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II I lit i 1NL,, ,- .1-1; 4 %:.' ' N is ~. .. . V r 1 ., 6 : ~ i.s ',„; ...',..- 1 ',. .' . -, /-- ..7 ' .7 . .. . ........... .-...... ..... ~.......- ....... ..,..,.......- •.........n.5.............. IR` IN ARAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXITIP.ITMN, a R., A. This celebrat e d OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole some. by Sold in Bottles, Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; .the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wonlAsalA at GREAT WINDMILL-STREET LONDON, W. Observ A th A R ed Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded " Xinahan's LL Whisky." NIUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION „ ( Inclrporited by Act of Parliam 1410). " L i. lit TSSE f.L-ST RE ET. COVE NT-GAR DEN. LONDON'. ocapt ADVANCES on all description of Security. F,rms 1 . e On application by letter to EDWARD HARPER. Secretary. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC • HOUSES, Pu awl BUSINESSES. n , , uN'F.:,S and KNEE'S List on application. l'articalars for insertioa receivei until the 27th of the Month at their AUC:ION AND 'HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES. 5, Agar street Strand, Vtir.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cress Railway Station. INDIA OFFICE, Bth NOVEMBER, MG. EL , Order of Secretary of State for India in Council. Notice is hereby given that the Director-General of Stores for India will be ready on or before Monday, the 19th instant, to receive propo sa l s i n wr iti ng , sea l e d u p, fr om such persons as may be willing to Supply - 200 Pieces of SERGE, and that the conditions of the said Contract may be bad °llaPplication at the India Store Office, Cannon-row, degtninster where the Proposals are to be left any time e f ore two o ' c l oc k p.m. of the said 19th day of November, 66 , after Which hour no tender will be received. GERALD C. TALnor, General Director. CONTRACT FOR STEARINE CANDLES. CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY, Somerset House, 7th November, 1866. E COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING , the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the NITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE ;AND, do hereby give Notice, that, on MONDAY, the December neat, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will 1 5 e ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Victualling Stores at Deptford, all such quantities of STEARINE CANDLES, for the Ilse of Her Majesty's 'lndian Troop Ships, as may f ,,,r01n time to time be demanded under a Contract for Twelve Calendar Months, certain and further, until the e xpiration of Three Calendar Months' warning. d Sa mples (not less than 6 lbs. of each description) must produced by the parties tendering, and none to be ten red the m a t er ial of which is o f a solidifying point below 125 degrees Fahrenheit. tt ne Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to , Lh a e ei n T s e e n lv d e e s rs t . tn unlimited power of selection in accepting No Tender will be received unless made on the Printed '' l4l ll provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained °llaPplication in the Lobby of the Department of the Con- Nler of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where the conditions of the Contract may be seen. No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at I t t , on on th e day of treaty, and it will not be required that 12 e t * Party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should tat the office on the day of Cont rac t, as th e result of the off _offer received f rom eac h person will be communicated t° him and his proposed sureties in writing. Arer3r Tender must be addressed to th e S ecre t ar y o f th e „ iralty, and bear in the left-hand co rner th e wor d s PlTender for Stearine Candles," and must also be delivered at the D e p artment of the Controller of Victualling, Admi tY, Som erset House, signed by two responsible persons, %g a ging to become bound with the person tendering in e s um of £ l ,OOO for the due performance of th e C o nt rac t. By ord er ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. 11 1 U GUNMAKERS and Others. rPc Th SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of tii6ng PROPOSALS from G u n ma k ers an d Oth ers f or e! , '2,01'1-LOADING RIFLES, either repeating or not hira nufacture. t in, Which may replace the present Service Rifles in mein ma 11/IlitalL The fo non-repeating Ri llowin are the cond es itions considered essential in rY fl A. WEIGHT. Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. n. LENGTH. ho T llo o be 51 inches, with short stock, measured from the w of the butt-plate to muzzle. Betc• WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. . not exceed Mb. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for D. CARTRIDGES. dust carry their own ignition. T he E. 'SIGHTS. fo resight must be such as to admit. of - a bayonet 'ect according to the present system. F. STCK. M ust be such as t o carry a light metal cleaning-rod, and allow a Sling to be used. G. l RECOIL 10 p e i r st not e xcee d t h at of tho Enfield Rifle by more than cent. R. THE ARM AS A WHOLE. r on t l ,et be as little liable to injury by long-continued firing, b o '°" 'lsage, and expo sure, as he naval rifles conerted to ai r :eh-loaders on the Snider system. To be as v caj*le, of bein g used w i thout accident by imperfectly trained %le f n' gnat it ef &6 An manufactured in quantities and of uni- AndL THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. 