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FOR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their business. For trades and ad dresses. see following advertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. The It 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 measurina• and fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, which contain a very large and diver sified stock of materials. For the convenience of 'Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee • a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should l e accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be Theerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the :money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can he made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and 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 mre, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Estahlishmonts are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATB 87, ALDGATE 88, ALDGATE SO, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET •09, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 133, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Head Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association are Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. 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 RUE, ESQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The:Report which the directors have now to submit to the proprietor differs in its tenor but little save in one or two particular from that laid before them in 1868. the income of the year, it will be seen, amounts t £510,499 18s., and the total charge to £445,077 10s. 9d The difference, £95,422 7s. 3d., 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 FUND ACCOUNT, JUNE 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. £ s. d. X s. d DR. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 Premiums on new assur ances Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 371,518 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,508 4 11 47,991 13 1 •• 436,187 6 9 Profit and loss, balance of account Total income £1,44 , ,052 G 6 Examined and approved.. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors HENRY ROSE. CHARGE OF THE I E:IEZ. x s. d. CR. Dividend to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured Additions to those under participating policies Policies surrendered Re-assurances —new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 .£ s. d. 8,880 4 0 403,561 12 1 Commission Medical fees Income tax 3,017 15 8 ExpenBes of management 16,238 9 10 Total charge Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance-sheet • 1,002,974 15 9 £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. ld., of which sum £13,560 ss. Id. is for new assurances effected in the year. The interest from investments is £120,959 12s. 10d., or £4 2s. per cont. 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 43.1 a previous occasion, the proper quin quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex ceeds £309,000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management. are greater by nearly £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. JUNE 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors £6,757 17 0 Claims on decease of lives assured, and additions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' fund 172,202 10 0 urplus fund £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors . HENRY ROSE, en ASSETS. Amount invested in fixed mortgages £1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 Ditto ditto Temporary secu rities 198,207 17 0 Current interest on the above investments 30,934 4 6 Cash and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the company's policies 165,387 1 8 Agents' balances Sundry accounts Value of premiums (1867) .... 4,506,167 18 0 Value of re-assurances 85,706 14 5 £7,675,813 0 10 The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of 4'95,422 7s. 3d. already mentioned, as is shown by the augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. The Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows : WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairmn.n. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, EsQ., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq. BirJ.BullerEast, Bt., D.C.L. Lomas GodfreySambrooke, Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq. F. R.S. Admiral Tindal. OnnrlesTbos.Flolcombe,Esq.l Joshua. Lockwood, Esq. flight lion. Sir John Young Bart., K.C.B. THE , 4 SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE " NEW FAMILY " SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW E3IBROIDERY STITCH. Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a Portable Came for Travelling. TII E SINGER " SEWING MACHINES WORLD-RENOWNED AS TIIE LEST '' , l .STEM AND TB E MOST COMPLET VITII NEW IMPP,OVEMENT: 101 IN GOSNF.LL and CO.'S CHERRY e-- 1 TOOTH PASTE is greatly suporior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from deoty. and imparts a pleai.ant fravraneo to the breath. Price is. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. FOR EVELY CLASS OF SEWING hires enables any une t. _ . . require their perfect use in t taw hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free, THE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY. • Chief Office in tha United Kingdom; 147, CTIEAPSIDE. ORYSTAL PALACE.—THIS DAY (MON v DAY).—Great Combined Vote---Arrangements. Palace open at ... 10. 0 Fountains ... ... 2. 0 Opera Lucia di Lammermoor" ... ... 2.45 Great Velocipede and Bycyle Competition in Centre Transept ... 5.45 Fireworks and Illuminated Fountains ... 7.30 Palace lighted up for Promenade, during which Mr. Coward will play the Festival Organ till 9.30 Admission, as usual, ONE SHILLING. Stalls and Reserved Seats for Opera and Fireworks at the Palace. Season Tickets may be obtained at each entrance, one guinea each. "The test guinea's worth in the world.". CRYSTAL PALACE.—THIS DAY.—GREAT VELOCIPEDE CONTEST and COMPETITION, in Centre Transept at a quarter to Six o'clock. NOTE.—The interest taken in these competitions and contests is astonishing. All the makers and risers com pete. The performances occupy about one hour. CRYSTAL PALACE.—TIIIS DAY (MON DAY).