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A Debenture Stock, which Stock is a first mortgage charge upon the whole under-. taking o f the DEVON AND SOMERSET RAILWAY, which, by agrce..ient confirmed by Act of Parliament, is to be worked in perpetuity by the BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY. The Directors of the DEVON AND SOMERSET RAILWAY are prepared to receive Subscriptions for £255,000 (balance unissued of £270,000) First Mortgage A Debenture Stock, bearing 6 per Cent. per annum Interest, which is issued in pursuance of the Railway Companies' Act, 1867. The price of issue of the Stock now offered for Subscription is Par, or £lOO for each £lOO Stock ; it will be issued in any amount not being less than £lOO Stock, payable as follows : .1610 on each £lOO Stock subscribed, payable on application. 10 „ I, PP „ „ allotment. 20 „ ~ PP „ „ 15th July 1870. 20 y, ~ 1, „ „ 15th Sept. 1870. 20 „ „ Pl „ „ 15th Nov. 1870. 20 ~ „ ~ „ 15th Feb. 1871. £lOO Interest will accrue from the dates of payment of each instal ment, but subscribers will have the option of paying the whole of the instalments on allotment, in which case interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum will also be allowed on such pay ments. The interest will be payable half-yearly, on January 1 and July 1 in each year, at the National Provincial Bank of England, London. In the event of any Subscriber not paying any instalments that may be due from him, the amount already paid shall be for feited to the Company. 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Strand THE NATURALISTS' CALENDAR : a Register of Periodic Natural Phenomena, referring to more than a thousand native and cultivated plants, native insects, native and domesticated mammals, native and domesticated birds and birds of passage, and giving the mean times of appearance of insects, the periods of birds in respect of song, migration, &c. ; the time of hybernation and first appearance of repti,es and mollusks ; the time of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of trees and other plants, &c., &e. Prefixed to each day is the mean temperature —i e., the temperature at nine a.m.—deduced from an average of thirty-five years at Green. with. Also, a complete plan of entomological operations for each season shewing when, where, and how to capture the various orders throughout the year. Appended is a review of organic nature, namely :-1. 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The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, and other journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with this edition. A ; GOVERNMENT OF PER ISSUE of £11,920,000 STERLING nominal Capital, 6 PER CENT, CONSOLIDATED BONDS, for the Construction of RAILROADS. Redeemable at Par by Hall-Yearly Drawings, through the operation of an accumulative Sinking Fund, of Two per Cent. per Annum, conunencing in 1880. PRICE OF ISSUE 84 PER CENT. In conformity with the Law of the National Congress, dated the 15th January, 1869, which conferred upon the Supreme Government of Peru the right of making contracts for the construction of certain Railroads, and paying for the same by the issue of Consolidated Bonds of the Republic of Peru, the said Government has arranged for the issue of such Bonds, as follows : To the extent of For the construction of the 4 Soles 27,600,000, 0r£5,510,000 Railroad from Callao to La Oroya „ 32,000,000, or 46,400,000 Total Soles 59,600,000, or £11,920,000 Messrs. J. HENRY SCHRODER and Co., being duly authorised, beg to offer the said Bonds for public subscription on the follow ing conditions :- 1. The Bonds will be in amounts of £l,OOO, £5OO, £2OO, £lOO, £5O, and £2O, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, payable by Coupons half-yearly on the Ist January and Ist July in each year (the first being payable on the Ist January next). The Coupons will be payable in London, in sterling; in Paris, at the exchange of 25 francs per pound sterling; and in Amster dam; at the exchange of the day on London. 2. The redemption will be effected by half-yearly drawings at par, commencing on the Ist April, 1880, by the operation-of a Sinking Fund of two per cent, per annum of the entire Capital, plus the Interest on the redeemed Bonds, so that the entire amount will be paid off at the end of 25 years from that date. The Bonds so drawn will be paid off three months after the date of drawing. 3. The Peruvian Government, however, reserves the right of putting the Sinking Fund into operation before the date above named, and of augmenting the amount to be drawn at any of the half-yearly periods. 4. The Peruvian Government guarantees the exemption of these Bonds from all Taxes or Imposts of any kind in Peru. 5. The Securities specially hypothecated for the due payment of the Interest and Principal of these Bonds are as follows :- Ist. The National credit of the Republic, solemnly pledged by the Government of Peru, in the name of the Re public, with the general hypothecation of all its real property and revenues. 