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"'`OR THE AUTUMN Sr. WIN FER SEASONS 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 BABE COMBINATION. The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be found in every &Aide sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, made to measure, for all ages, and all lasses. Commodious apartments for measuring Ind fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, which contain a very large and diver sified stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should 7.e accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be •heerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the non"v will be returned. Ali Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats Ind Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishmonts are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES old SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, A LDGATE ALDGATE ALDGATE ALDGATk .67. ALM ATE 88, ALDGAT 93, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 50G, NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD STREET .OS, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHA3I-COURT - ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 233, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. THE SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE " NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND TUE NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCH. Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. TEE " SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p lunar simplicity of these Machines enables any one to acquire their perfect use in a few hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free rrrE •"SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY Chief Office in the United Kingdom: 147, CHE AI'SIDE. B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Head Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association are Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS; For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, EsQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. icohioas .i:•- .ao.st.'e now to submit to the proprietor differs in its tenor but little save in one or two particular from that laid before then, in 1868. the income of the year, it will to seen, amounts t £540.499 18s. and the total char re t £44D,077 lOa. Ski The &fference, £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, 1869. INCOME OF TIIE YEAR. £ s. d. DR. Balance of account, 30th X s. d June, 188 907,!52 8 6 ererniums on new assur- nces Voon old ditto , 13,566 5 1 357,988 7 0 371,548 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,508 4 11 Profit and loss, tnlance of account 47,991 13 1 Total income £1,448,052 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors, HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF THE TEAR rt. s. d. X R. d. 8,880 4 0 Dividend lo proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured Additions to those under 305,614 3 6 participating policies 21,304 6 6 Policies stirrend( red Re-assnrances—new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 Commission Medical fees 405,561 12 1 10,618 11. 2 760 18 0 Income tax 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 9 10 436,187 6 9 445,077 10 9 Total charge, B:dance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance-sheet £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. ld., of which sum £13,560 ss. ld. is for new assurances effected in the year. Theinterest from investments is £120,959 12s. 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 deceage 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 £30;0,000 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 compan:s, 's securities into the names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses moat be regarded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are_only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SIIEET, .Try 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors £6,757 17 0 .11aims on decease of lives assured, and Addditions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts ' 7 ler sums assured, Jac. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors Lund Surplus fund £7,675,813 010 Examined And approved. THOMAS ALLEN,I Auditors. HENRY ROSE, j Ca. ASSETS. lmount invested in fixed mortgagee £1,661,699 9 2 Diito ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversion; 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 - )itto ditto Temporary secu -198,207 17 0 rities.., lirrent interest on the above investments 30,934 4 6 cash and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the comp an y 's policiaa 165,387 1 8 A pt - ...ts balances '-ondry accolioto 331 Valli° of prominxns (1867) (due of ....A.asuratices 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. ?d. already mentioned, as is shown by the augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. The Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows: WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ.,Chaii man. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, EsQ., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq ^ James Murray, Esq. Thomas Boddi4don,Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. Philip Rose, il;sq s : l George Russell, D.C.L.SirJ.BullerEasty Bt., Thoriias Godfrey Sainbrooke Wm. A . .gustus Guy, BLD., Esq. F.R.S. Admiral Tindal. CnarleisThos.Holcombe,Eoq. Riffht Hon. Sir John TQUIIg 411104 Jii991%799c 1 ) rag. • Art., Z,g,Bb 47 - r OMPAGNIE GENE RALE vJ LANTIQUE. 4, Ilse de la Pais, Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. TRANSAT- Leave every 14 days, f;e7nilav;eand Brest, for New„York. BATES OF PASSAGE. From lIAME or BREST to NEW Yonx. First ()lass 7OO fr. Second Class 425 fr. Third Class From Paris to New York, via Havro or Brest, including railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class 285 fr. WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico, Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique. JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama). Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon, Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca hello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo, Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, ttc., San Jose, La Union, San Francisco, China, and JapaL. Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this company, can be had of STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co., Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.O. LONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. CONVERSION OF DEBENTURES INTO DEBENTURE STOCK. The Directors are now prepared to enler into arrange ments for converting the Debentures of the Company into equivalent amounts of Perpetual Four per Cent. Deben ture Stock, and also to receive applications for allotments of the same Stock, at par, to be applied in the repayment of Debentures falling due. Any amount of Stock, not being a fraction of a pound, can be subscribed for and transferred. A commission of (one-half) per cent. is allowed to ap plicants, and the Stock will be inscribed in the Company's books free of all expense. The interest will be paid half-yearly on the 15th Jan nary and 15th July, by warrant. The Stock thus raised will be entitled to the same priority against the property and income of the Company ee the Dobeptur. Bond Debt, ranking before the Com pany's entire Stock and Share Capital of Thirty Millions (£30,000,000), and will be the first charge on a net income now amounting to upwards of Three Millions (X.Z,000,000) annually. Further particulars and forms of application may be obtained by letter addressed to the undersigned. STEPHEN REAY, Secretary. • Euston Station, March, 1869. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established 1824. The ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, exceeds £227,000 The AssuRANcE FUND, safely invested, is over £1,649,000 Forma of Proposal, and every information, can be ob tained of GEORGE CIITULIFFE, Actuary and Secretary, 13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce commodities valuable to every householder high and low. This offers a highly remunerative Commission to Tradesmen, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to lf. MABRISON, Great Orford-strect,Norwich. (IN CIIANCERY.—Lord Chancellor. Vice-Chancellor Malins. Nixey v. Lewis.) AUTlON.—Wbereas the Vice-Chancellor, Sir x._) Richard Malins, on the Ist day of July, 1849, upon the ap plication of William George Nixey, of No. 12, Soho-square, in the County of Middlesex, the plaintiff in the above suite, awarded a perpetual injunction, restraining the defendant, Joseph Lewis, his shopman, servants, and agents, from hereafter selling any black lead, or other composition purporting to be black lead, in tablets or cases enclosed or covered in manner in the bill mentioned, or folded in wrappers, or enclosed or packed up or folded in any cases, coverings, or wrappers, which are fac similes, or copies, or fraudulent imitations of those invented or used by the plaintiff, and from in any way using any cases, coverings, boxes, labels, devices, or other things which shall re present or have the appearance of representing the plaintiff as the manufacturer or vendor of articles which have not, in fact, been manufactured or sold by him. Alt persons are therefore cautioned against purchasing, selling, exposing for sale, or other wise dealing in black lead er other composition purporting to be black lead not manufactured cr prepared by the said William George Nixey, in tablets or in cases, enclosed or covered, or wrapped or enclosed in wrappers, or with other ac companiments being fac-similes or fraudulent or colourable imi tations a those invented and used by the plaintiff, the said William Geor ge Nixey.—Dated this 23d day of July, 1869. VALLANCE & VALIANCE, 20, Essex-street, Strand. Plaintiff's Solicitor. JOEM GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY I- , TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.—lied Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street. London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. .itGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this woncirful liquid. It is now offered to the public m a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angvi passage, 99, Upper Thames itroet T.ondon. 1111EATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. L. Chatt.rton. THIS EVENIN(3, at UELLEs OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA. new four-act Drams, by Dion Boucicanit: 6lessrs. Barrett, IT. Irving, David Fisher, Brittsin Wright. lolm Rouse; Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTEIt THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: Messrs Ash:ey, C. H. Stephenson, and Misses Maria and Nelly Harris. . . At 15 to 8, LOST AT SEA: a London Story. Messrs A. Stir ling, G. Belmore, E. Atkins, J. D. Beveridge, C. R. Stephenson, C. J. Smith, It. Romer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss k.liza John stone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr (.4. Edmore and Mrs. Leigh Murray. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, at 7, BREACEI OF PROMISE. At 8.15, Mr. 'l'. W. Bot.ertson's new Comedy, in three acts, entitled PROGRESS: Messrs. Billiugton, H. Neville, : 1. Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall ; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining, _ - - THIS EVENING, st 7 o'clock, A. QUIET FAMILY After which, at 7.45, a new drama. entitled ESCAPED FROM PORTLAND: Characters by Mr Charles Mathews, Dlr Vining, Messrs W. Rignold, G. F. 1 , sync, C. F. Edgar, C. Steyne; Miss Georgians. Pauncefort, Miss Carlisle, Miss Kemp, Mrs Addle, and Mrs Charles Mathews. With new scenery by Mr F. Lloyds, Mr W. Hann; and assis tants. Fug niture and decorations by Mr. Nosotti. Concluding with the Farce of NO EtIING TO Nuns F. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, a new and original Sketch, by Harry Lemon, Esq , called WAIT FOR AN ANSWER. After which, at 7.45 will be produced, with new scenery, fur niture, and appointments, a new Comedy, in three acts, by Thomas Morton, Esq., entitled PLAIN ENGLISH, in which Messrs. Barry Sullivan, George Honey, J. C. Cowper, W. H. Stephens, D. Evans, Charles H orsman, Lin Rayne, Cotte, Dyas, W. Arthur, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Jane Rignold, and Miss Howard will appear. To conclude with the Musical Farce of THE WATERMAN. The magnificent new scenery by Mr. Julian Hicks; the furni ture and upholstery by Mr. James Lyon. Acting Manager—AMonY SULLIVAN. p OYAL STRAND THEATRE. R Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborongh. 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At 8, FORMOSA : Messrs. Barrett, ft Irving, David Fisher, Brittain, Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Millington, Dtisses M. Brennan, :Mac donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED PLUMLS • g 5,„ .• .4, 4k. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13, 1869. The virtuous indignation of some people is certainly what the Yankees are in the habit of terming cautionary. There is a contemporary who is accus tomed systematically—not fitfully, and at uncertain intervals, but regularly and systematically—to mis represent, revile, blacken, vituperate, and openly de nounce whatever course is pursued, whatever is said, whatever is done by the head of the French Govern ment. All this, moreover, is done in a sort of left handed manner, through the babblings of its Paris Correspondent. Among all the capitals of Europe there is, perhaps, not ono in which there is perpetu ally on hand a larger supply of idle rumours, mare's nests, cock-and-bull stories, and so forth—however those kind of absurdities may be most aptly designated. At periods of change, that ordi narily large supply becomes, as a matter of course, very considerably enhanced. Naturally enough, its enhancement of late has been something portentous. Rumours the wildest, the most pre posterous, the most utterly extravagant, were rife at Paris in all directions. Each kiosk on the boule vards was an overflowing fountain of them. The atmosphere was filled with the spray of their bubbling pas b.bbling absurdity. The EMPEROR was dying. The EMPEROR was dead. The EMPEROR was going immediately to abdicate. The EMPEROR was going to place upon the throne by his side, his little son-and-heir as co-Emperor with himself. The EMPEROR was going to have another coup d'etat. He was going to recall to power M. ROAMER. Somebody had been dressed up to represent him, and driven into Paris in a close carriage, only to be caught a glimpse of through the coach windows—simply to reassure, for a while, the credulous Parisians. Nothing was too preposterous to be whiapere I about as the latest news from the Palace of St. Cloud. And all this while not a single one of these nonsensical rumours was afloat but what the Paris Correspondent we are referring to carefully repeated it in all its particulars, even though the statements were often so extravagantly absurd in them elves that he was constrained to announce them purely—as rumours, to which he said he was reluctant to accord any credence. If so—it natu_ rally occurred to his readers—Why, in the name of Fortune, then, breathe one word upon the subject? However this may have been, all the sinister insinua tions, all the fleering comments, all the de risive and depreciative whisperings and mut terings that were anywhere audible against the Emperor of the FRENCH and his entourage were eagerly caught up and industriously circulated. Not a single one of them was allowed to escape. They were passed on, across the Channel with untiring zeal, and with what one was almost fain to regard as most industrious and indefatigable malignity. Yet —after all—now that the majority of these monstrous rumours have been proved by time and events to have been altogether without any foundation what ever, the very organ by which they were bruited abroad on thisside of the Channel is nothingless than blatant in the expression of its virtuousindignation, in regard to al those in France who have been the authors or, at any rate, the promoters of these extravagances. The imputations directed against the EMPEROR are all falsified. The Constitutional trending of his Go vernment is shown to be steady and deliberate. The legislative session is to commence upon a day that has now been announced. The EMPEROR'S determi nation to be true to his own programme as the ruler of the state voluntarily substituting Responsible for Irresponsible, or, as it is called, Personal, or in other words, Despotic Government, is now as visibly assured to the Parisians and to all Frenchmen, as the fact that the EMPEROR'S illness was all along mon strously exaggerated, or that his restoration to health has been completely satisfactory. Of the certainty of the latter fact the EMPRESS'S departure for a lengthened tour in the East, through Venice, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and, possibly, if not probably, after wards through the Holy Lands and the Papal States, affords proof positive —as it is certain her MA JESTY would not have taken her departure at any time, more particularly in the midst of a political juncture of such extraordinary import ance as the present, unless the EMPEROR'S health had been, indeed, entirely and completely re-established. The outrageous character of the speeches delivered on Sunday evening at the political assemblage at Belleville, and the no less outrageous character of the printed arguments set forth before and since then in the columns of such journals as the Rappel, the Revell, and the Reforme, are evidences of a very flagrant kind, of the feet that already, under the existing regime in France, that country bas not only liberty, but licence, in the way of public speech and in the way of public writing. Incendiary publica tions, like the Rappel, would not be tolerated a single day in this country. Public Opinion would at once suppress them as pestilential abomina tions. Conceive for a moment the atrocity of a poli -01041 antagonisro that dares to associate the name of the SOVEREIGN with the perpetra tion of the barbarous murder of • a whole family at Pantin by the monster TRAUPIIANN No—the indignation excited in our mind by the in sidious and sinister character of the inflammatory insinuations directed against the EMPEROR dur ing the period of his own sharp bodily suffer ing, and during the critical political in terval necessarily following immediately upon the inauguration of the constitutional changes upon which he had adventured—the indignation excited in our mind by all these dastardly imputations has con tinued consistently throughout, beginning, as it did, with the first whispering of the first Rumours, not with these last rattling malignities which have ap peared in the columns of the Rappel. TILE Congress season is over. Savans, sociologists, and Churchmen have all held their annual gathering, and we can sum up the advantages which have been gained by their meetings. In spite of the opposition of the bigoted, and the sarcasms of the superfine, the Congress idea becomes more firmly established every year. A dozen years hence even the Saturday Review will be ready to admit that when men meet together to discuss evils and to suggest remedies, they are more likely to probe the first and to discover the second than they would be if they walked on singly and without system. It is especially worthy of re mark that in each Congress there was manifested a growing disposition to give the first consideration to practical questions. Even in scientific matters this disposition was seen. Here was abundant room for speculation. In - discussing the age of the earth and the origin of man, there was opportunity for any amount of hypothesis ; but the subject which gave rise to most controversy, a controversy that even yet is not ended, was the condition of the agricultural labourer. In fact, the savans invaded the territory of the sociologists. The Congresses at Bristol and Liver pool were practical from beginning to end. It might have been expected that the theologians at least would have wandered off into speculative arguments. Yet they refrained, and seem ingly without difficulty. In fact, they might well do so considering the range of practical topics brought before them. Hence it came to pass that the few bigots who attempted to infuse their sectarian views into the meeting utterly failed, and the very man against whom they made a would-be formidable demonstration, elicited more enthusiastic applause than any other present. This applause did much to roll away the reproach which has seemed more than once to attach to