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LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MTNORIES 1. 3yLr,S . , . DRIES ALDGATE 84, ALDOATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGAT] 87, ALDGATI.; 88, ALDC4AT 89, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. Mg. NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET , 08, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 13S, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 2n, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch : 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS, F OR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their business. For trades and ad dresses, see following advertisement. AL RARE COMBINATION. The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be found in every article sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, sr made to measure, for all ages, and all Masses. Commodious apartments for measuring Ind fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Booms, which contain a very large and diver sified stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to tie Erni should .e accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be cheerfully exchanged. or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of _Hosiery and Drapery, Hats awl Caps. and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishmonts are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening- at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following aro the only addresses 'of E. MOSES and SON : THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Bnckstone. THIS. EVENING, THE OLD GUARD: Messrs. Sol. Smith, G. Murray, Trafford, H. Naylor. Meg Llewellyn. After which, ALT, FOR MONEY: Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mifs Maud Haydon, Miss Stephens; Messrs. G. Jordan, H. Irving! W. H. Vernon, H. Naylor. &c. To conclude with A QUIET FAMILY: Miss Polly Marshall, Miss Coleman ; Messrs. W. H. Vernon and Charles Swan. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. rHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. A. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. wEI3STER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Bel more and Mrs. Leigh Murray. At 8 o'clock, THE WILLOW COPSE: Mr. Benjamin Web ster : Messrs. A. Stirling, G. Belmore, J. G. Taylor, Stuart, C. IT. Stephenson, Ashley; Miss Furtado, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Mrs. L. Murray, Miss M. Harris. THEATRE -ROYAL, HOLBORN. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. Fourth Week of "The School for Scandal." EVERY EVENING, at 7.30, the very laughable fare THE SMOKED MISER. At 8 o'clock, Sheridan's inimitable Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Supported by the following celebrated artistes :—Ban v Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, George Honey, W. H. Stephens, Charles Coglan, D. Evans, Lin Rayne, A. Bernard, E. Dyaa. and W. Arthur; Mrs. Hermann Vezm, Miss Jane Rignold, Miss Louisa Thorne, Miss Amy Fawsitt, and Mrs. Charles Horaman Acting Manager—AmonY SULLIVAN, .I) OYAL STRAND THEATRE. 1)4 Sole 'Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. flake and Belford: Mesdames Pufton and Hughes. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. James, Fen ton, Turner, Charnberlaine ; Mesdames Button, L. Maitland, &e. To conclude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. Mr. D. James. pIIF, SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE clelivsrs the LATE EDITION stt Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn. ':Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, PORTING.—JOHN ROBERTS supplies the k LA TFS r EDITION of "THE SUN" as soon as pub . 13110.-4, Bath-street, City-road, F.C. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " J. ITI.)L3IF.S begs to inform his friends and the public centrally that he supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE " as soon as published.—No.lo, Hampstead-road N.W. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" supplied as soon as published, containing all the LATEST NEWS and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. by H W HARRIS, lewspaper Agent, 4, Blackfriars-road, London, S. 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SMITH'S Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden town, ruE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street, skii:and. JHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," giving all the SPORTI.N G NEWS of the day. may ho seen at JEM MA NTON'S house, "The Swan and Horse Shoe," Little Britain, City, E.C. LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " I supplied. as soon as published, Every Evening, by W ALEXA ti D ER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, Ao. 4, Old Xavendish street, Oxford-street. UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS TO LET, consisting of Three Rooms and Dressing Room, with use sf Kitchen. Nice tiarden. Four minutes' walk to 'Bus and Rail to City and West-end.--44, St. Paul's-rand, Camden-square, CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LTFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing , .£'220,000 ASSURANCE FUND, safely invest e d, £1,598,000 SPECIAL NOTICE. MI Persons who effect Policies on the Participating Scale before June 30th, 1869, will be entitled at the NEXT BONUS lo one year's additional Share of Profits over later Entrants. Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained GEORGE CUTOLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. 13, St. James's-square, London. S.W. B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Head Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing feat:dres of this Association aro Equitable Rates, lErtyloubted Security. Prorapt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. T OWN ()SNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH• PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives tho teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel fron t decay, and imparts a pleac , ant fraßranco to the breath. Price is. tA.—lied Pull Wharf, (43, Upper Thames- street, London. MUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL LIABILITY. NON-FORFEITURE POLICIES by a LIMITED NUMBER of PAYMENTS. PROFITS may be APPLIED so as to make POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETIME. B RITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 4, Queen-street-place, Southwark Bridge, E.Cj NEW POLICIES ISSUED. New Policies In Weeks. issued. Ic6B ... 3 ... .. 86 —£14,250 1869 3 108 18,431 Excess .. 22 £4,231 In 52 weeks ending April 7th, 18G9 ... 3,105 —.£539,442 NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. .TNO. GOSINtLL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, Be. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. ILA Bill' Wharf, Angel-pas sage, 03, Upper Thames street London, E.O. A MORNING and EVENING DRAUGHT.