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FOR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every 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 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 slasses. Commodious apartments for measuring and fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, which contain a very large and diver sified stmk 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 1.0 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, 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 and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers,Woollendrapers„ Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES tnd SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85. ALDGATE 86, ALDGATI 37, ALDGATE 88, ALDGATE 39, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 06, NEW OXFORD-STREET %07, NEW OXFORD-STREET , 08, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTEN IrAM- CO LT ltT OAD BRANCH. 187 , TotrENHAM-COURT-ROAD 1:3. '• 7411; EUSTON-ROAD. Country_l3ranch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIbOiE-Sia-thET, BRADFORD, YORKS. B RITANNIA -FIRE ASSOCIATION Head Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing - features of this Association ara 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 RITE, 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 then, in 1868. The income of the year, it will he seen, amounts t £540,499 18s., and the total charge to £445,077 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. s. d. e. d DR. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 907,t.52 8 6 Premiums on new assur- an ces Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 371,548 12 1 interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492, 508 4 11 Profit and loss, balance of account 47,991 13 1 Total income 550,199 18 0 . 1 . IS, 052 6 6 Examined and approved. TrromAs ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF THE YEAR. F. d. CR. Dividend to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured Additions to those under participating policies 24,304 6 6 Policies surrendered Re-assurances new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 £ s. d. 8,880 4 0 405,561 12 1 Commission Medical fees Income tax 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 910 436,187 6 9 Total charge Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance-sheet £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. ld., of which sum £13,560 ss. id. 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 tc, 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 on 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, Jura 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors .£6,757 17 0 Claims on decease of lives assured, a n d additions thereto unpaid 1 08,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' fund 172,202 10 0 urplus fund £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, ASSETS. Amount invested in fixed mortgages £1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 Ditto ditto Temporary secu rities Current interest on the above investments Cash and bills Advanced on security of the company's policies 165,387 1 8 Agents' balances Sundry accounts Value of premiums (1867) ..... 4,506,167 18 0 Value of re-assurances 85,706 14 5 198,207 17 0 30,934 4 6 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 X 95,422 7s. 3d. already mentioned, as is shown by the augmentation to that extent in 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 Boddington, Esq. Philip Pose, Esq. Charles Chatfield. Esq. George Russell, Esq. SirJ. Duller East-, Bt., D. C. L. homas Godfrey Sambrooke Win. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq. E.P.S. Admiral Tindal. CaarlesThos.flolcombe,Esq. Right Min. Sir John Young Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart., K.C.B. T"E " 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 euliar simplicity of these Machines enables any one to iequire their perfect use in a few hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free. VIE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY Chief Office in the United Kingdom: I 147, CIIEAPSIDE. THEATRE -ROYAL DRURY- L A NE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tuts EvENttio, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA : Messrs. Barrett, II Irving, David Fisher, Brittain, Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Mac donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Comilla° with BORROWED PLIUMESi CRYSTAL PAL ACE .—To-morrow.—The LAST GREAT MUSICAL JUBILEE of the TONIC SOL-FA. Commence at 5 o'clocs. s. day as usual. EPETITION of GREAT MUSICAL lt JUBILEE TO-MORROW (Wednesday), Sept. 22. —The Chorus of the Tonic Sol-Fa Association, and the Orchestra—including the Band of the Crystal Palace, the Band of the Royal Artillery, &c.—will number 8,000 Performers. Conductors, Mr. J. Sarll and Mr. J. Proud man. Some of the Pieces will be accompanied, as at Boston, by the Firing of Cannon, Chiming of Bells, and Clinking of Anvils, the firing gun cotton by electricity, &c. The Handel Orchestra enlarged fcr the occasion. Admission as usual, One Shilling, or by Guinea Season Ticket, which, admitting also to the Grand Concert with Ardlle. Nilsson, on Saturday, Firework, Displays, Operas, &c., and until 31st August, 1870. may be had at the Palace, Exeter Hall, and Agents. Numbered Stalls, Half a-Crown, now ready, at Exeter Hail or at the Palace. NOTE.—From the very large attendance at the first, Jubilee (39,468) it was impossible to supply the demand for stalls. Thoy should therefore be applied for forthwith at the Palace and at Exeter Hall. CRYSTAL PALACI following pieces will fi Auld Lang Syne. The Men of llarlech. .—TO-AIIOR,ROW.—The Ld place in the Programme : Soldiers' Chorus in Faust. Partant pour laSyrio. The Russian Hymn. Trovatore Anvil Chorus. Boston Hymn of Peace. Hail, Columbia, du.% Sung by chorus of 8,000 voices, accompanied by the full bands, with the firing of guns, &c. The effect is astonsd ing. Every one should be present on this occasion. Ex tra trains ; but come early. Palace open at 10.0 ; Orches tral Band, 1.30; Band of Royal Artillery, 3.30. Jubilee Performance at 5.0, to afford persons engaged in the da3 an opportunity of being present. No extra charge. One shilling, as usual. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms of the past twenty months the National Lifeboat Institution Las contributed to the saving of 1,496 lives from various shipwrecks and 34 vessels from destruction, and has also expended £33,000 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £3,968 for rewards. The Institution has now 210 Lifeboat Stations under its management. