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(17 NEW OXFORD STREET , I S THE V I DEPARTMENT for OVERCOATS, DRESS and FROCK COATS, and READY - MADE CLOTHING of every description, At E. MOSES & SON'S. 08 NEW OXFORD STREET, IS THE DEPARTMENT for MECHANICS' CLOTHING and OUTFITS, At E. MOSES & SON'S. 1 lIART STREET, IS THE DEPART MENT f or JUVENILE ES & CLOTHINGSON of every description, 2 HART STREET, IS THE DEPART MENT for HATS and CAPS, At E. MOSES & SON'S. HART STREET, IS THE DEPART MENT for LADIES' RIDING HABITS, LIVERIES, and other CLOTHING MADE TO ORDER, At E. MOSES & SON'S. 137 TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD, is subivided into Departments for HATS and CAPS, BOOTS and SHOES, and SHIRTS, HOSIERY, PORTMANTEAUS, and RAILWAY RUGS, At E. MOSES & SON'S. TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD, 138, is subdivided into Departments for OUTFITS, MECHANICS' CLOTHING, OVERCOATS, DRESS and FROCK COATS, and READY MADE CLOTHING of every description, At E. MOSES & SON'S. EUSTON ROAD, IS SUBDIVIDED 283, into Departments for JUVENILE CLOTHING, LADIES' RIDING lIABITS, LIVERIES and other CLOTHING MADE TO ORDER, At E. MOSES & SON'S. N. ,--ALL ARTICLES ARE MARKED IN .'LAIN FIGURES THE LOWEST PRICES, FROM WHICH NO ABATEMENT CAN BE MADE. .At E. MOSES SON'S. N.B.—SHOULD ANY ARTICLE NOT BE APPROVED OF IT WILL BE EXCHANGED OR THE E. MO MONEY SES SON WILL BE RETURNED, At 3c 'S. LIST OF PRICES WITH FASHION CARD, AND RULES FOR SELF-MEASUREMENT, At GRATIS AND S P& SON SEE. E. MOSE. MOSES & SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS 1 --J• are closed every Friday at Sunset till Saturday at Sunset, when business is resumed till 11 o'clock. Xlll, MOSES & SON, CORNER OF MINORIES and ALDGATE, NEW OXFORD STREET, Corn©r of HART STREET, and Corner of TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD and RESTON ROAD Law at BILLDFOILD, IarANCOCK and BURBROOK, Jewellers, &c., JLI to the Prince of Wales, beg to announce that their ONLY ADDRESS is 37, CONDUIT-STREET, five doors from Bond-street. NOTICE. —C. F. HANCOCK, SON, and CO., Jewellers and Silversmiths to the Queen and Prince and Princess of Wales, beg respectfully to state that their Only Address is 38 and 39, BRUTON-STREET, corner of Bond-street, London.—lmmediate cash given for jewels and plate.—N.B. A very large stock of presentation and second-hand plate. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. 24m.—Afternoon, 6h. 50m. To-Moßßow.-Morning, 7h. 15m.—Afternoon, 7h. 44m. - • I ; gi r j ' j t „IV • r 4,4 LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1866. The House of Commons is evidently fully sens ible of the importance of its duties during the pre sent visitation of Cholera. The Public Health Bill has been hurried on through the necessary stages, and the standing orders were suspended to allow it to be read a third time and passed last evening. An additional proviso was introduced into one of the latter clauses, giving to the Privy Council wide discretionary powers with regard to cholera and other epidemics. This is very necessary, for in cases of this kind promptitude is of the greatest possible importance, and we have already had far too much of hesitation, uncer tainty, and timidity in dealing with the enemy. Cholera waits for no routine; it will not stand still while rival authorities are measuring out their respective duties and considering minor points of legality and obligations. Only last night an incident occurred which proved the urgent need that exists for strengthening the hands of the Privy Council. Captain VIVIAN asked the Home Secre tary whether his attention had been drawn to a case which was reported from the Thames-street Police-office. Mr. WILLS, a surgeon, of the dis trict of St. Botolph, applied to the magistrate for an order to destroy some infected clothing, left in a house in which there had been three violent cases of Asiatic Cholera, two of which proved fatal. Mr. Wills stated that he had been informed that the Privy Council had given orders that in all houses where cholera had shown itself proper disin fectants should be applied, and every article of clothing should be destroyed. The magistrate said he had no power to act, and the Whitechapel Board of Works also shrunk from giving the order. Mr. WALroLE had not heard of the case, and did not know the extent of his own powers if he had been applied to. We may hope, therefore, that Mr. WILLS, or some other party, has taken upon himself the responsibility of destroying these articles. In cases like this men may well be pardoned for over stepping the rigid limits of their legal powers, but at the same time it is quite time that some properly qualified authority should be able to give explicit directions in all such matters. The existing laws are lamentably deficient, and we have no doubt that the Public Health Bill will be passed without loss of time through the Upper House, since there is a growing conviction that sanitary regulations must be enforced if we wish to preserve the public health. Several very useful clauses were added to the bill last night—one on the suggestion of Mr. CHAM BERS giving power to the nuisances authority to require payment of costs or expenses from the owner or occupier, in case of the occupier paying the latter to deduct the same from the rent. This is an excellent provision, and will bring landlords to their senses. Every one familiar with the poorer class of houses must know the great difficulty which tenants often find in getting any necessary repairs done or nuisances removed. Very often they are behind hand with their payments and are fearful of a notice to quit ; while even if they are able to pay, they know the threat of leaving to be no empty one, since plenty of occupants are forth coming for the worst kept dwelling-places in London. Another very useful provision is that of clause 25, which provides for the removal of a person sick of an infectious disorder from an overcrowded room. To many of the clauses some exceptions were taken, but the objections were in every instance overruled, since all felt that it was better to risk minor inconveniences and occasional hardship to individuals than to continue any longer the uncertain system which produced so much wide-spread suffering and disease. The distress of the poor and populous districts at the East end under the present