The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-08 00:00:00

aoultsao. The Times, in reterring to the leading dogma pre 'mounded in the (Ecumenical Council, observes it is pre 4oisely because this Papal Infallibility, or, more properly, 'Cis universal Papal spiritual absolutism, has been for so 'many years borne by the whole of Roman Catholic } Christendom without murmuring, that the Jesuit advisers g ol Pius IX.. ought to have felt the wisdom of the maxim, o"Quieta non movere." It is for this reason that, in our opinion, Bishop Dupanloup deserved such high credit for his bold denunciation of the inoppor 4-eneness of bringing such a question before the ?world at this moment, or, as he might have added, at any moment. It is one of those subjects about which "least said is soonest mended." The vast bulk of Roman Catholics look upon the dictum, " The Pope is infallible," with the same feeling with which we here in England accept the maxim, "The Queen can do no w cong." It is, in both cases, a convenient myth ; but with this difference, that we, politically, profess to accept the le et at the Sovereign's hands because we are aware of our power to discuss it with her responsible Ministers; while, religiously, the Roman Catholics submit to the Pope's word as indisputable because they have long agreed that, in matters of faith, truth gains nothing by dispute, and safety lies in utter abnegation of reason. The Pope, however, or his Jemit advisers, have too far pi 'mimed on this self-denial of the Catholic intellect. They have thrown down a gauntlet which bold spirits have been ready to raise from the ground. Father Hyacinthe, " Janus," Professor Dollinger, Monseigneur Blaret, the theologians of Fulda, Bonn, and Coblentz, have sounded the depth of Papal pretensions to their very sources. We will not venture to say whether argu ments of the nature of those urged by " Janus " or by Monseigneur Maret will be allowed a free utterance ['within the Vatican halls ; we do not know whether spoken 'opposition will be as easily disposed of by anathema as ' written objection. But of this we are sure, that there is no thickness of Vatican walls that can keep the light from ebhe world, if the Court of Rome will really allow that there should be light. The Jesuits have put their foot in it ; the Pope must bear the consequences. Well may the shrewd Antonelli declare withreepect to the Loyola Brother h god, Whatever they touch they are sure to bring to destruction." The Daily News declares that as an imposing spectacle, the series of ceremonies just begun in Rome, will be one of the most magnificent "revivals of an age which in faith, as in learning and in art, is more remarkable for its a7ltiquarian and archa,'ological discoveries and restorations 'than for any original productions of its own. There is no place like Rome for processions and celebrations. The city itself is a fragment of antiquity. The crowds of heretical tourists who will fill the pockets of the Pope's dear and loving subjects, and call down their disinterested blessings on his head, will probably see very little :of the sessions or " actions" of the Council itself ; once a month, perhaps, the curtain will be withdrawn, and the Fathers of the Church will be discovered sitting, in a state of chronic inspiration, round their venerable Pontiff; but every day, and at all lours, the streets of the Eternal City will be enlivened Ly groups of Bishops of fearful and wonderful aspect, yellow-faced Bishops, black-faced Bishops; Bishops smok if Ig, pipes, and Bishops smoking cigars ; Bishops with earrings, ad Bishops in the wildest fancy dresses and hats. From China, from Japan, from remotest India, from Australasia, and Polynesia, from the islands of the Atlantic and the Pacific and from the Eastern. Ocean there will be repre sentatives of the Latin Communion, and it is to these i'cvoted and often admirable servants of the Cross the Council will owe whatever it possessed of an " Ecumeni cal" character. In the 364 churches of Rome there will be more than usual brilliant "functions," and a vast variety of preachers. The Telegraph discusses a recent railway compensation ease, and finds that the question of " fining " the company —for it comes to that—altogether depends, not on the character, but on the consequences, of their acts. If a most unpardonable and flagrant accident occurs, and yet by some chance nobody is hurt, they get off scot free. But some slight fault may lead to the railway murder of scores, and then the penalty upon them is terribly severe. At this trial nobody asked how the accident occurred; the great question was how Dinah Harris " took it." To that issue Vail the trial narrowed down. This mode of inquiry follows, of course, from the fact, that our only way of keeping the companies in order is to make them amenable for the results of their blunders; and we suppose that system is better than no system at all. It is open to this objection, however, that the companies carrying third class pas sengers only need not be so particular 33 when they carry first-class travellers; they had better kill three hundred working men than one Bishop--and, having their choice, they generally do select their victims from the lower elasses, travelling mainly by excursion trains. The Great 'Western Company wish to do even more than this ; they have started workmen's trains from Hammersmith and other places adjacent to the City; but the workmen are bound by the inscription cn the ticket, in stead of suing for damages in case of accident, to refer the claim to an arbitrator, who shall not grant in any cane more than £lOO. In this way the company practically says: !` We will not convey these working men unless we can get off at a cheap rate in case we kill or wound them.' There is something cynical in the proposition ; and yet it ascords with our modern practice of fixing £5 as the tariff price for a brutal assault, and the more ancient usage "When every Saxon clown first killed his man, and then Laid half-a-crown." The Herald remarks that the canal through the Isthmus of Suez, about the feasibility of which so much incredulity has been expressed, is now so far a fact that it has posi tively been opened, and a considerable number of vessels of large tonnage have passed along its whole length of ninety-two miles, from the Bay of Pelusium in the Mediterranean, to the Harbour of Suez, in the Red Sea. So far from feeling any jealousy or apprehension about it, we in England have every reason to wish prosperity to this Ship Canal. Whether it -a ill prosper —whether, in fact, it will pay—is quite another question. It has already cost twelve millions instead of the eight millions originally raised. It will cost some millions more to dredge it down to the proposed depth of twenty-six feet. It has to be seen how the dredging machines are to be kept at work while ships are passing to and fro. Experience only will show bow far the wash of the steamers will injure or destroy the sandy banks, and whether the drifting sand of the desert will choke up the channel. The expense of its annual maintenance cannot be fairly calculated by a comparison with the outlay on the sluggish inland waters of Holland, where no such dangers are to be anticipated. On the other hand, full stress must be laid on the argument advanced by M. de Lesseps and DI. Lange, that, at a uniform rate of 10s. per ton, two vessels of large tonnage, passing daily, will bring in an income of £BOO,OOO a year. On the whole, we cannot see any sufficient reason why the Canal should not be a suc cess. Trusting sincerely that it may prove so, we can only reiterate the sentiment of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, when asked for its opinion on the matter in 3357, that f‘ the completion and m a i n t enance o f suc h a canal would be of great benefit to the commercial interests cf this country." It is clear, observes the Post, that Ireland has some claim to exceptional legislation, and a suggestion has been made by Mr. Robert Baxter for the satisfaction of that claim which has the merit of being simple and perfectly practicable, and also of not being without precedent. It is to assimilate the law and practice of Ireland to the law and practice of England. Mr. Baxter is not a theorist. Ile writes upon a subject he thoroughly under stands, with which he has for many years been rractieally conversant, and, what is still more to the purpose, he justifies the right of Ireland to special legislation by showing that there is in England a system of tenant right which is only to be found in one province of Ireland, and there in a corrupt form. His suggestion deserves to be considered, and we would especially poi n t ou t th e a b surd i ty to which he reduces the panacea, popular in Ireland at the present sooment, of fixity of tenure. It is the most discouraging i)art of the Irish land question that we have to legislate for men who can believe that such a principle is practicable, or that it would be productive of good results even if it were. The last thing that a nation aiming at prosperityshould wish for is a fixity which, as Mr. Baxter justly says and groves. would amount to paralysis. 