The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-27 00:00:00

DISCRIMINATING PAUPER. zl extraordinary case has been reported to the Kingston Board of Guardians by one of the relieving )ilicer.l. On the IGth of this mouth the officer was sent for by the railway authorities at Kingston Station, and on going there he found a woman who gave her name as Henrietta Skeats, and her ago Shr had been lifted out of a train which had come Prom W. .100, and, being totally paralysed, was unable t o move by herself. In answer to questions, the woman said she did not apply for admission into any of the London workhouses because they were " such stinking holes." A clergyman gave her a shilling to pay her fare to Kingston, tnd she wished to come there, having heard it was comfortable place. The relieving officer had Ulf. woman taken at once to the infirmary, and brought the caso under notice at the next meeting of the board. The guardians were a little gratified at receiving such r. compliment upon their care for the poor, but gave the clerk directions to ascertain the parish to which their visitor belonged. As the woman result-At:ly declines say where she came from ra,re definitely than " from London," and does not know, or at least will not tell, where s:le was born, it is quite probable that her removal will be a work of difficulty. LAW AND POLICR. THE Itointr. BANK or LIVETtPOOL.-At the Liverpool Assizes, on Thursday, Messrs. Prelin and Co., merchants, Alexandria and Liverpool, trading under the name of Quentill and Co., sued the Royal Bank of Liverpool h.: damages for the non-retirement by the bank of certain acceptances of the plaintiffs' draughts. It appeared th the hank under a special agreement with the plaintiffs used to accept the bills of the Alexandria firm agains• grain shipments, and as the bills of lading came in the .sroceeds were paid in by the plaintiffs to a special account When the bank stopped payment there were outstanding drafts of the plaintiffs accepted by the defendants amounting to £21,000, and funds to the credit of the special account to the amount of £22,000. The bank could not under the circumstances retire. The bills and the money were not paid over to the plaintiffs till the end of the year. The plaintiffs had to pay a commission amounting to £548, to provide for the bills, and for this and the cost of telegrams to Alexandria the action was brought. A verdict was taken by consent for the plain tiffs, with leave for the defendants to move. ROYALTIES ON PATENTs.—At the Liverpool Assizes, on Thursday, Mr. Justice Ilannen tried the case of " Moxon v. Bright," in which the plaintiffs are machinists of Roch dale, and the defendants Messrs. John, Thomas, and Jacob Bright. The President of the Board of Trade, who is the senior partner in the firm, AVM in court during the greater part of the proceedings. The action was brought to recover an amount alleged to 'be due to the plaintiffs for license to use machines patented by them for carpet-weaving. The defendants pleaded that they were not liable except in the sum of £lO5, which had been paid into court. The plaintiffs bad previoly been in the defendants' employ, and, after leaving, patented the invention referred to. After a good deal of evidence had been given respecting the terms of the arrangement for the use of the patented looms, the jury found for the plaintiffs for £540. VIE FEIIAN CONSUL FOR GLASGOW. The case of Major John Haggerty, titular American Consul at Glasgow, Scotland, is at once melancholy and iwnusing. He is of Irish parentage, though born in Glasgow. He is an honest and able man, served with distinction in the war, and has since the war been making herculean, but vain, efforts to induce Ids countrymen here to vote the Republican ticket and to Idlake off the British yoke. Although not a very promi nent Fenian, his connection with the Brotherhood, and his feelings towards the British Crown, were sufficiently notorious to satisfy anybody but a Fenian, or par tially demented person, that he might as well expect to be appointed Gold Stick in Waiting as be be allowed to act as Consul in a British port. No Government was ever known to grant an exequalur to a man connected with an organisation formed to bring about its overthrow. Of course, the 'cute Republican politicians who gave him the place knew this perfectly well, but, by giving it him, they made him believe that they were doing something very fine for him, and threw on the British Government the odium of keeping him out of it, and are probably now laughing over it at the seaside or in the mountains, while Haggerty is spending his hard earnings in some Scotch tavern. The same "little game" was on the po:nt of being tried on a certain Mr. Savage, who was atone time a Fenian " head centre "or some such dignitary. It was seriously pro posed to give him also some very handsome and opulent consulship, also on British soil ; but either Savage himself or seine of his friends saw the joke before. he started to take possession, and consequently he wisely stayed at home, and we hope has made them give him something in which be can get at his pickings without having to .incur obligations to the hated Saxon. There was only one thing- wanting to mal:e poor Ifag,gerty's case a perfect and symmetrical "seli," and that was that some Republican organ should pretend to think the British Government had played him a mean trick, and this, sure enough, the Kew York TriLlive did on Tuesday last. "A great Government," it said "cannot afford to do small things, and yet it does them sometimes," etc., and winds up by hinting that it is Glasgow which will suffer from Haggerty's absence. One of the worst results of "the six hundred years of wrong" is seen in the Fenian capacity for being humbugged. —Nero YorA; Nation. TIIE PORTADOWN INQUEST.—At the Portadown inquest, on Thursday, Head-constable Bailey was cross examined by the attorney for the next of kin. He way afterwards examined by the attorney for the police Several passages-at•arms took place between the attorneys and the foreman of the jury. The inquiry may not terms• nate this week. The a'obe has the :—" The rumour !;., ittfll prevalent that Vice-Admiral Sir James lope, G.C.13., Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, will take the place of Fir Sydney Dacres, senior sea lord. We hear that Roar- Admiral Francis Scott, C. 8., is a candidate for the Pacifiv. ( mu:nand when vacant; but, we believe, that Admiral Chads has been offered the post, and accepted it. Mr. Jas. W. M. Ashby, C. 8., secretary to Admiral Sir Geo. Rodney, Into Commander-in-Chief of the North American and West India squadron, and who was to have filled a si milar post in the Admiral's Office at Portsmotth, Las deter mined to remain at Halifax for a short time." . SUDDEN DEATH DURING A FIT OF PASSION.— On Thursday Dr. Hardwicke, deputy-coroner for Central Middlesex, held an inquest at the Middlesex Hospital on 'he body of William Topping, 58 years of age, a coach- Man, residing in High-street, Marylebone. From the evidence it appeared that on Monday evening, the 23rd, :eceased went home with his carriage and placed it near Cie coachhouse door. While leading his horses to the stable someone pushed the door against the carriage, which deceased observed, said it was done on purpose, and got into a violent passion. He full down insensible while using bad language, and was carried into the stable. Deceased was brought to the hospital dead. Dr. King proved that death took place from syncope from disease of the heart. Verdict, " Death from natural causes, accele rated by violent passion." SERIOUS EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS.—On Thurs day afternoon an explosion took place upon the premises' of Mr. Darby, firework maker, 99, Regent-street, Lam ► eth-walk. In a large shed in the yard he keeps a quantity of rockets, squibs, and other fireworks for immediate sale. About the time mentioned the contents of this shed exploded with a terrific noise, alarming the whole neigh bourhood. The shed was blown to atoms, the windows in front of the house were blown in, and the curtains and •ashes set in a blaze. The doors and windows of the ad 'lining house were also destroyed, and the front wall of e house completely blackened. By promptly pulling wn the curtains the fire was prevented making its way Itto the interior of the house. Many of the windows of the houses in the neighbourhood were broken from the force of the explosion. Some children who were playing in the street in front of the premises were knocked down and scorched by the burning squibs falling upon them, THE WAIST OF THE PERIOD.