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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. (OHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The Report which the directors have now to submit to thN prrprietor 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 540,499 18s., and the total charge to £44.i,077 10s. 9d The difference, £95,422 7s. 3d., added to the balance of the surplus fund at the commencement of the financial year, raised that item to £1,002,974 15e. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, June 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. £ B. d. Dx. Balance of account, 30th X o. d June, 1868 Premiums on new sssur itnees Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 371,548 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 Profit and loss, balance of account 492,b08 4 n 47,991 13 1 Total income 550,499 18 0 £1,44?4,052 6 6 Examined and approvpd. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditory. HENRY ROSE. CHARGE OF THE I EAR. X d. Dividend to proprietors Claims on decease of lived 11.4.1Iroct Additions to those under participating policies Policies surrendered Re-assurances - new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 405,561 12 1 Commission Medical fees Income tax 3,017 13 8 Expenses of management 16,238 910 L. d. 8,880 4 0 436,187 6 9 Total charge Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance -sheet .• 1,002,974 15 9 £1,44R,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12e. id., of which suns £13,560 se. id. is for new assurances effected in the year. The interest from investments is £120,959 12s. 10d., or .£-1 2s. per cent. on the net amount of the company's realised assets existing in June, 1868 ; and in connection with this important feature of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and loss Recount 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 o a 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 X 309,000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management are greater by nearly ABOO than they were last year. They Would have been o • terially less but for the unavoidable bast of transferring the company's securities into the names of additional trus tees. 'liken as they are, however, these expenses must be recorded as very moderate. It will.be observed that they are only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET. Irrnt 30, 1869. LIABILITIES. Interest duo to proprietors £6,757 17 0 Claims on decease of lives iussured, and additions thereto unpaid 108.940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, lee. (1867) 6,336,626 8 -2 Proprietors' fund urplus fund .£7,673,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN HENRY ROSE, Auditors. Cit ASSETS. Amount invested In fixed mortgagee .61,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 13 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 Ditto ditto Temporary seen- . - rides 198,207 17 0 Current interest OR theaboveinviatmenta 30,934 4 6 Cash and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the company's policies - - 165,887 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 £95,422 7s. 2d. 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, Ewa., Chairman. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield. Esq. Goorge Russell, Esq. SirJ.l3ullerFast, Bt., D.C.L. 'I homas Godfrey Sanabrooke Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq. Admiral Tindal. Cmir'e.Tho , =.lllilcombe,Esq. I Right lion. Sir John Young Jushna Lt.ekwo,,d, Erg. I Bart., rrE SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE " NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCH. Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. 'F HE ‘, SINGER " SE WING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. 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And THY PILGRIM OE , LOVE Messrs. E. Terry, Bruce, I; Mesdames Richardson, Newton, F.shrooke, dC BOYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BILLETS Promenade. Concert. Bend of 60. Been at 8. le. Box-allee open fromll to 4. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. Jamee's Hall, Every Night, at Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G &EDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundayi). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, Id. Children under twelve, Id. • "t ' t or4oureadi Vitt= flo 4 4 U . "OW , . ' F ` 44-11 LONDON, 711URSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1869. " Sir," said Dr. JOHYSON, speaking of some wretched woman who had miscondueted herself dis gracefally, " Sir, she's a scoundrel !" We very much question whether the Doctor would not have uttered the very same exclamation had be been alive now, and become aware of the BEECHER STOWE esciculdre: is not an exaggeration to say that "it stinks in : qpr nostrils." 'lt's= offence " is rank and smells to heaven." Had the imputation been di rected, against • Lord BYRON and his half-sister, the Hon. AUGUSTA LEIGH, by a man, the fact of its having been ' made upon that man's ipse dixit, unsupported by one particle of evidence—the conduct of a man so acting, so aver- Tart SIN, .E4OI4IJON, TIIMISDAY P,VENINO-, SEPTEMI3ER 16, 1569. sing the dead, one of them a dca'd woman (a wife, and a mother, of unsullied reputation) would have been pronounced infamous. Seeing that the accu sation—an accusation in itself so atrocious, and almost unutterable—has been;:thrust upqn_public view in the new and-the" old world simultaneously in Eng , land and in America, not by a man, but by a woman—we have no word sufficiently strong by which conduct so unwomanly can be adequately oharacteriied. Language is beg gared in the attempt at its definition. Accord ing to Holy Writ, there are crimes that should not be spoken of, that, if possible, should not be thought of, that certainly should never be written of —" let them not be so much as named amongst you," are the words of the Apostle. The slander directed against England's greatest poet but one, and against his half-sister, by this indiscreet American traducer of the Dead, ia precisely of the number of these nameless offences. Yet, instead of shrinking from the mention of the Jideous alp ? , of which Mrs. STOWE accuses a man of resplendent genius like,Lord BruoN, and a woman of blameless life like the lion. Mrs. LElGH—the sensational novelist