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FOR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their business. For trades and ad dresses. see following advertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. Tim RARE COMBINATION ol EXCE LENGE with CHEAPNESS will be found in every article sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all :lasses. Commodious apartments for measuring Ind fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, 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 pune‘nality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by. E. MOSES and SON enables them to varantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should ".o accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be cheerfully 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 Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Coniplete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea mre, 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, Readv-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitma,kers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, - Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turc‘rs, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following aro the only addresses of E. MOSES tnd SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MLNORIES 154, MINORIES 157, MINOILIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATb 57, ALDGATE 88, ALDGATE SO, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. ma, NEW OXFORD-STREET 307, NEW OXFORD-STREET , 08, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA, new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault: Messrs. Barrett, IT. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, loht. Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7, MY PRECIOUS BETSY : Mr Atkins and Miss k 1129. Johnstone. At 8, THE SERPENT ON THE HEARTH: Messrs R. 1 , hil tips, E. Atkins, Stuart, C. H. Stephenson, W. H Eburne, Dal ion, C. J. Smith, R. Romer; Mrs M. Eburne. Mrs Leigh Murray, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Mrs Stoker, &c. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr Atkins and Mrs. Leigh Murray. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Last 5 Nights of "Ads and Galatea." THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE, 2 acts, by Dion Boucicault. After which. Handel's Opera of ACIS AND GALATEA : Cupid, Miss Summers: Ads, Mr Vernon Rigby; I , amon, Mr Montem Smith; Polyphemus, Herr Formes; Galatea, Miss Blanche Cole. Musical Conductor, Mr J. L Hatton: Concluding with the Farce of A QUIET FAMILY. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Prices: Stalls, 7s: Dress Circle, 5s ; Upper Boxes, 4s; Pit, 2st, Gallery, ls. Private Boxes, £2 12s 6d, £2 2s, and £1 Hs 6d. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborongh. _ . 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THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W ALEXANDER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, No. 4, Old Cavendish street, Oxford-street. UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS TO LET, consisting of Three Rooms and Dressing Room, with use of Kitchen. Nice Garden. Four minutes' walk to 'Bus and Bail to City and west-end.--44, St. Paul's-road, Camden-square, N.W. COMPENSATION IN C ASE OF INJURY, AND A FIXED SUM IN CASE OF DEATH Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY RIND, may be secured by a Policy of the 'RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. An Anneal Payment of £3 to £6 ss. insures £l,OOO at Death, and an Allowance a.t the rate of £6 per week for Injury. It A I I.WAY ACCIDENTS ALONE may be provided against `w Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Jeurnies. For p , lrtienlars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to She Local Agents, or at the Offices, 54, CORNHILL and 10, REGENT 'TEEM', LONDON WILLIAM J. VIAN Secretary. BRITANNIA }IRE ASSOCIATION Head Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association aro Equitablo Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlemPut of el4ims. JOHN MESS' Mfoinoer 01 ; *NELL and CO.'S CII FUMY TooT it PASTE is greatly 7111 , i'IOr , to any tooth powo , .r ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the prom - lel from (3 tr. nrifl imparts a 1.)lea: -. nnt fragrance to the breath. Pr'eo * Is. 6.l.—Red Bull Wharf, 03, Upper Thames -street. London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine. hue, no matter at what ago. J'. 0. GOSNELL and CO. h ave at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in pedect iuß this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public u a mere concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; allo 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. ncludinv, brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel paseeage, 93, - Upper Thames- Area Louden, E.O. town. CRYSTAL PALACE —Great Combinel Fete. OPERA & FIREWORKS, &c.—One Shilling.—The recent immensely successful DISPLAY of FIREWORK. with the great device of the Arc do Triomphe as at the Napoleon Fetes, 1869, and magnificent Illumination of Fountains, will be repeated TO-MORROW (Thursday\ which, notwithstanding the great coat of the display, will be a One Shilling Day. During the afternoon a performance will be given of Wallace's favourite opera "Maritana," by Mr. George Perren's Opera Company, with Miss Edith Wynne as the Gitana. The Company's Orchestral Band (under the direction of Mr. Manns) will perform for the Opera—a Military Band will play during the Fireworks at eight, as well as before the display —the Gardens of Ro?khills will be thrown open for afternoon promenade—and the Palace be Lighted up for promenade until ten o'clock. Admission one shilling, or by guinea season ticket. Stalls for opera or fireworks, 2s. 6d. Norm—Extra railway trains from all stations. Ample time for leisure departure without crowding or incouve nionce, but visitors should come early. ORYSTAL PALACE.—TO-MORROW.—See \--) above. L ONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. NEST COAST ROUTE TO SCOTLAND. Additional Express and Further Improved_ Service of Trains betWron London and the North of Scotland. An ADDITIONAL EXPRESS TRAIN, conveying first and second class passen ,, ers, now leaves Euston Sta tion at 8 p.m., for EMNBUITGIE, GLASGOW, PERTH, and the North of Scotland. A direct Train for Greenock, in connection with this Express, leaves Motherwell at 7.0 a.m., arriving it. Greenock at 8.20 a.m, allowing ample time for passengers for Oban and the West Highlands to join the lona Steamboat, which leaves Greenock at 9.0 a.m. Tourist Tickets and Return Tickets for Scotch Sta tions aro available by this Train. Passengers for Green ock are conveyed without change of carriage by this Train. Passengers for Edinburgh by this Train will join the Limited Mail at Carstairs: those for Perth and the North of Scotland will jain the Train at Gartsherrie. Passengers by this Train aro allowed fifteen minutes at Carlisle for refreshments. The Train leaving Euston Station at 9.0 p.m. has been accelerated so as TO arrive at Aberdeen at 2.0 p.m., two hours and twenty minutes earlier than heretofore. A new Express Train for London leaves Aberdeen (Caledonian) at 9.0 a.m., Glasgow (Caledonian) 1.45 p.m., and Edinburgh at 2.0 p.m. ; arriving in London (Euston Station) at 3.15 a.m. Passengers booked through to Scotland are allowed to break their journey at Carlisle. For further particulars see Time-bills. W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, August, 1869. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th Juno, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, Ese., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The Report which the directors have now to submit to the proprietors differs in its tenor but little save is one or two particulars from that laid before then, in 1868. The income of the year, it will be seen, amounts to £540,499 18s.„ and the total charge to £145,077 10s. 9d The difference, £95,422 7s. Bd., added to the balance 0. the surplus fund at the commencement of the financia year, laised that item to £1,002,974 15s. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, Jusz 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. £ s. d. £ e. d DR. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 Premiums on new assur ances Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 371,318 12 1 :nterest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,508 4 11 . Profit and loss, balance of account 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 ~ 305,614 3 6 participating policies 24,304 G G Policies surrendered Re-assurances - new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 Commission Medical fees 405,561 12 1 10,618 11 2 760 18 0 ncome tax ;917 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 9 10 436,187 6 9 Total charge Balanco of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance-sheet £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,5-18 12s. id., of which sum £13,560 ss. ld. is for new assurances effected in the year. - The interest from investments is £120,959 1.2. 10d., or .£4 2s. per scut. on the net amount of the company', realised assets existing in June, 1865 ; and in connection • with this important feature of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the pro!i; and lass account again exhibits a considerable profi% amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £18,00.1. 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 tho 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 03 a previous occasion, the proper quin quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and the fact that the averige for t - hepasttwo years barely ex ceeds .£30!1,000 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 be reearded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET. JUNE 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured, and £6,757 17 0 , additions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, &e. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' fund Surplus fund £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 278,557 16 C Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 Ditto ditto Temporary secu rities 198,207 17 C Current interest on the above investments 30,934 4 C 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 0 10 The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95,422 is. 3d. already mentioned, as is shown by the augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. The Direction of the Company is now constituted as rollowa: WILLIAM FREDERICK .OE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairman. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Dimon, Esq. S irJ. Buller East, Bt., D.C.L. 7 homas Godfrey Sambrook°, Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq. F.R.S. Admiral Tindal. CharlesThos.llolcombe,Esq. Right Hon. Sir John Young, Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart., K.C.B. LONDON and COUNTY BANKING COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, thata DIVIDEND on the CAPITAL of the Company, at the rate of Six per Cent for the half-year ending 30th June, 1869, with a BONUS of Two and a Half per Cent., will be PAID to the Pro prietors, either at the Head Office, 21, Lombard-street, or at any of the Company's Branch Banks, on and after MONDAY, the 16th inst. By order of the Board, W. McKEWAN, General Manager. 21, Lombard-street, Aug. 6, 1869. THE "SINGER" SEWING MACHINES THE "NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE, NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCH. Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. TEE " SINGER " SEWING. MACHINE: ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND TIIE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p ttTer r3ltriplicity of the Machines enables any one tt Accraira th:ir perfect nse in a few hours. Illastra:ed nice Lists post fr3e. TILE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY Chief Office in the United Kingdom: 147, CiIEAPSIDE. Branch Dertts or Loca A gents in every Town 3 ,' GENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE . to introduce commodi ies valuable to every honseholdei high and low. This offers a highly rennmerativeCommission to Tradesmen, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants, &e. Applywitl two stamps to E. MARRI6ON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. KEATING'S INSECT DESTROYING POWDER. BLACK BEETLES totally destroyed b KEATINGS INSECT POWDER. This Powder is quite harm less to animal life, but is unrivalled in destroying Fleas, Bug, Flies. Cockroaches, Beetles, Gnats, Mosquitos, and every other species of Insect. Sold inPackets, ls., and Tins, 2s. 61-and 4s. ca. each: or is. Packets, free by post, for 12 Postage Stamps. Also in Bottles, with Bellows, Is. 6d. and is. each, by THOMAS IiZATIS9, chemist, 70, tit Paul's Churchyard, Lvndvn, E.Q. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EvENfl IG, &t 7. MY PRECIOUS BETSY: Mr Atkins and Miss Johnston e. At 8, THE SERPENT ON THE HEARTH: Mr IL Phillips, air E Atkins, Mr Stuart. Sirs M. Ehurne, Mrs L. Murray, fie- And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh 31nrrs y. I LOYAL STRAND THEATRE. Solo Less 3C and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough Tins EVENING. at 7.30, AMONG TILE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. THE T. JODLES. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; - esdames Goodall. Lydia Maitland. Button. To conelude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. Mr. D. James, PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lesseo and Manager, Mr. Vining, Tins EvENrn - G. at 7, PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE. After which, AEI., A 9D GALATEA : Herr Formes, Mr V. Rigby, 3Tr M. smith, and 3; les 131anche Colo. To conclude with A QUIE FAMILY. ROYAL ALI 7.A.MBRA PALACE. —THREE BALLETS Promenade Con• sort. Band of GO. Begin at S. ls. Box-office o pengrom 11 to' I. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under - the Management of Miss 11 OlivPr. Tuts ErENtico, :it 7.30, A ROVING COM ,lISSION. After which CHECKMATE. Followed by THE MILITARY BILLY AYLOR. To conelnde with IN FOR A HOLIDAY Mr Dewar, Mr. Do avers. Miss M. Oliver Miss Saunders, &e. PIHNCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Afanagement of Miss Marie "Wilton TUTS Evl MING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Baneroft; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss V. Addison, and. Miss Mario Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, (;d. Children under twelve. 64. V S ITIL 4 , .