The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-22 00:00:00

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N.TARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. (10SNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect= in this woncirful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. in , lluding brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel pasmage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. - 07: - CUTY AND TILE BFAST nr HARLEQUIN iJ AND OLD MOTHF,It BUNCH, Will be pioduced on MONnAY. Peedmher 27, and positively withdrawn on Saturday, February 26. Morn fling - Performances every Wednesday and Saturday during the above pprind. Box office open from 10 till 5 daiIy.—THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-L ANE. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAY MA RKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. rtnekorme. THIS EVENING, at Seven, FOUNDED ON FACTS. Mr Compton. At. half-past Seven, the New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES: Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale. Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr. Braid, Mr Bnckstone, inn.; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. r u n. d=c. Concluding. with (by desire) HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS : Mr Kendal. Mr Buckstone, Mr Howe, Miss F. Wright, and Miss F. Gwynne. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. W MISTER. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, THE LONG STRIKE: Mr Benjamin Webster: Messrs A. Stirling, G. Belmore, J. G. Taylor, W. Hignold, Miss Furtado. &c. To conclude with LOST AT SEA: Mr (4. Bchnore, M- A. Stirlinc, Mr Atkins, Mr W. Rignold, rC. A. Stephenson, Miss Rose Lellereq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Miss Lennox r,y. Box-ollee open daily, from 10 till a. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL. 1 2 - Sole Lessee and Manager. BARRY SULLIVAN. THIS EVENTNG, at Seven o'clock, the laughable Farce of THE RATH R( AD. At Lovell's celebrated Play (in five acts), of LOVE'S SACRIFICE: Mr Barry Sullivan ; Messrs. George Honey, J. C Cowper, Charles Horsman. Lin Payne, Lunt, ryas, Arthur, Re. ; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss J. Rignold, Miss Amy Fawsitt, Mrs. C. !Yoram:l.n, Re. To conclude with S AT E SECRETS. Principal Scenic Artist—Mr Julian Hicks. Acting Manager—AmottY t'LLIVAIO, GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. Immense success of the new Comic Drama. THIS EVENING, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY : Miss Lydia Foote, Mr Henry Neville At 7.15, Mr. Byron's new and original Comic Drama, in three acts, written by himself, entitled NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Sir '•imort.,Simnle, Mr. H. J. Byron. To conclude with TfIF. 00055 wrrn THE 4,1-OLDEN EGGS: Mr J. Clarke and Mrs Stephens. A new Burlesque, by Mr. Henry J. Byron, in which Miss ny Josephs will appear. is in active preparation. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. 4*. Sole 1 essee and Manageress, Mrs Swanhorough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Ul 'rte. Followed bv THE TOODT.ES: Mr Clarke. After which. INO; ISTessrs Thorne. James, Fenton, Turner Mes,lames Sheriflatt, Newton, Maitland. fic. To conclude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL- Q PORTING.—JOHN ROBERTS snpplies the LATN'S r EDITION of " TFIE SUN" as soon as pub- I 31101-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. nri-IF. " SUN" NEWSPAPER.—G. IL Gi,,E.NTE, ' Sporting f.ihrary, 4, Connancht-terrace, F.dgeware Toad, delivers the LATH: EDITION of "THE SUN " at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. rfe is able to deliver Copies ir. 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Band and Ch'rns, on the uznal complete scale of these performances, will consist of 700 perform •rs. Tickets, 35., 5F.., and 10s. 61., at the Society's Office, No. 6, Ext ter Ball. c,IACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, Exeter k--) Hall.—Last Performance, of the MESS] AII by the Society in Exeter Hall this Christmas TO-MORROW (T IIIJI:SDA 17) EVENING. Commence at half-past Seven. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. THE DIRECTORS have now the pleasure of subrn:tting the following•statemeut, showing he financial position of the Company : The CAPITAL avail:44e for the purpose of meeting any unu.,ual calamity happening to the assured is Two MILLIoNs STERLING. The amount actually paid up is £288,495. This, with the accumulated funds in hand, excecas £1,800.000. For the satisfaction of the public the whole of the se curities belonging to the .Company are annually submitted to the careful scrutiny of two independent auditors, and the following is au extract from their report to the last annual meeting: " The whole of your books have been audited; every document, every account, every voucher, your bank-book, and every security—all have been most carefully kept, and there is not one doubtful security in the whole." _ _ _ A detailed List of the Investments of the Company, as already published, may be obtained on application. An independent valuation of the Life Liabilities, as at 31st December, 1868, has also been obtained from Mr. Eawuel Brown, the result being— LIFE LIABILI 13,844 General Life As surances, less ro• Assurances Children's En dowments Annuities (Im mf•diato and Deferred) 18,801 Total. 14,472 £923,825 X 1,122 , 975 L£198,450 The valuation has been made at 3 per cent. interest, and the net premiums only have been taken, so that the loadings for future profits and expenses are entirely held in reserve and not brought into the valuation. The results show a considerable Furplus in the Life branch, amounting in the whole to £198,450. JOHN H. ISPLAREN, Manager. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'fins EVENINa, at 7 o'clock. FOUNDED ON FACTS; Mr Complon. After which, t EW MEN AND OLD ACRES: Mr Buckstone. Concluding with HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS: Mr Buckstone, Mr Kendall, Miss F. Wright, THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIR EVENING, at 7, THE LONG STRIKE: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr A. Stirling, Sir Belreere, Mr J. G. Taylor, Mr hignold 3ii s Furtado, &c. Followed by LOST AT SEA: G. Oelrnore, Mr A. Stirling, r Atkins, Mr W Rignold, Mr C. tephenson, Miss It. Leciereq. and Mrs L. Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EvE:sagn, nt 7, A HOUSEHOI.D F I.CY. At NOH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr IL J. Byron. And 1 BEGOOSE WITIL THE GOLDEN E(It.,S: 3IrJ. Clarke and Mrs Stephens. TIIEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS Evzsm, at THE BATH ROAD. At 7.45, LOVE'S SACRIFICA: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Antl STATE SECRETS. LONDON, IVEDAWSDAY, DEC. 22, 1839. WHEN our children come to be grown men they will look back with pity upon their fathers, who were condemned to spend all the best years of youth in learning dead languages and mathematics. These aro very good things in their way, but the absurdity has been that they have been considered the only means of education, the only objects worthy the attention of teachers and pupils. Considering the large number of our contemporaries who, having grown up, and having engaged in the duties of life, never open a classical work, never solve an equation, it is manifest that not only have these subjects proved useless in fitting them for their callings, but they have also failed as recreations. Thirty, twenty, nay, only ten years ago the whole world of Nature had no exist ence so far as school teaching was concerned. Boys were taught to make Greek lambics and to master conic sections ; but no one told them anything of the sun and the stars over their heads, of the flowers and the rocks beneath their feet, of the air which they breathed, of the myriad forms of animal life in I all its stages, from the sponge and upwards through the microzoon, the mollusc, the inferior mammal up to man, " the roof and crown of things." A lad was considered grossly ignorant if he were un acquainted with the names of all HonAcE's mis tresses and the relations of the sine and the cosine, but he was not expected to know anything of the age or structure of the earth or the parts of his own body. Within the last ten years science has been introduced into the curriculum of our public schools. The result we shall not see at present, but we may partly guess it. If, in spite of neglect on the part of educationists, of suspicion on the part of religionists, scientific 1 knowledge has made the progress that it has made, what may we not expect when scientific research is no longer confined to the few, but is shared by the many ? Hitherto only one man here and there has devoted himself to this kind of knowledge, and he has had to devote years of man hood to acquiring the first principles which might have been imparted to him in boyhood. What loss of time and waste of power will be saved when science is as much a part of every boy's education as the lEneid of VIRGIL and the first six books of EUCLID have been hitherto. In the present state of education, when science is struggling for recognition, everyone who does anything to popularise science is a public benefactor. For this reason we notice in our leading columns the English edition of M. POUCIIET'S most beautiful volume, " The rniverse, or the Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little," which has just been published by Messrs. 13LAcKiE and SON. A better Christmas gift book for an intelligent boy or girl we cannot imagine. Men like Canon KINGSLEY have lately been endeavouring to impart science to very young children under the form of parables whose meaning is, to say the least, somewhat recondite. M. POI:CHET has no need of imaginary "water babies " or Mesdames How and When, in order to interest his readers in the marvels of the world around them. These are miracles, thowvh repeated every day; " fairy tales of science," though all sober facts. It is not everyone who can afford to bestow this sumptuous book even upon the most hopeful Young student. Let us, then, select a few—they are only a very few—of the facts which our Author tells. Thereby we may induce both teachers and pupils to ask themselves if there is not in science a world worth exploring. Looking at the moon, which has just been shining so brightly to enliven the longest nights of the year, we see a world in ruins. The silver orb, that emblem of calm serenity, that luminary which has so 1 often shed its mellow light on whispering lovers, is a frightful wreck. " Probably," -says M. Pot:CHET, "no star was ever so horribly torn by the fury of town ['TIES AND ASSETS. IN amber. 'et Yalu , of Assurances, Accumu lated Fund , ISurplus. 1X177,622 £765,021 21,260 137,541 £942,643 23,287 156,345 THE SUN, _LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1b69• volcanoes." One gaping crater is ten leagues in diameter. Some regions are riddled with craters, so that their mouths tiach. Formerly these dark spots, visible to the naked eye, were supposed to be seas, and the ancients named them seas of Nectar, Tranquillity, and the like ; whereas they are awful abysses. On all the surface of the moon not a ' blade of grass grows, not a flower opens. Totally deprived of water and of air, life is an impossibility. A. threefold death—hunger, thirst, and asphyxia — would overtake the least animal that happened to alight there. "In these cold and horrid realms everything is plunged into torpor and silence ; the echoes are mute, nothing alters the dull monotony of the heavens, and the breath of a zephyr never plays round the summit of those rugged moun tains." Not only do we know that no beings of our own earth could live there, but (so powerful aro modern telescopes) that they would enable us to discover cities if there were any, and they tell us that there aro none. The yawning gaps in the moon—huge as they are compared with the mouths of Vesuvius and Etna—are mere worm holes compared with the spots in the sun. Some of these are 75,000 miles in diameter, so that our own planet might be engulphed in them many times over. We have not yet ascertained the nature of these spots as we have those of the moon. We have, however, weighed the sun, and we have estimated its heat. "Let the sun be considered a globe, as large as 1,400,000 terrestrial globes, and completely covered with a layer of coal seven leagues in thickness. Thus the heat furnished by the com bustion of all this coal would be equal to what the sun annually projects into space." Up to the time of TYCHO BRAME sidereal globes contained only 1,000 stars. Sir WILLIAM HERSCHELL has disco vered in the Milky Way alone 18 million. The light of the stars which form the nebulie in the furthest confines of space has taken two million years to reach us, though travelling 77,000 leagues in a second. Let us turn from the "Infinitely Great" to the "Infinitely Little." The city of Berlin is built upon a stratum of fossil animalcules, so minute that 10,000 could be ranged on the length of an inch, and eleven hundred millions of them would weigh only fifteen grains. With such rapidity do similar animalCules multiply that one of them would produce I a million in twenty-four hours. Richmond, in Virginia, is built upon a deposit of microscopic skeletons several hundred yards deep, and if as many human mummies were laid upon one another, they would form a mountain as high as half the diameter of the 'globe. Paris is built on these infinitesimal creatures, so are the Pyramids and the Sphinx. While the corpses of past generations are being used , to form our cities their living successors are creating continents. The coral insect, which is gradually raising its structure in many a distant sea, will, in the course of ages, completely alter our geo graphy. As soon as the surface of the waves is reached, the insect ceases its work. The waves cover it with floating detritus, in which chance seeds ger minate and form a vegetable deposit, and at last the new land is ready for the lord of creation. We need. not dig in the 'earth, nor venture around the coral reefs, in order to appreciate the immense resources of Nature. All about us are proofs thereof. Man counts but 370 muscles, the caterpillar has more than 4,000. It takes us a second to move one of our muscles, a fly will move its wings 