and magazine writer who one would hardly thinksould ever have bad a mother herself (her, own conduct in this matter is so un womanly)—this unhappy Mrs. STowE, who can hardly have been born like another mortal, but must have " growed," like her own TOM, actually thrusts herself conspicuously upon the notice of the world, while she expatiates upon the enormity of this, in point of fact, wholly supposititious - Crime, and touches her description up here, and., there, with artistic effect, so as to bring— out in more lurid light, and in blacker shadow its peculiar abomi nation. Everything has gone more and more clearly to demonstrite the utter untruth of the whole of this so called "True Story" since the unhappy day when it first appeared in the pages of Macmillan. Mrs. STOWE is shown to be out in her dates, and to be out in her names. She speaks of the married life of Lord and Lady BYRON as extending over a period of two years, whereas it continued for barely a single twelvemonth. She speaks of Lady BYRON'S maiden name as MILLBANK, whereas it was, as even those who were not taken into Lady BYRON'S confidence like this Yankee blab, knew perfectly well, MIL LINER. She speaks of there being a child born of the unnatural union—whereas Lord BTRON'S natural daughter, ALLEGRA, was born at Geneva more than a year after Lord BYRON last quitted England. She knows so little about that amiable and beloved half-sister of Lord BYRON, that she (Mrs. STowx), while .traducing her thus infamously, evidences an absolute ignorance of the fact that the lion. Mrs. LEIGH was (at the very time her ca lumniator is referring to) the cherished wife of a fond and devoted husband, Colonel LEIGH, that she was already then the mother of seven children, that she was several years older than Lord Butozq (who was then in his jeunesse doree) that she was any thing but attractive in her personal appearance, bein what has been called by one of her personal friends, still happily surviving to tell us as much, a " dowdy goody"—But, paugh Lot us have done with the filthy imputation, leaving the mud of Mrs. STOWE, providing to be dandled and pitted into pellets handy for throwing—mud, however, that somehow will stick to the hands vainly bent upon throwing it —mud seemingly scraped up front the ooze of the Styx or of Phlegethon, but that we would fain now see sunk for ever and ever to the bottom of Lethe.. Tux results of the French Atlantic Cable are dis appointing. Unless the income becomes at least double what:it is now there must be a heavy loss to the eliiarehOlaera. - . There are now three telegraph lines between' Europe and America, and neither of them are doing one-tenth of the work which they could perform. Neither is it likely that they will be fully employed ; a tariff of 3s. par word is main tained, which; for all general purposes, is prohibitory. With this charge the two continents are not united in thought and feeling as they ought to be. The cost of transmitting a message to or from the United States should not exceed half-a-crown, and with that tariff commercial, political, and domestic intelligence would flow freely between the two conti nents. To accomplish this object it will be necessary to lay down cables at much less outlay than has been ex pended upon those which are now in existence. Before we are many years older we shall probably be able to lay a cable with half-a-dozen wires at less expenditure than has been made upon each of the single wires which now span the Atlantic. To sup pose that the actual requirements of the two conti nents •can be met by laying down only three wires, and working them three or four hours out of the twenty-four, is to take a very limited view of the case—and limited views are ♦ery rarely profitable to any of the parties concerned. The problem of Atlantic telegraphy must not be regarded as solved until a handsome profit can be shewn on the transmission of messages at half-a-crown each. This end will probably be attained by increasing the efficiency of existing wires, by improved modes of telegraph, and by laying down wires under more efficient and economical arrangements. We may have as much to hope from the present commercial failure Of the French Cable as from its success ; for if it had succeeded, the number of those would have been increased who oppose their vested interests to the progress of public improvement; but, as it stands, the directors, finding a 30s. tariff unprofitable,, may go in for a rate sufficiently low to bring about a revolution in cable telegraphy - . A communication recently published by Mr. l'Artracy shows that tke failures of the diarlier attempts to lay deep-sea cables were owing ,to the grossest carelessness. For instance, the Red Sea Cable was not put under water to test its insulation until it was laid down, and then it was laid in shallow water and stretched tightly over, a rocky bottom. When a sufficient length of :cable icused- to allow the line to adjust itself to the inequalities of the ocean bed, there is but little danger of its being disturbed, and in proof of the stillness of the water at a moderate depth, Mr. VABLZY mentions the fact of the diver engaged on the Royal George having left his spectacles on the wreck off Spithead. A violent storm prevented him from resuming operations for several days, and on again descending he found his spectacles where hi left them.'. We now know that the laying of deep-sea cables is a comparatively certain and easy matter, and we have good reason to expect that the light cables now projected will answer better than the costly iron-clad cables which have hitherto been laid down.