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FOR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their business. For trades and ad dresses, see following advertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be found in every &Aide sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all is ases. Commodious apartments for measuring and fitting. in the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, which contain a very large and diver sified stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should l•e accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be .heerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the noney will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats Ind Caps. and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap- CLOW. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. MOSES and SON'S Establishmonts are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. _ _ _ E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES rind SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 165, MINORIES IM, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85. ALDGATE 86, ALDGAT'N 87. ALDGATE SS, ALDGATE 49, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 06, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET SOS, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. LIFE BOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms of the past twenty months the National Lifeboat Institution has contributed to the saving of 1.496 lives from various shipwrecks and 34 vessels from destruction, and has also expended £33,000 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £3,968 for rewards. The Institution has now 210 Lifeboat Stations under its management. - - Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-streot Adelphi, London. FUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.— The Directors of the European Assurance Society , earnestly request the POLICY-HOLDERS and SHARE HOLDERS NOT TO BE ALARMED at any of the REPORTS which may appear at the present moment, as they are advisedly, and in full assurance of its sound position, determined to oppose to the utmost the unwar rantable attempts to ruin the Society. By order of the Board. HENRY LAKE, General Manager. 17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, September 23, 1869. 0-MORROW (Saturday).—Mlle. NILSSON, Mme.Trebelli-Bettini, Signor Bettini, Signor Foli, and solo pianoforte, Mr. J. M. Wehli. Tickets are now on sale. After the Concert (from 3 till 5), magnificent dis play of fireworks and illumination of fountains, making this one of the great combined fete days of the season. Tickets, one shilling and sixpence, at all agents, at Palace, and at Exeter Hall. Note.—The great display of fireworks and illumination of fountains, which resulted in such expressions of satis faction on Monday, will be repeated To-morrow, at the early hour of 7 o'clock. The grand set piece, the Arc de Triomphe, and the new shells, were unusually grand last Monday. They should be seen to-morrow. Last time of the Arc de Triomphe. LAST DAY for ADMISSION TICKETS at One Shilling and Sixpence for TO-MORROW'S GRAND COMBINED CONCERT and FIREWORK FETE at the CRYSTAL PALACE. Palace and Exeter Hall Offices open until 7.0 p.m. B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Head Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association are Equitable Rate Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims:. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. DR. KING'S DANDELION and QUININE LIVER PILLS (Without Mercury) The very best remedy for BILE, WIND, INDIGESTION, ACIDITY, HEADACHE, HEARTBURN, &c., And acknowledged by many eminent surgeons to be the safest and mildest pills for every constitution. In boxes at is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d., at all chemists. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE L.A RUE, ESQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The Report which the directors have now to submit to the proprietor differs in its tenor but little save in one or two particular from that laid before them in 1868. £he income of the year, it will le seen, amounts t £540,499 18s., and the total charge to £445,077 10s. 9d The d:fference, £95,422 7s. 3d., added to the balance of the surplus fund at the commencement of the financial year, raised that item to £1,002,974 15s. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, JUNE 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. X s. d. X s. d Du. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 Premiums on new assur- ances Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 371,548 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 Profit and loss, balance of account 492,508 4 11 47,991 13 1 Total income 550,499 18 0 £1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF THE EAR. s. d. Cr Dividend to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured Additions to those under s. 8,880 4 0 participating policies 24,304 6 6 Policies surrendered Re - assurances—new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 405,561 12 1 Commission Medical fees .. Income tax...... 3,01715 8 Expenses of management 16,238 910 436,187 6 9 Total charge Balance of account, June 30, 1869, 1,002,974 15 9 as per balance-sheet £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. id., of which sum £13,560 ss. ld. is for new assurances effected in the year. The interest from investments is £120,959 12s. 10d., or £4 2s. per cent. on the net amount. of the company's realised assets existing in June, 1868 ; and in connection with this important feature of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and loss account again exhibits a considerable profit, amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000. It may be remembered that a profit of nearly equal amount was announced in last year's report. Turning to the items constituting the charge of the year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material; as was observed oa a previous occasion, the proper quin quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex ceeds £309,000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management are greater by nearly 4800 than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the company's securities into tho names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses must be regarded as very mod era t e. It will be observed that they are only three per cent, of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET, Jrxx 30, 1869. Dn. