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F OR THE AUTUMN & WINTER SEASONS E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in eveiy depart ment of their business. For trades and ad dresses, see following advertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be fermi in every article sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all Commodious apartments for measuring ind fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, which contain a very large and diver sified sta.* of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should be accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be •heerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the noney will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats Ind Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Pattern; and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishmonts are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitma.kers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES ,d SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES IM, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE ALDGATE ALDGATE ALDGATI 87, ALDGATI 88, ALDGATE 59, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 504, NEW OXFORD-STREET 307, NEW OXFORD STREET sOB, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANC n. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 233, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch : 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. T HE dt SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE "NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCH. Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. THE « SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p collar simplicity of these Machines enables any one to Inquire their perfect use in a few hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free LEE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY Chief Office in the United Kingdom: • 147, CREAPSIDE. B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Head Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association aro Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The Report which the directors have now to submit to the proprietor differs in its tenor but little save in one or two particular from that laid before them in 1868. She income of the year, it will be seen, amounts t £640,499 18s., and the total charger £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. a. d. DR. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 eremiums on new assur- 111)COS Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 371,518 12 1 interest from investments 120,939 12 10 Profit and loss, balance of account 492,508 4 11 47,991 13 1 £ s. d 907,f 52 8 6 fIHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and 3lanager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: Messrs Ash:ey, C. H. Stephenson, and Misses Maria and Nelly Harris. At 15 to 8, LOST AT SEA: a London Story. Messrs A. Stir ling, G. Belmore, E. Atkins, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, C. J. Smith, R. Romer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza John stone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. r 14.Belmore and Mrs. Leigh Murray. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. rotal income 550,49918 0 £1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF THE YEAR. £ 8. d. CR. Dividend to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured Additions to those under participating policies 21,304 6 6 Policies surrendered Re-assurances—new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 405,561 12 1 Commission Medical fees Incometax 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 9 10 s. d. 8,880 4 0 436,187 6 9 Total charge Balance of account, June 3U, 1869, as per balance-sheet „ 1,002,974 15 9 £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. Id., of which sum £13,560 ss. ld. is for new assurances effected in the year. The interest from investments is £120,959 12s. 10d., or £4 2s. per cent. on the net amount of the company's realised assets existing in June, 1868 ; and in connection with this important feature of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and loss account again exhibits a considerable profit, amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000. It may be remembered that a profit of nearly equal amount was announced in last year's report. Turning to the items constituting the charge of the year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material; as was observed oa 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 .£309,000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management. are greater by nearly £BOO than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the company's securities into the names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, these 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 £6,757 17 0 claims on decease of lives assured, and Addditions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors fund Surplus fund £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,I HENRY ROSE, j Auditors. CR ASSETS. trnount invested in fixed mortgages £1,661,699 9 2 Diito ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 uitto ditto Temporary secu- ritios Current interest on the above investments :lash and bills kflitrince4l on security of the company s aicias: 165,287 1 8 •)5,489 16 8 haitinces .57,331 7 9 accou nt.' Value of preniNins (1867) 85,706 14 5 Value of ra-usurances 198,20717 0 311,934 4 G 12,256 15 10 £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 £95,42.2 is. 3d. already mentioned, as i 3 shown by thc augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. The Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows : WILLIA3I FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairman. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairnum Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, :sq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq. SirJ.BullerEast, Bt, D.C.L. Thomas Godfrey Sambrook° Wm. A•,gustus Guy, M.D., Esq. F.R.S. Admiral Tindal. enarlesThos.llolcomhe,Esq. Right Iron. Sir John Young Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart., K.C.B. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining; THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, A QUIET FAMILY After which, at 7.45, a new drama, entitled ESCAPED FROM PORTLAND: Characters by Mr Charles Mathews, Mr Vining, Messrs W. Rignold, G. F. Neville, C. F. Edgar, C. Steyne ; Miss Georgians Pauncefort, Miss Carlisle, Miss Kemp, Mrs Addie, and Mrs Charles Mathews. With new scenery by Mr F. Lloyds, Mr W. Hanna, and assis tants. Furniture and decorations by Mr. Nosotti. Concluding with the Farce of NOTHING TO NURSE. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. T HIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, a new and original Sketch, by Harry Lemon, Esq , called WAIT FOR AN ANSWER. After which, at 7.45 will be produced, with new scenery, fur niture, and appointments, a new Comedy, in three acts, by Thomas Morton, Esq., entitled PLAIN ENGLISH, in which Messrs. Barry Sullivan, George Honey, J. C. Cowper, W. a Stephens, D. Evans, Charles Horsman, Lin Rayne, Cotte, Dyas, W. Arthur, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Jane Rignold, and Miss Howard will appear. To conclude with the Musical Farce of THE WATERMAN. The magnificent new scenery by Mr. Julian Hicks; the furni ture and upholstery by Mr. James Lyon. Acting Manager—AMonY SULLIVAN. OYAL Ie Lessee an S a 'T' Sole s T wa H nbo E ro t h T R E. TIiIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG TILE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. _ _ Followed — by THE TOODLES: Mr Clarke. After which, THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD: Messrs Thorne, James, Fenton ; Mesdames Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, dm riiHE , 4 SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE A delivers the LATE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn, 8, Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, 9.45. SP 0 RTIN G.—J OHN ROBERTS suppli e s th e LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN" as soon as pub ished.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " J. HJLMES begs to inform hie friends and the public generally that he supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE SON " as soon as published.—No.lo, Hampstead -road N.W. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied as soon as published, containing all the LATEST NEWS and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H W HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Blackfriars-road, London, S. T HE "SUN" NE WSPAPER.-G. R. GAJENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware road, delivers the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver Copies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country at ".4a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by 5 clock COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT. LANTIQIJE. _ _ 4, Rue de la Pain, Park FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, forNewjYork. RATES OF PASSAGE. From Mona or BREST to NEN'ir YORK. First Class 7OO fr. Second Class 425 fr. Third Class From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class 285 fr. WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico, Haiti, Santiago de Cnba, Guadeloupe, Martinique. JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama). Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon, Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo, Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union, San Francisco, China, and Japan. Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this company, can be had of STRINGER, PEMBBROBE, and Co., Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.O. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. CONVERSION OF DEBENTURES INTO DEBENTURE STOCK. The Directors are now prepared to enter into arrange ments for converting the Debentures of the Company into equivalent amounts of Perpetual Four per Cent. Deben ture Stock, and also to receive applications for allotments of the same Stock, at par, to be applied in the repayment of Debentures falling due. Any amount of Stock, not being a fraction of a pound, can be sibscribed for and transferred. A commission of 4 (one-half) per cent. is allowed to ap plicants, and the Stock will be inscribed in the Company's books free of all expense. The interest will be paid half-yearly on the 15th Jan uary and 15th July, by warrant. The Stock thus raised will be entitled to the same priority against the property and income of the Company as the Debenture Bond Debt, ranking before the Com 'pany's entire Stock and Share Capital of Thirty Millions (£30,000,000), and will be the first charge on a net income now amounting to upwards of Three Millions (0,000,000) annually. Further particulars and forms of application may be obtained by letter addressed to the undersigned. STEPHEN REAY, Secretary. Euston Station, March, 1869. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established 1824. The ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, exceeds £227,000 The ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, is over X 1,649,000 Forms of Proposal, and every, information, can be ob tained of GEORGE CUTOLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary, 13, St. James's-square, London. S.W. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce comrnodi ies valuable to every householder high and low. This offers a highly remunerative Commission to Tradesmen, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to 11.111A.REISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. IN CHANCERY.—Lord Chancellor. Vice-Chancellor Malins. Nixey v. Lewis.) CAunoN.—Whereas the Vice-Chancellor, Sir V_./ Richard Matins, on the Ist day of July, 1849, upon the ap plication of William George Nixey, of No. 12, Soho-square, in the County of Middlesex, the plaintiff in the above suite, awarded a perpetual injunction, restraining the defendant, Joseph Lewis, his shopman, servants, and agents, from hereafter selling any black lead, or other composition purporting to be black lead, in tablets or cases enclosed or covered in manner in the bill mentioned, or folded in wrappers, or enclosed or packed up or folded in any cases, coverings, or wrappers, which are fa,-- similes, or copies. or fraudulent imitations of those invented or used by the plaintiff, and from in any way using any cases, coverings, boxes, labels, devices, or other things which shall re present or have the appearance of representing the plaintiff as the manufacturer or vendor of articles which have not, in fact, been manufactured or sold by him. All persons are therefore cautioned against purchasing, selling, exposing for sale, or other wise dealing in black lead or other composition purporting to be black lead not manufactured or prepared by the said William George Nixey, in tablets or in cases, enclosed or covered, or wrapped or enclosed in wrappers, or with other ac companiments being fac-similes or fraudulent or colourable imi tations a those invented and used by the plaintiff, the said William Cecil ge Nixey.—Dated this 23d day of July, 1869. VALLANCE & VALLANCE, 20, Essex-street, Strand. Plaintiff's Solicitor. JOLIN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the , teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a plear.ant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. GUA. AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wow: 'dui 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, including brush. Rod Bull Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. THEA'IRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. r.. Chatt.rton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLEq OF TOE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA, new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault: Messrs. Barrett, IL Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, lob/. Rouse; Mni Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, at 7, BREACH OF PROMISE. A t 8.15, Mr. T. W. Robertson's new Comedy, in three acts, entitled PROGRESS: Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, J. Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. 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All the D a il y Papers, Magazines, and Periodicals t as soon as published. Agent for the Joint-Stock Coal Company. Orders by post attended to. rrTIE LATEST' EDITION of "TILE SUN" t o 1 be seeu Every Evening by SlO at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCVS, Pritannia, Kensa! New-town. HE THIRD EDITION OF "TILE SUN,' V giving all the SPORTI•.G NEWS of the day, may be seen a t jEm mA NTON 'S house, " The Swan and Horse Shoe," Little Britain, City, E.C. 1 1 HE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " I supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W ALEXANDER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, No. 4, Old Cavendish street, Oxford-street, GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. This EVENOI9, at 7, BREACH OF PROMISE. At 8.15, the new Comedy, PROGRESS: Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, J. Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, at 7, WAIT FOR AN ANSWER. After which, PLAIN ENGLISH: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, ttc. And THE WATERVAN. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vinint,. THIS EVENING, at 7, A QUIET FAMILY. After which, E•zCAPED FROM PORTLAND: Mr Charles Mathews, Mr Vining, Mrs Chas. Mathews, &c. To conclude with NOTHING To NURSE. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G ARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, ed. ROYAL ALHAAIBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. le. Box-office open fromll to 4. flOy til i g ' 7l iiit LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 12, 1869. The application of Waste Labour to Waste Land was the theme of one of the most remarkable papers read this year before the Social Science Congress. The author of the paper in question was Mr. FRANCIS FULLER. His proposition was directed to the end of ensuring as swiftly and certainly as possible the prevention of the appalling increase in this country of Crime and Destitution, with a view afterwards to the steady diminution, and,:with Gon's blessing, the elimination ultimately from the body politic of the deadly virus of Pauperism. An enterprize so vast and so beneficent in its character, naturally appears at the first glance to be simply Utoi ian and impracticable. But the facts and figures with which Mr. FULLER deals, with the most matter of-fact precision and not in the least as aday-dream, are facts and figures in themselves altogether incontrovertible. Without following him through all the windings and intricacies of his most ingenious argument, we will here simply adduce, and place side by side, so to speak, a few of his more important and more impressive propositions. Let it be particularly borne in mind, first of all, how ever, that Mr. FULLER'S whole object is to bring to gether two things at present separated—Waste Land and Waste Labour. The aggregate amount of both is enormous. As matters now stand, it has been clearly enough ascertained that " there are upwards of 100,000 children of both sexes in the streets of the metropolis, drifting into mendicancy and vag rancy, and thus feeding the great stream of crime." As recently as in February last, Professor MARKS brought under the consideration of the Home Secre tary, the undeniable fact that not one hundred, but hundreds of thousands of children are systematically trained to crime. An official return sets forth the miserable truth that the average number of pauper children in England is 321,235, " of whom about 300,000 are left destitute of any really useful training." Added to which, as the Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY put it to the Social Congress only the very day before Mr. FULLER was speaking. "Itis an ugly, dangerous, and disgraceful fact that there are now about 1,280,000 children in the kingdom who ought to be attending some elementary school or other, but who are not." Bearing all this in mind, let these two rather striking facts be also taken into consideration. First of all, that it has been clearly ascertained " that the whole cost of training and educating a child from very early age to mature and self-helping youth, deducting the value of the work done by him or her, would not exceed £100." And,se condly, that the average cost of a thief during his life is known to amount, not to £lOO, but to several thou sands ! Afterwards take into account another brace of facts—Firstly, that the ratio of increase during the last twenty years has been greater than the ratio of increase in the amount of population. Secondly, that within the same interval the aggregate wealth of the country has increased five-fold. As illustrative of the latter fact, Mr. FULLER reminds us, by a foot note or parenthesis, that while the whole of the export and import trade for 1818 was under £100,000,000, for 1868 it exceeded £ 45 0,000,000. Come we atlast, however—after this mention of the growing wealth of the country ; of the enormous mass of pauperism in it ; of the costliness of crime ; of the waste of labour that only requires, in order to render it remunerative, some rational application of its energies—come we at last to what was proposed to the Social Science Congress, and through that Congress to the country, by Mr. FULLER, as a theoretical, but at the same time, as we believe, a thoroughly practical philanthropist. His starting point is this, that from a return presented to Parliament it would appear that there are 31,861,040 acres of waste or uncultivated land in the United Kingdom. Of these he estimates that an area of, " say, 10,861,040"—he evidently mean 5 .11,861,040 —is unfit for cultivation. Turning to the consideration of the other twenty millions of acres of these. Waste Lands, not at the antipodes, not beyond the Atlantic, but close at home, here, within the boundaries of the United Kingdom, he argues that some 10,000,000 acres would probably be adapted only to the growth of plantations, but that the remaining 10,000,000 acres might be made as good for food-grow ing purposes as many thousands of acres of land now under cultivation. And he then concludes that merely taking the average produce of the new lands brought under cultivation at £5 per acre, we should have the enormous aggregate of £50,000,000 sterling added annually to the wealth, produce, and wages fund of the country. The calculation seems almost too good to be true ; but, for all that, instead of embodying within it any Utopian suggestion, it appears to us to be eminently practicable. It is certainly entitled to the national consideration, and is a proposition that thrusts upon the conscience of the Legislature by reason of the appalling and astounding increase iu this country of Poverty and Crime, of Wealth and of Pauperism. COMMENTING on the intelligence respecting Dr. LIVINGSTONE, Sir R. AluncuisoN says that several statements corresponding to that of the Arab, whose THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1869. riniE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " 1 may be seen at Eight o'clock every Evening at Mr. J. NEWPoRTS', the Oxford Arms, High-street, Camden-town. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied as soon as published, every Evening, by S. WILSON, newsagent, and special agent for the North-western district, 24, Delancey-street, Camden-town, N.W. THE SUN.—LATEST EDITION to be seen every Evening, at Eight o'clock, at Mr GILLMAN'S, " The Whe,ateheat," High-street, Hamden-town. rUHE LATEST or SPECIAL EDITION of I_ "THE SUN" every Evening, at Eight o Clock, at Mr Rostairs', "The Black Cap," High-street, Camden-town. THE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at J. SMITH'S, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. rUHE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at 1 JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street, ~rand. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY- L ANE. sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA : Messrs. Barrett, El Irving, David Fisher, Brittain, Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Mac donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED PLUM N.S THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. • THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING Mr A shley, Mr, Stephenson, and the Misses Harris. Followed by LOST AT SEA: Mr A. Stirling, Mr G. Belmoro, Mr E. Atkins, Mr Beveridge, Mr Stephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Romer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr G. Beimore and Mrs L. Murray. , wn. message we announced last week, have from time to time been brought to Zanzibar. This latest news, he observes, may have no better foundation than preceding rumours. At the same time it may prove quite correct. Sir RODERICK himself has, in fact, received intelligence precisely similar to that which was first announced in these columns, but of later date. On re turning to London, he found two letters awaiting him, one from Commodore HEATH, of the East African station, and the other from Dr. KIRK, the British political agent at Zanzibar. Both these missives were of the same date, and both contained the informa tion published last week. On the 31st of August an Arab arrived at Zanzibar with a letter from his brother, the Governor of Unyanyembe, in which it was stated that a servant of the Governor had seen " the white man " at Ujiji, on the Lake Tanganyika. Dr. KIRK estimated that four months must have elapsed since the man who brought the information left Ujiji. "If this news should be correct," says Sir RODERICK, "it would certify that the illustrious traveller was in safety at the end of last April." Of course, everything depends upon the accuracy of the statements made by the Arabs. Sir RODERICK MURCHISON decides that it will be better to wait for direct news from Dr. LIVINGSTONE himself before coming to any definite conclusion. Cella va sans dire ; but at the same time it is gratifying to find that all the indications point to the doctor's safety. These letters to the President of the Royal Geographical Society left Zanzibar on August 31st; the travellers who landed at Falmouth last week left on June 6th. It appears, then, that several persons have brought reports to the same effect from the interior. No one at Zanzibar believes that Dr. LIVINGSTONE is dead, and, in fact, the excitement in England causes some amazement in that part of the world. Suspense on the subject will, however, soon be cleared up. The letters received by Sir RODERICK MURCHISON announce that a caravan from Ujiji was expected at Zanzibar within a month. THE Empress of the FRENCH is progressing rapidly on her journey to the East. The " Countess do PIERREFONDS" lost little of her Imperial character whilst bravely sustaining the fire of salutes and muni cipal addresses in Corsica. But formality has dis appeared a little amongst the charming scenes of Northern Italy, will become fainter and fainter amid the classic remains at Athens, and may reasonably be expected to vanish altogether when the second cataract of the Nile is reached. There is usually nothing very remarkable in these attempts on the part of crowned heads to shake off the trammels of formula and cere mony. But the journey of the EMPRESS cannot be divested of a certain political meaning. It is re assuring in every respect to find that the EMPEROR is not seriously ill ; for if he were, his consort would not be rambling about Southern Europe, and "visiting at her leisure the principal objects of interest in the Levant." Still more noticeable is the reception which her Majesty has met with in Italy. It betokened no slight courage on the part of the " Countess DE PIERREFONDS that she should make a visit to that unsettled land part of her pro gramme, for it was expected that the Italians would avail themselves of the opportunity to display their discontent with France. So it has turned out. The Italians have behaved admirably, and their reception of the imperial lady has been "worthy of a highly civilised, self-respecting, and sensible people ;" but they have not the less shewn how they appre ciate her efforts to prevent the unity of Italy. Their reception of the EMPRESS was respectful, but very cold. They gave her illuminations and music and entertainments, but very little cheering; whilst KING VICTOR EMMANUEL, who is by no means on the best of terms with his people, met with great enthusiasm. The Italians contrived with praise worthy forbearance to repress their indignation—be it just or unjust; but they would not simulate a welcome which they did not feel. The reception of the EMPRESS is a most expressive indication of Italian feeling towards France. Probably Italy ought to be thankful to the EMPEROR ; but she is not; indeed, people seldom are grateful to benefactors who give with one hand and take away with the other. And Undoubtedly the policy of the Imperial Government is open to this charge. The lapse of a few years enables us to judge more dispassionately respecting the events attendant upon the union of Italy. The excitement respecting the annexation of Savoy and Nice has passed away. It is now pretty generally admitted that the EMPEROR, in for bearing to attack Venice, chose the only alternative open to him to avoid the dangerous assault of Prussia on the Rhine. But the Roman policy and the Italian policy have been fatally at variance. It might have been good to promote the unity of Italy, or to sup port the temporal power of the POPE ; but it could not be wise to attempt both at the same time. By making war on Austria and by occupying Rome France has pleased nobody. THE remarkable revelations at the places which have rejoiced in the presence of an election commission have stimulated the attention of our legal contempo raries to the amendment of the present law. That there is abundant need of amendment the fact that bribery flourished in undiminished vigour at the last election sufficiently testifies. But it is obvious that modifications of a law which exists are always more which begin by up. The L a w Times pull ing hopefulddown w n t h p a r n vious ly sweeping to changes , building makes one or two