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lut to illS• -‘ herift, yang 7 rub prae" i ni ple ~.8 1 of 'made f Noi r such mettng LOU' yurgill T , o f 3 rshird, 0 Wife Drge % • Stia of th e , Mr . 01 70, 9 °- r ,arot ,~ neal Of 0 112. ity of I • Fl bi 4' .A ' ; ' 6;: -. t. f-7,.!'.,. A! - A !.."- CONTRACT FOR RUM. CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY, Somerset House, 31st October, 1866. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTIIIPG the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of ' the DNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, do hereby give Notice, that, on MONDAY, the 12 th November next, at - Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be ready t o t rea t with such persons as may be willing to C ontract f or S upp l y i ng an d d e li ver ing into her Majesty's Victualli ng Stores at Deptford, When to be delivered. Fifty Thousand Gallons of RUM SWithin Three Weeks from date of Contract. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Rum. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the T en d ers are opened, of contracting either for the whole or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tender s. The R um to be exempted from the Customs duties, and parties tendering are to state where it is lying. Payment for the Rum will be made for the proof gallons to one -tenth of a gallon, the liquid contents being ascer tained to the half gallon. Samples of the Rum are to be sent in pints for each import nlark, and the average strength of each mark ex to be stated, and not an average of different marks or strengths of several imports, and any parcel of Rum that is found not to le of the same quality, mark, or average strength of the sample tendered and accepted will be rejected by the officers. The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not t?eePted are requeSted to be taken Away by them imme diately after the Contract has been decided. No Tender-will be received unless made on the Printed 'ern provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con troller or Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House. Particular attention is called to the conditions of the Contract, w h ich may b e seen i n th e sa id Lobby. No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon on re day of treaty, and it will not be required-that the party e ndering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer re ceived from each person will be communicated to him in Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words Tender for Rum," and must also be delivered at the De partment of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House. By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. T ° GUNM AK ER S and Others. The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of receiving PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for B REECH-LOADING RIFLES, either repeating or not . repe a ter , which may replace the present Service Rifles in suture manufacture. __ The following are the conditions considered essential in military non-repeating Rifles: — A. WEIGHT. Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. B. LENGTH. . To be 51 inches, with short stock, measured from the hollow of the butt-plate to muzzle. • C. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. Must not exceed 61b. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for service. D. CARTRIDGES. Must Carry their own ignition. E. SIGHTS. The foresight must be such as to admit of :a bayonet fixed according to the present system. F. STOCK. Must be such as to carry a light metal cleanipg•rod, and allow a sling to be used. G. . Mud RECOIL not exceed that of the Enfield Rifle by more than 10 per cent. •is. THE ARM AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury bylong-continued firing, rough usage, and exposure, as the naval rifles converted to b reech-loaders on the Snider system. To be as capable, also, of being used without accident by imperfectly trained 1 1 len, and of being manufactured in quantities and of uni 'ono quality. 5. THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp, 1 , 1 , 11 (1 exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for lees converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci li.9tal exlosion as th same cartridge, and as capable of lag man p ufactured in e large quantities, and of uniform quality. is. CALIBRE. Optional. L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE. Optional. Optional. J ~~ M. THE LOCK. N. RAPIDITY OF FIRE. Capable of fi r i ng a t least 12 rounds per minute, without nulling, n the cartrid g es being arranged on a table. "• ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. The than arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more an 36in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500, and Gin. at 300. The mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty shots each. Not to 500 yards an elevation of more than 1 d eg, 30 min. require at P. TRAJECTORY. Q. FOULING. The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cen a t 1 ,000 yards after firing 230 rounds. R. PENETRATION. „ The m ean pene t ra ti on o f fi ve s hots not to be less than ; . '?at of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle— viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48 hours in water. Distance 30 yards. s. LUBRICATION. „, ' Wax on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant , -- LaY be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought 'ecessary by the competitor. No ar ms w ill b e rece ived without the usual proof marks. s pecification s , and drawings of the methods proposed, stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu- Dillon, should b e sen t to the "Director of Ordnance, War e t , e, Pall-mall," on or before the 30th March, 1867. b 'he specifications and specimen arms will be considered beret Who will be selected by the Secretary of State for and who will, after firing the 20 preliminary rounds, Led and recommend for further trial such of the systems B SI° , aY appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all Ilea as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to i .z,tyrant their being included in the competition, the con ditions of which aro stated in this advertisement. toEach accepted competitor will then be required to furnish t " eriment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity; p„ ° t he specimen arm submitted, with 1,0 00 rounds of am naition per arm, within four months after date of de land- Each competitor will be required to disclose to the °?ennittee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em t°Y. A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted th re Petitors, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of e m s Pply of ammunition required. -'• tie Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the Zile. which, on combination of all qualities, is considered by the committee to be the best submitted. A. second reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at ltnitlg a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu ars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism. lit .A third reward of £4OO . for the best cartridge. The qua les which will be principally taken into consideration in awardin g this prize will be economy of manufacture, power °f sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in Nra'ious climates, and gen eral serviceability. The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but IT they may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which I '!'" 