The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-20 00:00:00

bPLRLT OF THE PUBLIC JOUItNAL3, The Times discusses the question of the gold coinage, and holds the propriety and justice of exacting a jeelpliorage sufficient to cover the expense of coining to be Sully established. Assuming that a mintage of 1 per cent. is exacted, and that it is not sufficient to stimulate private coinage, if we trace its effects on the value of the sovereign, we arrive at the conclusion that its value would vary from time to time between the value of the gold it Gout allied and the value of the gold given for it, and that the imposition of a mintage would he followed by a eccondaxy effect on the value of gold itself, slightly reducing its purchasable power all over the world. Hence if Mr. lowe's suggestion were adopted, and the sovereign cdaced in weight from 123'274 to 122 . 274 grains, but 123'274 grains were required as at present to be delivered at the Mint in exchange for eery sovereign issued, the aloe of the pound would vary between its present value (that of 123'274 grains) and the salue of its new weight (that of 122'274 grains), and it would suffer an average l ' eprcclation which might, perhaps, be taken at one-half per cent. On the other hand, if the weight of the coin were kept unchanged and mintage exacted by requiring 32P274 grains to be delivered at the Mint for every sove reign issued, the value of the sovereign would be increased on an average about one-half per cent. It is an obvious rtaetkal conch,sion that, in order to keep the mean value of the sovereign unaltered after the imposition cf a seignior oge, the weigh: of the sovereign should Le reduced and the weight of gold delivered at the Mint for it should be increased in equal proportion. If ,we might venture to offer a word of advice to the large number of persons in the commerciel world now agitated by the proposed reformation of gold coinage, we should-recommend them to beware of being lost in a multiplicity of details. It is necessary for those who deny the wisdom of a change to confine their attention to the following questions :-1. Is a seigniorage desirable at all? 2. What is the limit to which it may safely be carried? 3. Shall it be obtained by reducing the weight of the sovereign, or by requiring more uncoined gold to be brought for sovereigns of the present weight, or by combining these two changes? Everything else mixed up with the arguments on these queries will only serve to weaken the influence of those who reason upon the subject. The Daily Num remarks that the day after the royal assent was given to the Bishop's Resignation Bill curious people were looking into the papers for a paragraph stating that the Bishop of Winchester had resigned Of course th ey did not find it. It takes a long while to get into a bishopric ; and when one has lived in a particular palace two-and-forty years it takes some little time to get out of it. The expected announcement not having app eared, a reason must be found. The "bishop won't resign," ruefully exclaims a High Church contemporary "He ought not to resign," replies a Low Church organ. "If it's the care of the diocese you are thinking about," strikes in Archdeacon Jacob "make your mind easy ; the bishop dictates letters, and we have a colonial 'who can lay foundation stones and that sort of thing capitally." To resign at such a crisis," adds the Rccord, would be a grave injury to the Church"—and so between the calumny that imputes an immoral resolution and the ready Jesuitical casuistry that justifies it in the name of religion, the - poor public is mystified. Only cynics who . 1 told you so " are pleased as they repeat : " The soul subsides, and carnally inclines To seem but mortal e'en in sound divines." Well, thank Heaven, they are all—High Church, and Tow Church, and no Church—all wrong. The venerable bishop does not accept the theory of duty propounded for him by his easy-conscienced friends. He knows that he has over-lived his capacity for doing the duty to which he was appointed and for which he is paid, and so—the Rev. J. M. Sumner is the authority for the statement—he has written to the Archbishop of Canterbnry announcing his intention to resign, as soon as he can wind up existing engagements. The Standard says that if it now alludes to certain dis sensions and secessions from the Wesleyan body, in whose proceedings so much curiosity has of late been mani• fasted, it is only with the object of suggesting some general reflections on an interesting topic closely allied with public policy. Nobody can doubt that such a fate as that of Mr. Hughes or Mr. Ransom could not possibly overtake a clergyman of the Church of England on such slight provocation, such trivial varia tion from discipline and doctrine. Of course those who are desirous to see ecclesiastical despotism re-introduced, will do well to encourage and promote a course of policy which will exchange the existing Anglican system for one more resembling that pursued by the Wes ley-an Conference. It is an intelligible system ; and Wes leyans must pardon us if we add that it finds abundant precedent in the Church of Dome. They are quite at liberty to manage their own affairs, as seems best to them ; though of course we regret decisions that rather widen than narrow the unhappy breach which exists between them and the communion from which they have seceded. Ent it behoves legislators to inquire what will be the pro bable result of Free Churches in a Free State. how mu eh freedom will there really be in these Free Churches? 'fhe present position of Mr. Ransom and Mr. Hughes, svill assist their endeavour to solve the inquiry. No doubt there must be a limit to the liberty of individual oi;inion in every organised religious denomination ; and the diffi culty is to find such a limit as shall be neither too elastic nor too stringent. Whilst the author of "The Sling and the Stone" still finds distinguished advocates in the Pro testant Church, it can scarcely be pretended that narrow ness is its prevailing peculiarity. Many are of opinion ay.', it is already to latitudinarian ; but it is quite evi dent that, even if it be suffering from that disease, it is Letter to wait and pray for a gradual recovery than to ven ture on a cure whose results would be as extreme as thoso we have been recording. The Post thinks there has not been within livini memory a Ministry to whose lot it has fallen, as it has to the present § to find itself, after the settlement of on: difficult question, face to face with another more diffic-c% still. It is, therefore, only fair that the Cabinet whit', has already clone such good service, and has shewn su,t goodwill to Ireland, should in the more difficult task of next session reap the reward of its justice in the grati tude of the Irish people and in the discretion of those who help to form Irish opinion. Amongst the more con siderate class of the Irish people Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues will find the support they have merited. Anything that can be done to better the position of the Irish tenant without prejudice to the rights of the land lord will be sure to have the public opinion of this country in its favour. On the other hand Communistic doctrines will be unhesitatingly rejected. Those who advocate such doctrines will therefore be much to blame if the desire to do justice to Ireland should be thwarted by their unr reasonable demands. The plain truth is that the Irish grievance in regard to the land arises in a great measure from the agricultural character of the people. They will only see one way of improvement. It does not seem to occur to them that nothing could be worse than to lease, say, six acres of exhausted land to three families; and were ignorance is so common and misapprehension so easy, agitation, as it is carried on in Ireland, cannot but aggravate the difficulties with which the Government and the Legislature have to deal in this complex and compli cated matter. Reasonable expectations may be realised ; but to raise expectations which are incompatible with the principles of justice and the laws of society is a mischiev ous proceeding, involving certain disappointment and incalculable responsibility. The Herald observes that there was a period in the history of human progress when scientific knowledge lagged so far behind that kind of culture which produces literature and art, that educated men might fairly have been indifferent to it. altogether. From amidst the con fused tangle of truth, misapprehension, and superstition, patient students were gradually evolving order, though so slowly that they themselves might often have been unable to say whether they had accomplished much or little, but the ordinary man of culture no further back than "the spacious times of great Elizabeth" might have been excused if he cared very little whether he kept himself abreast of such knowledge as was current con cerning physical science. Now we live in a different moral atmosphere. Physical science has, to continue the same broad classification, overtaken literature. A man is deaf and blind to more than half the thought which per vades the world if in the present day his culture is exclu sively of a literary kind. Moreover, science is un doubtedly teaching men to think on a new system about other than purely scientific things. That science teaches a system of thought opposed to the spirit of religion, is an impression which can hardly be maintained in the face of such a declaration as that which concludes Professor Stokes's address. "It can but enlighten us," he says, "as to the depths of our ignorance, and lead us to look to a higher aid, and for that which most nearly concerns our well-being." But, on the other hand, the precision of scientific thought, the care with which conclusions are approached, the recognition of the fact that truth ne:y be unexplained but cannot be inconsistent with truth, are lessons of the highest value in their tpplication to aV Proeesses of reason. 