suggestions in this way which are well worthy of consideration. First and foremost it is noticeable that the present system of election petitions is calculated in itself to bring about the utter failure of the law. Seventy petitions were presented after the last contest, and yet only three commissions were issued. The reasons of this disparity is that no commission can be appointed unless the judge reports that corrupt practices have pre vailed extensively. This he cannot do if evi dence is not adduced before him, and people who present petitions are too much concerned for their own interests to let the judge know all. The remedy is as obvious as the evil. Petitions ought to be taken out of the hands of private individuals, or at least a request from twelve householders ought to be answered by an inquiry. At present charges of bribery are got up, not -to discover truth or promote purity, but to unseat suc cessful candidates. If they are likely to fail in this primary object, they are withdrawn ; and the judge is bound to accept the affidavits of the immediate parties that there has been no collusion. How much these affidavits are worth, the Bridgwater evidence may be cited to pr ove . G reater facility for inquiry and less control on th e part o f c andidates are the most pressing necessities which the experience of the last year has shown. In addition it would be better that a judge should perform the work, rather than three barristers ; or, at least, our contemporary suggests, without disrespect to the gentlemen now sitting, the commissioners should be paid by " piece," and not at so many guineas a day. These suggestions deserve consideration, as being simple and practical. With a better arrange ment of the existing machinery, there might have been twenty commissions now exploring the depths of British electoral iniquity, instead of three, sitting for many weeks on three miserable boroughs which are scapegoats for the rest. HEALTH OF LORD DERBY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Oct. 12, 11.15 A.M. The announcement of Lord Derby's death this morning is incorrect. Th e fl ag on the Town Hall, which had been half-mast hi g h, has been taken The latest report from Knowsley, just received, states that no change has occurred in Lord Derby's condition since six last evening. THE LATE FIRE AT BAYSIVATER,-THE INQUEST. On Monday morning Dr. Lankester resumed at the Pad dington Vestry-hall the inquest on the bodies of the persons burnt to death at the late fire in the Moscow-road, Bays water. Mr. James Tetheridge was carried into the court in a chair and examined. He said : lam a plumber by trade, but lately have kept a little shop where, I sold confectionery, tobacco, fireworks, and haberdashery. I had formerly a license to sell fireworks, but it had expired. I was refused a license on the last application. I had fireworks in my shop at the time of the fire. I had crackers, squibs, Roman candles, a few rockets. I had also fires. The whole stock was worth £5 or £6. I never met with an accident with them. I had two pounds of red fire and two pounds of green. I did not make the fires myself. I bought them. I never heard that the fires would explode themselves. Tho purple and yellow I have heard will. The coroner said it was import ant to know if these fires exploded spontaneously. The witness : I have sometimes a job to set fire to the green and red. I have been told that the other colours will explode. Ry the Jury : I had no gunpowder in the house. There was canvas in the shop, but I do not think it caught fire. The gas lamp was eight feet from the ceiling. The canvas was dry, but it was at the back. If the gas was alight in the shop I must have seen it. The Jacks always burned candles. They had no petroleum. I only sold hair oil. I had nothing inflammable. Stuart Jack, he thought, was smoking when he came in. The Jacks cooked in their room. There was no doubt that they had had a fire that day. The mother did a great deal of ironing. Mrs. Tetheridgo said that she knocked at the Jacks' door and said, " For God's sake come out." She rapped as hard as she could rap, and they did not answer. Mr. C. W. Berkshire said : I am a firework-maker. I recollect selling Mr. Tetheridge fires the Friday before the occurrence. There was a mistake. I sold him 41bs., 21b. of red and 21b. of blue instead of green. They will not explode unless ignited. I keep a quarter of a hun dred weight in my possession. I have been a firewoAc maker thirty years, and never know these fires to explode. The Coroner said that this put an end to all the theory that the red fire would go off. William Collett, inspector of meters to the Imperial Gas Company, stated that the meter was on the left hand side of the shop. He examined it there on the 17th Sept. It was then all right. He went there on the morning of the fire. A search was made for the meter, but only certain portions were found. It had exploded, but this must have been after the fire reached it. The meter was an incipient shell, and would hold about 21 feet of gas. Police-constable 118 proved hearing the explosion and running to the spot when he saw a lot of fireworks which had gone off and been blown into the street with the explosion. The engines came up about ten minutes after he got there. It was impossible after he arrived to get into the house. Henry Wyatt, of 16, Moscow-road, said he went to the house on the night of the fire, and heard that the children were in the street. He assisted to get water, and the engines did not come for twenty minutes. The water was on twenty minutes before the first engine came. It bad been reported that the deceased woman, Jack, was intosi eated, but this he did not believe, for she was a very hard working, respectable person. Several jurymen and witnesses testified their assent to this. John Cole, of 20, Moscow-read, said the one-horse engine from the Queen's Mews Station came about twenty minutes after the explosion. He should have thought it ought to have been there in half the time. The steam engine from King-street, Regent-street, came afterwards. He looked at the clock, because the engine was so long coming. lie (lid not think, if the engines had come sooner, that any lives could have been saved. Mr. D. H. Dunn, surgeon, proved having examined the bodies of the deceased, and expressed his opinion that the deaths of all were caused by suffocation. The marks caused by the burns he believed to have been caused ofter death. From the attitude of the boy Jack he should say that he was suffocated in his sleep. The elder daughter of the Jacks must have had her hands up. She might have been overcome by suffocation, and dropped down on her face. Join Walker, of 11, Moscow-read, proved being present at the fire, and being unable at first to got a ladder. He heard nothing of the children, but he was told they were in the house. It was then six minutes before any fire came out of the back room where the children were. He did not think if the engines had come sooner any lives would have been saved. A ladder was brought, but it came too late. If the engiqes had been there ten minutes earlier, and had brought a ladder, he could have brought out the children dead or alive. It was five or six minutes after the explosion that fire came out of the Lack room. Several other witnesses were called, including the fire men, to prove that every possible effort was made to avoid delay. Captain Shaw, chief officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, gave evidence of the general efficiency of the force and the increase of engine-houses, stations, and men since the Fire Brigade had been under the control of the Metro politan Board of Works. The Coroner having summed up the evidence, the jury, after half an hour's consultation, returned a verdict to the effect that Emma Tetheridge and others, six persons received their deaths by fire, but how that fire originated there was no evidence to shew. They also recommended that a more efficient station should be placed at tho Queen's Mews. MAKE TIASTE.