visitation of cholera and its attendant evils is very great, and we do not wonder that the wealthier and more fortunate dis tricts of the metropolis feel bound to assist them. There are never wanting charitable leaders in such good works, and already many valuable - suggestions have been made for the relief of those actually afflicted, and for the assistance of the thousand whose extreme destitution predisposes them to the attacks of the disease. There is some talk of erecting temporary hospitals for the reception of cholera cases, and this would be a very sensible plan, since every serious case in the crowded, ill-drained alleys, where fresh air and pure water are unknown luxuries, tends to spread the disease still more widely. Our regular hospitals would not be able to provide ac commodation for any large increase of cases, even were it desirable to introduce cholera patients among other diseases. As yet the burden has fallen exclu sively on one hospital, where it has been nobly and courageously borne, though taxing the resources of the institution and the powers of the whole staff to the very utmost. No doubt public support will be forthcoming liberally on behalf of the London Hospital, which possesses extraordinary claims on the sympathy and assistance of the public. A very valuable suggestion has just been made by a distin guished lady, whose efforts on behalf of her suffering fellow-creatures have previously produced substan- tial results. Mrs. GLADSTONE writes to the Times that it occurred to her that an effec tual means of assisting the London Hos pitals, under the present severe pressure on its resources, would be to provide a temporary home for the children who are recovering from cholera, many of whom are orphans. The plan has already been set on foot, and the managers now lack funds, which we are confident will be promptly forthcom ing as soon as the need is known. In every case of extended sickness the children are great sufferers. Their tender age invariably makes them furnish the principal number of victims, while they suffer indi rectly when their parents and relatives are laid up. Who can help feeling for the poor little orphans sick in the wards of great London Hospitals needing the tender and watchful care which convalescent chil dren so greatly require? Every mother's heart must respond to Mr. GLADSTONE'S appeal, and those to whom the claims of helpless childhood speak less powerfully will readily admit the valuable assistance which the removal of these little ones will render the overcrowded hospital. It is not a time to mea sure obligations too narrowly ; we should each do what we can, and while the Legislature is conferring the necessary powers, and the local authorities are doing their best to confront the evil, private enterprise can find plenty of scope in assisting and forwarding works of this character. It must be remembered that poverty is a great predisposer to disease ' - and if the old story which attribates a large proportion of the deaths from an epidemic to fear be founded on fact, still more justly might a greater share be attributed to that pressing want " Which numbs the soul with icy hand," and lowers the vital force below the power of re sistance. In mitigating the horrors of distress we are diminishing the spread of cholera, a danger which concerns us all. It seems as if we were never to hear the last of the Jamaica question, and as if the doubts and difficulties to which it has given rise were not to be easily and speedily solved. Last night in the House of Lords the Earl of RO3INEY asked the Secretary for the Colonies some questions relative to the con dition of Jamaica. The noble lord truly added that there were " certain persons so prejudiced on the matter that no answer that could be given would be satisfactory to them." Lord CARNARVON made a long statement in reply, in which he treated the difficult subject very successfully. He gave it as his opinion that no man who looked into the cir cumstances of the case could doubt " the very grave necessity which rested upon those in authority to adopt the most rigorous measures to repress the disorders ; but, on the other hand, it was equally clear that there have been a few cases of undoubted cruelty, some cases of undoubted oppression, and some of undoubted injustice." The distinction is well drawn here between sanctioning an undue exercise of severity, and passing the necessary condemnation which some are so prone to do. According to the remarks of the members of the Jamaica Committee, and of those who have taken up this matter in an extreme view, we might come to the conclusion that there had been no outbreak at all, and that the colonial authorities, civil and military, had made the excuse of a trifling disturbance to perpetrate cruelties and excesses that were revolting to humanity. Lord CARNARVON, while condemning the course pursued in GORDON'S case, declared his belief that there " can be no doubt that both Mr. EYRE, who accepts the whole responsibility, and the officers who acted in subordination to him acted with most complete bona fides in the matter, per sonal feelings and irrelevant considerations were entirely absent from their minds, and however mis taken they were they believed they were performing their duty. Whatever offence Mr. EYRE has com mitted murder is certainly not the offence that can be charged against him, and I believe such a charge would be utterly repugnant to the common sense of Englishmen." Nothing could be better put than this, and it serves as a complete answer to the unseemly remarks and unfounded charges made in the House of Commons the other night, and, indeed, in various other places. There is one thing to say on behalf of Mr. EYRE, that those who criticise his conduct, and compare it with that of Lord CANNING in the Indian Mutiny, are apt to forget ; and that is, that he speedily sup pressed the outbreak, while the authorities in India, by their tameness and hesitation, allowed the natives to make great encroachments, and thus prolonged the horrors of the struggle. Lord CARNARVON said that he had obtained the admiration of his country by rising above the pre judices and passions of the moment, and it was to the fatal want of that quality in Mr. EYRE that we may trace at least half of the mischief that arose through the unnecessary prolongation of martial