#l4 L ONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1869, Although the contest now preparing between Eng land and America is one simply arising out of a spor tive emulation between some aquatic athletes—is merely a trial of strength and of skill, of pluck and of go —the result is eagerly looked forward to on either side of the Atlantic. More eagerly than the result of any international struggle that has taken place since SAYERS and lIEENAN confronted each other at day break, on the green meadow grass, surrounded by the raff of London, from the east and from the west, in threadbare corduroy and glossy broadcloth. Re- tnembering how utterly that bout at fisticuffs ended in a drawn battle of the most tantalizingly undecided character, it is at any rate most sincerely to be hoped, now, that the boat race which is to come off on Friday, may at least, in the close of it, be unmistake ►ble. happily, there, on the well kept river, there is not much risk of a foul. The rival oarsmen are not so readily to be hocussed. Tht)re is no hazard, in this instance, of a baulk from a cut rope, and of a rough-and-tumble hustling afterwards. The com petitors arc well matched, they are admirably trained, there will be before them, if not a clear stage, a clear stretch of river and no favour—the best men will win and, before anyone cau tell for certain which set is the best, we are all agreed in heartily wishing fair play to both sets alike. The American crew, it ought t•o be borne in mind, are not on their own waters. Ind it ought also to be borne in recollection in their regard that they have been constrained by unavoid - lble circumstances to alter their whole style of rowing. ['hey have come an nnmensedistanv., moreover, to meet their friendly opponents. And they have been wel coined accordingly. However diplomatists may come to loggerheads, the representatives of Le Sport, whether it be dapper boatmen, oar in hand, or brawny pugi- lists, stript to the waistband, never fall out when brought into competition, but simply go in with a will, resolutely bent upon winning the victory if they can, without, in any case, bad blood being create]. Good fellowship between the United States and the United Kingdom can hardly fail to be promoted by these amicable and perfectly harmless contest; ; and it is from our thorough sense of this that we arc lisposed to regard an incident such as the one now looked, forward to at a dis- .ance of - time not more remote flan two days ICIIC?, and at a distance of plies not further away han Putney, as not by any means intrinsically in- significant or unworthy of being spoken of as an event really international in its character. The live liest anticipations are awakened far and wide through- Jut this country, and through the far away States of the North American Continent, in regard to the result of the vigorous struggle about to take place the day after to-morrow between four Americans and four English boatmen, between the four from Harvard University and the four from Oxford University. Almost simultaneously the tidings of that result will spread throughout the United States and the United Kingdom—what though the two are separated by the whole width of the broad Atlantic. Thanks to the Electric Cable, the news will spread far and wide by telegraph on the wings of the lightning. Before the chosen day and the appointed hour have arrived, before the boats are yet started at the given signal, before the umpire has had the chance of deciding as to which boat's crew is entitled to our congratulation., we may be permitted, in all ea: nest sincerity, and quite dispassionately, to wish right well to those who best des:rve success in this ani mated and inspiriting contest. THE British Association has a local and an imperial aspect. It deals not only with questions in which the Empire is interested, but also in those which concern the district where the Association is meeting. Sometimes the two classes of subjects shade off into each other, so that it is impossible to tell where the one ends and the other begins. This has been the case especially in the Economic Section. The condition of the agricultural labourer is a matter that affects the whole country in some measure, but Devonshire in a peculiar degree. Canon Gm- DLESTONE, a Devonshire clergyman, has made this subject his special study, and has thereby incurred no little odium. If he had merely theorised he would, perhaps, have made no enemies. If he had contented himself with saying that agricultural wages are too low for the labourer to live with decency while he is able to work, and to keep himself off the rates when unable to work, the yeomen of Devonshire would have turned deaf ears to his words. But when from words he pro ceeded to deeds; when he not only said that wages were too low, but took steps to raise them, then it was indeed time for the farmers to be up and doing, and to denounce the intermeddler who reduced their profits. Their denunciation has, however, availed them little. The Canon has prevailed, and his success is his best justification. He contended that the reason why the labourers got so badly paid was because the local labour market was overstocked, and that the only cure was to relieve the market by emigration. It was not necessary that there should be an exodus from the kingdom, but only that the underpaid toilers of Devonshire should remove to Yorkshire and Lancashire, or other dis tricts, where I tbour is scarce aul wages are high. Ilis plan has answered admi rably so far as the labourers are concerned. There is no longer a glut of them in Devonshire ; the farmers even complain that they are not able to obtain sufficient. Of course no one desires to see either class embarrassed. But when one has been insufficiently paid by the other, the latter must have been taliing a portion of the money that ought to have fallen to the former, and any readjustment must involve at least appa rent loss to the latter. We believe that it is only apparent. The remarkable statement made a little time ago by Mr. BRASSEY respecting the navvies employed in making the North Devon Railway, that when their wages were increased the contractor Was T.EIE SUN, LONDON, WE ESDAY EVENING, AUGUST' 25, ['69. 1 'HEATF .E-RGYAL DRURY-LANE. dole Le ssee s nd Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tam EVEINID o, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8 FORMOSA Mt Issr . Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, John Buse ; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Mac donald. and Kat bar ine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED PLUMES. m ore than repaid by the additional work which better food enabled them to do, should convince the Devon shire farmer that an extra 2s. or 3s. a week paid to his men will come back to him again. Should it prove otherwise, the case is by no means hopeless for the farmer. If he cannot really afford to pay the extra wages, then he must co-operate with his neigh bours to substitute mechanical for human labour. The result will be that the race of agricultural labourers will diminish, the race of mechanics will increase ; the money now spent on the farm as wages for farm work, will be spent at the factory in the purchase of implements. Or there is another remedy; there is another form of co-operation; that between farmers and labourers, in which capital and labour will share the profits. This principle, so remarkably successful in some forms of manufacture, has yet to be applied on a large scale to agriculture. There was one other point connected with the same subject discussed with considerable energy ; the custom of paying agricultural labourers a portion of their wages in cider. This custom which