3 Cartridge is associated, they will not be so much con sidered as those above-mentioned. willlt is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances ,Then a competitor be entitled to mere than one prize ; but ;T el l be Plize will irrespective of any reward which may be __wov to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into t h e .orvioo. IV. a MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. 14i1 MAGAZINE and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re rived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech i"ding Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48 nehes, including the stock. The li m it o f we i g h t f or th ese arms i s fi xe d a t 911 b. ex clusive of the charges in the magazine. It is indispensable that the arms be made to take a haYonet. The Secreta r y of State o ff ers a reward of 300 for the best Magazine or Repeating Arm produced that fulfils the above conditions ; and in the absence of experience does not at Pre sent define the standard of accuracy or other conditions ° be fulfilled bef ore suc h a n arm can be adopted. . Those M agaz i ne or lt epea ti ng A rms , w hi c h a r e accepted ler further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each. This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per arm. V. noThe Secretary of State will take care that no ingenious produced in answer to this advertisement shall be a dopted into the service without proper acknowledgment, and that the name of the individual with whom it origi nates shall be recorded in connection with it. 11 the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted Into the service, it will bear the inventor's name. J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director of Ordnance. War Office, Oct. 22, 1866. rn ENDERI . FOR CL 0 T.HIN G. —. The Right Honourable the Lords and others Com missioners of this Hospital do Hereby Give Notice, that Bi ry , are ready to receive TENDERS and to treat with th !...,Pe_rsons as may be willing to contract for CLOTHING tntvacioVr A tW L O ID yea S r O s, L v D iz I . E :_ RS, Sm., belonging to the Hos pital, WHOLE MOUNTING FOR 1867. HALF MOUNTING FOR 1868. an T hose Persons, therefore, who may be or disposed to treat t the same ar e d es i re d t o a pply a t the Secretary's Office clay betw een th e h ours o f El even an d Three o'clock .t(;1' f urther particul a r s , w h er e Patterns may be seen, and of Tenders obtained, the latter of which must be filled up, and delivered sealed at the Board-room of the said Hospital. by the party or parties tendering, or by an a cg en t aPpointed on hi s or th e i r b e h a lf, o n TUESDAY, the t 9l day of N OVEMBER nex t, a t T we l ve o ' c l oc k, a t w hi c h t inle the Commissioners will be prepared to receive and ake the same into consideration. GEORGE HUTT, Secretary and Registrar. Royal hospital, Chelsea, Oct. 6 1866. WINSLOW 'TALL, Winslow, Bucks, having th e een recentl opened and fitted with requisites for u„,.esreb and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr. ItAGON, announces that he has transferred le.sta bpo, ent from Birmingham to the above desirabevesidence,. tin 4 . l / accessible, and distant from London about an hour ~„„ a-halt by the London and North-Western line, and fiity '-a.:nutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on Pren d7 801 , and commanding an extensive and pleasing -Pect, are garden, me idow, plantation, and recrcation °un da• For terms' and forms of admission address the proprietor. Tli s E RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another p„„ Lome to the 12 now in operation. Last yefF no fewer NA, -- 155 Poor, friendless, young females were rejected from berg N DS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have 111 Rent away in five years. haple new home the Committee wish to form would be for ves girls, almost child r e n , from the age of 8 to 15, who beTi led astray from the path of virtue. r.. Contribution s will be rewired gratefully by the Secretary, iZoctaniel Cooper, 85, Queen •sweet,Cheapside; or by Messrs I4 Y and Co, Lombard-street. IOYHOOD OVERCOATS and CAPES. HYAM and Co., 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W., feel they are justified in making special allusion to these lead ing garments for boys and youths of the present season. If ever equalled, they certainly were never excelled in either quality of cloth, style, make, or finish. Price, lOs 6d., 15s. 6d., 18s. 61, 215., and 25.5. N°. 23,214. On Friday, Nov. 9, in 2 vols.. Ever., 30s. bound, A. BOOK ABOUT LAWYERS, By J. C. JEAFFRESON, Barrister-at Caw. Author of `•A Book about Doctors," &o. liurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW NOVEL BY CHARLES LEVER. On Thursday will be published, SIR BROOK FOSSBROOKE. By the Author of "Harry Lorrequer," "Tony Butler," tc. In Three Volumes. William Blackwood and Eons, Edinburgh and London. TIMBS'S ANECDOTICAL WORKS. CLUB LIFE of LONDON. 2 vols. Portraits, 21s. ROMANCE of LONDON. 3 vols., post Bvo. 31s. 6d. A CENTURY of ANECDOTE from 1750. 2 vols. Por- traits. 21s. ANECDOTE LIVES of PAINTERS. Portraits. 6s. ANECDOTE LIVES of the DISTINGUISHED STATESMEN', Lord CHATHAM and EDMUND BURKE. Portraits. 6s. ANECDOTE LIVES of WITS and HUMOURISTS. 2 vols. Portraits, i2s. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. THE MOMENTOUS QUESTION.— ciuNoLINE. LADIES should at once see THomsoN'S NEW STYLE, which, light, gracetul, and elegant in outline, combines com fort and economy with the very latest fashion. Observe the name, " THomsoN," and the Trade Mark "A CROWN." Sold every where. Limp cloth, price Is., SYSTEMATIC MEMORY ; or, How to Make a Bad Memory Good, and a Good Memory Better. By T. MAci, AItEN. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row. THE HIGH PRICE OF MEAT. Just published, no pages, !ooards le. 61, cloth 25., VEGETABLE COOKERY, PASTRY, &c. ; containing Five Hundred healthy and tasty dishes without the use of Meat. Full of Information of the greatest value to every housewife and Cook. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row. Second Edition, extra cloth. price I s. 6d., %VIE LITTLE THINGS OF NATURE. _IL By Lzo H. GRINDON, Author of "Life : its Nature," &c. "It has seldom been our lot to read a book more beauti fully written and more deeply interesting than the one before us"—Christian News. " He presents scientific facts, whether physical or metaphy sical. in a form which makes them far more relishable than the most imaginative novels."