity to the members. Ile believes in them no longer. The correspondence between Dr. M‘Neile and Mr. Espin anent the Liverpool Con gress has sbewn him that his expectations are not to be fulfilled; and so hegives Church congresses up for ever. " The Dean's demand," he writes, " is a monstrou3 demand. The position of the committee is a pitiable position. I see, besides, that Congresses are things tilled up to the brim with unreality. This was spe cially evidenced last year by the programme of the Dublin Congress ; awl this year the evidence is strengthened by the programme of the propose) Liverpool Congress. For these reasons I think that it would save a great deal of time, trouble, mist expense, pr•ducing no profit, if the Liverpool Con gress were given up, and Church Oongresses allowed to die quietly." I:I.f.E.I.MENT OF MIL TMILY. Mr. Kirby, one of the provisional liquidators of the Albert Assurance Company, has kindly spared the policy-holders a great deal of trouble. A memo randum issued by Mr. Price, his colleague, expresses Mr. Kirby's wish to retire from his post. An appli cation for permission to do so has been made to the Vice-Chancellor. Ono difficulty in the way of a satisfactory settlement is thus removed. The policy-holders will save the time which they were in the habit of devoting to the denunciation of the appointment of an interested party as a liquidator, and will be able to confine their attention to the work of actual setttlement. Nothing could be done whilst the late manager's son stood in the way. m Whetherpaly , s affairsl(3r:llip.bryoper would have a d m i n i s t ere d th e coproperly or not, it was i m p oss ibl e company's for the victims to place confidence in him. This announcement is not the only piece of gratifying news contained in Mr. Price's memorandum. The proposed scheme of reconstruc tion which has met with s uc h scan t f avour i s defended; but it is admitted that the plan is open t o modification, and even that it may b e thrown over altogether. The writers—Mr. Price and the solicitors—have come to the conclusion th a t, judging by the letters they receive and the meetings which are held, the mode of settlem en t mos t f avoure d by the policy-holders is that of getting some responsible office to take over the policies and assets on the most favourable terms that can be obtain e d. The feeling of the policy-holders is decidedly against any mere division amongst creditors. Mr. Price and his coadjutors doubt whether any office will con sent to take such a business. But in deference to the wishes of .the shareholders, th e y are p re paring to open negotiations in the most likely quarters. Moreover, they recommend the formation of a com mittee, composed, " f possible, of men o f ex perience in the business of life assurance, to gi ve their counsel and assistance in a matter of such grave importance." Altogether, the memorandum must be regarded as an equitable and promising document. THE HARWOOD cAsit. The failure of the case against the young man Harwood for robbing the firm in which his father was a partner of £15,000, has caused much dis satisfaction in various quarters. The prosecutor withdrew from the affair on the ground that a conviction would immediately ruin the youth, whereas in a new. land he might retrieve his past errors. The Lord Mayor applauded this deci sion. " tinder ordinary circumstances," he said, as if in excuse, "he should have com pelled the prosecution, once begun, to be con tinued in the interests of public justice ;" but "looking at the peculiar circumstances of the case," he thought that "a wise course had been adopted, by which the public interest could not be prejudiced." The Telegraph calls this a simple failure of justice. If Harwood had been poor, he would infallibly have suffered sentence. The " peculiar circumstances" were simply these; the defaulting clerk was well connected, and had strong influence to aid him, in getting out of the scrape. lie was a young man with good prospects, an ample allowance, and no wants except those occasioned by his own extravagant habits ; and he committed a most com plicated fraud, not in order to meet a pressing debt, hut to steal a large sum of money on which he could live in luxury abroad. If Harwood had been a man with a large family, and had committed the offence to save himself from want, there can be no