The Sun. — London, England, 1869-11-02 00:00:00

piE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS . THE MAN." E. MOSES & SON (the ORIGINATORS of the READY-MADE CLOTHING SYS TEM) supply Ready-made Clothing equal to Clothing made to measure, and Clothing made to measure equal to the best that can be cbtained. E. MOSES and SON possess uneqnalled resources for the MANUFACTURE of JLOTHING, and are consequently able to supply the public at lower prices than any other house in the trade. E. MOSES and SON'S STOCK for the WINTER SEASON comprises an immense issortmont of Overcoats, and every descrip ion of Clothing fir all ages, all occasions, And all classes, in all the newest designs and materials. E. MOSES awl SON give particular at tention to CLOTHING for YOUNG GEN TLEMEN. For the convenience of Ladies accompa,ying their Sons there is a separate N department for this important branch of their busines. , , and it is furnished with a splendid assortment of Snits, Overcoats, and Clothing for all ociasions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. 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 No accompanied by a remit tance, or a London referenc9. Any article not worn or injured will be 2heerfully 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. 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 Establisbmentq are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Faturday evenine; at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Readv-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. Thrl following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINORIES ALDOATE 84, ALDOATE 85, ALDOATE 86, ALDGATII 87, ALDGAT 88, ALDOATE S 9, ALDOATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD STREET 508, 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. T ILE "SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE " NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCH. Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. THE " SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EATERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p collar simplicity of these Machines enables any one to icquire their perfect use in a few hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free CUE "SINGER" MANUFACTITRING COMPANY clhief Office in the United iiingdoml 147, CFIE APSIDE.: CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANcE SOCIETY. Established 1824. The ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, exceeds £227,000 The ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, is over £1,649,000 Forms of Proposal, and every information, can be ob tained of GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary, 13, St James's-square, London. S.W. SHORT SUMMARY OF THE POSITION OF THE PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate Bill, London, E.C. Branch Office-7, King-street, St. James's. The Annual Premium Income of the vompany, at the close of 1868, was £220,978 Os. 10d., and the Total Amount Assured £4,832,197. The Business is divided under two heads:- Ist --The General or Ordinary Business, being the same as that transacted by other Companies. 2nd—The Industrial or Working Class Assurances. The Premium Income of the General Business was £52,432, and the sum Assured £1,562,960. The present value of the lia bility of this Branch by the Carlisle 3 per Cent. Tables, throwing off the entire load ing. was £139,322 15 8 The Premium Income of the Industrial Branch was 168,546, the sum Assured £3,169,237, and the Estimated Reserve 50,000 0 0 £189,322 15 8 The Liability of the Industrial Branch does not admit of being estimated in the same way as that of the General Branch, on account of the very large proportion of Policies which const,ntly larse. so that the bulk of the assurances are, in fact, risks for short terms only; the estimated re serve for the liabilities of this Branch of the business is shown by the result of 14 years' experience to bo abundantly suffi- clout. The Assurance Fund on 31st Decem ber, 1868, was £241,301 12 4 The average duration of the who?e of the Industrial Policies was considerably under three years. The average age of the Assured in the Industrial Branch was 19 years. A detailed List of Assets can be had on application. H. BARREN, Secretary. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital Two Millions. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq. DEPUTY-CHAlRMAN—Frederick H. Janson, Esq. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq Richard M. Harvey, Esq Hy. Bonham-Carter, Esq J. G. Hubbard, Esq Charles Wm Curtis, Esq G. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq, M.P Charles F. Devas, Esq John Martin, Esq Francis Hart Dyke, Esq Rowland Mitchell, Esq Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart James Morris, Esq James Goodson, Esq Abraham J. Roberts, Esq Archibald Hamilton. Esq Henry Vigne, Esq Thomson Hankey, Esq SECRETARY—Thomas Tallemacb, Esq, ACTUARY—Sam]. Brown, Esq. N.B.—Fire Policies wbich expire at Michaelmas must he renewed at the Head Office, or with the agents, on or before the 14th of October. The Government Duty is totally abolished. Prospectus and Forms of Proposal, with statemen of the assets and liabilities in the Life Branch, free on application to the Company's Agents,or to the Secretary. MUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL LIABILITY. NON-FORE KITURE POLICIES by a LIMITED NUMBER of PAYMENTS. PROFITS may be APPLIED so as to make POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETIME. BRITISHEQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 4, Queen-street -place, Southwark Bridge, E.C; NEW POLICIES ISSUED. New Policies issued. IP6B 1869 In Weeks. 3 ▪ 86 -£14,250 • 108 - 18,481 Execs , ' . • • • In 52 weeks ending April 7th, 1860 22 £4,231. ...3,105 -£539,442 COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT LA NTIQUE. 4. Rne de la Pair, Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. I ,eave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York. RATES OF PASSAGE. From HAvitE or BREST to NEW Yon.K. First Class 7OO fr. Second Clasq Third Class From Paris to New York, via Havre nr Brest, inclnding railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 4.10 fr. ; third clas3 285 fr. WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the IGth of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vera Crnz, New Orleans, Porto Rico, Haiti, Santiago de Celia, nna , Tel.mpo, Martinique. JAPAN. 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Prospectuses of the Share, Deposit, and Building Advance Departments sent free of charge. LIFEBOAT SERVICES. —During the Storms of the past twenty-two months the National Life boat Institution contributed to the saving of 1,633 lives from various shipwrecks and 44 vessels from destruction, The Institution also expended £36,134 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting 44,250 for rewards. The Institution has now 210 Lifeboat Stations under its management. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street Adelphi, London. L ONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. RETURN TICKETS BETWEEN LONDON AND SCOTLAND. Consequent upon the 8.0 p.m. Train from Euston Station to Scotland being discontinued, Return Tickets between London and Stations in Scotland will on and after Monday, Nov. 1, be issued and be available by the Express (Limited) Scotch Mail, leaving Euston at 8.40 p.m., on week d ays and 8.35 p.m. on Sundays. W. CA KKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, October, 1869. L ONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN RAILWAY. ANEW STATION is NOW OPEN for PASSENGER TRAFFIC at UXBRIDGE-ROAD, for Shepherd's-bush, and the regular Service of Half-hourly . Trains running between Broad-street (City), and Victoria (Pimlico), call at this station. Thes© Trains connect at Willesden Junction with the London and North-Western Main-line Trains to and from Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, &c. For hours of running, see time bills. FARES FROM UXBRIDGE-ROAD STATION. Single Tickets. Return Tickets. let cl. 2d el. 3d cl. Ist cl. 2d cl. 3d cl. To Broad-street 9d. 6d. Is. 3d. 9d. To V ictoria..... 7d. sd. 4d. Os. 10d. Bd. 6d. W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Easton Station, Nov., 1869. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. CONVERSION OF DEBENTURES INTO DEBENTURE STOCK. The Directors are now prepared to enter into arrange ments for converting the Debentures of the Company into equivalent amounts of Perpetual Four per Cent. Deben ture Stock, and also to receive applications for allotments of the same Stock, at par, to be applied in the repayment of Debentures falling due. Any amount of Stock, not being a fraction of a pound, can be subscribed for and transferred. A commission of a (one-half) per cent. is allowed to ap plicants, and the Stock will be inscribed in the Company's books free of all expense. The interest will be paid half-yearly on the 15th Jan uary and 15th July, by warrant. The Stock thus raised will be entitled to the same priority against the property and income of the Company as the Debenture Bond Debt, ranking before the Com pany's entire Stock and Share Capital of Thirty Millions (£30,000,000), and will be the first charge on a net income now amounting to upwards of Three Millions (X. 1,000,000) annually. Further particulars and forms of application may be obtained by letter addressed to the undersigned. STEPHEN REAY, Secretary. Euston Station, March, 1869. A GENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce commodities valuable to every householder nigh and low. This offers a highly remunerative Commission to Tradesmen, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to li. MARRISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. OFIN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY 1 - , TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.-11,ed Bull Wharf, 83, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. - - AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonairful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames 4treet London. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. E. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at', BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA. new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault : Messrs. Barrett, li. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, 1 oht. Rouse ; Killington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. 11 1 HEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARKET. Sole, Lessee, Mr. Tluelzstnne. Tim EVENING. at Seven, FOUNDED ON FACTS : Mr Compton Mrs E. Fitzwilliam ; Miss F. Wright. At a. Quarter to Eight, tho New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES : Mr Iluelistone. Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr. Braid, MrDuckstnne, jun.; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwidiam, Miss C. Bill, 4,ke. Concluding.. with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY: Mr Kendall. Miss F. Gwynue, Lte. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, AI)ELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, MY PRECIOUS BETSY: Mr Atkins, Mr C. J. Smith, and Miss Eliza Johnstone. At 15 to 8, LOST AT SEA: a London Story. Messrs A. Stir• ling, G. Belmore, E. Atkins, J. D Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson. C. J. Smith, R. Romer; Miss Rose Leelercq, Miss • liza John stone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Lei•!h 'Mum v. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY, and Mrs. Leigh hurray. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. Mr U. almore ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. OPEN FOR THE WINTER SEASON. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: Messrs Ashley. D. Leeson, and Misses Maria and Nelly Harris. At 15 to THE WILLOW COPSE: Mr Benjamin Webster, Messrs R. Phillips, J. G. Taylor, A shley. Stuart, W. Risnold, D. Leeson. C. J. Smith, R. Romer, W. H. Eburne, Nli3S Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon, Mrs Addle, Mi s M. Harris, &C. GLOBE THEATRE - ROYA L. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. At 7. 5, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Sir Simon Simple. by Mr. H. J. Byron. Messrs. .1. Clarke, Parselle, &c Mesdames Hughes, Berend. and Mrs. Stephens. To conclude with A BREACH OF PROMISE. Box-office open from 10 till 5. HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL. Bole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, THE LOTTERY TICKET: Mr George Honey. At 8. Moore's great Tragedy of THE GAMESTER: Barry Sullivan; Messrs J. C. Cowper, W. H. 