an influential theological party— the reproach that they will not work with men from whom they differ in some points. It is now, we trust, an established fact that with regard to prac tical measures there is no reason why men of all parties should not combine, no matter how much they may differ on speculative questions. There were one or two matters discussed at Liver pool which may well bear enforcing. The first which we will mention is the relation of the clergy to the temperance movement. We have long regretted that this relation has not been more close. The coldness with which the clergy have looked upon the move ment has done no little to estrange the people from them and the Church, especially in dis tricts, such as Cornwall and Wales, where temperance has assumed the dimensions of a great popular movement. In those districts the clergy have seen their influence pass away because, while the ministers of the dissenting bodies saw a great practical evil and applied a practical remedy, the clergy of the English Church urged an objection which was altogether fantastic. To say that the baptismal vow ought to be sufficient to keep men from drunkenness is one thing; to contend that it is sufficient is another thing, and is utterly opposed to the experience of everybody. The Roman Catholic Church has been far wiser in this matter. Attaching as much importance as tho highest Anglican can do to the binding character of the vow in question, she has yet found it expedient to devise from time to time other vows, vows of chastitY, obedience, and abstinence. It was simply absurd for a clergyman to go to a drunkard and remind him that thirty or forty years ago certain persons whom he may never have seen since, promised for him that lie should renounce the world, the flesh, and the devil, and that, therefore, he ought not to get drunk. The man knew this before, or if he did not know it, it was not likely to produce any impression upon him when informed of it. It requires a much stronger bond than the promise made by deputies a generation back to restrain a man who has once been brought under the influence of the drink fiend. That stronger bond is supplied by the total abstinence pledge, and no wise clergy man really caring for the souls of his people will despise it. Of late years the clergy have been be ginning to acknowledge this. The Archbishop of YORK—than whom there is none of the bishops more quick to discern the Signs of the times—has movement. It w gi aa v en tim co e u , n i t n e d n e a e nz t t h o a t t h h e temperance e did so. When a Roman Catholic Archbishop appeared on a temperance plat form in company with Nonconformist ministers, when Rome on the one side and Dissent on the other, acknowledged the importance of temperance, the English Church, if it would not lose its hold on the masses altogether, was compelled to give its adhe sion, far too tardily, yet, as we trust, not too late. Another practical question discussed at Liverpool was the granting greater liberty of action with regard to Church services. This freedom was once contended for by the Low Church party, in order that they it, in order to add Prescribed ser v ices. The H mi i g g h h t C o h m u i re t po h prtiartonys advocatenoofwthe other services. There is no reason why both parties should not have their wish, and no doubt, before long, both will be acting in similar ways. Everybody knows that the " dearly beloved'' does not meet all the wants of all classes and on all occasions. There are times when the present order of morning and evening prayer might be advantageously modified. A short service for children, a short service for men of business on week days, special services for missions, harvest festivals, school-feasts, consecration of churches—all these might be either added to the Prayer-book, or left to the judgment of the bishops or of the parochial clergy. There ought to be greater power given to omit and select from the existing se rv i ces . For instance, there can be no reason why men o f b us i ne ss, anxious to attend the daily service, should have to go through twice, or even once, a d ay t h e prayers for the QUEEN and the Royal Famil y . A third practical question which has been adva nce d b y the C ongr ess is the weekly offertory. It has b een t h e more helped because its opponents came forward, and, we believe for the first time, openly avowed their dislike to it, and stated their reasons for that dislike. The reasons could not stand the light of a free discussion. We trust that the antagonism has now been modified. At all events the objections urged against the offertory will cease to have weight with those persons who are open to conviction. Altogether, the Liverpool Con gress, which, at one time, threatened to be the occasion of strife, has tended to peace and unity. On the 6th instant we published, on the autho rity of a morning contemporary, in whose columns it had previously appeared, a statement to the effect that Samuel Deadman, who was tried with another prisoner at the Kent Assizes in January, 1868, for the murder of Jane Jackson, at Bromley, had lately died, having made a full confession of his guilt. 'We are now authentically informed that there is not the slightest foundation for this statement. Mr. Deadman is alive to claim protection against reports so injurious as that we have mentioned. We publish this rectification with sincere pleasure, and deeply regret that our columns should have given currency to an imputation so grave and unjust. EicLuslvE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE aro the properties of Lamplougn's Pyretic Salim), curing the worst headaches, sickness, skin, or biliary affections. Pleasant, ;Astable, ‘l l l4lf!tiDli. gold by 11 chtmaigtk—EAdTt. TILE OUTRAGES 13Y POACHERS. The encounters with poachers have excited some attl-m. tion. Sergeant Chadwick has apprehended a man named John Rameden, a collier, of Stable-row, St. Helena, on sus picion of having been concerned in the affray near Bolton. His head is covered with bandages, the man having sus tained some half dozen scalp wounds, besides a cut on the upper lip. Ho alleges that on Sunday night, while in a state of intoxication, he lost his way, and rambled up the Belmont-road, where he was attacked by two men, who attempted to rob him of his watch. There is no change in the condition of James Berry, and his brother Henry is also reported to be in a critical state. Some furthpr particulars have been gleaned by the police, from whi'l it appears that the poachers had with them three dogs, which attacked the keepers with great ferocity. Fortu nately, however, the keepers' legs were well protected by leather coverings. One of the poachers was left be hind, as was thought, insensible, but whilst Gabriel Berry and Bentley were removing their wounded comrades, he either managed to crawl away or was removed by the re mainder of the gang. James Berry, though a terribly wounded, was one of the most active of the keepers for several hours after the affray, actually driving over to Darwen to give information to the police. Another outrage by supposed poachers is reported from Blackburn. A farmer was standing on the new bridge, Hurst-green, when three men passed with a dog, and the farmer, for asking them "What's your game ?" was set upon, beaten, kicked, and thrown over the bridge, a depth of 30 feet, into the brook, receiving such dreadful injuries that his life is despaired c THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. 