—Our old friend, light-lacing, has again made his appearance. Beaten back for a time, probably more by fashion than 1 y the spread )1 knowledge, he has not been killed, but has only recoiled ipparently for a better spring, for his victims are as numerous and pitiable as ever. The folly is one which ;as formerly to be found mainly in the drawing-rcom, but •ow it also fills our streets. It is lamentable to observe t every turn a woman, young or old, who moves forward n'a stooping position, unable even to bold herself szpri..;lst to consequence of the constraint upon the muscles of :he back. If the evils of tight-lacing were confined to Ow listorted appearance which it never fails to produce we . night regret indeed to see the female form divine so lefaced, but it would scarcely be in our province to zom 4sent upon it. But, as medical practitioners, we see its tffects every day in the train of nervous and dyspeptic symptoms by which it is constantly indicated, and in the till more grave internal mischief of permanent character vhich is often caused by it. Until some little physiolo ,ical knowledge is made a yart of female education and is :onsidered an "accomplishment," we suppose it is of ittle use to protest against the cruel injury to health which women thus inflict upon themselves. The matter is me that is "worse than crime—it is folly," for beauty is I.: , !stp - Ted by the Drama which is intruded to increase it. —Zaneek THL SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUSI I 27, 1869. RAILWAI AND OTHER COMPANIES. ►S'OIITII-EASTEIiN. The half-yearly general meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon street ; Sir E. W. Watkin, the chairman, presided. Mr: J. Shaw, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report, an abstract of which appeared in The .Sun, was taken as read. The Cuatnmsw, in opening the proceedings, stated that, in accordance with paragraph 10 of the report, the directors attended on the previous day at the offices of :he comp my to afford explanations as to the accounts to such proprietors as might dezire them, but nobody came. Ile might, perhaps, there fore fairly assume that the explicitness of the re port and the fulness aLd clearness of the audited accounts would stand in place of a speech from him that day. At all events, he would so far presume upon the absence of anxious inquirers as to be very concise. Theirs was essentially a passenger line, acd in London one-half the passenger traffic as respected number, and more than half in money, began or ended. In London even yet people had little money to spend, little confidence, and there was among the middle and humbler class. s sadly too much privation. Thus it was not surprising that the evidence s of hard saving were all around them, and the luxury of pleasure travelling was much curtailed. The London omnibuses had only carried 20,150,000 passengers this year, against 20,300,000 last, and omnibus travelling was in London all but a necessity. For the first time for some years the Customs' duties had in the past Customs year fallen off, irrespective of reductions of duty, no less a sum than £156,000, and that falling off bad not been in the wine or spirits of the rich, but in the tea, coffee, and sugar of the poor. Ho had just been told that the income of the 40,000 medical practitioners of the kingdom fell off £1,000,000 in 1868. Many people were too poor to pay their doctors. But beyond general causes of depression, they had had in the half-year to con tend with bad weather, a late season, and serious loss from the closing of the dockyards and arsenal at Woolwich, and the all but shutting up of Green wich Hospital. The loss of Woolwich, Deptford, and Greenwich traffic in the half-year had been £3,000. Again they had had a falling off iu the goods traffic of £4,000. This was accounted for by the late season, and the consequent loss of fruit and vegetable traffic, and by a considerable reduc tion in the export of wool for France. Still they had on the balance an increase of gross earnings of £16,626. Their passenger income, as they would observe, showed a decrease of passengers and an in crease of money, which meant that they had had more through and less local traffi3, the loss of local passengers between Greenwich, Deptford, and Woolwich having been over 200,000; and their goods receipts showed more tonnage carrie3, and less money for carrying it. Ile had said that theirs was essentially a passenger line, and it was the fact that on their 345 miles of railway they carried 1-12th of all the passengers carried in England and Wales. This was a great responsibility, and involved no small thought in arranging for it, and no mean anxiety in their efforts to pass it on with safety. Unless they could show that every precaution for safety and for comfort was adopted, they would feel that they in curred just and grave censure. But they thought they could show that. At the same time they could not fulfil Lord Campbell's Act, which made the railway proprietor, and him alone, guarantor of the absolute infallibility of every one employed, and the absolute perfection of every bit of material used or work done, down to the stitching of a car pet. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) In endeavour ing to secure comfort and safety they started by selecting the best officers and servants procurable by giving them goo I salaries and wages, and by treari•ig them with consideration, at the same time enforcing strict and severe discipline. They pro ceeded by wing the best material and the most re cant inventions. They insisted upon a road in the highest style of repair, and they providid safe and commodious vehicles. No one had ever proved a single fare on the line to be excessive, if he might except the Sevenoaks fare, which was lowered some months ago, on his own advico. They were the first to introduce a means of communication between the gnat d and driver of the trains, and they antici pated the A ct of last session by using an electric apparatus to enable the passengers to signal the guard and driver in case of auticipated -danger ; yet, having done all this, they had to pay thousands of pounds because in some rare instances those very precautions of their own did not act a merveille. 1 hey bad provided new assurance of safety, and they thereby, under the present preposterous legis lation, had, strangely enough, established new ele ments of compensation. They found, while in every other department of industrial life human fallibility was admitted, in their case the law had set up a standard inconsistent with human nature itself, and, while all insurance was based upon the proportion of premium to risk, they were compelled to carry all risks at the same rate, and for an accident to a passenger who had take❑ a half-penny ticket they might, perhaps, have to pay £lOO,OOO. Again, their competitors, the river steamers, which ran alongside them all the way to Margate, were working under the protec tion of a special Act, so that an accident injuring 20 people might cost them nothing, while it might tax their company in £30,000 or £40,000. Under a state of things so scandalously unjust he did not hesitate in advising them to restrict that surplus accommodation of cheap traffic, the risk of conveying which had become so immeasurable. The report called their attention and the attention of the public to the improvement of the Channel passage so ably reported upon by Captain Tyler. He believed that, if aided by the French authorities ! they could convey passengers with comfort between London and Paris in eight hours. Hitherto they had received little aid from either their ova or the French Government, but they were now encouraged by the influential and energetic action of the Pre sident of the Board of Trade, to whom the public would be mainly indebted if they accomplished for them what they wished. This was a great inter national ques ion—especially great on the eve of one of the greatest events in history—he meant