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Shall we acknowledge it, as a rule oar feelings are directly antipathetic to the getting up of testimonials. The endeavour to create anything of the kind is so painfully liable to result in a fiasco. A Testimonial in other words, so very seldom, indeed, attains any thing like a happy realisation. Shall we ever, can we ever recall to mind, without a sense of burning shame, the pitiable spectacle presented to view by the spasmodic attempt made—here, in the very mids t of us—a little more than live years ago to commemo rate in some befitting way (though it was apparen all through quite superfluously) the date of SHAKS PERE'S Tercentenary ? He having need of no " star ypointing pyramid"—he having, as well as HORACE, a monument of his own construction zre perennius —he, of all men, forsooth, we must needs do our little utmost towards glorifying, three cen turies after his birth, by means of so me nobody precisely knew what species of memorial commemoration. The result we all know, we all bear, yet, in most vivid andpainfulremembrance. The history of the whole movement was like the title of one by G. P. R. JAuEs's, later romances—" A Whim and its Consequences." A little over two thousand pounds were subscribed. A monster committee list was industriously published and republished—perpe tually growing and eventually including upon it nearly every name, big or little, among the then living contributors to our popular literature. No thing whatever was done—the tercentenary anniver sary came and went and the whole thing collapsed. It was a fiasco among fiascoes. Recalling it to mind thus casually, we would gladly at the same time obli terate it altogether from our recollection. Another movement of a lesser, yet of a similar kind, was only very recently brought, and that so gracefully, to a successful termination, as it ap peared to us, that ifor once, we began to reconsider and to revise our acknowledged prejudice against the whole system of Me morials or Testimonials. A charming monu ment was unveiled during this last October over the grave of LEIGH HUNT, Poet and Essayist, in a hitherto unmarked green nook in Mensal Green Cemetery. An admirable speech, before the un veiling, bad been delivered in memory of SHELLEY'S Friend and Contemporary, by one having poetic sympathy with both of them, MONCETON MILNES, Lord HOUGHTON. The relatives as well as the admirers of LEIGH HUNT, were there gathered about the spot in which his honoured dust reposes, and above which now appears the sculp tured effigy of the Poet, securely fixed upon a gra nite pediment, there, to attest to after times the affection and respect in which the Man and the Poet was held by his own immediate fol lowers and his own still surviving contemporaries. Everything went off well on the day of inauguration. All was seemingly rose-coloured in regard to the proceedings of the Acting Committee. There was understood to be a surplus of funds in the hands of the Honorary Treasurer. But—lo ! and behold, after all, even here—if the testimonial does not turn out, according to the manner of testimonials, to be a fiasco— [nothing can bappilynow make it that, for this monument tOLEIGH HUNT, has it not been charmingly completed and paid forl—at any rate, there turns out to have been all along a fly in the embalming ointment. The facts are distressing enough to enu merate, but fairplay requires at our hands their enu meration. Originally this Memorial to LEIGH HUNT was sug gested by Mr. S. C. HALL in the pages of his Monthly Art Journal. The suggestion was eagerly caught up for the moment, and some seventy pounds, or thereabouts, subscribed. Several years then elapsed without any thing further being done, or any additional moneys accumulated. When—in a happy day—Mr. S. R. TOWNSHEND MAYER took the matter into his own hands and, to everyone's satisfaction, assumed the position of Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Secretary. It is not too much to say that without Mr. MAYER'S exertions the Testimonial would never yet have been completed. Throwing his heart and soul into the project, be collected all the additional funds that were required, obtainin an aggregate amount at last that was even more than was actually necessary. Mr. JOSEPII DURHAM, A.R.A., having originally undertaken to produce the Memorial for the sum of £l2O, thereupon in con sideration of the excess of funds (gathered together solely by the exertions of Mr. TOWNSHEND MAYER) found voted to him spontaneously by the Acting Committee, not as had been previously arranged £l2O, but £l5O altogether. This we repeat was a spontane ous proceeding on the part of the Acting Committee. The Committee finding themselves, so to speak, flush of money (thanks to Mr. MAYER), thrust upon Mr. DURHAM, the Sculptor, an addition s al thirty pounds, increased his £l2O to £l5O. Among the records I of the Committee there is, under date October 26, 1 . 808, in the handwriting of Mr. ROBERT BROWNING, the Poet, who happened that day to be Chairman of the Committee, there is on record, in Mr. ROBERT BROWNING'S handwriting, this entry--" Moved by Mr. GEORGE GODWIN, seconded by Mr. CHARLES KENT, and carried unanimously, " That the design of Mr. DURHAM be adopted and carried out within the proposed sum of £150." And after wards, at that same meeting, and still in the same handwriting, this other entry, " Moved by Mr. GRUNEISEN, seconded by Mr. WATSON DALEY, and carried nenz con., That the public be informed that no further subscription is necessary." Observe — Mr. DURHAM, the sculptor, was present at the com mittee meeting when those two resolutions were pro posed and passed unanimously. lie was present—and offered no objection whatever. Yet now, when every thing has been done, when the monument has been completed, has been unveiled, has been inaugurated, when his own £l5O are his—unexpectedly, sud denly (shall wo hope shamefacedly ?) Mr. DUR HAM brings forward a little supplementary bill for extra expenses, amounting altogether to between forty and fifty pounds additional. En deavours are being now made to satisfy these unlooked for demands on the part of the sculptor--endeavours not made, however, by Mr. TOWNSHEND MAYER, who, very naturally, washes his hands of the matter—now that, as he con ceives, the memorial has been as unmistakably paid foray ithas been (otherwise than in this wretched little incident) gracefully and brilliantly inaugurated. We can scarcely say how deeply we regret the incident, honouring the memory of LEIGH HUNT as we do, and admiring as, up to this time, we have done, this one (as we thought) exceptionally graceful and successful Testimonial. It is as if the Sculptor, instead of inscribing his name on the pedestal, had, with chisel and mallet, struck a flaw; deliberately and with malice prepense, on the very Memorial his artistic skill had just before so charmingly completed. THE defeat of the Republican insurrection has by no means secured peace to Spain. The various sec tions of the governing party readily united against a common foe ; but their rivalries and jealousies are as effective as ever in preventing a settlement of the national difficulties. No sooner do the revo lutionary leaders sheath their swords, and reopen their deliberations as to the choice of a king, than the conflicting interests which have kept Europe in uncertainty for the space of a year are found as hopeless as ever. The Pro gressists, the strongest of the diyisions which form the monarchical party, desire the Duke of GENOA as a king, apparently because he