The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-28 00:00:00

F OR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their business. For trades and ad dresses, see following advertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be found in every article sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all Masses. Commodious apartments for measuring and fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, which contain a very large and diver sified stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. 31' )SES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persona who are not known to the firm should be accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be Cheerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the money will ho returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats end rap.. and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea - ;tire, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Tiabitmakers;Woollendrapera, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES Ind SON :— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 05, MINOBIES 166, MINOR/ES 157, lIIVOIZOM 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85. ALDGATE 86, ALDGATI 57, ALDGATE 88, ALDGATE 59, ALDGATE OXFORD-MET BRANCH. 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET "07, NEW OXFORD-STREET ".09, NEW OXFORD-STREET 'I, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. P 37, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TO rrhNHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. _ . Country Branch 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. E. Cbatterton. 'THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF TAE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA, new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault: Nlcssrs. Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, lobt. Rouse; 31r4 Billiugton, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, acid Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WE:BSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7, MY PRECIOUS BETSY : MrAtkins And Miss ti lizs, Johns one. At 8, THE SERPENT ON THE HEARTH: Messrs R. Phil lips, E. Atkins, Stuart, C. H. Stephenson, W. If Eburne, Dal ton. C. J. Smith, R. Romer; 3Ers M. Eburne. Mrs Leigh Murray, Miss Eliza Johnstone. Mrs Stoker, &c. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mrs. Leiet Murray , Mr Atkins and R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining THIS' EVErT\.TG, at 7 o'clock, PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE 2 nets, by Dion Bou , ieault. After which, Handers ()pent, of ACTS AND GALATEA : Cupid, Miss Summers: Acis, Mr Vernon Rigby: l)amon, Mr Montem Smith: Polyphemus, Herr Formes; Galatea, Miss Blanche Cole. Musical Conductor, Mr J. L Hatton: Concluding with the Farce of A QUIET FAMILY. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Prices: Stalls, 7s: Dress Circle, 5s ; Upper Boxes, 4s; Pit, 2s Gallery, ls. Private Boxes, Z 2 12s 6d, £2 2s, and £1 lls 6d. D OYAL STRAND THEATRE. J Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS : Mr CI Lrke. Followed by THE TOODLES:, Mr Clarke. After which. 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VIAN Secretary, B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Read Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association are Equitable Bates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manarrrer. OHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY e , TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to - any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the rnamel from deety, and imparts a plenrant frafrrance to the breath. Price ts. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 0, Upper Thames -street. Limilon. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to ifs pristine hue, no matter at what age. J. 0. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of ono cf the Most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ion this wonairfnl liquid. It is now offered to the public to a mere concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottleq, 3s. each ; algo And 15s. each. aclulipg tam 'h. Red gull Wharf, Angel passage, 53, Upper Thames greet London; town. L ONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. SEVEN OR FOURTEEN DAYS IN IRELAND. On FRIDAY, Feptember 3rd, a CHEAP EXCURSION will leave Euston Station at 9.50 a.m., and Camden 9.ss—Trtins in connection will also be run from Clapham Junction, Victoria (L. B. and S. C. Side), Battersea, Chelsea, West Brompton, and Kensington, Broad-street (City), Dalston, and Highbury—for DUBLIN via Holyhead. Returning 10th September, or on any week-clay up to 17th September. Fare for the Double Journey : To return 10th September only. To re 17t h Se any ptemkber. Weey up to -da 30s. 455. to be had at the Stations ; Par -I.ze's Tourist Office, 163, Strand. ' , ELL, General Manager. Covered Cars and Deck 245. First Class and Saloon 4os. For full particulars, Bee Bills, eels Receiving Offices; and at Ga. W. CAWKW Euston Station, August, lB6f C R YSTAL PALACE.—BY Permission. — The AMERICAN and ENGLISH BOATS, in which the Harvard Oxford crews rowed yesterday, will be EX HIBITED, in the centre transept, THIS DAY, and Mon day and Tuesday next. fIRYSTAL PAL A C E.—Fire works. —N oTlri E. k-/ —The immensely successful DISPLAY of FIRE WORKS and ILLUMINATION of FOUNTAINS, in cluding the Arc do Triomphe, &c., of Thursday, which was attended by 25,000 visitors, will be REPEATED, with other special devices, in compliment to the American Harvard and Oxford Universities' Boats' Clews, on MONDAY EVENING NEXT, 30th August. Special trains every way. One Shilling Day. NEXT MONDAY. --SPECIAL GRAND COMBINED FETE, Opera, and Fireworks. ;See above and below. NOTE.—Stalls for opera or fireworks may be secured to day, at Palace or at Exeter Hall. • CRYSTAL PALACE.—Monday Afternoon avd Eveninz. Unusual combination of attractions. CRYSTAL PALACE.—Great Combined Fete, Opera, and Fireworks, &c., One Shilling.—The re cent immensely successful Display of FIREWORKS, with the great device of the ARC de TRIOMPHE, sup plemented by grand special devices, in compliment to the Harvard and Oxford Crews, and Magnificent Illumi nation of Fountains, will bo REPEATED on Monday evening. Notwithstanding the very unusual extent of this combined display, this will be a One Shilling Day. The Palace open as usual at ... 10. 0 0- - " Marifaea" 3. 0 opera___ ... ••• •• • ••• Coldstream Guardte Band (Mr. F. Godfrey) 6. 0 Rockbills Gardens open from 4 till 6.30 9. 