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B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Heal Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association aro Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. lOYAL STRAND THEATRE. 1)t Sole I essee and 3lanageress, Mrs Swanborough. - - - THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Cl irke. Followed by TETE TOODT.ES: Mr Clarke. After which, THE PILGRIM OF T.OV : Messrs E. Terry, Turner, Bruw•e, &c.; Mesdames Richardson, Erskine, Newton Fosbrooke, lc. A RARE COMBINATION. ,The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be faun i in every article sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all classes. Commodious apartments for measuring Ind fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Ronmc, which contain a very large and diver sified stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should be accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be Iheerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Cape. 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, liabitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES tad SON : LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 158, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 8:1, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATB 87, ALDGATE 88, ALDGATE S 9, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. MG, NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET sOB, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET n, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TO'rfENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. _ . Country Branch t 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. THEA'IRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F.D. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA. new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault: Messrs. Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, Joh:, Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, anl Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Will Open for the Winter Season on WEDNESDAY, Sept. 15 with (never acted) LOST AT SEA: a London Story. By Dion Boncicault and HenryJ. Byron. The new scenery by Messrs. Hawes Craven, Maughain, and assistants. FO" TOURISTS AND tXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every derart ment of their business. For trades and ad dresses, see following advertisement. E AGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, Esa., 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 Clem in 1868. The income of the year, it will b 3 seen, amounts t .V 10,499 188., 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, JITSB 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. £ s. d. Dn. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 907,!52 8 6 Premiums on new assur ances Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 £ s. d 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 £1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF THE - YEAR s. d. CR. Dividend to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured Additions to those under £ s. d. 8,880 4 0 participating policies 24,304 6 6 Policies surrendered Re-assurances —new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 405,561 12 1 Commission Medical fees Income tax 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 9 10 436,187 6 9 Total charge Balance of account, June 30, 18G9, as per balance-sheet • 1,002,974 15 9 £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. ld., of which sum £13,560 ss. Id. is for now 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 cr‘mpanv's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and loss account again exhibits a considerable profit, amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000. It may be remembered that a profit of nearly equal amount was announced in last year's report. Turning to the items constituting the charge of the year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material; as was observed of 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 compan3's securities into the names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses must bo regarded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET, JUNG 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured, and additions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' fund Surplus fund X 6,757 17 0 £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN, } Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CR ASSETS. Amount invested in fixed mortgages £1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 '2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,657 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 Ditto ditto Temporary secu rities 198,207 17 0 Current in terest on the above investments 30,934 4 6 Cash and bills 12,256 15 10 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 £7,675,813 010 The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95,422 is. 3d. already mentioned, as is shown by ilk) 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 Boddinaton, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq. SirJ. Buller East, BL , D.C. L. '1 I ma ms Godfrey Sambrooke, Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq. s. Admiral Tindal ...... CnarlesThosilolcombe,Esq. I Right Iron. Sir John Young Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart., K.C.B. THE " SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY- STI7CIf. Work by Hand and Treadle. and in a Portable Caso 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. 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Although the atrocious seusational libel on Lord BYRON, which was set forth in Mrs. STOWE'S un womanly article (printed simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic, in an English and an American magazine) has not merely been utterly discredited by the great mass of the organs of public opinion in the , United Kingdom and in the United States, but logically and literally disproved by a great body of wholly unanswerable evidence—there are some portions of this more than simply cogent, of this perfectly con clusive evidence, which deserve now to be more ex pressly particularized. It will be remembered that the statement made by the Messrs. WHARTON and FORDS (Lady BYRON solicitors and the custodians of her will) went clearly to show not only that Mrs. ;TOwE's narrative was wholly unauthorized, but was ( me going directly counter to the solemnly avowed wrisl , es and injunctions of Lady 131 - noN herself, as expressed in her last will and testament. It will be re membered, again, that the extraordinarily interesting communication addressed to the Times by Lord LIND SA extracts from the autograph papersof L a d y AILE, gia ing B ' A RNARD, in which that venerable lady placed upon record, while the facts were yet fresh in her memory, the circumstances connected with Lord and Lady :13vRoN's separation, testimony beyond all pos .of dispute was adduced shewing that at the time of ..her separation, and immediately after her husband, Lady separation from her illustrious rnE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1869. 