The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-16 00:00:00

FOR 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. A RARE COMEINATION. The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CBEAPNESS will be foun in every &rticle sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all Masses. Commodious apartments for measuring and 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 the firm 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 he returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery arid Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S 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, flatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CITY EST&BLISIIIIENT. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MLNOILIES 83, A LDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE, 8 AL DO ATE S 7. ALDGAT 88, ALDGAT SI, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. SOC, NEW OXFORD-STREET Vr, NEW OXFORD-STREET NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET HART-STREET HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 133, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 253, EUSTON-ROAD. _ Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS, THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager. Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, PELLE,: OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA, new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault : Messrs. Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. 13:\VEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7, MY PRECIOUS BETSY : Mr Atkins and Miss I. Liza Johnstone. At 4, THE SERPENT ON THE HE RTH: Messrs It. T bil lies, E. Atkins, Stuart. C. H. Stephenson, W. Ii Eburne, Dal ►on 0.. T. Smith, R. Romer; Mrs M. Eburne. Mrs Leigh Murray, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Mrs Stoker, &e. 'OETo conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr Atkins and Mrs. Leigh Murray. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager. Mr. Vining THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE, in 2 acts, by Dion Poucicault. After which, Handers Opera of ACIS AND GALA.TEA : Cupid, diss Summers: Acis, Mr Vernon Rigby; amon, lir Montem Smith; Polyphemus. Herr Formes: Galatea, Miss Blanche Cole. Musical Conductor. Mr J. L Halton: Concluding with the Farce of X QUIET FAMILT. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Prices: Stalls. 7s: Dress Circle, 5s ITrper Boxes. 4s: Pit. 2s; Gallery. ls. Private Boxes, 52 12s 6d, £2 2s, and £1 lls 6d. OYAL STRAND THEATRE, Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs Swanhoroueh. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREA KERS : Mr Clarke. Followed by THE TOODLES: Mr Clarke. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Niessrs Thorne, Tames, Fen ton. Turner, Chamberlaine: ltesrismesliufton. T.. 'Maitland, &c. 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The dictinguisiltirg fen hires of this Association aro rquitalJe Rates, Undoubted Security. 'Prompt settlement of eiaims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. J 0 HN GOSNELL and CO.'S CIIERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, "Upper T hames. street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMAFtELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. h%ve at length, with the aid one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in pmiect g this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public a mere concentrated form, and at a lower price._ Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. ;ncluding brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel passage, 93, Upper Thames strJet London, E.C. L ONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAIL WAY. SEVEN OR FOURTEEN DAYS IN IRELAND. On FRIDAY, 20th August, a CHEAP EXCURSION will leave Euston Station at 9.50 a.m., Camden at 9.55 a.m.—trains in connection will run from Clapham Junc tion, Victoria (L. B. and S. C. side), Battersea, Chelsea, West Brompton, and Kensington, also Broad-street (city), Dalston, and Highbury— for DUBLIN, via Holyhead. Fares for the Double Journey : To return Aug. 27 only Covered cars and deck, 245. 46 First class and saloon, 40s. To return any week day up to Covered cars and deck, 30 s. September 3 First class and saloon, 455. From Broad street, Dalston, and Highbury 6d. extra on the above tares. For further particulars see Bills, to be obtained at the above stations, the parcels receiving offices, and at Gaze's Tourist-office, where tickets may also be obtained. An Excursion will leave Broadstone Terminus, Dublin, on Monday, the 23d, for Galway, Tuam, Westport, Fox ford, Roscommon, &c. Also Cheap Circular Tours to Con nemara. W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, August, 1869. L ONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. WEST COAST ROUTE TO SCOTLAND. Additional Express and Further Improved Service of Trains between London and the North of Scotland. An ADDITIONAL EXPRESS TRAIN, conveying first and second class passengers, now leaves Euston Sta tion at 8 p.m., for EDINBURGH, GLASGOW, PERTH, and the North of Scotland. A direct Train for Greenock, in connection with this Express, leaves Motherwell at 7.0 a.m., arriving it. Greenock at 8.20 a.m., allowing ample time for passengers for Oban and the West Highlands to join the lona Steamboat, which leaves Greenock at 9.0 a.m. Tourist Tickets and Return Tickets for Scotch Sta tions aro available by this Train. Passengers for Green ock are conveyed without change of carriage by this Train. Passengers for Edinburgh by this Train will join the Limited Mail at Carstairs: those for Perth and the North of Scotland will jpin the Train at Gartsherrie. Passengers by this Train are allowed fifteen minutes at Carlisle for refreshments. The Train leaving Euston Station at 9.0 p.m. has been accelerated so as to arrive at Aberdeen at 2.0 p.m., two hours and twenty minutes earlier than heretofore. A new Express Train for London leaves Aberdeen (Caledonian) at 9.0 a.m., Glasgow (Caledonian) 1.45 p.m., and Edinburgh at 2.0 p.m. ; arriving in London (Euston Station) at 3.15 a.m. Passengers booked through to Scotland are allowed to break their journey at Carlisle. For further particulars see Time-bills. W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, August, 1869. r LON DON AND COUNTY BANKING COMPANY. Established 1836. Subscribed capital, £2,500,000, in 50,000 Shares, of £5O each. Paid-up Capital, £1,000,000 ; Reserve Fund, £500,000. DIRECTORS. Nathaniel Alexander, Esq. I Frederick Francis, Esq. Thos. Tyringham Bernard, I Frederick Harrison, Esq. Esq. Lord Alfred Hervey. Philip Paton Blyth, Esq. William Champion Jones, John Wm. Burmester, Esq. Esq. Thomas Stock Cowie, Esq. James Morley, Esq. John Fleming, Esq. William Nicol, Esq. GENERAL MANAGER. William M'Kewan, Esq. CHIEF INSPECTOR. W. J. Norfolk, Esq. INSPECTORS OF BRANCHES. 