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For the efficacy, utility, and success Of Ml* system, vide " Lancet." • Daily attendance at 15, Whitefriargate, ; 10, Norfolk street, Sheffield ; 4, East-parat.e, Leeds ; and 14, St. Nicholas street, Szarbro'. *** No connection with any one of the same name. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 9h. 50m.—Afternoon, 10h. 34m To-Moßßow.-Morning, 11h. 12m.—Afternoon, 11h. 48m' 1 a - A eirP-i ‘, -,- ,- y *.ttf3 . -:' Alli i'' l'. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1865, It is most satisfactory to notice that all connected with the visit of the French fleet to our shores should be so happily accomplished. It is one of those striking events which peace has to record, and which in true excellence and real significance far surpass all the achievements of war. The magnifi cence and splendour that graced the event were befitting the occasion when the banquet took place on Wednesday, when the Admiralty entertained the officers of the French fleet. The Duke of SOMERSET delivered an appropriate speech on the occasion, when he proposed " The healths of the EMPEROR, the EMPRESS, and the Prince IMPERIAL." After tendering the thanks of the British Admiralty to the Minister of Marine and the authorities at Brest and Cherbourg, his Grace said that the satisfaction they experienced during their recent visit to France was enhanced by the warm welcome they received from the French people, who thronged to greet their arrival. It is a delightful contrast to mark the exchange of these flattering remarks, in lieu of the fierce menace and bitter jealousy that too often have excited and irritated the rival services of the two coun tries that are the leading ones of the civilised world. As the Duke truly observed, it is of great importance that the officers of the two services should meet occasionally, for such intercourse strengthens the bonds of amity, and leads to promote kindly feelings and mutual good-will. The effect of such reunions does not pass away when the transient excitement and enthusiasm of the affair are over, but remain to influence the future. This idea was ably illus trated in the following passage : " Hereafter when they meet, in whatever part of the world it may be, they will be able to look back with satisfaction to their visits to the harbours of Cherbourg and Ports mouth, which I trust will tend to strengthen those feelings of cordial friendship which subsist between the two Governments and the two nations." In many ways have we lately had occasion to remark the many advantages that may be derived from the mutual good will that exists between the two countries. The Duke of SOMERSET adroitly availed himself of the opportunity then before him to thank the Admiral and officers of the French navy for the great kindness which they showed to the sufferers on board the Bombay when that ship was destroyed by fire. M. DE CHASSELOUP LAUBAT proposed the health of our QUEEN, and adverted to the happy days which had arrived when the naval officers of Great Britain and of France were enabled to appreciate and make acquaintance with each other. lie declared that these visits reciprocally made were a new guarantee for the duration of the entente cordiale which now so fortunately flourished. Without any conceal ment both sides exhibited the last experiments tak ing place in naval constructions, and each have learnt from the other something new of a beneficial nature. M. LA BIT remarked that humanity had little to dread from the exhibition of the great and terrible instruments of war which the genius of the present day constructed, because there was little or no likelihood of their being employed at present, and also one felt convinced for civilised nations " force meant moderation and respect for right." He con cluded by an eloquent allusion to the bond of sym pathy which exists among the sailors of everynation, and declared that the most admirable quality that distinguished the sailor was that devotion that self denial, which even at th e cost of his life always led him to assist his fellow-men. Sir M.SEYMOUPt, in proposing the French Navy, took occasion to observe that we had had better opportunities than most naval officers of forming a judgment as to the skill and gallantry that the French have displayed in various climes, and he had al ways felt the greatest respect and esteem for their heroism and gallantry. A most brilliant scene was exhibited on this festive occasion. When the rocket from the Victory gave the sigual, a magic scene presented itself to the wondering eyes of the delighted beholders. The sea was a blaze of light, and every vessel was illu minated. Fortunately the night was beautiful and thus no contre-temps occurred to mar the effect of the beauty and brilliancy of the affair. This splendid scene will long live in the recollection of all fortunate enough to be pre sent, and may truly be reckoned as a landmark of progress and an earnest of civilised friendship be tween two mighty peoples. The municipal banquet last night was also a brilliant affair, and passed off most successfully. The Mayor, to whom fell the honour of entertaining the distinguished company, expressed in an earnest manner the satisfaction which the people of Ports mouth experienced in thus welcoming their guests, generally felt in these exhibitions proves that we are not so entirely a material nation as our detractors have tried to believe. The middle classes—who have been styled a nation of shopkeepers—have long ago shown that they know how to appreciate science and art and literature, and that the same capa cities exist in the minds of our intelligent artisan class is amply demonstrated on all occasions like the pre sent, by the contributors to the Exhibition and by the visitors. Such assemblies do good in many ways. They refine and cultivate the taste of the visitors, they break in on the routine of the eternal work, and enlarge the minds of those who are ordi. narily too much absorbed in their own materia occupation. They give to the patient and indus triousra him an craftsmen so willing t o i n t erest hi s leisure thoughts and to occ u p y hi s l e i sure hours ; they thing more than perform ono they serve p an portunity for showing h e i s some kind an automaton constructed to as in f s work a n d no other, and degree a rotec emptations common to his position. The mod e l church or steam-engine, the carving or cabinet work, the Painting or glass work, which has nothing whatever to do with the daily work, is a powerful antagonist to the tap room and the beer shop. Men of all ranks are apt to become too much absorbed in their daily routine, and when their routine is merely mechanical it is especially desirable that it should be broken in upon now and then. The opportunity of displaying that sympathy between-rlass and class, which Justice TALFOURD declared with his dying breath to be the great want of our social system, is another great merit and a vantage of these Exhibitions, and the sound sense and kindly feelings displayed by the Epeakers at the inauguration at Wakefield show that_ this purpose rF OLTSES.—Messrs. TOPLIS and ROBERTS and trusted that this " cordiality" might long con have numerous furnished and unfurnished TOWN, tinue, and, amid loud cheers, observed that "stropg Suburban, and Country RESIDEINCES to LET or SELL. as l'aniculars forwarded for three stamps, upon stating exact our arms had been when they were a t enm ity requirements and rental. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent street, and South Kennington, facing the Museum. . with each other, surely they can be equally strong in the grasp of friendship." The Minister of Marine was greatly applauded in his address, wherein he proposed the health of the QUEEN ; and, after de livering his discourse in French, he exclaimed in L English—" Peace and good-will !" Taking all things into consideration, it may fairly be said that this meeting of the naval authorities in France and in England has been a complete success ; and it is to be trusted that the ceremonies will terminate as auspiciously as they have begun, and no cloud of disappointment obscure their mightiness and mar their felicity. It will be a source of satisfaction to our national vanity if the French can return home and tell their compatriots that they have enjoyed bright days and brilliant weather in England. It has be come almost a proverb in France that over here we live in clouds and murkiness of atmosphere, and therefore it is the more fortunate that a turn should be given to their thoughts in this direction, and a better impression prevail of our belongings. It may be considered a good earnest of the friendly feelings that animate the two countries when re unions of this kind take place, and are celebrated in so cordial and unanimous a spirit. It outshines the memory of the past in historic chronicles of the glories of war and the achievements of naval and military prowess when we behold the peaceful appearance of the meeting of the two services, so long the heralds of defiance and the harbingers of destruction, but now the delegates of tranquillity and the champions of progress. It is some time since the French Emperor exclaimed, " L'Empire c'est la paix," and his words have been considered enigmatical by some, but most assuredly they were realised in the spirit and the letter in the celebrations that have just taken place among the navies of the two countries, and ratified by the acclamation that resounded from the seaports and the shores of France and England. It is one of the most characteristic features of English society in the present day that men can oppose each other with the utmost vigour and determination on public questions, and yet can freely meet and shake hznds in their private capa city. The heat and fury of an election contest is no sooner over than we see Whig and Tory, Con servative and Radical, all joining heartily in some national demonstration or aiding in the celebration of some local festivity. Such has just been the case in one of the most noted of our northern counties, where the opening of the Wakefield In dustrial and Fine Art Exhibition has been kept up as a general holiday throughout the West Riding. No pomp or ceremony was wanting to the occa sion. There were present Yeomanry and Volun teers, Foresters and Oddfellows, and every avail able body in grand procession. There, too, were of course the Mayor and the Corporation, the architect, the contractor, and everybody who had taken any part whatever in the erection or furnish ing of the Exhibition itself from the President and Vice-presidents downwards. There were bishops and M.P.'s, lords and ladies, politicians :and artists, all gathered together to celebrate the inauguration of what is really an honour and a credit to Wake field and its neighbourhood. Art and Industry divided the honours of the Exhibition between them, and in both departments Yorkshire men have shown their wonted energy. Many noblemen and gentlemen have lent valuable paintings for the adornment of the Fine Art Gallery, and thus the artisans of the town will have an opportunity of improving their tastes by the inspection of REY NOLDS, ETTY, and GAINSBOROUGH. Thß works of art and ingenuity contributed by amateurs, made by working men out of working hours, form not the least interesting portion of the exhibition. Lord HOUGHTON, the accomplished president of the exhi bition, referred to this department especially in his eloquent and impressive address. It is, he said, a peculiar feature of these exhibitions that they give the working class the opportunity of exhibiting works not peculiar to their trades. "Itis a great thing for a man to feel that he is not a mere machine, or part'of a machine, but that there is something divine in him, which gives him the power of under standing and appreciating other things besides his mechanical work, and which thus places him in con junction and sympathy with higher minds than his own." All industries, as Lord HOUGH TON finely said, are, in one sense, really arts. There was art in the levelling of the first canal, and in the shaping of the first canoe, and it is a great thing for the toiling artisan to be able to realise, by the aid of exhibitions like the pre sent, that his work is really a great and noble thing, to see the beautiful and scientific whole of which his department forms, perhaps, only one of the com ponent parts, for, as the Archbishop of YORK ob served at Wakefield, many of our working-classes never see the completion of the beautiful things which they have helped in creating. In an exhibi tion like the one now open a man may stand and admire the machinery, the designs, the pottery which he has worked at through many weary hours, without ever realising the strength and beauty, the utility and elegance of what they were working at. Like the workers of the old tapestry, which was the admiration of the world, they never see the figures they are working, but in the interest and approval that they now hear ex pressed regarding their works they will be able to appreciate its dignity and importance. The interest rHE SUiN I LONLON, FRIDAY EVEAING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1865. was, in the present case at least, worthily fulfilled. All ranks and classes joined heartily in the festi vities of the occasion, and we must hope that this interesting provincial exhibition may be ranked among the most prosperous of its kind. LITERATURE. God's Providence House. By Mrs. G. Linnmus Banks. Three Vols. Bentley. Mrs. Linnaeus Banks has given us not only a very interesting tale, but a very graphic picture of coun try life in England in the days of our great-grand fathers. Some of the characters are powerfully drawn, and display considerable originality. We imagine, from a chance allusion in the preface, that Mr. Peover, the anxious, timid, well-meaning owner of God's Providence Houk, is the favourite with the authoress, and the admirable delineation of his peculiar temperament assuredly does her credit, but we are inclined to give the preference to the impetuous and irrascible Michael, who, in right of his wife, inherits the Haunted Grange, and boldly resolves to exorcise the evil spirits that hold dominion there. The legend upon which the ghostly rumour is founded is one very well calculated to give rise to such reports. The story is thus made known to the reader by means of a dream, which troubles Michael on his first visit to the deserted mansion. THE GREY LADY. Asleep !