the opening of Suez Canal, and thereby the restoration of Eastern travel and commerce to the old route of the Egyptians. He need not say that they would press their case upon the attention of the French Government with every earnestness ; and Mr. Eborall and he were going again to Paris with that object next week. During the half-year they had renewed their contract with the Post-office for the conveyance of the mails, and he was happy to say that there was every probability of their being able to settle the transfer of the pur chase of their telegraphs without the necessity of an arbitration. Last year the proprietors permitted the directors to establish, under special Parliamen tary powers, a savings bank for the officers and ser vants on the line. They desired to bring the sav ings bank to the depositor without depositor having to go to the savings bank, and they were anxious especially to teach the young to save. They took all sums of and above ld., and he was sure they would hear will pleasure that, though the bank only c tine into operation on the Ist of February last, they had had £1,551 deposits made—namely, 120 under ls., 1,034 under 55., 139 under 10s., and 261 above that sum. They had now in the bank DO less than £2,430. Ile had said they had increased the gross earnings by £16,626, but the outgoings had increased to the amount of £3,825. Ile said "outgoings," because, in common fairness to Mr. Eborall, their. general in tnager, he . must sty that the ordinary working charges had not increased at all. The increase arose from their charging to re venue works of addition and improvement which, under the company's old system, they charged to capital; here was the list :---Fish plating, £1,191 ; checkrailing curves, Wells and Hastings, £432 ; additions to platforms at Deptford, Greenwich, Lewisham, and Folkestone, £774 ; alterations, Spa read, 1208 ; sundry minor works at stations, £277 ; reconstruction of bridge on Reading branch, £5OO ; reconstruction of foot bridges, Canterbury and Dec.l, £46o—total, £3,842. Ile thought one test of hardworking management was to be found in the cost at which an increase of traffic was earned. Now, in their case, in the July half of 1867, the total. working cost was £365,728, in July, 1866, it was £368,659, and in July, 1865, £353,883. He quite admitted that in 1865 and 1866 they had large compensations . to paY, but still three was the fact that in the past half year they had eaened £744,000, with a less total outlay than in any of the three preceding years whizh be had quoted, and in which the gross receipts were £620,835, .£658,696, and 1714,718 respectively. In fact, he• was entitled to say that their increase of traffic in the July 'half-years had been as nearly as possible so much increase of net profit since 1865. Bat while thus working they had been guilty of no unwise economy. They had enlarged and not reduced the facilities given to the public. lf. they chose they could largely reduce their expenses without materially diminishing their traffic by taking off trains and restricting their system of cheap contract tickets. But they had ever looked not merely to. the revenue of one half year, but had respected the policy of development which sprang from facilities of transit and cheap ness of charge. Looking at their working in this spirit, he was gratified to see that while the first and s.!cond tickets were fewer in number the third class sho.ved an increase of 53,000 in the half-year; and their cheap season tickets showed an increase of £4,732. They were bound ,to run only 32 trains for third class passengers, but they actually did run 365 in and out of -Loudon alone. He thought the South-Eastezu was the only com pany which issued third-class quarterly tickets, and of these they had no less than 4,529. He then moved that the report and accounts be re ceived and adopted. The Hon. J. BYNG seconded the motion, and in doing so congratulated Sir Edward NVatkin on the result of the late trial, and begged say that he was not aware of the long and vexatious nature of the proceedings until he had read .a full account of them. He admired the " pluck". with which Sir Edward had gone through the ordeal, and the able and successful manner in which he had vindi cated his character from all imputations. lie would move a resolution to that effect at the proper time. Mr. G. SMITH remarked that the project for making a line from Greenwich to Wooiwich had been again revived, and he thought that the pro prieto, s should go with the board in that matter. The times were not prosperous, and if it could be shown that the company could make a profit by the construction of that short line the difficulty it presented might be rennved. Ile thought, how ever, that it should not be made to benefit indi viduals, but for the advantage of the people iu the district. Ile was decidedly against laying out money unwisely. It appeared to him that tog many items had been charged to revenue which really belonged to capital account. The building of Waterloo Station would pay for the outlay, and all additions to the estate should be charged to capital, and all repairs to revenue. Ile thought it an extreme case to pay for a- new station out of revenue. Mr. MORPETII complained of charges for Parlia liamentary expenses, and thought the subject of compensation should be taken up by all the railway companies. lie remarked that one of the judges had expressed himself very strongly on a case of compensation that came before him, saying that the officbers and servants of the company were to blame. Mr. Denison deserved their laJst thanks for bringing the subject before Parliament iu the lust session ; and he trusted that he would bring it before the House next Session. Mr. ADAMS said he considered the South-Eastern Hallway one of the Lest worked lines in the king dom, and since 18G7 the fares had been moderate. They ran five trains down to Gravesend and four trains up, and return tickets were issued at only Is. 6d. each. The speed on the line from Loudon to Dover was equal, if not superior, to that of any other company. The excellent state of their road must tend to diminish the wear and tear of the en gines and carriages. Their line approache I nearer to what might be called a permanent way than any other he had seen, and he was told the platelayers did not like it, as it would injure their trade. He hoped the directors would abstain from making any wore extensions, expend no more money than they could possibly help, and they•thight depend that the traffic would go on increasing. Mr. E. Wutctur said he hoped the question of compensation would not be lost sight of by railway companies. No prudence or foresight could protect them from the unjust operation of the law as it stood at present. The Olin:max, in reply to observations, said he thought Mr. Morpeth had hardly done the directors justice as to clearing off old Parliamentary expenses. He then explaine 1 the difficulties and troubles the directors had in sifting those charges and reducing them to reasonable limits and in clearing them off as soon as possible. In one case they had been charged expenses for which the company had given no order. The directors had reduced the capital account by the amount received as premiums on the issue of their debenture and other stocks, and paid off old debts against the company. They bad more of that stock to issue at a premium, which would be appropriated in the same way. The directors had no desire to construct worthless lines ; they would never be advocated by him. He would not consent to any outlay on capital account that would not return them 5 per cent. As to the Greenwich and Wool wich line, there had been formerly private interests at work for it in the board, and land had been pur chased to get large sums for it. He agreed that if they could make the short line of 11 miles for a moderate sum from East Greenwich to Woolwich, it should at once be made. There was now great distress in Woolwich ; and if individuals would so far overcome their desire for large profits as to part with the necessary land on reasonable terms, they would facilitate that object. With regard to the fares, they had been regulated so as to produce the best results for the proprietors. They had issued 4,500 annual tickets for third class holders at about £8 