This is certainly quite correct, but at the same time had Lord CANNING, and those acting in con cert with him, displayed half Mr. EYRE'S decision much of the time and money wasted in quel ling the mutiny would have been saved, and also all the dreadful cruelties inflicted upon Law. the Europeans would have been prevented. This part of the argument always escapes the notice of Mr. BRIGHT and his friends when they are raving about the Jamaica question. They do not pay any attention to the fact that the severities which were in some instances rudely carried on by the authorities were not to be compared in the slightest degree to the cruelties which the blacks al ways perpetrate when roused to insurrection. Lord CARNARVON stated that it was the duty of her MA JESTY'S Government to look into the state of the laws affecting the West Indian colonies and further considering the expediency of drawing up a short and simple code of regulations for the instruction and guidance of Governors who may be placed in circumstances similar to those in which Mr. EYRE was placed. This would be very desirable in many respects ; and, as for the question of compensation, the noble lord wisely reserved his opinion on the subject, declaring he would wait for the reports of Sir JOHN GRANT, whom he thought a most capable man to grapple with the difficulties in Lis way. The negotiations for peace will be opened shortly at Prague. The King of PRUSSIA is about to return to Berlin, no doubt comparing himself to the great heroes and conquerors that fill the pages of his tory. There is one noticeable fact, however, that strikes our attention in all wars that the Prussians carry on, and that is that they act without the slightest regard to the dictates of honour and jus tice. Thus we hear that the Prussian troops en tered Mannheim and Heidelberg on the night of the Ist inst. The Official Gazette of Berlin states that it has been authorised to repudiate as " a malicious calumny" the intelligence put forth by the Bavarian Gazette, to the effect that the Prussian army had acted con trary to the conditions of the armistice, and had continued its march into Bavaria : whereupon a detailed account is given in order to prove the falsity of the attack. It would, indeed, be a pity for any one to go out of their way to make calumnious assertions concerning the doings of Prussia, for, Heaven knows, the plain unvarnished truth is quite bad enough. It does not seem, however, that the Official Gazette makes out a very good case, notwithstanding all its virtuous indignation. It declares that the terms of the armistice agreed upon by Herr Von der PFORDTEN, stipulated that the 2d of August should be the time at which the armistice should commence. This is an excuse and defence which no honest man would accept of, be he a civil or a military authority ; but the meaning of it is made quite clear by the allusion made to the second article, which declares that the military de tails of the said armistice, and the line of demarca tion for both armies to observe, should be settled on the basis of the uti-possidetis. The whole course pursued by the Prussians has been most contemptible, and shows that they have note particle of moderation. They have by this time secured in all conscience sufficient territory to make them take the lead in all treaties and compacts that will be made, and this petty striving after all they can pos sibly grasp at, by fair means or foul, is quite con temptible, and lowers them still more in the eyes of upright people. The official Gazette of Berlin w ill have en ough to do, we shoul d think, contradicting all the injurious reports that go about. It accuses the Ilanovoria n despatch with having falsified facts, and, on the principle of Satan reproving sin, it accuses Hanover of displaying a disregard for public morality. The semi-official North German Gazette declares that a Congress will not answer at the presen. time. No doubt even Herr You 131smaRcii. won] 4 find it awkward to THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY ~ EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1866. declare at once before the representatives of Europe all that he means to appropriate, and all the advan tages, direct and indirect, that the Berlin Govern ment propose to reap from the effects of the late war. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROJI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Thursday Evening. The aspect of affairs in regard to Germany being settled for the moment there is a truce in the manufacture of alarming news. The most interest ing speculation I find to-day is contained in the letter of a correspondent of the Siecle, dated Eis grub, July 26. The letter says : " I have no hesitation in affirming that, as re gards the small States of the Hue of the Maine, Austria has given full permission to Prussia to do as she pleases. Once resigned to the exclusion from the Germanic Confederation, Austria says to Prus sia, Do as you like with the two Duchies of Hesse and Nassau, Hanover and Frankfort.' As a matter of course, the annexation of the Duchies of the Elbe are resolved upon. But as to what the King of Prussia will do with the various States of the Maine which are leagued against her nothing is yet absolutely decided. At head-quarters some speak of annexation pure and simple. Others speak of partial annexation. I expect, however, that nothing is yet decided upon." The Moniteur, after recapitulating its exertions to 'says that the delibe- rationsm e di a t e arisingwith a pacificfrom them objectemhave led to a happy re sult. Austria and Prussia have agreed upon an armistice for four weeks, and at the same time they have signed a preliminary convention which con tains the basis of peace. After referring to the difficulties which first existed, the Moniteur adds that Italy also agrees to the armistice, and the essential questions upon which the continuations of the war depended being overcome, one can antici pate, from the stipulations signed on the 26th of July at Nikolsburg, the guarantees of a definitive peace. _ Prince Napoleon Jerome having fulfilled his mis sion in Italy has left Ferrara, and is expected to join the Emperor at Vichy in the course of the week. The facts derived from the latest news are that the Prussians continue their march towards the interior of Bavaria. The