11.0 01..1110.:1 0 Show, now in full glory, is 1., I . illtvt.%Lec; Chili Cattle of the age in which we cc (Any our progress in agriculture, but also a large development in our ideas of progress itself. If seventy years have dole for the cultivation of our herds end flock.; tenors than seven hundred years prior to the organisation of this society, seventeen, or even seven, have advanced its objects in a remarkable degree, an.l changed the anaition cf exhibitors. The days of mere size, weight, and fat have long gone by. 'Each succeeding Christmas,• as it hap pens, renders the display more interesting, on acconet of the 1 7 evastation which, not long ago, smote the English Line in farm and field ; but, surveying the won derful wealth set forth in the Agricultural Hall, it is diffi cult to remember that so hrief an interval has passed since our cattle were tlyin l ; le: thousands thioughout the land. The Royal Agricuitur.il society of England retains its rank as the leading inslitutien Of that class in the world, and its eneiPery, the mikhfieid Club, is, in its not le.; distin:;uished. More than this, the spirit of cer agriculture is essentiaßy one of education and improve ment. Emulation has a good deal to do with it, of course, and year by year more aspirants are hurrying towards the great highway. If once now and then a halt takes place, or a fal ling off is visible, the peculiar incidents of the time must be considered. The cattle trade in the United Kingdom has passed through a severe and destructive crisis, is still surroutied by d:fEcaltk-u, is not yet free from alarm, and 2,2Tmirp. to acme nt, the mercy of Orders in Council. While theF;e harassing influences continue ; they must, more or less, affect both the culture of meat and the commerce in it. But none can visit the Agricultural Hall, or will next week see the shining shop-fronts, and refuse to con cede that London is the greatest beef-market in the world, and has nothing, in this respect at any rate, to envy any 'where. VIBBATBNINO A P.RIESt The oispenents of Fenianism and extravagarir deininds for the tenants, are retaliating upon the tenant-right advocates. The Rev. Mr. Doyle, P.P., cf Wexford, is re ported to have received the following letter, bearing the London postmark. It is so shockingly virulent that doubt has been thrown upcn its authenticity : " Rev. Sir,—We have read with interest of a peculiar kind the enclosed account of a speech that you lately delivered at a tenant-right meeting at Enniscorthy. Now carefully mark the following, and read it to the end. Your speeches and actions, as well as Lord Granard's and Mitchel's, will for the future be carefully watched, and not quite in the spirit you expect, peel:ens. Should any assassination be traced, however so slightly, to any one of you three, the fate of two of you will be settled—yours first, as the bloody instigator of a dastardly crime, and the actual perpetrator. A man will be told oil especially,by a society existing in the mother country, which by the aid of both power and capital will carry wet more than empty threats. ..ould there even be the slightest de• •on the occasion of a poor' agent being murdered as to who was the instigator of the vile plot, one of you three b— scum will be sent to from behind a hedge. We are forced to em plcy your own cowardly means. Therefore if any one is as sassinated, we recommend you to confess (heaven save the mark) chat blasted wretch Lord Granard, and carefully think over the many poor men you yourself have robbed, quiet ing your conscience (if you have any) that your Church required it. If true Irishmen knew the loathsome vapours and the hellish deceit that your breed carry about with them under the guise of a long coat, they would rid the country of such a pestilence. As it is, you acquired a power over these poor ignorant men, and cause them to commit actions which you yourself shrank from with abject fear. The next time you move your foul lips to de liver a cowardly lecture like the enclosed, you had better mind who is in the room. The matter was in our hands a few hours afterwards !! ! Now beware. Remember, that among your own congregation there may be those who, though as great hypocrites awl consummate actors as your self, may yet by our means be the very ones to betray any of your vile doings and sentiments. It will be a charity to him should you warn that skulking Yankee Fenian John Mitchel, that his advent to Ireland will be communi cated to us without fail. Were it in our power we should dearly like to confine the three of you to rot in holes excavated especially for the purpose under your own native bogs, from which you would some day be dug out as so many lumps of --- : but for the present (should justice demand it) a speedier death will be yours; and we must employ your own favourite plan, and descend to the rank of a Roman Catholic assassin ! We now, in deep disgust, take our leave of you, as far as this epistle goes. Our lan guage, though forcible, is just. Remember and beware. " Jueurs." LAW AND POLICE. AN ACCIDENT AT IRONGATE mate in the merchant service named Bowman has brought an action in the Court of Common Pleas against a Mr. Living stone, who carries on business at Irongate Wharf, from which the Tyno Steam Company start their steamers. The plaintiff was on the wharf preparatory to embarking for Sunderland, while some wool was being unloaded from a waggon by the defendant's men. One of the bales struck him, and he fell, sustaining a compound fracture of the right leg. He had been eight months in the London Hospital, and was an out-patient for some months longer. Fur the defence it was contended that the accident was the plaintiffs own fault. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £35), and they expressed their opinion that the safety of the public was not sufficiently cared for at Irongate Whz.rf, there not being a sufficient passage allowed for transit. Leave was given to the defendant's counsel to move for a nonsuit. AN ARTISTIC DISPUTE.—An artist,named Girardot,brough an action in the Second Court of Queen's Bench against picture-dealor for AGO, the sum agreed upon as the price of three pictures painted by the direction of the defen :lent, and refused on account of some disputes about technical details. The contending parties had often transacted business together, and had known each other for many years. The judge accordingly suggested a compro mise, but the plaintiff would make no arrangement. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for thewhole amount claimed, leave being granted to the defendant to move to enter a non-suit. VoouNTEnus IN TatTBLE.—A number of volunteers have been summoned at the Mansion House by the commanding officer cf the Second 'Middlesex Artillery Volunteers fur neglecting to l'ay certain subscription fees. The officer explain-.:d that they were summoned, so that the question iniglit be settled once for all. An agreement IW ZIA usually entered into by which the requisite arms and accoutrements were supplied to a volunteer on condition of his efficiency during his period of service, but otherwise an mount should be paid for them to cover the Government ; ;rant. A person wishing to withdraw was required to ;eve fourteen days' notice, end return his acceutrement3. In these instances the subscriptions were in arrear, and the things had not been returned. Sir Thomas Gabriel, after hearing the explanations of the def,ndants, who held that they had retired from the service, said they were not liable for the sub- wriptions, but those who had k - e:t any part of the aczou- trements must return them. Fines were inflicted on those who had failed to maintain themselves in proper efficiency luring the period of service, A STATION-MASTER SENT TO PRISON.—Mr. Boorman, late station-master at Bletchingley, has been charged, with man named Bridgeman, with stealing eight cabbages, at Surrey. A gardener in the employ of the prose mtor saw the prisoners in his master's garden, and after wards missed some cabbages. The case was tried at the Reigate Petty Sessions, and the prisoners were sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour each. CHRISTMAS PCDDING.