—Magnificent DISPLAY of FIREWORKS and Grand Illumination of the Great Fountain Jets and Terrace Fountains, by Messrs. Brock - , of Nunhead, the only English Pyrotecbnists to the Crystal Palace. This Day, Sept. 13, the Pyrotechnic Programme will include the great Cascade of Fire, Illumination of the Lawns, Cedars, Shrubberies, &c., Descent of Fiery Comet, special set pieces, &c. ; and, notwithstanding its great cost, the Arc do Triomphe set piece, which on the occasions of the last two displays has called forth the most unanimous and enthusiastic expressions of delight. During the after noon Donizetti's admired opera, "Lucia di Lammer moor," will be performed. Edgar Ravenswood, Mr. George Perren ; Lucy Ashton, Mdlle. Florence Lancia (her first appearance in that character). VELOCIPEDE TRIALS. After the opera a display of velocipede riding by the English and Continental champions, and other gentlemen and manufacturers' riders in the centre transept. No extra charge to this popular combined fete. Ad mission ls. only, or by guinea season tickets, which, ad mitting until 31st August, 1870, may now bo had at all entrances and all agents. Illuminated for promenade until 9 o'cleck. A military band during the fireworks and beforehand. NOTE.-12 o'clock, wind most favourable for a magni ficent display this evening. CRYSTAL PALACE.—GRAND POPULAR CONCERT, WEDNESDAY NEXT.—Mdlle. Chris tine Nilsson, Madame Trebelli-Bettini, Mdlle. Gilardoni, Signor Bettini, and Signor Foli. Solo pianoforte, Mr. James M. Wohli. Crystal Palace Saturday Band. Con ductor, Mr. Manna. The directors have great pleasure in announcing that they have secured the services of Mdlle. Nilsson for the above occasion. Although the expenses of such engage ments as the above must necessarily b • very great, yet it is believed that the opportunity to hear the Diva, supported by such an excellent company, will be gratefully seized by thousands, and will thus prove remunerative to the com pany. The concert will take place at three o'clock on the Great Handel Orchestra, the company's Saturday band accompanying. To render it really a great popular con cert available to all, the charge for admission will not be increased beyond the usual one shilling, or by guinea season tickets. Stalls, half-a-crown, at the Crystal Palace and Exeter Hall. Mdlle. Nilsson will sing, air, "Angels ever bright and fair," Handel; recit. and aria, "A h ! non giunge" (" Son nambula "), Bellini ; Swedish melodies ; scena, "Spargi d'amoro" ("Lucia "), Donizetti. Also in duet, " Ebben per mia " (" Gazza Ladra "), Rossini ; and in quartet, "L'invito el mare," Arditi. Reserved numbered stalls now ready at the Palace, and at 6, Exeter Hall. They should be applied for forthwith. Extra Trains from all stations must come early to be certain of being in time. CIRAND POPULAR CONCERT, with Mdlle. LA NILSSON, and other artistes, NEXT WEDNES DAY, at 3.0. The only Shilling Day. Stalls now ready at Palace and Exeter Hall. BANK OF ENGLAND, 9TH SEPTEMBER, 1869. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the BANK of ENGLAND give notice— That a GENERAL COURT will be held at THE BANK on THURSDAY next, the 16th instant, at 12 o'clock precisely, to consider of a Dividend ; this will also be one of the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the Charter. JOHN T. UORLEY, Deputy Secretary. CLERICAL, AIEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established 1824. The ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, exceeds £227,000 The ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, is over £1,649,000 . _ Forms of Proposal, and every information, can be ob tained of GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary, 13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. COMPENSATION IN CASE OF INJURY, AND A FIXED SUM IN CASE OF DEATH Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY hiNO, may be secured by a Policy of the RAILWAY PASSENGFRS ASSURANCE COMPANY. An Annual Payment of .£3 to .£6 is. insures £l,OOO at Death, aud au Allowance at the rate of £6 per week for Injury. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS ALONE may he provided against by Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Journics. For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to The Local Agents, or at the Offices, 51, CORNIIILL and 10, REGENT STREET, LONDON. WILLIAM J. WAN Secretary. GENTS WANTED FIRY:V I 1 F,TIE to introduce comm.:li les valuable to every bou,,•aolaer nigh andloW. This offers a highly remunorativeC - ounnis:on 'o Tradesmen, Traveller:4, Gentlemen's Servants, Se. Apply with two stamps to It. 3IARRISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. GUA, 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 wonuirful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower rice. 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There will be but one feeling throughout Europe in regard to the last news relating to the Emperor NA POLEON—a feeling, namely, of profound satisfaction. The intelligence referred to is the announcement we have all been, for the last two or three weeks, day after day, longing to receive ; namely, that his MAJESTY'S health has so unmistakeably improved that he: has been enabled to drive into Paris from St Cloud, and traverselin his carriage some of theprin-. cipal streets and boulevards of the capital. Tbis excur sion we now know has been taken. Consequent upon the state of the weather, the EMPEROR was con strained, by prudence, to make a run from his su burban palace into the heart of his metropolis in a covered, instead of—what everyone (himself included) would, beyond any doubt at all, have very much preferred —an open carriage.. However much this may have been a disappointment to the Parisians, the fact of his MAJESTY having been enabled to drive through Paris at all, is regarded by everyone as a matter for very general:exultation. The incident, trivial in itself, gives the lie at once to those sinister alarmists who, either from political malignity, or for mere stock-jobbing purposes, have been setting afloat the most exaggerated accounts of the alarming character of the EMPEROR'S physical condition. NAPOLEON HI. has been seen within these last few hourkby dispassionate observers—as he en joyed his long-delayed drive along the Champs Elysees and the Boulevards. And, as the sceptical axiom has it, " seeing is believing." The Tinzes account of the drive is this, that " the Royal (sic) carriage conveying the convalescent invalid, toge ther with the EMPRESS and the PRINCE IMPERIAL, was driven, on Friday at friur o'clock in the afternoon, through the Champs Ely - sees, the Boulevards, the Rues de la Paix and de Rivoli, up to the Tuileries, whence it afterwards returned to St. Cloud. The weather on Friday was stormy, with gusts of wind from the south-west, and few persons in Paris expected that the EMPEROR would choose such weather for a drive. That was, however, not a pleasure drive, but