The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-05 00:00:00

ordinary stock at the rate of £3 10s. per cent. per annum. The directors, hewever, could not recom mend a dividend to be paid upon the ordinary stock of the company, as it had been necessary to apply the traffic receipts to meet liabilities and expendi ture. The extension to Foxford, 111 miles, would be opened for traffic in the autumn. Owing to the difficulty of placing stock, the directors were much embarrassed by a floating debt of about £30,000 ; this not only interfered with the good management of the company, but was very costly. It would greatly serve the interests of the company if all holders of ordinary stock to the amount of £5OO and upwards would rateably accept 6 per cent. pre ference stock, according to their respective holdings; they would thus liquidate the present floating debt and remove all difficulties in the payment of future dividends. The capital account showed that £616,540 has been expended. SOUTII-EASTERN. LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday, at the office, Coleman-street buildings, Moorgate-street ; Mr. J. Clay, M.P., in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIR3IAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the increase of traffic on the Irish North-Western Railway confirmed the hope held out at the last meeting that at a very early period they might expect an increase of rent. Not having the figures of that company before him, he could not tell them officially the exact amount, as there was a part of the receipts not applicable to their line. They had no doubt heard that it was the intention of the Government to appoint a committee to in quire into the position of the Irish railways, with a view to some measure either to purchase the shares at a certain price or to assist those undertakings in some way or other. Their line was not likely to be affected by the inquiry. He believed that many of the evils had arisen from the facility of borrowing money on Lloyd's bonds, &c., beyond the Parliamentary powers. Many railway com panies still suffered very severely from the invention of Lloyd's bonds, ;which had in public estimation • impaired the security of the railway debenture. The present state of things could not last long, as be believed there WAS no better security than their own debentures, although they found it impossible to place them except at a ruinous rate which would absorb the amount available for paying off the arrears of dividend owing to their shareholders. He supposed they could raise money on debentures at 6 or 6} per cent., but that might waste the increased rent, and leave the a rrears on the preference shares standing as they were at present. The directors had recommended the shareholders to forego the receipt of their dividends in cash, to take deferred warrants in payment, and thus to gradually extin guish the debenture debt. All the preference share holders could exchange the deferred dividend war rants for 5 per cent. debenture stock, which would be of immediate value to them, and the company would always know what they-had to pay. They would thus secure a fair and reasonable rate of interest on the debenture stock, and the surplus revenue would go into the pockets of the share holders in diminution of the arrears due to them, and when the latter were paid the ordinary share holders would get something. Capt. WARREN, a director, seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr. HEMMING believed that the great body of shareholders agreed that the course recommended by the directors was the best that could be adopted. The motion was carried unanimously. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. 11. LAVER, a formal resolution was adopted I declaring l the div idends on the A and B preference shares at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, together with 1 per cent. per annum on account of arrears of dividend, plyable by deferred dividend warrants. On the motion of Mr. HEMMING the directors were authorised to exchange 5 per cent. debenture stock for a like amount of dividend warrants in s ums of £lO, /20, and 130, as the case might be. Mr. P. Hanbury and Captain D. Warren, the retiring directors, were re-elected, and also Mr. C. Whetham, the retiring uditor. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded the pro ceedings. GREAT 'NORTHERN AND WESTERN OF IRELAND. The report of the directors states that the net re ceipts for the half-year ending the 30th of June last amounted to £12,031. The charge for interest on debentures, preference shares, and also upon tem porary loans, would absorb £5,358, and leave a balance of £6,676, sufficient for a dividend upon the The total receipts of this company's line for the 23 weeks and two days ending the 13th of July last amounted to £601,223, and the expenditure, includ ing rates, taxes, tolls, Government duty, and ex penses of steam packet service, to £305,025, leaving the net receipts £296,898. ilisceUaneons Foreign News• -- •• - (From the Westminster Gazelle.) A letter from Rome, dated July 27, says— The Pope's departure for Castel Gondolfo is again postponed, :and it seems doubtful whether he will go away from Rome at all. The people are alarmed about the cholera, and then there are the reports of a Garibaldian attack on the frontier, and he thinks it incumbent on him to give the moral support of his presence by remaining in his ca pital. Besides this the Queen of Spain has officillly announced her intention to visit Rome shortly, and he wishea to be there to receive her. Germs of discord are already sprouting up in the midst of the newly-fused Liberal Junta. The National Committee was the:organ of the moderate, and the Centre of Insurrection that of the more advanced section. The latter is either the more numerous or the more noisy, and this element is making itself felt a little too much for the peace of the body. However, they have little to do but to quarrel among themselves. It would seem that the intimations of the Emperor of the French to the Italian Government will make them keep a stricter look-out on the frontier. At Naples, Genoa, and Piacenza Garibaldian enlistments have been stopped, and Rattazzi has sent a circular to the various prefects of suspected localities, ordering them to prevent such enlistments. A maritime ex pedition, which was being got up on board an American vessel at Genoa, has been dispersed. If these measures are bond fide, and they are thus de prived of assistance from without, there is no danger of the Junta venturing on any active move ment; they have, in all, nothing like 200 men in Rome whom they could count upon to rise. The mission of General Dumont, as " military inspec tor," is giving them something to discuss. He comes to inquire into the causes of the desertions from the Antibes Legion, with the full concurrence of both the Roman and French Governments. The . latter also sounded the Italian Government on the subject, who answered that they had no objec tion to make to the inquiry. And yet, after this, Signor Rattazzi, interpellated by the Deputy Pian ciani, declares in the Chamber that " the Govern ment of King Victor Emmanuel awaits explana tions from France, on the subject of the mission of General Dumont." The head of the Cabinet dares not confess to a democrat that Italy has been forced to give her consent to an inquiry which may be so damaging in its discoveries. General Dumont is very well looked upon in Rome. He commanded here for two years when M. de Guyon was at the head of the corps of occupation. On his arrival he visited the Pope, and afterwards Cardinal Antonelli, who received him very well. He appears in public in the French uniform in the teeth of our patriots, who com plain of it as a violation of the non-intervention principle. Nothing however can be more unfair than this way of putting