was referred to in a paper read before the Bath meeting of the Association, has since then received more attention. Canon GIRDLESTONE believes it to be a most vicious custom. We thoroughly agree with him. The Standard criticises—we cannot say answers—the Canon's arguments, by saying that the labourers must drink something, and that it would be absurd for them to go through the round about process of receiving the money from their master in order to pay it back to the master for the cider which he sells them. Yet it is this very " roundabout" process which the law insists upon being observed in the manufacturing districts. It was found that the mechanic and the miner did not get the full value at the 44 tommy" shop. Either the goods were inferior in quality, or they were charged for at an extortionate rate. The law, therefore, in the shape of a Parliament largely com- posed of landowners came in to the rescue of the operative and the mechanic, and forbade the truck system. But there the landowners stopped short. They did not extend their measure to the agri cultural districts, and thus for nearly forty years the farm labourer has been exposed to a system which the landowner thinks iniquitous in all other occupa tions than farming. The mischief is all the greater in Devonshire becausethere the article supplied in lieu of wages is a luxury and not a necessity. Bread, bacon, tea, and sugar, are all goods that must be obtained in some way, if not at the tommy shop, then else where. But cider contains absolutely no nourish ment, and the man who drinks it is not one whit the better for drinking it, but often the worse. Yet he is compelled, under the present system, to spend one-sixth or one-fourth of his wages in a luxury. It would be reprehensible extravagance for us who can afford luxuries, to spend twenty per cent. of our incomes upon our cellars. It is still more reprehensible for the labourer who cannot even afford necessaries thus to squander his money. Most reprehensible of all is the compulsion placed upon him to be thus extravagant. There were other subjects of great importance discussed in the Economic Section, which has been, we think, by far the most successful of any, thanks in great measure to the presidency of Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE. Devonshire has been the foremost county in promoting educational reform. To the representatives for the Northern Division, Mr. ACLAND and Sir STAFFORD himself, England owes a great weight of obligation. An especial interest therefore attaches to the views of these and other Devonshire men upon the great question of the day. We cannot here allude to it further than to say that the conviction seems to be growing rapidly that a complete system of national education must be compulsory. This opinion was avowed also by Mr. LEWIS in his recent address to the electors of Devonport. There is yet one more topic of national importance, which owes its prominence to a Devonshire man—the question of local taxation—which was so ably treated by Sir MAssEY LorEs during the past session. This topic is rather closely associated with the last, and we fear is likely to interfere with it. Local taxation is excessive ; of that there can be no doubt. It must be reduced ; upon that all are agreed. How, then, can educational reforms hope to impose ?on the local rates the cost of educating the people ? It is an awkward question, yet we believe that the answer is not difficult. The money devoted to education is the best possible investment. Spend money upon that, and you will cease, in great measure, to want money for gaols and police. One half of our local expenditure is spent upon the punishment and prevention of crime. Another large proportion is spent upon relieving pauperism. Both crime and pauperism would be almost extin guished by education. LATEST INTELL LGENCE (R EUTE n's TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW Yong, August 24. The Inman Royal mail steamship City of Paris arrived here to-day at 5 a.m. All well. Company's steamer England a'h eNational a iv S ed te o a u m t sh to ip -day. lsoarr The Cunard steamship Cuba arrived here at 6 a.m. to-day. The Hamburg and American steamship Silesia arrived here at 2 a.m. to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSNIG PRICES. Gold closed at 133 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 133 ; the lowest, 132 k. Sterling Exchange on London lO9l. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1221. 1885 l2lf. 41 " 1867 l2Ol. 10-40 11 Illinois Erie 29. Cot ton upland 3sc. Petroleum—Standard White 32c. Flour, extra state, $6.70c. to $7.30c. Corn, old mixed, sl.loc. QUEENSTO WN W Aug. 25. The Inman Royal mail steamer City of Antwerp, from New York, arrived here at 7 a.m., and having landed mails and passengers proceeded im mediately for Liverpool. All well. She brings $BB,OOO in specie. SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 23. The North German Lloyd steamer Baltimore, from Baltimore, arrived here this morning with 51 passengers and a general cargo for Bremen. On the 19th she spoke the English ship Bos phorus and the bark Thames, and on the 24th the ship Benlomond. 11 UN GARY. PESTI!, AUG. 25. The Emperor, who is expected here this evening, will inspect the Honved Battalions to-morrow, and afterwards proceed to the camp at Bruck. The case of Prince Kargeorgevich will be pro ceeded with before the Supreme Court to-morrow. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. EXETER, TUESDAY Seldom, if ever, did so much excitement, not to say con fusion, prevail at any meeting of the general committee as at the one held in the Albert Memorial Museum yes terday. The struggle for the honour of receiving the Association next year was intense between Edinburgh and Liverpool. When all that could be done in the way of advocacy had been done by the deputations from the two districts, the show of hands was so nearly equal that it was clear—indeed, he admit ted the fact himself—the President was unable to form no accurate idea of -a hich was the winning side. Then, on every hand, arose loud cries of "Divide," and Professor Stokes, strong as a philosopher, but weak as a chairman, evidently knew not what to do. On the suggestion of one of the officials, it was then attempted to take the vote by ranging the adherents of Edinburgh on one side of the room, and those of Liverpool on the other. But again the difficulty of counting blocked the way, and, as a last resource, the two competing sections went out into different lobbies, when the numbers were correctly ascertained and duly announced by the Presi dent, who has raised a good joke against himself for ever and a day by saying that ninety-one bad voted for Liverpool and eighty-six for Edinburgh, which gave the former a majority of six, which, to say the least of it, was rather a funny calculation for a mathematical professor. Much that is congratulatory has been said to-day about the election of Professor Huxley as President, and already it has been predicted that the address of 1870 will possess an exceptional interest. Report has it that the following year the presidential chair will be occupied by Professor Tyndall. In point of numbers, the present is the smallest meeting since the one held at Cambridge, the total number of tickets sold being only 1,847. Mr. Norman Lockyer discoursed learnedly and plea santly on the Sun last night, in the Victoria Hall, his lecture being illustrated by experiments. Mr. Fletcher's