3,600 times in the same period. The fly has 8,000 eyes to our two ; the butterfly has 25,000. A man of average strength can move with difficulty a weight of 441 b. placed horizontally, or less than a third of his own weight ; a mole-cricket can move 375 times its weight. That most unpleasant of bedfellows, the flea, leaps a height of 200 times its own stature ; if man leaped as high in proportion, it would be necessary to build our prison walls thrice the height of St. Paul's. The ant builds huts 20ft. high. The gigantic lycoperdon, or puff ball, acquires in one night a bulk which it takes children ten years to attain, and pro duces 96 million cells every minute. This last fact reveals the astonishing fertility; as the facts of the sidereal universe reveal the boundlessness of Nature. Everywhere, in all departments of Nature, we find the same hymn of praise sung which we shall sing on the coming festival. The heavens, and not only the heaven; but the very dust of the earth also, declare the glory of God and the ever shifting ocean, no less than the solid firmament, sheweth His handiwork. Surely such a work must be worth a portion of that time which hitherto we have given to the loves of the gods and goddesses. Surely, if to know the Metamorphoses of OVID I'S well, to know the Metamorphoses of Nature is better. Human fancy never conceived of any transformation so wonderful as that of the ignoble larva, soiled with mud and filth, into the gorgeous dragon-fly, with its jewelled wings of gauze. The most extravagant fables of poetry are not worthy to be compared, for marvel, with the most ordinary facts of science. We understand that Colonel Bray, 4;h Regiment, has during the past week exhibited his " model in fantry soldiers" to the Adjutant-General, to the Royal Engineers' staff, to the War-office, and to the Pimlico staff. The proposed changes in equipment and dress have been so favourably recAved, and so minutely and carefully examined at the different offices, that it is now tolerably certain they will be brought to the favourable notice of the Minis ter of War, with a view to their being tested I y actual trial. Four companies of the 2d battalion of the 9th Regiment will leave Warley, where the headquar ters of the regiment are now stationed, to-day for the Isle of Grain, opposite Sheerness. Colonel Gerald Graham, C. 8., V.C., R.E , who has been attached to the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, is to proceed to Man chester for duty in the northern district, and Colonel W. L. Morrison has been ordered to Chat ham for duty. Colonel A. C. Cooke, C. 8., and a number of other officers of the Corps of Engineers stationed at Chatham, have received leave of absence for various periods for the Christmas season. Capt. Gwyn, of the Ist battalion of the 21 Reg', ment, stationed at Chatham, is ordered to hold himself in readiness to join the service companies in Bombay. A draught from the depot of the 31st Regi- I ment, stationed at Chatham, which had been or dered to leave that garrison to-day to embark for Malta, to join the service companies at that sta tion, will not leave till the 28th inst. The draught will be under the command of Lieut. Frederick ' Ward. No. 8 Battery, Ist Brigade, Royal Artillery, under the command of Captain J. Kelly, with Second Captain G. F. S. Chambers and Lieutenants J. F. Jenkin and W. S. Poole, is expected to arrive at Portsmouth from the Cape of Good Hope at the end of this month, in the troopship Hitnalaya, Captain S. B. Piers. The embarkation of Royal Artillery and other troops at Portsmouth in the troopship Simoom, Captain T. B. Lethbridge, which was fixed for yesterday, has been deferred to the 28th inst., owing to the unsettled state of the weather. Four complete machines for the manufacture of Boxer's cartridges for breech-loading rifles have been prepared and packed in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, for the use of the Ordnance Depart ments at BonAbay, Madras, and Calcutta. Pack ages are being shipped at the Arsenal as fast as facilities will allow, for conveyance to their destina tion, and on their artival the machinery will be put together, and cartridges made in India in sufli- . cient gimmicks to meet the regular demand, thus saving the expense of the cost of their carriage from England. Sate drill I as been commenced in the Tower ditch by the second battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and it is proposed to continue the exercise weekly during the season. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.— Portrait albums, dispatch boxes, writing cases, dressing cases, dressing bags, envelope cases, blotting; books, i n k s t an d s , desks, stationery cabinets, bookslides, workboxes, tea caddies, bawl bags and reticules, card cases, purses, scent . books, cigar cases, cart trays, pocket books, ornamental articles in china, bronze gilt, and elegantly mounted for mantel shelf, drawing and library tables; bagatelle hoards indoor croquet and indoor games of all kinds; Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Services in every typo Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new and fres t Small articles careiully selected and sent post paid upon pre payment catalogues free. . TEO INQUEST ON THE WELSH FASTING GIRL. Pne inquest on the Welsh fasting girl held on Tuesday ended in an adjournment. In opening the case the Coroner said he intended to call the nurses and the medical gentlemen, and perhaps the father; but the inquiry would not be further extended unless it should be found desirable. The senior nurse was examined for nearly three hours, but stated little which had not been previously published. She was certain that the girl moved her left leg and left arm in her sleep. She told the girl she should let her know when she wanted to pass water. The girl replied that she did it involuntarily, and did not know when. She only once passed excrement, and then only a stain ; no substance. The witness's instructions from the committee were not to offer food, but if it were asked for to give it immediately, and to call in the doctors if any change took pace. The girl did not have anything—not a drop of w.iter—during the eight days of the watching. On the Taestlay, four medical gentlemen visited the deceased. The father refused to allow them to examine the girl's person. She never offered the child food, being told that if she dld so the child would go into a fit. Deceased com p'ained of no pain throughout. She was very restless Lulu Wednesday. The body was cold, and there was d Eculty in keeping her warm. The nurses ceased to watch on Thursday night, seeing that the girl was dying, ald allowed her parents to go to her. Could not say wiether they gave her food; saw none given. The girl el' ed at a few minutes past three on Friday, delirious. Mr. James Thomas, surgeon, Newcastle Emlyn, made the post-mortem examination, with Mr. Phillips, a sun g 'on, in the presence of several medical men on Monday. He examined the body of the deceased, who was said to be alx.ut 12 years and 6 months old. The body measured about 54 inches, was plump, and well-formed, chewing indications of puberty. He opened the head, and found the membranes of the brain