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FOR THE AUTUMN & WIN rER SEASONS . E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their business. For trades and ad dresses. see following advertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL- LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be found in every grticle 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 %nd 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 punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. lkinSF.S and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders front persons who are not known to the firm should I.e accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be dteerfullv exchanged, or, if desired, the noney will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats ►nd Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un- Nuttlled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with ?.Yery requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business a resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES ind SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISIIME.NT, 155, MINOR ES 158, MINORIES 157, MINORI ES 83, ALDGATE ALDGATE ALDGATE ALDGATI 87, ALDGAT H. 88, ALDGATE 99, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 50C, NEW OXFORD-STREF.T 307, NEW OXFORD STREET 'OB, 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 HE « SINGER" SEWING MACIIDT ES. THE "NEW - FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCIT. Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. THE " SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AR THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p simplicity of thew: Machines enables any one to }squire their perfect use in a few hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free /HE "SIN. GER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY Chief Office in the United Kingdom: 147, CHEAPSIDE. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established 1824. The ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, exceeds £227,000 The Assn?.ANcs FUND, safely invested, is over £1,649,000 Forms of Proposal, and every information, can be ob tained of GEORGE CITTOLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary, 13, St. James's-square, London. S.W. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The Report which the directors have now to submit to the proprietor differs in its tenor but little save in one or two particular from that laid before then, in 1868. rho income of the year, it will to seen, amounts t £510,499 18s. and the total charge t , , £145,077 10s. 9d The difference, £95,422 7s. 3d., added to the balance of the surplus fund at the commencement of the financial year, raised that item to £1,002,971 15s. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, JUNE 30, 1860. INCOME OF THE YEAR. DR. s. d. £ s. d Balance of account, 30th June, IS6g Yrerniums on new nssnr- 907,:',.52 8 6 ances on old ditto 13,506 5 1 357,988 7 0 871,548 12 1 interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,508 4 11 Profit and loss, balance of account 47,991 13 1 Total income £1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF THE YEAR. a. £ 8, d. Dividend to proprietors 0000000 Claims on decease of lives assured Additions to those under X s. d. 8,880 4 0 participating policies 24,304 6 6 Policies surrendered Re-assurances—new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 405,561 12 1 Commission Medical fees Income tax 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 910 436,187 6 9 Total charge Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance-sheet £1,448,052 6 6 • The total of preminms received is £371,548 12s. id., of which sum £13,560 ss. ld. is for new assurances effected in the year. The interest from investments is £120,959 12s. 10d., or £4 2s. per cent. on the net amount of the company's realised assets existing in June, 1868 ; and in connection with this important feature of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and loss account again exhibits a considerable profit, amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000. It may be remembered that a profit of nearly equal amount was announced in last year's report. Turning to the items constituting the charge of the year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material; as was observed oa a previous occasion, the proper quin quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex ceeds £309,000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management are greater by nearly £BOO than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the compttns's securities into the names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses must be regarded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are:only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET, JuNz 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors £6,757 17 0 , :daims on decease of lives assured, and Addditions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts for sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors fund Surplus fund Examined and approved. £7,675,813 010 THOMAS ALLEN,) HENRY ROSE, j Auditors. CR ASSETS. trnount invested in fixed mortgages £1,461,699 9 2 Diito ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 1G 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 lilt() ditto Temporary secu rities 193,20717 0 current interest on theaboveinvestments 30,934 4 cash and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the company's policies Amts balances , Sundry accounts 165,387 1 8 25.489 16 8 57,331 7 9 Value of preminms (1867) 4 I 506 7 167 13 0 . • 85,706 14 5 l'aluo of re-acsnrances £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 7e. ?d. already mentioned, as is shown by tha alimentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. The Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows: WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairman. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Depnty-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas l3aldington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq. SirJ. BullerFast, Bt., D.C.L. Thomas Godfrey Sambrooke Wm. Ir.gustus Guy, M.D., Esq. F.R.S. a Admiral Tindal. CnarlesThos.Holcombe,Esq. , Right Hon. Sir John Young, Joshua Lockwood, En. part., K.C.B. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TR ANSA "1 - LANTIQUE. _ 4, Rue de la Paix, Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for NewlYork. RATES OF PASSAGE. Prom TIAN= or BREST to NEW YORK. First Class 7OO fr. Second Class 425 fr. Third Class , 275 fr. From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class 285 fr. WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico, Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique. JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama). Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon, Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo, Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union, San Francisco, China, and Japan. Hand books, with full details. of all the routes of this company, can be bad of STRINGER, PF.MBBROKE, and Co., Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C. L ONDON 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 (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 (X 30,000,000), and will be the first charge on a net income now amounting to upwards of Three Millions (5...Z. 7 000,000) annually. Further particulars and forms of application may be obtained by letter addressed to the undersigned. STEPHEN REAY, Secretary. Euston Station, March, 1869. WANTED, by an ex-Licensed Victualler, Manual Employment, in any capa ity. Town or Country. First-class character. Address E, 13, John street, Hanway-street, Tottenham-court-road. EVENING EMPLOYMENT WANTED, by a Young Gentleman (a Reader at the Sri , ish Museum), age 22, after Six p.m. Has received a good education. Can give excellent references. Addreis R, 46, Theobald'a road, W.C. AGENTS WANTED EVERY WHERE to introduce commodities valuable to every householder high and low. This offers a highlyremtmerativeCommission to Tradesmen, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to R. MABRISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. (IN CIIANCERY.—Lord Chancellor. Vice-Chancellor Malin& Nixey v. Lewis.) CAUTION. —Whereas the Vice-Chancellor, Sir k--) Richard Malins, on the Ist day of July, 1869, upon the ap plication of William George Nixey, of No. 12, Soho-square, in the County of Middlesex, the plaintiff in the above suite, awarded a perpetual injunction, restraining the defendant, Joseph Lewis, sis shopman, servants, and agents, from hereafter selling any slack lead, or other composition purporting to be black wad, in tablets or c ases enclosed or covered in manner in he bill mentioned, or folded in wrappers, or enclosed or packed ap or folded in any cases, coverings, or wrappers, which are fac similes, or copies, or fraudulent imitations of those invented or used by the plaintiff, and from in any way using any cases, coverings, boxes, labels, devices, or other things which shall re present or have the appearance of representing the plaintiff as the manufacturer or vendor of articles which have not, in fact, been manufactured or sold by him. All persons are therefore cautioned against purchasing, selling, exposing for sale, or othet wise dealing in black lead c , r other composition purporting to be black lead not manufactured cr prepared by the said William George Nixey, in tablets or in cases, enclosed or covered, or wr-ipped or enclosed in wrappers, or with other ac companiments being fac-similes or fraudulent or colourable imi tations of those invented and used by the plaintiff, the said William George Nixey.—Dated this 23d day of July, 1869. VALLANCE di VALLANCE, 20, Essex-street, Strand. Plaintiffs Solicitor. OMNI GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY 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 is. 6d.—Red Ball Wharf, 93, 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 in;; this wona )rful liquid. It is now offered to the public ii a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. Gd., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. THEATRE 110 YA L, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. E. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at ItELLES OF THE KITCHEN. A t 3, 14'0113103A, new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault : Ire re. Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright. loht. Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. mll EA THE YA L, HAYMARKET, WILL OPEN for the SEASON on MONDAY NEXT, October Dith, with a New Comedy, in Thr . ee Acts, by Tom Taylor and Augustus Dubonrg, Esqs., autFors of "A Sister's Penance." At Seven, FOUNDED ON FACTS : Mr Compton : Mrs E. Fitzwilliam ; Miss F. Wright. At a Quarter to Eight, the New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES : Mr Bnckstone, Mr Chippen dale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr. Braid, Mr Buckstone, jun. ; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hill, itc. Immediately after the Comedy (on Monday only), the National Anthem, by Miss Madge Robertson, Miss F. Wright, Miss Fanny Gwynne, and the Company. Concluding with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY : Mr Kendall, Miss F. Gwynne, &c. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: Messrs Ashiey, C. H. Stephenson, and Misses Maria and Nelly Harris. At 15 to 8, LOST AT SEA: a London Story. Messrs A. Stir ling, G. Belmore, E. Atkins, J. D BeAveridgo, C. IL Stephenson, C. J. Smith, R. Romer, Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza John stone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Lei'h.. Murray. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr C-t.Belmore and Mrs. Leigh Murray. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. t. Last Night of PROGRESS.! THIS EVENING, at 7, BREACH OF PROMISE. At 8.15, Mr. T. W. Robertson's new Comedy, in three acts. entitled PROGRESS: Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, J. Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall ; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Perend. and Mrs. Stephens. HENRY J. BYRON appear on Saturday Evening next, October 231, in his new farcical drama, in 3 acts, entitled NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Sir vimon Simple, by Mr. H. J. Byron. Pox-office open fromlo till 5. HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARMY 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. Stephens, Lin Rayne, Charles Horsman, and Lunt; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Jane Rignold, and Miss Howard. To conclude with THE WATERMAN: Messrs. 