—" Now is the time ! Now is the time !" For what ? To go through the Bankruptcy Court. So we learn from the circular of a firm of " legal and general accountants" which lies before us, and which is addressed to all traders who are in pecuniary difficulties. Such persons are informed, that whereas they may now obtain an entire release from their liabilities, the blessed season will not last for ever. " The New Bankruptcy Act "—say these advisers—" takes effect on the Ist of January next, after which the proceedings will be much more difficult, in addition to keeping the debtor a long time before the Court." Therefore "Now is the time ! " These enterprising accountants are not far wrong, at least as regards the future, and if they succeed in impressing any considerable number of prodigals with the fact that going through the Court is about to become a very hazardous process, with risks which are by all means to be avoided, they will be doing the public a real service. There is reason to hope that the im provident and thereckless are slowly awaking to the reality of the case, and beginning to understand that it will be on the whole much better for them to live within their means and pay their debts, than to prey upon their tradesmen; and this is what the Legislature intended.—Daily News, ACCIDENT TO AN AUCTION PARITY.--A queer accident happened to an auction party in Wales last week. The sale of stock at a farm called Methlem, twenty miles beyond Pwllheli, brought a large gathering of the leading farmers of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire together. Whilst the auctioneer was selling off some articles of furniture in a room above the dairy, the bidders, to the number of about 150 persons, proved too great a weight for the floor, which gave way just as Mr. Owen was giving his final " Going, going, gone," to a piece of furniture, and the whole party fell into the dairy below. The cries of the men, women, and children were distracting. An ex-mayor of the borough of Pwllheli was thrown into a pail of cream, and was slightly injured, whilst a solicitor found himself sunk in a ton-gallon cask of buttermilk. A corpu lent farmer, weighing a little over sixteen stone, was pre cipitated on a pot of butter, which broke and besmeared him sadly. The whole contents of the dairy were ren dered all but valueless. Such was the corusternation of the remaining bidders after the accident, that none of them would follow the auctioneer to other rooms upstairs, and the articles of furniture that remained unsold in other parts of the house had to be taken downstairs. TIIE FATAL FIRE AT NEWINGTON.—The excite ment in the neighbourhood of Newington consequent upon the disastrous results of the fire which occurred in that locality on Sunday morning last continues unabated, and much astonishment is generally expressed that, considering the fire was of such limited extent and short duration, the hour at which it broke out, and the assistance that was promptly rendered, it should have had so fatal a termina tion. It is clearly proved, however, that the fatal result was owing, not to the flames, but to the dense smoke with which the house was filled, arising chiefly from burning cloth which had been smouldering during the whole night. An investigation of the premises proves that the fire originated in a small outhouse at the back, used partly as a kitchen and partly as a wash-hotu. In this out house is a dust bin, where among other refuse waste slips of cloth were thrown, and it is conjectured that some live ashes being thrown into the bin late on Saturday evening caused the ignition of these pieces of cloth, and the sub sequent ignition of the kitchen, composed entirely cf laths and paper, the smoke from which penetrating into the two small bed-rooms upstairs caused the catastrophe. Mr. M'Micken, dressed in his shirt and trousers only, opened the street door just after the first alarm, and re quested a man who was passing to run for the engines. A neighbour said he had already sent, and Mr. M'Mioken then said he would go upstairs for his wife and children. He went upstairs, leaving the street door open, and that was the last seen of him until he was brought out on the point of death from the second-floor window. The staircase burst into flame the moment after Mr. M'Micken had wconded to seek his family, and any escape by th M AMMO waa out cif. TILE COLLISION NEAR NOTTINGHAM. The inquest on the bodies of the persons killed through the railway accident near Long Eaton Junction, was held on Monday. The principal evidence was given by the men in charge of the excursion train.—Thomas Catlow, an engine -man in the employ of the Midland Railway Company, said that on Saturday last he was the driver of the excursion train from Leicester to Nottingham and back. Ho was not certain at what time the train started from Nottingham on tho return journey. His instruo tions on leaving Nottingham were, not to stop the train until he got to Loughborough. There were thirty five carriages to the train. On the arrival of the train at Beeston the semaphore signal was near to him and he whistled it off. He slackened the speed and proceeded forwards cautiously, and reached Long Eaton Junction. On approaching the junction ho went over two fog signals, and was shewn a red light. He still went on cautiously, and passed two more fog signals. He brought the train nearly to a stand, when ho was told there was something in front. He continued to go on cautiously, and told the guard to run behind, as the mail train would be coming up. The guard asked for some fog signals, when witness gave him some. Ho afterwards saw a man in front beckoning him with a white light. Just at that time ho perceived there was a train behind him, and his engine broke loose from the train. He let the engine go a short distance, and then returned to the carriages, which had come to a stand. He waited then until assistance came, when he brought the train into. Trent station. He did not go to the place where the accident occurred, or leave his engine. He knew the mail train was following him, and he used all possible means to avoid an accident. Sa,ve a young man at Trent station who appeared to bo hurt. He afterwards examined the train, and found there were two carriages short. When the collision took place, he did not hear any noise. If he had not been obliged to reduce his speed, he should have got out of the way of the mail train. The rails were in a good state.