it ; of ter the suspicions that have been raised of the connivance of the Italian Government in the temptations to deser tion, the enquiry into the affair could only be con ducted by a neutral power, and it is best for the Italian Government it should be by one who will spare them its revelations. The Pontifical army numbers 12,500 men. There are 1,000 in the Artillery ; 2,430 in the Zouaves ; and about as many Gendarini. The French Legion was 1,200, but is now reduced to 860. The retractation of Don Carlo Passaglia has been received by the Dominicans of the Holy Office, who not finding it sufficiently distinct, have required some additions. He has been living since January in the Jesuit Seminary of Mandavi. He has resigned his place of Professor of Transcen dental Philosophy at the University of Turin,which brought him in 8,000 lire a year. He has also given up his newspaper work. The Pope has intimated to him that if he wishes Ito come to Rome to live an edifying and retired life, he will be received with open arms. In the meantime he has sent him 3,000 francs to pay his debts. It is not now expected that Cardinal d'Andrea will make his submission. He resists even the affectionate instance of the Archbishop of Naples, Cardinal Riario-Sforza, who, it is said, has made an offering of his life to God to obtain the salva tion of his colleague. The affair of the Master of the Sacred Palace is still pending. • Padre Gigli, who is charged with want of vigilance over his socius, will resign his office and retire probably into some monastery of the Roman State. He will be succeeded by Padre Celli, of Bologna, who bears the reputation of an able theologian. Padre Carnelli, the socius, acknowledges that he abused the confidence of his superior, and gave the authorization for the clan destine publication of Abbate Modesti's pamphlet of his proprio motu. The Abbate Modesti was Cardinal d'Andrea's Vicar-General at Subiaco, and public opinion ascribes to him the authorship of the pamphlet. No sentence has as yet been passed on Padre Carnelli. The Austrian Embassy had a Requiem Mass for the Emperor Maximilian celebrated at the Church of Sta. Maria dell' Anima on Tuesday. The following brief notice, extracted from a late number of a very meritorious little periodical, published in Paris, L' Observateur du Dimanche, from the pen of the Marquis de Roys, its editor, will, I think, be interesting to many of your. readers : " The tragic fate endured with so much courage and resignation by Louis XVI., Marie Antoinette, Madame Elisabeth, and Louis XVII., seems to have made most people forget the saintly virtues of Marie Clotilde, youngest daughter of the Dau phin, son of Louis XV., whose premature death was so affectionately mourned all over France. "Their more striking sufferings have earned for them the popular appellation of martyrs ; but, however heroic their conduct, it does not bear the distinctive marks which the Church has assigned as the title to the martyr's crown, and without doubt ing of their salvation she continues to pray for, instead of invoking, them. But Marie Clotilde, who suffered so silently and in secret that many will hear her name for the first time in these lines, has been declared " Venerable " by the Church, by a decree of the 9th of April, 1808, authorizing lie continuance of the pleadings for her canoni- zation. 4 4 In her very infancy she was remarkable few her piety and her affection for her aunt, Madame Louise, a Carmelite nun ; she often spoke of a desire to join the order. She was married in 1795, however, to Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Piedmont, eldest son of the King of Sardinia. The marriage was solemnized at Turin with brilliant festivities. Marie Clotilde appeared on all the public occasions attired in the magnificence befit ting her rank, such being the desire of her adopted family, but she was still distinguished by the modesty of her dress contrasting with the toilettes of the ladies of the Court, which were then no less decolletee's than at our own day. Though always polite and amiable towards all, she never failed to show her displeasure by assuming a cold and --- RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SALISBURY AND YEOVIL. The directors of this company have agreed to re commend a dividend on the ordinary shares at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum for the past half - y ear, carrying forward a balance of £3,700. GREAT EASTERN. The finance bill now being promoted by this com pany authorises the raising of £3,000,000 of deben ture stock, which, however, is not to be issued with out the consent of three-fourths in amount of the proprietors of preference stock in the company. The proposed new stok to bear an interest of 15 per cent. per annum c , w it h 10s. per cent. for re demption. Existing mortgages and debenture stock ai-e to have priority over the new stock, as are all rents payable by the company. The new stock may b e a pplied to the payment of the company's debts and a rrears of preference dividends. For the pur poses m entioned in the Act meetings of the pre ference shareholders are to be convened by the directors from time to time ; at such meetings the holders of preference stock are to be alone qualified to attend and vote. Bills sought to be introduced into Parliament for raising addi tional capital are to be submitted to the meetings of preference s h ar eholders, who may appoint com mittees to confer with the directors. Separate ac counts are to be kept of all past and future expen diture in respect of the company's metropolitan extensions. The separate meetings of preference ISb ar e holders are to cease when the ordinary stock holders have received dividends at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum for three consecutive years. EAST LONDON. The directors of this company state in their report that so far as the works had advanced they had been satisfactorily executed. The embankment for the line had been carried within a few yards of the South London Railway, which when completed would provide a direct communication between the East London Railway and the South London dis tricts. The works leading to the tunnel were pro gressing, and every exertion would be made to com plete and open the first section of the line to Wap ping at the earliest possible date. The position of the Great Eastern Company precluded any positive action with regard to the arrangements with that company. A first portion of the surplus property had been sold, and more Was. being prepared for sale. The capital account showed that £797,815 had been expended. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The report of the directors states that the net revenue f o r the past half-year, w ith the balance of £1,341 brought from the preceding half-year, amounted to £49,853, out of which they recom mended a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £1,401 to to be d carried ov er. The direct ors re g retted having recommen a reduced dividend, caused by the continued depres sion in the iron tra de, the temporary diminution of receipts from the London and North-Western Com pany upon the termination of part of the old agree ment, the increase of interest, the general advance in wages, the stoppage of the canal traffic during the long frost, and the heavy renewal of carriages and waggons. The Leck and Barton lines were completed, the Market Drayton and Marple lines were in a forward state, and the Audley lines were in progress. The money expended on the Audley lines and in the completion of the Ches terton branch rendered it necessary to raise the fur ther share capital of 1250,000 sanctioned by the New Works Act, 1864. The reconstruction of locomotives had been continued upon a scale which rendered them more efficient and valuable than they were originally. The whole sum ex pended to the 30th