11 St be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp, ShiinPosure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for b ; ew B converted Enfield rifle rt also as liable to ai- e xplosion as the same caridge, little and as capaye cc of qiNk tn anufactured in large quantities, and of uniform K. CALIBRE. "N fl epal. TIIE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE. °Ptional. M. THE LOCK. tiblex. RAPIDITY OF FIRE. L - -. 3 of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without 0. 7; the cartridges being arranged on a table. ' l/ RA-CY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. armol 44 must give a mean figure of merit of . not more 4,1 4601 . 11 7 8 .. t a 3 t 00 1 . ,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12m. at 500, 811ot8 eac mean to be t a k en u p on a t l eas t fi ve t arge t s o f twenty Not ~... P. TRAJECTORY. (leg. 30 -I:equire at 500 yards an elevation of moro than 1 Min. Th e h Q. FOULING. at 1 0 8 ooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent. , 0 0 ya r d s after firing 250 rounds. Th R. PENETRATION. at e of M ean penetration of five shot s no t t o b e l ess th an 'llz 1 the p resent se rv i ce muzz l e -l oa di ng E n f o ld Rifle— ho 2 h alf -inch elm planks, which h ave b een soa k e d 48 1 1 ) 1 : 8 in water let anee 30 ' yards. s. LUBRICATION. ba,l 3 , l e l 0 4 bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant aece g suPeradded or applied to the cartridge, if th oug ht No 111. hy the competitor. Speei al lns will be received without the usual proof m ar k s . Kati),ficati o os, and drawings of the methods proposed, N ish ? the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a bitie h e4 , B Pecimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable aminu- Offt "' snould be sent tO the "Director of Ordnance, War T C3, 1 , he on or before the 30th March, 186 by s p e cifications and specimen arms will be considered bens, e Ordnance Select Committee and its associate m f W a s ; who Will be selected by the Secretary of State d o s r select and recommend will after firing the 20 eliminary systems tt e and for further trials ch of the s uch 4 i t ppear to them sufficiently promising,. rejecting . all Ivar ra may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to dntE ot their being included in the competition , the c0n a114,81., ef which are stated in this advertisemetit. Pted Competitor will th en b e requ i re d t o furnish 10 tiZ u r ment, at W oo l w i c h , s i x arms in strict conformity b aueli• s Peeilnen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am raatlctioe Per arm, within four months after . date of de- Nor e i t ,'ach competitor will be required ti? disclose to the Noy . ‘, O O the exact nature of the lubrication he may Bum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted th e . IL ers, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of 1 ,-11 1 3 131y of ammunition required. alle lic Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the tlZ hi h, on combination of all qualities, is considered ee - ecklinittee to be the best submitted. j a hlin ce lld reward of £6OO for the arm which, while . at re, g a s atisfactory degree of excellence in other part . lcu- A!V el ected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism. ofwlo reward of £4OO for the best cartridge, Th?qu?.- a Ward i 'eh will be principally taken into consideration in .44,Rthis prize will be economy of manufact . ure, power V arie l „ l nlng rough usage, freedom from deterioration in The' Lehmates, and general serviceability. t hev a ' °° thig qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but ," 11 a3r deyeed upon the rifling of the arm with which '` c lereeLdge is associated, they will not be so much con- It as as those above-mentioned. a elearlyto be understood that under no circumstances al leh ~e{wel'etitor be entitled to mere than one prize ; but tivealioze.will be irrespective of any reward which may be tilo inventor of the arm finally adopted into the IV ti..14_41„34zi-kneGa.A.Zal-N.E AND REPEATING ARMS. I ved a 11, -. Repeating Arms for Infantry :'1541.11.1,114 examined in a manner similar to th w e il E l reljeelel: 41elllebi"itles. They stock not be less in length than 48 Th:i in cl uding the :til;:oi nye it:: of weight for these arms is fixed at 9ilb. ex hale of the charges in the magazine. ditiePonsable that the arms be made to take a ka1.111,6 eeretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best ecat7uPoe o preellite,oB ;raßndePnattihnegaAbrmsenpeeroodfuceexdpethriaetnfucelfidlsotehsonapbt.ovaset t° ,,ei t ' f ittle the standard of accuracy or other condition r h ""ed before such an arm can be adopted. for f Ale lilag.azine orßepeatingArms, which are accepted Thi s " trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O . e . ach. er k ria. 8414 is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition p 1 1'1 1 ,, t , V. c) '`'elt .- ' ecte tarY of State will take care that no i t nge a n . i . o . us klopte., I?roduced in answer to this advortmemen shall be aild that tote the service without proper acknowledgment,. h ale s X the name of the individual with whom it ongi ,lf t h 4 ',' be recorded in connection with it. . 'lit° the sere to which the first prize is awarded is adopted - "rviee, it will bear the inventor's name. J. ST, GEORGE, Major-General, Director , War fjo of Ordnance. IL--_____.loe, Oct 22, 1866. .A.MR-ri op —x -4111'S AS BALSAM.--AN mutor (tire,,,,!EUTITAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels ed g the head, truly efficacious and pleasanti e s_a . g : cough. io be the best medicine for immediately !ell vng .. B Ottintf colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient 00.0 13 1) 1 . 0 0 4; 00 , 11 ° 11 . ce lint frequently cures persons whom . the facu!ty ke- . curable, admirably allays the tickling which consumption ha efreet...irequent coughing. In approaching I,l'eittlfiYit;'?l,llo,Zildiv beneficial. Persons depl e e p d e o n i d s o l : e o e ri p 7s , ibi o ey r i W. trkglinntee ear lOcri nlr uf i r rge n tia m reci ay on,yand Nam 1.713P1RT, ch erata k t. 8 taking wailam.street, charing; thre4 on don, and by all d ift ,in bottles, ind., an" for La uantities in one, 28. 