The Sun. — London, England, 1869-09-17 00:00:00

TOSSIXa FOR THE VERDICT, A singular scene (says the Lire? pool Mercury) has been Witnossed at the Blackburn Petty Sessions. Ann John eon, an old woman, summoned a respectable young woman, named Elizabeth Holt, for stealing a s li ver s p oo n, The spoon was produced in court, and was found to be of base metal and worth 13d. Both the com plainant and defendant's mother averred that the spoon has `'een in their possession for years, and had been stolen within thelst three months ; and witnesses were called on both sides to lat."' tify the spoon by its turned up corner . and several dimples. :„ . `,7nid the laughter of the court the magistrates' clerk suggested th:.4.' they should toss up for the spoon. They accordingly retiree,_ 41 ?4. it was imme diately announced that Mrs. Taylor, Holt's is - other: , bad won the toss, and she carried off the spoon in trit.:'"Ph amid the laughter of the court. AFFRAY WITH POACHERS. A sharp encounter between a number of Baroness Windsor's gamekeepers and a gang of poachers took place on Tuesday morning, in a field at Cotton Hackett. The keepers were watching in a field, when they saw six men enter, each armed with a bludgeon, and carrying a bag on his back. They threw the bags down by the side of a plantation evidently with a view of commencing further poaching operations, when the keepers shewed themselves, upon which some of the poachers exclaimed, " Come on you we be ready for you." A general fight then ensued, the poachers throwing stones, which they produced from their pockets, and using their bludgeons freely. Denley and William Hemming, two of the keepers, were struck by the stones, and the latter received a blow from a bludgeon. John Hemming was struck on the head with one of the heavy hedgestakes carried by the poachers, of whom three were overpowered and taken into custody, the others effecting their escape, but leaving all the bags behind them, containing 62 rabbits and a hare. The pri soners havn been committed for trial• LAW AND POLICE. AN EAST-END NUISANCE.—At the Thames Police-court, on Thursday, a complaint was made respecting an extraor dinary nuisance in the East of London. The sanitary in spector of Poplar summoned a Mr. William Parsons, who has a contract for boiling down tainted meat from the New Meat Market, and rabbits unfit for sale from Leadenhall, for causing a nuisance by the effluvia from his works. The magistrate inflicted a fine of 405., and hoped that means would be found to suppress the nuisance. COMPLAINT AGAINST A BEORTER.—Louis Alexander, a broker and dealer, was charged at Marlborough-street, on Thursday, with using insulting language to two persons. 'A lady, named Barsham, attended an auction at which Mr. Hazle presided, and upon her bidding against the defendant, he made use cf insulting language towards her and Mr. llazle. The auctioneer and several other persons complained of the system pursued by brokers, who combined together to drive away private buyers. The magistrate regretted 112 could not send the defendant to prison, and fined him 40s. in each case, with costs. A FALSE CHARACTER.-At Guildhall, on Thursday, a man named Tray was charged with giving a false character to 'one of his sons, and the son with robbing his employers, Messrs. Todd and Proctor, of St. Paul's Churchyard, of MO. Another son was charged with obtaining money by false pretences. A bundle of false characters Lad been found in 'the father's possession. The prisoners were remanded. BREACH OF Puomisz.—An action for breach of promise of marriage was tried in the Sheriff's Ccurt. Damages had been laid at £l,OOO, and judgment allowed to go by default, but the jury awarded only £lOO. The plaintiff being in court, her counsel was challenged to call her al a witness, under the provisions of the recent Act. This, however, her counsel declined to do, and the case was ,decided without her evidence. THE ORKNEY AND SHETLAND TELE GRAPH. This important undertaking is now in a fair way to being in actual operation. Last week the steamer Hay-le, of Aberdeen, having on board the submarine cable, arrived at Scrabster, and on Monday it was submerged in the sec tion, comprehending eight miles of sea, which runs from Brough Dunnet, in this county, across the Pentland Firth to Melsetter;in Oakney. The day was favourable, and the sea smooth, and the operation was completed by one p.m., the details only occupying two and a half hours. From Mel setter to the important harbour of refuge at Loughope, and from thence to Graemsey the poles and wires have for some time been up. At Graemsay the cable will be sub merged till opposite Stromness where it will Le landed ; and from Stromness to Kirkwall, along the public highway, the wires are in operation. From Kirkwall, along the mainland till opposite Shapinshay, the wires are also ready for work. There the cable will again be submerged, landing in Shapinshay, across which ti.e poles are placed till opposite May, whence the ( ede will stretch across to Sanday, after landing in which the posts run across the island for fourteen miles till reaching Start Point, when the broad sea is met, and the cable will be once more submerged there, leaving the 5h0r..14 of the Orkney, and stretching to Fair Isle, whence it goes direct to the famous Sumburgh Head, where it will be landed ; and the remainder of the work will be ex.ecuted by posts and wires direct to Lerwick. So far as the land work in Orkney and Shetland is concerned, little remains to be done beyond connecting the submarine cable with the land apparatus. The Caithness land portion of the work is being vigorously carried out by Mr. Thomson and an active staff. The poles are up along the high road from Wick, by Barrock, to th. 3 southern borders of Dunnet, and probably in a few days tl whole posts and wires will be up, leaving the sea work only to be carried out.—Narthern Ensign. What is acknowledged as one of the oldest churches in Western Europe—the "Friar's Castle," on Friar's Island," near Killarney—is about to undergo a thorough repair. The work of restoration is to be carried out at the expense of the Earl of Dunravey. SIGHING TO BE WHITE.—Ono Of the Calcutta papers says that a respectable Baboo has addressed the following letter to a chemist in that city :—" Dear Sirs, — I bog to know that there is any such medie:ne in Sour shop that can make the whole body white, and is une qualled over the whole world, and also you will kindly let . me know its price as soon as possible." This shews what a mistake poor Madame Rachel made in remaining in Bond street. Now that the educated Indians are sighing hr white skins she might have made a fortune in Calcutta. There is far more to be extracted from a Bengalee than a Borradaile. COMPLETE SATisFACTioN.