doubt of the result. A wealthy person who goes astray from appetite for luxury gets off scot-free. LODGERS WANTED. Nothing can be more complete than the failure of the Lodger Franchise in the metropolis. Lambeth, with several thousand lodgers and only :;00 claims, is, compared with other parishes, an example of poli tical energy. In some districts no I , ,dger claims whatever have been sent in. Mile-cud Old-town contains 85,000 inhabitant; with at Last :WOO lodgers qualified to vote, but only 22 have applied for the privilege, though the town-clerk offered self-explanatory forms to all who would have them. P.atelift has 17,000 inhabitants and some 1,0(X) lodgers, but only two of these think the franchise - worth having. St. George ') 's in the Enst has muster e d but lime claim s out of 11 f could ,oooo further cii force of iiidif inl o. iticitions. The en THE PROHIBITORY LAW IN MASSACHUSETTS. The secretary of the United Kingdom Alliance writes to clear up certain popular misconceptions touching the prohibitory liquor law in the American State of Massachusetts. This measure has gene- XallY been adverted to a$ if_ it were a new thine : and one writer. expressed the opinion that the Republican party in the Stale were divided, and would probably be defeated, through this prohibi tory policy. The fact is that the people of Massa chusetts have stood by the principle of forbidding the sale of liquor since 1852. A prohibitory law was passed in that year, and was maintained unflinchingly until 1867. Then certain parties managed to get the measure repealed in favour of a licensing system, but even this was very rigid, and embodied prohibitory clauses. The people, however, were not satisfied, and at the very first ,'7;tate election after this license law was passed, they returned a Legislature pledged to repeal it. This has been done, and prohibition has been once more set up. The majority in both houses of the local Parliament was some three to one. So far from the Republican party being divided on this question, it is just the point at which they are at one. There have- been many complications and vicissitudes of party during the last seventeen years, but the prohibitory policy has been marked by one interruption only, and we seo what cAne of that. TIE BOAT-RACE. In response to a request of the _Yew York Time.) that the Oxford crew give the llarvards the chance of - a return match, its London namesake asl:s why both crews should not be allowed to steer in their own fashion ? In coming over here the Americans in curred great disadvantages in pulling over a strange water, after a sea voyage, in addition they were required to give up their system of steering- and to row after the English style with a co.csw•ain. Why not, asks the ime.;, allow the Ameri cans to race without a coxswain whilst the English carry one ? It is true that the latter will thus carry some seven or eight stone, from which the former will be free. But will not this difference be compensated for by the better steering ? Either the better guidance of the coxswain must more than redeem his weight, or the American system must be admitted as superior to ours. "if their bow oar can actually steer their boats so success fully that nothing is lost either in the steering or the pulling, they then set us an example both in economy and art, and a refusal on our part to meet such conditions would amount to a confession of in feriority. Unless the fifth man does more good by his steering than harm by his weight, it follows that the American system, which enables four lien to do tha work of live, is the best : and the sooner our bow oars learn to steer the better." AN EXAMPLE TO RAILWAY DIRECTORS. The South Western Railway Company, who are pushing their way through Devonshire, have adver tised large photographic views of sonic. of the chief objects of interest on their route through the country by road and rail. Thus, views on the Tamar, the Lydford and Burratorr Water Falls, Shaugh Bridge, and views of the " three towns" arc posted in the paths of probable tourists. •The result has been a large accession of visitors to the county, and a corres f)onding increase of traffic on the lines of railway. For many weeks Ilfracombe has been placarded in large letters all over London, and the result is that there has been an excellent season at this fashion able watering