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Note.--*The 5.0 . p.m. Train from Euston will, on Sun day, the 14th November. be continued through to Shrews bury, the same as on Week Days, for the conveyance of Passengers, Horses, and Carriages. By order. W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Eneton Station, November, 1869. LONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. SHREWSBURY RACES, November 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19, 1869. The following Service of Express Trains is now in operation between London and Shrewsbury :- - aq ,i 1 ..; , z , ; ~:', "m I ..0 c. " 4 E5 I ;5..0 - • :-. : 0 --.E5 ric , .0 • • • i a 4 A 1 0. w a; ..., * ab 4d m ' E 3 e c g g 4:1 T 3 4 2 . z 5 4,•ri. c ., - r . ~ 0 • i z 1 • 7) ...f.) m - '''t Ei c: ' :: : g 4d 1 42 «3 : : - 71 -0 ci o ' ' ' - 1 4 7.) le c) .0 • wow ... •-, :t . • _ N th _ _ gi' o •is 2 I - ct , 14 . 4 - • - ‘ 4 A 3 2iii 8 E 4 7 Q d . C° • • • , el 4 -4r.) cio a.O • ,-. 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MOSES and SON'S STOCK for the WINTER SEASON comprises an immense issortment of Overcoats, and every descrip ion of Clothing fir all ages, all occasions. And all classes, in all the newest designs and materials. E. MOSES and SON give particular at tention to CLOTHING for YOUNG GEN TLEMEN. For the convenience of Ladies accompanying their Sons there is a separate department for this important branch of their tosines!=, and it is furnished with a splendid assortment of Suits, Overcoats, and Clothing for all occasions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarhntee a faultless fit. Orders from persona who are not known to the firm should be accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be :theerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea mre, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SOWS Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Readv-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitntakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac timrs, and General Outfitters for all Classes. inn following aro the only athlresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. t 55, MINORIES 154, MINORIES [57, MINOIIIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATIs 87, ALDGAT 88, ALDGATE 89, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 606, NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD STREET *B, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. SHORT SUMMARY OF THE POSITION OF THE PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate 11111, London, E.C. Branch Office-7, King-street, St. James's. The Annual Premium Income of the company, at the close of 1868, was £220,978 Os. 10d., and the Total Amount Assured £4,832,197. The Business is divided under two heads :- Ist—The General or Ordinary Business, being the same as that transacted by other Companies. 2nd—The Industrial or Working Class Assurances. The Premium Income of the General Business was £52,432, and the sum Assured £1,662,960. The present value of the lia bility of this Branch by the Carlisle 3 per Cent. Tables, throwing off the entire load ing. was £139,322 15 8 The Premium Income of the Industrial Branch was 168,546, the sum Assured £3,169,237, and the Estimated Reserve 50,000 0 0 .£189,322 15 8 The Liability of the Industrial Branch does not admit of being estimated in the same way as that of the General Branch, on account of the very large proportion of Policies which constantly lapse, so that the bulk of the assurances are, in fact, risks for short terms only ; the estimated re serve for the liabilities of this Branch of the business is shown by the result of 14 years' experience to be abundantly suffi cient. Tho Assurance Fund on 31st Decem ber, 1868, was £241,301 12 4 The average duration of the whole of Lhe Industrial Policies was considerably under three years. The average age of the Assured in the Industrial Branch was 19 years. A detailed List of Assets can be had on application. H. HARBEN, Secretary. HEATHER'S TRUST (under the Alanagemen of the Clothworkers' Company). At a COURT, to be holden on the Ist December next, this Company will DISTRIBUTE to Six Poor Widows of decayed Housek ee p ers the Amount divisible under the above Trust, being about £8 to each. Printed forms of application may be obtained at the Company's Offices, Clothworkers Hall, Mincing-lane, London. The applicant mast insert therein particulars relative to her condition and circumstances, and name references from whom information may be obtained for verifying the same. The application, with certificate of her marriage and a certificate or other proper proof of the death of her hus band, must be left at the Company's Hall previously to the 23d November inst., address OW , d to EN ROBERTS, Clerk. Clothworkers' Hall, Nov., 1869. A GENTS WANTED EVERYWIIERE to intrad , lee commorli ie, valuable to every householder dish and low. This offers a hi,szlily reanyier.ativeCommi=sion .0 Tradesmen, Traveller , . Gentlemen's Sere:1111 - s, we. Apply with two stamps to It. MARIZISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. (OHN GOSNELT, and CO.'S CHERRY , 1 TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder ; gives the teeth a. pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from dpely, and imparts a plpaeant fragrance to the breath. Pries ls. thl.—Red Bull Wharf, 03, Upper Thames-street. London. NO I ENG IMPOSSIBLE AMARELLA ref,tores the Human Hair to lti; pristine hue, no matter et what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wona 'Hui iiriuhl. It is now offered to the public a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. fid., and 15s. each. including brush. Rod Bull Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. L_IFEBOAT SERVICES.--During the Storms ILA of the past twenty-two months the National Life boat Institution contributed to the saving of 1,633 lives from various shipwrecks and 44 vessels from destruction, The Institution also expended £36,134 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £4,250 for rewards. The Institution has now 210 Lifeboat Stations under its management. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street Adelphi, London. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The Report which the directors have now to submit to the proprietor differs in its tenor but little save in one or two particular from that lttid before then, in 1868. rhe income of the year, it will be seen, amounts to £540,499 18s., and the total charge to £445,077 10s. 9d. The difference, £95,422 7s. 3d., added to the balance of the surplus fund at the commencement of the financial year, raised that item to £1,002,974 15s. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, JUNE 80, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. £ s. d. £ e. d DR. Balance of account, SOth June, 1868 !reminms on new assur ances on old ditto 357,988 7 0 907,t52 8 6 871,M8 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,508 4 11 Profit and loss, balance of account 47,991 13 1 550,499 18 0 Total income X 1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF THE YEAR. X B. d. CR. Dividend to proprietors . ............ Claims on decease of live 3 assured Additions to those under £ 6. d. 8,880 4 0 participating policies 24,304 6 6 Policies surrendered Re-assurances —new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 commission Medical fees 405,561 12 1 10,618 11 2 760 18 0 Incometax y 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 9 10 rotal charge Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance-sheet .. 1,002,974 15 9 £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. id., of which sum £13,560 ss. ld. is for new assurances effected in the year. The interest from investments is £120,959 12s. 10d., or £4 2s. per cent. on the net amount of the company's realised assets existing in Tune, 18684 and in connection with this important feature of the cninpany's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and loss account again exhibits a considerable profit, amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000. It may be remembered than, a profit-of nearly equal amount was announced in last year's report. Turning to the items constituting the charge of the Fear, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material; as was observed oa a previous occasion, the proper quin luennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex ceeds £309,000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management. are greater by nearly £BOO than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the compans's securities into the names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses must be regarded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET, .I . l7srE 30. 1869. Du. LIABILITIES. interest due to proprietors Maims on decease of lives assured, and Addditions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts - ler sums assured, Ste. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors fund 172,202 10 0 Surplus fund :£6,75717 0 £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,t Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CR ASSETS. (mount invested in fixed mortgages £1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 - litto ditto Temporary secu rities 198,207 17 0 ,urrent interest on the aboveinvestments 80,934 4 6 :lash and bills 1 2 ,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the company's Agyr.:;ts balances Sundry accounts 165,387 1 8 25.489 16 8 57,33 l 7 9 Value of prouti.ims (1867) . 4,506,167 18 0 falue of va-assurances 85,706 14 5 £7,675,813 0 10 The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95022 7s. :!d. already mentioned, as is shown by the augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. The Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows: WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairman. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq. SirJ. Buller East, Bt., D.C.L. T homas Godfrey Sambrooke Wm. A- gustus Guy, M.D., Esq. F.R.S. Admiral Tindal. CearlesThos.llolcombe,Esq. Right Hon. Sir John Young Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart., K.C.B. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. li. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA, new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault: Messrs. Barrett, 11. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright. 1011/. Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, a.nd Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL, 11 A YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING. at Seven, FAMILY JARS : Mr Compton : Mrs E. Fitzwilliam. At a Quarter to Eight, the New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES : Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr. Braid, Mr Buckstone, jun.; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hill, &c. Concluding with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY : Mr Kendall, Miss F. Gwynne, &c. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, AI)ELPHI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, MY PRECIOUS BETSY: Mr Atkins, Mr C. J. Smith, and Miss Eliza Johnstone. At 15 to 8, LOST AT SEA: a London Story. Messrs A. Stir ling, G. Belmore, E. Atkins, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, C. J. Smith, R. Romer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza John stone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Belmore and Mrs. Leigh Murray. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessee and Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. OPEN FOR THE WINTER SEASON. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: Messrs Ashley, D. Leeson, and Misses Maria and Nelly Harris. At 15 to -, THE WILLOW COPSE: Mr Benjamin Webster. Messrs R. Phillips, J. 0. Taylor, A shley, Stuart, W. Rignold, D. Leeson, C. J. Smith, R. Romer, W. H. Eburne, Miss Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon, Mrs Addis, Ali- s M. Harris, &c. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. At 7.15, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Sir Simon Simple, by Mr. H. J. Byron. Messrs. J. Clarke, Parselle, &c Mesdames Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. To conclude with A BREACH OF PROMISE. 13os-office open from 10 till 5. HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. Fourth Week of The Gamester ' THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, Tlit: LOJTERY TICKET: Mr George Honey. At 8 Moore's great Tragedy of THE GAMESTER: Barry Sullivan; Messrs J. C. Cowper. W. 11. Stephens, Lin Rayne, Charles El orsman, anti Lunt; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Jane Rignold, and Miss Howard. To conclude with THE WATERMAN: Messrs. G. Honey, E. Cotte, Evans ; Mrs C. Horsman. Miss R. Power. Principal Scenic Artist—Mr Julian Hicks. Acting Manager—Ml(3lor SULLIVAN. I ) OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Cl Irke. Followed by THE TOOD : Mr Clarke. After which, INO; Nlessrs Thorne. James, Fenton, Turner Mesdtmes Sheridan, Newton. Maitlsnd, &c. To conclude with THE CROPS OF THE CHANNEL HE ":SUN" NEWSPAPER.—G. GLENIF deliNrs the T. TE F.DITTON at Chelscm, 7.40; Kilburn R, starch-green, 8; Woelwieh, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford. 9.45. OI IN noßElrrs supplies ti - LAMS EDITI( 1N of " THP: SUN "as soon as pu . iihed.-4, Bath-street, City-roal, 'TIIE SUN" NEWSPAPER.