The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-03 00:00:00

Bnityr nP THE PUBLIn loninTAT,R, The Times considers that Mr. Goschen, in his recent minute, recognised the principle that, with certain excep tions, none but the actually destitute are entitled to poor law relief. This principle naturally suggested what ought to .be the cardinal point of distinction between official and private agencies for the relief of the poor—the particular ground which each may take as peculiarly its own, so as to avoid, as far as possible, trespassing upon that of the other. The official agent was to take in hand all cases of persons actually destitute; the private agent all cases of persons requiring only partial help to supplement their own exertions. The scheme proposed for inter communication and exchange of lists would, it is obvious, greatly facilitate this division of charitable labour. If an applicant for relief, able to earn a little, but not enough to live on, came to the Poor-law authorities, they could at once send him on to the private agencies. On the other hand, an applicant absolutely helpless could be sent on from the private agencies to the Poor-law authorities. Mr. Goschen was, of course, not so sanguine as to imagine that this broad line of demarcation, so simple in theory, could be strictly observed in practice. But if the present state of pauperism is to ccntinue until a scheme is suggested for its suppression which °fliers no difficulties, the country is indeed in a bad way. But still the difficulties in the way of Mr. Goschen's plan—and it is most important to note this—are not new difficulties, called into existence by the plan itself, and to be avoided by its rejection. They are already familiar and well understood as inseparable from the present theory of Poor Law administration. Granted that it is, as the Holborn Guardians declare, im possible to adhere rigidly to this theory ; Mr. Gcschen's scheme may not remove the impossibility, but it certainly does not increase it. On the contrary, it tends to diminish it. Granted that the guardians are now compelled by the logic of facts to give relief where the letter of the law does not entitle them to give it ; the compulsion may still exist even when they have a private agency, without the restrictions which bind themselves, co-operating with them by means of published lists, but surely it is in no wise increased. Yet such co-operation is essentially the one novel, practical feature in Mr. Goschen's scheme. The Telegraph remarks that the question which must be decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, is not whether Mr. Voysey's teaching is true, but whether he has broken the law—whether he has violated the con ditions under which he was appointed to an incumbency in the Church of England. It is a plain, business-like inquiry, which must be conducted with judicial impar tiality. On becoming a clergyman of that Church, Mr. Voysey solemnly promised that he would conform to certain doctrines and usages. He made as distinct as engagement with the State as the manager of a bank makes with its proprietors or directors. He solemnly declared that he would do certain things, and not do certain others. Has he kept his word ? Has he, or has he not, broken the law ? That question, and that alone, the Judicial Committee must answer. No one expects that the clergy of the Esta blished Church will absolutely agree with each other on every point; and, indeed, the Church gains from that catholicity which permits theologians of so different shades as Dr. Tait and Dr. Wilberforce, Dr. Temple and Dr. Pusey, to be fellow workers. But in Mr. Voysey's case, the ques tion is, whether he has denied vital doctrines, and thus has committed a breach of trust. The reverend gentle man is fully aware of that fact, and, in his singularly able defence, he repeatedly declares that he has no wish to remain in the English Church fora single day if the autho ”ised tribunal pronounces him to be,guilty of teaching incon sistent with the Articles. Such is the issue, and the - lecision will be for ever memorable in the history of the English Church. The Standard thinks that by slow and painful degrees the Ministerial organs have brought themselves to accept as inevitable that last confession of Mr. Gladstone's failure, the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. They have struggled long and earnestly to reconcile the increasing growth of treason and disloyalty in Ireland with the assurance that "the act of justice" was accomplishing its mission of peace and conciliation. They have been con '.onted day by day with the evidence which shews that sedition and disaffection have become more audacious and wide-spread from the date of Mr. Gladstone's accession to sffice. It must be admitted of Liberal journalists that, like the conspirators in The Critic, when once they are agreed their unanimity is wonderful. Having been heartily of opinion for months past that the state of Ire 'and is tolerably satisfactory, and certainly offers no ground `or alarm, they all begin with one accord to protest that the present condition of things is no longer endurable, and that the safety of the island will be imperilled unless the +-lee r=omnt and severe measures for the re pression of disloyalty. Mr. Gladstone has had his way. The Legislature has given to his policy the force of law, and what is the result? Exactly what the Conservative ?arty predicted. It has not pacified the country, but has brought about a state of things infinitely worse than that so which it was applied as an infallible remedy. The ' act of justice " has been followed by new and more vio tent demonstrations of disloyalty; "the message of peace" has aroused a louder shout of treasonous defiance, and if we are to believe Mr. Gladstone's organs, the crowning evidence of his disastrous failure is to be witnessed in a anal resort to the suspensicn cf the Habeas Corpus Act! Surely this desperate resort to a measure which he himself has described as only less deplorable than civil war, is the very catastrophe of Liberal statesmanship. The Daily Yews observes that the earnest men who have been conducting the late twelve (lays' Mission are not the snly persons who believe that for the Church of England the question of the ministry is the great question of the time. At the other pole of its theological and ecclesias tical unity Evangelical earnestness is theoretically arriving at exactly the conclusion which has been practically sot forth by Ritualistic zeal. The Rev. J. C. Ryle, in a letter to the Record on the ministerial office in the English Church, expresses just the same mistrust of the dull routine of the parochial system which has been practically exhi bited by Mr. Benson and Mr. Body in their Mission. Mr. Ryle, like all earnest men, believes in preaching, There never was a time," he says, and says with as much truth as force, " since the beginning of the world when powerful speaking of any kind had more influence than it has now." Mr. Ryle's advice to the Church consequently 's —Reform your preaching, and modernise all the arrange ments which belong to it. Woe is the Church which preaches not. In imitation, aerhaps, of the preaching srders by which the Roman Church so successfully utilises the zeal and the eloquence of her clergy, Mr. Ryle suggests the establishment of an order of Evangelists, " selected on account of their possessing peculiar powers of preaching." Mr. Ryle thinks that such preachers would not only rouse the people, but rouse the priests. They would make the clergy more zealous, and would elevate the whole preaching tone of the Church. Here again Mr. Ryle and Mr. Body are one, for Mr. Ryle urges all the clergy to do somewhat as the preachers in the twelve days Mission have done—" give attention to exhortation," What is wanted is, in fact, not fewer sermons, but more sermons and better sermons—the orator instead of the essayist, the preacher instead of the reader, fiery Boanerges and eloquent Apollos instead of the mere scholar and gentleman. Doubling our pauperism, says the Herald—within about the same time that we have, perhaps, nearly doubled our material wealth—statesmanship is puzzled by a paradox that has no parallel in any precedent history; and the wonder is not the less humiliating because found to be the concurrent paradox of nearly every great European State. We are all found at fault. We have been missing the chief of our improvements. Our civilisation is asked for a secret it has not yet given us. The greatest of our social reforms has yet to be waited for. We have the key to wealth, but not to its use, We can pronounce no " Open, Sesame," to so great a cavern containing so