a duty, and the EMPEROR dis charged it with that resolution which he evinces in all matters about which his mind is made up. The Imperial family were in a close carriage, and, if we may trust eye-witnesses, the EMPEROR looked poorer, thinner, and rather emaciated. But he seemed to be in good spirits, and smiled at the enthusiasm of the mass of people pressing forward in their eagerness to catch a glimpse of him. The Imperial carriage had no escort." Instead of find ing the EMPEROR transformed almost out of re cognition by this three weeks' illness white haired and emaciated, according to the lying gobe mouches of the Bourse—those among the Parisians who caught sight of his MAJESTY during his recent afternoon drive, found him looking very much as usual, with the exception of being (though even that tinnily perceptibly) 'thinner, and I,lauebed by a low diet and a fortnight's confinement to the atmosphere of his private apartments. There is a talk now of NAPOLEON 111. going, for rest and change of air, to the quiet seclusion of his favourite retreat at Biarritz. But, simultaneously, it is said that the Empress EUGENIE will now, in all human probability, set forth upon her often delayed, and at one time it was even thought wholly abandoned, excursion to the East, to Cairo and Constantinople. In any case, there is every reasonable hope, at last, that, released from medical durance, the EMPEROR will now be enabled, nay, not only enabled, will be eager to see, himself, to the full and thorough comple tion of the large and daring political transformation upon which, immediately prior to his recent in lispo sition, he spontaneously and resolutely adventured. Naturally, during his illness, the changes have dragged on to a considerable extent somewhat dis appointingly. But the master mind coming now once again to the fore, France may with confidence anticipate the crowning of the Imperial edifice in earnest, with those constitutional and Par liamentary institutions which the EMPEROR himself was the one to promise, first of all through the famous Message read from the tribune by the lips of M. ROUHER, and afterwards demonstrated to be perfectly assured tothe nation—hereby the change of Ministry, here through the medium of the Senatus Consultum. As Rome, according to the trite old proverb, was not built in a day, so it is only in the fitness of things that a despotism like that wielded dur ing these last seventeen years by NAPOLEON 111. should not be instantaneously changed into a system of Responsible Government, as in the transformation scene in a Christmas Pantomime, everything becomes, in the twinkling of an eye, at the flickering of a stage magician's wand, completely transmogrified ! The motto and'the guiding principle of a peaceful revo lution, so vast and so complicated as the one which the Emperor NAPOLEON 111., has now heroically re solved upon inaugurating and as rapidly as possible carrying_ to a, successful completion, ought to be no other than that compressed epigrammatically into the two old Latin words festina lente. The advice of Prince NAPOLEON really amounts to this, that France should go down the incline, from Despotism to Constitutionalism, at a flying leap, by a hop skip and a jump, or (almost one is tempted to say) by a sort of a wild double summersault. Hap pily, the more sagacious intellect of a Prince of far longer experience, and having a far weightier responsibilty is there—meaning that of the reign ing Sovereign himself—to preside over the Councils of the Great Nation at this mo mentous period of t rans iti on . A n Ex-Red Demo crat,an Ex-Republicaa of the Mountain, during the earlier days of the last Revolutionary period of 1848, is hardly, one would think, the safest and most reliable guide towards the crowning of the despotic institu tions of the Empire with the securest guarantees of Constitutional Government. THERE are two sides to most questions, and the question of Church patronage is certainly no excep tion to the rule.. Nevertheless, it is more than usually easy to forget this fact when treating of the present subject, more than usually easy to make out a case on the one side so strong that it seems almost impossible for anything to be said upon the other. For instance, it will be told by the opponents of the present system of Church patronage, bow in one parish where for generations the people had been accustomed to the old-fashioned style of conducting divine service they were suddenly subjected to the introduction of rites and ceremonies . whieb , utterly bewildered them, and which, so far Its they co1:11Pre hended them at all, they supposed to belong to another communion ; or how in another parish, where the people had been taught to love choral services, daily prayer, and weekly communion, they found themselves transferred without their con sent being asked, much less obtained, to the jurisdic tion of a clergyman who hated music, closed his church all the week, and gave them controversial discourses against Ritualism. Now there is, no doubt, a serious wrong inflicted in each case. The hard ship of the system is so great, the results it produces are so mischievous, that we are tempted to say, not only that it ought to be abolished, but that the only substitute would seem to be entrusting to the parishioners the choice of their own pastors. And yet has this form of patronage no disadvan tages ? Has it, where it has been tried, proved so entirely satisfactory that England ought to adopt it at once without hesitation ? The elective system is not quite unknown in the English Church. Here and there is a lectureship in the gift of a City company, or an incumbency at the bestowal of the parishioners ; and what has been the history of such ? In the one case competing clergymen have descended to the drudgery of a personal canvass, and an university scholar, a gentleman by birth and education, has sub mitted to the indignity of an examination as to his orthodoxy by " bUtchers and bakers, and candlestick makers." In the other case rival preachers have held forth on successive Sundays, each trying to surpass the other, not in honest utterance of the divine message intrusted to him, but in " safeness " of theology, glibness of quotation, and flow of language. Even supposing the parishioners are able to agree upon their choice, their • selection is made too often, not because their nominee is . a good parish clergyman, a wise counsellor in difficulty, a sympathising friend in sickness, a bold rebuker of sin, for he may be none of these ; but because he is able to tickle their ears with rhetoric, or because having learnt by rote a few cant phrases, he will not make any demand; upon intellect or conscience, will not disturb that sleep of soul which they love. More often it happens that the parishioners do not agree, that the choosing of 'one who is to bring them the message of peace is the occasion of dire discord and strife, terminated at last by the intervention of the bishop after the lapse of six months. Fortunately for them this difficulty can be solved. Clearly, therefore, if the first system has its dia- 1 advantages, the second has others at least as great. 