of June last in this reconstruction amounted to £37,658, of which £11,031 had been charged to capital as due to the enlargenaent and improvement of the engines, and £2,000 to revenue in December last, leaving £21,626, which would be gradually paid off out of revenue by half-yearly instalments. During the past half-year the company bad been enabled to renew and issue new debentures to the full extent required, amounting in the whole to £237,000, at au average rate of interest of £4 14s. per cent. The interest on the whole debenture debt averaged £1 12s. pei cent. per annum. The capital account showed that £7,087,600 had been autho rised ; that £5,025,215 had been expended on the railway and £1,170,000 for the canal purchase, making together £6,195,245 expended. THE St►N, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5 1867. reserved manner with any ladies who failed to fol low her example in this matter, and it was not long before she had effected a complete reform. " It was the custom at that time for all the Court of Sardinia to attend Mass every day at eleven o'clock. Marie Clotilde never missed attending it with the most edifying devotion, but the public ceremonial did not satisfy her devotion. She always heard Mass early in her private chapel and communicated three times a week. On all occa sions of popular feste at the various churches, however, she was always to be found among the crowd, and kneeling at the altar in the midst of the poorest. She joined the Confraternity of our Lady of Humility and the Visitation already esta blished at Turin for works of charity, aspiring to no prominence as founder or promoter, but ful filling all its obligations in the most unostentatious way. The devotion of the Sacred Heart had been established about a century in the Monastery of Paray-le Monial, Marie Clotilde introduced it at Turin and fostered its establishment. She fre quently took advantage of her privilege as a Queen to assist at the offices of religious communities, and when she did so she never suffered the least infraction of the rule in her favour. She was equally exact in fulling all the requirements of her position, and made it her study to combine what 1 she owed to God with that which she owed to her Court, so that she might be wanting to neither. This conduct won for her the esteem and love of all hearts, and no less admirable was the assiduity and endurance with which she tended her royal husband during the long weeks of his frequent illnesses. " The day of trial, however, was at hand ; we can hardly picture to ourselves the anxieties she must have endured while the Revolution was mow ing down her family one after the other, and driv ing into exile those who escaped its deadly hand. Nor was this all ; before long, it pursued her into Italy. First, her father-in-law, Victor Amadeus 111. was attacked, and after several fruitless contests forced to submit to an ignominious peace, by which he had to give up Nice and Savoy. His death, in 1796, made her a Queen ; but a Queen of a distracted State. Conjointly with her husband, she laboured day and night to restore order, but within eighteen months of their accession a decree of the Directory annexed Western Piedmont to France, and the country round Novara to the Cisalpine Republic, afterwards called the Kingdom of Italy. Marie Clotilde and Charles Emmanuel, after twenty-three years' residence at Turin, where they had been known o nl y by their good works, thus became exiled wanderers. It would be too long to narrate in detail all the hardships they had to endure till they found a refuge, first, at Parma, and somewhat later at Florence. Driven out thence, they contrived to reach the Island of Sardinia where their authority was still acknowledged. When the Queen landed at Cagliari she was attended by one waiting maid to represent her Court ; the royal pair were; however, received with loyal enthusiasm by the inhabitants. During the whole time of their stay her husband's health was so indifferent that she was entirely occupied as a sick nurse. It was another sorrow for her when she heard of Pius VI. being dragged by the Revolution from prison to prison, till he died at Valence. These griefs of those she loved and venerated were the heavier to her in that she seemed to be wholly devoted to others, and to make their sorrows her own ; it was frequently remarked by those about her that :she was never heard to complain of any personal suffering. " She was not long left in the peace of her island retreat ; the climate was manifestly prejudicial to her husband's constitution, and he was earnestly invited to return to the continent to take part in Souvaroff's expedition, which it was expected was to drive the French out of Piedmont. They returned to Florence accordingly in 1799. Subsequently we hear of them at Rome and at Naples. Then came the eighteenth Brumaire, and the treaty of Lune yille, which, though it confirmed the spoliation of their continental dominions, yet assigned Tuscany to the Infant of Parma, under the title of King of Etruria. " All these vicissitudes had shattered the health of Marie Clotilde. On the Ist March, 1802, though feeling very ill, she went as usual to the Church della Trinith to hear Mass, but on her return she was forced to go to bed. All through the painful illness which succeeded her resignation never gave way ; she was throughout convinced that she would not recover, and devoted her attention to preparing for the end. She requested those about her that her funeral might be simple and unos tentatious, and that her body might not be em balmed. Her one trouble was the consideration of the terrible effect her loss was likely to have on her husband; she entreated her confessor to pre pare him tenderly for what he had to expect, and to put before him the example of the Virgin Mother parting from her Divine Son. His pious resigna tion was:a source of consolation to her in her last moments. On the 7th March, the first Sunday in*Lent, feeling a little better, she confessed again, heard Mass, and communicated. An hour later she asked for Extreme Unction in a failing voice. It was immediately administered, but, though she did not lose consciousness, she never recovered strength to speak again, and expired the same evening. " When her body was laid in state, the people of Naples, who had deeply appreciated her piety, came in crowds to visit her, begging as relics the smallest particles of anything that had be longed to her. We have already mentioned that the Pope ratified the popular vote by declaring her Venerable Six years later. " A short time after her death, Charles Em manuel abdicated his right to the kingdom (at that time reduced to the Island of Sardinia), and re tired to a House of the Jesuits in Rome, where he died in 1811. His two brothers, Victor Amadeus IV. and Charles Felix, followed him suc cessively on the throne." A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, dated July 28, says : The Ileiligthtunsfahrt is now over, having been closed by a most magnificent procession, which took place on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 24th. From the date of my last letter the weather was most unfavourable for the pilgrims; not one day was without rain, and almost every day we had heavy showers, or even sometimes incessant rain at the very time the relics were exposed from the tower, yet the faith of the people withstood all these disastrous influences. The crowds remained the same ; even during the heaviest rain there was no perceptible diminution. of numbers. On Satur day, the 20th, I, with some English friends, made the round of the other churches containing re markable relics. We first drove to St. Adalbert's, a curious old church situated on a rock close to one of the gates o f the town, where we arrived at three o'clock, just as the relics were being shown to the