11. J. Lemon, Esq., and C. Sherring, Esq. CHIEF ACCOUNTANT. James Gray, Esq. SECRETARY. F. Clappison, Esq. At the Half-yearly General meeting of the Proprietors, held on Thursday, the sth August, 1869, at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street Station, the following r, 7 port for the half-year ending the 30th June, 1869, was read by the Secretary. FREDERICK FRANCIS, EFT, in the Chair. The Directors, in presenting to the Proprietors the balance-sheet of the Bank for the half-year ending 30th June last, have the satisfaction to report that, after paying interest to customers, and all charges, allowing for rebate. and making provision for bad and doubtful debts, the net profits amount to £85,010 2s. 7d. This sum, added to £5,817 4s 10d, brought forward from the last account, pro duces a total of £90,827 7s. sd. They have declared the usual dividend of G per cent., with a bonus of 24 per cout., for the half year, free of conic tax (being at the rate of 17 per cent. per annum) which will absoib £84,601 9s. 10d., and leave £6,22:) 17s. 7d. to be carried forward to profit and loss new ac count. By the recent appointment of Mr. Whitbread Tcmson tts Manager of the Head Office, a vacancy has arisen in th, Auditorship, which, in accordance with the Deed of Set tlement, it will be in the power of the Proprietors to fill at the annual meeting in February next. The dividend anti bonus (together .£1 14s. per share) will be payable at the Head Office, or at any of the branches, on antti after Monday, the 16th instant. BALANCE-S UEFA! OF THE LONDON AND' COUNTY BANKING COMPANY, 30zu JUNE, 1869. .... £1,000,000 0 L , 00,000 0 G Du. To capital paid up To reserve fund To amount due by the Bank to customers' balances, 3tc. £12,411,805 2 4 To liabilities on ac ceptances, covered by securities To profit and loos Wane° brought from last aceount 5,817 4 10 To gross profit for the half-year, after making provision for bar't and doubt ful debts 2G:1,441 1 1 By cash on band nt Head Office, and branches, and with Bank of England £1,864,743 1 7 By cash placed at call and at notice, covered by secu rities Investments, viz. : By Government and Guaranteed Stocks 1,300,123 16 8 By other stocks and securities 59,581 3 8 13,30,810 18 :, 269.223 5 11 .E15,636,0C4 4 £3,063,512 19 0 1,359,705 0 4 By discounted bills, and advances to customers in town and country 9,361,787 5 8 By liabilities of custo mers for drafts ac eel ted by the Bank (as per contra) 1,455,035 16 5 10,816,823 2 1 By freehold premises in Lombard street and Nicholas-lane, freehold and leasehold property at the branches, with fixtures and fittings By interest paid to customers By salaries and all other expenses at Head Offices and branches, includ ing income tax on profits and salaries £15,636,064 4 1- PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. To interest paid to customers as above £52,977 0 To expenses, ditto To rebate on bills not due, carried to new account To dividend of 6 per cent. for the half year To bonus of 2 per cent. To balance carried forward 6,225 17 £269,223 5 11 By balance brought forward from last account £5,817 4 10 By gross profit for the half-year, after making provision for bad and doubt ful debts £269,223 5 11 We, the undersigned, have examined the foregoing balance-sheet and have found the same to be correct. (Signed) WILLIAM NORMAN,/ Auditors. R. H. SWAINS, London and County Bank, July - 29, 1869. The foregoing Report having been read by the Secre tary, the following resolutions were proposed, and unani mously adopted :- 1. That the Report be received and adopted, and printed for the mse of the Shareholders. 2. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Board of Directors for the able manner in which they have conducted the affairs of the Company. (Signed) FREDK. FRANCIS, Chairman. The Chairman having quitted the chair, it was resolved, and carried unanimously :- 3. That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be pre sented to Frederick Francis, Esq., for his able and cour teous conduct in the chair. (Signed) W. CHAMPION JONES, Deputy Chairman. Extracted from the Minutes. (Signed) F. CL APPIS ON, Secretary. LONDON and COUNTY BANKING COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that a DIVIDEND on th , CAPITAL of the at the rate of Six per Ce nt , for the half-y ear en di ng 30th Jinx, 1869. with a BONUS of Two and a Half I,er Cent., will be PAID to the Pro prietors, either at. the Head Office, 21, Lombard-street, 01 at any of the Company's Brarch Banks, on and after MONDAY, the 16th inst. By order of the Board, W. MeREWAN, General Manager. 21, Lombard-street, Aug. 6, 1869. rrHE " SINGER" SEWING AIACHLNES THE "NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND TIIE NEW EMBROIDERY STITCH. Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. THE " SINGER " SEWING MACHINE ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENT: FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p :altar simplicity of thee: Machines enables any one tc Acquire th+)ir perfect use inn Yew hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free. THE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY Chief Office in the United Kingdom: 147, CHE XPSIDE. Branch DepOts or Loca Agents in every Town THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1809. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce commotthies valuable to every householder high and low. This offers a highly remunerative Commission to Tradesmen, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to R. MARRISON, Great Orford-atreet,Norwich. USCULAR POWER REGAINED by the _j_Vl use of PERRY and CO.'S celebrated CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM. Established more than a century,e!and known throughout the world as a never-failing remedy in all cases of debility, nervousness, ikc. Price Ils.; by post 12s. 61—To be had only of Messrs. Perry and Co., 19, Berners-street, Oxford street, W., who may be consulted as usual from eleven till 131 X. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. .sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tars EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8 FORMOSA : Messrs. Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Mac donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED PLUM LS. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS ETENING, at 7, MY PRECIOUS BETSY: Mr Atkins and Miss Johnstone. At 8, THE SERPENT ON THE HEARTH: Mr R. Phillips, Mr E Atkins. Mr Stuart. Slrs M. Eburne, Mrs L Murray, &c. And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. Tins EVENING. at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. THE TOODLES. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; NT esdarnes Goodall, Lydia Maitland. Bufton. To con , lude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. Mr. D. James, ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A ROVING COMMISSION. After which CHECKMATE. Followed by THE MILT VARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with IN FOR A HOLID iY Mr Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver Miss Saunders, &c. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING. at 7, PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE. After which. A.'2 I-; A\ D GALATEA : Herr Formes, Mr V. Rigby, Mr M. smith, and Miss Blanche Cole. To conclude with A QUIET FAMILY. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of *Miss Marie Wilton THISEVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, 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 S Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL T 1 AMBR A PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office o pen from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL 0 A.RDENS, Regent's-pack. OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve. 6d • - nit g LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUS7 16, 1869. The centenary of NAPOLEON'S birth was yesterday worthily celebrated. A General Amnesty was an nounced through an Imperial decree, countersigned by all the Ministers. The wording of this decree was simple but comprehensive, being restricted to a iingle sentence. In it NAPOLEON 111. said—" Wishing celebrate the centenary of the birth of NAPOLEON I. by an act which responds to our feelings, we decree 1. full and complete amnesty for all political crimes and misdemeanours, offences against the press laws, the laws on public meetings and coalition of working men, as well as other political offences." No invidious exceptions, it will be seen, were made in this act of grace, which was as full and as unconditional as it could possibly be in its open handed beneficence. Another imperial decree ac ,:ompanied it—granting an amnesty to all soldiers and sailors undergoing sentence for desertion. Simultaneously there have appeared official intima tions—especially deserving of notice as indicative of he full acceptance by the EMPEROR of the liberal po licy upon which he has recently adventured in regard o the general reorganisation of his Government—an nouncements, that is, of numerous decorations having been conferred upon members of the Corps Legislatif, belonging to the 7 iers Parti—the very party identified with the cause so recently triumphant, the course of Constitutional or Parliamentary, in lieu of Absolute, or, as it is called, Personal Government. Contrary to the hopes and expectations of the army at Chalans, in the midst of which it was in -ended that the EMPEROR should spend his fête day, that is, yesterday, His MAJESTY was at the last mo nent prevented from going thither—according to one version, because, of a s _were attack of rhyamatistn tccording to another, because, of the regretted de !llse, at tnidnight between Friday and S itur lay, of 4arshal NIEL, the Minister of War. lb .vever it , nay have been in regard as to the immediate c Luse ,f the EmpEstott's absence from Chalons yesterd ty, is to the fact of his not going thither, there can be no loubt whatev2r. Remaining himself at the capital, he despatched to the Camp at Chalous the young PRINCE IMPERIAL as his boyish representative. .liter agrand military High Mass, yesterday forenoon, in the midst of the Camp, thirty thousand troops of ill arms defiled before his Imperial Highness, who listributed medals among the soldiers. Twenty-one years LOUIS NAPOLEON has now been at the head of France—the last seventeen of those years as EMPE noR. [he restoration of the BONAPARTE dynasty to power is therefore not an event of yesterday. And, during those seventeen years of the Second Empire, France at any rate has not degenerated. On such " foughten fields" as Magenta and Solferino, she has won new glory at the point of the sword and at the mouth of the can non, with the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. himself there at the head of her troops as Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial forces. France has gained victories, too, in no inglorious wars, fighting side by side with the soldiers of England in the Crimea and in China. Under the reign of her present ruler, she has witnessed the immense development of her peaceful resources, commercial, agricultural, industrial, manfacturing— in the spread of postal communication with the ends of the earth—in the expansion of her systems of railroads and of electric telegraphs, of steamboats and of submarine cables. Within this same interval of time, moreover—during the lapse of these fruitful seventeen years last past—France has seen herself not only prosperous but beautified—her chief cities, and especially her outports, but, above all, her magnifi cent capital, almost rebuilt from the very founda tions. In the mercantile world France has witnessed the substitution of Free-Trade for the old-world, and now thoroughly obsolete, system of Protection. In the political world she has witnessed the gradual transformation of a Dictatorship into a Free, Liberal, Responsible, Parliamentary, Constitutional form of Government. The Empire under NAPOLEON 111., is now, in 1869, what the Empire under NAPOLEON the GREAT was in 1815—when BENJAMIN CONSTANT became an enthusiastic Bonapartist. She is, in other words—under an Imperial Head—a Crowned De mocracy. Recognising all this, knowing all this— it must be allowed that the Centenary of the birth of the GREAT NAPOLEON could hardly have been cele brated under happier auspices. Yesterday's Imperial Decree of a General Amnesty is as a Wreath of Im nam tulles cast upon his glorious tomb by his suc- .•.essor. IF there are any classes of persons who more than all others should be above the suspicion of nepotism they are Bishops and Judges. The first, as the chief teachers and examples of the religion which incul cates unselfishness, the second, as the special upholders of justice and equity, ought to be peculiarly exempt from that human weakness of preferring the claims of kindred to the advantage of the State. En past times, it must be confessed, bishops have too often taken aupied de lettre the injunction to prove their orthodoxy by providing for those of their own house hold. Latterly there has been considerable improve ment; and although there are still living proofs of the paternal affection of right reverend fathers for their sons, these fortunate kinsmen owe their promo tion to a school of prelates who have either passed or are passing away. But recent incidents would seem to shew that, while episcopal nepotism is dying out, udicial nepotism is becoming flagrant. We all remem ber the " Westbury scandal," andthe outcry to which it gave rise. Last year there was a good deal of strong speaking because a gentleman raised from the bar per saltum to the post of Chief Justice of the Common Pleas conferred the Clerkship of Assize of the Western Circuit, worth £1,500 a year, upon his son, who had qualified himself for the post by serving as a cornet iu a cavalry regiment. The legal world has just received another shock by an arrangement on the part of another of the Chief Judges, who, like Sir WILLIAM BovILL, was placed by the Conservative Government over the heads of the puisnes without having served in the minor capacity. Chief Baron KELLY has devised a new rule for the appointment of revising barristers, which, singularly enough, has worked to the great advantage of some gentlemen of very little standing, but who compen sate for that defect by being near relatives of judges. The judges have the right to appoint these revising barristers every year from the barristers on the circuit to which the post applies, but it has hitherto been their custom to reappoint those who have already held it, unless there is some special disqualification. Sir FITZROY KELLY has broken through that rule for reasons which certainly require