The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times, In discussing Lord Stanley's recent speech On the land question, observes that the idea of peasant proprietorship is the most genial and picturesque of Socialist dreams. It suggests a vision of patriarchal inde pendence, where every man shall be self-sufficient under the shadow of his own vine and figtree. The land, the inalienable inheritance of the human race, is to be equally possessed and enjoyed by each member of it. But the extent of the earth's surface is a finite quality, and the space of ground which will support a family in decency has also a limit, and, however moderately the limit may be fixed, there cannot be more than a certain number of such allotments either in a particular country or in the world. This pretty primitive dream would be, in fact, a retrogression to the first stage of human progress, and an abandonment of all the gains of centuries of civilisation. " It is the separation of the soil of the country from the capital of the country "—in other words, the separation of the most important of industries from the advantages of that power of accumulation which is one of the most characteristic prerogatives of man. The single handloom weaver has given place to the thousand-handed factory; and, in the same way, the peasant occupier must give pace to the large farmer, if the resources of the land are to be fully developed. Now, from this point of view, a landlord is nothing but a master manufacturer who inherited his manufactory, and a tenant is nothing but a foreman with a share in the concern. The system of landlord, tenant, and labourer, simply represents the same arrangement applied to the land which has been found most productive when applied to manu facture. If it is a system of dependence, it is one of mutual dependence, and the increase of mutual depen dence is synonymous with the increase of civilisation. This application of a simple truth is as opportune as it is striking at a moment when land questions threaten to become the most urgent subjects of the hour. Whatever we do, we ought not to move in a retrograde direction, or encoerage desires which, so far as they go, are simply harbarous. The man is not happy, " whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound," and the nation that is " content to breathe its native air is content with stag nation. The Post coracurs substantially in the views of Lord Stanley. There is certainly nothing in the results of the system which exists in some continental States, under which landed property is indefinitely partitioned, to encourage us in its adoption in this country. In the neces sity of things human society must always admit, to a great extent, of subdivision into employers and employed ; and, whether in manufactures or agriculture, there must be numerous classes who will always be content, and cer tainly be obliged, to Lire out their labour to others. Only comparatively few can either manufacture or till for themselves, and such as do so are placed at a serious disadvantage. But this disadvantage is infinitely mere serious in the case of the small farmer than of the artisan who is his own employer. Husbandry is affected by a variety of circumstances, indepen dent of human control, which exercise no effect on the labour of the operative. To the small farmer viith out a capital a Lad season is siieply ruin. But, indepen dently of these considerations, it is no less true that the country suffers by the cramped resources of those who own the soil. If it be true that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a bene factor to his species, it is no less true that lie who only produces one blade where another would be enabled to produce two inflicts an injury on society. Whether, as Lord Stanley observed, the threefold system of landlord, tenant, and labourer be the best or not, it is a system which Las hitherto worked well, and when we see the evils which have flowed from small land holdings in Ire land, though only in the nature of tenancies, we may well hesitate before taking steps to carry out a policy which, by subdividing the land in this country amongst a large number of proprietors, would probably be attended with similar results. The Standard says that two great facts connected with the hug e business of coal mining have arisen simultaneously to command the attention of all persons in this country, who comprehend the momentous importance of that vast industry. On Monday last Lord Elcho presented to the House of Commons a petition signed by delegates who acted in the name of thirty thousand working colliers of Lancashire, praying for a systematic inquiry into the causes of colliery accidents, and expressing complete dissatisfaction with the imperfect results of the limited investigation instituted under the present arrangement by coroners' juries. On the same day a monster meeting of colliers belonging to another part of the country seas held at Barnsley, in Yorkshire, and three resolutions were passed, all of which must enlist the sympathies of unprejudiced persons on behalf of the class from which they emanate. As we have frequently asserted, and as the miners' petition de clares, a comprehensive inquiry ought to be instituted into the manner in which collieries are worked all over the country, and the causes of accident in different places compared with one another. Already a well known man of practical science, writing to a con temporary, declares that the whole system of Davy lamps and separate lights carried by the miners is wrong, and that mines ought to be and might be lighted up like workshops by fixed apparatus. It is all, he says, a question of £ s. d. Are we to remain quiet under a suspicion, thus fortified, that the miners are being killed in hundreds to save expense ? Wo are sure 'chat individual mine owners would in scores of cases be horrified to think that this could be the case. Fur their sake, as well as for that of the men, and for the public satisfaction of the country, the proposed investiga tion ought to be set on foot. The termination of the session is no bar to such an undertaking, which could not be carried out by a select committee of the House, but only by a royal commission. The Star remarks that just as the Derby of 1871 will lee betted upon as soon as, or perhaps before, the Derby of 1870 is run, so the notice paper of next session is already quite a formidable document. Many of the proposals are, of course, chimerical. No one supposes that Sir Robert Anstruther will get convents made subject to Government inspection, or that the House will join Mr. Newdegate in declaring against such inspection, because it would en courage institutions inconsistent with social welfare and national progress. Nor would anyone give much for Mr. Dalrymple's chances of taking inveterate drunkards under the care of the State, nor Mr. Birley's prospect of upsetting the French Treaty, nor for the probabilities of Sir Wilfrid Lawson abolishing the opium revenue. Several of these topics, however, may be bene ficially discussed. Purchase in the army is to make its first appearance, Mr. Trevelyan's place being taken by Mr. W. E. Price. Retrenchment is to be the text of quite a multitude of preachers. Mr. Candlish will go for the reduction of the non-effective services ; and Mr. fly - lands, Mr. Shaw, and Mr. Helms will share between them the attack on the diplomatic and consular charges. Sir Henry Bulwer will not surrender either the Ballot, though the committee's report will raise that question, nor the differences with America, though the Queen's Speech tells us, paradoxically am' yet truly, that the suspension of the negotia tions affords the best hope of a good under standing. Mr. Chambers burns with anti-Ritualistic ardour to reconcile clergymen with their parishioners; and Mr. Locke, with more prospect of success, will try to secure the public utility of the Crown's forestal rights in Epping Forest. Mr. Graves will return to the charge in behalf of halfpenny postage, and Mr. Macfie, who has just published an excellent rtsumf of opinions on the sub ject, will renew his hostility to patents; while Dr. Brewer will, if he can, hand over the homeless poor to the police. These are only a few rills of the great overflow of Parlia mentary activity. There can be no healthier sign than such superabundant energy as this notice paper reveals. The Daily News remarks that in the Haydock mine the supervision was described as excellent, the ventilation was said to be perfect, and even Mr. Higson declared that the proprietors did all they could to ensure its safety. Yet three wrong things combined on that fatal Wednesday in July to make an " accident." In a large hollow in the roof some firedamp had accumulated, and nobody ascer tained that it was . there ; in several quarters of the pit more gunpowder was present than was wanted for imme diate use, and in one spot near the accumulated gas some miners were blasting for coal. They fired the charge, the charge fired the gas, the gas fired the gunpowder, and an explosion took place which convulsed the mine and des troyed the miners. A whole train of circumstances thus led up to the explosion, for each of which somebody was responsible, though nobody is actually shewn to be responsible for their conjunction. The special rules stated that if a fireman found gas he shou'l have it removed or stop the miner ; but the particular gas which caused the explosion was there, and the fireman hail not found it. Yet it seems that the general existence of gas in th:, pit was well known, for Mr. Ifigson sail that all the efforts of the manager had failed to remove it. \\ hp in such circumstances was blasting permitted at all ? and why, in a" Cory " igloo, war fuel ad,:.:d to the Crc by needless supplies of Livsting powder? 