— LAMPLOUGH'S PYRETIC SALINE is most agreeable and efficacious, preventing and curing fevers, skin complaints, and inflammation. It instantly relieves the most intense head , ache and thirst, and if given with lime juice syrup is a specific in gout and rheumatism. —ll3, Holborn hill, London, E.C. IitYSTAL PA LA CE. —The GRAND DI S ‘..) PLAY of FIREWORKS and ILLUMINATION of FOUNTAINS in honour of the VICEROY of EGYPT will be REPEATED on the same scale of mag nificence on THURSDAY next, 15th July. The Pyro technic Programme, which will be carried out by the Company's Pyrotechnists, Messrs. C. T. Brock and Co , of Nunhead, will include the Sister Magnesium Balloons — Illumination of the whole of the Grounds and the Water Temples by Coloured Fires (a really grand effect, and one simply unattainable elsewhere)—Great Set Pieces—the immense Cascade of Fire (flanked by gigantic palm-trees), throwing its glittering spray over an area of nearly fifteen thousand feet—Batteries of Guns and Roman Candles — Descent of Fiery Comet, &c., &c. A Military Band will perform during the display. The display of the 29th ult.—the prototype of this— called forth the following notices in the press:— "The set pieces were of unprecedented splendour, and the whole of the pyrotechny was of such excellence as to throw into the shade all recollections of previous displays." —Daily Telegraph, June 30. "Nothing in the fancy of poets, or in the dreams of the authors of the 'Arabian Nights,' could equal the glory of light that, green end gold and red and white, suddenly brought into relief every portion of the grounds, and played in waves of colour on the glass of the Palace itself The final bouquet, or girandole of rockets, has never been excelled in Europe, and threw completely into the shade even those displays that are made in Paris on the Napo leon Fete."—Morning Herald, June 30. " The fireworks were of the most splendid des'cription ; the exhibition was a great FUCCC'SS, and the whole arrauge ments were highly satisfactory."—Morning Post, June 35. Velocipede Races, Fast, Slow, and "Without Hands," at 7.0; Opera "Lurline," at 3.0. Croquet. Match also. Admission, 2s. Gd., or by is. Gd. Tickets purchaseable beforehand. Guinea Season Tickets free. Tickets of admission at ls. Gd. on sale up to Wednesday evening. They should be applied for at once. Special Reserved Seat arrangements will be made; also separate exits to the railway trains for first-class passengers, of which due notice will be given. THE LAST DAY but ONE for ONE SHIL LING and SIXPENNY TICKETS for the above should be applied for forthwith at any of the following agents, the Crystal Palace, or at 2, Exeter Ball : Baker-street —Moutrie, 55 Kensington—Warren's Li- Brixton—Pearce, 2, Brixton- brary place Knightsbridge—Westerton's Camberwell—Griffith, The Library Green London-bridge Stanley, Chancery-lane—Cox, 102 Terminus Charing-cross—Brook, 39 Lower Norwood Barker's Chelsea—Macmichael, 207 Library King's-road New Bond-st.—Chappell, 50 City—Keith, 48, Cheapside o Cock, 63 „ Good, 60, Moorgate- 71 Lacon, 168 street Old Bond-st.—Mitchell, 33 „ Letts, 8, Royal Ex- 011iver, 19 Oxford change o -street—Duff, 117 „ Marratt, 63, King Wil- Paddington—Key, Bishop's liam-street road. „ Mead, 73, Cheapside Peckham—Stansfield, High „ Todhunter, 22, Gres- street ham-street Regent-street--Simpson, 266 „ Cook, 98, Fleet-street St. James's Ball—Austin Croydon—Warren, High- Vigo-street—Hammond street Westbourne-grove Mel- Islington—King, 86, Upper- liship, 37 street Wigmore-street -Nkomo, 3 Kensington—Railway Sta- (late 55) tion OTE.—As no guarantee can be given that distant agencies can be kept supplied, intending visitors should secure tickets at once. CALLAGHAN'S OPERA, RACE, and FIELD GLASSES, of Matchless quality. 23A, NEW BOND-STREET (corner of Conduit-street). N.B.—Solo Agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. A GENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce commodi ies valuable to every householder high and low. This offers a highly remunerative Commit+sion 10 Tradesmen, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to R. MARRISON, Great Orford-street, Norwich. L ONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. CONVERSION OF DEBENTURES INTO DEBEN- TURE STOCK. The Directors are now prepared to enter into arrange ments for converting the Debentures of the Corn: any 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 j (one-half) per cent. is allowed to applicants, and the Stock will be inscribed in the Com pany's books free of all expens , . The interest will be paid half-yearly on the 15th January and 15th July, by warrant. The Stock thus raised will be entitled to the same priority against the property and income of the Company as the Debenture Bond Debt, ranking before the Com pany's entire Stock and Share Capital of Thirty Millions (.£30,000,000), and will bo the first charge on a net income now amounting to upwards of Three Millions 0.3,000,000) annually. Further particulars and forms of application may be obtained by letter addressed to the undersigned. STEPHEN REAY, Secretary. Euston Station, July, 1839. L ONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. The BRANCH LINE of Railway from C'ARNARVON to LLANBERIS is NOW OPEN for Passenger Traffic. For particulars as to Trains sea the Company's Time books. W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, July, 1869. EAST AND W EST COMPANY. INDIA DOCK The COURT of DIRECTORS of the East and West India Deck Company HEItEIIY GIVE NOTICE, That a Half-yearly Court or General Meeting of the said Company will be held— pursuant to the directions of Xct Ist and 2nd William IV., cap. 52—at the Dock House No. 8, Billiter-square, on FRIDAY, the :tit day of July next, for thC purpose Of choOsing and appoint- ng Directors iu the room of th s ose s going out of of ice by rotation. fhe Directors retiring by rotation on the present oc,asion offer liernselves for re-election. At this NI ecting a Dividend will be declared on the Capital Lock of the Company tor the llalf-peat ending the 30th June. By order of the Court. GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. East and West India Dock House, Billiter-square, 6th July, 1869. N.B.—The Chair will be taken at two o'clock precisely. UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital Two Millions. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. DIRECTORS. CHAU:MAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq. DErrTY-CHAIRMAN - Frederick H. Janson, E- q. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq Richard M. Harvey, Esq Hy. Bonham-Carter, Esq J. G. Hubbard, Esq Charles Wm Curtis, Esq G. J Shaw Leferre, Esq, M.P. Charles F. Devas, Esq John Martin, Esq Francis H art Dyke, Esq Rowland Mitchell, Esq Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart Julies Morris, Esq James Goodson, Esq Abraham J. Roberts, Esq Archibald Hamilton. Esq Henry Vigne, Esq Thomson Hankey. Esq SECRETARY—Thomas Tallemach, Esq. AcTuAßY—Saml. Brown, Esq. . - N.B.—Fire Policies which expire at Midsummer must be re newed at the Head Office or with the Agents, on or before the 9th of July. The full benefit of the Abolition of the Government Duty will be afforded to Insurers. Prospectus and Forms of Proposal free on application to the Company's Agents, or to the Secretary. COMPENSATION IN CASE OF INJURY, AND A FIXED SUM IN CASE OF DEATH Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY KIND, may be secured by a Policy of the RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. An Annual Payment of £3 to £6 ss. insures £l,OOO at Death, and an Allowance at the rate of £6 per week for Injury. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS ALONE may be provided against yy Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Jemmies. For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to the Local Agents, or at the Offices, 54, COroituLL and 10, REGENT STREET, LONDON. WILLIAM J. VIAN Secretary. THE " SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE " NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW E3IBROIDERY- STITCH. Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. TEE " SINGER " SE ViING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The peculiar simplicity of these Machines enables any one to acquire their perfect use in a rew hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free. THE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Chief Office in the United Kingdom: 147, CHEAPSIDE. Branch Depots or Loca Agents in every Town THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'THIS ErrNING, THE OLD GUARD: Messrs. Sol Smith, G. Murray, Mag Llewellyn. &c. ALL FOR MONEY: Miss Amy Scdgwick. And A QUIET DAY. Miss Polly Marshall, &c. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIN EVENING, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo Bel more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8, TETE WILLOW COPSE: Mr Benjamin Webster, Messrs A. Stirling, Belmore, G. .J. Taylor, Stuart, C. 11. Stephen on, Ashley; Miss Furtado, Mrs A. Mellon, Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss M. Harris. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tins EVENING, at - .30, THE SMOKED MISER. After which, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Dlr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. J. C. Coy( per, Mr. U. Honey, h r. C. Joghlan, Mrs. HermannVezin, Mrs. C. Horsman, ROYAL STRAND THEATRE, Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. lens EVENING, at 7.M FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Bufton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorns. James. Fenton; If esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland. Bufton. To conclude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. Mr. D. James, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, IR FOR A HOLIDAY. Followed by A ROVING COMMISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers. Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. explicitly confided to his keeping, and which prero gatives are regarded by himself (not unnaturally as the responsible party) as the essential condition of Power, and of the preservation of Order, and So ciety. What more NAPOLEON 111. could do, we cannot conceive. He has been faithful to his com pact with the nation. He has held the reins of power now within his grasp for more than twenty years—for upwards of eighteen in his supreme capacity as EMPEROR. During this interval he has maintained order, he has developed the resources of the country, he has preserved peace so long as it was anywhere capable of preservation, he has maintained unbrokenly with ourselves 'an intimate and most honourable alliance, he has himself in the field conducted a glorious war as Ge neralissimo, and be has, now, after all those years, and after all those unquestionably re splendent achievements, given new and signal proof of his faithfulness to his own promises, by Crowning the Edifice he has been permitted, by PROVIDENCE, to construct—namely, by perfecting, with Parliamen tary institutions, the strength and glory of his Impe ial Government. AT a time when there is much talk about woman's mission and woman's work, it is well to know that even for the childless and the unmarried woman there is close at hand a definite mission and abun dance of work. There is no need for her to seclude herself from the world or to put on a distinctive dress. Excellent and admirable as sisterhoods are, it is possible for the free isolated woman to accomplish quite as much good as the pledged member of a religious society. For proof of this we need only turn to that very interesting article which Miss HILL has written in the current number of Macmillan's Magazine, under the title of " Organised Work among the Poor; Suggestions founded on Four Years' Management of a London Court" Four years ago Mr. ItusioN, who, visionary though his political economy sometimes may be, is by no means a mere theorist, bought nine houses in one of the worst courts of Marylebone. They were in a fearfully, but not unusually, dilapidated condition. Their previous owner was a man of no capital, could not afford to lay out money upon them, and being constantly defrauded of his rent, acted upon the unsound prin ciple, popular also with West-end tradesmen, of making the honest pay for the dishonest. Ile cared absolutely nothing for his tenants, and as a conse quence they cared absolutely nothing for his property. If they asked that repairs might be done he told them that if their room did not suit them they might leave it, knowing well that, thanks to the Parliament which ordered wholesale evictions of the poor without compensation, in order that our lawyers might be more comfortable, there would be no lack of other tenants. The people took their revenge so far as they could. If he selfishly filled the wash-house with lumber, so that they were compelled to wash their clothes in the room in which they lived and slept, they fed the fire with the bannisters and other available woodwork. This, however, was but a poor compensa tion for the miseries which they endured. With plaster dropping from the walls, with grates falling Into the rooms, with leaky water-butts, broken pavements, no drainage, and windows so broken that 'only eight out of 192 panes were found whole, with indescribable filth everywhere, it may easily be con ceived that the inmates of these houses were sickly and wretched. As soon as they came into Mr. RUSKIN'S hands they were converted into habitations fit for men and women. What was filthy was cleansed, what was dark was made light, what was poisonous was made healthful. New windows were made, and the old ones filled with glass ; new grates were fixed ; a slate cistern was constructed ; the washhouse was cleared and thrown open for use ; drains were made ; the yard was paved ; in fact, hovels were turned into homes. At the same time a piece of ground was utilised so that it might serve as drying-ground for the mothers, and as play-ground for the children. Flowers were cultivated, a May pole and a May Queen were instituted. But this was not all, nor half, that had to be clone. Mr. RUSKIN had no intention of creating a court full of paupers. his object was to make them comfortable and healthy and civilised, no doubt, but also independent. Ile entrusted the collection of the rents and the entire superintendence of the property to Miss HILL. Ile could not have done better. Her method was most admirable. She combined firmness with kindness. She collected the rents weekly, and would never allow a tenant to get a single week in arrear. Debt she knew to be the worst foe of the working man. It paralysed all his efforts, it made him careless about his work even when work was to be had and when there was none. Debt made him careless and hopeless. Therefore, hard though it often seemed, a notice to quit was always given when the week's rent was not forthcoming. ii generally had the desired effect. Tenants .:now when they have a good landlord, and they will make an effort not to lose that great advantage. Cleanliness was enforced as rigidly as punctuality of payment. One admirable plan adopted in order to check dilapidations was the setting aside of a certain definite sum every year for repairs, and if the money was not wanted for these it was spent in making any improvements in the rooms which the tenants might desire. These weekly visits which Miss HILL