The Sun. — London, England, 1867-10-03 00:00:00

The Birmingham and Midland Institute. BIRMINGHAM, Tuesday. The winter session of the Birmingham and Mid land Institute was opened last evening. It is usual on these occasions for the president for the year to deliver an " inaugural" address. The Earl of Har rowby, Lord Wrottesley, and the late Mr. Schole field have successively filled the office. The presi dent for this year is Mr. Commissioner Hill, Q.C., who is a native of the town, and for a period of a quarter of a century held the office of Recorder. The learned gentleman entered the theatre of the institute accompanied by the Mayor (Mr. Avery), Mr. Alderman Wiggin, and other of the vice-pre sidents, and was most cordially welcomed. The learned PRESIDENT at the commencement of his address cited a few sentences from a speech de livered by the late Prince Consort in laying the foundation stone of the building 12 years ago. The illustrious Prince on that occasion said—" This work I do not look upon as a simple act of worldly wisdom on the part of this great town and locality, but as one of the first public acknowledgments of a principle which is daily forcing its way among us, and is destined to play a great and important part in the future development of this nation and of the world in general—l mean the introduction of science and art as the unconscious regulators of pro ductive industry." The learned president said that much as had been done in the direction defined by the Prince Consort, he was persuaded they felt acutely that much still remained to be done ; but effected it assuredly would be, unless he formed a false estimate of his fellow townsmen. (Applause.) Reflecting on the immense benefits which must accrue from their success to the vast and growing population by whom they were surrounded, he was led to ask why it was that up to so recent a period Birmingham remained unprovided with such an institution ; one which, in this great seat of mul tifarious labours—each calling for the application of science, and not a few demanding for their successful prosecution artistic skill of no mean order—he might in the present state of the commercial world venture to pronounce essential to the inaintenance of their position, if not _ _ to their very existence, as a community? The answer to this question prompted a further inquiry. Could they, by reviewing in succession the impediments which formerly barred all attempts towards their present enterprise, and which still remained in suffi cient numbers and strength most materially to dimi nish the rate of progress, discover how those impe diments might be removed from their path? And could they derive encouragement from adverting to the advantages for carrying on the undertaking ? In the hope of throwing on these questions some glimpses of light, however faint or dubious, he had adopted the topics thus indicated for the subject of his address. The conditions demanded for the esta blishment of the institute were manifold. In the absence of endowments a large population was ob viously necessary to provide the needful revenue. A sufficient number of inhabitants Birmingham pos sessed long before he was born. But a population, however extensive and however wealthy, would be prompted to no such enterprise unless it was imbued with an earnest belief in the importance of education to the wellbeing of all, high and low—a state of opinion so lately formed in this country that such of his audience as were in anywise advanced in years would not only remember its commencement, but could revert to a time when the rich and powerful were as a body hostile to the general diffusion of knowledge ; while the classes whose wants, intellec tual and spiritual, were most to be deplored were themselves disposed to treat with indifference, if not with contempt, benefits never partaken either by them or their forefathers, and of which they could but imperfectly conceive. " Knowledge is power," and the lesson (though not the true lesson) drawn by the holders of power from the French Revolution forbade them to share their privileges with the mul titude. That portentous event not only widened the gulf which already separated class from class, a evil impossible to over-estimate, but divided each into sections mutually inimical, thereby precluding, even among the privileged, all thought of combined action. Hence the capacity of each for works of improvement, in the value of which there might be a general concurrence, was not merely limited by this division of its numbers, but the sections be came obstructive one to the other, wasting their time and dissipating their energy in controversies futile and irritating to the last degree. The learned gen tleman referred to the state of England at the time of the French Revolution, at the effects produced by it in this country, and at the Priestley riots which followed. Recent events (he said) showed that the volcano of religious animosity, although doubtless diminished in force, was not utterly spent, but only reposed in temporary slumber. (Hear.) The years following the riots of 1791 witnessed various dis plays of hostile sentiment. In preparation for a municipal dinner shortly after that event, of which a member of the powerful and wealthy party op posed to French principles bore the cost, the list of gues's accustomed prior to the outbreak to be in vited on public occasions had been sedulously cleared of adverse elements. By inadvertence, however, the name of Dr. Parr was retained ; and the sturdy divine, although he must have surmised that he would be the only representative of his opinions, duly obeyed the summons. The cloth being drawn, the chairman proposed, as the doctor no doubt expected, the toast of " Church and King." Parr instantly storted to his feet, proclaiming in a stern voice his dissent. " No, sir," said he ; " I will not drink that toast. It was the cry of Jacobites ; it is the cry of incendiaries. It means a Church without the Gospel, and a King above the law !" What was the effect cf this bold utterance except to prove the courage of the speaker he knew not ; but it was a rebuke well deserved and well applied. Party con flicts were not always so bitter ; they were carried ou by taunt and by jest and by repartee, instead of the violence of a mob ; and they sometimes assumed a ludicrous form. When Dr. Croft, the curate of St. Martin's, was asked whether it was true that he had said that he would never bury a Dissenter, he replied, " It is false ; I am ready to bury you all." The contrast between the state of things at that time and our present condition presented in a strong light the facility for the promotion of good works enjoyed by the present generation as compared with the obstacles in the way of their predecessors. Might every omen which pointed to a return of the old reign of discord prove a false alarm ! (Hear, hear.) One hindrance to the diffusion of know ledge he would gladly pass over without comment, but it was too vast in its proportions and too per nicious in its effects to permit of silence. He meant the fatal habit of indulgence in strong drinks, which still prevailed in appalling magnitude. The mourn ful consequences of this habit were undisputed, however diverse the opinions as to the remedy. He contented himself, therefore, with most earnestly pressing upon those who either differed or agreed with him as to the particular steps required to avail themselves of their power and influence, directed in accordance with their own convictions and oppor tunities, for the discouragement, if not for the effec tual