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CLERICAL. MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established 1824. The ANNUAL IscomE, steadily increasing, exceeds £227,000 The AssunANcE FuND, safely invested, is over £1,649,000 Forms of Propogal, and every information, can be ob tained of GEORGE CUTCLIFFF, Actuary and Secretary, 13, St. James's-square, London. S.W. (O1 - 1N GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY ?." TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames- street, London. 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 LA RITE, 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 then. in 1868. fhe income of the year, it will le seen, amounts t f 540,499 18s., and the total charge t. £445,077 10s. 9d The difference, £95,422 7s. la, added to the balance of the surplus fund at the commencement of the financial year, taised that item to £1,002,974 15s. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS FEL)4D ACCOUNT, JUNE 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. Du. £ s. d. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 ereminms on new assur- ances on old ditto , 13,556 5 1 357,988 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 £ s. d 907,152 8 6 total income £1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. MA S ALLEN , Z Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF THE YEAR. s. d. CR. Dividend to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured Additions to those under - - participating policies 24,304 6 6 Policies surrendered Re-assurances—new Ditto old Commission Medical fees 405,561 12 1 10,618 it 2 760 18 0 Income tax X s. d. 8,880 4 0 8,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16;238 9 10 436,187 6 9 Total charge Balance of account, June 80, 1869, as per balance-sheet £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. ld., 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 luennial 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 £BOO than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the compan3's securities into the names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses must be regarded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are:only three per cent, of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET, Jrriz 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors .laims on decease of lives assured, and Addditions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors fund 172,202 10 0 Surplus fund 1,002,974 15 9 £6,757 17 0 £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN 'I. Auditors. HENRY ROSE, Cu. ASSETS. Lniount invested in fired mortgages £1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Peversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 )itto ditto Temporary secu- rities nirrent interest on the above investments :lash aull bills Advanced on security of tho compiny's polici4AQ A balances `-,andry.accoullt, Value of precninins (18G7) Value or v4-assurances 198,207 17 0 30,931 4 6 12,256 15 10 ir,5,387 1 8 25,189 16 8 57.331 7 9 4 506,167 18 0 85,706 11 5 .£7,675,81 3 0 10 The balance-sheei, doPa not appear to can for any ro tnark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £9542.2 75. :)d. already mentioned, as is shown by tha amsmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. Tho 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 Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq. SirJ.BullerEast, Bt., D.C.L. Thomas Godfrey Sambrook° Win. A •'.gust us Guy, M.D., Esq. F.P.S.Admiral Tindal. enar!esTbos.Holcombe,Esq. Right Hon. Sir John Young; Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart., K. 0.8. THE LATEST. EDITION of "THE SUN" supplied ns an as published, containing all the LATEST NEWS and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, hp II W HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Blackfriars-road, London, S. I,Aablk F OR THE AUTUMN & WINTER SEASONS E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their business. For trades and ad dr e sse s. see following advertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be found in every article sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all %lasses. Commodious apartments for measuring ind fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, which contain a very large and diver sified stook 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 trom persons who are not known to the firm should be accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be 4heerfully 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 tnel Caps, and Boots and Shoes, Is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and . post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business sresumed 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 lid SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT, 155, MINORIES 156, 3IINORIES 157, 311NOBIES 83, ALDGATE ALDOATE ALDGATE ALDGATE ALDGATE 88, ALDGATFI 49, ALDOATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCIL 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET %07, NEW OXFORD STREET iOB, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT - ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT - ROAD 13S, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. THE " SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE " NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCH. Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. THE " SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, wiTH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p culler simplicity of thesa Machines enables any one to acquire their perfect use in a few hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free CUE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY Chief Office in the United Kingdom: 147, CHEAPSIDE. -,------- COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT LANTIQUE. 4, Rue de la Pala, Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New;York. RATES OF PASSAGE. From HAvnß or BREST to Naw YOBK. First Class 7OO, fr. Second Class 425 fr. Third Class From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class 285 fr. WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico, Haiti. Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique. JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama). Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon, Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo, Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union, San Francisco, China, and Japar.. Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this company, can be had of STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co., Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, L ONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. CONVERSION OF DEBENTURES INTO DEBENTURE STOCK. The Directors are now prepared to en , er into arrange ments for converting the Debentures of the Company into equivalent amounts of Perpetual Four per Cent. Deben ture Stock, and also to receive applications for allotments of the same Stock, at par, to be applied in the repay meut of Debentures falling due. Any amount of Stock, not being a fraction of a pound, can be qubscribed for and transferred. A commission of (one-half) per cent. is allowed to ap plicants, and the Stock will beinscribed in the Company's books free of all expense. The interest will be paid half-yearly on the 15th Jan uary and 15th July, by warrant. The Stock thus raised will be entitled to the same priority against the property and income of the Company as the Debenture Bond Debt, ranking before the Com pany's entire Stock and Share Capital of Thirty Millions (X 30,000,000), and will be the first charge on a net income now amounting to upwards of Three Millions 0Z,000,000) annually. Further particulars and forms of application may be obtained by letter addressed to the undersigned. STEPHEN REAY, Secretary. Euston Station, March, 1869. WTANTED, by an ex- Licensed Victualler, Manual Employment, in any caps ity. Town or Country. First-class character. Address E, 13, John street, Hanway-street, Tottenham-court-road. 1j VEILING EMPLOYMENT WANTED, by a r 4 Young Gentleman (a Reader at the Bri ish Museum), age 22, after Six p.m. Has received a good education. Can give excellent references. Address R, 46, Theobald's road, W.C. A GENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce commodities valuable to every householder high and low. This offers a highly remunerative Commission to Tradesmen, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to R. MARRISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. INSURRECTION IN DALMATIA.—See accounts in the T.ondon papers. This event also was pre dicied in Z A DKIEL'S ALMANAC, for this month; as were the Ti mults and Conspiracies in Spain. The 18;0 Almanac now selling, the 70th thousand. J. G. Berger, London. 6d. (IN CHANCERY.—Lord Chancellor. Vice-Chancellor Malins. Nixey v. Lewis.) CAUTION. —Whereas the Vice-Chancellor, Sir (--) Richard M.lins, on the Ist day of July, 1869, upon the ap plication of William George Nixey, of No. 12, Soho-square, in the County of Middlesex, the plaintiff in the above suite, awarded a perpetual injunction, restraining the defendant, Joseph Lewis, bis shopman, servants, and agents, from hereafter sellbAg any slack lead, or other composition purporting to be black tend. in tablets or cases enclosed or covered in manner in uhe bill mentioned, or folded in wrappers, or enclosed or packed ap or folded in any cases, coverings, or wrappers, which are fac similes, or copies or fraudulent imitations of those invented or used by the plaintiff, and from in any way using any cases, coverings, boxes, labels, devices, or other things which shall re present or have the appearance of representing the plaintiff as the manufacturer or vendor of articles which have not, in fact, been manufactured or sold by him. All persons are therefore cautioned against purchasing, selling, exposing for sale, or other wise dealing in black lead or other composition purporting to be black lead not manufactured cr prepared by the said William George Nixey, in tablets or in cases, enclosed or covered, or wr .pped or enclosed in wrappers, or with other ac companiments being fac-similes or fraudulent or colourable imi tations of those invented and used by the plaintiff, the said William Geo' ge Nixey.—Dated this 23d day of July, 1869. VALLANCE & VALLANCE, 20, Essex-street, Strand. Plaintiff's Solicitor. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. GIETA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wow: irful liquid. It is now offered to the public it, a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; aleo 55., is. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red 13111 Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F.l:. ChattPrton. THIS EVENIN(3, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, }'O IiMOSA, new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucie-ault Messrs. Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, I oht. Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. Mr. BUCKSTONE respectfuily informs the public and patrons of this Theatre that it WILL OPEN for the sea son on MONDAY, October 25, with a new comedy, in three acts, written by Tom Taylor and Augustus Dubourg, Esqs., entitled NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES, in which Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr Braid, Mr Buckstone, jun., Miss Robertson, Miss Caroline Hill, Mrs E. Fitzwilliam, and Mrs Chippendale will ap pear. With other Entertainments, supported by Mr Compton, Mr Kendall, Mr Clark, Miss Fanny Gwynne, Mrs Laws, and Miss Fanny Wright. The box-office will be opened on Friday, October 22nd, under the direction of Mr George Turpin. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: Messrs Ashley, C. H. Stephenson, and Misses Maria and Nelly Harris. At 15 to 8, LOST AT SEA: a London Story. Messrs A. Stir ling, G. Belmore, E. Atkins, J. D. Beveridge, C. H.Stephenson, C. J. Smith, R. Romer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza John stone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr U.Belmore and Mrs. Leigh Murray. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. • Last Night but Two of PROGRESS, THIS EVENING, at'7, BREACH 611 3 1i6iiiiih. At 8.15, Mr. T. W. Robertson's new Comedy, in three acts, entitled PROGRESS: Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, J. Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall ; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes. Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. Mr. HENRY J. BYRON will appear on Saturday Evening next, October 23d, in his new farcical drama, in 3 acts, entitled NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Sir Simon Simple, by Mr. H. J. Byron. 