The Sun. — London, England, 1869-11-01 00:00:00

B?I3XT OP TEA, JOMINALS. The Times thinks the problem hardly admits or a pail& 101ution. Progressists, Democrats, and Republicans look upon the 'Unionists as their common enemy. The good Understanding between Prim and Serrano has been, in the ~gyes of all Liberals, a monstrous thing from the beginning combination, it is now universally felt, must come to an end, ancl this insoluble knot of the King's election affords the best opportunity. The dissolution of partnership, 11 is also very evident, can hardly be cffeoted without a disas trous o ebreak. The Unionists clearly perceive that they have no chance ^f puccess. After weeks of vain debate the Ministers belonging rr: that party have tendered their to follow. . resignation. Serrano, the Regen:, bouncl Prim remains master of the situati on ; but that is precisely what suits him least. He wishes for the substance of power, but under some one else who should be invested with its semblance. For the last twelvemonth this con venient cloak to his ambition has been Serrano ; but what if Serrano withdraws and the Duke of Genoa is not to bo brought in ? Then Prim stands forth exposed to the envy of the great and the rancour of the small—alone between friends who do not trust him and enemies who, when the time comes, will not spare him. -• • • Tho Daily News, though fully recognising the abilities and the eminence of Lord Salisbury, his wealth, his mar quisate, and the name of Cecil, doubts whether he is the most appropriate person to fill the high office of Chan cellor of Oxford. High academic distinction, proficiency in the special studies- of the place, eminence in literature and science, great national services, a position and reputa tion before which the differences of party disappear—some at least of these titles should be associated with party merits as a qualification for the headship of one of the great English Universities. The late Lord Derby was something more than the Conservative leader. He was a fine scholar, whese tastes and elo quence bore the impress of the humane letters of which Oxford is the centre ; he had reaped at the University such honours as he cared to gather; he was one of the first orators not only of his time but of . our parliamentary history ; and he had borne a distinguished part, for good and for evil, in the most momentous tran sactions of his time. The Duke of Wellington, his imme diate predecessor, was not a man of the gown. To his election might be applied—Cedit toga armis. But though he belonged to the Conservative party, he belonged yet more closely to all England and the Empire. In politica, Lord Salisbury, save during the few months he passed at the India Office, has been little more than an able, but fierce and narrow partisan ; in lite rature, he has shewn himself a bitter and clever pamphleteer, who has used the journals, quarterly and weekly, as the vehicles of an incessant warfare against the late Conservative Prime Minister. He was undistinguished at the University, a fourth class in mathematics lacing, we believe, his highest academic honour. His Churchmanship is ecclesiastical partisanship, as was evinced by his cele brated declaration, worthy of Lord Eldon himself, that none but a good Tory could be a good Churchman. It may be doubted whether, in the view of coming changes Lord Salisbury, with his doctrines of resistance pure and simple, is the man best fitted to mediate between Parlia ment and the universities•. The Herald considers that the lofty intellect, the gar nered store of knowledge, the wide sympathy with each phase and description of learning, the contempt for shallow pretence, the high principles of disinterested statesman ship, the :experience of successful labour, the inviolable integrity of public faith, the frequently-attested vigour of consummate administrative power—these are what Oxford asks in her Chancellor, and these are what Lord Salisbury will assuredly bring to his high office. It is not that he alone possesses them, but that he possesses them in the largest combination and in highest development. For these reasons, satisfied and more than satisfied as we might, under other• circumstances and at another time, have been with Lord Carnarvon, Lord Flarrowby, or Lord Stanhope, we shall not be satisfied unless Oxford does full justice to herself by electing Lord Salisbury, the statesman, the scholar, and the champion of all those principles by which Oxford must henceforward stand or fall. The Standard asked its Liberal contemporaries the other day either to deny that the E. M. Fenwick and H. W. Schneider, who a fortnight ago took the oaths and qualified as magistrates for Lancashire, are the same persons :Is the late members for the town of Lancaster whom the Royal Commission declared guilty of debauching and degrading that constituency, or if compelled to admit their identity to explain and vindicate their appointment. No answer has been given to our appeal. The apologists of the Government probably fancy that if they only keep quiet the scandal will die out. They are hugely mistaken. The scandal is much too great to be disposed of in that way. We do not mean to let the matter drop until the public thoroughly understands what is the real position of our purity-professing Administration towards bribery and corruption, and if we should do so, the question will cer tainly be raised when Parliament meets, and the Govern ment will be asked whether it has, in impudent disregard of an address from the House of Commons to the Crown, and in flagrant violation of the pledges of its leading members, included two notorious bribers in the commis sion of the peace. The affair is one which the Morals, in their own interest, instead of attempting to hush over, should " liquidate " at once. Until it is so disposed of, they will rest under a stigma which, strong as they are, they cannot afford to bear. Again we ask, are the Messrs. Fenwick and Schneider, recently appointed magistrates for Lancashire, the persons pronounced guilty by a royal commission of degrading and debauching the constituency of Lancaster ? If they are not, let some one of the many organs of the Government say that they are not, and explain the curious coincidence of names. We shall be only too glad to be satisfied on the point, and be able to believe that to whatever other and hardly defensible expedients the Government may resort to reward its old supporters and win new ones, it will not deliberately degrade the magistracy and defy a vote of the House of Commons. On the other hand, if the bribers, who so narrowly escaped standing before the judgment seat, have been raised to it, we ask from the Government a full explanation of, and apology for, this astounding act, as well as a satisfaction to public opinion, and a recogni tion of the authority of the House of Commons in the removal, of Messrs. Fenwick and Schneider's names from the commission of the peace for the county of Lancaster. The Telegraph says that some of the Duke of Newcastle's creditors have been trying to make him bankrupt, but , their petition has been dismissed by Mr. Commissioner Winslow, on the ground that an insolvent peer of the realm is exempted from that ordinary process of law which requires other indebted persons to make a cession of their goods. The decision has a historical as well as a political interest. It recalls the period when nobles were invested with extraordinary immunities and powers which rendered them despotic lords and masters of the people around them ; and it also raises the whole question respecting the expedi 'envy of class privileges. The general tendency of modern legislation is to abrogate those peculiar rights, except where they are requisite for the due performance of special duties. The petition of the Duke of Newcastle's creditors has thus been rejected, but his Grace has had a very narrow escape. From and after the Ist of January next all the commercial distinctions between dukes and common folk will be utterly swept away. An Act was passed towards the close of last session which places all the Queen's subjects on an equal footing so far as the jurisdiction of Basinghall-street is concerned. After that date insolvent peers will have no favour shewn them on account of their peerage. Why should they? It cannot be said that they need special protection to enable, them to fulfil the duty of attendance in Parliament; for-the imprisonment of debtors is now nearly abolished. The Court may order them to be arrested in a few special vases—as when they are about to abscond, and when they mean to conceal, remove, or destroy their property or books. These are necessary safeguards against fraud or evasion ; but, in ordinary circumstances, where the debtor is candid and honest, his personal lib er t y i s secured. Hence r there can be no reasonable ground f or perpetuat i ng the old parliamentary exemption. The Post observes that some additional light has been thrown on the Alabama negotiations by the recent publi cation of despatches. It was always a matter of surprise that a treaty, apparently entered into by a plenipotentiary with the full concurrence of the Government by which he was accredited, should be summarily rejected when in accordance with the Constitution of the United States submitted to the Senate for ratification ; and. irrespective of the merits of the basis of settlement which was then proposed, it was felt in this country that the course pursued by the American Government was scarcely dignified or consistent. In drawing this conclusion we, of course, assumed that Mr. Johnson was properly authorised to make those proposals for the adjustment of the matters in difference between the two countries which ulti mately were acceded to by her Majesty's Government. It - v.