0 Fireworks and Fountains about ... Palace open for admission until 8.30 Festival Organ and Illuminated Promenade till 10.30 During the afternoon a performance will be given of Wallace's favourite opera, "Maritana," by Mr. George Perren's Opera Company, with Miss Edith Wynne as the Gitana. Tho Company's Orchestral Band (under the direction of Mr. Manns) will perform for the opera, a military band will play during the fireworks at 8, as well as before the display, the gardens of Rock-hills will be thrown open for afternoon promenade, and the Palace be lighted up for promenade until half-past 10 o'clock. Admission ls., or by guinea season tickets. Children, half trice ; stalls for opera or fireworks, 2s. 6d., may be secured This Day at Exeter-hall, or at the Palace. Note.—Extra railway trains from all stations. Ample time for leisurely departure without crowding or inconve nience. but visitors should come early to prevent disap pointment. Notwithstanding there were 25,000 visitors last Thurs day, the railway stations being entirely free, the Palace was closed a few minutes after 10 o'clock, all visitors hav ing retired at leisure. T HE UNITED LAND COMPANY (Limited). The Holders of the INTEREST WARRANTS for the INTERIM DIVIDEND at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, for the four months ending 31st July, are requested to present the same for PAYMENT forthwith, at the Offices, 33, Norfolk street, Strand, W.C. By order of the Board. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, Esq., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The Report which the directors have now to submit to the proprietors differs in its tenor but little save in ono or two particulars from that laid before them in 1868. The income of the year, it will be seen, amounts to £540,499 18s, and the total charge to £445,077 10s. 9d. The difference, £95,422 7s. 3d., added to the balance of the surplus fund at the commencement of the financial year, wised that item to £1,002,974 15s. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS-FUND ACCOUNT, JuNE 30, 1860. INCOME OF THE YEAR. DR. f s. d. £ B. d Balance of account, SOth June, 1868 007,552 8 6 Premiums on new assur ances Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 371,548 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,508 4 11 Profit and loss, bAlanco of account Total income .£1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,2 HENRY ROSE, Auditors. CHARGE OF THE YEAR. CR. £ s. d. s. d. Dividend to proprietors B,BBO 4 0 Claims on decease of lives assured Additions to those under participating policies 24,304 6 6 Policies surrendered Re-assurances —new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 405,561 12 1 Commission Medical fees Income tax 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 9 10 436,187 6 9 Total charge Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance-sheet 9O 1,002,974 15 9 £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. Id., of which sum £13,560 ss. ld. is for new assurances effected in the year. The interest from investments is £120,959 12a. 10d., or £4 2s. per cent. on the net amount of the company's realised assets existing in June, 1868 ; and in connection with this important feature of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and loss account again exhibits a considerable profit, amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000. It may be remembered that a profit of nearly equal amount was announced in last year's report. Turning to the items constituting the charge of the year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material; as was observed of a previous occasion, the proper quin quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex ceeds £309,000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management are greater by nearly £BOO than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the company 's securities into the names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses must be reenrded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET, JUNE 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured, and £6,757 17 0 additions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, ecc. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' fund Surplus fund £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN } ' Auditors. HENRY ROSE, Cu ASSETS. Amount invested in fixed mortgagee £1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Fiinded securities 491,303 4 2 Ditto ditto Temporary secu rities 198,207 17 0 Current intereston theaboveinvestments 30,934 4 6 Cash and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the company's policies 165,387 1 8 Agents' balances Sundry accounts Value of premiums (1867) ..... 4,506,167 18 0 Value of re-assurances 85,706 14 5 £7,675,813 0 10 The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95,422 is. 3d. already mentioned, as is shown by tha augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus f and. Tho Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows : WILLIAM FREDERICK .DE LA RUE, EsQ., Chairman. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq. S irJ. Buller East, Bt., D.C.L. Thomas Godfrey Sambrooke, Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq. F.R.S. Admiral Tindal. CharlesThos.llolcombe,Esq. Right Hon. Sir John Young, Joshua Lcckwo ,d, Esq. Bart., K.C.B. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introditce commodi ies valuable to every householder high and low. This offers a highly remnnerativeComrnirsion to Tradesmen, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to R. MARRISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. BEATING'S INSECT DESTROYING POWDER. BLACK BEETLES totally destroyed by KEATING'S INSECT POWDER. This Powder is quite harm less to animal life, but is unrivalled in destroying Fleas, Bugs, Flies. Coda-inches, Beetles, Gnats, Mosquitos, and every other species of Insect. fSotd inroads, Is., and Tins, 28.`&1; and 4s. each; or Packets, frn by pc.,t, for I'3 Postage Stamps. Also in Bottles, with Bellows, 10. 6d. and 3s. each, by THOMAS 'Chemist, 7'), St. rataro Churchyard, Loudon, E.C. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This EvEmu, at 7, MY PRECIOUS BETSY: MrAtkins and Miss Johnstone. At 8, THE SERPENT ON THE HEARTH: Mr R. Phillips, Mr E Atkins, Mr Stuart, Slrs M, Eburne, Mrs L. Murray, /te. And DOMESTIC ECONOMY : Mr Atkins. and Mrs Leigh Murray. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. THE TOODLES. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; Mesdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland. Button. To conclude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. Mr. D. James, PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE. Sole Lessee and Mans.ger, Mr. Vining. THTS EVENING, at 7, PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE. After which, A AN D GALATEA : Herr Formes, Mr V. Rigby, Mr M. smith, and Miss Blanche Cole. To conclude with A QUIET FAMILY. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-office o pen!fromll to 4. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A ROVING COMMISSION. After which CHECKMATE. Followed by T H E MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with IN FOR A. HOLIDAY Mr Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver Miss Saunders, &c. PfITNCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1869 6 - Another panic yest. rday on the Bourse—according to the Paris correspondent of one of our morning contemporaries, a tremendous panic—would almost seem to justify for once the absurdity of issuing a Bulletin as to the condition of a person in ordinary health. It would almost appear to render it advis able that Dr. NELATON should serio-comically give to every anxious inquirer in regard to the EMPEROR'S convalescence a reply similar to the one vouchsafed by the gravely humourous Skipper to the Cockney Excursionist, when the latter asked with some solicitude, " Ilow's the wind, Captain ?" " Pretty well thank you, sir ; hog► are you !" A tremendous panic seems, when one comes to look into the facts, to be rather an exaggeration. But, however, this may be, there is no doubt whatever about it that the Bourse was very much agitated. Routes opening at 73f. 5c., subsequently falling to 72f. 35c., actually closed at 71f. 85c. Nay, even that was not all, for after the Bourse had closed the Rentes fell ten cen times lower, the last quotation being 71f. 75c. All this being directly attributable to alarming rumours in regard to the health of the EMPEROR. Seeing how the funds are affected by rumours of this kind imme diately after the enormous political concessions made by NAPOLEON M., after the transformation by him of his seventeen years' Despotism into a free Parliamentary Government, one cannot but marvel as to what the effect would have been supposing false statements of the kind had been set on foot while his MAJESTY was still in direct an- tagonism to the Tiers' Parti, when the Imperial Message was yet unwritten, when the Senatus Con sult= was in no way anticipated, when there was not even a hope of a general and unconditional amnesty, when the autocratic Sovereign of France had not as yet yielded room on the pyramidical steps of the Throne, to responsible Ministers and an independent legislature. If upon the very morrow, as it were, of such extraordinary concessions as those, rumours, as 'to the failing health of NarouoN can result in such disastrous panics as that which marked the proceedings on the Paris Bourse of yes terday, it seems probable that supposing the E3l - had not previously taken the important steps just now mentioned, steps permanently calculated to consolidate his dynasty and to ensure the succession to his son under the title of NAPOLEON IV., yesterday would have run the risk of proving as lamentably memorable a " Black Friday" for the French as an other claimant to that title has:proved iu its character ever since its arrival as a grim and seemingly indelible blot upon our mercantile calendar here in England. Reverting, however, to the immediate source of this really wanton hazard yesterday of a great c ►amity on the Paris Bourse,we would seriously reiterate what we set out by remarking, that an authoritative Bulletin as to the condition of a person in ordinary health would really appear in the EMPEROR'S instance to be for once justifiable —to be, even,_ one is almost tempted to go so far as to assert, necessitated. According to the positive declaration made in official circles the EMPEROR'S health has very much improved, especially within the last three or four days—a statement, the truth of which seems to be clearly demonstrated, by the fact that the EMPRESS and the Prince Imperial have, within these last three or four days, left the EMPEROR at St. Cloud, and wended their way to Lyons, to Toulon, to Ajaccio. Since the departure of ller MAJESTY for Corsica, the EMPEROR has been well enough to preside at a Council of Ministers, and to take his regular daily walks in the Park at St Cloud. According to the Presse his MAJESTY drove out yes terday, accompanied by Dr. NELATON. It is true that one of the papers says he has recently un dergone a surgical operation, in consequence of which he has, since then, several times fainted. But then the oracular organ setting forth this statement is no other, it should be remem• bered, than Figaro—in contravention to all of whose categorical statements the rest of the Parisian press assert, quite as positively, that the EMPEROR'S health is very appreciably improved. A distinct bulletin, signed by a name as authoritative as that of NELATON, would at once, however, dissipate all further doubt upon the subject. And, after Thursday, and especially after,thenextday(yesterday) it is earnestly to be hoped that some such conclusive bulletin as that may be formally issued. If, a day or two after that, his MAJESTY would show himself to the People of Paris, driving in an open carriage through its prin cipal thoroughfares, so much the better. The necessity for something of the kind being done is really be coming urgent, and while it is so undeniably as a precautionary measure in the interest of the public funds and of public credit, it seems as a mere matter of popular sentiment desirable that the people of Paris should have some opportunity of displaying towards his MAJESTY in person their sense of the magnificent concessions he has so very recently made to the rational aspirations of a great people to secure the blessings of a free and responsible Government. ALTHOUGH the British Constitution has suffered a serious degradation by the abolition of the :Ministerial whitebait dinner, the element of dining has not been lost sight of in connection with recent public events. The advent of the British Association in the West of England was marked by two large public dinners, one at Exeter, and one at Plymouth. The opening of the new docks at Hull was celebrated by a most extensive " luncheon," at which the Prince and Princess of WALES were present. The presence of ladies is generally; supposed to give a refining, softening influence, which corrects the undue elevation of spirits that is not unfrequently manifested in their absence, No rim SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1869. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Bole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA : Messrs. Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain, Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses 31. Brennan, Mac donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED PLUMES. 