The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-12 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intellij,ence. The General Commanding-in-Chief, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, resumed his in spection at Portsmouth yesterday morning, with a parade and review of all the available troops in the garrison at Southsea-common. The force was formed in three brigades under the command of Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Buller, K.C.8., who was attended by Col. W. H. Elliott, R.A., commanding the Royal Artillery in the south-west district ; Col. S. Mould, RE., commanding the Royal Engineers in the south-west district ; Lieut.-Col. A. Alison, C. 8., Assist. Adjt.-Gen. ; Lieut.-Col. G. 11. S. Willis, Assist. Quartermaster -Gen. ; Capt. M. R. Eden, Dep.-Assist. Quartermaster -Gen. ; Town-Major John Breton, Brevet-Major R. Mackenzie, aide-de camp ; Capt. S. C. Glyn, aide-de-camp. By 10.30 a.m. the troops were drawn up in a line across the common, extending from under the town bastions to the shingle of the sea-beach, in readiness to re ceive the Duke. The three brigades comprised a total of 1,513 officers and men, 12 guns and 96 horses. Shortly after the line had been formed the Duke arrived, accompanied by Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Hope Grant, G. C. 8., Quart.- Mast.-Gen.; Col. Gloucester Gambier, Dep.-Adjt.-Gen. of Artillery; and Col. T. H. Clifton, aide-de-camp, and was received with a Royal salute along the line of troops. A very brief inspection along the front followed, after which the troops marched past his Royal High ness, first in grand divisions, and afterwards in three brigades, the batteries going past on the second occa sion in Indian file, and at a smart trot. A series of field movements followed, commencing with the 43d advancing in skirmishing order, supported by the 40th and 68th regiments and demi-batteries of field artillery. This being repulsed, a second advance was made in the same direction in greater strength, and a good deal of powder was burnt ; but again with out any other result than a second retiring move ment. The front was next changed, and the action continued on new ground, over which the troops manoeuvred admirably and the defence of Southsea was brought to a successful conclusion about 1 p.m., the last advance of the troops in one sweeping charge being supposed to have driven the enemy into the sea. The evolutions having terminated, the troops were drawn up in columns of brigades, advanced in slow time, halted, and gave a Royal salute. Com manding officers of regiments were then called to the front, and . addressed at some length by the Duke, who praised the troops generally, but pointed out what he considered serious defects in some of the movements executed. He also impressed upon the minds of commanding officers the necessity of per fecting their men in volley firing now that breech loading rifles had become the adopted arm of the British army. An immense number of people, in carriages and on foot, fringed the common to witness the proceed inV. None of the manoeuvres executed possessed any special interest, the ground being totally un suited for the satisfactory handling of such a number of men. In the afternoon the Duke proceeded to the island of Portsea, and through the lines of defence at Hilsea to Portsdown-hi]l, where he visited the forts of Widley, Southwick, Nelson, Wel lington, Purbrook, and Crookhorn, which have been constructed or are in process of construc tion on its crest. These monster fortifications have been described on various occasions in The SDI as they have progressed. Southwick and Nelson are finished, and will now be handed over to the Royal Artillery to have the beds and racers on their terre-pleins prepared to receive their guns and carriages. Widley will be completed in about ten days' time, and it will also pass into the hands of the Royal Artillery to be prepared for its armament. 1V idley Fort is the one which covers the great south or London highway in its approach to Portsmouth, and as in its general form and strength it very much resembles the other works on the centre of the hill's crest, a brief notice of its form and extent will give some idea of the strength of the entire position, of which this one forms but a sixth part. In shape it may be said to represent an obtuse angled penta gon, with its front looking inland, and its base line towards Portsmouth harbour. It stands with its parade-ground 432 ft. above highwater mark, and high water leaves its mark along the south base of the hill on which the forts stand. In a straight line drawn throngh the base of IVidley over the fosse at either end the distance is 1,200 ft., and the depth of the work from the base line to the counterscarp of the fosse in front is 630 ft. This is surrounded on all sides except the base line by a fosse cut down into the chalk to a depth of 43ft., and with a width of 50ft. The terre-plein is supported and covered by an immense chalk and earthen rampart pierced with embrasures for 31 guns, with unlimited room for training and strength to carry any calibre of The base, or " gorge" of the work, is closed gun. by massive three-storied barracks in brick, having accommodation for 200 artillerymen and their offi cers, and pierced with portholes for howitzers as well as for rifle fire. The whole looks colossal in proportions when viewed from the centre of the parade-ground, but the visitor must descend by the tunnelled gallery leading from the barracks beneath the parade-ground before he can really understand the real strength and general plan of the work. This tunnel gradually descends, until at a depth of forty feet the main magazine is arrived at. This is a huge brick-built vault, with double walls for ventilation, and to preserve its contents from damp. From this magazine there radiate three other tunnels which each lead to a caponniere in the angles of the work and in the fosse, each caponnire having embrasures for eight guns and rifle galle ries over for sweeping the fosse and scarp of the fort with howitzer and rifle fire. Over these caponnieres again, or rather over the two standing iu the fosse, but still under the level of the huge rampart's base, are built brickwork arches of immense strength, under which are beds in each ready to receive five 13-inch mortars. The Duke of Cambridge will leave Portsmouth this morning on board her Majesty's steamer Fire Queen, Staff-Commander Paul, for Portland, call ing and inspecting on the way the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, the forts at Hurst Castle, Victoria, and other points in the West Channel. Sir JohnPakington, First Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by Admiral Milne, arrived at the Ad miralty-house, Portsmouth dockyard, from London, yesterday afternoon, and soon afterwards drove over to the new barracks for the Royal Marine Artillery, at Eastney, accompanied by Vice-Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley, K.C.B. Sir .John and both Admirals returned to the Admiralty-house on the conclusion of their visit to Eastney. General Peel, the Secretary of State for War, accompanied by Sir John F. Burgoyne, G.C.8., nialied his inspection of the land and sea works of defence around Portsmouth with a visit yesterday morning(euer to the Portsdown-hill forts. The gallant General left Portsmouth for London on his return from Portsci ewe. Yesterday the following t troops embarked at Gravesend o n b oard h ehantrnan for conveyancee chartered troopship Mer to Ceylon—viz., Capt. It. I3ullen, Lieut. NV uke, Lieut. W. F. Richard son, 102 non-commissi oned officers and men, one officer's wife, three children,and one servant, nine so ldiers' wives, and 20 children of the Royal e m Engi neers, 23d.'and 24th companies, Ensign a J. W. Lang, , 45 non-commissioned officers and three women and seven children of the I st battalion the 10th Regiment, from Chatham ; capt of i. .F G. Webster, Lieut. F. W. Barlow, E nsign A. Denny,; E n sign R. A. Woolley, 56 non - commissioned officers and men, one officer's wife and child, seven soldiers' wives, and five children, of the 2d battalion of the `2oth Regiment, from Shorncliff ; Capt. G. R. Har vey, Ensiin W. B. Bronghton,7B non-commissioned officers and men, seven soldiers' wives, and five chil dren of the 99th Regiment, from Preston ; and Lieut.