considerably injected with blood. The substance of the brain was not very vascular, but was of a perfectly healthy and proper consistence. There was no difference between the sides of the brain, as there would have been if there had been palsy. An incision was made from the top of the chest to the lower part of the body, which displayed fine layers of fat from half an inch to an inch in thickness. There was fat all through the incision. The contents of the chest, lungs, and heart, and the great vessels, were perfectly sound and healthy, though the latter contained ♦ary little blood. The most important part of the examination of the alimentary canal shewed no obstruc tion. There was no stricture from the mouth to the ter mination of the gut. The stomach was opened, and it con tained three teaspoonfuls of semi-glutinous substance, having a slight acid reaction with the test-paper. The small intestines were empty. In the colon and rectum there was about half-a-pound of excrement, in a hard state. The liver was healthy. The gall bladder was con siderably distended with bile. The kidneys and spleen were perfectly sound. The urinary bladder was empty. The body was free from disease, judging from the healthy appearance of the organs. Being questioned, Mr. Thomas stated that he believed part of the excrement had been in the body for a fortnight, and had probably been checked. It was no snore possible that there could be excre ment without food than ashes without fuel. My opinion, if you want it, is that death resulted from want of food or sustenance. I believe the child laboured under hysteria, which frequentlymanifests itself by very extraor Binary freaks, and in her case by refusal to take food before the public.—The Coroner : You mean that if it were offered her when not beforetho public she would take it. — Witness : I have no other conclusion to come to. Mr. J. Phillips, surgeon, agreed with everything in Mr. Thomas's evidence, and added that he found the toe-nails had been recently cut, and also that under the left arm there was a hollow sufficient to conceal a half-pint bottle. He thought the hard portion of excrement next to the rectum had been there for weeks. The intestines got thicker near the rectum. In reply to a juryman, the witness said there was plenty of room for fluid to pass. The hard excrement might have been there five or six weeks. Mr. H. H. Davis, surgeon, Liandyssil, said he first at tended the girl in February, 1867. She was then suffering from internal inflammation in the lower part of the chest, the pleura was inflamed. He treated her accordingly, and she was under his care for six weeks. He prescribed milk diet. She adhered to it for a time. She was not then, he thought, suffering from hysteria or epilepsy. He thought it was catalepsy. There was a rigidity of the muscles of. the left leg. She became much emaciated, and almost a skeleton, and was for one month in a kind of permanent fit. When he saw her he .scarcely knew whether sho was alive or dead. She was almost pulseless. She recovered in a fortnight. He discontinued, his attendance after prescribing her diet. He saw nothing of her until the spring of this year. when she was known as the " Welsh Fasting girl." Ho did not believe her story, and was cue of the committee for watching her to find out the deception. Four men watched for a fortnight, and reported satisfactorily ; but witness believed they were deceived. In compliance with a request, he attended a meeting at Llanfihangelarth about a month s:nce, when it was decided to have four nurses from Guy's Hospital. He was one of the medical committee. Tile instructions to the nurses were not to desire the child to take food or water, but if she asked for them they were to be given to her. He visited the girl on Tuesday last. After five days' watching she appeared weaker. He told her father, who seemed indifferent. He (witness) d'd not suggest any food, because it was against the rules laid clown by the father. He did not think any immediate danger was to be apprehended. Saw her again on Thursday, when she appeared much weaker, and he went to Pencader and saw an uncle of the child named Daniels, and asked him to try and get the father to send the nurses away, or allow them to give her food. He also telegraphed to the medical committee at Carmar then. By the Coroner : Did not ask the father about food, because he knew ho would feel annoyed, and wished first to have a consultation with the medical men.—Coroner : The child might have died in the meantime.—Witness : She was net, I think, in such imminent danger as that. I slw her again on Friday morning, w h en she was sinking Est . I told the parents so, and asked permis sion to give her stimulants. I mentioned brandy and water. The father said in Welsh, " No, nothing ; she cannot swallow ; it would kill her Coroner : Did you believe that ? Witness : I did not know what to believe ; nothing is certain.—The Coroner : Except that the child is dead. You have watched the case; what do you think is the cause of death? Witness : Exhaustion.—The Coroner : Yes ; but exhaustion from what? Witness : Want of nourishment.—The Coroner then read the evidence of Messrs. Thomas and Phillips' post mortem, and asked, " Do you think the childwould have lived if the parents had allowed you to give it stimulants on Friday ? " Witness : I do if they had been given on the day before.—The inquest was then adjourned till Thursday (this day), the coroner stating that it would be competent for the persons believing the story of the girl's fasting to give evidence on that day. Mr. Charles Kendall, who was Assistant-Secretary of the Royal Defence Commission for many years, has been selected to fill the new office of Registrar of Habitual Criminals, under the Habitual Criminals Act. EXTRAORDINARY L O NGEVITY.—The obituary of the Times of the 21st inst., contained some remarkable illustrations of prolonged existence in the case of four ladies and three gentlemen, whose united ages amounted to 590 years, giving an average of' 85 years and rather more than ono month to each of these seven persons. Of the ladies, the youngest was 80 years of age an the oldest had reached the great age of 90. Of the opposite sex the youngest was 85 and the oldest 88 years of age. ENGLISII GIRLS AND INLAIIOMEDAN ADVEN TUItERS.-A. writer in the Indian Daily News, commenting on the case of the young English lady, who married Mussceh-ood-deen, the Queen of Oude's agent in England, and who was afterwards divorced by her husband accord ing to the Mahomedan law, mentions a similar case which occurrel some years ago. " One of the passengers by the Blenheim was a beautiful young lady who had been married to a Mahomedan noble. She was wealthy, and a certain amount of interest attached to her. She evidently fancied she was coming out to reign over either Oude, Cawnpore, Burdwan, or Ooteparah. She had first seen her Mahomedan husband through the grating in the House of Commons. He was bejewelled, and was a young, good-looking man, with a melancholy countenance suggestive of a departed king dom. Sho was the daughter of a banker ; and they mar ried. The individual who received her when the vessel arrived at the Indian port was not prepossessing Her fol io v.