• It remains only to introduce several wires into one cable and we shall have the elements of cheap and profitable telegraphy between the most distant nations of the earth. ANYONE going to sea knows that he runs the risk, more or less remote, of being drowned. It is hardly fair to add to this a tolerably certain chance of being burnt. Yet this is the case, if the manner in which the Lady Wodehouse, a steamer plying between London and D'iblin, was loaded on Saturday last, is not exceptional. The vessel in question, with her cabins full of pas sengers, had her forecastle stowed with petroleum, and that nothing might be wanting to conduce to a conflagration, the casks of oil were closely surrounded with large chests of lucif ere and vesuvian matches. This statement on the first blush would appear almost 'incredible, but its accuracy is vouched for by a passenger, as well as by the disaster which befell the ship just after she had passed Beachy Head. Saturday; as numerous wrecks too well attest, was a day of terrific storm. Till Dover was reached, however, all . went well with the Lady Wodehouse. Then the gale arose and increased to such an-extent that the energies of the passengers were utterly pro strated by sickness, not a few of them being com pelled to keep their berths. In the midst of the con fusion that prevailed, and when all the efforts of the crew were imperatively denianded for the proper manage ment of the ship, the most fearful of all alarms at sea—the alarm of fire—was given. The lashings of the petroleum casks had broken, and coming into contact with the lucifer chests, the in flammable oil had immediately ignited. Rapdily rolling towards the centre of the vessel, the burn ing casks set fire to one side of the saloon, burnt down the glass roof of the gentlemen's sleeping berths, and fired two of the lifeboats. As the flames rose with fearful " velocity 'to a great height above the deck, all gave themselves up for lost. By dint of great exertion, the flames were subdued and the alarm, but not the discomfort of the passengers, who had from the confusion produced in the saloon to seek repose upon the floor, subsided, only, however, to be renewed-by a second conflagration. This arose from the cheats of lucifer matches spontaneously igniting. Not until the whole of these and the casks of oil which had not been consumed were thrown overboard did the passengers feel themselves safe from fear of a conflagration, and able to bear up against the inconvenience of the storm, which eventually sent the Lady Wodehouse back to Dunge ness. The • facts which we have stated are in all conscience bad enough. The precise number of human beings on board the steamer is not given to us, nor does it matter. Petroleum oil and lucifer matches must, like all other commodities of com merce, be shipped from port to port, but we have surely a right to ask that they shall be carried only in such vessels as are not devoted to passengers, and that they shall be in all ships so carefully stowed that the risk to the crews shall be reduced to a minimum. The excuse will, of course, be made that the breaking loose of the petroleum casks was the result of an unexpected storm. This may be so, but the storm had nothing to dowith the matches being near the casks, and it was these that fired the oil. From such an accident, so purely the issue, not of thoughtlessness, but of recklessness, excuse is en tirely divorced. The terrible disaster at Abergele, and a number of minor calamities of a kindred kind, added to what has long been known of the nature of petroleum, ought to have been sufficient to impress all concerned in packing or transporting a substance so dangerous with a due sense of caution. To place cask upon cask in close proximity to huge chests of readily-igniting matches on the forecastle of a pas senger steamship seems little leas than madness. rev , 4 4 _ IV " Cil i tillat .d.::: HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, Sept. 13. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, went out. Prince Christian went out deer-stalking. LATEST INTELL EGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGR.A.US.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORT, Sept. 15. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 136 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 136 f ; the lowest, 135 f. Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 l22+. 1885 l2l 18G7 l2oi. 11 Illinois l3Bl. Erie 4Ol. Cotton--Mid. upland... Petroleum —Standard White Flour, extra state, $6.20e. to $6.80e. Corn, old mixed, $1.14c. 10-40 PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday. A San Francisco telegram states that a document was found on the 30th of August last, on the coast of California, at San Buenaventura, relating to Sir John Franklin. The document had been evidently cast into the water at lat. 70, long. 98. It says that a party, numbering 105, under the command of F. Crozier, deserted the ships Erebus and Terror, and wintered at Beechy Island in the year 1846-7 ; that Sir John Franklin died on the 11th June, 1847 ; and that the party succeeded in reaching the above latitude, where the relics of Sir John ; Ross were discovered. Other incidents are told. OVEREND, GURNEY, & CO. At the Mansion House, on Wednesday, Mr. Richard B. Barrow, of Sydnope Hall, Matlock, county of Derby, and 53, Hans-place, Sloane-street, London, appeared to answer summonses taken out by Dr. Adam Thom and Mr. Oswald Howell, charging him with writing, printing, and publishing a false and defamatory libel concerning them. The alleged libel was contained in the following advertisement published in the papers of the the 11th September :—" Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited).—Notice is hereby given that Oswald Howell, late partner in the firm of Messrs. Walker, Redden, Mix, and Howell, of 39, King-street, Cheapside, London, and now a bankrupt, was (by a resolu tion framed at a properly constituted meeting of the committee of the Shareholders Association :for taking common law proceedings against the directors, Mr. Worm and Mr. O'Reilly, and which resolution was subsequently duly confirmed) discharged any longer from such committee, in consequence of his having with drawn 'from the Bank of England, in coujuction with Adam Thom, several large sums of money, belonging to, and without the consent of such committee ; that the said Oswald Howell had no authority since his discharge to issue circulars, or to do any other act by or on behalf of the said commitee.