--ft. R. G-ENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware Toad ,13livers the LATE E,DITION of "THi SUN " at the earliesi possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver Copies Ir. Town, the Suburt , -, and in many parts of the eountr3 at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles F. 045 o'clock Orders by post punctually attenticil to 'THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " be seen Every Evening by 810 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOC; Eeitannia, Kensal New-town, THE SUN.—LATEST EDITION to be seen every Evening, at Eight o'clock, at Mr GILLMAN'S, " The Wheatsheaf," High-street, '2amdt,n-town. THE SUN, LONDON, WI DN.ESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1869. THE LA. PEST EDITION of " THE SUN " 5 J. HiLMES begs to inform his friends and the public generally that he supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN " as soon as publishecL—No.lo, Hampstead-road N.W. T HE LATESI EDITION of " THE SUN" supplied as soon as published. containing all the LATEST SEWS and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H W HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Blackfriars-road, London, S. pliments, signifying nothing, all in good-humoured recognition of the high and mighty dignity, attained in due rotation, one after another, by the City Aldermen, who are called, each in turn, to assume the Chair as London's Chief Magistrate. SINCE the day when the great fight between MACE and O'BALDWIN did not take place, there has been no more ludicrous fiasco than the duel which has not come off between The O'DONOGHUE, M.P., and Mr. GEORGE H. Moonm, M.P. MACE had a friend who obligingly informed the police, and so prevented the arranged encounter with his gigantic opponent. The OTOONOGIIITE has also been blessed with a friend, who, instead of entering into his duties as second, according to the usual routine, has displayed an originality of devotion that Mr. WINKLE sought for in vain in Mr. SNODGRASS. Every one knows that the rule of a " second " is to press forward a meeting with as much eagerness as though commis sioned by a lover to prepare an interview with his mistress. The second, or friend, is bound to magnify the gravity of the insult that has been offered, to prove that nothing but the death of the injurer or the injured can efface it; that every minute which is passed until that result is effected is an intolerable existence to his principal ; that the more murderous the weapon chosen the better he will be pleased, and that, in short, the gentleman whom he represents means business of the most decisive character. But The OTIONOGHTTE had a friend of a very different sort. He was no mere routine-ist ; he was quite ready to strike out a new line for himself if he thought he would thereby please the member for Traloe. So, instead of urging on matters to an extremity ; and in sulting Mr. MOORE'S second in order that they might "pot"at one another for the love of the thing, and so have a double duel (as pleasant to an Irish fighting man as a double wedding is to an English brides maid), the representative of the Glen chieftain drew back in proportion as the representative of the member for Tipperary pressed forward. It takes . two persons to make a quarrel, and four to fight a duel, and as the chieftain and his second were evidently bent upon backing out of the meeting which they had challenged—they had clearly thought better of the proposed trip to Boulogne—Mr. MOORE and his second, being not the challenger but the chal lenged, had no alternative but to give up the intended picnic. If a man has invited you to mortal ombat, and then gives you to understand that he would rather not fight you, what else can you do but say that while you would have been most happy to oblige your challenger by putting a bullet through his head, you have no particular wish to do so, and will therefore surrender the offered privileges ? We are sorry for The O'DONOGNETE. He has made a laughing-stock of himself, and he belongs to that Beltic race with whom laughter is said to be fatal. We fear that it will prove so in this present instance, so far as his official career is concerned. This is the more to be regretted, because he is evidently a man ofgreat ability, and of no little influence in Ireland; and because he was clearly in the right when re buking Mr. MOORE for his incendiary and traitorous utterances. Unfortunately this is the second blunder that The O'DONOGHUE has committed. He once challenged Sir ROBERT PEEL, because the then Chief Secretary for Ireland called him a mannikin traitor, and Sir ROBERT brought ridicule upon The OTONOGIRTE on account of his challenge. He has now become ridiculous by withdrawing his challenge. Two such escapades as these can scarcely be condoned. The hon. chieftain is 36 years of age, old enough to know better, old enough to control even hot Milesian blood. Fancy what the Opposi tion journals would have said if he had been a right honourable and a member of the Cabinet 1 What Minister will venture hereafter to expose himself to the reflected ridicule that would fall upon him if he had for colleague a gentleman so ready to offer cartels of defiance to the death, and so ready to with draw them after they have been offered? Neverthe less, The OTIONOGHTIE has deserved well of his country. He has made the duello as ridiculous as MACE made the prize-ring. For that let the irascible chieftain have due honour and thanks. AN article in the new number of the Quarterly I?eview, on the past and future of the Conservative party, has deservedly attracted much attention. The writer, who is believed with very good reason to be the Marquis of SALISBURY, strongly condemns the policy pursued by the Conservative leaders for the last twenty years—the policy of sacrificing principles for place, of gaining power by alliances with their most inveterate foes, the extreme Radicals. Every vital defeat of the Whigs since the death of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK has been brought about by a coalition of the Conservatives and the Radicals; every Tory Ministry has won the seals of office by some flagitious concession to the most advanced of its opponents. It is to the invariable practice of this ruinous principle that the Marquis of SALISBURY attributes the present desperate condition of his party. He contrasts the conduct of the Whigs before the first Reform Bill with the Conser vative policy of our own time. For many long weary years after the outbreak of the great French Revolution the Whigs were the weaker party. Their numbers were small ; their leaders had not the confidence of the nation. But during the long period when they were consigned to the cold shades of Opposition they never attempted any combinations similar to those which have amazed the present generation. On no occasion did they sacrifice their principles to win deserters from the Tories. They preferred living honestly in the wilderness to