pilgrims. Aix-la-Chapelle is so rich in relics it is impossible for me to mention a tenth part of those we saw and venerated this day. Among others at St. Adalbert's are :—Part of the man ger in which o ur Saviour was laid after His birth ; part of the sponge in which vinegar was given Him to drink ; a thorn of the crown of thorns, and a particle of the Holy Cross, besides relics of St. Adalbert, St. Henry, Emperor,; St. Sebastian, St. Lawrence, St. Mary Magda l e ne, St. Christopher, St. Stephen, ma rtyr ; and St. Stephen, Pope, St. Bartholom ew, St. Nicolas, St. Benedict, St. Agatha, St. Lucy , St. Agnes, St. Walburg, St. Gertrude, and others. From St. Adalbert's we drove to Borcette, where, in the church of the ancient Abbey of St. John the B aptist, most pre cious relics are pres erved. This abbey was first a house of Benedictine Monks, but, in 1222, was ceded to a foundation for noble ladies of the Cis tercian Order, who removed thither from their former Convent of St. Salvator, the remains of which, with the church, are still to be seen on the mount of that name, on the opposite side of Aix la-Chapelle. The abbey was suppressed by Napo leon in 1804, and the church is now one of tilt two parish churches of Borcette. Here we vene rated magnificent relics of St. John the Baptist, the Holy Innocents, St. Lawrence, particles of the great relics, i.e., of the robe, of the Blessed Virgin and the swaddling clothes ; a particle of the purple mantle of our Lord, of the pillar to which He was bound, of His dress, of the scourge with which He was scourged ; relics of St. Paul, St. James the Minor, St. Francis of Assisium, St. Boniface, St. Lucy, St. Catherine, St. Louis of France, &c. One relic, most particularly interesting to my compa nions and myself, was the haircloth penitential garment worn by St. Margaret of Scotland. From Borcette we proceeded to the former Church of the Carmelites, now in the hands of the nuns of St. Charles Borromeo, in which the treasure of relics formerlx belonging to the house of regular canons of St. Augustine is now preserved. The most remarkable of these relics are, a part of the linen with which the face of our Lord was covered in the house of Pilate, when He was mocked and struck ; a cloth impregnated with the sweat of our Blessed Lady, with which she wiped her face when visiting the scenes of the bitter passion of her Son after His ascension into heaven, and a part of the linen in which the body of St. Lawrence was laid when taken from the gridiron ; this relic is most remarkable, the stains of blood and fat being still quite evident. In all those churches we were much struck by th e devotion of the p eo p le. At the hours fixed for showing the relics the middle aisle was filled by alongon whi elyanal7ow passage was left in the io centre, the priests passed, bear ing in their hand s one relic after another, show ing Pus crowds them with the greatest patience and devotion to all, and touching them with the countless rosa ries, medals, &c., held out by eager hands. On our way from Borcette to the Teresian Church, we had stopped at the Convent of the Infant Jesus, where the relics belonging to the congregation were exposed in the church. The sisters of this order are well known by their exquisite embroi deries—perfect imitations of the most beautiful specimens of ancient vestments. Only a_month or two ago the Holy Father gave well-merited testimony to the value, as works of art, of their productions, and the devotion excited by the beautiful pictures formed by their needles, as well as to the immense good done by their congregation in the education of poor children all through Germany, in a beau tiful letter he addressed to the Superioress to thank her for a magnificent chasuble sent to him for E a ster. Unfortunately, it only arrived on Easter Monday, to the Holy Father's great regret, as he would have wished to wear it on Easter Sunday. Specimens of church vestments, worked by the sisters, were exposed in a hall d • tiring the Heilig thumsfahrt, but Catholic •'t visi ors to Aix-la- Chapelle are at all times admitted into the sacristy to see the vestments. I should advise anyone interested in the decoration of altars to enter the church of this convent on one of the great feasts, for nowhere can one see more ex quisite taste displayed. The good sisters spare no pains, and one knows not which most to admire, the beauty and quantity of the flowers, or the wonderful variety and charming effect of their arrangement. Another morning my friends and myself were admitted to the chapel of the Holy Cross, to be touched by the precious relic—the cloth wrapped round our Saviour's loins on the Cross. I think none of us regretted the delicate health which permitted us to get the physician's certificate re quired before getting an order from our parish priest. The large chapel was crowded by the weak and sick : only in the centre a space was left for the canon who touched the people with the holy relic. It was very touching to hear all those pre sent praying aloud the rosary and other prayers, and to see the pale faces lighted up by devotion and faith. Some were lame or paralytic, and had to be assisted or carried in and out. In the midst of the prayers, too, one heard often the wailing of a sick child, whose mother ,brought it to re cover perhaps health and strength from the touch of the precious relic. Those who knelt in front were touched first, after which they moved back, and gave place to others. When a certain number had been touched, the priest went to the altar, and after giving benediction with the relic, desired those who had already been touched to retire through the door then op ened for them, to make room for others. Once again, at the end, when all had been touched, benediction was given, and then the relic was carried again to the tower for the exposition at ten , o'clock. On our way out, we met a bishop entering the side-door of the clois ters, and were told afterwards he was one of our Scottish bishops, but I could not learn which. Ile was in the tower during the exposition of the relics, but I believe declined to hold them out himself. One other evening my English friends and my self were admitted among those allowed to remain in the choir of the cathedral after the processions had passed out, while the holy relics were being placed in security for the night. As the numbers of pilgrims increased e a evry day, although no more were allowed to enter fter eight o'clock, the church was so full that it was much later before the body of the church could be cleared. Mean while, those who were permitted to remain were shut into a side -chapel, and only when the church was empty were we admitted into the choir. Even here the crowd ,was great, so many appli cations were always made to the canons for this great favour. W e were placed in two rows all round the great choir, face to face, leaving a passage for the canons. It was nearly dark, though the last lig •ht of day still lingered,r ng up the high windows of coloured glass in the choir ; while below, and throughout the whole great church, all was sombre —only relieved by the candles carried on each side of each of the relics as they were removed from their places, and then carried round to be venerated by those present, ere they were placed in safety for the night. Not a sound could ea be h d f r rom outside —the doors being tall closed and the walls so thick. Not a creature was left in the body of the church, and in the choir all were rapt in adoration. All was silence, except for the voice of one who read the rosary, and the responses of the others. It is impossible to give an idea of the solemnity of the scene. it was as if we were assisting at the burial of our Lord. Before the relics were borne away, we had the unspeakable happiness of having each of the four relics laid on our foreheads. One more sketch of