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F OR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and CON hare male preparations, oft an unusually large scale, in every depart ment cl their business. For trades and ad dresses, see following advertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. ;The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be found in every article sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready.made. or made to measure, for all ages, and all Masses. Commodious apartments for measnring Ind fitting in the spacious and elegant Show dooms, which contain a very large and diver sified stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and puneuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced 1.7 E. MilS ES and SON enables theta to guarantee a faultless tit. Ord , ,rs from persons wbo are not known to II:a firm should accompanied by a remit taper., or a London reference. Any article, not worn or injured will he cheerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the .nonev will be returned. All Good.; are marked in Plain Figures, From which no abatement can he made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats nn.l Caps. and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap- Hess. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-men sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES s^ 1 SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailor-, H bitmakers, Woollendrapers, llatters, B Eder , foot and Shoe Mannfac turns, and G • nerd Ontfitters for all Classes. on rug are the only addresses of E. MOSES 'no foil and SON: LONDnN. CITY EST NB LISIIIIE.IIT. 155. 11INORIES OA, 111NORIF.8 157, AI INORIES 83, A LDG AT E 8.1, ALDO ATE 85. ALDeI ATE ALPGATII 87. ALDGAT 88. ALDGAT 1 1 ; S 9, ALDO ATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 504 NEW OXFORD-STREET MO7, NEW OXFORD-STREET NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENIT AM-COURT-ROAD ERAIcCII. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 1:14, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 183, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 'TITAN NIA FIRE ASSOCIATION TTead Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishirez fentnres of this Association are Equitable Rates Undoubted Security. rrompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Yenr ending Roth June, 1869, re-ha at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA 1-tITF,, ESQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The Report which the directors have now to submit to the proprietors differs in its tenor but little save in ono or twc particulars from that laid before then, in 1868. The income of the year, it will be seen, amounts to £510,499 18s., and the total charge to .£145,077 10s. 9d. The difference, £95,422 7s. 3d., added to the balance of the surplus fund at the commencement of the financial year, raised that item to £1,002,974 15s. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, JUNE 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. ,C s. d. £ s. d Balance of account, 30th June, 1863 Premiums on new assur ances Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 907,L52 8 6 371,518 12 1 Interest from investments 120,939 12 10 492,508 4 11 Profit and loss, balance of account 47,991 13 1 TOZAL Inconm &;;0,400 13 0 X',148,052 6 G Examined and approved. T ROM A S ALT EN,I r Auditors, HENRY ROSE, ) • CHARGE OF THE I EAR, R. X F . d. £ a. d. 8,880 4 0 'Dividend to proprietorA .31:ihns on ddeettso of lives assured .thlitions to those under participating policies 21,304 6 6 !uncles surrendered 3,e-assurances new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 405.561 12 1 Commission 3ledical fees Income ta x 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 9 10 436,187 6 9 Total charge Balance of account, Juno 30, 1869, as per balance-sheet £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. Id., of which sum £13,560 ss. id. is for new assurances effected in the year. _ _ _ The inter, st from investments is £120,959 12s. 10d., or £4 2s. per ceLt. on the net amount of the company's realised assets existing in June, 1868 ; and in connection with this important feature of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and loss Recount again exhibits a considerable profit, amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000. It may be remembered that, a profit of nearly equal amount was announced in last year's report. Turning to the items constituting the charge of the year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material; as was observed o i a previous occasion, the proper quin quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex- . ceeds .£30,000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management aro greater by nearly £BOO than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the company's securities into tho names of additional trus tees. Tpken as they are, however, those expenses must be regarded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET, JUNE 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured, and £6,757 17 0 additions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' fund Surplus fund £7,675,813 Q 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. lIENRY ROSE, ASSETS. Amount invested in fixed mortgages £1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,5.57 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 Ditto ditto Temporary secu rities 198,207 17 0 Cur rent interest on the above investments 30,934 4 6 Cash and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the company's policies 166,387 1 8 Agents' balances Sundry accounts Value, of premiums (1867) Value of re-assurances 85,706 14 5 £7,675,813 0 10 The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95,422 :'d. Already mentioned, as is shown by tha augmentation to that extent lu the balance of the surplus fund. • . _ The Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows: — WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairman. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Itoddington, Esq. Philip Bose, Esq. C , ,aries lItaifi:•1(1, Esq. goorgo Russell, Esq. Si rJ. Fast, Bt., D.C.T. - 1 booms Godfrey Sambrook , , Wm. Augustus Guy, M. D., I Esq. I Admiral Tindal. Char!e,Thos.llulcombe,Esq Right [lon. Sir John You n g Joshua Lrcliwo I , ,d, Esq. Bart., K.C.B. THE sINGER" SEWING MACHI NES. TEE NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-ETITCII AND THE NEW EMBIZOIDEEY- STrCII. Woe; by Tia:.a and Trea , ll;,and in a Portable Caro for TraTelling. TuE " SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS TILE BEST SYSTEM AND TIIE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. Thep ;altar simplicity of thew. 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'The graceful, yet vigorous, illustrator of Tomahawk•, Mr. MATHEW MORGAN, has but just now indicated, by a most effec ive cartoon, the growing impression among all reasonable men and i women in this country as to the character of that monstrous and wholly unjustifiable attempt, on the part of a sensational magazine writer, to blast the reputation of the very greatest, the second or third greatest, among the poets of England. The scorn excited by that detestable slander, a scorn expressed first of all here and there by single voices, is rising ud spreading, is now echoing and re-echo ing in choral emphasis, in all directions. Evidence of the utter groundlessness cf the accusation is rapidly accumulating and multiplying. In opposition to the detestable charge directed against the memory of Lord BYRON by the author of " Uncle Tom's Cabin," we have now the most recent among all these evidencea placed before us— through a letter addressed to the Times by Lord LINDSAY, the son and heir of the Premier Earl of Scotland, JAMES LINDSAY, the twenty-fourth Earl of Crawford and Balcarres—we have solemn and, as we cannot but think of itself, perfectly conclusive evi dence, adduced from the autograph or holograph manuscripts of the late venerable and beloved author of the world-famous ballad of "Auld Robin Gray." Lady ANNE BARNARD—sacrum ac venerabile nomen— born in 1750, and dying in her seventy-fifth year, in 1825, was daughter of another, and long antece dent JAMES LINDSAY, an earlier Earl of BALCARRES. Married to the Librarian of King GEORGE M.—Sir ANDREW BARNARD—Lady ANNE won immortality t) her name by one song. Happily she wrote some thing else besides " Auld Robin Gray," and that something else links her name with the poetic glory of the greatest poet of this last century. Among the ricordi or private family memoirs of the Ears of CRAWFORD and BALCARRES are treasured up certain autograph, or, as we have said, holograph, papers from the hand of the Lady ANNE BARNARD. From these manuscripts, Lord LINDSAY has now generously made some extracts, for the generosity of the publica tion of which, so very opportunely at this marnent, we cannot but at once express our most grateful ap preciation. As Lord LINDSAY reminds his readers, through the limes of this morning, Lady ANNE was the contemporary an 1 friend of such men as EDMUND BURKE and WILLIAM WINDHAM. Dying, as she did, as we have just now said, in 1825, she wrote what Lord LINDSAY here lays before the public, very shortly before her own death, at the age of seventy-five, and almost immediately after Lord and Lady BYRON'S lamentable separa tion. Lord LINDSAY begins by saying—" I have waited in expectation of a categorical denial of the horrible charge brought by Mrs. BEECHER STOWE against Lord Ilvuox and his sister, on the alleged authority of the late Lady th - nox." And then refer ring to the letter addressed by Messrs. WHARTON and FORDS to ourselves, and several others among our contemporaries, his lordship speaks of that communication as a denial of this very infamous charge only " indirect" in its character. "That letter," he says, "is sufficient to prove that Lady BYRON never contemplated the use made of her name, and that her descendants and representatives disclaim any countenance of Mrs. B. STOWE'S article ; but it does not specifically meet Mrs. STowE's allegation that Lady BYRON in conversing with her thirteen years ago affirmed the charge now before 113. It remains open, therefore, to a scandal-loving world to credit the calumny through the ad'jantage of this flaw, involuntary, I believe, in the answer produced against it. My object," Lord LINDSAY then goes on to say, " is to supply that deficiency by proving that what is now stated ou Lady BYRON'S supposed authority is at variance in all respects with what she stated immediately after the separation, when everything was fresh in her memory in relation to the time during which, accord ing to Mrs. B. STOWE, she believed LORD BYRON and his sister were living together in guilt." After this we have the extracts from Lady ANNE BARNARD'B own autograph memorials, including among them an unpublished letter addressed to her by Lady BYRON immediately after the lamentable incidents of the separation. " I publish," writes Lord LINDSAY, " this evidence with reluctance, but in obedience to tha's higher obligation of justice to the voiceless and defenceless dead which bids me break through a re serve that otherwise I should have held sacred. The Lady BYRON of 1818 would, 1 am certain, have sanctioned my doing so had she foreseen the present unparalleled occasion, and the bar that the condi tions of her will present (as I infer from Messrs. WHARTON and FORDS' letter) against any fuller communication. Calumnies such as the present sink deep and with rapidity into the public mind, and are not easily eradicated. The fame of one of our greatest poets, and that of the kindest, and tructt, and most constant friend that BYRON ever had [meaning his now infamously maligned sister, the Hon. AUGUSTA LEIGH, Wife of Colonel LEIGH] is at stake; and it will not do to wait for revelations from the fountain-head, which are not promised, and possibly may never reach us." There fore we have