many resources. have not only no power of keeping down the growth of pauperism, but seem to be losing the art of managing whatever we have of it. Like a fevered patient in despair we turn in all forms, and towards all quarters, in vain search of relief. The great administrative innovation— centralisation —which helped to stave off the misfortune for a time, appears now to be succumbing to the influences it once dominated, and to be every year more leaving us where it found us. Do we need a better proof than the St. Pancras institution living for months under the eyes of Mr. Goschen, and apparently of all his staff, and being —not the less, but all the more—what we hear of it? We are not obliged to suppose that we owe this last and most humbling of our exemplifications of a great social anomaly to any corresponding pauperism or intellect. In all things medical, rarticularly, there is everywhere, we are told, a superabundance of skill under easy terms of ra3-ment. What we cannot command 's the attendAnce. We cannot shut out negligence and - We c:lnivit ty when it is a questicn of the sick sccuze dili,'ence and fair ilealin7 when it a question c i nts :era daily le wining in the paul.cr infirmarLs what must of US, perhaps, have been learning everywhere else fur some time past—that the nippiest means perish in our hands unless made twice b:ess e d under the influences cf a heaven-taught mercy. tz is the pauperism of principle that really makes our (IV:lenity, and we have not yet reached the secret 1 y which its influence on a nation's greancs::, much less ( n the happiness of our indigent sick, can be substituted I,v inhun! .:dig; t. 0 lir awithin,r; else, A POLICEMAN NOTION OF RESPECTABILITY. — In a case heard at the Liverpool Police-court last week, Mr. Sharpies, the magistrate, asked : What is the defen dant—a respectable man ? Officer : No, sir; he is a labourim: man. POACHING AFFRAY IN WINDSOR PARA'. •rwo of her Majesty's keepers, Foy and Higgs, who had been on duty during Sunday night, heard the report of a gun about five o'clock on Monday morning in one of the Royal preserves at Virginia Water. On cautiously pro ceeding to the spot, they saw four men, two of them with guns, one of whom had just shot a pheasant. On seeing the keepers the poachers ran away ; but Higgs soon overtook one, and knocked him down ; the poacher got up, and a desperate fight ensued, and he was knocked down again, but whilst the keeper was searching him he heard the cry of " Murder " from Foy, his fellow keeper, and ran to his assistance, leaving the captured man on the ground, when, just as he arrived, he saw one of the poachers deliberately shoot at Foy, but fortunately missing him, a desperate fight followed between three of the poachers and the two keepers, which resulted in the keepers being overpowered, and left on the ground for dead, After some time they partially recovered their senses, and managed to get home. Dr. Brown, from Egham, on attending them, found they were suffering from dangerous wounds they had sustained in the conflict, on the head, body, and arms. Intelligence of the affray was conveyed to the Berks police, who lost no time in making it known to the police at Egham, and they soon got on the track of three of the poachers, whom they afterwards captured. One of them was identified by Foy as the man who shot at him. Super intendent Davis, of the Windsor borough police with the county Inspector Mansell, and the Egham inspector, on searching the place of encounter,found a gun, a gun-barrel, a stock of a gun, and four caps. All the poachers are resi dents of Egham, and they will be brought before the Surrey magistrates as soon as the injured keepers are suffi ciently recovered to attend. The keeper Foy is lying in a very dangerous state. The other poacher who got away is well known to the police, and can be identified by the keeper who left him on the ground. LAW AND POLICE. BARNED'S BANKING COMPANY.—In the Court of Chan cery an application has been made by Messrs. Coupland Brothers, merchants, of London, Liverpool, and Bombay, to have their proof against the e3tate of Barned's Banking Company, which had been admitted for the sum of £17,760 increased by the sum of £39,035. The application had been refused by the Master of the Rolls. The case turned upon a transaction with 1,000 bales of cotton paid for by bills of exchange, the Banking Company having stopped payment before the bills matured. The company had given the letter of credit against which the bills were to be drawn; but as the bills, when presented for acce tance, were to be accompanied by bills of lading of the cotton, Lord Justice Giffard held that the company were only liable for the difference between the amount of the bills and the proceeds of the cotton, and the appeal must be refused, with costs. A FALLING BRICK.—In the Bail Court a labouring man brought an action for compensation for injuries received by the falling of a brick on his shoulder from the Rotherhithe arch of tile Brighton Railway. His shoulder was dislo cated, and he was ten weeks out of employment. Damages, £35. BREACH Os' PROUISFory unromantic action for breach of promise was brought in the Court of Exchequer,by a lady, named Gale, against Mr. Richardson, a surveyor. The plaintiff, in 18(32, being then 2 , 1 years of age, formed an engagement with the defendant, who was then 13. In the course of last year the defendant showed an inclination to break off the engagement. When the plaintiff complained Lf his conduct, he said he didn't see why he should marry the plaintiff without money when he could marry somebody else who would keep him for life. The defendant, it ap peared, was engaged to be married to a Miss Harriscn at that time, and whom he has since married. Upon the final interview between the plaintiff and defendant, the plaintiff said if he did not marry her she would " breach " him, to which he replied, if she did, he would go through the Court of Bankruptcy. The defendant's counsel said he could not resist a verdict, but the case was not one where large damages ought to be given. Damages £5OO. THE WESTERN COUNTIES MANURE COSITANT.—An action has been brought, in the Court of Common Pleas, by the Western Counties and General Manure Company, to recover £4BO due upon a guarantee. The plaintiffs carried on business as manure manufacturers at Tor point, near Devonport, and the defendant was an innkeeper in Cornwall. The defendant's son was one of their agents, and the defendant gave a guarantee for £5OO for the manure supplied to him. The defence was that the defendant did not know the state of his son's affairs when he signed the guarantee ; in particular, that he was not informed that his son was then indebted to the plaintiffs in upwards of £5OO. A further plea was that the plaintiff could not read writing, and did not know what he had signed. Sufficient time not having been given to the debtor to pay £l3B, Lord Chief Justice Bovill held that the plaintiffs could not recover that amount upon the guarantee, but that the fact did not vitiate their claim ur on the remainder. Verdict for the plaintiffs for D-12, execution Icing stayed so that the full court might be moved upon some points of law. A. JUDGE ON DRUNKENNESS.—At the opening of the Winter Assizes fcr the Home Circuit, Mr. Baron Pigott, in charging the jury, remarked upon the number of crimes of violence which resulted from immoderate thinking in public-houses and beershops. It appeared to. him that if the habit of excessive drinking could be got rid of nearly all the cases that came under his observation might be scratched out. It was remarkable that with few excep tions these cases occurred on Saturday nights, and in every case in the present calendar the parties accused came out of a beershop or public-house. He exhorted the grand jury and all others present to set their faces against this excessive drinking, for it was too much the habit to look on it with toleration. SUNDAY REFRESHMENTS AT RAILWAY STATIONS. - Mr. Joshua Williams, of the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, has been suu m3ned for keeping open the refreshment-room for the sale of liquors during prohibited hours. The defence was that the place was kept open on Sunday simply for the supply of railway travellers. The magi strate said applicants should be asked whether they were travellers. It was contended that this was impracticable, but the magistrate said this offence must be put a stop to, and the defendant would have no excuse if he offended 'titer this warning. A WISE EXCHANGE.