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The systematic opponents of intemperance have certainly reason to feel, as they are evidently be ginning to feel, hopeful, and more than hopeful, sanguine even to confidence. Their numbers are multiplying. Their organization is becoming, month by month and year after year, matured and strength. ened. Their supporters within the House of Commons amount in number to nearly one-sixth of the whole of that great assemblage. Sir WILFRED LAWSON'S Permissive Bill was supported upon a division during last session by only half-a-dozen short of one hun dred. And those ninety-four members of the popular branch of the Legislature are, the majority of them at least, amongst the most energetic of our national representatives. The periodical gatherings, again, of the central association of the advocates for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic, an association honourably known as the United Kingdom Alli ance, is each time attracting more and more attention by its increasing importance. It would bo no exaggeration whatever to assert, for example, that the latest of these great public meetings, the one which took place on Tuesday last in the Free-Trade Hall at Manchester, was more enthusiastic and, in many ways, more remarkable than any one of its pre decessors. Immense though the place of assembly, it was crowded to overflowing. And as a signal indi cation of the sympathy ace srded at last to the asso ciation by an influential portion of the English Church Establishment, the chair was occupied by the Bishop Designate of Exeter, Dr. TEMPLE. Conspicuous among the letters of apology for non-attendance, in consequence of unavoidable circumstances, there were three from as many Arch bishops—from his Grace the Archbishop of CANTER BURY, from his Grace the Archbishop of YORK, and from his Grace Archbishop MANNING, head of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in England. As afford ing signal evidence of the cordial nature of the sympathy felt by the first and third of these Arch bishops—restricting our attention, for the moment, to these two, not by any means invidiously in regard to his Grace of YORK, but simply by reason of their being the chiefs of the two confronting hierarchies— we aro tempted to give an extract from their respective communications, from the letters of the Protestant Archbishop of CANTER BURY, and of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of WESTMINSTER. 'I he former, addressing himself to the Archdeacon of COVENTRY, hesitates not to write thus deliberately and emphatically:—" I do not know enough of those who are to compose the meeting to be able to pronounce any opinion as to how far I could enter into the reme lies they propose, and this would of itself have prevented me from being present as they kindly wished had I been in England. But as to the magnitude and gravity of the evil against which they protest no one can have any doubt after reading the report of Convocation, on which you bestowed so much self-denying labour. None can be more inte rested in the means adopted to check this evil than the clergy of the Church of England, if they are faithful to the souls of those committed to them." Than which assurances, the United Kingdom Al liance could hardly, in reason, wish for any more formal recognition of the wisdom and beneficence of their labours, from the lips or rather from the pen of his Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY. Of Archbishop MANNING'S sympathy with this emi nently philanthropic movement, the United King dom Alliance has long had knowledge. His Grace has not only given it the assistance of his sympathy, he has aided it, time and again, by his active per sonal co-operation. He has taken part in its pro ceedings. He has appeared on public platforms, and advocated with eloquent zeal the prin ciples which the promoters and supporters of the Alliance . have so earnestly at heart. Precluded by circumstances from the chance of taking part per sonally in the proceedings of Tuesday at Manchester, Archbishop MANNING wrote, at any rate, cn Monday last, in so many words,—" It is with great regret that I find myself unable to attend the meeting of the United Kingdom Alliance, at Manchester, to-morrow. I would ask you to express to the meeting my un abated interest in the great work it is labouring for, and my desire to promote it by all means in my power. Had I been able to attend I should have en deavoured to urge on all who desire to repress drunk enness in the next generation to labour together with all their might to maintain intact, and to ex tend all over the country, a sound Christian educa tion. I earnestly hope that I shall hear tidings of great progress in the next Session of Parlia ment." Coming from the Roman Catholic Arch bishop of WESTMINSTER, that earnest reference to the great and permanent need there is of " Christian Education" cannot but be recognised as having at this moment an especial signidcauce. The drift of it is in harmony with the temperance organisation, to whose hearing and judgment it was especially ad dressed. The association, moreover, is in a position now calculated to hearten it on in its philanthropic labours for the amelioration generally of the great mass of the population. In a pecu niary point of view, its resources are more than ever satisfactorily increasing and multi plying. The subscriptions within this past year have amounted to going-on-for ten thousand pounds (£9,2oo)—its annual income at the same timo from all resources exceeding an aggregate of thirteen thou sand ( £l3,s66)—while next year it is expected that the guarantee fund, already so considerable, will attain an aggregate of £50,000. Everything considered, we cannot wonder that the friends of the United King dom Alliance should have manifested so much enthu siasm upon the occasion of their great meeting on Thursday last in the Free-Trade Hall at Manchester. THE business-like style in which the National League has opened the education campaign at Bir mingham has won general respect. Even those who most dissent from the programme of free, secular, and rate-supported schools, admit that the League pro mises to become a dangerously active organisation. There was no superfluous debating, no conflict of crotchets at the Birmingham meeting. The League settled the bases of its proposed Educational Bill, and then proceeded to debate them. It finished the business first and talked about it afterwards. There is really much to be said on behalf of this seemingly illogical course. So much has been lost to previous organisations of the kind through empty discussions, so many