is but 15 years old, and, therefore, the Progressist leader, Pnrm, will in case of his election be the vir tual ruler until the monarch attains the age of 18. The minority, on the other hand, wish to elect the Duke of MONTPENSIER, who, of all other persons, is most distasteful to the Progres sists. In fact his elevation to the throne would bring about the ruin of PRIM and his party. The hostility they have displayed to the Bourbon Prince has been too rancorous to be forgotten on either side. Third and weakest amongst the ruling factions are the Democrats, who incline now to Republicanism, now to the Progressists, but who have little in common with the Unionists—the Conservatives of Spain. Thus the latter, left alone in a minority, have no chance of securing the election of the Bourbon Duke, except by the aid of some other party, or by an appeal to force. But neither, on the other hand, have the Progressists yet been able to win as many votes as would suffice to bring about the return of their youthful candidate in the Spanish Parliament. Though stronger than any other party, they muster only about 130 out of the 360 deputies who form the Cortes. The Repub licans are absent, some of them being liable to appre hension for taking part in the late rising ; the Demo crats yet hang back doubtfully; and the Unionists are, of course, almost to a man against the Progressists. Such is the deadlock to which the revolution has been brought. Neither of the three suc cessful parties could overturn queen IsA BELLA alone. United, they accomplished their task with ease, but the division of the spoil has proved far more difficult than its acquisition. flow the Gordian knot will be loosed remains to be seen, but there is only too much reason to fear that, like the knot of old, it will be cut by the sword. There is a rumour to the effect that the Progressists hope to raise their votes to a clear majority of the Parlia ment, and thus elect the young Duke of GENOA. But should they prove successful, it is not at all certain that the KING of ITALY will allow his relative to accept so dangerous a throne ; and even if this diffi culty be overcome, will the Unionists remain inactive ? They are weakest in numbers; but they represent the wealth of the country. The respectable classes, as they are called, and the officers of the army, are mostly on their side. Is it probable that they will quietly accept a settlement which would deprive them of all power, when, by defeating PRIM and his followers, they could elect what Prince they pleased ? On the other hand, if the Progressists wish to successfully oppose the Unionists, they will seek the aid of the Republicans, who are not likely to give their assistance without reward. It would seem, then, that the troubles of the unhappy penin sula disposing of their c om i a r o e n b u f t j e t s ts 7 t b t e h g i e nn i twon g. great parties in the State are now arrayed against each other in a contest to which a pacific end is far from certain. To complete the general ruin, the Finance Minister announces that money matters are becoming more and more hopeless, and that the only hope of getting supplies is to tax the interest of the National Debt 20 per cent.—a measure which will destroy the last vestige of confidence which the revolution had awakened. Mn. W. S. LINDSAY, an old member of the House of Commons, h as opportunely emerged from his retirement to call attention to the unsatisfac tory state of international law respecting the risks to which private property is subject during war. No time could be more suitable for the settlement of this long-pending difficulty than the present period of profound peace. It has long been felt that some agreement was much needed, and that the difficulties of a final decision were not insuperable ; but the question has been left open, partly because it is a troublesome procedure to bring different nations into accord upon even simple matters, partly because no naval wars made the deficiency felt until the American contest raised so many disputes. The Peace Congress of 1856 unsuccessfully attempted a solution, and since that date nothing has been done. Before 1856, a war between maritime powers was accom panied by an indiscriminate onslaught upon private property. Any person who owned and could arm a vessel, and who could obtain a letter of marque from his Government —such authorisation being freely granted—might go forth to capture and destroy at will the merchant shipping of an enemy. This legalised piracy embittered the antagonism of war without in any way shortening its duration. The privateers did nothing to weaken the naval force of a State, for the first duty of their commanders was to keep out of the way of armed ships. Nor did the destruction of private resources tend, in a perceptible manner, to exhaust either combatant ; for those rations which had most merchant shipping to lose always possessed the strongest force to defend it, and those which were weakest on the sea depended less on maritime commerce for their prosperity. The Paris Congress of 1856 made a praiseworthy attempt to end a practice which ruined many innocent persons without rendering assistance to the purposes of war. Always excepting contraband of war, it was agreed that the property of an enemy should be safe under a neutral flag, and that neutral property should not be captured under an enemy's flag. Lastly, it was resolved to abolish privateering. These decisions reduced the law respecting private property to a narrow compass : the goods of an enemy. under his own flag might be taken by regular war ships. The conclusions of the Congress, however, though good as far as they extended, have altogether failed to secure a permanent settlement, because they did not go far enough. When the three propositions were submitted to the United States, the two respect- ing the capture of property under neutral flags and the capture of neutral property under an enemy's flag were accepted, but the representative of the great Republic properly refused to abolish privateering upon the condi tions offered. lle urged that it was merely mock justice to permit the capture of private property by ships of war and to forbid the depreciations of privateers. In the case of America such a distinction would be specially unfair ; for the United States did not keep up a large navy. " Their policy has been to trust to the private resources and patriotism of the people to supplement their small standing navy with their merchant vessels, which they licensed with letters of marque or as privateers, so that these vessels became practically their ships of war." To forbid to such cruisers as these the right of making prizes, whilst regular men-of-war had full licence to " burn, plunder, and destroy," would