2d. The Customs Dues of the Republic of Peru, amounting annually to Soles 4,000,000, or £BOO,OOO. 3d. The Railways to be constructed from Calloa to La Oroya, and from Arequipa to Puno, also the existing Railroad from Megia to Arequipa, with all their lands, buildings, rolling stock, workshops, and appurtenances. This latter Railroad has just been completed at a cost to the Government of £2,400,000. • 4th. The surplus proceeds of the Guano to be imported into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, her Colonies, to the Continent of Europe, and to United States of America, after providing for the existing 5 per cent. Government Loan of 1865 (of which £7,192,200 is still in circulation), and of the guaranteed Pisco-Ica Railway Loan of £290,000, The amount re quired for the annual service of the Loan of 1865 is £1,000,000, that of the guaranteed Pisco-Ica Railway Loan £20,800. The sales of Guano amount to 550,000 tons per annum, producing a nett Revenue of about £4,400,000. sth. After the Ist July, 1879 (the term fixed for the final re demption of the Loan of 1865), the present Bonds become a first charge upon the entire proceeds of Guano of the Republic of Peru (subject only to the guaranteed Pisco-Ica Railway Loan of £290,000), and no other Loan can under any circumstance take precedence of these Bonds. 6. The Subscription price is 82k per cent., payable in the fol lowing Instalments, viz.:— £5 Os. on Application ; £l2 10s. on Allotment ; Os. on the 20th August, 1870 £l5 • Os. on the 20th October, „ Deducting £3 Coupon due £l5 Os. on the 31st December „ Jan. 1,1871, less income tax £lO Os. on the 20th February, 1871 ; £lO Os. on the 20th April ; £l2 10s. Subscribers have the option of paying in full all the Instal ments under discount, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, on any day when an Instalment falls due. Allaying for Discount on the Instalments the price is reduced to 811 per cent. The non-payment of any of the Instalments at their due dates subjects all previous payments to forfeiture. Scrip Certificates to Bearer will be issued against Allotment Letters, to be exchanged for the definite Bonds as early as pos sible after payment of all the Instalments. The Bonds will be signed on behalf of the Supreme Govern ment of Peru by a Special Commissioner appointed for that pur pose, and countersigned by Messrs. J. HENRY SCHRODER and Co. Coupons for the half-yearly Interest due the Ist July of each year will be attached. Applications in the annexed form will be received by Messrs. J. HENRY SCHRODER and Co., on Tuesday, the 7th June, Wed nesday, the Bth June, and for applications from the country until noon on Thursday, the 9th of June. The allotments will be made as early as possible after the close of the subscription. In cases where the amount allotted is less than was applied for the balance of the deposit will be applied, towards payment of the next Instalment, and, if more than suffi cient for that purpose, the residue will be returned to the Subscriber. Where no allotment is made, the amount of deposit will be returned without delay. Subscriptions will be opened simultaneously : At the Offices of the Societe Generale In Paris ........ r e ur mm fa e v re o e rise e r t le d d e evt n p d te s t . r du en France. At Messrs. Lippman,Rosenthal & C o. ' s. In Amsterdam .. { At Messrs. Wertheim and Gompertz's. At the Nord-Deutsche Bank. In Hamburg .... At Messrs. L. Behrens and Sons. In Brussels ..... At Messrs. Cassel and Co.'s. In New York.... At Messrs. Baltzer and Tasks'. but Scrip Certificates issued in respect of London Allotments can only be paid on and exchanged for Bonds in London. 145, Leadenhall-street, London, 4th June, 1870. [To be retained by the Bankers.] GOVERNMENT OF PERU. ISSUE OF 211,920,000 STERLING, NOMINAL CAPITAL, 6 PER CENT. CONSOLIDATED BONDS, FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF RAILROADS. To Messrs. J. Henry BehrOder and Co., London. Gentlemen, Having paid to the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury, the sum of £ , being the required deposit of 5 per cent., request that you will allot to the sum of £ Nominal Capital of the above Bonds, and engage to accept that amount, or any less amount which may be allotted, and to pay the Instalments thereon, in conformity with your Circular of 4th June, 1870. Address ' Date [To be retained by the Applicant.] Received of the sum of £ , bei ng 5 per cent. deposit upon application for £ of the Govern ment of Peru 6 Per Cent. Bonds. For the London and Westminster Bank. C Barnstaple and the west of England is (as a glance at the map will show) round via Taunton, by Exeter, and