13Yn0N's account of the cause which had brought it about was wholly and entirely different from the mon strous reason now given to the world fifty years after wards by a Yankee novelist, through a clap-trap article in the pages of Macmillan's Magazine. It would be almost sufficient of itself as indicating the relative credibility of these two wholly irreconcileable state ments—both purporting to be given on the authority of LadyßYßON—to contrast the manner in which they were penned, the time at which they were penned, and the persons to whom they owed their authorship. The opposing witnesses recollect, being,on the one side the Lady ANNE BARNARD, on the other Mrs. BEECHER STOWE—here the author of " Auld Robin Gray," there the author of " Uncle Tom's Cabin." A venerable and pure-minded English Lady, who was Lady BYRON'S personal friend and cherished confidante —one who advised with her in the closest intimacy, and who sympathised to the full with her in the anguish of her domestic miseries, puts upon record , as among the profoundly interesting archives of her own ancient house (that of the Earls of CRAWFORD and BALCARRES), the circumstances connected with Lord and Lady BYRON'S separation, jest at the very time when she has these circumstances yet freshly in her memory, as they had [been related to her by the l ips of Lady BYRON herself ,ILady ANNE BARNARD,being at this time past the allottedage of threescore years and ten, and consequently writing with all the serene and tender sympathy born from her pure, and blameless, and lengthened experiences. Contrast with this the i ndisputable facts accumulated together in regard to the entirely contradictory account now set forth in Mrs. HARRIET B. STOWE'S very loosely, coarsely and sensationally prepared statement. First of all, it is a statement avowedly based upon her confused re collection of what was related to her thirteen years ago. Secondly, it is the result of a confidence given to her— [the very revelation of that confidence thirteen years after, showing that it was given to her most indiscreetly]—upon a sudden and eccentric im pulse, not, as in Lady ANNE'S instance, to a dear old friend, but to a purely chance or casual acquaintance. An acquaintance, too, so very superficial of its kind that the very one who is thus confided in is a woman who knows so little of Lady BYRON'S antecedents that she actually does not know how to spell her maiden name, giving it in this " 7rue Story" as MILLBANS instead of as MILBANKE—and twice again in this same " 7 rue Story" (save the mark !) speaking of the unhappy married life together of Lord and Lady BYRON, as exceeding two years, whereas that ill assorted couple remained under the same roof-beams barely one single twelvemonth ! Then, moreover, the "True Story," penned by Mrs. STOWE, is not so penned in order to be stored up among family archives, but is sensationally written to catch the public eye, and to ex Ate the vulgar imagination—is written for money and published in duplicate here at New York in the American M onthly, here in London in Macmillan's Magazine. Remember ing all this, say which of these two wit nesses is the more credible—the Lady ANNE BARNARD (God bless her ! one feels always inclined to say on mentioning her name, in the remembrance of her one sweet song) or Mrs. BEECIIER STOWE ? the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," or the author of " Auld Robin Gray ?" As to Mrs. STOWE'S detestable inference drawn from " Manfred"—hear what another Novelist, not a Yankee Novelist, but a Scotch Novelist, JOHN GALT by name, said or rather deliberately wrote years ago upon that very subject, the story of " Manfred." " There has always been," wrote GALT, " from the first publication of Man fred,' a strange misapprehension with respect to it in the public mind. The whole poem has been mis understood, and the odious supposition that ascribes the fearful mystery and remorse of the hero to a foul passion for his sister, is probably one of those coarse imaginations which have grown out of the calumnies and accusations heaped upon the author. how can it have ha opeced that none of the critics have noticed that the story is derived from the human sacrifice supposed to have been in use among the students of the black art?" So much for Mrs. STOWE'S plagiarized hash-up of that now most foul imputa tion. Then as to the evidence adduceable from the "confidences" of Lord BYRON'S most intimate friends at the time of his separation and for long afterwards, what says, a fellow-countryman of Mrs. STJWE'S in a communication published in the Times of yes terday, and signed " A Citizen of the United States?" Why, he says, ".1 feel great diffidence, sir, in asking leave to add a few words on the subject which has provoked all this discussion ; yet I hope they may not be deemed obtrusive on the part of one who was for many years on terms of the closest inti macy with three men who knew more than almost any others of BvnoN's personal character and his tory, and who happened to be precisely the men who were concerned in, or had special knowledge of, the destruction of his autobiography. I speak of AloonE, Rogers, and LUTTRELL, two of whom were actually parties to the destruction of the manuscript. From 1845 to 1852 (when I left England) I was in con stant communication with all the three, or rather with the two who still survived (LurreELL died in 1851, and MooRE early in 1852). I have repeatedly heard conversations among them as to the causes of BYRON'S separation from his wife, and have again and again heard Mr. Mooue speak of the character and purport of the memoir, and of the motives which induced him to permit its destruction. lie had been sho hotly censured for what was considered his weak ness in the matter, that he often spoke at much length about it in his own defence ; and—while he always. insisted that the memoir was disfigured by occasional outbreaks of petulance or anger, and filled with many details which, though insignificant, were calculated to cause annoyance to persons still living —he spoke in a way to convince any hearer that the memoir concealed no dark and terrible secret,' and tkat he, at least, had