13.3 x-office open from 10 till 5. HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN . THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, THE LOTTERY TICKET: Mr George Honey. At 8 Moora's great Tragedy of THE GAMESTER: Barry Sullivan; Messrs. J. C. Cowper, W. H. Stephens, Lin Rayne, Charles Elorsman, and Lunt; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Jane Rignold, and Miss Howard. To conclude with THE WATERMAN: Messrs. G. Honey, E. Cotte, Evans; Mrs C. Horsman, Miss R. Power. Principai Scenic Artist—Mr Julian Hicks. Acting Manager—AMoßY SULLIVAN. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. 11) Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborongh. 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THrs EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING Mr A sbley, Mr, Stephenson, and the Misses Harris. Followed by LOST AT SEA: Mr A. Stirling, Mr G. Belmore, Mr E. Atkins, Mr Beveridge, Mr Stephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Romer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray. And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: 1r G. Belmore and Mrs L. Murray. =13,) • (Ifit c' 4 44 1 ""‘ SIM -0 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20, 1869. An official contradiction has just just now been given to the last of the many wild rumours afloat as to the sinister designs of the French EMPEROR. M. ROUHER, it is stated, is not to be recalled to power at the head of a new Administration. He is still to retain Lis present position as President of the Senate. The statement to the contrary was recog nizable at the moment of its utterance, as in the highest degree improbable. About as likely this recall of M. ROUHER from the Senate to the Minis try, as it was likely the EMPEROR would abdicate either wholly or partially in favour:of his son, or as it was likely that he was preparing another coup d'etat, and allow the imminent approach of it to be blurted out . immediately beforehand. Nothing has occurred as we have all along been insisting—nothing what ever has occurred since the first announcement by the EMPEROR of his political programme, or rather of the entire transformation by him of a Personal Government into a Government of a purely Constitutional and Par liamentary character—not one single incident has oc curred to falsify the fair promises there and then held out that the close of the interval of Dictatorship is assured. The EMPEROR'S illness, althOugh it was monstrously exaggerated into one of a most alarm ing end, at ona time, even of (as was stated confi dently by those whose wish was father to the thought) an inevitably fatal kind, was sufficiently protracted to account for whatever delays have arisen in the carrying out of the work of this great consti tutional transformation. Fortunately for France, the ruler of the country has so completely recovered from his indisposition that he is now described, by those who have the best possible opportunities for judging, as in better health and spirits than he has been in for some years past. It is evident enough that his health must be in the highest degree satisfactory, or as a matter of certainty the EM PRESS would not have ventured on her prolonged tour through the Eastern countries—particularly at a moment immediately following the illness of her Im perial husband, and at a juncture immediately pre ceding the transformation of the Imperial Constitu tion. With France herself rests the responsibility of peacefully carrying out the labour of that transforma tion. Let her tranquilly avail herself of the op portunity now happily placed by events—with the consent of the EMPEROR—within her reach, and a nobler future than ever lies immediately before her. Events themselves, as we just now said, have brought about for France—have placed within her reach thus—this enviable opportunity. The im mense concession upon which the EMPEROR has ad ventured, implies now a dignified assent on his part to a necessity brought about by the sheer force of circumstances, rather than created by himself indivi dually. Nevertheless, while the fact is thus, we cannot regard its so being as in any way derogating from the merit or the majesty of his act, in thus realising that the time had at length arrived for the Crowning of the Edifice. For twenty years he has been so entirely Master of the Situation that he might, had he so pleased, remained obdurately deaf, and blind, and dumb to the recognition of what, on the contrary, he was the first himself to acknowledge and proclaim. Strategically Paris—which is still France—is helplessly at his feet and at the feet of his legionaries. As the spokes of a wheel radiate from the central point of the axle, so do the streets and boulevards of the French capital now under that transforming Right Hand of the EMPEROR—the wonder-working Prefect of the Seine. NAPOLEON 111. , still to this moment Master of the Situation—with Paris at his feet, with the most power ful, the most numerous, and the most highly-discip lined army in the world at his beck and call—wisely prefers (to retaining despotic power within his grasp) the constitutionalizing of his Government and the popularizing of his dynasty. THE approaching municipal elections will witness a change far more important than that which the last parliamentary elections beheld. Mr. DISRAELIS Reform Bill conferred the political franchise upon a certain section of male adults who had not previously possessed it. But there was a measure passed through Parliament last session without observation, which conferred the municipal franchise upon a whole sex. On next November 1, women paying borough rates and taxes will be entitled to vote for town-councillors. In other words, it has been conceded that the principle, "No taxation without representation," is to apply to women as well as to men. It is true that the application has been restricted to the local Parliament. But it is mani festly impossible that this restriction can be of long continuance. There is not one argument in favour of the concession already granted which is not appli cable to the concession of a full and complete repre sentation. To say that a woman ought to have a voice in the levying and the expenditure of taxation for paying police, but ought to have none in the levying and the expenditure of taxation for paying soldiers and sailors, is a paradox that will not be tolerated for many years in a country like ours, and in an age like this. The antagonists of women's rights who are now tardily awaking to the incon sistency of granting the one franchise while the other is withheld, are perfectly justified in pointing out that inconsistency. But