extinction, of this fearful vice. He next came to speak of that despicable species of competition in trade which incited the manufacturer, with the view of underselling his rivals, to deteriorate the quality of his goods. The temptations to this offence were, indeed, often so strong that it was impossible to withhold sympathy from the poorer classes of tral3smen who yielded to it. Yet the more carefully the matter was examined, the more inju rious to all interests, private and public, would this miserable system prove to be. He should not think himself justified in stigmatising as dishonest any depreciation which only reduced quality in exact proportion to the reduction of price. But the case was vastly different when the reduction in value exceeded (and it frequently far exceeded) the re duction made to the buyer in price—his consent to the transaction being the result of his ignorance of the quality of the article. Sometimes the defect was in the material, and could only be detected when the article was brought to the test of actual use ; at other times the defective part was concealed inside the article, so that the buyer, however skil ful, was liable to deception. But purchasers them selves were oftentimes far from blameless. They yielded without an effort to the temptation offered by prices so low as almost to proclaim the worth lessness of the articles proffered foi sale. Until of late years our laws for the protection of trade reputation were so notoriously ill contrived as to be in practice all but a delusion. Probably per sons conversant with their working would pronounce them even now to stand at some distance below per- fection. Yet they were a precious boon to the hon ourable manufacturer earnestly striving after excel lence ; and must have borne no small part in the general advancement of Birmingham manufactures, creating thereby a gratifying contrast between our past condition and present. How obstructive such a state of things must have been to the growth of a general desire for improvement—to a frame of mind which should lead the masters to promote and the junior artisans to hail such an institution as that— each of his hearers would judge for himself. But the evils of deceptive trade did not terminate with inju ries to the characters and pecuniary interests of in dividuals—a whole community suffered severely and permanently. Having incidentally referred to the town of Sheffield, the learned gentleman said he grieved to speak in disparagement of the home of James Montgomery, Ebenezer Elliott, and Samuel Bailey, and of those just, enlightened, and benevo lent citizens who were doing their best to root out devilish principles which it was not in the power of language to stamp with infamy commensurate with their deserts. The real mention of Sheffield would recall a portentous danger which must often have painfully occupied the thoughts of his hearers. He adverted to consequencesbuttoorecently anticipated by some persons of steadfast minds from the prin ciples avowed and the courses pursued by many trades' unions. That he was himself wholly free from alarm was more than he could aver; yet such was his reliance on the sterling good sense of English- men of every condition that his hopes far outweighed his fears. If words of his could gain the ear of trades unions, he would implore them to reflect on the inevitable results of the policy to which they would appear to be giving themselves up. Led away by the desire for equality—often a generous impulse, yet as often the parent of unnumbered evils—they fought against the ordinances of nature. They did not, it is true, ask as heretofore for " the equal division of unequal earnings ;" but they did worse—they framed regulations to prevent strength and skill from effecting more for the employer than he obtained from a lower grade of capacity. This principle of trade, combined with restraints on tak ing apprentices, whereby the supply of labour was lessened and youths were cruelly precluded from becoming artisans, enhanced prices and debased equality ; emulation was checked, legitimate ambi tion had no outlet, and an approach was made to the stagnation of intellect which belonged to slavery. And, sad to say, this calamity was bearing us down with increasing weight, while competing nations were pressing upwards and onwards with newborn energy, and thrusting us from the position we had so long held, not, we must admit, by the paltry shift of low prices and inferior goods, but by the produc tion of better articles than ours, which they were selling at moderate rates. He did not, however, forget that we ourselves suffered from trash being often substituted abroad for English goods, and fraudulently sold as such ; but that was an injury of far less moment, although by no means to be despised. In the meantime, and until these reac tionary steps were arrested such hostilities between employers and employed must bring back the state of things which followed the riots of 1791 ; and bring them back under aspects more fearful than on the former occasion. Then society was divided vertically, each party collecting under its banner followers of every degree ; but now the threatened severance was horizontal—labour arraying itself against capital ; which implied enmity on the part of the working classes against all above them. Late events, however, must have disclosed the awful abyss opening before us—an abyss into which (although all interests would ultimately be engulfed) labour would assuredly be hurried before capital was called upon to take its turn. But this disclosure could not fail of producing a powerful effect. As yet the majority of working men had not bowed their necks to the yoke of trades' unions, and he hoped and believed that the larger part even of those who bore that yoke would indignantly re sist all attempts to urge them into crime. And without crime the coercion sought to be exercised over fellow workmen, over the youth of the nation, and over masters could never be enforced. Mean time a system was elevating itself into importance founded on conditions diametrically opposed to those of trades' unions. He referred to co-operation in its various branches, which, however they might differ to the eye, agreed in holding sacred the individual rights of all, and in giving to each member, in addi tion to a fixed remuneration for his labour or his capital, an interest rising or falling in amount with the rise or fall of prosperity in the undertaking. This principle, honestly carried into effect, with due intelligence and industry, had wrought wonders, both at home and abroad. Peace took the place of war—not a peace of cold neutrality, but a firm alliance, in which even the most humble felt himself raised above a mere hireling, and placed on the foot ing of a friend and partner. Now that the sound ness of co-operation had been proved by multiplied experiments, it would be to doubt of human nature itself were we to turn away with distrust from a principle giving scope to the noblest impulses of the heart. Discarding its aid we should lose, according to his settled convictions, our best prospect of escape from the chronic animosities now encompassing us, and swelling with every succeeding year into more disastrous proportions. Reverting for a moment to the history of the trades of Birmingham, he said the continued prosperity of the town could only be re tained by an uninterrupted series of victories. In no place on the face of the globe was so rapid a suc cession of trades necessary for the full employment of the population. Staple trades, with the exception