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors £6,757 17 0 'l.llaints on decease of lives assured, and Addditions thereto unpaid 1 08,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' fund Surplus fund 1,002,974 15 9 £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,I Auditors. HENRY ROSE, f Cx ASSETS. imount invested in fixed mortgages £1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 Ditto ditto Temporary secu rities 198,207 17 0 ;Urrent interest on the above investments 30,934 4 6 Cash and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the company's Anicies 165,387 1 8 ts' balances Sundry accounts Valne of premiums (1867) Value of re-assurances 85,706 14 5 £7,675,813 0 10 The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95,422 7s. .Id. already mentioned, as is shown by the augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. The Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows : WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairman. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles flint field, Esq. George Russell, Esq. 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Marshall; Mesdames L t Foote, Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. roYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh 1 HIS EVENING. at 7.30, AMONG THE BRY.A . E.ERS: Mr Clarke. THE TOODLES. And THY PILGRIM OF LOVE Messrs. E. Tarty, Bruce, &C.; Mesdames Richardson, Newton, Fosbrooke. &c. ROYAL AL FIAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open fromll to 4. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pink, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1.869. 111 T LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 24, 1869. Conceived and described by the ghastly imagination of EDGAR POE, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" have, within the present week, been surpassed in savage brutality and infernal atrocity at the suburban village of Pantin, within easy distance of Paris, the vaunted capital of modern civilisation.:The evidences of this monstrous crime are now at the Morgue. They consist of the inhumanly mangled remains of six of our fellow creatures—six members of one family—the mother, aged 45, and far advanced in pregnancy ; the daughter, aged 18 ; her son (appa rently, by his garb, a youth from college), two years younger ; another boy, about 13 ; and two children, respectively, seven and three. Their destruction was evidently accomplished, not by stealth, but after a severe struggle on the part of some of the victims, and in every instances through the medium of deadly blows, of sheer brute force, of the fiercest butchery. The unhappy mother alone had three-and-twenty -wounds of the most pitiless description. The eldest son, the stripling of sixteen, had manifestly en deavoured to defend the others to the last eitremity. The boy of thirteen was unrecognisable in feature, the head and face being almost destroyed. The others, even the little children, were mutilated with frightful barbarity. No motive for the diabolical crime can be conjectured. The family was not only comfortably, but, to a certain extent, elegantly clothed, the lady-mother being clad in silk, and having about her an untouched purse, a gold watch, and in her ears, and on her bosom, articles of jewellery The wholesale murder of herself and of her five. children, and of a sixth as yet unborn, was ac complished after nightfall, on Sunday last, between sundown and midnight. The last that was seen of the victims was on the Sunday evening, upon the arrival of the down train from Paris, at the Pantin Station, where they were observed by the railway officials to have been some time waited for and (on the approach of the train to the platform) received by three men, with whom the mother and the five children passed out of the Pantin Station into the country-road, by which it stands. Subsequently in the darkness cries were heard as of people quarrelling, the voice of a child calling to its mother for help, the tones of a man as if infuriated. Mistaken for the noise of a mere drunken brawl by those who heard these sounds, no notice was taken of them at the moment and, silence following, the incident was forgotten. It now appears not only that they were destroyed 'during Sunday night, but that everything was done with a view to the concealing of the fact of their destruction before the dawn of Monday morning. The massacre and the interment of the victims was evidently a work of the most deliberate premeditation. A trench had been dug in a field near Pantin for the reception of the bodies before the intended victims had arrived in the neighbourhood. Suspicion, and more, it may be said, than merely suspicion, points already to a young man giving the name of JEAN KINCK, as one of the prin cipal persons concerned in the perpetration of this atrocious butchery. Residing at intervals during this last week at a tenement called the Hotel du Chemin de For du Nord, otherwise at No. 12, on the Boulevard Denain, at Paris, just opposite the Great Northern Railway Terminus, this wretched JEAN KINCS, who is described as a villainous-looking youth of twenty, wearing a fluffy moustache, and describing himself as an engineer having a good deal of nightwork to attend to, necessitating his sleeping during the daytime in his hired apartment—this miserable JEAN KINCK, it appears, has had brought home to him a nuaiber of facts of the most damning character, and of the most appalling significance. First he was twice asked for at his Paris address (No. 12, Boulevard Denain) by this lady and her five chilerec, first of all at six o'clock, and afterwards at eight o'clock on Sunday evening. Secondly, at the very time when he was being inquired for at Paris, namely, at six o'clock on Sunday evening he was purchasing, for ten francs, a shovel and a pickaxe, at a tool-shop (No. 209) in the Rue de Flandre, at Villette. Thirdly, at 8 o'clock on Monday morning, JEAN KINCK, accom panied by another man came hurriedly to his Paris lodgings, where he only stayed time enough to change his clothes—leaving behind him, in the drawers of his sleeping room, a bloody shirt and trousers covered with mud; and, besides these articles of apparel, a torn fragment of a necktie, exactly corresponding with one by means of 'Which one of the half-dozen victims was found to have been strangled. Roubaix is pointed to as the locality in which additional in formation may reasonably be sought, both in regard to the murdered and in regard to the murderer or mur derers. A hat left by JEAN KINCK