each, some less and some more, according to distance, which enabled the holders to go home to dinner and return to work, as well as to go to work in the morning and return home in the evening, making four journeys a day. He believed their line was the cheapest in the kingdom to travel on in that respect. Their object was not to squeeze money out of the public, but to afford the necessary accommodation at rea sonable rates. With regard to the capital account they were not asking for more money, but they were endeavouring to clear up outstanding accounts where they could find them. He wanted to make the directors, the officers, and shareholders of the company sick of expending capital. lhey were endeavouring to get the concern into a healthy and remunerative system. The officers knew it was no use to ask for new sidings and works until the com pany could pay 5 or 6 per cent. on the ordinary capital. He was glad they had a man at the head of the Board of Trade who had courage enough to do what he thought was right and necessary; and he trusted that the law of compensation would be properly amended next session. The company had £155,000 for compensation during the last six years, and he honestly believed that £50,000 would have amply compensatedall who had been injured,and the remainder, £105,000, he looked upon as robbery and injustice. If Mr. Morpeth would examine the law bills they had endeavoured to clear off he would find that the directors deserved thanks for their exer tions. With regard to the Cannon•street Hotel the company held £65,000 in shares, and subsequently £40,000 in bonds, to enable the station to be com pleted. They could not finish the station without finishing the hotel ; that was the reason they ad vanced the latter sum. The Station Hotel had not been successful as an hotel, and they would consider at the end of the year what should be done with it. lie thought the hotel ought to have been their own property, and that they might remove their offices from L3nd3n-bridge to that place with advantage. The rcport was then unanimously adopted, and the dividend at the rate of £2 10s. per cent. per annum on the consolidated stock was declared, and at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the pre ferred stock payable on the 6th of September. On the motion of the lion. J. BYNG, deputy chairman, seconded by Mr. A. BEATTIE, a direc tor, the following resolution was passed unani mously : " That this meeting desires to tender to Sir E. W. Watkiu, the chairman of the company, its cordial congratulations on the issue of the action recently brought against him, and while rejoicing in the unanimous verdict of the jury, by which his character was completely vindicated from the charges so unjustly brought against him, the meet ing would express deep sympathy with him in the yelp harassing and protracted trial to which he has been unwarrantably subjected, and would convey to him the assurance of their entire and unabated confidence and esteem." The CHAIRMAN, having acknowledged the reso lution in suitable terms, pointed out the injustice that might be inflicted on an individual for a con siderable time, owing to the defective state of the law with regard to such mattem The prJceedings c )ncluld With a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors ; also to Mr. Shaw, the secretary, and to Mr. Eborall, the general manager. 111E7 ROPOLII7.IN GOSlP—Thursday I spoke too soon when I wrote last week of the delight ful coolness of this present August. We are a week nearer the winter solstice, that the waning days tell us ; but the thermometer would lead us to think that we are a good many miles nearer the sun. In truth, the heat is intense. Neither Mr. Norman Lockyer's sun spots, nor the cloud of lady-birds who hover above London, protect us from the fiery rays of Phcebus Apollo. The trees are beginning to droop, and water carts have to be conveyed into the middle of Hyde Park to prevent them from dying of drought. In spite of the long-continued dry weather, the flower beds are a gorgeous sight. From the Marble Arch to Apsley House is one mass of brilliance, so bright that you can scarcely gaze upon it. It is a feast of colour most refreshing to the eye weary of the London streets with their glare and dirt. Those streets present now a very diffe rent spectacle from that which they exhibited six weeks ago. Carriages are as rare as angels' visits. The cabs are all " growlers," and it is most amusing to see the frantic efforts of the drivers to attract a faro, and to contrast them with the supercilious contempt with which they treated would-be fares in want of a cab during the height of the season. A large number of omnibuses were knocked off last Saturday, and several of those which remain running have either reduced their fares or increased the length of their journeys, so as to compete with the metropolitan railways. As for those railways, they are as snlphury and un pleasant as usual. Judging from the last dividend of the principal of them, they are ceasing to be the profitable concerns that they used to be. The fact is, the Metro politan extension line from Paddington to Westminster is likely to prove a costly mistake. It has cost two millions to make, and it seems scarcely possible for enough traffic to be taken to pay the interest on that amount. It will not do to charge more than a certain rate of fares, or " the Underground" will be unable to compete with either the 'busses or the steamboats. It was all very well to take passengers from Moorgate-street to Paddington for Gd., and passengers were willing to pay the extra 2d., in order to travel quickly and under shelter. But when it comes to charging two sixpences for travelling from Moorgate-street to Westminster the case is very different. There is a loss o! time, for the train takes you out to Ken sington and Brompton before you are set down at West . minster, and occupies three-quarters of an hour on the journey; and as you can go for a, penny from London bridge to Westminster-bridge, there is also a very con siderable loss in money. This fact is quite sufficient to explain the diminished dividend of the Metropolitan Railway, and unfortunately it is a reason which forbids the prospect of much improvement. The Exeter meeting of the British Association appears to us Londoners to have been one of the least successful that has been held for some years past. If it had not been for the fact that the association poached on the preserves of the Social Science men by discussing such questions as wages, education, the truck system, and local taxation, the proceedings would have been very dull. Perhaps the fault rests partly with the London journals. They have for the most part given the barest skeleton of the transac tions. This, I believe, has been done intentionally on the supposition that Londoners care more for matters like "Formosa," the boat race, and the Albert Insurance, than for sun-spots, flint-flakes, spectrum analysis, and the origin, of species. I know that the proprietor of one daily paper received last year so many complaints about the quantity of scientific matter which occupied the columns of the journal in question during the Norwich meeting, that theydetermined to ignore the Exeter meeting altogether. I fear the newspaper reader cares less and less to be instructed. He wants only to be amused. Poor Dean M'Neile is sorely to be pitied. He has lived to see the day when his beloved Liverpool will be contaminated by the presence of a Mackonochie and of a Hexley. The first is to read a paper at the Church Congress in October ; the second is to preside at the British Association next year. Which is the worst, the man who wears vestments during celebration, or the man who believes that the first man was an ape? I will nut undertake to say that the President designate does hold that theory ; but, according to popular tradition, he does ; and if I mistake not he will have a lively time of it next year at St. George's Hall, unless he is much more discreet and reti cent than it is at all likely he will be. You will have noticed that Sir Charles Lyell did not take part in the proceedings at Exeter. He is now in Scotland (where he has an estate) geologising. A very different sort of man, Mr. Horsman, is in the same country for a very different