--Inekdon, the ballad singer, was apt on some occasions to give offence by his brusque and almost rude deportment. Being called on by a person for " satisfaction " for an affront —probably unin tended by Incledon—he found him at breakfast. Having beard his business, Incledon took a posture, and executed " Black-eyed Susan " in his unequalled style. " There," he said to his auditor, who stood in breathless surprise and admiration, " if that does not satisfy you, you are one of the most unreasonable fellows I ever met with, for it has given complete satisfaction to thousands." The anti-Prussian newspapers of North Germany aro again beginning to express hopes of the out break of a Franco-Prussian war. The Emperor Napoleon, they say, is the only obstacle to such a war, and whatever patty takes the direction of affairs in France after him must make the first of jest of its policy the humiliation of Prussia and the restoration of the dispos sessed sovereigns. A regency or an Orlcasist Administra tio❑ would find a war with Prussia the best means of conso lidating its power at home, and a French Republic would certainly never allow a "Prussian Comtism" to grow uy on its frontier. The Tasmanian correspondent of the English Independent writes:—"On the first of this mouth (July) our Colonial Treasurer handed over to the governing authori ties 'of the several religious 'denominations deben tures amounting to £lOO,OOO, in accordance with the provisions of the State aid Commutation Act. Few people are really satisfied with this step. It is regarded as one of spoliation. Some regret that they did not offer a more determined opposition to the pas:ing of the Bill. The Presbyterians could nut hold a pro re 'atria useetirg for the appointment of trustees to receive their cuota without indulging in a quarrel, followed by some dis graceful correspondence in the daily press; and the Epi co paliars, who have received the lien's sLaru, will have f GIIIO difficulty is providing the salaries cf the ekrgy in the interior." The inquest ur on tie body of Mr. James Edward Robinson, the manager of the routeftact l ranch of the Lc eds and County Bank, who cornmitt , d suicide on Tuesday by shooting himself with a pistol, was resumed on Wednesday. The inquest had been adjourned to obtain evidence of the circumstances under which deceased obtained the pistol with which ho shot himself, and this having been satisfactorily rxplained by his brother, the jury returned a verdict to lho effect that Mr. Robinson had destroyed himself when aLffering from temporary insanity. The suicide of a gen *mean holding a post of such responsibility and trust will moat probably give rise to rumours respecting his financial position in relation to the bank of which ho was the rue 'sager, and it will at once check the circulation of any Tumours of this nature to state that a thorough investigation Ithe bank books show that Mr. Robinson's accounts were , trictly correct. AIE7ROPOLITAN u rsday. I do not think that the recent manifesto of the Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland has received the attention which it deserves. It is a very important manifesto, having the greatest political, as well as religious conse quences. Some far-sighted politicians have already dis cerned this, and here and there an able correspondent has called attention to the matter in the news papers. The Timcs has made light of the manifesto, and treated it as mere bruttcm fulmen. The Pall Mall Gazette, with a far truer apprecia tion of the issues at stake, has pointed out that the Ronian Catholic bishops are really asking only what the whole body of the Anglican clergy demand, denominational education; and that as a large majority of the Irish people go with their bishops, and as we are bound to legislate for Ireland, not according to a preconceived notion of our own, but according to Irish wants, we ought to at least give this declaration a courteous hearing and earnest consideration. A correspondent wrote in the Daily News of yesterday to the same effect. But to-day that journal is alarmed at the notion suggested by him, and, in an article, evidently inspired by Mr. Samuel Mo:ley and the other Nonconformists who are associated with ::ira in the proprietorship of the paper, the idea of giving effect to the Bishops' proposition is scouted as one utterly opposed to Liberal principles, and as one that would inevitably and deservedly break-up the Liberal party. Without passing any opinion upon a question which is far too weighty and too intricate to be solved in a paragraph, I may mention that the Conserva tive party are very sanguine that this subject will prove the downfall of the Government. They are not sanguine of an upset upon the land question, albeit, the Spectator with that passion for seeing through millgtones which marks that able journal ,saw in LordHartington'svery mild and ordinary speech at Sheffield a cry of distress, and the first sign of a break-up of the Cabinet. But, say the Conservatives, the education question is one which we may fairly hope will give us the opportunity of applying the motto divide et impera. They reckon that if the Government does not grant the demands of Cardinal Cullen and his colleagues, the Roman Catholic vote, which is now given almost entire to the Government, will be thrown into the opposite scale. Yet, after all, if this were to happen, it would prove by no means fatal. There are but about forty Roman Catholics in the Lower House. Double these, and deduct the eighty from the Ministerial majority, and it will still he more than thirty-five—more than twice the majority with which Lord Palmerston maintained him self in office the last six years of his life. Moreover, is it certain that all the high Tory and ultra-Protestant M.P.s would consent to go into the same lobby with the Irish " Papists "? I think it very doubtful. I think that this confident anticipation is at least premature. Turning from the Irish Roman Ctaholic to the English Protestant Bishops, I have not much that is definite to tell you. The Bishop of Winchester has so far recovered that he means to preside at a meeting of the South London Church Extension Fund some time in the latter half of next month. The episcopal estates are so exten sive, and the work of winding them up is so intricate, that there is no probability of the see becoming vacant before the end of the year. The Bishop of Oxford has, as yet received no intimation whatever of his translation. Bishop Sumner urgently wishes it, for he looks upon Dr. Wilberforce as a proCge of his, and one whose abilities he was the first to bring out. But other prominent Low Churchmen are using `all their efforts to prevent the appointment. Unintentionally, the newspapers have been aiding their endeavours. The Queen has a j i very strong interest in all ecclesiastical appoint ments, and a proportionately strong dislike to having her choice frustrated by a plebiscite ; therefore the ♦ery unanimity with which Bishop Wilberforce's name has been mentioned may be prejudicial to him. Meanwhile he has given notice of a visitation in November, and of an ordination at Christmas. It is altogether too soon to speak with anything approaching to certainty respecting the other bishops. The see of Carlisle will, it is feared, be vacant before long, and public opinion, rather than any official intimation, points to Dr. Miller as successor to Dr. Waldegrave. Mr. Kempe, of St. James's, Piccadilly, is spoken of for Exeter. This is, I fancy, but a guess, based on the fact that Mr. Kempe is an old Devonshire man, was consecrated by Bishop Phillpotts, and was for some time curate of Tavistock. In theology he hardly belongs to ' any particular school. He is known rather as an active London clergyman, who has done his utmost to bring together men of different opinions. His clerical gatherings i were one of the most pleasant events of the ecclesiastical London season. At these some admirable papers were read by some of the foremost men of the day, and those by Dean Stanley and Professor Maurice were afterwards published in Fraser and the Contemporary. The meetings have been 'discontinued of late years, chiefly, I believe, because of the garbled reports and absolute misrepresentations of them which were published in the Record.. His desire to con ciliate would render Mr. Kempe a peculiarly suitable man for the Westernmost diocese, where parties are so sharply divided. Mr. Kempe is a Liberal in politics ; but when Mr. Mill sent a subscription to Mr. Bradlaugh's election expenses at Northampton, the rector of St. James's wrote to say that he could not support Mr. Mill. By that circumstance more than any other the philosopher lost his election. As regards the other bishops I have heard no information. Bath and Wells has to be filled up, and I imagine that Bishop Gilbert, who is 83 years old, will scarcely be able to hold out while the rest of his episcopal brethren have resigned, and that Chichester will shortly fall vacant. Mr. Gladstone is now at Balmoral, where the arrangements will be decided, and probably all the announcements will be made simultaneously. It is either very fortunate, or