—Signed, RICHARD B. BARROW, Chair. man." Dr. Adam Thom appeared and conducted his own case; Mr. Selby Campbell, barrister, appeared for Mr. Howell; and Mr. Serjeant Parry and Mr. Montague Williams were counsel for the defendant. It was arranged to take Dr. Thom's case first. Dr. Thom then made a brief opening statement, and said the advertisement which was the subject of the libel was a reply to a pamphlet issued by Mr. Howell respecting a controversy between him (Dr. Thom) and Mr. Barrow. He said he should chew the animus with which the advertisement was published, and he declared the allega- tions contained in it to be utterly false and malicious. Dr. Thom then went into the witueas•boz, and having been sworn, deposed that the statements in the &dyer Clement were not tine. In cross-examination by Serjeant Parry, Dr. Thom said Mr. Barrow hold 200 shares in Overend, Gurney, and Co. There was a committee of shareholders, of which Mr. Barrow, Mr. Howell, Mr. O'Reilly, and witness were members. Mr. Barrow and himself acted amicably for some time. The committee was formed in conse quence of a circular issued by witness, and about £2,350 were raised by subscriptions of 3s. per share, the object being to institute common law pro. ceedings, but these proceedings were not taken. He (witness) had not attempted to put any of these monies into his pocket, but others had attempted to do so. He (Dr. Thom) had not paid anything to the fund, but he had given his time. Mr. Barrow had contributed 3s, 'per share on his 200 shares. Mr. Linklater, the attorney, advised that the sum collected was not sufficient to take common law proceedings. A cheque for £2OO was paid to Mr. Linklater. He (Dr. Thom) had no recollection of trying to get that money back. Out of the £2,350 a sum of £5OO was paid to his (witness's) attorneys, Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, on the crimi. nal proceedings, for expenses in getting up the evidence. Witness had no personal recollection of the payment ; £2OO was also paid to Mr. Howell's firm. He could not say that Mr. Barrow left the room and said he would not sanction the payment of the £5OO from the fund. He bad been told since that Mr. Barrow expressed his dissent. Out of his own pocket witness had not paid anything for the criminal prosecution. He did not know per- sonally that a sum of £221 was paid for the depositions in'the case. An application was made for £5B for sta tionery connected with the case. Mr. Howell bad told him that Mr. Barrow bad objected to that. The money subscribed was placed in the Bank in the names of Mr. Howell, Mr. O'Reilly, and himself (Dr. Thom). ,Witness and Mr. Howell drew out £9OO to pay the expenses of Mr. Oakes in a suit in Chancery. This was on the 30th July. Mr. O'Reilly refused to sign the cheque. lie had no authority from the committee, as a committee, to draw the cheque. Mr. O'Reilly did. not say it was A misappropriation of the funds. Witness after. wards received a letter, stating that' if the g9OO was nut repaid into the bank legal proceedings would be taken. 'The money waa repaid by Mr. Thomas Clark, but not in consequence of the letter. Witness rather opposed the repayment of the money, because he wished Mr. Barrow to proceed legally and have the mat. ter thoroughly investigated. At this stage Serjeant Parrysaid he bad been instructed to state that Mr. Barrow never intended for a moment to impute personal fraud against Dr. Thom and Mr. Howell, and he regretted any ambiguity of language there might be in the advertisement. As to Mr. Howell's being secretary, there was a meeting at which a resolution was passed discharging him ; but it might be said, on the one haul, that that meeting wa informal, and, on the other hand, that it was formal. 1f repeated that there was no charge to impute persoria: misappropriation of the money, and it had been intimated to him that after this statement there would be an end o! the ease. Mr. Campbell, on the part of Mr. Howell, then withdrew his summons against Mr. Barrow, am! said that these proceedings were taken by Mr. Howell for the vindication of his character. He had been engaged for three years and a half in investigating the affairs of Overend, Gurney, and Co., and all that he had received for Lis services timing that time was £204. Dr. Thom also expressed his satisfaction at this termination of the case, and the proceedings then terminated, the Lord Mayor remarking that the general impression left on the minds of all was that, however injudicious might have been the one act or the other, yet to none of these acts could the words "improper motive" be applied. The number of passengers from England to .France during 1868 was as follow's:— Via Calais, 140,9'23 Boulougne, 109,325 ; Dieppe, 35,577 ; Havre, 19,207 ; Dunkerque, 2,765; total, 307,798. The Harvard. crew were entertained at a banquet at the famous Delmonico's, in New York, on Tuesday evening ; and the same day the Germans in the United States celebrated the centenary of Humboldt's birth with much enthusiasm. Advices front Corsica state that agricultural produce is recovering from a crisis of many years failure, the current harvest being unquestionably better. • The olive crop gives everywhere promise of success. On the other hand, the culture of the silk-worm has beenattended with disastrous results. A New York correspondent, in order to bo thoroughly accurate in describing the University boat race, says :—" The boats started abreast of the umpire's steamer. Blaikie gave the word ' Go' at exactly five hours fourteen minutes forty-ono seconds and two fifths." The vault of an American bank was lately entered by burglars who were unable, however, to get into the safe, u the lock withstood their efforts. This is not much satisfaction to the managers of the bank, as the thieves have reduced the lock to such a state that they cannot open it themselves. A quicksilver mine, which was discovered near the town of Sarawak (Borneo) in 1867, promises to prove one of the richest in the world. A trial shipment of native ore has been found by analysis to contain 70 to SO per cent. A very promising coal field has been discovered in the Linga district, but no arrangement has yet been made for working it. A CABLE TRANSFER.—A Man who owes a bill in London can now pay it in four hours by simply going to Wall-street and purchasing a document known as a " cable transfer," a device born of the great Atlantic tele graph enterprise, whereby the equivalent of the money which he gives in New York will be immediately deli vered to his creditor in London.—American Paper. THE CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER BY Boys.