paid to her tenants brought her into intimate acquaintance with them. She knew every one of them—their wants and sorrows as well as their joys. She was able often to relieve the first, and that, too, without sapping their independence. She rarely gave money, though she sometimes lent it with the expectation, generally fulfilled, of getting it back again. She more often found employment. At the time when the papers were full of the terrible distress which visited the East-end during the winter of 1867-8, she, being then abroad, proposed to the ladies who had charge of her work that a fund should be raised to supply the more urgent cases of distress. The reply was that no such fund was needed. The people had been not only helped, but taught self-help. This is one lesson which Miss HTLL draws from her four years' work. Another is the good that ladies may do among the poor by undertaking such a charge as hers. The whole metropolis might be mapped out into blocks if only men and women would work together ; if men would but purchase these houses, and women would undertake to collect the rents and superintend the property. The male capitalist and the female house-agent have in this instance obtained per cent. interest upon the capital invested. At the same time they have bestowed upon the tenants benefits almost incalculable. THE annual reunion of the Cobden Club is always a pleasant gathering, and it becomes increasingly gratifying as years roll on. It is ever an agreeable duty to pay respectful tribute to the memory of men who have unselfishly laboured to secure their country the blessings of peace and prosperity ; and assuredly this gratification is not diminished by the consideration that those labours have been amply rewarded, and that the fruit which they bear increases more and more with the lapse of time. Al r. COBDEN was the exponent of a policy by which he designed primarily to benefit England, in the hops that it might some day benefit the world; but he lived to see it accepted almost unanimously by his country men, and it is now—four years after his death— rapidly spreading over the entire globe. The great Free Trade advocate was one of the most successful as well as one of the wisest of statesmen. If the epitaph, " Si 2nonit»ientu»t requith, eircu»zspice"— " If you seek a monument look around you "—was appropriate to the architect who was buried within the walls of his greatest work, it is not less suitable to the memory of the statesman who founded the political edifice of Free Trade. The growth of the movement set on foot by the party of which Mr. COBDEN was the chief has no parallel. Never before has any change of equal importance been effected in so short a space of time, Fifty years ago Free Trade as a recognised policy did not exist ; fifty years hence Protection in all likelihood will be extinct. The victory of Free Trade in England was achieved in 1846, and how vast is the progress made in the twenty-three years which have since elapsed ! In this country Protection is a creed almost without followers. The rise of British exports from 40 to 130 millions has silenced all opposing pleas ; and Free Trade is now well-nigh as much a matter of course as parliamentary government. Other coun tries have rapidly followed this example; and though in no case has the true doctrine so completely triumphed, in no important State has commercial policy failed to improve. France has adopted a liberal system from which the best results have already accrued. In Austria and the German States recent changes in the duties on foreign products—and they have been very considerable—have been almost invariably in the way of reduction. Even semi-civilised Russia has materially modified her protective system. In Spain the revolution was immediately followed by a Free Trade movement, and though little success has yet been achieved, all attempts to extend the Protective duties have failed. In the United States and the Australian colonies, it is a . lamentable fact that an anti-Free Trade tariff still prevails, but if these peoples have not amended their ways, they are rapidly beginning to see the error of them. Mr. J. S. MILL may safely conclude that Protection in America has seen its palmiest days. It is easy to depreciate the import ance of any of these results, easy to point out the countries in which the old doctrine still holds good, easy to shew that in the case of Russia and other States the system now adopted is only liberal in comparison with what it once was. But when we reflect how slow is the growth of changes of such mag nitude, how great the personal interests yet brought against Free Trade, the good work done by Mr. COBDEN and his brethren cannot be too highly estimated. It is progress, too, which once made is never lost. LATEST INTELL [GEM (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tins EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS. Promenade Concert. Band of CO. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL (J&RDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. ? -7 1. .4" • 14-I _4l l ;ZII III- 4 y LONDOiV, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1869. Our favourable anticipations in regard to the re sults of yesterday, in England, France, and Ireland, have been already, in a very great measure, realized. They have been, unquestionably, justified. What ever sinister prognostications were indulged in by the alarmists who talked with a certain amount of confidence of blood-shed upon the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, as the all but inevitable result of a wide-spread insurrectionary movement on the part of the Irish Orangemen, may be recognized, even now, upon the very morrow of that anniversay, as having utterly vanished into thin air as an evil dream born of a morbid imagination. Those, again, who cherished, with what one might almost after the man ner Sir BOYLE ROCIIE term a despairing hope, a belief that at the last moment the Conservative Op position in the Lords would reject the Irish Church Bill on the motion for thethird reading, in compliance with the counter position of the Earl of CLANCARTY, have found that extravagant anticipation completely dissipated. Simillarly, it may said, now of all those prophets of disaster in regard to the political insti tutions of France, under the imperial rule of NAPO LEON 111., who were exulting up to yesterday in the certain prospect, as they conceived, of the crumbling away of the very foundations of Imperialism, before the advance of the formdidable phalanx of the Opposition in the Corps L6gislatif, that the wish may ba father to the thought, but that in any case the thought has proved to be still-born. The inexorable logic of events has already demon strated the absurdity of the more ominous hints thrown out by the alarmists, as to the disastrous results of y esterday in the North of Ireland, at Paris, and at Westminster —in Ulster, in the Corps Lcigislatif, and in the House of Lords respectively. A single unhappy incident is announced by telegram as having stained with blood the sanguinary date of the 12,th of July—but not, thank heaven, by means of any insurrectionary movement whatever, but through another isolated agrarian outrage, through another insulated attempt at assassination. Inste ;d of the Lords complying with the suggestion of the Earl of CLANCAIITY, that absurdly ill-timed suggestion was withdrawn and the Irish Church Bill having been duly read a third 'dm ; was passed