Prussians corps of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg has profited by the circumstances of the last few days to progress, as near as possible, to the centre of that kingdom. It appears that the young girl at Tours, who was for so long a time in a state of lethargy, has died without regaining consciousness. She remained in an insensible state for 58 days. A medical man arrived from London, but the girl had been dead about an hour when he reached the house. A case of remedy worse than the disease has occurred at Pieneuf, in Brittany. A baker named Rouget, who had been very ill and in great pain for several weeks, was advised to try a remedy which would promote perspiration and cure the rheumatic pains. The remedy was to place a heap of leaves in the oven after the bread was withdrawn, and lie down upon them for some hours. A neighbour assisted him to get into the oven and shut the oven door. When he returned to see how the patient was getting on, the oven only contained a corpse, the embers having become re-heated. _ _ A trick, something after the model of one some time played in London, has been successfully adopted in Paris. As a countryman was walking upon the Boulevard du Prince Eugene he was accosted by an individual who proposed that they should take a walk together in the Champs de Mars. The pro position was accepted, and when they arrived there an apparent stranger came up who said he was a rich Pole, and he would give 20f. if they would show him the way to the Bois de Boulogne. All three proceeded thither. On arrival at Auteuil, which leads into the wood, the Pole said he should like to pay for a good breakfast, but as he had a great deal of money about him he wished first to hide it in the wood. lie took from his pocket what appeared to be three rolls of Napoleons, which the party concealed near a tree, telling his companions to mark the spot particularly so that they might get the gold again as they went back. The Pole, after they had proceeded further, said that instead of breakfast, upon second thoughts, it would be bet tert tar gy om t o o ad nwd to oa i t go f o o f r b a a ec goodmoney, at i d to i wn n ce n eu e ad , n b hd u e t gh a ee s tt t t et h hr at t e pr tochukel packets tos c u o no s f gold again. He hinted, however, that as they were strangers, the countryman ought to let him keep his purse as security. It will hardly be believed that the countryman was foolish enough to consent to both proposals, and gave the Pole his purse, which contained 165 francs. The countryman without de lay went to dig up the treasure. Of course, his two companions were not to be found at the spot where it was agreed that the three should meet again. A shade of distrust passed over his mind, and he opened the parcels. They contained only snuff and carrots ingeniously packed exactly in the same way as the changers pack up 20- p in ol o i n ce ey have not yet met with f F r r a e n n e c h p ie ban ees k . e r s T a h n e d either the Pole or his companion. Perhaps the Pole has gone back to Poland to join in the struggle which some of the Paris papers tells us will take plac' there for independence. At the last sitting of the Academy of Sciences, M. Babinet, a man of some authority in scientific matters, drew attention to the laying of the cable across the Atlantic. M. Babinet did full justice to English his fearsingenuity and perseverance, but ex pressed that the powe r o f t r ansmission would not be of long duration. M. Babinet ex hibited a thick cable which had been five years at the bottom of the Channel. The action of the salt water had penetrated to the very centre. Salt water would destroy the wire, however protected. The injurious action of salt water upon wire or metal was to the extent of a thousandth part of a yard per annum. " How," he asked, " could wire resist this enormous action ?" M. Babinet also said that from the depth of water in the Atlantic shocks were to be feared which would destroy the insula tion. The exterior substand round the cable ex hibited by M. Babinet was reduced to shreds by the action of the salt water. M. Babinet in conclusion said, " I have good reasons for believing that this time, like the previous one, the success of the At lantic cable will be but ephemeral." The Council of the Order of Advocates have fixed upon M. Alexandre Bibot and M. Edward Laferriere to pronounce the opening address at the ensuing legal Conference. The subjects of the speeches are to be Lord Erskine, the History of the rivalry between the Parliaments, the Intendants, and the Council of the King from the reign of Louis XI V. to the Revolution of 1789. The Emperor, who seems to be continually studying how he can best promote the comforts and interests of the mass of the population, has written a letter to the Minister of State, in which he makes various suggestions with a view to the better pro vision for workmen who may be injured or muti lated in the course of their labours. His Majesty calculates that if his suggestions be adopted, 800 pensions of 300 f. a year may be granted to work men who may have received injuries in the course of their labour. The weather is stormy and unsettled. The morning was exceedingly wet and cold. Between two and three in the afternoon there was a storm of thunder and lightning, and for a quarter of an hour the rain fell with abundance and violence more liberal than any one could desire. The " Empire is Peace," but the art of teaching " the young idea how to shoot " progresses mar vellously. An advertisement announces some ex periments to be made to-night at the Grand Gym nase of the Rue des Martyrs with a gun which can be fired sixty times in a minute. There is to be firing with the needle-gun at the same time to show by contrast what an insignificantly murderous in strument it is. A Paris paper states, too, that large numbers of the new guns (firing sixty times a minute, I suppose) have been supplied to the camp at Chalons. SPAIN AND CHILL—The steamer Cyclone, of Glasgow, was detained in Great Yarmouth Roads yester day, on suspicion of infringing the neutrality proclamation with respect to these countries. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. I The Double Murder in Somers Town. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE WAR IN GERMANY. STUTTGARD Aug 2. An armistice has been concluded between Wur ,emburg and Prussia. MENTZ, Aug. 2. An armistice has not yet been concluded between this fortress and Prussia, and the navigation of the Rhine is again interrupted. BERLIN, Aug. 3. M. Benedetti and Count Barral, the French and Italian Ambassadors, have returned to this city from the Prussian head-quarters. The Bank of Prussia has reduced its rate of dis count from 6 to 5 per cent. BOMBAY & MAURITIUS MAILS. MALTA, August 2. The Ceylon left at midnight yesterday, and the Pera leaves at 10 p.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 4th, and the latter at Southampton onthe 11th inst. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 3. The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamer Massilia, with the above mails, has arrived here, with 157 passengers, 29 boxes of specie value £lOO,OOO, 443 bales of silk value £44,300, 240 packages rhubarb, and 200 packages of sundries. The Massilia experienced fine weather throughout her passage. She was in quarantine at Gibraltar. The Egyptian fleet and French man-of-war Andromaque were at Alexandria. The Prince Consort, Hydra, and Assurance were at Malta. GIBRALTAR, July 29. The following British ships have arrived here from England :—Steamers —Robin Hood, Egyptian, Tiber, Macedon, Tanjore, and schooner Midge. The Gibraltar Chronicle says :—" It appears that Algeciras, following the example of Cadiz, imposes a quarantine of three days on arrivals from Gibral tar by sea. We have not heard whether Spain ex tends the quarantine on Barbary to her own for tresses in North Africa. The garrison of Ceuta receives its provisions from the adjoining Moorish territory, just as we receive ours from Tangiers. To act consistently, Spain should put Ceuta and her other settlements on the African coast in quarantine. We rather hope, however, that the needless inconvenience to which so many Spanish subjects would be exposed will lead to a reconsideration of the grounds on which the quar antine has been imposed on Morocco, and that when it is found, as we are sure it will be, that the quar antine cannot be justified by sanitary reasons, it will be removed. We learn from the Spanish jour nals that the quarantine on Valencia, imposed in consequence of the appearance of a single case of cholera, was removed by the Central Direction of Health at Madrid upon the complaint of the Gover nor of Valencia of the injury done to that city by the closing of other ports against its trade. The quarantine restrictions to which the vessels of nearly every country are now subject in Spanish ports, whilst profitable to a certain class of public func tionaries, are said to be telling seriously on the foreign trade and customs revenue of Spain. A private letter of the 17th July, from Algiers, gives a deplorable account of the destruction caused in that province by the locusts. Their invasion had lasted two months ; they had nearly eaten up the crops, and in many places stripped every green leaf from the trees. In some places the devastating insects lie on the ground a foot deep. The local authorities at one time gave sf. a quintal for the collection and destruction of the locusts, but had reduced the reward to two francs. Some of the cultivators had abandoned their farms, shut up their houses, and removed into Algiers in consequence of the loss of their crops. To prevent a repetition of the plague by the " langostines," or young of the locusts, just come out of the egg and covering the earth in all directions, the troops are distributed in parties over the fields to assist the cultivators in destroying the pest. Subscriptions, says the writer of this letter, have been opened in France and Algiers, to relieve the sufferings of the numbers who have been ruined by this terrible visitation. Her Majesty's steam troopship Urgent, which arrived a few days ago from the west coast of Africa with the 3d West India Regiment for Bar badoes, and has been kept in strict quarantine, yesterday transferred the regiment to her Majesty's troopship Simoom, which placed herself in quaran tine to receive them, and left this port for Barba does at sunset. The Urgent this morning received on board, under the usual quarantine precautions, the time-expired men and invalids of the different regiments serving on this station, and departs for Portsmouth this evening. The 2d, 4th, and sth batteries of artillery, under orders for Bermuda, will not leave at present, their departure having been countermanded. Colonel Maude, C. 8., V.C., h a ving completed his five years of service on the staff, proceeds with his family to England. Col. Maude's successor, as assistant adjutant-general, is Colonel Robert Lockhart Ross, late of the 93d Highlanders. London, 90 days' date, 501 e ; Paris, 8 days' sight, sf. 13c.; Marseilles, do., sf. 13c. 14c.; Genoa an d Brussels, do. do.; Madrid, do., 21 dis. ; Cadiz, d o. (pay in gold), par ; Seville, do., 11 dis. ; Ma laga, do., 11 dis. ; Barcelona, do., dis. to par ; Almeria, Valencia, and Alicante, do. do. Premium on sf. pieces, to 1 per cent. FRANCE. PARIS, August 2.—Two o'clock.—The market opened to-day on better quotations, but has since relapsed, and the majority of Stocks and Shares are now being dealt in at a reduction on yesterday's closing rates. Three per Cents. have declined 28c., v iz., 69f. 17c. Italian Fives, which opened at 52f. 95c., have receded to 52f., being a decline of 25c. ; and Credit Mobilier Shares, first quoted at 670 f., are now 6f. 50c. lower, viz., at 660 f. Comptoir d'Escompte are unchanged at 900 f. Three o'clock.—The market has closed as fol lows : per Cents 97 35 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 69 10 Do. end month 69 17 Credit Mobilier 665 Do. end month Credit Foncier — Do. end month — - RAIL' Bank Shares 3555 Italian Loan 52 Do. end month — Mexican Loan — Do. Builds — Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred rAYS. • For Account. Orleans Northern 1135 872 Lyons and Mediterranean 530 50 Southern *Western 560 Eastern Sardinian - 360 Austrian 395 Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roniau — Mr. PEABODY IN AMERICA.