—The night was gone ; the sunlight streamed through the window on a melancholy woman with a pale face and flaxen hair, bending over her embroidery frame with a preoccupied look. Her husband and another man sat at the table drinking, dicing, and quarrelling; her hus band was losing; his companion had a strange gleam in his malignant eye, which ever and anon cast a repulsive glance at the fair embroideress. The stakes ran high ; he lost for tune, home ; and, at the suggestion of the archfiend with whom he played, with a gambler's increasing infatuation, staked—what !—not his wife ? Yes, his wife, his startled wife, and lost ! The winner rose with an exultant laugh to claim his prize ; but 'the frenzied woman dashed past him, rushed along the corridor, pursued by the ruffian to her own chamber ; there was a brief struggle ; a knife lay within her reach; in an instant she had seized and plunged the glittering blade - in her long-troubled heart, and the crimson tide welled out at the feet of her destroyer. There was a hurried rush through the house of a madman towards the river, a tramp of feet, a cry—Michael was awake ! awake, and conscious of a dark figure standing by the doorway. The vivid glimpse conveyed in the above ex tract, in which a whole, history of sin and sorrow is revealed, gives a happy specimen of Mrs. Banks's artistic skill. The ghost- story in itself is perfect, but it is a mistake to have placed it, in point of tune, so near the period of which we read; one of the characters of the ghastly drama taking part in the later history. The Grange, thanks to the energy of Michael and Mr. Peover, is restored and inhabited, and becomes, in its stately chambers and subterranean passages, the theatre of the principal events of the story, but the dwelling of Mr. Peover gives its name to the work. This is the origin of that name—an incident, we are told, founded on fact. LATEST INTEL LICENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. DIPLOMATIC RECEPTIONS AT THE TUILERIES. PARIS, Sept. 1. _ The Emperor yesterday received in private audience Cavaliere di Nigra, who expressed the desire of Prince Armedeus, who is now travelling to present his respects to his Majesty. Viscount de Paiva, the Portuguese Minister, also had an audience of the Emperor, and remitted to his Majesty the Grand Cross of the Order of Christ for the Prince Imperial. The Emperor, subsequently, received in public audiences M. Mon, the late Spanish Ambassador, and his newly appointed successor, the Marquis de Leina. Replying to the address of the latter on presenting his credentials, the Emperor said : " I attach great value to seeing Spain and France march with the same steps towards progress. The two nations have none but common interests, and are separated by no rival ambition. You will always find my Government ready to strengthen the bonds which unite the two countries." Count Walewski has tendered his resignation as a senator, which has been accepted. A fête took place at Fontainebleau three days back, on the occasion of the St. Louis. The band of the Zouaves played in the parterre of the palace gardens, and twice the Emperor and Prince Impe rial came and mingled with the company assembled. A display of fireworks took place in the evening, and was witnessed by his Majesty with the Court from the Avenue de Maintenon. The Russian Gazette of St. Petersburg announces that a malady called the Siberian cattle plague is at present ravaging the town of Kortcheva and its environs (in the government of Iver). In some places not a horse or cow is to be found. The same disease is also reported to have appeared in the go vernment of Podolia. BOURSE, Aug. 31.—Two o'clock.—The Bourse is well attedded to-day, being the reponse des primes (option). Threes, for the Account, have improved 12ic., being quoted at 68fr. 75c. Italian Fives are doing at 661 r. 5c., being an improvement of 15c. Credit Mobiliers have advanced 6fr. 25c., viz., to 820 fr. Spanish Mobilier are 517 fr. 50c. These prices are all higher than those at which the reponse has been fixed. Three o'clock.—The market has kept buoyant to the end. The last quotations are as follows : 4 per Cents 9B Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 6B 80 Do. end month 6B 90 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3590 Credit Foncier 1340 Italian Loan 66 Do. end month 66 05 Ditto Threes — Mexican Loan 49 Do. Bonds — Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred Roman — RAILV 'AYR. Cash Amt. Orleans — -- ... 855 Northern — ... 1090 -- Lyons and Mediterranean — ... 872 50 Southern — ... 570 Western — ... 548 75 Eastern — ... 532 50 Sardinian . — ... 255 Austrian — . 412 50 Lombard — ... 475 North of Spain — . 220 Saragossa — ... 328 75 Ditto to Barcelona — - ... Roman — ... 225 PORTUGAL. LISBON, AITG. 31. The new Ministry has not yet been formed. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has officially stated in Cortes that Prince Aronadens did not come to represent King Victor Emmanuel at the baptism of the infant Prince. The Cortes have granted leave to the King to travel abroad. It is stated that his Majesty and the Queen will visit Italy, Don Fernando acting as Regent during their absence. Such an event being unprecedented, excites public surprise. Sanitary precautions are being taken against the expected visit of cholera. Five Prussian corvettes have arrived here from Portsmouth. FINE ARTS lowing : DEDICATION, To THE MEMORY a dear and affectionate FATHER, in dutiful remembrance of his instructive words, kind acts, and encouraging example in filial gratitude for the love of art received from him, and the practical knowledge gathered from his teaching; that his artistic mind, tasteful selection, and masterly execution may be more fully known and appreciated; that the study of MEDLEVAL ARCHITECTURE may be forwarded, and the love of true principles in art advanced ; that his FRIENDS _ _ _ may be gladdened by the sight of Works endeared to them by past recollections ; that the hope of his life may be accomplished in giving to fellow ARCHITECTS the benefits of his labours, and in obedience to the earnest and repeated desire of many patrons of art, THESE PHOTOGRAPHS, from the selected Sketches of the late AUGUSTUS WELBY PUGIN, are respectfully dedicated by his affectionate and dutiful Son, EDWARD WELBY PUGIN. %-.1•1• From what we have already seen of the work now immediately forthcoming, we have every confidence that upon its completion it will prove to be not merely a fitting memorial of Pugin's art, but one, in truth, so fitting and so worthy of him, that it will be regarded as a complete library of reference for the student of--what Augustus Pugin loved with his whole heart and soul, ad niajorem Dei gloriam— the wondrous beauties and diversities, the majesty and the magnificence of Gothic Architecture. RAIN IN INDIA.