-Col. E. Knight, wife, and servant, Cape Mounted Rifles, for passage to the Cape of Good Hope ; total, 12 officers, 281 non-commissioned offi cers and men, four officers' wives, four children, and three servants, 21 soldiers' wives, and 37 children, the whole under the medical charge of Surgeon T. Tar rant, M. 1)., Cape Mounted Rifles. The Merchant man was inspected previously to the troops going on board by the officers of the garrison staff from Chat- ham, and the embarcations were effected under the superintendence of Brigade Major W. W. Lynch. The vessel will take her departure from the Thames to-day. The Geertruida Anna has arrived alongside Chat ham dockyard, from Russia, with a cargo of hemp for the dockyard, and is the last of the vessels which will arrive from St. Petersburg this season. The screw gunboat Sepoy, 2, 60 horse-power, ten der to the Dauntless, 31, 580 horse-power, Coast guard frigate in the Humber, has arrived in Chat ham harbour to undergo some necessary repairs and refit in the dockyard. The Greenwich Hospital pension of £BO a year for a Deputy Inspector-General of hospitals and Fleets, vacant by the death of Dr. T. R. Dunn, has been awarded to John Watson, retired Inspector- General. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander R. Bradshaw to the Star, commissioned ; Commander Edward W. Brooker to the Sylvia, surveying vessel ; Lieut. Frederic Echlin to the Vixen; Lieut. Hugb S. Baillie to the Lion ; Lieut. Francis C. Vincent to the En dymion ; Lieut. George E. Price to the Liverpool ; Lieut. James H. Butt and Lieut. James W. Gam bier to the Sylvia ; Silas H. Liddell, master and pilot, to the Vixen ; Thomas Vixen, engi neer, to the Asia, for service in the Medea; J. Camp bell, paymaster, to the Sylvia ; Wm. H. Haswell, paymaster, to the Star; F. P. Lyne, assist.-paymas ter, supernumerary, to the Victory, for disposal ; D. C. Ker, clerk, to the Star; A. W. Askham, as sist. clerk, to the Cambridge ; G. Finlay, assist. clerk, to the Sylvia ; and F. H. Hall, assist. clerk, to the Boscawen. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. EUROPEAN CENTRAL. The report of Mr. G. E. Gavey, the resident en gineer at Lugano, stated that the land for the rail way in possession of the company was 20 kilometres in length, the length of line ballasted and ready for the permanent way was 10.3 kilometres, the length of line completed to formation level and ready for ballasting 5.28 kilometres, the length of line upon which works had been begun, but which were still unfinished, was 2.885 kilometres, the length of tun nelling completed was 259 metres (281 yards), and the length of tunnelling remaining to be done was 4,000 metres (4,733 yards). No rails or sleepers had as yet been deposited on the works. The length of line ballasted extended from S t. Martino to Melide bridge ; also from Arbedo to Creciano, and a short length near Locarno. The line completed to forma tion level was ready for ballasting. The length of tunnelling complete included the St. Martino and Paradiso tunnels. In the other tunnels the headings only had been driven. The main walls of the station buildings of Castione and Creciano were built, and the roofs completed, but nothing had been done in the interiors. The wall of the station building at Terneo had only been built up to the first floor. The repairs, including the retaining walls for the Bis sone-road, were being carried on by the Government, and about two-thirds had been executed. CAITHNESS. The engineers, Messrs. M'Lean and Stileman, after a careful survey, recommended as the best route from Brora to Wick and Thurso, the adoption of the portion of the line along the coast from Broro to Helmsdale, thence turning inland up the river by Kildeuan to Kinbrace, and Achintoul to the submit of the valley of Ballach bridge, forming an ascent by good gradients of 450 ft. above the level of llelmsdale. From Ballach-bridge the line was to be carried across the ridges of the lower point of them, giving a further rise of 190 ft., passing into Strathmore, crossing the Thurso water south of Dale, and terminating by a junction with the authorised railway between Wick and Thurso, at a point 10 miles from Wick and 111- from Thurso. The curves and gradients on the first portion of the line from Brora to Achintoul, a distance of 32 miles, were said to be favourable, but thence in crossing ridges and valleys between Ballach-bridge and Loch Watten steeper gradients would be encountered to avoid the formation of heavy embankments. The total length of the line would be 58 miles, and the cost was estimated at £346,170, or about £6,000 per mile. IMPERIAL GAS. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the company's offices ; Mr. E. V. Richards, governor, in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report and accounts, said that during the past year, owing to a reduction of 6d. per thousand cubic feet, the consumers had gained £45,000. A sum of £10,500 additional had been spent in coals, whereas it had produced a return in the sale of coke of £3,234 less. Nevertheless, the company was able to maintain its usual dividend ; but it carried over the small sum of £790. A PROPRIETOR desired some information upon an item of £2,535, which was carried to the debit of contingencies. TheCIIAIRMAIsT explained that the sum was owing to some Parliamentary expenses, which the direc tors thought might fairly be carried to contingen cies, rather than come under the head of ordinary expenditure. The motion for the adoption of the report and accounts having been seconded by the DEPUTY GOVERNOR was unanimously carried. The meeting was then made special, and resolu tions to the following effect were carried :--Em powering the directors to increase the share capital by £260,000 in 26,000 shares of £lO each, part of amount of money borrowed by the company upon its mortgage debentures or bonds, such new shares to be entitled to a dividend pro rata with the exist ing £5O shares. The new shares were to be offered to the shareholders at par, in the proportion of one £lO for every £5O share. £325,000 was to be raised by 26,000 new shares of £l2 10s. each, carrying a maximum dividend of 7 per cent., such shares to be offered to the shareholders at par. Any shares not taken up by the proprietors were to be dispbsed of in the discretion of the directors. A vote of thanks to the chairman and Board con cluded the proceedings. SURREY CONSUMERS' GAS. The half yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Bridge-house Hotel, Lon don-bridge, Mr. Pocock in the chair. The Secretary read the report, an abstract of which has already appeared. The CIIAIRMAN moved the adoption of the re port, which was carried unanimously. He then said that in the year 1860 the gas question was finally settled. The Legislature thought the time had arrived when the gas question ought to be thoroughly investigated. An investigation was made, and the charges brought against the companies were heard as well as the companies themselves, and after some time it was decided to adjust the question in such a manner as would be satisfactory to all parties. The Legislature said they would give the gas com panies an Act of Parliament which should secure to them advantages which they would have no reason to complain of, and, at the same time, give to the consumers all the rights and privileges they ought to have. For some years it was thought to be a just act of Parliament. The Legislature stated that there were gas companies who were put to an enormous expense in laying down miles and miles of pipes, when perhaps they would scarcely have a customer for a distance of three or four miles, for which reason gas companies could not supply their gas at a lower rate. They, therefore, gave those They allowedhe companies a district, and the whole metropolis was divided betwe e n the 13 existing gas companies. investment of their m a reasonable dividend for the money. 