paper on " Government action with regard to boiler explosions," which was read yesterday, gave rise to a long discussion in the Mechanical Science Section this morning. Mr. Bramwell declared that the number of deaths caused by boiler explosions was not one-tenth of those which occur through carriage accidents in the streets of London alone. He thought, however, that such a lamentable loss of life ought to be prevented, and was of opinion that people ought to be able to live in the vicinity of boilers without a constant fear that an accident will take place. He contended that coroners onght to avail themselves of professional advice when inquiring into the causes of explosions, be lieving that such direct inquiries would do more to prevent the recurrence of these catastrophes than Government inspection. In conclusion, be suggested that no one should be allowed to make a boiler unless he had previously demonstrated that he was fully capable of doing so. Professor Ranking thought that if more responsibility were enforced upon the owners, it would have greater effect than placing the boilers under Govern ment inspection. The Section generally appeared op‘ nosed to the idea of Government interference, but was in favour of inspection by associations or local officers— the former proposition evidently meeting with the most approval. The sewage question cropped up both in the Chemical Section and the one devoted to Mechanical Science. In the former, Mr. Stanford contended in favour of dry earth being used for the treatment of the excretion of towns instead of the system now adopted. In the Mechanical Science Section, Mr. Barry argued against the theory that the irrigation of land by sewage was calculated to culminate in financial success. Dr. Mann read a paper on "Assisted Emigration" in the section devoted to Economic Science. He insisted that the emigration movement ought to be con sidered in the light of a commercial transaction, instead of being looked upon as a charitable object. He believed that the money thus spent would be well invested, at the same time pointing out that Natal was a favourable colony for intending emigrants. In proof of this statement, he referred to the fact that a number of Germans who bad settled in Natal had acquired considerable property by dint of perseverance. Mr. Hamilton dealt with the economic progress of New Zealand, in which he argued against the policy of providing for the colonists indiscriminate imperial assis tance At the same time, he considered that it was the duty of the mother country to keep faith with the natives. For his own part, he was of opinion that it was the best policy of both countries to adopt a more conciliatory tone, instead of continually snub 14,ing on one side, and snarling on the other. Sir George Grey spoke in the discussion, expressing his opinion that Great Britain ought to support the colony not only by her army, but in other ways calculated to itake the country prosperous. This view was strongly combatted by ea-Professor Rogers, who believed that the adoption of such a course would be a curse to the colony. In this section a paper was read by Mr. Heywood on " Municipal Government for Canadian-Indian Reserves." It was principally an account of a bill lately in!roduced into the House of Assembly at Ottawa., for th purpose of giving Canadian-Indians the Lentfit3 of municipal govern ment. The plan has received the approval of Miss Nightin- gale, who had written as follows :—" how much I should rejoice to learn that this very sensible way of civilising the Indians had succeeded. To turn their power of self government to purposes of civilisation and progress is certainly the true way of improving them." The Geographical Section had under consideration several subjects of a kindred character, such as trade routes between Northern India and other parts of the Asiatic continent, the Himalayas, Central Asia, &c. Btr. Trelawny Saunders expatiated on the difficulty of Mr. Cooper's attempt to cross from China to India. The announcement that Miss Becker would read a paper attracted a large number of the curious to the Biology Section. The subject, however,,was not a promising one, being the alteration caused by the development of a parasitic fungus in the structure of the lechnis dcvica, one of the group of which the wild flower called the Ragged Robin is the type. In this section the improvement of the Devon and Cornwall salmon fisheries was the subject of a paper of local interest by Mr. Frank Buckland. FRAUD IN THE ADULTERATION OF SEEDS.---By the new Act, to "kill seeds," by destroying the vital power, oc to "dye seeds," by colour to give them the appearance of another seed, is punisnable by a fine of £5 for the first offence, and £5O afterwards, with publication of the offender at his expense in newspapers. "WORKING MEN'S CLUB AND INSTITUTE UNION.-- The report of the council just issued states that the working men's clubs and institutes have risen from 312 to 355 during the past year, being an ircrease of 43, as com pared with an increase of 55 last year, and of 38 in the preceding year. In the case of these 13,23 were established with the aid of this society. TIIE BARNET RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—TIIO inquest on the body of Arthur South, who was killed on Monday week in the railway collision near Barnet, was reopened on Tuesday. Witnesses *ere examined as to speed and the signals. The coroner remarked that the collision would not have occurred if the signalman at the Barnet Station had not signalled that the line was clear. It seemed that the chief culpability was on the part of the driver, who went 823 yards on the wrong line. The jury retired, and after having been absent about an hour, determined to adjourn for a month for further evidence. AN " ARTFUL DODGER" OUTWITTED.—An im pudent but unsuccessful attempt was made last week by a tramping shoemaker, named Barry, to swindle a Rotherham tradesman. Mr. Bibbs keeps a pawn broker's shop in Church-street, and amongst thyf taany persons who visited it on Saturday night for the purpose of handing sundry articles over to the care of "Uncle," was Barry, who wished to have 10s. advanced on a coat. Mr. Bibbs was present at the time Barry made his appearance, and recognised the coat as one which he had only a few minutes before been hangingup at his own door exposed for sale. Without manifesting any symptoms of surprise at this cool attempt to swindle him, be went into an adjoining office, leaving Barry to flatter himself that his doilge had answered, and that the worthy pawnbroker had gone to fetch the money. From the office, however, Mr. Bibbs emerged into the passage, where Barry was standing and unceremoniously ushered him into the office. The crest-fallen shoemaker was soon provided with lodgings at the police-station. _ _ THE PUBLIC lIBALTII.