place. COAL IN NOTTINGIIAI.ISHIIIE. The geologists made a mistake in Nottingham shire. Some of them prophesied that no coal was to be found by the River Trent, in the neighbour hood of the county town; but the searching opera tions of the last few days have shewn differently. On Wednesday week, after divers strata, had been penetrated, coal measures were reached, and the shaft was sunk nine yards into them. Further sink ing revealed more treasures. and this week the first supply of really good coal was brought to the surface. The exact amount of the deposit is not yet known ; but the fuel hitherto yielded is of the best possible quality. THE WORCESTER :MUSICAL FESTIVAL. The main feature of the Musical Festival at Wor cester has been the production of Mr. trthur Sullivan's new oratorio, " The Prodigal Son." This beautiful parable has never before been chosen as the text of a sacred musical .compmition. Mr. Sullivan, who is the author of "Kenilworth" and other pieces of repute, has made the attempt, and,judging from the imperfect judgment on a first performance, with success. The Daily News' critic says the composition bears throughout the impress of deliberate and coherent thought, careful structure and finish, and an especial command of orchestral effects and details. The Standard is more sparing in praise, but acknowledges that Mr. Sullivan has treated his subject with good ability, and " has pro duced a rather pleasing work." The text consists of portions of the par:.ble interpolated with other passages from the Old and the _New Testaments. .AMIMICA AND SPAIN. Rumours of a probable war between Spain and the United States have added to the uneasiness pre valent in commercial circles. A telegram to the effect that the Washington Government was about to recognise the Cuban insurgents as belligerents and that a war might be the result, caused an immediate fall in American securities on Wednesday. This collapse was followed by an equally sudden revival, consequent on the receipt of Lnother telegram denying the truth of the first. The Times finds it difficult to believe that the United States Government contemplates such a step as the recognition of the insurgents, for the simple reason that America must lose much more then she would gain by a war. Cuba would, indeed, speedily fall into American hands. Spain could not hold her own for a week against such an antagonist. But a conflict would throw the commerce and finances of the more powerful State into hopeless confusion, whereas the weaker would lose only an island which is now a terrible strain on her resources. There can be no doubt, however, that the Madrid Ministry has behaved with " unparalleled folly " in this Cuban business. A good offer was made, and was not accepted : Although a " categorical denial" was given to the statement at the time, it is well known to certain leading American capitalists and politicians, as well as to more than one Spanish statesman, that an authorised proposal was submitted from Washington two months ago for the recognition of the independence of the island, or: the basis of a payment being made to Spain of 21 millions sterling in bonds endorsed by the United States. TROUBLE IN ALDERMANIC CIRCLF.S. Unwonted excitement prevails in the city of London regarding the next election for Lord Mayor. The senior alderman below the chair is in infirm health, and unequal to the task of riding through London on the occasion of the annual show, and to performing mayoral duties generally. The next on the list is Alderman Besley, who desires election, but against whom strong opposition has been got up. One thousand three hundred and thirty livery men of the City have signed a requisition, entreati ng th e presen t Lord Mayor to retain his seat for another year. lie has consented to do so. The friends of Alderman Besley are unspeakably indignant. The project of re-electing the present dignitary is, they affirm, in a manner unprecedented. The alderman resolves to uphold the great principle to the utmost, and to poll to the very last elector. FOREIGN NOTES. TIM THRONE OF SPAIN. The Duke of Edinburgh is again talked of in Madrid as a likely candidate for the Throne of Spain. Gil Bias, the Spanish Punch, had a rather lively cartoon on the subject in its last number. It represented Senor Olozaga leading the Duke forward, and pointing out to him the empty