purpose—deerstalking—having for his companion the Duke of Somerset's son-in-law, Sir John Ramsden. The Lord Chamberlain, Viscount Sydney, is in Ireland. The Lord Chancellor is at Lowestoft. For many years past Sir W. Page Wood has spent the summer in that dullest of watering places, Aldborough, where he enjoyed rest from his labours, all the more because there was no one to recognise the Vice-Chancellor. But now that he has become Lord Hatherley, and holder of the Great Seal, he feels bound, though with reluctance, to keep more state, and so he has gone to another watering-place on his favourite coast, but which has the disadvantage of being very crowded. Mr. Gladstone is still at Walmer, where, it is worthy of special note, he has for companion the Bishop of Oxford.. Is it too much to suppose that Premier and the Bishop are discussing certain episcopal arrangements which will have to be made very shortly? It is well to bear in mind that in all such appointments the Queen's influence is much more than nominal. Her influence is very clearly visible in the latest ecclesiastical promotions. That of Dr. Temple, and then of Dr. Lake to the deanery of Durham, and that of Professor Kingsley to the Canonry of Chester especially bearthe impression of the royal sign manual. All were. Queen's Chaplains, all belong to the Broad School, which is highest in the Royal favour, and it may be safely inferred that consent to the nomination of Dr. Moberly was given with the under standing that the canonry thereby vacated should be conferred upon the chief prophet of muscular Christianity. Mr. Kingsley had other influence in the person of the Lord Chamberlain, to whom he was domestic chaplain. Still speaking of ecclesiastics, I may mention that I am assured by a friend of the late Bishop of Salisbury that that prelate spent on church and charitable purposes more than the income he received from his see. There are one or two other traits which are worth mentioning, and which I do not think Mr. Liddon has included in his interesting biography. The Bishop, who was over 60 at his death, had living with him his aged mother, who survives him, and whenever •he had a dinner party, no matter bow distinguished the guests, he always took her down to dinner. He was equally observant of another rule, that of having family prayers precisely at ten o'clock in the Palace chapel, how ever numerous the company might be. As Mr. Liddon has stated, one of the most frequent enquirers at the Bishop's house, while he was living in town during his long illness, was Mr. Gladstone. The name of the Premier recalls to mind an incident which I do not thinkhas ever been published, though it is not a recent occurrence. One morning a very well-known clergyman (whose name I have a special reason for not mentioning) received an unpaid letter. He refused to take it in. Shortly afterwards ho received an official notice from the Post Office informing him that the letter contained a cheque for £5OO. It was a gift from Mr. Gladstone towards the restoration of the clergyman's church. Under those circumstances he did not object to pay the clouble postage, and he informed the Post Office of this accordingly. The Lord Justiceship remains vacant. Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli used to fill up their legal appointments immediately, and to keep their Church appointments open for a most tantalisingly long time. Mr. Gladstone is adopting the reverse course. He finds it difficult to select his legal functionaries, while his first vacant mitre was given before its late holder was underground. Perhaps our economical Premier is influenced by the fact that he will save a quarter's salary, £1,500, by not appointing until term begins. It is understood that both Lord Cairns and Sir Roundell Palmer have refused Sir Charles Selwyn's post. The first, no doubt, feels that he checkmated Lord Salisbury last session so far as the Conservative leadership is con cerned, and that it would be absurd for him to abandon the fruits of his victory by returning to Lincoln's Inn. The second is, naturally enough, unwilling to surrender a professional income of £20,000 a year for the genteel poverty of £6,000. Mr. Jessel has been spoken of ; but he, it is said, flies at higher game. The highest of all—the Great Seal—is out of his reach, because he is a Jew. The chiefship of the Queen's Bench, it is rumoured, will be conferred upon Lord Penzance should Sir Alexander Cockburn resign, an event rendered not im probable by his fregnent ill-health. The other posts do not seem likely to fall vacant. However, Mr. Jessel is only 45, has a fine practice, and can afford to wait. Another rumour has translated Sir W. James (" fat" James) from the Vice Chancellorship ; but if this is to be the arrangement, one would think it would have been made without all this delay. The reported resignation of Vice- Chancellor Stuart is denied. The new judge in bankruptcy under Sir R. Collier's Act is to be Commissioner Bacon, who has lately succeeded Mr. Goulburn, father of the Dean of Norwich. The death of Sir Charles Selwyn took his medical attendant, Sir Henry Thomson, by surplise. Sir Henry had performed an operation on the Lord Justice, and went into Wales to see another patient, thinking the first in no danger. He was summoned back hastily, but arrived too late to be of any service. There is another important vacancy to fill up, that of Secretary to the Treasury, caused by the appointment of Mr. G. A. Hamilton as one of the Irish Church Commis sioners. It is supposed that Mr. Gladstone may confer the post upon Mr. Maguire, who has not hitherto received the reward which he merits. It was he woo by his memorable motion on Ireland last year prepared the way for Mr. Gladstone's startling announcement that the Irish Church must be disestablished, and for the recon struction and the triumph of the Liberal party which followed that announcement. Nevertheless, he did not receive the offer of a single post when the Administration was formed. By conferring the present office upon him, Parliament would lose a very useful and upright member, but the Premier would please the Irish people by having an Irishman in office, and by giving that office to one who is respected by all parties. Archbishop Manning's sermon last Sunday, on the authenticity of Scripture, was somewhat remarkable. He took up the position—decidedly startling to Protestants —that Roman Catholics are more scriptural than Protestants. He attempted to prove this by assert ing that the first accepted literally, but the second did not, such statements as, "Thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church," " Whatsover ye bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, &c.," and "This is my body." Of course this argument assumes what Protestants would not be willing to admit, that the most literal meaning of words is necessarily the most correct. A series of sermons is being preached in the same Church (the new pro-Cathedral at Kensington) by Mgr. Capel, to whom the secession of the Marquisof Bute from Protestantism is due. There was great indignation this afternoon among the unfortunate Albert policy-holders, Notice had been given of a meeting to be held to-day, at Cannon-street Hotel, in order that they might protect their interests. A largenuraber of them came from allpartsof the country, but, after waiting for some time, they found that there was to be no meeting, and that it had been postponed till Saturday. Each person as he entered the room was presented by somebody— who it is by no means clear — with a circular requesting him to subscribe one or two guineas towards the expenses of a committee for watching the interests of the holders. From each circular a piece had been cut out, and it was stated that this contained the names of the persons who were willing to subscribe, but who did not wish their names to appear. If the policy holder declined to contribute to a fund of so very vague a character, he was not allowed to take away the circular with him. Most of the policy-holders seemed to be of opinion that they were too old birds to be caught. I understand that several committees are working inde pendently of each other, ostensibly in the interests of the policy-holders. It might be wise for them to see if this be really the case. Your readers will have