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E AGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The Report which the directors have now to submit to the proprietor differs in its tenor but little save in one or two particular from that laid before them in 1868. the income of the year, it will 1 e seen, amounts t £610,499 18s., and the total charm t £415,077 ltls. 9d 1714-1 surplus tend at the commeneetnent of tto. ticancia,l year, raised that item to £1,002,974 Iss. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, JUNE 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE Y EAR. s. d. Balance of account, 30th June, 1808 r'rerniums on new assur- ances Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 371,548 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,508 4 11. .£ s. d 907,;.52 8 6 LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN. Glt. 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MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment'alttlir lhisitegg. - For trades and ad dresses, see following advertisement. A RABE COMBINATION. The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be foun I in every article sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all :lasses. Commodious apartments for measuring and fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, 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 - 7accurate . 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 , heerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the noney will he returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Dra.pery, 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, Woollen drapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shc.e Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES .nd SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MIN ORIES 1.56, MINORIES 157, M INORI ES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85. ALDGATE 86, ALDGATI 97, ALDGATE 88, ALDGATE. 39, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 506, NEW OXFORD-STRE ET v 37, NEW OXFORD STREET +OB, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANC Ff. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 783, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. THE SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE "NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE. NEW EMBROIDERY- STITC A. Work by Hand and Treadle. and in a Portable Case for Travelling. THE " SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p tuliar simplicity of these Machines enables any one to Inquire their perfect use in a few hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free THE “SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY (Thief Office in the 'United Kingdom: 147, CHE APSIDE. B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Head Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association are Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. Profit and loss, balance of account Total income £1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF THE TEAR. x s. d. CR. Dividend to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured Additions to those under £ s. d. 8,880 4 0 particiiaiini;acie;:: 24,304 6 6 Policies surrendered Re-assurances —new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 405,561 12 1 Commission i 10,618 11. 2 Medical fees Income tax Expenses of management 16,238 910 436,187 6 9 Total cbarpm Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance-sheet .. 1,002,974 15 9 445,077 10 9 £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. ld., of which sum £13,560 ss. ld. is for new assurances effected in the year. The interest from investments is £120,959 120. 10d., or £4 2s. per cent. on the net amount of the company's realised assets existing in June, 1868 ; and in connection with this important feature of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and loss account again exhibits a considerable profit, amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000. It may be remembered that a profit of nearly equal amount was announced in last year's report. Turning to the items constituting the charge of the year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material; as was observed o 1 a previous occasion, the proper quin quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex ceeds £309,000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management are greater by nearly .4800 than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the compan3 'a securities into the names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses must be reearded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET. JUNE 30. 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors £6,757 17 0 claims on decease of lives assured, and Addditions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liabib'.. pier sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Propriettnti fund Surplus fund £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN, HENRY ROSE, 'I Auditors. Cu ASSETS. lmount invested in fixed mortgages X 1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 - )itto ditto Temporary secu -198,207 17 0 rities ;urrent interest on the above investments 30,934 4 6 ILA and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the company's policies Agents' balances Curulry accounts Va►lne of premiums (1860 (aloe of re-assuraLces V5,3R7 1 8 23,489 1f; 8 57,281 7 9 4 50f;,1n7 IS 0 8:: , ,706 11 .£7,675,8 13 0 10 The batance-sheei does not appear to rail for any re /nark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95422 7s. already mentioned, as is•shown by the augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. The Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows: WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairman. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, E6Q., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, James Murray, Esq. . . Thomas Boddinzton, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq. BirJ. Buller East, Bt., D.C.L. ' Thomas Godfrey Sambrook° Wm. A • .gustus Guy, M.D., Esq. F.R.S. A dmiral Tindal. CnarlesTbos.Holcombo,Esq. Right Hon. Sir John Young Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart., K.C.B. ROYAL ALFIAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open from ll to 4. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager. Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS 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 ES L ONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. CONVERSIQR OF DEBENTURES INTO DEBENTURE STOCK. The Dire9tors are now prepared to enter into arrange ments for converting the Debentures of the Company into equivalent amounts of Perpetual Four per Cent. Deben ture Stock, and also to receive applications for allotments of the same Stock, at par, to be applied in the repayment of Debentures falling due. Any amount of Stock, not being a fraction of a pound, can be subscribed for and transferred. A commission of (one-half) per cent. is allowed to ap pliCants, and the Stock will be inscribed in the Company's books free of all expense. ,The interest will be paid half-yearly on the 15th Jan uary and 15th July, by warrant. , The Stock thus raised will be entitled to the same 'priority against the property and income of the Company as the Debenture Bond Debt, ranking before the Com pany's entire Stock and Share Capital of Thirty Millions (£30,000,0001, and will be the first charge on a net income now amounting to upwards of Three Millions (Zi.,000,000) annually. Further particulars and forms of application may be obtained by letter addressed to the undersigned. STEPHEN REA.Y, Secretary. Euston Station, Mardi, 1869. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established 1824. Tie A NNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, exceeds ..€227,000 The ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, is over £1,649,000 Forms of Proposal, and every information, can be ob tained of GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary, 13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. A GENTS WANTED EVE RYW HERE to introduce commodi'les 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. 3IARRISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager. Mr. F.D. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 3, FORMOSA. new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault: Nlessrs. Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, lohi. Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, xrul Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING : Messrs Ash'ey, C. H. Stephenson, and Misses Maria and Nelly Harris. At 15 to 8, LOST AT SEA: a London Story. Messrs A. Stir ling, G. Belmore, E. Atkins. J. D Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, C. J. Smith. R. Romer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza John stone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr U. Belmore and Mrs. Leigh Murray. t !Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Perry. TITIS EVENING, at 7, BREACH OF PROMISE. At 8.15, Mr. T. W. Robertson's new Comedy. in three acts, entitled PROGRESS: Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, .1. Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall ; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock. a new and original sketch, by Harry I..emon, Esq , called WAIT FOR AN ANSWER. After which, at 7.45 will be produced, with new scenety. fur niture, and appointments, a new Comedy, in three acts, by Thomas Morton, Esq., entitled PLAIN ENGLPIH, in which Messrs. Parry Sullivan, George Honey. J. C. Cowper. W. 11. Stephens, D. Evans, Charles 11 orsman, Lin Rayne, Cotte, Dyas, W. Arthur, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Jane Rignold, and Miss Howard will appear. To conclude with the Musical Farce of THE WATERMAN. The magnificent new scenery by Mr. Julian Hicks; the furni tore and upholstery by Mr. James Lyon. Acting Manager—Axone SULLIVAN. p OYAL STRAND THEATRE. 5. - 1 Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7.10, AMONG THE BREAKERS : Mr Cl Lrke. Followed by THE TOOPLES: Mr Clarke. After which. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD: i'essrs Thorne, James, Fenton ; Mesdames Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, &c. rr"E "SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. 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SMITH'S " Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street, ; rand. town. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING Mr Ashley, Mr, Stephenson, and the Misses Harris. Followed by LOST AT SEA: Mr A. Stirling, &Ir G. Eelmore, Mr E. Atkins, Mr Beveridge. Mr stephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Romer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: 3lr G. Belmore and Mrs L. Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tins EvENtwa. at 7, BREACH OF PROMISE. At 8.13, the new Comedy, PROGRES , : Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, J Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tats EVENING, at 7, WAIT FOR AN ANSWER. After which. PLAIN ENGLISH: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, &c. And THE WATERMAN. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. tins EVENING. at 7.30. AMONG TEIE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And THE FIELD OF THE cLoru OF GOLD. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G A.IIDENS, Regert's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, Gd. Children under twelve. 6d tl 7 t _lt • • •rt LONDWV, THURSDAY, GCT. 7, 1869. The personalities indulged in yesterday upon the Market-place in Macclesfield afford a new argument in favour of the abolition of the present system of returning representatives to Parliament. The gather ing of electors which took place, there, is described by the reporter as a tolerably orderly crowd, but it is rather unluckily added, one would think in covert irony, in parenthesis " (there being only two or three fights)" during the course of the proceedings. The occasion arose out of the death of Mr. ED WARD EGERTON, the late member for the eastern division of the County of Cheshire. Hitherto that County has been represented, for a long while, ex clusively by Cobserptives. The Liberal party being now notoriously in the ascendant throughout the United Kingdom, among the great mass of the con• stituencies, it very naturally and very reasonably occurs to the Liberal electors of Cheshire that they will at length make a strenuous effort to secure to themselves, if possible, some share at least of the representation. To this end they put forward, with the intention of bringing him in, if they can in any way manage it, a candidate of their own— ono ad vocating their own principles, and one prepared to do battle on their behalf against all corners. The Con servative candidate is there as a matter of course. But, side by side with the Conservative candidate, there is a Liberal candidate as well. Sir EDWARD \VA-rKIN is the champion of the Liberals. Mr. WILLIAM BROOK is the champion of the Conserva fives. Each candidate is duly proposed and seconded. Mr. AsHTON and Mr. BROCKLEHURST respectively pro pose and second Sir EDWARD WATKIN as a fit and proper person to represent the Electors of East Che shire in the Commons House of Parliament. Major EGERTON LEIGH and Mr. SIDEBOTHAM do the like by the opposing candidate. In doing so the last men tioned speaker but one indulged in a variety of fleer ing allusions to Sir EDWARD WATKIN—OIIt of this aggression springing some as charming retalia tory electioneering amenities that we can recall to our remembrance. Sir EDWARD WATKIN, it must be allowed, certainly repaid Major EGERTON LEIGH in kind. Reproaching his assailant with hav ing indulged in personalities—he himself indulged in personalities, if possible, still more highly flavoured. Irony was met by derision. Sarcasm by disdain. Scorn by denunciation. Reading of it all the day afterwards, one may say with Sir Lucius O'TRIGGER, " 'Tis a very pretty quarrel as it stands." By way of a preliminary pleasantry, Sir EDWARD WATKIN compared his actual opponent, Mr. BROOK, to a calf, and his would-be-if -he could opponent—meaning Mr. BROOK'S proposer, the obnoxious Major EGERTON LEIGH—to