entering the Promised Land by fraud, and their consistency at last met with its reward. In exhorting his party to go and do likewise, to content themselves with constitutioLal Opposition until their fortunes revive, and to renounce alliances save with politicians akin to themselves, the Quarterly Reviewer gives candid and sound advice. But he seems to have overlooked one momentous consideration. The Whigs during the latter half of the Third GEORGE'S reign were in a great minority in both houses. The Conservatives of to-day are the weaker party in only one. If the former by a manoeuvre of the DISRAELI type had " dished " their adversaries in the Lower House, their finesse would have availed them nothing against the hostility of the peers. But the conviction that they had only one difficulty to over come has ruined the modern Conservatives. If they got over their minority in the Commons all was plain sailing in the Lords. To dish the Whigs in both branches of the Legislature at once would be an experi mentPon to manufacture a too hazardou s an d i m practicable to come within the range of actual political warfare; but , w ith a ma j orit y in the Upper Hou se , th e t e mptation "bogus" majority i n th e Lower was mo re than flesh and blood cou ld stand. Hence arose the unnatural alliances of the Conservatives and the Radicals. And hence, too, it has happened that the Conservative maj or it y i n th e Lords — supposed to be the constitutional s h ee t anc hor —has indirectly done more to bring ab ou t th e ra pid innovations of late years than any o th er i n fl uenc e in the State. Nor is it at all improbable, unless the constitution or the nature of professional politicians be changed, that the same phenomenon will occur again. THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.—The Prince of Wales is the Senior Master of the Bench of this Inn of Court, and yesterday being hi s bi rt hd ay, th e Master Treasurer ( M r. Greene, Q health of his Roy a l Hi g h ness , w hich was received w it h during dinner in the h all, p ro p osed the loud cheers by the Mastets of the Bench, the barristers, and students. Ma. PEABODY'S FUNERAL—The funeral of Mr. Peabody in Westminster Abbey will be solemnised on Friday next, at half-past one o'clock, in compliance with the express wish of the Dean of Westminster and friends of the deceased. The north and south transepts will be open to the public. The choir and the nave will be devoted to the followers of the funeral, admission to which will bo given by tickets, which aro placed at the disposal of Sir Curtis Lampson and others interested in the ceremony. ENGLAND'S "FLYING SUN." The latest news from Karakondye is good; he is grow ing in fame and favour, and has just been feasting his poor relations. Karakondye, be it known, is an Indian chief. In England we call him Prince Arthur, and think of him as a slim young officer of the Rifle regiment ; but with other skies, other manners and other names. In British North America, and among the dusky children of the Six Nations, Queen Victoria's third son is nothing less than a chief, and has received the syllabic name we have mentioned, which signifies " the Flying Sun .° Other chiefs have been named for swiftness ; there have been the Flying Arrow, the Flying Foot, the Flying Cloud, the Flying Wrath, and so on ; but there is a reason, so Chief John Smoke Thompson tells us, why Prince Arthur should be called the Flying Sun. It is because his royal mother's power, like the great orb of day, blesses the world with warmth and light. On the occasion of this speech the Prince had blessed the tribe with a roasted fat ox, of which the chiefs and braves, with their women and children, were assembled to partake. It is satisfactory to read that they spent a happy afternoon, and parted without mishap, after giving three cheers for their new Chief.—Daily News. THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE BELGIA.ATS. Tho general committee, organised for the purpose of making arrangements for the presentation of an address tc the King and Queen of the Belgians on their intended visit to London, held a meeting on Saturday at the committee rooms, 21, Albert-gate, Hyde-park. Captain Wells, RN., who presided in the absence of the Duke of Wellington, having opened the proceedings, Captain Charles Mercier, the hon. secretary, said that the address which it had been proposed to present to the King and Queen of the Belgians had already received the signatures of 170 of the chief magistrates of counties, cities, and towns in England and Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. The Duke of Cam bridge had desired him to convey to the committee his Royal Hig - bness's good wishes for the success of the project specified. Several offers of subscription to promote the object of the meeting were announced. After the trans action of some further formal business the meeting termi nated with the customary vote of thanks to the chairman, Sir A. Conyngham, Commander of the Forces in Ireland, the Mayors of Halifax and Dover, and Mr. Cunliffe Brooks, M.P., have joined the general committee, and the subscrip tion (limited to one shilling each for volunteers and others). for tho purchase of a silver casket to contain the address of be presented to their Majesties, progresses most favourably. COLONEL WILSON PATTEN AT PRESTON. At Preston, on Monday night, the inauguration meeting of a new Conservative club was held inthe Corn Exchange. The principal speaker was Colonel Patten, who, in the course of his speech in favour of the organisation of a Conservative Club, first eulogised the late Lord Derby, whom he had personally known for many years, and then proceeded to argue that it was necessary for the welfare of the State that there should be two political parties, in order that each might guard and check political irregularity, and that a due consideration might be given to all matters vitally affecting the welfare of the State. At the last general election the cry on the Liberal side was the Irish Church and Financial Economy. He had always opposed the Irish Church scheme of the Liberals. It was argued that if carried it would pacify Ireland, but events which had transpired since its enactment refuted this notion The Conser servatives handed Ireland over to the Liberals with her laws and her liberties freed from previous enthralment. 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THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA : Messrs. Barrett, H Irving, David Fisher, Brittain, Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Killington, Misses M. Brennan, Mac donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED PLUMES THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'THIS EVENING. at 7 o'clock, FAMILY JABS. After which, FEW MEN AND OLD ACRES: Mr Buckstone. Concluding with A DAITEIHTER TO MARRY. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. • Tina EVENING, at 7. MY PRECIOIN BETSY, Followed by LOST A T SEA: Mr A. Stirling, Mr G. Belmore, Mr E. Atkins, Mr Beveridge, Mr Stephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Romer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray. And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr G. Belmore and Mrs L Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. At 7.45. NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: ITr H. J. Byron. And BREACH OF PROMISE. Mr J Clarke and Miss Hughes. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Tuts EvnTrica, at 7. TOO MOOR OF A GOOD THING. M Ashley and the misses Harris. With THE WILLOW COPSE Mr. Benjamin Webster. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLB ORN. THIS EVENING, at", THE LOTTERY TICKET. After which, THE GAMESTER: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, &c. And THE WATERMAN. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING. at 7.30. AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TODDLES. and INO. Concluding with THF.CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. • CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. Tames's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and S all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G&RDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, le.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, Gd. ROYAL ALHAMBRA. PALACE. THREE BALLETS . Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office open fromll to 4. t Sig T LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10, 1869. If we English could only acquire some small share of that profound veneration for the dignity of Lord Mayor of Loudon which is inspired in the breasts. of the majority of Frenchmen by the mere mention of the name of that august personage, what a wonder ful interest we should all of us take in the coming round of the ninth of November. As it is, the pageant annually attendant upon the inauguration of the year of office of the Chief Magis trate of the chief city of the British Empire is re garded very much, indeed, with the sort of amused toleration with which there might be allowed to pass along our streets a troop of May-day mummers, a string of Odd Fellows, a long and fantastic array of Foresters in buff boots and green jerkins, or any rather superior specimen of a GUT FAWKES Proces- sion. Until within the last few years, in fact it might have been said, with a good deal of truth, that the multitude in general who lined the principal highways of London as spectators, looked on chiefly with a profound sense of the ludicrous, be cause of the utter incongruity of those mounted men in armour, wbo, most of them, looked far rather like badly-stuffed dummies than veritable knights and esquires, armed cap-a-pie for the tournay, and who, marked with a glittering touch of absurdity at inter vals all down the line the preposterous character of the whole gewgaw exhibitions. Eventually the extrava gance of the thing came to be so very poignantly real ized that even the raggedest urchin inthe rabble looked on with his tongue in his cheek as the mail-clad appa ritions from.Wardour-street were borne in the saddle very ill at ease, both in regard to their apparel and their unaccustomed exhibition of horsemanship. The men in armour then at last came to be abolished. An endeavour was even made by one of the most recent Lord Mayors to do then and thenceforth without the gingerbread coach of immemorial magnificence, The adventurous innovator took nothing by his move but ridicule, and was greeted as he passed through the City streets to Westminster with hisses of indignation. The state coach had to b e restored in deference to a sort of popular superstition, and yesterday it reappeared in all the glory of a com plete and resplendent renovation. Soldiers, mounted and on foot•—watermen staggering under un wieldy banners—beadles in portentous hats and brass-headed wands of office—gold-laced flun kies in delicate carnation, silk stockings, picking their way through the mire—carriages and four, radiant in contrasting colours, carrying the Sheriffs —tke State-coach and six, top-heavy, ornate, one gorgeous mass of gold leaf and carving, a sort of shrine of Mammon on wheels, containing within it the City sovereign for a year, with his black robed Chap lain and one or two other important functionaries, including among them that wonderful creature with the grotesque fur cap, who holds in his grasp a sword that is never drawn, and who looks over the half door of the carriage like an inquisitive child who is always bent upon seeing all that is going on outside—these are the salient points still observable in the annual procession every ninth of November, interrupting, for hours together, the enormous traffic of the main line of thoroughfares, connecting the heart of the two cities of London and Westminster. A semblance of import ance is attached to the day's proceedings, year after year, by the attendance at the grand banquet at the Guildhall in the evening by filo cLief personages of the Government of the time being, who counten ance the event by their presence, who drink from the loving cup with the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen, and who, when replete with turtle and champagne, and all the delicacies out of the season, deliver speeches full of sound and com- 436,187 6 9 445,077 10 9 DONCASTER AND DR. VAUGHAN. The Corporation of Doncaster are about to present io Dr. Vaughan, the late vicar of that town and now Master of the Temple, an address of a very appro priate character, contained in a handsome volume, bound in dark green Levant morocco, inlaid with purple and light brown, and tastefully decorated with gold ornamentation. A large centre panal contains the impaled arms of Dr. and Mrs. Vaughan, embossed in proper heraldic colours. The volume consists of six pages—rich ivory-like tablets—of vellum. The first page contains an exterior view of the splendid parish church in which Dr. Vaughan ministered for nearly nine years, and the second page a companion picture of the interior of that edifice. Both are correctly and exquisitely painted in tempera as highly-finished miniatures. On the third page is the dedication, and introduced into the illumination are the arms of the Corporation of Doncaster, those of the See of York, Harrow School, and Trinity College, Cambridge. The next and succeeding leaves aro occupied with the address itself—a brief but earnest expression of public feeling—which on the concluding page contains the autograph signatures, C. W. Hatfield, Mayor ; and W. E. Shirley, Town Clerk ; and also the common seal of the Corporation sunk into the vellum. The address is engrossed in church-text, and the margins of each page are tastefully ornamented with appropriate emblematical devices, and rich and brilliant colouring, relieved with punctured gold. The style of illumination is of the later Celtic or Anglo-Saxon period of art, and is exceedingly beautiful throughout. The volume is enclosed in a very handsome casket of polished oak, surmounted by the crest and monogram of Dr. and Mrs. Vaughan, richly carved in massive gilt. The whole constitutes an elaborate work of art, and is a fitting and graceful gift to the eminent doctor. THE PUBLIC HEALTH.