'Mrs EVENING, at 7, TO) MUCH OF A GOOD THING Mr A shley, Mr, Stephenson, and the Misses Harris. Followed by LOST AT SI'A: Mr A. Stirling, Mr G. Belmoro, Mr E. Atkins, Mr Beveridge, Mr zdephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Homer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray And DOMESTIC ECONOMY : Ur G. 13elmore and Mrs L. Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. - - - THIS EVICNING, at 7, BREACH OF PROMISE. At 8.13, the new Comedy, PROGRES =: Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, J. Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. THEATRE -ROYAL, HOLB 0 RN. THIS EVENING, at 7, WAIT FOR AN ANSWER. After which, PLAIN ENGLISH: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, &c. And THE WATER VAN. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining, Tnxs EVENING, at 7, A. QUIET FAMILY. After which, E-CA.PED FROM PORTLAND: Mr Charles Mathews, Mr Vining, Mrs Chas. Mathews, &c. To conclude with NOTHING TO NURSE. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. TIM EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES And THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. 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 tweiTe, ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Pronienade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office open fromll to 4. A TERRIBLE SCENE. The Cologne Gazette publishes the letter of an instru ment-maker, who was one of the sufferers in the dreadful catastrophe at Konigsberg on the 13th of September. He thus writes to his sister :—" As the gondola in which the King was came by, and he alighted from it at the garden, which was about 150 steps from the bridge, there arose, directly on the spot where I stood, the cry, ' The bridge burns!' Then there arose a fearful press. I felt myself lost in it ; it was stifling. All pressed to the other side ; the balustrade suddenly broke, a piece of forty feet, and all who leaned upon it fell into the water. Now the thronging became greater; there arose on every side ; frightful outcry. I clung on by a man, who again hell' fast by others. At this moment a knot of men came by, I received a push, and fell overhead into the water. The push was, however, happily so violent that I was thrown far over others who were already sinking and could again rise to the surface. As I can swim I could help myself; I looked around me, it was a fearful scene ; over eighty human beings struggled in agony for life with a terrible cry. I swam to the land when I suddenly felt myself seized by the leg ; a fearful terror overcame me, I dived under, exerted all my strength to get free. I got free. Immediately afterwards I was laid hold of by the shoulders ; it was a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old, whose last chance of rescue it perhaps was, for she was near death. I felt pity, put out all my strength to get to land; but when I came near where the principal fall had taken place a young man clung to my arm. On one side the girl, on the other the youth—it was too much. I cried for help, put forth my whole strength yet once more. I was ten feet from land, when a rope was thrown to me, to which I clung, but lost strength and conscious ness and went under, the girl and youth with me. An hour after I opened my eyes; I lay on the land in one of the gardens. A boat had come and had immediately taken us out. That was an awful night. My coat had been torn to pieces, so that I lay there only covered with rags; I was already much swollen, for I had swal lowed a great mass of water, but I was again alive. I also had the pleasure of again seeing my two companions in misfortune alive. They, like myself, had been warmed and brought to life again by continued friction. Not far from us lay twenty-seven dead bodies with stiffened features. How many more have been found I cannot now tell you.—Your brother Henry." A grand International Exhibition is to be held at Washington in 1871. An Irishman, hearing of a friend who had a stone coffin made for himself, exclaimed, "Faith, that's good. Sure an' a stone coffin would last a man a lifetime." Carlyle, in his advice to young men, says, "If you doubt whether to kiss a pretty girl. give her the benefit of the doubt." " Formosa," Mr. Boucicault's drama, about the morality of which so much criticism has been made, is now playing at the Tyne., Newcastle. It " draws " better than any other piece of the season. A lady thought it would look interesting to faint away at a party, when one of the company began bathing her temples and head with vinegar, upon which she suddenly started up and exclaimed, "For Heaven's sake, put nothing on that will.change the colour of my hair!" At the Birmingham Police Court, on Monday, a man named Joseph Addleton, and his niece, Sarah Ward, were charged with obtaining .£27 2s. 7d. frcm the Post-Oleo Savings Bank of Bewdley by ratans of a forged withdrawal notice. The case was remanded. ACCIDENT ON THE CALEDONIAN R AMWAY.— There was a serious collision on the Caledonian Railway, near the Greenhill Junction, an evening or two back. One man was killed and another is so seriously injured that he is not expected to survive. The fireman of a goods train fell from his engine, and the driver stopped the train to look for him. It was known that another train was coming along, and fog-signals were placed upon the rails. These, however, could not be acted upon, and the second train dashed into the first, killing a drover in charge of cattle. Qum= COURTSHIP.-" Martha, dost thou love me ?" asked a Quaker youth of ono at whose shrine his fondest heart's feelings had been offered up. "Why Seth," answered she, " we are commanded to love ono another, are we not ?"—" Ah, Martha! but dost thou regard me with that feeling the world calls love ?"—" I hardly know what to tell, Seth. I have tried to bestow my love on all; but I have sometimes thought, perhaps, that thou wart getting more than thy share." A KILLED BY A FEttnET.—The death of a child from injuries committed upon it by a ferret is re ported from Egerton, Kent. It seems that a few evenings ago, a labouring man named Chambers quitted home with his wife, leaving an infant, 14 months old, in the house. In their absence, a stray ferret got into the room where the child was lying, and attacked it. When the parents returned home, they found tho infant dead; its eyes were removed, and part of the nose had been gnawed away. When discovered, the ferret flew at Chambers, and ap peared very wild and ferocious. It was killed as speedily as possible. The presumption is that the ferret had been " laid up " in a rabbit hole near, and, pressed by hunger, had strayed into the house in quest of food. lIIGII CHURCH PRACTICES AT OXFORD.