at his Paris lodgings bears on its lining the name of a Roubaix hatter. The buttons on the coats or jackets of the four boys, who were found to have been mur dered (together with their elder sister and their mother) are stamped with the name of a Rou baix tailor. Since the murders, since JEAN KINCK's last appearance at, and disappear ance from, his Paris lodgings--later in the day on Monday a telegram from Rou baix reached the Hotel du Chemin de Fer du Nord with the enigmatical intimation " Wait : we are not ready." The day afterwards, that is, on Tuesday, a letter wasdelivered there,addresaed to JEAN KINCK, and bearing on it the Roubaix post-mark. So stands the record, as yet, in regard to this wholesale and fiendish deed of assassination. With reason has Lord BYRON written " truth is strange, stranger than fiction." The morbid dreaming; of EDGAR POE have—again we must say it--been altogether surpassed. WOMEN'S rights are one thing, their duties are another. This is a matter to which, in discussing the the problem of their social status, due prominence should be given. The best advocates for the privi leges which women should enjoy, are those who most fully recognise what they are able to accomplish. The principle of giving honour to whom honour is due is so intimately interwoven with the constitution of society that we have little hope of seeing women elevated to that position which they ought to occupy, until they are afforded more and better opportunities, than they at present possess, of exercising the peculiar talents with which they are endowed. Let such opportunities be given, and the appreciable results which will follow will secure their appropriate rewards, the chief of which will be the admission to an approximate condition of social equality with men, of those who are too often regarded as living only " to suffer and bo strong." Presuming this view of the case to be a correct one, it is obvious that what has to be done is to allow women to take their proper share in those schemes which occupy the time and attention of men. Fearing usurpation, we have practised exclusion, and have thus deprived ourselves of co-operation which would, in many instances, have been invaluable. The world is getting wiser, and though there will of course exist great diversity of opinion as to how far into the arena of masculine pursuits women should bo allowed to advance, the verdict of all whose verdict is worth having, has been given in no uncer tain tones in favour of largely extending the sphere of their usefulness. As a :step in this direction, and ono likely to prove unusually effective to an end so much to be desired, we have read with real satisfaction an announcement put forth by the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science. This society with a name so unwieldly and an object so important commences its thirteenth annual Congress in Bristol next week. While it has always been the practice of the Council to welcome ladies as members, and many papers of importance have at various sit tings been contributed by them, they have deter mined this year to do something more. Without dispensing with their aid in the ordinary departments of the Association, the council believe that there are many questions which may be advantageously con sidered by a Conference, consisting exclusively, or almost exclusively, of ladies. Such a Conference will, therefore, be organised at the forthcoming Congress, and the best results may be anticipated from its deliberations. Thus, at the time when the general members of the association are dis cussing questions of international and municipal law, or the principles of economy or trade, subjects such as reformatory and industrial schools, the employment of women, the education of girls, and infant mortality, subjects of high, if not of imperial importance, will be earnestly—and who shall say otherwise than calmly ?—deliberated upon by those to whom they are matters of special interest. Thera are always in the constant habit of attending the various meetings of the Social Science Association so many women whose names are already intimately connected with works of philanthropy and charity, and who have taken a foremost place in the advance ment and education of their own sex, that there need be no fear that the conference so happily conceived will prove other than a success, either in the numbers that attend it, or the practical issues that are attained by it. One subject there is, which just at this time may be especially commended to the notice of the ladies when assembled in solemn conclave. The facts that have lately been brought to light about our workhouses, and the revelations that have been made as to their management, have not been without their results. They have opened the eyes of the com munity to evils of which they had never dreamt, and have set society clamouring for reform. Are there no suggestions that the approaching conference might make which might be carried into practice for the manifest advantage of the women in our poor-houses ? And in close proximity to this is that other subject, sadder and darker still, of women not poor but criminal. Just to hand is the report of the directors of convict prisons, which supplies us with the fact that the number of female convicts received into the prisons last year was two hundred and eighty-three, thirty-three being women whose licenses were revoked ; while one hundred and seventy-four were admitted who had not previously undergone penal servitude. On all hands it is admitted that if the poorer classes of our female population are to be properly assisted in the time of their distress and successfully reclaimed when they have fallen, it must be to a large extent, at all events, through the instrumentality of their own sex. There are matters enough of paramount importance which will crop up when the approaching Con ference opens its meeting to furnish a pro gramme so full that a week will fail to exhaust it. All that we can hope is that the practicability of the suggestions made will be in an equal ratio to the kindliness of heart which we are surd will prompt them. trbly tot C N jp HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, Sept. 21. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, went out in the morning. In the afternoon the Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove to the Linn of Quoich, attended by Lady Churchill. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK., Sept. 23. The steamer Cambria (of the Anchor line) ar- rived out to-day. The violent fluctuations in gold have unsettled values, and caused a partial suspension of business generally. The rise in gold is owing to the continued opera tions of the bull clique. Exchange on London is nominally quoted 104. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1431 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 144 ; the lowest, 141 i. Sterling Exchange on London Nominal. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1 291 16 cc 1885 l2l. lc tt 18G7 llB4. 10-40 tt Illinois Erie 36. Cotton—Mid. upland 29c. Petroleum—Standard White 32c. Flour, extra state, $6.20e. to $6.80c. CorD, old mixed, sl.loe. FRANCE. PARIS, Sept. 24. The Official Journal of this moring contains the following : " St. Cloud, Sept. 23. "The Emperor received Djernel Pasha, the Tur kish Envoy, to-day. " The Emperor has received a letter from Queen Victoria, accepting Mr. West as Minister pleni potentiary during the absence of Lord Lyons." Joseph Kinck and his son, who, it is alleged, are the perpetrators of the murder of six persons at Pantin, have been arrested at Havre. It is stated that they have accomplices, who are still in Paris. BOURSE, Sept. 23.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 4} por Cent. End of month 8 per Cent End of month 7O 90 Credit Mobilior 215 Transatlantic 262 5G Credit Foncier l7OO Paris Gas 1622 50 RAILWA' Bank Shares 2840 Italian Fives 52 95 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 42 75 Spanish Threes 26 75 Dome Debt 22 Deferred 26 50 Cash Orleans Northern Mediterranean 605 10821 •• 595 985 Southern..... 606; Sardinian Austrian 776f Lombard 5lO North of Spain Saragossa Roman The paddlewheel steam yacht Enchantress, 1, Staff-Commander John E. Petley, is under orders to leave Plymouth Sound this afternoon (immedi ately after the arrival of the train due from Pad dington at 6.30 p.m.) for the Channel Squadron. She will convey letters and supernumeraries, and it is probable, now that the cruise is nearly concluded, that some of the Lords of the Admiralty or their Staff will return to the Channel in her. - - - - LADVERTISEMENT. I —IIOIIO Way'S Ointlno ti t. —Scald head, ring worm, and all the cutaneous disorders peculiar to children are permanently removed by the use of this healing and renovating Ointment. Mothers of families should never be without it, for it may be applied at all times without danger of any kind, as it is composed entirely of pure balsams, and should it not do good it cannot pos sibly do harm. The parts affected should be first fomented with warm water, and then the ointment should be rubbed in briskly, except where there is any tenderness, irritabi lity, or excoriation. In that case the painful spot should be gently lubricated with the ointment twice every day, and the surrounding skin only rubbed therewith. .BISHOP MAGEE ON CHU.RCH AND STATE. At the re-opening of tue church at South Rilworth, Leicestershire, after a thorough restoration, the' Bishop' of Peterborough was present. At the usual luncheon the Bishop expressed his views respecting Church :and State. Ho said ho hoped 7 that ' many years would elapse ere men would forget, or find .it practically impossible,' to join "the Queen and the Church "in one toast. When they joined them together they expressed a great and vital truth as to the happiness of any country. The Queen in her relation to the Church represented and stood for the laity of the entire king dom, and in her person as sovereign and as repre sentative the laity was represented in our national Church. The lay participation in the authority for the government of the Church, in its own limits and properly defined Sphere, was the essential element in the government and susten ance of the Church in this country. The happy union of Church and State had been the real strength of this country for years past, and ho trusted that there would always be this union of religion and politics. The false notion that the State, as a State, had nothing to do . with religion, the clergy must continue to protest against, for tho words "Church and Queen" truly represented devotion to the Church and loyalty to the Sovereign. Church and State never so truly fulfilled their highest functions or realised their true ideal as when united together. Their union was a blessing, and. their separation would be an evil. WONDERFUL STORY. It is said that in the tombs of the Necropolis of ancient Egypt two kinds of mummies have been found. One is incomplete—that is to say, all organs necessary to life have been separated from them ; the other, on the contrary, is quite complete. Having observed this, a Swedish chemist, Dr. Grusselbech, who has the reputa tion of being both great and learned, Professor at the University of Upssal, has come to the conclusion that the Egyptian mummies are not all, as has been said and be lieved for some thousands of years, bodies embalmed by , any process of preservation whatever, but that they are• really the bodies of individuals whose life has been momen tarily suspended, with the intention of restoring them at some future time, only the secret of preservation has been lost. Meanwhile Professor Gruesclbcch adduces many proofs in support of his idea; among others, his experi ments during the last ten years, which, be says, have always proved successful. He took a snake, and treated it in such a manner as to benumb it as though it had been carved in marble, and it was so brittle that had he allowed it to fall it would have broken into fragments. In this state he kept it for one or several years, and then restored it to life by sprinkling it with a stimulating fluid, the composition of which is his secret. For fifteen years the snake has been undergoing an existence composed of successive deaths and resurrections, apparently without sustaining any harm. The professor is reported to have sent a petition to his Government, requesting that a criminal who has been sentenced to death may be given to him, to treat in the same manner as the snake, promising to restore him to life in two years. It is understood that the man who undergoes this experiment is to be pardoned. `Whether the Swedish Government has accepted or rejected the learned chemist's proposal is not known. THE IVOMEA'S _RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA. Will it be believed ? Mr. 11E11 is to reap the first fruits of his work. " The subjection of " Women" in Russia—"Semi barbarous Russia," as some delight to call it. A correspon dent of the Daily News vouches for the fact. "It may be of interest" the correspondent writes, "to those of your readers who are