—Norfolk News. London : F. Pitman, 20. Paternoster-row. Fcap. Bva., extra cloth gilt, gilt ed;es, prlce 3s. Gd.,. LOVE : a Selection from the best Poets, by THOMAS SILORTEIZ, Editor of "A Book of Ent,tlibit Poetry," h c. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row. NEW NOVEL. Just published, 1 vol., cloth, li/ice les. 8,1., YNTON GRANGE. ANovel A Py J. IL S. nARINGTON. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row. Chean Reissue of L ECTURES by the Rev. HUGH STOWELL BROWN. Vol. 1, containing; "Five Shillings and Costs," and eleven other Lectures, price 101. Vol. 2, containing* Twelve Lectures, price 10d. Vole. t and 2, bound together in cloth, price 2s. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster row, E.C. B OYS and their CLOTHING.—HYAM and Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET, W. The fav3urable reputation which lIYAIII and Co. have so long enjoyed as designers of Clothing for the Young of all ages will be fully sustained in the following NEW STYLES for the present season. - The materials as well as the workmanship are of fine and durable quality, and the moderate profit at which the Garments are sold must operate as a further inducement to all classes of pur chasers. p 0 Y 1-1 00 D PRINCE ARTHUR REEFERS. lIYAM and Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-STEET, W. To Parents who object to a general adoption of an OVERCOAT the reefer is specially recommended, being designed to serve the double purpose of OVER or UNDER COAT, in Witneys, Pilots, Napped and Fur Beavers, &c. Prices, 15s. 6d. to 355. -1-fi OYHOOD, FIRST STAGE of — HYAM and Co., 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W., invite parti cular attention to their neat and elegantly-trimmed Knickerbocker Suits for little Boys from five to seven years of age. Prices, 15s. 6d. to 255. BOYHOOD, SECOND STAGE of—HYANI and Co., 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W., recommend their novel Suits in Westminster, Osborne, and Windsor Styles, for Boys of eight, nine, ten, and eleven years. Adaptation to age and growth is conspicuous in these well made and seasonable Suits. Prices, 21s. to 355. BOYHOOD, THIRD STAGE of—HYAM and Co., 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W., have introduced new and improved Styles in Eton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits for Boys and Youths, varying in age from twelve to sixten. The Suits are carefully cut from materials of the best and newest description. Prices, 255. to 555. R OYHOOD JACKETS for Home and School. lIYAM and CO, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W., feel Confident that their newly-introduced Jackets for School and best wear will continue to elicit approval from all. Prices, 10s. 6d. to 21s. BOYHOOD TROUSERS and VES TS.— HYAM and Co.'s Trousers and Vests, as designed for the present season, from fashionable and durable ma terials. Vests, 4s. 6d. to 78. 6d. ; Trousers (true -fitting), prices, Os. Gd. to 14s. 6d. H YAM and Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS, 66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET. The attention of gentlemen is invited to the following arrangements into which HYAM and Co.'s Establishment is laid out for public accommodation : No. 1. Clothing for Immediate Wear. No. 2. Select Order Department. No. 3. Juvenile and Youths' Department. No. 4. Eat, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. The most experienced cutters and workmen are em ployed, and the newest and best materials, with duo regard to economy, are guaranteed. YAM and Co.'s ONLY ESTABLISHMENTS LONDON-66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET. BIRMINGHAM-21, 22, and 23, NEW-STREET LEEDS-42, BRIGGATE, and DEWSBIJRY—WESTGATE. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CAN rHARIDES OIL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair, Ss 6d, 5s 6d, and 10s 6d; sent by post for 51, 84, and 111 stamps.— ALKX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by 1131112' ALEX. [top°. This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a iew hour s, removing the very root. Price 48; sent by post for 60 stamps. —248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. HAIR -CURLING FLUID, 248 High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID owl. Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is appded. Sold at as 6d, Ss 6d, and lOs 6d ; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. —Had of all Chemists. r REY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— NT ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour immediately It is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na tural in effe..t. Price 3s eel, 5s 6d, and 108 6d; sent by post for 54, 81, and 141 stamps ; and all Chemitts. HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London.—AL EX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes superfluous hair from the I ace, neck, and arms, without effect to the skin. Price 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and 10s 6d; sent for 54, 51, and 144 stamps.—Had of 811 Chemists. DIMPLE REMOVER—AII diseases of the akin are improved by one do3c of ALEX. lIOS,'S VEGETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal lowness, au. 2s 9d and 7s ed ; or post for 41 and 100 stamps. —ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Cue mi6ts. HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By washing the head with this beautifull, -perfumed Wash, io seven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, end remains so by an occasional lOsed ; sent for stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 24 4 , High Ilolbarn, London, and all Chemists. Just published, 2d ; sent by the author for 1 stamps. UGLINESS and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphlet descrh Lye of articles and means used for improving the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High ilolbcrn London. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her ?Soot Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WA LES, K.G President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLELICH. K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1823, the first to estab lish 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 andl,4antes. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendanoe of the lestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 1,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of thisllosP ital are ca p able of containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the reamer, Edward Mas x•rman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; fierrieB a. d Co. ; Ransom and CO.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne , and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; %V limas, Deacon, and Co.; Ov e r en d , Gur ney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co.. Berners-street ; 1. Earned and Cc...Liverpool } and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. BTANIMID 1311ITU, Beeretary lilk-. :V_. SP:6;,:xi Wil k , 470 , //,f _/‘ r., ~,,, ~, - • t...., .' are now at least in the Ilan 11 ~.. . 