—Two Irishman caught in a storm, took refuge under a tree. One was well-dressed, the other had on an old suit. The well-dressed Milesian said to his comrade, " Mickey, let us change coats. Mine is a bran new one, and I don't want to be harmed by the rain. Yours is a poor one, and the rain can't hurt it." The exchange was soon effected. LORD RECTORSHIP OF ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY. —lt is now almost certain that there will be a contest for the Lord Rectorship of Aberdeen University. Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., has consented to stand; and Sir Wil liam Stirling Maxwell is also a candidate for the acade mical honour. Great excitement prevails in anticipation of the contest, which will take place on the 24th inst. A CURE THROUGH FRIGHT.—Some amusing cases might be related of the wonderful manner in which illness is cured by violent emotion, especially gout. Thus the poet Southey tells the case of a Mr. Bradford. "No persuasions could have induced him to put his feet to the ground or to believe it possible that he could walk. He was sitting with his legs up, in the full costume of that respectable and orthodox disease, when the ceiling, being somewhat old, part of it give way, and down came a fine nest of rats, old and young together, plump upon him. He had what is called an antipathy to these creatures, and forgetting the gout in the horror which their visitation excited, sprang from his easy chair and fairly ran down stairs."—" The Romance of Medicine," in London Society. LIBER A TING A SLAVE. The An glo-Brazilian Times records a curious circumstance as happening at Rio de Janeiro, on October 13, during a sale of Manchester goods at the warehouse of Messrs. William Moon and Co., of Liverpool. It appears that a slave was taken to the warehouse for sale, and that, on an appeal being made to the generosity of the dealers present, he was bought by the dealers there, and set at liberty—a subscription large enough having been collected in the room. It is not stated whose property the slave was ; but it shews the state of slavery in Brazil, when a slave is sometimes sold, even in an English warehouse, among " other " articles of mer chandise.-3Thnehester Examiner. rim. KING OF THE BELGIANS AND THE LORD Yort.—On Thursday the Lord Mayor received the fol lowing cominunieltion frcm the Belgian Minister at the C,.urt of ht. James's, in reference to the recent visit of the King of the Belgians to this country, and expressive of his Majesty's gratitude for the cordial reception accorded to him on the occasion:—"My Lcrd Mayor,—My august cveieign, the King cf the Bel:jai:3, when quitting tlw hospitable shores of Encland,most i. , articularly desired Inc to express to you once more, lord, and through you to all thoec who contributed to the grand national demonstration of which he had been the object, how deeply he has been touched by, and how grateful he is fox it. His Majesty will preserve the most affectionate recol lection of the proofs of sympathy and interest which have been so prodiga:ly displayed to him, and of which you, my lord, and the municiral authorities of the other parts of the United Kingdom, have been such excellent inter preters. I have great pleasure in at once performing this agreeable duty, and in taking advantage of the opportunity which it affords me of expressing my sense of gratitude for the terms of esteem and affection with which you spoke of my dear country.—l have the honour to remain, &c.. Baron 13EavLIEV. London. Nov. N." filE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1869, METROPOLITAN GOSSIP—Dee. 2. Lord Malmesbury's letter to the Daily Telegraph clears up a point of history, but gives no indication with respect to a very interesting matter of future politics. The Earl declares that he was not deposed from the Conservative leadership, that he voluntarily retired from it as soon as Lord Derby ceased to take an active part in politics. In other words, Lord Malmesbury is so modest that, while he was willing to be leader in name so long as Lord Derby was' leader in fact, he would not venture to undertake the real responsibility of heading his party in the Upper House. There can be little doubt that the Conservatives generally have the same estimate of Lord Malmesbury's qualifications that he has, and it is pleasant to find them agreed upon so impor tant a matter. But who will be leader hereafter, now that Lord Malmesbury's successor has resigned ? The Con servative papers have not yet made up their mind and I presume the matter is not yet settled by those who have the deciding of it. The selection is generally supposed tobe confined to two noblemen. Lord Derby and Lord Salisbury are thought to be the only possible leaders, although the Duke of Abercorn and Lord Car narvon have been spoken of. Without claiming any 'special knowledge on the matter, I incline to think that the first will be chosen. Last year it might have been otherwise, for Lord Stanley differed from his party upon the Irish Church, and took no part in the debates. But that matter having been disposed of, and he being en rapport with the Conservatives on the Land question, there will be no obstacle to his promotion. On the other hand, Lord Salis bury has by his article in the last number of the Quarterly Review deeply offended his party. He has made one long indictment against the whole of their policy for the last four years, and his terribly severe satire against Mr. Disraeli is none the less severe that the object of it was not once mentioned by name. It seems impossible that two men so utterly opposed upon the first principles of political conduct, upon the raison de'tre of Conservatism, can pull together. It is quite true, as has been urged, that the Lord Robert Cecil of 1861 was very sarcastic upon Mr. Disraeli before, and lashed him vigorously in the pages of the short lived but brilliant Bentley's Quarterly, and in his lordship's brother-in-law's paper, the Saturday Review, and that nevertheless the two joined Lord Derby's Ministry in 1866. But this is just one of those exceptions which prove the rule. The two found co-operation impossible directly they came to practical legislation, and the Lord Cranborne of 1867 seceded from the Ministry rather than work with Mr. Disraeli, seven months from the time that the Ministry was formed. It was the one case in which the experiment of co-operation was tried, and it failed. Since then the Lord Salis bury of 1863 and 1369 has again and again denounced Mr. Disraeli's policy, and a recon ciliation is out of the question. As a matter of fact, I believe, Lord Salisbury himself does not contemplate succeeding Lord Cairns. Both noblemen are now engaged upon the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway arbitration. It is nearly concluded, and when it is over I understand the Marquis will leave England for some time. In that case there can be little doubt that Lord Derby will be appointed to the responsible office now vacant. If so he will prove as great a contrast as is possible to the brilliant but rash namesake, who so long led and so often unintentionally damaged, the party. The Conservative leadership is not the most important question of the day ; though I have placed it first. The real problem is the condition of Ireland. I mentioned some weeks ago that Fenianism was by no means so nearly set at rest as some persons supposed, and a very short time has sufficed to prove my assertion. The revival of the old treasonable spirit in its worst and most outrageous form has now brought Government face to face with a most serious responsibility. The popular indignation against Ireland is fast rising, and will soon become dangerous. Englishmen know that they have per formed one act of justice, and that they are willing to do as many more as may be necessary. Yet they find no gratitude, but are told that all they do is done from fear. The temptation to prove the odious charge false is very strong with a people so brave as the English, and will have to be very jealously watched. Meanwhile public opinion is becoming decisive on one point, and that is that Government must show a great deal more energy than it has shewn if it means to preserve order in Ireland. Tenniel's cartoon in yesterday's Punch, and the first leader in to-day's Times are clear indications of the popular will. It may easily be conceived that Mr. Gladstone is very reluctant to resort to extreme measures, still more that Mr. Bright is. Any one can rule with Habeas Corpus suspended, has been the motto which they have adopted from Cavour's last words. They had hoped that the day was gone by when such measures would be necessary, and that the reforms which they had determined to carry out would meet all reasonable aoraanda. No doubt these have produced a satisfactory result, but the worst of it is that