—Last week the rate of mortality both in London and in 13 other large towns of the United Kingdom was 25 per 1,000; in Paris, 22; and in Berlin 35. The deaths referred to diarrhoea in the 11 large Euglish towns, including London, which in the two previous weeks bad been 741 and 700, declined last week to 552, sheaving an average annual death-rate for the week of 5 per 1,000 persons estimated to be living in those towns. The death-rate from this disease in the several towns varied from 3 per 1,003 in Newcastle upon-Tyne and Bristol to 9 per 1,000 in both Salford awl Liverpool. In the metropolis 2,131 births and 1,527 deaths were registered, the latter having exceeded by GS the estimated number. Ihe deaths from zyrnotic diseases were 595, the corrected average number being 535. Five persons died from smallpox, 21 from measles, 132 from scarlet fever, 5 from diphtheria, GO from whoop ing-cough, 13 from typhus fever, 17 from enteric fever, and 5 from simple continued fever. The deaths of 14 children, and 3 adults from simple cholera were recorded. The mortality from scarlet fever continued to increase, while, on the other hand, no deaths by injuries from horses or vehicles in the streets were registered. The mean temperature durin , - , the week WAS 58'7. or 2'3 below .the 411/6gci THE TRADES UTIONS CONGRESS AT BI.RIIII.NGIIA M. The paper read by Mr. Potter at the Birmingham Grades Union Congress, on Tuesday, which paper was very strenuously condemned by some person present be :muse it introduced subjects foreign to the object of the nference, was entitled "Disorganisation of Labour," =braced a variety of subjects, and had special reference ;o pauperism and the use of intoxicating drinks by the vorking classes. Upon the question of trade and trades anions the author remarked that the trade of a country lepended upon the position towards it of the great loroughfarcs of the world, upon its climate, the cheapness Ind abundance of its raw material, and upon the health, ;he skill, and the mental and moral character of the eorkmen. Pauperism, which was the result in a :rent degree of drinking, was the bane of the country, Ind it would seem that the national industry and intellect were powerless to avert it. It was true the army of in lustry declared war against the cause of pauperism and crime which was producing so much misery. Let them -ealise the fact that every year upwards of 228 millions )f pounds sterling were spent, or rather wasted, by the British nation in intoxicating drinks, and that this stun early was not reproductive. The object of the paper ippearel to be to slicw that drunkenness was so telling Ipon the people that a national war should be declared against it, and, in conclusion, it urged upon trades unions ;he importance of encouraging the masses to cultivate labits of temperance and providence. Mr. Owen read a paper on " Courts of Arbitration, how Far they will promote peace between capital and labour." The author argued strongly in favour of arbitration in the settlement of trade disputes. In his opinion neither the Arbitration Act of 1824 nor the Councils of Conciliation Act of 1867 had been of much utility, but the extra judicial boards of arbitration established by Messrs. i4lundella and Kettle had been productive of good, ?ffecting a radical change in the operations and spirit )f workmen and masters towards each other. Such Boards of Arbitration had been established at Nottingham, Wob. verhampton, the Potteries, Walsall, Coventry, Worcester, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Oldham, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Derby, Leicester, Birmingham, and in con nection with the North of England iron and glass trades. There was an element in the constitution of these tri ounals calculated to obviate or do away with the necessity of strikes, but the success of the element depended on the manner in which its overtures were received and the honour and liberality with which the scheme was carried out. They would be useful in catching the incipient mis understanding before it had time to develope into a quar rel. They gave an opportunity of getting at the modera ration and wisdom of the two parties. The paper concluded with an emphatic remark that " union without Irbitration was better than arbitration without union," %rid elicited marks of approbation. This paper gave rise to a prolonged discussion. Mr. Walton (London), to give practical effect to it, moved the following resolution :—" That this Congress is of opinion that the establishment of Courts of Arbitration and Conciliation will greatly conduce to the just and peaceable settlement of all disputes between employers and employed, and be the means of preventing strikes and lock-outs, as well as being conducive to industrial and commercial enterprise." It would be well, he said, that such a resolution should emanate from an assembly like that. It would command for them the respect of the public when it was known how anxious the trades of England were to adopt arbitration instead of having recourse to strikes.—Mr. Howell (London) seconded the resolution.—Mr. Burton (Man chester) feared the visit of Mr. Kettle to Manchester had proved a death-blow to arbitration in that city. Mr. Summers (Birmingham) said arbitration in Bir mingham had not been so successful as could have been lesired.—Mr. Kane (Vice-President) characterised the conduct pursued by Mr. Kettle in the case of the dispute at Manchester as open, manly, frank, and straightfor ward.—Mr. Burt (Newcastle-on-Tyne) said in the North the men had wished to arbitrate, but the masters had refused. The courts of France bad, on the whoje, been successful ; but in establishing courts in Englaid trades Unions ought not to be superseded by their adoption.— NIL Gaunt (Coopers' and Casemakers' Society) thought one of her Majeity's judges should preside over a court, and that its decision should be binding.—On Arr. Walton's resolution being put to the meeting, it was carried with only two dissentients. ALBERT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. An application has been made to the Chief Clerk in Vice- Chancellor James's Chambers by the representatives of Messrs. Brandon, on behalf of a number of the policy holders in this company, to appoint a representative of their body to attend the meetings recently sanctioned by the Vice-Chancellor to be held in various parts of Eng land and on the Continent. The applicant observed that the policy-holders represented n large sum of money, and he attended on their behalf to object to these meetings being held at the expense of the estate. The whole facts were not before thci judge at the time his Honour made that direction, nor were the policy-holders then represented. The effect of this we uld be to take out of the assets belonging to the policy-holders a large sum of their money to their detriment, and to the benefit of the other creditors, for a purpose which the policy-holders were competent to carry out without asking the official liquidator and all the necessary paraphernalia to attend at the various places in the country and on the Continent. There were a large number of policy-holders at Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and other places on the Continent, and with reference to those at Berlin, in the course of a post or two ho expected to receive special instructions to appear for the whole body. Ho was at present instructed by a body of policy-holders in London, Hull, and, he expected, in Leeds. These policy-holders urged that nothing could be more prejudicial than that those meetings should be held by means of .tbeir assets. He did not know whether it had been before the Chief Clerk that the original manager of the company, the late Mr. Kirby, whom he (the applicant) had had dealings with for upwards of twenty years, was at first simply manager, but by a fortuity of circumstances subsequently became managing director, and his son, who was now appointed provisional liquidator, succeeded his father as manager. The first object of Mr. Kirby would be to clear the memory of his father from any imputations