'These questions are not answered in the verdict; but the impossibility of answer ing them suggests that what most needs to be provided against in mining is not so much that which is necessarily dangerous per se as that which in special combinations or special conjunctures of circumstances may become dan gerous. Not one of the three things which combined to work this destruction was dangerous in itself—neither the escape of gas, nor the blasting, nor the existence of powder in the mine, but in their sudden combination they produced not only danger but terrible disaster. Lord Beaumont, who succeeded to the title on the death of his father in taii.ed his majority on Wednes day, and rejoicings in COlilICCi:0,1 with the event took place at Carlton Hall, near Snaith. NARROW vEnsus BROAD GAUGE.—The Great Western Railway Company have given notice of the suspension of their traffic between Hereford and Ross from to-morrow night till the 23rd inst., in order that the line may be converted from the broad to the narrow gauge. The line between Ross and Grange Court will be closed from the 23rd of August to the 31st of August for the same purpose. THE CONFESSION OF POISONING BY A Boy.—The body of the late Miss Emily Collier, daughter of Mr. Collier, oil merchant, Newport, was exhumed, and in structions issued by Mr. W. H. Brewer, coroner, to Dr. Davies, the medical officer of health, to make the neces sary post-mortem examination. The internal organs are to be forwarded to Dr. Taylor, of London. Miss Collier died on the 2nd of April, and it is feared that the time which has elapsed will have removed all trace of the strychnine supposed to have been administered by the boy Gritt, even though that might have been the cause of her death. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. —What the Times describes as " one of the most extra ordinary attempts at suicide ever made in this or any other country" was witnessed on Thursday in St. Paul's Cathe dral. About half-past ten o'clock a man, who appeared like a tradesman out of work, was observed entering the church. Having walked about for a considerable time, he proceeded towards the southern door, which is closed at present. One of the officials in the cathedral thought he meant to remove the barriers and leave the church by the door referred to, and consequently followed him until it was found that such was not his intention. At twenty minutes to twelve the officials within call were in formed that a man had thrust his neck against the top of one of the bars which enclose the monument erected in memory of Sir John Moore in the southern transept. The man was immediately arrested and removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. We are informed at the cathedral that when arrested he stated that he in tended to commit suicide. Strange to say, lie was able to walk, and did actually walk a considerable part of the way to the hospital. The patient's injuries are internaL When arrested in the cathedral he was bleeding from the mouth. Intelligence of the occurrence has been trans mitted to his wife by the police. No cause has been assigned for the attempted suicide. • A FIERY WIND. —Out in Cheatham county, • about noon on Wednesday—a remarkably hot day —on the farm of Edward Sharp, five miles from Ashland, a sort of whirlwind came along over the neighbouring woods, taking up small branches and leaves of trees and burning them up in a sort of flaming cylinder that travelled at the rate of about five miles an hour, developing size as it tra. veiled. It passed over the spot where a team of home were feeding, and singed their manes and tails up to the root ; it then swept towards the house, taking a stack of hay in its course. It seemed to increase in heat as it went, and by the time it readied the house it immediately fired the shingles from end to end of the building, sa that in ten minutes the whole dwelling was wrapped in flames. The tall column of travelling caloric then continued its course over a wheat field that had been recently cradled, setting fire to all the stacks that happened to be in its course. Passing from the field, its path lay over a stretch of woods which reached the river. The green leaves on the trees were crisped to a cinder for a breadth of twenty yards, in a straight line to the Cum berland. When the " pillar of fire" reached the water, it suddenly changed its route down the river, raising a column of steam which went up to the cloud s for about half a mile, when it finally died out. Not less than two hundred people witnessed this strangest of strange pheno mena, and all of them tell substantially the same story about it. The farmer, Sharp, was left houseless by the devouring element, and his two horses were so affected that no good is expected to be got out of them in future. Several withered trees in the woods through which it passed were set on fire, and continue burning /Vasfaille (reinessee) Prows, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AuGusr 13, 1869. EXECUTION OF THE PO.RTLAND MURDERER. About a thousand hearts were made glad yesterday. The Peers, or at least that . portion of Them who attend to legislation, and her Majesty's 658 faithful Commoners were set free, and may now go forth on their travels with out compunction of conscience or fear of recall by exigent whips. The day of liberation fell upon the eve of a festi val much honoured by all frequenters of the moors. To day is the famous. "twelfth" —dies festus to sportsmen ; dies lethalis to the grouse. It is a great point gained to have prorogued before that, and you may be quite sure that the few hon. members who remained to hear the Queen's Speech were not over critical about its style. Concerning that, silence is kind. I will only say that if the speeches which Ministers make for themselves were at all like those which they make for the Queen, it is not to the select body which constitutes the Cabinet that the public would look for its great orators. Mr. Gladstone has been fortunate enough to win appro. bation from both political parties by his ecclesiastical ap pointments. That of Mr. Lake to the Deanery of Durham satisfied those who knew the fortunate nominee. That of Dr. Moberly to the Bishopric of Salisbury has given something more than satisfaction. There are but two circumstances to diminish it. The one is that Dr. Moberly having been so long identified with Winchester, might better have been selected for that see, now soon to be vacant, than for Salisbury. The other is that he is on the shady side of 60- - is, in fact, older than Dr. Hamilton was at his death—and is, therefore, somewhat old to undertake all the hard work now expected of a bishop. But to these objections there are answers. Win chester is one of the great prizes .of the Church, and is reserved for one who has well earned it—the Bishop of Oxford; and Dr. Moberly is most active and even athletic. When head masterof Winchester, he was always foremost in the chief sports of the school. He is physically a fine man, with a commanding presence, and this and his beautiful voice (which Keble loved to hear) helped to make him a most successful preacher. They helped him also to marry a lady who was before her marriage the belle of Oxford, and who is as popular now as her husband. At his first start in life he was not suc cessful. He lost a scholarship at New College. He then went to Balliol, and took a first class in classics. He was a candidate for one of the two fellowships that fell vacant at Oriel (then becoming a famous college), but they were carried off by Hurrell Fronde and the late Archdeacon Wilberforce. He was more successful in winning the Essay Prize ; and again, a year later, in winning an open fellowship in Balliol. In 1831 he married the lady above referred to, half sister, by the way, to that Mr. Church who published a charming volume of literary criticisms which were published under the title of " Essays and Reviews," r title to be afterwards