7; r 4 one will deny that there is room for improvement in the usual style of conducting public dinners, and if the presence of ladies effects this improvement they will confer lasting obligations upon the com munity by their attendance. But if, on the other hand, the same latitude of confusion is allowed as before, the evil will be greatly aggravated. No one will be more thankful for a reformation than the gentlemen who are responsible for the speeches. This responsibility we will suppose to be divided between the speaker and the reporter. Judging from recent experience, the reporter's position must be one of no small difficulty. The first hour's eloquence is generally unexceptionable, but after that time " verbatim" reporting is out of the question. Nature has, . however, provided a com pensation—when the speakers cannnot speak the bearers cannot listen, and in the general con fusion everybody takes it for granted that the right thing has been said and done. But, unfortunately, the reporter's work is manifested the next morning; his doings are criticised after the confusion has subsided, and the speaker is surprised to find that the brilliant ideas which he intended to enunciate are not to be found on the broad sheets where he expected to be immortalised. By all menus let us always have ladies at banquets to exercise a mode rating influence; but as it seems that their presence is not altogether a sufficient remedy, we would sug gest that dinners might be substantially improved by lessening the fish and increasing the supply of water. It may be asked in what respect have the fish offended ? We answer, in no wise ; but we have offended the poor fish. If a full and correct history of the present times is ever written, it will be recorded how at the ban quets of the wise and great the most beautiful fish that could be found were displayed alive on the tables and tortured in such a manner that the live liness occasioned by their expiring agonies might give pleasure to the noble ladies and gentlemen who sat around. We should like to know to whose inventive genius we are indebted for the introduction of living fish into an inverted fountain, where they have water, it is true, but from which all air is excluded, so that in three hours they are suffocated, and, after performing rapid gambols in their search for life, they turn up on their backs and die, unless, as it sometimes happens, they are rescued just in time to be preserved for another ordeal on a similar occasion. At Devonport last week,this delight ful tragedy of suffocating the fishes was performed just in front of a Professor who has devoted himself to the subject of ventilation. The lesson no doubt might have been made useful, but if such experiments are necessary, we would rather that they were not made at dinner time. So far as the reporters are concerned, who are now condemned to make some thing out of incoherent speeches, the absence of water is the chief cause of the difficulty. Why is it that at public dinners alcoholic liquors are the only beverages which are pressed upon tre guests, and for which no substitute can be ob tained without the greatest difficulty ? The quantity of fluid requisite to replace the evaporation which goes on during such hot weather as we now have cannot be safely absorbed, even in claret ; and when nothing but wine is provided for the thirsty souls, how can coherency at the latter part of the evening be expected of anybody. Surely the more harm less drinks might be obtainable. Water, clean and cool, would be extensively used, if it could be had, but as no one was ever paid, or praised, for providing water, the blessing is one which we must hardly expect. It is difficult to say whether the fish suffer most for want of air or the guests for want of water ; but in both cases the suffering is quite unnecessary, and it is to be hoped that it will not be continued. THOUGH the great boat-race has taken place at the dullest season of the year, when writers and readers alike rejoice at the chance of relieving the tedium of the recess by such an excitement, it is not at all likely that the interest which this event has created would have diminished if the contest had been decided at any other time. A Ministerial crisis would not have turned the thoughts of Englishmen from the Oxford and Harvard crews. A successful attempt to overturn the protective tariff could hardly have lessened the importance of this struggle to the people of the United States. The enthusiasm excited by the international rowing match has been without parallel ; but so was the occasion. Both nations, their numerous quarrels notwithstanding, have frequently testified their kinship and natural alliance by international amenities, but there has never been aught like this." It is a striking testimony to the intimate connection, not to be dissolved by any differences between the old and the young branches race. Politi ca l antagonism of the English speaking between the British and American people there must be ; but the community of race, of language, and of interest, will not the less fail to assert itself. Even the pitiful exhibition of two prize-fighters battering each other at Farn borough gave rise to an enthusiasm which many persons mistakenly thought indicated a reviving vitality in the " noble art." Much more rational was the intense interest felt all over the Anglo- Saxon world in the result of yesterday's creditable rivalry. That the representatives of English and American culture, separated ordinarily by two thousand miles of ocean, should meet to decide the question of superiority in one branch of athletics may seem surprising. But that the contest repre sented something more than this the immense assembly which crowded the banks of the Thames, greater than any multitude ever seen on Epsom Downs, sufficiently testified. The warm welcome accorded to the American oarsmen in this country, and the endeavours of the English authorities to secure a clear course and a strictly fair race, have given much satisfaction on the other side of the Atlantic. The Harvard crew undoubtedly deserved all the consideration we could bestow upon them. Never was a more chivalrous enterprise undertaken. The American representatives not only crossed the ocean to meet the formidable Oxford crew on the latter's own course, but they incurred material dis advantages in so doing. They had to modify their system of rowing to suit a river which differed from the water-way to which they were accustomed. Their practice of rowing without a coxswain had to be given up. They brought an unsuitable boat and were compelled to make several changes before a practical craft was secured. But all these difficulties were overcome. The rapid perception which is the peculiar attribute of the American, enabled the Harvard four to meet all the requirements of a contest in a style so different from their own, and yet to present a formidable opposi- tion to the adverse crew on the evening of the race. It is an error to conclude, after the popular supposition, that the Americans found their own style hopeless, and copied the Oxford mode of rowing as the only chance of averting defeat. The essential peculiarities of the Harvard style were retained to the last. The changes made were only. such modification of form as were needed by the altered circumstances. That the disadvantages of these alterations were serious is unquestionable ; indeed, the fact that the Ameri can crew fought the battle with such odds against them was in itself sufficient to moderate the bitterness of defeat or enhance the merit of victory. The triumph of the Oxford four cannot but be gratifying to Englishmen. The energy, the stamina and endurance