--We have to record that at last the bursat has set in in the valley of the Ganges, to the unspeakable comfort and content of the ryots. Great fears were entertained in many districts of the Upper Pro vinces that the rain would come too late to be of use. The heat and drought were most severe. Men and animals drooped under it, and the fields presented a spectacle that raised the gaunt spectre of an impending famine to the fear ful gaze of the ryots. Rain was not only longed for, it was prayed for. The Pundits and Moulvies were called into the service, and muntras and belts were read with intense but unavailing fervour. Finding the efforts of their priests fail them, the ryots next had recourse to an ancient and somewhat singular custom. At night all the women of many of the villages walked naked to some neighbouring tank or stream, and there with songs and invocations sought to propitiate the offended heavens, and to induce the gods to send them rain. This device was also without immediate effect, and despair and gloom were fast settling down upon the hearts of the peasantry, when the sky was overspread with clouds, and the rain came down in earnest. Rain in England seems to bo one of the parents of ennui, and to make a dull people yet more miserable, but in India, on such an occasion as the above, the coming of the rain was a signal for universal bustle, gladness, and congratula tions ; the ryot, while hastening to get out his plough and harness his bullocks, found time to shake hands with his neighbour, and to impart his conviction that if it only lasted there would yet be a good season.—Bengal Hurkaru, July 15. SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF GUNPOWDER.—Yester day morning the ship Stella, Capt. Cambriero, bound for Port Natal, via Havre, left the Mersey, but at the mouth of the river she took fire, was towed back again, scuttled, and beached some distance up the river. After this the crew of an Admiralty b oat picked up 650 barrels of powder in the river, which was supposed, though reliable information is wanting, to have formed part of the cargo of the Stella, ;though no suda iteni appeared in her clearance list. Photographs from Pugin's Sketches. Published by Stephen Ayling. At last a fitting memorial is about to be raised to the memory of the most rarely-gifted of modern architects. Augustus Welby Pugin passed away in the very flower of his age—not, however, until he had established for himself a splendid and, so far as human glory can arrogate to itself- so unearthly a title, an imperishable reputation. His repute as an architect can at any rate only perish from the face of the earth with the crumbling away of the very ruins of those numerous and beautiful eccle siastical edifices with which this noble artificer adorned his native land—so adorning it in each in stance in direct emulation of those great master works, at once of the Piety and of the Genius of our forefathers, the old Gothic Cathedrals ! The full span of Pugin's life extended only from 1811 to 1852—embracing within it consequently an interval of no more than one-and-forty years altogether ! Yet, breathing his last though he did (seemingly to us so very prematurely) he has left behind him no merely fragmentary evidences of his consum mate aptitude for the mastery of all the arts and all the sciences essential to the manifestation of the genius, and to the build ing up of the repute, of any really great and his torical architect. An architect precisely of that cha racter—one in the fullest meaning of the words really Great and Historical—if ever there was one—was Augustus Pugin. He was a born geometrician. He had an instinctive eye for the Beautiful in form and proportion. His sense of Perspective was so instant and so subtle that it seemed to be nothing less than an intuition. It were idle, how ever, to loiter here over any attempt at the detailed definition or delineation of his extraordinary powers, whether as an architect or as an architectural draughtsman. In the latter capacity it is no ex travagance to assert that he stood unrivalled, that he stood absolutely unapproachable. Pencil in hand, Pugin with the deft and rapid movement of his fingers of witchery and fascination, over the blank surface of his drawing-board, could conjure up vistas of beauty, wonders of architectural ar rangement and combination—marvellous, nearly miraculous, in the all but microscopic accuracy of their proportions. The treasures accumulated thus by this wonder-worki ng h and, in the shape of Original Sketches, have been hitherto lying hidden away from public view in the recesses of portfolios, the strings of which are now being loosened for the general good by the filial devotion to his father's memory and his father's art, of Pugin's son and successor. Five hundred of these Original Sketches by Augustus Welby Pugin are thus about to be placed within reach of all the admirers of his genius, by the issue of them, in fac simile, in the shape of a costly periodical. Elegantly half-bound, the work, when completed, will be purchasable for ten guineas. Its publication meanwhile is here commenced in instalments—in guinea monthly parts, each part containing some fifty Photographs. For it has been wisely decided that by the aid of photo graphy, the fac-simile reproduction of these Ori ginal Sketches of Pugin's will be best accom plished. The Sketches, it should be said, are only nominally 500 —several of them comprising within a single photograph so many distinct illustrations that the gross aggregate of the designs altogether, it is calculated, must amount to upwards of Seventeen Hundred ! Cathedrals and churches, exteriors and interiors, public buildings and sepulchral monuments, Castles, Bridges, Towers, Ruins, Plans, Sections, Details— marvels of beauty, now gigantic, now minute—seen by Pugin's eye, drawn by Pugin's hand—they comprise among them all that is conspicuously picturesque in the chief cities of France, Belgium, Italy, England, and Germany. Here a wayside cross, there a pedestal surmounted by a Madonna. Now a reliquary, now a niche. Lecturns and choir-stalls, mitres and croziers. Yonder the tabernacle on a high altar— yonder, again, the crucifix on a rood. Screens and copes, clocks and candelabra—antique doors and ancient gateways—incense thuribles and holy water stoups--aisles and cloisters—lamps and fountains—corbels and gargoyles—the facade of a palace and the apse of a cathe dral. Steeple and turret, window and staircase, mosaic and tapestry— everything that came under his observation was copied with a loving and exqui sitely appreciative touch by the cunning hand of this wonder among architectural draughtsmen. Judging of the work merely from the one preliminary portion of it here submitted to our consideration, we believe that the photographer to whom it has been intrusted is justified to the full in asserting, as he has done, that " the publication will be welcome, not only on account of its artistic excellence and historic asso ciation, but as being a new evidence, now for the first time offered to the public, of the genius of this great architect." Prefixed to the work is a dedica cation so tenderly and touchingly eloquent of its kind that we are tempted to reproduce it here not only verbatim, but precisely as it is given upon the Dedicatory Page, namely, in the manner fol GOD'S PROVIDENCE HOUSE. The abode of Mr. Peover was one of the quaintest ' houses in this extraordinary locality; it was an antique black-and-white timber-and-plaster building, with its gable towards the street, from which a flight of steps gave access to the door in the Row. The upper rooms of the house were supported by rude wooden pillar; and a balus trade as rude served to protect children, tipplers, or other light-headed travellers from involuntary summersaults into the street below. Two hundred years before, when this was a new house, it had been the residence of some man of rank, who had left the impress of his greatness in armorial bearings carved on the beams ; but it had seen many changes since that period, and in the seventeenth century been marked by a special providence. When the plague ravaged the city, dealing death and desolation on every hand ; when the pest-carts traversed the streets at midnight, with their mouth-muffled attend ants announcing their awful errand by the ringing bell and the portentous cry "Bring forth your dead!" when the wail for the dead was subdued by the care for tho dying ; when tilt dread of infection winnowed households of their chaff, and left but the pure grain behind to its offices of love or mercy ; when the uncoffined dead were shot out of the peat-carts into one common grave, without mourners or funereal rites, amidst the hideous jests and brutal depravity of the moral lepers, who were at once undertakers and sextons ; when every other house bore the plague-stricken sign of the red-cross, this house alone escaped the dread contagion. Though delirium and fever raved and raged around it, in this one house was health. To mark his gratitude for this signal immunity, the owner had caused to be carved on one of the cross-beams in front of the favoured dwelling, the inscription, "1652. God's Providence is mine Inheritance. 