noticed with some curiosity certain literary announcements which have been made within the last few weeks. The first was that Mr. Hepworth Dixon had ceased to be editor of the Atitenm um, and that Sir Charles Dilke, son of the late proprietor, and now himself the principal proprietor, would edit it. The next was that Mr. Hepworth Dixon was going to Russia to write a book on that subjct. The third was that Sir Charles Dilke was going to do likewise. The inference was that there had been a disagreement leading to some degree of lite rary rivalry. That inference is not well founded. Mr. Dixon voluntarily resigned the editorship, was re quested by Sir Charles Dilke to withdraw his resigna tion, but held to his first determination. As for the Russian tour, both gentlemen had decided upon making it unknown to the other, and as soon as the younger one heard of his senior's intention, he at once agreed to postpone the publication of his own book in order not to clash with his friend's. This was the more feasible because they had determined to visit entirely different parts of Russia, and for different purposes. Mr. Dixon set out a little while ago, and was last heard of at Archangel. Sir Charles has not, I be lieve, yet started, but will return at Christmas. Mr. Dixon's book will be written en route, and will be published during the approaching book season. Sir Charles's will probably not come out until the end of next year. Meanwhile Dr. Doran continues to edit the Athena;um, and was the author of the article on Exeter, which appeared on Satur day week, as well as of the other topographical articles which have been published from year to year on the eve of the British Association octave. I may add that Mr. Ashton Dilke, who was with his father at St. Petersburg when he died, is now also in Russia, but is taking a diffe rent course from those selected by his brother and Mr. Dixon. Mr. Murray bas made an official announcement respect ing his new enterprise, the Academy. It is not to be a weekly paper, but a monthly magazine, published at ls., and will therefore in no way compete with the Athencrum. It is to appear on the second Saturday of every month, beginning with October. Only first-rate writers will be engaged in its production ; and it is rumoured that Oxford will be largely represented among its contributors. Dr. W. Smith is not to be the editor. Mr. Macmillan is also about to bring out a new magazine. This will be an illustrated weekly journal of science, and will be called Nature. The first number is expected in October. I see the papers still advertise Belgravia as Miss Braddon's magazine. As a matter of fact she is still in very bad health, and quite incapable of literary employment. The real editor is Mr. Cheltnam. Of other literary news there is a great dearth. Through the courtesy of Mr. Hotten I have received an early copy of a volume of poems just publishel by him, and written by Mr. Mercer, an Oxford man who has fur several years occupied a post in the Civil Service at Hong Kong. The title of his volume " Under the Peak," will be well under stood by persons who have visited the above settlement, and who know that just behind Victoria rises a mountain which is scaled by sun•plagued colonists in search of health. The poems are written with great spirit, and I may have a word to say about them on another occasion. The writer of the tale " Veronica," in All the Year Bound is not Mr. Dickens's daughter, who has not, any more than her brother, taken to literature, but the wife of Thomas Adolphus Trollope, the novelist, brother of the better known Anthony Trollope. Miss Cushman, the actress, has no intention of returning to the stage, as one of your London contemporaries has announced. She has been very ill at Malvern, but is now better. Mrs. Dallas, better known to the world as Miss Glyn, is about to make a professional tour through the United States and Australia. Mr. Chandos Wren Hoskyns, the well known agricultural writer, and author of ",Chronicles of a Clay Farm," has just written a shilling pamphlet, which is sure to be much read. It is entitled " Land in England, Land in Ireland, and Land in other Lands." MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. CATTLE DISEASE. As the foot and mouth disease is rapidly extend ing, it seems worth while to give "An Essex Farmer's" experience of the manlier in which the disease is spread. lie keeps sixty cows distributed at three different places for fattening calves. On the 11th he bought ten suckling calves, and divided them amongst the three cow-houses. Nearly all his cattle are now suffering. "An Essex Farmer " thinks the London cow-sheds have received this disease from abroad, and are now spreading the in fection throughout England. C LEEKS. Sir John Lubbock has developed a plan for "ex tending the system pursued by the Civil Service Commissioners to candidates for appointments as commercial clerks." In other words, clerks are to be subjected to the , ordeal of exam i na ti on as well as civil servants : The clerl,s the mse l ves d o not receive th is proposition with unmixed pleasure. They point out that if a clerk be examined like a civil servant, he ought to get a life appointment like a civil servant, and not a post which may be with drawn from him at any time. Still mere urgent is the cry for better pay.befora examination. CRICKET. Tho last county match for the successful season of 1869 has been played at the Oval. The battle was between Kent and Surrey, and some of the hardest hitting of the year ensued. Kent's first innings pro duced 152 ; Surrey's, 224. Kent then made 284, leaving Surrey 213 to win. Of these 77 were scored for the loss of one wicket, when " Time" was called. The match was drawn considerably in favour of Surrey. THE ELECTION COMMISSIONS, Great unwillingness to tell the truth is skean by the witnesses before the election commissions. At Norwich the Chief-Commissioner is kept in a state of perpetual indignation by the way in which the wit nesses fence with questions, give double answers, prevaricate, and perjure themselves. He declares however, that, come what will, waste what time he may, he will have the truth. If the court sits for a year he cares not. Himself and his brothers have determined to take each ward, and to probe to its deepest depths the sore of corruption with which the borough is grievously afflicted. This announce ment in court had no effect ; several subsequent wit nesses tried to shirk questions, told palpable un truths, and so exasperated the commissioner that he declared he would report them to the Attorney- Gcne ral, and disallow their expenses. Very little evidence of bribery has been obtained as yet. Beyond the group at the Trumpet public-house—about which there can be no doubt, notwithstanding the various denials—nothing his been revealed. The Bridgwater Commissioners are more success ful. The evidence given before them on Wednesday was positively startling. An " active agent " for Messrs. Kinglake and Vanderbyl, the Liberal candi dates, was under examination. His operations at the List election were extensive and clever—so extensive, that he was kept away and paid by his party for being absent during the hearing of the election petition by Mr. Baron Martin. His revelations may thus be summed up : The borough of Bridgwater is disgracefully corrupt. Out of 1,600 voters, 1,200 will take bribes, and a larg►e proportion absolutely expect them. If pro perly polled, the Liberals have a majority; but no elections of late have been pure. Last year the Liberals found themselves losing the election through the energy legitimate or otherwise—of the Conservatives. A meeting was held to consider the bad prospect; it was determined that defeat should be averted ; £4,000 was put down to be used in bribery. Where the money came from is not accurately known—most probably from Mr. Vanderbyl. The " active agent" received some of the money—from whom he did not know. It was given to him in a dark room. He paid away about £4OO. Some electors had £4O. The contests were got up by the lawyers ; they were conducted by them ; and paid them well. On the last election day the Libe rals considered themselves beaten ; Messrs. Kinglake and Vanderbyl left the town. Tho " active agent" bribed fourteen men with £lO each, and turned the election. Such