thence by the North Devon Railway—a very circuitous route. When the Devon And Somerset Railway is open, nearly the whole of Tthis traffic must pass over- it, at a saving of nearly 40 miles in distance, and consequently economy of time and ex pense will be effected by all traffic between the metropolis and places north of it and the large district which will be served by the Devon and Somerset Railway, such traffic then proceeding by the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, to Taunton; and thence by the Devon and Somerset Railway direct, passengers and goods being booked through by those Companies. By special agreement, confirmed by Act of Parliament, the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company are to work the Devon and Somerset Railway in perpetuity, paying over to this Company half-yearly 50 per cent. of the gross receipts. Arrangements have also been made by which the Midland Railway Company is under agreement to allow the Devon and Somerset Railway 10 per cent. rebate on the traffic passing over their line ; and the Bristol and Exeter Company have agreed to allow a similar rebate of £5 per cent. on their line, which is to be increased to 10 per cent., when negotiations with the Great Western Railway Company for rebate on their line have been successfully carried out. With reference to the estimate of traffic of the Devon and Somerset Railway, there is no doubt it must be large ; having regard to the important towns it unites, and to the rich agri cultural and mineral district it will accommodate, as well as the saving of distance from the Metropolis and North. The directors forbear, to offer any precise calculations as to the amount of probable traffic ; but it may be observed that the North Devon Line running to Barnstaple from Exeter has a traffic of a mile a week, and the directors have recei ve d a reliable est ate that the traffic of this line will reach £24 a mile a-wee and will ultimately be considerably more. The amount required annually to pay the interest on the whole of of IT DebeitittroAlteek is £16,200, so that on the - above estimate the anticipated net revenue would exceed by upwards of £lO,OOO a year the sum necessary for such interest, to which must be added the additional revenue from rebates of traffic before mentioned, thus affording an investment of perfect security. Of the 42 miles of Railway, of which the Devon and Somerset Railway consists, about 26 miles are nearly ready for ballasting (the Rails and other materials for which are on the ground), thus leaving 16 miles to complete the whole length of the Railway. By arrangements with the Contractor—for whose due per formance of his engagements security has been given to the satisfaction of the Board of Directors—the following periods have been fixed for opening the line for traffic :- - Ist Section from Taunton to Wiveliscombe, 10 miles .. . ... 2nd Section from Barnstaple to South Molton, 12 miles. .. on 15th Feb., 1870. 3rd and last Section .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... on 30th June, 1871. So that within 15 months the entire line will be at work and open for traffic. To insure the punctual payment of tile interest during the last-mentioned period upon the Stock applied for an amount amply sufficient for that purpose will be invested in Government Securities, which will be lodged with the National Provincial Bank of England, in the names of— The Right Hon. The Lord Poltimore (Chairman), The Right Hon. The Earl Fortescue, Castle Hill, South Melton, Devon. who have consented to act as trustees, and will apply the amount in the payment of such interest as it falls due. As a safe investment English Railway Debenture Stock is well known, and possesses at once the advantage of a fixed income and the certainty of rapid increase in value, and consequent augmentation of the capital invested. TABLE OF COMPARATIVE VALUES OF RAILWAY DEBENTURE STOCK. These features apply specially to the present Issue of Stock for subscription, as will be seen by the accompanying table of the relative values of existing Railway Debenture Stock at 6 per cent. interest, compared with the 6 per Cent. Debenture Stock o - the Devon and Somerset Railway, now offered at £lOO. on 15tb Oct., 1870. price in a 6 per Issued at Equivalent Rate of Present NAME OF STOCK. Interest. Price. Cent. Stock, .... ..............._ as now offered. Per Cent. - £ £ Great Eastern Railway De benture Stock .. 5 110 132 Great Northern .. ; ; 4 100 150 Great Western .. 5 112 134 Lancashire and Yorkshire 4 100 150 London and Brighton .. 41 101 134 London & North Western 4 100 150 Midland .. .. .. 4 100 150 Ditto .. .. .. 41 106 141 North-Eastern .. .. 4 100 150 North London .. .. 4} 106 141 South-Eastern . .. 5 113 135 Metropolitan District Railway (in course of construction) Debenture Stock issued in July 1869, is now 16 premium .. 