very unfortunate for the Government, that Parliament is not sitting now. Fortu nate if the extraordinary tale of the " selling off " at Woolwich, told by the Globe, is true ; unfortunate, if it be untrue. In the first case, Mr. Childers and Mr. Baxter would be very sharply called to task for selling at Vi a load timber which cost £35, and anchors at £lO which cost £75 a ton. In the second case they would have an opportunity of meeting and refuting a veryserious charge. The story bears a very ugly look, and the Globe, which has been the first to publish it, is certainly the least likely of all avowed political organs to invent a tale of this kind. Mr. Cunliffe Brooks, who is now standing for East Cheshire, and who, I presume, is nearly safe to get in, is one of those Manchester men who have made and kept an enormous fortune, and who is now passing from the ranks of the middle to the upper class. A little while ago he married his daughter to the Marquis of Huntly, and gave her £400,000 for her portion. Report said that he would marry the Dowager Marchioness, but this rumour has not been confirmed. At his daughter's mar riage not only were the nobility, but Royalty itself was present in the person of the I'rince of Wales, between whom and the wealthy banker there is a close intimacy. Such a man was just the one to put forward for East Cheshire. Hitherto the great families of long ancestry have almost monopolised the representation ; but the Conservatives are wise enough to know that this state of things has passed away, and just as they have submitted to the leadership of a " gentleman of the press" and a successful barrister, so they have put forward the Man chester banker and father-in-law of a marquis to do battle against the railway magnate, Sir Edward Wa tkin. I have rather unpleasant news from India. Some noblemen of high rank have recently been visiting that country, and have left so bad a reputation behind them that the natives have made remarks anything but compli mentary to the noblemen themselves and to the Sovereign whom in the native imagination they represent. On this account the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh is anticipated with a good deal of anxiety. He has the power to do an immensity of good and an immensity of harm. If he should show an intel ligent interest in the people and the country he will do much to confirm English supremacy in India ; if he should give himself up to tiger-hunting and other amuse ments, or if he should treat the native Indian princes as be treated the Maori chiefs, and the French officers at Tahiti, he will inflict great and irremediable mischief. Fortunately he has a most wise and able " bear leader" in Sir Neville Chamberlain, who is a gentleman that will not allow his judgment to be unduly influenced by deference to royalty. What is probably the most ornate building in London ' is now nearly completed so far as the outsideis concerned. I refer to the London University, the architect whereof is Mr. Pennethorne. The site of this building is most unfortunate. The back of it is, of course, invisible, Since it stands dos a dos to the new Royal Academy. But the front elevation, which is full of elaborate detail, cannot possibly he seen properly, by reason of the narrowness of the street—Burlington Gardens—in which it is placed. There are no fewer than twenty-two large statu es pl ace d i n f ront of the building. , The sculptors were selected by Lord John Manners when he was First Commissioner of Works. The gentlemen chosen were Messrs. Lough, Westalacott, Woodington, Theed, Foley, and Durham, of whom the last was entrusted with four statues, and each of the others with three. Mr. Foley, however, declined, in consequence of numerous engagements—among them, by the way, the figures which are to adorn the Prince Consort Memorial in Hyde Park. His commission was then given to Mr. M`Dowell, and Mr. Wyon (himself one of the finest models that any sculptor could desire) has executed Mr. Lough's work. The figures chosen were to be represen tatives of human knowledge, both ancient and modern. The definition is a little vague, the curious anomaly is presented of a collection of typical Englishmen in which Milton is present but Shakspere is absent. The other twenty-one figures are those of Newton, Bentham, Harvey, which, as well as Milton, were executed by Mr. Durham; Galileo, Goethe, and Laplace, by Wyon ; Leibnitz, envier, and Linnteus, by M`Dowell ; Hunger, Hume, and Davy, by Noble; Locke, Bacon, and Adam Smith, by Theed ; Galen, Cicero, and Aristotle, by Westmacott ; Plato, Archimedes, and Justinian, by Woodington. One could have wished that these statues had been executed in enduring marble rather than in such a rather perishable material as Portland stone. The building is in the Renaissance style, and those who admire that style will consider Mr. Pennethorne's work an important addition to the public buildings of London. " Reform Tree" had another narrow escape during the recent terrific gale—the most violent I ever remember in London. The tree where of old Beales and Finlen " orated" is one of a cluster of elms in Hyde Park. Several of these have had branches, and one a large limb, torn away ; but Reform Tree is unhurt. Is this delive rance symbolical of the Constitution ? Are we to interpret it as a sign that, however much the Constitution is ex posed to the gales of popular clamour, it will stand firm? The lodger franchise, which gave rise to so muoh ex pectation on the part of the Liberals, and for which they fought so ♦igorously, has turned out a failure. Lodgers, in London at all events, are such migratory persons that they do not take the trouble to claim a vote. The publi cans, with their usual energy, have placarded their win dows with the notice "Forms for lodger claims to be had here," but the announcement has utterly failed to answer its ostensible or its real object. I might have added to last week's list of lady magazinists the name of Mrs. George Smith. This lady, who is the wife of Mr. Smith, of Smith, Elder, and Co., the proprietor of the Pall Mall Gazette, is the real editor of the Cornhill Magazine. Two other magazine items are that Mr. Murray's Academy will be out on October 9th, that Mr. Grove, who has just undertaken the editorship of Macmillan's, is gone to Naples in order to be present at the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius, and will visit the Holy House of Loretto, with a view, I believe, of giving accounts of both visits in his magazine. It is said that Mrs. Stowe has received £5OO for her Byron article. I can hardly credit this. There is better foundation, I believe, for the report that she will reply to her assailants in an early number of Macmillan's. Of new books, the two that will be most eagerly antici pated are the Dore edition of Hood's poems and " Typical London," which Mr. Blanchard Jerrold has written and M. Dore will illustrate after joint travels with Mr. B. Jerrold through the most terrible parts of the Great Babylon. The first work will be brought out by Mr. Bertrand Payne (Moron and Co.), who spent £lO,OOO upon the Dore edition of Tennyson's " Idylls of the King," and netted the same amount by that spirited venture. Mr. A. Austin author of the "Season," has written a vindication of Lord Byron, which will be out next week. Finally, I may mention that the letters in the Times on the Irish land question are by O'Connor Morris, an Irish barrister, and an occasional leader-writer in that journal, that Mr. Le Sage, who was formerly on the staff of the Western Morning News, is now gone to Liege to report the volun teer fetes for the Daily Telegraph, that Dr. Russell will represent the Times, Mr. Edward Dicey the Telegraph, and Mr. Henty the Standard, at the opening of the Suez Canal. The last-named gentleman represented the same paper in Abyssinia. 