—During the past week the Rev. R. M. Benson, MA., incum bent of St. John the Evangelist, Oxford, and a promi nent member of the High Church party in that city, has been holding a "Retreat " at his monastery in Marston street, Oxford, which has been attended by a large number of clergymen from all parts of the United Kingdom. During its continuance the brethren, as they are called, give themselves up to fasting and prayer, maintaining the strictest silence and reserve. The services in the chapel attached to the monastery are incessant,the members of the brotherhood appearing to spend the whole of their time between prayers in the chapel and meditations in their cells. As the whole of the brethren are clothed in long black cas socks, confined at tho waist by a cord, and wear largo black felt hats, their appearance has caused some excitement even in this district, which is pretty well seasoned to High Church vagaries.—Advcrtiser. " EXPERIMENTAL" POISONING- AT A COLLEGE. — STRANGE AND DIABOLICAL AFFAIR.—A most singular case of attempted poisoning at Rossall College,North Lancashire, has just come to light. The son of a Dublin town coun cillor, named Hogan, has for some time been studying at Rossall College, one of the most flourishing educational, establishments in the north of England. A few mornings ago, whilst at breakfast, he was seen to got hold of a sugar basin and put something into it ; but the person noticing him— a monitor, named Thorpe—did not suspect anything seri ous. Not long afterwards Hogan asked one of the col legians if he had seen Mr. Sleip, one of the masters, and whether ho had been sick or not. Mr. Sleip had beer called away at the ordinary breakfast hour, and was in hi, usual health. Therpe, the monitor, having heard the in quiry of Hogan, thought of what he had seen at the break fast table, and subsequently the sugar basin was taken possession of, and conveyed to Dr. Williams, the residentia' medical attendant at the college. Ho found the suga mixed with arsenic. Hogan, when this was made known was secured and placed in one of the rooms. seems that he had never been hoard to threaten the lift of anyone. Hogan is a quiet youth, about sixteen yeas; old, with a rather heavy, brooding look. When aske,l why he had put the arsenic into the sugar which Mr Sleip would have to use, Hogan replied that he had don. so out of curiosity, that he wanted to make an experiment and that he considered Mr. Skip the likeliest person operate upon. Young Hogan, when his father arrived at the college, stated that he had some more arsenic secreted in a certain chimney at the college. This chimney wai searched, and a bottle containing enough arsenic to po i s o n all the people at the college was found secret9dixjltilT; MA afterwards coßytYe4)9l4lo by)21.4 taiher% MERIT OF TUB PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times observes that the public has been supping full with horrors lately. On Thursday, Co 23rd of September, there was the frightful Hounslow wife murder, in the near neighhourhood of this Whitton crime. On Saturday, the 25th, there was the Bolton murder by a father-in-law, followed by the murderer's suicide ; and on the Sunday after the Little Suffolk-street murder of the murderer's mistress. All these were attended by circumstances of peculiar atrocity. On the following Friday, the Ist of October, occurred the firework explosion at Bayswater, resulting in the destruction of seven persons. On the 4th of October there was the double murder and attempted suicide at Wood-green. Last Sunday four lives were lost by a fire at Newington ; on the same day steam took its quota of seven victims on the Midland Railway; and now the neighbourhood of Hounslow comes in with a second murder and a suicide to complete the dreary list which Hounslow inaugurated. This is a crowded cata logue of violent deaths for eighteen days. It might almost seem that violent deaths were catching, like scarlet fever. The chief uncertainty, in fact, is how the infection works. Is it in the air we breathe, or does it require actual con tact to communicate itself ? Can it be taken in a mild form, like tho smallpox? If so, sensational modern litera ture may perform functions in letters very different from those usually assigned it. Or does this anticipation of the malady, as gaol chaplains declare, only bring it—after the manner rather of inoculation than of vaccination—in all its terrors on those who would never naturally have caught it? If we could find out any law by which crime, or the gross negligence which is from a social point of view the same thing, suddenly bursts out in unexpected quar ters, we should be far on the way to discovering a preven tive. Crime and gross negligence, even of the most appa rently irregular and casual sort, doubtless do arise from marshy centres which might be drained ; even when they have got abroad, they might very possibly be stamped out. But, if so, in the presence of a list of unprofessional out rages on law and the good order by which British subjects have a right to die peaceably in their beds, society ought to feel more acutely than ever an obligation to consider the subject as a whole and scientifically, with a view to a remedy. Tho Telegraph thinks that desperate poaching affrays could hardly occur at a time more inauspicious than the present for the zealous advocates of excessive game preser vation. The current of hostility against the Game Laws, which has set in more strongly every year with the reviving independence and habits of combination among the tenant farmers, has received a great impulse since the reform that has widened the base of our electoral system, and propor tionally reduced the overshadowing influence of territorial landlordism. The farmers are quite aware that mere prescription will now do nothing for game preserving, and that, unless the practice can be proved to be beneficial, it will receive no mercy from Legislature which, for almost the first time, faithfully re flects public opinion in considering such questions on broad grounds of general utility. It is hardly possible to look at a report of any meeting among the local Chambers of Agriculture without seeing that the farmers are unwearied in their hostility to the Game Laws, and that, if their in fluence shall prevail, the law will be amended in a sense widely different from that adopted in Sir Baldwin Leigh ton's famous measure. The point to bo considered is, whether, granting all that the farmers demand, real sport will be any the loser. If every tenant had full licence by law, and independently of his landlord's caprice, to shoot all game