a cow. For, with having vainly striven to come forward himself as the Conservative candidate, Sir EDWARD WATKIN distinctly charged Major EGERTON LEIGH, when he said, "If report speaks true, he had the ambition to represent the county if somebody else would sub scribe the necessary cost." Adding, "It is another case of want of honour to a prophet in h's own coun try, for, strange enough, nobody would subscribe." Not contenting himself with this imputation and with the charming references, already mentioned, to the cow and the calf, the Liberal candidate hesitated not to bring his Conservative opponent's proposer there upon the hustings, in the market-place at Mac clesfield, and himself thus invidiously into direct com parison. "Major EGERTON LEIGH," exclaimed Sir E. " says that the more you hear of Sir EDWARD WATKIN the less you like him. I have no doubt that the more he hears of me the less he does like me ; and I tell him that be will bear of me again. .1 tell him further that, although people do sometimes hear of Sir EDWARD WATKIN when some public good is to be done, or some great public work executed, we very seldom hear of Mr. EGERTON LEIGH ; and that is the difference between us." Now, really, than this, we can imagine nothing more gross or more fatuous in its way as a piece of dull self-sufficiency, or as the specimen of an utterly pointless and meaningless rejoinder. It is worse than the old dunderheaded tit pope. It is like a bout with single sticks. It is like an endea vour to demonstrate, by the mere give and take of so many sounding thwacks on the skull, which of the two assailants' heads is the hollower. It is precisely this kind of thing that we would see abolished. We would have an end put to the solemn. tions. They breed ill blood. They are simply occasions for vapid tall-talking, for turmoil on the hustings, and for free fights every now and then among the intelligent electors assembled together in front of it ! The whole system of returning mem bers to Parliament wants transformation. And all the good we are thus iu search of, we believe, in our conscience, might very readily be secured, we are sanguine, will very speedily be secured by the simple means of—the Ballot. LORD STANLEY'S Visit to the working men of Liverpool is one of the pleasantest events of the year. The artisans of the great seaport have deserved well of their class, and the Conservative peer has given their efforts a most liberal and encouraging recogni tion. Whilst others were talking, the men of Liver pool were up and doing, and they have accordingly been able to greet Lord STANLEY, not only with words, but with two hard and significant facts. In the first place, they have established a Trades' Hall. This establishment is to a certain extent a club—a place where recreation and instruction may be obtained, and where working men may get refresh ment which is neither dear nor poisonous. These are good objects, which might advantageously be carried out in places where the working man's club is not yet known. But the Trades' Hall is designed to effect something more than this. The artisans of Liverpool have long felt the baneful effects of holding their trades' union meetings in places where drink is sold. The removal of this evil was the primary object which the Liverpool trades had in view in combining to establish the new hall. They have done wisely. The fact that "beer and business do not go well together" has long been appreciated, not only by trades unions, but by working-class societies of every description. A very large proportion of the misdoings at election times may be traced to the practice of holding committees and the like in places where the barrel can be made freely available. The baneful effects of transacting the busi ness of friendly societies in public-houses forms a standing topic in the yearly report of Mr. Tmn PRATT. In these, and in other cases, the general result is that the " good of the house " claims precedence of the good of those who meet in it. Socie ties which are established, as many are, for the benefit of a landlord, cannot greatly profit the remaining per sons concerned in them. And even where a public house is chosen simply as a meeting place it is palpable that the advantages to be reaped from the society in question must be more or less balanced by the additional temptation to drink. It is good to induce men to save money by means of well-managed benefit societies ; but what can this economy profit if the working man, whilst he is invited to save, is practically invited also to waste ? Nothing, for instance, can be more praiseworthy than the principle of the building society; but in many places, and especially in the North, the working man loses a large proportion of his profit through the absurd system of management. It is common for a building society to meet in a drink shop, the landlord being recompensed by the payment of 61 from each member, the sum to be "taken out" in drink. The plan is inequitable since the member who holds but one share pays as much as he who has ten. It is injurious, because the sum falls heavily upon a working man who pays, say, five shillings monthly on one share. The total of such payments, added to the extra consump tion of drink which often follows the sixpennyworth, must go far to nullify the advantage of these associations. The example of the Liverpool working men in this respect is thoroughly worthy of imitation. There is no reason why a trades' hall should not be found in every town, nor why such a building should not be made avail able for all working class purposes—whether trades union, benefit club, or building society. The men of Liverpool furnished Lord STANLEY with another text, upon which the late Foreign Secretary founded a very excellent portion of his address. The building trades of the town have successfully applied the only 'remedy that has yet been dev - Thed for reconciling the interests of capital and labour. For a long time past the Liverpool artisans have bees] sorely vexed by wages and time disputes. Strike has followed strike, until at last some sensible bricklayers grew tired of sacrificing all their wages in the attempt to make them a little higher. They were unionists, and, like all British workmen, did not wish to desert their fellows ; but they reasonably questioned whether the endless war with employers could possibly avail anything. If the bricklayers could not agree with their masters, possibly they could agree with themselves. On this principle they suggested that the Liverpool builders should start business on their own account. Eighty from the different building trades agreed. A co-operative company was formed, and a working man's directory has profitably managed the concern for several months. The project has stood the test of experience, and one more instance of the successful application of the co-operative principle has been definitely established. Lord STANLEY has great faith in this remedy for the evils which result from the conflicts of employer and servant. He wholly repudiates the old Conservative notion that mechanics have not the same power as doctors and lawyers to combine for their own pro