—There was a very excep tional rate of mortality in London last week. It was as high as 29 per 1,000, while in Dublin the rate was 20. In several other towns besides the metropolis, the mortality from scarlet fever is described as having been excessive. In London, 2,293 births and 1,772 deaths were registered , the latter having exceeded by 363 the estimated number. The mean temperature during the week was 46.5 or 0.5 above the average. LORD STANLEY.—At the annual meeting of the Town Council, held at the Guildhall, King's Lynn, on Tuesday, it was moved by Mr. Alderman iioyse. seconded by ➢lr. Alderman Smetham, and resolved unanimously— " That this Council desires to convey to Lord Stanley their deep and sincere sympathy with his lordship in the irre parable loss, not only he, but the whole nation at large, has sustained by the death of his father, the late Earl of Derby, and to express their great sorrow at the consequent severance of the connection which has now for so many years existed between Lord Stanley and this borough, and their keen sense of his great liberally towards its public institutions, and his unremitting attention, at all times, towards the furtherance of its local interests. MR. JO SIAII MASON, OF BIRMINGHAM.—Mr. Josiah Mason, whose benefactions to Birmingham have made him scarcely less famous than the late Mr. Peabody, is placed in what must be to him a disagreeable position with regard to the town council of that borough. The council voted that a statue of Mr. Mason should be erected in recognition of his bounty, and invited him to give the necessary sittings to a sculptor. He consented, but scarcely had he done so when` , a member of the council put a notice on the agenda paper to rescind the resolution, and leave Mr. Mason without a statue, unless volun tary contributors choose to provide one, which however, there is no doubt they would do. The Birmingham Council is a good deal in arrear with its business, and the consequence is that the notice with regard to the statue has not yet come up for defeat, but has been again and again put off, has appeared week after week on the agenda, and has been published as often in the local newspapers The great majority of the members of the council do not think it creditable to the town that this notice should appear, and it must be anything but gratifying to Mr Mason. AN IMPORTANT INVENTION.—We are informed that Captain Ross, of the Artillery, has obtained hei Majesty's letters patent for a composition which, applieo to the clean surface of iron and other metals, chemically combines with it to form, in the case of iron, a coating of iro) it,elf, but changed in character, which will not rust of oxydize, even if steeped in water for a week. ThiF discovery has been officially submitted by the inventor to his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, and the Deputy Adjutant General, Royal Artillery, himseli experimented on some delicate steel articles sent by putting them in the rain and keeping then out on the wet grass all night, which ordea they sustained without a speck of rust.. It is hard to "hat trade will not benefit by this discovery, and in al. iTobability the lucky inventor will make his fortune. Th , composition is so delicate that it can be applied even to the finest needles and small clockwork wheels. Watch springs are not affected as to elasticity &c., in the least by it, an n ill never rust after its application ; nor does it affect, bu' if anything improves the temper of knife or sword blades It turns the surface of steel implements to a whitish grey colour which is capable of receiving almost as high a polls' as steel Glvetle. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times, in discussing the Ministerial speeches at the Lord Mayor's dinner, calls to mind the different spectacle afforded last November. Then the general election was immediately at hand, and though Mr. - Disraeli was still Prime Minister, he knew, as all the world knew, that the days were numbered within which he must resign the pos session of power. But he was resolved to die at least with his face to the foe. While Mr. Disraeli last winter was so slenderly endowed with those good qualities in which his rivals are rich, and, above all, was not merely deficient in parliamentary support, but knew that what he had was about to depart from him, ho was still gay, coura geous, undaunted, and faced the dismal future with a smiling countenance. Mr. Gladstone on Tuesday, with the consciousness of rectitude thick upon him, and parliamentary majority of more than a hundred at his back, was lugubrious almost to wailing. The vision of a good man struggling with difficulties is a sight, as has often been declared, pleasing to the Gods, and the spectacle of a Cabinet of All the Virtues wrestling with the terrors of the Itish Land Question ought to move all men to a lively lympathy. Unfortunately, an exaggerated sense of danger on the part of the Ministry, a distrust of their own ability to vanquish the monster in their path, a craving for inter ,.essory aid, if not for more active succour, before their labour is actually begun may go far to dry up the sympathy which would otherwise be spontaneously offered. The Irish Land Question is undoubtedly a matter of great difficulty; but if the present Ministry be unable to cope with it, what must be said of their courage and statesmanship ? They are strong beyond all the experience of the present genera tion in parliamentary power. The national feeling is, perhaps, even more advanced than the temper of Parlia ment in the resolution to stand by the Ministry in support of any thorough, searching, and workmanlike attempt to cure the long-standing evil of Irish discontent. The Government have the power, if only their courage be equal to their power. Now, if failure he, as haply it may be, the result of their first attempt, it is better to fail having attempted to do something than to fail after doing nothing beyond timorously propitiating opposition, and imploring the sympathy of supporters already ready to give mor active assistance. The Daily _Yews remarks that on Tuesday, addressing a nore reasonable and statesmanlike assembly than that which earlier in the year badgered Lord Granville for information