1 Of the two, the second seem to be worse than the first. Yet the evils of the first are so serious, have produced, 1 and are producing, such serious consequences, that . we ought not to uphold it merely because the opposite system is imperfect likewise. Nothing can render just or tolerable the arrangement by which a parish is handed over from incumbent to incumbent without the smallest consultation with those who are transferred. The fact that the transfer is frequently a pecuniary transaction—that the " sheep " are sold by the shepherd—makes it more repugnant, but can scarcely aggravate an evil which does not need in tensifying. Yet what is the remedy to be if we do not resort to the popular vote ? We believe that there is a remedy, and that here, as in most things, via media, via tutissima. - We believe that it is pos sible to combine selection with election. For instance, let there be in every diocese a body entrusted with the duty of presenting to vacant cures. Let that body contain the lay as well as the clerical element : the first in the persons of the churchwardens of the parish, the incumbency of which has to be filled, the second in the persons of the rural dean and the archdeacon of the district concerned. The church wardens would fairly represent the -Wishes of the parishioners, and so save them from the infliction of an Orangeman if they be High Church, or of a Ritualist if they be Low. The rural dean would be able to speak of the clergy in the immediate neigh bourhood of the parish, and say if any one of them should be selected ; if, for instance, any hard-working curate should be presented to a small living, or any experienced incumbent who had learnt his work in a minor sphere should be transferred to one of greater importance. The archdeacon, having a wider acquaintance with the clergy, would be able to suggest a wider choice than the rural deanery would afford, and thus prevent the selection from being too restricted. It might oven be desirable to associate with these dignitaries the bishop, so that the vacant parish might have the advantage of the best man in the diocese. Nor would his choice be necessarily confined to the diocese. Under some such arrangement as we have suggested there would be protection for the laity, at the same time that a man would not be chosen merely because of his oratorical gifts, which is the great danger of the purely repub lican system. The rural dean and the archdeacon would have become acquainted with the other quali fications of the proposed incumbent : his efficiency in parochial visiting, in the superintendence of the schools, and, above all, would know if he possessed that prudence and good judgment which are worth infinitely more than eloquence. Of course such a radical change as this could not be effected immediately. There is oie great diffi- culty which would have to be overcome at the outset. Many private patrons would not be prepared to give up their patronage. They look upon it as property, and the auctioneers' advertisements prove to them that it is property. It is essential, therefore, either that their patronage should be bought by and for the Established Church, or that they should be convinced that this kind of property is entrusted to them, not for their own advantage, but for that of the Established Church. A scheme has been devised for carrying out the first alternative. But the magnitude of the figures renders it very doubtful if any such plan is practicable. We must look rather to the other alternative, and trust that private patrons generally will come to see, with the Duke of ST. ALBAN'S, that Church patronage is not property - to be estimated by the appraiser, but a most solemn trust to be fulfilled by him to whom it is committed. Yet even this change we cannot hope for until an example is set by the Episcopate and by clerical bodies. So long as ,the bishops and the cathedral chapters and the colleges appoint without regard to the fitness of their nominee or the wishes of the parishioners, so long we must remain hopeless of any improvement. ROYAL CREMORNE.—Though the season here is far advanced the amusements still continuo with unabated spirit. In the Parisian Circus Powell's talented family and his beautiful performing pony and horses elicit nightly applause. I3urmain, the Wizard, astonishes and delights the visitors, and Egg's railway model distinctly marks the interesting objects on the London and Brighton Railway. In the ballet theatre the old " Bluebeard" has given place to a new ballet, which, coming from Arden's " Barley Mow," introduces Misses 0. Parkes, A. Thirlwall, Mr W. Corry, and Mr. T. 11. Friend in characters new to Cre morne visitors, and which in their talented delinea tions they highly amuse and gratify. The " Belle of the Barley Mow" is short, as all Cremome pieces should be, witty and musical, and the burlesque por tions, particularly the combats and the dances, are worked out with a freshness and novelty very rarely to bo met with. A beautiful song, " The Lay of May," introduced by Miss Annie Thirlwall, and ad mirably executed, was expressly composed for her by the late Vincent Wallace, is rewarded, and most justly, by nightly encores; and a comic dance between Miss Parkes and Mr. Friend invariably shares the same fate; indeed, from its commencement, the " Belle" is received by marked applause, and reflects great credit upon the stage of which Mr. Friend is the manager, and on which he is the principal performer. THE PRESS AND THE PULPIT.—It was an nounced some days since that Bigelow had been offered $lO,OOO a year and some interest in the paper to take edito rial control of the Ne w YOrk Times. Greeley receives $7,L00 for his services on the Tribune, and other editors on first class papers receive from $5,000 to s7,ooo—only two or three in the nation receiving so much as $lO,OOO. There are, however, over 100 preachers who receive from $,5,000 to $lO,OOO per annum for their services, and yet they have only to work one day in the seven, while the editor has to work six days. Considering the labour there is no com parison in the remuneration. But these matters will in time become equalized. DuNviLLE and 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 Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co , asa; or 4, Benufort - builiings,Strand, London, W,C.