appropriated by a more celebrated volume. At about the age of 35, Dr. Moberly succeeded David Williams as headmaster of Winchester School. Up to that time it was only the head master who had private pupils, but the new head established the present system of tutors' houses. He was at first very unsuccessful in the school. Fever among the boys and the supposed Tractarian proclivities of the master brought it down to a very low ebb. But patience, energy, and scholarship at last prevailed, and in time the pupils doubled, and in the very year that Dr. Moberly resigned (in 1866), he had the satisfaction of seeing an extraordinarily large number of old Wykehamists take first class honours. Dr. Words worth, the present Bishop of St. Andrew's, was his second master. It is a little remarkable that while this Wordsworth was educated at Harrow and became second master of Winchester, his brother was educated at Winchester and became head master of Harrow. The two brothers played against each other in the first cricket match between the two schools. Both brothers are now bishops, the other having been appointed to Lincoln by Mr. Disraeli. And now their old friend, the head master of Winchester, is to be raised to the episcopate. Another of the players in that same cricket match also wears the mitre—Henry Manning, "Archbishop of Westminster" to wit. During his mastership Dr. Moberly bought a farm at Hursley, and spent much of the vacations there in constant intercourse with his loved friend Keble. After resigning his master. ship he was made a Fellow of Winchester College. That fellowship now becomes vacant, and its revenues will be devoted to increasing the number of boys on the foundation. Year after year passed, and Dr. Moberly did not obtain promotion in the Church. It was generally understood that he was in bad favour with the Queen in consequence of the opposition which he offered to the late King of Prussia, who was a Lutheran, being sponsor for the Prince of Wales. At last the Bishop of Chester bestowed a canonry upon Dr. Moberly ; and now the royal objection seems to have been surmounted, and the English episcopate will be strengthened by the accession of a man whom all parties agree to respect. Some mistakes as to the ages of divers prelates seem to have gained currency. One touches Dr. Moberly him self, who is sixty-four years of age, and not seventy, as has been reported. The exact date of the new bishop's birth was 1805. A writer in the Daily News of this morning, I see, speaking on the assumption that Dr. Moberly is 70 years of age, says that Bishops Claughton, Selwyn, Jackson, and Wordsworth were all more than GO years old when they were appointed to their sees. In no instance was this the case. Dr. Claughton was born in 1810, and was, therefore, 57 years of age when lie was appointed Bishop of Rochester in 1867. Dr. Selwyn was born in 1809, and was 32 years of age whenhe was appointed Bishop of New Zealand in 1841, and 58 when he was translated to the Bishopric of Lichfield in 1867. Dr. Jack son was born in 1811, and was 42 years of age when he was appointed Bishop of Lincoln, and 57 when he was translated to London last year. Dr. Wordsworth was born in 1808, and was not quite 60 when he was nominated to the Bishopric of Lincoln last year. The canonry of Chester, which becomes vacant by the elevation of Dr. Moberly, islikely to fall to Dr. Vaughan, the new Master of the Temple. Mr. Childers means to take a very pleasant holiday trip. He has arranged that the Channel Squadron shall join the Mediterranean Squadron in the latter sea, and he will assume the command (of course only nominally) of the combined fleet. The advantage of sending the first -mentioned squadron into the Mediterranean is sup posed to consist in the facility for manceuvring which the combination will afford. The cost of the experiment will be £20,000, which will, among other things, pay for the holiday of the First Lord of the Admiralty. I had occasion a few weeks since to refer in praise. worthy terms to the change wrought in Hyde Park by the exertions of Mr. Layard. Perhaps the right hon. gentleman will now turn his attention to the adjacent Kensington Gardens, especially to the round ponds by the fountains. In spite of the heavy rains which have lately fallen, the water here is quite stagnant, and emits an effluvia not at all pleasant to the visitor. Considering the popularity of this particular spot, and the health of the large number of children who frequent it daily, it would be a graceful action on the part of the First Commissioner of Works to order that such a state of things should not continue through the remaining hot weather. A suggestion has just been made with respect to emi gration which is well worth consideration. It is proposed that the colonies shall open industrial schools, and that pauper children shall be sent there from this country, with the understanding that they shall be instructed in the arta best adapted to make them useful colonists, and that the Lords of the Treasury shall be empowered to contribute from the Consolidated Fund the sums required for the removal of pauper children from any of the out ports to any such colony, and that boards of guardians shall have power to defray the cost of removal to the out port and of maintenance in the school for three years. By this means the mother country would be relieved of a surplus population, and the colonies would have a supply of young persons well trained and expressly adapted for colonial life. ME7 ROPOLMIN GO&sIP-7hursclay. On Thursday morning, at 8 o'clock, Jonah Detheridge, a rthtti6 - of Staffolt, and lately a convict at the Portland Prison, was hung within the walls of the Dorset County Gaol, at Dorchester, for the murder cf Warder Trevett, at Portland, on March 23. In the morning Trevett complaineil of the way in which Detheridge was doing Lis work, and the convict was offended, and refused to do it as he was told. An hour after, as the warder was standing with his back to Detheridge, the convict stole up behind him, knocked him down with a pick he was using, and inflicted murderous wounds on his head, from which in a few hours he died. Detheridge was tried at the Dorset Assizes on July 22, and condemned to death. Through. out the trial he was brutishly indifferent, and after sen tence he muttered " I shall not be the first inno cent man hung." Since that time he has shewn the same carelessness, and neither the chaplain nor the Rev. J. Mann (Wesleyan)— for Detheridge Nuts said to be a Methodist—had the slightest effect in bringing Lim to a sense of his guilt or the awful position in which he was placed. He ate and slept well all the time, and was the least touched of all about him at his fate. LAW AND POLICE. -0- EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD BY A SOI-DISANT CAPTAIN.— When Hans Vanderdecken, who is charged with having obtained a large quantity of goods under false pretence; was again brought up at Marl borough-street, on Thursday, a new character was given to the proceedings. The only witness called was a Mr. Bartlett, a gentleman well known to the prisoner, and with whom he had had dealings on several occasions. In the course of the cross-examination it was elicited that some years ago a memorandum of agreement was drawn up, signed by the witness and the prisoner, whereby " the United Mines of Anglesey " was to be purchased with a capital of £50,000, the solicitor and the promoter each to have £5,000 out of the capital ; while from the same fund £20,000 was to be divided in equal portions between the two contracting parties. The money for the purchase of the mines was, however, never forthcoming. Before the witness's cross-examination was closed he expressed his belief that the prisoner was mad ; and the magistrate was so far inclined to agree with him that he ordered - Varlerdecken to be remanded, with a view to an inquiry into the state of his mind. BETTING MEN FiN1:1) AT WOLVERHAMPTON.-The Wolverhampton police authorities took steps at the races in that borough, which have just terminated, to carry out the terms of the new Gaming Act. Attiring some of their best officers in "plain clothes," they watched the oper ations of the betting-men who tenanted the booths and made and accepted bets, giving tickets to the public who wagered with them, and cashing the tickets from within their booths after the respective races had been run. The terms of most of the summonses were that the defendants, being occu piers of certain booths, "opened" them for the purposes of betting. William Moreton, of Wolverhampton, who used a department of a booth over which there were the names of " Lewis and Adamson," was con victed and fined £2O and costs, the bench refusing to grant a case asked for upon the plea that Adamson was responsible. Warrants were granted against William Williamson, of Manchester; against Philip Platt, of Brunswick-street, Liverpool, who wore a courier's bag, on which there was the name of " S. Sykes, Alliance Club, Liverpool ;" and against A. F. Hill, of Manchester. George Rowley, of Wednesbury, was fined £2O an,l for allowing betting in his booth ; and Charles Crook, of Walsall, was similarly charged, Lut had his case adjourned for a week. It tranepired that a moiety of the fines in these cases go to the Police Superannuation Fund of Wolverhampton. A NOTTINGHAM "LAMB."