The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The Timesobserves that the news that the Viceroy of Egypt has accepted the conditions contained in the last despatch from the Grand Vizier will give satisfaction to all who take an interest in the stability and progress of the East, while it will effectually dispel the apprehensions that had gathered under the influence of so many alarming rumours. The anticipation we ventured to express last week, that the Viceroy would feel it advisable to accept the con ditions on which the Sultan insisted, has been fully confirmed. Ismail Pasha assents to the principle that the taxes of his province shall be levied in the Sultan's name and by the Sultan's permission, and that no new foreign loans shall be contracted, except by the authority of the Sultan. It seems that this question of the financial dependence of Egypt was one on which the Sultan was particularly in earnest. He looked upon the power of taxing, and still more the power of borrowing, as weapons in the hands of his vassal that might at any time be turned against himself; and the unwillingness of the Viceroy to cede this important attribute of his dominion only confirmed the Porte and its master in their belief that it must be taken from him at any cost. The Viceroy has yielded, and there is every reason to be satisfied at this termination of the dispute. As regards the people of Egypt themselves, there can be no doubt they are to be congratulated. Egypt is perfectly safe from foreign invasion, and the costs of armies and fleets are useless burdens on the people. The good sense of Europe has decided that the Porte was justified in its demands, and it cannot be doubted that the influence of this opinion has been powerful in producing the settlement. We must not ignore another element which, though not so palpable to Europeans, has, we may be sure, not been absent from the calculations of either party. It is that the political conditions under which Mehemet Ali rose to his unexampled fortunes no longer exist. If another member of the Viceregal family were to arise with the military genius of Ibrahim, he would not find a distracted empire to attack nor a devoted army to follow him. Whatever may be the relations of the Turkish empire to Christian em pires and to its own Christian subjects, it is as regards the Ifussulman population remarkably united. The name of She Sultan is a power in Egypt, as elsewhere, and it would be difficult to engage its people in serious resistance to his authority. Dr. Johnson, as is well known, says the _Daily Nero, pronounced the Irish to be a very candid people, for they never spoke well of one another. A native proverb, of a somewhat homely kind, pleads guilty to this indictment, saying that whenever an Irishman is making, another Irishman is sure to be turning the spit. We seem to be approaching better days in this respect. A good deal of fraternal feeling is now being expressed on platforms whence mutual denunciations were once thundered. A reconciliation and reunion are on foot. Evidence of this change of sentiment is conspicuous in the proceedings of the Duke of York Orange Lodge, the members of which met on Tuesday in the Molesworth Hall at Dublin. Mr. W.John ston, of Ballykilbeg, the member for Belfast, the recognised chief of the Orange democracy, seems to have given the tone to the meeting ; and the feature which was the most con spicuous in it was the indirect sympathy which he ex pressed with Fenians and with Fenianism. Captain Madden, of Monaghan, expressed his great delight at the result of the late Tipperary election, and his gratitude to the Tipperary people who had chosen that honest man, O'Donovan, Rossa, M.P., as their representative. But Captain Madden is not content with this victory. Ho would like to see the convict Luby elected for another con stituency. The force of this compliment to the honest Fenians is somewhat weakened by the colleagues whom he wishes to give these unfortunate patriots. "If the devil was returned for Cork and one of his angels for Galway," says the captain, "so much the better." Probably he thinks that these honourable members in posse could be relied on to oppose Mr. Gladstone's Ministry. We have not heard that there is any intention of nominating them. Captain Madden, too, holds that, as between the Fenians and the English Government, Orangemen should remain passive. The Orange Society, if it is of one mind with the distinguished brothers who spoke at the Molesworth Hall, evidently conceives itself to be an independent power. It issues its proclamation of neutrality between her Majesty and the Irish Republic with as enol a conviction of being within its right as the British Government displayed when it issued its Orders in Council with respect to the bellige rents in the American civil war. The Telegraph remarks that the Lord Mayor was com pelled, on Wednesday, to fine a gentleman 2s. 6d. and costs, in all 4s. 6d., for travelling on the South-Eastern Railway in a second-class carriage with a third-class ticket. According to the railway people, the practice had become so prevalent, that "travelling ticket inspectors " —locomotive detectives, so to speak—had been ordered to accompany the trains, to watch for delinquents. One of these inspectors said the person charged left a third-class carriage at New-cross and entered a second-class compartment, in which he remained until the Cannon-street terminus was reached. There he gave up a third-class ticket, snd did not tender the difference of fare, which amounted to the enormous sum of twopence. The inspector stepped up, demanded the culprit's name and address ; the two pence was tendered, but declined, the company wishing to make an example. The defence was, that the passenger got out at New-cross to speak to a friend; that when he returned to his own carriage he found it full; and that in that emergency he entered a second-class compartment, and so completed the fag-end of his journey. The inspector declared that there was room in the third-class car riage, and on the strength of the official statement the defendant was amerced in the sum above mentioned; but the Lord Mayor took occasion to comment with deserved severity on the injustice and one-sidedness of the railway bye-laws. How would it be, he asked, if a gentleman who had taken a first-class ticket were compelled, through want of room, to travel third-class ? Could he demand the return of a proportionate amount of his fare? Mr. Lewis, the soli citor who appeared for the company, replied that in such a case the only remedy would be by an action at law. The Lord Mayor, who had been served in that way twice in ono week, really thought that "there should be a remedy on both sides." Here Mr. Oke, the chief clerk, added the remark that "at present the railway companies had it all their own way." It is true that rail way passengers cannot be smashed or mutilated with impunity, but for petty grievances the public have no appeal. The Lord Mayor has pointed out the necessity for a remedy, but who will bell the cat ? Who will watch the next Railway Management Bill through Parliament, or introduce a new measure with a clause empowering travellers to summon railway companies before a police court for summary redress in minor disputes? The Post discusses the report of Mr. Childers's Com mittee, issued in July 1867, on promotion in the non-pur chase corps of the army, and regrets that no action has been taken upon it. "While viewing the present and immediately prospective condition of the non-purchase corps as entirely exceptional, and therefore as requiring exceptional treatment, such a re-arrangement of the regu lations, and possibly an adjustment of the relative propor tions of the ranks should manifestly be made as would main tain the corps in a healthy self-acting