great reforms have been spoiled by absurd compromises, that the new society may well entertain a virtuous horror of all tempo rizing. But this unbending spirit must not be carried too far. The League has very severe work before it. Every one of the recognised educa tional bodies in the country will take more or less exception to the Birmingham scheme ; and though it is well that people should fight to the last on behalf of their vital doctrines, the determination to yield nothing may not improbably end in losing everything. On some points the Leaguers will meet with no effective opposition. Few persons now contend that the voluntary system is sufficient for the wants of the country, and the plan of supplying the deficiencies by schools supported to the extent of two , thirds by a rate, and one-third by a Government grant, must command an almost certain majority. It is identical with the scheme proposed in the mea sure drawn up last year under the auspices of Mr. BRUCE and Mr. FORSTER. And it is really not easy to perceive that there is any alternative. If voluntary subscriptions will not suffice, some plan of compulsory support must be devised. Either the money for the maintenance of new schools must come wholly from the central government or be divided between a local rate and a grant. Very obvious arguments point in favour of the latter course. There is less probability that the League will succeed in establishing enforced attendance ; but here also the chances do not seem against the League. There is no doubt, as we have repeatedly shewn, that the party favouring compulsion is on the increase. Nor is it confined to any one class or sect, but musters a strong body of supporters in every direction. The BRUCE-FORSTER bill contained no provision for reducing negligent parents to order ; but the great difficulty of securing efficient in struction to the whole population without some such power, the very general use of compulsory means in foreign countries, and the actual recognition of the principle in England in the shape of the Factory Acts, are all arguments which must have very serious attention. It is in respect of its mode of settling, or rather removing, the religious difficulty, and its proviso that education in the rate-supported schools shall be free, that the Birmingham programme will incur the greatest danger. The League stipulates that there must be no denominational teaching in these municipal schools. Ministers of religion may instruct pupils of their own creed in the class-rooms; but the scholars generally are to receive no sectarian exposi tions of doctrine. The local authorities are to decide whether the Bible is to be read without dogmatic comments, or whether there is to be no religious teaching whatever. This part of the forthcoming bill will undoubtedly meet with the fiercest antagonism. It seems impossible to conceive of education from which the religious element is wholly excluded. There could surely be no harm in withholding option from the local board, and in deciding that in all the rate supported schools certain portions of the Bible, at least, should be read. Beyond this it is extremely difficult to go without plunging into one of those sec tarian conflicts in which so many previous plans have been wrecked. It must be borne in mind that the League's scheme does not propose to supersede the existing denominational and voluntary schools. The vast organisation now flourishing will not be interfered with, and thus an abundant supply of reli gious teaching will still be retained. It must be remembered, too, that in a great many places the existing schools afford sufficient accommodation, there will be no necessity for any rate, and the go on with their conscience a s do n willo. w they . But where there is a lack of intellectual food it is hard that the poor should be deprived of it through sectarian differences. There is no help for it ; the State must come to the aid of the voluntary system, and it is self-evident that in schools supported by rates and taxes no one denomination can, in these days, be preferred to another. Whilst there ought to be some religious teaching, controverted matters must ho carefully avoided. The bill of 1868 differed from the Birming ham programme hi this particular—it provided that where the educational appliances were declared inefficient, notice must be given, and time would be allowed for voluntary effort before imposing a rate. The rate would be the last resort. The Spectator prefers this plan, on the ground that it best avoids the religious difficulty, for in most cases some denomination would come for ward and supply the needed school—a strict con science clause being of course enforced. But facts are against this assumption. It is because the voluntary system has failed that a more certain means is needed, and yet the BRUCE-FORSTER plan was founded on the hypothesis that voluntaryism is capable of great extension. The fact is, that subscriptions are now lamentably insufficient. In many parishes heavy burdens fall upon the clergymen because the neighbouring magnates will not come forward. It is hopeless to expect that voluntaryism would so revive at the prospect of a rate as to fill all places de clared vacant and cultivate all spots pronounced barren. The remedy must be more sure and speedy. Besides, even granting that subscriptions flowed in liberally to establish denominational schools where a lack of education had been declared, it is pretty certain that all the deficiencies would not be so made up. A rate would be wanted somewhere, and the religious difficulty would still have to be faced in such cases. The proviso in the League's scheme that education in all rate-appointed schools must be free met with well-deserved dissent even at Birmingham. It is illogical and inconsistent in more than one respect. For instance, it was affirmed that if the parents contributed towards the rate, they would pay all that ought to be expected of them. But such contributions would not be equal. The ratepayer who has no children and he who sends half a dozen to the municipal school will be mulcted in the same amount. If school fees be demanded of all children whose parents can afford it, the money thus raised will cover an important part of the school's expenses, and the rate will be relieved to that extent. The municipality will contribute the same amount, but those who most profit by the school will pay the largest share towards its support. A. direct payment for education