interested in the "Woman Move ment" to learn that even Russia is becoming excited on that subject. Mr. Mill's work on "The Subjection of Women" is enjoying a wide cir culation in this country, and three extended re views of it, all highly approving its sentiments, have recently appeared in the journals of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Nor is the question without certain signs of popularity. In a domestic drama now having a run at the Moscow Theatre, for example, a studious young lady says sharply to her old-fashioned mother, " You ought to know that everybody is now saying that woman ought to be free,' the sentiment, it is said, never failing to elicit loud applause. It is proposed to hold a grand Woman's Rights Convention at St. Petersburg, to which Mr. Mill—a sympathetic letter from whom to some feminine reformers of that city has already been published—is to be invited. It is even claimed that the Czar himself is not unfriendly to the principle of the equality of the sexes, and, at least, there has been thus far no public manifestation of any objection on his part to the agitation which has already given rise to one public meeting. The exact form that the movement will take in a country where even the male sex itself has not yet been enfranchised can only be disclosed by the future ; but some of your Conservatives in England may feel more resigned to tho advances which tho cause has made in England when they have turned their eyes to the opposite point of the compass from that at which the agitation is commonly supposed to have originated, and discovered that even RUssia, in her slow, glacier-like movement, has arrived at a point when some change in the legal and political rela tions of woman seems desirable and feasible." The Archbishop of York, who has inhibited the Rev. C. Voysey, the Rector of Ilealaugh, at present under ecclesiastical prosecution for heresy, from doing duty in his church, has put in his place the Rev. W. C. Bellhouse, Master of Tadcaster Grammar School. „On Thursday morning there was a "special corn racil9ration of the Holy Eucharist ” in the church of St. Ethelbuini; Bishopsgate, in connection with the death of tho Bishop of Exeter, and it was announced that prayer would bo offered.e that a Catholic-minded successor might be appointed."\The church was filled chiefly by men, not more than' half,a : dozen women being present. Shortly after twelve o'clock a young man habited in a black cassock came from the vestry-room swinging a censer, and walked round the church, which was soon filled with incense. The services were of a very " High Church " character. It is stated in a French paper that the Hindoes in tho environs of Bombay have beest much startled by the appearance of their God Vishnu, who has several times been seen at night whirling past them on a celestial wheel like a flash of fire. Directly he approaches them they prostrate themselves in the dust. Yet all the time it is not really Vishnu ; it is only a certain Englishman who, ambitious to :: , e the first velocipede rider under an Asiatic sun, has pre ide`7l. liinself with ono of these vehicles, but finding that the hcaTqndered it an encumbrance rather than a luxury in tho daytLniaMs compelled to take his exercise upon It at night, by the aall# a lantern. PAT AND THE NAGISTRATE.—" Please your lord ship's honour and glory; t ' Tom, "1 shot the hare by accident."—" By accideir remarked Lord Kilskid derry.—" I was firing at a bush, asncl the baste ran across my aim, all of his own accord."—"TlO gamekeeper tells a different story," replied his lordshille—o Och! don't put faith in what that man says," said Tont \ ltpn, "when he never cares about spakin' the truth anyhov7..,,l!e tould me t'other day yer lordship was not so fit to fill tl'.4 _rat of justice as a jackass !"—" Ay, ay," exclaimed VispUllt Kilskidderry, "indeed ! and what did you say ?"—" Plaise your lordship, I said your lordship was." AN IMPORTANT REGISTRATION CASE.--A decision which is said to affect the votes of 800 claimants was given in the City of London Registration Court on Thursday. An occupier claimed a vote for a counting -house consisting of two rooms communicating internally with each other, and entering from a door on the common stairs, for which he paid a yearly rent of £65. '-This claim was o')jected to by Mr. Harper (for the Conservatives), on the greund that the premises were not structurally separated from the rest of the building. The revising barrister held , that there was a sufficient severance to entitle the claimanlsto a : vote Mr. Harper applied for a case for the Court of Conii-IoP Pleas, which the revising barrister granted. ROMANTIC LOVERS.—The romantic ease of cutting and wounding at Stratford-on-Avon has had an equally romantic termination. The prisoner, Charlotte Burchell, a young girl, attempted to cut the throat of Arthur Stephens, the son of a fanner with whom she had lived, and threatened to renew the attack unless he eloped with her. lie consented, and they walked all night, through a storm of wind and rain ; but on reaching Strat ford next morning, a telegram having preceded them, the girl was arrested, taken before the magistrates, and re manded. At the adjourned hearing, Stephens refused to appear against his sweetheart, and she was discharged. The late Mrs. Jane W— was equally remarkable for kindness of heart and absence of mind. One day she was accosted by a beggar, whose stout and healthy appearance startled even her into a momentary doubt of the needfulness of charity in this instance. "Why," exclaimed the good old lady, "you look well able to work." —" Yes," replied the supplicant; "but I have been deaf and dumb these seven years."—" Poor man, what a heavy affliction !" exclaimed Mrs. at the same time giving him relief with a liberal hand. On returning home she mentioned the fact, remarking, "What a dreadful thing it is to bo deprived of such precious faculties !"—" But how," asked her sister," did you know that the poor man had been deaf and dumb for seven years ?"