throne, over which, after the story of Damocles, there is a sword suspended by a hair. The Prince is in the attitude of eyeing it through a g!ass, and remarking, "Yes, it is very pretty, but for my part don't like upholstery with such hangings !" The corres• pondent of the Standard says that though the Duke of Genoa is still forced on . Rublic notice, he is by no means so acceptable as an English prince would be if one could be sent to rule over a Catholic State. TILE INTEUNATIONAL LABOUR CONGRESS The Congress of the International Association for the Emancipation of Labour, held its first public meeting at Bale, Switzerland, on Monday. Mr. Young, who is well acquainted with English, French, and German, was chosen President, and this first sitting of the session was occupied chiefly with discussions relating to the forms of procedure, and matters of detail. The French members, whose laws forbid them to take part in the labours of the society, speak as individuals, and are not considered as delegates. The resolution passed at the close of last year's meeting, in favour of the rights of property, having been protested against by the greater part of the French members, the question will be reopened this year. Only one subject of interest has as yet been debated. It referred to the question whether the people should ha ve a direct exercise of legislative power without the interven- tion of delegates. The subject Lad not been included in the programme, and was occordingly objected to, the objectors further declaring that it had a political cha racter which it was desirable to avoid. M. DE MONT,tLEMBERT. The laity of the diocese of Tr3ves have lately presented an address to their archbiihop re-peeling the appr , oachin• , (Ecumenical Council. This address was composed in a liberal spirit, although it way also very Catholic, and a copy of it was forwarded to the Count de Montalembert. The distinguished author has replied in a touching letter, which he believes to be the last which he shall be able to dictate. During the last few weeks he hss twice, he says, touched the confines of the grave without arriving at the rest for which he longs. It with delight that he finds himself under such circumstances rani►►ded of those banks of the Rhine on which his first days of stu dent life were passed. lie heartily endorses the views of the address, and his only regret is that Germans should be left to make a demonstration so congenial to the former .attitude of French Catholics, who claimed to be the leaders of religious liberty on the Continent. THE COTTON CROP IN AMERICA. The Agricultural Department at Washington has just issued its report on the state of the cotton crop in the South. It is satisfactory to find that since the July report of the department an improvement has taken place in the most important cotton growing States. The account from Mississippi shows the condition of the crop to be equal to that of last year with an increase of 10 per cent. in the acreage. Nearly all the States shew an increase in the acreage—to the extent of 20 per cent. in Arkansas, and 30 per cent. in Texas. North Carolina and Tennessee report a decrease in the condition of the crops, the deficiency in the latter State being attributed to the political disturb. ances which have interfered with the progress of labour. South Carolina appears to the least advantage, the present condition of the crop being rated at 25 per cent. below that of last year. Alabama reports 10 per cent, decrease in condition with an equivalent increase of acreage. Respecting the ultimate yield, the Department believes that there is every chance of an improvement on the crop of 1868. It is to be observed that the Department displays great caution in making its report, and that it is generally under the mark in its estimate. The New York Fi nanc i a l Chronicle holds out a much better prospect, and declares that the yield will be greatly in excess of that of last year. The " picking " is said to depend upon the state of the plant as much as upon the number of labourers. If it opens evenly, four million bales can be as quickly picked as three millions if it opens scattering. The Chronicle considers that the season for the gathering of cotton begins with great promise, and the prices are so high that all the labour of the South will be drawn into the fields. The receipts of