state of promotion, without doing injustice, however, to existing interests. Here the report of the actuaries would be of great assistance. They have deduced certain laws, and laid down certain mathe matical fcrmuln by means of which it is possible to design establishments that shall, on the average produce such results, as to length of service in the different grades, as may be desired. Evidently a reduction of the numbers in the junior ranks would be one of the provisions cal culated to prevent future stagnation where it is most felt, without incurring excessive outlay. Bak might not the opportunity of effecting this rearrangement of the strength of the different grades be taken advantage of to give moderate retirements to many officers in the junior ranks, who, from one cause or another, might he willing or anxious to leave the service ? The question of reducing the number of such officers has already been mooted, and it is pretty generally admitted, we believe, that such a change might in many cases be made withont detriment to the service. The Japanese Mint is now under an English supe r . intendent. The lady principal of a school, in her advertise ment mentioned her lady assistant, and the " reputation for teaching which she bear;" but the printer left out the " which ;" so the advertisement went forth commendini the lady's " reputation for teaching she bears." PRESENTATION OF £l,OOO TO THE HEY. Dn. Bnocx.—On Wednesday evening the members of the church and congregation connected with Bloomsbury Chapel met at the Ironover-square Concert room to com memorate the twenty-first anniversary of the opening of that place of worship. A handsome casket, containing £l,OOO, with a suitaLle imcription on a silver plate, was prc2ented by Mr. James Ecnham, the s• - :nior deacon of a, chard:2l. to Dr. 1.:1 - cck., 1. 3 a, n 1,111.-: of h:mour and iespe: , The rev gentleman acknowledged the gift inn spc...ce'a of grew fr()ln Li; attaclicd Lien 1..3 and ,t'.ZihliC intcreit RUNAWAY Husrt...ND3.—At the annual meeting of tho _Liverpool Society of the Friends cf Foreigners in Distress held on Thursday, the report stated that many of the non-resident applicants for relief were persons who bad been induced by unscrupulous agents to spend their last shilling in obtaining a passage to Liverpool in the belief that on arriving there they would at once be for warded to America. Fifty-fivo women and their children from Poland alone had come in search of their busbaildo 1 . 49_11 , (1 gone to America. _ SUSPICIOUS DEA TE OP A PAUPER. On Thursday afternoon Mr. John Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, held an investigation at Hoxton, re specting the alleged murder of John Fresnall, who was a pauper in the Shoreditch workhouse. The remains of the pauper had been buried at Colney Hatch Cemetery,but the coroner' ordered the body to be exhumed, and it was removed to the Shoreditch dead-house. The court was crowded. Tho principal witness was Joseph Ha'let, a pauper, who said that on Monday, the 22nd of November, he was in the workhouse. There was a nurse named Hart in the ward of the infirmary. The deceased was then lying on a bed, and he was delirious. He shouted, " Tobacco ! tobacco !" The nurse Hart then said, "Hold that noise," or " Stop that noise." Sho then went and held a handkerchief over his mouth for two minutes, and when it was removed the deceased shouted "Murder." The wardsman, a man named Clark, then said, " I will do it." Clark then went over to the deceased, and he put a handkerchief over his mouth. He was going to tie it at the back of his head, and the :tune said, "That is not allowed ; soon quiet him." The nurse then left the ward, and she returned with something. Clark then held the deceased down by pressing his hands against the chest. The woman then stood on the opposite side of the bed, and she poured something down the deceased's throat. After the dose had been given to the deceased he never spoke or made any more noise. He remained insensible until within about an hour of his death—twenty-four hours afterwards. —Clark, the wardsman, said that on the day mentioned the deceased was very noisy, and Mrs. Hart said, " I shall be under the necessity of gagging you." She then put a handkerchief over his mouth. He was very violent, and I thought that I would intimidate him, as I had done the night before, to get him to take a pill, and I went over to him. Mrs. Hart then went and got some of the customary soothing mixture, and gave it to him. When I put the handkerchief over the deceased's mouth it was done for the purpose of stopping his noise, and Mrs. Hart did it because the man would not keep quiet. She put the handkerchief over him, and "it was just what a mother would do for a refractory child." The woman Hart admitted placing the handkerchief over the deceased's mouth, and further said—The deceased became outrageous, and I not having my senses about me—nobody always has—said, " I will go and get something that will quiet him." I then gave him some soothing mixture which I have for noisy patients. It is supplied to me by the dispenser, and it is left to my discre tion as to when I shall use it. Tho doctor never gave me any instructions about using it. There is no morphia in the mixture. Half a bottle of it would have done the man no harm. Dr. John Whitmore, medical officer of health for Marylebone, said that he had made a post-mortem examina tion of the body of the deceased man since it had been exhumed. He had found no appearance of death from suffocation caused by placing the handkerchief over the mouth. Judging from the evidence, and finding that the drowsiness did not increase during the day after the morphia had been taken, he was of opinion that a sufficient quantity of it had not been taken to cause death. The morphia would become wholly absorbed into the system, and that would account for its not being found. In the opinion of witness death had resulted from dropsy. Dr. Forbes, the medical officer of the workhouse, said he agreed with the evidence of Dr. Whitmore. The jury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict "That the de ceased man expired from the mortal effects of dropsy; and they are of opinion that the conduct of Mrs. Hart, the in firmary nurse, is highly censurable for administering morphia without the doctor's sanction, and they are fur ther of opinion that the wardsman Clark and Mrs. Hart are both censurable for their cruel conduct in tying a handkerchief over a dying man's mouth." LAW AND POLICE. Tim OpERA or "LA GRANDE DrcuEssE.”—ln Vice- Chancellor Stuart's Court, an injunction has been granted on the application of Messrs. Boosey and Co., music pub- lishers, to restrain the defendants, whose name is Chute, and who are members of a musical dramatic com pany performing at Sunderland and elsewhere, from per forming the opera of " La Grande Ducherse de Gerolstein under any similar title. THE PALL MALL GUINEA COAL COMPANY.—The Guinea Coal Company, who carry on business at 22, Pall Mall, obtained an injunction from Vice-Chancellor Malins to restrain a Mr. Haley, who had left their service and set up in business, from using the name of the Pall Mall Guinea Coal Company. The defendant had obtained an office at 46, Pall Mall, and the Vice-Chancellor, believing this was done with the intention to deceive, granted the injunc tion. Tim BANKRUPTCY or A LEGATER,—A question of some interest was raised, in Vice-Chancellor James's Court, in the case of "Trappes v. Meredith," namely, whether the annulment of an adjudication of bankruptcy prevented the operation of a clause by which the interest given to a legat e was by the terms of the will directed to be forfeited upon his bankruptcy. The Vice-Chan cellor said that the general intention of such gifts was the personal enjoyment of the leg,atee, and if that was defeated by the bankruptcy, the clause of forfeiture took effect. In the present instance, however, the bankrupt had exerted himself and got rid of the adjudication before the annuity which was in question became payable. The clause of forfeiture did not conse quently take place. • A SUPPLY OF JEWELLERY.