—" Why" WWI 69 Iluie Ind unconscious answer. "ho told ma so I".i Till ;71v.tio2v -CO.NTROVERSY, One of The writers in the Daily News 6fiitas intermin able Stowe v. Byron business seems to think that Congre gationalists have some special interest in upholding Mrs Beecher Stowe's view, and in taking her part generally It may as well, therefore, be said that Mrs. Stowe has fox some timo past separated herself from the Congrega tionalists and joined tho Episcopalians. That she has alsc widely departed from the faith of her forefathers has long been apparent in her works, some of . which, arc specially devoted to „the ridicule of the C a l v i n i s ti c opinions of the New England Puritans; but nowhere is her essential difference from the school to which hex own father, Dr. Lyman Beecher, belonged, and to which her brothers still belong, more marked than in this "True Story " of Lord Byron, for hero she does not disguise hex sympathy with Lady Byron's universalism. Their inti macy grew very much out of their community of ideas on these subjects. Lady Byron's house was a rendezvous fox religionists 'of this order, as may be seen frcm Crabb Robinson's diary, where, by-the-bye, Lady Byron's strength of mind and judgment are as much the subject of admira tion as her purity and goodness.—English Independent. THE MISSING JUDGE, No tidings have been received of the Lord Justice Clerk ; who has not been seen since Monday morning. A correspon dent at Bridgwater, says :—" The intelligence which reached hero of the disapearance and supposed death of Mr. Patton caused a general feeling of profound regret, for although his connection with tho borough was a very brief one, ho had gained the esteem of leading men of both parties. The unfounded report of his death which was circulated two of three weeks ago led people to receive the intelligence with suspicion, and the Commissioners immediately telegraphed to Colonel Malcolm, an intimate friend of Mr. Patton's, for authentic information in regard to it. At the rising of the Court the Chief Commissioner announced that a reply had been received, and that there was every reason to fear that the unfortu nate gentleman had been drowned. Mr. Patton had been subpoenaed to attend the court and give evidence in refe rence to the two contests he fought in 18GG. At both those elections considerable sums of money were spent in his behalf, but his friends say that he knew nothing what ever of this until after it had been done." THE IVI?ECKED CARNATIC. The directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company have ordered home the officer who had command of the Carnatic steamer when wrecked, the Board of Trade having intimated their intention of holding an inquiry into the circumstances of her loss. Telegrams received from their agent at Suez give more encouraging infor• mation as to the probability of saving the £10,009 specie from the wreck, as well as a portion of the valuable cargo. The steamer which was despatched to the scene of the wreck from Suez the moment the news of the loss was known, returned to Suez on Wednesday, and it appears that the wreck lies in twelve fathoms of water, a depth at which divers can work with ease. Several experienced divers from Whitstable are already on their way to Suez. It is quite certain the ship has parted, as the shores of the Shadwan are strewed with bales and cases ; but the heavy surf on the coast destroyed everything of value except Lales of Manchester goods, some few of which remained, but could not be got at in con sequence of the surf. One body had been found and buriecl, that of the fifth engineer, Mr. M`Caw. ANOTHER IIVSURANCE COMPANY .DODGE. Another insurance company dodge is mentioned by a correspondent of a contemporary :—" At this moment (he writes) there are probably not less than six large offices which are utterly rotten and tottering tc their fall. All the shaky ones are endeavouring by every device they can think of to reduce the claims upon them, and so lighten the craft. An ingenious expedient of this kind was resorted to the other day by the office. All the clerks were removed from the room iu which they usually sit at the receipt of custom to a secluded upper chamber. The lower premises were then given over to the exclusive charge of a common and most unofficial-looking porter. This unprepossessing person received all callers who came to pay their pro. miums, spoke mysteriously of the disappearance of the usual array of clerks, but offered to take any money any body chose to deposit, and give it to the cashier "when he saw him." It will not, perhaps, be deemed surprising that timid people, agitated by the universal suspicions of life assurance probity, and loth to throw good money they could ill spare after bad money perhaps swallowed up, should decline to make their payments under such peculiar circumstances and should prefer to allow their policies to lapso, thus playing into the hands of the corn' any, and doing exactly, what the latter wanted them to do. In such cases, of course, the company found themselves clear of the liability they had undertaken, in consideration of premiums already paid THE COAL MINE DISASTER IN ANERICA American papers up to the 11th instant announce that all the bodies have been removed from the Avondale mine. It is now certain that not more than one hun dred and eight were in the mine at the time of the catastrophe, though at first the reports gave 200 as the number of those destroyed. The greatest in dignation has been expressed concerning the owners of all mines which have but ono shaft. The Legislature will be petitioned on the subject, and the coroner's jury will, it is expected, speak strongly on the subject. Eight or ten thousand dollars expended at the right time would have prevented all tho misery that has ensued from this disaster. In some places it has been asserted that the fire was the ; result of design, and that much ill-feeling prevailed .. between the Irish'' and the Welsh 5 miners, but as yet there is no positive proof of this. The funerals of the unfortunate victims of the catastrophe took place at intervals, and were attended by large crowds who came from all directions"' Tho accident is sure to result in the State assuming more direct supervision of the mining interest than heretofore. Governor Geary has arrived on the spot for the purpose of procuring the fullest information of the catastrophe, and thus present the subject to the notice of the Legislature in his next annual message. Ho is convinced that something must be done to render the recurrence of the casualty next to impos sible. There are sixty widows and more than a hundred orphans suffering from the effects of this accident, and relief funds aro being formed for theii assistance A LOST CHILD.