311SCELLANE1OUS NEWS. THE SUN, LODON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1869. .attended with" an Incalculable amount or =mum to Ireland, CRUELTY TO CATTLE. The letter of Miss Burdett Coutts, suggesting 'systematic education for the humane treatment of animals," has called forth a communication from the Secretary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in which it is stated that the society does not neglect to prosecute offenders who maltreat foreign cattle on landing on our soil. There are, however, many difficulties in the way of securing convictions, and the magistrates occasionally appear to take very curious views of the matters brought before them. As an instance, the Secretary mentions that he charged a ruffian with hitting a bullock a tremendous blow upon the hock with his bludgeon, which caused the wretched animal to reel and drop upon the ground, as though felled with the poleaxe. While pitying the bullock, the magistrate dismissed the summons, saying that drovers had a difficult task to perform in driving bullocks of foreign breed, and unacquainted with our language! To the sug gestion of Miss Coutts, the Secretary entreats the public to give every possible support, and aslis the ladies to form a " Ladies Humane Society.' One work which such a society could at once undertake would be to distribute 25,000 copies of the Animal World, a new publication for children, which the society is about to issue for the purpose of incul cating in their minds, as Miss Coutts suggests, " principles of humanity towards animals, and a knowledge of their structure, treatment, and value to man," by means of stories and other amusing litera ture. Not the least important item contained in the secretary's letter is the announcement " that 04 Government had a bill in contemplation upwards of three months ago, which will probably be intro.. duced next session of Parliament, for the regulation of railway carriages and steamboats engaged in the transit of animals." THE BEVERLEY ELECTION COMMISSION. Still more corruption is being probed, both at Bridgwater and Beverley. A witness at the former town was put in a hard position on Wednesday. At the election he gut £lO for voting Liberal; Mr. Bussell, who acted on behalf of Kinglake and Van derby', gave him the money. When Mr. Justice Blackburn was inquiring into the state of the borough this witness—his name was Hayward —swore posi tively and unflinchingly that he had received nothing for his vote. Now, called before the Commissioners he admits the double crime of having sold the fran chise entrusted to him, and of having perjured him self in denying that he had done so. The Commis sioner on hearing this confession told Hayward that they should advise the Attorney-General to prosecute him forperjury. Further information was supplied as to theconnection of the candidates with the bribery. Far from exonerating Mr. Vanderbyl, the evidence though given on his behalf tends to prove that he knew about the illegal acts if he did not sanction them. He seems to have bon badgered by the lawyen, argued with, persuaded, and threatened with defeat, in order that he might be led to bribe. He complained bitterly of this pressure upon him to some of his more confidential friends at the commencement of the campaign ; but, to all appearance, afterwards gave way. THE lIR'DGWATER INQUIRY. A. striking illustration of the difficulties against which the commissioners have to contend—au example showing clearly the kind of witnesses they have to deal with—has been supplied at Beverley. A Mr. Barkworth stated that he had given Mr. Francis Burrell, the landlord of the White Horse Inn, between £5O and £6O on the Ist Nov., 1867, for the purposes of bribery. This same Burrell had pre viously been twi;:e in the witness-box, and had adopted the non mi record() style of answering. The Commissioners thought they had him at last, and calling him up again, expected a full confession. This is the way ho met their questions : Did you receive money for bribery at the municipal election of 1867? If I did I do not know. The Commissioner: That will not do. Burrell : I do not know that I did. The Chief Commissioner : That will not do. Burrell : I do not think I did. The Commissioner : Did you receive £55 from Mr. Barkworth on the Ist of November 1867. Burrell : I do not know that I did. The Commissioner: You must answer. Did you or did you not? Burrell : I can't answer ; I don't know that I did. I think Mr. Barkworth was mistaken. I do not believe he gave me any such amount. The Commissioner : Mr. Barkworth has sworn that he did give you £5O or £55. Do you deny it? Burrell : I do not deny it, if he did. The Commissioner (sharply) : Do you deny it? Burrell : I d) not. The Commissioner: What did you do with the money? Burrell : If he gave me the money, 1 do not know that he did. And so the witness went on, admitting that he Might have received the money, tacitly confessing that he distributed a sum large or small, but refusing to say anything committing himself or any other person. Mr. Justice Blackburn had to warn such another witness, in one of his inquiries, that no jury would take his" not remembering" as true. POLIT;CAL INFLT:INCE IN IRELAND. Lord Courtown takes decided exception to the statement of Lord Portsmouth, that for political influence, in too many instances, Irish landlords refuse to grant leases. Having lived in Wexford more or less from his childhood, and having been mixed up in the political contests which have taken place !there, Lord Courtown does not hesitate to say that he has no recollection of ever having heard any landlord, of even the most extreme political views, declare that he does not give leases to his tenants for the sake of political influence over them. It is true that many landlords do not give leases, but it is because their estates are better managed without them. MORE EXTRA-PALIAMENTARY 'UTTERANCES. Two more M.P.s have been " orating " to the Armes. Lord R. Montagu and Mr. T. Baring both spoke after the dinner.of the Huntingdon Agricul tural Association on Wednesday. The noble lord was great upon the subject of horse and cattle breeding, and discoursed eloquently on dog training and such like topics. On the latter subject, having expressed the opinion that pointers and setters might be brought to do almost anything, he added— " The powers of the mind and the passions were all amenable to habit, which is the central idea of educa tion ; and education, after all, is nothing but the giving of habits. Lord Bacon, one of the greatest of English philosophers, says, Education is a custom ;' and the highest of all authorities, said, ' Train up a child in the way he should go." Mr. Baring spoke generally of the advantages of agri cultural associations as tending to bring persons of all classes of political opinions together on one common ground ; and ho ur g e d th e usefulness of scientific aids to argriculture, as well as the im provement of the education of the agricultural labourer. THE WARWICESIIIIIE MEMEERS. Mr. Bromley Davenport, M.P., who spoke at the Warwickshire Agricultural Society's dinner, was misreported. Ile was made to say that he disagreed with the views expressed by 111 r. Newdegate on the Irish land question. The truth was, Mr. Davenport thoroughly approved of all his colleague said on that point. What he objected to was the remark of a previous speaker, who wished that the land question should be entertained in England similarly and in conjunction with Ireland. It is satisfactory to know that Mr. Davenport does not attach blame to the reporters for the error, but to the building, which was the " very worst adapted_ for speaking" he had ever known. ANOTHER. NEW BARONET. According to a Cork contomporary, Mr. Gladstone has written to Mr. James O'Connell, of Lakeview, Killarney, intimating the intention of the Queen to confer a baronetcy upon him. Mr. O'Connell is the only surviving brother of the Liberator, and has reached the patriarchal age of 80. He has at all times been a staunch and steady adherent of th© Liberal party, at