11. WALKFD . S NEEDLES (by authority), the ‘. Queen's Own." treble-pointed, with large eyes, easy to thrra.l, end Patent Ridges to open the Cloth, are the beet Ne. dies. Packets ls. ; post free of any dealer.— H. WALKER is Patentee of the Penelope Crochets, and Maker o' ImproVfEl Sewing .liachine :Needles, Fish Hooks, Sea. Peels, liooksand Eyes, &c.—Alceater, and 47, Gresham stre,et, London. DuNvILLE anti Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of 'Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Eramb. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co, Belfaut; or 4, Beaufort-Luildings,Strand, London, IV,C.—[Ad• Vi 3 moment THE TELEGRAPHS OF THE FUTURE. The Daily ITors remarks ;in the cnerzy with which telegraphic enterprises are being carried out. If all the proposals which are made be acted upon, the whole world will soon be within the range of electrical communication. Messages to and from England and Bombay direct may be looked for in March or April of next year; while the spring of 1871 will probably see Australia and China con nected with England by means of the Indian line. This last extension is one of the most important of all, for it not only provides for the places named, but embraces Ceylon, Cochin China, Jlva, and Singapore, Starting from Bombay, the terminus of the British Indian line, it is to run from thence to Point de Galle, and on to Penang, Rnigoou, and Saigon ; besides spanning the Indian Ocean to northern Australia, touching at Sumatra an,l Java by the way. In antici pation of some such enterprise, the Dutch have already laid land lines through Sumatra, and arrangements are completed for bringing the whole of their possessions into electric communication with Hong Kong. Again, Tasmania and the southwestern porti ms of Australia are to have lines of their own, after communica tion Las been edablished with the north-western division of that continent ; and a recent glance at a map slims that every corner of this portion of the globe which is known to commerce is now included in one comprehen sive scheme. Nor will there be any great difficulties to surmount. The Brisbane Government is pushing lines to meet the cable at Cape York, and the financial authorities at the business centres of the different countries are giving it their strong support, while post-office and other statistics prove the extent of, and necessity for communication between the various points, and between them all and India, Europe, and America. The distance to be tra versed is considerable, amounting to several thousands of miles of submarine cable, and some hundreds of miles of land lines ; but . this is split up into sections, as from Bom bay to Point de Galle 1,104 miles, from the latter to Penang 1,416 miles, and from Singapore to Hong Kong 1,696 miles. Throughout this line the soundings chew the ocean bottom to be favourable to cable laying, and the only deep water sections will be between the extreme end of Java and Cape York, and between Penang and Point de Galle. These lines have given rise to others. There is, for example, the Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta telegraph, which completes the submarine communication, so that a message may le hereafter eent from London to Bombay almost without a repeat. This has been done on the French Atlantic line from Brest to Duxbury, a distance of 3,60) miles, and at the rate of from four to five words a minute ; and though, even when the Falmouth and the British Indian are both open, there will still be a short span of land lines through Egypt, it is already thought possible to organise submarine substitutes for these, and so to send and receive communicati )r _s from India almost as quickly as a man can write. The cable will run first from Fal mouth to Gibraltar, a distance of 1,431 nautical mile; and then front Gibraltar to Malta, a distance of 1,025 miles. Thus the British Indian cable runs from Suez to Bombay, the Anglo• Mediterranean from Malta to Egypt, and the Falmouth and Gibraltar from Eng land to Malta. All three companies are distinct, but have entered into arrangements fur mutual help and protection—arrangements which bill be partici pated in by the cable to Australia. But these enterprises are thrown into the shade—so far as length of cable is concerned—by one which is now engaging the attention of a committee sitting in New York, which aims at laying a telegraphic line from San Francisco to Japan, a distance of 8 0.0 mile 3. 'We have, say cur cousins, the longest railway in the world, and we mean to have the longest telegraphic cable as well ; and so calculations have been male and estimates s!nt, sn•.l if the Com mit' ec reports favourably a prospectus will shortly appear. Another important project which has been recently brought before the public aims at laying cables between Cuba and Porto Rico, and from Habana to Porto Rico, Mexico, and Panama, as well as between the West Indies and South America generally ; while the International Mid-Channel Telegraph, to which Sir Samuel Canning and Captain Knapp Barrow have been giving much attention latterly, is at last in band, and will be working between Penzance and a telegraph ship stationed by the Admiralty between Scilly and Ushant, fffty-five miles distant, in a few months from this time. This last line will enable ships to have messages to and from every part of the world which has electric communi cation with England. As the Government statistics shew that 313,169 vessels entered and cleared with cargoes at ports in the United Kingdom in the year 1868, it is argued that tho telegrams to and from underwriters, owners, and consignees will be considerable, as well as the telegraphic traffic with distant ports. LAW AND POLICE. THE WriCI:LCIY PEERAGE CAse.—At the Westminster Police court., on Thursday, Mr. Marshall, a private inquiry agent, lately in the po . ice, was summoned fur Using ti.nguage to Mr. r, of Linton-street, T.,tor-iquare. It was in the 1i , use of Mr. Blur that Mrs. Howard, the mother of the eaimant to the Witk:ow Peerage res'deJ, and the defendant who was private ageht to the present Eml of \Vic; low, was char; d with keeping up a system of espionage and annoyance. The magistrate thorglit the evidence was not sufficient for conviction and dismissed than summons. OBTAINING GOODS BY FALSE FELTENCES.—At Marl borough-street Police-court, on Thursday, Hans Vander decken was brought before Mr. Knox for final examination. He was charged with obtaining goods on false I,retenee,, but had been remanded, in order that the state of his mind should be inquired into. A certificate was read by Mr. Knox to the effect that the prisoner was perfectly sane. He was therefore committed for tr:al. The Scotsman says that the Prince and Princess of Wales and fttin ly are to arrive at Abergeldie Castle for tha Eea ion en the 127L11 ROBBERY OF BLANK FORMS AT ALDERSHOT. — At the Aldershot petty sessions George Aslett was charged with receiving a quantity of War Office forms, value 20s, stolen by some person or persan3 unknown. It was shewn that the prisoner, who was a beerhouse keeper at Farnham, went to the shop of Mr. Wells, grocer of that town, on the 13.11 of March, and inqu'red if he was a buyer of waste paper. Next day prisoner came with a cart and a quantity of the forms in question. One hundred. weight was brought by Mr. Wells, and a man in his employ, named Francis, went with the prisoner and sold the remainder at twopence per pound to a Mr. King ham. It was shewn that these forms were never sold as waste paper, and that the prisoner cauld not have come honestly by them. lie was committed for trial at the quarter sessions. THE WEEPrJG WILLOW.