9ct r e ach . rticular, and ask e,..._nthems Ath "l ed 011. , a Matto Balsam, The name and address are me stamp. lent soot State , It affords In:tunics: dished la last) ha ° t 43 b ea rer, ,er Pry a under- ;n. 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This Hospital, founded in the year 1823, the Past to estab fish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and :2actes . It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the lestitute sick has for a oensiderable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by thdr bankers, Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abchuroh -lane ; also by Messrs. 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Information about It AIL WAYS, STEAM NAVIGA TION, HOTELS, and the EXHIBITION at Paris in 1867, GRATIS, on personal application; it by letter, a stamp re quired. Prospectuses, printed forms, or scale of charges sent on receipt of postage stamps. Subscribers are entitled to have all inquiries answered free of charge, saving postage it by letter. Subscriptions for Twelve Menths £l 0 0 Six Months 0 10 6 By order, ALF. DUBOYS DE LAVIGERIE, General Manager. GABRIEL, Mayo i r.—The . first Court of Mayor and Aldermen. holden at the Mansion House of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, on Tuesday, the 13th day of November, 1866, and in the 30th year of the rei„gn of Vic toria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, he., Resolved unanimously— That the sincere and heartfelt thanks of this Court be pre sented to the Right Hon. Benjamin Samuel Phillips, late Lord Mayor, for the highly efficient and dignified manner in which he has so satisfactorily discharged .the many and im portant duties of the high office of Chief Magistrate of this City. That tills Court is desirous of expressing it:, the same time its deep sense of the energy displayed by him In taking mea sures for the relief of the sufferings of his fellow-creatures in all parts of the world, and more especially under the recent outbreak of cholera in this metropolis, and for the prompt and effident measures which were taken under his guidance, and which not only tended to the alleviation of the sufferings of the dying, but to secure provision for the widows and orphans of those who had perished under the calamitous visitation. At the same time this Court cannot but acknowledge in the warmest terms the great satisfaction they feel, in common with their fellow-citizens, at the distinguished compliment paid to the i ity of London, and to the Lord Mayor as its Chief Magistrate, by the King and Queen of the Belgians, their loyal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh, and other eminent persons, and the admirable manner in which the late Lord Mayor exercised his impor tant functions on those several occasions. This Court is also anxious to express the hope that he may long continue to exercise, for the benefit and advantage of the Corporation and the citizens of London, the talents and qualifications which have elevated him to the high position he holds in the esteem and regard of his friends and fellow countrymen. The November Meteoric Shower over the Metropolis. The fiery shower foretold by the science of America and Europe for the night of November 13-14 in this year was seen in full splendouryesterday morning between the hours of 12 and 2. From about 11 o'clock occasional meteors might be seen gliding along the sky from'east to west, but these were only avant-couriers of the great legion that fol lowed at a later hour. The numbers increased after 12 o'clock with groat rapi dity. From Paddington-green, a fairly open position, 207 meteors were counted between 12 and 12.30, and of these the greater number fell after 12.20. The next 100 was counted during the six minutes that succeeded the half hour. Soon after this it became impossible for two people to count the whole that were visible from this station; and doubtless from positions with a purer atmosphere, and a wider horizon, the spectacle must have been of surpassing splendour. Indeed, from a window at Highgate looking N.N.E., but with a circumscribedview, an observer counted 100 meteors in the fdur minutes between 12.32 and 12.36, and no less than 200 in the two minutes between 12.57 and 12.59. As the constellation Leo rose over the houses north of Paddington-green and cleared itself of the haze, the diver gence of the meteor-paths from a point within it became obvious, not merely in the directions of the streams that shot from or through the zenith, but in those that left their phosphorescent-seeming trails in the sky towards every point of the compass. Sometimes these rocket-like lines of light would glide out like sparks flying from an incandescent mass of iron under the blows of a Titanic hammer, but with the distinc tive features, first, of those lingering lines of illuminated haze in their track, and secondly, of their rarely appearing as if they originated in the region of the sky from which their courses evidently diverged. Sometimes the meteor was orange and almost red in its colour, whereas the luminous trail seemed almost always, probably by contrast with the surrounding light, of a bluish hue. In one splendid instance the trail, after having nearly disappeared, together with the rocket-head that had produced it, became again lit up and visible coin cidently with a sort of resuscitation of brightness in the body of the meteor. Now and then a little illuminated puffball would appear in the middle of the constellation Leo, generally more or less elongated or elliptic in form, as it seemed to be more or less distant, and at