—A fireman attached to the same train corroborated this testimony.—J. Allen, a guard, said he was engaged on Saturday last on the excursion train running from Leicester to Nottingham. They left Nottingham, returning to Leicester, at 11.35 p.m. On approaching the station at Beeston the semaphore signal was hoisted. The driver - whistled off the signal. There was about a minute's delay in consequence of this, and then they resumed their usual speed. They afterwards went over other fog signals, causing another delay of two minutes and a half. They were going six or seven miles an hour when the collision occurred. Witness waa knocked down and his lamp knocked out. He got up to see what was the matter and found that the engine had broken loose. He went to the end of the train and found some of the carriages smashed. Subsequently ho assisted in removing a number of dead bodies. 'William Elliott, the driver of the mail train, was first cautioned by the coroner that he must not answer any question that would criminate him. He said he started at ten minutes to twelve o'clock on Saturday night with the mail train from Nottingham. Did not know how many carriages there were in the train. They were delayed in leaving Nottingham owing to a special train having gone out before them. They had beers gone about twenty-one minutes when he started. He was to go to Trent, and had fifteen minutes allowed for the journey— an ordinary train was allowed twenty minutes. Ho stopped at Beeston three minutes, and took seven minutes to get to Beeston from Nottingham. That would leave five minutes to get to Trent. On arriving at Beeston, the station-master said the special had been gone two minutes. Ile waited three minutes, and then proceeded on his journey. He went at the speed of sixteen or eighteen miles an hour. When he saw the break of the excursion train it was only about ten yards in front of him. The reason be did not see it sooner was owing to the dense fog. No fog signals had been placed for him ; he had some with him, and he gave these up to a guard to take back down the line. When the engine struck the van he got down and examined the place. It took a long time to remove the injured passengers. Thirty miles an hour was his usual speed going from Nottingham to Trent, and at the time of the accident he was going at 17 to 18. The nights had been foggy during the week, but Saturday night was the worst.—John Prince signalman at Beeston station, said he told the last witness that the excursion train was before him, and he had better go on cautiously. He could not see the signals more than ten yards distant, owing to the fog.—Mr. Allport (general manager of the company) stated that the reason why the express train was allowed to start, so soon after the excursion train was that the mail was a longer train than usual, and had a larger number of passengers than usual, and that train having to stop of Beeston, while the special train had not, it was supposed the special train would have plenty of . tin to get clear out of the way. Several passengers gave evidence, but it was of no importance.—The Coroner, in sumniirg up, said if the jury were of opinion that the accident arose from the fog they would return a verdict of accidents' death. If, on the contrary, they thought blame attached to the driver of either of the trains, they would have to return a verdict of manslaughter. lie did not think the evidence would justify such a verdict. The jury consulted a long time, and ultimately returned a verdict of "Ace' dental Death." A " Steeple Jack" at Manchester has been killed by falling from a tall chimney which he was repairing It now transpires that Mrs. Stowe's wonderful story of Lady Byron's life is not new. It appeared long ago in Forney's Press, ono of the leading political news papers of Philadelphia. THE TRIAL OF BARRETT.—The Irish Attorney- General has applied to the Court of Queen's Bench at Dublin for a writ of certiorari to enable him to move, next term, for the removal of the trial of Barrett from the county of Galway. The writ was granted. STRIKE AT DROGHEDA.--Between 500 and 00( hands—male and female—who had been engaged at the extensive cotton mill recently erected by Mr. Benjamin Whitworth, at Green-hills, near Drogheda, have struck work. A little while ago the weavers received notice that it was resolved by the managers their wages should be reduced 5 per cent. ; and a similar reduction having taken place some two months previously, the workers came to the determination of refusing to work. LONDON TO NE BURY ON A BICYCLE.---On Saturday, Edwin Goddard, one of the employis at Mr Soper's engineering works at Vauxhall, travelled on a bicycle of his own make from the metropolis to Newbury, in Berkshire (a distance of about sixty miles) in ten hours. Goddard, whose parents reside in Newbury, left Vauxhall at six o'clock a.m., took breakfast at Hounslow, and dined at Reading, having accomplished nearly forty miles of the journey. After a short rest he again mounted the machine, and safely reached his destination. The weather on Satur day was unusually warm for the time of yoar. MR. GEORGE PEABODY.—It IS announced that Mr. George Peabody, who is now in this city, will soon return to England. We hoped - that he had determined to pass the close of his life in his native country, and we should have been glad to keep him among us, if it were only that we might have frequent opportunities of show ing our gratitude for his magnificent acts of generosity Such a man as Mr. Peabody, however, has a claim upon the affections of all the civilised world, and wherever he goes he will be received with general respect and attachment —New York Tribune, OUTRAGE AT LETTEIU diabolical out has been perpetrated in the peaceable town of Letter kenny. A species of bomb, composed of two canisters, ene inside the other, filled with powder, scraps of iron, and broken metal, was thrown into the house of Mr. James Ward, through his office :window, breaking several panes Mr. Ward suddenly started from his seat, caught up the missile in his hand, and ran to the door, thinking he would see the party who threw it, when it exploded, happily without much damage, only singing his hand. A smith named Calhoun observed a man with the match struck} heard the crash of the window, and saw the person run ning off. Mr. Ward is bailiff to Lord Southwell's agent.— Dublin Evening Mail. PEEPS AT THE FAIL EAST.