4 ~. , ' \ • -...- ...1 ; '"a P. . _..• 1 ' . .., . . 1 .. \ --41411 kit • - . ':-, --:::-•,./4 ''s (-t -•:,•MW* N .. .., ~• Mr. Bright would hand the . -I '. ',,---) ~:)% ,1?,•" •, -, psi—. % _ • .—_, ~,,, :, v -,-. \ • .- 0 burdened with a heavy paymla ovn an( love - . -. ‘V" - ; -1 \ ' ,----- t__% ... , , ~tifi e o p . , -, A ' (, anf / ( . s, i rr. can•Ar A .. , 1 0 -,., / ..1. ,il,i , .c - 6 , c. , T ((t , , ' 2 k (-- ' 5, ;• - -1- - ; ‘ , ... z. ,.....,,,. ~.., .„,41 . ,' , .7.41.,,, , ,,, . .- Rv ) . ,6 -1t,, , ,, ' -_,_ .., , ,fr."" . 1 'S , ~ ,:, 4 ~...• N-- - ____, 6 :r. their rent which would effectuillY &rive in of the power, even if they were to po.ssess the will, to improve. ( 1 19 ..-rE. iik.74'-A,,j, ltl ''' k" -: ' ,1 :9" . .& -1 t,/ ‘ ,‘\\ k+t. - ..' v .,,pd -, - , 9 ~,,(;)6 . .i. THE " SPECTATOR" ON MR. DISRAELI'S CHANCE. 4 (1" - A4 , W t, :„....,.. ;, . s„. s) c __, , i_,_,..i , t ` . _ur t ii: r r------ '_E_ 1, f 7. ,;10 1 Nti: . ; 4 0; 4111 . 1' I,r pßoir., 4,, , ~ - 4, - ---- 7 '\_,,•!,/ - '''' L LV - 7 - ‘* /41. —Mr. Gladstone has the best of it this Will \'- ') ; , , 4/ Le --- 1 ---.l l _s____:=ll _.„ IA , „hill , ~., ' %, ___•• \ .f... --f-- ;, ,vi, 43 !-' i / ter. Ile has gone to •witness with ii .. it — ell4re — nt eyes, under au Italian sky, and in a scene alive with associations, the final struggles and throes amid which the last great spiritual power left on earth is to shed its earthly skin. Mr. Disraeli, on the other hand, has come up in execrable weather to the greyest and gloomiest of cities to try, amid tuneinduce v hi a ch lin Sa p y y cfl'itanr-linitY to whistling a the Nc'oC mine b b e f fogs , hawk outside. He has to devist!! a Reform Bill which men like Lord Cranborne and Mr. Bright, Mr. Hardy and Yr. Miall, Mr. Lowe and Odgers, oligarchs and republicans, Churchmen and Nonconformists, advocates of capital and fanatics of labour, can be equally induced to accept. His bill must seem conservative to squires and progressive • to Radical manufacturers, must conciliate the Cathe drals and Bethesdas, must be reassuring to men who dread the people, and to the people, who, knowing themselves dreaded, are suspicious of every con cession. He may do it, for he has one emi nent qualification for the task —perfect imparti ality. If Mr. Disraeli has a belief in the would beyond his conviction that the source of prerogative is race, it is in Csarism, and if he spoke out he would probably define the Radical view of Reform as " parochial " and the Tory view as " bucolic." As it happens, impartiality, though it be only an impartiality of intellectual scorn, is so absolutely needed iu the manager of .Reform, that Mr. Disraeli by virtue of that attribute alone may be able to produce a satisfactory bill. He is no ad ministrator by nature, as he showed in his India bill, which was laughed out almost without discus. sion ; but administrative ability is not required, only a clear perception of the point at which the two parties come most nearly into contact, and that Mr. Disraeli is very- likely indeed to perceive. - Unfortunately for him, he has not only to frame his bill, but to convince his own party that it PRICE..... 4d. STAMPED sd. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS TIMES.—It is one of the conditions of success for any man who makes it his business to address large audiences that whatever he says must be simple and easily understood. This, of course, is no difficulty where the subject is itself simple ; but it is a very formidable obstacle where the orator has, so to speak, to create a simplicity which does not really exist. He is driven, under such circumstances, either to omit the qualifications and limitations to which every proposition that he lays down is sub ject, or else to suppress the real state of affairs, and to impose upon his audience instead of it something wholly and essentially different. Such was the dilemma in which Mr. Bright found himself when he undertook to address a mixed audience of Irish men on Parliamentary Reform. His case in Enc ., - land is simple enough :—" The people are divide'd into those who have the franchise and those who have not; the former are actuated by a narrow oligarchical spirit, and really do not represent the country at all, the latter are really and truly the nation, into whose hands political power ought without delay to be transferred." We shall not stop to inquire how far this notable formula repre sents the real state of things in England ; it was at any rate accepted without challenge by the thou- 1 sands whom Mr. Bright has been addressing, anti ' has doubtless passed into their minds as an incon trovertible political truth. It has every element of attraction : it flatters vanity, and it gratifies envy ; it holds out vague hopes for the future, and it de preciates a present which can scarcely be regarded with satisfaction by those who occupy the lower rounds of the social ladder. The question was how this theory was to be adapted to the existing state of Ireland. Mr. Bright is bold, and has probably achieved, for the moment at least, a good deal of that success which generally waits upon the bold. He assumes as the basis of his argument that the great mass of the Irish people hold opinions and pur sue objects with which the great mass of the English people cordially sympathise. He assumes that the common enemies of England and Ireland are the present possessors of the elective franchise in both countries, and that the policy which the great mass9s of England and 'lreland alike desire is a cordial union with each other and a general attack upon the privileged classes in both countries. Now, is this a true representation of the case? The very inter ruptions with which his speech was encountered showed plainly, what every one acquainted with Ireland must know, that it was not. When he spoke of union between the people of the two nations he was met by cries of " Never !" When he talked of acquiring land by purchase he was encountered by the suggestion " that it had better be got for nothing." And when he spoke of justice to Ireland he was emphatically referred to the West, in oppo sition to the East, as the quarter from which it must come. The fact is, lie was talking Radicalism to an audience that was thinking Fenianism. Every supposition on which he started is disproved by notorious facts. The great mass of the Irish people have, we are sorry to say, neither unity among themselves nor sympathy with the people of Great Britain. Those who are under the influence of the priesthood are under leaders professing a creed en tirely hostile to the doctrines of Mr. Bright and his associates, for it is a mere truism to say that the Church of Rome holds doctrines, which she never, fails to enforce where she has the power, . utterly opposed to all the maxims of modern Liberalism. Whatever side the Irish priesthood may choose to take for its own purposes, there is really no doubt whatever as to the motives which lie at the root of its conduct. Still less sympathy is there between the Fenians