the same time convergent from an imaginary point that seemed about 3 deg. S. by E. of the star Leonis—and one, as near alkould be estimated to such a point, was simply a star that waxed and waned, and disappeared as one looked at it. Sometimes a minute point of light, like a firefly, would dart with an angular jerking motion and zigzag course hither and thither, but still as if away from Leo. Only about three meteors were seen during an bour and a half to take a direction manifestly opposed to that of these diverging multitudes. The meteors which shot to wards the western horizon seemed more brilliant and larger in their courses than those which dropped into the eastern ; indeed, very few seemed even to reach the roofs of the houses from behind which Leo had arisen. This was possibly only an effect of perspective, or it may have arisen from the curtailment of the view. As regards the longlines of light that lingered in the paths of the meteors, it seemed that generally they were more dense and brightest towards the middle of the visible path of the meteor, while the meteor itself seemed brightest just before its extinc tion, an effect possibly due to an obscuration in the I middle of its course by matter thrown off from it. The meteors seemed also to lose velocity as they went, but this might have been the result of perspective in those passing through the zenith. One singular feature in these celestial fireworks was the rapidity with which the maximum of frequency came on and went off again. About 2 o'clock the meteors seemed to have become as scarce as they were at 12, though they continued in smaller numbers till the verge of daybreak. From half-past 12 or a quarter to 1 until about a quarter past or half-past 1 the heavens seemed veritably alive with stars rushing in many parts of the sky, in groups of two or three together or in immediate succession on each other, seeming as though racing over the blue vault, except that their courses so rapidly diverged. The cloudless beauty of the night near London was a happy circumstance, on which we may congratulate every " watcher of the skies," not only as allowing the forecasts of the astronomers to be thus signally and splendidly veri fied, but still more as having, we trust, enebled them to take such a store of facts regarding the nature of the light and of the motion of meteors, and su many simultaneous observations of them in different parts of our islands, as may lead to soma accurate knowledge of their laws and their nature, and add ono more chapter to the sublime volume of astronomical physics. Mr. J. R. hind writes to The Times respecting he meteor shower which took place yesterday morn- rig - During the night of Tuesday next, Nov. 13-14, there is reason to expect a remarkable display of shooting stars, one of a series which occur at intervals of about 33 years. Since the extraordinary shower in November, 1833, chiefly witnessed on the North American continent, much atten tion has been paid to the subject of periodical meteors, and the grounds upon which the prediction of a grand exhibi tion during the night between Tuesday and Wednesday next is founded appear worthy of some confidence. Professor Newton, of New Haven, United States, has shown that the principal recorded showers of meteors at. this epoch accommodate themselves to a cycle of 33k years, and that these bodies in all probability emanate from a vast group extended round the sun in the form of a ring of unequal density, nearly circular, and with an annual period of 365:27 days for the meteors composing it, which revolve in a retrograde direction, or opposite to the earth's motion in her orbit. The inclination of the ring to the plane of the ecliptic is about 17 deg., and its point of intersection there with has an annual progressive motion from the mean equi nox of about 1.7, in consequence of which movement the shower takes place on a later date now than formerly. The November meteors diverge chiefly from apoint in the constellation Leo, situate nearly midway between the stars marked Epsilon and Eta, 8i degrees north of the ecliptic. This divergent point or radiant will be on the horizon in London at 10:12 p.m. on Tuesday, and on the meridian at 6h. 18m. the following morning. As it ascends in the sky the number of meteors may be expected to increase, and may reach a maximum towards daybreak. Professor New ton's calculation would rather indicate that the display will be most remarkable on the Western Atlantic, but this pre diction is necessarily open to some degree of uncertainty. The grand and imposing character of the phenomenon when the earth has been involved in the denser portion of the meteoric ring may be gathered from a few extracts of the many descriptions we possess of these exhibitions. Thus, on the morning of October 13, 902, it is related— " There were seen, as it were lances, an infinite number of stars, which scattered themselves like rain to the right and left, and that year: was called the year of stars.'" On Oct. 10, 1202, "on the last day of Muharrem, stars shot hither and thither iu the heavens, eastward and westward, and flew against one another like a scattering swarm of locusts, to the right and left ; this phenomenon lasted till daybreak; people were thrown into consternation," &c. This shower was witnessed at Bagdad, and is recorded by several of the Arabic writers. In 1366, "22 days of the month of October being past . . . There was in the heavens a movement of the stars such as men never before saw or heard of. From midnight onward all the stars moved from the east to the west, and after being together they began to move, some in one direction and others in another; and afterwards they fell from the sky in such numbers and so thickly together that as they descended low in the air they seemed large and fiery, and the