6 116 116 )tion being an English Rail- Ltural district, )tal capital of ists. The Debenture Stock now offered for subscrip absolute first mortgage charge on 42 miles of an way, passing through a rich mineral and agricu and which, when completed, will represent a tc £708,700, offers an excellent investment for capital By order of the Board of Directors, 11, M. MUGGER: DGE, Secretary 13, Little Queen-street, Westminster, 2nd June, 1870. Applications, accompanied bp the payment of £lO per cent., will be received on the enclosed form, which must be filled up, and forwarded either to the National Provincial Bank of Eng land, 112, Bishopsgate-street Within, London, or its branches ; or to the Secretary at the Company's offices, 10 Little Queen-street, Westminster, London. The above is abridged from the detailed Prospectus, which, with Forms of Application, may be had of the Secretary at the Offices of the CompanY• MISCELLANEO US TOPICS. DIRECTORS, The Right Hon. the Lord Poltimore, Poltimore Park, near Exeter, Devon, Chairman. John Arthur Locke, Esq., North Moor House, Dulverton, • Somerset, Deputy-Chairman. Sir William G. Throckmorton, Bart., Buckland, Faringdon, Berks, Thomas Collett Sanders, Esq., Minchenden Lodge, Southgate. Henry Georges Moysey, Esq., Bathealton Court, Wellington, Somerset. John Thomas Nash, Esq., South Molton, Devon. ENGINEER. Richard Hassard, Esq., M.1.C.E., 1, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, S.W. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Combe and Wainwright, 9, Staple Inn, London Messrs. Riccard and Son, South Molton, Devon. - - - -B ANKERS. The National Provincial Bank ;;F England, 112, Bishopsgate Street Within, London, E.C., and its Branches. SECRETARY. R. M. Muggeridge, Esq. Offices : 13, Little Queen Street, Westminster, London, and Taunton, Somerset. DESCRIPTION OF RAILWAY, The DEVON AND SOMERSET RAILWAY. 42 miles in length (shown on the accompanying map, coloured red), com mences at Norton, near Taunton, Somerset, forming a junction with the Bristol and Exeter Railway there, and terminates at Barnstaple, Devon, crossing by a direct route from east to west, Milverton, Wiveliscombe, Bampton, Dulverton, North and South Molton, Swinbridge and Landkey, saving nearly 40 miles on the existing route from the West of England to Bristol and the North, and bringing the entire district traversed within much easier reach of the Metropolis. The present route frOm the north, north-east, and east to THE ROYAL FAMILY AND IRELAND. It has bean rightly said that no one can accuse the Irish of having made little of the Royal Family on their visits to that country. In honour of one of the Georges, Dunleary was called Kingstown, and a large obelisk commemorative of his visit was erected where he landed. The Cove of Cork, in honour of the Queen's visit very many years ago, has also been called Queenstown. On every occasion that the Princes have visited the country, the fealty, enthu siasm, and joy of the people has been shewn, and never has there been an occasion known in which one of them was unkindly molested. Yet in spite of this fact Ireland is even less patronised and blessed by royal visitors than Canada, though only a few hours divide the one from England, while a transatlantic voyage is entailed in going to the latter. In Ireland, too, the resources for those sports, of which the Prince of Wales is such a supporter, are almost as great as in England. There are stag hounds in Meath, foxhounds in all the counties, fishing in the Shannon, shooting in Kerry,boating on the far-famed Killarney Lakes, and yachting at Connemara ; and then for scenery, there are old round towers, mountain waterfalls, glens, and woods, and all those lovely sights and romantic places for which, of all the members of the reigning family, the late Prince Consort appears to have shewn most admiration. It is, under all circumstances, with unmitigated plea sure that one hears of Tollymore Park being purchased for an Irish Sandringham. Already the gratification in Ireland at even the rumour of such a fact is unbounded, . and there is no reason whatever to fear that it is insincere in any Irish heart. MILITARY REORGANISATION. For several months past a large number of officers, who have consented to serve in the new Control department or in the Army Service Corps, have been kept in a state of anxiety and suspense as to their future prospects, a state of things which reflects very seriously on the conduct of the authorities. When the necessity for reform and reduction was first thought necessary, officers in the line were offered extraordinary advantages of pay and position, if they left their regiments and tendered their services to the Control section .of the Army. This branch, it was said, would be formed by a combination of the military store, commissariat, barrack, and pur veyor