it is too late to rectify it in the way they would wish. To retrace our steps in this matter is out of the question. There is no help for us but to push forward, and to complete the work which has been begun, and half completed with such remarkable quietude. Women are generally supposed to be pecu liarly noisy and clamorous whenever they have any thing to demand. There was no noise or clamour with regard to the female municipal franchise. There were no processions through the London streets, and no demonstrations in the parks and the squares; there was no stump oratory, and no female BEALES there were no excited debates in Parliament, much less any" Ministerial crises. This great reform—great alike in its political and in its social results—was effected without observation ; and pro bably it will not be until the approaching Ist of November that a large number of persons will know that the change has taken place. There is an additional reason why the concession of the parliamentary franchise to women should follow that of the municipal fremehiw. Women are not especially interested in municipal legis lation. They are concerned merely in the same way as male ratepayers are. But they have a very strong reason for wishing to be represented in Parliament. If Parliament has not hitherto legis lated for them, that is the more reason why they should be placed in a position to urge such legislation. There is abundant need of it. The fact that the monstrous injustice exists whereby the earnings of the industrious woman are at the disposal of a drunken and profligate husband—that he may abandon her and their children, leaving them to fight with poverty alone; and when she has just enough to save them from starvation, may return to her and squander the whole amount upon himself— this fact alone is sufficient reason why men should no longer be entrusted solely with the right of legislating for women. If after all these ages, during which men have had the monopoly of legislative power, they still persist in exposing women to such an intolerable injustice—if, while calling women the weaker vessels, they take advantage of that weakness to inflict so grievous a tyranny upon them—it is only another proof of the fact, confirmed in many other ways, that no class or section can be safely en busted with unlimited and irresponsible power over mother. _ While this strong argument exists in favour of the enfranchisement of women, no one, after recent electioneering disclosures, can venture to say that men have earned the right to retain their present monopoly, even if it were justifiable originally. There must be both a very strong prima facie reason for the conferring of exclusive rights, and a clear proof that these rights have been properly used, before they can stand the investigation to which all institutions are being subjected at the present day. Granting, for the sake •of argument, that there was good reason at the outset why men alone should have the right of representation, they cannot hope to uphold it unless they can shew that their exercise of it has been pure and blameless, and for the general good. Who will venture to say that this has been the case after reading the disclosures at Bridgwater, Beverley, and the other corrupt boroughs whose sins are just now being brought to open judgment? It is monstrous to assert that the State is better served by the en franchisement of the men who sell their votes for a pot of beer, or for any more sub stantial consideration, than it would be by the enfranchisement of Miss CoUTTS, Miss MARTINEAU, and Miss CARPEINITER. It has been frequently urged as an objection to the female suf frage that women would be influenced by improper motives. It is quite possible that some of them would be ; it is certain that a large number of men already are. If we are to make the unworthy use of the franchise by certain members of a class a reason for disfranchising that class, then the class of male adults ought to be disfran chised ten times over. Women at least have not yet been found guilty of betraying this trust, and should, therefore, have a fair trial. If they fail, then let us deal with them and with men on the same terms, and with the same severity. It may be said that women have been proved corrupt already, that the election commissions have shewn how often women were the recipients of bribes on behalf of their husbands. This is true. It was not safe to bribe the husbands, because they were electors; it was less dangerous to bribe the wives, because they were non-electors. Remove the women from the second class into the first, make them also electors whom it is illegal to bribe, and a fresh obstacle will be placed in the way of bribery. Moreover it must be remem bered that women being hitherto without the fran chise have not had any political education. They know nothing of the great questions which have to be decided in the Legislature, because they have no voice in the selection of the legislators. It is only natural, therefore, that they should think more of their families than of the nation, twenty-poundshould keenly n a o p t p e r :ill iate conf th e e r upon the first, while having a very dim, or absolutely no, conception of the advantages which the presence of Mr. A. rather than of Mr. B. in Parliament will confer upon the second. If it be said that this is really an argument against the female franchise, inasmuch as it implies that women will forsake their " proper sphere "—the family—when they take up national politics, we say that this is a gratuitous assumption. The husband and father, however keen a politician he may be, does not on that account neglect to provide an income for his family ; and there is no reason why the wife and mother should be rendered thereby incompetent to administer that income. It is not, however, necessary to urge this argument, for there is no intention of enfranchising married women whose husbands are living. All that the advocates of the female suffrage ask is, that whenever a woman is at the head of a household, and is called upon to contribute to the local rates or to the imperial taxes, she shall be at liberty to exercise her judgment as to who are the most fit and proper persons to tax her. For generations we excluded Roman Catholics and Jews from the franchise even while we taxed them. But the injustice was remedied at last, and we have esta blished the principle that a man's religion ought not to deprive him of the right of r epresentation. We ' have now to establish the principle that a woman's sex ought not to deprive her of that right. The admission of women to the municipal franchise is a long step in the proper direction. ? en Yin COT HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, Oct. 17. The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Be:Arice, with the Ladies and Gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service in the parish church, Crathie. LVAUGURATION OF THE LEIGH BUM 111E11101?ItIL. This monument, erected by subscription to the memory of Leigh Hunt, was publicly unveiled yes terday, at the liensal- green Cemetery, by Lord Houghton, in the presenc3 of a numerous gather ing of the friends and admirers of the late poet and essayie, amongst whom were Mr. Thornton Hunt, Miss Hunt, Mr. S. C. Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Mr. R. Townshend Meyer, Mr. E. Oilier, Mrs. Procter, Mr. C. Gruneisen, Mr. G. Godwin, Mr. J. A. Herand, &c. The company assembled in one of the small mor tuary chapels of the cemetery, and in consequence of the inclemency of the weather the inaugural ad dress by Lord Houghton, which was intended to have been delivered at the monument, was spoken in the chapel, and the company subsequently pro ceeded to the grounds to witness the c:?,remony of uncovering the memorial. Lord HOUGHTON said—Ladies and gentlemen, my presence here to-day suggests a remonstrance and a regret. It is strange that a man of letters whose acquaintance with Mr. Leigh Hunt can only have been iu the later years of his life, and who had no other intimate association with him except from the circumstance of having been a biographer of a young poet in whose fame he was deeply interested, should be addressing you instead of one of those Ma ture men who have become the glory of our English literature. I am told that one reason why such a person is not addressing you is that objections are entertained in some quarters to ceremonials like the present. I can, 104102 and gentlemen, nave no such plea, because I cannot see how such a simple ceremonial as this can be injurious to any one. (Hear, hear.) I am sure that they are' useful to ourselves and to the community. (Cheers.) We are not a hero-worshipping people, and there is no fear that such meetings would degenerate into vulgar adulation. We are reticent of our praise ; we are careful of our applause. Therefore I will say that 1 cannot admit that plea for the absence of such men. At the same time it is a matter of deep regret that, among the great contemporaries of Leigh Hunt, so few are left who could be pre sent at this ceremonial. Perhaps the only one who might be considered of his generation in literature is Mr. Procter, known to us as Barry Cornwall, and who, I am sure, would have been here to-day had not the infirmities of age prevented him. (Hear, hear.) It is true that Leigh Hunt represents a past generation—perhaps I might say two past genera tions—cf our literature, and that, I think, is all the more reason wby we should honour him to-day. The tomb which we are about to visit will not stand clone in the associations of men of letters. It will beckon many an observer to the marshy shores of Greece, where the tumultuous . spirit of Lord Byron passed away ; to the beautiful Roman cemetery, where the autumnal flowers are at this moment growing over the young form of Keats ; to the storm-bowed, storm-cast heart of Shelley. It will lead many a one to those pleasant hills among the Westmoreland lakes where the placid form and frame of Wordsworth rest; and it will take some of us to more familiar graveyards not far from this place, where the witty tongue of Charles Lamb is silent and the busy brain of Coleridge speculates no more. Among the generation of poets Leigh Hunt was re cognised as a companion, and by the best of them he was beloved as a friend. This is not the place, nor am I the man, to adjust his place in the illustrious company, but I will say here, and 1 will say every where, that he was a true English poet. (Cheers.) Not merely the faculty of imagination ; not merely the presence of wit ; not merely great and sedulous accomplishment in our literature ; not these things alone made him a poet, but he was born one, and he died one. (Hear, hear.) There was one sphere of literature in which, 1 think, I may say he was absolutely eminent. I mean that of poetical criticism. In that field I may place him before any other man of letters in this country. What made him so eminent in this was no less the acute ness of his penetration and the tenderness of his taste than the generosity and nobility of his dis position. (Cheers.) With him criticism, which is too often an enemy or a detective, was a gracious patron and a faithful friend. He criticised because he admired and because he loved, and whilst on the works of his contemporaries he passed over every error and fault which he could not conceal from himself, and rested upon everything that was gracious and beautiful, so in his contemplation of the past be brought forward and presented to the English mind for ever the beauties of our poetic literature, in a manner so vivid, in a style so graceful, that it is impossible to overrate the value of that contribution to the intellectual education of our race. (Cheers.) Much as Leigh Hunt did for literature, he might have done, and he would have done, still more, but for the circumstances of his position. His life was not that of an easy man of letters, it was that of the hard-working journalist of the daily press, and that occupation led him early in his youth to mix himself with the politics of his time. Those were hard times for a young man to connect himself with political writ ings. They were the saddest times in which per haps the politicians of our country have ever lived. They were the days when the highest hopes of hu manity generated by the French Revolution had been crushed down and trampled under foot with every circumstance of cruelty and indignity. It was bad enough that those hopes were lost, but it was worse to find that the sneers of the selfish and ma. licious were all of them justified, and that the pro phecies of all the stupid had become true. In those days, therefore, it was no wonder that Leigh Hunt got himself into political difficulty, and for an article in a newspaper—which would now be passed over altogether, or at the worst regarded for the moment as in bad taste—he was sentenced to two years' im prisonment and separated from his fellows and his kind. But this was not all, for after he left prison he was