through the House of Peers and sent down, in its amended form, to the House of Commons for further consideration. Finally it remains to be said that at yesterday's sitting of the Corps L6gislatif, the DIPEROR'S Manifesto, as read from the Tribune by the Minister of State, M. RouuErt, fairly took the wind out of the sails of the Tiers Parti—aati cipated all the demands that were preparing among the opponents of Personal Government in France— and did this by virtually announcing, at once, a grand and comprehensive scheme for the develop ment., under the 2Ects of Imperialism, of Respon sible and Constitutional Government. This momentous message, which was yesterday read by M. ROUIIER, in the name of his master the Emperor NAPOLEON, to the Legkl hive Body, it is in no way surprising to observe wls at once favourably received by the national representativss. Its perusal was closed in the midst of resounding cries of " Long Live the Emperer." The result, in effect, could liar ily have been otherwise. Through the medium of the extraordinary modifications thus announced, the Crowning of the Edifice may be re garded as already virtually accomplished. The dynasty is consolidated. The Corps Legislatif is assimilated to the House of Commons. The Minis try will be responsible to the Legislature. The popular branch of the Legislature will retain in its own hands the supreme right of regulating the na tional taxation. The historical document in which all this is announced in the midst of other immense concessions, each of Vassal of very considerable importance, demands and deserves to be considered piecemeal, as it were, sen tence by sentence. The EMPEROR recals to mind, at the outset, his having announced distinctly, on the 28th of last month, his intention to submit at the or dinary session of the Chamber the resolutions and plans which seemed most fitting to realise the wishes of the country. Acknowledging in the very next sentence that the Legislative Body appeesrs desirous to learn immediately what reforms had, been decided upon, the EMPEROR says frankly, " I. think it right to anticipate its wishes." He then rrenaises—" It is my firm intention to give to the pQwers of the Legislative Body that extension which is compatible with the cardinal bases cf the Constitution." Having made which sufficiently satisfactory announcement, he goes on to specify half a dozen of the most important changes upon which he has resolved—" 1. The powers to be accorded to the Legislative Body, in cluding the right of laying down the regulations re lating to its proceedings and the right of electing its bureaux. 2. The simplification of the mode of pre senting and considering amendments. 3. To make it obligatory upon the Government to submit to the Legislative Body all modifications of the tariffs in international treaties. 4. The voting of the Budget by chapter in order to render the control of the Le gislative Body more complete. 5. The suppression of the incompatibility hitherto existing between the position of Deputy and the assumption of certain public f unctions, particularly those of Ministers. 6. The exten sion of the right of interpellation." Having enumerated these six vital important changes—changes by means of which, as we have said, the French Corps higislatif is in a manner assimilated to the English House of ICommons, Personal Government thereby being vir tually replaced by Constitutional Government —the EMPEROR goes on to add, " The Government will also deliberate upon questions relating to the position of the Senate and the more efficient 'solidarity' which will be established between the Chamber and the Government, the faculty of.exercising simultane soounsly oe t o h f e a f l u l n t c h t e i o n o i f s i i s o t e t r h e a nd Cha Deputy, mbor s, the the pre - dis cussion of affairs of State in the Council, the establish ment of a real understanding with the majority elected by the country, and the creation of all those guarantees which we seek in our common soli citude." Well may the third NAPOLEON observe, immediately after these extraordinaryannouncemen ts, " I have already shown several times how much I am disposed to relinquish in the public interest certain of my prorogatives." And reasonably enough may he claim in the closing sentence of a manifesto so generous in its character, that there shall be left intact the prerogatives which the people have most; 'AMERICA. NEW YORK, July 12. The National steamship France and the Guion steamship Manhattan arrived out to-day. COAIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 137* ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 137*; the lowest, 136*. Sterling Exchange on London lO9l. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1234. " 1885 l2ll. ti " 1867 l2Ol. 10-40 44 Illinois 1441. Erie 2Bl. Cotton—Mil. upland 34lc. Petroleum—Standard White 3l4e. Flour, extra state, $6.20c. to $6.80c. Corn, old mixed, 100 e. SOUTHAMPTON, July 13. The North German Lloyd steamer Baltimore, from Baltimore, on the 30th June, arrived here to-day with 61 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen ; also a large cargo for the latter port. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 12.—Three o'clock—The market, closed as follows : ' 4} per Cent. End of month... -- Itaran Fives 54 65 3 per Cent End of month 7l 50 Ottoman Loan ... 324 Credit Mobilier End of month... Spanish Threes 291 Credit Foncier —1640 - Home Debt — End of month... Deferred ...... Cash Orleans ... 9411 Northern 1077* Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6l2* Western Eastern • • Sardinian Austrian Lombard 5271 North of Spain Saragossa Homan 55 RAILWAY POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Mis Day. MR, GLADSTONE AND CONCURRENT EADOTVMENT. The following is the exact text of the letter written by Mr. Gladstone, through his secretary, to the Independent Orange Association of Ulster on the subject of concurrent endowment : " 10, Downing-street, July 12, 18G9. " Sir,—l am directed by Mr. Gladstone to acknowledge the receipt of your letter transmitting the memorial of the Independent Orange Association of Ulster, relating to the Irish Church Bill now before Parliament. Mr. Gladstone desires me to request that you will assure those on behalf of whom you write, that her Majesty's Government, anxious above all things for the success of the great measure which they have taken the responsibility of introducing, will give no countenance either to a direct proposal of con current endowment or to any plan for the postponement of those provisions of the bill which relate to the ultimate appropriation of the residuary property of the Church. They regard any such postponement, independently of the incalculable mischief of keeping alive the controversy for an indefinite period, as the almost acknowledged road to concurrent endowment at some future time. With re spect to the last paragraph of the memorial, relating to the laws affecting land in Ireland, I am to inform you that her Majesty's Government have already declared their intention, as soon as the Church question shall have been settled, to frame a measure for the improvement of those laws, which will aim at placing them on a footing of justice to all the parties whom they may affect— I am, &c., (Signed) " WILLIA.3I B. C unDoN. " James M'Farland, Esq., &c." THE TWELFTH OF AUGUST IN IRELAND, The telegrams from the North of Ireland are most sada factory; they are to the effect that the Twelfth has passed