--passengers had been looking forward to a display of awabc:lip in her reception ; and she herself was disap pointed. However, she accompanied the dirty 111alican mNlan, entered a [harry, and was driven to one of the filthloA suburlA of the tc,wn, devoted to the followers of tho prophet. At a dirty house there the gliarry stopped, and she beheld her husband at the dcor. There were two or three other wives inside ; but the very appearance of the dwelling was worse than that fact. She was a woman of resolution, and immediately saw the captain of tho vessel in which she had been a passenger. Ho tock her to his agents, who happened. to know the banker of whom this was the unhappy daughter. She went home by the next mail, and it was not long after discovered that the Mahomedan husband was a moonahee in the employ of a native nobleman on a salary of GO rupees a month, who had been sent to England, and provided with jewe's awl funds, with Vgs object of presenting a petition to the 1 luta (2/A4g. • . SPIRIT OP TIM PI7BLIO RITRITALS, THE CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOPS OF I EXETER, BATH AND WELLS, AND TILE 43. I FALKLAND ISLANDS. `i lie archbishop of Canterbury, rays the times, hes applied to the Government to sanction the appointment cf a suffragan bishop to relieve him of part of the burden of his duties. It is expressly stated, however, that tho Arch bishop's request was made quite independently of his illness ; and, in fact, though the Government have acceded to it, no further steps will be taken until it is seen whether his Grace's recovery proves as complete as is now hoped. The request, therefore, comes before us on its merits as proposing a normal arrangement for thn Archdiocese of Canterbury. It amounts to a formal statement by the Archbishop of Canterbury that the work of his office is too much for one man, and that he thinks the appointment of a Suffragan Bishop a proper mode of affording him relief. But, even sup posing some relief to be necessary, we still have to accom modate ourselves to this conception of Suffragans, and we own the task is not easy. It will not lie lightened by the circumstances of the present day. What is a Suffragan? Is he simply an episcopal curate, with the rough work to do and neither the responsibility nor the honour of full episcopal authority? Is he merely to perform ceremonies, and do a certain amount of official routine ? The spectacle of a number of persons thus restricted in their powers will scarcely aCal to the im•sressiveness of the Episcopal Bench, yet we find it difficult to conceive how they can be anything wore important. The human mind, but particularly the eccle siastical mind, has a great regard for authority, and this can be transferred from an actual member of the Bench to such an unintelligible creation as a Suffragan. Above all, a Suffragan Archbishop of Canterbury is as incon ceivable as a Suffragan Pope. We cannot, in short, but fell that this is an experiment, respecting the prospects of which very little is known, and we rather regret that the Archbishop should have given it the sanction of his example. The Bishop of Lincoln is to try it, and it will bo wise to see how it works in his diocese. For this reason it is, perhaps, as well that the actual appointment within the see of Canterbury should be delayed. There will be time for observation, and, perhaps, for mature reflection. The duties, the position, lie incomes of suffragans ought to be more clearly pro videl for before the new episcopal order is formally intro duced among us. If we have come, in short, to such a pass that bishops and archbishops must have suffragans, it will be a groat question whether the time has not come for a general reconsideration of our ecclesiastical arrange ments. The Standard declares that nothing Dr. Temple may now say or do will avail to mitigate the painfully exceptional circumstances under which he was consecrated to the office of a bishop. No explanations which he may now tender —and we cling to the hope that he will at length break th 9 silence which he has maintained in the face of the many and urgent entreaties that he would speak out—can do away with the fact that ho takes his place on the episcopal bench in violent resistance to an amount of pro test such as no other bishop has ever encountered in the whole history of the English Church. It is diffi cult to understand that Mr. Gladstone could have had no other motive in selecting him than a malignant desire at once to outrage the Church and encourage the distaste with which its union with the State is regarded in some quarters. Nothing could tend more effectually to make the union hateful than such a demonstration of the spirit in which the Crown may be made to exercise its prerogative under a a indictive Minister. Thanks to Mr. Gladstone, it is now an established possibility that the bench of bishops may be packed with divines who are m , st repugnant to orthodox Churchmen, and whom. the Church has visited with her heaviest censures. No appeal, no remonstrance, is listened to. The Minister is om nipotent, and no amount of unsoundness is held to disqualify a Radical clergyman who has done good service to his party. The whole Church may rise in indignant protest, but it is powerless against the malice of a single statesman. What is the obvious inference but that the union which subjects the Church to such shame ful indignity is a cause of damage and weakness? If Mr. Gladstone, in spite of his protestations, desires to teach such a lesson, and win fresh converts to the gospel of dis establishment, he could hardly have resorted to a more cogent illustration than he has supplied in the appoint ment of Dr. Temple. He has scandalously abused his power, and the day may come when Churchmen will make him heavily responsible for the mischief he has caused. _ There is no longer any question, remarks the Post, about Dr. Temple's elevation to the Episcopate. That he will make an admirable bishop is the unanimous opinion of his enthusiastic friends. Many who know him only as a public man—ourselves amongst the number—believe that in due time and after some experience, the fervent hopes of his admirers will be realised. But there is no use in concealing that for some time to come ho will be far from a.cseptable, as a bishop, to hundreds of the clergy and leading laity of his diocese. That .his great forco of character, his commanding abilities, his personal qualities, and his huge industry will disarm opposition, dispel suspicion, and win confidence, is as probable as anything in the future can be. But the time is not yet. Very much must depend upon the few first steps taken on his arrival at the scene of his future work. There is a powerful class which no bishop, anxious to discharge his duty successfully, would think of underrating. It numbers some of the best of the clergy and the most influential of the laity in Devon and Cornwall. The conscience of these is offended by the bishop's complicity with "Essays and Reviews." It is unless to call this narrow-minded, as some of the bishop's friends have done. The fact remains. Men can not help their convictions. The bishop will do well to take the conscientious scruples