-At the Town Hall, Notting ham, on Thursday, James Cosgrove was brought up on remand, charged with having assaulted a cabman, named Ephraim Paling, at the late election. The evidence for the prosecution went to spew that on the polling-day Paling was driving a cab and pair of horses. When in Beck-street the cab was attacked by a number of Yellow "lambs," the -windows smashed, and the horses ill-used, and Cosgrove struck Paling a violent blow on the right eye with a stick. Mr. Mickley, surgeon, stated that he had examined prosecutor's eye-ball, and bethought it more than probable that he would lose his sight. De tective Golding , said that while conveying prisoner to the police station he shouted to some of his companions, "They are taping me for that cab job." For the defence several witnesses were called, who swore Cosgrove was not the man wl.o struck Paling. O ne o f th ese witnesses, named Joseph Brazill, on being cross•examined by the solicitor fur the prosecution, admitted having been con victed five times. He appeared very indignant at having to answer these questions, and said that "he (the solicitor) did not mind hurting a man's feelings,'' and that " the convictions had nothing to do with his character." The bench committed the prisoner for trial at the next assizes. The foot and mouth disease has broken on amongst the cattle in Northumberland, and is spreadin, very fast. TUE CEURCIT. —Two valualle pieces of cede sia4ical preferment fall to the Crown by the appointment of Dr. Moberly to the see of Salisbury, a canonry in Chester Cathedral, worth £5OO a year, and the rectory of Brightstone, Isle of Wight, worth £7OO a year. GusTAYE DORE IN LONDON.— Gustave Dorf and Blanchard Jerrold have been making a systematic explo ration of London, from Wapping to Kensington, among high and low, with a view to a work on the great capital. Monsieur Dore has made a most interesting collection of studies. I mentioned in my last letter the difficulty which there is in obtaining exemption from the duty of grand juror. An incident has been mentioned to me which shews that he who undertakes the duty is, to use a classical pun, magis oneratus quam honoratus. Some time ago a car penter applied, in great distress, to a friend of mine for pecuniary help. My friend aided him, and told him that if he would come on a certain day he should have some work. The man replied that be had been summoned to serve on the grand jury of Middlesex. In theory, none but gentlemen can serve as grand jurors. Nevertheless, this man, though a labourer and a pauper, had been cited. Be obeyed the summons, thinking that he would get well paid for his work. After he had got through his duties, my friend asked him what reward he had received. Ire replied, "The judge was so well pleased with the way in which we did our work, that he gave us an order to see over the Middlesex Gaol." I hear that the Presidentship of the British Association for 1870 is to be offered to Professor Huxley. After five years, new Blackfriars Bridge is all but finished, and will probably be opened in about two months. In reality, the removal of the old bridge took much the longer portion of the five years, and the whole work will have occupied little more than half the time which was occupied by the construction of the old bridge. The new will be thirty-three feet wider than the old, and at the same time the gradient instead of being I in 24 will be only 1 in 40. The navigation of the river, which was sorely impeded by the nine arches of the formerstructure, will be much less hindered by the five arches of the new one. As a work of art there can be no comparison between the two. Old Blackfriars had scarcely any pretensions to architectural beauty, and was built of Portland stone. New Blackfriars is built of granite'and iron, in the Gothic style. The one great disadvantage is the close proximity of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railvray bridge, which shuts out the view of BLackfriars on the eastern side. The new bridge will cost about £320,000. It is rumoured in scientific circles that Professor Stokes, in his presidential address to the British Association next Wednesday, intends to attack the Darwinian theory which was so ably advocated by Dr. Hooker from the same chair last year. If this report be true, the address will, no doubt, excite great interest, for mathematicians have always been the most formidable opponents with whom Mr. Darwin has had to contend, and Professor Stokes being a man of deep scientific attainments, is well qualified to break a lance in favour of the time-honoured doctrine of special creation. Among other scientific researches Professor Stokes made the discovery of a change in the refrangible nature of light, and an able paper published by him on this subject led the Royal Society to confer upon him the Rumford Medal in 1842. In 1854 he became secretary to that society, and its memoirs contain many very valuable scientific treatises from his pen. A celebrated photographer who has previously had to take measures for the protection of his copyright, walked into a printing-office the other day and found the establish ment engaged in printing some of his choicest specimens. Having expressed his admiration of the good taste which had been displayed in selecting his specimens, the printer, desiring to obtain praise for shrewdness as well as for good taste, confided to the artist that the originals, from which he was printing, had cost him only a shilling each. The artist then made himself known to the astonished printer, and the result will be a suitable fine and punishment for the robbery. Messrs. Downey, of Newcastle, have recently taken photographs of her Majesty, as she appears at her favourite occupation of spinning flax ; they have also taken some interesting photographs of the Prince of Wales's children, which I should like to see published. All the regular picture exhibitions are now closed, but an exhibition of rather a novel kind has just been opened. It is at Dickinson's, in Bond-street, and consists of 700 photographs illustrative of London society in 1854-5. Among them are the portraits of 200 officers who served in the Crimean war. There are some interesting items of literary news to mention this week. Sir Henry Bulwer's "Life of Lord Palmerston" is fast approaching completion. Strictly speaking, it is scarcely a life, but the correspondence edited, or linked together, by Sir Henry Bulwer. The papers placed in Sir Henry's hands will confirm the popular estimate of the late Premier as a noble, manly creature. The two volumes of the "History of the Crimean War," upon which Mr. Kinglake is now engaged, will complete the work by bringing the narrative down to the death of Lord Raglan. Mr. Kinglake's readers would have liked the story continued to the taking of Sebastopol ; but his object waq not to chronicle that famous campaign, but to defend the English general who commanded it at the out set. I may also announce another work of great interest, in which Mr. Charles Dickens will appear under the new character of a biographical editor. It is " The Religious Opinions of the late Rev. Chauncy Hare Townshend." The book is ready now, but the publica tion is reserved until November, when the new literary season sets in. The verses on Lamartine, written by Mr. Charles Kent some sixteen years ago (which so pleased the French poet at the time), have been translated into Lamartine's own language by the Chevalier de Chatelain, author of " Ronces et Chardons," and the translation has been published by Rolandi. Mr. Edmund Yates is engaged on a new novel ; and Mr. Arthur A'Beckett, editor of the Britannia magazine, and Mr. Sidney Daryl, are about to follow the example of Mr. Charles Reade and Mr. Dion Boucicault, by producing a partnership novel. If it should have anything like the - - run of "Foul Play," the authors will have no reason to complain. AU the Year Round contains a story entitled "An Experience," written by a lady, which is so remarkable in its way that those who read it will never forget the reading. Lastly, I may mention that Mr. Hotten has just published "A Letter to Cardinal Cullen," . _ which is a Freemason's answer to the Cardinal's attack upon the Masonic Order. The principal event in the theatrical world is Mr. Douci. cault's new drama at Drury Lane, " Formosa ; or, the Rai road to Ruin." With scarcely an exception the dramatic critics of the different London papers, whilst speaking in high ;erms of the magnificent Mailer in which the piece is placed upon the stage, strongly condemn the materials .. . _ upon which it is founded. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. LORD STANLEY ON TILE AR3IY AND NAVY. At the same meeting Lord Stanley uttered the now usual Conservative protest against the exercise of undue economy in the army and navy. Ile ad mitted that it was reasonable that men should grumble when there was 25 millions of money to pay; but thought a warning necessary, lest that grumbling should lead to a depreciation of the army and navy in the esteem of Englishmen. lie regarded the ser vices r.s a necessary, though a costly, insurance, and there is no economy (he exclaimed), rather the reverse, in neglecting to keep up insurances. As a nation, England was rich enough to be robbed, and prosperous enough to excite envy ; it ought, there fore, to make itself strong enough to be respected. England did not want to go to war, was not territorially ambitious, and was anxious to lot other nations alone : but one could not be so sure that other countries would let us alone. War was about the oldest institution on record, and as the world did not become wise in a day, we could not be sure that it would not be rcs)rted to again. We must therefore aria ; to disarm would be to invite aggression. HUSH CIIITP,CH GOVERNMENT. The standing committee of the Irish Church Con ference has held its final meeting at Trinity College. ' A letter from the Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin was read announcing that all the bishops lately assembled agreed that it was not expedient to reassemble the Conference, as reassembling would be distasteful to a large body of Churchmen. The committee expressed its dissent from this conclusion. It cordially concurred, however, with the recom mendation of the prelates that a general synod, representing the clergy and the laity in equal numbers, be convened. The committee signified its earnest desire that this recommendation be carried out as speedily as possible. THE FENIAN PRISONERS. The Fenian patriots who have been provided with board and lodging and light work at the expense of a grateful country still find numerous sympathisers with their unhappy condition. Another meeting has been held at Dublin, and resolutions calling upon the Government to release the unhappy prisoners have been passed. The assembhge expressed its confidence in Messrs. Gladstone and )fright, pledged itself to support the Amnesty Association, and unanimously agreed that "a general amnesty to all political offenders would have a most powerful effect in tranquillising the country." The political offenders exerted themselves so energetically in tranouillising the country when they were last at large, th a t th e best consequences ought to be anticipated from turn ing them loose again. principle as well. All sorts of wild speeches were LOSS OF THE GERMANIA. made in support of this theory, and every domestic evil—pauperism, bankruptcy, emi g ration (which was Two other steamers, th e G erman i a an d t h e Cleo looked upon as an evil)—was laid to the charge of patra, have been lost off Cape Race, Newf oun d- Free Trade, just as every disease is attribut e d t o land, and all—the marine authorities say— facemation. it is no use endeavouring so shew these through the want of a fog signal. For years people that it is better for us to abolish Protection, the necessity of such a safeguard at this sven without the concurrence of other nations, than mist-hidden promontory has been advocated by the io retain high tariffs because our neighbours do so. captains in the American trade. Nobody, however, [t is a pity the practical remedy cannot be tried, and would spend the few thousand pounds required, and the Shoreditch people be gratified with a taste of the the result is that a million sterling in property has results which would accrue if England were again to gone to the bottom off this single Cape. Ten years revive the old system, and every country we re t o k eep ago a fog signal was erec t e d a t th e entrance of the is productions locked within its own boundary, harbour to St. John's, and there the disasters have THE LAND QUESTION. decreased 90 per cent. The Irish land question is to be settled next ses sion, we are told ; but how, or according to what principles ? The non-development of public opinion in the matter is, considering the time it has been discussed by politicians, somewhat remarkable. The general public seems to have no particular idea about the real estates intestacy question, for instance; and much haziness exists on the cheapening of conveyances, the shortening of settlements, and the large or small farms debate. There is patient waiting upon statesmen in the matter, which seems at first to augur well for the success of any plan proposed. But it is hardly so satisfactory as it appears, ignor ance being generally obstructive. The advanced Reformers have recognised this, and are preparing to take means for the development of the public mind. Mr. Mill, Mr. Jacob Bright, Mr. Fawcett, Sir C. W. Dilke, Sir 11. Hoare, and others of the same stamp have attended the preliminary meetings of a pro posed organisation for spreading such information as shall pave the way for a " courageous policy." Lord Stanley, presiding at the annual banquet of the Ormskirk and Southport Agricultural Society, on Wednesday, enunciated his opinion on the pre sent proprietary propcsal. Ile laid great stress on the progress of science as applied to agriculture, and remarked that human and brute force were gra dually giving place to machinery. This revolution in farming would make it imperative, he thought, that the farmer—or rather the landowner—of the future should be a capitalist. He would want to expend money on drainage, improvement, and impl emen t s. Could a peasant proprietor do so ? If not—and Lord Stanley thought not—those amiable and kind-hearted men who were seeking to hand the land over to mere labourers were really proposing to do that which would cause retrogression, would impede very seriously agricultural progress, and tend ultimately to separate the capital from the soil. They were doing much as if they went to a factory, took away the steam engines, and compelled a return to hand-loom working. They were upsetting the threefold system, which had hitherto worked so well, of landlord, tenant, and labourer. To that system objection had been made that it caused dependence, but it only caused that mutual de pendence which must exist in civilised society. EMIGRATION. The committee which administers the British and Colonial Emigration Fund has reported progress. One ship was sent off a few days ago with 300 emigrants on board, and another will shortly proceed to the remote colony of Queens land with 250 of the East London poor. It is satisfactory to hear that this is not altogether an eleemosynary undertaking, but that each passenger will contribute at least £3 ss. towards his expenses. The cry from the colonies is still for more. A Government emigra tion agent in Canada reports that there is a greatly increased demand for youths between 14 and 18 years of age. No doubt ; these lads do a deal of work for no great pay, but if the colonists want the children they must take the parents likewise. TUE lIAYDOCK COLLIERY EXPLOSION. The Times notes that the inquest touching the colliery accident at Ilaydock has had a more satis factory result than most of these inquiries. The jury have come to a definite conclusion respecting the cause of the disaster, and their verdict wax justified by a remarkabl e concurrence of evidence. he explosion was of firedamp, i gn it e d b y a " shot " —that is, by blasting with gunpowder. It appears, moreover, that a great deal of gunpowder had been taken down by the miners. This was exploded at the same time, and increased the destruction. The jury are also of opinion that " if proper care had 'been taken to remove the gas from the cavity in the fault, this explosion would not have happened." The fact is, as they explained to the coroner, they could not pronounce this catastrophe to be a matter of accident, though they did not quite like to say that it was due to culpable neglect. But the Times has no such hesitation. Miners are much given to using gunpowder in their work, though the in spectors have repeatedly declared that it ought never to be employed in mines which need a safety lamp. " Another session of Parliament ought not to pass without some stringent regulations for better manage ment being imposed by the Legislature." THE QUEEN'S SPE MIL It is not easy to get up a sermon on the Queen's Speech, for it necessarily contains little, and that little is commonplace. A royal utterance at the beginning of the session is often ambigoons and unsatisfactory ; but the prorogation speech is invari