departments. Nothing, however, has yet been settled, either as to the rank these officers are to hold, the titles they are to claim, or the sala ries they are to receive. The principle on which the divisions named are to be amalgamated for the mutual benefit of officers and men, though a long time under consideration, has never yet been even approved of. A rumour of good times coming is now mentioned by a military contemporary, which states that a gazette will in p, few days be issued, giving all the decisions arrived at with reference to the new department as well as a list of promotions. It is to be hoped that this statement is trustworthy; as the apparently cavalier manner in which many officers believe themselves to have been treated by the Horse Guards, has caused a degree of indignation which cannot be expected to be borne peaceably much longer. The report published by the l rnty and Navy Gazette, however, applies only to the Control division. What is to become of the Army Service Corps, to which the officers and men of the military train were nominally transferred ? Why is it that the public are not told of the satisfactory result of the Government idea? It can scarcely be true that the new corps is in as queer a state in its life time as the old corps was when its death was so ardently desired. HALF-PENNY POSTAGE CARDS. The Government proposal to bring out a half penny postage card has set all the stationers by the ears. " Some others" of that ilk consider that explanation is needed of the fact that one firm have received orders to prepare within a certain period a large number of the new halfpenny stamps, while no opportunity has been afforded to their fellow manufacturers to tender for the supply. They would also like to know the amount the authorities have sacrificed by thus THE IRISH ORANGE INSTITUTION. In agreement with the liberal spirit of the time, one of the oldest institutions in Ireland (the Orange Society) is about to be partially reorganised. For many years the Protestants of the sister country have expressed objection to the society being a secret one, from which representatives of the press, and all other persons interested in its operations, but not actually belonging to it, were excluded. The Grand Lodge is now sitting at Enniskillen under the presidency of the "Grand Master," a very loyal Orangeman, the Earl of Enniskillen, and a removal of those old and condemned observances is under consideration. It is also understood that a resolution providing that no member shall be expelled larapestailtilt.."" public platform with persons professing Liberal politics, or for giving his vote to any candidate of whatever principles he may wish, will also bo brought forward and no doubt acceded to. The recent vigorous speeches in Belfast of Mr. Johnston M.P., one of the most idolised of Irish Orangemen, Captain Archdall, R.M., Mr. Stewart Blacker, Lord Crichton, and others have probably tended to produce this desire for reform, in an association celebrated in history, for its undeviating line of conduct, as well as tor its age and strength. LONDON PAUPERISM. Sir C. E. Trevelyan has another letter in the Times on " London Pauperism," in which he further describes the evils arising from indiscriminate charity. Through the golden harvest reaped by the indolent and the imprudent, the demoralisation, he says, spreads in a continually widening circle, and even the working classes have become tainted. Not only the habit, but the very idea of thrift seems to have been abandoned. The ordinary practice is to spend all that is saved from weekly earnings in various kinds of selfish indulgence in which the public-house always comes in for the largest share, and when a bad time comes to pawn household furni ture, clothes, and tools, with the full assurance that on application to a charitable society the " honest workman out of employ" will receive the earliest help. Sir Charles argues that a "condition precedent" which governs the whole subject is that charitable societies should not supplement Poor-law relief, but that each agency should take care of its own class of cases. Until this is done Poor-law ad ministrators will never feel that they exercise their functions at their peril. CHEAP MEDICINE FOR THE MIDDLE CLASSES. A scheme has just been started the want of which has long been felt among the middle classes. The labourer and the artisan have their sick clubs and trades' unions • but clerks and small tradesmen are obliged to open their doors to the paid doctor, whose presence in the majority ofinstances is very burdensome. A clerk with £lOO or £2OO a year is no more able to pay for medical advice thus obtained than a working man, and it is to meet this state of things that the scheme in question has been started. A subscription of a guinea a year will ensure to members of the new society medical