of the nation, still keep up their ancient name. And , as a defeat wotild have filially proved that the American style of rowing was better than ours, so this victory must he accepted in great measure as a testimony that our old supremacy on the water will still be maintained. In this case at least American ingenuity has not over-reached us. The traditional style of British oarsmanship has not proved inferior to the novel Transatlantic method. But the same considerations which would have increased the honour of a Harvard success must be discounted from even the well-earned triumph of Oxford' The race prove§ much. iu favour of England, but not everything. It cannot be confidently asserted that the result would have been the same if the contest had been on American waters, within a brief space after the English representatives had landed from a lengthy sea voyage. Still less sure would have been the issue had Oxford made to Harvard concessions similar to those granted to the victors yesterday. In order to be quite confident of British superiority, the compli ment of the American visit must be returned—not that there is any reason to dread that the laurels of yesterday will be lost even then. Of this memorable struggle the British people have just cause to feel proud; but national feeling must not take away aught from our respect for the losing side, who fought so bravely and lost so hardly. OM) Cu i° , .fr HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, August 25. The Queen drove out in the morning w ith Princess Christian. ller Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, drove out in the afternoon. LATEST INTELL LGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. THE INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE. (Pr .it FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE.) NEW YORK, August 27. The news of the victory of the Oxford crew reached New York at about one o'clock this after noon (6 p.m. Greenwich time). Great interest was manifested. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSNIG PRICES. Gold closed at 1331 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1341 ; the lowest, 1321 Sterling Exchange on London lo9f. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 123/. It " 1885 1221. 6t " 1867 l2l. 10-40 gc Illinois l3Bl. Erie 34. Cotton—Alid.:upland 34/c. Petroleum—Standard White 32c. Flour, extra state, $6.70c. to $7.30c. Corn, old mixed, sl.loc. According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the week's receipts of cotton have been 1,800 bales, and since the Ist September, and taken by American spinners direct, 2,354,000 bales ; shipments to England, 1,000 bales ; to France, 300 bales ; to the Continent, none ; and since the Ist of Sept., 1,446,000 bales. Stock, 14,000 bales. INDIA. BOMBAY, Aug. 25. The statement of tho limes of India that the Durbar intended at Agra in honour of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh would probably not be held owing to the scarcity of food and the distress at Rajpootana and in the provinces of Gwallior, has been authoritatively confirmed. All preparations are postponed until the result of the growing crops has been ascertained. FRANCE. Pan's, Aug. 28. The official journal of this morning says " Alarming rumours have been circulated about the Emperor's health. These rumours are false. The rheumatic pains his Majesty is suffering from are disappearing more and more every day. An investigation is being made with a view to &cover the authors and propagators of the disquieting rumours which may be attributable to regretable manoeuvres." The Empress left Toulon last night at 9 o'clock for Bastin. The last quotation of rentes on the Boulevards was 27.00 yesterday. BOURSE, Aug. 27.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month_ 73 Credit Mobilier Transatlantic 285 5G Credit Fancier 1735 Paris Gas 1650 - RAILWA' Bank Shares 2875 Italian Fives 55 50 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 44 80 Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred .YB. Cash Orleans ... 968 Western 607 f Northern Strasburg Lyons and Mediterranean So uthern..... 620 Sardinian Austrian B3O Lombard 55 4f North of Spain 5 24 Saragossa Roman 53 NORTH PETIILIZTON AND TAUNTON VALE HUNT RACES. —The managers of this popular hunt meeting have issued flair programme, containing half a dozen events, includ ing an Opan Hurdle Race Handicap. The course is con veniently within three miles of the Durston station, and every promise is held out of good racing on Thursday, Sept. 15. JAMES SNOWDEN.—This popular jockey is progressing most favourably, and his medical attendants are sanguine as to his complete recovery from an accident that pro mised at one time to have most serious consequences. His return to Richmond from Pontefract is daily expected. Mr. Fletcher purchased at Hungerford the colt by Young Melbourne out of Cantine, 3 yrs, and ho has joined his string at Newmarket. The following horses have joined F. Kellow's string at Letcomb to be trained for their engagements:—Nightmare, 3 yrs ; colt by Caractacus out of Intimidation, 2 yrs, and Playmate, 2 yrs. Riga, 4 yrs, Tornado, 4 yre, and Tenedos, 3 yrs, have left Joseph Dawson's stables for T. Wadlow's ; and Lang ham, 5 yrs, has also gone to Stanton. Lord Calthorpe claimed Royal Lad, 2 yrs, at York on Thursday from Mr. Bromsgrove, and he has gone into Alfred Bloss's stable at Newmarket. KING'S LYNN RACES. —On account of the harvest being late this meeting will take place on September 16, instead of the Bth. The managers anticipate a largo meeting. and the Great Eastern Railway will run cheap trains on the above day from all stations within 50 miles of Lynn. RICHMOND RACES.—On Tuesday next the fallowing stakes for the above meeting close and name :—The Rich mond Cup of 50 sovs, for all ages, entrance 2 sovs each, Greystone in ; and the Belsay Castle Nursery of 80 sovs, for two year olds, entrance 3 sovs each, Greystone in. James Grimshaw has been engaged as second jockey to Joseph Dawson's stable, and made \ an excellent start by winning two impertant races at York on Hester. Finisterre, 2 yrs, was claimed at York on Thursday by Mr Lincoln for Mr Charles Rasiier, jun., and the colt will join his string at Newmarket. Mr. E. Weever has purchased Lady Stanley, by Prime Minister, dam by Orlando, 3 yrs ; she is a fashionable mare, and from her size and substance should make a grand brood mare. Crown Piece, 2 yrs, was sold to Mr. Scott Stonehower for 105 gs. after winning the Bradgate Stakes at York on Tuesday last. SCOTTISH QUEEN. —This filly, winner of the last Ono Thousand Guineas, has left Danebury, and returned to her breeder, Mr. Dawson, who resides near Driflield. King Cophotua, 3 yrs, and Antietam (brother to Chat tanooga), 3 yrs, have been added to the list of geldings. Weather Star ran so badly in the Ebor Handicap that he was given away immediately after the race. Lord Calthorpe's colt by Umpire out of Thalostris was sold for 