explanation. He has superseded two gentlemen respectively of eighteen and eleven years' standing at the Bar, and has appointed two others, one of them the son of a judge, and of only five years' standing, the other a grandson of a former Conservative Chancellor and " valued friend," although the name of the fortunate nominee does not appear in the " Law List," and though ho has gone on circuit for the first time this summer. Now the number of judges has lately been increased ; the number of ex-Chancellors is not small ; and if kinsmanship to the wearers of ermine or old political friendships are to regulate these appointments it is clear that the good old rule, whereby a man was selected as revising barrister be cause of his fitness, will be altogether superseded. This is greatly to be deprecated, and the more so because the office in question is precisely one in which political sympathies ought not to have any influence, however remote, Chief Justice COCKBURN refused to let Mr. BEALES serve because of his noto rious partisanship. Chief Baron KELLY appoints a gentleman whose only qualification is that he is the son of an old political colleague. The contrast is somewhat striking. IT is necessary, in order to keep up with the whirl of progress, that we should cast off much of our im pedimenta, and leave many of our old traditions behind ; but it is impossible to bid farewell to some of them without a feeling of regret. It is not, for instance, without a touch of melancholy that we are compelled to pronounce Greenwich Hospital an institution which no longer fulfils its mission properly. Such, however, is the case. Greenwich Hospital has been found a failure; it will in a short time be quite empty; and though it is by no means to be given up as useless, its functions will be materially changed for the future. Sic transit gloria mundi. At a time of national triumph and gratitude—just after the battle of La Hogue—the palace began by CHARLES 11. was turned into a hospital for seamen ; and ever since the fine edifice on the Greenwich terraces has been held up as a monument of England's regard for the men to whom so much of her greatness is due. But the usefulness of this institution has sadly diminished of late. Only a little while ago it cost £99,000 a year to maintain 1,600 inmates—that is, £6O a head—and yet most of the men would have preferred £3O a year at their own homes. The fact was that £48,000 was spent " in management," and the seamen did not get much more than half of what was voted for them. More than this, sailors did not easily reconcile themselves to the restraints of hospital life, and though they could obtain assistance in no other way, the repugnance was so general that in 1859 out of 1,900 inmates only 500 were really mariners. Clearly a change was needed, and it has been made. In 1855 an Act was passed offering the inmates the choice of remaining in the hospital, or of leaving it with a pension of £3O 10s. So acceptable was the chance of getting away from the glorious old institu tion that about 1,000 out of 1,400 left, of whom very few changed their minds and desired to be readmitted ; whilst the saving in " management " was so great that the pensions of the older men could be materially increased. Encouraged by this success, another Act has been passed, and an Order in Council has just been issued for its fulfilment. It has been decided that the iiiimbE,T of in-pensioners shall be confined to those who can be accommodated in the infirmary ; which is a distinct building from the Hospital; whilst on the other hand, the money formerly spent in reckless mismanagement and now saved will enable the Admiralty to grant pensions to seamen who did not come within the old conditions. Formerly ten years' service were necessary for a claim to admission ; now the term is reduced, and the Admiralty may admit any seaman who is really deserving of national aid, for whatever period he may have served. The scandal of mariners who have been disabled on behalf of their country being cast off because their term wanted a few months of completion will be prevented for the future. In brief, the money saved from the waste of the old system will enable the country, without additional burden, to provide for most of its seafaring servants in case of necessity; and if this object be attained, the disestablishment of the old Hospital must prove a benefit. ELECTRIC Al') INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPII COMPANY. The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this com pany was held on Friday, the Hon. R. Grimston in the chair. The report stated that the net profit for the half year ending 30th June last amounted to £89,180. From these figures an idea may be formed as to the advantages of the bargain made by the Government in purchasing the company's right and plant. An income of £179,600 for the year would make for 20 years' purchase a total of £3,592,0 00 . The sum which the company will actually get is £2,038,000, which represents only about six teen and a half years' purchase of the value on the 30th June. The property, however, will not be handed over or the money paid before the Ist January next, by which time the value will have received the further enhancement of six months of average income. The revenue of the half-year was £184,631 Bs. 6d., against £172,826 6s. ltd. for the corresponding half of 1868, while the working expenses amounted to £94,848 16s. 10d., as compared with £101,582 12s. 7d. The directors recommend that a bonus of £5,000 be divided amongst the staff and a sum of £2,500 to the secretary, after payment of which and the dividend of 25 per cent, there would remain at the credit of the trust fund a balance of £63,308 18s. Bd., which it was proposed to reserve for future distribution. The CHAIRMAN first of all explained the negotiations which had taken place between the company and the Government, and stated that the bargain which was com pleted was not the favourable bargain which some persons supposed. The Government would clear from it nearer £60,000 than £50,00 0 a year, and the company would be the loser of something like 13 per cent. Persons in the Government had said that the demands of the company were usurious, and that unless they accept the terms of the Government they must take the conse quences. He, for one, believed that the time was come when the company should realise their property, in consequence of the onerous terms imposed on them by the railway companies, and under these circumstances he thought the terms of the Govern ment should have been accepted even had they been less favourable than they were. They had maintained their lines in the usual liberal manner, and intended as a matter of honour to hand them over to the Government in the highest possible state of efficiency. The directors recommended that £5,000 bonus should be given to the staff, as all promotion bad b een at a stand-still for a considerable time. T he g ift to the secretary stood very diff e rently. They did not know the large amount of money Mr. Weaver had saved the com pany, and as this was the last meeting but one, it was but a simple matter of justice that they should act towards him with their usual liberality. Ife then moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by Mr. Bidder and carried. A resolution declaring a dividend of 25 per cent. 