peaceably. Enormous demonstrations, exceeding in num ber any that can be remembered, were held all over the county. Although the Par; y Processions Act was entirely set at defiance everywhere, no disturbances are reported. Belfast has been tranquil all the day. Towards nightfall there were symptoms of disturbance, but they were promptly suppressed by the police. Most of the Belfast Orangemen, however, left the town to take part in the great county meetings. The largest gathering was at Ballymena, in the county of Tyrone, at which Mr. Johnston, M.P., presided. One hundred and thirty-nine Orange lodges were present with their banners, sashes, and music. Everywhere Orange processions were to be seen with their flags flying, bands playing, and Protestant boys firing shots. There were a great many persons on horseback. This demonstration far exceeded that held at Bangor two years ago. Mr. Johnston's speech was temperate. There was no disturbance. Mr. Johnston did not join in the procession. At Antrim there was a great turn-out of forty lodges in Lord Massereene's de mesne. Lord Massereene presided. There was also a vast assembly in the Duke of Manchester's demesne, where the Portaclown Orangemen were in full force with all their party emblems displayed. "At a great meeting at Moira, County Down (says one account) the Rev. Mr. Whalley, Church clergyman, denounced Mr. Gladstone as an agent of the devil." Reports from Derry, Armagh, and Coleraine state everything to be quiet. There was an immense gathering at Saintfield, County Down, but no disorder prevailed. The only case of disorder is reported in the following telegram :—" Eight hundred armed Catholics met in the Muff Glen, a few miles from London. derry. On returning to the city they attacked individuals in the streets. A scuffle with Protestants took place ; one Catholic was stabbed, but not dangerously. The police interfered, and order was restored." Another correspondent writes :—" A great Orange display took place on Monday at Irvinestown, at which 10,000 persons attended. Large bodies of people marched to and from the place of meeting, the Lough Erne Hotel, with flags and bands playing party tunes, and firing off shots at intervals. The police did not inter fere. No disturbance and no demonstration in Derry, but in the evening a scuffle occurred between opposing mobs, in which a Catholic was stabbed ; not dangerously, it is said. A body of 800 armed Catholics lay in wait in Wolfe's Glen for Protestants, but encountered none. Large meetings were also held at Tandragee and Killy man, at each of which, it is reported, many thousands attended. In Dublin itself a meeting of Orangemen took place in the Rotundo, which *as attended by immense numbers, a great many of whom were ladies. All the members of the body wore scarfs and insignia. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed. The Grand Master of Dublin—ThomasF. beck—presided. The meeting partook of the character of a soiree. The proceedings were diversified by music. Several loyal "sentiments" were proposed, and addresses were delivered by Mr. Foster, the Rev. Thomas Wallace, the Rev;John Ker, and Thomas H. Thompson. All passed off quietly. There was some excitement in the streets in he early part of the evening. Persons going to the meet ing were hissed by mobs. A cab conveying a party was surrounded, and a lady's head-dress, with orange ribbons, was torn off. Some windows were broken in the 'Metho dist Meeting House, George's-strect, as also.some in Bride's Church. The following resolutions were proposed at the meeting at Saintfield, and at several other places, and recom mended for adoption to Orangemen el erywhere :—" I. That, inasmuch as the ancient Church of Ireland had no connection with the Church of Rome, and as the pro perty of the Established Church was given either by private endowment or by grants from the Crown, we regard Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church Bill as a most unconstitutional measure, and a gross act of robbery, injustice, and wrong. 2. That as the Pro%ince of Ulster, which, in the reign of James 1., yielded only a revenue of £11,805, now yields £1,948,345, a state of things due to the energy and perseverance of the Ulster PreSbyterians, the withdrawal of the Regium Donum cannot be regarded as other than ungrateful and ungenerous. 3. That, trusting in God, we are determined to use every means in our power for the preservation of the true religion and the maintenance of the Protestant institutions of this kingdom, assuredly believing them to be the only safeguards of the civil and religious liberty of all classes and denominations of people in this empire." The Wicklow peerage came before the House of Lords on Monday and was again ad;ourned. Mr. Hepworth Dixon is about to leave England on a long tour in Russia. It is understood that he will not return to the editorial chair of the Athenceum. Under the terms of a postal convention just concluded between Norway and Denmark, a reduction of postage of from Bd. to 7d. has taken place on letters trans mitted from this country to Norway, via Denmark. PROMISING YOUNG MAN.—The son of a clergy.. man was delivering a college valedictory, when, in pulling out his handkerchief, he pulled out a pack of cards. " Hullo !" he exclaimed, " I've got on my father's coat !" A boat accident happened on Saturday at Henley on-Thames. Au excursion train brought a large number of persons from London. Several parties were formed to have a row on the beautiful reach of the River Tpames, the scene of the annual regatta. The passage down the river was safely effected to the Temple, when near there two boats were drawn up side by sid', and an attempt was made by some of the young persons to exchange positions. This had the effect of causing an oscillation of the boats, and the result was that the boats were capsized, and two young men lost their lives. MEN ON THEIR WAY TO WORE AND THE PUBLIC HOUSE.—The Pontypool magistrates on Saturday gave s decision of great importance to publicans. A beerhouse keeper was summoned before them for keeping his house open during prohibited hours. A policeman swore that at half-past four in the morning he found one man in the house, and a vessel containing cider under his seat. It was explained that the man, who lived hard by, had to go about a mile to his work at the Pace Furnace, and called for the drink on his way to his work. The bench held that the man bad a claim to be supplied under those circumstances, and dismissed the case. A STOE,Y OF THE BLUE JACKET.