—Mr. Webbing, a member of the firm of Metcalf and Co., jewellers, brought an action in the second court of Queen's Bench. A Mr. Watson Forbes, a minor, married without the consent of his relations, and the plaintiff supplied him with jewellery to the amount of 11,500. A loan of £3,000 was contracted with an assurance association for the benefit of Mr. Forbes and his creditors, the plaintiff being the nominal borrower, and the defendant, a Mr. Hickey, and another being the securities. Of this sum n,OOO had been raid to the plaintiff, -£2)O given to Mr. Forbes, and the .balance was in the de fendant's hands. The plaintiff, alleged that it should be handed,to him for payment of the balance due to himself, and for the use of the minor. The judge suggested an arrangement for the immediate repayment of the loan, observing that the plaintiff was not without blame in allowing so young a man to contract so large a debt for jewels. A juror was accordingly withdrawn, each party paying his own costs. CONSPIRACY TO MI3RDER.—A labourer at Erdington, named Thomas Beyie, was charged - with conspiring, with two other men, to murder a fellow labourer. There was a bad feeling between them owing to a law suit. The pri soner was bound over to keep the peace, and ordered to pay the costs. TILE NEW CROSS AcciDP.NT.-fThe New Cross Railway accident on the occasion a the licensed victuallers' fête at the Crystal Palace in June last, continues to make heavy demands on the Brighton Company. An action has been brought in the Sheriffs' Court by Mrs. Bradley, a 3 executrix of her late husband, who died from the injuries received at Now Cross, leaving nine children. The jury awarded damages—£2,soo, £5OO being for the widow, who, in a separate action in the same court, was awarded £224 for personal injuries received on the same occasion. Mr. Plank, who formely kept a public house in the Commercial-Road, was awarded £1,150 damages in the Secondaries' Court Guildhall, for injuries received in the same accident, compelling him to give up business. TWENTY YEARS' PENAL SERTITUDE.—Lewis Kershaw has been sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude at the Manchester Assizes for pushing a woman named Sarah Baker into the Rochdale Canal. ATTEMPTED MURDER AT BIRMINGITAM.—WiIIiaM Page, a painter, has been sentenced to eight years' penal servi tude for maliciously wounding Mary Allenson, at Birming ham. The prisoner went to lodge with the prosecutrix, and the next morning, for some unexplained reason, struck her on the head with a bludgeon. Ho denied having intended to murder her. She has been in imminent danger, but is now recovering, DOG -FIGHTING IN THE POTTERIES.—Three men have been charged at the Longton Police-court with causing a fight between two bull terriers in a field near Stoke. The animals fought for more than an hour, when one died from its injuries, the other being carried home, where it died the next day. Two of the men were small tradesmen, and the other a collier, and they were the referee and ring leaders,the principals having absconded. They were fined three guineas each, or three months' imprisonment in default. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals prosecuted, and the magistrate remarked that the society would do well to endeavour to suppress pigeon shooting as now practised by fashionable clubs. THE WHITTON TR AGEDY.—Mrs. Green, the wife cf the man who murdered Mr. L ouis Keyzor `,Vhitton some short time ago, died on Tuesday, a t Her death is attributed in a great degree to he shock she experienced hem the incidents of the ff.o \tihitton tragedy. A MISER.—AII old man was found dead the other day in his chair at an licAtl in New York. For years he had lived at the hotel, where ho occupied a room at the very top of the house for the sake of cheapness. He never allowed himself a fire, even in the coldest weather, was always poorly clad, and partook of only one meal a day, and that of the coarsest quality, and in the smallest quantity. When his boxes were searched after his death, bonds and securities representing property worth moro than £lOO,OOO were found. TH L SUN, LONDON, Fis IDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. NONCONFORMIST MARRIAGES. The Dissenters are actually "asking for more?' They have only just obtained the right to marry in their chapels, and to enforce the attendance of the registrar, and now they demand that the said registrar shall be altogether withdrawn. It appears that he does not always conduct himself with decency and propriety. The other day, at Birming ham, the State official brought his register, and occu pied himself during the service, the prayers, and the reading, by filling it up. The minister was so incensed by this behaviour—the declaration in his eyes that the State had nothing to do with his religion— that the efficacy of the proceedings were much impaired. The rev. gentleman writes to the Daily News, asking why is the Nonconformist minister to be humiliated by having a State official thrust upon him, while the clergyman can marry without his presence? To which question it may be answered that a clergyman is himself a State official. But there is no reason why a registrar should not behave himself. route or the river San Juan would require only the con struction of a canal sixteen miles long, the remainder of the route being by way of Lake Nicaragua, ninety miles long, and by the river San Juan. Tho Tehnantepec route is 130 miles across from sea to sea, and lies along the course of the Coatzacoalcos river 'TIM FIGHT AT LYNN. The hardly-contested battle for the seat left vacant by Lord Stanley's elevation has been awarded, by official declaration to Lord Claud Hamilton. The contest throughout the day was very severe. Mr. Young had a majority of 200 at nine in the morning, but it never attained that figure during the remainder "of the day. At eleven o'clock the Con servatives admitted that they were in a minority of 50, At noon Lord Claud's supporters claimed to have greatly changed the aspect of affairs through the un tiring efforts which they put forth. Thus the Con servative noon return wa3 as follows :—Young, 800 ; Hamilton, 857. At one p.m. the Conservatives put forth an absolute majority for Lord C. Hamilton, their statement for that hour being :—Hamilton, 932; Young, 020. When the poll closed, both sides claimed the victory ; but the official award gives Lord Claud Hamilton 1 : 031 votes, and Mr. Young 1,032. UPPER HOUSE REFORM. Mr. Lahouchere vigorously attacked the House of Lords in a speech to the Southwark electors on Tues day. Reform in the Upper Chamber, not revolution, is what he desires. lle holds that the peers are for the most part nursed in prejudice, and deluded as to what is good for the country. Not being elected by the people of England, they ought not to possess the power of veto which they have now. Mr. Labouchere believes in the virtue of the two Houses; but he would have a majority of two-thirds in the Lower overrule the Upper. On other matters the candidate for Southwark is equcdly precise. He would have the State provide free education for e v ery person, believing it to be a monstrous thing that England should he fifteenth on the list of nations in respect of the means for national instruction. He upolds the French Treaty and the Ballot. TIIE GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGRAPHS. Noting that the assumption of the telegraphs by the Government is not likely to take place before the end of January, the Tinzes says that the