sky and the air seemed to be in flames, and oven the earth appeared as if ready to take fire. That portion of the sky where there wore no stars seemed to be divided into many parts, and this lasted for a long time." So we are informed in a Portuguese chronicle quoted by Humboldt in his "Cosmos." The ex traordinary shower on the night of Nov. 12, 1799, was wit nessed by this celebratedphilosopher and his fellow-travel ler, Bonpland, at Cumana, in South America. Thousands of fire-balls and shooting stars fell during a period of four hours, the number attaining a maximum about four a.m. Some of the larger meteors bore comparison with the moon in apparent magnitude, and it is recorded that a few were visible even after sunrise. This one display was observed as far north as Labrador and Greenland, where "it greatly frightened the Espimaux." It is not commonly known, I believe, that the shower was remarked in this country. Generally, the weather appears to have been cloudy in England ; but at Hartlepool and Hull the sky was clear. At or near the former place meteors and balls of fire 'were first observed between five and six o'clock in the morning in an eastern direction, and continued falling in succession and together till daybreak. The atmosphei e was very clear, and the moon, which was full, shone with un common brilliancy. The fireballs continued nearly i tn i -o hours, and were succeeded till nearly eight o'c lock by s i t g flashes of lightning. The general appearan ce wassubl sea.' awful, particularly to the Hartlepool fishermen then at i, al., At Hull "the heavens exhibited a n awful and grand appear - ance" from the number of the m eteors and their sparkling trains. Remarkable exhibitions occurred in. In 1832 the November, 1832 and 1833, particularly in the latter yeah meteors were chiefly seen in Eu ro p e ; in South Russia they were so numerous as to be compared to " a rain of fire;' and the eminent astronomer M. Leverrier, who observed them in France, bears testimony to their astonishing num ber. The splendid display on, 13th November, 1833, pro bably obscured by clouds in Europe, was seen over a great extent of the North American continent, and will be found detailed in many of our popular works on astronomy. It 1/ .7. , 4- - i/W/z.,e---it // e. o 7 . 7 —b. /1 ,- - . v 1 4. ‘ 1.. , k r „v v . ,‘ 42 , v/, PI placed them power An AuN—nie qf t 1 .1 iass such r c c a iol n sas a l cc u iat ra lyu y s s n b n y e: is 1:110.1.ex amp 'S to what the institutions of the United States tend. 11T It is against such combinations of class leaders, eetffowe;ctYietedorukt-nillidise°B:c!ul6lstenc,hl,B3"4lll-"474rei7:-Ti acting on ignorant mobs, that the great Republican party of America—that is, the vast body of the intelligence of the country—has been directed. The organisation in the South had many points in com mon with the municipal corporation of New York —the leaders played on an ignorant population to advance their own interests in defiance of all laws of right. If we want instances to show how every available means are used by one body to plunder another there is no necessity to travel out of Lon don. Our Limited Liability Act has enabled what people here call the most respectable class to orga nise a system which defrauded the public of Eng land, in a few months, out of a sum which all the wealth of New York put together would scarcely equal. With such frightful cases of depravity be fore us, from the effects of which the people of this country are now suffering so terribly, it is not for us to read moral lessons to our neighbours. From both instances we learn that there is no body of men into whose hands we can trust large sums of money to be dealt with without curbing them by strong and secure checks, and the history of the world shows that, however strong may be the checks applied, the ingenuity of some clever thief will evade them. It is for the interest of a nation to be governed wisely and honestly. When the people are sufficiently educated and intelligent to appoint their own rulers, it becomes every man's business and duty to see that such abuses are swept away, and they are much more likely to do this than when power is confined to a few. A nation cannot be bribed ; it may be cajoled, though this is highly im probable, when its dominions are extensive, and its interests wide and diversified. The history of Eng land has proved that the narrower the electoral constituencies became the more corrupt they grew. The tendency of all human institutions is to deteriorate. But we feel assured that the soundest and most lasting Government is that broadly based on an intelligent and well educated people. National education on the widest scale is then the object at which the leaders of the people should drive. An oligarchy and a despotism find their fittest tools in the igno rance of the masses. The story of the corruption of the municipal corporation of New York proves nothing but what is well known—that the de pravity of Europe is the depravity of America and of all mankind. A Board of Directors obtained power to levy sums to be applied to certain objects. Like so many of our Boards here they retained a portion of the money for themselves, and misdi rected other portions to objects not intended, till the corruption was forcibly exposed and national indignation aroused. Whatever attempts may be made to turn this story to political account, it has . nothing to do with politics, and is only an instance on the other side of the water of what we have lately. been learning so forcibly on this, that none can be wholly trusted with the distribution of large sums. —Anglo-American 7 biles. BIRD'S -EYE VIEW OF TIIE SUCCESS OF FREE TRADE IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE.—TWO official papers that have come into our hands show at a glance some of the most remarkable points in the increase of our commerce and that of France since the inauguration of a free-trade policy in England in 1842, and the first cautious steps towards such a policy by the treaty with our neighbours in 1860. A brief resume of a few of these results can hardly fail to be interesting to our readers. The official value of our total imports (official values are, it is well 'mown, mere measures of quantities, and use ful only for comparison) was—in 1842, £65,000,000; in 1853, £123,000,000 ; iu 1865, £181,000,000. The official value. of our exports was—in 1842, £113,000.000 ; in 1853, £242,000,000 ; in 1865, £363,000,000—a threefold increase in less than a quarter of a century. The real value of. our• commerce annually has only been ascertained since 1851. Since that polio.' the increase has been as follows :—lmports—in 1854, £152,000,000 ; in 1863, £249,000,000 ; in 1865, £271,000,000. Exports —in 1851, £115,000,000 ; in 1863, £196,000,000; in 1865, £218,000,000. The real or " declared " value of British and Irish manufac- tures exported has risen thus: In 1842, £47,000,000; in 1853, £99,000,000 ; in 1865, £165,000,000, or fourfcld in a quarter of a century. Within the same period our " tonnage inward and outward" with cargoes (the measure of our aggregate trade) has risen from £7,346,000 in 1842 to £25,000,000 in 1865, and our "registered tonnage" (our shipping) from 2,990,000 tons to 5,760,000. The consump tion of some of our chief articles of demand has in creased even faster. Thus 1842. 1853. 1865. Sugar (cwt.) 3,868,000 ... 7,272,000 '10,187,000 Tea (lb.) 3 7,C00,000 ... 58,800,000 ... 98,000,000 Tobacco (lb.) 22,000,000 29350 000 .., 38,000,000 Wine (gallons) 4,815,000 6,813,000 ... 12,000,000 And to crown the whole, while our aggregate re venue has risen from £52,763,000 in 1842 to £67,812,000 in 1865, the aggregate amount of taxa tion repealed over that imposed has been £ 2 1,000,000. With regard to France the results have been to the full as remarkable and encou raging. Her total exports have risen from 2 f266,000,000 of francs in 1859 to 2,924,000,000 in 1864, and the increase in certain specified articles has been as follows : Cotton Tissues. Linen Tis. Woollen Tis. Yarns. Francs. Francs. Francs. Francs. 1859 67,000,000 15,000,000 186,000,000 8,000,000 1864 93,000,000 24,000,000 356,000,000 43,000,000 Her exports to Great Britain have been :- 1859. 1864. Woollens ...francs 39,000,000 ...... 98,50 0 , 000 000 Cottons 878 670, ,000 Yarns " 400,000 ...... 8,900,000 Metals " 4,400,00 0 ••• •• AiO,'Ooo Fish " 1,000,000 ...... Upwards of twenty million persons have visited the Crystal Palace during the eleven years and a half it has been open to the public, making a daily average of over five thousand per day. From some remarks made by M. Delangle, the Procureur-General, at the opening of the French Courts of Justice for the winter session, it is inferred that duelling will be more severely dealt with for th e future. Li g ht is .now thrown on the Po r t e Maillot affair. M. Seguin, the man who was killed, w as the son of a banker established at St. Peters burg. On the evening of the duel he went to the Cafe Frontin, where he met Lieutenant Leca, of the Zouaves, who owed him forty francs. M. Seguin claimed this sum, and whilst the lieutenant's hand was in his pocket he struck him. ge l s :au . boion L nt a. e c n e Ftd a or jdo s er t fin repeatedoi ad Friends " Seguin, you have committed a brutal action, and ast y htn o eed u p bp lv le i od l w l eoagrnrilde principalsat demanded nm, t d o abs - nu m edte eootdrnhr seconds s w dnagu l ae ' i S aa e d e to the Poissoniere barracks for ittoi r e:n a rito pters ; the maitre d'armes refused them at so late an hour, but gave some foils, which were tak en t o an arm ourer's where the buttons were rem ove d andthe points sharpened. Thence the party went to the Porte Maillot and got to work. Almost at the first pass Seguin was touched in the arm, and Leca wished the affair to stop there. Seguin, however, declared that if he did not defend himself he would spit him like a dog. After a few more passes the unfortunate provoker rushed on to his adversary's sword, and expired almost immediately. M. Leca has been placed un der arrest for fighting at - an undue hour. His second and the maitre d'armes share his fate. THE o OF ANICSGIVING.—The Arch bishop N f E jar F it ° er u b l i i i TH ry, in accordance with instruc tions from the CrONVII, has sent to the clergy the following form of thanksgiving, which is to be used in all churches in his Grace's province on Sunday next, instead of the prayer which has been used for a long time past :--" 0 Almighty Lord, Father of mercies and God of all comfort, we give Thee humble and hearty thanks for that Thou hast vsmclisafed to assuage the severity of the plague and pestilence with which we have been visited. We bless Thy holy name for having thus far restored to our dwellings health and the voice of gladness, and spared for our suste nance the remnant of our flocks and herds. 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GREAT DISTRESS AMONGST WORKING MEN AT THE EAST-END.