of gunmaking, there were none, or next to none. Numerous manufactures, however, started into existence, prospered for a time, and died out again at the caprice of fashion. What was better, because of more permanent benefit, discoveries in science were speedily applied here to the arts of life. The learned gentleman alluded to the great dis coveries and services rendered by the late Mr. Muntz in connection with the admixture of metals, and to the difficulties encountered by him before success was attained ; and he claimed for Birmingham the distinction of having produced the steam-engine, since it was at Soho that the sublime invention of Watt was matured, and in Birmingham alone could be found a body of workmen possessed of sufficient skill and versatility to manufacture so complex a machine with sufficient precision. Although our local history could not show a second exploit with any pretensions to rival the transformation of the steam engine from the barbarism of its northern handicraft to the surpassing excellence which it attained in the workshops of Soho, yet could he occupy their time for hours with the enterprises to which Birmingham had given birth, all illustrating the ingenuity and the perseverance of her sons, each having its story of good or ill fortune. For in trade, as in every earthly affair, success could never be insured. Not seldom must the aspirant learn to bear calamities with for titude, and patiently content himself as best he might when he had earned a right to the consolation of having merited a better lot than had fallen to him by the chances of life; and each narrative, whether ending happily or unhappily, would tend to excite the young to resolutely pursue a career of honourable exertion, in which diligence would be directed by knowledge, guarded by caution, and governed by rectitude ; for although "'Lis not in mortals to command success," it could not be doubted that to deserve it offered the only rational hope of its attain ment. Time most famous scholar of English growth was beyond contradiction, Richard Bentley, whom Pope called " Mighty scholiast, whose immortal pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains," who never would have exposed himself to the ridi cule of his contemporaries and successors had he had the training of a Boulton or a Muntz. They learnt to reason, not so much i❑ words as in deeds, and deeds of moment, where to be captivated by a fallacy was to be led to ruin ; while, on the other hand, to ar rive at the truth by seizing nice distinctions was to arrive at wealth and fame. Had Boultou's estimate of the immense capabilities of Watt's engine, ob- THE SUN. LONDON. THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1867. scured as they were by the imperfect state in which it came to Birmingham, been false, he might have died a pauper, with the stigma of wild speculation on his memory ; and if Muntz had not discerned a distinction which escaped the eagle ken of Davy, yellow sheathing, with its magnificent rewards to himself and its still greater benefits to the public, would have had no existence. In conclusion, the learned president expressed his conviction that the removal of every obstacle to the permanent welfare of the town, and the promotion of whatever tended to its advancement, must concurrently foster the love of knowledge in the rising generation. Thus imbued, the young would flock into the Birmingham and Midland Institute, and thence issue forth to use their acquirements that their own profit might go hand in hand with the good of others. That they might offer such an example to successors without number was, and would ever be so long as life re mained, his heartfelt prayer. (Applause.) A vote of thanks to Mr. Hill was moved by the MAYOR, and carried by acclamation. SHIPS AND G UNS. On• 'Wednesday last the American 15-inch gun, charwed with 100113. of American powder and Ame rican Shot weighing a little more than 4501 b., pene trated! the 8-inch Warrior target at Shoeburyness twice. We had anticipated its success with this high 'large for the following reasons :—lt has been found by experiment that a pointed Palliser shot requires about 109 foot tons per inch of its circum ference •to perforate the 8-inch target, and the power of a pointed shot is to that of a round-headed shot as 10 to 9, nearly, so that the latter, if of steel, would. require about 121 foot tons per inch of cir- cumfe.re nce to effect the same penetration. Now, the actual energy of the two shot fired on Wednes day were —first round, 7,208 foot tons, or 152.7 per ineh of shot's circumference ; second round, 7,300 loot tons, or 154.6 per inch of shot's circum ference. Each projectile bad, therefore, more than 30 foot tons per inch of circumference to spare, and the penetration was certain unless the shot broke up before it could get through. The iron of which these projectiles are cast is most excellent in quality approaching very nearly to the strength of steel for the particular work required of it ; indeed, it is evi dent that we have something to learn of the Ameri cans in this direction. But when we come to in quire what probability there is of the gun's employ ment under such advantageous conditions in real warfare, the answer cannot but reassure the minds of those who live in perpetual dread of being behindhand in military materiel. Suppose two ships or two fleets engaged in combat. There is but one chance out of thousands that a gunner gets a fair and square shot at his adversary. Even if the ships were at anchor, there is only one point in each of them where the target is presented at right angles to the enemy's gun, and if we follow in imagination the swift and circling war vessels through the maze of their terrible manoeuvres, we cannot fail to see that the opportunities given by those who wish to avoid their antagonist's close and direct fire must be few indeed. Nevertheless, such opportunities will occur, and if our navy is really intended for war purposes we should spare no pains to have at least some of the strongest ships afloat. We may say at once that the Hercules would not be pierced by the 15in. gun with 100 lb. charge, whatever may be the loose ideas on this subject entertained in some quarters. Nor must it be for gotten that this 19-ton gun is no broadside piece. It is for turrets only at present, though we are far from believing that the progressin shipbuilding will not leave behind all existing models, and give us, perhaps, platforms capable of supporting many such guns as these. Forts should always be able to bold their own against smooth-bored guns. Torpedoes, the watch dogs of our coast defences, will prevent intruders from advancing within the limits of their chains for a regular bombardment at close quarters and bouquets of mortar shells falling like thunderbolts from the sky upon the weak decks or turret grat ings will carry with them a far more terrible and certain ruin than can be assured by any other kind of artillery fire against exceptionally strong ironclads. We are of opinion that this point has not yet re ceived the consideration due to its importance. Mortar fire can never be as accurate as horizontal fire from guns, but it can be greatly improved, and no vessel yet built is protected against vertical fire with heavy shells. Torpedoes constitute a vast addition to the de fence ; but let us not put too much confidence in them. They can never be more than auxiliaries to delay and embarrass the movements of an attacking fleet, for, be it remembered, they can be exploded by the shock of other heavy masses than hulls of