—This is the most beautiful and picturesque tree in the world, and is not less beautiful in its associations than in its appearance. lhe poet Pope introduced it into England. An article was sent as a present to Lady Sylv:uus from abroard, around which were wrapped some delicate twigs. Pope examined these, and saying they belonged to some tree as yet unknown to England, he planted them. From one of them sprang "Pope's Willow," of world-wide renown. Its beautiful and magnificent appearance at once attracted general admiration, and slips from the tree were universally sought after; they were even transmitted to distant climes ; and in 1789 the Empress of Russia had sonic of them planted in her garden at St. Petersburg. Lord Mendip, into whose possession the tree came, was par ticularly anxious to retain every trace of Pope. He enclosed the lawn upon which it stood, and propped with uncommon care this far-famed weeping willow; but old age came over it, and in liol it perished and fell. Av ADVENrunous VOYAGE.—Mr. Empson Edward Middleton, late of her Majesty's 51st Regiment of Foot, who arrived in Edinburgh on the evening of Tuesday last, has undertaken an adventure which is, perhaps, without a parallel in the annals of yachting, if the somewhat doubtful story of the voyage across the Atlantic be excepted. lie had undertaken to circumnavigate the coast of England alone and unaided in his yacht Kate—a boat of three tons burden ; and in a couple of months from the time he began his voyage he has succeeded in performing the larger half of his task. Mr. Middleton left London in the Kate on the 15th of June, and sailed down the Thames in the face of a heavy gale of wind from the north-east. On the 16th he had a good run from Greenhithe to Ramsgate under close-reefed main sail. He bad light head winds all the way down the Channel, and made the Lizard on the 13th and Land's End on the 14th of July. Thence he sailed along the coast of Cornwall to Lundy Island and Milford haven, encountering very stormy weather iu the Eristol Channel. When off Lundy Island the Kate wai kept out all night by the sea that was running. At Milford Haven she got becalmed, and was detained live days. On the 29th of July Mr. Middleton attempted to make Scoona Island, but was caught in a gale of wind, and had to put into North Haven. Or. the 31st he ran over to Courto•.en and Dublin, where he remained for two or three days, after which he made for Donaghadee, where he was again becalmed. On the 15th of August a breeze sprang up, and he succeeded in making Ayr on that day, having taken exactly two months to accomplish the voyage from London. The wind again failing away, he lost a day at Ayr, and on reaching Irvine, on the 17th of August, he took the steamer to Bowling. Thence he came over the canal to Grange. mouth, and took the steamer for Leith, which he reached on Tuesday evening. Mr. Middleton intends to com plete his voyage, which he hopes to be able to accomplish within a month ; and with this crew be proposes to leave Leith in the Kate direct. —Scots:nan. THE SUN, 'LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1569 . 11E7 ROPOLITAN GO,SIP-7 hursday Returning to town, after a ramble in the westernmost district of England, extending to that English Ultima Thule, the Scilly Islands, I find London, of course, " very empty." Still, it is a good deal fuller than the country, as the old Duke of Queensbury used to say when he was rallied by a fellow-fogie upon being found in Pall-Mall during the latter half of August. True, the West-end is in costume of brown holland and old newspapers. True, the squares are dull and the trees are diligy ; but if you really cannot exist without sight of the human face divine, I think you will see a good deal more of it between Charing cross and the Bank than in the most fashionable and crowded watering-place in this or any other land. And, after all, there are some advantages derived from being in town when the rest of the great world is away. No fear of morning callers coming to spend five minutes in asking questions which they do not care to have answered, or telling news which you do not care tohear. No chance of a cosy evening over a pleasant book being spoilt by having to dress for an eight o'clock dinner. And this year we are having delightful weather. There is none of that intolerable, withering heat which we sometimes get in August, but a clear, cool, bracing atmosphere, with sun enough to be bright without being oppressive. One might do worse than spend August in London. Mr. Disraeli is spending it in the Midlands, He has been the guest of the Earl of Shrewsbury, at Alton Towers, that stateliest of "the stately homes of England." He is now the guest of the Earl of Bradford, who was a subordinate member of the last Conservative Adminis tration. Yesterday the ex-Premier paid a visit to the small-arms manufactory at Birmingham. Mr. Gladstone is at Walmer. Both statesmen are wisely keeping quiet. For the present, at all events, silence is golden. This is so especially with Mr. Disraeli, whose policy is just now to wait and watch, hoping that next year's land bill will lead to the disruption of a Ministry which contains some large landowners on the one hand, and Mr. Bright on the other. Already the Conservative papers are prophesying a divided House, with the usual result. But as they were very confident that " the division of the spoils" of the Irish Church would have the same con sequences, it is possible that their prophetic thought has for father a very ardent wish. Few persons, I fancy, are aware what a thorough man of business Mr. Gladstone is. An instance of his precision has lately come under my notice. An application was made by the friends of a clergyman forhis presentation to a Crown living. The application was backed by testi monials of a very high class. The living was given to another gentleman, but shortly afterwards a second living became vacant and was offered to the clergyman first referred to. On the day that the letter containing the offer was received, a telegram was sent by Mr. Gladstone stating that he had omitted to mention that there was no parsonage house. When the testimonials were returned they were found to be marked and noted in such a way as to spew that they had been thoroughly well studied, and that the Premier bad taken the utmost palns to ascer tain the qualifications of the gentleman to whom he was offering preferment. The Bishop of Winchester's son writes to the Standard that his father does intend to resign his see, and has already communicated with the Archbishop of Canter bury on the subject. The Bishop will get nearly as much on resigning as his successor will have, this see having been one of the old fat prizes of the Church, to be reduced when next it became vacant. Bishop Sumner has held it for forty-two years, and must have received considerably over half a million sterling. It is rumoured that the Bishop of Oxford will be translated to Winchester, and perhaps Dean Stanley may go to Oxford. There has been for some time past a friendly feud between two rival deans. The subject of their difference is a very old one, of 400 years' standing in fact. The question at issue is where was Henry VI. buried? Dean Stanley affirms in Westminster Abbey. Dean Wellesley asserts in St. George's, Windsor. When these two dignitaries meet, the one laughingly challenges the other to a contest, " We have Henry VI. at the Abbey," says the one dean, " No ; we have him in the chapel," says the other. They have not yet come to blows, and I do not think they are likely to do so. Archbishop Manning is going to preach next Sunday at High Mass, in the new pro-cathedral, Kensington, on the Divine Authority of Holy Scripture. I need scarcely say that this prelate has as little sympathy with the views of the Essayists and of Bishop Colenso as has Dean Boyd himself, who, I see, has taken upon himself to forbid the pulpit of Exeter Cathedral to that eminent defender of Christianity, Mr. Liddon. Speaking of the last-named gentleman, let me advise your readers to refer to his most interesting sketch of his old friend the late Bishop of Salisbury, which is now being published from week to week in the Guardian. The two chief newspaper topics just now are Dr. Cum ming's letter to the Pope and Mr. Boucicault's "Formosa." The Doctor has for some time past been falling into discredit as a prophet or interpreter of prophecy. His predictions and explanations have been so frequently and ludicrously falsified, his attempts to escape from unten