and the people of England and Scotland, towards whom they stand in a position of direct and avowed hostility. The two leading principles in the Irish peasant's mind, so far as he concerns himself with politics, are the antipathy of race and religious hatred. The race that he hates is the English ; the religion that he hates is Protestantism in all its forms and varieties. It requires, then, no ordi nary degree of confidence in the speaker's oratorical powers to start with the theory that these two races are actuated by the same feelings, pursue the same objects, and are capable of being united in cordial and hearty co-operation. And yet, unless this be so, unless the numerical majority in Great Britain be one in sentiment and feeling with the numerical majority in Ireland, what have they to gain by uniting in a common effort for the establishment of a joint democratic rule? The truth is, Irish politics mean one thing in England and another thing in Ireland. In Ireland the political conflict lies between two hos tile factions, Orange and Catholic, which are per petually defying each other to mortal conflict, and seizing every opportunity that is afforded them to come into violent collision with each other. The whole difficulty of the Government of Ireland, till it became complicated with the Fenian question, con sisted in holding some sort of balance and keeping up some kind of impartiality between these two rival forces ; but in the House of Commons very little is said by Irish members about these internal discords, and the Irish question is represented as turningein tirely on . the treatment of Ireland by England.. i‘ r. Bright has adopted - this latter view, which is cer tainly better fitted for the purposes of an agitation the leading idea of which is to enlist Ireland in sup port of a democratic change for England and Scotland. Setting aside the ordinary arguments against Go vernment by a numerical majority, the case of Ireland herself seems peculiarly unfavourable for such an ex periment. Nobody can doubt what the feelin gs o f a num erical majority of Irishmen would be with regard to Protestantism, and very serious apprehensions might not unjustly be entertained as to the views which a number of Irishmen, counted by the head, might be supposed to entertain on the subject of Fenianism. Entirely to swamp the Protestant mino rity, and to place the whole power of the country in the hands of the Roman Catholic majority, would not be the way to soothe internal discord ; and the Pro testants, powerful in the possession of property, of in telligence, and of superior organisation would not feel, we apprehend, disposed to submit to political anni hilation without a further appeal to that violence to which they have shown themselves, even without any special provocation, always so ready to resort. The proposals of Mr. Bright, as far as they involve political considerations, would seem to offer no prospect but that of further and worse discord, more agitation, and more v i o l ent i nterna l an i mos i ty. But Mr. Bright has another plan for the regeneration of Ireland. H e d oes not, it seems, as we have under stood him, propose to buy up by compulsion the estates of absentees,—he proposes that the State should offer to their owners considerably more than their worth, and then sell them in small allotments to persons willing to purchase them for a certain annuity to be added to the rent ancl spread over some fifteen or twenty years. The Government is to become a land jobber, to buy land wholesale and sell it retail, and in that capacity to come into direct contact with its own subjects. And thus the people of Ireland are to be placed in possession of her land. We do not exactly see who is to be satisfied by this scheme. Not the proprietors of small portions of land in Ireland, for the Government by forcing large quantities of it into the market will, of course, artificially depreciate its value ; not the taxpayers of the United Kingdom, who will find themselves. burdened with a bargain which is avowedly a b . a . c l one, and the loss of which they will be obliged ; 1 bear. The only persons who we can suppose ur be gratified by the arrangement will be chasers from the Government, and theirits, blout alloy. will, we should think, be by no means A V allotments, If they are to be allowed to sell the i rlarge estates the process of aggregation by which 13ot these are formed will soon begin over ap t l e ll the Govern persons will stand in two relations to satisfaction will, chasers. What ment—those of tenants is to-happen - if any default ment of the rent or fixed rules, or is Government to act leniency a nd forbearance b,aelinitdbade eartlltiirt)!E thlespatyhe-. it to exercise that enare so frequently called which private landlordslftlie former, a new means has upon to show ? the English Government a to okfinlrgeland by clothing it with hard creditor and unrelenting the functions the latter, a new instrument of landlord. If been hatef ult the discovered ()p o oa f p most t e l h ik as el b y ee te n de t v h i e se r d e , a l l i i a t b y le o t i o the e sus o Pending the paymentof the annuity, whom cor ruptioni)c itli;bidtaisniedn.fl is the property to vest, the Crown or the purchaser? Vest it in whom you will it must be during the period of the annuity in a transition and ill grossestwo anomalous state— property deprived of the incidents, the responsibilities, and the advantages of property. It would substitute an uncert a i n f or a certain tenure, and form an estate which prudent melt would be unwilling to improve or to advance money upon. There would be nothing to prevent any amount of subdivision and subletting, and the purchaser not not being required to find ready money would naturally become a sort of middle-man between the cultivator and the Crown. If the property were put up for sale to the person who bid the highest annuity, we know well that a price woilld be offered far beyond that which a solvent purchaser could afford to give. If the annuity were a fixed sum, how is the State to determine which of several can didates is to have the preference ? These estates ought to be framed as he has framed it, and has, therefore, to tinker his work till it runs a strong chance of being spoiled. The Tories of the future, who will probably call themselves Constitutionalists, headed by Lord'Stanley, are willing to agree to a compromise which shall admit the masses without depriving the landowners of all their power. The Tories of the present, headed really by Lord Cran borne, who, like Mr. Lowe, is chief of a Cave of Adullam without being a David, are unwilling to accept any compromise which includes more than a fraction of the unenfranchised, and which does not leave the landlords undisturbed. To _ put it concretely, Lord Stanely would like house hold suffrage if new seats could be given to counties, and Lord Cranborne would tolerate a reduction in boroughs to eight pounds if the bill contained nothing else. Mr. Disraeli has to recon cile in fact the Conservatism which loves the Consti tution in spite