—A boy named Kelly was sen tenced to three days' imprisonment and a flogging for • telling a pair of trousers at Notting-hill. When he heard the sentence he exclaimed, "Hurrah, I shall have some Christmas pudding now! " The magistrate ordered him back, and told him that he had made a mistake—it was three months' imprisonment. The prisoner left the court crying, trying vainly to persuade the magistrate to alter the sentence. TRYING TO UPSET A TRAIN.—At the Leeds Assizes. William Ingham was sentenced to ten years' penal servi tude for putting a rail across the line of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway. It was pulled off by a witness a minute before a coal train came up. Tan FonisTEßs' SOCIETY.—George French, the secre tary of the Free Foresters' society, in Leeds, was charged at the assiz , s with forging a receipt for money. The pro secutor, a member of the society, gave him money, and received in return a clearance sheet, entitling him to the benefits of the society at Birmingham, where he was going. This sheet purported to be signed by the secretary and two other officials, but it was proved that the prisoner had written all three names. Mr. Justice Lush expressed a strong opinion on the facts, and the jury found a verdict of guilty, the prisoner being admitted to bail, that the opinion of the court above might be taken, as the question was raised whether the signature of the prisoner's own name did not constitute a genuine receipt. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. —ln London last week the rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000, while in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom it was 29. In the metropolis 2,111 births and 1,705 deaths were registered, the latter having exceeded by 78 the estimated number. The mortality from scarlet fever was the highest recorded during the present year. The mean temperature during the week was 31.2, or 7.8 below the average. Although the death-rate of the capital is high, the full effects of the cold do not appear in the present returns. COUNTFIL ATTRACTION.—The Marquis Townshend I whose eccentricities in the way of charity are so well known, has been comp:etely thrown into the shade by a lady of noble birth, who has taken the saloons of the New Greenwich Theatre for the purpeso of giving the profits to the unemployed in Deptford Dockyard, and who enters so heartily into her work that she is to be seen nightly, attended by her two pages, dispensing soda-and-brandies, &e., with a grace and fascination that draws her numerous customers. Charity, wo all know, covers a multitude of sins, but we much question the propriety of a titled lady undertaking such a menial occupation.—Kentish Mercury. THE EARL OF DERBY AS A SPORTSMAN.—In the new number cf "Deily's Magazine" there is an article on the late Lord Duty as a sportsman, from which we glean some interesting traits. As a partridge shot he was, we are assured, " tad to Leat," keeping his pointers in the days of long stables and walking well after them, but ex . cl.r.nging poin:crs hr spaniels wl.en modern fanning and ckscly haven fieh:s ean.e into fa:liitn. Es (n when gout kept him at home, 1.0 tcok a keen .nterest, if there were guests with him, in each day's sport. Ho had the record of the bags brought to him after dinner and read it out aloud, with a running commentary of pleasant banter. He was an excellent walker, and once made a jour ney on foot from London to Knowsley, or at least to Liverpool. It happened in this wise—Lady Derby was in too delicate a state of health to travel by the usual means either of rail or road. Her husband therefore fitted up a barge for her accommodation, and she was taken by canal, Lord Derby himself walking the whole way along the towing path. After . a time, witivoilsotrigtinncooc! , howevey, gout sadly interfered psUN, LW:4I)ON, DNESDAY EVEN AiG, DECEMBER -8, 1869. . . MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. also taken place In the numner of centres or tri4 disease, and of the places retorted as affected fat the first time ; the proportion of the former being as 2,000 to 3,000, and of the latter as 740 to 800. On the Continent the malady would seem to be extending, as accounts have reached us of its ap pearance in Gallipoli and many other places in the vicinity of the Dardanelles, and likewise in the dis trict of Malmo, m Sweden, most of the intervening countries between these far-distant localities being still affected to a greater or less extent. SEWAGE. The members of the Surveyors' Institute have con tinued their debate on the sewage utilisation ques tion. All the speakers seemed to agree that the fertilisation of the soil was the proper desti n y for sewage ; the only disputed point was as to whether it should be conveyed to the laud in a liquid form, on the irrigation system, as at Barking, or whether it should be applied in a solid form on the earth-closet system. Mr. Johnson advocated one separate outfall for rain and " slops" generally, and another for house sewa .. o . Mr. Buchanan saw no reason why water should be the only means of remo va l em pl o y e d. The dry earth system would be most useful for this purpose, as it produced a dry manure, w hi c h was no more offensive in transit than guano. Mr. Ryde, on the other hand, held very strong opinions in favour of the irrigation plan. Ho had tried earth-closets for two :years, and bad removed them all and substituted water-closets. Mr. Beadel, too, infinitely preferred the application of sewage to land in a fluid form. Mr. Squarey, as a practical agricult ur i s t, recommen ded that the sewage manure should b e a ppli e d exclusivelyto green land, as being too stimulating for cereals. night in summer would a sewage-manured crop of cereals. Mr. Bennett held the same view. The Institute resolved I d l e e str found oy that a frosty to have another meeting before coming to a decision. he'llei Majesty WAS met by several of the ex-rulers of Italy, King Francis and his Queen, the Duke and Duchess of Tuscany, and others. The Empress returned with her sister, the ex-Queen of Naples, to the Farnese Palace. The pre-synodal assembly of the Bishops took place this morn ing in the Vatican. The officers of the council were sworn in, and the Pope addressed the Bishops, but the tenor of his speech has not yet transpired, as no cue save the hierarchy were present. Nearly five hundred Bishops must have been there, and their return from the Papal apartments down the Scala Regia was a most picturesque sight of wl . 0 1 I was one of the few witnesses." SO TjTHWAILIi. Lieutenant-Colonel Beresford has issued his address as the Conservative candidate for this much-coveted seat. He comes forward as a local and constitutional candidate. He will support the best scheme of edu cation that can be devised, no matter by what Administration ; be is in favour of equalising the metro politan poor-rates, awl will give his careful considera tion to the land difficulty. As to the policy of the Liberal Government, Colonel Beresford thinks it has utterly broken down. He sums up the net results of Mr. Gladstone's rule thus:- 64 We see Ireland in a state of revolt, the colonies discontented, and the empire about to be reduced to a kingdom ; five guar -ten of taxes to be paid in one year, at a period when a large portion or the reepayers are, from the state of trale, less able to afford it ; pauperism rife through out the country, and daily increasing ; a penny-wise and pound-foolish policy of cheeseparing, adopted at the expense of the Government clerks and dockyard labourers." PRELIMINARY BALLOTING. Sir Sydney Waterlow expresses his readiness to sub mit to a test ballot for the purpose of ascertaining the relative strength of the Liberal candidates in Southwark, and by eliminating the weaker aspirants to prevent the success of a Conser vative. Sir Sydney dee3 not seem dis posed, however, to try . the experiment at once, l 'A - lien the proper time arrives." Remembering our " experience of parliamentary pledges to support certain measures " when the proper time arrives," this qualification looks dubious. Mr. Labouchere is much more explicit. He wishes the whole body of Southwark electors, rich and poor, working men and employers, to decide which of the Liberals now in the field is to be the candidate of the whole party. If he should be left in a minority, he promises to retire and do his best for the chosen competitor. Mr. Labouchere (who is a follower of Bright and Mill) is convinced that if the system of class candidates be adopted by the Liberals, there will always be a Conservative ma jority in Parliament.. POLITICS AT IVAIIIVICIL My. Peel, the member for Warwick, had the custo mary interview with his constituents on Monday night. Ho extte with a very fair certificate of good conduct, for out of 160 divisicns