-euld seem, however, front the written instructions L'i - icn by Mr. Seward to the American Minister that in tile month of July, 1863, no authority was then given to him to effect a settlement of the alleged claims on any basis whatever. that his attention was at that time more particularly addressed to the vexed questions of naturalisa tion and the adjustment of the North-West boundary; and that he was only desired to sound Lord Stanley as to the probability of the English Government acceding to a settlement of tho Alabama controversy on a basis such as that ultimately embodied in the Treaty to which Mr. John son appended his signature. Me. Johnson, in whose Mind unquestionably the "Alabama question" took precedence of all others from the very first, certainly ex ceeded his instructions at a later period, as he undoubtedly did in the commencement, by endeavouring at all hazards to obtain the credit of effecting a solution of this difficult problem; but all events, whatever may have been the ori ginal instructions of the American Government, it is unde niable that the Senate were mainly influenced in their rejection of the treaty by its failing to refer to arbitration the conduct of this country in recopiaing a belhgezents the SoutlierA Confederacy, ALBERT ASSUPANCE COMPANY. In Vice-Chancellor James's Chambers, before Mr. Bloxam, Chief Clerk, an application was made for t leave to make the Albert Assurance Company a party to the suit of a policy-holder against the Medical, Invalid, and General Assurance Society. Mr. Musgrave stated that the business of the Medical Invalid Society was amalgamated with the Albert in 1861, being trensferred by deed; the latter company giving its indemnity, taking over the assets and becoming liable to all claims. The granting of the order was opposed. The Chief Clerk thought it proper that the Albert should be heard, and if it turned out that the applicants were not justified in making the claim, they would lose their costs. Order accordingly. THE LATEST ASSASSINATION IN IRELAND. The attempt to assassin :to Mr. Brett, county surveyor of Limerick, cannot be designated an agrarian crime. The faeman, of Dublin, fully describes the occurrence : "When Mr. Brett returned home, he found a man named John Bourke, who had been a road contractor under him, waiting for an interview which he was not, it is said, very willing to grant ; but Bourke in some manner forced himself into Mr. Brett's sitting-room after his arrival, and there had rather an angry argument on the subject of some money stoppages which Mr. Brett had felt it his duty to make from this man on account of failure of contract. Bourke remonstrated in very strong terms about those stoppages, urging upon Mr Brett to do him what he alleged was only justice, and reminding him that life was short, &c. Mr. Brett, who had been before impor tuned on the same point by this man, ordered him frequently to leave the parlour, whereupon Bourke asked him to give him some whisky, which, after refusing him several times, he at length ordered his servant to give him in the kitchen, in which Bourke was not well seated when Mr. Brett, who was standing with his back to the fire, was fired upon through the parlour window, and seven small shots or pellets struck him in the breast, very near the reg,icn of the heart ; but, fortunately, he has not been dangerously wounded, five of the slugs having enly caused flesh wounds, two only having to be extracted, and they, it is supposed, have not inflicted wounds of a nature from which to appre hend danger. Mr. Brett, when he was shot, went into the hall, and called to his servants in the kitchen, where Bourke still was, that he was wounded. It was remarked by the servants that the latter listened to the announce ment with the greatest calmness and unconcern, and with out displaying the slightest emotion, which leads to the suspicion that he was privy to the attack on this gentle man's life. One of Mr. Brett's servants ran with all haste for the police, who were on the spot very soon after the occurrence, having arrested Bourke on their way." TEE MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT PENCE. Mr. N. Carter, the Coroner for East Surrey, ha 3 con- chided, at the Mitre Tavern, Mitre-lane, South Penge-park, the inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Emily Fowler, aged 33, who was found dead on a balcony outside the top window of her residence, 30, Weigh ton-road, South Penge, on the previous Sunday morning, under circumstances which left no doubt that she had lost her life by the administration of poison either by her own hand or by that of some other person. Mr. Fowler was not present on this occasion, but was re presented by Mr. Serjeant Sleigh, who intimated that his client was at home in the greatest prostration of mind. The proceedings commenced by an argument between the jury and the coroner as to how far Mr. Fowler was culpable, and what construction could be placed upon certain statements made upon the first hearing, and in order that all those engaged might be perfectly certain upon various matters, the coroner recalled Sarah Aske, the cook. She was subjected to a severe examination, and stated that on the day of her death Mrs. Fowler was hiding from Mr. Fowler's violence in the smoking room. She had previously fainted in the kitchen, and wit ness, the housemaid, and Mr. Fowler carried her up into the smoking-room, where water was thrown over her, and on her recovery she pushed Mr. Fowler and the house-maid out of the room. Then it was she said that on theprevious night while putting off her chignon in the dark, she felt something strange, and dizcsve red, on striking a light that it was a bottle of poison (produced), which she said she believed Mr. Fowler had placed there that she might see it and be induced to take it. She was very much dis- tressed in mind, and said that she was tired of her life, and daring the hour witness was with her was crying, and sent a message by witness to her mother with a request that Fisher a ',ate servant, might be the last to see to her. All this occurred between one and two. No one was present, and the door of the smoking-room being closed, Mr. Fowlor could not possibly have heard anything that passed. She left Mrs. Fowler alone for a few minutes during this hour Ind she then had the poison in her possession. The Coroner at this star obs erved that as Mr. Fowler vas not pre,:ent while the statement affecting him `ties made he must strike that part cf the depositions out as affecting him, as in law one of the jury might just as well have made a similar statement. In examination by Mr. Sleigh, witness said that since the last inquest she had found under the cushion of the sofa in the kitchen the parcel produced, containing £2 10s., directed in Mrs. Fowler's handwriting to her mother. She recognised the torn photograph produced as a likeness of her mistress, and had found it in the grate in Mr. Fowler's bedroom since her mistress's death. Jane Coote, the housemaid, deposed to the same acts of violence and unkindness on Mr. Fowler's part, and to the grief and distress of her mistress. Her master was very fond of her mistress when sober. When he was drunk he was quite mad. She did not know whether he had drunken hysterics or delirium tremens. He would look in the glass and talk to himself, saying, " Hah, Walter ! " and throw his head back. She did not go to bed till 3, but found them in their bedrooom in the morning. On going to bed Mr. Fowler was in the habit of putting his money and the contents of his pocket on the dressing-table, so that the bottle he had in his hand when she saw him on Friday would be placed there along with the other things. When Mrs. Fowler waa missing he s aid he thought she had gone Tway to her mother. She had done so before, and he conducted the search anxiously, after which he went into the dining-room and fell asleep, and slept there all night. Dr. Arthur Newman Turner said he had made an analysis of the contents of the stomach, ass isted by the clinical assistant of Guy's Hospital, and could swear to the presence of strychnine in the stomach. Another witness was called, who deposed to the general conduct of Mr. Fowler, but knew nothing as to the occur rence of the day. Frederick Bingley, chemist, of Plough-court, City, de posed that he was in th. 3 habit of supplying Mr. Fowler with various articles, and on the 29th of last month he called and had a prescription made up, after which he asked for some strychnine to destroy cats with. fie did not see it made up, but it was made up under his direction ; it would be in the form of crystal, like coarse salt. He supplied him with five grains, and entered the sale in a book (produced), according to law. It was not necessary to make any in quiries of the purchaser at the time. fhe Coroner then summed up at considerable length, and at the end of nearly an hour and a half the jury re turned the following verdict :—" That the deceased Emily Fowler died from the effects of strychnine, but how or by whom administered there is no sufficient or satisfactory evidence." The case of the Archbishop of York against the fey. C. Voysey, of Ilealaugh, for doctrinal errors in his sermons and writings, is to come on for hearing at the York Ecclesiastical Court on the Ist of December next. DEATH FI2OII A QUID OF TOBACCO.