of these earnest men into his reckoning. They have a special claim upon him, after his professions of largo-heartedness. Their present grievance is that he has hitherto entirely ignored them. We have borne testimony to Dr. Temple's high character and defended his appointment; but we cannot defend his reticence, and we press upon him that his very first step on reaching Exeter should be to folios:7 frankly the wise counsel of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and make a full and free statement to his diocese as to his own views and feelings on the questions which have been raised. Should he have the wisdom to follow the Primate's admirable advice we cannot doubt that all distrust, anxiety, and opposition will be at once allayed, and that a future will lie open to him as useful as brilliant, and fame as lasting as it will be well deserved. The Daily News observes that the clerical and episcopal agitation against Dr. Temple's appointment has not only failed, but neither Archdeacon Denison's preposterous prayers, nor Bishop Trower'sfra.ntic efforts, nor the Bishop of Lincoln's protest, have been able to interpose so much as a hindrance in any single step between the nomina tion by the Crown and the consecration by the Bishops. It will be well if the Bishops and clergy of both the great parties in the Church learn the lessons these events should teach them. They are neither the Church nor the nation, nor is it for them to say what shall bo or what the nation shall do. It is not clerical opinion, but national opinion, which must predominate in the Established Church; and a Minister, in bestowing the higher offices of the Establishment, must consider, not the clergy alone, but the nation. It may not be possible that the Church should bo as wide as the whole religion of the English people, but in its ruling elders all the elements of Churchmanship may at least bo represented. Dr. Temple represents an element which is weak among the clergy, but strong among the laity, and his presence among the bishops will bo another sign, which both clergy and laity will understand, that the Church is for the laity, and not the laity for the Church. His appointment has been made the signal for threatened division, but will become a pledge of peace. The storm which has been so industriously raised is already over, and Dr. Temple goes to his diocese with the good wishes and con gratulations of a larger public than were ever before into rooted in an ecclesiastical appointment, and with the prospect of illustrious service in a sphere which greatly needs the presence of a reconciling spirit and the gentle influence of a healing hand. Tho Herald thinks that it becomes daily mere evident that the opinions of those who some years ago were fanatical on the subject of unlimited generosity towards foreign nations, combined with a very grudging policy on their part, have been substantially modified by events. They aro not recanting their free-trade, nor are they indulging in dreams of protection; their object goes no farther than that the commercial policy of the world, insomuch as we can influence it, shall be founded, as all commerce, and indeed all life, is at home, upon a basis of mutual benefits, an exchange of advantages upon fair terms. Progress is being made, and one by one the wholesale disciples of a former day are dropping out of their alle giance. They, or the more rational and honest of them, know perfectly well that no doctrine has been revived implying that this country should be self-supporting in the narrow sense of the term, and altogether independent of foreign importations, whether as article, of food or as the raw materials of industry. So fa from it, a distinct principle recognised is, that no clas of human provisions stroll be weighted with any impost whatever ; and that the utmost encouragement shall bo given to the i m p or t a ti on o f raw materials when they are not produced in sufficient quantities by ourselves. With cheap corn and meat, and cheap mate rials to labour upon, and a tariff which should not lite rally swamp him in many important fields of industry, the workman might natural:3r expect an improvement in his position, which at present is going from bad to worse. But the teaching of the professors `shown he at last repudiate= is, that he should be glad to pay a (!oulle toll on his own productions, and then to see them undersold in his own niaA9,t, by ;he foreigner._ --.4, What a pity it is that Archdeacon Denison was not in London today. Wordsworth (not the I3ishop tut the poet) tells us that kind nature does not always sympathise with us in our moods. She certainly was sympathising,with the Archdeacon of Taunton on Tuesday. It was the shortest day of the year, likewise the darkest ; for in addition to the brevity of sunlight, inevitable at this season, there was a London fog. The sun was blotted out of creation ; the outer world of London streets was hid at first in a fog, through which the lamps glimmered feebly, and afterwards was blurred and blotted with floods of rain. In the Abbey itself the darkness was gross and palpable, and the wax tapers in the chancel stalls, and in the candelabra of the Sacrarium, served only to make the darkness visible. Now and then a feeble, ghastly light struggled through the gorgeous dyes of the great south wheel-window and the new Chaucer vindow but throughout the whole service there was not any ap proach to real daylight. A dark deed, according to Archdeacon Denison, was clone in darkness. • It was certainly not clone in a corner. Tu© whole world WM there to see it. Every seat in the chancel and in the sacrarium was filled, and there was besides a dense throng of witnesses who had to be contented with standing room. Inclement as was the weather the number of ladies was very large. Of clergy there was a great gathering, so far this ceremony was very different from that in Bow Church a fortnight ago. The service was fixed for eleven. Long bcfore that hour the Abbey was crammed. Long after t' at hour the people sat waiting and waiting, listening . _ _ _ - _ for the first note of the organ to herald the a)proaching ceremony. Many and anxious were the looks tuned toward the Western screen. "Why did the wheels of the episcopal chariot tarry so long in coming ?" was fle question on every lip. It was not until nearly the half hour had passed that the first slight swell from the organ told that the procession was at hand. In it passed, through the screen door past the monuments of Newton and Stanhope, a long array. But while they are taking their places, let us ascertain what has happened to delay them. How was it that there had been this unusual delay, and who was responsible for it? Tho three bishops who were about to be consecrated, the Bishops of London, Ely, Worcester, and St. David's, by whom the solemn ceremony was to bo carried out, Dean Stanley,the Dean of Durham, the chaplains of the various bishops. Sir Travers Twiss, the Registrar of the Province, and the registrar of the diocese were present in the Chap ter House, when the Bishop of London said he had been requested by the Archbishop of Canterbury to consecrate Dr. Temple as Bishop of Exeter, and two others who were present ; and