ships, or sought for and removed by brave men in the darkness of night. They are but submarine mines, after all, and are not more to be dreaded than the subterranean horrors which lurk round every land fortress. It is strange how often men cry out "Eureka! Henceforth I am invulnerable." Soldiers and sailors carry their lives in their hands ; and when the day comes that England can find no officer chivalrous enough to lead a band of men to almost certain death, no faithful soldiers to follow him striv ing among themselves for the post at once of honour and danger, she may burn her ships and strip the uniform from her degenerate sons, for success in war will have become impossible to her for ever. There will be many to say that the Shoeburyness target was unfairly pierced by the Rodman gun on Wednesday, because it had been previously shaken almost to pieces, and, indeed, when we consider that it had suffered during the many months of its ex istence the successive shocks of projectiles, weighing about 16,0001 b., burled against it by 2,7001 b. of powder, and representing an energy of 193,000 foot tons, or 519 foot tons per square foot of surface— that it had been perforated till no absolutely sound spot could be found in it—the opinion is not without some reason. Both indents made by the shot on Wed nesday's firing ran into old holes, the second was on the junction of two plates, and there can be no doubt that the work would have been more difficult had the target been sounder ; but, as we have shown above, the force was more than sufficient to pene trate even a sound target, provided the shot were of sufficiently good material. We can estimate almost exactly what the gun can do against perpendicular resistance, and it is easy to say what targets it will penetrate and what it w ill n ot , under the excep tional m., b condition u t w eo have a l v o e ol b as . charges, r gneo experience of itss or ordinary ones power at an angle, though we can guess pretty nearly what it will be. This should be ascertained as soon as the Ordnance Select Committee have anything to fire at, and while the gun remains unharmed by its heavy charges. Such an opportunity for com prehensive experiments has never yet been seen. Cannot we persuade the War-office to carry it a little further, and bring th e Northern European these matters petitionliisgthot burns be strongly enough to gained by secrecy in bear a few breezes, and ther e is no reason to put it .° t h O i n u g r under a bushel. We know what our guns can and what they cannot do. Let us by all means ascertain the powers of the best foreign guns by direct expe riment under the eyes of our own officials and in the full light of public criticism. In all such comparisons there are two dangers to be guarded against. On the one,hand, the rocks of prejudice in favour of our own weapons ; on the o: her, the whirlpool of popular opinion and popular fallacies. The former tends to make our officials un dervalue what goes on outside the charmed circle of British manufacture ; the latter would drive them to over estimate the importance of every novel in vention. Between these two dangers careful steer ing is required, and if our pilots would show them selves worthy of the trust reposed in them they must ascertain and mark out clearly, not only the rocks and quicksands, but also every practicable channel however removed from the one most in favour. The second part of Wednesday's firing was of con siderable interest, though not of a character to chal lenge comparison with what went before. A solid Palliser shot from the 9 inch gun of 12 tons, less than two-thirds the weight of the Rodman gun, was fired at the same target, but at an angle of 25 deg. from the perpendicular to the face of the target. The 8 inch plate was penetrated, and the shot lodged in the backing. The position of the gun was then changed so as to reduce the angle to 20 deg. from the right angle, when the shot penetrated plate and backing, and cracked two of the ribs supporting the inner skin. The range was 70 yards in either case—a range which strangely:enough suits the rifled gun less than that of 200 yards. These penetrations at various angles are of high importance, because they represent the cases most likely to occur in real war, and it is to be hoped the Rodman gun will be put to the same test as soon as arrangements can be made for it. The big American gun cost the country £1,500, and there is some natural objection to risk its early destruction by continuing to fire 100 lb. charges. But while acknowledging that the life of one cast iron gun may be very different in duration to the life of another, such a test will, at least, show what may be counted as one possibility on service. The bursting of such a gun in a turret would be ruin to the morale of the whole ship's crew, but if the life of one gun be as much as, say 20 rounds, a reckless captain might risk it in action for a few rounds on the chance of getting a §,ingle *hot in between wind and water. Shells from the 15 inch gun will be of no use against ironclads, but no wooden ships could stand before them for half an hour.—limes. THE SPECIAL FISHERY COMMISSIONERS IN CUMBERLAND. WORKINGTON, Monday. The Special Commissioners for inquiring into fixed engines in the rivers in England have been holding an adjourned Court here, for the purpose of inquiring into fixed engines on the River Der went and estuary. At the first sitting here, about a fortnight ago, several cases were left over, and among these a very important claim made by Lord Lonsdale to a fishing coop on the Derwent, two or three miles above this town. This case, which was opened on Friday last, has occupied the Commissioners three days, and is likely to occupy a fourth. It is one which excites a good deal of interest, as evinced by the large number of persons attending the daily sittings. The Commis sioners are James Paterson, Esq., chairman ; Capt. Spratt, R.N. ; and Major Scott. The evidence and tha legal points raised on both sides were very voluminous, aud, therefore, we must confine our report to a comparatively brief summary of the chief points in both. The case of the claimant, as opened by Mr. Lamb, his lordship's solicitor, was that this was an ancient fishery. Lord Lonsdale claimed a " several fishery" in that part of the river Derwent lying in the parishes of Seaton, Stainburn, and Working ton ; and traced his title by deeds as far back as 1751, when the property was sold by Mr. Curwen, a member of a well-known Cumber land family, to Sir James Lowther, an ancestor of the present Earl of Lonsdale. The deeds con veyed a " free and several salmon fishery and pis cary," with a " Barth and coop nigh Seaton Mill." This was the coop now claimed. About that time the fishery was let for £5O a year, as shown by a lease produced in Court. As to the way in which the fishery had been fished, it appeared that when the Solway Act was passed in 1804 these coops (for there were then two) were fished in accordance with that Act, which required that the becks, or rather the bars of the becks, should be 3 inches apart, and that they should be upright, and not horizontal. The then Earl of Lonsdale, however, obtained a private Act in 1809 exempting his Der went fishery from the operation of the Solway Act, and accordingly from that time the fishery was fished with horizontal bars, and 11 inch instead of 3 inches apart. This continued up to 1861, when the General Salmon Fishery Act for England was passed, and that act among others repealed the Sol way Act as far as it related to English rivers, and also