—A large meeting of working men out of employment was held last night in the Catholic School room, Wade-street, East India-road, for the purpose, as stated in the placard convening the meeting, "of taking into consideration, as the winter is coming on, the best means of relieving the distress which prevails among the working classes who are thrown out of employment through scarcity of work which at present prevails at the East-end of London." Mr. Fail, an East-end tradesman, presided. He said the meeting had been convened by the working men themselves, no less than 12,000 of whom at the East-end alone were at the present moment out of employment. He had been asked to preside, because be had lately been ac tively engaged in assisting to relieve the distress by which at this end of London they were surrounded. He had col lected nearly £3O, and amongst 130 fa m ili es di s t r ib ute d t h e money, waking in all 250 visits, and in each case giving from 2s. to ss. and 6s. his idea of the matter was, that those who wore in distress would not be able to do much for themselves, but that they would have to appoint a deputa tion from among themselves to wait upon the influential classes of the neighbourhood, and try to arouse th em to a sense of the miserable situation in which the working classes were placed. They must also endeavour to induce their fellows who were in work to give say is. or 2s. a week each towards their relief. 1n the 250 visits he made there were many which caused him much pai n . H e f oun d many families who were before in a tol era bl y com f orta bl e position, but who were now in extreme want . Th e w h o l e of the things they once possessed were no w a t th e pawn brokers' or the leaving-shops. For the contents of several cottages he would not give more than 55., whereas before this distress those cottages were tolerably well furnished. Mr. Cavanagh said there were as many as 14,000 men out of work, without taking the lads into account. At Mill wall Ironworks the number at one time w as so l arge th a t the streets were impassable during the dinner hour; now those streets were deserted. At Westwood and Bailey's shipyard there used to be 5,000 employed ; now not a single hand. He hoped that sympathy and assistan ce wou ld b e extended to the East-end now as was extend e d t o Lanca shire, and that the Queen, who had sent £3OO to Que b ec, would be moved to a similar act towards the carpenters and others who were out of work at the East-end. Several suggestions wero made, and a resolution passed appointing a committee to devise means for obtaining substantial re lief, and to make the Government acquainted with the cir cumstances of the case. 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It has been found that the average height of the No vember meteors above the earth's surface is, in'round num bers, ninety-five miles at first appearance, and sixty miles at extinction. Extraordinary showers may occur in at least two consecutive years; and though the pr sent No vember, so far as can be foreseen, is likely to offer the most imposing one, the year 1867 may also bring a very unusual shower. EPIC TE TITS' NOBLE AND ALL ; BUT CHRIS TIAN PiIILOSOPIIY. In the course of a very beautiful criticism upon the philosophy of Epictetus, the Saturday Review remarks that —Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Epictetus is the degree in which the religious element becomes pro minent in his teaching, and the way in which his morality is combined with it and grows out of it. The Stoical schools had been the founders of what we call natu ral theology—the attempt to ascertain and establish the grounds in reason for religious belief. But in Epic tetus the belief has become an energetic practical prin ciple of the most pervading kind. His whole teaching rests on the ides, of the great system and constitution of things, governed by the wisdom and goodness of God, in which man 'fills his part, and in which he is watched and helped by God his Father. No Christian teacher could be more penetrated with this thought, or could have it more constantly present to his mind ; and it is expressed by Epictetus in words which, for their devout earnestness and faith, it is not easy to read for the first time without won der. Thus he exhorts to the praise of God: —" Aro these the only works of Providence with regard to us ? And what speech can fitly celebrate their praise ? For, if we had any understanding, ought we not, both in public and in private, incessantly to sing and praise the Deity, and re hearse his benefits? Ought we not, whether wo dig, or plough, or eat, to sing this hymn to God? Great is God, who has supplied us with these instruments to till the ground; great is God, who has given us hands and organs of digestion; who has given us to grow insensibly, to breathe in sleep. These things ought we for ever to celebrate ; but to make it the theme of the greatest and divinest hymn, that he has given us the power to appreciate these gifts and to use them well. But because some of you are blind and insensible there must be one to fill this station, and lead, in behalf of all men, the hymn to God ; for what else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God ? Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale ; were 1 a swan, I would act the part of a swan. But since I am a reasonable creature, it is my duty to praise God. This is my business. Ido it. Nor will I ever desert this post so long as it is permitted me ; and I call on you to join in the same song." (I. 16). So he represents morality as an offering of the whole man to God :—" Boldly make a desperate push, man, as the saying is, for prosperity, for freedom, for magnanimity. Lift up your head at last, as be ing free from slavery. Dare to look up to God, and say, Make'use of me for the future as Thou wilt. lam of the same mind. lam one with Thee. I refuse nothing that seems good to Thee. Lead me whither Thou wilt. Clothe me in what dress Thou wilt. Is it Thy will that I should bo in a public or a private condition ; dwell hero, or be banished ; be poor or rich ? Under all these circumstances I will testify unto Thee before men." (11. 