'trap also carried. The CHAIRMAN then moved that abonus of £5,000 to the staff and of £2,500 to the secretary be awarded, which was also carried unanimously. Votes of thanks to the chairman and directors were unanimously carried, and after the proposal by a share holder to give a bonus of £5,000 to the directors, which the chairman said could not be put to the meeting without Previous notice, the meeting separated. 2IR. GOLDWIN SMITH ON THE ALBANIA CLAIMS. Mr. Smith has not altogether done with the Alabama claims. In a recent lecture at Cleveland on "England and Slavery," he took occasion once again to refer to it. " I feel in a position positively to deny (he said) she assertion so intolerably injurious to the honour of England, that the Queen's prerogative was abused for the purpose of a conspiracy against the integrity of a friendly Power, and that another step in the same con ipiracy was the launching of the Alabama. On this question of the Alabama, I stand before you as an Englishman, with tolerably clean hands. It was to denounce the Alabama that I came, in the first instance, into public life ; and I will venture to say that no man feels more deeply than I do the suspicion her builders and abettors have cast upon the honour of my country. But the truth is serious enough without rhetorical exaggeration. It is now insinuated, or rather asserted, that she was an English ship, and that the English nation and the English Government connived at her escape and were parties to her depredations. She was built in England, and in that sense was an English ship, just as a rifle of English manufacture in the hands of a Federal soldier was an English rifle. But she was built by the Confederate Government in a private yard, and commanded by a Confederate officer, now a citizen of the United States, who, if we quarrel about this matter, will be, with his fellow Southerners, in the singular posi tion of making war on us for not having been successful in preventing him from violating our neutrality. Her English seamen were taken on board for a feigned voyage. Besides which, every great maritime country has a number of roving sailors, like the companions of Walker, the filibuster, who are ready for any enterprise, under any flag, and in no way represent or commit the nation. The Alabama did not venture, as she would have done if the English Government had favoured her, to arm in an English port. She went out unarmed, at the risk of capture, and met her armament at a port in the Azores, from which port, not from any port in British territory, she sailed forth on her career of depre dation. When she slipped out of Liverpool, the order for her arrest was on its way. She was pursued to Nassau, which was her supposed destination ; and she would have been arrested there, but having to put into a port belonging to another nation and there equipped herself for war, she was, according to the opinions of the legal advisers of our Government—an opinion which I have not the slightest doubt was given in good faith—out of the British jurisdiction, so that she could be pursued by us no further. The English Government stopped her consort, the Alexandria, and it stopped the steam rams ; though in the case of the rams the evidence according to our law was so weak that the Government had to pay for them out of the public purse. Fur four years the Con federates were doing their utmost to violate our neu trality- and to entangle us in the war, and the only case in which they were successful was the case of the Alabama." TILE AMERICAN MAIL. The discussion in England on the cotton supply is watched with much interest in the United States. The New York Herald thinks that the demand for cotton in England is most encouraging for American planters ; and, on the other hand, it bids the English manufacturers be of good cheer. " Since the supply has been cut off in part from this country the cotton manufac- tures of Europe have been changing their machinery to suit the short staple article of India and other countries ; but we advise them not to spend money unnecessarily :n this way. From this time forth they may expect a larger supply from the United States. The planters of the South have surely passed the period of their poverty caused by the war, and they will have capital enough to extend their planting operations. The labour of that section, which was disorganised and unreliable from the same cause, is becoming organised and reliable. Besides, there will be within a short time a great influx of Chinese labourers, as well as of European and Northern emigrants, to increase the production. Within three or four years, probably, there will he as large or a larger crop of cotton raised than in any year before the war' The British manufacturers, therefore, need not be alarmed or spend large sums of money uselessly in India or else where." The Fenian panic in Canada still continues. A des patch from Montreal, dated July 31st, says that Colonel Hanson, Brigade Major of the Three River districts, has received orders to hold all the companies in his command in readiness to march to the frontier at an hour's notice. Two strong battalions were at once mustered, and now await orders. The latest news from Cuban sources is that through the capture of many prisoners in the recent engagements, who are held as hostages for the proper treatment of Cubans hi Spanish hands, the revolutionary leaders have caused a change in the policy of their enemies, which was to instantly execute insurgents when taken. Quesada has destroyed all communication between Puerto Principe and the coast, and telegraphic communication with Havana; and General Jordan has defeated the Spaniards in several skirmishes. The troops of the latter are reported in good condition, well organised, well drilled—" and fight like demons." A letter from Japan states that Rev. Mr. Verheck, long an American missionary at Nagasaki, has gone to Yeddo to take charge of a school recently established by the Government for the education of the sous of its officers. It also states that the severe laws for punishing natives who may embrace Christianity are about to be repealed. The South London Press says there are no les3 than 300 pigs kept in one street in the parish of Battersea.. VELOCIPEDE ACCIDENT.—An accident occurred on Saturday to Captain Jenkinson, of Ealing, which it is feared will prove fatal. Whilst practising how to ride a velocipede he was jerked off and thrown to the ground. He was taken up insensible. Mr. Spurgeon recently introduced velocipedes in a sermon to a congregation of 2,000 at Persbore, Worcestershire, an in this wise :—" These new inventions which the lads were riding down our streets, would not keep up unless they were kept going ; the moment they stopped they fell down ; and in this they were exceedingly like the Christian Church, which would fall unless it was constantly moving on." Cornell University is one of the most ricLly endowed in the Americas. It possesses nearly a million of acres, and its founder settled upon it nearly £200,000 in money. Professor Goldwin Smith has given it his library, Dr. Playfair a cabinet of cereals, a lady a chime of nine bells, the inscriptions on which were written by Tenny son. Another lady has given a great bell. These are only some of the benefactions. THE CHARGE OF CHILD MURDER.