repealed Lord Lonsdale's private Act. There fore after 1861 the hecks were again put perpen dicular and the bars widened to 2 inches. But, between 1819 and 1861, Lord Lonsdale fished with the horizontal bars and 1f inch apart with out challenge, except in 1819 when an action was brought against his tenant (Mr. Peat) for using these horizontal bars, but Mr. Justice Bailey, who heard the case at the Carlisle assizes, directed a non-suit. The fishery in 1862 was let to a gentleman named Walker, who gave the fish a year's " jubilee" by throwing open the coops, and in that year Mr. Eden, late one of her Majesty's Inspectors of Fisheries, came down and visited the Derwent, and at his suggestion the second coop was closed up and a free pass was made near the other and now existing coop. A plan was drawn up, sub mitted to the Home Office, and approved, and the pass made according to that plan. The claimant contended, therefore, that he was now fishing under the direct sanction of the Home Office, although, of course, that did not establish the original legality of the fixed engine. After the production of certain deeds, the oppo nents to the claim, Mr. Saul of Carlisle, on the part of Lord Leconfield, and Mr. Waugh of Cockermouth, in the interest of riparian proprietors higher up the river, called for an inspection of the whole of Lord Lonsdale's title deeds, but this was resisted on the part of his lordship; and, after much argument, the Commissioners decided that Lord Lonsdale could not be required to produce all his deeds. The witnesses examined were Mr. Walker, the tenant of the fishery in 1862, Mr. Peat, and Mr. Glover, previous tenants— the fishery having been in the hands of Mr. Peat's family for a century Mr. Steele, M.P., for Cockermouth, Wane Fletcher, aged 78, Joseph Scott, aged 80, and John Hodg son, aged 79—a1l of the family of " oldest inhabi tants"—Mr. Dalzell of Salmon Mill, the present tenant of the fishery, and one or two others. The total width of the weir across the Der- went at Seaton Mill was proved to be 272 yards. It is divided into two weirs, with an island between them. The weir serves Seaton mill with water power, and also some ironworks near, called Beer Pot Works. It was proved that, there being a grat ing at the top of the weir, old spent salmon in the spring were killed there in numbers—sometimes eight or nine were found dead in a morning, al though men had been backwards and forwards all night pushing them back into the river. In 1798 520 salmon were caught in one day at this fishery, and Mr. Peat said he had caught a cart load in a day in 1845 or 1846. Nothing like so many were caught now. Mr. Peat also put in a stake net at the mouth of the run in Lord Lonsdale's right, which he considered he could do without asking anybody's leave. The principal grounds of opposition are a denial of the several fishery, and an allegation that the coops had been moved from another dam to Seaton's dam; but the opponents' case has not been fully opened yet. DETAINING A WATCH. At the Police Court, Kilmarnock, Andrew Laugh land, a shoemaker from Galston, pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to report to the police authorities the finding of a gold watch at the railway station within 48 hours of the time when it came into his possession. The facts of the case as brought out are as follows :—On the evening of Friday week the Marchioness of Queensberry, who had at tended the Western Meeting, arrived here en route to her castle in Dumfriesshire, and, after a few minutes' stay in the waiting-room, proceeded on her journey. On reaching Sanquhar she missed her watch, and recollecting that she had laid it on the table of the waiting-room at this station, she telegraphed to the stationmaster to that effect, at the same time requesting him to take whatever steps might be required for the watch's recovery. The manager at Glasgow, who was at once communi cated with, caused bills to be issued offering a re ward of £2 to any party who might forward the watch either to himself or to the stationmaster here, Mr. Cowan. On the forenoon of Tuesday following Laughland came to Mr. Cowan and stated that he had found a watch bearing the initials of the Mar chioness on the platform on Friday night, and that he had taken it home with him, not knowing at the time whose it was, but subsequently he had sent an advertisement of the circumstance to the Glasgow Herald. Mr. Cowan asked him to give up the watch, but he refused, announcing his determination to go at once (in company with a gentleman who accom panied him from Galston), and personally deliver the lost property to the Marchioness. On learning this the stationmaster telegraphed to headquarters for instructions, and in reply received an impera tive order to hand the parties into the custody of the police if they still refused to give up the watch ; but by this time they had gone off on their ex pedition with the midday train to Annan. The police were speedily made aware of the case, and on their return at night the Galstonians, to their utter astonishment, had put into their hands a document summoning them to appear at the Police Court, on Monday, the one to answer to a criminal charge, and the other to bear witness against the friend for whose interests he had shown such an affectionate regard. As a result of their zeal they had obtained from the Marchioness the already offered reward of £2, together with payment of their railway expenses. In court the prosecutor dwelt severely upon Laugh land's conduct, and the magistrates sentenced him to pay a fine of 10s. THE FENIAN HANDCUFFS.—Mr. Jones, the indig nant Bed Republican member of the English bar, forgot that to let the birds (Awe caught out of his nets is not the custom of a Fowler. Bravo, Mr. Fowler, and quite right L not to In bullied.—Punch. Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, Sept. 28.—The cholera returns for the last four days are as follows :—On the 25th, 11 attacks and 5 deaths ; on the 26th, 8 attacks and 7 deaths; on the 27th, 19 attacks and 13 deaths; and on the 28th (up to eight o'clock this morning), 11 attacks and 10 deaths. A change of weather took place on the 27th, when the island was visited by a thunderstorm and rain, and since then we have had more heavy showers, and a good deal of thunder and lightning. The temperature now is pleasantly cool ; but it is curious to remark, as has often before been noticed, that the number of cholera cases rose immediately after the rain and sudden change of weather. On the 25th the Board of Health reduced the quarantine by one half on all infected places, except Sicily, on arrivals from which a quarantine of 30 days is still maintained, and abolished all quarantine on places issuing clean bills of health. The squadron will consequently be able to return to Malta as soon as the health of the island does not present any obstacle. The English steamer Lancefield, having been chartered by the Admiral Superintendent, left yesterday heavily laden with stores for the squadron, which was still at Spezzia up to yesterday morning. The telegraph steamer Hawk returned to Malta yesterday from the Coast of North Africa, where she has been engaged for some time past in operations connected with the Malta and Alexandria Telegraph. The Lords of the Admiralty will arrive at Chatham this morning, for the purpose of making their official annual inspection of the dockyard, &c. Lieut. Fuller, and the detachment of Royal Ma rines Light Infantry serving on board her Majesty's Coastguard service screw steamship Donegal, Capt. J. A. Punter, 3,245 tons and 