never derived, either from that memoir or from his intimate knowledge of all the parties and their surroundings, the re motest hint of any such horror as is now declared to be freshly unveiled; and I am perfectly certain that the same may be said as to ROGERS and LUTTRELL. I am quite aware," adds this American friend of ROGERS, and MoORE, and LUTTRELL, " that this [the foregoing] is only negative evidence ; but consider ing who the men were, it is very strong evidence of its kind. The conversations which I heard were unreserved, and there was no pretence of spar ing any one's reputation. Indeed, it is well-known that, en petit comite, neither ROGERS nor LuTT RELL was wont to handle his friends too gently in their absence." No—the unwomanly slander which has recently horrified us all, both in England and America, has scarcely been cast " thick and slab " from the hand of Mrs. STOWE, in the direction of Lord BYRON'S memory, before it is dissipated to the winds of heaven. THAT old grievance, the chaotic state of the public health laws, is again the subject of solicitous attention in the report of Dr. SIMON, the Privy Council's medical cificer. Of the many evils under which the English public labours, this is one of the most needless and vexatious. The Legislature has passed abundance of measures ; indeed, so far as mere lawmaking goes, very little has been left - undone. And it is quite certain that most of those excellent pro visions have been productive of good, and that the sum total of disease in this counts y has been materi ally lessened. Unfortunately an Act of Parliament is not all that is needed to termintate abuse or inaugurate reform ; laws must be supplemented by proper appliances for enforcing them, and if the active co-operation of the people be required, the statutes must be intelligible to the multitude.. The good effect of the measures passed for the preserva tion of the public health has been materially cur tailed, in some cases almost wholly lost, through want of means for carrying them out, divided autho rity, and the chaos and confusion attendant upon fragmentary legislation. The Acts exist ; but everything besides is wanting. Nothing can be clearer than the intention of the English law in providing ample means for the summary control of all states of property, and all personal actions which may be dangerous to the public health. Large powers have been given to local authorities to suppress nuisances and to pro vide all needful sanitary works. Other powers, the exercise of which is more or less optional, have been conferred with respect' to baths, common lodging houses, hospitals, burial grounds, and the like. The State has most reluctantly interfered between employer and servant, between parent and child, for the promotion of this great object. Neglecting the vaccination of children, selling bad meat, adulterating food, vending poisons, and the conduct of certain branches of industry have all been carefully regulated by law. But how indifferently have these good intentions been realised in prac tice ! Dr. SIMoN calculates that diseases which are directly owing to the ineffectiveness of the nuisance law are still occasioning one-fourth of the entire mortality. The Legislature has gone to work with such caution, that it has been necessarylto supple ment one Act with another. Rarely has any great portion of the ground been covered at once, and the result has been a terrible confusion—a patching and piecing, which has given rise to extreme complexity and not a little inconsistency. Then the jurisdic tion is in a most unsatisfactory state. One local authority rules the highways, another looks after drainage and water supply, another confines his attention to nuisances proper. As regards per missive health legislation, there may be in one place distinct functionaries for lodg ing - houses, baths and wash - houses, and burials. Where special " health areas " exist, under the control of local boards or other authority, they have no relation with poor-law relief districts. The medical° fficial of a local board has no dealings with the medical attendants of the sick poor. Nor are things managed better at the central Government. The Lords of the Council bear the essential respon bility touching the public health, but the Home Secretary has some fragments of authority in the matter, and so has the Board of Trade. Much is lost, too, through the want of proper communication between the central offices and the local jurisdictions. " Government," says Dr. SimoN, "is supposed to superintend the public health ; but Government may remain a long time uninformed even of very im portant outbreaks of disease." This is constantly happening in the case of typhoid fever. A very fatal outbreak of diphtheria continued for two years, beginning in 1855, in different parts of the country, with the central authority absolutely ignorant of the fact. Dr. SxmoN's prime remedy for the amendment of this state of things lies, as might be expected, in the union of jurisdiction. It is before all things necessary that there should be one con solidated health authority in every district. The local magnates who have control in the matter of nuisances, and those who are supreme over sewers, ought not to be two distinct bodies, but one. The same power should have jurisdiction over paving, lighting, labourers' dwellings, burial grounds, and the many other local arrangements which are now under the control of different corporations. In the next place the country ought to be thoroughly divided into dis tricts. Cities and towns with municipal governments are now "health-areas" under the management of the Town Council, and these would not be interfered with. But in the case of those numerous places which have no proper sanitary government, Dr. SIMoN would identify the health districts with the poor-law divisions, and entrust both departments —health and destitution—to the same authority. The poor-law districts present many advantages for sanitary purposes. The Registrar-General's statistics of births, deaths, and population are regulated by these divisions, and thus the net good brought about by proper health provision could always be calculated. More important still, every union has its staff of officers—clerks, visitors, and medical men. The Privy Council officer deems it better that these organisations should undertake the care of the public health than that new ones should be created for the purpose. Moreover, if a distinct sanitary system be formed, the medical functionaries would not, as they now are, be entirely distinct from the medical men connected with the poor law. Provided that occasional independent inspec tion be obtainable, Dr. SIMON thinks