—The New York Times states that Mr. Peabody proposes to deposit with the Peabody Institute at Danvers the Queen's portrait and autograph letter, and Earl Russell's letter. Mr. Peabody has been passing a great part of July in Canada. After visiting its chief cities he went by the Magnet along the St. Lawrence to the Saguenay river, purposing to stay a short time with friends residing on the bank of that river ; and there the " travelling correspondent" of the New York Herald, who was on board the Magnet, leaves him on the 11th with a final compliment —" In a very short time from the departure of this despatch a very large number of courtly salmon will have looked up into the benevolent face of Mr. George Peabody, and failing, like many other irnportunates, to secure a check for any given number of pounds sterling, will yield up their own pounds fish—all they have—to his aged but honoured grasp." MR. ALDERMAN MECHL—At a meeting of the ward of Lime-street yesterday, Mr. Alderman Mechi com municated his intention of shortly resigning his aldermauic gown. Various private reasons were assigned by Mr. Mechi for the determination at which he had arrived, but he announced that his resolvo, made after ample conside ration, was inflexible. The kindest expressions of regret for the decision of the worthy alderman were made by those present at the meeting, and a committee of inhabi tants of the ward was appointed to take into consideration how they could best express the sense they entertained o AldermanMechi's high character, and of the public Services ho had rendered. ADJOURNED INQUEST-THIS DAY. This morning, Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Central Middlesex, resumed the inquiry into the cause of the deaths of Emma and Agnes Butcher, the children of Mary But cher, by whom they ware supposed to be murdered by drowning them in a tub, on the 21st ult. Inspector Fraser produced a certificate from Mr. Edward Mahoney, the assistant resident surgeon, that Mary Butcher was in an unfit state to attend. Mr. Fraser said that the doctor and nurse both said she was in a very doubtful state, one day better, and another day worse. One of the jury said he had seen her, and she seemed what he would call melancholy mad. James Butcher, the husband of the accused woman, said that he had seen his wife three times a day since last Fri day. She wanted to knew why she was at that place, and could not go home. He told her he was out of work, and she said sho supposed they were all starving, that the children were dead, and that he would die. Some of the jury intimated that they thought they had better come to a conclusion, and The learned Coroner, in summing up, pointed out that whatever the state of the woman's mind at the timo of the commission of the murder, asked if the jury were o opinion that she had committed it. A juror wished to know whether the woman was dressed at the time she was found in the water butt. The witness Brown replied in the affirmative. After some discussion, some of the jury expressed an opinion that they should wish to say something os to her state of mind. The coroner said there could be no objection, but it really had nothing to do with their finding. Her state of mind would have to be considered at her trial. Ultimately the jury, by a majority, returned the follow ing verdict :—" That the two children, Emma Butcher and Agnes Butcher, were found dead in bed on Saturday, the 21st of July, having died from the mortal effects of drown ing, and that the said children were wilfully murdered by their mother, Mary Butcher, she being at the time in an unsound state of mind." The warrant of committal was then made out and handed to Mr. Murray, the coroner's officer, to put in force as soon as the woman is fit to be removed. -- - POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MANSION-HOUSE. ROBBERY BY A CLERK.—Robt. Robinson, 17, was charged before Alderman Carter with having stolen 35 £5 Bank of England notes, and £lO in silver and postage stamps, amounting in all to about £5O, the property of his em ployer, Mr. Pellatt, shipbroker, 49, King William-street City. The prosecutor said that on Monday the 16th ult. he left town, and was absent until the following Friday. He placed the money in question in a box in a safe in the office, and on his return he found that it had been ab stracted, the safe having been broken open. The prisoner had been in his employment about 10 days, She left the office the day after he (the prosecutor) was called out •of town. He gave immediate information to the police, but he saw nothing of the prisoner until this morning. The prisoner admitted to him that he had taken the money, and said ho did so because he was starving. He (the prisoner) was paid at the rate of £3O a year, and had received money before prosecutor left town. The prisoner described the way in which he broke open the safe, which he did by means of a chisel, but be refused to give the prosecutor any information as to what he had done with the money. Charles Pembleton, a lock-up boy in the office of the prosecutor, said that the night before the robbery he loft, the prisoner in the office. He came the next morning, and witness saw that he had a new suit of clothes, a new hat and a pair of boots. Ho gave witness 3d., and he left the office, and he saw nothing further of himuntil this morning. George Lake, one of the City detectives, said that he was in company with another officer in Adelaide-street, Strand, yesterday afternoon, and he was induced to notice the prisoner from some peculiarity in his manner, and he accosted him, saying that he had a warrant for his arrest on a charge of robbing his employer. He did not deny the charge, and he took him to the station. On searching him he found id. and two keys, which the prosecutor identified as his property, and the prisoner told him that he had spent the money, but said nothing further. He discovered, how ever, that the prisoner had been rather extravagant in his mode of living since the commission of the robbery, and he spent the money on women at the West End, for some of whom he purchased expensive clothes. The prosecutor, in reply to the worthy alderman, said that he had no means of identifying the property further than that he had received the bank notes from, as we un derstood, the Prussian Consul. The prisoner was remanded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBING A CONSTABLE.