cotton this year show that the crop of 1868 amounted to about 2,340,000 bales. THE FENIANS IN AMERICA. Father MacMahon, the Fenian who was recently libe rated in Canada, has returned to America with the view of inducing the Washington Government to demand damages on his behalf from Canada. There is now a Fenian Congress assembled in New York, but it is thinly attended and attracts little notice. The Head Centre complained of the many agencies at work to destroy the Brotherhood, and said he was sorry to see so few circles represented. This personage, whose name is John Savage, is said to intend resigning, possibly in disgust at this state of affairs. A "Fenian Bondholder," who has been urging his claims in New York, was told they would be paid, as promised, " six months after the establishment of the Irish Republic" —a hopeful prospect. BHT? A LITUMN HANDICAPS. WEIGHTS FOR THE CESAREWITCII. Age et lb Age at lb Restitution 4 9 9 John Davis a 6 12 Mandrake 5 9 8 Ambitious... 5 6 12 Blue Gown 4 9 6 Adrastis ... 3 6 12 Romping Girl 5 9 4 Blue Peter 5 6 11 The Spy 4 9 4 Benbow ... 3 6 11 The Palmer ... 5 9 3 Nurna Pornpilius 5 610 See Saw 4 8 13 Walmer 3 6 10 Tabouret ... 4 8 12 Warrington ... 4 6 10 Silenus ... 5 8 12 Robin Rover 3 6 10 Ploughboy 5 8 10 Tasman ... 3 G 10 C ec il 4 8 5 Itasselas ... 3 6 10 Mortemer ... 4 8 9 Morgan la Faye f 3 6. 9 Ilosicrucian ... 4 8 9 Vansittart... ... 3 6 9 Kidderminster 5 8 9 Conrad() 3 6 9 Paganini 4 8 8 Phantom ... ... 4 6 9 Cock of the Walk... 4 8 8 Tramp ... 8 6 9 Friponnier... ... 5 8 7 Ligurian ... ... 4 6 8 Taraban ... 5 8 7 Nuago ... 4 6 8 Pero Gomez ... 3 8 7 Prouesse ... 4 6 8 Outfit ... 5 8 7 AutUe ... 4 6 8 Blucskin 4 8 6 Tim Bobbin ... 3 6 7 Rysliworth 3 8 5 Our Mary Ann 4 6 7 The Drummer ... 3 8 5 Branibridge 3 6 7 Martyrdom 3 8 5 Pompeii ... 3 6 7 Thorwaldsen 3 8 5 Vauichka ... 3 6 7 Glaneur ... 3 8 4 Young Fenton ... 3 6 7 Goodwood... • ... 5 8 4 Ladas ... 3 6 7 The Rake ... 5 8 4 The Provost ... 3 6 7 Paul Jones 4 8 4 Avoncourt... ... 3 6 6 Blacklock ... 4 8 4 Choral ... 4 6 6 Cap-a-pie ... 4 8 4 Winchilses ... 3 6 6 Purveyor ... 4 8 3 Lopez ... 3 6 6 Ouragan 4 8 2 Judge ... 3 6 6 War ••• ••• 6 8 0 enlace ... 3 6 5 Chelsea ... 4 8 0 Dodona ... 3 6 5 Duke of Beaufort... 3 8 0 Stork 3 6 5 George Osbaldeston 3 8 0 Conjuror 3 6 5 Lord Hawthorn ... 3 8 0 Wildbad ... 3 6 4 Socrates 4 7 13 Saggittarius 3 6 4 Doualdbain 4 7 13 The Scout.. ... 3 6 4 Lockeley 5 7 12 The Maze.. 3 6 4 Fair Wind 5 7 11 Rod Cap a 6 4 Viscount 4 7 11 Lawrence ... 3 6 3 Gondolier 4 7 11 Peabody ... 3 6 3 Epwort 4 7 10 Provider ... 3 6 '2 Skipjack 5 7 9 Gardener a 6 2 Knight Errant 5 7 9 Apr/inths 3 6 1 Phoebus 4 7 9 Atonement ... 3 6 0 Sycee 5 7 9 Workman ... ... 3 6 0 Robespierre 3 7 9 Teeswater... 3 6 0 Adolphus 3 7 9 Tott ... 3 5 13 The Laird 4 7 8 Vallation g ... 4 5 13 Nancy 6 7 8 Red Rico ... 3 5 12 Bandmaster 5 7 8 Royal Head ... 3 5 12 Morns 3 7 8 Miss Sarah f 4 5 12 Starter 3 7 8 Fitu , s,e 3 5 12 Pearl Diver a 7 8 Vladimir ... 3 5 12 Siderolito 3 7 7 Crown Princess .. 8 5 12 Legislator 4 7 7 Storm King 3 5 11 Lady Morgan 47 7 AesineLoine ... 55 10 Cleinunce 4 7 7 Derventio ... 3 5 9 - - Marquis 3f Carabas 4 7 6 Wrestler .. 3 5 9 The special a 7 6 Miss Peddie colt 3 5 9 Lady Zetland 4 7 6 Lady Evelyn filly 3 5 9 Master Robert . 5 7 6 Cameroon ... 3 5 9 Good Ifope 3 7 5 Vacuutu 3 5 8 The lie:cue ... 5 7 5 Queen of Forest... 3 5 8 Tribune ~ 6 7 4 Miss Theo ... 3 5 7 Etoile Filanto 6 7 2 K. Alfred's dam f... 5 7 Argyle ... 3 7 2 Cherie 3 5 7 Make Haste 4 7 1 Latulash ... 3 5 7 Fugitive ... 3 7 0 Glonlyon 3 5 7 The .2Egoan 3 7 0 Gaylass f 3 5 7 Birthday ... 3 7 0 Di Spanker 3 5 7 Crocus 3 6 13 Toby ... 3 5 7 B e te Noire... 3 6 13 Aubado ... 3 5 7 Dtlnba 3 612 Julius ... 5 (dr.) Myosotis 3 6 12 -- WEIGHTS FOR THE CAINIBRIDGESIIIRE. Ago at lb Knight of Garter... 5 10 7 Vespasiart 10 6 Blue Gown ~. 4 9 12 Friponnier 5 9 9 Formosa ... 4 9 7 See Saw ... 4 9 7 The Palmer ... 5 9 6 Laneret ••• 6 9 The Spy ... 4 9 5 Ilosicrucian ... 4 9 2 s U i n ie c n a u s s 4 5 9 9 0 0 King Alfred ... 4 9 0 Tabouret ... 4 8 13 Saladiu a 8 12 Plaudit 5 8 12 Pero Gomez ... 3 8 11 Grimoton 4 8 11 The Rake... ... 5 8 11 Cecil ... ... 4 8 10 6 8 10 Paganini 4 8 10 Cap a-pie ... ... 4 8 9 Ploughboy 5 8 9 Cock of the Walk... 4 8 9 Charnwood ... 4 8 8 Typhoeus ... 4 8 8 Lector 4 8 8 Lady Henriefte ... 4 8 8 Martyrdom ... 