800 horse power, having completed their term of two years, have been relieved from Woolwich by a detachment in com mand of Lieut. Macey. The unarmoured screw gunvessel Myrmidon, 4, 695 tons, 200 horse power (nominal), fitted with engines by Messrs. Humphreys and Co., having re ceived on board a supply of coal, got up steam yes terday, at her moorings in Chatham harbour, for the first time, for the purpose of testing the working of her machinery previous to making her first official trial of speed, at light draught, at the measured mile. The Franklin, United States' war frigate, repre sented to be between 4,000 and 5,000 tons burden, commanded by Admiral Farragut, is now lying in the Thames, off the Town-pier, Gravesend, and excites considerable interest in consequence of her enormous size. She arrived on Saturday last from Cronstadt, attended by her tender, the Tropic, of about 800 tons, a Glasgow-built steamer, captured in attempt ing to run the blockade during the Southern war. The armament of the Franklin consists of 60 guns, and her full cotnplement of hands is 760, but she is said to be considerably short of that number, there not being more than 500 on board. Soon after her arrival she was visited by Commodore Edtnonston, C. 8., Superintendent of her Majesty's dockyard, Woolwich, accompanied by Commander Jackson, of the Fis,guard (guardship), who came down in the Government steamer Bustler. They were re ceived with the usual honours—a salute of 9 guns, which had a startling effect on the inhabitants of Gravesend. The officers of the Franklin are to be entertained' to-morrow at the new Falcon Hotel by the Masonic brethren of Gravesend, as the ship is expected to quit the river early next week. Major-Gen. J. 0. Travers, C. 8., Inspector-Gen. of Royal Marines, yesterday resumed his half-yearly inspection of the Woolwich Division Royal Marine Light Infantry. The Division was drawn up on Woolwich-common, in command of Colonel R. G. Connolly, Commandant, and included excess of employed, rifle practice men, and gun drill, servants, &c. They were formed in a brigade of three bat talions, and, after receiving the inspector-General with the customary salute, they marched past in grand divisions and in line of contiguous columns in quick time. The brigade was then deployed into line, and the Ist battalion performed the manual exercise under Capt. Parry, musketry instructor to the division. The 2nd battalion went through the platoon exercises under Lieut.-Col Stewart, and the 3d battalion were put through the bayonet-exercise under Lieut.-Col. Kennedy. The Commandant then, resuming the command, put the brigade through a series of rapid and brilliant manoeuvres, most of them executed at the double, and covered by skirmishers. Although the day was exceedingly unfavourable, the wind blowing in gusts and driv ing the sand and gravel in the men's faces, the various manoeuvres were performed with celerity and precision. The file and volley firing was, as usual with the Royal Marines, admirable. We re gret to state that Col. Suther, C. 8., 2d Command ant, sustained a severe accident by falling from his horse when marching past, at the head of the Ist battalion, owing to the animal shying at the saluting colour, which was blown out suddenly by a gust of wind. The brigade returned to barracks at the dinner-hour-1 o'clock. At 2 o'clock General Travers resumed his inspection of the office depart ments in the barracks, examining the accounts, lists, &c. ; and unless—as may probably be the case—his presence may be required at the Admiralty visita tion at Chatham, he will complete his inspection at Woolwich to-day. A rintiAnation has been received at Chatham that the service companies of the Ist Battalion of the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment, now doing duty at the Cape of Good Hope, will shortly proceed to Japan to relieve one of the regiments now under orders to return home. A detachment of 25 non commissioned officers and men from the depot at Chatham garrison has been placed under orders to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope to join the head quarters of the regiment. The draught will embark in one of the new Indian steam transports which will shortly be despatched to India via the Cape of Good Hope. The Ist battalion of the 10th Regt. em barked for the Cape of Good Hope in Sept., 1864. ASSAULT BY FENlANS.—Sergeant Murphy (late of the 6th Regiment,) now on the recruiting service, and who for some time has been stationed at Sheffield, met with a strange adventure on Saturday evening. While standing in Westbar, near the ruins of the Surrey Theatre. talking to a recruit, he was accosted by four rough-looking Irishmen, one of whom asked him whether he was a Fenian Surprised at hearing even a hint of his loyalty being called in question, the old soldier replied that " if he thought he had a drop of Fenian blood in him he would cut it out.' lie was then asked if he would not " give something to wards the widows," by which he understood that the " strangers" were on a canvassing expedition on behalf of the Fenians who are at present in prison at Manchester, and their wives and families. Sergeant Murphy declined to contribute, and a hint was given that if he did not "aid the cause" voluntarily he would be made to do something. Tie again gave thorn to understand that they must expect no aid from him, whereupon one of the ruffi•ins struck him a violent blow on the left eye, inflicting a wound from which the blood flowed copiously. Another fellow took hold of his stock, and he was then seized by the back of the collar and thrown down. The recruit to whom he had been talk ing appears to have thought discretion the better part of valour, and left the sergeant to the mercy of his four assailants. 'rho scuftl , , however, soon attracted a crowd of people, and the cowardly ruffians then decamped. For tunately the wound which the sergeant received is not a serious . one, but the circumstance discloses a state of things not very assuring to nervous people.— Sheffield Daily Telegraph. 2UISB Y GUY. LETTER ON RECONSTRUCTION. (To the Editor of the St. Paul Pioneer.) MR. EDITUR—You may think it strange that an original Aberlitionist of the old Puryten skule, as I am kuone to be, shud address a ledin Democratic jurnel, yet when yu konsider that the chanses are that the Democratic party will carry nearly awl the loial State elections this fall, as the old saying is, I'd rather hey the good will of a Borg than the ill will, besides there is a grate deel of disaffec shun in our Radikal party. I wanted to git a situation in the Fredemens Buro that I could ade in the recoustruck shun of the rebel territory, but the Radikal leeders, whom I'd done the most fur, hey gone back on me. I wrote to Thad. Stevens an Ben. Butler that I'd served as a soger during the late rebellion, an had lost a arm at Freidericksburg and thort I was entitled to a payin situation from the Government (wich is a caukus of the Radikal Senators and Representatives from a few loil States), and I look forard to th© joyfull da when I cude reech my hands into Unkel Sams pocket for what stamps 1 wanted, but how vain are hopes. Thad answered my letter promptly and said I'd neglected the most important points, or I'd faled to state wether I'd ben a white or culered soger, if I was 1 of those darin en thrauled black gentlemen who'd faut so nobly for there fredum and bounty an was a radikal he'd git me a good sight, but ef 1 was a white soger ha didn't want to be bothered with me as he was the principal part of the government or kongress