'They were, however, subjected to severe stance the losses. He might take for in fire in Z ood-street, where the loss l amounted to £2O where another large'oand the fire at Vauxhall loss has been incurred. The Legislature said they would allow them 10 per cent. dividend on the money of the Company, and give . them six years' back dividends. The metropolitan . gas companies had been tryin g to prevent an in fringement of the Gas Act, and there were only two cases during these six years where gas com- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1866, panies had been summoned for an infringe ment of that Act of Parliament. A serious ques tion had arisen from an allegation that the gas companies were receiving too much dividend, which was not the fact. He had heard that it was the in tention of the Government next session to bring in a bill to improve the position of these companies. Ile would never consent to sell gas at a price which would not be remunerative to the shareholders. Their company had been in existence 16 years. They had received, taking the average for the 16 years, a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. For the first two years they received nothing, iu the second two or three years 4 per cent., and then 6 per cent., and in the following years 8 per cent., and now they were paying 10 per cent. Dr. LIT - rLE said he never found their gas less than two candles more than the Parliamentary standard of light. Mr. BLAKE said if they had listened to the pub lic clamour which arose some time ago they would never have been able to receive the dividends which the House of Commons admitted they were entitled to. In 1860 the revenue of the company amounted to £43,000 ; in 1861 to £44,800 ; and now it amounted to £61,000. (Hear, Hear.) The CHAIRMAN then moved that a dividend of 5 per cent. for the past half-year, with a back divi dend of 2 per cent., be declared, payable on and after the 22d of October, which was carried unani mously, and the proceedings concluded with thanks to the chairman. Social Science Conference. AfANCHESTER, Thursday. The business of this year's Congress concluded :o-day with the presentation of a report by Mr. Hastings, the general secretary, and a meeting of the council, at which the Earl of Shaftesbury pre- sided. The report congratulated the association on the success which had attended this the tenth annual gathering, and expressed the thanks of the council to the local committees and secretaries, who had been occupied for many months in smoothing the pathway for the meeting, which had now been brought to a most satisfactory close. The report having been adopted, The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said that, despite the reservation made by Mr. Hastings, there was one thing in the report in which he was sure all mem bers of the council, collectively and individually, would concur, and that was the recognition of gra titude to the city of Manchester for the hospitality and kindness with which the association had been received. (Cheers.) In all towns wherever the members had met they had been received with cour tesy ; but he doubted whether in any town zeal had been shown which had surpassed the zeal manifested by the corporation, the heads of townships, the police, and above all the local committee and sec tions. The labour they had endured, the zeal they had manifested, the heart they had put into the matter, and the cordiality with which they had re- ceived the members of the association, were matters that demanded more than an ordinary expression of gratitude. He was sorry if there was any other body which he had omitted to mention ; but he must express their deep satisfaction at the manner in which they had been received by the people. (Cheers.) Every one must have been gratified with the de meanour of the people. Not only in the public meet ings, but in the streets, they had shown hospitality and kindness according to their means, which went closely to their hearts. He was sure all who were present at the great meeting on Friday night seldom saw a spectacle so closely approaching to the sub lime—(applause)—that large mass of life, that grand collection of immortal souls—men beaming with in- telligence, good humour, kindness, and respect, coming there to be instructed on many things with respect to which they desired information, and full of the intention of turning all they could learn to the benefit of their families, and therein to the good of their country. He could not but observe upon one remark which had been made, not in this city, but elsewhere, upon that great meeting. Some per sons, not entering into the feelings of the members of the association, presumed to say that that was a " patronising " meeting. Of all the hideous and unjust expressions to be applied, that was the most hideous and unjust. He confessed that he regarded with something approaching to abhorrence the men who would set class against class, and who would not, in this world of sin and contention, do all they could to reconcile differences, and to see what was good and not what was evil in each other. (Applause) But of the working class—he knew them well, and he had a right to say so, having passed a great num ber of years among them—this he would say, that they did not desire patronage, but they did desire sympathy. (Cheers.) T o talk.,of " patronising" the Working classtis, especially in such a city as that of Manchester, was the greatest act of arrogance and presumption, and of folly, which he could con ceive. (Cheers.) The time was, as a friend on the platform (Sir J. Kay-Shuttleworth) had informed them, when the working classes were in a con dition when a certain amount of patronage ap peared to be necessary. By intelligence and good conduct, by being enabled now to exercise all the moral and physical energies God had given them, they had risen to the position in which they required no patronage ; but he trusted the time would never come when they would cease to desire sympathy. (Cheers.) For sympathy amongst all classes, from the highest to the lowest and from the lowest to the highest, was the great bond of union and the grand divine principle which ought to pervade society. (Cheers.) They did desire the working man's welfare. They expressed for them the deepest sympathy, and he was quite certain the whole mass of the association, and cer- taiuly all the members who attended the Congress, shared his sentiments ; and they hoped that the people reciprocated the feelings of sympathy. They had a common interest—duty, calling, and welfare; that which they earnestly desired was a participation in the people's sentiments, and the people's in theirs --both labouring and praying for each other's social and moral welfare. (Cheers.) Mr. 11. PHILIPS proposed, and Mr. D. FIELD seconded, a vote of thanks to the president of the association, and the presidents and secretaries of departments. Mr. Field observed, in the course of his remarks, that the association was, he was sorry to say, peculiar to this country, for in America they had no such institution, excepting a small one formed at Boston a year or two ago. The associa tion was the product of the English mind as deve loped in the 19th century. It owed its existence, he belived, to the eminent services of Mr. Ilastings who was justly styled its founder, and was still one of the secretaries. (Cheers.) The idea was a great one. It