our own experiences of the pilgrimage--our visit to Corneli-Miinster. The relics there are shown from the tower of the church in the afternoon, every day during the Aix-la- Chapelle pilgrimage ; so that those who have seen the exposition of the relics at Aix in the morning, have still time to be at Corneli-Miinster for the afternoon. The crowds , however, are so very great that it is very difficult tot approach near to the relics, and therefore my friends and I were delighted to be included • m a party who went thither in the morning, having been permitted by the cure to see the relics in private. We arrived at Corneli-Miinster about ten o'clock. The little town is beautifully situated in a valley, but on a hill in the midst is to be seen the ancient parish church, which , however, is only u sed a few times in the year, the present parish church being the church of the old Benedictine Abbey, which was the nucleus of the town. Th e g ood people of Corneli- Munster must have suspected our errand, for no sooner did we enter the church than numbers began to pour in after us, so that by the time the cure and h anot er priest brought down the chest containing the great relics, we could scarcely make way to the side altar, at which we were de sired to place ourselves. Those who had been invited were formed in lines on either side of the altar, within the communion rails, while the crowds from the town remained before the rails. The cure then gave us a little discourse, to excite us to sen timents of fitting veneration in presence of such august relics, and before showing us the first, the cloth with which Our Saviour girded Himself when He washed the Apostle's feet, he read aloud, in a most touching and devotional manner, that part of the Gospel describing the washing of the feet, and in which this same linen cloth, now about to be shown to us, is mentioned. Then the cure and one of his vicars held up between them the relic, walked slowly round so that each of the strangers could examine it closely and touch it with rosaries, &c., and held it so high that each one of the townspeople, even teN the bottom of the church, could satisfy his devotion. Afterwards, with the greatest respect, the worthy cur folded up the ielic, and then, before showing us the second relic, the linen cloth in which Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus wrapped the body of Our Lord before laying it in the grave, he read aloud to us the Gospel describing the burial of Our Saviour. The two priests now showed thisrelic in the same man ner as the preceding one—holding it so that the light fell on the opposite side, and we could admire the beautiful design of the raised ,work on this exquisite specimen of Oriental weaving. After this relic was laid aside the cure once more read to us a Gospel, this time that descriptive of the Resurrection—for the third holy relic which was to be shown to us is " The napkin that had been about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place." The fabric of this relic is so very fine and gauzy that we were not allowed to touch it with our rosaries like the others. It is folded a great many times, and attached to the centre of a sort of frame of beautiful embroidery, worked at the cure's desire by the nuns of the Infant Jesus in Aix. I forgot to mention, in speaking of the first relic, that there is a dark stain on a part of the " towel wherewith he was girded," which the good country people fondly believe to have been produced by the foot of Judas. And now I must come to the last day. The Archbishop of Cologne arrived for the closing cere monies. He it was who sang the Pontifical High Mass on the morning of Wednesday, and after wards exposed the relics from the tower. At two o'clock the procession was to leave the cathedral, but the rain fell in torrents, and great fears were entertained that our expectations of a magnificent procession would be disappointed. Many, lam sure, were the prayers offered up for fine weather, and they were heard, for all of a sudden light was seen between the clouds in the direction of the wind, and almost immediately it turned into a magnificent afternoon, I never saw a more beau tiful procession. First of all came long lines of men.belonging to the differen't societies or guilds. I did not think of timing them, but had one not seen the enormous crowds lining the whole length of the procession, one would have thought nearly all the men of the town formed part of it. After the men came the schools, for no women were ad mitted, except the members of religious orders devoted to the poor, and those they care for; the nuns of the Infant Jesus, with their orphan girls ; the long line of Franciscan Sisters, of the third order, devoted to the sick poor whom they nurse in their own houses ; the nuns of St. Charles, with their orphan children, boys as well as girls, and the old men and women they take care of—theirs being the town poor-house. After more nuns of diffe rent active orders came the priests of differen orders—Jesuits, Redemptorists, Franciscans, and then the secular clergy in their surplices, and many of them, especially those belonging to the Cathedral, carrying the smaller relics. Of priests in their surplices, not counting the others, there were 124. Now appeared the magnificent shrines, sparkling with gold and jewels—one containing the body of Charlemagne, the other the great relics which he gave to Aix-la-Chapelle. The value of these shrines is very great, because of the material —gold and enormous precious stones, and also because of the exquisite workmanship. They are so heavy that, though the first was carried by twelve Franciscan Brothers, and the second by as many Alexian Brothers, with several others to relieve the bearers frequently, we could see that they could scarcely support the weight. After the great relics walked the bishops in cope and mitre. Monsignor Laurent came first, carrying tle reli quary containing the girdle ofour Blessed Lady, and after him came the Archbishop of Cologne, carrying the girdle of our Lord Himself. Where but in Aix-la-Chapelle could these be counted among the minor relics? After the return to the Cathedral the archbishop preached, and at the end of his sermon he gave the special blessing which the Holy Father had sent o Aix-la-Chapelle and its inhabitants. And now once more the precious relics were wrapped up in new silk covers—the former ones having been divided and eagerly sought as relics; and above those new silk covers, which are changed every seven years, each relic was wrapped in the ancient beautiful oriental silks which belong specially to them, each of a different colour and design. The seals were once more placed on the cover of each relic, and with the same ceremonies as at the opening, they were laid in the great chest, to be Ire -opened only after seven years. In the evening there was a general illumination, but, though the whole town rejoiced, there was a general feeling of a want. We had been so accustomed durin o t , fourteen days to have the precious relics exposed that we have to view difficulty in returning to our ordinary life. I n my last letter I forgot to mention that it is on the eve of St. John the Baptist's day the oil-cloths are spread out in preparation for the pilgrimage. As one of the great relics is the cloth in which his head was wra'pped, there is great significance in choosing that day for the preparatory hanging out of the cloths. Another curious cus t om connecte d w ith the pilgrimage is, that on St. Mary Magda lene's day, the priest or bishop who exposes the relics from the tower, may do so with bare hands, whereas, on all the other days he must wear gloves. This, I believe, is in honour . of the intimate con nection of the great penitent with our Lord and His Blessed Mother. I have heard of another remarkable curd pro duced by the touch of the holy