must haTe a beneficial effect in encouraging that independent feeling which ought to be carefully fostered. Many British working men would not care to have their children taught at a "charity school." It is true that very many scho lars must be admitted free, because their parents would be unable to pay. This, however, is no reason why those who are able should be let off. Under the present system many scholars get free education, through various agencies, whilst the majority pay. But the most formidable objection remains. The League, in its programme and the speeches of its supporters, proposes only to supplement the schools now at work. It has no desire—and very justly—to sweep away the present voluntary organisation, but only to furnish instruction in those places where voluntaryism fails to reach. But is it not palpable that the effect of free schools must be in great measure to destroy those which impose fees ? How can the denominational schools hold their own without fees when they only laboriously struggle on with the assistance of the children's pence ? It will be difficult enough under any circumstances to secure harmony between the rate and the subscription systems, but on such terms of disparity it would be quite impossible. When the Leaguers find such advocates as Mr. FAWCETT speaking against the principle of free education, it is surely time to reconsider their position. 7 1A A _ _tow hr.& g l inM If* EltrUhlt THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING Mr A shley, Mr, Stephenson, and the Misses Harris. Followed by LOST AT SEA: Mr A. Stirling, Mr G. Belmore, Mr E. Atkins, Mr Beveridge. Mr Stephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Homer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray. And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr G. Belmore and Mrs L. Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tins EVENING, at 7, BREACH OF PROMISE. At 8.15, the new Comedy, PROGRES ,: Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, J. Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE LOTTERY TICKET. After which, THE GAMESTER: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, &c. And THE WATERMAN. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanboronkh. THIS EVENING. at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And TIIF FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. CIHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL Q &RDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office o pen fromll to 4. C tV SUM HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, Oct. 19. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove out in the morning. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely, walked out in the afternoon. LATEST INTELL MENGE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA.: (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Oct. 21. The National steamship Company's steamer arrived here yesterday. The Inman steamship City of Baltimore arrived here to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold:closed at 1301; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1311 ; the lowest, 1301. Sterling Exchange on London lO9l. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 l2Ol. 66 " 1885 ll9l. cc " 1867 ll7*. 10-40 it Illinois 136. Erie 3ll. Cotton—Mid. upland 26lc. Petroleum—Standard White 33lc. Flour, extra state, $5.90c. to $6.50c. Corn, old mixed, sl.lc. According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the receipts of cotton for the last four days have been 40,000 bales, against 36,000 last week; shipments to England, 7,000 bales, against 7,000 ; to France, 3,000 bales, against 1,000;; and to the Continent, 3,000 bales, against 1,000. M.-Upland, cost and freight per steamer. SPAIN. MANIID, Oct. 20. The Cortes have resumed the debate on the modification to be introduced in the laws relative to railways. A motion to elect deputies in the place of those members who had joined the insurgents has been taken into consideration. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Oct. 21. A coolness has arisen in the diplomatic relations between Spain and Portugal, in consequence of the appointment of Senhor Corvo to the post of Minister at Madrid. THE BRAZILS. GIBRALTAR, Oct. 21. The Savoie steamer from the Brazils has arrived here with 205 passengers and 606 tons of cargo. Rio JANEIRO, Sept. 30. Exchange on London, 19k. Coffee, good firsts, 7,100 to 7,200 reis. Exports to the United States, 1,200 bags ; to the Mediterranean, 9,500 ; and to the North of Europe, 31,000. Stock, 55,000 bags. BUENOS AYRES, _Sept. 20. Exchange on London, 484. MONTEVIDEO, Sept, 21. Exchange on London, 49. Some few cases of yellow fever had occurred at Rio Janeiro, but no sickness prevailed on board the Savoie. BOMBAY MAIL. MESSINA, Oct. 21. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Bangalore passed through the Straits of Messina at noon to-day en route for Marseilles. MALTA, Oct. 21. The Massilia left at 11 p.m. to-day with the heavy portion of the Bombay mail. She may be expected at Southampton about the 30th inst. The Delta, from Southampton, 9th, arrived at Malta on tho 18th instant at 10 a.m., and left at 6 p.m. for Alexandria. GIBRALTAR, Oct. 20. The Tanjore left at 6 p.m. on the 18th for Southampton, where she may be looked for about the 23d inst. FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 21.—Three o'clock—The: market closed as follows : per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7l 12i Credit Mobilier 203 Transatlantic 250 Credit Foncier —1662 Paris Gag 1560 RAILWA: Bank Shares 2795 Ital Fan Rives 53 5 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan 320 Do. Debt 42 80 Spanish Threes 24f Home Debt 22 50 Deferred ...... 26 50 Cash. Orleans ... 9321 Western Northern Strasburg Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6121 Sardinian Austrian 731 Lombard 6l6f North of Spain Saragossa Roman 49 LORD EXMOUTH'S FOURTH SON.—The will of the Right lion. and Rev. William Edward Bellew, ALA., of St. James's, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, was proved in Lon don under £35,000 personalty. The testator, who died at the ago of 70,was the fourth son of Admiral Bellew, G.C.8., first Viscount Exmouth, upon whom the peerage was conferred for his distinguished services in the Royal Navy. 