trespassing on his fields, there would be fewer rabbits, hares, and pheasants, no doubt; but it is absurd to suppose that they would be extirpated, or sport be seriously diminished. The deter mined agitation which leading agriculturists, backed by active associations, have commenced against the Game Laws, has, then, an object in view as feasible as it is bene ficial. That object must be approved by economists as con ducive to the general wealth and can hardly be con demned by any statesman who desires to see crime dimi nished, and who, while resolved to punish the criminal, will also aim at removing the fountain and origin of the evil. The Standard declares that Mr. Gladstone's friends in Ireland are becoming daily more clamorous. They have long ago abandoned the pretence of limiting their demands by any regard to law, public justice, or the common inte rest. Having had one concession made to them for which they never asked, in satisfaction of a romantic grievance, nothing can be more natural than that the Fenians should proceed to demand a formal recognition of their cause itself, and to accompany that demand with threats of open vengeance. This is the true meaning of the Dublin demon stration, which is but the legitimate product and sequel of the Ministerial policy. We are no longer entreated to i;Ardon esor laws. There* ia no word of pardon, no hint of misguidance, at the more recent of the Fenian gatherings. At the same time, it is necessary to say that the demand, which is foolish, im pudent, and insulting when made on the British nation, is not so monstrous or unnatural when urged against the Gladstone Government. Fenianism, while it has no claims whatever against England, has some right to ,eppeal to the English Administration. It is this Administrii, which is mainly responsible for the hopes which ) have been excited in Fenian bosoms. It is this Admineitn2 - tion, which found Fenianism a miserable and all but extinct secret conspiracy, which has raised it to life, and given it the power, the dignity, and the proportions of a quasi-national movement. It was Mr. Gladstone who released some Fenian prisoners, and who may reasonably, therefore, be asked to release them all. It is Mr. Gladstone who has encouraged Mr. G. H. Moore and "The People of Ireland" to hope that what may not be given in justice or in mercy may still be extorted by bullying words and threats of violence. If Fenianism has become a formidable danger, it is only because Mr. Gladstone has paltered with it and abased himself before it. And to deal with it now is naturally much more difficult than it would have been had the Government from the first retained a consistent attitude towards it. The winter is drawing near, says the Daily New.', and we have read with some interest of some experiments which have been made on a large scale in Germany on a method of heating railway carriages by steam. We in Loinion are familiar with gaslight in railway carriages. Why should we not have steam-pipes to heat them ? In the first-class carriages we can generally in cold weather get a tin containing hot water for the feet; but this is a luxury forbidden, we believe, to second and third-class passengers, and even first-class passengers have at times had to tip the porters before they could obtain the boon. The experiments to which we refer have been made on the Brunswick :Railway, on the Prussian Eastern, on the Hanoverian, and on the Lower Silesian. The Hanoverian Government Railway, for example, runs daily two mail trains with steam heating between Cologne and Berlin. The steam comes from a tubular boiler in the luggage car. In the Brunswick Railway it comes directly from the locomotive. In either case the temperature of the carriages is raised from twenty to thirty degrees Farenheit. Is it too much to hope that our engineers will one day allow us this comfort? The winters on the Continent are coverer than with us, just as also the Continental summer is warmer than our Insular one. Still wo can he cold enough in England, and we do not think that railway managers would lose much in their returns—probably they would gain a good deal—if they would make travelling in the winter time less of a penance than it is for persons in delicate health, and less of a risk to all. The Star remarks that fox-hunting is so generally ex tolled as a manly pastime, that people who would shudder with horror at far less cruelty to a domestic animal, or who would, at a pinch, send a contribution to the society which usefully devotes itself to the repression of this species of inhumanity, have persuaded themselves that a sport so popular and pursued with so much eagerness is somehow or other worthy to be regarded with a kind of admiration. Mr. Freeman is ,Toot so oblivious to the subtle influence of custom in hiding from a man the real quality and nature of his owil acts as to impute to the fox-hunter a naturally cruel or sanguinary disposition. What ho contends is, that the act itself is bad ; that indulgence in it must more or less harden the heart ; that, at all events, the fox-hunter would be a better man if he were not a fox-hunter; and that, as respects its influence on the judicial character of the squire archy, "next to a Jamaica court-martial, no mockery of justice can be conceived greater than that of a game-preserving squire sitting to convict a poacher on the evidence of a gamekeeper." Fox hunting, he shows, is ono of the last relics of pastimes which, from the days of the Roman emperors, have con verted human or brute suffering into a means of affording pleasure to heartless and unfeeling men. It is in the direct lino of succession with the barbarous practices in which our forefathers indulged; and, like those practices, it will one day disappear under the enlightened influence of a growing, although yet terribly imperfect, The Herald comment on the two inquests held on the same day, and on the same number of persons. In the one case, the jury had to inquire into the causes of the deaths which ensued from the firework calamity at Bayswater In the other they had to perform the same duty with respect to the victims of Saturday's casualty at Long Eaton. The one inquiry virtually, and the other actually, ended in a verdict of accidental death, by which somewhat loose and very convenient expression we understand not exactly that the misadven tures were unavoidable, but that they occurred under such circumstances that it would be rather hard and very unfair to impute blame on account of them to any one in par ticular. The result is that fourte en p ersons have lost thei r . lives, and a great deal of suffering has been cause l d tc survivorl, but that, after us in g the best existing e failed al machinery provided for that pin-pose we h to solve the mystery in one i nstance, a and to fix s d p e o e n d s f i b u i r i n i t i y s h i n a in t the t o e x l; n h g e t p fi r lc . 