last session he was present at 115, whilst his colleague, Mr. Greaves, has attended only 29. Mr. Greaves did not appear at this meeting. Animated by the consciousness of well-doing, Mr. Peel, made a ti igorous speech, pronouncing for the ballot, the repression of Fenianism, and other reforms more or less pressing. But, like so many of his colleagues, Mr. Peel is utterly non-plussed with the land question. All that we can gather from his speech is that he does not like fixity of tenure, security of tenure, nor the Ulster custom (as a forced measure for the whole island.) But as to what remedial measures Mr. Peel does like the world at large is in complete darkness. He is quite sure, however, that the Government will be able to arrive at a satisfactory settlement. The un bounded confidence which Liberal M.P.'s repose in their leaders in this matter of the land ought to be highly encouraging to the ➢linistry. TWO AND THREE 3IAI E FOUR. Mr. Lowe's fine Budget manoeuvre of collecting a year's taxes in advance is meeting with more pro nounced hostility as pay-day draws near. Eight months' reflection has not convinced the British tax payer that two and three make four, that he can pay live quarters' taxes within the year, and yet be n 3 loser. The tradesmen of Southwark and Lambeth have held a meeting to protest against the collection in . advance. They contemplate getting up an organisa tion to resist the impost. Should the agitation spread it will be awkward for the Government ; but the South London folks are rather late in taking the field. LAND TENURE IN ENGLAND. The rapidity with which the agitation for land - law changes is passing from Ireland to England becomes more and more remarkable. A very strong meeting of the Farmers' Club had the matter under considera tion on Monday night—the Islington Cattle Show bringing together a large number of agriculturalists. Mr. 3lasfen, of Wolverhampton, read a paper setting forth that farmers had to spend more and more money in steam power, artificial foods, and manures. This increased amount of capital invested in the land ought to give the occupier greater rights. In Mr. Masfen's opinion there ought to be no restriction on the course of cropping, so long as a man kept his farm clean, and the land was in good condition to grow a fair crop. The existing agreements did not allow a just return for the capital invested in the land when farms were vacated through death or other causes. le was strongly in favour of leases, as tending to protect the tenant and secure increased production ; but he was rather inclined to prefer the action of public opinion to the action of the Legislature. But such was not the opinion of many others. The gene ral feeling was that there ought to be leases or a right to compensation for improvements, and it was held that the latter, at least, ought to be a legal right. TILE HEALTII OF TILE PRIMATE. It is with much pleasure that we record the con tinued progress in health of the Archbishop of Can terbury. lle i 4 still very weak ; one side of his body is still more or less paralysed ; but he has bcon able to leave his bed. Some slight motion has returned to the deadened part, and hopes are entertained of its total restoration. For this end, however, we must wait, and wait, it is to be feared, a long time. THE REV. PROFESSOR BADEN-POWELL. The most strenuously attacked of the Essayists and Reviewers in the Temple controversy has been the Rev. Professor Baden-Powell. His friends have hitherto very discreetly kept silence. But Dr. Pusey has goi_e so very far as to state that ono of the essayists (meaning thereby the Professor) had died without any ministrations of religion. "W. H. Flowers" now writes to deny the strong deduction that has been made from these words. The writer was in constant atten dance upon the reverend professor during the last days and nio-hts of his life. "Up to within a few days of his fatal illness—as long, in fact, as he was able to leave the house—Baden-Powell had been in the habit of attending the services both Sunday and week-day, and of partaking , of the Holy Communion at St. Andrew's Church, Wells-street; and at home he read the service from our Liturgy every night to his family and servants until the progress of his illness rendered it impossible. I can only say, most unhesitatingly, that neither during the condition of semi-c nisciousness brought on by the disease under which he sank, nor during the occa sional intervals in which his mind was perfectly clear during those last three days, did one single expres sion escape him that did not tell of peace, of resigna tion to God's will, and of faith in the religion in which he had been brought up, in which he always lived, and in which he was then dying. llis physical sufferings were great, but bravely endured, and his mind retained to the last that happy serenity which eminently characterised him through life." THE OYEUESD AND GURNEY CASE. The trial of the directors of Overend, Gurney, and Co. is at last fixed. Tho Lord. Chief Justice has appointed the 13th of the month—Monday next — for the hearing of the case. how it will be conducted is still somewhat uncertain. Dr. Thom is stated to bo determined, notwithstanding warnings against his taking that course, to prosecute in person. But after the engagement tacitly made when the case last came before the court, he will hardly porniat in nankinif . big own speech, though every application for otucial help has been refused. LOUD NAPIER OF MAGDALA. Lprd Napier of Magdala is still something of a lion. Returning, after a visit to India, he again finds himself fked. On Monday night he was enter tained at dinner in the metropolis by the officers of the 3rd City of London Volunteers, of which corps his lordship is honorary colonel. Tho speeches were in no respect above the ordinary "platitudinarian" kind. Lord Napier complimented the young volunteers, and said they " found alt the more favour in the bright eyes which they wished to please from the fact that they had a military bearing." He drew attention, with surprising originality, to the fact (when will speechmakers be content to acknowledge it and let it pass ?) that in this country it is hard to point out where the middle class ends and the gentry laegins. Then he paid some particular compliments to the company and the corps it represented ; and con cluded by an appeal for breechloaders for our soldiers. The Government, in refusing the superior weapon to the volunteers, was) his lordship said, with some con fusion of metaphor) like a commander whose men had no powder. FOOT AMD MOUTII DISUASE. We have good news for farmers—for everybody-- as to the foot and mouth disease : it is on the decline. The Mark Lane F,rpress reports that the complaint, having reached its climax in Great Britain, is gra dually decrea.sing in virulence and diminishing in ex tent.ln Ireland, however, it is still on the increase, and no wonder. According to the Chaniter of Aliricul tare Journal there aro very few inspectors working in that count r y ; the Pricy Council orders are disre garded ; dead animals are allowed to be carried along the highway ; diseased beasts live to infect others ; mil, except in Dublin, very few seizures are made. It may be that tho inspectors arc afraid of an agitation for " tumbling," them as the enemies of the tenant farmer. While negligence is producing its result in Ireland, strict repression is bringing forth its fruits in the sister isle. According to the returns, sixty-six counties were the seat of the malady down to the middle of November, in the place of sixty-eight in the corresponding period of the .Drecedieg month. A similar diminution had WATCILVAKING. The Clerkeuwell watchmakers complain that their trade is in a very bad state. They cannot hold out against foreign competition. The Swiss and the French have of late years been moving onwards, and the English watchmakers have been proportionately losing ground. At a meeting just held to consider the position of the trade, the chairman said that in 1867 there were imported into this country gold watches to the number of 24,380, and silver watches to the number of 95,317 —from France alone; while the exports were 11,454 clocks and 9,010 watches. In Switzerland, he added, the peo ple, " who manage without a workhouse, without a standing army, without a navy, without a Queen, an Emperor, or a Czar "—the difference between the two latter personages was not explained—can enjoy the comforts of life on. from fifteen to twenty francs a week. This cannot be done in England. Other speakers endorsed these facts, one observing that in G eneva a wor k man r eceived a franc for finishing a watch which sold for a guinea. It was agreed that the matter ought to be