attendance for themselves and their families. The scheme is intended to be self-sup-- porting, and to apply to clerks and persons in a similar position whose income is under two hundred pounds a year. THE OTHER GREAT RACE. It was thought that there could be no greater surprise than the Derby, but Friday produced a greater in the Oaks. It astonished everybody that Kingcraft should beat Macgregor ; but the wonder was greater when Gamos proved triumphant over Sunshine, Pate, and Hester. Only a fortnight ago Gamos performed most wretchedly in a race at Bath against Recorder and Macgregor, the defeated favourite in the Derby. He never passed the post, but was left several hundreds yards in the rear. Hester, a famous filly, the winner of the One Thousand, and the still more famous Sunshine, were competitors in the Oaks. But the dispised Gamos defeated each of tht....3. The moral of these two terrible races needs no enforcing. Put not your trust iu horseflesh. It is clear that not the least reliance is to placed on what is called "public form." A horse may win easily one day and be beaten as easily the next. It may, in sporting phrase, prove a " pig " to-day and a " clinker ' to-morrow. What with the unfair practices of owners and jockeys, and the vagaries of the horses themselves, the fact that an animal gains a victory on one occasion is not the slightest guarantee that it will win a similar contest against precisely the same competitors. QUACK ADVERTISEMENTS. The Telegraph does not as yet furnish a satisfac tory explanation of that quack advertisement affair. It will be remembered that a day or two ago at Guildhall, a man named Orr declared that a certain advertisement of a nauseous cha racter had been inserted in the Telegraph for thirtyshillings (much above the ordinary charge), and that he could get any advertisement inserted by paying a sufficiently high price for it. The Telegraph denied that any such advertisement had appeared. The man Orr the day after handed to the magistrate a receipt for twenty shillings for the insertion, not of the precise advertisement in question, but of one of precisely the same purport, though different in form. Whereupon the Telegraph publishes the following:— With reference to the case of Mathew Orr, recently re ported in these columns, it is necessary to repeat what has been already stated here, and what was originally stated by Mr. Montague Williams, that the advertise ments brought under the notice of Sir Robert Carden never did appear, and never could have appeared, in this paper. In what way Orr is to be dealt with, not only for his statement of falsehoods, but also for the manner in which he obtained insertion of a different advertisement in a disguised form, and which wholly escaped the notice of the head of the advertisement department, is a matter now under consideration. Now, it is quite possible that the noxious notice, in a " disguised form," might have obtained insertion. The difficulty is about the higher rate—twenty shil lings for an advertisement, which, according to the usual tariff, would not have been charged above one fourth. DRAPERS' ASSISTANTS. An appeal on behalf of girl seamstresses is made in the Daily Telegraph. A fair correspondent writes to describe, with wonderful minuteness, the trials of "six or eight" young ladies, who have all to work " fourteen hours every day, and sixteen hours on Saturday." Of course the tender chords of sympathy so often touched before by " neglected wives," and "clerks " whose salaries are small, are again unwound, and a leading article taking the thousands milliners in London for its subject, is issued full of severe rebuke to the givers of fashionable balls, and the heartless dressmakers of Bond-street, while the public, who are neither ball-lovers nor dress makers, are given a thrilling picture of the monoto nous wearying life of the little " draper's assistant." The Daily Telegt aph is no doubt right in bringing forward the subject in harrowing colours, and with due condemnation of the guilty parties. No one who is returning home at a late hour of the evening in London can help notici ng the worn faces that pass him in Regent-street, Oxford-street, and Bond-street, and one cannot help believing that such haggard and wan looks are caused by long hours of work, and want of nourishing food, which wretchedly small earnings will not allow the girls to buy. The Daily Telegraph blames all concerned in this work of murder, "dowagers " and " ladies anything grand, are reproved f or wear i ng new "artistic absurdities," every night, giving no mercy thereby to the makers of such articles, while women in general are blamed for n o t s h ow i ng common sense in the choice of their apparel at dances and flower shows. To the mind of the Telegrafila the dress most suitable to the movements of the d ance i s a " s i m pl e one," which