that the poor law doctor might act advantageously as the health doctor also. His arguments for uniting the two duties have much weight, the chief consideration on the other side being that the double functions may involve an excess of labour and divided atten tion which would be prejudicial to the full performance of either. But so difficult would it be to create a thoroughly efficient health organi sation, independent of the poor-law authorities, that this plan will in all probability be adopted for future sanitary districts, those now in existence re taining their present arrangements. The protec tion of the public against the sale of adulterated and damaged food, the malpractices of water companies, offences under the Pharmacy Act, proceedings as to the diseases of domestic animals, and several other duties of the kind will require a proper judicial autho rity; and this Dr. SrsioN would entrust to magistrates at quarter sessions. Each of the borough and county courts ought to provide a public analyst to investi gate matters affecting the water supply, adulteration and the like. The greatest benefit may be expected from these local improvements, but the reform of the central authorities is a question of no small importance. Dr. SistoN has many suggestions to offer, the chief of which are that divided power should, as far as possible, be abolished, and that the relations between one office and another should be more clearly defined. The returns sent up to the Imperial Government ought to be much more complete. These questions, with others relating to the distribution of central sanitary work, are at present being considered by the Ministers whose departments they specially concern. It is to be hoped that the Government will not rest satisfied, but will proceed to the 'more important work of reforming local jurisdiction. There is much to be done before the health adminis tration of the country is in a really efficient state ; but the difficulties are all matters of detail. The law s have been Passed, and the labour of putting them into thorough operatio n ca nnot be insuperable. aigyni ablet . t a y ht other o tahm n which asserted ei mysterious stcthineo arustitnors uhtuur country t s hi v b lnane e et e rphs n ahseneo c iwnef r oo e mravt world. de e uen. d l r pEe o E u lni umtggohlmrnaoonal may newsthat a great stat e sman was on the point o aaenb u tr;abehi rse of public business. Nor would the might produce a widespread feeling of e but seldom, indeed, would it interrupt tstaF d oss loaif a rbrfreerr i d g eni Ilmoyeec e wEi rous illness of the Sovereign, though an occurrence of absorbing interest, give rise to any fear of national disaster. But in France a so called slight affliction of the Emperor has brought about a commercial crisis which could be produced here only by very grave misfortunes. Day after day has the Paris Stock Exchange been a prey to the wildest excitement. " Everything has gone down except bank shares." The French funds which rose steadily when the EMPE ROR resolved on con stitutional reform, have sunk rapidly to a lower price than that at which they stood when the new order of Government was proclaimed. Remarkable as is this state of fright, the explanation is rational enough. The EMPEROR 15 the main spring of French society, and without him the whole machine would stop—with what results no one ean tell. In England if one ruler disappears another rises ; but the EMPEROR NAPOLEON represents a form of government which arose and can be maintained only by himself. The essence of personal Government is that the one man in whom it is vested should be equal to the control of the State; and after the EMPEROR there is but a woman and a child. It may be that this illness affords no real ground for alarm; but the French people may well be excused for giving way to fear. The sovereign is getting into years, constitution al government exists at present only on paper, and a powerful Republican party may be expected to seize the first opportunity of trying for supreme power. In the prospect of such a contingency there is but one thing that can reassure the people—the appear ance of the EMPEROR in public. Many days have elapsed since the agitation first commenced, but the sovereign has not been seen out of doors. The occur rence is fraught with instruction. It ought to convince the EMPEROR that whatever might be possible in former times, arbitrary rule is out of date in a great and highly-civilised community. With the rule of the people the death of the Sovereign merely means the removal of one item in the Government. The rest of the organisation goes on, and the vacant place is soon filled up. But the death of NAPOLEON would mean the destruction of the whole Government, leaving the system to be built up again from the beginning. Alliance between the head of the State and those constitutional aids which are now in request all over the world, seems an indispensable requisite of the time. MR. HENLEY AND COLONEL NOR7H 1N OXFORDSHIRE. BICESTER, Wednesday. Yesterday Mr. Henley, M.P., and Col. North, M.P., attended the annual meeting of the Bicester Agricultural Society. The dinner, held at the king's Arms, the principal inn in the town, was presided over by Mr. E. Slater Harrison. In response to the toast of the " Health of the County Members," Mr. HENLEY said—At all times, and under all circumstances, it is never an easy thing for a person to return thanks to a company like the present, where he has received kindness from time to time, and where, as is the case now, the chairman has been pleased to use expressions of kindness towards the whole of us county members, which I, for my part, feel are more favourable than is de served. (No, no.) One cannot attempt to say what one feels in such a case. I for so many years have experienced the kindness of all parties in this county, whether they have agreed with me in my opinions on public matters or whether they have not agreed with me, that it does not surprise me to find you ready on this occasion to reiterate your expressions of good feeling; but the more so because I am quite certain that, in this county, so long as a man, occupying a public position such as that which it is your pleasure that I should fill, honestly tries to do that what he believes to be right, credit is given him for the sincerity of his effort, and he always receives that which is his best reward—the kindness of his friends whenever it should be his good fortune to meet them. Gentle men, on these occasions what are called politics are excluded from discussion ; but I beg pardon if I am wrong in supposing that in my case I am not forbidden to make some little allusion to what has been going on during the