brought before the .Government; but only one watchmaker seems to have thought of the usual remedy for dis tressed trades —a duty on foreign importations. INIEMIAN TREATMENT OF A YOUNG LADY. We often hear of the grievances of railway pas sengers ; the evidence given in a railway compensa tion case just heard i n th e Common Pleas throws a good deal of light up on th e sorrow s of railway com panics. The plainti ff' was a young lady, 19 years of age, the daughter o f a Whit ec h a p e l beershop-keeper, who entertains sail ors , cas h es a d vanc e notes, besides other and kindred business. The collision took place at New Cross on th e 23 r d o f J une , and it was affirmed that the plaintiff had sustained severe injuries to the spine, and bruises whi c h -bad been productive of -various serious symptoms. The doctor who attended her claimed £220, his charge for one clay being £2 Bs. Over and above these injuries, the concussion, it was said, caused the young lady to lose a purse containing £l5. Thetestimony on behalf of the company went to shew that Miss H arr i s came h ome a fter the collision declaring, how greatly she bad enjoyed herself at the Crystal Palace, whither she had been, and how much champagne she had disposed of. The next mornii:g sho paid a visit and made her bed. On the following days she washed the c hildr e n, made more beds, waited upon sailors, and sang comic songs to them. She put her finger down her throat four times, said one witness, in order to make herself sick. Her injuries did not prevent her disposing of the usual quantum of food. Instead of having fifteen pounds in her purse, she took out with her on the day of the accident no more than 4s. ed. Such evidence as this, together with medical testimony, induced the jury to regard the plaintiff's claim as an imposture, and to return a verdict for the company. The worst feature of these cases is the readiness with which medical men come forward and represent black as white. THE ACCIDENT AT KING'S COLLEGE. The Daily Xczc draws a moral from the falling in of King's College dinin g -hall roof, through the weak ness of the cast-iron girders which upheld it. Cast iron ought not to be made use of in any such capacity. The weight upon the girders appears to Lave been dangerously near the full strength of the treacherous material of which they were made. A slight shake from a passing truck snapping one girder would at once throw a breaking strain on all the rest, and they would go down like so many laths. The walls are said to be perfectly firm and solid, Lut the cast-iron supports were laud across from one to the other, and every girder has snapped in two. "It is a matter of public thankful ness that the accident beppened when the hall was empty ; but the warning it gives of the treacherous nature of cast-iron is one which it would be well for the public to ponder. There are many architects who have long predicted serious calamities from the injudicious use of this material in building." EAST LONDON RAILWAY. Another link in the chain of metropolitan railways has been completed. A section of the East London line has been opened. This new line is remarkable chiefly for the employment of th e Th ames T unne l as a means of railway communication between the densely populous districts of Wapping on the north, and Rotherhithe and Deptford on the south side of the river. The line extends in full from New-cross, where it will join the Brighton and South-Eastern systems, to Broad-street, at which junction it will be connected with the Great Eastern and North London railw present the completed portion ay s. A t extends from 'Wapping through the Thames Tunnel to Rotherhitho, Deptford-road, and New cross, a distance of t hr ee miles, or one-half of the whole. OBlTtrAny. The Duchess D'Aumale died at Twickenham on was born in 1822, and was Monday afternoon. She the daughter of Prince Leopold of Salerno. Her maiden title was Mario Caroline Bourbon. In 1844 s h e marr i e d Auguste do the Due D'Amnale, the fourth son of Louis- Philippe, and has had two sons—the Prince de Condo, born in 1845, and the Due de G u i se , b orn i n 1854. H er husband was the author of th e f amous pamp hl e t ad dressed to Prince Napoleon, - which created such sen sation in 1861. He is the heir of the house of Condo, and for some years has been settled in Warwickshire as a landowner. FOREIGN NOTES. Tim POSITION SPAIN. The Siatteutsche Tresse, noticing the return of some of the Republican deputies to the Spanish Cortes, says they are actuated by a firm conviction that the establish ment of a republic in Spain is at hand. The Duke of Genoa fiasco has given the Progressists a bitter prvoL ,e ‘ueir mebnit v king on the throne, and they now seek only a suitable pretext for pronouncing in favour of a republic. The more moderate Republicans see that their time of triumph is approaching. But another section of the party is opposed to compro mise, and would adopt a more irreconcilable policy. The Republican deputies have been absent from the Cortes since the outbreak of the late insurrection. TILE TURCO-EGYPTIAN QUESTION'. The North-East Correspondence publishes some despatches relating to the Egyptian question. It appears that the last firrnan which was sent to the Khedive alludes to the principles which were laid down in the previous treaties and firmans. The rules referred to have especial reference to the control of the Budgetby the Porte, and its right to settle what loans are contracted. There iF, no menace in the Imperial Message, but the Viceroy is requested to regulate his con duct by the wishes of his Sovereign. The Turquie main tains that the Viceroy is displaying great activity, and is exerting himself to complete his armaments, as well as to fortify his position. The Levant Herald calls upon the Turkish Government to act with firmness, and to depose the Viceroy if ho will not submit to its decisions. The Russian Consul at Cairo has, it is rumoured, assured the Khedive that the Government cf St. Petersburg will support him in any emergency which may at i.;e, and maintain the same attitude which it held in the Crete affair. TIT COIMLECIAL LAW OF THE SUEZ CANAL• .• _ The International Commercial Congress et Cairo has adopted n series of resolutions respecting the traffic of the Suez Canal. They recommend that all merchandise passing through be exempt from transit ducs, that the neutrality of the Canal be recognised by all the Powers ; that in time of war private property at sea should be inviolable; that the Egyptian commerci d law be remodelled; that coal ships should pass free of tonnage dues ; that a unity of tonnage be adopted, a chart of tho Red Sea prepared, and the metrical system used in Egypt. TUB GENERAL COUNCIL AT EOM E. Our Rome correspondent, writing on the 3rd, says The Empress of Austria arrived here this morning, from Seligno and Ancona, accompanied by her son, the Prince manorial. the Archduchess Giulia, the Countess Hunyady. RED DIVER REBELLITS. The Red River insurgents have adopted a system of passes, and keep a rigid surveillance. They have taken possession of the Hudson Ray Con:rally's store, and serve out supplies to themselves freely. They compelled the printers of the Ncr- wester, at the muzzle of the musket, to print the rebel pi-cell:illation. A Fenian priest is said to be exciting the insurgents. A Red River trading-house st St. Paul learns that there is a strong organisation, in :luding many half-breeds, awaiting a suitable opportunity to declare in favour of Governor McDougall. CUBA. It is reported from Habana that an attempt has been made to incite the regrces to rebellicn on the plantations of Sagua. The plot was discovered, and the ringleaders arrested and put to death. The latest intelligence received at Washington shews the Cuban cause to he declining, for the .nsurgents are not in possession of a single town. Spanish accounts affirm that General Jordan wished some time ago to surrender to the Spanish authorities. The Cubans pre vented him from accomplishing his wish, and he was transferred to the staff of Cespedes. Favourable reports liave been received concerning the reception by Congress of the memorial that relates to the recognition of Cuba. THE SPANISH GUNBOATS. The Spanish gunboat question is exciting the deepest nterest at Washington. It is rumoured that the Spanish Consul will not be able to get the gunboats out of New York harbour before tl.e meeting of Congress. Special tgents from Madrid are assisting the Consul, and it is evi -lent that the Spanish Government are determined to get possession of their vessels. Tho opinion expressed in •iiplomatic circles is that there are insufficient grounds for letention in the represcntaticns of the Peruvian Ilinibtor, and