-Dr, Hard sick°, deputy coroner, held an inquest on Saturday, at Afiddlesex Hospital, on the body of William Adlam, aged 50, a gun-maker, who died suddenly in the street. It appeared that on Wednesday last, while the deceased was passing through Bond-street, he was observed to fall and roll into the gutter of the road. He appeared to be in a convulsive fit, and at the suggestion of some of the bystanders he was at once conveyed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The post mortem examination shewed that some shreds of tobacco had been drawn into the chink of the glottis, producing spasm and sudden death. A quid of tobacco was found in the mouth of the deceased, behind the epiglottis. It was believed that while deceased was taking an inspiration ho had drawn up the tobacco involuntarily. The cause of death was suffocation by the spasmodic closing of the glottis or windpipe. The deceased had on ly o bt a i ned employment on the day of h i s death, after having been out of work for nine months. Ver diet, " Accidental death." A CONTRIV4.NCE FOR CASES OF UNTRUSTWORTHY COMPASSES The Academy of Science in Paris referred the oth:r day to the loss cf the Glenorchy, which left the Clyde in December last, and was lost off the coast of Ireland. Tho Glenorchy was iron built and had a cargo of iron on board, and the disaster was occa sioned by an error in magnetism, although the captain had the usual apparatus for correcting the compass on board. M. Faye reminded the academy of a plan he bad proposed four years ago for ascertaining the true bearings of ;the compass in the case of iron ships. It simply consists in providing the usual log with a magnetic needle. Before heaving it should be fixed by a spring, and when at sufficient distance from the ship, a jerk of the line would setlit at liberty again. Another contrivance would fix it a.; second time before haulinz . it, and the true_ cading would thus bo obtained. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, INOVEMBER 1, 1869,, CiLIIMP,RCIAL IMMORA LITY. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The City Editor of the Times continues to en lighten his English readers about American Securi- ties. He says : " On the other hand, the efflux of capital for the pur chase of American securities appears destined for a time to experience a remarkable check, the revelations as to the universal extent of judicial corruption in the leading State of the Union having created an amount of distrust which extends in some degree to every class of investment in that country." His choice of words is the most remarkable part of the sentence. " Universal" suits his object, which is to convey a notion of general dishonesty, and this was strengthened by a leader next day on Secretary BouTwELL's speech at Philadelphia. But the Bonds keep rising, being highernow than ever before known. People see that there is no more dishonesty, if as much, in New York than in London; that it is not in degree that it differs, but in foam. There is more audacity, more open gambling, more avowed sharp practice in the American metropolis than in the English ; but the more hateful dishonesty is in the latter. The " Gold Gamble" was a pitched battle of a set of raiders; it was an organized scheme to burst through commercial restraints, and plunder at all hazards. Take the paper from which we have _ . made the above extract to furnish an instance of the English style of doing the same sort of business. Here it is, almost the next sentence : "The liquidators of the Imperial Mercantile Credit As sociation (Limited) have announced another call of .£2 10s. per share, payable on the Ist of December." . _ Our American readers are not likely to know what that means, so we must tell them. This Finance Com- pany was the amalgamation of two, at the head of which were asserted to be some of the best business names in London. The strength of both conjoined was pronounced to be a sort of galaxy of commer cial magnificence, and their light so shone over the country that the moths flew in thousands into the flame. There were the ill-advised widows—there were the clergymen—the half-pay officers—all the greedy who desired to share in the Twenty per Cent. per annum paid in equal instalments every half year. Blessings were showered on these able men of business, as long as the poor things only felt the genial glow ; and the shares of £5O, on which £5 had been paid, rose to a hand some premium. It was a pleasure when the ge nial fac2s of that board of heavy respectability smiled on the fluttering moths while announcing the satisfactory business accomplished, the large sum carried to the reserve, with the handsome balance remaining for dividend, and no meeting was more genial than the last, which occurred early in 1866, when the usual dividend of 20 per cent was declared. Three months after, the Company had smashed, and the astonished shareholders then in the fire have been learning ever since the value of the prospec tuses, of the audited accounts published, of the Chair man's speeches, and of the well-known names of the able business men standing highest in the commer cial world of London. The enterprise was an ab solute and horrible ruin. Instead of the £5 share being worth £9, a man was well out of it who mul tiplied and gave three times the sum paid up to be rid of his liability. Yet men whose characters now are not to be impeached, certified the sound nature of the business done, and the large profits accumu lated three months before the shutters closed. Take another instance recorded in the came article:— " The chairman of the Credit Foncier of England has convened a meeting of the Imperial Land Company of It arseilles, now in liquidation, for Friday next, for the purpose of submitting to them a statement of the condi tion and prospects of that company." The chairman sent out a circular stating that the liquidators of . the Imperial Land Company of Marseilles were, in one word, making the most they could for themselves and friends out of the assets; and that bad the shareholders guarded their inte rests they would not have sanctioned those gentle men being placed in a position which enabled them do so. Here is their reply : " Our investigations have led to the astounding dis covery that the promoters of this company, while profess ing to pay for the purpose of certain property in Mar seilles the sum of £1,109,323, in reality paid only £344,604, while the difference, £76 , 1,719, found its way into the pockets of certain persons from whom we, the liquidators, shall seek to recover it, and certainly we intend to take proceedings for that purpose." We do not get to the bottom of these proccedinga in England, for the Law Courts are too tender of commenial reputation, an I the press, un like that of America, shies at this subject. hence a rascality which involved millions sterling by the scorehas scarcely furnishel a victim for the law. Notwithstanding thattheknowledge of th..d6lionesty of their fellows is implanted deep in the present gene ration, it has not been noised abroad, although all the losses in New York from sharp practice, ten times told, since the war would not equal that of London in the single year-1866. The Erie clique is made the most of, and that combination is at the front of nearly all recent commercial offences in Ame rica against morality. But, in London, there are many such combinations, though they be but poor imitators. Yet, we go out of our congregation of re spectables to find instances to point morals and adorn tales, and thunder denunciations against the foreign iniquity over the heads of the solemn sin ners seated below with upturned eyes and demure faces. The subject of greenback redemption is, as usual, misrepresented by the Times. Mr. BouT WELL is described as pleading for honesty ; and the view of the Finance Minister who endeavours to entice his hearers into the payment in coin cannot be, according to the Times, very re-assuring to the creditor, that journal arriving at the conclusion that it would be simpler and safer for Government Finan ciers to insist that " A bargain is a bargain,' and that it is a sufficient rea son why the one party is bound to keep it that the other party to it has made his arrangements on the faith of its being kept." As the Times gave itself ample space for the dis cussion of this subject, it might have explained that the