—An adjourned inquest has been held at Carlisle upon the body of the old man John Martin, who was killed in the streets of that city on the 4th instant, by a blow from a stone thrown by a little boy whom he was pursuing: Evi dence was given that the old man had been complaining of some boys stealing articles from his stall in the streets, and he was seen to seize one of them by the collar, but the boy getting off, he ran after him down thastreet. This lad was joined by two others, and the three pelted the old man as he ran after them. Presently one of the boys smiled Nutt picked up a stone and threw it at the de ceased, who almost immediately fell down dead. Medical evidence went to 'hew that he had died from concussion of the brain, and the jury returned a verdict of " Man s!aughter against two of the boys, John Hall and Kober' Nutt." A LIGHT YOH TUE--~ti ' h y not 1 There is nothing like utility, and we have to describe an inven tion of amazing value. It is a patent registered by a wockby batter of the good old town of Yvetok 136 ranger has a famous poem in praise of the King of Yvetot, and this ingenious hatter, if he should succeed in his scheme will render. the town of his birth if possible still more immortal. Thhanger may be said to have crowned the King of Yvetot with a cotton nightcap. The inventive batter has imagined for man• kind a crown of fire. Ile has patented a hat in which a lantern is to be fixed. The wearer of it will be saved from the risk of being run over at night ; he will enjoy the advantage of having a light to his footsteps ; and, finally, he may save the public some expense in the light jug of streets. Our great thoroughfares traversed by ,crowds carrying the new hat will seem si if lit by glow. worms and firedieseDoilm New:. SPAIN. MADRID, Sept. 15. A meeting will be held on Sunday next to pass resolutions in honour of the Minister of Justice for the clerical reforms he is about to introduce. A rumour is current that the candidature of the Duke of Genoa to the throne of Spain is making progress. ROUMANIA. BUCHAREST, Sept. 15. In to•day'e sitting of the Senate, M. Plagiuo was definitively electedyresident. The Senators Costaforn, Panaite, and Casimir, who are of thy Government party, were named Vice-Presidents. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. MESSINA, September 15. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Syria passed through the Straits of Messina at 7.30 this morning en route for Marseilles. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 16. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Bangalore, with the above mail, arrived here this morning, with 36 passengers, £10,191 in specie, and a general cargo. She experienced moderate south-westerly winds and cloudy weather up Channel. GIBRALTAR, ►Sept. 11. The Poonah arrived out on the 9th. Her Majesty's gunboats psyche, Wizard, and Redpole were in the harbour. Exchanges unaltered. _ _ MALTA, Sept. 16. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Poonah, from Southampton 4th inst., arrived here on the 13th at seven a.m., and left at three p.m. for Alexandria. The Peru leaves Malta at 10 this morning for Southampton, where she may be looked for about the 25th inst. FRANCE. Bo U ILSE, Sept. 15. Three; o'clock—The market closed as follows : Bank Sharon 2830 Itaran r ivos 52 25 Austrian Fives - Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 4'2 40 Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred — Cash Orleans ... 9571 Western 605 Northern ... lOBO Strasburg • • 5971 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6OO Sardinian 41 I)br Cont. • lO2 Eud of month — 3 por Cent End of mouth 7l 27} Credit Mobilior 212 50 Transatlantic 265 Credit Foncier 1670 Paris Gas 1590 RAILWAI Austrian 7su Lombard 490 North of Sfsiin 5O Saragossa Boman as b2 POLICE EV TELLIG CE.—nis Day. BOW-STREET. ALLEGED ROBBERIES OF PARENTS BY CHILDREN.—A young girl of 15, named Ann Woodlands, was charged with stealing money, shirts, and other property, from her mother. The prosecutrix was a widow, keeping a small shop in Blackmoor-street, and she alleged that since the death of her husband, the prisoner (her daughter) had assisted her in the shop. She had constantly missed money from the till, and had accused the prisoner of taking it. The other day the girl left the house, and after she had gono she missed some shirts, hankerchiefs, two rings, and other things belonging to ber late husband. It was said that the prisoner had bought a pair of boots, but she alleged that she paid for them out of her own money. She was apprehended at a house in Charles-street, Drury ane, and then admitted that she had taken money out of the till, sonsidering she had a right to it. It was stated that the prisoner had a slight allowance, but was never autho rised to take money from the till. In answer to the magistrate, The mother said she knew the people in Charles-street where her daughter went to, but did not speak to them, knowing them to be no companions for her children. She found it was useless to give the girl another trial. She had forgiven her repeatedly, but she always fell into bad habits again "through her pals." The prisoner was remanded fora week in order that the chaplain of the prison might be consulted about the girl, with a view to her removal probably, to a female reforma tory. A still younger child, namod Margaret Maddigan, aged nine years, was charged with stealing 3s. Gd. from her mother, also a widow. The child was a bright-looking little girl, and the mother, Bridget Maddigan, who began her evidence with apparent' tears, broke out with a fierce tirade against the prisoner, saying she had stolen money from her five times -four clearly proved—and how she had concealed money, and would not tell her where. She had no other child, but she had beaten her often, and she had been punished by the schoolmistress and the priests, but all to no purpose. She (the mother) was an honest, hard-working woman, and had a good character. Sometimes she earned only 2s. a week, and had to pay Be. out of it for rent. (A laugh.) Times were very hard with her. Constable E 175 said the prisoner told him that that she spent a penny, and threw the rest down the closet. Prisoner said she took the money to buy sweetstuff. Mr. Vaughan ordered her to be sent to a Catholic in dustrial school. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. BEGINNING EARLY.