was the Liberal triumph at Bridg water. The evidence being taken at Beverley shews that the Liberals bribed at the municipal for the parliar mentary election. This is very clear, for money was passed after the Liberal municipal candidates had withdrawn. The briber, on being asked why be was continnin7 to spend, replied that ho was preparing for the " double event." All who received the money understood him ; but some did not see the force of acting as they were not bound to do, and voted for the Conservatives at the parliamentary election. TILE MEMBERS FOR PLYMOUTH. The Attorney-General and Mr. Morrison, MP., have rendered an account of the past session to their constituents. Sir Robert Collier holds that household suffrage is a great success. The leap in the dark did, it is true, unseat the rider, but the horse alighted safely on terra firma. The present House of Commons, the Attorney-General thinks, is the best that has sat during the present generation. It does not use one language at the hustings, and another in Parliament. It is business-like, too, " singularly patient of argument, and singularly im patient of declamation and rubbish :" a high eulo gium, which may be true, but many outsiders who have read the debates of the late session will be apt to think that there is yet room for improve ment. Reviewing the work of the session, Sir Robert Collier acknowledged the services rendered by Me. Norwood in the difficult task of " boiling down" the Bankruptcy Bill, so that instead of containing 52.0 Claus: s, as did the measure of last session, it numbers only 130. Mr. Morrison expressed his satisfaction at the passing of the Irish Church Act. Many of the Liberal members thought that the Irish Church got too much; but if they had stood upon their objections the bill would never have become law. Both the members for Plymouth pledged themselves in favour of the Ballot; and Mr. Morrison thought that the Constitution would not work much longer without a modification of the House of Lords : " No person would desire to drive from public life such intellects as that of the Duke of Argyll or Lord Salisbury, but I am of opinion that it would be a great benefit if wo could in some manner secure the services of the working bees of the House of Lords without being troubled at the same time with the presence of the drones. Having got rid of the drones, I should not mind how soon the right rev. bench took to its wings also." THE COLONIES. The Royal Colonial Society has prepared a letter on the subject of England's relations with her colonies, which epistle it is proposed to transmit to all the Colonial Governments. The Society notes that a great change has come over the policy of the mother country towards her dependencies. The new policy appears to be " that—except to the extent of partial protection in case of foreign war with civilised Powers—the mother country recognises no responsibility for their welfare or safety, nor any obligation to help them, even in circumstances of great danger and pressing need." Such an attitude, the society thinks, points - to the severance of the present connection, perhaps prematurely. In order to avert this disaster it is proposed that all the colonial Govern ments confer together, by means of proper repre sentatives, with the view of urging upon the Imperial authorities such changes as may appear desirable. This conference, it is thought, should be held in London about the time when Parliament next meets. This document, in the opinion of the Times, marks an epoch. It points out that large communities numbering millions of English-speaking men and women have sprung up all over the world, and th a t theyare now developing into nations. They enjoy almost all the privileges and powers of independent States. Every community among them possessing a distinct unity of its own has received the gift of complete self-government. They possess representative institutions. They tax themselves. They determine the forms of their several political organisati ons . Englishmen have only one privilege with regard to the colonies—the right of serving as coloni a l o ffi c i a l s. indicate Such relations as these a period of t rans iti on to independence. The T i mes denies that E ng l an d fails to fulfil her past obligations —as witness the guarantee of the loan for the transfer of th e H u d son ' s Bay Territory ; but it cannot be expected that for the future the cost of defending these vast com munities should fall upon the British taxpayer. THE TRADES UNIONS CONGRESS. The representatives of the trades unions assembled in congress at Birmingham were tolerably unanimous on the subject of trades mums legislation. Mr. Shorrocks, of Manchester, read a paper on Wednes day, in which he condemned the constit u ti on o f th e Royal Commission. Only one nomination was allowed on behalf of the workmen, and the nominee was not one of their own class. It is needless to add th a t, a ft er com plaining of the inadequate representation of working men on the commission, Mr. Shorrocks condemned the report. But the conclusions drawn up by Mr. Thomas Hughes and Mr. F. Harrison were, the essayist thought, the result of thorough investigation. Unionists wanted no special legisla tion. The combination laws ought to be repealed, and the funds of trade societies ought to be pro tected. Beyond this the Legislature should not go. No attempt ought to be made to separate the benefit funds from the trade funds. As to violence of any kind, the law already provided ample remedies. These deductions met with the entire approbation of the Congress, and a resolution, embodying them all, was passed. No opposition was offered. Mr. George Potter did indeed prepare another resolution, but it was only less precise than the one adopted. TRANSFERRING ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Amongst the many questions touching assurance companies raised by the stoppag e o f th e Alb er t 01lice, none is more important than that of trans ferring one . company t o ano th er w i t h out consulting the policy-holders. More than one sufferer complain that, having invested in an office with every appear ance of security, their money has been lost because the respectable men in whom they placed confidence threw up their trust, and transferred the interests of the policy-holders to the Albert Company. Even the Times City e dit or re l axes hi s hostility to legis lative interf erence , an d d ec l ares th a t this practice ought to be prevented. Policy-holders have much the same legal rights as depositors in a bank,. whose directors certainly could not make away with their funds without incurring the risk of punishmenti the time assurance" directors " satisfied . themsel t s i , condition, time of the transfer of the busmess iv t e o nt c a o e e s Albert that that office was in a p they m ny have contrary case, unless ec d tl o y ne so all that could be , be assumed to . h erf: required of them ; but, itf,tloiye and trcitaetl the . slightest 1 it is hardly possible to srip eto.nisi-inti of the policy-holders, fairlyiv itlotbttl;itei obtained, l ailliculty could exist in esta blishing their accoun 'Laity." Dn. CUMMING AND THE GENERAL COUNCIL. Sir George Bowyer endeavours to extinguish Fr. Cumming. There can be no doubt that the inter preter of prophecy is invited to the Council. All non-Catholic Christians are invited to it in a c er t a i n sense. They may attend and gain information, and discuss with the learned men who will be assembled at Rome. They may pray for enlightenment, find speedy conviction of their sins, and a quick return to the true faith. But Dr; Cumming proposes to preach anti-Popery sermons at the bar of the Council. This, says Sir George, will never be tole rated. If Dr. Cumming had his say, why should not .S'ouraeori take his turn, and on what principle could bearing be 'refused to — liaplisfipre sfe r s fh; Unitarians, and other bodies P When worldregular business of the Council be got through if tie flood of controversy were admitted ? Nor iS th er . any hope that good could come of such talk, f(11 neither the Doctor nor any other Protestant could say anything which has not been said aga in 813 again. DE. LIVINGSTONE. The entire absence of all news of Dr. Livi ate gives rise once more to anxiety re specting his f Mr. Horace Waller urges the necessity of " keel' „" the evidence free from groundless fears," but he "- nothing save conjecture to offer in order to de , r l ap c the mystery. Letters which have reached Mr. 1 - ;a 1 4 . 