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the institution, 14, John-stroot Adelphi, London. L ONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. SEVEN OR FOURTEEN DAYS IN IRELAND. LAST EXCURSION OF THE SEASON. On FRIDAY, September 24th, a CHEAP EXCURSION will leave Euston Station at 9.50 a.m., and Camden at 9.55 a.m., for DU KLIN via Holyhead. Returning October Ist, or on any week-day up to October Sth. Tro;ns in connection will be run from Clapham, Victoria (L. B. and S. C. Side), Battersea, Chelsea, West Brompton, and Kensington, Broad-street (City), Dalston, and Highbury— Fare for the Double Journey : To return October Ist only. To return any Week-day up to October Sth. Covered Car.s and Deck ?Is. I 305. First Class and Saloon 4os. 455. Fares from Broad-street, Dalston, and Highbury, 6d. extra. Tickets and bills to he obtained at the above Stations, the usual Parcels Receiving Offices, and at Gaze's Tourist Office, 163, Strand W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, September, 1869. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AM) GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established 1824. The ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, exceeds £227,000 The ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, is over £1,649,000 Forms of Proposal, and every information, can be ob tained of GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary, 13, St. James's-square, London. S.W. A GENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE L - 1 to introduce comroodi• 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 It. MARRISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. MCI LET, in St. Paul's-road, Camden-square, N.W., TWO ROOMS or mere (Unfurnished), in a respectable private house. Any Gentleman or Lady re quiring such, will find this most desirable. No children. Also, a good Bed-room, with use of sitting-room (Fur nished), for a Gentleman. Partial Board if required.— Apply at 1, Murray-street, Camden-square, N.V. JJO HIN GOSNF:LL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder ; gives the tenth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 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 inp this worm ,rful liquid. It is now offered to the public tL a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. _ _ _ Red Bull Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. TIIEA'_URE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Aranager, Mr. Chattcrton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLER OF TILE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA, new four-act Drama, by Dion Tloueicault: nessr,. Barrett, IL Trrlog, 7), rra I au. Rouse; Mr , Killington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, Ind Kat hari ne Rod gers. To conclude with the farce cf BORROWED PLUMES. T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Will Open for the Winter Season on WEDNESD AY, Sept 29, with (never acted) LOST AT SEA: a London Story. By Dion Boucicault and If enry.T. Byron. The new scenery by Messrs. Hawes Craven, Maugham, and assistants. GLOBE T EA TR E-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING. at 7, BREACII OF PROMISE. A t 8.15, Mr. T. W. Rol , ertson's new Comedy, in three acts, entitled PROGRESS: Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, 3. Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall ; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. HOLBORN TIIEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Lessee and 3lanag.er, BARRY SULLIVAN. First Night of the Winter Season. SATURDAY next, Sept. 25, 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. IL 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 race of THE WATERMAN. The magnificent new scenery by Mr. Julian Hicks; the furni ture and upholstery by Mr. James Lyon. Acting Manager—AMOltY SULLIVAN. p OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, MrR Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr CI Lrke. Followed by THE TOOD LES : Mr Clarke. After which, THE PILGRIM OF LOVE: Messrs E. Terry, Turner, Bruce, &c.; Mesdames Richardson, Erskine, Newton Fosbrooke, T"E,, SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE delivers the LATE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn, 8, Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, 9.45. 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Marshall; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING. at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. THE TOODLES. And THE PILGRIM uF LOVE Messrs. E. Terry, Bruce, &c.; Mesdames Richardson, Newton, Fosbrooke, &c. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Boa-office open from 11 to 4. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G NRDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, Cd. Children under twelve. 6.1_ y Qji Aftitt. , , ancestry back to apostolic days, and probably to an apostolic founder. He belonged to the school of NEWMAN and PUSEY rather than to that of LITTLEDALE and MACKONOCIIIE. The Bishop's relations with the diocese which he administered so long were of a very varied character. It would be easy enough, by selecting only one class of events in his career, to make him out the wisest and greatest prelate of his times. It would be scarcely less easy, by fixing the eye solely upon another class of events, to make him out one of the worst adminis trators that a diocese was ever encumbered with. On the one hand he deserves all praise for the vigour with which he corrected abuses. On the other hand, there are actions of his which no apologist can defend. Chief and foremost of the abuses was the frequency of non-residence on the part of the parochial clergy. Some of the worst offenders, like the late Dean STANHOPE, of Buryan (who read himself in in 1815, and never went near his parish again, though he lived for more than fifty years afterwards, and drew more than £l,OOO a year from his living) the Bishop was not always able to touch. But in other cases ho was firm, severe perhaps ; but who shall say unjustly severe ? The conse quence is that never before has the diocese seen so many of its parishes ruled by their own incumbents. The Bishop was equally vigorous with respect to infrequent services and celebrations of the Holy Communion. There was many a church when he first took charge of the see which was opened only every other Sunday, and in which the Com munion was administered only twice or thrice a year. Under his supervision these scandals have almost, if not entirely, ceased. Quite recently, when it was pointed out that in several churches a bad and wholly illegal