3 8 7 Glaneur ... 3 8 7 Alpenstock ... 3 8 7 Ryshworth ~. 3 8 7 Paul Jones ... 4 8 7 Thorwaldsen ... 3 8 7 Typhon ... 3 8 6 Nelusko 4 8 6 Duke of Beaufort... 3 8 5 Locksley 5 8 4 Goodwood... ... 4 8 4 Cornet ... 4 8 4 Lord Hawthorn ... 3 8 4 Osbaldeston 3 8 4 Cheltenham ... 5 8 3 Van Amburgh 5 8 '3 Morna 3 8 3 Rupert 3 8 3 Chelsea. ...4 8 3 Consul ... ... 3 8 3 Taraban 5 8 3 Socrates ... 4 8 2 Fichu ... 3 8 2 Sycee ... 5 8 2 Blacklock ... 4 8 2 Outfit ... 5 8 1 War 04* .41 6 8 0 Satyr ... 5 8 0 St Ronan ... 4 8 0 Nuage 4 8 0 Viscountll i r i g ig ab li t on E d r t 4 3 5 8 8 8 0 ( 0 ) Bel Giorno ... 4 8 0 Historian a 8 0 Perry Down 3 7 13 Crocus ... 3 7 12 Alyosotis 3 7 12 Lady Zetland ~. 4 7 12 Master Robert 5 7 12 Midsummer 3 7 12 Cardinal York ••• 3 7 12 Tenedos 3 7 11 Starter 3 7 11 Clemence 4 7 11 Gondolier ... 4 7 11 Robespierre ... 3 7 10 Good Hope 3 7 10 Lades ••• 3 7 10 Birthday ... I( , ' Islam .•• ••• Dunbar ••• " 7 0 7'11.1 A.:gean J lit bus 4 9 3 FugitiVO ... 3 . 7 .) Lumley ••• Epworth ..• 7 9 lleutker 7 8 La Maladetta f 3 7 8 John Leech ... 4 7 8 The Orphan ... 3 7 8 Stock ••• ...0 7 7 Fair Wind... ... 5 7 7 Age st lb Nancy ... • 6 7 6 Lady Morgan 4 7 6 limbo w 3 7 6 Nicolet 5 7 6 Virgule • 4 7 6 Border Knight ... 3 7 6 Brambridge 3 7 4 Skipjack ... 5 7 4 Abstinence ... 3 7 4 Dryad • 3 7 4 Etoilo Filante ... 6 7 4 Our Mary Ann 4 7 3 ' Make Haste 4 7 2 Michael de Bascoe 4 7 2 Dick Turpin 5 7 2 Argyle 3 7 2 Mdlle. de Fligny f 3 7 1 Disraeli 3 7 0 Adrastia 3 7 0 Numa Pompilius ... 5 6 13 Prior ... ... 3 6 12 Phantom .. 4 6 12 Standard Bearer ... 3 6 12 Robin Rover 3 C 12 Tolson d'Ur ... 36 12 Young Fenton 3 6 11 Warrington ... 4 6 11 Chanoinesso 3 6 10 Miss Dayrell 3 6 10 Rasselas ... 3 6 10 Bosworth ... 3 6 9 Lopez ... 3 6 9 Vanichka ... 3 6 9 Storm King 3 6 9 Pompeii 3 6 9 Macduff ... 4 6 9 Anthee ... 4 6 8 Tramp ... ... 3 6 8 The Conjuror ... 3 6 8 Defender ... 3 6 8 Curious° ... 3 6 8 Cocoa Nut... ... 3 6 7 The Maze 3 6 7 Far Away... 3 6 '' Lawrence .. 6 7 Anlaco 3 6 7 Choral ... 4 6 7 Royal Ruko .. 3 6 7 Neuchatel... 3 6 6 Chatellierault 3 6 6 Tim Bobbin 3 6 6 Atonement 3 6 5 Avoucourt ... 3 6 5 Bertha .. 3 6 5 Peabody 3 6 5 Teeswater... ... 3 6 5 Miss Sarah f ... 4 6 4 Dodona ... 3 6 4 Jove 3 6 4 Provider ... 3 6 4 lierennianus ... 4 6 4 St. Angela... ... 4 6 4 Vestmiuster ... 3 6 4 Winifred ... ... 3 6 3 Royal Head ... 3 6 2 Vacuum ... 3 6 1 Disguise ... 3 6 1 Red Rico ... 3 6 0 Vladimir ... 3 6 0 Wanderer ... ... 3 6 0 Allbrook .. 3 6 0 Hobart 3 5 13 TheV dlaiog Returned 4 5 12 4 5 13 Il3 , :c u t i d a b i a sth 4 5 11 K ) Juanita ... 3 510 Lady Evelyn f 3 . 10 5 10 3 5 Queen of the Forest 3 5 10 Assineboino 5 5 1 0 King Alfred's dam f. 3 5 9 Antietam ... 3 5 8 tilenlyou ... 3 5 7 Laielast. 3 5 7 Di Spanker ... 3 5 7 Cherie 3 5 7 Re form ... 3 5 7 Toby ... 3 5 7 A übado 3 5 7 Grw.shopper f. 3 5 7 Cape Flyaway 3 5 7 DuNviLLE and Co., .elfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co , Belfast; or 4, Beaufon - buiblings, Strand, London, IY,C.—[Ad Tex tlisement CHARGE OF FRAUD. At the Mansion House yesterday Francisco Ae' tonio Pedrosa D'Albuquerque, 38, a ship chand!er, in St. George's-street, East, was charged before Alderman Sir Francis Graham Moon, on a warrant, with obtaining by false pretences, on the 2Gth of December last, a cheque for £495, with intent to defraud. Mr. Edward Moss prosecuted ; the prisoner WAS defended by Mr. Sergeant Sleigh. The prisoner had been arrested on a sworn infer mation of Messrs. Charles Price and Co., insurance brokers, Cornhill, in which it was alleged that the prisoner insured with them on the 21st of Januntl' 1868, the tackle and stores of the Italian ship ll' 2r " nard for the sum of £5OO. On the 28th of Octobe r in the same year the prisoner said that the sh i l l had become a total loss, and made arplication fe r the amount of the policy. The money was paid le ss commission, the prisoner r e ce i v i ng a c heque £495. Previously, however, on the sth November certain inquiries were made by the underwrite r ' and the prisoner communicated to Messrs. Pri ce „ i s statement that the ins urance h a d b een ma de ult rigging, outfit, canvas, an d spare sa il s . answer being considered satisfactory, a cheque sv „ a e handed to a Mr. Neal, a c l er k t o t h e pr i son er. I", payment was mad e on th e f a i t h o f t h e truth 0 : 0 those