—A youth,. about 14, son of Mr. liaddocks, farmer, of Higher Salter, near Lancaster, had a great desire for a long sea voyage, which was brought about by his reading of naval engage ments. After considerable reluctance, his parents con sented to his goinz a voyage in the Blue Jacket. He sailed just a year ago. Some time afterwards news arrived that the vessel had been wrecked and nearly all hands lost, amongst whom was supposed to be young Maddocks. However, two or three clays ago his parents received a letter from him, giving an account of his sufferings and eseic , ;. The boy is now on his way home, where, he says, he inten , l , the future to remain. THE EFFE TS OF CoftALttitt ON' THE SKIN, We mentioned some time ego the irritation of the skin produced l ted noetzs oral stot , kings, and said that the effects had Lem traced to a dye lcnowii V.A coralline, and prepared from carbolic acid. There are very wonderful stories told of the effects of this . dye both in this country and in France, but it seems that they must be received with some doubt. M. Landrin states that he has made numerous experiments with the substance on animals and on himself, applying it externally and internally, and has found it to produce no effect whatever. M. Chevreul also told of a dyer who dyed his arm with coralline, and suffered no unpleasant consequences from it. It is very difficult to arrive at the truth in matters of this kind. The skins of different people differ greatly in sensibility, and what produces no effect on one person will excite the greatest irritation in another --211ff&nics" gicggfilfi • - WESTMINSTER. UNPROVOKED ASSAULT —John Brake, plasterer, was charged with assaulting John Hart, a carpenter. The prosecutor, who had a bad black and cut eye, said that on tho previous evening he was in his garden, at Mason's-grove, Chelsea, watering the plants, when the prisoner, who had frequently annoyed him, jumped over into the garden and struck him a severe blow, inflicting the injuries described. Police-constable Manly, 71 T, deposed that he took the prisoner into custody. He was the worse for drink, and very violent. Prisoner pleaded intoxication as a defence. Mr. Arnold said it was a most unprovoked assault. The prisoner would be sent to the House of Correction for 14 days with hard labour. Prisoner (smiling) Thank you, sir. MAIILBOROUGH-STREET. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE WITH " BEETLE POWDER."-Emily Delinnente, of 101, Ladbury-road, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with attempting to commit suicide by taking "beetle powder." From the evidence of E. Holder, 61 E, it appears that on Saturday afternoon he was called to a shop in Great Portland-street and told the prisoner had taken poison in gingerbeer. He went after her and told her he should take her to the hospital, but she refused to go. He, how ever, took her, and found that she had taken poison—. " beetle powder"—and she said she would do it again. The prisoner said she did not say she would do it again, and that she took the poison through trouble. She was separated from her husband. Mr; D'Eyncourt remanded her. ROBBERY AT A RESTAURANT. —Mary 3 1 4 Grady, a young woman, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt, with steal ing a quantity of wearing apparel, the property of Mr. Louis Planton, restaurant keeper, of No. 115, Ryder's court, and also of Mt. Masshoe, a lodger. The prisoner was temporarily employed by Mr. Planton in the absence of his servant from illness, and the prisoner went away without giving notice, taking with her a large quantity of wearing apparel belonging to her master and a lodger. Walker, a plain clothes officer of the 0 division, proved apprehending the prisoner in Drury lane last night, and finding that the property had been pledged at different pawnbrokers. Some articles baying been produced by:a pawnbroker's assistant, and identified by the prosecutors, Mr. D'Eyn court, at the request of Sergeant Gould, 14 0, remanded the prisoner, who had nothing to say. THAMES. ThIPUDENT ASSAULT ITPON A POLICE INSPECTOR.— Wil ham Innings, a seaman, aged 35 years, was brought before Mr. Benson, charged with violently assaulting Inspector Rouse of the K division in Shadwell. The inspector was engaged in very urgent business, and he was met by the prisoner, who demanded in a very per emptory tone that he should go to a house of bad repute and demand some clothes ho bad left there as a security for money, or rather for a debt he had contracted for an immoral purpose. The inspector told the prisoner he was engaged, and the prisoner to speak to the ordinary police constable of the beat. The prisoner commenced swearing at and abusing the In spector, who told the prisoner he was an insulting black guard, and told him to go about his business, and not in teger° with the police. The prisoner immediately turned the inspector about, and treated him with indignity. At last the prisoner struck the inspector with his fist, and told him to take that. Mr. Rouse immediately took tho prisoner into custody. In defence the prisoner said he wanted the clothes he deposited at a house of ill fame. Mr. Benson—Yes, you wanted a respectable officer to do your dirty work, and because he refused, and very properly so, you insult him and assault him. Tho pi i soner said he had soot home a portion of his wages to Barnstaple in North Devon, and ho was goi g down to his native town with the remainder. Mr. Benson had a good mind to fine the prisoner for his impudent assault on the inspector, and leave him no money to carry to Barn staple. The assault was a most infamous one, and he sentenced the prisoner to ton days' imprisonment and hard labour. EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE are the properties of Lamplougu's Pyretic Saline, curing the worst headaches, sickness, skin, or binary affection& Pleasant palpable, and imigorating. §9lcl Py all Gliemiptc—EAdYq 111A1?KE7 S-2 HIS DAY. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. July 13.—Sales probably 10,000 bales. The mprkot steady. VOYAGE OF THE BERMUDA FLOATING DOCK. The Daily News contains a pleasant story of the voyage of the Bermuda Floating Do& across the Atlantic. A correspondent who has gone across with it writes under date " Porte Santo, July 4." He describes with adreiraj, tion the huge structure. Imagine, he writes, a gigantid letter IT—for as such it appears on looking through it—its height above the water some 63 feet, with 11 feet below water, making 74 feet in all ; its breadth, from side to side, 83 feet, with a thickness of 20 feet of bull on either side, making in all 123 feet across, with a length of 381 feet, supposing one walked straight through the hollow of the letter. Such are the shape and dimensions of the vessel. Its capacity can best be explained by saying that It will take a ship as big as the Bellerophon comfortably enclosed within the caissons, which as yet are not in it. And its lifting powers are startling enough when you hear of them as (vial to 8,300 tons, or say a vessel of the Northumberland and Agincourt class. The main features of its construction are water-tight compartments three by means of which the necessary immersion is obtained, these compartments being filled by an ingenious arrangement. The voyage across does not seem to have been a very eventful one. By nine o'clock on Wednesday, the 23rd June, the Northumberland had got the Dock in tow, and the Agincourt sveighedin company, but as yet only followed in the wake until we had turned and twisted through the tortous channels leading to more open water.' At about noon the Admiralty yacht came up through the Naze, and shewed us that at Whitehall too there was an unusual interest taken. All the Board had turned out, and followed our progress for some time with interested eyes. Then bang went the Northumberland with: nineteen guns, as recognition of their presence. Salutes personal were exchanged. A final signal wishing us good-bye, and almost immediately they were lost in the fog. Before we got to Dover Captain May thought ihe time was come for the Agincourt to put forth her powers, and accordingly, sheering a-head,' her boats were lowered, and before long a hawser passed by means of which the towing cables were hauled on board the Northumberland, and then the voyage may be said to have begun. At several stages of our progress we saw signs of the interest our novel