negotiations between the Government and the companies with regard to the time and mode of payment of the com pensation money have not been concluded. An early announcement is expected however. " The total sum to be raised will probably be about £7,000,000, taking into account the expenses in connection with the reconstruction and enlargement of the general business ; but the portion to ineet the awards to the companies is limited to £5,715,048, and an impression is entertained that the large balances that will accumulate in the Exchequer in January from the now arrangements regarding the income and assessed taxes will, with or without some assistance from the Bank of England, prove sufficient for that purpose." It appears, then, that the famous financial manoeuvre will be of use in more ways than one ; but its remarkable conveni ence can hardly be held as a justification. ANOTIIER HOLY ALLIANCE. Two parties only are involved in the Irish Holy Alliance—the Fenians and the Ribbonmen. A. Meath magistrate tells the Daily News that formerly there was much Penianism and little Ribbonism in his county, and that the Fenians looked down upon the Ilibbonmen ; but now both parties meet in the same public-house, and assist each other in carrying out their respective objects by the same simple and summary process of assassination. The Ribbon code is becoming more Draconian every day. The punishment of death, formerly only inflicted for transgressions against the agrarian laws of the society, is now awarded for every offence. If a master dismisses a servant, or a steward a labourer, or a road surveyor refuses to pass a road, he does so at the peril of his life, provided the • aggrieved party bo a Ribbon man. A steward of this magistrate has been twice shot at within the last three months because he found fault with a careless fellow. In short, society in Meath lives under a reign of terror, and the poison of demoralisation is rapidly spreading. That Government should ask Parliament for greater powers is, the writer says, an imperative necessity. CRIME LN thELAND. Though Ireland crimes peculiar to itself, and though these are, unhappily, on the increase at present, yet the judicial statistics for 1868, which are just published, prove clearly that in point of general character the Insh can bear comparison with the people of any other country. The proportion of tramps and vagrants in Ireland is less than the proportion to the inhabitants in England. The proportion of criminals, other than tramps and vagrants, is less than half as many as in the " superior " land. The number of indoor and outdoor atipers is likewise smaller. The number of houses ot ill-repute is about one-third the proportion in England. In the department of treasonable riots and disturbances, agrarian crimes, and assaults, Ireland shews worst ; but compares favourably in the matter of manslaughter, and attempts to murder or to do bodily harm. The number of treasonable and seditious offences returned by the police was 813 in 1806, and 836 in 1807. The return for 1868 exhibits a satisfactory decline, the number being 120. Of these there were only 16 of the more serious forms of treason, as compared with 885 in 1867. Needless to say that drunkenness con tinues to prosper and increase. A LADY FENIAN. The Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry may be considered the leader of the Fenians amongst the gentle sex. She has just sent £lO towards the expenses of Martin, the Fenian candidate.for Long ford, accompanying this gift with £lO more for Mrs. Luby, the wife of another Fenian. Nor is this good lady sparing in her enthusiasm, for in the letter she says : "It will be a bl ess i ng f or I re l an d i n d ee d if Mr. Martin be returned ; and if women are called to the work, how gladly would I work night and day to ensure his return, were I now in Ireland. Oh that everyone who loves Ireland may go to work and Tote for John Martin, the true friend of Ireland, and organise for him a glorious victory !" It will be remembered that this Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry wrote a letter sympathising with the Manchester Fenians—Allen, Larkin, and Gould. THE ORANGE REPUBLIC. The speech of Mr. W. Johnstone, M.P., at the Molesworth Hall Orange meeting, was even more savage than the telegraphic reports represented it. Mr. Johnstone said that both Liberals and Conserva tives hated the Orangemen, and that the only course for the latter was to form an independent party. Little sympathy as he had for the Fenians, he would prefer them, he said, to Cardinal Cullen and the Ultramontanes. The declaration of religious equality can have no effect, we are informed, on the moral and intellectual ascendancy of the Orangemen; and, judging by these proceedings at Molesworth Hall, it would seem not. It is not easy to tell exactly what Mr. Johnstone wants at this crisis; but the following sentence throws a little light on this mystery : I think it is high time that we should tell the Govern ment and the English people that, if there is to be a fight, or an an attempt to set up a Fenian Republie, the Orange men will stand aside, and will protect themselves, main tain their Protestant religion, and protect their homes and hearths, and let the English Government and the Fenian fight it cut between them. Orangedom, then, is to be a sort of paradise in the midst of Irish purgatory--an Orange Republic, in fact. UNIVERSITY TESTS. The supporters of University Tests are waking up to the necessities of their position. The Conserva tives of Cambridge are taking steps towards the organi sation of a counter demonstration to those which have attracted so much attention at both universities. It is to be held at St. John's College on the 29th inst. A protest is being signed amongst the Follows and ex-Fellows of the colleges, and the Professors of the University. It sets forth that, in the opinion of th© protestants, the abolition of religious tests in the University and colleges, either by a permissive enactment of the Legislature or by an Act of Parliament superseding the provisions of existing statutes, will seriously imperil the Christian character of the University and colleges, and their efficiency as places of religious education. The signers of the protest therefore " earnestly deprecate any legislation by which the government and teach ing of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or of the colleges in the same, may be transferred alto gether or in part into the hands of persons who are not members of the Established Church." It is said that the protest has already been extensively signed. ENGLAND AND AMERICA. President Grant's singular reference to the Alabama Claims in his Message to Congress has again revived that controversy. Sir George Young has just brought the matter under the consideration of the Juridical Society. Unfortunately it does not seem that oven this good authority can shed any fresh light on the question. The dispute has materially changed its aspect of late. The Americans think us more to blame for the premature proclama tion of neutrality than for allowing the escape of the Confederate cruisers. Sir George Young, in common with most Englishmen, holds that this.pro cdamation was not premature ; but the Americana are of a diffikent opinion. All efforts to decide the question between the two parties have failed, and Sir George thinks they have become hopeless. He regards an appeal to some third party as the only resource. A decision on the various points raised in this dispute would serve as a guide for the future. One New York gentleman suggested at the Juridical Society that an apology for laxity would suffice, but if we think ourselves in tho right, how can such an apology be consistently made? The proceedings of the Americans towards Cuba prove, in the opinion of Sir