he thought it necessary to say a few words with reference to the consecration of Dr. Temple. It was a matter of public notoriety that four protests had been received from comprovincials, viz., the Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol, Hereford, Lichfield, and _ _ Lincoln. It was also stated that four other bishops, although they had not formally sent in protests, dis sented from the consecration, viz., the Bishops of Llandaff, Bangor, Rochester, and Peterborough. There were in the province twenty-one sees, and taking into account the three vacancies and the eight protests, there was still a majority who might fairly be assumed to consent to the carrying out of the ceremony of the consecration. For himself, representing, as he did, the Archbishop on so solemn an occasion, he must say he felt the extreme gra vity of the position, not only on account of the character, learning, and standing of the dissentients, but also because it involved the vital points of the relations between Church and State, and, still speaking for himself, he could not avoid adding that it was a most unfortunate thing that at such a time as this when the gravest questions were arising as to our national Establishment, this commotion had taken place. One of the protesters had asked that the consecration might be deferred, but the consecrating bishops,acting under the commission of his Grace, saw no reason why the ceremony should be deferred. Owing to the lateness of the period at which the protests had arrived, he was deprived entirely of the opportunity of communicating with any of the other bishops except the Bishop of Ely, but he had obtained the highest legal advice, and the effect of that was that there need be no hesitation or ambiguity in the matter. There could be no doubt that, legally considered, the archbishop not only might, but was bound to proceed. The Bishop of Lincoln in his protest did not say whether he thought that a majority of dissentients would bar the consecration, but according to the Council of Nice, a majority for it would bind. The right rev, prelate then quoted the Councils of Nice, Laodicea, and Antioch, also various canons and legal authorities deducing from the whole the fact that a majority of comprovincials being assenting parties to the ceremony, left the Archbishop no choice but to •pro cced. Had there been a majority protesting, he should have felt how extremely difficult his position would have been, but happily this question did not arise. On the previous day he had had the opportunity of counselling some of his comprovincials, and they agreed with the eminent lawyer whose opinion had been taken, that he was bound to proceed with the consecration in accordance with the Queen's mandate and the Archbishop's commission. The Bishops of Ely, St. David's, and Worcester severally said they concurred entirely with what their right rev. brother had said. The parties then proceeded in procession to the Abbey. Probably very few of the vast congregation present were aware of the scene which had just taken place. Certainly there was nothing in the aspect of the person most con cerned to indicate it. He walked with firm step, and if his face were perhaps a little flushed, that might easily have happened to any man about to undertake the most solemn office to which he can be called. Morning prayer had been said at eight o'clock, and FO the present service commenced with the Communion office. The Bishop of London read the first part. The Epistle and the Gospel were of course not those for St. Thomas's Day, but those in the consecration service. The Nicene Creed was sung to Smart in F, and that ended, the Dean's Verger conducted Dean Lake to the pulpit. It will be remembered that he was appointed to his present prefer ment after it had been declined by Dr. Temple. Having read the collect for SS. Simon and Jude, the Dean gave out his text from the Epistle to Titus, ii., 2, 15. The preacher said that these verses form one of those exhortations which contain, in a few words, almost the whole of the Christian doctrine. The one fact of that religion is that Christ is God. Christ and His apostles did not demand belief in any doctrine which did not deal directly with Christ. The two great creeds con tained only the two great cardinal truths—that Christ is tho Son of God, and that He rose from the dead. We have no right on the grounds of faith, reason, or practice to ask of Christian men anything more I than was asked in the times when martyrdom was the test of sincerity. Referring to three bishops about i to be consecrated, (Lord Arthur Hervey, Bath and Wells, W. H. Stirling, Falkland Islands,and Dr. Temple, Exeter), Dean Lake said that the two first of them had by their lives well prepared themselves for the life of self-denial which was before them. Then with somewhat faltering voice, he added, I wish I could dare to say all that I think of the other. In a few brief words he spoke of , Dr. Temple's earnestness, sincerity, and deep humility, to which he could bear witness after an acquaintance of many years. Never has there been a time when there was more need to think of these qualities. It is .not sad that men should differ; being different members, though of the same body, it is inevitable that they should differ. What is sad is that we do not allow liberty for these differences which have arisen in the good providence of God. It is a fault of which we aro all guilty, let us therefore apply it to our selves, not to others, and seek hereafter more effectually to keep the unity of the Spirit in a bond of peace. There was this liberty in the earliest and best days of the Church. If ever there was a champion of ortho doxy it was Athanasius, if ever there was one who protested against heresies it was that great Bishop of Alexandria. Yet when men told him that Basil was not fit to be a bishop, that he was in communion with heretics, he exacted nothing from Basil but a confession of belief in the two creeds, and wrote to him that he would be most glad to receive him as a bishop. The Dean having descended from the pulpit, the verger conducted the bishops elect to Islip Chapel, near the Sacrarium, where they put on their rockets, the choir meanwhile singing Ousley's anthem, " How Goodly are thy tents" Returning, they wore presented by the assistant-bishops to the Bishop of London, who sat in front of the altar in tho Arch bishop's chair. The Litany was then sung, Dean Stanley saying the concluding prayer, and offering the Arch bishop's thanks for:that measure of restoration to health which had been afforded to him. The ceremonial iper then proceeded. It reached its culminating point of solemnity during the singing of the " Vein Creator" this time the dim light had become dimmer, and all was seen through the yellow haze of the many lights burning before the altar. The three Bishops Elect, Dr. Temple in the middl e , knelt before the consecrating bishops, who, with hands clasped, and heads slightly bent, doubtless felt the gravity of their position. The ceremony of laying on of hands was performed separately with each bishop, and the charge was repeated separately to each. Dr. Temple was the first to receive the imposition, and just as the sacred words of consecration had been uttered, the great bell of the Clock Tower boomed forth half-past one. The Com munion office was then proceeded with, and a v ery large number of persons remained to communicate with the now prelates. The proceedings did not termi nate till about three o'clock, having lasted nearly four hours. The very extensive Distillery now beintl erectl at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manTlfactur.eed Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE & Co., who have ga in to a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish wh isk y , IS to called "The Royal Irish Distillery." lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. MORNING. EVENING 4 WEDNESDAY 10 min past 4 ...... 