was the bringing together of men distin guished in all departments for the purpose of con ferring with each other, to reconcile differences, to explain away opposition, and suggesting what they could advise the authoritative body to adopt. It was, if he might use the expression, a sort of advisary parliament, to which nobody was elected, where every freeman might go. the compli meLnot,rd S aaid u Es t k h F a T ti u t umrt,asY, iinndaecekdnaomwlaetdtgerinogf great hon our that he had been associated with such eminent and worthy men. It was singularly agreeable to him that the vote had been seconded by Mr. Dudley Field. (Applause.) Of course he was delighted to be supported by his own countrymen, but really, on an occasion like that, when an eminent man came from the other side of the water, represent ing that great Republic, and gave utterance to the sentiments he bad, it might be taken as the harbinger that the great prineiple of peace was abroad, and that they should not hear any more of dissension between America and old England. (Cheers). He wished to supply one deficiency of which he was guilty. When he first spoke, he did not mention the services of the press. He could only say that the meeting bad proved to him wha he had before marvelled at, the diligence and fideli of the whole body of reporters. For himself he was pleased to receive their kind words of approbation for what he had done here and in former times. The Hon. G. DENMAN, M.P., the president of the jurisprudence department, also returned thanks, and said that Mr. Field was mistaken in supposing that this was the only Social Science Association, as there were similar institutions in Belgium and Spain, with which they were in communication. Dr. FARR also responded. The PRESIDENT said that before separating he had to request—indeed he assumed that no such re quest was necessary—that they would give him per mission to convey to Lord Brougham the esteem and affection which they entertained towards him, and their gratitude to him for having come to Man chester, notwithstanding his great age and infirmi ties, at very great inconvenience to testify his re spect for the city, and his unabated zeal in the good work that had occupied so many- years of his life. (Cheers.) Lord Brougham was not there to receive their thanks, and he (Lord Shaftesbury) was sure they would allow him to convey to him that the last act of the council was to express their sincere good wishes for his health and happiness. (Cheers.) Thanks were then voted to the magistrates of the hundred of Salford for their liberality in granting the use of the assize courts to the association ; and a similar tribute was paid to the secretaries, Mr. Hastings and the Rev. W. Clay, for the marked ability and great attention they had displayed throughout the Congress. In reviewing the general progress of the society's proceedings, it may be advisable to recall attention to some of the principal subjects which have been brought under consideration in the various depart ments. In the Department of Jurisprudence and the Amendment of the Law special questions relating to international and municipal law and the repression of crime were discussed. In the Education Department the special ques- THE DISTRACTED " ALMANACH DE GOTHA."— There is consternation in the editorial room at Gotha. The Almanach for 1867 was almost ready to be launched forth into the world when, lo ! like the simoom, Prussia sweeps over the north of Germany, and kings and princes are carried away by the blast like so many reeds ; even the stalwart tree of Austria has lost many of its branches, blown away by the storm, though the stem still stands firm on its deep-set roots. The hurricane has lulled, the treaty of Prague calms for a time the troubled elements, diplo macy has done its work. But it is a much easier task to sign a treaty and exchange ratifications than to re-write a compendium like the Almanach de Gotha. * * * The whole German Confederation is extinguished, and Frank fort, the seat of the Diet, annexed ; consequently the 32 states, including the Hanse Towns, must be struck out of the Almanach, and the North German Confederation above the Maine inserted instead. As regards the embryo Con federation of the Southern States, all is chaos. Then Austria has lost Venetia, Denmark has lost the Duchies, and, worst of all, no one knows whether the few remaining ninepins will not be bowled down by the strong arm of a Bismarck or of a Napoleon. * * It is easier to shoot a lion with a single bullet than to exterminate a nest of wasps. Saxony is not annexed, and may remain intact in tho Almanach of 1867 ; but Hanover, Nassau, Hesse-Cassel, Darmstadt, and others must all have a pen struck through them, and be added to Prussia. Prussia is like the devil-fish described by Victor Hugo in his " Travailleurs do la Mer." It holds in its strangling grip all the petty princes of Germany. We are in October ; the continental arrangements are by no means settled, and the Almanach must appear on the Ist January. We have good reason for saying again that consternation prevails in the editor's room at Gotha.—Dickens's All the Year Round. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Healing not Harmful.—No application has met with the same universal approbation for curing all external ailments ,as that which this unguent has received. Skin, sores, deep ulcers, fetid discharges, burns, blistered surfaces, and many similar affections are at once soothed and put on the road to soundness by Holloway's ointment. With this ointment and his pills the wealthy may save themselves much suf fering, and the poor may help themselves to health, since these medicaments aro reasonable in price and can be pur chased in every hamlet. They have effected cures of stiff joints, swelled legs, and ulcerated limbs, and opened out the prospect of a happy future after every hope of recovery had been given up. tions which came under discussion were :—" By SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. what means can the impediments to the education -0. -- of the children of the manual labour class, arising from the apathy or poverty of parents or claims of the market for labour, be most effectually removed ?" " What central or local bodies are best qualified to take charge of and administer existing endowments for education, and what powers and facilities should be given to such bodies ?" "By what means can education be most effectually extended to the smaller rural parishes and the most destitute classes in large towns?" In the Department of Health attention was directed to the following questions :—" How far are smoke and the products of combustion arising from various manufacturing processes injurious to health ?" " What measures ought to be taken to prevent the contamination of the atmosphere from such causes?" " How can the pollution of rivers, by the refuse and sewage of towns, be best prevented ?" " What legislative or other measures should be employed more effectually to prevent the adulteration of food ?" In the Department of Economy and Trade the questions were :—" Upon what conditions and by what authorities ought licenses for the sale of alco holic liquors to be granted ?" " What measures, legislative and other, should be adopted in order to supply better dwellings to the labouring classes ?" " What means ought to be adopted for improving the management of workhouses ?" In addition to these, various questions in refer ence to finance and taxation were brought under consideration. As regards the manner in which the different subjects have been dealt with, it has been generally admitted that considerable ability has been dis played throughout in the addresses of the presi dents, in the numerous papers which had been read, and in the " tone" which has characterised the dis cussions. With respect to the presidentship, it is an agreeable task to be enabled to