George Young, that some authoritative decision is needed, and it is in this direction that the oAlly of compromise lies. ri.ir"--4's PRESSMEN AND TIIE MAGISTRACY. The idea that journalists and newspaper proprietors would quietly consent to he excluded from the magistracy has turned out altogether a delusive one. The Lord Chancellor, if he thought they would tamely Ellbllli t, has by this time dis covered his mistake. He has already been memo rialised on the subject; several local bodies have condemned his exclusive policy ; and he has just had a deputation to protest against it. Lord Hatherley, however, was by no means ready to confesshimself in the wrong, and he returned the usual reply, that be " would take the matter into his careful conside ration." BRADFORD AND CHINA. The manufacturers of Bradford, through their Chamber of Commerce, are demanding from the Government that they shall insist u p on the Chinese carrying out the provisions of their treaty with us. The Chinese (the Chamber complains) are very lax in doing their international duty; if they can avoid carrying out their p ar t t o wards us they will, and will take our acquiesence in their laxity as weakness. It is obviously unfair that England should give to China and obtain no return. The Bradford Chamber of Commerce wish it to be distinctly understood that they desire nothing more than moral suasion; the members protest against the idea that they would desire a war. They believe that a gentle hint from Lord Clarendon to the Pekin Government would produce an immediate effect. ANOTHEIt 'WORKHOUSE. All guardians are not like the brawlers of St. Pancras; some boards look upon themselves as guardians, not so exclusively of the ratepayers, as of the poor. Those of Paddington, for inst ance , ma d e it th e ir duty a few days since to inquire into the state of their work house. They heard that some of the bed-ridden sick had to wear their linen for three weeks, until it be came most foul and un w h o l esome . They were told that sometimes the casuals would have their clothes taken from them, and would, while naked, huddle together in their ward for warmth waiting for their new dress. The male nurse often came on duty beastly drunk, and a spirit of negligence seems to have prevailed throughout the house. The guardians dismissed the officer who had been the cause of the unsatisfactory state of things. In how many houses would inquiry reveal the same disorder ? EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. Assistant-Commissary -General Ross, who writes in favour of telegraphic communication with Australia, co nsiders the progres s o f th e A us t ra l a sian colonies to exceed in rapidity even the growth of the United States. The industry and energy of the settlers on the great Southern continent can be nowhere surpassed. The total value of their exports and imports now amount to more than one-eighth of the gigantic British trade—a remark able result, considerin the distance of the colonies from civilised centres and their small popula tion. The number of inhabitants in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, amounted alto ether in 1867 to only 1,700,000. These settlers, a handful co m p are d w ith the territory they inhabit, cultivate two million acres of land with corn crops, and hold 320 millions as pasture. Their live stock numbers over M millions. General Ross believes that the Australian colonies afford one of the finest fields in the world for emigration. Tho great obstacle at present is the distance. There seems no way to overcome this difficulty except by transporting settlers free. A NEW FRENCII MINISTRY. Once more we hear that the present Ministry in France, which has been so long tottering, is going at last. M. Emile 011ivier, who has long been the man of the situation, preserves his supremacy in spite of some very suspicious manccuvres. He has alienated some friends, but he has gained others. He has now made up a party of various elements, which amount altogether to one half of the Chamber, and a Liberal programme has been put forward. Tho correspondent of the Telegraph says that M. 011ivier will be in power within four days, perhaps sooner. M. 011ivier's shufliings between Liberal and Imperial ideas have caused general distrust, but there is no one else to whom the country can look. TURKEY AND EGYPT. The dispute between the Sultan and the Khedive is settled for the present. The latter had outrun his authority in many respects; the Sultan demanded that he should regard himself in practice, as well as in theory, the vassal of the Porte. The Khedive accepts terms imposed by hi s li ege -l or d, an d w ill soon Constantinople to p a y hi s respects to p e t o s m th e e to Abdul Aziz in person. FOREIGN NOTES. SPAN, In the Cpanisn U rtes, Senor Martos, the Minister of State, has just made some observaticns with respect to th: (Ecumenical Council. Ire said that if the Council came to any decisions that were contrary to the principles of the Spanish Constitution of 180, the Government would oppose them with all its force. The Government had telegraphed the substance of this to Rome, because it required all Spaniards without any (listinetion to respect the Constitution. The majority of the Cortos seem to have as mocha reluctance to offer the crown to the Duke of Genoa as the Duchess of Genoa has to permit him to accept it. The state of hrertitude con. tinues. PO nTrGtt. Aceor ling to Oho latcst accounts, Portugal is lik(ly t: be the scene of serious disturbances. On the fift'a December a demonstration against Marshal Sahlanha tool pia at the theatre. A number of military men called afterwar's on the Marshal to protest against the mani festation. The Government sent several commanders of companies i - Ito the country on account of the affair, and took some o' her measures to preserve order. Some pencils are anxious that Saldanha should be placed at the head of the Cabin-t, and others are against the scheme. It is expected that other military demonstrations will be made. THE .kIICITTIISHOP OF VIEN'NA. Th e N ew F re i, T r . ss e, an Austrian journal, attacks the pastoral lett lr of the Archbishop of Vienna. Cardinal Rauscher attributes the opposition to the ecumenical Council to the apprehension with which the enemies of Catholicism see the bishops of the Catholic world gatherel round the rope. "In what unaccount• able self-delusion," exclaims the Preve, "do these princes of the Church live ! They imagine they have only to meet in Rome to reverse the course of lime and force civilisation to retrocede eight centuries." No d )übt, it adds, there would be reason to tremble before the assembly if it had power to enforce its will, for the pastoral of the Cardinal is redolent of fanatical hatred for everything which does not bow humbly to the Church. A more complete perversion of historical and scientific facts has never been given to the public. FINANCIAL MOVEMENTS IN EGYPT. Unsatisfactory financial symptoms are said to be mani festing themselves in Egypt. The Khedive is understood to be negotiating for a large issue of Treasury Bonds. It is believed that a transaction of the kind for -0,400,000 was recently effected, and a loan of £300,000 has been concluded with parties in England. Although so recently as 1863 the Viceroy raised a loan of £12,000,000 on condition that no further appeal should I e made for five years, it is affirmed that the floating debt has since been increased to the extent of six millions ster ling—a total which will be enlarged to ten millions if all the demands lately made are carried out. The Times in Its money article expresses the opinion that these enor mous sums cannot be accounted for by the Suez Canal or any other such source of expense. The Khedive must be preparing for eventualities with Turluy. A NEW AMERICAN LAKE. A