relics. A priest had been long very ill—l do not know what com plaints he had, but for one thi ng , h e h a d en tirely lost his voice, so that he could only explain his wishes by signs. He was brought to the cathe dral, to be touched by all the four relics. He was touched by the robe of the Blessed Virgin ; by the swaddling clothes, and by the cloth of St. John Baptist. There was some mistake, or at least some delay, before touching him with the cloth of our Blessed Lord's loins. The priest got anxious, and showed by signs his g rea t d es i re th a t th e last prec ious relic should be brought. He was touched with it, and in the same moment recovered his voice, and broke out into tears and cries of thanks- giving. I fear I have made my account too long. I only wish your readers could have been present them selves. For myself and my friends, I may sa y that we regard it as one of the greatest graces of our lives, to have been present during the Neilig thumsfahrt of Aix-la-Chapelle. REVIEW OF AMERICAN LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1866. One of the most admirable and instructive papers in the last "American Annual Cyclopaidia" is on " Literature and Literary Progress for the Year 1866." The subject is under two heads ; first, as relates to the United States : second, as it relates to the United Kingdom. In the United States there came out last year 1,905 distinct publica tions apart from pamphlets, reports, sermons, &c. —an increase of 103 on the number of the previous year. The high taxes tended to de press the trade, as they increased the price of paper and labour, and to which was added not only a general depression but an influx of Eng lish and Canadian books, that in those countries could be produced cheaper, owing to the lower price of material and work. The effect was not so much to diminish the number of publications, as to limit the sale. The brain of the nation was as actively employed, but the power of pur chasing was lessened, and the result told heavily against the publishers, who not only supplied in a greater abundance than ever the literary food re quired, but had do so with a narrowed circle of buyers and a higher - cost of production. In view of such a position, the paper before us gives ample proof of the enterprise which characterises these firms. Before the war the ch eapness of American productions was proverbial. In every country religious works from the press of Philadelphia, of Boston, and New York were scattered broadcast. The traveller in India,when halting at dak bungalows found in each a neat little library arranged in a box, which skilfully combined religious instruction with incident and travel to at tract the most thoughtless reader, and to win him almost unaware to an interest in the things which these books considered to be of the highest impor tance. In those days, American editions deprived English authors of their copyrights by underselling them in every country where the importation was not prohibited by law. The case is now reversed, as English editions of American works can be pro duced cheaper than in the country to which they owe their origin. During the same period there were published in London 4,204 new books and new editions. The article first proceeds to show, of what the 1,905 American new books were com posed. Of these 83 were biographies, of which 18 were collective, 61 individual, and 4 genealogical works. In history there were 124 works, of which 7 were general histories of the United States, or of North America, 13 were local histories of towns, cities, counties, or States of the Union ; 57 were histories of the recent war, or of particular battles, campaigns, or corps, or of the action of particular States or classes in relation to it ; the history of revolutionary or ante-revolutionary times were 17 ; there were 15 histories of other countries, and 15 ecclesiastical histories. In theology there were 75 works, of which 20 belonged to general and 55 to polemic theology. In physic and natural science there were also 75 works ; 1 in natural philosophy, 9 in chemistry, 4 in botany, 16 in zoology, 3 in Palaeontology, 35 in geography, 5 in geology, 1 in ethnology, and 1 in astronomy. There were but 2 each in intellectual and in moral philosophy, 4 in ethics, 25 in social science, 8 in political economy, 31 in mechanical and technolo— gical science, and 42 in politics and political science. In mathematics there were 7, in education 31, in classical literature 3, in law 129, in medicine 94, in poetry 105, in essays and light literature 65, in philology 19, in statistics 152, in the fine arts 15, in music 30, in fiction 241, of which 221 were general and 20 religious novels ; the number of juveniles was 390, of which 340 were religious, 25 tales of adventure, and 25 elementary; of books of travel and discovery there were 15 ; of military and naval science 9 ; of agricultural 23 ; and miscellaneous books 30. In'the department of General Biography, one of the most interesting books was a new edition of "Sanderson's Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence," revised and edited by Robert T. Conrad, with an historical account of their residences, by William Brotherhead, and portraits and views. This was an expensive and elegant work. Other works of the kind were Madame Eugenie Foa's " Coutes Biographiques ;" " The Women of Methodism, its three Foundresses, Susanna Wesley, the Countess of Huntingdon, and Barbara Heck," by Abel Stevens, LL.D. ; " Southern Generals, their Lives and their Campaigns," by William P. Snow ; an enlarged edition of " Our Great Captains, Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, and Farragut," by L. P. Brochett, M.D. ; Dr. Samuel W. Francis's " Biographical Sketches of Distinguished New York Surgeons ;" " Personal Recollections of Dis tinguished Generals," by W. F. G. Shanks ; " Na tional Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans," portraits by Allouzo Chappel, with biographical and historical narratives by Evert A. Duyckinek. Of Single Biographies the number was very large, and many possessed considerable merit. The principal works of this class were Professor H. M. Baird's life of his father, " Rev. Robert Baird, D.D. ; " " Memoirs of General Louis Bell, late Colonel of the 4th N. H. Regiment, who fell at Fort Fisher," by John Bouton ; Rev. Dr. Gardner Spring's "Personal Reminiscences of his own Life and Times ;" Mr. John R. G. Hassard's carefully -prepared " Life of the Most Reverend John Hughes, D.D., First Archbishop of York ;" Mr. William V. Well's admirable history of the "Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams ;" the charming " Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791), translated from the Collection of Ludwig N o hl," b y L a dy W a llace ; Mr. John Savage's "Life and Public Services of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States, including his State Papers, Speeches, and Addresses ;" " James Louis Petigru of South Caro lina, a Biographical Sketch ;" " Life and Letters of Leonidas Z. Hamline, D.D., late one of-the Bishops of the M. E. Church," by Walter C. Palmer, M.D. , John Ester Cooke's " Stonewall Jackson, a Military Biography ;" "The Life of Emmanuel Sweden borg," by William White ; "The Life of Blessed John Bzrchmans, of the Society of Jesus," from the Italian of Father Boero, S.J. ; " Letters of Life, an Autobiography," by Mrs. Lydia Huntley Sigour ney ; " " Life of Emmanuel Swedenborg," by Sarah T. Doughty ; " Life of Benjamin Silliman, M.D., LL.D.," by Professor George P. Fisher ; " Temperance Recollections, Labours, Defeats, and Triumphs, an Au tobiograph y ," by John Marsh, D.D.; " Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida, as told by a Knight of Elvas," &c., translated by Buckingham Smith ; " Eulogy on the late Valentine Mott, M.D., LL.D.," by Alfred