—A. :distressing application W 11,9 made to Mr. Selfe, at the IVestminster Police-court, on Thursday. A working man stated that a fortnight ago his little boy, aged two years, had gone out to play, and wax afterwards missed. Every inquiry had been made, but the child could not be found. Mr. Selfe, while deeply sympa thising with the applicant, said he could not help him. A gentleman in Greenwich, Connecticut, had some coffee cups that exactly suited him, and, some having been broken, his failing to procure them matched induced him, while on one of his trips to China, to have them matched there, and he was astonished to find one hundred coffee cups as ordered, fac simile of cup left, and with a small chip broken off the rim of each, and coloured as if ii had been broken or chipped and used some time. This is equal to the Englishman who got a Chinese tailor to make him a coat by a sample—and found the tailor had put in a patch exactly where the old coat had one.--Vew Fork Herald INTERESTING DISCOVERY.—A few days ago, as two quarrymen, named John and Richard Stone, were working in the Kitcraft Quarry, on the Portland Heights they had occasion to remove some stone from the " base bed," and at 15G feet below the surface they came upon a fis sure in the rock. On exploring it about 100 yards they found an opening on each side of 30 yards. Proceeding 400 yards furthe,-*re was an opening in the upper surface, through which the light is admittel. The cavern then extends at least 100 yards further, and is altogether GOO yards in length. From the roof depend beautiful stalactites, many of them two feet and three feet long, and of different tints, some amber and others cream colour. Some curious petri fications have also been found of very fantastic shapes "We are sorry to bear," says the Tin? es, " that the quart'• men aro foolishly breaking off the stalactites and sellinf them fur a trifle. This is verily destoying the goose that laid the golden egg, fur if the cavern were preserved in its original state, it might be a continued source of profit to its exhibitors." The Rev. Dr. Tindall, vicar c f St. Doulough's, Dublin, having written to the leading parishioners suggesting a non-resident as representative of that parish in the coming conference, a meeting of the entire body of the parhlioners was held on Wcdnes. d a y. Mr. Nathaniel Bone, J.P., proposed, and .Mr. D. DE Burgh, J.P., seconded, Mr. It. S. Cusack, who was unani. moubly elected, there being no one to propose tho gcuticmar recommended by the vicar. The following resolution wet proposed by Mr. Do Burgh, seconded by Mr. Cusack, aue unanimously adopted—" That the Rev. Dr. Tisdall having stated to the meeting that ho is a High Churchman, beg to express our strongest disapprobatipruf thia au_nonuce J2l9ni," BRIRICT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The' Post says, that provoked :by the movement for " reciprocity " in Free Trade which has for some . '" •- iiMo been attracting attention, the Free-traders of Manchester halo thought it necessary to make a public professien'of faith in the principles for which they fought so stoutly five-and twenty years ago. It ought not to have been necessary for them to do this. Tho benefits which have been derived from Free Trade are so great and so notorious that they shoUld be able to speak for themselves. If there is 9111 part of England in which it would seem almost an impert l " nence to defend them, it is Manchester. But the quarters of the old Anti-Corn-Law League is the industrial centre of the district in which, under a new nar ne ' protection is raising its head once more. It was well? therefore, that the " reciprocity " doctrine should h° discussed, and nothing could be more appropti l3° than that the discussion should take place at a meeting under the presidency of Mr. George Wilson, who was chair" man of the Anti-Corn-Law League while the great contest of Free Trade v. Protection was as yet undecided. It 13 not possible to resist facts. Upon this resource Mr. Wil son wisely rested his case. What has Free Trade done fo r us ? In what has it f a il e d ? Wh o h as b een h u rt by It . In what respect should we be the better for not having adopted it ? These are the tests by which it should be , tried. If it can be shewn that it has upon the whole P" us in a better position than that i n whi c h it f o und us, lt a justification is complete, and the fact that this or th at branch of industry has been suffering, or is suffering, will not detract from it. If those persons 1 /1 are agitating for a revival of Protection un d e r the mask ° " reciprocity " of Free Trade would candidly face this iss ue the discussion they have raised would be of short dull' tion. The herald thinks that the collapse of the Albert Li f° , Mike threatens to bo only the L beginning of life assur er° sorrows. True, the European has not lasted so long 1 15 th° Albert, but the number of its am a lg ama ti o ns is mile ; ; later, the amount of its liabilities is much greater, al" we regret to add, the chances of a favourable liquidation are much slighter, than those which, only a few days ag o ' were treated as so distressingly un sa ti s f ac t or y at the lue' nags of Albert policy-holders. Upon the cognoscent i -4 the few who can read external signs with the aid of oaci v sional glances behind the scenes—it cannot be said that au/ of these revelations come by surprise. For years the European has been pointed at and whispered about. Its nam e 2 been mentioned with a shrug of the sh ou ld er s, and phets of evil long ago declared that its failure was 004 question of time, But the outside public were uninformed upon these matters. In truth, however, the fall of ti l° European does but teach anew the moral of the An ert : 6 history. Pending further inquiries we do not atteruP! , apportion the blame among those respon s ible for ha vi t actively or negligently contributed to bring about 06 lamentable state of things. But we trust that in the cl° of the European, no less than in that of the Albert, t he ra t will be an investigation so thorough and so searching , no individual by whom the company has been wronged ° ii bo allowed to escape without making the fullest satisfac tion for the mischief he has occasioned, The Star disputes Lord Carnarvon's assertion that Wll at t ; ever principle is applied to the solution of the Irisia lan question, must necessarily be applicable to all parts of kingdom. Difference of social state prescribes differcue" of political treatment. Every rearrangement of your tutions must be considered on its merits. A method or principle that would be most excellent for Ireland or Ccit Canada, or for India, might be most inexpedient for Pr f land and Scotland. There are no principles or methods °‘ universal obligation or invariable fitness in the polition art. It may appear after duo discussion that compu ls i l leases may