of its abuses, with the Conservatism. which loves the Constitution as it can be abused, and in the effort to reconcile the irreconcilables in his own camp will probably disappoint both them and the adversaries outside. For his natural lin , pulse will be to fall back upon a trick, upon s stroke of administrative finesse such as woulddeg light the East, but in Europe is quite certain to fail. Ile will think that if he can give the crypto- Tories in the House an excuse for supporting the open Tories he may gain a majority, and it is pos sible he may, for one hour, to see agitation recom mence more bitterly the next. Ile will think this the more readily because he has always recognised what the Spectator alone among Liberals has always argued, that members are more important than electors, that if a narrow constituency elects John I Smith, and the same coustitueucy widened elects John Smith all the same, the widening of the franchise has produced no result, except a multiplication of noughts after the. decimal unit. Ile sees, therefore, that if lie can admit another million of electors without ad mitting any new representatives power will remain where it was, and so it will. And runninc , through all his speeches are traces of a plan to effect this which is tolerably mature in his mind, a plan which would concede household suffrage to attract Mr. Bright and dispose of small boroughs by turning them practically into little counties, to conciliate Lord Cranborne. Such a bill would in fact include a £lO suffrage for counties, household suffrage for great towns, and a landowner suffrage for little boroughs. Ile would thus grant the request of the artisans, abolish the anomaly of very little con stituencies, and leave the landlords as completely masters of the country as they were before. That trick would no doubt be excessively clever if two propositions were granted, that the parties were nearly equal, and that the device could be concealed. Unfortunately for him, the Liberals have among them men who cannot be hoodwinked or cajoled . upon Reform, and a majority which, on a question like that, could be used with crushing effect. There are not ten members among the Liberal party who, once the Radicals were clearly aware of any trick contained in the new bill, would dare to refuse to enterthe right lobby. Earl Grosvenor might, because nothing short of revolution would so alter English society that Earl Grosvenor would be left out in the etoßpcluhetoasotehsdee, mass d so might a few more eldest cold, and so might Mr. Lowe, as long as Lo r d Laps eoefnthfieddeofiutybttfoul t L h i e b ir er p a a ls rt would sons.dhaovwen idvihsnoiliessaslubflecienat puwouldblicpilaf e ss , a w n i d th th t e he co G nt o r v o e l r o n f me th n e t once more into Mr. Gladstone's hands. If Mr. Disraeli cannot avoid this danger—a distinct party vote hostile to his bill—he and his measure will be lost together, and if he tries any trick of any sort he will Ise unable to avoid it. His only chance is to trust his own intellect, without any reference either to his own Cave of • Adullam or that which exists among his adversaries, and bring in a bill which the . nation will be ready, if it is rejected by Parliament, to accept on a dissolution. The nation, as opposed to any party within it, really desires, it may now be said heartily desires, three things—that the arti zans of the towns be admitted to the franchise, that the middle class of the counties be admitted to the franchise, and that the private or corrupt seats be abolished in' favour of some better way of repre senting the minority. Any bill which secured those three ends; in Parliament, as well as on the hust ings, would have a fair chance of being supported by at least 250 Liberals and and 150 Tories within the house, and by a far greater majority out of doors. From every side and every division of the three kingdoms assurances keep coming 1 1 ,1 3 that the Liberals have rejected Mr. Bright'sna..ds vice, and will accept a Reform Bill at Tory, lklal3l that, provided only it be a visibly honest is, provided it does not increase, as its Ric h t. v r esult, like Sir landlord power. When hereditary . 1 c Liberals like Knatchbull Hugessen and pliilosop i the Government may be Foster in making that offer do not keep it, the sure it will be kept, and if t feo-r the future.of the Mr. Clay, agree with 'determineed Radicals like Mr. nation will. Better by the new " Cave" at Tory party, to quarrell once, to let Lord congenial darkness, than with him go forth into hCriaetebWorne and those who think shall have of a reall3r a bill which Liberals can ac spoil the last b Constitutionalists pass with nciple.. It will be lost if Mr. eu na p t t t i aowndiaetlrheßpl dereliction o r tn i rcoeiß andilrl Is own sup ones, for to conciliate porters, must trick at least one. The only votes the three be incurable T • be those of the boroughs which any Disraeli yields o a t he to the Radicals, to h' decent Reform Bill would . totally sweep away, and t will not be sufficient to give him a majority sufficient to resist the cry that will instantly rise outside. The Plutocrats will be exchanged for the g a n i n n d u t • o ill th . e landowners, and though we admit the latter are they aareforyniiseo! willthe lie will the better of the two, still the country will suffer from an indigestion of landlord. The struggle for Reform would reduced almost avowedly to contest t esbetweent which town th sq andn cires , ountry , carefully avoid. We have said nothing of the rumours about increased budgets, expenditure on the Navy, expenditure on the Army, new projects for the pacification of Ireland, new modes of con ciliating the clergy. They are all u n i m p or t an t, f or a reformed Parliament will be able to deal with all, and an unreformed one will almost certainly make a muddle of all. Commission If the report o f the Recruiting justifies him, General Peel will have his money, and no naval vote has ever yet been deli berately rej ected. Those things are, comparatively speaking, trifles. The point is, with whom is sub stantial power to lodge, with the nation, or only a section of the nation'? and it is by his success or failure in settling that question, in adjusting the dying formula to the living fact, that Mr. Disraeli must stand or fall. Ile will fall if he tries to trick the Liberals by creating forty or fifty new counties, under pretence of sweeping away rotten boroughs. We are not going through a revolution in order to have a Cattle Plague Act a year. TIIE STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION AT BRISTOL.—Three of the bodies of those killed by the explosion of the Black Eagle steamtug in the Avon at Br istol have been found— uiz., those of the captain, William Woodman, the mate, James Living, and the engineer, George Ledger. The coroner opened the inquest on Friday at the Generul Draper publiehouse, the Hotwells, when the bodies were identified. 