--(Ad Yet daoment_ THE .2YETV ZEALAND GOLD-PIETLDS. "Ow-- The New Zaland Examiner calls attention to the extraordinary richness of the New Zealand goldfields. As one instance :—" For some time previous to the end of April the Long Drive Claim, now a company with a capital of £5,000, in 1,000 shares of £5 each, £3 Cs. Bd. paid up, had been declaring good dividends. During May shares went up to £5O. On June 8 the same figure is reported as market price. On July 2 they are quoted at £l5O, and on the following day £l6O would not purchase a single share. That this is not the result of mere speculation, but a reality arising from the intrinsic value of the mine, the following statement of the gold obtained and the dividends declared will show :—During the two months up to Juno 243 the yield of gold was over 6,375 oz., of the value of 216,376 ; but of this over 3,350 was the result of two small lots of specimens, weighing altogether about 8 cwt. On the 22nd ult. a meeting was held, when it was stated that interim dividends of £1 and £3 per scrip had been already paid, and a fut thee dividend of £4 was then declared. It was also reported by the manager that a crushing of 250 tons of general stuff was being proceeded with, which promised a large return ; and that a speci men crushing would take place that week, from which a dividend of £4 per scrip would be declared this day, Tho deeper the ground is worked the richer is the stone. The claim has only lately been prepared for stopping, and when that operation is commenced there is every evidence that the most fabulous returns will result." PRINCE ARTRUR IN BRITISH AMERICA The New York papers contain full accounts of the pro ceedings of Prince Arthur during his progress through the British North American territories. His Royal Highness arrived at Charlotte Town, Prince Edward's Island, about eight o'clock on the evening of the 28t1: ult. It was quite dark, notwithstanding which a large crowd awaited the arrival of the gunboat Dart. The Prince, with the Corporation, proceeded in carriages through Queen street under triumphal arches and flags, and followed by a crowd to the Government House amid general enthusiasm. Mayor Desbrisay intro duced Recorder Lawson, who read an address, to which the Prince replied as follows :—" Gentlemen, I am deeply touched by the address just read. Your loyalty and attachment to her Majesty's throne and person are well-known to the Queen, and it will afford me the greatest satisfaction to report to her the fresh proofs of your devotion, so unmistakably evinced by your reception of her son and by the eloquent words of your address. The deep interest her Majesty takes in the wel. fare of her people in this portion of her domi nions cannot be more clearly shewn to you than by informing you that although my stay in this part of the world is of very short duration, it was her wish that I sWould not omit a visit to the island of Prince Edward. I pray you to accept my hearty thanks for the kind wishes for my welfare and the cordial welcome you have given me." On the 30th, a general holiday was observed at Charlotte Town in honour of the Prince's visit. He held a reception at noon, at which 500 persons were present. He then drove round the city with his suite and was enthusiastically cheered by the crowds in the streets. He was afterwards photographed in his carriage under a triumphal arch. In the evening ho attended a dinner at the Government House, and from there was escorted by a fireman's torchlight procession tl . the Colonial Building, where he opened the ball with Mrs. Mayor Desbrisay. An immense crowd was present in the building, which was elegantly decorated, and a fine supper was served. He also attended the firemen's ball. The whole party were much pleased with the warmth and cordiality of the reception. The town was brilliant with bonfires and illuminations. The Liverpool Mercury says that of the 41,196 names included in the new burgess roll of persons entitled to vote at municipal elections in Liverpool, at least 3,500 will be the names of women. The will of Mr. George Goldsmith Kirby, late manager of the Albert Life Assurance Company, who died in April last year, was proved, in the principal registry, on May 6, 1868, under £40,000 personalty. The bulk of the property is left to his widow. Forged nuke of the Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company are in circulation. They resemble th• genuine notes in every particular, and bear the forged Big , . nature of "W. Brown," the late manager. One of th• forged notes has been presented and detected. Mrs. Harriet Bucher Stowe, according to the Cowl Journal, gets fivo Lundred pounds from Macmillan for her article on Byron, besides the sum she is said to have re ceived from the Atlantic Monthly, for an article on the same subject, which appeared at the same time. Mr. 11. A. Merewethcr, QC., was recently an nounced to read a paper on "Tito Head-gear - of the An cients." That geutltthun, however, particularly tickled the risible faculties of the audience by 'producims 7 -- not the heavy armour worn by our forefathers, but a collec tion of bonnets from 1805 down to the present time, and concluded by proposing that they should all war to the knife against chignons. A meeting was held on Friday at the Temperance Dail, under the rresideney cf the Msyor of Sheffield, in fur therance of the principles cf the National Education League. The object of the League is to establish a s ystem which shall secure the education of every child throughout the country, The programme of the society sets forth that the local autho rities shall be compelled by law to see that sufficient school accommodation is provided for every child in their distrioo, that the cost of founding and maintaining such schools as may be required (hall be provided out of local rates, supplemented by Government grants; that all schools aided by local rates shall bo unsectarian, and that the admission shall be free. The meeting was addressed by Mr. George Dixon, one of the members for Birmingham, and other gentlemen, and resolutions were adopted favour able to the objects of the League. THE LATE GENERAL THOMPSON AND THE TEM. PERANCE SYSTEM.—The late General T. Perronet Thonip son, who survived to the venerable age of 86, wrote the following letter three weeks before his death to the Rev. D. Burns, ALA.:—" Elliot-vale, Blackheath, London; S.E., 13th August, 1869.