last six months—l mean the difficulties which gentle men in Parliament like myself have had to wade through. All I can say is, to begin with, that no man who has had any experience of Par liamentary life will say other than that which I say, which is that the Parliament of the last ses sion was the dullest Parliament I ever had the misery to pass through. (A laugh.) It was as heavy as lead, and the only thing one derived in the shape of advantage or profit was this; we ascertained that one very great and indispensable qualification for a member of Parliament was to be able to sleep without snoring. (Loud laugh ter.) As an old 'un, I should have only had my self to blame if I had not availed myself pretty frequently of that privilege. I don't know how I should have got on at all if I had not indulged myself largely in that great boon. (A laugh.) What really has passed the House this session one can only liken to this ; it is like letting out an enormous mass of water that has Lem penned up, and what the eff,ct of that is to be we have yet got to learn. 'This great flood— or if I may say so, this great Act—whatever you may he pleased to call it—what effects it will bring about, whether for good or evil, I don't expect to live long enough to see ; but I don't think any man, however far-seeing he may consider himself, will venture to say in exact words what really will be the effect produced by it. (Hear, hear.) After that we were engaged for a good while in one of the most unprofitable discussions that could possibly be thought of. We tried to find out some means to get something out of nothing. I allude, of course, to the Bankruptcy Laws. I have lived long enough to see three or four changes in these laws, and the case was always the same as it is now. The mer cantile community want to get something out of nothing,;and the lawyers take care that, if nothing is capable of division, they at least shall have a share out of it. (Laughter.) Such a consideration, ever present as it was to my mind, afforded a little re lief from the dullness which otherwise was asso ciated with the discussion ; but really that seemed to me, as a looker-on, the kind of game that was being played. We came then to the consideration of a question which at this moment unfortunately concerns you in this country very much—that was the regulations for the prevention of the spread of cattle disease ; and Patliament determined that those regulations should be left in the hands of the Government —that is, in the hands of the Privy Council for the time being. We in this country, unfor tunately, have had a considerable outbreak of what is known as the foot and mouth disease, and which I am sorry to see has spread itself to many parts of the country. This being the case we shall speedily be able to judge how far the regulations which have been made arc or are not well suited to the purpose —whether, indeed, the regulations will or will not prove to be a greater curse to the country than the foot and mouth disease itself. That is a matter only to be judged of by experience. He closed by say ing : I cannot hope to come here much longer, but so long as I have health and strength it is a great pleasure to meet my friends. (Cheers.) Colonel NORTH said, before he returned thanks for himself for the very kind manner in which the toast had been proposed and drunk, he wished to explain the absence of his colleague, Mr. Cartwright. A letter had been received from the hon. gentle man, stating that he was detained at Wildbad by the serious illness of his daughter. However much the right hon. gentleman who had just addressed them might differ from Mr. Cart wright, he would agree with him (Colonel North) in saying there was no man in the House of Com mons more consistent in his attention to his duties. Thank God, in this country we could differ in view, and with very great benefit to the country. Adverting to what had fallen from Sir Algernon Tey ton, in responding to the 4/last of the army and navy, the gallant colonel observed that some people fancied a soldier was very easily made. But soldiers, like all other professions, re quired drill and a long experience: Nothing but constant employment could give the soldier that confidence so necessary to his efficiency. A good and well-conducted soldier of 10 years' standing was a man not to be matched. Under these cir cumstances, he regretted when he heard that it was contemplated reducing in number men of that de scription. In a great commercial country like ours it was necessary to maintain a large standing army. A manufacturer would no more think of getting rid of a foreman or labourer in whom, after years of service, he could place every trust, than he would of flying. (Hear, hear.) Night after night in the House of Commons he had seen men get up advocating a reduction of the army for reductions' sake, and who did not care to inquire the value of a soldier. In his opinion there was nothing more expensive in the end than getting rid of a good soldier, because a recruit 'cost God knew how much before he was of any use. (Cheers.) The gallant colonel, reiterating his thanks to the com pany, resumed his seat. The other toasts were purely local. DEATH OF GENERAL THOMPSON. The death is recorded of Lieutenant •General Perronet Thompson, }I.R.S., which has just taken place at Blackheath. A few years ago the announcement would have made some sensation, for during a certain portion of his career General Thompson was one of the most prominent of public men. He was born at Hull in 1783, and was first educated at the Grammar School there, which was at the time conducted by Joseph Milner, the Church historian. He afterwards went to Cambridge. After serving about four years in the navy he became a soldier, and saw a good deal of active service. On his return to England he began to take a great interest in politics, and in connection with the Anti• Corn Lan League took a very active part in the promotion of free trade. He was first returned to Parliament in 1835, for Hull. General Thompson was for many years the editor and proprietor of the Westminster _Review, and a very industrious political economist and scientific writer. In this review appeared the Corn Law Catechism so effec tive in that discussion. In his social circle ho was one of the most gentle, considerate, and kind of men. THE CAS F; OF TIE E COUNTESS D'ALTEYJL4 C. The case of this lady was again brought before the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday, in the form of an appli cation to take the matter out of court under the 185th Section. The lady, who is described as Junia Maria d'Alteyrac, commonly known as the Countess d'Alteyrac, otherwise Willoughby, of 32, Park