ably bald beyond mer.sure. The Times thinks that all must join in the confidence that the Irish Church Act will unite all elisses of the Irish people in fraternal concord with their fellow-subjects in England and Scotland. It should be sonic encouragement to observe that the ►Ministers of the Crown accept the Act as realising the ideal they placed before them selves at the commencement of the session. The ,S7andard, on the other hand, opinos that the leading feature in a s. - i•ecli plain almost to baldness is the very Act which marks the ses sion as one of disaster to the country. These com ments coot sans dire. One thing is noteworthy—we get less and less of foreign imbroglios in every suc ceeding review from the Throne. The troubles in every part of the world, and especially China, which used to form the greater part of royal messages, are now conspicuous by their absence. " We are friendly with everybody" is all that the Ministry finds it need ful to say. TITE WORK OF THE SESSION. We yesterday commented upo n th e grea t wor k which had been accomplished in the past session. The character of the measures speaks most for the labour which has been accomplished. But numerically the task has been a heavy one, for 288 bills were passed. Of these no less than 12G were public bills. THE DEATH OF SUL C. SELWYN. By the death of the senior Lord Justice of Appeal, an important piece of legal patronage falls into the hands of the Lord Chancellor. Sir Charles was the youngest son of the late Mr. William Selwyn, Q. 0., and was 56 years of age. his lordship, who was a brother to the Bishop of Lichfield, t 9 Canon Selwyn, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at ' Cambridge University, and to Captain Jasper Selwyn, RN., was Solicitor-General for a few months in 1867, and was appointed Lord Justice of Appeal in February 1868. At the time of his ap pointment great dissatisfaction was felt at the Bar, it being universally considered that there were other equity lawyers—notably the present Lord Chan cellor, who was then Vice - Chancellor Sir Page Wood—who had prior claims. When, however, the next vacancy occurred, Sir P age W oo d was offered the dignity, and Sir Charles Selwyn gracefully yielded precedence to the man who had been so tardily advanced. Soon after his promotion his wife died, but after remain ing a widower a few months he remarried. He had lately undergone a very painful operation, and it was generally thought he had rallied, but a reaction set in, and he died on Wednesday morning at Richmond. The Times calls upon the Government to offer the vacant judgeship to either Lord Cairns (who has already filled the office) or to Sir Bounden Palmer. The hon. member for Richmond has more than once refused the proffered dignity—the last time being when the present Ministry accepted office. The Daily .2Vezcs says it is somewhat remarkable that while the late Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner sat together for nearly fifteen years, since the death of those eminent judges the Supreme Court of Appeal in Chancery has witnessed a constant suc cession of changes. In less than three years three justices have died; Sir John bolt, after a few months of office, resigned on account of ill-health, and Lord Cairns and Lord Ilatherley have left the court for the woolsack. The salary attached to the office is £6,000 a year. ELECTION NEWS. The writ for an election in the county of Caithness, vice Mr. Traill, sen., resigned, has been received, and the nomination will take place on the 24th. It does not appear that anythi ng b eyon d a nom i na tion will be required. Mr. James C. Trail, nephew of the retiring member, is the only candidate in the field at present. —The contest in Antrim proceeds vigorously, but the manifestations are en ti re l y confined to the Liberal candidate. Sir Sh a ft o Ad a i r s t umps w ithout ceasing; but Mr. Seymour re ma i ns qu i et. He relies upon his landlords, and probably will not rely in vain. More than one correspondent hints that the example set by the two peers in disclaiming intimidation will not be followed by many others. PlIOTE•TITION AGAIN. MacAulay, in his essay on " Lord Bacon," observes that scientific knowledge is not merely progressive; it never retrogrades —an advance once made is never retraced. It appears, however, that political economy is to be made an ex ception to this rule. One would have thought that in England, at least, the battle of Free Trade once fought would never be renewed ; but it see:us that there are not wanting ignorant persons, and persons who traffic on the ignorance of others, to advocate a return to the old system. The people of Slioreditch have met to denounce Free Trade, and to advocate a return to Protection. An assemblage, consisting chiefly of working men, gathered in the Shoreditch town hall onWednesday evening, and passed a resolution cilling for reciprocity-of international exchanges. Free Trade was not absolutely condemned, but it was declared to. be imuzioug unless other nations adopted the LEGISLATION FOIL WOMEN. Whatever may be the destiny of the women's rights movement, it is an undeniable fact that the interests of the weaker sex have been consulted in Parliament to a greater extent during the present session than in any former year. In the first place, thanks to Mr. Jacob Bright, the women of England have obtained the municipal franchise, and may now take their part in the choice of town councillors. It is to be hoped that the quality of this article will improve with the aid o f the ladies' selection. By the Endowed Schools' Act a better share of educational good things m ay f a ll to the girls. The wife's sister marriage p ro j ect has, for good or for evil, undeniably made progress; and the Married Women's Property Bill has advanced so far as to pass the second reading in the - House of Lords. Mr. Russell Gurney, M.P., will bring in another measure of the kind next year, and es the Upper House has affirmed the principle of the bill, his chances of success appear considerable. CRIMINAL STATISTICS. A monster Blue-book was issued yesterday morn ing giving some valuable statistics of the state of crime in England and Wales. We are informed that since the consolidation of the criminal law effected in 1801, by which capital sentences have been restricted to murder, the number sentenced to death has decreased by 58 per cent. Of the 21 persons sentenced to death last year four were women, of two of whom the sentences were commuted to penal servitude for life. Of the 17 men sentenced to death, six sentences were commuted to penal servitude for life. In one case a free pardon was granted. Since 1859 the greatest number of executions in one year was in 1863, when 22 persons suffered death; in 1865 there were only 7. Both in the latter year and in 1862 two men were left for execution, but committed suicide before the capital sentence could be carried into effect. The total number of penal servitude sen tences for above fifteen years was considerably in excess of the numbers for any of the preceding four years. The cost of the police and constabulary for the year 1807-8 was £2,084,596 lls. 6d., being an increase of 8.5 per cent. SALE OF LIQUORS ON SUNDAYS. The association for preventing the sale of in toxicating liquors on Sunday s announces an encouraging activity amongst the religious bodies touching tins question. Th e B ap ti s t As sociation, the Calvinistic Methodist Conference, the Bible Christian Conference, the Methodist New Connexion Conference, and the United Methodist Free Churches Conference, have all taken measures in aid of the movement, or expressed cordial ap proval of the object in view. The determination of the religious bodies to check the Sunday liquor traffic is clearly becoming stronger. LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Lord Sandon, M.P., and Mr. W. Rathbone, M.P., were present at the meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. The former approved Itrongly of the Telegraphs Bill, and hoped that telegraphic communication with India and China would be pushed on as rapidly as possible. Mr. Itathbone noticed what he called the one blot in the Bankruptcy Bill. This was the composition clause, which he was afraid would be either positively useless or injurious; but as the first persons to suffer would be those at whose instance the clauses had been introduced, it would not be difficult for them to unite and carry a short bill either to amend or repeal those clauses. Mr. Itathbone thought the Patent La W. 3 011'_;111; to be repealed, as they lured on - ventors to loss, and o!'ten to ruin, and were a '•""ucdiinent, instead of an aid, to invention. HORRIBLE OFFENCE. The public will now probably have a little leisure to contemplate the eccentricities of unpaid judicial functionaries, and it unfortunately happens that the supply never fails to equal the demand. The magistrates who sit in Petty Sessions at Bromley are to be accounted amongst the country justices who administer the law without flinching. They recently had before them a washerwoman who had been un lawfully abstracting a bundle of sticks from a wood. The case was soon finished off. " What have you got to say to the charge ?"