confirm the compli mentary language in which Lord Shaftesbury has been alluded to for the zealous and able way in which he has discharged his somewhat arduous duties— passing from one department to another, and join ing in a discussion whenever he felt that a favourably occasion presented itself. His health, however, ap - peared to fail him towards the close of the proceed ings, and it was doubtful whether he would be ona abled to preside at the annual banquet on Tuesday ; but, faithful to his trust, his lordship appeared in his place on that occasion, and although suffering severely from an impaired voice, fulfilled his task with a degree of skill which greatly contributed to the entertainment of the evening. One memorable feature tobe observed throughout the Congress was the appearance of Lord Brougham, the president of the council. It had long been doubted by many whether hislordship's health would admit of his undergoing the journey to Manchester and bearing the fatigue incidental to his responsible position ; but, to the satisfaction—if not to the ac tual surprise—of every one, he was at the post as signed to him on thesecond day of the Congress, and delivered an address which was afterwards given at length in these columns. For the succeeding two or three days he was to bnseen, under the watchful care of a gentleman whoie_ arm afforded him the support he required, entering one of the sections of a department, and, after listening for a brief period to the proceedings, then going on, slowly creeping along the corridors, to a carriage awaiting him at the entrance, surrounded by eager gazers, who, having heard something of the many useful deeds of Lord Brougham, were anxious to have a glimpse of his venerable face. On such occasions it was interesting to observe the respect paid to his lordship in thelooks of the bystanders, as well as in many of the remarks which emanated from them, although it was too evi dent that in several instances he was little known to those who beheld him, except by name. One in dividual in the throng, and a member of the pro vincial police force, was sagacious enough to observe that " he believed his lordship had been a clever man in his time, but he was past work now." That this remark was true in one respect was too painfully evident, for albeit Lord Brougham, in the address he delivered and in the brief speech he made at the meeting of working men at the Free-trade Hall, gave sufficient proof that the powers of his mind are but little diminished, his physical decrepitude is such as would prevent a man less mentally active from any longer attempting the responsible duties of a public orator. Upon this subject the observa tions made by the Earl of Shaftesbury at the close of the meeting of council, and recorded above, were especially apposite, and the cheers which followed showed that the high respect entertained for the venerable statesman is now mingled with feelings of unfeigned sympathy. It is but right to state that amongst the various public entertainments which the members of the as sociation have had an opportunity of witnessing should be mentioned the performance of " Antony and Cleopatra" at the Prince's Theatre, the repre sentation of Tom Taylor's new comedy of " A Les son for Life" at the Theatre Royal, and a ballad concert at the Free-trade Hall, in which the able services of Mr. George Dolby were conspicuous as the manager ; Madame Sainton-Dolby, Miss Louisa Pyne, Mr. W. H. Weiss, and Mr. George Perrin were the principal singers ; and M. Sainton and Herr Meyer Lutz were the distinguished instrumen talists. The concert was a great success, and tended greatly to remove an impression which has been sometimes entertained that the public will not ex tend their patronage to such favourite vocalists as Madame Sainton-Dolby and Miss Louisa Pyne un less they associate themselves with the performance of classical music. In regard to the performance of 4, Antony and Cleopatra," it is not too much to say that the play has been produced in a style of mag nificent and classic taste which amply justify all the encomiums that have been passed upon it ; and Mr. Tom Taylor, in a letter which he has just addressed to the Manchester Guardian, pays a well-merited tribute to the manager, Mr. Calvert (who perso nates the part of Antony), when he says, " This re vival appeared to me quite deserving to rank with the best of those of Macready or Charles Kean." Mr. Taylor's visit to Manchester was for the pur pose of superintending the production of his own comedy, which, being slight in structure and some what deficient in dramatic action, has been attended with less success than usually marks the productions - of this able and prolific writer. TIMES.—In the universal race of life there is always that which beats all competitors, though they be not without merit. All the proper qualities unite and culminate in one individual. It is a kind provision of nature, for we owe to it that simplicity in the object to the contemplated which invests human affairs with an epic character, and certainly makes them at once easy and interesting. To this we owe the great poet, of every age, the great conqueror, the great patriot, the great dramatist, the great painter, the South Sea Bubble of last century, and the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com pany of this. There is no longer any occasion to rummage through whole files of railway reports. Better burn them all, and confine oneself hence forth to the study of the one perfect specimen. 'They that have money to lose, or experience to acquire, need go no further. There is only one Railway Company, and it is the London, Chatham, and Dover, and evidently Sir Morton Peto is its prophet. The lawyers are concentrati ng th e i r at tention upon it, and before Easter the House of Commons will find themselves admiring the com plex organisation and colossal proportions of the model. We could not usually recommend to the general reader the careful perusal of four or five columns, with references to appendices, but, coin pared with the gigantic bulk of the transaction and their lofty daring, this is an " Iliad" in a nut-shell. The Report of the Committee of Investigation into the affairs of the Company has been closely followed by the Remarks of the Directors, and if there be any question, we have now both sides of it. But as the Report is confined to the simple statement of facts, and opinions are as much as possible avoided, hardly a question is raised, and the answers amount to nothing but a plausible counter-statement. In deed, the authors of the Report frankly confess them selves at fault. They cannot unravel the tangle in which directors, contractors, and all sorts of people before and behind the scenes have enveloped them selves. Sir Morton, thus far, is as safe as Fair Rosa mond in her fabled labyrinth. There is a huge and motley fabric of shares, preference shares, deben tures, private loans, and documents that represented nothing paid, nothing done, neither debt, obligation, nor value ; and it is impossible even to guess how one rests on another, and how far the treacherous substratum will bear the apparently solid surface. The best comparison that offers itself is the moun tain of material left by one of those immenseThames side fires. You see a field of growing corn, with charred beams and twisted iron cropping out of the surface, but are dismayed to hear that far under the surface there are a thousand tons of butter. Parlia ment has carefully prescribed the successive stages by which railway credit is to be constructed, but Parliament, it would now appear, cannot, or at least does not, secure that the stages upon which everything is to depend shall not be of imitative and fictitious material. Parliament ordains an audit, but who is to choose the auditor, and what company will choose one who will think it his duty to declare it bankrupt ? The