1652." And it is still known as "God's Providence House." Mr. Peover's scapegrace nephew—the reckless, un principled Edward Bostock—the elegant, crafty Mr. Heywood, with the sinister eyes—the captain of the smugglers' gang, and many another alias, is an im probable creation. He resembles the conventional Highwayman of the Melodrama, without, however, possessing the good heart and other virtues usually apportioned to that interesting individual. Mr. Heywood—for by this name he is principally known —is the least successful, because the least natural, character in the book. The other characters are, however, for the most part so excellent, and the intricacies of the story are so cleverly arranged, that we can afford to excuse some imperfections. The manner of the narrative is lively and agreeable, and the descriptions of homely English life a cen tury back are very felicitous. Here, for example, is the social meal as it used to be at THE OLD-FASHIONED TEA-BOARD. This was, literally, a board ; being an oval tray of polished Honduras mahogany, with a slightly raised edge ; the cups were those tiny handleless importations from China, now only seen in old curiosity shops, or preserved as family relics, their very size bearing testimony how costly was the fragrant and refreshing beverage they held : the dumpling -shaped tea-pot and the slop-basin corre sponded in size and grotesque pattern with the cups and saucers ; the silver teaspoons, necessarily small and light, were delicately shaped, with shell-like bowls : the sugar basket and cream-ewer of silver filigree, were lined with jasper, end the (to us) Liliputian tea equipage was com pleted by a pair of quaintly carved mother-o'-pearl sugar tongs hinged with tortoise-shell. Nor must the casket which contained the precious leaf be overlooked, since the old lady herself pointed it out to her guest as the work and gift of the unfortunate Mistress Grenville, thirty years before, on the day they both were married; and she conse quently resigned her post of lady's maid. It was a tea caddy of paper filigree work ; a class of elegant trifling with-time industry, extinct since the schooldays of our grandmothers. On a frame of common wood were gummed closely rolled strips of variously coloured paper, the one set of edges being fastened to the box, the other present ing its many convolutions to view. These little rolls or filigrees were arranged in different devices, the rolls being sometimes slightly opened and compressed into the forms of leaves, petals, &c. It was tedious work ; yet if it exer cised patience and ingenuity, and filled the vacuum now supplied by the pen and press, it was not altogether "busy I idleness." The extracts we have given, dissimilar as they are, may give some inadequate idea of the very attractive manner in which Mrs..Linnus Banks has related to us the interesting and somewhat --- marvellous history of " God's Providence House." Manuscript Arithmetic; Progressive and Practical. By a School Manager. T. Murby. These lessons, we are told, have been published at the recommendation of one of her Majesty's inspectors, who has seen the results of their use during three years in a school where the arithmetic was reported " excellent." By means of these manuscript books the diligent pupil may study alone, and materially develope his practical know ledge. THE HARVEST IN LINCOLNSHIRE.—Harvest ope rations were checked in the-beginning of the week by the moisture of Monday. On Tuesday, with a rising barometer, the weather became more favourable, and a fine breeze from the north-west tended to dry the outstanding corn. A great deal of wheat remains in the fields cut, and the crops in 'some parts of the county are decidedly good. In the district around Burgh a great deal remains out in the fields, b u t t h e crops are good, and a full average yield is anticipated. In the district around Wainfleet there is a good deal yet to be led, and the crops are spoken of satis factorily. In oth er parts of the county wheat is not, how ever, turning out so well either in quality or quantity, so that as a whole an average yield must not be expected. Barleys are yielding favourably. There is a good deal dis colored, but malting samples will not be scarce. The yield varies in different districts, but as a whole it is well spoken of. Oats are light and must be below the average. A good many are looking are a nybeans remarkably w cut, and the e he cropll, and is variable. s The ad pastures marigold have very much improved. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, AUG. 31. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Aug. 31 Aug. 24. fr. 182,500,000 Capital of the Bank.. Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) Reserve of the Bank and its branches Reserve in landed pro perty 4,000,000 Notes in circulation ... 916,501,325 Banknotes to order and receipts payable at 182,500,000 -- 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 4,000,000 879,828,825 sight - - Treasury account cur- 9,564,394 57 8,176,980 35 rent creditor Current accounts, Paris 163,885,138 '75 158,163,408 90 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 1,742,456 75 1,834,422 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 4,397,707 56 4,014,849 69 1,427,623 17 1,427,623 17 - - 10,147,196 51 10,492 907 32 Total CREDITOR. Aug. 31. Aug. 24. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks 0 7 449 7 290 61 Commercial bills over- due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 332,560,620 76 292,392,830 9 Do. branch banks 305,111,833 299,353,418 Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch banks Do. on French Public Securities Do. by branch banks Do. on railway shares and debentures 1). branch banks Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re- 572,442 23 220,275 84 53,115,273 25 53,366,073 25 11,902,000 - 11,839,500 - 14,675,700 - 10,226,000 - 14,760,400 - 10,588,800 - 30,820,600 - 21,078,680 - 30,559,200 - 21,509,680 - G 58,600 -- 498,150 - C 64,400 - 523,050 - 60,000,000 - serve Do. disposable Rentes Inunobalis6es (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage ment Sundries 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 36,557,487 91 36,557,487 91 100,000,000 - 8,426,191 - 8,426,191 - 1,059,373 49 905,807 53 9,447,892 82 12,104,474 33 Total 1,508,669,616 27 1,467,302,029 52 Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) ROTTLAND. A CURIOUS BEQUEST.