be unjust. The United States Government were willing to abolish altogether the capture of private property at sea, but refused to draw the line as laid down by the Paris Congress. In this condition the question has remained. Priva teering is not abolished, for the United States would undoubtedly send forth cruisers in time of war, and the example set by one must be followed by the rest. It was, perhaps, natural that the Congress should. hesitate to make a change so foreign to all preconceived notions of hostilities ; but few persons now dispute that it would have been better if the American:offer had been accepted, and maritime strife in future confined to combats between the armed ships of the contending parties. It was obviously illogical to abolish privateers without at the same time decreeing the complete im munity of private property, because it could not be expected that a State which fought chiefly by the aid of such vessels would place itself in a posi tion of inferiority. Besides, where is the difference between the capture of merchandise by one vessel or another, provided the injury be done ? But how great, on the other hand, would be the gain to humanity and civilisation by allowing lawful com merce to go free, and confining operations to armed foes ! War cannot indeed be made pleasant or harmless, but there is no reason why it should be rendered needlessly horrible by the wanton ruin of private persons. In military con tests it is a now generally accepted rule that property should be respected, except so far as is necessary for the purposes of war. England would be the gainer too, from the self-interest point of view, if the American proposal were adopted. Our commerce has grown in far greater pro portion than our naval strength, whilst the warlike power of other States at sea has materially advanced. As Mr. LINDSAY points out, a war with even a weak nation would so raise the rate of insurance upon British ships that the carrying trade of the world would in great measure pass from us. Our commercial competitors are far more formidable than of yore. And the depredations of the Alabama upon the trade of an antagonist against whom the South could not keep the sea, are a lesson which ought never to be forgotten. LATEST INTELL IGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. The monthly statement of the Public Debt is expected to show a reduction of over $7,500,000, effected during October. Mr. Boutwell has announced to-day that the Government will cootiuue the usual purchases of bonds and sales of gold during November. NEW YORK, Nov. 1. The Inman steamship City of Paris arrived here tc-day at 2 a.m. The steamship Colorado (of the Guiou line), ar rived out to-say. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PI:ICES. Gold closed at 1284; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1281 ; the lowest, 1278. Sterling Exchange on London lOBB. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1154. 44 " 1885 ll3i. 44 " 1867 ll6. 10-40 l 4 Illinois 1374.. Erie 29. Cotton—Mid. upland 26le. Petroleum—Standard White Flour, extra state, $5.6.5c. to $6.25c. Corn, old mixed, sl.3c. QUEBEC, Nov. 1. The Allan (Glasgow) steamship Moravian ar rived out to-day. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. GIBRALTAR, Nov. 1. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon left for Southampton at ten a.m. to-day, where she may be looked for about the evening of the sth inst. TUE INSURRECTION IN DALMATIA. CATTARO, Nov. 1. The Imperial troops have occupied several im portant strategical points, the result of which has been that a deputation from the Zuppa has al ready 'arrived from the insurgents offering to capitulate, and it is hoped that the whole of that district will peacefully submit to the Government. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. • Tins EVENING, at Y. FOUNDED ON FACTS. After which NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES: Mr Buckstone. Concluding with A DAUOHTER TO MARRY. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. • THIS EVENING, at 7, MY PRECIOU-I BETSY, Followed by LOST AT SEA: Mr A. Stirling, fdr G. Belmore, Mr E. Atkins, Mr Beveridge, Mr Stephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Romer; Miss Rose Leelereq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Ur G. Belmore and Mrs L. Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. ITriis EVENINO, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. At 7.45, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr H. J. Byron. And BREACH OF PROMISE. Mr J Clarke and Miss Hughes. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EvioriNG, at 7. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. M Ashley and the Misses Maras. With THE WILLOW COPSE Mr. Benjamin Webster. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE LOTTERY TICKET. After which, THE GAMESTER: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, &c. And THE WATER'dAN. • ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. Tilts EVENING. at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And ISO. Concluding with THY CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. ennisTy MLNSTBELS. 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, 6d. Children under twelve, 64 ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. le. Box-office o pen fromll to 4. 4141 ' . 41.'" FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. I.—Threa o'clock—The market closed as follows : 4f per Ceut. End of month... Italian rives 53 90 3 per Cent End of month 7l 50 Ottoman Loan ... 325 Credit Mobilior Transatlantic 250 Spanish Threes ... 26 25 Credit Foncier 1682 Home Debt 22} _ _ Paris Gas 1572 50 I Deferred — RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans Western Northern ... 1092 Strasburg - Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 615 Sardinian Austrian 763} Lombard 526k North of Spain Saragossa Roman 49 MARKETS.—This Day. LIVERPOOL COTTON. Nov. 2.—Sales probably 12,000 balos. The market held firmly. at AMERICAN CONSULAR INSPECTION.—Congress its last winter session provided by law for the appoint ment of one or more inspectors of Consular accounts, with a view to the better ,and more uniform arrangement of Consular business. For the purpose of defraying the ex penses of these inspectors and their salaries five thousand dollars per annum was appropriated, which sum cannot be exceeded. The President has appointed General Starring, a gallant soldier during the war, one of the inspectors, and he has entered upon the discharge of his duties. The Ge neral, we believe, has had no previous experience in Consular affairs; but lie is a gentleman of education and ability, and will soon make himself acquainted with Con sular routine. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUN VILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be called "The Royal Irish Distillery." IIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. MORNING. EVENING TUESDAY 15 min past 12 40 min past 12 WEDNESDAY 6 min past 1 ...... 30„min past 1 THURSDAY. 50 min past 1 10 min past 2 FWD ty 30 min past 2 55 min vast 3 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times remarks that the most distinctive feature it Mr. Caird's Irish pamphlet, and that upon which its author chiefly insists, is the superiority of leases over customary rights of occupation—that is, of a tenant-right by contract over a tenant-right by prescription—as the groundwork of a settlement which must cover all Ireland, A custom which has apparently placed "Ulster above all the other provinces in agricultural wealth, civilisation, and good order is entitled to the greatest respect, and the study of it offers a most valuable clue for penetrating the labyrinth of the Land Question. Beyond this we are not prepared to advocate recourse to it, and we believe that any legislative attempt to stereotype it must needs end in failure. Even in Ulster the custom is often grossly abused by grasping tenants selling the very for bearance and kindness of landlords at a profit, and by grasping landlords squeezing out the value of a goodwill, purchased with their own sanction, through a constant advance of rent. At this very moment an agitation against the latter of these abuses is being carried on in Ulster, and meetings are being held to demand legal protection for claims hitherto secured by the custom alone. Ulster tenant-right, in fact, if it means any thing, means fixity of tenuro without fixity of rent, and it depends for its efficacy upon the diiposition of landlords and the competition for land As compared with a system of tenancy at will, it possesses great advantages, notwithstanding the objection that it strips an incoming tenant of his capital; but, as compared with an equitable system of leases, it possesses no advan tage, except that it is established in certain districts. Whatever scheme may be adopted should contain, on that ground, a saving clause for Ulster tenant-right ; but it must not propagate in the other provinces the characteristic vice of Ulster tenant-right—that it mulcts the good land lord unduly, and gives the bad landlord an unfair hold on his tenant. The policy of the Legislature should be the exact reverse of this, and perhaps the best test of its success will be its different reception by these two classes. The Daily Xeivs,in referring to the recent death of the Marquis of Westminster, observes that the Peerages tell us the family of Grosvenor flourished in Normandy a hun dred and fifty years before the battle of Hastings ; and that its high importance in that province so early as the year 900, or thereabouts, is proven from its name — Grosvenor being Le Gros Veneur, or the Grand Huntsman. Sceptical people not versed in genealogies may be reminded of the barber-surgeon to Edward the Confessor, who was the ancestor of the noble family of the Newcomes, of Newcome. We are quite ready, however, to take the Gros Veneur for granted. The reflec tion which he suggests is the strange one , that a family nearly a thousand years old should not have furnished a single great name in the history of its country. In this respect the House of Grosvenor presents a strong contrast with that other noble house, in the neighbouring county of Lancashire, which has lately lost its chief. The biography of the Stanleys of Knowsley, if it were fully written, would comprise large fragments of the history of England, from the fourteenth century to the nineteenth. The biography of the Grosvenors would record the fortunes of a most respectable family, affected by, but not in its turn affecting, the course of English history. The House of Westminster and of Derby both illustrate on different sides of human nature that persistency of family qualities through generations and centuries which has been noticed by historians in some of the great houses of the Roman aristocracy. The Stanleys were for ever leaping in the dark, whether in a conspiracy to enthrone Perkin Warbeck, or in a coup for establishing household suffrage, and " dishing " now Richard 111. at Bosworth, and now the Whigs in Parlia ment. The Grosvenors have exhibited, from the beginning of their career to the end, the virtue of thrift; and this virtue, exercised during nearly ten centuries, and telling in each generation with accumulating power, has made them the richest noble family in England, and possibly in Europe and the world. If the rule adopted in the United States prevailed in this country, of publishing income-tax returns, the Marquis of Westminster's would have exceeded the powers of ordinary conception. The popular imagina tion, in an attempt to realise the fact, has created for itself the myth that the late _nobleman had a guinea a minute. The Telegraph affirms that Mr. Layard is sent as Minister to Madrid - ata. crisis when, if old precedents had power, the nomination of a new Envoy ought to mean much. Twenty-two or twenty-three years ago, half Europe would have been agitated by the tidings, although at that time Spain was about to select, not a King, but a King Consort. Yet, although the selection of a husband was the only matter in dispute, Cabinets were uneasy, couriers wero hard - worked, Ambassadors agitated, Kings and Queens set in motion, nations kept on the alert, at every new move in the game. If Sir Th•lwnr. Tulin then renresented England, coughed twice, the French Minister sent off at once 'or new instructions When a Spanish statesman laughed, Heaven and earth were moved to discover why ? In M. Guizot's Memoirs it is recorded how the French Ambas sador jumped out of bed at five o'clock in the morning to end off a despatch, because lie had just heard that the candidature of the Coburg Prince had not been abandoned. All this went on for months ; and filially, when the crisis was brought to an end, two Royal Courts—those of Eng land and France—were estranged, and Lord Palmerston and M. Guizot remained diplomatically at daggers drawn. We cannot flatter ourselves that Mr. Layard's appointment will cause any Continental emotion. One or two Paris papers will mis-spell his name ; others will ( all him " Sir Layard, Prefect of the Thames " others will assuro the it readers that his name in the world is due to the discovery of an " Assyrian image of John Bull—emblem national! incident so flattering l'amour propre L'rittanique!" But when he arrives in Madrid nobody will believe that he brings in his despatch-box a menace, a hostile message, or a new king. Everybody will know that Spain may select any person in the