the passages thus introduced to our notice, and transcribed by Lord LINDSAY from Lady ANNE'S autograph. They are too lengthy for extract here, in this place, but having read them through most carefully, and with scrupulous and searching attention, we cannot but echo the emphatic comment made upon the whole by Lord LINDSAY himself, when he says—" In the face of the evidence now given, positive, negative, and circumstantial, there can bo but two alternatives in the case—either Mrs. B. STOWE must have entirely misunderstood Lady BYRON, and been thus led into error and misstatement, or we must conclude that, under the pressure of a lifelong and secret sorrow, Lady BYRON'S mind bad become clouded with an hallucination in respect of the particular point in question." That sentence, we take it, is conclusive. THE change which is now being made in the posi tion of Great Brituin towards her dependencies has apparently given much alarm to the inhabitants of certain colonies. Tha nature of that change is per fectly clear, and the principles on which it is founded ought, one would think, to prove satisfactory even to our countryinen beyond seas. Now that most of the British settlements are rapidly rising to maturity, the mother country can no longer bear certain . burdens from whi c h th e t ax -p a y er at home derives no benefit whatever. We are willing to defend the colonies in time of denier, but we cannot afford to keep up costly military establish mg, is during g period of profound peace, England's connection with her descendants is in no respect severed ; were they assailed by any foe, the mother country would at once take action; but, as a general rule, the colonists themselves must pay for their own necessaries of political life. That the Englishman should be taxed for the protection of Anglo-Saxon settlers on the other side of the globe, who in most cases are much better off than their brethren at home, is altogether an obsolete theory. The colonists do not apparently deny the justice of this reasoning; but they are impressed with the fear that the policy now inaugurated is merely the beginning of far more extensive designs—that, in short, England meditates casting off her dependencies as useless burdens, and leaving them, young and defenceless as they are, to their fate. Beyond doubt this fear is groundless. There is a wide difference between abandoning the colonies and refusing to supply them with idle regiments of soldiers. It is, however, not unnatural that even the latter charge should at first sight appear alarming, and that it should induce the young Anglo-Saxon States to seriously consider their future course. In fact, this fear is to some extent grati- Eying to Englishmen. It proves that the bond of union between the old. and the new countries is one to which the rapidly rising colonies still cling, and which they are unwiling to break. It is worthy of note that the excitement which this great question has created has led to no vapouring talk about inde pendence. It is gratifying to find that the colonists are not desirous either to be left alone or to cast in their fortunes with the United States. Nor has the discussion led only to these two negative decisions. Finding that they are too weak for independence, and that unionwith America would gain nothing—perhaps lose much—some of the leading colonists have put forward a project which, though too vast to pro nounce upon hastily, deserves the fullest conside ration. It is suggested that the new policy be accepted, and that the present dependencies should, as semi independent States, be united with England in a Great British Confederation. An alliance at least as close as that between the States of North Germany should be proclaimed between Great Britain (with India), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the lesser settlements. This is undoubtedly a great idea but, unlike most such ideas, it offers many advan tages. In the first place all the members of this Confederation would be upon tolerably equal terms. We should not be expected to send garrisons for the sole purpose of profiting the shopkeepers of colonial towns. But in the case of extremity, Great Britain would be expected to contribute its share— and, as the head of the Confederation, this would be the largest share—towards the defence of any assailed dependency. On the other hand, the colonies must in the hour of danger lend reciprocal assistance to us. It is possible that for many years to come these benefits of this alliance, in a military sense, would be reaped chiefly by the colonists. But their strength is rapidly increasing ; their power must accumulate in a greater ratio than ours. Moreover, the settlements have even now a good deal to offer in return. They can give us a preferential share in their trade, which England could not look for if things follow their natural course, and the colonies became independent. It would be a prime stipulation in the agreement that a limit to commercial tariffs, so far as members of the Con federation are concerned, must be strictly observed. Some of the leading men of the young States express the belief that in return for fair terms from the old country the colonies would give up the high duty policy which they are now adopting. More than this it may be reasonably inferred that the very know ledge of England's being not alone, but supported by a vast array of allies in all parts of the world would give the foreign policy of this country an importance, which it may now be in danger of losing. The very essence of the Confederate scheme is a full realisation of the maxim, si vis apcent Para belluin. The Union would preserve its members from the necessity of war ; the very capability to contend with all corners would keep aggressors back. It' is a great merit of the new scheme that perfect flexibility is preserved. The colonies would gain in strength and stature without re striction. They could either preserve their present connection with Britain or could become formally in dependent, their