—The following notice was lately posted on the doors of the parish church at Holsworthy, Devon:—" Extract from the will of the late Hey. Thomas Meyrick :—' I give and bequeath the sum of £lOO in trust to pay the dividends annually to the church wardens of the parish of Holsworthy, who shall openly give £2 10s. to the young single woman resident in that parish who is under 30 years of age and generally esteemed by the young as the most deserving and the most hand some and the most noted for her quietnns and attendance at church ; and on the next day shall openly give the re mainder of the dividend to any spinster not under 60 years of age, and noted for the like virtues and not receiving parochial relief.' The churchwardens will be glad to re ceive the names of any persons who consider themselves entitled to either of the above bounties before the 19th instant:" LOSS OF LIFE ON THE THAmts.—On Wednesday morning an accident, by which two persons lost their lives, happened on the river off Limehouse. The Odin, a Swedish brig, arrived for the purpose of being taken into dock for repairs. Wells, a waterman, and one of the crew, named Abrie Dorn, were engaged in a small boat along side the brig. The pilot gave orders for the man on deck to lower the large anchor. The man, not knowing that the small boat was immediately under the bows, let go the anchor, which fell upon the unfortunate men, crushing them, it is bolievee, and sending the boat to the bottom of the river. After a few minutes the boat came to the surface of the water, but the two poor fellows never rose again:. • a..,.~, The Cattle Disease. The following letter, relating to the conveyance of diseased cattle, has been addressed to the Traffic Manager of the London and South-Western Rail way by the Clerk of the Council :-- "Privy Council-office, Whitehall, Aug. 30. "Sir,—ln my letter to you of the 19th inst. I mentioned that a case was being prepared, to be submitted to the Law Officers of the Crown, asking this question,—' Whether the knowingly bringing of cattle suffering under an infec tious disease on a railway, so as to bring them in contact with other cattle, is an offence at common law ?' " The Law Officers have given as their opinion,—' That a person who knowingly puts cattle suffering from an in fectious disease upon a railway, so as to bring them into contact with other cattle, and thus propagate tho disease, is guilty of an offence at common law.' " The Lords of the Council, however, thought it right, in the general clause, No. 8, in their last Order (which has been transmitted to your Board) respecting the conveyance of any animal labouring under the disease commonly known as the cattle plague, to declare that it shall not be lawful to send or carry by any railway any such animal. " The advantage of this clause in the Order is that a sum mary proceeding may for a breach of its provisions be adopted without necessarily having recourse to the expen sive and often tedious process of an indictment. The more severe punishment which the latter course might involve may probably be reserved for those cases where the offence is of an aggravated nature. " I am, sir, your obedient servant, "ARTHTJB, HE "Mr. Archibald S co tt , L ondon and South Wes er n LPS. Railway, Waterloo Station." ISLINGTON. Yesterday a petty sessions was held at the Ves try-offices of St. Mary, Islington, before Sir James Tyler and Mr. Arthur Ballantine, when inspectors of cattle for the parish of Islington and the Metro politan Cattle-market, Islington, were appointed. WEST RIDING. At Skipton-in-Craven an influential meeting of landowners and graziers was held on Monday. The Duke of Devonshire presided, and the following re solutions were unanimously adopted : "1. That as supplemental to, and in aid of, the society formed by the Council of the Craven Agricultural Society, on .the 21st inst., a mutual assurance society be immediately organized, to comprise all persons, owners or owner of cattle residing on and occupying land within the district of the. Skipton Poor Law Union, or partly in any adjoining town ship. "2. That each person desirous of entering the associa tion shall agree to pay such a rate in the pound on the rateable value of the land in his occupation as may be fixed by the committee. " 3. That in the event of any of the cattle so insured, or any animals which may have been substituted for any sold off, being seized with the plague, or showing any symptoms of it, the owner shall, with as little delay as possible, cause the infected animal to be separated and kept apart from his or her other cattle, and immediately give notice thereof to the inspector, Mr. Anderton. "4. That in the event of any cattle so seized or infected dying, or being put to death in consequence thereof by di rection of the inspector, the owner or owners thereof having paid all calls which may have been made upon him or her by the committee shall receive two-thirds of the de clared value of any cattle so dying or being put away. "5. That a voluntary subscription be now entered into, as a guarantee fund in the event of the ordinary insurance fund being found inadequate to cover the losses to the ex tent required, to be called up by the committee wholly or rateably, according to the amount of each subscription, in case it shall be found necessary." In aid of the guarantee fund the sum of £370 was subscribed at the meeting, the Duke of Devonshire heading the subscription list with £lOO, and the following sums also being put down :--Mr. Walter Morrison, M.P., the Rev. D. R. Roundell, Mr. M. Wilson, Messrs. Alcock, Berkbeck, and Co., and Mr. J. R. Tennant, £5O each ; and Mr. J. W. Tottie, £2O. EDINBURGH. The cattle disease has appeared in nearly 30 out of about 200 cowhouses in Edinburgh and vicinity, and out of a stock of 2,000 cows, probably 100 have been killed or have died in consequence of th e dis ease ; several hundred have been sold or killed while still healthy to escape further loss. About a dozen cases were reported on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the number of cows under treatment in the sanatorium is 12. Meetings have been held in several of the neighbouring counties for the appoint ment of inspectors, &c., under the Orders in Council, and there are indications of the disease extending into the nu al districts. The Cholera in Turkey. Sir Henry Bulwer has addressed the following salutary hints to the Sanitary Commission at Prin kipo, where his excellency has been staying for some weeks past, suffering from an attack of sciatica : " Gentlemen,—You have addressed yourselves to me once or twice in the name of the inhabitants of the island, as also in that of the commission named in connection with the epidemic which has ravaged Constantinople, and which has not altogether spared Prinkipo. The rheumatism from which I am unhappily suffering prevents my taking the active part that I should wish in what is passing, but I am still able to offer you a few perhaps salutary hints. And first—l believe that the commission meant excellently in wishing to establish an hospital for those attacked by the cholera, and who cannot be taken care of at their homes. But when I contributed to this object I thought that the situation would be a convenient one, that there would always be a