tection and interest. The trades union is not only. an established fact, but it is the exercise of a just right. Working men have full power to make rules to bind themselves, provided they do not endeavour to force those rules upon the unwilling. But though the trades union is undoubtedly a legal and fair mode of combination, Lord STANLEY justly doubts whether it is likely to serve the artisan's purpose so well as co-operation. The latter system is founded on an alliance with capital ; the union is professedly established to carry on a destructive war. It by no means follows that co-operation will render capital needless. On the contrary, various instances might be quoted of attempts by working men to go into busi ness for their own benefit being crippled through the want of funds. It is clear that preliminary outlay will always be required, no matter what kind of business be selected. Hence a union between a capitalist and hand-workers is a more promising form of co-operation than a society formed solely of working men. This plan has been tried with marked success in several instances. Most prosperous of all would be that form of co-operation in which the workmen were themselves capita lists ; but this cannot be looked for to any great extent at present. The industrial partnership principle supplies all that could be required, and must ultimately make way, though, like all new ideas, it is but slow at first. REBELLION AMONGST THE MORMONS. According to a recent communication from the Salt Lake City, the rebellion of the Mormon girls against poly gamy is progressing very rapidly ;—" It seems that the Mormon girls who have not yet got religion' are very much opposed to polygamy. They had rather spend an hour in the company of a congenial sinner than a year in that of a saint, especially if the former is young, holds his head high, and is withal good-looking. There are occasionally such among the Gentiles, never among the Mormons. The girls call the young haints `cayuses;' the Gentilecall them yahoos? The poor dear things are very artless, and un less you have so delicate a respect for their helplessness as to withdraw your eyes, you cannot help seeing through and through them the same as you do through a window Well, they manage to inveigle the Gentiles into ai..; acquaintance through their brother's, through' mutual friends, who are about 'alf-and-'alf, by telegraphing on the street, flirting at the tabernacle' or the theatre—with the eyes only, mind you, and that very slyly. Brigham once spoke to one in such a tong as to make her faint away, for looking from the Mormon pit of the theatre up to the Gentile dress-circle, whre I suppose her lover sat. Suffice it that a likely young fellow, whom for variety I will call John Smith, became thus acquainted with Nabby, one of Brigham's daughter's, and, in course of time, their intercourse ripened into true love. An elopement was planned, relays of horses stationed along the road hence to Umtah, and about two weeks ago, in the latter hours of night, the streets rather deserted, and dark ness largely prevailing, the adventurous swain drove slowly west with his buggy along South Temple -- -- leit'ar some reason, past Temple Block, and still further westward. Four ur five police - filen issued from the vicinity of the Tithing Office and followed the buggy. Ancn a slight scuffle and a smothered scream were heard, and' a moment er two after the royal carriage, with blinds drawn, dashed by on the gallop and whirled through the Eagle Gate. John Smith drove his buggy back to the stable, hung round the town for a day or two, and then went to San Francisco. A policeman with "a head on him," was seen occasionally, Nabby was locked up in the king's castle, and. • that is all. It appears that Nabby was to meet John Smith three squares west of her father's corral, and, getting into the buggy, they were to fly on the wings of love to a land of liberty. Both had evidently been watched, and just as the girl was entering the buggy the police appeared, chucked her into Brigham's carriage, which was_ unaccountably on hand, and having thus effectually clipped the aforesaid wings, either from policy or fear, allowed Smith to go about his business. In former times he would undoubtedly have been killed without ceremony ; but it would hardly do now, and, besides, John Smith happened to be connected with people who could have made some trouble had he been assassinated. The girls have a secret society for helping each other away, saving up their money, &c."- THE EXPECTED HIGH TIDE. The tidal wave phenomenen has generally proved, as one writer quaintly puts it, a "failure." ,At London the water at London Bridge was not so high as it frequently is at spring tides. The accounts from the provinces are much to the same effect. At Chatham every precaution had been taken to prevent any disaster accruing from the high tide, which, it had been predicted, would occur on Wednesday. The result, however, showed that the appre hensions entertained wore entirely groundless, the gauge at the dockyard at high water showing the tide to be four inches lower than it was on Tuesday night, and that notwithstanding that the wind had, hi the meantime, shifted round to the eastward. At Liverpool similar pre cautions had been taken, but "in vain." Long before the hour for high water (11.40 a.m.), a large number of anxiously awaiting t p h eo e pl a e p a p s r s e e e m e b h led ef on t t h h e e se , v , e g 7t e l et pi erstid,e., They waited anxiously until eleven o'clock, when th ere w ere some doubts expressed as to Lieutenant Saxby's prog nostication, but when the hour came when it was expected that half of the low cellars in Liverpool would be under water, " the disappointment was extreme." The tide of Wednesday was nothing more than an ordinary spring one, being only 20ft. llin. On the 28th February last the tide was 21f t. Bin. and no damage or alarm took place. At Southampton slightly higher and lower tides than usual have been observed for the last two or three days, but the weather has been calm, and no damage has been done. Precautions have been taken on the western banks of the It c h en t o pro t e ct the waterside pro perty there, and th ese precau ti ons , in consequence of the fine weather, have proved effectual. At Preston during the last few days th ere h as b een a reg ular panic. It was believed by large numb ers o f peop l e that though Preston stands on a conside ra bl e em i nence, the tide would sweep through the town a s f ar the House of Correction, and up Ribbleton-lane, at th e extreme e ast of the borough, carrying death and d es t ruct i on w ith it ; that the village of Walton-le-D a l e an d other low- l y i ng localities would be submerged and u tt erly destroye d ; and that an earthquake would f o ll ow, with un iversal destruction However, at the mom en t b e f ore e bb tide, about 12.10 p.m., the water had ri se n t o seventeen feet only, being then rather more than thre e f eet b elow the sill of the quay. The business of loadin g an d unloa di ng the vessels opposite the warehouses went on as usual. At Blackpool and Lytham there was a large influx of visitors to