'The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to bo called "The Royal Irish Distillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. HORNING. EVENING] FRIDAY 4 min past 3 20 min past 3 SATURDAY 31 rain past 3 46 min past 3 SUNDAY 4 min past 4 20 min past 4 MONDAY 36 min past 4 54 min past 4 TVESDAY m . 10 rain past 5 30 mii4 past 6 THE BISHOP OF RIPON AND THE MONEY LENDERS OF CAMBRIDGE. The Bishop of Ripon was called as a witness in a case which has just been tried before Mr. J. Collyer, judge at the Cambridge County Court, in which Edward Sanderson, a well-known money-lender at Cam bridge, was the plaintiff, and Mr. H. C. Bickersteth, the son of the Bishop, was the defendant. The claim was for £2O ls. lld., which, it was alleged, was advanced to the defendant on the 22nd of last March, whilst ho was in :tatu pupillari, as an undergraduate of Corpus Christi Col lege. The plaintiff is known by the cognomen of "Spot Sanderson," and, though he is prohibitedfrom dealing with any members of the university, he carries on a very flourish ing business as a money-lender. The Bishop deposed that his son was barn in 1848. He had paid £25 to the defen dant with a cauticn, and since then the defendant had still dealt with his sen. The plaintiff stated that Mr. Bicker steth had been turned out of his college. The judge con demned the plaintiff very strongly, and nonsuited him. " I find it pays," said the defendant, in answer to the fudge's strictures. A. THREATENING LETTER. There is a traae dispute at Thorneliffe, and Mr. A. M. Chambers, one of the employers, has received the following threatening letter : " To A. M. CHAMBERS. " Sir i think you have huzed your Tiranical power and °pressed the Poor long he enought. Take notice it is no sin to murdur foaks when they try to clam us to death ill blow som of you to hell before i am much older you not coin to bring your boodo blacks into a countrey that I have help to macke, and drive me into another ill huged Powder and boal first you got them damd puding headed M orsbys That know no more that Jack asses about a Pitt hand now you got too north cuntree fools bringin thear shave plans you not get on with them you have to vicit another world before thay be a brodhead her before long you must Prepar to mete your foe if you can ill give that d- gray headed oud b- and the we bige head sum thing to smil at " GREEKE FIRE." Addressed, "A. M. Chambers, Bell Mont, Chapeltown." CA LCI?AFT, THE EXECUTIONER, DIFFICULTIES. At the Taunton County-court on Wednesday, Mr. Sully, landlord of the County Itn, Taunton, sued Wm. Calcraft, the public executioner, for 13s. 9d., the amount of a bill incurred by him while staying at his house in 1867, when he came to the town to execute Britten for the murder of his wife near From°. The following were the items of the account : Bed, ls ; breakfast, 3s; dinner, is 6d; tea, 2s; supper, 2s; grog, 2s ; beer, is 9d ; boots, 6cl. Some time after the plain tiff *rote to the defendant for the money, and received the following reply : London Sept th2B 1869 Sulloy iam quite a Shamed at your meanness of sending me that open peace of paper to expose me in that way to think that you want me to spend 2 or 3 pounds to com to your place to Pay you the som of 14s with i never had half of it will Swear if had you had half of it what did it coust me when who ware out together you never spent one half penny and you to charge me that exorbant sum isuppose you thought of fritening me but iwas born too near swood to be intoned by an Owl the sum you charged me the Shiriff ought to have setteled long ago ihave sent you the Beastley bit of paper you sent me in an invelope not open as you sent it me you can doo what you like with it as soon as it is convnant iwill send you apost °lac order for the over charge of 14s with acheck upon you for so mean an action —W inever was served Such amean action in all my life inever hat such athing in my house before mean mean The Registrar: How is the defendant able to pay?—Plain. tiff : At once, I should think.—The Registrar : But trade is bad now, is it not ?—Plaintiff : It has been lately.—His Honour: Caleraft must pay in a month. LAW AND POLICE. ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—At the Middlesex Sessions, a man named Cane was sentenced to eighteen months' im prisonment, and hard labour, for assaulting the police, being drunk. TEE NEW Worms!roP ACT.—An artificial flower maker has been fined £3 and costs, at Southwark, for permitting a number of young women to be employed in her work roorg after nine o'clock at night. A SOLICITOR SENT TO PRISON FOR TWELVE MONTHS.— Mr. Craig, a solicitor, of Braintree, in Essex, has been charged, at the Essex Quarter Sessions, with fraudulently approi riating moneys entrusted to him. The prosecutor was a beerhousc-keeper of the town, and gave him a sum of money to pay over to another person. It was afterwards proved that he had not done so. The defendant's counsel denied his criminality. He had, through negligence, got the prosecutcr's money mixed up with his own, and should only have been proceeded against in a civil court. The jin y returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CASIIIER.—A man, named Smith, lately employed at Swansea, as a cashier, by Messrs. Ind Coope and Co., the brewers, has been brought before the Liverpool magistrates charged with embezzlement. He had been living beyond his means for some time and had been tempted to appropriate his employers' money. At last he absconded, but conscience induced him to confess his crime end surrender himself to the Liverpool police. He was remanded. POACHING ArPRA - v.—Eight men have been charged with •right poaching at Wakefield. The gamekeepers on the pre serves had received intimation; and were on the watch. An affray ensued, but fortunately no serious injury was done. Three of the men had been previously convicted, and were sentenced to three months imprisonment, the remainder to two months, all being ordered to find sureties fur a year. ANILINE DYES.—It is well known that aniline dyes, sulphate or acetate of indigo, picric acid, &c., have little affinity for cotton fabrics, while uniting very readily with woollen. It has been found, however, that by first impregnating the vegetable fibre with an animal substance, such as the solution of the white of an egg, and drying it these dyes will attach quite as readily as to wool, giving a most satisfactory result. AN IMPERIAL BATTUE.