custom prevailed of charging a fee for baptism, , the Bishop, then close upon 90 years of ago, caused enquiries to be made through the diocese, and vigorously reprobated and forbade the abuse. To the Bishop belongs also the credit of reviving diocesan synods, although his own advanced age prevented him from continuing them. He, too, it was who fought the battle of his order when a patron proposed to appoint to a living a person whose credentials were not satisfactory. In all these ways he sheaved energy such as few, if any other bishops, have shewn, and for these things let him have all praise. But there is another side, or rather another mani festation of the same side. The Bishop not only acted vigorously because he believed himself in the right, but he could not admit the possibility of persons who differed from him being otherwise than in the wrong. Therefore his decision must be upheld at all costs, not because it was his, but because it was, he believed, the decision of the Church, and essential to her well-being. The theory advocated by so many able men that the English Church is a body containing men of different schools of thought, he could not even conceive, much less receive. There was but one right theology, there were many false theologies. A faithful chief pastor must maintain the first, must denounce the second. Hence his great controversy with Mr. GORHAM, Hence his resolve to rend the Church in twain, and drive out the Low Church party en masse, rather than admit that the doctrine of baptismal regeneration was an open question. Theologians have learnt to see that the English Church is essentially a church of comprehension and toleration—a give-and-take Church,—and that directly parties become too sharply divided, too bitterly opposed,--directly there ceases to be a modus vivendi—it is not this or that party which will secede or be expelled, but the Church itself which will be broken up. Bishop PHILLPOTTS did his best to bring about that result, but his efforts pro duced exactly the opposite result. It was his doing that the highest court in the kingdom declared the holders and the deniers of baptismal regeneration equally at liberty to remain in the Church, just as it was the doing of the bishop whose death immediately pre ceded his which made the inspiration of Scripture an open question. There is one other unfavourable characteristic which we must not Pass over. The Bishop was unquestionably a nepotist, and his irs to obtrun possession of Church patronage were worthy rather of a third-ruto att., +l of first-rate divine. Perhaps even here there is something to be said in way of palliation. He loved patronage becaused it enabled him to present men whose views he approved ; in other words, men who he thought would do service to the Church. But he was too apt to forget the precept which forbids the doing of evil to secure: good. On the whole the Bishop was a very remarkable man. He was not the man to win affection, but he was the man to extort admiration for his pluck. He had few friends, many admirers, and we fear several foes. He was, as we have said, unique, and we do not wish to see his analogue. Vigour is not all that is needed in ruling men. It must be tempered with gentleness. The enunciation of truth is not all that is required in a chief pastor ; it must be spoken in love. It is to be hoped that the diocese so long administered by a bishop who ought to have been a Lord Chan cellor will now have for its head one who will be something less of a RHADAMANTIIUS, something more of a shepherd. THE POPE TO DR. CUMMING. The reply of Pope Pius IX. to Dr. Cumming has arrived at last. It is not addressed to the minister of Crown court ; no reference oven is made to the doctor's letter. The reply is sent "to our venerable brother Henry Edward Archbishop of Westminster ;" and runs as follows :—" We have seen from the newspapers that Doctor Cumming, of Scotland, has inquired of you whether leave will be given at the approaching council to those who dissent from the Catholic Church, to put forward the arguments which they think can bo advanced in support of their own opinions ; and that, on your replying that this is a matter to be determined by the Holy See, he has written to us upon the subject. Now, if the inquirer knows what is the belief of Catholics with respect to the teaching authority which has been given by our Divine Saviour to His Church, and therefore with respect to its infallibility in deciding questions which belong to dogmas or to morals, ho must know that the Church cannot permit errors which it has carefully con sidered, judged and condemned, to be again brought under discussion. This, too, is what has already been made known by our letters. For, when we said, "it cannot be denied or doubted that Jesus Christ Himself, in order that He might apply to all generations of men the fruits of His redemption, built here on earth upon Peter His only Church, that is, the one, 3 catholic and apostolic Church, and gave to him all power that was necessary for preserving whole and inviolate the deposit of faith, and for delivering the same faith to all peoples, and tribes, and nations,' we thereby signified that the primacy both of honour and of jurisdiction, which was conferred upon Peter and his successors by the Founder of the Church, is placed beyond the hazard of disputation. This, indeed, is the hinge upon which the whole question between Catho lics and all who dissent from them turns ; and from this dissent, as from a fountain, all the errors of non-Catholics flow. "For, inasmuch as such bodies of men are destitute of that living and divinely-established authority, which teaches mankind especially the things of faith and the rule of morals, and which also directs and governs them in whatever relates to eternal salvation, so these same bodies of men have ever varied in their teaching and their change and instability never cease." If, therefore, your inquirer will consider, either the opinion which is held by the Church as to the infallibility of its judgment in defining whatever belongs to faith or morals, or what we ourselves have written respecting the primacy and teaching authority of Peter, he will at once perceive that no room can bo given at the Council for the defence of errors which have already been condemned; and that we could not have invited non-Catholics to a discussion, but have only urged them "to avail themselves of the oppor tunity afforded by this Council, in which the Catholic Church, to which their forefathers belonged, gives a new proof of its close unity and invincible vitality, and to satisfy the wants of their souls by withdrawing from a state in which they cannot be sure of their salvation." If, by the inspiration of Divine grace, they shall perceive their own danger, and shall seek God with their whole heart, they will easily cast away all preconceived and adverse opinions ; and, laying aside all desire of disputation, they will return to the Father from whom they have long unhappily gone astray. We, on our part, will joyfu:ly run to meet them ; and embracing them with a father's charity, we shall rejoice, and the Church will rejoice with us, that our children who were dead have come to life again, and that they who were lost have been found. This indeed we earnestly ask of God; and do you, Venerable Brother, join your prayers to ours. In the meanwhile, as token of the Divine favour and of our own especial benevolence, we most lovingly give to you and to your diocese our Apostolic blessing. Given at St. Peter's, in Rome, this 4th day of September, 1569, in the 24th year of our Pontificate.