the same time discountenancing those wild Onixotic doctrines which have been nusu CHURCH ORGANISATIM The Synod meeting at Dublin is doing important work. The Lower house decided two very impor tant questions on Wednesday. The bishops, meeting privately, had suggested that deans and archdeacons should, by right of office, have seats in the new Church Body. This the Lowor Chamber would not allow ; several deans and archdeacons speaking on the subject urged that there was no reason wht they should. have the honour about to be bestowed upon them ; and the clergy (they contended) ought to be represented as they wished, not according tQ the officers of the Church. It was therefore declared by a majority of 107 to 29 that all members of the new body should be elected by the clergy. To whom votes should be given was then a matter for discussion. Should only beneficed clerg# have the power of election, or should universal suffrage be the basis of the constitution ? Should there, moreover, be any restrictions as to who should sit in the Church Parliament ? The questions ware debated warmly enough ; but the argument that the newly-organised Church must obtain the widespread affection of the people prevailed over all others, and it war, resolved that all beneficed and licensed clergy men—deans, canons, prebendaries, archdeacons, vicars, rectors, curates—should have power both to vote and to be elected. TIIE VACCINATION QUESTION. Dr. Seaton, senior medical inspector of the Privy Council, sends an important letter to Mr. Vaughan, the Bow-street magistrate, with reference to vaccinam tion. The letter was called forth by the case of the child Hudson, whose mother declared it had been in jured in health by vaccination. Dr. Seaton states that in all such cases as that of Alice Hudson official inquiry is always made, and he made such inquiry on this occasion. He denies that the child Hudson could have been infected from the lymph source, as it was from a very healthy child, " entirely free from any cutaneous eruptions, or any ailment whatever." Hudson was a " flabby, delicate child." It was not till two days after ;vaccination, and, consequently, not for a full week after the actual phenomenon of vaccination had subsided that an eruption came out on the child. Dr. Seaton attributes this eruption to the child's ill nourished condition. These facts are (he considers) sufficient to shew that the child could not have been infected from the lymph source. He states, however, his opinion that it would have been better to have deferred vaccination in the delicate tfltte of health of the child. It will be remembered that the vaccination was done by the assistant of the parish medical officer, and this, Dr. Seaton thinks, should not have occurred. Mr. Vaughan sent for the mother of the child Hudson, and explained the purport of this letter to her. It is especially impor tant at this time, when popular ignorance is threaten ing to destroy the valuable labours of Jenner, that vaccination should be administered by competent and responsible persons. TIIE ALBERT. Some not unimportant business has been tram acted at the joint meeting of the London and pro vincial committees of policy-holders in the Albert Assurance Company. The meeting, from which the representatives of the Press were rigorously ex.- chided, was presided over by Lord William Hay, and resolutions were passed to the following effect; that the plan of reconstruction proposed by the provisional liquidators be rejected ; that the com pany ought to be compulsorily wound up under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, with the powers con ferred by the OGth section; that the liquidation should be conducted by two liquidators, to be chosen by the joint committee, acting under the supervision and control of a committee of seven policy-holders. Tho following gentlemen were nominated as members of such corn mittee :—Lord William Hay and Mr. James Cundy, for London ; Mr. J. T. 8011, for India ; Mr. Walker, chairman of the Liverpool Committee ; Mr. John Lowe, chairman of the Birmingham Com mittee; Mr. R. Smith, chairman of the Manchester Committee; and the Rev. H. W. Kemp, chairman of the Hull Committee. THE SOVEREIGN. 'Without discussing the advisability of charging a mintage, Sir John Lubbock argues in the Times that it is incredible that the charge of a mintage should produce no effect on the value of the coin. If a mintage of 1 per cent. be imposed, new sovereigns will only be obtainable at a cost of one per cent. higher than before; and no one w ill p a y the Mint 1 per cent. for coining bullion, unless the coins thus obtained are worth as much as the bullion given for them ; hence a mintage must either raise the value of the coin or put a stop to coinage altogether. On the other hand, if a mintage of 1 per cent. is charged, and 1 per cent. of gold dust is deducted from the sovereign, these two charges will counterbalance one another, and the value of the sovereign will be the same as it is now. While care must be taken not to cheat creditors by lowering the value of the pound, equal care, Sir John says, must be taken not to cheat debtors by raising it. THE LATE GALE, A curious effect of the gale which raged on Nil . - day and Monday has been noted at Winterbourne, near Bristol. The leaves of elms and other trees and shrubs were all blackened and withered on the weather side, as if from severe black frost or intense heat, while on the lee side no injury is perceptible. They also tasted strongly of brine. Winterbourne is upwards of ten miles from the sea, and the only way in which these strange effects are accounted for is by suppposing the hurricane to have been a sirocco wind which in its course across the Channel must have taken up and carried inland considerable quantities of sea water. This view is substantiated by the fact that during the storm, in some places in the neighbourFood, windows wore slightly coated with salt. GREENWICH HOSPITAL. Thecommittee, consisting of Lord John Hay, M.P., Mr. G. 0. Trevelyan, M.P., Mr. A. Jones, and Mr. C. D. Loveless, appointed to examine into the circumstances connected with the condition and future position of the in-pensioners .of Greenwich Hospital are about to conclude their labours. One of their chief duties ha 3 been to award special pensions to those men willing to leave the establishment under the provisions of the Greenwich Hospital Act passed last session. Availing themselves of that Act, all the pensioners who are not positively unable from helplessness to leave the place, and who have friends outside, have elected to take their departure. The Somerset ward of the Infirmary will then be able to accommodate all who will be left in the institution; and the rest of the building heretofore occupied by the pensioners will be at the disposal of the Govern ment for the purposes of a natural collection of a naval character, to be brought together and arranged by the Admiralty. The men are said to be perfectly satisfied with the out-premiums awarded to.,theni. WOOLWICH DOCKYARD. The Lords of the Admiralty, though they have eot been determining to abolish Sheerness Dockyard, have yet been troubled very considerably about Woolwich Dockyard. What can they do with it ? Keep it, sell it, or allow it to be rented ? The problem is one which is being anxiously considered both at Whitehall and at Woolwich. The Local Board of Health, hearing that the yard was to be preserved in its present state, wrote to the Premier, rudely protesting. The first reply skewed the doubt that existed upon the matter, and inti mated that the question was under the further con sideration of the Lords of the Admiralty. The second letter makes it manifest " my Lords" wish to get rid of the dockyard, for the writer declares that " the Admiralty, with the sanction of the Treasury, have determined to remove the limitations placed on its disuosal." DUN VILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. _Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunvillo and Co , Belfast; or 4, Boaufort-buildings,Strand, London, W,C.