that the Spanish gunboats will le released and allowed to leave the country. On the ether hand it is asserted that both Houses )f Congrcs3 will pass a resolution in favour of the recog nition of the Cuban Republic, and if the gunboats are still in New York, they must be detained, for the neutrality taws forbid either party in a war in which their bellige rent rights are admitted to fit out expeditions against the enemy from neutral ports. TIIE PENNSYLVANIA PEACE SOCIETY. The Pennsylvania Peace Society have been holding their third annual meeting. A committee has waited upon the Spanish Consul and the United States Marshal urging the strict observance of the Neutrality Laws in reference to Cuban vessels. They have also interested themselves in the negotiations with tho Indians, end rejoice to see a peace policy adopted. In conse quence of the- Sta te action respecting the Militia Law and the Militia Tax Bills, the society have printed and circu lated the following passage from the Bill of Rights for the benefit of those who hold conscientious scruples about war :—" No human authority can in any case what ever control or interfere with the rights of conscience." The difficulties with the miners and the abolition of capital punishment aro the principal social topics to which the society are now directing their attention. A letter from Father Hyacinthe, who had been invited to be pre sent, was read at the meeting. Regretting his absence, he said : " America, which knows how to snake war so glo riously when war is necessary, has, however, for her constant ideal, Peace in labour, in liberty, and is Christianity. May she be faithful to this motto, and the future grandeur of the world will be hers." PARAGUAY. (From the Angle-American Times.) Before Congress adjourned a Sub-Committeeof the Foreign Affairs Committee was appointed to investi gate the charges brought against American officers occupying high official posts in Paraguay. There was the former American Minister there, WASHBURN ; his successor, APMAHON ; Admiral DAVIS, com manding in the South Atlantic ; the gentlemen whom Mr. WASHBURN calls his inquisitors, Capt. kIRKLAND, who commanded the Wasp, once the only United States war vessel on the Paraguay, and Captain RAMSAY, who held another command under the Admiral. Then there were BLISS and MASTER MAN, attaches of the Embassy, under Minister WASHBURN; and, finally, there was Gen. W EBB, Ambassador to Brazil, whose testimony alone fills a large-sized volume, and as those gentlemen were all at daggers drawn the work of the Sub-Commit tee has been no light task. LOPEZ is the standard around which the battle is waged. One side is led by the ex- Minister, M'AlAnoN, to rescue and to uphold the Dictator. Admiral DAVIS backs this Minister, as do the naval officers. On the other side in fierce attack is ex-Minister WAsunuaN, who is supported by the testimony of Messrs. BLISS and MASTERMAN, and we are bound to add by the ge neral evidence of the foreigners who have escaped out of the Dictator's clutches. Viewing the position of each party, so as to obtain an idea of the value . of the conflicting evidence, it is clear that the 'WASH BURN side has had a disagreeable insight behind the scenes. As U. S. Minister, Mr. WASHBURN re sided in Paraguay nearly a year for every mouth Gen. M'MAHoN remained there. BLISS and Mas- TERMAN were tortured, and only escaped death by the stern demand of the United States for their surrender. The Minister himself declares that no thing but the timely arrival of the Wasp saved him from a like fate. Hence both lengthened residence and an actual experience give a weight to the evi dence of. the WASHBURN party, which is wanting on the other side. Grant, as all must, that LOPEZ was a despot, that his will was law in Paraguay, he could make affairs assume a theatrical aspect to those whom he desired to hoodwink. It was above all things necessary for him thus to hoodwink General M'MAHON, and although a more difficult task by far than .to hoodwink the Admiral and his officers, who only paid an occasional visit to his lines, yet it is possitle that he succeeded both with the diplo matic and the naval officers. The sympathy of the world goes with a gallant race Eke the Paraguayans in their struggle against a foreign invasion, and the world, which sees nothing of the machinery by which the ship of State is moved, perceives in LOPEZ the indomitable leader of a devoted nation. Hence the sympathies of the world have been with him and his people in what appeared an aggressive strug gle on the part of the great slave-holding Empire. The stories of cowardice and cruelty related of LOPEZ were in the first instance ascribed to the malignity of the Allies, who had almost a mono poly of the news, to counteract the natural sym pathy of mankind. As evidence, however, began to accumulate against the Dictator, he gradually lost the character of romance, wherein he had before been shrouded, and to come out in his naked defor mity. Still people are slow to believe that so despic able a creature as he is represented to be could have commanded the affections of his people to the death ; and this has always been the stumbling-block in our way against an overwhelming weight of testimony. The Report about to be submitted to Congress will perhaps explain this puzzle, and place LOPEZ in his true character before the world. But judging from the scraps of testimony given by each side, it is clear the sub-committee will have to exercise acute judicial discrimination to sift and to weigh the facts which lead them to a conclusion. The two ex- Ministers were permitted to cross-examine each other, whether for the amusement or the instruc• Lion of the committee, we cannot say ; but a dia logue, of what is termed a " spicy" character, was the result, and judging from the long letter pub lished in the Tribune from Mr. IV.AsunuRN, we conclude that his habit is to call a spade a spade, and other things in the same unmistakeable man ner. If that gentleman would accept an opinion from us, .we would advise when he next writes, a plain statement of facts, free from all vituperation, which weakens his argument, for it leavrs the im pression on the reader's mind of a bitter personal dislike in the writer, from which men always deduce an unfair treatment of the subject. Freed from this, his letter is forcible in its condemnation of the despot. Mr.WAsununx from beginning to end asserts the conspiracy to have been concocted by LOPEZ to enable him to appropriate the prope. ty of others, principally foreigners, and to get rid of his enemies. The Government of Paraguay has been from 1811 the most absolute and despotic in the world. LOPEZ aspired to the dignity of Emperor, and he himself told WAsiißmi that he was encouraged by Brazil to assume the purple. He hoped that Don ...VEDEO, when acknowledging him as his friend and brother, would give his second daughter to share the throne. He intended to enlarge his territory by making ac quisitions from the Argentine Republic, but greatly to his mortification he learned through the new.- papers, in 1864, that the daughters of the Brazilian EMPEROR were to be married to the grandsons of Louis PHILIPPE. It was then that his mistress, Mrs. LiNen, the wife of a surgeon of the French Army, whom he had picked up in Paris seventeen years before, tozk up the Imperial design, anticipating the succession for her son by Lorcz, and 6he is to be held responsible for much of the Dictator's cruelty. His Brazilian Majesty would sooner have entrusted his daughter—Mr. WASHBURN'S words are —" to a buck allgator in the river ;" and when made aware of the estimation in which the Royal person age of South America held him, this champion of Republicanism commenced the war without notice in a manner so savage, so defiant of international law, that Brazil could never treat with him without deserving the contempt of the world. Mr. WASH BURN did not know what had caused the bitter hos tility of LOPEZ till months after he had left Para guay. It is thus he accounts for it : " When after the war had lasted for more than two years, and LOPEZ found that the Allies would never treat with him; that at whatever sacrifice, to themselves they would not tolerate the existence, as the head of a neighbouring nation, a despot who respected no laws, human or divine, he saw that, without the intervention of some foreign Power, he must finally be overthrown. In this stress he learned, to his great relief, that the United States had offered its mediation. This offer was rejected by the Allies, and , though I obeyed my instructions so implicitly as to provoke unstinted abuse of mo by the Allies, yet LOPEZ from that time became my bitterest enemy. He thought that I should