there are certain men in Ireland whose trade is agitation, and who become more violent in proportion as they see their day is passing. These men the Govern ment must put down ; it is due to Ministers themselves, it is due to she loyal Irish, both Protestant and Catholic, that this should be done. Of course it will be a great nuisance to summon Parliament together for a Christmas session ; but that this will have to be done almost everyone believes, and the article in the Daily Telegraph of Tuesday, and that in the Time. 3 of to-day, were no doubt intended to prepare the way. The Archbishop is better, I am glad to say, but I greatly fear that the journalists who speak hopefully of his entire recovery are over sanguine. The Archbishop has been suffering from epilepsy and paralysis, a very serious com bination, and although the attacks have not been renewed within the last few days his left side is still paralysed. Everyone will regret it if he should feel obliged to vacate his see, and there is no doubt that so conscientious a man will so feel should he be unable to discharge his official duties. In that case he would probably be succeeded by Dr. Wil berforce. I may mention that this prelate owes his present preferment to the express wish of the Queen, and that Mr. Gladstone informed him of this on offering him the bishopric of Winchester. Tho appointment was somewhat of an experiment, made with some little doubt as to its success ; but as no one has had a word to say against it, the Queen would not hesitate 1 to promote Bishop Wilberforce still higher. Something has been said about Bishop Jacobson succeeding Arch bishop Tait ; but this is not probable. The Queen does not approve of the translation of recent Bishops to the highest posts in the Church. The rapid preferment of Archbishop Thomson may seem to be a proof to the con trary, but that incident brought about a rather serious dis agreement between the Queen and Lord Palmerston. With reference to another Bishop, Dr. Moberly, I may mention that old Wykehamists are about to present their former Head Master with a pastoral ring, and that he caused some little offence to his clergy by omitting to speak to those of them who were assembled in Salisbury chapter-house on the occasion of his installation. The idea of a Cornish bishopric has not been abandoned by the Cornish clergy. The party who are opposed to Dr. Temple are very anxious to have a bishop of their own rather than one selected by the new Bishop of Exeter. The memorial to Archbishop Longley is progressing, and the Bishop of St. Asaph has subscribed £250, and the Bishop of Chester £5O. There were no fewer than three ecclesiastical cases on in the law courts to-day. That instituted by the Archbishop of York against Mr Voysey, that by the Church Associa tion against Mr. Macknonochie, and that by the same body against Mr. Bennett. The incumbent of St. Alban's ap peared in person, and pleaded, though under protest. I mentioned in my last letter the surpassingly high character of Mr. Walrond's testimonials which were sent in to the trustees of Rugby School. Since then the Spec tator has expressed great surprise at the election of Mr. Hayman, and has suggested a theory to account for it. I am in a position to offer your readers something more than a theory. The facts are as follows. Mr Hayman was head master of Bradfield Col lege, a High Church school, near Reading. For some reason he did not get on very well with the warden, and the Bishop of Oxford, who took great interest in the school, thought its interests would be served best by the departure of Mr. Hayman. When Rugby became vacant the bishop went to his alter ego the Duke of Marlborough, and suggested to him that he should use his in fluence with the trustees, the most influential of whom is Mr. Newdegate, M.P., to elect Mr. Hayman. Now Mr. Newdegate, as all the world knows, is a very strong Pro testant, and it became necessary to frighten him with the terrible consequences that would result if a rationalist were appointed to Rugby. Even then the M.P. would not be persuaded to vote for Mr. Hayman unless the Duke would vouch for his not being a Ritualist. This point being made clear, the member for North Warwickshire and the majority of his co-trustees, ignoring the fact that Mr. Walrsrel had a clean bill of health from such theologians as the two English Archbishops and the Bishop of Chester, voted for Mr. Hayman. He, therefore, owes his election in great measure to Bishop Wilberforce's desire to have a new master for Bradfield; a reason not very satisfactory to those who look upon the success of Rugby as a matter of almost national importance. The colonial policy of the Government is likely to at tract great notice during the coming session, and will prove rather a serious question for Ministers. It is no secret that great dissatisfaction prevails even among Liberals respecting Lord Granville's treatment of New Zealand. He will have an opportunity of setting himself right on the matter. Com missioners are now on their way to England from that colony in order to persuade the Colonial Office to reconsider its recent decision denying the use of troops to the New Zealanders. It will be urged that as labourers get about Bs. a day in New Zealand, it is utterly impossible for the colony to maintain an army of its own; and all it asks is that it may be allowed the services of British troops, who are paid about 13d. a day, which amount the colonists will gladly pay. The request seems reasonable enough, and it is difficult to understand how Lord Granville can refuse it, except he means, as has been attri buted to him in the opposition journals, to cut our colonies adrift altogether. The reputed " haul " made by the Duke of Edinburgh in New Zealand is substantially correct. For some little time past great fortunes have been made by a few lucky pur chasers of gold setts. No fewer than 240 companies have been formed to work them, and all have paid a hand some profit. In one instance a purchaser of shares at, I believe, £lO, sold them in a very few months for £15,000, having in the meanwhile received a very large dividend. The Duke of Edinburgh was one of the lucky speculators, and cleared £200,000. Nevertheless, I see that another bill has been sent home for the payment of his presents, which the nation will have the pleasure of defraying out of that terrible congeries of income tax which will have to be forthcoming a month hence. The Queen is having her portrait painted by Mr. Dickinson. The same artist is painting Sir Charles Lyell, who found Mr. Richmond too full of engagements to undertake the commission. There are one or two other incidents of life in the upper spheres which I may as well mention here. The young Earl of Pembroke is in feeble health; his younger brother is, however, strong and active. Neither of these sons of Sidney Herbert nor their sister is gone over to Rome, and though Lady Herbert always attends Mass at Salis bury in the morning, she is to be seen with her children on Sunday afternoons in the beautiful church which her husband built. The Marquis of Westminster's will is still exciting much attention, and Lord Richard Grosvenor's virtual disinheritance is said to be due to the fact that he entered into some speculative companies against his father's wish. The new Marquis is reported to be going on the turf, which is news to rejoice the hearts of the Padwicks and Beyfus's. The legal proceedings threatened by the proprietors of St. James's Hall a year or two ago against the Earl of Dudley and Miss Burdett Coutts for lending their rooms for concerts appear to have produced some effect. Mr. F. Cowen, the young pianist, who has hither been allowed the use of Lord Dudley's house in Park-lane, announces that his concert will be held in a few days at St. James's Hall under the patronage of Lord Dudley. It is now generally rumoured that the judgeship vacant by the death of Sir George Hayes will be filled up after all, and that the suggestion made by the Times that Com missioner Bacon should get the post, will not be adopted. The Hon. George Denman, M.P. for Tiverton, and Mr. James, M.P. for Taunton, are spoken of as the most likely successors to the witty judge whose loss the whole Bar is deploring. Mr. Denman has the advantage over Mr. James of longer political service. His scat, moreover, is safe, and would certainly be filled with a Liberal, and probably without a contest, for there was no contest even at the general election, so strong is Mr. Amory's influence. Taunton is a very different sort of borough from Tiverton. It rather rest mbles Bridgwater, for candidates are subjected to the unpleasant process of being weighed in one