—[Ad yes Sisemont. WRECK OE THE CARIVA7IC. It is with regret we have to announce a terrible shipwreck which has befallen one of the fine fleet of mail steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, the Carnatic, a powerful iron-built ves sel of 1,776 tons, which, according to the telegrams received yesterday by the company, was totally lost, with about 27 of her people, off the Island of Shadwan, in the Gulf of Suez, on Monday morning last. The Carnatic has for some time been employed by the company on the service between Suez and Bom bay and Bombay and China. She left Suez for Bombay on Sunday last, the 12th inst., under the charge of Capt. I'. B. Jones, R.N.R., commander, an old and experienced officer of the company. She carried 22 first-class passengers, 12 second, one native servant, and one child—in all 37. She had a general cargo, shipped from the steamer Venetian, from Liverpool, together with about £40,000 in specie. A telegram of her departure was received at the company's office in Leadenhall street on Monday, and the first they heard of the disaster to the ship was early yesterday morning, when a relative of one of the passengers waited on the Secretary with a telegranx reporting that the Carnatic was totally wrecked, and that his friends were to be telegraphed to that he was saved. Be yond this no positive intelligence was received by the company till about noon, when the following came to hand from their superintendent at Suez : " Suez, Sept. 16, 2 a.m. "The Carnatic steamship, from Suez for Bom bay, was totally wrecked off Shadwan at 1 a.m. on the 13th of September ; passengers and crew landed on Shadwan, and arrived in the Sumatra at Suez at 2 a.m. September 16, excepting five passengers and nine of the officers and crew and fifteen na tives. Mails, specie, cargo, and baggage went down in ship.' " After the receipt of the above another was re ceived : " Suez, Sept. 16. " The Sumatra arrived at two a.m. to-day. The Carnatic a total wreck off Shadwan at one a.m. September 13. Passengers and crew lauded on Shadwan, and arrived in Sumatra, with the ex ception of the following, who are missing :—Capt. Pope, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Cuppage, Mr. Pidding (Peninsular and Oriental Service) and Mr Warren, Mr. Ransford (surgeon), Mr. Gardner (purser) Mr M'lntosh (purser's clerk), Mr. Boque (chief engineer), Mr. Coll (?), Mr. M'Caw (fifth engi neer), F. Ferguson (steward), Woods, Spratt, Harper, and 15 natives. Mails, specie, cargo, and luggage went down in ship." The following is a list of the passengers saved : Captain R. N. Cole and native man servant, Major George Pearse, Mr. Stutz, Mr. Andraec, Miss F. R. Cameron, Mr. P. 1). Alexander, Mr. E. J. P. Jeffery, Mr. J. F. Burkenshaw, Mr. W. Good, Mr. A. Morton, Mr. Felstead, Mr. ilaggerston, Mr. Lyne, Mr. Elton, Mr. Jones, Mr. Morrell, Mr. W. Martin, Mrs. Stewart and infant, Mrs. Flood, Mr. J. E. Gilliland, Major Champain, Mr. L. Clark, Mr. G. Preece, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Aspivall, Mr. W. P. Johnston, Mr. Preston,' Mr. Hickson, Mr. W. 0. Lauder, Mr. Collarks. The island of Shadwan is situate on the south side of the entrance to the Red Sea from the Gulf of Suez. It is of some extent, with high land in the centre, and is about 10 or 12 miles from the main land coast of Egypt. Whether the Carnatic was driven to it by stress of weather or got ashore in a fog is yet to be learnt, but it appears most remark able that after clearing all the reef shoals and in• tricate navigation down the Gulf,and an unfathom able sea entered, she should have struck on the island in question, probably going at full speed at the time, making 11 knots an hour. It is generally believed that after striking she filled and then glided off the reef and foundered in deep water. The Carnatic was built in 1862. The Board of Trade returns of British steamers represent her as 1,254 tons register, with engines of 400-horse power. Her extreme length was 294 ft. ; breadth of deck, 28ft. Tin. ; and depth of hold 17ft. Gin. Her crew, with officers, engineers, and waiters, numbered about 80 hands. The fate of those of the passengers and crew mining is doubtful; it is surmised they went in the ship, or were swamped in a boat as the vessel foundered. The company do not insure their steamers, they set aside a reserve fund to meet their losses. Both cargo aad specie were fully insured at Lloyd's and at Liverpool. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MONMOUTHSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Newport on Wednesday—Lord Tredegar in the chair. The report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN having moved that the report and statement of accounts for the half-year be a(lopted, Mr. W. S. CARTWRIGHT moved an amendment negativing the adoption of the report, and said he should move that a dividend of 41 per cent., instead of 4 per cent., as recommended by the directors, be declared. lie explaimed the circumstances which had led up to his present action, and said if he did not succeed on the present occasion be should agitate the question among the shareholders until his purpose was accomplished. Mr. C. BAILEY seconded the amendment. A resolution declaring a dividend of 5 per cent. on the perpetual stock was then moved by the CHAIRMAN, and carried. The CHAthmANlthen moved a resolution declaring a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock of the company. Mr. CARTWRIGHT moved an amendment, substitu ting 4/ per cent, for 4 per cent., which was seconded by Mr. CRAWSHAY BAILEY. On a division the amendment was lost by 21 to 19, and a poll was demanded and taken at once, when the decision was reversed and the amendment was carried. HAVANNAH AND MATANZAS. A meeting of bondholders in this company was held at the London Tavern yesterday, Baron Schroder in the chair, for the purpose of receiving a report from the committee of bondholders ap pointed at a meeting held on the 28th of July last, to adopt such measures as might be deemed ad visable to protect the interests of the bondholders. Mr. SMITH read the report of the committee, which stated that they had been furnished with all the documents in the possession of Messrs. Schroder and Co., but they found it was impossible to ascer tain the exact position of the bondholders without sending an agent to the Havannah. They had therefore entered into an engagement with Mr. W. E. Underdown, a barrister, well acquainted with Spanish questions and the Spanish Loan, to proceed to the Havannah and to take such measures as he might think desirable in the interests of the bond holders. The expenses of the mission it was pro posed to defray by a payment from each bondholder of I.s. in the pound from the two first half-yearly divi dends paid, and in the meantime Messrs. Schroder had agreed to advance the necessary funds. The CHAIRMAN said he fully agreed with the re commendation of the committee to send an agent to the llavannah, and believed they could not have selected a man more fitting for the task than Mr. Underdown. He moved that the report be received, and its recommendations at once carried out. After some questions had been asked and replied to by Mr. Smith, as to the powers to be vested in the agent and the probable expense, the reso lution was unanimously agreed to, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the business of the meeting. TENTICIZY AND BEIVDLEY. The report of the directors of this company stated that the agreement with the Great Western Rail way Company for the transfer of the undertaking to that company had since the last meeting been confirmed by the passing of the Great Western Railway Act, 1869, and that the transfer would be made in February, 1870. The half-year's rent charge, due on August 13, from the Great Western Company had been receivel, and a dividend of £3 58. per cent. per annum would be paid to the share holders ou the Ist of October. ' DEMERARA. The traffic receipts of this company's line for the fortnight ending Aug. 1 amounted to 0,471, and for the corresponding fortnight of 1868 to 0,396 showing a decrease of $925. THE CHINESE IN THE UNITED STATES. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Choy-Chew, the Chinese merchant, has been in terviewed, with the following results :—He thinks there is not the slightest necessity for any effort to increase the tide of emigration. The people all along the seaboard of China have heard of California, and will come over. it is a peculiarity of the Chinese people that they go altogether according to first reports. Gold brought them to California, and all the hard treatment they have since received in that State has not been able to deter others from follow ing, though the reports of the present condition of the Chinese in California are freely spread among them. On the other hand, if the first news they receive from a place is unfavourable, no subsequent invitations can induce them to go there. The first treatment will decide, as regards the South, whether their labour can be made available. He dislikes the plan, as there is abundant employment in the Pacific States for all, and something analogous to negro slavery may be established over the Chinese by the Southerners ; nor does he wish his country men to be brought into competition with the negro. Soon. the Chinese will naturally overflow into Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, and Montana, and will make of those places a garden. He thinks that the mixing with Americans and then re turning, as the Chinese all hope to do, to their native country, will have the very best effect on China, and will fill that land with the energy and progressive spirit which distinguish Americans, whom he exonerates from the charge of cruelty, although attributing to them a legalized injustice towards the Chinese. He drew a very pleasant picture of what would occur if the Chinese came to stay, and grew up without being weighed down by the in fluence of many centuries of tradition. He thought the Chinese would be among the most orderly and industrious of citizens, and that they would by-and by come to take an interest in politics, and perhaps one of tham would become President. The return ing stream of emigration he believes will always prevent the Chinese in America from reaching an excessive figure. He was very severe on the dema gogues who are trying to make political capital out of the prejudice against the Chinese. The 30,000 who have been landed in Peru are anything but happy, and have petitioned the Government of the United States for protection. The action of the Government of Peru is singularly shortsighted, and the end will be that while North America secures abundant labour from China, not a cooly, unless he be kidnapped, will ever land in South America. A San Francisco correspondent of the St. Louis De mocrat defends the Chinese against the charge of immoralities so frequently brought against them. He says they are extremely charitable and liberal, honest especially in small things, temperate and peaceable, and that as residents they will compare very favourably with any other class as quiet, peaceable, inoffensive men. THE CHINA QUESTION. The correspondent of the Times at Shanghai writes under date July 15, in support of the views taken of Mr. Burlingame's mission by &Ir. J. Ross Browne, his successor at Peking as United States Minister, whose letter, not a speech, has now been published in this country. The President, disapproving the tone of Mr. Browne's despatches expressive of his views about the opposition of the people of China to progress and on the subject of the mission gene rally, in which General Grant did not coincide, re called him, and this is said exactly to illustrate the difference of opinion on this question which exists between all foreigners in China and their respective Governments at home. Mr. Burlingame, is repre sented as having indoctrinated Western Govern ments with the grave fallacies that the Chinese Go vernment desires progress, and that it is able and willing to coerce its provincial subordinates into honourable and just conduct towards foreignera. The correspondent, with most other men who have followed Mr. Burliugame's career, believes that no one is more astounded at the ready acceptance of his views than himself, as he did not contemplate producing one- tenth the impression, nor ever dreamt of securing one-tenth part of the logi cal consequences of the new policy. Justice to the Government is, in the correspondent's view, injus tice to the people, for no greater mistake, he thinks, can be made than to suppose their wishes and interests to be identical, as they are often even divergent and antagonistic. The people are, on the whole, inclined to progress ; but, in the words of the correspondent, " our enemies—or opponents, if the former would be too strong—are the officials and literati. Conscious of their own weakness and venality, they dread beyond everything the flood of light that accompanies foreign ingress, and the da maging comparison of their own with foreign insti tutions." Whatsurprises the "foreign communities" is the success of Mr. Burlingame's mission, although this might, if they were less prejudiced, be easily seen, as he advocates broad and well-defined principles of equity and international law. But when the cor respondent assumes that his whole path has been one of triumph, he shows an ignorance of the history of the mission in Europe. Instead, it encountered in England an open hostility ; it was met by the shafts of ridicule, misrepresentation, and jealousy, increased by the fact of Mr. Burlingame's na tionality and the reception accorded the mission in the United States. It is not a little singular to find one writer upholding the views of the correspondent by sneering at a ridiculous pageantry, received by the Western monarchs with amusement, beyond which the parade was never allowed to go. Nor is the contradiction less between the late telegram and this : "The success of their mission has surprised as much as it has delighted the Peking Cabinet. It has elated them from a condition of passive to ono of active objectivity." What, then, was the meaning of the message announcing the definite rejection of the convention with the United States, and the leading articles all grounded on it, showing this sad proof of Chinese perversity and dislike to progress ? When the reverse is found to be the case, and the Peking Government expresses delight, these clever manipulators, instead of being in the least abashed, by a dexterous twist reverse the heading, leaving the article to stand. Whether the Emperor's Go vernment goes backwards or goes forwards, to the right or to the left, these movements to them dis play the same vicious tendencies, and no instance could better illustrate the difficulties of that Go vernment than the fact that the rejection of Mr. Burlingame's work or its acceptance with delight implies the same desire to check progress. People should bear in mind in discussing the policy of a foreign Government that it is a foreign Govern ment, a fact singularly overlooked in all discussions about China. No one objects to correspondents expressing opinions as to what the policy ought to be; and if the Times can impress Prince Kung by a letter or an article, telling him what he ought to do, good might result. But - what we object to is a combination of the Powers, or, worse still, the Action of a single Power to enforce on the Govern ment of Peking the policy considered best by its " foreign community" of Shanghai. Au American prescribing a policy for Great Britain would sever the Union with Ireland, the connection between Church and State, and legislate to break up the great estates, which some assert to be inseparably connected with a debased peasantry. The corres pondent