—PorE Pius IX." LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1869. Literary Forgeries are among not the least remark able of the " Curiosities of Literature." Already they are sufficiently abundant. There is—consider ing the mythical character of OSSIAN —the instance of JAMES MACPHERSON. There is the renowned instance of the boy creator of the Monk ROWLEY, THOMAS CHATTERTON. There is the extraordinary case of that some time reputed Japanese who not only fabri cated an imaginary History of the Island of Formosa, but actually constructed the grammar of a wholly supposititious language—GEOßGE PSALMANAZAR. There is the more recent and more auda cious incident, still, of the shallow- pated writer of the drama of " Vortizern," who abso lutely deceived a scholar like Dr. PARR, into an acceptance of the rhodomontade penned by WILLIAM HENRY IRELAND, for another of the all-but-in spired productions of WILLIAM SIIAKSPERE There are Literary Forgeries and Literary Forgeries. Even HORACE WALPOLE, Earl of ORFORD, Master of Strawberry Hill, cold-shoulderer of " the marvellous boy who perished in his pride" might be regarded as taking his place by right of " The Castle of Otranto" with literary masqueraders like those we have, just now, been enumerating—falling, as he really does, in that one particular, into the same category with CHATTERTON, IRELAND, MACPIIERSON, and PSALMANAZAR. It has been reserved for our own day, however, to witners the production, en masse, of a whole series of literary forgeries of the most daring cha racter imaginable, all laid before the world together, with pretensions the most magnificent. The find of this astounding collection came rather suspiciously from America—suspiciously, because of the significance attached to what we are in the habit of designating Americanisms ! Meaning by that phrase—Cram mers I Canards as portentous in magnitude as the imaginary roc of the " Arabian Nights' Entertain ments ! " It was another suspicious circum stance in connection with this find, that shortly after it had been first of all announced in the July of 1867, in the Academie des Sciences at Paris by M. CIIASLES, when M. CHASLES was asked, on the 29th of the following August, by no less a personage than M. LEVRRIER, the great astro nomer, to explain the source from which thedocuments had been derived, the answer given by M. CHASLES to that most natural inquiry, was a point-blank refusal to supply anything whatever in the way of explanation. Remembering the fact that the docu ments referred to purported to be the production of the hands of a wonderful variety of the most illustrious people who have ever breathed the Dii Majores of Science, of Art, and of Literature, M. CIIASLES' point-blank refusal to explain from whom he had received these pre ckus manuscripts, we must insist upon it could not possibly be regarded otherwise than ..q in tiro vary 1 .at. .In,, w ho were these intelleztual giants whose MSS. were suddenly and astoundingly brought thus oddly to light, brought from no one knew where, produced by no one knew whom—except M. CHASLES? Listen !—they were BLAIS PASCAL, ISAAC NEWTON, GAL I LEO G ALI LEI, FRANcots IiABELAIS, C lIRISTOPHER COLU3IBUS, NICHOLAS COP ERNICUS, RAPHAEL D' UP.BINO, and MICHELANGELO BUONA ROTTI—they were MIGUEL CERVANTES, BER NARDO TASSO, MICHAEL MONTAIGNE, FRANCIS PETRARCH, and JOHN BOCCACCIO—they were ST. JEROME and ST. AUGUSTINE, JULIUS CESAR and CII ARLEMAGNE, JOAN of ARC and MARY Queen of Scots, FRANCIS I. and MARGARET D'AUGOULf:ME—several of the Apostles and the Rosicrucian Wizard NOSTRADAMUS I The force of daring, of effrontery, of audacity, surely, could no further go ! And yet, mildly, says M. CIIASLES, now, in conclusion, on his making a clean breast of it all before the Academie des Sciences, on the 13th instant, " I do not assume the responsibility of the genuineness of the whole of these papers ; but, whatever they may be, it is indis putable that their composition, if they are not origi nal, must have required prolonged labour and nume rous materials, and if it bo borne in mind how they dove-tail into each other, from the earliest times to the beginning of the last century, and the great variety of subjects of which they treat, it seems impossible to believe that they can be the work of one person, of a single fabricator, who, moreover, knew nothing whatever of the Latin and Italian languages, and was just as ignorant as re garded mathematics and the other sciences treated of in a considerable number of them. There is, there fore, a mystery to be penetrated, and until that is done nothing can be concluded with certainty." The gravity with which all this is said is certainly entitled to our admiration. THE judgment passed by some of our contem poraries upon the late Bishop of EXETER is in the main very fair ; and although in some cases they have misstated facts, and mistaken the character of the Bishop, errors are pardonable in dealing with a life so prolonged with a man so remarkable. The truth is that the Bishop was a man sui generis. He was a High Churchman, as all the world knows, but he was hardly more of a " Ritualist " (as the Daily Telegraph calls him) than is Dr. M'NEILE. True, he ordered his clergy to preach in their surplices ; true, he even affirmed that if the churchwardens of any parish provided the incumbent thereof with eucharistic vestments, he the Bishop should order them to be worn. But in saying this he was not in the least degree prompted by that love of elaborate costume, which is shewn by so many correspon dents of the Church News and the Church Times. He spoke thus because he believed that the law compelled the vestments to• be worn, and he, caring little for the vestments, but a great deal for the l aw —b e i ng h i mself the sternest and mostinflexible administrator of the law that the Church had ever seen since the days of his great pro totype, Archbishop LAUD —would have the law obeyed at all costs. lie had not the smallest sym pathy with the " ginger -bread " school of High Churchmanship against which Dr. ,NEWMAN was so sarcastic. The only work of his which will live of all those whose - titles fill thirty pages of the British Museum catalogue are the letters which he published in reply to " The Book of the Church," written by that eininimt Roman Catholic CHARLES BUTLER. He was not, as so many High Churchmen are now, ashamed of the word Pro testant. At the same time he ci Dnsidered that the Church of England had a far other and better foundation than its Protestantism,. He held that this Church was far more ancient than :that of the Roman Catholics ; that it. could trace its DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. At an early hour this morning great excitement 'rag caused in the fashionable neighbourhood of Westbourne-grove, Bayswater, owing to the out break of a serious fire taking place in the premises belonging to Mr. E. H. Jones, a hosier and haber dasher, carrying on a large business at No. 36, in the grove. The discovery appears to have been made by one of the inmates, who, upon jumping out of his bed to ascertain the time, found theflooring so hot astonearly draw the skin off his feet. He at once aroused the other inmates, and they all happily succeeded in effecting their escape. Numerous engines of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade having arrived, including two land steamers, and plenty of water being furnished by the mains of the Grand Junction Company, the firemen, and also the London salvage corps, went to work, but in spite of their most strenu ous exertions the conflagration could not be extinguished until the whole of the stock in trade was destroyed and premises partly consumed, and the property of Mr. H. Knight, tobacconist, was also severely damaged by fire, water, &c., and the window glass in the first floor of Mr. F. Adkins, linen-draper, No. 34, was also broken. The origin of the misfortune could not be ascertained. The losses will fall upon the Sun, the Royal Exchange, the Westminster, the Liverpool and London, and Globe fire offices. THE REGISTRA7ION COURTS.—This Day. CITY OF LONDON. Spencer Perceval, Esq., the Revising Barrister for the City of London, commenced his sittings this mornings in the Court of Common Pleas, Guildhall. It is expected that this sitting will extend over several days. The claims are as follows :—Livery, 3 ; objections, 394. House holders' claims, 656 ; objections, 2,495. Lodger claims, 434. It appears that there are 1,788 names omitted from this year's list, which were on that of last year ; whilst 4,312 new names have been added to the present list. The Liberals have lodged 44 new house holders claims, and 75 corrections of names on the list. The Conservatives 480 new claims, 144 corrections, and threo renewed claims. The Liberals have also lodged 261 new lodger claims, and 124 renewal claims. The several lists having been called:over, the revision was proceeded with. The reports of some of the South American Min ing Campanies have been issued. 'The Don Pedro North Del Rey Gold Mining Company shows a profit for the month of July of £3,853 3s. 7s. The Anglo-Brazilian Gold Company shows a loss during July of £259 193. Bd. The Rosa Grande Gold Mi❑ing Company's produce for the month of July amounts to 1,311 oitavas of gold. We are informed that Messrs. Aubert Gerard and Co., of London, Paris, and Ilarbourg, have the sole contract for the manufacture of the cable for the International South Transatlantic Com pany, the decree of which undertaking appeared at length in the Journal O f ficial de l'Empire Francais of the 17th inst. ROYALTY ABROAD. Three sons of the Queen are out of England just now The Prince of Wales is with his Princess at Wildbad ; the Duke of Edinburgh is travelling the world over; Prince Arthur is in North America. The correspondent of the Standard, writing about the "heir of England," says under date Wildbad, September 19, " His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales having spent a day, after leaving Paris, at Baden, arrived here yesterday, and was met at the station by the Princess, who had her two eldest children with her. On alighting from the train a land which was in attendance played the English national anthem. There were several persons on the plat form when the train waived, and the Prince was very well received. The hotel was elegantly decorated, flowers and exotics hanging in festoons round the pillars, &c. There was a dinner party in the evening. After dinner the party went to the theatre, the whole of the way to which was illuminated by hundreds of Chinese lanterns, and these being suspended by wires over the various -walks, produced a very pretty effect. The evening was very fine, not breath of sir stirring, and the whole scene was beauticu:. The route from the hotel to the theatre was lined witl spectators, who cheered their Royal Highnesses as passed. It is anticipated that the Prince and Princess, with their children, will leave here to-morrow. News is given by a correspondent at Tahiti of the doings of the Duke in that island :—" The Galatea, arrived here on the 9th of June, and his Royal Highness was received by the Governor officers, and, I presume, one-fourth of the native population of the place. As soon as the ship was signalled, messengers were sent round to the native population, ordering them to repair to Paputi, and in a few days boats arrived from all the neighbouring islands, and the population of Paputi was swelled up to at least 10,000. Each district had prepared a song of welcome for the Duke, and forty or fifty of the best looking girls, dressed in white, sang the grand Hyminie In accordance with the native custom, each native presented the Prince with some token of regard to carry back to his country, and at one time the girls made a circle of wreaths round him, so that he was no longer visible, each wreath being worth from 4 dols. to 10 dols. The Prince and suite associated with the half-caste popu lation, and several photographs were taken of the Captain of the Galatea, one of which represents him standing between two half-caste girls. All the European houses were open to the officers, and the best feeling prevailed with every one. Dinners and balls were given, and the Prince was forced to remain four days longer than he intended. The manager of the company, Soares, opened his house and invited every one. He gave a grand enter tainment during the