—The burning Ghat is a large, handsome, lofty shed, open to the winds o 1 heaven, in which the bodies of tho dead are housed Officials like our gravediggers do the work of selling the wood and making all arrangements for consuming the body We saw iron machines like small locomotives, minus th , mechanism, which were intended at once to conceal, and t< consume, the body, as in an oven, but they had not as ye• been used. I will not describe the appearance of them funeral pyres, and the sad remnants of mortality urer them. .No relations or friends were near. The body was left alone with the officials. The other was—Well, en drawing near we saw an oh' woman breathing her last as she lay motionles; upon the wet oozy sand with which her grey hail, mingled. Tier feet were in the water, and a wet cotter cloth partly concealed her emaciated form. Four women apparently her daughters, sat round her, watching for he] last breath. They sprinkled the holy water of the strcan on her thin faco, her glazed eyes, and silent lips. An olc her husband, with a young man beside him, sto od few zi.00,, few yards off, and turned away their eyes, as if in sorrow from the place where the dying one lay. When at last neither eyelid nor lip quivered, a great cry of anguish arose from the little group to the sky—to them empty of a Father and a Redeemer. The boisterous crowd rushee along with shouts of laughter, and the wild din of pipe and drum filled the air; but these mourners found no cony fortcr !r-0994 nrctr. 6ixtf HEI?, MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, OCt. 10 , The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess Amelie and Princess Augustus of Saxe' Coburg, drove to the Linn of Quoich yesterday. LATEST INTELL MENUS (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK", Oct. 11. The National steamship France, the Innla steamship Etna, the Idaho (of the Guion line), an d the Anchor steamship Britannia arrived out ye2ter day. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Washing" ton arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1301; the highest quotation dor' ing the day was 1308 ; the lowest, 1308. Sterling Exchange on London 1098• 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 l2Ol. At 46 1885 llok. 44 6, 18G7 llBk. 10-40 at Illinois l32k. Erie 32k. Cotton—Mid. upland 26le. Petroleum—Standard White 32 / 0• Flour, extra state, $5.70e. to $6.30c. Corn, ol d mixed, 31.1 e. BOSTON, Oct. 11. The extra Cunard steamship Tripoli arrive d here yesterday at 8 a.m. BALTIMORE, OCt. 1 1 . The North German Lloyd's steamship Baltimor e arrived here at 3 p.m. yesterday. QUEENSTOWN, OCt. The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Aleppo, from New York, arrived here at 6.45 a.m. to-day, 04 , 134 passengers. She l an d e d d espa t c h es a nd 5% passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 7 a•l lig All well. The Inman steamship CiLtyivoEfE ß ro r o o L ok , l O yn c , t. l l vh i cilb left New York on th e I st i nst. for this port, will bring $225,000 in specie. GREENCASTLE, Oct. 12. The Allan steamship Moravian, from Que bec : , arrived in Lough Foyle at 2.30 a.m. to-day, w it ' 59 cabin and 62 steerage passengers. The Loudo n mails were landed. She is detained by fog. HALIFAX, OCt. 1 1 . Her Majesty's ship Defence leaves here for Jamaica to-morrow. FRANCE. PARIS, Oct 12• Last evening there was another meeting at DO le ville, and some disturbances were expected, but the whole passed off quietly, the authorities having taken precautions against any disorder. BREST, Oct. 12. The Transatlantic Company's steamer Ville de o Paris arrived with 237 p assengers , and VOA in specie. BOURSE, Oct. 11.—Three o'clock—The raar l " M closed as follows : Bank Shares 2825 Italian Fives 53 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan 32 2 5 0 Do. Debt 42 Spanish Threes 25 Home Debt Deferred ...... s. Cash. Orleans ... 945 Western Northern Strasburg • • Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6lll Sardinian Austrian Lombard 525 North of Spain 43 Saragossa Roman 5O q per Cent. End of month - 3 per Cent End of month 7l 271 Credit Mobilier Transatlantic 252 50 I 3rodit Foucior l6BO Paris Gas 1575 RAIL WAI PRINCESS'S THEATRE. ! fl ier On Saturday Mr. Vining commenced his Il i T o s t season, not with Mr. Boucicault's new drama, v t , with a new piece, entitl e d " E scape d from l' °l land," in which Mr. an d M rs . Ch ar l es Diatke o n ' a i and the manager himself sus t a i ne d th e Print p . parts. The drama had to b e p re p are d very P" t , riedly, in consequence of unlooked-for disaPP °/ri i went; and, all things conside re d, it i s rema rkablYs qA a done. It perhaps is not quit e th e sor t of dr a b that we expected, but the audie nce rece ived it each much applause. Mr. Vining and M r . Mathews°awl sustain four characters i n th e pi ece . Mrs. Ch 3, t • Mathews has an excellent p ar t p rov ided for h er ; and, with the aid of some good scenery, the r es tb a was a success. The plot of the piece turns upo n cool audacity of a priso ner escape d f rom Portlan d ' and his ultimate recogn i t i on b y a detec tive a .l- 10 some very narrow escap es . W an t o f spac e eonll3Bl, us to postpone a lengthened notice for the preen POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Professor Pepper is now deli v eri n g one 0 - f r 0 most interesting lectures ever given in this foli o ite place of public amusement an d i n struction• eat has just returned from a visit to H o ll an d and the g r 0 Exhibition at Amsterdam, which, of course, ° r o t the subject of the lecture. Those who / 3013 : l ee t the opportunity of seeing the land of 1 ,1 1 ° ; ;Tto Von Dunk ought certai n ly t o p a y a 1i5h , ",.0 the Polytechnic and hea r th e new le e- which abounds with the most interesting scriptions of Holland and the Exhibition. 00 series of splendid photographs, taken on t oo spot on paper, and transferred to glass itt d . ja ll country enables the talented lecturer to 0001 fete illustrate his narrative, and so perfect and comp if io is the lecture that a journey to the place its elf almost rendered superfluous. Professor PeXr ci r ' t bs order to give variety to the subject, has divid e a to lecture into parts, thus one evening is dev . °t e . t i o o the productions in one quarter of the Exh i ' l jo building, and the following evening to th° s° another. Altogether the entertainments a t Polytechnic were never more attractive than er are at the present time, and the enthusisscad be pressed by the numerous visitors must ink ee trou ble gratifying to those who have t a k en s o much ja w to provide good and useful i ns t ru ction and - =Con for their entertainment. CRYSTAL PALACE. The " Harvest Festival" yesterday was succes is. he unrivalled performance s of e d and Lthardo, and the display of firework s the greatest applause, and altogether rat er , — t he entertainments may be considered one cu . ~0 1 great days o f th e season. T h e harvest Fes a ir, was a happy thought of the general inianage r ' io pg Rowley, and no d ou b t it will be added to the Col list of festi va l s annua ll y ce l e b ra t e d at the "'- Palace. The nt tc e ( ' he very ext ens i ve Di s tillery now being e t no of at Belfast, with a ll recent i mprove ent3 for the ruanufact-0,0.1 Irish W hisky, by Messrs. DUN VILLE & -Co., who b3v°, IP to Pe a world-wide celebrity for their flue old Irish whisky'i6 called "The Royal Irish Distillery." lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDG-0. Evssll4o MORNING. ISt TUESDAY 38 min past t; ...... 7mw u ` t 8 WEDNESD AY 37 min past 7 ...... 12 min past 9 THURSDAY 5 8 min past 8 ...... 40 min Past 0 FRIDAY 25 rain past 10.....• 3 ruin 1)$.