scale, with money-bags in the other. Should Bridgwater and Beverley be disfranchised, as is certain, Torquay will stand a good chance of getting a member. It is true that when Mr. Disraeli proposed to enfranchise it Mr. Butler-Johnstone asked why "the con sumptive interest " should want to be represented, and who would care to represent " the pulmonary borough ?" But it is a mistake to suppose that Torquay is only a sanatorium for invalids. It contains no fewer than 1,200 houses of resident gentlemen, and the population has increased with marvellous rapidity, until it is now close upon 40,000, whereas about fifteen years ago it was a long way under 20,000. There is no borough which will compete with it for enfranchisement, except Luton, and there will be spare seats enough to supply both. Of literary news the most important item is that the Pall Mall Gazette is coming out as a morning journal at 2d. This experiment was tried for a week or two five years ago, when the paper was in its infancy, and it failed. The expense of bringing out a morning journal is beyond all comparison with that of issuing an evening journal, and at that time the Pall Mall was not suffi ciently established to sustain the cost. The experiment is made now under different circumstances, the paper has a large circulation, and has of late greatly increased its advertisements, so that there is room for a morning edition. At the same time the price (twopence) will be against the paper in these days when old journals are coming down to a penny. Another new weekly paper, the Round Table, is announced ; it will be brought out b Mr. James Irving Scott. The Church Herald is to be discontinued by its proprietor on account of its objection able articles. Of new books I have still wonderfully little to tell, con sidering that we have now entered December. Mr. M`Lagan, M.P., will have out in a few days a work on land tenure and land culture in Ireland, being the result of observations during a recent tour. Mr. Godkin, author of " Ireland and her Churches," has in the press " The Land War in Ireland," which will be out immediately. There is a good article on Irish Land Tenure in Macmillan's Maga sine by Mr. John Hamilton, a gentleman who has long re sided in Donegal. Bishop Alexander, Miss Wedgwood, Mrs. Oliphant, and Canon Westcott are contributing volumes to "Macmillan's Sunday Library. Mr. Tennyson appears at last to have settled upon the title of his new book, which, after sundry alterations, is now to be called the " Holy Grail," the search for which, as I mentioned five months ago, is the subject of the principal new poem. Mr. George Smith, of the Echo, is publishing a volume of his poems, man y of which h ave a l rea dy a pp eare d in Fraser's and .21facmillan's Magazines. Mr. Charles Allen has just written a book about Australia, which is the result of many years' . residence in that country. It is entitled "A Visit to Queensland," but does not deal exclusively with that country. Mr. Edward Spender will have an article upon the late Mr. Crabb Robinson in the next number of the London Quarterly Review. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. TRIM BETURN OF O'DONOVAN BONA. - "A Tipperary Elector" throws the blame of tht miserable electoral fiasco upon Mr. Heron himself, This witness says that never was a county contest marked by less intimidation or violence. The respectable voters were not te rr ifi e d. They were taken by surprise. Mr. Heron neglected to make any of the usual preparations, rely. ing with unwise confidence upon his bril liant eloquence and popular s y m p a thi es t o p r ocure his return. He did nothing to enlist the support of the Liberal gentry, who, with scarcely an exception, took no part in the late election. "He engaged nc conveyances for the voters, but cast upon the Catholic clergymen the herculean task of canvassing, withir the period of two days which intervened between the. nomination and the polling, a constituency so nume rous, and spread over so extended an area, and of further inducing the electors to leave their hornet and at their own expense to provide the means of travelling distances ranging.up to forty miles." The statement that there was little intimidation does not accord with the evidence of other witnesses. It is worthy of note, too, that if Mr. Heron remained inactive, it was because he and others anticipated no real opposition from the Fenians. nun an anaress. Tney united to express - tifeii gkati= tude for the past—his zealous words of cheer—their regret at his departure, and their hope that he will be prompted onwards in his course by God. In reply the Bishop-Elect of Exeter advocated the mingling of classes and creeds more thoroughly. He taught most firmly, he said, that men were the image of ono nod ; they ought not to be held apart. " The rank is but the guinea stamp." The upper class should learn from the lower the supremacy of Justice'; the lower from the upper, cultivation and. refinement. His own special province was to teach men to love, in the spirit of the Bible, and to love their Master Christ ; and it appeared to him that he should be discharging this delightful duty most truly by impressing upon his fellow-men that there is no service they can render to God equal to that of helping, cheering, and, to the utmost of their power, blessing their fellows. Bishop Ewing, of Argyll_ and the Isles, writes denying that he has offered to take part in the come cration of Dr. Temple. He explains his position as regards " Essays and Reviews." An authorship in that work would be no recommendation for a Christian Bishopric ; but still the book is founded on the very principle upon which Protestantism is based —the principle, namely, of " the presence in man of a power of recognising spiritual and intellectual truth." Call it by what name we will (says the Bishop) surely it is by the presence of some such principle or power that we are able to apprehend the meaning of Scripture or of anything ; to respond to, or to obey God. Surely it was to the possession of this faculty our Lord alludes when he says, "If I speak the truth, why do ye not believe me ?" And, again, surely it was because of its possession that the Jews were culpable in rejecting Jesus ? Nay, the authority on which we receive Scripture at first, the Church, must yield to the test ; for St. Paul bids us not to receive his message on the authority of an angel even, mere!) , as such. And the Church (or that opinion in the Church which we identify with the Church) do we not " verify "by this means ? We ourselves prefer St. Paul's expression, " commending ourselves to every man's con science in the sight of God," to that of a verifying faculty; but the meaning is nearly, if not quite, the same, in all probability. Nay, do we not, when we deny such capacity, preclude the possibility of the direct action of the Spirit of God on the individual soul? It is a solemn subject, and must be dealt with soberly. InE LAND TENURE AGITATION. The meeting at Dundalk was frustrated by a Fenian mob ; but in recompense, the fixity of tenure advocates h ave b r ought off two successful gatherings at Tull amore and Carrick - on - Shannon. At the former place 20,000 persons were present The priests as usual played a prominent part, and the members for Ki ng e County, Sir P. O'Brien and Mr. Sherlock, mad e s p eec hes. The former affirmed that the Irish were nerous and forgiving, that they would not d we ll upon the bitter past, but, with the happy prospect of security of tenure a nd of living for the time to come in peace and comfort, they would willi ng l y f or ,et and forgive the atroci ties of by gone times. In answer to the argument that the differences of race and feeling between the English and Celtic people were such that they could never be cordially united, he pointed to the examples of France and Prussia, in both of which countries the people had bec ome a tt a ched to the Government through wise changes in the land laws. WE. LEATHAM AND THE 'WESTMINSTER ELECTORS. - - - Mr. Leatham, addressing his constituents at Hud dersfield the oth er d ay, declared c ' that the Conserva tive Working Men's Association of Westminster 'had bribed right and left to secure Mr. Smith's return. The• Association resented this charge. They wrote to Mr. Lelthatn requesting him t point out the proof s , if t h ere we re any, in sup port of Ins statement. But- the member for Huddersfield would ne ith er prove, retract, nor apolo gise ; he simply r e it era t e d the charge. The verdict of the public on thi s a lihi r w ill be very simple. Mr. Leatham e n d eavours to id en tify canvassing with bribery, and though there may often be little distinc tion between the