street, Grosvenor-square, of no occupation, was made bankrupt on her petition about five months ago, and, being in custody at the time, her release was granted chiefly on the ground of her illness. Assignees have since been chosen, and accounts filed shewing debts of £5,973, against which she estimates the present value !of her annuity at £30,000. The principal creditor !in amount is stated to be M. Longchams, a son-in.law of the bankrupt, who makes a claim on her of upwards of £2,500. A resolution was now submitted to the creditors to the effect that the assignees should receive the annuity of £1,200 a year, the lady to continue in the receipt of £lOO a month penalty so long as it should be payable ; and on its ceasing to be so, the annuity to be equally divided between her and the assignees ; this arrangement to continue until the debts are paid in full ; and the bankruptcy to be annulled on the execu tion of the usual deed. It was also part of the arrangement proposed that M. Longcham's proof should not be pressed till after the other creditors were paid in full, and that the bankrupt should have an allowance of £3O a month from the date of the adjudication till the next sitting in November. On the part of the assignees, objection was taken to one part of this proposal ; they contended that the annuity should not be equally divided between the Countess and the creditors, but that the former should re ceive £5OO a year, and the latter £7OO. Thereupon the resolu tion was withdrawn until the next sitting; and it was ordered that the countess should in the meantime receive an allowance of £3O a month from the date of the adjudi cation. The countess was present during the proceedings, and was briefly examined respecting one or two disputed proofs ; but the details were uninteresting. THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) THE HEIGHT OF ASSURANCE.—The Management of the " Albert." WHISPERS IN CHURCH.— "Mamma, dear, is that the piano ?" "Hush ! no—the organ ! " " Then where's the noonkey?" " QUITE ANOTHER."—Tunny Passenger (the conversa, tion turning on the bard life of the horses) : I see you're not a believer in the Transmigration of Souls !" " Driver : " Well, I don't know, sir. For my part I likes 'em fried in the usual way ! !" To INI'ANTINE SMOKERS.—We saw the following adver. tisement in the Lirerpcol Mercury :—" Wanted, a smart boy, well acquainted with a tobacconist's counter." — Wishing, if possible, to supply the want, Mr. Punch looked round at a lot of boys whom he knew, but found that they would not do, for such of them as are well acquainted with tobacconists' counters are very far from Smart, been usually stupid, slangy, pert cads. However, having found one that he thought might possibly answer, Mr. Punch despatched him to Liverpool. Ife was:returned by the next train. The boy wanted was for the other side of the counter, the side on which brains are required. THE MILTONIC MARE'S NEST (An American Sensation Story).—The truth about John Milton is out at last. We knew already, as a kindred spirit said of him, that he " was a harsh, sire, odd spouse." That was a fact, and not to be denied. "For the first Mrs. Milton left his house." Why did she skedaddle? Milton is well known to have been a Dissenter from the Episcopal Church of England. The reason of his dissent has always been taken for granted to have been conscientious conviction. We know now what it was. It is a fact, which his bio graph ers have unaccountably overlooked, that the maternal parent of old Mr. Milton, John's father, lived to a very advanced age. She was the cause of .John Milton's sects sion from the English Church. She was also the cause of his disagreement with his wife, which occasioned the first Mrs. Milton to absquotilate. The Anglican table of the Prohibited Decrees of Affinity and Consanguinity begins with the declaration that " A man may not marry his Grandmother." But for that Milton would have remained an Episcopalian, and not have married the woman he first did. He told her so immediately after their mar. riage, when they were starting for their honeymoon, with a volley of oaths and curses. She was jealous. He gave her cause. The foregoing statement is genuinely reliable. We guess nobody a cut above Brigham Young will ever read a line of " Paradise Lost " again. The Dublin Gazette announces that the Right lion. Geoffrey Dominick Augustus Frederick, Baron Oranmore and Browne, has been chosen by a majority of totes to be the peer to sit in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, in the room of Richard, Baron Castle tnaine, deceased, • Since the passing of the first Industrial Schools Act in 1857, and clown to the end of 1868, 9,231 children have been committed to these schools in Great Britain -6,665 boys and 2,566 girls. Of the whole number 3,282 have been discharged. About two-thirds of these —viz., 2,lll—have been placed in employment on land, or sent to sea, or enabled to emigrate or enlist; 173 died ; 230 have been committed to reforms.- tories ; 391 have been specially discharged as diseased, im becile, illegally committed, or incorrigible ; 333 absconded, and were not recovered. THE HARVEST. —The harvest may now be con sidered finished in the Newmarket district, in which the crops have been secured in excellent condition. Harvest work hag been greatly facilitated and accelerated this year about Newmarket by the extended use of reaping machines. An Ipswich letter says :—" With another week of fine weather the farlngrs in the earlier districts of this neighbourhood have secured thu whole of their crops, a n d, with the exception of the first carted ' , heats, all in the finest condition. In the later districts some tp , qntity of barley and beans, with here and there a field of wheat, is yet abroad. The last three or four days have been much warmer, and on Sunday and Monday we had some heavy rains, which were greatly needed by the turnips and pasture lands." The inquest on the bodies of the young persons, Thomas Hardakor and Emma Carmack, who were found dead In a field at Stanningloy, after the thunderstorm on Sunday evening, was held on Tuesday attheSun Hotel, Stunningley, by Mr. Taylor. A verdict was returned to the effect that the deceased had been killed by lightning. The unfortunate occurrence caused a wide-spread feeling of sympathy throughout the villages of Pudsey and Stanningley, and an anxious crowd gathered round the hotel until the bodies were removed home. The lightning had apparently struck the young couple each on the forehead; for marks like burns were plainly visible on the side of the nose. There were some boles in the shirt-front of the man, and some coins in his pocket were partially melted