able positions have bean so laughably awkward, that it was high time Le took up a new line if he would keep himself before the public, and Crown-court Chapel full. From this point of view his proposal to appear at Pone as the representative of Protestant Christendom is en admirable suggestion, and so long as the silly season per mits the Times to give the beekeeper a column a day so long is he likely to get his seats let. In like manner, so long as the London journals continue to insert long letters about Mr. Boncics.ult's new drama, so long will the boxes in Drury-lane Theatre be taken. The chapel on the Sunday, and the theatre on the opposite side of the street every week-day will feel the benefit of the controversies wherewith the public are now being entertained. I have not seen " Formosa," but presuming it to be as bad as the very able writer in to-day's Times describes it to be, it does not seem worse than Offenbach's plays at the St. James's, which were thronged night after night by all the rank and fashion of London, from royalty downwards. The persons who have most reason to find fault with Mr. Boucicault are Oxonians. These may well feel indignant at the dramatist's representation of them. It is a pity that he could not have been one of them. Had he ever pulled in a " torpid " on the Isis, he would have known that the Oxford boating-man and the Oxford cad are two very different persons. They cannot help being so. The man who drinks and spends his strength in de bauchery would be incapable of pulling in a college race, much more in a University match. Mr. Longfellow, the papers say, is now staying at Glas gow. He had an awkward misadventure on his return to England from the Continent. He had keen travelling about with a party which numbered sixteen persons, and included several ladies. When the party arrived at the London terminus there was not visible one of all their boxes. Your readers may fancy the general consternation of the tourists ; they may picture the still more poignant grief of the ladies who had just come from Paris, and who were, therefore, more largely provided with trunks and portmanteaus and won derful packages of various shapes even than ladies usually are. There they were without even a comb or a tooth brush ; and the worst of it was that, though the telegraph was set to work, it could give them no information. One would have thought that the luggage of sixteen persons could not possibly have passed out of sight. Yet neither at Paris nor at any of the subsequent stations could the impedimenta be heard of. At last, after an interval of a day or two, they were found quietly travelling through Belgium eastwards. One of the attractions in the London shop-windows just now is a collection of plate in Messrs. Elkington's shop, Waterloo-place. It consists of a silver vase, goblet, and other articles, which were taken from Magdala by the army under Sir R. Napier. They have been awarded to one of the Bombay native regiments. My literary budget refers chiefly to newspapers. As regards books, authors, like artists, declare this to have been the worst season they have ever known. The circu lation of the Globe has increased very largely since the paper has been improved in its con tents and reduced in price. There is much talk of a thorough reorganisation of the Athencemn, under the management of Sir C. Dilke, and it must be confessed that there is room for improvement. The writers have belonged too much to one sect, and have used their posi tion to eulogise each other's books. Opposition is threatened by the great monarch of Albermarle-street, and if Mr. Murray does carry out his intention of issuing a literary paper, he will no doubt do it well. There is an obvious disadvantage, so far as the public are con cerned, in a close connection between a critical journal and a publishing firm. But the connection is likely to be beneficial to the publisher, inasmuch as it will encourage authors to arrange with a gentleman who has important facilities for helping the sale of the books he Clings out. In fact, I know of one magazine of high standing which is carried on at a loss by an emi nent publishing firm, solely for the clientele it secures them. Once a Week is sold, and Mr. Dallas will not longer edit it. The Round Table, an admirable American newspaper, of the Satunlay Review class, has, in spite of its excellent qualities, had so little success that it has been merged in a very inferior paper, full of sensational tales, filched from English sources. Echoe3 is still published, notwithstanding the heavy damages just awarded in an action for libel. A new paper, the Period, is announced to appear on September 1. It is proposed to be illustrated. Its price is to be ?,d„ and its literary value may be estimated from the fact that the prospectus announcing its appearance and contents contains 131 words, all beginning with Ole letter P. To read this sort of stuff every week would qualify for Han well. Finally, as regards. newspapers, Mr. Bigelow has been appointed editor of the New York Times. Among the books of the approaching autumn, there will be, in addition to those which I mentioned in former letters, two biographies of great interest. The one is a life of Mrs. Austen, the novelist, written by her nephew, the Rev. J. Austen Leigh, vicar of Beay, the other is a memorial of Miss Mitford by the Rev. G. L'Estrange and the Rev.W. Harness.—Lord Broughton has left his papers to the British Aluseum, with strict injunctions that they are not to be opened until 1900.—Canon Bright bas just been making an ecclesiological tour in Normandy and Brit tany, and is writing an account of it for the Monthly Packet, which is edited by his friend, Miss Yonge, the novelist.—A penny edition of " Hymns Ancient and Modern" has been published.—A complete edition of the works of Charles Sumner is being prepared at Boston and will consist of ten volumes, prefixed by a biographical sketch."—Mr. Howells, the author of " Venetian Life," and " Italian Journeys," will bring out a new work in the Autumn.—Mrs. Beecher Stowe and Miss Catherine Beecher have brought out a household guide, entitled " The American Woman's Home, or, Principles of Domestic :Science." -- A new autobiography of Barnum is promised. But the book which of all others is sure to be read is a narrative by Mr. Masten - Ilan (the late chief of President Lopez's medical staff), of his seven years' service in Paraguay. If Mr. Masterman's account he true, Lopez must be a worse tyrant than Theo dore of Abyssinia. The Englishmen were for two years in almost daily expectation of torture and execution. The writer of a letter in yesterday's Times, beaded " A Voice from Cheyne Walk," and signed "D. M.," is Daniel Maclise, the artist and Royal Academician. Mr. Dickens is the author of the article on Fechter's acting in the August number of the Atlantic Montlil The Norwich Festival opens on the 31st, and its pro gramme will include Rossini's " Messe Solennelle," Men delssohn's " Hymn of Praise," Handel's " Acis and Galatea " and " Messiah," Spohr's " Fall of Babylon," and a portion of an unpublished cantata, " Hezekiah," by a local composer named Pierson. The Worcester Festival follows shortly afterwards, and its one novelty will be Mr. Sullivan's "Prodigal Son." _ _ _ A monster concert at the Crystal Palace' is talked of. There will be a series of concerts at Exeter Hall in October, under the direction of Mr.'Henry Leslie, and at which Nilsson, and Trebelli•Bettini will sing. Joachim having been appointed to the new Berlin Conse7vatoire, will play for only one week at the Monday popular concerts. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. exchequer. Thefbelieve that these changes "MUM render the voluntary system complete end efficient, and would prepare the way for compulsory educa tion. This scheme is in opposition to the views of the National Education League, whereof Mr. Dixon, M.P., is the president. He holds, we believe, that voluntary schools and compulsory attendance are incompatible. THE REORGANISATTOW OF THE IRISH CIILTII CIT. On the first issue of the resolutions of the Irish Church bishops, in which the intention to call a National Synod was declared, the laity expressed themselves perfectly satisfied, for they understood that such a body would include themselves. It is not now at all clear, however, that such is the inten tion of the prelates. At any rate, none of them has taken steps to consult the lay members. The pro vincial synods which have been called to take the first steps towards the formation of a representative body have been very guardedly confined to the clergy. Does not this evidently mean, it is asked, that the General Synod will also be clerical and nothing more ? If it does, the bishops will find it very diffi cult to keep the Church together. A large body of the laity have declared that they will have a voice in its government, or will not belong to the Church. The Times says that if the clerical scheme is pressed " there would be an immediate schism." With only one section, the extreme high Church, does the exclusion of the lay element find favour ; by a large party it is denounced as fatal to the life and energy of the Church, and as tending towards narrowness and bigotry. So that the Bishops will find it diffi cult—it is said, impossible—to construct a governing body like Convocation. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRELATES. The Freeman's Journal announces that the Roman Catholic prelates are assembled in Dublin to delibe rate on various questions of imperial interest. They have been summoned by Cardinal Cullen two months before the usual time, on account of the urgency of the crisis. The principal subjects for discussion are the Land Bill, the Educa tion Bill, and a supplement to the Church Bill, with the view of getting the cathedrals. It is thought that the Bishops have been induced to meet earlier than usual by the attitude which the Board of Trinity College took up on Mr. Fawcett's motion. RETROGRESSION. The Dublin algid is advocating a strange retro gression ; it proposes that all people in Ireland shall bear arms to protect themselves during times of ex citement. It speaks contemptuously of the extra constables who have been appointed; characterising such endeavours of the Government to preserve peace as "English efforts to stir up strife." In order to keep the mob from rioting, and to prevent great mischief if rioting is begun, our con temporary would put into the hands of excited parti sans the means of killing one another. It would banish the policemen, who are trained (however imperfectly) to stop rioting ; and would entrust the preservation of quietness to the public at large. It is the sight of the man in blue and the soldiers in red, keeping them apart that make the Orangemen and the " Nationalists" hate one another. Were the " foreign " invader removed they would fly, not at one another's throats, but into one another's arms, and use swords and pistols to protect one another. THE CHURCH CONGRESS. Dr. M'Neile will have no right hand of fellowship for those with whom he does not agree, with " Ritualists " least of all. The forthcoming Church Congress at Liverpool is to be attended by men of all parties. Mr..Mackonochie is to speak, as well as the Dean of Ripon. At this the latter cleric is indignant, and has written to one of the secretaries, protesting against the recognition of such a man as Mr. Maciconochie as a fellow-labourer in the Church. Dr. M'Neile thinks it wrong to allow a clergyman whose opinion happens to be discordant with his own to attend a meeting at which Church questions are to be discussed. Discussion is, accord ing to him, permissible only when all persons are agreed. He would have the Church of the nation a sect. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE PROGRAMME. It has often been remarked that the line of sepa ..tion between science and social science is exceed ingly ill-defined, and that it is impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins. This year, however, the two subjects are quite distinct. At the forthcoming " Congress" of the Sociologis ts, which is to be held in Bristol during the wee k beginning September 29th, the subjects to be dis cussed are as unquestionably " social" as they are important. Thus the Muncipal Law Section will consider the legal and constitutional relations between England and her colonies ; the best mode of introducing a system of public prosecution, and the limits which ought to be placed by law upon charitable endowments. The Reformatory Section will discuss legislation against infanticide, and the Industrial and Reformatory Acts of 186 G. The Education Department will have before it subjects of the greatest interest and the highest importan ce ; such as the incompatibility of an unsectarian scheme of education with religious teaching, the promotion of the education of the destitute by the State, and the mode of bringing educational endow ments within; the reach of all. At least of equal importance are the topics set down for the Health Department. They are put in the form of queries. " Can Government beneficially ? further , interfere to limit the spread of Infectious Diseases " " What Legislative Measures might be proposed to deal with Cases of Uncontrollable Drunkenness '?" " Should the Contagious Diseases Act be extended to the Civil Population ?" The Economy and Trade department will take under consideration the desira bibility of giving State aid to emigration, the im provement of the administration of the poor law, and amelioration of the condition of the agricultural labourer. The sociologists have their work cut ont for them. BIRMINGHAM AND THE EDUCATION QUESTION. The clergy of Birmingham do not at all like the idea of free and rate-supported schools. I\ early the whole or them, together with a considerable number of laymen, have had a meeting to denounce the Innovation. They say that such schools would inevitably supersede the present voluntary system ; which is rather a strange argument from the ministers of a State and rate supported Church. It does, in fact, prove nothing, unless it proves that the present voluntary school system has supplied all the educational wants of the community. The opponents of the new system object to it further, because it is unjust to throw upon local rates a burden which, if imposed at all, should be borne by the whole income of the county. Thi s i s , perhaps, sound political economy, bunt it would remove the control of the schools entirely from the hands of the clergy—a contingency which they scarcely desire. Moreover, educatien is a good investment, and if more of the rates were spent on schoolmasters, less would be spent upon gaolers. To do the Birmingham clergy justice, they do not content themselves with merely protesting. They do not like one &Theme but they are prepared with another. They wou ld meet the case of those who are too poor to pay school-fees by empowering the Town Council to grant free tickets, paid for out of a penny rate (so that, after all, they do accept the rating principl e ). Th e y w o uld meet the religious . difficulty by a conscience clause which should pre serve the freedom of the managers at the same time that it exempted from the religious lesson the children of those who objected to it They would have larger local grants for Poor districts made out of the imperial Int DIMAELI IN 13IIMINGIIA.U. The desire of the Birmingham Conservatives is gratified. Mr. Disraeli is paying a visit to them. The local Conservative paper chronicles with evident delight how the distinguished visitors, Mr. Disraeli and Viscountess Beaconsfield, Lady Mabel and Florence Bridgman, Lord and Lady 13agot, the Earl and Countess of Bradford, and the Marchioness of Aylesbury have been visiting a small-arms manufactory. We are told that all the machinery was "carefully inspected," that the late Premier took great interest in what he saw, and on leaving, after expressing regret at not having more time to see the works, allowed the Earl of Bradford to write his (Mr. Disraeli's) name in the visitors' book. THE MONEY MARKET AND THE BUDGET. The bankers are beginning to dread tho ill effects to them of Mr. Lowe's Budget. When their views were urged upon him in the parliamen tary session, the Chancellor of the Exchequer replied very sharply. Why should he consider the money market ?he asked. In his calmer moments Mr. Lowe has again bad the subject brought before him. A memorial has been sent to him by the London private bankers, calling attention to the `great inconvenience which will arise from the payment ,of such a large amount of taxes in January next. the official reply is stated to be remarkably mild and civil. The letter points out that it is too late to deal with the hardship now, but the suggestions which have been made and the views of the memorialists will not be lost sight of on a future occasion. THE ALBERT ASSURANCE COMPANY. The bankruptcy of the Albert Assurance Company has naturally called forth suggestions as to the means of preventing such calamities for the future. One writer recommends that a periodical publication of accounts by all assurance and other companies of the kind be made compulsory. The Times City article doubts if this measure would not effect more harm than good. " For instance, if an assurance com pany stated its assets, the statement would be of no real value unless these assets were specified in detail, since