world—any prince, ex-king, duke, or private gentleman—without England's making the least objection or protest. Sir Henry Bulwer, who fortunately represented a policy of perpetual advice, still lives ; but between his work and the task cut out for Mr. Layard the difference is so great that one could almost believe a century, and not twenty three years, had intervened. The Standard observes that Mr. William Brcadhead, the arch rattener and high priest of " Mary Ann," has taken leave of Sheffield under rather painful circumstances. For many years a public character, and holding a position of power and authority among the working men of his native town, he has found that since the ill-omened inquiry into the conduct of the trade unions in that locality he has been somewhat under a cloud. After the fashion of malefactors of the deepest dye he forgives all his enemies and persecutors, and promises that " the good old town of Sheffield," ungenerous and ungrateful as it has proved to himself, will always retain a place in his affectionate remembrance. We can readily under stand that it was a consummate piece of acting from beginning to end, from the first appearance in the garb of a pious minister to the last plaintive utterance of Christian forgiveness. But the worst of it is that the audience were not taken in. They were thoroughly in the secret. They knew full well what manner of man it was who was farting it before them. They knew what had been his w ay of life as secretary of the Saw Grinders' Union, and the various crimes of which, on his own confes sion, ho had been the instigator or the accomplice, were fresh in their memory. Yet they thronged to do him honour, they-welcomed him with "loud and long-continued cheering," they listened to him with encouraging sym pathy, and when the protracted effort of cynical hypocrisy was brought to a close they rewarded him with rounds of enthusiastic applause. What must be the moral condition of a community which could furnish such an audience for such a criminal? The Herald declares that the existence of a far-spread depression of the manufacturing interest, and therefore of English commerce abroad and industry at home, is no longer denied. The task of the unconditional freetraders is now, consequently, to discover a sufficient cause for a fact so deplorable. Great Britain was to hay% been the central bazaar of the globe ; her fabrics were to defy com petition everywhere, from Calais to the uninhabited islands ; there was to be no more want, only a minimum of pauperism, " a fowl in every poor man's pot," and never again a murmur of discontent. See now. It is with difficulty that the unemployed working classes of the metropolis are restrained from brandishing their poverty on the occasion of a public ceremony in which the Queen will take a part. From all quarters come gloomy antici -1 ations for the falling winter. And numbers of the very men, numbers ( f their successors, who believed in the panacea, and thought that the cornucopaia of British pros perity could henceforth be carried in the left hand cf a left-handed free trade, are, towards the close of 1869, counting up their disappointments and the losses of the country, especially since a Heaven-born statesman sur rendered to France so much and persuaded her into so little. There is no great comfort in being assured we are making no progress with our system of manufactures when it is our coal freely exported which enables the French to undersell us. The foundation stone of a Protestant church, the cost of which is to be paid by the King of Burmah, has b 3en laid at Mandalay. The American Indians continue to give trouble. A party of Apaches attacked a mail coach near Ay ache Pass, and killed the driver and military escort, but we: e dispersed by a detachment of cavalry with a 1 s: of twelve killed. The reported massacre of the Govormnoo ireyinse rartr_on_thtZeinfoliamilkor. imagiralW )V OMEN AND TIM UNIV2I2SITIES IN AMERICA. The authorities of Cornell University announce that it has not yet been decided whether women shall be admitted to that institution or not ; and that the question has bees postponed until they have provided accommodation for the male students, which is not yet the case. Meanwhile tho prospects are that women will soon be admitted to the Michigan State University, the largest, perhaps, in Ame rica. Its president, Dr. Hanen, has recently published an opinion on the subject, in which ho says:—"T" more I consider the subject and the more: carefully I study the results of the education of both saves in the same schools, the more inclined am I to the belief that the best method for Michigan would be to make provi sion for the instruction of women at the university on the same condition as men. I have come to this conclusion slowly. A few objections have sometimes seemed to ine strong, but most of what is urged against it is fanciful, and partakes of the nature of the thoughtless opposition to what is now. PLACES OF WORK. The bitterly cold weather we have been having puts 111 ' in mind of a kind work began a few years ago at Moscow and in other large Russian cities by a wealthy philanthropist. This man built in the poorer quarter s some large, unpretending-looking houses, which he christened " Places of Work," and which were intended to afford a shelter to such people as were not rich enough to have comfortable fires at home. There wa s nothing of the English workhouse in these edifices. V ie r, were composed merely of spacious rooms, well warmed, a nd furnished plainly with wooden chairs and tables. There were separate rooms for women and for men. Mechanics' sempstresses, poor students even, came there bringil their work with them and remaining from morning anti' ten o'clock at night, when the rooms were closed. The admission was free, and there were warders wil °se business it was to see that there was perfect' order, and that nobody annoyed or disturbed his neighbour. It was a really excellent thing, ani conferred a great boon upon many poor people. C° lll ' nothing of the kind be made possible in England, by Pu blic or private enterprise ? Is the `• rough " element so irrepres sible that it would convert any "place of work" into 9 ' place of abomination? THE LAND QUESTION IN ULSTER• The tenant-right agitation is commencing in Ulster, an d promises to surpass in its warmth that which took Pb e° ! in reference to the disestablishment and disendownOnt'• of the Irish Church. In numerous parts of the provin ce meetings are about to be held, for the purpose of giving the tenantry an opportunity of expressing their views cal the land question. Yesterday (Monday) one of O W tenant-right meetings was held in Magheraght, count/ Derry, at which the following series of resolutions were proposed :-1. "That the custom of tenant-right(comin eril l known as the tenant-right custom of Ulster) existing /n the county for 200 years and upwards is founded urn the fact that the tenants out of their own capital 1131 ! reclaimed the lands and made all the improveinelT4 thereon, without any expenditure of capital by the lords, except in very rare instances." " That owing to th frequent violations of the tenants' rights under this tom, a very strong and general feeling of W r i curity has existed in this country for o°l . years, which requires the immediate interfe renc" of the Legislature." " That no settlement of tl' i ° land question in this country will be just or satisf aete % which does not legalise the right of the tenants to the continuous occupation and enjoyment of their farms , a n ir a right to sell to solvent tenants so long as they paY rents and do not sublet or subdivide the farm." inasmuch as the arbitrary and excessive increase "t rents by the landlord have to a large O t t, absorbed the interests of the tenants in their farnis, declare that no settlement of the land question will hd just or satisfactory which does not provide a cheer le convenient tribunal for the adjustment of the land-Wrn ,11-6 i rents, which should be ascertained and fixed with° taking into account the tenants' improvements. That vf Court of Quarter Sessions would be the best tribunal ° such adjustment of rents." THE BYRON CONTROVERSY. to t/ In a postscrpt to the second edition of the Quar„,. Review a reply is made to the criticisms, especially Lora in the Saturday Review, upon the article defending l'ero Byro thatn.Th The weekly Byronjournallty should pointedhod h out ave that it the asamazing wr itten letters to Mrs. Leigh, and have been under the del lis , i f f of a non-existent crime, as it would be for P i : t thy letters, b ro ' ho Mrs. Leigh had been guilty of the offence imputed. postscript declares, however, "The existence of these le tte'' was known, and they were a frequent subject of colore°. tion in metropolitan circles some weeks before t he arr i:fr ance of our article. The originals are inlegitima teand fby ourable custody, and their authenticity is guarantee'eo two noblemen whose names (freely circulated already) t ho be given if required. The original of the first letter , te, un-dated one, was in our possession when we vri.H along with several ether autograph letters of l'atio Byron." The postcript then proceeds to say t hat pr• article did not admit that the communication to Lushington in 1816 was on the subject of this din evidence points the other way. "Lady Byron sta,,-ed 1830 (1) that the conduct of which she coine d o r, in 1816 was of a nature to be palliatedicere excused by insanity; (2) that all the fac ts , w ry, known to her when she arrived at Kirby 1/11,000 although a part of them were kept back. N ew the -601c1 in question ; in which two persons wore concerned' - 4, 1 or not be excused or palliated (if it could b e exec's: A' palliated at all) by the insanity of one : no new lig„11'00/ or could be thrown upon the reserved facts so far 7basgea affected Mrs. Leigh ; and it is Lady Byron's u sc ote d demeanour to her sister-in-law that must be oc°lo,cl.; for as well as her changed demeanour to ller o o loe si , In September 1816 Lady Byron went to stay with g o °. and Mrs. Leigh at their place near Newm ark down to and including the period of Lord 13V7ralle 's cliii ° illness his sister was the recogni sed of communication between Lady Byron I ' ll- fig self. The specific charge was named bi A fillet Broughton, and distinctly disclaimed by Df r • 0 17 1 Horton on behalf of Lady Byron. The problera th e, Mrs. Beecher Stowe may really help t o s olve er iet t i, opinion of the Quarterly, this :—At wild and /11,: Lady Byron first specified the charge, a , Ow. what supposed evidence or mental Pr ee 4 es ec i it arrived at it ? That, assuming her to ha ve sPeew.„ i 0 ‘ t i 1816, she did so under the influence of reononls;er si theory of which the reviewer declares b e P O (I' l3 much as heard till he saw it attribut tre at the Saturday Review) to himself—on the S oy , of his having said, in reference to L acif „,. W e t : multiform statements during the last ten `iort.sP.d years of her life, that the most (or only) c ) ss 0 0 " hypothesis was insanity. But as regards that period, wo did not say it was e ux o pin ion en , sis ; and we must beg leave to suspend ou r tha t the point. Enough for us to have demonstrated'a- the ever, or under whatever state of mind, gib e br° (the writer goes c l/ h i ips tli c i ; accusation, it was false." s ide s It is now • confidently asserted that ha fore i Durbar at Agra is given up. A ca m p : c° there, but on a far smaller scale than was ° rib- O r° contempleted. the KINGFISHERS FIGHTING.—AbOV e J ed -° ,4 "Edwin Ward" the following fact i s coraniurt:-010goto contemporary. About eight o'clock on th nr :blo the 27th ultimo, whilst the Rig ht gen% Ids Evelyn Denison was sitting at breakfast, geatmit Ossington Hall, Newark, Nottingham, O s it was surprised by a sudden crash at the plate -Parr-a foon of his room. On going to the spot be ey W o n was made by two kingfishers flying viol en hav e 11 ,. 0 .. the glass, which would, in all probabilitYrtco, b And broken had it not been thick plate. One ef u i v eria 0 0 0 , tiful birds was seen lying dead, the other at nearly so. The dead bodies of the victims ' t 4r . 4 secured, and by a lover of natural h i s torYt ; e a in t P', , Denison, brother to the Speaker, carefully der° ocl bands for preservation. The hall stands bight ° A distance from water. gi lj ;,ol 4 ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR, h is S ea ACADEMY.—The following General Order b . / ° bid cj i. highness the Field Marshal Commanding-lir od t t o _,, , gc e been specially issued to regiments at home anu ow . 3 1$ fil an( 11141 , 0 ID . , terranean, dated 30th October, 1869. -A-ion' t han °‘. will send to this department, not later l' on fu ll proximo, the applications of such office rs , ass ist A/i , feel themselves qualified for the situation el'irociviio7o/), structor the Royal Military Acadera The , o ffiee i r o pro surveying and topographical drawing. l• two , in c , uc to A pointed will receive a salary of .£4OO Per " 11 ° as I : of all pay and military allowances ; £soowl. lie when he is provided with quarters. spe e , the above instructorship to be accompaniei: 00 os of drawing, and by a sketch of two squa Teri osiS s i Dit ground the candidate may select. In e „wed ' P t to prOi , b ig candidate must certify that the drawl 011 40 10 ts o hu W ce l h l r en ti ci n oo a md l im ( fi l (ii i.ntdi N o l' not recommendations mo 3 f a. theThisyb e in Royal:3l .p o pacouoiclita ine Education: 41v command. W. l'Atrar.