—Dear Sir,—There may bo danger of drawing too sweeping conclusions from limited facts, but my personal experience has always been that my health was always better for avoiding strong drinks, and, particularly, that abstaining both from drinks and animal food had a great effect in preseiv:ng health in tropical climates under circumstances of more than ordi nary exposure to work or sun.—Yours very sincerely, T, PERRONET THOMPSON." DEATH OY SIR W. C. ANSTRUTHER.—The death is announced of Sir Wyndham Carmichael Anstru• ther, a Nova Scotia baronet, whose creation dates from 1694. The family descended from William De Candela, who Was lord of the lands and barony of Anstruther, county of Fife, in the time of Malcolm, fourth King of Scotland. His grandson Henry appears to have first assumed the surname of Anstruther from the said lands, and is so named in a deed of 1221. Sir James Anstruther, the twelfth in descent from William de Candela, was appointed Heritable Carver to James VI., 1585, and was constituted one of the Masters to the Household of his Majesty, 1592, with all the profits and privileges belonging to this office which are hereditary in the family. The baronet just deceased was born in 1793, was educated at Eton, and is succeeded by his son, Wyndham George Conway, who was born in 1845. AMERICAN CROPS.—The St. Paul Press says thai Mr. Pusey, the State statistician, having made an exten- sive tour of observation throughout Minnesota, estimates the average yield of the present wheat crop in that State at 18i bushels per acre, which will yield a product of over 20 million bushels, or nearly 50 bushels to every inhabitant, leaving a surplus of 15 million bushels for export from a State which eleven years ago imported its flour and pork. On the other hand, the Norfolk Journal says of Virginia :—" The drought in the interior of this State has been excessive. In the great rich region watered by the Dan the corn on the lowlands will probably yield half a crop, but on the hills it is almost destroyed. The same report reaches us of the tobacco crop, which has been burnt up to such an extent that the Roanake Valley, published at Clarksville, says that not one-sixth of a crop will be made in the counties of Mecklenburg, Halifax, Charlotte, Lunenburg, and Prince Edward. The papers of the Valley also give a very gloomy account of the corn crop in that region. They say that in Augusta the yield will not be beyond a third of a crop, and that in Shenandoah it will not reach a half." A curious discussion relative to the interpretation of the new Act of Parliament which enables the wife or husband who are parties to a suit in the Divorce Court, oc curred on Friday morning before the Cambridge borough magistrates. A man named Flaunt) was charged with run— ning away from the town leaving Lis wife chargeable to the union. His d_fence was that ho left her some money, and was about to send more when he discovered that she was unfaithful to him. This, if true, was a good defence to the charge; but Mr. Poland Adcock, who appeared for the man, was unable to prove the infidelity directly, and pro posed, in consequence, to call the wife as a hostile witness in order to elicit certain facts from her. Mr. Fetch, the clerk of the poor-law guardians, objected to her being called and then Mr. Adcock informed the magistrates that he relied upon the 32d and 33d Victoria, cap. GB, sec. 3, re cently come into oporatiun, for his point. Thereupon the magistrates' clerk informed Mr. Adcock that his opinion was against him; the woman could not bo called, as the Act expressly stated that such a witness as was admissible by the Act must be a party to proceedings iolitit4444 l, aclglt9ry. --- DEAN CLOSE ON THE EAGLISH CHURCH UNION. On Friday night the Dean of Carlisle (Dr. Close) pre sided at a meeting of the Carlisle branch of the Church Association and made an elaborate attack upon the pro cealings of the English Church Union. Alluding inciden tally to the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church, he said he regarded it as a great calamity; and he believed before God a great national sin had been committed in casting aside and tearing from the British Crown one of the must glorious emblems of harmony and love—the Irish Church. He described the English Church Union as the head -centre and fountain of the Ritualist evils of the country. Their professed object was to introduce Catholic, or, as he called them, RomiBh principles into the Church of England, their conduct was litigious, and they were rebellious subjects of the Church, SHOCKING CIIARGES OF CRUELTY AT SEA. --....__....ft The Cowes magistrates have during three days been In vestigating charges of cruelty against David Rich Cook and John Lammell, the captain and mate of the ship Annie Boylston, while oa her voyage from Callao to Cowes. The vessel was anchored off Cowes on Tuesday, when one of the crew threw himself overboard and made towards the shore. He was picked up by a yacht's boat before the evening. Others of the crew also got ashore. They were preceded in an application to the police by a passenger, who, having landed, tock some papers to the authorities, which had been drawn up by the crew. The captain coming ashore, was followed by a large number of sailors and others, and took refug; in a shop, whence the police rescued him and eonveyed him before the magistrates. There some four or five of the crew detailed various kinds of ill-treatment to which they had been subjected. Thomas Mansfield deposed that when ill with dysentery the mate dragged him out of the forecastle, beat him with brass knuckles on his hand, and forced him to work a capstan bar, and every time he came round he struck him with a bludgeou. Another witness proved that the carpenter, who was left at Callao, and was since believed to be dead, was also beaten with brass knuckles by the mate, and received five wounds on his head, whilst another of the crew, named Ryan, was beaten with a club by the mate, and had his nose broken. It was at night, and Ryan, having cried loudly, the captain same out of his cabin with a naked sword and ( * .lark lantern, and having asked what was the matter, the mate replied, " It's the man that insulted you the other day." The captain said, " Ah, then, you have got him at last," and called for irons to put him in, but one of the crew, seeing Ryan in a pool of blood, suggested, " Had you not better look at the man, for perhaps he will die before morning?" The captain then said he should be put in his cabin, where it was found his nose was broken —"it seemed to turn on a pivot." Ryan called out for mercy, when