16.) Does any. good man fear that food should fail him ? It does not fail the blind ; it does not fail the lame. Shall it fail the good man ? Is God so negligent of his own institutions, of his servants, of his witnesses ? What, then, If God does not bestow food? What else than that, like a good general, He hath made me a signal of retreat ? I obey, I follow ; speaking well of my leader, praising His works. For I came when it seemed good to Him, and again, when it seemed good to Him, I depart ; and in life it was my busi ness to praise God within myself, and to every auditor, and the world. Doth He grant me but few things ? Doth He refuse me affluence ? It is not His pleasure. He did not grant it to Hercules hig own son." (111. 26.) His language is equally impressive when he looks forward to the end of life, and describes the temper in which it should find men :—" At what employment would you have death find you ? For my part, I would have it be some humane, beneficent, public-spirited, noble action. But if I cannot be found doing any such great things, yet at least I would be doing what I cannot be re st►ained from, what is given me to do—correcting myself, improving that faculty which makes use of the phenomena of existence to produce tranquillity, and render to the seve ral relations of life their due; and if I am so fortunate, advancing still further in the security of judging right• If death overtakes me in such a situation, it is enough for me if I can stretch out my hands to God and say, " The opportunities I have received from thee of comprehending and obeying Thy administration I have not neglected. As far as in me lay, I have not dishonoured Thee. See how 1 have used my perceptions; how, my convictions. Have lat any time found fault with Thee ? Have I been dis contented with Thy dispensation; or wished them other wise ? Have I transgressed the relations of life ? thank Thee that Thou host brought me into being. lam satisfied with the time that I have enjoyed the things Thou hest given me. Receive them back again ; and distribute them as Thou wilt. For they were all Thine, and Thou gayest them me." (111. 10.) I would be found studying this, that I may be able to say to God, "Have I transgressed Thy commands! Have I perverted the powers, the senses, the instincts which Thou hast given me ? Have I ever accused Thee, or censured Thy dispensations ? I have been sick because it was Thy pleasure, like others ; but I willingly. I have been poor, it being Thy will; but with joy. I have not been in power, because it was not Thy will ; and power I have never desired. Host Thou ever seen me saddened because of this ? Have I always approached Thee with a cheerful countenance; prepared to execute Thy commands, and the indications of Thy will ? Is it Thy pleasure that I should depart from this assembly ? I depart. I give Thee all thanks that Thou least thought me worthy to have a share in it with Thee; to behold Thy works, and to join with Thee in comprehending Thy government." Let death overtake me while I am thinking, while I am writ ing, while I am reading such things as these. (111. 5). We cannot read Epictetus without being continually struck with the coincidence of his thoughts, and even phrases, with many of the sayings which we aro familiar with in the New Testament. Manhood Suffrage in New York. _ _ The article in the North American Review on the corruption of the municipal boards of New York is too strong a card not to be played as effectively as possible in England by the opponents of manhood suffrage. It might be supposed a new discovery had been made, and the article in question contained the proofs, so triumphantly has it been paraded before the people of England. The story is indeed a very old one ; the old, old tale of plunder and corruption recorded in the annals of every nation. Wherever one body of men can with impunity plunder another body of men they will most as suredly do so. The means by which this is generally accomplished is by a combination of the leaders with the refuse of society, the former acting on the ignorance and cupidity of the latter, and drown ing the remons t rance o f i nte lli gence and h ones ty by the noisy clamour of an interested mob. The Co n : • Con servative papers have not taken up the story of corruption told by the Republican periodical, thou° be against the evils of manhooddsubff;acuitei, cause the whole plot has been organisce of New York, who called themselves found in the Conservatism in America has always _ lli _ t supporters. u most ignorant Irish its strongest versal suffrage is a sure means 0 1:1 ignorant populace. Conservatives. and plunder in the hands No where is this fact moreat aimof all the patriotic than in America. The g toof distinctly despotism, recognisedtyranny, statesmen there if 3 properly the h i gh may exercise pain difficulty lies in the fact The educatereh.htliperipveiloepglee ofth that they the country. t u f e u c x e - f i t g h n a o t ra t n h c e e y and most of the dregs of the ahnadvevictoei; l eal o l v vi i t r h or a k i c s o t ns e tan g t rea i How, which tends so much to fertilise the Union, the hands of an unscrupulous steatctlleesfoirn thist hnt s c tr it ea y. n party this ignorant mass of poverty could easily be turned to account, and this is just what has hap pened, and which will happen wherever a similar po offers, until the vice g rows un b earable, a o t p idi ri t ttnit becomes y the lesser of the two evils to face the iniquity and suppress it at all hazards. The body organised for the plunder of the property holders of New York is simply a combination to use the quickest means open to them of enriching them selves at the expense of their neighbours. The readiest way was to obtain votes for those who had no property, and use those votes to overwhelm the opposition of those who represented property. The property-holders were few and wealthy, and on them the taxes were levied. The votes which gave the corporation the power of levying the taxes represented no property. The corpora- tion plundered the property, and distributed a portion of the plunder to those who had WO ~.‘......k11111MM1N ..------.‘--