geological surveying expedition, which Lai ben sent out Ly the Canadian Government, has lately returned with the news of an important discovery. The explorers report the existence of a largo lake some thirty miles to the north of Lake Supa• rior, connected with it by a broad and rapid river. This lake, which they have called Nipi gon, is studded with islands of different sizes and ele vation. They believe it to be larger than Lake Ontario, but were compelled to suspend researches by the approach of winter, after they had traversed more than 500 miles of °oast. TIM Alma ux CANAL. American engineers are busying themselves to prove that the isthmus connecting the Northern and Southern continents, can be canalled without any greater difficulty than the Isthmus of Puez i T's.naras. is only t wen t y - e i g ht liattiviat-ithiletalbUt ho—Nicaragua NEGROES IN TENNESSEE. The House of Representatives in the State Legislature has tabled the bill permitting negroes to hold office and to be jurors, while a bill repealing the law imposing penalties for distinctions in public cars end other places on account of race, has passed to a third reading. SOUTH AMER WAN SUBMARINE CABLES. A scheme has been laid before the Chilian Congress for the connectien of Valparaiso and Panama by a submarine line of telegraphy, the line to touch at all the principal ports in Chili, Bolivia, and Peru. Another project is for a submarine line from Valparaiso to Buenos Ayres, and both questions have been referred to a committee. As busineFs is gradually reviving,and confidence is being restored, now that the fear of the earthquakes threa`ened by Falb and Saxby is relieved, it is likely that some action v ill be taken. At a Liberal dinner which took place at Lichfield on Tuesday the Earl of Lichfield said he could not help taking that opportunity of saying that if be did not join the National Education League it was not from any diff,rence of opinion upon the objects the rnewbers of the League had in view. There were at the present moment three schemes before the counry, and they would require most careful consideration : the scheme of the League, the scheme of the union, and a scheme which had received less considera tion than it deserved, and which Lid been brought before the country by Mr. Bruce and Mr. Forster, who met a large number of persons at Manchester to discuss the subject. He had had nothing to say against the League, except that he thought it bad too much overlooked the great benefits that had been derived from the existing system. He doubted whether the objects of the League would be achieved unless the great benefit that had been conferred by the present system were recognised. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES: GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The report of the directors of this company states that the gross receipts upon the whole undertaking, including the Buffalo and Champlain lines, had been, for the half-year ending the 30th of June last, £674,621; from which was deducted the ordinary working expenses (being at the rate of 67.59 per cent., against 65.93 in the corresponding half last year), amounting to £455,958, and for renewals, &c., of permanent way and works, £77,039, mak ing together £532,997, leaving an available net balance earned in the half-year of £141,624. From this was deducted £24,841 loss on American, leav ing £116,783, against £129,925 in the bailie half of 1868. From this was deducted £17,206 for postal and military revenue due to the postal bondholders, leaving £99,577 ; out of this was deducted £18,277 for interest on certain loans and debentures,£sl,766 for rents of leased lines, and £10,779 for Equip ment Bond interest, leaving a balance of £18,755 (subject to the claims of the Buffalo Company). Comparing the results of the half-year's working with the corresponding period of 1868, there was an increase in the gross revenue of £27,824. The aggregate expenses for the half-year, apart from renewals, amounted to £455,959, as against £426,477 for the corresponding half of 1868. The engineer's report showed that£4o,ooo was spent in extra labour alone in clearing the line from the vast accumula tion of snow which had fallen during the storms, and the extra cost to which the locomotive an d car departments were subjected in their battles with the elements justified the statement that from those various causes an additional sum of £20,000 was spent beyond the expenditure of ordinary win ters. The snow-storms of the last half-year were estimated to have cost the company not only an ad ditional expenditure of £20,000, but an estimated loss of traffic of £40,000, of which £16,000 would have been profit, thus making an aggregate loss of net profit of £36,000, which would otherwise have been added to the results actually shown. The cost of fuel was less by £l,BOO, although there had been an increase of 132,868 train miles run. The aver age receipts from passengers in the half-year were 6s. 9d. per head, against 6s. Bd., and 16s. 6d. per ton of freight, against the same amount in the cor responding half of last year. The charge for re newals amounted to £77,039, against a total charge in the corresponding half of 1868 of £67,403. In cluded in the above charge for the half-year was £14,519 for extra weight of rails. The weight of rails was 751 b. to the yard, and the number of miles actually relaid was 621. The loss on American currency was £24,841, against £18,882 in the cor responding period of 1868. It appeared from a table in the report that the expenditure out of revenue on renewals from June, 1862, to June, 1869, amounted to £984,848, and for the loss on Ameri can currency to £438,362. The experience of all railways on the American continent had proved that iron rails, as now manufactured, do not stand the strain of a heavy traffic, and they were of course more severely tried in the northern climate. All the trunk lines wore now renewing the heaviest worked portions of their roads in Bessemer steel rails, having found that the best iron rails obtain able do _not last more than five years, and in most cost cases considerably less. The directors had decided in future to relay those parts of the main line where the traffic was heaviest, and the climate most severe, with Bessemer steel, and they would next year send to Canada 5,000 tons of those rails. The other renewals would be continued for the present with iron re-rolled in Canada and the United States. The completion of ballasting of line, which was urgently needed, would tend mate rially to lengthen the life of the rails. The rolling stock was now worked in its full capacity, and large quantities of traffic were every year refused from the inability of the company to carry it. Until the capital already authorised be provided for those purposes the company could not be placed in the successful position which existing circumstances fully opened before it. The growing confidence entertained towards the company in Canada had been manifested by the capital subscribed at Mon treal to supply to a moderate extent the deficiencies in the rolling stock. Five hundred box cars had been already contracted for, and it was hoped that this local capital would provide a further quantity of 200 cars, at a total cost of about £115.000. This would be valuable aid, both as regarded the extra traffic it would produce and the evidence it afforded of the interest taken in the railway in Canada. There was no doubt of the fact that ample traffic existed to give a large average increase to the weekly receipts, and it was equally true that the present rolling stock was not sufficient, at the cur rent rates of carriage, to "add materially to the present gross returns. The local rates upon the line were regulated by a tariff which varied with the season, and they were raised at certain regular dates, as the river and lake navigation became more costly and difficult, until at its final close at the end of November they attained their maximum. Dur ing the whole of the year 1869 the through rates had ruled considerably lower than in 1868, and in 1868 they were below the rates current in 1867. Al though the rates were raised in the latter weeks of October to something like the higher standard of 1868, they were still. 