London, Chatham, and Dover, we may say for the benefit of any one who may wish to write its epic, is the Nemesis of our railway legislation. It took its origin out of a great Parliamentary default, and it shares with holier things the comment thatthe greatest crimes are done in the best of causes. In the early days of railways Parliament would not allow one near Greenwich Observatory, or near the arsenals and dockyards, or, if not absolutely necessary, in the metropolis. So it wisely compelled travellers bound for the Continent or the south-east coasts to go nearly half the way to Brighton, then only graciously per mitting them to tack about at right angles and shape their course for Dover. As the traffic increased, and as railways were found not such bad neighbours as had once been apprehended, this came at last to be thought monstrous, and, after various unsuccessful or imperfect attempts to rectify matters, the London, Chatham, and Dover was started in order to provide what may be called a Thames and Continental Rail way. The only fault about the project was that which has been inscribed over many a ruined dynasty and many a wasted life—the amendment came too late. The ground was preoccupied. At the very best the prize would have to be divided ; and an embryo scheme would have to struggle many years with a perfected system. The London, Chatham, and Dover found that it wanted everything. It could only start with a trunk line leading, it might almost be said, from nowhere to nowhere. It wanted a ter minus, or rather termini ; it wanted branches, it wanted extensions, it wanted steamboat services, it wanted bridges over the Thames. It wanted suburban traffic, it wanted its own line to the Crystal Palace, it wanted Metropolitan extensions and Northern communication, it wanted additional rails, it wanted everything that every other com pany had, otherwise it would have that one resource less in competing with the other company. This, too, had to be done in a period of excitement and speculation, when prices were high, when city land was selling ac more than £lO the square foot, and when a crowd of rival companies were bidding for ground, if only to stand on, and keep others out of it. Then, all these things had to be done at once, and a single omission or defeat might spoil many successes and an im mense expenditure. What we are describing is not only a fact ;it is more than a fact—a mental posses sion. What the Grand Trunk was some years ago, what the Czar is to Russophobists, the Pope to Pro testant old women, and the Great Beast to the stu dent of Revelations, the London, Chatham, and Dover has been for several years to the stationary, in-dwelling people of this metropolis. No Londoner has looked at the papers for years without half ex pecting to see the London, Chatham, and Dover intended to go through his house, or over it, or under it, or, worse still, just behind or j ust before it or possibly to do both or all these things. But this was a necessity in the case, for it wash aut vialar2 aut 7i ihil ; and, as they say, " When te d drives, needs must." If it be any extenuation that such was the necessity, and that in no other way was the battle to be fought with the least chance of success, then we may allow the London, Chatham, and Dover the customary French plea of " extenuating circum stances," whatever that be worth. But there can be no excuse for a purely fictitious and illusory compli ance with Parliamentary regulations, and for bor rowing money from the confiding public upon the pretence of work done that had not even been touched, and of shares taken and paid up thatexisted only in imagination. There can be n o excuse for a process which has inflicted ruin on innocent people to the amount of several millions of pounds, plun dering not only shareholders , who might lay in their account for some risk, but even those who thought they were lending sums of money to be repaid, a ft er a stated term, to the very farthing. Parliament has done its best to mark the difference between the speculator and investor, and to preve n t th e f ormer from abusing the confidence of the latter. I n p ro per di s trust of the partial estimates put forth by projec tors and their professional friends, it has at once con ceded lendingpowers and confined them within cau tious limits. If there be any excuse at all for the present inconvenience suffered by the holders of the later debentures, and f or th e t o t a l l oss which they'-reasonably apprehend, th en P ar li ame nt has laboured in vain, and all the securities it has de vised are good for nothing. Parliament is now bound to defend itself, and to prove its work good in law, if that can be proved. W hen it made, and made over again, with reiterated force and exact ness, the wholesome provision that a company should not be allowed to issue debentures till a cer tain proportion of shares had been subscribed for, and, in a certain proportion, paid up, it cannot have intended by this a mere exchange of documents be tween a secretary and a contractor, with no more solid foundation than works contracted for but not yet begun. When it attempted to secure that money should only be borrowed in a fixed proportion to the shares actually taken and the calls actually paid up, it could not possibly mean by this the mere hypothecation of shares with a contractor, leaving the company chargeable with the discount there might be upon sales to be effected. The directors, in their remarks, claim by general usage the right to sell shares at a discount; but the transaction we have described, and which is not and cannot be denied by the directors, is no sale at all, and certainly is not such a compliance with rules guarding the issue of debentures as Parliament intended. When, too, it provided a public audit, it could not intend one that should exclude from view enormous loan transactions represented by paper in the private desk of the secretary. The committee of investigation has done its work very tenderly, and has abstained even from comment when it was possible to do so ; but the facts elicited speak for themselves, and cannot but have their true character assigned to them in the Court of Chancery. POST.—London is very dull just at present. Idlers and loungers take little interest in the reports of the heavy Reform artillery with which Mr. Bright imagines he is mowing down an obstinately hostile aristocracy. Foreign news is uninteresting. " No fellow" can make out the Cretan telegrams or settle the future status of the King of Saxony ; and were it not for the defeats of Achievement, there would be positively nothing to think about. In a moment highly characteristic of what has been called "the silly season," it appears to have occurred to one of that class who find even the opportunities offered by the Turf not sufficiently easy to part them from their money, that it would be a great idea to trans plant Baden to London. Instead of being bored with bookmaking, and worried with waiting for telegrams, this ingenious lover of excitement con ceived the notion of a gambling revival. There were certain difficulties in the way, in the shape of rather awkward laws, and some remarkably sev e re pains and penalties. But it seems to have been thought that Sir Richard Mayne's principle is—" he Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., at Elgin. On Wednesday Mr. Grant Duff met his consti tuents at Elgin. There was a large attendance of electors and non-electors. Ex-Baillic hay was called to the chair, and introduced Mr. Grant Duff, who was received with cordiality. Mr. GRANT DUFF said—For the first time since 1858 your representative comes before you as a mem ber of a discomfited party—discomfited, I trust, not for long, but nevertheless discomfited. I know not what were the reflections of our distinguished leader as he went homeward in the early June morning after the division on Lord Dunkellin's