13 T h 3 C s N C ' o d n i o a e Long Eaton is a mu ch more simple affair. On foggy a w s h s i t c a h rt w ed as on t ly o five minutes ianuhteeasve xrceug e t x r i a ) i r n e s s w , run at its usual rate, and which could only help running heavy special before a I into the other by good luck and good management As it happened, the management was n.either bate] nor worse than usual, but the "luck" upon - which the authorities relied deserted them at a critical momt..nt. A luggage train got in the way, and blocked the line wheo the " excursion " was duo. The latter went on with slackened speed, and the mail, which had started only five minute, after it, ran into it with all the force of a powerful engine drawing a light train at the rate of forty miler an hour, on a foggy night, upon a railway whose directorate has hitherto declined to adopt the block sys tem of signalling. Under such conditions it is no wonder that travelling by rail was somewhat unsafe. The collision on the Midland line might be "accidental" in the sense that no one had wilfully caused it, but it certainly was not accidental if we take proper notic9 of, tkc fa_lu ty aztepe i2akibutoci to it. '-- HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, Oct. 11. The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, with the Ladies and Gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service in the parish church, Crathie. LATEST INTELL IGENCS (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORE:, Oct. 12. The llamburg and American steamship Silesia arrived here at 8 p.m. yesterday. The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Russia also ar rived here yesterday at 10 p.m. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1301 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 130/ ; the lowest, 130. Sterling Exchange on London lO9/. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 l2Ol. cc " 1885 1194. 4t " 1867 llBl. 10-40 if Illinois 1321. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 26lc. Petroleum—Standard White 32P. Flour, extra state, $5.70c. to $6.30c. Corn, al mixed, sl.lc. According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the receipts of cotton for the last four days have been 36,000 bales, against 33,000 last week; shipments to England, 7,ooo:bales, against 5,000 ; to France, 1,000 bales, against 2,000,; and to the Continent , 1,000 bales, against 1,000. Market quiet, and easier. M.-Upland, 10 15-16, cost and freight per steamer. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 12. The Ameer of Bokhara has applied to Russia for assistance against Shere Ali, accompanying the request by the payment of a tribute. lie has also despatched his son with an Embassy to the Czar in order to secure his succession to the throne through the protection of Russia. VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, Sept. 12. . _ A Parliamentary crisis has arisen here, and a vote of want of confidence in the Government 16 pending, in consequence of their having nominated Mr. Ralto (who is not a member of Parliament) to the post of Commissioner of Customs. The SUP' porters of the Ministry are indignant at this ar poiutment. The Legislative Assembly have resolved to abo• lish the State Aid Grant in five years, diminishing the amount by £lO,OOO in each year. Mr.Tawlner, the founder of the colony, is dead' Kenealey and the other pardoned Fenians hav e been expelled the zolony under the Criminals It" flux Prevention Act. Trade is extremely dull. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE, Sept. 9• A telegraph line is about to be laid to the nort h West coast. • !ji.01 3 1, trtri VII •fr NEW ZEALAND. SYDNEY, Sept. g° Intelligence frcm New Zealand announces 0 ' 1 ! t the colonists have agreed to offer England sub s ; dies for 1,500 soldiers for five years. The rae' aro quieter, and no further massacres are reported' NEW SOUTH WALES. _ SYDNEY, Sept. 9 ' A postal treaty has been arranged with Qu ° l; land in accordance, with which a monthly w all to be established via Torres Straits to alt erea',o with that by King George's Sound. The captain of the United States steamer P i : sago has been feted here. It is reported tha t t Fiji islands solicit an American protectorate. The Queensland Parliament has passed the e 8 mates, and is about to be closed. FRANCE. rams, p c t 13 A•at The Emperor and the Prince Imperial arr ive Compiegne at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The Official Journal of this morning says : a g i , " By virtue of the law of the 6th of June, lu hl i e the Prefect of Police may adjourn every stab meeting which may appear to him likely to dis t order and endanger public safety. itecl ti In co ns e quenc e of disorders which have rest' de, from several meetings, the Government bay ° . t p tided that the law referred to should be pat force." ROUEN, ()e t ' I %g Another meeting for the purpose of protest/ 0 against the existing commercial treaties Washet, here to-day, when about 400 persons were Pr eSe M. Pouyer Quertier, who was electel et d at last week's meeting, spoke on the subject' te a was received with great applause. 1°3 %0 upon the abrogation of those commercial trea as incompatible with the government of the co tr BOURSE, the countr H y. r ioo Oct. .—Three o'clock—The 036" closed as follows : .., 5 0 4i per Cent. End of month - ; Italian Five 5....... .. 3 per Cent End of month 7l 27i I Ott o man Loan ... " 4 2 ",, Credit Mobilier Transatlantic 252 50 Credit Foncier —l6BO /' ~/ Spanish Threes ... Home Debt ...•• ....„ Paris Gas -- 1575 I Deferred ....... .• Cash' RAILWAYS. 945 Orleans ... 58 5 Western Northern . .... ...... 590 Strasburg . . 9B2t Lyons and Mediterranean ............... 6114 Southern.... 5O Sardinian Austrian 525 Lombard 45 North of Spain 63 Saragossa Roman -----=--- - TIIE JUNIUS MYSTERY.—The discovery ° f j re As°l t 0 0 0 b o e ft l e ie n ve a , n b n e o e i n inced has at length, wo have °l'll l' e9 0 the ion. EdwaiP•dlaTcewdibsieztoonndwdhouobhtabsyftloire triieselr:stile called in the aid of a scientific ex rt in hand wri , i t :o9 l :o made w A e c lalcekPnaluyob.wl public, ' 3l u to ir b ilie. of Junius's Letters to Weedfall and George G r(3° togetherC . Chab withot. f a The . h a i e p in e r i i e o s:l o t results twhiel I s- - r ic o ~ ___---- ----- < 1 ' ecte The very e x t e nsive Distillery now beiog f C e r to re e ° ,l f at Belfast, with all recent improveme nts for the ol•rn if ; goi P o Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE ct Co., wito.li:'".,,io 0 a world-wide celebrity for their tine o ld Irish WII, called " The Royal Irish Distillery." -rnar.E. HIGH WATER AT LONDON ,10 46 ovs' 4 ,st AtORNING. P - t 9 WEDNESDAY 37 min past ...... 12 1 1, . p. , t o THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 : 0 8 0 5 : m m: I u nn u p pp p a aa a s s s s t t : 1 1 1 2 80 1 .................... 0011cipri;:60: pally I 1 1 SUNDAY MONDAY 53 min past 12 ...... 10 ; p oi WvAiiphlr 'tru s t ..... m i tI OQ Mill pant I.filitO°