position as members of the Confede ration remaining quite unchanged. As the power of each increased, it is natural to conclude that the inter ference of the home Government in their domestic affairs would proportionately decrease. But this change could have no effect upon the principles of the Con federation, which would be a " Bund," as the Germans call it, for the promotion of trade, and a security against foreign aggression. It may be urged that the co-operation of the military resources of States scattered all over the , world could not be looked for. This objection would apply only to armies, not to fleets. And it may be answered that in the case of small difficulties the obligations of any State could be discharged by the payment of a subsidy instead of despatching a force. It would be only in the direst extremities that the actual military aid of every member would be called upon ; and then, if the scheme is to be worth any thing, it must be given. It may, again, be pleaded that such an alliance will render it impossible for us to go to war without consulting our numerous allies. This is true, but only to a certain eltent. In the case of great enterprises it would be necessary to consult the Confederation ; but we anyfe undertaking of mag rring to the opinion of i c a i t n u n d o e t n e e n w t er w t h u upon deferring somebody. In the Crimean war England was in great measure dependent on the good-will of France. The principal difficulty would be to establish an agreement upon terms perfectly equal to all parties. But it is clear that the advantages of such a Confedera tion are so great that the idea ought not to be aban doned without grave deliberation. One merit of the scheme would alone counterbalance many objections. It would give Britain and her subordinates a supre macy on the sea which no other State, not even America, could hope to rival. TIIE speech of Prince NAPOLEON in the French Senate has come opportunely to signal the downfall of personal government and the establishment of constitutional rule in its place. The recent outburst of Liberal ideas languished, as might have been ex pected, when that Conservative body, the Senate, got the EMPEROR'S reforms into its hands. The Senators are all old Imperialists, nominated by the Sovereign, and have clearly nothing to gain by destroying a form of government under which they derived all their importance. Some impetus was needed to rouse these reluctant legislators to their task, and this the Prince has undoubtedly supplied. After a long period of silence, the EMPEROR'S cousin has, in a daring speech, once more proclaimed himself the champion of Liberal principles in France. This character, indeed, has always consistently maintained. He has upheld the government of his relative ; but he has claimed that it should conform to the spirit of the age. Prince NAPOLEON has always regarded personal rule with disfavour; lie has supported a con sistent foreign policy, anclh as unflinchingly denounced the course of attempting to prop up the Porn by , French bayonets. Now the tide seems turning in his favour. The Empire is rapidly becoming a con stitutional monarchy ; but the transition is yet far from complete, and the Prince thinks it ought to be accelerated. Great as are the concessions recently made, they are not great enough. The . Prtnw z would complete and extend them, would refrain from intervention in the elections, would grant uncontrolled local government, and would repeal the power of arbitrary arrest now held by the oxecutiva. In short he holds to the belief that if the so\ erei ;a put mo trust in France, France would have greater confidence in the sovereign. It may be that the French nation is not fitted for con stitutional government; and that English institu tions trauraplaated urea,' the elianue would speedily wither. Put what evidence is there in' favour of this presumption ? Notwithstanding all that has been said against fastening the institutions of one country upon another, -it is certain that a modified form of the English constitutional system has of late been established in almost every country of Europe with good results. And why not in France ? Prince NAPOLEON seems to have confi dence in the experiment, and it is now likely that his advice will prevail. The recent illness of the EMPEROR has brought a great danger home to all men. If the EMPEROR should die, what would become of France ? If the people ruled with the EMPEROR at their head, few persons would wish to destroy a system which might prosper with out him. If the sovereign died the rule of the peo ple would still be left, and there would be little to be gained by setting aside his dynasty. But under personal government the removal of NAPOLEON would leave a blank, which the people might be tempted to fill up by the establishment of a Govern ment in which the family now ruling would have no share. (774 tpiTh Ze) 7 HER MAJESTY. IN VERTR OSSAC lIS, Sept. 5. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, has made several excursions in the neighbourhood. LA.TEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, Sept. G. The Guion steamship Minnesota arrived out yesterday. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1371 ; the highest quotation due mg the day was 1371 ; the lowest, 1361. Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1221, cc " 1885 l2ll. 14 " 1867 l2Ol. 10-40 is, Illinois Erie 33g. Cotton—Mill. upland 3sc. Petroleum—Standard White 32lc. Flour, extra state, $6.45c. to $7.5c. Corn, old mixed, $1.20c. ROUMANIA . BUCHAREST, Sept. 6. Prince Charles leaves for Vienna to-morrow on a visit to the Emperor of Austria, and will proceed thence to Switzerland to visit his family. His Highness will afterwards go to Paris, Brussels, and Berlin, to the Sovereigns representing the protect ing Powers of Roumania. :SPAIN. MAD RID, SErT. 6 (Evening). The last band of Carlists in the province of Gerona has disappeared. A telegram from Genoa' Caballero de codas, Governor General of Cuba, announces the disper sion of the insurgents in the Central district. WEST AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, Sept. 7. The West African mail steamer Don arrived here this morning. here dales are—Old Calabar July 26, Camoroons 27, Bonny 29, Benin Aug. 2, Lagos 4, Jdllah Coffee 6, Accra 7, Sherbro, 15, Sierra Leone, 16, Bulama 18, Teneriffe 28, Madeira 30. At Old Calabar trade was brisk and health good. Trade was dull and health good at Came roons. Bonny was also healthy and trade brisk. The health of Benin, Sherbro, Sierra Leone, Bul ama, and Madeira was good. No other news of importance. FILINCE. PARIS, Sept. 7. The Official Journal of this morning says : " The alarming rumours respecting the Emperor's health, which were current at the Bourse yesterday, and appear to have originated with foreign speculators, have no foundation. The Emperor is up every day and transacts business as usual, and although the rheumatic pains still continue his Majesty's health has never caused the least uneasiness. BounsE, Sept. 6.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 44 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent _7O 15 'End of month 71 35 Credit Mobilier 2OO Transatlantic 270 Credit Fonder l6OO Paris Gas 1580 -- RAILWAI Bank Shares 2855 Italian Fives 52 -- Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 43 Spanish Threes 27 75 Home Debt — Deferred s. Cash Orleans ... 940 Western Northern Strasburg • • 595 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6OO Sardinian Austrian Lombard 483 North of Spain Saragossa Riinan 52 'THE PROSECUTION OF CAPT. CRAIG. To-day at Pow-street Police-court, Captain Ninian Craig, late Governor of Pentonville Prison, was placed before Mr. Flower, the bitting magis trate, charged with embezzling £690, the property of her Majesty the Queen. It will be recollected that a few days ago the prisoner was arrested at Liverpool by Inspector Shaw of the detective department, and it transpired that after the prisoner eluded the constable at Cardiff two years ago he succeeded in getting to America, where he for some time carried on a very prosperous business, but anxious to re-visit the old czuntry, he returned but a few weeks ago, and shortly afterwards he was apprehendeded as stated above. Mr. Poland, who appeared on the part of the Treasury to prosecute, said the prisoner was ap pointed governor, in 1856, with a salary of £4OO, with a rise of £lO per annum, and a free house ; and although the Guarantee Society had made good the prisoner's defalcations, the Government had thought it right to the public to prosecute the official who had betrayed his trust. Hav ing read a letter written by the prisoner shortly after li4s absconding, which stated that he had "been led step by step by a villain to take the public money," the learned gentleman called the governor of Brecon Prison, who proved the trans mitting £22 to the prisoner, of which n o entry appeared iu his books. Mr. Poland said owing to the difficulty of getting witnesses together after such a lapse of time, he had to ask for another remand of the prisoner, which Mr. Flower at once assented to. The prisoner, during the proceedings, had a most dejected look. PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation ol gold at Paris is about at pnr, and t'te short exchange on London is 'ed. Vie. per £1 Oncenvaring these rates with the English Mint price of 128.104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appeArs that gold at the above price is nearly 1-10th:dearer itt London than in Paris. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight was on the 30th u1t.104 per cent. At this rate there /5 no profi t_Cl3, the tramp:anion of gold from the United States. THE DOCKYARDS. It is now confidently asserted that in addition to closing Woolwich and Deptford Dockyards the Government has decided on the abolition of Sheerness as a naval establish ment as soon as the requisite arrangements connected with the chancre can be carried out. The only dock yards and naval establishments which will thus be retained are those at Chatham, Portsmouth, Devonport, and Pembroke. The Government, by the abolition of Woolwich, Deptford, and Sheerness dockyards, only give effect to the recommendation of the committee which sat some time since, in concentrating the whole of the naval resources of the kingdom at some three or four large dockyards. For some years past Sheerness has been allowed to sink into the position of ono of the minor dock yards, the large establishment at Chatham, some few miles higher up the Medway, monopolising nearly the whole of the building and fitting of the ships of our ironclad squadrons, whilst the completion of the vast basins and docks now in course of formation at that port will leave no necessity for the retention of Sheerness as a separate naval establishment. As to the use to which Sheerness Dockyard may ultimately be put, nothing definite would appear to be decided, but it seems probable that it will be retained as a place for depositing naval stores. The period for closing the dockyard at Woolwich is fixed for the Ist of October, when the whole of the mechanics and other hands employed at the establishment will be discharged. Already a number of the established work men have been transferred to Chatham - god:yard, and the remainder will be sent to that and other dockyards as vacancies occur at those establishments. THE COMING ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. At the Roman Catholic pro• Cathedral, Kensington, on Sunday night, the Very Rev. Monsignere Capel delivered his third lecture on this subject. Tie said since the pro mulgation of the decree convoking the council special prayers had been offered by the ministers of the Church and the laity throughout the world, invoking the assistance of the Holy Spirit. The chief object of the council would be to decide certain matters of discipline adapted to the wants of the present day. For a long period the subjects to be treated of in the council had been investigated in