—William Bartholomew, 15, and John Bartholomew, 18, described as clerks, of Bath-place, were charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk and dis orderly. Police-constable Jackman, 21 C R, said that yesterday evening ho was called to a disturbance at the Alhambra, where he found the two defendants, who wore drunk, mak ing a disturbance, they baying been put out of the Alham bra after breaking some glass and refusing to pay for it. As they refused to go away he, with assistance, took them into custody. Alfred Austin, 206 C, said that on taking the prisoner John into custody he got away from him, and ran as far as Cockspur-.street before ho caught him, but afterwards went to the station quietly. In answer to the magistrate the constable said both de fendants were drunk and quarrelsome. Inspector Tierney said both defendants were drunk, and one of them first accused the constable of tearing his coat, but afterwards said it was the "soldier" at the Alhambra, meaning by the soldier one of the porters at that place. When asked whether they wished to say anything, the defendants carelessly rejoined, " Oh, no," and were fined 10e. each. "PENNY GAFFS."—James East, 10, and Wm. Jones, 14 charged with being in possession of some cigar tubes, &c., which had been stolen, were again brought up. Police-constable Goodchild, of the E division, said that since the last examination ho had made inquiries, and found that the two prisoners were well known to con stables of the S division. He had visited the penny gaff in the Euston-road, near the Tottenham-court-road, and found it was a nest of juvenile thieves, and that the two prisoners were in the habit of going to it. Mr. Knox sent the boys to Folthani till they were 16 years of age. WESTMINSTER. A Fov(w)L BLow.—Mrs. Ann Hazel], wife of a cab master in Flood-street, Chelsea, was summoned for detain ing a fowl, the property of Samuel Margrie. She was further charged with assaulting Mr and Mrs Margrie, and Mr B Hazel was also charged in an assault. There was a summons against Mr Margrie tor an assault. Mr. Mead, barrister, appeared for the Margries; and Mr . W. D. Smyth, of Rochester-row, defended the Ilazels. It appears that Mr. Margrie brought two white fowls from Devonshire and they were placed in his yard closely contiguously to that of defendant Hazel ; they seem to have had white fowls similar to that of Mr. Margrie's, and a dispute arose as to the owner hip; a fowl was alleged to have left Mr. Margrin's premises, and to have run into the street; it was chased by Mrs. Hazel and caught, but again escaped, and she followed and captured it in Margrie's yard; a row ensued, Mr. Hazel! struck Mrs. Margrie and hurt here severely iu the chest, used bad laugunge, and took up a fowl by the legs and struck Mr. Margrie in the face, cutting his nose with the bmtk of it. Mr. Arnold observed that was a foul blow. (Loud laughter.) The fowl was produced, but there was no satisfactory identification. Mr. Arnold was satisfied that the fowl was not suffi ciently identified, and the assaults were the results of a scuffle to gain possession of the bird. He dismissed the summonses, but ordered them all to be bound over to keep the peace. Mr. Margrie might have another sum mons if he could better identify the fowl at a future time. THAMES. RO➢EERY ON THE RIFER.—John Holmes and George Hall, two of the most notorious thieves on the river, who have committed numerous robberies, were brought before Mr. Benson en remand, charged with stealing twelve cases containing brandy from a barge called the Stoke in St. Katherine's Dock, the property of Mr. Moore, a master lightorman. They were also charged with the unlawful possession of ten pieces of calico containing 2,000 yards, and supposed to have been stolen from a barge or ship in the river. Briden, a detective police sergeant, said he could not find an owner for the calico. It was manufactured for the Chinese market at Manchester. Each piece was marked with a bull, Chinese characters under it, a C above, and 66 beneath all. The prisoner Holmes had been in penal ser vitude and lately returned to the world. The other pri soner (Hall) had been convicted of felony repeatedly. Samples of the brandy, in the exact state in which it was expor:ed from Charente, wore produced. It was i n re puted quart bottles and envelopes. John Rose, 265 V, and Joseph Bunyan, 84 Y, gave evi dence of the attempt of the prisoners to land the brandy and the linen from a barge called the John at Battersea, near the bridge, on the 7th of last month. The police succeeded in capturing two men named Weldon and Smith; the prisoner and:another man got into a boat and rowed over to Chelsea. 'They made their escape. Mr. Dayman, the magistrate at the Wandsworth Police court, discharged Weldon and Smith. George Read, a Thames Police Inspector, said he took Hell into custody on the 6th instant in the Cannon-street road, St. George-in-the-East. Briden said he arrested Holmes in Brook's-court, Brook street, Ratcliff, on the 2d of the present month. Robert Weldon, a carrier, of No. 17, Catherine-street, Poplar, said he was employed by the prisoners to fetch 12 cases of brandy and ten packages of linen from a barge at Battersea on the 7th of August. He was to receive 15s. for the job. While he was putting the cases into his cart the land police interferzed, and took him and his assistant Smith into custody. Ho did not see what be came of Holmes and Hall. Mr. Benson expressed a hope that an owner would be found for the linen. He had no doubt the ten pieces of calico had been stolen from a barge on the river, and that the loss would not bo discovered until the unloading of the cargo of a ship in China, in which vessel the linen was to be exported. He wanted to see Smith, the assistant to Weldon, before he finally disposed of the case. Ho re manded the prisoner for another week. Ho intended to commit them for trial. LADVEItTISEMENT.i Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach and 'liver complaints in every /I ttvzo are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of eve y description, but perfe.tly curable by DU BARRY'S health-restoring Revaleuta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion clyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption, h bitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner vousness, biliousness, fevers, soro throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti.. htness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &e. We quote a few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Parry's Food. Cure No. 68,413 -"Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the H oly Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du parry's Revalenta A rabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneticial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the Gazette du Midi, July '2 . Cure No. 40,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimloy, durrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. - Cure N 0.1,77 . Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years dyspepsia.—No. 4'),83'. "Fifty years' indescrib able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, co - stipation, eativency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. - Maria Jolly." Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitstions to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is 10; Ilb 2s ; 21bsls 6d ; slbs Ils; 12 lbs 22s : 21 lbs 4ds. - Also Du BARRY'S ItEVALENTA ARAllita CHOCOLATY POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 'is, fort cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 55s —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Oflice@' ler.— BARt,Y Do BARRY and Co., NO. 77, Regent-street, London; and . all Grocers and Chemists SPIRIT O TER PllßLlC:ormatT. The Times thinks the rapid and widespread decay in the bench of bishops is either a portent or a fact admit ting of reasonable explanations. Since it is not a catas trophe, it is an improvidence, all the more evidently because we see plainly how it has come to pass. The question remains what is to be done to meet an extensive and, as likely as not, a chronic breakdown in the highest and, as good Churchmen believe, the most essential order of the Church. Our dioceses are very extensive and very populous in comparison with the general scale Of dioceses in Christendom, and by any standard of observation and common sense that can be applied. But the greater difficulty, and the more immediate cause of breakdown, is that which is to be found in the bishop himself. His position is very autocratic, and he shares the temptation of autocracy. He will attempt much more than he is obliged to do—much more even than is expected from him. There have been examples lately—melancholy examples we must call them—of bishops who may possibly have found much to be done and few persons to do it, but who certainly had no right to expect that they could do it all single-handed. There is no real occasion why a bishop should preach several new sermons a week; why he should undertake the management of several colleges and schools ; why he should be found everywhere at public meetings, dinners, soirees, and recep tions ; why he should be writing books, or addicting himself to special studies out of his duty ; why he should change his residence a dozen times in the year; why he should attempt to write fifty letters a day; or even why he should attempt more confirmations than are compatible with the limits of human strength or the laws of space and time. The sum is that the work is itself very great; the public expects more, and the bishops will insist on doing even more than is expected from them• The office is one that requires singular devotion and self denial, and it unfortunately too often gives a fresh stimulus to an ambition likely enough to be found in the m an• very noble, very much to be admired, but absolutely suicidal, considering what a diocese is, and what most men are. The Post remarks that the Bishop of Exeter's resigns' tion completes the immediate purpose which the recent Act was designed to accomplish, and three of the southern dioceses are now in a fair way of being once more pro' vided with bishops who are up to their work. The three Prelates who retire into private life have long ceased to be useful; and though they still retain the affection and respect of those who through many years have known them best, yet their truest friends could not wish to sa l them maintaining the possession of offices which they eauld no longer fill either with credit to themselves or benefit to the Church. The Bishop of 11 . r il y chester was the first to retire, after having held tl5 see for forty-two years. He is the last of the prince bishops. In future the See of Winchester will he s hornil much of its ancient splendour. The Bishop of Bath an d Wells belongs to a later date. It is hardly possible that he can long survive, but his memory will be long held in respect in the county of Somerset, where he had nO enemies, and many friends. If he has left no lasting mark upon his diocese, he has nevertheless kept it well nil to a good standard of quiet practical work, and that Plan e is no small merit in these days. Of the Bishop of Exeter i we need say little. He ha s b een so muc h b e f ore the sor b. ' that he is as well known as any of our public men' With much to eulogise, something to blame, and great deal to explicate, his biographer will have a tas'` which propriety teaches ought not yet to be undertaker' Upon the Premier devolves the weighty duty of filling 121) these vacant sees. It is a task which no one need Wl' We can only hope that he may be guided to a wise choice, We want men of movement, learning, moderation, piety' and administrative ability. There are such to be h ad; the difficulty is in making the choice. Rumour is busy with many names, but it would be bad taste to naent i° , ° them at this stage. We shall shortly see, and meanw h ' e are content to think that the nomination could scarab' be in better hands. The Telegraph declares that the Land Bill which 1, 9 1 1 he brought forward by M r . Gl a d s t one ' s G ove rnment w ill disappoint both those extreme parties that aspire to 14 distinguished by theirhostilities rather than their alliauc,e°' by imperious dictation rather than joint working. : 1116 Prime Minister and his colleagues will have to consider' not merely the system which would be best in i tself, but far more seriously the system which vi ol a best suit the temperament, the habits, A: In the actual circumstances of the Irish people , framing such a bill, strict respect must be P 5 . 