dictating to Claim would open depopulated tracks to immigration, invade them by the railroad, the steamer, and the telegraph, break up the sys• tetn by which the mandarins command reined and obedience, and perhaps thereby benefit the Chinese Empire as the American might the British. But those on whom he would operate may prefer being left alone, considering such experiments dangerous, and disliking them to be tried at their risk. Such nterference suggests to them first the question What business is it of yours ? Second, If any lA' siness of yours, is it in their interest you inter• pose, or your own ? Why the foreign communities desire the introduction of railroads and steamers is that they may push their trade. Why the Man darins object is that they think these would under mine. their authority. Naturally the two come into collision, both working on selfish grounds, but the foreigner is the interloper and the Mandarin the man in possession. While we would desire to sue the railroads and other modern improvements intro duced into China and a better system of Govern' went, we feel the difficulty of moving a mass so enormous as is that nation as well as the danger and injustice of undue interference. Mr. Burlingame '3 mission is a very advanced step, and is not unlikely to be followed by some reaction : but we assert that it is a step in progress, notwithstanding the (vial°, of Mr. Ross Browne, who is so c om pl e t e ly i n accord with the correspondent of the Times, which mean s with the foreign community of Shanghai ; nor is tb e reason difficult to discover. Mr. Ross Browne is 3 Californian of Andrew Johnson's selection, Nvi' ° went to China imbued with all the prejudices of the Pacific slope. What these are may 0° gathered from the legislation of California re" garding the Chinese, who are looked on as jo r moral, deceitful, and despicable liars, at least hi a portion of the community strong enough to frail°, such enactments. To send such a man t o the COu r : of Peking in the face of such a mission as that 01 Mr. Burlingame was like sending a Southern plante r in the days of slavery to the coast of Africa t ° negotiate with African potentates the suppressi oll of the slave trade. A man who argued that the Almighty had created negroes for the express pt 9: pose of being the hereditary servants of his race, not likely to enter heartily into a human deslg l ; having for its object the count erac ti on o f a Piv i , ji e decree coinciding entirely with hi s i n t eres ts. I ' h d , correspondent, in quoting California and Mr. s e ; Browne in support of his views, might as well quote a Southerner in support of negro slavery ; bu o , l : Browne is a clever, intelligent fellow,well able to oe fend his views by speech or pen. His Sha n ghai lettetat was that of a recalled Minister ; nor that only, b e one recalled for holding these opinions. Ile l3et , both the bitterness of his denunciation and his 1n 1 ; reserved remarks. We understand he is prepar i % a magazine article in support of his v i ew s. N° l. ar we so wedded to the opinions we express as iloteato be open to the conviction that the policy die t l. ci by equity and international law is not the F° J . j ej , for China, while we contend it is a policy W ill A tbe ought to fail oft before any other is tried, au— do oftener it does fail the higher is the credit of t Great Powers, for a long-suffe r in g endurance 9tig hiot to be the first quality of strong nations who l us rsd upon pushing themselves into trading i n teree ti with their weake r an d l ess c i v ili ze d fellow -oe r a, Our former surmise was correct, that Mr. n0w 3 . 0 , 1 the, brother of Senator Ho war d, w h ose nominattibe to the Chinese Mission had been confirmed bi,, of Senate, had definitely declined the appointmol ti t Mr. Browne would ere this have been relieved , as , he has arrived at San Francisco on his return aware that his post would remain vacant. LIST FOR, THE USE OF VISITORS f 0 THE METROPOLIS. MUSEUMS. i i Antiquarian—Somerset House. 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The dyspeptic, by taking t ote Pills, will substitute ease for pain, and once lo t . d vigour in the wasting body. vs tp t of t oo Du BARRY'S Delicious Health Restoring ~„,es,to,,, Arabic& Food, which contains three timos the pools!' r. best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other reinedigilif:o4;• perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, Ile_t'''o (4; o r freshing sleep, functional regularity, and -ndig Os , 00 enfeebled, removing speedily and effectually 1 1 4, energy ode' r i pepsia), habitual constipation, diarrhoea, hom e ' feVe.,'"j 1;0 , complaints, flatulency, nervousness, billousnest„cl e_' o,dl' throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysterirPoormicoi"oo, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heaand ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea', c0 0 0 `,7 0 0 1 , 0 0' sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, incipien", ,! o ce'rlo; scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit o ', o,oe,;re between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few out % ,• —The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's r,f, (: , 107 ( itel,i, 68,413. 'Rome, July 21, 1865. —The health of r r ess Aro Dt' is excellent, especially since, abandoning all oth c e sit t it! 11, has confined himself entirely to plate arry's eel taco it/V i d , Food, of which he consumes a pul at ve, produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on ins u i g 9l3:, t y 9,0 01 Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too„ of r 00 fr oc 1 / 1 the Gazette du Midi, July 25. Cure No. 9,83 2, ..„,000 , indescribable agony :roffi dyspepsia, nerco"'..otivklo4e cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sicknelivois•vietitoo i and vomiting. Maria Jolly. Wortham, Ling , 1 0 ,zi14 pd iti Cure No. 47,121: Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of ce 10, Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme nervousne r /sP e 100 topP., gatherings, low spirits. and nervous fancies. Imp U,O s 0 ; —Beware of the many unsavoury and more ' c ani 00 0 tions to which, without authority, Baron Lie big 0 1 1) 0 %,1 1 e 1 audaciously attached Ibs 11°; 0 11( 11• 11 0 0 In tins, at is ;Ilb 2s 9d; 21bs Is 6d; , t oiel" fo r o t o t 21 lbs 40s.—Also Dir BARRY'S REVALENTA aa po oe, POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 sup s 57 6 . 0 576.0-oie at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s , A 5 50 ti 0 0/ —being about one penny per cup. The 30s ~'a tO ftle „ joo' free of carriage in England on receipt of r° _ t BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-stns all Grocers and Chemists . -..._...._% We4l' BIRTHS. of 0 0 ' HA in wK ins 9 t iTOn the 15th inst, at Victoriailt.r o f it ° I ill' 1 the wife of Charles Hawksley, (i. ' „ r ife ° LANGTON—On the 13th inst., at Southgate, the , Langton, Esq., of a daughter. be rtil iIARRIAGES. . She rv 16 LANE —Du BOULAY—On the 15th inst , at St° e/ ' f t b o 9'l po u r s sotshire, Lieut.-Colonel Powle:tt Lane , ° aid H 'sars, to Bertha d'Albiac, Wilt Or 1 0' Boulay, Esq., of Donhead Hall, shire. dev -1 to PRICE—GAIRDNER—On the 16th inst., at eg ri1 .. ,,, 3 gt ° 1 . 11 ;0 41 Charles Price, of 22, Bedford garclong, ICef-arl‘' Eliza, eldest daughter of G. M. Gairdner, of Haverstock-hill. 0 1 • DEA TB S. 9 , 4 4 ..., ..,,itilA I IlAwims— On the 15th inst., Robirt A. tta'• 4 00 Lincoln's-inn, barrister-at-law, aged 55. . i . ~,,.00 ' y 1101tSFORD —On the 13th inst., at Clifton, •00" or, Richard Horsford, aged 67 Y et er RootT—On the 12th inst., at West Melva°, Roget, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., aged 91. f;" T ,,g I* l/9- str ,l' London: Printed and Published by WILL.—„, il: ! , o f l of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN a ce ' - iiia ,lie in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the COuuty a Friday, September 17, 1809.