two, it must bo considered a mis representation, as terms go, to speak of them as one and the same thing. DR. TEMPLE. The local friendly societies met on Wednesday at Rugby, to do honour to Dr. Temple, on his removal from the school to the Bishopric of Exeter. They entertaineA him at a tanauet, and then oreaentaa TUE ALBERT ASSURANCE COMPANY. All the efforts on behalf of the unfortunate Albert Assurance Company, the committees, the liquidators, the professional advisers, have achieved little or nothing. The office has fallen into liquidation pure and simple. The " screw" will now be put on, and the policy-holders will be recompensed at the expense of the shareholders by the agency of the law. Mr. Thomson, of the Agra Bank, which represents the interest of some Indian constituents, asks whether this lamentable issue cannot vet be averted. If the shareholders have to pay, why not pay without the costly machinery of official liquidation ? The late judgment by Vice-Chancellor James has shewn that the shareholders of the companies amal gamated with the Albert are liable for those policies which they handed over. Would it not be better, asks Mr. Thomson, to form another company, subscribe the £400,000, which, added to the existing assets, would enable the Albert Office to meet all claims, and thus escape the ruin of an official liquida tion ? The £400,000 thus raised would at first bear no dividend. But in time things would work round, and at any rate nothing worse than liquidation need be apprehended. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CHARITY. The Holborn Guardians, with an ability far above the ordinary guardian level, contest some of the arguments set forth in Mr. Goschen's famous minute on charitable relief. The President of the Poor-law Board urged that the aid given to the destitute from the rates and the aid given by private munifi cence ought to be kept as separate as possible, that is, the one should do what the other leaves undone The two should not be engaged upon precisely the same work. With this view Mr. Goschen recorn mended that the poor rate should be confined to the relief of the entirely destitute ; it should not be given in aid of wages, to enable working men to travel to places where they could find employment, or to purchase tools These latter very worthy forms of charity should be left to private munificence. But the Holborn Guardians argue that such a division is impossible The Poor Law Board itself makes an exception in the case of widows to the rule - of not augment ing wages; and the Holborn Guardians say that so large a proportion of the out-door paupers are widows that the exception is destructive of the rule. Nor can it be applied in other cases. More than half the London adult paupers are persons who are incapacitated by disease, infirmity, or age. Yet in one district half these persons were found to be earning an average wage of two shillings a week, and the other half eked out their parochial relief in some other way. It would be impossible to refuse aid to these persons, and equally impossible to stop them from getting anything beside their parochial relief. In many other cases there can be no hard and fast line drawn. What the Holborn Guardians think more especially needful is better co-operation between the administrators of the rates and the representa tives of charitable societies. Until the two work together the evils of the present system cannot be overcome. THE USE OF THE CAT. Mr. Justice Lush issues from the Assize Court at Leeds a solemn warning to criminals who have e tendency to violence. His lordship declares that ho won't spare them. For violence the law awards the cat, and the cat the court will give. Fifty lashes, three times repeated, is a very stiff punishment ; and Mr. Justice Lush reminds the world that he has power tD inflict it. Nor will he be sentimentally swayed against so severe a sentence. Though he has never yet given the whole punishment, he is not at all sure that he will not do so. The maximum might be necessary (he said), and he should not shrink from his duty. The dark days of December are closing upon us. Nervous people are fearing the streets ; the criminal classes are looking forward for some work to do. The learned judge, therefore, makes a timely announcement to re-assure the one section and warn the other. CHEAP TUNNELS The new tunnel under the Thames is interesting on many accounts, and not least by reason of its marvellous cheapness. Brunel's tunnel, which proved such a lamentable speculation, cost £464,000. This new iron subway will be completed, it is believed, within the original estimate of £16,000. "If the river Thames," says the Times, " can be tunnelled for £16,000, it may be presumed that new subways will be constructed at various points and angles across the river, and that relief may be found in the multiplicity of tramways under the stream for the paucity of bridges and the hindrance to intercommunication over the river." And it may be added that no river across which there is likely to be any important traffic need now remain without a tunnel. How about a subway beneath the broad Humber ? It would be much cheaper than a bridge. To qo through the Thames subway the passengers will descend a shaft and get into carriages, pass through the tunnel in about a minute, and then ascend by another lift. COMMUNICATION WITII THE CONTINENT. After the Suez Canal, pronounced impossible by one of our best engineers, who shall say that communication with France is impracticable ? If we can thus make the waters to triumph over the dry land, why not the land over the waters ? A canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea has been formed ; where is the barrier to a dry-landed connection between this island and the Continent ? Mr. Zorah Colburn, the engineer, thus reasoned before the Society of Arts on Wednesday ; and he explained a plan of his own for laying a tunnel for the conveyance of passengers across the Channel. He proposed "an iron tube, anchored and buoyed, and constructed by means of a floating dock, in lengths of a thousand feet or so, which should be connected by ball and socket joints, in order to adapt them to the irregularities of the Channel." The tube when laid would be bolted together at the ball joints by means of inner flanges; it would be lined with brickwork and an inner iron casing, and would be worked upon the atmospheric . principle. The rough estimate of the cost, exclusive of ap proaches, was about six millions. The plan was cer tainly not adopted by the meeting. Most of the speakers, ind ee d, expressed their opinion unfavourably to all schemes which have yet been brought forward ; and there was a pretty unanimous feeling that for a very long time to come the ferry system must be de pended upon to do the work. CHEAP BEEP. - ----- • Tho attempt to popularise Australian meat was continued on Wednesday by the giving of a dinner to several hundred working men and women of South London. The guests ate specimens of Australian meat properly cooked, declared they liked it, and were informed that excellent food of the kind, free from bone, might bo sold in this country for fourpence halfpenny a pound —about one-third the price of the best English beef. Three members of Parliament Messrs. M'Arthur, Hughes, and Reed —were present, and they all gave kindred t es ti mony. Australian meat is not to be compared to the best home-killed animal food; but it is savoury and nutritious, and the work ing man who cannot eat it deserves no pity. The merits of the meat were not exaggerated ; it was not alirmed that beef from Australia would regenerato this benighted land; but it may nevertheless prove a great blessing to our starving population. AIIONGST THE LISIIOPS. Judging by a letter in the Telegraph, one ought not atter all to expect such hard things from the Bishops who are assembling at Rome for the (Ecume nical Council. As the Council begins on the Bth, the Telegraph is quite right in opening fire from its _Special Correspodeiit. This gentlemaa_l4o4 nurri©a to - ttome nas cast as rea=not --- coms ana boiling water" would carry him. He tells us a good deal about the fine weather he had from Charing cross to Dijon, what bad weather he had from Dijon to the Italian Duchies, how the Alps looked, how the Appenines looked, though, strangely enough for a Telegrto correspondent, he says very little about what there was to eat. He fell in with some Bishops, however, on the way, and a very hopeful account of them he gives. The road to Rome swarms with Bishops. They are pouring in from all parts of the habitable globe. There are trains and boats full of Bishops. Nor are they at all of that austere nature,so