they might consist of notes of hand of insolvent borrowers or of worthless bonds or stares. On theother hand, if they were specified in detail they might pass with the multitude as very desirable securities,although the majority of business men in London might at a glance perceive them to be of a dangerous character, just as for years they have known the Albert to be an unsafe office, while the outside world were ready to trust it to the extent of eight millions." But it seems open to consideration whether this publicity, defective though it may be, would not be preferable to the absolute secrecy which is now productive of such evils. There are plenty of men connected with newspapers who understand business, and who might reveal the truth to the public. THE BISHOPS' RESIGNATION BILL. dome of the papers have been dealing very uncha ritably with the Bishop of Winchester; they have been upbraiding him very severely for not availing himself of the bill allowing him to resign, whereas he has always intended to do so. "J. M. Sumner" writes to the Standard to the effect that while he knows nothing of the intentions of the Bishops of Exeter and Chichester, he does know as a fact " that on the day on which the Bishop of Winchester was made acquainted, through the medium of the daily papers, that the bill in question had become law, a communication was made to the Archbishop of Canterbury, announcing his lordship's intention to resign at as early a period as was com patible with existing engagements." Will the other disabled prelates take courage by this example, and go and do likewise ? • EMIGRATION. Mr. Elihu Burritt calls public attention to a now society for facilitating the export of labour from England to America. The International Land and Labour Agency has been established to aid those who may wish to find a home in the United States. It is much like those associations which already exist for the same purpose, differing only in being American rather than English. The same society proposes to be a medium for the interchange of com modities. England is to have from America the cheap domestic utensils which abound thc\re ; America is to be provided with English agricultural imple ments. An interchange of fruit trees and seeds of all kinds is also suggested. OAKUM PICKING. Oakum picking is a great punishment doubtless, and may, perhaps, tend to make our prisons more fearful ; but is there any reason for making it a workhouse task ? Tearing up old ropes is not very productive work, and some bettee and less detested kind of labour might, we fancy, be provided for those who must do penance for their bed and board. Such penan2e might be tolerated if nothing better could be found; but it is absurd to make girls work at that which does not pay for the labour bestowed upon it. Besides, we have authority for stating that it chives many a girl into vice. It keeps hundreds off the rates, that is admitted ; but would it not be better to give those hundreds work which would pay for their mainte nance ? THE WESLEYAN CLASS-MEETING QUESTION. The expediency of shutting out or reproving Mr. Hughes, the Wesleyan minister, who was degrad e d by the Conference for writing against the cla ss meeting as a test of membership, is being v er y warmly discussed in the Press. Several of th e Liberal papers hold that a body like the Wesleyan society—inasmuch as it professes to b e on l y a i sec tion of the Church s perfectly justified in excluding from itself any person s w h o d o not hold its doctrines. Against this it is argued that " human institutions " should adapt themselves to circumstances, and move with the time, else they become obsolete and fall altogether. O n thi s ground a reasonable alteration, even of foundations, should not be opposed, except for its demerits. In this case " Brother Hughes" pointed out that a rule, making attendance on class neces sary to membership was so often broken as to be nugatory. He, therefore, wrote to the effect that it should be rescinded. At the same time he pointed out some objections to c l ass meet i ngs which " fellow-Christians worthy of being members" might urge against the institution. For so writing he had been reproved. The question is agai n ono o f c omprehension and " sectionalisms." EJECTMENT OF COTTAGERS AT BOLTON. --- A strange scene took place at Bolton this week when the occupiers of a plot of land which had been purchased by the railway company, were forcibly ejected. An old woman, named Hulme, who lived in One of the cottages on the land, refused' to leave, claiming the land as herown. The bailiffs took forcible possession and partly destroyed the cottages. The ejected families were dispersed among the neigh bours, Mrs. Hulme and her family " camping out " by a fire they lighted. There has been a great deal of litigation already respecting this piece of ground, and now Mrs. Hulme threatens to throw it into Chancery. TILE BANK RATE. Yesterday afternoon the directors of the Bank of England reduced the rate of discount to 21 per cent. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) WASHINGTON, July 30. The Treasury department has despatched Mr. Barn - field to New Orleans in a legal way to represent the Government in the prosecution for the late frauds, pending the absence in Europe of the District At torney ; Mr. Kinsella, a highly efficient Treasury agent, accompanying him to the Crescent city to aid him in the work. Postmaster-General Creswell met with an accident last Sunday at his home in Cecil county, ;.Maryland ; the chair on which he was sit ting balanced on its hind legs, tipped over, and he broke his arm in the heavy fall. Ex-Senator Hendricks, Senator Harlan, and Congressmen Nib lack, Orth, Van Horn, and Upson were in the train of the Union Pacific Railway which met with the accident at Sidney Station, Nebraska. A naval court-martial assembled yesterday to try Surgeon Green, of the Nipsic, who was sent to Washington in arrest, charged with disobedience of orders, in having declined to comply with the order of Com mander Selfridge, to put a sailor on duty wh o had been on the sick list. The case involves a question which has caused much bickering in our Navy between the line and staff officers. Coun sel will represent both the department and the de fendant. The Court sits in the Navy -yard, com posed as follows :—Captain H. K. Davenpok Pre sident; Commander John Lee Davis, A. W. Weaver, J. Young, A. W. Johnson, Surgeon L. J. Williams, and D. H. Barman, members ; and John W. Bell, Esq., Judge-Advocate. The coloured preacher, Mr. Lynch, has been here for some time, and at tracted a large congregation to the Wesleyan Me thodist Church last Sunday—Governor Sharkey and Judge Dent among the number, both men of his own State of Mississippi. It is believed that Mr. Lynch supports Judge Dent, but it is not cer tain, although Dent is believed to advocate general amnesty and universal suffrage, the platform on which Mr. Lynch stands. Both Dent and Sharkey left for Long Branch to discuss the subject of the election with the President., and it is reported here thatMr.Dent is inclined to withdraw from the canvas, fearing that it might injure the Republican party, to which he says he belongs. As in this General Grant concurs, it is probable that the President's brother-in-law will decline to be a candidate at all. The Hamilton party is taking vigorous measures to secure its success in Texas. Michael Hahn, of Lou isiana, has been engaged to stump the State during October. The Administration favour the election of Stokes in Tennessee ; of this he has been assured by Secretary Creswell, but the opinion prevails that Senterwill carry the day notwithstanding, as he com bines the Andrew Johnson as well as the Parson Brownlow in terests, besidesbeing Governor already— no small thing in his favour. A letter appeared in the State Journal from Mr. Boutwell to Mr. Stokes ex pressing great interest in his election, and his con viction that the future of Tennessee depended largely upon the continuance of the Republican party in power, of which Stokes and his supporters were the representatives, while the so-called Republican sup porters of Senter were, in truth, the enemies of the party. Secretary Rollins returned on Tues day ; Attorney-General Hoar leaves directly for Massachusetts. Lemus, the Cuban insurgent agent, leaves for New York to-night. A session has been held by the Cabinet to-day, to attend which the President and Secretary Fish came from Long Branch. The test oath, as applied to the members of the Virginia Legislature, was believed to be dis cussed, as was the course of the Legislature with re gard to the Mississippi election. The negro rioters at our municipal elections have got off cheaply with 20 days' imprisonment