have had both the will and the power to Wince my Government to espouse his cause, and by active intervention rescue him from the desperate situation into which his own folly and ambition had led him. But as I had neither the will nor tho power, he was from that time accustomed, especially in his maudlin fits, to abuse me in the most gross and indecent terms. He did not allow this to appear, however, in his official relations, and I only learned of it long afterwards." Captain KIRKLAND had testified before the Com mittee that Mrs. W ASHB URN, at the dinner table on board the Wa.cp, after the escape from Ascuncion, acknowledged that there had been a conspiracy to set up BENIGN° LOPEZ in place of his brother. Mr. WASHBURN, at this, frowned at the lady, and glances were exchanged between the other gentlemen. All this is bluntly denied, and throughout it is as serted that there never was a conspiracy, and that there is no evidence whatever that any such conspi racy existed. Mr. WASHBURN reviews the evidence in support of his assertion that LOPEZ was the greatest monster that the American Continent ever produced, and it will be found difficult to set asi:le the testimony. Nevertheless the circumstances are peculiar, awl no man, of any age in the world, ever went through such a terrible trial as that endured by LOPEZ and his people with clean hands. It appears, however, certain that LOPEZ killed his brothers, tortured his sisters, and tortured and murdered not only many of his near relatives, but numerous fo reigners, as well as the best of his own people about his person. A peaceful, induArious community of 800,000, with a country on which plenty smiled, he reduced to a mutilated, stricken, starving band of 100,000, occupying the mountains ef a desolated laud. Why did he do this ? Mr. WASHBURN replies, to further his perioual schemes of aggrandisement, of ambition; the supporters of LOPEZ deny this and say, iu repelling the aggression of the domineering slave power, which desires to overrun all South Ame rica. On the true answer will hinge the estimate his tory forms of the Dictator's character; latitude will be given for excesses in the man who had so hard a part to play ; and the very fact that the evidence is so conflicting shows that there are two sides to the despot's character, for there is as little doubt of the honesty of Gen. M'AIAHoN iu the opinion he has formed as of that held by Mr. WAstinußN. The latest news from Paraguay says :—" LOPEZ is at San Joaquin, and, it is rumoured, has murdered his mother and brother for conspiring against his life." JOINT-S7OCK ENTERPRISE. Those whose plastic minds receive the impressions given by the Times would suppose that Joint-Stock enterpris .; had been crushed out in England through the unwillingness of business men of position and character to accept seats at the board of any new undertaking►. Revival is said to be wholly out of the question so long as the law remains in its present c)nditi in, and there is evidence on all sides that this state then will be permanent; hence, without an alte ration in the law, the national aptitude for combina tion will continue to be suppressed. While we believe this to be only too true it is little less than laughable to listen to the editor's reason. There is not a merchant, ho says, of any standing in the city who will now entertain for an instant an in vitation to join the board of a new undertaking; and be puts these words in reply to a supposed in vitation into the mouth of the merchant of high character : " I think highly of the project, but in my business I should not take a now partner without regarding it as one of the new anxious and weighty acts of my life; and I am not disposed, for the sake of 100 or £2,A a year, to give my time and the influence of my character to a con cern in which I may have a thousand partners, each of whom, although he may represent only a£s or a £lO share, may, almost at his pleasure, drag me into Chancery, or get up representations to summon me to the Mansion house." Yet these are the very men who wrecked Joint-Stock enterprise. When they were placed on th e direc tion of companie., they ran about from board to board picking up guineas so as not inaptly to ba nicknamed Guinea-pigs. Having for the ino.it part conducted the business intrusted to them with a shame lees disregard to the interests of those whose money they thus took,hav ing hurled all the sheep-like share holders who followed their lead, as a lamb does its Eno - ther, into ruin, and having witnessed comparativeyl uninjured themselves the destruction both of pro perty and character entailed by them on the country —they are now prepared to utter the words attributed to them by the Times. But the little knowledge acquired by the sheep and the kinsfolk of these shareholding animals causes them to turn in loath ing from such a lead, and when men flutter aloft their gay and attractive prospectuses of new under takings they turn in disgust and contempt away. It is not these bell-wethers, these merchants of high standing, that are wanted ; they would be forth coming in any number if the guineas were forth coming too—but the sheep are nowhere. The -Spec tator, which often writes exaggerated rubbish, made a true remark in its last number about. the Times. It says it is a paper without any fixed principles, taking its tone from the merchants and wholesale dealers, just as the Telegraph does from the shop keepers and retail dealers. This, then, is the view of the wholesale dealers, and this is what the mer chant of long standing replies to the eager appli cants seeking the influence of his name, which, it might be supposed, was alone wanted by the pant ing sheep outside successfully to launch the new undertaking. While we believe that the merchant who does so reply acts judiciously, the words attri buted to him insinuate that the directors of com panies have been badly treated by the shareholders. If this was what the writer meant, nothing could be more untrue. What we have said, and what we repeat, is that the laws of the empire were intended to meet the circumstances of crime wholly different from those of the present day. Although here and there a cunning attorney then used the law as the best implement for the robbery of his clients, for merly nearly all robbery was accompanied with violence. highwayman trusted to hi. 3 pis ' tol, the burglar to his tools, and the footpad to the well-placed blow which dropped his victim setnie less at his Let. Thus law c,one to be enacted against the brutal robber, and it scarcely contemplates any ' other. But chicanery is now resorted to, subtle, cunning devices, unblushing lies, and all beauti fully covered by an Act, most likely by time very one designed to protect the victims. The great safe guard of these robbers is the difficulty of putting into nio:ion whateier machinery- may exi s t f or the pu nishment of such offenders. It is a costly, difficult task, and as it is nobody's business in particular, nobody undertakes it. Now and then may arise a character like Dr. TiloU, but they are few, and even when. as able and faithful to their work as that gentlemau's friends assert him to be, still they have little or no chance of imam Itene d , there is no safeguard, except the honour and sou n d judgment implanted in the men entrusted with the direction, and it is the utter annihil.ttion of belief in these which has so crushed out Joint-stock en terprise. 