—At the battue which took place at Compiegne, on Monday, tho Emperor killed 133 head of game of various kinds ; Prince de la Mos kowa, 98 ; Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, 74; Prince Poniatoweki, 51; General Dupreuil, 49 ; Baron Dr. Corvi sart, and Captain de Cr6cession, 44 each ; M. Piari, secre tary to his Majesty, 33; and M. Gressier, 35.—Post. Mn. TENNYSON'S MOTTO.—Philadelphia has, it hppears, a society which is named after the Poet Laureate, and it has recently been gratified by the reception of the following letter :—" Sept. 9, 1869.—Dear Sir,—You have done me honour in associating my name with your institu tion, and you have my hearty good wishes for its success. Will the following Welsh motto be of any service to you ? I have it in encrusted tiles on the pavement of my entrance hall : Y Gwyr yn erbyn y byd' (The truth against the world). A very old British apothegm, and I think a noble one, and which may serve your purpose either in Welsh or English. Your letter arrived when I was away from Eng land, or would have been earlier answered.—Believe me, yours truly, A. TENNYSON." A. MISERABLE DEATH.—A widow lady of very eccentric habits, who for some time had occupied two rooms in Milton-street, Vassall-road, Brixton, has been found dead in her apartments. The deceased, who was above 70 years of age, was of singular habits. For days together she was not seen by the other inmates of the house, and would not converse with any person. The landlady not having heard her for several days gave information to an officer, and the door of the room was broken open, when she was discovered dead in bed. A few dried crusts of bread, tied up in a rag, were 01 the remains of food found in her apartment. Her clothing was old and wretched. A large gold watch and 112 sovereigns were found sewn up tightly in her stays. From some old letters found in her box her relations have been communicated with. It is stated that she had a good income arising from money in the Bank of England. SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —AB accident of !tn alarming description occurred to the Londonand North- Western express at Longsight, near Manchester, on Thurs day morning. There was a thick fog at the time, and the train, which fortunately was going at the moderate rate of about twelve miles an hour, came into collision with a luggage train which was being s hunted u p on the main line, ' close to the London-road Station. The engine of tho express; the front van and three suc ceeding coaches were thrown off the line, and several of the passengers wore bruised and hurt. The only serious case was that of Mr. Lowe, of Alderley the treasurer to the Manchester Exchange Company, who was severely shaken. After receiving medical aid, however, Mr. Lows was enabled to return home in the afternoon. The waggons of the luggage train were very much damaged, some of them being almost entirely destroyed; and bales of goods and merchandise were scatterer; about on the line. A body of men speedily set to work to cit:lr and mend the per manent way, which was in a conditle4. for the resumption ref traffic) early gte.N429_ll„ THE PROSECUTION OF THE ALBEBI ASSURANCE COMPANY DIRECTORS. Mr. Hamilton Bromby, accompanied by Mr. Edward Lee, one of the prosecutors in the charge of conspiracy again st the directors of the Albert Assurance Company, Waterloo place, attended before Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough-stre et Police-office, to make an application for fresh summonses against the directors. . _ Mr. Knox said he should be sorry to comply with the application. What he had said on the last application wall if Mr. Straight attended before him with Mr. Lee he would grant fresh summonses. Mr. Bromley understood when Mr. Knox dismissed the summonses last Saturday, that he said if Mr. Lee wou ld appear with counsel he would grant fresh summonses• Mr. Lee was present, if the magistrate would like to 11 c 3ar him. Mr. Knox said on the last occasion, out of considerati on for Mr. Straight, the senior counsel for Mr. Lee, and his great earnestness in the case, it being apparent that ilr. Straight was convinesd of that which ho (Mr. Knox) Or tainly was not, that there was bond fides in the prosecution he intimated that if Mr. Straight would appear with 3 11 ' Leo and ask for summo nses they should issue. Mr. Bromby explained that Mr. Straight was out of town, and further he did not know whether Mr. Straight would have been imtructed to make this application, but at all events he (Mr. Bromby) was instructed to do so, an d Mr. Lee was present to answer questions if needed. rl e was there as Mr. Lee's counsel, instructed by Mr. Murrill, and he now asked that the magistrate's promise last Sat° . day be carried into effect, and that fresh summonses mig ht be granted. Mr. Knox said, in deciding on this application, he mu st take the whole of the facts into consideration, and al justice to all parties. Mr. Lee had already applied an" obtained summonses against the directors, and had been examined in chief by his own counsel in support of hi g caso. Mr. Lee had been partially cross-examined by t he counsel for the defence ; and it was well understood that I' ll serious cross-examination was to be reserved for the neat hearing. Instead of appearing and affording an opportunitl of being cross-examined, Mr. Lee has chosen to absent hi self, on what he did not hesitate to say was a trivial an d trumpery excuse, namely, that he had gone into the ca r try to collect some debts. Mr. Bromby wished to make a few remarks personal to himself. He was partly responsible for Mr. Lee's absenc e ' and what had operated on his mind in advising Mr. Le e was this, that it was extremely hard on a private indl viclual to have to incur considerable expense and COr siderable personal inconvenience in endeavouring to se t the law in motion against persons whom, rightfully °r wrongfully, he believed to be criminally responsible. Lee was not aware that he would be required to be pro e t, at the next examination, believing that the witnesses be Called would occupyall the day with their . examinatio rl ' It was Mr. Lee's intention to have attended at the 1 014 examination, and to have afforded the counsel for the defendants an opportunity to complete his cross-exarain ly tion. Mr. Knox said it was well understood that the er o s il '_,. examination by the couns.el for the defence on the fa" occasion was merely preliminary to a more serious cost' examination, which was to have taken place on Satura!