amendment. Surely they might, with propriety, have been summed up in the words of Sir John Falstaff, " I have led my ragamuffins where they are peppered; there is not three of my one hundred and fifty alive." (Applause.) The elections of last year resulted in giving the Liberal party—for general Liberal pur poses—a large majority. It has been said that it was a Palmerston majority, but of that there was no evidence. When the Palmerston cry was likely to be useful it was, of course, freely used, just as the Reform cry was used in places where it was likely to be useful; but the real question which was put to and answered by the country was simply the ques tion, are we to be progressing or standing still? The country has decided for progress. No reasonable human being expected Lord Palmerston to lead the new House of Commons, and just a year ago he closed his long, and, on the whole, honourable career, passing away amidst the lamentations of many who had spent the best part of their middle life in oppos ing him, and least regretted by those who, having supported him when he had comparatively few friends, felt that he had lived on into a time which it was contrary to the very nature of things he should be able to understand, and in which he was becom- ing—if indeed he had not rather already become —a power for evil, and not for good. His vacant place was filled by Lord Russell, as was natural and inevitable. No member of a party which boasts to move with the times could be blind to the disadvantage of replacing an octogena- rian chief by a chief well on in the seventies. The work of reconstructing the Government proceeded through the winter. The choice of men to fill up the non-cabinet offices gave general satisfaction ; especially were people pleased when Mr. Stansfeld, who was driven from a subordinate post in a very ingenious way during the last Parliament, rejoined the ',administration in a more dignified capacity. The re-arrangement of the Cabinet was not so suc cessful, and those who understand the House of Commons best will not, I think, disagree with me when I say that the mistakes made in this important matter have led, and may yet lead, to calamitous results. Very early in the session I saw around me all the symptoms which preceded the fall of the Pal merston Government in February, 18.58, and he must have been indeed dull who did not perceive that her Majesty's late advisers would soon land in the Liberal coach all the innocent passengers in what the Yankee mail-driver more expressively than classically described a most unhandsome nip and fri gate of a fix. (Laughter.) Meeting Parliament as they did, with a weakened Cabinet, and a House of Commons with regard to which they could know nothing except that they commanded a large ma jority for general Liberal purposes, it would surely seem that their wisest policy would have been to announce in the Queen's Speech a group of bills in which they could not have failed to carry all their party along with them. What the effects of such tactics would have been was shown in the splendid majorities which we obtained on the Oxford Tests Bill, so admirably brought forward by Mr. Cole ridge, the only . measure cn which the full strength of the Liberal party in the present Parliament has been put forth. Had this been done we should very soon have seen an improvement in the tone of their supporters. Those who were enthusiastic about the men would have been enthusiastic for the measures, and Ministers would have approached what ought to be the real work of the pre sent Parliament—the settlement of the Reform question—with infinitely greater chance of suc cess. The one obstacle in their way was, however, a perfectly fatal one. Mr. Gladstone, - who during the last quarter of a century has been slowly con verted to Liberal opinions, has not yet even in so simple a matter as church rates adopted the views which are held by the overwhelming majority of his supporters. This was an unfortunate thing for the Liberal party, and, above all, an unfortunate thing for those who wished to see a Reform Bill passed without the revivaL of the bitter political animosi ties of 1832. I am: not sure; howeveri- that it was at all an unfortunate thing :for Mr. Gladstone—even if it had been possible to prevail upon him to be a party to the abolition of church rates, or to giving the full advantage of the universities to persons who dissented from the Church of England. His name could never have been prominently connected with the measures. It was otherwise with reform, by which he had by a happy accident now committed himself in the House of Commons, even in his most Tory phase. By making himself the champion of that great cause, and thoroughly identifying himself with the biggest piece of political work that lies at present before us, Mr. Gladstone could reckon on enormously increasing his personal popularity, if not upon obtaining sufficient influence to check the ad vance of his followers in directions where he is not willing to go with them. For this purpose nothing could be better than what has happened. 'f o bring forward a Reform Bill which all sincere Reformers would be obliged to support, whether they did or did not approve of its details, and of the time of its introduction, to declare that the Government would stand or fall by it, conscious that reform must triumph in the near future, and that its martyrs in 1866 would be its saints before many years were over, was surely, in Mr. Gladstone's position, the most natural and judicious thing in the world. Looking at the matter, as I do, from the point o view of one who is so anxious to see the Libera party victorious at all points, the course I should like to have seen taken since the death of Lord Palmerston would have been something of this sort—first, to have constructed the Cabinet in the way best calculated to command the confidence of the party. Second, to have brought forward just measures, as I have suggested, which could not have failed in their passage through the house to have welded us together. Third, to have pledged the honour of the Government to have introduced and read a first time before the end of the session a comprehensive measure of reform. Fourth, to have introduced a large, wise, and care fully elaborated measure, which the enemies of re form might indeed have opposed, but which would not have required a Government which was pledged to it to change its front in the face of the enemy. After a few further observations the hon. gentle man resumed his seat amidst loud cheers. who grumbles in secret don't grumble at all." By avoiding the opening of a special house, and the employment of the usual - staff, it was imagined that the notice of the police would be escaped, and that the Kursaal might flourish, undisturbed if estab lished in the proverbial castle of the Englishman. This delusion, however, like many others, was soon to be dispelled ; for when a person of some position establishes a roulette table, and himself wields the rake--when his table is surrounded by nightly assem blages of the men who are in town, and is graced by all that description of beauty and fashion which usually swarms where easily won money is carelessly disposed of —rumour soon spreads the news, and the new amusement becomes the topic of conversation. A correspondent called our attention to it on Wednesday, and those whom his letter concerns may thank him for his timely warning, which will no doubt put a stop to a very foolish proceed ing. llad this revival been allowed to go on a goodly company would have been one night caught in the meshes of police nets, and certainly disagree able exposure, and possibly unpleasant punishment, would have been inflicted. Society has copied, and is copying, too many fashions, but this last imita tion of the pleasant vices of the banks of the Rhine is more than can be tolerated, and we have no doubt that our