1 1. to a few prosaic maxims of honesty and policy. Wiu : rendering the most ample justices to the tenant, we 1 131 1 , no right to rob the landlord. A more difficult task !le ve t came before an English Ministry; but the GoverrnnePa will find invaluable allies in Irishmen of intellect 11 ' n culture who are perfectly equal to the existing ote r .; tunity, who aim at a practical measure, aid who the confidence of their country. Such men are w`' ,l aware that, in a case like the present, Re is° as well as England roust make concessions. A s : partner with England and Scotland, she can no ni cif o - dictate to the common Legislature the terms of ti' t Land Bill than the sister countries can ask her to ac ceV ic their fiat without protest cr criticism. To execute a ° I. , of such superlative difficulty will demand the joint lobouat of all the three countries. It is as arduous a task as til which has given Stein and ITardenberg an immortal 1113eca in the annals of Prussia; end if it should be aceoinO sl ' se with such skill and success as attended the efforts of o ° l , statesmen, the present Ministry will earn an imperishn' name. be The Standard thinks it is impossible for any ° f t co political parties in this country to overlook the signifies :Ir, of the movement which has been started at Mall cilese le having for its primary object an inquiry into th e w p subject of the present depressed state of capita l P " J labour in this country, with the ulterior view re f the e the gross injustice which is inflicted on all classes our community, through the neglect of reciprocity 1n and commercial relations, especially with Franc e t his America. It is easy, of course, to attribute " on' • movement, as some of our Liberal con tera ries have done already, to the machinations of the T g o o Bri party ; and still easier to deride it, 9-9 lane,Bd has done, as the work of lunatics in e ase. The Reciprocity Association, so far as we una er ol their programme, do not desire to re-open the contr°' to b 0 between Protection and Free-trade. They leave tratio Mr. Bright's own friends of the extreme De nl° :i A lli party in England and in America. They have e s P, c a vl - guarded themselves against being id en tified 99itadesixe party movement or any political design. t bsS+ only to call the attention of the public to the fA c ". ti iil whereas we were promised what is called reeiPr ec oa of one of the necessary. consequences of the recluctkana duties, that re c ip roc ity h as no t y e t b een experien ee r 0 0 0 is apparently as far from realisation as ever. Theolf the is, that to this want of reciprocity is due muc h at t ae evils from which both capital and labour a re i tb° — present time suffering. it is a question which on f o oil!; would shirk who are not very confident of their °Olfties" cerity in the free-trade faith, or who have some P ti motives for evading the discussion. A A y, t li :j The Herald refers to the case of Judge, an d I`,"c everyone must feel for a man who had struggle ° " -. 0.0A, waited long for leave to toil, and who was so 0 0 ° 13 00 ,rni suddenly thrown back upon an overdone labour fres les 0 0 with all the depressing memories of former s trugli . . a , Is 0 ., in his mind. But those who sympathise with "p t i 11 deeply are bound to condemn him most strong'ficeobig. guise it as men may under the covering of shanigtie e' of and excuse it as they like upon the plea of don e lp s tion, suicide under any circumstances is a cotvar" ole o s escaping troubles and difficulties which should beTho met and 'steadily borne by any one who realises " t he s o ' s s dignity of manhood. Especially is this so soled]testwn °for ferer has family ties and responsibilities which have served Judge and others as Pr e s 0 the commission of multiplied and aggrar°,, eu e t s t The lives of his children were not his to cut su ° st co, mere will and pleasure, nor was it aught bu t tbe the 01g Si cruel and cowardly homicide to murder them in t do ci a . to which they lay down, happily unconscious 0 ' no w c e ro in store for them. Among the many who arc e d, P oti t, ‘ tending `Ville adversity such as Judge experien are, happ, very few who would, even for %,plio;o harbour such a purpose as that which he has 3 1 es ia° i rs ie And those few, if tempted to carry their ill g cee so execution, should remember that there is n°.t n v t b e ir t lo in it, and that those who embrue their hands~tiiit3' at or others' blood, because of the pressure of c' ots riet.'oe; but earn for themselves a brief and infanio ns gf o os the cost of a total sacrifice of that title to lovinlnstioc' ful memory to which no one actuated by the domestic affection can be altogether insensible. °f t he . er e The Daily .News says that the policY -1 ' 1 , a r a fter Albert Assurance Company have now not 1 . 9"' 1 00 1 c . t for sentative body which is quite competent .t . u . i mcinli tte e% their interests, but a definitive course the promotion of those interests. The various , u rea t to ; of which have been formed in London and the),', f fee•l'f j tisi joined their forces at the Guildhall uujiitle,,ltigli on Wednesday, and constituted an t 0 1 o f action _OllOOO.OO body. Their resolutions are imPortasT Conlroso to deci:le the fate of the mismanage . oscois,tU wit its victimised shareholders. meetings hitherto held, In . 1 at al. r asci h the opinion which has been express req,iere' the matter from the point of view of the 1) , ! i i 5 T:.„c13 011 ,50 they resolved to reject the plan for the re () . ' ..o9 ,torsi b itt6 s T ea the company prepared by the provisional t far as the old company- is concerned, the and by all persons of c l iff va now to be done is to make its assets Ir6 iiii , of , e a lity as far back 33 To do this it ‘viil be needful to trace s ever)' appo it , e i l D theiF b tl the interest of the policy-holders will make ito t f te a uty. In view of the large body of sh 3 re . l ei `: ( l 4,lol,t Albert, and of that far larger body, the that. this ; . 01 tae atnalgamated companies, we might reg t possible, and liquidator this r a e tions view of the public intetest, the investig.., com pla , oc r i now sure to be made must be regarded with it 01 ! ts history of this company raised as yet7.--;1.,_, , ani o We have but a corner of the veil which duty of the liquidators to raise it up bo ll ,11 0 el re I the whole series of transactions to the world' ,1_ I n v , o r t o plete investigation and exposure is no!v or ti; po rt; tr_ both policy-holders and shareholders, an ds ast , least, of the squandered hundreds of thous . n too v ibides the se tl; recoverable. It will be satisfactory, sha re c p • and thei t r status of a malgamated companos finally decided, and the Albert cannot out deciding it.