Rome by ecclesiastics of the highest eminence ; and in order that nothing may divert their attention, but one subject has been given to each. The council will draw its information from two sources, Scripture and tradition. They would concede to Scripture that which was its due, but no more, since Scripture could not of itself be an unerring guide. Out of the twenty-two Gospels, &c., written, but four were decreed canonical, although some of the Gospels had been written by the Apostles. Even those who differed from the Church claimed a right to interpret Scipture by a fixed rule. The Catholic Church was one which permitted the use use of the reason; if it did not, he would not remain therein one moment. The greatest converts had still been per mitted the exercise of their reasoning faculties. The conncil would frame decrees whiat would be issued to the world, and which it would be sinful to controvert. But why should the decree be received ? Were frail, sinful men, then, infallible? Yes ; for though they were not impeccable, yet when, after having with prayer investigated the matter brought before them. they were compelled by God's Holy Spirit to speak the truth. As a just Being, God would not permit the prayers of over 200 millions of His creatures to be fruitless. Cardinal Cullen has ordered a special three:days' thanksgiving in the Dublin chapels for tho "putting of an end to ascendancy" by the Legislature. The bishop of Carlisle still continues very ill. his lordship has removed from tho south to his episcopal resi dence at Rose Castle, near Carlisle. A very sad accident is reported from Castletown, Isle of Man. .An open boot, it appears, capsized with two gentlemen, near Port St Mary, and both of them were drowned. A porter in the employ of the Halifax and Hud dersfield Bank, at the last-namod town, disappeared on Fri day, taking with Lim more than £2OO belonging to the bank. His name is Hallos, and he is about 23 years of age. The advocates of an amnesty for the Fenian pri soners are encouraged to hope for the E uccess of their movement by a letter from Mr. GiadEtono received by their secretaries in Dublin, in which the Premier assures them that "he will not fail to give his most earnest attention to tho important question." The other day Mr. W. W. Woodhead, a Yorkshire deputy-corner, received information of the death of a man who had been injured in tome blasting operations. Ile directed that a jury rhould to•summoned, and an inquest held the next day. At the time appointed he proceeded to the place, and to his amazement found that the deceased had been interred. lle took the jury to the graveyard, Lad the body exhumed, and then formally opened the inquest. The interment Lad taken place in censequenee of the re gistrar Laving improperly given a eef Client° of the muse of death. Tire AMERICAN F 1 NIA The R►ev. Paul Bagley, American missionary, has left London, and sails by the Aleppo for the United States, to lay before the President a correspondence with Mr. Gladstone and ahem Mr. Bagley was the bearer of a petition for the release of the American Fenian prisoners, signed by a number of members of the two Rouses of Congress, and by about thirty members of Parliament. Her Majesty has commanded the issue of Letters Patent under the Great Seal conferring the dignity of Knight of the United Kingdom on Mr. William E. Drake, of Oatlands Lodge, in the county of Surrey. This, it is understood, has been done at the instance of Mr. Gladstone, as a personal recognition of the services ren dered to the Liberal party by Mr. Drake during the several years of close and confidential relations which have existed between him and its recognised representa tives. It is rumoured that on the reassembling of Parliament a bill will be introduced to alter the con stitution of the court known as tho "Judicial Commit'eo of tho Privy Council." One of the main features of the bill, it is said, will be the appointment of a permanent legal president at a fixed salary. The business of this court of final eppeal from the colonies and the Courts of Admi ralty and Arches has considerably increased of late years, and owing to the difficulty at times of constituting a full court, the remanets after each of the four sittings of the year have become numerous. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-011 Saturday night a railway pointsman, named John Worthington, residing at Rumworth, near Bolton, met with a very shocking acci dent at Bolton Station. He was leaving his duties for the night, and, as was his custom, was returning by the 9.30 `rain to Lostock. He jumped on the footboard of one of the carriages, and was about to get into one of the com. partments, when his body came into contact with the side of the approach to the series of tunnels that began at this point, and he was thrown under the wheels of the carriages. On being picked up his legs were found to be almost entirely severed from his body. SINGULAR RECOVERY OF A DIAMOND RING.— A young lady while searching the beach at Ilfracombe 'or " common objects on the seashore " last week, descried reepin g out of the sand what proved to be a valuable diamond mourning ring, with an inscription in memory of the late Lord Rolle. Inquiries were instituted, and it was ascertained that the ring formerly belonged to Mr. Drake, now deceased, who was connected with the Rolle family, and was lost by Mrs. Drake about thirteen years ago on the beach at Ilfracombe. It having been given into her charge by her husband when he was boat ing on a stormy day she had placed it outside her glove, and in the hurry of landing it had slipped off, and a care ful search for it, which was instituted at the time, was without success. The proceedings against the Rev. W. J. E. Ben nett, vicar of Promo, have passed through their prelimi nary legal stages, sad the articles of charge have been duly filed in the Court of Arches. The allegation against Mr. Bennett is that he teaches the doctrine of the Real Presence in the Eucharist. The case will bo