and kongress was exclusively in the Nigger business. Butler encouraged me sumwat moar, he ignored kuller altogether and was willin to help me if I'd some trofy of the war, sich as watches, splines or silk dresses that I'd kaptured from the wicked rebels to let em kno that the rath of a grate papal wur on em. Well as miss fortune wud have it I lacked the requisite kuller to fill Thad's bill, and had bin kept in the ranks an hadn't stole enuff to satisfy Butler, I failed in my mishuu. I hey many dames on the loial porshuu of the papal of this grate kountry, of my kuller is too lite and I didn't got rich out of the war. I wus born in loial Masachoosits not fur from Plimuth rock and am a direct desendant of the Pil-grim fathers, who, you will reckoleck left the tirants of ole Hingland to rare themselves nu hoams in a ban of liberty, where tha could git rid of pain thare dots and wuship God accordin to the dictates uv thare own konscience ; an everybody who afterwards moved inter thare settlement wus allowed the religus freedom uv be lievin jist as the Pilgrim fathers did or be burned as witches. Later in the progress of time, the idee of religion wus abandoned, and all of the good and wise men went exklusively into the nigger biznes ; the wur filanthropists of the furst water, and scorned the grovelin idea of assistin. the toilin masses uv operatives in their facktories an work shops, but gin thare filanthropy a broader scope of takin in the niggers of the Southern Staits. Tha originated the idea that thare wus a hier law than the knostitution, and deklared that if the Bible upheld slavery there wus a for above that, wich wus abolition votes ; so tha resolved to make Cuffee thare sole politikel dependence, and jist as tha, wur about to seseed from the wicked and korrupt Union and league with the Devil, the indiscreet Southern States took the initiatory step an saved the aberlishunists the trubel. 1 had a unkel, a venerable and pius man, an a minister uv the gospel ; he could preach the best single-handed sar min uv any man in the stait, but as his flock liked the almighty dollar better than thare Father in Heaven, he maid up his mind to quit even with them. Ho bought stock, on time, in a wooden nutmeg facktory and joined a horse tralin society, and soon realised largely in stamps. As soon as it wur known that the Rev. Mr. Guy had plenty uv money, he became the idol uv his flock, and the sisters dished up thare fattest spring chickens an most winnin smiles for him in a wa that wud hev put the later day saints uv that Purytanic lan inter extasies. 1 mite here menshun many little episodes of his hunkey and pins career among the weeker sex, did not the exploits of his reverend successors, thro his fame into the shade. W ell, under the most faverable influens uv famerly pres tige, I stepped upon the threshhoald uv manhood. I had horned to bait Noo England rum to that extent that I tuk a sekret wa uv destroyin it ; I hed lerned to drop, with sancktimonious grace a 5 cent piece inter the contribution bor on Sunday and steal out twenty-five cents in change, and abuv aul things I hed lerned that the only sure rode to politikal faim must be travelled on the back uv nigger. Brite and shinin examples were around me on every side. The experiment of amalgamatin with the black race had been tride in the South and proved a sucksess in bleeching the sons of Ham, yet many skeptix doubted until the Noo England army officers tride it durin the war when the frutes uv thare labor removed aul doubts. We], the South inoggerated a bloody and cruel warfare, and all uv us Noo Englanders were reddy to rush teu glory or the grave. My uncle the preecher, accepted a commis sion in the home gards (black), and generusly acceptid kontract for furnishin shoddy clothin for the brave boys in blue, in which capacity he cleerd many a coupon bond exempt from taksation, and his heroic conduc throu that terrible struggel to put down the rebellion and keep the Republican party in pour will be remembered with pride by his greatfull posterity. When he was drafted in 1863, ho patriotically baut a kullered substitute, whose sacred bones now lie bleechin on the hill of Georgia, and whose widous pension my pious unkel still draws regularly, and distributes it among the Freedmen's Buro agents, to buy nigger votes with. having thus shown you that I was born a aberlitionist, with a natural hatred to the Constitution and the Demo- cratic party, I will briefly state what further klames I hey to a payin position in the rekonstruction of the rebel staits. When the Kongreshional Kommittee agrecle to send Wilson South to stump the several territories, and be pada travellin expenses and whisky out of the public munnys appropriated by Kongress, I wur appinted his privet sekretary, and dru up the follerin prambel and resolutions which wur adopted by the U.S. Kongress in Republican caucus assembled, as a polar star, or kumpus, to guide the rekonstructionists in bringing the lait rebel staits back into the Union with a Republikan form of government. Whereas, durin the late war with the so called Konfede rate Staits, we defined and understood disloialty to be any mean armed enemies aginst Federal Government or the aders and abbitors thereof ; and whereas all opposition to the Federal Guyornment has nonceased, and the lait rebels are willin to exsept the situation, abolish slavery and re turn to there aleegance therefore be it. .-..- Resolved, that by rite konquest we hereby dictate new meenings to the terms as fellers to viz.: The term olisloial will hereafter be understood to mean, all persons who oppose the Republican Kongross and the radikal party, or give aid and kountenance to the Konstitution or the Dimi cratic party. Resolved, That any person North or South who prate of the vile Konstitution fraimed by our korrupt fourfathers shall be deamed kopperheds and opposed to the rekonstruc- tion of the rebel staits with republikan form uv guvern ment. Resolved, That kno stait shol be Beamed to hey a Re publikan form uv government, who elect Domokratic Governors or Kongressmen, as the expreshun " Republikan form of government" means a government in which all the people vote tho strate Republican ticket, peaceably if tha will or forcibly by baonets if tha must. Resolved, That in completin the registrashun in the rebel states no distiukshun shkd be maid on ackonnt uv kuller or the prior status uv the applicant, to only ques tion to be asked the applicant is—will he swan to voat the Republican ticket. With these instruckshuns in his pocket Wilson and I started on our southern tour ynd the result of our mishun I will write you in mi next. / our trooly loyal, QUISBY GUY. THE MOCK AUCTIONS IN THE CITY. At the Guildhall Police-court yesterday Mr. Wontner, jun., applied to Sir Robert W. Carden for a summons against certain persons for obtaining money under false pretences, under the following circumstances. His client was a gentleman who held a high official position at the Cape of Good Elope, and having recently arrived in London was not aware of the frauds that were carried on here. He was going along one of the most fre quented thoroughfares in London when his atten tion was attracted to one of those delightful establishments, which now abound in the City and metropolis, and have " Commission Sale Rooms painted up over the window, but which were nothing more than mock auctions. He went in with a friend, believing it to be a bona fide sale. He had no idea that there could be anything like such a swindle carried on in one of the principal thoroughfares of London without being