enjoy the pleasant spectacle of property destroyed. Some of the dwellers by the waters had boarded up the lower portion of their houses, and rcinevcd their furniture to the upper storeys. But the residents were saved from trouble, and tho visitors were deprived of their fun by only a moderate tide. At Leith, on Tuesday, the water was lower by eighteen inches than some tides that have occurred within the last two months. From Scarborough, Filet', and other places en th e north coas t, the accounts state that ordinary equinecti:•l sprint tides have often risen higher than the tide 3 on Tuesday and Wednesday . At Hull, the tides were marked by no exceptional circum stance. Along the Groves and Wincoludee, two low lying districts of the town,adjoini ng the banks of the river, doors and passages had been batt ene d up, an d the battens flanked by mounds of sand or ma sses o f c l ay . This was the case, too, at one or two of the warehouses in High-street. It is satisfactory to know that up to the present time there has been nothing to tax the efficacy of these precautionary meaaures. _ _ LATEST INTELL [GENE` (REUTEn's TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) The Cunard Royal Mail steamer China arrived out to-day at 1 p.m. The lowa (of the Anchor line) also arrived out to-day. NEW YORK, Oct. 6. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1301; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 131; the lowest, 130. Sterling Exchange on London lon. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188' ) " 1885 ll9l. 4( " 1867 1174. 10-40 Illinois Erie 331. ;Cotton—Mid. upland 273c. QvEine, Oct. 6. The Allau (Glasgow) steamship Germany ar rived here this morning. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Oct. 6 (Evening). The Crown Prince of Prussia arrived shortly after 9 p.m., and was received by the Emperor and the highest military and civil authorities. Upon the Prince leaving the train the Emperor advanced, and a most cordial greeting took place. The Emperor wore the uniform of a colonel of a Prussian regiment, while the Crown Prince of Prussia was dressed as an officer holding a similar rank in the Austrian army. The military bands struck up the Prussian Na tional Anthem. The Prince having reviewed the guard of honour appointed to escort his highness, proceeded with the Emperor and his suite in court carriages to the Imperial residence at Hapsburg. SPAIN. MADRID, Oct. 7. The Government has received intelligence from Andalusia and Catalonia that several bands of Republicans have been signally routed in those provinces. The insurrection may now be consi dered as vanquished. The people are animated by the best spirit. Notwithstanding the disturbances in the country, the troops destined to proceed to Cuba are being embarked daily. LITERATURE. Hepworth Dixon's New Work. Her Majesty's Tower. Vol. 11. By William llep- worth Dixon. Hurst and Blackett. llepworth Dixon has never done anything finer than this second volume of his history of the Tower of London. It is not, as cynical cavillers might have suggested, the sweeping together of the lit tered contents of his portfolio after the completion and the brilliant success of the original volume already published. The former volume, as we all know, has rapidly run through six edi tions. It has " told" upon the reading public in a manner quite exceptional ; and its success throughout has been legitimate, has been unforced, has been spontaneous. Those who know the work can thoroughly understand how it won its way with such a swing of ease into this sudden and SU3- tained popularity. It was precisely the kind of book to fascinate the reader's attention. It was a splen did piece of word-painting from beginning to end. It peopled anew, in all the ancient pageantry of times long gone by, the courtyards, the drawbridges, the dungeons, the walled gardens, the skyward leads, the nooks and crannies, the galleries and corridors, the portcullised gateways, and the iron-barred grim and grey old Towers of Julius, which are associated with so many of the noblest, the grand. est, and the most pathetic of our national and historical recollections. Described as the scene and the people were, with a wealth of colouring, both Her Majesty's Tower and its memorable in habitants started to view, as we turned the pages of that volume, as though the Past were, again Pre sent, as though we were looking not upon the con fronting leaves of an open volume, but rather than that through the wonder-working lenses of a ste reoscope. Brilliant though that first volume was, however, as a series of historical descriptions, the second and concluding volume is of far higher value in our consideration. Its purpose is higher. The author in it deals less with external appear ances and more with the inner significance of events and incidents, many of which have been either misapprehended, or, far worse than that, have been monstrously and deliberately misrepre sented. Mr. Dixon takes a hitherto unrecognised truth in this way, and vigorously welds it anew upon the anvil of his bold and manly judgment. And sentence by sentence as he does so, his words have often the weight and the telling effect of a series of blows from some ponderous sledge-hammer. 'rake as an instance of this his whole narrative of the famous Gunpowder Plot. Chapter after chapter unfolds to the enthralled, and, in many cases, we doubt not, the astonished reader, the windings, and the doublings, and the turnings of that once be wildering, and, as it erstwhile seemed, inscrutable labyrinth. "Powder Plot Room," " Guy Fawkes," " Origin of the Plot," " Vinegar House," " The Conspiracy at Large," are the headings of five of these masterly chapters. And how they are written throughout let us show by a single passage by way of quotation. 'Thus speaks Mr. Dixon of the Plot itself and of its immediate origin :-- " Those who throw the blame on Catholics miss the moral of the crime. The men who contrived, the men who prepared, the mon who sanctioned, this scheme of assassi nation were, one and all, of Protestant birth. Father Per sons was Protestant born. Father Owes and Father Garnet were Protestants born. From what is known of Winter's early life, it may be asseuned that he was a Pro testant. Gatesby and Wright had been Protestant boys. Guy Fawkes had been a Protestant ; Percy had been a Protestant. The minor persons were, like their chiefs, apostates from their early faith, with the moody weak ness which is an apostate's inspiration and his curse. Tresham was a convert, Monteagle was a convert, Digby was a convert. Thomas Morgan, Robert Kay, and Kit Wright were all converts. The five gentlemen who dug the mine in Palace-yard were all of English blood and of Protestant birth. But they were converts and fanatics, observing no law save that of their own passions ; men of whom it should be said, in justice to all religions, that they no more disgraced the Church which they had entered than that which they had left. The plot was the main clerical effort of that Spanish conspiracy against English law which the converted Jesuits had been trained to conduct; a political conflict in which these English Jesuits appealed to the sword and perished by the sword." " From one—all," says the proverb. "Ex pede Herculem," says another. Noting one step, to stalwart tread all through may be readily conjec tured, may be appreciated by anticipation. And the dramatic interest of the work as a whole may be recognised, we cannot but think, at the merest glance when looking down the headings of the chapters in the two-paged table of contents. Ex. gr.