10 per cent. below that stan dard, and the higher tariff which was confidently expected in the early part of November was, in all probability, arrested by the breakdown of the prices of produce at Cli . i.erigo and throughout the West. In consequence c f the lo w rates of the current year, as compared with t those of last year, an average in crease of above £2,000 per week had been lost to the company. The directors were happy to report that an agreement had now been concluded be tween the Buffalo and Grand Trunk Boards, sub ject, of course, to the approval of the proprietors of both comp.? lies. It had been arranged that the agreement should be approved by the shareholders of the Burd'o Company before the Grand Trunk proprietors - .were asked to ratify it. The directors were further ,!)appy to announce that they saw every prospect of being able to pay the interest for the current li mi the first preference bonds. BOM RAY, B ARODA, AND CENTRAL INDIA. The re POrt of the directors of this company states that the ' ce.tal receipts on stock, shares, and deben tures an Jo anted to £7,453,489, of which £19,488 was re'zeil :ed in the past half-year. The total ex- Pemlitu.r e on capital account passed and brought to account waa £6,618,831, and the amount in stores and math :dale on hand was £618,314. The railway was opened to the Marine Lines Temporary Station in Back Bay on the 19th of June last, a further dis tance of about / of a mile, thus making the open line 308 Miles in length, with 46 stations. The principal works on the open line had been those connected with deepening the pier foundations and strengthening the piers of the Nerbudda and other large bridges. The 2/ miles of line from Ahmeda bad to the north side of the Saburmutte river would shortly be opened. Some of the pier foundations of the bridge proved exceedingly difficult, and the screwing for four piers had to be carried to a depth of 63 feet. The total gross receipts for the half year ending June last amounted to £277,733, over 308 miles, as compared with £276,410 in the cor responding period last year, over 306 miles, show ing a slight increase of £1,323. The receipts per train mile were 12s. ld. in 1869, against lls. in 1868. The total number of passengers carried was 923,516, against 820,580 in the corresponding half of 1868, showing an increase of 102,936. The whole increase in receipts under the general head of coaching traffic amounted to £5,215. This was partly due to thi great Towra Fair, hell near Broach, in the spring, and which only happened once in every 20 years. The tonnage of public goods carried in the half year was £97,186, as compared with £98,831 in 1868. The tonnage of railway materials conveyed was 17,733, against 16,424 in the same half of 1868. The merchan dise receipts amounted to £155,981, as compared with £157,113 in 1868, showing a decrease of £1,132. In the miscellaneous items of the ac count there was a diminution of £2,789. The total working expenses amounted to £185,948, or 66.96 per cent., as compared with £177,571, or 64.24 per cent. in the corresponding period of 1868. The train-mile rate of expense was Bs. ld. in 1869, against 7s. 7id. in 1868. If the carriage charged for the collection and delivery of goods had been deducted from the gross merchandise receipts as heretofore, the working expenses would have been £165,775 in 1869, as compared with £153,217 in 1868. If further special charges not applicable to the half-year be eliminated in both cases, the figures of ordinary working cost would stand in 1869 at £143,956, or 55.88 per cent. of the receipts, and in 1868 at £147,174, or 58.38 per cent. of the re ceipts, the train-mile rate being 6s. 31d. in 1869, and 6s. 3/d. in 1868. The principal item in the special charges in the present account was £18,333, on account of the works of repair and strengthen ing rendered necessary by the damages of the mon soon of 1868, amounting to £53,921 placed to a suspense account. The net revenue for the half year amounted to £91,785. The total advances by Government to the company for guaranteed inte rest to the 30th of June last amounted to £2,382,473 ; while the repayments of net profits to the same period reached £721.616, thus leaving the debt due to Government out of half-surplus profits over 5 per cent £1,660,857. By the recent arrange ment with the Secretary of State for India in Coun cil, Government would henceforth have an equal share with the company in all surplus profits above 5 per cent. during the currency of the contract, Government agreeing to cancel the existing debt for guaranteed interest, and taking no account against the company of future advances. The directors fully shared with the proprietors in the disappointment that had been expressed, that the larger part of the original scheme to supply Central India with railway communication by the most direct route between Bombay, DAhi, and Agra bad not been intrusted for execution to this company. Steps had already been taken to have the works of the Veerumgaum-Wudwan Ex tension commenced without delay, and the Board had full confidence that this extension would be constructed with expedition, economy, and effi ciency, and that when completed it would bring a considerable contribution to the traffic of the exist ing line. The directors were not without hope that other fruitful and economical extensions would be made before long into the cotton districts of Guzerat. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. There is no truth in the rumour that the Lon don and North-Western Railway Company have leased the North Staffordshire Railway, guaran teeing the shareholders in the latter company 3 per cent. UNITED KINGDOM TELEGEAPTI. Yesterday an extraordinary meeting of this com pany was held at the London Tavern, Mr. Crowle in the chair. Mr. C. NICHOLSON stated that he had given notice of a motion to the effect that a service of plate should be presented to the chairman, the cost to be defrayed out of the funds of the company, supplemented by voluntary contributions by the preference shareholders. He wished to withdraw that notice, as he purposed addressing the share holders by letter. The CHAIRMAN, in referring to the special reso lutions to he placed before the meeting relative to granting the directors £5,000, the secretary £l,OOO, and the other officers of the company £2,00), among them, said the matter had been so fully discussed that nothing need be said about it ; but he desired to speak of two things. It would be re membered that in the circular sent to the proprietors it was stated that the directors hoped to pay the ordinary shareholders £7 per share. Since that time, however, the directors, by arrangement with the Post-office and otherwise, had come to the con clusion that the sum which would be paid to each share would be £7 15s. He had hoped that he should have been able to tell them further with respect to the arrangements of the Postmaster-General, but all he could state was that the company would be in a position by the end of this month to pay off the preference shareholders with £lO for each share, and 10 per cent. interest for six months, waking a total of £lO ss. each share. Ile was in hopes that the Government would take over the whole concern and pay the purchase money by the end of January. He then moved— " That the sum of £5,000 be granted to the direc• tors of the company, to be