which he could not possibly give, Mr. Gladstone practised the same judicious reticence. It is notorious that the Cabinet is in the very crisis of the con ferences which aro destined to give to the draft of a Land Bill proposed by the Irish Government the shape in which it will be submitted to Parliament. To anticipate the final issue of these consultations would be a grave error on the part of the Prime Minister. But within the limits which discretion and common sense imposed upon bim, he spoke words of weighty import. We believe that '6lr. Gladstone, who has achieved many great things, has braced up his mind and will to the task of bringing the discontent and alienation of Ireland to a close by removing their still subsisting causes. He recognises with the political opportunity a religious obligation, and he will feel himself straitened until the work which has been ;iven him is accomplished. In the meantime, while many things aid him, he finds his most conspicuous hindrance, we will not say from the Irish people, but at any rate from some people in Ireland. The warning which he gave last night to the promoters of agrarian outrages in Ireland, that they are themselves the greatest enemies of their country, will not fall, we hope, upon utterly heedless minds and reckless hearts. Ireland will wait long, and will wait in vain, for redress, if she slights the opportuni ties she has had of receiving it from Mr. Gladstone and his olleagues. The Standard remarks that now the Isthmus of Suez 'las been cut, a great work has been accomplished, but a great deal still remains to be done before the full fruition of M. de Lesseps' grand enterprise can be enjoyed by the world. For the present it is natural enough that people in general should dwell upon the wonderful achievement which is now on the eve of its inauguration ; and indeed no matter how complete our confidence in the ability of the engineers concerned may be, there is, of course, so much to be done still, so many anxious problems of practice to be solved, that the canal itself still tbsorbs attention to the exclusion almost of other collateral schemes, though some of these may be only second in importance to the construction of the won derful watercourse itself. Attention, however, may not have been bestowed sufficiently on the fact that, after the Suez Canal is passed, the Red Sea has to be encountered. The danger of sticking in the sand while going across the desert is nothing to a great merchant ship compared to the risk of striking on a coral reef while going down that long and treacherous gulf which leads to the Indian lcean. At present, however, there are scarcely any lights in the Red Sea at all, and though in speaking of its langers people generally enumerate its coral reefs and urrents, it would bo almost as correct to speak of them as arising from the absence of beacons and light ships. It has been pointed out that France, has cut the isthmus, sad now that if England were to light the sea the great work of shortening the voyage to India would be one in which we should after all have taken an honourable share --one indeed scarcely less important if less magnificent than that which destiny and the courage of -M. de Lesseps has allotted to the French people. How it is to be done, however, is comparatively an unimportant point. Whether ,one nation or many together should accomplish the task would matter but little ; but most assuredly until this supplementary enterprise has been carried out somehow, the canal will somewhat resemble a railway into the wil derness with no road leading on from the station. The Telegraph thinks that Miss Burdett Coutts, whose philanthropy is always of a practical kind, has done some thing to solve the difficulty of transporting cattle a long listance by rail without starving or torturing them. She :las employed cattle-trucks of an improved construction, recently patented by an Edinburgh inventor, and the first experiment has proved a complete success. Five heifers bought in the Edinburgh market wore placed in a truck m the afternoon of Saturday, departed in the train for London the same evening, arrived in the metropolis on Monday morning early, and four hours afterwards were driven to Islington Market, where they were promptly sold. During this interval of thirty four hours the animals had consumed, by means -if the appliances for food and drink arranged :n the truck, sixty-one gallons of water, nearly ten stones if hay, and three stones of oatmeal. As the result, it is hserved, " the fine appearance of the beasts was the sub ject of general comment in the market,i and they aroused s spirited competition among the buyers. We may infer from this experiment what cattle generally suffer. On such a journey as that now described, they, as a rule, get no food, and perhaps only a hurried drink of water; yet, when afforded the chance of satisfying their natural Ippetite, each heifer drank twelve gallons of water and tte two stones and a half of food. Here, then, is something gained towards Miss Coutts' benevo lent object; and we have a tangible illustration of the need of relief, and we have ocular evidence how relief can be easily provided. But this is not enough to make humane treatment general ; for improved cattle trucks with food and water mean addi tional outlay; and it is absurd to suppose that salesmen will incur extra cost merely from a desire that their cattle may become " the subject of general comment" in the market. Happily, the new regulations imposed on railway companies will cure much of the evil, and it may be hoped that self-interest will do the rest. If cattle are constantly brought from long distances to Islington in these im proved trucks, and if the invariable result is that their " fine appearance" makes them fetch better prices, the battle will soon be won. Humanity will be appreciated even by cattle drovers, when it is seen to pay. The Herald considers that the evidence of Colonel Rich, in a great measure, clears up the matter of the Welwyn accident. Everything short of wilful or intentional mis :onduct was supposed to have been provided against, and yet, after the event, it is manifest that a very fruitful ource of peril had been left open. When the signals are at danger the points are perfectly free, but they are immoveable when the signals stand at caution ft is possible for the open points to 1 e closed by the vibration of passing trains, but the colonel lees not believe that anything of the kind had happened at Welwyn, or more damage would have been clone to the permanent way. The flaws in the springs would not account for the accident; and Colonel Rich was reluctantly compelled to believe that the sig- Taman must have moved the points ; because if he believed its statement that he had not touched them he must dis believe his own eyes. We have no doubt the mat honestly entertained this belief, but another por tion of his evidence slims in what way he may have fallen into error. He acknowledged that ho was in the habit of putting up the danger signal as soon as the engine and tender had passed his signal box. He said this would have nothing to do with the points ; but, as we have already mentioned Colonel Rich stated, as the result of his inspection, that when the danger signal is exhibited the points are left open, in which condition it is possible for them to become closed by the vibration caused by passing trains, which would, of course, be all the greater when the train was on the very line whose points were thus standing open. We incline to think that in this way the casualty may have been occasioned. Tho Irishman announces that the Australian Com mittee have made arrangements for aiding the return to Ireland of the liberated Fenian prisoners in that country and that their arrival in this country may be shortly ex- P99t04. - 662 t .