doctor on the spot, as also a phar macy with the necessary drugs, and some attendants on the sick ; I thought also that there would be humanity and prudence in the control of the establishment; but, if I am rightly informed, the doctor attached to the hospital is not always there ; there is no pharmacy in the place set apart for the poor, nor attendants for care of the sufferers, and that, when these last are brought to the place, they often remain there long enough to die before the help which they need arrives. It is also said that in some cases the sick bad been taken from their homes by force to be brought to the hospital. I make no accusation, for I admit that I have not been able to verify these statements, nor, on the other haiid, to obtain such information as would convince me that they are unfounded. But it is urgently necessary that the truth should be known, and I shall therefore ask Dr. Sawas to order an inquiry with this view, unless you can give me a satisfactory answer. I would now address you seriously on the subject of a disposition which has manifested itself here, but with less intensity than elsewhere. The cholera is a great evil, but there are evils which are greater even than the cholera. That which elevates man above the mere animal is a reasoning courage, a confidence in God, and a devotion to his fellow. To de grade oneself to the point of permitting all these senti ments to be absorbed by fears of death—which is certain to come sooner or later—is a vastly greater evil than the plague, the cholera, or any other disease which can merely put an end to our present life. Here, in this island, there have been no parents who have forsaken their children, nor children who have abandoned their parents. I have heard only of a case in which a poor man had been forsaken by his comrades, and helped by neighbours of a class above his own. There have indeed been a few unfounded reports and exaggerated fears. Permit me to counsel you to preserve amongst yourselves that calmness which furnishes the best guarantee against the very dangers you fear. Besides, the simplest reason teaches us that by far the greater part of the panic which obtains is groundless. If the cholera were person ally communicable the doctors would have been dead long ago. If, indeed, this were our conviction, the last thing we should do, if attacked, would be to seek medical help. The present epidemic is an influence in the atmo sphere which by itself alone does nothing, but which, when it meets, whether in individuals or in places—espe certain unwholesome conditions in the latter—speedily breeds a poison. All, then, that true wisdom suggests, and all that prudence requires, is to purify unwhole some localities, and to keep the constitution in that state which experience teaches is the best calculated to keep out from the system the unhealthy atmospheric and other material influences which surround us. You have already done much for the island by cleaning its streets. You should, however, see to the sewers, and, in stead of opening them, should deodorise them with che mical disinfectants. It would also be well to circulate some very simple instructions as to what should be avoided. At the same time, each in his sphere should endeavour to raise the morale of his neighbour both by his language and by his personal example. I regret, I repeat, the temporary affliction which confines me to my chair, but I am at the same time ready at any moment to have myself conveyed wherever my presence may be of use.--I am, Sre., " HENRY L. BULWER." SINGULAR STRIKE.—Mr. Moss, contractor, of Stafford, is constructing a length of railway at Crewe for the London and North-Western Railway Com pany, and his men are on strike under somewhat singulal circumstances. One day last week a trades union delegate went rouad among the men employed, and necessarily oc cupied their time. The foreman told him that the men could not be interrupted at their work, and said if h( wanted to see them he had better come when they were leaving off. He replied that he should speak to them al any time ho thought proper, and on the foreman repeatini his request that ho-would not interfere with them during working hours, he directed the men to cease work, saying he would pay their wages, and they immediately did so, and still remain out, although they have no grievance whatever to allege.—Clteaer Courant, Fashionable Intelligence. DEATH OF LORD HENRY GORDON.—The death is announced of Lord Henry Gordon, son of the ninth Marquis of Huntly and uncle of the present peer. The noble lord was born on the 31st of August, 1802, 63 years ago. He married, on the 6th of March, 1827, Miss Louisa Payne, by whom he had a large family. He was formerly a captain in the East India Company's service in Bengal. Ile retired in 1846, and received the local rank of major in 1855. He was captain of the Aberdeenshire Militia. The Collision on the Great Northern Railway. The alarming collision which took place between a Mid land excursion and a Great Northern coal train on the line of the Great Northern Railway at Colney Hatch station, on Wednesday evening, turns out to be much more serious in its consequences, so far as injury to passengers is con cerned, than was at first anticipated. Instead of injury being sustained by some thirty or forty persons who were passengers in the excursion train, the number who have turned up now amounts to between fifty and sixty, many who were enabled to proceed to town after the calamity having on reaching King's-cross either gone direct to their homes in cabs and in other conveyances, without being seen by either of the surgeons employed by the company, or put up at adjacent hotels, and sent for other practi tioners, thus being omitted for the time from the category of the injured persons. As is usual on all occasions when occurrences of this kind take place between the trains of separate companies, there are conflicting statements in reference to the shoulders upon which the blame, if any, is to be put, and which is to bear the weight of the respon sibility likely to result from such a collision between two trains on a railway as that which occurred on Wednesday night. Probably nothing short of a judicial investigation will solve the question of whether the fault lay with the driver of the Midland excursion or those who had charge of the coal train at the time of the collision. From all that can be gleaned, however, after duly weighing the state ments on either side, the following appears to be the cor rect narrative of the serious catastrophe : About a quarter past seven on Wednesday evening an up coal train belonging to the Great Northern Company arrived at Colney Hatch station, and was brought up there for the purpose of adding a truck. The authorities of the Colney Hatch station were fully aware of there being a Midland excursion train on its way up on its return journey from Leicester, Nottingham, and Derby, ex., nearly due, and for that purpose the coal train was hurried on, and had just started, when a draw bar" broke. This accident causing a delay, and anticipating the arrival of the excursion train, the station master at Colney Hatch directed all the danger signals to be turned on, and every precaution appeared to be taken to stop any up-coming or down-going train whilst the coal train was shunted out of the way into the siding. This shunting process had