will not be torn to shreds by even the slightest touch. Finally, the Telegraph censures the inspector whose duty under the Factory Act is to visit all drapers' establishments, for his carelessness and blindness in cases where cruelty and a hard life are too obvious on the faces of the girls employed. THE PRINCE AND THE GLOVE. In spite of University examinations and scientific PRICE Id STAMPED 2d. associations, and the somewhat alarming catalogue of feminine acquirements and feminine ambition constantly paraded before our eyes, it istolerably cer tain that all English lathes are not yet too wise. The Derby Day is famous for its follies, especially on the homeward road ; but the neighbourhood of Tooting last Wednesday has really the distinction of having reached the ne plus ultra of absurdity. The Prince of Wales went to the Derby. Passing by Tooting, he raised his hat to a group of ladies, who were regarding_ him, we may suppose, with enthusiastic devotion. In doing so—fortunate occurrence—he dropped his glove. Here was a wonderful chalice ! A chance to be striven for valiantly and resolutely. A scramble, a rush ensued, and the trophy was borne off in triumph by the feminine conqueror of Tooting, to the overwhelming disappointment of her competitors and to the very natural amusement of the Prince. No doubt the prize will be carefully treasured and ostenta tiJusly displayed. Encouraged by this success, the ladies of Tooting will henceforward look to the great race days as eagerly as the bookmakers of the Ring, in the expectation of something not " turning up," but tumbling down for their benefit. Perhaps we did not need Epsom week to demonstrate that, however wise "ariniactical our nineteenth century we are not likely to want either men or women to run the race of folly, and in this case, at least, no one can dispute that the ladies are the winners. ORGANIC MATTERS IN BREATHED AIR. The Medical Times, in alluding to what it terms Professor Tyndall's sensational lecture about the so called atmospheric germs, lays before its readers how much and how little of such doctrine it considers they ought to believe. Dr. Angus Smith, it says, hit upon the ingenious plan of washing the air, and then analysing the washings. His results were ex traordinary, chewing that there were as many as seven parts of ammonia in a million of air, as evinced by the rain-water examined. A part of this ammonia certainly developed organic matter of some kind, but the question arose, What is organic matter? Organi matter and germs, continues our contemporary, are two totally different things, organic matter being present in fluid, and germs being deposited in this. For organic matter to assume life some special and subtle force is needed, but, unfortunately, the nature of this has hitherto remained undiscovered. One great question of the present day is whether specific germs are necessary to give this life, or whether the ordinary forces of nature, especially light and heat, are not capable of infusing this life-giving force. One thing, it adds, is certain—that to talk of all organic matters in the atmosphere as germs is absurd. POISON POISONED. It is all very well for Mr. Bass to declare his con viction that not one publican in a thousand adulte rates his liquor ; but there are a great many very good judges who think differently. The question is not whether this brewer or that publican is guilty, but whether the practice is common. On this point there is a good deal of evidence against Mr. Bass. For instance, a clergyman, who is a gaol chaplain, quotes instances of persons whom he has found in pr:son in a state of complete insensibility from drugs which they had taken in liquor. One young policeman took two small bottles of porter, and was shortly afterwards apprehended in the act of running a muck on the high road, and stabbing the first person he met with. It was proved that he had taken no more than this very small quantity of drink. This clergyman likewise asks what becomes of all the coculus indicus imported into the kingdom, if a good deal of it is not put into beer. About 850 cwt. of this inviting substance finds its way into England annually. No doubt it is easy enough for rich people to get pure beer; but the poor man must take what he can get from the retailer, and very bad stuff it often is. OUTWITTED. The Protectionists are fighting a hard battle in the United States, but the American papers tell us that they have just met with a serious and un expected discomfiture. Some time since Mr. Commissioner Wells, the Special Commissioner of the Revenue, made a most important report, shewing plainly how greatly the commercial interests of the country suffered under the almost prohibitory tariff. This report, which attracted a great deal of attention, of course aroused the ire of the Protectionists, who assailed the Commissioner