—November, 1605—Hunted Down—Search for Garnet —The Catholic Lords—The Wizard Earl— The Escape —Pursuit—Dead in the Tower—Powder Poisoning. It is a new justification, or authentica tion of Lord Byron's dictum that " Truth is strange —stranger than fiction !" These headings of a historical and arcl.zeological work by a shrewd and searching student of the past, are like the sensational titles of the incidents of some work of fiction by a master-romancist, such a writer, let us say, as the author of "Monte Cristo," and " The Three Mus keteers." Volume 11. of " Her Majesty's Tower," so admirably supplements Volume 1., already fami liar to Mr. Dixon's world of readers, that it is like the fitting together of two semi-circles—the work is rounded to a whole. Among all his works it is the one most worthily inscribed to his Sovereign, for it is, among them all, at once the most brilliant and the most attractive. THE ALLEGED CONFESSIO,Y OP THE BROMLEY MURDER. A great deal of surprise has been manifested at Bromley at the publication of a detailed confession of the murder, by a man named Deadman, of the woman Jackson, who was found dead in a well at Mason's-hill, ih January 1868. This so-called confession gives most remarkable details of the commission of the crime, and adds that it has only been extorted, as it were, by the approaching death of the alleged murderer, who shortly afterwards died. The narrative, however, lacks one or two important particulars, for the " confession" has never been made at all, and the man Deadman" somewhat belies his name, as be is alive and wall at Westerham, where he is employed as a painter by the master to whom he served his time. It is understood that the matter will at once be legally investigated. It will probably be remem bered that two men, of whom Deadman was one, were tried and acquitted. The second man is now living at Bromley. ARREST OF LORD CHARLES HAMILTON. An arrest by sheriff's officers, under circumstances ex citing a considerable amount of merriment at the West end, took place on Wednesday about noon. For some time past Lord Charles George Archibald Hamilton, brother of the Duke of Hamilton, has been in monetary difficulties, and doubtless aware of certain gentlemen attending upon him. His movements were at length so closely watched as to become quite unpleasant, and in this dilemma his lordship confided his troubles to a well known Hansom cab-driver, named Sawyer ; and, aided by cabby's knowledge of the limbs of the law, the crisis was staved off until Wednesday. Baffled in many attempts to capture their client, a close watch was set, and at length Sawyer's anxiety for the safety of Lord Charles was discovered. A Hansom cab, worthy of his distin guished position, had been placed at his lordship's service by a coach proprietor in Now Bond-street. Sawyer was on Wednesday driving his lordship in the direction of Arlington-street, when suddely several men, stationed at the corner of Bennett , street, made a dash at the horse's head. The cabman, appreciating the position of affairs, by a touch of his whip made the horse leap forward. One man was thrown down, and, while another attempted to enter the cab, his lordship jumped out on the opposite side. His lordship ran with all speed for Jermyn-street, closely pursued by the bailiffs, who, after a smart chase, effected his capture. Sawyer followed leisurely with his Hansom, and, after the capture, received back his "fare," and drove him off in company of the officers to Whitecress-street.—Telegraph. LAW AND POLICE., PLEDGING WATcnts.—At Guildhall, on Wednesday, ft watchmaker named Thiele was charged with pledging watches entrusted to him to repair. The prisoner and his son had formerly an extensive business, and received many watches to repair, which they pledged, and finally decamped, leaving more than 200 duplicates behind them. The owners of fifty had been discovered, and had obtained their watches, the owner and pawnbroker sharing the loss between them, The prisoners had received about £5OO by pledging. They were remanded. _ _ A PRISONER NOT SEARCRED.—At Marlborough-street, on Wednesday, a Frenchman, named Samnade, was charged with sending threatening letters to a tradesman in Picca dilly. When arrested the prisoner had a revolver in his pocket, five chambers of which were loaded. It was alleged by the wife of the prosecutor that the attention of the police ai the station was drawn to this fact, but that no search was made, and the prisoner appeared in court on his first examination with the revolver in his possession, the con sequences of which might have been serious. The police denied the woman's statement, but Mr. Tyrwhitt seemed to believe it. Ho committed the prisoner for trial. ILLEGAL STORAGE OF PEW:OLP:MI.—At the City Police court, Manchester, a day or two since, Mr. Brooks, a chemist and druggist, was summoned for keeping petro leum amongst other inflammable goods contrary to his license. The defendant said he was prepared to give up his licence which was accordingly cancelled. Another chemist named Kellet, of Huline, was fined £5 and costs, for keep ing 150 gallons of petroleum, when his licence was for 50 gallons. A broker, of Hulme, was fined five shillings for having 18 gallons of paraffin without a licence, and the oil was forfeited. A PRACTISED BURGLAR.—A man named Palmer was charged at the Middlesex Sessions with having in his possession certain implements of housebreaking. The remarkable feature in the case was that the pri soner had been for more than thirty years a burglar, or companion of burglars. A list of his convictions • d..r.ribed thp contents of e stable of which he had possession, which had a false floor ing. Under this flooring were a quantity of skeleton keys, two life-preservers, two jemmies, and several crowbars. The prisoner was questioned about a ten years' sentence to tran sportation passed on him in 1855, when he said that it was se long ago that lie did not recollect it. The Judge, having com mented on the prisoner's career, said he would pass the highest sentence he could as an example to others, and that was that he should be kept in penal servitude for ten years. He ordered the inspector, the sergeant, and two constables to receive £2 each for the services they had rendered in bringing him to justice. The decision of the conference of Lancashire miners on the question of wages is to continue the agitation for an advance "until the same be obtained." The consi deration of the proposal to restrict the hours of labour was postponed. The Lord Bishop of Durham has conferred the canonry in Durham Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Bishop of Exeter, upon the Rev. J. D. Eade, rural dean and vicar of Aycliffe. Mr. Eade has been an honorary canon of Durham Cathedral since 1847. Mn. BUXTON ON THI LAND QuEsnoN.