leader of the Democratic party was then stump ing the neighbouring State of Ohio, appealing to the labouring men in the very words the Times uses, that " a bargain is a bargain," and ought to be kept according to the letter and to strict justice, which, with great force, be showed was the payment of the main part of the National Debt in greenbacks. The Times assumes the absolute and unquestionable right of the creditor to receive back the money he had lent, and that specified in his contract ; and this also is the ground of Mr. PENDLETON, the money lent by the creditors being greenbacks, and greenbacks also being the money specified in the contract. Now,' says Mr. PE.NDLETON, those per sons who lent us greenbacks, and have Made an enormous profit by the transaction, demand the repayment in gold, although they made no such stipulation when they lent the money. This was what a leading politician and orator was saying in Ohio on the eve of an important election, to which Mr. BotrrwELL's speech was a reply. Viewed in this light, the key is given, and Mr. BOUTWELL'S argument fully understood ; but it does not suit the Times to give this key, but to represent the American people as parleying directly with dis honesty, and the Minister as endeavouring to prove that they will act nobly in not being dishonest, as well as wisely. It is curious to observe how in each country the acts of the 'other are misrepre sented ; and it is a singular fact, which both ought to take to heart and deeply ponder, that nearly all the in either arises from this misrepresenta tion. Both go through frantic gesticulations, ham mering away at imaginary unfriendly ants, sending their clubs through the empty air. That two such nations should assume such positions is neither more nor less than ridiculous. In a notice of the Rev. NEWMAN HALL'S recent work, the Saturday Review observes that no good is derived or can be from flummery and the eternal brotherhood " bosh ;" and we agree so far with the Review as to admit that no sterling benefit can be extracted from what is untrue. But, alas! it is not so with evil, for any amount of injury may be the result of lies. Let us in a kindly spirit on both sides recognize and write the truth as nearly as we can ; and let England, the source of the misrepresentation to which America responded, and who repaid the generous leaning of the younger on the opinion of the older with ridi cule and bitter vicious satire—set the other an example of recanting error and discussing interna tional questions simply on their merits. Might we • add, as a hint to the Saturday Review, that it would be advisable, for it to learn a trifle about the, geo graphy of the country, such for instance , that St. Louis is not in Illinois, and Colorado is not a State. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE ADMISSION OF LADIES TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. The University of Edinburgh is the first in this country to declare it compatible with her sex that a lady should be a student of medical science. The " faculty " had already admitted the advisability of the innovation, and it was left to the Council to carry it out. By some members of this body, how ever, the reform was stoutly opposed; and on Friday the matter was discussed. On a vote, the admission of women was carried by a large majority. Alt. Bright's plan, derivea — froM ttle — experience - 01 Prussia, for converting tenants into proprietors by the payment of au increased rent. But legal security of tenure is the great neces*y, and must form the fundamental feature of the scheme. "Legal security of tenure means leases in one form or another. The main object of the Government Land Bill, there fore, will probably be the extension of leases, or the equivalent of leases, to a very large proportion of Irish tenants. The means employed for effecting this object will, no doubt, be various, and mostly indirect, but it may be necessary to reserve a power in the last resort to do that on behalf of a bad landlord which a good landlord would do for himself. For the exer cise of any such power, as well as to superintend the process of transition, a strong commission or board, armed with:a large discretion, would have to be esta blished." The Lauded Estates Court and the Board of Works are two institutions which afford useful pre cedents for official control in dealings with land. The extent of interference required will be limited mostly to promoting one object : The tenant is almost sure that lie will never be turned out, except for obstinate non-payment of rent, and that his rent will never be unfairly raised ; but he cannot be quite sure, for the kindest landlord may be succeeded by a tyrannical heir, or sell to a rapacious purchaser. The problem is to give him, and still more to give his less for tunate neighbour, this certainty, without reducing the landlord to a mortgagee or rent charger. To despair of this problem would, indeed, be unworthy of statesman ship, nor do we see any difficulty to be encountered equal to those overcome last session by the Reformed Par liament. The Spectator, noting that the public mind is rapidly advancing on this question, and that land lords and Conservatives are not backward with generous proposals, advocates fixity of tenure, rents settled by a tribunal, and compensation to landlords. It argues that even compensation for improvements does not justify eviction ; there is a powerful feeling in the minds of all men in all countries against arbitrary dismissal, no matter on what terms. There is some value, it pleads, in occupancy as occupancy. No settlement is likely to answer the purpose if it does not relieve the tenant's sense of in security by recognising in a legal way the injustice of arbitrary eviction—that his " post" is in some sense equivalent to a property of which he ought not to be capriciously deprived. The Spectator thinks that Mr. Gladstone may pronounce for a lease from the State, either in perpetuity or for a term of years. "If landlords knew their own interest, they would declare for perpetuity of tenure, with rents raised every twenty-one years—certain that their children would be the richest men in the kingdom." Tie Standard deduces from the misty prophecies of th,e oracles that the custom of the Ulster tenant , right will be the basis of the Ministerial scheme. But will this concession satisfy the Irish ? The Standard thinks not. The demand at the various meetings that have been held has been for fixity of tenure; but the Ulster custom falls far short of that settlement. "The Ulster custom recognises no permanent occupancy, an unvarying rent, or inde pendence of the occupier. It is simply a mode of disposing of the one great practical injustice which has been found to attend the Irish system of tenure, namely, the non-recognition of the tenant's right to his own improvements, upon a principle which on the whole has been found to work, if not economically well, at least politically and socially to the mutual benefit of the landlords and the tenants of Ulster, but for which there is no guarantee that it would remedy any of the economical, political, or social evils attendant upon the system of land tenure in the other three provinces." SOUTHWARK ELECTION. Notwithstanding the placards posted about South London announcing that Mr. Milner Gibson will con test Southwark for the Liberals, there seems good reason for believing that Mr. Kirkman Hodgson has accepted the invitation. With the working man's candidate there would thus be three comvetitors for the favour of the Liberal interest. But in spite of this division the Conservatives seem very uncertain as to their choice. The camp remains inactive. Who even the working man's candidate is to be is not cer tain, for the representatives of the . party would first like to know whether such a candidate would have any chance of success. THE TOWER HAMLETS. There are still some rumours that the usual course of allowing a walk over to a member of Parliament who resigns his seat to take an office will be departed from in the case of Mr. Ayrton. Mr. Coope is yet talked of as a Conservative candidate, and Mr. Ileales and Mr. Newton, who both went to the poll last time, are thought likely to fight the battle over again. Mr. Ayrton's address is out, but neither of his oppo nents have made a formal sign. ECONOMY. The Lancet for this week is scandalised at the pro posal to make married soldiers pay for their bedding. The United Service Gazette is equally indignant with what it calls a " new" phase of Admiralty economy. Our contemporary states that the command of one f her Majesty's ships has been offered to a captain, "provided he pay his own passage out to the station to join her," and that he has accepted • the appointment on the condition named, "feeling that if he had not done so, he was likely to look in vain for employment." The United Service Gazette asks if the Exchequer has fallen so very low. Another story is - also given, that the Admiralty are buying their tin mess utensils second-hand. The report• is not _announced as a joke. A reduction is made in expenditure at Alder shott. The vacancy caused by the death of the late