—Charlotte Anderson, a young woman, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing some wet linen belonging to Hawkins, 29 0, and a quantity of wax candles left in the constable's care. Hawkins, who resides in Brick-street, Piccadilly, said that shortly after six that morning ho was going up the stairs of his house when he saw the prisoner sitting on the landing. She had a bundle and also a parcel of wax candles by her side, the former containing several articles of wet linen, and the latter wax candles, which had been left in his care. On questioning the prisoner, she said she had been sent there by a constable, as she had nowhere to go to sleep. He told her he did not believe any constable would send her there, as the door was always kept fastened. He was about to let the prisoner go, but as she was going down stairs she dropped some more wet linen, and he then took her into custody. The prisoner, who merely denied dropping the wet linen on the stairs, was remanded. Mr. William Johnson, lately residing at 29, Arlington street, Islington, wishes to state that he is not the person who gave that name and address who was fined .4:20 for assaulting a female near Leicester-square. THAMES. STEALING A HAM.—Samuel Jacobs, an active fellow, about 20 years of age, and described as a labourer, was charged with stealing a "real York ham," weighing 301bs, from the shop of Mr. Bryan, cheesemonger, Suffolk-house, at the corner of White Horse-street and Commercial-road, Stepney. The robbery was a most audacious one, committed in one of the most public shops in the metropolis, and at a few minutes past Dino o'clock in the evening. Two young men saw the prisoner and two other men in front of Mr. Bryan's shop. One of the thieves took a large ham down from a hook in front of the shop, and gave it to the prisoner, who tried to conceal it under his frock. The ham was too large, and he could not conceal it. He handed it to the third of the gang, who went to a tobacco shop next door with the ham in his hand, and bought some tobacco. By the time information was given to the shopman in the prosecutor's shop the ham and the thieves had disappeared. The prisoner was taken into custody, ons hour and a half afterwards, in the Anchor and Hope public house, in the Horseferry-road, Ratcliffe, about 200 yards from Mr. Bryan's shop. He said to Police Sergeant Baden, No. 4 K, "You are wrong this time." The prisoner, who loudly protested his inno cence, said he was at the Anchor and Hope all the even ing until he was taken, and he called a witness, who said his name was Francis Jamieson, and that he left the pri soner in the Anchor and Hope at 9 o'clock, and there was then another man with him. The Magistrate said the prisoner's witness was a good one for the prosecution. He was very much astonished the man with the ham who went into the tobacco shop was not secured. The young man who saw the thief with the ham in the tobacco shop ought to have closed the door upon him, and had time to call out the posse comitatus. Any one could apprehend a thief. The witness was not actuated by any spirit of enterprise or energy. The witness said ho had a dog with him, and did not see the man go into the tobacco shop with the ham, but come out with it. Mr. Pyer, the chief clerk—l have it on my notes, " I saw him go into the tobacco shop with the ham." The prisoner ultimately pleaded guilty, and was sen tenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. DARING STREET ROBBERY.--James Henry Keeble, aged 21, of 24, Thrawl-street, Spitalfields, shoemaker, was charged with stealing 7s. from William Thomas Gyfford, a wine porter, of Turnmill-square, Bethnal-green. The prisoner forced his company on the prosecutor in the Mile-end-road. They were drinking together until half-past one o'clock this morning, when they reached Sidney-street, Commercial-road. The prosecutor, who was then the worse for liquor, sat down on e. door step and began to count his money in a bag. The prisoner imme diately snatched it from him and dropped 2s. or 3s. out of it on the pavement. The prisoner stooped and picked up the money again. A struggle took place between him and the wine porter, and a cry was raised of "Thieves," and "Murder." The pri soner ran away with the money he had stolen. Ho was pursued and captured by Henry Lewis, a police constable 403 K, who found the stolen money upon him. Lewis said the prisoner was a very bad character, and was in custody a short time since for attempting to rob an unfor tunate woman. The prisoner said he was not guilty of taking the money, but he was guilty of being in company with those who did take it. The Prosecutor—No one else was with me when my money was taken. The Prisoner—l'll be tried here and plead guilty. The prisoner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets, during the last few days, there has been very little animation. Sugars have sold slowly at about pre vious rates, while coffee, in some instances, has slightly declined. Rice has been dull, but without change in value, while in tallow the operations for both present and forward delivery have been on a limited scale at about previous rates. W 1 - 4 .-7 1 V e l, • l'aft (anal r 15_1_4 E e ft . HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Thursday. The Queen and Princess Louise drove out Yes' terday afternoon, and the Princess Leiningen. visited her Majesty. The Earl of Carnarvon arrived at Osborne, with Lieutenant-General Hon. Charles Grey an d Mrs. and Miss Grey, had the honour of dining w ith the Queen. CRITICISM AND PIRACY. The following tolerably smart rap over tu ` knuckles has been recently addressed to the editor of the Round Table by the authoress of .durora Floyd : Sir,-1 have been favoured with a copy of yo ur journal for July 14, 1866. In it I perceive that Yell review, as written by me, a novel entitled " W hat is this Mystery ?" published in New York by Mes srs ' Hilton and Co. Allow me to say, in reply to 1 0 1 most illiberal criticism, that I never wrote a n ove with the title given, and that I have never had a n / correspondence with its publishers,who, nevertheless/ announce their book as printed from my " advan ce sheets," and who also characterise the work " Miss Braddon's latest and best." It may b e --4 hope it is not—in accordance with American notions of literary fair dealing to make these positively O s statements. Messrs. Hilton and Co. may derive profit from them ; but the true interests of litera ture and its commerce cannot be served by such audacious mendacity. I trust the day will never come