impressed with overwhelming respon as might have been expected. Some whom the traveller had for his companions were exceedingly courteous, full of jest and anecdote, and excellent companions. The venerable fathers did not disdain the comforts of this world; they partook liberally of the good things which the Italian buffets afford ; nor did they despise the fragrant weed or the pungent rappee. If these specimens represent the whole number, we need not be under such apprehension of reactionary measures. A smoking and snuff-taking race of Catholic Bishops will not endeavour to make the world retrace its stem very far. THE IMPERIAL LAND COMPANY. A motion was before one of the Vice-Chancellors on Thursday on behalf of the Imperial Land Company, for an order to compel Mr Albert Grant, formerly the chairman, to refund a sum of £22,000, and Mr. Heritage also to re fund a sum of £15,0000, which they had respectively re .eived, according to the allegations, as remuneration for their services in having completed a contract for the purchase of land for upwards of £1,000,000. Mr. Cotton, Q.C., on behalf of Mr. Grant applied on Thursday morning to Vice-Chancellor Malins that the motion should stand over, in order that the defendant might answer the affidavits which had been filed on the other side. His Honour said that it was desirable that time should be given to answer the affidavits of the plaintiffs, and ordered accordingly. CHEAP MEALS FOR THE LONDON POOR. A meeting to promote the establishment of depots for selling cheap meals to the poor and the working classes of London was held at the Cannon-street Hotel, on Thursday ; Sir W. Tite, M.P., in the chair. It was stated that great distress existed amongst the working classes of the metropolis, and that an experiment to pro vide them with meals of Australian meat had already proved successful and remunerative. Resolutions were adopted in favour of a more extensive scheme, and a com mittee was appointed to superintend the opening of dining rooms in various parts of London, where meals would be supplied at a cheap rate— ld. or 2d. per meal being mentioned. The matter was undertaken, though in a philanthropic spirit, yet on commercial principles, and the choice of food was left to the committee, who were not bound to adopt Australian meat. FOREIGN RACING, A tabular exposition of the amounts won by the leading racehorses of France, Belgium, and Baden-Baden, shews Glaneur, owned by M. Lupin, to be at the head of the list with the gross total winnings of £6,478. This horse has been five times first and once second. Consul, owned by Count F. de Lagrange, has had four firsts and one second ; and has won £5,773. Mortemer (same owner) has had nine firsts, seven seconds, and one third ; and has won £3,705. Cerdagne (M. Delatre) has won £3,450 with five firsts and six seconds. Clotho (M. Delamarre), has totalled £3,393. Then there is a wide interval. Next comes Mdlle. de Fligny with £2,309 ; Peripetie, with £2,145 ; and Frocadero with £2,110; all the rest being under £2,000. The owner who has netted the largest sum is, of course, Count F. de Lagrange, who has won 82 races. gained the second and third place 68 times, and netted £25,630. Next, magno intervallo, comes M. Delatre with £7,860; M. Lupin is third, with £7,069. None of the other owners touch £5,000. Count F. Lagrange has won in Eng land £2,715. O'Donovan Rona, the elect of Tipperary, fa a lawyer's clerk by profession or occupation, and resided for some little time in Newcastle-on-Ty ne. It is stated that Sir Sydney Waterlow and Sir Francis Lycett, two of the candidates for the representation of Southwark, are prepared to submit to a preliminary ballot, in order to prevent a division of the Liberal ranks. The T.ancashirc union railways—a series of short lines formed for the purpose of affording more direct rail way communication than has hitherto existed between Wigan, Blackburn, St. Helen's, and other places iu Ulu Lancashire coal district—were opened for passenger traffic on Wednesday. The publisher of the Church Herald (a journal recently started iu the Conservative interest), has issued the following singular notice :—" On account of the objection able tone of the articles in the Church Herald, I have sus pended the Publication under its present management. But I do not abandon my copyright in the title, the Church herald, f r a sound Conservative Church paper of a temperate tone, with some respect for 'the powers that be." The deaths are announced of Rear-Admiral T. F. Birch, Lady Rae Reed, and Lady Cooke. Admiral Birch was a son of the late General Birch, C. 8., and was born in 1816. Ile became captain in 1850, and gained several medals. Lady Rae Reed was the daughter of the late Mr. Richard J. Eaton, and was married to the late Sir John Rae Reed in 1840. Lady Cooke was the widow of the late Sir William Bryan Cooke, Bart. A meeting has been held in the Town Hall, Man chester, to support the scheme of the Education League. Mr. Dixon, M.P., attended as a deputation of the League, and entered fully into a defence of the principle of unsec tarian education, which the League has been established to promote. Mr. Jacob Bright was also present, and spoke warmly in support of the League. The meeting was all but unanimous in endorsing the League programme. The recent settlement in Glasgow of some Jesuit priests, who occupy a chapel dedicated to St. Aloysius, has attracted the attention of the Free Presbytery of Glasgow. At a meeting of the Presbytery, held on Wednesday, the Rev. Dr. Gibson asked his brethren to resolve "to adopt some measures that may be deemed suitable by the blessing of God to warn and enlighten the people" against the "dangerous and injurious princikles of Popery." The rev. gentleman maintained that there had been of late cases of perversion to Popery from even the Free Church, and from amongst the sons and daughters of ministers of their denomination, 'and he prodounced a sweeping condemnation of the arts by which such perversions had been obtained. In ;the course of the discussion it was suggested that it might be well to wait the result of the (Ecumenical Council, and the subject was delayed for a month with this view. On Wednesday Mr. Mundella, M.P., delivered a lecture in the Temperance Hall, Sheffield, on the question of "Primary Education." Mr. Mundella laid be fore his hearers the results of experience in this and other countries in connection with primary education, and deduced therefrom an argument for the absolute necessity of the compulsory system. He contended that the American, French, and Dutch sys tems, excellent as they were in many respects, had all failed for want of compulsion, whilst German experience showed the value of a direct compulsory system. At the same time the lecturer pointed out that a compulsory system did not imply either espionage or the interference of the policeman. As respects technical and scientific instruction, our history in the past had been almost a blank. We are now in com petition with a new power abroad, and unless we called in telligence to our aid neither our capital, our resources, nor our prestige would save us from defeat. A. case of a curious fracas in the hunting field has just been beard at the Rosso petty sessions. Mr. C. 11. Allen, a gentleman residing at Priskilly Forest, was charged by Captain 0. T. Edwardes, of Trerhos, with using words towards him calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. Captain Edwardes stated that he went to Leweston on the 22d ultimo to a meet of the Pembrokeshire hounds. He saw Mr. Allen there, and he asked Mr. Allen how his brother was. Mr. Allen scarcely noticed the question, hut said, "I understand ycu have been applying for shooting over the land that I have," or something to that effect. Captain Edwardes resumes, "Allow me to explain." Mr. Allen declared he had seen it in black and white. Captain Edwardes said, " Then you make me a liar." Some sharp language passed between them. Captain Edwardes said, "Do you mean to insult me, you blackguard ?" Mr. Allen replied, "lf you were worth it, I would horsewhip you ; you are the greatest poacher in the country." Captain Edwardes w e nt off, and Mr. Allen went after him. Captain Edwardes said, "Don't follow me, you low-bred farmer; you are not fit to be in the company of gentlemen; you ought to associate with those of your own class." At this stn.() of tho proceedings the case was adjourned. BREAKFAST.— EPPS'S COCOA.