/ last. Mr. Lee chose to absent himself. He (the inagli trate) now said he absolutely an d peremp t or il y declin e to grant fresh summonses, except they were applied for by Mr. Straight, and an assurance given by that g entle that he had carefully looked into the case, and was satin fi e f there was bond fide ground for a prosecution. As be 4 11 ! not consider that Mr. Lee was a bond fide shareholder, n" did not feel himself justified in bringing the directori to the court again, and must therefore refuse the aPP Ii cation. 1‘ THE CASE OF CHILD STEALING. On Thursday morning Elizabeth Barry was brought at the Town Hall, Maidenhead, for examination bac" Mr. L. Moffatt Priest (Mayor), Mr. J. D. Rawlins, Mr Nicholson, Mr. R. D. M. Pearce, and Dr. Powis, on t°'" charge of stealing the infant child of Colonel Hickie. inquiry created a great.deal of local interest. The CO was crowded in every part. The prisoner is a woman about 45 years old, stands V° feet three inches, is round-featured, and of fair complexion' She was attired in black. Having been stationed /win e ' diately before the bench, Louisa Cooper was .the first witness called. She depesc a ; I am a servant in the erploy of Colonel Hickie. was nursemaid at Colonel Hickie's up to the Bth of t a month. Colonel Hickie has four children. I saw the prisoner leave the house of Colonel Hickie on the inst., shortly after three o'clock in the afternoon. t ° had the youngest child with her. I thought she svi going for a walk. She never said anything in my presen i c a ° that led me to believe she was going "t o t a ke the ell i ; away. I have not seen the prisoner from that time to ting She had notice to leave her place. After she had O t t ° given her, I hcard her say, " I have not done with Al '; Hickie yet, and that Mrs. Hickie will know before I lea ve this house." Prisoner: I don't remember saying these words. James Francis Hickie I have a family of four children" I was in Ireland en the eighth of this month, a nd from fermatien I received I came to England. Upon arr i l home I found that the prisoner had left my servic e ' 311 had taken with her my youngest child. I gave no euti ft rity for the prisoner to take it away. She did it w ith() ; my consent. I offered a reward for the ?over,' of child. I received no reliabS\ information until the aft er noon of Sunday last, when I receive a telegram stating that the child had been recovered in the prisoner's P eB ff, sion. The child is now here, its curls have been cut ° and its clothes altered. Police-constable Holdway said he went to Liverpeelih°: Tuesday with a warrant for the apprehension ef prisoner. The prisoner was handed over to him a t sel e e i o'clock on Tuesday evening. Ho asked her if sh e t. - c i what he had come for. She said, "Yes ; about the ee " I suppose. I took it as a companion. I was going to at Liverpool, and keep it by needlework." The prisoner then made the following statemen tone scarcely audible to the Bench :—ln my saying tmt4 „ t 9 iti had not done with Mrs. Hickie yet, it was because s he - do sho would not pay me my wages until I t o ld her wha t v3a me so unhappy in her house. I intended to enter into I'6o titulars about thing s un pl easan t i n th e kitchen l ' Af e tei would leave, and that was the reason I spoke so. d that Mrs. Hickie sa id I was no t fit f or serv i ce . She 3 ` ilf ,!:ll me not to take another situ a ti o n, an d th a t was the re- c i ° l I resolved not to go into another situation a gain' a ' n r thought I would take a parlour and commen ce -L A I making, and I was grieved to leave the child, h ec3- ii ' loved it so, and I made up my mind to take the eh with me. did not think of the grief of the p ar w 4 or I would not have done it. The day following I ' , A d very sorry, and would have returned the child if I 113'1410 the means of doing so. I took a parlour until I tb°,o,4 what I should do. I would have seen about s ell 00 the child back again, only I caught a severe cold e f %isi morning I arrived in Liverpool. I was very ill. *fo rmable to see about it for two or three days. 1911 t r o i'' clay week following I asked the landlady's daughter 00 0' to the priest and ask him to come to me, as I had 1-0 thing important to tell him, and I received word th at do e; to go to the priest myself. I went, and she a,ccomP al ' i ie oo 3 but as he was in the chapel I could not see him , and .001' to wait for the priest till he came into the cenf ol l o oo I told him if ho would come to WY I could explain the thing better, as it was concerP;; child I had taken from its parents. He did liot °3 ' a oyt would or ho would not come, so I went home, alf,the Friday I thought he might come but he did not uP sic iaS afternoon, and then I resolved to write to Di r i o pa r f myself, and asked the landlady for envelope and and I wrote last Sunday as follows :—" Mr s ' If you are desirous to have your child Y ou 1•" her '- her at No. 7, Jude's-place North, Liverre'sfoorf addressed the envelope and put on a postag e peo e . and I was just going to put on my thing s ° biro the letter when the detective came, and I gu °° to the letter. The reason I wanted to give the child up where priest was because I did not like to leave the chi ld an I was staying, as I knew nothing about the PeeP le ' thought that by giving it t o th e priest he n il ire' that it was well done to, but as he did not conic go• the note, and if I had posted it on the Sunday as 0° Elickie would get it on the Monday. I saw thewag the k other alternative. I was very sorr y I t oo tfl child, and have repen t e d o f it e ver since I . o t o away. I did net thi n k a t th e ti me I took the c i n ni . th trouble it was to th e p aren t s, an d I just acted t u .ti - j oa impulse of the moment. Whilst the child wag wir, it t 9 f-reated her well, an d as f or th e cutting off her it because it wante d cutting, and to streng then it, '" ha a weak, very uneven, and it always came in her :yes no 0 ry Tiro flushedi iliso, nno had feeling whatever against Mr. and Mrs. ili ci, bo otil was th en 1 1 le n had fullydcuorminnglithteera to otaßtcemad take her trial. e i n o t g 60 ,01 tc ,11 0 the We are requested (says the Times) to state t ' , tio S Bishop of Oxford expects to be able to hold autolllll3sdat Christmas for the Winchester diocese, and slates should at once apply to him at Oxford. 0 03 The cg doggy" of a pit at Netherton has heel), et 1s the Stourbridgo magistrates £lO and costs for nee ° 1 0 fence off a daugerous place in a pit uutler cgi0.04,144 consequence of atis neglect a boy wont into tha place, 0,14 clißEET__n thy gEfßto cicOolio acid Pik at c'