scarcely commenced when the Mid land excursion was heard approaching at very great speed. The driver of the excursion train, it is stated, admits that he perceived the signals, and the moment he did so com menced to slacken speed ; but either from miscalculating his distance or the rails being more slippery than usual, he could not bring up in sufficient time, and the excursion train dashed into the coal train, going at the moment, it is calculated, at a speed of about ten miles an hour. The shock by the concussion of the two trains was so great that not only were a large number o: trucks dashed over on to the down line, but tho engine of the excursion train was thrown off the metals, and fell over on its side, where it still lies, dragging several of the carriages after it, and turn ing them on their sides also. The confusion among the passengers resulting from such a catastrophe is described as fearful. Screams and cries resounded in all directions, passengers lacerated and wounded were to be seen precipi tating themselves from the carriages in all directions on to the line, and many who had received the greatest injuries lay crying and groaning for assistance. The confusion was very greatly increased by those who had escaped injury, but who, not being cognisant of the limits of the accident, by their shouts and cries increased the terrors of the less for tunate travellers, who could not move themselves, although they witnessed the desperate efforts of the uninjured to escape from the train. The first step of the station master at Colney Hatch was to telegraph to Superintendent Wil liams, at King's-cross, what had -happened, and to stop all trains; and then the officials and those of the uninjured passengers who had overcome their first excitement set to work to remove from the debris of the carriages and trucks those who were injured, and to convey them to the,Colney Hatch and other hotels, whilst others were dispatched to the asylum, and to all the medical men of the immediate neighbourhood. Drs. Brown, Hewet, and Marshall, and Messrs. Ward, Trevor, and Osbaldiston were at the scene of the accident within a very short time after it had taken place. Before eight o'clock Dr. Kirkwood, of the Euston road, medical officer of both the Midland and Great Nor thern Companies, Mr. Superintendent Williams, and a large body of officials and labourers arrived at the spot. By Dr. Kirkwood's direction those cases where the parties were discovered to bo slightly injured were at once removed to London, where Dr. Burton, Mr. Luke, and other surgeons, were in readiness to afford assistance. The mass of these were, however, conveyed to their homes, but some still remain inmates of the Great Northern and other hotels in the neighbourhood of the terminus. There were seven cases, however, where the parties were so seriously injured that they were compelled to remain at the Colney Hatch Hotel, and Dr. Kirkwood remained in attendance upon them all night. Amongst those whose injuries are so great as to prevent them being removed are— Mr. and Mrs. Danails—Very much shaken and bruised- Mrs. Langton—Contusion of head and face. Mr. Mitchell—Contusion of head and face, and very much shaken. His little girl is also suffering from the same cause. Mrs. Prater—lnjury to chest and very much shaken ; and Miss Dawson very much bruised and shaken. Two cases of a serious nature were also brought to Lon don, and the sufferers in this instance are Mr. Dawson, of Brighton (no relative of the lady of that name), who has a contusion of the knee ; and Mr. Rudkin, who is very much shaken. The foregoing are the worst cases, but there are many others nearly as bad; and there is a family named Leekey, the whole of whom were more or less injured, and who were conveyed home in a carriage from Colney Hatch. The guard of the excursion train received injuries of a slight character. The engine -driver and stoker escaped by jump ing off the engine. The medical gentlemen report all the cases to be progressing favourably, and there is no case at present in which a fatal result is anticipated. The traffic of the line was entirely stopped for some hours, and it was not till yesterday morning it could be resumed. THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT NEWCASTLE-UPON TYNE.—The coroner's inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Joseph Leybourne, the discovery Of whose body on the turnpike-road at Street-gate, Nevr castle-upon-Tyne, under suspicious circumstances has been reported, was opened by Mr. J. M. Fayell, on Wednesday morning, at Mr. Stott's Inn, Street-gate. So far as the evidence proceeded, it is clear that the deceased meth with the most brutal maltreatment at the hands of some person or persons, but as yet there is nothing of a definite charac" ter to lead to the implication of any particular individual- le inquiry was adjourned. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN WEST.' MINSTER.—The man William Shaughnessy, wh ° attempted to murder his wife and then made an attempt to destroy his own life, yet lives, but is in an almost delirious and hopeless state. Mr. Antonini, the house-surgeon, has given orders that none of his friends are to see him. His wife is progressing favourably, and it is thought will re cover. She converses freely about general matters, but remains silent as to the motives which led to tho attempt upon her life. RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—The undersell ng bakers throughout the metropolis made a third advance of a halfpenny per 41bs. loaf yesterday morning, oinking a total advance in the price of three-halfpenc e since Friday last. Bread is now selling at p►ices varying from 611 to 7d. per 41b. for the best quality ; seconds, or household ditto, at 51 2 -d. to 6d. ; and country bread (un weighed) at 6d. per loaf. The full-priced bakers ba,re made au advance of id. per 4th. loaf, „ g r. tEZ _ tarn!, tlrtabr. 104 His Excellency M. N. de la Rieska and family have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, from Richmond. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury came to town yesterday expressly to attend the marriage of the Earl of Listowel and their niece, Miss Bruce, daughter of Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce. They have returned to Savernake Lodge, Wilts. The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith and Lady Georgiana Hamilton have arrived at Langholme Lodge, Dumfriesshire, from Dalkeith Palace. The Lady Georgians Hamilton goes to-morrow to Baron's . Court, Ireland. The Earl Browniow and Lady Marian Alford intend to pass the approaching winter at Cannes, instead of going to Madeira as hitherto. The Earl Brownlow's healt h is far from settled, and it is hoped he will receive more benefit by the mild climate in the south of France than that of Madeira, which he has of late years resorted to. The Earl of Enniskillen is about to marry the Viscountess Middleton. The wedding is to take place early in the ensuing week. The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P., will return to town on Monday next from Lancashire. The marriage of the Earl of Listowel with Miss Bruce, second daughter of the Right Hon. Ernest and Lady Bruce, was celebrated yesterday morning at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. A large number of the friends of the bride and bridegroom were in attend ance. r 1