Captain Pelly, Royal Engineers, who was Deputy Assistant-Quartermaster-General, is not to be filled up. Captain R. Home, Royal Engineers, who is at present in charge of the cooking department as Deputy Assistant-Quartermaster-General, will perform the duties which devolved on Captain Pelly. THE MILITARY EDUCATION COMMISSION. Rumours have for a long time been floating about concerning the recommendations made in their report by the Commissioners on Military Education. The Army and Nauy Gazette declares that these statements were all premature, and to a large extent untrustworthy. But the re port is completed, and will shortly be given to the public. Seven of the recommenda tions made are just announced. They are to the effect that the duties performed by the Council on Military Education should be concentrated in the hands of one person ; a reduction made in the age of admission to the army ; a revision arranged of the examinations at Woolwich and Sandhurst, with a view of modernising the education, and dis countenancing " crammers ; " the college at Sand hurst completely reorganised, and modifica tions made at Woolwich ; the teaching in the Staff College made less theoretical than at present, and more acceptable to officers ; and a system of professional instruction for officers of the cavalry and infantry introduced, more efficient gua rantees being given for the bond fide character of examinations for promotion. No changes of importance are thought of in connection with the Military Engi neering School at Chatham, or the Shoeburyness Gun ner), School. The amalgamation of Woolwich and Sandhurst is declared undesirable ; so is also the policy of requiring the passage of all officers through a military college ;. and likewise proposals for intro ducing technical military education in public schools. ITEMS OF SERVICE NEWS. The items of news as to the services are plentiful. There are first various speculations as to the com mand at the Mauritius, vacant by the death of General Milman. The Army and Navy Gazette says it will be conferred upon a Colonel.—The same paper states that the Persian Government has applied to our Foreign Office for British ofhcers to assist in the organisation and training of the Persian Army, and that this request has lately been complied with.—lt also tells its readers that the nzitrailleuse is to be introduced into the Russian army. The Yankees have got an order to furnish ninety revolving cannon, twenty of which have already arrived on this side of the Atlantic.—More demands are made for the Abyssinian and the New Zealand wars-medals. The Broad Arrow announces that adjutants in tne yeomanry are to be abolished.—The control v. an hut having been agreed to by the Treasury, is under stood to be in course of final manipulation at the War Office preparatory to publication. The pay of the various ranks is said to be still extremely liberal, though much below what was some months ago proposed by the ruling power at the War Office. The usual allowances will be granted to the several grades of the control officers according to their relative ranks or classes, the same as to other officers of the several departments.—Colonel the llon. 11. H. Clifford, C. 8., V.C., is to be appointed aide-de-camp to. his Royal Highness the Field- Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, in the room of the Hon. Richard Curzon, promoted to the rank of maj or-general. The rumours as to Admiralty alterations are per sistently repe.ated.—New regulations have, it is stated, been sanctioned for the enlistment of drummers in the Royal Marines.—The scheme for capitalising the pay of officers in the navy and among the marines will shortly be " promulgated."—The lieutenant general commanding at Aldershot having had the subject of the dress of officers' servants before him, has made an order that they shall for the future be dressed either in uniform or in their master's livery. THE QUEEN AND THE UNEMPLOYED. The Beehive publishes the form of a petition to the Queen from the unemployed poor. This document sets forth that a large number of British men, women, and children are now in a state of destitution, through inability to obtain work, that there is a great demand for labour in the colonies, but that the poor are unable to'reach those distant countries without assistance. " We, therefore, humbly pray your Majesty to see that such measures be taken without delay 48 may enable THE NEW LEAGUE. A new Reform League, calling itself the "Land and Labour League,' has been formed. Its objects are announced to be the abolition of private property in land; the cJmpensation of the present holders out of the national revenue as a Parliament elected by manhood suffrage may determine; and the liquidation of the National Debt. Mr. Odger, Mr. Bradlaugh, Mr. Lucraft, and other mem bers of the old Reform League are members of the new association. They hope to form a third party in the State. " The Tories represent the landed interests; the Whigs the monetary interests; lot us he the embodiment of the interests of labour." There is no• president; a council of forty is to rule the society. BELLIGERENT RIGHTS. " W. S. L.," under which initials it is not difficult to recognise Mr. W. S. Lindsay, formerly M.P. for Southwark, contributes a very careful expression of opinion to the old, but far from settled, controversy touching belligerent rights. The Paris Congress in 1856 agreed upon three resolutions, to the effect that pri vateering was to be abolished, that a neutral flag covered such of the enemy's goods as were not contraband of war, and that neutral goods on their part were not liable to capture if under an enemy's flag, unless they were contraband of war. When the Con gress submitted its decisions to the United States, the second and third were agreed to ; but the first—that privateers be abolished—was rejected. It was argued on behalf of the American Government that to put down the capture of private property by individuals who, under licence of their Government, fitted out privateers, and leave the practice to be still perpetuated by national ships of war, would be only a simulated act of humanity and justice on the part of the great naval Powers. The proposal was the more unfair to the Americans as they have been in the habit of doing much of their warfare by private vessels. They offered to abolish the capture of private property under any circum stances whatever—by privateers or regular men-of war—prowled such property be not contra bandof war. Nothing was done in the way of accepting this offer. Mr. Lindsay thinks that progress suggests some further steps in this matter. Private property should be held inviolable under any conditions. It ought not to be irregular vessels. to capture either by regu lar or vessels. INSURANCE COMPANIES. A short time ago one insurance company wisely ,00k pains to allay public disquiet by adver ising all the leading figures of its business —the amount of insurances, annual income, and a detailed statement of the accumulated funds. Several companies have since followed the example, whilst, as a further improvement, others have sent circulars to their policy-holders and members, con taining both these particulars and other information. The Economist, in addition, reco mmends a spe cial reference to some eminent actuaries, with instructions to make the fullest investigation. "More than this, looking to the diffbrences of opinion among actuaries as to the method of investigation, they should be required to explain the principles they act upon, and say whether these are the ordinary principles or departures from them. This would be the next best to compulsory Government inspection, and would even be as good i the practice became general, so that companies which avoided special in vestigations would become unable to do business." HORSEFLESH FOR CRIMINALS. A. fine idea has been started by a correspondent of Land and Water. The question is often asked whether we do not keep our criminals too well; whether when people have to choose between the workhouse and the gaol, they do not usually pro nounce for the latter. Why not, asks this correspon dent, feed criminals on horseflesh ? It is whole some and it is cheap, for though it might be difficult to supply the whole population with dead horse there will be plenty for gaol-birds. Moreover, the change would - be an excellent social expedient ; for good food as horseflesh is, the poor will starve rather than eat it I am certain that many of the criminals now filling our gaols would bo iudustriously at work earning their bread by the sweat of their brow, had they thought or suspected that the allowance of animal food supplied in prison was horseflesh. Be assured these fellows who would garret you, murder your wires and children, or commit the most fearful crimes, would shudder at the thought of dining upon hcrsefiesh. \o! they or most of them would die of starva tion rather than he reduced to this dreadful necessity. is it quite certain, however, that this result woula ? Considering the quantity of diseased cow non , consumed by an . untortunate public, we may all take to horSeflesh presently as the only refuge. NAMES