immediately put down. When he entered he saw several women and some men, who were apparently buying the lots as they were put up ; but there were two men there in particular who appeared to be bidding against the strangers. The room was hung round with plated goods, watches, chains, and other articles of apparent value. After the sale of several articles, which the women and men bought, a quan tity of plated goods were put up for sale. As these were things which his client wanted to take back with him to the Cape of Good Hope he bid for them. The auctioneer (as he might call him for distinction) said they were a por tion of a bankrupt's stock from Oxford-street, and he was selling them under an order from the com missioners in bankruptcy. It was a forced sale, he stated, in order to realise the assets of a bankrupt, and that the goods which he had to sell in four lots were worth £l5O. The first lot the auctioneer said was worth X. 1.9, and that was knocked down to the complainant for £d, the next for £2l 155., the lAA for £2l 56., and the fourth fox 15, 3d. They told his client that the goods were of the best electroplate, and that it was only because of the forced sale that they could be had so cheap, otherwise they could not have been had for three times the money. The auctioneer then put up a lot of cutlery, which one of the men bid £34 for, and when it was knocked down to him the auctioneer asked him for a deposit, to which he replied, " I have no money now, but you know I come up from Bristol every week, and I will call on Saturday and pay you." The auctioneer was not satisfied with that, and refused to admit a sale of the goods. He put them up again to auction, and without his (Mr. Wontner's) client making a single bid the auctioneer declared that he had sold them to him for £35. As soon as he said so the man who had previously bought them came to him and offered him £5 for his bargain. His reply was, " But how will they pay me ?" and he directly said, " By a cheque," and flourished a book of blank cheques about in his hand. The gentleman then asked the auctioneer if he would transfer the purchase to the other man, and he said no, for he would rather have him for a cus tomer. (Laughter.) The gentleman and his friend having, however, observing some private and mys terious conversations going on between the parties, had their suspicions aroused, and refused to take the cutlery. Sir R. W. Carden interrupted Mr. Wontner, and said he was then telling him what had been going on to his knowledge for years, and what had been over and over again exposed in the newspapers. It was wonderful to him how any person could be so green as to be taken in by them. A gentleman here stepped forward, and said that when he came to London and passed through some of its most busy thoroughfares, with all its magni ficent buildings, he did not think that such a swindling establishment would be allowed to exist. Sir Robert W. Carden said he quite agreed with the applicant that it was a disgrace to the City that such places should exist. COUNTRY MARKETS. S ALISBURY.-T UESDAY. At market this morning there was an increased at tendance of farmers, millers, and dealers. A moderate supply of both new and old wheat, and a good business was done, previous prices generally advancing is to 2s per qr. Barley in moderate demand for malting purposes, and rather dearer. In oats there was an average business, at the top figures of last week. In beans and peas there was a fair quantity offered, at rather over former quota tions. Flour active. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised from 44s to 75s ; barley, 38s to 45s ; oats, 25s to 30s ; beans, 46 to 58s; and peas, 40s to 48s per qr. Tares, from 5s 6d to 7 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 16d ; household ditto, 151 per 81b loaf. Flour, 47s to 51s per sack. HIML.-TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a moderate show of wheat offered, and a fair business was transacted at 2s ad vance; foreign in improved demand at fully last week's prices. For barley the demand was of a fair character, and prices had a slightly upward tendency. For oats the trade was moderate, at previous rates. Beans limited in supply. English white wheat, 66s to 70s; red, 60s to 65s ; Dant sic and Konigsberg, 62s to 72s ; Baltic red, 60s to 62s ; Danish and Hatiaburg, 60s to 62s ; Russian, 595 to 60s. Barley, English, 38s to 45s ; grinding, Mediterranean, 34s to 35s 6d. Oats, new English, 268 to 28s; Russian, 26s to 275. Beans, old English, 45s to 465; foreign, 42s to 435. Peas, English blue, 44:: to 16s Od; foreign white, 43s to 44s ; grinding, 42s to 43s Od per qr. MONMOUTHSHIRE-TUESDAY. Tho inquiry for wheat at all the local markets has been good, and the advanced prices of a week ago have been fully supported, the conclusion of the harvest causing a better attendance. The barley trade was improved for malting descriptions; grinding in slow request, at former prices. The trade in oats inactive, and unaltered. Beaus meet a tolerably ready sale. The following aro the average quotations:—Wheat, red, s Od to 8s 3d per bushel ; white, 7s 3d to 8s 6d ; inferior, Os Od to Os 6d ; malting barley, 42s to 46s per qr ; grind ing ditto, 36s to 38s Od; beans, 43s to 45s ; white oats, 27s Od to 30s Od ; black ditto, 24s Od to 26s Od. LYNN-TUESDAY. At to-day's market we had a fair supply of wheat, which met a ready sale, and brought is to 2s per qr. more than last week's quotations. There was a larger supply of barley, and malting samples were in demand at is per qr more money. Beaus and peas is dearer. New wheat, 64s to 66s ; new red, 608 to 625; old white, 70s to 74s ; old red, —s to —s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 40s to 425; secondary, 39s to 40s. Oats, new, 24s to 27s per 24 stone. Beaus, small, 43s to;4Bs Peas, 40s to 428 per 28 stone. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closeof the market. s. d. s. d Walls End Hetton ... 22 0 East Hartlepool Hetton Lyons ........ 19 9 New Belmont l9 9 Bradyell'sHetton 2l 9 I Walls End Gosforth 19 9 Kellue Ships at mark )t, 51—sold, 35. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.....oot. 20. Ditto, via Marseilles .............. 14. Ditto, via Panama ••••••• • • • Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Oct. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape Verde. by Brazil packet •••.. Cape of Good Hope. Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 29, China. Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton Oct. 3. Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands Oct. 4. Gibraltar, via Southampton India, via Southampton Ditto, via Mama es Oct. 14. Malta, Egypt, (tc. Ditto, Marstilles Oct. 7. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Oct. 20 Ditty, via Harseiiles Oct. 4. Newfoundland Oct. 9 Portugal . Oct. 4 Ditto, by private ship to Oporto ... Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, do., by British packet Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet Oct. 4. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffa Oct. 3. West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha- mas) Cuba and Mexico ...Oct. Bahamas, via New York Oct, 9 Bermuda, via Halifax . (ADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always aggravate chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Reveleuta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourish ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 68,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. 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