—After a thorough search in the house in Great Wild-street, lately occupied by the Pullins, who were last week charged at Bow-street with concealing the birth of an infant, the police have discovered the body of the child. It was buried underneath a grating in the area, and in order to facilitate decomposition the remains were embedded in a quantity of lime. TIIE PROSECUTION OF THE REV. J. J. EsT.—The Rev. J. J. Merest, against whom letters of request from the Bishop of Worcester have been received by the Dean of Arches on a charge of simony, states in reply that it is not true that he pleaded guilty to simony at the Worcester Assizes, but simply to a libel. He declares that his trustees, against his will, purchased the living of Upton Snodsbury, to which he was afterwards presented, and that it was not vacant when the presenta tion was bought. BREACH OF PROMISE.—AiI amusing breach of promise case was tried at the Liverpool Assizes on Satur day. The plaintiff, Miss Jane Speight, was 34 years of age, and the defendant, Mr. Hewitt, was a widower with a family and the postmaster of Lan aster. Several letters were put in, but the correspondence was remarkable for its laconic character. One was " Miss Speight—all's right. L. H." The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, damages £2OO. One of the noticeable points in the case was the plaintiff herself giving evidence under the new Act, and the action was tried by only five jurymen. JOURNALISTIC CHANGES.—Mr Murray is pro jecting a new weekly critical journal of literature, science, and art, to be called The Academy, a bad title, by the way, though not worse than that of other papers which have achieved success. Dr. William Smith, of dictionary renown, will, we believe, have much to do with the paper, which is intended to make its appear ance before the end of the year. The Athena urn, as now officially announced, passes under new editorship, and will make great changes, beginning, according to the fashion of journalism, with the new year. A much more numerous staff of writers will contribute to the j,mrnal than have hither,o written for it—the principle of the new ediLor,lnp being that of assigning every book or other tileme to a writer known to be specially qualified for the task of reviewing it. The changes will include a considerable enlargement of the paper, which will be printed by a new printer, and in bolder type. Messrs. Macmillan, who probably think that the time has now come when the old ~ ssociation of " Literature, Science, awl Art" may with advo..itage be subdivided, anticipate these projects with a new weekly journal of science, to be entitled " Nature News of scientific work and discovery, and articles an 1 reviews, will be the chief features of the contents, which, will be contributed by nearly all the known men of science . of the day. The first number, containing twenty-tow pages, with illustrations. will make its appearance Nome thin iu October, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, It is in the 17th year of his own Imperial reign, says the Times, that Napoleon 111. celebrates the centenary of his uncle's birth. That is a fact of greater moment than might be imagined, for what, it may be asked, are seven• teen years in the life of a nation? Very little, certainly, where the nation is as motionless as China or Japan, but not so where it is ever fermenting, like France. What is more, the present ferment, such as it is, is caused by mea sures, not of coercion, but of relaxation. Charles X. endeavoured to fetter the Press, and Louis Philippe to suppress public meetings ; but Frenchmen are now talking not of reactionary ordinances and proclamations, but of broad political reforms. They are suddenly offered greater freedom and larger Constitutional rights, and the only question among themselves no less than us—is whether they can turn the opportunity t( good account and prove their fitners for the boon. Nevertheless, with all this, and more that might be added, it is a question whether the country will not use its partially•recovered power to subvert the ruler who restores it. It is not willingly that Napoleon has taken Liberal politicians into partnership, and he was doubtless mortified at the necessity which the elections put upon him. If, however, the people did not like his Government, what did they want in its place? The Red Spectre is still a terror to France, and the Emperor alone is thought able to lay the ghost. That, in short, makes Louis Napoleon a necessity. It must be rather disheartening, at the Emperor's time of life, and after all his achieve. ments, to find that no more gratifying consideration than this recommends him to the country, for he has brought France to a grand position, and been unremitting in his solicitude for the people, both peasantry and artisans. The Emperor, however, will be justified in reflezting that even if his original mission was merely to ward off a rule consi• dered worse than his own, he has at least succeeded in fulfilling it, and that the interval of security for which France is thus indebted to him will hereafter represent an era of unprecedented progress in all but the political life of the nation. The 'Standard remarks that Annus Do2nini 1769 was a great year. If the year 1769 could by any possibility be blotted out of the annals of the world, so that the men who were born in it had never been born, the whole face of our modern earth would be changed. For this year produced men of such mighty and transcendant genius that their lives and labours left their imprint on the age, and effected what amounted to a revolution in the history, the laws, the progress, the arts, the sciences, of our modern human race. We may mention here six out of many to chew the stuff of which the progeny of this anzzus mira7ilis were made. The year 1759 gave birth to Schiller, Pitt, Burns, and Robespierre, but 1769 produced Humboldt, Cuvier, Sir Walter Scott, Mehemet Mi of Egypt, the Duke of Wellington, and Napoleon Buona parte. The centenary of the birth of Napoleon was celebrated on Sunday throughout the French Empire. It was but just that it should be. The history of modern France centres in Napoleon, who will take his place in history by the side of Charle magne and Louis Quatorze. Napoleon fought well for France, but not always wisely. He ruled France despoti cally, but not always ill. Napoleon 111. owes much, if not all, to his memory and to his name. He has achieved a name and fame for himself, but, had it not been for his uncle, it is certain that be would never have had the chance of achieving it. We rejoice that in one respect he has taken warning from the fate of his predecessor. The reforms now promised in the French Constitution bear a strong resemblance to those of the ccte additional pro mulgated by the £mt Napulecn at the instance of Benja min Constant. The repentance of Napoleon I. was too late, the concessions of Napoleon 111. promise to come in time. The Times remarks that in the Ministerial cerabinations the Emperor Napoleon