11 ', from Cazembe's locality leave no ground ,ft )r i n 'ect conclusion that the Doctor has been ( 0- t • o s in that neighbourhood. The surr si i i t o. that the explorer has decided to puou„ the ther into the interior is quite rational. •A" the same time Mr. Waller thinks it is easy to se ttle t bt question. An attempt to gain information los to be made. Mr. Young's published account ° t he successful expedition to upset one theorY °oy Doctor's disappe a r a n c e p rove s the perfect fens' ' te a of securing intelligence by a properly-cal citic * search. In fact, it is more than probable thattives Young's experience will be repeated. The 11 , 01 of the interior, instead of being found the "11l will murderous fetishers" they are sometimes called' of turn out quite amenable to kindness and hone h s e - i for d purpose, whilst the Moslems who deceived 00 1" willonee more show themselves arrant liars• THE NAILMAKERS' STRIKE. A V t The nailmakers of South Staffordshire and Worcestershire, appeal for aid on behalf of : t ;', of men, women, and children, who are in a 9 7.. destitution. They are out on strike; but th e ", it; version of the story is that they were driven wxvi In 1836, says one nailmaker, the wage s in Foro were fairly good. In 1838, the e, 111 ,,,P1r010 struck off from 10 to 15 per cent.; in lbt'" re' 15 to 33 per cent. more, and this year yet another4o duction of 20 per cent. was made. The price s 4orlc are now so low that a "best nailmaker " Pausu r i;ol 3 fourteen hours a day to get 12s. a week, and c° 000, work only produces Bs. Out of this the Ivor 0. has to pay the rent of his smithy, buy his oar': keep them in repair, find fuel, and pay for slot. riage of the iron and the nails to thelar B ' - f0 Existence on such terms the nailmakelP impossible. BEERHOLTSES. The Licensing Sessions are being held, 311 0 ,0 attention of magistrates is for the time being, e r to to beerhouses, which the Act gives them Pc"„je suppress. The magistrates of Bolton have wi ol lo, personal inspection of the beerhouses of the o gs and have publicly reported that the s°l°.g. to of the keepers of becrhouses generally "'fog" promote the habit of drinking and t° Vl° by it. The best mode of accomplisbileeperl end, the magistrates say, is for the beerhous°, l %odli to permit the meetings of trades unions or /IL tlio societies to be held at their houses, or to "well centre of an association of dog-fanciers, Pii°ool flyers, or prize fighters. Crime, they say, is P r , h i s ii in beershops to a much greater extent 0 00 licensed public-houses, and many beershoril e nt istit not only encourage gaming of the worst desto but actually superintend the hatching of P thieves and prostitutes. AN EXACTING LOW CIIIIRCIENIADT• Mr. Henry Nicholson is a Low Churchnia ll ,'lioll is a parishioner of Rochdale and has great No- he to surpliced choristers ; a still greater dislik e . ;zoll to a choir leaving for the vestry before he Infoch' home. The Rev. Dr. Molesworth is vicar 01 c the dale, and has recently made it a rule to le3 church with his curates and the choir before thio Mr. Nicholson, as we have said, does not lir o f rule, and to publicly declare his disrega r " rushes out on Sundays among the choristers, Wool the procession, and creating a by no means 15 1, - efor e , disturbance. Mr. Nicholson, summoned,. the magistrates for an assault, said he The not want to be kept in church so long. he vicar was obliging. " Would Mr. Nichols°,olll7 asked, " mention the time he wanted to 1, 116 would see to it that the way should be clear. ;011TP defendant said he wished to leave within five 111 ,tftl of the benediction. Dr. Molesworth promised: tvigo five minutes for him. So next Sunday Mr. promises will be able to go out of church immediately ' ci o th e knocking over a chorister or two, or step Ping - toes of the curate. [l FORMOSA." D I A The discussion on the "unsavoury" play .`"." lane Theatre ought to terminate now. . c ont r '' Boucicault, the author of " Formosa," has buted his opinion, and a very remarkable CO" 11 os itio, tion it is. Mr. Boucicault justifies the color. prl of such a play as " Formosa" on two ceul't°„:o P u h , that it is no worse than other entertain ule ; before the public ; and, secondly, that i t ' i ri 9 ; proper. " Formosa," ho says, will bear colliPoinf, with most of the favourite operas — " 07, " Rigoletto," " Don Giovanni," &c. —which in the presence of the innocent and t he ; i riti'f,, ' though founded in plot on the worst ioP ; ; No greater harm can attend the Bear "Formosa" than the reading of certahl'i paper reports. To support his se c° ' ' Mr. Boucicault urges that youilg 0 1. ' i s are strengthened by contact with fof i ' d "The proprieties and delicate sentiments Tili;v;l',ll,4 the bases of society are engendered by a 1 " of wrong as much .as by a sense of t ground Mr. Boucicault thinks it wel l t3 depr t ` v o i people should go and see a play in which t oo ci , woman leads a prosperous life, finishe s 'q r . 13° 11 0 1 marriage, and retires with a competence• cault thinks that this sort of thins i s oclu el ' V teaching, and he expresses his intention of Pr more dramas like " Formosa." 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C A l3 f ri e .gllll ; Smith,ltoy al f l orae from Artillery, under Alde r Aldershot e c o m a : p a 7 . 1 ; ° r 0 te marched Preston. l4 OA' no The Militar-Wochenblait contains 911 or 1 „0 international Steinberg, physician of the Admit:all; rolgW; D o will remember, was one of the subjects on Teaode societies for the aid of the sick a nd i f°- ( war deliberated during their Congress A 0 10 ir t ocrli°' order conclusion of the article is as follows " - ,, ( 1 dfl aia distress tesr p ee r ns e i sa v a e f to n lhli t .ef ea interest tt eosic.eec misunderstandings aastsaisoontfisi,ethibrso.et ahiti iiimun i g t s rpto i oe s usagep ol o g o e :i s f ls v asre :: : :i: rei recommended that a dark yellow flag With 31. cl S i introduced for this purpose , . and that all oi v° be requested to acknowledge it." a pills ,it to n 4, 14 I ADVERTISEMENT. I—HOHOWay'S Ointrae.—,ctiO,n ply. Skin Diseases.—Scrofula, scurvy, scorbutic n'' to invi ilso cutaneous eruptions caused by heredital tato o i , e li , perfect digestion, deleterious gases, or isnrre s y .O s 3/ 0 11oW" • V , ' blood, may be snore speedily cured by 1 , tli csii?,,..iogs kaundowpnurlsemiesdiseos. harmless, a T r n h i e l es, active y t principle p (vi e i r n f iiii°,4asrely )best soothing, and restsrative that the most itleq,e,,livg th,,„ ° till cr s ei o rs n eu,l m itlas a i y io u nT s h e ne t n l p i d e il m lssy w qau i a t i h the certainty of Pr° 4- 4 - ieel c° 4tai o ; eradicates the superficial blemish; "or deePirnsono.)",i'fi mischief. In the irritation of the skin , ve, r /d - irie ° ' ionklygernemeroarley,allwrirrtli;iiesotien4loc:'o' Infancy, tke ointment will prove itself the ve tlO BARRETT—On the 25th inst. Biß , r at Milton 1 1 ° 11se ' t i ` 13014'5' FIELD i e fe o O f ' j n o t h l n t e ciaf: lo -11c1 pr i ng field, Basil Bihasrtr.:tt,stEssq., of a sou. wife of Arthur Field, Esq , of a datigistet. , Pc fl'i oi Fox—iv, RiGHT_ MA 2R h l shire, Francis ,l i tor ° " \ I V 3 e 1 , l i e r ., , 1 1 1; 1 , ' I L i ' s ll q i . ' , c, o kB f iel ss tu ti ' ll i s s t to o en n Solifellainniothbahrdi °Us‘ n ir';'' t. t ti I' ° reK.3 WENTWORTH —IIERIOT —On the 25th lust., ..t S oi , 14 ,, ,, On the 2.ith lust , at Ostrut.,s),3,lv-pti, f., Eaton-square, the Lord Wentworth to Ji lui b illA daughter of thu Rev. Geo. Heriot , of elloW wickshire. i Ifi r :-.9 EA TBS. 00 5,, BIRKLEY—On the 25th inst., at Scarborough Di'le I‘.' merton, Mrs. Henrietta Birkl e y , aged 90. field MACKMURDO —On the 2Sth inst., Gilbert 'M il S , / murdo, F.R.S., F.R.C3.5., aged 71. roa d ' TRULOCK—On the 24th inst., at Groonsbricle. John Trulock, Esq., late of Woodford, Esse%. •so' DO' i i, AAt AS . t ritu London: Printed and Published by WILLIA.— i o, - ~ of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SuN Office Su i i Ai oteo ° in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Couuty of '''' Friday, August 27, IS h'. f I