statements of the prisoner. The insura ll i would not have been p a id on th e l oss o f con sumab le stores. The principal witness was Richard Neal, i ; merly commercial t rave ll er an d b oe k eeper to t' prisoner, who carries on th e b us i ness of a sh itP , chandler, sailmaker, and provisi on merc hant in t George's-in-the-East. He entered bin employm i e f il e in 1866, and discharged himself last month. was employed by the defendant to effect the po lle : in question in Janu ar y, 1868 , an d re collec ted ; the circumstances of the ship being returned oa th o 28th of October follo w i ng as a t ota l l oss. 11° also remembered the prisoner recei v i ng a l e tt er from underwriters in November, and to being warne d 0 , him not to state in the answer anythi n g about visions or else the policy might not be paid. i ' i bo t ness cautioned the defend an t t o b e care ful, for ' O , underwriters might requi r e a co p y o f the iay eice o f He knew as a fact that th ere were £3OO wort ti ' 0 provisions on board the vessel when it started the voyage in Aug. 1867, and that they were lib ,o to have been consumed in three months. Wi tnes o replies to the inquiries of the underwriters fiver, written by instruction of the prisoner, and the P ro to siots were not mentioned. The canvas sup Pl ied vd the Bernard was from Messrs. Douglas, Fraze r ' s ,i. Sons, and cost £Bl. It was d escr ib e d i n the e l. '" et nal invoice as "b es t l ong fl ax, " b ut the Pris°tioiti in giving au acco un t o f th e stores to the c a P r i o r described it as " ex t ra a ll l ong fl ax, " a s e P e- f o t quality; and made an addition to the Pr ice k el profits. The canvas was also differently m ar t o by order of the defendant, and the original 01a id destroyed. The cheque of Mes srs . Price was ~f the in by witne s s to th e d e f en d an t' s account at London and Westminster Bank. Wi t. Cross-extunined by M r . S ergean t Sleigib- - "rs , ness had previously bee n i n th e serv i c e Of s Sewell, Walker, and C o ., s hip c h an dlers an d ; 0 0 makers, in the Minories, and Messrs. lloVe r ' be es merchants, Quenhithe, with whom he had bees altogether twelve years. Ile had a lso T o a gun-room steward in the Royal navP, prisoner has commerci a l re l a ti ons in Brazij: a i 0 went there in March last. lle return July last. and complained that witness had e , " 0 . 0 0 priated his moneys, which was untrue. Therf • bilo• an old affair of £3B whi c h th e p r i son er forga" 0 00 There was a summons inued against the defetljerdpi returnable to-morrow. lle w a s arrested Ye s . 00 0 on a warrant at his attorney's office. Th e P ri e reo t was accustomed to deal with three or four a"' o re canvas merchants. £3OO wo r th of provisions actually supplied to the vessel. tiP prisoner's Mr. Sergeant Sleigh, i n th e p r i s one J --,ls , s ay tion, urged that Neal was unwo r thy of cred it ' o {o that the case standing entirely on the evidencef person who acknowledged a misappropriation Il° at master's money, the prisoner was en ti t l e d to e once released from custody. ov bi Sir Francis' Moon, acceding to an applico ti 7 tbd the solicitor for the prosecution, reu iand ° ;:,, to prisoner until Monday week, b u t a d m itted h' C or o bail in the meantime, himself in £lOO, sureties of £5O each. Bank of Engia.,(l RetUrDS. An Account, lursuant to 1 cap. 32, for the week ending he Act 7th and 8111 11 127 ii. Wednesday, Sept. 8, 111$ 9. Wednesday, I 1 6 1 Governmt. Debt.Xl:l4:9o Other Securities.. b 9" Gold Coin and 540,6° Bullion ......... Silver Bullion 04,641/'°' ISSUE DE Notes issued ....X31,540,630 £34,510,630 BINKING D. Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest 3,681,928 Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Div. K'PARTMENT. Govornmt. Soca ritios(including 9,s Dead Weigho9.o,9l Annuity) ••••• 1 4,3:4, 4 '05 u O o ti l i t e i r : S tn e c c i ur s i i t l i v e s o . : 11,11,0601,,, Notes ............... „0 (.)oin .......... Accounts 4,569,973 Other Deposits... 17,552,943 Seven Days and other 533,330 s4 O, 139 11'd E FORBES, Chia £40,891,174 GEOR, ADVERTISEMENT. I —Holloway's Oin , r i tw ent.