each, and Judge Fisher has decided that a police-officer has not the right to arrest without a warrant unless he be a witness of the offence. A memorial is preparing to be pre sented to Congress asking that this city and George town be united under a /single municipal govern ment and called the City of Washington. The military and naval officers complain, as well as the clerks and officials generally, of the income tax as now levied on them. Others deduct rent, bad debts, and so on, from their incomes ; but a department clerk cannot do this, the rule being that it be taken in the gross from his salary. General Saxton's case has been brought up for discussion ; that officer under orders proceeded from Georgia to Oregon ; but from his mileage five per cent. being deducted, he appealed against it as not a matter of emolument, but of outlay. It bears absurdity on its face, for if the mileage allowed be over the cost of a fair expenditure for the journey it should be reduced, but, if it be not, to levy five per cent. for income-tax is to order an officer from one end of the country to another, and mulct him in heavy damages every time, so that the Commander-in- Chief could ruin an officer simply by keeping him continually travelling. General Canby has ordered the payment of 1 percent. of the overdue interest of the Virginia Debt, which will take from the Treasury $380,000, the payment to be made im mediately. This is good news for the holders, and I incline to the opinion that the Virginia State Debt will soon be paying property, as no State is making more progress ; the disbursement is to be made after August 15, which, by the way, will be on Sunday. A New Yorker is very indignant with the Collec tor, whom he says has intimated to him and others, that unless they pay the income tax by the 30th July, 5 per cent. will be added to the sum, and 1 per cent. a month from the time it became due. This the New Yorker declared to be illegal, and applied to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, who gave him an extract from the law which com pletely settled that question. The Hon H. D.Moore is at Willard's, Schofield and Lawrenceare also here, all on business connected with their districts. The President and family go to Saratoga on Tuesday, where the proprietors of an hotel have fitted up a splendid suite of apartments for their use. This will carry the crowd to that watering place which has not been so much frequented as usual this season. General Grant leaves this to-day, having got through an unusally long sitting of a Cabinet meeting yesterday, at which all were present but Mr. Creswell. Commissioner Delano had num berless intricate questions to decide. Ile has just ruled that old rails re-rolled and sold are liable to a special tax of $2 per $l,OOO upon all such sales, in excess of $1,250 per quarter. The Secre tary of the Gettysbury Memorial Association has invited the Generals who fought in both armies at the Battle of Gettysburg to a meeting at Gettys burg, that they may fix the principal spots which were made memorable by the cont_st. The meet ing is proposed to take place on August 23. I see you have been noticing a book written by a Captain French Townshend, from which the ex tracts that appeared in the London papers have excited the indignation of Nevada. The Reese Ricer Reveille laughs scornfully at the picture drawn by Captain Townshend of the Austin miners play ing faro with revolver and bowie-knife before them. It asserts that the great bearded ruffians" who seem to have horrified him so much are generally men of the kindliest hearts, and not unfrequently of culture. [The Reese River Reveille has been betrayed into calling Captain Townshend harsh names by reading only an extract. Had the editor read the book he would have seen that it was written in a fair and good spirit, making allowance for a Britisher's prejudices ; the opinion he formed of the men of the Far West being, that these " great-bearded ruffians" were, as a general rule, fine, warm-hearted generous fellows.—ED. A.A.T.] TO TILE EDITOR OF TIIE ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES. BoCLOGNE-SuR-MER, Aug 9. Sin, --Very few Americans who come abroad to see the Old World, and cross the Channel from Folkestone, climb up the'gangway of the South- Eastern Railway Company's steamers at this port, arc aware, that old city is one of the most interest ing places historically on the Continent of Europe. Paris—Paris ! the American's earthly heaven—is uppermost in the brain. They trundle off with their 6 4 U.S.A." labelled trunks to the station, swallow a hasty plate of soup, jump into the " cars," and re signing themselves to the care of the Great Northern Railway Company, are soon dreaming of New French kids, dresses, and the gaieties of La Belle Ville de Paris, where they stay until their money and time are spent, returning only a little wiser, a little better, and all the poorer in purse than when they first left the New World. For the over-worked man, as most Americans who come abroad are, and the in valid, Boulogne and its environs, with its walks, rides, drives, pic-nics, and fishing excursions, say ing nought of its superior advantages for sea-bathing at this season of the year, is scarcely equalled or to be surpassed. Its hotels are numerous, large, and well conducted ; the attention travellers receive here is worthy of note. I know of no place where, on first landing, you are so politely attended to. The officials do not bore and provoke you by idle and unnecessary curiosity or search ; the touters of the hotels, porters, and cabmen do not thrust either their hands or whips in your faces or ribs. If you ask a question, you receive a prompt and civil reply. With the exception that you do not speak French, and therefore cannot converse freely you at (MCC feel at home, and can act freely, amongst a homely people, enterprising, industrious, moral, and intelligent. There is no better governed place on the Continent than the ancient city of Boulogne " on the sea," under its learned and dis tinguished mayor, Dr. Livois, who, with his wife, are keenly alive to official duty, and ever on the qui vice to promote every good cause and object worthy of attention. I heard the doctor recently promulgate a sentiment, which, if acted upon throughout the world, would expunge the word " foreigner" from the dictionary and make the people akin. lie said in public he hoped " the time would speedily come when no man would be de signated as a foreigner." It is to Dr. Livois and his administration that citizens and strangers owe a debt of gratitude for providing the New Estab lishment des Bains, a noble edifice, kept open summer and winter, and under municipal care, and devoted entirely to public service, under a very efficient and attentive director. I consider it a model establishment for the world, there, are grande or petite saloon gardens or esplanades to which the stranger has access on proper introduction and t n he f payment of a small sum. You can have the run r i the building, choice of amusements, good, 0 06111 ; cheap, and innocent music to your heart's ex° D o i and the choicest in variety. Dancing and a varie t Y, sports and games are provided for old and ra i l' The more quiet and retiring can have the ad /a ci n ; age of a spacious and elegant drawing-room, a ll , , ladies' work-room, a conversation and rean room, and for gentlemen a spacious billiard an d ° e ll rooms. The amusements are numerous, an a 't o distributed throughout the week. The bills sea dancing are arranged thus—on Monday, a 1 1 0 dansante ; Wednesday, bal d'enfants ; afte r 3w f r i• pa's, and ma's, and friends, &c., can have a he? c i• day, a grand full-dress ball, to which none ar e o milled except in full-dress costume. Fetes of i 3 se oli , sort are constantly coming off ; last Friday t he A 3 h. logne Cricket Club, composed of young ifit'v f o r men, bad a swimming match in the encloffire te j gentlemen, a large open space of water, seP ail th a from a like place for ladies by a high wall --at 80 , place ladies are taught to swim, dive, fie 3 , t ' ve il• Yesterday a boat race c am e off, a spirited and contested match between oarsmen of no mean t ratter. By the way, we Boulanais feel a g re3 ; t aal terest in Harvard versus Oxford. There's , ' t a ll ' which should be taken into consideration 1104 parties : whilst the Oxonians have been aee ust : t iJd to rowing on the Thames with a swift runn illb bees and currents, the Harvard men have always b! bf accustomed to row on a river affected ell l l O the tide. " May the best win." If the Ka r a the get beaten, perhaps the Oxonians will challe rjg oer Yale men for next year and find their match; o ist day we have a velocipede race by some ra use , fellows ; on Wednesday and Thursdah ro o ar racing ; on the 15th the Napoleon Fete days cor mence—when all the people leave off work by thr ee wand, and give themselves up to pleasure fe r be gia days; after this the pilgrimages of the p 10135 for to the shrine of Notre Dame et St. Joseph , the interest of your stranger and travelling P.