public mention of it will induce those who are engaged iu it to abandon their plan. A man of social position holding the office of croupier at a gambling table, and wielding the official rake, occu pies a post almost as ridiculous as it is discreditable; while into the painful questions of money won and money lost their enter considerations which we bad rather not entertain. Those to whom our corre spondent has alluded will do well in future to con fine themselves to the more legitimate excitements of whist and of racing ; and, while visiting their sins upon their relations, they should forbear to inflict upon them not only debts and pain, but also positive disgrace. COUNTRY MARKETS. ---o MANCIIES TER-THURSDAY. At our market this morning business generally pro ceeded slowly. The best qualities of wheat and flour met a limited sale only, but holders were firm at fully last week's rates, while other sorts were in favour of buyers. Old oats were id and new 2d per 431 b. lower. Oatmeal declined 6d and is per load. In beans no change was ob servable. Indian corn was rather cheaper. BIRMINGHAM-THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a good supply of wheat, and all except the dry qualities were is to 2s per qr. lower. Barley offering at a similar reduction. Oats held for pre vious rates. Beans tending downwards. Peas unaltered. BRIS T OL-THURSDAY. On our market this afternoon there was a fair supply of English wheat, which sold slowly at is per qr. below last week's prices, except for the finest qualities. For foreign there was more inquiry, but very little business done. Of malting barley there was a large quantity offering ; the finer sorts maintained their value, but secondary descrip tions were quite is per qr. cheaper. Grinding unaltered. BURY ST. EDMUNDS—WEDNEsDay. We had a good show of wheat at our market to-day. Millers were not at all anxious buyers, and the trade was very slow, at a decline of fully is per qr. on last week. The supply of malting barley was large, and, without quo table difference in the value, a -dull trade, prevailed towards the market. EDINBURGH—WEDNESDAY. Wheat on the top, 2s Od up average, 3s 3d up. Barley on the top, is Od down average, is 4d down. Oats on the top, Os 6d up average, is 4d down. Total supply and sales. Wheat 791 qrs sold 436 Barley 2113 qrs sold 1593 Oats 1390 qrs sold 1098 Beans 8 qrs sold 8 Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 45s 6d; extra superfine, 44s Od; superfine, 42s 6cl; fine, 41s Od. Average prices. Wheat, 56s bd 1 Oats, 2Bs 8d Barley, 3ss Od i Beans ...58s 7d GLASGOW—WEDNEsDAY. The weather has continued good. The foreign arrivals consisted of only 1,820 qrs. of barley, 268 qrs. of beans, 707 sacks of flour; but the supplies by railway were liberal of most articles. The business has been less active, with out materially affecting the value of wheat and flour. At this day's market there was the usual attendance. Wheat and flour, although quiet, were held at previous rates. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Oct. 20. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. If. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet .....Nov. 5. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 8 China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Oct 20. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 14. faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Oct. 13. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 20 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Oot. 13 Ditto, via Marseilles .. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 13. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 11. Mauritius, via Southampton • Oct. 20 Ditto, via Marseil.ei Oct. 14 Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United btates and British North America, by Bri- doh packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- ton Ditto, via Cork ... Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry „Oct. 12. Wsat Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ....Oct, Le. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) .................. ........... ..Oct. 15 Cuba and Mexico Bermuda, via Halifax Bahamas, via New York. Oct. 18 POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—A popular singer or actor or a successful prize-fighter Will sometimes have a run entering into tens of thousands of copies; but the demand will suddenly collapse, and their names will be heard no more. Public men, whose names are distinguished in connection with the pulpit, with lite rature, science, or art, or in the legislature, are in constant demand, notwithstanding that the especial rage of thi n collection of portraits has within the last 12 months con siderably subsided. Royal portraiture is always popula r, and perhaps nothing can more strikingly illustrate the loyalty of Englishmen than the constant demand for por traits of members of the reigning family. Just about the period of the marriage of the Prince of Wales, a photo - in Brussels had the good fortune to obtain sittings from the Queen and several members of the royal family , including the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandre, and the sale of those portraits exceeded two millions of copies. One photographer alone in this country 1339 ' during the last few years, issued upwards of half a million y early of members of the royal family. After the roya l . family, the popular statesmen are the greatest favou ritee• Lord Palmerston during his life and for some little tim e after his death being in greatest demand. If the sale ° f men's portraits afford any indication of the popularity of their principles, it is tolerably manifest that Libe" ralism obtains very strongly in this country, the circa" lation of the portraits being in the ratio of ten of Glad.- stone to one of Derby, who is, however, judged by 018 standard, the most popular of the Conservatives. On t he . other hand, the portraits of Louis Napoleon and Garibal di have about an equal popularity, the rage for the port rait s of the latter being more spasmodic, and of the former In° r steady. After statesmen, popular literary men and clergy men are most iu demand; and after these men of s cienc e and artists ; and, lastly, popular actors and singer °. Bishops seem to circulate in virtue of their rank, tb . Archbishop of Canterbury having the most extended Or culation, whilst clergymen and ministers are prized Ora_ in virtue of their popularity. Mr. Spurgeon was for time in very large circulation; Mr. Binney less eaten' sively, but more constantly.—British, Quarterly Be llew ' new number. —00! Births. ADAMS—On the 11th inst., at 92, Inverness-terracolVnoi sington- gardens, the wife of George E. Adams , Lsql - a son. CLARK— On the 9th inst., at Ipswich, tho wife of the Ile F. S. Clark, of a son. HUBBARD —On the 11th inst., at 17, Alma-road, C 313°11- bury, Mrs. John S. Hubbard, of a son. 0 HILL —On the 9th inst., the wife of Pearson Hill, DSql a son and heir. Marriages. va• ANSTRUTHER— ANDERSON— On the 11th inst., at House, Ayrshire, James Anstruther, Esq., Tree, s 'itos' Ayrshire, to Annabella Agnes, eldest daughter of r " : " Anderson, Esq., of Glendrisaig, advocate. „ r ge'. 4 / THomsos—FAURAR—On the llth inst. at St. u e sf - Hanover-square, Andrew Thomson, isq., t rr ir Inner Temple, and of New-square, Lincoln's-inn , L ' iL- f • ter-at-law, to Ada Rose, elder surviving daughtel ° Farrar, Esq., of Doctors'-commons and Ecclest° square. _ Deaths. rz n ift, AucuEß—On the 10th inst. at 17, Mornin ton-road,riti Wm. Archer, Esq., late Deputy of the Vintry Wa r ' of London. ot, COSTA—On the 11th inst., at 19, Warrington -cresee Maida-hill, E. C. M. Da Costa, Esq., aged 70. , r , RIVERS—On the 11th inst ,at 97, Camberwell - r oad, `. 11. Rivers, representative . of 'Messrs. J. C. Wood 0 brewers, Westminster. 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