cast on it by the policy-holders, and there was no more effec tual way of so doing than by getting the whole strings of the company into the hands of him self and Mr. Bruce, who might never have heard of the company before, except through their advertise ments. Mr. Kirby, having the reins thus in his hands, would attend the meetings at the expense of the policy. holders, and explain the remarkable policy which his late father carried out, and which had resulted in almost absolute ruin. For the protection of the policy-holders, it vas absolutely necessary'that there should be an indepen dent representative, and those gentlemen who had done him the honour to appoint him desired :rim to urge on the Chief Clerk most strongly the pro priety of countermanding those meetings until the sum monses and petition had been heard before the Vice- Chancellor in September, when the whole of the facts would be brought forward if necessary on affidavits. In reply to the Chief Clerk, the applicant said he was not prepared that the representative should attend the meetings at his own expense, on which the Chief Clerk said in that case he did not think he would be able to make any order. Messrs. Lewis, on the part of the provisional liquidators, said the scheme of reconstruction had been submitted to the Vice-Chancellor, and in the main approved of by him, and he directed that these meetings should be held, not only in the town specified on the affidavit, but in other places. The provisional liquidators were most anxious to give the policy. holders every information they had asked, and, more, agree to, viz., the appointment of a local com mittee to co-operate 'with the central committee in carrying out the scheme. If the Chief Clerk made the order asked for, he would be going in the teeth of the judge, who said the best thing that could be done would be that these meeting 4 should be held. The Chief Clerk said he shoUid — decline having the meetings held at the expense of the company. Mr. Brandon expressed his readiness to accept an ad journment until after the petitions had been heard by the Vice-Chancellor. The Chief Clerk assented to the arrangement, observing that he had (lone nothing more than to adjourn the applica tion to the judge. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has placed Mr. Higgin, Q.C., on the commission of the peace for the county palatine, and he mas on Monday formally elected Chairman of Quarter Sessions for the Salford hundred. BniEr BUT EMPHATIC. —A new paper in Bois 3 City, Idaho, introduces itself to the public in the following terms :—" Salutatory. We have started a paper. Name : Capital Chronicle. Principles : Democratic to the hilt. Object : To make a living. Office : On Main street, about three hundred yards below the Overland Hotel, opposite an old oyster can in the road. And we'll run it or ' bust.'" VULPECIDISM IN CHESHIRE.—TIIO following in scription on a piece of paper was attached to a dead fox found in a lane at Bunbury on the 10th instant :—" Gen tlemen and sportsmen, our doom is sealed if the farmers' claims be not paid for the fowls and lambs we have eaten. I am not the first who has paid the forfeit with my life. Mind, brother Reynard, what you eat, that you don't get poisoned, as we shall all be if the farmers' claims are nob nald.=To, tholita WA" thc. -- SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAII , The Times says that if price is a measure of pleno t t b a. prospects of the present harvest are becoming °leer! The wheat crop may not equal the produce of last sub' mer, but the aggregate of agricultural produce will be far more abundant in 1869 than in 1868. We may hav e wheat, but we shall have more barley, hay, straw, ° stock food of every description ; rich herbage in Pla ce „ burnt pastures; and abundant root crops insteadof bole; fellows. If it is asked what this comes to, the ansv ie it is easy. Bread, it is thought, may slig i t advance, but the price of m ea t s h o uld fall• present the price of corn, under ordinary c 'e cumstances, can be kept at a reasonable g llr° i Six times, indeed, within the last fifteen years it has, t the average of the twelve months, been below that P riee ! 455., at which a noble Protectionist declared that ti : British farmer " couldn't live." It is not much abov e t ll3 . price at the present moment, whereas the latest gu ri , °t ; e tions from the cattle-market are as high as ever. . 1 , supply of best breeds is " bare," both for sheep and eate h e a nor does the high price appear either to increase supply or diminish the demand. In fact, if we rea''' t from the p resen t ph enomena an d as k ours elves 111 ;, 3 ,1 quantity of stock w e s h ou ld requ i re if go od beef 3; mutton were again to be had at 6d. per pound, the elusion would be a l mos t overw h e l m i ng ; b u t the fi e e : of production in Australi a an d S ou th A mer ica are al/ lutely boundless. As it is, the i m portation . e eion foreign cattle makes so impe rce ptibl e an Isar ' ls e on cur stores that the very smallness of the suPP I7 0 . been made an argument for treating it with little ° if, sideration in the regulations against the cattle plag ue d to however, the South American source could be turtle' a good account, we might soon hear a different story' meat, meat, in its turn, might become as plentiful as b r : Already, as regards the corn-market, we may look lee , t, year of sufficiency, alf %ciency, if not abundance. The h according to a calculation by no means over sange fi le s , within 13 per cent. of an average, and it is not insprobawo we think, under the influence of the present weather, t oo the estimate may be improved. In all crops, ex-ceP t ge ed wheat crop itself, the yield is luxuriant, and with og , corn delivered from foreign ports at less than er- eno r quarter, we can very easily afford to lose a little P; s 4 grown wheat for the sake of plentiful stock foo d better pastures. O el The Standard refers to two extraordinary instanceao clerical intolerance which have just been brought 11/1 , 4 0 public notice. It is said, on the one hand, that th e . 11 ; 1 0 ) of Exeter has refused the use of the cathedral PU I J o the Rev. H. P. Liddon, who had been reques te d, preach before the British Association ; and, on the that the Dean of Ripon has written to the secretarleaese the forthcoming Church Congress at Liverpool, "Pr e/t ee d ing against the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie," who is in vi te e, to read a paper on the working of the offertory el li rc hl " being recognised as a fellow-labourer in the C 11 _ 8 „ 0 10 These statements are made publicly in the ie' s a , . of Exeter and Liverpool, and, as they rerc eili t ed contradicted, we are forced to assume that eeel e are accurate. If we are to take this for granted, w e ; ;J e e say that we have rarely met with a mo r e arrogant cL e - tes of bigotry and narrowmind e d ness . It 'natters a pd pins that Mr. Liddon is a High Church theologial.ll.dee, Mr. Mackonochie a l ea di ng r it ua li s t, an d that the e Z r eli . taries who denounce them are memb e r s of the Low L' is re, party. How comes it that the sin of intoleran ce e r specially conspicuous among the deans? Churchrateet not have forgotten how the narrowmindedness of Churchmanship was illustrated by Dean Stanley in ring the doors of Westminster Abbey.against the n o Anglican Synod, and now we have a dean in the 14 lerP proclaiming a kind of interdict against a brother c t oe