25gs. after running unsuccessfully at York on Wednesday. C. Searle, the Epsom trainer, purchased Falstaff, 3 yrs, on Friday last, at Croydon, and the colt has joined his string. Lord Zetland's two year old Metaphor, by Turstall out of Meta, has been turned out of training. Lord Zetland has sold althon to Mr. Gregson, of Dram ham, for a hunter. Cranmore (East Somerset) Races will take) place) over th usual course, on Tuesday, Qct. 5. A CLEVER THIEF DEFEATED BY A 'SUSPICIOUS SERV.ANT GIRL; • , At the Middlesex Sessions, yesterday, Milly N ewman, 26, fashionably attired, was indicted for stealing nine silver spoons and other articles, value £5 and upwards, the pro perty of Edward Ballard, Esq., M.D., 7, Compton-terrace, in his dwelling-house. The housemaid of Dr. Ballard said on the 17th instant the prisoner came to the house, and witness opened the door for her. She gave the name of Miss Nugent, of High•street, Islington, and said she was slightly related to Dr. Ballard. Witness shelved her into the drawing-room, where she remained for twenty minutes, but was never alone for more than three minutes. She was very familiar, and seemed sorry witness's master and mistress were out. Witness went downstairs for a minute, when the prisoner rang the bell and said she would go, and witness accordingly let her out. The instant she was gone Nsitneas missed all the silver plate, consisting of spoons, &c., from the plate-basket, and she raised an alarm. Mr. Besley, who appeared to prosecute the prisoner in another case, said he hoped the court would not lose sight of the fact of the skeletoi , keys being I,,,ind upon the prisoner, and that there were several cases against her of this kind. Mr. Serjeant Cox said this was no ordinary base of rob bery, but a systematic course of plunder, and evidently, by Cie conduct of the prisoner, it was not her first offence, but the offence of a person who had got, her living by thieving for years past. The sentence of the court upon her was that she be kept in penal servitude for five years. LAW AND POLICE. THE LIVERPOOL ROYAL BANK. =At Liverpool, on Friday, an action was brought against Mr. Bibby, a director of the Royal Bank, Liverpool, by one of the shareholders, charging him with issuing an incorrect report of the affairs of the bank in 1863. The judge said that the case was too complicated for a jury, and it was decided that he should refer it to the master of his court. No personal imputation was made against Mr. Bibby. THE WOOLWICH FRAUDS.—The three persons charged with defrauding the Government at the Woolwich Arsenal have been committed for trial, bail being refused as there were other cases against them. OUTRAGE IN SOUTH LONDON.—At Lambeth Police-court, on Friday, Mrs. Peake was sufficiently recovered to give evidence concerning the attack made upon her on the oth of August. She identified the prisoner Paull as the man who entered the house and attacked her. The prisoner was committed for trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court. DISEASED CATTLE AND DEAR MEAT. The foot and•mouth disease was again the topic of die. cussion at a special meeting of the Home Cattle Defence Association on Thursday. Mr. Waller, the secretary, read several communications respecting its ravages in various parts of the country. " However lightly," he said, "the disease may be spoken of in some quarters, the enormous loss of meat resulting from it renders its prevalence little short of a national calamity; one, too, which we have every reason to believe we might have escaped altogether, for whatever mystery may now attend the causes producing the disease in some localities, the instances have been multiplied in which the disease could only have been introduced by foreign cattle and:sheep. But:can it be matter of wonder that beasts shipped at Oporto, landed at Southampton, and railed, after more or less delay to Aylesbury, or from the first-named port rid Liverpool to Maidstone or Ashford, after journey., in fact, of from six to eight days, are struck with disease, and become themselves centres of infection? The press now teems with recipes for the complaint, but is not pre vention better than cure? There is, it is true, veterinary inspection at the place of landing, but if the malady is only latent the inspection is of course valueless. Sheep are known to convey the disease, and yet sheep coming over from infected countries and with infected cattle, and without quarantine and unmarked, are allowed to be driven aeywhere. It is worthy of remark that, notwith standing the trade is thus free and prices are high, our supply of foreign mutton does not increase." in the discussion which then ensued, the opinion was expressed that the disease was constantly being taken into the London cowsheds by foreign cattle. from whence it was communicated to the provinces. Mr. Waller stated that at the first meeting of the association, In May 1867, it bad been suggested that all London dairy cows should be excluded from the home market. Mr. Waller added that the universal opinion in the grazing districts was that no better mode of dispersing the disease over the United Kingdom could be devised, than that of holding the large cattle fair at Barnet on tho 4th proximo. At the meeting of the Manchester Guardians on Thursday, it was resolved, by a majority of one, to appoint a Roman Catholic priest as the paid religious instructor of the Roman Catholic children attending the Swinton Schools. ALLEGED ARSON AT PORTSMOUTH. At the Portsmouth Borough Police-court, on Friday, before W. G. Chambers and R. Marvin, Esqs., Edmund Downer, who was remanded from Wednesday last on a charge of having set fire to his place of business at Southsea, again came up. Mr. Cousins appeared as his solicitor, and, at the commencement of the hearing of the case, Mr. Barber, the superintendent of the police, said that he had communicated with the office in which Mr. Downer _ras insured, but they did not feel inclined to prosecute. He, therefore, would not take upon himself the responsi bility of proceeding with the case, and should not, oiler evidence. Mr. Downer was consequently, immediately discharged: The following is the descript!on of an instru ment for prognosticating the weather devised by M. Bonnevile, of Paris. The instrument is composed of the motor, which imparts motion to the index needle. The motor is composed of two wooden strips, or thin blades, stuck one upon the other, of different hygrometic capa cities, one of which is called the positive and the other the negative. These strips, or thin blades of wood, are curvilinear, and assume the form of an arc of a circle. One of the extremities of this arc is fixed to a square held by screws on to a brass disc ; the other extremity is loose and movable. It is connected by a silken thread passing round one of the two grooves of a pulley, with an arbor forming the axis of the index needle. The force of the motor is opposed by a spring fixed upon the brass disc, and connected by another silken thread with the arbor, round the second groove of which it is wound. The expansion of the motor, or its contras• tion as shewn by the index, indicates the presence of much moisture in the air, or the opposite condition. LIBERAL BANQUET IN PERTHSHIRE.