by the electric fluid. Tho young woman's clothes were uninjured. The deceased were engaged to be married in November next, but they are now to be buried in the same grave. The newspapers have greatly contributed to enrich the English language. We shall shortly have — thanks to the gentlemen of the press—a pretty delicate, idiomatic turn of speech for all the principal affairs of life. Thus, a widow is a "fair relict ;" a young woman making her (Zelda at a police court, is " an interesting female." Formerly a criminal used to be hanged, but now he is "launched into eternity." .Amau was sometimes drowned in olden times ; but that never occurs now; he may indeed be "immersed in the liquid element till the fire of life be extinguished." When a man fell down in a fit a surgeon used to be sent for, but now "medical ai"d is said to be "iu attendance ;" should lie die before the surgeon comes, " the vital spark had fled." In the times of our plain-spoken ancestors horses and cattle were sometimes killed by lightning, but they are now " struck by the electric fluid." Again, a ship used to be launched, but there is nothing of the kind now. "We are losing all our amusements," as Crockery has it; the :ship now " glides majestically into her native e le. ment," in which native element, by the way, she never was before. In old-fashioned thnes bridegrooms and brides used to be married, We are Nally quite ashamed to say there is no such thins as marriage now ; the bride Is "led up to the hymeneal altar," API the wedding guests, instead of dancing 110 W, "nip it gaily gn tin light fan. Wig WV' SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Election Commissions, says, the Times, continue to unfold their miserable tale of the insensibility with which large bodies of Englishmen may learn to regard the exercise of a public trust. The disclosures at Beverley, Bridgwater, and Norwich affect, not one, but all classes in those towns ; and they indicate a corruption by 11° means confined to contests for a seat in Parliament' Venality in electors springs not so much from a deaf(' of adequate political motives under the existing system 95 from incapacity to appreciate any political motives. Th e vote represents nothing to them, but they see it has i ta worth to other people, and they traffic upon this know ledge, as savages require a price for goods which are of no value to themselves. Such voters, if positively debarred from selling their votes, would for the most part not vote honestly, but simply not vote at all. W e trust that the result of the commissions will bring home to the minds of candidates a sense of the little security they can expect in future from their wilful ignorance of the destination of the funds which they or their friends have been so liberal in providing' The local politicians, who are, perhaps, the most guilt,' of all parties concerned in the matter, 'will also have had an impressive lesson. One who was examined on TuesclnY at Bridgwater stated, with evident sincerity, that "the mental grief, anguish, and torture that had been occasioned by this inquiry had been more than he could describe. Another at Beverley protested that he had not had* night's rest since Mr. Baron Martin's visit. Nothing is clearer from the inquiries instituted by the Cor a. missions than that the public opinion of the guilty locality itself cannot be trusted to resist bribery. All the persons concerned conspire to keep each other in countenance' But the nation is more honest and virtuous than all i t / several parts, and a fortiori than parts like Beverley an d Bridgwater. The public opinion of the whole country, ~ may be hoped, will be excited by the recent disclosure, and in the mirror it will hold up these places themselves may be made to see how very ugly their practices 1 0 n Ic ' If any faith can be put in the durability of impressions produced under the duress of Royal Commissions, the principals in the corruption already perceive the enormity of their offence. This species of penalty will hardly, / /6 fear, be equally efficient against venal voters ; but th e punishment of the bribers will be the first step to the reformation of the bribed by depriving them of theif market. The Post declares that the memories of 1866 still oppres° us. Ordinarily the effects of a panic wear themselves out in three years, and people who have burnt their fing ell forget the pain of the operation. But it is not so in t he present instance. It seems as if nothing could efface the recollection of "Black Friday," with all that went before and all that has followed it. This is the penalty which is paying for the revelations of 1866, and for the die honesty that made them possible. Compared to th e enormous number of persons who were either ruined, or Ill° more or less suffered by that dishonesty, those who pre. fited by it must have been few. Since the panic of 186 6 °, 6 Legislature has done nothing to diminish any of the Pet ° of which investors have had such bitter experience. 110 Royal Commission has been issued to search to the root of the disaster that culminated in that awful 1311 ' et Friday," and to see if th e y a re no t t racea bl e t o ca uses, so ng of which might be preventible. If, to-morrow, the 1013 1 looked-for confidence were to ma k e it s a pp eara nce, an d - the boarded millions which have been waiting for inc e , e ;: went were to open their flood-gates and stream into t 11 1" or that channel of speculation, we should certainlY 6°3 : repetition of the old game, in which the honest people g to the wall, while the astute people carry off the plunt ic u t i Yet it is occasion of surprise that capital is et so sensitive, and that it is loth to entrust i t°if to the keeping of irresponsible directors. Su ch it lesson as that of 1866 is not easily forgotten. 1 .11 contained the experience of previous pani ce ,. : „/ addition to its own ; and their accumulated tea ch declares the melancholy truth that, as the law sta g ' s' investment on the strength of prospectuses, lists of cli re tors, half-yearly reports and dividends, is a mere " 101 31 ii the dark," with a thousand to one in favour of your 11. ing in a morays instead of on terra fi rm a. Under ell e circumstances it is folly to look for a revival of co nfidei' ee : Until the Legs'ature secures to investors some bete ; guarantee for the safety of their money than they 111111 1 , had hitherto, we can only reckon on the possibility ofi of eti"o., a revival by supposing that men are incapable of pr by the most bitter teaching of experience. The Standard remarks that another fearful Trii ll l llfr he catastrophe adds the weight of its terrible testimony warnings which have already been uttered on this subj e i T ie in so striking a manner of late. This time it is front t other side of the Atlantic that we receive intelligen ce :, fresh sacrifices to the present system of colliery nut °l3 to ment, and the scale of the disaster is commenstO 0 with the magnitude of American undertakings. 