heard in Michaelmas term in the province of Canterbury, and at just about the same time the case of Mr. Voysey, who, in " The Sling end the Stone," is charged with denying the fundamental doctrines of Christianity, will be heard in the province of York. The great Ritualistic cases, in which the Rev. J. Purchas, of St. James's, Brighton, and the Rev. It. Wix, of St. Michael's, Swaurnore, Isle of Wight, are the defendants, will also be heard before Sir Robert Phillimoro in Michaelmas term. At the Clerkenwell Police-court on Monday man complained that his daughter, v. ho had been in the Roman Catholic convent' school, Clarendon-square, St. Pancras, bad been sent to America by the superioress without his knowledge. The Oa had been in the school for about eight years; he had leen in the habit of seeing her frequently. The last time ho saw her was on the 25th of August, and then she Enid nothing to him about going away. Ho went again on Sunday, and was then told that she was on her way to America. He was not a Roman Catholic, but the girl's mother, who is dead, was; and her dying request was that the child should be placed in the eehools. llis daughter, who is between eighteen and nineteen years of age, knew, ho said, very little of the ways of the world, and he was afraid she had been trapped into what she bad done. The superioress would not givo him any information. Mr. Cook said he would direct a warrant officer to make inquiries, and tin applicant Raid pee hint again_snAmatiert LORD BYRON. Lord Lindsay contributes to the Times another addition to the literature of the Byron controversy. In a letter of a column and a quarter he endeavours to prove that Lad , ' Byron, at least in the early part of her separated life, did not believe her husband guilty of the crime which go' Stowe imputes to him. The evidence Lord Linds a y adduces, consists of memoranda written by Lady Anne Barnard of conversations with Lady Byron—whom she had known from infancy—and concludes with a letter from Lady Byton herself. Lady Anne says that after the birth of the child, hearing of Lady Byron's distress , she wrote and asked her to come and see her that they might take counsel together. Lady Byron came to Lady Anne' The tale she told was as follows :—They (Lord and Lady Byron) " bad not been an hour in the carriage which conveyed them from the church, after the marriage ceremony, when, breaking into a inallff• nant sneer, Lord Byron said, Oh ! what a dupe 1.0 0 have been to your imagination. How is it possible woman of your sense could form the wild hope of reforming me? Many are the tears you will ha" to shed ere that plan is accomplished. It is enough for me that you are my wife for ro e to hate you ; if you were the wife of any other man I ow n you might have charms,' &c. Lady Anne, astonished to bear this story, asked Lady Byron why she lived with him afterwards. Lady Byron replied, "Because I not a conception he was in earnest ; because I reckoned it a bad jest, and told him so—that my opinions of him were very different from his of himself, other wise he would not find me by his side. He laughe d it over when he saw me appear hurt, and I forgot what had passed till forced to remember it. I believe lie was pleased with me, too, for a little while. I s uppos e it had escaped his memory that I was his wife." "VI (the memoranda go on to say) often reproached his wi fe for the motives which led her to marry him. Her vanity, he sneeringly said, had caused her to take pity upon Wil l ; Well, he confessed cruelly, the reason for which be int " married her was her money. She should bulid up agai n his shattered fortune. If Lady Byron reproached P' tearfully he would throw himself on the floor saying h e was mad. She got to regard this as put on after a time , but shelsaidly understood it. By•and-bye he tried to cor rert her principles with regard to her own conduct and latitude. She saw the precipice on which she stee' l ' and kept his sister with her as much as Pe s t ble. He returned in the evenings from the haunts of vice, where he made her understand be had been with manners so profligate ! "And had he no Mown" of remorse," asked Lady Anne. "Sometimes ( I ''' l ! Byron replied) he appeared to have them. One nig" coming home from one of his lawless parties, he save in e so indignantly collected, and bearing all with determined calmness, that a rush of rein cfs : seemed to come over him; he called himself - monster, though his sister was present, and threw self in agony at my feet. I could not—no — l ° til l not forgive him such injuries. He had lost me for ever' Astonished at the return of virtue, my tears, I beliee' flowed over his face, and I said, Byron, all is forgottee; never, never shall you hear of it more He started 111 ;: and, folding his arms while he looked at me, burst ill' laughter. ' What do you mean ?' said I. ' Only a O i s e. sophical experiment, that's all," said he ; 'I wishe d r i ascertain the value of your resolutions.' When her chi ' ', was burn, Byron was informed 'he might see his daughter, after gazing at it with an exulting smile, this was tilt ejaculation that broke from him, Oh, what an implernen of torture I have acquired in you!' All this reads madder than I believe he was ;" but she had not then made up lie d r mind to disbelieve his pretended insanity, and conceit r• it best to intrust her secret with the excellent Ph's Baillie. Bailie doubted of his derangement, but, °Li he did not reckon his own opinicn infallible, he wisl4o her to take precautions as if her husband was so. g e r commended her going to the country, but to give biro Po suspicion of her intentions of remaining there, and f°l.o short time to shew no coldness in her letters till s he cell o better ascertain his state. She went—regretting, a s she t° me, to wear any semblance but the truth. A short ofa disclosed the story to the world. He acted the part ;14 man driven to despair by her inflexible resentment Who the arts of a governess (once a servant in the family) hated him. Such was the interview ; the letter following written to the same Lady Anne Barnard, and is nel , e ilt by her to the account of the interview :—" I am a Te ,„ incompetent judge of the impression which the last el, of Childe Harold' may produce on the minds of in di ; rent readers. It contains the usual trace of a consei c `a restlessly awake. I will hope, as you do, that ' f survives for his ultimate good. lam decidedly be opinion that he is responsible. He has wishe d ! e sr6 , thought partially deranged, to perplex observers an" c ogs vent them from tracing effects to their real causes. I 1 . 