Post, M.D. ; " Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln," by George Bancroft; " Prison Life of Jefferson Davis," by Lieut-Colonel John J. Craven, M.D. ; " Memoirs of the Rev. William Metcalfe, M.D., late minister of the Bible Christian Church, Philadelphia," by his son, Rev. Joseph Metcalfe ; " Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln, the Story of a Picture," by F. B. Carpenter ; " Life and Times of John Milton," by W. C. Martyn ; " William Farel and the Story of the Swiss Reform," by the Rev. William M. Blackburn ; "The Christian Statesman : a Portraiture of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton," by Z. A. Mudge ; " Charles Lamb : a Memoir," •by B. W. Procter (Barry, Corns:fall) , " The Life and Letters of James Gates Percival," by Julius H. Ward ; "In Memoriam, Right Rev. "Great in Goodness : a John B. Fitzpatrick ;" Memoir of George N. Briggs, Governor of Massa chusetts, 1844 to 1851," by W. C. Richards ; " The Life of St. Vincent de Paul and its Lessons," by Rev. Thomas S. Preston ; " Half a Century's Labours in the Gospel," an autobiography, by Rev. Thomas S. Sheardown ; " Biographical Introduc tion to the Writings of Roger Williams," by It. A. Guild ; " Trials of Inventor, Life, and Discoveries of Charles Goodyear," by Rev. B. K. Pierce ; " Life and Letters of John Winthrop," by Robert C. Winthrop. Only four genealogies are reported as published during the year. Of the 4,204 English new books-849 were reli gious, 194 biographical and historical, 160 medical, 232 poetry, 190 novels, 544 children's books and stories, 195 travels, &c., 225 annuals and series, 64 agricultural, 357 philology and education, 84 law, 39 war, 147 science, &c., 79 trade and commerce, 167 politics, 85 illustrated works, 31 art, and 359 not classified. The subject, of . : course, which ex cited most attention in the United States was the history of the war, and most of the historical works are devoted to it. We are safe in predicting that for a vast number of years to come it will furnish materials not only for historians, but for writers of biography, and still more to writers of fiction. The paper before us shows the greatest care and dili gence in the curious amount of information it con veys. We have given the summary from which it branches into detail, and under each head adds the title and the author of every book published during the year. Of course, beyond a few general and introductory remarks, the compiler does not discuss the merit of the works he enumerates. Many of them have been reviewed at length in the periodicals devoted to literature in the United States. Some are familiar to us; most we never heard of ; and the names of several will only pass to posterity as having obtained a place in the Annual Cyclopedia. Acording to the 1 ildependance Beige, the object of the visit of the Empress Eugenie was to show to the queen the correspondence of the Emperor and Maximilian, which tends to dispel prejudices entertained in England re specting the part played by the Imperial Government. The Hon. Messrs. Cartier and Galt have declined the C.B. conferred on them, giving full reasons for this course. VDVERTISEMENTI. - Holloway's Pills — Enjoyment of Lite.—When the b l ood is pure, its circulation perfect, and the nerves in good order, we are well well. These Pills possess a marvellous power in securing these great secrets of health by purifying, regulating, and strengthening fluids and solids. Holloway's Pills can be confidently recom mended to all persons suffering from disordered digestion or worried by nervous fancies or neuralgic pains. They correct acidity or heartburn, dispel sick head-ache, quicken the action of the liver, and act as alteratives and aperients. The weak and delicate may take them without fear. Hol loway's Pills are eminently serviceable to invalids of irrit able constitutions, as they raise the action of every organ to its natural standard, and universally exercise a calming and sedative influence. Money being about 11 to 2 per cent. in the open market , and the returns of the Bank of England and the Bank of France being so favourable, the directors of the Bank have reduced the official rate of discount from 21 to 2 per cent. The cheapness of money will add to the profits of trade, and it may help to arouse the commercial public from their present deplorable condition of mistrust. Any return of confidence will, no doubt, be the occasion of bringing out many foreign loans. Italy is in want of £24,000,000, and Russia is negotiating the sale of railways which aro now open and working at a profit. In France it is expected a loan will be issued this autumn, and almost every coun try in Europe is in want of money to balance their budgets. As a revival in trade can b:3 - soon reasonably expected, it is not probable that these very low rates can continue long ; and, although the tendency at present is even being to lower rates, such a plethora cannot last, and before long the sluggishness of trade and the absence of all speculative activity will eventually bring about a revival which now only exists in the public securities. That it will come eventually there can be no question, the expe rience of former years showing that, after a rapid accumu lation of resources, a lull follows which gives place to ex traordinary animation. It is difficult to predict when this development will take place. There are still many limited liability companies that have not yet been able to right their position, others are winding up, and the railway in terest is still under a severe audit. Time is, therefore, necessary to restore confidence ; but when a revival takes place it will be slow at first, but will soon become more active. At present any advance in prices brings in sellers ; it is more than probable that the liquidation of out standing accounts, after the extraordinary mania of the last few years, is not yet righted. On the other hand, there is still an anxious feeling in everybody's mind that the peace of Europe is in danger, that a war may break out in the spring between France and Prussia. Such a war might profit Russia ; but the ruin it would bring down upon every other country, and more especially on the two first named countries, is such that it cannot be entertained seriously. However, Denmark is far from being settled, and Rome, the moral Power of the earth, has not yet been made secure for its maintenance. Time only can solve these political questions ; and, notwithstanding the great abundance of money, trade continues very inactive, and it would seem, from the utter absence of confidence, that no revival can immediately be anticipated. Advices from Brazil announce a proposition on the part of the Government to resort to an issue of £4,700,000 addi tional paper circulation, in eider to pay off that amount of floating treasury bills. At the same time an increase of taxation is contemplated, more than twenty years hav ing passed since any addition was made. These measures are rendered necessary by the war, which all parties de plore, although they are unrnimous that it must be carried on to an honourable termination. At present the expen diture is at the rate of £550,000 per month, while the income is £320,000. A loan in Europe was pronounced by the Minister to be not only undesirable but impossible, and although such an operation might be successful at home, it would, under existing circumstances, be attended with difficulties. Little opposition, therefore, was expected to the plan for raising new taxes. The increase of paper circulation will be against the price of exchange with this country :it is now as low as 22d. This will be bad for all public companies having to receive remittances. Some attention has been called of late to the gold fields of Nova Scotia ; the quartz veins though in general very narrow, are many and very rich in gold. Some of the Government