11 ,!;, hundred men and boys have been kill e d—not t ''' d time by the explosion of fire-damp or by th e irruP tll) t. -- of water into the mine, but by a new kind of acci den ,i So far as the particular cause of thi s acc id en t i s c oncer n e"' we are not in any need of the lesson which it i n cules te l All important mines in England must have two dis tiri b e shafts, and we believe that the regul a ti ons in force Zvi us even forbid the presence in a new mine of more th an e , certain number of colliers until the two shafts ar e c° structed. But the two hundred miners in Pennsy lvA'o have been killed in the same way, l oo king at the niattre broadly, in which hundreds of English miners h e 'll been killed already, and in which hundreds more `iej doubtless be killed again. Their lives were iroP eri t i ot to save expense. In an enterprise so gigantic A S ti f of coal-mining in England, individuals concerned 31%0 fairly discharge their minds from all responsibilitl'y long as they carry out the regulations laid ( I ° W/i- ot Government. The responsibility rests on the count r ' o • large—on the Government. Concurrently with the lieieb phatic warnings delivered by the terrible accidents W ua have lately taken place at home, on the C o ntinen t ' let in America, the miners themselves are crying °l2t .heit closer supervision, for a more rigorous control of th e proceedings by proper officers. The duty wil ieti zo oet course of events would have imposed on the Govern ref, in any case is made immeasurably more imperativeaj'eri that its urgency is perceived by the unlettered co , themselves. en al f.. 14 The Herald observes that many people have . 9 ' : 0 8 unfavourable view of the chances of navigation '''',, t he Suez Canal. It is urged that the wave create /3 r be passage of a large vessel through a nar r ow channe l ` a o , 0 very destructive to the banks ; that a very low epe e n oon will be found possible ; and th a t th e cons tant o t°-- t ilei of the dredging machines, no matter how d i ligently -, Iv ti il° , are employed, will fail to maintain a regular and - la n Ow depth of water. The genius and perseverance vid lic- b II V. triumphed over difficulties declared to be insupera As '- which hav e f oun d ' so l u ti ons one by on e for a g ing multitudinous embarrassments which arose to the progress of the work—may well be exPe ct o e gvo, defeat the smaller troubles which may oppose t he:4 o 4 e : to the successful navigation of the canal now tha t n o ne 0, Still it would be useless to expect that this can b e We at once, that every dilemma which may arise wb, ell o IP vessels begin to use the canal can all be foreseen fro 011116,. first. Vessels must face a certain amount of risi g tee cle the passage of the isthmus is a novelty, risk not 01 , delay' disaster of an overwhelming character, but °'' o agli g and expense. These risks the canal company ,„ fail t ' Peil-kns be wise to take upon their own shoulders a"toroil, Its object tar some timeto come will be to tempt uc °3 „ o of ., through the canal. Even when the canal is still risks enough to b‘t faced by shipowners or li v id writers, in the Red Sea ; and until the mercantile 0% , 10 6 the world begin to know their way through its rep rig tt a grow fearless, if that may be hoped for, by fill ' i oril l t dangers net so serious as they are represented, it age t i well to make the passage of the canal at all even ta t ified. and secure as may be. The company is fully. P s n g,5 5 '" 0 1 requiring the presence on board every ves sel r eta il:4 passed thunder" through of one of their own pilots. Sea captaie,,ecel be expected to comprehend such exceptional An a rde9P tb tbt work as that of navigating their craft across, jo,_„iii But if the company assumes, as it has right ' c ' it 1 01 " control of the vessel, we are inclined to think that also assume the responsibility for her safety • h e t or 0; The Daily News says that caricature publicatiltsheli,' recentlyincreased in number, and a new variety co o t has been introduced. Two of our weekly Coni c co lotle • poraries have distinguished themselves by their N aves , • h who, cartoons ; but it is not alone the colour whic h. '..„ra difference between these designs and PY",,, c " t fellt",e, belong to a distinct school, the most Kolint i ,,„.'" v sgs x 'we of which is a kind of phantasmagoric ex" - hicn we. The pictures in both the periodicals to w e seliv 0 allude are very clever, but they are not 1; 0 00 1* The colouring is often lurid, and the coinP lion ailmit frequently pervaded by a grimness of co ncerli iiio g ~, ,,a wild grotesqueness of detail that are sc3 l '.. a re r° to laughter-moving. Nothing in the way of caricapl_eroty be more horrible than the sketch of the sick itse lf,Ev' h o which we recently referred ; and the s ubject A . e ., quite unfitted for such a mode of treatrar a is !gee prevalence of this species of art in Pcri ° , l ‘' an°,.".,0 cially designed for light entertainment, 2 ' .. o' o o fact proving the decay of genial hutno u ' re fer o f we lamented some time back. If w e i e sigi l 00 the eorlicr volumes of Punch, the coloured c i ~ ,,,,s,ris r e the Tomahawk and Vanito Fair seem in the T"We I, e . like episodes in Ilolbein's " Dance of Deatb: 00( P, 1 : 1 1 getting saturnine and savage in our p l a yful u• A v t " strike as hard with the crayon as with a stilettom. e '' o 'f if ii i ; different feeling, however, was expressed by s.°. at il i a, 1. 4 4. younger men of the Regency ; and one in PSall_hooli. A iS still living and working amongst us, arid w , s svit?_tal strikes our eyes in the photographic windos to go look of vigorous shrewdness that seerns,_..,en .001 time and change, bent all his oi 6e o * powers, her ve li 40 and sixty years ago, to the reform 0 and social abuses. We allude, of course, _," c h o. d fd Cruikshank. No modern man has caught so_r its trpi genius of Ilogarth, both in its conno and , he ill / e go.- - tll.- - ' have remotely derived from his great predcc w __ , 00 0 ,, i elements, as this gifted designer ; and to wilily .. be P „i added many qualities of his own. Leech_ .r vo i r humourist of the most delightful kind ; so is M. 11021 when he likes it ; and so is Mr. Richard Doyi ~. r, his modesty keeps him so much in the backgr_ot no_,A r• not the last-named gentleman again come foorr2 give us something to look at more pl,eamiSkii, , tw" PPilsso_lal OtcoltanAq.s.sls B l... /