followed for many years by persistent ob loquy and injustice, which in our time would seem absolutely incredible, and which can only be ex plained by the circumstance that those who wrote about him were utterly ignorant of the man. (Hear, hear.) He was regarded as a rabid Re publican, though whilst in fact half an American he bad an especial dislike for a Republic, and had no objection whatever to the Monarchical form of Government, except that he did not think that monarchs did all the good which he be lieved they were capable of doing. (Laughter.) He was regarded and held up to shame as an enemy of religion, whereas he was a man from whose heart there ever came a flowing piety, spreading it self over all nature and in every channel in which it was possible to run. I remember a passage in one of his works, in which he says that he never passed a church, of however unreformed a faith, without an instinctive wish to go in and worship for the good of mankind. And all this obloquy, all this injustice, all this social cruelty, never for one moment soured the disposition or incited a re vengeful feeling in the breast of this good man, who had, as it were—l have no other phrase for it—a superstition of good. (Cheers.) He did not be lieve almost in the existence of evil, and when it pressed even in the bitterest form against himself he shut his eyes to it and believed it to be good. Now, with this disposition, with this character, and with these elements of life, surely we do well in honouring this man to-day. Surely it is some thing that ten years after his death there should have been some who felt it was not well but that there should be some substantial memorial of his exist ence—something which would tell people more than the books they were reading that there had hem in England such a man. In opening the worm went, which we are about to do in a few minutes, we shall honour not only the man, but we shall honour the poetic intelh ct—we shall honour the de lightful faculty which gives to mankind its purest form of intellectual contemplation, and which, somehow or other, adapting itself to differ- , cut temperaments, always either strengthens, or put ifies, or expands the mind of its pos , esser. Thus it is that Leigh Hunt, though naturally of a tender and perhaps of a timid temperament, confronted the public opi nion of his day with a courage quite equal to that of either the angry Byron or the enthusias tic Shelley. Thus it is that he never for a mo ment lost the connection between literature and liberty. We, therefore, shall honour, not only the English poet, not only the great essayist, not only the partially successful dramatist, but we shall honour the honest and brave politician. Thus it is that as a man who has mixed both in literature and politics I feel I am much honoured by- being allowed to pronounce these words to-day. (Cheers.) It is not my business to enter upon the circumstances of his private life ; all we know is that they were not easy, that with a sensitive en joyment of luxury, such as belongs to the poetic temperament, he was a most self-denying man ; that although cognisant of all the advantages which social position could give him, he, neverthe less, carefully refused all temptations to that so ciety which might hamper his independence or hinder his political work. Thus we know that through all the difficulties of a more than usually hard life he maintained till the end a cheerfulness of temperament which the most successful might have envied and the wealthiest might have adored. In his own beautiful words, all we can now think of is— " Tho woe was short, 'tis fugitive, 'tis past ; The song that sweetened it may always last." (Cheers.) The company then proceeded to the spot in the cemetery where the monument was erected over the remains of Leigh Hunt, and upon their arrival, Lord HOUGHTON, taking up a position in imme diate proximity to the monument, said—ln the name of the subscribers to this memorial, and the friends of Leigh Hunt who remember him and are careful of his fame, I present this monument to his family, to the country, and to posterity. The monument was then unveiled amidst cheers. It consists of a simple pedestal of white marble, surmounted by a bust of Leigh Hunt in the same material, beautifully executed by Mr. Durham, A.R. A., and bearing the following inscription on the pedestal : "JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT, Born October 18, 1784, Died August 28, 1859." "Write me as one that loves his fellow-mon." Mr. Thornton Hunt briefly and gracefully thanked Lord Houghton and the subscribers on behalf of the family of Leigh Hunt for the manner in which they had promoted the memorial, and ex pressed his gratification at the excellent likeness which the artist had produced. Mr. Durham having bowed his thanks in response to an expression by Lord Houghton on behalf of the company, thanking him for the excellence of his work, the proceedings terminated. LATEST INTELL MENGE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tuts EvmwG, at 7, BREACH OF PROMISE. At 8.15, the new Comedy, PROGRESS: Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, J. Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EvExiNG, at 7, THE LOTTERY TICKET. After which, THE GAMESTER: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, &c. And THE WATERMAN. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanboroneh. THIS EVENING, at 7.30. AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And THY FIELD OF THE CLO Ea OF G LD. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL C &EDENS, Regent's-Palk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Athiission. le.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve. 6,1 ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. "Begin at 8. is. Box-office o pen from 11 to 4. MARKE7 S-2 MS DAY. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. Oct 20.—Sales probably 10,000 bales. The market firm EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE aro the properties of Lamplougu's Pyretic Saline, curing the worst headaches, bickucss, skin, or biliary affections. Pleasant, palatable, and_ invigorating. Sold by pll Chemists --[Advt.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Oct. 19. The Hamburg and American steamship liolsatia arrived here at 10 p.m. yesterday. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Dublic arrived out to-day. The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Java also ar rived at 5 this morning. COIIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 130 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 130 k ; the lowest, 130. Sterling Exchange on London lO9l. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 9 " 1885 ll9l. st " 1867 llB. 10-40 16 Illinois 1341. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 26lc. Petroleum—Standard White 33c. Flour, extra state, $5.90c. to $0.50c. Corn, uld mixed, sl.9e. QUEBEC, Oct. 19. The Allau (Glasgow) steamship North American arrived out to-day. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 19. The Empress Eugenie left at one o'clock this afternoon for Alexandria, taking the direct route. The Sultan bade her Majesty farewell at the Palace of Beglorbey. The Imperial yacht Aigle was accompanied by the French men-of-war Ajaccio and Forbin, and by the Sultan's yacht, and four Turkish iron-clads. Troops lined both sides of the Bosphorus, and the forts fired a parting salute. During the whole day, the weather, previously bad, was uninterruptedly beautiful. The Emperor of Austria is expected here on the 28th instant, and will probably remain five days. The Crown Prince of Prussia will arrive on the 2Gth instant. In honour of both Imperial and Royal guests a grand review will be held on the shores of the " Sweet Waters." The English Ambassador will leave in the Ante lope on the sth of November for an excursion in Syria, thence to proceed to Suez for the inaugu ration of the Canal. SPAIN. MADRID, Oct. 19 (Evening). An order of the day signed by Marshal Prim is published to-day thanking the army in the name of the Government for their bravery in the sanguinary encounter at Übrique in Andalusia. The Republican leader Salvorhea has been killed. A column of troops has been sent to Bejar. ITALY. FLORENCE, Oct. 19, Evening. The King is expected to return here next Fri- day. It is not yet known whether Signors Rudini and Vighani will accept portfolios in the new Cabinet. The Ministers of the Interior and of Justice and Signor Rudini have been summoned to Florence to confer with the King on Friday. FRANCE. PARIS, OCt. 20. The Official Journal of this morning says : "The Government has noticed with deep regret the violent attack of the journal Le Pays against a Prince of the Imperial family." A Council of Ministers was held at Compiegne yesterday. The Emperor presided, and M. Schnei der, the President of the Corps Legislatif, was present. After the sitting several members of the Cabinet left for Paris, but they will return to Compiegne to attend another Council, which will be held to-day. _ _ . BOURSE, Oct. 19.—Three o'clock—The: market closed as follows : 41 . per Cent. .end of month 3 per Cent End of month 7l 40 Credit Mobilier Transatlantic 206 25 Credit Foncier 1675 Paris Gas 1577 50 RAILWA' Bank Shares 2BOO Itr,Ban ti iveß 53 15 " Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 43 Spanish Threes Home Debt - Deferred ...... Orleans Cash 045 Wostern Northern .4. 10934 Strasburg . 6OO .byons and Mediterranean -'BBl Southern..... 615 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 5271 North of Spain Saragossa Hooznau 5O SIR JOHN GRAY, 111. P., 021 7 THE LAND Q UESTIO.Y. A meeting of the National Reform Union was held 0 Manchester on Monday evening, under the presidency of Sir George Wilson, to hear an address from Sir John Gray, MX., on the Irish land question. Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P and several other notabilities were present on the platform, Miss Lydia Becker, who was loudly cheered on taking her place, being among them. Sir John Gray after thanking the assembly for the warmth of their reception, said that nothing but their invitation could have induced him to absent himself that day from Kilkenny, where his own con. s tituency were to hold a large meeting on that very question. The first time he had opened his lips on the great question of the Irish Church was in that very hall, under the presidency of Mr. George Wilson, and he hoped the omen would be propitious. The land question in Ireland was, even more than the Church was, an imperia l question, and was deeply rooted in the hearis of the Irish people. Sir John then referred to the grievances of past generations, and declared that the tillers of the roil were used merely as rent sponge s by the landlords, and were not allowed to go to the town to work at any trade. Tie explained at some length the system of eviction carried on by men known as the " crowbar brigade," whose task it was to level the huts of evicted tenants. After dwelling on the hardships endured by the people, he :pointed to the greater prosperity of the province of - Ulster as a proof of the value of tenant right. The possession of this right secured the tenant from eviction, and gave the landlord assurance that his rent was safe. No bill based merely on compensation would be looked upon in Ireland as a just settlement of this question. An English farmer and his sons might find occupation in mann" facture, but in Ireland eviction meant death or exile. lie had gone from county to county to investigate the state of popular feeling, and he believed any attempt to settle the question, except in a thorough and conclur sive manner, would only bring discredit e u its promoters. He believed there was a plan, a simple plan, which would interfere with no man's rights, which would protect all alike; and he thought would secure to the Irish tenantry what they wanted, and that was that we should emphatically declare by a simple Declaratory Act that every tenant in occupation of a farm should be declared by law to have an occupancy right in that farm , from which he never could be disturbed except by bi g own private contract or for non-payment of his rent. The Irish people were ready to pay the full amount of every acre of land they occupied, and if this was done England would have a great farm, and a great mark el ' opened up for her supply and her demand. All the tenants wanted was to be permitted to live and take root in the land; and be the allied brethren of Englishmen, and the staunchest supporte rs of the English throne and empire. The hon. member who was loudly cheered, was followed by Mr. Jacob Brigil , , t, M.P., who said he believed the battle was already b all , won, and began to discuss the English questions of ent aj : and primogeniture. It was the Irish famine which h ad given us the corn laws ; it was in Ireland we were trYil ls a free Church in a free State. Why should not Ireland d ° another good thing for us, and make it possible to 1 