stay of the ship." The doings of Prince Arthur are more formal than those of 'his elder brothers. At the latest dates he was still in the Nova Scotian Provinces. He left Prince Edward's Island at the singular hour of 3 o'clock in the morning, whence he proceeded to Picton, and taking the train passed through the Northumberland Straits, on his way to the capital cf Nova Scotia. At New Glasgow, amongst others gathered to do honour to the distinguished visitor was a delegation of the Nick-Nack Indians, a tribe of redskins very nu merous in the vicinity, and their voices were heard far above the others in cheering when his Royal Highness appeared upon the platform. Their chief, who delights in the reptile name of John Snake, was very elaborately decorated for the occasion, but his anticipated joy of being presented to the Prince As as not realised ; for when he pressed his way forward he was most unceremoniously and contemptuously pushed aside by one of the sturdy "grouses" of New Glasgow. An address was presented to his Royal Highness here ; and there was also a de monstration at the next place of stoppage, Truro, whence he proceeded to Halifax, and was received at the Govern ment House by the Lieut-Governor, Sir Hastings Doyle . He next attended a ball given in his honour, at the Cil Buildings, around which a crowd of several thousand per sons assembled, and greeted the Prince with enthusiastic cheers. A pie-nic, to which his Royal Highness was in vited, and which took place at Prince's Lodge, on the shore of Bedford Basin, which was many years ago the residence of the Duke of Kent, is said to have been the most enjoyable entertainment, and it was the last. The Prince next proceeded to St. John's, where he arrived on the 7th instant,.and was received in due form by the Lieutenant- Governor and the local authorities. He left for Fredericton on the next day. What is the difference between a good soldier and a fashionable young lady ?—One faces the powder, and the other powders the face. The captain of the steamship Hornet which was seized at Halifax as a Cuban filibuster, has issued a protest against further search or detention of the vessel. She was detained on the oath of a sailor that she had arms stowed under her coal, but none have yet been found. The Spanish Consul has given bonds to the amount of 30,000 dols. for her detention. THE ORANGEMEN AGAINST THE FENIANS.—At Lurgan, on Sunday, a body of men (says the correspondent of the Freeman's Journal) --some call them Fenians— mounted a large drag, with the object, it is reported, of proceeding to Armagh to receive and welcome a friend who was to be discharged from the county gaol that day. Whether the liberated man was a political prisoner whose "term" was up or not I cannot say, but the affair was considered to wear a political aspect, and that the liberated man was to have been brought back to this town "in triumph." If this were ever intended, it was not per mitted to be carried out; for when the "excursion party" had got as far as a place called Seagoe, the " drag " was brought to a stand by a strong body of Orangemen, who would not allow it to go on its mission, and it was driven back here in triumph. The occurrence has created 4 good deal a talk a nd much angry feeling. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL% Thell/nits considers that the Pope has now expressed him self with a plainness which must undeceive even the most sanguine. Dr. Pusey can hardly think it worth while, after the perusal of this letter to publish any more "Eirenica," and if any Ritualists are still dreaming of finding an open ing at Rome for fresh negotiations, they ought to be con vinced, once for all, of the futility of such attempts. The Pope will yield nothing, and will demand everything. All who have ever differed from the Holy See on points of religion or morals must acknowledge that they have been in every respect wrong. The business of the Council is not to discuss the errors of the past, but to pronounce judgment on errors not yet formally condemned, and to enunciate dogmas not yet formally sanctioned. Justification by faith and the rights of conscience are, so far a the Pope and his Council are concerned, antiquated and exploded errors. The Church is to advance in the strength of its " invincible vitality ' 2 to proclaim the personal infallibility of the Pope, and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The controversy between the two Churches ought to be wonderfully abridged by this momentous declaration of the Pope. It is as if the battle which has for so long been indecisively waged over a wide field were at length concentrated on the critical point. The question, therefore, is henceforward one, and one only. Can we acknowledge that an infallible authority to decide all questions of faith and morals has been committed to the Papacy ? The modern world may reply to the claim asserted in this letter in precisely similar language. "We can do no other" than we do. If this letter is an indication of the tendency of the Council, and if the result of this great effort of the Roman Church be to proclaim an eternal sepa ration from all " non-Catholic " thought, the Pope will have conferred on the world an inestimable service, though in the opposite way to that which he expects. He will have convinced men, once and for all, that compromise or alliance with his Church is hopeless, and that the free thought of Protestantism, whether abstractedly . desirable or not, is the only condition any longer possible. - 4-‘ , 4f The Standard alludes to the entertainment in honour of the approaching departure of Mr. James Finlen, that most indefatigable patriot and martyr, for the shores of the New World. Weary of a long and arduous career in a thank less service, Mr. James Finlen, the advocate, as we are told, of "the most advanced as well as the most approved measures of political and social reform," takes his leave of his ungrateful country. The unswerving advocate of the oppressed, the dauntless champion of the people's rights, the victim of "the ensanguined power of the English aristocracy," has abandoned the unequal strife against the powers of evil—in other words, the street policeman and the workhouse authorities—and goes where so many good patriots have gone before. Is it thus that a great country dismisses her patriots with a shabby benefit at a St. Luke's meeting ? At the time when Mr. Gladstone is lavishing honours in the Queen's name upon all who have rendered service to the Liberal party is it possible that he can overlook what Finlen has done against the ensanguined power of the British aristocracy in favour of the cause of Ireland ? Is this how English