28 min past 6 THURSDAY FRIDAY 50 min past 4 ...... 10 min past, 4 35 min past 5...... 0 min pa st 6 SATURDAY "6 miu past 6 ...... 50 min past / SUNDAY MONDAY .. '2 min past 8 ...... 57 min past /0 I CESDAY, „,. ; 20 min pant 9 10 rail' Vaist 2,027 410 ' 7 1111 1 ta v vier , ,(1,11 HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Dec. 21. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Beatrie,e, went out in the grounds ,his morning. Princess Louiee walked in the grounds yester day afternoon. LATEST INTELL lUENO (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEIV YORK, Dec. 21. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1201 ; the highest quotation dur ing the clay was 120 - 1 ; the lowest, 1191. Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 -) 44 " 1885 llll. 14 " 1867 ll4. 10-40 it Illinois Erie Cotton—Mid. upland... Petroleum—Standard White 3lc. Flour, extra state, $5.10c. to $5.70c. Corn, old mixed, $1.14c. According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s report the receipts of cotton for the last four days, at all ports, have been 64,000 bales; shipments to England, 34,000 bales ; to France , 7,000 bales; and to the Continent, 4,000 bales. Middling, 11 3-16, freight and cost per steamer. CROOKIIAVEN, Dec. 21, 9.30 a.m. The Inman steamer City of Paris, from New York on the 11th inst., is now passing Browhend Signal Station en route for Queenstown. BR ST, Dec. 22. The Transatlantic Company's mail steamer Pereire arrived here to-day at one a.m., with 98 passengers and $92,000 in specie. CANADA. THE RED RIVER INSURRECTION. TORONTO, Dec. 21. Despatches received here from Red River settle ment are unfavourable. The insurgents eontinus to show a determined resistance to the authorities , and have seized the prominent Canadian syniPa thisers in the settlement, and taken possession of a fort situate opposite Pembina. Colonel Dalnis is reported to be retreating. BAVARIA. MUNICH, Dec. 21. It is stated that llerr von Braun, Councillor of State in the Ministry of Commerce, has been appointed Minister of Interior ; and Herr von Lutz, the Minister of Justice, will definitively fulfil the functions of Minister of Public Worship in addi tion to the duties of his present office. A USTRIA. VIENNA, Dcc. 21. It is stated here that no European Power ha s either made or received any proposal for disar mament. THE BRAZILS. RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 2. The Government has contracted a loan with the Bank of Brazil for 25,000 contos of refs in apolices of one conto. Five thousand contos a rc to be paid immediately to the Government at 80, bear ing six months' interest payable in January, balance is to be paid by April at 77, the interest on which will be due in July. Advices from Paraguay state that numerous small engagements occurred at Ygatemyuses, an d that Lopez's last resources in the North bad been cut off. Private letters from the seat of war assert that he is now in despair in consequence' of the de moralisation of his forces and want of provisio 3 a . The Oneida arrived here to day. FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. 2 1 . The rumour that General Fleury is about t° ,eave St. Petersburg and return to France is totally unfounded. M. Strat, the Roumanian Diplomatic Agent, leas delivered a letter to the French Government Doti fying the marriage of Prince Charles with th e Princess Elizabeth of Wied. M. Strat will leave Paris this morning for Brus sels and the liague to deliver a letter bearing °'(/ same import to those Courts. Intelligence received from Madrid states tha t immediately after the reassembling of the Cortex the Government will appoint a certain period, af ter which the candidature of the D u k e o f Genoa I ' 6ll be abandoned unless it is officially accepted by the Italian Government. Th e same a d v ices state that rumours are current that a reconciliation has ta ker' place between the Duke of Montpensier and Queer' Isabella. Should this rumour be confirmed the major portion of the members of the Liberal-1111i° will coalesce with the Progressist party. BOURSE, Dec. 21.—Three o'clock—The war° closed as follows : 44 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 72 GO Credit Mobilier 215 Transatlantic 234 25 Credit Foncier 1725 Paris Gas 1640 Bank Italian Sh v a i r v e e s s ................. :70 Austrian Five Ottoman Loan 326 Do. Debt......... u 4 ~ Spanish Threes 265 Home Debt...... Deferred ...... ..• ..... ...,.. Cash ... 960 Orleans , Western Northern Strasburg • • ****** 1 9 519 8 2 5 °71 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 595 Sardinian Austrian 81 7; Lombard 535 46 North of Spain 6O Saragossa Roman RAILWAYS. Dr. John Grant Stewart, C. 8., late Director- General of the Medical Department of the Nall' died on the 17th inst. The lamented gentleman en k tered the navy as assist.-surg., and obtained the ran of surgeon in 1840. He was specially promoted ,0 be Deputy-Inspector in 1845, for having v° ltin teered his services to go on board and take charge 1. the infected patients in th e E c l a ir. In June, 186 c i he was made an Inspecto r -G ene r a l of Hospitals anl Fleets, and for a short period was Director -Genera of the Medical Department of the NavY , fc° . l o. which department h e h a d to retire through 1.. health. He was gran t e d a goo d service pension 17. April last, and i n J une thi s y ear was made a 6°93 panion of the Order of the Bath for his civil sec vices, M COMM The Stoc creasing he dull at yest 4 to the sueet . No change Constructio recovered 5 Conso's ditto, for doted, 91; Exchequer 2 6 prem. ; prem. ; J 41 per Celli India Stc ditto 5 per per Cent., 51 per Cent The Fut arc 411 to and the Ne 28i ; Italia Peruvian, 8 Portuguese American the 1865 B( 85 ; the 1E Forties, 82i Illinois 991 In the RI Caledonian Great Nort 110 ; Great Yorkshire, 47f to 471 to Isf ; Lo, Loudon an politaus, 83 Eastern (I Eastern, 77 For Ban] Agra (A eh Anglo-Ausi 16k to 161 Loudon at Westminste London Jc London, S 7 Telegrapl now 35i to American, Cents, Great Lu 12f to 12f ; to 21. The Corz There we terday. The City brought £5; The tone favourable, year. Mon dente is en Liberal Go` From Ita factory and ceived from The Man with increas A bill h Parliament fix a date f, bonds whict that the bo months steal The dire( recommend annum on t 1 and also an on the £lOO A telegra . of the Pata Company's Buenos Ayr was firm at was that Lc were in a s food. 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