'There never was a law more calculated to do good, if men were honest, than the Limite d Liability Act of 18G2; yet there never was enacted in England which in a shorter period did. '1„ more material harm. Nor m aterial only, fo r " exposed in a way so as to appal mankind, the dis honesty pervading all classes, more especially th e upper classes, of a nation hitherto held to be pre eminentlyupright. It destroyed all belief in the judg: meat and discretion of men before paraded through the Empire as models i n business. It pr oved the ignorance hot only o f th e mas ses, but of t hes " . , very persons to whom th e Ti mes a lludes; it stripy a the respectable of thei r respec t a bility, and " I 'o : hours of the clo a k s w ith w hi c h th e y disguised their stupidity from each other ; it ex hibited, in a Pie ful degree, the cupidity an d f o lly o f the people' as well as the dishonesty of same hitherto held to be above suspicion. This is what a good Act did 10 enlightened England when it threw open to every: one the doors of trade ; th a t i s , w hen it aPPealeci to the common ho nes ty an d common sense of her MAJESTY'S subjects. And what was the conse quence ? Why, a general ruin ; a loss so stop f ou r ous, and so widespr e ad, th at th oug h nearly fe e . years have elapsed, the dep re s s ion at presen t 1 ! greater than ever, and all app ear to agree that t here is no prospect, at least, of any immediate change' The suffering was universal ; it taught all the les sons of caution and distrust, and however pro ing an ente r p r i se , h owever l eg i t i mate an d advisa ble the association of 'capital for the purpose, few' m en s now can be persuad e d to l oo k a t it, because there are no names they rega r d as a g uarantee ` that the enterprise will be honestly and judiciously con ducted. To whom but the class to which the Da les alludes is this acknowledged result due? It `vas the directors, not the shareholders, who Wie ek f c he the companies. It was the sh are h o lders, 11 ° t directors, who were the chief sufferers; indeed) it is asserted that some of these directors profited D t l the knowledge of their own inf a mous work o , " bear" the shares on the Stock Exchange, and it is the dread of the burnt child re n w hich has ended the limited liability dream. rhe remarks, howeve r, p ut to into the mouth of one of th os e i nn ocents appea r us to insinuate the reverse of these facts, to te r the directors into innocent sufferers from the un justifiable proceedings of pig-headed shareholders' but this is the Times w a y of p u tti ng things, an d ' it writes thus of affairs progressing around rr ie s ing-house-square, our English readers may goes what its accuracy is lik e ly t o b e on Attun e — ,1 topics.—Anglo-A mer i can Times. LIST FOR THE USE OF VISITORS T V 7'IIE METROPOLIS. 1117SEUDIS. Antiqoarian —Somerset House. Admission by APP ti to the secretary. Botanic—Royal Botanic Society of London. Bcg iz ' n al park. 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Buckingham Palace Pictures. —May be viewed by an from the Lord Chamberlain. g° 3 Cartoons of Raphael —South Kensington Museum day, Tuesday, Saturday, free ; other days, tid. t op- Crystal Palace—Sydeuhzun. Modern Pictures and Se ture. ls. Dulwich Gallery—Dulwich. Chiefly Flemish and Dutch Pictures. Open free daily, except Friday. stre et• Flaxman Gallery—University of London, Gower- Foundling Hospital—Guildford-street. Open Mon d ' Y 10 till 4. Gallery of Ancieet Masters-49, Pall. ls. Fr i Greenwich Painted Hall—Greenwich. Mondays a nd days Fe : her ay be s, 4d. hal l Guildhall re —Cit ot y. May seen on application to t ho keeper. Hampton Court Palace.—The galleries aro open free except ou Friday. Monument—Fish-street Hill. Every day. 6d. da p National Gallery—Trafalgar-squarl. Open free, NW Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sat-rdays. National Portrait Gallery-29, GreL tcieorge-stroe t • free, Wednesdays and Saturdays. d IS 01 Trinity House—Trinity-square Tower-hill. lighthouses, Src. Daily, 10 till 4. Tussaud's Waxwork-58, Baker-street. Open daily till 10 p.m. ls. SUBURBAN PLACES OF RESORT. Cremorne Gardens —Chelsea. ls. satta' Crystal Palaca . Park—Sydenham. Open daily, is.; days, 2s. 6d. Greenwich Park—Greenwich. Copp rAe Hampton Court Gardens.—Open free daily. A 1S bi Highbury Barn and G ar d ens —Hi g hb ury . 6d. an d refreshment tickets. Kew Gardens—Kew. O pen f ree, d a il y at me o'clock' Richmond Park—Richmond. Open free, daily. Rosherville Gardens —Gravesend. Open daily. "'"% . , o by Royal Horticultur a l G ar d ens —K ens i ngton. .A.dinissi members' order. PRICE OF GOLD. ar '- The quotation of gold at Paris is about at P - : r ota the short exchange on London is 25f. 15.3. per £ 1 Ot On comparing these rates with the English Mint Pri tios £.3 128.100. per ounce for standard gold, it al)Pe' rB ,,,n in gold at the above price is sli g htly ;dearer in Pari s London. tt, [AovEitTlsoluNr.] Dyspepsia (Indigestion), ,„TtstlPtro Debility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stontaiesceelli liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated by 1) 1, , i rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curab.o'ved Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabies. Food, as, PI suet t ° thousands of cases which had been considered hopetes°' n iaia" —cough. asthma, also diarrhcea, htemorrhoids, liver coull n litli.e: flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and, e % matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neurl if jolac' i l bility, sleeplessneFs, acidity, palpitation, heartburn , ' v en debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sicknes s, ,p.bta,o pregnancy or at sea, sinking tits, bronchitis, scrofula, tie of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and bet% re d DJ . shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health reS, l ' ocr —TlP: Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Nome, July 12, health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially sinc to V., ing all other remedies, he has confined himself entireut, pl Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consto a , e b s ol etl,c ful at every meal. It has produced a surprising l y eieelleCito effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this2s. food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," JulY t , Frit - 1 11 7r No. 46,270—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant. % loc o, lic o .t Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of Lor a stOA, derangement, and partial deafness, Cure No. 1,7 71 `. dysl o 4s., de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years dr yer' g No. 49,83 . 2—" Fifty years' indescribable agony fromspas nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Important jav;itatitiV, Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloPPY„,,st as to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is 2 S ciously attached 11 0 crlt In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2lbs 1s GLI 5 lbs 21 lbs 40s. —Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA r 6 56 IlatUlette6% PoWDRR is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at ~"; ;LS :mat at 3s 6,1, for 48 c ups at Gs, for 288 cups at 30s, for si. are —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 550 tinS c y ter o j free of carriage in England on receipt of Post - O file ,?don; BAR Y * BARRY and Co , No. 77 Regent stroot , L o— Grocers and Chemist's BIRTHS. gro ATKINSON— On th e 7th inst , at The ri ioryllslingtou' J. J. Atki nson, of a son. • tise, OA STRATTON 011 the Gth inst . , a t T ur weston J-- vr ° wife of J. L. St rat t on, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. 00 30 ; J: . :111 , 1111) tIOWELL - On the Gth inst., at Ealing , ste p Charles Jerrard, of 170, Fleet-street, and of BiWi er of Vtlis, Denm a rk hill, to Rachel, youngest daug" the late Jos e ph Rowel!, EA., of Ab2rdeon. MASON --Bunroun—On the 4th inst , at Christ , i r " or v4i Mnryleboue, W. H. Mason, Major inst., to Ada Hutchinson, youngest daughter of 'IL 13 .' u Esq., Hamilton-terrace, N.W. TBS. 1 . 1 W ill CALLIKELL —On tho Gth inst. at Clifton. Bristol, 1/11 l bias‘4l' ROBINtiON —OD the sth inst , at LTastings, C . C. Commander lt.N., aged 3 ' 7. of SoLLY—On the 6th iust , Win. Sully Olo re°' Esq , lat e don-gardens, aged 63. • r vlie London: Printed /Lai Published by WILLIA3 I btr of ,Ico. 112, Strand, Printer, at TnE Suli Office so . „2, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Igiatilel4 We'luostlaY, DCCOmber 8,181 W. Al This telt; Pr ze Medal. Sold In 13, t 9e Agent , ' I' I, 01 Observe ti n's LL WI lITI 14, BUS, DVANCE bold or Len able weekly Irermas free TrHE al Lund for deviling ORIGINAL DD B. . nei Consignee celebrated I Bordeaux Whiskies, 1 also he Reel number of of others we A . N G A Devoted ti PAGES. Railroad, and those I this ncwsr Pablial E STAI The rel fessional ] weekly Da biped witl establish:lr This eel nixed by 1 and it is Lady La: Caroline I All info ten 0! pet: Subs - cri Treasurer yriHE 1 JEN receive Al and DUN Pupils. fo The sy manual al A publi when the nessed. Applica other part T" OOffices Tlle In Fire Reve The mo'lc Bonus! or value as render; th leave is thirty day T " of Upward this Hospi Theol enable the numerous helpless h Banker! street; an Waterlc ‘TATI 1. 1 RIO Under the whereby a Girls of all the kinglo The Coble lish e lu cat and lanndr wise provi suitable sit The Ooni entirely sa Oflic4. 1.1 GRE Thin wablisbe Banker street, M See., L S RII Mac For th , destitute and of a prosperou One hu stitution , Increas endowed, assistanct Subset.' Institutic Its peculii The lai Secretary Offices, Bankei IMO ; an( L IFE of boat Inst from vari The Inst on its Li £4,250 fo The In its manN Contril and coun Esq., at t HEALTH DUB oure years li irr digestiol ervous Cur() St d fo food_—S Waterfo Cure from dy flaf 'lien of Lynn °tire nArvous vo Curo yoarg 4s. Cl tist,r BArry's tin tree ut 3 A. Li tt 61,30 at Gr icecl 113 W tr( road. Patro Tile