FOIL LOCOMOTIVES, The taste of -"railway authorities in the selection of titles for their locomotives seems to be entirely of the " savage " kind. The names of monsters, furies, fates, heathen deities, wild beasts, and burning mountains supply almost the whole nomenclature of railway engines. Of two hundred locomotives on the South-Western line, only one is baptised after an engineer—Locke ; and only one after a British warrior—Havelock. There is a Tiger, a Leopard, a Panther; a Fireking, Firefly, and Wildfire ; an Acheron, Railway . News protests against a Plutus, and a Charon ; a Stromboli, Heels, Vesuvius, &c. The these unnerving and disquieting designations. Goths, Huns, and Vandals, are unpleasant associations. The name of Milton would look at least equally as well as " Rhinoceros . on one of our locomotives. Passengers would travel equally as safely and quite as comfortably if they knew they were drawn by a " Wellington' as by a " Serpent." Why should the lives and safety of the public be entrusted to such a i monster as " Herod " n preference to a statesman like Peel or a public benefactor like Cobden ? The rivers of our country are very good names, and yet they have not been generally adopted. TRANSIT AND COIIIITJNICATION. The Anglo-American Company has recovered the cable of 1800, which was broken about forty miles from the Irish coast. The flaw arose from some foreign substance having pierced the covering during the process of manufac ture or in its submergence, and thus affected the in sulation of the conducting wire.—The Railway News understands that influential parties are engaged in promoting the establishment of a new line of commu nication, for the Australian trade, between Milford Haven and a North Atlantic port, vid the Union Pacific Railway to San Francisco, and thence by a new line of steamers to Australia, China, and India. The Great Western Railway will actively aid in promoting this traffic. TIIE PILOGUESS OF IMPUDENCE. The doings of the Erie Railway directors are all fine specimens of commercial art, but the proceedi n g s . in connection with a late meeting of the stockholders are marked by a neatness and finish of effrontery especially worthy of admiration. This meeting was held on the 12th of October to elect directors. Amongst those chosen were of course the notorious Fisk, Gould, and Lane ! When the newly-elected directors proceeded to nominate a president and vice-president, it fol lowed equally as a matter of course that worthy Mr. Gould should condescend to take the first office and excellent Mr. Fisk the second. Now these eminent commercial gentlemen had induced the local legisla ture of New York in its last session to pass an Act " authorising the directors of this corporation to classify themselves so as to hold office for various terms." Acting upon this measure, the directors arranged that: three or four should resign office every year up to 1874, and that amongst the four who should go out last (in 1874) were Messrs. Fisk, Gould, and Lane. The manoeuvres of the last few months are, therefore, consummated. These men, who have plundered the shareholders for so long a period, have gained full command over the company's affairs till 1874. WORLDLY LOGIC. The Spaniards are still gr appling, and as hopelessly as ever, with the king difficulty. It now seems that the prince who commanded the most general respect, and who would have met with the least opposition—but for one circumstance—has filially become ineligible. Dom Fernando and the revolutionary leaders have failed to come to terms. The Spaniards would like to have him, and he, after all, would not be very unwil ling to have the Spaniards; but ho has recently married a once famous dancer. Dorn Fernando will not part with his spouse to gain a crown, and the Spaniards will not have h&r for a Qucon. And yet they for a long time lived quite contentedly under a much worse character, Is.lbella. En possant, it may be mentioned that this, latter lady is not amending her ways under the teachings of misfor tune. She has sent for Senor Marfori again, and the Emperor Napoleon has, in consequence, ceased to visit her. TILE COMING DILL. On Saikirday a meeting of the Cabinet took place, and if is generally understood the draft of the Irish Land Bill came under consideration. What the terms of this important measure are the Cabinet alone know at present, but speculation on the subject is taking a more and more definite form. The Times will be surprised if the bill proceeds solely on one principle. It will in all probabihty be a combination of remedies, and it will not be unexpected if provisions for the security of tenure be accompanied by an adoption of those wile are*illinfrto - avail - to go to those parts or r gcld were the indication of popular distrust in the Govern., your Majesty's dominions,' where their labour is re- ment, it would have been natural for it to have fallen quired, and where they may prosper, and may increase ipou the retult of the Pennsylvania and Ohio elections the prosperity of the whole empire." The poti- being knows. It is quite as well, however, that the time tioners express alarm at the prospect of the connec- for spasmodic fluctuations from such causes has passed, Lion between England and the colonies being severed. and that the premium should indicate, as it now does when They hope that the whole empire will be retained intact) uninfluenced by speculation, the redundancy of a paper that England and the dependencies may be incorpo- currency rather than the instability of the Union. ' lll° rated into one great State, and that representatives specie movement at New for the last five months p;°" from all the colonies be called to the Privy Council. sents some interesting features. In September the total The Beehive is informed that this petition is being reported supply of specie at New York (including the speci a largely circulated. A. series of meetings will shortly n bank, August 28, the California treasure, overland and be held on the subject. by sea, the imports, the coin interest paid out and the. THE IRISH CHURCH CONVENTION. T r e a s ur y sa l es ) amoun t e d t o $33 , 088 , 190. The tota l Measures for the assemblage of the convention of withdrawn and in sight during the month (including the Irish Church are being taken. Secretaries have. Lho withdrawal for export and for customs and the issuod a circular directing what course ought to be specie i n b an k , O c t o b er 2) , amoun t e d to 530,242,3 14, adopted. The circular advises that a parochial meet- leaving an excess in the supply of $ ',815,876, which i 6 ing be held by each clergyman as soon as not accounted for. During August, on the COo' possible, after five days clear notice of the same ; and trary, the supply fell short $4,393,813 during MY that at these meetings the male members of the t fell short $3,237, 53, and in May end June together, Church elect lay representatives, in no case 31,121,874. Government bonds are firm, with not much more than double the number of clergymen. The Icing, except by the national Treasury. Mr. Bo . ' convention further provides that the lay representa- well's proposal to buy $2,00C,000 on Wednesday was ro tives for each parish or district need not be inhabi 4ponded to be offors of $7,249,450. The excess of °flor a tants; they must merely be members of the Episcopal show fteir abundance in the market, which would lea° Church. The Archbishop of Dublin has requested effectually neutealized any ap preciative effect of the el se " his clergyman to hold their election next week, and to give notice of it on Sunday next. Lions. A New York and Boston speculaPve combivation have been endeavouring to force the premium up, prebell with a view to raising the price of gold, but found the-r load too heavy, and dropped it with as little loss as Pas sible. Secretary Boutwell's speech at Philadelphia Ives:, very satisfactory defence of his policy, if any were nee and bad a great effect not only upon those to whom esP; 3 l ; cia'ly it was addressed, but throughout the country. o opinion of the Louisville Commercial Convention as t t his policy is divided, as might be expected in a body t ll , a 0 contains so many enemies of the Administration. 