the mate again struck him and threatened to shoot with his revolver the first man that stirred. Alength ened inquiry resulted on Friday in the committal for trial of the captain and mate on some of the chares, and their remand to the divisional petty sessions at Newport to-day (Saturday) on others, and the fining of one of the crew (John 'Attlee) in 30s. and costs for assaulting the captain in the street at Cowes. As the passenger had no money the public present in the room made a subscription and saved him from being committed to gaol. TILID.E AND FLYANCE. We continue to receive encouraging accounts from the United States in reference to the cotton crop. Accord ing to the information collected by the Bureau of Statistics there are about eight millions of acres under cotton cultivation this year, but from this it is necessary to deduct about 25 per cent, for errors and failures, much of the planting being very loose and scat tered. We have, accordingly six millions of acres, which may be expected to yield half a bale each, though a re. turn of 2501 b. to the acre—which would make a total crop of 3,300,000 bales—is by no means an extravagant esti mate. We may, therefore, confidently look to a crop of at least 3,000,000 bales, and although it would be imprudent to commit ourselves to any figures at this early season, the larger estimate given above is not unlikely to prove nearer the mark. In any event the cotton crop this season will be the largest raised since the war. The figures are as follows :-1865.66, 2,151,043 bales ; 1866.67, 1,951,988; 1867-68, 2,498,895, while for 1868-69 we estimate a return of fully 3,000,00 bales. The inherent vitality of the Southern States is here shown in a remarkable manner. When we bear in mind the difficulties with which the planters have had to contend, especially as regards the labour market, the progress made is the more astonishing. Very much has been said about the capacity of the labour market, and there is no doubt that, in ordinary seasons, the picking of so large a quantity as 3,000,000 bales would severely test it. Cotton requires to be picked rapidly, and the scarcity of labour is consequently severely felt. This year, however, the plant has been very well developed, and this is a great assistance to the planter. It h asserted by competent authorities that 3,000,000 bales can be as easily picked if the bolls open properly as 4,000,000 if the cotton opens "scattering.r The anticipated difficulty on this point has already been dissipated, and the prospects generally have seldom been more favourable. As a natural consequence of this state of things, the Liverpool market has had a downward tendency, and this movement has been further influenced by the accounts from India, which have been generally favourable. It is not therefore unlikely, now that we are assured of mode rately cheap wheat, and of declining prices for cotton, that some movement may take place in the markets generally, for it is fair to assume that as two of the prin cipal causes of the stagnation of trade are in a fair way of being removed, a return of activity will take place. Not withstanding this, we do not see any great reason to look for any great change this year. The effects of the altered state of affairs cannot immediately be made known in the market, and every stimulus that may be given to trade will probably not commence to operate until the spring. It is to be hoped that the South will be enabled to make further progress in its resusci tation ; but we fear that there is little reason to expect permanently cheap cotton until some readjustment of the labour market in the Southern States has taken place. There is no denying the fact that the freedmen are unwilling to work, and will not be found in the fields unless tempted there by large wages, or forced into activity by hunger and distress. Just now they are as a body fairly off, but the planter will receive a high price for his produce, and will be enabled to offer proportionately high wages. The result to the negro is likely to be demoralising, and we shall probably find, as was the case in 1866, that his present good fortune will have the effect of rendering him more ruinously idle. Should thiri prove the case, the American cotton crop will be subject to very great variation as to the quantity grown, as this will only be remedied by some complete revolution in the labour market, which shall make the planter non independent of the negro. A singular but fatal accident happened on Friday on Westminster-bridge. The hat of a middle-aged man was blown from his head over into the Thames, and the unfor-, tunate mar, in his endeavour to save Lis hat, fell into the water and was drowned. The Pall Mall Gazette notices a discovery that sewage may be utilised by being converted into gas. Ex periments have been successfully tried at Darjeeling and Calcutta, and it is now proposed to apply the process to somo of the larger cities. On the Beverley Election Commission evidence was given on Saturday of a parcel of bank notes having passed from Norfolk to Wreghitt at tho last election. Wreghitt has been for years tho election banker of his party, and tho principal witness against him is a voter who went over to the other side. Further details of the colliery accident in Pennsyl vania state that 108 bodies have been discovered in the mine. This, with the two men suffocated in attempting a rescue, makes the total loss 110, and nol 200, as previously reported. None of the men in the mine escaped. Some of those killed have cLildren living in Great Britain. In consequence of the death of Admiral Baynes, Vice-Admiral the Hon. S:r Henry Keppo], K.C.8., becomes Junior Admiral ; Rear-Admiral the lion. George Fowler Hastings, C. 8., Junior Vice-Admiral ; and Captain James Newburgh Strange is promoted to Rear-Admiral. A flag officer's good service pension also, and, by the promotion of Captain Strange to flag rank, a captain's good service pen sion, are at the disposal of the First Lord of the Adwiralty. Mr. W. Cunliffe Brooks, the Conservative candi d4to for East Cheshire, issued his address on Saturday, in which ho declares himself "a supporter of sound Conserva- tivo principles and measures," and ho "delights to see pro gress in all that concerns the happiness and well-being of our community." The Liberal candidate, Sir E. W. Watkin, addressed a crowded meeting last night i❑ the Stockport Court House, and a resolution was passed in his favour. Since the heavy thunderstorms of Thursday nigi.t the town of Luton has been visited with violent squalls, alternating with brief periods of sunshine and comparative •;:lm. On Friday evening, about half-past five, as some children were playing in the common field in High-town, a sudden gust of extraordinary force carried away the whole of the framework and scaffolding of the new wooden church erect ing there, sweeping to tho ground four workmen employed upon it, and burying three of the children under the heavy boat t:Otto 01 thow bats died. PT A r l - q 4 " -•‘- k,, 1 1 m Da. HER MAJESTY. BALISIOR&L CASTLE, Sept. 10. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, returned from Invertros sachs to Balmoral at half-past six this evening. LATEST INTELL MENG'S (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AAIERICA. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Baltimore arrived out to-day. The North German Lloyd's steamship Donau a' rived at 8 p.m. yesterday. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1351 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1351; the lowest, 135 f. Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1221. 4i " 1885 l2l i-4‘ " 1867 l2ok. 10-40 ti Illinois l3Bl. Erie 371• Cotton—Mid. upland 33ic. Petroleum—Standard White 32lc. Flour, extra state, $6.45e. to $7.5c. Corn, old mixed, $1.17c. THE BRAZILS. LISBON, Sept. 12• The Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Cony pany's steamer Galileo, Captain Lee, has jest ar rived here with later dates from Rio de Janeiro and Bahia. The outward-bound steamer Donati arrived a t Bahia on the 25th of August. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. GIBRALTAR, Sept. 11. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steame r Bangalore leaves this evening (Saturday) for South ampton, where she may be looked for on the morn ing of the 16th inst. All well. ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 1 2 . The Smyrna left at 1 p.m. yesterday and the Pera at 4.30 p.w. to-day. The former may be expectel at Marseilles on t he 17th and the latter at Southampton about the 21 01 inst. PLYMOUTH, Sept. 13, 10.30 0. 111. A heavy gale set in from southward on Saturdl afternoon, but has s i nce veere d roun d to weeto3r and continues blowing with unabated violence over the west of England. Several casualties have °a curred along the coasts and among the coasters The Reliance, of Appledore, went ashore, on nide ford Bar. The crew of four were drowned. The Italian barque Odone was a total wreck 13 Clovelly. The Victoria, from Cardiff to Cadiz, was 'wre cked at Trevose Head. LIVERPOOL, Sept. The West India and Pacific Steamship C° l3l ‘ pany's mail steamer Mexican arrived here to-d* with dates from Port-au-Prince to Aug. 25. Salnave was still before Aux Cayes, which Pla ce still held out. His two steamers had returned there damaged. The rebel steamers Quaker City and Florida ba bombarded Gonaives, raised the blockade, and 113 gone to Aux Cayes to look after Salnave's r aeli‘ of-war. Geld was quoted 9.50. The coffee season l ag over, Ad logwood was arrivi ng s l ow ly from the coast. in The Spanish Charge d'Affaires at Port-au-P r—e is a passenger by the Al exican. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 11.—Three o'clock—The 1 333- ritC6 dosed as follows : Bank Shares ......2 840 " 15 Italian Five 5....... p , 53 /6 Austrian Fives ... 66 50 Ottoman Loan ... 30 7 6O Do. Debt......... 4 2 7 -.- Spanish Threes ... ''' .... Home Debt...... ' ...• Deferred ......... '''' Cash Orleans .... 95s} Western Northern •••...... 1070 Strasburg Lyons and • . Mediterranean Southern.... 6OO Sardinian Austrian 745 Lombard 505 North of Spain 5O Saragossa Roman 5O 4i per Cent. End of month — 3 r Cent End of month 7O 35 Credit Mobilier Transatlantic 272 50 Credit Foncier 1670 Paris Gas 1665 RAILWAYS. LITERATURE. Macmillan for September. xiae - Upon the opening paper in this number of --- ot n . zillan we have already during the last O rtil „;3 , in another part of our journal fully c01ue1 e ,",,... th Already, in other words, in six leading article of e first of them appearing in The ' 91 0 %4 Monday week, th e 30th o f A ugus t —we ba/ e gr - Do our heart in reference t o w h a t must eir— r regarded as the wholly u n j us tifiable a c-, 11 . 0 0 tion directed against the me m o r y of Lora leer by the writer of " Uncle Tom's Cabin." t or we shall say nothing further upon the 1 % 0 11 el beyond referring to the fact that Mrs. Stowe ' i a contribution had carried the Sept. number of 24 %1410 lan into afourth edition before the first week° f riv cation had expired. O n e con t r ib u tion of ti re T ti tieg able kind th ere is in this very num b er , a PaPert-t Die no 4 'lurid light" around it, b u t es p e cially no t ' b a se for the scholarly man ner w ith w hich it ha s ot o penned throughout. It s exce ll e nce only le alle a s• regret that it is so brief, and, for the most part Epos • functory. It is a morsel of biblical critiejsr e, et iecl, the hand of Mr. George Grove, and is el ' n ' i ce t.'' " The New Testament u n d e r a New Its of The keenness of Mr. Grove's criticism le T t o g ist a two-edged sword—it cuts both ways• t bia or main purport of his whole argument 1 0 bee n that the very book that has for three centurief/harclif taken as the basis of the Reformed 00 is a work in no wa y au thentic as an tig to version of the inspired writings. Ac cord. l lsh Mr. Grove's showing, in other words, the iireseo Bible, as it has come down to the" Istioea times, is crammed full of additions or interO ot, t he —is wonderfully unlike, in point o f fa Testa' earliest known copies of the original New rmostwent, as those copies exist now in th e ther roper ancient manuscripts yet extant, preserveuroharg. tively in Rome, in Loudon, and in St. Pe t 000 The oldest of them all is the one at Roin e V at icts o as the Vatican X 1 5., and preserved in the, r Lord Library. It dates b ac k t o the year o f l' u f , ves ph 330. The next is y ounge r by a score ;ow dating from th e year of Our Lord 350-4 1,70,00 script preserved i n th e B r iti s h Museum, a an d o ared as the Alexand r i ne . Th e t hi r d is exactly b tie d years later, datin g , conseq uen tly, from 45 01 l at ss, being known as th e Si na iti c MS., treasured ' l2 9 0 Petersburg. The whole paper is full of interesv it is deserving of a very careful exam i na tion. w, is A very desirable that Baron Tauchnitz shoal der' future reprint of the I,oooth volume o f his and ful library, carry out Mr. Grove's concluding most ingenious suggestion. 1 1.(3- CRYSTAL PALACE.—TIie great display' O wiod works and fountains takes place this evening• is most favourable for a magnificent display. THE SUN, LONDON, MONOAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1869.