be the best solution of the Iri s h land difficn What objection to the adoption of such a method 5v 01 ` . ., 1 it be, that compulsory leases are not applicable to 0 " 1 English land difficulty ? As for Lord Carnal-I°,l:h assurance that all property is justly liable to be dealt W i 1 , 1 0 on the same principles as you apply to property , can only say that no competent text-writer on econono . Th jurisprudence shares his the or y. It i s t o be hoped. a everybody who is using his mind on the Irish land culty, and trying to form an opinion worth having' o f exactly reverse Lord Carnarvon's dictum. It is the 0 5 ' 1 Ireland that we have to consider, and n o t the case of EDP land, We aro not to stay our hand from doing 4 jus tic° , the Irish people because the same method might, if i t 1,, - 0 applied here, be unjust to the Engli s h landlords. It I Pitt, a Conservative statesman, in day s when the 1 093 1 0 statesman was not won by well-meaning pigini es ',o warned his followers never to be afraid of doing rig ht l' ‘,11;6 given principle, merely because they did not know vg. '" b l the same principle under some po ss ible c ircumstances 133' carry them. The Daily .21'eics remarks that the Duke of St. Al ve o 1 was in many quarters criti c i se d ver y severe ly for the ; precedent ho had introduced in allowing, or requesting, the congregation of Redbourno to selec,:pse clergyman for the va can t li v i ng . It was diffi cu lt for t' io who took a rational and practical view of the "otter understand the ground a n d mean i ng o f th ese a dverse etl i l ; tures. To them the Duke simply appeared to he y° covered more clearly than other noble patrons the sign' jog the times—the necessity of introduci n g into the No r ' r e and organisation of the National Church 3 IP e t, ICpopular and responsible clement, by bringing it, 1 co% into moro direct contact and sympathy with the pe o r whose benefit it is established. Nothing, perhaPeo t he directly tends to alienate the minds of the laity fr oin ag e. Church than the harsh and capricious exercise of patr ° to This abuse, more than anything el s e, has from tiulieol, time vexed and torn the Established Church in S e °,!„,41 1 The same causes operate in the sa me direction , t's" th e with less force, in the Church of England. 111-13$ s od Church most needs at present is the active synWe tb rike ly co-operation of the laity, and few things are mor e to secure this than giving them a " ice ol consulting voice, at all events—in the selectiorloo their ministers. The Duke of St. Albans felt th iB ll ' sL e t boldly entered on the course of action necessary for the this salutary result. It appears from his letter tm - 5 , 1 1 4 experiment has been attended with complete success' 0 , congregation has unanimously agreed that the elerg1:101 in every respect, was qualified for the post; and the too l e , has the satisfaction of knowing that the course be s od from the laudable desire "of promoting the we lfare harmony of the parish," has produced that result. o wl The Standard declares that M r . S ax by has alre °Bi f o ot ig a storm before the sth of Oct o b er . Wh en his pr"De iv elf for that date first appea re d i n our co l umns conWe l. s che little attention was excited. Mr. Annatt, howe ver se ttif watches the cloud s w ith so muc h pat i ence an d Pertin,, tks i has had his eye upon the augury, and has taken eta;joti the public should not f or g e t it. I n t un e last 311. • r iflaci referred to the prediction, and su gges ted that " . Ye es soir by results, it would prove a curious instance of a prier lr vo ing." Laying aside all special theories, everybody I' ll° t og' storms are apt to prevail about the time of til e ly An equinoctial gale backing up these tides in th e 7. 0 so" of October may send a flood of water on to our c ° : at iefse s up the Thames such as to afford Mr. Saxby all the : 4 0 4 i tion which may be derivable from seeing a disraal_usP— ii verified. The weather may prove provokingly c ' — o rcr 4 the period is an exceedingly likely ono for a gel e ' i i ` c :ese d to the usual course of things. If the equinoct h " t 01 ' 1 before their time this year so much the better; '' ,..40 09 Saxby says they are yet to come. The subject aPP;OO4 admits of a good deal of ingenious discussion; h ilt L ae ti lt and tide wait for no man, another fortnight will dee ed.o 4 question for us, so far as relates to Mr. SaxbY'e prognostications. 11 0 PETER THE GREAT'S JESTER, Al•tD 1115 the d~ ip — ilte A ros c itr o fo u er s e i t n frit o ah : e S t a m la r k e i r r e eff r, whohappened delivered and was just about t e o t:e r ( a lf t al i h f li y l:3l th ilt:cli:telitiletcr4b when Balakireff, hearing of it, made his apP o3°ll ; e f e b° ll 13- r :.! a very doleful face, and approached his master 01:1 to speak. Peter, guessing his errand, tu the officers who were standing mound hl said, in a loud voice, "I know what P - q. or this fellow is bringing me; but give yo u ~,T/ A ; o °ll h o of honour, gentlemen, that I will not grant it.° "fe hearing this, instantly threw himself at the Re t oo l ° est . . Czar, and said, with the utmost apPar erit t par 4/ 1 ness, " I beieech you, Peter Alexeevitch, do 00 ',00 1°- , that rascal of a cousin of mine Ab, you 00'4010' Peter, " you're too sharp for me yet, I see !" s n d " - ec dot eg day the culprit received his arden • —Baristor of Balakireff the Jester. P Sian COUNT BISMARCK ON SUNDAY LADOIT bad T i h an e paper gives the following anecdote of C' urit 1315 t 13511° habit of working on Sunda y s. wrote to his bailiff, " There must be an end of th 3 „ t :, c ia, 4( bailiff answered, " The people are not to blame• rion thi from morning to evening, they have to work polo estate, and yet they have their own bit of lan.cl t° t a° es The choaudntgehtcairnatoof (4,tib, after, and so they have only Sunday loft __loooso it in." B u t the count will not listen to sued o 00 4 and writes back :—" From this time forwttrd o! order is to be introduced. When my people have la nd, : sAr st. their corn is ripe, they are to begin with their ovlloo,loo The bailiff informs the peasants of the co unt's a : and adds, "But now no more work on Sun' Ole ~tog Ole P — t o result is that the peasants say to each ether, I c t shall not lose a farthing b y caring for us first 7 01 00 work with a will," and the y do it and . 1) Never a 0 an the lu*: o tot l work done so well and so ra p idly, oOm 0 write to the count a few days aftorwaruP, O) i r on nAvanti 0 41; capitt4,.fiit, and nobody lap 11:4 Oif than W 6, n%k gai94,la.tii=4J‘ 4