— GRATEFUL AND COM FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this prepara tion has rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gazette remarks :—" The singular success which Mr. Epps attained by his homeopathic preparation of cocoa has never beep surpassed by any experimentalist. By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the op,ra.tions of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful ap plication of the fine properties of well selected c9con, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doc tors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in tin-lined packets, labelled J AMES E PPS and Coi l lonweopathic Chemists; London. NAVAL AND MILIIARY IN7ELLIGEIVCB. An experiment was made yesterday at the proot butt, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, under the direc tion and in presence of Major-General J. 11. Le fray, Royal Artillery, F.R.S , Director-Genera of Ordnance, for the trial of one of 20 carriages and platforms now in course of construction in the Royal Carriage Department, Royal Arsenal, wich, on C a pt a i n M oncr i e ff' s s y s tem, for issu e to the Royal Artillery for land and coast defe nces ' Among those present were Major-General Sir David E. Wood, K.C.8., R.A., Commandant of Wool" • wick garrison ; Colonel T. W. Milward , C• 1 3" A.D.C. to the Queen, Deputy Director of Ord nance ; Colonel Phillpotts, Royal Horse Artillery Colonel F. A. Campbell, R.A., Superintendent of Royal Gun Factories, Royal Arsenal, 'Woolwich Colonel C. S. henry, C. 8., B Brigad e Royal Horse Artillery ; Colonel W. Maxwell, R.A9 Public Works Department, Bengal; C olonel G. F. Field, R.A. Secon d Command ant, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich ; Colonel E. Wray, C. 8., R.A. ; C o lonel Milman , 11. A ;; Col. 11. Heyman, R.A. ; C ap t a i n F. Close, It. Assistant.-Superintend en t, R o yal Carriage De e' partment, Royal Arse na l ; Capt. W. C. Nahg R.A., A.D.C. to th e C omman d an t of the ga rrison ! Capt. C. M. Molo n y, A ss i s t.-S u perintenden t Royal Gun Factories, R o y a l A rse n a l ; Capt. C. . 13 . 1-4° Mesurier, R.A., Captain Instructor, Royal ca , r : riage Department, Royal Arsenal ; Captain C. 1 . Martin, LE., Royal Military AcadetnY, W o° with ; Capt. I'. A. J. Harrison, R.A., of Director-General of Ordnance ; Captain F. Pratt, R.E., Royal Military Aca lemy, Woolwich ; Capt. W. H. Noble, R.A. ; Lieut. Boxer, 11 - N ' Lieut. Lang, •- R.N. ; Quartermaster Behennaat R.A., and many other naval, military, and foreig Departni7.l, officers. In the construction of these carriages and platforms several alterations and improve ments have been embodied, which had been sage gested to the inventor from his experience of t working of the first carriage and platform w ade ° its his plan, which is now at Shoeburyness, the au cee s . of which led to the adoption of the Moncrieff sl tern in the Briti s h s e r v i ce . The very satisfactor.fe and gratifying result of yesterday's trial of sample carriage and platform has fully realised thts value of the several alterations and improv erne i ll „ vi effected by the inventor. The following area "„ particulars of the carriage and platfortn : 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading gun ; weight of g li b ; 7 tons. Weight of elevator and counterpoise weigt 14 tons 7 cwt. ; weight of carriage, 1 ton 8 ° l e weight of platform, 5 tons 2 cwt. ; total weight' —Naturi7 tons 17 cwt. The height of the axis of th e g . od in loading po s iti on i s lift . 2i n ., and the & o: position (usi ng 221 b. c h arges ) 6ft. Bin. At r ed, experiment yesterday five rounds were fi lb 1151 b. shot in the solid cylinder form, and battering charges, except the first round, which ware an exceptional charge of 181 b. The recoils 13r .,,, perfect, the Brun gracefully returning to its lcac ll 7 position after each discharge. Three bolts we the all' . fractured which connected the rear end of ing rail or guide to the right side of the plat fa ay This was simply a fault of material, and in 1:1° Iv it affected the w o r ki ng qua liti es o f the platforn u i would not h ave occurre d h a d wa shers been l ;ed. at ., 'There was no pi vo t or racers on the ground P ly form, the trucks suppo r ti ng th e whole mas h si ,t s , resting on four small smoo th p i ece s of iron I° rh but not the slightest m o vem e n t occurred, althentt no means were adopt e d t o p reve nt movement to rear on firing. rtille r l; Two batteries of th e 7th B r i ga de Royal Ato now stationed at Sheerness, are under orders leave that station for head-quarters, Woolwich• c- Mr. Mr. Edward J. Reed, C.B. th e Chief Consul-Ira tor of the Navy, made an official visit to Chat ha ess Dockyard yesterday. Mr. Reed transacted blishl.. with Captain W. C. Chamberlain, the CaPtall 0 to Superintendent, at his office, and then proceedeuct, inspect the two iron armour plated ships Coosa et ing in Nos. 2 and 3 docks, and the colonial turret • I\ 0. ship, preparing for the voyage to Australia , in it 4 dock. The s hip s th us i ns pect e d were the Sti lta , 12, iron screw ship, broad s ide, in No. 2 dock , whic o is in a forward state; the Glatton, 2, double s e ri r e e so turret ship, in No. a aocx, wawa is by no in eh-- ,a far advanced as the Sultan, though cominene-eo only a few days later; and the Cerberus, 4, 3 ttlfr i, ship, built at the cost of the Government of V iht°r h; v for the defence of Melbourne. The inspee tl°° ... j a Mr. Reed appears to have been preparatory ter visit of the Lords of the Admiralty, which is pected to be made to-day. s° Orders have been received at Chatham Gnrri for various detachments from depots there to e bark for India to join the service conipani,eisi be India, on the 30th of this month. They conveyed from Portsmouth in the Croecinalese Indian troop-ship, Capt. Geo. W. Watson. t he reinforcements are for the 2d Battalionthe l st Ist Regiment, the Ist Battalion of the 3cil t he Battalion of the Bth, the 38th, the 45 t h, an 109th Regiments. Stag' Her Majesty's paddle sloop Salamand er ' Po rte' Commander G. B. F. Swain, sailed froca mouth yesterday at two p.m. for Gibraltar, sod Admiralty despatches, supernumerary sealn ee f the marines, parcels, letters, &c. for the shiP e Channel squadron under the, comm and of Admirals Sir T. S. Symonds and H. Chads. oosit e ' The Teazer, 4 guns, double screw, e , erti l3lonv built gun-vessel, Commander Richard )3. p ro esol field, arrived at Spithead ye s terday from Sl'e — r to and afterwards went into Portsmouth hahf.ung of repair certain defects said to exist in th e wc"l-i0 it the crank-pins of h er eng i ne s hafting. 11e ;bead that nearly every vesse l w hi c h arrives a t ~ se rocs . from an eastern port for a term seri of foreign discovered by her engineer officers to bale have () b us defects in he r mac hi ner y, after the h itter e arri een passed as th oroug hl y e ffi c ient and fit tete yet the ship out to her station ? Either we 13 % ° fa' too many dockyards, or we have incon3Petejlocers cers in charge of them. The Teazer has t he fo rte" and crew on board t rans fe r red from t he tin nate Thistle. nae rdaf The following appointments were m ad e philli at the Admiralty :—Commodore Augu st° v ice g lt more, from Jamaica, to the 'Wizard, for se r " ok of Gibraltar, vice Prevost, p r omoted to the ril to t he Rear-Admiral ; Captain R. W. CourtensY, 0.00 Aboukir, and to be Commodore of the secont' at Jamaica, vice Phillimore. -____ 'COURSE OF EXCHANGE' Amsterdam Do Short ... 11 1 8 ". 12 11 3Ms ... 12 1 "• 12 40 / Rotterdam — ... 12 1 '" 25 0 Antwerp ••• 25 35 *** 2 'id. Brussels —.2 55 ". i 3 22¢ Hamburg l a 371 Paris Ditto 8 Ms. ... 25 0 Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main 120/ ••• 12 ~- , 1 -- ••• Viennal2 65 "• 12 ' v ••• Trieste — .. 12 65 "' 29. 4 Petersburg Copenhagen., ......... Berlin — -- -.'. 6 271 •• 481 Madrid.. Cadiz -- •.• 481 ••• ••• 42 ••• 26 4 9595 Leghorn Milan 26 85 *" 26 "- Genoa - ••• ... ... ... 2 2 : 66 8 8 8, 5 5:, ... .: .: 22 2 66 6 , );. N aples Palermo Messina Lisbon - 51" .-" 52 •••ill till Oporto ••• Rio Janeiro — •• New York ........ ••••• • BIRTHS. .4e 136-5(11 akititElt—On the Ist ins t , at 60, Kensing ten-g93. the wife o f J osep h B ar b er, E sq ., of a daughter' v 13 a e r RontE—On the 30th ult• , at Brodie, th e La(iY Brodie, of a daughter. F Amax__ MARRIAGES. c h r ,ll ' 1) Webb,a rri s e E r WEBB—On the 3d inst , at Trinity '-',„ - l u r rert ldarylebone, William, second son . of the late Gr. ' ` - o f VT' "At: , 1 o a r .Batnth.Elizaboth Wallace, daughter - , ~ Mire SWEF P .T—.. AXON—On the Ist inst., at Dorkinp!,, . u .v..° t Sweet, of Upton, Essex, to Augusta Mary, eldest cht , or of G. K. Faxon, Esq., of Dorking. DEATBS. nib 0 39° CURTIS—On the 30th ult., at Leytonstone-road, ..---c) Curtis, aged 65. 0. SMITH On the Ist inst., at Wadhurst Castle, Sus sex' ..... W. 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