—M r . C. Buxton, M.P., spoke on the Irish land question on Wed nesday night at the annual meeting of the North Walsham Agricultural Association. Mr. Buxton took the side of the Irish tenantry in their demand for security, although not for fixity of tenure. The Garden Oracle for 1870 is announced for early publication. The speciality of the forthcoming issue is a new and select list of the choicest dessert fruits, so arranged as to indicate the seasons when they severally attain per fection, the mode of culture, and their respective adapta tion to large and small gardens, to forcing and high fruit growing establishments, and the most humble and unpre tending amateur's garden. During the past year, as a correspondent shows us, the Evangelical party in the Church of England, "which Ritualists and Romanists say is dead, and Free-kirkers ignore," has contributed £157,330 for missions to the heathen, through the Church Missionary Society ; £51,845 for the spread of Christian truth at home amongst the British poor, through the Pastoral Aid Society; £24,445 for Irish Church missions to Roman Catholics ; and £34,017 for propagating the Gospel amongst the Jews. —Telegraph. BAPTIST UNION CONGRESS AT LEICESTER.— The active business of the session commenced on Wednes day, when the Congress met in the Bolvoir-street Chapel, which was filled in every part. The Rev. Dr. W. Brock read the inaugural address, after which the Rev. J. 111 Millard read the message of the committee. The Rev. C. Williams read a paper on the policy of nonconformity in view of ecclesiastical disestablishment. A long discussion ensued regarding the question whether education should be secular or unsectarian, and was postponed. In the evening about GOO of the delegates dined together, under the presi dency of Mr. Baines, Mayor of Leicester. STRANGE AND FATAL ACCIDENT IN A RAIL WAY TUNNEL.—On Wednesday, at Wadhurst, in the county of Sussex, an inquest Was held by the county coroner respecting the death of a young man, named James Monk ford, a coachman in the service of a family at Tun bridge Wells, and who came by his death under the following strange and mysterious circumstances On Saturday he and a brother-in law proceeded to Wadhurst from Tunbridge Wells, with a couple of donkeys, which they had to take to Lady Anstruther's, of Coursley Wood. The deceased, who had been drinking. falling off one of the donkeys, got covered with mud, and swearing he would not go any further, left his companion to go on with the donkeys, and, meeting with a policeman, retraced his steps towards Wadhurst Station. He got there at about eleven o'clock in the evening, and made inquiries whether any train would be going to Tunbridge Wells. lie was told there would not be any train until morning that would call there, and he was directed the way to Tun bridge Wells by road. It appears that he then went to the Railway Inn, close by, and endeavoured to engage a bed for the night, but was refused. All knowledge was afterwards Ast of him, until ho was found by a man in the tunnel, which is situate some quarter of a mile or so on the Hasty in..; side of the Wadhurst Railway Station. When found, he was about 100 yards in the tunnel, quite dead, with one leg cut completely off, and the foot of the other cut slantingly from the ankle to the toe. He was bruised con siderably about the chest, and it is supposed that the pass ing train caught him with the buffer on the chest, and knocking him down, the wheels passed over his leg and foot, which would be lying on the metals. A verdict in accordance with the evidence that the deceased was found dead was returned, Demos' halm a widow and two little_ehildrez criviwir CONGRESS. • At the Liverpool Congress the "Supply and ThaiVrof the Clergy" has been the subject of several impprtant papers and an excellent discussion. The Rev. Canon GraY read a paper, in which he deplored the weakness of the clergy in that most essential point—the critical knowledge of the Scriptures. The Rev. Dr. Salmon, of Trinity College, Dublin, indicated a preference for the regular universities rather than special colleges for the teaching of theology. The Rev. T. F. Espin, rector of Wallasey, thought the English Church wanted more clergy and better training for them. Something might be done by reducing the age for admitting deacons to 21, as the sister Church in America did, and still retain the present canonical ago for the priesthood , or even defer it till 25. Ono of the present drawbacks of the Church was that no man could earn anything till he was 23. This state of things was thoroughly unsatisfactory There ought to be a central literary examination indepen dent of the bishops. The bishops should also require a three years' instead of a two years' course and a complete curriculum of studies, and only grant certificates to those who passed this course, and also 6 special examination by examiners from the Universities; The Right Hon. J. R. Mowbray, M.P., thought that high requirements should be sought for in the clergy, and that the old universities supplied all that was needed. The Rev. W. Saumarez Smith deemed the universities the best schools for the clergy. Theological colleges he regarded as useless. The Dean of Durham agreed that the universities were the best places for the education of the clergy, but they din not trash theology enough. At the University they went through a good course of Latin and Greek for two or three years, and for the remaining Yea r they might, if they liked, study theology—if they did ne t prefer hunting and amusements of that sort. Then, as t ° the sermons, a reference to the religious publications would show them that very sensible sermons could be bought and preached at a very cheap rate. That did not tend to the improvement of theological study. The plain an d simple plan was the establishment of theological colleges, say one for every four or five dioceses, and then they would be able to maintain an efficient staff of tutors• The Rev. Dr. Brindley advocated training for the practica l work of the ministry. Mr. Beresford Hope, M,P., exhorted them to preserve the connection betweenthe Church and the Universities. If they withdrew all the sons of the Church from the Universities, and exclusively set up theological seminaries in their place, the result would be that the intellect of the country would be diverted from the Churc h in a degree that it was not now. Their clergy would become well educated, it might be, in technical knowledge+ good theologians, and good preachers, but without that broad acquaintance with our fellow men and hump nature which had been a great characteristic of the Englis h Church. On Wednesday morning the discussion on Phases °' Unbelief was conducted with the greatest moderati°s* Several clergymen agreed that unbelievers and sceptics must be met with sympathy, not with denunciation. In 6: delity, said one, arose not necessarily from wickedness , 141 ' from earnest searching after truth. The Rev. W. Clarke, of Taunton, complained that the Church w e ` ~ neglecting the value of argument. He lamented t he paralysing of