may have to form in compliance with the Senatus-Consultum one most able and devoted servant will be wanting. Marshal Niel's career, both in the camp and in the Council, has come to a close. He was gifted in a very eminent degree with all the qualities befitting a Minister as well as a G eneral, and it Was his good fortune to be favoured by the best opportunities of achiev ing the very highest distinction in both capacities. Niel at the Ministryof War, and Fould at that of the Finances, were the only Ministers to whose firmness the equally determined, but not indocile, mind of the Emperor Would defer, and in this it only did homage to an admitted supe riority of knowledge and experience. Grievous as his loss may be to the Emperor's Government, it is by no means unlikely that the Minister's spirit may survive his ad ministration, and that the principle of keeping France's armament up to its highest degree of efficiency may be strictly adhered to. It is, however, far easier to adopt such a man's plans than to carry them to maturity. The bow of the dead warrior hangs on the wall, but how many of his survivors will have the strength to bend it? " The death of Marshal Niel," the French are already saying, " leaves a gap in the Ministry of War which neither any of his brother Marshals singly nor all of them put together will be able to fill up." The Daily Eras says that Marshal Niel is dead, and in the Emperor Napoleon loses another of Lis ablest servants. The deceased Marshal was not one of the poli tical supports of the Imperial I hrone, like Marshal St. Arnaud, and so many who have been taken away since his death ; but Le was one of its greatest military illustra tions. His career, if not brilliant, was entirely successful, and it was rewarded not only with the highest military rank, but, according to the usage of the Empire, with civil and political distinction. The young student of the Polytechnic in IE2I, after serving the Bourbons of the Restoration and of the Revolution, has died Marshal of France, senator, and President of a General Council. The Standard says that though fully expected, the death of Marshal Niel has caused a general feeling of gloom, for, with all their scepticism, the French are very superstitious, and the decease of the leading general and the ablest administrator of the French army, on the very eve of the Imperial Fete, is regarded as an ill omen by the soi-disants esprits forts. The Emperor's run of ill-luck does not seem exhausted yet. All his principal friends and advisers seem to be predestined ; a premature death removes them at the very time they were most wanted. Mornv, Billault, Fould, Walewaki, have been cut off in their Prime, and now Niel follows them at a time when his powerful influence and indomitable energy were still required to perfect and carryout the plan of reorganisa tion of the French army which will rank as the greatest achievement of his brilliant career. The Telegraph declares that the splendour of the Napo leon FC:tes has been clouded, and the satisfaction with which the political amnesty has been received must have been not a little damped, by the death of an illustrious soldier, who ranked among the principal contributors to the military glories of the Second Empire. In Marshal Niel the Emperor has lost a faithful servant, France an able general, and the world a gallant and loyal soldier. St. Arnaud and Pelissier, Duke of Malakoff, were men of greater native power ; but Niel, though n o t p er h aps so distinguished in his particularclass, belonged to a higher class than either of those two Generals. With Niel, as we said, has perished another of the small phalanx of energetic and ambitious men who stood round Napoleon 111. when he commenced his career as a ruler; and the time seems not far distant when the Emperor of the French will be surrounded by a new generation of public men, to whom the coup cretat is matter of hist or y rat h er than of personal memory. The Post thinks there are some notices of motions which appear . calculated to thw ar t th e h ope which her Majestyhas graciously expressed that the new Irish Church Act will promote peace, and help to unite all classes in Eng land, Ireland, and Scotland in a fraternal concord. It looks rather at present, it must be confessed, as if this great Act would send a sword rather than peace through the land. At any rate, it has already done good work as a Spur. Mr. Wentworth Beaumont has given notice that he will ask for leave to bring in a bill for relieving all bishops who shall hereafter be consecrated from their legislative and judicial duties in the House of Peers. Mr. Thomas Chambers will call attention to the unsatisfactory position of the Established Church in relation to the great body of the people, and to the frequent absence of that friendly co-operation between its clergy and their congre gations so essential to efficient ministration, and will invite the House to a consideration of such changes, thoroughly consistent with its doctrines and principles, as m a y b r i ng it more into harmony with the opinions and feelings of the laity, and make it a more effecti ve i nstrument for the evangelisation and improvement of the wh o l e community. And Mr. Watkin Williams crowns this religious temple of concord, of which the Royal Speech had a vision, by pro posing to call attention to the existing state of religious in equality in Wales, and to the anomalous position of the Established Church in that Principality. Mr. Williams, whether he is drawing his bow at a venture or not, will, no doubt, be strongly s u p porte d b y the population of the Principality. In any event these shadows cannot be said to indicate the advent of an epoch of fraternity or con cord. The Herald thinks that Mr. Gladstone has two serious dangers to app re h en d . In the first place, he is in an alarming minority in the House of Lords, and, what mak ntatters worse, the preponderance of talent and capacity against him in that assembly is even greater than the preponderance of numbers. Lord Cairns has shewn in the debates on the Irish Church Bill with what admirable skill and temper he can avail himself of his own strength and of the blunders of his adversaries ; and with such an opponent waiting for his every measure at the head of an irresistible majority in the Lords, and with Mr. Bright ever ready io afford cccasion of censure, even a majority of 100 in the House of Commons cannot put the Premier altogether at his case. The second danger ar,se:; from the very great ness of that majority. Many a Minister has experienced heretofore the misfortune of being too powerful ; and Mr. Gladstone is nut likely to be c;:empt from the common fate, even if he were less certain to provoke the political Nemesis that ever waits qn excessive arrogance and abused good fortune. Much is expected of him that he cannot achieve ; much that he cannot attempt without breaking up his party. He must disappoint the Radicals ; he must quarrel either with the Irish Romanists, or the Scotch Presbysterians, or both ; he must either exasperate the Irish tenantry, or alienate the entire landed interest. He has already made the Church his enemy. The experience of 1566, and the pressure of con stituents, will for a time keep the party to its colours, and it is well that it should do so. Let Mr. Gladstone have ample time to spew his true character ; to lose friends by his arrogance, to alienate support by his short comings, to forfeit confidence by his incalculable eceen• tricities. The longer he remains in office now the more assured will be his fall, and the smaller his dance of retrieval. w g i ts 4 is e 7 , ~_ ifity ci. , ," CIITATIZt HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, August 1L Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, drove out yesterday after' noon. The other members of the Royal Family (JO went out. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Higt" nesses Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prine ° Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the ladies an d gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service tbill morning at Osborne. LATEST INTELL MENCS (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, August 14. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The North - German Lloyd steamship -Main arrived out yesterday at 9 p.m. The Inman Royal Mail steamer Etna arrived here to-day. _ _ CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 131} ; the highest quotation dut• ing the day was 134-; the lowest, 1331. Sterling Exchange on London 1091• 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 9 46 " 1885 l2* " 1867.. 1201 10-40 cc Illinois l4l. Erie 2Bi. Cotton—Mid. upland 33P Petroleum—Standard White ...... 521c ; c1 Flour, extra state, $6.95c. to $7 55c. Coro , °` mixed, $1.12e. BALTIMORE, Aug. 14' The North German Lloyd's steamer Baltinior 0 Arrived here at 6 a.m. to-day. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 16 ' The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Siberia, fr ° . lli ii New York, arrived here at 7.10 a.m. to-dal , 1/1 : 1 138 passengers. She landed despatches an d ; 0 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool a t I ' 2 a.m. All well. --- DREADFUL EXPLOSION IN AlUEltleit. A cable telegram states that the stearcO l t Cumberland exploded her boilers on the Ohio rigilee on Saturday. Twenty persons were killed, as d t boat blown to pieces. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, Aug. l '‘ er The Peninsular and Oriental Company's Bangalore left at 7.50, and the Ceylon at I°. a.m. to-day. If The former may be expected at Marseilles e 4t nthe 21st, and the latter at Southampton 11-° the 28th inst. BOMBAY (HEAVY) MAIL. i A G IBRALT AR, A u g' The Peninsular and Oriental Company's 00010, Ripon leaves at 9 this evening for SouthaP.ta°o All well. She may be expected early on VI morning (20th inst.) HUNGARY. PESTII, Aug. 13 (Ev enili h g t ) ;ol 4 The movement of Roumanian troops place recently in consequence of the frontier tri, broglio was not ordered by the Roumanian 0131° but was the work of an over-zealous Prefecta" The matter has been brought before Oa e it garian-Roumanian Boundary Commission, Iviier no doubt will meet with a peaceful solutioo• 1 4 ' PARIS, Aug' „loth It is rumoured that in consequence of the . ( t ' prj . of Marshal Niel the Emperor has deeme dl h eld per not to be present at the military fetes to be at the Chalons Camp to-morrow. 1 6. PARIS, A li - - g * ter cia; , The Napoleon Fetes were celebrated Y es i o in the usual manner. The illuminations Ted evening were most brilliant. The crowa 1/11 great, but no accident happened. This morning no papers are published. rao rlte ti BOURSE, Aug. 14.—Three o'clock -111e closed as follows : FRANCE. 28 0 9 0 B a nk Shares ..... 75 Italan Fives ....... Austrian Fives ••• o/1 Ottoman Loan "‘ 4 5 Do. Debt ......... Spanish Threes •.: Home Debt ..... •• De f er red ...... • as' 9 6 ° Orleans , ... 601 Western ....................................••• 015 Northern .... tog Strasburg • • ....................... 995 Lyons and Mediterranean ............... 8,20 Southern..." ................................. 55 Sardinian. .................................... 830 Austrian ....................................... 553 f Lombard ................................ N orth of Spain ................................... 88 Saragossa ...................................... Roman .......................................... per Cent. End of month — per Cent End of month 73 3u Credit Mobilier 212 50 End of month — Credit Foncier 1767 50 End of month — RAILWA" CRIMINAL COURT--(This.l76o. The August sessions Lord Mayor, the Recorde p r n , The charge of the Record °3;C e ni r cOin' s U a -e twelve one being alleged charges against cs° d 00 of wilful murder ; but that there were one o two o'..itteti of highway robbery Ow' lie ItincicTet.dh a t to- t da y :70: 0, to have bee° 0 t bers months t which took place in SoutbOr'' 0/00% with Roe, in a fight ago by a woman naulea : TV again veryfrequent, letter-carriers, he remarked, if ell ljeCtol3C° the offence was fully proved. Tlia„Qaier°l°. inflicted where the notwithstanding the heall Seliffeoceo p rr a i n , i i s o w s wich received order v s i t o o le p n r c e: than usual, There ci n g been committed amongst the cases was one said krtilJai Nsar'oe rfe: 0o:0°4P:too yea to escape, it d by three soldiers in the IWY°I --ir Of most importantwas said, being sent to India with the crt ice' a b e ei n n a g ses were man, and the erson injured bi° 5 . 0 00 , 0 1° as a painful case caused by intoxication, the P7,,aot. employed by the London that of Richards, the n ,000,i, '..,0.. t s i t e a e nds charged with conspiring and Brdieghteo . 11 : eil fla ef jag, also fo r t . rial from ldaestteesteisv; 00:110of todefeat. t by bribing two other to tb° xacipiO officers belongi.ug ,_.. to eV politan police force to commit perjury, in °rot" . the discharge of two prisoners charged With 101009 John CHARGE AGAINST A ItiERCIIANT ~.,tf, 110 Webster, of No. 4, Winchester-street; '' ioirt ° indicted for obtaining by false pretences 20 doze° o ritt 0 19 0 from Me some othsesrs. Moses and Levy of Aldgate, City' „ 6 po or r property from a British merchant ill VA street. deOt re' Prom the • evidence it appeared that the Jaen .00 0 5' presented that he carried on business at the addreS _ goo o and that for a r in March last an order was given to lifese_rs: tot wore t quantity of shirts on the representatl °nar they gmentatfourfor the Australian 'market, the terra bele_Ojtafth months. The goods Wero sent to ill° ri ot to . and from ' time f thence they were sent to Australia b fa' quirt' °Z.PnYment arriving, and the bills not being ,del,od 00 made into the despatch of the goods, present as The case willti occu py the whole • of the day. to the CONVICTION Or A COIN —HEAV Y NEW COVET. his possession named Male was indicted for felonouslci.P... 11 appliances luln,riompotshsession a large quantity of counterfeit 07.0elea ,deteleiniv:iiedaeonf the i prisoner, d u t ihiabtutri:ppioaleiec,o o I and there found the whole appliances for cog rejoetl large scale. There were moulds, furnaces, nletl". a ss 0 Sergeant The jury found the completion. Over two thousand finislwd base o°l.i. crowns ) florins, and shillings were also discoverc°oooool great quantity of base coin in V:s,bolf ergeaut sentenced him to 15 years' penal servitti prisoner guilty, and t 11.8.0.