with true Yankee energy and decision. A com mittee of the House of Representatives has since been appointed, called the Committee on Manufac tures, with the view of thoroughly investigating the question. The majority of this committee (Pro tectionists, of course) exerted themselves to procure a host of evidence refuting Mr. Wells's statements. They spared neither trouble nor expense in so doing, and prepared a re?ort most bitterly hostile to a man whom they represented as wilfully false or inex cusably ignorant of what he professed to know. It was their charitable intention to Fet this report printed and circulated without giving Mr. Wells an opportunity of answering it, but unluckily for this honourable design, the minority thought differently. They forwarded to the Commis sioner the heads of the report, inviting him to reply to it, which he did in full, supplementing his former state nmets by plain and irrefragable evidence from the Customs, &c. This reply the minority incorporated in their own report, which they obtained the permission. of the House to have printed with that of the ma jority, and accordingly the startled Protectionists, instead of having the field to themselves, found, to their horror, when their report appeared, that to it was attached a crushing reply from their arch enemy to the whole of their ingeniously prepared attack. THE SPANISH CROWN. To-day will be a momentous occasion in Madrid. Marshal Prim has issued a pressing summons to every deputy inscribed on the Cortes roll to be in his place, as he intends to introduce the question of the Throne. He reminds them of the importance of the matter to be then discussed, and of the " grave incidents which may arise out of it." Most people will be inclined to agree with him. When such an impor tant matter as the disposal of a crown is brought for ward without any clear idea as to who shall get the prize, or as to what will be done if nobody secures it, it is clear that there is indeed abundant scope for "grave incidents" arising out of such a course of procedure. Prim's later conduct has been most un satisfactory. He has allowed to be publicly dis cussed the merits and claims of divers candidates without first ascertaining whether they would be disposed to a cce pt the crown, and thus Spanish pride has been mortified by more than one rebuff. And now that he invites the Parliament to solemnly take the matter in hand, he has no more likely claimant than a very respect able old general of 80, without a tooth in his head or a child to succeed him. Such a man cannot reign long, and when he is gone, the whole business must be done over again. ARMY INTELLIGENCE. The Army and Nary Gazette says that Veterinary Sur - geons W. H. Death, H. Dawson, J. Channon, and G. Longman have been appointed to do duty with the transport branch of the Control Department.— Inspector-General of Hospitals J. Mouat, V.C., C. 8., who was lately transferred from half pay to full pay, pro ceeds out to India to assume charge of his duties in the Bombay presidency. —The post of Deputy-Adjutan Quartermaster General for Ireland will not be filled up, neither will the post of Deputy Adjutant-General in Canada.—Major -General Percy Hill, C. 8., late of the 2nd battalion Rifle Brigade, who was promoted a major general in January last, will succeed Major-General D. Rainier in the command of a division of the Bengal army. Captain and Brevet-Major W. W. Lynch, 2nd Queen's, Brigade-Mjor at Chatham, will be the Military Secretary to Major-General W. Munro, C. 8., the newly-appointed commandent of the troops in the West Indies.—Captain A. R. M. Wood, Coldstream Guards, will be appointed aide-de-camp to Major-General W. S. Newton, at Malta.-- The Broad Arrow says Lieutenant-Colonel Gall, C. 8., half-pay, late of the 14th Light Dragoons, an officer who has greatly distinguished himself in India, will be appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.— On the arrival of the Ist Battalion 9th Foot, and of the 2nd Batalion 11th Foot, from the Cape, they will be stationed in Ireland. The 2nd Battalion 15th Foot, and the 2nd. Battalion 16th Foot, now in Ireland, will, on being relieved, proceed, the one to the Channel Islands, and the other to the West of England. The United Service Gazette says the half-yearly distribu tion of prizes at the Royal Military Academy, Wool wich, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, has been fixed for the 18th inst. The prizes offered by the Indian Government for the best essays on Military Clothing have been awarded, the first to the Hon. Colonel Massey, 95th Foot, in charge of the Poona depot, and the second to Asssstant-Surgeon Corban, M.D., 21st Hussars. :ouse now rate, Algs, each [ be the leri- ores f a eller cide in se ndi son- ary )een )out sts, rs to %sed moll nu and ent )in - If a eil ;he ne, ) ut ed. ion ice ;he all ere