the arm of the Church by her subdivisions and dissensions. She was left as one deserted, walk in i the world in rags, so that all they who passed by laug hed at her At the same time a very interesting discussion on " crcation of the People" was carried on in another rare' The Rev. Erskine Clarke, whilst admitting that man)" ci the recreations of the rich were no better than those of the poor, deplored the evil influence of the drink shoP , t " music hall, the (lancing saloon, and - the low the atre ; He thought it a matter well worthy of the attention the benevolent that they should try to elevate the drama by the experiment of putting a theatre un der the firm supervision of a committee such as that which managed the Polytechnic Institution, London, severed fri drinking and licentious temptations ; such a theatre not only afford harmless but healthy recreation, wh ile the theatre as at present existing was of the most fearfully de' praying character. In the course of a few practical snr gestions he urged that they should do what they co ol d improve public opinion as to what recreation was ; let ' the clergy and the press plead for the recreation of the people as a part of religious duty. A love of music was lift sin, and a hearty laugh was no sign of depravity ; ana i l t ought to bo felt that God did not provide all th e brio° . things of the earth for those who despised and disobcYblicf: Him. Let them keep bringing the fact before the Pu that strong drink was the worst foe in this lan d at till: present time to the real recreation of the people. gue of the money wasted in indiscriminate alms, which oft to directly leads to drinking, could be profitably aPPl ied the establishment of well-conducted places for the anlnee,i ment of the people.—The Rev. J. C. Chambers c ontrast the conduct of heathen Governments in providing amuse, e.._ anti Ch. ~41013 t of such pro visio . ,- now.—Mr James Clopper spoke strongly in favour of r' way excunions.—Other speakers followed, Arch,leaol) Denison pleading earnestly on behalf of harvest bo ne : . He did not feel at all horrified a t d anc i ng, an d in his °I " -- 4 parish he very much wished he could have joined a re eez : - dancing party. He also advocated cricket between the s e. ' vices on Sundays. Then came the great topic of educ a ti o n. The Be v ' 17 : Barry believed in religious ed uca ti on , b u t said it I,o ' s ,T possible to cull an unsectarian collection of releto truths which should satisfy every body. belie% that the teaching of our Church in particular, as to speaks to the young, is broad enough and rn° de llf enough to be accepted by very many who stand unhaP_l),'l, without ; and I feel sure that in her prayers none vrb n ": l , himself Christian need refuse to join. And this be ing I cannot doubt that, with the protecti o n of a Conscienv - i Clause ready to bo invoked if schools are made -what ° il e a ought not to be made, places of religious propagandi on 'lo great mass of our religious-minded parents will acc e P t i . 'a simple teaching of our Church schools." At one sc b°° ':, the North of England the rev. doctor ventured to rav en conscience clause, and soon a hundred children of Dis 9o : .. t - a parents attended. The Rev. James Bardsley at tri l;. the neglect of parents to intemperance . Alderman Hubback argued that thoroughly efficien t ech() % ought to be erected throughout the land, chit area ought to be compelled to attend them, and Par ecl/ A to pay the requisite cost, and, if they refused, to be — l O and their children to be sent to industrial schools. „ m a first and foremost, there ought to be appointed a q ua er e, and responsible Minister of State. As to religious nae"-opt ho would suggest that the mana gemen t o f e xisting 0c 2 1 % - t is in'respect to their connecti on w ith th e var ious r e ' igl ffe bodies, should be interfered with as little as possible. 0 was strongly in f avour o f th e d enom i na tional O l t,: but would make secular education the sole test which Government a id i s granted. Earl Nels on ea' 01 would be utterly impossible to defend the denoreinati°ral system unless they were willing to accept a Be n conscience clause. 0 ,,,,. if An explosion occurred on Wednesday at th e (34. scalded, but in no case, it is believed, T of the Warrington Wine Company. Seven men were ril ticb w ill thei fataL STRANGE FREAK OF A PACK OF 110ric95:c1 A most singular freak of a pack of hounds Was viitoee—,6 to G e l, at Pontypridd last week. The pack belonged Thomas, Esq., Ystradmynach, and were returning fli.:10 the hunt, when, on coming into the town, they r 3ll ; ' the shop of Mr. Jenkins, grocer, and out a , ain ie llll . o -a ; injuries 1 0° ately, but with no less than seven pounds a ah " candles, which they ravenously devoured in the s treet . 0, FIT FOR which' Democratic PePerS„or Georgia are loudly condemning Governor Bullock le r — ,,,,ji muting the sentence of Henrietta Greer, the black "11°'--ti who killed a little white girl for three dollars and t r o li yo cents. to imprisonment for life. The Macon Jour za ; - 0 4, that since her incarceration she has learnt to r ee ' f tho write extremely well, that she can repeat the wbe le , e- Wtisi Church Catechism verbatim, ansiis full acquainte,' 'Jo and the l' e T h r ( 1 the Nicene Creed, the Ten Commandments, y Prayer; and can explain them all clearly and intelligiblY. • Journal wants her executed at once. ." 0 M IS HER . MAJESTY IN SCOTLAND.—A corr&r-liriness of a Scotch paper testifies to the liberality and 16 : 1 4 .70 1 of her Majesty on Deeside. Last season, when ',.... 00, stated that the Ballochbuie Forest had been sold re` or , purpose of being cut down, her Majesty, we bel ieve ' P ea vented the destruction of the fine timber, and teaintain of a the picturesque appearance of the neighbourhoo ~, 1 on '''•! Braemar, by purchasing and paying for the i voot, din g. , sole Another instance has just been given of the care ' i n a the Queen bestows on comfort and conveni f oi a, enjoyment of the people in the district. A. piece ° s o milit • c t my road between the Deeside-road at Monaltrle lo t underilthienaird villiage had not been included in t he jo g considered the Aberdeenshire heads Act, owing to its not being sufficiently important to warrant any : w hat steep, for its maintenance. This road, although s° ln i. o ar e to the neighboUoooo cep, was of great advantag and commanded an almost unsurpassed 'jog of the grand surrounding ecenery. From it were ! id be Balmoral Castle and grounds; and from it also c°',, e ct seen the River Dee emerging from out the sombre:lo pine forest of Ballochbuie, and winding along tb . ii t the 'laughs of great sylvan beauty, till lost oval / T ll , in strath far in the distance. The fine amphitheatre of h co o the district could also be seen towering above ea eh , e est i to the westward and southward. Th is road the "tr,stt, has caused to be put in a state of propel' reblstir ; her own expense, and this kindly act, as tceY Ab s z iots: posed, has given great gratification to thos e in the " • A 4 had 1.4 w 0 ikil wig) 44Y0 Mali= to tl& /el that Will' rriE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1869,