man, and a dean in the West'closieg his pulpit ega illE i tee of the most distinguished theologians and preachers of age. Now we desire to urge very earnestly upon these uiect taries that if their policy were t o b e carried in toe Tlio they would be the first to experience its evil r esults' el Church of England is maintain e d a s the est °li 0 (11 religion of the nation mainly because of its largenesactice comprehensiveness. To make it the Church of a se it of Churchmen is the surest way of bringing down 1 • 111 0 ;t . the fate of its Irish sister, and we leave it to the se de eet concerned to consider what would happen to the a to' and chapters if the E s t a bli s h men t wer e shel ls ," e plisir morrow. Certainly the way to get rid of the ment is to make the Church illiberal and sectioTsete curb its generosity, to ban its intellect, and to kll ec 4,0 its brains. This is very much the sort of task t° Uu t the Deans of Ripon and Exeter have set themselves°, tie they may rely upon it that their own order wil l b first to suffer by thei r that the success. The Post declares principal feature in tic tie toral letter of the Bishop of Gl o ucester and Bristol 1.0 will invitation to the laity. If all accept and attend there and be a preponderance of the long-ignored lay eleMe ilt ie ; ol an opportunity will be affo r d e d t o layman of 51 c ao what amount of practical advice and energy ° llea furnish. It has been often cast i n th e t ee th of the ( 1 o ot that they are prone to act without the laity. We :lent think the reproach alt o g e th er d eserve d, They c° "" t hat administer the Church as they find it. We believ e ois ie we only do them justice when we say t liat ,ast' el tenths of them would h a il w ith gra tit u de the pro' and co-operation of laymen really earnest in Chu ° la g gress. What they have c o mpl a i ne d of is that Ibe f, eecl leave them too much alone and stand too much sl°°ristiao take too little interest in the success of all the Chste' undertakings of which nail- parish church is th .ove rs i But the Bishop of Glouceste r ' s l e tt e r invites lay c°t, tion, though he has to go out of the usual rut to deteiel4 is clear that he and his clergy wish for it; and le d e° that the lay Churchmen o f th a t we ll-superint enci d e t beS 9 ought to embrace heartily the opportunity oiler e „i s boi ° We cannot doubt that i n th a t case , under the P h (itt er able presidency, some of our most important Chtirc.tviaid Cons will benefit by no small amount of patien t ;ji bales and skilful elucidation. If otherwise, the laity 11 °0 0 only themselves to blame. The challenge t o sP before and be useful has been fearlessly thrown down them. ba d And so at last, exclaims the D a ily News, the illet I D jese eh pi found a deadly foe—b en t on hi s a b o lition! T . miller is a sort of sa cre d c h arac t e r among uwhies.peetrl, machinery is the only elaborate machinery recognise as poetical. His h aun ts, his Pu rs av : lonanner of life, and his whole c haracter hav e Le porfl romance about them ; he himself occupies a n r oebe h o r place in ancient legends as i n mo d ern fiction. A ll thot l 13 110 civilisation threatens to exti ngu i s h him. A PI .: dill t it been discovered of m a ki ng b rea d w ithout gr' co s. corn, and a patent has b een t a k en ou t for the Prcea-d fro' is said that wher eas i n th e process of making bra flour there is mu c h was t e , so that 100 P°uriciseevi Pof yield only 112 pounds of bread, according to the mesas cess 100 pounds of grain will produce 145 or 1 50 P tiee titP o bread. The new bread is not only increased l li n g r eia .ii r but is also said to be of better quality A ce s dec e '; the old process much of the gluten W B O is P r o posed and lost in the heat of grieding• oe er o° oo served when grinding is unnecessary ; said the e els ° f e) , of fermentation contributes greatly to the wlnu e n eeow' s r e bread. Of course we give no opinion on the .o l nipioo, ie whether it does or doesnot proceed on sound P rl iiee tie n tio whether if the principles be sound their ar u P tie of practicable. But in reading the glowing al e dign a ti el new method of bread-making, which is now t° e ,eo with the grand French name of panification,i-ieer, help feeling a pang for our old friend th° t he toe, wondering whether or not he is indeed t° ' se be, t .. .a victim of our all-conquering civilisation? Id,libtere" vanish with the old Charlies, the old lan3Pllg el' et the old coachmen? se e No chain, observes the Star, is stronger than systelsi, Point, and the weak point in our own s at the eilrie ss re beyond a doubt the ignorance and poverty o f n e that ns t tural labourer. It is a common saying in 11. ' 1151 ' it 1 51 . 0/7 , can do without State aid ; and, ton certain ext ent ' in re ligl eo e and honourable boast. The voluntary s yste .i nl as dol e g oo in education, in a hundred social wants, I _ sho rt 00 service, and if its results have sometimes failenisntiere.o, more systematic product of State organ ics the / 00 difference has been more than made tip ti l t it cs 115 0 1) 0 vidnal energy and force of character whi ch 0 jail° of play. But there are fields of activity t ° l osti e ourtalcenpionplboya population n y v s o o lun p ta ro ry str e a ff te ort. and T h h e e r ..l e pl i se s v in. th e n e o i; vital power seems to have abandoned ca w e el ' s t he roughly speaking, is time case with a gc ! l ee d e eeen e ,,„te , rural parishes, and such the situation whi",.. l t he P:7 0 0 aid, and even the compulsory interference) turenvee Eight shillings a week while health and 8 _.. a 018 out ; the workhouse for a shelter in sickness to. Devonshire Pea""".„eees Such are the prospects of the the bi berne' h ie means on which he takes to himself a wife , nag euen e b nei t to which lie begets sons and daughters. 1-° th e h b e tte r scanty wage with alms would be to convertst.o_ i a d o, workman into a mendicant. Eniigrao! e vil* dr all sel f- ' . Iremedy, but it does not go to the root t p ine d help alone can elevate a class, and st e noee „ od e pends on knowledge. The labourer mu es tcie t to iu the eul secondl i iscl, igltelnreenrattoiosnc.h The i h a e n w ci o il lN l i d e o sirNe i ;l t Tyllei: e , seetp : co e healo c ig e orech F o t to or a must be compelled to bear the c harge: ap p 4 tO the nee the moment might not be over-ag g ß i l v i e t s tli ss e . y . i w t 'o i :l i d )e q ca u t i l c s l e d state of things. If Yorkshire gives 1 W ellfe cllll3 11 the :reel:floc:lre of tri: t see l 7 :e _ s A tecl ii wo paratively well-educated Yorkshireniane time, r°‘ ' h e 4 difference in its market price. If an di r einlS press rather heavily on the land for a . poor rates would give ample compensation. g otti" A Yankee contemporary augg ea t o that 0 0 .7 znent of the Alabort3. cIP,In)§ 01911,14_1?-061c!LUPQ Intettationni kat4ace, FRANCE. PARIS Aug. 25 The Empress and Prince Imperial arrived at Lyons yesterday, and met with a cordial reception. An explosion by fire damp occurred in the Grison coal pit at Monterad, near Furainy. Fourteen per sons were killed. H. WALKER'S NEEDLES (by authority), the "Queen's Own," treble-pointed, with large eyes, easy to thread, and Patent Ridges to open the Cloth, aro the best Needles. Packets Is. ; post. free of any dealer.—ll. WALKER is Patentee of the Penelope Crochets, and Maker of Improved Sewing Machine Needles, Fish Hocks, Sea Reels, Hooks and Eyes, &c.—Alcester, and 47, Gresham ptroet, Lou*. I 44i