—Prisoner : " If you please, your worships, I had no money to buy coal, and as I was passing through Mr. Berens's wood I gathered a few sticks to boil my kettle." Clearly this was no defence at all, and the magistrates accordingly inflicted a fine of 2s. Gd., with 3s. Gd. costs, or seven days' imprisonment. There is one branch of our criminal administration which never fails. Murderers may escape the gallows, ticket-of leave men may return to their evil ways, and fradulent bankrupts may plunder in security, but let hares, sticks, or turnips be touched, and retribution is sure. BRACELETS FOR MEN. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," and maybe men ought not to denounce as they do the way in which the girl of the period copies them. Perhaps the ladies too will feel complimented by the latest Paris fashion. The gentlemen of Parisian society are taking to wearing bracelets. It is to be hoped they will not become the fashion in England. They are costly, useless, inconvenient, and gaudy; are, indeed, only fit for women. FOREIGN NOTES. THE CARLISTS IN SPAIN. A. correspondent of the Times gives some particulars of the capture of the rebel chief Balanzategui, whose defeat and death we announced by telegraph a day or two since. I.'he coup de grace was given to his party by a deputy to the Cortes, Senor Acebedo, who asked and obtained per mission to head some volunteers of liberty, and take the field against the Carlists. Falling in with Balanza itegurs party, which was called the " Partido Sagrado " from its having no fewer than thirteen or fourteen priests enrolled in its ranks, they defeated it. With three or four attached followers, the chief fled towards Reinoso. 'Here they were noticed by a sergeant of the Civil Guard, named Centeno, who, with four of his men, was on the look out for " strangers." Suspecting them to be Callists, but not knowing who they were, the Civil Ciu.ird chal lenged them. A fight ensued, in which Balanzategui Was captured, but not till he had discharged every shot in his revolver, and had the weap9n itself knocked (IV; bf his hand by a sword-cut of one of the Civil Guard. As boon as the Government had news of the arrest of th's .rebel leader they telegraphed for him to be removed to teen, but the order arrived at Valdedoveros (where be had been conveyed for trial) too late. He was shot at the latter place on Saturday morning. _ This shooting of prisoners without any form of trial has brought down much censure upon the Government, They appear to have lost head, says the Times correspondent, 'when this insurrection broke out. " Going back nearly fifty years in search (and, it may also be added, in spirit), they found an old and obsolete martial law, dated the 17th of April, 1821, which was framed specially to meet high way robberies effected with violence and armed conspiracies against the powers of the day. Accordingly, striking cut some of the clauses of that old martial law as being altogether too musty for the present age, and altering others a little, they re-established the long -forgotten statutes. The main feature of the whole is the trial, not by the ordinary judicial tribunals, but by council of war on the spot, of all conspirators taken with arms in hand, and the execution of the sentence within the summary period of 24 hours." Already this cruel tribunal has had several victims. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. An extraordinary story is told by a Saxon newspaper of a correspondence which it pretends took place between the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia about a fortnight before the outbreak of hostilities in MK King William, according to this account, wrote to the Emperor urging that a war between members of the same German family should be avoided, and proposing that Austria and Prussia should unite their forces against the hereditary enemy of Germany on the other side of the Rhine. The Emperor, should their arms prove victo• rious, should rule over the South German States, while the King of Prussia should govern North Germany and the Rhine provinces. To this attractive programme, Francis Joseph, according to this correspondence, returned a virtuously indignant answer. His sense of honour a 3 a German Prince forbade him, he said, to rob the allies of Austria, the rulers of Germans, of their princely rights. The publication of this correspondence proves how little affection is felt for the Prussian sovereign in Saxony. THE PRUSSIAN FLEET. The armour-clad fleet of the North German Confede ration, which is the first squadron of the kind possessed by Prussia, has just left Kiel, where it bad mustered, under the command of Vice-Admiral Yachmann. The fleet is to visit several ports, and will include a French and an English port in its voyage. Prince Frederic Charles accompanies the squadron in the armour•clad frigate, King William. DIPLOMATIC CHANGES. The Prussian Government is evidently determined to restrict as much as possible the political communications between the smaller German States and the outer world. We learn from Carisruhe (in the Grand Duchy of Baden) that, at the instigation of the Prussian Government, the Baden Ambassado r of Florence will be very shortly re called, a step which will inevitably result in the with drawal of the Italian representative from Carlsruhe, so that no diplomatic relations will exist between the Grand Duchy and Italy. Consuls will be maintained for the settlement of commercial affairs. THE FRENCH POSTAL SERVICE. The postal service between France and Great Britain has been di scussed in the 'Mats. Attention is called to theinconvenience resulting from the existing regnlationi regarding the weight of letters. Both countries complain of the p resent system, and both . agree that it should be altered, but they find it impossible to go further. The weight at present is seven and a half grammes, which the French Post Office wishes to raise to ten grammes and the English to fifteen. The English Administration has reason on its side, inasmuch as there is no English equivalent for ten grammes, while fifteen grammes correspond to the English half-ounce. t is to be hoped that the two Administrations will speedily adjust their differences, as at present the public arc the sufferers. The Debats thinks that if the French Post Office agreed to adopt the fifteen grammes weight, it might in return obtain a lower tariff for printed matter. A new postal treaty between the two countries seems to be wanted. The section of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad, between Putnam and Willimantic, will be in running order before the close of the present year. The great bridge over the Quinebaug, at Putnam, containing two spans of 150 feet each, and to coat $lOO,OOO, is nearly finished. grew THE ATLANTIC CABLES. Some of the sharel.olders in the Atlantic cable companies are getting very apprehensive of the ultimate consequences of the competition between the French and English rivals. One proprietor points out that it is impossible to prevent competi tion in the case of paying concerns, and it is absurd therefore for these companies to impoverish them selves in trying to do so. " The right principle to adopt would be the one pursued by the Electric Magnetic and - United Kingdom Telegraph Com panies; that is, to place all receipts in a joint purse, against which all expenses are charged, and the balance of profit is then divided between the com panies in proportion to tho number of wires each has enzazed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. YORK AUG - ft Wednesda, Acceptances for the Great I Age st lb Kidderminst inc. 101 b ex) 5 9 3 Fortunio Tabouret 4 8 12 Grant des Battaillk.s 4 8 8 King's Cross 5 8 0 Viscount War Lord Hawthorn Bracken.. 5 7 8 Aneroid 5 7 8 Blacklock T MEETING. y, Aug. 25. :Lor Handicap. rro Age sit Miss Sarah fi11y..... ,t 7 7 :'umber Nip......... The Laird............ IVeatherstar ......... a 7' Acaster ....... 3 Stork ................. 3 Prince . : ... ......... 3 6 1 / 1 Provider ..................... 3 3 6 6 ' g Winifred ........ •••"6 Vansittart ............ 2 Crown Princess 3 6 1 , 1u"A l HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR E MENTS. Aug. 6, at 9 n.m., Mars, out of Ifolyoako Status at verhampton. Aug. 6, at 9 a.m., Minster, out of Egham engage °. Aug. 6, at 9 a.m., Zara, out of all engagements. Aug. 6, at 1.20 p.m., Blanche, out of Cooper's gil l sery and Barons Handicap at Egham. Aug. 6, at 3.40 p.m., Dolphin, out of La wess c oo'. Aug. 9, at 9 a.m., Two by Ifonors, out of M u.