„.Te P. 4". f - vitAN,P. , , 4 O4s '•,* fe" itz Cxrim tottu lIER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 9 Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, went out this morning. Prince Leopold also went out. LATEST INTELL IG-ENCIi (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) - ~------ ANIERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Nov. 9. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 127 ; the highest quotation dur ing the.day was 1271 ; the lowest, 126. Sterling Exchange on London lO9. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 9 l‘ " 1885 ll3B. 4i " 1867 ll6. 10-40 • E 4 11111101 S l37* Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 2slc. Petroleum—Standard White 3sie. Flour, extra state, $5.30e. to $5.90c. Corn, ofd mixed, sl.oc. According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s report the receipts of cotton for the 13 ,4 four days have been 50,000 bales, against 45,000 bales last week ; shipments to England, 10 00 bales, against 12,000 bales ; to France,:7,oo o bales , against 9,000 bales ; and to the Continent, 4,0 00 bales, against 3,000 bales. THE INSURRECTION IN DALMATIA. ZARA, Nov. 9 • The district of Zuppa has surrendered to the authorities. The troops, after having rested for 3 few days, will commence operations against th e Crioschianians. During several of the recent severe engagement° the Montenegrens occupied their own fronti er ' and thus partially prevented the insurgents frog crossing. EGYPT. CAIRO, Nov. 9 ' The Empress Eugenic is expected at Siout t° night on her return to Cairo. The festivities in connection with the inauga r3 t i tiou of the Suez C ana l w ill comm e n ce at Port S3l on Tuesday. On Th urs d a y th ere w ill _be a ball Dt Ismailia. The inauguration of the monument to LieutenOt Waghorn, the originator of the overland route' will take place at Suez on Friday. Iler Majesty will return to Cairo on Saturdai. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Nov. 9 (Evening)* , The British fleet has sailed for a six week 3 cruise. The diplomatic differences with Spain have been amicably arranged. The Loan has been a complete success. SPAIN. MADRID, Nor. 9 (Eveni n g' ) In to-day's sitting of the Cortes the Minister ° f Finance announced that it was not his intention t 0 reintroduce the Capitation Tax. Some important Carlist disorders have occurred in a village of the province of Alava. INDIA. BOMBAY, Oct. 2 9 ' 71bs. shirtings, sr. 2a. ; 811bs. shirtings, 6r. 23. more business doing ; 40's mule twist, 114. Cotton very dull. Fair llhollerah, 280 r. Shipments of the week, 2,000 bales. Exchange on London, 6 months' Bank 13 ° 15 ' 1.114. 4 per Cent. Government Securities, 941. 5 per Cent. ditto, 1084. 5i per Cent. ditto, 1131. Freights to Liverpool going ships, 355. There will be holidays until Thursday, the 441 November. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. n MESSL.NA, Nov lv' et The Peninsular and Oriental Company's s tew Delhi passed through the Straits of Messina at 5' this morning en route for Marseilles. FRANCE. PARIS, NO V ' 19 e e, A report of M. Magne, Minister of Fi ll3rl ie . published this morning, proposes that a $ 1113 ,10 mentary commission of inquiry should b e 133- 0, upon the monetary question, at the same tim e itio vising the introduction of a gold coin of the T g of 25 francs. This report has been approved by the EMP er ot a °l. l,o A decree of the Bth inst. reduces the duty on intended for agricultural purposes. afl d MM. Ulysses Parent, Lombard, Lefrane alB ' t ye Jules Allix were summoned yesterday m bef °re ee t• authorities,charged with having continued 11 13:1 A g after the same had been declared dissolf the Commissary of Police present. to {tie MM. Lefrancais and Allix did not attend summons. OA M. Ulysses Parent stated that he 01°111" d 0,0 attempt any defe n c e o f an ac t w hi c h he rega rde legal. M. Lombard protested against the charge . ft he The Court, in conformity with the advi ce ° o3o ecl the Imperial Procurator, M. Cazeau, oo nde ot each of the ac cuse d t o a f or t n i g ht's icapri s°llro and a fine of 300 f. Lar i° BOURSE, Nov. 9.—Three o'clock-- Th e 111 closed as follows : . 2 750 4} per Cent. 53 0 End of month —•— ItaPan Fives ....... 3 per Cent End of month 7l 30 Ottoman Loan *** 45 0 Credit Mobilier 195 Do. Debt ....••••• 2 6 Transatlantic 232 50 Spanish Threes ••• 2 4 ,.. 3redit Foncier Home Debt ...••• Paris Gas 1565 Deferred ........Ash, RAILWAYS. 931 Orleans .... 617 3 Western ....................................... look Northern ...... 70 St rasburg . ......... . ........................ 96 3 1 Lyons and Medit e rranean ............... 585 Southern..... ................................. Sardi nian .................................... 770 Austrian ...........................•..... 500 Lombard. ..................................... 51 North of Spain ............................ . .. 66 Saragossa .................................. Roman .......................................... MARKETS.-7 his Day. Nov. LIVER lO.—Sales rrob P a U b 1 0 L 8,000 'COT T b .3 0 1 il 0 0 quiet. y a lr t ishws worl sv i i k il y e , c b e y l e b M r e i t s y s rs f The ve — • a-erected ry extensive Distillery nov belvit „„to .e a Belfast, with all recent improvements for the 1115°‘ 00 called "The Royal Irish Distillery." rDUthNeiVrlftLeElClT%iiwwholiisliulb;:io i lIIGII WATER AT LONDON - 1 -P. -- orD;Si s 't a r i n-aTDO• 4 , WEDNESDAY MORNING. 12 min past ThuitsDAY WO' ' At FRIDAY 10 min past 7 ...... 40,, _ O , va , 4 13 min past 8....•• ...... r ,u .wni, pitSt 1 0 S L NDAY SATURDAY 0 min past 4 ..... `2 1 , !, '101,3 pas t 0 MONDAY 38 min past I 9 ...... l j olio peat 1; 50 min past 11 ...... , c , i i n y T UESDAY . 0 "15 min past 11 ...... 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