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Before the outbreak of the recent war the Florentine Government, which claims to be the emanation of popular opinion, enacted a law for the purpose of terrorising all persons suspected, for whatever reason, of not sympathis ing with the new Government. This law, called from its originator the " Legge Crispi," armed the Government with the most arbitrary powers, in virtue of which any person, however respectable and blameless, might be dragged from his or her home—kept without a reason given or any juridical inquiry in the strictest isolated con finement in prison, or relegated in a distant province far from their families and their business, and there to be sub jected to regulations and restrictions more stringent by very far thln those applied in England to " ticket-of leave" felons. _ _ _ The prefect, thus empowered absolutely and without appeal or inquiry to imprison and condemn to forced do micile whomsoever he thinks fit. is generally in Italy a native of some distant province, dependent for his local information upon the local commissary of police, or a ca manilla of strong, unscrupulous political fanatics who have gathered round him at his arrival, and whose denuncia tions are based upon the tales of their own menials, the loud-voiced " patriotism". of the Radical cafes and low wineshops. Imagine for a . Moment what the state of affairs would be even" in England, if, in moments of political excitement, the gin-shop and pot-house intimidated the authorities, and dictated to the police magistrate ! Far worse, however, is it in Italy, a country at all times famous for private vengeance and secret denunciations. Any . observant Englishman who has lived in that country, and marked tho defects of the national character, can judge—and will shudder to think—to what vile ends such a stringent law is likely to be abused, and can vividly picture to himself the reign of terror which it imposed in that country, which claims neverthess to be held as a very model of free and fearless constitutional development. _ _ Hardly was this law published, when self-constituted clubs of ultra-Radicals wore formed, with the avowed pur pose of denouncing all those whose political opinions and predilections differed from their own. The most harmless and respectable citizens were dragged from their homes, their lawful private avocations, their families, and their business, and consigned to distant forced domiciles, or even conducted manacled to prison - conducted like malefactors through remote towns, where they and _ their respectable character being unknown, they were submitted to the scof fing, nay, even the actual violence, of the populace, armed with bludgeons and paving stones. Without being allowed to communicate with their families, those arrested were detained in the strictest pri son seclusion, and then handcuffed like common criminals, marched off in broad daylight through the streets to the railway stations, surrounded by a howling pack of the worst rabble. With unpeu de bonne volonte it is so easy al ways for the "constituted authorities" to get a mob any where, to cry down with the just, and hurrah for Barabbas. Two sash cases in Modena excited the indignation even of the Radical newspaper Il Panaro. In Bologna forthwith numbers of most worthy people belonging to the Catholic Association were thrown into prison and their houses ransacked ; among them the Advo cate Fangarezzi, President of the Central Committee of that association, and several worthy priests. The well known Advocate Casoni, secretary of the association, who attracted so much attention at the Catholic Congress of Malines, was fortunate enough to escape to Rome the day before his house and papers were ransacked. The domici liary visits and searches were mere matter of form to give a colour to these arbitrary proceedings; for the warrant of arrest was in all cases already in the hands of the police ; nor did any of these perquisitions afford matter to justify the pretext; but bundles of innocent private letters and private papers were carried off for sham examination. In Reggio, a town of some 16,000 inhabitants, no less than 40 persons were arrested and carried off to forced domiciles : among them the Rev. Don Antonio Lanza, the 11w. Don Rinaldo Servini, Rector of Marmirolo ; the Rev. D. Guiseppe Bertoli, Rector of La Tagliata ; the Rev. D. Marcellina Frattini, who was on intimate terms with the Bishop; the Provost German', Doctor de Medici, Advo cate Eugenio Ro - ssi, Advocate Campana. The bishop, who has died since, would, if it were not that he lay on his deathbed, have shared the lot of the Bishop of Guastalla, who on the 13th of May was sent off to Turin. In Modena, among the first whose house and papers wore searched, and who was arrested, was Count Guiseppe Bartolomasi, a most inoffensive and estimable nobleman. For 24 days ho was kept in strict cellular confinement, and then, in consequence of his delicate state of health, confined to his own house. Among numbers of inhabitants of all classes of the city of Modena who were arrested and sent to Ounce, or the Isle of Elba, were the Rev. Don Dome nico Galvani, parish priest of Gombola ; the Rev. Don Marco Roncoccioli, archpriest of Pavullo ; Countess Stoffi, a much-respected lady ; the Signori Violi, Albinelli, Grappi, Amadessi, Mislei, &c. Doctor Goldoni and Count Tende rini were carried off to prison, and for a short time were under arrest. Simultaneously a vast number of indivi duals were officially, or officiously, menaced and warned ; among them . Countess Poppi, an aged lady of distinction ; Signor Zerbini, &c. The Italian Ministry of Finance deals still more freely with the purses than the Italian Ministry of "Justice" deals with the liberty of the subject. A comparison of the past and present financial credit of the various States of Italy speaks plainly in favour of the wise frugality of their old rulers, and trumpet-tongued proclaims on every money market of Europe the reckless, headlong course of the squanderers of the national wealth who for the last seven years have brought " Italia Unita" to the very brink of national bankruptcy. The interest of the debt of the Modenese States which, unde'r the Ducal Government, amounted to scarcely 7d. per head, under the new Piedmontese regime amounts to nearly 12f. for each individual of population: The portion of this year's forced loan which falls to the share of the old Modenese States, with a population less in numbers, and far inferior in wealth than that of Yorkshire, and equal to about that of the county of Cork, amounts to no loss than 11,166,238 f nearly £450,000 sterling, more than the whole State debt of the Modenese Government up to 1859. Under the Ducal Government the taxes amounted to about 14f., •or say lls. per individual of the population. Within seven years the new Government has increased them, so that they amount to 25f., or £1 sterling per head. And now comes this fresh forced and oppressive loan to increase the individual burthen still more. The railways sold, vast Church and State property sold, the private property of the Italian Sovereigns, the kinsmen of the House of Savoy, sold or sequestrated, their palaces pillaged, and all, all squandered. "11l got, ill gone !" A NEW FIRE ALARUII.