14s , foreign bond market is firm and follows our domestic 0° Cations nearly to their highest point, without sharing a 0 of our fluctuations. On Wednesday, for instance, Fi' e d Twen 13S of 1862 wore quoted in New York at 1.20, s a in London at .845, or in currency with the exch eue added (gold at 1301-) 119.4. This is considerably hiebg °r than the Government paid the Berne day. There have ba,c,sl, rumours of the visit of an agent of the Rothschilds to tW, country to negotiate a loan to our Government, but the y have been pronounced groundless. Those who pu t ev e faith in such stories forget that we are now giving be Rothscnilds a much better bargain than they will ever , able to extort from us again. It is not their business interest to come to us with an offer to loan money at the and a half or four per cent. interest when we are a lready paying them six on bonds that cost them. but 81 cent s ao e The to dollar. We may depend upon it that they will not s_e°l3'; to hasten the funding of our debt at a lower rate. ,01 overtures most come from ourselves. A note to the 'lit, debt statement, be the way, informs us that the Assist 3 ree Treasurer at New York has begun to redeem the I' D f per Cent. Certificates with the $50,000,000 ler:l v i e s :l. Un'ted States notes, provided by the Act of July 11, .1- o f There lass been so.ne question whether the, Secretary the Treasury would deem it lawful so to do, but he s° 'di to have settled it. There has been redeemed 51,0 '4 $1,451,478. This policy will make it more di.Mcult 11 the cliques to lack up greeabacizs, rs t'ae banks can themselves by drawing the cash en the:r three per c Sate be. n State Bonds are spasmodically active. Old -1' ,o rfls the Carol'uas are down to 43 to 49, and now to 41 ; °e • special tax bonds of the same State are at 45; tlev r Ale' nessees are firm at 53-}; Louisiana Levee Sixes, 64 ; ao d bamas, Railway stocks have been:rather quiet', b p speculation has been confined to men's brains rathe r ' co , their pockets for the week past. How Lockwood un a tel d were coming out in their account with Lake Shots . , 0 0 whether Vanderbilt or Fisk would finally road, &c., have been the current questions. The 0 0 Shore directors have been locked in horrid conclaye,lioir for nearly a week, and but little has transpired of t bo deliberations. A t amour that Vanderbilt was ascendant gave the stock a firmer tone on Wechle' oo f The Erie folks have gone through their little l a d electing directors, perpetuating the reign of Gu ilt v ia Fisk. Railway bonds are quiet, Central Pacificg. e el control, 01,0 quoted at 954 and Union Pacifico at 82}. The earnu37,oo the principal railroads from Jan. 1 to Oct. 1 hav e 0 fr compiled by the Financial Chronicle, and show a ,00 0 crease over last year's, notwithstanding the sil o of in the grain trade for a season in September. 'O O the principal railroads of the West earned i 0 .0 tlO ten months $39,275,296, or $2,522,914 more than Selr same time last year. Twelve roads earned to frost' tember $7,504,277, a decrease of about $312,000 the earnings of the previous September. We ba,irolst ceived front S. W. Hopl.ins and Co., of London, a cot compiled from official sources, showing the export gag' rai's ffom Great Britain for the eight months eud iag efe: o ! 31. From this it appears that in 1869 the United took 229,145 tons, against 188,730 in the same Ino 1868, and 125,531 of 1867. The demand of Canna .1e increased from about 10,000 tons in 1867, to 22,000 '0,04 1869. Of the South American States, Petu impor ts . tons, against 168, two years ago, but stands aloe° i4os amount of her business in this line. The United s'PvigE England's best 'customer in railroad wares, haggis yeah second, with a demand for 159,019 tons, the pro s l be India third, and Canada fourth. Notwithstandiug, o tt e r parent dullness of the grain trade at Chicago o,', points the export is largely in excess of last yea r : . $1 ,0r t4 4 the as eek ending Tuesday, October 12, the total ° oL es' of produce from New York amounted to $5, 284,80 o 0 a; $2,753,000 for the same week last year. In cotto' - ' oor tp crease is noticeable, but not to such a degree. f er D : week ending October 8 the total receipts at all 00 , t 4 were 60,022 bales against 44,417 last year , ,20 ' 6,, 0f whole receipts since the now year (Sept. 1, 186 . o r. bales, against 140,761 for the same period of last) .eo is the same week there were exported 26,278 bal oo ateo tb t 15,224 last yoar. The Charleston Courier eEt ll3l l os rice crop of the past season in Georgia and C 31 . 1 30 111 0 55,418 tierces, of 600 pounds each. Louisiana produced 23,000 tierces, this being a comparai otrf ; CO staple for that State. The lower MississiPP o f tie ' el f likely to be devoted still more io the production %go y, o ci it is found very profitable. During the po t ~,ve 1 ' 3 , 0 „ goods continued active and firm. Provisions ; is .‘ , 4 changed vary much, the new packing of pork b e , a ottr4:„ creased demand and the old falling of. In groeerlo OS' are firmer on account of the default of the c ro p ' by reason of the civil war in that island. FOREIGN NOTES.) SPAIN. The difficulties that present themselves in the way of choosing a king cause fresh perplexities in Spain. nip Cabinet is still unable to agree upon the question. The Unionists are opposed to the Candidature of the Duke of Genoa, and the Ministers Topete, Silvela, and Ardanaz have announced their intention to retire if the Cortes should accept him. Some surprise has been expressed that the Radical party should have pronounced in favour of the Duke of Genoa. The question has not yet been fairly put before the Cortes, but it is debated in various meetings where the general opinion seems to be that the provi sional state of things has lasted long enough. General Prim expects, it is said, that the proposal of the Duke as King will have 170 votes in the Cortes. The despatches do not say whether the Duke or his family will favour this scheme. Dom Fernando of Portugal is spoken of no more as likely to possess the throne. The Impartial states that Marshal Saldanha has declared Dom Fernando's decision to be irrevocable, and that there will be ne likelihood of a change in that quarter. fOf • . AtiC i g ea The Albion says The royal procl ara ws o le transfer of the north-west territory will be isstiteyar t oe Mr. Rose arrives in England. Mr. Rose hag 113.9 0 oto o f from the Dominion Government to pay n 0 of Hudson Bay Company without waiting for W e "ILthe ft d r v e x if a loan." As Mr. Rose has assumed his place ,„, c orf, o ra Morton, Rose , and Co., in London, if the A lbion the arrangement will be immediately colnP lete „ o ss I° o his departure the Hon. John Rose issued an i 8'1.006 constituents in the county of Huntingdon takia,olol farewell. Sir Francis Hincks has been sworn a',, 0 rn i ora t o , Minister in succession to Mr. Rose. We ItO : Ir „f P c ' c tee' the payment will be made on or before the is orAy ber, the money being raisel under the Imperial a [ADVERTISEMENT. —Holloway's Ointmen t 911 a, ' Healing not Harmful. —No application has Met ' cl ots ' 4 ,, c 1 0: universal approbation for curing all extern al ailul;, fetvtio9 which this unguent has received. Sores, deep ti leer pr st / 110 0 ; charges, burns, blistered surfaces, and many si r f l , o o 4 O A ,' are at once soothed and put on the road to solla"°.; OA IPosP',; way's ointment. With his ointment and pi lls tia° uelP v ie "" save themselves much suffering, and the p oor rat'Y 000 selves to health, since these medicaments ar e r°l t /t1 price, and can be purchased in every hamlet. „ 11 0 „' t et; Du BAnnies Delicious Health Restorii* Dral.'"re ur! B r Arabica Food, which contains three times the la° e dies , 00; 1 ,0 0 , best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other rellaithi tlie perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs , 11 , 0 1 O t ioo jil e o freshing sleep, functional regularity, and eue. 4 sige s o9 , 00,„ enfeebled, removing speedily and effectually iniuorrbis pepsia), habitual constipation, diarrhoaa, felp complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousnestoa oftepi: throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises ill b ; s l .t e ee r s i r ai pli n r o S ic ;S ti e rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, oq irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, Anaoslp,: ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, llaul; ; It ce o 0 40. sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, inc i ft of w- 00° scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the V; a FS, covD„, between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few ,pa t o a, 0 , FO I to Al e —The Pope's health restored by Du Barry 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health o the r r P is Po is excellent, especially since, abandoning all ne cale P o l. o a p i has confined himself entirely to Du Barry •"„. 3 ,0 1 , 5 i D, s fe e ; Food, of which he consumes a plateful at o' 7 ' o t t etui p "'? A Produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on DI opp, Holiness cannot praise this excellent food t ‘ r Of o s ° o o i fiy , the Gazette du Midi, July 25. Cure No. 49,63 ,.;; 0 u5n, e ,V0°k - ol f ,o' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, u e " • e ss a' 0 0, : e o l q. cough, eonstipation, flatulency, spasms, sickn oa r 11 1 ,0 4 0 and vomiting. Maria Jolly. Wortham, Ling; A siacoti,,i,tl o .lo Cure No. 47,121: Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, °' „ e ss, 19 . ' 0 1 Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme nervoli i porr o ppi.; P' gatherings, low spirits. and nervous fancies. tuo s ol o I 40 ; —Be ware of the many unsavoury and n lo ,.r°„,big'a J O AO Lions to which, without authority, Baron Co of audaciously attached K 11 ) 0 1 18: C 0° ! In tins, at 18 lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 21b8 46 Gd „ o deA for 10 0 , 2 F lbs 40s. -Also DU BARRY'S REVALRNT A at galre POWDER. is packed in tin canisters • for 12 cuP f r - • t 50s "5s tCr at 3s ad, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 culls a- ' Post foce —being about one penny per cup The 300 0 : 2 free of carriage in England on *receipt of tre et, BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77 Began" all Grocers and Chemists THOROLD —On the 29th 87-------- .