—At Perth, on Friday night, a banquet to celebrate the triumph of Liberal principles in Perthshire, in the late election of Mr. Parker, was held in the City Hall. About 500 gentlemen were present, among whom were the Earl of Dalhousie, Mr Kinnaird, Lord Rollo, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Baxter, M.P., Mr. Adam, M.P., Mr. Carnegie, M.P., Mr. Potter, Kr. Mr. J. M. Graham, of Cultoquhey, occupied the chair. The hall was beautifully decorated with flags and ever grzens. The chairman read a letter of apology from Mr. Gladstone, in which he said that in returning Mr. Parker the electors of Perthshire had made a most valuable addi tion to the Liberal ranks. In proposing Mr. Parker's health, the chairman complimented the constituency on having such an able representative, and on the triumph whi-113 the Liberal party had gained at the last election. Mr. Parker, in returning thanks, referred at some length to the proceedings in Parliament during last session connected with the Irish Church Bill and other measures. In alluding to the Liberal victory in Perthshire, Mr. Parker said that the reason why Sir William Stirling Maxwell was defeated was not on acc un% cf his opini, n 3 on such questions as hypothec or th 3 gam3 laws taken singly, but because he had declared he was a Conservative, and preferred the leadership of Mr. Disraeli to that of Mr. Gladstone. They were tired of Mr. Disraeli and the Tories, and he (Mr. Parker) had no doubt that the political life of Liberalism would be conducive to the highest interests of the country and the nation. THE HEROINE OF "L'HOMME Qu I RlT."—Josiana, w ye a r s y fie ta sh ll_ . to N o ot t h al in i. g c pr ou e l r d h be ai m r o w re as re o s f pi t e h nd at en t t. She was ingewhich might be called red gold. She was plump, fresh, strong, end rosy, with immense boldness and wit. She had eyes which were too intelligible. She possessed neither lovers nor chastity. She walled herself round with pride. Men ! oh, fie ! a god only would be worthy of her, or a monster. If virtue consists in the protection aan inac cessible position, Josiana possessed all possible virtue, but without any innocence. She disdained intrigues ; but she would not have been displeasd had she been supposed to have been engaged in some, provided that the objects were uncommon, and proportioned to the merits of one so highly placed. She thought little of ber reputation, but much of her glory. To appear yielding, and to be unapproachable, is perfection. Josiana felt herself to he majestic and material. Hers was a cumbrous beauty. She usurped rather than charmed. She trod on hearts. She was earthly. She would have been as much asto. i;:shed at being proved to have a soul in her bosom as wings on her back. She discoursed on Locke ; she was polite ; she was suspected of knowing Aralu:o. To be flesh and to be woman are two different things' Where a woman is vulnerable— on the side of pity, for instance, which so readily turns to love—Josiana was not. Not that she was unfeeling. The ancient comparison of flesh to marble is absolutely false. The beauty of flesh onsists in not being marble : its beauty is to palpitate, to tremble, to blush, to bleed, to have firmness without hardness ; to be white without being cold ; to have its sensations and its infirmities ; its beauty is to be life', and marble 18 loath.-- Virtu' Ht g9' .Zircw Romicc tin Ti Otnatintellictfillitlf•• • SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Saturday Review remarks that the habit el attributing to anyone the opinions which you hold t° b° the logical result of his doctrines, but which he distinctly repudiates, is a form of argument known to be one of th e most annoying of controversial weapons. Arn engst other commonplaces of this nature, one of the most t I tive is to charge a man who calls himself a Liberal with gross illiberality. There are few Conservative speeelleeL ri which this argument does not make its appearanc e some form or other ; and the general favour with which it is received suggests that it must have a greater degre e plausibility than most attacks of the same nature. It ie plain, indeed, that there is a largo class of persons "" whom it is singularly applicable. A man who is r ag ; sionately attached to a certain set of destructive opinio; is no more likely to be f re e f rom bi g otry than his antagonist. He may certainly be in favour of abolis hi , rj „ the monarchy and the House of Lords, of an equal (1 " . tribution of land, a nd o f fi x i ng th e ra t e o f w ages and the t price of b eer b y St a t e l eg i s l a ti on, w i t h out posse ssing thB broad and cultivated intelligence which people are a n r posed to claim under the title of Liberalism. n" l° , l e; minded and ignorant persons are, on the whole, majority of every party, and the fact that they h ibvg , chos 3n to fight under ono set of colours rather than iliw e. another has no tend e ncy t o c h ange th e i r na ture. It u,, only when the imputation is cast upon the party at larg" and bigotry is asserted to be a characteristic of lih er3 ;,' as distinguished from Conservatives, that it deserves e° ,, sideration. There are Liberal bigots, just as there ar t Liberal pickpockets ; but it is worth inquiring wb etl : e „ there is anything in Liberal principles or in the con s, i tion of the party which makes bigotry or the practi ce picking pockets more prevalent amongst them o° amongst their opponents. The spectator says that the Duke of Albans has decd to do his duty to the pa r i s hi o n ers o f R e dbourne. I fe A patron, by law, of the State vicarage of that nar ee ',y vicarage supported out of public money, and a vae:; 0 1 having occurred, his duty was t o se l ec t the TerY clergyman he could di sc o ver t o fill it, t a ki n g, of (I L °. ; due trouble in his search. Instead of doing that he ti ia to the leading parishi oner , M r . H a ll, t o say that hew I n , accept any clergyman recommended by the congr e g 4- e e and requested them to perf orm th e "i m portant tee 0 now entrusted by law to himself. That is precise/ I' Lord Dufferin, being Chancellor of the Duchy of , caster, had written to the debtors of Li v erpool to elect th e County Court Judge. His motive was, we adroit, 112° ,, excellent, and as patronage has a p ecun iary value' he ; entitled to the praise of entire disint ere stedness ; " it of confess our inability either to understand his :Tagl:l e a the chorus of praise and thanksgivi ng hi s action hae ca w forth. There are abuses enough, God knows, nyd er ate present system, and we should be the first to adroel e their abolition. The sale of advowsons is, in pri nciP a ; just as bad as the sale of the right t o appoint the i' l "; e i e or the members of the House of Commons ; n vie ble the existence of hereditary livings, though not ris e ' on moral grounds, is in practice a fruitful ee of mischief, m e n t ra i n i ng th emse l ves f or the C hil een who otherwise would n ever d ream o f s uch a c ar at' But the remedy for these evils is not the transfer of P i ronage from private and irresponsible individuals to equ al go . private and more irresponsible cliques called " c° ll g re „ to tions," but to bestow it again where it ought always op have remained, with responsible State officials, iat en eie et doing as well for the peopl e a s th e y are w hen they B o o th judges or inspectors of education, and a s responsible no, for malfeasance and want of jud g m en t i n their sel eetw t to Of course, if the State ever ceases to think it exPe dien maintain a State Church, our reasoning ceases to al ) though we should still m a int a i n th a t e l ec tion was rti of inexpedient and inappropriate as a similar 333° t hat appointing judges; but our business now is not wit h o te. state of affairs, but with the management of an to o blished Church. W e con t en d th a t, gran t e d the e f e t of such a Chur c h, the action of the Duke of Alba ns, al from being one deserving of imitation, is a distant steif;eo the wrong direction, is an effort to remove the O r) ; t he feature in all State Chu rc h es , th e i n d e pendence ° af clergy, and to remo ve it i n th e very wors t waY, 11 , 1 ' boo by vesting the patronage in the hands of those wa n ho le of necessity the least interest in representing the community. A congregational system of Church orgro cation is intelligible, and may be most beneficial, an cap may be a State Church ; but a mixture of the tsv ° g al but combine all the evils of both systems, the intellec'to slavery which is the evil of Free Churches, with driav impunity for neglect of duty which is the gra nd . s ere back to establishments. The Redbourne minister lei to be of the creed the Redbourne farmers approve, wive, once appointed, he may do as little as any other O rn The John Bull declares that the deans h 0 00 during the past two or three weeks, been (to, a favourite Puritan ph rase ) " muc h exercis eu' their consciences. Dean Boyd has been a strained in the intere s t s o f th e G ospe l t o lo lll— pean Liddon from preaching in Exeter Cathedral ; 4 dog 111.`Neile has been st a rtl e d ou t o f hi s propr i e ty U P : the the name of Mr. Mackonochie included am vii i 'veft° speakers at the Liverpool Chu rc h C ong ress; A n6 „ e stY Stanley has become so enamour e d o f the "rare 11° ' sire of Mr. Voysey as to come forward as his e hanWi °ll : le vi• cannot understand the causes of this ecclesiastic' very demic, shoving itself in various forms, among the t ore reverend guardians of our cathedrals. r f bc i jorail severe forms of cloistered life have et ' 9 ' been regarded as unfa voura bl e t o the c l e veloPr e t e pee a large-hearted charity, and therefore we 'Dig i ti t had e imagined the " cloisters" of Exeter and Ripon Dr, sensibly depressing effect upon Dr. Boyd and —l.* 11 dtbeit and that the severity of the chapter rule e n 0 t oo' attendance upon the daily services had prove d t° :xt tbe l , t for their magnani m ity, and so had engendered ape that bitter spirit of intolerance which is comnroels' h o oey' to the ascetic recluses of inedieeval times. 9:llls tere 8 0% however, does not dispose of D e an Stanley's I , n w e c ll ,. diligence in a contrary direction ; unless indeed ro'oebeli consider the cloister life of Westminster to h e e° ber.. di e tainted by the world, and remotely acted uPen bi t see breezes wafted from St. St e ph en 's. Now we ca nn q L eap the behaviour of these deans in a satisfactory 11 g b ee the Boyd has altogether misapprehended his p°altio diocese holder of a cathedral in trust for the benefit of tbs .he r oe_ the Dean of Ripon has proved himself blind to l l ' y se enl e ordinary principles of toleration, and Dean Stan!of der altogether to have repudiated the first princiPleptod if matic Christianity, They are a pleasant trio,_ deal' after-times the question, " What is the u se ofploaela should be asked, it would not require a second n al e OIY to be ready with the answer, "To keep A &ea science." _ Albe rt , The Economist discusses the position a th:_ote_ao• Assurance Company, and asks, Is nothing to bethal6t o f ti 3 t. Is there no rem e dy? Are such frauds as d ole f l° e Albert necessary and inevitable evils ? W e „ in eera ll 11 Though Government should not interfere with e!t e ' t aino e e offices, there is no reason why w e should l ayn aot eri ri insurance offices. It might be possible to hav e A Ce aul .ci , audit of suspected companies without having r audit of all companies. If some large numb% e eala, l o , holders chose to petition the Board of Trade %na g ds a company as to which they have doubts' ° f 206 j security for costs, why should not the 13° e s toPP eg examine it ? This would certainly the Albert years ago ; policy-holders have 13e ref icalv it for years, only they have had 11° au dit? e A t they have not known what to do. Such _ w ho I ' ls _ l gestecl by suspicion, and to be paid for by tho_senif loP ott it, is very unlikely to stop improvement. ()_., __ s ob _ 4 course of bad business engenders fp 6h amount, at least, of diffused discredit as e be'' too scattered policy-holders and make them a gre ders ore heir cost of a long and dear inquiry. Policy - h Ol sd aeb likely to be over fond of new advantages „00" diswerileleurteob t office ospe g n i d v e m s thoughoiley in otherm mistaken offices ak en inregfttsosreie:stlfroerynatl:7;Aatieasities;dt. And there can be no doubt that the conditieort:ivole..bel ranee office ought to be intelligible and aSe e And ° t et is not like a bank dealing in bills of Wham! a ma t t , o securities n , the aft e g r o a o l d l. n e s A s n o rinbsaudrnaenscseoof whichoffice a 1 1 : s e w i t a ll o t e c e, e .. 0 6 w hen one rities on properties of known value, an in the good auditor would be sure not to err nincil of these. t w h i a a t i. chilled ol o 1 at Wo aro giv - 6W -s ill s:o 1 ; 1 ' lent==c,alysin send An old Scotchman of Boston Storrs, t WI open to conviction ; but I'd like to see the wan th: r of convince me." Old Minister Wells, the Preclec!,.s:hior the Rev. DrS used to Oh "rill self a . used , h scotconi I to be right ; for tonal Mar n ri t :----" Scotchman,to say, 'lt beliovet a ono , if he be wrong, he will be for era eternally wrong Inland Revenue ....' THE the English 111 - - r ker Tri I S ' INTERNATIONAL MABILIAGS 0-- I .o ' o o The Frankfurter .' of Braintree, BrassachUseDo, _O,ll receive the most flattering advertiseme Zeitung contains thNi c`.,,. the 10780_56, age Institute, officially registerecl 8 4 . 0 . 4 of a f H t c e e r in g r 1: ilna.creri letterslgssfGr,.o_l_n It, Lond o n' i - - lie se i e x 3 1 : b::::0:0 numberh dn . 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