-built I must not forget to mention the aquar il r i t i c alli of immense masses of rock (apparently) ar t ' s 01 0 piled together ; it is of great size ; und er/) ,, e3 tbic! grottos and cavernous recesses, fronted plate glassr eservoirs are constructed Ol e 01' the inhabitants of the seas—many of the fineY' ir itiag lusca, and other species—quite at home , .a your attention for your amusement or instr o 0 The details of the construction of the aqua riu „ t , far as finished, are most ingeniously carried e'cricl commend the aquarium as a model for Ae l o is cities. In the town is the library and rnu6eti rapt an old building founded in 1675, once the o'f seminary for the missionaries of the Order w ith Lazarus. The Revolution dealt with this 3/ 0 00 other similar establishments, and it becam e 11 .:3 as property ; a part of the building is ocenl 3l- 4 0,0 0 ' college and a public library of nearly t an d volumes, besides a collection of atl eien dialA highly interesting charts, some of them, Ps, confirming the theory of Mr. henry Ste vel3 o lo o Cape Cod, New York Bay, &c., was on l y i ibrad beyond the Ganges" of a Marco Polo. T he y contains some rare illuminated missals, 8 e book lare to settle the question whether the mans sailed from this place to conquer 1 3 'T 03 has been decided that Caesar's fleet sailed It° 5 o ° v t of ' port from the river Liane, where his flee' ell fe', vessels were moored. They must have be- A t t b i small craft, and if the sea ran as hig" be conqueror's time as it does now sometim e `',lo l3 ' have had a tough voyage even across the ' 1 j igs The museum abounds with treasures, ar e rn itb ° ' cal, geological, of natural history, and a ll ° e ver ° logical collection seldo m me t w ith ; the s P 00 are remarkably well set up • so also, are t he 3 0 0 4 . fishes, and r ptiles, in g o o d form and p rese i ro 111 ' , i The collection of Raman antiquities fo ° w ill O f region is very large, and the numismat ist , ca ses ° much to interest him in the well - arranged 11 iliac' coins and medals. The ceramic art 15 e f o r eig ti tratedin the Roman and middle ages, and the i poJ els ' curiosities, among which are arms, costuln e he s ; 33 o . 1 0 11 , ; Egyptian relics of no mean order. T b can boast of an Egyptian mummy, of Whi e . 0 oil' never seen the equal, and it is not of Pari si i 3 le r e ola t, ufacture ; on the whole, a fresher and h e. f lection for the amusement and instruction o r/ P iC I ; young will seldom be met with. The lih r3 ,,: o eA l i ture gallery, and museum arc always an resort on rainy and holidays. Church es ' r ,` 093 v„, and modern, abound, for French, Eng li , 6 , /l h ' t'S e t ; Catholic, or English Catholic—query , " r , - , 5 , 0 t difference now-a-days ? The visitor nos` es o ' 4 1 0 get the market in the Place Dalton ou " fin ' v 'll w", 00 and Saturday—one of the sights. He A tidy, attentive, chattering dames nes er'+ fr il A v amongst their well-laden baskets of flo' ta $ 5 vegetables, and live stock of ducks , chickens, which they cruelly treat by , Fro Begatt- 1 3 I f e legs until they are sold, and heads off • Mal tables, and flowers are abundant. a.° og coao, many and as beautiful flowers for sd. anYle"io in Covent-garden Market for 2s. or hslp wea the t The season is now at its height. T he li d 1 331 teci pleasant, and everybody looks smiling s t ings' , o f The town is full. Amongst the s r eyt el3 ; is strangers is the literary exile Col. J. ' pliv'i l eb Virginia ; and it i s announ ced that J e ff ' : a l here, or is about t o b ecom e a reside nt " to 0 63 0 0 for Boulogne-on-the-Sea. If you or r e afer the readers want a respite from care C °11 ,,, i oY er , o o o have a dip in the briny, and take a ttl th e cliffs, and see how old England looks frolo Napoleon.—Very truly yours, 4;0 3. A SPOKE FRO 511 PRICE OF GOLD. At Otitis& ot A_ ste t o t The quotation of gold at Paris IS ab ° To r I pa the short exchange on London is 25f. 171e '„ r Ot t ' 0 t '" On Comparing these rates with the Englis' apps 1 , 0 it eg i ,t 4 £3 tie. 100. per ounce for standard g01d , ,,„ sou ~; 1 10' ,ra gold at the above price is the same in Loh°7 oo for '''' te it'' The course of exchange at New York on Len' t t his 1 %, , A days' sight was on the 16th inst.lo9l, per col" -pito" A is no profit on the importation of gold from the erO ill a ..=_____---____---------- T o, a r e E t X h C e LU p AS P 0 1 9 properties E R o f Y L l a lt m r p O i l o t u T g A Ii N T, RAUB/ moo , C 00 , , 8 Pyretie 6 t io9. c riti 0 worst headaches, sickness, skin, or biliarY aff fistV -1A gIP palatable, and invigorating. Sold by all Che'' lo is 1 3 01 . ° r lr !ADVERTISEMENT. J—Avold Medicines: WY !val e 1 0 ,0 ef o l chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delieio u :;,nes t r r° 0 0,e Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three, :':, -- 0 the_ 40 0,,,1, ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cosz,:o'g oe: rict j/ e e r ? and invariably restores perfect digestion, str i v eo p, fwea , „ 00 4 0 lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing ' eta ce- at e gularity, alai energy to the most disordered or e . a ma w 11, s i it tract a few out of the 68,000 cures :—" The Pew, .Nell o tif e , e y by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68.413. ''''' ° t esP e ;elf e gin —The health of the Holy Father is exeelleh a i i io , 0 0 1,0 0 e l abandoning all other remedies, he has condit e h teh I ] l ,, e eglf do to Du Barry's Revalenta. Arabiea Food, of I/ orpr'i',ol l3 ; l :et a plateful at every meal. It has produced ~o ptiil r i o ' o o fleial effect on his health, and his Holiness canlidi, J o ? o ff 01 lent food too highly." From the "Gazettedtt,; 50 1 0 „ 0 a fou tril No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehtta,f;s9, V/ e eil ; Vo' complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousrt 48 ep 1, 71 4 4 0 ,0 palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant:, I•l o ,,lvft' l c f, U l2 ' of 1- 4 07 4 the most intolerable nervous agitation.. ~ Cur d, , 0 sr , t el-0 Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of wer. cr inah' it , P r e irt dyspepsia. No 19,832: " Fifty years' inu e s tipt i° ye e a dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough , 0.' 9, j o u. of sot, l'of spasms, sickness, and vomitiisorreY, „Ol e o 0 0 0 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Fernley, , & rat's ! th Op: diseased lungs, spitting of blood, in,, s care h ich,' t oe,,ps; partial deafness. Important Caution.---; t o rif s ii S i o vP unsavoury and more than sloppy trit itot do icT, ; i c od authority, Baron Liebig's name is most fibs 11 '. CP , ' el g In tins, at Is lad; Ilb 2s ir; 21bs 4s 5d ' it jo ie . , , fo r ; 0;0 21 lbs 40s. -Also Do BARRY'S REVALENT.A. f,, s atg; liP a ro y POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 11 , 3 1, 0 " 0 1 :f o r tio s or de o rl at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at Cs, for 288 cups a.. 0, and 5 0 0 011 _....................." —being about one penny per cup. The ' r post" yen free of carriage in England on receipt 0 ~., stree t, RAR 1. Y Du BARny and Co., No. 77, Itcgc °6 all Grocers and Chemists : A Er los lion.l A i n, r , R L i. , r O sr. n E the lB t h Evelyn Ash ß lien / y ß s,t 7: o: :/ aa Si da6ll4oi c tear ci . oo l_ , l 2, l ::::: col t n Es . Ni- i —l i o Fr elder, f-ko7;u:g—hOteßr the 18th inst, the CounteS9 t° ton, a daughter. if MARRIAGES. ,4 0 1)1+ De tli,. V I , , 1; 1 ~,, wsritY—On the 17th inst., St ito i'rVlP' D ' 0113 e. of John Reseby, Esq ., • " Derl4, Francis Pearson, of 10borsta gore , .„,,, c 1, ',,,, ) I.' COLT shire, Wiliiani John, only surviving son ( ?, 1. to eldest daughter DICKENS Thornton, of Harrow on-the-I,,itli'vtlll, T"—WALL—On the 18th inst., at P ' f Ville IV,-alje°' daughter of Mr. George Wall, of 1) , I $ 54.1 DEA TBS. .4 1, Col L - the 17th inst., %Vat. Jogep.- „or e ' of Nahum Hall, near York, aged 77• , tocit.69. 1 Wells Captain S. T. Dielieni, lt ' d • 0 13 A .N., age • ~ FREEMAN—Ou the 18th inst. at Northainpto., --FOreuemt,liio, .11;1:h, aigneslit 80• 25, Taws pie ...si r ' q ' .010 j, T AII A' t, London: Printed and Published by W 1...--- ~,,' , 2, ~ei, i of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tun SUN Office ~'''4l4,lloP in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Cou r " °f Friday, August 20, 18,3".