- Stakes at Egham, and Park Nursery at Windsor. Aug. 9, at 9 a.m., Miss Sheppard, South Hatch, ' 0 st num, and Molly B awn, out of the King John S ta ke s Egham. Aug, o °l g 9, at 9 a.m., Laird o f S cot l an d and 11 attlA Egham eng geaments. Aug. 9, at 9 a.m., Adolphus and David Copperfl," °al of Surrey and Middlesex Stakes at Egham. oci Aug. 9, at 9 a . m., O ctavia, out of Stewards ' plate Nursery Stakes at Wolverhampton. ATurStel Aug, 9, at 9 a.m., Hengist, out o f St a ff or dshiro at Wolverhampton. b' s g r Aug. 9, at 9 a . m., Al i ce (late Clipper), out of A ments in Mr. Heene's name. f j es° Aug. 9, at 9 a.m., Paris, out of Handicap of 5 s° ' (second day), at Egham. t eat °l Aug. 9, at 9 a . m . , Mi ss Hayes, Lady Day, and co lt Eltham's dam, out of Windsor engagements. , r oof Aug. 9, at 9 a.m., N ero, out of Grand Prize (et 1870. Aug. 9, at 10.30 tt.m., Alpenst oc k , out of Win s6 or °es°. dicap. Aotfr Aug. 9, at 10.30 a.m., Acleliz c, out of Stewards' Windsor. 4 0a.,0 1 Aug. 9, at 11.28 min, Our Mary An n au l Startaro --- Stockton engagements. Aug. 9, at 0.48 p.m., King's Cross, out of Tr ades Plate at Stockton. dior Aug. 9, at 4.38 p.m., Parmesina, out of 1,-11 gagements. Aug. 9, about 5 p.m., Jove, out of Windsor o gea ments. Ilf g b° Aug.lo, a t 9 a.m., all Mr. Brown's horses, out °- and Windsor engagements. Aug. 10, at 9 a.m., Brasenose, out of DWI . c ilsgs. meats. i ° td lOC Aug. 10, at 9 a.m., T arquin, out of the Tent h sl` Biennial at Wolverhampton. nint i. Aug. 10, at 9 a.m., Abyssinia, out of all engage G oa' Aug. 10, at 9 a.m., all Mr. T. Golby's and Alr.fj• horses, out of Windsor engagements. 8/1 Aug. 10, at 9 a.m., Chilhant, out of Cooper's 11 Barons' Stakes at Egham. e at Aug. 10, at 0.45 p.m., Elegance, out of all "I enga ge in 1869. igo lger Aug. 10, at 2.30 p.m., Green Riband, out of hampton and Egham engagements. dirg Aug. 10, aft er 8 p.m., Miss Camerine, out of -"- Sweepstakes of 5 Sovs each, second day, at Eg liain ,i:or Aug. 11, at 9 a.m., Miss Catnerine, out of Win"' gagements. so a Aug. 11, at 2.38 p.m., Luna, Hengist, HalloWee°l Henley, out of Windsor engagements. via --- NEWMARKET. —SU SSEX ' STAKES. —Lord Lord V h ivia%Blir ascertained that J us t i n Ti me tho dam of his b °l :',, goody, had b re d a w i nner at ; he timo of nom inst lo- 'OO allows the claim of 31b. allowance for him as beil3g ° boo an Untried mare. NOMENCLATURE. —The following names c oioge - : given : —Mr. D awson ' s colt foal by Loiterer, o ut of o r I •'' thorpe's darn, The Idle Apprentice ; Mr. Edg a L 'B oo ls l3° , 6 / yearling f by Cl are t , out of Arno, by Rataplaill Lord St. Vincent's ch c foal by L or d Clifden, 0. Flower, Prairie Lord. PRICE OF GOLD. t The quotation of gold at Paris is about at P7 e ,11 ,0 O per X 1 s lee : ,e short exchange on London is 251. 171 On comparing; these rates with the English. g in t, i Pt t iiii. .£3 Os. 10id. per ounce for standard go d, it aPPParie• g o gold at the above price is the came in London and - „ifis 0 v ,, - The course of exchange at New York on London fo r — te IV .- At this 1. 4,,te8. clays' sight was on the 9th inst. 110 • per cent. United ''' is a profit on the importation of gold from the Bank of England Returno' An Account, lursuant to t cap. 32, for the week ending he Act 7th and 80 7869. Wednesda.;,•, Aug. 111 P A.ItTMENT. • 98 1 , 011 1C° Govornmt Debt.Xll, , Othor Securities.. , Gold Coin u nd 6/3, 57v Bullion ......... 19,, Silver 13ullion 01,613'5' ISSUE DE Notes issued ....X31,135,570 £34,135,570 BANKING 1). Proprietors' Oapi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt. and Div. Accounts ..... 3,241,671 Other Deposits.. 18,592,344 Seven Days and other Bills &PARTMENT. Governmt. Secu rities(incluc.ling Dead Weight 4 00 67 9 il 4 '5O Annuity) ;••• .. 4 1 0t4, 4 Other Securities.• . 1 7 91 , G Nles. a . n . .. .. 1° , 0 886'09 Coin 1 .......... ' 596,620 ..."''.. £40,319420'/ E FORBES, Chief Csshier £40,319,207 GEOM chalkrtelrarfgore osnheipoofwn hiser Bostonvinesseisto tea ~. copo of c° t t a b k a e s a just a oto from io n . 4 bit Montreal, with an outwardof cargo grain teasea t l3 ' d un to Liverpool at very low rates, giving as a ;„ BLIP -- would get his vessels coppered much cheaper '- than in America. 00 D p., A son of the Rev. Edward Beecher, • clergy recently ordained in Minds, and the officiating 000 've 1113 f man addressed him in the following irnPre ssi eon ° the - ha I charge you never to forget that you are ~„d t your father, the grandson of your grandfather, P nephew of your uncle." carg tre, ti ma d 1' 1 ,,,, f 5i I ADVERTISEMENT.J—HoIIoway's Ointment - oig ha n o Low spirits, Despondency.—Sickness sonn w i r jed L'l_;ji the most buoyant spirits unless they be ruaintanisy sa4 e i l hope of speedy recovery. The salutary' W u dies, 1/1)1 0 50 be based on Holloway's world-esteemed roll all clisso, are the safest, and most efficient curatives y ittr on 17° ,,i. affecting the exterior or interior of the , ...d by P.,e They raise every organ to its natural stann!: d i s iedgt3 fying the blood, stimulating the nerves, a .. ll ` d ` s. 10 s' - nt s any obstructions in the vessels or gla,", o dica°oo diseases and children's complaints IfollowaY ts a l t oale,l jo g are invaluable. For all diseases to iffl!ic,"4, rectify liable these remedies are particularly Wein,' ',, er fortna and strengthening those organs upon the an° r laa ble of whose functions the health depends. bt the " Web LADVERTISEMENT.J—Henceforth no one will don iota A kro ingo properties of Du Food,ag B° V li, of b le toel o Invalids' and Infants' since to the thousar t it io 11 0 . pope/ it has already received from Invalids whose pox in the . . fo r deemed hopeless, we may now add that a his 110 111 ,r, ir ty ye 9 t i o ' do whose health has been perfectly restored by it afte tii 7s , GO: golf Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July2l, unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from ~,, o f tl l ..,oe. Father is excellent, especially duce, abandoning , 8 Bo _ co l. BarrY eve ry r ll a dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du ,„ t e ve ~ t o Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful L". B health , We It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on h is of 1866.- The hes s yr o ther s y o to his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food Loo ii i g. 58,x1;i 0 t extract a few out ofrnore than 68,000 cures: —C, ,... uliver c°gratioli, the Marchioness do Brehau, of seven Ye a— r olls P air ost itt. wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a ne __, l the,ra ar t de all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, 11"- Lora b tu 0 0 ' tolerablo nervous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: ears' dY BP poi * Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of mans' 3 ' M d Y l os P S o ' No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable a nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, No. 46,2 . . lo ge, sickness, and vomiting —Maria JolY." C ure " , disease'. UV' James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 Yo' ita rt deafli e o B 7.e tha, 4l spitting of blood, liver derangement, and Pa _..., A nd To r .j o big 0 portent Caution—Beware of the many unsavo.r B a ron "' glartulencY, a : Dir. sloppy imitations to which, without author.' y, ~,,, TO „-12 1 " T 0 name is most audaciously attached. 51113 lA''ouoC o i''' 4 , In tins, at is 10; Ilb 2s 9d; 2lbs 4s ad ; . A6 reA w• -- t i 01 )- 21 Ibs 405.-Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA A R st v g, for st 5 50 POWDER is packed in tin canisters : for 12 cup!__ 576 c ups__ oe nt at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, In so t ips ,f,4_ 1 . ; r. ,„... —being about one penny per cup. The 30s a_nt_Thilice.V_l..o and free of carriage in England on receipt of rt'f., t, Lona°. Berth Y Du BARRY and. co., No. 77, Begent-Struv all Grocers and Chemists ----------' B A A n —On the 9 BIRTHS. A ril l tege 9th tho .rao • Dins. tb of a daughter. i ' wife ef at of aTshoeo.Grove, Bid" I..A .a ix r o Webs MARRIAGES. For- WEBsTEn— On the 11. th inst , at Invereigte.::,„.fo, shire, Samuel I • Es q, tt . Inner Tempt eldest thorn son of hamuol Laing, Esq., late w i ry. y . 'WO's, to Mary, second daughter of A Church, Eaton-L-quare Lord Monson to __ 'ter,lnvereighty. e ter's MoxsoN • —_Aitßonoucii—On the 7th inst., at tens of Yarborough. dolaido, DEA TBS. c LA VA MI:LocK _ Thomas ulock, Esq a dBl PA ~ ge • On the 11th inst., at Gothic Rouse, ker, Vsq" IiKER—On the 10t.h inst., George Phillip Pal', , , Ag ed ?! Angell-park, Brixton, and 43, lgark-lne, Y-4.'. B d i orti WILMOTT —Oa the 9th fast. , Wilznott, Esq., aged 53. a t Tipper London:''''9ll.4;tiVittSd, and Published by wiLi7l,ol of No. 112, strand, Printer, at Tits SUN Office N 0.112., in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County a Atiddio ° Friday, August 13, 180