----ußlt.T.HaSt.Syston rairicifal1311:111,1'11:: ter. sco SCOTT —On s o c :Bir John Henry'Thorold, par„, jo,, of the 29th ult., at llornseY, the Wife barrister-at-law, a a son. ' 4 ,l' 1 1 e o e , MARRIAGES. , sar1P 01 :(0 , DM:LEY—HEATH—On the 27th ult. at , ''"" • leo ing, Edward Dalloy, of Wokingluun. ' W l' i y rlc (.) 1, eldes, daughter of the late Charles Ifeab , 1 clee,re Surrey. - WILITE—WILLIAmsoN—On the 28th 'tilt. , at 6 be t. r i` i l c : i°C' 'Thornhill - square , John R. White of Coon' , - ,f th e Williamson, of to Ann, intno,yyalsgeelisstu'dgaeu.gher v 0 / SV " DEATDS. L, t, _ fo e ORATE -011 thA 24th u:t ,at 19, Gibson-o'l.-e 1' ~er road, Mr. Robert Orine , . aged 64. . 111)r , PINNEy —On the 29th ult at Stafford 11°aa" t ~ /.10 tVg wood, Joel Pinney, Eeq., aged 90. , c a rar'' RAMSAY -On the 28th ult., at Norlano-P.,1 hill, Alex. Ramsay, sen., Esq., aged 75. *l9 ll'l,' i d 6/ London: Printed and Published bY in No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUN n Su s 00 0 " of JP' the Precinct of the Sav o y , in the COO" Monday, November 1, 1319. GENERAL THOMAS'S REPORT ON ALASKA. General Thomas has made a thorough inspection of Alaska, and forwarded his report to the War Department. His opinion is very different from that of Mr. Seward with respect to the purchase. He only values the new territory because he believes that it will loosen the hold which England has on British Columbia. There is no pro bability of any emigration in that direction, and it has no value whatever as an agricultural region. The superabund ance of rain and the great lack of sun preclude the idea of any profitable cultivation of the soil. Grain cannot be grown, and stock-raising cannot be carried on. THE NEW TORS GOLD EXCHANGE BANK. Considerable commotion was caused in the New York Gold Room on the 10th of October by a speech of Mr. Jourdan, Receiver of the Gold Exchange Bank. The substance of his address was, that, since assuming the duties of Receiver, he had been constantly harassed by the courts and lawyers. The Bank had decided to lose 260,000d015., and he wished the members of the Board to remember that had not the bank advanced4,ooo,ooo d.ols. to them on the day of the panic, more than half of them would have been ruined, as well as many other banks. Under the circumstances he considered the withdrawal of their support from the bank an act of gross ingratitude. lie asked that the creditors grant him three working dap, and if at the end of that time he was not ready to pay 15 or 20 per cent., the bank might be turned over to an assignee in bankruptcy. Mr. Jourdan strongly denounced the conduct of Unger and Co. who by their injunction have impeded the course of settlement. The creditors of the Gold Exchange Bank met subsequently, and decided to allow Mr. Jourdan to take his own course in setlling up the affairs of the institution, censuring the action of Unger and Co., in delaying the arrangement. It is believed that they will modify their injunction, so that Mr. Jourdan may proceed to definite settlement of the bank's SHIPBUILDING IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. A question of considerable interest to Englishmen has recently been debated at Now York. The decline of the American mercantile marine has long been a source of regret and loss to the country, and with characteristic energy the commercial classes aro now endeavouring to in vestigate the matter thoroughly. A Congressional com mittee was appointed on Commerce and Navigation, and has elicited some valuable information. While it was sit ting at New York a meeting of shipbuilders and shipowners was held in the same city to elicit the opinions of both classes on the best means of restoring the former pros perity 4 American mercnntile marine. Their interests arc not, unfortunately, identical. The shiP.owner is anxious to secure from Congress the repeal of the naviga tion laws, so as to permit him to purchase ships anywhere and register them as American. The shipbuilder wishes to exclude foreign-built vessels, though he likes the materials of which they are constructed imported free. The foreign carrying trade of the country is at present chiefly in the hands of foreigners, and neither owner nor builder profits. Of sixty barques lying in the port of New York at the time the meeting was held, forty-three were foreign, and seven teen American. Some of the speakers declared that with the same laws which England had they could build either wood or iron vessels as cheaply as in England. The Anglo-American Times, in writing on this subject, remarks that when a similar crisis occurred in the English trade, and American shipbuilding took a sudden start, England instantly availed herself of the fast, cheap American clip pers, or the carrying ;trade would have passed from her. The consequence was a great improvement in English shipbuilding. The official reports of the year ending last June shew a decrease of one-sixth in American tonnage during the year, and an increase in foreign tonnage of about one-ninth. The evidence given before the Congressional Committee shews plainly how mischievous is the influence exerted by the high tariffs of the United States. Mr. Low, a large shipowner, expressed his doubts whether the Americans could ever excel the English in shipbuilding, and attributed much importance to the system of subsidies, by which they had obtained the command of the ocean. "The English," said he " exempt their ships from all charges. We tax every pound of tea and sugar that goes on board." Another gentleman, Mr. Poillon, thought all that American shipbuilding required was freedom from duty on all metals, cordage, kc., that enter into the construction of the ship. The duty on copper was now a prohibitory one, compelling the American to pay seven or eight cents. more for a pound of copper than the Englishman. The duty an iron was 25 per cent. In consequence of the duty on copper, the owner had his ships repaired abroad. Mr. Opdyke, the Mayor of New York, attributed the depression of American shipping interests to three causes. 1. The substitution of steam vessels, which gave Great Britain the advantage. 2. The high duty charged on ship's materials. 3. The depreciation in cur rency. Mr. Elwell, who had been a shipowner for 30 years, said that since the last war their tonnage had decreased 50 per cent, and labour and mechanism was 200 or 300 per cent. more. A stevedore's bill that would have been 500 dols. would now be 1,200 dols. or 1,500 dole. Ho was:not, bowever, in favour of an entire abrogation of the navigation laws. The committee subsequently visited Boston to continue their investigation. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, 0c1.16.) it has been a long time since Wall street has been so quiet as it has for the past week. The excitement of the pan'c (which, considering how rapidly in these times events grow old and hasten to oblivion, retains its youth and in terest remarkably) is being succeeded by a rest that must be very grate:lll to the worn nerves of the participants. Money has been verj east at five and six per cent., and has often been obtainable during the week at four. The tendency has been at times to stagnation, but there began to be a more steady feeling on Wednesday. The banks which have have been quite dainty of late in the charac ter of of their loans, acceptin only Government collateral, now show a disposition to loan on prime railroad stocks. This of course makes money easier still, but also indicates the retu,:n of that commercial confidence, so to speak, that is quite essential to a quick and easy movement of trade throughout the country, and which was so severely tried by the late d:sasters. In discounts there is a steady busi ness and a close scrutiny of names, the minimum figure for prime being nino per cent. The cause of this ease in money lies in the fact that there is much money flowing in from the country to be invested in stocks on account o; their cheapness, and also that it requires much less money to "carry" the aggregate of stocks in Wall-street now than it did when those stocks were rated at some hundreds of thousanis of dollars higher than at pre sent. The export and g..ain trade calls for a surpris ingly small modicum of monetary lubrication, and sadly guzzles those who regard the movement of the crops yoke-fellow of a stringency. F ore i gn ex changeis sthe steady at 1091 to 109; for London GO day bills. Gold has been comparatively steady at 130 and a fraction hrough the week. The Gold Room is said to be abso -1 utely destitute of speculators, which must be a very pleas ing state of things for importers and the gold-using com munity generally. As an evidence of the absence of the speculative spirit may be noticed the fact that the quota tions were not affected by the elections on Tuesday, an event that would have been seized by the bears in piping times as an engine of depreciation. If the premium on AA