voyage excites. Off Portsmouth, Sir James Hope, commander-in-chief at that port, came out in early morn in his yacht ; and later in the same day another steamer came up full of other officials from the same place. When off Plymouth Sir W. Martin came out in the Vivid, in which the sprinkling of naval men was agreeably diversified by a proportion of the fair sex, whose graceful curiosity gave new energy to our endea vours. Such was our good-bye to the English shores, and with every promise of fine weather, we plunged into that bete noire of the seaman, the "Bay,' on the night of the 26th. Fine weather in all excepting one night made the Atlan• tic a most pleasant place. On July 4 the correspondent writes of the arrival at Porte Santo : "About two-thirds of her journey has yet to be accomplished (he says), brat to the squadron which has begun the journey and closes it here--I think we may say, without egotism-- . belongs the honour of the day. From this, there is a certainty of fine weather and fair winds ; before, the pro• bability lay quite the other way." tiers in A BABY SHOW AT WOOLWICH. Not without a protest, several of the metropolitan dailies describe a baby show now open at North Wool wich. One paper describes these exhibitions as "mon strous violations of the proprieties," and reminds us that it is twenty years since Barnum's example was feebly copied in England, and babies were publicly shewn, like pigs and pelargoniums, at the disastrous Surrey Music Hall, in the Kennington-road. There have since been, at the most, three baby shows—very minor affairs, in ob %cure parts of the country; till the Yankee showman's idea was practically revived, on what he and his followers would call a " big scale" on Monday, at the North Woolwich Gardens. 'The day was signally fine, and those same gardens are Trolly very pleasant, and would take much vulgarity of the music-hall stamp to make them otherwise. The Daily News says it has been found a labour of considerable difficulty to popularise baby shovel in England, and if not half converted by what one saw on Monday, one would be disposed, notwith standing the strong expression in favour of absolute free trade uttered on a recent occasion, to advocate a prohibitory policy on the American " notion " of exhibit ing humanity in long clothes. It rather suggests the custom of " baby-farming," and tends to the expansion of Miss Topsy's idea, that she was "raised" and "glowed," without being born. We had, therefore, an d priori objection to such exhibitions, on the ground that they. were materialistic. We could also fancy the horror of Malthusian economist at finding that a first-class' prize of £lO was to be awarded for " the most healthy and finest triplets under twelve months." We confess to so much ignorance on the subject that the meaning. of the word " triplet" in this connection was only suggested to us by observing that, in the second class, a prize of £5 was to be given " for the most healthy and beautiful ' twins,' under twelve months." Oh shades Of Malthus and James Mill ! what is the world coming to when the mothers of England are provoke to the production of " triplets " and " doublets"' by prizes of .£lO and £5? It seems, however, that there was no want of mothers to come forward with their offspring, for we are told that some hundreds of "mammas," who had taken their treasures down without' having previously received any notice of their acceptance as candidates for the prizes, had to undergo the mortifica-' tion of being rejected. The feelings of the indignant' females who thus found their fond hopes ruthlessly fru tg " , trated were, as may be easily imagined, not of the' mildest or most amiable character, and at one time; matters looked rather threatening for the proprietor, something very like a " demonstration" being hinted at.. This, however, failed, evidently not from lack of intense emotion, but from want of organisation and leadership. The exhibition itself was not so vulgar as might, perhaps , be thought. There was little crying, and peace generally prevailed. There was but one example of triplets, and but four of twins. In the four other classes the prizes' are for the respectable and economical number one, viz.,: £lO and a silver cup for the most beautiful and healthy; boy, under 12 months, with £3 and £2 for second and third prizes ; £lO and a silver cup for the most healthyi and beautiful girl, under 12 months ; £5 for the finest orl heaviest child under 6 months, and £2 for a second prize:: £5 for the finest or heaviest child under 12 months, se a . £2 for a second prize. There are also three prizes for the' neatest and prettiest cradle or bassinet. Two mobs came into collision on Sunday nig l33. in Belfast, near the scene of the riot of 1861. Stone; were thrown. The police interfered, and made one . a r "; rest. Great excitement prevailed for a time. All quiet A t ' midnight. On Sunday a large portion of an extensive j uts spinning mill, at Dundee, was destroyed by firo. The Pre paring, spinning, and weaving departments were totally; destroyed, and the damage is estimated at £12,000. Four thousand hands are also thrown out of employment by t he ' disaster. Her Majesty has graciously deputed her 1 10 Highness Princess Louise to lay, in her Majesty's nam e '( the foundation stone of the second pair of buildings of al& National Cottage Hospital for Consumption and DiEleagOi of the Chest, Ventnor, Undercliff, Isle of Wight, on Wed', nesday, the 28th of July. WONDERFUL IF TRUE.—The prizes offered WI Mr. Barkas, of Newcastle, to pit lads, in Durham and' Northumberland, to induce them to search for fossil re mains, have been attended by the most unexpected results. Not only have the lads found in the refuse shale larg e ' numbers of fish and reptile remains, but, what wil ? astonish palaeontologists, one of the lads has found Of , lower jaw of a true mammal. The effect of this discorerr will be to reduce the comparative ages of all hither to ' known mammalia, and carry back the mammalian life of the world for millions of years.—Northern Daily Expres:". THE NITRO-GLYCERINE EXPLOSION. Robe rt ' Humphreys, manager of the Enamelled Slate Works, C° l. ' narvon (of which Messrs. Webb and Cragg, agents I°ri nitro-glycerine and proprietors of that which lately exPl° aetb at Cwm-y-glo, are part owners), was summoned on W u. : day before the mayor (Mr. L. Turner) and Mr. Tholes' Turner, charged with keeping on his premises, near the ra , w station, Carnarvon, dangerous and explosive su bstac ; called ,:lvntunite, the premises not being duly licensed f t : the purpose. - . Mr. Orlando Webb, owner of the dyneu ll it e o ; and of the nitro -glycerine, gave evidence that dyne ip p ,.. l Vas not explosive' u ;:less it had a percussion cap 0f troeu: fulminate powder appliet" , ,to it. Sergeant-Major v_to„,; described an experiment made on a cask of it in.lBGB,7oti Mr. Webb and others were polsent. The cask Wes , 40 1 at, and on a second occasion 'it exploded with terrin Loo l °' force, The chief constable prose ,, u ted, and B ; t he , Ruthin, defended. The magistrates,, in acquitt% fi a ts defendant on this occasion, declined gra:ding a cer _ toot: prohibiting further investigation, which,it is un 4- e 'rs the chief constable intends to proceed with. The course of exchange at New Yo rk on London for bd at is rate 9 days' sight was on the 3 d i nst. about 1 09i per cent. At this vacd there is no profit on thelnpOrtation of gold 49; 2 1 tae Caters. il