Liberalism speeds the parting patriot, with comic sketches and charac teristic songs ? It is sad enough that we should have to lose our Finlen—that we should have no room for him in our political system—that there should be not even a knighthood to spare for one who has done such excellent service for the Liberal cause. But to send him away with a benefit such as his associates might accord to a beaten prize-fighter or an ex-carcerated thief, precisely at the very time when his principles are admitted into our national policy, when his opinions are the theory of our political conduct—this, indeed, is the height of ingra titude. The Post thinks it will require a good deal of pluck to follow Mr. Henry Richard to the point of view from which the "religious constitution of the House of Commons " may be looked at as he proposes ; but no one who read his recent speech could fail to be amused, and possibly, by thinking out what he is reported to have said, edified as well as amused. Mr. Richard presented his sketch of the religious constitution of the House of Commons to his constituents in the framework of a solid argument. Look at the House of Commons ,in its religious aspect. It is an assembly composed of " Turks, Jews, infidels, and heretics." Mr. Richard owns that in reality there are no Turks, but ho maintains that "metaphorically"— whatever that may signify—there are plenty of them in the House. There are, however, Jews who sit and vote, and who are " clever and upright men." Mr. Richard says there is also a " good sprinkling of infidels ; " and as to heretics, " in the eyes of the Church of England all Dissenters are heretics." And he asks if we can imagine this many-coloured assembly legislating upon religion, just as if it was something monstrous and incredible. But why not ? Before Parliament legislates upon a subject it consults the interests involved, and we have yet to learn that the interests of religion are incompatible with the interests of the community as a whole. There are Churchmen and Dissenters who have got into the bad habit of imagining that, from some supposed peculiarity in religion, they are entitled to be regarded as a class apart. But, whether it be a strange delusion or an arrogant pretension, the theory of this claim to distinction can never stand for an instant where Protestantism has been received. Surely, says the Herald, there must be some occult in, fluence in the air of Bridgwater inducing candidates to become casuistical. Mr. Kinglake thinks an agent is not an agent after a candidate has left the town. Mr. Brogden thinks a briber is not a briber when he bribes through a legal agent, whom he supposes will take care to spend the money lawfully, because he will have to account for it, with the knowledge that it was given him for an unlawful purpose. Truly did the honourable member say, " I was shutting my eyes to the way in which the money was to be spent." Of Mr. Brogden's ability to "shut his eyes' upon electioneering naughtiness he has himself furnished the most wonderful illustrations. But it is still more curious that he should be angry with any one for not having attained to his own proficiency in this accomplishment. The commissioners were naturally indignant at the avowal of such sentiments, "by a member of the House of Commons who had voted on bribery bills." Thereupon Mr. Brogden became indig nant in his turn, judging his judges, and criticising his critics with great freedom. Surely he ought to know that though, as a member of the Legislature, he may have some share in making the law, the Constitution has not placed the interpretation of the law in the hand s o f th ose w h o systematically break it. Of course, if he is so entitled, all his past peccadilloes are to be forgotten, bec ause h e pa id £3,000 to a legal agent, shutting his eyes to the fact that the greater part of that sum was to be illegally exp en d e d . But until we hear that doctrine enunciated on some better authority than his own, we shall decline to believe either that he has a right to interpret the law, or that he has suc cessfully endeavoured to evade it. The Daily _Yews declares that the directors of the Albert Assurance Company can be scarcely surprised that the case as between themselves and the shareholders should make its appearance in the police-courts. These are days of reaction in the shareholding world. The Albert Directors have had their time of power, they have not used that power well, and they cannot hope to avoid the reckoning. They have under taken large responsibilities, and they h ave di sc h arged them badly. They have held great trusts and have failed to render an account of them. The directors have probably lost their own money as well as that of the shareholders, but their own loss can no more free them from responsibility than it freed the directors of the cele brated " corner house " who were once almost the dictators of commerce. When the Overend and Gurney directors are awaiting trial, the Albert directors, though they were equally honoured and honourable men, must expect to answer for their mismanagement and mistakes. We have before us an authorised advertisement of the company, issued during the present year, in which, under the head of " Special advantages offered to Ag_ surers," the first item is " Security," and i s described as " the security of a Reserve Fund, an d o f a capital of half-a-million sterling, subscribed by 500 share holders-" Yet at the time this advertisement appeared the reserve fund and the capital were all lost, and a vast void of £900,000 was the pit into which assurers were literally and actually invited to fall. It is of course possible that the directors, whose names were the guarantee of this advertisement, knew nothing of the real state of the case, and they as well as the shareholders and the public will be glad that their relation to these statements should be cleared up and their whole conduct of the business explained. There is a marked contrast, observes the Star, between the congress of the "League of Peace and Unity," now assembled at Lausanne, and that earlier congress of work ing men which closed its sittings a few days since at Bale. It would be unfair to say that the members of the former assembly are not in earnest—they are even passionate in their enthusiasm ; but there is not the grim reality about their proceedings which characterised the international congress of labour. They are not delegates charged to represent the wishes of large bodies of their fellow countrymen ; their views are still speculative, they comp together not to Organise a campaign, but to exchange words of encourage ment and hope. The questions for