concessions are said to be working at a good profit, but there is a great want of capital to put up reduc tion works to treat the ores near the spot where they are found. At present the ores are carried to Waverley, some ten miles the other side of Halifax, where mills have been erected. The Ovens Gold Quartz Mines Company are now issuing their shares with the intention to put up works on their concession, situate on the western side of Lunenburg Harbour, about sixty miles west of Halifax. The Ovens promises well, as the quartz which has been sent to Wa verley is said to have returned as much as 12oz. to the ton. Several grants are worked in the county of Lunenburg. Reduction works, when put up at the Ovens, will be great acquisition to the miners in that part of the country, who are now obliged to send to Waverley, and no doubt will increase the profits of the Ovens Company. With good management and, economy the Ovens may turn out well, and the prospectus will, no doubt, be read with interest. A meeting was held last week by the Spanish Certificate holders, to consider A' proposal from the Spanish Govern ment for the settlement of that debt, which was unani• mously accepted. The terms are £45 I.ls. ld. per cent. of 3 per cent. consolidated stock for every £lOO certifi cates. The committee is to receive £1 lls. ld. to cover their expenses, leaving £54 per cent. for the certificate holders, which, at the present price of Spanish 3 per cents., 35, gives about £l9 in cash at the price of 50, which was 'the price of Spanish Stock about two years ago, it would make about £27. A meeting of Spanish Passive bondholders has also taken place, and after some discussion, was adjourned to the sthlkAugust. It is understood that an attemp t will me hile be made to induce the Finance Minist er to modify his conversion scheme so far as waiving the stipulation for a money payment. If this point is con ceded and the exchange be carried out on the basis of £BoNew 3 per Cent. Stock for each 100 Passive, the com mittee of bondholders will recommend its acceptance. The late rains have been very prejudicial to the harvest on the Continent, and there are fears that the yield will not be much in excess of the crop of last year. However, fine weather may still bring some improvement. The markets for corn have been very firm, with advanced. prices. This, no doubt, increases the gen eral g loom, and very little business is doing in homelor foreign —Westminster Gazette. securities. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SiTuunrr. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 76s to 7 8 s •, red d itto ! (weighing 631 b), 68s to 748 per qr. Flour, 45s Od to 508 ° a per sack. NOT TINGHAII—SATTERDAY. Old white wheat, —sto —a ; old red, sto—s • net white, 74s to 78s ; new red, 68s to 73s per 36 stone. 'o64' fine, 38s to 408; new, 28s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans,- " —s to —s; new, 48s to 52s per 38 stone. Fine fl o ur, * to 51s per sack. LEICESTER SATURDAY. New white wheat, 68s to 74s •, now red, 58s to 69$ ; ~el , c l' white, —s to —s; old red, --s to —s per 36 stone. -P„'"C s ley, or malting, —s to —s per qr.; grinding, 30s to 0 21 per 30 stone. Oats, fine, 37s to —s ; new, 26s to 35s Pe r e • stone. Beans, old, —s to —8 ; new, 488 to 53s per 38 stop • Fine flour, 53s ; seconds, 47s to 490 per 20 stone. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. YORK—SATURDAY. White wheat, from 66s to 72s ; red, 60s to 66s . 5; 3 0 , 6 , stone. Barley, for malting, 35 s to 39 s per qr. ; b 4 sut 34s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 30s per 24 st.- 0 . S. Beans, new, 46s to 48s per 38 stone. Malt, 66s to 6° Flour, 49s to 51s per sack of 2801bs. The richest man in New England is Augu stus Hemenway of Boston, whose estate is valued at $5,000,000' He is confined in an insane asylum. n oble EADvErerisizatErrra—Henceforth no one will doubt the vs , Di& • properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Maws Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of bless it has already received from Invalids whose position bad he,;,. deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the 1143 f 0 whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirt9 l ,, e e tta of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " (314 ‘,7 1 , of du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—" The he It all the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandon„,l9.rys other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to De -P, t ` te cul Revaienta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a Pa c ial at every meal. It has pi oduced a surprisingly heue"tilio effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot prels a t of excellent food too highly." We extract a feir . 1 , 0 00 more than 68,000 cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchl",,,,or, de Brchan, of seven years' liver complaint, vrasting apol debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitatio n all eve! , D er digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable, aci vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decies4'sii, Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dysp e ps ia. N°' 'looses " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervel, sad asthma, cough, constipation , flatule nc y , s p asms, siclon.s!„prts, vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James of lood Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting 0 ! . 4 00 .-••• liver derangement, and partial deafness Important eaL.70,00 Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppY 101 soda, to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is reee ciously attached. 1 1 °' I 5 lbe4 o. 1, ' tins at ls. Id.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.• 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 403.— BARRY Dv BARRY and Co., ' t p; I tegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, ri c „ c „ c t 2 913, and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63, 15 0 , '— Oxford-street ; 330 Strand ; and all grocers and chemists • Births. B RABR OOK—On the 3d inst., at 23, Willes-road, 3,11(111, the wife of Edward W. Brabrook, Esq. , barrister3'3 of a son. DASHWOOD—On the 3d inst., at 13, Granville - p laee• the wife of George L. Dashwood, of a daug hter. no SIMPSON—On the Ist inst., the wife of Frederick Si3lP3- Esq., late 4th Light Dragoons, of a son. Marriages. u of F IT CH —SKINNER-0 n tho Ist inst., at th e p arish e. --„T St. Pancras, Middlesex,.Wm. C. Fitch, Esq., of -1-001i umberland-street, Charing - cross, an d Southampte,!t"er, citor, to Rosina, third daughter of the late W. S' l " Esq., of Olive House, Loose, Kent. Trinity S TEEL —L EFT WICH—On the Ist inst., at TfolY 501139 t,colt Church, Lee, Kent, George Ratcli ff, only son of T 1 Esq., of Manor llolse, South Norwood, to - 1-83 ot - 1 -, o v second daughter of E. G. Leftwich, Esq ., of The Clapham-rise. Deaths. sot- OOKE —On the Ist inst., at Upper Burro Bn wicb, Wm. Brooke, Esq., aged 73. Ow B EAL MONT—On the Ist inst., Mary, wife of Mr. J. . 11 ' 13 mont, solicitor, Moorgate-stree; a d 32 ge • 1 .,. late LAMB—On the 10th June, at se Colonel W. I- 4111-1 B.M.'s Bengal Army, aged 58. 1.7 Dea f NANT . ES—On tho Ist inst., at Powderham RociorY, pc- Exeter, partment of the Adjutant-General's office, Exeter, Alfred P. Nantes, Esq., of the Recruiting .1-,'70. SWEETLOTE—On the Ist inst., Alicia, widow of the late '-' Sweetlove, Esq., Mote-road, Maidstone, aged 9 4 . , ii... WILLIAms—On the Ist inst., at 12, Waterloo -place, -0 mall, Wm. Williams, Esq. aged 77. ----------,-,t London : Printed and Published by WILLIA.3I All p . -- 112. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Till& SON Olilee, ty Of Strand, in the Precinct of the Se troy', in t h e C°llll - of Ouar',. bliddleSu..—Monday, August ;,1867. d.