when Engli sh publishers shall fall into imitation of the course P sued by Messrs. Hilton and Co. in the publicatio n of " What is this Mystery ? a Novel by Miss At; E. Braddon." Doubtless it would be a " sma rt'? speculation to appropriate any anonymous trash/ label it with the name of an American writer of re" Ipute, then announce it as printed from his or he r " advance sheets," and puff it into circulation a s the " latest and best" of that writer's p r oduction s / when the verbiage, so issued, is neither the ''latest, nor the " best," but is absolutely the very reverse 01 what it pretends to be. But should such trading ever arise in England, then, perhaps, Americ an statesmen will see the urgent necessity for an int er ' national copyright, to protect the characters ° American writers from the outrageous dishonest, into m hich unrestrained literary piracy can degell e ' rate. For the present, the reputation of every English writer is at the mercy of any America': publisher ; and while this unhappy state of th ing continues unreciprocated, I suppose it will last, OW ever much its continuance may demoralise the e ol° ' merce of literature, and however much it may e ll ' courage downright knavery. ; c Let me add that literary criticism, as a corrective influence, is not advanced by personalities; and th at it is insulting to an author and unfair in itself t ., ° assume, as you do when reviewing " Wh a t is t 131: a Mystery ?" that " her (the author's) creations were the result of the meditations and inspirations of milliner's shop." This remark is simply impertin en' t and it is only as true as may be the assertion W the review in which it appears is the result Of Ilie meditations and inspirations of a tailor's sh°P c i though why good and wholesome "meditations an d inspirations" should be foreign to milliners' tailors' shops I am at a loss to discover. W e' over, offensive criticism will rather deter than en ; courage literary aspirants—always a very sensitr r o race—for whose advent you insert, in the 0 01 , , number of The Round Table, an elaborate demand I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant, M. E. BRADDON, Author of " Lady Audley's Secret," Sa• London, July 30. BANK OF FRANCE. - PARIS, August 2. The following is the return of the Bank of Frail° for the week ending to-day, together with the O r ' responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Aug. 2. July 26. e. fr. c. fr. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 ''' Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, ,-, 01 June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,0 44,06 Reserve of the Bank 0 and its branches 22,105,750 14 22, 105,70 Reserve in landed pro perty Notes in circulation ... 9849:0 56 00 1; 0 77 0 5 0 —___ 97 4 4;5 00 92 0 ; 0 0 ° 7g 5 Banknotes to order and receipts payable at 56 sight account cur- 28,919,324 47 31, 710,71 v Treasury 780 16 rent creditor Current accounts, Paris 300,530,998 29 311,86 6 , 15 a -, Do. branch banks Dividends payable 2,888,666 75 3,46 1 , 64 ' Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last A 1 six months 2,372,304 91 2,372,31' 4 9 Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries Total CREDITOR. Aug. 2. J u ly 28, C. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. 34 Branch banks Commercial bills over- 9 6 1 due q , / Commercial bills dis- 9 4 counted, not yet due 309,493,876 02 332,22473,q , Do. branch banks 369,398,468 360,990,6A' Advances on deposit of 13,623,800 - 11,500,000 - 12,08 9 7. 4 000 ~ 11,882,1 v bullion Do. branch banks Do. on French Public 200 Securities 11,505,000 14,7 13,- 0 / Do. by branch banks 8,256,200 8,392,20 Do. on railway shares - 500 and debentures 1). branch banks 23,049,100 23,1 60, i v Do. on Credit Foncier 00 Bonds - ' / Do. branches Do. to the State (Con -1 857) n, June 10, 0 /d Government Stock re- 14 60,000,000 6102:09080o:7005_0 0 serve 12,980,750 14 07 Do. disposable Rentes Iminobalisees (La and furniture 1857)w,3une9, 0 100,000,000 100, 000,000 Hotel the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage- 8,289,48 8,289,480 - t 5 6 0 7 3 494 3v" 651,118 51 93 18,633,440 63 16,687 1 , nient Sundries ------- Total 1,729,918,941 27 1,724,6 56, " 0 , Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of Fran (Signed) ROULAND. HOME-MADE SPIRITS.—An Excise return Otf; that at the end of the year 1865 there were only efgh n t tillers in England, 116 in Scotland, 23 in Ireland. o oh' was paid in the year on 9,182,396 proof gallons f ° „ r ,2 - iS sumption in England, 7,378,93 1 in Scotland , 5,2587-4"" Ireland. „t 4 SEIZURE OF FENIAN ARMS AND AMMUNIT/0 cljr LIMERICK.—We learn by telegraph that an extens iv ,, e is covery of Fenian ammunition was made on WedheS u A , t d of Old Francis-street, Limerick. Six thousa nd r ole ball cartridge, and a large quantity of powder, bll°t°' materials for making cartridges were found. Oto l The will of Mr. Thomas De La Rue (of th TO' of Messrs. De La Rue and Co., cardmaker, roe 109 to 113, Bunhill-row), lately residing at 84, terrace, and formerly of the Hassells, Bedfordshiren'a t bß proved in the London Court by W. Warren, 51:1 ",,, A- ste eS t , ROT. W. Laxton, the joint acting executors and w ;: l tilf ° ,„T The personalty was sworn under £60,000. The ":-s I" had carried on for many years an extensive busiVrecle; partnership with his sons Warren Do La Rua tts a , as th rick De La Rue, as wholesale stationers and plc i P, l' 'l3 6l ," ornamental cardmakers. His will is dated dull 0 13 F and he died June 7, 1866, at the age of 73. lie le the to d wife qn immediate legacy of £l,OOO, and divide Stns, an of his property equally between his wife, his two his three daughters.—City Press. a CO' f The suspension of Messrs. J. B. Kennedy A ll Tbo of Dublin, bankers, has been announced' t i l ia liabilities are stated to be considerable, but 11° Westhoil is known at present respecting the assets. of the The stoppage had also been announced G. IV' Congleton Old Bank, conducted by g r ' o f tl l6 Hall, arising, it is stated, from the pressor?, t hee money market. The bulk of the loss, s houl% th e be any deficiency, will, it is stated, fal l liP a ° ...e f° f W ho 11 t v , old families of the neighbourhoo d, years kept their accounts at this establishrue.l; as yet liabilities will be considerable, but nothing known respecting the assets.