discussion were three, of which the first both in order and in importance was that relating to the formation of a vast confederacy under the title of the United States of Europe. Of the other two questions, the second, which professed to deal with Poland end tho East, was retained in the programme, mainly, it would seem, from deference to an ancient tradition ; and the third, that of labour and capital, lost much of its interest from the fact that labour was only partially represent , : d. Whatever may be thought of th e theories advocated at the meeting, br even of the language in which some of the more enthu siastic expressed their views, there can be no doubt of the purity and elevation of the sentiments by which the speakers were actuated. We in England are somewhat accustomed to underrate sentiment, and, fortunately for us, are unable to realise the extent to which the fear of war and the burden of military service enters into the daily life of the Continent. A European federation may be far distant; the extinction of national jealousies is, we hope, nearer at hand, and it will certainly jealousies accelerated by able men like those who mot at Lausanne, coming boldly for ward to denounce the phantom of military ambition, and to proelaim that peace and goodwill should be the ruling principles of a civilised world, Even this is a sten towards malsiug them 149Yfilb TIER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, Sept. IS. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove out in the morning. In the afternoon the Queen, accompanied bY Princess Louise, drove to Tillypronie, and honoured Sir James Clark with a visit. LATEST INTELLEGENCFJ (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Sept. 20. The National Steamship Company's steamer Erin arrived out yesterday. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 137} ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 137 i; the lowest, 1364. Sterling Exchange on London lO7l. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1221. ct " 1885 l2ll. 44 " 1867 ll9l. 10-40 14 Illinois l3Bl. Erie 39l' Cotton—Mid. upland.. 29kC• Petroleum—Standard White 32/e. Flour, extra state, $6.20c. to $6.80c. Corn, old mixed, sl.loc. WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. The members of the Cabinet have now all re• turned to the Capitol. President Grant is expected at the White 110 0 ° on Wednesday. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. NEW YORK, Sept. 2 1 . Advices received from Japan via San Francisco state his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Jeddo on the 29th of August. Some of the principal Japanese priests are Me• morialising the Government to oppose Christiani t y' The Austrian Embassy to China arrived at re• kin on the 14th August. QUEBEC, Sept. 19 ' The Allan (Glasgow) steamship Moravian arrive d out to-day. BOSTON, Sept. 20 ' The extra Cunard steamship Aleppo arri ved here yesterday at 6 p.m. QUEENSTOWN, Sept, 21. The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Tripoli, fr °°l New York, arrived here at 6.50 this morn i°°. She brings 87 passengers, 24 of w hom she land ° 3 ; and despatches, and proceeded at 7 for LiverP ° All well. .~ cap - t 7 la Ititt ITALY. FLORENCE, Sept. 20 (Evening') The report of the official committee appointedur it in into the causes of the Grist-tax last antes, which took place in Central ItalY January, has been published this day. s si The committee recommends an amnesty . 0 - r persons who had been implicated through ign cit' ante. The committee further recommends the redifitrii; bution of the land tax in the province of S egg . vo and Modena, the exemption of peasants from a cti o f service in the National Guard, the construction o f a railway between Parma and the seapor t b io Spezzia, and also the redistribution of the mov ell- tax among the agricultural populatio n (in gene ral) With reference to the Grist ta x the Committ ee 11 4 0 0 vises that ample facilities should be afforded t ° l ' Administration to make use of a mechanical t ehel,l or to introduce constant personal supervision' _ a t Annexed to the above is a report of Sign Ferraris. He considers the rail way referred to Hof necessary. In other respects the Governm ent of well disposed to support the recommendation the Committee. Cam 0% Appended is also a report of Count C a- 0 % Digny, stating that the Grist tax is net be i re , levied everywhere. He says, " Although the rp, venue budget of the current year be un satiefa c "' th s there is no ground for uneasiness for the fut ure ; 01 Government has only to pursue the course o llir ta f out for them in order to obtain from the g ri l t he the sum necessary for securing an equilibriu m° to budget, which it would be impossible otherg ri°- obtain. te a to He stated that the amount of the tax colle c , i t he the end of August was 9,959,944 lire , °D— emount due 19,732,764 lire. „ se° l The 'British General Lord C a dogan Waa at the military manoeu vres a t Borgo Sall 1412re13 yesterday and to-day. INDIA AND CHINA }JAIL. 0, SUEZ, S e pt. o r The Peninsular and Oriental Compa l i' ls Surat sailed at 6 p.m., and the Sumatra at 11`, (Sunday) for Calcutta and Bombay respecViTc 1 THE BRAZIL MAIL. t 21. LIVERPOOL, S el3 . coa l ' The Liverpool, Brazil, and River ri te gasP pany's Mail steamer Copernicus, Capta ia ill R oe well, left hero this morning with her wA dirO t mails, 51 passengers, and a general earg ° ' 4 olo for Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Monevideo, O ct - Ayres. FRANCE. h 0 4°1 BOURSE, Sept. 20.—Three o'clock- - T he closed as follows : 4} per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7O 92} Credit Mobilier Transatlantic 262 50 Credit Fonder 1690 Paris Gas 1620 RAILWAI Ro Sar m ag aZ ..... ......................................................................... 6-Q 8 36 2 3 B an k Shares ...... Italian Fives .••••" i y 0 Austrian Fives ••• 32 SO Ottoman Loan *" 48 75 Do. Debt ......... 26 Spanish Threes ", 0 Rome Debt ...... 2 6 Deferred ....... casi , 962 ;02 Orleans *** Western ....................................... .092, Northern ...... x 695 Strasburg • • ........................ 'nso layons and Mediterranean ............... 620 Southern..... ................................. 02i Sardinian .................................... Austrian ............................... 506 Lombard ......................................... 60 N orth of Spain .................................... MARKEY S-2 HIS DAY• D ye LIVERPOOL COTTON 31.6-1 Ol e 133 Sept, 21.—Sales probably 4,000 bale s ' dull. Au S th in or ff if yr, GI ' lb er s of 'THOMAS"L ucrezia BtIAMSTON. 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