0 „ as I told you, at one time the dupe of his acted inS3nl te till the whole system was laid tare. He is the eb sole monarch of words, and uses them, as Buonaparte did lii of for conquest. Why then, you will say, does he r± employ them to give a better colour to his own charaetc,i Because he is too good an actor to assume garb which it would be easy to strip off. In regard t ° , 0 ,,, poetry, egotism is the vital principle of his i m aginfi ti o f By the introduction of fictitious incidents, by chang : is scene or time, he has enveloped his poetical disclosure i.lO a system impenetrable except.to a very few. N othia cv contributed more to the misunderstanding of his real meter than the lonely grandeur in which he shrouds it , 1340 his affectation of being above mankind, whe n he c'\,, s almost in their voice. The romance of his sentialent'oo another feature of this mask of state. I know no one. i is habitually destitute of that enthusiasm he s o beautliti:eoi expresses, and to which he can work up his fancY by contagion. I had heard be was the best of loot e • sf the most generous of friends, and I thought such • to re only required to be warmed and cherished in and diffusive benevolence. Though these are era dicated', could never return but with the decay of my°etches you will not wonder if there are still moments s ites the association of feelings which arose from them 6o-oser and sadden my thoughts. My wishes fon were to injure Lord Byron in any ivDS ! fe ,lo though be would not suffer me to remain his w l 6 s ot cannot prevent me from continuing his frien d. It 100' necessary to speak ill of his heart in general ; it 15 t siy cient to me that it was hard and impenetrable-'th• been own must have been broken before his could ha ve tea s touched. I would rather represent this as me 11115 tt° be than as his guilt ; but, surely, that misfortun e is °, re i 0 ' made my crime ! It is said in this poem that he re Jos him will be taught as a lesson to his child. 111e o ther been no moment when I have remembered inir ir Y wise than affectionately and sorrowfully. It is 11 o itee d duty to give way to hopeless and wholly nn l e affection, but so long as I live, my chief strliggd, probably be not to remember him too kindly- 1 1 , 0 0, A 1) seek the sympathy of the world, but I wis h to bearos by those whose opinion is valuable and whose kin dear to me." s 5 Of eo v se Last Sunday added another to the suc c 00 10e: A the National Sunday League in the way of e se s eer Four trains from London-bridge and Victoria Sostlut some 3,000 persons bent on enjoyment to r° rt- t ,glel , where three packets were specially engaged th r° A sSel i .,, the day conveying them to and from the Isle of /T y dbi 0 0 The last train re ached Portsmouth by 11.45 a. We an ~c o ro . 0 p.m. all were in London without mishap. Th is e ' Do t i s was intended to have been the last of the seas oll i r y s s consideration of the services of their hon. see r° so ce es t ; his sacrifice of time having contributed so much t ss ° 0 004 the Council have resolved on an excur sion t OP and Margate on the 19th inst., the proceeds fra me ci are to be p resented to Mr. Morrell. all /e e lj AN A MERICAN itOMANCE.— girl A young a ft _ o tf Carrie Ketchman, of New Orleans , was s hot, tr or coli c supposed mortally wounded, by her lov er, Saillt ers tl f s r° l , B te e two or three months since. She has since ree7oo. her wounds, but refused to give evidence agair ° t o e l o t judge asked her if thirty days' confinement w i : er ed t oe her obstinacy, when she, amid tears, ai rs o p ic e she was not obstinate, but had nothing t° ea to g s d Judge finally told her that he w as afraid, if f°:10, e it ee_, e o l evidence, she would commit p er j ur y to save stsserdJss, from well•deserved punishment, and a s th f e r t; c oste t " had requested it, h would disch her i 10 She was married to Collot on the same even ing' till of OOP oer, On the day when the recent eclipse t as tron ° g o looked for in America,Dr. Peters,theeraineno c id n il e oc e connected with Hamilton College, told A ~,bigPos Be` l o i f vin h g en n s r frorhisatob4sAersvtaitleoyrywtoouslNd-ategho ctoarreofonslkyu TAste s t lici t , l: , eclipse was over lie came, evidently In crilitesil ,ebb 44 "How was it?" said the doctor. said the negro. " When tie darkness oo 7 o 50 e 0 , ' 4 ,1 chick'n run for de hole in de barn. De d fu Il ow, the les t v so s and de next ones run ober one anudder, al long dey just squat right down in (lc grass ' eleon W e know dis ting was a coming?" " it more than a year," said the doctor. 13 _ „ 0 what Oh ! ! , r s e seats ( le t o f Here you away in New York knowd a s'ear a 7 s , ou es' cb Hens was gu ine to do dis bay of tcrnoon, n te lly see de chik'ns afore nuddcr !" t ooll e 1 TIIE PEERAGE. —It a ppears th at scoss e talcls p 40 oral P c eye 1 1 ) 1 0 0 s l s eaonfd Commonson spirituale w asapd the Marquis of Anglesey, the Earls of ll Glasgow, Itadnor, and Wicklow, Visco. , usloosor:s, Stangford, Lords Broughton, Castleu(Z_ .eurley, ii rr y e l l e 'e c e te r d. lia7 h etitieedu e s PB :_rr, Harwke, Kenyon, Leconfield, Stanley . 3 D i o 1, 0 00 ;s ton, and Wynford. ford t of Broughton and Taunton have ee l, c on ,„ i s The viscountyvrof spirituala,f:berol:ll,l,llteisili3j Salisbury. XAersilis.9.PyWyLll not attain 14q_p_i_ajori IV „,i , I .23 g . ,' I -.5 I THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPILAIBER 7, 1869.