divided among themselves in such manner as they or the majority of them shall determine ; the sum of £l,OOO to Mr. William Andrews, the secretary and manager of the com pany; and the sum of £2,000 to such of the other officers of the company, and in such proportions, as to the directors may seem meet." Lord A. CHURCHILL seconded the motion, which was carried. A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the proceedings. The report of the Castle Garden Labour Ex change, New York, from Nov. 1 to the 15th, shows the following facts : —Applicants for employment, males, 967 ; females, 481; orders of employers for labourers, males, 1,023 ; females, 553 ; persons employed, males, 924 ; females, 448. Among these were seven families, compri sing 19 persons. Average number of applicants, 111 per day; of orders, 121; of engagements, 101. Average rate of monthly wages paid to males, $l4; females, $lO. Males, mechanical labour, 168 ; agricultural, 756 ; females, skilled latour, 16 ; unskilled, 432. Males able to read and write, 735 ; not able, 169 ; females able to read and write, 299 ; notable, 149. The Philadelphia Ledger says :—" Rev. Lord John Thynne, D.D., who read the ccnclusion of the burial service at Mr. George Peabody's funeral, is Prebendary of Westminster and Rector of Blackwell, in Somerset. This clergyman is the second ECG of the second Marquis of Bath, and is connected with the United States through his sister-in-law, the Dowager Marchioness of Bath, who is a daughter of Lord Ashburton, and granddaughter of William Bingham, of Philadelphia. The name of the family was originally Boteville, but was changed GOO years ago, when John Botoville was, from the place of his residence, called John o' th' Juno, and thence Thyme." Our readers .are strongly recommended to visit the manufacturing stationery warehouse of Parkins and Gotto, who employ upwards of 150 hands (50100 deaf and dumb) in finishing, pressing, and cutting the finest kin ls of writing papers, stamping paper and envelopes, die sinking, card-plate engraving, &c. Being in immediate connection with all the paper mills, and having all the de tails under their own superintendence, they can supply writing papers, envelopes, &c., at nearly half the usual charges. Here may be seen paper in every variety of size, form, and make, from 2s. the roam of 20 quires to the thick vellum club-house linen paper. Mourning and overland papers of 100 sorts; envelopes of every conceivable shape, colour, and size, and of which they sell 50,000,000 annually; elegant specimens of coloured and emblazoned stamping, dinner programmes, dinner cards, menus, and every kind of fancy Sttiliollery of t l lO/101Ye6t Style. BANK OF FRANCE,. PARIS, Dec. 0. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account.—' DEBTOR. Dee. 2. fr. c. Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 Profits in addition to Dec. 9• fr. c ' 182,500,000 -- Capital (Art. 8, Law, Juno 9, 1837) 7,044,776 02 7,044,7 76 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 2,105,750 14 22, Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 --- Notes in circulation - Banknotes to order and 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 receipts payable at sight 48,942,593 12 46, Treasury account cur rent creditor 222 395.969 01 218,758. 168 6 ,1 Current accounts, Paris 32292-1 lot 15 351,19 9 , 031 i - ' Do. branch banks 45118,677 45,779,808 --- Dividends payable 286,477 , ;.- 851,473 --• 835,692 41 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed 6undries .... 991,66 0 38 991,66,1 38 ~‘ , - 03 51 1 69 10,101,207 67 Total 1 9 ., 4 CREDITOR. Doc. 9. Dec. 2 . Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. ,- Branch banks Commercial bills over -1 5 1 due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 319,067,353 94 309 03 Do. branch banks 285,933,929 302,23 4 , 94 Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch banks 1,803,080 Do. on French Public Securities 22,619,400 Do. by branch banks 8,895,700 Do. on railway shares and debentures Do. branch banks Do. on Credit Fonder Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 931,774 46 339,784 37 21,439,200 2,;,0.2,980 - 1 9 553,000 -- 8:969,600 -- 40,172,190 -• 33,034,400 1,134,900 - 1,`299,400 - 1 129,600 -- 1:217,200 -- 60,000,000 -- 1857) 60,000,000 Clovernment Stock re serve Do. disposable 80,595,187 21 80,595,187 21 Rentes Immobalisees (Law, June 2, 1857) 1C0,000,000 100,000,000 ••• Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches 9,057,681 9,17 1 , 784 Expenses of manage ment " - 9 75 19 2,511,841 43 20 0, 1 8 Sundries Total m Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of Fratice. 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From the "Gazette du Midi, July _ s , l iver No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Yet or 0 0 1 ; complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with f.. s palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant aleepless e ,7 ; 'DO; the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure NO. 1 • 7 „' yea°, Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of ftl a „";,y fro': dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable el'oen_,,e,' dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, eonstipa.tio,F , spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly. - - "vb y• ea_ra 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, SurreY, ° f e at, v diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver deranger ta: lo .' s partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of t ' w ool unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to whic h, ttae- he • authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously ! 2 l i bs 2 2 1 e,i In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2lbs is 6d 5 lbs lie ;,, 1 , 0 60 O'. A 2i lbs 405.-Also Du BARRY'S RSVALENTA Ait • Cat; POWDER. is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 20, I ° . st cn; uPs s ea at 3s 6d, for 43 c ups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, f• -• are - —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s twe e , free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-0 111 ° 6 - , 4o v BAR..Y Do BARRY and Co., N o. 77 Regent s t re et, Len all Grocers and °herniate BIRTHS. 10 o f Honwoop—On the 9th inst., a t Kensington, the .r i fe Arthur Owen Horwood Esq , of a son. th e LAmoxT —On the 7th inst , , at Knockdow, ArgTles birel wife of James L amon t, EFq., of a son and heir. RIAGES'. . BROCKLEBANIC-11rTLER MA — R On tha Bth inst., at Lew l ' . m bara be, t Robert S. Brockleb a nk, o f L e e, to Ise.bel daughter of James Henry Butler, Esq., of Lee, SMITH PLIMSAUL —On the Bth inst SwaffhAtop, folk, I. B. Smith, Esq., of Cleobury /11ortimor,., ' to E. M. Plimsaul, young st daughter of I. r ll3l Esq., of 8 waffham. LI TB 8. 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Offices is 7 Bankers ane ; and / TIFF 131 of th boat Instal; from varior The Instill on its Life 44,250 for The Inst . its manages Contribn and countr' Esq., at the HEALTII R DU BA and . saves fifty t perfect digs refreshing f most disor effectually I ■nmption, rangoments mtervousnes. catarrhs, c th oumatisa ralgia, in h aartburn, I%uses and fits, brooch Cue pit of t' the most for invalids 1111.2ORTA. anu more ti rity, Baron Honcofox Du Barry's and Infant! has alroad: been dooms nose the Ps by it after 1 We quote (8,413):—` Holy Paths ther reins arry's Rol fateful at euofioial praise this Onre No. years' livei floss, kraal digestion, c ervons agi Curo No. Stuart do D ford :—" I 1 food.—STT7 Waterford.' Cure No dyspe . flatul3ney, of Lynn, N Curti No. norvou;nes vo is fAncie Corn No. parte diarr Tbo Foo 21b., 4s. 6kl. et iist3rs, c 113' tin ‘,..anistor cip.3 at !is., itt DA. Jl3l ci 3di.iliY 1) also at F'c GI-Jut - flints: t 4 tv ticrtL rind.