0° free trade in land? A GRAND HASH UP. It is long since we have read so wonderful an article 55 a certain leader whi c h appe are d i n the D a ily Telcyrarh ; Tuesday. It is obviously the work of only one it is not longer than such treatises usually are; and yet it contains references to the following personages :- - A ui° ; Tian, Zenobia, Richard Cur de Lion, Pope, Isaac °. Cyprus, Voltaire, Pontius Pilate, Leibnitz, CunigondeY Ismail, Calphurnia, Constantine, John Milton, Ab jul ' Cesar, Haxthausen, Napoleon 1., Napoleon 11., 0)1111t ; Algarotti, Hook, Peter the Great, Mr. Clarke, BIahoul°" Sir Isaac Newton with his little dog Diamond, 1 - 1 023 .. n ' the Czar Nicholas, the Czar Alexander, HuYg he : Carlyle, Catherine of Russia, Hippocrates, J ° Evelyn, Paul, Salmasius, Mdme. Krudener Prophetess, and the late Mr. Button. Reference also i 5 made to the Plantagenets, the Stuarts, the Tullianunly the Tuileries, the Gemonial. steps, the Suez Canal, Tsar-sk°" Celo, Sayes Court, the Chaus6e d'Antin, Hyde Park, Smcl:nsk, South Kensington, and var ioll „ - other "persons and blares. Also to Mahometanism, .„ Master of :the Mint, Palais Royal dinners, great bitions, pickled cucumbers, the Peace of Paris, slit-cell; Laferme cigarettes, Lancastrian schools, and many othe things of that kind. The object of the article apparentli, (we admit that it is quite a matter of opinion) is to esta blish the following assumption ; that "on her own seil/f, 1870, Russia will not derogate from the industrial cele briv' she has already attained, but will continue to she -0 ' tb° nations that she produces something more than 0 1°1 ' hemp, and hides."—Pall lllall Gazette. SHEFFIELD MA 21 7 UFACTUREBS AND rig AM ERICA N GOVERNMENT. The domestic manufacturers of steel in Washington o'l the agents of English exporters have quarrelled at I C' tsll ,, ington. A few clays ago a delegation of the A nieriG3- manufacturers called on the President and the Secr et ' ll.l of the Treasury, and accused the im orters of 0-- niving with the foreign manufacturers of P steel to deft° the United States Government of Customs alltinc: by systematically undervaluing their invoices. `'-‘1 October 2 a number of gentlemen representing large o ia responsible steel manufacturing establishments of Shef6e'e visited the secretary and stated their side of the c3"5,4-. They declared that the invoices are not undervalued '- claimed, and they produced documents to shew that Ili ft tenths of the product of the large factories are s t.o to this country, and that orders from England a nd t he Continent do not furnish any criticism to invoice price of steel coming to the tiii-ca, States, because these orders are of a retail racter as compared with those from America, 1'1311e; dreds of tons of certain articles being sentt their where one ton goes elsewhere. They added that rkt business had been stopped because the American C° lls 7, so Sheffield, at the instance of a revenue agent, refese'.ed, certify their invoices. This they asked to have rot ted : o o and-to meet the demand for unpaid customs .010' P a tter to pay extra assessments under protest until the 11 ' 3- if can be examined, the Government to refund the ni ° llo3 the decision results in favour of the steel importers' and Secretary of the Treasury assented to this proposition 954 ordered an investigation, so that here the contr°leseel which has caused a good deal of annoyance in the °alit. trade between England and America, rests f or the Pre'. tire The duration of human life in the principal c° . tries of Europe has recently been estimated as follooi, Prussia, 41 . 2 years ; Belgium, 41 . 5 ; France,44'2 ; P gl d 1: and Wales, 45 , 1; Sweden, 49 . 5; Deripark, ; Holstein, 52 . 7. heat It seems that unusually large shipments of have been made at San Francisco for England• than twenty-eight ships cleared from that port b e. : the 20th of August and the 23rd of September with c °r e e se for Liverpool. The quantity of wheat on board the se vessels was 786,590 centals, the market value at the of shipment amounting to 1,410,694 dols. , THE NEW LORD-JusTICE-CLERK.—In the burgh Court of Sessions on Tuesday Mr. Moncre foil i 9 ' sented his commission as Lord-Justice-Clerk to probe,, bench of judges. After going through the usual tionary trials ho took the oath and his seat as Presidett.ter the Second Division. The new Lord-Advocate and S° lic :. - e ig General also presented their commissions. Mr. Wile takes the title of Lord 11Ioncreiff. .0 1 1- EXPLOITS IN ABYSSINIA. -- The AbY, s-Bl a oil Government despatch steamer Shindy arrived at P :, on October 8 from Jedda, Massowa, and Souakin, board Messrs. Powell and Jenkins , the relatives of tu e and gentleman who were murder ed in A.bysini3 th months back. They have been very s uccessful witb an t expedition. They managed to discover the tribe eiJA dered Mr. and Mrs. Powell, inflicted a severe chas t ' s 'i the murder he murderers, and brought away the renattifis at d party. They were furnished on lal ltd- t of Massowah by order of the Viceroy, with a reg if lvier ° Egyptian soldiers, but after a few clays' march theY obliged to send them but back, as the heat was too everl3-0001 ing for the men, who suffered greatly fool 1 a 0:0 feet. On arriving within the boundary 0f o,o o° dominions, this prince very kindly placed 03r'3,c men at their disposal, part of them b eing liirkluo:3'3 pliued troops, armed with muskets . With th to ese 30 '1 they at once proceeded to the hostile trib©s ed y. re c a ptured the head perpetrators of the ciiine, burn cattl.c;lso, of villages, and carried away som e 1,400 he ad )003i , present to Kassa. Pursuit after a fight was au i - bility, the grass stood some eight or ten fce cinJ tuo oo e some parts of the country. S everal of the cus articles of dress which were at once recognised as 00 0 Mr.of the late r. Powell. It was ascertained at tb e ro a la time that this gentleman an d his lady were rnur d , 06 of 1' their sleep, but no traces wh atever could be f -w ound of son, as his body was no t found buried ith t 1) . o s e i ried his parents ; so whether he was also killed or car is not known. Before leaving Abyssinia, Mr. Panowciew, itt presented with a gold armlet by Prince liass39 his turn, presented his Highness with a large 4 1° ' e the firearms, principally captured from the tribe -011,1°:etro tb murderers of his brother. Everything belonfp"n," 0 01 1 1 late Mr. and Mrs. Powell was recovered, with th e tion of their jewellery and monoy.—Vie Ilotneward 4°." dit thi, Ex 2}