—We find in the Union Medicale a paper by Dr. Duffay, on a curious and useful invention, due to the ingenuity of a celebrated ex conjuror, M. Robert Houdin. The object in view is to give the alarm of fire at the very commencement of the threatened catastrophe, and the following description will show how this is accomplished. Suppose a copper lamina and a steel one to be soldered together by their. surfaces, so as to form a single blade, copper en one side and steel on the other. Let it be fixed vertically by one of its extremities to a board, without, however, quite touching it, in order to avoid friction. The arrangement will be best understood by supposing a knife to be brought close to the board as if with the intention of cutting it through. Now, suppose a metal knob to be fixed on the board, on the steel side of the blade, and at a short distance from it. This knob is connected with one of the poles of a voltaic battery, the 1 other pole of which communicates with the screw which secures the fixed extremity of the blade, and with ono of those bells or alarums which we see used in the telegraph offices to prepare the clerks for the reception of a message. Now let the blade be warmed: as the dilution of copper by htat is greater than that of steel, it follows that the blade will be bent, the concave side being the steel one ; and if the heat applied be sufficient, a contact will be effected between the blade and the knob. No sooner does. this take place than the bell begins to ring, and continues doing so until the contact is interrupted. A very small de gree of heat will bo sufficient to produce the requisite cur vature of the blade ; even a burning cigar will ,do so at a distance of about three inches. This facility might in many cases prove rather a drawback were it not that the sensitiveness of the apparatus may bo diminished at plea sure by increasing the distance of the knob from the blade. A STAR SHOWER.—Last November a suspicion that it might occur prompted observers to keep a sharp - look out, and a very large numb er of meteors were c b served. At the Royal Observato r y , Greenwich, a thousandorn at least were seen bet ween midnight and vein h . t .d e en l and • ing of the 13th of the mo nth ; whil° at l e ier „ l e i re g noted other places, proportionately laTe during portions of that intehr,vl year's display, it is generally .t, i will take place this year, during %v e dNntitianwtiatlistanding last grand shower the night of either the 12th or 13th of this month of November. ie The day is a little uncertain , bu t if the shower occurs at allot will bo on ono of those two dates, and it will be during the morning h o urs of the nigh t —that is, after midnight—that there is the greatest probability of the phenomenon taking place.-- Nee a Week, • DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. - The medical profession for Thirty years have approved of this pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for Acidity of tho Stomach, Headache, Heartburn, Gout, and Indigestion and as a mild aperient it is especially adapted for ladles an ; d children. 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The birth rate of the summer quarter was near the average. The mortality was raised much above the average by the cholera in some districts, while the rest of the country was unusually healthy. In England during the quarter ending the 30th Septem ber 178,982 children were born. The number was about 2,000 less than in either of the two previous summer quarters. The annual rate was 3.344 per cent ; that of the corresponding quarters in ten years immediately pre ceding was 3.343 por cent. 116,826 deaths were registered. Tho annual rate of mortality was 2.182 por cent. This exceeded the average mortality of the last ten summer quar ters by .180, or one-twelfth part, and the excess on the popu lation is equivalent to 10,720 deaths. The deaths returned from cholera amounted to 10,365; those from diarrhoea, also due in great part to the same cause, to 9,570. The mortality was at the rate of 25 per 1,000 in the great town districts, and 18 in the village and small town districts. July, August, and September are usually the healthiest months of the year in England. This year their average rate of mortality was 2 per cent. above the average. The mor tality was at the rate of 19 in Birmingham, 21 in Bristol, 22 in Hull, 24 in Sheffield, 26 in Salford, 31 in Manchester, 32 in Iste..wcastle-upon-Tyne, 50 in Liverpool. In Edinburgh the rate of mortality was 23, in Glasgow 25, in Dublin 24. The excessively high rates of mortality are generally duo to the invasion of cholera. The total number of emigrants in the September quarter Was 47,153. Taking round num berg, 36,000 (of whom half were natives of Ireland) out of the 47,000 wont to the United States; nearly 7,000 to the Australasian, and nearly 4,090 to the North-American colonies. The mean temperature of the air in the quarter at Green wich was 58.9 deg., which is 1.1 deg. below the average of the season in 25 years. Each of the three months, but particularly August, was cold. The rainfall measure 7.9 in., half of which was in September, when the amount was an inch and a half ix excess of the average. Mr. Glaisher writes that ;the weather, which had been warm and fine at the close of the :previous quarter, changed to cold at the beginning of July, and in every part of the country rain fell almost daily. In September the attno sphericipressuro was always low, and in Guernsey and the west of England eight or nine inches of rain fell; near the east coast three inches ; about London four inches. In tho midland counties there were floods ; thousands of acres were under water, and much damage was done. In the three visitations of cholera in past years there was great atmospheric pressure, high temperature, narrow diurnal range, owing chiefly to high night temperature, defect of rain, wind, and electricity ; and in the last of those (1854) a remarkable blue mist was observed, which prevailed night and day. In nearly all these particulars • the meteorological character 61 the present epidemic season is different from that of previous periods when cholera prevailed ; but the blue mist has been again visible; it was first seen by Mr. Glaisher on 30th July, and by other observers in the preceding week. Since that time it has been generally present ; on some days no trace of it visible, and on other days seen for parts of a day only. It has extended from Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, and was of the same tint of blue everywhere. This mist increased in intensity when viewed through a telescope ; usually no " T II E" S AUCE. (DR. SOUTHWOOD SMITH'S DIGESTIVE.) Delichus with every dish. Wholesale and Export by A. g. Stocker, Lamb's Conduit-street; Barcbq and Sons, Batty and Co., Loudon; and George Edmonds, Crown chambers, Liverpool. Retailed everywhere. Ask for " the" Sauce. —,.. 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