- - fi . Cl o ri; and rheumatic disorders aro perpetually reol l o "d poi rat ol'i our changeable temperature. All aches t ' e l the e el P ij subdued b r e nerves, ds m t b e e s yn c leetghs pdie t oh bones, which often comp b tLP fi e e r u f s u u l a l o a i n v t o m ca e t n i t o . n s r os a f , r f tv ,, huo l cl o r;: sego ll p rubbed into the parts affected ; the action w ool 11 00,,, is expedited by previous fomentation wit l ! tbe cl "0 in to e e r . e The ointment is then as easily made to PasSi no raq i co' 1 frame as salt is made to pass into meat, a n r, — for ' t° ol' prebend any injurious after effects from 1 ,tiny are worked without the aid of a particle t 00 44 other noxious substance. It never does 1 131.131. per • 0 4 1, i d 0 o, ADVERTISEMENT.I Consumption, an o tag e ,,,tiOnellt," bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in e Verl clefierlloTPet aggravated and accelerated by drugs of eve r .' ring Diau perfe,tly curable by Du BARRY'S health-rest° u o t c 0 Arabica Food, us proved by thousands of ease s vi e psi ii) ilelier considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dYsPves, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarr,iatulyoo,o6" derangements, hteniorrhoids, liver complainls2thPorio!,oo, le6 0 : vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diPr4, o o o ' s jeel' i or, colds, influenza, noises in the bead and earn, cf s o, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache , „ s . ., t .vs vasins, nausea and sickness even in pregnaV o t, P 4 8 ; 4 " i ,(1'; e :1 0 ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the 0 , . Cs..ef Pit of the stomach', and between the shoulders,,nFooa• few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Barry! sob a r i e s,l i fool 68,413—"R0me, July 21, 1866. The health of ts!_e_ en ie o ce 4 , excellent, especially since, abandoning all otheort's Ara:r;pc; confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Beva l i e . It 1 4 0 .i i ,, t r of which he consumes a plateful at every ol d J.' t be a surprisingly beneficial effect on his healt:;"__Frols r te, wo r e cannot praise this excellent food too highly. — es oop e oo d du Midi, July 2'. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James, dio,oo'erfoly merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty ye,7 0 , 1 i srat 4 o l o , spitting of blood, liver derangement, and pa!,% an t o ', jet: ce i * N 0.1,77 . Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-.ll,`.`r ty yeall eot ig . sp l f r i of many years' dyspepsia.—No. l a stbl`Oliag• of if able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, 1 , 0 31 _ 0 6 o r stipation, ilatuleucy, spasms, sickness, ,I L , o ianY, Jolly." Important Caution.—Beware of ‘ 7,, v ithou' 1 7° 0 DS .1 and more than sloppy imitations to whici tse bocl , 171 , 0 1.1.4 Baron Liebig's name is most audaciouslYal„ 118,0001', In tins, at is Ilb 2s Ad; 21bs 4 8 6d; 17: 03 /6 . A .. fo r! 0 0 0 ,- , 21 lbs 40s.—Also DU BARRY'S IDWILENTA oe POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 euPi or ori or .- 4 at sos. s ti o f ,0 at 2s 6d; for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 euPs poi f6C 1 1; —being about one penny per cup. The 3 s, free of carriage in England on receipt 01 4, 0 0, 1 ' BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Bogen' all Grocers and Chemists .....-.. ~,Isr Loudon: Printed and Published by WILLI.A3i, 'A 14 2 13 : 14 4 4 ,: i of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tut: SUN Office . o° ' li lee in r the a Precinct of the Savoy, in the County Of gia4 if i LW, September 10, 18,;9. ----________-.---'--- sci e `' l BIRTHS. °M SANALE ' ORTII—On the 9th inst. , of . ` P. H. Charlesworth, Esq., of a so n. f Y. `r ife ° OWEN—On the at Chissvicl'• t1ie.64,4 Owen, of Bth inst., a t Gosport, the 1 a daughter. Ding LE 1 M A RRIAG ES. n , 10 LIRCIIANT S .t. ,Ist -t 4 . - li' Notts, Hen . ry—D,TnniuLTT—mOn the ristD4.2-I);;ristorcj,ot, s o arehant, k •,,, r t., o eP oldest son of Sir DeLis Le 31arehant, P 3 „,. tr utt , ham-place, Surrey, to the lion. S o P '..- I,o o'' ' daughter of Lord Belper. gi , otoo REXTON—Momus—On the 4th inst., at St. b vet' o i s Esq.,. Edward Henry, eldest son of J vi i ild ° I i-' q.,..?f Brixtoc, to Emily Dawson, ou/Y c late Wm. Morris, of Fenehureh-stre et. got" :MY TBS. 01 1 , .- BROOKSBANK—On the. 7th inst., at Sydettbenv if ° C. Brooksbank, Esq., aged 63. BAYNES—On tho 7th inst ,at Upper IsToriv.;-' 41 Sir &bort Lambert Bayn'es, aged 7°' OP' CARTER—On the Bth inSt., at Ringwood, 081336 dor Carter, Esq. _ngs4s;